Re: [Bacula-users] How to recover volumes put into error state

2009-02-18 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Win Htin win.h...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Is there a way to recover a volume that was put into error status? This happened to two volumes, each from different pool in my production environment. If the tapes are not physically damaged you can recover by:

Re: [Bacula-users] How to recover volumes put into error state

2009-02-18 Thread Win Htin
Thanks John. I have done that before but still haven't seen those volumes re-used hence am not sure if setting status back to append is all that is required. Does Bacula put a new EOD or something like that at the last position data was written? Win On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:04 AM, John Drescher

Re: [Bacula-users] How to recover volumes put into error state

2009-02-18 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Win Htin win.h...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks John. I have done that before but still haven't seen those volumes re-used hence am not sure if setting status back to append is all that is required. Does Bacula put a new EOD or something like that at the last

Re: [Bacula-users] How to recover volumes put into error state

2009-02-18 Thread Win Htin
The update status from error to append failed. Took the tapes out of the library, checked physically and put it back in the slots, updated the slots and still not working. Tried the CLI mt -f /dev/nstX eod command on both tapes from each drive but that also failed with input output error message.