> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Oliver Hoffmann <oh AT dom DOT de> wrote:
> >> > 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.
> >
> > I fear this behaviour will occur again tonight. When I look at
> > scheduled jobs I see volume *unknown* for this job.
> 
> That probably is fine. In several of the status options unknown is
> shown after a restart of the service and before the first job using
> that volume executes.
> 
> > I altered this job using
> > webmin, which causes normaly no trouble. I even recreated the job
> > and checked bacula-dir.conf and did a restart of bacula. Pool and
> > storage looks fine but the next volume is still unknown. The
> > problem seems to be that the pool keeps being Default instead of
> > the pool I want it to use. No matter what I try. I don't know what
> > all this has to do with an error-volume though.
> > What can I do?
> >
> I would do nothing and see if the problem occurs again.
> 
> >> >
> >> > 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..
> >
> > So that means when I start a restore job and data is within a volume
> > marked error then everything is fine unless it is not corrupted?
> >
> 
> Yes.
> 
> John
> 

I'll do so and post again if it looks weird. 
Thx for your help,

Oliver

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