Re: [Bacula-users] Sending spooled attrs to the Director Fatal error: Network error with FD during Backup: ERR=Connection reset by peer ?

2011-12-06 Thread Bob Hetzel
I've been doing backups for a long time now and one thing I've learned is that if you have a backup that takes more than 24 hrs you're asking for trouble. In theory this should work but since your fulls take so long you won't be able to get any changed files that it misses until you complete

Re: [Bacula-users] Medium set to Error after removing mobile Laptop

2011-11-10 Thread Bob Hetzel
From: Ralph Kutschera news2...@kutschera.priv.at Hallo! I'm having this problem since a while without finding a proper solution. I use Bacula 5.0.2 on Debian 5.0.8 (Lenny). I'm backing up a Laptop which can be removed from the network anytime, even during a backup job. To be honest

[Bacula-users] odd bacula error: ERR=Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service.

2011-11-02 Thread Bob Hetzel
Hi, I'm having an odd issue with bacula backing up my IIS logs on one server. Some nights I get a whole bunch of errors like this, as seen from bconsole: 02-Nov 01:50 servername JobId 24380: Error: Read error on file G:/servername_log/W3SVC5/ex091201.log. ERR=Insufficient system resources

Re: [Bacula-users] junction point pain

2011-09-19 Thread Bob Hetzel
The current beta version 5.20rc1 seems to no longer output a line for each windows junction point it hits. It might be worth checking out just the windows client (assuming you're already running a 5.x director/storage to see if it suits your needs before they do the final 5.2 release.

Re: [Bacula-users] Please mount Volume

2011-09-15 Thread Bob Hetzel
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Please mount Volume To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: 4e71b856.4090...@phoenixsoftware.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Am 14.09.2011 10:37, schrieb lalecherej: Hello, Yes, there are others volumes append in the

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula changes volume status from append to used. Why?

2011-08-17 Thread Bob Hetzel
Hello, we like to backup 18 different hosts on one tape. After the last job has finished, Bacula should close the tape. The problem is that Bacula closes the volume already after the first (!) job, so that the next job waits for an appendable volume. We changed the status of the volume

Re: [Bacula-users] Save to run clients with version 2.4 together with director and storage with version 5.x?

2011-08-16 Thread Bob Hetzel
Hello, just a simple question: is it save to run director and storages in version 5.X together with clients with version 2.4? Background is, I have to update director and storages sooner or later since more and more of the clients come with version 5.X when installed. But it is

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Volume creation

2011-07-07 Thread Bob Hetzel
On 07/07/11 02:28, Robert.Mortimer wrote: Hi, I have Bacula running with an IBM TL3400. As the tapes are bar coded Bacula can read the library and add the tapes to it's catalogue. I can than move then to the backup pools. My issue is the tapes have not had a volume written to the

[Bacula-users] Performance options for single large (100TB) server backup?

2011-06-28 Thread Bob Hetzel
Steve, You should be able to run multiple file daemons on the storage device, but a better idea might be to run the backups (and restores) off the clients, as many in parallel as your system can handle. Look into concurrency. If you split up the fileset into separate jobs you can have them

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems backing up to disk

2011-06-27 Thread Bob Hetzel
On 6/25/11 1:13 PM, mikewilt wrote: I have set up two similar installations at home and at church. They both have the same problem. Both are running under Linux: Linux version 2.6.26-2-686 (Debian 2.6.26-26lenny1) (da...@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease) (Debian

Re: [Bacula-users] Long running restore canceled by tape error? Any way to continue?

2011-06-13 Thread Bob Hetzel
The problem is that your setup is stretching your hardware way beyond the limits as you've configured it. In most cases I would say that you should configure your file sets such that backups and restores take less than one day each. If that means you have to break up a 50TB filesystem into 25

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Recycling Methods

2011-05-10 Thread Bob Hetzel
Hi everyone! I was having to many problems working with one pool for each day of the week. So, recently, I reconfigure all my bacula director to use ten tapes with only one pool. It's working fine now. I don't have a tape library, so manual changes are done every day (except weekends). From

Re: [Bacula-users] Help Troubleshooting Windows FD

2011-05-04 Thread Bob Hetzel
From: Mingus Dew shon.steph...@gmail.com Dear All, I am trying to install the latest Win64 client downloaded from bacula.org on a Windows 2008 server. The application does appear to install correctly, but when trying to start the service it fails to start and generates Error 1067: The

