[Bacula-users] Balancing level 0 dumps over a week / cycle

2006-06-26 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
because of the catalog feature, or do I have to balance full dumps manually over the weekdays in the cycle? Bye for now thanks in advance for your time, Uwe -- Uwe Schuerkamp, NIONEX GmbH (http://www.nionex.com/) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +49 (0)5241 / 80 10 66 FAX: / 806 23 38 Avenwedder Str. 55

[Bacula-users] Backup up to tape AND disk at the same time

2006-08-02 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
performance is better than tat of our disk based storage due to mixed LVM / raid setup and the tape library is rather new, I would not expect any issues with backups taking longer than usual. Is a setup like this possible? Thanks in advance for any help on this, Uwe -- Uwe Schuerkamp, NIONEX

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup up to tape AND disk at the same time

2006-08-02 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 01:33:53PM +0200, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: From: Uwe Schuerkamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bacula Users Mailing List bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 13:33:53 +0200 Subject: [Bacula-users] Backup up to tape AND disk at the same time Hello, I

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup up to tape AND disk at the same time

2006-08-02 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 09:47:18AM -0400, Hristo Benev wrote: From: Hristo Benev [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Uwe Schuerkamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bacula Users Mailing List bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 09:47:18 -0400 Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup up to tape AND disk

Re: [Bacula-users] list of jobs in a given volume?

2006-08-21 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
of them. Cheers, uwe -- Uwe Schuerkamp, NIONEX GmbH (http://www.nionex.com/) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +49 (0)5241 / 80 10 66 FAX: / 806 23 38 Avenwedder Str. 55, D-33311 Guetersloh, Germany GnuPG KeyID: 5887047D, Fingerprint: 2E1320229A3F63 7F676FE9B1A836A461

[Bacula-users] jobdefs question

2006-08-29 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
backup, the volume column lists *unknown* where it should list the online (disk) volume when I use status dir in bconsole. Can somebody please shed some light on what I am doing wrong? (using bacula 1.38.9 compiled from source on Debian if that matters). Cheers, Uwe -- Uwe Schuerkamp, NIONEX

Re: [Bacula-users] jobdefs question

2006-08-29 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 10:45:25AM +0200, Masopust, Christian wrote: From: Masopust, Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Uwe Schuerkamp [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bacula Users Mailing List bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:45:25 +0200 Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] jobdefs

Re: [Bacula-users] jobdefs question

2006-08-29 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
, the hosts scheduled today for an incremental backup seem to be destined for the correct disk / online volume, at least the *unknown* volume has disappeared from the status dir output. All the best thanks again for your help, Uwe -- Uwe Schuerkamp, NIONEX GmbH (http://www.nionex.com/) [EMAIL

Re: [Bacula-users] jobdefs question

2006-08-30 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 11:04:33AM +0200, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: From: Uwe Schuerkamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Masopust, Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bacula Users Mailing List bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:04:33 +0200 Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] jobdefs question

Re: [Bacula-users] Full incremental backups to different storage?

2006-08-30 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
incremental backup to the online01 pool or is there something wrong with my setup? Does your status dir also list volumes as unknown in this case? Cheers, uwe -- Uwe Schuerkamp, NIONEX GmbH (http://www.nionex.com/) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +49 (0)5241 / 80 10 66 FAX: / 806 23 38 Avenwedder Str. 55, D

Re: [Bacula-users] jobdefs question

2006-08-30 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
for the best tonight and post results tomorrow. All the best, uwe -- Uwe Schuerkamp, NIONEX GmbH (http://www.nionex.com/) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +49 (0)5241 / 80 10 66 FAX: / 806 23 38 Avenwedder Str. 55, D-33311 Guetersloh, Germany GnuPG KeyID: 5887047D, Fingerprint: 2E1320229A3F63

[Bacula-users] Prevent bacula from requesting volumes *not* in changer

2006-09-01 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
= Default Recycle Oldest Volume = yes Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes Volume Retention = 6 months Accept Any Volume = yes # write on any volume in the pool } Thanks in advance for your help, Uwe -- Uwe

