Re: [Bacula-users] [External] Re: Overland-Tandberg TD-LTO9xSA LTO9HH SAS External Tape Drive Kit

2024-03-04 Thread mark . bergman
e spool device and network. To keep that drive saturated with incoming data, the data probably needs to be coming from an SSD device (NVMe preferred), already spooled into large (multi-GB) chunks, not reading individual files from spinning disks. Mark -- Mark Bergman

[Bacula-users] bacula-sd systemd service modification prevents daemon failure

2022-08-01 Thread mark . bergman
er systemd without any debugging options. Thanks, Mark -- Mark Bergman voice: 215-746-4061 mark.berg...@pennmedicine.upenn.edu fax: 215-614-0266 http://www.med.upenn.edu/cbica/ IT Technical Director, Center for Biomedical Ima

[Bacula-users] postgres db error while despooling attributes to database

2022-01-12 Thread mark . bergman
void re-running these jobs if the data is valid. Does anyone have a suggestion for the [best|easiest|fastest] way to verify that the info within the database is valid and each backup would be usable for a restore? Does anyone have a suggestion for ways to debug or avoid this issue a

[Bacula-users] bsnapshot tool, API docs

2021-11-08 Thread mark . bergman
uot; feature in Bacula doesn't list GPFS as a supported OS, but I'd be willing to try writing a compatible utility, to release to the community, so that Bacula could create/list/remove GPFS snapshots. Is there documentation on the bsnapshot API? Thanks, Mark -- Mark Bergman

[Bacula-users] feedback requested on new backup strategy

2021-11-05 Thread mark . bergman
about 45 Bacula jobs. Thoughts? Suggestions? Thanks, Mark -- Mark Bergman voice: 215-746-4061 mark.berg...@pennmedicine.upenn.edu fax: 215-614-0266 http://www.med.upenn.edu/cbica/ IT Technical Director, Center for Biomedical

[Bacula-users] one client consistently times out @ 7th file, ~769KB

2020-08-31 Thread mark . bergman
he server reports: Error: bsock.c:383 Write error sending 24573 bytes to Storage daemon:bacula-server:9103: ERR=Connection timed out Any thoughts? Thanks, Mark -- Mark Bergman voice: 215-746-4061 mark.berg...@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

[Bacula-users] copying existing data to new servers, new storage device...how to avoid new full backups?

2019-06-19 Thread mark . bergman
e anyway to "alias" an existing Bacula job or fileset to a new server and new path so that we do not immediately trigger 100+TB of full backups? Thanks, Mark -- Mark Bergman voice: 215-746-4061 mark.berg...@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Re: [Bacula-users] [External] Re: multi-homed bacula-dir + asymetrical routing = authentication failure?

2019-02-13 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 11:42:44 +, The pithy ruminations from Martin Simmons on [[External] Re: [Bacula-users] multi-homed bacula-dir + asymetrical routing = authentication failure?] were: => >>>>> On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 14:12:08 -0500, mark bergman said: =&g

[Bacula-users] multi-homed bacula-dir + asymetrical routing = authentication failure?

2019-02-12 Thread mark . bergman
(the primary interface), even though the traffic was sent via the 10.20.0.0 network. Any thoughts? -- Mark Bergman voice: 215-746-4061 mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu fax: 215-614-0266 http://www.med.upenn.edu/cbica/

Re: [Bacula-users] [External] Re: [Bacula-devel] IBAdmin

2019-01-24 Thread mark . bergman
lue the convenience of the install over the security of their data probably don't represent the typical bacula administrator. Their suggestions for the design of your product may not apply to the users you want to attract. Mark => => best regards -- Radosław Korzeniewski rados...@korzenie

Re: [Bacula-users] [External] Re: "Full" tapes with zero bytes?

2018-12-14 Thread mark . bergman
artin Simmons on => [[External] Re: [Bacula-users] "Full" tapes with zero bytes?] were: => => >>>>> On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:02:19 -0500, mark bergman said: => => > => => > I'm running Bacula 9.0.8 under CentOS 6, and I'm seeing something odd

Re: [Bacula-users] [External] Re: "Full" tapes with zero bytes?

