[Bacula-users] continuing a failed job
Hi. Has anyone figured out how to continue a failed job? I have a client that has gigabytes of data, but very fragile internet connection, so it's almost impossible to get a normal full backup job. I thought I'd do it with VirtualFull job to create a successful job out of failed one and then use it as basis for incremental, but unfortunately VirtualFull requires a previous successful job as well (duh). Is there a way to mark a job successful? -- Silver -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Auto-deleting purged volumes
Bacula is not intended to delete anything. The way you have a new volume for a new day with a new uniq date-based name is not a good way for bacula. You shuld have the volumes with generic names and recycle them instead of removing them (you do not destroy the tapes after one use either). However you always can have a cron script or bacula admin job, which finds the old volumes and removes them. I have similar script for deleting volumes older then 60 days, usefull for automatic tide up when you often add and remove clients. example: STORAGE_PATH=/var/lib/bacula/backup /usr/bin/find $STORAGE_PATH/storedevice* -type f -ctime +60 -regex '.*-all-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]$' -delete Marek Phil Stracchino napsal(a): I have a disk-based backup setup that uses dated volumes which are used for a 23-hour period then marked 'used', so that I can be certain a particular day's backups are contained in a single file. They are of course purged after their retention time expires, at which time they are moved to the Scratch pool. What I would LIKE to happen next is to have these purged volumes automatically deleted both from the catalog AND from disk. Has anyone else already implemented a solution to this problem? I'd sooner not reinvent the wheel if there's a perfectly good existing solution out there. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Trying to compile Bacula
libssl-dev ? (Debian) J. 2010/1/6 brown wrap gra...@yahoo.com I cut and pasted four errors I received in trying to build bacula, any ideas ?: crypto.c:1226: error: cannot convert ‘unsigned char*’ to ‘EVP_PKEY_CTX*’ for argument ‘1’ to ‘int EVP_PKEY_decrypt(EVP_PKEY_CTX*, unsigned char*, size_t*, const unsigned char*, size_t)’ make[1]: *** [crypto.lo] Error 1 make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../lib/libbac.la', needed by `all'. Stop. make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../lib/libbacpy.la', needed by `bacula-fd'. Stop. make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../lib/libbac.la', needed by `bconsole'. Stop. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- _ Francisco Javier Funes Nieto [esen...@gmail.com] CANONIGOS Servicios Informáticos para PYMES. Cl. Cruz 2, 1º Oficina 7 Tlf: 958.536759 / 661134556 Fax: 958.521354 GRANADA - 18002 -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] No constraints in bacula database
Hi, I do some experiments with bacula database and I found that there is no foreign key constraint between jobmedia and job, jobmedia and media, job and file and many similar logicaly connected tables. Why? Constraints prevent arising void references (File with empty job, File with empty filename, jobmedia record with empty job or media) I have bacula-dir version 2.4.4, postgres variant, and postgres 8.3, default instalation. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Auto-deleting purged volumes
Marek Simon wrote: Phil Stracchino napsal(a): I have a disk-based backup setup that uses dated volumes which are used for a 23-hour period then marked 'used', so that I can be certain a particular day's backups are contained in a single file. They are of course purged after their retention time expires, at which time they are moved to the Scratch pool. What I would LIKE to happen next is to have these purged volumes automatically deleted both from the catalog AND from disk. Has anyone else already implemented a solution to this problem? I'd sooner not reinvent the wheel if there's a perfectly good existing solution out there. (top-posting fixed) Bacula is not intended to delete anything. The way you have a new volume for a new day with a new uniq date-based name is not a good way for bacula. You shuld have the volumes with generic names and recycle them instead of removing them (you do not destroy the tapes after one use either). However you always can have a cron script or bacula admin job, which finds the old volumes and removes them. I have similar script for deleting volumes older then 60 days, usefull for automatic tide up when you often add and remove clients. example: STORAGE_PATH=/var/lib/bacula/backup /usr/bin/find $STORAGE_PATH/storedevice* -type f -ctime +60 -regex '.*-all-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]$' -delete Marek Attached is the script I wrote to take care of this. What I found is that over time, backups are occasionally larger than expected due to events like software updates or whatever, and disk space usage slowly increases. I initially took care of this by adding extra space using LVM to grow the partition and reiserfs to grow the filesystem into the new space. Eventually though, you run out of physical disk to add! Although in principle it is good that bacula keeps backed up data until it is re-needed, in practice, it can lead to infinite disk space growth over time. The attached script is php, and connects to the bacula database (plug in appropriate user name, password and server name in the connect statement at the top). It first of all looks for volumes past their expiry date and purges them. It then looks for purged volumes and deletes them. Finally, it looks in the backup directory (plug in your location here) for files with no matching database entry and deletes them. Use at your own risk etc. I'm not responsible if it deletes your backups, crashes your car or causes your freezer to thaw out!!! Automated removal as detailed by Marek above is difficult to implement simply, because you will probably have multiple retention periods on your files, and you need to take this into account in your deletion. Plus, deleting the files while they are still listed in the bacula database is possibly not a good idea! -- Mike Holden http://www.by-ang.com - the place to shop for all manner of hand crafted items, including Jewellery, Greetings Cards and Gifts purgeall Description: application/php -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity lower than expected
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 04:55:51PM -0500, John Drescher wrote: I'm not seeing anywhere close to 60M/s ( 30 ). I think I just fixed that. I increased the block size to 1M, and that seemed to really increase the throughput, in the test I just did. I will see tomorrow, when it all runs. Yes, if you aren't already, whenever writing to tape you should almost without exception (and certainly on any modern tape drive) be using the largest block size that btape says your drive supports. I tried to do that years ago but I believe this made all tapes that were already written to unreadable (and I now have 80) so I gave this up. With my 5+ year old dual processor Opteron 248 server I get 25MB/s to 45MB/s despools (which measures the actual tape rate) for my LTO2 drives. The reason for the wide range seems to be compression. Can anybody confirm or rebute this for 2.2.x? I'm currently fiddling with Maximum Block Size and a shiny new tape. It looks like 1M is too much for my tape drive, but 512K seems to work and it's making a huge difference: btape fill reports 60 MB/s right at the beginning, then drops to abour 52 MB/s. Thanks, Tino. -- What we nourish flourishes. - Was wir nähren erblüht. www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple SD's
