Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] bacula mount request

2011-02-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 03 February 2011 00.37:35 Alan Brown wrote: > On 02/02/11 23:29, Alan Brown wrote: > > (Interestingly: after using tapeinfo, the PMR seems to have been > > unlocked.) > > Oops, no. It was a TapeAlert and they're only reported once. > > After another round of trying to unload the mes

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula pruning too much?

2011-02-02 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > * John Drescher schrieb am 02.02.11 um 02:43 Uhr: >> What about the media retention? The media retention periods have >> highest priority and can be pruned regardless of the what the file or >> job retention periods are. Also remember with

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula pruning too much?

2011-02-02 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
* John Drescher schrieb am 02.02.11 um 02:43 Uhr: > What about the media retention? The media retention periods have > highest priority and can be pruned regardless of the what the file or > job retention periods are. Also remember with media the settings in > the bacula-dir.conf files only apply t

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-02-02 Thread James Harper
> [1] Even RAID5/RAID6 has weaknesses. If you're interested, do a search > for "RAID5 write hole". > A sequential streaming disk write is one case where the write hole really isn't going to be a major problem. In the event of a power or hardware failure at a critical time the worst case is that

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula mount request

2011-02-02 Thread Alan Brown
On 02/02/11 23:29, Alan Brown wrote: (Interestingly: after using tapeinfo, the PMR seems to have been unlocked.) Oops, no. It was a TapeAlert and they're only reported once. After another round of trying to unload the message reappeared. # tapeinfo -f /etc/bacula/DEVICES/MSSLY8-0-sg P

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula mount request

2011-02-02 Thread Alan Brown
On 02/02/11 22:16, Jeremiah D. Jester wrote: Hello, Frequently, bacula jobs stall on a 'waiting for a mount request'. However, when I do mount the requested tape, it still doesn't run. Wondering what I'm doing wrong here. Any ideas? I've just been discussing this with HP, Overland and on

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula mount request

2011-02-02 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 5:46 PM, John Drescher wrote: >> Ok. Good to know.  So how do I remedy the situation? Restart the sd and dir? >> > > I am not entirely sure if you hit this or a bacua mounting bug that > hits me about 1 time per 3 months. Some of the time I can remedy the > situation by gett

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula mount request

2011-02-02 Thread Dan Langille
On 2/2/2011 5:44 PM, John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Dan Langille wrote: >> On 2/2/2011 5:35 PM, John Drescher wrote: Sure, when I want to unmount or unload a tape. >>> Did you do that recently? >>> >>> >>> BTW, unless you want to use the tape drive outside of

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula mount request

2011-02-02 Thread John Drescher
> Ok. Good to know.  So how do I remedy the situation? Restart the sd and dir? > I am not entirely sure if you hit this or a bacua mounting bug that hits me about 1 time per 3 months. Some of the time I can remedy the situation by getting the autoloader to load the volume I want using the bacula c

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula mount request

2011-02-02 Thread Jeremiah D. Jester
Ok. Good to know. So how do I remedy the situation? Restart the sd and dir? Jeremiah Jester Informatics Specialist Microbiology - Katze Lab 206-732-6185 -Original Message- From: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 2:35 PM To: Jeremiah D. Jeste

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula mount request

2011-02-02 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > On 2/2/2011 5:35 PM, John Drescher wrote: >>> >>> Sure, when I want to unmount or unload a tape. >>> >> Did you do that recently? >> >> >> BTW, unless you want to use the tape drive outside of bacula you >> should avoid the unmount command and

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula mount request

2011-02-02 Thread Dan Langille
On 2/2/2011 5:35 PM, John Drescher wrote: >> Sure, when I want to unmount or unload a tape. >> > Did you do that recently? > > > BTW, unless you want to use the tape drive outside of bacula you > should avoid the unmount command and use the release command instead. > The difference between the two

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula mount request

2011-02-02 Thread John Drescher
> Sure, when I want to unmount or unload a tape. > Did you do that recently? BTW, unless you want to use the tape drive outside of bacula you should avoid the unmount command and use the release command instead. The difference between the two commands is the unmount command releases bacula's cont

