On 10/6/2005 3:21 PM Joshua Kugler wrote:
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?
I have no idea how it's stored. I guess I could attach the drive, read
the dd man page, and give it a try... Anyone else happen to know?
Thanks for the idea.
Drew
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