Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with usage of Copy Jobs

2010-07-23 Thread Frank Altpeter
Moin, 2010/7/22 c.kesch...@internet-mit-iq.de: I don't see anything wront with it. Can you post /etc/bacula/INCLUDES/schedules.conf ? Sure, but I don't think that it would change anything, because the described behaviour also happens if I comment out the schedule entry and do a manually run

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 5.0.2 restore files from tape very slow

2010-07-23 Thread Martin Simmons
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:37:22 -0600, May, John said: The point I was making with my original post was that the file restore of the 6.2TB of data is taking many times longer than it did to back it up. For instance, I started the backup last Friday 7/22 and it still isn't finished today, only

Re: [Bacula-users] Installing Bacula on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5.5 (Tikanga)

2010-07-23 Thread Daniel Bareiro
On Friday, 23 July 2010 02:13:51 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: Hi there Daniel! Hi, Jeroen! But when trying to run the startup script, I get the following errors: [r...@localhost scripts]# /etc/init.d/bacula start Starting the Bacula Storage daemon /usr/sbin/bacula-sd: error

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with usage of Copy Jobs

2010-07-23 Thread C . Keschnat
That seems strange. I presume you also didn't get a mail for job 54425? I also don't know what to make of this. You could check the volumes to see if there was actually data written for the incremental job. Moin, 2010/7/22 c.kesch...@internet-mit-iq.de: I don't see anything wront with it.

[Bacula-users] Remote second backup

2010-07-23 Thread Marco Zancanaro
Hi, i've configured a bacula system in my local network. I need to do the backup locally for a fast backup and a fast retore, but i also need a remote backup for safety reason. I'm think of doing a remote copy of the volume that bacula creates. The problem is that the volume is very large, about

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with usage of Copy Jobs

2010-07-23 Thread Frank Altpeter
Moin, 2010/7/23  c.kesch...@internet-mit-iq.de: That seems strange. I presume you also didn't get a mail for job 54425? Correct. I also don't know what to make of this. You could check the volumes to see if there was actually data written for the incremental job. I checked, and it seems

Re: [Bacula-users] Remote second backup

2010-07-23 Thread Timo Neuvonen
Marco Zancanaro marco.za...@gmail.com kirjoitti viestissä news:aanlktilg5xz50f0nobugolb_qngdmsa1xvzbpnqjr...@mail.gmail.com... Hi, i've configured a bacula system in my local network. I need to do the backup locally for a fast backup and a fast retore, but i also need a remote backup for

[Bacula-users] Bacula Status report

2010-07-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, This is a sort of mini-Bacula status report on the following: 1. Next release 2. New release cycle 3. New bugs tracking database 4. New Bacula server (www.bacula.org) 5. New Bacula source distribution server 1. Next release: Before the end of August, we will be releasing the next

Re: [Bacula-users] Remote second backup

2010-07-23 Thread Marco Zancanaro
Ok, thanks for helping. I'll try to find a suitable solution based on you suggestion. Marco On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 16:45, Timo Neuvonen timo-n...@tee-en.net wrote: Marco Zancanaro marco.za...@gmail.com kirjoitti viestissä news:aanlktilg5xz50f0nobugolb_qngdmsa1xvzbpnqjr...@mail.gmail.com...

Re: [Bacula-users] Remote second backup

2010-07-23 Thread John Drescher
2010/7/23 Marco Zancanaro marco.za...@gmail.com: Hi, i've configured a bacula system in my local network. I need to do the backup locally for a fast backup and a fast retore, but i also need a remote backup for safety reason. I'm think of doing a remote copy of the volume that bacula creates.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Status report

2010-07-23 Thread Thomas Bennett
Thanks for all the work you do, this sounds great. Sounds a lot like the Fedora Linux release cycle the last time I looked at it. Good luck on moving to the new server and thanks to UKFast. Thomas On Friday 23 July 2010 11:54:03 Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, This is a sort of mini-Bacula

[Bacula-users] recycle volume

2010-07-23 Thread Jeremiah D. Jester
I have a volume that I am recycling back into the pool before the volume expiration date. How do I simply wipe this tape or start the write position to the beginning of the tape to overwrite the old data? Thanks, JJ --

Re: [Bacula-users] recycle volume

2010-07-23 Thread Simone Martina
On 07/23/2010 06:45 PM, Jeremiah D. Jester wrote: I have a volume that I am recycling back into the pool before the volume expiration date. How do I simply wipe this tape or start the write position to the beginning of the tape to overwrite the old data? When I've to force recycling a tape,

Re: [Bacula-users] recycle volume

2010-07-23 Thread John Drescher
I have a volume that I am recycling back into the pool before the volume expiration date. How do I simply wipe this tape or start the write position to the beginning of the tape to overwrite the old data? purge volume John

Re: [Bacula-users] recycle volume

2010-07-23 Thread Jeremiah D. Jester
Does this do the same thing as purge volume? Is one preferable over the other? *update volume=VOLNAME pool=Offsite slots volstatus=recycle Recycle=yes JJ -Original Message- From: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 9:54 AM To: Jeremiah D. Jester Cc:

Re: [Bacula-users] recycle volume

2010-07-23 Thread John Drescher
Does this do the same thing as purge volume? Is one preferable over the other? *update volume=VOLNAME pool=Offsite slots volstatus=recycle Recycle=yes Purge cleans up the database (removes db records for jobs and files that were on the volume) while update volume I am not sure. John

Re: [Bacula-users] recycle volume

2010-07-23 Thread John Drescher
2010/7/23 Simone Martina smart...@noc.skylogicnet.com: On 07/23/2010 06:45 PM, Jeremiah D. Jester wrote: I have a volume that I am recycling back into the pool before the volume expiration date. How do I simply wipe this tape or start the write position to the beginning of the tape to

[Bacula-users] Volumes that are not really full.

2010-07-23 Thread Jeremiah D. Jester
I have a volume (KL0445) reporting as Full though this seems suspect giving that the VolBytes column is so much smaller than the rest of my tapes. Included a snippet. Any reason for this or does this mean there is an error? Should I purge the volume and reuse? | 77 | KL0406 | Full

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Volumes that are not really full.

2010-07-23 Thread John Drescher
I have a volume  (KL0445) reporting as Full though this seems suspect giving that the VolBytes column is so much smaller than the rest of my tapes. Included a snippet. Any reason for this or does this mean there is an error? Should I purge the volume and reuse? When bacula hits a media error

Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes that are not really full.

2010-07-23 Thread John Drescher
Does a media error mean what it says? Problem with the media. Do I need to basically test each volume w/ btape that I get an error with. Seems like a lot of work. Could be a bad tape, kernel problem, sas/scsi problem, tape drive ... Basically when the tape driver reports a write error to

Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes that are not really full.

2010-07-23 Thread Jeremiah D. Jester
Shouldn't it label as Error and not Full? Is there a simple way to query all Errored volumes without grepping the log file? Thanks, JJ -Original Message- From: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 11:06 AM To: Jeremiah D. Jester; bacula-users Subject:

Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes that are not really full.

2010-07-23 Thread John Drescher
Shouldn't it label as Error and not Full? No. Bacula does not have a platform unspecific way to tell if the error is because the tape reached its end or that the tape was not writable past some point. Error is only for volumes that bacula detects a mismatch between the # of volume files that