[Bacula-users] write error
Hello, sometimes I have write error messages during my full backup (on tapes) : 12-Oct 18:44 phoenix-sd: BebifFullBackup.2005-10-12_06.00.00 Error: block.c:552 Write error at 15:111 on device /dev/st0. ERR=Input/output error. 12-Oct 18:44 phoenix-sd: BebifFullBackup.2005-10-12_06.00.00 Error: Error writing final EOF to tape. This tape may not be readable. dev.c:1213 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/st0. ERR=Input/output error. any idea what could be the reason to this ? I'm quite sure the problem is not the tapes ... Thanks --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Recycling volumes
Hello, I am having a lot of trouble with my bacula configuration. - I have one LTO device with 1 manual tape. - I labeled 6 tapes for MON,TUE,WEN,THU,FRY,SAT. So I have 6 volumes with one tape each. - I used the sample configuration with Pools assiging one volume per day. - I lowered the volume retention to just 10 hours per volume. - I assigned the max number of jobs to the number of jobs I run nightly, so to have all the jobs on each volume each day. - I used the Max Start Delay flag to let bacula cancel any job that is in late. Then if the user insert the wrong tape for one day, bacula never cancel the job, and continue to ask for another volume, until I cancel the job by hands. Why? Also, when something wrong happens, so that a tape have less jobs backed up than the max number of jobs, next time the volume will be in append mode, messing all the original idea (even though I have a low volume retention, that should tell bacula to recycle every day). What am I missing?! Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY http://www.sonicle.com
Re: [Bacula-users] Recycling volumes
Hello, On 13.10.2005 10:50, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Hello, I am having a lot of trouble with my bacula configuration. - I have one LTO device with 1 manual tape. - I labeled 6 tapes for MON,TUE,WEN,THU,FRY,SAT. So I have 6 volumes with one tape each. - I used the sample configuration with Pools assiging one volume per day. So, do I undertand correctly that you have a pool MON, a pool TUE, and so on? - I lowered the volume retention to just 10 hours per volume. - I assigned the max number of jobs to the number of jobs I run nightly, so to have all the jobs on each volume each day. - I used the Max Start Delay flag to let bacula cancel any job that is in late. Then if the user insert the wrong tape for one day, bacula never cancel the job, and continue to ask for another volume, until I cancel the job by hands. Why? Because the job was started in time. You want Max Wait Time. And it asks because it needs a volume from the given pool, not from another pool. The usual setup is to use one pool and put all your daily tapes into it. Also, when something wrong happens, so that a tape have less jobs backed up than the max number of jobs, next time the volume will be in append mode, messing all the original idea (even though I have a low volume retention, that should tell bacula to recycle every day). What am I missing?! The Volume Use Duration setting is better for what you want. Arno http://www.sonicle.com Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY http://www.sonicle.com -- IT-Service Lehmann[EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Bacula tape handling.
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 09:56 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Tuesday 11 October 2005 09:06, Erik P. Olsen wrote: How does Bacula handle foreign tapes? I am currently using Amanda for back-up but planning to switch to Bacula and sometimes I erroneously leave an Amanda labeled tape in the tape drive. I see the error when Bacula complains about the tape and pull it out, but later when Amanda recycles the tape it cannot read it and reports i/o error. dd if=/dev/nst0 cannot read it either and the only way to recover the tape is to erase it and relabel. Shouldn't Bacula leave the tape untouched when it sees that it does not carry the correct Bacula label? Unless you have setup for Bacula to automatically label tape (or explicitly do a label command), Bacula will not write to a non-Bacula tape. No, I don't have automatic labeling specified and haven't issued any label command. However, depending on what version of Bacula you are running, it will automatically modify your tape drive parameters (variable blocksize, ...) to be compatible with how Bacula uses tapes. If you subsequently try to use the drive and the program is expecting a different mode (fixed blocksize, ...) it will fail. This sounds possible, but a closer investigation proves that it cannot be the case. I have stopped the bacula tests for a couple of days and today a tape showed the same i/o error symptom and only amanda has used the tape drive the last three times it was used, so drive settings should be OK. I get the following using dd on the tape: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ dd if=/dev/nst0 dd: reading `/dev/nst0': Input/output error 0+0 records in 0+0 records out My conclusion is that since I only use bacula and amanda with the tape drive then bacula has indeed caused the failure (it can hardly be dd or mt). My experience with tapes comes from mainframes and there this type of error would occur with a variable blocked tape where the block size or record size was wrongly recorded on the tape. Could that be the case here? -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Recycling volumes
Hello,
for a daily rotation I think that you may not lower the volume retention
but limit the volume use duration to force bacula to use another tape
every day.
