Re: [Bacula-users] mysql bacula tables
Hello, On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, victoria wrote: for a moment i'm writing simple script, which makes for me summary report about last backup process. I want select records directly from database. So i just got a few questions. I want to know where in a database i can find following records: - Rate - Files count (what is the difference between SD and FD files count?) - Bytes Other needed records i found. Or maybe someone can point me to the documentation, where i can find description for each table? Take a look at the script examples/report.pl. I think it will give you some ideas. /Jonas --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Type -- Can one skip differentials?
Hi Mark,
Normally different levels are specified in the Schedule with something
like the
Schedule {
Name = WeeklyCycle
Run = Full Pool=slain_full_weekly Fri at 12:00
Run = Incremental Sat-Thu
}
If this doesn't help, We'll need more information than you've provided
I'm afraid.
Including the Schedule definition and actual Job definition as a
minimum. JobDefs is a definition of Job Defaults, you need to show us
the Job section of your director config file.
Cheers,
Troy.
Mark Clarke wrote:
Hi all,
I am trying to setup a job schedule that does a full weekly backup and
then an incremental backup daily for 7 days. I have a job defined as
JobDefs {
Name = Job
Type = Backup
Level = Incremental
Client = slain-fd
FileSet = Full Set
Schedule = WeeklyCycle
Storage = Deadlock_Disk2
Messages = Standard
Pool = default
Full Backup Pool = slain_full_weekly
Differential Backup Pool = slain_incremental_daily
Priority = 10
}
The job runs the full ok but never runs the incremental job. Instead it
default to the default pool and starts doing differential backups. Why
is this? Am I missing something?
thanks
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Re: [Bacula-users] column file.markedid does not exist error
On Monday 10 April 2006 21:33, Joe Park wrote: bacula ver: 1.38.6 OS: FreeBSD 6.0 DB: postgresql 8.1.3 Changer/Tapedrive: Dell PowerVault 122T Hello, I have this error messeges repeated in system log file -- Apr 9 03:40:47 localhost postgres[18833]: [1-1] ERROR: column file.markedid does not exist Apr 9 06:38:20 localhost postgres[20267]: [1-1] ERROR: column file.markedid does not exist Apr 9 10:04:23 localhost postgres[21200]: [1-1] ERROR: column file.markedid does not exist The error coincides with bacula verify job end time. I see that bacula db has file.mark column, but not file.markedid column. Any help is appreciated. This is a bug (typo in SQL). I have just fixed it. Thanks for reporting it. The fix will be in 1.38.8 -- Best regards, Kern ( /\ V_V --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Backup Type -- Can one skip differentials?
Hi all,
I am trying to setup a job schedule that does a full weekly backup and
then an incremental backup daily for 7 days. I have a job defined as
JobDefs {
Name = Job
Type = Backup
Level = Incremental
Client = slain-fd
FileSet = Full Set
Schedule = WeeklyCycle
Storage = Deadlock_Disk2
Messages = Standard
Pool = default
Full Backup Pool = slain_full_weekly
Differential Backup Pool = slain_incremental_daily
Priority = 10
}
The job runs the full ok but never runs the incremental job. Instead it
default to the default pool and starts doing differential backups. Why
is this? Am I missing something?
thanks
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Re: [Bacula-users] mysql bacula tables
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 07:53, victoria wrote: Hello, for a moment i'm writing simple script, which makes for me summary report about last backup process. I want select records directly from database. So i just got a few questions. I want to know where in a database i can find following records: - Rate - Files count (what is the difference between SD and FD files count?) - Bytes Other needed records i found. Or maybe someone can point me to the documentation, where i can find description for each table? Thank You in advice. I suspect that in the long run you will save yourself a lot of time if you would look at installing bacula-web. Though it may not give you all the information you want because not everything is in the DB, it does give nice looking management level reports in a Web browser. Many users such as myself running on Fedora Core 4 have zero problems installing it. Other users on some releases have had difficulties getting all the components installed, but IMO, it just requires a careful reading of the bacula-web manual (very small ...). Victoria --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Best regards, Kern ( /\ V_V --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] mysql bacula tables
Yes, thanks. I got installed it before, but it didn't give features, which i need most of all. So we decided make own web tool, but it's another story. :) Thanks anyway. v. On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 09:37 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 07:53, victoria wrote: Hello, for a moment i'm writing simple script, which makes for me summary report about last backup process. I want select records directly from database. So i just got a few questions. I want to know where in a database i can find following records: - Rate - Files count (what is the difference between SD and FD files count?) - Bytes Other needed records i found. Or maybe someone can point me to the documentation, where i can find description for each table? Thank You in advice. I suspect that in the long run you will save yourself a lot of time if you would look at installing bacula-web. Though it may not give you all the information you want because not everything is in the DB, it does give nice looking management level reports in a Web browser. Many users such as myself running on Fedora Core 4 have zero problems installing it. Other users on some releases have had difficulties getting all the components installed, but IMO, it just requires a careful reading of the bacula-web manual (very small ...). Victoria --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-devel] Re: [Bacula-users] Surprise bug + Scratch pool algorithm
Hello, This Scratch pool algorithm problem has turned out to be quite interesting. As it turns out, the guys that asked for the change in the algorithm were correct and the guys that are complaining about the change in the algorithm are correct, and best of all I think I have a solution that will satisfy everyone. Without going into a huge number of details, I'll simply say that the original algorithm was broken because it never looked for a Scratch volume in the autochanger. By the time it looked for a scratch volume, it was willing to accept any volume (a sort of last resort panic to find anything ...). So, now everyone *should* be satisfied. The recycling code will be exercised first as it should, and only if there is not an available volume in the autochanger will Bacula look to see if there is a Scratch volume in the autochanger. This allows Bacula to add new Volumes when really needed without immediately consuming all the Scratch volumes in the changer. -- Best regards, Kern ( /\ V_V --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Adding Capacity to Backup Server
Hello again , Andreas Wilm wrote: Dimitri Puzin wrote: Danie schrieb: Hi All , Hello, [...] FC3 , running in a RAID 5 setup ( 4 x 300GB) , no LVM My question , if I want to add another disk to the array , will I need to reconfigure my whole logical disk? I've tried to google it etc , but I've come to know this list as the best resource for my backup woes :) IMO this has nothing to do with Bacula software itself but with underlying disk subsystem. Whether you can add a disk or not depends on the capability of your RAID controller. If you have software RAID solution running there, then there is currently no way to enlarge the array. It needs to be rebuilt from scratch completely. However, Linux Kernel v2.6.17-rc1 together with latest mdadm tools has support for growing software RAID-5 volumes. This schould be considered beta quality! If you attempt doing it, make sure you have a backup ;). Please share your results as I am also interested in this function. Regards, -Dimitri aka Tristan-777 Hi Danie, if you´re using a software RAID 5, there´s a tool for resizing a raid 5 called raidreconf, located at http://unthought.net/raidreconf. But I must say I didn´t ever tried it , so make a backup ;-) before resizing the RAID5. It seems I'll have to rethink my strategy , as RAID 5 only configures itself with regards to the smallest HDD in the RAID set , so me wanting to add a 500GB disk to a 4x300GB RAID set is going to be pointless :( . Sorry I forgot to mention I am running hardware RAID controller (Intel) , so I will probably have to add the disk to the Array through the Intel RAID console , not sure how the resizing will affect the Linux logical drive ? Currently I have my FC3 setup as follows : FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 51G 47G 1.1G 98% / none 0 0 0 - /proc none 0 0 0 - /sys none 0 0 0 - /dev/pts usbfs0 0 0 - /proc/bus/usb /dev/sda5 769G 721G 10G 99% /arch /dev/sda1 2.0G 46M 1.9G 3% /boot none 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm none 0 0 0 - /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc I've been considering just setting up a secondary server (with the sd) , looking at the SS4000-E from Intel. Thanks for the input , will investigate further and share my findings. Greetings Andreas --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=kkid0944bid$1720dat1642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid0944bid$1720dat1642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Device flags
