On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:36 AM, John Drescher wrote:
> I think bzip would be a good ballpark estimate to the HW compression
> in lto tape drives.
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On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:45 AM, John Drescher wrote:
>
> The 6.25TB is only an estimate. If you have non compressible data you
> will get close to 2.5 TB of space on your tape. If you have all text
> files you may fit 15 TB on a single tape..
Great, thanks for that! That's what I thought but I'
Hey folks,
I see that LTO 6 holds 2.5T data per tape, or 6.25T compressed.
I've never used HW compression before so am wondering whether its
performance is variable like SW compression. i.e. depends on the
file contents just what kind of compression ratio you'll get.
And also how reliable is i
Hey folks,
Anyone out there using one of these with bacula?
Google only finds discussions on this list from 2008 which suggests it may work.
Want to see whether there is some more recent info.
thanks,
-Alan
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OK, I know some of you guys are biased here because I recognise some
of the names from my pgsql days :-)
I've been googling to find MySQL tuning instructions for bacula but
not much is coming up. Though I did find a 2 or 3 year old
discussion from this list which suggested I'd get better perform
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:46 PM, John Drescher wrote:
> Also check for database activity. If you did not tune your DB server
> and you have millions of files the DB inserts could take a long time.
Hmmm, there is about 900,000 files on that filesystem.
Just a default MySQL install. In what way
Nice work.
I just got it installed with no troubles (added the extra package
someone else noted)
Nice dashboard to the system
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:16 PM, John Drescher wrote:
> Check the CPU load on the server and client.
Normal right now (1.5) but it is writing again. I'll check next time
I notice it.
But client and server are the same box and there is nothing else going
on with the box. It is backing up an NFS
I am monitoring that dump that got upgraded to full and sometimes
there are very long times with no writes, at least according to "list
media"
The timestamp here is about 34 minutes ago :
| 74 | 12L4 | Append| 1 | 514,959,868,928 |
103 |2,678,400 | 1 |7 |
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Martin Simmons wrote:
> Check the bacula log (it should say why it was upgrading to full).
Doh! Good idea. However oddly enough the log seems to end yesterday
around 2pm after I did a test restore. There is nothing in there on
this current backup underway.
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oh it could also be because of my futzing about reformatting tapes :-)
Maybe the system finally realised it did not have a full afterall,
which I think is plausible now that I think of it.
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On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:24 AM, John Drescher wrote:
> One thing that could be happening is if there are no fulls an
> Incremental or Differential will be upgraded to a full.
Interesting. THere should be fulls since all my tapes aren't even
fulled up yet so it is not even recycling anything.
My dump is taking many hours and judging by the tape usage I am
seeing, it must be doing a full dump.
But it is not supposed to do that til the weekend. I can't see how
that filesystem could have that much delta since yesterday.
root@nashead01:/etc/bacula# date
Wed Jan 30 11:05:53 EST 2013
lis
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Dan Langille wrote:
> Sounds doable...
>
> Ideas, comments?
>From the PoV of the dummy looking to learn this stuff, that sounds
like a pretty reasonable way to teach it that would cover things well
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On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:20 AM, Tilman Schmidt
wrote:
> I don't know about yours, but the autochangers I have seen can be
> told, via their configuration interface, to handle cleaning tapes
> all on their own. You reserve a certain slot for cleaning, load a
> cleaning tape into it, and the autoch
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Tilman Schmidt
wrote:
> Choose the "fixed name" alternative here, ie. enter 0 and it
> will let you enter the volume name exactly as you want it.
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On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Alan Brown wrote:
> DON'T DO THIS!
OK, thanks.
But I don't see anything about cleaning in the bconsole commands or
really the manual either that I can find.
Do I do that outside of bacula?
How am I going to know when it is asking to be cleaned? Who asks and ho
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
> Do I really have to wipe this tape (load it, weof, unload) to do
> something useful with it?
Well I just accomplished it by stopping sd, woefing the tape, and then
restarting and finally going into bconsole again to do my label
c
I had this embedded in my "2 questions" thread but not much response
so splitting it out with more detail this time.
When I originally did "label barcodes" it scanned my jukebox but was
unable to add 1 tape to the Default pool - looks like the read-only
tab was set on that tape which was inadverte
Did not get any nibbles on this embedded in my "2 questions" email, so
I'll split it out on its own.
How do I deal with cleaning tapes in a jukebox? I'd like the jukebox
to know it is a cleaning tape, and ideally schedule regular cleanings.
I have a cleaning tape with this barcode - 000100L4
S
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Alan McKay
wrote:
> File = "/var/lib/bacula/bacula.sql"
I went looking for this file out of curiousity, and found it was not there.
But upon further digging, it looks like the script dumps the DB, then
backs it up, then removes that file.
D
Seems to make sense to me since the catalog backup is already
happening, but maybe this is a bad idea for some reason?
If it is OK to do that, are there any others I should add?
FileSet {
Name = "Catalog"
Include {
Options {
signature = MD5
}
File = "/var/lib/bacula/bacula.s
OK, this is odd. I just tried the label command for that one slot
and got an error
*label sotrage=SL24 slot=8 pool=Default barcodes
The defined Storage resources are:
1: File
2: SL24
Select Storage resource (1-2): 2
Connecting to Storage daemon SL24 at 127.0.0.1:9103 ...
