Re: [Bacula-users] configuration question: IPs and hostnames

2015-07-13 Thread Josh Fisher
On 7/13/2015 8:29 AM, Florian Schnabel wrote: I'm trying to use hostnames everywhere now so I changed the Storage definition for bacula-director to a FQN (host.domain.com) that is resolvably at least for my servers. Now the bacula-director got two IPs .. one in the old segment, one in the

Re: [Bacula-users] Performance settings for large file LTO-6 backup

2015-06-27 Thread Josh Fisher
On 6/27/2015 1:37 AM, Andrew Noonan wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Ana Emília M. Arruda emiliaarr...@gmail.com wrote: Are you going to generate a .tar of about 250TB every day? Which will be the nature of your restores? You´re going to need always the restore of the whole data

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula causing high disk-io on clients

2015-06-27 Thread Josh Fisher
On 6/27/2015 5:45 AM, Dmitri Maziuk wrote: On 6/26/2015 7:26 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: However, for backup devices lacking hardware compression (such as disk), compression may be warranted regardless of client connection speed. This is why a SD level compression feature would be useful

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula causing high disk-io on clients

2015-06-26 Thread Josh Fisher
On 6/25/2015 8:59 AM, Alan Brown wrote: On 25/06/15 13:47, SPQR wrote: Hello again, at the moment I'm using compression = gzip; how can I change the level of compression? Can I just write compression = lzo without any problems? Yes, but. If you reduce the compression level then

Re: [Bacula-users] Dell TL4000 labeling timeout

2015-06-18 Thread Josh Fisher
On 6/17/2015 10:35 PM, Andrew Noonan wrote: @Marcin - dmesg is clean @Ana - I ~think~ /dev/changer is created by udev, I'm not 100%. It's a symlink to sg19 in this case: Most likely, udev got it right. Try mtx -f /dev/changer noattach status. If that works, then try the load with the

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows client VSS

2015-06-12 Thread Josh Fisher
On 6/12/2015 11:03 AM, More, Ankush wrote: Hello, Connection has no issue. From client and server able ping/telnet to port . With disable VSS backup was successful. *status client=ADCMAIL01-W-fd Connecting to Client ADCMAIL01-W-fd at ADCMAIL01:9102 adcmail01-fd Version: 5.2.10 (28

Re: [Bacula-users] backing up to S3

2015-06-10 Thread Josh Fisher
On 6/10/2015 3:50 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: Hey guys, I was really excited when I upgraded my bacula server to CentOS 7 and installed the latest version of s3fs. Because I found that I was able to mount an s3 bucket to my local file system with the right user id and permissions to use with

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow Attribute spooling

2015-06-09 Thread Josh Fisher
On 6/9/2015 3:49 AM, Denis Witt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 08 Jun 2015 19:13:29 +0100 Alan Brown a...@mssl.ucl.ac.uk wrote: The problem with adding more concurrent jobs (up from one) is that the increased seek load will badly affect despooling time.

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Autochanger

2015-06-05 Thread Josh Fisher
On 6/5/2015 6:17 AM, Jogi Hofmüller wrote: Dear all, We recently bought two identical HP Ultrium 448i tape drives. We want to use them with Bacula and found the white paper Best Practices for Disk Backup [1] that describes how to configure a virtual autochanger. We applied the necessary

Re: [Bacula-users] Use multiple HDDs to backup files to

2015-06-03 Thread Josh Fisher
On 6/2/2015 1:42 PM, Heitor Faria wrote: I particularly do not like the idea of having separate volumes of the same media type into two different mount points, but I know people that are configuring this way. So I decided to do some tests and see what really was happening. No

Re: [Bacula-users] Use multiple HDDs to backup files to

2015-06-03 Thread Josh Fisher
On 6/2/2015 12:43 PM, Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote: Hello Josh, On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Josh Fisher jfis...@pvct.com mailto:jfis...@pvct.com wrote: On 6/1/2015 5:21 PM, Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote: Hello, Maybe you could use the virtual autochanger resource

Re: [Bacula-users] Use multiple HDDs to backup files to

2015-06-02 Thread Josh Fisher
On 6/1/2015 5:21 PM, Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote: Hello, Maybe you could use the virtual autochanger resource: This will not work as expected. If the ArchiveDevice in the two Device resources specifies different directories (mountpoints), then the two Device resources cannot have the same

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula not recycling all volumes

2015-06-02 Thread Josh Fisher
Chances are that one or more jobs on those full volumes has a long retention time, causing them to not be recycled. If only one job is configured with the wrong retention time, then only the volumes that job's data gets written to ceases to recycle, making it appear to be random volumes. On

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow Backups to Disk?

