RE: [Bacula-users] autochanger problems.

2005-06-20 Thread Nathan R. Valentine
I'm sort of at a loss here: backup:/etc/bacula/scripts# grep bacula /etc/group disk:x:6:bacula tape:x:26:bacula bacula:x:102: changer:x:106:bacula backup:/etc/bacula/scripts# ls -l /dev/nst0 crw-rw 1 root tape 9, 128 Jun 16 13:21 /dev/nst0 backup:/etc/bacula/scripts# ls -l /dev/sg1 crw-rw-

RE: [Bacula-users] autochanger problems.

2005-06-20 Thread Nathan R. Valentine
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 10:20 -0500, Chris Lee wrote: > I don't know about Debian or Ubuntu, but the package itself is called mt-st. FWIW, in Ubuntu and Debian /bin/mt is part of the cpio package. I'm stracing bacula-sd right now to see if that points me anywhere. -- --- Nathan Valentine, CISSP

[Bacula-users] autochanger problems.

2005-06-20 Thread Nathan R. Valentine
First the background info: # dpkg -l | grep bacula hi bacula-common 1.36.1-1 Network backup, recovery and verification (C hi bacula-console 1.36.1-1 Network backup, recovery and verification (M hi bacula-directo 1.36.1-1 Network backup, recovery and verification (D hi bacu

Re: [Bacula-users] Daily Overwrite

2005-03-29 Thread Nathan R. Valentine
I recently posted with a similar scenario. I only received one response but that response was basically "Don't use Bacula. Use tar." That wasn't a viable option in my case and I suspect it won't be in yours. I ended up configuring the Schedule such that I run Weekly Level 0's and nightly differe

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Encouraging Further Development - Some Ideas

2005-03-26 Thread Nathan R. Valentine
> You can do something similar for example with the Linux volume manager by > creating a filesystem snapshot and backing up that one instead of the real > fs. Should be no big problem to have that done by running some lines of > shell before and after the backup. That was my first impression a

Re: [Bacula-users] Recycling, Pools and Volume Status.

2005-03-23 Thread Nathan R. Valentine
> If you don't want that, bacula is not the right tool for you. Or, > rather, your client. Consistency. They are using Bacula in several other locations, are comfortable with the console, and switched from tar based backups because of the lack of a console. Additionally, this site gets different

[Bacula-users] Recycling, Pools and Volume Status.

2005-03-23 Thread Nathan R. Valentine
First, I know that the backup scheme that I'm about to layout has problems. This is what the client has requested and they are aware of the possible consequences and have accepted the risk. ;) They have a single tape drive. No carousel. The pool has 8 tapes. Volume, File, and Job retention are al

Re: [Bacula-users] Director hangs on job execution

2005-03-15 Thread Nathan R. Valentine
> Is there a way to detect if the MySQL client library supports threading? I've > installed the latest rpm packages from the MySQL webpage. Well, I'm on Debian here so the process would be a bit different. Looking at the package descriptions for libmysql would tell you. You may also be able to

Re: [Bacula-users] Director hangs on job execution

2005-03-15 Thread Nathan R. Valentine
Hmm. I was going to suggest that perhaps the director was blocked on a database operation as I had seem similar problems with very large tables using the non-threaed MySQL client library and with very large SQLite databases. But it seems that that should have been cleared up when you created a new

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Problems with bacula-sd and mounts.

2005-03-13 Thread Nathan R. Valentine
> Try another mount. Or an unmount followed by a mount. > > I suspect it's because the drive is still "settling". If you can see > the drive, what is happening? What type of drive? That is one of the first things that I tried. The only thing that has worked for me was to restart the daemon. O

[Bacula-users] Problems with bacula-sd and mounts.

2005-03-13 Thread Nathan R. Valentine
I'm having fairly regular problems with bacula-sd not mounting tapes either automagically per the Bacula config or via the "mount" command in bacula-console. When the problem occurs, bacula-sd always reports something like the following: *mount Automatically selected Storage: HP-Ultrium 3001 OK