Hello ! On 1/5/10 6:40 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: Brian Debelius wrote: I want to see if having disk storage on one sd process, and tape storage on another sd process, would increase throughput during copy jobs. Actually, it'll decrease it rather drastically. All the way to none. Good laugh there :) You see, at the present time you cannot copy or migrate from one SD to another. Copy and migration operations can only occur between devices attached to a single SD, because SDs cannot yet communicate directly with one another, which they would need to do to perform inter-SD copies or migrations. My company has requested this feature (copy jobs between multiple SDs) and is willing to pay half of what Bacula Systems wants for implementing. They asked for 10k€ and we are willing to pay 5k€. Our main reason to request this feature is that we can have a central director in our office, a SD in our office and a SD in the datacenter. We could then do a (local) backup in the datacenter and copy those jobs to our office-sd during off-hours. And from there they get copied to tape for achival. It would be great if we could find more people willing to commit money to this feature. On the other hand if any devs feel up to the task and the 5k€ we offer is enough that would be great too. Best regards, Daniel Holtkamp -- . Riege Software International GmbH Fon: +49 (2159) 9148 0 Mollsfeld 10 Fax: +49 (2159) 9148 11 40670 MeerbuschWeb: www.riege.com GermanyE-Mail: holtk...@riege.com ------ Handelsregister: Managing Directors: Amtsgericht Neuss HRB-NR 4207 Christian Riege USt-ID-Nr.: DE120585842Gabriele Riege Johannes Riege . YOU CARE FOR FREIGHT, WE CARE FOR YOU -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Auto-deleting purged volumes
Marek Simon wrote: Bacula is not intended to delete anything. The way you have a new volume for a new day with a new uniq date-based name is not a good way for bacula. You shuld have the volumes with generic names and recycle them instead of removing them (you do not destroy the tapes after one use either). Indeed, recycling is the obvious approach for tapes. For disk-based backup, though, I have found it to be non-optimal. However you always can have a cron script or bacula admin job, which finds the old volumes and removes them. I have similar script for deleting volumes older then 60 days, usefull for automatic tide up when you often add and remove clients. Deleting the volumes from disk is a simple problem. I was asking whether anyone had come up with a standard way to delete expired volumes from the catalog as a scheduled admin job. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity lower than expected
Tino Schwarze schrieb: On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 04:55:51PM -0500, John Drescher wrote: I'm not seeing anywhere close to 60M/s ( 30 ). I think I just fixed that. I increased the block size to 1M, and that seemed to really increase the throughput, in the test I just did. I will see tomorrow, when it all runs. Yes, if you aren't already, whenever writing to tape you should almost without exception (and certainly on any modern tape drive) be using the largest block size that btape says your drive supports. I tried to do that years ago but I believe this made all tapes that were already written to unreadable (and I now have 80) so I gave this up. With my 5+ year old dual processor Opteron 248 server I get 25MB/s to 45MB/s despools (which measures the actual tape rate) for my LTO2 drives. The reason for the wide range seems to be compression. Can anybody confirm or rebute this for 2.2.x? I'm currently fiddling with Maximum Block Size and a shiny new tape. It looks like 1M is too much for my tape drive, but 512K seems to work and it's making a huge difference: btape fill reports 60 MB/s right at the beginning, then drops to abour 52 MB/s. With Maximum File Size = 5G Maximum Block Size = 262144 Maximum Network Buffer Size = 262144 I get up to 150M MB/s while despooling to LTO-4 drives. Maximum File Size gave me some extra MB/s, I think it's as important as the Maximum Block Size. Ralf -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple SD's
Daniel Holtkamp wrote: Hello ! On 1/5/10 6:40 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: Brian Debelius wrote: I want to see if having disk storage on one sd process, and tape storage on another sd process, would increase throughput during copy jobs. Actually, it'll decrease it rather drastically. All the way to none. Good laugh there :) You see, at the present time you cannot copy or migrate from one SD to another. Copy and migration operations can only occur between devices attached to a single SD, because SDs cannot yet communicate directly with one another, which they would need to do to perform inter-SD copies or migrations. My company has requested this feature (copy jobs between multiple SDs) and is willing to pay half of what Bacula Systems wants for implementing. They asked for 10k€ and we are willing to pay 5k€. Our main reason to request this feature is that we can have a central director in our office, a SD in our office and a SD in the datacenter. We could then do a (local) backup in the datacenter and copy those jobs to our office-sd during off-hours. And from there they get copied to tape for achival. It would be great if we could find more people willing to commit money to this feature. On the other hand if any devs feel up to the task and the 5k€ we offer is enough that would be great too. It's one of the problems I've been planning to look at myself, once I have a current dev environment on my workstation again. I plan to get my feet wet again with a few simpler issues first though. I want this capability too, and for similar reasons. All of my nightly backups run to a disk pool, but I'd like to copy Full backups to tape after running. However, the SCSI tape drive is on a physically separate machine on the other side of a wall from the disk server, and I'm not comfortable with putting a tape drive where the disk server is, tape being rather more sensitive than disk in terms of environmental limits. (My server room is heated only by the servers, and can get pretty cold in winter.) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity lower than expected
Hi there, On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 07:30:44PM +0100, Tino Schwarze wrote: It looks like btape is not happy. Error reading block: ERR=block.c:1008 Read zero bytes at 326:0 on device Superloader-Drive (/dev/nst0). Are your tapes old (still good)? Did you clean the drive? Latest Firmware? The drive requested cleaning just yesterday which I did. I'm not sure how old the tape in question really is. I used a dell update utility and it updated the drive to v2181 which seems to be the latest for a half-height SCSI tape drive. 30MB/s seems a bit low to me - it should be able to do 60MB/s per spec. Or is that just theory vs. real world? I would add are you using LTO3 tapes or LTO2 tapes? They are labelled 400GB/800GB - all of the same kind, so they're definitely LTO3. The autoloader says: Drive Idle Gen 3 Data in it's web interface, so yes, I'm sure. I could check a very new tape tomorrow or try a shiny new one, just to be sure. Here are the results for a shiny new tape with block size 512k: Wrote blk_block=75, dev_blk_num=651 VolBytes=391,110,459,392 rate=59638.7 KB/s 06-Jan 13:50 btape JobId 0: End of Volume TestVolume1 at 397:1147 on device Superloader-Drive (/dev/nst0). Write of 524288 bytes got -1. 06-Jan 13:50 btape JobId 0: Re-read of last block succeeded. btape: btape.c:2345 Last block at: 397:1146 this_dev_block_num=1147 btape: btape.c:2379 End of tape 397:0. VolumeCapacity=391,370,506,240. Write rate = 59587.5 KB/s Done writing 0 records ... Wrote state file last_block_num1=1146 last_block_num2=0 13:50:27 Done filling tape at 397:0. Now beginning re-read of tape ... 06-Jan 13:50 btape JobId 0: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0 command. 06-Jan 13:50 btape JobId 0: 3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result is Slot 1. 06-Jan 13:50 btape JobId 0: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0 command. 06-Jan 13:50 btape JobId 0: 3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result is Slot 1. 06-Jan 13:50 btape JobId 0: Ready to read from volume TestVolume1 on device Superloader-Drive (/dev/nst0). Rewinding. Reading the first 1 records from 0:0. 1 records read now at 1:626 Reposition from 1:626 to 397:1146 Reading block 1146. The last block on the tape matches. Test succeeded. So this looks very promising: 390 GB and I'm also seeing almost 60MB/s. I will repeat this test using one of the older tapes, then report back. Is it possible that the low block size of 64k affects tape capacity? It looks suspicious to me that all tapes end at about the same size... Thanks so far, Tino. -- What we nourish flourishes. - Was wir nähren erblüht. www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-users-es] Documentation and translations
