Re: [Bacula-users] Copy a tape with a single drive...

2025-01-31 Thread Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users
On 1/31/25 9:46 AM, Marco Gaiarin wrote: > > As stated by Marcin, and to stay in the «there's everyday a new thing to learn in bacula», heh.. Yes this is true. We show a humorous image (origin unknown) during the Bacula Admin I course. It is titled something like "The Bacula Learning Curve", a

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy a tape with a single drive...

2025-01-31 Thread Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users
On 1/31/25 2:19 PM, Michel Figgins wrote: Just a general question: Why would dd if=/dev/nst0 of=somefile care about tape logical files? - Michel Hello Michel, That's just how `dd` works from my experience. It will stop when it reaches an EOF marker, so Martin was right. Best regards, Bill

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy a tape with a single drive...

2025-01-31 Thread Michel Figgins
Just a general question: Why would dd if=/dev/nst0 of=somefile care about tape logical files? - Michel -Original Message- From: Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users Sent: Friday, January 31, 2025 10:08 AM To: Martin Simmons Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users]

Re: [Bacula-users] Job switch for encryption?

2025-01-31 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > These two things are 100% unrelated in Bacula. OK. > The `signature` setting in a Fileset's Options{} block is used to create and > add a hash of each file to the catalog so that > on restore or verify it can be confirmed tha

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy a tape with a single drive...

2025-01-31 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > If I understand correctly, you just want to copy an entire tape to another > tape but only have one tape drive? Exactly. > If yes, you can do this entirely outside of Bacula by using `dd` to read the > entire tape to a file

Re: [Bacula-users] stop job and resume job with VSS

2025-01-31 Thread Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users
On 1/30/25 6:08 PM, Jose Alberto wrote: Hi. Bacula 15.0.2 I am making a large backup (4TB) of 5 database files (Mail Exchange). I am using FileSet in VSS. When the JOB has 50%, when stopping. To run a copy of other JOBs.  I notice that when I resume "resume of stop job" it seems to start fro

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy a tape with a single drive...

2025-01-31 Thread Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users
On 1/31/25 3:48 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:20:21 +, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users said: If I understand correctly, you just want to copy an entire tape to another tape but only have one tape drive? If yes, you can do this entirely outside of Bacula by using `dd` to

Re: [Bacula-users] Volume name: conflicting variable expansion after upgrade to bacula 13

2025-01-31 Thread Brian Candler
I've noticed something which has changed from the bacula 9->13 upgrade. Looking at logs from December, before the upgrade, I find that *all* the backups were using storage "FileStorage0" and media type "File0".  And yet, the load was still shared 50/50 between devices FileDev0 and FileDev1. r

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy a tape with a single drive...

2025-01-31 Thread Jose Alberto
Yes, you must have 2 different storage media. disk to tape disk to disk tape to tape tape to disk On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM Marco Gaiarin wrote: > > I need to 'copy' a tape, bt using a single drive. > > There's something 'smart' i can do, or the only option is to build two > jobs, > one t

[Bacula-users] is this an error??

2025-01-31 Thread Mehrdad Ravanbod
Hi guys Upon getting a status on bacula, i noticed this system message /opt/bacula/bin/bacula-dir: /usr/lib64/libpq.so.5: no version information avaiable (required by /opt/bacula/lib/libbaccats-15.0.2.so) bacula seems to be running, so should i be worried about this?? System info: bacula 15.

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy a tape with a single drive...

2025-01-31 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:20:21 +, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users said: > > If I understand correctly, you just want to copy an entire tape to another > tape but only have one tape drive? > > If yes, you can do this entirely outside of Bacula by using `dd` to read the > entire tape to a