[Bacula-users] Attribute spooling question

2010-06-02 Thread Derek Harkness
Hi all, I have a backup job that's using data spooling. The job successful despooled all the data to tape but the bacula-director crashed before the attributes could get put into the database. Is this information lost? Is there anyway to get the attributes into the catalog without rerunning

Re: [Bacula-users] Nagios Plugins

2010-06-02 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Ken wrote: > Hi John, > > I don't use Nagios, I use Zabbix, but getting alerts for mount requests is > fairly simple. > I receive alerts for the following type of Bacula messages: > > 09-Apr 04:35 Test-sd JobId 6900: Job Example.2009-04-08_22.15.26 waiting. > Canno

Re: [Bacula-users] Nagios Plugins

2010-06-02 Thread Ken
Hi John, I don't use Nagios, I use Zabbix, but getting alerts for mount requests is fairly simple. I receive alerts for the following type of Bacula messages: 09-Apr 04:35 Test-sd JobId 6900: Job Example.2009-04-08_22.15.26 waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes. 02-Mar 08:43 Test-sd JobId

[Bacula-users] MTFSF error positioning tape following reboot

2010-06-02 Thread AndyW
I invariably get errors of the following kind when I try to append to a previously written tape following a reboot:- 31-May 23:48 bacula-dir JobId 234: Start Backup JobId 234, Job=BackupHomeDir.2010-05-31_23.48.54_04 31-May 23:48 bacula-dir JobId 234: Using Device "SLR7" 31-May 23:49 bacula-sd J

Re: [Bacula-users] change tape status while backups are running

2010-06-02 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Phil Stracchino, In message <4c06c4c7.3030...@metrocast.net> you wrote: > On 06/02/10 16:28, Jesse Angell wrote: > > Is there some way I can force it to move onto the next tape mid-backup? > > Why would you want to do that? Frankly, I'm having trouble imagining a > scenario in which you'd

Re: [Bacula-users] change tape status while backups are running

2010-06-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 06/02/10 16:28, Jesse Angell wrote: > Is there some way I can force it to move onto the next tape mid-backup? Why would you want to do that? Frankly, I'm having trouble imagining a scenario in which you'd need to do this that cannot be handled better by fixing the Pool settings. -- Phil

Re: [Bacula-users] change tape status while backups are running

2010-06-02 Thread Jesse Angell
Is there some way I can force it to move onto the next tape mid-backup? - Original Message - From: "John Drescher" To: "Jesse Angell" , "bacula-users" Sent: Wednesday, June 2, 2010 3:05:37 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] change tape status while backups are r

Re: [Bacula-users] change tape status while backups are running

2010-06-02 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Jesse Angell wrote: > If I have multiple backups running to the same virtual disk based tape and > then set that tape status to full will it simply move on to the next tape > without damaging the backups in progress or existing data? > My guess is it will ignore

[Bacula-users] bscan-recovered catalogue not usable :-(

2010-06-02 Thread Paul Mather
About three months ago I began using Bacula (5.0.0 on FreeBSD 8-STABLE), initially backing up to disk, but with a view to backing up to tape in the near future. To keep things simple, I initially used Sqlite for the catalogue. About a week ago, I decided to move to using PostgreSQL for the cat

[Bacula-users] change tape status while backups are running

2010-06-02 Thread Jesse Angell
If I have multiple backups running to the same virtual disk based tape and then set that tape status to full will it simply move on to the next tape without damaging the backups in progress or existing data? Jesse -- Th

[Bacula-users] bat media vol usage

2010-06-02 Thread snuffy
Hi, I have a installed a bacula system 5.0.2 on a SLES 11 OS. Backupjobs are working fine, but in the bat console I have some problems. 1. There is no stats about my backupjobs. may it's called jobplot (http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=bat) 2. at the menupoint media I can see my volumes. bu

[Bacula-users] wanted: DLT barcode labels

2010-06-02 Thread gonzo
I am also after around 100 DLT barcode labels (http://www.aclabels.co.uk). I was going to go to a local company but after downloading that file I have no need. Didnt realise how easy they are to make. Thanks for the link Ralf +---

