Re: [Bacula-users] problem with autochanger

2013-03-18 Thread John Drescher
> it think that this autochanger does have barcode reader... can you point me > to the documentation about barcode readers? > http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/main/main/Autochanger_Resource.html John -- Everyone hates

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup of Win7 32bits PC fails

2013-03-18 Thread John Drescher
> any idea, what is causing this error? I know this is not aBacula error, > but an error on the Windows side, but google did not deliver any valid > information when searching for the reported error. > > Any help would be appreciated. Here is the cause: > Driver="Win32 VSS", Drive(s)="C" > 18-Mär

Re: [Bacula-users] problem with autochanger

2013-03-18 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Roberto Scattini wrote: > hi list, > > we have a Dell TL2000 with one robot and two drives, and we cant configure > it. we receive the error "3999 Device "Autochanger" not found or could not > be opened." when we try to label a tape. > Does user bacula (or whateve

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Which full back up is an incremental/differential back up based on if multiple full back ups exist within multiple pools with different retention periods?

2013-03-18 Thread John Drescher
multiple pools with different retention periods? To: John Drescher Makes perfect sense. I was operating under the wrong impression before that they were calculated from the same timestamp which is why rentention and Volume Use Duration were the same value. I'm going to keep the volume use dura

Re: [Bacula-users] Which full back up is an incremental/differential back up based on if multiple full back ups exist within multiple pools with different retention periods?

2013-03-18 Thread John Drescher
> That was why I utilized the Volume Use Duration option. I thought that > regardless of disk space, it should mark the volume as "Used" after the > specified time period. Now if I adjust my retention periods to be shorter > amounts of time, say 1 day, then the volumes should get recycled after > V

Re: [Bacula-users] Which full back up is an incremental/differential back up based on if multiple full back ups exist within multiple pools with different retention periods?

2013-03-18 Thread John Drescher
> No, this was a mistake on my part not properly understanding the Volume > Retention Period Directive. I obviously skimmed through that part of the > documentation and should have paid closer attention. I'm correcting that > error now. Thank you very much for pointing it out. All files are being >

Re: [Bacula-users] Which full back up is an incremental/differential back up based on if multiple full back ups exist within multiple pools with different retention periods?

2013-03-18 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 12:44 PM, John Drescher wrote: >> Pool { >> Name = YearlyPool >> Pool Type = Backup >> Volume Retention = 59 months >> Recycle = yes >> AutoPrune = yes >> Volume Use Duration = 59 months >> } > > BTW, Do y

Re: [Bacula-users] Which full back up is an incremental/differential back up based on if multiple full back ups exist within multiple pools with different retention periods?

2013-03-18 Thread John Drescher
> Pool { > Name = YearlyPool > Pool Type = Backup > Volume Retention = 59 months > Recycle = yes > AutoPrune = yes > Volume Use Duration = 59 months > } BTW, Do you really want to use a volume for 59 months then mark it Used and hold it for a second 59 months before recycling? John -

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error: Device "/tmp" not in SD Device resources.

2013-03-16 Thread John Drescher
> Please find attached both files with passwords removed. > > Hope this will help find the root cause of my problem. Change the Device = /tmp in bacula-dir.conf to Device = FileStorage # Definition of file storage device Storage { Name = File # Do not use "localhost" here Address = localhost

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error: Device "/tmp" not in SD Device resources.

2013-03-16 Thread John Drescher
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 1:46 AM, Jean-Gabriel Duquesnoy wrote: > Hi, > > I have installed Bacula 5.0.2 on Debian 6.0.3 using the packages, I > did not compile and install Bacula from source code. > When going through the tutorial in the documentation, I keep getting > an error upon run, this is th

Re: [Bacula-users] How to remove disk volumes.

2013-03-14 Thread John Drescher
> I've been using Bacula for only a few weeks, so I haven't gotten to the point > where my first backup job is older than my retension time (30 days). I hope you set limits on the volume usage. Remember that the retention period does not even begin until a volume is marked Full or Used. Without l

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO5 performance

2013-03-14 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Sergio Belkin wrote: > Hi folks, > > The performance is very poor, its around 6MB/s !!! > The tape device is an IBM ULT3580-HH5 > > Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 > Vendor: IBM Model: ULT3580-HH5 Rev: BBN3 > Type: Sequential-Access

