Hello,
We have a quantum superloader 3 that seem to be fine when tested through mt and
mtx command.
[root@eng-backup02 ~]# lsscsi -g
[0:2:0:0]diskDELL PERC H710P 3.13 /dev/sda /dev/sg0
[1:0:2:0]tapeIBM ULTRIUM-HH6 E4J1 /dev/st0 /dev/sg1
[1:0:2:1]
Hi Patti,
> Use /dev/sch0, not /dev/sg2. Bear in mind, udev is not your friend. If you
> ever add another tape drive to your library or expand your device fabric,
> these device references will/can change with every system boot. As is, the
> /dev/sgX references can change with reboots, but
Hello,
Learning bacula so this may be a basic question, but I can't find a way to get
it done. In the morning, I had labeled the tapes manually, for example
bacula1, bacula2 etc. Then I realized I could use barcode. So I went about
purging and them relabeling the tapes.
One of the tables
on average to fill up? On the third day
and its yet to need the autochanger. This kind of feel too slow to me
Regards,
William
From: Martin Simmons
Sent: February 18, 2019 11:49:41 AM
To: William Muriithi
Cc: uwe.schuerk...@bertelsmann.de; bacula-users
Hello Simmons,
> Unless something like Samba is converting the symlink to a directory, Bacula
will not follow it.
Okay, that is great to know.
> Filling /tmp might cause the problem, but it should really fail with an error.
Really wish that is the case but that is the only thing that make
Hi Pedro,
Thanks for the link. I actually looked at it before Hartge responded and funny
enough came to the same conclusion. The info maps the tape nicely but I don't
get enough info from udev to do the dame with autochanger.
I only get this:
[root@eng-backup01 etc]# udevadm info
Hi Sven,
>
> At least in *your* case the system already recognizes the device as SCSI
> changer and sets up the special device /dev/sch0 for you.
>
> mtx complaining about it not being an /dev/sgX device is more of a bug
> inside mtx clinging to the past device names instead of embracing the
>
Hi guys,
On Centos 7 system and had a working tape storage system. Then I restarted and
the whole thing stopped working.
I have just noticed that the autochanger changed from /dev/sg2 to /dev/sg3. My
initial thought was to use the device UUID, but this device don't seem to use
UUID.
I
Hello,
I am trying to separate informational emails from emails that require me to fix
something and I am struggling a bit. Initially I thought using a separate
email address for mail and operator will do the trick but that don't seem to
have any difference. google don't pull a previous
Hello,
Got a quick question. This isn't yet a production system so I hope its doable
I am trying to rename the name of the pool from "File" to something less
confusing. I am doing this on the director's configuration as follows:
Pool {
# Name = File # <- From this line
Name = Tapes #
Hello,
I have a new bacula setup and for the last two day, has been running the first
large scheduled job. Sometimes early this morning, it looks like bacula
stopped writing to the tape
I was monitoring it using this command:
*list volumes
Hi Martin,
Thanks a lot for your response.
> Is the log really "nothing"? It should at least show the last thing that
> happened.
Honestly nothing, the last 3 lines on bacula.log was on 12-Feb 15:58 and that
was before I started the pending backup job
> Also, try "status dir" to see what
Hi Uwe,
> have you tried the "stat client" command? If you run it a few times you
> should be able to spot if there's still data transfer activity.
Daemon started 12-Feb-19 11:53. Jobs: run=4 running=0.
Heap: heap=135,168 smbytes=586,060 max_bytes=639,633 bufs=465 max_bufs=515
Sizeof:
Hello,
I have 4 dozen of tapes that have the same product number, are labelled 6.25 TB
capacity and hence should all be holding about 6 TB. However, I have noticed
no consistency in their capacity at all. Sometime, they fill up with as little
as 2 TB and oddly can sometime handle 9TB, which
starting bacula, verify that the autochanger you are pointing to do
indeed work. Something like this:
/opt/bacula/scripts/mtx-changer /dev/sg3 list
Regards,
William
From: Jasen Lentz
Sent: June 19, 2019 12:53 PM
To: Alan Brown; William Muriithi; Heitor
Jasen
Not really related to the autochanger, but why do you prefer Centos 6 instead
of Centos 7 at this time? Remember, end next year, RedHat will stop providing
support for RHEL 6 and hence centos 6 will also be affected.
Regards,
William
From:
Heitor,
He is using Centos, and version 5.2.13 ended up being whats shipped by RedHat.
Very understandable
Do you know why RedHat does ship something newer? Like even version 7?
Regards,
William
From: Heitor Faria
Sent: April 30, 2019 12:35:25 PM
To:
Hello,
I noticed today that the tape hardware - Quantum Superloader 3 - had a warning
that the tape head needs cleaning and that got me surprised. We already have a
cleaner tape on the system and had always assumed this is happening already.