2015-05-22 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/22/2015 5:28 AM, Charles Tassell wrote: Hello, I'm using external USB drives setup with the vchanger system to simulate a tape library, and I've got a problem where the backups are running horrendously slow. IE, the full backup of my small server (5.5GB) takes 8 hours and 10

Re: [Bacula-users] windows client VSS issues

2015-05-22 Thread Josh Fisher
Did you perhaps install the 32-bit client on 64-bit Windows? On 5/22/2015 11:36 AM, Fernando Arturo Salaices Orozco wrote: Hi all I just got Bacula to work backing up my linux machines, works like a charm. But now I have to dip my fingers in the windows world. I downloaded the windows

Re: [Bacula-users] FD external

2015-05-18 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/14/2015 7:16 AM, kinomakino wrote: Dear friends, first of all, thanks for everything. Bacula infrastructure have working for my internal backups within the LAN. Now I want to make a backup of an external VPS. NAT have done in my LAN ports 9102 9101 9103. He tells me not to find the DS.

Re: [Bacula-users] managing offsite tapes - How do *you* do it?

2015-05-08 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/7/2015 5:05 PM, Robert A Threet wrote: On my old Netbackup system, I had enough time to run a full backup on Saturday, then I'd run a full backup on Sunday which I would use for all the incrementals restores during the week. The Saturday tapes would be pulled Monday sent offsite.

Re: [Bacula-users] Moving from serial jobs to parallel jobs.

2015-05-04 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/4/2015 10:02 AM, Dan Langille wrote: On May 4, 2015, at 4:14 AM, Luc Van der Veken luc...@wimionline.com wrote: This approach can help too: besides doing them in parallel (limited to 5 concurrent jobs because ultimately it all winds up on the same disks), I also divided them into 4

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring to different host

2015-05-01 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/1/2015 2:18 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, Concerning SELinux: I tried running with SELinux for awhile quite a long time ago, and it turned out to be more painful than useful, so I turned it off. I had turned it on to learn it and to write Bacula policies, but never got that far.

Re: [Bacula-users] Device is BLOCKED - renamed Bugged or not?

2015-04-27 Thread Josh Fisher
On 4/25/2015 1:50 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: In my last email, I did forget to mention that as you point out, the problem can also result from a design issue. And the resolution of those problems from design issues fall into my point 2. If we have a good test case that shows the problem, even

Re: [Bacula-users] Device is BLOCKED - renamed Bugged or not?

2015-04-24 Thread Josh Fisher
within a reasonable period of time of the request, the director and/or the SD should decide to look for another. Patti Clark Linux System Administrator RD Systems Support Oak Ridge National Laboratory On 4/24/15, 11:02 AM, Josh Fisher jfis...@pvct.com wrote: On 4/24/2015 9:14 AM, Clark

[Bacula-users] New version of vchanger released

2015-04-14 Thread Josh Fisher
For those interested, vchanger version 1.0.0 was released today on SourceForge. This is a major version release with many new features. Enjoy! Josh Fisher (jaybus2) -- BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am

Re: [Bacula-users] Reserving devices for pools

2015-04-06 Thread Josh Fisher
On 4/2/2015 1:23 PM, Clark, Patricia A. wrote: I have a tape library with several LTO5 tape drives. I have 3 tape pools and a scratch pool. Pool1 is quite large and has most of the jobs. The jobs are in a fairly standard, monthly FULL, weekly DIFFERENTIAL, and daily INCREMENTAL

Re: [Bacula-users] Howto remove clients permanently and completely from backup ?

