Hi,

Regarding my long-running efforts to restore a lost catalog from mid-febuary
of this year, I believe I've finally succeeded (at least most of the way). I
was recreating a catalog using bscan by scanning 35 LTO-5 tapes. It took
about two weeks, and near the end I had an i/o error on the drive. I cleaned
the drive and started again at the beginning of the tape where the i/o error
happened. This seems to have worked, as I know have a catalog that bconsole
can use, and it looks reasonably intact. I can't say authoritatively b/c I
just recently took over this system and hadn't looked much at the backup
system before I lost the catalog.

I've been able to restore the data I needed (at least most of it), so this
is great. There's a possible glitch, but I'm going to post about that
separately.

Thanks for all the help from the list along the way!

-M

> Op 2013-04-15 om 04:14 schreef Michael Stauffer _g:
> > Bacula 3.0.1
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm tantalizingly near the end of a bscan reconstruciton of a catalog
over 35
> > tapes. You may remember my posts starting mid February - it took a while
> but it
> > also turns out both drives in my device had failed, so they've been
> replaced.
> >
> > It's taken 11 days so far to get to tape 30 out of 35, and ... an i/o
error has
> > occured.
> >
> > bscan: bscan.c:650 Could not find Job for SessId=9 SessTime=1358880703
> record.
> > 14-Apr 17:47 bscan JobId 0: Error: block.c:1004 Read error on fd=3 at
file:blk
> > 1202:13403 on device "LTO5-0" (/dev/st0). ERR=Input/output error.
> > Bacula status: file=1202 block=13403
> > Device status: ONLINE IM_REP_EN file=1202 block=-1
> >
> > The bscan process is still running. Currently 'mt -f /dev/st0 status' is
> > returning "/dev/st0: Device or resource busy".
> >
> > Assuming I can get the tape 30 in the drive working again, how do I
> proceed?
> >
> > Do I return to the bscan process and hit 'enter' to see if it will start
again
> > from tape 30?
> >
> > Do I kill the bscan process and start again from tape 30? Can I assume
that
> > whatever it finds on tape will be added to whatever's been added to the
> > database so far?
> >
> > Or do I have to start from scratch?! I hope not!!!



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