Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity (variable?)

2012-09-25 Thread James Harper
> > I've found LTO drives of any variety rarely need cleaning. I've found that > one > cleaning tape will usually be sufficient for the life of a library. Your > field > support may very well be right. > The drive has an internal cleaning mechanism that is activated on load http://en.wikipe

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity (variable?)

2012-09-25 Thread Cejka Rudolf
Stephen Thompson wrote (2012/09/25): > The tape in question have only been used once or twice. Do you mean just one or two drive loads and unloads? > The library is a StorageTek whose SLConsole reports no media (or drive) > errors, though I will look into those linux-based tools. There are seve

Re: [Bacula-users] How to change Maximum Volume size in Pool definition?

2012-09-25 Thread Diego Rubert
Em 25-09-2012 16:32, Jon Detert escreveu: > - Original Message - >> From: "Diego Rubert" >> To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 2:07:42 PM >> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How to change Maximum Volume size in Pool >> definition? >> >> At bconsol

Re: [Bacula-users] How to change Maximum Volume size in Pool definition?

2012-09-25 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Jon Detert wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Diego Rubert" >> To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 2:07:42 PM >> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How to change Maximum Volume size in Pool >> definition? >> >> At bco

Re: [Bacula-users] How to change Maximum Volume size in Pool definition?

2012-09-25 Thread Jon Detert
- Original Message - > From: "Diego Rubert" > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 2:07:42 PM > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How to change Maximum Volume size in Pool > definition? > > At bconsole: > *update pool=File > *update > Choose catalog item t

Re: [Bacula-users] How to change Maximum Volume size in Pool definition?

2012-09-25 Thread Jon Detert
- Original Message - > From: "Rodrigo Abrantes Antunes" > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 1:57:29 PM > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How to change Maximum Volume size in Pool > definition? > > > > > Hi, you need to manually change the maximum v

Re: [Bacula-users] How to change Maximum Volume size in Pool definition?

2012-09-25 Thread Diego Rubert
At bconsole: *update pool=File *update Choose catalog item to update (1-4): 1 Select parameter to modify (1-18): 13 Select Pool resource (1-5): However, probably you'll not be able to append data on Full volumes until you Recycle them. Don't know if you manually set them to Append status works.

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity (variable?)

2012-09-25 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Stephen Thompson : > On 09/25/2012 10:43 AM, Alan Brown wrote: >> On 25/09/12 17:43, Stephen Thompson wrote: >>> Our Sun/Oracle service engineer claims that our drives do not require >>> cleaning tapes. Does that sound legit? >> >> In general: true (as in, "Don't do it as a scheduled i

Re: [Bacula-users] How to change Maximum Volume size in Pool definition?

2012-09-25 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Jon Detert wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to bacula. I have a Pool that was set to 50GB in size. It's full > now. I'd like to increase it's size now. > I tried simply changing the 'Maximum Volume Bytes' attribute, and, in > succession, a reload, force-reload, and

Re: [Bacula-users] How to change Maximum Volume size in Pool definition?

2012-09-25 Thread Rodrigo Abrantes Antunes
Hi, you need to manually change the maximum volume bytes fot the volume using the command "update" in bconsole. The values defined in the Pool Resource have effect only in new volumes. Citando Jon Detert : Hello, I'm new to bacula.  I have a Pool that was set to 50GB in size.  It's full

[Bacula-users] How to change Maximum Volume size in Pool definition?

2012-09-25 Thread Jon Detert
Hello, I'm new to bacula. I have a Pool that was set to 50GB in size. It's full now. I'd like to increase it's size now. I tried simply changing the 'Maximum Volume Bytes' attribute, and, in succession, a reload, force-reload, and restart of the bacula-dir service, and then also the bacula-s

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity (variable?)

2012-09-25 Thread Stephen Thompson
On 09/25/2012 11:17 AM, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:00:07 -0700 > Stephen Thompson wrote: > >>> 60Mb/s is _slow_ for LTO3. You need to take a serious look at what >>> you're using as stage disk and consider using a raid0 array of SSDs >>> in order to keep up. >> Why do you

Re: [Bacula-users] Disaster Recovery Test

2012-09-25 Thread dweimer
On 2012-09-25 11:39, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: > Zitat von dweimer : > >> Now that I have been running Bacula for several months, I was >> working >> on testing disaster recovery, just in case I need to. I am a little >> lost though on what I need to do to get the database restored. I am >> goi

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity (variable?)

2012-09-25 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:00:07 -0700 Stephen Thompson wrote: > > 60Mb/s is _slow_ for LTO3. You need to take a serious look at what > > you're using as stage disk and consider using a raid0 array of SSDs > > in order to keep up. > Why do you say that's slow when the max speed appears to be 80? > ht

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity (variable?)

2012-09-25 Thread Stephen Thompson
On 09/25/2012 10:43 AM, Alan Brown wrote: > On 25/09/12 17:43, Stephen Thompson wrote: >> Our Sun/Oracle service engineer claims that our drives do not require >> cleaning tapes. Does that sound legit? > > In general: true (as in, "Don't do it as a scheduled item"), but all LTO > drives require cl

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity (variable?)

