[Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I have a problem with bacula and some SLR tapes. My server has an TANDBERG SLR100 SCSI tape drive, which is capable of storing 50GB or 100GB (compressed) onto SLR tapes. I have about 50GB+ data to save, so I want to use tape drive compression. First, I used an old tape to store those

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: Hi all, I have a problem with bacula and some SLR tapes. My server has an TANDBERG SLR100 SCSI tape drive, which is capable of storing 50GB or 100GB (compressed) onto SLR tapes. I have about 50GB+ data to save, so I want to use tape drive

[Bacula-users] Bacula and Postgreql-PITR

2005-09-08 Thread Marc Schoechlin
Hi there, yesterday I read about the nice point-in-time-recovery (PITR) feature of postgresql - and decided to use this in future. (See: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/backup-online.html) PITR gives you the ability to have really continuous backup of your postgresql-database. I

[Bacula-users] bconsole restore - æøå problem

2005-09-08 Thread Per Jensen
List, Version used: bacula 1.34.6 The other day I had to restore a few directories. I fired up bconsole, and started the restore command. I was not able to get bconsole to recognize the 'æøå' characters and was therefore not able to mark the directories in question. To get the job done i

[Bacula-users] Nubee autochanger question (volume labeling)

2005-09-08 Thread R. Michael Sharkey
Sorry guys if this is a dumb newbee question. I'm just getting my bacula set up for the first time, and I have an autochanger with 6 tapes per cartridge attached to a linux box. I made my .conf files, and ran btape on it and everything including the autochanger operation checked out fine.

[Bacula-users] Re: Scratch pool

2005-09-08 Thread Birger Blixt
Hi. I'm new to the list, and saw the mail from Craig Holyoak in the list archive. I did a misstake by reading the developer manual when using Bacula 1.36.2 so I created a Scratch pool, and a script to move purged tapes to that pool PoolId 7 in my case. #!/bin/sh #

[Bacula-users] Auto-Mounting problems

2005-09-08 Thread Jimmy Cartrette
Hi, I've just started using Bacula, and I'm having several issues. The pressing one right now is, I just went to a customer site, and used wx-console to show them how to do a restore. I set her to the operator email address, and she got an email to insert the Wednesday-2 tape. We did that,

[Bacula-users] backup strategy

2005-09-08 Thread Aditya Ivaturi
I have 10 systems to be backed up evenly divided into linux and windows boxes (5 5). I want to maintain two pools one for each type and have separate volume for each job. So Pool-A will have vol-001, vol-002 and so on for the 5 linux machines and similarly for the windows machine pool. Each pool

Re: [Bacula-users] Auto-Mounting problems

2005-09-08 Thread Jimmy Cartrette
Arno, These customers are not the most technically feasible people, and I balk at them actually using a console program to do restores. They were previously using a graphical Arcserve program under Netware. I really don't want to make them open up another wx-console and type mount, but from

Re: [Bacula-users] backup-sd log question

2005-09-08 Thread Martin Simmons
On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:51:37 +0200, Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Arno Martin Simmons wrote: On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:18:45 +0200, Daniel Holtkamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Daniel Hello ! Daniel 07-Sep 10:58 backup-sd: Committing spooled data to Volume. Despooling

Re: [Bacula-users] backup policies ?

2005-09-08 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: The _only_ thing that I can see which might be affecting things is a ctime/mtime update on the parent directory, but only 100-200 files (out of several thousand) are actually changing, however it looks like the entire dircetory is being backed up. Kern,

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: SLR100 SCSI tape drive, which is capable of storing 50GB or 100GB (compressed) onto SLR tapes. Note that 100Gb is compressed and the raw capacity is 50Gb. Now I have a bunch of newly bought SLR tapes, but there I get an out of space error,

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Alan Brown -- SLR100 SCSI tape drive, which is capable of storing 50GB or 100GB (compressed) onto SLR tapes. Note that 100Gb is compressed and the raw capacity is 50Gb. I know, that was what I wanted to say... Now I have a bunch of newly bought SLR tapes, but

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread drescher0110-bacula
-- quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Can you try the job with bacula gzip compression set on with both new and old? I never tried it with SW compression on the tape drive, because bacula howto says you shouldn't use that when writing to a tape drive. Should I use it

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread drescher0110-bacula
Does your system have the tapeinfo application? --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Does your system have the tapeinfo application? yeah it has (I installed it), but I get no useful output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# tapeinfo -f /dev/nst0 mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes mtx: Request Sense: Valid Residual=no mtx: Request Sense:

[Bacula-users] [Fwd: recycling status]

2005-09-08 Thread Jesús Arnáiz
Original Message Subject: recycling status Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 12:49:46 +0200 From: Jesús Arnáiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: BACULA users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi there. I use Version: 1.36.3 of bacula. I use file disk as storage media. In our configuration we have the default

Re: [Bacula-users] network performance

2005-09-08 Thread Maurizio Santini
Any hints on this? Thanks, On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 14:48, Maurizio Santini wrote: Hi, It might be a silly question but does the directive Maximum Network Buffer Size = bytes need to be set in any bacula-fd.conf (I mean all clients) or only in the machine where the tape drive reside?

