Re: [Bacula-users] Label command not asking for slot number

2006-04-12 Thread Daemonic Penguin
... and I resolved it by including "Autochanger = yes" in the Storage resource in the Director configuration file. On 4/12/06, daemonicpenguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm experiencing the same problem with a Dell PV122T on RHEL 3.--View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Label-comma

[Bacula-users] Re: Anyone know where I can find bacula-client 1.36.3 src rpm?

2006-04-12 Thread Eric Peterson
Hi Joshua, The spec file would be great. I'm not quite sure what you mean by "The client code is in with the rest". I couldn't find any 1.36.3 rpm files on the bacula sourceforge site. The link to the older files seems to be broken. If I can't find a src rpm I'll just grab the source, but I wa

Re: [Bacula-users] Label command not asking for slot number

2006-04-12 Thread daemonicpenguin
I'm experiencing the same problem with a Dell PV122T on RHEL 3. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Label-command-not-asking-for-slot-number-t106202.html#a3893788 Sent from the Bacula - Users forum at Nabble.com. --- This

Re: [Bacula-users] Low backup throughput (High load average?)

2006-04-12 Thread Ian Levesque
Hi Martin, On Apr 12, 2006, at 6:11 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: Since you have a multi-CPU server, what kind of CPU utilization is 50% (the whole machine or one of the daemon processes)? I've only ever seen bacula take advantage of one CPU; typically I see 50% utilized on one CPU. Wha

[Bacula-users] Re: Anyone know where I can find bacula-client 1.36.3 src rpm?

2006-04-12 Thread Joshua Kugler
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 13:53, Eric Peterson wrote: > Hello, > > I need to install bacula-fd on my CentOS 4.3 x86_64 clients so I was > hoping I could find a src rpm for 1.36.3 so I could build it for my > platform. The client code is in with the rest. I just built RPMs for CentOS 4.3, albeit

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula marking tapes Full with only a few GB written

2006-04-12 Thread Erik P. Olsen
Wolfgang Denk wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: I am more and more convinced that this is a subtel timing issue in the SCSI tape driver layer. Do you think it could be an overrun situation? Overrun of what? Sorry, nothing. Not thinking clear enough. Late hours here. Should

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula marking tapes Full with only a few GB written

2006-04-12 Thread Wolfgang Denk
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > > I am more and more convinced that this is a subtel timing issue in > > the SCSI tape driver layer. > > Do you think it could be an overrun situation? Overrun of what? Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtim

Re: [Bacula-users] Low backup throughput (High load average?)

2006-04-12 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 15:42:25 -0400, Ian Levesque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Hi all, > > I've been trying to optimize the backup speed of my bacula > installation. My full backups, no spooling, max out at around 12-13MB/ > s per client, where I think I should be seeing over 40MB/s. It

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula marking tapes Full with only a few GB written

2006-04-12 Thread Erik P. Olsen
Wolfgang Denk wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: My last hypothesis is that it is due to using h/w compression. After I've changed back to s/w compression I have not seen this phenomenon. When that said, No, h/w vs. s/w compression is only indirectly involved. It changes the

[Bacula-users] Anyone know where I can find bacula-client 1.36.3 src rpm?

2006-04-12 Thread Eric Peterson
Hello, I need to install bacula-fd on my CentOS 4.3 x86_64 clients so I was hoping I could find a src rpm for 1.36.3 so I could build it for my platform. Anyone? Thanks, Eric --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking script

[Bacula-users] Re: Bacula feedback

2006-04-12 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 06:09, Greg Wilson wrote: > Kern, > > > > Bacula is a great product and working well backing up my Postfix email > system on Debian. > > > > The one and only problem I have with it is that I can't get it to fit my > standard tape regime. > > > > We use a child, father, gr

Re: [Bacula-users] HELP - where are my jobs?

2006-04-12 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:30:07 -0400, Emery Guevremont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > Martin Simmons wrote: > >> On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:43:30 -0400, Emery Guevremont <[EMAIL > >> PROTECTED]> said: > >> I have a weird problem. I'm trying to restore some files from a tape > >> ba

Re: [Bacula-users] Low backup throughput (High load average?)

2006-04-12 Thread Ian Levesque
Hi Eric, On Apr 12, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Eric Warnke wrote: Are you using compression on the fileset? SHA1 signatures? That can really bog down the director. When I dumped compression ( the LTO drives we are using are quite capable ) + spooling our backup speed jumped to 40MB/sec ( about th

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore more than one client

2006-04-12 Thread Tyler Bannister
Leonardo dos Santos Goldim wrote: hy, i was doing more tests and found this: * my problem isn't with more than one client, is with more than one storage. I am currently experiencing the same problem. I have 3 different storage devices. When I initiate a restore it always uses the def

[Bacula-users] Low backup throughput (High load average?)

