> > I tried a restore some time after that and then "status Storage" said > > device is blocked, waiting for an appendable media". > > This probably means that there's backup job still waiting. >
No Job is running. > You should make sure the SD is running - killing the FD at this point > won't help you :-) All bacula services are running. > Unfortunately, you don't give enough details to understand the problem... > > First, make sure all the daemons are running and the device is not in > use by a backup job. Assuming your backups are already done (or you > cancelled them, for example by restarting the FD :-) simply shut down > the whole Bacula system - DIR, SD and FD - and start it again. > > When you have bacula runing and use bconsole to start a restore job, > everything should work normally or you should at least get meaningful > messages. - No backup jobs are running(->status dir) - services are restarted - restore job doesn't work, -> "no backup before (actual date) for client XYZ found"(this occurs since labeling the volume again) At the moment I let a bscan go through the data file. Seems to last some time(~50GB). /usr/lib/bacula/bscan.sqlite -v -s -p -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf /backup/bacula/volumes Thanks so far. Tobias -- NEU: GMX DSL Sofort-Start-Set - blitzschnell ins Internet! Echte DSL-Flatrate ab 0,- Euro* http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users