Thank you Bill. After adjusting for postgresql, that worked like a charm.
Patti
On 5/1/15, 6:04 PM, Bill Arlofski waa-bac...@revpol.com wrote:
On 05/01/2015 05:14 PM, Clark, Patricia A. wrote:
I am in the process of migrating from one bacula system to another. In
order to have multiple
I am in the process of migrating from one bacula system to another. In order
to have multiple storage daemons and autochangers, I am changing my media type
from LTO-5 to LTO-5-admin and the pool is changing from MYPOOL to POOL5a. We
imported and updated the catalog. I can modify the volumes
This is a known bug that has been reported, but still exists. The job wants
the tape in use by another job that is using it in drive 0. Your options are:
1. Let it wait until the job(s) using the tape in drive 0 finishes. The
pitfall here is if the tape becomes full.
2. Cancel the
of time of the request, the
director and/or the SD should decide to look for another.
Patti Clark
Linux System Administrator
RD Systems Support Oak Ridge National Laboratory
On 4/24/15, 11:02 AM, Josh Fisher jfis...@pvct.com wrote:
On 4/24/2015 9:14 AM, Clark, Patricia A. wrote:
This is a known bug
Gary,
First it's not a disk so change
RandomAccess = no
The largest setting for block size is 2M
Maximum Block Size = 2M
The setting for Maximum File Size controls the EOF marks on the tape.
Each of these is a record in the bacula database which works with
positioning the tape for recovery
I have a tape library with several LTO5 tape drives. I have 3 tape pools and a
scratch pool. Pool1 is quite large and has most of the jobs. The jobs are in
a fairly standard, monthly FULL, weekly DIFFERENTIAL, and daily INCREMENTAL
schedule. The FULL backups are fairly evenly divided across
Any reason for not updating to v7 Bacula? It contains a number of fixes as
well as new features. The version that you are running is nearly 2 years old,
although there were a few bug fixes along the way – however no updates since
April 2014.
Patti Clark
Linux System Administrator
RD Systems
to satisy numerical order.
If there are any updates o someone knows a quick fix itwould be much
appreciated.
That’s all I have on this issue at the momnt.
On 2/16/15, 7:37 AM, Clark, Patricia A. clar...@ornl.ov wrote:
How are you ensuring that your devices retain persistent aming?
Please
How are you ensuring that your devices retain persistent naming?
Please check the following once bacula and mtx changer list agree on tape
location:
While no jobs are running and using bconsole, mount one tape to each of your
tape drives until all of your drives are completely loaded. Verify
I have been having crashes with the latest version of Bacula director (v7.0.5-1
x86_64 from slaanesh repo on RHEL6) off and on and just discovered what was the
sequence of events that is causing the problem. If there is an incremental
job currently running and the same job is started as FULL
I back up over 300T each month. For that reason I also stay as current as
is reasonably possible on versions of Bacula. Having upgraded to version
7, I've found that the 6-day hard coded failure appears to have been
removed which has allowed several of my long-running jobs to complete
Dirt is not the issue unless you are operating in a dirty environment.
There is something wrong with either the tape drive itself or the
connection to the drive. The connection could be the cable or the HBA on
the computer. There are likely error messages in your logs that will help
with the
I am sorry to be replying so late, however, to correct the issue and for future
reference, yum does not change parameters in configuration files. Your SELinux
settings for permissive must have been done at the command line which is fine
until you reboot your computer. In order to make your
I am going to disagree with Bryn and Ana. The only reason to agree is human
error and how the current SD configuration is implemented. Based on the number
of queries on this list for managing devices, human error is prone to be high,
and as for the SD configuration it is a static manual
Cut -n- paste from my 9/22/14 post:
lsscsi shows what you currently have.
scsi_id -whitelisted -device=/dev/st0 -- repeat for each tape device and
your autochanger device (use /dev/sg#) - this gets you the unique scsi id to be
used in the udev rules
In your udev rules make sure that you use
Hijacking a thread is not acceptable - new thread on tape longevity statement.
Your assertion on longevity of tape is incorrect and I have a link for one
manufacturer that has their metrics across time and writes.
http://support2.imation.com/downloads/imn/LTO/Usage_Life_Imation_Media.pdf
There
Every time that you reboot your linux server, udev links up the physical
devices. They will not necessarily be the same each time which is what you are
seeing. You have to use a persistent name in order to keep the same devices.