For example on my daily rotation I use : Volume Use Duration = 19 h
And also Recycle Current Volume = yes; so if the volume in the taper
could be reused ('recycled' according to the time retention).
You can also use Accept Any Volume = yes; to force the reuse of the
actual volume.
Loïs
Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
Hello,
I am having a lot of trouble with my bacula configuration.
- I have one LTO device with 1 manual tape.
- I labeled 6 tapes for MON,TUE,WEN,THU,FRY,SAT. So I have 6 volumes
with one tape each.
- I used the sample configuration with Pools assiging one volume per day.
- I lowered the volume retention to just 10 hours per volume.
- I assigned the max number of jobs to the number of jobs I run
nightly, so to have all the jobs on each volume each day.
- I used the Max Start Delay flag to let bacula cancel any job that is
in late.
Then if the user insert the wrong tape for one day, bacula never
cancel the job, and continue to ask for another volume, until I cancel
the job by hands. Why?
Also, when something wrong happens, so that a tape have less jobs
backed up than the max number of jobs, next time the volume will be in
append mode, messing all the original idea (even though I have a low
volume retention, that should tell bacula to recycle every day).
What am I missing?!
http://www.sonicle.com
Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l.
Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880
Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY
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[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Restore from multiple Media Types
Please see the attached file for an explanation and possible work around. This file may be somewhat out of date as it was written over a year ago. On Thursday 13 October 2005 09:40, Thorsten Engel wrote: Dear group, I regarded myself as very clever when trying to setup the backup strategy to Monthly Full-Tape Weekly Differential-Tape Daily Incremental-Disk It works nice until it comes to restore. Ok, manual restore of the separate jobs does work, but restore of recent client backup does not because bacula claims the jobids you selected refer to more than one mediatype. Well, I think the problem ist not the MediaType (SDLT - DISK) but more the Storage Device (NEO Lib - RAID) From my understanding the main problem for bacula is that it only allows (and needs!) 1 storage resource for the restore job. With a little help I would be able to code that in myself, or do you see any larger problems doing so? From my understanding the main problem for bacula is that it only allows (and needs!) 1 storage resource for the restore job. With a little help I would be able to code that in myself, or do you see any larger problems doing so? I think it would be _very nice_ to have this. Distributing backup jobs over different storage devices is no bad idea in my eyes. Best regards Thorsten Engel --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Bacula-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel -- Best regards, Kern ( /\ V_V If you run a backup job with two different types of media, for example, using a DLT for full saves and a DDS-4 for incremental, you will have some difficulties doing restores because Bacula doesn't yet know how to deal with multiple media types for a single job name (multiple jobs run). When you do a restore command, bacula will warn you that it is not possible to do the restore: Warning, the JobIds that you selected refer to more than one MediaType. Restore is not possible. The MediaTypes used are: File Filea The defined Storage resources are: 1: DDS-4 2: DLTDrive 3: File 4: Floppy Select Storage resource (1-4): 3 where I have run the full save with MediaType File, then ran an incremental backup with MediaType Filea. If you select device 3, for example, Bacula will quite happily continue mixing the two MediaTypes with less than satisfactory results when the Storage daemon gets the job. The solution is to continue and select the files to be restored. In the example below, I simply restore everything (default): You are now entering file selection mode where you add and remove files to be restored. All files are initially added. Enter done to leave this mode. cwd is: / $ done Bootstrap records written to /home/kern/bacula/working/restore.bsr The restore job will require the following Volumes: test12 Test13 121 files selected to be restored. Run Restore job JobName:kernsrestore Bootstrap: /home/kern/bacula/working/restore.bsr Where: /tmp/bacula-restores Replace:always FileSet:Kerns Files Client: Rufus Storage:File When: 2003-12-07 21:44:25 Priority: 10 OK to run? (yes/mod/no): no then respond no to the request to run the job. At this point, you must edit the bootstrap file (saved in /home/kern/bacula/working/restore.bsr in the above example) into two or more distinct bootstrap files. Each should have the records that pertain to a single MediaType. You generally should know by looking at the Volume names. In the above example, there were two volumes, and if I do a list volumes, one can see clearly that volume test12 is MediaType File and Test13 is MediaType Filea: +-++---+--+---+ | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | VolBytes | MediaType | +-++---+--+---+ | 1 | test12 | Append| 1994210 | File | | 2 | Test13 | Append| 53898| Filea | +-++---+--+---+ where I have truncated a number of columns for display purposes. In my example, the bootstrap file looks like: restore.bsr --- Volume=test12 VolSessionId=1 VolSessionTime=1070829472 VolFile=0 VolBlock=197-1994406 FileIndex=1-58 FileIndex=61-106 FileIndex=109-110 FileIndex=112-116 FileIndex=119-120 Count=113 Volume=Test13 VolSessionId=2 VolSessionTime=1070829596 VolFile=0 VolBlock=576-54095 FileIndex=1-8 Count=8 and it is quite easy to separate it into two files as:
