>>>>> On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:38:45 +0100, Oliver Lehmann said:
> 
> Dan Langille writes: 
> 
> > 
> > Have you considered that perhaps your backup is corrupted?  That is, the 
> >   USB2 HDD that you have backed up to contains a disk error? 
> > 
> > I would be very careful with that HDD, whatever you do, especially if 
> > that is your only backup of this data.
>  
> 
> I'm starting an offline SMART test now but I doubt that this will reveal
> anything. The disk has a UDMA_CRC_Error_Count of 1 but this is not that
> much. Right now I can't think that the disk has a problem. If this would
> be the case and I would access a file on a corrupt disk FreeBSD would have
> spammed my console already with read errors. Same goes for write. 
> 
> I'll let you know what the SMART analysis revealed. 
> 
> Is there a way to force bacula to re-read the backups after they where
> written or do I have to schedule continuous restores to make sure they stay 
> readable?

I would expect a verify job with level VolumeToCatalog to check the blocks.
You need to run it immediately after the job, because it can only be used on
the last run of each named job.

__Martin

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