Re: [Bacula-users] backup rotation

2006-09-07 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
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 Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:06:35 -0400
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 I don't think recycle oldest volume is necessary. I do not use it, and I
 have everything set up just fine. You should only need proper retention
 times and duration/jobs per volume settings.
 

Thanks for the note, I guess I'm having a problem with retention
periods then because the recycle oldest volume thingy has worked
wonders with my recycling problems in the past ;-) 

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Re: [Bacula-users] maximum concurrent jobs for disk device

2006-09-07 Thread Silver Salonen
On Thursday 07 September 2006 10:49, Kern Sibbald wrote:
 Hello,
 
 On Thursday 07 September 2006 09:08, Silver Salonen wrote:
  Hi.
  
  I have multiple bacula-clients backing up to different directories on a 
 disk. 
  Concurrent jobs are working for different bacula-clients as each one of 
them 
  has a separate device resource with one job per volume.
  
  The problem is that every client can run only one job at a time. I'm 
backing 
  up across internet several filesets per client. One of them (userdata) may 
 be 
  around 20 GB, but another (log) may be only 20 MB. Now, when userdata 
runs, 
  it reserves it's device for several days as upload is only 100 KB/s so 
that 
  other jobs can't use it as they have the same storage assigned - Bacula 
  notifies me with waiting to reserve a device.
  
  I read Concurrent Disk Jobs from the manual. Do I get it correctly, that 
 If 
  I want several jobs to write concurrently into the same directory, I 
should 
  have a separate device (pointing to the same directory) for every job of a 
  client?
 
 The key to understanding this is to realize that a file Device is virtually 
 identical to a tape device.  You can have only one Volume mounted at a 
time 
 on any Device.   
 
 So, if you have multiple jobs that want to write to the same Volume on any 
 given Device, there is no problem, you just need to get *all* (the 5 
 different) concurrent directives set.  If you want to have multiple jobs 
 writing to the same Device but using different Volumes, then as in the case 
 of a tape drive, subsequent jobs will wait.   You can always add more 
 Devices, in which case, you can have different volumes mounted on each 
device 
 at the same time.
 
  
  Silver

Yup, then I guess I understood this correctly - that I have to have separate 
device for every job, and separate storage also, right?

Maybe it would save some configuration head-ache if it was possible to specify 
device (as an addition to storage directive) in job's configuration?

Silver

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Re: [Bacula-users] maximum concurrent jobs for disk device

2006-09-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 07 September 2006 10:32, Silver Salonen wrote:
 On Thursday 07 September 2006 10:49, Kern Sibbald wrote:
  Hello,
  
  On Thursday 07 September 2006 09:08, Silver Salonen wrote:
   Hi.
   
   I have multiple bacula-clients backing up to different directories on a 
  disk. 
   Concurrent jobs are working for different bacula-clients as each one of 
 them 
   has a separate device resource with one job per volume.
   
   The problem is that every client can run only one job at a time. I'm 
 backing 
   up across internet several filesets per client. One of them (userdata) 
may 
  be 
   around 20 GB, but another (log) may be only 20 MB. Now, when userdata 
 runs, 
   it reserves it's device for several days as upload is only 100 KB/s so 
 that 
   other jobs can't use it as they have the same storage assigned - Bacula 
   notifies me with waiting to reserve a device.
   
   I read Concurrent Disk Jobs from the manual. Do I get it correctly, 
that 
  If 
   I want several jobs to write concurrently into the same directory, I 
 should 
   have a separate device (pointing to the same directory) for every job of 
a 
   client?
  
  The key to understanding this is to realize that a file Device is 
virtually 
  identical to a tape device.  You can have only one Volume mounted at a 
 time 
  on any Device.   
  
  So, if you have multiple jobs that want to write to the same Volume on any 
  given Device, there is no problem, you just need to get *all* (the 5 
  different) concurrent directives set.  If you want to have multiple jobs 
  writing to the same Device but using different Volumes, then as in the 
case 
  of a tape drive, subsequent jobs will wait.   You can always add more 
  Devices, in which case, you can have different volumes mounted on each 
 device 
  at the same time.
  
   
   Silver
 
 Yup, then I guess I understood this correctly - that I have to have separate 
 device for every job, and separate storage also, right?

