On 10/13/10 06:15, Simone Martina wrote:
> Hi at all,
> this (sad) morning I've tried to append a job to a used volume (a tape):
> despite I've tried to update status, job retention and so on, Bacula
> marks that tape like purgeable and begin to write the new data on the
> beginning of the tape.
> When I see that situation, I've cancelled the jobs, but the damage was
> just done. Anyway, I've written only 45MB over 170GB of data.
> I've tried to use bscan and bls to read the tape, but only the last
> overwriting job is listed.
>
> How can I scan the whole tape and recover old, non overwritten, jobs?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions,
Sorry Simone, but once you've partially overwritten the tape, you're
pretty much out of luck with any out-of-the-box tools. You'd have to
write a specific program to scan the entire tape beyond the EOT mark to
try to recover any data from it.
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