Re: [Bacula-users] btape fill: that last block on the first tape ok or not?

2008-02-11 Thread John Drescher
I will skip the first question because there are two areas that do not make sense to me and I do not want to add to your confusion... Also, I'd presume that we'd want to have compression turned on - if anyone has a comment on that, I'd be appreciative. You want hardware compression (most

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling / Misconfiguration.

2008-02-12 Thread John Drescher
On Feb 12, 2008 3:12 PM, Jesper Krogh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arno Lehmann wrote: It would be nice if the Spool-limit was pr. job or something. It's in the manual :-) At http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/install/install/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html#DeviceResource there is

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling / Misconfiguration.

2008-02-12 Thread John Drescher
Erm... unless I missed something the SD needs to be restarted for configuration changes to take effect. Thanks. I did not think reload would on the director would reload the config on the sd or not. I have always just restarted the sd when it was not in use and only after releasing the tapes

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling / Misconfiguration.

2008-02-12 Thread John Drescher
So if I could get these config-changes in, without interrupting current running jobs. Yes. You can modify the configs without affecting any jobs but they will not take effect until you issue the reload command or possibly restart the sd. John

Re: [Bacula-users] Exabyte 224 - Additional magazine not properlyrecognized

2008-02-12 Thread John Drescher
For what it's worth, we use the same model and have had no problem with the expansion slots being recognized. Maybe you just need to power cycle the unit? One difference is that we disabled the import/export slot on the changer. Not sure if that matters though. I have the IE slot enabled on

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula on vista

2008-02-13 Thread John Drescher
On Feb 13, 2008 10:28 AM, Michael Da Cova [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi What happens if you install the application as a service only, something I hoping to try later? As I have the same issue Michael It should work but you do not see the tray icon. John

Re: [Bacula-users] Barcode Labels

2008-02-13 Thread John Drescher
Is there a way to rename volumes in Bacula to match the new barcodes? Not without loosing all the data that is on them. If there is not, does anyone on the list know if the Quantum Superloader 3 will support custom barcode labels with my volume format? It should. John

[Bacula-users] Fwd: restore ?

2008-02-13 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Feb 13, 2008 2:48 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] restore ? To: Robin Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Feb 13, 2008 2:42 PM, Robin Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I attempted a basic restore this morning

Re: [Bacula-users] restore ?

2008-02-13 Thread John Drescher
How am I supposed to know which autochanger slot to mount, when it would seems bacula just randomly selects tapes from the pool (see attached screenshot)? It should have told you in the console what tape it wanted to use. However I have found in most cases when bacula is stuck like this just

Re: [Bacula-users] restore ?

2008-02-13 Thread John Drescher
*mount Automatically selected Catalog: ITOS Using Catalog ITOS The defined Storage resources are: 1: LTO3-1 2: FileStorage Select Storage resource (1-2): 1 Enter autochanger slot: I have used a 2 drive autochanger with bacula for 18 months now and I have never been asked that

Re: [Bacula-users] Switching SD's while running

2008-02-14 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Mark Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, is it at all possible to switch to a different Storage Device when a job is running into a problem with the current one? (Like no tape mounted)? For instance: Job 1 is running and tries to send data to SD

[Bacula-users] Possible bug with bacula-SD Version: 2.2.8 (26 January 2008) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu gentoo

2008-02-14 Thread John Drescher
Device status: Autochanger Magnum224-0 with devices: LTO2-0 (/dev/nst0) LTO2-1 (/dev/nst1) Device LTO2-0 (/dev/nst0) is not open. Drive 0 status unknown. Device LTO2-1 (/dev/nst1) is mounted with: Volume: A00048 Pool:UserBackup-LTO2 Media type: LTO-2 Slot 20

[Bacula-users] Possible bug with bacula-SD Version: 2.2.8 (26 January 2008) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu gentoo

2008-02-14 Thread John Drescher
Device status: Autochanger Magnum224-0 with devices: LTO2-0 (/dev/nst0) LTO2-1 (/dev/nst1) Device LTO2-0 (/dev/nst0) is not open. Drive 0 status unknown. Device LTO2-1 (/dev/nst1) is mounted with: Volume: A00048 Pool:UserBackup-LTO2 Media type: LTO-2 Slot 20

Re: [Bacula-users] FW: sd 'hung' ?