There are a couple of ways to do that. Use the long paths
What is the output of the following command?
lsscsi –g
Patti Clark
Linux System Administrator
RD Systems Support Oak Ridge National Laboratory
From: RAT rober...@netzero.netmailto:rober...@netzero.net
Date: Thursday, September 18, 2014 at 5:43 PM
To:
I have 2 separate instances of Bacula v7.0.5 on RHEL6.5 x86_64. One has had
the server FD segfault once. The second instance has had the director segfault
twice now. The server has large file systems mounted and is backing these up.
It does not have any external clients at this time. It is
I think you are over working your include line. This one works for me, you may
need to adjust for your path(s):
@|sh -c 'for f in /etc/bacula/clients.d/*.conf ; do echo @${f} ; done'
Patti Clark
Linux System Administrator
RD Systems Support Oak Ridge National Laboratory
From: Shorty Markus
Kern,
This is exactly the problems that myself and others have been reporting with
autochanger and tape volumes. Thank you Josh for the very descriptive details.
One additional issue that these race conditions can also create, if the 1st 2
jobs fill the volume that the 3rd job is waiting for,
Sadly, this error is still present in v7.0.4. There is another error, too,
where there is no writeable media in the tape drive.
Fatal error: spool.c:263 Fatal append error on device LTO5-2
(/dev/tape-admin2): ERR=tape_dev.c:161 Unable to open device LTO5-2
(/dev/tape-admin2): ERR=No medium
{
Exclude = yes
Wild = /home/erik/VirtualBox VMs/*
}
}
Patti
On 5/16/14 1:13 AM, Erik P. Olsen epod...@gmail.com wrote:
On 15/05/14 19:00, Clark, Patricia A. wrote
Did you try delimiting?
File = /home/erik/VirtualBox\ VMs
Also, perhaps a different directive:
Wild = /home/erik/VirtualBox VMs/*
Patti Clark
Linux System Administrator
RD Systems Support Oak Ridge National Laboratory
On 5/14/14 4:40 PM, Erik P. Olsen epod...@gmail.com wrote:
On 14/05/14
It could be the drive and it could be the connection to the drive. Swap
out the cable first - it's easiest, cheapest, and most prone to having a
bad connection. Test. Bacula uses standard device commands. You should
use the mt and mtx commands directly - you are more likely to get more
My last successful Full backup has passed its retention period and is no longer
in the database, however I am performing differentials and incrementals. This
does not happen very often, but there was an unscheduled system outage when the
last full backup was scheduled to run. I know I can use
I suggest that you use udev rules. There has been several discussions on this
list. I have a fairly detailed post on 9/25/13.
Patti Clark
Linux System Administrator
Research and Development Systems Support Oak Ridge National Laboratory
865-576-7718
From: Luis G. Alford G.
For job defined spool size use:
Maximum Job Spool Size = 50G
You will want to adjust your Maximum Spool Size parameter to your available
space.
Patti Clark
Linux System Administrator
Research and Development Systems Support Oak Ridge National Laboratory
From: Radosław Korzeniewski
I know that this error has been a topic off and on for bacula users. I may
have some light to shed on one occasion when it happens, but I will ask a
question at the end.
I have 2 drives in my changer, both have tapes loaded from the same pool. 2
jobs start at the same time. Job #1 wants to
I see an hour and 2 minutes. And to follow up on the issue, I see this
problem with my server, too, where the DIR, SD, and FD all reside. No
firewall between any of them. It will happen just as frequently there
with a long running backup as with an external client.
Patti Clark
Linux System
I have a separate set of clients that I am adding to my bacula server. I would
like to keep a separate catalog. My postgresql server is running on my bacula
server. What is the recommendation for standing up a separate catalog in this
scenario? Do I need a separate instance of the
From: Mauro mrsan...@gmail.commailto:mrsan...@gmail.com
Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 8:18 AM
To: Uwe Schuerkamp
uwe.schuerk...@nionex.netmailto:uwe.schuerk...@nionex.net, Mauro
mrsan...@gmail.commailto:mrsan...@gmail.com, bacula-users
Deepak-
I am removing all of the thread as it is becoming messy and useless.
