On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Oliver Hoffmann <o...@dom.de> wrote: >> > 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. > > I fear this behaviour will occur again tonight. When I look at scheduled > jobs I see volume *unknown* for this job.
That probably is fine. In several of the status options unknown is shown after a restart of the service and before the first job using that volume executes. > I altered this job using > webmin, which causes normaly no trouble. I even recreated the job and > checked bacula-dir.conf and did a restart of bacula. Pool and storage > looks fine but the next volume is still unknown. The problem seems to > be that the pool keeps being Default instead of the pool I want it to > use. No matter what I try. I don't know what all this has to do with an > error-volume though. > What can I do? > I would do nothing and see if the problem occurs again. >> > >> > 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.. > > So that means when I start a restore job and data is within a volume > marked error then everything is fine unless it is not corrupted? > Yes. 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
