Re: [Bacula-users] bacula hang waiting for storage

2008-12-04 Thread Ralf Gross
Julien Cigar schrieb: > ... > (sa0:isp0:0:5:0): REWIND. CDB: 1 0 0 0 0 0 > (sa0:isp0:0:5:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error > (sa0:isp0:0:5:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition > (sa0:isp0:0:5:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:52,0 > (sa0:isp0:0:5:0): Cartridge fault > (sa0:isp0:0:5:0): Retrying Command (per Sense D

Re: [Bacula-users] Volume size mismatch

2008-12-04 Thread Ralf Gross
S?bastien Delneste schrieb: > > I'm administrating an heterogeneous hosting platform and we have all > kinds of servers which we backup on 2 different storages using one > director. > > One storage is running great but the second one is giving me problems > when I try to re-use volumes (wh

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula hang waiting for storage

2008-12-04 Thread Ralf Gross
Julien Cigar schrieb: Are you sure you need these additional options? > Hardware End of Medium = no > Backward Space Record = no > Backward Space File= no > Fast Forward Space File = no > BSF at EOM = yes > Two EOF = yes I remember that there has been some discussion on the lis

Re: [Bacula-users] Can I enable compression in the schedule resource?

2008-12-04 Thread Ralf Gross
T. Horsnell schrieb: > >> I want to know if this is possible, I have 1 tape device where I > >>save my Full backups, my Differential backups goes to my hard disk, > >>when I run the Full backups, my compression is disable in order to use > >>my device HW compression, but my differential backups h

Re: [Bacula-users] Can I enable compression in the schedule resource?

2008-12-04 Thread Ralf Gross
pedro moreno schrieb: >Hi to all. > >I'm in the same behavior as Hermant, this is a small feature that > could help a lot of people like us. Normally >T. Horsnell everybody will enable HW compression over SW in a tape device. > >Ralf I will request again this, hope in the future t

Re: [Bacula-users] Volume size mismatch

2008-12-04 Thread Ralf Gross
S?bastien Delneste schrieb: > I notice something else : > The VolFiles is always 0 ... is this normal ? I guess not. Anything additional in the database logs? Ralf - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move De

Re: [Bacula-users] Why are my jobs upgraded to Full backup?

2008-12-05 Thread Ralf Gross
Kevin Keane schrieb: > I'm troubleshooting my backup strategy again. > > For some reason, today all my jobs ran a full backup instead of the > scheduled incremental. The messages say "Backup Level: Full (upgraded > from Incremental)". In this particular example below, the most recent > full bac

[Bacula-users] multi drive changer, limit concurrent jobs for each drive

2008-12-08 Thread Ralf Gross
Hi, I have a 3 drive autochanger (bacula 2.2.8). Right now I configure each job to use one of the 3 drives, not the changer device. Storage { Name = Neo4100 Address = SDPort = 9103 Password = "wiped" Device = Neo4100 Media Type = LTO4 Autochanger = yes Heartbeat Interval =

Re: [Bacula-users] multi drive changer, limit concurrent jobs for each drive

2008-12-09 Thread Ralf Gross
Hi, I hate to reply to my own mail, but does nobody have an idea about what I'm trying to do? ;) If not, I'll submit an feature request. Because I think it is more important to limit the number of concurent jobs on the drives, than on the changer. Ralf Gross schrieb: > > Hi,

Re: [Bacula-users] multi drive changer, limit concurrent jobs for each drive

2008-12-09 Thread Ralf Gross
Alex Chekholko schrieb: > Doesn't your config do exactly what you want? > > > > Storage { > > > Name = Neo4100 > > > Address = > > > SDPort = 9103 > > > Password = "wiped" > > > Device = Neo4100 > > > Media Type = LTO4 > > > Autochanger = yes > > > Heartbeat Interval = 5min >

Re: [Bacula-users] multi drive changer, limit concurrent jobs for each drive

2008-12-10 Thread Ralf Gross
Alex Chekholko schrieb: > On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 21:02:02 +0100 > Ralf Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > # grep Maximum /etc/bacula/bacula-*.conf > > > /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf: Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 3 > > > /etc/bacula/bacula-d

Re: [Bacula-users] multi drive changer, limit concurrent jobs for each drive

2008-12-12 Thread Ralf Gross
Alex Chekholko schrieb: > On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:22:55 +0100 > Ralf Gross wrote: > > > Alex Chekholko schrieb: > > > On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 21:02:02 +0100 > > > Ralf Gross wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > # grep Maximum /etc

[Bacula-users] feature request: "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" for drives when used with changer device

