[Bacula-users] Some Operational Questions: Backing up lots of stuff

2009-08-14 Thread K. M. Peterson
Hi everyone, I have some strategy questions. We've been using Bacula for about 18 months; backing up ~3.5TB/week to DLT-S4 (Quantum SuperLoader). We are still on 2.2.8, but will be upgrading to 3.x this fall. Thanks to everyone on this list, and the Bacula team for an excellent product. We hav

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula backups and restores

2009-08-14 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 06:13:11 -0400, tqz said: > > --===6257829277651962677== > > > Hello all > > Lets say in the event that disaster strikes and all data on my server is > lost for whatever reason. I have encrypted backups of the data on the server > stored on tapes (on and o

Re: [Bacula-users] mtx: Unknown Storage Element Loaded

2009-08-14 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Dan Langille wrote: > > I made a similar tweak to try and use the I/O slots and backed it out > > for this reason. > > Can someone explain what IO slots are? And why I have 36 of them? They are traditionally used for (un)loading individual tapes (mailslots) without stopping

Re: [Bacula-users] mtx: Unknown Storage Element Loaded

2009-08-14 Thread Dan Langille
On Fri, August 14, 2009 3:17 pm, Alan Brown wrote: > I made a similar tweak to try and use the I/O slots and backed it out > for this reason. Can someone explain what IO slots are? And why I have 36 of them? -- Dan Langille -- http://langille.org/

Re: [Bacula-users] mtx: Unknown Storage Element Loaded

2009-08-14 Thread Alan Brown
People, PLEASE trim when quoting! On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, John Drescher wrote: > >> I can tell you that my IMPORT/EXPORT slot does work correctly after a > >> slight modification of the mtx-changer script. Although after I put a > >> tape in it the first time I run update slots bacula says there ar

Re: [Bacula-users] mtx: Unknown Storage Element Loaded

2009-08-14 Thread Dan Langille
On Fri, August 14, 2009 2:04 pm, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > 14.08.2009 19:26, Dan Langille wrote: >> On Fri, August 14, 2009 12:23 pm, John Drescher wrote: >>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Dan Langille wrote: On Fri, August 14, 2009 11:39 am, Dan Langille wrote: > On Fri, August 1

Re: [Bacula-users] mtx: Unknown Storage Element Loaded

2009-08-14 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > > On Fri, August 14, 2009 1:43 pm, John Drescher wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Dan Langille wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, August 14, 2009 12:23 pm, John Drescher wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > On F

Re: [Bacula-users] mtx: Unknown Storage Element Loaded

2009-08-14 Thread Dan Langille
On Fri, August 14, 2009 1:43 pm, John Drescher wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Dan Langille wrote: >> >> On Fri, August 14, 2009 12:23 pm, John Drescher wrote: >>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Dan Langille wrote: On Fri, August 14, 2009 11:39 am, Dan Langille wrote: > >

Re: [Bacula-users] mtx: Unknown Storage Element Loaded

2009-08-14 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 14.08.2009 19:26, Dan Langille wrote: > On Fri, August 14, 2009 12:23 pm, John Drescher wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Dan Langille wrote: >>> On Fri, August 14, 2009 11:39 am, Dan Langille wrote: On Fri, August 14, 2009 11:13 am, Dan Langille wrote: > Changing the subjec

Re: [Bacula-users] mtx: Unknown Storage Element Loaded

2009-08-14 Thread Dan Langille
On Fri, August 14, 2009 1:26 pm, Dan Langille wrote: > > On Fri, August 14, 2009 12:23 pm, John Drescher wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Dan Langille wrote: >>> On Fri, August 14, 2009 11:39 am, Dan Langille wrote: On Fri, August 14, 2009 11:13 am, Dan Langille wrote: > C

Re: [Bacula-users] mtx: Unknown Storage Element Loaded

2009-08-14 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > > On Fri, August 14, 2009 12:23 pm, John Drescher wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Dan Langille wrote: >>> On Fri, August 14, 2009 11:39 am, Dan Langille wrote: On Fri, August 14, 2009 11:13 am, Dan Langille wrote: > Ch