No. Please re-read what I wrote. That is not what I said.  Perhaps the list 
can help you on this.

 
 Maybe it would save some configuration head-ache if it was possible to 
specify 
 device (as an addition to storage directive) in job's configuration?

The Storage resource already has a directive to specify a Device.

 
 Silver
 
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Re: [Bacula-users] dbcheck needs very long time...

2006-09-07 Thread Masopust, Christian

Hello Frank,

thanks a lot for this info!  but   :-)))

could anybody give the complete info (maybe also modify the wiki-page) how
these indexes should be created?

For example the already defined index Job.Name is of type BTREE and indexed
column is Name with length 128 ...

Index TypeLength
==
File.PathId   ?   ?
File.FilenameId   ?   ?
Job.FileSetId ?   ?
Job.ClientId  ?   ?

Thanks a lot,
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  Hello,
  
  is it really ok that dbcheck (check 10: eliminate orphaned 
 Filename records)
  run more then 24 hours?  I started it yesterday in the 
 morning and it is still
  running
 
 On larger catalogs, yes, that is not inconceivable, but it is fixable.
 
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Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error in windows

2006-09-07 Thread Janco van der Merwe
I got the same error last night but mine was because of a bad AIT tape and it 
asked for the previous night's backup volume. Is yours the same?

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Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error in windows

On Tuesday 05 September 2006 23:02, Arunav Mandal wrote:
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 Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 11:14 AM
 Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error in windows

  On Tuesday 05 September 2006 10:59, Dominic Marks wrote:
  Arunav Mandal wrote:
   On Tuesday 05 September 2006 10:41, Dominic Marks wrote:
   Arunav Mandal wrote:
   In atleast 2 clients there is a fatal error. All the config is
   correct.
   Errors are given below.
  
  
   05-Sep 00:48 bergen-fd: backup-bergen.2006-09-05_00.28.00 Fatal
   error:
   c:
   \cygwin\home\kern\bacula\k\src\win32\filed\../../filed/backup.c:500
   Network send error to SD. ERR=Input/output error
  
   05-Sep 00:48 bergen-fd: backup-bergen.2006-09-05_00.28.00 Error: c:
   \cygwin\home\kern\bacula\k\src\win32\lib\../../lib/bnet.c:426 Write
   error sending 65536 bytes to Storage daemon:sd.troll.no:9103:
   ERR=Input/output error
  
   02-Sep 13:59 aeryn-fd: backup-aeryn.2006-09-02_13.54.11 Fatal error:
   c:
   \cygwin\home\kern\bacula\k\src\win32\filed\../../filed/backup.c:620
   Network send error to SD. ERR=Input/output error
  
   02-Sep 13:59 aeryn-fd: backup-aeryn.2006-09-02_13.54.11 Error: c:
   \cygwin\home\kern\bacula\k\src\win32\lib\../../lib/bnet.c:393 Write
   error sending len to Storage daemon:sd.troll.no:9103:
   ERR=Input/output
   error
  
   You are losing the network connection between the FD and SD. Is there
   a
   firewall
   of some sort in the way? If so you might have to specify a Heartbeat
   Interval to
   preserve to connection. Try running with a higher level of debugging?
  
   Maybe FD Connect Timeout = 5 is too less? There is no firewall but the
   machine can be slow as lot of processes are there. How to specify
   Heartbeat Interval and how to run with higher level of debugging?
 
  Quite possibly on a busy machine. Google for the last two, well
  documented.
 
  It failed after it started spooling data. Then something else is wrong. I
  tried reinstalling a number of times no luck.
 
  Thanks,
  Dominic
 
   Thanks,
   Dominic
  
   Arunav.
 
  Arunav

 It is still giving errors any ideas why?

 Arunav.

This happens only with some XP machines and here is the output from the spool 
directory on the SD.

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[Bacula-users] Dual tape drives

2006-09-07 Thread Mike Leo
GreetingsI have just loaded the latest version of bacula for debian unstable and so far all is going quite well.One question, however, is I have 2 tape drives and I was wondering if i could stream one job across both of them to either speed up the job, or can i get 1 job to start on DLT1, then when full, continue the job on DLT2?Greet job, and thanksMIke-
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Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error in windows

2006-09-07 Thread Dominic Marks
Arunav Mandal wrote:
 On Tuesday 05 September 2006 10:41, Dominic Marks wrote:
 Arunav Mandal wrote:
 In atleast 2 clients there is a fatal error. All the config is correct.
 Errors are given below.