Re: [Bacula-users] Prevent bacula from requesting volumes *not* in changer

2006-09-04 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
*not* in changer On Friday 01 September 2006 22:15, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, On 9/1/2006 1:40 PM, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: Hi folks, I was wondering about the best way to tell bacula that volumes not present in the changer are not to be recycled / used to avoid operator intervention. We

Re: [Bacula-users] Bad response to Append Data command

2006-09-05 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 12:59:57PM +0100, Jaime Ventura wrote: From: Jaime Ventura [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Uwe Schuerkamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bacula Users bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 12:59:57 +0100 Subject: Re: [Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] backup rotation

2006-09-06 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
limiting it by the number of jobs. Also remember that you'll need to update pool from resource definition in bconsole once you've changed the pool resource. HTH, uwe -- Uwe Schuerkamp, NIONEX GmbH (http://www.nionex.com/) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +49 (0)5241 / 80 10 66 FAX: / 806 23 38 Avenwedder

Re: [Bacula-users] backup rotation

2006-09-07 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 04:06:35PM -0400, Ryan Novosielski wrote: From: Ryan Novosielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Uwe Schuerkamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:06:35 -0400 Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] backup rotation -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

[Bacula-users] How long should volume pruning take?

2006-09-20 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
a volume manually. I'm temped to try the obsolete purge oldest volume thingy, but the docs tell me this is not a good idea ;-) Again, if there's any information mission please let me know and I'll be happy to provide what I can. All the best thanks much in advance for your help, Uwe -- Uwe

Re: [Bacula-users] How long should volume pruning take?

2006-09-20 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
write performance is excellent, so why shouldn't prune performance be excellent, too? Is 10 GB database size too much for the backup volume I mentioned in my first email? Cheers thanks, uwe -- Uwe Schuerkamp, NIONEX GmbH (http://www.nionex.com/) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +49 (0)5241 / 80 10 66

Re: [Bacula-users] How long should volume pruning take?

2006-09-21 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
installed), depending on activity. All the best thanks in advance for your comments, Uwe -- Uwe Schuerkamp, NIONEX GmbH (http://www.nionex.com/) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +49 (0)5241 / 80 10 66 FAX: / 806 23 38 Avenwedder Str. 55, D-33311 Guetersloh, Germany GnuPG KeyID: 5887047D, Fingerprint

Re: [Bacula-users] How long should volume pruning take?

2006-09-25 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
, ok? ;-) All the best thanks for your help, Uwe -- Uwe Schuerkamp, NIONEX GmbH (http://www.nionex.com/) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +49 (0)5241 / 80 10 66 FAX: / 806 23 38 Avenwedder Str. 55, D-33311 Guetersloh, Germany GnuPG KeyID: 5887047D, Fingerprint: 2E1320229A3F63 7F676FE9B1A836A461

[Bacula-users] Importing a bacula tape volume into another bacula instance

2008-12-03 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
into the bacula instance running in another data centre, could this be done using bscan on the tape or would some other method be more appropriate? Would it pose a problem if the client I need to restore is unknown on this bacula instance I'll be importing to? All the best TIA for your help, Uwe -- Uwe

Re: [Bacula-users] Importing a bacula tape volume into another bacula instance

2008-12-03 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:01:22AM -0500, John Drescher wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I need to restore data from an offlined DLT tape. The tape is labelled OFFLINE01 and was created on one of our four bacula servers (all

Re: [Bacula-users] Importing a bacula tape volume into another bacula instance

2008-12-04 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
to disk using cp /dev/nst0 /mnt/raid/OFFLINE01 and then work with the OFFLINE01 file for faster access? All the best thanks again for your help, Uwe -- Uwe Schuerkamp, NIONEX GmbH (http://www.nionex.com/) [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: [+49] 5242.91- 4740 fax:-9722 Hauptsitz: Avenwedder Str. 55

Re: [Bacula-users] Importing a bacula tape volume into another bacula instance

2008-12-04 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 03:37:10PM +0100, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: Hi folks, I need to restore data from an offlined DLT tape. The tape is labelled OFFLINE01 and was created on one of our four bacula servers (all running the same bacula version) and put into a safe for storage at another