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

2011-04-29 Thread Bob Hetzel
From: Jason Voorhees jvoorhe...@gmail.com to get the maximum speed with your LTO-5 drive you should enable data spooling and change the Maximum File Size parameter. The spool disk must be a fast one, especially if you want to run concurrent jobs. Forget hdparm as benchmark, use

[Bacula-users] Exclude Dir Containing directive only works with just one value

2011-04-19 Thread Bob Hetzel
Hi all, I'm seeing an odd situation, running Bacula version 5.0.3. The Exclude Dir Containing attribute seems to work fine if I only specify one, but if I specify two, they're both ignored. Anybody else seen this behavior? Here's what I'm talking about... I used this FileSet FileSet {

Re: [Bacula-users] force backup of unchanged file, inincrementalbackup

2011-04-15 Thread Bob Hetzel
From: James Harper james.har...@bendigoit.com.au On 14. apr. 2011, at 13.57, James Harper wrote: It's not. MSSQL is MicroSoft SQL, so guess which platforms it runs on :) I'm not sure if a Windows equivalent of 'touch' could work while the database files are open, and even if

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-users Digest, Vol 59, Issue 27

2011-03-31 Thread Bob Hetzel
It still applies because bacula (and most everything else too nowadays from the look of things) uses shared libraries. If you upgrade the libraries you may need to re-compile anything that was built with the old versions if you want rock solid reliability. In my environment I kept getting

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula restore to Windows 2008 R2

2011-03-11 Thread Bob Hetzel
Joe, This was fixed in 5.0.2 or 5.0.3, I can't recall which, but 5.0.3 is the current windows-fd version. The bug was in the windows bacula-fd.exe so if you're already running your dir/sd at 5.0.x you should be able to upgrade the client to fix it. I don't recall if the problem was created

Re: [Bacula-users] Include Dir Containing?

2011-03-03 Thread Bob Hetzel
From: Christian Manal moen...@informatik.uni-bremen.de Subject: To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: 4d6cb79b.3070...@informatik.uni-bremen.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Am 26.02.2011 04:52, schrieb Dan Langille: On 2/25/2011 5:49 AM, Christian Manal

Re: [Bacula-users] looking for a tape

2011-02-22 Thread Bob Hetzel
In your Storage resource of your bacula-dir.conf file you need to add autochanger=yes. It's kind of odd how the design of bacula is but anyway yes you need to tell bacula you're not using a simple drive in both the bacula-sd.conf and the bacula-dir.conf. Otherwise, bacula ignores the

Re: [Bacula-users] Volume retention periods

2011-02-22 Thread Bob Hetzel
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:43:52 -0500 From: Javier Gomez go...@dynamicquest.com Subject: [Bacula-users] Volume retention periods To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net We have been using Bacula for a few years now and have enjoyed its features. But I need some help to understand one

Re: [Bacula-users] no upgrade path for windows servers?

2011-02-15 Thread Bob Hetzel
On 2/14/2011 7:25 PM, Dan Langille wrote: On 2/14/2011 4:52 PM, Bob Hetzel wrote: In summary, Dir and FD need to be at the same version, FD version should be really close if you want to be sure you can use newer features, bug fixes, etc. Did you mean Dir and SD? Dir and SD must

Re: [Bacula-users] no upgrade path for windows servers?

2011-02-14 Thread Bob Hetzel
Jeff Shanholtz schrieb: ... Finally, I assume that if I stay with 3.0.1 on the server, I can upgrade clients to 5.0.3, correct? I'm crossing my fingers that the client status window will be a little more informative than just a big blank window like it is in 3.0.1. :) don't know

Re: [Bacula-users] What does VolStatus = Error mean?

2011-01-27 Thread Bob Hetzel
On 1/27/2011 4:19 AM, ml ml wrote: What does VolStatus = Error mean? I might have restarted my Storage Deamon whilst a Backup run was in progress. That might haved caused the error. However, since i am using Autolabeling, i am running out of Volumes. Are the Volumes now useless? If yes, how

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs + autochanger

2011-01-26 Thread Bob Hetzel
Hello, I'm completely lost regarding the Maximum Concurrent Jobs directive on multiple places. First, my setup: -Autochanger, about 70 slots -2 LTO4 Drives inside autochanger -2 backup Pools defined, and a Scratch pool. pool1 used by Job1 for unix clients, pool2 used by Job2 and Job3 for

Re: [Bacula-users] What does VolStatus = Error mean?

