[Bacula-users] Restore from a tape which lost its label.

2005-07-05 Thread Emery Guevremont
I have a tape that was used for some backups, which has lost its label. Now I'm trying to get a listing and restore the contents of this tape but not sure how to. Should I use btape to write a new label on the tape and then use bls and bextract to get a listing of the files and restore them?

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from a tape which lost its label.

2005-07-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 10:05:05AM -0400, Emery Guevremont wrote: I have a tape that was used for some backups, which has lost its label. Now I'm trying to get a listing and restore the contents of this tape but not sure how to. Should I use btape to write a new label on the tape and then

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from a tape which lost its label.

2005-07-05 Thread Emery Guevremont
How can I do that when I have to specify a Volume? Right now the tape has no labels. Phil Stracchino wrote: On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 10:05:05AM -0400, Emery Guevremont wrote: I have a tape that was used for some backups, which has lost its label. Now I'm trying to get a listing and restore

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from a tape which lost its label.

2005-07-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 10:54:32AM -0400, Emery Guevremont wrote: How can I do that when I have to specify a Volume? Right now the tape has no labels. Oh, sorry, I misunderstood what you meant by lost label. Um. That could be a problem. I suppose in that situation, relabelling the tape

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from a tape which lost its label.

2005-07-05 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 17:08, Phil Stracchino wrote: On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 10:54:32AM -0400, Emery Guevremont wrote: How can I do that when I have to specify a Volume? Right now the tape has no labels. Oh, sorry, I misunderstood what you meant by lost label. Um. That could be a