Re: [Bacula-users] Importing a bacula tape volume into another bacula instance

2008-12-04 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
sorry, just found out about bextract, please ignore my previous email. all the best, uwe -- Uwe Schuerkamp, NIONEX GmbH (http://www.nionex.com/) [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: [+49] 5242.91- 4740 fax:-9722 Hauptsitz: Avenwedder Str. 55, D-33311 Guetersloh, Germany Registergericht Guetersloh HRB

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring from volumes on multiple storages

2009-02-26 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 05:37:05PM +, Graham Keeling wrote: Hello, Here I'm using bacula-2.2.8. I have a bacula storage daemon, 'Disk 1' (Device 'Disk 1.0') and a bacula storage daemon, 'BPL2Disk 1' (Device 'BPL2Disk 1.0'). There is one backup job allowed per volume. 'BPL2Disk 1'

[Bacula-users] performance problems backing up ocfs2 clusters

2009-03-04 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hello folks, we're experiencing massive problems backing up an ocfs2 cluster filesystem mounted on SLES 10 SP2 machines located on a shared SAN storage). The cluster has 8 members, and we've already tried certain mount options (noatime et al.) in an attempt to improve performance, however

Re: [Bacula-users] performance problems backing up ocfs2 clusters

2009-03-16 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, thanks for your suggestions, I tried your tar suggestion and indeed it turns out that transfer rates drop to the dozens of kb/sec in one special directory stored on the ocfs2 filesystem. I'm now in contact with the ocfs2 devs on the users list to see if they have any suggestions. All

[Bacula-users] Multiple Storage devices in a single Pool?

2009-03-16 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, I'd like to add a 2nd tape library to one of our bacula servers which is running out of space. Is it possible to define jobs in such a way that bacula itself will take care of which storage the job actually ends up in / on? My idea was to label the tapes in the new library so that

Re: [Bacula-users] End of tape error

2009-03-17 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:21:46AM +, Prashant Ramhit wrote: Hi All, I am using a SuperLoader 3 - LTO4 and I had the following error. I think the end of the tape is reached. 10-Mar 09:41 server-sd JobId 52: Error: Unable to position to end of data on device TapeDrive (/dev/nst0):

Re: [Bacula-users] Pausing the backup schedule

2009-03-25 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
There's also the disable bconsole command which allows you to disable certain backup jobs. This way, you won't have to change the configuration files. All the best, Uwe -- uwe.schuerk...@nionex.net phone: [+49] 5242.91 - 4740, fax:-69 72 Hauptsitz: Avenwedder Str. 55, D-33311 Guetersloh,

Re: [Bacula-users] Relocating a bacula host, database, dir sd

2009-03-26 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 03:35:19PM +1100, terryc wrote: Due to hardware recognition problems in the latest version of Debian(lenny), I might have to relocate my bacula host to another boxen. Are there any gotchas(likely problems)? My main area of concern is the database? Hi Terry, as long

Re: [Bacula-users] brief reporting

2009-03-26 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:02:08PM -0400, Bill Szkotnicki wrote: Hi, I was wondering if there is a command line tool that could produce a brief report on the status of a client's backups. I have bacula set up to do PC client backups every day and I would like to basically sent each client

[Bacula-users] concurrent backups to a single disk volume

2009-04-16 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, the recent talk here of a bug relating to concurrent writes to a single backup volume has made me a bit uneasy about one of our production bacula servers. We have one system with two tape libraries (so no single volume is used by two backups at the same time), however the other system

[Bacula-users] Bacula 2.2.8 creating new volumes even though maxvols = 8

2009-04-26 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, I'm having a problem with my bacula setup: Bacula creates a new volume in an 8-volume pool that already has 8 volumes in it, then waits for a mount of the new volume. Background: I recently played around with a 2nd changer tape in the same pool and had to increase the maxvols

[Bacula-users] 48-way autochanger problems

2009-05-14 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, I've installed bacula 2.4.4 from source on a Centos 5 system connected to a 48-volume overland datavault tape library (one LTO4 drive). btape tests (incl. the autochanger test) ran worked fine, as did the labelling of the first 8 tapes. Hoewver when I try to label tape #9, I get the