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula mount request

2011-02-02 Thread Jeremiah D. Jester
Sure, when I want to unmount or unload a tape. Jeremiah Jester Informatics Specialist Microbiology - Katze Lab 206-732-6185 -Original Message- From: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 2:29 PM To: Jeremiah D. Jester; bacula-users Subject: Re: [

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula mount request

2011-02-02 Thread John Drescher
> Frequently, bacula jobs stall on a ‘waiting for a mount request’. However, > when I do mount the requested tape, it still doesn’t run. Wondering what I’m > doing wrong here. Any ideas? > Do you ever issue the unmount command? John ---

[Bacula-users] bacula mount request

2011-02-02 Thread Jeremiah D. Jester
Hello, Frequently, bacula jobs stall on a 'waiting for a mount request'. However, when I do mount the requested tape, it still doesn't run. Wondering what I'm doing wrong here. Any ideas? Thanks for your time. Jeremiah *status storage Device status: Autochanger "DELL_124T" with devices:

Re: [Bacula-users] several tapes giving errors

2011-02-02 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/31/2011 9:29 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > I'm seeing errors such as this on 8 tapes in a row. These are DLT 7000 > drives. Usually I get between 53 and 80GB on one of these tapes. The > last eight tapes are getting less than 1GB. I'm not sure why yet. > These tapes have been written to before

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula paid support

2011-02-02 Thread Ralf Gross
John Drescher schrieb: > > Does anyone know or have experience with a company that offers a bacula > > support contract? I just talked with  a rep from Bacula Systems in > > Switzerland, the prices were much more than we can afford. > > > > There are a couple of users on this list that provide pai

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula paid support

2011-02-02 Thread John Drescher
> Does anyone know or have experience with a company that offers a bacula > support contract? I just talked with  a rep from Bacula Systems in > Switzerland, the prices were much more than we can afford. > There are a couple of users on this list that provide paid support. One I can remember is Ar

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula paid support

2011-02-02 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:52 PM, John Drescher wrote: >> Does anyone know or have experience with a company that offers a bacula >> support contract? I just talked with  a rep from Bacula Systems in >> Switzerland, the prices were much more than we can afford. >> > > There are a couple of users on

[Bacula-users] bacula paid support

2011-02-02 Thread Jeremiah D. Jester
Does anyone know or have experience with a company that offers a bacula support contract? I just talked with a rep from Bacula Systems in Switzerland, the prices were much more than we can afford. Thanks, JJ Jeremiah Jester Informatics Specialist Microbiology - Katze Lab 206-732-6185

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-02-02 Thread Kenneth Johansson
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 12:38 -0500, John Drescher wrote: > > So you can not have different sized disks or am I reading it wrong? > > > > One thing you can do is divide your 2TB in half making 2 filesystems > on the disk and have 1 magazine for each filesystem. I am pretty sure > the autofs mountin

Re: [Bacula-users] IBM 3573-TL, LTO5, speed

2011-02-02 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 02/02/11, yesi (y...@altern.org) wrote: > > I read so fast... > After reading the thread, there's no official backport for 5.0.3. > There's only a package from a guy : > http://chaschperli.ch/debian/lenny/ Yes, although it isn't too difficult to build it yourself. You'll need to bring down the

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-02-02 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:30 AM, John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Joseph Spenner wrote: >> --- On Wed, 2/2/11, John Drescher wrote: >> >>> From: John Drescher >>> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system. >>> To: "Kenneth Johansson" >>> Cc: bacul

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-02-02 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/2/2011 12:29 PM, Kenneth Johansson wrote: > On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 10:34 -0500, John Drescher wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Kenneth Johansson >> wrote: >>> On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 12:06 +0100, J. Echter wrote: Am 27.01.2011 15:40, schrieb Kenneth Johansson: > Is there any

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-02-02 Thread John Drescher
> That was useful I have not had the time to do any testing but I do see a > few issues. What if the disks is of different size ?? > You have to work around that. I actually have 2 different sized disks in my setup at home. I believe I tricked vchanger by changing the # of volumes when I added the

