Re: [Bacula-users] btape fill failure on HP LTO6/4 drives

2017-01-28 Thread Allan Black
On 09/05/14 14:09, Allan Black wrote: > On 01/04/14 10:26, Roberts, Ben wrote: >>> It appears that the OS tape driver does not properly >>> implement back space record after an EOT. This is a defect of the operating >>> system driver, but it is not fatal for Bacu

Re: [Bacula-users] btape fill failure on HP LTO6/4 drives

2014-05-09 Thread Allan Black
On 01/04/14 10:26, Roberts, Ben wrote: >> It appears that the OS tape driver does not properly >> implement back space record after an EOT. This is a defect of the operating >> system driver, but it is not fatal for Bacula. >> You will very likely see this defect show up when Bacula fills a tape

Re: [Bacula-users] Nagios Monitoring of Backup Jobs

2011-02-07 Thread Allan Black
On 07/02/2011 12:06, Dan Langille wrote: > On 2/6/2011 4:31 PM, Allan Black wrote: >> 30 21 * * 5 /usr/local/nagios/bin/bacula_monitor Gershwin >> 40 21 * * 5,6 /usr/local/nagios/bin/bacula_monitor -W Catalog > > One entry per job? Sorry, yes. BTW, "Gershwin" and &

[Bacula-users] Nagios Monitoring of Backup Jobs

2011-02-06 Thread Allan Black
onitor again. If Nagios is still critical because the original job failed, bnu will update the Nagios service. Allan PS I wrote this on Solaris 10, so anyone trying it under Linux will have to change the PFE variable from "pfexec" to "sudo" (or "" if the script will be run

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger problem

2009-10-29 Thread Allan Black
Oddbjørn Sjøgren wrote: > It is also being written to as you can see). It certainly looks as if the autochanger is "unstuck" now. > Also, it seems from my web-interface that only a few of my tapes have bar > codes. Is there a fast way to label all of them, and update the > pool accordingly? Right

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger problem

2009-10-27 Thread Allan Black
Oddbjørn Sjøgren wrote: > Ok, I'll call and make them reset it. I take it this is something you have > to do physically to the box? And about the random mode, is this also > something you have to do physically? I only have access to the linux box by Probably - you will need to check the manual for

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger problem

2009-10-27 Thread Allan Black
Oddbjørn Sjøgren wrote: > READ ELEMENT STATUS Command Failed > Whats going on here? Because tape drives and autochangers are largely passive, sometimes you don't get an error until the next time you do something, so that might be an indication of a previous error. However, if you keep getting the

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger problem

2009-10-26 Thread Allan Black
Oddbjørn Sjøgren wrote: > They are using a LTO-3 autochanger and recently changed the tapes in it > Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Unknown Storage Element Loaded):VolumeTag > = ARS645L3 > Storage Element 1:Full :VolumeTag=ARS664L3 > Stora

Re: [Bacula-users] libmysqlclient_r.so.12

2009-08-18 Thread Allan Black
RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: > sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient15off > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > libmysqlclient15off is already the newest version. >> Starting Bacula Director: /sbin/bacula-dir: error while loading s: >> libmysqlc

Re: [Bacula-users] Where is bat?

2009-06-18 Thread Allan Black
Ralph Böhme wrote: > on Opensolaris, now that I'm done: where is bat? > What am I missing? Possibly "export PATH PKG_CONFIG_PATH" > ra...@os:~/bacula-3.0.1$ cat myconfigure > #!/bin/sh > PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.5.1/bin > PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.5.1/lib/pkgconfig > .

Re: [Bacula-users] StorEdge C2 autochanger not working

2009-04-03 Thread Allan Black
b5b5b5b5 wrote: > But it's just as you've said, they are full - with tapes inside of course. You won't get it to work like that :-) > Anyway, if they are in, or not, i don't know if that's a reason for what > you've said: > (The autochanger has certainly lost track of which slot the tape in

Re: [Bacula-users] StorEdge C2 autochanger not working

2009-04-03 Thread Allan Black
b5b5b5b5 wrote: > I have a problem running an AUTOCHANGER as a part of backup system. > After running the 'mtx -f /dev/sg3 status' i get this result: > Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Unknown Storage Element Loaded) > ... > Storage Element 16:Full It's difficult to tell from this o

Re: [Bacula-users] Very selective backup set

2009-02-11 Thread Allan Black
Tom Sommer wrote: > Takes backup of all files in /usr/local/example/, and of all *.xml files > in /example01/, /example02/ and /example03/ - recursively (the .xml > files are in random subfolders within the example folders, along with a > lot of other files which I don't want to backup). If you

Re: [Bacula-users] Considering upgrade from bacula 1.38.11

2009-01-29 Thread Allan Black
John Drescher wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:19 AM, ToMasz wrote: >> I've been using bacula 1.38.11 for some time and recently upgraded >> successfully one of my file daemons to ver. 2.4.4. >> Now I'm thinking about complete upgrade on all machines including >> director but am unsure about pos