2018-12-12 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 13:40:04 +, The pithy ruminations from Martin Simmons on [[External] Re: [Bacula-users] "Full" tapes with zero bytes?] were: => >>>>> On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:02:19 -0500, mark bergman said: => > => > I'm

[Bacula-users] "Full" tapes with zero bytes?

2018-12-11 Thread mark . bergman
I'm running Bacula 9.0.8 under CentOS 6, and I'm seeing something odd with some tapes. Backups were written to the tapes, but a query of the status of volumes in the tape changer shows that the media is "Full" with zero GB: Choose a query (1-50): 15 +-++---

Re: [Bacula-users] can file retention be job rather than client based?

2018-04-11 Thread mark . bergman
e database records out of band. => => Also if I did use multi-client definitions, I would need to use the same => pool as they all go to the same monthly tapes. Same here. Mark => => Stephen => -- Mark Bergman voice:

[Bacula-users] bug: resumed jobs should not be subject to "max start delay time"

2017-07-20 Thread mark . bergman
Bacula 7.4.7 When a job is stopped and then 'resumed', the 'max start delay time' paramater should not be applied. It is inconsistent to restart a job and then have it canceled immediately because it exceeded the max start delay. Thanks, Ma

[Bacula-users] minimum PostgreSQL version required? (Was: Re: Bacula Release 9.0.1)

2017-07-18 Thread mark . bergman
connectdbParams? was not declared in this scope The Bacula manual states that PostgreSQL "version 7.4 or later" is supported, but the function PQconnectdbParams seems to have been introduced with PostgreSQL 9.0 Thanks, Mark -- Mark Bergman

Re: [Bacula-users] mixed media types in a single autochanger with preferred order

2016-08-05 Thread mark . bergman
ntion = 18 months Job Retention = 18 months Volume Retention = 18 months Recycle Pool = Scratch Storage = neoxl80-LTO6-x } - Then "Incremental" jobs can never use LTO6 media, even if no LTO4 media is available.

[Bacula-users] mixed media types in a single autochanger with preferred order

2016-08-05 Thread mark . bergman
nks, Mark -- Mark Bergman voice: 215-746-4061 mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu fax: 215-614-0266 http://www.cbica.upenn.edu/ IT Technical Director, Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics Department of

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup of system outside of restrictive firewall?

2016-08-05 Thread mark . bergman
ed above. Mark => => Many thanks, => Andreas => -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- => Version: GnuPG v2 => => iEYEARECAAYFAleki5UACgkQk5ta2EV7Doz9MQCfRmU9ImeSRts5MnAxfLkTeWmJ => yt8An0FFKTpRrN8j9w734hntvEN2P5bn => =pBW4 => -END PGP SIGNATURE- => => ---

[Bacula-users] seeking feedback on dynamic fileset scheme

2014-12-22 Thread mark . bergman
by running more Full jobs per month, each of a smaller size. The downsides to this scheme that I see are increased complexity and the greater uncertainty about when a particular directory got a Full or Differential backup. What do you think of this scheme? Thanks, Mark -- Mark Bergman

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with Quantum SuperLoader 3 LTO-6

2014-12-04 Thread mark . bergman
etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf", or only when you are in /etc/init.d? -or- 2. The bacula-dir executable that's being run is not in /etc/init.d What's the result of the command: which bacula-dir => => [SNIP!] => => It would be gre

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention periods & full backup

2014-11-25 Thread mark . bergman
=> Is it possible? => What am i doing wrong? => => Thank You, for taking time to answer, => Daniel => -- Mark Bergman voice: 215-662-7310 mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu fax: 215-614-0266 http://www.cbica.

