[Bacula-users] Disk based backup using vchanger, volumes being marked as Error
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 backups only, and I am using vchanger to manage my virtual library. I've configured a vchanger library with 100 slots and 8 drives, and have set a Maximum Volume Bytes of 100G on the pool definition that I am using, to limit each slot in the library to 100G. I have also set a Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 2 setting on each of the virtual tape drive devices in my storage director config, so that only two jobs can write to a device at a time to minimize interleaving. Everything works perfectly as long as I only kick a few jobs off at a time.. however, when my main backup windows run and 30 or 40 backup jobs kick off, I often end up with jobs that output the following sequence in the logs: 31-Jul 21:00 bacula1-dir JobId 692: Start Backup JobId 692, Job=job-evolvereports-main.2014-07-31_21.00.00_48 31-Jul 21:00 bacula1-dir JobId 692: Using Device chg1-drive-1 to write. 31-Jul 21:00 evolvereports-fd JobId 692: DIR and FD clocks differ by 50 seconds, FD automatically compensating. 31-Jul 21:05 bacula1-sd JobId 692: 3307 Issuing autochanger unload slot 74, drive 1 command. 31-Jul 21:06 bacula1-sd JobId 692: Warning: Volume chg1_0001_0066 wanted on chg1-drive-1 (/var/lib/bacula/chg1/1/drive1) is in use by device chg1-drive-3 (/var/lib/bacula/chg1/3/drive3) 31-Jul 21:06 bacula1-sd JobId 692: Warning: Volume chg1_0001_0066 not on file device chg1-drive-1 (/var/lib/bacula/chg1/1/drive1). 31-Jul 21:06 bacula1-sd JobId 692: Marking Volume chg1_0001_0066 in Error in Catalog. 31-Jul 21:06 bacula1-sd JobId 692: Warning: Volume chg1_0001_0066 not on file device chg1-drive-1 (/var/lib/bacula/chg1/1/drive1). 31-Jul 21:06 bacula1-sd JobId 692: Marking Volume chg1_0001_0066 in Error in Catalog. 31-Jul 21:06 bacula1-sd JobId 692: Warning: mount.c:212 Open of file device chg1-drive-1 (/var/lib/bacula/chg1/1/drive1) Volumechg1_0001_0066 failed: ERR=file_dev.c:172 Could not open(/var/lib/bacula/chg1/1/drive1,OPEN_READ_WRITE,0640): ERR=No such file or directory 31-Jul 21:06 bacula1-sd JobId 692: 3307 Issuing autochanger unload slot 71, drive 2 command. 31-Jul 21:06 bacula1-sd JobId 692: 3304 Issuing autochanger load slot 71, drive 1 command. 31-Jul 21:06 bacula1-sd JobId 692: 3305 Autochanger load slot 71, drive 1, status is OK. 31-Jul 21:06 bacula1-sd JobId 692: Volume chg1_0001_0071 previously written, moving to end of data. 31-Jul 21:06 bacula1-sd JobId 692: Ready to append to end of Volume chg1_0001_0071 size=8,003,988,010 This ends up marking my perfectly usable volume as Error in the catalog. Is this something that everyone runs into? Is there any fix? As I recall when I looked into it a few years back, the issue was the order and timing of volume and device selection, but it's definitely been a while. My bacula-sd.conf file is here: http://pastebin.com/2eDFPDmE Any guidance would be appreciated! Thanks, Joe -- Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Bacula restore to Windows 2008 R2
Greetings.. I had occasion today to do a restore to a Windows 2008 R2 server with Bacula.. everything went fine, except for some minor confusion because the restored c:/restore/c folder was created with the hidden and system attributes.. Obviously I normally have my explorer shell set so I can see hidden and system files, but on this particular box I didn't and it ended up stumping me for a few minutes.. So I guess my question is whether there is a good reason that the c folder ends up restored with hidden system attributes, and whether there is anything I can do about that? If not I'll just document it as part of our restore procedures, but I wanted to make sure there isn't a setting somewhere that I'm missing that would make peoples lives easier.. Thanks! Joe -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] is anyone successfully using MaxConcurrentJobs=1 on a Disk device?