It looks like it is trying to read off the end of the tape and getting an I/O error. Possibly setting TWOEOF = yes may solve the problem. On Tuesday 11 April 2006 10:55, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Hello, I upgraded and read your latests manual. So now, I'm playing with the device flags to check for some configuration that may work. Whil doing btape/test , I could see this output (I never saw it because it was scrolling very fast) : This is an *essential* feature ... btape: btape.c:795 Wrote 1000 blocks of 64412 bytes. btape: btape.c:469 Wrote 1 EOF to DAT72 (/dev/rmt/1) btape: btape.c:811 Wrote 1000 blocks of 64412 bytes. btape: btape.c:469 Wrote 1 EOF to DAT72 (/dev/rmt/1) btape: btape.c:820 Rewind OK. 1000 blocks re-read correctly. Got EOF on tape. 11-Apr 10:44 btape: btape Error: block.c:945 Read error at file:blk 1:0 on device DAT72 (/dev/rmt/1). ERR=I/O error. and then it scrolls all the way down with the Got EOF on tape. Have any idea? Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY http://www.sonicle.com --- --- Da: Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: Gabriele Bulfon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: bacula-users bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Data: 10 aprile 2006 18.56.25 CEST Oggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] restoring On Monday 10 April 2006 18:33, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: ...I'm worrying about it because the list of Got EOF on tape. never ends, until I kill the btape/test; should I wait longer? Sorry, my error. I did not read what you wrote carefully enough. If you are getting that during a restore, there is no problem and my previous comments apply. Since you are getting that during the btape test command as you are, then yes, it indicates that your Device specification in the bacula-sd.conf file does not match your OS and tape drive. You must correct this condition before Bacula will work correctly. The btape tests must run to completion correctly there are some got EOF messages but only 5-10. Perhaps if you send your bacula-sd.conf file to the list, someone can help you debug the problems. It would also be a good idea to send a copy of the output of btape test (of course, truncating any big number of got EOF messages). By the way, Bacula 1.36.2 is quite old and no longer officially supported ... And I'm worrying because in the pdf document, you state that if you get this output, it's probably because of the variable / fixed-size block setting, and that I should fix it. I'm worrying because I cannot run a single ./bls -c ../etc/bacula-sd.conf -j -v -V THURSDAY2 QUANTUM on any tape (old or recent), because it will fail to show me but the first job. And finally I'm worrying because I cannot run a single ./bextract . on jobs that ar not the first one. It seems like command line tools can work only on a short amount of data that stays at the beginning of the tape. ...I'm really worried...please help Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY http://www.sonicle.com - -- --- Da: Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: Gabriele Bulfon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: bacula-users bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Data: 10 aprile 2006 18.24.02 CEST Oggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] restoring I don't know why you are worrying about the got EOF messages. They are quite normal. They are not error messages. Bacula is *very* careful to put the word error in error messages or warning in possible error messages. If neither of those words are in the message, it can be considered an informational message and not normally anything to worry about. On Monday 10 April 2006 18:14, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: I tried the btape tests on clean systems: Sun v20z, AMD64, Solaris 10, self compiled bacula 1.36.2, Quantum Ultrium LTO2. SunFire280R, Sparcv9, Solaris 10, self compiled bacula 1.36.2, Quantum Ultrium LTO2. I always get the long list of got EOFbut I'm sure that the system defaults to variable block size. I even tried substituting the Quantum device with a certified Sun-Dat72 : same results. I believe that until I can't get rid of these got EOF during tests, I will have my problem (able to restore via bconsole, not able to restore through command line). Do you think there may be something wrong in the way I compiled binaries on Solaris? Is there any issue about the 64 bit platform? The binaries are all 32bit ones: may be this a problem? Is there any specific issue pertaining to the Solaris 10 platform? Thanks for any help. Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY
Re: [Bacula-devel] Re: [Bacula-users] Surprise bug + Scratch pool algorithm
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, John Kodis wrote: On a somewhat related note, I'm not clear on how the tape selection algorithm is altered when an autochanger is available. For example, if there are two equally eligible volumes available, only one of which is in the autochanger, would this volume be preferred? Yes. I'm also unclear on whether Bacula currently tracks which volumes are in an autochanger. Right now, I have two volumes that are both recorded in the database as InChanger = 1 and Slot = 4, but it's not obvious which tape is actually in the changer. Update slots does this. 1.36 didn't update records to show a tape wasn't in the changer, but 1.38 is supposed to have sorted this out. The problem you have probably encountered is that if inchanger=1, bacula can decide to use a particular tape and then get upset when it's not actually there. For 1.36 I ended up using SQL to set all media inchanger=0 before rerunning update slots - hopefully when I update to new hardware(*) and 1.38 in a few days this will no longer be necessary. (*)A dedicated bacula server with direct fibre attachment to the library, instead of the current shared/SAN arrangement. I've been holding off software updates on the old hardware because this has been coming AB --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-devel] Re: [Bacula-users] Surprise bug + Scratch pool algorithm
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: I'd like to add a third. I don't use scratch pools at all, currently, but I can't see why I'd want a new volume being added to the pool when I've got one in there that's supposed to be used. Wouldn't that mean that it would ALWAYS choose a scratch volume if there is one available and all of your tapes are full (even if one should be recycled)? In my setup, this would be the case anyway. If I remember the argument correctly, it was: Why overwrite volumes if there are scratch volumes available? That is what scratch volumes are for. If existing pool volumes are purged/recyclable, then they are available for the purposes of backups. To my mind: In a large/multiple pool situation, scratch volumes should only be there only there for emergency use when no volumes are available in the pool. The instances of this happening are when a backup set grows in size unexpectedly rapidly, or starts changing a lot, resulting in large incremental files being recorded. Scratch volumes should exist as a temporary buffer, and should be returned to scratch when the data on them expires. Longer term pool growth should be catered to by permanently allocating volumes to the pool. This is important in a setup like ours, as different pools have vastly different retention periods (ranging from 3 months to 5 years) and I have to budget tape usage as part of ongoing operational expenses. If a scratch pool tape is ever used, it means something unexpected has happened(*) or my calculations are out. (*) Last time, it turned out that 1 user was using a designated archival filesystem for temporary storage of deep sky observation processing, resulting in more than 5Tb of data being put into long-term storage instead of being ignored for backup purposes AB --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Solaris Device problem SOLVED
Maybe this is a silly discovery, but I did not find any writing about it anywhere, so I'm sendingyou the solution. Maybe would be nice to have a mention on the pdf documentation.Running Bacula on Solaris : you HAVE to use the "b" device on tapes!Read the Solaris 10 mtio man page extract: Read Operation The read(2) function reads the next record on the tape. The record size is passed back as the number of bytes read, pro- vided it is not greater than the number requested. When a tape mark or end of data is read, a zero byte count is returned; all successive reads after the zero read will return an error and errno will be set to EIO. To move to the next file, an MTFSF ioctl can be issued before or after the read causing the error. This error handling behavior is dif- ferent from the older BSD behavior, where another read will fetch the first record of the next tape file. If the BSD behavior is required, device names containing the letter b (for BSD behavior) in the final component should be used. If persistent error handling was enabled with either the BSD or SVR4 tape device behavior, all operations after this read error will return EIO errors until the MTIOCLRERR ioctl is issued. An MTFSF ioctl can then he issued.Now, using /dev/rmt/0b will run the tests perfectly.If you use /dev/rmt/0 :- Test will not work- Bacula will correctly write- bconsole will correctly read, because it knows exactly the file number to reach, and ask the device to skip there before reading- command line utilities won't work, beacuse they will fail discovery of content after reaching the end of file=1Previous tapes that I have written using /dev/rmt/0 can be read through /dev/rmt/0b, but may mislead you.Trying an "bls -j -v -V ..." on the old tape will show the first start of job, and then come out with a lot of:11-Apr 13:03 bls: Got EOF at file 1 on device /dev/rmt/0b, Volume "THURSDAY2"11-Apr 13:03 bls: Got EOF at file 2 on device /dev/rmt/0b, Volume "THURSDAY2"You just have to wait. The rest of data has been written into later files.Then you can create your bootstrap file and suggest bextract where to position.Hope this helps,Gabriele. Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY http://www.sonicle.com
