Re: [Bacula-users] One more beta

2007-07-18 Thread Andreas Helmcke
On 18.07.2007 11:54, Adam Cécile wrote: > Kern Sibbald a écrit : >> Hello, >> >> Since Beta 2.1.26 Eric and I have made a few changes and fixed a few bugs in >> Bacula and Dirk has made a few updates to bat, so I am thinking of making a >> new beta release today or tomorrow. I will wait to get

Re: [Bacula-users] Every day diferent tape

2007-07-12 Thread Andreas Helmcke
On 12.07.2007 19:00, Afinat wrote: > Hi all: > > Is possible to do this configuration? > > I want to do a full backup every friday (with a tape labeled friday). > Then, every day, I want to do an incremental backup (mon, tue, web...) > with a diferent tape every day. Every tape will be labeled

Re: [Bacula-users] Pruning to the scratch pool.

2007-07-10 Thread Andreas Helmcke
Falk Sauer wrote: > I mean on any post in the last weeks i've read (only with one eye) over a > option thats allows a volume after pruning, automatically moving to the > scratch pool. > > That can be a very nice feature, in the moment i make this manually. > > From which version of bacula is th

Re: [Bacula-users] Mounting autochanger

2007-06-22 Thread Andreas Helmcke
On 22.06.2007 16:55, Brian Debelius wrote: > Andreas Helmcke wrote: >> If you mount the tape to unlock a drive, which was locked due to an >> manual unmount you can use slot 0 for the mount. >> This will unlock the drive, so it can be used by bacula without loading >> a

Re: [Bacula-users] Mounting autochanger

2007-06-21 Thread Andreas Helmcke
On 21.06.2007 23:08, Brian Debelius wrote: > Why does bacula ask for a slot number to mount, when I mount my VXA > autochanger? It seems to me, that bacula should load whatever tape it > feels appropriate automatically when the autochanger is loaded. I > usually just pick some random number to

Re: [Bacula-users] Blocked waiting for media when the tape is in the changer with bacula 2.1.12 as sd and 2.1.18 as the director.

2007-06-20 Thread Andreas Helmcke
On 20.06.2007 17:25, John Drescher wrote: > Although this is not a big problem I wanted to report this. Last night > a job became blocked waiting for a tape that is in the changer. This > was on the first drive of the changer and a previous job of a > different pool had run on that drive and unload

Re: [Bacula-users] smartctl

2007-06-15 Thread Andreas Helmcke
Hello, Craig White wrote: > Linux (RHELv5 if that matters) > > *** from command line as root, this works fine... > > # sh -c 'smartctl -H -d scsi -l error /dev/nst0' > smartctl version 5.36 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce > Allen > Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems using smartmontools as Tape Alert Command

2007-06-08 Thread Andreas Helmcke
On 08.06.2007 16:20, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > Marc Levy wrote: >> Ryan Novosielski umdnj.edu> writes: > >>> Ralf Gross wrote: Ryan Novosielski schrieb: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ralf Gross wrote: >> Ryan Novosielski schrieb: >>> Could some

[Bacula-users] alert command (was: Re: Problems with autochanger and bacula 2.0.3)

2007-06-01 Thread Andreas Helmcke
On 31.05.2007 23:35, Arno Lehmann wrote: > On 5/31/2007 11:13 PM, Andreas Helmcke wrote: >> >> BTW: I don't understand why the example tapealert line checks for errors of >> the >> *changer* instead of checking the tapedrive. > > That's some SCSI specia

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with autochanger and bacula 2.0.3

2007-05-31 Thread Andreas Helmcke
gt; >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bacula-users- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Helmcke >> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 6:03 PM >> To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Problems wi

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with autochanger and bacula 2.0.3

2007-05-30 Thread Andreas Helmcke
Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > > I am currently running bacula v2.0.3 on a Solaris 9 system with a > Qualstar RLS-8236 Tape Library. The Library has 2 LTO-2 tape drives. > Bacula has worked okay, but recently (after upgrading to 2.0.3 from > 1.38.11) I am getting backup errors on

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] 2.1.10 beta: no appendable volume found problem with multidrive autochanger

2007-05-25 Thread Andreas Helmcke
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Wednesday 23 May 2007 21:13, John Drescher wrote: >> One >> other feature I would like to see is if there are any empty drives >> when starting a job and none of the correct pools are loaded choose >> the empty drive instead of any unloading media. > > I believe this is h

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] 2.1.10 beta: no appendable volume found problem with multidrive autochanger

2007-05-24 Thread Andreas Helmcke
On 21.05.2007 23:39, Andreas Helmcke wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: >> On Sunday 20 May 2007 20:33, Andreas Helmcke wrote: >>> Kern Sibbald wrote: >>>> Unless I am mistaken, this sounds like a standard support problem rather >>>> than >>>> so