Re: [Bacula-users] Reducing the maximum number of volumes in a pool

2013-03-12 Thread John Drescher
> some more observations on reducing the numbers of volumes in a pool: I > changed the max volumes from 14 to 8 for a disk based incremental > pool, reloaded the director config and then started manually deleting > volumes using bconsole. > > "list pool" still showed numvols = maxvols = 14 until I

Re: [Bacula-users] tapes randomly become unrecognizeable

2013-03-12 Thread John Drescher
> Hi John, I just checked with the guy who started printing labels and he said > he started doing that in 2009. We didn't really notice issues until we > switched to Bacula (from Netvault), so they were working fine for at least 3 > years. I wonder if it's possible that Bacula drives the bar code r

[Bacula-users] Fwd: tapes randomly become unrecognizeable

2013-03-12 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Drescher Date: Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:33 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] tapes randomly become unrecognizeable To: Simon Tyler On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Simon Tyler wrote: > AFAIK we didn't have issues at first either.

Re: [Bacula-users] tapes randomly become unrecognizeable

2013-03-11 Thread John Drescher
> DO NOT PRINT YOUR OWN LABELS > EVER I have for the last 100 or so tapes and I have had 0 issues with that. John -- Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security,

Re: [Bacula-users] about pruning and IO

2013-03-06 Thread John Drescher
> The pruning takes for ever then when its ready Pruning should not take forever. I would work on tuning your DB. John -- Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Secur

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to perform a backup for Sql Server 2012

2013-03-05 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Carlo Filippetto wrote: > Hi all, > as I write in the subject I need to backup Sql Server 2012, you have > any idea on how to optimize the process and have a consistend DB > > I thought to make a dump script and backup it, but how? > Any other ideas? > > Thank you.

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with concurrent mixed priority jobs

2013-03-05 Thread John Drescher
> Is it possible to instruct bacula to let lower priority job be scheduled not > worrying about the priority of current scheduled jobs but only on the number > of free job slots? > No. If you want concurrency make all jobs that you want to run concurrently run at the same priority. John

Re: [Bacula-users] List all JOBS of every CATALOGS

2013-03-05 Thread John Drescher
> i'd like to use the standard bacula console commands instead of do some bash > tricks every time. > > should i ask for this feature in the developer list? > You can submit a feature request however do not expect your feature request to be implemented any time soon for the community version unles

Re: [Bacula-users] Where is win32-5.2.12.exe?

2013-03-03 Thread John Drescher
> I've installed bacula 5.2.12 on Fedora 18 and should now proceed installing > the > windows client on a windows 7 system but win32-5.2.12.exe is nowhere to find. > Is > it safe to install win32-5.2.10.exe instead because that can be downloaded > from > the bacula project? > Yes it is safe to

Re: [Bacula-users] disk-changer vs. vchanger

2013-03-02 Thread John Drescher
> Is it vchanger that is generally used for this purpose, or are there some > other tools available? Or does everyone just silently write their own > scripts? The latest update to vchanger seems to be from 2010 -which of > course isn't a problem if it works anyway. > I can tell you that vchanger w

Re: [Bacula-users] bscan will take...34 years!?!?

2013-02-21 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Michael Stauffer wrote: > Hi everyone, > > So I've finally got my bscan running after your help in previous posts > - thanks. But am worried that it's on track to take 34 years to > complete!! > > I'm recreating a database from tapes after a hard-drive corruption.

Re: [Bacula-users] How to check volumes integrity and dimension

2013-02-21 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Carlo Filippetto wrote: > Hi, > I migrate bacula to new infrastracture. In several other time when the jobs > run I had an orror about the difference of volume's dimension. > Ther's a way to check it before? > Are you talking about the error message that says the

Re: [Bacula-users] Marking new Volume in Error Catalog

2013-02-15 Thread John Drescher
> No there is still free space on the device, should the error message not > something like "no space left on device" if the filesystem is full? No if the filesystem containing the volumes is Full bacula will just mark all volumes it tries to create on that filesysem as Full and not issue any comp

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore Error

2013-02-13 Thread John Drescher
> I have two drives in my tape library. Is there a way for me to create a > device that won't eat up my second drive if I'm not running a restore? I think you can make a third device that points to the same physical device. Although I would wait on others who have got around this issue. John ---

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore Error

2013-02-13 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Craig Van Tassle wrote: > I recently upgraded my tape library to LTO-6 Tapes. I need to read from > my older LTO-4 tapes. > > When I run a restore I get > > director-sd acquire.c:121 Changing read device. Want Media Type="LTO-4" > have="LTO-6" > device="LTO6-0"