Re: [Bacula-users] special characters
Maurizio Santini wrote: Hi all, I trying to exclude a directory from the backup but I cannot because of the accent on ó. How could I achieve that? If Arno's suggestion on character sets doesn't sort you out, you could replace the ó with a ? (or a . if you were using RegexFile, which doesn't yet work on the Windows fd, IIRC) File = C:/Documents and Settings/mperez/Configuración local/Historial -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Recycling volumes
Yes, I used one Volume per pool as stated in the sample of the pdf documentation. Oh, maybe Max Wait Time will be helpful. I'll try. About Volume Use Duration...reading the documentation I understand that its use is for telling bacula how long the tape can be used, then consider it dead. Isn't it? Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY http://www.sonicle.com --Da: Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]A: Gabriele Bulfon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Data: 13 ottobre 2005 11.24.06 CESTOggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] Recycling volumesHello, On 13.10.2005 10:50, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Hello, I am having a lot of trouble with my bacula configuration. - I have one LTO device with 1 manual tape. - I labeled 6 tapes for MON,TUE,WEN,THU,FRY,SAT. So I have 6 volumes with one tape each. - I used the sample configuration with Pools assiging one volume per day. So, do I undertand correctly that you have a pool MON, a pool TUE, and so on? - I lowered the volume retention to just 10 hours per volume. - I assigned the max number of jobs to the number of jobs I run nightly, so to have all the jobs on each volume each day. - I used the Max Start Delay flag to let bacula cancel any job that is in late. Then if the user insert the wrong tape for one day, bacula never cancel the job, and continue to ask for another volume, until I cancel the job by hands. Why? Because the job was started in time. You want Max Wait Time. And it asks because it needs a volume from the given pool, not from another pool. The usual setup is to use one pool and put all your daily tapes into it. Also, when something wrong happens, so that a tape have less jobs backed up than the max number of jobs, next time the volume will be in append mode, messing all the original idea (even though I have a low volume retention, that should tell bacula to recycle every day). What am I missing?! The Volume Use Duration setting is better for what you want. Arno http://www.sonicle.com Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY http://www.sonicle.com -- IT-Service Lehmann[EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de
Re: [Bacula-users] Recycling volumes
Hello, On 13.10.2005 12:08, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Yes, I used one Volume per pool as stated in the sample of the pdf documentation. Could you tell me which example? Oh, maybe Max Wait Time will be helpful. I'll try. About Volume Use Duration...reading the documentation I understand that its use is for telling bacula how long the tape can be used, then consider it dead. Isn't it? No. Which documentation did you read? In the manual I have installed with an FD 1.37.36, it says: Volume Use Duration = time-period-specification The Volume Use Duration directive defines the time period that the Volume can be written beginning from the time of first data write to the Volume. If the time-period specified is zero (the default), the Volume can be written indefinitely. Otherwise, when the time period from the first write to the volume (the first Job written) exceeds the time-period-specification, the Volume will be marked Used, which means that no more Jobs can be appended to the Volume, but it may be recycled if recycling is enabled. which is quite clear, I think. In the release version, this might be expressed differently, of course. Arno http://www.sonicle.com Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY http://www.sonicle.com -- Da: Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: Gabriele Bulfon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Data: 13 ottobre 2005 11.24.06 CEST Oggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] Recycling volumes Hello, On 13.10.2005 10:50, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Hello, I am having a lot of trouble with my bacula configuration. - I have one LTO device with 1 manual tape. - I labeled 6 tapes for MON,TUE,WEN,THU,FRY,SAT. So I have 6 volumes with one tape each. - I used the sample configuration with Pools assiging one volume per day. So, do I undertand correctly that you have a pool