Thanks Ben & John for the quick answers! The volume in question was a 1.5/3 TB LTO 5 tape and though they don’t cost the world anymore, I’d have hated to let it go to waste. Anyway, querying the database showed that there was just the one single job that failed assigned to it, so deleting that job and marking it purged should hopefully have done the trick. It’s now residing in the scratch pool waiting to be used, so I’ll know as soon as one of the other pools are full…
Thanks again! Korbinian Am 21.05.2014 um 14:46 schrieb John Drescher <dresche...@gmail.com>: >> I've observed similar issues in the past. A job fails part way through and >> the catalog is not updated leaving a mismatch in the number of files in the >> volume versus what's recorded in the catalog. This is then detected the next >> time the volume is used, and Bacula marks the volume as Error without >> writing anything to it. >> >> Given the mismatch, the safest thing to do is mark the volume as Full, and >> wait for the retention period to expire so the volume can be recycled. >> Unfortunately this wastes space (more painful when you have 100GB volumes >> and it failed within the first few gig...), so you'll need to either have >> sufficient spare space on your SD that you can cope with this, or be willing >> to sacrifice the other jobs on the volume and delete jobs+purge or purge it >> immediately to regain the space. >> >> I'm not sure how Bacula would behave if you change it straight to append; >> whether it would leave a hole in the volume, or whether this mismatch would >> corrupt subsequent jobs. > > The times I have done this there was no problem. For file based > volumes I keep them small 5 to 10 GB and in this case it does not > really waste space to mark the volume Full and or recycling the job > with the error. > > John -- Dr. Korbinian Grote Product Manager Genomatix Software GmbH http://www.genomatix.de Bayerstr. 85a, 80335 Muenchen, Germany HRB 117956 - Amtsgericht Muenchen Geschaeftsfuehrer: Klaus J.W. May ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