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger Tandberg

2013-02-09 Thread John Drescher
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 10:50 AM, "Jürgen Ecker" wrote: > Hi, > > thanks for help! See below. > > Original-Nachricht >> Datum: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 14:52:40 +0100 >> Von: "Radosław Korzeniewski" >> An: "Jürgen Ecker" >> CC: bacula-users >> Betreff: Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger Tan

Re: [Bacula-users] dell PV-124T works with btape, but not with jobs

2013-02-08 Thread John Drescher
> [root@d0lphb040 bacula]# sudo -u bacula tapeinfo -f /dev/nst0 > mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes > mtx: Request Sense: Valid Residual=no > mtx: Request Sense: Error Code=0 (Unknown?!) > mtx: Request Sense: Sense Key=No Sense > mtx: Request Sense: FileMark=no > mtx: Request Sense: EOM=no > mtx:

Re: [Bacula-users] dell PV-124T works with btape, but not with jobs

2013-02-08 Thread John Drescher
> well, ill retry them all again, but the drive works enough to label all > the barcodes in the drive. > > Pool: TapeArchiveFullBackups > +-++---+-+--+--+--- > ---+-+--+ > | mediaid | volumename | volstatus | enabled | volbytes

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Full's - Waiting for Storage

2013-02-06 Thread John Drescher
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/vchanger/ > I've been playing a bit with the vchanger and disk-changer now. > But am I right about the following: > > You can specify a number of slots, but there is a hardcoded slot limit, > so also a hardcoded Volume Limit? > > Because currenly I have "Max Jobs

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Full's - Waiting for Storage

2013-02-06 Thread John Drescher
> Not the pool, your storage has two devices. For multiple devices in a > Backup2Disk Storage you have to use a script to emulate a tape library > with two or more devices and an autochanger. For Bacula your Backup2Disk > storage is like a library with one tape. Agreed. For disk based storage I hi

Re: [Bacula-users] Running one director with mixed db backends / catalogs?

2013-02-06 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 11:32:51AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: >> On 2013-02-05 10:20, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: >> >Hi folks, >> > >> >we'd like to test a new postgres backend (one catalog for a couple of >> >clients) to compare it to the existin

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple tape drives

2013-02-04 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Jonathan Horne wrote: > My boss needs me to take the 2 tape drives inside the PV4000 and form them > into 1 logical drive and stripe the backups across them simultaneously. > Please help me figure this out, is this possible? > Not directly with bacula. John -

Re: [Bacula-users] full and incremental backups

2013-02-02 Thread John Drescher
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 7:03 AM, John Drescher wrote: > On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:56 AM, Süleyman Kuran wrote: >> Hi List, >> >> I am scheduling montly backups to move to an off-site location in case of a >> disaster. Monthly backup job copies a full backup 1st friday n

[Bacula-users] Fwd: full and incremental backups

2013-02-02 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Drescher Date: Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 7:03 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] full and incremental backups To: Süleyman Kuran On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:56 AM, Süleyman Kuran wrote: > Hi List, > > I am scheduling montly backups to move to an

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error: Device reservation failed

2013-02-01 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:58 PM, wrote: > Hello Bacula Friends, > > I was on the IRC channel asking for help and after two days compdoc > suggest me to try the mailing list. Well, this is the situation: > > I'm using Bacula 5.2.12 on FreeBSD 9.1 amd64, with a DELL TL4000 (4 > drives LTO5 & autocha

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental upgraded to full

2013-02-01 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Rao, Uthra R. (GSFC-672.0)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC] wrote: > I have a full backup of a client (jobid 4261 below). I even tested it by > running a small restore (jobid=4315 below). I am not sure why my Incremental > backups are upgrading to FULL backup and then I have to c

Re: [Bacula-users] why long times with no writes?

2013-01-30 Thread John Drescher
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:46 PM, John Drescher wrote: >> Also check for database activity. If you did not tune your DB server >> and you have millions of files the DB inserts could take a long time. > > Hmmm, there is about 900,000 files on that filesystem. > > J

Re: [Bacula-users] why long times with no writes?

2013-01-30 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:16 PM, John Drescher wrote: >> Check the CPU load on the server and client. > > Normal right now (1.5) but it is writing again. I'll check next time > I notice it. > > But client and serv

Re: [Bacula-users] why long times with no writes?

