Re: [Bacula-users] 'Lock' retention on a media...

2025-07-26 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> Uh. Oh. But why not simply move the media to the archive pool? For search engines: it worked. I can move a volume to a different pool: > *update volume=SVPVE3_0001 pool=FVG-SV-SVPVE3ArchiveLTOPool where more loose retention apply, then obviously re-apply retention parameters itself

Re: [Bacula-users] 'Lock' retention on a media...

2025-06-13 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Rob Gerber In chel di` si favelave... Thanks for your previous message, full of invaluable info! > However, I have an idea. If you have some pool like 'Archive pool' and you > set in that pool File, Job, and Volume retention to some very long period, > like 1000Y, then if you migrate job

Re: [Bacula-users] [OT] stenc and library...

2025-05-31 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > Sounds like an interesting project. :) Cool! My script simply enquire device for serial of the unit, and then if not exist create the key with: "$STENC" -g 256 -k $kf -kd \"$pk\" where: kf="$KEYDIR/$HOST-$SERIA

Re: [Bacula-users] [OT] stenc and library...

2025-05-31 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Udo Kaune In chel di` si favelave... > "Correctly enrolled" is only defined in context of a tape you want to read or > write to. If with 'tape' you meant 'tape media', not. Key is enrolled on tape drive, not on (every single) tape media. -- ___

Re: [Bacula-users] [OT] stenc and library...

2025-05-27 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Udo Kaune In chel di` si favelave... > Not quite clear what you are trying to accomplish. Stenc does load keys > to the drive, not to tapes. Please elaborate. Sure, but if bacula-sd is ''locking'' the tape device, stenc cannon enroll the key. My initial goal was to provide a script tha

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 9.4 and 9.6 compatibility...

2025-05-02 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Sven Hartge In chel di` si favelave... > The "live" backports repository is disabled and archived for any release > that is moved to the LTS stage, so no wonder you could not find anything > on there. Thanks for the info. Anyway, for a sake of completeness, at the end i've simply put

[Bacula-users] [OT] stenc and library...

2025-05-02 Thread Marco Gaiarin
A bit OT but i don't know where to ask... I'm using stenc to load keys to LTO tapes; if the LTO tape is 'single', internal or external does not matter, i can inqiry ectryption status easily: root@svpve3:~# stenc -f /dev/st0 --detail Status for /dev/nst0 --

[Bacula-users] 'Lock' retention on a media...

2025-05-02 Thread Marco Gaiarin
There's some way to 'lock' metadata/catalog retention for a media? I supposed that put a media in 'Archive' state (before catalog retention expire) suffices, but seems not... Thanks. -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourcefor

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 9.4 and 9.6 compatibility...

2025-04-26 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Martin Simmons In chel di` si favelave... > In general, you need the versions of the director and storage to be the same. > Anything else is untested. OK. Because of 'catalog datbase format remains unchanged' i hoped that DIR<->SD compatibility could/would be a 'major version only' thing

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 9.4 and 9.6 compatibility...

2025-04-26 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Sven Hartge In chel di` si favelave... > There was a Debian-Backports package for Buster for 9.6.7, availabe still via > https://snapshot.debian.org/package/bacula/9.6.7-3~bpo10%2B1/#bacula-sd_9.6.7-3:7e:bpo10:2b:1 > That will install cleanly without the need for manual compilation. Uh!

[Bacula-users] Bacula 9.4 and 9.6 compatibility...

2025-04-22 Thread Marco Gaiarin
I need to do a rather complex server upgrade, from debian buster to debian bookworm (really: from PVE 6 to PVE 8). Buster have bacula 9.4.2, bullseye and bookworm have 9.6.7. Looking at bacula 9.6 release notes i catch: The catalog datbase format remains unchanged from the 9.4.4 relea

Re: [Bacula-users] Automating Windows fd Client Installation

2025-03-30 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Rob Gerber In chel di` si favelave... > I don't know what the bacula community team has used for an installer, but > I suspect that it doesn't have unattended installation instructions. Looking at the source seems to me still use NSIS: https://gitlab.bacula.org/bacula-community

Re: [Bacula-users] Automating Windows fd Client Installation

2025-03-30 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Cole Graham In chel di` si favelave... > Whenever I attempt to write a powershell script or .bat file to automate > the file daemon installation, I am met with an empty shell of bacula being > installed (just two empty folders, the license file and the uninstall > executable). I use:

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy a tape with a single drive...