Re: [Bacula-users] Re: GFS rotating howto
On 2006-04-10, Mark Nienberg wrote: How is your method different from the Daily, Weekly, Monthly Tape Usage Example in the Bacula Documentation? 1. The scheduling is different. In Bacula you cannot schedule on the last workday of a month or week because Bacula doesn't know of workdays and holidays. The internal scheduling mechanism does also not know of exceptions. At least at my site there are some days where no operator is here to change tapes and where no backup should take place (because the data is not altered much anyway on these days). 2. The volume recycling is different. I cannot use a recyling based on fixed dates(VolumeRetention), because backup does not take place on fixed dates(exceptions, holidays). My recycling mechanism is: Only overwrite the tape with the oldest data, nothing else. If there are holidays for one week, you end up with 7 tapes which can be overwritten in any particular order when you use the example in the bacula documentation. 3. The tape change is different. As I said in the howto, for security reasons we change tapes daily. Monthly and weekly tapes are stored offsite. So if the site burns down we can restore at least the state before the last weekend. Also I want to have the backup done in a definite timeframe during the night. Its not acceptable for me when the operator needs to change tapes in the morning and the backup is done during the day. Of course you can change this behaviour easily when you set Maximum Volume Jobs = 2 (for files and catalog). However, that does not mean that my backup scheme is somehow better than others. What backup method one uses depends from the specific needs. I think most admins prefer a fire and forget solution with minimal human intervention. This often means that the tape resides in the streamer/changer until the backup software notifies the operators to insert some other tape. -- Georg --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Solaris Device problem SOLVED
It is not technically in writing that I've seen so far as the documentation goes, but I ripped off 0cbn (or whatever order those letters are in :)) from the sample config file. There are several examples provided for the different operating systems, and Solaris is one of them. Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Maybe this is a silly discovery, but I did not find any writing about it anywhere, so I'm sending you the solution. Maybe would be nice to have a mention on the pdf documentation. Running Bacula on Solaris : you HAVE to use the b device on tapes! Read the Solaris 10 mtio man page extract: Read Operation The read(2) function reads the next record on the tape. The record size is passed back as the number of bytes read, pro- vided it is not greater than the number requested. When a tape mark or end of data is read, a zero byte count is returned; all successive reads after the zero read will return an error and errno will be set to EIO. To move to the next file, an MTFSF ioctl can be issued before or after the read causing the error. This error handling behavior is dif- ferent from the older BSD behavior, where another read will fetch the first record of the next tape file. If the BSD behavior is required, device names containing the letter b (for BSD behavior) in the final component should be used. If persistent error handling was enabled with either the BSD or SVR4 tape device behavior, all operations after this read error will return EIO errors until the MTIOCLRERR ioctl is issued. An MTFSF ioctl can then he issued. Now, using /dev/rmt/0b will run the tests perfectly. If you use /dev/rmt/0 : - Test will not work - Bacula will correctly write - bconsole will correctly read, because it knows exactly the file number to reach, and ask the device to skip there before reading - command line utilities won't work, beacuse they will fail discovery of content after reaching the end of file=1 Previous tapes that I have written using /dev/rmt/0 can be read through /dev/rmt/0b, but may mislead you. Trying an bls -j -v -V ... on the old tape will show the first start of job, and then come out with a lot of: 11-Apr 13:03 bls: Got EOF at file 1 on device /dev/rmt/0b, Volume THURSDAY2 11-Apr 13:03 bls: Got EOF at file 2 on device /dev/rmt/0b, Volume THURSDAY2 You just have to wait. The rest of data has been written into later files. Then you can create your bootstrap file and suggest bextract where to position. Hope this helps, Gabriele. http://www.sonicle.com Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY http://www.sonicle.com --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Re: GFS rotating howto
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Georg Lutz wrote: 1. The scheduling is different. In Bacula you cannot schedule on the last workday of a month or week because Bacula doesn't know of workdays and holidays. The internal scheduling mechanism does also not know of exceptions. At least at my site there are some days where no operator is here to change tapes and where no backup should take place (because the data is not altered much anyway on these days). Because of long weekends and other events, it's safest to try and schedule for tape changes on Tues/Weds/Thurs, rather than trying to do them on Monday or Friday. This alleviates the issues of first/last workday in month a little without Bacula having to be aware of local vacations. AB --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Solaris Device problem SOLVED
You are right, but "ripping off" a configuration, is a different thing than understanding.It's a fact that sending many emails about this problem, and sending config files specifying thewrong device, never happened to find someone mentioning this.I believe that the manual should state this when talking about Solaris.Thanx a lot for the great software, anyway.Gabriele. Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY http://www.sonicle.com --Da: Ryan Novosielski [EMAIL PROTECTED]A: Gabriele Bulfon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: bacula-users bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data: 11 aprile 2006 14.44.21 CESTOggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] Solaris Device problem SOLVEDIt is not technically in writing that I've seen so far as the documentation goes, but I ripped off 0cbn (or whatever order those letters are in :)) from the sample config file. There are several examples provided for the different operating systems, and Solaris is one of them. Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Maybe this is a silly discovery, but I did not find any writing about it anywhere, so I'm sending you the solution. Maybe would be nice to have a mention on the pdf documentation. Running Bacula on Solaris : you HAVE to use the "b" device on tapes! Read the Solaris 10 mtio man page extract: Read Operation The read(2) function reads the next record on the tape. The record size is passed back as the number of bytes read, pro- vided it is not greater than the number requested. When a tape mark or end of data is read, a zero byte count is returned; all successive reads after the zero read will return an error and errno will be set to EIO. To move to the next file, an MTFSF ioctl can be issued before or after the read causing the error. This error handling behavior is dif- ferent from the older BSD behavior, where another read will fetch the first record of the next tape file. If the BSD behavior is required, device names containing the letter b (for BSD behavior) in the final component should be used. If persistent error handling was enabled with either the BSD or SVR4 tape device behavior, all operations after this read error will return EIO errors until the MTIOCLRERR ioctl is issued. An MTFSF ioctl can then he issued. Now, using /dev/rmt/0b will run the tests perfectly. If you use /dev/rmt/0 : - Test will not work - Bacula will correctly write - bconsole will correctly read, because it knows exactly the file number to reach, and ask the device to skip there before reading - command line utilities won't work, beacuse they will fail discovery of content after reaching the end of file=1 Previous tapes that I have written using /dev/rmt/0 can be read through /dev/rmt/0b, but may mislead you. Trying an "bls -j -v -V ..." on the old tape will show the first start of job, and then come out with a lot of: 11-Apr 13:03 bls: Got EOF at file 1 on device /dev/rmt/0b, Volume "THURSDAY2" 11-Apr 13:03 bls: Got EOF at file 2 on device /dev/rmt/0b, Volume "THURSDAY2" You just have to wait. The rest of data has been written into later files. Then you can create your bootstrap file and suggest bextract where to position. Hope this helps, Gabriele. http://www.sonicle.com Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY http://www.sonicle.com
[Bacula-users] Autochanger device returning tape contents
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Hash: SHA1
resending, mailman seems to have ate the last one
I'm having a problem whereby the mtx command is opening the
changer device and getting back the contents of the tape. I
repeatedly reproduce this if I do the following:
1. Perform some operation, such as a backup
2. Schedule a job to verify the last catalog backup
3. Schedule a job to perform some other verification job that
uses a different tape
4. Complete the catalog backup verification
5. Bacula calls mtx-changer, which calls mtx, to switch to the
needed tape.
