[Bacula-users] volume recycling

2011-09-01 Thread Alexandre Chapellon
Hello, I am using bacula 5.0.2 as delivered by Debian packaging system. This morning I have jobs hanged due to no appendable volume in the pool. the job and file retention for the jobs are both of 1 month. The Volume retention for all volumes in the

[Bacula-users] Questions about spooling

2011-09-01 Thread frank_sg
Hi, I am doing some tests about spooling. I have created a spool filesystem for testing purposes. I decided to try a quiet small one - just 10 GB. Well, I get an ugly perfomance (10MB/s) with this one. So I assume that the spool file system is too small - is this assumption right? To get a

Re: [Bacula-users] volume recycling

2011-09-01 Thread Alexandre Chapellon
Auto reply :) It appears I had orphaned jobs, jobmedia, file,filename and pathes in my catalog. I used dbcheck to get rid of all of them. The volume got pruned and recycled properly afterwards. Regards. Le 01/09/2011 08:38, Alexandre

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about spooling

2011-09-01 Thread Alexandre Chapellon
I have no answer sorry, just more questions :) How do you measure the performance? Does the 10MB/s comes from the bacula job report? regards. Le 01/09/2011 11:36, frank_sg a crit: Hi, I am doing some tests about spooling. I have

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about spooling

2011-09-01 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 01/09/2011 11:36, frank_sg ha scritto: Hi, I am doing some tests about spooling. I have created a spool filesystem for testing purposes. I decided to try a quiet small one - just 10 GB. Well, I get an ugly perfomance (10MB/s) with this one. So I assume that the spool file system is too

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about spooling

2011-09-01 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 01/09/2011 11:36, frank_sg ha scritto: Hi, I am doing some tests about spooling. I have created a spool filesystem for testing purposes. I decided to try a quiet small one - just 10 GB. Well, I get an ugly perfomance (10MB/s) with this one. So I assume that the spool file system is too

[Bacula-users] Questions about spooling

2011-09-01 Thread frank_sg
Thanks fpr replying. @Alexandre: Yes, exactly, the 10MB/s (average) come from bacula job report. @Marcello: No - very time the spool fs is full (or the maximum spool size per job etc.) is reached the spool fs is despooled to tape. And that is where I hope to get the advantage from: despooling

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about spooling

2011-09-01 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 01/09/2011 13:38, frank_sg ha scritto: Thanks fpr replying. @Alexandre: Yes, exactly, the 10MB/s (average) come from bacula job report. @Marcello: No - very time the spool fs is full (or the maximum spool size per job etc.) is reached the spool fs is despooled to tape. And that is where

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about spooling

2011-09-01 Thread John Drescher
I am doing some tests about spooling. I have created a spool filesystem for testing purposes. I decided to try a quiet small one - just 10 GB. Well, I get an ugly perfomance (10MB/s) with this one. So I assume that the spool file system is too small - is this assumption right? Remember

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about spooling

2011-09-01 Thread Alexandre Chapellon
Le 01/09/2011 13:38, frank_sg a écrit : Thanks fpr replying. @Alexandre: Yes, exactly, the 10MB/s (average) come from bacula job report. At least in my reports the speed shown is the amount of data transferred divided by the amount of time to complete the job. For example I had a job which

Re: [Bacula-users] volume recycling

2011-09-01 Thread John Drescher
2011/9/1 Alexandre Chapellon a.chapel...@horoa.net Hello, I am using bacula 5.0.2 as delivered by Debian packaging system. This morning I have jobs hanged due to no appendable volume in the pool. the job and file retention for the jobs are both of 1 month. The Volume retention for all

Re: [Bacula-users] volume recycling

2011-09-01 Thread Alexandre Chapellon
Le 01/09/2011 14:33, John Drescher a écrit : 2011/9/1 Alexandre Chapellon a.chapel...@horoa.net mailto:a.chapel...@horoa.net Hello, I am using bacula 5.0.2 as delivered by Debian packaging system. This morning I have jobs hanged due to no appendable volume in the pool.

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about spooling

2011-09-01 Thread Adrian Reyer
On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 02:36:08AM -0700, frank_sg wrote: To get a bigger spool fs, there might be some options: 1) What is better: bigger spool fs or faster spool fs? So first option: 3,6 TB RAID0 with 12 SAS disks direct attatched vs second option: 2 or 3 120 GB SSDs? 2) Does it make any

[Bacula-users] Who is right about the tape size: Bacula or the tapeloader??

2011-09-01 Thread Stefan Michael Guenther
Hi, we are using a Tandberg autchanger with eight LTO3 tapes, which could save 400/800 GB of data. Herre is the definition of the device in bacula-sd.conf: Device { Name = Drive-1 Media Type = Ultrium-LTO3 Archive Device = /dev/st0 AutomaticMount = yes; AlwaysOpen =

Re: [Bacula-users] Who is right about the tape size: Bacula or the tapeloader??