2008-02-14 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Robin Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. So the next queued job is also now stuck, waiting on the SD. Any ideas how to get the SD/tape back ? I would just restart bacula-sd. John -

Re: [Bacula-users] bscan and non-local database/port

2008-02-15 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 8:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have an idea whether this should work or not? Am I typing the command incorrectly? Is there another way to re-introduce the catalog data from a tape to a remote database on a non-standard port? Yes.

Re: [Bacula-users] bscan and non-local database/port

2008-02-15 Thread John Drescher
could you show me what command line you use to tell it to use another port? Thanks! Sorry. I do not use a nonstandard port. That is most likely the problem. My first stab at this is you could use an SSH tunnel to map the default port (for mysql) on the local machine to the nonstandard port on

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole failing authorization with director

2008-02-15 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Justin Francesconi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. OS: CentOS 5.1 Bacula Version: 2.28 SQL: PostgreSQL Issue: I believe I have finally got bacula mostly configured. Mostly because I still have on last issue. I am able to start all the daemons, thats all

Re: [Bacula-users] Dumb tape drive question

2008-02-18 Thread John Drescher
On Feb 18, 2008 1:01 PM, Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Way back when I had some tape drives. At that time Linux could not provide compression on tape drives. Especially if you where trying to write across multiple tapes. Is this still true? So if I'm looking at a tape drive that says

Re: [Bacula-users] Why Can't I Stat Mapped Vista network drives.

2008-02-19 Thread John Drescher
On Feb 20, 2008 12:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks John, I'll see how it goes. Here is more info on this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/149984 John - This SF.net email is sponsored by:

Re: [Bacula-users] Increase DeSpooling Speed.

2008-02-20 Thread John Drescher
I have tested the raw drive speed with vdump and bs=1024, The drive speed is around 35MB/s during vdump. The tape drive is SCSI LVD.I had tried replacing the cable twice.but no improvement in speed through bacula. Does a spool file on raid0 increases the despooling speed significantly.

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO: hardware vs. software compression

2008-02-21 Thread John Drescher
So with LTO it seems to be no problem to use gzip and the drives hardware compression. Any thoughts on this? With software compression on an LTO device your backups will take much longer unless your client can somehow compress at the rate your tape drive needs. John

Re: [Bacula-users] Device FileStorage (/tmp) is not open.

2008-02-21 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi In my bacula configuration all daemon are seems to be running smoothly. But when i check status for storage its showing following message: Device FileStorage (/tmp) is not open. no error message is captured in log file. How

Re: [Bacula-users] Device FileStorage (/tmp) is not open.

2008-02-21 Thread John Drescher
I'ts open when you are writing Cesare Oops, I meant to say that as well. Thanks, John - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008.

Re: [Bacula-users] Volume recycled

2008-02-21 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Eduardo Júnior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When i have a volume marked as recycle, what can I do to restore all data stored on it? I already read the documentation about bscan, but i don't fell confident to use it to restore data from a volume, because the

Re: [Bacula-users] Exabyte 224 - Additional magazine not properlyrecognized

2008-02-21 Thread John Drescher
As for Bacula not using the IE slot. I was able to get Bacula to recognize the slot and use tapes from it by modifying mtx-changer. Let me know if you'd like to see what I've done. Can you post your mtx-changer script? At one point I worked on that but my script failed in some way some of the

Re: [Bacula-users] Increase the rate of despooling.

2008-02-22 Thread John Drescher
Maximum Writing speed with vdump and 1024 block size - 32 Megabytes/second. I am not sure what vdump is but if it dumps data to the tape similar to dd you should be getting over 60MB/s for LTO3. With dd I get over 35MB/s with LTO2 and my root partition as the source data so this number still

Re: [Bacula-users] How does bacula determine files to backup in incremental mode

2008-02-22 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Rainer Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Arno, Am Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2008 12:03 schrieb Arno Lehmann: What it comes down to is that you need to know why the access times of the directories are modified. Virus scanners are known to do this

Re: [Bacula-users] file daemon support for Windows 2003 64-bit

2008-02-22 Thread John Drescher
Can anyone confirm whether the file daemon (client) runs on Windows 64-bit, and if so, what if any restrictions there are? I can confirm that it works for XP 64 bit. John - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft

Re: [Bacula-users] How does bacula determine files to backup in incremental mode

2008-02-22 Thread John Drescher
Why? Bacula doesn't use the atime when deciding about backups. I stand corrected. John - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008.