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Kern Sibbald k...@sibbald.com wrote: Hello, The other day, Eric pointed out to me that some of the manuals that we have posted in different languages are quite out of date -- in fact, the partial French translation apparently dates from version 1.38. Hello Masters, well, I believe that the big problem is that documentation don't have a friendly interface to translate or easy of compare. IMHO, I think that a tool or interface as http://l10n.openoffice.org/ is a good idea (maybe not is the tool that we need, but is a good example).. On resume, anyone know a collaborative tool for translation that can import/export latex documents, that show paragraphs no translated and that make a good coffee ?? :D I hope you all had a great holiday season and survived seeing the New Year in ... idem salu2 -- -- Victor Hugo dos Santos Linux Counter #224399 -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity lower than expected
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 02:20:06PM +0100, Tino Schwarze wrote: It looks like btape is not happy. Error reading block: ERR=block.c:1008 Read zero bytes at 326:0 on device Superloader-Drive (/dev/nst0). Are your tapes old (still good)? Did you clean the drive? Latest Firmware? The drive requested cleaning just yesterday which I did. I'm not sure how old the tape in question really is. I used a dell update utility and it updated the drive to v2181 which seems to be the latest for a half-height SCSI tape drive. 30MB/s seems a bit low to me - it should be able to do 60MB/s per spec. Or is that just theory vs. real world? I would add are you using LTO3 tapes or LTO2 tapes? They are labelled 400GB/800GB - all of the same kind, so they're definitely LTO3. The autoloader says: Drive Idle Gen 3 Data in it's web interface, so yes, I'm sure. I could check a very new tape tomorrow or try a shiny new one, just to be sure. Here are the results for a shiny new tape with block size 512k: Wrote blk_block=75, dev_blk_num=651 VolBytes=391,110,459,392 rate=59638.7 KB/s 06-Jan 13:50 btape JobId 0: End of Volume TestVolume1 at 397:1147 on device Superloader-Drive (/dev/nst0). Write of 524288 bytes got -1. 06-Jan 13:50 btape JobId 0: Re-read of last block succeeded. btape: btape.c:2345 Last block at: 397:1146 this_dev_block_num=1147 btape: btape.c:2379 End of tape 397:0. VolumeCapacity=391,370,506,240. Write rate = 59587.5 KB/s Done writing 0 records ... Wrote state file last_block_num1=1146 last_block_num2=0 13:50:27 Done filling tape at 397:0. Now beginning re-read of tape ... 06-Jan 13:50 btape JobId 0: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0 command. 06-Jan 13:50 btape JobId 0: 3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result is Slot 1. 06-Jan 13:50 btape JobId 0: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0 command. 06-Jan 13:50 btape JobId 0: 3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result is Slot 1. 06-Jan 13:50 btape JobId 0: Ready to read from volume TestVolume1 on device Superloader-Drive (/dev/nst0). Rewinding. Reading the first 1 records from 0:0. 1 records read now at 1:626 Reposition from 1:626 to 397:1146 Reading block 1146. The last block on the tape matches. Test succeeded. So this looks very promising: 390 GB and I'm also seeing almost 60MB/s. I will repeat this test using one of the older tapes, then report back. Is it possible that the low block size of 64k affects tape capacity? It looks suspicious to me that all tapes end at about the same size... It feels like the tapes really are worn out. I aborted the new btape test since the throughput was really low: 14:31:54 Begin writing Bacula records to tape ... Wrote blk_block=5000, dev_blk_num=1185 VolBytes=2,620,915,712 rate=24494.5 KB/s Wrote blk_block=1, dev_blk_num=464 VolBytes=5,242,355,712 rate=24845.3 KB/s Wrote blk_block=15000, dev_blk_num=1650 VolBytes=7,863,795,712 rate=26656.9 KB/s Wrote blk_block=2, dev_blk_num=929 VolBytes=10,485,235,712 rate=24613.2 KB/s Wrote blk_block=25000, dev_blk_num=208 VolBytes=13,106,675,712 rate=24590.4 KB/s Wrote blk_block=3, dev_blk_num=1394 VolBytes=15,728,115,712 rate=25532.7 KB/s 14:43:17 Flush block, write EOF All the same config, just an older tape. :-( I'm not sure, how often it's been used because of our rather complicted multi-stage backup scheme (daily/weekly/monthly/yearly pools). Is it possible that the drive simply wastes capacity because of low throughput? What's your experience: How often may a tape be written to? Thanks, Tino. -- What we nourish flourishes. - Was wir nähren erblüht. www.lichtkreis-chemnitz.de www.tisc.de -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity lower than expected
I believe they are rated for 250 complete passes. On 1/6/2010 9:05 AM, Tino Schwarze wrote: All the same config, just an older tape. :-( I'm not sure, how often it's been used because of our rather complicted multi-stage backup scheme (daily/weekly/monthly/yearly pools). Is it possible that the drive simply wastes capacity because of low throughput? What's your experience: How often may a tape be written to? Thanks, Tino. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity lower than expected
That should not matter. I have read somewhere that Kern said that very large blocks sizes can waste space, I don not know how this works tho. On 1/6/2010 8:20 AM, Tino Schwarze wrote: Is it possible that the low block size of 64k affects tape capacity? It looks suspicious to me that all tapes end at about the same size... Thanks so far, Tino. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity lower than expected
Put a new tape in, and run tapeinfo -f /dev/nst0 and it should report what block size range your drive can support. Alng with lots of other useful information. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity lower than expected
Is it possible that the low block size of 64k affects tape capacity? It looks suspicious to me that all tapes end at about the same size... I have never seen it go below native capacity. I usually get around 1.5 to 1 compression rate on my data with outliners being close to 1.1 to 1 and 5.5 to 1. However my tapes do not get reused that many times. Most of my 80 tapes are used for archive purposes (never get deleted) and the rest there are over 10 in rotation that lasts months before being recycled. John -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] bacula and curlftpfs does not work
System: Debian Squeeze (testing),
Kernel version 2.6.26 (modified)
Bacula V3.0.2. and MySQL v5.1.41
curlftpfs 0.9.2-1
curl 7.19.7-1
At the moment I test some configurations before I want to go to the live
system.
I want to store the backup files on te ftp-server using curlftpfs,
but I am not able to create a label on this machine.
The configuration of bacula
/etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf:
Pool {
Name = Default
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = Yes # Bacula can automatically recycle
Volumes
AutoPrune = Yes # Prune expired volumes
Volume Retention = 9 days
Label Format = Volume-
Maximum Volume Bytes = 1g
Maximum Volumes = 25
}
/etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf:
Device {
Name = FileStorage
Media Type = File
Archive Device = /home/bacula/archive/Daten/Backup
LabelMedia = Yes
Random Access = Yes
Maximum Volume Size = 1g
AutomaticMount = Yes # when device opened, read it
RemovableMedia = No
}
/etc/group:
...
fuse:x:120:bacula
...
/etc/fuse.conf:
# Allow non-root users to specify the 'allow_other' or 'allow_root'mount
options.
user_allow_other
I have mounted the ftp-filesystem permanently using the following command:
# curlftpfs -o user=karsten:mysecret,debug,allow_other,uid=117
192.168.1.43 /home/bacula/archive
( I added the debug flag to get some hints )
In the shell it is possible to create a file:
# sudo -u bacula cat /home/bacula/archive/Daten/Backup/VolTest2
s
^C
# ll -al /home/bacula/archive/Daten/Backup
...