2025-03-17 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Marco Gaiarin In chel di` si favelave... > I've done a quick test, and seems work... but still i ask for feedback. OK, definitively work; supposing to have a tape storage 'LTO5Storage' and a media labelled 'PPPVE3_0001', you need firstly to create the

Re: [Bacula-users] I think i've understood because VirtualFull consolidation stall...

2025-03-17 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Arno Lehmann via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > One is to set "Maximum Concurrent Read Jobs" to less than half the > available devices of your autochanger. That would be one in your case. Better later then ever. I've tested this and wait some weeks to be sure that all work

Re: [Bacula-users] [OT?] Enable hardware encryption on RDX...

2025-03-12 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Udo Kaune In chel di` si favelave... > On my Quantum Superloaders there needs to be a tape in the drive to > accept the key and bacula-sd must be stopped (did not try if bconsole > release suffices). I can confirm that. Tape inserted and bacula-sd stopped. > Encryption on RDX is work

Re: [Bacula-users] [OT?] Enable hardware encryption on RDX...

2025-03-12 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > Why not just use the simple to manage Bacula Storage Daemon Encryption > feature? Because, at least for tapes, this practically brake hardware compression; so if i enable software encryption i need also to enable software compr

[Bacula-users] [OT?] Enable hardware encryption on RDX...

2025-03-10 Thread Marco Gaiarin
After fiddling a bit with tapes, i'm trying to enable hardware encryption on RDX, using stenc. Seems supported: root@sdpve2:~# /usr/bin/stenc -f /dev/disk/by-id/usb-TANDBERG_RDX_008650987562-0:0 --detail Status for /dev/disk/by-id/usb-TANDBERG_RDX_008650987562-0:0 --

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy a tape with a single drive...

2025-03-06 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> So, a 'bacula tape copy machine' will have to, theoretically: > + for every job in tape: >- copy bootstrap file from director for that job >- dump that jobs in tape to disk volume >- dump disk volume to 'copy tape' >- purge and truncate disk volume >- repeat > ...seems pret

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy a tape with a single drive...

2025-03-06 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> so, i can use a command (bscan?) to scan a media, build a BSR file and then > use it to copy ALL jobs within the media? Eric add in bug: >> I think you need to put >> volume=AA >> in a text file, and use -b in the command line Looking at: https://www.bacula.org/9.4.x-manuals/

Re: [Bacula-users] data encryption support

2025-02-25 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Udo Kaune In chel di` si favelave... > The more important part is if you encrypt by software you should also > compress by software beforehand. Clear. I've done some tests, and clearly today, for mixed data, compression does not achive big improvement, so i've decided to do software enc

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy a tape with a single drive...

2025-02-22 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> I've still two question. More question rised. Seems that, even using a temporary file media, copy is more performative then a full backup. For example, on a test system with an LTO5 tape, full backup took 14 hour, while copy tape to file media took 4 hour, and file back to tape 3 hour; so, m

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy a tape with a single drive...

2025-02-19 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Marco Gaiarin In chel di` si favelave... > I've tried also here: > > https://gitlab.bacula.org/bacula-community-edition/bacula-community/-/issues/2745 OK, bug fixed in current community version. I've still two question. 1) as a workaround the bootstrap &#x

Re: [Bacula-users] data encryption support

2025-02-18 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Rob Gerber In chel di` si favelave... > I don't know for sure how to check if the default binaries supplied by > Debian support encryption out of the box. I would suspect that the packages > support SSL since that is a secure default. ...i can confirm that debian bacula from buster onwar

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy a tape with a single drive...

2025-02-14 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> but my C and bacula knowledge is minimal... I've tried also here: https://gitlab.bacula.org/bacula-community-edition/bacula-community/-/issues/2745 Thanks. -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy a tape with a single drive...