Re: [Bacula-users] 48-way autochanger problems

2009-05-14 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Sorry, just read up on the maximum changer wait directive, sorry for wasting your time and bandwidth, I'll give this one a try. Uwe -- uwe.schuerk...@nionex.net phone: [+49] 5242.91 - 4740, fax:-69 72 Hauptsitz: Avenwedder Str. 55, D-33311 Guetersloh, Germany Registergericht Guetersloh HRB

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup

2009-05-28 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 06:01:06AM -0400, Il Neofita wrote: I connected the backup server and the client with a crossover cable at 1G however Files=16,251 Bytes=5,504,385,701 Bytes/sec=9,690,819 Errors=0 What can I check? I am using SAS disks With ethtool I have Speed: 1000Mb/s therefore

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup

2009-05-28 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:27:06AM -0400, Il Neofita wrote: First of all thank you for the answer No I do not use compression in my file set Options { signature = MD5 } I tried to upload with sftp Uploading testfile to /tmp/terrierj testfile

Re: [Bacula-users] migration from 1.38 to 2.4

2009-06-02 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 12:13:37AM -0300, junior carvalho wrote: Hi all; I have some debian etch servers working with bacula 1.38; I would like to migrate to 2.4 ( from backports ), there are some kind of incompatibilites? problems? there are a special way to follow? JC Hello JC, we

Re: [Bacula-users] The number of files mismatch! Marking volume in Error in Catalog

2009-06-04 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 09:20:34AM +0200, Christian Gaul wrote: Bob Hetzel schrieb: Greetings, I've been seeing an issue whereby a volume gets marked in error periodically. The last items logged about that volume are typically like this: 02-Jun 11:53 gyrus-sd JobId 83311: Volume

[Bacula-users] Help needed with setting up a 2nd storage daemon on a separate server (bacula 2.x)

2009-06-17 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, I have a spare lto3 8x library which I'd like to use to story copy jobs of recent full backups. The library is attached to a separate server (compaq dl360), so my question is what would be required on this server in order to run 2nd bacula storage there. Is it just the sd that needs

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent backups to one volume?

2009-06-25 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:42:30PM +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote: hi! reading the documentation i understand that you should have several volumes for concurrent backups, on different devices/directories. (i work on disk for now.) However some people here on the list seem to be doing well

Re: [Bacula-users] What to do with Error Disk Volumes

2009-07-16 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 09:50:43PM -0400, John Drescher wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:15 PM, terrycter...@woa.com.au wrote: Martin Simmons wrote: The best thing is to find out why it happened, before deciding how to correct it. So the question still stands of the recommended way

Re: [Bacula-users] Backuping 2000+ host with bacula?

2009-07-16 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:45:53AM +0100, Graham Keeling wrote: I had similar problems. I had to define 'Maximum Concurrent Jobs' in many places to get it to work. Currently, I have it like this: bacula-dir.conf: Director { Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20; } Storage { Maximum

[Bacula-users] Exlude-List Generation by inclusion of a text file?

2009-10-07 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, quick question about Bacula 2.4.x: Is it possible to generate an Exclude fileset statement by inclusion of a text file that lists dirs to be excluded in a line-by-line fashion? All the best thank in advance for any ideas, Uwe -- uwe.schuerk...@nionex.net fon: [+49] 5242.91 -

Re: [Bacula-users] bscan job spanning multiple tapes

2009-10-13 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:23:09PM +0100, John Kennedy wrote: Using Bacula 2.2.6 on Debian 4 with an Overland 2 drive, 24 tape library We have some archive tapes that we hold beyond the normal pruning cycle. Unfortunately we need to recover some data off these tapes. I have used blist to

Re: [Bacula-users] Relabel a tape deleted from a Pool

2009-10-29 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:37:13AM +0100, mario.tolj wrote: Hello, Sorry if my English isn't very well. I did a mistake when i deleted a volume from the Default Pool. and now i would like to relabel the tape with another name and put this volume in a different Pool (in example

Re: [Bacula-users] Relabel a tape deleted from a Pool

2009-10-29 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:37:13AM +0100, mario.tolj wrote: Hello, Sorry if my English isn't very well. I did a mistake when i deleted a volume from the Default Pool. and now i would like to relabel the tape with another name and put this volume in a different Pool (in example

