[Bacula-users] Unable to open device Tape-0 (/dev/IBMtape0): ERR=No medium found

2013-09-17 Thread deepak.pal
Dear Team, I have a installed and running setup of Bacula 5.2.12 with IBM LTO4 tape library. During my scheduled jobs I am getting bellow error very frequently. 17-Sep 14:15 backup-sd JobId 84: No slot defined in catalog (slot=0) for Volume WEB0018 on Tape-0 (/dev /IBMtape0). 17-Sep 14:15

Re: [Bacula-users] Unable to open device Tape-0 (/dev/IBMtape0): ERR=No medium found

2013-09-17 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Since you seem to have the same problem for quite some time, you seem to be in trouble, and since you work for a very big company, I recommend that you find professional help (which I have suggested previously), because you are probably trying to do something that is not supported or not

Re: [Bacula-users] Is anyone using 128K blocks with LTO-4 or LTO-5 drives?

2013-09-17 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, It is my opinion, based on information from a Quantum tape drive engineer and my own experiences with LTO-4 tapes that you can safely use 256K block sizes. The Quantum guy confirmed my belief that at larger block sizes you increase the risk of tape errors. Note: this was back in the days

Re: [Bacula-users] USB tape drives?

2013-09-17 Thread Guy
Yes I do this with vchanger... I treat each drive as a magazine.. and each tape in the magazine has a Max size.. As I started out with 500Gb drives each take is 20Gb and each magazine is set to have 10 tapes. So when I moved to 1Tb and 2Tb drives I simply added additional magazines to the

Re: [Bacula-users] USB tape drives?

2013-09-17 Thread Thomas Harold
On 9/16/2013 12:52 PM, Greg Woods wrote: On Sat, 2013-09-14 at 14:02 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: My question is whether there is any such thing as a USB tape drive that is known to work with Bacula. It's clear from the responses I got that I left out an important detail, since all the

Re: [Bacula-users] Is anyone using 128K blocks with LTO-4 or LTO-5 drives?

2013-09-17 Thread Andreas Koch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Kern, the problem is not so much the risk of errors, but that btape (and correspondingly, Bacula) fails even the simplest of readback tests with block sizes above 128KB. dd works perfectly well with multi-megabyte blocks, both reading and

Re: [Bacula-users] Is anyone using 128K blocks with LTO-4 or LTO-5 drives?

2013-09-17 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Andreas Koch k...@esa.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Kern, the problem is not so much the risk of errors, but that btape (and correspondingly, Bacula) fails even the simplest of readback tests with

Re: [Bacula-users] Is anyone using 128K blocks with LTO-4 or LTO-5 drives?

2013-09-17 Thread Andreas Koch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 btape: btape.c:1157 Wrote 1 blocks of 524188 bytes. btape: btape.c:609 Wrote 1 EOF to LTO-4 (/dev/nst0) btape: btape.c:1173 Wrote 1 blocks of 524188 bytes. btape: btape.c:609 Wrote 1 EOF to LTO-4 (/dev/nst0) btape: btape.c:1215 Rewind OK.

Re: [Bacula-users] Unable to open device Tape-0 (/dev/IBMtape0): ERR=No medium found

2013-09-17 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, 2013/9/17 Kern Sibbald k...@sibbald.com Hello, Since you seem to have the same problem for quite some time, you seem to be in trouble, and since you work for a very big company, I recommend that you find professional help (which I have suggested previously), because you are

Re: [Bacula-users] Is anyone using 128K blocks with LTO-4 or LTO-5 drives?

2013-09-17 Thread Martin Simmons
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:16:52 +0200, Andreas Koch said: btape: btape.c:1157 Wrote 1 blocks of 524188 bytes. btape: btape.c:609 Wrote 1 EOF to LTO-4 (/dev/nst0) btape: btape.c:1173 Wrote 1 blocks of 524188 bytes. btape: btape.c:609 Wrote 1 EOF to LTO-4 (/dev/nst0) btape:

Re: [Bacula-users] a simple question.

