Hi,
i have to backup a nas system with a total size of 6,5TB. At this time the nas
system only has ~2TB of data that have to backup but in future, the next two
years data will be increase up to 6TB.
I have installed Debian Etch on the nas system with samba und bacula as backup
application. I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, looks like bacula did something else. It changed the configuration
of the tape drive as well. I had it set as one large drive and bacula
reconfigured it to segments of 64 drives.
I'd be surprised if that is due to bacula.
Must be something funky between
Hi Kern,
vchanger is a helper script from Josh Fisher. You can find it by
looking for the mail Removable Disk HOWTO by Josh in bacula-users.
He's done a really nice howto, I think...
I could forward that mail, if you prefer.
Regards,
Arno
--
Arno Lehmann
IT-Service Lehmann
progress with this issue. i submitted a bug report to adaptec and they
finally provided some suggestions to help resolve this. here is what
they recommeded:
Go to Configure/View Host Adapter Settings.
If the SCSI Controller does not have the system boot device attached,
disable the
Hi Michael.
Firstly, I'm glad you solved the problem and shared it with the list.
I'm also having problems with the SCSI tape I'm trying to use, so maybe I'll
profit from your experience as well. Have you succeeded in pinpointing the
relvant change ?
Michgael
On Nov 8, 2007 1:50 PM, Michael
Hello,
08.11.2007 11:32,, S. Kremer wrote::
Hi,
i have to backup a nas system with a total size of 6,5TB. At this
time the nas system only has ~2TB of data that have to backup but
in future, the next two years data will be increase up to 6TB.
I have installed Debian Etch on the nas
not yet, i just got this late yesterday, ran some preliminary testing just
to be sure its working. i will start undoing the changes today and see if
i can find the relevant factor.
-- michael
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 02:28:55PM +0200, Michael Lewinger wrote:
Hi Michael.
Firstly, I'm glad you
Matias Schwalm wrote:
Hi folks,
I have a Dell Server with an build-in LTO-2 Tapedrive. My goal is, that after
each daily job the tape get's ejected. I tried it with mt rewind and mt
eject in a runafter script. But it doesn't work. The Tape doesn't seem to
unmount it after the job. Here
i read somewhere, thats this problem is solved in newer versions of
bacula (think it was 2.2.*).
The thought of upgrading the whole environment to
a 2.+ release is more that I could cope with right
now!
I only have about 10 clients, but I did the whole thing in about 35 mins
the
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Dep, Khushil (GE Money) wrote:
Now I know the QT4 libs are installed but it seems that pkg-config
doesn't know about them. I know this is OT so but I thought I'd askf if
anyone knew where I could get help from or any further reading about
this. I'm forced into tuse RHEL4u4
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For example;
# ./mtx-changer /dev/sg0 unload 1 /dev/nst0 0
It took the tape out of the drive, then hung with;
Storage Element 1 is Already Full
That's it, just hangs. Now I have to restart the tape device. Should bacula
not handle this or is there another
Hi folks,
I have a Dell Server with an build-in LTO-2 Tapedrive. My goal is, that after
each daily job the tape get's ejected. I tried it with mt rewind and mt
eject in a runafter script. But it doesn't work. The Tape doesn't seem to
unmount it after the job. Here is my bacula-sd. Any
Hi,
08.11.2007 15:17,, Win Htin wrote::
Hi folks,
Just as I thought I have fixed my problems, I am again stumped with
Volumes being put into Error with /*Error: Unable to position to end
of data on device*/ messages.
As previously mentioned in my other post, all the tapes were erased
Hi folks,
Just as I thought I have fixed my problems, I am again stumped with Volumes
being put into Error with *Error: Unable to position to end of data on
device* messages.
As previously mentioned in my other post, all the tapes were erased once
over to make sure everything starts cleanly.
Hi,
I copy the strategie of Daily tape rotation I found at this link
http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Backup_Strategies.html#SECTION003033000
it works good but I meet a problem.My pools are always in append mode, so
before doing the backup the system move to the end of data, even the
Hey All,
Has anyone here had 'ghost' restores? Basically restores being started
that, well, no one has started! I got the two following e-mail
notifications:
08-Nov 14:31 MigWebSSCbkp1-dir JobId 361: Start Restore Job
DefaultRestoreJob.2007-11-08_14.31.05
08-Nov 14:31 MigWebSSCbkp1-dir JobId
I performed a scheduled incremental backup (to a file-device) of
my system, followed by a VolumeToCatalog verify. The verify failed and included
the following log entries:
07-Nov 23:19 butler-dir JobId 428: Fatal error: verify.c:730
bdirdfiled: bad attributes from filed n=-2 : No data available
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Dep, Khushil (GE Money) wrote:
In the end I ended up building QT4 and qwt from source! Oh give me back
my debian boxes! *cries*
Ta for all the help tho folks! :-)
No need for that, see the SPEC file I posted here a few days ago.
Hi,
I'm experiencing some issues with my Bacula tape backup. My operating
system is Linux gentoo 1.12.6 and my Bacula version is 1.38.11.
