[Bacula-users] SDLT600 tapes on bacula 1.38.11

2006-09-17 Thread Arunav Mandal
I am using SDLT600 tapes and that is suppose to fit 600GB compressed. It seems it is unevenly filling up. Some tapes are as low as 136Gb and some are 456GB to 594GB. I am using disk spool first then to tape. So why is this difference? Arunav.

Re: [Bacula-users] SDLT600 tapes on bacula 1.38.11

2006-09-17 Thread Georger Araujo
According to the specs presented in http://www.tape-library.com/quantum/sdlt-600.htm, your tapes can store 300 GB native and *up to* 600 GB compressed. Keep in mind that 2:1 compression is just wishful thinking; an optimistic estimate. It could be less in practice. I have an LTO-2 drive, and my

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged volumes not getting used

2006-09-17 Thread Francisco Reyes
Bruno Savioli writes: If I am not mistaken, you need to have a Maximum Volumes in your Pool directives. Bacula first tries a new volume, if there isn't one, it will look for the purged ones to recycle. Will have to try that, but I thought the behavior was supposed to be: 1- See if any volume

Re: [Bacula-users] wrong start time stored for Volume Use Duration?

2006-09-17 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Sunday 17 September 2006 00:29, Jo Rhett wrote: On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 08:34:41PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Thursday 14 September 2006 19:41, Jo Rhett wrote: On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 10:20:21AM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Thursday 14 September 2006 03:45, Jo Rhett wrote:

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged volumes not getting used

2006-09-17 Thread Francisco Reyes
Francisco Reyes writes: Francisco Reyes writes: Using Bacula 1.38.11 in FreeBSD 6.1 Using disk volumes. I have a pool with a large set of Purged volumes, yet Bacula continues to make new volumes in the pool. Better queries. To get count. select count(*) from media where

Re: [Bacula-users] wrong start time stored for Volume Use Duration?

2006-09-17 Thread Jo Rhett
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 07:22:58PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: Yes, that I saw, but it wasn't clear to me what the problem was, probably because I was under the mistaken belief that the FirstWritten was really the time the volume was first written. After looking at the code, I see that it

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged volumes not getting used

2006-09-17 Thread Jo Rhett
Bruno Savioli writes: If I am not mistaken, you need to have a Maximum Volumes in your Pool directives. Bacula first tries a new volume, if there isn't one, it will look for the purged ones to recycle. On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 01:22:08PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: Will have to try

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged volumes not getting used

2006-09-17 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Sunday 17 September 2006 21:02, Jo Rhett wrote: Bruno Savioli writes: If I am not mistaken, you need to have a Maximum Volumes in your Pool directives. Bacula first tries a new volume, if there isn't one, it will look for the purged ones to recycle. On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at

Re: [Bacula-users] SDLT600 tapes on bacula 1.38.11

2006-09-17 Thread Arunav Mandal
Does bacula uses software compression by default? Arunav. - Original Message - From: Georger Araujo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 2:09 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] SDLT600 tapes on bacula 1.38.11 According to the specs

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged volumes not getting used

2006-09-17 Thread Francisco Reyes
Kern Sibbald writes: The algorithm is very clearly described in the manual at: http:/www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.html#SECTION000243000 In that url I see: Try recycling any purged Volumes Does this meet the criteria? recycle = 1 Difference of current time

[Bacula-users] Tape compression and encryption

2006-09-17 Thread Michael Brennen
I enabled encryption on 1.39.23 using the FD keys on Friday. During a full backup over the weekend I noticed that the 35/70 DLT tapes seemed to hold less than I have seen before, about 35G in one case and somewhat over 30G in another. I am wondering if the encrypted data might conflict with

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape compression and encryption

2006-09-17 Thread Michael Brennen
Frank Sweetser wrote: On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 07:36:46PM -0500, Michael Brennen wrote: I enabled encryption on 1.39.23 using the FD keys on Friday. During a full backup over the weekend I noticed that the 35/70 DLT tapes seemed to hold less than I have seen before, about 35G in one

[Bacula-users] RunBeforeJob / tape compression off

2006-09-17 Thread Michael Brennen
It appears that the only way to turn off hardware tape compression is to have RunBeforeJob execute a script that turns off h/w tape compression with 'mt'. I did not see in either released or development documentation that there is a %? substitution for the tape device to be used for the Job