Hello,
On 4/20/2006 1:36 PM, Alex Finch wrote:
I am trying to understand why bacula has not run a full backup on our
system. It is scheduled to run on on the first Friday of the month,
however this month we had a hardware problem on the tape drive on that
day. As I have " Rerun Failed Levels = yes" I expected it to run a
full backup as soon as it was possible to do so, however this has not
happened and all differentials are still relative to the last full
backup at the start of March. Here are the relevant sections from
my bacula-dir.conf:
... not needed here...
The database shows:
...
It shows that no jobs ran over the period 6th -9th April. Is this
perhaps the problem? The Full job did not fail because it did not run. It
did not run because I turned bacula off, knowing that it could not
work without the tape drive. The differential job does not see a
failed earlier job so does not upgrade itself. Maybe I should have
left bacula running, and allow it to fail, so as to get the required
behaviour?
Well, that would have been one solution.
The basic thing is that Bacula can't retry or rerun things that did not
actually happen.
When I know that backups can't run due to some problem I prefer to shut
down Bacula and manually start the jobs that are essential afterwards.
If, for whatever reason, that would be too many jobs, AND you can keep
the system up and running, I have tried simply unmounting the device
through Baculas console, fixing whatever was wrong with the backup
hardware, get the backup hardware (tape drives in my case) up again
(with linux, you can, for example, manually remove scsi devices from the
list of scsi devices, unload the kernel modules, reload them again, and
also re-order the device ids with some effort. Mounting the tape
afterwards worked in the one serious case of a tape drive hang where I
tried such a process.
Arno
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