[Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3 released

2005-12-20 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, I have just released a new BETA version of Bacula 1.38.3 to Source Forge in the bacula-beta release section. This version has a number of bugs with the reservation system fixed as well as some "load balancing" code when using multiple drive autochangers. I recommend that anyone using a

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3 (14 December 2005) released

2005-12-19 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 19 December 2005 18:54, Rick Knight wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I have released the second BETA version 1.38.3 (14 December 2005) as a tar > >file to Source Forge. This version has a rewrite of the reservation > >algorithm that hopefully will improve situations where us

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3 (14 December 2005) released

2005-12-19 Thread Rick Knight
Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, I have released the second BETA version 1.38.3 (14 December 2005) as a tar file to Source Forge. This version has a rewrite of the reservation algorithm that hopefully will improve situations where users were finding all jobs waiting to reserve a drive. I've also

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3 (14 December 2005) released

2005-12-17 Thread Rick Knight
Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, I have released the second BETA version 1.38.3 (14 December 2005) as a tar file to Source Forge. This version has a rewrite of the reservation algorithm that hopefully will improve situations where users were finding all jobs waiting to reserve a drive. I've also

[Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3 (14 December 2005) released

2005-12-16 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, I have released the second BETA version 1.38.3 (14 December 2005) as a tar file to Source Forge. This version has a rewrite of the reservation algorithm that hopefully will improve situations where users were finding all jobs waiting to reserve a drive. I've also reworked the way Bacul

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3

2005-12-13 Thread Kern Sibbald
gt; > I'm beginning to think that the error message that edits the slot number is > just broken. The error you are seeing is because there is a problem with > your mtx-changer script. The error the previous person was seeing was > because of a misconfiguration (due to incorrect documentat

RE: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3

2005-12-12 Thread Rob
Kern Sibbald Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 2:46 PM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Rob Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3 On Monday 12 December 2005 20:10, Rob wrote: > FYI, I haven't had time to look into it much, but I have been seeing errors > with my auto ch

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3

2005-12-12 Thread Volker Dierks
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern Sibbald Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:20 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Volker Dierks Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3 On Monday 12 December 2005 12:52, Volker Dierks wrote: Hello, Volke

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3

2005-12-12 Thread Kern Sibbald
vious person was seeing was because of a misconfiguration (due to incorrect documentation). > > Rob > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern Sibbald > Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:20 AM > To: bacula-users@lists.s

RE: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3

2005-12-12 Thread Rob
ROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern Sibbald Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 9:20 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Volker Dierks Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3 On Monday 12 December 2005 12:52, Volker Dierks wrote: > Hello, > > Volker Dierks wrot

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3

2005-12-12 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Kern Sibbald schrieb: On Monday 12 December 2005 12:54, Volker Dierks wrote: Sorry, I forgot to attach the file ... here it is. Well, you fell into a documentation error. Please remove the line from your Device resources that says: Maximum Changer Wait = 10 minutes it is incorr

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3

2005-12-12 Thread Alan Brown
On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: The bscan problem that I found caused it to generate a JobMedia record in the database that had an end FileIndex one less than it should have been. This was the last record on a Volume, and the record was continued on the next Volume. When Bacula constr

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3

2005-12-12 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 12 December 2005 12:54, Volker Dierks wrote: > Sorry, I forgot to attach the file ... here it is. > Well, you fell into a documentation error. Please remove the line from your Device resources that says: Maximum Changer Wait = 10 minutes it is incorrect. Despite what the *old* docu

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3

2005-12-12 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 12 December 2005 12:52, Volker Dierks wrote: > Hello, > > Volker Dierks wrote: > >> Usually, I'd see if the problem can be reproduced with the existing > >> system setup. If that's possible, I'd first check if the actual cause > >> might be purely SCSI device related. > > > > That's what

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3

2005-12-12 Thread Volker Dierks
Sorry, I forgot to attach the file ... here it is. Volker conf.tgz Description: GNU Unix tar archive

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3

2005-12-12 Thread Volker Dierks
Hello, Volker Dierks wrote: Usually, I'd see if the problem can be reproduced with the existing system setup. If that's possible, I'd first check if the actual cause might be purely SCSI device related. That's what I'm going to do first. I'll create the second pool again (with the same tapes)

Re: [Bacula-devel] Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3

2005-12-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
Kern Sibbald wrote: > The bscan problem that I found caused it to generate a JobMedia record in the > database that had an end FileIndex one less than it should have been. This > was the last record on a Volume, and the record was continued on the next > Volume. When Bacula constructed a bsr,

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3

2005-12-11 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Sunday 11 December 2005 10:32, Volker Dierks wrote: > Hello, > > Arno Lehmann wrote: > > Well, I haven't tried jobs going to different drives in one autochanger, > > so I won't discuss that part of your report. > > Hopefully this is supported?! The "Maximum Changer Wait" option seems > reasonabl

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3

2005-12-11 Thread Volker Dierks
Hello, Arno Lehmann wrote: Well, I haven't tried jobs going to different drives in one autochanger, so I won't discuss that part of your report. Hopefully this is supported?! The "Maximum Changer Wait" option seems reasonable for the situation that both drives need a new tape at the same time.

[Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3

2005-12-11 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Arno, You must have been on vacation because I have missed your emails. It is good to read your excellent responses to user questions again. :-) Anyway, I would really appreciate it if you could try the 1.38.3 beta. Please use the released tar file rather than the CVS -- the HEAD CVS is n

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3

2005-12-11 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Saturday 10 December 2005 22:34, Alan Brown wrote: > On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > As an aside: when testing 1.38.3, the bscan regression script failed > > (bscan aborted due to a logic error). I think bscan has been around and > > mostly unmodified for about 3 years now, and so

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3

2005-12-10 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Volker Dierks schrieb: ... perhaps I'll give it a try. But a little tale first. We've got a HP 2/20 Library with 2 DLT-8000 drives. Our backup box is running Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, Bacula 1.38.2 and 11 nodes. The system has gone into production on Wednesday (with one drive) and tremendo

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3

2005-12-10 Thread Alan Brown
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: As an aside: when testing 1.38.3, the bscan regression script failed (bscan aborted due to a logic error). I think bscan has been around and mostly unmodified for about 3 years now, and so this regression test has be run thousands of times with no proble

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3

2005-12-10 Thread Volker Dierks
Hello Kern, hello all, Volume Bacula will want on Monday, ... The major change is a total revamp of the inner loop of the device reservation code following the algorithm proposed in a recent email. This appears to correct the problems of getting multiple autochanger drives running simultaneo

[Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.38.3

2005-12-10 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, I have release a BETA version of Bacula 1.38.3 source in tar format to Source Forge. I am running it here in production, and it seems quite stable, but it is beta code. It has a good number of bugs fixed since 1.38.2, one new feature -- a days option for status so that on Fridays you c