Re: [Bacula-users] show nextvol crashes director

2008-02-25 Thread John Drescher
25-Feb 17:13 vm-backup-dir: Fatal Error at sql_get.c:572 because: rwl_writelock failure. stat=22: ERR=Invalid argument 25-Feb 17:13 vm-backup-dir: Fatal Error because: Bacula interrupted by signal 11: Segmentation violation What did I do wrong, and how can I fix it? I have never used

Re: [Bacula-users] show nextvol crashes director

2008-02-25 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:05 PM, John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 25-Feb 17:13 vm-backup-dir: Fatal Error at sql_get.c:572 because: rwl_writelock failure. stat=22: ERR=Invalid argument BTW, This line looks interesting. What database/version are you using? John

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula tape drive can test but not use for jobs

2008-02-25 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Justin Francesconi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, this snippet from the console sums it all up: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ./btape -c /usr/local/bacula/bin/bacula-sd.conf /dev/nst0 Tape block granularity is

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula tape drive can test but not use for job s

2008-02-25 Thread John Drescher
Not sure what you mean by 'list media'. Thanks for the help, though. Type that in bconsole: # bconsole Connecting to Director jmd1:9101 1000 OK: jmd1-dir Version: 2.2.8 (26 January 2008) Enter a period to cancel a command. *list media Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog Using Catalog

Re: [Bacula-users] Trouble mounting second tape (LTO-2)

2008-02-26 Thread John Drescher
My problem is as follows: I mounted bacula (sd, dir, bconsole, mysql) in a server with centos 5 and a unit powervault 114t with tapes LTO-2 (200 G/400 G). The backups have so far been normally, but some time back I think support is a server with 560 G of using in hard disk and filled

Re: [Bacula-users] Trouble mounting second tape (LTO-2)

2008-02-26 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Francisco Munoz Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is the error: 26-feb 05:39 bacula-sd: Please mount Volume ExternoFull2 on Storage Device LTO2-0 (/dev/nst0) for Job Correo_Externo.2008-02-25_09.24.45

Re: [Bacula-users] Trouble mounting second tape (LTO-2)

2008-02-26 Thread John Drescher
No, to load the first tape I do it manually (insert the tape in the powervault, run the bconsole and execute mount to load) Do you mean you loaded the tape to the tape drive of the powervault or to a slot on the autochanger and bacula then had the changer grab put the tape in the drive using

Re: [Bacula-users] Trouble mounting second tape (LTO-2)

2008-02-26 Thread John Drescher
Load the tape in the slot in the powervault (this does not have autocharger). So I did not make tests autocharger as it has no autocharger. You understand me? Yes, I do. Your english is fine. The error message I saw it looked like you had an autochanger. Can you post your

Re: [Bacula-users] Trouble mounting second tape (LTO-2)

2008-02-26 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Francisco Munoz Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Con fecha 26/2/2008, John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Load the tape in the slot in the powervault (this does not have autocharger). So I did not make tests autocharger as it has

Re: [Bacula-users] Trouble mounting second tape (LTO-2)

2008-02-26 Thread John Drescher
This should be a working or something? Now you confused me. I am not sure exactly what you are asking. If you restarted the bacula-sd daemon it should now work. At that point it would be good to would try a job that spans tapes to see if it is working correct. John

Re: [Bacula-users] Is bacula for me?

2008-02-26 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Damien Hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's what I have on my network. 1. Workstation 2. Laptop 3. 3 - 4 servers 4. 1 data storage server - could be the Bacula server 5. All are running Ubuntu I would consider this a small network for bacula but I think

Re: [Bacula-users] Is bacula for me?

