BSCAN
Section: Network backup, recovery and verification (8)
Updated: 26 May 2006
Index NAME
bscan - Bacula's 'Scan tape'
SYNOPSIS
bscan[
options]
bacula-archive DESCRIPTION
The purpose of bscan is to read (scan) a Bacula Volume and to recreateor update the database contents with the information found on the Volume.This is done in a non-destructive way. This permits restoring databaseentries that have been lost by pruning, purging, deleting, or a databasecorruption problem.
Normally, it should not be necessary to run the bscan command becausethe database is self maintaining, and most corrupted databases can berepaired by the tools provided by the database vendors.In addition, if you have maintained bootstrap files during backups, youshould be able to recover all your data from the bootstrap file without needed an up to date catalog.
bscancommand.
OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
- -?
- Show version and usage of program.
- -b bootstrap
- Specify a bootstrap file.
- -c config
- Specify configuration file.
- -d nn
- Set debug level to nn.
- -m
- Update media info in database.
- -n name
- Specify the database name (default: bacula)
- -u username
- Specify database username (default: bacula)
- -p password
- Specify database password (default: none)
- -h host
- Specify database host (default: NULL)
- -r
- List records.
- -s
- Synchronize or store in Database.
- -v
- Verbose output mode.
- -V volume
- Specify volume names (separated by '|')
- -w dir
- Specify working directory (default from conf file)
SEE ALSO
bls(8),
bextract(8).
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Jose Luis Tallon<jltallonAATTadv-solutions.net>,for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
Index
- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- OPTIONS
- SEE ALSO
- AUTHOR
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