How would one go about doing this? Yes, I know I
Hi Robert,
===
Autochanger {
Name = LTO5
Device = Drive-1
Changer Command = "/etc/bacula/scripts/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d"
Changer Device = /dev/sg3
}
Be aware that /dev/sg3 can change when the system is rebooted.
===
Device {
Name = Drive-1
Drive
update the director and storage if that don't work
Regards,
William
From: Maurizio Caloro
Sent: August 16, 2019 2:33 PM
To: William Muriithi
Cc: Maurizio Caloro; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-FD - RedHat
Hello William
Hello Maurizio,
If you are deploying on a new server, don't use RHEL 7. Use RHEL 8.
It will allow you to yum install a more recent Bacula-fd.
Alternatively, you avoid RedHat provided rpm and use upstream RPM instead.
Regards,
William
From: Maurizio
Hello
We have a bacula server that been running fine for a while. I have previously
done test restore to ensure that the backups are usable with success until now.
So this being the first time I have seen a failed restore, I am trying to
figure out why it failed and haven't gone far using
Hello,
I had a working bacula, till I recently run out of tapes. After, I changed the
file and job retention period and prune was able to identify some usable tapes.
When a tape is pruned, I have it moved to scratch pool.
I thought that was all I needed to do, but the system hasn't managed
s,
William
From: Martin Simmons
Sent: July 17, 2019 8:49:07 AM
To: William Muriithi
Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] BLOCKED waiting to create a volume on labelled
volume
What does "status dir" show about running
Ken,
Slightly unrelated but still think it fit well on this thread.
One of the purpose of using tapes is so that one can remove it later from the
system and make it only physically available. In case the system is
compromised, you still have something that can only be destroyed by someone
Adam,
>> no, I don't think so. If you run parallel Jobs the data will be interleaved
>> on the tape, and a tape being a seq. access medium you are out of luck here.
> How about if I set:
> Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1
> Then all jobs will be written on continuous tape segments.
Not necessary.
Hello
I stated using bacula about 6 months ago. When I originally set it up, I just
specified Volume retention period. The File Retention period, and the Job
Retention period periods are longer and hence most of the tapes aren't still
labelled as ready for recycle.
Since I have almost used
Hello Eli,
If you are completely green (Not too much Linux experience), don't use that
link, what you find on that link is source files, and that require you to be
comfortable with Linux for a couple of reasons:
* An installation from source will require you to deal with dependencies,
Hello,
I was reading through the page (link below) and this sentence looks very
interesting from performance perspective. I am using the default on version 9
and it seems to be 1 GB, but according to this document, 5 GB is better. So
the question is, why isn't 5GB the default? Asking
Hi Erwan,
Hope you had made a catalog backup before schema upgrade.
You can't use bacula 9.0 with mysql 8. mysql made some change that were only
fixed in a later bacula version, think bacula 9.2.
So if you have to use mysql 8, please use the latest bacula binaries.
Alternatively, use
Hi Brown,
> Rhel8 isn't the issue. Dell PERC controllers ARE.
>
>
> https://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pvaul/en/dell-perc-h710p-spec-sheet.pdf
>
>
>This is a MPTSAS raid card, not a HBA. It will _probably_ work OK for
>you if it's detecting the tape drive and tape library but
Hi Clark,
> Try the hardware compatibility list for the card on Redhat's website. Second
> choice, the manufacturer's website. The issue is the driver.
Ya, its definitely driver issue. I had checked RedHat hardware compatibility
list but it only list servers, not PCI cards. Essentially, it
Hi Arne,
> There appars to be some conflation of lsscsi and lspci here
>
> lsscsi will show attached SCSI targets
Agree
> From the lsscsi -g output, it is showing two arrays, a tape drive, and
> a library changer, when the library is removed, it is expected that
> both the tape drive and the
Hello,
Have any of you deployed RHEL 8/Centos 8 and would be willing to share what HBA
card they are using?
Anyway, attempting to purchase HBA card and looking for a way to figure out
what will work without having access to the tape library. Lets say that you
don't have access to the tape
Hello,
I have googled a bit on this and there is just a number of dated discussions,
mainly on migrating from 5 to 7. So I am wondering if there is anyone who has
gone through this process recently and would share some experience.
My plan:
- Set up a separate system and install bacula
') failed. ERR=Field 'StartTime' doesn't have a default
value
I don't understand because the script update_mysql_tables remove default value
?!?
Can you help me ?
Thanks and have a good day !
-Message d'origine-
De : William Muriithi Envoyé : vendredi 22 novembre
2019 16:41 À : Erwa
Hi Dima,
>> Also, how do you backup the backup box itself?
