[Bacula-users] Duplicate job did not get cancelled

2011-05-05 Thread Dermot Beirne
Hi, I'm using Bacula 5.0.3 on Ubuntu 9.04 I have bacula configured to cancel duplicate jobs, as some jobs (especially during monthly full backups) are not finished before the following day backup starts. Today two identical jobs started within an hour of each other one client. *llist

Re: [Bacula-users] Speeding up pruning

2011-04-06 Thread Dermot Beirne
On Apr 5, 2011, at 1:34 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 14:35:07 +0100, Dermot Beirne said: On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 07:40:44 +0100, Dermot Beirne said: I'm sure that would be fine, but I'm having difficulty automatically determining which volumes are ok to prune. I need to compare

Re: [Bacula-users] Speeding up pruning

2011-04-05 Thread Dermot Beirne
about via bconsole/cron and it seems to have solved the problem. -Dylan Vanderhoof Sr. Network Engineer Semaphore Corporation http://www.semaphore.com On Apr 4, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Dermot Beirne wrote: Hi, I'm using bacula 5.0.3 on ubuntu 9.04. I want to know if its possible to find

[Bacula-users] Speeding up pruning

2011-04-05 Thread Dermot Beirne
On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 07:40:44 +0100, Dermot Beirne said: I'm sure that would be fine, but I'm having difficulty automatically determining which volumes are ok to prune. I need to compare the last written time to the current time and the volumes retention, and check the job type and status too

[Bacula-users] Speeding up pruning

2011-04-04 Thread Dermot Beirne
Hi, I'm using bacula 5.0.3 on ubuntu 9.04. I want to know if its possible to find the sql query (or whatever is used) that bacula runs when it needs to prune and recycle a volume. I would like this to run once a night, for each of my disk pools (say via a runscript), to prune them once their

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

2011-03-31 Thread Dermot Beirne
a catalog due to performance issues To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: 4d93958c.8030...@pvct.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 3/30/2011 12:27 PM, Dermot Beirne wrote: Hello, I am using Bacula 5.0.3 on ubuntu 9.04 I am have serious performance

[Bacula-users] Moving a catalog due to performance issues

2011-03-30 Thread Dermot Beirne
Hello, I am using Bacula 5.0.3 on ubuntu 9.04 I am have serious performance problems with migration speeds to tape. I have used the btape speed command to test the throughput of the disk to tape and it is achieving speeds of up to 6 times what my migration speed is getting, so I don't think it's

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Recycling Of Volumes So You Don't Run Out Of Disk Space

2011-03-22 Thread Dermot Beirne
Larry, I have the same issue as you. I use the: Maximum Volumes = 30 in the pool to force it to start recycling volumes when it reaches this limit, rather than let the space run out. I'm not keen on the solution, as it's a fine balance between ensuring that it has enough volumes to complete

[Bacula-users] Retention not being applied correctly

2011-03-22 Thread Dermot Beirne
Hi, I use Bacula 5.0.3 on ubuntu 9.04 I backup from a number of clients (windows and linux) to a disk raid and then migrate to tape afterwards. I am concerned that my retention is not working properly. This is my client config for one client: # Client (File Services) to backup Client { Name

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention not being applied correctly

2011-03-22 Thread Dermot Beirne
lower the pools later on when I've confirmed that it's fixed in 5.1 and we upgrade. This isn't much of an issue for me since everything goes to a tape library. It may not work well for you. James On 2011-03-22, at 7:02 AM, Dermot Beirne wrote: Hi, I use Bacula 5.0.3 on ubuntu 9.04 I

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention not being applied correctly

2011-03-22 Thread Dermot Beirne
all my retention periods up to 60 days until the pruning algorithm is fixed. I was pretty sure I read something that said it would be fixed in 5.1 but I can't say for sure where I read that. James On 2011-03-22, at 9:05 AM, Dermot Beirne wrote: Hi James, Thanks for replying. If I