2011-01-26 Thread Bob Hetzel
Hello List, list volumes gives me this list: +-+-+---+-+---+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+ | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes | VolFiles | VolRetention |

Re: [Bacula-users] How change the MedId for an exist Volume

2010-12-16 Thread Bob Hetzel
From: Martin Simmons mar...@lispworks.com On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:19:02 -0200, Rodrigo N de Castro Fernandes said: I would like to know how to change the MediaId from a VolumeName. Just for backup Media/Volume sort organization. Can somebody help me? Is it possible? Is it

Re: [Bacula-users] Storage error: The sizes do not match!

2010-12-15 Thread Bob Hetzel
This issue got mostly eliminated with a contributor's code change in 5.0.3 (I can't remember who but this has been really helpful to me at least). You'll notice the two numbers differ by exactly one, so somebody built a patch to have it just fix the inconsistency and continue appending to the

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy Job performance issues

2010-12-07 Thread Bob Hetzel
This comes up periodically on the list. Check this thread for more settings you'll need to tweak to get more write speed: http://marc.info/?t=12899980386r=1w=2 Subject: [Bacula-users] Copy Job performance issues To: bacula-users bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID:

Re: [Bacula-users] bscan, file retention, and pruning

2010-11-19 Thread Bob Hetzel
On 11/18/2010 11:00 PM, Dan Langille wrote: On 11/18/2010 4:20 PM, Bob Hetzel wrote: From: Craig Miskellcraig.misk...@opus.co.nz Subject: [Bacula-users] bscan, file retention, and pruning To: bacula-usersbacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID:4ce45109.4010...@opus.co.nz Content-Type

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow LTO4 write speed

2010-11-18 Thread Bob Hetzel
1) Make sure all the firmwares are up to date: the 1068E card, the tape drives, specifically. While you're at it, make sure the Adaptec card has up to date firmware too. 2) You might want to try this other setting too... Maximum File Size = 3GB 3) Looking at your output, you only got a bit

Re: [Bacula-users] bscan, file retention, and pruning

2010-11-18 Thread Bob Hetzel
What you've hit on is something I've noted too... I'm thinking it would be a nice tweak/enhancement to bacula if the pruning function was disabled on restore jobs. Another case that could trigger it might be just restoring from your oldest backup. I've no idea how simple this change might be,

Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning for large (millions of files) backups?

2010-11-12 Thread Bob Hetzel
From: Gavin McCullagh gavin.mccull...@gcd.ie Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning for large (millions of files) backups? To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: 2010144733.gz20...@gcd.ie Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, 08 Nov 2010, Gavin McCullagh

Re: [Bacula-users] Can you tell which are active clients from Bacula's database?

2010-11-05 Thread Bob Hetzel
...@akquinet.de) ## akquinet System Integration GmbH - http://www.akquinet.de/ ## published under GPLv2 ## ## November 5, 2010: Greatly adapted in 2009 and 2010 by Bob Hetzel b...@case.edu to produce ## listing of failed backups from the last 10 days. # use DBI; use DBD::mysql; use Data::Dumper; use

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula problems in windows 7 64 bit

2010-10-29 Thread Bob Hetzel
Zak, I'm running bacula-fd (the 5.0.3 x63 version) fine on a bunch of Win7 x64 computers here w/o problems. However, there are some problems with the windows installers (both 32 bit and 64 bit) under many circumstances not acceptable config files. If you look at the bacula-fd.conf file, make

Re: [Bacula-users] Introduction and Help Needed

2010-10-25 Thread Bob Hetzel
From: Brian Blater brb.li...@gmail.com Subject: [Bacula-users] Introduction and Help Needed To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: aanlkti=ow0drdnxh4tghfn5pbreinf=+pxtwfkun5...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Ok, I'm new to Bacula but I'm in

Re: [Bacula-users] No medium found.. How to force it?

2010-10-06 Thread Bob Hetzel
Isnt it?supposed?to pull media from scratch pool? I believe it will pull from the scratch pool if only if there are no acceptable volumes in the pool. CNH895 was an acceptable volume even though it was not in the changer so it picked that over grabbing one from the scratch. There may be

[Bacula-users] Bacula failures reporting or sql query help...

