hi list
I had to do a full backup of our archive, which is about 5.5 TB big. I ran into
some problems a few times, like the hardcoded 6 days job running limit, so I
split the archive, moved one of the folders out of my backup dir and started
the
job. after that, I moved it back, and started the backup again, thinking that
bacula will back it up incrementally. I was wrong about that, since it is an
archive, so the dates on the files are all older than the date the last job was
run. then I tried an "Accurate = on" on the job, but I got a lot of DB errors
like:
----
10-Dec 13:20 appendix-dir JobId 80: Fatal error: sql_get.c:998 sql_get.c:998
query SELECT
MediaId,VolumeName,VolJobs,VolFiles,VolBlocks,VolBytes,VolMounts,VolErrors,VolWrites,MaxVolBytes,VolCapacityBytes,MediaType,VolStatus,PoolId,VolRetention,VolUseDuration,MaxVolJobs,MaxVolFiles,Recycle,Slot,FirstWritten,LastWritten,InChanger,EndFile,EndBlock,VolParts,LabelType,LabelDate,StorageId,Enabled,LocationId,RecycleCount,InitialWrite,ScratchPoolId,RecyclePoolId,VolReadTime,VolWriteTime,ActionOnPurge
FROM Media WHERE VolumeName='BA1014L2' failed:
server sent data ("D" message) without prior row description ("T" message)
could not receive data from server: Operation now in progress
----
I think they happened because the SELECT took a really long time (2.11min.) to
get the backed up files from the DB (lots of files, 3.22TB) and bacula somehow
choked on the data.
so, I decided to set "Accurate = no" back again, and touch all the files in the
folder i moved back (1.9TB) to the archive dir to 2010.12.12 19:44. I then
manually started a job this sunday at 2010.12.12 19:55. it completed yesterday
2010.12.13 at 22:17.
my problem is, since it should be an incremental archive backup, I scheduled it
to run on mondays at 06:66 AM, so the job scheduled itself again while it was
running. it was a funny listed job, it kept throwing an error if I tried to get
details, saying that I should try to list the jobs with the option
"catalog=all". the manually called job completed successfully, but the other
one, auto-scheduled on 6AM a day before, started just after that. now I
canceled
it, but it already wrote on 4 tapes (LTO2).
I suspect it started because bacula thought that the touched files weren't
saved, since it didn't yet complete the job.
shouldn't bacula take the last file dates from when the job starts, not when it
was scheduled? what should I do with the last 4 written tapes? shold I now
purge
the files written by the job, or even delete the job? or just ignore it, and
live with the fact that i wasted 4 tapes..
I just want to bring the tapes to the bank and be done with it already :)
greets
hugo.-
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Lotusphere 2011
Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how
to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment
to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d
_______________________________________________
Bacula-users mailing list
Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
