Re: [Bacula-users] advice about tape drives

Why not migrate the LTO-2 volumes to disk, then install whatever version of tape drive you wish and migrate the disk volumes to the new LTO tapes? On 4/22/24 11:29, Gary R. Schmidt wrote: On 23/04/2024 00:58, Alan Polinsky wrote: I have used Bacula for many years, since version 5. In the past,

Re: [Bacula-users] advice about tape drives

Am 22.04.2024 um 16:58 schrieb Alan Polinsky: [...] I need to understand the backward capabilities of more recent drives. As a rule of thumb, LTO drives can write to one previous generation of tapes and read from two previous generations of tapes. (There are some exceptions for LTO8 and LTO9.

Re: [Bacula-users] advice about tape drives

On 23/04/2024 00:58, Alan Polinsky wrote: I have used Bacula for many years, since version 5. In the past, I have mentioned my two Nas's along with various Windows and Linux machines get backed up on a nightly basis to tape. Currently that tape drive is an LTO3 based drive. Some of the older ba

Re: [Bacula-users] advice about tape drives

Alan, >From the Wikipedia article on LTO: - Up to and including LTO-7, an Ultrium drive *can read* data from a cartridge in its own generation and the two prior generations. LTO-8 drives can read LTO-7 and LTO-8 tape, but not LTO-6 tape.[29]

[Bacula-users] advice about tape drives

I have used Bacula for many years, since version 5. In the past, I have mentioned my two Nas's along with various Windows and Linux machines get backed up on a nightly basis to tape. Currently that tape drive is an LTO3 based drive. Some of the older backups are on LTO2 tapes. My tape drive is

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice upgrading bacula 5.0 -> 5.2

Em 24-02-2014 14:20, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de escreveu: You might try the --file parameter instead of redirecting the dump to psql. The Bacula database should have no other enconding than ASCII, eg. there is no valid UTF-8 in it. Will try to see what happens and post results here. On the other hand

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice upgrading bacula 5.0 -> 5.2

Zitat von Márcio Merlone : > Em 24-02-2014 12:56, Radosław Korzeniewski escreveu: >> 2014-02-24 13:16 GMT+01:00 Márcio Merlone > >: >> >> >>Em 24-02-2014 07 :29, Radosław Korzeniewski >>escreveu: >>>2014-02-18 13:00 GMT+01:00 Márcio Merlone >>>mail

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice upgrading bacula 5.0 -> 5.2

Em 24-02-2014 12:56, Radosław Korzeniewski escreveu: 2014-02-24 13:16 GMT+01:00 Márcio Merlone >: Em 24-02-2014 07 :29, Radosław Korzeniewski escreveu: 2014-02-18 13:00 GMT+01:00 Márcio Merlone mailto:marcio.merl...@a1.ind.br>>: 2. Fix

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice upgrading bacula 5.0 -> 5.2

Hello, 2014-02-24 13:16 GMT+01:00 Márcio Merlone : > > Em 24-02-2014 07:29, Radosław Korzeniewski escreveu: > > 2014-02-18 13:00 GMT+01:00 Márcio Merlone : > >> 2. Fix some utf-8 invalid chars: iconv -c -f UTF-8 -t UTF-8 -o >> /tmp/bacula_new.sql /tmp/bacula.sql >> > Why do you need this? > Bacul

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice upgrading bacula 5.0 -> 5.2

Em 24-02-2014 07:29, Radosław Korzeniewski escreveu: 2014-02-18 13:00 GMT+01:00 Márcio Merlone >: 2. Fix some utf-8 invalid chars: iconv -c -f UTF-8 -t UTF-8 -o /tmp/bacula_new.sql /tmp/bacula.sql Why do you need this? Bacula (AFAIK) does not use UTF-8

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice upgrading bacula 5.0 -> 5.2

Hello, 2014-02-18 13:00 GMT+01:00 Márcio Merlone : > Greetings, > > I have this Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server running bacula 5.0 over PostgreSQL > 8.4. This server has already been upgraded from an old 3.x install, have > gone trough a mysql->postgresql migration, and now is time to move ahead > again

