Re: [Bacula-users] What might prevent auto-recycling?

2013-08-02 Thread Michael Stauffer
t;>> On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 15:34:50 -0400, Michael Stauffer said: > > > > Hi, > > > > I had some jobs stall b/c of no volumes available for recycling. But > there > > were two volumes in the pool (Differential) that were last written to > > beyond the 7 day vo

Re: [Bacula-users] What might prevent auto-recycling?

2013-08-02 Thread Michael Stauffer
ume' seems to only consider job and file retention times, which in my case are much greater than my volume retention period. I could change those of course. But I'm trying to leave things as they were setup when I inherited this system. -M On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: &

Re: [Bacula-users] What might prevent auto-recycling?

2013-07-31 Thread Michael Stauffer
3:48 PM, wrote: > If you set the retention period on the pool after the volume was created, > then you have to manually tell the volume to grab the new settings from the > pool. This might not apply to you, but it's a common gotcha. > > > -Melvin > > On 7/31/13 14:34

[Bacula-users] What might prevent auto-recycling?

2013-07-31 Thread Michael Stauffer
Hi, I had some jobs stall b/c of no volumes available for recycling. But there were two volumes in the pool (Differential) that were last written to beyond the 7 day volume retention period. Volumes in the pool are set to recycle. Below is the info on volumes and the Differential pool. As far as I

Re: [Bacula-users] using auto-clean on an autochanger

2013-07-16 Thread Michael Stauffer
Thanks Patrick, and to others. For now I'll play it safe and do the cleanings manually. Although changing the timeout sounds like a good future option if it seems reliable after full investigation. -M > From: Jummo > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] using auto-clean on an autochanger &g

Re: [Bacula-users] using auto-clean on an autochanger

2013-07-16 Thread Michael Stauffer
Thanks Patrick, and to others. For now I'll play it safe and do the cleanings manually. Although changing the timeout sounds like a good future option. -M > From: Jummo > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] using auto-clean on an autochanger > To: Michael Stauffer >

[Bacula-users] using auto-clean on an autochanger

2013-06-28 Thread Michael Stauffer
Hi everyone, I'm setting up auto-clean on my autochanger (Quantum Scalar i500). The docs say it will clean drives as needed when the host software requests a drive unload, and then tell the host the drive is ready only after the cleaning is complete. Seems reasonable. My question is whether bacul

[Bacula-users] error during restore

2013-04-26 Thread Michael Stauffer _g
Hi, I've run a restore (twice, same result) on a catalog I recently recreated from tapes using bscan. Mostly it's worked, I see virtually all of the data restored. It might actually be all, I have no way of knowing. At the end of the restore I get this error: 25-Apr 04:45 bacula-dir JobId 69: E

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-users Digest, Vol 84, Issue 10

2013-04-26 Thread Michael Stauffer _g
t; Op 2013-04-15 om 04:14 schreef Michael Stauffer _g: > > Bacula 3.0.1 > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm tantalizingly near the end of a bscan reconstruciton of a catalog over 35 > > tapes. You may remember my posts starting mid February - it took a while > but it >

[Bacula-users] 3.0.x docs?

2013-04-19 Thread Michael Stauffer _g
Hi, I'm still running bacula 3.0.1. I can't get the docs online that I got last month. e.g. http://www.bacula.org/3.0.x-manuals/en/utility/utility/Volume_Utility_Tools. html#SECTION00212 or http://www.bacula.org/3.0.x-manuals/en/utility/utility/index.html Does anyone know if the

Re: [Bacula-users] how to proceed after i/o error during bscan

2013-04-16 Thread Michael Stauffer _g
> Op 2013-04-15 om 04:14 schreef Michael Stauffer _g: > > Bacula 3.0.1 > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm tantalizingly near the end of a bscan reconstruciton of a catalog over 35 > > tapes. You may remember my posts starting mid February - it took a while > but

[Bacula-users] how to proceed after i/o error during bscan?

2013-04-14 Thread Michael Stauffer _g
Bacula 3.0.1 Hi, I'm tantalizingly near the end of a bscan reconstruciton of a catalog over 35 tapes. You may remember my posts starting mid February - it took a while but it also turns out both drives in my device had failed, so they've been replaced. It's taken 11 days so far to get to tape

[Bacula-users] continuing an interrupted bscan?

