Re: [Bacula-users] Schedule question

2009-10-05 Thread Christian Gaul
Jeff Palmer schrieb: Schedule { Name = MonthlyCycle Run = Full on 1 at 21:05 Run = Differential on fri at 23:05 Run = Incremental sat-thu at 23:05 } Bacula schedules are not exclusive, if you define a Full on the 1st and a Differential on fridays, then you will get a Full

Re: [Bacula-users] duplicate job control

2009-10-05 Thread Silver Salonen
On Friday 31 July 2009 11:41:29 Bram Vandoren wrote: Dear All, Bacula (3.0.2) is configured to make daily backups of some systems. Full backups unfortunately take more then one day to complete and I want to avoid that duplicate jobs start (or are queued) before the full backup is completed.

Re: [Bacula-users] How to prevent to schedule a job if the same job is still running

2009-10-05 Thread Silver Salonen
I now discovered a downside of this: cancelled duplicate jobs cause the level to be ran again if Rerun Failed Levels = yes. And we're back where we started. Frustrating, hysterically funny, depressing. Does it seem like a bug to anyone? I guess I'll have to keep using my check-job.sh script.

Re: [Bacula-users] Wait time confusion

2009-10-05 Thread ebollengier
Hello, Perhaps this picture can help you to understand differents MaxTime directives http://www.bacula.org/3.0.x-manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features_in_3_0_0.html#SECTION0042414000 Bye Joseph L. Casale wrote: I have a job that runs either fulls or diffs, sometimes when

[Bacula-users] Full Backup Pool and Pool in scheduler

2009-10-05 Thread Peter Allgeyer
Hi, the Full Backup Pool in the job resource overrides any Pool definition in the schedule resource. I want to make daily incremental backup with exception of two full backups in one week. Every two weeks there should be a full backup on a seperate bank pool (for tapes goimng outside the

Re: [Bacula-users] Full Backup Pool and Pool in scheduler

2009-10-05 Thread Nicolae Mihalache
You can also use Full Pool in the schedule which should override the Full Backup Pool in the Job definition. nicolae Peter Allgeyer wrote: Hi, the Full Backup Pool in the job resource overrides any Pool definition in the schedule resource. I want to make daily incremental backup with

Re: [Bacula-users] duplicate job control

2009-10-05 Thread Nicolae Mihalache
Well, the manual reads like this: Allow Higher Duplicates = yes|no If this directive is set to *yes* (default) the job with a higher priority (lower priority number) will be permitted to run. If the priorities of the two jobs are the same, the outcome is determined by other directives (see

Re: [Bacula-users] duplicate job control

2009-10-05 Thread Silver Salonen
Ah yes, it really is *yes* by default according to manual, but actually that's not the case. I've read it multiple times, but I've always misread it :) -- Silver On Monday 05 October 2009 13:45:11 Nicolae Mihalache wrote: Well, the manual reads like this: Allow Higher Duplicates =

[Bacula-users] [FEATURE REQUEST] convert two full backups to one full and one reverse incremental (or decremental?)

2009-10-05 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, following up on the previous discussion, below is a feature request form. http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-de...@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04962.html Any comments welcome, Gavin - Item n: Implement a Migration

Re: [Bacula-users] Unchanged files still saved in incremental backup

2009-10-05 Thread le dahut
The problem occurred after a while, here's an history that illustrates what's happening : 09/14: Backup Level: Full FD Files Written: 6,489 on 09/15 and 09/16: Backup Level: Incremental, since=2009-09-15 23:00:15 FD Files Written: 50 09/17: Backup Level:

Re: [Bacula-users] Unchanged files still saved in incremental backup

2009-10-05 Thread Guillaume_h
le dahut a crit: The problem occurred after a while, here's an history that illustrates what's happening : 09/14: Backup Level: Full FD Files Written: 6,489 on 09/15 and 09/16: Backup Level: Incremental, since=2009-09-15 23:00:15 FD Files Written: 50

Re: [Bacula-users] Unchanged files still saved in incremental backup

2009-10-05 Thread Kevin Keane
Bacula uses the file date to determine which files have changed. So a file with a future file date would be backed up by each incremental backup. Since you say that your file was NOT backed up on 9/15 and 9/16, my guess is that some application may be opening the file for writing without

[Bacula-users] Bacula performance so slow ???

2009-10-05 Thread Klaus Troeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, i did a clean setup of bacula on a Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.60GHz, 3 GB Memory, Intel raid controller forming 5 internal 72 GB-320/10k SCSI LVD drives to a raid 5 array, where everything is on. My Quantum M1500 LTO-3 loader is connected via SCSI

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula performance so slow ???

2009-10-05 Thread John Drescher
Physical drive performance is 28sec for 1 Gigabyte, so ~35MB/sec [r...@denbvsbcks1 disk1]# dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=100 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 102400 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 79.907 s, 12.8 MB/s I am confused. This looks horribly slow. I would

[Bacula-users] Copy Jobs.

