On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Beren Gamble wrote:
Any idea why this is happening? - I have to manually load the tape
using mtx-changer.
*m
10-Mar 16:57 backup2-sd: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
10-Mar 16:57 backup2-sd: 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing
loaded.
10-Ma
On Thursday 09 March 2006 23:49, Matthew Feinberg wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> My name is Matthew Feinberg and I am getting ready to start a 150 client
> Bacula implementation. I've spent the last week or so testing
> Bacula on a small configuration and it works great.. Kudos to everyone
> developing Bacu
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:55:22 -0600, "Lee, Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
>
> I set AlwaysOpen = yes for my devices per the Bacula documentation
> because I didn't want the drive to have to rewind and reposition
> everytime in between jobs.
Yes, that could be a problem.
> Settin
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:42:58 + (GMT), david robert <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> said:
>
> thanks for your help once i use the the Offline On Unmount my script would
> be like this is it correct
>
> #!/bin/sh
>/usr/bin/bconsole -c /etc/bacula/bconsole.conf < unmount storage=DLT
>
On 3/10/06, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 3/10/2006 9:06 PM, Nick Smith wrote:
> >>One very important question: Have you run the btape tests, and did they
> >>report anything you didn't understand or even errors?
> >>
> >
> > no i hadnt run the tests.
> ...
> >>Yes, btape
I set AlwaysOpen = yes for my devices per the Bacula documentation
because I didn't want the drive to have to rewind and reposition
everytime in between jobs.
Setting AlwaysOpen = no does allow me to run the mt commands while the
SD is running. However, when I try to manually mount the drive in
b
Hello,
On 3/10/2006 9:06 PM, Nick Smith wrote:
One very important question: Have you run the btape tests, and did they
report anything you didn't understand or even errors?
no i hadnt run the tests.
...
Yes, btape testing...
i have errors on the testingwhere do i go from here?
This i
Erich Prinz schrieb:
> I've noticed the date/time stamp reporting wrong too, though in
> restoring the files, it never poses any problems.
I haven't tried to restore files from this volume, but I expect this
wouldn't be a problem.
> The other thing to note about volumes (and for us control fre
thanks for your help once i use the the Offline On Unmount my script would be like this is it correct #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/bconsole -c /etc/bacula/bconsole.conf < unmount storage=DLT END_OF_DATA # the following is a shell command /etc/bacula/scripts/delete_catalog_backup exit 0 I have
>
> One very important question: Have you run the btape tests, and did they
> report anything you didn't understand or even errors?
>
no i hadnt run the tests.
> >
> > i even tried putting the "real" device name in the config file "st0"
> > and that doesnt work either.
>
> I don't understand that
Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hi,
On 3/10/2006 6:18 PM, DAve wrote:
Good morning,
So I guess my question really is, "is there a preferred database
backend for Bacula?".
Depending on who you ask, I think ;-)
I could have expected that, but I had to ask...
System will be a fresh install from FreeBS
It would not appear as if this patch patches the specfile I was
expecting it to patch. What specfile version is this patch for? I tried
it against 1.38.5-2 which supports RHEL4, but apparently this patch does
not work with it. I could adapt it I suppose, but I'm curious what the
base was.
---
hello everyone,
I am trying to do a restoration however when it runs to build the tree it
gives me an "out of memory" error and fails.
system info:
-
FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE
Postgres 8.0.3
real memory = 1610350592 (1535 MB)
Postgres conf:
--
# - Memory -
shared_buff
Hi,
On 3/10/2006 7:55 PM, Lucas Di Pentima wrote:
Hi people!
I'm starting to test bacula with a DVD-based storage, version 1.38.5
I did spend quite some time getting DVD backups to work some months ago.
In the end, I got a running system requiring lots of manual
intervention. That was with
Hi,
On 3/10/2006 6:18 PM, DAve wrote:
Good morning,
I've got my new equipment and I hope to have time next week to start
building out the new backup servers. Currently we do most of our work
with MySQL simply because support is good with the software packages we
use. I looked through GMANE f
Hello,
On 3/10/2006 5:10 PM, Laradji nacer wrote:
hi all,
I need some documentation about making a slave bacula server act like
mirroring .
I don't think that what you want is possible with Bacula.
One step into that direction would be the implementation of job copying
and copypools, but t
Hi,
On 3/10/2006 5:04 PM, Baptiste Malguy wrote:
...