-rw-r--r-- 1 bacula root6 6. Jan 14:21 VolTest2
...
#
When I try to create a label in the bconsole, I got the following message:
*label
Automatically selected Storage: File
Enter new Volume name: Vol4
Automatically selected Pool: Default
Connecting to Storage daemon File at vdrserver:9103 ...
Sending label command for Volume Vol4 Slot 0 ...
Jmsg Job=*System* type=5 level=1262785239 vdrserver-sd JobId 0: Warning:
dev.c:534 dev.c:532 Could not open:
/home/bacula/archive/Daten/Backup/Vol4, ERR=Operation not supported
3910 Unable to open device FileStorage
(/home/bacula/archive/Daten/Backup): ERR=dev.c:532 Could not open:
/home/bacula/archive/Daten/Backup/Vol4, ERR=Operation not supported
Label command failed for Volume Vol4.
Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
*
mount command is not helpful.
Below a short list of debug messages of curlftpfs:
with successful command in the shell:
...
getattr /Daten/Backup/VolTest1
ftpfs: operation ftpfs_getattr failed because No such file or directory
unique: 5, error: -2 (No such file or directory), outsize: 16
unique: 6, opcode: CREATE (35), nodeid: 3, insize: 57
create flags: 0x8241 /Daten/Backup/VolTest1 0100644 umask=
create[147432816] flags: 0x8241 /Daten/Backup/VolTest1
with label command of bacula:
...
getattr /Daten/Backup/Vol4
ftpfs: operation ftpfs_getattr failed because No such file or directory
unique: 25, error: -2 (No such file or directory), outsize: 16
unique: 26, opcode: CREATE (35), nodeid: 3, insize: 53
create flags: 0x8042 /Daten/Backup/Vol4 0100640 umask=
ftpfs: operation ftpfs_open failed because Operation not supported
unique: 26, error: -95 (Operation not supported), outsize: 16
Why does bacula use this interface in a different way? What is wrong in
my configuration?
Any hints are appreciated.
Karsten
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Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple SD's
One of the changes in the pipeline seems to be making the SD multi threaded. Thus if you use a single SD it will be able to use multiple CPU's going forward. I don't know what the ETA is, but I look forward to that change. -Jason On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 12:56 -0500, Brian Debelius wrote: Hrumph...sigh. On 1/5/2010 12:40 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: Brian Debelius wrote: I want to see if having disk storage on one sd process, and tape storage on another sd process, would increase throughput during copy jobs. Actually, it'll decrease it rather drastically. All the way to none. You see, at the present time you cannot copy or migrate from one SD to another. Copy and migration operations can only occur between devices attached to a single SD, because SDs cannot yet communicate directly with one another, which they would need to do to perform inter-SD copies or migrations. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Jason A. Kates (ja...@kates.org) Fax:208-975-1514 Phone: 660-960-0070 -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Is Btape limited to 100000 max block size?
Is Btape limited to a 10 maximum block size? 999424 works. 1000448 fails. v3.0.3 -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Trying to compile Bacula
No, its Fedora 12. --- On Wed, 1/6/10, francisco javier funes nieto esen...@gmail.com wrote: From: francisco javier funes nieto esen...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Trying to compile Bacula To: brown wrap gra...@yahoo.com Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Wednesday, January 6, 2010, 2:37 AM libssl-dev ? (Debian) J. 2010/1/6 brown wrap gra...@yahoo.com I cut and pasted four errors I received in trying to build bacula, any ideas ?: crypto.c:1226: error: cannot convert ‘unsigned char*’ to ‘EVP_PKEY_CTX*’ for argument ‘1’ to ‘int EVP_PKEY_decrypt(EVP_PKEY_CTX*, unsigned char*, size_t*, const unsigned char*, size_t)’ make[1]: *** [crypto.lo] Error 1 make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../lib/libbac.la', needed by `all'. Stop. make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../lib/libbacpy.la', needed by `bacula-fd'. Stop. make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../lib/libbac.la', needed by `bconsole'. Stop. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- _ Francisco Javier Funes Nieto [esen...@gmail.com] CANONIGOS Servicios Informáticos para PYMES. Cl. Cruz 2, 1º Oficina 7 Tlf: 958.536759 / 661134556 Fax: 958.521354 GRANADA - 18002 -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity lower than expected
I tried to do that years ago but I believe this made all tapes that were already written to unreadable (and I now have 80) so I gave this up. With my 5+ year old dual processor Opteron 248 server I get 25MB/s to 45MB/s despools (which measures the actual tape rate) for my LTO2 drives. The reason for the wide range seems to be compression. Can anybody confirm or rebute this for 2.2.x? I'm currently fiddling with Maximum Block Size and a shiny new tape. It looks like 1M is too much for my tape drive, but 512K seems to work and it's making a huge difference: btape fill reports 60 MB/s right at the beginning, then drops to abour 52 MB/s. With Maximum File Size = 5G Maximum Block Size = 262144 Maximum Network Buffer Size = 262144 I get up to 150M MB/s while despooling to LTO-4 drives. Maximum File Size gave me some extra MB/s, I think it's as important as the Maximum Block Size. thanks for providing this hints. just searching why my lto-4 is writing just at 40mb/s. will try them out! searching the Maximum File Size in the manual I found this: If you are configuring an LTO-3 or LTO-4 tape, you probably will want to set the Maximum File Size to 2GB to avoid making the drive stop to write an EOF mark. maybe this is the reason for the extra mb/s. - Thomas -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] continuing a failed job
Am Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:08:17 +0200 schrieb Silver Salonen: Hi. Has anyone figured out how to continue a failed job? I have a client that has gigabytes of data, but very fragile internet connection, so it's almost impossible to get a normal full backup job. I thought I'd do it with VirtualFull job to create a successful job out of failed one and then use it as basis for incremental, but unfortunately VirtualFull requires a previous successful job as well (duh). Is there a way to mark a job successful? you can't continue a failed job. this is a known problem with unstable internet connections. maybe you can work around with openvpn (or something like that) to simply hide short outages to bacula. - Thomas -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] continuing a failed job
Thomas Mueller tho...@chaschperli.ch kirjoitti viestissä news:hi2ffj$ga...@ger.gmane.org... Am Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:08:17 +0200 schrieb Silver Salonen: Hi. Has anyone figured out how to continue a failed job? I have a client that has gigabytes of data, but very fragile internet connection, so it's almost impossible to get a normal full backup job. I thought I'd do it with VirtualFull job to create a successful job out of failed one and then use it as basis for incremental, but unfortunately VirtualFull requires a previous successful job as well (duh). Is there a way to mark a job successful? you can't continue a failed job. this is a known problem with unstable internet connections. maybe you can work around with openvpn (or something like that) to simply hide short outages to bacula. Another workaround could be splitting the fileset to several smaller ones. This way one job takes less time and it's more propable it will finish successfully. And if it won't, it takes less time to re-run it. -- TiN -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] continuing a failed job
