Mandi! Marco Gaiarin
In chel di` si favelave...
> I've done a quick test, and seems work... but still i ask for feedback.
OK, definitively work; supposing to have a tape storage 'LTO5Storage' and a
media labelled 'PPPVE3_0001', you need firstly to create the boostrap file:
echo 'volume
> So, a 'bacula tape copy machine' will have to, theoretically:
> + for every job in tape:
>- copy bootstrap file from director for that job
>- dump that jobs in tape to disk volume
>- dump disk volume to 'copy tape'
>- purge and truncate disk volume
>- repeat
> ...seems pret
> so, i can use a command (bscan?) to scan a media, build a BSR file and then
> use it to copy ALL jobs within the media?
Eric add in bug:
>> I think you need to put
>> volume=AA
>> in a text file, and use -b in the command line
Looking at:
https://www.bacula.org/9.4.x-manuals/
> I've still two question.
More question rised.
Seems that, even using a temporary file media, copy is more performative
then a full backup.
For example, on a test system with an LTO5 tape, full backup took 14 hour,
while copy tape to file media took 4 hour, and file back to tape 3 hour; so,
m
Mandi! Marco Gaiarin
In chel di` si favelave...
> I've tried also here:
>
> https://gitlab.bacula.org/bacula-community-edition/bacula-community/-/issues/2745
OK, bug fixed in current community version.
I've still two question.
1) as a workaround the bootstrap 'bsr' file can be used t
> but my C and bacula knowledge is minimal...
I've tried also here:
https://gitlab.bacula.org/bacula-community-edition/bacula-community/-/issues/2745
Thanks.
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>> 04-Feb 15:02 bcopy JobId 0: Warning: vol_mgr.c:386 Could not reserve volume
>> "PPPVE3LTOCopy_0001" for append, because it will be read.
> Googling about this lead me to only two result:
I've run it under heavvy debug:
root@pppve3:~# bcopy -d999 LTO5Storage FileStorage -i PPPVE3_0004 -o
> 04-Feb 15:02 bcopy JobId 0: Warning: vol_mgr.c:386 Could not reserve volume
> "PPPVE3LTOCopy_0001" for append, because it will be read.
Googling about this lead me to only two result:
https://sourceforge.net/p/bacula/mailman/bacula-users/thread/53C0253A.1010801%40intelesyscorp.com/
Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users
In chel di` si favelave...
> I guess you could simply set up a disk-based storage and pool, bcopy from
> tape to file-based media in this new pool, then
> bcopy from that disk-based media to another tape.
OK, done but i catch some mysterious error...
I'v
On 1/31/25 9:46 AM, Marco Gaiarin wrote:
>
> As stated by Marcin, and to stay in the «there's everyday a new thing to
learn in bacula»,
heh.. Yes this is true. We show a humorous image (origin unknown) during the Bacula Admin I course. It is titled something
like "The Bacula Learning Curve", a
On 1/31/25 2:19 PM, Michel Figgins wrote:
Just a general question:
Why would dd if=/dev/nst0 of=somefile care about tape logical files?
- Michel
Hello Michel,
That's just how `dd` works from my experience. It will stop when it reaches an
EOF marker, so Martin was right.
Best regards,
Bill
] Copy a tape with a single drive...
On 1/31/25 3:48 AM, Martin Simmons wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:20:21 +, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users said:
>>
>> If I understand correctly, you just want to copy an entire tape to another
>> tape but only have o
Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users
In chel di` si favelave...
> If I understand correctly, you just want to copy an entire tape to another
> tape but only have one tape drive?
Exactly.
> If yes, you can do this entirely outside of Bacula by using `dd` to read the
> entire tape to a file
On 1/31/25 3:48 AM, Martin Simmons wrote:
On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:20:21 +, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users said:
If I understand correctly, you just want to copy an entire tape to another tape
but only have one tape drive?
If yes, you can do this entirely outside of Bacula by using `dd` to
Yes, you must have 2 different storage media.
disk to tape
disk to disk
tape to tape
tape to disk
On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM Marco Gaiarin
wrote:
>
> I need to 'copy' a tape, bt using a single drive.
>
> There's something 'smart' i can do, or the only option is to build two
> jobs,
> one t
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:20:21 +, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users said:
>
> If I understand correctly, you just want to copy an entire tape to another
> tape but only have one tape drive?
>
> If yes, you can do this entirely outside of Bacula by using `dd` to read the
> entire tape to a
On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 at 18:21, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users
wrote:
>
> On 1/30/25 4:43 AM, Marco Gaiarin wrote:
> >
> > I need to 'copy' a tape, bt using a single drive.
> >
> > There's something 'smart' i can do, or the only option is to build two jobs,
> > one that copy the media in a different
On 1/30/25 4:43 AM, Marco Gaiarin wrote:
I need to 'copy' a tape, bt using a single drive.
There's something 'smart' i can do, or the only option is to build two jobs,
one that copy the media in a different type (eg, files) and then migrate it
on tape?
Thanks.
Hello Marco,
If I understand
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