2025-02-10 Thread Marco Gaiarin
>> 04-Feb 15:02 bcopy JobId 0: Warning: vol_mgr.c:386 Could not reserve volume >> "PPPVE3LTOCopy_0001" for append, because it will be read. > Googling about this lead me to only two result: I've run it under heavvy debug: root@pppve3:~# bcopy -d999 LTO5Storage FileStorage -i PPPVE3_0004 -o

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy a tape with a single drive...

2025-02-09 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> 04-Feb 15:02 bcopy JobId 0: Warning: vol_mgr.c:386 Could not reserve volume > "PPPVE3LTOCopy_0001" for append, because it will be read. Googling about this lead me to only two result: https://sourceforge.net/p/bacula/mailman/bacula-users/thread/53C0253A.1010801%40intelesyscorp.com/

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy a tape with a single drive...

2025-02-04 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > I guess you could simply set up a disk-based storage and pool, bcopy from > tape to file-based media in this new pool, then > bcopy from that disk-based media to another tape. OK, done but i catch some mysterious error... I'v

[Bacula-users] I think i've understood because VirtualFull consolidation stall...

2025-02-03 Thread Marco Gaiarin
...now i need only to (try to) fix it. I use a dummy Autochanger, with 3 devices, to bacup some windows client to a file pool. On sunday morning i do a Virtual Full to consolidate incrementals done during the weekend. During test phase all worked as expected. In real use, sometime virtualfull

Re: [Bacula-users] Job switch for encryption?

2025-01-31 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > These two things are 100% unrelated in Bacula. OK. > The `signature` setting in a Fileset's Options{} block is used to create and > add a hash of each file to the catalog so that > on restore or verify it can be confirmed tha

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy a tape with a single drive...

2025-01-31 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > If I understand correctly, you just want to copy an entire tape to another > tape but only have one tape drive? Exactly. > If yes, you can do this entirely outside of Bacula by using `dd` to read the > entire tape to a file

Re: [Bacula-users] Timeout on USB devices...

2025-01-30 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> As for 'network timeout', there' some 'io timout knob'? I came back on this. Consider this VirtualFull job that have to consolidate 8TB of data: 28-Jan 17:27 lnfbacula-dir JobId 34442: Start Virtual Backup JobId 34442, Job=PUG-IBR-EEG2Ril.2025-01-28_17.27.42_28 28-Jan 17:27 lnfbacula-dir J

[Bacula-users] Copy a tape with a single drive...

2025-01-30 Thread Marco Gaiarin
I need to 'copy' a tape, bt using a single drive. There's something 'smart' i can do, or the only option is to build two jobs, one that copy the media in a different type (eg, files) and then migrate it on tape? Thanks. -- ___ Bacula-users mail

Re: [Bacula-users] Job switch for encryption?

2025-01-30 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > Not a stupid question, but you are correct. > What you can do is run two FDs on a client (on different ports), one with > encryption enabled and the other with no > encryption. Then, just use the right FD for the jobs you want

[Bacula-users] Job switch for encryption?

2025-01-29 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Seems a stupid question but... if i enable data encryption on the FD, it is true that there's no a 'job switch' that enable/disable encryption for a specific job? So, *any* jobs running on that FD get encrypted, right? Thanks. -- ___ Bacula-use

Re: [Bacula-users] Performance issue

2025-01-27 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Roberto Greiner In chel di` si favelave... > Any ideas of what could cause this issue? Sorry Roberto, it is not clear to me. ZFS is the 'destination' of the backup, or the source? What is the backup media? I can confirm i have still trouble with ZFS as a SOURCE of backup: seems that Z

Re: [Bacula-users] Ghost jobs?!

2025-01-27 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > The bconsole `release` command is for this. :) Ops... O;-) > For those "ghost Jobs", if this ever happens again, you can use the bconsole > `cancel inactive jobid= storage=` command. ...bacula: an infinite learning b

Re: [Bacula-users] Ghost jobs?!