[Bacula-users] Advice upgrading bacula 5.0 -> 5.2

Greetings, I have this Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server running bacula 5.0 over PostgreSQL 8.4. This server has already been upgraded from an old 3.x install, have gone trough a mysql->postgresql migration, and now is time to move ahead again. :) It may be running for almost a decade now! I'd like to

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

Alan Brown schrieb: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Ralf Gross wrote: > > > I just had a bunch of 40 LTO-4 tapes that had problems during backups > > (or worse - only during the verify job afterwards). All from the same > > production date. So my trust in tapes is not that good anymore... > > What do the

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Ralf Gross wrote: > I just had a bunch of 40 LTO-4 tapes that had problems during backups > (or worse - only during the verify job afterwards). All from the same > production date. So my trust in tapes is not that good anymore... What do the SMART stats from those tapes look

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, rorycl wrote: > An important aspect of the system is that the tapes should be readable > for 12 years, by other parties if necessary. From this point of view we > like the idea of providing a CD with each tape set of the software > needed to extract the contents Judging from

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

> I just had a bunch of 40 LTO-4 tapes that had problems during backups > (or worse -  only during the verify job afterwards). All from the same > production date. So my trust in tapes is not that good anymore... > For anything archived I usually make 2 copies and at one time it was 2 copies using

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

rorycl schrieb: > > I'm going to cross-post this text on the Amanda and Bacula lists. > Apologies in advance if you see this twice. > > Our company is about to provide centralised backups for several pools of > backup data of between 1 and 15TB in size. Each pool changes daily but > backups to ta

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

Hello, 13.08.2009 00:19, rorycl wrote: > I'm going to cross-post this text on the Amanda and Bacula lists. > Apologies in advance if you see this twice. Great, let's start a cross-list flame war ;-) Welcome here anyway ;-) > Our company is about to provide centralised backups for several pools

[Bacula-users] Advice needed on Linux backup strategy to LTO-4 tape

I'm going to cross-post this text on the Amanda and Bacula lists. Apologies in advance if you see this twice. Our company is about to provide centralised backups for several pools of backup data of between 1 and 15TB in size. Each pool changes daily but backups to tape will only occur once a mont

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice

Thanks Michael & John. Understand this fully now. -Original Message- From: John Drescher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 November 2007 16:09 To: Dep, Khushil (GE Money) Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Advice On 11/5/07, Dep, Khushil (GE M

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice

On 11/5/07, Dep, Khushil (GE Money) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there anyway to auto recycle/delete or is this a manual process? > It is automatic and very flexable. See here: http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.html#SECTION00251 John -

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice

Is there anyway to auto recycle/delete or is this a manual process? -Original Message- From: Michael Short [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 November 2007 15:19 To: Dep, Khushil (GE Money); bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Advice On Nov 5, 2007 9:15 AM

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice

On Nov 5, 2007 9:15 AM, Dep, Khushil (GE Money) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the reply Michael. I take it that once pruned those volumes > are released for use by other other jobs? After the volumes are pruned they are no longer referenced by the catalog. To have bacula reuse them make

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice

: [Bacula-users] Advice This is a limitation of bacula, in order to free up space you must prune your volumes. The volume retention setting sets how long the volumes will live in the database, but it is up to you to delete them. If you need more space you can just prune them manually from the console

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice

This is a limitation of bacula, in order to free up space you must prune your volumes. The volume retention setting sets how long the volumes will live in the database, but it is up to you to delete them. If you need more space you can just prune them manually from the console. Pruning files will

[Bacula-users] Advice

Hey All, So here's my setup - I have DTD backup setup so that all backups goto a SAN partition which is 1TB in size. Last night it ran out of space for further backups! Having looked at the files on the SAN and th jobs in the Bacula DB, my question is this: When and under what condition will

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

On Wed, February 7, 2007 7:51 am, Don MacArthur wrote: > Thanks Arno, you always seem to have very helpful insights. I agree. Arno is knowledgeable, helpful, and seemingly always in good cheer. Bravo, Arno! -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

Thanks Arno, you always seem to have very helpful insights. These features would definitely represent a step up in complexity, and functionality. Honestly, I'd love the restore-from-one-of-several-copies feature even if I had to choose which volume to use for the restore from a list of candidat