2008-02-26 Thread John Drescher
Used will absolutely be considered in the recycle policy. Archive will not, AFAIK, but my machine recycles Used tapes all of the time (this is the status that gets set if a tape reaches a maximum, other than end of tape). Sorry, about used.. My tapes are marked Full when they are full. I

Re: [Bacula-users] Update slots causes bacula console to prompt for drive, etc?

2008-02-26 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Bob Hetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just noticed this oddity. Perhaps it's how I've got bacula configured, but it otherwise seems to work properly. I've got an autochanger with 72 slots and two tape drives. I just added some new tapes in and did the

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-web - Error query: 4

2008-02-27 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 9:43 AM, nda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We are currently testing Bacula at work, but it isn't a easy task... Installation seems ok and i succeed the catalog backup. I'm now trying to mage the web interface work, but i get this error message : Error query: 4

Re: [Bacula-users] How much data are you managing with Bacula?

2008-02-27 Thread John Drescher
1.) How much data are you backing-up (Full) regularly with Bacula? Fulls are anywhere from 1GB to 3TB depending on the system I am backing up. 2.) How much data (unexpired backups) is Bacula managing for you? Here is my bacula-web statistics. Total clients: 35 Total bytes

[Bacula-users] Fwd: How much data are you managing with Bacula?

2008-02-27 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Peter Buschman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All: I was asked today how much data it was possible to back-up with Bacula. Since my personal experience is limited to installations with no more than 3TB, I thought I'd pose the following questions to

[Bacula-users] Fwd: [Samba] Samba/LDAP Question

2008-02-27 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 3:21 PM Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba/LDAP Question To: Hector Blanco [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Hector Blanco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mmmm..If I understood properly

Re: [Bacula-users] [Samba] Samba/LDAP Question

2008-02-27 Thread John Drescher
Sorry for the misdirected post. John - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error loading slot

2008-02-28 Thread John Drescher
23-Feb 06:21 khyber-sd JobId 1843: 3304 Issuing autochanger load slot 1, drive 0 command. 23-Feb 06:26 khyber-sd JobId 1843: Fatal error: 3992 Bad autochanger load slot 1, drive 0: ERR=Child died from signal 15: Termination. Results=Loading media from Storage Element 1 into drive

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-web - Error query: 4

2008-02-29 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 3:38 AM, nda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jason, Thanks for the feedback, i'll try to learn how to use the bconsole efficiantly. When I have had errors like that with bacula-web. I usually go to the source (search for the error message) and find out what line is

Re: [Bacula-users] How does a change to Volume Use Duration take effect?

2008-02-29 Thread John Drescher
By changing the Volume Use Duration in the Pool config, Bacula will pick up the change after a reload and I don't need to update the volume in the catalog? Is there a better way to address this issue? I may be wrong on this case but I have found that any changes in the pool resource do not

Re: [Bacula-users] tape read errors

2008-03-03 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Mark Nienberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm seeing this happen more often: 3304 Issuing autochanger load slot 2, drive 0 command. 3305 Autochanger load slot 2, drive 0, status is OK. 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0 command. 3302 Autochanger loaded?

Re: [Bacula-users] tape read errors

2008-03-03 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Mark Nienberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Drescher wrote: Have you tried adding a delay in your mtxchanger script where it says it might be needed? In mtx-changer # Increase the sleep time if you have a slow device # or remove the sleep and add

Re: [Bacula-users] LVM or separate disks?

2008-10-06 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Alan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, John Drescher wrote: BTW, I would never use raid0 or LVM (without every PV being raided) for backup data that I cared about. Spooled data isn't exactly worth keeping. After a bacula restart the contents

Re: [Bacula-users] LVM or separate disks?

2008-10-06 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Chris Picton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 09:09 -0400, John Drescher wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Alan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, John Drescher wrote: BTW, I would never use raid0 or LVM (without every PV

Re: [Bacula-users] Error verifying one job

2008-10-07 Thread John Drescher
30-Sep 01:06 bacula-sd JobId 227: Error: block.c:275 Volume data error at 0:1! Wanted ID: BB02, got . Buffer discarded. I believe this means the tape was overwritten or corrupted for some reason. Since the first block does not have a valid header on it bacula is not able to go any further.

