Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with unmounting a device

2016-02-26 Thread Dietz Pröpper
tz > It would probably help get a response if you give some details about > "this seems to work no longer". > > Why doesn't it work? What does it do? What is the exact output? > > On 02/24/2016 04:04 AM, Dietz Pröpper wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I ha

[Bacula-users] Problem with unmounting a device

2016-02-23 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Hi, I have a little problem: I have an autochanger with two devices. In former times, after I issued a "unmount storage=blah drive=0" the sd status for that device was displayed as "BLOCKED by user", which should still be the case, according to the documentation. Since some months, this seems

Re: [Bacula-users] fatal error

2014-07-03 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Am Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2014, 16:58:22 schrieb antonio.mannatzu: > - -bash-4.1$ psql bacula > psql: FATAL: database "bacula" does not exist > DETAIL: The database subdirectory "base/16386" is missing. This looks like your database went corrupt. Not directly a bacula problem. regards Diet

Re: [Bacula-users] Scaling Bacula

2012-03-18 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Adrian Reyer: > Make sure you have cache ram on your raid controller and a battery > backup unit installed. MySQL and Postgres like to write in sync. With > BBU+cache the write is completed as soon as the controller has the data, > no need to wait for disks. I doubt RAID0 would gain you much if any

Re: [Bacula-users] Can not update slots

2011-12-29 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Dan Langille: > On Dec 29, 2011, at 7:55 AM, ninyo wrote: > > No. Im not working with barcodes > > o_0' > > Is this because there is no barcode reader or because you don't want to > use the one that is there? He mailed the output of mtx status way up the thread, and it seems to me, that he d

Re: [Bacula-users] Different settings for spooling according to different backups levels

2011-12-24 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Mario Moder: > Am 23.12.2011 12:07, schrieb Dietz Pröpper: > > Now the question, is it possible to have the incremental jobs run with > > data spooling on and the full ones with spooling off? As far as I can > > see from the manual, I can not accomplish that by means of a S

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up large file system

2011-12-23 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Johnston, James C. (GRC-RXP0): > I've got a large (~16 TB) file server that I want to back up onto a > ~40TB RAID array connected to the fileserver via fiber channel (so > there is no backup traffic on our network). Ok, I've never done stuff at that size. Just as a warning to read on ;-). > I ne

[Bacula-users] Different settings for spooling according to different backups levels

2011-12-23 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Hi, the problem: I've got some backup job that does a full backup once a week and differential ones every other day. The full backup streams with the nominal data rate of the tape device, which is fine. But for incremental jobs, the rate is normally far beyond that rate. Now the question, is i

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape unloads immediately after load

2011-12-09 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Quoting myself: > Uwe Bolick: > > It's really strange, because everything seems OK. If I do it by hand, > > > I get: > Sorry, but you did not do it by hand ;-). And what I can see from the > logs you mailed, it's the tape in slot 3 that gets rejected. You did it by hand ;-) Had to read another ti

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape unloads immediately after load

2011-12-09 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Uwe Bolick: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 07:58:09PM +0100, Dietz Pröpper wrote: > > Uwe Bolick: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I needs to restore files from tape, but this time without success, > > > because the needed tape can not be loaded for action. After l

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape unloads immediately after load

2011-12-08 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Uwe Bolick: > Hi, > > I needs to restore files from tape, but this time without success, > because the needed tape can not be loaded for action. After loading > the tape, it get's unloaded immediately: [...] What happens if you try to load the tape by hand, i.e. by means of a mtx load 3, and try

Re: [Bacula-users] VolStatus changes from APPEND to USED after a restore

2011-12-01 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Carsten Pache: > >> A few days ago I had to restore some files. After the files were > >> restored successfully, the VolStatus (shown by "list volumes") of the > >> two tapes that were needed during restore changed from "Append" to > >> "Used". Is this an expected behaviour? > > > > Do you hava a

Re: [Bacula-users] VolStatus changes from APPEND to USED after a restore - is this expected behaviour?

2011-12-01 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Carsten Pache: > A few days ago I had to restore some files. After the files were > restored successfully, the VolStatus (shown by "list volumes") of the > two tapes that were needed during restore changed from "Append" to > "Used". Is this an expected behaviour? Do you hava a maximum use time con

Re: [Bacula-users] Volume Use Duration not working in 5.2.1

2011-11-25 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Fahrer, Julian: > Hi, > > Am I missing something or is the "Volume Use Duration" parameter in the > pool not working in 5.2.1? [...] > > Mediaid 5 & 8 should actually be in status "used". It is 2011-11-24 > 17:00 right now... > Same thing for other pools with "Volume Use Duration = 12 days" > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Question regarding Volume Use Duration

2011-05-05 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Martin Simmons: > > On Thu, 5 May 2011 09:18:45 +0200, Dietz =?utf-8?q?Pr=C3=B6pper?= said: > > And now the question - is there a way to accomplish the wished > > behavior (tape gets set to "used" immediately after the usage > > duration, not the next time the pool is touched) by some other me

[Bacula-users] Question regarding Volume Use Duration

2011-05-05 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Hi, I use several pools for daily, weekly and monthly backups. To be able to remove the tapes from the monthly backup without bacula trying to use the left over place on the last tape from one month again the next month I have defined a suitable Volume Use Duration: Pool { Name = Monthly [..