>
> I don't. ;)
>
> Yes, it you want all your change history in a tape archive in a vault
> somewhere far away, that would be a problem because snapshots are not visible
> to your tape backup software. But then you may want to
Morning Radosław,
> I think I do miss your point. Why anyone on Earth would like to configure a
> backup job in such a way that the next job will intentionally run when a
> previous job did not complete and intentionally setup cancelation of the
> duplicated job?
> IMVHO if I knew that my
Hello,
We have 2 dozen tapes that we haven't been using because we don't have extra
bar code labels. The odd thing is most places, they wouldn't sell the bar code
labels if you aren't buying tapes. This is not ideal, as we obviously already
have more than enough tapes.
What have you guys
Erik,
> Is 9.4.4 an older version?
No, very recent version. Heitor just made a small mistake
/etc/bacula is used by Linux distribution packaged bacula. /opt/bacula is
from source or just picked straight from bacula developers.
Regards,
William
Hello,
Was trying to reduce the number of mails coming from Bacula, and was combing
through the logs to see what I can filter out. Currently, almost all noise
comes from bacula attempting to schedule a job and then realizing the previous
isn't yet done. I have configured bacula not to allow
Hi
> I'm planning a Bacula deployment on AWS in the following weeks. I have some
> doubts about disk performance for Disk based backups.
I use tapes, so you should take my response with a grain of salt. Question
though, how do one protect the backup from being damaged if one is compromised
and
Happy new year,
> First of all, MariaDB is not very recommended for using with Bacula, but you
> can use for you own risk.
He can't use mysql 8 with the version of bacula he is deploying, so this
instruction will lead him to other issues
> This error is it looks is caused by SQL_MODE, that I
Hello,
I have a single fairly job that failed due to network issue but it had already
put slightly above a TB into the tape. It was a full job unfortunately, and
have set it to do a full job twice a month and differential/incremental in
between. When I restarted the job, I see its doing
Hello,
I recently added 5 tapes that were new to the library. Bacula is configured
to put expired tapes on Scratch pool, but I couldn't be able to label the tapes
under that pool, so I labelled it under eng_father.
[william@backup ~]$ echo "list volume" | bconsole | grep 06L6
| 132 |
Hello.
I have two QUANTUM media changer and currently, I have been unable to use them
with bacula concurrently. I have googled and attempted multiple changes on
configuration, no luck. I have also attempted to separate the hardware as much
as possible to avoid inter-dependency, its not
Hi JW
Do you mind opening your editor as administrator? It should be fine editing
the config after that.
Regards,
William
From: J W
Sent: March 3, 2021 9:24 PM
To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Bacula-users] Unable to Edit
Hello
I have a problem where bacula seem to be rejecting most of my tapes. I had
lapsed using tapes for a couple of months as I was working remote due to covid.
Recently, I re-started my tape backups and struggling as some tapes are
working fine, but others are a pain.
For example, or jobs
Hmm
What is the default block size for bacula 9 ? I am assuming it's what Kern
said due to his authority in the project.
Can one change in on a current production system or its something you set on
initial setup only?
William
From: fk+bacula--- via
Hello
We are using bacula version 9 and we have been happy with it. We have 2
quantum superloader 3 we use to offload the data, one for Linux system and the
other one for Windows systems. In short, the two storage devices don't have
any inter-dependency other than they share the same
I believe there is a strong chance your root partitions is getting full during
the backup.
1,3G is too low, specially if you use the bacula default Catalog backup script
to generate a dump during the backup.
+1
The partition where bacula director spool directory lives on filling up during
Hello
This morning, I wanted to clear some running jobs so that I can do a quick
restore. After cancelling all the jobs on one of my storage system, one of
the jobs hang and it I have tried every trick to clear it without success.
Running Jobs:
Writing: Incremental Backup job
Morning,
I think I figured it out. It looks like the system that was being backed
disconnected while despooling
Is there a way to avoid the whole bacula hanging if bacula SD server have a
temporary disconnection ?
Time: 2022-05-24 05:03:10
LogText: bacula-dir JobId 46250: Using Device
Hello,
I have a problem that I don't seem to understand. Backups stopped because they
needed a specific tape. However, the tape is already in the drive.
I can't mount it, since its already in place. What would trigger bacula into
this logic?
Device status:
Autochanger "SuperLoader3" with
Hello
I have a problem where the tapes I have loaded are going to Read-Only every
time I have loaded it.
|2*| 04L6 | Read-Only | LTO-6 | windows_regular
|
The tapes were already marked ("Recycle |Purged") available for backup when I
originally loaded them:
Hello,
I have attempted a restore and I can get all files and directories with
exception of one folder.
This is on Windows server 2016 (bacula client - 9.0.8 (28May18) Microsoft
Standard Edition (build 9200)) and it is running as local system.
The storage and director are on 9.0.6 on Centos
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