[Bacula-users] Using smarctl to retrieve error counts
Hi, There was a discussion recently about retrieving tape error counts at the end of a job; I actually do this already, using smartctl: Alert Command = sh -c 'smartctl -H -l error %c' This retrieves any TapeAlert info and error counts from the tape drive: smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ TapeAlert: OK Error counter log: Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total ECC rereads/errors algorithm processed uncorrected fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors read: 00 0 0 0 0.000 0 write: 00 0 0147 0.000 0 (Line wrapping might mess this up...) Regards, Stephen - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] How to schedule Full backup 1st sun of Jan, apr, jul, oct?
Mike Hanby schrieb:
I'm curious how I would set up a schedule to do:
Full backups on the 1rst Sunday of Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct (i.e. quarterly)
Differentials on all sundays in between
incremental on mon-sat
I use this for my schedule.
Schedule {
Name = Archiv
Run = Level=Full Pool=Archiv 1st sat jan,may,sep at 6:00
}
Looking at the 'show jobs' output, this schedule seems to do what I want.
...
hour=6
mday=0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30
month=0 4 8
wday=6
wom=0
woy=0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53
mins=0
...
Ralf
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Re: [Bacula-users] Using smarctl to retrieve error counts
Hello, Nice tip. smartctl has much better info than tapeinfo, so I have added it to the default bacula-sd.conf file. On Sunday 04 March 2007 09:20, Stephen Kitt wrote: Hi, There was a discussion recently about retrieving tape error counts at the end of a job; I actually do this already, using smartctl: Alert Command = sh -c 'smartctl -H -l error %c' This retrieves any TapeAlert info and error counts from the tape drive: smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ TapeAlert: OK Error counter log: Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total ECC rereads/errors algorithm processed uncorrected fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors read: 00 0 0 0 0.000 0 write: 00 0 0 147 0.000 0 (Line wrapping might mess this up...) Regards, Stephen - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] reusing tapes in Error-State
Hello, On 3/3/2007 12:24 PM, Christoph Litauer wrote: Hi, a few of my autochanger tapes have VolStatus: Error. This is because the number of files in the catalogue didn't match the number of files on the tape. I don't know why this happend, is it a known bug of version 1.38.9? Not a known bug, I think. Usually these errors happen in two situations: When the tape is not properly finished by Bacula, for example because of a catalog, SD or DIR crash, or when you restart your Bacula server while jobs are running. Also, when the tape fills and the final EOF can't be written to tape that might cause this state. The other possibility is an improper setting of the device parameters. These would be detected by btapes 'test' command most of the time. When you change these settings and continue to use tapes started with different settings I *guess* the file count mismatch could happen, too. Nevertheless: I need to reuse these errored tapes. Are they automatically reused after alle jobs are purged? Is an errored tape still used in recovers? How can I list all jobs on an errored tape? Most important things first: You can use the query command to list all jobs on any volume. These tapes are not automaticall reused (recycled), and as far as I know they are also not used for restores. If the error is only at the end of the tape data (which would be the most usual situation) you can simply update their status to used and they will be used for restores and recycling. If you're unsure, compare the output of bls with what the catalog tells you. In the job reports for these tapes, you should usually find when this error occured. Most of the time, I find that when a tape is freshly loaded and positioned to the end of data, Baculas sanity checking finds the problem and marks the tape to be erroneous. In these cases, I think it's safe to set the status to 'Used'. If you encounter these problems regularly, I'd assume your setup is somehow malfunctioning. If, like I do, you run lots of tests of beta versions, or have hardware-related problems, you'll find many of these errors but they won't mean anything unexpected :-) Arno Thanks a lot in advance! -- IT-Service Lehmann[EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Variable for Client Address not Client Name
Hi,
On 3/3/2007 10:46 AM, Holden Hao wrote:
Hi all.
I am using Phil Stracchino's checkhost script in my RunBeforeJob
directive as follows:
RunBeforeJOb =/path/to/script/checkhost %c
%c is Bacula's variable for the client name but my client name is
different from my client's host address as you can see from my example
below:
Client {
Name = ws1-fd
Address = ws1
FDPort = 9102
Catalog = MyCatalog
Password = secret
File Retention = 30 days
Job Retention = 6 months
AutoPrune = yes
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 4
}
%c translates into ws1-fd and not ws1 which is the clients hostname.
Is there a variable in Bacula that I could use that will translate
into the client's host address instead of just its name? I can
correct my problem by using aliases in my hosts file or my DNS server
but I still would want to know if such a variable exists. I looked in
the manual and it seems not to be there.
There is no variable representing the address, as far as I know.
But, it your client names are always `hostname`-fd you might add a
simple substitution to the script (which I did not even look at now :-)
Simply remove the trailing -fd or do nothing if there is no trailing
-fd in bash:
export NAME=elf-fdtest-fd
echo ${NAME/%-fd/}
elf-fdtest
Something like this works here for me.
Arno
Thanks.