Thomas Mueller wrote: Am Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:08:17 +0200 schrieb Silver Salonen: Hi. Has anyone figured out how to continue a failed job? I have a client that has gigabytes of data, but very fragile internet connection, so it's almost impossible to get a normal full backup job. I thought I'd do it with VirtualFull job to create a successful job out of failed one and then use it as basis for incremental, but unfortunately VirtualFull requires a previous successful job as well (duh). Is there a way to mark a job successful? you can't continue a failed job. this is a known problem with unstable internet connections. maybe you can work around with openvpn (or something like that) to simply hide short outages to bacula. My first inclination is to say that if the network connection to the machine is sufficiently unstable that you can't complete a full backup, you probably shouldn't be trying to back it up over the network. However, there are ways to work around the problem. Were I trying to work around such a situation, with a mission-critical client on the far side of an unstable network connection, I would probably create a local partition somewhere of the same size as the disk on the remote machine, mirror the remote machine to that via rsync, and then back up the local mirror. The rsync will only need to transfer small amounts of data each day, and with the way rsync works, if one rsync is interrupted by a network outage, the next one will just pick up where it left off. Should you need to do a restore, you restore to the local mirror, then rsync only the restored files back to the remote client. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity lower than expected
Thomas Mueller schrieb: I tried to do that years ago but I believe this made all tapes that were already written to unreadable (and I now have 80) so I gave this up. With my 5+ year old dual processor Opteron 248 server I get 25MB/s to 45MB/s despools (which measures the actual tape rate) for my LTO2 drives. The reason for the wide range seems to be compression. Can anybody confirm or rebute this for 2.2.x? I'm currently fiddling with Maximum Block Size and a shiny new tape. It looks like 1M is too much for my tape drive, but 512K seems to work and it's making a huge difference: btape fill reports 60 MB/s right at the beginning, then drops to abour 52 MB/s. With Maximum File Size = 5G Maximum Block Size = 262144 Maximum Network Buffer Size = 262144 I get up to 150M MB/s while despooling to LTO-4 drives. Maximum File Size gave me some extra MB/s, I think it's as important as the Maximum Block Size. thanks for providing this hints. just searching why my lto-4 is writing just at 40mb/s. will try them out! searching the Maximum File Size in the manual I found this: If you are configuring an LTO-3 or LTO-4 tape, you probably will want to set the Maximum File Size to 2GB to avoid making the drive stop to write an EOF mark. maybe this is the reason for the extra mb/s. Modifying the Maximum Block Size to more than 262144 didn't change much here. But changing the File Size did. Much. Anyway, 40 MB/s seems a bit low, even with the defaults. Before tuning our setup I got ~75 MB/s. Are you spooling the data to disk or writing directly to tape? Ralf -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bacula and curlftpfs 0.9.2 does not work (anymore)
I believe that bacula does not work anymore with curlftpfs (version 0.9.2).
I have found several reports which describe a similar behavior.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curlftpfs/+bug/367091
http://sourceforge.net/projects/curlftpfs/forums/forum/542750/topic/3295831
Finally I found the release notes of curlftpfs 0.9.2:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=602461
Be aware that some applications might not be able to save files on
curlftpfs from 0.9.2 on, because we don't support open(read+write) or
open(write) and seek anymore.
I have written a small program to test this functionality. You can use
it to verify your environment.
#include stdio.h
#include string.h
int main(void) {
//FILE *fp = fopen(/home/bacula/test,w+b);
//works fine (without curlftpfs)
//FILE *fp = fopen(/home/bacula/archive/Daten/Backup/test,a+b);
//create flags: 0x442 /Daten/Backup/test 0100644 umask=
//ftpfs: operation ftpfs_open failed because Operation not supported
//FILE *fp = fopen(/home/bacula/archive/Daten/Backup/test,a+);
//create flags: 0x442 /Daten/Backup/test 0100644 umask=
//ftpfs: operation ftpfs_open failed because Operation not supported
//FILE *fp = fopen(/home/bacula/archive/Daten/Backup/test,w+);
//create flags: 0x242 /Daten/Backup/test 0100644 umask=
//ftpfs: operation ftpfs_open failed because Operation not supported
FILE *fp = fopen(/home/bacula/archive/Daten/Backup/test,w+b);
//create flags: 0x242 /Daten/Backup/test 0100644 umask=
//ftpfs: operation ftpfs_open failed because Operation not supported
fprintf(stdout, I try to open file\n);
if(fp==NULL)
{
fprintf(stdout,Error: can't open file.\n);
return 1;
}
else {
char str[40];
int i;
strcpy(str,somecharacters);
printf(File opened successfully. Writing\n\n);
for (i=0;i8;i++) {
fputc(str[i],fp);
}
}
fclose(fp);
return 0;
}
I would recommend that the documentation of bacula should mention this
incompatibility.
Using a ftp service you have to find an alternative (which one?)
Br, Karsten
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[Bacula-users] HP MSL2024 Autochanger ERR=Device or resource busy.
I have an MSL2024 library I have been battling to get running for the
last couple of days and am about out of ideas. It is the parallel SCSI
attached LTO-4 version, connected to an HP LSI based HBA.
I have bacula configured and it passes the mtx-changer test commands
recommended in the manual and also passes all the btape test tests,
including the auto test.
However, operationally after starting out, something appears to not
release /dev/nst0 and everything fails beyond this point.
Below is an example where from bconsole I issued automount off then
the label command:
Connecting to Storage daemon HP_MSL2024 at library1.sauce.co.nz:9103 ...
Sending label command for Volume GQJ800L4 Slot 1 ...
3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0 command.
3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result: nothing loaded.
3304 Issuing autochanger load slot 1, drive 0 command.
3305 Autochanger load slot 1, drive 0, status is OK.
block.c:1010 Read error on fd=5 at file:blk 0:0 on device Drive-1
(/dev/nst0). ERR=Device or resource busy.
3000 OK label. VolBytes=1024 DVD=0 Volume=GQJ800L4 Device=Drive-1
(/dev/nst0)
Catalog record for Volume GQJ800L4, Slot 1 successfully created.
Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
Another example, after resetting everything, loading 12 blank tapes and
issuing label barcodes, it labelled the first 2 tapes OK, then every
subsequent one included the error:
block.c:1010 Read error on fd=5 at file:blk 0:0 on device Drive-1
(/dev/nst0). ERR=Device or resource busy.
I am almost sure it is not a bacula issue as I have just stopped bacula
and run btape:
btape -c bacula-sd.conf /dev/nst0
Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes.
btape: butil.c:285 Using device: /dev/nst0 for writing.
07-Jan 10:03 btape JobId 0: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0
command.
07-Jan 10:03 btape JobId 0: 3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result
is Slot 1.
btape: btape.c:383 open device Drive-1 (/dev/nst0): OK
*readlabel
07-Jan 10:03 btape JobId 0: Error: block.c:1010 Read error on fd=3 at
file:blk 0:0 on device Drive-1 (/dev/nst0). ERR=Device or resource busy.
btape: btape.c:432 Volume has no label.
