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bru tape import tool and bru pe
Some information about what I’m working with:
Mac – High Sierra Version 10.13.6
Bru Pe – 18.1.1All the files are inside one standalone tape.
I can tell everything is connected up fine because when I run a Verify, I can see that the files are on there, and it verifies. It can “Identify Tapes” also.
The Bru Import tool also also works with “Importing File”, which I can then see on the Restore function of Bru Pe. However there is “No Archive Catalog Found” when I click on the Tapeset. And The ability to Restore button is not clickable.
not sure how long the import tool takes. first time ran it for 15+ minutes then forced quit cause it was taking too long and then the 2nd time i had it run overnight from 4pm to 10am. and it seemed to still be running and trying to import.
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2 Replies
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Are you sure the Bru-PE version is 18.1.1? As far as I remember the last version was 3.x
In general, Bru-PE could import archives from older versions, but not from newer ones. Maybe the tape is from an Argest setup? Arrest is the successor of Bru-PE.
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Late reply, but for anyone landing here from search: this exact symptom, a tape that verifies clean while the Import Tool reports No Archive Catalog Found, does not mean your data is gone. The catalog BRU wrote to the tape itself is usually still intact and the archives are readable even when the desktop software cannot rebuild its own database from them.
One thing worth doing right now, whatever path you take: stop re-running the import against that tape. Every load and every read pass on an aged tape is wear, and if this is your only copy you want its next full read to be the one that actually gets the data off. Write down the exact error text and the tape generation, then decide.
We hit this wall at our own facility. Our vault was written with BRU PE. When the software died we built a recovery pipeline on modern hardware, migrated our own library, and validated every file against the tape’s own records. We now run it as a service for other people holding BRU tapes: survey first (you get the complete catalog of what is on the tape before committing to anything), then a verified restore with a per-file validation report.
If anybody might be interested, we just became live! Details and published pricing at lightbenders.com/bru-restore. Happy to answer questions here either way, including if you just want to compare notes on doing it yourself.
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