Hi there,
I am running Bacula in a productive environment for almost two year now and I am totally happy with it.
Now I have a little problem an perhaps one of you can help me.
(For now this is a hypothetical question.) I need to restore a backup from a write protected tape. Bacula won't mount a write protected tape. bextract or bscan neither.
"So switch off the write protect of your tape !" some one would say.
The answer is " I can't" because the hardware protects the tape from being written.
The tape was written by a DLT VS80 Streamer, now I ve upgraded to a DLT VS160.
If I insert a VS80 written tape its automaticly read-only. So if my VS80 streamer dies on day I have no chance
to read the tapes by Bacula.
I already tryed to dd if=/dev/st0 of=/tmp/tape.dump and tryed to bextract from the filedevice.
btape then is able to read the label but bextract terminates with errors.
Backup:/etc/bacula # bextract /tmp/ISLBHV_Woche_0 /restore
bextract: butil.c:151 Using device: /tmp for reading.
bextract: Ready to read from volume "ISLBHV_Woche_0" on device /tmp.
bextract: bextract Error: block.c:248 Expected block-id BB01 or BB02, got . Buffer discarded.
bextract: bextract Error: block.c:248 Expected block-id BB01 or BB02, got . Buffer discarded.
bextract: bextract Error: Read error on Record Header /tmp: Success
0 files restored.
I would be happy to have a solution because if my VS80 dies I will need it.
Thank you Marc
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