2015-03-31 Thread Josh Fisher
On 3/31/2015 10:39 AM, Alan Brown wrote: On 31/03/15 14:48, Robert Heinzmann wrote: Hello, how can I remove clients and the jobs / volumes etc. from Bacula, once the client is gone ? If I remove the client from the config file, it will not be removed from catalog. See the purge command

Re: [Bacula-users] getcwd() failed: No such file or directory

2015-03-30 Thread Josh Fisher
On 3/30/2015 2:14 PM, Marcos Renato da Silva Junior wrote: Hi, After update Bacula version 5.2.12 to 7.0.5, i have received this message on catalog backup : --- 27-Mar 21:32 jane-dir JobId 4521: shell command: run BeforeJob /etc/bacula/make_catalog_backup.pl MyCatalog

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Catalog Server - MySQL - 1 Core Used Max ?

2015-03-24 Thread Josh Fisher
On 3/24/2015 12:57 PM, Robert Heinzmann wrote: One more question for clarification: Attribute spooling only solves insert and update issues and not select issues right ? Our monitoring shows that we only have 10 -20 inserts/s for the DB but the selects are capped at ~370 selects/second

Re: [Bacula-users] FIFO Backup Questions

2015-02-28 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/27/2015 6:53 PM, Heitor Faria wrote: Dear Bacula Users, 1. Why FIFO isn't more popular for database dumps backups? Is there any drawback? 2. I inserted RedFifo=yes on FileSet Options and configured a simple RunBeforeJob script (below) to test FIFO

Re: [Bacula-users] FIFO Backup Questions

2015-02-27 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/27/2015 4:59 PM, Heitor Faria wrote: Dear Bacula Users, 1. Why FIFO isn't more popular for database dumps backups? Is there any drawback? 2. I inserted RedFifo=yes on FileSet Options and configured a simple RunBeforeJob script (below) to test FIFO backup, but the backup job stalls

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula scheduled task does not run

2015-02-13 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/2/2015 6:11 AM, navbor wrote: I have successfully set up Bacula on Ubuntu 12.04 server to run some back / restore jobs. However, this is only from the console program. Whenever the scheduled job runs, there are errors. Primarily permission issues. When I run the console program, I am

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula can't make use of multi drives

2015-02-12 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/12/2015 12:33 PM, Kelley, Jared wrote: given the data in my last email. There is more. Status storage sees the correct volumes mounted in the drives, but has the slots wrong. compared with mtx changer /etc/bacula/scripts/mtx-changer /dev/sg13 listall | head -10 D:0:F:1:AAAB1763B2

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Permissions Error

2015-02-04 Thread Josh Fisher
Selinux? AppArmour? On 2/4/2015 11:37 AM, Greenhagen, Quinton (RTA) wrote: Hello Bacula Users, I am currently having an issue with my Storage Daemon and I can’t for the life of me figure out what is going on. Every time Bacula goes to run a job I receive a notification saying intervention

Re: [Bacula-users] change of hostname leads to TLS failure

2015-02-02 Thread Josh Fisher
The commonName (CN) of the certificate needs to match the hostname. On 1/31/2015 9:27 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: Hey all, I'd like to change the hostname of one of my servers that uses bacula. So I generated some new certs after updating the hostname in /etc/hosts: [root@web1:/etc/bacula]

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I have a server in every location?

2015-01-27 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/26/2015 10:00 PM, Damien Hull wrote: I’m brand new to Bacula. Getting some good information from the list. As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve got three offices in different locations. I’m needing offsite storage of data as part of a disaster recovery plan. I’ve got a couple of questions

Re: [Bacula-users] how to debug a job

2015-01-25 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/24/2015 1:12 PM, Dmitri Maziuk wrote: On 1/24/2015 9:00 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: Bottom line: contrary to what I previously thought there *might* be some benefits to turning on spooling for disk Volumes, but only if you have really fast spooling disks (or SSD). This is an interesting

Re: [Bacula-users] how to debug a job

2015-01-23 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/23/2015 2:33 PM, Heitor Faria wrote: On 01/23/2015 12:22 PM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: If you are using a vchanger then I guess it is a disk only backup, so why do you spool data? It is not required but making you backup slow down at least 2 times then standard job. It's 2 times

Re: [Bacula-users] how to debug a job

2015-01-23 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/22/2015 12:47 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: On 01/22/2015 10:07 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: There is likely no reason to have SpoolData=yes for disk volumes, and it could actually slow things down. On 01/22/2015 07:32 AM, Clark, Patricia A. wrote: Spooling is for the benefit of tape drives

