Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger 1.0.3 Released

2020-05-13 Thread Josh Fisher
Yes. I believe that was also in 1.0.2. On 5/13/2020 9:35 AM, Wanderlei Huttel wrote: Hello Josh A long time ago I've sent you a patch to modify vchanger to create more standards labels https://github.com/wanderleihuttel/vchanger/commit/256bb9bda3632265b803df3e6e19edc159c741e1 Did you commi

Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger 1.0.3 Released

2020-05-13 Thread Wanderlei Huttel
Hello Josh A long time ago I've sent you a patch to modify vchanger to create more standards labels https://github.com/wanderleihuttel/vchanger/commit/256bb9bda3632265b803df3e6e19edc159c741e1 Did you committed the code? Best regards *Wanderlei Hüttel* Em ter., 12 de mai. de 2020 às 18:12, J

[Bacula-users] Vchanger 1.0.3 Released

2020-05-12 Thread Josh Fisher
Vchanger 1.0.3 was released today. This is mostly a bug fix release, correcting the number of slots reported by SIZE/LIST commands, a compilation error on FreeBSD, and failure of the launch scripts invoked by udev on some platforms. Also, the locking mechanism to allow multiple instances and

Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger or Bacula disk-changer

2018-03-22 Thread Josh Fisher
In addition to vchanger and disk-changer, there is a built-in native disk autochanger. Which of the methods to use depends on usage scenario. The native disk autochanger requires no external script or configuration, so is probably the way to go for fixed-disk storage. It basically allows defin

[Bacula-users] Vchanger or Bacula disk-changer

2018-03-21 Thread Kyle
Hello all,  I am quite new to Bacula. I have been running Bacula 5.0.26 On Ubuntu 14 with the vchanger script from sourceforge with no hiccups.I have recently setup a new machine with Ubuntu Server 16.04 and using Bacula 7.0.5. I have 2 usb drives that I want to do my backups on and read some

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger 1.0.1 says "No slots in changer to scan"

2016-05-06 Thread Pann Tolk
On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 2:33 AM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On 05/06/2016 01:05 PM, Pann Tolk wrote: > > > ... So, a single photographic outing > > will easily cost us 300-400GB worth of storage. > > How many trips per year? > Long (12-15days): 1 or 2 Short (5-7 days) : 1 or 2 Local events: 4-6 Th

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger 1.0.1 says "No slots in changer to scan"

2016-05-06 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 05/06/2016 01:05 PM, Pann Tolk wrote: > ... So, a single photographic outing > will easily cost us 300-400GB worth of storage. How many trips per year? I've syncthing copying our "Public picures" (using gameOS at home) folder between the TV PC and the Gimp/turbotax/everything else PC. (Plus

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger 1.0.1 says "No slots in changer to scan"

2016-05-06 Thread Pann Tolk
On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 10:51 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On 2016-05-05 23:40, Pann Tolk wrote: > > > With that from Josh, I'm going to use udev instead for plug-n-play. > > That way, even less technically inclined people (eg wife and children) > > can help to swap the set of disks (magazines) fro

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger 1.0.1 says "No slots in changer to scan"

2016-05-06 Thread Pann Tolk
Hi Josh, Thanks for your quick response. On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 7:40 PM, Josh Fisher wrote: > > On 5/6/2016 3:07 AM, Pann Tolk wrote: > > Hi Josh, > > .. > > May 06 14:34:06 deneb systemd-udevd[2578]: > '/usr/libexec/vchanger/vchanger-launch-mount.sh > 1fde15be-83a4-4b67-accc-378d5fa10ea7'(

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger 1.0.1 says "No slots in changer to scan"

2016-05-06 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 2016-05-05 23:40, Pann Tolk wrote: > With that from Josh, I'm going to use udev instead for plug-n-play. > That way, even less technically inclined people (eg wife and children) > can help to swap the set of disks (magazines) from the 2-slot hotplug > dock with another set of disks for Bacula t

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger 1.0.1 says "No slots in changer to scan"

2016-05-06 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/6/2016 3:07 AM, Pann Tolk wrote: Hi Josh, .. May 06 14:34:06 deneb systemd-udevd[2578]: '/usr/libexec/vchanger/vchanger-launch-mount.sh 1fde15be-83a4-4b67-accc-378d5fa10ea7'(err) ' device-enumerator: scanning /sys/class' >> May 06 14:34:06 deneb systemd-udevd[2578]: Process '/

