Re: [Bacula-users] Thanks From Me Too!

2014-04-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/02/14 19:18, Richard Fox wrote: > Hi, > > I also would like to thank Kern Sibbald all of the other people involved > in the Bacula project and John Drescher for suggesting it to me probably a > long time ago. I was previously using commercial backup software and was > forbidden by the ven

[Bacula-users] Thanks From Me Too!

2014-04-02 Thread Richard Fox
Hi, I also would like to thank Kern Sibbald all of the other people involved in the Bacula project and John Drescher for suggesting it to me probably a long time ago. I was previously using commercial backup software and was forbidden by the vendor to adapt it to the changing architecture of ou

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Changer Wait directive

2014-04-02 Thread Alan Brown
On 02/04/14 18:07, Rao, Uthra R. (GSFC-672.0)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC] wrote: > Alan, > > In my case it looks like the autochanger is unable to get the tape out of its > slot. I have already opened a case with IBM and they suggested a Firmware > upgrade which I did last week. This problem has not occur

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Changer Wait directive

2014-04-02 Thread Rao, Uthra R. (GSFC-672.0)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC]
Alan, In my case it looks like the autochanger is unable to get the tape out of its slot. I have already opened a case with IBM and they suggested a Firmware upgrade which I did last week. This problem has not occurred since the firmware upgrade but I have to wait longer for this conclusion. I

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Changer Wait directive

2014-04-02 Thread Alan Brown
On 02/04/14 17:18, Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote: > Hi Ulthra, > > I had this problem with my tape library. But it was just with one > specific slot. It had physical problems and frequently stuck the tape. I've run into jamming problems too (but that was on a Neo8000) Does the tape library have a fr

[Bacula-users] Purging daily backups after 1 week?

2014-04-02 Thread leftism
Hello. I've setup Bacula to backup daily,weekly and monthly. I wonder if it is possible to setup Bacula so daily backups that are older then 1 week are purged so that backups older than 1 week are only weeklies and monthlies and not dailys. Thanks +-

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Changer Wait directive

2014-04-02 Thread Ana Emília M . Arruda
Hi Ulthra, I had this problem with my tape library. But it was just with one specific slot. It had physical problems and frequently stuck the tape. Regards, Ana On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Rao, Uthra R. (GSFC-672.0)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC] wrote: > How is the library connected to the bacula se

Re: [Bacula-users] Last Volume Bytes?

2014-04-02 Thread Ben Laurie
On 2 April 2014 14:01, John Drescher wrote: >> To be clear: raw, uncompressed bytes (even if the compression was done >> by Bacula)? > > Yes. Thanks! -- ___ Bacula-users mailin

Re: [Bacula-users] Last Volume Bytes?

2014-04-02 Thread Ben Laurie
On 2 April 2014 14:01, John Drescher wrote: >> To be clear: raw, uncompressed bytes (even if the compression was done >> by Bacula)? > > Yes. Thanks! -- ___ Bacula-users mailin

Re: [Bacula-users] Last Volume Bytes?

2014-04-02 Thread John Drescher
> To be clear: raw, uncompressed bytes (even if the compression was done > by Bacula)? Yes. > > Also, as I say, I never saw more than about 400 GB on these tapes > before and the datasets shouldn't have changed radically - are LTO-3 > drives better at compression? I am not sure. John --

Re: [Bacula-users] Last Volume Bytes?

2014-04-02 Thread Ben Laurie
On 2 April 2014 13:55, John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Ben Laurie wrote: >> I recently swapped out my LTO-2 drive for an LTO-3 drive, but I'm >> still using LTO-2 tapes. >> >> The current tape is still going strong and the latest backup says: >> >> Last Volume Bytes:

Re: [Bacula-users] Last Volume Bytes?

2014-04-02 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Ben Laurie wrote: > I recently swapped out my LTO-2 drive for an LTO-3 drive, but I'm > still using LTO-2 tapes. > > The current tape is still going strong and the latest backup says: > > Last Volume Bytes: 607,752,327,168 (607.7 GB) > > which seems like quit

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Changer Wait directive

2014-04-02 Thread Alan Brown
On 01/04/14 19:39, Rao, Uthra R. (GSFC-672.0)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC] wrote: > How is the library connected to the bacula server? > -- The Tape Library is connected to the server through fiber. How many fibre ports do you have on the server? If more than one, are they both connected to the switch? >

[Bacula-users] Last Volume Bytes?

2014-04-02 Thread Ben Laurie
I recently swapped out my LTO-2 drive for an LTO-3 drive, but I'm still using LTO-2 tapes. The current tape is still going strong and the latest backup says: Last Volume Bytes: 607,752,327,168 (607.7 GB) which seems like quite a lot for a 200GB tape. Now, I realise the drive can do compre