Re: [Bacula-users] The number of files mismatch!

[Arno L. <al...@it...>]

Hi,

On 12/11/2006 4:25 PM, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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>>>I updated the VolumeFiles for this tape in the catalog to 0 and did a second backup job.
>>>I restored and verified both backup jobs without any problem.
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>>That was lucky... Bacula should have considered that tape as empty IMO.
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> 
> My best guess is that having not unmounted the tape, it elected not to
> move the tape any when the next backup was to run, and therefore wrote
> in the correct spot. How many "files" it would say are on the tape after
> the fact, though, I don't know...
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> Sound feasible at all?

Yes, but of course it's hard to determine what actually happened 
afterwards... and I doubt you'd want to try that scenario again :-)

If you do, turn on debug output and see what that tells. The relevant 
parts ight be hard to spot in the loads of information you get at higer 
debug levels, so you should reserve some time for it.

Regarding the VolFiles field in the catalog - you could compare what the 
catalog has with the llist command (I think) and what the tape drive 
sees when forwarding to the end of media using a command like 'mt eom' 
followed by 'mt status'. There should be the current file number in the 
output.

Arno


> I'd love to keep from doing something boneheaded
> myself. :)
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