2013-01-30 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > I am monitoring that dump that got upgraded to full and sometimes > there are very long times with no writes, at least according to "list > media" > > The timestamp here is about 34 minutes ago : > > | 74 | 12L4 | Append| 1

Re: [Bacula-users] Why am I full dumping today?

2013-01-30 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > oh it could also be because of my futzing about reformatting tapes :-) > Maybe the system finally realised it did not have a full afterall, > which I think is plausible now that I think of it. I believe if you deleted, pruned or purged any tap

Re: [Bacula-users] Why am I full dumping today?

2013-01-30 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > My dump is taking many hours and judging by the tape usage I am > seeing, it must be doing a full dump. > > But it is not supposed to do that til the weekend. I can't see how > that filesystem could have that much delta since yesterday. > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Set more then 3 pools in a backup job

2013-01-28 Thread John Drescher
> My aim is to have daily backups which persist 1 month, and 3-hourly backups > which persist only 2 days. > Is there a different solution to achieve that instead of using 2 different > pools? > It will not work this way. I assume you do not want to do a full every night that you can use with th

Re: [Bacula-users] decrease File-Retention

2013-01-28 Thread John Drescher
> i have a file-retention of 14 days and want it to decrease to 7 days. If I > understand it right, then it would only change the database entrys and purge > the other 7 days if i decrease the file-retention. How can I completly remove > the old files so i get the free space back. I want only th

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula - how to install only storage daemon

2013-01-28 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:01 AM, rout wrote: > Good Morning everybody, > > I`m a SysAdmin from Germany. My English is not very good so I hope you can > understand me. > > I惴 testing Bacula to install at our scientific linux servers - and now I want > to install on a 2nd server only the storage-d

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I add /etc/bacula to the "Catalog" backup?

2013-01-25 Thread John Drescher
> You could of course opt to use gzip or bzip2 to compress the file on disk > before backing it up; for these sql files it will manage a very significant > comression ratio. > I do have gzip enabled for that and it compresses down to somewhere between 2 and 4GB. John

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I add /etc/bacula to the "Catalog" backup?

2013-01-25 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Alan McKay > wrote: >> File = "/var/lib/bacula/bacula.sql" > > I went looking for this file out of curiousity, and found it was not there. > > But upon further digging, it looks like the script dumps the DB

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I add /etc/bacula to the "Catalog" backup?

2013-01-25 Thread John Drescher
> Seems to make sense to me since the catalog backup is already > happening, but maybe this is a bad idea for some reason? > > If it is OK to do that, are there any others I should add? > > FileSet { > Name = "Catalog" > Include { > Options { > signature = MD5 > } > File = "/v

Re: [Bacula-users] volume retention: how does it work?

2013-01-24 Thread John Drescher
> Now when I do: list volume > > It shows the list of tapes, with VolRetention set to 2,592,000. > > When I do: show pools > > It shows VolRetention = 1 month > > So I scratched my head for awhile more and eventually guessed that there are > 2,592,000 seconds in 30 days. > > Now, when I do a: statu

[Bacula-users] Fwd: where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Drescher Date: Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:05 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] where to start? To: Alan McKay On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:01 PM, John Drescher wrote: >> That is with the

Re: [Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:59 PM, John Drescher wrote: >> OK, I'm back to my original question in this thread - is there not a >> better quick start guide out there somewhere? > > I really can not help with that. I have used bacula for over a decade. > I have not looke

Re: [Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread John Drescher
> OK, I'm back to my original question in this thread - is there not a > better quick start guide out there somewhere? I really can not help with that. I have used bacula for over a decade. I have not looked at a guide in at least 8 years.. John --

Re: [Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Alan McKay > wrote: >> Default by the looks of it. > > Well, I sort of have all the tapes in 2 pools by the looks of it. I > recall futzing around and setting up a pool with a prefix of "BACULA" > but I did n

Re: [Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:29 PM, John Drescher wrote: >> When you labeled the barcodes did you put them into the Scratch pool >> or the Default pool? > > Default by the looks of it. How about the output of list media poo

Re: [Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Alan McKay > wrote: >> So I'll see what I can make of running the job from the non GUI console. > > It did not complete properly > > *status storage > The defined Storage resources are: > 1: File > 2:

Re: [Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > Things are looking up ... > > *label barcodes > Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog > Using Catalog "MyCatalog" > The defined Storage resources are: > 1: File > 2: SL24 > Select Storage resource (1-2): 2 > Connecting to Storage d