 05-Sep 00:48 bergen-fd: backup-bergen.2006-09-05_00.28.00 Fatal error: c:
 \cygwin\home\kern\bacula\k\src\win32\filed\../../filed/backup.c:500
 Network send error to SD. ERR=Input/output error

 05-Sep 00:48 bergen-fd: backup-bergen.2006-09-05_00.28.00 Error: c:
 \cygwin\home\kern\bacula\k\src\win32\lib\../../lib/bnet.c:426 Write error
 sending 65536 bytes to Storage daemon:sd.troll.no:9103: ERR=Input/output
 error

 02-Sep 13:59 aeryn-fd: backup-aeryn.2006-09-02_13.54.11 Fatal error: c:
 \cygwin\home\kern\bacula\k\src\win32\filed\../../filed/backup.c:620
 Network send error to SD. ERR=Input/output error

 02-Sep 13:59 aeryn-fd: backup-aeryn.2006-09-02_13.54.11 Error: c:
 \cygwin\home\kern\bacula\k\src\win32\lib\../../lib/bnet.c:393 Write error
 sending len to Storage daemon:sd.troll.no:9103: ERR=Input/output error
 You are losing the network connection between the FD and SD. Is there a
 firewall
 of some sort in the way? If so you might have to specify a Heartbeat
 Interval to
 preserve to connection. Try running with a higher level of debugging?
 
 Maybe FD Connect Timeout = 5 is too less? There is no firewall but the 
 machine 
 can be slow as lot of processes are there. How to specify Heartbeat 
 Interval and how to run with higher level of debugging?

Quite possibly on a busy machine. Google for the last two, well documented.

Thanks,
Dominic

 Thanks,
 Dominic

 Arunav.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Scratch Pool Question

2006-09-07 Thread Michael Brennen
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote:

 I have a question regarding the scratch pool: The docs note that a 
 volume from the scratch pool will be used whenever no other volume 
 is available. Will this work for a tape-based pool 
 (storage=DLT8000), too?

Yes.

 i'd like bacula to switch to a disk-based full backup whenever no 
 tape volume is either available nor eligible for recycling, so I was 
 wondering if the scratch pool definition could be used for something 
 like this.

I do not think that Bacula has this capability to switch media, but 
others will know that much better than me.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Last Friday of Month

2006-09-07 Thread Beren Gamble
That's cool, thanks!!!On 04/09/06, Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4 Sep 2006 at 17:48, Beren wrote: How do I perform a backup on the Last Friday of the month? There doesn't seem to be a last keyword. Has anyone figured out how to do a monthly backup?
I can think of a way to do it.Create a script that determines the last Friday of the month (theremust be something in Perl, Python, or some other language).Invokethat script from the job with the RunBefore.Schedule the job for
the 4th or 5th Friday of the month.In the script, if the date isnot the last Friday of the month, abort and the job will not be run.see also http://unix.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-
functional/shellscript-l/how-to-schedule-a-job-on-last-friday-1146391The above script might help you.Does that help?--Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for workmy resume: 
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[Bacula-users] conf.d for bacula conf files?

2006-09-07 Thread Niklas Larsson
Hi,

I'm reorganizing our bacula backup, and are putting all konf for each client in 
a seperate file, and then including it in bacula-dir.conf with the @filename 
syntax.

This is ok, but not perfect, i would like to create a conf.d directory and then 
put all files in there, add the directory to bacula-dir.conf, and bacula-dir 
would read all files in the directory by it self. I.e. To add a client, take 
the template, change to your need and save it in the conf.d directory - 
bconsole - reload and you are done.

Is this possible or on the dev table?

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[Bacula-users] Qualstar RSL5116 SAIT

2006-09-07 Thread Wolfgang Jaede
hello, 
has anyone get a Qualstar RSL5116 SAIT Autoloader got working well with
bacula?

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Re: [Bacula-users] external disk recommendations

2006-09-07 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, James Harper wrote:

 Ideally the enclosure would be tough enough for someone to take home
 each night (probably in a handbag :) without stressing the enclosed
 drive too much.