Re: [Bacula-users] Solaris "Packet size too big" failures

2009-01-27 Thread Allan Black
Hi, Jason, Just found this on SunSolve: Solution Type Sun Alert Solution 201321 : Solaris 10 Systems With Certain Patches Installed May Experience Data Integrity Issues Over TCP Loopback 1. Impact Solaris 10 systems installed without patch 127111-03 or later

Re: [Bacula-users] Solaris "Packet size too big" failures

2009-01-27 Thread Allan Black
Jason Dixon wrote: > a "Packet size too big" error. The Director resides on a global zone in > Solaris x86. I've managed to capture a truss during one of the > failures: > http://mirrors.omniti.com/bacula/bacula.truss Very strange. Everything seems to be going normally: 14106/1:pollsys(

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula with opensolaris

2009-01-22 Thread Allan Black
bacula-us...@compulab-consult.de wrote: > Does anybody have a howto which helps me to compile the current bacula > version with opensolaris? > At the moment I'm failing with missing mysql libs (even they are > installed) during the configure process. You need the option --with-mysql=, where the pa

Re: [Bacula-users] "losing" environment variables

2009-01-08 Thread Allan Black
Olaf Zevenboom wrote: > The issue is that *sometimes* these variables are no longer recognized > by Bacula and therefor variable expansion in tapelabels does not work The ps command with the 'e' flag should be able to show you a process' environment (there may be other linux commands which can d

Re: [Bacula-users] Compiling on Solaris 10 - storage daemon build dying

2009-01-07 Thread Allan Black
Jeff MacDonald wrote: > On 6-Jan-09, at 1:09 PM, Allan Black wrote: >> setenv LDFLAGS "-R/usr/postgres/8.3/lib" >> and then go back to the ./configure command. It might be an > Yup I clued in afterwards and used CRLE > crle -u -l /usr/postgres

Re: [Bacula-users] Compiling on Solaris 10 - storage daemon build dying

2009-01-06 Thread Allan Black
Jeff MacDonald wrote: > Everything compiles now, and the file and storage daemons both work > fine, but look what happens when I start up the director [I'm using SMF > btw, just using command line during debugging] > > timemachine# /opt/bacula/bin/bacula-dir -v -c > /opt/bacula/etc/bacula-dir.c

Re: [Bacula-users] Compiling on Solaris 10 - storage daemon build dying

2009-01-04 Thread Allan Black
Jeff MacDonald wrote: > Here is my configure line: > --enable-static-tools \ I believe that is your problem. As of Solaris 10, Solaris no longer ships (or supports) static system libraries. There are a couple of (technical) reasons for this. It is a bit of a pain, though, when trying to put t

Re: [Bacula-users] btape test error on (supported) QUANTUM DLT8000

2008-12-30 Thread Allan Black
Marco Poli wrote: > After I got the drive, I had to buy the DIFF stuff to use it. The Adaptec > adaptor reads SCSI DIFF on the connector and the cable is a DIGITAL (part > number BN38C-05), rather long, maybe 10m, but reads 300V SHIELDED TYPE CL2, > so, I suppose it is the right thing. I did have

Re: [Bacula-users] Solaris "Packet size too big" failures

2008-12-09 Thread Allan Black
Jason Dixon wrote: > Alas, I spoke too soon. The CatalogBackup job failed again last night, > usual symptoms. OK. need to find out what the FD is doing. I would recommend: truss -o filename -f -a -e -v all -w 2 -p Is it possible to run the catalog backup during the day, by hand? That way you c

Re: [Bacula-users] Solaris "Packet size too big" failures

2008-12-03 Thread Allan Black
Jason Dixon wrote: > Wouldn't it fail consistently in that case? It hasn't failed the last > two nights. Good :-) Has it started working since you changed from "localhost" to "real host name"? Was it not just the catalog backup which was failing in this way? Anyway, if it starts happening again

Re: [Bacula-users] Solaris "Packet size too big" failures

2008-12-03 Thread Allan Black
Jason Dixon wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 01:01:12AM +0100, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: >> Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:59:41AM +0100, Kshatriya wrote: > recently. Since then, we've encountered frequent failures of the > catalog backup job which

Re: [Bacula-users] Re-read of last block OK, but block numbers differ

2008-11-28 Thread Allan Black
Martin Simmons wrote: >> 23-Nov 22:06 gershwin-sd JobId 506: Error: Re-read of last block OK, but >> block numbers differ. Last block=4963 Current block=4963. >> 23-Nov 22:06 gershwin-sd JobId 506: End of medium on Volume >> "MainCatalog-004" Bytes=28,148,843,520 Blocks=436,334 at 23-Nov-2008 22:

[Bacula-users] Re-read of last block OK, but block numbers differ

2008-11-27 Thread Allan Black
Hi, all, Can anyone help me analyse the problem here? On more than one occasion, a DDS3 drive has produced this, when it reaches the end of a tape: 23-Nov 22:03 gershwin-dir JobId 506: Using Device "DDS3-0" 23-Nov 22:06 gershwin-sd JobId 506: End of Volume "MainCatalog-004" at 57:4963 on device

Re: [Bacula-users] REPLACE BSMTP with other mail program

2008-10-21 Thread Allan Black
John Lockard wrote: > If your problem is authentication or encryption then I would > suggest you check out msmtp (http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/). It may turn out to be a simpler solution than that (hopefully!) > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 07:21:07AM +0200, Peter Herrington wrote: >> My Clarkconnect

[Bacula-users] Should Media.RecyclePooId Be Set To 0?

