Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape not compressing data/premature end of tape space

2010-09-01 Thread Rodrigo Ferraz
Problem solved! Steve Ellis pointed that there was a problem with my stinit command. As you'll all notice below (my original message/post), the first output of stinit is identifying /dev/nst0 and /dev/nst0l as mode 0 and 1, respectively. But this output is not correct, it's a bug in version 0.9

Re: [Bacula-users] Verify differences: SHA1 sum doesn't match but it should

2010-09-01 Thread Tobias Brink
Tobias Brink writes: > So I still don't know how to proceed. Apart from that I will try to > upgrade my director and sd to 5.0.2 as soon as Debian backports are > available and see if the problem goes away. I will also re-run the > DiskToCatalog after my next differential backup and see if some

Re: [Bacula-users] RES: RES: LTO-3 tape not compressing data/premature end of tape space

2010-09-01 Thread Brian Debelius
It's default is 0 since you do no normally do not want to limit how much is written to the tape. In bconsole * llist volumes pool=yourpool MediaId: 121 VolumeName: B004 Slot: 0 PoolId: 12 MediaType: X10 FirstWritten: 2010-03-30 09:55:0

Re: [Bacula-users] RES: RES: LTO-3 tape not compressing data/premature end of tape space

2010-09-01 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Rodrigo Ferraz wrote: > Hi John. No software compression is enabled in bacula. Files are basically > compressible files, such as MS Office, engineer drawings, images, text files, > etc. Just a fraction of them are compressed files (.ZIP and .RAR), not more > than

Re: [Bacula-users] RES: RES: LTO-3 tape not compressing data/premature end of tape space

2010-09-01 Thread Rodrigo Ferraz
Hi John. No software compression is enabled in bacula. Files are basically compressible files, such as MS Office, engineer drawings, images, text files, etc. Just a fraction of them are compressed files (.ZIP and .RAR), not more than 5%. Regarding your second comment I guess it could be the cas

Re: [Bacula-users] RES: RES: LTO-3 tape not compressing data/premature end of tape space

2010-09-01 Thread John Drescher
> Yes John, they are LTO-3 tapes. > Is your data already compressed (.zip, .bz2, .7z, .mpeg ...)? Or is software compression enabled? If not I am not sure. Bacula does not directly control the drive. It relies on the OS to tell it that the tape is full. Well actually this process is not even that

[Bacula-users] RES: RES: RES: LTO-3 tape not compressing data/premature end of tape space

2010-09-01 Thread Rodrigo Ferraz
Yes John, they are LTO-3 tapes. -Mensagem original- De: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] Enviada em: quarta-feira, 1 de setembro de 2010 15:04 Para: Rodrigo Ferraz Cc: Brian Debelius; bacula-users Assunto: Re: [Bacula-users] RES: RES: LTO-3 tape not compressing data/premature

Re: [Bacula-users] RES: RES: LTO-3 tape not compressing data/premature end of tape space

2010-09-01 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Rodrigo Ferraz wrote: > Hello Brian > > Nothing at all. The only Maximum' statements i could find in config files are > these: > > [r...@br01 /etc/bacula]# grep -i maximum * | grep -v "#" > bacula-dir.conf:  Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 5 > bacula-fd.conf:  Maximum Co

[Bacula-users] RES: RES: LTO-3 tape not compressing data/premature end of tape space

2010-09-01 Thread Rodrigo Ferraz
Hello Steve Thanks. Tapeinfo output is on my first message (as well as other troubleshooting info). It says 'DataCompEnabled: yes'. Cheers, Rodrigo -Mensagem original- De: Steve Ellis [mailto:el...@brouhaha.com] Enviada em: quarta-feira, 1 de setembro de 2010 14:48 Para: bacula-users@l

[Bacula-users] RES: RES: LTO-3 tape not compressing data/premature end of tape space