Re: [Bacula-users] Configuration reload for bacula-sd

2014-11-10 Thread mark . bergman
ape changer are LTO4 media, then the backup will wait on operator intervention until an LTO3 tape is supplied, rather than using one of the LTO4 tapes. => => Best regards, => Ana => -- Mark Bergman voice: 215-662-7310 mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu

[Bacula-users] too many tapes used for a backup

2013-06-27 Thread mark . bergman
We just finished a large backup (6.63TB) to a mix of LTO3 and LTO4 tapes. The odd thing is that the job spanned 49(!) tapes: 46 LTO3 3 LTO4 Of those 49(!) tapes, running "query 14" (List Jobs stored for a given Volume name) for each tape in the job, I find: 2 LTO4 tape

Re: [Bacula-users] Question: Keep last backups, if next backups aren't successful

2013-03-25 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:57:28 +0100, The pithy ruminations from Denny Schierz on <[Bacula-users] Question: Keep last backups, if next backups aren't successful> were: => hi, => => I have just one question: => => One backup client is now offline so Bacula can't connect to the

Re: [Bacula-users] tapes randomly become unrecognizeable

2013-03-12 Thread mark . bergman
ls is highly dependent on the combination of the label and the barcode scanner; there is no absolute answer for every environment. Mark => John => => ---------- -- Mark Bergman

[Bacula-users] SQL query to find media without jobs or with zero file bytes?

2012-12-20 Thread mark . bergman
I believe we have a significant number of tapes that bacula thinks are "full" but which no longer have jobs. These tapes were used normally and became full. Later we decommissioned the machines that were backed up to those tapes and pruned & purged the bacula jobs that referenced the decommissione

Re: [Bacula-users] wanted on DEVICE-0, is in use by device DEVICE-1

2012-11-05 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Mon, 05 Nov 2012 13:28:52 PST, The pithy ruminations from Stephen Thompson on were: => On 11/05/2012 01:17 PM, Josh Fisher wrote: => > => > On 11/5/2012 11:03 AM, Stephen Thompson wrote: => >> => >> On 11/5/12 7:59 AM, John Drescher wrote: => I've had the following pr

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula possibly confused about label

2012-09-07 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 01:15:53 -, The pithy ruminations from Chris Ord on <[Bacula-users] bacula possibly confused about label> were: => Dears, => => In the middle of a backup job bacula is asking for a tape it has labeled and is registered corre => ctly(I believe) in the da

Re: [Bacula-users] Suppressing Duplicate Job errors

2012-05-07 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Mon, 07 May 2012 16:03:04 EDT, The pithy ruminations from Craig Van Tassle on <[Bacula-users] Suppressing Duplicate Job errors> were: => Most of my full backups take a day or two for my larger Fileservers. => During that time the Incremental backups fail because I have a sett

Re: [Bacula-users] barcode printing choices (Was: For those of you who might be interested)

2012-04-25 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:12:10 +1100, The pithy ruminations from Jerome Alet on <[Bacula-users] For those of you who might be interested> were: => Hi there, => => Just in case someone would be interested, here's the link to my Free => online generator of LTO tape labels : => =>

Re: [Bacula-users] parallelizing jobs

2012-04-05 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:18:22 +0200, The pithy ruminations from Wolfgang Denk on <[Bacula-users] parallelizing jobs> were: => => Hi, => => I wonder why I see situations that a client is waiting for another job => to complete, that is only despooling, i. e. that does not block a

Re: [Bacula-users] Best method for managing mtx "Data Transfer Element" numbers to scsi tape

2012-04-02 Thread mark . bergman
symbolic link to the tape drive with the fibre WWN containing the string "F0A1BBC000". I manually determined that this string will correspond to drive 0. I hope this helps. Mark => Patti Clark => Information International Associates, Inc. => Linux Administrat

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] new jobs cannot spool until existing jobs finish despooling?

2012-03-23 Thread mark . bergman
nse cost is well outside our budget. Yours truly, Mark Bergman Mark Bergman voice: 215-662-7310 mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu fax: 215-614-0266 System Administrator Section of Biomedical Image Analysis Department of RadiologyUniv

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple volumes moved from scratch pool

2012-03-20 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:31:26 EDT, The pithy ruminations from Dan Langille on <[Bacula-users] multiple volumes moved from scratch pool> were: => I just saw this job move multiple volumes from the scratch pool into another pool. I've had that happen repeatedly, most recently as

Re: [Bacula-users] Large backup to tape?

