Hello,
I would recommend that you ask on the bacula-users list. They are better than
I am at answering these things. However, you must also permit labeling in
your SD Device resource.
Kern
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 15:28, Claudinei Matos wrote:
>
> Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > On Tuesday 26 September 2006 10:32, Arno Lehmann wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> On 9/26/2006 12:23 AM, Claudinei Matos wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I have a bacula setup on my network using File as Storage device.
> >>> Well, everything works fine and I used to write the files on CD or DVD
> >>> but now the FULL backup file is too big to fit on a DVD and I have to
> >>> split it.
> >>> Well the problem is that I have to first write the backup to disk and
> >>> later write it to a media like CD/DVD but I don't now how to tell bacula
> >>> to automatic split the file on disk.
> >>> I saw that since bacula 1.38.8 there's a script called disk-changer
> >>> which is supposed to split the file on disk but I really doesn't
> >>> understand how to put it to work.
> >>>
> > Yes, exactly.
> >
> > The disk-changer script is useful for two things:
> >
> > 1. For me to "simulate" and thus test multiple drive tape "autochangers"
on
> > disk without having a real tape changer.
> >
> > 2. It can also be used to have multiple simultaneous jobs writing to
different
> > disk Volumes (i.e. different drives) in the same directory for the same
> > Storage device (possibly using multiple pools). However, there are a
number
> > of inconveniences (mainly, the file names are slot1, slot2, ... and do not
> > correspond to the Volume names). Unless you have a really special
> > requirement, I don't particularly recommend using it.
> >
> >
> >>> I do try to backup a 1.7Gbytes directory with 100Mbytes limite to each
> >>> volume, and each volume can just hold 1 job. What's happen is that after
> >>> the first file, bacula stop the process waiting for a manual
> >>> intervention to label a new file:
> >>>
> >>> *mess
> >>> 25-Sep 18:01 ti02-sd: User defined maximum volume capacity 100,000,000
> >>> exceeded on device "FileStorage" (/data/backups).
> >>> 25-Sep 18:01 ti02-sd: End of medium on Volume
> >>> "alpha-fd_Teste.2006-09-25_17.59.43-" Bytes=99,993,485 Blocks=1,550 at
> >>> 25-Sep-2006 18:01.
> >>> 25-Sep 18:01 alpha-dir: Teste.2006-09-25_17.59.43 Error:
> >>> sql_create.c:384 Volume "alpha-fd_Teste.2006-09-25_17.59.43-" already
> >>> exists.
> >>> 25-Sep 18:01 alpha-dir: Teste.2006-09-25_17.59.43 Error:
> >>> sql_create.c:384 Volume "alpha-fd_Teste.2006-09-25_17.59.43-" already
> >>> exists.
> >>> 25-Sep 18:02 ti02-sd: Job Teste.2006-09-25_17.59.43 waiting. Cannot find
> >>> any appendable volumes.
> >>> Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for:
> >>> Storage: "FileStorage" (/data/backups)
> >>> Media type: File
> >>> Pool: TestePool
> >>> *list
> >>> *status
> >>>
> >>> How to tell bacula to automaticaly label the new volume?
> >>> That's my Device setup:
> >>>
> >>> Device {
> >>> Name = "FileStorage"
> >>> Media Type = "File"
> >>> Archive Device = /data/backups
> >>> LabelMedia = yes; # lets Bacula label unlabeled
media
> >>> Random Access = Yes;
> >>> AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
> >>> RemovableMedia = no;
> >>> AlwaysOpen = yes;
> >>> AutoChanger = yes
> >>> Changer Command = "/usr/libexec/bacula/disk-changer %c %o %S %a %d"
> >>> }
> >>>
> >> You need to set up a label format. In the pool setup, include a "Label
> >> Format" directive.
> >>
> >
> > Or you can (as I do) manually label a fixed number of Volumes and let
Bacula
> > decide when to use them.
> >
> Well, actually I do have a label format at my pool setup:
>
> Pool {
> Name = "TestePool"
> Pool Type = "Backup"
> Maximum Volumes = 0
> Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
> Maximum Volume Bytes = 100000000
> Label Format = "${Client}_${JobName}-"
> }
>
> So, what else could be wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Claudinei Matos
>
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