Re: [Bacula-users] Antw: Re: problems with Autochanger

2007-05-23 Thread Andreas Helmcke
On 23.05.2007 10:28, Christoph Buchli wrote: > Now the empirical things: > - I have to _stop_ bacula to do certain test, otherwise "mtx", "tar" etc > always > tell me - as an error - that the device is busy. Sure. While the sd is running it normally keeps the tape devices open. > > - The device

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] 2.1.10 beta: no appendable volume found problem with multidrive autochanger

2007-05-21 Thread Andreas Helmcke
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Sunday 20 May 2007 20:33, Andreas Helmcke wrote: >> Kern Sibbald wrote: >>> Unless I am mistaken, this sounds like a standard support problem rather >>> than >>> something specific with Beta version 2.1.10, and as such, you should

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula keeps switching tapes

2007-05-21 Thread Andreas Helmcke
ly should* use the same drive and volume for each job (as it does for the first job). I can not see any reason why it behaves differently for Job 2. Andreas > > On Friday 18 May 2007 6:27:21 pm Andreas Helmcke wrote: >> running bacula 2.0.3 with mysql 4.1.13 on SuSE 10.0; >> ADIC

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula ask for a volume which has inchanger=no ?!?!?

2007-05-21 Thread Andreas Helmcke
On 21.05.2007 08:55, Adam Cécile wrote: > Arno Lehmann a écrit : >> Hello, >> >> On 5/18/2007 9:02 AM, Adam Cécile wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Today my director was blocked. >>> It was asking for a volume which had inchangler flag set to no while >>> there was 4 purged volume in the right pool. >>

[Bacula-users] Bacula keeps switching tapes

2007-05-18 Thread Andreas Helmcke
running bacula 2.0.3 with mysql 4.1.13 on SuSE 10.0; ADIC scalar-100 with 4 LTO-1 drives Hello, I am still having a problem with concurrent jobs. Bacula is unnecessarily changing tapes and tapedrives. Basically i want to backup three different server every night and i want to use one drive for e

Re: [Bacula-users] How to unload all loaded tapes to library ?

2007-05-14 Thread Andreas Helmcke
On 14.05.2007 09:40, Adam Cécile wrote: > All weeks I need to unload all tapes from drives to the library, so all > tapes can be removed from the Autochanger easily. > However, when I do "umount", device is marked as BLOCKED and no more > jobs run until I mount the drive again. > What's the right w

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula was reseting the SCSI controller when jobfinished / solved

2007-04-23 Thread Andreas Helmcke
On 23.04.2007 10:37, Robert Nelson wrote: > Does this occur if you run tapeinfo manually? > Yes. I was on the wrong path because i thought that the default line Alert Command = "sh -c 'tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|cat'" (the one in the example conf file) will check for tapealerts of the driv

[Bacula-users] Bacula was reseting the SCSI controller when job finished / solved

2007-04-23 Thread Andreas Helmcke
running bacula 2.0.3 with mysql 4.1.13 on SuSE 10.0; mtx 1.3.10; smartctl 5.36 ADIC scalar-100 with 4 LTO-1 drives Hello, I had some strange problems with bacula. Main effect: I am running 3 concurrent jobs every day which use 3 drives. Because of the "suboptimal" method of picking a drive for a

Re: [Bacula-users] Why does dbcheck run forever, even with indexes?

2007-04-20 Thread Andreas Helmcke
running bacula 2.0.3 with mysql 4.1.13 on SuSE 10.0 Hello, just a few days ago i had similar problems with dbcheck. I had to run it because bacula was complaining about duplicate filenames. It took just a few minutes to find about 800 duplicate filenames but 12 hours to erase them. Checks for or

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature request: dynamic configuration files

2007-03-19 Thread Andreas Helmcke
Jorj Bauer wrote: > What: The ability to read a configuration file as stdout from an executable > > Why: The configuration files (particularly for the Director) are very > complex. In my case I find it easier to have a program generate them > from meta-information about the clients. >

[Bacula-users] "suboptimal" usage of autochanger with multiple drives

2007-02-14 Thread Andreas Helmcke
Having an autochanger with 4 drives I found that the algorithm to find the drive to use for an job is somewhat "suboptimal": The storagedaemon always uses the first available drive without considering the loaded tape. This means: When I did a backup using concurrent jobs to use more then one drive

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula marking Tape as full to early

2007-02-02 Thread Andreas Helmcke
On 02.02.2007 17:24, Martin Simmons wrote: > The error was from Drive-2 but your second log entry is from Drive-1. Maybe > Drive-2 is faulty or needs cleaning? Also the tape may be intermittenly > faulty. The error occurred on 2 different drives and 4 different tapes. None of the drives requests

[Bacula-users] Bacula marking Tape as full to early

2007-02-02 Thread Andreas Helmcke
043L1" Bytes=139,037,488,128 Blocks=2,155,218 at 23-Jan-2007 11:17. Any hints where to search for the problem? Andreas Helmcke - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done q