Thanks both for responding, Seems I was too impatient, as it must not have been fully finished (even though bscan command had returned to a command prompt). After leaving it a few more hours i checked the jobid again, and this time it was able to list the dir structure of the backup.
However, the required file wasn't there. Appears it wasn't on the machine during that backup. We're now reverting to an old LTO1 backup from our previous backup product. Once i get the file back, I'll turn my attention to re-evaluating my understanding of retention periods, etc, in bacula as this has been an uncomfortable process so far, with concerns now over our backup system. I certainly don't think it's bacula, but, like any complex product, it's very easy to get the config slightly wrong, with various consequences, and there's a lot at stake. I'll post some assumptions/questions once I'm complete, and would appreciate confirmation of my understandings. Thanks so much for assistance so far. Dermot. On 19 August 2010 14:39, stephen mulcahy <smulc...@atlanticlinux.ie> wrote: > John Drescher wrote: >> >> When you run bscan sometimes you need to disable File and Job >> retention before restarting bacula-dir so it does not reapply the old >> File and Job retention at startup. However I am concerned with the >> error message in bscan. > > If bscan doesn't work, perhaps you could use bextract to dump the files > directly from tape to a location on disk? > > -stephen > > -- > Stephen Mulcahy Atlantic Linux http://www.atlanticlinux.ie > Registered in Ireland, no. 376591 (144 Ros Caoin, Roscam, Galway) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
