[Bacula-users] How to recover wrong overwritten tape?

2010-10-13 Thread Simone Martina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi at all, this (sad) morning I've tried to append a job to a used volume (a tape): despite I've tried to update status, job retention and so on, Bacula marks that tape like purgeable and begin to write the new data on the beginning of the tape. When

Re: [Bacula-users] How to recover wrong overwritten tape?

2010-10-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 10/13/10 06:15, Simone Martina wrote: Hi at all, this (sad) morning I've tried to append a job to a used volume (a tape): despite I've tried to update status, job retention and so on, Bacula marks that tape like purgeable and begin to write the new data on the beginning of the tape. When

Re: [Bacula-users] How to recover wrong overwritten tape?

2010-10-13 Thread terryc
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