MON, a pool TUE, and so on? - I lowered the volume retention to just 10 hours per volume. - I assigned the max number of jobs to the number of jobs I run nightly, so to have all the jobs on each volume each day. - I used the Max Start Delay flag to let bacula cancel any job that is in late. Then if the user insert the wrong tape for one day, bacula never cancel the job, and continue to ask for another volume, until I cancel the job by hands. Why? Because the job was started in time. You want Max Wait Time. And it asks because it needs a volume from the given pool, not from another pool. The usual setup is to use one pool and put all your daily tapes into it. Also, when something wrong happens, so that a tape have less jobs backed up than the max number of jobs, next time the volume will be in append mode, messing all the original idea (even though I have a low volume retention, that should tell bacula to recycle every day). What am I missing?! The Volume Use Duration setting is better for what you want. Arno http://www.sonicle.com Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY http://www.sonicle.com -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de -- IT-Service Lehmann[EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] write error
Julien Cigar wrote: Hello, sometimes I have write error messages during my full backup (on tapes) : 12-Oct 18:44 phoenix-sd: BebifFullBackup.2005-10-12_06.00.00 Error: block.c:552 Write error at 15:111 on device /dev/st0. ERR=Input/output error. 12-Oct 18:44 phoenix-sd: BebifFullBackup.2005-10-12_06.00.00 Error: Error writing final EOF to tape. This tape may not be readable. dev.c:1213 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/st0. ERR=Input/output error. any idea what could be the reason to this ? I'm quite sure the problem is not the tapes ... You don't mention what type of tape device. Did you run btape test? -- Phil Stracchino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Renaissance Man, Unix generalist, Perl hacker Mobile: 603-216-7037 Landline: 603-886-3518 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] write error
Thanks for replying The tape is: phoenix:/var/backups# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: SONY Model: SDX-500C Rev: 010f Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 and the controller is: phoenix:/var/backups# cat /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0 Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 6.2.36 Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter aic7880: Ultra Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=0, 16/253 SCBs Allocated SCBs: 5, SG List Length: 102 I runned the btape test and it was successfull What is strange is that I get this message for about one backup on ten and not with the same tape ... (I thought first that it was a defect tape ... but no) thanks, Julien Phil Stracchino wrote: Julien Cigar wrote: Hello, sometimes I have write error messages during my full backup (on tapes) : 12-Oct 18:44 phoenix-sd: BebifFullBackup.2005-10-12_06.00.00 Error: block.c:552 Write error at 15:111 on device /dev/st0. ERR=Input/output error. 12-Oct 18:44 phoenix-sd: BebifFullBackup.2005-10-12_06.00.00 Error: Error writing final EOF to tape. This tape may not be readable. dev.c:1213 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/st0. ERR=Input/output error. any idea what could be the reason to this ? I'm quite sure the problem is not the tapes ... You don't mention what type of tape device. Did you run btape test? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] write error
Did you use the cap command to list tape capabilities? Did you run a fill test to ensure that Bacula can fill up a tape and write on to the next? There are several capabilities that are crucial for Bacula. I runned all the tests which are in the documentation and they completed successfully. What is the 'cap' command you are talking about ... ? Do all backups fill a tape, or does this occur only when you completely fill a tape? it occurs randomly, sometimes after 10go, sometimes at the end, ... Phil Stracchino wrote: Julien Cigar wrote: Thanks for replying The tape is: phoenix:/var/backups# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: SONY Model: SDX-500C Rev: 010f Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 and the controller is: phoenix:/var/backups# cat /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0 Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 6.2.36 Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter aic7880: Ultra Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=0, 16/253 SCBs Allocated SCBs: 5, SG List Length: 102 I runned the btape test and it was successfull What is strange is that I get this message for about one backup on ten and not with the same tape ... (I thought first that it was a defect tape ... but no) Did you use the cap command to list tape capabilities? Did you run a fill test to ensure that Bacula can fill up a tape and write on to the next? There are several capabilities that are crucial for Bacula. Do all backups fill a tape, or does this occur only when you completely fill a tape? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] OT: downloadable bacula mailing list archives?
