Re: [Bacula-users] backup slow on local machine but fast from remote machine

2009-01-13 Thread Ralf Brinkmann
Arno Lehmann schrieb: Given the number of files backed up, the second job is probably an incremental backup. To compare backup speeds, run full backups only. Yes, I did a full backup on both machines. On server #2 Bacula should backup the daily snapshots of the Vmware images. Image-filesize

Re: [Bacula-users] a job that was not started gets cancelled with Max run time exceeded

2009-01-13 Thread Thomas
and it still happens with 2.4.4. this line is all i found in the log about JobId 61211: 12-Jan 23:47:33 backup-dir JobId 61211: Fatal error: Max run time exceeded. Job canceled. i have five jobs running at the same time/with the same priority and with Max RunTime= 20mins four of them starts

[Bacula-users] Mini stupid how-to restore mark all .bak file

2009-01-13 Thread Bruno Friedmann
Sorry this seems stupid but when I enter in a restore I use the choice 3 ( list of jobids ) get my / rebuild If I issue a find *.bak it find and list all what I want to mark and restore (recurse also) but giving a mark *.bak give 0 file marked help say mark dir/file to be restored

Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents

2009-01-13 Thread Stefan Sorin Nicolin
Thank you for your responses. Somehow I get the feeling that excluding a single file's contents is way easier than risking a failed restore. Since I don't mind the few MBs in /dev (except the hunderts of MBs in /dev/tty12) I'll submit a feature request regarding this issue. Who knows - it

Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents

2009-01-13 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Stefan Sorin Nicolin r...@nicolinux.org wrote: Thank you for your responses. Somehow I get the feeling that excluding a single file's contents is way easier than risking a failed restore. Since I don't mind the few MBs in /dev (except the hunderts of MBs in

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape utilization

2009-01-13 Thread John Drescher
dd test has been run... Just before the last run, I switched off the compression on the tape... r...@backup:~# date; dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nst0 bs=1024k count=10240; date Mon Jan 12 20:50:35 CET 2009 10240+0 records in 10240+0 records out 10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 88.6869 s,

Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents

2009-01-13 Thread Stefan Sorin Nicolin
On 13.01.2009, at 13:48, John Drescher wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Stefan Sorin Nicolin r...@nicolinux.org wrote: Thank you for your responses. Somehow I get the feeling that excluding a single file's contents is way easier than risking a failed restore. Since I don't mind

Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents

2009-01-13 Thread John Drescher
What I ment was excluding the _contents_ of a file. I want to keep everything else (filname, permissions and so on). Just exclude that file totally. I guarantee gentoo will not care as I have booted many times in gentoo using my home made live cds without /dev/tty12 John

Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents

2009-01-13 Thread John Drescher
And also /dev/tty12 on my system is not a large file just a device node. jmd0 john # ls -al /dev/tty12 -al crw--- 1 root root 4, 12 Jan 13 08:09 /dev/tty12 One more comment about this. Do you have console output when you hit ctrl-alt-f12 if you do not I see the problem. The problem is

[Bacula-users] Manual Volume recycling and overwritten data

2009-01-13 Thread Bastian Friedrich
Hi, when manually recycling a (used) volume with update volume=xxx VolStatus=Recycle this volume will be accepted for overwriting. Nonetheless, Jobs that have been written to that volume will NOT be removed from the catalog. This results in invalid data, as the catalog will still contain data

Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents

2009-01-13 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 8:08 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: What I ment was excluding the _contents_ of a file. I want to keep everything else (filname, permissions and so on). Just exclude that file totally. I guarantee gentoo will not care as I have booted many times in

[Bacula-users] Problem with DAT160 drive, files missing during restore

2009-01-13 Thread Ari Suutari
Hi, I'm running bacula 2.4.4 on FreeBSD 7.1 with HP DAT160 drive connected to USB. Problem is that when I restore, a lot of files are missing and restore warns about file count mismatch. My device configuration is like this: Device { Name = TAPE Description = DAT160 Tape Media Type =

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Manual Volume recycling and overwritten data

2009-01-13 Thread Eric Bollengier
Hello Bastian, Le Tuesday 13 January 2009 14:27:49 Bastian Friedrich, vous avez écrit : when manually recycling a (used) volume with update volume=xxx VolStatus=Recycle this volume will be accepted for overwriting. Nonetheless, Jobs that have been written to that volume will NOT be removed

Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents

2009-01-13 Thread Stefan Sorin Nicolin
Thanks for the pointer. I see this behavior an 20+ virtualized Gentoo installations (XEN domains). I'll chech it. Stefan On 13.01.2009, at 14:26, John Drescher wrote: And also /dev/tty12 on my system is not a large file just a device node. jmd0 john # ls -al /dev/tty12 -al crw--- 1

