On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Jeff McCune wrote:
Index creation took 20 minutes, and dbcheck -f ran for 27 hours before I
killed it and wiped the entire machine to upgrade to RHEL4.
Soething's wrong with your setup then.
Currently, a Full backup of my /home volume is 480GB in just over 4 million
files.
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
I know that in the US, the daylight change is next Sunday
Kern's in switzerland and presumably he changed with the rest of us
europeans. :)
, but am I the only
one to experience this issue ?
No.
AB
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Gregory Brauer wrote:
To answer our own question, in case there's anybody interested,
we found that mounting the NetApp via NFS over TCP dramatically
increased performance from NFS over UDP, matching or even
slighlty exceeding the native bacula-fd client transfer speed.
Is
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Richard Caley wrote:
Actually I have no idea why I did my script in /bin/sh, maybe I had
something off for lunch that day:-).
If you ever check perl vs sh, you'll find that perl is HUGE and takes a
long time to start, compared to sh. I only switch to perl when scripts get
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Jonas Björklund wrote:
Ahh! Am I the only one who thinks backup hardware is sexy? =)
Many years ago I used an old dead scsi tape drive as a coffee table.
It was the 'perfect' size, if a little heavy
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Joshua Kugler wrote:
Is he willing to sell? We could buy it and donate it to Kern for testing. :)
Kern already has something supposedly being shipped by Overland Data.
It seems to have gone walkabout since January...
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On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Wilson Guerrero C. wrote
I have a similar system with windows machines also.
I'm sending you via other email a binary of the file daemon for
Tru64 Unix 5.1B in production.
I would like to obtain a copy of that too.
Wilson, perhaps you can contribute this to the sourceforge
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Slartibartfast wrote:
Trying to label the tapes in the autochanger and I'm running into the
following errors:
3301 Issuing autochanger loaded drive 0 command.
3991 Bad autochanger loaded drive 0 command: ERR=Child exited with
code 1.
What UID is the mtx-changer script being
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Andreas Kopecki wrote:
More than enough, but you'll ensure postgres is actually using it.
How big is its memory footprint?
postgres 19292 /usr/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
postgres 10088 postgres: stats buffer process
postgres 9096 postgres: stats collector
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Clark wrote:
I have bacula installed on a single machine. When it runs any backup the
file daemon, storage daemon and mysql monopolise the cpu and the machine
becomes practically unusable. This is very frustrating because backing
up 320GB to LTO2 is also taking 11
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Russell Howe wrote:
ARCserve had a special prune database job you could
schedule which would make sure the database was pruned at a set time.
You can do this with a scheduled job in bacula.
Just backup nothing and set a runbefore or runafter script
Or more simply just set
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Piet le Roux wrote:
A client need to backup user files from +/- 800 Windows workstations at least
once a week to a Linux server.
We estimated about 5Mb changed files per workstation per week.
This would be a good candidate for a base job, if that code was
completed and
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Russell Howe wrote:
Lars Köller wrote:
That's the weekness of the old BSD startup concept. At home I always
move the scripts to something like:
400.mysql.sh
600.bacula.sh
700.httpd.sh
800.imapd.sh
This is why most linux distros moved to SysV-style rc.[N] startup
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Christopher Rasch-Olsen Raa wrote:
At the office we are going to have 20+ clients that are to be taken
backup of regularly. These clients recieve their ip's via DHCP.
HOw long are the leases?
Is there any reason why those leases can't be set for (say) 12 months?)
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Leni Mayo wrote:
Incidentally, the reason I'd earlier seen good results by gzipping the volume
was because I'd built the static bacula fd in the absence of a static zlib!
Does lack of zlib matter in the face of a good tape drive with onboard
compression?