Hi, is there somewhere a downloadable archive of the bacula-users and bacula-devel mailinglists? I cannont find such a service on sourceforge or any hints in recent mails in the sourceforge webinterface to the bacula archives. -- Gruss / Best regards | LF.net GmbH| fon +49 711 90074-414 Thorsten Huber| Ruppmannstrasse 27 | fax +49 711 90074-33 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | D-70565 Stuttgart | http://www.lf.net --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] write error
Julien Cigar wrote: Did you use the cap command to list tape capabilities? Did you run a fill test to ensure that Bacula can fill up a tape and write on to the next? There are several capabilities that are crucial for Bacula. I runned all the tests which are in the documentation and they completed successfully. What is the 'cap' command you are talking about ... ? Run btape, and type 'help'. It'll show you all the commands, including this one: caplist device capabilities Do all backups fill a tape, or does this occur only when you completely fill a tape? it occurs randomly, sometimes after 10go, sometimes at the end, ... I think it's going to require more information to isolate it. Have you used the drive with other software and verified that it works properly? -- Phil Stracchino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Renaissance Man, Unix generalist, Perl hacker Mobile: 603-216-7037 Landline: 603-886-3518 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] write error
I runned the btape cap : phoenix:/etc/bacula# btape /dev/st0 Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes. btape: butil.c:258 Using device: /dev/st0 for writing. btape: btape.c:335 open_dev /dev/st0 OK *cap Configured device capabilities: EOF BSR BSF FSR FSF FASTFSF !BSFATEOM EOM REM !RACCESS !AUTOMOUNT !LABEL !ANONVOLS ALWAYSOPEN Device status: OPENED TAPE !LABEL MALLOC APPEND !READ !EOT !WEOT !EOF !NEXTVOL !SHORT Device parameters: Device name: /dev/st0 File=0 block=0 Min block=0 Max block=0 Status: Bacula status: file=0 block=0 Device status: BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN file=0 block=0 btape: btape.c:1707 Device status: 645. ERR= I think it's going to require more information to isolate it. Have you used the drive with other software and verified that it works properly? it worked fine with Amanda. I didn't tried with other softwares ... Phil Stracchino wrote: Julien Cigar wrote: Did you use the cap command to list tape capabilities? Did you run a fill test to ensure that Bacula can fill up a tape and write on to the next? There are several capabilities that are crucial for Bacula. I runned all the tests which are in the documentation and they completed successfully. What is the 'cap' command you are talking about ... ? Run btape, and type 'help'. It'll show you all the commands, including this one: caplist device capabilities Do all backups fill a tape, or does this occur only when you completely fill a tape? it occurs randomly, sometimes after 10go, sometimes at the end, ... I think it's going to require more information to isolate it. Have you used the drive with other software and verified that it works properly? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Backup Strategy
I have set up Bacula's director to manage about 50 GB of daily changes out of 200 GB of disk space expected to grow to 1 TB this year as follows: 1) It uses disk i.e. storage=file (instead of tape) for the actual backups. 2) The disk is actually an NFS mount point that gets backed up (think dd) weekly. 3) Each Bacula client backs up only customer directories (i.e. no etc, var, home,..). 4) I run a daily differential backup on each of the clients Mon-Sat. 5) Weekly is a full backup just before the NFS mount point gets backed up on Sun. The NFS mount point gets backed up as part of our D.R. weekly on Sunday along with the entire disk farm on the floor (DMX and SYMM). This, obviously, also include backing up the volumes that are system related (/etc, /opt, /var, /bin, usr, ...). That is why I keep them out of Bacula control except for /home and /opt. No, I can't fire the D.R. group, they have a healthy contract with us and it an outsourced business. Suggestions, critical opinions or just a kick at the can are welcome. question: how can I leverage the fact that I have a full disk backup on Sunday of every week? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] special characters
Thank you to all of you who answered.
Using Wild = C:/Documents and Settings/mperez/Configuraci*/Archivos
solved the problem.
Maurizio
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 01:35 +, Deim Ágoston wrote:
hi,
Maurizio Santini wrote:
Hi all,
I trying to exclude a directory from the backup but I cannot because of
the accent on ó. How could I achieve that?
try to use these in FileSet:
options {
Wild = C:/Documents and Settings/mperez/Configuraci*/Archivos
Exclude = yes
.
}
This will exclude directories matching the wildcard pattern.
Not as clean as a direct exclude but it should work.
bye,
Ago
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[Bacula-users] ReSchedule not re-scheduling
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Howdy again,
Pruning et all is working, only thing not yet working is the
re-scheduling of items. For example, i have this:
Job {
Name= Backup_PDA
client = pda-fd
type= backup
messages= Standard
storage = StoragePDA
pool= PoolPDA
Level = Incremental
FileSet = BSD
Schedule= Non-Permanent
Write Bootstrap = /var/db/bacula/pda.bsr
Priority= 10
Rerun Failed Levels = yes
Reschedule On Error = yes
Reschedule Interval = 15m
Reschedule Times= 70
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10
Run Before Job = /usr/local/bin/bacula-ping.sh %c
}
The ping is just that: pings the host, returns 0 if it is up.
Now, with all the re-scheduling stuff in there I assumed that
bacula would re-hammer the client evers 15 minutes up to 70
times for a retry, but no luck. Bacula does one try only, and
fails.