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-02-02 Thread Kenneth Johansson
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 10:34 -0500, John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Kenneth Johansson > wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 12:06 +0100, J. Echter wrote: > >> Am 27.01.2011 15:40, schrieb Kenneth Johansson: > >> > Is there any way to have a sane setup with disks ?? anyone ?? >

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-02-02 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Joseph Spenner wrote: > --- On Wed, 2/2/11, John Drescher wrote: > >> From: John Drescher >> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system. >> To: "Kenneth Johansson" >> Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2

Re: [Bacula-users] One Client with different Pools (File Retention Problem)

2011-02-02 Thread Jeremy Maes
Op 2/02/2011 16:47, Rodrigo Renie Braga schreef: I run a Incremental Backup from Monday trough Friday and, with this Pool (using the Volume Retention option), I want to keep only 1 day of Incremental Backup history, but I'm keeping the Differental and Full Backup for longer periods. How w

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring old file -> Filling DB with File Records using bscan

2011-02-02 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
"Richard Marnau" writes: > i'm stucked with a small but nasty problem. We need to restore a file > which location is known, but the exact filename is not clear. So I > need to browse old backups, but the file table has been pruned (for an > unknown reason). okay, you'll have to look into that l

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-02-02 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 2/2/11, John Drescher wrote: > From: John Drescher > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system. > To: "Kenneth Johansson" > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 8:34 AM > > You are using raid 0 and LVM for your bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-02-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 02/02/11 10:18, Kenneth Johansson wrote: > hmm yes but still it's not very efficient use of disk space. I'm going > to solve my problem by using lvm and doing a raid0 of all the disks. I > do have a rather low upper limit of storage usage that will mean I will > only have a handfull of disks any

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-02-02 Thread mayak-cq
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 16:18 +0100, Kenneth Johansson wrote: > I guess it's possible to get the autoloader script to work in some way > but it's not entirely clear to me how to do it. hej kenneth, i'm trying to do it right now -- http://sourceforge.net/projects/vchanger/ cheers m ---

Re: [Bacula-users] IBM 3573-TL, LTO5, speed

2011-02-02 Thread yesi
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 4:37 PM, yesi wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Rory Campbell-Lange < > r...@campbell-lange.net> wrote: > >> On 02/02/11, yesi (y...@altern.org) wrote: >> > > 5.0.3 would be better since it has several bug fixes for problems in >> > > 5.0.2 and earlier. >> > > >

Re: [Bacula-users] One Client with different Pools (File Retention Problem)

2011-02-02 Thread Rodrigo Renie Braga
2011/2/2 Jeremy Maes Hello list! > > In my current Bacula configuration, a single Client have different Pools > for it's Incremental, Differential and Full Backup. For a specific Client, I > have the following configuration: > > Job { > Name = job.ptierp-teste-top > Client = client.ptierp

Re: [Bacula-users] IBM 3573-TL, LTO5, speed

2011-02-02 Thread yesi
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Arunav Mandal wrote: > > > Hi, > > I have a HP HH LTO-5 drive on Ubuntu Server 10.10 and I get around 80 to > 110MB/s. I have used the same drive in Centos 5.5 and I got much less speed. > Yeah ! May you share your configs, please ? Did you change anything between

Re: [Bacula-users] IBM 3573-TL, LTO5, speed

2011-02-02 Thread yesi
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Rory Campbell-Lange < r...@campbell-lange.net> wrote: > On 02/02/11, yesi (y...@altern.org) wrote: > > > 5.0.3 would be better since it has several bug fixes for problems in > > > 5.0.2 and earlier. > > > > > Its seems that the version of Debian is with only : > >

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-02-02 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Kenneth Johansson wrote: > On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 12:06 +0100, J. Echter wrote: >> Am 27.01.2011 15:40, schrieb Kenneth Johansson: >> > Is there any way to have a sane setup with disks ?? anyone ?? > >> you could add a pool for every disk and tell bacula which pool

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula mysql problem

2011-02-02 Thread Gustavo Menezes
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Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-02-02 Thread Kenneth Johansson
On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 12:06 +0100, J. Echter wrote: > Am 27.01.2011 15:40, schrieb Kenneth Johansson: > > Is there any way to have a sane setup with disks ?? anyone ?? > you could add a pool for every disk and tell bacula which pool it has to > use on each day. You can tell bacula which pool to u