Re: [Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp > wrote: >> check the mail archive, I think Ken pointed out a recently published >> ebook about bacula. While I haven't read it myself yet, I think it >> would get you going quite quickly. > > F

Re: [Bacula-users] Catalog recycling

2013-01-22 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Cleuson Alves wrote: > > Hello, I have noticed that as not recycle my catalog but the volumes, after > a period, the catalog looking for a content that is no longer in the system > as the message "For one or more of the JobIds selected, the files were found > , so

Re: [Bacula-users] Increme job_backup.2013 has a fatal error

2013-01-22 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 7:29 PM, UserMOP wrote: > Status dir: > > JobId Level Name Status > == > 10079 Increme job_backup.2013-01-22_14.46.39_03 has a fatal error > 10087 Fulljob2_backup.2013-01-23_

Re: [Bacula-users] Increme job_backup.2013 has a fatal error

2013-01-22 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 7:01 PM, UserMOP wrote: > Thanks for your quick responses and suggestions. Not that I know off. Quickly > checked our script folders and start up folders, nothing points to bacula. > > I have cancelled all the pending and queued up jobs other than the one needed > to comp

Re: [Bacula-users] Increme job_backup.2013 has a fatal error

2013-01-22 Thread John Drescher
> The good news is bacula-sd is running. Not stopped. However looking at the > logs it is clear that sd crashed. Not sure if that helps you? Do you have an os mechanism in place to restart crashed daemons? John -- Maste

Re: [Bacula-users] Increme job_backup.2013 has a fatal error

2013-01-22 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 6:11 PM, UserMOP wrote: > Hello, > > Overnight we have noticed that bacula requested a new tape which was not > loaded into auto changer. This morning when we loaded it we noticed that some > jobs (belonging in the same pool but also in the queued pool) all had fatal > e

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Is my tape jukebox borked?

2013-01-22 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: Alan McKay Date: Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:51 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Is my tape jukebox borked? To: John Drescher On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:44 PM, John Drescher wrote: > Are you sure /dev/sg0 is the changer? Evidently not! OK, this gets

Re: [Bacula-users] Is my tape jukebox borked?

2013-01-22 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > Hi folks, > > I started out with bacula 3 or 4 months ago but as it turned out the > card I was using did not properly recognize the tape changer. The > whole thing got sidetracked for a while but now I'm back with a new > card which seems to s

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Using Bacula Windows Client

2013-01-19 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: S. Kremer Date: Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 9:42 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Using Bacula Windows Client To: John Drescher Hi John thank you for your answer. > Officially you are supposed to use a client version that is lower than > or equal

Re: [Bacula-users] Using Bacula Windows Client

2013-01-19 Thread John Drescher
> i installed bacula server on debian squeeze 64 bit system. i used bacula > from debian repository with bacula version 5.0.2. > > can i use bacula windows client version 5.2.10 on windows clients to > work with the debian bacula version 5.0.2? Or do i have to use the same > bacula windows client v

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula tape rotation

2013-01-17 Thread John Drescher
> I have one question abou backup plan. > > I have 500GB web partition I want to backup, I have IBM TS3200 Library and > two 800GB Tapes > > My plan is that Sunday at 2 a.m. I will make full backup and then every day > Incremental at 2.a.m at first tape. > Next Sunday I will make again full back

Re: [Bacula-users] backup vs restore performance

2013-01-14 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Steve Thompson wrote: > Bacula 5.2.10, CentOS 5/6, x86_64. > > Just a curiosity. I note that full backup performance across many systems > is typically in the 6-10 MB/sec range; I am using GZIP4 and the backups > are typically compute bound doing software compressi

Re: [Bacula-users] restore performance

2013-01-14 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 08:24:07AM -0500, John Drescher wrote: >> > I just ran into this. After a Google search, I turned up an article that >> > says the indices that used to make Bacula run faster now caus

Re: [Bacula-users] restore performance

2013-01-14 Thread John Drescher
> I just ran into this. After a Google search, I turned up an article that > says the indices that used to make Bacula run faster now cause a performance > problem with recent versions of Bacula and recent versions of MySQL (it's on > the Bacula wiki, the address for which I don't have handy). I re

Re: [Bacula-users] getting my tape drive online

2013-01-09 Thread John Drescher
BTW, Here is a link about testing and customizing the mtx-changer script: http://www.freebsddiary.org/tape-library.php It is for FreeBSD but even for linux the procedure will be similar even though device names will be different. John