Also, If I remove all the job retention et all, so NO timeouts
anywhere BUT in the pool-directives (Volume Retention = 60 days)
am I right to assume that volumes get recycled (yes, recylce et all
is on) and corresponding jobs are deleted? So, Backups 60 days in the
past will get deleted, and space will get freed (once recycled)?
if ($previous_statement) {
If there is a backup job, full, 70 days ago, and then only incrementals
until like.. 10 days ago, will all not-full jobs get pruned as well
and their corresponding volumes, too? (one job per volume)
}
Ideas?
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Re: [Bacula-users] Job w/ multiple clients?
Hmm. Bummer. So what you're telling me is that for the 50 boxes I have I'll need to set up 50 different jobs? And then I'll have to kick off each one separately, sequentially? Or is there some additional mechanism that I'm missing, that handles the scheduling the jobs? bob Dan Langille wrote: On 12 Oct 2005 at 18:33, Bob Kryger wrote: Job w/ multiple clients? Can it be done in bacula? No. Run two jobs. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] write error
I have occasional problems with Sony AIT drives on 2940UW controllers. I believe it's the tape drive that gets confused, because when it happens, (it being the drive stops communicating), even a reboot of the server doesn't fix the problem when the drive is left powered on. Power cycling the drive does fix the problem. I've tried different SCSI cables, terminators, etc. I believe the culprit to be Sony's firmware. It may be possible to work around this by tweaking aic7xxx module parameters. I haven't gotten around to trying any yet, but have considered trying aic7xxx=periodic_otag and/or increasing the tag queue depth for that LUN. Anyway, in my case, I don't see how it could be a bacula problem. Seems to be SCSI related. Josh Fisher Julien Cigar wrote: Thanks for replying The tape is: phoenix:/var/backups# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: SONY Model: SDX-500C Rev: 010f Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 and the controller is: phoenix:/var/backups# cat /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0 Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 6.2.36 Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter aic7880: Ultra Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=0, 16/253 SCBs Allocated SCBs: 5, SG List Length: 102 I runned the btape test and it was successfull What is strange is that I get this message for about one backup on ten and not with the same tape ... (I thought first that it was a defect tape ... but no) thanks, Julien Phil Stracchino wrote: Julien Cigar wrote: Hello, sometimes I have write error messages during my full backup (on tapes) : 12-Oct 18:44 phoenix-sd: BebifFullBackup.2005-10-12_06.00.00 Error: block.c:552 Write error at 15:111 on device /dev/st0. ERR=Input/output error. 12-Oct 18:44 phoenix-sd: BebifFullBackup.2005-10-12_06.00.00 Error: Error writing final EOF to tape. This tape may not be readable. dev.c:1213 ioctl MTWEOF error on /dev/st0. ERR=Input/output error. any idea what could be the reason to this ? I'm quite sure the problem is not the tapes ... You don't mention what type of tape device. Did you run btape test? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Job w/ multiple clients?
On 12 Oct 2005 at 21:04, Bob Kryger wrote: Hmm. Bummer. So what you're telling me is that for the 50 boxes I have I'll need to set up 50 different jobs? Yes. You can specify JobDefaults. Then just change the client name on each job. And then I'll have to kick off each one separately, sequentially? No, the Director does that. Or is there some additional mechanism that I'm missing, that handles the scheduling the jobs? The Director does that. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] regarding last post [Re-Scheduling]
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[Bacula-users] help about bacula
hi, my name is luis from Ecuador i need you help, i want to know who can i encripter password bacula director and bacula client, in the file configuration. please help... - Este correo fue enviado por el MENSAJERO UTPL. http://www.utpl.edu.ec/mail/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] ReSchedule not re-scheduling
Hello,
On 13.10.2005 17:45, Christian Reiss wrote:
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Howdy again,
Pruning et all is working, only thing not yet working is the
re-scheduling of items. For example, i have this:
Job {
Name= Backup_PDA
client = pda-fd
type= backup
messages= Standard
storage = StoragePDA
pool= PoolPDA
Level = Incremental
FileSet = BSD
Schedule= Non-Permanent
Write Bootstrap = /var/db/bacula/pda.bsr
Priority= 10
Rerun Failed Levels = yes
Reschedule On Error = yes
Reschedule Interval = 15m
Oh, you already noticed... (I didn't, in fact...)
Reschedule Times= 70
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10
Run Before Job = /usr/local/bin/bacula-ping.sh %c
}
The ping is just that: pings the host, returns 0 if it is up.