Greetings.. Is anyone out there successfully backing up many concurrent jobs using Disk autochangers, with MaxConcurrentJobs set to 1 for each drive device? I've been encountering a lot of concurrency bugs in the SD code that I think is preventing me from doing this successfully, and I just wanted to make sure that nobody had a similar setup working in the wild.. My basic setup: 20TB worth of disk, divided up into 250GB volumes using a disk autochanger script 10 drives configured in the disk autochanger 20-30 jobs starting simultaneously each night via schedule MaxConcurrentJobs=1 in each drive device, so only 1 job per virtual drive. If anyone has something similar I'd love to talk with you about it. I'm having lots of concurrency bug issues in SD that I think are biting me :-/ Thanks! Joe -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] disk volumes being marked in 'Error' -- concurency issue?
Greetings..
I'm about ready to pull my hair out on this one :-/
My bacula is consistently marking volumes in Error and I'm not sure why.. I had
looked at this a few months ago and it seemed like an issue where some of the
special case code in volume selection was being skipped on File type devices..
anyway, more about my setup:
I am using a fully disk-based setup, utilizing a custom disk-changer script. I
am also setting Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1 on each of my drive devices, so
that data is not interleaved. I have 10 drives set up, so 10 jobs should run
at the same time (on different volumes).. All volumes are part of the same
pool, and all backup levels go to that pool.
The backup process works fine for the first scheduled backup, picking 10
volumes and labeling them appropriately. I can schedule 20+ backup jobs, and
they will all complete normally as expected and happily pick volumes that a
previous job had just freed up.
The next night, however, when the Incremental runs, I consistently get job
output like this:
11-Aug 01:30 zztop-dir JobId 9: Start Backup JobId 9,
Job=boston.ajboggs.net_backup-onsite_fullset.2010-08-11_01.30.00_08
11-Aug 01:30 zztop-dir JobId 9: Using Device chg0_drive0
11-Aug 01:30 zztop-sd JobId 9: 3307 Issuing autochanger unload slot 1, drive
0 command.
11-Aug 01:33 zztop-sd JobId 9: Warning: Volume bvol_ELAN-OnSite0_003 wanted
on chg0_drive0 (/bacula-storage/chg0/drives/drive0) is in use by device
chg0_drive2 (/bacula-storage/chg0/drives/drive2)
11-Aug 01:33 zztop-sd JobId 9: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0
command.
11-Aug 01:33 zztop-sd JobId 9: 3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result:
nothing loaded.
11-Aug 01:33 zztop-sd JobId 9: Warning: Volume bvol_ELAN-OnSite0_003 not on
device chg0_drive0 (/bacula-storage/chg0/drives/drive0).
11-Aug 01:33 zztop-sd JobId 9: Marking Volume bvol_ELAN-OnSite0_003 in Error
in Catalog.
11-Aug 01:33 zztop-sd JobId 9: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0
command.
11-Aug 01:33 zztop-sd JobId 9: 3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result:
nothing loaded.
11-Aug 01:33 zztop-sd JobId 9: Warning: Volume bvol_ELAN-OnSite0_003 not on
device chg0_drive0 (/bacula-storage/chg0/drives/drive0).
11-Aug 01:33 zztop-sd JobId 9: Marking Volume bvol_ELAN-OnSite0_003 in Error
in Catalog.
11-Aug 01:33 zztop-sd JobId 9: Warning: mount.c:217 Open device chg0_drive0
(/bacula-storage/chg0/drives/drive0) Volume bvol_ELAN-OnSite0_003 failed:
ERR=dev.c:549 Could not open: /bacula-storage/chg0/drives/drive0, ERR=No such
file or directory
My autochanger and device entries look like:
Autochanger {
Name = chg0
Device = chg0_drive0
Device = chg0_drive1
Device = chg0_drive2
Device = chg0_drive3
Device = chg0_drive4
Device = chg0_drive5
Device = chg0_drive6
Device = chg0_drive7
Device = chg0_drive8
Device = chg0_drive9
Changer Device = /bacula-storage/chg0/chg0.conf
Changer Command = /bacula-storage/lvm-changer %c %o %S %a %d %v
}
Device {
Name = chg0_drive0
Autochanger = yes
ArchiveDevice = /bacula-storage/chg0/drives/drive0
DeviceType = File
MediaType = chg0_media
AutomaticMount = yes
AlwaysOpen = yes
DriveIndex = 0
RemovableMedia = no
RandomAccess = yes
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1
}
The lvm-changer script that I am using is a script that I wrote, which responds
appropriately to all changer commands as far as I can tell.. and from the job
output, it doesn't look like it's telling the changer script to do anything -
it realizes the tape is in a different drive, and does NOT request that it be
unloaded and reloaded into a different drive.