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger 1.0.1 says "No slots in changer to scan"

2016-05-06 Thread Pann Tolk
Hi Josh, On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Josh Fisher wrote: > > 2. I followed the vchanger documentation (vchangerHowto.html) to setup > vchanger. > > I have successfully configured udev and autofs. udev is able to mount the > filesystems when I insert the drives. And, autofs is able to mount

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger 1.0.1 says "No slots in changer to scan"

2016-05-05 Thread Pann Tolk
Hi Dimitri, On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 6:39 AM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On 05/05/2016 05:55 AM, Wanderlei Huttel wrote: > > > I understood that you have 4 hard disks ,so you need 4 magazines and 4 > > Devices in bacula-sd. > > No you don't, you need one autochanger and one device in bacula-sd, > po

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger 1.0.1 says "No slots in changer to scan"

2016-05-05 Thread Pann Tolk
Hi Wanderlei, Thanks for your reply. >Always you create a volume is necessary to run in bconsole "update slots" and "label barcodes" Yes, I created the volumes. But when I attempt to run "update slots" in bconsole, I get error as mentioned in my original post. >I understood that you have 4 har

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger 1.0.1 says "No slots in changer to scan"

2016-05-05 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 05/05/2016 05:55 AM, Wanderlei Huttel wrote: > I understood that you have 4 hard disks ,so you need 4 magazines and 4 > Devices in bacula-sd. No you don't, you need one autochanger and one device in bacula-sd, posted config is correct. If you have autofs mounting them, have you tried magazin

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger 1.0.1 says "No slots in changer to scan"

2016-05-05 Thread Josh Fisher
Hi Pann. See comments inline below. On 5/5/2016 4:29 AM, Pann Tolk wrote: Hello Guys, I'm new to Bacula. And it's my first time trying to config Bacula 7.4.0 with vchanger 1.0.1 for my home network. I have configured Bacula and vchanger following the vchanger 1.0.1 documentation included

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger 1.0.1 says "No slots in changer to scan"

2016-05-05 Thread Wanderlei Huttel
Hello Pan I tested vchanger some time ago, but I have not tested in production. Always you create a volume is necessary to run in bconsole "update slots" and "label barcodes" I understood that you have 4 hard disks ,so you need 4 magazines and 4 Devices in bacula-sd. I've wrote a article to con

[Bacula-users] vchanger 1.0.1 says "No slots in changer to scan"

2016-05-05 Thread Pann Tolk
Hello Guys, I'm new to Bacula. And it's my first time trying to config Bacula 7.4.0 with vchanger 1.0.1 for my home network. I have configured Bacula and vchanger following the vchanger 1.0.1 documentation included in the rpm package (vchangerHowto.html) My hardware setup is as below: |

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger not doing "label barcodes" correctly

2016-03-13 Thread Jason Voorhees
Nevermind, I've already solved this. It was due to permissions issue on /etc/bacula/bconsole.conf not being readable by "tape" group. Thanks anyway guys :) On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 10:11 PM, Jason Voorhees wrote: > Hello Guys: > > This is my first time trying to configure vchanger with Bacula 5.2

[Bacula-users] vchanger not doing "label barcodes" correctly

2016-03-13 Thread Jason Voorhees
Hello Guys: This is my first time trying to configure vchanger with Bacula 5.2.13. I've configured Bacula and vchanger according to the official vchanger 1.0.1 documentation included in source code (vchangerHowto.html). As per vchanger howto I'm supposed to initialize my magazine by creating a f

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger Intervention needed

2014-09-03 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 09/03/2014 01:25 PM, Josh Fisher wrote: > Are any of the drives 100% full and out of space? Nope, but thanks: you made me look, there are no errors from smartctl, but I found this from the automounter: kernel: EXT4-fs (sdn1): warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger Intervention needed

2014-09-03 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/3/2014 2:11 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: Hi all, I'm using 5.0 on centos 6 with 10 hot-swap sata drives in vchanger. It's been running fine for quite some time, here's what I got this morning: The "volumes" got written to vchanger_0007_0011 timestamped 11:13 pm

[Bacula-users] vchanger Intervention needed

2014-09-03 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
Hi all, I'm using 5.0 on centos 6 with 10 hot-swap sata drives in vchanger. It's been running fine for quite some time, here's what I got this morning: The "volumes" got written to vchanger_0007_0011 timestamped 11:13 pm last night. Then @ 02-Sep 23:13 the log goes ... shell command: run Before

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger interaction.