Re: [Bacula-users] how to debug a job

2015-01-23 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/23/2015 10:36 AM, Dmitri Maziuk wrote: On 1/23/2015 9:03 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: I use another approach. I define the vchanger to have multiple virtual drives... So for 10 concurrent jobs there would be 10 virtual drives and so 10 opened volume files. My way also keeps the config simple

Re: [Bacula-users] Offsite Storage

2015-01-23 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/22/2015 1:30 PM, Damien Hull wrote: I’ve asked this question before, but I don’t think I got enough information. Here’s my situation 1.I have three offices in different physical locations. 2.Each location has between 200 GB to well over 1 TB of data. 3.I would like to backup data

Re: [Bacula-users] how to debug a job

2015-01-22 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/21/2015 6:37 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: On 01/21/2015 05:12 PM, Heitor Faria wrote: Hey Mr. Dimitri: do you have Attribute Spooling on for this job (Job resource, Spool Attributes=yes)? It usually improves the performance if backing up lots of files, witch maybe causing this bottleneck.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula bug? Expanding my NAS size (Adding disk)-Redoes Full

2015-01-05 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/5/2015 9:20 AM, philhu wrote: I added 8tb to my nas, all machines show the new size/free etc, but bacula decided that because the NAS drive size is bigger, it will do a Full on all my backups/sets. Why should the nas getting bigger cause all new fulls? The data on the drive did not

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula MySQL Agressive Tuning

2014-12-22 Thread Josh Fisher
On 12/21/2014 11:17 AM, D S wrote: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula MySQL Agressive Tuning Hello, just to add one more related question/problem to this thread: - using MySQL/MyISAM - about 15M files from several clients - 2.5-3M files per client - the problem: the Dir inserting Attributes

Re: [Bacula-users] 2 hours 11 mins 42 secs

2014-12-19 Thread Josh Fisher
On 12/19/2014 6:32 AM, Glen Searle wrote: On 12/16/2014 4:51 AM, Glen Searle wrote: If they run for too long, all my backups fail with this in the error report. Elapsed time: 2 hours 11 mins 42 secs I've set heartbeat to 60 seconds in the fd and dir configuration. On 16/12/14 12:17, Josh

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up 3 remote locations

2014-12-18 Thread Josh Fisher
On 12/17/2014 8:24 PM, Heitor Faria wrote: Can I seed the backup process by copying data to a drive and moving that to the bacula server? This would be done

Re: [Bacula-users] 2 hours 11 mins 42 secs

2014-12-16 Thread Josh Fisher
On 12/16/2014 4:51 AM, Glen Searle wrote: If they run for too long, all my backups fail with this in the error report. Elapsed time: 2 hours 11 mins 42 secs I've set heartbeat to 60 seconds in the fd and dir configuration. It is still likely a network issue. Something is dropping the TCP

Re: [Bacula-users] pruning of virtual full jobs

2014-12-16 Thread Josh Fisher
On 12/11/2014 12:11 PM, Thomas Lohman wrote: This is probably a question for Kern or perhaps should be better posted to bacula-devel but I'll send it here since others may have experienced or have comments on this. Assume you are running Virtual Fulls every x days (aka the Max Full Interval

Re: [Bacula-users] spool disk filesystem, checksums

2014-12-05 Thread Josh Fisher
On 12/5/2014 1:03 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: On 05/12/14 00:43, Cejka Rudolf wrote: Daniel Pocock wrote (2014/12/04): On 04/12/14 18:35, Kern Sibbald wrote: On 12/03/2014 08:49 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: Does Bacula checksum content on the spool disk before sending it to tape? To be more

Re: [Bacula-users] spool disk filesystem, checksums

2014-12-05 Thread Josh Fisher
On 12/5/2014 8:11 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: On 05/12/14 13:57, Josh Fisher wrote: On 12/5/2014 1:03 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: On 05/12/14 00:43, Cejka Rudolf wrote: Daniel Pocock wrote (2014/12/04): On 04/12/14 18:35, Kern Sibbald wrote: On 12/03/2014 08:49 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: Does

Re: [Bacula-users] current recommendations for SSD spool disk with LTO/Ultrium?

