[Bacula-users] I can't 'truncate' volumes - several questions

2010-08-12 Thread Carlo Filippetto
I all, I work with bacula since more than 1 year.. but I start have some doubt I upgrade my backup software only to have the ability to truncate the volumes automatically, now I'm running 5.0.2 - I have this Pool: Pool { Name = P-daily Maximum Volume

[Bacula-users] suggestion to have a different file retention period for verify jobs

2010-08-12 Thread Marcel Gsteiger
Hi all I have a problem with bacula deleting files from verify initdb jobs (i am using version 5.0.2-1 on CentOS 5.5 x86_64). AFAIK, the file retention period can only be defined on the client resource. Moreover, bacula strictly purges all database entries after the retention period has

[Bacula-users] Mounting storage before job start

2010-08-12 Thread Felix Brack
Hello, On Bacula 5.0.2 I would like to mount the storage before a backup job starts in case it was unmounted by 'umount' before. I added the following to the backup job: RunScript { RunsWhen = Before Command = echo 'mount storage=kvm1-sd' | /usr/bin/bconsole } However this does not

[Bacula-users] Job Def for multiple job levels not working

2010-08-12 Thread Romer Ventura
Hello, I am trying to have 1Job definition and have it run Full, Incremental and Differential backups to different media depending on the schedule set, but i cant get it to work. What i want to do is do full backups 1st sunday of every month and write it to tape, then do incremental

[Bacula-users] Bacula backups are painfully slow

2010-08-12 Thread Matt Schraeder
I got my first backup jobs running on Bacula, and while they appear to be working, they are extremely slow. The client is reporting only a 200-600 KB/s rate. Automatically selected Client: mort-fd mort-fd Version: 5.0.2 (28 April 2010) i686-pc-linux-gnu suse 10 Daemon started 12-Aug-10

Re: [Bacula-users] Installing Bacula on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5.5 (Tikanga)

2010-08-12 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
Daniel Bareiro wrote: Indeed, I'm using CentOS 5.5 amd64. I was not doing the installation with RPM packages, but compile the source code obtained at the official site of Bacula. On sunday, doing tests comparing with the installation done with packages RPM, I realized that the difference was

Re: [Bacula-users] Job Def for multiple job levels not working

2010-08-12 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 08/12/10 10:03, Romer Ventura wrote: Hello, I am trying to have 1Job definition and have it run Full, Incremental and Differential backups to different media depending on the schedule set, but i cant get it to work. What i want to do is do full backups 1st sunday of every month and write

[Bacula-users] Windows Server Compilation,

2010-08-12 Thread Heitor Medrado de Faria
Guys - A client asked me to install Bacula Server on Windows. However, Im having trouble compiling it on ubuntu 8.04. Here is the error: ompiling /home/01380248558/bacula-5.0.2/src/lib/workq.c Compiling /home/01380248558/bacula-5.0.2/src/lib/lockmgr.c Linking

Re: [Bacula-users] Job Def for multiple job levels not working

2010-08-12 Thread Romer Ventura
After the changes, i try to restart bacula and it complaints about No storage for job: # /etc/init.d/bacula-director restart Stopping Bacula Director...:. Starting Bacula Director...:12-Aug 13:16 bacula-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: No storage specified in Job H34-FileServ-dsk-tap nor in Pool.

Re: [Bacula-users] Job Def for multiple job levels not working

2010-08-12 Thread Romer Ventura
Sorry, i just realized that i can define storage in the pools.. I'll give this a shot and see how it works. Thanks -- Romer Ventura On Aug 12, 2010, at 12:44 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 08/12/10 10:03, Romer Ventura wrote: Hello, I am trying to have 1Job definition and have it run

[Bacula-users] New tape on the 1st of every month

2010-08-12 Thread Lamp Zy
Hi all, How do I configure Bacula to use a new set of tapes for each month? I'm trying to configure Bacula to not use tapes across months. This way for each month I'll have a set of tapes that I can send off-side. For example on the 1st of February all tapes that were used in January should

Re: [Bacula-users] Network performance

2010-08-12 Thread Bruno Friedmann
On 08/10/2010 04:13 PM, Hugo Silva wrote: Hello, I'm backing up a server in Germany from a director in The Netherlands. Using bacula, I can't seem to get past ~3000KB/s. Here's an iperf result: [ 3] local [fd-addr] port 16625 connected with [dir-addr] port 5001 [ ID] Interval

Re: [Bacula-users] New tape on the 1st of every month

2010-08-12 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Lamp Zy lam...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, How do I configure Bacula to use a new set of tapes for each month? I'm trying to configure Bacula to not use tapes across months. This way for each month I'll have a set of tapes that I can send off-side. For example