6. mtx-changer fails on the 'loaded' command with
mtx: Request Sense: 70
00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 21 01 00 C0 00 00 00 00
READ ELEMENT STATUS Command Failed
7. mtx-changer fails on the load command as there is already a
tape loaded.
8. Bacula yells for help.
When I wrap mtx with strace, I see the following:
1793 open(/dev/sg4, O_RDWR) = 3
1793 write(3,
0\0\0\0\240\34M\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2702
\0M\34|\0\0, 48) = 48
1793 read(3,
\240\34M\0\240\34M\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\2\0p\0\5\0\0\0\0\n\0\0\0\0!\1\0\300\23
Wx0\361\253r\375\3\340\332\262\313T\366j\212\200\323E\252;\333i\t\372\5#a\277\371\272\f{\372\202\340(0U\0\35\366u\\30l\326k\314\3zj\231\vzeX\250\fz\265Y\27\240~\315\204\3W\205\277\22\373\225|\4M\245\223}/[\232\32\n\350\235\26\213\353\4\177\255A\333\370^\275
zGn\35!F\32\22!g\3\2{\37\346WS\277\24\23\ts\265\201:\305\273\5\0200\343\177\313\262px\3515D\330x\351s\277\32!%ip\205\201V\224\3227(\352\3\2155\300\242\223
\307\342\270n\302C\261A\315\205I\337\374sQ\272\343s\325\230\215\262%p4\372\273G\324Z+\242\307\250_\261]\224\307\207S\346O\363\27\25\354\\271\375\272\337\304\242A\7\312\276\30\305\16\335r$\r\235_\315\226\345\350\300\354\305gl\34\16`\261\302\356P\377kT90\376m#8\f\224:\2612\311p\253\10\202\375\305\366\\u\270\2109\360\233\23\264\21\345\367\322xX\37\350\344\350\2572\370\32\244\272\37)Fu\217,\5f[\357\244}\345\350m\3J\254\357\301\236\4\277Zu}R}\26B\177A\257gb\307\177\\274\266\304\276\267\202\7\243\207\277\26\333*g\220\23\335\253K\31\363\2\257\303\273\3347S\341\300\272\350/iA\33\354
m\330\\v\320l./H\23A\324\351\260\4\3439,?W\24\310\27\0360\324\23\22\376j$!\346\266\t\271\f\246\10\17X\370\26\300\316\217\357{\333\263\27\36\213)3\275\210?-\5\273awx\200\21\375\316\347\0\\200\335\177N\\\3\250\31\276\316\25\317\7Z\17\202\r\'[EMAIL
PROTECTED]:_,\331\34\31S\210\274*7\3\3436W\274?\10\0\361\244\204`\331-\327\303\217\n\263\370\322\26\202$}\362D\272\361f5\305oW8\320m\224\246T\251\263{A\317(\200O\321\'\252\361\223\350\342b\217(\200\207\240\222L/T\252\ts*\266\233\240\212\320\361Y\270\215\330\203\30\350\225\270\345`G\264%\227v\201x|Nx\251n\277M\370\360\200\301\36l\251nW\223\311i\247w-\203\323b\302\316\25\233+\2577\217A\345\371S\30\225\310\1\263\323b\354\323\274
\177\330\234\315\356\201\351j\342\226\225i\'|\320\n\202\221\343a3\346...,
5053600) = 5053600
1793 write(3,
0\0\0\0\240\34M\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\270\
\0M\34|\0\0, 48) = 48
1793 read(3,
\240\34M\0\240\34M\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\2\0\2\0p\0\5\0\0\0\0\n\0\0\0\0!\1\0\300 B
A A A B/ IAA I BENL/u BDBndZ BENL/u A A
C\',\'yktl64+/Gw+w3W+Nux/IZC\'),(35218579,6473522,58,745134,65118,0,\'T URYBY
IGk B A A A aL6 IAA Dg BENL/u BDBncy BENL/u A A
C\',\'qFpjFzhMJm+wGk/3SF/5mB\'),(35218580,6473523,58,745134,65112,0,\'T URYBZ
IGk B A A A y5Q IAA Gg BENL/u BDBncx BENL/u A A
C\',\'c1+Gy4+CMn+eEH+mmR/0OA\'),(35218581,6473524,58,745134,65110,0,\'T URYBb
IGk B A A A X IAA I BENL/u BDBncy BENL/u A A
C\',\'48/muQ5rai+2E5gC37dgEA\'),(35218582,6473525,58,745134,65108,0,\'T URYBc
IGk B A A A Ee IAA I BENL/u BDBndZ BENL/u A A
C\',\'U8+sih/oez/mw+lagCZlDA\'),(35218575,6473518,58,745133,65109,0,\'T URcBb
IGk B A A A 2 IAA I BENL/u BDBncy BENL/u A A
C\',\'iW+Yq9sB+89Xq7/FR7/GED\'),(35218574,6473517,58,745132,2,0,\'T HKIF6 EHt D
A A A BAA IAA I BENMOf BEKu3h BENMOf A A
C\',\'0\'),(35218573,6473516,58,745132,65115,0,\'T URUCL IGk B A A A lI IAA I
BENL/u BDBndP BENL/u A A
C\',\'t9+gZ+RVRC/WN3/mMRhSwD\'),(35218572,6473515,58,745132,65107,0,\'T URUCK
IGk B A A A 2 IAA I BENL/u B..., 5053600) = 5053600
1793 write(2, mtx: Request Sense: 70, 22) = 22
1793 write(2, 00, 3)= 3
1793 write(2, 05, 3)= 3
1793 write(2, 00, 3)= 3
1793 write(2, 00, 3)= 3
1793 write(2, 00, 3)= 3
1793 write(2, 00, 3)= 3
1793 write(2, 0A, 3)= 3
1793 write(2, 00, 3)= 3
1793 write(2, 00, 3)= 3
1793 write(2, 00, 3)= 3
1793 write(2, 00, 3)= 3
1793 write(2, 21, 3)= 3
1793 write(2, 01, 3)= 3
1793 write(2, 00, 3)= 3
1793 write(2, C0, 3)= 3
1793 write(2, 00, 3)= 3
1793 write(2, 00, 3)= 3
1793 write(2, 00, 3)= 3
1793 write(2, 00, 3)
Re: [Bacula-devel] Re: [Bacula-users] Surprise bug + Scratch pool algorithm
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 13:06, Alan Brown wrote: On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: I'd like to add a third. I don't use scratch pools at all, currently, but I can't see why I'd want a new volume being added to the pool when I've got one in there that's supposed to be used. Wouldn't that mean that it would ALWAYS choose a scratch volume if there is one available and all of your tapes are full (even if one should be recycled)? In my setup, this would be the case anyway. If I remember the argument correctly, it was: Why overwrite volumes if there are scratch volumes available? That is what scratch volumes are for. If existing pool volumes are purged/recyclable, then they are available for the purposes of backups. To my mind: In a large/multiple pool situation, scratch volumes should only be there only there for emergency use when no volumes are available in the pool. Yes, I agree with you. In reality what the users were complaining about was that if no volume was available, Bacula would request to mount a volume that was not in the autochanger, so they added Scratch volumes to the autochanger and Bacula did not use those Scratch volumes. They rightfully complained about that, and suggested that move the search for Scratch volume up to before the recycling code. Their complaints were warranted, but the solution in hindsight was probably not the best. Hopefully with what I now have for 1.38.8, we will be back on track. The instances of this happening are when a backup set grows in size unexpectedly rapidly, or starts changing a lot, resulting in large incremental files being recorded. Scratch volumes should exist as a temporary buffer, and should be returned to scratch when the data on them expires. I had planed on doing this, but put the new database columns in the wrong table for 1.38.0. I was hoping to implement it in 1.38.x, but do to the need to change the database, it will need to wait for 1.39 or possibly later. Longer term pool growth should be catered to by permanently allocating volumes to the pool. This is important in a setup like ours, as different pools have vastly different retention periods (ranging from 3 months to 5 years) and I have to budget tape usage as part of ongoing operational expenses. If a scratch pool tape is ever used, it means something unexpected has happened(*) or my calculations are out. (*) Last time, it turned out that 1 user was using a designated archival filesystem for temporary storage of deep sky observation processing, resulting in more than 5Tb of data being put into long-term storage instead of being ignored for backup purposes Surprise ! AB -- Best regards, Kern ( /\ V_V --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Re: Solaris Device problem SOLVED
