Re: [Bacula-users] How to get free hard disk space back ?

2012-04-19 Thread Jerome Alet
Hi, On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 05:30:41PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > I gather you are creating a new volume for every job, and never reusing > the old ones. So write a simple shell script that will connect to the > bacula DB, select VolumeName from Media where VolStatus = 'Purged', save > the

Re: [Bacula-users] Tandberg LTO-3 only writing ~200GB

2012-04-19 Thread John Drescher
>> Bacula defaults to fixed blocks of ~ 64K. This will work with all LTO >> drives but can be suboptimal in performance. You can change the block >> settings in bacula-sd.conf however I believe that will make all tapes >> that were written with the 64K blocks unusable without you manually >> erasin

Re: [Bacula-users] Tandberg LTO-3 only writing ~200GB

2012-04-19 Thread Alan Brown
On 19/04/12 17:10, John Drescher wrote: > Bacula defaults to fixed blocks of ~ 64K. This will work with all LTO > drives but can be suboptimal in performance. You can change the block > settings in bacula-sd.conf however I believe that will make all tapes > that were written with the 64K blocks un

Re: [Bacula-users] How to get free hard disk space back ?

2012-04-19 Thread Jerome Alet
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 05:14:35PM -0400, John Drescher wrote: > > How big of a limit have you set on volume size? I usually set this to > 10GB or so. Or do you have use volume once or some other way to limit > volume size / use duration? My volume size is limited to 2 GB. My SD is configured lik

Re: [Bacula-users] How to get free hard disk space back ?

2012-04-19 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/19/2012 05:04 PM, Jerome Alet wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:11:20AM -0400, Josh Fisher wrote: >> >> Changing the "action on purge" for the pool does not change it for the >> old volumes that were created before the change was made. You have to >> individually update the action on purge

[Bacula-users] Fwd: How to get free hard disk space back ?

2012-04-19 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Drescher Date: Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 5:14 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How to get free hard disk space back ? To: Jerome Alet On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Jerome Alet wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:11:20AM -0400, Josh Fisher wrote: >

Re: [Bacula-users] How to get free hard disk space back ?

2012-04-19 Thread Jerome Alet
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:11:20AM -0400, Josh Fisher wrote: > > Changing the "action on purge" for the pool does not change it for the > old volumes that were created before the change was made. You have to > individually update the action on purge for each of those old volumes. Sorry I didn't me

Re: [Bacula-users] Cant connect to bacula-sd on debian system

2012-04-19 Thread John Drescher
> Your director's name is not the same in your files. Passwords are not > the same neither. > In bacula-sd.conf, your director's password has to match the Storage's > one in bacula-dir.conf. > I agree. On top of the 127.0.0.1 problem these other problems also need to be corrected. John -

Re: [Bacula-users] Cant connect to bacula-sd on debian system

2012-04-19 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 19/04/2012 09:47, alexturner a écrit : > Hey all, > > I'm trying to set up a bacula sever to backup all machines on the network to > LTO tape. I'm having a hard time getting my config to work. For starters > bacula-dir wont start from the /etc/init.d/bacula-director script but it will > start

Re: [Bacula-users] Cant connect to bacula-sd on debian system

2012-04-19 Thread John Drescher
> If you want bacula to function as a network backup program you need to > remove 127.0.0.1 and localhost from all bacula config files and > replace these with the eternal ipaddress otherwise bacula can not > communicate on the network.. I meant external ipaddress. The gmail new look has made it v

Re: [Bacula-users] Cant connect to bacula-sd on debian system

2012-04-19 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:47 AM, alexturner wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm trying to set up a bacula sever to backup all machines on the network to > LTO tape. I'm having a hard time getting my config to work. For starters > bacula-dir wont start from the /etc/init.d/bacula-director script but it wil

Re: [Bacula-users] Tandberg LTO-3 only writing ~200GB

2012-04-19 Thread John Drescher
> Thanks for the info. Another question: the text on wikipedia states > "LTO-3 and LTO-4 use a similar format with 1,616,940-byte blocks" - is > this something I would need to add as a directive (in trying to resolve > my current issue), or would Bacula set this appropriately when I set > media typ

