Re: [Bacula-users] WOW

On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Matt Cowger wrote: > My apologies - your email address was .co.za, so i assumed Zaire. .za = south africa > Didn't realize your SMSs were so limited - indeed a script to attach > to a GSM phone might be your best route, but I can't give you any > guidance on that :(. Many ye

Re: [Bacula-users] Renewed question about schedules

Most PC-class hardware has bios options to startup at specified time-of-day. That would take care of the scheduling issue. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickl

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic creation/labeling of volumes while backing up to disk. UPDATED...Is this a BUG?

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Jaime Ventura wrote: > I solved the problem in the very same day I requested help. > As I told on message with the subject "Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic > creation/labeling of volumes while backing up to disk. UPDATED...Is this a > BUG? <-PLEASE IGNORE, my mistake" , th

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic creation/labeling of volumes while backing up to disk. UPDATED...Is this a BUG?

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Alan Brown wrote: >> I've read the documentation and basically I would need 2 things: >> LabelFormat on the pool definition and LabelMedia = yes on storage >> definition (on sd). > > ...and some tapes which are ready to be recycled. > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Heavily Duplicating Data

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Gavin Conway wrote: > I've setup a bacula instance for one of our customers for 20+ clients > but we have a problem. We have a Fedora system that is using 41gb in the > / directory. When we run an estimate against the system it comes back > with 86gb's. When we try to run the

Re: [Bacula-users] WOW

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Russell Howe wrote: > Something like > > ./sendsms --to +4477123123123 "This is an SMS" > > Once you have that, it's easy enough to interface to Bacula, in the same > way that job results are emailed. > > You'll probably find the same tool useful for a bazillion other things >

Re: [Bacula-users] WOW

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Russell Howe wrote: Alan Brown wrote, sometime around 11/09/06 16:05: Personally: I have my phone on an unlimited data tariff I wasn't aware such a thing existed in the UK, and certainly isn't all that common around the world. A friend of mine was charged about

Re: [Bacula-users] fatal error--Bacula wants tape to be in the "other" drive in autochanger

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Michael Brennen wrote: >> I'm running into a frequent situation where Bacula wants a given volume to be >> in one drive of our autochanger, and it doesn't seem to find the volume when >> it's already in the other drive. > I have seen the same thing and posted to that effect l

Re: [Bacula-users] fatal error--Bacula wants tape to be in the "other" drive in autochanger

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Tuesday 12 September 2006 18:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I'm running into a frequent situation where Bacula wants a given volume to > be >> in one drive of our autochanger, and it doesn't seem to find the volume when >> it's already in the other dr

Re: [Bacula-users] fatal error--Bacula wants tape to be in the "other" drive in autochanger

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> Enter autochanger drive[0]: 1 >> >> Connecting to Storage daemon MSL6000-changer at msslay.mssl.ucl.ac.uk:9103 >> 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command. >>

Re: [Bacula-users] fatal error--Bacula wants tape to be in the "other" drive in autochanger

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, getting back to my original question: > > Is there a definitive solution (and "upgrade to version X.Y.Z" is a > fine answer) > to the problem where backups fail because Bacula wants to use a volume > in on tape drive when the vo

Re: [Bacula-users] ADIC Scalar 24 robot not detected

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Adam Kosmin wrote: > never mind. After resetting the device to factory defaults, I see > everything. A common problem with scsi lun scanning is that by default linux stops after the first null lun - some changers have the drives at lun0/lun1 and the robot on lun7/lun16 etc.