2010-09-23 Thread Bob Hetzel
Greetings all, We're using bacula to back up around 150 windows desktops here. On any given day a substantial percentage of people are not around so we always have a bunch of failures for every day--too many to chase after every person to find out why it failed every day. Has anybody

[Bacula-users] Testing bacula configs generates orphaned buffer message: bacula 5.0.3

2010-09-09 Thread Bob Hetzel
Folks, I might have a typo somewhere in my bacula config but I can't find it. The reason I suspect something odd is that I got this error: *estimate job=bbj2-o755 Using Catalog MyCatalog Connecting to Client bbj2-o755 at bbj2-o755.case.edu:9102 Error sending include list. You have messages.

[Bacula-users] Suggestion: order by VolumeName instead of MediaId

2010-09-09 Thread Bob Hetzel
I have a suggestion that I figure others might also want but I figured it would be good to mention it here to see if anybody can think of a reason not to change the sort order from the list volumes command. Currently when we do a 'list volumes' in bconsole, the records come back ordered by

Re: [Bacula-users] bare metal windows server 2003 restore

2010-06-14 Thread Bob Hetzel
I've never been able to get the bare-metal restore to work doing a restore starting from a Live CD. I last tried it over a year ago and people responded a while later saying they got it to work that way and they would update a web page with said info but it appears never to have happened.

Re: [Bacula-users] low despooling speeds when parallelism is increased

2010-06-02 Thread Bob Hetzel
What CPU's do you have in your 2950? I'm backing up to two LTO-2 in my PowerEdge 2900 server (dual Xeon 5160 CPU's) and it seems to be pretty maxed out with two tape drives. On my R710 I only get 70MB/sec despool rates to LTO-4 drives. If you can't get higher results when using a SAN I'd

Re: [Bacula-users] Basic question on Pruning and Volume Retention

2010-05-24 Thread Bob Hetzel
Message: 1 Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 10:34:26 +0200 From: Marcus M?lb?sch muelbue...@as-infodienste.de Subject: To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: 4bf4f412.40...@as-infodienste.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed I have to admit I am a bit

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Eject tape once job finishes

2010-05-17 Thread Bob Hetzel
From: taisgeal bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com Subject: [Bacula-users] Automatic Eject tape once job finishes To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: 1273850935.m2f.334...@www.backupcentral.com Hello, I have read and reread dozens of threads on this board and at this stage am

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula timeouts on usb-drive

2010-04-22 Thread Bob Hetzel
Hi, im using a really old Bacula, and it look like I don't have any success in getting a permission to upgrade to the current version from my boss. Ive got one server that is backing up two clients (all linux). The server stores the data on a external usb-drive that is mounted by autofs.

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple drives in changer

2010-04-07 Thread Bob Hetzel
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 08:52:24 -0600 From: Robert LeBlanc rob...@leblancnet.us On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Matija Nalis mnalis+bac...@carnet.hrmnalis%2bbac...@carnet.hr wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 10:36:59AM -0600, Robert LeBlanc wrote: On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:44 AM, Matija

Re: [Bacula-users] Recycle Pool and autoloaders

2010-03-31 Thread Bob Hetzel
You may want to upgrade bacula to 5.0.1. One change I've noticed is that prior versions didn't purge/recycle tapes not found in the autochanger, which as a consequence didn't add them back into the Scratch pool. Hi, Yes, that's exactly the feature i need. I'll put it in as a feature

Re: [Bacula-users] Long-term backups - was: Hard disk as backup media

2010-03-26 Thread Bob Hetzel
What is the best strategy and storage media for long-term backups, say to 10 or 20 years (if any)? I ask because I do have an old DLT tape drive and some tapes, unusable, because its SCSI controller is no longer among us. It is not 10 years old and is already a problem. -- Marcio

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows XP File Daemon - Service Stops With Unknown Error

2010-03-09 Thread Bob Hetzel
3 things that have given me grief due to the windows FD stopping or being unresponsive (but still mysteriously running)... a) buggy network driver--in one case I was able to update the driver to fix. b) bad network switch or network port c) infection with a virus/malware that was using up the max

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS Windows Backups

2010-02-17 Thread Bob Hetzel
From: Arno Lehmann a...@its-lehmann.de Subject: Re: To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: 4b7bc766.4040...@its-lehmann.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi, 16.02.2010 16:48, Bob Hetzel wrote: Last year I tried some experimentation