Do others have similar setups, or does everyone simply interleave data and only
use one disk volume at a time?
Thanks for your help..
Joe
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Re: [Bacula-users] disk volumes being marked in 'Error' -- concurency issue?
11-Aug 01:33 zztop-sd JobId 9: Warning: mount.c:217 Open device chg0_drive0 (/bacula-storage/chg0/drives/drive0) Volume bvol_ELAN-OnSite0_003 failed: ERR=dev.c:549 Could not open: /bacula-storage/chg0/drives/drive0, ERR=No such file or directory This appears that bacula can not access your changer or drive. John, I believe this is expected, given the log entries above it.. bacula never told the autoloader to load drive 0 after unloading it. I'll step through the log entries below in order and say what I think they are telling me: 11-Aug 01:30 zztop-dir JobId 9: Using Device chg0_drive0 11-Aug 01:30 zztop-sd JobId 9: 3307 Issuing autochanger unload slot 1, drive 0 command. * Okay, we want to use drive0. It has a tape in it - unload it. 11-Aug 01:33 zztop-sd JobId 9: Warning: Volume bvol_ELAN-OnSite0_003 wanted on chg0_drive0 (/bacula-storage/chg0/drives/drive0) is in use by device chg0_drive2 (/bacula-storage/chg0/drives/drive2) * Hmm this is strange, the volume that we decided to use is already mounted in another drive. (likely considered a warning because logically the selection code should have picked this drive, yes?) 11-Aug 01:33 zztop-sd JobId 9: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0 command. 11-Aug 01:33 zztop-sd JobId 9: 3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result: nothing loaded. * Is the drive we want to use, drive 0, loaded? Nope. (but then, I haven't asked the autoloader to load it!) 11-Aug 01:33 zztop-sd JobId 9: Warning: Volume bvol_ELAN-OnSite0_003 not on device chg0_drive0 (/bacula-storage/chg0/drives/drive0). 11-Aug 01:33 zztop-sd JobId 9: Marking Volume bvol_ELAN-OnSite0_003 in Error in Catalog. * Hmm this is strange, I expected the volume to be available in drive 0 (even though I never asked for it to be loaded there) and it is not. Something msut be wrong with the volume, marking it as Error. 11-Aug 01:33 zztop-sd JobId 9: Warning: mount.c:217 Open device chg0_drive0 (/bacula-storage/chg0/drives/drive0) Volume bvol_ELAN-OnSite0_003 failed: ERR=dev.c:549 Could not open: /bacula-storage/chg0/drives/drive0, ERR=No such file or directory * I'm trying to open the drive anyway, just in case the autoloader is lying to me? (just guessing there).. Can't open it, because nothing is loaded in it (/bacula-storage/chg0/drives/drive0 would be a symlink to the actual volume file, if the autoloader had been told to load drive 0) When I tried to solve this before, I dug into the code and to my shallow understanding of it, it looked like the volume device selection code had some special cases to pick drives that already had the wanted volume loaded, but that they were perhaps disabled for Disk devices... I need to get this resolved if possible so I'll start to dig in again.. I turned up the debugging and tracing on the SD and dir, and will post those as soon as I have them.. In doing another test, it seems to be much harder to replicate this if I start all 20 jobs by hand rather than have them auto-start based on schedule.. not sure if that's a concurrency thing or what Any ideas? :-/ Thanks, Joe -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] bacula disk based compression strategy
Greetings.. I'm using Bacula in an all-disk based environment, using a disk based autochanger script. I'm wondering if anyone has come up with a magic recipe for dealing with the compression issues that are inherent with this type of strategy.. What I'm talking about mostly is that bacula-fd performance with software compression on is pretty slow, which I think I've read can be attributed to the single threaded compression algorithm that is being used.. I would much rather stream the data from the hosts uncompressed and then compress it once it reaches the SD, since my backup server tends to be fairly beefy compared to many of my hosts.. What have other people done to combat this issue? Is it worth my time investigating some of the virtual tape library software out there for Linux, which presumably implements reasonable compression on the virtual tape lib side? Or are people perhaps using a transparent compression filesystem with good results? Just trying to get a feel for what people have found works.. need to reduce the window to backup each host (i.e. up the throughput from the 2-3MB/sec I'm getting) but don't want to sacrifice the space of doing completely without compression :) Thanks! Joe -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] potential concurrency bug in SD?