Re: [Bacula-users] Proper Autochanger configuration with different drives in same changer

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Pietari Hyvärinen wrote: Hi! Our Autochcanger ( dell136T) is connected to four tape drives. Two of the are older LTO-2 and the rest are LTO-3 capable drives. How I define bacula-dir to understand that there are two of each drives in same autochanger? You have the bacula-sd

Re: [Bacula-users] ADIC Scalar 24 robot not detected

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Michael Nelson wrote: > If it's not an Adaptec, I would look for a similar feature. Until the > controller sees both devices, Linux doesn't have a chance. That's not quite true. The first thing Linux does for most scsi devices is throw out any bios code and rescan the busse

Re: [Bacula-users] Compilation problem with x86_64

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Raffaele Pantaleoni wrote: > When I try to "make" I got the following error: > > /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.a > when searching for -lmysqlclient_r. > > What does it mean? It this related to the x86_64 bit architecture? How > could I solv

Re: [Bacula-users] "Packet size too big" + xinetd client

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Junior Cunha wrote: > I recently upgrade all my clients to run under xinetd Um. why? - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the c

Re: [Bacula-users] Proper Autochanger configuration with different drives in same changer

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hmmm... What if you define all the media types as LTO3...does bacula check the > media type when loading a volume, or just the volume name? As far as I know, it only checks Volume media type vs device media type in the database. > If bacula loads a

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged volumes not getting used

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Jo Rhett writes: > >> Sorry, Kern, but this isn't true. Recycling DOES work properly, but >> "create a new volume" is happening earlier in the decision process >> than the recycling. You have to hit max volumes to make recycling happen. > > Sometimes

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 1.38.11 wants tape to be in the "other" drive in autochanger

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm running into a situation where Bacula wants a given volume to be > in one drive of our autochanger, and it doesn't seem to find the volume when > it's already in the other drive. I saw similar situations under Bacula 1.38.9, > but I've since upgra

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula GZip question

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Vadim A. Umanski wrote: > But the mail server data can be compressed approx. 50% and I wouldn't > like to spend unneeded space ... Full backup would take about 80-90 GB > of raw data. Assuming you have a "modern" tape drive (anything more recent than last 10 years), then h

Re: [Bacula-users] Using the gnome console and KDE question

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Richard White wrote: > When I installed Bacula, I did so enabling the gnome console. It runs, > but there is a problem. When I select the Run item from the menu bar, an > interactive window pops up offering me Job, Client, Fileset, Level, etc. > Each of these lines is blank, o

Re: [Bacula-users] Manual ejection of tape confuses bacula

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Sarath Jayewardena wrote: > How about if I had not started a new > backup after re-inserting the tape, yet? You would probably be ok. > Will an unmount/mount before > running any jobs make bacula accept the tape? Probably. The safest action is to NEVER insert a new tape be

Re: [Bacula-users] Forcing use of next tape in Autochanger

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Dan Langille wrote: > If you added that directive to the Pool after the Volume was created, > you'll need to update the Volume parameters from the Pool definition. > This can be done from bcsonole with the update command. Just to clarify Does this parameter get updated f

Re: [Bacula-users] confused about Full vrs. Incremental backups & pools

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Arno Lehmann wrote: >> Not exactly true. > > Theoretically, you're right of course, but Marks setup uses only Full > and Incre backups. Nark really should look at using Differentials, even if only from a safety point of view (any broken incremental in a chain = possibly unre

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring file from volume

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > I'd like to ask a side question (which I hope will not offend the > original author: I know that in my former backup software (HP Data > Protector), there was some value to keeping jobs longer than files. Primarily "smaller databases" > You would st

Re: [Bacula-users] confused about Full vrs. Incremental backups & pools

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Bill Moran wrote: >> You need an unbroken chain of incrementals, i.e. from the last full >> backup to the current date no incremental backup can be pruned. > > Not exactly true. Differentials can be used to "consolidate" incrementals. > Assuming you make incrementals 6 days a

Re: [Bacula-users] Forcing use of next tape in Autochanger

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Ryan Novosielski wrote: >> P.S. My guess is yes, the Volume parameter does get updated. I >> conclude that because of the relabelling, which creates a new Volume. >> There will be a new entry in the Volume table. New label == new >> volume. I still recommend testing to

Re: [Bacula-users] Manual ejection of tape confuses bacula

On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> Kern, is it possible to insert some sanity checks when starting jobs to >> ensure the tape is positioned where bacula thinks it should be? > > It is possible on most systems to do an ioctl(). I'm considering it, but the > problem is that it is not alway