Now, with all the re-scheduling stuff in there I assumed that
bacula would re-hammer the client evers 15 minutes up to 70
times for a retry, but no luck. Bacula does one try only, and
fails.
Also, If I remove all the job retention et all, so NO timeouts
anywhere BUT in the pool-directives (Volume Retention = 60 days)
am I right to assume that volumes get recycled (yes, recylce et all
is on) and corresponding jobs are deleted? So, Backups 60 days in the
past will get deleted, and space will get freed (once recycled)?
I'm not even sure that works (no retention times). I always imagined
they were required...
Anyway, part one of your assumption is true, i.e. volumes are recycled.
Note that volumes are not recycled after 60 days, but, when Bacula
searches for usable volumes, it prunes the ones beyond their retention
periods. Important is when Bacula
Part two is not right - Bacula doesn't delete backups and free space. It
only removes the corresponding file and job records from the catalog and
marks the volumes as reusable. Files are not truncated or deleted.
That's because Bacula uses file volumes like tapes, and noone sane would
want to load lots of tapes only to allow automatic recycling... I mean,
I've got about 10 times as many tapes as autochanger slots, plus 40+
tapes for a single drive... no, thanks.
if ($previous_statement) {
If there is a backup job, full, 70 days ago, and then only incrementals
until like.. 10 days ago, will all not-full jobs get pruned as well
and their corresponding volumes, too? (one job per volume)
}
Uh. Difficult situation. Make sure that doesn't happen to you, because
you will not be able to easily restore... (This is an issue Kern wants
to address in a later version). Worse, still - imagine your full volume
was recycled, the next full backup starts, overwriting that same volume,
and then your backup fails because the client disk dies. No fun.
In other words - let full and partly backups go to different pools with
different retention times. Much easier than manually managing the volmes.
Ideas?
Erm, what was the question? Ah, disk based volume deletion... no, only
overwriting. And, even if the catalog doesn't know about the volume
contents, you can still access it. See bls, bscan and bextract.
Arno
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Re: [Bacula-users] Job w/ multiple clients?
Hmm. Bummer. So what you're telling me is that for the 50 boxes I have I'll need to set up 50 different jobs? Yes. You can specify JobDefaults. Then just change the client name on each job.This discussion relates to a question or an idea for bacula use with many clients. For some linux programs, config files are sometimes being organized as nested folders. The current method of a single configuration file for each (dir, sd, and fd) seems very reasonable.The dir.conf file may get pretty big when one would be trying to use bacula with 25-50+ clients. However, when the number of clients grows up to numbers like suggested above I start to wonder about a folder based alternative or an 'include /etc/bacula/dir/jobs/*' idea. Each client could have a separate file for it client specific info (job etc...). Bacula-dir would read in the standard dir.conf and then append any text data in a file in a given or specified folder. Perhaps it is just a preference to deal with one big text file or many small text files...I hate to suggest something I don't have the skills to implement but it was something I have been wondering about. Our science dept is thinking of using bacula for 40+ faculty computers and that got me wondering. Sorry if this is an old recycled idea / previously discussed idea. Dean-- Dean Waldow, Professor (253) 535-7533Department of Chemistry (253) 536-5055 (FAX)Pacific Lutheran University [EMAIL PROTECTED]Tacoma, WA 98447 USA http://www.chem.plu.edu/waldow/--- CIRRUS and the Chemistry homepage: http://www.chem.plu.edu/
Re: [Bacula-users] Job w/ multiple clients?
Dean Waldow wrote: This discussion relates to a question or an idea for bacula use with many clients. For some linux programs, config files are sometimes being organized as nested folders. The current method of a single configuration file for each (dir, sd, and fd) seems very reasonable.The dir.conf file may get pretty big when one would be trying to use bacula with 25-50+ clients. However, when the number of clients grows up to numbers like suggested above I start to wonder about a folder based alternative or an 'include /etc/bacula/dir/jobs/*' idea. Each client could have a separate file for it client specific info (job etc...). Bacula-dir would read in the standard dir.conf and then append any text data in a file in a given or specified folder. Perhaps it is just a preference to deal with one big text file or many small text files... I hate to suggest something I don't have the skills to implement but it was something I have been wondering about. Our science dept is thinking of using bacula for 40+ faculty computers and that got me wondering. There is already a facility to include individual per-job files into the configuration using the @filename syntax, if you want to do it this way. This ought to meet most inclusion needs. -- Phil Stracchino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Renaissance Man, Unix generalist, Perl hacker Mobile: 603-216-7037 Landline: 603-886-3518 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Job w/ multiple clients?
