[Bacula-users] Simplified pools

2010-04-06 Thread Craig Ringer
Hi I'm sure many people using disk-based storage find that, like me, they have three pools defined for almost every job or at least class of job, like this: Pool { Name = SystemFullPool Storage = SystemStorage Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 2

[Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-06 Thread Craig Ringer
[initially posted to the wrong address, sorry if it reaches you anyway] Hi all I'm a rather happy Bacula user and have been following the lists quietly for a while. I'm piping up with some ideas and comments based on using Bacula for a couple of years for my work's backup needs. During my own

[Bacula-users] Storage Daemon Maximum Concurrent Jobs

2010-04-06 Thread Beck J Mr
Hi, I have 25 full jobs that run over the weekend, but I want to only allow 10 to run at any one time. Initially I gave the jobs priorities, but this didn't work as some jobs take almost the entire weekend to finish to the lower priority jobs were not starting until Monday morning. So what I

Re: [Bacula-users] Need help debugging SD crash

2010-04-06 Thread Matija Nalis
On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 01:20:49PM -0600, Robert LeBlanc wrote: I'm having problems with our SD and tapes being locked in the drive occasionally. How does it manifest exactly ? bconsole umount command returns error, or remains in some state (check with status storage) ? Which state and/or error

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-06 Thread Kevin Keane
Hi, First of all - I agree that the volume handling on disks is one of bacula's two weakest points. Whether a dedicated disk-based SD would actually solve anything is an open question in my mind, though, because most of the problems come from the overall architecture, and that's largely baked

Re: [Bacula-users] Simplified pools

2010-04-06 Thread Kevin Keane
I second this idea. Maybe you could turn it into a feature request (see the Web site for instructions on how to do that). Your idea would solve very nicely solve one really ugly problem: when manually running a backup job, the job may end up in the wrong pool - even if you actually remembered

[Bacula-users] VirtualFull mysql query blocks other jobs for a long time

2010-04-06 Thread Graham Keeling
Hello, I'm using bacula-5.0.1. I have a 2.33GHz CPU with 2G of RAM. I am using MySQL. I had a VirtualFull scheduled for my client. My log says the following: Apr 4 18:56:02 Start Virtual Backup JobId 56, Job=Linux:cvs.2010-04-04_18.56.00_03 Apr 4 18:56:02 This Job is not an Accurate backup

Re: [Bacula-users] Simplified pools

2010-04-06 Thread Matija Nalis
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 02:36:38PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: I'm sure many people using disk-based storage find that, like me, they have three pools defined for almost every job or at least class of job, like this: You could use standard include (@) feature of bacula configuration files, for

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-06 Thread Craig Ringer
Kevin Keane wrote: Hi, First of all - I agree that the volume handling on disks is one of bacula's two weakest points. Whether a dedicated disk-based SD would actually solve anything is an open question in my mind, though, because most of the problems come from the overall architecture,

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/06/10 02:37, Craig Ringer wrote: Is this insane? Or a viable approach to tackling some of the complexities of faking tape backup on disk as Bacula currently tries to do? Well, just off the top of my head, the first thing that comes to mind is that the only ways such a scheme is not going

Re: [Bacula-users] Simplified pools

2010-04-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/06/10 02:36, Craig Ringer wrote: where they're all pretty repetitive except for the retention periods and volume names. I'm wondering if it'd be worth thinking about extending the director's pool config with a shorthand to allow easier configuration of full/diff/incr pool sets. Here, the

Re: [Bacula-users] Simplified pools

2010-04-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/06/10 06:00, Kevin Keane wrote: Your idea would solve very nicely solve one really ugly problem: when manually running a backup job, the job may end up in the wrong pool - even if you actually remembered to select the correct one. For instance, let's say that the most recent Differential

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-06 Thread Silver Salonen
On Tuesday 06 April 2010 13:46:33 Craig Ringer wrote: I guess if disk-based Devices could be opened multiple times with different volumes, there'd be no real need for the sd to auto-define devices on demand. There are still a few things that don't work well with bacula. Concurrency is one