2014-12-03 Thread Josh Fisher
On 12/3/2014 8:12 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: Can anybody make any practical comments on how to choose a suitable spool disk (both speed, size and whether to make an array of disks for spooling)? It would be useful to see some examples of spooling for LTO-3 up to LTO-6 and also any comments

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows File Daemon maximum speed at 36 MByte/s

2014-12-01 Thread Josh Fisher
On 11/29/2014 5:43 AM, Patrick wrote: Hi Josh, Thanks for your reply. You can try to isolate the problem. Try running a Windows backup with VSS, compression, and encryption all turned off. Compare a Windows VM against a Linux VM on the same host if

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows File Daemon maximum speed at 36 MByte/s

2014-11-27 Thread Josh Fisher
On 11/27/2014 3:11 AM, Patrick wrote: Hi all, I have a bacula setup with a bacula-dir and bacula-sd on version 5.2.12 and a bunch of Linux clients (also with 5.2.12). Everything works fine, I get speed rates at about 70-80 MByte/s from these Linux clients. Two months ago I have added a

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula can't make use of multi drives

2014-11-19 Thread Josh Fisher
On 11/19/2014 11:10 AM, hei...@bacula.com.br wrote: Is it a bug that bacula cannot write to multiple drives for the jobs in the same pool? Will there be a fix. Back in March 2014 Wolfgang Denk wrote "it can" but how?

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent Backups with a Virtual Autochanger

2014-11-15 Thread Josh Fisher
On 11/14/2014 6:17 PM, Brady, Mike wrote: First of all thanks to Kern and Bacula Systems for making the Best Practices for Disk Based Backup and Disk Back Design documents available. I have been playing around with the best way for doing concurrent backups for a while and these documents

Re: [Bacula-users] Configuration reload for bacula-sd

2014-11-12 Thread Josh Fisher
On 11/8/2014 1:35 PM, Dmitri Maziuk wrote: On 11/8/2014 5:36 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: By the way, in case you have not noticed, there are three white papers posted on the bacula.org web site, two of them, if I am not mistaken, document Virtual Autochangers as implemented in the community

Re: [Bacula-users] Configuration reload for bacula-sd

2014-11-12 Thread Josh Fisher
On 11/12/2014 3:10 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: On 11/12/2014 01:11 PM, Josh Fisher wrote: On 11/8/2014 1:35 PM, Dmitri Maziuk wrote: The other issue, using multiple simultaneously mounted filesystems, is not so clear. Each Device resource associated with an autochanger can specify a different

Re: [Bacula-users] Configuration reload for bacula-sd

2014-11-11 Thread Josh Fisher
On 11/9/2014 6:53 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: On 11/08/2014 07:35 PM, Dmitri Maziuk wrote: On 11/8/2014 5:36 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: By the way, in case you have not noticed, there are three white papers posted on the bacula.org web site, two of them, if I am not mistaken, document Virtual

Re: [Bacula-users] Configuration reload for bacula-sd

2014-10-28 Thread Josh Fisher
On 10/28/2014 9:24 AM, Alan Brown wrote: On 28/10/14 12:46, Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote: , maybe a second device definition for a job or pool could be more helpful than a bacula-sd.conf reload on-the-fly or the enable/disable commands. This does not work. I've tried it. If an autochanger

Re: [Bacula-users] Help with Tape Eject

2014-10-21 Thread Josh Fisher
On 10/20/2014 6:53 PM, hei...@bacula.com.br wrote: Ana and Steven, If you have a bacula-fd installed on the storage machine you can always use: ClientRunBeforeJob = "mt -f /dev/st0

Re: [Bacula-users] Help with Tape Eject

2014-10-21 Thread Josh Fisher
an be used instead of UMOUNT. Steve Hammond Venus, TX On 10/21/2014 6:45 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: On 10/20/2014 6:53 PM, hei...@bacula.com.br wrote: Ana

Re: [Bacula-users] Recycling problem.

2014-10-17 Thread Josh Fisher
On 10/17/2014 7:05 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, I have not seen your original post so I respond only to comments you mention below without understanding the full issue. Yes, there can be typically a few seconds delay

Re: [Bacula-users] Recycling problem.