There are several disk-changer bacula-sd configs in the regress/scripts/ directory. Are there any differences in your device config compared to those? I'm not sure where you mean -- I don't see any regress/scripts dir in either the source distribution or the installed files.. Joe -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] potential concurrency bug in SD?
Greetings.. I believe I may be hitting a concurrency bug in the storage director code, but I'm pretty new to Bacula and may just not understand what I'm looking at in the trace output. The quick outline of my scenario is: Bacula version 5.0 SD and DIR running on same box (CentOS 5.4, x86_64) Completely file based backup, using a custom autochanger script (which does not appear to be the problem, but I mention it because it may be relevant) In my setup: - I have a single autochanger defined (changer0) - I have 10 drives of DeviceType=File defined for changer0 - Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1 is set on each Device entry for each drive - Each drive shares the same media type, changer0_media - I have three pools - OnSiteFull, OnSiteIncremental, and OnSiteScratch I have 5 backup jobs that all start at the same time (1:30am), and which all will want either OnSiteFull or OnSiteIncremental depending on the day. The problem that I am seeing is that volumes are being incorrectly marked as being in Error status each night. My storage director trace output can be found at: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=Ne0XJbBh One of the jobs in the trace output that marks a volume as in Error is job 36. If someone more familiar with how volume selection works could take a peek and give me some guidance I'd really appreciate it.. in looking through the trace and trying to follow the code, it looks like there is a concurrency issue when there is a volume which is wanted on a drive other than the one it is currently loaded into. Thanks, Joe -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] bacula asking autochanger for a volume it knows is already in use
Greetings.. Fairly new to Bacula, and am using a fully disk based backup approach. I have a virtual autochanger set up (using a custom autochanger script) and have ten virtual drives set up. Each drive has maximum concurrent jobs set to 1, so that Bacula will reach for a new volume rather than interleave data. Things seem to be working fairly well, except that Bacula seems to be making strange decisions as to which volumes to use for which jobs, and I don't understand why. It appears to be deciding to use a volume that it knows is in use on another drive. See the log output below: 01-Mar 01:30 zztop.ajboggs.net-dir JobId 31: Start Backup JobId 31, Job=backup-fullset-rush.ajboggs.net.2010-03-01_01.30.00_42 01-Mar 01:30 zztop.ajboggs.net-dir JobId 31: Using Device changer0_drive0 01-Mar 01:30 zztop.ajboggs.net-sd JobId 31: 3307 Issuing autochanger unload slot 4, drive 0 command. 01-Mar 01:31 zztop.ajboggs.net-sd JobId 31: Warning: Volume bvol_OnSite01-009 wanted on changer0_drive0 (/bacula/changer0/drives/drive0) is in use by device changer0_drive2 (/bacula/changer0/drives/drive2) 01-Mar 01:31 zztop.ajboggs.net-sd JobId 31: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0 command. 01-Mar 01:31 zztop.ajboggs.net-sd JobId 31: 3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result: nothing loaded. 01-Mar 01:31 zztop.ajboggs.net-sd JobId 31: Warning: Volume bvol_OnSite01-009 not on device changer0_drive0 (/bacula/changer0/drives/drive0). 01-Mar 01:31 zztop.ajboggs.net-sd JobId 31: Marking Volume bvol_OnSite01-009 in Error in Catalog. 01-Mar 01:31 zztop.ajboggs.net-sd JobId 31: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0 command. 01-Mar 01:31 zztop.ajboggs.net-sd JobId 31: 3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result: nothing loaded. 01-Mar 01:31 zztop.ajboggs.net-sd JobId 31: Warning: Volume bvol_OnSite01-009 not on device changer0_drive0 (/bacula/changer0/drives/drive0). 01-Mar 01:31 zztop.ajboggs.net-sd JobId 31: Marking Volume bvol_OnSite01-009 in Error in Catalog. 01-Mar 01:31 zztop.ajboggs.net-sd JobId 31: Warning: mount.c:227 Open device changer0_drive0 (/bacula/changer0/drives/drive0) Volume bvol_OnSite01-009 failed: ERR=dev.c:549 Could not open: /bacula/changer0/drives/drive0, ERR=No such file or directory 01-Mar 01:31 zztop.ajboggs.net-sd JobId 31: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0 command. 01-Mar 01:31 zztop.ajboggs.net-sd JobId 31: 3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result: nothing loaded. 