Re: [Bacula-users] mtx: Unknown Storage Element Loaded

2009-08-14 Thread Dan Langille
On Fri, August 14, 2009 12:23 pm, John Drescher wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Dan Langille wrote: >> On Fri, August 14, 2009 11:39 am, Dan Langille wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, August 14, 2009 11:13 am, Dan Langille wrote: Changing the subject, given the change in subject.  :) >>>

Re: [Bacula-users] mtx: Unknown Storage Element Loaded

2009-08-14 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > On Fri, August 14, 2009 11:39 am, Dan Langille wrote: >> >> On Fri, August 14, 2009 11:13 am, Dan Langille wrote: >>> Changing the subject, given the change in subject.  :) >>> >>> On Thu, August 13, 2009 3:14 pm, John Drescher wrote: On

Re: [Bacula-users] mtx: Unknown Storage Element Loaded

2009-08-14 Thread Dan Langille
On Fri, August 14, 2009 11:39 am, Dan Langille wrote: > > On Fri, August 14, 2009 11:13 am, Dan Langille wrote: >> Changing the subject, given the change in subject. :) >> >> On Thu, August 13, 2009 3:14 pm, John Drescher wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:09 PM, John Drescher >>> wrote: On

Re: [Bacula-users] mtx: Unknown Storage Element Loaded

2009-08-14 Thread Dan Langille
On Fri, August 14, 2009 11:13 am, Dan Langille wrote: > Changing the subject, given the change in subject. :) > > On Thu, August 13, 2009 3:14 pm, John Drescher wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:09 PM, John Drescher >> wrote: >>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Dan Langille wrote: On Thu,

[Bacula-users] mtx: Unknown Storage Element Loaded

2009-08-14 Thread Dan Langille
Changing the subject, given the change in subject. :) On Thu, August 13, 2009 3:14 pm, John Drescher wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:09 PM, John Drescher > wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Dan Langille wrote: >>> On Thu, August 13, 2009 2:27 pm, Dan Langille wrote: On Thu,

Re: [Bacula-users] btape fails to see loaded tape

2009-08-14 Thread Dan Langille
On Fri, August 14, 2009 6:40 am, Alan Brown wrote: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Dan Langille wrote: > >> I think we have a problem: > > I flagged this a couple of years ago with Overland changers. > >> [dlangi...@backup01 bacula]$ sudo /usr/sbin/mtx -f /dev/sg4 load 3 >> [dlangi...@backup01 bacula]$ sud

Re: [Bacula-users] btape fails to see loaded tape

2009-08-14 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Dan Langille wrote: > I think we have a problem: I flagged this a couple of years ago with Overland changers. > [dlangi...@backup01 bacula]$ sudo /usr/sbin/mtx -f /dev/sg4 load 3 > [dlangi...@backup01 bacula]$ sudo /usr/sbin/mtx -f /dev/sg4 status > Storage Changer /dev/sg

Re: [Bacula-users] BACULA hang: waiting on max Storage jobs

2009-08-14 Thread Fabio Xarax
Sorry: forgot to say that i can run till 64 concurrent job before now all was ok! Fabio 2009/8/14 Fabio Xarax > Hi All! > > I noticed that someone else got this kind of problem. > Now i try to describe it. > whith status director I have: > JobId Level Name Status > =

[Bacula-users] BACULA hang: waiting on max Storage jobs

2009-08-14 Thread Fabio Xarax
Hi All! I noticed that someone else got this kind of problem. Now i try to describe it. whith status director I have: JobId Level Name Status == 5226 Fullcli101.j.2009-08-13_23.00.00_14 SD despooling

[Bacula-users] Hope usefull script if you know % of progress backup

2009-08-14 Thread Fabio Xarax
Hi All! I hope thi can be usefull the script return lines like this JobId= 5257 | Now: 58.81% Files=217437 Bytes=224761256596 Bytes/sec=7269592 Errors=3 (on tot.byte= 382146782310) 08:35:18<-- duration JobId= 5226 | Now: 73.15% Files=1580436 Bytes=217781667592 Bytes/sec=5045914 Er