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > After having been totally frustrated chasing this kernel crash for the last > few weeks (I really could not believe that it was not a Bacula bug), I have > finally found a work around and at the same time, proven that it is a SuSE > problem. One of the r

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> One of the reason we dumped SLES on our production machines in favour of >> RHEL was that SUSE was consistently shipping with mismatching dynamic and >> static library versions - and would not fix it even when notified. >> >> SuSE may be great for home s

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> Centos is _very_ stable. RHEL can be licensed quite cheaply if you don't >> buy the support package (about US$10/machine) > > The last time I looked (some time ago), it was over $200/machine. That is too > much for me. For a company or someone serious

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Mike Reinehr wrote: > After reading the merits & weaknesses of RHEL, SUSE, & Centos, I have only one > question. Have you considered or tried Debian lately? FWIW Ubuntu is Debian based. > I settled on Debian > several years ago after becoming disenchanted with each of the ma

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Les Mikesell wrote: > CentOS has some additions to the stock RH version as well, > like an optional kernel with firewire support and the > reiserfs and xfs filesystems. It uses yum for updates > and they generally stay within a few days of RH update > releases. This is getti

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Les Mikesell wrote: >> This is getting well outside the realm of Bacula itself, but I would >> really like to see the Enterprise volume management system (EVMS) in >> widespread use, as it makes disk hardware migration a painless operation >> while bringing all the various dis

Re: [Bacula-users] The number of files mismatch

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Julien Cigar wrote: > Thanks for reply. > > I read that in the manual, but unfortunately I haven't interrupt a > backup, and Bacula didn't crashed ... > What's strange is that the backup starts at 03:00am, and the last full > backup completed sucessfully I have been seeing thi

Re: [Bacula-users] Resolved: FW: Autoloader: Replace tape in magazine after backups complete?

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Jeremy Koppel wrote: > . > except our Quantum SuperLoader3 has an inaccessible tape drive, and in > the event of a malfunction, like we had, your tape is stuck in that > drive for life (to try to remove it voids the warranty). The Bacula documentation entry for the unit's

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula: backup is slow

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > That's not the behavior I've seen however. THAT I understand, and if I'm > not mistaken, it is per spec. However, what I've seen is many cases > where I said to our telecomm staff "please leave that port at > autonegotiate" and then hooked up equipmen

[Bacula-users] Priority checking bug?

Version: 1.38.11 Stat dir: Running Jobs: JobId Level Name Status == 16879 Increme Med-churn-plasma3.2006-10-11_18.51.28 is running 16880 Increme Low-churn-cassini2.2006-10-11_18.51.37 is waiting

Re: [Bacula-users] minor issue question on console interface

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Jaime Ventura wrote: > Hello, >Is there any way to cancel a command on console, instead of CTRL+C > and run the console again? type "." and hit enter. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to sup

Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Mark A. Bober wrote: > Alpha Tru64/OSF-1. (this was a *real* pain to get compiled, and this > machine is now dead, so) Do you have a set of compile options for client-only? AB - Using Tomcat but need

Re: [Bacula-users] Encryption/Compression Conflict in CVS

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Arno Lehmann wrote: >> Not if compression happens prior to encryption. :) > > Theoretically - yes, but I'm quite sure that encryption usually also > compresses data. If the encryption routines also contain compression routines. > This is completely unverified and refers to en

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula is my friend

On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Ian Levesque wrote: > Don't know - it was purchased before I started here (back when a > proprietary backup software was causing the previous admin all sorts > of headaches). It's a no-name custom-built rig. Can't say it's a bad > box - it has survived at least a dozen previous

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Adam Huffman wrote: > What sort of backup speed should I expect when using Bacula with an > LTO3 library? > > I'm seeing nothing like the advertised 60-80MB/s. What speeds _are_ you seeing? Is the data compressable? --

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, John Drescher wrote: > Have you tried a test of the raw tape speed? When I first got mt lto-2 > library I did a few tests like the following > > time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/nst0 bs=1G count=10 > > and I got around 35MB/s. Try if=/dev/zero and if=/dev/random AB -

