Deleted a Repack Object that is needed

Site Administrators
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Hi,

As I was trying to clean up some repack requests that were stuck in the Pending state, I deleted a several rados objects containing the string “Repack” in their name. Unfortunatelly, one of them

RepackIndex-Frontend-cta-front05.scd.rl.ac.uk-12295-20240403-11:02:53-0-697

looks like it should not have been deleted because

[root@cta-front05 ~]# cta-admin re ls
In BackendRados::read(): considering empty object (name=RepackIndex-Frontend-cta-front05.scd.rl.ac.uk-12295-20240403-11:02:53-0-697) as non-existing.
[root@cta-front05 ~]#

Can you please help?

Many thanks,

George

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OK - just realised that there is this very usefull too

cta-objectstore-create-missing-repack-index

which did the trick

3

Hi George,
I couldn’t see a mention of it above, so just in case you were not aware: There is a dedicated command for deleting repacks: cta-admin repack rm --vid <tape_vid>. This is generally much safer than modifying the objectstore direcly, which is in turn more of a last resort.
If cta-admin repack rm failed in an unexpected way, then please let us know so we can look at the issue.