Re: [Bacula-users] purging data on full disk devices

2008-10-08 Thread John Drescher
Terry L. Inzauro wrote: is there a document that outlines the steps necessary to purge 'older' data on a disk device that is full? i understand that my retention levels are not correct, but i wish to purge data at my discression until i get it all figured out. You can purge entire

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention Periods and Volume Use Duration

2008-10-08 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:49 AM, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all i am still having difficulty with retention periods and the like could someone kindly help me with this. Basically for the local intranet i would like bacula to take a full back at the first of each month

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Director doesn't listen on 9101

2008-10-08 Thread John Drescher
Also consider not using localhost 127.0.0.1 and use fqdn name for dir,sd,fd. The reason for this is that bacula will not be able to backup any machine other than the director if you use 127.0.0.1 or localhost anywhere in your configuration files. John

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention Periods and Volume Use Duration

2008-10-08 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:54 PM, John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:47 PM, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is stopping bacula from using volume 44??? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last Written time on that was 2008-10-02 02:42:07 so then it has 16 days

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Director doesn't listen on 9101

2008-10-08 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:29 PM, subbustrato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thank yuo very mouch for your advise, this is the outpot of the debug command: $ sudo /sbin/bacula-dir -d100 -c /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf bacula-dir: dird.c:157-0 Debug level = 100 bacula-dir: bsys.c:566-0 Could not open

Re: [Bacula-users] not seeing useable volumes - resent

2008-10-08 Thread John Drescher
Does the lack of response mean there is no reason anyone can see for this behavior? Any ideas what to do about it? I generally try to answer as many user questions that I can add some relevant info to, but I did not see a good reason for this behavior. My backup is hanging currently, and I

Re: [Bacula-users] How do I reuse tapes that have been written to by accident?

2008-10-08 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Thomas Arseneault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The storage daemon died on my storage box causing the dump to fatally error out. I fixed the daemon problem but now I have 4 tapes that I would like to reuse but they are far from their retention time so how do I

Re: [Bacula-users] Error verifying one job

2008-10-09 Thread John Drescher
i tried to restore this job, same error. I cannot imagine why the tape(s) should be corrupted, the other jobs are on the same tape(s) and are restorable. Any way to properly check whats wrong? Are there any scsi errors in your dmesg output? Is this tape drive part of an autochanger? John

Re: [Bacula-users] How do I reuse tapes that have been written to by accident?

2008-10-09 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Kjetil Torgrim Homme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thomas Arseneault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The storage daemon died on my storage box causing the dump to fatally error out. I fixed the daemon problem but now I have 4 tapes

Re: [Bacula-users] purging data on full disk devices

2008-10-09 Thread John Drescher
yes, i am seeing that now. thank you for the tip. i was actually trying to setup volumes based on backup type (full, diff, inc) in combination with clients. so client1 wold have a volume client1_fulls, client1_diffs, and client1_incs, but i can't seem to get it working properly. i was

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Speed

2008-10-09 Thread John Drescher
I have set up a new Backups System and I don't know whether the performance is good or not. So I hope you can tell me a little bit more :-) I am using a LTO4 Autoloader with 2 drives. It is connected to a Debian Backup Server trough an PCI-X SCSI Card (U320). This Server has another internal

Re: [Bacula-users] purging data on full disk devices

2008-10-09 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:41 AM, John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you point to some online docs on how to do it. Currently I have one volume with a size of 567GB, and my space is running low. How should the volumes be setup? 100gb each, and how do I set the rotation so it knows

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula recycles Volumes instead of creating new ones

2008-10-10 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:39 AM, John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Kjetil Torgrim Homme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Further, I want to know, why bacula recycles Volumes (which destroys data) instead of creating new

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula recycles Volumes instead of creating new ones

2008-10-10 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:39 AM, John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Kjetil Torgrim Homme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Further, I want to know, why bacula recycles Volumes (which destroys data) instead of creating new

Re: [Bacula-users] Catalog backup retention

2008-10-13 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Radek Hladik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to ask how should I recycle catalog backups. I am using disk based storage and catalog pool is by default set to half-year or so long retention period. I would think, that week would be more than

Re: [Bacula-users] Deleting from disk based pool

2008-10-13 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Radek Hladik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm backing to disk based storage, every volume has maximum count set to one job, so every pool has one file per job. Each pool is configured with recycle period and volume count so it can hold just enough