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, John Drescher wrote: >> > Have you tried a test of the raw tape speed? When I first got mt lto-2 >> > library I did a few tests like the following >> > >> > time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/nst0 bs=1G count=10 >> > >> > and I got around 35MB/s. >> >> Try if=/dev/zero and if=/dev/ra

Re: [Bacula-users] Server Crash on SLES 10

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > I suggest you use all means possible to complain to SuSE and Novell about this > problem. Specifically, you can start by expressing your concern in the bug > report. I find it totally unacceptable that a so called "serious" Linux OS > provider would allo

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Rudolf Cejka wrote: > Alan Brown wrote (2006/11/10): >>>> I did not do /dev/zero because of hardware compression. I guess I could >>> turn that off but isn't /dev/random 1 byte at a time?? >> It's fast enough on most systems. > &

Re: [Bacula-users] (no subject)

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Les Mikesell wrote: > Is a non-free version a big issue for you? I've always been a big fan > of perl's dual-license approach which effectively removes the > restrictions of the GPL while allowing it to co-exist with GPL'd > components. I think it's been a good thing for

Re: [Bacula-users] (no subject)

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > What I like about the agreement with FSFE is that it covers to a large extent > this point. As it stands today, I'm not really much in a position to defend > my copyright from a financial point of view, from a legal point of view, or > from a point of vie

Re: [Bacula-users] (no subject)

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> To put it bluntly anyone who violates the licensing agreement is a >> software pirate. >> >> Software piracy is a criminal activity in most countries, usually with >> some threshold for enforcement - but in the case of embedded systems >> that's triviall

Re: [Bacula-users] Res: electrical cut during a job

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: bacula sensible to the electrical cuts, as much as to make lose the data of a tape? If there is a power cut the job is lost. You should run mysqlcheck -A (or the postgres/sqlite equivalent) AND dbcheck before restarting Bacula, in order to ensure t

Re: [Bacula-users] Offsite vol management

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Eric Rousse wrote: > Currently, I store tape locally In a data safe? > and in the tape changer. But we also bring our tapes offsite, just in > case anything happen to our server room. Is the offsite storage in a data safe? > But is there a way to track that information re

Re: [Bacula-users] Res: electrical cut during a job

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Hristo Benev wrote: >> A UPS is relatively cheap. Why not buy one? > Question about your last comment about UPS > > Yes UPS is relatively cheap, but it does not last more than 10-20 min > comparing to Bacula jobs 1-2h on bigger data. That depends how big your UPS battery is

Re: [Bacula-users] (no subject)

On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Landon Fuller wrote: > This argument is predicated on a few assumptions: > > 1) Vendor's usage of GPL software denotes blanket superiority > of said software. No, however using software subject to the GPL licence means that the vendor must comply with it. The fl

Re: [Bacula-users] Offsite vol management

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, James Ray wrote: > Having an on-site fire safe is not a good idea IMHO. It's better than having the tapes onsite burn up. > If you have the fire safe in the same location as your machine room then > you are unlikely to be able to gain access to that to restore any data > f

[Bacula-users] attn: Kern Re: Incremental backup, not accurate?

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Martin Simmons wrote: > Incremental backups use the ctime as well as the mtime by default, so it > depends on whether mv changes the ctime (some file systems do, some don't). rsync processes mirror both the ctime and mtime by default. This raises a problem if files older tha

Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: Re: SUSE SLES 9 bacula client 1.38.11

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Scott Barninger wrote: > Alan Brown was having the same issue with some older RH7 boxes so I > created a client-only-static spec for him to use, with which I believe > he was successful. I was - and it's working well. The only problems encountered recently

Re: [Bacula-users] attn: Kern Re: Incremental backup, not accurate?

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > The voting determines the priority, but for a feature to be implemented, > it requires a developer to implement it. Item 1 was encryption, and > Landon implemented that. Item 2 was migration, I implemented that. No > one signed up for Item 3, which i

Re: [Bacula-users] The number of files mismatch!

