Re: [Bacula-users] Device

2011-07-10 Thread Mike Hobbs
On 7/10/2011 11:14 AM, Mike Hobbs wrote: > I've had concurrent backups working fine for the past few days, this > morning I login to check my server and I noticed that bacula/vchanger is > only using 2 of my 4 virtual drives. I don't understand why, could you > point me in the right direction to f

Re: [Bacula-users] Catastrophic error. Cannot write overflow block todevice"LTO4"

2011-07-10 Thread Steve Costaras
-Original Message- >I suggest running smaller jobs. I don't mean to sound trite, but thatreally is >the solution. Given that the alternative is non-trivial, thesensible choice >is, I'm afraid, cancel the job. I'm already kicking off 20+ jobs for a single system already. This does not

Re: [Bacula-users] Catastrophic error. Cannot write overflow block to device"LTO4"

2011-07-10 Thread Dan Langille
Resending, with additional information. On Jul 10, 2011, at 3:18 PM, Steve Costaras wrote: > > -Original Message- > From: Dan Langille [mailto:d...@langille.org] > Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 12:58 PM > To: stev...@chaven.com > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacu

Re: [Bacula-users] Catastrophic error. Cannot write overflow block to device"LTO4"

2011-07-10 Thread Dan Langille
On Jul 10, 2011, at 3:18 PM, Steve Costaras wrote: > > -Original Message- > From: Dan Langille [mailto:d...@langille.org] > Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 12:58 PM > To: stev...@chaven.com > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Catastrophic error. Cannot wri

Re: [Bacula-users] Catastrophic error. Cannot write overflow block to device "LTO4"

2011-07-10 Thread Steve Costaras
> Just had a quick look... the "read-only" message is this in stored/block.c: > > if (!dev->can_append()) { > dev->dev_errno = EIO; > Jmsg1(jcr, M_FATAL, 0, _("Attempt to write on read-only Volume. dev=%s\n"), > dev->print_name()); > return false; > } > >And can_append() is: > >int can_append()

Re: [Bacula-users] Catastrophic error. Cannot write overflow block to device "LTO4"

2011-07-10 Thread James Harper
> > no idea, if we can find out what triggered the original message. Without > doing anything physical, I did an umount storage=LTO4 from bacula and then > went and did a full btape rawfill without a single problem on the volume: > > *status > Bacula status: file=0 block=1 > Device status:

Re: [Bacula-users] Catastrophic error. Cannot write overflow block to device "LTO4"

2011-07-10 Thread Steve Costaras
no idea, if we can find out what triggered the original message. Without doing anything physical, I did an umount storage=LTO4 from bacula and then went and did a full btape rawfill without a single problem on the volume: *status Bacula status: file=0 block=1 Device status: ONLINE IM_REP_EN f

Re: [Bacula-users] Setting Priority

2011-07-10 Thread Ben Walton
Excerpts from Mike Hobbs's message of Fri Jul 08 15:23:47 -0400 2011: Hi Mike, > Due to the amount of data and machines I'll be backing up, I can see > that when the first of the month comes around, running all my level > 0 (Full) backups is going to take a week or more. I'm concerned > because

Re: [Bacula-users] Catastrophic error. Cannot write overflow block to device "LTO4"

2011-07-10 Thread James Harper
> > 3000 OK label. VolBytes=1024 DVD=0 Volume="FA0016" Device="LTO4" (/dev/nst0) > Requesting to mount LTO4 ... > 3905 Bizarre wait state 7 > Do not forget to mount the drive!!! > 2011-07-10 03SD-loki JobId 6: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume "FA0016" on > device "LTO4" (/dev/nst0) > 2011-07-1

[Bacula-users] Bacula Client for Mac OS X Snow Leopard

2011-07-10 Thread tscollins
Daniel, You need to verify that you have the proper SDKs. To do this look in the /Developer/SDKs/ directory and you should see MacOSX10.4u.sdk, MacOSX10.5.sdk and MacOSX10.6.sdk if you don't see all three SDKs then grab a Snow Leopard DVD and open the 'Optional Installs' folder and double click

