On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Thomas Mueller <thomas AT chaschperli DOT ch> 
wrote:
>
>>> So is there a way for me to replace that disk without invalidating the
>>> entire backup? Running on Linux with an external SATA / FW enclosure,
>>> bacula version 3.0.2
>>
>> If there is a way to temporarily freeze a job (possible using signals)
>> to prevent it from writing anything while using LVM to attempt to
>> vgextend; pvmove; vgreduce; vgremove that physical disk could be a
>> viable solution.
>
> IMHO once a job is running, the only way to stop it is to cancel it.
> there is no "freeze".
>
> sometime in the future there will be the ability to restart a failed job,
> see the "Projects" file:
>
> Item  1: Ability to restart failed jobs
>
> If you are not a coder, you could use
> http://bacula.org/en/?page=makedonation to help getting it done.
>
> - Thomas
>
>

That seems to be the general consensus. Thank you.

Just to clear it up for some people who seem to be confused about the
situation: I am not facing a data loss. The backup medium (a single
hard drive) has gone bad. I did not want to cancel a ~8.8T run with
~400GB left on account of a single bad 1TB hard drive, but with no
recourse that is what I had to do.

Anyway, thank you all for your help in this matter.

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