2006-04-12 Thread Ian Levesque
Hi all, I've been trying to optimize the backup speed of my bacula installation. My full backups, no spooling, max out at around 12-13MB/ s per client, where I think I should be seeing over 40MB/s. It doesn't appear to affect the speed of per-client backups when more than one client is run

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula marking tapes Full with only a few GB written

2006-04-12 Thread Wolfgang Denk
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > My last hypothesis is that it is due to using h/w compression. After I've > changed back to s/w compression I have not seen this phenomenon. When that > said, No, h/w vs. s/w compression is only indirectly involved. It changes the timing. With

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore more than one client

2006-04-12 Thread Leonardo dos Santos Goldim
hy, i was doing more tests and found this: * my problem isn't with more than one client, is with more than one storage. i made some changes on my bacula conf, i created one storage for each client: -> bacula-dir.conf Director {    # define myself   Name = smart09-dir

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore more than one client

2006-04-12 Thread Leonardo dos Santos Goldim
here are my *.conf: -> bacula-dir.conf Director {    # define myself   Name = smart09-dir   DIRport = 9101    # where we listen for UA connections   DirAddress = 10.0.0.151   QueryFile = "/etc/bacula/query.sql"   WorkingDirectory = "/var/bacula/working"   Pi

Re: [Bacula-users] HELP - where are my jobs?

2006-04-12 Thread Emery Guevremont
Martin Simmons wrote: On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:43:30 -0400, Emery Guevremont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: I have a weird problem. I'm trying to restore some files from a tape backup taken a few months ago. The problem is that the files aren't on the tape. If I use the query command in bconsole to

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula marking tapes Full with only a few GB written

2006-04-12 Thread Ryan Novosielski
Well, if they are all the same age and have been written to roughly an equal number of times, that might be a possibility. I have had a few go at around the same time (not simultaneously, but within a week or so of each other). I would have a little bit of trouble believing that HW compression

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula marking tapes Full with only a few GB written

2006-04-12 Thread Deann Corum
That was one thing I did think of and I did put in a cleaning tape and ran it through. Will see if that clears it up. I have trouble believing that 3-4 tapes were bad or corrupt all at once so not sure that's the problem but I suppose stranger things have happened. Deann Ryan Novosielski wrote

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula marking tapes Full with only a few GB written

2006-04-12 Thread Deann Corum
I haven't tried that, but I will. If I can determine that this solves the problem I'll report back to the list. Thanks! Deann Diogo Melo wrote: Have you tried to use the command "mt -f /dev/st0 erase" ? I think this will ensure that all data of the tape has been erased, including the eof ma

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula marking tapes Full with only a few GB written

2006-04-12 Thread Diogo Melo
Have you tried to use the command "mt -f /dev/st0 erase" ? I think this will ensure that all data of the tape has been erased, including the eof marks.2006/4/12, Erik P. Olsen < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>:Ryan Novosielski wrote:> Sounds to me like the media are going bad or your drive is dirty. Clean > you

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula marking tapes Full with only a few GB written

2006-04-12 Thread Erik P. Olsen
Ryan Novosielski wrote: Sounds to me like the media are going bad or your drive is dirty. Clean your drive and possibly try a brand new tape. Probably not. I have had the same experience with brand new tapes and a cleaned tape drive. See thread: When is a tape "Full"?). My last hypothesis is

Re: Compilation errors on Macintosh (was [Bacula-users] Bacula FD on Macintosh)

2006-04-12 Thread Stefan Schwietert
Am 10.04.2006 um 21:08 schrieb Bill Moran:Well.  I'm having some problems and I hope you can help me.  configuresucceeds, although I used a slightly different set of options:./configure \--enable-smartalloc \--sbindir=/usr/sbin \--with-pid-dir=/var/run \--with-subsys-dir=/var/run/subsys \--with-wor

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula marking tapes Full with only a few GB written

2006-04-12 Thread Ryan Novosielski
Sounds to me like the media are going bad or your drive is dirty. Clean your drive and possibly try a brand new tape. deann corum wrote: > We're using Bacula 1.36.3 (yea, I know - old) on CentOS 3 (yea, I know > - old) with AIT3 tapes (which store about 150 GB each) in an 8-tape > changer (Sony S