btape - Man Page
Bacula's Tape interface test program
Synopsis
btape [options] device-name
Description
This manual page documents briefly the btape command.
Options
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.
- -p
Proceed inspite of I/O errors.
- -s
No signals (for debugging).
- -v
Set verbose mode.
Commands
- autochanger
test autochanger
- bsf
backspace file
- bsr
backspace record
- 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
- rb
read a single bacula block
- qfill
quick fill command
See Also
bscan(1), bextract(1).
Author
This manual page was written by Jose Luis Tallon <jltallon@adv-solutions.net>.
Copyright
This man page document is released under the BSD 2-Clause license.