Re: [Bacula-users] Job had "ERROR", now the catalog shows no job ran

[Jason K. <jk...@in...>]

I see...what's the syntax of the bscan command. I'm reading the man 
pages now but I want to make sure I get the flag usage correct.

My tape does have more than one job on it...but only a few...and it was 
for bacula testing anyway. I could purge the whole tape and start it 
over but I want to make sure that the bacula database stays updated if I 
do it. How would I go about deleting the entire tape and starting it 
over while making sure the bacula catalog stays updated?

Alan Brown wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Jason King wrote:
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>> Now my tape still shows that I have put 100G of
>> data on it...but the catalog shows that no job actually ran.
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> Not quite, it shows no job completed - the attributes are despooled to 
> tape after the job finishes.
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>> Question is, can I update the catalog with the data on the tape?
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> bscan will do it, but you won't be able to resume the job.
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>> Can I "ERASE" that job from the tape so that the next backup job will
>> take place at the beginning position of that errored out backup job so
>> as not to wast 100G worth of tape?
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> Only if the failed job is the only one on the tape - in which case all 
> you need to do is purge the entire thing and start over.
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> If not, then no.
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