05-May 19:49 bacula-sd JobId 38071: Volume "A00003L5" previously written,
moving to end of data.
05-May 19:50 bacula-sd JobId 38071: Error: Bacula cannot write on tape Volume
"A00003L5" because:
The number of files mismatch! Volume=193 Catalog=192
05-May 19:50 bacula-sd JobId 38071: Marking Volume "A00003L5" in Error in
Catalog.
:-)
Thanks, Ben!!
Am 21.05.2014 um 15:18 schrieb Roberts, Ben <Ben.Roberts AT gsacapital DOT com>:
> If you want to be sure that it was the file mismatch rather than a media
> error on the tape, look through the job logs for subsequent jobs to the one
> that had the network blip. You'll see something like:
>
> 29-Jan 08:39 backup1-sd JobId 28425: Volume "XXX675" previously written,
> moving to end of data.
> 29-Jan 08:41 backup1-sd JobId 28425: Error: Bacula cannot write on tape
> Volume "XXX675" because: The number of files mismatch! Volume=300 Catalog=299
> 29-Jan 08:41 backup1-sd JobId 28425: Marking Volume "XXX675" in Error in
> Catalog.
>
> Ben Roberts
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Korbinian Grote [mailto:grote AT genomatix DOT de]
>> Sent: 21 May 2014 14:15
>> To: John Drescher; Roberts, Ben; bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
>> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Change a volume from 'Error' to 'Append'
>>
>> Thanks Ben & John for the quick answers!
>>
>> The volume in question was a 1.5/3 TB LTO 5 tape and though they don't cost
>> the world anymore, I'd have hated to let it go to waste. Anyway, querying the
>> database showed that there was just the one single job that failed assigned
>> to
>> it, so deleting that job and marking it purged should hopefully have done the
>> trick. It's now residing in the scratch pool waiting to be used, so I'll know
>> as soon as one of the other pools are full...
>>
>> Thanks again!
>>
>> Korbinian
>>
>>
>> Am 21.05.2014 um 14:46 schrieb John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>:
>>
>>>> I've observed similar issues in the past. A job fails part way through and
>> the catalog is not updated leaving a mismatch in the number of files in the
>> volume versus what's recorded in the catalog. This is then detected the next
>> time the volume is used, and Bacula marks the volume as Error without writing
>> anything to it.
>>>>
>>>> Given the mismatch, the safest thing to do is mark the volume as Full, and
>> wait for the retention period to expire so the volume can be recycled.
>> Unfortunately this wastes space (more painful when you have 100GB volumes and
>> it failed within the first few gig...), so you'll need to either have
>> sufficient spare space on your SD that you can cope with this, or be willing
>> to sacrifice the other jobs on the volume and delete jobs+purge or purge it
>> immediately to regain the space.
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure how Bacula would behave if you change it straight to append;
>> whether it would leave a hole in the volume, or whether this mismatch would
>> corrupt subsequent jobs.
>>>
>>> The times I have done this there was no problem. For file based
>>> volumes I keep them small 5 to 10 GB and in this case it does not
>>> really waste space to mark the volume Full and or recycling the job
>>> with the error.
>>>
>>> John
>>
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