Hello all, I've noticed that bareos will reuse volume files which aren't in the database. This is a big problem in the following situation: You lose the catalog. (Say your building burns down, but you have fortunately saved the volume files offsite.) So you begin bscanning volume information back into the catalog. At the same time you begin making backups as computers come back online. While backing up these computers, bareos might choose a volume name which matches one fo the existing file names. If it does, it adds the volume name to the catalog, then reuses the volume file, overwriting the volumes' information which has not yet been bscanned into the catalog. Oops, that data is no longer recoverable! The obvious thing would be to not allow bareos to reuse volumes which are not already in the catalog.
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