Volume Label:
Id: **error**VerNo : 0
VolName :
PrevVolName :
VolFile : 0
LabelType : Unknown 0
LabelSize : 0
PoolName :
MediaType :
PoolType :
HostName :
Date label written: -4712-01-01 at 00:00
Here is the relevant director conf entry:
# Definition of tape storage device
Storage {
Name = HP_MSL2024
Address = library1.sauce.co.nz
SDPort = 9103
Password = deliberately munged # password for Storage daemon
Device = HP_MSL2024 # must be same as Device in
Storage daemon
Media Type = LTO-4 # must be same as MediaType in
Storage daemon
Autochanger = yes # enable for autochanger device
}
Storage daemon conf:
Autochanger {
Name = HP_MSL2024
Device = Drive-1
Changer Command = /etc/bacula/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d
Changer Device = /dev/sg9
}
Device {
Name = Drive-1
Drive Index = 0
Media Type = LTO-4
Archive Device = /dev/nst0
AutomaticMount = yes;
AlwaysOpen = yes;
RemovableMedia = yes;
RandomAccess = no;
Maximum block size = 262144
Maximum File Size = 5GB
AutoChanger = yes
Alert Command = sh -c 'smartctl -H -l error %c'
}
The library itself is configured automatic, random (the default) and I
have also tried Manual, random.
Any help much appreciated.
Regards,
Richard
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Re: [Bacula-users] HP MSL2024 Autochanger ERR=Device or resource busy.
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Richard Scobie rich...@sauce.co.nz wrote:
I have an MSL2024 library I have been battling to get running for the
last couple of days and am about out of ideas. It is the parallel SCSI
attached LTO-4 version, connected to an HP LSI based HBA.
I have bacula configured and it passes the mtx-changer test commands
recommended in the manual and also passes all the btape test tests,
including the auto test.
However, operationally after starting out, something appears to not
release /dev/nst0 and everything fails beyond this point.
Below is an example where from bconsole I issued automount off then
the label command:
Connecting to Storage daemon HP_MSL2024 at library1.sauce.co.nz:9103 ...
Sending label command for Volume GQJ800L4 Slot 1 ...
3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0 command.
3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result: nothing loaded.
3304 Issuing autochanger load slot 1, drive 0 command.
3305 Autochanger load slot 1, drive 0, status is OK.
block.c:1010 Read error on fd=5 at file:blk 0:0 on device Drive-1
(/dev/nst0). ERR=Device or resource busy.
3000 OK label. VolBytes=1024 DVD=0 Volume=GQJ800L4 Device=Drive-1
(/dev/nst0)
Catalog record for Volume GQJ800L4, Slot 1 successfully created.
Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
Another example, after resetting everything, loading 12 blank tapes and
issuing label barcodes, it labelled the first 2 tapes OK, then every
subsequent one included the error:
block.c:1010 Read error on fd=5 at file:blk 0:0 on device Drive-1
(/dev/nst0). ERR=Device or resource busy.
I am almost sure it is not a bacula issue as I have just stopped bacula
and run btape:
btape -c bacula-sd.conf /dev/nst0
Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes.
btape: butil.c:285 Using device: /dev/nst0 for writing.
07-Jan 10:03 btape JobId 0: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0
command.
07-Jan 10:03 btape JobId 0: 3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result
is Slot 1.
btape: btape.c:383 open device Drive-1 (/dev/nst0): OK
*readlabel
07-Jan 10:03 btape JobId 0: Error: block.c:1010 Read error on fd=3 at
file:blk 0:0 on device Drive-1 (/dev/nst0). ERR=Device or resource busy.
btape: btape.c:432 Volume has no label.
Volume Label:
Id : **error**VerNo : 0
VolName :
PrevVolName :
VolFile : 0
LabelType : Unknown 0
LabelSize : 0
PoolName :
MediaType :
PoolType :
HostName :
Date label written: -4712-01-01 at 00:00
Here is the relevant director conf entry:
# Definition of tape storage device
Storage {
Name = HP_MSL2024
Address = library1.sauce.co.nz
SDPort = 9103
Password = deliberately munged # password for Storage daemon
Device = HP_MSL2024 # must be same as Device in
Storage daemon
Media Type = LTO-4 # must be same as MediaType in
Storage daemon
Autochanger = yes # enable for autochanger device
}
Storage daemon conf:
Autochanger {
Name = HP_MSL2024
Device = Drive-1
Changer Command = /etc/bacula/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d
Changer Device = /dev/sg9
}
Device {
Name = Drive-1
Drive Index = 0
Media Type = LTO-4
Archive Device = /dev/nst0
AutomaticMount = yes;
AlwaysOpen = yes;
RemovableMedia = yes;
RandomAccess = no;
Maximum block size = 262144
Maximum File Size = 5GB
AutoChanger = yes
Alert Command = sh -c 'smartctl -H -l error %c'
}
The library itself is configured automatic, random (the default) and I
have also tried Manual, random.
Any help much appreciated.
You probably need to add a wait in the mtx-changer script just after
the load. This wait will make sure the tape is in the drive and has
completed the loading process. For some systems the script does not
wait long enough for the tape drive to finish.
John
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Re: [Bacula-users] HP MSL2024 Autochanger ERR=Device or resource busy.
You probably need to add a wait in the mtx-changer script just after the load. This wait will make sure the tape is in the drive and has completed the loading process. For some systems the script does not wait long enough for the tape drive to finish. John Thanks John. I already have a 30 second wait in there but will try extending it further. I have also run the sleep test script from the manual and it runs it OK. Regards, Richard -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] No bacula volume is mounted, but the volume is in use on the same device
Hi,
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Javier Barroso javibarr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:18 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Javier Barroso javibarr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi people,
First, I'm using an old bacula version (etch version 1.38.11-8), so I
now this is a 2006 question :(
...
# mtx -f /dev/autochanger1 load 4 0
* mount
* status storage
...
Device status:
Autochanger Autochanger with devices:
Drive-1 (/dev/st0)
Device FileStorage (/tmp) is not open or does not exist.
Device Drive-1 (/dev/st0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
Device is BLOCKED waiting for media.
Slot 4 is loaded in drive 0.
Total Bytes Read=0 Blocks Read=0 Bytes/block=0
Positioned at File=0 Block=0
Device Drive-2 (/dev/st1) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
Total Bytes Read=0 Blocks Read=0 Bytes/block=0
Positioned at File=0 Block=0
In Use Volume status:
ISOLAD01 on device Drive-1 (/dev/st0)
You have messages
*
05-Jan 10:18 backup-sd: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded drive 0 command.
05-Jan 10:18 backup-sd: 3302 Autochanger loaded drive 0, result is Slot 4.
05-Jan 10:18 backup-sd: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded drive 0 command.
05-Jan 10:18 backup-sd: 3302 Autochanger loaded drive 0, result is Slot 4.
05-Jan 10:18 backup-sd: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded drive 0 command.
05-Jan 10:18 backup-sd: 3302 Autochanger loaded drive 0, result is Slot 4.