[Bacula-users] BackupCatalog 60 Full is waiting for an appendable Volume

2012-04-19 Thread mgdbac
I fixed the issue by modifying the BackupCatalog job as shown below. I then ran a backup of the Catalog from the bconsole command line and it ran successfully. # Backup the catalog database (after the nightly save) Job { Name = "BackupCatalog" # JobDefs = "DefaultJob" Type = Backup Client

Re: [Bacula-users] Tandberg LTO-3 only writing ~200GB

2012-04-19 Thread Andre Rossouw
> > Could there be any other reason you may think of (possibly outside of > > bacula) that would cause a drive to think it's written more than it has, > > or for the job to start at the wrong point on the tape? > > LTO media does not work that way. To write from beginning to end it > does multiple

[Bacula-users] Cant connect to bacula-sd on debian system

2012-04-19 Thread alexturner
Hey all, I'm trying to set up a bacula sever to backup all machines on the network to LTO tape. I'm having a hard time getting my config to work. For starters bacula-dir wont start from the /etc/init.d/bacula-director script but it will start if I simply run bacula-dir in the terminal. bacula

[Bacula-users] Cancel running jobs on a tape mounted.

2012-04-19 Thread Deesmon
Hello. I recently changed a full tape and i've got some problem since i make this. I canceled running job using 'cancel jobid=xxx', i mounted my tape and labeled it. Stauts Dir show me this : bacula-dir Version: 2.0.3 (06 March 2007) x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu redhat Enterprise release Daemon star

Re: [Bacula-users] Tandberg LTO-3 only writing ~200GB

2012-04-19 Thread John Drescher
> Could there be any other reason you may think of (possibly outside of > bacula) that would cause a drive to think it's written more than it has, > or for the job to start at the wrong point on the tape? > LTO media does not work that way. To write from beginning to end it does multiple passes of

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup emc celerra CIFS share

2012-04-19 Thread Josh Fisher
On 4/18/2012 8:13 PM, bwellsnc wrote: > I am looking for a way to backup our EMC celerra cifs shares without > using ndmp. We are currently using symantec backup exec to backup the > emc without using ndmp, so I was wondering if there was a way to > perform this operation using bacula. Any help

Re: [Bacula-users] How to get free hard disk space back ?

2012-04-19 Thread Josh Fisher
On 4/18/2012 10:18 PM, Jerome Alet wrote: > Hi, > > We've got a Bacula 5.0.2 setup here under Debian (standard packages). > > We only use hard disk storage pools, and have created 3 of them on a > single partition : FileFull, FileDifferential, and FileIncremental. > > The problem is, after adding

Re: [Bacula-users] Tandberg LTO-3 only writing ~200GB

2012-04-19 Thread Andre Rossouw
8,439,334,305 (238.4 GB) > SD Bytes Written: 238,437,145,970 (238.4 GB) > Rate: 14605.8 KB/s > Software Compression: None > VSS:no > Encryption: no > Accurate: no >

Re: [Bacula-users] Tandberg LTO-3 only writing ~200GB

2012-04-19 Thread John Lockard
238,437,145,970 (238.4 GB) > Rate: 14605.8 KB/s > Software Compression: None > VSS:no > Encryption: no > Accurate: no > Volume name(s): 20120419 > Volume Session Id: 1 > V

Re: [Bacula-users] Running a fake incremental that can be considered as Full ( Database Dumps )

2012-04-19 Thread Hugo Letemplier
2012/4/18 Martin Simmons : >> On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 15:41:02 +0200, Hugo Letemplier said: >> >> 2012/4/18 Hugo Letemplier : >> > 2012/4/16 Christian Manal : >> >> On 16.04.2012 12:09, Hugo Letemplier wrote: >> >>> Hello >> >>> >> >>> I use Bacula 5.0.3 >> >>> >> >>> On few linux servers I have go