Re: [Bacula-users] Migration takes hours

2011-03-05 Thread Dermot Beirne
From: Josh Fisher jfis...@pvct.com Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Migration takes hours To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: 4d6e7d3e.7010...@pvct.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 3/2/2011 4:47 AM, Dermot Beirne wrote: Hello Chris, Thanks

Re: [Bacula-users] Migration takes hours

2011-03-02 Thread Dermot Beirne
from Server to Tape device, data transfer rates of internal storage (SAS vs SATA), and current disk I/O? Just throwing some ideas out there. On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Dermot Beirne dermot.bei...@dpd.ie wrote: Hi, I am using Bacula 5.0.3 on Ubuntu 9.04 The length of time taken

[Bacula-users] Migration takes hours

2011-02-25 Thread Dermot Beirne
Hi, I am using Bacula 5.0.3 on Ubuntu 9.04 The length of time taken to migrate from disk to tape is causing problems with my backup window. The Monthly full backups I run takes up to 3 days. Here is the output of one client: Build OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu ubuntu 9.04 Prev Backup

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention after migration

2010-12-28 Thread Dermot Beirne
On 24 December 2010 04:23, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: On 12/23/2010 5:45 PM, Dermot Beirne wrote: Hi Dan, According to the above, Media ID 896 has a retention period of 2,851,200 seconds (or 33 days). That's correct, and that's what I would expect. Aren't Job and File

[Bacula-users] Retention after migration

2010-12-23 Thread Dermot Beirne
Hello, I recently switched from copy jobs to migrate jobs functionality, and I am concerned about retention. I am running Bacula 5.0.3 on Ubuntu 9.04 I have 4 disk pools (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly) and a matching 4 tape pools. The disk pool retentions are set to: Daily-Disk-Pool: File,

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention after migration

2010-12-23 Thread Dermot Beirne
Hi Dan, According to the above, Media ID 896 has a retention period of 2,851,200 seconds (or 33 days). That's correct, and that's what I would expect. Aren't Job and File retention specific to a client, not a Volume? I know they can be specified on the client side, but I though pool

Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding purge

2010-11-23 Thread Dermot Beirne
On 22 November 2010 18:55, Blake Dunlap iki...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:02, Dermot Beirne dermot.bei...@dpd.ie wrote: That particular feature would be good news for me at least! I definitely would really like to see the ability to automatically purge volumes also, and leave

Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding purge

2010-11-22 Thread Dermot Beirne
That particular feature would be good news for me at least! I definitely would really like to see the ability to automatically purge volumes also, and leave it to the user to decide if they want to preserve the data as long as possible. The patch you posted a link to is for version 3.0.1 Do you

Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding purge

2010-11-18 Thread Dermot Beirne
documentation. Dermot. On 11/17/10 19:16, Dermot Beirne wrote: Hi Phil, I have set a size limit of 5Gb on each volume. My daily incrementals are using over 300 such volumes at the moment, so 200 will be nowhere near enough to do a full backup of all the clients at year end, so I'll be increasing

Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding purge

2010-11-18 Thread Dermot Beirne
for doing this. I don't want to go off topic for this thread, but thought I'd ask you while I'm typing. I'll start a new thread if I need to pursue that any further. Dermot. On 11/18/10 05:56, Dermot Beirne wrote: Hi, There is a big difference in the size of individual jobs, they range from

Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding purge

2010-11-18 Thread Dermot Beirne
Hello Blake, Basicly what I see here is that you really want a migration, not a copy job. This coupled with the patch from bacula-de...@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04724.html target=_newhttp://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-de...@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04724.html should do what you want if you

Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding purge

2010-11-17 Thread Dermot Beirne
Hi Phil, Here is the pool definitions I'm using. Is there some way I can get the entire disk pool volumes purged when they expire, so they are all truncated and all that space is released. I don't need them once they are copied to tape. Would a migrate job instead of a copy job work better in

Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding purge

2010-11-17 Thread Dermot Beirne
to implement this new feature, and I think it's what I need, but I can't see how to use it properly. Dermot. On 17 November 2010 11:03, Graham Keeling gra...@equiinet.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:48:36AM +, Dermot Beirne wrote: Hi Phil, Here is the pool definitions I'm using

Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding purge

2010-11-17 Thread Dermot Beirne
wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:32:44AM +, Dermot Beirne wrote: Hi Graham, I think this is a key feature, and am surprised it's not easily possible.  The user should have the choice.  I saw the blog entries you refer to, and that bug appears to have been fixed, but I don't see

Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding purge

2010-11-17 Thread Dermot Beirne
, so that the next backup (be it daily, weekly, monthly or yearly) will have enough space for all it's disk volumes. My monthly full backups are using over 800 of these 5Gb volumes right now. Dermot. On 11/17/10 05:48, Dermot Beirne wrote: Hi Phil, Here is the pool definitions I'm using

Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding purge

2010-11-17 Thread Dermot Beirne
on empty / expired volumes to get the truncate to act like you want before the volumes are reused, but I have a skeleton for that as well if needed. -Blake On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 16:07, Dermot Beirne dermot.bei...@dpd.ie wrote: Hi Blake, That sounds great, exactly what I've been looking

Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding purge

2010-11-17 Thread Dermot Beirne
Hi Martin, I read that, and understand it doesn't run automatically, but must be called from a runscript, or whatever. However, my understanding is that the volumes need to be marked as purged before this feature will truncate them? It does not purge them, but truncates any which have a status of

[Bacula-users] Understanding purge

2010-11-16 Thread Dermot Beirne
retention periods have expired. I have monthly disk volumes i need to recover the space from for subsequent daily and weekly jobs to use. How can i get bacula to purge these so they can be auto truncated. Thank you. Dermot -- Sent from my mobile device -- Regards, Dermot Beirne IT Servicedesk

Re: [Bacula-users] General questions after 1 year use

2010-11-15 Thread Dermot Beirne
: 2010/11/12 Dermot Beirne dermot.bei...@dpd.ie Hello, I got no response to my last mail below, so I'll try and summarise my questions a little: (Bacula 3.0.2 on Ubuntu 9.04) 1. If I copy a backup job, is the retention period of the original backup job or the copy backup job used by bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] General questions after 1 year use

2010-11-12 Thread Dermot Beirne
or benchmark the autoloader throughput (Dell P124T) Thank you for any info. Dermot. On 9 November 2010 10:07, Dermot Beirne dermot.bei...@dpd.ie wrote: Thanks for replying. On my first point below, where you suggest the volume retention is too low, the volume retention for the monthly tape

Re: [Bacula-users] General questions after 1 year use

2010-11-09 Thread Dermot Beirne
. Appreciate your advice. Dermot. On 6 November 2010 23:30, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: On 11/5/2010 12:00 PM, Dermot Beirne wrote: Hello, I have been using bacula now for 1 year this month, and it's been a fairly smooth ride, but I have a number of questions that i'd be grateful

[Bacula-users] General questions after 1 year use

2010-11-05 Thread Dermot Beirne
Hello, I have been using bacula now for 1 year this month, and it's been a fairly smooth ride, but I have a number of questions that i'd be grateful for some direction on: Bacula version 3.0.2 on Ubuntu 9.04 1. I am concerned about my retention policy. I have 4 disk pools and 4 corresponding

Re: [Bacula-users] Bscan did not update catalogue

2010-08-20 Thread Dermot Beirne
Thanks both for responding, Seems I was too impatient, as it must not have been fully finished (even though bscan command had returned to a command prompt). After leaving it a few more hours i checked the jobid again, and this time it was able to list the dir structure of the backup. However,