2014-05-22 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/20/2014 12:58 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: > On 19/05/14 23:39, Josh Fisher wrote: >> On 5/17/2014 10:50 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: >>> Hi Vizo, >>> >>> If I use the UUID:blah format, vchanger can't find the drives. >>> >>> I found on another post to this list in the archives (via google) that >>> the

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger interaction.

2014-05-19 Thread Steven Haigh
On 19/05/14 23:39, Josh Fisher wrote: > On 5/17/2014 10:50 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: >> Hi Vizo, >> >> If I use the UUID:blah format, vchanger can't find the drives. >> >> I found on another post to this list in the archives (via google) that >> the following method worked - but I'm unsure if any fur

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger interaction.

2014-05-19 Thread Bill Arlofski
>> Hi Bill, >> >> I did find that script and used it as my inspiration. There were a few >> issues I had when running it however. Firstly, it doesn't recognise >> UUIDs in the format /mnt/vchanger/ which causes issues. > > > That's interesting, since my system udev/autofs auto-mounts my encrypted

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger interaction.

2014-05-19 Thread Bill Arlofski
On 05/19/14 09:45, Josh Fisher wrote: > On 5/19/2014 3:56 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: >> On 18/05/14 12:50, Steven Haigh wrote: >>> Hi Vizo, >>> >>> If I use the UUID:blah format, vchanger can't find the drives. >>> >>> I found on another post to this list in the archives (via google) that >>> the foll

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger interaction.

2014-05-19 Thread Bill Arlofski
On 05/19/14 21:12, Steven Haigh wrote:> On 19/05/14 23:45, Josh Fisher wrote: >> On 5/19/2014 3:56 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: >>> On 18/05/14 12:50, Steven Haigh wrote: Hi Vizo, If I use the UUID:blah format, vchanger can't find the drives. I found on another post to this list

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger interaction.

2014-05-19 Thread Bill Arlofski
On 05/19/14 21:11, Steven Haigh wrote:> On 20/05/14 01:28, Bill Arlofski wrote: >> On 05/19/14 03:56, Steven Haigh wrote: >>> On 18/05/14 12:50, Steven Haigh wrote: Hi Vizo, If I use the UUID:blah format, vchanger can't find the drives. I found on another post to this list

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger interaction.

2014-05-19 Thread Steven Haigh
On 19/05/14 23:45, Josh Fisher wrote: > On 5/19/2014 3:56 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: >> On 18/05/14 12:50, Steven Haigh wrote: >>> Hi Vizo, >>> >>> If I use the UUID:blah format, vchanger can't find the drives. >>> >>> I found on another post to this list in the archives (via google) that >>> the foll

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger interaction.

2014-05-19 Thread Steven Haigh
On 20/05/14 01:28, Bill Arlofski wrote: > On 05/19/14 03:56, Steven Haigh wrote: >> On 18/05/14 12:50, Steven Haigh wrote: >>> Hi Vizo, >>> >>> If I use the UUID:blah format, vchanger can't find the drives. >>> >>> I found on another post to this list in the archives (via google) that >>> the follo

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger interaction.

2014-05-19 Thread Bill Arlofski
On 05/19/14 03:56, Steven Haigh wrote: > On 18/05/14 12:50, Steven Haigh wrote: >> Hi Vizo, >> >> If I use the UUID:blah format, vchanger can't find the drives. >> >> I found on another post to this list in the archives (via google) that >> the following method worked - but I'm unsure if any furthe

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger interaction.

2014-05-19 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/19/2014 3:56 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: > On 18/05/14 12:50, Steven Haigh wrote: >> Hi Vizo, >> >> If I use the UUID:blah format, vchanger can't find the drives. >> >> I found on another post to this list in the archives (via google) that >> the following method worked - but I'm unsure if any fur

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger interaction.

2014-05-19 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/17/2014 10:50 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: Hi Vizo, If I use the UUID:blah format, vchanger can't find the drives. I found on another post to this list in the archives (via google) that the following method worked - but I'm unsure if any further problems were enco

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger interaction.

2014-05-19 Thread Steven Haigh
On 18/05/14 12:50, Steven Haigh wrote: > Hi Vizo, > > If I use the UUID:blah format, vchanger can't find the drives. > > I found on another post to this list in the archives (via google) that > the following method worked - but I'm unsure if any further problems > were encountered. > > It seems

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger interaction.

