On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 14:14 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > There are others on this list who can possibly help you, but many of your > problems would be resolved by upgrading to 1.38.11. Of course, there is a > certain effort and learning code involved. 1.36.2 is *very* old. Yes, I know it's old and that Debian is VERY conservative!
I've planed to upgrade to 1.38.X first of all because of VSS in MS
Windows, I take backup of some of those as well as *nix boxes. Then I
have to compile bacula (which dont scar me), and I loos the possibility
to just do `apt-get update;apt-get upgrade`. But I need VSS, and making
this tape robot work is also highly prioritized. :)
But sins this is a running system I have to read "Upgrade Bacula" VERY
carefully! Any jump starting tips? I have a setup with tow servers, one
director/storage and one only storage, then I have to upgrade both at
the same time off course.
I also have a setup whit only one standalone director/storage server. It
would be smart to do it on this server first ... I think :)
Any jumpstarting help is very welcome!
> On Friday 15 September 2006 13:25, Geir Asle Borgen wrote:
> > I have a working configuration of Bacula, where I take incremental
> > backup to disk 5 days a week and a Full backup to disk once a month.
> > There is a new volum every day with the retention of 57 days (almost two
> > months). The system runs on some Debian Sarge boxes with bacula-1.36.2
> > and mtx-1.2.16rel-4.
> >
> > Now I want to take a full backup to tape once a month and store it for
> > 12 months before I recycle them. This is in addiction to the disk
> > backup. For this purpose I want to use an Sun StorEdge L9 (Vendor ID: HP
> > Product ID: C7145-8000) with a DLT8000 tape station inside.
> >
> > What works today:
> > * Once a month there will be taken a full backup to a different storage
> > device on a different pool (for tape backup) then the reste of the days
> > in the mount.
> > * I can take backup to tape.
> > * Mtx works and can change tape in the robot from command line `mtx
> > -f /dev/sg1 load 3 /dev/nst0`
> >
> > What do NOT work today:
> > * Bacula will not change tape in the robot with the mtx-changer script
> > that comes with bacula.
> > * I can't label tapes in the robot without changing tape manually (from
> > command line or with buttons on the robot), which lead to the fact that
> > bacula will not know which slot a specific volum is stored. The reason
> > is obviously the first point that do not work ...
> >
> > In the manual (for 1.36) I read about "Daily Tape Rotation" (page 280),
> > and there it is written that I had to have one pool for each tape, is
> > that stil so ... still in version 1.36 (I might upgrade to 1.38, but
> > rader not). But it also says that it in this case was necessary to use
> > "Always Open = No" in bacula-sd.conf, can some one me explain this?
> >
> > Parts of my bacula-sd.conf:
> >
> > # A Linux or Solaris tape drive
> >
> > Device {
> > Name = DLT8000-Dracula
> > Media Type = DLT8000-L9
> > Archive Device = /dev/nst0
> > AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
> > AlwaysOpen = yes;
> > RemovableMedia = yes;
> > RandomAccess = no;
> > Changer Command = "/etc/bacula/scripts/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d"
> > Changer Device = /dev/sg1
> > AutoChanger = yes
> > Alert Command = "sh -c 'tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|cat'"
> > Offline On Unmount = yes
> > Spool Directory = /disks/DRACULA1/Bacula-Spool
> > }
> >
> > Parts of my bacula-dir.conf:
> >
> > # When to do the backups, full backup to tape on first saterday of the
> > month,
> > # full backup to disk on first sunday of the month and incremental
> > backups
> > # other days
> > Schedule {
> > Name = "WeeklyCycle"
> > Run = Full 1st sun at 1:05
> > # Run = Full Storage=Dracula-Tape Pool=Dracula-Full-Tape-Pool 1st sat
> > at 1:05
> > Run = Incremental tue-sat at 1:05
> > }
> >
> > # Dracula-Tape
> > Storage {
> > Name = Full-Tape-Dracula
> > Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1
> > # Do not use "localhost" here
> > Address = XXX.YYY.ZZZ
> > SDPort = 9103
> > Password = "XXXXXX"
> > Device = DLT8000-Dracula
> > Media Type = DLT8000-L9
> > Autochanger = yes
> > }
> >
> > # Tape Pool for Full Backup on Dracula
> > Pool {
> > Name = Dracula-Full-Tape-Pool
> > Recycle Oldest Volume = yes
> > # Label Format =
> > "VOLUME-Dracula-Tape-${Year}.${Month:p/2/0/r}.${Day:p/2/0/r}"
> > Pool Type = Backup
> > # Volume Use Duration = 14d
> > Recycle = yes # Bacula can automatically recycle Volumes
> > AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes
> > Volume Retention = 350 days # almost year
> > Accept Any Volume = yes # write on any volume in the pool
> > }
> >
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