2013-09-17 Thread Mauro Sanna
On 16 September 2013 15:52, Radosław Korzeniewski rados...@korzeniewski.net wrote: Hello, 2013/9/16 Uwe Schuerkamp uwe.schuerk...@nionex.net On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 02:35:20PM +0200, Mauro Sanna wrote: snip snip I stopped bacula-fd and delete .state files on all clients. When I run

[Bacula-users] about separate pools for full/diff/incremental

2013-09-17 Thread Jeff MacDonald
I was reading one of Dan Langilles blogs where he mentions he has a separate pool for full/incremental/differential backup jobs. I was wondering the though behind this and why? Does it only apply to when using tapes or are there strategic benefits to doing it even when using files for backup

Re: [Bacula-users] about separate pools for full/diff/incremental

2013-09-17 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 09/17/13 13:57, Jeff MacDonald wrote: I was reading one of Dan Langilles blogs where he mentions he has a separate pool for full/incremental/differential backup jobs. I was wondering the though behind this and why? Does it only apply to when using tapes or are there strategic benefits

Re: [Bacula-users] a simple question.

2013-09-17 Thread Martin Simmons
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:43:02 +0200, Mauro Sanna said: I've configured a conuter resource, seems to work but the daemon send me this error: 17-Sep 12:26 bacula-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: sql_create.c:664 sql_create.c:664 insert INSERT INTO Counters

[Bacula-users] what does truncate actually mean?

2013-09-17 Thread Jeff MacDonald
I'm trying to find out what truncate actually means in the context of bacula and purging.. Does it reduce the volume size to 0, or? Jeff. -- LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! 1,500+

Re: [Bacula-users] Is anyone using 128K blocks with LTO-4 or LTO-5 drives?

2013-09-17 Thread Kern Sibbald
What version of Bacula (btape) are you using? There was a logic error in btape that stopped reading after a certain number of bytes, because the first versions never expected to have a different block size. It seems to me that I fixed that long ago though. Best regards, Kern On 09/17/2013

Re: [Bacula-users] a simple question.

2013-09-17 Thread Mauro Sanna
I'm using bacula for debian wheezy, it's 5.2.6. Then bacula debian maintainer has packaged a buggy version. -- LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! 1,500+ hours of tutorials including

Re: [Bacula-users] a simple question.

2013-09-17 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, 2013/9/17 Mauro Sanna mrsan...@gmail.com I've configured a conuter resource, seems to work but the daemon send me this error: 17-Sep 12:26 bacula-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: sql_create.c:664 sql_create.c:664 insert INSERT INTO Counters

Re: [Bacula-users] Is anyone using 128K blocks with LTO-4 or LTO-5 drives?

2013-09-17 Thread Andreas Koch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/17/2013 06:42 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote: What version of Bacula (btape) are you using? Version: 5.2.12 (12 September 2012) Best regards, Andreas PS: Will run Martin's requested tape tests tomorrow. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [Bacula-users] what does truncate actually mean?

2013-09-17 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, 2013/9/17 Jeff MacDonald j...@terida.com On 2013-09-17, at 4:43 PM, Radosław Korzeniewski rados...@korzeniewski.net wrote: Hello, 2013/9/17 Jeff MacDonald j...@terida.com I'm trying to find out what truncate actually means in the context of bacula and purging.. Does it reduce

Re: [Bacula-users] what does truncate actually mean?

2013-09-17 Thread Jeff MacDonald
On 2013-09-17, at 4:43 PM, Radosław Korzeniewski rados...@korzeniewski.net wrote: Hello, 2013/9/17 Jeff MacDonald j...@terida.com I'm trying to find out what truncate actually means in the context of bacula and purging.. Does it reduce the volume size to 0, or? Yes, it reduces a

Re: [Bacula-users] about separate pools for full/diff/incremental

2013-09-17 Thread Jeff MacDonald
On 2013-09-17, at 3:53 PM, Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net wrote: On 09/17/13 13:57, Jeff MacDonald wrote: I was reading one of Dan Langilles blogs where he mentions he has a separate pool for full/incremental/differential backup jobs. I was wondering the though behind this and why?

Re: [Bacula-users] what does truncate actually mean?

2013-09-17 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, 2013/9/17 Jeff MacDonald j...@terida.com I'm trying to find out what truncate actually means in the context of bacula and purging.. Does it reduce the volume size to 0, or? Yes, it reduces a volume size to a size of Bacula label. best regards -- Radosław Korzeniewski