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 13:14, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Maybe this is a silly discovery, but I did not find any writing about it anywhere, so I'm sending you the solution. Maybe would be nice to have a mention on the pdf documentation. Running Bacula on Solaris : you HAVE to use the b device on tapes! Read the Solaris 10 mtio man page extract: Read Operation The read(2) function reads the next record on the tape. The record size is passed back as the number of bytes read, pro- vided it is not greater than the number requested. When a tape mark or end of data is read, a zero byte count is returned; all successive reads after the zero read will return an error and errno will be set to EIO. To move to the next file, an MTFSF ioctl can be issued before or after the read causing the error. This error handling behavior is dif- ferent from the older BSD behavior, where another read will fetch the first record of the next tape file. If the BSD behavior is required, device names containing the letter b (for BSD behavior) in the final component should be used. If persistent error handling was enabled with either the BSD or SVR4 tape device behavior, all operations after this read error will return EIO errors until the MTIOCLRERR ioctl is issued. An MTFSF ioctl can then he issued. Yes, this *is* in the manual (in the Tape Testing chapter), but perhaps I could stress the /dev/rmt/0b for Solaris systems a bit more. Anyway, I am happy you found the solution ... Now, using /dev/rmt/0b will run the tests perfectly. If you use /dev/rmt/0 : - Test will not work - Bacula will correctly write - bconsole will correctly read, because it knows exactly the file number to reach, and ask the device to skip there before reading - command line utilities won't work, beacuse they will fail discovery of content after reaching the end of file=1 Previous tapes that I have written using /dev/rmt/0 can be read through /dev/rmt/0b, but may mislead you. Trying an bls -j -v -V ... on the old tape will show the first start of job, and then come out with a lot of: 11-Apr 13:03 bls: Got EOF at file 1 on device /dev/rmt/0b, Volume THURSDAY2 11-Apr 13:03 bls: Got EOF at file 2 on device /dev/rmt/0b, Volume THURSDAY2 You just have to wait. The rest of data has been written into later files. Then you can create your bootstrap file and suggest bextract where to position. Hope this helps, Yes, I will put this information in the manual. Gabriele. Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY http://www.sonicle.com -- Best regards, Kern ( /\ V_V --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Bacula database
Hi I need to write a little C++ utility to access some of the data in Bacula's database (I'm using mysql) but the ODBC driver I'm using is giving me hex codes instead of characters for columns that contain text e.g. Pool names. I believe it is a Unicode issue but I can't find any information on why this might be happening or how to correct it. Any info would be much appreciated. TIA Graham Dicker --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Re: GFS rotating howto
Georg Lutz wrote: On 2006-04-10, Mark Nienberg wrote: How is your method different from the Daily, Weekly, Monthly Tape Usage Example in the Bacula Documentation? 1. The scheduling is different. In Bacula you cannot schedule on the last workday of a month or week because Bacula doesn't know of workdays and holidays. The internal scheduling mechanism does also not know of exceptions. At least at my site there are some days where no operator is here to change tapes and where no backup should take place (because the data is not altered much anyway on these days). 2. The volume recycling is different. I cannot use a recyling based on fixed dates(VolumeRetention), because backup does not take place on fixed dates(exceptions, holidays). My recycling mechanism is: Only overwrite the tape with the oldest data, nothing else. If there are holidays for one week, you end up with 7 tapes which can be overwritten in any particular order when you use the example in the bacula documentation. 3. The tape change is different. As I said in the howto, for security reasons we change tapes daily. Monthly and weekly tapes are stored offsite. So if the site burns down we can restore at least the state before the last weekend. Also I want to have the backup done in a definite timeframe during the night. Its not acceptable for me when the operator needs to change tapes in the morning and the backup is done during the day. Of course you can change this behaviour easily when you set Maximum Volume Jobs = 2 (for files and catalog). However, that does not mean that my backup scheme is somehow better than others. What backup method one uses depends from the specific needs. I think most admins prefer a fire and forget solution with minimal human intervention. This often means that the tape resides in the streamer/changer until the backup software notifies the operators to insert some other tape. Thanks for the explanation. Your example has shed some light on some of the scheduling and retention issues I am currently dealing with. Mark --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] High memory usage when backing up
I'm noticing extremely heavy memory loads when running a large bacula job. The system running the fd and director processes spikes to using all but about 18mb of the 5gb of memory installed. If I sort by memory usage in Top, no processes are using anywhere near the missing memory, however the usage only spikes when I run a large backup job ~100 GB) from this machine. If I shut down bacula completely, the memory loads don't go back down the results from free show that its not being taken up by the buffers (only about 178mb used by buffers) , total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 50739565056120 17836 0 7528 4877864 -/+ buffers/cache: 1707284903228 Swap: 20981521602097992 Things aren't getting bad enough to start swapping, however this is setting off alarms in Nagios as the % of free memory is well below the warning point, and I've had an unexplained crash or two on this server. Some memory does seem to free up as its needed (for example if I open firefox and load up several tabs) but when a job is running, things always settle back down to around 18mb free. I am running CentOS 4.1 and the latest version of bacula-fd. any help would be appreciated, -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Aaron Zschau - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network and Systems Engineer Z-Tech Associates - 781.863.8884 x120 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] difference between autostarting and manually starting bacula daemon?
