Thanks John. I have done that before but still haven't seen those
volumes re-used hence am not sure if setting status back to "append"
is all that is required. Does Bacula put a new "EOD" or something like
that at the last position data was written?

Win

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:04 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Win Htin <win.htin AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Is there a way to recover a volume that was put into "error" status?
>> This happened to two volumes, each from different pool in my
>> production environment.
>>
>
> If the tapes are not physically damaged you can recover by:
>
> update volume
>
> select
> volume status
>
> select your pool
>
> then set it to Append
>
> John
>



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