Holden
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Re: [Bacula-users] backup tapes at home
Alan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Bill Moran wrote: A fire safe might fit the bill here. I've always wondered about this. If I put _plastic_ tapes in a fire safe, how long does the safe actually insulate the tapes from the heat that will damage them. Not long. A standards-compliant data safe on the other hand will provide protection agains at least 2 hours at 1500C and 24 hour coooling down period. Most also provide protection against large drops (floor failure in multistory buildings) and longer burn periods. Several data safes are simply firesafes fitted with inserts aimed at keeping internal temperatures below 60C. Does anyone have any direct experience with how well a fire safe protects something like backup tapes? If it's well insulated, it will protect them for a while, but long enough for the fire to be extinguished? Only once, and only a small safe on a customer site, but yes. Our current main fire/data safe is a Phoenx Data commander 4623, which is capable of taking 720 LTO tapes in current configuration (39 per drawer, cased, increasing to 45 uncased) See http://www.phoenixsafeusa.com/ or http://www.phoenixsafeusa.com/us/viewproduct/4620_data_commander.html This cost a shade under US $10,000 with tax and delivery included. Interesting, but I suspect that's a little out of the price range for someone wanting to protect their data at home. I know I wouldn't even know where to put such a thing at my house. It'd be cheaper to just rent a safe-deposit box. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula upgrade from 1.38.9 - 2.0.2
I have rebuilt from source twice and sure enough certain things are not upgraded such as bcopy. Regards, ZK --- John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/1/07, Zakai Kinan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indeed, I had the old bacula-dir running. I am not sure how that is possible because I did a make clean and a make distclean before doing a configure under the new source. John was correct as well. I suspected this as a few times when I have built bacula from source (using a gentoo ebuild) if the build of the director failed the whole process continued and at the end it looked like everything was good but later I found out I was still using the old director. Since I write ebuilds I should actually check into that as it should not be that difficult to fix.. Only problem is that I do not have the time. John - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] backup tapes at home
Bill Moran wrote: Alan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our current main fire/data safe is a Phoenx Data commander 4623, which is capable of taking 720 LTO tapes in current configuration (39 per drawer, cased, increasing to 45 uncased) See http://www.phoenixsafeusa.com/ or http://www.phoenixsafeusa.com/us/viewproduct/4620_data_commander.html This cost a shade under US $10,000 with tax and delivery included. Interesting, but I suspect that's a little out of the price range for someone wanting to protect their data at home. I know I wouldn't even know where to put such a thing at my house. It'd be cheaper to just rent a safe-deposit box. It may not help very many people, but for anyone who already has a fire safe at home (not data grade), there are media cooler units (schwab makes the one that I found) that you can put inside, I recently discovered. I've been using my fireproof gun safe to store my backup media, hoping that by putting the media on the bottom, it might survive the internal temperatures of the safe in a fire. However, with a media storage unit inside my safe (~$300, capacity for ~10 LTO carts) I could also store media safely. Apparently, these can also fit into fireproof file cabinets that aren't data grade--something you might be able to pick up used. -se -se - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] FD Not Sending OK Status to Dir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Schaab wrote: Howdy, What could be preventing a FD from sending the OK status to the Director after a backup? I don't know how important this is, but I often almost forget to change the Messages resource at the bottom of the -fd config file. - -- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer III |$| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF670Jmb+gadEcsb4RApgAAKDZmlQBVlO8t7JnetYhotbrGMLduQCeMQ17 u9k1Tt583O9xQR+4ZHiJvRk= =ZV8U -END PGP SIGNATURE- begin:vcard fn:Ryan Novosielski n:Novosielski;Ryan org:UMDNJ;IST/AST adr;dom:MSB C630;;185 South Orange Avenue;Newark;NJ;07103 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Systems Programmer III tel;work:(973) 972-0922 tel;fax:(973) 972-7412 tel;pager:(866) 20-UMDNJ x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] FD Not Sending OK Status to Dir
On Monday 05 March 2007 07:47, Ryan Novosielski wrote: Tim Schaab wrote: Howdy, What could be preventing a FD from sending the OK status to the Director after a backup? I don't know how important this is, but I often almost forget to change the Messages resource at the bottom of the -fd config file. Modifying the messages resource is critical if you want to see error messages. When the FD encounters a serious error, it typically sends the error message to where you have specified (or to the default) in the messages destination(s) then hangs up on the Director. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula upgrade from 1.38.9 - 2.0.2
On Monday 05 March 2007 06:41, Zakai Kinan wrote: I have rebuilt from source twice and sure enough certain things are not upgraded such as bcopy. I cannot say for sure if you are installing from a package, but bcopy *is* installed every time you do a make install. However, if you changed your ./configure from your previous install (possibly you didn't remember it or look at the old config.out file) then your files will install in a different location and you will experience the kinds problems you are seeing. If you change any of the paths on the ./configure from one release to another, you should backup the files you want (conf files), then do a make uninstall with the old Bacula source before configuring, building, and installing the new source. That will prevent having multiple copies of the same program in different locations and believing that the upgrade did not work. Regards, ZK --- John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/1/07, Zakai Kinan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indeed, I had the old bacula-dir running. I am not sure how that is possible because I did a make clean and a make distclean before doing a configure under the new source. John was correct as well. I suspected this as a few times when I have built bacula from source (using a gentoo ebuild) if the build of the director failed the whole process continued and at the end it looked like everything was good but later I found out I was still using the old director. Since I write ebuilds I should actually check into that as it should not be that difficult to fix.. Only problem is that I do not have the time. John - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ___ _ Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with the Yahoo! Search weather shortcut. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/shortcuts/#loc_weather - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