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole: reload command

2009-10-29 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:18:58AM -0200, Rodrigo Fernandes wrote: Does anyone know if the reload command really works in bconsole? For the manual, only works in some situations. Has anyone tested this command? Regards, Works fine here in all of our bacula 2.x installations as far as I'm

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Problem Storage File

2009-12-07 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 06:33:59AM -0800, Oliver Knittel wrote: Hello Together, I get the folloing message when I ask for the Status of Storage File Fatal error: bsock.c:135 Unable to connect to Storage daemon on backupsrv.ke-si.intern:9103. ERR=Connection refused DNS is correct Sever

Re: [Bacula-users] continuing a failed job

2010-01-07 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 12:52:44PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: My first inclination is to say that if the network connection to the machine is sufficiently unstable that you can't complete a full backup, you probably shouldn't be trying to back it up over the network. However, there are

[Bacula-users] Q: Can 2.x clients talk to a 3.0.3 server?

2010-01-14 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, I just set up the first 3.0.3 bacula server (compiled from source on CentOS 5.4) in our environment and was wondering wether 2.x clients cann still talk to a 3.x server version? I cannot test this right now without going through major changes because the new server is not at its final

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Can 2.x clients talk to a 3.0.3 server?

2010-01-15 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 05:43:36PM +0100, Ulrich Leodolter wrote: On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 17:10 +0100, Ralf Gross wrote: Uwe Schuerkamp schrieb: Hi folks, I just set up the first 3.0.3 bacula server (compiled from source on CentOS 5.4) in our environment and was wondering wether 2.x

[Bacula-users] enabling compression for incremental backups only?

2010-01-28 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, I'm running bacula 2.2.8 compiled from source on Ubuntu lts 8.04. I was wondering wether it's possible to enable software compresson for incrementals only as our full backups go to an lto3 tape (hw compression), while the incs end up on local disk, using the incremental=... syntax in

Re: [Bacula-users] enabling compression for incremental backups only?

2010-01-29 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 01:24:35PM -0500, Steve Polyack wrote: On 01/28/10 13:07, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: Hi folks, I'm running bacula 2.2.8 compiled from source on Ubuntu lts 8.04. I was wondering wether it's possible to enable software compresson for incrementals only as our full backups go

Re: [Bacula-users] Dynamically assign volumes to pools

2010-02-02 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 01:57:52PM +0100, Daniel Kamm wrote: Hi all Just an idea of mine, let me know if this is possible or not. Let's say I have a huge autochanger with lots of space and lots of cartriges available. Let's also assume, that I have a uncontrollable data groth and I

Re: [Bacula-users] using two tape drives?

2010-02-03 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 05:58:49PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: I have two tape drives. We'll ignore that one of them is a tape library for now (http://marc.info/?l=bacula-usersm=126504711226283w=2). I have one Pool because I haven't had a good reason to create another pool. I cannot get

Re: [Bacula-users] Compatibility with long-ago version?

2010-02-03 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 03:22:24PM -0500, Scott Courtney wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 11:08 -0600, Heitor Medrado de Faria wrote: I couldn't find anything going back that far in the docs. Does anyone happen to know offhand what the latest director is that can still connect to file

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot find any appendable volumes

2010-02-15 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:55:35AM +0100, Daniel Kamm wrote: Hi Tino Am 2/15/10 11:10 AM, schrieb Tino Schwarze: And even though there are volumes in the scratch pool, e.g.: Pool: Scratch

Re: [Bacula-users] Tanberg Tape drives?

