After a holiday hiatus and some soul-searching (aka curling up w/ the Bacula
manual) I was able to make some significant progress
I couldn't figure out what caused the initial missing catalog data.
Since I had recently upgraded and wasn't capturing good backups, I dropped
my tables and recreated them.
This seemed to do the trick and the UNIX backups were off and running smooth
and catalog data seems correct as well.
I took some advice and put my systemstate.bat file in a path with no
spaces. So c:\bacula works, but not c:\program files\bacula. I was
attempting to keep everything under one directory, but I couldn't get the
ClientRunBeforeJob script to run in a path with spaces and the bacula-fd for
Windows couldn't seem to correclty locate its config files if I installed it
anywhere but the default location. Good news is that this is now working and
my Windows host backups are writing to disk.
I can't say that working with tapes has gotten any easier, but after
enough trial and mostly error I have figured out how to reassign tapes to a
pool and change their status, etc.. When I load tapes into the autochanger
and issue "label slots=1-12 pool=Scratch barcodes" it does the business.
However Bacula can't keep track of the status of last tape it labels. Says
its not in the changer and says its not loaded in the drive. When I issue
"release" in bconsole, it tells me nothing is mounted and there is nothing
to release. Running "update slots" shows that the tape hasn't been returned
to its changer slot either. So I drop out of bconsole and use mtx directly
to unload and but the tape back in its slot. Not that big a pain, and its
now part of the procedure. Another weird issue with the changer is that when
swapping tapes to a new series I first have to run an "mtx status" command
before Bacula can see all my slots. Before that it only sees 11, not the
full 12. Again, its now part of the procedure.
So over the holiday over 20 different backups ran successfully and
relatively quickly. I'm still a little fuzzy on how data spooling helps
speed up jobs or helps run concurrent jobs. I have one job that takes 12
hours and it seems to spend 7 of that despooling. I have to read this part
of the manual again for better comprehension.
Thanks for everyone's understanding and continued advice. I think it really
helped me overcome an initial hump. I still have some things I'm figuring
out and need to run some test restores and verify. Does anyone run an
automated verify after their backups?
-Shon
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