On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, John Drescher wrote:
> I believe if you want to use both drives at the same time you have to
> use more than one pool because the second job will want to use the
> tape that is in the first drive and because it can't unload the tape
> from the first drive it will wait till the
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> My advice to other users, remains the same: If a Job fails, the File records
> will most likely not have been inserted
Or in other words, if spooling data+attributes is enabled, resuming a
failed job is almost guaranteed to result in an unrestorable back
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hmmm I don't know anything about the internal structure of bacula, or much
> about databases, but it seems to me that this is a serious weakness. Would it
> be
> possible for baclula to function more like a journaling filesystems in terms
> of
>
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Felix Schwarz wrote:
>
> Just a short note that my Fedora/CentOS RPMs are released, too. The
> updatedb RPM is a noarch package (which is only not labeled as such due
> to technical restrictions of rpm). You can use one of the updatedb
> packages released by Scott.
One of t
I see there was some discussion on the -dev list about this a year ago.
Did it go any further?
AB
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On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Dan Langille wrote:
>> when I want restore files, the building directory tree is very slowly
>> (several minutes) for job, wich have for example 1,372,029 JobFiles.
>>
>> Do you have some tip for quicklier restore(quicklier building directory
>> tree).
>
> Searching the mailing
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Ondrej PLANKA wrote:
> I searched, but I think, my indexes are OK, or not?
>
> mysql> show index from File;
> | Table | Non_unique | Key_name | Seq_in_index | Column_name | Collation
> | Cardinality | Sub_part | Packed | Null | Index_type | Comment |
> +---++---
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Ondrej PLANKA wrote:
>> It sounds silly, but add individual indexes for JobId, PathId and FilnameId
>> as well as the 3-way one.
>>
> Ok, do you have some tip, how can I add individual indexes? Because I think,
> my indexes are OK or not?
ALTER TABLE File ADD INDEX [name] {
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Joshua Colson wrote:
> Is it possible to configure a backup Job to write to any available
> storage device?
Similarly, a pool of clients which have access to the same filesets.
(I've brought this one up before, but a pool is the bext way of describing
it - think clustered fi
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Maxim Cerny wrote:
> When I try
> $ dvd-handler /dev/cdrom prepare
> it tells me no problem
Did you try this while running as user Bacula?
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How can I say to bacula to create new volume (media type is File) for
> each job?
Bacula manual (approx page 352)
Chapter 23,
section 23.1.1 - Pool options to Limit the Volume Usage
UseVolumeOnce = yes
Make sure you read at least as far as t
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Maria McKinley wrote:
> I know that when I mentioned this before, there were suggestions on how
> to do this using the sql database (if I remember correctly), but it
> would be nice if this were just part of the bacula interface.
You can write any custom SQL query you want an
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Jaime Ventura wrote:
> Is there any way to migrate without purge the file catalog records
> (making it a pure copy job)?
Bcopy would do it, otherwise some sql hackery is currently required.
As well as being a minor modification of the existing "migration" tool,
your reque
How about simply "Bacula-Gui" ?
The days of arcane filenames are (hopefully) long past...
"VanHelsing" did spring to mind - A tool to tame Bacula :)
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On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Mantas M. wrote:
> Most of the time it works ok, but atleast once a week I come to work,
> and find that backups on that machine have failed, since the fd isn't
> running.
Has anything else stopped running?
> Anyone has any idea what might be the problem?
This might sound t
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>> Kidding aside, how about Batula?
>
> Not bad at all. In any case, if we chose bat and someone serves us with a
> Cease and Desist order we could always fall back to batula.
Please see my earlier comment about arcane excutable names.
Batula is good. Ba
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Peter Buschman wrote:
>
>> Batula is good. Bat isn't - and is unusable on MS-based systems in any
>> case.
>
> I'll bite. Why is bat unusable on MS systems?