2008-12-12 Thread Ralf Gross
Item 1: "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" for drives when used with changer device Origin: Ralf Gross ralf-lists ralfgross.de Date: 2008-12-12 Status: Initial Request What: respect the "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" directive in the _drives_ Storage sectio

[Bacula-users] proper way to rename a client

2008-12-12 Thread Ralf Gross
Hi, what is the proper way to rename a client? Just changing the name in the config file does not work. I guess some sql is involved but I can't find anything about this in the docs or the wiki. I found this thread with an reply from Arno: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacul

Re: [Bacula-users] dbcheck takes enormous time

2008-12-16 Thread Ralf Gross
Tilman Schmidt schrieb: > ... > PS: This list could really use a better archive. Searching the SF mail > archive is no fun at all, it takes ages to respond, and the message > display is next to unreadable. gmane works fine for me http://news.gmane.org/search.php?match=bacula Ralf --

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-17 Thread Ralf Gross
Kevin Keane schrieb: > > ... > > Finally, mail allows me to keep the whole history of this list on my > > site (disk space is cheap, and Bacula can back up my mail storage). I > > see no way to easily access a larger forum locally. > > > I think you are making some rather large assumptions her

Re: [Bacula-users] Remote storage

2008-12-17 Thread Ralf Gross
Sergio Belkin schrieb: > 2008/12/17 Marc Schiffbauer : > > * Sergio Belkin schrieb am 17.12.08 um 13:53 Uhr: > >> How Can I define a remote storage in bacula-sd.conf ? namely a tape > >> device that is in another host that bacula director. > > > > I think you ned to run the bacula-sd on that remot

Re: [Bacula-users] Mixing tape and file backup same host

2008-12-19 Thread Ralf Gross
GATOUILLAT Pierre-Damien schrieb: > I made two pools and my schedule is : > > Schedule { > Name = "NightlySave" > Run = Level=Full Pool=Weekly 1st-5th sat at 01:05 > Run = Level=Incremental Pool=DailyFile tue-fri at 00:05 > } > This looks good and should work. > But in

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula sometimes gets stuck when volume wanted is already in a different drive

2008-12-23 Thread Ralf Gross
Bob Hetzel schrieb: > > I'm running v 2.4.3 of bacula on OpenSuse 10.2 with a two tape-drive > autoloader and I've been having this problem every few days for a > while > now: bacula wants a tape that's already loaded but in a different > drive > and it's not able to just unload the tape and mo

Re: [Bacula-users] Same tape - more than one pool

2008-12-30 Thread Ralf Gross
Sergio Belkin schrieb: > > Can be a tape is in more than a pool? I don't think it's possible. How should different volume retention times or other pool options be handled? Ralf -- ___

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula is not recycling/pruning/purging automatically

2009-01-06 Thread Ralf Gross
Jonathan Larsen schrieb: > > I am having an issue with my pools not recycling correctly. Right now i have > jobs that were last written going back as far as 2008-09-07 that have yet to > purge and go into recycling automatically. Below is one of my Pools and > it's configuration. All my pools a

Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: Re: LTO3 performance

2009-01-07 Thread Ralf Gross
Ferdinando Pasqualetti schrieb: > I think you should use /dev/random, not /dev/zero unless hardware > compression is disabled in order to have more realistic figures. This wouldn't be a good idea, /dev/random or /dev/urandom are just too slow in generating random data. To test the nativ speed of

Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: Re: LTO3 performance

2009-01-07 Thread Ralf Gross
T. Horsnell schrieb: > Ralf Gross wrote: > > Ferdinando Pasqualetti schrieb: > >> I think you should use /dev/random, not /dev/zero unless hardware > >> compression is disabled in order to have more realistic figures. > > > > This wouldn't be a good id

Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: Re: LTO3 performance

2009-01-07 Thread Ralf Gross
Craig White schrieb: > On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 17:57 +0100, Ralf Gross wrote: > > T. Horsnell schrieb: > > > Ralf Gross wrote: > > > > Ferdinando Pasqualetti schrieb: > > > >> I think you should use /dev/random, not /dev/zero unless hardware > >

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2009-01-07 Thread Ralf Gross
Sergio Belkin schrieb: > The output test was: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nst0 bs=1M count=1000 > 1000+0 records in > 1000+0 records out > 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 7.80926 seconds, 134 MB/s This looks ok. > Below is output of tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0 > > Product Type: Disk Drive But sg0

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-dir 2..4.3 scheduling

2009-01-09 Thread Ralf Gross
Ferdinando Pasqualetti schrieb: > > about one month ago I asked the list if someone else was experiencing some > scheduled jobs not executed, without any error message using bacula-mysql > 2.4.3-1. I did not get any feedback, so, on the release of bacula 2.4.4 I > upgraded to it. The problem p

Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: Re: Bacula-dir 2..4.3 scheduling

2009-01-09 Thread Ralf Gross
Ferdinando Pasqualetti schrieb: > > > > Have you searched the messages logfile for anything related to these > > jobs? > Thanks for iour interest, > In the /var/bacula/log file there is no record in this period of time, > only an empty line: > > 08-gen 18:47 bacula-dir JobId 31282: Begin pruning

Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: Re: Rif: Re: Bacula-dir 2..4.3 scheduling

2009-01-09 Thread Ralf Gross
Ferdinando Pasqualetti schrieb: > > Hm, but from the list jobs output of you first mail there have been some > > more jobs running between 18:47 and 22:20. > > > > > > | 31,282 | hserv2t-job | 2009-01-08 18:05:57 | B| F | > 296,650|33,888,670,611 | T | > > | 31,283 | dom

Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: Re: LTO3 performance

2009-01-09 Thread Ralf Gross
Sergio Belkin schrieb: > Job Report: > > 08-Jan 16:40 DirectorandStorageServerThatHasDat72-dir-dir JobId 1975: > Bacula DirectorandStorageServerThatHasDat72-dir-dir 2.4.2 (26Jul08): > 08-Jan-2009 16:40:04 > Build OS: i686-redhat-linux-gnu redhat > JobId: 1975 >

Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude of file not working.

2009-01-15 Thread Ralf Gross
Erik P. Olsen schrieb: > I have set up an exclude for File = /home/erik/.gvfs but it is nevertheless > not > excluded. Is it a bug or can't hidden directories be excluded? I keep getting > following warnings: > > 14-Jan 23:38 epohost-fd JobId 1081: Could not stat /home/erik/.gvfs: > ERR=Perm

[Bacula-users] tape error and bacula: ...block numbers differ

2009-02-04 Thread Ralf Gross
Hi, I have a problem with a new lto-4 tape. Only 411 GB were written on it, then bacula detected an write error. JobId 9250: Error: block.c:568 Write error at 411:14724 on device "ULTRIUM-TD4-D2" (/dev/ULTRIUM-TD4-D2). ERR=Eingabe-/Ausgabefehler. JobId 9250: Error: Re-read of last

Re: [Bacula-users] tape error and bacula: ...block numbers differ

2009-02-04 Thread Ralf Gross
Ralf Gross schrieb: > Hi, > > I have a problem with a new lto-4 tape. Only 411 GB were written on it, then > bacula detected an write error. > > JobId 9250: Error: block.c:568 Write error at 411:14724 on device > "ULTRIUM-TD4-D2" > (/dev/ULTRIUM-TD

Re: [Bacula-users] tape error and bacula: ...block numbers differ

2009-02-05 Thread Ralf Gross
Hello, > The problem described in the email below is probably an important data loss > problem due (most likely) to an I/O error, but more importantly due to a > misconfigured tape drive. From the information I see below, it appears to me > that you have lost significant data. This is probabl

Re: [Bacula-users] tape error and bacula: ...block numbers differ

2009-02-05 Thread Ralf Gross
Kern Sibbald schrieb: > On Thursday 05 February 2009 12:48:18 Ralf Gross wrote: > > Hello, > > > > > The problem described in the email below is probably an important data > > > loss problem due (most likely) to an I/O error, but more importantly due > > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Incomplete backup

2009-02-06 Thread Ralf Gross
Victor Sterpu schrieb: > Backing up a mail server I realized that the backup is incomplete. > I use bacula 2.4.4. > Bacula-fd runs as root. > My FileSet is like this: > FileSet { > Name = "mail" > Include { > Options { > signature = MD5 > compression = GZIP >

Re: [Bacula-users] tape error and bacula: ...block numbers differ

2009-02-07 Thread Ralf Gross
Kern Sibbald schrieb: > > The problem described in the email below is probably an important data loss > problem due (most likely) to an I/O error, but more importantly due to a > misconfigured tape drive. From the information I see below, it appears to me > that you have lost significant data.

Re: [Bacula-users] tape error and bacula: ...block numbers differ

2009-02-07 Thread Ralf Gross
Kern Sibbald schrieb: > On Saturday 07 February 2009 11:33:58 Ralf Gross wrote: > > Kern Sibbald schrieb: > > > The problem described in the email below is probably an important data > > > loss problem due (most likely) to an I/O error, but more importantly due > >

[Bacula-users] volume use duration exceeded right after being recyled?

