I'm using an external USB hard drive as my backup medium. A week or two ago I forgot to turn on the drive just before the backup time but thought nothing of it. A few days later I noticed a message to say the expected volume files couldn't be found and sure enough they were missing from the backup drive.
Today I deliberately left the drive turned off and was amazed to see the backup went without a hitch! It turns out that if the external drive is not turned on Bacula doesn't know any different and writes to whatever hard drive the external drive should have been mounted over. As soon as I realized this I looked at the directory and sure enough there were the 'missing' volumes mentioned in the error message a few days ago. I'm sure this is all 'obvious' to the old hacks but is there a way to prevent files being written into the mount point when no drive is actually mounted? I should add that I'm using Ubuntu and have an entry in fstab which auto mounts the external drive when it can see it. - David. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