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS Windows Backups

2010-02-16 Thread Bob Hetzel
Hello, 15.02.2010 20:15, Joseph L. Casale wrote: For such a full backup, you need some secondary windows installation for the resore itself - for Server 2003 and XP, BartPE is a convenient way to get such a thing. For newer Windows versions, you probably best use Microsoft's PE

Re: [Bacula-users] Re store OK but no files are restored

2010-02-12 Thread Bob Hetzel
I am running Bacula 3.0.2 on Ubuntu server Apache2 MySQL The backups seem to be working OK so I thought I had better test a restore! This also seemed to run OK, but there were no files restored. I tried different where locations but still no joy. The log snip below shows all is well too.

Re: [Bacula-users] Full Backup After Previously Successful Full with Ignore FileSet Changes Enabled

2010-02-11 Thread Bob Hetzel
Graham Sparks g...@hotmail.co.uk kirjoitti viestiss? news:snt109-w401dea1ed7c90a15a91f1b81...@phx.gbl... Hello, I'm a fairly new Bacula user (all daemons running on same machine-Ubuntu804 and a FD on Windows XP Home client). I've set up a Full backup of a drive on the client

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] bug in autolabel code in 5.0.0?

2010-02-04 Thread Bob Hetzel
Richard Scobie wrote: Bob Hetzel wrote: Has anybody gotten 5.0.0 to label tapes properly? I upgraded to 5.0.0 a couple days ago and backups worked that first night until they ran out of appendable (i.e. already partially written) media. Since that point, I've been completely stuck

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] bug in autolabel code in 5.0.0?

2010-02-04 Thread Bob Hetzel
Richard Scobie wrote: Bob Hetzel wrote: My next thought was to try use tar to read and write from a tape. That works fine: I've been able to back up an entire directory and restore files from it. I've also back up a single file and restored that file, comparing it to the original file

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] bug in autolabel code in 5.0.0?

2010-02-03 Thread Bob Hetzel
Has anybody gotten 5.0.0 to label tapes properly? I upgraded to 5.0.0 a couple days ago and backups worked that first night until they ran out of appendable (i.e. already partially written) media. Since that point, I've been completely stuck. I just ran the btape auto test on a lark and

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] bug in autolabel code in 5.0.0?

2010-02-02 Thread Bob Hetzel
John Drescher wrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Bob Hetzel b...@case.edu wrote: John Drescher wrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Bob Hetzel b...@case.edu wrote: Greetings, I've just upgraded to 5.0.0 and have run into this odd issue. Bacula seems to be stuck waiting

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 3.0.3 maintain ctime on restored files?

2010-01-15 Thread Bob Hetzel
In the case here it's rather a large issue (granted due to other problems like hardware or software issues that require restores of data and is NOT something that I want to continue, however we are living in an imperfect world) but to give you an idea the dataset size is about 30-40TiB

Re: [Bacula-users] Multi Volume Archives

2009-12-14 Thread Bob Hetzel
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 15:39 -0500, Bob Hetzel wrote: 1) Bacula is indeed able to seek within a tape. If you're having trouble with this functionality you need to look at the storage daemon options at http://www.bacula.org/3.0.x-manuals/en/install/install/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.h

Re: [Bacula-users] Monthly rotation strategies

2009-12-03 Thread Bob Hetzel
As I've said before... do NOT rely on all your backups for an entire month being on one tape. If the tape breaks on the last backup of the month, the net result is that you'll have no backup at all. I currently have Volume Use Duration set to 5 in my environment and I feel like that's even a

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] RFC: backing up hundreds of TB

2009-11-28 Thread Bob Hetzel
Ralf Gross wrote: Arno Lehmann schrieb: 27.11.2009 13:23, Ralf Gross wrote: [crosspost to -users and -devel list] Hi, we are happily using bacula since a few years and already backing up some dozens of TB (large video files) to tape. In the next 2-3 years the amount of data will be

[Bacula-users] Limitations displaying large file sizes in bconsole when browsing for a restore?