2014-05-17 Thread Steven Haigh
Hi Vizo, If I use the UUID:blah format, vchanger can't find the drives. I found on another post to this list in the archives (via google) that the following method worked - but I'm unsure if any further problems were encountered. It seems to be a problem with libuuid or similar? On 18/05/14 12:

[Bacula-users] vchanger interaction.

2014-05-17 Thread Steven Haigh
Hi all, I'm in the process of trying to change my backup system from TSM to Bacula - and there are a few things I can't quite find the answers to. Mostly in regards to the interaction with vchanger. I use a few eSATA drives to move data to. I also do the initial full backups to this pool - then a

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger again.

2014-05-12 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/11/2014 2:03 PM, Vizo Allman wrote: > After a bunch of almost backups and figuring out the disk space issue > on my 3TB drives. I reformatted some of the drives and added them to > my vchanger.conf. > > I would think that everything work now, But no! now I get the message > > 11-May 13:5

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger, failed jobs, Bad response to Append

2014-05-12 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/10/2014 9:20 PM, Vizo Allman wrote: Solved I think: 10-May 21:05 VLNBackup-dir JobId 3017: Start Backup JobId 3017, Job=NAS1_TV.2014-05-10_21.05.12_38 10-May 21:05 VLNBackup-dir JobId 3017: Using Device

[Bacula-users] vchanger again.

2014-05-11 Thread Vizo Allman
After a bunch of almost backups and figuring out the disk space issue on my 3TB drives. I reformatted some of the drives and added them to my vchanger.conf. I would think that everything work now, But no! now I get the message 11-May 13:51 vulcans-sd JobId 3026: 3304 Issuing autochanger "load

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger, failed jobs, Bad response to Append

2014-05-10 Thread Vizo Allman
Solved I think: 10-May 21:05 VLNBackup-dir JobId 3017: Start Backup JobId 3017, Job=NAS1_TV.2014-05-10_21.05.12_38 10-May 21:05 VLNBackup-dir JobId 3017: Using Device "eSATA-drive-0" to write. 10-May 20:55 vulcans-sd JobId 3017: 3304 Issuing autochanger "load slot 119, drive 0" command. 10-May 20:5

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger, failed jobs, Bad response to Append

2014-05-10 Thread Dan Langille
On May 10, 2014, at 3:19 PM, Vizo Allman wrote: > I have an sd on its on server with esata dock attached. I have had a couple > of jobs fail with network reset error when I try to run the job again I get > this: > > > 10-May 14:44 VLNBackup-dir JobId 3012: Start Backup JobId 3012, > Job=NAS

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger, failed jobs, Bad response to Append

2014-05-10 Thread Vizo Allman
I have an sd on its on server = I have an sd own its on server On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Vizo Allman wrote: > I have an sd on its on server with esata dock attached. I have had a > couple of jobs fail with network reset error when I try to run the job > again I get this: > > > 10-May 14:

[Bacula-users] vchanger, failed jobs, Bad response to Append

2014-05-10 Thread Vizo Allman
I have an sd on its on server with esata dock attached. I have had a couple of jobs fail with network reset error when I try to run the job again I get this: 10-May 14:44 VLNBackup-dir JobId 3012: Start Backup JobId 3012, Job=NAS1_TV.2014-05-10_14.44.29_27 10-May 14:44 VLNBackup-dir JobId 3012: U

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger autochanger esata drives

2014-01-22 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 1/21/2014 8:54 PM, Vizo Allman wrote: > So... > I have a esata dock that holds 4 drives. It is attached to a sd server > . I have autofs working. I configured vchanger according to 13.2 section > in how-to located in the vchanger tar file, only I made it 4 virtual > drives instead of 2. > > The

[Bacula-users] vchanger autochanger esata drives

2014-01-21 Thread Vizo Allman
So... I have a esata dock that holds 4 drives. It is attached to a sd server . I have autofs working. I configured vchanger according to 13.2 section in how-to located in the vchanger tar file, only I made it 4 virtual drives instead of 2. The question is: so my full backup is going to be bigger

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger and "intervention needed"

2013-10-31 Thread Josh Fisher
On 10/31/2013 1:18 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On 10/31/2013 11:55 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: >> That fixes it for vchanger, but you still have to fix Bacula's >> catalog, which still has records for the volumes on changer1_0006. In >> bconsole, use 'delete volume=changer1_0006_0001' and etc. to del

