> 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.

>
> 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..

John

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