2009-10-05 Thread Pedro Bordin Hoffmann
Im using the new function of Bacula Copy jobs... but Im getting this when I run the job: What can be that ? How to fix? thanks 05-Out 11:34 bacula.belgamatrizes.com.br-d JobId 429: No JobIds found to copy. 05-Out 11:34 bacula.belgamatrizes.com.br-d JobId 429: Bacula

[Bacula-users] Note: bacula 3.x fd is not compatible with 2.0.2 director

2009-10-05 Thread Jari Fredriksson
I have bacula 2.0.2 in my bacula server, because it has a working DVD code. That version is not officially supported any more I guess. I had clients of version 2.4.4 in Windows and Debian, and now Debian backports delivered 3.0.2 fd to one of my Debian clients. The fd no more accepted Hello

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem - All Media records for Volumes are missing!

2009-10-05 Thread Mingus Dew
Yes. I'd quite forgotten about that. Do recall reading it in Changelog or Readme... Thanks, Shon On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:32 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Christian Gaul christian.g...@otop.de wrote: Mingus Dew schrieb: Enter *MediaId or

[Bacula-users] Need help w/ Volume Status Error

2009-10-05 Thread Mingus Dew
All, Using Bacula 3.0.2 on Solaris 10_x86. I have a question regarding how to properly recover tapes from a status of Error. I also have some questions on reassigning tapes from one Storage Pool to a different Pool. I am not sure how this status came to be, but I currently have a few tapes

Re: [Bacula-users] Need help w/ Volume Status Error

2009-10-05 Thread Jari Fredriksson
All, Using Bacula 3.0.2 on Solaris 10_x86. I have a question regarding how to properly recover tapes from a status of Error. I also have some questions on reassigning tapes from one Storage Pool to a different Pool. I am not sure how this status came to be, but I currently have

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula performance so slow ???

2009-10-05 Thread Klaus Troeger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, o.k., if my following estimation is true, you are right. p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } 5-Oct 18:22 denbvsbcks1-sd JobId 3: Job write elapsed time = 00:09:13, Transfer rate = 5.881 M bytes/second 05-Oct 18:22 denbvsbcks1-sd JobId 3:

Re: [Bacula-users] 2 issues that driving me nuts

2009-10-05 Thread Bob Hetzel
hey fellas, have been using bacula for over 4 years now, great neat powerful! i come across two issues with bacula, that i think can be taken care of on bacula level, which are not implemented yet (or i am not aware of them): 1. using a tape library, sometimes issue arise when bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] 2 issues that driving me nuts

2009-10-05 Thread Kiryl Hakhovich
Bob thanks for your input... On 10/05/2009 01:26 PM, Bob Hetzel wrote: hey fellas, have been using bacula for over 4 years now, great neat powerful! i come across two issues with bacula, that i think can be taken care of on bacula level, which are not implemented yet (or i am not aware

Re: [Bacula-users] 2 issues that driving me nuts

2009-10-05 Thread Kiryl Hakhovich
On 10/05/2009 01:31 PM, Kiryl Hakhovich wrote: Bob thanks for your input... On 10/05/2009 01:26 PM, Bob Hetzel wrote: hey fellas, have been using bacula for over 4 years now, great neat powerful! i come across two issues with bacula, that i think can be taken care of on bacula

[Bacula-users] Error with DR backups

2009-10-05 Thread DAve
Good afternoon. I am having a recurring issue with a backup that is configured for DR purposes. The client purchased a fixed amount of space and wants to overwrite the volumes each night. They have a local backup system in place and we are using Bacula to get those backups offsite for the

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula performance so slow ???

2009-10-05 Thread Cedric Tefft
Klaus Troeger wrote: Does it mean, that the spooling to disk was at avarage of 6 MB/sec, and the writing to tape reached the 35 MB/sec It does appear that way. Are you using encryption and/or (software) compression? Both slow down the spooling process, though by how much I don't know. If

Re: [Bacula-users] Unchanged files still saved in incremental backup

2009-10-05 Thread Guillaume_h
Kevin Keane a écrit : Bacula uses the file date to determine which files have changed. So a file with a future file date would be backed up by each incremental backup. Since you say that your file was NOT backed up on 9/15 and 9/16, my guess is that some application may be opening the file

Re: [Bacula-users] Unchanged files still saved in incremental backup

2009-10-05 Thread Cedric Tefft
Guillaume_h wrote: Kevin Keane a écrit : Bacula uses the file date to determine which files have changed. So a file with a future file date would be backed up by each incremental backup. Since you say that your file was NOT backed up on 9/15 and 9/16, my guess is that some

[Bacula-users] Changed behavior in 3.0.x?

2009-10-05 Thread Robert LeBlanc
I've upgraded to 3.0.2 from 2.4.x and now it seems when spooling job, that when the SD is despooling, no other jobs will spool until it is finished despooling. I had a very large job running and it started despooling, I was adding a new client with some client run before scripts, so I was testing