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger and "intervention needed"

2013-10-31 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 10/31/2013 11:55 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: > > On 10/31/2013 12:29 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: ... >> Then for good measure I delete & purge all volumes from the dead disk. > That fixes it for vchanger, but you still have to fix Bacula's catalog, > which still has records for the volumes on changer

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger and "intervention needed"

2013-10-31 Thread Josh Fisher
On 10/31/2013 12:29 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: Hi everyone, I've 9 sata disks in a vchanger. One dies, I replace the disk, do the 'update slot' and 'label barcodes'. Then for good measure I delete & purge all volumes from the dead disk. That fixes it for vchanger, but you still have to fix Ba

[Bacula-users] vchanger and "intervention needed"

2013-10-31 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
Hi everyone, I've 9 sata disks in a vchanger. One dies, I replace the disk, do the 'update slot' and 'label barcodes'. Then for good measure I delete & purge all volumes from the dead disk. Now I'm getting Bacula: Intervention needed for rendena.2013-10-30_20.05.00_04 30-Oct 20:05 rendena-sd Jo

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger (one more time) SOLVED

2013-09-23 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/22/2013 11:30 AM, Greg Woods wrote: > On Sat, 2013-09-21 at 11:23 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > >> Unless I forgot something else, this isn't a permissions problem. The >> problem is that "initmag" does not work: >> >> # vchanger -u bacula -g bacula /etc/bacula/ARCH.conf initmag 1 >> magazine b

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger (one more time) SOLVED

2013-09-22 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2013-09-21 at 11:23 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > Unless I forgot something else, this isn't a permissions problem. The > problem is that "initmag" does not work: > > # vchanger -u bacula -g bacula /etc/bacula/ARCH.conf initmag 1 > magazine bay 1 has no magazine mounted [...] > Sat Sep 2

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger

2013-09-21 Thread James Youngman
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:20 AM, Greg Woods wrote: > I'm having some trouble getting vchanger to work, partly because the > documentation that comes with it seems not to be up to date. For > instance, the keywords described in the howto HTML file that comes with > the source are invalid keywords.

[Bacula-users] vchanger (one more time)

2013-09-21 Thread Greg Woods
I apologize for yet another posting, but I am just having a HELL of a time trying to get vchanger to work. I have been following the instructions in the Howto that came with the source code. I have the automounting working, and the permissions are all correct (the "bacula" user owns the work_dir an

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger

2013-09-21 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 2013-09-21 09:53, Greg Woods wrote: ... > Ugh, never mind. I've been spending so much time on this and doing so > many searches that I got my versions of the Howto confused. It looks > like the one that actually comes with the source code is not the one I > was actually reading. Now that I have

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger

2013-09-21 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 19:20 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > I'm having some trouble getting vchanger to work, partly because the > documentation that comes with it seems not to be up to date. Ugh, never mind. I've been spending so much time on this and doing so many searches that I got my versions of t

[Bacula-users] vchanger

2013-09-20 Thread Greg Woods
I'm having some trouble getting vchanger to work, partly because the documentation that comes with it seems not to be up to date. For instance, the keywords described in the howto HTML file that comes with the source are invalid keywords. The example config file has the right keywords, but I'm havi

Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger

2013-07-03 Thread Mark Gordon
Finger check problem. Thanks for the help. Magaine spelled wrong do-h! -Original Message- From: Josh Fisher [mailto:jfis...@pvct.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 2:17 PM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger On 7/3/2013 11:41 AM, Mark Gordon

Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger

2013-07-03 Thread Josh Fisher
On 7/3/2013 11:41 AM, Mark Gordon wrote: > We have been using vchanger 0.8.6 for a while now. When preparing for a new > USB we have to initialize the magazine. Anyone have a solution? > > > When doing so we get the following errors: > > [root@backup ~]# vchanger -u bacula -g bacula /etc/bacula/ex

[Bacula-users] Vchanger

2013-07-03 Thread Mark Gordon
We have been using vchanger 0.8.6 for a while now. When preparing for a new USB we have to initialize the magazine. Anyone have a solution? When doing so we get the following errors: [root@backup ~]# vchanger -u bacula -g bacula /etc/bacula/example.conf initmag 1 magaine not a valid keyword at

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger: 0 slots problem

2013-05-30 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 05/30/2013 03:06 PM, Josh Fisher wrote: > It would be better to remove the -u and -g and setup bacula-sd to run as > bacula:tape, or something, if possible. There shouldn't be any need for > bacula-sd to run as root. As root is how you learn your Valuable Lessons(tm). ;) -- Dimitri Maziuk

