Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula volume on new tapelibrary

[John D. <dre...@gm...>]

> We will be keeping both the tape libraries old+new in the environment.
> We have configured another bacula server for the new library.
> And plan is to keep half the jobs onto new tape library lateron.
> But first test is to verify if the tapes from old are readable. So that in case of old bacula server going down , we will be in a position to use(read) the tapes in new library.
>

For you to be able to use the volumes in bacula you need to either use
bextract to directly extract individual files or bscan to import each
volume to the second independent database. With the volume imported
you can use it the same way you use any other volume.

http://www.bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/utility/utility/General_Index.html

John