2010-03-24 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 07:58:40AM -0700, MoreDakka wrote: Hi, Bacula looks like a great piece of software. We are looking to pair it with: TANDBERG LTO4 800/1.6TB HH SCSI INT Mfg#: TAB-3501-LTO Does anyone know if that will be compatible with bacula or should we be looking for a

[Bacula-users] Ubuntu Lucid

2010-04-27 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, looks like lucid comes with bacula v5 which seemingly is unable to talk to our server running bacula 2.4.x: bacula-fd -c /etc/bacula/bacula-fd.conf -d 99 -f bacula-fd: filed_conf.c:452-0 Inserting director res: lotus-mon lotus-fd: filed.c:275-0 filed: listening on port 9102 lotus-fd:

Re: [Bacula-users] Ubuntu Lucid

2010-04-27 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:50:08PM +0200, Matija Nalis wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:27:11PM +0200, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: Hi folks, looks like lucid comes with bacula v5 which seemingly is unable to talk to our server running bacula 2.4.x: Your other clients are all 2.4.x I guess

Re: [Bacula-users] Ubuntu Lucid

2010-04-28 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 04:08:21PM +0200, Daniel Kamm wrote: Am 4/27/10 12:50 PM, schrieb Matija Nalis: So your options are either to downgrade the client on Lucid (maybe there can be found a package for 2.4.x version ? You may try to install the Ubuntu package for Karmic Koala or Hardy

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression on Windows

2010-05-04 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 04:35:20PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 05/03/10 06:02, Carlo Filippetto wrote: Hi all, I have a problem, I had installed bacula 5.0.1. on Winows client, and work fine, but I have no compression Software Compression: None while FileSet {

[Bacula-users] Assigning labels in bacula-web

2010-05-06 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, sorry if this is the wrong list, but maybe you can help me out anyway: Is it possible to assign labels to db instances in bacula-web? Right now, whenever I use something besides [.DATABASEn], php barfs and I don't get any results. Thanks much in advance, Uwe --

Re: [Bacula-users] Volume in Status error after cancelling a job (5.0.2)

2010-05-17 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:59:53PM +0200, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: Hi folks, each time I cancel a backup job, the next job bound for that volume on which the cancelled job ran Bacula marks the volume in error with a file count mismatch. I don't recall bad behaviour like this from previous

Re: [Bacula-users] full LTO-4 tape @ only 176 GIG

2010-05-31 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 01:16:33PM -0400, lweinlan wrote: Hello, I am running backups using bacula and a LTO-4 tape library. Everything is running fine, but this morning, the first LTO-4 tape that I used is marked as volume status = full with only 176.24 GB ??? A LTO-4 tape has a capacity

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula FD fails after 51 files

2010-07-06 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 12:02:25PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/2/2010 12:00 PM, Mike Carlson wrote: On 06/28/2010 07:01 PM, Dan Langille wrote: On 6/28/2010 12:53 PM, Mike Carlson wrote: Hello Bacula user's list, I'm having some trouble with a bacula client. The backup to a storage

[Bacula-users] Schedule Question

2010-07-14 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, will the following schedule accomplish what we expect? ;-) Schedule { Name = first_saturday_in_mar_jun_sep_dec Run = Level=Full 1st Sat Mar Jun Sep Dec at 00:00 Run = Level=Incremental 2nd Sat at 00:00 } - full backups on the 1st Saturday in mar, jun, sep and dec. -

[Bacula-users] BigInt hit max value in mysql... what now?

2010-08-30 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, over the weekend, our mysql bacula db seems to have hit the maximum possible auto_increment counter for an unsigned int(10) as I'm getting duplicate key errors on insert's into the File table. Is there a way to increase the maximum value or do I need to rebuild the bacula db from the

Re: [Bacula-users] BigInt hit max value in mysql... what now?

2010-08-30 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 08:45:50AM +0200, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: Hi folks, over the weekend, our mysql bacula db seems to have hit the maximum possible auto_increment counter for an unsigned int(10) as I'm getting duplicate key errors on insert's into the File table. Is there a way

Re: [Bacula-users] BigInt hit max value in mysql... what now?

