[Bacula-users] Best backup strategy with bacula and autochanger
Hi, i have to backup a nas system with a total size of 6,5TB. At this time the nas system only has ~2TB of data that have to backup but in future, the next two years data will be increase up to 6TB. I have installed Debian Etch on the nas system with samba und bacula as backup application. I use a Sony StorStation LIB-81 autochanger with 7 200GB/520GB AIT4 tapes. In slot 8 there is a cleaning tape. What is the best backup strategy for this scenario and how to handle the tapes with bacula and the autochanger. I would like backup each day mo-do incrementally/differentially. Each friday but the last friday of month i would like do a full backup and even so the last friday of month. Is this a good concept for backup the data or has anyone here a better suggestions. Stefan -- Ist Ihr Browser Vista-kompatibel? Jetzt die neuesten Browser-Versionen downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/browser - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] If there's a problem, it just hangs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, looks like bacula did something else. It changed the configuration of the tape drive as well. I had it set as one large drive and bacula reconfigured it to segments of 64 drives. I'd be surprised if that is due to bacula. Must be something funky between bacula and the storage system no? Can bacula talk with a storage device at the configuration level? No, bacula has no knowledge of such things. All it does is write tape to the tape device, and talk to the autochanger via mtx-changer and mtx. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula using one drive in a Vchanger
Hi Kern, vchanger is a helper script from Josh Fisher. You can find it by looking for the mail Removable Disk HOWTO by Josh in bacula-users. He's done a really nice howto, I think... I could forward that mail, if you prefer. Regards, Arno -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] scsi problems
progress with this issue. i submitted a bug report to adaptec and they finally provided some suggestions to help resolve this. here is what they recommeded: Go to Configure/View Host Adapter Settings. If the SCSI Controller does not have the system boot device attached, disable the BIOS. On SCSI Controllers with 2 channels, the BIOS of the channel that does not have the boot device, can be disabled. To do this, go to Advanced Configuration and set SCSI Controller Int 13 Support to Disabled. If you boot from a SCSI device attached with the SCSI controller, leave the SCSI Controller Int 13 Support at Enabled. Under Advanced Configuration set Domain Validation to Disabled. Press Esc to exit. Go to SCSI Device Configuration. For the SCSI ID of the tape drive or tape library, set Initiate Wide Negotiation to No. This will automatically change the Sync Transfer Rate to 40MB/s, Packetized to No, QAS to No, and BIOS Multiple LUN Support to No. BIOS Multiple LUN Support can be changed back to Yes if needed. For the SCSI ID of the tape drive or tape library, set Enable Disconnection to No. For the SCSI ID of the tape drive or tape library, set Send Start Unit Command to No. Press Esc twice to exit, save the changes. Press Esc again, exit the utility and reboot the system. with these changes implemented, the btape test passes (with a couple of modifications to bacula-sd.conf) and the autochanger test passes. of of curiosity, what are others with LTO-4 using for scsi adapaters? -- michael On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:43:09PM -0400, Michael Galloway wrote: seem to be having some scsi problems with btape test. this test is with a spectra T50/LTO-4 attached via an LSI LSIU320 controller. i ran 100GB of data onto the drive with tar with no issue. but when i run this: ./btape -c bacula-sd.conf /dev/nst0 test i get: *test === Write, rewind, and re-read test === I'm going to write 1000 records and an EOF then write 1000 records and an EOF, then rewind, and re-read the data to verify that it is correct. This is an *essential* feature ... btape: btape.c:827 Wrote 1000 blocks of 64412 bytes. btape: btape.c:501 Wrote 1 EOF to LTO4 (/dev/nst0) btape: btape.c:843 Wrote 1000 blocks of 64412 bytes. btape: btape.c:501 Wrote 1 EOF to LTO4 (/dev/nst0) btape: btape.c:852 Rewind OK. 1000 blocks re-read correctly. 29-Oct 21:27 btape JobId 0: Error: block.c:995 Read error on fd=3 at file:blk 0:1000 on device LTO4 (/dev/nst0). ERR=No such device or address. btape: btape.c:864 Read block 1001 failed! ERR=No such device or address and i the kernel ring buffer log: st0: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes. mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x11010f00): F/W: bug! MID not found mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x11010f00): F/W: bug! MID not found mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x004b): SCSI IOC Terminated st0: Error 8 (sugg. bt 0x0, driver bt 0x0, host bt 0x8). mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=81011bf35240) st 5:0:15:0: command: Read(6): 08 00 00 fc 00 00 mptbase: Initiating ioc0 recovery mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: SUCCESS (sc=81011bf35240) mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x0043): SCSI Device Not There mptscsih: ioc0: attempting target reset! (sc=81011bf35240) st 5:0:15:0: command: Read(6): 08 00 00 fc 00 00 mptscsih: ioc0: target reset: SUCCESS (sc=81011bf35240) mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x0043): SCSI Device Not There mptscsih: ioc0: attempting bus reset! (sc=81011bf35240) st 5:0:15:0: command: Read(6): 08 00 00 fc 00 00 mptscsih: ioc0: bus reset: SUCCESS (sc=81011bf35240) mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x0047): SCSI Protocol Error mptscsih: ioc0: Attempting host reset! (sc=81011bf35240) mptbase: Initiating ioc0 recovery mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x0047): SCSI Protocol Error st 5:0:15:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery st0: Error 8 (sugg. bt 0x0, driver bt 0x0, host bt 0x8). target5:0:15: Beginning Domain Validation target5:0:15: Domain Validation skipping write tests target5:0:15: Ending Domain Validation target5:0:15: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s DT (12.5 ns, offset 126) target5:0:15: Beginning Domain Validation target5:0:15: Domain Validation skipping write tests target5:0:15: Ending Domain Validation target5:0:15: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s DT (12.5 ns, offset 126) target5:0:15: Beginning Domain Validation target5:0:15: Domain Validation skipping write tests target5:0:15: Ending Domain Validation target5:0:15: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s DT (12.5 ns, offset 126) target5:0:15: Beginning Domain Validation target5:0:15: Domain Validation skipping write tests target5:0:15: Ending Domain Validation target5:0:15: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s DT (12.5 ns, offset 126) i've reseated my cables and terminator. reseated the scsi card. any idea where the problem is? this is centOS 5, kernel is: 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 #1
Re: [Bacula-users] scsi problems