Re: [Bacula-users] Deleting from disk based pool

2008-10-13 Thread John Drescher
However I need sometimes to delete some older backups by hand, because of low disk space, or because we sometimes manually run the backup and it breaks the schema (the last backup is not old enough to be recycled). I would like to ask whether there is a possibility to manually recycle

Re: [Bacula-users] Catalog backup retention

2008-10-13 Thread John Drescher
I have no problem with backing up catalog on other server with less expensive storage space. But I do not see any use of old catalog backups at all. I would do bscan into new catalog in all cases except the one, where I have catalog backup newer than last data backed up and I need to recover

Re: [Bacula-users] ACLs restore only

2008-10-14 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:23 AM, le dahut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I re-ask my question, is there any way to restore only ACLs of files ? Maybe is it possible to export the ACLs in a file that can then be used by 'setfacl' ? I do not think this is possible at the moment. John

Re: [Bacula-users] Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for..

2008-10-14 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:57 PM, subbustrato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have created a label for my Volume,i think that something is improve but the device remain BLOCKED. This is the output about storage status: Device status: Device FileStorage (/media/sdb1/bacula) is mounted with:

Re: [Bacula-users] Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for..

2008-10-14 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:11 PM, sublayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't no why, but now if with bconsole I ask the storage status I have as replay that the device is not open... How can I open the device? That is normal for a file device that is not mounted. Device status: Device

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs Problem

2008-10-14 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Steffen Knauf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On every 1st Friday bacula starts a backup of a 4 TB partition. This will take a while ;) , so the other backup jobs should be run concurrent. But nothing happens, the other jobs don't start until this huge job

Re: [Bacula-users] beckup remote client

2008-10-14 Thread John Drescher
Yes, she can. I haven't firewalls active on remote machine and from bconsole, for example if i send the command estimate for the remote machine i have a positive reply: *estimate The defined Job resources are: 1: BackupFisso 2: BackupPiccolino -- Remote Machine 3:

Re: [Bacula-users] beckup remote client

2008-10-14 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 5:16 PM, subbustrato [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually my system provide the possibility of backup 2 clients, one in the same place of director and storage and the other in a remote place (in the same LAN). When the process starts, backup of remote pc it's ok, but

Re: [Bacula-users] beckup remote client

2008-10-14 Thread John Drescher
This is not the direction I mean. I assume that the director can access the remote client. But can the remote client access the storage? Is there a firewall that prevents the remote client fd from initiating its own connection to the storage daemon @ port 9103? John ok, sorry. Also on the

Re: [Bacula-users] beckup remote client

2008-10-14 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:36 PM, John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is not the direction I mean. I assume that the director can access the remote client. But can the remote client access the storage? Is there a firewall that prevents the remote client fd from initiating its own

Re: [Bacula-users] ACLs restore only

2008-10-15 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:22 AM, le dahut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the multipost, my mail client has bugged... Is it possible to extract ACLs informations regardless of the output format (which can be read by a script using 'setfacl') ? You would have to restore the files somewhere

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs Problem

2008-10-15 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 4:32 AM, Steffen Knauf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have different priorities I thought the default of this option in the client section is 2 and in the storage section 10, so i don't set this option explicit. Now i set this option in following configs/sections:

Re: [Bacula-users] beckup remote client

2008-10-15 Thread John Drescher
Also make sure that 127.0.0.1 or localhost are not used in your bacula config files. John I have solved the problem, you hit the nail on the head!!! The problem was on the address of storage (was set as localhost). Thank you very very very much!!! sub Not sure of your os but I have heard

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with huge backup - possible bug

2008-10-16 Thread John Drescher
I have few backups over network, which are quite big (50GB and 250GB for example). I do not consider this a huge backup. I have done 2TB+ backups successfully with bacula. I'm expecting them to be quite long jobs, and I'm working on getting SD in same cabinet for them, but that ideal solution

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with huge backup - possible bug

