>> How can I scan the whole tape and recover old, non overwritten, jobs?
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions,
> 
> Sorry Simone, but once you've partially overwritten the tape, you're
> pretty much out of luck with any out-of-the-box tools.  You'd have to
> write a specific program to scan the entire tape beyond the EOT mark to
> try to recover any data from it.

If bacula works the same as other back up programs I've dealt with in 
the past, they write a jb to tape, put EOT or ?, the write the next job 
and repeat.

So mount your tape no rewind, extract the first job,  step past the EOT, 
extract next job and repeat until physical EOT.

It has been a while since I've performed this, so I don't remember the 
exact *nix commands I used.

You will not recover the overwritten job.


> 
> 
> 


-- 
Terry Collins {:-)}}}}}
Bicycles, Appropriate Technology, Natural Environment, Welding

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports
standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1,  ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 & L3.
Spend less time writing and  rewriting code and more time creating great
experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb
_______________________________________________
Bacula-users mailing list
Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users