Re: [Bacula-users] getting my tape drive online

2013-01-09 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Jonathan Horne wrote: > > > On 1/9/13 4:56 PM, "John Drescher" wrote: > >>> This is my section for my tape drive, i am not sure what i should edit >>>as >>> far as the mtx-changer. >>> >> >>I ex

Re: [Bacula-users] getting my tape drive online

2013-01-09 Thread John Drescher
> This is my section for my tape drive, i am not sure what i should edit as > far as the mtx-changer. > I expect you need to test the functionality of mtx directly and edit the file /usr/libexec/bacula/mtx-changer to make sure the load command and other mtx-changer commands are working. John ---

Re: [Bacula-users] getting my tape drive online

2013-01-09 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Jonathan Horne wrote: > i have a 44 slot PV-TL4000 that i have just brought online with my bacula. > my first attempt at labeling the media based on the barcodes failed. below > is the output, can anyone give me some ideas on what to start checking? > > > *label ba

Re: [Bacula-users] Marking new Volume in Error Catalog

2013-01-09 Thread John Drescher
> last night my bacula backups end with some errors, caused by the following > message: > > 08-Jan 20:00 bacula01-sd JobId 70123: End of Volume "VolD-6643" at 0:0 on > device "DiskStorD" (/backup/diskstore04). Write of 207 bytes got -1. > 08-Jan 20:00 bacula01-sd JobId 70123: End of Volume "VolD-66

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot start bacula-fd on Windows XP Professional

2013-01-08 Thread John Drescher
> in my case it were errors in the config file most of the time. On one > occasion if have screwed the permissions so loading dlls was not > possible... This should be the first place to check since the installer generates an invalid config by default (or at least it did for some time). John ---

Re: [Bacula-users] restore from expired tapes

2013-01-04 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Rao, Uthra R. (GSFC-672.0)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC] wrote: > John, > > I just have one more question. If a tape has expired because of the volume > retention period and the job record is in intact in the catalog will the > incremental backup for a given client continue

Re: [Bacula-users] restore from expired tapes

2013-01-04 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Rao, Uthra R. (GSFC-672.0)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC] wrote: > John, > > We have only volume retention set for the pools. I have not set job and file > retention for the different pools. So, in my case when a tape is expired the > catalog record remains intact until such

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to multiple disks

2013-01-03 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Silas Moeckel wrote: > Yes and no you will want to use vchanger it's an add on and works > wonderfully. Pretty much it turn each drive into a virtual magazine. I second the bacula vchanger suggestion. http://sourceforge.net/projects/vchanger/ John -

Re: [Bacula-users] restore from expired tapes

2013-01-03 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Rao, Uthra R. (GSFC-672.0)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC] wrote: > Thank you all for your response. So, I understand that if I have an expired > tape in the pool and want to restore something from that tape it is possible > using "bextract" or "bscan". Remember that bscan

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Cannot save the backup to an external disk

2012-12-19 Thread John Drescher
Drescher I thought I have to compile the pkg first “bacaula-client-5.0.0-9.el6x86_64”. On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:27 AM, John Drescher wrote: > > > I am still trying to get my backup to work. I really appreciate your help on > > this. > > > Yon need to: > > 1.

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot save the backup to an external disk

2012-12-19 Thread John Drescher
> I am still trying to get my backup to work. I really appreciate your help on > this. > Yon need to: 1. Add an additional File storage device to bacula-sd.conf naming it differently than the previous file storage device 2. Add additional entry in bacula-dir.conf for the second storage device. 3

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula FileDev and OpenDedup (sdfs)

2012-12-18 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:35 AM, tonyalbers wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've created a sdfs mount, but when I do backups using bacula to a file > device on the sdfs mount, the dedupe ratio is almost 0, I've run 3 full > backups from the same client, each job is about 2 GB: > > [root@dkarhbus02 d0-sdf

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula multi client disk backup with volume rotation

2012-12-18 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Nasos Nikologiannis wrote: > I am planning an enterprise-level network backup solution with the following > requirements/restrictions: > > -Local and remote servers with heterogenous operating systems > (Linux,Windows) > -Backup policy that dictates backup data ava

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot save the backup to an external disk

2012-12-16 Thread John Drescher
> Make a second storage device. > > > Storage { > Name = MySecondStorage > Address = server1 > Password = "xxx" > Device = /mnt/disk1 > > ... I was talking about adding additional Device resources to bacula-sd.conf, however I see what I posted was not a correct Device. My mind is in a different pl