2025-01-20 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Marco Gaiarin In chel di` si favelave... > How can i recover from a situation like this, if jobs can occupy a 'slot' > but cannot be canceled? ...for a sake of completeness, i was forced to restart the SD, even cancelling the cancellable jobs does not

[Bacula-users] Ghost jobs?!

2025-01-20 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Deciding a title to this post is a bit tricky... ;-) Firs of all: i need to chage a set of tapes in a tape autochanger; to be able to release the tapes, the library and change the tape i have to 'umount' the tape in the tape unity(es); but if i use umount, then i need to do an explicit 'mount'. I

Re: [Bacula-users] [OT] Overland-Tandberg?

2025-01-08 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Arno Lehmann via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > Good luck... Thanks for the info... ;-( -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users

[Bacula-users] [OT] Overland-Tandberg?

2025-01-03 Thread Marco Gaiarin
I know that i'm not the only one here that use Overland-Tandberg products, more specifically NEO tape library. We have got 'rumors' from our local dealer that O-T is on bankruptcy; we need hardware support for an unit and we and the dealer have some trouble to get in touch with O-T. I've tried t

Re: [Bacula-users] removable HD instead of tape how-to

2025-01-01 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! D. In chel di` si favelave... > Is there any documentation on how to use USB-attached external hard > drives in place of tapes? If yes, where can I find the documentation? Consider this whitepaper: https://www.bacula.org/whitepapers/CommunityDiskBackup.pdf I use extensively t

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull e client availability...

2024-12-18 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... Sorry for the late answer. In the meantime i've done some other checks, and seems that things are a bit complex then that. For example, another client configured exactly on the same way works as expected; eg, fail incremental if

[Bacula-users] Timeout on USB devices...

2024-12-16 Thread Marco Gaiarin
I use some USB3 devices (RDXes) for backup, using vchanger scripts; sometimes but too frequently i catch: Dec 13 20:10:09 pspve3 bacula-sd[60485]: pspve3-sd: record_write.c:232-31759 Got write_block_to_dev error on device "RDXStorage0" (/var/spool/vchanger/PSPVE3RDX/0). Error sending Volume i

[Bacula-users] VirtualFull e client availability...

2024-12-05 Thread Marco Gaiarin
I use virtual full backup to 'consolidate' backups on weekend; AFAI've understood, virtual full backups are a 'sd only' things. But if client is not abailable (common for that client, on weekend), also a virtualfull backup fail: 05-Dec 15:33 lnfbacula-dir JobId 31268: Rescheduled Job FVG-PP-H

Re: [Bacula-users] Strategies for backup of millions of files...

2024-11-22 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Marco Gaiarin In chel di` si favelave... > OK, things start working. The script do correctly snapshot; if needed, i can > simply mount the snapshot elsewhere via a simple 'mount -t zfs'. Ok, only a note to say, afer some long time, that i've abandoned the 'zf

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up an external (USB) mounted media on Windows: Incrementals faked?!

2024-11-22 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Josh Fisher via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > I don't think unmount/remount would change the modification time. > However, it might change the mountpoint. Windows uses a multiple-root > filesystem. Each drive letter is actually a root path. A remount or > reboot could very

[Bacula-users] Backing up an external (USB) mounted media on Windows: Incrementals faked?!

2024-10-14 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> Backup of external media need some specific setup? I've changed the subject because was totally misleading; but still i need some clue... I need to backup an external, USB, disk mounted on a Win10 client; disk contain 8TB of data, scattered in many files/dirs. I'm using progressive virtual f

Re: [Bacula-users] Strategies for backup of millions of files...

2024-10-11 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Marco Gaiarin In chel di` si favelave... > No, i'm still working on snapshotting, next step backup; i've not clear if > Include{} and Exclude{} fileset directive apply to 'stippath' or > 'non-strippath' path... OK, things start working. The script

Re: [Bacula-users] Strategies for backup of millions of files...

2024-10-09 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Arno Lehmann In chel di` si favelave... > So I guess a good recommendation would be to make sure strippath is > applied to *all* paths in a file set, unless you are really sure you > know what you do. Uh, oh... clearly sure! > Also, did you per chance already try, in combination with

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS on an external drive -> full?