2008-10-16 Thread John Drescher
On Thursday 16 October 2008 14:36:47 Piotr Gbyliczek wrote: I didn't called it huge. But it is quite big imho if you doing it over cloud, not through corporate network with stable 100Mb or even 1Tb connections. Nice thing I've did here. I wish to have 1Tb connection somewhere... 1Gb should

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with huge backup - possible bug

2008-10-16 Thread John Drescher
Does the first job take more than 1 day? Yes, that is true in this case. But is this making any difference ?? With running full backup there shouldn't be any next job upgraded to full prior to finish of first one. The reason I ask is when the next backup is scheduled to begin if the previous

Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger confusion

2008-10-16 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking at the documentation and it suggests that I need to put the 'Changer Command' in both the Storage definition and in the Autochanger Resource. That seems redundant. I am gathering that I only need that command in

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with huge backup - possible bug

2008-10-17 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 5:54 AM, Piotr Gbyliczek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 16 October 2008 17:40:16 T. Horsnell wrote: I had this problem from the start. I ended up with a line in my RunBefore script which disabled the backup job: echo disable job=Job1 |

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Can't do tape backups - Cannot find any appendable volumes

2008-10-17 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:49 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Can't do tape backups - Cannot find any appendable volumes To: Arch Willingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Arch Willingham [EMAIL

Re: [Bacula-users] Help Backup error

2008-10-17 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Mikel Jimenez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikel Jimenez escribió: Hello For about 4 days, I receive this message os a client backup: Fatal error: No Job status returned The backup completes but when it is going to insert atributes in DB, it doesn do. Here is

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Can't do tape backups - Cannot find any appendable volumes

2008-10-17 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Arch Willingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #list media pool Defined Pools: 1: Default 2: Scratch 3: SATA250POOL 4: SATA15TBPOOL 5: Daily File backup pools 6: Weekly File backup pools 7: Tape Backups Pool 8: Tape Backups Pool

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Can't do tape backups - Cannot find any appendable volumes

2008-10-17 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:13 PM, John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Arch Willingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #list media pool Defined Pools: 1: Default 2: Scratch 3: SATA250POOL 4: SATA15TBPOOL 5: Daily File backup pools 6

Re: [Bacula-users] Help Backup error

2008-10-17 Thread John Drescher
Is there any firewall / network reason why the port on the client could be dropped after some period of inactivity? No... the backup finish 99.9 %. It copies all data from the client, but it fails in the last moment... I saw that. The reason why I asked this is that while sending the

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk backup: how to delete purged files on disk?

2008-10-20 Thread John Drescher
I am learning how to use bacula to back up to external hard disks. Everything works beautifully, but I notice that after a volume is purged or pruned, it gets status Recycled and the actual file on disk stays. That looks like perfect behavior for a tape backup, but for a hard disk backup, I

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula behind Router for Web Server

2008-10-20 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:24 AM, John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Dams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have already configure my Bacula on my LAN. It's working fine. But now I would like to configure bacula to backup my Web Server (Proxy as well

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple jobs simultaneously with multiple storage daemons

2008-10-21 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Tonton Dede [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, we have 1 director and 2 storage daemons installed on 2 servers, each one with 1 tape drive. Both SD are configure and known by the director. In the director, le Maximum Concurrent jobs has been set to 2 You need

Re: [Bacula-users] Reducing the size of the database.

2008-10-21 Thread John Drescher
You have to run: echo 16 |dbcheck -b -f -c /path/to/bacula-dir.conf -C dbname workingdir vacuumdb -q -d dbname -z -f reindexdb -q dbname After running these commands my database size was reduced from 10 GB to 8.0 GB. Just did this on my postgresql database. It went from 22.5 GB to 27 GB

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Who talks to whom in bacula?

2008-10-22 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:04 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Who talks to whom in bacula? To: Kevin Keane [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:34 PM, Kevin Keane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like

[Bacula-users] integer out of range error on file volume

2008-10-23 Thread John Drescher
I started getting these recently on one of my file volumes: 23-Oct 12:03 fileserver-dir JobId 12922: Start Backup JobId 12922, Job=CVSSource.2008-10-23_12.03.31 23-Oct 12:03 fileserver-dir JobId 12922: Using Device FileStorage 23-Oct 12:03 fileserver-sd JobId 12922: Volume Other-0216 previously

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