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Most likely either the Dir or SD has crashed during a backup, or you haven't > successfully run the btape test and fill commands, in which case, you Device > resource is not properly configured for your OS/drive. We have been seeing this irregularly too,

[Bacula-users] 2 useful queries for those with changers.

These should be useful for Bacula users with changers and may be useful for those who don't have them. in /etc/bacula/query: # 18 :List Volumes Bacula thinks should be removed from changer SELECT Storage.Name AS Location,Slot,VolumeName,VolStatus, VolBytes/(1024*1024*1024) AS GB,MediaId,Med

Re: [Bacula-users] Travan tape - very slow

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, John Drescher wrote: >> I did read that and yes I understand it says don't use 512 byte >> blocks, but that is the only way that I've managed to get it to work. > > Did you use a blank tape when you tested bacula for the first time? More importantly, was btape used? IIRC thi

Re: [Bacula-users] Travan tape - very slow

On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Peter Crighton wrote: > What are the best alternative type of drive (it's for a home office so > only requires a modest capability) Define "modest" With many home computers now holding up to 1Tb of local disk, that's an awful lot of DATs to be stuffing into the drive for on

Re: [Bacula-users] The number of files mismatch!

On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Ian Levesque wrote: >> We have been seeing this irregularly too, usually when there are >> multiple jobs writing to the same volume simultaneously. >> > I've seen this now and again, as well, in my 3-drive autochanger. I > haven't had the time to put together a proper bug rep

Re: [Bacula-users] Travan tape - very slow

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Peter Crighton wrote: I did read that and yes I understand it says don't use 512 byte blocks, but that is the only way that I've managed to get it to work. http://www.arkeia.com/archives_indexed/2003/08/msg00167.html makes comments about the extreme slowness of the

Re: [Bacula-users] checksums

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Michael Koppelman wrote: > Yes we could. It doesn't change the fact, in my opinion, that is it > wasteful to back up files that have not changed. They have changed - their mtime has altered. - Take Surv

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error - attempt to load empty slot in autochanger

On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > It appears to me that you have run into some sort of race condition where two > threads want to use the same Volume and they were both given access. > Normally that is no problem. However, one thread wanted the particular > Volume in drive 0, but it was

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error - attempt to load empty slot in autochanger

On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Alan Brown wrote: >> It appears to me that you have run into some sort of race condition where two >> threads want to use the same Volume and they were both given access. >> Normally that is no problem. However, one thread wanted the particular >> V

Re: [Bacula-users] Restorejob bigger than space on originalserver (no delete record) - possible workaround but...

> So in theory when creating a filelist we have just to restore the > filelist.txt from the last incremental set and make the full restore based > on this filelist with option "7: Enter a list of files to restore" and > enter " entries >1 and "useless long" with many entries >10 here. Doe

[Bacula-users] Spooling/unspooling tweaks?

Kern, Is there enough flexibility on the code to assign greater or lesser priority to spooling/despooling processes? With current readily available tape technology (LTO2) running at speads equal to most disk drives and newer technology (LTO3) running significantly faster than this, there is p

Re: [Bacula-users] Restorejob bigger than space on originalserver (no delete record) - possible workaround but...

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Georg Altmann wrote: > Um, I think Alan meant the thread "Incremental backup, not accurate?" > You can find it here: > http://gmane.org/ > > also currently project no. 3: > Yes. Note that projects 3 and 10 are quite closely related in

Re: [Bacula-users] Migrating to Bacula

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Georg Altmann wrote: > We use a LTO1 drive and only backup about 100 GB a week. The drive is in > service for over one year now and never needed to be cleaned so far. Our LTO drives have only ever required cleaning after an incident in the server room (builders being careless

Re: [Bacula-users] Off-topic: FAT32 disaster recovery

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Georg Altmann wrote: > Unfortunately nice people from Redmond can get in your way here. understatement > I > attached the FireWire disk to my desktop, booted Windows XP Now you know why you should NEVER use MS products and operating systems to recover corrupted MS file

Re: [Bacula-users] Migrating to Bacula

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Georg Altmann wrote: >> Our LTO drives have only ever required cleaning after an incident in the >> server room (builders being careless) raised a lot of dust which was >> sucked into the racks. > > builders in the server room? Doesn't sound good to me... ;-) They were in the

Re: [Bacula-users] Off-topic: FAT32 disaster recovery

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Robert Nelson wrote: > Yet more disinformation, Microsoft hasn't released a desktop OS in more than > 7 years that required FAT or even selected it as the default on new > installations. FAT32 is STILL the standard shipped filesystem on most laptops, prebuilt desktops and ext

Re: [Bacula-users] mount a resquested tape

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Jaime Ventura wrote: > So, my second question is, is there any way to say to bacula that the > tape is there and he may continue the backup? Update volume - set the slot and inchanger flags - Take Surve

Re: [Bacula-users] mount a resquested tape

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Jaime Ventura wrote: > Thank you for your reply. > Shouldn't the "update slots" do the same as the command you suggested? It will, assuming the drive is empty AND there is nothing actively attempting to using the drive (That's not a safe bet if there are lots of simulta

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with hardlinks to "schg" secured files on FreeBSD on restore

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> The solution proposed is to keep file flags in a list and set them after >> all files have been restored, so that all hardlinks can be created. Though >> it is probably enough to do this for hardlinked files. Looks like this >> would make the restore cod

[Bacula-users] 1.38.11 - possible bug in Rerun Failed Levels.

Can anyone else confirm this? Rerun Failed Levels = yes If an incremental job is scheduled to start before a full or differential job has completed (ie, still running): When the incremental job starts the previous (still running) job is detected as "failed" and the incremental is upgrad

Re: [Bacula-users] 1.38.11 - possible bug in Rerun Failed Levels.

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > On 12/13/2006 1:07 PM, Alan Brown wrote: >> Can anyone else confirm this? >> >> >> >> Rerun Failed Levels = yes >> >> If an incremental job is scheduled to start before a full or differen

Re: [Bacula-users] 1.38.11 - possible bug in Rerun Failed Levels.

On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Alan Brown wrote: > > Can anyone else confirm this? > > > > Rerun Failed Levels = yes > > If an incremental job is scheduled to start before a full or differential > job has completed (ie, still running): When the incremental job starts the >

Re: [Bacula-users] 1.38.11 - possible bug in Rerun Failed Levels.

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> Kern, any ideas? > > 1. Probably you modified the Fileset. All the jobs have "ignore fileset changes = yes" > 2. You could try running the following SQL where you fill in the missing > pieces: > SELECT Level FROM Job WHERE JobStatus!='T' AND Type='%c'

Re: [Bacula-users] 1.38.11 - possible bug in Rerun Failed Levels.

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Thursday 14 December 2006 17:59, Alan Brown wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> >>>> Kern, any ideas? >>> >>> 1. Probably you modified the Fileset. >> >> All the jobs have &quo

Re: [Bacula-users] 1.38.11 - possible bug in Rerun Failed Levels.

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> That isn't a good idea: >>A 1Tb full backup may take several days to run, in LTO2 spool/despool >>time alone. Incrementals tend to run daily... > > I just described how it is implemented. Something else I've spotted If max concurrent jobs i

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow positioning at the end of the tape?

On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Jose Molina wrote: > 14-Dec 23:02 rap-sd: Volume "Diario-02" previously written, moving to > end of data. > 14-Dec 23:46 rap-sd: Ready to append to end of Volume "Diario-02" at > file=48. This is wildly wrong with LTO of any type. > Are these numbers normal? No. The LTOs

Re: [Bacula-users] "Status storage" hangs without error

On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Jason Dixon wrote: > All > of the configuration files were moved intact, with the exception of > changing the director name and the scsi device. Ownerships/permissions of the device(s) ? > I am able to see the > changer and drives via dmesg, proc and mtx, but it simply times

Re: [Bacula-users] Catalogue recovery problem.