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

Hi, I'm following your discussion for a while now... On 2/7/2007 3:54 AM, Don MacArthur wrote: > I think some of the code contains what might be a good solution. What you want seems to be he ability to copy volumes,possibly to another SD, and keep complete catalog information about both copie

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

I think some of the code contains what might be a good solution. Right now, when a scheduled backup issues a mount request for a tape, it doesn't matter what tape I load as long as it meets the requirements to be used. If it asks me for volume123 from pool xyz, and I load volume456 from pool xy

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

This sounds like a reasonable approach. If I request to restore a particular object and the exact object version exists on multiple volumes, it really doesn't matter which volume it is restored from. As long as that object gets restored, I will be happy. Of course, it could make my life easier if

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

I was one of the more recent posters on this topic. The tools I have used in the past used whichever volume was loaded as long as it was one of the ones it asked for. So, if the original backup was on volume123, and copied to volume456, a list of *all* the volumes that contain the version of th

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tauren Mills wrote: >> I agree. It would be nice if there was a 'clone volume' command that >> would create a copy of the tape (or backup file) and create new records >> for the associated catalog data with pointers to the second volume. I >> used to

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

> I agree. It would be nice if there was a 'clone volume' command that > would create a copy of the tape (or backup file) and create new records > for the associated catalog data with pointers to the second volume. I > used to work with a Legato system and I'm pretty sure that it had that > featu

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 16:27 -0800, Tauren Mills wrote: > > True. I guess I was meaning that Bacula would be natively aware of > both copies and be able to restore from either one. Since my disk > backups are on a different disk than the mysql database is, this might > happen if my backup disk f

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

Dwight, > > Would you use bcopy separate from bacula, creating your own scripts > > that run off a cron job? Or would you somehow integrate using bcopy > > into a bacula job using custom bacula scripts? > > I plan on creating my own scripts, but called as part of the Catalog > backup job. It wil

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 13:44 -0800, Tauren Mills wrote: > > Would you use bcopy separate from bacula, creating your own scripts > that run off a cron job? Or would you somehow integrate using bcopy > into a bacula job using custom bacula scripts? > I plan on creating my own scripts, but called

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

Dwight, Thanks for the thoughts, very helpful! > > Even though option #3 has some drawbacks, the likelihood of those > > drawbacks happening are slim, especially if I mirror my big backup > > drive. I'm leaning toward it at the moment unless someone can suggest > > a way to make a COPY of a volu

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 15:31 -0800, Tauren Mills wrote: > > Even though option #3 has some drawbacks, the likelihood of those > drawbacks happening are slim, especially if I mirror my big backup > drive. I'm leaning toward it at the moment unless someone can suggest > a way to make a COPY of a vo

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

> On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 22:01:00 -0800, Tauren Mills said: > > I'm not having file size issues of 17GB on disk. I'm talking about > the data written to tape is about 17GB or 18GB. It seems like the > tape drive isn't compressing the data. But if it isn't, why would it > not get closer to 20GB?

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

After much thought, I think the best solution for my needs is to have all full and incremental backups saved to disk volumes my large drive for fast backups and convenient restores. In addition, I would like a weekly full backups of all systems stored on tape so that it can be taken offsite. >Fro

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

Stephen, Thanks again for the details about your backup plan. > Yes the data is moved from disc to tape and I agree it would be nice to > access the data off disc instead of tape. The Volume on disc still > exists but will be recycled when needed. My test restore came off the > tape. If you run a

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

Tauren More below Stephen Tauren Mills wrote: > Stephen, > > Thanks for the fast feedback! See below... > >> I have a somewhat similar situation but have XP clients on workstations >> and laptops to backup as well as some Linux servers. The tape unit is a >> HP Dat 72x6. >> >> I am trying to

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

Stephen, Thanks for the fast feedback! See below... > I have a somewhat similar situation but have XP clients on workstations > and laptops to backup as well as some Linux servers. The tape unit is a > HP Dat 72x6. > > I am trying to get Migration to work - nearly there. Haven't looked into Mig

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

Tauren I have a somewhat similar situation but have XP clients on workstations and laptops to backup as well as some Linux servers. The tape unit is a HP Dat 72x6. I am trying to get Migration to work - nearly there. See below for other comments. Stephen Carr Tauren Mills wrote: > Hello, >

[Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

Hello, I've been using bacula for a couple years, backing up several servers to an HP DAT40x6 autochanger. It has worked great! However, I had a failure on my backup server and I've now rebuilt it, installing recent bacula versions, and an additional large hard drive. So I now have a 500GB hard

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice requested from Mandriva users

On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 16:30 +0100, steen meyer wrote: > Hi Scott, > Are you using the free version of M2007? Yes. > > I have installed 2007 but not used it yet, I can try and see how mine > behaves, > but I think it is the pwoerpack version that I installed, but I can try the > Free version a

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice requested from Mandriva users

Hi Scott, Are you using the free version of M2007? I have installed 2007 but not used it yet, I can try and see how mine behaves, but I think it is the pwoerpack version that I installed, but I can try the Free version also, if that is the one you have Steen Søndag 10 december 2006 19:08 skrev

[Bacula-users] Advice requested from Mandriva users

Hello, I'm looking for some assistance from anyone who regularly uses Mandriva-2007. I installed in on a partition on my build host last weekend in order to continue my rpm build support for that platform, but I must admit I'm less than impressed. Logging into a gnome session gets me a desktop wi

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed: Adaptec 29160 card giving errors

Hi, Russell Howe wrote: ... Neither SCSI chipset has given us any problems, although we don't exactly push them hard (the box can't!): To my knowledge, there exist many different AIC78xx chips with slight differences, and some of these are said to be defective. Myself, I could never verify

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed: Adaptec 29160 card giving errors

Kern Sibbald wrote: > I've got three SCSI cards here: > An old one: > Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 6.2.36 > Adaptec 2940 Ultra2 SCSI adapter > aic7890/91: Ultra2 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs > > And two identical newer ones: > Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 6.2.36 > Adaptec 29160 Ult

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed: Adaptec 29160 card giving errors

On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 12:45:16PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > I've got three SCSI cards here: > An old one: > Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 6.2.36 > Adaptec 2940 Ultra2 SCSI adapter > aic7890/91: Ultra2 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs > > And two identical newer ones: > Adaptec AIC7x

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed: Adaptec 29160 card giving errors

On Saturday 10 September 2005 01:23, Phil Stracchino wrote: > Henry Yen wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 03:54:13AM -0700, Knut E. Meidal wrote: > >>I am reinstalling a machine, Dell PowerEdge600c which is to become a new > >>Bacula server. > >>I am having errors with the aic7xxx driver, both the

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed: Adaptec 29160 card giving errors

Henry Yen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 03:54:13AM -0700, Knut E. Meidal wrote: > >>I am reinstalling a machine, Dell PowerEdge600c which is to become a new >>Bacula server. >>I am having errors with the aic7xxx driver, both the new and old, using >>a host of different Linux distros, and kernel

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed: Adaptec 29160 card giving errors

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 03:54:13AM -0700, Knut E. Meidal wrote: > I am reinstalling a machine, Dell PowerEdge600c which is to become a new > Bacula server. > I am having errors with the aic7xxx driver, both the new and old, using > a host of different Linux distros, and kernels. > (Most recent erro

[Bacula-users] Advice needed: Adaptec 29160 card giving errors

Title: Advice needed: Adaptec 29160 card giving errors Greetings. Semi-related to bacula: I am reinstalling a machine, Dell PowerEdge600c which is to become a new Bacula server. I am having errors with the aic7xxx driver, both the new and old, using a host of different Linux distros, and

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice on setting up bacula...

Hello, I wouldn't particularly recommend re-running the job. Bacula killed it off because it considered that it was running far too long to be doing anything useful. If I read the output right, your job was still not finished after having run 12 days! IMO you need to figure out some way to br

[Bacula-users] Advice on setting up bacula...

Greetings, I'm trying to setup bacula to do a monthly full backup of a 1.2 TB array to a Qualstar TLS-4210 AIT2 library. My first attempt did not go well, I posted on June 14: > Hi, > > I've built/installed/configured bacula-1.36.3-1.src.rpm on a > Dell PowerEdge 2650(Dual Xeon 3.06GHz, 2 GB me