[Bacula-users] Daily Tape Rotation questions

2008-12-18 Thread Riho Lodi
Hi! I am useing daily tape rotation. I change tape every day and useing Full backup Level on each tape. Each tape has it's own volume and vaolume retention time is 6 days and 12 days for friday tape (I have 2 of friday tapes). Point is that after retention time Bacula automatically purges volu

[Bacula-users] "Auto running" a full when current volume does not have a full

2008-12-18 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
I googled, but might have not hit the right keywords. We have a situation where we have a server in a data center with an attached tape drive, and we'd like to avoid a trip to the data center for tape swapping if at all possible. We have a series of tapes we will go through, but would like to

Re: [Bacula-users] Time for change

2008-12-18 Thread Jesper Krogh
Thanks for the elaborate reply. Just a few more querious questions. Alan Brown wrote: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Jesper Krogh wrote: > >>> 100-200Gb ram and systems capable of addressing that amount of memory are >>> still far more expensive than a stack of flash drives, else I'd use them. >> But do

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape library auto cleaning and Bacula

2008-12-18 Thread John Drescher
>> Turn that feature off in the tape library's control panel. > > That's definitely what I'd do... you might get notified by Bacula if > cleaning is required if you use the tape alert capturing. > I do this as well. Its been 2.5 years of daily usage of my 2 drive LTO2 changer and it has yet to ask

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape library auto cleaning and Bacula

2008-12-18 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 18.12.2008 19:17, Alan Brown wrote: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Win Htin wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> While Bacula backups are running, the library system (IBM TS3200) figures >> one of the tape drives requires head cleaning and tries to load the cleaning >> tape. > > Turn that feature off in the

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape library auto cleaning and Bacula

2008-12-18 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Win Htin wrote: > Hi folks, > > While Bacula backups are running, the library system (IBM TS3200) figures > one of the tape drives requires head cleaning and tries to load the cleaning > tape. Turn that feature off in the tape library's control panel. Bacula can't (currently

Re: [Bacula-users] Rename Storage Daemon

2008-12-18 Thread Steve Thompson
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Stefan Sorin Nicolin wrote: > I am about to reconfigure a mid sized Bacula intallation. I'd like to > rename the storage daemon meaning the "Name" directive in the Storage > { } block. Is this asking for trouble? Right now I am a bit nervous > because I just learned (the hard

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-18 Thread John Drescher
> For me, though; the problem is that I am using probably a dozen > open-source projects to the extent I'm using bacula. Open-Audit, nagios, > putty, apache, are just a few of them. Fortunately, bacula is the only > one that uses an email list for support - otherwise, I'd drown in all > the emails

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-18 Thread Kevin Keane
Ryan Novosielski wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Kevin Keane wrote: > >>> As a matter >>> of fact, I get more emails from the bacula mailing list every day than >>> pass my spam filter! Once I have bacula running, hopefully I will not >>> need this mailing list fo

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-18 Thread dlambert_bmt
'Curtis Preston's site already translates this list into forum form' the bacula-users list is also indexed on nabble; http://www.nabble.com/Bacula---Users-f547.html -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Add-forums-to-the-main-page--tp21032999p21076792.html Sent from the Bacu

Re: [Bacula-users] Not sure if my configs are fine like this...

2008-12-18 Thread mail
Echnaton Birkmann schrieb: > > Hey Guys, > > I’m using ubuntu 8.04.1, I installed bacula with “apt-get install > bacula” and the db with “apt-get install bacula-director-sqlite”. > Hi, if you installed bacula with apt-get install bacula it installs bacula-sd-mysql. Seems you have two versions of

[Bacula-users] Rename Storage Daemon

2008-12-18 Thread Stefan Sorin Nicolin
Hi, I am about to reconfigure a mid sized Bacula intallation. I'd like to rename the storage daemon meaning the "Name" directive in the Storage { } block. Is this asking for trouble? Right now I am a bit nervous because I just learned (the hard way) that renaming jobs doesn't go well with

[Bacula-users] Not sure if my configs are fine like this...