2012-03-08 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:38:33 PST, The pithy ruminations from Erich Weiler on were: => Thanks for the suggestions! => => We have a couple more questions that I hope have easy answers. So, it's => been strongly suggested by several folks now that we back up our 200TB => of da

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO media type mixup

2012-03-05 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:05:28 EST, The pithy ruminations from John Drescher on were: => On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Tilman Schmidt => wrote: => > Am 05.03.2012 15:43, schrieb Alan Brown: => >> On 05/03/12 14:17, Adrian Reyer wrote: => > => >>> Well, 'Media Type' is mislead

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO media type mixup

2012-03-01 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 02:08:27 +0100, The pithy ruminations from Tilman Schmidt on <[Bacula-users] LTO media type mixup> were: => On a Bacula server running openSUSE 11.4 and Bacula 5.0.2 => I have replaced the previous LTO-1 drive by an LTO-2 one. => The LTO-2 drive can read and

Re: [Bacula-users] Large backup to tape?

2012-03-01 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:23:14 PST, The pithy ruminations from Erich Weiler on <[Bacula-users] Large backup to tape?> were: => Hey Y'all, => => So I have a Dell ML6010 tape library that holds 41 LTO-5 tapes, all I've got a Dell ML6010, so I can offer some specific suggestions.

Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-02-06 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:43:41 GMT, The pithy ruminations from Martin Simmons on were: Martin, Thanks again for continuing to respond...I appreciate the feedback and troubleshooting help. => >>>>> On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:04:44 -0500, mark bergman said: =&g

Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-02-03 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:12:11 GMT, The pithy ruminations from Martin Simmons on were: => >>>>> On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:55:24 -0500, mark bergman said: => > => > The fact that the server rebooted between job 42856 and job 42879 makes => > me w

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger Problem: Second label is not being mounted

2012-02-01 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:15:23 -0200, The pithy ruminations from Isamar Maia on wer e: => Hey Mark, => => Thanks for your tips.. => => Another idea could be to give up the barcode label and identify the => tapes by its slot number, => even being kinda risky... what about that

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger Problem: Second label is not being mounted

2012-01-31 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:50:07 -0200, The pithy ruminations from Isamar Maia on wer e: => 2012/1/31 : => > In the message dated: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:14:24 -0200, => > The pithy ruminations from Isamar Maia on => > <[Bacula-users] Autochanger Problem: Second label is not being mo

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger Problem: Second label is not being mounted

2012-01-31 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:14:24 -0200, The pithy ruminations from Isamar Maia on <[Bacula-users] Autochanger Problem: Second label is not being mounted> were: => Hi Folks, => => We are using a HP 1x8 G2 AutoLDR Autochanger with Bacula version 5.2.3 => => We're facing the followin

Re: [Bacula-users] cannot read prelabeled volume

2012-01-30 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:54:34 +0100, The pithy ruminations from =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Papp_Rudolf_P=E9ter?= on <[Bacula-users] cannot read prelabeled volume> were: => Hello Everyone! => => I have a weird problem. I manage an one-maschine-backup with bacula => 5.0.2 (Debian Squeeze) fr

Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-01-25 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:05:44 GMT, The pithy ruminations from Martin Simmons on were: => >>>>> On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:22:21 -0500, mark bergman said: => > => > In the message dated: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:09:15 GMT, => > The pithy rumination

Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-01-24 Thread mark . bergman
=> > => > Thanks for replying. => > => > => > > ps unreadable> were: => > => >>>>> On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:47:31 -0500, mark bergman said: => > => > => > => > I'm experiencing a critical problem where ta

Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-01-24 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:09:15 GMT, The pithy ruminations from Martin Simmons on Thanks for replying. were: => >>>>> On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:47:31 -0500, mark bergman said: => > => > I'm experiencing a critical problem where tape l

[Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-01-23 Thread mark . bergman
I'm experiencing a critical problem where tape labels on volumes with data get corrupted, leaving all data on the tape inaccessible to bacula. I'm running bacula 5.2.2 built from source, under Linux (CentOS 5.7 x86_64). This problem has happened with approximately 15 tapes over approximately 6 mo

[Bacula-users] feature request: improve status messages by differentiating excessive concurrent jobs from actual errors

2011-12-21 Thread Mark Bergman
Item 1: Improve status messages by differentiating excessive concurrent jobs from actual errors Origin: Mark Bergman Date: Wed Dec 21 12:36:52 EST 2011 Status: What: Configuration limits on concurrent jobs can cause additional jobs to fail. This is normal and

