Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula recycles Volumes instead of creating new ones

2008-10-13 Thread Marc Richter
Hi List! John Drescher schrieb: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:39 AM, John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Kjetil Torgrim Homme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Further, I want to know, why bacula recycles Volumes (which

[Bacula-users] Deleting from disk based pool

2008-10-13 Thread Radek Hladik
Hi, I'm backing to disk based storage, every volume has maximum count set to one job, so every pool has one file per job. Each pool is configured with recycle period and volume count so it can hold just enough volumes/jobs. For example for 7 daily full backups I have pool with maximum

[Bacula-users] Catalog backup retention

2008-10-13 Thread Radek Hladik
Hi, I would like to ask how should I recycle catalog backups. I am using disk based storage and catalog pool is by default set to half-year or so long retention period. I would think, that week would be more than sufficient. What is old catalog backup good for? I mean if I have catalog

[Bacula-users] Command on media change request from SD

2008-10-13 Thread Felix Brack
The storage daemon has some possibilities to run external commands such as 'Mount Command', 'Alert Command', etc. Is there an option that allows to run an external command when the storage daemon requires change of media? Example: I get the following message from the storage daemon asking to

[Bacula-users] automatically pruning the loaded volume

2008-10-13 Thread Tilman Schmidt
I'm still wrestling with my problem of Bacula requesting a different volume although the one already loaded is eligible to be recycled. [1] As I cannot find a solution to the root problem I am now thinking about workarounds. One idea I'm currently pursuing is to preventively prune every volume

Re: [Bacula-users] Command on media change request from SD

2008-10-13 Thread Adrian Moisey
Hi 13-Oct 14:08 lexington-dir JobId 109: Start Backup JobId 109, Job=Lexington_Dayly.2008-10-13_14.08.03 13-Oct 14:08 lexington-dir JobId 109: Using Device IOMEGA-REV-DISK 13-Oct 14:08 lexington-sd JobId 109: Please mount Volume TAG-4 or label a new one for: Job:

Re: [Bacula-users] aximum size for LTO4

2008-10-13 Thread Chris Howells
Richerland Medeiros wrote: Hi everyone ! How do I use the default compression hardware native of LTO4? I believe this down to your drive, not bacula, so you should check the documentation for the drive. I have 1.4 TB of data and the tape is full when it comes to 900GB. As the uncompressed

Re: [Bacula-users] aximum size for LTO4

2008-10-13 Thread Simon Gray
Richerland Medeiros wrote: Hi everyone ! How do I use the default compression hardware native of LTO4? I have 1.4 TB of data and the tape is full when it comes to 900GB. LTO4 tapes are 800gb. If you're already getting 900gb out of a tape, you may find that you're already using compression -

Re: [Bacula-users] aximum size for LTO4

2008-10-13 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Richerland Medeiros wrote: How do I use the default compression hardware native of LTO4? I have 1.4 TB of data and the tape is full when it comes to 900GB. You are using the default compression already, else it would be full at ~795Gb Compression only works on

[Bacula-users] aximum size for LTO4

2008-10-13 Thread Richerland Medeiros
Hi everyone ! How do I use the default compression hardware native of LTO4? I have 1.4 TB of data and the tape is full when it comes to 900GB. Sorry for my bad English. Thank you. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the

Re: [Bacula-users] filesystem for disk backups

2008-10-13 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 13.10.2008 11:01, Lucio Crusca wrote: Hello *, I'm about to configure Bacula 2.4.2 on a Debian Lenny server. It will backup on external usb disks (500GB each, the full backup is 60GB more or less). What's the best choice for the filesystem? A question you can discuss forever :-) or

[Bacula-users] label header problem.

2008-10-13 Thread Marco Lertora
Hi all, I have to recover some files from a tape but, after loading the tape, bacula cannot mount it. Opening the device with hexer I find in beginning of tape a session/jobs headers but no volume header this is the output of strings command with device in position 0: BB02 4Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Catalog backup retention

2008-10-13 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Radek Hladik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to ask how should I recycle catalog backups. I am using disk based storage and catalog pool is by default set to half-year or so long retention period. I would think, that week would be more than

Re: [Bacula-users] Deleting from disk based pool

2008-10-13 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Radek Hladik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm backing to disk based storage, every volume has maximum count set to one job, so every pool has one file per job. Each pool is configured with recycle period and volume count so it can hold just enough