2014-10-17 Thread Josh Fisher
000529L4 has a last written time older than the 000506L4. I recommend you to put your "volume use duration" in hours, like Josh Fisher said, and just the time that you need the volume be available (append) for receiving data. And take a

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape longevity formerly (Forcing baccula to purge/recycle a tape instead of appending?!)

2014-10-16 Thread Josh Fisher
On 10/16/2014 1:33 PM, Clark, Patricia A. wrote: Hijacking a thread is not acceptable - new thread on tape longevity statement. Your assertion on longevity of tape is incorrect and I have a link for one manufacturer that has their metrics across time and writes.

Re: [Bacula-users] Round robin to storage servers (disks)

2014-09-19 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/19/2014 11:35 AM, Hendrik Visage wrote: On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Dmitri Maziuk dmaz...@bmrb.wisc.edu wrote: On 9/19/2014 9:15 AM, Hendrik Visage wrote: Goodday, I'm investigating options, and my need is to send back-ups to separate storage servers in a round robin fashion.

Re: [Bacula-users] Round robin to storage servers (disks)

2014-09-19 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/19/2014 12:35 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: On 09/19/2014 11:10 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: On 9/19/2014 11:35 AM, Hendrik Visage wrote: The servers are big and oldish and they have enough disk space for my current needs and thus not sensible to buy extra hardware yet, but to have them all run

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger: yes or no?

2014-09-18 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/18/2014 6:37 AM, Roberts, Ben wrote: Fair enough. I used a one-liner of bash to pre-create of my volume files and fill the barcodes file, then used bconsole's label command to label all of them in one go. I agree that it isn't hard to pre-create volumes and put them in the Scratch

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir stuck trying to mount the wrong volume

2014-09-05 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/5/2014 1:48 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: I've another bacula setup that writes to a single filesystem. It's been running with about zero problems (knock on wood) and zero maintenance for years: auto-labelling works, volume recycling works, the only problems are spinning rust and lsi's ugly

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir stuck trying to mount the wrong volume

2014-09-05 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/5/2014 3:16 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: On 09/05/2014 01:41 PM, Josh Fisher wrote: On 9/5/2014 1:48 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: I've another bacula setup that writes to a single filesystem. It's been running with about zero problems (knock on wood) and zero maintenance for years: auto

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir stuck trying to mount the wrong volume (Re: vchanger Intervention needed)

2014-09-04 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/4/2014 1:35 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: So after making sure every disk fsck's fine, has free space, etc., and restarting the server, I got this again: ... Warning: Director wanted Volume "vchanger_0008_0011". Current Volume "vchanger_0007_0011" not

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir stuck trying to mount the wrong volume (Re: vchanger Intervention needed)

2014-09-04 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/4/2014 3:57 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: On 09/04/2014 02:23 PM, Josh Fisher wrote: ... One possibility is that you need to do a 'update slots' command to bring Bacula into sync. If anything has changed with regard to which volumes are currently

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger Intervention needed

2014-09-03 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/3/2014 2:11 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: Hi all, I'm using 5.0 on centos 6 with 10 hot-swap sata drives in vchanger. It's been running fine for quite some time, here's what I got this morning: The "volumes" got written to vchanger_0007_0011 timestamped 11:13 pm

Re: [Bacula-users] DAT72 USB tape-drive support on Linux 2.6 kernel?

2014-08-12 Thread Josh Fisher
On 8/12/2014 4:42 AM, Huub Van Niekerk wrote: Hi, It actually is the HP EB625A, internal USB DAT72 drive but packed as an external Freecom USB DAT drive. As far as I know, USB isn't SCSI...

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk based backup using vchanger, volumes being marked as Error

2014-08-06 Thread Josh Fisher
On 8/6/2014 1:52 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: On 08/04/2014 06:43 PM, Josh Fisher wrote: ... Have you set PreferMountedVolumes=no in the Job resource in bacula-dir.conf? If 3 jobs start

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk based backup using vchanger, volumes being marked as Error

2014-08-05 Thread Josh Fisher
On 8/5/2014 1:36 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello Josh, Please see below ... On 08/04/2014 06:43 PM, Josh Fisher wrote: On 8/1/2014 12:27 PM, Joseph Dickson wrote

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk based backup using vchanger, volumes being marked as Error

