>> I have seen this in the past. What ends up happening is the tape gets >> rewinded by the drive but bacula believes it is at the end of the data >> instead of the beginning. So when bacula does the next write it starts >> at the beginning, completely trashing the tape. I see two solutions to >> the problem. Either put the archive unit on its own ups or have the >> server monitor the ups and when it detects the power comes back online >> it calls a script to tell bacula to release the tapes that are already >> in volumes. >> >> John >> > Do you know if any of the data is usable? Can bcopy and bscan be used to > import what data is still good? >
>From the first uncorrupted volume file (bacula stores data in 1GB chunks I believe) to the end of tape should be recoverable however I have not attempted this so I am not sure of the details. I do see discussions about recovering corrupted tapes every so often check the email archives. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
