On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Michael Stauffer <mgsta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > So I've finally got my bscan running after your help in previous posts > - thanks. But am worried that it's on track to take 34 years to > complete!! > > I'm recreating a database from tapes after a hard-drive corruption. > > I'm using bacula 3.0.1 (I'll be upgrading in ~3 months, but first need > to restore everything with this system). > > Here's my command: > > ./bscan -b /bacula/bscanVolsBootstrap.bsr -c > /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -v -s -m /dev/st0 > > Questions: > > 1) I got the volume names for the bsr file from running 'mtx status' > on the changer. Are these necessarily the same volume names used by > bacula? They look familiar from what I saw in bacula before the > catalog died. > > 2) About how long could the bscan take? > I'm getting regular status updates like: > 21-Feb 17:04 bscan JobId 0: End of file 1070 on device "LTO5-0" > (/dev/st0), Volume "L50001" > After two hours, it's up to file 1070.
I believe that is the volume file. Which usually is 1 GB. > Does 'file' mean actual individual files in the archive? Or something > else? If it means individual files then I've calculated the bscan of > all 35 tapes will take about 34 years! > > At maximum theoretical tape speed for LTO-5 compressed data, it would > be 5 hours/tape, and not 340 days. So I'm assuming 'file' means > something else, but what? > > Thanks, > Michael > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- John M. Drescher ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
