Re: [Bacula-users] what does truncate actually mean?

2013-09-17 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, 2013/9/17 Jeff MacDonald > I'm trying to find out what "truncate" actually means in the context of > bacula and purging.. > > Does it reduce the volume size to 0, or? > > Yes, it reduces a volume size to a size of Bacula label. best regards -- Radosław Korzeniewski rados...@korzeniewski

Re: [Bacula-users] about separate pools for full/diff/incremental

2013-09-17 Thread Jeff MacDonald
On 2013-09-17, at 3:53 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 09/17/13 13:57, Jeff MacDonald wrote: >> I was reading one of Dan Langilles blogs where he mentions he has a separate >> pool for full/incremental/differential backup jobs. >> >> I was wondering the though behind this and why? Does it only

Re: [Bacula-users] what does truncate actually mean?

2013-09-17 Thread Jeff MacDonald
On 2013-09-17, at 4:43 PM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: > Hello, > > 2013/9/17 Jeff MacDonald > I'm trying to find out what "truncate" actually means in the context of > bacula and purging.. > > Does it reduce the volume size to 0, or? > > > Yes, it reduces a volume size to a size of Bacu

Re: [Bacula-users] what does truncate actually mean?

2013-09-17 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, 2013/9/17 Jeff MacDonald > > On 2013-09-17, at 4:43 PM, Radosław Korzeniewski < > rados...@korzeniewski.net> wrote: > > Hello, > > 2013/9/17 Jeff MacDonald > >> I'm trying to find out what "truncate" actually means in the context of >> bacula and purging.. >> >> Does it reduce the volume

Re: [Bacula-users] Is anyone using >128K blocks with LTO-4 or LTO-5 drives?

2013-09-17 Thread Andreas Koch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/17/2013 06:42 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > What version of Bacula (btape) are you using? Version: 5.2.12 (12 September 2012) Best regards, Andreas PS: Will run Martin's requested tape tests tomorrow. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [Bacula-users] a simple question.

2013-09-17 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, 2013/9/17 Mauro Sanna > > I've configured a conuter resource, seems to work but the daemon send me > this error: > > 17-Sep 12:26 bacula-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: sql_create.c:664 > sql_create.c:664 insert INSERT INTO Counters > (Counter,Counters.MinValue,Counters.MaxValue,CurrentValue,

[Bacula-users] what does truncate actually mean?

2013-09-17 Thread Jeff MacDonald
I'm trying to find out what "truncate" actually means in the context of bacula and purging.. Does it reduce the volume size to 0, or? Jeff. -- LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! 1,500+

Re: [Bacula-users] a simple question.

2013-09-17 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:43:02 +0200, Mauro Sanna said: > > I've configured a conuter resource, seems to work but the daemon send me > this error: > > 17-Sep 12:26 bacula-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: sql_create.c:664 > sql_create.c:664 insert INSERT INTO Counters > (Counter,Counters.MinValue,Cou

Re: [Bacula-users] Is anyone using >128K blocks with LTO-4 or LTO-5 drives?

2013-09-17 Thread Kern Sibbald
What version of Bacula (btape) are you using? There was a logic error in btape that stopped reading after a certain number of bytes, because the first versions never expected to have a different block size. It seems to me that I fixed that long ago though. Best regards, Kern On 09/17/2013 03:53

Re: [Bacula-users] a simple question.

2013-09-17 Thread Mauro Sanna
I'm using bacula for debian wheezy, it's 5.2.6. Then bacula debian maintainer has packaged a buggy version. -- LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualS

Re: [Bacula-users] about separate pools for full/diff/incremental

2013-09-17 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 09/17/13 13:57, Jeff MacDonald wrote: > I was reading one of Dan Langilles blogs where he mentions he has a separate > pool for full/incremental/differential backup jobs. > > I was wondering the though behind this and why? Does it only apply to when > using tapes or are there strategic benefi

[Bacula-users] about separate pools for full/diff/incremental

2013-09-17 Thread Jeff MacDonald
I was reading one of Dan Langilles blogs where he mentions he has a separate pool for full/incremental/differential backup jobs. I was wondering the though behind this and why? Does it only apply to when using tapes or are there strategic benefits to doing it even when using files for backup vo

Re: [Bacula-users] a simple question.