Re: [Bacula-users] Mounting storage before job start

2010-08-12 Thread Chris Shelton
Felix, On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Felix Brack f...@ltec.ch wrote: On Bacula 5.0.2 I would like to mount the storage before a backup job starts in case it was unmounted by 'umount' before. The following works fairly well for me, as an Admin job that is scheduled to start 5 minutes

Re: [Bacula-users] Installing Bacula on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5.5 (Tikanga)

2010-08-12 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Indeed, I'm using CentOS 5.5 amd64. I was not doing the installation with RPM packages, but compile the source code obtained at the official site of Bacula. On sunday, doing tests comparing with the installation done with packages RPM, I realized that the difference was in which the libraries

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows Server Compilation,

2010-08-12 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: A client asked me to install Bacula Server on Windows. However, Im having trouble compiling it on ubuntu 8.04. Here is the error: /snip Any Idea? In the very same place you fetched the source, fetch the

[Bacula-users] new bacula installation

2010-08-12 Thread Jeremiah D. Jester
I'm setting up bacula on a new machine with a new Dell LT04 autoloader. The device appears to be registering with linux (rhel 5.5). All fd,sd and dir daemons are running. [r...@scrappy bacula]# dmesg | grep tape st 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi tape st0 However I get a no slots in changer error when

Re: [Bacula-users] new bacula installation

2010-08-12 Thread John Drescher
2010/8/12 Jeremiah D. Jester jj...@u.washington.edu: I’m setting up bacula on a new machine with a new Dell LT04 autoloader. The device appears to be registering with linux (rhel 5.5). All fd,sd and dir daemons are running. [r...@scrappy bacula]# dmesg | grep tape st 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi

Re: [Bacula-users] new bacula installation

2010-08-12 Thread Jeremiah D. Jester
John, You are correct. The device wasn't 'sg0' but rather 'sg1'. I made the change in bacula-sd.conf, restarted daemons but still ran into the same problem. Other ideas? [r...@scrappy bacula]# tapeinfo -f /dev/sg1 | head -5 Product Type: Tape Drive Vendor ID: 'IBM ' Product ID:

Re: [Bacula-users] new bacula installation

2010-08-12 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Jeremiah D. Jester jj...@u.washington.edu wrote: John, You are correct. The device wasn't 'sg0' but rather 'sg1'. I made the change in bacula-sd.conf, restarted daemons but still ran into the same problem. Other ideas? [r...@scrappy bacula]# tapeinfo -f

Re: [Bacula-users] new bacula installation

2010-08-12 Thread Jeremiah D. Jester
I'm confused. The tapeinfo output for /dev/sg1 says it is a 'Tape Drive' and of type 'TD4' or LT04, the new supported capacity. Sg0 is the hard drive. I get no output for devices sg3-sg10. Please explain. Thanks. [r...@scrappy bacula]# tapeinfo -f /dev/sg1 Product Type: Tape Drive Vendor ID:

Re: [Bacula-users] new bacula installation

2010-08-12 Thread Craig Miskell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeremiah D. Jester wrote: John, You are correct. The device wasn't 'sg0' but rather 'sg1'. I made the change in bacula-sd.conf, restarted daemons but still ran into the same problem. Other ideas? [r...@scrappy bacula]# tapeinfo -f /dev/sg1

Re: [Bacula-users] new bacula installation

2010-08-12 Thread John Drescher
I'm confused. The tapeinfo output for /dev/sg1 says it is a 'Tape Drive' and of type 'TD4' or LT04, the new supported capacity. Sg0 is the hard drive. I get no output for devices sg3-sg10.  Please explain. Thanks. There should be a separate device for each tape drive and each autochanger.

Re: [Bacula-users] new bacula installation

2010-08-12 Thread Richard Scobie
Jeremiah D. Jester wrote: I'm confused. The tapeinfo output for /dev/sg1 says it is a 'Tape Drive' and of type 'TD4' or LT04, the new supported capacity. Sg0 is the hard drive. I get no output for devices sg3-sg10. Please explain. What is the output of: cat /proc/scsi/sg/device_strs On my

Re: [Bacula-users] new bacula installation

2010-08-12 Thread Jeremiah D. Jester
Looks like mine is /dev/sg2. Thanks for sharing that command. [r...@scrappy bacula]# cat /proc/scsi/sg/device_strs ATA WDC WD5000BEVT-001.0 IBM ULTRIUM-TD4 97F0 DELLPV-124T 0075 -Original Message- From: Richard

Re: [Bacula-users] new bacula installation

2010-08-12 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 12/08/10, Jeremiah D. Jester (jj...@u.washington.edu) wrote: I'm setting up bacula on a new machine with a new Dell LT04 autoloader. The device appears to be registering with linux (rhel 5.5). All fd,sd and dir daemons are running. I have exactly the same LT04 autoloader. # lsscsi -g

[Bacula-users] is anyone successfully using MaxConcurrentJobs=1 on a Disk device?