Hello,My machine is finally available (was doing stress testing) and tried modifing group parameters of bacula daemon start up scripts. I used operator group for both dir and sd daemon and confirmed it in ps. However, I still see same problem. After system boot up, tried to label a tape and got same error -- exited with code 127. I stopped the process and started the daemons manually, and this time, label command failed here too -- exited with code 1. Checking the device permission, I found that /dev/ch0 only had root user access (600). I added following to /etc/devfs.conf file -- own ch0 root:operatorperm ch0 0660Restarted the machine, confirmed /dev/ch0 has 660 with root:operator, confirmed bacula daemon parameters in ps. Then tried to label a tape in console and still same problem -- exited with code 127. Stopped the daemons, started them manually, and still same problem (exited with code 1). As a test, I tried following -- removed all setting in /etc/devfs.conf file and used -u root -g wheel parameters for sd and dir daemon. I restarted the machine and tried label again. And it threw same error -- exited with code 127. output from ps --root 723 0.0 0.7 6084 3396 ?? Ss 11:11AM 0:00.05 /usr/local/sbin/bacula-dir -u root -g wheel -v -c /usr/local/etc/bacula-dir.confroot 730 0.0 0.4 3864 2192 ?? Ss 11:11AM 0: 00.02 /usr/local/sbin/bacula-fd -u root -g wheel -v -c /usr/local/etc/bacula-fd.confroot 738 0.0 0.5 4804 2580 ?? Ss 11:11AM 0:00.06 /usr/local/sbin/bacula-sd -u root -g wheel -v -c /usr/local/etc/bacula- sd.conflabel failing --Automatically selected Pool: DefaultConnecting to Storage daemon DellPowervault_122T at 192.168.3.114:9103 ...Sending label command for Volume TestVol009 Slot 8 ... 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded drive 0 command.3991 Bad autochanger loaded drive 0 command: ERR=Child exited with code 127.3301 Issuing autochanger loaded drive 0 command. 3991 Bad autochanger loaded drive 0 command: ERR=Child exited with code 127.3304 Issuing autochanger load slot 8, drive 0 command.3992 Bad autochanger load slot 8, drive 0: ERR=Child exited with code 127. Label command failed for Volume TestVol009.Do not forget to mount the drive!!!I stopped the daemon and started them manually and label worked without any error. It just doesn't make sense... Any idea on this? Thanks for the help!JoeOn 4/6/06, Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6 Apr 2006 at 18:22, Joe Park wrote: Ah I sse that.Thank you, I'll try that.If that works, or for that matter, does not, try similar for thedirector Joe On 4/6/06, Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6 Apr 2006 at 18:10, Joe Park wrote:Hmm.. I don't have z-bacula.sh script -- only z-bacula-dir.sh , z-bacula-fd.sh, z-bacula-sd.sh scripts under /usr/local/etc/rc.d. I installed bacula 1.38.6 using latest ports snapshot.Maybe I should just download the source from bacula page and go from there? stick with the port. In /etc/rc.conf, add this: bacula_sd_flags= -u bacula -g operator -v -c /usr/local/etc/bacula- sd.conf and issue this command: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/z-bacula-sd.sh restart confirm you see -g operator here: ps auwx | grep bacula-sd Then try the autochanger.-- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php --Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php
Re: [Bacula-users] High memory usage when backing up
What you are seeing appears to be normal block device caching under the linux kernel and nothing to worry about. Cheers, Eric On 4/11/06, Aaron Zschau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm noticing extremely heavy memory loads when running a large bacula job. The system running the fd and director processes spikes to using all but about 18mb of the 5gb of memory installed. If I sort by memory usage in Top, no processes are using anywhere near the missing memory, however the usage only spikes when I run a large backup job ~100 GB) from this machine. If I shut down bacula completely, the memory loads don't go back down the results from free show that its not being taken up by the buffers (only about 178mb used by buffers) , total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 50739565056120 17836 0 7528 4877864 -/+ buffers/cache: 1707284903228 Swap: 20981521602097992 Things aren't getting bad enough to start swapping, however this is setting off alarms in Nagios as the % of free memory is well below the warning point, and I've had an unexplained crash or two on this server. Some memory does seem to free up as its needed (for example if I open firefox and load up several tabs) but when a job is running, things always settle back down to around 18mb free. I am running CentOS 4.1 and the latest version of bacula-fd. any help would be appreciated, -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Aaron Zschau - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network and Systems Engineer Z-Tech Associates - 781.863.8884 x120 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid0944bid$1720dat1642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Restore more than one client
mr. erich i tried again to configure bacula on my server... i installed the newest bacula's version and configure only one client (my own machine)... until now it's work fine, i create and restore backup with no problems... if i add a new cliente my problems start... looking your email i saw that i need one catalog for each cliente, when i read the documentation i realize i need one db for each catalog, is true? tks Goldim Erich Prinz wrote: Mr. Goldim, Keep it simple. If you need to separate machines for access control, consider using ACL directives in the bacula-dir.conf file and create a catalog for each client. I'll leave it to you to read through the documentation on how to do this. Erich On Mar 17, 2006, at 8:26 AM, Leonardo dos Santos Goldim wrote: hy guys, i have bacula installed and running making backup of two machines (Smart08, Smart09), the backup generation is ok. when i try to restore a backup for Smart09, bacula use the storage Smart08, not Smar09. when i restore Smart08, the proccess work fine. why bacula always use Smart08 storage and not use the storage configured for each client? sorry by the bad english, but y learning yet. Tks Goldim --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel? cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] High memory usage when backing up
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've noticed when running 2.6, the machine appears to want to use all of the RAM. However, running more processes will not make it swap until it would have otherwise begun swapping. Seems to handle the memory usage pretty well, IMO. _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - User Support Spec. III |$| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 Eric Warnke wrote: What you are seeing appears to be normal block device caching under the linux kernel and nothing to worry about. Cheers, Eric On 4/11/06, Aaron Zschau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm noticing extremely heavy memory loads when running a large bacula job. The system running the fd and director processes spikes to using all but about 18mb of the 5gb of memory installed. If I sort by memory usage in Top, no processes are using anywhere near the missing memory, however the usage only spikes when I run a large backup job ~100 GB) from this machine. If I shut down bacula completely, the memory loads don't go back down the results from free show that its not being taken up by the buffers (only about 178mb used by buffers) , total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 50739565056120 17836 0 7528 4877864 -/+ buffers/cache: 1707284903228 Swap: 20981521602097992 Things aren't getting bad enough to start swapping, however this is setting off alarms in Nagios as the % of free memory is well below the warning point, and I've had an unexplained crash or two on this server. Some memory does seem to free up as its needed (for example if I open firefox and load up several tabs) but when a job is running, things always settle back down to around 18mb free. I am running CentOS 4.1 and the latest version of bacula-fd. any help would be appreciated, -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Aaron Zschau - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network and Systems Engineer Z-Tech Associates - 781.863.8884 x120 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=kkid0944bid$1720dat1642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (MingW32) iD8DBQFEO/vmmb+gadEcsb4RAkylAJ9N7oR+lWCNbfCu2WOTBu2ad8MF0wCgjWgf 4XgECRzxCjDQZxLiSf6IWOY= =QrTZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Restore more than one client