Thank you Arno. Once again, RTFM is a good thing, but RTFMC (C =
carefully) is better ;-)
Another qoute from that manual section: "This is perhaps a bit
overwhelming,..." ;-)
In fact I never really worked through multiple options sections
Hello,
On 3/10/2006 4:03 PM, Erich Prinz wrote:
I've noticed the date/time stamp reporting wrong too, though in
restoring the files, it never poses any problems.
The other thing to note about volumes (and for us control freak types,
this is a bit awkward) per the Bacula documentation it's b
Hello,
On 3/10/2006 6:33 PM, Nick Smith wrote:
im having a problem getting bacula to work properly. Its a fresh
install, i think its properly configured, when ever i run the job to
test the backup i get:
One very important question: Have you run the btape tests, and did they
report anything
Hi people!
I'm starting to test bacula with a DVD-based storage, version 1.38.5 on
Debian. First I've downloaded the source package of dvd+r-tools, applied
the patch, and re-packaged it to install it later.
I've compiled, install and tried it with a DDS-3 tape drive, and now
I've installed a DVD-
> On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 08:05:43 -0700, Michael Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
>
> Martin Simmons wrote:
>
> > How many files? Note that even at 1KB per file entry in memory, 102000
> > files
> > would only requie 100MB.
> >
> > A common cause of slowness in restore is missing index
Thanks.. That worked.
I commented out the DIRport = 9101 and then changed my DirAdresses
DirAddresses = {
ip = {
addr = xxx.xxx.xx.24; port 9101; }
ip = {
addr = xxx.xxx.xxx.59; port 9101; }
}
>-Original Message-
>From: Martin Simmons [mailto:[EMAIL P
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 22:48:20 -0600, "Matthew Feinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to tell bacula to listen to multiple IPs. Using the DirAddresses
> directive returns the error below. Ideas?
>
> I am using bacula-mysql-1.38.5-4 compiled from RPM Source on Fe
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:14:04 -0600, "Lee, Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
>
> I've always had a problem with mtx-changer regarding this issue. Even
> when I'm running the SD as root, my tape drives always show "Device
> busy" when I do an 'mt -f /dev/rmt/0cbn status'. The drives
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:03:29 + (GMT), david robert <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> said:
>
> my script is like below now
>
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/bin/bconsole -c /etc/bacula/bconsole.conf < unmount storage=DLT
> END_OF_DATA
> # the following is a shell command
> /etc/bacula/scripts/delet
im having a problem getting bacula to work properly. Its a fresh
install, i think its properly configured, when ever i run the job to
test the backup i get:
Device status:
Device "/dev/nst0" open but no Bacula volume is mounted.
Device is BLOCKED waiting for appendable media.
Total Bytes
Good morning,
I've got my new equipment and I hope to have time next week to start
building out the new backup servers. Currently we do most of our work
with MySQL simply because support is good with the software packages we
use. I looked through GMANE for info on any preferences for which
ba
Any idea why this is happening? - I have to manually load the tape using
mtx-changer.
*m
10-Mar 16:57 backup2-sd: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
10-Mar 16:57 backup2-sd: 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing
loaded.
10-Mar 16:57 backup2-sd: 3301 Issuing autochang
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 11:33:18AM +0100, BrokenClock wrote:
> >eof /
> Curiously, everything worked fine wednesday all the day long.
> /cat /proc/scsi/scsi/ give me "/Attached devices/:" and nothing more.
>
> Does anyone have a idear to help me to make this mess work?
Does dmesg still recognize y
I've always had a problem with mtx-changer regarding this issue. Even
when I'm running the SD as root, my tape drives always show "Device
busy" when I do an 'mt -f /dev/rmt/0cbn status'. The drives are always
busy while bacula-sd is running, with or without tapes in the drives and
not performing
hi all,
I need some documentation about making a slave bacula server act like
mirroring .
I have make some search but nothink .
Thank for your help .
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Hello
Arno Lehmann a écrit :
>> }
>>
>> My conclusion would be to say that only the last Options section is
>> taken into account. I made the test with "fstype = ext2". If it is in
>> the 1st Options section, the files are backed up. If it's in the second,
>> no files are backed up, which is right
I've noticed the date/time stamp reporting wrong too, though in
restoring the files, it never poses any problems.
