Hello,

That is good to know.

You probably already know two things, but I mention them for those who 
do not know:

1. There is a chapter (or at least a section) in the main manual on how 
to create bootstrap files from Job output.

2. Bacula 7.4.4 or any other Bacula is perfectly capable of reading 
tapes written by Bacula's much older than yours, so I do not understand 
why you feel obliged to remain on Bacula 5.2.6. Of course, upgrading 
from Bacula 5.2.6 to Bacula 7.4.7 is a fairly time consuming task.

Best regards,

Kern



On 03/24/2017 01:20 PM, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2017 14:01:39 +0300
> Konstantin Khomoutov <flatworm AT users.sourceforge DOT net> wrote:
>
> Answering my other question:
>
>>> Thanks for mentioning that VolAddr is undocumented.  That was an
>>> oversight that I will fix.
>>>
>>> Please be aware that VolAddr is a relatively new bsr keyword, so it
>>> will not work on older Bacula's such as 5.2.x.  I don't remember
>>> when it was implemented.
>> Too bad for us: for administrative reasons we're stuck with 5.2.6 on
>> the box which is our tape SD.
> [...]
>> OK, so given that I can't use VolAddr with 5.2.6's bextract, is there
>> a way to make use of the two pairs of File+Block values extracted for
>> a particular job from the output of `bls -j` to create a sensible spec
>> for the bootstrap file to speed up extracts using `bextract`?
> [...]
>
> As it turned out -- I've tried to do a restore of the most recent such
> backup to have Bacula generate a bootstrap file for me, -- 5.2.6 is
> perfectly able to make use of the VolAddr parameter and uses it.
>
> So there's the way to go for us.
>
> Thank you, Martin and Kern!
>


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