Drew Bentley wrote: > > > On 6/19/07, *D Canfield* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > I've been using the virtual tape feature for a while, but we > started to > run low on disk space, so I carved up a new partition on the SAN and > used the opportunity to upgrade the machine to RHEL5. I kept my old > virtual tape partition and backed up all my bacula files in case > anything happened while I was in the process of upgrading. > > Now that I've got the new system up and running, someone has asked > for a > file that apparently exists only on that old virtual tape drive. > Even if > I wanted to dump my new production install, I've discovered that I > made > some kind of mistake during my bacula backup and don't have the > original > config files. So, what I'm wondering is if there is a way to > import and > restore from a batch of virtual tape files. I believe I've read that > this is possible with real tape, though it may take a long time. Can > someone give me a hint on how I might do this? I don't suppose those > files are in a format that I could just dump with tar or cpio? That > would be the easiest solution, it seems. > > Thanks! > DC > > > By you saying you backed up your bacula files, are you implying you > backed up your config files and not the catalog or vice versa? If you > have the original catalog backed up with these files from your > original backups, that should be used for restoring your files. A > little clarification would help solve the problem. > > -Drew I attempted to back up the configs and catalogs, but those files don't seem to be readable now. Is there any way to simply dump the contents of the disk archives (virtual tape files, or whatever they're technically called)? I have plenty of disk space available, so even if I have to just extract the entire archive to get a single file here and there, that's doable.
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