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm pretty sure that neither one is true. Hopefully I'm not wrong. crosses fingers _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - User Support Spec. III |$| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 Leonardo dos Santos Goldim wrote: mr. erich i tried again to configure bacula on my server... i installed the newest bacula's version and configure only one client (my own machine)... until now it's work fine, i create and restore backup with no problems... if i add a new cliente my problems start... looking your email i saw that i need one catalog for each cliente, when i read the documentation i realize i need one db for each catalog, is true? tks Goldim Erich Prinz wrote: Mr. Goldim, Keep it simple. If you need to separate machines for access control, consider using ACL directives in the bacula-dir.conf file and create a catalog for each client. I'll leave it to you to read through the documentation on how to do this. Erich On Mar 17, 2006, at 8:26 AM, Leonardo dos Santos Goldim wrote: hy guys, i have bacula installed and running making backup of two machines (Smart08, Smart09), the backup generation is ok. when i try to restore a backup for Smart09, bacula use the storage Smart08, not Smar09. when i restore Smart08, the proccess work fine. why bacula always use Smart08 storage and not use the storage configured for each client? sorry by the bad english, but y learning yet. Tks Goldim --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel? cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (MingW32) iD8DBQFEO/w2mb+gadEcsb4RAt8wAJ95fR9w5KRF1hcmkpEGcjs43zxRAQCg0nEi jT19ZmzKXK2YX2qUOTZbysM= =SYRN -END PGP SIGNATURE- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] column file.markedid does not exist error
Can you tell me any consequences from this bug? I'm testing bacula before using them in our production environment and would like to know if this is a show stopper.Thanks,Joe On 4/11/06, Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 10 April 2006 21:33, Joe Park wrote: bacula ver: 1.38.6 OS: FreeBSD 6.0 DB: postgresql 8.1.3 Changer/Tapedrive: Dell PowerVault 122T Hello, I have this error messeges repeated in system log file -- Apr9 03:40:47 localhost postgres[18833]: [1-1] ERROR:column file.markedid does not exist Apr9 06:38:20 localhost postgres[20267]: [1-1] ERROR:column file.markedid does not exist Apr9 10:04:23 localhost postgres[21200]: [1-1] ERROR:column file.markedid does not exist The error coincides with bacula verify job end time.I see that bacula db has file.mark column, but not file.markedid column.Any help is appreciated.This is a bug (typo in SQL).I have just fixed it.Thanks for reporting it.The fix will be in 1.38.8--Best regards, Kern(/\V_V
Re: [Bacula-users] Restore more than one client
so, what i need to do to my bacula works with more than one client? tks Goldim Ryan Novosielski wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm pretty sure that neither one is true. Hopefully I'm not wrong. crosses fingers _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - User Support Spec. III |$| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 Leonardo dos Santos Goldim wrote: mr. erich i tried again to configure bacula on my server... i installed the newest bacula's version and configure only one client (my own machine)... until now it's work fine, i create and restore backup with no problems... if i add a new cliente my problems start... looking your email i saw that i need one catalog for each cliente, when i read the documentation i realize i need one db for each catalog, is true? tks Goldim Erich Prinz wrote: Mr. Goldim, Keep it simple. If you need to separate machines for access control, consider using ACL directives in the bacula-dir.conf file and create a catalog for each client. I'll leave it to you to read through the documentation on how to do this. Erich On Mar 17, 2006, at 8:26 AM, Leonardo dos Santos Goldim wrote: hy guys, i have bacula installed and running making backup of two machines (Smart08, Smart09), the backup generation is ok. when i try to restore a backup for Smart09, bacula use the storage Smart08, not Smar09. when i restore Smart08, the proccess work fine. why bacula always use Smart08 storage and not use the storage configured for each client? sorry by the bad english, but y learning yet. Tks Goldim --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel? cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (MingW32) iD8DBQFEO/w2mb+gadEcsb4RAt8wAJ95fR9w5KRF1hcmkpEGcjs43zxRAQCg0nEi jT19ZmzKXK2YX2qUOTZbysM= =SYRN -END PGP SIGNATURE- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Restore more than one client
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For one, you need to explain what your problem is in the first place. You have provided no error messages and no information on your configuration. _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - User Support Spec. III |$| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 Leonardo dos Santos Goldim wrote: so, what i need to do to my bacula works with more than one client? tks Goldim Ryan Novosielski wrote: I'm pretty sure that neither one is true. Hopefully I'm not wrong. crosses fingers _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - User Support Spec. III |$| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 Leonardo dos Santos Goldim wrote: mr. erich i tried again to configure bacula on my server... i installed the newest bacula's version and configure only one client (my own machine)... until now it's work fine, i create and restore backup with no problems... if i add a new cliente my problems start... looking your email i saw that i need one catalog for each cliente, when i read the documentation i realize i need one db for each catalog, is true? tks Goldim Erich Prinz wrote: Mr. Goldim, Keep it simple. If you need to separate machines for access control, consider using ACL directives in the bacula-dir.conf file and create a catalog for each client. I'll leave it to you to read through the documentation on how to do this. Erich On Mar 17, 2006, at 8:26 AM, Leonardo dos Santos Goldim wrote: hy guys, i have bacula installed and running making backup of two machines (Smart08, Smart09), the backup generation is ok. when i try to restore a backup for Smart09, bacula use the storage Smart08, not Smar09. when i restore Smart08, the proccess work fine. why bacula always use Smart08 storage and not use the storage configured for each client? sorry by the bad english, but y learning yet. Tks Goldim --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel? cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (MingW32) iD8DBQFEPAPYmb+gadEcsb4RAgBzAJ0VwEUVwTv+kfGmToi80Ca12sNKWACfSuSw /5ZLEj7/YbwcVeq3RETHWRw= =R4oH -END PGP SIGNATURE- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list
Re: [Bacula-users] When is a tape Full?