[Bacula-users] Mac OS X client fails to backup

2011-07-10 Thread tscollins
I'm new to Bacula and am having trouble getting backups of two Mac OS X clients to work. I think the problem is with my configuration and hope someone can correct my errors. Here are the conf files: Mac1 bacula-fd.conf Director { Name = dracula-dir Password = "blah" } Director { Name = dra

Re: [Bacula-users] Catastrophic error. Cannot write overflow block to device"LTO4"

2011-07-10 Thread Steve Costaras
-Original Message- From: Dan Langille [mailto:d...@langille.org] Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 12:58 PM To: stev...@chaven.com Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Catastrophic error. Cannot write overflow block to device "LTO4" >> >> 2) since everything is sp

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy/Migration utilization

2011-07-10 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
schrieb Harald Schmalzbauer am 10.07.2011 16:28 (localtime): > schrieb Adrian Reyer am 10.07.2011 15:58 (localtime): > ... >> I found using Spool Data for copy jobs to be faster for my setup. I have >> fast local disks for spooling, but some of my disk storage is accessed >> vie iSCSI on 1-GBit/s-l

Re: [Bacula-users] Catastrophic error. Cannot write overflow block to device "LTO4"

2011-07-10 Thread Dan Langille
On Jul 10, 2011, at 8:17 AM, Steve Costaras wrote: > > > I am trying a full backup/multi-job to a single client and all was going well > until this morning when I received the error below. All other jobs were > also canceled. > > My question is two fold: > > 1) What the heck is this err

Re: [Bacula-users] Device

2011-07-10 Thread Mike Hobbs
On 6/29/2011 5:05 PM, Josh Fisher wrote: > By default, Bacula will select a volume that is already in a drive in > preference to a volume not in a drive. For concurrent jobs writing to > the same pool, this means they will always select the same volume. Thus > if you set MaximumConcurrentJobs=1 in

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy/Migration utilization

2011-07-10 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
schrieb Adrian Reyer am 10.07.2011 15:58 (localtime): ... > I found using Spool Data for copy jobs to be faster for my setup. I have > fast local disks for spooling, but some of my disk storage is accessed > vie iSCSI on 1-GBit/s-links. > However, I am currently running a few copy jobs and the limi

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy/Migration utilization

2011-07-10 Thread Adrian Reyer
Hi Harry, On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 03:39:36PM +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > The server is at remote site, so I can't hear any mechanicals, but I > guess "at rest" means stop, thus my worries about extensive repositioning. Sorry, I am no expert on drives and only use bacula my very self for 6

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy/Migration utilization

2011-07-10 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
schrieb Adrian Reyer am 10.07.2011 14:43 (localtime): > Hi Harry, > > On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 01:38:52PM +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: >> of a average transfer rate of 65MB/s makes me worrying about massive >> repositioning. > > AFAIK LTO-Drives have adaptive speeds compared to older technolo

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy/Migration utilization

2011-07-10 Thread Adrian Reyer
Hi Harry, On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 01:38:52PM +0200, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > of a average transfer rate of 65MB/s makes me worrying about massive > repositioning. AFAIK LTO-Drives have adaptive speeds compared to older technologies. If the data comes in slower, the drive will just run slower

[Bacula-users] Catastrophic error. Cannot write overflow block to device "LTO4"

2011-07-10 Thread Steve Costaras
I am trying a full backup/multi-job to a single client and all was going well until this morning when I received the error below. All other jobs were also canceled. My question is two fold: 1) What the heck is this error? I can unmount the drive, issue a rawfill to the tape w/ btape an

[Bacula-users] Copy/Migration utilization

2011-07-10 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Dear bacula insiders, I got a replacement for my old DDS5 - a LTO4. Setup is D2D2T. The problem is not the setup, but the tape drive utilization. The disk-storage can provide well over 300MByte/s, and using tar with -b 126 or dump or dd, I see 78-160MB/s moving to the drive. So the problem is prob