[Bacula-users] Restoring old file -> Filling DB with File Records using bscan

2011-02-02 Thread Richard Marnau
Hi all, i'm stucked with a small but nasty problem. We need to restore a file which location is known, but the exact filename is not clear. So I need to browse old backups, but the file table has been pruned (for an unknown reason). My steps: 1. Trying to Recover == Date: 2010-12-00 00

Re: [Bacula-users] One Client with different Pools (File Retention Problem)

2011-02-02 Thread Jeremy Maes
Op 2/02/2011 15:03, Rodrigo Renie Braga schreef: Hello list! In my current Bacula configuration, a single Client have different Pools for it's Incremental, Differential and Full Backup. For a specific Client, I have the following configuration: Job { Name = job.ptierp-teste-top Clien

Re: [Bacula-users] how to access a file backup manually

2011-02-02 Thread Laurent HENRY
Le Wednesday 02 February 2011 02:09:24 Dan Langille, vous avez écrit : > On 2/1/2011 11:34 AM, Laurent HENRY wrote: > > Hello > > For some reason i don't know yet, there are files in my catalog > > which are not restoring. > > How have you established this? How do you know the files are in yo

[Bacula-users] One Client with different Pools (File Retention Problem)

2011-02-02 Thread Rodrigo Renie Braga
Hello list! In my current Bacula configuration, a single Client have different Pools for it's Incremental, Differential and Full Backup. For a specific Client, I have the following configuration: Client { Name = client.ptierp-teste-top Address = ptierp-teste-top.pti Catalog = cat.defa

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows Backup Junction Point / Filesystem Question

2011-02-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>If not, what is the correct procedure to do this within Windows? >How do you list the complete filesystem so that everything shows, are >there specialist tools for this? (it appears to be impossible to access >some dirs even if using console/administrator and explorer/DOS show a >different v

Re: [Bacula-users] IBM 3573-TL, LTO5, speed

2011-02-02 Thread Arunav Mandal
From: yesi [mailto:y...@altern.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 11:21 AM To: John Drescher Cc: Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] IBM 3573-TL, LTO5, speed Hi John, Thank you for your feedback ! On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:56 PM, John Drescher wrote: >

Re: [Bacula-users] IBM 3573-TL, LTO5, speed

2011-02-02 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 02/02/11, yesi (y...@altern.org) wrote: > > 5.0.3 would be better since it has several bug fixes for problems in > > 5.0.2 and earlier. > > > Its seems that the version of Debian is with only : > bacula 5.0.2-2.2 > Since, Debian/Squeeze has been "freeze", it should

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows Backup Junction Point / Filesystem Question

2011-02-02 Thread Foo
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:24:10 +0100, John Drescher wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Randy Katz > wrote: >> On 1/31/2011 9:08 AM, John Drescher wrote: John, thanks, but this was already addressed to the list, using the onefs option to yes takes care of the is

Re: [Bacula-users] IBM 3573-TL, LTO5, speed

2011-02-02 Thread yesi
Hi John, Thank you for your feedback ! On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:56 PM, John Drescher wrote: > > I'm with Debian/Squeez and Bacula 5.0.2. > > 5.0.3 would be better since it has several bug fixes for problems in > 5.0.2 and earlier. > > Its seems that the version of Debian is with only : bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula mysql problem

2011-02-02 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
"Laxansh K. Adesara" writes: > After some headaches configuring bacula-dir I have another > problem. When I try to test bacula-dir I get following error > > Bacula-dir: Fatal error : mysql.c: unable to connect to MySQL server. > Database=bacula User=bacula > > MySQL is not the problem because when

Re: [Bacula-users] HP LTO3 tapes reference

2011-02-02 Thread Jose Antonio Rodriguez Martin
Great!!. Executing : #sg_rmsn -r /dev/st0 show Media Serial Number. Note: In Centos you need install "sg3_utils.i386" Thanks! 2011/2/1 James Harper > > Hi, > > > > HP LTO3 tapes are labeled with a unique reference. > > Is there any way to get this reference from a bash script? > > > > sg_rmsn