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger: 0 slots problem

2013-05-30 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/30/2013 3:25 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On 05/30/2013 10:13 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: > >> Remember that vchanger will be run as the same uid:gid that bacula-sd >> runs as. > On cenots 6 by default that's root:root. That's the problem: > > ./vchanger vchanger.conf slots > Failed to switch to us

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger: 0 slots problem

2013-05-30 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 05/30/2013 10:13 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: > Remember that vchanger will be run as the same uid:gid that bacula-sd > runs as. On cenots 6 by default that's root:root. That's the problem: ./vchanger vchanger.conf slots Failed to switch to user .. Refusing to run as root Using Changer Command =

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger: 0 slots problem

2013-05-30 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/29/2013 7:41 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > Hi all, > > I got vchanger working down to section 10 of the howto. I can maually > run (as bacula user) > > /etc/bacula/vchanger /etc/bacula/vchanger.conf slots > 180 > > Yet in bconsole: > > *update slots > Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog >

[Bacula-users] vchanger: 0 slots problem

2013-05-29 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
Hi all, I got vchanger working down to section 10 of the howto. I can maually run (as bacula user) /etc/bacula/vchanger /etc/bacula/vchanger.conf slots 180 Yet in bconsole: *update slots Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog Using Catalog "MyCatalog" Automatically selected Storage: changer1

Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger attempts to mount 5 volumes before stopping and requesting magazine change

2013-04-18 Thread Bill Arlofski
On 04/15/13 15:31, Bill Arlofski wrote: > I'll let you know what I come up with. Hi Leon, and everyone. :) Leon, as promised I have spent some time to take a second look at the auto_enable_disable_vols.sh which I had originally hacked together to use Josh Fisher's benablemag script to enable/disa

Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger attempts to mount 5 volumes before stopping and requesting magazine change

2013-04-15 Thread Bill Arlofski
On 04/12/13 04:47, Leon White wrote: > That said, I am sticking to manually issuing the commands for now until I at > least have a full backup completed. I decided not to use Bill's new script > just yet, mainly because it takes a long time to cycle through all the > non-mounted drives and disable

Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger attempts to mount 5 volumes before stopping and requesting magazine change

2013-04-12 Thread Leon White
Hi guys, sorry for the delay in replying. To clarify what I mean by 'without typing anything in the terminal', I was hoping to try out the web interface in the future to see if it can be used to start jobs. If the benablemag and update slots commands could be automated in some way, this would mak

Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger attempts to mount 5 volumes before stopping and requesting magazine change

2013-04-03 Thread Bill Arlofski
On 04/03/13 04:59, Leon White wrote: > Hi Bill and Josh, > > I just want to say again how helpful your support and development skills have > been, not just for our system here but also helping a relative novice like me > get my head around scripting approaches! Happy to help out. :) > Bill, you

Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger attempts to mount 5 volumes before stopping and requesting magazine change

2013-04-03 Thread Leon White
Hi Bill and Josh, I just want to say again how helpful your support and development skills have been, not just for our system here but also helping a relative novice like me get my head around scripting approaches! I will be implementing a lot of this for our system over the coming days (another

Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger attempts to mount 5 volumes before stopping and requesting magazine change

2013-04-02 Thread Bill Arlofski
Leon, After replying to you earlier today, I spent a little time testing Josh's benablemag script, and thought about my "just create a script to run in an Admin job" comment. Thought that it required a little more information. So, here is my Admin job called "UpdateSlots" which runs before all o

Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger attempts to mount 5 volumes before stopping and requesting magazine change

2013-04-02 Thread Bill Arlofski
On 04/01/13 05:38, Leon White wrote: > I plan to use this script to ensure that all volumes are set to disabled > before and after they are used to prevent bacula from trying to use unmounted > volumes. Is there any way to trigger this script to run silently as soon as > the update slots command is

Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger attempts to mount 5 volumes before stopping and requesting magazine change

2013-04-01 Thread Josh Fisher
On 4/1/2013 5:38 AM, Leon White wrote: > Hi Josh, > > thanks for taking the time once again to respond to support my > bacula/vchanger project! > > I was able to read, set up and configure the scripts you supplied, the > variables are quite clear and anybody who set up their own bacula > system

Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger attempts to mount 5 volumes before stopping and requesting magazine change