Hi Michael. Firstly, I'm glad you solved the problem and shared it with the list. I'm also having problems with the SCSI tape I'm trying to use, so maybe I'll profit from your experience as well. Have you succeeded in pinpointing the relvant change ? Michgael On Nov 8, 2007 1:50 PM, Michael Galloway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: progress with this issue. i submitted a bug report to adaptec and they finally provided some suggestions to help resolve this. here is what they recommeded: Go to Configure/View Host Adapter Settings. If the SCSI Controller does not have the system boot device attached, disable the BIOS. On SCSI Controllers with 2 channels, the BIOS of the channel that does not have the boot device, can be disabled. To do this, go to Advanced Configuration and set SCSI Controller Int 13 Support to Disabled. If you boot from a SCSI device attached with the SCSI controller, leave the SCSI Controller Int 13 Support at Enabled. Under Advanced Configuration set Domain Validation to Disabled. Press Esc to exit. Go to SCSI Device Configuration. For the SCSI ID of the tape drive or tape library, set Initiate Wide Negotiation to No. This will automatically change the Sync Transfer Rate to 40MB/s, Packetized to No, QAS to No, and BIOS Multiple LUN Support to No. BIOS Multiple LUN Support can be changed back to Yes if needed. For the SCSI ID of the tape drive or tape library, set Enable Disconnection to No. For the SCSI ID of the tape drive or tape library, set Send Start Unit Command to No. Press Esc twice to exit, save the changes. Press Esc again, exit the utility and reboot the system. with these changes implemented, the btape test passes (with a couple of modifications to bacula-sd.conf) and the autochanger test passes. of of curiosity, what are others with LTO-4 using for scsi adapaters? -- michael On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:43:09PM -0400, Michael Galloway wrote: seem to be having some scsi problems with btape test. this test is with a spectra T50/LTO-4 attached via an LSI LSIU320 controller. i ran 100GB of data onto the drive with tar with no issue. but when i run this: ./btape -c bacula-sd.conf /dev/nst0 test i get: *test === Write, rewind, and re-read test === I'm going to write 1000 records and an EOF then write 1000 records and an EOF, then rewind, and re-read the data to verify that it is correct. This is an *essential* feature ... btape: btape.c:827 Wrote 1000 blocks of 64412 bytes. btape: btape.c:501 Wrote 1 EOF to LTO4 (/dev/nst0) btape: btape.c:843 Wrote 1000 blocks of 64412 bytes. btape: btape.c:501 Wrote 1 EOF to LTO4 (/dev/nst0) btape: btape.c:852 Rewind OK. 1000 blocks re-read correctly. 29-Oct 21:27 btape JobId 0: Error: block.c:995 Read error on fd=3 at file:blk 0:1000 on device LTO4 (/dev/nst0). ERR=No such device or address. btape: btape.c:864 Read block 1001 failed! ERR=No such device or address and i the kernel ring buffer log: st0: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes. mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x11010f00): F/W: bug! MID not found mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x11010f00): F/W: bug! MID not found mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x004b): SCSI IOC Terminated st0: Error 8 (sugg. bt 0x0, driver bt 0x0, host bt 0x8). mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=81011bf35240) st 5:0:15:0: command: Read(6): 08 00 00 fc 00 00 mptbase: Initiating ioc0 recovery mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: SUCCESS (sc=81011bf35240) mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x0043): SCSI Device Not There mptscsih: ioc0: attempting target reset! (sc=81011bf35240) st 5:0:15:0: command: Read(6): 08 00 00 fc 00 00 mptscsih: ioc0: target reset: SUCCESS (sc=81011bf35240) mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x0043): SCSI Device Not There mptscsih: ioc0: attempting bus reset! (sc=81011bf35240) st 5:0:15:0: command: Read(6): 08 00 00 fc 00 00 mptscsih: ioc0: bus reset: SUCCESS (sc=81011bf35240) mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x0047): SCSI Protocol Error mptscsih: ioc0: Attempting host reset! (sc=81011bf35240) mptbase: Initiating ioc0 recovery mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x0047): SCSI Protocol Error st 5:0:15:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery st0: Error 8 (sugg. bt 0x0, driver bt 0x0, host bt 0x8). target5:0:15: Beginning Domain Validation target5:0:15: Domain Validation skipping write tests target5:0:15: Ending Domain Validation target5:0:15: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s DT (12.5 ns, offset 126) target5:0:15: Beginning Domain Validation target5:0:15: Domain Validation skipping write tests target5:0:15: Ending Domain Validation target5:0:15: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s DT (12.5 ns, offset 126) target5:0:15: Beginning Domain Validation target5:0:15: Domain Validation skipping write tests target5:0:15: Ending Domain Validation target5:0:15: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI
Re: [Bacula-users] Best backup strategy with bacula and autochanger
Hello, 08.11.2007 11:32,, S. Kremer wrote:: Hi, i have to backup a nas system with a total size of 6,5TB. At this time the nas system only has ~2TB of data that have to backup but in future, the next two years data will be increase up to 6TB. I have installed Debian Etch on the nas system with samba und bacula as backup application. I use a Sony StorStation LIB-81 autochanger with 7 200GB/520GB AIT4 tapes. In slot 8 there is a cleaning tape. 7 slots à 200 GB is 1.4 TB. Adding compression (factor 2.6 is, typically, much too optimistic) you might end up at a bit above 2 GB. That's obviously not enough space to handle a full backup of 6 TB. What is the best backup strategy for this scenario and how to handle the tapes with bacula and the autochanger. You can run full backups only with intervention in between, which pretty much rules out unattended backups during the weekend. I would like backup each day mo-do incrementally/differentially. That shouldn't be a problem with your setup. You should set up the necessary jobs and schedules yourself - or get commercial support if you don't want to. Examples are freely available here, advice too, but you should offer us a starting point, i.e. a configuration and any problems you encounter. Each friday but the last friday of month i would like do a full backup and even so the last friday of month. This will get difficult. Is this a good concept for backup the data or has anyone here a better suggestions. Basically, it's usable. Whatever strategy you implement should simply fit to your needs. If you want monthly full backups for archival, that can be done. Storing the full 6 TB during one weekend will more or less be impossible with your current equipment. Stefan Arno -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] scsi problems
not yet, i just got this late yesterday, ran some preliminary testing just to be sure its working. i will start undoing the changes today and see if i can find the relevant factor. -- michael On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 02:28:55PM +0200, Michael Lewinger wrote: Hi Michael. Firstly, I'm glad you solved the problem and shared it with the list. I'm also having problems with the SCSI tape I'm trying to use, so maybe I'll profit from your experience as well. Have you succeeded in pinpointing the relvant change ? Michgael - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic tape eject after daily job - LTO-2
Matias Schwalm wrote:
Hi folks,
I have a Dell Server with an build-in LTO-2 Tapedrive. My goal is, that after
each daily job the tape get's ejected. I tried it with mt rewind and mt
eject in a runafter script. But it doesn't work. The Tape doesn't seem to
unmount it after the job. Here is my bacula-sd. Any suggestions? And, btw.