2009-02-11 Thread Ralf Gross
Hi, I purged some volumes of a failed backup and manually changed the state to recycle. Now I see this in the bacula log: 11-Feb 08:19 VU0EA003-sd JobId 9460: Recycled volume "A00045L4" on device "ULTRIUM-TD4-D2" (/dev/ULTRIUM-TD4-D2), all previous data lost. 11-Feb 08:19 VUMEM004-dir JobId 946

Re: [Bacula-users] Verify Job: Warning: The following files are in the Catalog but not on the Volume(s):

2009-11-13 Thread Ralf Gross
Martin Simmons schrieb: > >>>>> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:56:33 +0100, Ralf Gross said: > > > > Martin Simmons schrieb: > > > >>>>> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:54:26 +0100, Ralf Gross said: > > > > > > > > Martin Simmo

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental and full backups of the same host to different disks

2009-11-25 Thread Ralf Gross
Moby schrieb: > It is my understanding that one must use the same job name for full and > incremental backups, otherwise Bacula is not able to perform an > incremental backup. > I have a need to send full backups of machines to one disk and > incremental backups to another disk. If I have to use t

[Bacula-users] RFC: backing up hundreds of TB

2009-11-27 Thread Ralf Gross
[crosspost to -users and -devel list] Hi, we are happily using bacula since a few years and already backing up some dozens of TB (large video files) to tape. In the next 2-3 years the amount of data will be growing to 300+ TB. We are looking for some very pricy solutions for the primary storage

Re: [Bacula-users] RFC: backing up hundreds of TB

2009-11-28 Thread Ralf Gross
Kevin Keane schrieb: > Just a thought... If I understand you correctly, the files never > change once they are created? In that case, your best bet might be > to use a copy-based scheme for backup. Yes, the files won't change. They are mostly raw camera data. They will be read again, but not chan

Re: [Bacula-users] RFC: backing up hundreds of TB

2009-11-28 Thread Ralf Gross
Alan Brown schrieb: > On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Ralf Gross wrote: > > > Most files will be written once and maybe never been accessed again. But > > the data need to be online and there is a requirement for backup and the > > ability to restore deleted files (retention time

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] RFC: backing up hundreds of TB

2009-11-28 Thread Ralf Gross
Arno Lehmann schrieb: > 27.11.2009 13:23, Ralf Gross wrote: > > [crosspost to -users and -devel list] > > > > Hi, > > > > we are happily using bacula since a few years and already backing up > > some dozens of TB (large video files) to tape. > > >

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] RFC: backing up hundreds of TB

2009-11-30 Thread Ralf Gross
Kern Sibbald schrieb: > > [...] > > Anyone else here with the same problem? Anyone (maybe Kern or Eric) > > here that can tell if one of the upcoming new bacula features (dedup?) > > could help to solve the problem with the massive amount of tapes > > needed and the growing time windows and bandwid

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal append error on device - Command error with FD

2009-12-08 Thread Ralf Gross
thebuzz schrieb: > > Im having a big problem with an Windows 2000 old ASP server that I try to > backup via Bacula > > FD on Windows server is 3.0.2 and server is 3.0.2 > > I get an 3Gb backup every time - but when I do an bconsole command > list files jobid=17 > it shows > > *list files job

Re: [Bacula-users] Newbie question about volumes and label command

2009-12-19 Thread Ralf Gross
Tom Epperly schrieb: > I don't understand why bacula seems to automatically create volumes for > some pools, but forces me to use the "label" command for others. I've > tried increasing the "Maximum Volumes" setting, but it doesn't seem to > help. Have set 'LabelMedia = yes' in the Device co

Re: [Bacula-users] Newbie question about volumes and label command

2009-12-19 Thread Ralf Gross
Tom Epperly schrieb: > Ralf Gross wrote: >> Tom Epperly schrieb: >> >>> I don't understand why bacula seems to automatically create volumes >>> for some pools, but forces me to use the "label" command for others. >>> I've

Re: [Bacula-users] Purge Jobs

2009-12-21 Thread Ralf Gross
Gabriel - IP Guys schrieb: > > I want to purge all failed jobs from bacula, before I synchronised my > disk which I keep the backups on. > > If I purge a job, will that job just be removed from the index, or will > the data actually be removed from the volumes? > [...] the job will just be remov

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with concurrent jobs on same Device resource

2009-12-21 Thread Ralf Gross
Martin Reissner schrieb: > Hello, > > once again I have a problem with running concurrent jobs on my bacula > setup. I'm using Version: 3.0.3 (18 October 2009) on DIR and SD and all > data goes to a single SD where multiple Device Resources are configured > (RAID-6 Harddisk Storage). Running concu

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup/Delete/Restore & subsequent backups

2010-01-04 Thread Ralf Gross
Steve Costaras schrieb: > > I've been diving into Bacula the past 2-3 weeks to come up with a backup > system here for some small server count but very large data store sizes > (30+TiB per server). > > In the coarse of my testing I have noticed something and want to know if > it's by design (

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity lower than expected

2010-01-06 Thread Ralf Gross
Tino Schwarze schrieb: > On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 04:55:51PM -0500, John Drescher wrote: > > > >> I'm not seeing anywhere close to 60M/s ( < 30 ).  I think I just fixed > > >> that.  I increased the block size to 1M, and that seemed to really > > >> increase the throughput, in the test I just did.

