Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring from tape, sans database

2008-12-16 17:49:54
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring from tape, sans database
From: "James Harper" <james.harper AT bendigoit.com DOT au>
To: "John Drescher" <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>, "Alex Funk" <alex.funk AT visionshareinc DOT com>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:24:48 +1100
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Alex Funk
<alex.funk AT visionshareinc DOT com>
> wrote:
> > I have the need to recover a file that's expired it's retension but
I
> > still have the tape.  Is there a way to read the tape contents back
in
> > or back in far enough to restore files?
> >
> 
> bscan, bls, bextract
> 
> http://bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Volume_Utility_Tools.html
> 

I can't remember if it's documented or not, but you need to fiddle with
the retention settings if using bscan, otherwise bacula will just purge
it right back out again. Otherwise, it works great.

James

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