On Sat, 7 May 2005, John Hayden wrote:
Except, the same code on another RH9 system only spawns 1 instance
and on this system all 3 instances are listening on port 9102. It would seem
to me that multiple instances should be listening on different ports. I'm
fairly certain there should only be
On Tue, 10 May 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Prior to having a spam filter I'd found that pressing the delete key works
pretty well and amazingly fast.
The dangers of deleting legitimate mail unread should be obvious.
As are the dangers of having any filter which accepts then dumps mail, or
tags it
I know that the spool directory is safe to clear out when Bacula isn't
running, but what about the working directory?
Perhaps temporrary directory cleanouts should be added to the
startup/shutdown scripts. :)
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On Tue, 17 May 2005, Ivan Petrovich wrote:
My subscription goes to address A where mail gets forwards to address
B or C or ... depending on where I am at the time. If I need to make a
posting, I would do it from, say, B, adding a reply-to line pointing
to address A. But that fails to work with
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Arno Lehmann wrote:
This says to me that as long as the Pools of the Jobs being queued match,
the Jobs will all run concurrently. Jobs however that have mismatching
Pools will instead queue and wait for the storage device to free when
previous jobs complete.
That's about
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Well, the idea of obtaining a tape drive at the last minute is interesting,
and I'm going to think about it carefully, but my intuition tells me it is
dangerous. You could have 10 jobs partially completed all waiting for one
tape drive. This could bring
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Arno Lehmann wrote:
There are more attributes than that and there are more access attributes
than just user/group/world too.
Well, sure, but those don't matter here :-)
I have actually used them.
More importantly, it appears that WinXP service pack 2 is starting to
implement
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Alan,
do you have more information on that? Like, for example, what the ADS has to
be named and what it contains?
Not yet, I only discovered this last week and my Bacula brief doesn't
cover windows systems, so I haven't been able to justify spending time
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
This problem seems to be rather current on Win2000 systems, and other Windows
systems. Though I do not have any proof except that it only happens with
Windows systems, I attribute it to a bug or deliberate throttling in the
Microsoft networking code.
I
On Sat, 21 May 2005, Arno Lehmann wrote:
However for the last two Friday nights the bacula
director has been freezing after backing up the first
seven clients.
I did experience the same, couldn't find any reason, but after the upgrade to
1.36.2 that didn't happen again. So, I suggest you do
On Sun, 22 May 2005, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Replace the cartridge. Clean the drive. Hold your thumbs :-)
mt retension sometimes helps, as does storing the tapes on their edge
instead of flat (it keeps the tape pancake even)
I did that 1 week ago. Why do I need to clean the drive that often?
On Mon, 30 May 2005, Masopust Christian wrote:
maybe you'll have a look at bugs.bacula.org at bug 331. i had a similar
problem
where bacula-dir randomly hangs. after applying kerns patch it didn't happen
until
now, but before closing this bug i would prefere to wait at least one week
;-))
As
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Like me, for instance. For some reason(*) a couple of my personal domains
feature quite frequently in spam forgeries.
, I prefer to try to inform real users that
their message has not been accepted -- sending back a rejection message
is what 99.9% of
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
I don't see the difference, unless I am mistaken, in both cases the
message goes back to the same place.
The difference is that the reject/failure message is sent by the SMTP
_ORIGIN_ host, not the receiving one.
Oh that is interesting. I had never
Considering the price of a good tape drive and tapes (or even of a few
removable hard drives) a good UPS isn't particularly expensive.
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This has been happening since I updated to 1.36.3
10-Jun 00:27 msslas-dir: RunBefore: /usr/bin/mysqldump: option requires an
argument -- u
10-Jun 00:27 msslas-dir: Start Backup JobId 5119,
Job=BackupCatalog.2005-06-09_23.50.00
10-Jun 00:27 msslas-sd: Spooling data ...
10-Jun 00:27 msslas-fd:
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
You didn't mention how many files/job you have. If it is more than
about 500K then I can understand the problem.
