[Bacula-users] End of Back-up Problems
Hello, I wander if anyone could help Ive got a problem with Bacula. Weve been using Bacula for about three months or so now, with varying degrees of success. Recently, Ive simplified our configuration and have been having no problems at all with our backups, until now. Bacula runs successfully, recognizes that a valid tape from the correct pool is available in the Autoloader, loads the tape, runs the scripts, does the backup, but then wont release the Drive. It appears that the drive locks up, and when I stop the bacula-sd daemon I cant control the drive (Linux tells me that its not found in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab. So, I basically have to re-boot the server to get SCSI to realize its there again. This is annoying! But, I cant work out why it would have changed. Ive not altered the configuration for ages I though originally it was because the backup size had got very close (if not exceeded) the size of the tape, but after moving some files around its not well below the tape size (Tape=200GB, file=180GB). Were Redhat ES8 with a Quantum Superloader 3. Can anyone point me towards a solution/answer to this? Id be grateful if you could! Regards, Rupert Finnigan ***Confidentiality and Privilege Notice*** The material contained in this message is privileged and confidential to the addressee. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message or responsible for delivery of the message to such person, you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone, and you should destroy it and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Information in this message that does not relate to the official business of Weatherbeeta must be treated as neither given nor endorsed by Weatherbeeta. Weatherbeeta, its employees, contractors or associates shall not be liable for direct, indirect or consequential loss arising from transmission of this message or any attachments Registered office address Greenway House, Sugarswell Business Park, Shenington, Banbury, Oxon, OX15 6HW. Company number 3006765 - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] End of Back-up Problems
Thanks for your help! The tapes are 200GB (400GB with compression), so I know that's not an issue. I've solved the problem though. The drive needed a clean Cleaned the drive and all is good. This does seem to be a bit of a daft solution, but it works. Any one got any ideas as to why? Regards, Rupert -Original Message- From: John Drescher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 August 2006 16:29 To: Rupert Finnigan Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] End of Back-up Problems This is annoying! But, I can't work out why it would have changed. I've not altered the configuration for ages. I though originally it was because the backup size had got very close (if not exceeded) the size of the tape, but after moving some files around it's not well below the tape size (Tape=200GB, file=180GB). Is this an LTO2 drive (with 200GB native) as you can not count on an LTO1 drive giving you 200GB of space? LTO1 drives are really a 100GB drive that with compression sometimes fits 200GB on a tape. For me I rarely get 2:1 as I have uncompressible data on my disks (image files that are already compressed). John ***Confidentiality and Privilege Notice*** The material contained in this message is privileged and confidential to the addressee. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message or responsible for delivery of the message to such person, you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone, and you should destroy it and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Information in this message that does not relate to the official business of Weatherbeeta must be treated as neither given nor endorsed by Weatherbeeta. Weatherbeeta, its employees, contractors or associates shall not be liable for direct, indirect or consequential loss arising from transmission of this message or any attachments Registered office address Greenway House, Sugarswell Business Park, Shenington, Banbury, Oxon, OX15 6HW. Company number 3006765 - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] End of Back-up Problems
Hello, I wander if anyone could help Ive got a problem with Bacula. Weve been using Bacula for about three months or so now, with varying degrees of success. Recently, Ive simplified our configuration and have been having no problems at all with our backups, until now. Bacula runs successfully, recognizes that a valid tape from the correct pool is available in the Autoloader, loads the tape, runs the scripts, does the backup, but then wont release the Drive. It appears that the drive locks up, and when I stop the bacula-sd daemon I cant control the drive (Linux tells me that its not found in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab. So, I basically have to re-boot the server to get SCSI to realize its there again. This is annoying! But, I cant work out why it would have changed. Ive not altered the configuration for ages I though originally it was because the backup size had got very close (if not exceeded) the size of the tape, but after moving some files around its not well below the tape size (Tape=200GB, file=180GB). Were Redhat ES8 with a Quantum Superloader 3. Can anyone point me towards a solution/answer to this? Id be grateful if you could! Regards, Rupert Finnigan ***Confidentiality and Privilege Notice*** The material contained in this message is privileged and confidential to the addressee. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message or responsible for delivery of the message to such person, you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone, and you should destroy it and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Information in this message that does not relate to the official business of Weatherbeeta must be treated as neither given nor endorsed by Weatherbeeta. Weatherbeeta, its employees, contractors or associates shall not be liable for direct, indirect or consequential loss arising from transmission of this message or any attachments Registered office address Greenway House, Sugarswell Business Park, Shenington, Banbury, Oxon, OX15 6HW. Company number 3006765 - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users