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-12-01 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:27:33 GMT, The pithy ruminations from Alan Brown on were: => gary artim wrote: => > You guys/gals are great, very responsive! I did try => > spooling/despooling and my run times shot up. => => They will - you're copying everything twice (disk to disk to

Re: [Bacula-users] feature request: exempt administrative connections from concurrency limits

2011-12-01 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:48:59 +0100, The pithy ruminations from Bruno Friedmann on were: => On 12/01/2011 12:20 AM, mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu wrote: => > Item 1: Administrative connections to the file daemon should not count in the concurrency li => mit => &

[Bacula-users] feature request: exempt administrative connections from concurrency limits

2011-11-30 Thread mark . bergman
Item 1: Administrative connections to the file daemon should not count in the concurrency limit Origin: Mark Bergman Date: Wed Nov 30 18:03:20 EST 2011 Status: What: Administrative connections to the file daemon should not count in the concurrency limit

Re: [Bacula-users] Device is BLOCKED waiting for mount of volume -- backups failing (bacula 5.2.2)

2011-11-30 Thread mark . bergman
[Replying to my own post to clarify that unloading/loading/mounting does NOT solve the issue.] In the message dated: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:52:12 EST, The pithy ruminations from mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu on <[Bacula-users] Device is BLOCKED waiting for mount of volume -- backups failing (bacula

[Bacula-users] Device is BLOCKED waiting for mount of volume -- backups failing (bacula 5.2.2)

2011-11-30 Thread mark . bergman
I just upgraded from 5.0.2 to 5.2.2 in the hope that the bug fixes solve a persistent problem that we've been having (for previous reports and more details, see [1]). Unfortunately, the problem still exists, occurs frequently, and causes backups to be very unreliable. In short, bacula will cal

[Bacula-users] backups fail with "ERR=Stale NFS file handle", but NFS is not in use!

2011-11-02 Thread mark . bergman
Last night I had two long-running backup jobs (~1TB and ~1.2TB) fail with the same error: Fatal error: Error writing data to spool file. ERR=Stale NFS file handle The problem is that the spool file is NOT on an NFS mounted disk! The spool file is on a GPFS partition. Spool files are limit

Re: [Bacula-users] seeking advice re. splitting up large backups -- dynamic filesets to prevent duplicate jobs and reduce backup time

2011-10-12 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:54:47 +1100, The pithy ruminations from "James Harper" on were: => > => > In an effort to work around the fact that bacula kills long-running => jobs, I'm => > about to partition my backups into smaller sets. For example, instead => of => > backing up: =

[Bacula-users] seeking advice re. splitting up large backups -- dynamic filesets to prevent duplicate jobs and reduce backup time

2011-10-12 Thread mark . bergman
In an effort to work around the fact that bacula kills long-running jobs, I'm about to partition my backups into smaller sets. For example, instead of backing up: /home I would like to backup the content of /home as separate jobs. For example: /home/[0-9]* /home/[A-G]

Re: [Bacula-users] Full backup fails after a few days with "Fatal error: Network error with FD during Backup: ERR=Interrupted system call"

2011-09-26 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:28:23 +0200, The pithy ruminations from Jeremy Maes on were: => Op 26/09/2011 16:01, R. Leigh Hennig schreef: => > Morning, => > => > I have a client that whenever I try to do a full backup, after 6 days, => > the backup fails with this error: => > => >

[Bacula-users] "Device is BLOCKED waiting for mount of volume" when the volume is already in the drive

2011-09-02 Thread Mark Bergman
acula still waits for the drive to mount. Are there any suggestions for a fix? Thanks, Mark -- Begin forwarded message: Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:08:00 -0400 From: Mark Bergman To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Su

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about spooling

2011-09-01 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:09:36 +0200, The pithy ruminations from Marcello Romani on were: => Il 01/09/2011 13:38, frank_sg ha scritto: => > Thanks fpr replying. => > => > @Alexandre: Yes, exactly, the 10MB/s (average) come from bacula job => > report. => > => > @Marcello: No - ve