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/06/10 05:51, Kevin Keane wrote: There are still a few things that don't work well with bacula. Concurrency is one - it should really be possible to open more than one file-based volume at the same time. Automatically deleting file-based volumes from disk is another (I think the new 5.x

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull mysql query blocks other jobs for a long time

2010-04-06 Thread Graham Keeling
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 12:59:49PM +0200, Matija Nalis wrote: On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:13:44AM +0100, Graham Keeling wrote: I'm using bacula-5.0.1. At about Apr 6 10:00, I logged into mysql, and ran 'show full processlist;', which gave the following. | 3033 | root | localhost |

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-06 Thread Henrik Johansen
On 04/ 6/10 02:42 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 04/06/10 02:37, Craig Ringer wrote: Is this insane? Or a viable approach to tackling some of the complexities of faking tape backup on disk as Bacula currently tries to do? Well, just off the top of my head, the first thing that comes to mind is

Re: [Bacula-users] Need help debugging SD crash

2010-04-06 Thread Robert LeBlanc
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:23 AM, Matija Nalis mnalis+bac...@carnet.hrmnalis%2bbac...@carnet.hr wrote: On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 01:20:49PM -0600, Robert LeBlanc wrote: I'm having problems with our SD and tapes being locked in the drive occasionally. How does it manifest exactly ? bconsole

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple drives in changer

2010-04-06 Thread Robert LeBlanc
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Matija Nalis mnalis+bac...@carnet.hrmnalis%2bbac...@carnet.hr wrote: On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 10:36:59AM -0600, Robert LeBlanc wrote: On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:44 AM, Matija Nalis mnalis+bac...@carnet.hrmnalis%2bbac...@carnet.hr I think you need to set

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull mysql query blocks other jobs for a long time

2010-04-06 Thread ebollengier
Hello Graham, Graham Keeling wrote: Hello, I'm using bacula-5.0.1. I have a 2.33GHz CPU with 2G of RAM. I am using MySQL. I had a VirtualFull scheduled for my client. My log says the following: Apr 4 18:56:02 Start Virtual Backup JobId 56, Job=Linux:cvs.2010-04-04_18.56.00_03

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-06 Thread Josh Fisher
On 4/6/2010 8:42 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 04/06/10 02:37, Craig Ringer wrote: Is this insane? Or a viable approach to tackling some of the complexities of faking tape backup on disk as Bacula currently tries to do? Well, just off the top of my head, the first thing that comes

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/06/10 12:06, Josh Fisher wrote: On 4/6/2010 8:42 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 04/06/10 02:37, Craig Ringer wrote: Well, just off the top of my head, the first thing that comes to mind is that the only ways such a scheme is not going to result in massive disk fragmentation are: (a)

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-06 Thread Henrik Johansen
On 04/ 6/10 06:28 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 04/06/10 12:06, Josh Fisher wrote: On 4/6/2010 8:42 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 04/06/10 02:37, Craig Ringer wrote: Well, just off the top of my head, the first thing that comes to mind is that the only ways such a scheme is not going to

Re: [Bacula-users] ./Configure unable to make BACULA-5.0.1 from src

2010-04-06 Thread Martin Simmons
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 14:44:15 + (UTC), jcd95 said: OK. The problem come from : depkgs-qt/qt4/bin/pkg-config which return nothing. depkgs-qt/qt4/bin/pkg-config is an empty shell file. In ./configure for the moment have remplace by hard coding $PKGCONFIG by /usr/bin/pkg-config Now I

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/06/10 14:18, Henrik Johansen wrote: [...] when ZFS flushes its transaction groups to spinning rust. heh. :) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-06 Thread Kevin Keane
-Original Message- From: Phil Stracchino [mailto:ala...@metrocast.net] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 6:05 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd On 04/06/10 05:51, Kevin Keane wrote: There are still a few

Re: [Bacula-users] Simplified pools

2010-04-06 Thread Kevin Keane
I would NOT recommend the AddLevelSuffix directive - that is too inflexible, as well as unnecessary. You can simply include ${Level} in your LabelFormat directive. Note that if you include a variable in the label format, Bacula will no longer automatically append the volume ID.

