Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

2009-08-13 Thread Ralf Gross
rorycl schrieb: I'm going to cross-post this text on the Amanda and Bacula lists. Apologies in advance if you see this twice. Our company is about to provide centralised backups for several pools of backup data of between 1 and 15TB in size. Each pool changes daily but backups to tape

Re: [Bacula-users] Timeout (?) problems with some Full backups

2009-08-13 Thread Nick Lock
Thanks very much for the help everyone, I do appreciate it. And quite possibly - you've fixed it :) From the top: John Drescher wrote: I would make the heartbeat interval much shorter. Thinking that this might be a good idea, I dropped all the Heartbeat Intervals to 1 minute and left the same

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 3.0.2 fileset file-list on the fly ?

2009-08-13 Thread ebollengier
Hello, Clark Hartness wrote: I am attempting to send a list of files to Bacula from the Client using this syntax described in the manual: Any file-list item preceded by a less-than sign () will be taken to be a file. This file will be read on the Director's machine at the time the

Re: [Bacula-users] disabling 'accurate' for a restore

2009-08-13 Thread ebollengier
Hello James, James Harper wrote: I do a full backup once a week, and then incremental backups for the rest of the week. MSSQL is configured to back up transaction logs every day and keep the backup for 3 days (by which time it would have been backed up). It's Thursday today and I want

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 3.0.2 fileset file-list on the fly ?

2009-08-13 Thread Clark Hartness
Hello, Have you really a file named : File = /mnt/fog006/ddrswa/jckh/dlr_leopard_dev_12/dfb/doc/001-10043-dfb-BROS-starB. doc on your system ? If yes, i'm very surprised. Don't forget to read what you've written 10 lines before: The names should start in column 1 and should not be quoted even

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula asking for a new tape volume in a file volume pool

2009-08-13 Thread John Drescher
2009/8/13 Mark Walkom markwal...@gmail.com: I am seeing this error a lot in messages; 13-Aug 15:19 benjy-sd JobId 31: Job BenjyFull.2009-08-12_21.05.00.57 waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes. Please use the label  command to create a new Volume for:     Storage:  LTO2 (/dev/nst0)

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

2009-08-13 Thread John Drescher
I just had a bunch of 40 LTO-4 tapes that had problems during backups (or worse -  only during the verify job afterwards). All from the same production date. So my trust in tapes is not that good anymore... For anything archived I usually make 2 copies and at one time it was 2 copies using 2

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 1.38 file daemon compatibility with latest 3.0 Bacula Server Solution

2009-08-13 Thread Marek Simon
I used combination 1.38 FD and 2.4.4 director + SD, and it works, except if I use the Runscript directive - the Filedaemon did not know it. I have no experience with bacula 3.0 director Marek Michael Halfhill napsal(a): Has anyone confirmed if there are any complications or issues with

[Bacula-users] looking for older version of bacula

2009-08-13 Thread John Fitzpatrick
Hi, Does anyone know a good source for old versions of Bacula. I'm looking for 1.38.11 rpm centos 5 Thanks, John -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your

[Bacula-users] Btape test results.

2009-08-13 Thread Jason A. Kates
I was wondering if I could get some help reviewing the results of the btape test output. I think that it failed but I am not 100% sure, my reading of the manual didn't show me what to expect to see for the results.

Re: [Bacula-users] disabling 'accurate' for a restore

2009-08-13 Thread Martin Simmons
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:05:14 +1000, James Harper said: I do a full backup once a week, and then incremental backups for the rest of the week. MSSQL is configured to back up transaction logs every day and keep the backup for 3 days (by which time it would have been backed up). It's

Re: [Bacula-users] looking for older version of bacula

2009-08-13 Thread Bruno Friedmann
John Fitzpatrick wrote: Hi, Does anyone know a good source for old versions of Bacula. I'm looking for 1.38.11 rpm centos 5 Thanks, John sourceforge has all files http://sourceforge.net/projects/bacula/files/ (check under bacula after the page has loaded) for example the source

Re: [Bacula-users] Seeking advice re: offline archives

2009-08-13 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Ian Levesque wrote: I'm curious about using Bacula in a slightly different way than it was apparently intended. We have large directories of data that need to periodically be moved offline to tape. I've got a Scalar 100 with two LTO2 drives. I wouldn't be doing

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

2009-08-13 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, rorycl wrote: An important aspect of the system is that the tapes should be readable for 12 years, by other parties if necessary. From this point of view we like the idea of providing a CD with each tape set of the software needed to extract the contents Judging from my

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

2009-08-13 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Ralf Gross wrote: I just had a bunch of 40 LTO-4 tapes that had problems during backups (or worse - only during the verify job afterwards). All from the same production date. So my trust in tapes is not that good anymore... What do the SMART stats from those tapes look