Re: [Bacula-users] Deleting from disk based pool

2008-10-13 Thread Radek Hladik
John Drescher napsal(a): On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Radek Hladik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm backing to disk based storage, every volume has maximum count set to one job, so every pool has one file per job. Each pool is configured with recycle period and volume count so it

Re: [Bacula-users] Catalog backup retention

2008-10-13 Thread Radek Hladik
John Drescher napsal(a): On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Radek Hladik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to ask how should I recycle catalog backups. I am using disk based storage and catalog pool is by default set to half-year or so long retention period. I would think, that

[Bacula-users] (no subject)

2008-10-13 Thread Richerland Medeiros
Hi everyone ! How do I use the default compression hardware native of LTO4? I have 1.4 TB of data and the tape is full when it comes to 900GB. Sorry for my bad English. Thank you. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the

Re: [Bacula-users] Catalog backup retention

2008-10-13 Thread Radek Hladik
John Drescher napsal(a): I have no problem with backing up catalog on other server with less expensive storage space. But I do not see any use of old catalog backups at all. I would do bscan into new catalog in all cases except the one, where I have catalog backup newer than last data backed

[Bacula-users] filesystem for disk backups

2008-10-13 Thread Lucio Crusca
Hello *, I'm about to configure Bacula 2.4.2 on a Debian Lenny server. It will backup on external usb disks (500GB each, the full backup is 60GB more or less). What's the best choice for the filesystem? Is there one that maximizes available space? Can I just give bacula the whole partition

Re: [Bacula-users] Deleting from disk based pool

2008-10-13 Thread John Drescher
However I need sometimes to delete some older backups by hand, because of low disk space, or because we sometimes manually run the backup and it breaks the schema (the last backup is not old enough to be recycled). I would like to ask whether there is a possibility to manually recycle

Re: [Bacula-users] Catalog backup retention

2008-10-13 Thread John Drescher
I have no problem with backing up catalog on other server with less expensive storage space. But I do not see any use of old catalog backups at all. I would do bscan into new catalog in all cases except the one, where I have catalog backup newer than last data backed up and I need to recover

Re: [Bacula-users] automatically pruning the loaded volume

2008-10-13 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I would strongly recommend not pursuing workarounds. This part of the software works just fine. I believe if your retention settings are correct, the pruning will happen by itself after a mount, and if they aren't no amount of manual pruning will save

[Bacula-users] Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for..

2008-10-13 Thread subbustrato
When i try to connect bconsole to storage data i have this replay: Device FileStorage (/media/sdb1/bacula) is not open. Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for: Pool:Default Media type: File What does it means??

Re: [Bacula-users] Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for..

2008-10-13 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 13.10.2008 22:38, subbustrato wrote: When i try to connect bconsole to storage data i have this replay: Device FileStorage (/media/sdb1/bacula) is not open. Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for: Pool:Default Media type: File What does it

Re: [Bacula-users] Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a vo lume for..

2008-10-13 Thread subbustrato
Arno Lehmann al at its-lehmann.de writes: Hi, 13.10.2008 22:38, subbustrato wrote: When i try to connect bconsole to storage data i have this replay: Device FileStorage (/media/sdb1/bacula) is not open. Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for: Pool:

Re: [Bacula-users] Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for..

2008-10-13 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 13.10.2008 23:32, subbustrato wrote: Arno Lehmann al at its-lehmann.de writes: Hi, 13.10.2008 22:38, subbustrato wrote: When i try to connect bconsole to storage data i have this replay: Device FileStorage (/media/sdb1/bacula) is not open. Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a

[Bacula-users] waiting on max storage jobs

2008-10-13 Thread Dave Poirier
Brand spankin new to Bacula... I like what I see so far. I googled and looked through the archives and couldn't find anything helpful. Anyway, I have a autochanger with 4 AIT-3 drives but it seems if I start multiple jobs it will only run one job on the first drive and any job after will sit with

Re: [Bacula-users] waiting on max storage jobs

2008-10-13 Thread Dan Langille
Dave Poirier wrote: Brand spankin new to Bacula... I like what I see so far. I googled and looked through the archives and couldn't find anything helpful. Anyway, I have a autochanger with 4 AIT-3 drives but it seems if I start multiple jobs it will only run one job on the first drive and

Re: [Bacula-users] Alert: TapeAlert[25]:Undefined.

2008-10-13 Thread Danz Aurora
Hi Arno: As you actually get TapeAlterts regarding the SCSI interfaces, I would recommend trying a different cable and terminator anyway. Firstly, sorry for late replies. I was busy with other stuffs. I've asked for an exchange of the cable and terminator, the problem still doesn't seem to go