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity lower than expected

2010-01-06 Thread Ralf Gross
Thomas Mueller schrieb: > > >> > I tried to do that years ago but I believe this made all tapes that > >> > were already written to unreadable (and I now have 80) so I gave this > >> > up. With my 5+ year old dual processor Opteron 248 server I get > >> > 25MB/s to 45MB/s despools (which measures

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity lower than expected

2010-01-07 Thread Ralf Gross
Thomas Mueller schrieb: > > >> > With > >> > > >> > Maximum File Size = 5G > >> > Maximum Block Size = 262144 > >> > Maximum Network Buffer Size = 262144 > >> > > >> > I get up to 150M MB/s while despooling to LTO-4 drives. Maximum File > >> > Size gave me some extra MB/s, I think it's as import

Re: [Bacula-users] Client Rejects Hello Command

2010-01-11 Thread Ralf Gross
jk04 schrieb: > > Debian Server: bacula-server-2.4.4-1 > Fedora Client: bacula-client-3.0.3-5 > > When I check the client's status from the server the following message > is displayed: > > Fatal error: File daemon at "192.168.0.55:9102" rejected Hello command > > I believe this is because the

Re: [Bacula-users] archive support?

2010-01-11 Thread Ralf Gross
Thomas Wakefield schrieb: > Take a directory, dump it to tape, and it will live forever (roughly > 5-10 years) on tape. And the copy on disk will be deleted. But if > needed, we could pull the copy back from tape. We could possibly > write 2 copies to tape for redundancy. > > I already use bacu

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Can 2.x clients talk to a 3.0.3 server?

2010-01-14 Thread Ralf Gross
Uwe Schuerkamp schrieb: > Hi folks, > > I just set up the first 3.0.3 bacula server (compiled from source on > CentOS 5.4) in our environment and was wondering wether 2.x clients > cann still talk to a 3.x server version? I cannot test this right now > without going through major changes because t

Re: [Bacula-users] How to avoid backing up restored files?

2010-01-14 Thread Ralf Gross
Steve Costaras schrieb: > > > Some history: > > On 01/14/2010 16:24, Dan Langille wrote: > > Steve Costaras wrote: > >> On 01/14/2010 15:59, Dan Langille wrote: > >>> Steve Costaras wrote: > I see the mtimeonly flag in the fileset options but there are many > caveats about using it as

Re: [Bacula-users] Different Retention Periods for same Client

2010-01-20 Thread Ralf Gross
CoolAtt NNA schrieb: > > Hi All... > > I want to backup a client with 2 different filesets each with different file > retention period. > please help me how do i proceed. > > I have the following in bacula-dir.conf : > > Client { > Name = mypc > Address = 10.0.0.45 > FDPort = 9102 > Ca

Re: [Bacula-users] ClientTroubleShootHelp

2010-01-31 Thread Ralf Gross
Tommy schrieb: > New to bacula > > Ubuntu9.10 (Karmic..) > bacula 2.4.4 > mysql > > Director runs on machine dell.xxx.xxx as dell-dir > dell-fd and dell-sd test backups run fine > Client (5.0.x) runs on thinky.xxx.xxx as thinky-fd You can't use 5.0 bacula-fd with < 5.0 bacula-dir. Ralf -

[Bacula-users] Fatal error: fd_cmds.c:177 FD command not found: <8F>~<8D>

2010-02-10 Thread Ralf Gross
Hi, bacula 3.0.3 SD+ DIR, 2.4.4 FD, Debian Lenny, psql 8.4 The backup job 19429 was running for nearly two days and then failed while changing the LTO3 tape. The job failed two times now. No messages in syslog. The message "ERR=Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden" means "ERR=file or directory

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error: fd_cmds.c:177 FD command not found: <8F>~<8D>

2010-02-10 Thread Ralf Gross
follow up Cacti shows that swap started growing this morning and reached it's maximum when the job failed... Ralf Gross schrieb: > Hi, > > bacula 3.0.3 SD+ DIR, 2.4.4 FD, Debian Lenny, psql 8.4 > > The backup job 19429 was running for nearly two days and then failed

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error: fd_cmds.c:177 FD command not found: <8F>~<8D>

