Re: [Bacula-users] director won't start

2015-03-27 Thread Edward Appel
Hold on... You said the original bacula director box died, puppet restored the configs and you restored the db from the source skel files? Perhaps restoring a copy of your bacula database from before the crash will help with the "missing" catalog mystery :) --eddie On 03/27/2015 09:08 AM, Ti

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Catalog Server - MySQL - 1 Core Used Max ?

2015-03-25 Thread Edward Appel
And there is always the my.cnf configurator from the nice folks at Percona. No that isn't a plug for them, I don't work for them, but use the tool. https://tools.percona.com/wizard On 03/25/2015 04:21 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 03/25/15 02:46, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> For >> best performanc

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 7.0.5 config issues multiple autochangers

2015-01-20 Thread Edward Appel
Hi List... I have been having a rough time over the last year with this bacula installation, hopefully someone can show me the noob failures I've made thus far... My setup is rather basic, a single director which mounts remote filesystems and backs up ~40TB/week with a single file/storage daemo

[Bacula-users] Bacula 7.0.5 config issues multiple autochangers

2015-01-20 Thread Edward Appel
Hi List... I have been having a rough time over the last year with this bacula installation, hopefully someone can show me the noob failures I've made thus far... My setup is rather basic, a single director which mounts remote filesystems and backs up ~40TB/week with a single file/storage da

Re: [Bacula-users] Simultaneousky backup to local HDD and Amazon S3

2012-10-05 Thread Edward
On 5 October 2012 02:35, John Drescher wrote: > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Pubudu Perera wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> I'm a newbie to Bacula and want to verify whether my requirement can get >> done using bacula. >> I want to know whether it's possible to simultaneously make backups to >

Re: [Bacula-users] Amazon Glacier

2012-08-21 Thread Edward
ervices would be easier and safer. I.e. do backup to local disk (to avoid large jobs taking weeks/months and potentially bombing half way through), copy these volumes to another location and then verify the copy. A similar procedure in reverse would also remove some headaches for restorations. Ed

Re: [Bacula-users] Tryed to recover from recently purged Volume by bscan

2012-08-15 Thread Edward
Ah sorry, I didn't see your reference to the gui app, I've not used that. If your using bconsole you must add files using `mark` and then when done issue `done`. I've never recovered using bscan before, but according to the manual you can: http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/utility/utility/Volume_Ut

Re: [Bacula-users] Tryed to recover from recently purged Volume by bscan

2012-08-14 Thread Edward
Did you select any files using `mark` during the restore? On 14 August 2012 21:18, CDuv wrote: > Hi, > I'm having an issue for which I couldn't find answers. > A Full Backup job was pruned by Bacula (obviously during yesterday night > because it was there yesterday and gone today) and I need it

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate mode problem, multiple jobs on one client

2012-08-14 Thread Edward
> 08.08.2012 00:30, Edward kirjoitti: >> Dir/SD: openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) - v5.0.3 (from rpm) >> Client: Solaris 10 x86 - v5.0.3 >> >> I am having problems with an incremental backup using the accurate option. >> > > Accurate option fails with your setup. It wa

[Bacula-users] Accurate mode problem, multiple jobs on one client

2012-08-07 Thread Edward
Dir/SD: openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) - v5.0.3 (from rpm) Client: Solaris 10 x86 - v5.0.3 I am having problems with an incremental backup using the accurate option. I have two jobs for the client both of which use a script to generate a file list of individual files (no recursion) is used. The scripts c

Re: [Bacula-users] Unusually high compression ratio/capacity for LTO-4 tapes?

2012-02-08 Thread Edward M. Markowski
I also used to think that the upper number in the tape raiting was a hard limit, it is not. You just happen to have data in your file system that is HIGHLY compressable, congrats. On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, Josh Nielsen wrote: Hello, I am relatively new to tape backups in general and I have rec

Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware Encryption?

2011-01-05 Thread Edward M. Markowski
here at work we do not use bacula so I can't speak to the compatibility, but we use the following: Started with Netapp Datafort inline apiliances, we have around 30 of the deployed, they work mostly, but require more maintaince then I would like. Our second generation solution for inline encry

Re: [Bacula-users] Unable to position to end of data on device

2010-11-11 Thread Edward M. Markowski
Is this happening with this one tape only, or all tapes you try in this particulat drive? If the problem is only with this tape, is the tape old and been used a lot? If so, then the tape has reached/passed the end of it's usefull life. If this tape drive is in a library, check the library fo

[Bacula-users] How to run 1 backup job to tape with duplicate to a 2nd tape

2010-05-27 Thread Edward M. Markowski
I have this customer that wants to backup a filesystem that currently is a bit over 4TB used and grows up to 300GB per week. The growth is new files, existing files do not change. Each backup run, full/diff/inc are to go to 2 sets of tapes, one to keep in a vault onsite, one to go offsite.

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent spooling and despooling

2010-02-16 Thread Edward M. Markowski
I thought about this reciently, after I moved my spool dir to a 1.5 GB ramdisk, I had been using 100GB of a mirrored pair of 500GB SATA drives my throughtput to tape went up be a little over 10Mps. A few thoughts, see inline.. On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, 16.02.2010 11

Re: [Bacula-users] tape size & speed LTO-1 drive

2009-11-30 Thread Edward M. Markowski
Hi and welcome. I'm also new to using Bacula, but hopefully can offer some usefull info :-) Tape Capacity: As you have seen LTO-1 tapes have an uncompressed capacity of 100GB, due to bacula overhead, you should see no less then slightly under the 100GB on each cartrage. I have seen traf

Re: [Bacula-users] SOT: When to update ...

2009-10-25 Thread Edward M. Markowski
On 10/25/2009 09:34 PM, ReynierPM wrote: > Hi every: > I was watching Bacula since 1 year and I've very graceful with this tool > and the community behind the software. I have Bacula 3.0.2 working in a > production server. Now Bacula 3.0.3 is out with bugfixes. My question > here is: when to update

Re: [Bacula-users] New autochanger adds L3 after tape barcode

2009-10-20 Thread Edward M. Markowski
Check the autochanger user doc, many have a setting that will cause it to stop reporting the cartrage type field. On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Adam Cécile wrote: Hello, I juste replaced an autochanger and the new one adds L3 at the end of each tape label (ie: XY becames XYL3). What can I do

[Bacula-users] Bacula thinks empty tapes are full

2009-08-31 Thread Edward Aronyk
Hey All, I've been using Bacula to backup 7 or 8 servers for a while now and have been fairly pleased. I backup to an external autochanger. I started with 20 empty tapes. Now, half way through Bacula is convinced that the rest of the tapes are full, but they aren't... they've never been wri

[Bacula-users] Unable to restore off tape after filled

2007-12-22 Thread Edward Aronyk
cord = no Backward Space File = no Fast Forward Space File = no TWO EOF = yes } ### ## END Snippets of bacula-sd.conf ### I would appreciate any help anyone could offer. It's very unnerving to know that

[Bacula-users] Daily Overwrite

2005-03-29 Thread Edward Dam
Good morning,   I am new to Bacula and this list. I really like the amount of data reports you can get from the SQL database, but I have a problem, and I hope someone can help.   What I have is as follows:   10 tapes, in a 2 week rotation, labelled as follows   Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursd