> after for some reason an error occurs I have a volume which is in > backup mode error. So far so good (or bad). > > Last night I had a job which waited for ever for an appendable volume. > I deleted an old error-volume (from the db and filesystem), recreated it > and the job was fine again. But there were plenty of appendable volumes > and other jobs were running without a hassle. > Is there a better way to get rid of such nasty things? > Bacula will normally grab the next appendable volume in this case. I am not sure what caused the behavior you describe. If you see this again post the messages before you take action.
> > Next question is can I restore data from such a volume or are they > "lost"? > You can restore data from volumes marked error. However if there is any corruption bacula will terminate the restore at the point of the corruption. I believe in that case the bacula utility tools can be used to recover data past that point but that will be a lot of manual work.. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