2014-08-04 Thread Josh Fisher
On 8/1/2014 12:27 PM, Joseph Dickson wrote: Greetings :-) I've run into this problem with Bacula in a previous installation, and I can't seem to recall if there was ever a resolution.. I'm using Bacula for disk based

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error: label.c:464 Truncate error on device - ERR=No such file or directory

2014-07-17 Thread Josh Fisher
On 7/17/2014 4:38 AM, Stefan Lamby wrote: You wrote writing Volumes directly to a CIFS mount is not really a good idea for a number of reasons. What do you recommend as best practice instead? Bacula reads/writes blocks of

Re: [Bacula-users] Block checksum mismatch on file storage

2014-06-30 Thread Josh Fisher
I have seen this before with both disk and tape media, where a backup job with no errors cannot later be restored due to i/o errors. The simple answer is that media can fail, even when offline, which is one of the reasons we make more than one backup. It is possible, if cumbersome and

Re: [Bacula-users] How big is an Enterprise?

2014-06-30 Thread Josh Fisher
On 6/29/2014 11:07 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: It is also curious to say that Burp started out as a fork of Bacula. Is there a point where a fork stops being a fork? It is a philosophical question, of course, but I would say when it is no longer easily recognizable as a fork. It will always be a

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy SD to SD with data encryption

2014-06-09 Thread Josh Fisher
On 6/9/2014 6:53 AM, Josip Deanovic wrote: Quoting message written on Monday 2014-06-09 12:26:45: Hello Josip, I am not sure it is possible to implement what you want. The PKI encryption is Client based, thus unless the real (or original) Client (FD) is involved, it is impossible to perform

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula backup Clusters

2014-05-29 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/29/2014 1:43 AM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Hello, 2014-05-28 14:21 GMT+02:00 Josh Fisher jfis...@pvct.com: On 5/24/2014 2:58 AM, Radosław Korzeniewski

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula backup Clusters

2014-05-28 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/24/2014 2:58 AM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Hello, 2014-05-23 17:30 GMT+02:00 Josh Fisher jfis...@pvct.com: At failover, there simply is no way for the node taking over the primary

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula backup Clusters

2014-05-23 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/23/2014 6:23 AM, Willi Fehler wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, is there any possibility to do Bacula backup jobs only in case a directory exists/is mounted? We are using DRBD on a 2 node cluster. Usually the first node is active and the backup job is

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula backup Clusters

2014-05-23 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/23/2014 8:07 AM, Radosaw Korzeniewski wrote: Hello, 2014-05-23 12:23 GMT+02:00 Willi Fehler willi.feh...@home24.de: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula backup Clusters

2014-05-23 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/23/2014 10:37 AM, Dmitri Maziuk wrote: On 5/23/2014 8:35 AM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: My suggestion was a very simple. Do not install/configure another bacula-fd but simply and clever use existing configuration. In my case it is a change of 4 parameters and adding a new client

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger interaction.

2014-05-22 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/20/2014 12:58 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: On 19/05/14 23:39, Josh Fisher wrote: On 5/17/2014 10:50 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: Hi Vizo, If I use the UUID:blah format, vchanger can't find the drives. I found on another post to this list in the archives (via google) that the following method

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger interaction.

2014-05-19 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/17/2014 10:50 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: Hi Vizo, If I use the UUID:blah format, vchanger can't find the drives. I found on another post to this list in the archives (via google) that the following method worked - but I'm unsure if any further problems were

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger interaction.

2014-05-19 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/19/2014 3:56 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: On 18/05/14 12:50, Steven Haigh wrote: Hi Vizo, If I use the UUID:blah format, vchanger can't find the drives. I found on another post to this list in the archives (via google) that the following method worked - but I'm unsure if any further

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem of configuring Autochanger for Bacula 5.2.13

2014-05-15 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/15/2014 1:26 AM, Radosaw Korzeniewski wrote: Hello, 2014-05-13 13:26 GMT+02:00 Keith T keithb...@yahoo.com: Thanks all for your reply and informative

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem of configuring Autochanger for Bacula 5.2.13

2014-05-15 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/15/2014 9:26 AM, Radosaw Korzeniewski wrote: Hello, 2014-05-15 13:27 GMT+02:00 Josh Fisher jfis...@pvct.com: On 5/15/2014 1:26 AM, Radosaw

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger, failed jobs, Bad response to Append

2014-05-12 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/10/2014 9:20 PM, Vizo Allman wrote: Solved I think: 10-May 21:05 VLNBackup-dir JobId 3017: Start Backup JobId 3017, Job=NAS1_TV.2014-05-10_21.05.12_38 10-May 21:05 VLNBackup-dir JobId 3017: Using Device

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger again.

