Re: [Bacula-users] Migration Job pruging destination volumes!!

2009-06-26 Thread Robert LeBlanc
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Robert LeBlanc wrote: > I've set-up a migration job to migrate jobs from one set of tape volumes to > disk volumes. I've configured the destination pool to use the volume once > and have a retention period of 2 months. For some reason when the migration > job compl

Re: [Bacula-users] Blocked waiting for tape that was auto-mounted?

2009-06-26 Thread Nico Halpern
Some additional info: btape also does not know what to do with the next tape: Wrote blk_block=159, dev_blk_num=2930 VolBytes=416,808,697,856 rate=60990.4 KB/s Wrote blk_block=1595000, dev_blk_num=302 VolBytes=418,119,417,856 rate=61003.7 KB/s Wrote blk_block=160, dev_blk_num=1488 VolByt

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring large directory does not work

2009-06-26 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:53:26 -0700, mehma sarja said: > > Thanks Martin, > > You have put a good closure on the quest for knowledge. If I upgrade Bacula, > will I have to upgrade the database? Meaning do I have to run those update > table scripts. I am on postgresql version 8.29. Sorry, I

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring large directory does not work

2009-06-26 Thread mehma sarja
Thanks Martin, You have put a good closure on the quest for knowledge. If I upgrade Bacula, will I have to upgrade the database? Meaning do I have to run those update table scripts. I am on postgresql version 8.29. Yudhvir OK, this shows why it is slow. The algorithm in add_findex is only > eff

[Bacula-users] Last call: Invitation in Berlin

2009-06-26 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello all, to get to know more users of Bacula and allow us to actually meet fact to face, everybody using Bacula or interested in it is invited: Tomorrow, June 27th Starting 20:00 Location: Bar / Restaurant AndaLuca, Savignyplatz 2, Berlin Bacula Systems sponsoring drinks (some limitation ;-)

[Bacula-users] Blocked waiting for tape that was auto-mounted?

2009-06-26 Thread Nico Halpern
Greetings, I have been banging my head against the wall for a few days now. I am hoping someone can point me in the right direction. For about 3 or 4 days now, Bacula refuses to mount tapes and use them. If I start a job manually, the tape will mount, and the backup will not start. The intere

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent backups to one volume?

2009-06-26 Thread Nico Halpern
Andreas, This really depends on your configuration. If you have only one drive head, you should set "Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 6" (or any number your want) in your job definitions. If you have multiple drive i/o heads, you have to also configure your job definition to prefer mounted volumes to

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: concurrent backups to one volume?

2009-06-26 Thread terryc
Silver Salonen wrote: > Um.. we have different basics of our discussion - you use tapes, I use disks, > so I expect Bacula to handle volumes and pools differently than in your case. Irelevant, really. If you are running a backup system, you essentially handle them the same way; as rotated recep

[Bacula-users] Interesting problem with possible Tape Reservations...

2009-06-26 Thread John Lockard
I had two backups scheduled for the same time and it appears that they both felt they wanted the same tape. I have concurrency on, yet one job is running, writing to tape #100058 in drive #1, yet the second job is asking for tape #100058 in drive #0. Any ideas? -John -- "Notebook. No photograph

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: concurrent backups to one volume?

2009-06-26 Thread Silver Salonen
On Friday 26 June 2009 14:26:49 John Drescher wrote: > >> I do this every single day at home. 5 jobs concurrently write to the > >> same exact volume. > > > > My original claim was made in the context of disk-based backups (ie. multiple > > pools as I explained in the same message). Using the same

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: concurrent backups to one volume?

2009-06-26 Thread Silver Salonen
On Friday 26 June 2009 10:07:46 terryc wrote: > Silver Salonen wrote: > > On Friday 26 June 2009 02:07:58 terryc wrote: > >> Silver Salonen wrote: > >>> Eg. if we want to do ordinary Grandfather-Father-Son rotation, we > >>> create 3 different pools for every job - for full, differential and > >

[Bacula-users] OT: More about concurrent jobs...

2009-06-26 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Jose E. Molina wrote: > There's been an interesting thread about the limitations of the > storage/device model in Bacula, and i think i'm hitting one of those > limitations, or maybe a configuration error: > > I have 1 Storage daemon with 1 File device, 1 autochange

[Bacula-users] More about concurrent jobs...