2013-04-01 Thread Leon White
Hi Josh, thanks for taking the time once again to respond to support my bacula/vchanger project! I was able to read, set up and configure the scripts you supplied, the variables are quite clear and anybody who set up their own bacula system should be able to fill them in. Note that it may be nece

Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger attempts to mount 5 volumes before stopping and requesting magazine change

2013-03-25 Thread Josh Fisher
On 3/22/2013 5:59 AM, Leon White wrote: Hi list! I am using Bacula 5.2.6 with vchanger 0.8.6 to backup a multi-terabyte fileset to a bunch of 1 and 2TB drives in an eSATA virtual autochanger. I have formatted each drive with one or two 2TB partitions with 186x 5GB volume slots, and vchanger

[Bacula-users] Vchanger attempts to mount 5 volumes before stopping and requesting magazine change

2013-03-22 Thread Leon White
Hi list! I am using Bacula 5.2.6 with vchanger 0.8.6 to backup a multi-terabyte fileset to a bunch of 1 and 2TB drives in an eSATA virtual autochanger. I have formatted each drive with one or two 2TB partitions with 186x 5GB volume slots, and vchanger switches between 2 magazine bays when necessar

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger device not in SD Device resources

2013-02-25 Thread Leon White
Hi again, my apologies for posting this with the incorrect subject line. After a lot of research, I found that the "No volumes found to label" error was caused by an error in the group configuration for the user which bacula-sd runs as. I have been following the fantastic instructions at http://ww

[Bacula-users] vchanger device not in SD Device resources

2013-02-24 Thread Leon White
Hi, I am new to bacula and trying to set up a system which will backup our 3 NAS towers to disks using the vchanger utility. We use an eSata changer with 1 drive only - quite a simple configuration. It took a while, but vchanger now works as advertised in the testing chapter of the documentation,

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger on a NAS

2011-03-06 Thread Fahrer, Julian
[mailto:maxxatw...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Sonntag, 6. März 2011 17:28 An: bacula-users Betreff: [Bacula-users] vchanger on a NAS Hello, I would like to run Bacula on my Synology NAS to take backups on external SATA disks, using an additional USB dock. I see that there is a vchanger tool available to

[Bacula-users] vchanger on a NAS

2011-03-06 Thread MaxxAtWork
Hello, I would like to run Bacula on my Synology NAS to take backups on external SATA disks, using an additional USB dock. I see that there is a vchanger tool available to manage the operation of replacing disk volumes, but the requirements of the tool are not easy to meet with what the NAS offer

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger for Bacula - make error

2010-10-01 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 20100930 om 15:39 schreef John Drescher: > 2010/9/30 Peter Ferris : > > I was following the documentation for installing vchanger, and at the make > > command I get the error: > > > >  /user/bin/ld: cannot find -lblkid > > > > Is there a way I can install this? Any help is appreciated. > > > > I

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger for Bacula - make error

2010-09-30 Thread John Drescher
2010/9/30 Peter Ferris : > I was following the documentation for installing vchanger, and at the make > command I get the error: > >  /user/bin/ld: cannot find -lblkid > > Is there a way I can install this? Any help is appreciated. > > I'm trying to set it up on ubuntu... lastest version of vchange

[Bacula-users] vchanger for Bacula - make error

2010-09-30 Thread Peter Ferris
I was following the documentation for installing vchanger, and at the *make *command I get the error: /user/bin/ld: cannot find -lblkid Is there a way I can install this? Any help is appreciated. I'm trying to set it up on ubuntu... lastest version of vchanger Thanks! Peter

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger, two drives

2010-04-29 Thread John Drescher
2010/4/28 Greg Golin : > Hello, > I am trying to configure bacula to use vchanger for offsite backups. > Basically I'd like to be able to swap USB drives every week and take them > offsite. The vchanger howto does not state whether I should run label > barcodes for each magazine. Could someone plea

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger, two drives

2010-04-29 Thread Josh Fisher
On 4/28/2010 6:43 PM, Greg Golin wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to configure bacula to use vchanger for offsite backups. > Basically I'd like to be able to swap USB drives every week and take > them offsite. The vchanger howto does not state whether I should run > *label barcodes *for each mag

[Bacula-users] vchanger, two drives

2010-04-28 Thread Greg Golin
Hello, I am trying to configure bacula to use vchanger for offsite backups. Basically I'd like to be able to swap USB drives every week and take them offsite. The vchanger howto does not state whether I should run *label barcodes *for each magazine. Could someone please clarify what operations sho