2010-09-01 Thread Rodrigo Ferraz
Hello Brian Nothing at all. The only Maximum' statements i could find in config files are these: [r...@br01 /etc/bacula]# grep -i maximum * | grep -v "#" bacula-dir.conf: Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 5 bacula-fd.conf: Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1 bacula-sd.conf: Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1 bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] RES: LTO-3 tape not compressing data/premature end of tape space

2010-09-01 Thread Steve Ellis
On 9/1/2010 7:09 AM, Brian Debelius wrote: >Is Maximum Volume Bytes set in the catalog for these tapes? > > On 9/1/2010 9:15 AM, Rodrigo Ferraz wrote: >> Certainly. The schedule comprises 6 different tapes, between monthly and >> weekly pools, and the problem is exactly the same with all of

Re: [Bacula-users] Bat on Windows: Jobs Run pane is empty!

2010-09-01 Thread Mark Nienberg
On 8/25/2010 2:51 AM, Niccolo Rigacci wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:09:29AM +0200, Niccolo Rigacci wrote: >> >> I just installed Bat on Windows Server 2003, I tried both >> win32bacula-5.0.2.exe and win32bacula-5.0.3.exe, but the result >> is always the same: the "Jobs Run" pane remains empty

[Bacula-users] Bacula Randomly Using Volumes from Pool

2010-09-01 Thread Michael Edwards
Hi All, A quick question (hopefully) regarding bacula's choice of tapes within a given pool. I began using bacula recently and found that some of the time, bacula will begin writing to a tape/volume within a given pool, before the previous (still appendable) tape is full. This isn't really an

Re: [Bacula-users] RES: LTO-3 tape not compressing data/premature end of tape space

2010-09-01 Thread Brian Debelius
Is Maximum Volume Bytes set in the catalog for these tapes? On 9/1/2010 9:15 AM, Rodrigo Ferraz wrote: > Certainly. The schedule comprises 6 different tapes, between monthly and > weekly pools, and the problem is exactly the same with all of them. > > Rodrigo > > -Mensagem original- > D

Re: [Bacula-users] Job is waiting on Storage

2010-09-01 Thread Marco Lertora
Il 31/08/2010 21.00, Marco Lertora ha scritto: Marco Lertora wrote: Il 31/08/2010 17.27, Bill Arlofski ha scritto: On 08/31/10 08:44, Marco Lertora wrote: Hi! I've the same problem! anyone found a solution? I have 3 concurrent jobs, which backup from different fd to the sam

[Bacula-users] RES: LTO-3 tape not compressing data/premature end of tape space

2010-09-01 Thread Rodrigo Ferraz
Certainly. The schedule comprises 6 different tapes, between monthly and weekly pools, and the problem is exactly the same with all of them. Rodrigo -Mensagem original- De: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] Enviada em: quarta-feira, 1 de setembro de 2010 10:07 Para: Rodrigo Fe

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape not compressing data/premature end of tape space

2010-09-01 Thread John Drescher
> We've been facing this problem for a while and unfortunately we are still > unable to find an effective solution, so any help would be greatly > appreciated. > > The problem: bacula is only filling LTO-3 until exactly 394.38 GB and not > going any further a single byte. Looks like tape compres

Re: [Bacula-users] Installing Bacula on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5.5 (Tikanga)

2010-09-01 Thread Jeroen van Meeuwen
Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi, Joseph. > > On Thursday, 12 August 2010 20:00:29 +, > Joseph L. Casale wrote: > > > I've been following this thread in hopes of uncovering the reason why > > the op would even compile himself for a platform that has precompiled > > binaries available (lets forgo th

[Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape not compressing data/premature end of tape space

2010-09-01 Thread Rodrigo Ferraz
Hello We've been facing this problem for a while and unfortunately we are still unable to find an effective solution, so any help would be greatly appreciated. The problem: bacula is only filling LTO-3 until exactly 394.38 GB and not going any further a single byte. Looks like tape compression