> Hi, > > We recently had a problem which I haven't been able to fully recover > from, and would appreciate some advice about the best thing to do > should something like this happen again: > > We run Bacula on Suse 9.0, using network attached storage which is > mounted locally on /nas > > Due to a daytime power outage (our UPS failed FFS!) which took all our > servers off-line at the busiest time of day, and during the panic that > ensued, we forgot to remount the NAS before the overnight backups were run. > > So, we ended up with two new incremental volumes in the /nas subdir > that were not actually on the NAS store, and Bacula was, of course, quite happy. > > In an attempt to recover from this, I stopped bacula, deleted the two > 'unwanted' volumes and remounted the NAS. I then backed up the current > catalog just in case and created a new empty catalog. I then ran bscan > on all the volumes on the NAS to recreate the catalog so that it was > in sync with the actual volumes we had in the backup set; which it did > - after some time.
What's the purpose of stopping bacula? I would have removed the volumes etc using bconsole thus purging the database from any entries related to the volumes. /Jens Bacula had to be stopped because there were a whole raft of further backups just about to start and I didn't want anything else written to the backup set until I had it in a known state. It isn't clear (to me anyway!) that the console provides a command to remove backup jobs in the catalog that are not contained in the backup set (as in this case), surely it only provides the option to remove jobs that are in the backup volumes - what happens if you purge non-existant jobs from volumes containing multiple jobs? It was not being able to find answers to this type of question that made me decide to try and rebuild the catalog from the backup volumes, only to find that the autonaming of volumes then went wrong! Many thanks for your help Mike _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by KMSinternet, powered by Messagelabs. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
