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 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.
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.
-dt Print timestamp in debug output.
-m Update media info in database.
-D Specify the driver database name (default: NULL)
-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)
-t port
Specify database port (default: 0)
-p Proceed inspite of I/O errors.
-r List records.
-s Synchronize or store in Database.
-S Show scan progress periodically.
-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
<jltallon@adv-solutions.net>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may
be used by others).