Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: SD Bug "User specified spool size reached"
> > I would be interested in seeing why jobs are crashing and possibly > > submit bug reports for that. I have run 30 thousand or so jobs at work > > and I do not see very many job crashes. > > That one is easy, and not very interesting actually. The two most > frequent causes are: > a) network outages (we do some backups over WAN VPN connections) > b) clients crashing during backup, either coincidentally or because the > additional load from the backup pushes an already flakey machine over > the brink. Same here - I tend to see the occasional backup timeout waiting for the FD in mid-job, for example when a client suddenly gets overloaded. Afterwards, there are no orphaned spool files. None of the jobs fail due to a Bacula bug as far as I can see, it's always a client-side issue. A job failing due to a timeout shouldn't reduce the total usable SD spool space though :) Sean -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] SD Bug "User specified spool size reached"
Hi, > On a Bacula installation with a CentOS 6.2 (64 bit) server > running Bacula 5.2.6 director and SD with an HP LTO3 autoloader > and backing up some twenty-odd machines of various platforms, > all the jobs report "User specified spool size reached" > much too early, currently after 1.45 GB instead of the really > specified size of 50 GB. Example log excerpt: [..] > Scanning the log it looks like the storage daemon decreases its > spool size limit every time a backup job crashes. The last time > it used the full 50 GB was here: I've been seeing exactly the same behaviour here (CentOS 4.9, Bacula SD 5.0.3) for quite some time. However, until I saw your email I didn't correlate the max spool size reducing with each time a job crashes. I can also confirm that whenever a job crashes, the max spool size drops. The only workaround I can see at the moment is restarting the SD... Sean -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Backing up Windows 2008 64-bit with VSS...
Hi All, I've now got a need to perform backups of a new 64-bit Windows 2008 Server. The current 32-bit Bacula agent runs ok up to a point, but unfortunately it's unable to perform backups using VSS. Eg: 28-Nov 22:59 win2k8-fd JobId 12291: Warning: VSS was not initialized properly. VSS support is disabled. ERR=An attempt was made to reference a token that does not exist. I've searched the users & dev archives and I've read some discussion about work done in this area and I'm wondering if someone's produced some binaries we can test with yet? Thanks in advance, Sean - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Restore job alters a volumes LastWritten value?
Oops... replying to myself... It appears this is a known issue with Bacula v2.2.5 & has a patch available. I should have searched the archives BEFORE sending my first email :) Sean - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Restore job alters a volumes LastWritten value?
Hi all, A week ago I restored some files from a tape marked as full & recyclable. This morning during a normal backup run I expected this tape to be recycled and purged like all the tapes previous to it have. However this did not happen, instead another tape was purged and recycled. After looking at my volume list I can see that the LastWritten value on the tape has been updated with the date/time of when I ran the restore job. Nothing in my logs suggests any more data has been written to the tape. Is this expected behaviour? Is there a way of preventing this from happening again on future restore jobs? Thanks in advance, Sean - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] All the problems with Bacula
> >> Bacula is incredibly complex to setup. Its taken 4 months and > >> its still not working correctly. > > DL> You are unique. > > I doubt he's unique. I constantly think to myself "wow, bacula is > really cool; but why isn't it doing that?" > > The configuration is complex to set up (but with flexibility always > comes complexity; and bacula is very flexible). Fortunately there > are many good resources to look at, but sorting through them all to > find what you want is sometimes difficult. > > Personally, I've been using it for 2 months. On day one I got it > up and running and backing up multiple computers (windows and > linux both). I've been using Bacula for approx 1 month now to backup a range of servers (Linux + Windows 2003) and an office full of Windows XP/Vista machines. Before moving to Bacula I was a fairly happy Amanda user, the only gripe I had with Amanda for a very long time was "proper" Windows client support (I now believe there is a native Windows client). Just over a month ago I decided to evaluate Bacula. After a few days of hacking configuration scripts & virtually re-writing the "fake autoloader" mtx-changer script[1] I had a fully operational backup system. For a couple of weeks I ran Bacula & Amanda side-by-side and last week made the decision to completely shut off Amanda. When first starting out, Bacula appears to be extremely complex. Spending a bit of time reading the docs, wiki & example configs before diving in can work wonders! Sean [1] A copy of my very hacky script can be found on the Bacula wiki at http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=sample_configs#faking_an_auto-changer _with_one_tape_drive - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