My issue is that one of my backups reported a VolStatus of Full at only
16GB (the tape capacity is 200GB). I then inserted a new tape that had
a
In the end I ended up building QT4 and qwt from source! Oh give me back
my debian boxes! *cries*
Ta for all the help tho folks! :-)
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Augusto
Camarotti
Sent: 08 November 2007 16:50
To:
Adam Cécile wrote:
Hi,
I really need help ;)
Moreover, do you think, creating one pool for each week day could be a
good workaround ?
Yes, at least I do it that way.
Adam Cécile a écrit :
Hi,
Here is my problem:
I have five tapes (Dailly-00[1-5]).
Let's assume Daily-005 is purged
David Gardner wrote:
Along the same line of reasoning, can the developers add the reload
argument to the Bacula executable? This would be nice when a small
tweak to the bacula-dir.conf file has been made and does not require
a full restart of the system.
Already there, see the manual.
By the way, I just decided to use my gmail account for subscribing
bacula-users. It`s much reliable than my organization e-mail which was
giving me so much trouble. :D
I have a Seagate Tape Driver DAT72.
In my system it`s referenced as /dev/st0.
So i configured my bacula-sd.conf this way :
Doug Sampson wrote:
I am testing the restore function of Bacula 2.2.5 on FreeBSD 6.2 and in the
process of restoring ~20,000 files recursively from the /var directory, I am
seeing numerous error messages as follows:
..snip..
06-Nov 17:37 aries-fd JobId 2326: Warning: restore.c:588 Can't
On Nov 8, 2007 12:48 PM, Augusto Camarotti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try to check if pkgconfig it`s getting the right paths for the QT4
libs. This kind of problem happened to me, i had QT4 installed and
pkgconfig wasn`t finding them.
Augusto
On Nov 8, 2007 6:43 AM, Alan Brown [EMAIL
Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hi,
07.11.2007 02:41,, Doug Sampson wrote::
I am testing the restore function of Bacula 2.2.5 on FreeBSD 6.2 and in the
process of restoring ~20,000 files recursively from the /var directory, I am
seeing numerous error messages as follows:
..snip..
06-Nov 17:37
Hey gang,
Can I break the bacula-dir.conf file in parts for easier management?
Specifically, does bacula understand the include (or some variation thereof)
to read in the various parts of the bacula-dir.conf file?
Along the same line of reasoning, can the developers add the reload argument
to
Heavens no, Chris!
I refer to Bacula as the system to restart.
My apologies to the list if the requested information is in the manual and I
didn't find it. I've had a rough time implementing this system per my manager's
requirements.
I'm use to working with Apache (amoung other systems) that
I'd like to again request the reload argument be an option to the bacula
executable.
Perhaps I'm being a little too paranoid for my own good but if the last
paragraph of the bconsole | reload section on pg 264 of the user guide is any
indication, I would not feel comfortable adding new clients
On Nov 8, 2007 1:36 PM, David Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like to again request the reload argument be an option to the bacula
executable.
Perhaps I'm being a little too paranoid for my own good but if the last
paragraph of the bconsole | reload section on pg 264 of the user guide
John,
Found it on pg 156 in the section related to including filenames in a fileset
resource. Feel like I'm studying for MCSE exam...
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
David Gardner
email: djgardner(at)yahoo.com
Yahoo! IM: djgardner
AIM: dgardner09
Everything is a
Augusto Camarotti wrote:
I have a Seagate Tape Driver DAT72.
In my system it`s referenced as /dev/st0.
So i configured my bacula-sd.conf this way :
Do you actually have an autochanger? It wasn't clear to me from your
description.
Device {
Name = DDS-72#
Hi,
08.11.2007 19:37,, Augusto Camarotti wrote::
Im using Bacula 2.2.4 .
Everything was doing fine and was doing my diary cicle just as usual.
Then, this error starts to happen everytime Bacula recycles a tape and
try to reuse it.
One real example :
Yesterday(Wednesday) Bacula
Hi All,
My bacula database (with MyISAM tables) is currently 5.3 GB in size
after only 10 months of use.
Last weekend my File table filled up, which was easily fixed by doing
the following as recommended at
http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Catalog_Maintenance.html#SECTION00244
Hi,
Arno Lehmann wrote:
Run it several times with different slot ranges, like
'label barcodes slots=1-3 pool=F01' and so on.
Brilliant - thank you. The fact that you can use slots and pool seems to
be missing from the docs, so I guess I should work on trying to add it :)
It only seems to
Hi Arno,
Thanks for the tip; that really helped. I set Prefer Mounted Volume = no
and jobs started getting on the other virtual drives as I expected. I did
not know that this directive affected concurrency...
Anyway, I'm still testing, and of course facing other problems that I'm
working my way
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Mike Seda wrote:
Hi All,
My bacula database (with MyISAM tables) is currently 5.3 GB in size
after only 10 months of use.
Last weekend my File table filled up, which was easily fixed by doing
the following as recommended at
Shon Stephens wrote:
I remember reading somewhere that its possible to configure a Job so
that the files and attributes are not added to the Catalog DB.