2024-10-08 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Marco Gaiarin In chel di` si favelave... > Backup of external media need some specific setup? OK, no, VSS is incorrelated. Seems that the 'default' 'verify' backup option is too tight for an USB mounted disk... In Windows/NTFS there's some sort of

[Bacula-users] VSS on an external drive -> full?

2024-10-07 Thread Marco Gaiarin
I need to backup a windows PC with an USB (Thunderbolt) external disk with 6TB of data (disk Z:). Sometime VSS complain: pug-ibr-eeg2ril-fd JobId 27870: Generate VSS snapshots. Driver="Win64 VSS" pug-ibr-eeg2ril-fd JobId 27870: Snapshot mount point: D:\ pug-ibr-eeg2ril-fd JobId 27870:

Re: [Bacula-users] Strategies for backup of millions of files...

2024-10-07 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Gary R. Schmidt In chel di` si favelave... > Because it does exactly what it says it will do. > If you backup /a/b/c/d, and then restore it with "strippath=1" it will > restore to /b/c/d. > If you have some pre-existing /b/c/d it's now been over-written, or > overlaid, if you prefer..

Re: [Bacula-users] Aggressively prune (and truncate) file volumes on Progressive backups...

2024-10-07 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Marco Gaiarin In chel di` si favelave... > OK, i have to truncate them, not delete, but... i've understood, i think... Script start to work. I'll post here more after some cleanup... but i still hit strange things in bacula. ;-) *purge yes volume=VWSSV1_0020 action=tru

Re: [Bacula-users] Strategies for backup of millions of files...

2024-10-04 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Arno Lehmann In chel di` si favelave... > Look at > https://www.bacula.org/15.0.x-manuals/en/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION002370 > > and search for "strippath" :-) Uh, oh! And was available also on 9.4! https://www.bacula.org/9.4.x-manuals/en/main/Con

Re: [Bacula-users] Aggressively prune (and truncate) file volumes on Progressive backups...

2024-10-02 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Gary R. Schmidt In chel di` si favelave... > RTFM again, it took me about three goes to understand it - and I've been > doing backups since 9-track tape drives were vertical! Mmmm... i've found references to scratch pool but really i've nefer understood; if i look in docs i found a

Re: [Bacula-users] Strategies for backup of millions of files...

2024-10-02 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Josip Deanovic via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... >> Bacula will just do it. Nothing special required. > This statement might be misleading in this particular case Marco > described. > Bacula will be able to run incremental backup but if the mountpoint is > changing every time

Re: [Bacula-users] Strategies for backup of millions of files...

2024-09-30 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Josip Deanovic via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > Unless the "Ignore FileSet Change" option is used, Bacula will compare the MD5 > checksum of the Include/Exclude contents of the FileSet and decide whether a > Full backup is needed or not. > I don't recommend using this option

Re: [Bacula-users] Aggressively prune (and truncate) file volumes on Progressive backups...

2024-09-30 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Chris Wilkinson In chel di` si favelave... > Sure. I put it here. It's a bash script. will need a bit of tweaking for > your particular setup. > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WOFIjgZMx-XL2Jv7FqGupnjctLpUEhLG/view?usp=drivesdk OK, mostly understood. Bright idea! But for media purging

Re: [Bacula-users] Strategies for backup of millions of files...

2024-09-30 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Dan Langille In chel di` si favelave... > From > https://dan.langille.org/2023/12/24/backing-up-freebsd-with-bacula-via-zfs-snapshot/ > : I'm still doing some experimentation on this, indeed. > It doesn't all run as incrementals. If the list of DATASETS (see above URL) > does not ch

Re: [Bacula-users] Aggressively prune (and truncate) file volumes on Progressive backups...

2024-09-30 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Phil Stracchino In chel di` si favelave... > Incidentally, the way I solved this was: > — Use volumes ONCE > — Prune expired volumes into the scratch pool > — Regularly clean and delete all volumes found in the scratch pool (or, > as an added later refinement just in case of mishaps, any

[Bacula-users] Aggressively prune (and truncate) file volumes on Progressive backups...