2013-09-17 Thread Mauro Sanna
On 16 September 2013 15:52, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: > Hello, > > 2013/9/16 Uwe Schuerkamp > >> On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 02:35:20PM +0200, Mauro Sanna wrote: >> >> > >> > I stopped bacula-fd and delete .state files on all clients. >> > When I run backups the monthly label start at 01, it is

Re: [Bacula-users] Is anyone using >128K blocks with LTO-4 or LTO-5 drives?

2013-09-17 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:16:52 +0200, Andreas Koch said: > > > btape: btape.c:1157 Wrote 1 blocks of 524188 bytes. btape: > > btape.c:609 Wrote 1 EOF to "LTO-4" (/dev/nst0) btape: btape.c:1173 Wrote > > 1 blocks of 524188 bytes. btape: btape.c:609 Wrote 1 EOF to "LTO-4" > > (/dev/nst0)

Re: [Bacula-users] Unable to open device "Tape-0" (/dev/IBMtape0): ERR=No medium found

2013-09-17 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, 2013/9/17 Kern Sibbald > Hello, > > Since you seem to have the same problem for quite some time, you seem > to be in trouble, and since you work for a very big company, I recommend > that you find professional help (which I have suggested > previously), because you are probably trying to

Re: [Bacula-users] Is anyone using >128K blocks with LTO-4 or LTO-5 drives?

2013-09-17 Thread Andreas Koch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > btape: btape.c:1157 Wrote 1 blocks of 524188 bytes. btape: > btape.c:609 Wrote 1 EOF to "LTO-4" (/dev/nst0) btape: btape.c:1173 Wrote > 1 blocks of 524188 bytes. btape: btape.c:609 Wrote 1 EOF to "LTO-4" > (/dev/nst0) btape: btape.c:1215 Rewi

Re: [Bacula-users] Is anyone using >128K blocks with LTO-4 or LTO-5 drives?

2013-09-17 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Andreas Koch < k...@esa.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello Kern, > > the problem is not so much the risk of errors, but that btape (and > correspondingly, Bacula) fails even the simplest of readback tests

Re: [Bacula-users] Is anyone using >128K blocks with LTO-4 or LTO-5 drives?

2013-09-17 Thread Andreas Koch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Kern, the problem is not so much the risk of errors, but that btape (and correspondingly, Bacula) fails even the simplest of readback tests with block sizes above 128KB. dd works perfectly well with multi-megabyte blocks, both reading and writin

Re: [Bacula-users] USB tape drives?

2013-09-17 Thread Thomas Harold
On 9/16/2013 12:52 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > On Sat, 2013-09-14 at 14:02 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > >> My question is whether there is any such thing as a USB tape drive that >> is known to work with Bacula. > > It's clear from the responses I got that I left out an important detail, > since all the

Re: [Bacula-users] USB tape drives?

2013-09-17 Thread Guy
Yes I do this with vchanger... I treat each drive as a magazine.. and each "tape" in the magazine has a Max size.. As I started out with 500Gb drives each take is 20Gb and each magazine is set to have 10 tapes. So when I moved to 1Tb and 2Tb drives I simply added additional magazines to the dri

Re: [Bacula-users] Is anyone using >128K blocks with LTO-4 or LTO-5 drives?

2013-09-17 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, It is my opinion, based on information from a Quantum tape drive engineer and my own experiences with LTO-4 tapes that you can safely use 256K block sizes. The Quantum guy confirmed my belief that at larger block sizes you increase the risk of tape errors. Note: this was back in the days

Re: [Bacula-users] Unable to open device "Tape-0" (/dev/IBMtape0): ERR=No medium found

2013-09-17 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Since you seem to have the same problem for quite some time, you seem to be in trouble, and since you work for a very big company, I recommend that you find professional help (which I have suggested previously), because you are probably trying to do something that is not supported or not f

[Bacula-users] Unable to open device "Tape-0" (/dev/IBMtape0): ERR=No medium found

2013-09-17 Thread deepak.pal
Dear Team, I have a installed and running setup of Bacula 5.2.12 with IBM LTO4 tape library. During my scheduled jobs I am getting bellow error very frequently. 17-Sep 14:15 backup-sd JobId 84: No slot defined in catalog (slot=0) for Volume "WEB0018" on "Tape-0" (/dev /IBMtape0). 17-Sep 14:15 ba