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Michel Meyers wrote: >> Yesterday night my back-up was terminated due to a power cut. Two out of > [...] >> without any visible problem. However, at the next scheduled back-up >> sequence bacula error flagged the last tape volume because it did not >> contain the number of f

Re: [Bacula-users] mount a resquested tape

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Jaime Ventura wrote: You say, about the "update slots" command , «assuming the drive is empty AND there is nothing actively attempting to using the drive ». The "update slots" command its not save because in order to bacula know which tape is in the slots, it needs to l

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> Is there any reason that it can't be on the tape and restored first up >> as part of the DR process? > > That would be having the cart before the horse. The snapshot of the hard disk > configuration is to be able to reconfigure a broken hard disk or con

Re: [Bacula-users] State of bare metal restore (more)

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Christopher DeMarco wrote: > So I downloaded the latest KNOPPIX, which includes a bacula-fd. It would appear that my previous mail has already been addressed.. :-) - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influe

Re: [Bacula-users] State of bare metal restore (more)

On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Christopher DeMarco wrote: > My position is still that staying out of the bootup process is best. > Let KNOPPIX, or MORPHIX or whateverix get me to a bash prompt and then > I'll handle getting bacula-fd running. KNOPPIX will boot the majority > of boxes out there, so I'll beg

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] What a difference a database makes

Regarding SQLite. When I set up Bacula initially it was pretty clear that SQLite was for TEST purposes. If that has not changed, then perhaps the speed problem should be left as-is and the documentation changed to note that SQLite is there for testing, not production systems? AB --

[Bacula-users] BETA question

Is there a summary of required configuration syntax changes between 1.38.11 and 1.39.34-1/1.40? The development manual is currently announcing itself as for bacula 2.0.0 AB - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future o

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog waiting to reserve a device

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Erich Prinz wrote: > > You might configure concurrent jobs as a solution. It won't help in this situation and the message tends to indicate concurrent jobs are setup. "waiting to reserve a device" means that all available tape drives are in use by jobs using other Pools. In

Re: [Bacula-users] Migration job question.

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Don MacArthur wrote: > I'm preparing to upgrade from 1.38.7. My current nightly process looks > like this: > 1. Backup to tape. > 2. Backup to file. > My question is, can I use a migration job to *copy* my backup jobs to > new volumes - as opposed to *moving* them? If so, ca

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog waiting to reserve a device

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Chris Rodgers wrote: > > Effectively the same thing. > > Do you mean that Bacula has opened a file with a particular name in that > directory ("mounted a tape") and is stuck writing to that one file??? Kind of The wedged jobs are effectively causing the same thine. >>> Ba

Re: [Bacula-users] BUG?: BackupCatalog waiting to reserve a device

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Chris Rodgers wrote: >> You need to add a RunBeforeJob which will exit with an error if >> ngorongoro is not online. Ther ewas some discussion on this in the past >> relating to laptops and there may already be a script for it somewhere. > > This sounds like a bacula bug to me.

Re: [Bacula-users] Fedora core RPMs

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Felix Schwarz wrote: > Chris Rodgers schrieb: >> In case anyone finds them useful, I built a set of RPMs of Bacula 2.0 >> for Fedora Core. They are available at http://rodgers.org.uk/ . I >> presume that "proper" RPMs will become available soon. > > RPMs for FC5 (i386, x86_64)

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup more than on client within a job

On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Jonathan Horne wrote: > getting back OT... can bacula run multiple clients simultaneously? Yes. > and, so far ive not read that it cant be done, but one of my clients is > a linux running on ppc... Bacula-fd (the client) compiled for linux-ppc (ubuntu) works fine here. -

Re: [Bacula-users] "resume" failed job

On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Silver Salonen wrote: > To me it sounds very.. um.. important. I've had similar situations, but with > 20-30 GB, so it hasn't been SO critical (only sufficiently as I do backups > via WAN). I've had it happen 700Gb into 1Tb backups. There's a few good reasons to keep backup s

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling of backup to disk

On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Arno Lehmann wrote: > In theory, a 600 GB tape with a 200 GB spool file would be filled in > three chunks. As the sizes never add up that well, and the actual tape > capacity is never that exact, you will find that it takes three or four > despooling turns which doesn't sound t

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