Some of my backup sets (usually 1TB partitions) contain upwards of 4
million files(*) :-)
Some ideas:
- Split your jobs to keep
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
The problem is that inode is a machine specific concept. Though it can be
simulated, it doesn't exist on Win32 or Mac (well perhaps on OS X). Though
this would work nicely as you say, I always like to do things in machine
independent ways.
It doesn't
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Bacula should never prune and hence recycle the last valid Full,... backup it
has done.
For some strange reason, I never implemented code to check and no one
complained until recently. There is already an open bug report on this.
*wishlist: last
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
I'm now working on getting update slots working with multiple drive
autochangers. It currently works OK with a single drive changer by unloading
any loaded drive, then doing an mtx status. Now with a 30 drive autochanger,
it will be a bit of chaos to
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Phil Stracchino wrote:
The immediately apparent problem with this is that in order to ever
perform a full restore, you will need to keep all of your incremental
backups forever. If you have to restore a machine after six months of
this, you'll have to restore over 180
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
*wishlist: last complete Full backup by default, but user-defineable
number would be even better (to allow for 2 complete sets in safe, etc)
The problem I have with this is: suppose you backup a Client containing a
terabyte of data. You set your
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Paul Waldo wrote:
Hi Arno,
No the tape was not labeled--it was blank as can be.
I am seeing this behaviour with truely blank LTOs too.
Try writing 2 EOFs to the start of the tapes and try it again.
Nor was that volume
label in the catalog. I was under the impression
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Morten A. Middelthon wrote:
I'm having trouble getting bacula's automatic labelling working like I want
it to. I have created three types of pools, inc, diff and full:
Bear in mind that the maximum supported by most barcode readers is 8
characters, so it is a bad idea to
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
There is something on the tape which bacula doesn't like when it scans the
start of the tape. Writing an EOF solves the problem but it means tapes
need massaging and can't simply be unwrapped, labelled and stuck in
magazines.
Well, this is a function
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Matthias Kurz wrote:
Now, it would be nice if it would be possible to spin down the disks after
usage.
RunAfterJob - some variant of hdparm will do it
(either put the drive in powersave mode or set an idle timer)
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
This brings up another small problem:
We're currently using 'update slots' to park all tapes prior to opening
the changer, in order to avoid people loading tapes into slots used by the
tapes in the drive(s) (I can work out how to avoid the appropriate
Kern,
This is the manifestation which happens when a _truely_ blank tape is
loaded. (ie, virgin tape, just out of the wrapper.)
23-Jul 03:43 msslas-sd: 3304 Issuing autochanger load slot 3, drive 0
command.
23-Jul 03:43 msslas-sd: 3305 Autochanger load slot 3, drive 0, status is
OK.
23-Jul
After about 10 minutes, the tape was rewound and labelled.
Either you are not waiting long enough after issuing the mtx load
command, or you are not using one of the wait loops that are in the
mtx-changer script. As a consequence, the mtx-changer script returns to
Bacula *before* the tape is
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Jesse Keating wrote:
I needed this to be automated. On the first Sunday of every month, I
need to do a second round of full backups to tape which will be shipped
off site.
Right now you need a second backupset and pool pool defined with its own
schedule
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Phil Stracchino wrote:
Yes, but I think what he wants is hourly/N for some integer N.
It would be useful. It'd also be useful to do the same with days/N and
months/N, but I suspect too hard to implement.
It's actually fairly awkward having 8 Tb of full backups all
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 21:49 +0100, Martin Simmons wrote:
Oh, I thought the blockage and mount command is per storage device,
not per
tape.
It does block the storage device. It prevents the storage device from
automounting the next usable tape. I
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Ferdinando Pasqualetti wrote:
I think you should recreate an empty database (using the scripts in
/etc/bacula) and the bscan on all your backups tha should reconstruct your
jobs.
Once the database is reconstructed you should be able to restore the last
database
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Georg Lutz wrote:
1. We life in a part of Germany where there are (fourtunately ? ;-)) a
lot of holidays.