2024-09-27 Thread Marco Gaiarin
I've setup a set of jobs on windows client machine, as progressive virtual full, eg infinite retention and cancelling job via consolidation. I've on the pool: Action On Purge = Truncate but jobs get deleted, and volumes get purged (and truncated) only if needed. There's some way, aft

Re: [Bacula-users] Performance testing simultaneous spooling and despooling

2024-09-26 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! B. Smith In chel di` si favelave... > I have a ZFS pool as a dedicated Bacula spool. To be clear: the ZFS pool is only used for the bacula spool? Or 'spool' is in 'loose' meaning, eg contain the data 'spooled' from other servers that have to be put on LTO? I'm fighting also on this, bec

Re: [Bacula-users] Strategies for backup of millions of files...

2024-09-26 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Arno Lehmann In chel di` si favelave... > I have not looked up the discussion leading here. See my previous post: i'm fighting with ZFS. ;-) > What I usually prefer is a combination of a Run Script on the client to > create a file list to back up, and a File= entry in the include list

Re: [Bacula-users] Strategies for backup of millions of files...

2024-09-15 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Marco Gaiarin In chel di` si favelave... > EG, i'll come back on this on mid-september... Still working on script. For a sake of mental health i want to mount snapshot on different mount point... so different file path. But path are defined in filesets, and i cannot define ad

Re: [Bacula-users] Library and clean cartdrige...

2024-08-30 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > Nope... You want to disable the drive in bconsole. Again, thanks! I make a note: i've not found a place in Bacula docs where the 'disable storage' command have some docs... -- _

Re: [Bacula-users] Library and clean cartdrige...

2024-08-27 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > You cannot tell Bacula to load a cleaning tape without experiencing > these kinds of errors, because when the SD is told to > load a tape from a slot into a drive, the 'mtx-changer' script calls the > 'mtx' utility to load, the

[Bacula-users] Library and clean cartdrige...

2024-08-26 Thread Marco Gaiarin
I've setup in my pool(s) the 'Cleaning Prefix' and addedd to the library the cleaning tape; situation now is: *update slots storage=CNPVE3Autochanger Connecting to Storage daemon CNPVE3Autochanger at cnpve3.cn.lnf.it:9103 ... 3306 Issuing autochanger "slots" command. Device "Autochanger" has

Re: [Bacula-users] Strategies for backup of millions of files...

2024-08-18 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Dan Langille In chel di` si favelave... >> >> https://dan.langille.org/2023/12/24/backing-up-freebsd-with-bacula-via-zfs-snapshot/ > How is that working out? You don't know?! ;-) I'm currently on holiday; i'll come back next week, but i need to move and/or do some other tasks.

Re: [Bacula-users] Strategies for backup of millions of files...

2024-08-03 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Andrea Venturoli In chel di` si favelave... > Probably yes, but why bother? > Just take multiple snapshots: they have by default a different > mountpoint and don't take any space. Right... never minded about that... i've also found some example: https://dan.langille.org/2023/1

Re: [Bacula-users] Strategies for backup of millions of files...

2024-07-26 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Josip Deanovic via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > Alternatively, Bacula has the noatime option which is not set by > default. I've give it a try. Seems it is useful, rather not dramatic. Thanks! -- ___ Bacula-users mailing l

Re: [Bacula-users] Strategies for backup of millions of files...

2024-07-26 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > The typical way to help with this type of situation is to create several > Fileset/Job pairs and then run them all > concurrently. Each Job would be reading a different set of directories. Finally we have splitted data using m

Re: [Bacula-users] Strategies for backup of millions of files...

2024-07-26 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Dan Langille In chel di` si favelave... > Do your filesystem have any snapshot capabilities? With that many files, > backing up a snapshot would give you better results with respect to > consistency. Cool! Never minded about that! Yes, FS is ZFS so i can snapshot them. But FS/mountpo

[Bacula-users] Strategies for backup of millions of files...

