btape - Bacula's Tape interface

btape [options] device-name

This manual page documents briefly the btape command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

A summary of options is included below.

-?

Show summary of options and commands.

-b bootstrap

Specify a bootstrap file.

-c config

Specify configuration file.

-d nn

Set debug level to nn.

-t

Open the default tape device.

-s

Turn off signals.

bsf

backspace file

bsr

backspace record

bfill

fill tape using Bacula writes

cap

list device capabilities

clear

clear tape errors

eod

go to end of Bacula data for append

eom

go to the physical end of medium

fill

fill tape, write onto second volume

unfill

read filled tape

fsf

forward space a file

fsr

forward space a record

help

print this reference

label

write a Bacula label to the tape

load

load a tape

quit

quit btape

rawfill

use write() to fill tape

readlabel

read and print the Bacula tape label

rectest

test record handling functions

rewind

rewind the tape

scan

read() tape block by block to EOT and report

scanblocks

Bacula read block by block to EOT and report

status

print tape status

test

General test Bacula tape functions

weof

write an EOF on the tape

wr

write a single Bacula block

rr

read a single record

qfill

quick fill command

bscan(1), bextract(1).

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).