[Bacula-users] Bscan did not update catalogue

2010-08-18 Thread Dermot Beirne
Hi, I am still stumbling through trying to get a file off an old tape. It's file and job details were purged from the catalogue It appears the volume retention set on the pool has no bearing on the default file and volume retentions on the client, which are assumed even if not specified. I used

[Bacula-users] bscan device or resource busy

2010-08-17 Thread Dermot Beirne
Hi, I'm trying to repopulate catalogue with tapes that appear to have their records pruned. When using bscan, I'm getting the following output: bac...@ho-bksrv-11139:/usr/local/bacula/bin$ sudo ./bscan -V 46L4 -v -s -m -S -c /usr/local/bacula/bin/bacula-sd.conf /dev/nst0 [sudo] password for

Re: [Bacula-users] bscan device or resource busy

2010-08-17 Thread Dermot Beirne
to the drive, or do i need to use something else (mtx?) to mount it outside of bacula for bscan to see it? Thanks. Dermot. On 17 August 2010 17:52, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Dermot Beirne dermot.bei...@dpd.ie wrote: Hi, I'm trying to repopulate

Re: [Bacula-users] bscan device or resource busy

2010-08-17 Thread Dermot Beirne
Hi, I tried the mtx-changer script to load the volume,and bscan is working away now. Thanks for the help. Dermot. On 17 August 2010 22:30, Dermot Beirne dermot.bei...@dpd.ie wrote: Hi John, Thanks for the very quick reply.  I did actually try that, but i was expecting bscan

[Bacula-users] list jobs is showing zero files for all tape copy jobs

2010-08-16 Thread Dermot Beirne
Hi, I need to restore an important file, and am having trouble. The file restore is from last March. I'm using bacula 3.0.2 on ubuntu 9.04. I usually do as follows: restore - opt 2 - enter filename Then once i have the jobid, use restore option 3 and browse to the file and restore it. It hasn't

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Logging bconsole activity

2010-05-25 Thread Dermot Beirne
Hi, I got no response to my original question below, so I'll try once more. Does anyone know if the actual bconsole commands are logged anywhere. I'm trying to identify if a problem is a configuration issue or human error. Thank you Dermot. -- Forwarded message -- From: Dermot

[Bacula-users] Logging bconsole activity

2010-05-17 Thread Dermot Beirne
Hi, Is it possible to log bconsole actvity, and where is it logging to? I had some issues where it appears an admin forgot to run the mount command after changing tapes, but i want to know if I can confirm this, or if there is another issue i need to be investigating in bacula. I'm using Bacula

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Recycle Pool and autoloaders

2010-03-30 Thread Dermot Beirne
Hi, I got no response to my last question below. Can anyone advise me on this, or do i need to provide more info? I want my tapes to start going back into the Scratch pool automatically, but they are not. Thank you. Dermot. -- Forwarded message -- From: Dermot Beirne

Re: [Bacula-users] Recycle Pool and autoloaders

2010-03-30 Thread Dermot Beirne
Hi, Thanks for replying, I was afraid you might say something like that! It does seem strange that such scripting would be necessary, as anyone with an autoloader must have a similar dilemma. I guess it's one for the wishlist. Anyway, if anyone has already written such a script that i can

Re: [Bacula-users] Recycle Pool and autoloaders

2010-03-30 Thread Dermot Beirne
Hi, I must be missing something here. Every day we take out the tape that was used the night before, and put it in a safe (in case the comms rooms is ever inaccessible). We then look for a tape from the scratch pool to put into the empty slot. This is fine, except that the scratch pool is not

[Bacula-users] Recycle Pool and autoloaders

2010-03-18 Thread Dermot Beirne
Hi, I am using Bacula 3.0.2 on Ubuntu 9.04. I use disk staging backups, first to disk, and then on to tape. The only part i seem to be having a problem with is the recyclepool. It is set to Scratch, but volumes are never moved there, even if status is recycle, full, or used. The technicians