Sorry. While not an excuse...I was not in a good mood this morning and took yoru sarcasm personally. I myself am very sarcastic. Anyway. Thanks for the advice, it's appreciated.
-Aaron On Jan 8, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Monday 08 January 2007 14:22, Aaron Knister wrote: >> Thanks for the sarcasm. NOT. I come here for support, not to be >> ridiculed. And i'll have you know that the restore from that backup >> set did work. > > Yes, I was sarcastic, but life is (at least I am) like that. > > I certainly didn't mean to ridicule you, but rather to warn you > that IMO, you > were doing something that is *very* unlikely to work. Perhaps I was > wrong -- > I guess you fell into the 1% uncertainty that I had. I have my > doubts, > anyway, good luck. > > My advice to other users, remains the same: If a Job fails, the > File records > will most likely not have been inserted, and in such a case, > marking the job > as successfully terminated will most likely result in restore > failure (or > screw up of some sort) later down the road because those File > records are > critical for most restore operations. > >> >> >> On Jan 8, 2007, at 4:29 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> >>> On Sunday 07 January 2007 23:03, Aaron Knister wrote: >>>> I solved this problem myself. I'm not sure how elegant the solution >>>> is, however. >>>> >>>> Using myphpadmin I changed the "JobStatus" field in the respective >>>> jobid's mysql entry from "f" to "T". I then re-ran the job and it >>>> picked up more or less where it left off. >>> >>> Yes, well congratulations. I give you 99% probability of having >>> created a set >>> of backups that cannot be restored. >>> >>> I *strongly* recommend that other users don't try manually >>> modifying the DB >>> unless you understand *all* the little details of how job records >>> are put >>> into the DB. >>> >>>> >>>> -Aaron >>>> >>>> On Jan 5, 2007, at 10:29 PM, Aaron Knister wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> I recently had a backup job fail mid way. It was backing up 5 >>>>> terabytes of data, and had written 3tb off to tape. The job >>>>> stopped >>>>> because there were no more writable volumes in the particular >>>>> volume >>>>> pool to which the job was assigned. I cleared up a volume however >>>>> the >>>>> job did not resume and after a while errored out. I would like to >>>>> know if i can salvage the 3 terabytes that was already written to >>>>> tape and just continue from that point. >>>>> >>>>> Many thanks. >>>>> >>>>> -Aaron >>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>> -- >>>>> -- >>>>> --- >>>>> 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 >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> -- >>>> ---- >>>> 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 >>>> >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> 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 >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