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Cannot save the backup to an external disk

2012-12-16 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Drescher Date: Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 9:03 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot save the backup to an external disk To: Pinky Vivona On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Pinky Vivona wrote: > Hi John, > > I am still not sure what to do

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot save the backup to an external disk

2012-12-16 Thread John Drescher
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Pinky Vivona wrote: > Hello, > > How I can I separate a backup and save them in a different location? I tried > to give it a path and got an error. > Give it a different storage device. > > Currently everything (full, and incremental pools) are backed up in the

Re: [Bacula-users] Director can't talk to storage daemon

2012-12-14 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Jan Martin wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm having trouble with my new bacula setup. I had it running fine on > Linux Mint 13, went to Mint 14, set up the configuration files as I had > them set up before, and now cannot talk to the storage daemon. Here's > the statu

Re: [Bacula-users] [OT] Backup Central

2012-12-12 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Dan Langille wrote: > Backup Central is a forum which does a two-way mirror of our mailing > list. > You'll know the posts to the list which originate at BC from the From > address. > > I'm all for having web-based access for Bacula help. > > You'll also know the B

Re: [Bacula-users] unsubscribe

2012-12-05 Thread John Drescher
>unsubscribe I think you need to follow the link that can be found at the bottom of every list email to do that. > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > -- John M. Drescher

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs previously working but now only 2

2012-12-03 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Jonathan Horne wrote: > A previous test build, i had concurrent jobs working, that my systems would > backup 4 at a time. Now that I've taken it down and rebuilt it, I've > obviously missed something because even tho i have: > > Director {

Re: [Bacula-users] BAT problems - Restore

2012-12-03 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Pedro Bordin Hoffmann wrote: > It doesnt show the files to Mark. just freezes there. When I select the > option "Select files to restore". > If I use bconsole, I can restore it normal. > But I need the BAT for nvl 1 users. Cancel my previous message. I tried on my

Re: [Bacula-users] BAT problems - Restore

2012-12-03 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Pedro Bordin Hoffmann wrote: > Hello!! > > Im having problems all the time with BAT when I need to restore files. > In almost every server that I need, when I try to restore using BAT for > Windows... 64, 32 bits, or Windows 2008, 2003 and XP is the same. > > BAT ju

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula query

2012-11-23 Thread John Drescher
> > When i tried to run file daemon in bacula 5.2.6 it is giving following > error: > > "error while loading shared libraries: libbacfind-5.2.6.so: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory" > > I am not able to figureout how to solve this error. > > Any help in this regard highly

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula tapes marked FULL too early - VolBytes too low

2012-11-20 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:30 AM, John Drescher wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Jacky Carimalo > wrote: >> I put Volume Use Duration = 36 months, >> but always having sometimes : >> >> Error: block.c:590 Write error at 88:2499 on device "OVL_LTO-3

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula tapes marked FULL too early - VolBytes too low

2012-11-20 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Jacky Carimalo wrote: > I put Volume Use Duration = 36 months, > but always having sometimes : > > Error: block.c:590 Write error at 88:2499 on device "OVL_LTO-3_Drive-2" > (/dev/st0). ERR=Erreur d'entrée/sortie. > Error: Error writing final EOF to tape. This Volu

Re: [Bacula-users] Webacula cannot execute bconsole

2012-11-19 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Ryan Jantz wrote: > Hello, > I've been banging around on this for a couple days, searching the web with > no solution yet. I'm hoping someone can help. > > I installed Bacula 5.0.0 on CentOS 6.3 and it works fine. I installed > Webacula 5.5.1 and am getting the fo

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula tapes marked FULL too early - VolBytes too low

2012-11-18 Thread John Drescher
> I am currently running a backup job of 1 large iso file and checking the logs > to see what it could be. Perhaps an issue with software rather than hardware. > We look after our drive well with cleans whenever asked by the machine. We > have a EXABYTE Model: LTO 1x7 2U. If it is software then

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula tapes marked FULL too early - VolBytes too low

2012-11-15 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:07 PM, UserMOP wrote: > Hello, > > First time poster, love the community, been reading it for years but never > had an issue worth posting, until today. :) > > Using Bacula Version: 5.0.1 (24 February 2010). > > Our brand new LTO3 tapes are filling up too quick. Tapes th

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