[Bacula-users] btape fails to see loaded tape

2009-08-13 Thread Dan Langille
I am setting up a new autochanger / tape drive. I'm trying to run btape. The basic test works, but I see this message when I start btape: Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result: nothing loaded. mtx-changer [and mtx] both disagree with this: $ sudo /etc/bacula/mtx-changer /dev/sg4 loaded 0

Re: [Bacula-users] btape fails to see loaded tape

2009-08-13 Thread Dan Langille
On Thu, August 13, 2009 1:19 pm, Dan Langille wrote: I am setting up a new autochanger / tape drive. I'm trying to run btape. The basic test works, but I see this message when I start btape: Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result: nothing loaded. mtx-changer [and mtx] both disagree with this:

[Bacula-users] Need help with Migrate

2009-08-13 Thread goherm
I need some help with migration of backup data from disk to tape. How can I set up that the whole data of all clients (one pool of disk based volumes) including last full and every incremental backup since then is moved over to tape. I found out how to migrate every client, but then only the

[Bacula-users] Bacula backups and restores

2009-08-13 Thread tqz
Hello all Lets say in the event that disaster strikes and all data on my server is lost for whatever reason. I have encrypted backups of the data on the server stored on tapes (on and off site) and NAS. After reinstalling my database management system, and then firing up bacula using copies

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

2009-08-13 Thread Ralf Gross
Alan Brown schrieb: On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Ralf Gross wrote: I just had a bunch of 40 LTO-4 tapes that had problems during backups (or worse - only during the verify job afterwards). All from the same production date. So my trust in tapes is not that good anymore... What do the SMART

Re: [Bacula-users] btape fails to see loaded tape

2009-08-13 Thread Dan Langille
On Thu, August 13, 2009 1:19 pm, Dan Langille wrote: I am setting up a new autochanger / tape drive. I'm trying to run btape. The basic test works, but I see this message when I start btape: Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result: nothing loaded. mtx-changer [and mtx] both disagree with

Re: [Bacula-users] btape fails to see loaded tape

2009-08-13 Thread Shawn
Just a potshot guess, I don't have an auto-changer, but, isn't the bacula user supposed to have proper permissions to the device for writing? I had to make sure the file store locally had rw access for the bacula user themselves when I set it up, not sure if that's the ticket. -- Shawn

Re: [Bacula-users] btape fails to see loaded tape

2009-08-13 Thread Dan Langille
On Thu, August 13, 2009 2:27 pm, Dan Langille wrote: On Thu, August 13, 2009 1:19 pm, Dan Langille wrote: I am setting up a new autochanger / tape drive. I'm trying to run btape. The basic test works, but I see this message when I start btape: Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result: nothing

Re: [Bacula-users] btape fails to see loaded tape

2009-08-13 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Dan Langilled...@langille.org wrote: On Thu, August 13, 2009 2:27 pm, Dan Langille wrote: On Thu, August 13, 2009 1:19 pm, Dan Langille wrote: I am setting up a new autochanger / tape drive.  I'm trying to run btape. The basic test works, but I see this

Re: [Bacula-users] btape fails to see loaded tape

2009-08-13 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:14 PM, John Drescherdresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:09 PM, John Drescherdresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Dan Langilled...@langille.org wrote: On Thu, August 13, 2009 2:27 pm, Dan Langille wrote: On Thu, August 13,

Re: [Bacula-users] btape fails to see loaded tape

2009-08-13 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:09 PM, John Drescherdresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Dan Langilled...@langille.org wrote: On Thu, August 13, 2009 2:27 pm, Dan Langille wrote: On Thu, August 13, 2009 1:19 pm, Dan Langille wrote: I am setting up a new autochanger / tape

Re: [Bacula-users] btape fails to see loaded tape

2009-08-13 Thread Dan Langille
On Thu, August 13, 2009 3:09 pm, John Drescher wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Dan Langilled...@langille.org wrote: On Thu, August 13, 2009 2:27 pm, Dan Langille wrote: On Thu, August 13, 2009 1:19 pm, Dan Langille wrote: I am setting up a new autochanger / tape drive.  I'm trying to

[Bacula-users] Client backups crash director until full backup is run

2009-08-13 Thread Corey Shaw
Starting on August 11, Bacula 3.0.1 suddenly decided that the director needs to crash after it runs random incremental backups and lock up the storage director. I tried upgrading to 3.0.2 on all clients and directors, but that didn't fix the problem. The director and storage directors run on

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula asking for a new tape volume in a file volume pool

2009-08-13 Thread Mark Walkom
It *shouldn't* be the case as the config is set to LTO2=Default and File=Incremental, and the job then picks the specific pool. Is there a way to force a job to use a specific pool? Thanks, Mark 2009/8/13 John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com 2009/8/13 Mark Walkom markwal...@gmail.com: I am