Re: [Bacula-users] Autochangers and Off-site / "Copy Migration"

Arno Lehmann wrote: > The simple solution is to set up your volumes so they are > automatically closed after a given time, in your case a few days, > after they were used. This is easy with Bacula. OK, I can script this pretty easily. Thanks for the pointers on umount and update slots. I think

Re: [Bacula-users] Put up documentation on wiki?

Ivan Adzhubey wrote: > On Tuesday 18 September 2007 04:12:14 pm Dan Langille wrote: > >> On 18 Sep 2007 at 16:02, Ivan Adzhubey wrote: >> >>> Hi Dan, >>> >>> On Tuesday 18 September 2007 03:48:55 pm Dan Langille wrote: >>> On 18 Sep 2007 at 15:43, Ivan Adzhubey wrote:

Re: [Bacula-users] weird warnings after library firmware upgrade

> I just conducted a successful restore job via bconsole, but received > some weird warning messages. Suspiciously, these warnings started to > appear after a library (robotics and drive) firmware upgrade. > - Quantum PX502 (LTO-3, FC, 1-Drive) What were the previous and upgraded firmware leve

[Bacula-users] weird warnings after library firmware upgrade

Hi Arno, I activated the wait_for_drive function in /etc/bacula/mtx-changer, and the warnings went away! Yippeee!! You rule!! 8-) Cheers, Mike Hi, 18.09.2007 20:30,, Mike Seda wrote:: > > Hi All, > > I just conducted a successful restore job via bconsole, but received > > some weird warning

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochangers and Off-site / "Copy Migration"

Hello, 18.09.2007 18:37,, Shaw Terwilliger wrote:: > I'm evaluating Bacula to replace both halves of our current backup > system, which works like this: > > - Each night dirvish collects incremental changes (via rsync) from >all the servers and puts them on a file server with lots of reliabl

Re: [Bacula-users] Stuck jobs and Max Run Time

Hi, 18.09.2007 16:25,, Mark Hazen wrote:: > Hi folks- > > We use bacula to backup a dozen servers and about twice that many > workstations here. The servers are all running the 2.2.3, Time for another upgrade - 2.2.4 fixes a serious bug. ... > Last night one of our workstations started its bac

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling data again ... ???

On 9/18/07, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > 18.09.2007 22:49,, Ivan Adzhubey wrote:: > > Hi Arno, > > > > On Tuesday 18 September 2007 04:15:41 pm Arno Lehmann wrote: > ... > > It appears that you were right, I have checked the fileset in question and > > it > > grew in size almo

Re: [Bacula-users] Strange mount behaviour.

Hi, 18.09.2007 23:07,, Erik P. Olsen wrote:: > When mounting a tape I often - but not always - see the following strange > sequence of events: > > #mount DDS-4 > Using default Catalog name=MyCatalog DB=bacula > 3905 Device "DDS-4" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted. > If this is no

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling data again ... ???

Hi, 18.09.2007 22:49,, Ivan Adzhubey wrote:: > Hi Arno, > > On Tuesday 18 September 2007 04:15:41 pm Arno Lehmann wrote: ... > It appears that you were right, I have checked the fileset in question and it > grew in size almost twice since the last full backup (now at almost 800GB) so > apparent

Re: [Bacula-users] Put up documentation on wiki?

On Tuesday 18 September 2007 04:12:14 pm Dan Langille wrote: > On 18 Sep 2007 at 16:02, Ivan Adzhubey wrote: > > Hi Dan, > > > > On Tuesday 18 September 2007 03:48:55 pm Dan Langille wrote: > > > On 18 Sep 2007 at 15:43, Ivan Adzhubey wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > As many of you probably notic

[Bacula-users] Strange mount behaviour.

When mounting a tape I often - but not always - see the following strange sequence of events: #mount DDS-4 Using default Catalog name=MyCatalog DB=bacula 3905 Device "DDS-4" (/dev/nst0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted. If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume. #u

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling data again ... ???

Hi Arno, On Tuesday 18 September 2007 04:15:41 pm Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > 18.09.2007 21:33,, Ivan Adzhubey wrote:: > > Hi, > > > > I am running 2.2.4 for the last three days (upgraded from 2.2.1). > > > > I have found this in the logs this morning (spooling enabled): > > > > 18-Sep 14:17 xxx

Re: [Bacula-users] Put up documentation on wiki?

On 18 Sep 2007 at 16:02, Ivan Adzhubey wrote: > Hi Dan, > > On Tuesday 18 September 2007 03:48:55 pm Dan Langille wrote: > > On 18 Sep 2007 at 15:43, Ivan Adzhubey wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > As many of you probably noticed more than once when consulting Bacula > > > documentation pages on www.b

Re: [Bacula-users] Put up documentation on wiki?

Hi Dan, On Tuesday 18 September 2007 03:48:55 pm Dan Langille wrote: > On 18 Sep 2007 at 15:43, Ivan Adzhubey wrote: > > Hi, > > > > As many of you probably noticed more than once when consulting Bacula > > documentation pages on www.bacula.org, they are full of typing errors, > > omissions, incom

Re: [Bacula-users] Put up documentation on wiki?