how do I teach Bacula that he has to mount the tape itself?
# BackupLTO2
#---
Device {
Name = LTO-2
Media Type = LTO-2
Archive Device = /dev/nst0
Removable Media = yes
RandomAccess = no
Autochanger = no
Automatic Mount = yes
Always Open = No
Label Media = Yes
Alert Command = sh -c 'tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|cat'
}
Use: RunAfterJob = your-eject-tape-script
and create your-eject-tape-script containing:
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script ejects a tape
#
echo unmount tape-device | bacula-path/bconsole -c
bacula-path/bconsole.conf
The echo statement in one line.
--
Erik.
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Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from file really really slow
i read somewhere, thats this problem is solved in newer versions of bacula (think it was 2.2.*). The thought of upgrading the whole environment to a 2.+ release is more that I could cope with right now! I only have about 10 clients, but I did the whole thing in about 35 mins the other day. I've been using the version provided by BlastWave, which provides an easy update mechanism. They also provide the SMF information used in Solaris 10 instead of an init script. For Linux, I've just been using the RPMs that are already available. 1.38.11 is a little bigger of an upgrade than 2.0.3 to 2.2.5 (which is what I did), but the upgrade from 1.38.11 to 2.0.3 (that is when I switched to the CSW packages) was pretty painless too. We use Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, FreeBSD and Windows - so upgrades are painful. However - I have now upgraded the server to 2.2.5 and it talks to old FD's on all the clients (except HP-UX) fine. I will of course get around to upgrading all the FD's in due course. However ... while the 2.2.5 restore code is clearly using seek() to get to the right place in the volume (file) - which takes about 1 day off the restore time - it still reads really really slowly. I can only assume this is caused by the fact the files are NFS mounted - I just can't understand why it would be so slow when writing the volumes is very fast! Your thoughts welcome - thanks. -- Cheers Jules. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] BAT
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Dep, Khushil (GE Money) wrote: Now I know the QT4 libs are installed but it seems that pkg-config doesn't know about them. I know this is OT so but I thought I'd askf if anyone knew where I could get help from or any further reading about this. I'm forced into tuse RHEL4u4 instead of my own flavour or choice - Debian, so any help or pointers would be much appreciated. please do rpm -qa | grep qt I'd like to see if you have qt (3.3) and qt4 (4.x) installaed as separate packages, as I've just flagged this up as a problem in RHEL5 with the src rpm packager - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] If there's a problem, it just hangs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For example; # ./mtx-changer /dev/sg0 unload 1 /dev/nst0 0 It took the tape out of the drive, then hung with; Storage Element 1 is Already Full That's it, just hangs. Now I have to restart the tape device. Should bacula not handle this or is there another problem? mtx-changer is just a script which calls a command such as 'mtx'. Check whether mtx can handle your autochanger (you should be able to find this out from google or this list's archives). If not, your life is more difficult. If it can, you need to figure out what mtx-changer is doing that your autochanger doesn't like. The script is well commented and has a debugging option. Have a play around. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Automatic tape eject after daily job - LTO-2
Hi folks,
I have a Dell Server with an build-in LTO-2 Tapedrive. My goal is, that after
each daily job the tape get's ejected. I tried it with mt rewind and mt
eject in a runafter script. But it doesn't work. The Tape doesn't seem to
unmount it after the job. Here is my bacula-sd. Any suggestions? And, btw. how
do I teach Bacula that he has to mount the tape itself?