The other thing to note about volumes (and for us control freak
types, this is a bit awkward) per the Bacula documentation it's best
to let Bacula decide what volumes to use. Ju
I have a Sun v20z AMD running Bacula on Solaris 10, using a Certance Ultrium LTO 2 scsi tape device.Sometimes I receive the following error during the nightly backup, after the first machine-job is correctly finished and bacula is trying to run the second machine-job.Then, I tried to reuse the ta
my script is like below now #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/bconsole -c /etc/bacula/bconsole.conf
Hello!
I am trying to compile my own windowsversion of bacula-fd under cygwin
as to be able to have --enable-ssl under windows..
To install, i run a script like this:
CFLAGS="-g -Wall"
\
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:16:34 + (GMT), david robert <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> said:
>
> i am sending here my bacula director,storage and tape drive permissions
>
> bacula1280 1 0 Mar08 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/bacula-sd -c
> /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -u bacula -g tape
> ba
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:12:58PM -0600, Jason Balicki wrote:
> I have a client trying to backup a MS SQL database. We
> use RunBefore and RunAfter commands to stop and start the
> DB. Usually this works fine, but if we run out of space
> on a tape then Bacula can't get any farther until someone
Holy Snikeys!
That sounds link no fun at all.
First of all, doing a cp -v --preserve=all is not sufficient for backups, at
the minimum you need to use tar (you do not need to make a tar archive, you
can pipe with tar and just use it as a transport and archiving medium) or
cpio. Cp will break under
Hello,
On 3/6/2006 7:12 PM, Jason Balicki wrote:
I've searched a bit, but I came up empty handed on this.
I'm going to simplify this scenario a bit because the
reality is more complex than this, but hopefully this
gets my point across:
I have a client trying to backup a MS SQL database. We
us
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:08:58 +0100, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> Hello,
>
> On 3/10/2006 11:41 AM, Martin Simmons wrote:
> >>On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:12:50 +0100, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>said:
> >>
> >>Also, one thing I overlooked in my previous post: With
Hello,
On 3/8/2006 2:52 PM, Baptiste Malguy wrote:
after some discussion with Dan
...
To isolate more easily the problem, I made a simpliest test case. With
the following example, I have compression. You see it contains 2 Options
sections.
Now, if I exchange their order (so the compression attr
Hello,
On 3/7/2006 12:01 PM, Thomas Sturm wrote:
Hallo Arno,
the autochanger does not have the ability to scan. I created the Tape with the
label command. But I created them BEFORE the upgrade to 1.38.5.
Now I deleted the Tape and recreated it with the "label" command.
AND NOW IT WORKS!!!
I thi
Hello,
On 3/7/2006 10:17 AM, anhnv wrote:
Hi all,
Now, I want to install Bacula in my network with a linux computer, a windows
computer.
In linux computer, my backup system work ok. I can backup everything with
Bacula.
In windows computer, i install bacula client for windows. The install is ok
Hello,
On 3/7/2006 4:23 AM, mpapet wrote:
Hi again:
I get a "3999 Device HDdriveStorage" not found error when attempting to
mount it. status storage generates Archive "HDdriveStorage" is not open or
does not exist. It's a hard disk drive at /dev/hdb1 and mounted to /mnt via
fstab.
bacula-sd.
Hello,
On 3/10/2006 12:16 PM, david robert wrote:
i am sending here my bacula director,storage and tape drive permissions
bacula1280 1 0 Mar08 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/bacula-sd -c
/etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -u bacula -g tape
bacula1281 1280 0 Mar08 ?00:00:00 /usr/sb
Hello,
On 3/10/2006 11:41 AM, Martin Simmons wrote:
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:12:50 +0100, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Also, one thing I overlooked in my previous post: With a DLT drive, you
can't usually eject the cartridge after rewinding, you have to offline
the drive, too. The co
Hello,
On 3/10/2006 11:33 AM, BrokenClock wrote:
Dear Bacula commuty,
I use Bacula with pleasure for quite a long time now. Very good soft.
Currently, I'm using Bacula 1.38.2 with a Fedora 4, with nightly
automatic update activate.
I was surprised this morning to see that the backup failed due
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 12:21:10 -0800, "mpapet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> I'm attempting to break-up the bacula-dir.conf file so I can add backup
> clients in a managable way. The objective is to store individual client
> configurations in /etc/bacula/client1/ and have a reverence to that p
i am sending here my bacula director,storage and tape drive permissions bacula 1280 1 0 Mar08 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/bacula-sd -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -u bacula -g tapebacula 1281 1280 0 Mar08 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/bacula-sd -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -u bacula
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:43:06 + (GMT), david robert <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> said:
>
> i am using debian 3.1
Well it will be interesting to see if "mt rewoffline" fixes the problem.