2009-11-17 Thread Bob Hetzel
Are there any odd limitations in the bconsole (both 'restore' and 'estimate listing' sections) browsing with regard to large files, such as VMware disk files? I've just stumbled onto this oddity... # ls -l pituitary-flat.vmdk -rw-r- 1 root root 21474836480 Nov 17 15:27 pituitary-flat.vmdk

Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger and barcode

2009-10-16 Thread Bob Hetzel
Nicola, If you're using barcodes you can greatly simplify what you're doing. Instead of using one pool per day, just use one pool for all backups and one scratch pool. Place all the tapes in the scratch pool. Forget about trying to keep straight which tape is for which day and let bacula

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] Howto make bacula unmount a disk after backup?

2009-08-25 Thread Bob Hetzel
Adam, See more info on what Always Open does at http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html I'm thinking setting it to no would be more appropriate for what you're trying to do. However, you may find it more convenient to back up to once place and create some other

Re: [Bacula-users] status storage freezes at Used Volume Status

2009-08-20 Thread Bob Hetzel
Ralf, My suggestion is to try upgrading your server to 3.0.2. You won't need to upgrade all your FD's. Since I went through that, the things that used to hang bacula in my environment (at exactly the same place you describe) are fixed. Bob From: Ralf Gross ralf-li...@ralfgross.de

[Bacula-users] Bacula spool on SSD -- solid state drive performance testing?

2009-07-22 Thread Bob Hetzel
Has anybody tinkered around with spooling backups on an SSD (aka solid state drive) or a raid-0 pair of them for higher performance? It would seem that the issue of latency introduced by thrashing the hard drive with several concurrent readers and writers would be lessened on flash ram, but

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula spool on SSD -- solid state drive performance testing?

2009-07-22 Thread Bob Hetzel
John Drescher wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Bob Hetzelb...@case.edu wrote: Has anybody tinkered around with spooling backups on an SSD (aka solid state drive) or a raid-0 pair of them for higher performance? I spool to a 4 drive sata raid 0 but since I only have a single

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula spool on SSD -- solid state drive performance testing?

2009-07-22 Thread Bob Hetzel
John Drescher wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Bob Hetzelb...@case.edu wrote: John Drescher wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Bob Hetzelb...@case.edu wrote: Has anybody tinkered around with spooling backups on an SSD (aka solid state drive) or a raid-0 pair of them for higher

Re: [Bacula-users] mystifying restore problem w/ bacula-fd for, windows 3.0.1 .. invisible directories created

2009-07-02 Thread Bob Hetzel
I doubt that it's a corrupted file system, it's merely hidden directories. If you go into windows explorer and change the settings so it shows you Hidden, System, Operating System, etc files you should now be able to see those dirs from windows explorer. I don't think that will affect the

[Bacula-users] The number of files mismatch! Marking volume in Error in Catalog

2009-06-02 Thread Bob Hetzel
Greetings, I've been seeing an issue whereby a volume gets marked in error periodically. The last items logged about that volume are typically like this: 02-Jun 11:53 gyrus-sd JobId 83311: Volume LTO224L2 previously written, moving to end of data. 02-Jun 11:53 gyrus-sd JobId 83311: Error:

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't relabel a tape

2009-05-28 Thread Bob Hetzel
Previously John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com said, On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:52 AM, C.DriK c.drik-ach...@orange.fr wrote: Hello, Thank you for your reply. My bacula configuration is not perfect, and sometimes I have some problem (especially with the autochanger, it not change the

Re: [Bacula-users] fileset question

2009-05-15 Thread Bob Hetzel
1) regex is more powerful (and therefore slow) for what you're trying to do. WildFile is probably what you'd want instead. 2) You can't do both an include and an exclude of the same directory. 3) Start with something really basic. Take out all the exclusions and then you're just left with the

Re: [Bacula-users] Severe Performance Issues with high volume of files

2009-04-01 Thread Bob Hetzel
Here's my points/suggestions on your server setup (I'll leave the bacula SQL code observations to the bacula developers)... In order of what I would try: 1) put mysql-temp and the bacula tables on separate storage. Have that also separate from bacula's temp if possible--I use raid-0 for the

Re: [Bacula-users] Use new client with old server?

