Re: [Bacula-users] HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader

2024-06-06 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 09:50:06 +0200, Stefan G Weichinger said: > > I have questions around migrate jobs and scheduling. Unsure if to start > a new thread, it gets off-topic regarding the subject of the original > posting ... I would start a new thread for unrelated discussion. __Martin _

Re: [Bacula-users] HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader

2024-06-06 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 03.06.24 um 08:51 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Fourth, please reply back with the results from the above tests, and with any other information you think may be important. I will do asap. Right now I wait for their admin to swap all the tapes etc the btape test went completely OK In the

Re: [Bacula-users] HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader

2024-06-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 02.06.24 um 17:00 schrieb Rob Gerber: Well, I think something is wrong here. I WOULD NOT write any data or an EOF to any production tapes with valuable data. This will almost certainly lead to data loss. To be perfectly clear, if you rewind a tape and write EOF to that tape, the data previou

Re: [Bacula-users] HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader

2024-06-02 Thread Rob Gerber
Well, I think something is wrong here. I WOULD NOT write any data or an EOF to any production tapes with valuable data. This will almost certainly lead to data loss. To be perfectly clear, if you rewind a tape and write EOF to that tape, the data previously written to that tape will be inaccessible

Re: [Bacula-users] HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader

2024-06-02 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
the drive was repaired, the head (?) replaced Now I have issues with the tapes labeled by the old drive ... I assume I should relabel them but that alone doesn't always lead to bacula correctly recognizing the tapes. And the procedure to relabel multiple tapes is a bit of manual work becau

Re: [Bacula-users] HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader

2024-05-23 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 20.05.24 um 11:44 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Is there an easy way to delete all volumes belonging to a specific Job-ID? For now I looked it up in Bacularis: check which jobs are on which (disk-based) volume, rm the volume in Bacularis, then rm the corresponding file from disk (in the sh

Re: [Bacula-users] HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader

2024-05-20 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 15.05.24 um 16:02 schrieb Rob Gerber: To manually remove the disk volumes, and associated job and file entries, do a delete operation. Easily done in Bacularis or baculum, (I haven't done it in bconsole though I'm sure it's doable there too). I would have a catalog backup restored BEFORE I

Re: [Bacula-users] HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader

2024-05-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 15.05.24 um 16:02 schrieb Rob Gerber: Stefan, are your bacula catalog backups being made to a disk volume, as is default, or to a tape volume? If being made to a disk volume you could restore a catalog backup. If your catalog backups were being made to that same machine whose backups were pu

Re: [Bacula-users] HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader

2024-05-15 Thread Rob Gerber
Stefan, are your bacula catalog backups being made to a disk volume, as is default, or to a tape volume? If being made to a disk volume you could restore a catalog backup. If your catalog backups were being made to that same machine whose backups were purged, and you lost the database entries for t

Re: [Bacula-users] HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader

2024-05-15 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.05.24 um 13:13 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: I assume the drive has a problem. we used a new cleaning tape and a new LTO tape, btape still fails I tend to say this drive is defective Today the IT and the CEOs decide how to proceed. For now I created a temporary file-based storage on d

Re: [Bacula-users] HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader

2024-05-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
I assume the drive has a problem. btape append test fails ... dmesg: [Mi Mai 8 10:18:32 2024] scsi 1:0:7:1: Power-on or device reset occurred [Mi Mai 8 10:18:32 2024] ch 1:0:7:1: [ch0] reading element address assignment page failed! [Mi Mai 8 10:18:32 2024] ch 1:0:7:1: [ch0] INITIALIZE EL

Re: [Bacula-users] HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader

2024-05-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
even btape fails # /opt/bacula/bin/btape /dev/nst0 Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes. btape: butil.c:298-0 Using device: "/dev/nst0" for writing. btape: btape.c:477-0 open device "HP-Ultrium" (/dev/nst0): OK *test === Write, rewind, and re-read test === I'm going to write 1 records and

Re: [Bacula-users] HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader

2024-05-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 07.05.24 um 18:21 schrieb Rob Gerber: Wait a sec - look at this again: # mtx -f /dev/sg4 status    Storage Changer /dev/sg4:1 Drives, 8 Slots ( 0 Import/Export ) Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 4 Loaded):VolumeTag = CMR921L6        Storage Element 1:Full :VolumeTag=CMR904L6  

Re: [Bacula-users] HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader

2024-05-07 Thread Rob Gerber
Wait a sec - look at this again: # mtx -f /dev/sg4 status Storage Changer /dev/sg4:1 Drives, 8 Slots ( 0 Import/Export ) Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 4 Loaded):VolumeTag = CMR921L6 Storage Element 1:Full :VolumeTag=CMR904L6 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=CMR933

Re: [Bacula-users] HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader

2024-05-07 Thread Rob Gerber
Checking simple stuff: What output for 'lsscsi'? What output for 'ps aux| grep -i bacula'? Try removing tape, physically sliding tape protection slider all the way closed (write protected), then all the way open (not write protected). I think should maybe be a click each direction? Take differe

Re: [Bacula-users] HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader

2024-05-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 07.05.24 um 17:04 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Could it be related to something like blocksizes? These tapes were used with Amanda before. trying another tape now I really get lost here. Wanted to re-label a tape to start over: # systemctl stop bacula-sd # mt -f /dev/st0 rewind # mt -f

Re: [Bacula-users] HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader

2024-05-07 Thread Neil Balchin
I don’t think it’s a bacula problem, looks like a hardware failure from the auto loader Code 70 = “release magazine failure” Sent from my iPhone > On May 7, 2024, at 11:05 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > >  > more info: > > restarted daemons > > entered bconsole > > mounted a slot, la

Re: [Bacula-users] HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader

2024-05-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
more info: restarted daemons entered bconsole mounted a slot, labelled the tape Catalog record for Volume "CMR921", Slot 4 successfully created. Requesting to mount HP-Autoloader ... 3001 Device ""HP-Ultrium" (/dev/nst0)" is mounted with Volume "CMR921" started a (test) job to backup the c

[Bacula-users] HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader

2024-05-07 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
On the weekend I tried to use a "weekly" pool for a set of full backups. It failed with a tape error and since then we fail to get on track again. Multiple reboots of the library, change of tapes, relabeling etc I try for example to stop all bacula-services and unload a tape: # mtx -f /dev/sg

Re: [Bacula-users] HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader - Hardware Compression

2012-03-13 Thread Isamar Maia
Please, ignore this message.. just wrong device file reference. Isamar 2012年3月13日12:03 Isamar Maia : > Hi Folks, > > I am trying to enable hardware compression on my HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader > with the following procedure: > http://www.bacula.org/5.1.x-manuals/en/problems/problems/Testing_Your_Tape_

[Bacula-users] HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader - Hardware Compression

2012-03-13 Thread Isamar Maia
Hi Folks, I am trying to enable hardware compression on my HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader with the following procedure: http://www.bacula.org/5.1.x-manuals/en/problems/problems/Testing_Your_Tape_Drive.html#SECTION00436000 But no sucess "tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0" says: Product Type: Disk Driv