2010-02-11 Thread Ralf Gross
Ralf Gross schrieb: > follow up > > Cacti shows that swap started growing this morning and reached it's > maximum when the job failed... Restarted the job yesterday evening. Now after 24h the SD seems to eat up memory again. Tasks: 172 total, 1 running, 171 sleeping,

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error: fd_cmds.c:177 FD command not found: <8F>~<8D>

2010-02-11 Thread Ralf Gross
Ralf Gross schrieb: > Ralf Gross schrieb: > > follow up > > > > Cacti shows that swap started growing this morning and reached it's > > maximum when the job failed... > > Restarted the job yesterday evening. Now after 24h the SD seems to eat up > me

Re: [Bacula-users] Re store OK but no files are restored

2010-02-12 Thread Ralf Gross
Glynd schrieb: > > I am running Bacula 3.0.2 on Ubuntu server Apache2 MySQL > > The backups seem to be working OK so I thought I had better test a restore! > This also seemed to run OK, but there were no files restored. I tried > different "where" locations but still no joy. > The log snip below

Re: [Bacula-users] Re store OK but no files are restored

2010-02-12 Thread Ralf Gross
Glynd schrieb: > > The "where" argument I left at default /bacula-restores and that is where I > looked. Can you post all the options you choose for the restore (cut & paste)? Ralf -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Cente

Re: [Bacula-users] Re store OK but no files are restored

2010-02-12 Thread Ralf Gross
glynd schrieb: > 1 file selected to be restored. > > Run Restore job > JobName: RestoreFiles > Bootstrap: /var/lib/bacula/bin/working/mistral-dir.restore.9.bsr > Where: /bacula-restores > Replace: always > FileSet: Sugar Set > Backup Client: glyn-laptop-fd

Re: [Bacula-users] Re store OK but no files are restored

2010-02-12 Thread Ralf Gross
Glynd schrieb: > > Here is the ls -l on the ubuntu server where the bacula dir runs > > r...@mistral:/home/cirrus/mailarchiva_dist# ls -l /bacula-restores/ > total 0 > > There is also the same directory on the Windows 7 glyn-laptop. and when I > look in there the directory structure is there, bu

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent spooling and despooling

2010-02-17 Thread Ralf Gross
Arno Lehmann schrieb: > > A better way in my opinion is to used a spool sized ring buffer in > > memory rather then a disk based spool. The consumer would only start > > after the producer had put a large set amount in it and continued until > > drained the buffer. > > Sure... those approaches

Re: [Bacula-users] list volumes comes blank

2010-02-23 Thread Ralf Gross
Bostjan Müller schrieb: > > I have been testing our storage system and after the tests I deleted the > databases and created them anew. After the new startup the Pools came out > blank - there are no volumes in them. I ran the label barcodes command and > it found all the tapes, but it did not add

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't restore a file. Might have an issue with my mysql DB.

2010-02-23 Thread Ralf Gross
Arno Lehmann schrieb: > Hello, > > 23.02.2010 14:05, jch2os wrote: > > So I'm trying to restore a file. Here is what I'm doing. > ... > > You are now entering file selection mode where you add (mark) and > > remove (unmark) files to be restored. No files are initially added, unless > > you used t

[Bacula-users] what strategy for backing up files only once?

2010-02-26 Thread Ralf Gross
Howdy! I'm still thinking if it would be possible to use bacula for backing up xxx TB of data, instead of a more expensive solution with LAN-less backups and snapshots. Problem is the time window and bandwith. If there would be something like a incremental forever feature in bacula the problem c

Re: [Bacula-users] what strategy for backing up files only once?

2010-03-01 Thread Ralf Gross
Gavin McCullagh schrieb: > Hi, > > On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Ralf Gross wrote: > > > I'm still thinking if it would be possible to use bacula for backing > > up xxx TB of data, instead of a more expensive solution with LAN-less > > backups and snapshots. >

Re: [Bacula-users] verify old volume checksums

2010-03-16 Thread Ralf Gross
Brock Palen schrieb: > Is there a way to verify a volumes internal checksums against its data? > > Even better is there a way to have the catalog compare its checksums > against the files in volumes? I know about the verify job but that > appears to be only for the most recent job run. I wo

Re: [Bacula-users] How to Backup a bacula director with another bacula

2010-04-13 Thread Ralf Gross
Bellucci Srl3 Bellucci Srl schrieb: > "13-Apr 12:19 bckam101-dir JobId 46775: Fatal error: Unable to authenticate > with File daemon at "bckam102:9102". Possible causes: Passwords or names not > the same or > > Maximum Concurrent Jobs exceeded on the FD or FD networking messed up > (restart dae