[Bacula-users] Bacula giving slow speed

2009-01-13 Thread Holikar, Sachin (ext)
Hello All, We are using Bacula to take the backups onto the Tape Library Fujitsu FibreCAT Tx48 Library. The bacula version we are using is 2.2.7. Problem is we get very slow backup speed , around 50 GB per hour whereas in ideal scenario the above mentioned tape library gives 288 GB / Hour

Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents

2009-01-13 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Stefan Sorin Nicolin bac...@nicolinux.org wrote: Thanks for the pointer. I see this behavior an 20+ virtualized Gentoo installations (XEN domains). I'll chech it. Oh. In the visualized guests you should disable the output to the console instead. I had to do

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula giving slow speed

2009-01-13 Thread John Drescher
We are using Bacula to take the backups onto the Tape Library Fujitsu FibreCAT Tx48 Library. The bacula version we are using is 2.2.7. That is a old version. You will get better performance with the current release. Problem is we get very slow backup speed , around 50 GB per hour whereas in

[Bacula-users] Newly labelled tape does not get catalogged

2009-01-13 Thread David Gardner
Group, You know when you see the message Please mount Volume Weekly-0007 or label a new one for: _and_ you do label a new tape that it should then start being written to, mine doesn't. Can I run a SQL statement to manually insert the labeled tape into the catalog? If so, what is the correct

[Bacula-users] closing tape upon completion.

2009-01-13 Thread Pascal Clermont
Is it possible to have bacula close a tape once last job is run (backupcatalog in my case)? currently it leaves tapes on a APPEND status, then bacula wants to reuse the tape instead of taking a new one in the library. Pascal

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Manual Volume recycling and overwritten data

2009-01-13 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 15:00:58 Eric Bollengier wrote: Hello Bastian, Le Tuesday 13 January 2009 14:27:49 Bastian Friedrich, vous avez écrit : when manually recycling a (used) volume with update volume=xxx VolStatus=Recycle this volume will be accepted for overwriting. Nonetheless,

Re: [Bacula-users] Newly labelled tape does not get catalogged

2009-01-13 Thread John Drescher
You know when you see the message Please mount Volume Weekly-0007 or label a new one for: _and_ you do label a new tape that it should then start being written to, mine doesn't. Did you try to label a tape at this point? Can I run a SQL statement to manually insert the labeled tape into

Re: [Bacula-users] closing tape upon completion.

2009-01-13 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Pascal Clermont pascal-l...@lexum.umontreal.ca wrote: Is it possible to have bacula close a tape once last job is run (backupcatalog in my case)? currently it leaves tapes on a APPEND status, then bacula wants to reuse the tape instead of taking a new one in

Re: [Bacula-users] closing tape upon completion.

2009-01-13 Thread Timo Neuvonen
Is it possible to have bacula close a tape once last job is run (backupcatalog in my case)? currently it leaves tapes on a APPEND status, then bacula wants to reuse the tape instead of taking a new one in the library. Easiest way (before knowing what you mean with last job) might be

Re: [Bacula-users] closing tape upon completion.

2009-01-13 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Timo Neuvonen timo-n...@tee-en.net wrote: Is it possible to have bacula close a tape once last job is run (backupcatalog in my case)? currently it leaves tapes on a APPEND status, then bacula wants to reuse the tape instead of taking a new one in the library.

Re: [Bacula-users] closing tape upon completion.

2009-01-13 Thread Pascal Clermont
Timo Neuvonen wrote: Is it possible to have bacula close a tape once last job is run (backupcatalog in my case)? currently it leaves tapes on a APPEND status, then bacula wants to reuse the tape instead of taking a new one in the library. Easiest way (before knowing what you mean with

Re: [Bacula-users] closing tape upon completion.

2009-01-13 Thread John Drescher
I Have several jobs executed during the night (~20) and with my comprehension of this value, every job during the same night would be spawned to different tapes. This is most useful when the Media is a file and you want a new file for each backup that is done. -bacula documentation Then use

Re: [Bacula-users] closing tape upon completion.

2009-01-13 Thread Pascal Clermont
John Drescher wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Pascal Clermont pascal-l...@lexum.umontreal.ca wrote: Is it possible to have bacula close a tape once last job is run (backupcatalog in my case)? currently it leaves tapes on a APPEND status, then bacula wants to reuse the tape instead

[Bacula-users] restore oddities: files restored more than files expected and job pruning

2009-01-13 Thread Bob Hetzel
Here's the specifics of my bacula installation gyrus-dir Version: 2.4.3 (10 October 2008) i686-pc-linux-gnu suse 10.2 Daemon started 08-Jan-09 19:31, 799 Jobs run since started. Heap: heap=1,871,872 smbytes=632,680 max_bytes=2,934,571 bufs=5,050 max_bufs=10,223 I recently ran a restore job

Re: [Bacula-users] closing tape upon completion.