Another possible cause for the error: the uid/gid which runs the Director
doesn't have permission to ac
Did you try with
c:\123
instead of
c:/123
..in your bacula-fd.conf ?
anhnv wrote:
Hi all,
Now, I want to install Bacula in my network with a linux computer, a windows
computer.
In linux computer, my backup system work ok. I can backup everything with
Bacula.
In windows computer, i install
Dear Bacula commuty,
I use Bacula with pleasure for quite a long time now. Very good soft.
Currently, I'm using Bacula 1.38.2 with a Fedora 4, with nightly
automatic update activate.
I was surprised this morning to see that the backup failed due to
missing //dev/nst0/. I've checked, and in fact
Karl Cunningham a écrit :
> Baptiste Malguy wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> My sequence:
>>
>> Step 1
>> - Ignore FileSet Changes = no
>> - File = /home/test/d1
>> - Requesting an incremental backup. It is actually incremental (the full
>> done previously with the same setting)
>>
>> Step 2
>> - Ignore File
Hej,
sorry for replying that late.
Arno Lehmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On 2/13/2006 12:59 PM, Dirk große Osterhues wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I experience one annoying thing in a backup-system maintained by me. I
>> can't get rid of the message quoted below with the forwarded strange
>> subject:
>>
>>
>>>
Dan Langille a écrit :
> On 8 Mar 2006 at 10:25, Baptiste Malguy wrote:
>
>
>>Hello People,
>>
>>Does anyone know something about compression issue I meet ?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Baptiste Malguy a écrit :
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I definitly want to use compression for backups on disk.
>>>
>>>It works pre
Hi,
I'm looking to purchase a Quantum AutoLoader or ValueLoader with a tape
drive SDLT320.
I use Debian.
Can someone confirm that this drive works correctly with Bacula ?
Is someone have an experience with other tape drive Quantum AutoLoader
or ValueLoader ?
Many thanks!
JF
-
Hallo Arno,
the autochanger does not have the ability to scan. I created the Tape with the
label command. But I created them BEFORE the upgrade to 1.38.5.
Now I deleted the Tape and recreated it with the "label" command.
AND NOW IT WORKS!!!
I think there is a problem within the bacula-database (I
Hi all,
Now, I want to install Bacula in my network with a linux computer, a windows
computer.
In linux computer, my backup system work ok. I can backup everything with
Bacula.
In windows computer, i install bacula client for windows. The install is ok.
After that, i want to backup a directory
Hallo Arno,
that is what I thought, but it seems to be OK. Result ist "Slot 8"
1000 OK: bacula-dir Version: 1.38.5 (18 January 2006)
list media pool=Mo-Do
Using default Catalog name=MyCatalog DB=bacula
1000 OK: bacula-dir Version: 1.38.5 (18 January 2006)
list media pool=Mo-Do
Using default Catalo
Hi again:
I get a "3999 Device HDdriveStorage" not found error when attempting to
mount it. status storage generates Archive "HDdriveStorage" is not open or
does not exist. It's a hard disk drive at /dev/hdb1 and mounted to /mnt via
fstab.
bacula-sd.conf has:
Device {
Name = "HDdriveStorage99
On Mar 6, 2006, at 12:28, Dean Waldow wrote:
I may be remembering incorrectly, but, I don't think you need a
license. I believe it is part of the OSX license itself. Can
anyone else comment on this? I think this is especially the case
for the server license because the server is often whe
Hi,
I'm attempting to break-up the bacula-dir.conf file so I can add backup
clients in a managable way. The objective is to store individual client
configurations in /etc/bacula/client1/ and have a reverence to that path in
bacula-dir.conf.
In the docs under "Including other Configuration Files"
I've searched a bit, but I came up empty handed on this.
I'm going to simplify this scenario a bit because the
reality is more complex than this, but hopefully this
gets my point across:
I have a client trying to backup a MS SQL database. We
use RunBefore and RunAfter commands to stop and start
i am using debian 3.1Martin Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:12:50 +0100, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>said:>> Also, one thing I overlooked in my previous post: With a DLT drive, you > can't usually eject the cartridge after rewinding, you have to offline > the dr
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:12:50 +0100, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> Also, one thing I overlooked in my previous post: With a DLT drive, you
> can't usually eject the cartridge after rewinding, you have to offline
> the drive, too. The combined command 'mt rewoffline' might thus a
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:36:36 +0100, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 3/10/2006 8:14 AM, Andrus Naulainen wrote:
> >
> >>> I got Permission denied error when bacula tried to write into the
> >>> volume. VolStatus of this volume (name is varund0070) is Recycle and
> >>
Hello,
On 3/10/2006 11:15 AM, Achim Schmidt wrote:
Hi Arno
thx for yr information. that means bacula starts reusing only if it
reachs some of those limits (time, count oder jobcount) ?