# BackupLTO2
#---
Device {
Name = LTO-2
Media Type = LTO-2
Archive Device = /dev/nst0
Removable Media = yes
RandomAccess = no
Autochanger = no
Automatic Mount = yes
Always Open = No
Label Media = Yes
Alert Command = sh -c 'tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|cat'
}
Regards,
Matthias
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Re: [Bacula-users] Tapes(Volumes) put into ERROR status
Hi, 08.11.2007 15:17,, Win Htin wrote:: Hi folks, Just as I thought I have fixed my problems, I am again stumped with Volumes being put into Error with /*Error: Unable to position to end of data on device*/ messages. As previously mentioned in my other post, all the tapes were erased once over to make sure everything starts cleanly. The tapes were bought brand new from IBM and some were used previously for my Bacula tests (btape + actual backups). analysing the pattern, I suspect once all the backups are done EOF/EOD is not written to the tape/volume causing next run(s) to put the tape into Error and use the next available volume. Have you set Two EOF = Yes in the SD configuration? Seems like setting that, and BSF at EOM, too, might help you... you'll have to try. Arno Following is part of the output from btape tests I did earlier. Doing Bacula scan of blocks: 1 block of 64448 bytes in file 1 End of File mark. 2 blocks of 64448 bytes in file 2 End of File mark. 3 blocks of 64448 bytes in file 3 End of File mark. 1 block of 64448 bytes in file 4 End of File mark. * 17-Oct 09:43 btape JobId 0: Error: block.c:995 Read error on fd=3 at file:blk 4:0 on device LTO4_1 (/dev/IBMtape0). ERR=Input/output error. * Total files=4, blocks=7, bytes = 451,136 End scanning the tape. We should be in file 4. I am at file 4. This is correct! Following is the excerpt of last night's backups. JobBackup Volume Poolstart finishStatus -- NFSSERVERFull625AAL AllFulls 23:00:00 23:21:40 Appended to Volume 625AAL APP06Differential 401AAL AllDifferentials 23:21:42 23:25:36 Put 400AAL in Error used 401AAL 07-Nov 23:22 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: 3307 Issuing autochanger unload slot 21, drive 0 command. 07-Nov 23:23 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: 3304 Issuing autochanger load slot 1, drive 0 command. 07-Nov 23:24 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: 3305 Autochanger load slot 1, drive 0, status is OK. 07-Nov 23:24 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0 command. 07-Nov 23:24 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: 3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result is Slot 1. 07-Nov 23:24 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: Volume 400AAL previously written, moving to end of data. 07-Nov 23:24 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: Error: Unable to position to end of data on device LTO4_1 (/dev/IBMtape0): ERR= dev.c:1326 read error on LTO4_1 (/dev/IBMtape0). ERR=Input/output error. 07-Nov 23:24 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: Marking Volume 400AAL in Error in Catalog. 07-Nov 23:24 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: 3307 Issuing autochanger unload slot 1, drive 0 command. 07-Nov 23:24 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: 3304 Issuing autochanger load slot 2, drive 0 command. 07-Nov 23:25 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: 3305 Autochanger load slot 2, drive 0, status is OK. 07-Nov 23:25 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0 command. 07-Nov 23:25 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: 3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result is Slot 2. 07-Nov 23:25 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume 401AAL on device LTO4_1 (/dev/IBMtape0) APP07Differential 401AAL AllDifferentials 23:25:38 23:25:52 Appended to Volume 401AAL APP08Differentail 401AAL AllDifferentials 23:25:53 23:25:57 Appended to Volume 401AAL APP09Differential 401AAL AllDifferentials 23:25:59 23:26:31 Appended to Volume 401AAL APP10Differential 401AAL AllDifferentials 23:26:32 23:46:27 Appended to Volume 401AAL CATALOG Full 627AAL AllFulls 04:00:08 04:14:45Put 625AAL in Error u sed 627AAL
[Bacula-users] Tapes(Volumes) put into ERROR status
Hi folks, Just as I thought I have fixed my problems, I am again stumped with Volumes being put into Error with *Error: Unable to position to end of data on device* messages. As previously mentioned in my other post, all the tapes were erased once over to make sure everything starts cleanly. The tapes were bought brand new from IBM and some were used previously for my Bacula tests (btape + actual backups). analysing the pattern, I suspect once all the backups are done EOF/EOD is not written to the tape/volume causing next run(s) to put the tape into Error and use the next available volume. Following is part of the output from btape tests I did earlier. Doing Bacula scan of blocks: 1 block of 64448 bytes in file 1 End of File mark. 2 blocks of 64448 bytes in file 2 End of File mark. 3 blocks of 64448 bytes in file 3 End of File mark. 1 block of 64448 bytes in file 4 End of File mark. *17-Oct 09:43 btape JobId 0: Error: block.c:995 Read error on fd=3 at file:blk 4:0 on device LTO4_1 (/dev/IBMtape0). ERR=Input/output error.* Total files=4, blocks=7, bytes = 451,136 End scanning the tape. We should be in file 4. I am at file 4. This is correct! Following is the excerpt of last night's backups. JobBackup Volume Poolstart finishStatus -- NFSSERVERFull625AAL AllFulls 23:00:00 23:21:40 Appended to Volume 625AAL APP06Differential 401AAL AllDifferentials 23:21:42 23:25:36 Put 400AAL in Error used 401AAL 07-Nov 23:22 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: 3307 Issuing autochanger unload slot 21, drive 0 command. 07-Nov 23:23 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: 3304 Issuing autochanger load slot 1, drive 0 command. 07-Nov 23:24 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: 3305 Autochanger load slot 1, drive 0, status is OK. 07-Nov 23:24 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0 command. 07-Nov 23:24 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: 3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result is Slot 1. 