2024-07-15 Thread Marco Gaiarin
We have found that a dir (containing mostly home directories) with roughly one and a half million files, took too much time to be backud up; it is not a problem of backup media, also with spooling it took hours to prepare a spool. There's some strategy i can accomplish to reduce backup time (bac

Re: [Bacula-users] Again LTO9 and performances...

2024-07-01 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Josh Fisher via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > Another way that might be better for your case is to leave > MaximumSpoolSize = 0 (unlimited) and specify a MaximumJobSpoolSize in > the Device resource instead. The difference is that when one job reaches > the MaximumJobSpoolS

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-8 tape report error

2024-06-24 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Radosław Korzeniewski In chel di` si favelave... > It is best to use persistent device names instead of above. You should ask Sure. > udev (with udevadm info --query=all --name /dev/sg0) about it. > This device path never changes. But at least for my tape library, the name is still 's

Re: [Bacula-users] Again LTO9 and performances...

2024-06-24 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Josh Fisher via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > Except when the MaximumSpoolSize for the Device resource is reached or > the Spool Directory becomes full. When there is no more storage space > for data spool files, all jobs writing to that device are paused and the > spool fi

Re: [Bacula-users] Limit job rescheduling

2024-06-24 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Andrea Venturoli In chel di` si favelave... > That's something I had seen and pondered. > However, it will stop a job that is already running, won't it? Yep. ;-) > So, in my case, if a job started late in the afternoon it wouldn't be > allowed to complete. Right? Right. I know my use

Re: [Bacula-users] Again LTO9 and performances...

2024-06-22 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... >> But, now, a question: this mean that in spool data get interleaved too? How >> they are interleaved? File by file? Block by block? What block size? > No. When you have jobs running, take a look into the SpoolDirectory. You will

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-8 tape report error

2024-06-20 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Adam Weremczuk In chel di` si favelave... > Any idea what's going on? Consider that there are vendor utility to do quick and extensive tape unit check; for HP unit, for example, there's LTT: https://buy.hpe.com/it/it/storage/storage-software/storage-device-management-software/s

Re: [Bacula-users] Limit job rescheduling

2024-06-20 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Andrea Venturoli In chel di` si favelave... > At a site, I'm backing up several machines, most of which are clients > that are not powered on every day. Ciao Andrea. I use roughly the same schedule: Allow Duplicate Jobs = no Cancel Lower Level Duplicates = yes

Re: [Bacula-users] Again LTO9 and performances...

2024-06-20 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Gary R. Schmidt In chel di` si favelave... >> job involved (in the same pool, i think) start to write down spool to tape. > MaximumSpoolSize is the total space used in the spool area, by all jobs. After posting, i've looked more carefully at the log and understod that. Sorry for the misu

Re: [Bacula-users] Again LTO9 and performances...

2024-06-17 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > With DataSpooling enabled in all jobs, the only "interleaving" that you will > have on your tapes is one big block of Job 1's > de-spooled data, then maybe another Job 1 block, or a Job 2 block, or a Job 3 > block, and so on,

Re: [Bacula-users] Again LTO9 and performances...

2024-06-14 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > Hope this helps! Thanks to all for the hints and the explainings; bacula is really a bad beast... there's ever room for improvement! ;-) -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-u

Re: [Bacula-users] Again LTO9 and performances...

2024-06-11 Thread Marco Gaiarin
>> Not for a single job. When the storage daemon is writing a job's spooled >> data to tape, the client must wait. However, if multiple jobs are >> running in parallel, then the other jobs will continue to spool their >> data while one job is despooling to tape. > > I come back on this. I've

Re: [Bacula-users] Again LTO9 and performances...

2024-06-06 Thread Marco Gaiarin
for tapes; clearly i've only one device/tape. I've defined two jobs, but the first run, the second: is waiting on Storage "BPBKPLOMAutochanger" And don't start to spool data, wait there indefinetively. What i'm missing?! Thanks. -- dott. Marco Gaia

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull and correct volume management...