However, I can't find this documentation now.
I'm not sure.
Basically, I have a client with millions of files, and don't want all
that
Pool {
Name = ThursdayPool
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 19d
Volume Use Duration = 4d
Maximum Volume Jobs = 4
}
Since 1_Friday_Week_3 was last written 2007-11-02 and more than 4d have
passed, it's pretty clear that if Bacula was going
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 23:05 +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hi,
02.11.2007 21:48,, Craig White wrote::
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 21:38 +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hi,
02.11.2007 21:26,, Craig White wrote::
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 15:08 -0400, John Drescher wrote:
On 11/2/07, Craig White [EMAIL
Michael Galloway schrieb:
[...]
with these changes implemented, the btape test passes (with a couple of
modifications to bacula-sd.conf) and the autochanger test passes.
of of curiosity, what are others with LTO-4 using for scsi adapaters?
LSI20320, no problems with bacula. The only
On Nov 8, 2007 7:20 PM, Chris Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Arno Lehmann wrote:
Run it several times with different slot ranges, like
'label barcodes slots=1-3 pool=F01' and so on.
Brilliant - thank you. The fact that you can use slots and pool seems to
be missing from the docs,
Jason Martin schrieb:
I performed a scheduled incremental backup (to a file-device) of
my system, followed by a VolumeToCatalog verify. The verify failed and
included
the following log entries:
07-Nov 23:19 butler-dir JobId 428: Fatal error: verify.c:730
bdirdfiled: bad attributes from
Im using Bacula 2.2.4 .
Everything was doing fine and was doing my diary cicle just as usual. Then,
this error starts to happen everytime Bacula recycles a tape and try to
reuse it.
One real example :
Yesterday(Wednesday) Bacula canceled my last job (I`m using Max Wait
Time=5h) and said this :
I can't say for sure, but you could have a JobDef assigned to the
restore job configuration which contains a schedule. However, I
haven't ever heard of jobs just starting by themselves.
-
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Hi Arno,
Added Two EOF = Yes and re-ran the btape test and the problem disappeared.
Thanks again!!
Win
Hi,
08.11.2007 15:17,, Win Htin wrote::
Hi folks,
Just as I thought I have fixed my problems, I am again stumped with
Volumes being put into Error with /*Error: Unable to
Hi,
08.11.2007 21:56,, Shon Stephens wrote::
I remember reading somewhere that its possible to configure a Job so
that the files and attributes are not added to the Catalog DB.
However, I can't find this documentation now.
In the pool you use, set Catalog Files = No.
This may get you into
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 16:19 -0500, John Drescher wrote:
Pool {
Name = ThursdayPool
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 19d
Volume Use Duration = 4d
Maximum Volume Jobs = 4
}
Since 1_Friday_Week_3 was last written 2007-11-02 and
Hi,
08.11.2007 19:18,, Augusto Camarotti wrote::
By the way, I just decided to use my gmail account for subscribing
bacula-users. It`s much reliable than my organization e-mail which was
giving me so much trouble. :D
I have a Seagate Tape Driver DAT72.
In my system it`s referenced as
I remember reading somewhere that its possible to configure a Job so
that the files and attributes are not added to the Catalog DB.
However, I can't find this documentation now.
Basically, I have a client with millions of files, and don't want all
that going into the database. My understanding is
Hi,
08.11.2007 22:05,, Craig White wrote::
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 23:05 +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hi,
02.11.2007 21:48,, Craig White wrote::
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 21:38 +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hi,
02.11.2007 21:26,, Craig White wrote::
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 15:08 -0400, John Drescher
Hi All,
I wish to save space on my tapes by changing backup levels in my
Monthly Schedule resource.
My current Monthly Schedule resource is:
Schedule {
Name = Monthly
Run = Level=Full Pool=Monthly 1st fri at 23:05
Run = Level=Full Pool=Weekly 2nd-5th fri at 23:05
Run = Level=Differential
All,
I will soon purchase a second (identical) tape drive for my autochanger,
which will be used primarily for cloning jobs.
After reading the documentation, it seems that the following (with
site-specific modifications of job-name and media-type) is all that
needs to be added to each Job (or
On Friday 09 November 2007 00:59, Mike Seda wrote:
Hi All,
I wish to save space on my tapes by changing backup levels in my
Monthly Schedule resource.
My current Monthly Schedule resource is:
Schedule {
Name = Monthly
Run = Level=Full Pool=Monthly 1st fri at 23:05
Run = Level=Full
Hi Bob
As another pointed out... you'll want to get a higher capacity library
in place before you hit 6TB of data of course. Depending on the nature
of what's on that NAS you may find that you have too much data long
before you hit 6TB too (i.e. if the data is already compressed a lot
Hi to all.
I've search through doc and mailing list archive, but I've not found
anything, so I've supposed I'm a dummy ;-)
I've the following problem: at this moment I use two software for
backup: backup exec on torino site and bacula on milano site. Bacula now
work only on disk; backup exec
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