2008-02-24 Thread Allan Black
I was just wondering if I have wrong values in my Catalog? > mysql> select VolumeName, PoolId, RecyclePoolId from Media; > +-++---+ > | VolumeName | PoolId | RecyclePoolId | > +-++---+ > | Warren-01-01| 5 |

Re: [Bacula-users] ERR=Input/output

2008-02-14 Thread Allan Black
Falk Sauer wrote: > On Donnerstag 14 Februar 2008 09:57:13 wrote: >> Can somebody tell my what this messages means, and how I can get rid of it? > >> block.c:993 Read error on fd=5 at file:blk 0:0 on device "LTO-2" >> (/dev/nst0). ERR=Input/output error. > > the message means that baculas sd can'

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 / scsi woes

2008-01-14 Thread Allan Black
Robin Blanchard wrote: > I've been around the block with LSI and with adaptec: tried an LSI > SYMC101, an adaptec 2940U2W and a 39160. I've removed the > library/exchange from the equation, using only the LTO-3 drive (and have > actually swapped that drive out for another as well), swapped SCSI > c

Re: [Bacula-users] solaris zfs

2008-01-12 Thread Allan Black
Ken Gunderson wrote: > On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:08:32 +0200 > Attila Fülöp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Just a few further notes: Unless you are using ACL on your zfs your >> data schould be save. You just have to live with the annoying error >> messages. You can check for this: "find /zfs_mount_poi

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO4 backup rates

2007-12-20 Thread Allan Black
Michael Galloway wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 12:17:36PM -0500, Robin Blanchard wrote: >> I'm currently in the testing phase with LTO-3 (full multitape changer >> test currently ongoing) and am seeing: >> >> Wrote blk_block=4835000, dev_blk_num=3000 VolBytes=311,915,455,488 >> rate=4475.5 KB/s

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula with StorEdge L280

2007-12-14 Thread Allan Black
I use an HP SureStore 718, which is very similar to the L280 (2 internal slots and exactly the same 6-slot cartridge with the hinged handle). If you like, I could post the relevant bits of my Bacula configuration, and you could use that as a starting point. >> 3912 Failed to label Volume: ERR=dev.

Re: [Bacula-users] bad LastWritten dates in catalog

2007-11-10 Thread Allan Black
Mark Nienberg wrote: > Now I know this seems impossible and you are thinking that some sort of > operator > error has occurred. The only thing I can think of is that I may have restored > from > these tapes on those later dates, but of course that should not have affected > the > LastWritten

Re: [Bacula-users] Fun with an HP 1/8 autoloader

2007-10-09 Thread Allan Black
Have a look at http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~charliep/mtx/mtx-1.2.17rel/FAQ Check the autoloader is in 'random' mode, not 'stacker' mode. Allan - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files t

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger questions

2007-09-04 Thread Allan Black
Richard White wrote: > Apparently it is not as simple as I had thought. > There was a tape in the drive from the Daily (i.e. diff) pool, and Bacula > cheerfully removed it, inserted the most recently-used tape from the Weekend > (full) pool and proceeded to run the job. Because the tape in the d

Re: [Bacula-users] Autoloader not autoloading

2007-08-28 Thread Allan Black
Richard White wrote: > and from bacula-dir.conf: > > Storage { > Name = Auto > Address = 10.1.0.17 > SDPort = 9103 > Password = "ourpassword" > Device = "Auto" > Media Type = VXA-3 Autochanger = yes > } > > Storage { > Name = VXA > Address = 10.1.0.17 > SDPort = 9103 > Pas

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] bsmtp connection refused bacula-2.2.0

2007-08-23 Thread Allan Black
Arno Lehmann wrote: > (By the way: This is one of the reasons why I don't rely on the mail > messages to monitor backup operations. Nagios is my choice of > monitoring toolkit.) Hi, Arno - that's interesting. How do you do the monitoring - do you use passive checks, run from a Run After Job scri

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] finding qt for Bat on FreeBSD

2007-08-14 Thread Allan Black
> On 14 Aug 2007 at 9:35, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> On Monday 13 August 2007 23:50, Dan Langille wrote: >>> Does this error mean anything to anyone? >>> >>> ==>Entering directory /usr/home/dan/src/bacula-bat/work/bacula- >>> 2.2.0/src/qt-console >>> make: don't know how to make depend. Stop >>> *** Er