On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 10:41:59AM +0100, Alan Brown wrote: > On 09/10/13 10:01, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > one of our longer-running jobs broke yesterday after saving around 6TB > > of data to lto4 tapes, the last 200G or so are probably missing. > > 6Tb on LTO4 > > Are you crazy? Break the job into smaller units! >
Thanks for your kind words. ;-P There's no budget from the customer for that at the moment, but knowing that bscan / bextract / brestore might come in helpful in this situation is comfort enough ATM. > You're better off purging the tapes and starting over with sensibly > sized backup sets. > Due to jobs running in parallel this would purge all other jobs on those volumes, so that's not exactly an option. I'll put forward the idea of breaking up the jobs further. All the best, Uwe -- NIONEX --- Ein Unternehmen der Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users