3306 Issuing a
Oh, in case this helps :
*list media
Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog
Using Catalog "MyCatalog"
Pool: Default
+-++---+-++--+--+-+--+---+---+-+
| MediaId | VolumeName | VolSt
Well, they are related in my head at least :-)
I wiped all the labels on my tapes and did "label barcodes" and
everything seems to have gone fine and they all got added to the
default pool.
Except for 2 tapes. 06L4 and 000100L4
The latter I can understand because it is a cleaning tape. So
Oh hey, it pipelines!
This did it :
echo "list media" | bconsole | grep BAC00 | awk '{print "delete yes
volume="$4}' | bconsole
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I did this yesterday manually for each one and would prefer not to
have to do that again.
More playing around and experimenting and I want to wipe these all out.
They don't even really exist anymore as tape volumes since I used the
handy-dandy
script found here to wipe all the tape labels :
http:/
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp
wrote:
> the bacula manual is a complete mess IMHO
OK, I won't bother at this point then. THough I did just happen upon
the German manual. I was initially hopeful (since I'm relatively
fluent in German) until I noticed that towards the bottom it
Just found a bunch more in
http://www.bacula.org/fr/dev-manual/Basic_Volume_Management.html
EVery single link under "Restricting the Number of Volumes and
Recycling" does it.
Not sure whether or not anyone cares about this ... but in case they do
I'm currently reading up on the config files and
Just an FYI not sure if this is a bug or a feature but I've now found
at least 2 examples of links linking back to themselves in the manual.
For example at the bottom of this page :
http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/install/install/Console_Configuration.html#_ConsoleChapter
The second last headin
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
> Well, the above is a name over multiple lines. Are you sure this is from the
> ebook or a copy/paste wrap error?
No that's gmail unfortunately. I did catch some similar errors
copying from the ebook to the config file but have gotten them
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:52 PM, John Drescher wrote:
> If you want to use bacula as a network backup program replace
> 127.0.0.1 with the nic address. Your clients need to initiate a
> connection to the SD to send their backup data.
yes, i know i'll have to change that at some point but right no
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
> Default by the looks of it.
Well, I sort of have all the tapes in 2 pools by the looks of it. I
recall futzing around and setting up a pool with a prefix of "BACULA"
but I did not think I had it working. So here is what I h
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:29 PM, John Drescher wrote:
> When you labeled the barcodes did you put them into the Scratch pool
> or the Default pool?
Default by the looks of it.
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
> So I'll see what I can make of running the job from the non GUI console.
It did not complete properly
*status storage
The defined Storage resources are:
1: File
2: SL24
Select Storage resource (1-2): 2
Connecting to Storag
Well bacula-console-qt does not seem very robust. Everytime I try to
run a job it core dumps.
If it matters, I am double-hopskotched from my Mac to a gateway to my
backup host using ssh -X twice. But I do that a fair bit with no
issues.
So I'll see what I can make of running the job from the no
Things are looking up ...
*label barcodes
Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog
Using Catalog "MyCatalog"
The defined Storage resources are:
1: File
2: SL24
Select Storage resource (1-2): 2
Connecting to Storage daemon SL24 at 127.0.0.1:9103 ...
Connecting to Storage daemon SL24 at 1
OK, I found that problem.I had FileSet comment out in this
definition ... pushing on further
JobDefs {
Name = "DefaultJob"
Type = Backup
Level = Incremental
Client = nashead01-fd
FileSet = "Full Set"
Schedule = "WeeklyCycle"
Storage = SL24
Messages = Standard
Pool = Default
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
> In general - not impressed with the ebook.
The good news is maybe I can produce a better one out of this :-)
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Well I'm following the book and getting some pretty basic errors right
from the beginning. It tells me to replace my bacula-dir.conf with
the following contents - which when I try to start director seems to
be missing some items like a pool definition for one. Pretty sure I
am following it to the
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:49 PM, John Drescher wrote:
> Please post your bacula-dir.conf.
Your wish is my command! :-)
This is largely defaults from Ubuntu 12.10 with not a whole lot of changes by me
Perhaps I should be looking at this instead :
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Bacula
Dir
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp
wrote:
> check the mail archive, I think Ken pointed out a recently published
> ebook about bacula. While I haven't read it myself yet, I think it
> would get you going quite quickly.
Found it ... will try it and let you all know
> What devices ar
Gefunden ... danke Uwe fuer den Hinweis ...
I'll report back on how good it is for a complete newbie ...
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OK, I have obviously found the manual at
http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/ but wow it does not seem to be
suited to someone who has no idea what they are doing here. I've got
decades of Linux / UNIX experience but it has been many years since
I"ve had to deal with tapes, and this is my first time
Hi folks,
I started out with bacula 3 or 4 months ago but as it turned out the
card I was using did not properly recognize the tape changer. The
whole thing got sidetracked for a while but now I'm back with a new
card which seems to see everything fine. It is a Sun SL24 jukebox.
I'm running Ubu
Hey folks,
I've been checking the docs and googling for over an hour now but
can't find a solid config example for this. I have found some threads
which suggest it works fine, but darned if I can find out how to make
it work.
I've got Ubuntu 12.04 installed on a Sunfire x2250 and have installed
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