On Tuesday 18 September 2007 03:58:42 pm Dan Langille wrote: > On 18 Sep 2007 at 15:48, Dan Langille wrote: > > On 18 Sep 2007 at 15:43, Ivan Adzhubey wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > As many of you probably noticed more than once when consulting Bacula > > > documentation pages on www.bacula.org, they

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling data again ... ???

On Tuesday 18 September 2007 03:33:26 pm Ivan Adzhubey wrote: > related to 'checkfilechanges' option. I do not have this option mentioned > anywhere in any of my FileSet resources but I suspect it is set on by > default, which is not documented. Just to clarify: neither do I have any of Rerun Fail

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling data again ... ???

Hi, 18.09.2007 21:33,, Ivan Adzhubey wrote:: > Hi, > > I am running 2.2.4 for the last three days (upgraded from 2.2.1). > > I have found this in the logs this morning (spooling enabled): > > 18-Sep 14:17 x-sd: Despooling elapsed time = 05:20:43, Transfer rate = > 22.60 M bytes/second > 18

Re: [Bacula-users] Restricted console only for restore purposes

Yes, review the documentation regarding ACL (access control list) for details on how to implement. Erich On Sep 18, 2007, at 3:35 AM, Benjamin E. Zeller wrote: > Hi list, > > is it possible, to setup a restricted console, where only restores are > possible? And perhaps only restores to a defi

Re: [Bacula-users] Put up documentation on wiki?

On 18 Sep 2007 at 15:48, Dan Langille wrote: > On 18 Sep 2007 at 15:43, Ivan Adzhubey wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > As many of you probably noticed more than once when consulting Bacula > > documentation pages on www.bacula.org, they are full of typing errors, > > omissions, incomplete descriptions

Re: [Bacula-users] Put up documentation on wiki?

On 18 Sep 2007 at 15:43, Ivan Adzhubey wrote: > Hi, > > As many of you probably noticed more than once when consulting Bacula > documentation pages on www.bacula.org, they are full of typing errors, > omissions, incomplete descriptions, sometimes confusing explanations and so > on (together wi

[Bacula-users] Put up documentation on wiki?

Hi, As many of you probably noticed more than once when consulting Bacula documentation pages on www.bacula.org, they are full of typing errors, omissions, incomplete descriptions, sometimes confusing explanations and so on (together with lots of essential examples, hints and other bits and pie

[Bacula-users] Spooling data again ... ???

Hi, I am running 2.2.4 for the last three days (upgraded from 2.2.1). I have found this in the logs this morning (spooling enabled): 18-Sep 14:17 x-sd: Despooling elapsed time = 05:20:43, Transfer rate = 22.60 M bytes/second 18-Sep 14:27 x-sd: Spooling data again ... 18-Sep 14:27 y-

Re: [Bacula-users] weird warnings after library firmware upgrade

Hi, 18.09.2007 20:30,, Mike Seda wrote:: > Hi All, > I just conducted a successful restore job via bconsole, but received > some weird warning messages. Suspiciously, these warnings started to > appear after a library (robotics and drive) firmware upgrade. > > The warning that I receive is: > W

[Bacula-users] weird warnings after library firmware upgrade

Hi All, I just conducted a successful restore job via bconsole, but received some weird warning messages. Suspiciously, these warnings started to appear after a library (robotics and drive) firmware upgrade. The warning that I receive is: Warning: acquire.c:200 Read open device "Drive-1" (/dev/n

Re: [Bacula-users] TCP 2 Hours timeout

A, that seems to have did the trick. Still took like 2 hours or so, but it didn't timeout before the end. Thanks! Jose E. Molina a écrit : Eric Rousse wrote: I tried the heartbeat interval = 600, in my bacula-dir.conf file, for that specific client. And still no good. Did you al

[Bacula-users] Autochangers and Off-site / "Copy Migration"

I'm evaluating Bacula to replace both halves of our current backup system, which works like this: - Each night dirvish collects incremental changes (via rsync) from all the servers and puts them on a file server with lots of reliable disk storage (online disk-based backups). Dirvish keeps

Re: [Bacula-users] Performance Problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Rainer Hackel wrote: > I have bacula running (version 2.0.2) and in principle everything works = > fine. I feel obliged to warn you about that version: http://www.bacula.org/downloads/bug-395.txt You should upgrade to 2.2.4 as soon as possi

Re: [Bacula-users] Performance Problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Drescher wrote: >> I have bacula running (version 2.0.2) and in principle everything works = >> fine. >> But now (reading some mails from the list) I ask myself why the = >> backup-speed >> is that slow. In average it's about 1500 kb/s. We are

Re: [Bacula-users] Performance Problem

In response to "Rainer Hackel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all! > > I have bacula running (version 2.0.2) and in principle everything works = > fine. But now (reading some mails from the list) I ask myself why the = > backup-speed is that slow. In average it's about 1500 kb/s. > > The software i