2013-04-02 Thread Michael Stauffer _g
Hi, Back in Feb I had a crash of my backup system and have to recreate the catalog. I got some great advice from this list and started the bscan process but then hit driver errors. After many weeks of back and forth with Quantum support and waiting for supplies, I was able to try again (in the me

Re: [Bacula-users] bscan will take...34 years!?!?

2013-02-21 Thread Michael Stauffer _g
> > 2) About how long could the bscan take? > > I'm getting regular status updates like: > > 21-Feb 17:04 bscan JobId 0: End of file 1070 on device "LTO5-0" > > (/dev/st0), Volume "L50001" > > After two hours, it's up to file 1070. > > I believe that is the volume file. Which usually is 1 GB.

[Bacula-users] bscan will take...34 years!?!?

2013-02-21 Thread Michael Stauffer
Hi everyone, So I've finally got my bscan running after your help in previous posts - thanks. But am worried that it's on track to take 34 years to complete!! I'm recreating a database from tapes after a hard-drive corruption. I'm using bacula 3.0.1 (I'll be upgrading in ~3 months, but first nee

Re: [Bacula-users] bscan fails: cannot find device in config file

2013-02-21 Thread Michael Stauffer _g
they might represent different parts of the changer, but that wouldn't really make much sense, seeing as I can load any type into either drive using mtx. -M From: Radosław Korzeniewski [mailto:rados...@korzeniewski.net] Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:25 AM To: Michael Stauffer Cc: ba

[Bacula-users] bscan fails: cannot find device in config file

2013-02-20 Thread Michael Stauffer
Hi, I'm at last ready to recreate my catalog after a disk failure. I've posted previously about preparing for this. I've got a new fresh DB setup but bscan is failing like so: ./bscan -V* -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -v -s -m /dev/changer bscan: butil.c:278 Could not find device "/dev/chang

Re: [Bacula-users] rescan after corrupted catalog - another question?

2013-02-20 Thread Michael Stauffer _g
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:01:48 -0500 > "Michael Stauffer _g" wrote: > > > Regarding my situation of a corrupted catalog that I'm trying to > > recover from. > > > > The only table that was reported problematic was Files, with the > > Files

[Bacula-users] rescan after corrupted catalog - another question?

2013-02-20 Thread Michael Stauffer _g
Hi again, Regarding my situation of a corrupted catalog that I'm trying to recover from. The only table that was reported problematic was Files, with the Files.MYD unreadable. Can I do a bscan with all the other tables and files in place to make it go faster? How would I do that? Would I leav

Re: [Bacula-users] Corrupted catalog on bad drive - please help!

2013-02-20 Thread Michael Stauffer _g
> Message: 14 > Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:17:08 +0100 > From: Uwe Schuerkamp > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Corrupted catalog on bad drive - please > help! > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 12:17:30AM -0500, Michael Stauffer _g wrote: > > > > How do I setup the DB

Re: [Bacula-users] Corrupted catalog on bad drive - please help!

2013-02-19 Thread Michael Stauffer _g
>Message: 8 >Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:42:53 -0500 >From: Phil Stracchino >Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Corrupted catalog on bad drive - please > help! >To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Message-ID: <511973ed.4080...@metrocast.net> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >If yo

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-users Digest, Vol 82, Issue 10

2013-02-15 Thread Michael Stauffer _g
> Message: 8 > Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:42:53 -0500 > From: Phil Stracchino > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Corrupted catalog on bad drive - please > help! > > MyISAM-table 'File.MYI' is not fixed because of errors > > > > Try fixing it by using the --safe-recover (-o), the --force (-f) op

Re: [Bacula-users] Corrupted catalog on bad drive - please help!

2013-02-15 Thread Michael Stauffer _g
Fingers crossed. -M > -Original Message- > From: Adrian Reyer [mailto:bacula-li...@lihas.de] > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 5:14 PM > To: Michael Stauffer _g > Cc: Bacula_users_list_mgstauff_gmail > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Corrupted catalog on bad drive - please help! > &

[Bacula-users] Corrupted catalog on bad drive - please help!

2013-02-11 Thread Michael Stauffer _g
Hi everyone, I've got a corrupted catalog on a bad disk and could really use some advice on how to proceed. I'm very new to bacula (and pretty new to sysadmin after many years programming), and have inherited a bacula system that's been untended for a year and a half or more. It's running Bac