Because BAT is a MSDOS reserved word, along with COM, LPR, CON, etc
Those reserved words have been grandfathered int
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> Yes, but what *I* would like is a tree like thing that shows me what files I
> have included on any particular system.
So would I - the Legato Networker (Aka Solstice backup) interface would be
a good starting point in terms of ease of operation.
> I c
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, David Romerstein wrote:
> Yesterday was my first opportunity to get to the colo facility in which these
> devices sit, and I tried another tape swap - first, unmounted the tape in the
> drive, ejected it, inserted a new tape, labelled it 'xRaid1_3' (following the
> naming conv
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I noticed an error in the $BACULA/bin/query.sql query #3, which is supposed to
> list the last 20 full backups for a client.
I'd noticed this too, but hadn't gotten round to trying to fix it.
Your fix works for me, but shows up a lack of Job.Name
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> => Your fix works for me, but shows up a lack of Job.Name in the output.
>
> Hmmm... I'm not sure about the benefit to having the Job.Name...
Some of my multi-Tb SAN-attached clients may run anywhere up to 40 jobs.
> => - SELECT DISTINCT Job.JobId,C
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> Given that this doesn't seem to be creating enormous problems
I had noticed it, but hadn't been looking closely enough to file a
detailed report.
Kern, can you please revisit the definition of "failed" job upgrading?
With large filesets there is a dist
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Arno Lehmann wrote:
>> I am new to this list as of this week. What exactly is issue number one
>> that you listed? The "Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files".
>> Is there a problem where Bacula restores? Could you please give me some
>> details? Thanks!
>
> I sugg
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Item 1: the numerical priority of restore jobs should be dynamically set to
> make them happen sooner
Comment: I would like to see this happen too, however there would need to
be an "exclusive" setting as well, or else the Bacula database ba
Now that "update slots" doesn't pull tapes out of the drives, it's an
ideal candidate for automation...
Here's what I have defined. Does anyone have a better way of running this?
Job {
Name = "UpdateSlots"
Type = Admin
JobDefs = "DefaultJob"
Level = Full
FileSet="None"
Schedul
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, cy tune wrote:
> It's about $8 per disk for a Verbatim double sided DVD-RAM disk (9.4
> GB) in a cartridge. Going the tape route would cost far, far more
> wouldn't it?
It's about $30 for a 200Gb (native) LTO2 tape.
Tapes are well-tested for longevity (EXCEPT DATS!)
My exp
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Dan Langille wrote:
>
> As someone else pointed out, it's a shame the standard method for
> getting more information about an application involves putting the
> application name second. Otherwise, everyone would be typing:
>
> bat man
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>> I'm sorry, I just replied to the fact, that there is just double linked
>> list (dlist) implemented in Bacula. I met this problem, when I tried to
>> restore a backup with over 300 milions files on a server with some
>> special purposes, where there
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Davide Bolcioni wrote:
> Should the need to introduce incompatible changes in the protocol arise, which
> I guess would be Bacula 3.0, maybe a different set of default ports could be
> considered ? HP networked printers are fairly common.
HP should be prevailed upon to fix it
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Brad Peterson wrote:
> Aaah, I've finally figured it out. The very common Linksys WRT54G v5
> router IS dropping inactive sockets after exactly 10 minutes.
Set heartbeat intervals to 1 minute.
Problem solved (and is why this directive is there)
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On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> I personally I would ask for a refund on the router since it apparently
> doesn't understand keepalive and doesn't follow standard TCP/IP standards so
> does not function properly.
Fat chance of that. Linksys are notorious for lack of response to consume
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Arno Lehmann wrote:
> After reloading it, the tape was positioned at the beginning, where
> Bacula requires its tape label.
>
> Bacula knw it could append, so it simply started writing - it did not
> position the tape to the correct position.
I remember asking over a year ago
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Adam Compton wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having a strange issue with some files always being backed up
> during incremental runs, even if they have not changed since the last
> incremental backup. In particular, I have a working directory of custom
> installer packages for some of
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, Erich Prinz wrote:
> I have two FD which are set to MaxJobs = 1... this forces the second
> FD to wait in line until the first one completes.