Re: [Bacula-users] Performance Problem

> I have bacula running (version 2.0.2) and in principle everything works = > fine. But now (reading some mails from the list) I ask myself why the = > backup-speed is that slow. In average it's about 1500 kb/s. > Is this an incremental or Differential backup? John -

Re: [Bacula-users] TCP 2 Hours timeout

Eric Rousse wrote: > > I tried the heartbeat interval = 600, in my bacula-dir.conf file, for > that specific client. And still no good. Did you also set the Heartbeat interval in the client configuration? Cheers, -- José E. Molina Técnico de Sistemas Brújula T. +34 971 433 909 - F. +34 971 43

[Bacula-users] Performance Problem

Hi all! I have bacula running (version 2.0.2) and in principle everything works = fine. But now (reading some mails from the list) I ask myself why the = backup-speed is that slow. In average it's about 1500 kb/s. The software is running on fedora. The Computer has a fast CPU and 2GB = of RAM.

[Bacula-users] Stuck jobs and Max Run Time

Hi folks- We use bacula to backup a dozen servers and about twice that many workstations here. The servers are all running the 2.2.3, the backup server hosts the director and storage daemon both, running on RHEL4. I'm using RPMs built from the bacula SRPM, without the GUI tools (which won't cu

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula performance with a 64512 block size

* Chris Howells schrieb am 18.09.07 um 16:14 Uhr: > Hi, > > Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > > Finally got around to messing around with bacula again... > > > The manual says that nnn being the same number for both settings > > means "fixed" blocksize. > > > > As I understand it, your solutions should

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula performance with a 64512 block size

Hi, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: Finally got around to messing around with bacula again... > The manual says that nnn being the same number for both settings > means "fixed" blocksize. > > As I understand it, your solutions should be to just set the > "Minimum Block Size" so you get a good perfroman

[Bacula-users] TCP 2 Hours timeout

Hi, For some reason, on a specific machine(Windows 2000 Server), I always seems to get a 2 hours timeout. Since there's so much data it's kind of normal. But I don't get that behavior on other machines. Also, my backup server is running under CentOS 4.5. And I just upgraded to bacula 2.2.1. He

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental / Differential logical analysis

Hi, 18.09.2007 13:03,, Hydro Meteor wrote:: > > > On 9/17/07, *Arno Lehmann* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > Hi, > > 18.09.2007 10:36,, Eric Böse-Wolf wrote:: > > "Hydro Meteor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > writes: > > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental / Differential logical analysis

On 9/17/07, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > 18.09.2007 10:36,, Eric Böse-Wolf wrote:: > > "Hydro Meteor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Martin, > >> > >> Thank you for checking my logic. I wonder if it would be worthwhile to > the > >> Bacula community to have some simple

Re: [Bacula-users] Reducing Volume Size

Hi, 18.09.2007 10:54,, Pravin Rane wrote:: > Hi, > > I am using bacula version 2.0.1 with File Storage. I am using a single > volume Vol00 for backup. This has grown to now 3.4 T and the total > storage capacity is 3.5 T > Is there any way to delete some older jobs and shrink the Volume to >

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental / Differential logical analysis

Hi, 18.09.2007 10:36,, Eric Böse-Wolf wrote:: > "Hydro Meteor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Martin, >> >> Thank you for checking my logic. I wonder if it would be worthwhile to the >> Bacula community to have some simple diagrams that accompany the User's >> Guide, >> such a diagram that sho

[Bacula-users] Reducing Volume Size

Hi, I am using bacula version 2.0.1 with File Storage. I am using a single volume Vol00 for backup. This has grown to now 3.4 T and the total storage capacity is 3.5 T Is there any way to delete some older jobs and shrink the Volume to bring down disk utilization. Thanks in Advance. -- Reg

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental / Differential logical analysis

"Hydro Meteor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Martin, > > Thank you for checking my logic. I wonder if it would be worthwhile to the > Bacula community to have some simple diagrams that accompany the User's Guide, > such a diagram that shows a timeline and how Bacula Jobs operate along such a > tim

[Bacula-users] Restricted console only for restore purposes

Hi list, is it possible, to setup a restricted console, where only restores are possible? And perhaps only restores to a defined location? Regards, Benni -- Benjamin E. Zeller Ing.-Büro Hohmann Bahnhofstr. 34 D-82515 Wolfratshausen Tel.: +49 (0)8171 347 88 12 Mobil: +49 (0)160 99 11 55 23 Fa

Re: [Bacula-users] Intermittent Input/output error mounting tape - VXA2

Hi, 18.09.2007 08:26,, Bradley Schatz wrote:: > Hi, > > I am seeing this problem intermittently on two systems using bacula - > both using VXA2 tape drives connected to Adaptec aic7892 SCIS cards. > > On the the odd occasion, I will insert a tape and attempt to mount it, > but bacula will respon

Re: [Bacula-users] Updating Windows Time Stamps

I have written a Purebasic-Script some time ago for our windows-bacula-clients that search for files with archive-flag in Windows. I can send a binary copy of it to you (with some source included maybe GPL or something). I can´t give any guarantee that it will work but it´s running more than a