[Bacula-users] IBM TS3100 autochanger

2007-12-20 Thread Simon Gray
0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# IBMtapeutil -f /dev/IBMtape0n seek 1001 Setting tape position to block id 1001 (0x3e9) Querying tape position Current block 1001 (0x3e9) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# Has anyone got a TS

Re: [Bacula-users] IBM TS3100 autochanger

2007-12-20 Thread Simon Gray
I've realised that i'm an idiot, Ditches the ibm drives, restarted the library. All working now. Thank you Jason. Dec 20 17:12:07 backup lin_taped[3344]: lin_taped terminated. Dec 20 17:12:10 backup kernel: lin_tape 1.10.0 is unloaded. Dec 20 17:12:27 backup kernel: mptsas: ioc0: removing ss

[Bacula-users] Catalog backup separate from autochanger tapes?

2008-01-22 Thread Simon Gray
Hi guys, I have a TS3100 (LTO-4) up and running without any problems. I've configured Bacula to store its catalog in MySQL. Our backups are up to around 3TB and spanning multiple tapes, obviously the data is fairly useless without the catalog to retrieve it? I'm considering writing the catalog

Re: [Bacula-users] Catalog backup separate from autochanger tapes?

2008-01-22 Thread Simon Gray
Frank Sweetser wrote: > A little more work to get out, but no, lack of the catalog data does not make > the volumes useless at all. Even if you had some disaster which physically > destroyed everything but the backup volumes, you can still get your data back. > > The brute force method is to use b

Re: [Bacula-users] Ideal configuration for bacula server?

2008-01-24 Thread Simon Gray
John Drescher wrote: > We have around > 35 clients (windows and linux) and to this date we have run nearly > 9000 jobs in the 4.5 years that we have used bacula with currently > 15TB of data on tape and a 14GB catalog database. > > John > Hi, 14GB catalog db - out of interest how often do you p

Re: [Bacula-users] Bat under windows ?

2008-02-22 Thread Simon Gray
Bruno Friedmann wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm asking myself if there's a simple way ( I've no win32 compiler tools ) to > get bat running under windows ? > It's not really for production use, but for demo purpose. > > I've read that pgm made under qt4 could run under win32 ( even without the > trollte

Re: [Bacula-users] aximum size for LTO4

2008-10-13 Thread Simon Gray
Richerland Medeiros wrote: > Hi everyone ! > > How do I use the default compression hardware native of LTO4? > I have 1.4 TB of data and the tape is full when it comes to 900GB. LTO4 tapes are 800gb. If you're already getting 900gb out of a tape, you may find that you're already using compression