01-Mar 01:31 zztop.ajboggs.net-sd JobId 31: 3304 Issuing autochanger load slot 5, drive 0 command. 01-Mar 01:31 zztop.ajboggs.net-sd JobId 31: 3305 Autochanger load slot 5, drive 0, status is OK. 01-Mar 01:31 zztop.ajboggs.net-sd JobId 31: Volume bvol_OnSite01-005 previously written, moving to end of data. 01-Mar 01:31 zztop.ajboggs.net-sd JobId 31: Ready to append to end of Volume bvol_OnSite01-005 size=133733782 A couple things about the log output doesn't make any sense to me - first, why is Bacula deciding to use a volume which is in use in another drive, and second, why is it complaining that the volume is not mounted on the drive that it's chosen for this job when it never asked the autochanger to unload it from the drive it was in, and then load it into the drive it wanted? Any pointers would be appreciated.. Thanks, Joe -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Use Import/Export slots of autochanger
my question may be a vendor specific one or may be a mtx-changer
question. My Quantum autochanger has 5 Import/Export slots, which
basically are just better accessible tape slots. Mtx displays the slots
as I/E slots. But tapes in those slots are not recognised by Bacula.
See
attached console output.
Is there a way Bacula can use those I/E slots like any other slot?
A quick look at the mtx-changer script shows that these lines are probably
causing you the trouble... they're inside the section for the list command:
if test ${vxa_packetloader} -ne 0 ; then
cat ${TMPFILE} | grep *Storage Element [0-9]*:.*Full | sed s/
Storage Element // | sed s/Full :VolumeTag=//
else
cat ${TMPFILE} | grep Storage Element [0-9]*:.*Full | awk {print
\$3 \$4} | sed s/Full *\(:VolumeTag=\)*//
fi
Notice that the regex in the first part won't match your IMPORT/EXPORT slots.
My hunch is that you'll need to modify those greps, and probably the awk/sed
immediately afterward...
Another thing to check is whether or not mtx-changer is getting the correct
number of total slots available when it's asked for it -- if not you'll have to
fix that behavior too, probably..
Hope that helps!
Joe
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[Bacula-users] disk based backup, interleaving pros/cons?
Greetings.. I'm using completely disk based backup, with a custom autochanger script. When I initially set this up, I set the maximum job concurrency on each of my disk devices to 1, so that Bacula would be forced to only write one job to any given volume at any given time. I'm just wondering, now that I've done that, is there any REAL advantage for me in not allowing Bacula to interleave on a disk based volume? Does it make the on-volume format a lot simpler? Joe -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] software compression, real size vs size written?
2) Is there an easy way in bconsole to see what the actual size on disk of the job was? All of the size numbers reported seem to be post-compression, which makes sense since the compression happens on the host, but I'm assuming bacula is storing ACTUAL size on disk info in the catalog somewhere.. I'd love to quickly see how much REAL data I'm backing up, compared to how much virtual tape space it's taking.. 2) from bconsole, use the command 'estimate' Thanks for the answer! The estimate command will connect to the client and ask for an estimate as of now, yes? -- is there no easy way to just get this information from the catalog for a job that has already completed? Thanks, Joe -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] software compression, real size vs size written?
Greetings! I'm relatively new to Bacula, and am working on my first deployment. I am working in a completely disk-based environment, so I have a single director and SD which run on the same host, and a few Windows test server clients which run FD's. Because it's all disk based, I'm using compression=gzip4 in my fileset directives. I have two questions regarding compression: 1)What is the percentage that is reported in the job statistics? Is that how well the compression is doing, or how much CPU it took to do it? I've seen references to both.. 2) Is there an easy way in bconsole to see what the actual size on disk of the job was? All of the size numbers reported seem to be post-compression, which makes sense since the compression happens on the host, but I'm assuming bacula is storing ACTUAL size on disk info in the catalog somewhere.. I'd love to quickly see how much REAL data I'm backing up, compared to how much virtual tape space it's taking.. Thanks! Joseph Dickson AJ Boggs joseph.dick...@ajboggs.com -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