Second, Radosław is trying to tell you that your udev rules are incorrect
for the tape drive references and that your tape changer needs a udev rule
to keep it persistent, too. You can use the persistent names provided
I have several tape drives that indicate they are being used by jobs that have
been long terminated. Without stopping/restarting bacula, is there a command
that might get the storage daemon to recognize that the drives can be used for
other jobs? The commands used so far:
status
On 9/12/13 3:23 PM, splat bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote:
New Install here.
installed baucla on a Centos 6.4 , attached to a Quantum LTO-3 changer
via Scsi
I labeled all the tapes , how ever when I try to run a a job I get the :
Cannot find any appendable volumes
so I mount one
On 9/4/13 2:08 PM, marguin bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote:
I have 2 tape drives, well one being inside a library and the other stand
alone. I am taking a handful of tapes that were first used on the
standalone library and adding barcoded labels to them and put them in my
library. from
Possibly the fiber cable? Can you swap it out and try again?
I had 20 fiber connections and one of them needed replacing. It made the drive
look bad from the server, but the library did not report any error conditions
with the drive.
Patti Clark
Linux System Administrator
Research and
On 6/12/13 10:41 AM, Josh Fisher jfis...@pvct.com wrote:
On 6/11/2013 11:10 AM, Leonardo - Mandic wrote:
Hello,
After upgrade to bacula 5.2.13 I have bacula storage problems. Appers
a network problem, but don't are, I have a gigabit network dedicated
to bacula. The problem is on backups
You need to use the information/instructions from your changer vendor and
define your cleaning tape slot(s). I personally never use the backup
software to manage the need for cleaning tape drives. As this sounds like
a new set up, why are you trying to clean your tape drive? Is it used and
Current bacula v5.2.13-9
I canceled an incremental job 2 days ago via bat. It shows that it is canceled
and has since successfully run a differential for that same job. The storage
daemon still shows the tape drive in use by the canceled job and will not
release the drive to another job.
I am using the latest version, 5.2.13-9, from the epel-bacula repository.
There are a number of long reported issues that seem to be particularly acute
in this release, most notably the insistence on a job requesting a volume that
is already in use by another backup job. Beyond the usual
Again version 5.2.13-9 from epel-bacula repository, another issue that I had
not been having a problem with until now is having volumes available in my
Scratch pool that are not being picked up and used by my backup pools. More
notably, volumes marked purged or recycle are not being used
I use spooling.
Patti
From: Simone Caronni negativ...@gmail.commailto:negativ...@gmail.com
Date: Friday, May 17, 2013 8:27 AM
To: Clark, Patricia A. clar...@ornl.govmailto:clar...@ornl.gov
Cc:
bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
bacula-users
Which passwords do you think are OK? The ones in question are in the client
definition sitting on the bacula server and the one on your client in the
bacula-fd.conf. Those need to match or your server and client will not
communicate with each other. The URL produced is no longer available,
On 3/16/13 11:43 AM, Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net wrote:
On 03/16/13 06:18, Jérôme Blion wrote:
Le 16/03/2013 10:54, Uwe Schuerkamp a écrit :
My question: Is there some way to optimize the catalog dump to make
the import faster, like maybe omitting indices and re-creating them
I have an autochanger with multiple tape drives. I have 2 pools using all of
the drives, let's say poolA and poolB. It may take a long time before a drive
becomes available to poolB, so I'd like poolA denied the use of a drive, or the
inverse of that, have 1 of the drives exclusive to the use
From: Jonathan Horne jho...@skopos.usmailto:jho...@skopos.us
Date: Monday, December 3, 2012 9:19 AM
To:
bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs
From: Ryan Jantz rja...@scifit.commailto:rja...@scifit.com
Date: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 6:06 PM
To:
bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Webacula
On 10/31/12 5:35 AM, ALyarskiy bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote:
How can i limit writing jobs to 1 without limiting spooling jobs?
I want to have only one job writing on the tape but spool other jobs in
parallel.
+--
|This
The output below indicates that there is a bacula label on the tapes, otherwise
you would receive and Input/Output error and a message about it not being a
bacula labeled tape. I have run into this issue before and it took a bit of
manual manipulation to get the catalog to be updated to where
On 9/25/12 12:43 PM, Stephen Thompson step...@seismo.berkeley.edu
wrote:
Thanks everyone for the suggestions, they at least give me somewhere to
look, as I was running low on ideas.