It will also cause "status client = [N]" to wedge if there's a backup in
progress on that client (along with any attempts to use
bacu
Version: 1.39.34-1 + 2.0.1 spooling patch(privately supplied by Kern)
Mysql 4.1.20 (but I don't think this matters overly)
It looks like there's a database race somewhere, as I'm seeing stuff like
this every 2-3 days when a bunch of concurrent and simultaneously
scheduled jobs are running:
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, David Romerstein wrote:
> That, in essence, is why I first installed bacula - to backup roughly 2TB
> of data just once (my file count is *significantly* higher than yours,
> though - on the order of 200 million files across 10s of thousands of
> directories).
For what it's wo
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Aaron Knister wrote:
> How does bacula handle the relationship between full jobs and
> incrementals? In terms of volume retention, does it realize that even
> though a tape's recycle flag is set, and it is configured to be
> autopruned that a full backup contained on that tape
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Joshua Kugler wrote:
And yet more info (long, with lots of job reports).
This error actually happened with *two* different tapes, and in both cases,
when they errored, they had the same "last volume bytes" value.
Have you tried running btape to see what it says?
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On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Michael Reith wrote:
07-Oct 03:52 archie-sd: Job Trance_Firewall_Backup.2005-10-01_01.05.10
waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes.
Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for:
Storage: FileStorage
Media type: File
Pool: Default
Ok,
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
I have done this in the past with OmniBack. If I had a two tape backup, the
backup would write to both tapes sequentially, rather than waiting for a tape
change. Hope this is correct and clears things up.
As in "Instead of using a changer" ?
AB
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Oliver Koch wrote:
I have a problem with incremental backups. During an incremental backup
many files a backuped again although they haven't been changed since the
last full backup. Most of the backuped files are located under /home
which is mounted with the following mount
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Luke Dean wrote:
Admittedly the whole server could crash any minute now, and it's likely
waiting until I send this email just to spite me, but right now I'm thinking
that something changed between 1.36.2 and 1.36.3 that keeps me from being
able to run more than one job at
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Arno Lehmann wrote:
but right now I'm thinking that something changed between 1.36.2 and 1.36.3
that keeps me from being able to run more than one job at a time now, or my
hardware just can't handle it.
Hmm. Well, I know of people who used these versions with multiple job
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Phil Stracchino wrote:
it occurs randomly, sometimes after 10go, sometimes at the end, ...
I think it's going to require more information to isolate it. Have you
used the drive with other software and verified that it works properly?
While you're looking at the hardware
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Ed Clarke wrote:
How, exactly do these labels relate to the bacula label?
They have to match.
I just ordered some labels from a guy (again on eBay) because they were
surplus and cheap ( $14 including shipping versus $75+ for HP labels
from a store ).
A Brother labelle
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Lyle Vogtmann wrote:
I was thinking of limiting the number of concurrent jobs. The project
manager really wants to have them all done simultaneously, not 100%
sure on the reasoning, but it is listed as a requirement. If it has a
large negative impact on performance, I'm su
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Anwar Ahmad wrote:
Interestingly, I've relabeled a 40/80 tape that was originally in the pool
that backed up from pool1 (the one with the problem) and put it into pool2
(working normally) and it works correctly. I thought about the physical tape
drive causing the problem b
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Paul Heinlein wrote:
The danger is that a system crash can easily result in a wholly corrupted
database. In fact, the SQLite developers have removed this functionality from
version 3, calling it "dangerous." Make sure you read the documentation to
understand the dangers:
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Richard Ryder wrote:
I recently tried to initiate a restore for someone who couldn't recall
the exact name of the files and directories they were interested in
restoring.
I had thisd happen not long ago.