Martin Simmons wrote: On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:12:48 +0200, Erik P. Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Martin Simmons wrote: On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 12:16:51 +0200, Erik P. Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am infrequently getting tape full conditions at times when I did not expect it. My tapes are DDS-4 tapes and they are considered Full by bacula at various capacities, for exampel: 21,112,841,569 6,445,884,582 17,477,850,063 15,855,178,172 After the last volume ran full and mounting of the next empty volume it appended only 3,710,244,549 to it, an amount which I had thought could easily be squeezed into the full volume. I don't understand what triggers the Full condition especially the 6GB volume is wierd since it shouldn't be full before approx. 20GB of data has been written to it. I am trying to optimize the use of the tapes but this process is difficult to carry out when bacula determines the full condition at such different times. Are there anything I can do to ensure that the full condition becomes close to 20GB or do I have to live with this strange phenomenon? Are you using hardware compression? No, s/w compression. Do you recommend that I use h/w? H/w compression on DDS-4 is a bit feeble, so it may be better to stick to s/w compression if you have spare CPU cycles on the fd. That's the reason I asked, because the h/w compressed size can sometimes be larger than the uncompressed size, especially if you have both kinds of compression switched on! This is very interesting. I have to make my previous statement more precise! I am NOT using h/w compression at the moment but looking in the calendar I can see that I actually did use it at the time I had these errors. I dropped h/w compression because I couldn't see any effect of it. So I am back to the s/w solution and since then I have not had the error. However, the time is too short to make a general conclusion. Another problem I've had - also in the h/w compression period - was system freeze, only cure was power off/power on. It happened twice and I haven't seen it since. I'll definitely remain at s/w compression and after a couple of weeks I should be able to conclude on this issue. -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] column file.markedid does not exist error
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 21:00, Joe Park wrote: Can you tell me any consequences from this bug? I'm testing bacula before using them in our production environment and would like to know if this is a show stopper. In doing a Verify Catalog Job, the bug caused the names of missing files not to be printed in the output report. Thanks, Joe On 4/11/06, Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 10 April 2006 21:33, Joe Park wrote: bacula ver: 1.38.6 OS: FreeBSD 6.0 DB: postgresql 8.1.3 Changer/Tapedrive: Dell PowerVault 122T Hello, I have this error messeges repeated in system log file -- Apr 9 03:40:47 localhost postgres[18833]: [1-1] ERROR: column file.markedid does not exist Apr 9 06:38:20 localhost postgres[20267]: [1-1] ERROR: column file.markedid does not exist Apr 9 10:04:23 localhost postgres[21200]: [1-1] ERROR: column file.markedid does not exist The error coincides with bacula verify job end time. I see that bacula db has file.mark column, but not file.markedid column. Any help is appreciated. This is a bug (typo in SQL). I have just fixed it. Thanks for reporting it. The fix will be in 1.38.8 -- Best regards, Kern ( /\ V_V -- Best regards, Kern ( /\ V_V --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] High memory usage when backing up
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Eric Warnke wrote: What you are seeing appears to be normal block device caching under the linux kernel and nothing to worry about. To explain: buffers = i/o (disk) write buffers cache = i/o (disk) read cache These are dynamic. Linux works on the principle that if the memory isn't being used by software then it can be used for housekeeping. As software demands increase, buffers and cache will decrease. I'm noticing extremely heavy memory loads when running a large bacula job. The system running the fd and director processes spikes to using all but about 18mb of the 5gb of memory installed. If I sort by memory usage in Top, no processes are using anywhere near the missing memory, however the usage only spikes when I run a large backup job ~100 GB) from this machine. That's what I would expect. If I shut down bacula completely, the memory loads don't go back down It won't. See above. free memory in Linux is the amount of ram not being used for i/o buffering or the programs themselves - if you are seeing large amounts of free memory after a few days of operation then you probably have more ram in the machine than it actually needs for the tasks it is performing. AB --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Backup only to Hard Drive
Hi all, I am interested in configuring a backup platform that will only backup to the server's internal hard drive (in this case a 2TB filesystem). Are there any pointers/configuration guides out there for this? Thanks, Max -- Max Clark http://www.clarksys.com --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid0944bid$1720dat1642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] building without gconsole
Hello I am tring to build bacula from src on fedora core 3 and do not want to build all the X windows stuff. My fedora box does not have X windows installed and i do not need/want the gconsole. When i build with the command below it tries to build a bunch of stuff that requires alsa, esound, and others I do not want these. What do i need to do to stop bacula from building all these unwanted packages. rpmbuild --rebuild --define 'build_fc3 1' --define 'build_mysql4 1' bacula-1.38.6-1.src.rpm -- Computer King/CaNMail http://www.computerking.ca http://www.canmail.org Sales, Service, and Hosting Email, Data, and Web Packages Ask about web design specials Affiliates http://www.computerking.ca/pages/links/affiliates/affiliates.htm Maybe Computer Science should be in the College of Theology. -- R. S. Barton --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] building without gconsole
--define nobuild_gconsole 1Cheers,EricOn 4/11/06, RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hello I am tring to build bacula from src on fedora core 3 and do not want to build all the X windows stuff. My fedora box does not have X windows installed and i do not need/want the gconsole.When i build with the command below it tries to build a bunch of stuff that requires alsa, esound, and others I do not want these. What do i need to do to stop bacula from building all these unwanted packages. rpmbuild --rebuild --define 'build_fc3 1' --define 'build_mysql4 1' bacula-1.38.6-1.src.rpm--Computer King/CaNMailhttp://www.computerking.ca http://www.canmail.orgSales, Service, and HostingEmail, Data, and Web PackagesAsk about web design specialsAffiliates http://www.computerking.ca/pages/links/affiliates/affiliates.htmMaybe Computer Science should be in the College of Theology. -- R. S. Barton--- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting languagethat extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcastand join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642___ Bacula-users mailing listBacula-users@lists.sourceforge.nethttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Backup only to Hard Drive
Hi,
hikari wrote:
Max Clark wrote:
I am interested in configuring a backup platform that will only backup
to the server's internal hard drive (in this case a 2TB filesystem).
Are there any pointers/configuration guides out there for this?
Just setup a file storage device in the Storage Daemon (bacula-sd.conf)
Device {
Name = FileStorage
Media Type = File
Archive Device = /path/to/backup/in
...
}
This is something that I am in the process of setting up too. When you
define this Device, will Bacula (with the correct configuration) store
volumes in this location, i.e.:
#ls /mnt/backup
BackupVolume0001 BackupVolume0002 etc etc...
We are looking at using two external 100Gb USB HDDs as poor mans tapes
and swapping these HDDs each week (one goes off site.)
Thanks,
Greg
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Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Type -- Can one skip differentials?
Hi Troy,
Here are the jobs and the schedule. thanks for the help.
Job {
Name = Slain
JobDefs = Job
Write Bootstrap = /var/lib/bacula/slain.bsr
}
Schedule {
Name = WeeklyCycle
Run = Full 1st-5th on Sunday at 8:00pm
Run = Incremental on Mon-Sat at 10:00pm
}
Regards
Mark
Troy Daniels wrote:
Hi Mark,
Normally different levels are specified in the Schedule with something
like the
Schedule {
Name = WeeklyCycle
Run = Full Pool=slain_full_weekly Fri at 12:00
Run = Incremental Sat-Thu
}
If this doesn't help, We'll need more information than you've provided
I'm afraid.
Including the Schedule definition and actual Job definition as a
minimum. JobDefs is a definition of Job Defaults, you need to show us
the Job section of your director config file.
Cheers,
Troy.
Mark Clarke wrote:
Hi all,
I am trying to setup a job schedule that does a full weekly backup and
then an incremental backup daily for 7 days. I have a job defined as
JobDefs {
Name = Job
Type = Backup
Level = Incremental
Client = slain-fd
FileSet = Full Set
Schedule = WeeklyCycle
Storage = Deadlock_Disk2
Messages = Standard
Pool = default
Full Backup Pool = slain_full_weekly
Differential Backup Pool = slain_incremental_daily
Priority = 10
}
The job runs the full ok but never runs the incremental job. Instead it
default to the default pool and starts doing differential backups. Why
is this? Am I missing something?
thanks
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Re: [Bacula-users] Backup only to Hard Drive
dont forget to read
http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Automated_Disk_Backup.html
It helped me alot. Especially how to make sure there are volumes that
get recycled.
Greg Vickers wrote:
Hi,
hikari wrote:
Max Clark wrote:
I am interested in configuring a backup platform that will only backup
to the server's internal hard drive (in this case a 2TB filesystem).
Are there any pointers/configuration guides out there for this?
Just setup a file storage device in the Storage Daemon (bacula-sd.conf)
Device {
Name = FileStorage
Media Type = File
Archive Device = /path/to/backup/in
...
}
This is something that I am in the process of setting up too. When you
define this Device, will Bacula (with the correct configuration) store
volumes in this location, i.e.:
#ls /mnt/backup
BackupVolume0001 BackupVolume0002 etc etc...
We are looking at using two external 100Gb USB HDDs as poor mans tapes
and swapping these HDDs each week (one goes off site.)
Thanks,
Greg
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