2009-04-01 Thread Bob Hetzel
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 13:44:47 -0400 From: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com 2009/4/1 Arch Willingham a...@tuparks.com: Our server is still at 2.4.2 (Ubuntu)?.does it matter which version of Windows clients are used? How about the beta clients winbacula-2.5.42-b2.exe? ?I just

Re: [Bacula-users] How to display specific jobids in bconsole

2009-03-26 Thread Bob Hetzel
From: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:09 AM, Quibble jmannu...@dynamicquest.com wrote: Hi, Is there a way to show the jobids of a specific client in bconsole without showing every single jobid available? ?We backup a ton of servers and it is helpful to

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestions for selecting Bacula version

2009-03-13 Thread Bob Hetzel
be desired after getting things going. Reynier PĂ©rez Mira wrote: On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 11:39 -0400, Bob Hetzel wrote: First of all let me thanks to every people who takes a minutes or maybe more to answer my questions. I and some others guy starting a DataCenter and a automatic save tools is needed

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestions for selecting Bacula version

2009-03-12 Thread Bob Hetzel
1) If you use the version that's not the latest, the bacula folks will most likely just tell you to upgrade to the latest version, so you might as well start there now and try to stay current. 2) On open source software that's where development is still active I'd highly recommend learning to

Re: [Bacula-users] Some restores slow, some restores fast

2009-03-02 Thread Bob Hetzel
Is it possible that the network driver on your boot device is just out of date (i.e. buggy) or that the firmware (hard drives, controllers, network adapter, etc) on the server with the problem just needs updating? While we're on the topic... how did you get the windows bare metal restore to

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula limits

2009-03-02 Thread Bob Hetzel
I think I might have one of the bigger installations doing both servers and desktops... although judging from the wiki stats page referenced in this thread I'm clearly not the biggest in any category. The Catalog, SD, and Dir are all on same box. System Description: Centos 5.2 x86_64,

[Bacula-users] re-run restore job by jobid?

2009-02-19 Thread Bob Hetzel
Is there an easy way in bacula to re-run a job such as a restore by jobid? Every now and then I run into a situation where I start a restore but it fails due to something like an application on the destination machine needing to be shut down. I'd like a way to just go into bconsole and tell

[Bacula-users] restore oddities: files restored more than files expected and job pruning

2009-01-13 Thread Bob Hetzel
Here's the specifics of my bacula installation gyrus-dir Version: 2.4.3 (10 October 2008) i686-pc-linux-gnu suse 10.2 Daemon started 08-Jan-09 19:31, 799 Jobs run since started. Heap: heap=1,871,872 smbytes=632,680 max_bytes=2,934,571 bufs=5,050 max_bufs=10,223 I recently ran a restore job

[Bacula-users] bacula hang issue. was: bacula sometimes gets stuck when volume wanted is already in a different drive

2009-01-06 Thread Bob Hetzel
Hi all, I've had a problem for a while whereby bacula hangs waiting for storage. Here's the message I posted to the bacula-users list previously. http://marc.info/?l=bacula-usersm=123004380923706w=2 Yesterday I upgraded to 2.4.4 and I think I've still got that problem--bacula still stops

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] bacula hang issue. was: bacula sometimes gets stuck when volume wanted is already in a different drive

2009-01-06 Thread Bob Hetzel
2009 15:59:13 Bob Hetzel wrote: Hi all, I've had a problem for a while whereby bacula hangs waiting for storage. Here's the message I posted to the bacula-users list previously. http://marc.info/?l=bacula-usersm=123004380923706w=2 Yesterday I upgraded to 2.4.4 and I think I've still got

[Bacula-users] bacula sometimes gets stuck when volume wanted is already in a different drive

2008-12-23 Thread Bob Hetzel
I'm running v 2.4.3 of bacula on OpenSuse 10.2 with a two tape-drive autoloader and I've been having this problem every few days for a while now: bacula wants a tape that's already loaded but in a different drive and it's not able to just unload the tape and move it or better yet just use it

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed and integration issues

2008-12-05 Thread Bob Hetzel
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 04:45:56 -0500 From: David Lee Lambert [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to use Bacula to do daily backups of data stored in iSCSI LUNs on a NetApp filer, using NetApp snapshots to ensure consistency. The hosts to be backed up have dual Gigabit Ethernet connections

[Bacula-users] bacula stuck inserting attributes

2008-12-04 Thread Bob Hetzel
Hi all, I'm using bacula 2.4.3 and I'm thinking I might have created a problem by terminating dbcheck with ctrl-c. I had read about it taking a long time to complete if you haven't run it in a while and don't have the right temporary indexes created. Anyway... I didn't restart the database

