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Re: [Bacula-users] Bad disk noises - replace the volume without restarting the backup?

2010-11-05 17:23:24
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bad disk noises - replace the volume without restarting the backup?
From: Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:21:04 -0400
On 11/05/10 15:01, Henry Yen wrote:
> The clear consensus appears to be "no".  However, I wonder if it would
> be theoretically possible to suspend every bacula process with a SIGSTOP,
> bitimage copy the failing disk, hot swap it, restore the image, then
> wake up all the bacula processes with SIGCONT?  Perhaps the major
> difficulty would end up being convincing linux to ignore the physical
> disk-swap event, but that might depend on how the external enclosure
> is set up and configured?


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