 Even more ideally, it would allow the use of a docking station so that
 either the whole enclosure could just be slotted into something that
 connected both the USB and external power, rather than having to plug in
 the power and USB individually each morning. If the docking station and
 enclosure could be purchased separately then even better as 10 disks
 would be used in rotation. It wouldn't matter if the drive part wasn't
 usable without the docking station...

Storcase's Rhino range seem to be the tool for the job (but are expensive)

I have them in the backup server here as a just in case inclusion along 
with a good quality dvd writer.

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Re: [Bacula-users] How to set tape drive settings?

2006-09-07 Thread Dan Langille
On 7 Sep 2006 at 10:18, Jonathan B Bayer wrote:

 Hello bacula-users,
 
 I would like to be able to set a parameter on a tape drive before
 opening it (I want to enable the hardware compression in the tape
 drive).  Right now I do it when Bacula is started, but I would like to
 do it explicitly inside Bacula.
 
 Any ideas?

Have you looked at Run Before Job?

The specified command is run as an external program prior to running 
the current Job. This directive is not required, but if it is 
defined, and if the exit code of the program run is non-zero, the 
current Bacula job will be canceled.

http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html

Be aware: I'm not sure of the consequences of having mixing hardware 
compression off with hardware compression on within the same tape.  

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[Bacula-users] Bacula for mixed file and tape backups

2006-09-07 Thread Jeff Tucker
Hi,

I've got what is probably a simple question, but the various pool and 
volume options confuse me.

I've got about 250 GB of data I want to backup on a single linux server. 
These are users' home directories and email. Most of that data doesn't 
change much, but we don't have a good way of figuring out what is 
changing and what isn't. We need to back it all up.

We'd like easy access to recent files for the case where someone deletes 
the wrong file. We also want to take full backups (probably monthly) 
offsite for long-term archiving and disaster recovery.

My idea right now is to use a second machine with a TB of disk storage 
as a near-line backup machine. I would do a monthly full backup and then 
30 days of incremental backups to disk. At the same time as the monthly 
full disk backup, I could do a monthly full tape backup. That tape would 
be taken offsite.

Does this make sense? It seems like the disk backups would be more 
convenient and faster to manage than rotating pools of tapes. Any other 
ideas?

On the disk storage server, how would I go about setting up my volumes? 
I think I basically want a full backup with a volume retention period of 
25 days and incremental backup volumes with retention periods of 35 days 
or so. So, if I do a full backup every month, it will overwrite the old 
full backup. And, if I do daily incrementals, then I will have a 
rotating pool of 35 dailys. Do the old dailys get deleted automatically? 
Do they just get overwritten? When I start out, using automatic volume 
naming, will the system count up to 35, then start overwriting the older 
volumes?

If someone could give me an idea what these volumes or pools should look 
like in the config files, I'd appreciate it. Or, if I'm totally off 
base, let me know.

Thanks
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[Bacula-users] Autoloader: Replace tape in magazine after backups complete?

2006-09-07 Thread Jeremy Koppel








Well, we just had an autoloader go bad on us. Quantum sent
us a new chassis under warranty, but there was a tape in the drive when the
unit tanked out on us. Theres no way to get at it manually, and no user
serviceable parts. They tell me that the only way to get it out is by
disassembling the drive, which theyll do, but the process destroys the
tape.



So, Im thinking it would be best to have Bacula replace
whatever tape its using back in the autoloader when the last job of the
night runs. Anybody know how Id configure that?



Thanks!



--Jeremy Koppel







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Re: [Bacula-users] external disk recommendations

2006-09-07 Thread James Harper
 In my opinion any 2.5 HDD enclosure will do the job.
 They use laptop hdd's so they do not need additional power supply and
 once disconnected they are more resistible to shocks.
 As for performance it is slightly lower, but it should not be a
problem.

The 2.5 drives are only available up to about 160gb, and the price is a
bit steep up at that end. We are competing with the likes of LTO 400/800
drives here...

Also, the higher capacity 2.5 drives often do need an additional power
supply, even if it's just an additional usb connection.

As for durability I'd definitely prefer the 2.5 form factor though.

James

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