[Bacula-users] bacula does not mount tape that's already loaded

2011-08-26 Thread Mark Bergman
ement 1:Full (Storage Element 2 Loaded):VolumeTag = 004037 Storage Element 1:Empty:VolumeTag= Storage Element 2:Empty:VolumeTag= Mark Bergman voice: 215-662-7310 mark.berg...@uphs.u

Re: [Bacula-users] How do I force Bacula to unlock a drive? (SCSI Prevent/Allow Media Removal)

2011-08-23 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:13:00 BST, The pithy ruminations from Alan Brown on were: => On 23/08/11 15:59, mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu wrote: => => => > The solution in our environment is to use the "sg_prevent" command => > (from the sg3_utils package) to release the SCSI Preven

Re: [Bacula-users] How do I force Bacula to unlock a drive? (SCSI Prevent/Allow Media Removal)

2011-08-23 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 12:01:59 +0200, The pithy ruminations from =?utf-8?Q?Stefan_Michael_Guenther?= on <[Bacula-users] How do I force Bacula to unlock a drive?> were: => Hi, => => we still have a problem with our tapeloader. => The status of the storage tells me: => => Jobs w

[Bacula-users] multiple spool files / concurrent spooling/despooing again

2011-08-15 Thread mark . bergman
While I'm not able to contribute patches, I'd like to voice my support for the concept of having multiple spool files to enable concurrent spooling & de-spooling that Ralph Gross brought up in 2007[1] and which Jesper Krogh submitted as a feature request in 2009[2]. Problem synopsis: Data

[Bacula-users] database claims tape has data, but tape is empty

2011-07-19 Thread mark . bergman
I'm running bacula 5.02, writing to tape. Bacula correctly recognizes tapes in the library by barcode, and database entries exist for each piece of media. However, some of the tapes may not be labeled (this may be due to a fault in our in-house script that labels new media). The odd thing is that

Re: [Bacula-users] 124t users?

2011-02-28 Thread mark . bergman
fic model name given to help feed the hungry, hungry search engines => => Thanks,JJ => => Jeremiah Jester => Informatics Specialist => Microbiology - Katze Lab => 206-732-6185 => Mark Bergman voice: 215-662-7310 mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu

Re: [Bacula-users] Searching for files

2010-10-22 Thread mark . bergman
; This query could also be performed as: => => SELECT DISTINCT Path, Name FROM File LEFT JOIN Path ON File.PathId = => Path.Pathid LEFT JOIN Filename ON File.FilenameId = Filename.FilenameId => WHERE Name LIKE "%partial filename%" AND Path LIKE "%partia

[Bacula-users] updated bacula (5.02) shows old director (1.38.11) name in console messages

2010-09-03 Thread mark . bergman
coming from information in the database, and that this is just cosmetic. Perhaps the updatedb script needs a minor fix. Thanks, Mark Mark Bergman voice: 215-662-7310 mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu fax: 215-614-0266 System Administrator Secti

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature idea feeler - bconsole "include / grep"

2010-05-10 Thread mark . bergman
libraries / standard practices for dealing with this. I think that may be a large understatement... => => I think this may be a cleaner approach for then end user. Personally, as an end user unfamiliar with SQL, I disagree. => => This may not apply if you have 1,000 clients, 'list cli

Re: [Bacula-users] Pruning before failed jobs - bug?

2010-03-30 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:51:31, The pithy ruminations from "Mike Holden" on <[Bacula-users] Pruning before failed jobs - bug?> were: => At the moment, one of my client machines is switched off, deliberately. => => Bacula tries to back it up overnight, but fails because it can

[Bacula-users] feature request: minimum retention count

2009-12-01 Thread mark . bergman
Item 1: Specify a minumum number of backups to retain Origin: Mark Bergman Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 Status: What: Add an option ("Keep Mimimum") to specify that a minimum number of backups (per-level and per-client) should be retained, over-riding the other

Re: [Bacula-users] Anyone written any handy queries (query.sql)???

2009-08-11 Thread mark . bergman
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[Bacula-users] method to keep minimum # of backups?

