Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs not completing, but not erroring?

2009-02-19 Thread Mingus Dew
I checked mysql during one of these jobs thats just running. For one thing, I can see that other jobs start, run, complete, terminate all while this particular job is just hanging. Writing: Incremental Backup job Canopy_OLTPA_Lvl1_Tape JobId=22789 Volume="B00046" pool="Canopy_Tapes" device="Ul

[Bacula-users] Bacula cd rescue [some workarounds and error]

2009-02-19 Thread Martin Spinassi
Hi again list I've posted some questions about the bacula cd rescue, but I've managed to make it work (or some kind of). Here is what I did. I've installed bacula director in a Debian lenny box, using apt, and some clients using different ways (yum, rpm from sourceforge, apt). As it is just a te

Re: [Bacula-users] Delete volume on purge

2009-02-19 Thread Chris Lieb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex F wrote: > Item 1. Delete volume on purge. > Origin: Alex F, alexxzell at yahoo dot com > Date: 16 February 2009 > > What: A feature that would permit Bacula to delete a volume from the > hard disk after it has been purged. > > Why: Useful for u

Re: [Bacula-users] Troubleshooting question

2009-02-19 Thread Blake Dunlap
Yes Linux box. Sorry should have stated that. Linux nrepbak01.isdn.net 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Oct 6 06:21:39 CDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Cable has been swapped before, these errors persist through reboots and with different drives in the autochanger removed. The autochanger is con

Re: [Bacula-users] Catalog backup best practices

2009-02-19 Thread John Drescher
> You might also want to keep the bootstrap file for the job which last > backed up the catalog. > In the past I have found this to be very important if you put your catalog on a volume with more than 1 job on that volume. When I had a database corruption problem (bad hardware) it was more difficu

Re: [Bacula-users] Troubleshooting question

2009-02-19 Thread Alex Chekholko
Hi Blake, This looks like a Linux box? Which kernel? 'uname -a' Which card? 'lspci -v' Check all the cables, make sure they're seated correctly? Try a different cable? Try powering everything off and then powering everything back on, starting with the outermost SCSI devices? Regards, Alex O

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula autochanger uses only 1 drive on 2

2009-02-19 Thread John Drescher
> I've been not yet able to make it work on 2 drives but I noticed, from > the "show storage" command that I see only 1 drive: > > * sh storage > Storage: name=DELL-TL4000 address=10.1.5.109 SDport=9103 MaxJobs=8 > DeviceName=DELL-TL4000-Drive-1 MediaType=LTO-4 StorageId=1 > > Hope it will he

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically Disposing of Volumes

2009-02-19 Thread Chris Lieb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Lieb wrote: > I am setting up Bacula right now for the first time and have pretty much > everything working, but have one nagging concern. Since Bacula was > designed around tape backup systems, it supports recycling of volumes so > that they ca

[Bacula-users] Troubleshooting question

2009-02-19 Thread Blake Dunlap
I realize this is not directly Bacula, but does anyone know what might be my problem (settings / hardware issues) from the below SCSI errors? scsi1:0:0:0: Attempting to abort cmd f4003500: 0x34 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 scsi1: At time of recovery, card was not paused >>

Re: [Bacula-users] Catalog backup best practices

2009-02-19 Thread Dan Langille
Russell Sutherland wrote: > I have perused through the Catalog Maintenance section in the documentation: > > http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Catalog_Maintenance.html > > looking for some guidance on where to store the Catalog data from the > Catalog Job. (This is the data which gets generated

Re: [Bacula-users] Catalog backup best practices

2009-02-19 Thread Jari Fredriksson
> I have perused through the Catalog Maintenance section in > the documentation: > > http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Catalog_Maintenance.html > > looking for some guidance on where to store the Catalog > data from the Catalog Job. (This is the data which gets > generated by the make_catalog_

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula autochanger uses only 1 drive on 2

2009-02-19 Thread Diego Roccia
Hi All, I've been not yet able to make it work on 2 drives but I noticed, from the "show storage" command that I see only 1 drive: * sh storage Storage: name=DELL-TL4000 address=10.1.5.109 SDport=9103 MaxJobs=8 DeviceName=DELL-TL4000-Drive-1 MediaType=LTO-4 StorageId=1 Hope it will help..

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula autochanger uses only 1 drive on 2

2009-02-19 Thread Diego Roccia
Hi All, I've been not yet able to make it work on 2 drives but I noticed, from the "show storage" command that I see only 1 drive: * sh storage Storage: name=DELL-TL4000 address=10.1.5.109 SDport=9103 MaxJobs=8 DeviceName=DELL-TL4000-Drive-1 MediaType=LTO-4 StorageId=1 Hope it will help..