We moved our main backup and tape change days to mid-week to deal with
this problem
AB
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I'm not on the devel list.
In terms of next tapes, what is bacula's order of preference for using
tapes?
Append, then recycle, then purged?
If so, then that part's easy (It's what I'm doing by hand anwyay)
If there aren't enough tapes, you're right, some form of show pruning
candidates
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Mick wrote:
I use an USB disk as backup target for Bacula. It works fine. But there
is one issue: I want to mount it immediatly before the backup and
unmount it afterwards. There is even a mount option for the config file
(sd.config I think), but this option is not allowed
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure) wrote:
Just a reminder that I am waiting patiently... ;0)
1: Are you running mtx and mtx-changer as the effective Bacula user
2: Does the changer device have suitable permissions for the effective
Bacula user?
That seems to be the
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Phil Stracchino wrote:
On the other hand, do you want to PHYSICALLY ERASE the tape and all data
on it to make sure it cannot be trivially recovered off the tape by
someone you don't wish to have it? Buy a bulk eraser, but be aware that
someone who's really determined and
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Philipp Steinkrueger wrote:
yes, that would be enough to meet my needs, but it would have a big
disadvantage
over my scheme, because duplicating media would take _hours_. we calculated,
that for our current data to be fully backuped, it would take more than 10
hours.
It
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Daniel Bloemer wrote:
Assuming you're using a linux system, why not allow hotplug and subfs to do
this for you automagically?
I am working on a similiar solution here. The problem is, that the
hotplug-agent doesnt mount the USB-Harddisc on a fixed mountpoint.
I tried
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Daniel Bloemer wrote:
Hello,
Alan Brown wrote:
Each usb mass stoarge device has a unique serial number - this can be
mapped to a fixed mount point.
Not every usb-device has this. Some Chips just return vendor- and productID
. :-(
Anything which does
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Quintin Giesbrecht wrote:
Restores work fine too, and regardless of what software you run, should
be done by a sys admin, imho.
I agree - if only because having users able to run restores trivially off
tape keeps them in bad habits about restoring data.
We have a
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Pal Dorogi wrote:
From my experience, and I'm sure someone's already said this... the best
was to get money, at least where I work, is to consider the money a support
contract. My superiors like running software without a support contract
even less than they like paying
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Timo Eissler wrote:
I don´t want to read 68 short emails every day. I think it is better to have
2 long emails in which all clients of these job are, but
this is not my main problem.
I'd like this as well, and I'm sure a lot of admins with lots of jobs have
the same
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
I agree with this, but who is going to provide the support.
Paying $500/year for development support would be easily justifiable, with
support charges ramping up for those who actually need handholding, via an
external contractor
I'm sure there are
Has anyone seen this?
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/summerofcode/
Perhaps this could be useful for bacula?
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On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Under 1.37, I have unified the naming convention of all Bacula temporary
files so that it will be easy to know which ones are used for what (the use
is always postfixed -- e.g. .spool, .mail, ...) and it will be easier to do
spool/working directory
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Would you either restate this, or explain what you mean, because on
the face, this is patently false.
You have just made a flat statement without any detail, and I am a bit tired
of this subject, so I am not going to respond until I see some reasonable
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Philipp Steinkrueger wrote:
thats right. if you want to use the software itself to make new software
and you want to make money by seeling it, GPL is indeed a nightmare.
No it's not.
You are free to charge as much as you want for selling GPL software and
support,
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Even the cases above, what's happened is that the companies concerned have
been forced to release the sourcecode for modifications to GCC,
modifications to Linux and Linux device drivers, but thay have NOT been
forced to give up the proprietary software
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Martin Simmons wrote:
Alan Proprietary code including lesser GPL (lGPL) libraries is not forced into
Alan the GPL either.
Quite correct, but isn't there a common problem is that something is GPL but
you want to use a small part of it as a library?
