[Bacula-users] Spool block too big

2009-08-31 Thread teksupptom
Martin Simmons wrote: I think this can only be caused by a bug, so it is probably a good idead to upgrade to Bacula 3.0.1 to see if that fixes it. Are you using simultaneous jobs? What values does the error give for the sizes of the blocks? __Martin

[Bacula-users] How do Jobs Queue?

2009-08-31 Thread teksupptom
Martin Simmons wrote: I think they are considered in the order that the Job definitions appear in the bacula-dir.conf. To guarantee the order, it is best to use different priorities. I use priorities 1, 2, 3 etc for the backups and 201, 202, 203 etc for the corresponding verifies.

[Bacula-users] method to keep minimum # of backups?

2009-07-30 Thread teksupptom
Mark, My understanding is that Bacula will hold onto the Volume info as long as possible. Also, it won't delete the files from the tape/disk, just the reference to them in the catalog. If you find that you're failing several backups in a row and want to make sure the most recent good backup

[Bacula-users] How do Jobs Queue?

2009-07-30 Thread teksupptom
Greetings! I've been working on adding automated Verify jobs to my configuration. I'd like to abuse my tape drive as little as possible, so I have the backups set to run as a group, then the verifies set to run at a later time as a group. On a normal weeknight (like tonight), I have two

[Bacula-users] Spool block too big

2009-07-16 Thread teksupptom
Hello, We've been intermittently having an issue with backups failing due to the error Spool block too big. It's happened exactly 10 times since 4/27/09. It generally happens during large backups (900GB+). The most recent error happened after the data had been spooled, and was being written

[Bacula-users] Overriding Job and/or File Retention Periods?

2009-06-25 Thread teksupptom
Thanks for the suggestions Dirk. I was afraid that it would come down to scripting; being a temp Student admin I'm trying to keep things as straightforward as possible for the next person who has to deal with it. I was hoping I had missed something and that the Job resource could also set the

[Bacula-users] Passing the current Storage to a Run Before Job script

2009-06-24 Thread teksupptom
Greetings! I'm hopeful that someone can give us a little help. We currently run Bacula 2.4.4. We have backups run on two storage devices, and each device has its own spool file directory. We've created a script that will check the spool directory at the start of each job to make sure that

[Bacula-users] Overriding Job and/or File Retention Periods?

2009-06-24 Thread teksupptom
Greetings! Is there any way, in Bacula 2.4.4, to override the File and/or Job retention period in either the Job, Schedule, or FileSet resource? The reason I ask is that we have a couple of filesets that are extremely large, but only on a handful of clients. We don't have the space to restore

[Bacula-users] Overriding Job and/or File Retention Periods?

2009-06-24 Thread teksupptom
Trying to work around the file/job retention question above, is it possible to set up multiple Client resources for a single client machine, without running multiple file daemons on the client? The way I read the manual, the name given to the client file daemon is what needs to be used for