On Friday 15 September 2006 14:57, Geir Asle Borgen wrote:
> 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`.
A fairly recent version of 1.38.x is in the Debian unstable (or perhaps it is
testing, I forget) -- it is possibly updated to version 1.38.11 by now, so
there is no need to compile Bacula, unless you have an aversion to
"unstable" (poor choice of names IMO).
> 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!
Read the ReleaseNotes with care, and watch out for the Autochanger resource in
the SD.
>
> > 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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