2024-06-05 Thread Marco Gaiarin
d in $failed_jobids; do echo -e "delete yes jobid=$jobid\nquit\n" | $bcbin -c $bccfg done so instates 'f', 'E' and 'A', not generic jobs/statuses... and 'Run After Job' get executed if and only if job run correctly. So i don'

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull and correct volume management...

2024-05-31 Thread Marco Gaiarin
ch > only happens when all jobs have been purged. OK, thanks for the info. I start to understand! -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia'' http://www.lanostrafamiglia.it/ Polo FVG - Via

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull and correct volume management...

2024-05-31 Thread Marco Gaiarin
failed jobs > time this Admin job is run will be in the Admin Job's joblog. Alternately, > you can trigger the script from cron, and the > bconsole output will be in the email that cron sends. The script run by hand works as expected, but clearly i prefere to run from bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull and correct volume management...

2024-05-28 Thread Marco Gaiarin
t the volume and put on 'Used' state because have reached 'Maximum Volume Jobs'. If i delete *ALL* job in that volume, get correctly recycled. It is right? There's some 'knob' i can tackle with to make volume management more 'aggressive'? Thanks. --

Re: [Bacula-users] Again LTO9 and performances...

2024-05-28 Thread Marco Gaiarin
network, and the type of job. Only Sorry, forgot to specify. No network, all local. ;-) -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia'' http://www.lanostrafamiglia.it/ Polo FVG - Via della Bontà, 7

Re: [Bacula-users] Again LTO9 and performances...

2024-05-28 Thread Marco Gaiarin
hared buff/cache available Mem: 125Gi61Gi60Gi 739Mi 2.9Gi62Gi Swap:0B 0B 0B ;-) > Oh, and is it Solaris, BSD, or Linux? Linux/Debian Buster (PVE6). -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Ke

Re: [Bacula-users] Again LTO9 and performances...

2024-05-28 Thread Marco Gaiarin
provide feedback. Thanks! > I wouldn't use those options for data spooling. You have to also consider the >number of disks: >https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/zfs-versus-raid-eight-ironwolf-disks-two-filesystems-one-winner/ I'll read on. Thanks for

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO tape performances, again...

2024-05-28 Thread Marco Gaiarin
rm the 'paper' you post. I'm currently using 1M block size. -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia'' http://www.lanostrafamiglia.it/ Polo FVG - Via della Bontà, 7 - 3

Re: [Bacula-users] Again LTO9 and performances...

2024-05-28 Thread Marco Gaiarin
e, nothing dramatic. Still testing... -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia'' http://www.lanostrafamiglia.it/ Polo FVG - Via della Bontà, 7 - 33078 - San Vito al Tagliamento (PN) marco.gaiar

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up files and database in sync

2024-05-19 Thread Marco Gaiarin
n/main/Windows_Version_Bacula.html i don't know precisely MSSQL but if register itself in VSS, backup have to be consistant... -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia'' http://www.lanostrafamiglia.it/ Pol

[Bacula-users] Again LTO9 and performances...

2024-05-17 Thread Marco Gaiarin
an i do to improve the spooling performance? What factors impact more? Thanks. -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia'' http://www.lanostrafamiglia.it/ Polo FVG - Via della Bontà, 7 - 33078 -

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull and correct volume management...

2024-05-15 Thread Marco Gaiarin
, with a single volume within with no retention. Use the normal pool for incremental, with a decent retention; in this way i can lost all the incremental, but the full remein safe. Could be? Thanks. -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione `

[Bacula-users] VirtualFull and correct volume management...

2024-05-09 Thread Marco Gaiarin
I've setup some backup jobs for some (mostly windows) client computer; i mean 'client' as 'not always on'. I've setup a job like this: Job { Name = FVG-SV-EEG JobDefs = DefaultJob Storage = SVPVE3FileMulti Pool = FVG-SV-EEGFilePool Messages = Standard

Re: [Bacula-users] Again vchanger and volumes in error...

2024-04-05 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Josh Fisher via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > I have found the problem. [...] > I would argue that (3) above is a bug. I've reported back info to: https://gitlab.bacula.org/bacula-community-edition/bacula-community/-/issues/2683 so i hope bacula devs will take into

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