[Bacula-users] Bacula for disk drives Help

2010-04-06 Thread ikkysleepy
I installed 5.0.1 using this documentation: http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg40959.html The BAT connected to Bacula but the Director Status is not working :( The test backup is still not working Here is all the status: status Select daemon type for

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/06/10 17:17, Kevin Keane wrote: Automatic volume deletion can be handled fairly simply using an admin job that runs a script to delete expired volumes; I've attached mine as an example. I know, that's what I've been doing. But it is a really ugly hack: for such a routine operation,

Re: [Bacula-users] client rejected Hello command

2010-04-06 Thread Roland Roberts
On 03/29/2010 09:59 AM, Roland Roberts wrote: I am routinely getting this after an upgrade of my server from Fedora 8 to Fedora 12 so it is now running Bacula 3.0.3 29-Mar 04:03 archos-dir: BackupCatalog.2010-03-29_01.05.05 Fatal error: File daemon on archos.rlent.pnet:9102 rejected Hello

Re: [Bacula-users] Simplified pools

2010-04-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/06/10 17:26, Kevin Keane wrote: I would NOT recommend the AddLevelSuffix directive - that is too inflexible, as well as unnecessary. You can simply include ${Level} in your LabelFormat directive. Note that if you include a variable in the label format, Bacula will no longer

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula for disk drives Help

2010-04-06 Thread John Drescher
Device status: Device FileStorage (/bacula) is not open.    Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for:       Pool:        File       Media type:  File There are no volumes in your File pool that bacula can use. Either auto labeling is not fully enabled or all volumes are

Re: [Bacula-users] Simplified pools

2010-04-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/06/10 17:28, Kevin Keane wrote: From: Phil Stracchino [mailto:ala...@metrocast.net] Actually, this is a problem which has largely been fixed in Bacula-3 and later, by changing the way overrides work. Really? I see this problem in bacula 3.0.3 all the time. Maybe I need to change

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-06 Thread Robert LeBlanc
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Craig Ringer cr...@postnewspapers.com.au wrote: [snip] Is this insane? Or a viable approach to tackling some of the complexities of faking tape backup on disk as Bacula currently tries to do? I love Bacula and have been working hard to promote it to people I

[Bacula-users] Bacula volume selection -- InChanger

2010-04-06 Thread Tom Eastman
Hey guys, I'm still having trouble controlling which volume bacula chooses to write to when it has plenty of volumes set to 'append'. I *need* bacula to only select a volume to append to that has InChanger=1. I kinda thought that it would do this automatically, at least from what I've read,

[Bacula-users] Bacula for disk drives Help

2010-04-06 Thread ikkysleepy
Thanks for you help. I made a new VM of Ubuntu and followed the steps I listed and then everything works fine now. The problem seems it was with the Postgresql, so I read on a different forum. Anyways, I got Bacula Web Working and the default jobs run, too. The Director Status are still not

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula for disk drives Help

2010-04-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/06/10 22:26, ikkysleepy wrote: Hey, can you tell me if this is possible to search for particular files in the backup? Using what? Do you mean select specific files for restore, or do you mean you want to search backed-up data for a specific file without knowing beforehand where it was

Re: [Bacula-users] Simplified pools

2010-04-06 Thread Craig Ringer
Phil Stracchino wrote: On 04/06/10 17:28, Kevin Keane wrote: From: Phil Stracchino [mailto:ala...@metrocast.net] Actually, this is a problem which has largely been fixed in Bacula-3 and later, by changing the way overrides work. Really? I see this problem in bacula 3.0.3 all the time. Maybe

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-06 Thread Craig Ringer
Phil Stracchino wrote: It is possible right now to open more than one file-based volume at a time. You simply need to define multiple storage devices under the same storage daemon; each device can have one volume open at a time. Yep. My suggestion was merely a way around the inconvenience

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-06 Thread Craig Ringer
Phil Stracchino wrote: On 04/06/10 02:37, Craig Ringer wrote: Is this insane? Or a viable approach to tackling some of the complexities of faking tape backup on disk as Bacula currently tries to do? Well, just off the top of my head, the first thing that comes to mind is that the only ways