Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes

2012-02-08 Thread John Drescher
> Thanks John, what is the catalog good for? Does it have any impact on the > four servers (mail server, file server, etc.) which have been backed up with > Bacula? > The catalog is the database that bacula uses to keep a record of what it has backed up, and what media it has used ... Without a c

[Bacula-users] FreeBSD 9 and ZFS with compression - should be fine?

2012-02-08 Thread Mark
Just checking to see if people are having success with storage daemon running on FreeBSD 9.0 with ZFS and compression enabled? I ask because I'm having issues with the backups completing without any errors reported, but then an immediate restore attempt fails due to block checksum mismatches, or t

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes

2012-02-08 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Honia wrote: > Right, that was when I had the BackupCatalog as a part of my backup routine. > But if I disable the BackupCatalog job, all other four jobs run smoothly > without any errors. Now my question was if I keep the BackupCatalog disabled, > does it have a

Re: [Bacula-users] Unusually high compression ratio/capacity for LTO-4 tapes?

2012-02-08 Thread Josh Nielsen
Sweet! I did not know that. I'll take that ANY day of the week. Thanks Edward & John for the responses. On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Edward M. Markowski wrote: > > I also used to think that the upper number in the tape raiting was a hard > limit, it is not. > > You just happen to have data in

Re: [Bacula-users] Unusually high compression ratio/capacity for LTO-4 tapes?

2012-02-08 Thread Edward M. Markowski
I also used to think that the upper number in the tape raiting was a hard limit, it is not. You just happen to have data in your file system that is HIGHLY compressable, congrats. On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Josh Nielsen wrote: Hello, I am relatively new to tape backups in general and I have rec

Re: [Bacula-users] Unusually high compression ratio/capacity for LTO-4 tapes?

2012-02-08 Thread John Drescher
> Has anyone heard of getting more capacity out of an LTO-4 tape than it is > rated for? Or are the byte amounts inflated, possibly, by artificially > counting skipped-over file systems? I got several messages like "/boot is a > different filesystem. Will not descend from / into /boot", but you wou

Re: [Bacula-users] smartall.c:145 Out of memory

2012-02-08 Thread Gino Lisignoli
On 09/02/12 09:57, Joe Nyland wrote: On 8 Feb 2012, at 20:18, Gino Lisignoli wrote: Hello! I seem to be having an issue restoring backups from one of my servers. Whenever I try to do a restore from it bacula-dir crashes and returns me to the prompt [root@server:/root] bconsole Connecting

Re: [Bacula-users] smartall.c:145 Out of memory

2012-02-08 Thread Joe Nyland
On 8 Feb 2012, at 20:18, Gino Lisignoli wrote: > Hello! > > I seem to be having an issue restoring backups from one of my servers. > Whenever I try to do a restore from it bacula-dir crashes and returns me to > the prompt > > [root@server:/root] bconsole > Connecting to Director localhost:910

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes

2012-02-08 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Honia A wrote: > When I go to bconsole and type status, then no. 4, I get the *Backup OK* > message at the end of all the jobs, so nothing fails. Is there any way I can > check to see what's failing? > >From your output a few emails back it was the catalog job that

[Bacula-users] Unusually high compression ratio/capacity for LTO-4 tapes?

2012-02-08 Thread Josh Nielsen
Hello, I am relatively new to tape backups in general and I have recently become accustomed to using bacula, and I have a quick question about compression ratios/storage capacity on LTO tapes. I have an IBM 24-tape library with Sony Ultrium LTO-4 tapes (Rated: 800GB/1,600GB compressed). I recently

[Bacula-users] smartall.c:145 Out of memory

2012-02-08 Thread Gino Lisignoli
Hello! I seem to be having an issue restoring backups from one of my servers. Whenever I try to do a restore from it bacula-dir crashes and returns me to the prompt [root@server:/root] bconsole Connecting to Director localhost:9101 1000 OK: server-dir Version: 5.0.3 (04 August 2010) Enter a p

[Bacula-users] Fatal error: sql_create.c:894 Fill File table Query failed

2012-02-08 Thread Maria McKinley
Hi there, I had a backup go horribly bad the other day. I believe it was because of a lost connection during the backup. Since then, I have not been able to do backup. I have tried using both dbcheck and myisamchk to repair the databases, but this has not helped. I am afraid my knowledge of my

Re: [Bacula-users] missing a file during verification

2012-02-08 Thread Doug Sampson
> > On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 17:48:51 -0800, Doug Sampson said: > > > > I've outputted a list of files from this and compared with the bls > > output. > > Even though the bconsole 'list' files reports 989 lines, there are > > actually only 988 lines as far as I can determine. The output between > > t

Re: [Bacula-users] Database insert error in bacula-5.2.5.

2012-02-08 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:43 PM, John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:19 AM, John Drescher wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Geert Stappers >> wrote: >>> Op 20120202 om 18:12 schreef John Drescher: Op 20120202 om 17:40 schreef Marty Frasier: > I GRANTed rights to use

Re: [Bacula-users] Database insert error in bacula-5.2.5.

2012-02-08 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:19 AM, John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Geert Stappers > wrote: >> Op 20120202 om 18:12 schreef John Drescher: >>> Op 20120202 om 17:40 schreef Marty Frasier: >>> > I GRANTed rights to user bacula for that table and in addition usage >>> > must be gr

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes

2012-02-08 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Honia A wrote: > Yes there is, but I just found out it has been commented out. Not sure if > the previous IT person who installed Bacula intentially commented this out > or not. But if I leave it like that and disable the job BackupCatalog from > bconsole, what woul

Re: [Bacula-users] Database insert error in bacula-5.2.5.

2012-02-08 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Geert Stappers wrote: > Op 20120202 om 18:12 schreef John Drescher: >> Op 20120202 om 17:40 schreef Marty Frasier: >> > I GRANTed rights to user bacula for that table and in addition usage >> > must be granted for the related sequence (postgresql). >> > >> > This is

[Bacula-users] automatic volume recycling in Bacula 2.4.4

2012-02-08 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
Hello, >From what I've read in the archives, this is a tricky subject. I've regularly had issues with this in the past, and have stumbled upon a few threads that deal with it. That, coupled with some unholy kludges (such as disabling the /Enabled/ field for volumes I wanted left alone) has gotten

Re: [Bacula-users] Database insert error in bacula-5.2.5.

2012-02-08 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 20120202 om 18:12 schreef John Drescher: > Op 20120202 om 17:40 schreef Marty Frasier: > > I GRANTed rights to user bacula for that table and in addition usage > > must be granted for the related sequence (postgresql). > > > > This is what I have now: > > bacula=# \dp restoreobject* > >