If the libraries are
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Hendrik Weimer wrote:
Companies which are totally risk-averse may decide to compile static
images using proprietary libraries and compilers, at extra cost, but
they retain 100% of their copyright even if having to pay distribution
license royalties to Borland or Intel or
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Gilberto Nunes Ferreira wrote:
Well...
In another way, how can I force Bacula to use different tape each week on a
month, consider a month with 5 weeks, and I have 10 tapes for this job?
1: Use the max duration time parameter
2: 2 generations of tape isn't enough, use 3
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Timo Eissler wrote:
I have DLT, the cleaning light comes on about once a year.
We have an AIT-2 drive. Once a year? this is great! our drive has such a
light too, but it is on almost every monday
when i change tapes.
The frequency of cleaning lights is _very_ much
For some reason Bacula is backing up 27Gb/night on one disk when only a
few hundred Mb/night is actually changing.
The _only_ thing that I can see which might be affecting things is a
ctime/mtime update on the parent directory, but only 100-200 files (out of
several thousand) are actually
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
The _only_ thing that I can see which might be affecting things is a
ctime/mtime update on the parent directory, but only 100-200 files (out of
several thousand) are actually changing, however it looks like the entire
dircetory is being backed up.
Kern,
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote:
SLR100 SCSI tape drive, which is capable of storing 50GB or 100GB
(compressed) onto SLR tapes.
Note that 100Gb is compressed and the raw capacity is 50Gb.
Now I have a bunch of newly bought SLR tapes, but there I get an out of
space error,
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Christoph Haas wrote:
First I assumed a broken tape. But then I discovered that half of the
tapes in my pool are spit out again without being read. However
sometimes it helps to push the tape back in a dozen times and with a
little luck the tape gets accepted.
Has anyone
On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Christoph Haas wrote:
Thanks both for your comments. The drive will be replaced ASAP. I hope
that doesn't mean that DDS3 is generally discouraged because it may be
less reliable though.
To be blunt: It _is_ less unreliable, all 4mm formats seem to be and I
feel this is
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Arno Lehmann wrote:
backup-server is a P4 2,8GHz on a Fujitsu-Siemens Mainboard,
Is this based on the Intel 915G chipset by any chance?
(or any other intel set incorporating the ICH6 IDE/SATA controller...)
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Arno Lehmann wrote:
You're using 1.36.3 or lower, right?
The see the directive Accept Any Volume in the pool definition chapter in
the manual.
http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION000141
It should do what you want, if you've
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Arunav Mandal wrote:
I understand this is a known bug, fixed in CVS.
What happens when I change the error to Append manually will the tape be used
again?
I've tried this, it errors again. Switch the tape to used and let it
expire, or purge it if the incomplete backup
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Russell Howe wrote:
I don't understand why you *MUST* use alternate sets of 5 tapes each
week...
People who don't understand this, don't use magazine based loaders.
Changing out individual tapes every day or every other day defeats the
whole purpose of their existance
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
I've tried this, it errors again. Switch the tape to used and let it
expire, or purge it if the incomplete backup is the only thing on the
tape.
This is good advice. It avoids the possibility of having an unreadable tape.
If you can repeat the exact
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Daniel Weuthen wrote:
This is surprising because I always understood that a multiple index
(JobId, PathId, FilenameId) was equivalent (actually better) than one only
on JobId.
It should be
Could you tell me what DB you are using MySQL, ...?
mysql Ver 12.22
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Are you running on 1.36.3? If so, this is strange since the default table
setup for 1.36.3 includes an index on JobId in the File table.
But not on upgrades from previous versions, right?
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On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
But not on upgrades from previous versions, right?
On most upgrades, the index should not be lost, because generally an upgrade
adds new columns or new tables.