More info...
The tape in question have only been used once or twice.
The library is a StorageTek whose
On 9/21/12 4:06 AM, Sven Gehr mailingli...@dreampixel.de wrote:
Hi@all,
I install the bacula-server (5.2.5) on a ubuntu 12.04-server (LTS) 64
Bit. The
backup with my linux-clients (centos, ubuntu) works fine. The
Bacula-Server ha
the IP: 192.168.4.20 / FQH: backup.dawa.edv
For a test I have
On 9/7/12 7:51 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote:
-- Forwarded message --
From: Chris Ord chris@digitalpictures.com.au
Date: Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bacula possibly confused about label
To: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com
John,
On 9/7/12 2:42 AM, Armin Tueting armin.tuet...@tueting-online.com
wrote:
Hello Patricia,
Thursday, September 6, 2012, 10:05:22 PM, you wrote:
OK, what commands are you using, what is the output that shows that it
is
bconsole / *res 5 brussels-fd / $cd /etc/raddb / Invalid path given.
not
On 9/6/12 3:56 AM, Armin Tueting armin.tuet...@tueting-online.com
wrote:
Hello Bacula-users,
I'm running Bacula 5.2.10 on CentOS 5.8.
The directory /etc/raddb won't be backed up from a remote client
when using 'File = /etc'. I've done some investigation and found
out that with
On 9/6/12 2:22 PM, Armin Tueting armin.tuet...@tueting-online.com
wrote:
Hello Patricia,
Thursday, September 6, 2012, 5:30:30 PM, you wrote:
The most probable answer is that it is a separate mount point. Check
the
output from the backups where only /etc was listed and it should
indicate
On 8/23/12 10:48 AM, Julien Cochennec julien.cochen...@mnhn.fr wrote:
Hi Everybody,
Maybe a simple (dumb?) question :
1) Description
Bacula-fd is running as a service on Mac Os X clients so I would like to
make a ClientRunAfterJob command, as root, without password, to switch
the computer if
From: Eric Sisolak haldir.j...@gmail.commailto:haldir.j...@gmail.com
Date: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 3:50 PM
To: Clark, Patricia A. clar...@ornl.govmailto:clar...@ornl.gov
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole not displaying all jobs
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Clark, Patricia A.
clar
From: Luis H. Forchesatto
luisforchesa...@gmail.commailto:luisforchesa...@gmail.com
Date: Thursday, August 16, 2012 1:42 PM
To:
bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject:
On 7/25/12 10:50 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone else have this happen?
Probably a 1/2 dozen times over the years although it has not happened
in a long time.
Race condition?
I think so. I thought that this was supposed to be fixed though.
John
I am having this same
On 8/9/12 8:28 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Jummo ju...@devio.us wrote:
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, John Drescher wrote:
During the backup one copy job already run and use the first tape
drive.
In the output I can see that 4 Jobs runs concurrently
On 8/9/12 10:18 AM, Jummo ju...@devio.us wrote:
Hi Patti,
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, Clark, Patricia A. wrote:
I have had multiple jobs assigned to the same tape drive. If there is
space and none of the thresholds have been reached, the spooling jobs do
continue their spooling. If a job B
I've encountered this whenever I've used an unmount command. It will stay
that way until I manually mount a tape volume. It does not matter if I
use the volume or not, but it clears the BLOCKED status.
Patti Clark
Information International Associates, Inc.
Linux Administrator and subcontractor
-0400, Clark, Patricia A said:
I have bacula 5.2.10 from the epel-bacula repository running on RHEL6
x86_64. Since 7/28 I've had a series of long running jobs which have
not
permitted the backup catalog job to run. Each morning as I review the
job
status there will be 2 catalog backup jobs
I have bacula 5.2.10 from the epel-bacula repository running on RHEL6 x86_64.