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger configuration question

2009-10-27 Thread Josh Fisher
You don't have 'Autochanger = yes' in the device records for d1, d2, and d3. That howto (and script) are outdated and need to be edited. The vchanger project page is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/vchanger/, and there is a much more recent howto there. Scott Courtney wrote: > Greetings, all

[Bacula-users] vchanger configuration question

2009-10-26 Thread Scott Courtney
Greetings, all I'm brand-new to Bacula, and am trying to set up vchanger.sh using the documentation at http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=removable_disk in combination with the Bacula manuals. I'm running version 2.4 of Bacula itself, and the back end is MySQL 5.1.x. In production, this setup wil

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger script syntax error

2009-09-25 Thread Josh Fisher
Not exactly, but the howto on the Bacula wiki is quite outdated. The script has been deprecated in favor of a C/C++ executable. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/vchanger/. glynd wrote: > I downloaded the vchanger script and when I test it I get this: > /etc/bacula/vchanger: 49: Syntax error:

[Bacula-users] vchanger script syntax error

2009-09-25 Thread glynd
I downloaded the vchanger script and when I test it I get this: /etc/bacula/vchanger: 49: Syntax error: "(" unexpected Any ideas as to why? TIA Glyn +-- |This was sent by g...@cirrus.co.za via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to a

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger and 'label barcodes' issue

2009-04-22 Thread Tom Plancon
Thanks for the quick reply! I was a little too aggressive and deleted everything from the USB drive including the index. So I shut down bacula, deleted the vchanger drive directory in /var/lib/bacula, restarted bacula and ran "vchanger -u bacula -g disk /etc/bacula/vchanger.conf initmag 1". It

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger and 'label barcodes' issue

2009-04-22 Thread Josh Fisher
Delete the volume files from the USB drive and try again without issuing the update slots command before the label barcodes. T. Plancon wrote: > Hello, > > I'm working on setting up Bacula 2.4.2 with the current version of > vchanger 0.8.2 from Sourceforge, using USB drives on CentOS 5.2. > Eve

[Bacula-users] vchanger and 'label barcodes' issue

2009-04-22 Thread T. Plancon
Hello, I'm working on setting up Bacula 2.4.2 with the current version of vchanger 0.8.2 from Sourceforge, using USB drives on CentOS 5.2. Everything is going pretty much as described in the vchanger HowTo, however "label barcodes" fails. the following is from console in BAT, after attaching U

[Bacula-users] Vchanger questions

2007-10-22 Thread Elie Azar
Hi, I am implementing a Vchanger to backup a group of machines to two central backup hosts. Here's some background information, and I have attached the relevant part of various configuration files. I hope someone could help resolve some of my problems. At this point, I have created 2 changers,

Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger Questions

2007-10-03 Thread Josh Fisher
Elie Azar wrote: > Hi Josh, > > Thanks for the reply... > > > Josh Fisher wrote: >> There is a script called disk-changer that is packaged with Bacula >> that does much the same thing and is what vchanger was based on. The >> disk-changer script uses a file in the base directory of each >> auto

Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger Questions

2007-09-27 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:44:00 -0700, Elie Azar said: > > Hi, > > I'm kind of new to Bacula, and definitely to Vchanger, so please bear > with me. > > I want to implement vchanger on a set of hard drives, with the idea that > I will have a pool of, let's say, 10 drives available for backup

Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger Questions

2007-09-27 Thread Josh Fisher
Elie Azar wrote: > Hi Josh, > > Thank you very much for your kind reply... > > So, what is the point of using vchanger then; we can get the same > result using pools, I think. There is a script called disk-changer that is packaged with Bacula that does much the same thing and is what vchanger w

Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger Questions

2007-09-26 Thread Josh Fisher
Elie Azar wrote: > Hi, > > I'm kind of new to Bacula, and definitely to Vchanger, so please bear > with me. > > I want to implement vchanger on a set of hard drives, with the idea that > I will have a pool of, let's say, 10 drives available for backup, and > where I do not have to specify a sto

[Bacula-users] Vchanger Questions

2007-09-24 Thread Elie Azar
Hi, I'm kind of new to Bacula, and definitely to Vchanger, so please bear with me. I want to implement vchanger on a set of hard drives, with the idea that I will have a pool of, let's say, 10 drives available for backup, and where I do not have to specify a storage device for every job I defi