Re: [Bacula-users] low despooling speeds when parallelism is increased

2010-06-02 Thread Bob Hetzel
What CPU's do you have in your 2950? I'm backing up to two LTO-2 in my PowerEdge 2900 server (dual Xeon 5160 CPU's) and it seems to be pretty maxed out with two tape drives. On my R710 I only get 70MB/sec despool rates to LTO-4 drives. If you can't get higher results when using a SAN I'd thin

Re: [Bacula-users] Nagios Plugins

2010-06-02 Thread John Drescher
> Is there any indication in a file (or output from a command) which would tell > you the status?  If so, I could write perl to check and output a certain > response.  Then, nagios could be configured as a wrapper for that and notify > accordingly.  I've done this sort of thing for systems where

Re: [Bacula-users] wanted: DLT barcode labels

2010-06-02 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Alan Brown wrote: > Ralf Brinkmann wrote: > >> Print yor own barcode labels - e.g. on self-adhesive laser printer paper >> - with an Excel sheet and a special free available Windows based true >> type font. > > Avery make specific barcode label sheets (US Letter on

Re: [Bacula-users] wanted: DLT barcode labels

2010-06-02 Thread Alan Brown
Ralf Brinkmann wrote: > Print yor own barcode labels - e.g. on self-adhesive laser printer paper > - with an Excel sheet and a special free available Windows based true > type font. Avery make specific barcode label sheets (US Letter only) with polymer substrate rather than paper for DLT and L

Re: [Bacula-users] Nagios Plugins

2010-06-02 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 6/2/10, John Drescher wrote: > Do any of the nagios plugins support > alerting if bacula is waiting for media? > John: Something like this? http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=nagios_active_checks --

[Bacula-users] Nagios Plugins

2010-06-02 Thread John Drescher
Do any of the nagios plugins support alerting if bacula is waiting for media? -- John M. Drescher -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://l

Re: [Bacula-users] low despooling speeds when parallelism is increased

2010-06-02 Thread Ralf Gross
Athanasios Douitsis schrieb: > Tuning it down to 3+3 (from the original 6+6) seems to alleviate but not > solve the problem completely. I totaly agree with your suggestion, from > this point onwards it seems to be a case of finding a spooling setup > with enough I/O oomph. > > One question howeve

Re: [Bacula-users] low despooling speeds when parallelism is increased

2010-06-02 Thread John Drescher
> If you really need to run so many jobs concurrently put as many fast > disks in the server as possible and configure them as RAID10. Or raid 0. No need for redundancy on an array that is essentially a cache. I use a 4 drive raid 0 for my bacula spool. > Maybe > use SSD's instead of SATA/SAS Dis

Re: [Bacula-users] low despooling speeds when parallelism is increased

2010-06-02 Thread Athanasios Douitsis
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 12:11:57PM +0200, Ralf Gross wrote: > > I've had the same problem. First I started with a simple 2 Disk RAID1 > as spool area for our 3 LTO-4 drives. With more jobs running in > parallel this was simply not enought. In the end I put 6 WD Raptor > SATA drives in the server,

Re: [Bacula-users] low despooling speeds when parallelism is increased

2010-06-02 Thread Ralf Gross
Athanasios Douitsis schrieb: > > Hi everyone, > > Our setup consists of a Dell 2950 server (PERC6i) w/ FreeBSD7 and two HP > Ultrium LTO4 drives installed in a twin Quantum autochanger enclosure. > Our bacula version is 5.0.0 (which is the current FreeBSD port version). > > Here is our problem

[Bacula-users] low despooling speeds when parallelism is increased

2010-06-02 Thread Athanasios Douitsis
Hi everyone, Our setup consists of a Dell 2950 server (PERC6i) w/ FreeBSD7 and two HP Ultrium LTO4 drives installed in a twin Quantum autochanger enclosure. Our bacula version is 5.0.0 (which is the current FreeBSD port version). Here is our problem: When running a single job, our setup is ab

[Bacula-users] Autochanger, checking valid volumes in all drives ?

2010-06-02 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi guys, we have a 127 slot / 3 drive library, which is working great . Drives 0 and 1 are set for automatic use. We have 2 jobs, offsite and local, and a separate pool for each job, with tapes being picked up from Scratch. This works fine too. Both jobs are configured to use the autochanger stor