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

2011-05-04 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Martin Simmons: > >>>>> On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:29:33 +0200, Dietz Pröpper said: > > To see wether the file system is indeed the bottleneck you could try > > to tar the fs to /dev/null and compare the transfer rate to that of > > your bacula backup. > > Go

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

2011-04-29 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Jason Voorhees: > Well, these are my results of a bonnie++ test: [...] > Version 1.03e --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input- > --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- > MachineSize K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP > /sec %CP

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

2011-04-29 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Jason Voorhees: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:01 PM, John Drescher wrote: > >> So do you believe these speeds of my backups are normal? I though my > >> Library tape with LTO-5 tapes could write at 140 MB/s approx. It > >> isn't possible to achieve higher speeds? > > > > You need to speed up your

[Bacula-users] Mailing bsr files

2011-02-05 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Hi, is there a possibility to attach files (i.e. bsr files) to backup status mails? At the moment, I use a post backup job to mail these, but it would be nice if I could attach them directly to "Backup successful" mails. regards, Dietz signature.asc Description: This is a digitally si

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula backup

2011-02-01 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Laxansh K. Adesara: > I have installed bacula-dir on ubuntu and bacula-client on window > machine and also configured it so I am able to connect bacula-dir from > bacula client machine form console and now I want to do backup by using > LTO 4 tape drive which is installed on window 2003 server and

[Bacula-users] Problems with accurate backups

2011-02-01 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Hi, (if that has been already asked, sorry, feel free to provide a pointer...) that weekend I found time to upgrade a 2.4.2 bacula zu 5.0.3. Apart from an exploding mysql on restore, everything worked fine. But now I'm trying to look into accurate backups and feel confused ;-). To put it straigh

Re: [Bacula-users] Dell PV-124T with Ultrium TD4, Hardware or Software compression?

2010-08-14 Thread Dietz Pröpper
You: > On Aug 13, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Dietz Pröpper wrote: > > You: > >> On Aug 13, 2010, at 4:10 AM, Dietz Pröpper wrote: > >>> IMHO there are two problems with hardware compression: > >>> 1. Data mix: The compression algorithms tend to work quite well o

Re: [Bacula-users] Dell PV-124T with Ultrium TD4, Hardware or Software compression?

2010-08-14 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Phil Stracchino: > On 08/14/10 09:34, Dietz Pröpper wrote: > > Peter Zenge: > >> Remember also that if you are trying to minimize tape/disk/other > >> backup media space used, and using encryption, you will need to use > >> software compression. The F

Re: [Bacula-users] Limit backup speed

2010-08-14 Thread Dietz Pröpper
James Harper: > > Hi at all, > > > > I got a trouble: a server of our server farm runs some perl scripts > > that > > > are bad influenced by Bacula backup. > > Until our developers will return from holiday (damn), I need to limit > > bacula speed. > > Our servers are connected by 100Mbps ethe

Re: [Bacula-users] Dell PV-124T with Ultrium TD4, Hardware or Software compression?

2010-08-14 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Peter Zenge: > Remember also that if you are trying to minimize tape/disk/other backup > media space used, and using encryption, you will need to use software > compression. The FD compresses before encrypting; once encrypted, as > noted above, the data is no longer compressible... Ack, that was

Re: [Bacula-users] Dell PV-124T with Ultrium TD4, Hardware or Software compression?

2010-08-13 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Phil Stracchino: > Neither of these issues is applicable to LTO. The compression algorithm > (which is a pretty good one) is defined in the LTO specification, and > the drive compresses data block-by-block, doing a trial compression of > each data block and writing whichever is the smaller of the

Re: [Bacula-users] Dell PV-124T with Ultrium TD4, Hardware or Software compression?

2010-08-13 Thread Dietz Pröpper
You: > On Aug 13, 2010, at 4:10 AM, Dietz Pröpper wrote: > > IMHO there are two problems with hardware compression: > > 1. Data mix: The compression algorithms tend to work quite well on > > compressable stuff, but can't cope very well with precompressed stuff, > &

Re: [Bacula-users] Dell PV-124T with Ultrium TD4, Hardware or Software compression?

2010-08-13 Thread Dietz Pröpper
John Drescher: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:12 AM, Dietz Pröpper wrote: > > John Drescher: > >> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Mike Hanby wrote: > >> > Howdy, > >> > > >> > I'm curious whether others with the PV-124T

Re: [Bacula-users] Dell PV-124T with Ultrium TD4, Hardware or Software compression?

2010-08-13 Thread Dietz Pröpper
John Drescher: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Mike Hanby wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > I'm curious whether others with the PV-124T with LTO4 are using > > hardware or software compression. > > > > I am testing a new Bacula deployment with one of these autoloaders / > > drives and haven't found a

Re: [Bacula-users] Dell PV-124T with Ultrium TD4, Hardware or Software compression?

2010-08-13 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Rory Campbell-Lange: > On 12/08/10, Mike Hanby (mha...@uab.edu) wrote: > > I'm curious whether others with the PV-124T with LTO4 are using > > hardware or software compression. > > > > I am testing a new Bacula deployment with one of these autoloaders / > > drives and haven't found a good suggesti

Re: [Bacula-users] Network error reading from FD

2010-06-18 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Derek Harkness: > I'm getting the following error between one of my clients and the > storage server. All my other clients have been able to backup just > fine to this storage device but this one client always returns the > Connection reset by peer. > > I've adjusted the heartbeat and the keepali

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger problem

2009-11-02 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Oddbjørn Sjøgren: > # mtx status > mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes > mtx: Request Sense: Valid Residual=no > mtx: Request Sense: Error Code=70 (Current) > mtx: Request Sense: Sense Key=Unit Attention > mtx: Request Sense: FileMark=no > mtx: Request Sense: EOM=no > mtx: Request Sense: ILI=no > m