>> I have seen this in the past. What ends up happening is the tape gets
>> rewinded by the drive but bacula believes it is at the end of the data
>> instead of the beginning. So when bacula does the next write it starts
>> at the beginning, completely trashing the tape. I see two solutions to
>> the problem. Either put the archive unit on its own ups or have the
>> server monitor the ups and when it detects the power comes back online
>> it calls a script to tell bacula to release the tapes that are already
>> in volumes.
>>
>> John
>>
> Do you know if any of the data is usable? Can bcopy and bscan be used to
> import what data is still good?
>

>>From the first uncorrupted volume file (bacula stores data in 1GB
chunks I believe) to the end of tape should be recoverable however I
have not attempted this so I am not sure of the details. I do see
discussions about recovering corrupted tapes every so often check the
email archives.

John

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