On Thursday 06 October 2005 12:30, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > 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.
How does BackupExec store its data? Is it in a gross proprietary format, or would dd'ing the contents of the tapes do you any good? j----- k----- -- Joshua Kugler CDE System Administrator http://distance.uaf.edu/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
