Reading BRU Backup tapes

[Bill Cavalieri]

I have the latest version of bru, I can bring it to a metting and we can 
try it there.

Let me know

-Bill

Charles Steinkuehler wrote:

> I have some 8mm Exabyte backup tapes that were generated by the 
> Caldera OEM edition of BRU.  I don't know much about the Caldera 
> install these tapes were made on, except that's it would be pretty old 
> by today's standards (2.0 series kernel).
>
> The machine has long since been replaced with a RH install (first RH 
> 6.2, now RH 7.2).  Does anyone know a way to read BRU formatted tapes 
> (tar barfs on them), or am I going to have to pick up a BRU license 
> (or build an old caldera system) to get to these files?
>
> NOTE:  I'm not even 100% sure the tapes were generated by BRU, but 
> reading in the first few sectors with dd and running strings yeilds 
> the following:
>
> [root at raven tapetest]# strings test
> /dev/st0
>     43eb       0       03a43f875    8000cb4100001234   0   f   0 7d0 
>     0  596820   1615a
>        0       0/dev/st0
> Caldera OEM Edition
> Linux
> ns1.newt
> 2.0.35
> #1 Wed A
> i586
> *** BRU BACKUP DATA ***  Info: EST, Tempe, Arizona  Ph: 602-820-0042 
> Fax: 602-491-0865
> bru -c -vv
> NO SER NUM FILE
> ./lost+found
>     27a2       1       03a43f875    8000cb4100002345   0   f   0 7d0 
>     1  596820   1615a
>     41ed       b     802       0       2       0       0 
> 03a43355e36cbf52336cbf523       0       0
>       21
> ./var
>     24fa       2       03a43f875    8000cb4100002345   0   f   0 7d0 
>     2  596820   1615a
>     41ed     809     802       0      11       0       0 
> 03a43b41c36d1e9bc37a73885       0       0
>       21
> ./var/adm
>     26ab       3       03a43f875    8000cb4100002345   0   f   0 7d0 
>     3  596820   1615a
>     41ed    1011     802       0       3       0       0 
> 03a43355e36cbf52d36cbf5b4       0       0
>       21
>