2008-12-18 Thread Echnaton Birkmann
Hey Guys, I'm using ubuntu 8.04.1, I installed bacula with "apt-get install bacula" and the db with "apt-get install bacula-director-sqlite". I have set up my bacula configs as of the online documentations. I also am a fresh starter when it comes to linux and dbs, so please act like you wer

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape library auto cleaning and Bacula

2008-12-18 Thread jeffrey Lang
Win Yes, I have the same problem with my Storage Tek L700e. I just got burned last night during a full of 300GB with the library automatically cleaning a drive. Only way I have been able to deal with this is to restart the job after it fails. I would like to know the same informati

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape library auto cleaning and Bacula

2008-12-18 Thread Win Htin
Answering my own question. I found there is an option to disable the "auto-clean" on the tape library. I believe the "event notification " alerts will notify me when the next clean up is required. If not, I reckon stick to a periodical manual clean up. Cheers Win On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:53 AM,

Re: [Bacula-users] (it was Remote storage) LTO3 is not working, needing urgent help

2008-12-18 Thread John Drescher
> lsscsi output is: > > > [0:0:0:0]diskServeRA raid 1 V1.0 /dev/sda > [0:1:0:0]diskIBM-ESXS VPA146C3-ETS10 N A650 - > [0:1:1:0]diskIBM-ESXS ST3146855SS BA26 - > [0:3:0:0]enclosu IBM-ESXS VSC7160 1.06 - > [0:3:1:0]tapeIBM HH LTO G

Re: [Bacula-users] (it was Remote storage) LTO3 is not working, needing urgent help

2008-12-18 Thread Sergio Belkin
2008/12/17 Jari Fredriksson : >> 2008/12/17 Marc Schiffbauer : >>> * Sergio Belkin schrieb am 17.12.08 um 13:53 Uhr: How Can I define a remote storage in bacula-sd.conf ? namely a tape device that is in another host that bacula director. >>> >>> I think you ned to run the bacula-sd o

[Bacula-users] Tape library auto cleaning and Bacula

2008-12-18 Thread Win Htin
Hi folks, While Bacula backups are running, the library system (IBM TS3200) figures one of the tape drives requires head cleaning and tries to load the cleaning tape. Following is the first email message generated from the tape-library: -- start ---

Re: [Bacula-users] "Configurator"

2008-12-18 Thread Kevin Keane
configure is part of the build system; you would only use it if you plan on compiling bacula from source code - generally not a good idea unless you are a developer or need the latest features right away; if at all possible, use a precompiled package from your distribution. Second-best is to ge

Re: [Bacula-users] Using the second drive, again with waiting on

2008-12-18 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Borja Tatay wrote: > I've had to remove " Prefer Mounted Volumes = no " in the JobsDefs > resource, it introduced me what I think I've read it's a bug: > > > > 18-dic 14:32 client-fd JobId 117: Fatal error: ../../filed/job.c:1811 Bad > response to Append Data comm

[Bacula-users] Not sure if my configs are fine like this...

2008-12-18 Thread Echnaton Birkmann
Hey Guys, I'm using ubuntu 8.04.1, I installed bacula with "apt-get install bacula" and the db with "apt-get install bacula-director-sqlite". I have set up my bacula configs as of the online documentations. I also am a fresh starter when it comes to linux and dbs, so please act like you wer

Re: [Bacula-users] Time for change

2008-12-18 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Jesper Krogh wrote: > > 100-200Gb ram and systems capable of addressing that amount of memory are > > still far more expensive than a stack of flash drives, else I'd use them. > > But do you need to spool a complete tape? In order to avoid doing "evil" stuff > to you tape driv

Re: [Bacula-users] "Configurator"

2008-12-18 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 18.12.2008 12:28, Echnaton Birkmann wrote: > > > Hey Guys, > > > > What is hat configure program that I keep reading about? Can I start > this routine (the configure program) after I installed, and partially > configured bacula? No. './configure' is the first step you do when install

[Bacula-users] "Configurator"

2008-12-18 Thread Echnaton Birkmann
Hey Guys, What is hat configure program that I keep reading about? Can I start this routine (the configure program) after I installed, and partially configured bacula? And if "yes". how can I start it? Thanks a milli for the answers, Cheers! Echnaton Birkmann I-NEW Communicative So

[Bacula-users] Restore-only console

2008-12-18 Thread Anders Sønderberg Mortensen
Hello, I'm trying to prepare a bacula installation (version 2.0.3 packaged from Redhat's EPEL repository) where I have several individual restore-only consoles. I'll need to be able to handle the situation where disjoint parts of the same bacula client filesystem are linked to each of their own

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with bacula installation, and configuration (Urgent!!!)

2008-12-18 Thread Maarten Hoogveld
Hey, Just a quick tip about aptitude. (scroll down) 2008/12/17 Arno Lehmann > Hi, > > 17.12.2008 15:31, Echnaton Birkmann wrote: > > > > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > > > First thing first, I'm a total nube (rookie) when it comes to any > > sort of linux!!! > > > > That will get fixed with some tim

Re: [Bacula-users] Time for change

2008-12-18 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 18.12.2008 06:50, Jesper Krogh wrote: > Alan Brown wrote: >> Jesper Krogh wrote: I'm running spooling on a 4 drive software raid0 quite happily on a 4Gb 3GHz P4D machine. The limiting factors are disk head seek time(*) when running concurrent backups to 2 LTO2 drives and availab