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula stuck inserting attributes

2008-12-04 Thread Bob Hetzel
Nevermind all... The answer was to run mysql then kill the offending process which was apparently leftover from the dbcheck command. In my case the output showed it was process 517, so I did... mysql kill 517 ; That allowed bacula to continue normally. But methinks that's a bug for dbcheck

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula hang waiting for storage

2008-12-03 Thread Bob Hetzel
Previously, From: Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] said... Thread 26 (Thread -1215112304 (LWP 5413)): #0 0xb7f6a410 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb7adba41 in ___newselect_nocancel () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x080a99b9 in bnet_thread_server (addrs=0x80f9860, max_clients=20,

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula hang waiting for storage

2008-11-29 Thread Bob Hetzel
From: Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:14:45 +0100 Hi, 26.11.2008 21:22, Bob Hetzel wrote: I've got bacula currently in a hung state with the following interesting info. When I run a status storage produces the following... Is your Bacula still stuck

[Bacula-users] bacula hang waiting for storage

2008-11-26 Thread Bob Hetzel
I've got bacula currently in a hung state with the following interesting info. When I run a status storage produces the following... Automatically selected Storage: Dell-PV136T Connecting to Storage daemon Dell-PV136T at gyrus:9103 gyrus-sd Version: 2.4.3 (10 October 2008) i686-pc-linux-gnu

[Bacula-users] client list for restores sort order

2008-11-11 Thread Bob Hetzel
I've currently got over 150 backup clients installed with bacula so when I want to do a restore and I have it list the clients by name the list is rather unwieldy. I'm thinking the list is ordered by when they were added? If it's doing a database query to generate this client list, where can

Re: [Bacula-users] Antw.: Re: question about schedules and, retentions

2008-11-11 Thread Bob Hetzel
Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carlo Maesen wrote: I did read the bacula manual but, I have some questions about schedules. I creat the following schedule: Schedule { Name = aca-cycle Run = Level=Incremental Pool=aca mon-thu at 22:00 Run = Level=Full Pool=aca 1st-4th

[Bacula-users] searching the bacula catalog for a filename with wildcards?

2008-11-07 Thread Bob Hetzel
Folks, I've got a user who thinks a file was deleted but she isn't sure of the exact name or where it was in the file system. Is there a command to search for a file with wildcards which could be anywhere in the catalog (where both the date it was backed up and the directory it lived in are

[Bacula-users] file dir computer restarts resulting in mismatched file count error on tape

2008-11-05 Thread Bob Hetzel
I think I may have found a bug or perhaps at least a design limitation in Bacula. I'm running version 2.4.3. I use spooling and I back up to tape. I seem to get periodic errors logged about a file count mismatch resulting in a tape getting marked as status Error. I think I was able to

[Bacula-users] multi-drive autochanger problem

2008-10-30 Thread Bob Hetzel
Greetings, I've got a PowerVault 136T autochanger. I was running well with two drives up until recently but I've now added a 3rd drive and seem to be having 1 problem more often now. The problem I'm seeing is that it'll load 3 tapes but then sometimes pick a drive it wants to run a specific

Re: [Bacula-users] multi-drive autochanger problem

2008-10-30 Thread Bob Hetzel
John Drescher wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Bob Hetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I've got a PowerVault 136T autochanger. I was running well with two drives up until recently but I've now added a 3rd drive and seem to be having 1 problem more often now. The problem I'm

Re: [Bacula-users] Update slots causes bacula console to prompt for drive, etc?

2008-02-29 Thread Bob Hetzel
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:17:05 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message dated: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:12:38 EST, The pithy ruminations from Bob Hetzel on [Bacula-users] Update slots causes bacula console to prompt for drive, etc? w ere: = I just noticed this oddity. Perhaps it's

Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes marked with Error

2008-02-28 Thread Bob Hetzel
First a quick note... drives LTO 2nd generation and newer should not shoeshine unless you're really running way to slow a cpu for what else is going on with the computer. If the room air temp is less than 85 degrees or so it's unlikely in a tape autoloader cabinet (i.e. good airflow by

Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes marked with Error

2008-02-28 Thread Bob Hetzel
speeds rather than at the much higher data throughput of LTO-3. Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the message dated: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:21:31 EST, The pithy ruminations from Bob Hetzel on Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes marked with Error were: = = First a quick note... drives LTO 2nd generation

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