bscan - Bacula's 'Scan tape'

Author

       This  manual  page was written by Jose Luis Tallon <jltallon@adv-solutions.net>, for the Debian GNU/Linux
       system (but may be used by others).

Copyright

       This man page document is released under the BSD 2-Clause license.

Kern Sibbald                                    26 November 2009                                        BSCAN(8)

Description

       The  purpose  of  bscan is to read (scan) a Bacula Volume and to recreate or update the database contents
       with the information found on the Volume.  This is done in a non-destructive way. This permits  restoring
       database entries that have been lost by pruning, purging, deleting, or a database corruption problem.

       Normally,  it  should not be necessary to run the bscan command because the database is self maintaining,
       and most corrupted databases can be repaired by the tools provided by the database vendors.  In addition,
       if you have maintained bootstrap files during backups, you should be able to recover all your  data  from
       the bootstrap file without needed an up to date catalog.

       bscan command.

Name

        bscan - Bacula's 'Scan tape'

Options

       A summary of options is included below.

       -?     Show version and usage of program.

       -bbootstrap
              Specify a bootstrap file.

       -cconfig
              Specify configuration file.

       -dnn  Set debug level to nn.

       -dt    Print timestamp in debug output.

       -m     Update media info in database.

       -D     Specify the driver database name (default: NULL)

       -nname
              Specify the database name (default: bacula)

       -uusername
              Specify database username (default: bacula)

       -Ppassword
              Specify database password (default: none)

       -hhost
              Specify database host (default: NULL)

       -tport
              Specify database port (default: 0)

       -p     Proceed in spite of I/O errors.

       -r     List records.

       -s     Synchronize or store in Database.

       -S     Show scan progress periodically.

       -v     Verbose output mode.

       -Vvolume
              Specify volume names (separated by '|')

       -wdir Specify working directory (default from conf file)