2010-08-30 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, looks like extending the value range did not fix the error entirely. When running an incr. backup, I receive the following error message: Fatal error: Can't fill File table Query failed: INSERT INTO File (FileIndex, JobId, PathId, FilenameId, LStat, MD5)SELECT batch.FileIndex,

Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude NFS

2010-09-29 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 01:51:15PM +0200, Roberto Preziusi wrote: Hello Folks, how can I exclude all NFS share mounted in randomly mount point ? Thanks Hello Roberto, there is a settings variable that tells bacula not to descend into different file systems from the one it is currently

Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude NFS

2010-09-29 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
sorry folks, that link seems to be dead, I wanted to point out the onefs=yes|no configuration option. Cheers, Uwe -- uwe.schuerk...@nionex.net fon: [+49] 5242.91 - 4740, fax:-69 72 Hauptsitz: Avenwedder Str. 55, D-33311 Gütersloh, Germany Registergericht Gütersloh HRB 4196, Geschäftsführer:

Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude NFS

2010-09-29 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
/boot / you need to list them both explicitly in your fileset definition. HTH, Uwe 2010/9/29 Uwe Schuerkamp uwe.schuerk...@nionex.net sorry folks, that link seems to be dead, I wanted to point out the onefs=yes|no configuration option. Cheers, Uwe -- uwe.schuerk

[Bacula-users] Is it safe to run 2 concurrent jobs on a tape drive?

2010-10-06 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, I have an HP 1/8 autoloader lto4 drive which we use for full offline backups and was wondering wether it's safe to run 2 concurrent jobs on that device at the same time? Despooling sadly isn't possible at the moment for lack of disk space, bacula version is 5.0.3 on CentOS (compiled

Re: [Bacula-users] Is it safe to run 2 concurrent jobs on a tape drive?

2010-10-06 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 08:55:27AM -0400, John Drescher wrote: I have an HP 1/8 autoloader lto4 drive which we use for full offline backups and was wondering wether it's safe to run 2 concurrent jobs on that device at the same time? Despooling sadly isn't possible at the moment for lack

Re: [Bacula-users] Trying to understand why device FileStorage can't access the disk?

2010-12-30 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:03:07AM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: When I run a backup, I end up with this error: 30-Dec 10:53 bacula.local JobId 16: Warning: mount.c:217 Open device FileStorage (/backups/default) Volume BaculaBackups-0001 failed: ERR=dev.c:549 Could not open:

Re: [Bacula-users] Creating archival backup

2011-01-06 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 11:06:52AM -0600, Ben Beuchler wrote: Once a year, I need to create a full backup that will be stored off-site. This backup will not be readily available for normal restores. The obvious approach would be to delete that backup (and its volumes) from the catalog so

[Bacula-users] Volume Retention / Use Duration

2011-03-30 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, I'm trying to wrap my head around the following setup: - For a couple of clients / jobs, we'd like to store two full backups on disk (weekly full, daily incremental) - We'd also like to keep 14 incrementals around just in case we need to do a point in time recovery. The

Re: [Bacula-users] Volume Retention / Use Duration

2011-03-31 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hello Jeremy all, thanks much for your reply. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:27:07PM +0200, Jeremy Maes wrote: Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 14 days Volume Use Duration = 6 days Recycle Oldest Volume = yes Maximum Volumes =

Re: [Bacula-users] Volume Retention / Use Duration

2011-03-31 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 09:58:29AM +0200, Jeremy Maes wrote: Take care using this if you're doing all the backups concurrently though, in that case the Volume Use Duration is probably the best way to go. Hello Jeremy, thanks again for your thoughts support. I'll try the max use duration

[Bacula-users] Question about best backup / storage strategy

2011-05-10 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, I was wondering what would be the best way to implement the following backup strategy (we have about 30 clients with about 1TB total space used, with 10TB storage available in total, disk based): - full backups on weekends (sat / sun) - incrementals during the week - At the end of

[Bacula-users] bacula-sd dmesg output

2011-05-16 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, for a couple of weeks now I occasionally see messages like these in the kernel log or our bacula server (bacula 5.0.3 compiled from source on centos 5.6 64bit): ## INFO: task bacula-sd:12467 blocked for more than 120

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-sd dmesg output

2011-05-16 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 08:39:38AM -0400, John Drescher wrote: Maybe do what it says. echo 0 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs John Hi John, thanks for your reply, I was wondering if it's an error that I need to look info or bacula's expected behaviour in those circumstances.

