Re: [Bacula-users] Why does bacula keep giving me these errors

2010-05-26 Thread randalls
To add to this, apparently this tape is just bad or needs to be erased. I marked it read only and mounted another tape into drive 0 and everything seems to be working. Is there any way for bacula to just say, "Hey this tape is crap, send me an email and load another tape" Thanks, Randall S

Re: [Bacula-users] Why does bacula keep giving me these errors

2010-05-26 Thread randalls
Connecting to Director 10.0.0.176:9101 1000 OK: mlbkp1-dir Version: 5.0.1 (24 February 2010) Enter a period to cancel a command. *status Status available for: 1: Director 2: Storage 3: Client 4: All Select daemon type for status (1-4): 2 Automatically selected Storage: Overland

Re: [Bacula-users] Why does bacula keep giving me these errors

2010-05-26 Thread randalls
To add to this, here is the information about the tape or volume. 118 | 68L3 | Append| 1 | 755,983,807,488 | 759 | 15,984,000 | 1 | 17 | 1 | Ultrium-3 | 2010-05-13 19:07:35 Thanks, Randall Svancara Systems Administrator/DBA/Developer Main Bioinforma

[Bacula-users] Why does bacula keep giving me these errors

2010-05-26 Thread randalls
I have been using bacula for some time with an overland neo 2000. However, Sometimes I receive these errors: You have messages. *messages 26-May 16:07 mlbkp1-sd JobId 3152: 3304 Issuing autochanger "load slot 17, drive 0" command. 26-May 16:08 mlbkp1-sd JobId 3152: 3305 Autochanger "load slot 17

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

2009-07-25 Thread randalls
Let me give you guys the skinny on what an engineer told me who deals a lot with SSDs. They do have limited read write cycles. Under "normal" usage, they last about five years. So I would have to agree with Kevin on this one. On our backup system, the spool drives are used heavily and I wou

Re: [Bacula-users] Power Vault 124t+bacula

2009-07-23 Thread randalls
We have had good look with the Overland Neo 2000 but they have bigger tape libraries as well and you can get them with LTO3 and LTO4 drives. I think pretty much anything that supports mtx or mt commands is compatible with Bacula, of course anyone more knowledgeable than me may know more about

Re: [Bacula-users] How to add volume to pool

2009-07-09 Thread randalls
You can use the "update" command under bconsole to move a volume to a new pool. Thanks, Randall Svancara Systems Administrator/DBA/Developer Main Bioinformatics Laboratory - Original Message - From: "Sachin Holikar (ext)" To: "Bacula-users" Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2009 5:13:04 AM

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs Keep Restarting

2009-07-02 Thread randalls
I see that Bacula 3.0 has a duplicate job control feature. Perhaps I need to upgrade to 3.0 and use this feature. However I believe I have something else wrong in my configuration. I need to read up on the configuration options more. Perhaps there is some setting that I have missed. Anyone

[Bacula-users] Jobs Keep Restarting

2009-07-02 Thread randalls
I have some large backup jobs that run once per month. I have noticed with the jobs start, the seem to create more instances of themselves. For example I have a job named "Utility Coraid Monthly Snapshot Misc" with the ID of 906 . This job started on 2009-07-01 08:27:15 and has been running