Re: [Bacula-users] Experiences with Autochanger IBM TS3100

2010-10-06 Thread Buskas, Patric
Hi, I'm using the TS3100 with a CentOS 5.5 and Bacula 5.0.3 and it's working great. I don't think there are any mainstream Linux dist who won't work with this auto changer unless they're too old. It works great with the mtx command also. /Patric -Original Message- From: Jason Voorhees [

Re: [Bacula-users] No medium found.. How to force it?

2010-10-06 Thread Romer Ventura
I do have that: Autochanger { Name = Autochanger Device = DLTv4 Changer Command = "/etc/bacula/scripts/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d" Changer Device = /dev/sg4 } Device { Name = DLTv4 Drive Index = 0 Media Type = tape Archive Device = /dev/nst0 AutomaticMount = yes LabelMedia = y

Re: [Bacula-users] No medium found.. How to force it?

2010-10-06 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Bob Hetzel wrote: > The need to run update slots twice would possibly be fixed by upgrading your > mtx.  If it gets back a different message the first time on the upgraded > version then report it as a bug on the mtx list and you'll probably get > somebody to fix it

[Bacula-users] Experiences with Autochanger IBM TS3100

2010-10-06 Thread Jason Voorhees
Hi: We're planning to buy a autochanger IBM T3100 but I would like you to give me some suggestion about this model? Do you know if it's fully supported with modern Linux distributions? Is it necessary some recent kernel version? Is it difficult to configure? Would you recommend a better linux dist

Re: [Bacula-users] No medium found.. How to force it?

2010-10-06 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Bob Hetzel wrote: > > > On 10/6/2010 4:01 PM, John Drescher wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Bob Hetzel  wrote: >>> >> Isnt it?supposed?to pull media from scratch pool? >>> >>>  > I believe it will pull from the scratch pool if only if ther

Re: [Bacula-users] No medium found.. How to force it?

2010-10-06 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Bob Hetzel wrote: > >>> > Isnt it?supposed?to pull media from scratch pool? >  > >> I believe it will pull from the scratch pool if only if there are no >> acceptable volumes in the pool. CNH895 was an acceptable volume even >> though it was not in the changer so it

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula GDB traceback of bacula-sd

2010-10-06 Thread Bruno Friedmann
Hi Frank, also don't hesitate to install the suggested -debuginfo package show by zypper. They will help in obtaining full and complete trace or linked so On 10/06/2010 11:36 AM, Frank Altpeter wrote: > Hi list, > > I just hit a segmentation fault with my bacula installation. I hope > someone c

Re: [Bacula-users] No medium found.. How to force it?

2010-10-06 Thread Bob Hetzel
>> > Isnt it?supposed?to pull media from scratch pool? > > I believe it will pull from the scratch pool if only if there are no > acceptable volumes in the pool. CNH895 was an acceptable volume even > though it was not in the changer so it picked that over grabbing one > from the scratch. > > The

[Bacula-users] Run Copy immediately after backup on a per-job basis?

2010-10-06 Thread Dylan Vanderhoof
We've been running file based backups for a few weeks while preserving our tape jukebox on our old (crappy) Legato backup system. Now that I have a reasonable baseline of file backups, I'm in the process of moving my offsite tapes onto bacula. The autochanger and LTO-2 drives are tested and w

Re: [Bacula-users] Disabled Jobs Question

2010-10-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 10/06/10 14:35, Mingus Dew wrote: > John, > I think I had to create a bogus schedule, that bacula wouldn't > accept the job config without a schedule. I think I'll disable the job > in bconsole and try to start it remotely. Just see what happens... Mingus, this is why I always create an em

Re: [Bacula-users] Disabled Jobs Question

2010-10-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 10/06/10 14:30, John Drescher wrote: > 2010/10/6 Mingus Dew : >> If I disable these jobs via console, will this prevent them from being run >> by bconsole? > > I believe disabling jobs via bconsole just temporarily disables any > schedule for that job until you restart the director in which cas

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] project.bacula.org weee!

2010-10-06 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Jeroen, Thank you for the introduction to the new bacula.org project page that we (you) are working on. Obviously, it is something that I am very happy to see and have been working toward for quite some time now. Like you, I project.bacula.org as a place where Bacula users can put their

Re: [Bacula-users] Disabled Jobs Question

2010-10-06 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Mingus Dew wrote: > John, > I think I had to create a bogus schedule, that bacula wouldn't accept > the job config without a schedule. I think I'll disable the job in bconsole > and try to start it remotely. Just see what happens... > I have jobs that are arch

Re: [Bacula-users] Disabled Jobs Question

2010-10-06 Thread Mingus Dew
John, I think I had to create a bogus schedule, that bacula wouldn't accept the job config without a schedule. I think I'll disable the job in bconsole and try to start it remotely. Just see what happens... -Shon On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:30 PM, John Drescher wrote: > 2010/10/6 Mingus Dew :

Re: [Bacula-users] Disabled Jobs Question

2010-10-06 Thread John Drescher
2010/10/6 Mingus Dew : > I am running Bacula 5.0.1 and have a question about Disabled Jobs. > > I have some jobs configured that do not have an active schedule (i.e., > bacula never automatically queues or runs them) > Instead, these jobs are run by a remote user that logs into the backup > server

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula GDB traceback of bacula-sd

2010-10-06 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 11:36:33 +0200, Frank Altpeter said: > > I just hit a segmentation fault with my bacula installation. I hope > someone can help me how to get this fixed. The actual error was "Resource temporarily unavailable" but it is being reported with level M_ABORT so you get the seg

Re: [Bacula-users] Building only FD+SD?