2012-09-25 Thread Clark, Patricia A.
On 9/25/12 12:43 PM, "Stephen Thompson" wrote: > > > >Thanks everyone for the suggestions, they at least give me somewhere to >look, as I was running low on ideas. > > >More info... > >The tape in question have only been used once or twice. > >The library is a StorageTek whose SLConsole reports

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity (variable?)

2012-09-25 Thread Alan Brown
On 25/09/12 17:43, Stephen Thompson wrote: > Our Sun/Oracle service engineer claims that our drives do not require > cleaning tapes. Does that sound legit? In general: true (as in, "Don't do it as a scheduled item"), but all LTO drives require cleaning tapes from time to time and sometimes benef

Re: [Bacula-users] Disaster Recovery Test

2012-09-25 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/25/2012 12:39 PM, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: > Zitat von dweimer : > >> ... >> >> Here's where things go a little wrong, I mount my external backup drive >> to the test server, launch bconsole, and issue the status command for >> the client, since I restored the state files, I can see the job

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity (variable?)

2012-09-25 Thread Stephen Thompson
Thanks everyone for the suggestions, they at least give me somewhere to look, as I was running low on ideas. More info... The tape in question have only been used once or twice. The library is a StorageTek whose SLConsole reports no media (or drive) errors, though I will look into those li

Re: [Bacula-users] Disaster Recovery Test

2012-09-25 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von dweimer : > Now that I have been running Bacula for several months, I was working > on testing disaster recovery, just in case I need to. I am a little > lost though on what I need to do to get the database restored. I am > going on the assumption that All I will have is the off site

Re: [Bacula-users] Disaster Recovery Test

2012-09-25 Thread Carsten Jensen
On 2012-09-25 16:58, dweimer wrote: > Now that I have been running Bacula for several months, I was working > on testing disaster recovery, just in case I need to. I am a little > lost though on what I need to do to get the database restored. I am > going on the assumption that All I will have

[Bacula-users] Bacula server for Windows

2012-09-25 Thread Milos Zupancic
Hi, I have read somewhere that there used to be e Bacula Server for windows, and that is was removed in later releases and that it is possible to compile it yourself. Did anyone try this with the current version of Bacula ? Kind regards, Milos Zupancic --

[Bacula-users] Disaster Recovery Test

2012-09-25 Thread dweimer
Now that I have been running Bacula for several months, I was working on testing disaster recovery, just in case I need to. I am a little lost though on what I need to do to get the database restored. I am going on the assumption that All I will have is the off site data (hopefully not ever t

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with HP Tape Library MSL6000

2012-09-25 Thread Tony Peña
ok, i got my tapelibrary running again... was my mistake, when i insert the new tape, can't see the driver with tape where is slot empty, so driver-0 was imposible always to unload because can't insert in the slot "empty" with the new :-), i remove the new, and the arm unload ok the older,... so..

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity (variable?)

2012-09-25 Thread Cejka Rudolf
> > We've been using LTO3 tapes with bacula for a few years now. Recently I've > > noticed how variable our tape capacity it, ranging from 200-800 Gb. > > Is that strictly governed by the compressibility of the actual data being > > backed up? Hello, the lower bound 200 GB on 400 GB LTO-3 tap

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity (variable?)

2012-09-25 Thread Alan Brown
On 25/09/12 09:08, Jeremy Maes wrote: > > The tape and/or drive should record the margin and other figures, but I don't > know of any Linux tools to read that information. > > The tools depend on the brand. For HP drives ltt is nice and works > flawlessly on linux command-line. It reports drive er

Re: [Bacula-users] "The sizes do not match" after cancel a job

2012-09-25 Thread John Drescher
> Hi, I manually ran a backup job for test purpose but it was taking too much > time then I canceled the job, but now I'm having "Error: Bacula cannot write > on disk Volume "x" because: The sizes do not match! Volume=79435436944 > Catalog=78583814051" and the volume is marked with Error. How c

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity (variable?)

2012-09-25 Thread Jeremy Maes
Op 25/09/2012 2:03, James Harper schreef: >> Hello all, >> >> This is not likely a bacula questions, but in the chance that it is, or the >> experience on this list, I figured I would ask. >> >> We've been using LTO3 tapes with bacula for a few years now. Recently I've >> noticed how variable our

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity (variable?)

2012-09-25 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Stephen Thompson : > Thanks for the info, John. > > Is there anyone else in the bacula community with LTO3's seeing this > behaviour? I don't believe (but am not 100% sure) that I'm having any > hardware-related issues. > > Not sure what to make of this. About 25% of tapes in a monthl

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with HP Tape Library MSL6000

2012-09-25 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Tony Peña : > hi, i try to make backup and i getting errors continues, with this messages > > 19-Sep 07:52 bacula-sd JobId 56445: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? > drive 0" command. > 19-Sep 07:52 bacula-sd JobId 56445: 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive > 0", result: nothing loaded. > 1