2010-08-12 Thread Joseph Dickson
Greetings.. Is anyone out there successfully backing up many concurrent jobs using Disk autochangers, with MaxConcurrentJobs set to 1 for each drive device? I've been encountering a lot of concurrency bugs in the SD code that I think is preventing me from doing this successfully, and I just

Re: [Bacula-users] Network performance

2010-08-12 Thread Hugo Silva
Bruno Friedmann wrote: On 08/10/2010 04:13 PM, Hugo Silva wrote: Hello, I'm backing up a server in Germany from a director in The Netherlands. Using bacula, I can't seem to get past ~3000KB/s. Here's an iperf result: [ 3] local [fd-addr] port 16625 connected with [dir-addr] port 5001 [

Re: [Bacula-users] new bacula installation

2010-08-12 Thread Jeremiah D. Jester
A reboot helped. This shows the exact model as /dev/sg2. Now I need to identify the tape drives! :) [r...@scrappy ~]# tapeinfo -f /dev/sg2 Product Type: Medium Changer Vendor ID: 'DELL' Product ID: 'PV-124T ' Revision: '0075' Attached Changer: No SerialNumber: 'CK0DB40999' SCSI ID:

Re: [Bacula-users] new bacula installation

2010-08-12 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Jeremiah D. Jester jj...@u.washington.edu wrote: A reboot helped. This shows the exact model as /dev/sg2. Now I need to identify the tape drives! :) [r...@scrappy ~]# tapeinfo -f /dev/sg2 Product Type: Medium Changer Vendor ID: 'DELL    ' Product ID:

Re: [Bacula-users] new bacula installation

2010-08-12 Thread Jeremiah D. Jester
Also curious that I cannot mount a tape on /dev/nst0 even though nothing is mounted. JJ *unmount The defined Storage resources are: 1: File 2: Tape Select Storage resource (1-2): 2 Enter autochanger drive[0]: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0 command. 3302 Autochanger loaded?

[Bacula-users] Dell PV-124T with Ultrium TD4, Hardware or Software compression?

2010-08-12 Thread Mike Hanby
Howdy, I'm curious whether others with the PV-124T with LTO4 are using hardware or software compression. I am testing a new Bacula deployment with one of these autoloaders / drives and haven't found a good suggestion as to which type of compression to go with. Thanks, Mike

Re: [Bacula-users] new bacula installation

2010-08-12 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 12/08/10, Jeremiah D. Jester (jj...@u.washington.edu) wrote: Am I correct that the 124t has two drives? I loaded 16 tapes and configured them as Drive1 (/dev/nst0) and Drive2 (/dev/nst1) but am only showing 8 tapes regardless of the Drive number I specify. Any ideas? You can see the

Re: [Bacula-users] new bacula installation

2010-08-12 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 12/08/10, Jeremiah D. Jester (jj...@u.washington.edu) wrote: Also curious that I cannot mount a tape on /dev/nst0 even though nothing is mounted. ... 3902 Cannot mount Volume on Storage Device Drive1 (/dev/nst0) because: Requested Volume on Drive1 (/dev/nst0) is not a Bacula labeled

Re: [Bacula-users] Dell PV-124T with Ultrium TD4, Hardware or Software compression?

2010-08-12 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 12/08/10, Mike Hanby (mha...@uab.edu) wrote: I'm curious whether others with the PV-124T with LTO4 are using hardware or software compression. I am testing a new Bacula deployment with one of these autoloaders / drives and haven't found a good suggestion as to which type of compression

Re: [Bacula-users] Dell PV-124T with Ultrium TD4, Hardware or Software compression?

2010-08-12 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Mike Hanby mha...@uab.edu wrote: Howdy, I'm curious whether others with the PV-124T with LTO4 are using hardware or software compression. I am testing a new Bacula deployment with one of these autoloaders / drives and haven't found a good suggestion as to

Re: [Bacula-users] Dell PV-124T with Ultrium TD4, Hardware or Software compression?

2010-08-12 Thread Craig White
On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 17:59 -0500, Mike Hanby wrote: Howdy, I'm curious whether others with the PV-124T with LTO4 are using hardware or software compression. I am testing a new Bacula deployment with one of these autoloaders / drives and haven't found a good suggestion as to which type