07-Nov 23:24 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: Volume 400AAL previously written, moving to end of data. 07-Nov 23:24 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: Error: Unable to position to end of data on device LTO4_1 (/dev/IBMtape0): ERR=dev.c:1326 read error on LTO4_1 (/dev/IBMtape0). ERR=Input/output error. 07-Nov 23:24 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: Marking Volume 400AAL in Error in Catalog. 07-Nov 23:24 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: 3307 Issuing autochanger unload slot 1, drive 0 command. 07-Nov 23:24 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: 3304 Issuing autochanger load slot 2, drive 0 command. 07-Nov 23:25 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: 3305 Autochanger load slot 2, drive 0, status is OK. 07-Nov 23:25 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0 command. 07-Nov 23:25 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: 3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result is Slot 2. 07-Nov 23:25 nfsserver-sd JobId 12: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume 401AAL on device LTO4_1 (/dev/IBMtape0) APP07Differential 401AAL AllDifferentials 23:25:38 23:25:52 Appended to Volume 401AAL APP08Differentail 401AAL AllDifferentials 23:25:53 23:25:57 Appended to Volume 401AAL APP09Differential 401AAL AllDifferentials 23:25:59 23:26:31 Appended to Volume 401AAL APP10Differential 401AAL AllDifferentials 23:26:32 23:46:27 Appended to Volume 401AAL CATALOG Full 627AAL AllFulls 04:00:08 04:14:45Put 625AAL in Error used 627AAL 08-Nov 04:00 nfsserver-sd JobId 17: 3307 Issuing autochanger unload slot 2, drive 0 command. 08-Nov 04:01 nfsserver-sd JobId 17: 3304 Issuing autochanger load slot 21, drive 0 command. 08-Nov 04:02 nfsserver-sd JobId 17: 3305 Autochanger load slot 21, drive 0, status is OK. 08-Nov 04:02 nfsserver-sd JobId 17: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0 command. 08-Nov 04:02 nfsserver-sd JobId 17: 3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result is Slot 21. 08-Nov 04:02 nfsserver-sd JobId 17: Volume 625AAL previously written, moving to end of data. 08-Nov 04:12 nfsserver-sd JobId 17: Error: Unable to position to end of data on device LTO4_1 (/dev/IBMtape0): ERR=dev.c:1326 read error on LTO4_1 (/dev/IBMtape0). ERR=Input/output error. 08-Nov 04:12 nfsserver-sd JobId 17: Marking Volume 625AAL in Error in Catalog. 08-Nov 04:13 nfsserver-sd JobId 17: 3307 Issuing autochanger unload slot 21, drive 0 command. 08-Nov 04:14 nfsserver-sd JobId 17: 3304 Issuing autochanger load slot 23, drive 0 command. 08-Nov 04:14 nfsserver-sd JobId 17: 3305 Autochanger load slot 23, drive 0, status is OK. 08-Nov 04:14 nfsserver-sd JobId 17: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0 command. 08-Nov 04:14 nfsserver-sd JobId 17: 3302
[Bacula-users] Tape full with Daily Tape Rotation
Hi, I copy the strategie of Daily tape rotation I found at this link http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Backup_Strategies.html#SECTION003033000 it works good but I meet a problem.My pools are always in append mode, so before doing the backup the system move to the end of data, even the retention period of the pool is passed. So My tape become full and the system tell me to label a new volume, but I choose to have only one volume by pool. 08-Nov 04:10 BRU1003B: Start Backup JobId 297, Job=Backup_pstor003_Daily_Tape.2007-11-08_04.10.00 08-Nov 04:10 MainSD: Volume BRU1003B:002 previously written, moving to end of data. 08-Nov 04:10 MainSD: Ready to append to end of Volume BRU1003B:002 at file=8. 08-Nov 07:00 MainSD: End of Volume BRU1003B:002 at 34:15347 on device DDS-4 (/dev/st0). Write of 64512 bytes got -1. 08-Nov 07:00 MainSD: Re-read of last block succeeded. 08-Nov 07:00 MainSD: End of medium on Volume BRU1003B:002 Bytes=31,786,675,200 Blocks=492,724 at 08-Nov-2007 07:00. 08-Nov 07:02 BRU1003B: Pruned 4 Jobs on Volume BRU1003B:002 from catalog. 08-Nov 07:02 MainSD: Job Backup_pstor003_Daily_Tape.2007-11-08_04.10.00 waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes. I want that before the system do the backup, the tape is overwritted (and not changing my retention period of 6days) Thanks for your help Abdel - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Odd Restores
Hey All, Has anyone here had 'ghost' restores? Basically restores being started that, well, no one has started! I got the two following e-mail notifications: 08-Nov 14:31 MigWebSSCbkp1-dir JobId 361: Start Restore Job DefaultRestoreJob.2007-11-08_14.31.05 08-Nov 14:31 MigWebSSCbkp1-dir JobId 361: Using Device BackupStorageLocation 08-Nov 14:31 MigWebSSCbkp1-sd JobId 361: Ready to read from volume BKP_FULL_0010 on device BackupStorageLocation (/webssc_bkp/bacula/backups). 08-Nov 14:31 MigWebSSCbkp1-sd JobId 361: Forward spacing Volume BKP_FULL_0010 to file:block outbind://264/block 0:214. 08-Nov 14:31 MigWebSSCbkp1-sd JobId 361: End of Volume at file 0 on device BackupStorageLocation (/webssc_bkp/bacula/backups), Volume BKP_FULL_0010 08-Nov 14:31 MigWebSSCbkp1-sd JobId 361: End of all volumes. 08-Nov 14:31 MigWebSSCbkp1-dir JobId 361: Bacula MigWebSSCbkp1-dir 2.2.5 (09Oct07): 08-Nov-2007 14:31:50 Build OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu redhat Enterprise release JobId: 361 Job: DefaultRestoreJob.2007-11-08_14.31.05 Restore Client: sscchbpdb01-fd Start time: 08-Nov-2007 14:31:48 End time: 08-Nov-2007 14:31:50 Files Expected: 1 Files Restored: 1 Bytes Restored: 1,612,428 Rate: 806.2 KB/s FD Errors: 0 FD termination status: OK SD termination status: OK Termination: Restore OK 08-Nov 14:31 MigWebSSCbkp1-dir JobId 361: Begin pruning Jobs. 08-Nov 14:31 MigWebSSCbkp1-dir JobId 361: Pruned 1 Job for client sscchbpdb01-fd from catalog. 08-Nov 14:31 MigWebSSCbkp1-dir JobId 361: Begin pruning Files. 08-Nov 14:31 MigWebSSCbkp1-dir JobId 361: No Files found to prune. 08-Nov 14:31 MigWebSSCbkp1-dir JobId 361: End auto prune. and 08-Nov 14:39 MigWebSSCbkp1-dir JobId 362: Start Restore Job DefaultRestoreJob.2007-11-08_14.39.08 08-Nov 14:39 MigWebSSCbkp1-dir JobId 362: Using Device BackupStorageLocation 08-Nov 14:39 MigWebSSCbkp1-sd JobId 362: Ready to read from volume BKP_INCR_0011 on device BackupStorageLocation (/webssc_bkp/bacula/backups). 