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems getting restore to work

2010-04-13 Thread Ralf Gross
Jerry Lowry schrieb: > Martin, I am trying to restore the files to the file system on the > bacula server. The client 'swift-fd' definitely does NOT have room on > the disk to restore all the pdfs. That is why my restore is configured > with -> "where= /backup0/bacula-restores". > > No, >

Re: [Bacula-users] heartbeat problems

2010-04-21 Thread Ralf Gross
Spencer Marshall schrieb: > > Has anyone else experienced problems with "Packet size too big" in > 5.0.1?  I was running a Level=VolumeToCatalog at the time.  I found > bug an old bug http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1061 which > appeared to have the same problems.  I removed the "Heartbeat > In

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-21 Thread Ralf Gross
Phil Stracchino schrieb: > > The /usr slice is about 4.8G, and shouldn't be changing-- at least > > not at the tune of 51M every night. > > > "Shouldn't" is a powerful word. You might want to test the theory by > doing something like this: > > find /usr /opt/bacula/bin -mtime -1 -ls > > to lis

Re: [Bacula-users] Ubuntu Lucid

2010-04-27 Thread Ralf Gross
Uwe Schuerkamp schrieb: > Hi folks, > > looks like lucid comes with bacula v5 which seemingly is unable to > talk to our server running bacula 2.4.x: > > bacula-fd -c /etc/bacula/bacula-fd.conf -d 99 -f > bacula-fd: filed_conf.c:452-0 Inserting director res: lotus-mon > lotus-fd: filed.c:275-0

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-4 Drive issues

2010-05-22 Thread Ralf Gross
skipunk schrieb: > > Hoping someone could help me out. My department recently purchased > a Dell PowerVault TL2000 autochanger connected via SAS5. > > We are upgrading from a spectralogic AIT4 system. > > The sad part is the LTO-4 drive is running much slower than the AIT > system. I'm avg aro

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-4 Drive issues

2010-05-24 Thread Ralf Gross
skipunk schrieb: > > I am aware that more nic's do not increase throughput. Basically a > backup server has to be in place tonight and I really don't want to > start from scratch and now reaching for anything that will resolve > the issue within the next few hours. 1. test the lto drive with tar/

Re: [Bacula-users] low despooling speeds when parallelism is increased

2010-06-02 Thread Ralf Gross
Athanasios Douitsis schrieb: > > Hi everyone, > > Our setup consists of a Dell 2950 server (PERC6i) w/ FreeBSD7 and two HP > Ultrium LTO4 drives installed in a twin Quantum autochanger enclosure. > Our bacula version is 5.0.0 (which is the current FreeBSD port version). > > Here is our problem

Re: [Bacula-users] low despooling speeds when parallelism is increased

2010-06-02 Thread Ralf Gross
Athanasios Douitsis schrieb: > Tuning it down to 3+3 (from the original 6+6) seems to alleviate but not > solve the problem completely. I totaly agree with your suggestion, from > this point onwards it seems to be a case of finding a spooling setup > with enough I/O oomph. > > One question howeve

Re: [Bacula-users] Using HP Storageworks 1/8 G2 with Bacula

2010-06-13 Thread Ralf Gross
Daniel Bareiro schrieb: > ... > Now that I see, this has nothing to do with the tape drive: > > - > backup:~# smartctl -i /dev/sda > smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce > Allen > Home page is h

Re: [Bacula-users] Using HP Storageworks 1/8 G2 with Bacula

2010-06-14 Thread Ralf Gross
Alan Brown schrieb: > On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > > > This card uses the module 'cciss' which has been loaded by the kernel: > > AFAIK cciss only supports disks. Hm, no it should work with tapes. http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt - quote - SCSI sequent

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole command to display jobs on volume

2010-07-28 Thread Ralf Gross
Lamp Zy schrieb: > > I'm using bacula-5.0.2. > > Is there a way in bconsole to see which jobs used a particular tape? > > I can run "list jobmedia", save the output to a file and then grep for > the media name but it's a lot of steps and it shows only the jobid. bconsole -> query 13: List Job

[Bacula-users] bacula 5.0.3 backport for debian lenny?

2010-09-14 Thread Ralf Gross
Hi, I'm still using bacula 3.0.3 on debian lenny (amd64). In the next weeks I wanted to move on to 5.0.x. But due to the freeze of the next debian stable release there will be no 5.0.3 in debian for some time. 5.0.3 seems to have a lot of importent bug fixes, so I'd like to skip 5.0.2 which is ava

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.0.3 backport for debian lenny?

2010-09-14 Thread Ralf Gross
Rory Campbell-Lange schrieb: > On 14/09/10, Ralf Gross (ralf-li...@ralfgross.de) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm still using bacula 3.0.3 on debian lenny (amd64). In the next > > weeks I wanted to move on to 5.0.x. But due to the freeze of the next > > debian st

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.0.3 backport for debian lenny?

