bscan (8)

bscan [options] bareos-archive

The purpose of bscan is to read (scan) a Bareos 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. Logical inconsistencies in the Bareos database can be found by bareos-dbcheck. 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.

A summary of options is included below.

-?

Show version and usage of program.

-Bdrivername

Specify the database driver name (default NULL) <postgresql|mysql|sqlite3>.

-bbootstrap

Specify a bootstrap file.

-cconfigfile

Specify storage daemon configuration file.

-dnn

Set debug level to nn.

-dt

Print timestamp in debug output.

-Ddirector

Specify a director name specified in the storage daemon configuration file for the Key Encryption Key selection.

-adirectory

Specify the database backend directory

-m

Update media info in database.

-nname

Specify the database name (default: bareos)

-uusername

Specify database username (default: bareos)

-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 '|')

-wdirectory

Specify working directory (default from configuration file)

bls(8), bextract(8), bareos-dbcheck(8).

This manual page was written by Jose Luis Tallon <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).