[Bacula-users] Catalog backup best practices

2009-02-19 Thread Russell Sutherland
I have perused through the Catalog Maintenance section in the documentation: http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Catalog_Maintenance.html looking for some guidance on where to store the Catalog data from the Catalog Job. (This is the data which gets generated by the make_catalog_backup script.)

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs not completing, but not erroring?

2009-02-19 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You should check it out with 'mysqladmin processlist' -- you may learn that something is going on. =R Mingus Dew wrote: > Sorry. I forgot to mention MySQL 4. Its still responding. I've tested it > while the jobs were hung. Also, if I cancel the hung

[Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs by default in the storage daemon and DIR?

2009-02-19 Thread François Mehault
Hi All I would like to know the value by default for the directive Maximum Concurrent Jobs in the Storage ressource for DIR and SD. http://www.bacula.org/fr/rel-manual/Tips_Suggestions.html#SECTION0003518000 « The default is one for the Director and ten for both the File daemon and

[Bacula-users] re-run restore job by jobid?

2009-02-19 Thread Bob Hetzel
Is there an easy way in bacula to re-run a job such as a restore by jobid? Every now and then I run into a situation where I start a restore but it fails due to something like an application on the destination machine needing to be shut down. I'd like a way to just go into bconsole and tell i

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental backups of older data

2009-02-19 Thread Sebastian Stark
On 18.02.2009, at 22:08, Arno Lehmann wrote: >> Is there any way to tell bacula it should backup all new files (new >> meaning "not already backed up") within this directory, regardless of >> the timestamp, without doing a full backup? >> > Solution one: Wait for 3.0, and / or start testing the cu

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental backups of older data

2009-02-19 Thread Sebastian Stark
On 19.02.2009, at 14:50, Jari Fredriksson wrote: >> Is there any way to tell bacula it should backup all new >> files (new meaning "not already backed up") within this >> directory, regardless of the timestamp, without doing a >> full backup? > Exclude the /archive from your normal backup job file

Re: [Bacula-users] Network send error to SD / Bad response from stored to open command / Network error on data channel

2009-02-19 Thread François Mehault
I think all this jobs are waiting for longer than 1 hour because they have problems (Network send error to SD. - Bad response from stored to open command - Network error on data channel...) I don't want to change "Max Wait Time = 1 hour". If i have problem on my network, i think that change "Max

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental backups of older data

2009-02-19 Thread Jari Fredriksson
> For special data we have a backup scheme that does not > really fit bacula's idea of incremental backups: > > There is a directory, say /archive, that is empty by > default. If something needs to be backed up by bacula, it > is copied (or moved) into this directory. Then the backup > job is star

Re: [Bacula-users] Network send error to SD / Bad response from stored to open command / Network error on data channel

2009-02-19 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 7:39 AM, François Mehault wrote: > Hi All > > > > My Bacula is in version 2.4.4. I upgraded recently (2.0.3 > 2.4.4), this > action fix a problem about seg fault J but i have still some problems. > > > > I give you message that i can read in my log. I search in the document

[Bacula-users] Network send error to SD / Bad response from stored to open command / Network error on data channel

2009-02-19 Thread François Mehault
Hi All My Bacula is in version 2.4.4. I upgraded recently (2.0.3 > 2.4.4), this action fix a problem about seg fault :) but i have still some problems. I give you message that i can read in my log. I search in the documentation and also in the website a text about « log message error » to can u

[Bacula-users] Fatal error: backup.c:873 Network send error to SD

2009-02-19 Thread François Mehault
Hi All ! I recently upgraded my bacula in version 2.4.4. But I have still a problem about one backup : 19-Feb 00:03 xxx-sd JobId 23174: Recycled volume " xxx -0002" on device " xxx " (/3/ xxx /bacula), all previous data lost. 19-Feb 01:04 xxx: xxx.2009-02-19_00.00.00.24 Fatal error: backup.c:87

[Bacula-users] A couple of autochanger questions

2009-02-19 Thread Andy Davenport
Dear Bacula developers, In trying to get a slightly unconventional Bacula setup running I encountered a couple of things in the code that puzzled me. I had a problem labeling new media in a (virtual) autochanger. Bacula calls "loaded" in my changer script in which I return zero for the slot as

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula hang issue. was: bacula sometimes gets stuck when volume wanted is already in a different drive

2009-02-19 Thread Silver Salonen
On Thursday 19 February 2009 11:01:16 Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:12:44AM +0200, Silver Salonen wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I just wanted to inform the list that I worked around the issue by minimizing > > the number of devices/storages. The problem with this is that there

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula hang issue. was: bacula sometimes gets stuck when volume wanted is already in a different drive

2009-02-19 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:12:44AM +0200, Silver Salonen wrote: > Hello. > > I just wanted to inform the list that I worked around the issue by minimizing > the number of devices/storages. The problem with this is that there may be > only as many parallel jobs as the number of devices. > Can y