theboyk Posted March 16, 2015 Report Share Posted March 16, 2015 Hello. One of my catalog files has become corrupt. It's 3-member LTO4 catalog. Rebuilding is S-L-O-W and it's going to take over 24 hours to rebuild from the three LTO4 tapes. Problem is, during this rebuild, the nightly backup won't run. I was hoping to could "pause" the rebuild, let the backup run, then return to the rebuild, but this doesn't work. Anyone have any suggestions? Could I rebuilt each tape, one at a time (i.e., break the 3-tape catalog somehow into 3 separate catalogs)? Thanks, Kristin. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted March 16, 2015 Report Share Posted March 16, 2015 If you have "Fast catalog rebuild" enabled, you only need to run the last tape. The catalog file for the first two tapes is at the beginning of the third tape. If not, You could say "no" when retrospect asks if there are any more tapes. Then after the backup, you could "update" the catalog file with the next tapes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted March 16, 2015 Report Share Posted March 16, 2015 Come to think of it: You are not backing up to the same media set as the one you are recreating the catalog file for, are you? Then you would have to wait until you have fully recreated the catalog file before running a backup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyk Posted March 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2015 Nope, not backing up to the same media set, so all good there. And I just checked, and Fast Catalog Rebuild was checked for the Media Set with the corrupt catalog (it's checked for all my media sets, thank goodness—never knew what that was for, until now!) So, you're saying, when I go to Rebuild the Media Set (with the corrupt catalog), all I need to do is point it at Tape 3 in the set (the last tape in the set) and let it do it's thing using that one tape? I don't need to worry about starting the rebuild with the first tape in the set? And just for my own knowledge—if I didn't have Fast Catalog Rebuild checked and I needed to do it per-tape in the set, thus started with Tape 1, how would I do about "updating" the catalog with the next tape (after saying "no" to "any more tapes" at the end of the first tape rebuild)? Thanks, Kristin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted March 16, 2015 Report Share Posted March 16, 2015 That was a lot of questions. Yes, you should "let it do its thing" using the last tape only. No need for the first or second tape. Sorry, It says "Repair" in the Mac version of Retrospect. In the Windows version I'm pretty sure it says "update". So, after aborting the "recreate" after the first tape, you should "repair" the media set and insert the second tape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyk Posted March 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2015 Thanks! So, I know what I'm going to be doing first thing tomorrow AM! Thanks again! Kristin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted March 16, 2015 Report Share Posted March 16, 2015 Good luck. Please let me know what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Lee Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 I'm puzzled. Why would Retro refuse to do a backup because a rebuild was in progress? If the destination of the backup set is different from the media set that is being rebuilt, then I would not expect them to interfere with each other. Is Retrospect constrained to a single execution thread. (you can change that in prefs) Do tell... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted March 17, 2015 Report Share Posted March 17, 2015 My guess is that the (single) tape drive is busy and the backup's destination is a tape media set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyk Posted March 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 Lennart: Worked like a charm, thanks. Fast Catalog Rebuild for the win! Wondering, why wouldn't you want to use Fast Catalog Rebuild? iCompute & Lennart: Yes backups go to LTO4 tapes, and even though I have two individual tape drives attached to the server (handy, for keeping a blank tape available incase the current tape fills up mid-backup), out-of-the-box, Retrospect only supports a single drive being used at any one time. Parallel drive usage is an extra fee/upgrade (which, until now, I've never needed in 10+ years of using Retrospect with tape drives). Anyway, the catalog has been rebuilt and we're all good again! Next up...upgrading Retrospect...maybe. Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted March 18, 2015 Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 Lennart: Worked like a charm, thanks. Fast Catalog Rebuild for the win! Wondering, why wouldn't you want to use Fast Catalog Rebuild? You are welcome. I think that in the past with maybe 50GB tapes, you don't want a 20GB catalog file in the beginning of each (of the higher-numbered) tape for a large media set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyk Posted March 18, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 Makes sense. Thanks again, much appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Lee Posted March 18, 2015 Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 Does the "fast catalog rebuild" apply to "disk" sets as well - putting a copy of the catalog at the front of every "member"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted March 18, 2015 Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 Does the "fast catalog rebuild" apply to "disk" sets as well - putting a copy of the catalog at the front of every "member"? I think it does. But I don't think it works with grooming. The keywords here are "I think". Better check the manual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twickland Posted March 23, 2015 Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 But I don't think it works with grooming. Don't know about that, but I do know that grooming is not so useful for multiple-member disk sets. Although Retrospect will groom out the earlier backups, the space recovered on the earlier members cannot be reclaimed, as Retrospect will only write to the last member and you can't move backup files from one disk volume to another. Grooming is really only effective for a single volume media set. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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