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-sd dmesg output

2011-05-16 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 08:50:25AM -0400, John Drescher wrote: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp uwe.schuerk...@nionex.net wrote: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 08:39:38AM -0400, John Drescher wrote: Maybe do what it says. echo 0 /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs John

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

2011-06-09 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, I've been following the mysql vs. postgres vs. different mysql versions discussion which has been very interesting. Has anyone tried Drizzle as a bacula db backend? It's supposed to be a lot leaner than mysql, just wondering. All the best, Uwe -- NIONEX ist ein Unternehmen der

Re: [Bacula-users] Waiting on Maximum Storage Jobs

2011-06-20 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 09:56:29AM -0400, Craig Van Tassle wrote: I've got several jobs that are running at the same time and they are spooling data to the local disk, then writing to my Tape Drive for full backups. My Incremental and Differential's are being written to Disk. I can only run

Re: [Bacula-users] Ignore fileset changes

2011-08-09 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 06:07:41AM +0200, Olle Romo wrote: Hi All, 'Ignore Fileset Changes = yes' doesn't seem to have the effect I was hoping for... If a drive is missing on one run, the next time Bacula sees the drive it will proceed to backup the entire thing again. I'm sure

[Bacula-users] Optimized mysql settings for CentOS 6 64bit

2011-10-05 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, I'm wondering about the best mysql settings for our new bacula installation which will be taking over from an older setup. Current bacula db size is 55G, we have around 14TB backup data from ca. 100 clients on disk storage ATM but this is expected to double in the next year or so.

Re: [Bacula-users] Optimized mysql settings for CentOS 6 64bit

2011-10-05 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 02:37:37PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: I've been using non-batch insertion with postgres (following your dare, I think, Phil) for about a year. Backups are only about 8TB, but it works extremely well for us. Hi folks, thanks for your recommendations and

[Bacula-users] Creating directory tree on 5.0.3 takes a long time

2011-10-20 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, as you may remember I've recently set up a brand new bacula server with version 5.0.3 compiled from source. I copied over the mysql settings (mysql-server-5.1.52-1.el6_0.1.x86_64) from the old machine and inquired here for optimized mysql settings to use with the setup (backup size

Re: [Bacula-users] Starting bacula-fd: Error: Not been configured [FAILED]

2011-10-26 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 04:28:58PM +0530, Rushdhi Mohamed wrote: hi guys .. I have already installed a bacula client on REHL 6 and it works fine. but this time its giving an ERROR saying Starting bacula-fd: Error: Not been configured [FAILED] test out put here... I

Re: [Bacula-users] Creating directory tree on 5.0.3 takes a long time

2011-10-26 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 05:41:14PM +0200, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: Hi folks, as you may remember I've recently set up a brand new bacula server with version 5.0.3 compiled from source. I copied over the mysql settings (mysql-server-5.1.52-1.el6_0.1.x86_64) from the old machine and inquired

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-12-16 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:25:04AM -0800, gary artim wrote: no, full, doing a mod on run command in bconsole to force full backup on every test. cheers 40MB/sec sounds very much like a natural RAID speed limit you're hitting. Have you tried running some i/o benchmarks on the disks like

[Bacula-users] Have we reached bacula's limits?

2012-01-23 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, we're running four bacula installations, most of them on version 5.0.x compiled from source on CentOS 5.x / 6.x 64bit servers. We're mostly happy with the setup, backups are fast, reliable and generally do not cause us a lot of headaches. Today, a colleague asked me to restore some

Re: [Bacula-users] Have we reached bacula's limits?

2012-01-24 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, thanks to your hints and ideas the restore times have been reduced from 3-4 hours to about five minutes (building the directory tree, that is). Lesson learnt: Before complaining loudly to the list, make sure your db is in good health by administering a generous dosage of repair table

[Bacula-users] Bacula lost backup Job details / id

2012-02-20 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, bacula seems to have forgotten the job details for a job I was going to test a restore on today. According to the bacula email, the backup finished ok: Build OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu redhat JobId: 2155 snip snip Volume name(s):

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula lost backup Job details / id

2012-02-20 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 09:36:47AM -0500, John Drescher wrote: Has you job retention period expired? Either way you can get this back using the bacula volume utilities. http://www.bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/utility/utility/Volume_Utility_Tools.html#SECTION00272000 Make sure

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