So is there a way for me to replace that disk without invalidating the
entire backup? Running on Linux with an external SATA / FW enclosure,
bacula version 3.0.2
If there is a way to temporarily freeze a job (possible using signals)
to prevent it from writing anything while using LVM to
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Thomas Mueller tho...@chaschperli.ch wrote:
So is there a way for me to replace that disk without invalidating the
entire backup? Running on Linux with an external SATA / FW enclosure,
bacula version 3.0.2
If there is a way to temporarily freeze a job
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Mark Luntzel m...@luntzel.com wrote:
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Thomas Mueller tho...@chaschperli.ch wrote:
So is there a way for me to replace that disk without invalidating the
entire backup? Running on Linux with an external SATA / FW enclosure,
On 11/05/10 10:35, Mark Luntzel wrote:
Just to clear it up for some people who seem to be confused about the
situation: I am not facing a data loss. The backup medium (a single
hard drive) has gone bad. I did not want to cancel a ~8.8T run with
~400GB left on account of a single bad 1TB hard
Item 1: Ability to restart failed jobs
If you are not a coder, you could use
http://bacula.org/en/?page=makedonation to help getting it done.
- Thomas
That seems to be the general consensus. Thank you.
I caution that this method may not work as you expect. Being a
programmer myself, I
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 10:34:44AM -0700, Mark Luntzel wrote:
The answer is probably no but...
I can hear the disk currently being written to making bad noises, and
the speed is extremely slow. Bad disk for sure, about to fail. This is
at the end of a multi-Terabyte backup, just about 500
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Thomas Mueller tho...@chaschperli.ch wrote:
Item 1: Ability to restart failed jobs
If you are not a coder, you could use
http://bacula.org/en/?page=makedonation to help getting it done.
- Thomas
That seems to be the general consensus. Thank you.
I
On 11/05/2010 04:18 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
On 11/05/10 10:35, Mark Luntzel wrote:
Just to clear it up for some people who seem to be confused about the
situation: I am not facing a data loss. The backup medium (a single
hard drive) has gone bad. I did not want to cancel a ~8.8T run with
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Bruno Friedmann br...@ioda-net.ch wrote:
On 11/05/2010 04:18 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
On 11/05/10 10:35, Mark Luntzel wrote:
Just to clear it up for some people who seem to be confused about the
situation: I am not facing a data loss. The backup medium (a
On 11/05/10 15:01, Henry Yen wrote:
The clear consensus appears to be no. However, I wonder if it would
be theoretically possible to suspend every bacula process with a SIGSTOP,
bitimage copy the failing disk, hot swap it, restore the image, then
wake up all the bacula processes with SIGCONT?
On 11/05/10 16:49, Bruno Friedmann wrote:
On 11/05/2010 04:18 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
I think the real key thing to take away from this is, when you are
talking datasets of this size, YOU MUST HAVE REDUNDANCY in your storage.
Otherwise it's like playing Russian roulette with a revolver
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Mark Luntzel m...@luntzel.com wrote:
The answer is probably no but...
I can hear the disk currently being written to making bad noises, and
the speed is extremely slow. Bad disk for sure, about to fail. This is
at the end of a multi-Terabyte backup, just about
On 11/03/10 13:34, Mark Luntzel wrote:
The answer is probably no but...
I can hear the disk currently being written to making bad noises, and
the speed is extremely slow. Bad disk for sure, about to fail. This is
at the end of a multi-Terabyte backup, just about 500 gig left and I
would
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net wrote:
On 11/03/10 13:34, Mark Luntzel wrote:
The answer is probably no but...
I can hear the disk currently being written to making bad noises, and
the speed is extremely slow. Bad disk for sure, about to fail. This is
at
As a one-time disk rescuer, let me mention that 'dd' is your friend.
Mehma
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On 11/3/10 3:16 PM, Mark Luntzel wrote:
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Phil Stracchinoala...@metrocast.net wrote:
On 11/03/10 13:34, Mark Luntzel wrote:
The answer is probably no but...
I can hear
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