05-Jan 10:18 backup-sd: Please mount Volume ISOLAD01 on Storage
Device Drive-1 (/dev/st0) for Job openbravodb.2010-01-04_20.00.06
# ISOLAD01 is a volume in bacula db
* list media pool=DiarioLunes
Pool: DiarioLunes
+-++---+-+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+
| MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | VolBytes | VolFiles |
VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType |
LastWritten |
+-++---+-+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+
| 51 | ISOLAD01 | Append | 371,662,282,376 | 523 |
518,400 | 1 | 4 | 1 | Ultrium3-SCSI | 2009-10-20
02:33:52 |
So, what am I missing ? Any help is appreciated.
Nothing. There are bugs like this in 1.38.
1) Change /dev/st0 to /dev/nst0 in your config so bacula does not
accidentally delete one of your volumes.
2) Stop bacula-sd
3) Manually remove the tape using the autohanger command
4) Restart bacula-sd. Your jobs probably will have been terminated by
this action.
Thank you very much, I'll try it the next time it happens (I'll change
my config like in your tip)
Ok, so I tried it again, and the same issue (bacula want a tape which
is mounted, but it doesn't recognize)
I tracked the problem i turned on debug in mtx-changer, and see about
mt -f /dev/nst0 status was telling mt: /dev/nst0: No medium found
Then I tried mt -f with the others three devices (I have an
autochanger with /dev/nst{0,1,2,3} as tapes) and see only nst2 was
online.
I changed my config to /dev/nst2, and bacula is now working again.
But I'm confused now ! :( :(. Somebody can explain me this situation ?:
# mtx -f /dev/autochanger1 status | head -6
Storage Changer /dev/autochanger1:4 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 2 Loaded):VolumeTag =
ISOXAD02
Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
Data Transfer Element 2:Empty
Data Transfer Element 3:Empty
# lsscsi
[0:0:0:0]mediumx HP MSL6000 Series 0520 /dev/sch0
[0:0:0:1]tapeHP Ultrium 3-SCSI G63W /dev/st2
[0:0:0:2]tapeHP Ultrium 3-SCSI G63W /dev/st3
[0:0:0:3]storage HP NS E1200-320 593d -
[1:0:3:0]tapeHP Ultrium 3-SCSI G63W /dev/st0
[1:0:4:0]tapeHP Ultrium 3-SCSI G54W /dev/st1
I can guess that first Data Transfer element listed in mtx -f dev
status is the first tape found in lsscsi command output. Then Data
Transfert Element 1 will be /dev/st3 and go ...
Is this true ? Should i name my devices with some persistente name
like /dev/tape1 ?
And more important, why are others (three) devices like not medium found ?
See next session (first I loaded 4 tapes):
# mtx -f /dev/autochanger1 status | head -10
Storage Changer /dev/autochanger1:4 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 2 Loaded):VolumeTag =
ISOXAD02
Data Transfer Element 1:Full (Storage Element 1 Loaded):VolumeTag =
ISOVBF04
Data Transfer Element 2:Full (Storage Element 3 Loaded):VolumeTag =
ISOVAF03
Data Transfer Element 3:Full (Storage Element 4 Loaded):VolumeTag =
ISOLAD01
# Bacula is using Data Transfer Element 0:
* st st
...
Device Drive-1 (/dev/nst2) is mounted with Volume=ISOXAD02
Pool=DiarioMiercoles
...
# But nst3 device is not ready, a while ago nst0 and nst1 wasn't ONLINE yet:
# mt -f
Re: [Bacula-users] No bacula volume is mounted, but the volume is in use on the same device
Hi again,
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:27 AM, Javier Barroso javibarr...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Javier Barroso javibarr...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:18 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 4:26 AM, Javier Barroso javibarr...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi people,
First, I'm using an old bacula version (etch version 1.38.11-8), so I
now this is a 2006 question :(
...
# mtx -f /dev/autochanger1 load 4 0
* mount
* status storage
...
Device status:
Autochanger Autochanger with devices:
Drive-1 (/dev/st0)
Device FileStorage (/tmp) is not open or does not exist.
Device Drive-1 (/dev/st0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
Device is BLOCKED waiting for media.
Slot 4 is loaded in drive 0.
Total Bytes Read=0 Blocks Read=0 Bytes/block=0
Positioned at File=0 Block=0
Device Drive-2 (/dev/st1) open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
Total Bytes Read=0 Blocks Read=0 Bytes/block=0
Positioned at File=0 Block=0
In Use Volume status:
ISOLAD01 on device Drive-1 (/dev/st0)
You have messages
*
05-Jan 10:18 backup-sd: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded drive 0 command.
05-Jan 10:18 backup-sd: 3302 Autochanger loaded drive 0, result is Slot
4.
05-Jan 10:18 backup-sd: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded drive 0 command.
05-Jan 10:18 backup-sd: 3302 Autochanger loaded drive 0, result is Slot
4.
05-Jan 10:18 backup-sd: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded drive 0 command.
05-Jan 10:18 backup-sd: 3302 Autochanger loaded drive 0, result is Slot
4.
05-Jan 10:18 backup-sd: Please mount Volume ISOLAD01 on Storage
Device Drive-1 (/dev/st0) for Job openbravodb.2010-01-04_20.00.06
# ISOLAD01 is a volume in bacula db
* list media pool=DiarioLunes
Pool: DiarioLunes
+-++---+-+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+
| MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | VolBytes | VolFiles |
VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType |
LastWritten |
+-++---+-+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+
| 51 | ISOLAD01 | Append | 371,662,282,376 | 523 |
518,400 | 1 | 4 | 1 | Ultrium3-SCSI | 2009-10-20
02:33:52 |
So, what am I missing ? Any help is appreciated.
Nothing. There are bugs like this in 1.38.
1) Change /dev/st0 to /dev/nst0 in your config so bacula does not
accidentally delete one of your volumes.
2) Stop bacula-sd
3) Manually remove the tape using the autohanger command
4) Restart bacula-sd. Your jobs probably will have been terminated by
this action.
Thank you very much, I'll try it the next time it happens (I'll change
my config like in your tip)
Ok, so I tried it again, and the same issue (bacula want a tape which
is mounted, but it doesn't recognize)
I tracked the problem i turned on debug in mtx-changer, and see about
mt -f /dev/nst0 status was telling mt: /dev/nst0: No medium found
Then I tried mt -f with the others three devices (I have an
autochanger with /dev/nst{0,1,2,3} as tapes) and see only nst2 was
online.
I changed my config to /dev/nst2, and bacula is now working again.
But I'm confused now ! :( :(. Somebody can explain me this situation ?:
# mtx -f /dev/autochanger1 status | head -6
Storage Changer /dev/autochanger1:4 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 2 Loaded):VolumeTag =
ISOXAD02
Data Transfer Element 1:Empty
Data Transfer Element 2:Empty
Data Transfer Element 3:Empty
# lsscsi
[0:0:0:0] mediumx HP MSL6000 Series 0520 /dev/sch0
[0:0:0:1] tape HP Ultrium 3-SCSI G63W /dev/st2
[0:0:0:2] tape HP Ultrium 3-SCSI G63W /dev/st3
[0:0:0:3] storage HP NS E1200-320 593d -
[1:0:3:0] tape HP Ultrium 3-SCSI G63W /dev/st0
[1:0:4:0] tape HP Ultrium 3-SCSI G54W /dev/st1
I can guess that first Data Transfer element listed in mtx -f dev
status is the first tape found in lsscsi command output. Then Data
Transfert Element 1 will be /dev/st3 and go ...
