> 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 >
I'll do so and post again if it looks weird. Thx for your help, Oliver ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
