On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 10:34:44AM -0700, Mark Luntzel wrote: > The answer is probably no but... > > I can hear the disk currently being written to making bad noises, and > the speed is extremely slow. Bad disk for sure, about to fail. This is > at the end of a multi-Terabyte backup, just about 500 gig left and I > would REALLY hate to think there is no way out but to start over > completely. > > So is there a way for me to replace that disk without invalidating the > entire backup? Running on Linux with an external SATA / FW enclosure, > bacula version 3.0.2
The clear consensus appears to be "no". However, I wonder if it would be theoretically possible to suspend every bacula process with a SIGSTOP, bitimage copy the failing disk, hot swap it, restore the image, then wake up all the bacula processes with SIGCONT? Perhaps the major difficulty would end up being convincing linux to ignore the physical disk-swap event, but that might depend on how the external enclosure is set up and configured? -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