2014-05-12 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/11/2014 2:03 PM, Vizo Allman wrote: After a bunch of almost backups and figuring out the disk space issue on my 3TB drives. I reformatted some of the drives and added them to my vchanger.conf. I would think that everything work now, But no! now I get the message 11-May 13:51

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and High availability

2014-05-12 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/7/2014 6:12 AM, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea wrote: Good morning, Have been thinking in how could be setup a bacula infrastructure with HA. You could for example if you use Postgres or Mysql the databases replicate the servers through it’s own replication protocol and will be up to date. For

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up Xen virtual machines (LVM)

2014-05-06 Thread Josh Fisher
May 2014 18:44, Josh Fisher jfis...@pvct.com wrote: On 5/5/2014 10:44 AM, Dawid Piotrowski wrote: Hello everyone I am preparing to implement Bacula on one

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up Xen virtual machines (LVM)

2014-05-05 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/5/2014 10:44 AM, Dawid Piotrowski wrote: Hello everyone I am preparing to implement Bacula on one of the servers I look after, but being new to the Bacula subject I would like to ask for some advisory from users more experienced. The server I mean to run Bacula on is Debian

Re: [Bacula-users] baculum-7.0.2 /wizard not found.

2014-04-15 Thread Josh Fisher
On 4/13/2014 10:50 AM, Marcin Haba wrote: 2014-04-13 15:10 GMT+02:00 Josh Fisher jfis...@pvct.com: On 4/13/2014 8:18 AM, Marcin Haba wrote: 2014-04-12 0:16 GMT+02:00 Marcin Haba ganius...@gmail.com: 2014-04-10 0:10 GMT+02:00 John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com: After installing baculum I got

Re: [Bacula-users] baculum-7.0.2 /wizard not found.

2014-04-13 Thread Josh Fisher
On 4/13/2014 8:18 AM, Marcin Haba wrote: 2014-04-12 0:16 GMT+02:00 Marcin Haba ganius...@gmail.com: 2014-04-10 0:10 GMT+02:00 John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com: After installing baculum I got a php error @ line 75 of gui/baculum/framework/I18N/core/MessageSource_gettext.php

Re: [Bacula-users] managing backups of multiple remote customers

2014-04-07 Thread Josh Fisher
On 4/6/2014 6:06 PM, luca_...@yahoo.it wrote: Greetings This is going to be a very general question about bacula capabilities as I'm trying

Re: [Bacula-users] When does bacula use multiple tape drives

2014-03-31 Thread Josh Fisher
On 3/31/2014 12:04 PM, Randall Svancara wrote: Hi, Looks like I can use both drives when I add Changer Device = /dev/changer-sg2 to the bacuala-sd.conf file

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up OS X and Windows clients and keeping them awake

2014-01-20 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/19/2014 10:55 PM, Joe Rhodes wrote: For those that are backing up OS X clients, you may have noticed that 10.8 Mountain Lion and later is much more militant about having machines sleep. Even if you issue a WOL packet to start a

Re: [Bacula-users] Errors restoring from disk backup: Volume data error Wanted ID: BB02, got

2014-01-16 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/14/2014 12:04 PM, Roberts, Ben wrote: Hi all, Ive recently setup a new Bacula director/storage daemon in preparation to move our existing backups to newer hardware. During testing, Ive run

Re: [Bacula-users] two usage questions

2014-01-08 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/8/2014 9:15 AM, Florian Heigl wrote: Hi, do you know when you have some itching question that just won’t go away? First one: I know various people (including me) that store to disk, and tried Action on Purge = Truncate but they all reported that the actual filesystem files did not

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backups

2013-12-29 Thread Josh Fisher
On 12/27/2013 5:14 PM, Levie, Jim wrote: On Dec 27, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: On 12/20/2013 7:10 PM, Levie, Jim wrote: I have a group of three CentoOS 5.10 boxes and client

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