Correct. More abstract, Bacula always appends to an available volumes,
and availability is controlled by
thanks for your reply so now my script would be like this #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/bconsole -c /etc/bacula/bconsole.conf
Hi Arno
thx for yr information. that means bacula starts reusing only if it
reachs some of those limits (time, count oder jobcount) ?
If I dont set those limits, it will take all space available ??
thx
achim
Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hello,
On 3/10/2006 9:30 AM, Achim Schmidt wrote:
Hello,
On 3/10/2006 11:00 AM, david robert wrote:
these are the two places i can see this function can we increse these
time or
You'd use this snippet in your script.
wait_for_drive() {
for i in $(seq 180); do # Wait max 180 seconds
if mt -f $1 status | grep ONLINE >/dev/null 2>&1;
these are the two places i can see this function can we increse these time or wait_for_drive() { for i in $(seq 180); do # Wait max 180 seconds if mt -f $1 status | grep ONLINE >/dev/null 2>&1; then break fi# echo "Device $1 - not ready, retrying..." sleep 1 done} -
Hello,
On 3/10/2006 10:29 AM, Gavin Conway wrote:
Hi,
I'm seeing the same problem using a very similar script. Also using
Debian Sarge 3.1 with the latest version of Bacula. I think this is more
to do with Bacula not having finished with the tape drive when the
script runs.
If anyone knows
Hello,
On 3/10/2006 9:30 AM, Achim Schmidt wrote:
Hi,
I've running a bacula setup that stores its backups to disk. basicly i'm
very satisfied with the system, but something looks a bit strange for me.
I get the impresssion, that bacula uses as much diskspace as it can get
and is not reusin
Hello,
this reached my mail address only, and I suppose it was meant for the
list...
Arno
On 3/10/2006 1:13 AM, Christopher Mills wrote:
I see this as a fundemental issue with file storage. With tape, you have
a selection of separate media that various "versions" of backed-up files
end up r
Hi,
On 3/10/2006 8:14 AM, Andrus Naulainen wrote:
I got Permission denied error when bacula tried to write into the
volume. VolStatus of this volume (name is varund0070) is Recycle and
it's size is 1 byte. I have one pool with 100 volumes (varund0001 ..
varund0100) each 4GB and they are on H
Hi,
I'm seeing the same problem using a very similar script. Also using
Debian Sarge 3.1 with the latest version of Bacula. I think this is more
to do with Bacula not having finished with the tape drive when the
script runs.
If anyone knows how this goes let me know.
Thanks,
Gavin
--
UKS L
Hi, I am using the following script for end of backup to run and my backup is working but my tape will not eject after end of backup.I am using debian 3.1 with bacula #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/bconsole -c /etc/bacula/bconsole.conf
Hi Robert,
I had the same problem here and the solution is quite easy with bacula:
1. I created a batch file on the client (i.e. c:\bacula\before_back.bat)
2. create a VBS Script with the following code:
Dim oOL
Set oOL = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
oOL.Quit
3. save it as c:\bacula\c
Hi,
I use a pool with 6 tapes for weekly full backup, each full backup needs 3
tapes. Retention worked fine for the last few weeks, the expected volumes
were used (volume retention 9 days, week 1 volume Bang1/2/3, week 2 volume
Bang3/4/5...). Today I got the notification about the upcoming jobs th
Hi,
I've running a bacula setup that stores its backups to disk. basicly
i'm very satisfied with the system, but something looks a bit strange
for me.
I get the impresssion, that bacula uses as much diskspace as it can get
and is not reusing pruned diskspace.
sample:
one set stores about 12
Hi,
one of my (test) jobs filled up one of my disks. Bacula told me to
"label" a media ... I tried it but choosing the full Disk. Now i get
the following:
Device "/backup/disk1" is mounted with Volume "file10032006"
Device is blocked labeling a Volume.
Total Bytes=0 Blocks=0 Bytes/block=
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