Bob Kryger wrote: Hmm. Bummer. So what you're telling me is that for the 50 boxes I have I'll need to set up 50 different jobs? And then I'll have to kick off each one separately, sequentially? Or is there some additional mechanism that I'm missing, that handles the scheduling the jobs? If you have 50 clients, you define 50 jobs, yes. You can use JobDefs records to set up all the common data for the jobs, then each client's Job just needs to reference that JobDefs record and set any specific options it needs. You CAN run all the jobs manually, but the settings for each job include a reference to a Schedule resource that tells when that job should be run and at what level. Once it's all set up, the Director handles everything for you except switching tapes (and you may never need to manually do even that, if you have an autochanger and a robotic tape library). -- Phil Stracchino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Renaissance Man, Unix generalist, Perl hacker Mobile: 603-216-7037 Landline: 603-886-3518 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] help about bacula
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, my name is luis from Ecuador i need you help, i want to know who can i encripter password bacula director and bacula client, in the file configuration. please help... If I understand your question correctly, the answer is that you don't need to. The random passwords generated at install time are just that: randomly generated passwords, and nothing more. However, you can use whatever you want as Bacula passwords. 1 is a valid (though possibly inadvisable) password. bandersnatch is a valid password. This is a valid password, including the quotes, is a valid password. For that matter, so is This is not my password. The thing to remember is that these passwords are never sent across the network in clear. So, while the initial passwords generated when you install Bacula LOOK encrypted, they are not in fact encrypted, and don't have to be encrypted; they're just random strings. -- Phil Stracchino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Renaissance Man, Unix generalist, Perl hacker Mobile: 603-216-7037 Landline: 603-886-3518 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Sony AIT Drives
Greetings, Has anyone had success with using Sony AIT-3 (AITe260S, AITi260S) drives with Bacula? Any special setup needed for using these drives with Bacula? Thanks, Brandon --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] OT: downloadable bacula mailing list archives?
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:27:01 +0200, Thorsten Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Thorsten is there somewhere a downloadable archive of the bacula-users and Thorsten bacula-devel mailinglists? I cannont find such a service on Thorsten sourceforge or any hints in recent mails in the sourceforge Thorsten webinterface to the bacula archives. I hope not, because it would make all the email addresses harvestable by spammers until done very carefully. __Martin --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring to Windows Client
Hello, On 13.10.2005 21:24, George R. Kasica wrote: ... Would the idea of the restore path of D:/Fedora work as I mention a few lines down?? As far as I know, that should work. ... No not multiple copies at all. I'll try again more simply: Say I have a Drive C, D and E and I want to restore all of them in the same job . Is that possible or must I run a job for C one for D and one for E so that the material goes back on the proper device. You could restore to the root directory - / in unix and bacula terms - and I *think* what is stored as c:/... will be written to c: again, and d: and e: similarly, of course. I never experienced that situation, though, because my clients only have one partition. I don't see why it wouldn't work - but you'll have to try to find out for sure. Arno -- IT-Service Lehmann[EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Large network bacula tips?
Hello fellow Bacula users! I've only been lurking on this list for a little while, please excuse me if this topic has been covered previously. I've got what I would consider a large network of machines each hosting many virtual private servers with Virtuozzo. http://www.swsoft.com/en/products/virtuozzo/ (19 servers, each hosting an average of 65 virtual environments, average 160GB data per server. Total data to back up ~ 3TB. Generous estimate to allow for growth.) I've been tasked with replacing an aging Amanda install that has been backing them up to disk daily. I've done some testing already with a couple of the servers, and have recently started a backup of all systems. Ran into a small problem with the catalog where the File table grew to 4GB and claimed to be full, easily fixed by switching from MyISAM to the InnoDB engine. It got me thinking though, are there any other gotchas or caveats anyone else has overcome in backing up such a large quantity of data? We have a gigabit Ethernet network over which the backups are run, but it still seems to take an inordinate amount of time to complete a full backup. Currently filling a two gigabyte volume every 6 minutes on average. At that rate, it will take 6 days to finish a full backup?! Maybe I'm doing the math wrong (I already know I haven't taken compression into account), but I think I'm missing something. Comments and suggestions welcome! Thanks for such a great project! (It's backing up my home network of 3 Macs handily!) Oh yeah: Director is running on a FreeBSD 5.4 box, all other clients are Linux. Bacula version 1.36.3 compiled from source (ports tree on director). Thanks in advance, Lyle Vogtmann --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