The file server in question has a 2TB file system of which about 1T
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Tracy R Reed wrote:
New datapoint: I am now backing up to my recently acquired USB2 hard
drive using file storage and the backup speeds are very slow just like
with DVD. So it can't be disk bandwidth or DVD issues. Still have 95%
idle cpu time during backup.
What happens i
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Tracy R Reed wrote:
We've found here that USB2 is quite slow for filestorage on linux systems
but I haven't had time to investigate why.
You mean like if I just cp -a my homedir to the USB disk? That is
exactly what I did when I first plugged in the USB disk. It's blazing
f
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Rob Burris wrote:
Has the bacula-fd file been ported to sparc sunOS, particularly 5.9? I didn't
find anything in the software user's list archive.
It compiled fine for me on Solaris 8 and 9
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On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Paul Heinlein wrote:
I haven't used Solaris 10, so pardon me for guessing somewhat.
Assuming that /lib/cpp is the Solaris (not GNU) cpp, I think you have
two choices:
It could be either. Solaris 10 comes with full GNU kit as an optional
install.
Sun's own compilers are
On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Gilberto Nunes Ferreira wrote:
I understand what you said, but I ask for my company to by more tape and
the
answer is "NO WAY, MAKE A MIRACLE :-)" ...
Talk to your accountant about legal liabilities for lost data, along with
cost of recovery.
Tape is cheap, recoveri
Kern,
not in the list, but wanted by me (and several other people):
Daily summarisation of jobs run.
I have management grumbling loudly about receiving perhaps 80 messages
from Bacula per day when all they want to see is "xyz jobs run, xy
sucessful, z failed on whatever reason"
Was someone
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
I would like to argue with this one slightly. Most of the backups I do are
for disaster recovery (ie. fire, monumental screwup, disk failure, etc.).
Ditto
I don't need generations of data because our policy is that we don't
keep things for data-re
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
Why not two? I never write over my most recent backup. I suppose you are
accounting for the situation where one tape fails, and one backup fails?
Correct. It happens more often than people think.
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On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Daniel Holtkamp wrote:
Ran into this about 2 weeks ago ... your MySQL is possibly usind MyISAM as
the database storage engine. Change it to InnoDB and you should be fine ...
MyISAM can be resized
MyISAM has a storage limit of 4 GB per database file i think.
By default..
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Ribi Roland wrote:
I disabled compression on my solaris boxes! It was very slow with
gzip-compression.
In most cases you don't need it - the hardware compression of the average
tape drive is good enough for most purposes.
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On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Ove Risberg wrote:
If I migrate a job from tape with compression to diskstorage I might
want software compression to save space.
Or some form of compressing filesystem?
Does such a beast exist for *nixen?
AB
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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
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
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Florian Schnabel wrote:
since out Tandberg DLT VS 80 just died over the weekend and this is 3rd tape
DRIVE that failed in my company in 5 years ...
i could use suggestions for hardware to use ... preferably no more tapes ^^
We drive our DLTs hard and they die regularly.
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Michael 'buk' Scherer wrote:
I got my speed back! :)
When I moved Bacula onto the new server-box I changed the cable as well, cause
the new server was a bit far away from the tapelibrary. Cable length was ~2m.
Should be ok, though.
Not if it's single ended and faster than
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Barry L. Bond wrote:
Hey, Kern, Arno and Josh!
I GOT IT -- I GOT IT -- I GOT IT! :-)
This is also the behaviour you'll see if you set a filesystem Volume
label.
And, the SimpleTech drive. It is another USB device. I want to have
a directory in /media called
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Lance Brown wrote:
*nod* I've received reports from two other folks running bacula on
Ultrium-TD3 drives with no issues. I don't think it's bacula-version
related because both dd and tar also suffer the same blocking problem on
the last read() system call. I've swapped o
This may sound a bit strange for anyone not running redundantly connected
FO SAN systems.