08-Nov 14:39 MigWebSSCbkp1-sd JobId 362: Forward spacing Volume BKP_INCR_0011 to file:block outbind://264/block 0:221. 08-Nov 14:39 MigWebSSCbkp1-sd JobId 362: End of Volume at file 0 on device BackupStorageLocation (/webssc_bkp/bacula/backups), Volume BKP_INCR_0011 08-Nov 14:39 MigWebSSCbkp1-sd JobId 362: End of all volumes. 08-Nov 14:39 MigWebSSCbkp1-dir JobId 362: Bacula MigWebSSCbkp1-dir 2.2.5 (09Oct07): 08-Nov-2007 14:39:56 Build OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu redhat Enterprise release JobId: 362 Job: DefaultRestoreJob.2007-11-08_14.39.08 Restore Client: sscchbpdb01-fd Start time: 08-Nov-2007 14:39:54 End time: 08-Nov-2007 14:39:56 Files Expected: 1 Files Restored: 1 Bytes Restored: 2,097,152 Rate: 1048.6 KB/s FD Errors: 0 FD termination status: OK SD termination status: OK Termination: Restore OK 08-Nov 14:39 MigWebSSCbkp1-dir JobId 362: Begin pruning Jobs. 08-Nov 14:39 MigWebSSCbkp1-dir JobId 362: No Jobs found to prune. 08-Nov 14:39 MigWebSSCbkp1-dir JobId 362: Begin pruning Files. 08-Nov 14:39 MigWebSSCbkp1-dir JobId 362: No Files found to prune. 08-Nov 14:39 MigWebSSCbkp1-dir JobId 362: End auto prune. Now the thing is only I have access to this machine I certainly did not kick these restores off. *ponders* -Khush - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] VolumeToCatalog connecting to FD
I performed a scheduled incremental backup (to a file-device) of my system, followed by a VolumeToCatalog verify. The verify failed and included the following log entries: 07-Nov 23:19 butler-dir JobId 428: Fatal error: verify.c:730 bdirdfiled: bad attributes from filed n=-2 : No data available 07-Nov 23:19 butler-dir JobId 428: Fatal error: Network error with FD during Verify: ERR=No data available 07-Nov 23:19 butler-sd JobId 428: Job MalVerify.2007-11-07_23.10.03 marked to be canceled. 07-Nov 23:19 butler-dir JobId 428: Fatal error: No Job status returned from FD. I don't understand why VolumeToCatalog involes the FD -- I would think the FD is only involved in a DiskToCatalog check. Any suggestions? Thank you, -Jason Martin -- This message is PGP/MIME signed. pgpdzyrPudeQk.pgp Description: PGP signature - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] BAT
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Dep, Khushil (GE Money) wrote: In the end I ended up building QT4 and qwt from source! Oh give me back my debian boxes! *cries* Ta for all the help tho folks! :-) No need for that, see the SPEC file I posted here a few days ago. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Backups not writing data to tapes
Hi, I'm experiencing some issues with my Bacula tape backup. My operating system is Linux gentoo 1.12.6 and my Bacula version is 1.38.11. My issue is that one of my backups reported a VolStatus of Full at only 16GB (the tape capacity is 200GB). I then inserted a new tape that had a VolStatus of Recycle and the VolRetention of 28 days had expired since the LastWritten date. The problem is that nothing was written to the new tape. I was patient and was sure to let it site for a while. I've also tried a couple of other tapes (which the drive is recognizing fine) and receive the same results. I've manually set the VolStatus to Recycle and that hasn't helped either. I'd greatly appreciate any advice/suggestions. Eric - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] BAT
In the end I ended up building QT4 and qwt from source! Oh give me back my debian boxes! *cries* Ta for all the help tho folks! :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Augusto Camarotti Sent: 08 November 2007 16:50 To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] BAT On Nov 8, 2007 12:48 PM, Augusto Camarotti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try to check if pkgconfig it`s getting the right paths for the QT4 libs. This kind of problem happened to me, i had QT4 installed and pkgconfig wasn`t finding them. Augusto On Nov 8, 2007 6:43 AM, Alan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Dep, Khushil (GE Money) wrote: Now I know the QT4 libs are installed but it seems that pkg-config doesn't know about them. I know this is OT so but I thought I'd askf if anyone knew where I could get help from or any further reading about this. I'm forced into tuse RHEL4u4 instead of my own flavour or choice - Debian, so any help or pointers would be much appreciated. please do rpm -qa | grep qt I'd like to see if you have qt (3.3) and qt4 (4.x) installaed as separate packages, as I've just flagged this up as a problem in RHEL5 with the src rpm packager - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Doesn't want to recycle tape in the drive
Adam Cécile wrote: Hi, I really need help ;) Moreover, do you think, creating one pool for each week day could be a good workaround ? Yes, at least I do it that way. Adam Cécile a écrit : Hi, Here is my problem: I have five tapes (Dailly-00[1-5]). Let's assume Daily-005 is purged and Daily-001 is used (but data expired). If Daily-001 is in the drive, Bacula won't recycle it, instead it will keep asking for Daily-005. If I set Daily-005 as disabled, bacula automatically purge Daily-001 and recycle it. Any tips ? Best regards, Adam. (tested with bacula 2.2.0 and 2.2.5 on a Debian Etch system, with only one external LTO2 Dell tape drive). - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Include statements in bacula-dir.conf file
David Gardner wrote: Along the same line of reasoning, can the developers add the reload argument to the Bacula executable? This would be nice when a small tweak to the bacula-dir.conf file has been made and does not require a full restart of the system. Already there, see the manual. xxx:~# bconsole Connecting to Director xxx:9101 1000 OK: xxx-dir Version: 2.2.5 (09 October 2007) Enter a period to cancel a command. *reload You have messages. * And by full restart of the system you don't mean restart the entire computer, do you? ;) - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Tape devices and tapeinfo devices (Problems with the list resolved :)
By the way, I just decided to use my gmail account for subscribing
bacula-users. It`s much reliable than my organization e-mail which was
giving me so much trouble. :D
I have a Seagate Tape Driver DAT72.
In my system it`s referenced as /dev/st0.
