Martin Simmons wrote:
> Hmmm, there are a few strange things here:
>
> 1) bls says that the tape ends at file 6, which matches the jobmedia table,
> which is good. More importantly, it also matches the catalog value from
> the mismatch in bacula-sd of 06-Feb 17:59. However, that bacula-sd run saw
> end of tape at file 5 for some reason.
>
> 2) There are some missing job records in the bls output between the Volume
> Record and the first End Job Session Record.
>
> 3) The volindex values don't start at 1 for job 1972.
>
> Did the previous tape get filled while writing job 1972, i.e. does Tape41
> contain the second part of that job? That would explain 3.
Yes. Actually it's the 3rd tape in a job.
> What is printed if you run
>
> btape -c bacula-sd.conf /dev/nsa0
>
> with Tape41 in the drive and then issue the commands
>
> rewind
> status
> eod
> status
> quit
>
> (disclaimer: I would not expect those commands to modify the tape, but btape
> is potentially dangerous.)
Hmm.
Is there a way I can get a copy of the tape, before I try this? I cannot
afford to lose it.
Can I, e.g., "dd if=/dev/nsa0 of=somefile" and then, possibly, restore
it with "dd if=somefile of=/dev/nsa0"?
Any other way?
bye & Thanks
av.
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