Adrian, thanks for the reply and suggestions. It turns out I've got a few other NFS drives failing and they're all on the same RAID system. So I'm working on repairing that and hopefully the data will be recovered and I won't need to rebuild the bacula catalog. Fingers crossed.
-M > -----Original Message----- > From: Adrian Reyer [mailto:bacula-li...@lihas.de] > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 5:14 PM > To: Michael Stauffer _g > Cc: Bacula_users_list_mgstauff_gmail > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Corrupted catalog on bad drive - please help! > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 04:09:52PM -0500, Michael Stauffer _g wrote: > > This seems to be a disk error, but I ran 'xfs_repair' anyway but it didn't > > fix anything, not surprising. > > You could try a badblock scan as well. > > > Catalog backups: > > There's a script running on the machine that backs up the catalog nightly to > > another disk using /usr/lib/bacula/make_catalog_backup and I have > several > > days worth of these. This disc is backed up by bacula too. HOWEVER, > looking > > at catalog.txt log (in the same dir as these backups, it looks like a log > > from make_catalog_backup ), it shows this error's been happening since > Nov > > 2012, so my recent catalog dumps aren't going to be good. > > You could alwaqys try and delete the wrong line from the dump. > > > **** what's next? > > After replacing the bad disk: > > Can i reconstruct the catalog just from the backup data itself? It's on > > tapes, fwiw. How do I go about doing this? > > You can do so with bscan, it will take quite some time, though. > > > If I can get one of the old catalog dumps off one of the backup tapes, can I > > recontruct from that even though there have been backups since then? > > If you find an old dump and restore it, you should be fine by just using > bscan for all 'tapes' that are more recently used than the dump you > restored. > > > Do I resolve this with Bacula 3.0.1 before upgrading to the latest? Seems to > > make sense. > > I'd use 3.0.1 as it avoids any catalog upgrade hassle that might kick > in. > > Be aware I only started with Bacla 5.0 and never use a 3.0 myself. > > Regards, > Adrian > -- > LiHAS - Adrian Reyer - Hessenwiesenstraße 10 - D-70565 Stuttgart > Fon: +49 (7 11) 78 28 50 90 - Fax: +49 (7 11) 78 28 50 91 > Mail: li...@lihas.de - Web: http://lihas.de > Linux, Netzwerke, Consulting & Support - USt-ID: DE 227 816 626 Stuttgart ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users