2009-06-11 Thread mark . bergman
old backups being purged each month as their retention periods are reached, the most recent full backup would still not be purged, leaving the most recent successful backup on tape. Thanks, Mark Mark Bergman voice: 215-662-7310 mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu

[Bacula-users] resubmission of feature request: dynamic job priorities (bias for restores)

2009-05-14 Thread mark . bergman
he current feature list. Please let me know if there's anything in the request that needs clarification. ---- Mark Bergman voice: 215-662-7310 mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu fax: 215-614-0266 System Administrator Section of Biomedical Image Analysi

Re: [Bacula-users] Monitoring bacula with Nagios

2009-03-26 Thread mark . bergman
-sd and bacula-dir daemons. Here are some config file snippets: ===nagios server=== checkcommands.cfg command_line/usr/lib/nagios/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c check_bacula-fd -t 20 ===backup client=== nrpe.cfg command[check_bacula-fd]=/usr/local/nagios/li

[Bacula-users] atoi and volume name/media name ambiguity (Was: Re: Bug / RFE)

2009-02-04 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:24:41 +0100, The pithy ruminations from Arno Lehmann on were: => Hi, => => 04.02.2009 19:13, Dupree, Craig wrote: => > This is starting to get annoying => > = => => > Can the parts of bacula that ask for volume names not arbitrarily => > use atoi

Re: [Bacula-users] Mixed Drives

2009-01-26 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:47:41 +0100, The pithy ruminations from Jesper Krogh on were: => Alan Brown wrote: => > On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Ryan Novosielski wrote: => > => >> Media type is completely arbitrary. If you want the new drive to be able => >> to share media with the old d

[Bacula-users] possible console interface improvement (Was: Re: client list for restores sort order)

2008-11-12 Thread mark . bergman
beautiful, but it's much easier to read, write, and debug, and it's resistent to future interface changes. Obviously, the same change would apply to the "query" command, which is even more likely to change as users write their own queries. => => so I would careful

Re: [Bacula-users] What causes orphaned Path/Files in database?

2008-10-16 Thread mark . bergman
ted in advance. Mark => => Arno => => > Hemant Shah => > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] => > => [SNIP!] => => Arno Lehmann => IT-Service Lehmann => Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabr=FCck => www.its-lehmann.de [SNIP!] Mark Bergman

Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes marked with Error

2008-02-28 Thread mark . bergman
only. => > => > Can there be a problem if a spool file is despooling and a "direct to => > tape" job also need to write to the tape? Should I spool all my jobs? => > Hmmm I'm not ready to suggest that, but I am very interested in hearing about your findi

Re: [Bacula-users] Update slots causes bacula console to prompt for drive, etc?

2008-02-27 Thread mark . bergman
#x27;s not in the catalog. It sounds like you're not using the configuration option to automatically add new & unknown volumes to the catalog. => 4) Is there an auto label command or config setting so I can just have => it auto detect new barcoded volumes and then label them and

Re: [Bacula-users] Improving job scheduling flexibility

2008-02-25 Thread mark . bergman
iciently, in a way similar to Amanda, rather than hard-coding specific times in each job resource.] => => As you can see, there is a lot of room for clarification of what should be => done, and also a need for a bit more functionality ... -- in other words a => bit more desig

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental promotion to full for queued jobs

2008-02-25 Thread mark . bergman
that take => longer than 24 hours (let alone 48 hours) are rare. Unfortunately, not as much of a corner case as you think. I've got 4 jobs that take over 24hrs for full backups, and a 5th that's so close that any additional load on that disk system or the network during backup

Re: [Bacula-users] Newbie Help Configuring Bacula with Dell 132T

2008-01-18 Thread mark . bergman
RemovableMedia = yes; RandomAccess = no; AutoChanger = yes # Enable the Alert command only if you have the mtx package loaded Alert Command = "sh -c 'tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|cat'" Autoselect = yes } Device { Name = Drive-1 # LabelMedia = yes; # lets Bacula label unlabeled media Drive

[Bacula-users] backup software that correctly handles deleted files (Was: Re: Problem: deleted files entrys are still in the database and are restored)

2008-01-11 Thread mark . bergman
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Re: [Bacula-users] bscan/autoloader questions

2008-01-04 Thread mark . bergman
rrect, or is there another way to determine the volume order? Thanks, Mark => => Thanks. => => -- => Tod Hagan => Information Technologist => AIRMAP/Climate Change Research Center => Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space => University of New Hampshire