2010-10-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 10/06/10 13:40, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > Another question, then. Will tools like bscan need to run locally on > the SD with access to the database to be useful? If so, what would be > a preferred setup for the environment described? I will be able to > reach the database (on the director ma

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate Backups

2010-10-06 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 21:19:18 +0200, Ralf Gross said: > > Martin Simmons schrieb: > > > On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:13:59 +0200, Ralf Gross said: > > > > > > All the information about the job tells me that 3 files and a directory > > > were > > > backed up. But the size of the backup (4,478,19

[Bacula-users] Disabled Jobs Question

2010-10-06 Thread Mingus Dew
I am running Bacula 5.0.1 and have a question about Disabled Jobs. I have some jobs configured that do not have an active schedule (i.e., bacula never automatically queues or runs them) Instead, these jobs are run by a remote user that logs into the backup server and runs a script to run the confi

Re: [Bacula-users] Building only FD+SD?

2010-10-06 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> > Now, I understand only the director needs access to the database, > > the > > FDs will be contacted by the director, and the SDs will be contacted > > by the respective FDs. On some Linux distros, the SD or FD comes as > > separate pre-built packages, but on some of the other platforms, > > the

Re: [Bacula-users] Building only FD+SD?

2010-10-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 10/06/10 13:04, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > Hi all > > I'm working on a Bacula setup, and I have a few questions. > > My plan is to setup one pretty well spec'ed up dedicated director > (bunch of RAM, mirrored drives and mirrored SSDs for the indices on > PostgreSQL). This will be placed on

[Bacula-users] Building only FD+SD?

2010-10-06 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi all I'm working on a Bacula setup, and I have a few questions. My plan is to setup one pretty well spec'ed up dedicated director (bunch of RAM, mirrored drives and mirrored SSDs for the indices on PostgreSQL). This will be placed on a central private network. Servers that are to be backuped

Re: [Bacula-users] list media and status storage show volume belonging to two different pools

2010-10-06 Thread John Drescher
> Hi All, > If I run a list media, I see volume 30L4 belonging to the Deans-full > pool, which is correct. > > Pool: Deans-full > +-++---+-++--+--+-+--+---+---+-+ > | MediaId

[Bacula-users] list media and status storage show volume belonging to two different pools

2010-10-06 Thread Michael Edwards
Hi All, If I run a list media, I see volume 30L4 belonging to the Deans-full pool, which is correct. Pool: Deans-full +-++---+-++--+--+-+--+---+---+-+ | MediaId | VolumeName

Re: [Bacula-users] Is it safe to run 2 concurrent jobs on a tape drive?

2010-10-06 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 08:55:27AM -0400, John Drescher wrote: > > I have an HP 1/8 autoloader lto4 drive which we use for full offline > > backups and was wondering wether it's safe to run 2 concurrent jobs on > > that device at the same time? Despooling sadly isn't possible at the > > moment for

Re: [Bacula-users] Is it safe to run 2 concurrent jobs on a tape drive?

2010-10-06 Thread John Drescher
> I have an HP 1/8 autoloader lto4 drive which we use for full offline > backups and was wondering wether it's safe to run 2 concurrent jobs on > that device at the same time? Despooling sadly isn't possible at the > moment for lack of disk space, bacula version is 5.0.3 on CentOS > (compiled from

[Bacula-users] Automatic tape status change doesnt work here

2010-10-06 Thread roos
I now added "Recycle Current Volume = yes" on the Tape pool. It seems to work now. Thanks! +-- |This was sent by r...@symentis.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---

Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning Bacula

2010-10-06 Thread Foo
On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:37:32 +0200, Tim Gustafson wrote: > However, we're getting pretty pitiful throughput numbers. When I scp a > file from my workstation to the Bacula server, I get something like > 40MB/s (320Mb/s). When Bacula runs, we're lucky to get 20MB/s > (160Mb/s), and we often

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic tape status change doesn't work here

2010-10-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 10/06/10 05:18, Robert Oschwald wrote: > hi, > > I got a problem with automatic tape status change, which does not work. Tapes > always got status "Append", even when their retention period is exceeded. Have you tried setting a volume use interval on the tapes? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2

Re: [Bacula-users] Is it safe to run 2 concurrent jobs on a tape drive?

2010-10-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 10/06/10 03:53, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have an HP 1/8 autoloader lto4 drive which we use for full offline > backups and was wondering wether it's safe to run 2 concurrent jobs on > that device at the same time? Despooling sadly isn't possible at the > moment for lack of disk sp

[Bacula-users] Automatic tape status change doesn't work here

2010-10-06 Thread Robert Oschwald
hi, I got a problem with automatic tape status change, which does not work. Tapes always got status "Append", even when their retention period is exceeded. I use a Disk/Tape scheme with Bacula 5.0.2. I change tapes weekly in a Single Drive HP StorageWorks Ultrium 1760 LTO4. Copy to tape runs ev

[Bacula-users] Bacula GDB traceback of bacula-sd

2010-10-06 Thread Frank Altpeter
Hi list, I just hit a segmentation fault with my bacula installation. I hope someone can help me how to get this fixed. This happened now the second time within a week, so I think there might be a bug in the sd code. Environmental information: Version: 5.0.3 (04 August 2010) OS: SUSE Linux Ente

[Bacula-users] Is it safe to run 2 concurrent jobs on a tape drive?

2010-10-06 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, I have an HP 1/8 autoloader lto4 drive which we use for full offline backups and was wondering wether it's safe to run 2 concurrent jobs on that device at the same time? Despooling sadly isn't possible at the moment for lack of disk space, bacula version is 5.0.3 on CentOS (compiled from