2009-06-26 Thread Jose E. Molina
There's been an interesting thread about the limitations of the storage/device model in Bacula, and i think i'm hitting one of those limitations, or maybe a configuration error: I have 1 Storage daemon with 1 File device, 1 autochanger with 1 Tape device. I want to make concurrent backups to t

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems restoring an Exchange plugin backup

2009-06-26 Thread Berend Dekens
Op 06/26/09 14:45, James Harper schreef: >>> How urgent is it to get this fixed? >>> >>> As far as I can tell you are doing everything right... I'll look up >>> those error messages. >>> >>> James >> I disabled the ntbackup schedule to make sure I got a 'clean' full >> backup and the result is the

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems restoring an Exchange plugin backup

2009-06-26 Thread Berend Dekens
Op 06/26/09 03:17, James Harper schreef: >> Another update: I found out that the database is in fact in a "Dirty >> Shutdown" state (eseutil.exe told me that) - hence it won't work > (mount). >> I found a discussion about this here: >> > http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.ne

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems restoring an Exchange plugin backup

2009-06-26 Thread James Harper
> > > > How urgent is it to get this fixed? > > > > As far as I can tell you are doing everything right... I'll look up > > those error messages. > > > > James > I disabled the ntbackup schedule to make sure I got a 'clean' full > backup and the result is the same. I have no log files because of th

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: concurrent backups to one volume?

2009-06-26 Thread John Drescher
>> I do this every single day at home. 5 jobs concurrently write to the >> same exact volume. > > My original claim was made in the context of disk-based backups (ie. multiple > pools as I explained in the same message). Using the same exact volume (or > pool) with disk-based backup-system is quite

[Bacula-users] Antwort: Re: How to prevent two clients to run at the same time

2009-06-26 Thread C . Keschnat
Frank Altpeter wrote on 26.06.2009 11:20:06: > Frank Altpeter > 26.06.2009 11:20 > > An > > c.kesch...@internet-mit-iq.de > > Kopie > > Thema > > Re: [Bacula-users] How to prevent two clients to run at the same time > > Hi again, > > 2009/6/22 Frank Altpeter : > > 2009/6/22 : > >> You c

Re: [Bacula-users] How to prevent two clients to run at the same time

2009-06-26 Thread Frank Altpeter
Hi again, 2009/6/22 Frank Altpeter : > 2009/6/22  : >> You could just give one server a lower priority. It would then run after all >> other Jobs. The default is 10 (11 for the catalog), so Priority = 12 in the >> Job Resource will make it run later. > > Hmm, this sounds indeed like a good idea. I

Re: [Bacula-users] Release Drive0 no longer works (99% of time)

2009-06-26 Thread Thomas Glatthor
i remember that i have problems with mt and mtx after upgrading to lenny, something causes problems with their output and the mtx-changer script. e.g. "update slots" needs to run twice in most cases now i'm using self compiled version of mt and mtx and everything works just like expected. terryc

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Fwd: Re: Performance with MySQL queries since 3.0.0 (Dir inserting attributes hang)

2009-06-26 Thread Marc Cousin
On Friday 26 June 2009 09:38:37 Tom Sommer wrote: > Tom Sommer wrote: > > Okay, I added 12GB more RAM. Made my mysql tmp directory a tmpfs. Stole > > some settings from Jason's my.cnf. Upgraded to latest MySQL version. > > This seem to have done the trick. My FULL backup only took 7 hours > today,

[Bacula-users] ioctl MTWEOF error - Powervault 124T - btape fill

2009-06-26 Thread jlyle
Hi, my first post! I have a Dell Powervault 124T and I believe a Certance Tape drive (LTO-2), the Server is running Gentoo with Kernel 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 and Bacula 2.4.1-r1. Below is the latter part of a btape fill single tape, which ends in a MTWEOF error, I assume this is something I need to

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: concurrent backups to one volume?

2009-06-26 Thread terryc
Silver Salonen wrote: > On Thursday 25 June 2009 19:41:10 John Drescher wrote: There is no such limit. If you want more than one pool to write concurrently have more than 1 storage device. With disks you can have as many as you want. They can all point to the same physical storage >>

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Fwd: Re: Performance with MySQL queries since 3.0.0 (Dir inserting attributes hang)

2009-06-26 Thread Tom Sommer
Tom Sommer wrote: > Okay, I added 12GB more RAM. Made my mysql tmp directory a tmpfs. Stole > some settings from Jason's my.cnf. Upgraded to latest MySQL version. > This seem to have done the trick. My FULL backup only took 7 hours today, and completed without problems. Sadly my director daemon

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems restoring an Exchange plugin backup

2009-06-26 Thread James Harper
> I'm not sure how the Exchange plugin works here. Since you are talking > about backing up/restoring the database *file*, the Exchange plugin may > not even figure in the picture, doesn't that provide a mailbox-level backup? > > Assuming that the Exchange plugin is not part of the picture, what y

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems restoring an Exchange plugin backup

2009-06-26 Thread James Harper
> > Update: I think I found a restore setup that actually restores the > backup. The backup gets cut short when the DB is activated in Exchange > and this also crashes the Bacula FD on the target machine. > > The end is "Error: HrESERestoreComplete failed > with error 0xc7ff1004 - Unknown error."

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: concurrent backups to one volume?

2009-06-26 Thread terryc
Silver Salonen wrote: > On Friday 26 June 2009 02:07:58 terryc wrote: >> Silver Salonen wrote: >>> Eg. if we want to do ordinary Grandfather-Father-Son rotation, we >>> create 3 different pools for every job - for full, differential and >>> incremental backups. >> That is not how I understand GF