2010-09-14 Thread Ralf Gross
Sven Hartge schrieb: > On 14.09.2010 18:02, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > On 14/09/10, Ralf Gross (ralf-li...@ralfgross.de) wrote: > > >> Thanks, I know this version from backports, and if there is no other > >> deb available, I'll give it a try. > >&

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.0.3 backport for debian lenny?

2010-09-17 Thread Ralf Gross
Thomas Mueller schrieb: > Am Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:41:04 +0200 schrieb Ralf Gross: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm still using bacula 3.0.3 on debian lenny (amd64). In the next weeks > > I wanted to move on to 5.0.x. But due to the freeze of the next debian > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Rescue

2010-09-17 Thread Ralf Gross
Heitor Faria schrieb: > > For several months, I cant compile Bacula Disaster recovery cd-rom on > Debian 5. > The make command, return several dependencies and missed paths (e.g. > networking). > Does anyone knows what is happening? I'm not sure if the Rescue CD is still supported / maintained

[Bacula-users] 5.0.3 psql indexes after upgrade

2010-10-04 Thread Ralf Gross
Hi, I just updated from 3.0.3 to 5.0.3. I know that there have been problems with the update_postgresql_tables script. Here are my indexes: bacula=# select * from pg_indexes where tablename='file'; schemaname | tablename | indexname| tablespace | indexdef

Re: [Bacula-users] 5.0.3 psql indexes after upgrade

2010-10-04 Thread Ralf Gross
Rory Campbell-Lange schrieb: > On 04/10/10, Ralf Gross (ralf-li...@ralfgross.de) wrote: > > All of the indexes are below; you seem to have the correct ones for the file > table. > > The Debian problems with 5.0.3 were/are related to the upgrade trying to > create > an i

Re: [Bacula-users] 5.0.3 psql indexes after upgrade

2010-10-04 Thread Ralf Gross
John Drescher schrieb: > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Ralf Gross wrote: > > Rory Campbell-Lange schrieb: > >> On 04/10/10, Ralf Gross (ralf-li...@ralfgross.de) wrote: > >> > >> All of the indexes are below; you seem to have the correct ones for the &

[Bacula-users] Accurate Backups

2010-10-04 Thread Ralf Gross
Hi, after updateing to 5.0.3 it checked the state of some accurate backups. I'm not sure if I fully understand why bacula is backing up some files. I'm interested in the job VUMEM008-psql-dumps. Terminated Jobs: JobId LevelFiles Bytes Status FinishedName

[Bacula-users] Error: Could not get Job Volume Parameters to update Bootstrap file. ERR=sql_get.c:433 No volumes found for JobId=xxxx

2010-10-05 Thread Ralf Gross
Hi, it seems that I messed something up during the upgrade from 3.0.3 to 5.0.3 (Debian Lenny, AMD64, psql 8.4). There is one job that repeatedly ends with error. ERR=sql_get.c:433 No volumes found for JobId= I'm not sure what the real problem is. Volume vumem008-inc-0663 is there and was wr

Re: [Bacula-users] Error: Could not get Job Volume Parameters to update Bootstrap file. ERR=sql_get.c:433 No volumes found for JobId=xxxx

2010-10-05 Thread Ralf Gross
Ralf Gross schrieb: > > it seems that I messed something up during the upgrade from 3.0.3 to > 5.0.3 (Debian Lenny, AMD64, psql 8.4). > > There is one job that repeatedly ends with error. > > ERR=sql_get.c:433 No volumes found for JobId= I purged the 2 volume,

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate Backups

2010-10-05 Thread Ralf Gross
Ralf Gross schrieb: > Hi, > > after updateing to 5.0.3 it checked the state of some accurate backups. I'm > not > sure if I fully understand why bacula is backing up some files. > > I'm interested in the job VUMEM008-psql-dumps. > > > Terminated J

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate Backups

2010-10-05 Thread Ralf Gross
Martin Simmons schrieb: > >>>>> On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:13:59 +0200, Ralf Gross said: > > > > All the information about the job tells me that 3 files and a directory were > > backed up. But the size of the backup (4,478,194,813 bytes) does not fit > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Error: Could not get Job Volume Parameters to update Bootstrap file. ERR=sql_get.c:433 No volumes found for JobId=xxxx

2010-10-05 Thread Ralf Gross
Ralf Gross schrieb: > > job with the checksum errors: > > > > 05-Okt 04:05 VUMEM004-sd JobId 26039: Volume "vumem008-inc-0655" previously > > written, moving to end of data. > > 05-Okt 04:05 VUMEM004-sd JobId 26039: Ready to append to end of Volume > &

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