2011-09-01 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Stefan Michael Guenther s.guent...@in-put.de wrote: Hi, we are using a Tandberg autchanger with eight LTO3 tapes, which could save 400/800 GB of data. Herre is the definition of the device in bacula-sd.conf: Device {  Name = Drive-1  Media Type =

Re: [Bacula-users] Who is right about the tape size: Bacula or the tapeloader??

2011-09-01 Thread François Cabelguen
Hi, I think this setting is not good Media Type = Ultrium-LTO3. I have this in my setup: Media Type = LTO-3. Below is my configuration of my SD: Autochanger { Name = Dell-PV124T Device = ULTRIUM-TD3 Changer Command =

Re: [Bacula-users] Who is right about the tape size: Bacula or the tapeloader??

2011-09-01 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:28 AM, François Cabelguen fcabelg...@adeuza.com wrote: Hi, I think this setting is not good  Media Type = Ultrium-LTO3. I have this in my setup: Media Type = LTO-3. Bacula does not care what you have for these as long as they match. You could put dog or cat in them

Re: [Bacula-users] Who is right about the tape size: Bacula or the tapeloader??

2011-09-01 Thread Jeremy Maes
Op 1/09/2011 16:28, François Cabelguen schreef: Hi, I think this setting is not good Media Type = Ultrium-LTO3. I have this in my setup: Media Type = LTO-3. Media type is irrelevant, and you can choose any value for it. If I were to call my LTO-3 tapes Grey Bricks then bacula would happily

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about spooling

2011-09-01 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:09:36 +0200, The pithy ruminations from Marcello Romani on Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about spooling were: = Il 01/09/2011 13:38, frank_sg ha scritto: = Thanks fpr replying. = = @Alexandre: Yes, exactly, the 10MB/s (average) come from bacula job =

Re: [Bacula-users] Who is right about the tape size: Bacula or the tapeloader??

2011-09-01 Thread Stefan Michael Guenther
Hi, you do not impose a limit on how many bytes that bacula can write to a tape bacula will write as many bytes as it can up until it hits the first tape write error. At this point bacula assumes the tape is full. Check your dmesg to see if there are any problems. Also try a brand new LTO3

Re: [Bacula-users] Who is right about the tape size: Bacula or the tapeloader??

2011-09-01 Thread Alan Brown
Stefan Michael Guenther wrote: Hi, you do not impose a limit on how many bytes that bacula can write to a tape bacula will write as many bytes as it can up until it hits the first tape write error. At this point bacula assumes the tape is full. Check your dmesg to see if there are any

[Bacula-users] SD Problem

2011-09-01 Thread Ignacio Cardona
Dear all, little by little I'm starting to understand bacula's working way . I need someone to help me with this issue. Thanks in advance to all of you. 01-Sep 12:03 li253-251-dir JobId 14: No prior Full backup Job record found. 01-Sep 12:03 li253-251-dir JobId 14: No prior or

Re: [Bacula-users] Who is right about the tape size: Bacula or the tapeloader??

2011-09-01 Thread Stefan Michael Guenther
Hi Alan, THANKS for the long list of suggestions! It will check this during the next days and hopefully send positive results to the list. Stefan -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- An: Stefan Michael Guenther s.guent...@in-put.de; CC: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com;

Re: [Bacula-users] SD Problem

2011-09-01 Thread Stefan Michael Guenther
Storage daemon didn't accept Device FileStorage because: 3924 Device FileStorage not in SD Device resources. does your /etc/bacula-sd.conf has something like this in it: Device { Name = FileStorage Media Type = File Archive Device = /some-dir LabelMedia = yes;

Re: [Bacula-users] SD Problem

2011-09-01 Thread John Drescher
Storage daemon didn't accept Device FileStorage because: 3924 Device FileStorage not in SD Device resources. Do you have a Device called FileStorage in your bacula-sd.conf? John -- Special Offer -- Download

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about spooling

2011-09-01 Thread Adrian Reyer
On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 11:06:47AM -0400, mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu wrote: [A], while it should be close to [B]. The reason for the decrease in performance is that bacula stops all spooling as soon as it starts de-spooling. In an ideal configuration,

[Bacula-users] My backup schedule overlaps. Can it be fixed?

2011-09-01 Thread Dan Schaefer
In English, I want to do a full backup on the 1st and the 16th of every month. I also want to do a differential backup every Sunday and an Incremental Monday-Saturday. Here is my config: Run = Level=Full Pool=Full-Pool Developer-PC on 1,16 at 0:05 Run = Level=Differential

Re: [Bacula-users] My backup schedule overlaps. Can it be fixed?

2011-09-01 Thread Eric Pratt
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Dan Schaefer d...@performanceadmin.com wrote: In English, I want to do a full backup on the 1st and the 16th of every month. I also want to do a differential backup every Sunday and an Incremental Monday-Saturday. Here is my config:         Run = Level=Full