[Bacula-users] "Sending spooled attrs to the Director" taking over 13 hours

2018-11-23 Thread byron
I've started in a new job and am having a problem with bacula where the " Sending spooled attrs to the Director" stage is taking over 13 hours at which point i canceled the job as I didn't understand what was going on. Bacula is version 7.0.5 running on debian 7. The client is a xen host with 12

[Bacula-users] bacula "Cannot find any appendable volumes" but list volumes shows otherwise

2019-02-06 Thread byron
Hi I write my backups to LTO 7 tape. I have 3 sets of tapes which i rotate every month. I run one full backup at the start of the month and then incrementals for the rest of the month. I've been running these jobs for a few months now and have never seen this problem. This month the full backu

[Bacula-users] Is it possible to tell bacula to not run a job for the next week?

2019-03-01 Thread byron
I have 10 jobs that run every night and write to the same pool of tapes. Tonight is the night they run their monthly full backups but I am short on tapes. I'd like to put a hold on running some of the lower priority jobs to allow the others to run all the way through to completion. Then next wee

Re: [Bacula-users] Is it possible to tell bacula to not run a job for the next week?

2019-03-01 Thread byron
Thanks a million guys - it looks like I may actually get out of the office at a reasonable time after all On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 4:19 PM Wanderlei Huttel wrote: > Hello Byron. > > You can use the command > disable job=job-name > > Enviado de Motorola Moto Z2 Play > >

[Bacula-users] Unable to mount a volume using bscan

2020-09-02 Thread byron
I need to run bscan to read in a LT05 tape. I'm able to mount the tape using bconsole but when I run the bscan command it asks me to mount the volume on the device when it already is mounted. Unfortunately I've never installed and configured bacula so I dont really know where to start with this.

Re: [Bacula-users] Unable to mount a volume using bscan

2020-09-02 Thread byron
I worked it out. I needed to stop bacula and then mount the tape using the bacula mtx-changer script. Also bacula needed to be stopped as well before running bscan itself. On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 1:28 PM byron wrote: > I need to run bscan to read in a LT05 tape. I'm able to mount

[Bacula-users] How to change which drive is used by default

2020-11-19 Thread byron
I'm running version 9.0.6 on debian stretch I have a tape library with two drives configured as follows in bacula-sd.conf. I run 10 jobs every night and they always all run on Drive-1. I'm now having a problem with that Drive and would like to force all jobs to run on Drive-2. What's the easies