I suspect the answer to my questions is "no" but wanted to ask before I give up on a batch of tapes created by BackupExec 8.x. Apparently, BackupExec is so "stupid" that if it encounters an error on any tape of a multiple tape volume set, it can't restore anything past the error. For example I had used BackupExec to backup about 40 GB of data to 2 GB DDS tapes. When I attempted to restore after a drive failure, BE encountered an error on tape 5 and refused to continue. I called their help(less) desk and was told that that's just the way it is and hopefully I learned my lesson to not create backup jobs that span multiple volumes in the future. This is when I switched to Bacula for future backups.

So anyway, Bacula has been running great and meeting my needs (a big THANK YOU to all the contributors!). But before I throw out that old box of tapes I was just wondering if Bacula could help me recover any data from them.

Thanks,

Drew

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