Since 7/28 I've had a series of long running jobs which have not permitted the
backup catalog job to run. Each morning as I review the job status there will
be 2 catalog backup jobs waiting. I just cancel the
Because I have quite a few long running jobs, my BackupCatalog job is not
getting run more than once or twice per week. I understand the potential
instability of backing up the catalog while there are running jobs. Is there
anything in the bacula pipeline that would pause running jobs so that
I found this line:
RegexDir = .*
In the exclude options to be the issue. I've removed it and have been
getting the exact backups required.
Patti Clark
Information International Associates, Inc.
Linux Administrator and subcontractor to:
Research and Development Systems Support Oak Ridge
I know that the quantity of files and the retention time are the big factors in
the size of the catalog database in bacula. What would be a good calculation
to use to ensure a healthy amount of space for the database? I have a
postgresql database sitting in a partition with nearly 4GB free.
Did you label the tapes? If the volumes are not in the catalog, then all
you are seeing is the barcode. To save time, work with one slot and/or
volume then apply across all of the tapes.
Patti Clark
Information International Associates, Inc.
Linux Administrator and subcontractor to:
Research
This good to know. I have postgresql under my catalog and I've been
seeing this behavior intermittently under 5.2.6. I'm waiting for some
shake out of 5.2.9 before upgrading.
Patti Clark
Information International Associates, Inc.
Linux Administrator and subcontractor to:
Research and
{
wilddir = /home/[a-z]*
wilddir = /home/[A-Z]*
Exclude = yes }
File = /home
}
}
Patti
On 6/18/12 2:12 PM, Martin Simmons mar...@lispworks.com wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:59:26 -0400, Clark, Patricia A said:
To get the multiple streams I've broken my filesets
To get the multiple streams I've broken my filesets and their corresponding
jobs into multiple pieces. The snippets below are 2 of the 7 that I created.
I am finding that I am getting everything in /home from each of these filesets
and not just the subset of the home directories. Testing
I have several large file systems (1TB) where I want to break them up to get
smaller backup streams in parallel to increase the throughput to tape. My
fileset directive is below. I want everything in /home, but divided by the
regular expressions provided in the Options section. Will this do
I have data spooling turned on as the default. I have blocking on my tapes set
to 2MB. The file systems that I am backing up are mounted to the backup server.
Am I correct in interpreting the despooling lines that the transfer rate is the
speed that the backup is writing to tape? How do I
There was a thread in January of 2012 discussing how to get tapes that are
already labeled with a block size that is too small, usually the default 64K,
to be relabeled in order to be the new block size set in bacula-sd.conf. One
of the recommendations was to erase the tape. Since I had
On 6/4/12 3:41 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Clark, Patricia A. clar...@ornl.gov
wrote:
I am new to bacula and have been monitoring this list for the last 6
months in addition to reading the available documentation. I have
bacula v5.2.6 packages
On 6/5/12 1:18 AM, Andre Rossouw an...@arnet.co.za wrote:
On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 15:30 -0400, Clark, Patricia A. wrote:
I am new to bacula and have been monitoring this list for the last 6
months in addition to reading the available documentation. I have
bacula v5.2.6 packages from epel
On 6/5/12 9:36 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote:
-- Forwarded message --
From: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:36 AM
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Only one job running at any given time
To: Clark, Patricia A. clar...@ornl.gov
I have
I am new to bacula and have been monitoring this list for the last 6 months in
addition to reading the available documentation. I have bacula v5.2.6 packages
from epel-bacula on RHEL 6.2 x64 platform. The autochanger is a Spectralogic
T950 with 6 tape drives with a fiber switch between the
I am new to Bacula and I am in the process of installing and configuring the
software. Something that is giving me some headaches is the mtx numbering on
the drives vs the /dev/st assignments. The output of the mtx status on the
auto changer and the the device assignment is below:
Data
specify the encryption key? I read that it needs
specific SCSI commands, which Bacula doesn't send.
__Martin
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 14:12:47 -0500, Clark, Patricia A said:
Why would bacula care about hardware LTO encryption? It's transparent
to
the software.
Patti Clark
Sr. Linux System
Why would bacula care about hardware LTO encryption? It's transparent to
the software.
Patti Clark
Sr. Linux System Administrator
On 3/6/12 10:14 AM, Jeremy Maes j...@schaubroeck.be wrote:
Op 5/03/2012 22:37, Alan Brown schreef:
On 05/03/12 19:51, Alex Crow wrote:
Thanks Alan,
I am
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