Given SAN topology changes (new hardware. hardware removed, or connection
paths changed), the scsi generic device for the library robot has changed
around 6 times in the last 8 reboots
I've hacked u
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Josh Fisher wrote:
Most of the USB drives come with a FAT partition (until MS says otherwise),
Only until you reformat them
I have several flash stores with ext3 or even Reiserfs filesystems on
them (mainly "because I can")
Of course they aren't readable in standar
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Florian Schnabel wrote:
3. Automatically cleaning of the tape drive. (after x used tapes, x GB or
maybe every saturday)
I think this can be scripted and scheduled with an admin job, but we think
this should be a function of bacula.
no.
new tape drives aks for cleaning t
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Using volumes from more than one pool in one autochanger is not supported
with 1.36, and you will probably run into problems sooner or later.
That's not quite right, I have 4 pools loaded in my autochanger and have
had for several years.
The problem
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote:
The workaround for pool contention is to disable multiple simultaneous
backups, which unfortunately defeats the purpose of having multiple
drives, but is better than having backups aborting.
A better "workaround" is to upgrade to 1.38.4 or 1.38.5, where
Kern,
Bscan 1.36.* only allows 255 characters as the entire argument, which is
awkward when resychronising a large number of tapes.
Is this changed in 1.38/1.39 (and is there any chance of teaching bscan to
use the changer?)
AB
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Arno Lehmann wrote:
I'm really starting to think I have a bad tape on my hands, since btape
with a different tape succeeds in all respects.
I hadn't realised this was the case. Only one tape failing is very
indicative of it being faulty.
Good for you - replacing one ta
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I will install a SAN Fibre Channel and a library HP6030 with 30 slots
for backups,
I see in the documentation this library (HP6030) is supported with bacula,
but I like connect directly
the library in the SAN (HP MSA1000).
This configuratio
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Michael 'buk' Scherer wrote:
I suggest getting a faster box, cause prune/pruge is all about SQL
Statements. DELETE FROM File where JobId='1234';
Did you have a JobID index?
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On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Daniel Amkreutz wrote:
Hello all,
a month ago i've posted some questions concerning autochangers and archive
pools, but never got any hint nor i found any answers to this in the list
archives or the handbook. Now, because time is slipping away i'm about to
cancel any furthe
I throw this up in the air for people to criticise or tell me it's not
possible or suggest improvements.
It really won't affect the vast majority of Bacula users, but for those of
us backing up Terabytes or who need to keep backups for several years, it
should provoke some discussion.
==
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, William Reid wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We have this same issue related to promise controllers on our backup server,
However we haven't migrated to Bacula yet, we're still using the freeware
version of Arkeia.
We're using P3 - Acer Motherboards
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Sh*t. Probably too late now, but taking the job status mails and extracting
some sort of volume use logs which contain at least the information which
job, on which volume, was written to which tape and print that might be
interesting... but of course ev
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
AFAICT, it is not a Promise controller. Below are the relevant lines
from the boot log.
NFORCE2-U400R: IDE controller at PCI slot :00:09.0
NFORCE2-U400R: chipset revision 163
There have been threads in the kernel lists about Nforce DMA err
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
So, I have switched to spooling, on the advice I've seen written recently...
sounds like the way to go, especially if you only have one tape drive. I
expected a speed increase too, as the drive would be used more efficiently.
What I did not expect i
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Daniel Holtkamp wrote:
Hi !
Roger Kvam wrote:
My MySQL database is 6.8G, while the File.MYD is 4.0G
You ran into a mysql-limit there. The File Table apparently uses MyISAM as
storage engine and the max-limit there is 4 GB.
Only by default. It _can_ be increased and thi
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, [ISO-8859-15] Jens Böttge wrote:
Background: many of our users have temporary or unimportant datas in their
directory, it not "worth" to be backed up to tape. The decision over this is
with the user.
I've achieved this for the moment by agreeing with the users that files
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Beren Gamble wrote:
I'm wondering if I should bin the first two servers and put everything
on the one with the autochanger.