But does an uipgrade form previous version of bacula database format add
new indexing
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Gee, it looks like I really need to document checking/adding/deleting indexes
to the manual so that users can easily check and correct any problems. This
would probably be a nice mini-project for a script jockey.
Probably. What are the recommended
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
For the File table in MySQL it was:
PRIMARY KEY(FileId),
INDEX (JobId, PathId, FilenameId)
For PostgreSQL it was:
primary key (fileid)
create index file_jobid_idx on file (jobid);
create index file_fp_idx on file (filenameid, pathid);
The
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Karl Cunningham wrote:
Some months ago I had occasion to backup and restore a disk image of a
Windows system using Bacula. The situation was a hard disk on a Windows
system that had suddenly developed a loud whine and we wanted to replace it
ASAP.
There are lots of
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Florian Schnabel wrote:
that's why the maximum use duration is set ..
No.
Maximum use duration sets the maximum period that a tape will be used for
backing up before being toggled from append into used mode.
This is useful for ensuring tapes are changed out weekly, etc
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Baldur Norddahl wrote:
I did not try spooling for two reasons. First is that the backup server only
has about 70 GB diskspace (two SATA disks in a mirror configuration). Many of
the servers have more data to backup than this, and the total backup set is
several times
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Arno Lehmann wrote:
That's not a problem, although for your setup I would recommend something
much larger... when the spool space is smaller than the data you need to
backup, bacula first fills the spool space, writes that to tape, and
continues reading from the clients
On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Unfortunately, the restore command doesn't have the best of all user
interfaces
Kern is the master of understatement.
, and I don't think it is possible to recursively mark all *.dbx
files.
I've had similar requests and it's rather painful to mark
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Timo Neuvonen wrote:
- nominally, the next tape would be taken into use in the beginning of every
month
Reasons behind this are minimal manual handling of the tapes, knowing there
will be loss of up to one month's data if the current tape gets destroyed. I
believe my tape
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
I write protect the tapes when I'm done with them, I
guess it never crossed my mind that bacula would need
_write_ access for a restore.
This is a good point though -- it really SHOULDN'T, should it? Restore should
be an action that cannot even
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
unmount any mounted drives using bconsole, and discharge the magazine. If
there are any loaded drives, most autochangers unload them.
Only the smaller ones. None of our magazine based loaders unload tapes to
the magazine before making them available
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Tom Boyda wrote:
Is there something that can be done to the mtx-changer script so that it
can return the tape to the correct slot?
If MTX doesn't know, it'll unload the tape to the first available slot.
If the slot that the tape was loaded from is now occupied, it will
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
If somone has transferred a tape into a slot that Bacula has loading, that
will undoubtedly cause confusion,
According to MTX documentation if that happens the tape will be loaded
into the next highest available slot (with wraparound).
This would
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Most certainly. The problem in this case might be to reproduce the situation
- as far as I understood Tom, he didn't change the tape inventory, but the
autochanger somehow lost track of the slots used. I heard that before, and,
although seldom, some
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Joshua Kugler wrote:
And yet more info (long, with lots of job reports).
This error actually happened with *two* different tapes, and in both cases,
when they errored, they had the same last volume bytes value.
Have you tried running btape to see what it says?
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Michael Reith wrote:
07-Oct 03:52 archie-sd: Job Trance_Firewall_Backup.2005-10-01_01.05.10
waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes.
Please use the label command to create a new Volume for:
Storage: FileStorage
Media type: File
Pool: Default
Ok,
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
I have done this in the past with OmniBack. If I had a two tape backup, the
backup would write to both tapes sequentially, rather than waiting for a tape
change. Hope this is correct and clears things up.
As in Instead of using a changer ?
AB
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Arno Lehmann wrote:
but right now I'm thinking that something changed between 1.36.2 and 1.36.3
that keeps me from being able to run more than one job at a time now, or my
hardware just can't handle it.
Hmm. Well, I know of people who used these versions with multiple
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Phil Stracchino wrote:
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?
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