Is this true ? Should i name my devices with some persistente name
like /dev/tape1 ?
And more important, why are others (three) devices like not medium found ?
See next session (first I loaded 4 tapes):
# mtx -f /dev/autochanger1 status | head -10
Storage Changer /dev/autochanger1:4 Drives, 60 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 2 Loaded):VolumeTag =
ISOXAD02
Data Transfer Element 1:Full (Storage Element 1 Loaded):VolumeTag =
ISOVBF04
Data Transfer Element 2:Full (Storage Element 3 Loaded):VolumeTag =
ISOVAF03
Data Transfer Element 3:Full (Storage Element 4 Loaded):VolumeTag =
ISOLAD01
# Bacula is using Data Transfer Element 0:
* st st
...
Device Drive-1 (/dev/nst2) is
Re: [Bacula-users] Has anyone installed Bacula on Fedora 12?
On 01/06/2010 05:40 PM, brown wrap wrote: I tried compiling it, and received errors which I posted, but didn't really get an answer to. I then started to look for RPMs. I found the client rpm, but not the server rpm unless I don't know what I'm looking for. Can someone point me to the rpms I need? Thanks. greg Are the RPMS listed here not good enough? I se FC 9 and 10 but no 12. If either of the fc9 or fc10 rpms don't work, there is a source rpm listed and that should get your going. bacula dloads: http://bacula.org/en/?page=downloads rpmbuild man page: http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/rpmbuild.8.html -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] HP MSL2024 Autochanger ERR=Device or resource busy.
Richard Scobie wrote: You probably need to add a wait in the mtx-changer script just after the load. This wait will make sure the tape is in the drive and has completed the loading process. For some systems the script does not wait long enough for the tape drive to finish. John Thanks John. I already have a 30 second wait in there but will try extending it further. I have also run the sleep test script from the manual and it runs it OK. And increasing this to 60 seconds has not improved things. Anyone else running this library I can compare notes with? Regards, Richard -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] undefined symbol in libbacsql.so
Hello, I'm having difficulty compiling Bacula 3.0.3 on Solaris 10 x86. The build fails at the same spot whether I'm using gcc or Sun Studio's compiler. I'm linking against the 32-bit binary build of MySQL5 from OpenCSW. My build environment is: LDFLAGS=-L/opt/sunstudio12.1/lib -L/opt/csw/mysql5/lib/mysql CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/sunstudio12.1/include LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/csw/mysql5/lib/mysql LIBS=-lmysqlclient CXX=/bin/CC CC=/bin/cc ./configure --prefix=/opt/bacula --with-openssl=/opt/csw --with-mysql=/opt/csw/mysql5 --without-x Everything compiles fine up to here: make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/system/software/src/bacula-3.0.3/src/dird' ... Linking bacula-dir ... /opt/system/software/src/bacula-3.0.3/libtool --silent --tag=CXX --mode=link /bin/CC -L/opt/sunstudio12.1/lib -L/opt/csw/mysql5/lib/mysql -L../lib -L../cats -L../findlib -o bacula-dir dird.o admin.o authenticate.o autoprune.o backup.o bsr.o catreq.o dir_plugins.o dird_conf.o expand.o fd_cmds.o getmsg.o inc_conf.o job.o jobq.o migrate.o mountreq.o msgchan.o next_vol.o newvol.o pythondir.o recycle.o restore.o run_conf.o scheduler.o ua_acl.o ua_cmds.o ua_dotcmds.o ua_query.o ua_input.o ua_label.o ua_output.o ua_prune.o ua_purge.o ua_restore.o ua_run.o ua_select.o ua_server.o ua_status.o ua_tree.o ua_update.o vbackup.o verify.o \ -lbacfind -lbacsql -lbacpy -lbaccfg -lbac -lm-lpthread -lresolv -lnsl -lsocket -lxnet -lmysqlclient -lintl -lresolv \ -L/opt/csw/lib -lssl -lcrypto Undefined first referenced symbol in file my_thread_end /opt/system/software/src/bacula-3.0.3/src/cats/.libs/libbacsql.so ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to .libs/bacula-dir make[1]: *** [bacula-dir] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/system/software/src/bacula-3.0.3/src/dird' == Error in /opt/system/software/src/bacula-3.0.3/src/dird == As I mentioned, changing CC and CXX to gcc doesn't seem to make a difference -- it results in an undefined symbol, my _thread_end error when linking bacula-dir. Any suggestions? Thanks, Brent -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity lower than expected
With Maximum File Size = 5G Maximum Block Size = 262144 Maximum Network Buffer Size = 262144 I get up to 150M MB/s while despooling to LTO-4 drives. Maximum File Size gave me some extra MB/s, I think it's as important as the Maximum Block Size. thanks for providing this hints. just searching why my lto-4 is writing just at 40mb/s. will try them out! searching the Maximum File Size in the manual I found this: If you are configuring an LTO-3 or LTO-4 tape, you probably will want to set the Maximum File Size to 2GB to avoid making the drive stop to write an EOF mark. maybe this is the reason for the extra mb/s. Modifying the Maximum Block Size to more than 262144 didn't change much here. But changing the File Size did. Much. I found a post from Kern saying that Quantum told him, that about 262144 is the best blocksize - increasing it would increase error rate too. Anyway, 40 MB/s seems a bit low, even with the defaults. Before tuning our setup I got ~75 MB/s. Are you spooling the data to disk or writing directly to tape? yes, i was surprised too that it is that slow. I'm spooling to disk first (2x 1TB disk as RAID0, dedicated to bacula for spooling). i will also start a sequential read test to check if the disks are the bottleneck. The slow job was the only one running. watching iotop i saw the maximum file size problem: it stops writing after 1 GB (default file size) and writes to the DB and then continues writing. so for a LTO-4 it stops nearly 800 times until the tape is full. - Thomas -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] continuing a failed job
On Wednesday 06 January 2010 19:30:42 Timo Neuvonen wrote: Thomas Mueller tho...@chaschperli.ch kirjoitti viestissä news:hi2ffj$ga...@ger.gmane.org... Am Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:08:17 +0200 schrieb Silver Salonen: Hi. Has anyone figured out how to continue a failed job? I have a client that has gigabytes of data, but very fragile internet connection, so it's almost impossible to get a normal full backup job. I thought I'd do it with VirtualFull job to create a successful job out of failed one and then use it as basis for incremental, but unfortunately VirtualFull requires a previous successful job as well (duh). Is there a way to mark a job successful? you can't continue a failed job. this is a known problem with unstable internet connections. maybe you can work around with openvpn (or something like that) to simply hide short outages to bacula. Another workaround could be splitting the fileset to several smaller ones. This way one job takes less time and it's more propable it will finish successfully. And if it won't, it takes less time to re-run it. Well, yes.. I know the job itself cannot be continued. But could it be somehow marked as OK, so it could be used as a basis for another non-full backup? -- Silver -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
