[ale] Bacula

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Dow -

Did you find out how the files are written on tape?  That is, could I read a tape without having an instance of Bacula?  I ask because I'm always sensitive to having to have anything that's at all special in order to get data off of a tape (as opposed to tar on Linux or BACKUP on VMS).

- Jeff
> I looked at the site pages to see what program it uses to actually do the 
> backup of files.  Seems they wrote their own and it is part of the source. 
> They post the standards used in defining the data written.  Seems pretty 
> straightforward to use with examples given.  I plan to try it out sometime 
> here since xfsdump under IRIX doesn't have verification of tapes built in. 
> Good luck,
> Dow
> 
> 
> Jonathan Glass (IBB) wrote:
> > http://www.bacula.org
> > 
> > ONLamp.com has an article on this backup software, and gives it a great
> > review.  I'm going to test it out this afternoon, and was wondering if
> > anyone has worked with it yet?  I'd rather learn from someone else's
> > mistakes, than make them all myself.  :)
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Jonathan Glass
> > 
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