2009-01-13 Thread Pascal Clermont
John Drescher wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Timo Neuvonen timo-n...@tee-en.net wrote: Is it possible to have bacula close a tape once last job is run (backupcatalog in my case)? currently it leaves tapes on a APPEND status, then bacula wants to reuse the tape instead of taking a

Re: [Bacula-users] Newly labelled tape does not get catalogged

2009-01-13 Thread David Gardner
John, Yep, I tried labeling a couple of tapes and mounted them but no joy. I guess I'll have to bring the tapes back in-house to make the backups easy. FWIW, I'm running Bacula 2.4.2 on this machine. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ David Gardner email:

Re: [Bacula-users] closing tape upon completion.

2009-01-13 Thread John Drescher
this is what I use, but on the next bacula run, bacula kept wanting to load the tape prior to take into consideration that the tape was past the expiration time of usage. The big issue is the fact that the tape is no longer in the library since it is gone for safe keeping. So bacula finishes

Re: [Bacula-users] questions about tomo data

2009-01-13 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Andriy Bandos anb...@pitt.edu wrote: Sorry, did not get that. No problem. I know this is difficult to explain. Probably my fault here. Here is the specific example I asked about: user=30, md=5, case=6, reading=0; There are two abnormalities (calc + mass) and

Re: [Bacula-users] questions about tomo data

2009-01-13 Thread John Drescher
Is this really supposed to be on the bacula list? No way. I am not sure how I redirected it there. My fault for trying to answer my emails 5 minutes before a conference call. To my defense there were several bacula emails just before this one but I must be more careful.. Sounds like Radiation

Re: [Bacula-users] Mini stupid how-to restore mark all .bak file | nobody ?

2009-01-13 Thread Bruno Friedmann
Bruno Friedmann wrote: Sorry this seems stupid but when I enter in a restore I use the choice 3 ( list of jobids ) get my / rebuild If I issue a find *.bak it find and list all what I want to mark and restore (recurse also) but giving a mark *.bak give 0 file marked help say mark

Re: [Bacula-users] closing tape upon completion.

2009-01-13 Thread Pascal Clermont
John Drescher wrote: this is what I use, but on the next bacula run, bacula kept wanting to load the tape prior to take into consideration that the tape was past the expiration time of usage. The big issue is the fact that the tape is no longer in the library since it is gone for safe

Re: [Bacula-users] closing tape upon completion.

2009-01-13 Thread John Drescher
If I remove the tape, and do a update slots scan or update slots in bconsole, the media is still flagged inchanger 1. this is an issue aswell, but I can live with that, since tapes are back in the library prior to the Volume Retention. Are you using bacula 2.4.X and not some ancient version

Re: [Bacula-users] closing tape upon completion.

2009-01-13 Thread Pascal Clermont
John Drescher wrote: If I remove the tape, and do a update slots scan or update slots in bconsole, the media is still flagged inchanger 1. this is an issue aswell, but I can live with that, since tapes are back in the library prior to the Volume Retention. Are you using bacula 2.4.X and not

[Bacula-users] Bacula promoting some incremental backups to full

2009-01-13 Thread Kevin Stewart
Hello, I have a working bacula setup with several machines running bacula-fd. The director and SD are running on the same machine and writing to a tape changer. Full backups are working great, and some incremental are working just fine. However, when I run and incremental backup for some

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Manual Volume recycling and overwritten data

2009-01-13 Thread Dan Langille
Bastian Friedrich wrote: Would you regard that as a bug? Or is it a PEBKAC, as I should not use the update command to recycle volumes? Or ist it just wait for these jobs to expire via their retention period? Any recommendations on how to handle these cases? What the other guys said.

[Bacula-users] waiting on max storage jobs

2009-01-13 Thread Mikel Jimenez Fernandez
Hello Why I see in my bconsole so much waiting on max Storage jobs ? Here my status dir : 6534 Differe redeyemadrid.irontec.vpn.2009-01-11_19.00.42 is running 6625 Increme pbximh.irontec.vpn.2009-01-13_20.30.18 is running 6628 Increme pbxalhondiga.irontec.vpn.2009-01-13_21.00.22 is

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula promoting some incremental backups to full

2009-01-13 Thread Jari Fredriksson
Hello, I have a working bacula setup with several machines running bacula-fd. The director and SD are running on the same machine and writing to a tape changer. Full backups are working great, and some incremental are working just fine. However, when I run and incremental backup for

Re: [Bacula-users] waiting on max storage jobs

2009-01-13 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Mikel Jimenez Fernandez mi...@irontec.com wrote: Hello Why I see in my bconsole so much waiting on max Storage jobs ? Here my status dir : 6534 Differe redeyemadrid.irontec.vpn.2009-01-11_19.00.42 is running 6625 Increme

Re: [Bacula-users] Changes between 2.4.3 and 2.4.4 regarding 'status director' output

2009-01-13 Thread Bruno Friedmann
Frank Altpeter wrote: Hi list, does anyone reproduce this difference within the status director output: With 2.4.3: Terminated Jobs: JobId LevelFiles Bytes Status FinishedName 224 Incr