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-08 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: -- quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Does your system have the tapeinfo application? yeah it has (I installed it), but I get no useful output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# tapeinfo -f /dev/nst0 mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes etc. You need

Re: [Bacula-users] network performance

2005-09-08 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Maurizio Santini wrote: Any hints on this? nothing definite, sorry. Thanks, On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 14:48, Maurizio Santini wrote: Hi, It might be a silly question but does the directive Maximum Network Buffer Size = bytes need to be set in any bacula-fd.conf (I mean all clients)

[Bacula-users] Using Volume Use Duration

2005-09-08 Thread Tom Boyda
Hello, I am using bacula 1.37.30 on a Solaris 9 system with a mysql db backend. I have set my monthly pools to have Volume Use Duration of 3 days. Three days was an arbitrary number - all full backups complete in about 8 hours - I picked three days in case there was a problem I would have time

Re: [Bacula-users] network performance

2005-09-08 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Maurizio Santini wrote: Thank you for your answer but let me rephrase the question. I have Maximum Network Buffer Size = 65536 in bacula-fd.conf in the machine where the tape drive, bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf are, but Maximum Network Buffer Size in bacula-fd.conf in the client

[Bacula-users] Slow backups

2005-09-08 Thread Arunav Mandal
I am running 1.36.3 on both director and storage deamon and diff. versions on 150 clients. Recently I started spooling to disk first then to tape with around 100 concurrent connections for director and storage deamons. Now the backups seems to take time Rate seems to be around 700KB/s before

[Bacula-users] Filset exclusions

2005-09-08 Thread Arunav Mandal
I am using bacula 1.36.3 version and I tried this Filset but still I can't exclude mp3's and other files which I want to exclude. Anything I am missing here? FileSet { Name = linux-default #Ignore Fileset changes = yes Include { Options { signature=SHA1 verify=pins1 onefs=no sparse=no

Re: [Bacula-users] Using Volume Use Duration

2005-09-08 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Tom Boyda wrote: Hello, I am using bacula 1.37.30 on a Solaris 9 system with a mysql db backend. You should consider upgrading to 1.37.38 - I think there are some serious improvements. I have set my monthly pools to have Volume Use Duration of 3 days. Three days was an arbitrary

[Bacula-users] Bacula Release

2005-09-08 Thread Arunav Mandal
When is the next major release of bacula going to come? Arunav. --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development *

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backups

2005-09-08 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Arunav Mandal wrote: I am running 1.36.3 on both director and storage deamon and diff. versions on 150 clients. Recently I started spooling to disk first then to tape with around 100 concurrent connections for director and storage deamons. Now the backups seems to take time Rate seems to

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Release

2005-09-08 Thread Arno Lehmann
When it's ready. Definitely not before that time. Look through the archives of bacula-users and -devel for Kerns posts on that topic. Arno Arunav Mandal wrote: When is the next major release of bacula going to come? Arunav. --- SF.Net

Re: [Bacula-users] Using Volume Use Duration

2005-09-08 Thread Tom Boyda
Hello, Tom Boyda wrote: Hello, I am using bacula 1.37.30 on a Solaris 9 system with a mysql db backend. You should consider upgrading to 1.37.38 - I think there are some serious improvements. Looking into upgrading - will I be required to upgrade my windows clients from 1.37.32 to be able

Re: [Bacula-users] Using Volume Use Duration

2005-09-08 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Tom Boyda wrote: Looking into upgrading - will I be required to upgrade my windows clients from 1.37.32 to be able to use 1.37.38 director and storage daemon? I *think* not: #ver goblin-dir Version: 1.37.38 (04 September 2005) #status client=ork-fd Connecting to Client ork-fd at ork:9102

Re: [Bacula-users] btape

2005-09-08 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Maurizio Santini wrote: I found the way of doing it. I ran umount instead of unmount from bconsole. Interesting. I thought these commands were synonymous... Here I can access a tape drive after unmount, too. Did your drive perhaps need some time to recover after being rewound or

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Release

2005-09-08 Thread Dan Langille
On 8 Sep 2005 at 21:10, Arno Lehmann wrote: When is the next major release of bacula going to come? When it's ready. That was my thought when the first email came through. Definitely not before that time. We can't say. It depends on how debugging goes, how much time we have to test,