I would.
I'd have to change the backup type to Incremental. Is restoring from
incremental backups easy with Bacula?
Yes.
Also, my database would
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Alex Finch wrote:
"When (bacula fd is) running it seems to use all the memory, making doing
almost anything impossible."
How much memory, what OS, etc ?
AB
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On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Frank Altpeter wrote:
I'm about to remove two machines from my bacula configuration because
they have been shut down. Because the last time i had to remove a
machine, it seemed to went a big wrong, i think i should ask for the
best way to do it.
So: What's the best (most cl
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
Bacula will do this. Check you don't have "Maximum Volume Jobs = 1" in
I do. This is because I'm trying to enforce a specific threshold of a
single-tape-per-day policy.
Wrong directive.
Try "Volume Use Duration = 23 hours"
in the pool definiti
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Dan Langille wrote:
On 17 Feb 2006 at 10:39, Lee, Raymond wrote:
Another small bug in this script...line 29 should be split into 2 lines:
PGPASSWORD=$3
export PGPASSWORD
why do you think it needs to be split?
Bourne Shell (the original version) can't d
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Dan Langille wrote:
IMHO, spooling only really makes sense if your incoming data cannot
keep up with the tape drive.
...or if you are making multiple simultaneous backups...
AB
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On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote:
That's fine if you're only scanning one tape (although it takes nearly 3
hours to read a LTO2 tape) but it doesn't scal;e for resync jobs.
Both of the above two items can be easily fixed by using a bootstrap file.
There are examples of how to constr
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote:
It is sort of a model of modern communications magic -- a 45 meter ether net
cable plugged into an apparatus that plugs into the wall sending the TCP/IP
packets over the electrical wiring (235 Volts) then somewhere else in the
house there is a master appa
s too.
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Alan Brown wrote:
On Mon, 20 Feb
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Harry Putnam wrote:
I'm noticing a lengthy pause in an rsnapshot setup when the
directories being shuffled are over 3gb or so. Rsnapshot makes a copy
of the last backup to a new name then runs rsync against the original.
Making that copy can take awhile. And more so as it
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Alan Brown wrote:
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Harry Putnam wrote:
I'm noticing a lengthy pause in an rsnapshot setup when the
directories being shuffled are over 3gb or so. Rsnapshot makes a copy
of the last backup to a new name then runs rsync against the original.
Making
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Harry Putnam wrote:
Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Yikes! Double your disk space, just like that.
No, it doens't do what you think it does. Try this test:
http://www.rsnapshot.org/howto/1.2/rsnapshot-HOWTO.en.html
"...rsnapshot is a filesyste
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Dan Langille wrote:
Here's an interesting situation. DLT media is upwards compatible.
So is DAT. I'm sure it applies to other media as well.
I'll use DLT as an example. You have a DLT 7000 drive and a DLT 4000
drive. You have two media types: DLT70 and DLT40.
You can p
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Arno Lehmann wrote:
A DLT70 tape can only go into the DLT 7000 drive.
How can you specify that media type DLT40 can go into either drive?
David Boyes is trying to talk Kern into ;-) implementing configuration
settings that allow for a list of media types and different li
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Ian Levesque wrote:
I've noticed a pattern in my backups when two jobs are simultaneously writing
to the same tape. When the tape ends, Bacula doesn't respond gracefully. This
is only a problem when two jobs are running on the tape, not when a single
job is running.
Are
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Dan Langille wrote:
I'm guessing: create two Storage resources, with different Media
Types, but both refer to the same device.
I thought about this some time ago and the only real conclusion I came to
was that it was easiest to only use higher capacity drives.
Did you fi
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Ian Levesque wrote:
I've noticed a pattern in my backups when two jobs are simultaneously
writing to the same tape. When the tape ends, Bacula doesn't respond
gracefully. This is only a problem when two jobs are running on the tape,
not when a single job is running.
Are
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