Re: [Bacula-users] How to fix Bacula after tape autoloader dysfunction?

2017-01-09 Thread Charles
On 10/01/17 03:17, Kern Sibbald wrote: > ...The one thing that does not make sense > to me, however, is your tapeinfo did not show any Tape Alerts ... Thanks for being thorough, Kern. Our bacula-sd.conf's Device stanza for the autoloader did not have an Alert Command directive. Now fixed. --

Re: [Bacula-users] How to fix Bacula after tape autoloader dysfunction?

2017-01-09 Thread Charles
On 09/01/17 22:39, Alan Brown wrote: > On 09/01/17 14:47, Charles wrote: >> ... Bacula shows the tape wth status Error (simply >> reflecting what the autoloader has told it?). > > Are you sure it was the loader which had the critical error? No > Most "critical errors" of this kind are bacula atte

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-sd file storage question

2017-01-09 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 01/09/2017 01:55 PM, Timo Neuvonen wrote: > I'm still wondering if this really is the > simplest way of implementing the file storage? > > What would I lose if I simply had only one of the two device resources, no > autochanger resource at all, and the jobs would refer directly to the device >

Re: [Bacula-users] How to fix Bacula after tape autoloader dysfunction?

2017-01-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Charles, If you do not know who Alan Brown is, I can say that he is at least 10 times more knowledgeable about the use of tape drives with Bacula than I am, so I defer to his analysis. The one thing that does not make sense to me, however, is your tapeinfo did not show any Tape Alerts, w

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-sd file storage question

2017-01-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, The Autochanger definition for the SD you show below is a Virtual Autochanger.  It is anything but a dummy, though that is arguable. If you want more information about it, there are two whitepapers on the bacula.org web site that talk about th

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore Job RunAfterJob

2017-01-09 Thread Josip Deanovic
On Monday 2017-01-09 09:56:54 Lloyd Brown wrote: > On 01/09/2017 09:46 AM, Josip Deanovic wrote: > > Hi! > > Maybe you could make use of Verify jobs in case you are restoring the > > most recent backup and you have fairly recent Verification job run. > > I considered a Verify job. I haven't done

[Bacula-users] bacula-sd file storage question

2017-01-09 Thread Timo Neuvonen
Pasted below is a piece of the default bacula-sd.conf My installation is from epel-bacula repo for CentOS 7, but exactly the same conf example can be found from the latest Bacula source tarball. Could someone explain why a file storage device is definend as an "dummy" autochanger, and the two fil

Re: [Bacula-users] How to fix Bacula after tape autoloader dysfunction?

2017-01-09 Thread Alan Brown
On 09/01/17 14:47, Charles wrote: > > Hello bacula-users :-) > > Are any tools available to mend Bacula after almost certainly spurious > errors reported by a tape autoloader? > > Within a few minutes of Bacula starting to use an autoloader which had > been subject to an abrupt power outage, the au

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore Job RunAfterJob

2017-01-09 Thread Lloyd Brown
On 01/09/2017 09:46 AM, Josip Deanovic wrote: > Hi! > Maybe you could make use of Verify jobs in case you are restoring the > most recent backup and you have fairly recent Verification job run. I considered a Verify job. I haven't done them much, but the trouble is that my boss wants a full end-t

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore Job RunAfterJob

2017-01-09 Thread Josip Deanovic
On Monday 2017-01-09 09:37:48 Lloyd Brown wrote: > I hope this isn't something obvious I've missed, but ... well ... I > missed it, at least so far. I'll keep looking but my google-fu seems to > be missing something. > > Is there an easy way to run an external script (eg. a "RunAfterJob" or > sim

[Bacula-users] Restore Job RunAfterJob

2017-01-09 Thread Lloyd Brown
I hope this isn't something obvious I've missed, but ... well ... I missed it, at least so far. I'll keep looking but my google-fu seems to be missing something. Is there an easy way to run an external script (eg. a "RunAfterJob" or similar) associated with a *restore* job? I'm trying to build a

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape full before it should.

2017-01-09 Thread Alan Brown
On 09/01/17 13:45, Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, The status Bacula received was -1, which means that the tape drive reported a hardware end of tape (i.e. an end of tape marker was seen. This can happen for the following reasons: 1. You reached the hardware end of tape marker at 150GB, but the

Re: [Bacula-users] How to fix Bacula after tape autoloader dysfunction?

2017-01-09 Thread Charles
On 27/12/16 23:30, bacula-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > -- > > Message: 8 > Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 10:13:58 +0530 > From: Charles > Subject: [Bacula-users] How to fix Bacula after tape autoloader > dysfunction? > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.n

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Startup Errors Log Location

2017-01-09 Thread Daniel Heitepriem
Hi, you can run bacula director in debug mode using: "*path/to/your/bacula-dir* -f -c /*path/to/bacula-dir.conf* -d 400" (400 is the maximal debug output, so expect quite a lot written to stdout) Best regards, Daniel On 09.01.17 14:53, webmas...@peter-speer.de wrote: Hi there. I am on C

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Startup Errors Log Location

2017-01-09 Thread Josip Deanovic
On Monday 2017-01-09 14:53:21 webmas...@peter-speer.de wrote: > Hi there. > > I am on CentOS 7 with Bacula 7.4.4 buld from source. > I wonder, if there is a file where I can see why i.e. bacula-dir is not > coming up i.e. if I have a mistake in my bacula-dir.conf. Where is > bacula logging those m

[Bacula-users] Bacula Startup Errors Log Location

2017-01-09 Thread webmaster
Hi there.I am on CentOS 7 with Bacula 7.4.4 buld from source.I wonder, if there is a file where I can see why i.e. bacula-dir is not coming up i.e. if I have a mistake in my bacula-dir.conf.Where is bacula logging those messages? I am not able to see anything in /var/log/messages or /opt/bacula/l

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape full before it should.

2017-01-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, The status Bacula received was -1, which means that the tape drive reported a hardware end of tape (i.e. an end of tape marker was seen.  This can happen for the following reasons: 1. You reached the hardware end of tape marker at 150GB, but t

Re: [Bacula-users] Schedule 4 disks rotating weekly

2017-01-09 Thread Sergio Belkin
2017-01-04 12:57 GMT-03:00 Phil Stracchino : > On 01/04/17 10:52, Martin Simmons wrote: > >> On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 18:37:28 -0300, Sergio Belkin said: > >> > >> I have 4 disks: > >> > >> I'd want to plug every disk every monday. > >> > >> So, Mondays run Full Backups and the rest of the days > >