Re: [Bacula-users] All the problems with Bacula

2007-11-29 Thread mark . bergman
from the command line, rather than introducing another program. For example, the previous "update slots" command would be written as: bacula -c ./bconsole.conf update slots [SNIP!] Thanks, Mark => => Joh

Re: [Bacula-users] Mini project

2007-11-05 Thread mark . bergman
s that the Allow => Duplicate Jobs directive will only apply after of when the => previous job finished (i.e. it is the minimum interval between jobs). That would be very helpful. Thanks, Mark => => Comments? => => Best regards, => => Kern => => PS: I think the default f

[Bacula-users] sql query to list volumes per pool

2007-10-29 Thread mark . bergman
) + (Media.VolRetention) ) AS Expires FROM Media,Pool,Storage WHERE Media.PoolId=Pool.PoolId AND Media.StorageId=Storage.StorageId AND Pool.Name='%1' ORDER BY VolumeName; ==== Mark Bergman [EMAIL

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem backing up catalog

2007-10-24 Thread mark . bergman
user machine that you consider secure, this may not represent too much of a risk. On the other hand, if you want to eliminate this problem completely, skip the wrapper script and modify make_catalog_backup so that it uses hard-coded values from within the script instead of command-line paramete

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] bacula-sd 2.2.4 goes kaboom! (segfault on despooling data)

2007-10-11 Thread mark . bergman
> Even if I modify the bacula-dir options to run it as root, no traceback => > file is generated. The message (received via email) from Bacula is: => > => >Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". => > 0x401728d1 in ?? () => >/usr/

[Bacula-users] Storage director segfaults, bacula 2.2.4 useless

2007-10-08 Thread mark . bergman
t address 0x80a2e34 => => The fault seems to occur right after the SD begins despooling data. I've got 4 => log files from running the SD with debugging on (set to 200 or higher), and the => error always happens after the first instance of despooling data. In each case, =&g

[Bacula-users] bacula-sd 2.2.4 goes kaboom! (segfault on despooling data)

2007-10-04 Thread mark . bergman
data. I've got 4 log files from running the SD with debugging on (set to 200 or higher), and the error always happens after the first instance of despooling data. In each case, the log file shows "stored.c:582 In terminate_stored() sig=11". I've attached an excerpt from the SD

Re: [Bacula-users] Deduplication?

2007-10-02 Thread mark . bergman
eeable future. Absolutely. BackupPC is not an "enterprise" product, as that's become defined. That doesn't mean that it lacks useful features, ideas, and is not a better choice than Bacula for some situations. That said, I wouldn't consider using it here at my current work,

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to disk AND tape

2007-09-24 Thread mark . bergman
; recovery but should not be considered for long term (5+ years, possibly => even less depending on what you need it for) storage needs in my humble => opinion. => [SNIP!] I agree, in that backup is not entirely the same thing as "archive". Mark Mark Bergman

Re: [Bacula-users] Fedora/CentOS RPMs for 2.2.4 published

2007-09-24 Thread mark . bergman
little need to provide RPMs for very old systems. FYI, I still wouldn't consider FC5 to be "very old" in this context, though I wouldn't bother providing binaries for FC4 and older. Thanks, Mark => => fs Mark Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Bacula-users] "status dir" and scheduled jobs

2007-08-28 Thread mark . bergman
27;, 'Recycle') OR Pool.Name='Scratch') ORDER BY VolumeName; ## => => Arno => => > Thanks, => > => > Charles dailyreport Description: dailyreport bacu

[Bacula-users] questions re. concept of database pruning (Was: Re: old recovery)

2007-08-23 Thread mark . bergman
(if there is such a thing) be in danger of reaching those limits if database records were retained as long as the data itself? Thanks, Mark Mark Bergman [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Section of Biomedical Image Analysis 215-662-7310 Dep

Re: [Bacula-users] New Problem with the Dell PV 132T

2007-07-26 Thread mark . bergman
e. How can I make it not busy and be able to access the device => using mt? Is bacula running? If so, it's got access to the tape device, which is making it busy. Try: lsof /dev/nst0 to see any open file handles pointing to /dev/nst0. Mark => => TIA => => Mike -

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