So i configured my bacula-sd.conf this way :
Device {
Name = DDS-72#
Media Type = DDS-72
Archive Device = /dev/st0
AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
AlwaysOpen = no;
RemovableMedia = yes;
RandomAccess = no;
# Changer Command = /etc/bacula/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d
Changer Device = /dev/st0
AutoChanger = no
# Enable the Alert command only if you have the mtx package loaded
Alert Command = sh -c 'tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|cat'
# If you have smartctl, enable this, it has more info than tapeinfo
# Alert Command = sh -c 'smartctl -H -l error %c'
}
But it was giving this erros using tapeinfo with that device (/dev/st0) :
mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes
mtx: Request Sense: Valid Residual=no
mtx: Request Sense: Error Code=0 (Unknown?!)
mtx: Request Sense: Sense Key=No Sense
mtx: Request Sense: FileMark=no
mtx: Request Sense: EOM=no
mtx: Request Sense: ILI=no
mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Code = 00
mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Qualifier = 00
mtx: Request Sense: BPV=no
mtx: Request Sense: Error in CDB=no
mtx: Request Sense: SKSV=no
INQUIRY Command Failed
And this was showing after each job of Bacula. Then I discover that my tape
device have another name, /dev/sg4, that shows this when given to tapeinfo :
Product Type: Tape Drive
Vendor ID: 'SEAGATE '
Product ID: 'DATDAT72-052'
Revision: 'A060'
Attached Changer: No
SerialNumber: 'HV07G3D'
MinBlock:1
MaxBlock:16777215
SCSI ID: 6
SCSI LUN: 0
Ready: yes
BufferedMode: yes
Medium Type: 0x35
Density Code: 0x47
BlockSize: 0
DataCompEnabled: yes
DataCompCapable: yes
DataDeCompEnabled: yes
CompType: 0x20
DeCompType: 0x20
BOP: yes
Block Position: 0
So I change my storage configuration to that and I`ll be good?
Device {
Name = DDS-72#
Media Type = DDS-72
Archive Device = /dev/st0
AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
AlwaysOpen = no;
RemovableMedia = yes;
RandomAccess = no;
# Changer Command = /etc/bacula/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d
Changer Device = /dev/sg4
AutoChanger = no
# Enable the Alert command only if you have the mtx package loaded
Alert Command = sh -c 'tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|cat'
# If you have smartctl, enable this, it has more info than tapeinfo
# Alert Command = sh -c 'smartctl -H -l error %c'
}
Am I doing the correct thing? Why is that? Am I supposed to use /dev/sg4 as
my tape device? Cause i`m having problems with it, which I `ll explain in my
next e-mail.
Regards,
Augusto Camarotti
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Re: [Bacula-users] can't restore ACL of /tmp/bacula-restores/*
Doug Sampson wrote: I am testing the restore function of Bacula 2.2.5 on FreeBSD 6.2 and in the process of restoring ~20,000 files recursively from the /var directory, I am seeing numerous error messages as follows: ..snip.. 06-Nov 17:37 aries-fd JobId 2326: Warning: restore.c:588 Can't restore ACL of /tmp/bacula-restores/var/db/portsnap/files/49aef80a863cf2a80ab801b5f23f311d4 d005adb8a96f5477bb50deef559fc75.gz 06-Nov 17:37 aries-fd JobId 2326: Warning: restore.c:588 Can't restore ACL of /tmp/bacula-restores/var/db/portsnap/files/ddee802463e6bc7c5bd56e434f0b3d2c6 3fc1763a7cb05463a77059112850563.gz 06-Nov 17:37 aries-fd JobId 2326: Warning: restore.c:588 Can't restore ACL of /tmp/bacula-restores/var/db/portsnap/files/02acc9644ba6bae17c35136eab31744c9 a1c89abb234640bb6cec379815955c3.gz 06-Nov 17:37 aries-fd JobId 2326: Warning: restore.c:588 Can't restore ACL of /tmp/bacula-restores/var/db/portsnap/files/a42b6836952001e817fd7fc03d2b16020 af444ca37a1d4b1625b67119c32620b.gz 06-Nov 17:37 aries-fd JobId 2326: Warning: restore.c:588 Can't restore ACL of /tmp/bacula-restores/var/db/portsnap/files/bdb4049dc8c64ba8272a4300e16f54db2 29b418df694abab81a5b2c3f0843800.gz ..snip.. What kind of files are those? Any chance they are dangling symlinks? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/bacula-restores# tail /var/log/messages Nov 6 17:23:16 aries postgres[24308]: [11-1] ERROR: unrecognized configuration parameter standard_conforming_strings Nov 6 17:25:41 aries postgres[24316]: [11-1] ERROR: unrecognized configuration parameter standard_conforming_strings Nov 6 17:26:11 aries postgres[24316]: [12-1] ERROR: table delcandidates does not exist Nov 6 17:26:11 aries postgres[24316]: [13-1] ERROR: index delinx1 does not exist Nov 6 17:26:11 aries postgres[24316]: [14-1] ERROR: index delinx1 does not exist Nov 6 17:30:35 aries postgres[24328]: [11-1] ERROR: unrecognized configuration parameter standard_conforming_strings Nov 6 17:37:44 aries postgres[24328]: [12-1] ERROR: table delcandidates does not exist Nov 6 17:37:44 aries postgres[24328]: [13-1] ERROR: index delinx1 does not exist Nov 6 17:37:44 aries postgres[24328]: [14-1] ERROR: index delinx1 does not exist Is the Bacula database corrupted? Why aren't the ACLs not being restored? ~Doug - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] BAT
On Nov 8, 2007 12:48 PM, Augusto Camarotti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try to check if pkgconfig it`s getting the right paths for the QT4 libs. This kind of problem happened to me, i had QT4 installed and pkgconfig wasn`t finding them. Augusto On Nov 8, 2007 6:43 AM, Alan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Dep, Khushil (GE Money) wrote: Now I know the QT4 libs are installed but it seems that pkg-config doesn't know about them. I know this is OT so but I thought I'd askf if anyone knew where I could get help from or any further reading about this. I'm forced into tuse RHEL4u4 instead of my own flavour or choice - Debian, so any help or pointers would be much appreciated. please do rpm -qa | grep qt I'd like to see if you have qt (3.3) and qt4 (4.x) installaed as separate packages, as I've just flagged this up as a problem in RHEL5 with the src rpm packager - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] can't restore ACL of /tmp/bacula-restores/*
Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, 07.11.2007 02:41,, Doug Sampson wrote:: I am testing the restore function of Bacula 2.2.5 on FreeBSD 6.2 and in the process of restoring ~20,000 files recursively from the /var directory, I am seeing numerous error messages as follows: ..snip.. 06-Nov 17:37 aries-fd JobId 2326: Warning: restore.c:588 Can't restore ACL of /tmp/bacula-restores/var/db/portsnap/files/49aef80a863cf2a80ab801b5f23f311d4 d005adb8a96f5477bb50deef559fc75.gz Which file system is that? I suspect it's ZFS - ZFS ACLs are not exactly supported at the moment. As far as I know, as long as you don't use ACLs, there's nothing to be feared. Attila Fülöp wrote Just a few further notes: Unless you are using ACL on your zfs your data schould be save. You just have to live with the annoying error messages. You can check for this: find /zfs_mount_point -acl prints all files with ACL, ls -V file_with_acl show the associated ACL. He has a possible patch to fully support ZFS, but that needs work. See the thread solaris zfs in the list archives... Yes, the things missing are the regression scripts. The way the regression scripts work currently pose some problems on implementing ACL tests properly. I also wrote If there is enough interest I could port the code to the current HEAD and start writing regression tests. A backport to 2.2.x shouldn't be a big problem then. The drawback is that my spare time is quite limited, so this may take a while. and got no response at all, meaning that there seems to be no interest. Of course I will work on that once I need zfs ACL support in bacula myself ;-) Attila ..snip.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/bacula-restores# tail /var/log/messages Nov 6 17:23:16 aries postgres[24308]: [11-1] ERROR: unrecognized configuration parameter standard_conforming_strings Nov 6 17:25:41 aries postgres[24316]: [11-1] ERROR: unrecognized configuration parameter standard_conforming_strings Nov 6 17:26:11 aries postgres[24316]: [12-1] ERROR: table delcandidates does not exist Nov 6 17:26:11 aries postgres[24316]: [13-1] ERROR: index delinx1 does not exist Nov 6 17:26:11 aries postgres[24316]: [14-1] ERROR: index delinx1 does not exist Nov 6 17:30:35 aries postgres[24328]: [11-1] ERROR: unrecognized configuration parameter standard_conforming_strings Nov 6 17:37:44 aries postgres[24328]: [12-1] ERROR: table delcandidates does not exist Nov 6 17:37:44 aries postgres[24328]: [13-1] ERROR: index delinx1 does not exist Nov 6 17:37:44 aries postgres[24328]: [14-1] ERROR: index delinx1 does not exist Is the Bacula database corrupted? Why aren't the ACLs not being restored? The catalog thing is a different problem. Which version of Bacula do you run, and which PostgreSQL version? You should check the version requirements, or perhaps verify that your catalog holds all the tables and indexes needed. Just compare what the script to create the tables does, and what you actually have in your catalog. Arno ~Doug - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Include statements in bacula-dir.conf file
Hey gang, Can I break the bacula-dir.conf file in parts for easier management? Specifically, does bacula understand the include (or some variation thereof) to read in the various parts of the bacula-dir.conf file? Along the same line of reasoning, can the developers add the reload argument to the Bacula executable? This would be nice when a small tweak to the bacula-dir.conf file has been made and does not require a full restart of the system. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ David Gardner email: djgardner(at)yahoo.com Yahoo! IM: djgardner AIM: dgardner09 Everything is a learning experience, even a mistake. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Include statements in bacula-dir.conf file
Heavens no, Chris! I refer to Bacula as the system to restart. My apologies to the list if the requested information is in the manual and I didn't find it. I've had a rough time implementing this system per my manager's requirements. I'm use to working with Apache (amoung other systems) that recognizes include file-path/-name in the configuration file. Reloading the system is generally done from the command prompt. Again, my apologies. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ David Gardner email: djgardner(at)yahoo.com Yahoo! IM: djgardner AIM: dgardner09 Everything is a learning experience, even a mistake. - Original Message From: Chris Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2007 10:08:33 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Include statements in bacula-dir.conf file David Gardner wrote: Along the same line of reasoning, can the developers add the reload argument to the Bacula executable? This would be nice when a small tweak to the bacula-dir.conf file has been made and does not require a full restart of the system. Already there, see the manual. xxx:~# bconsole Connecting to Director xxx:9101 1000 OK: xxx-dir Version: 2.2.5 (09 October 2007) Enter a period to cancel a command. *reload You have messages. * And by full restart of the system you don't mean restart the entire computer, do you? ;) - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Include statements in bacula-dir.conf file
I'd like to again request the reload argument be an option to the bacula executable. Perhaps I'm being a little too paranoid for my own good but if the last paragraph of the bconsole | reload section on pg 264 of the user guide is any indication, I would not feel comfortable adding new clients to a production situation in this manner. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ David Gardner email: djgardner(at)yahoo.com Yahoo! IM: djgardner AIM: dgardner09 Everything is a learning experience, even a mistake. - Original Message From: Chris Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2007 10:08:33 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Include statements in bacula-dir.conf file David Gardner wrote: Along the same line of reasoning, can the developers add the reload argument to the Bacula executable? This would be nice when a small tweak to the bacula-dir.conf file has been made and does not require a full restart of the system. Already there, see the manual. xxx:~# bconsole Connecting to Director xxx:9101 1000 OK: xxx-dir Version: 2.2.5 (09 October 2007) Enter a period to cancel a command. *reload You have messages. * And by full restart of the system you don't mean restart the entire computer, do you? ;) - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Include statements in bacula-dir.conf file
On Nov 8, 2007 1:36 PM, David Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to again request the reload argument be an option to the bacula executable. Perhaps I'm being a little too paranoid for my own good but if the last paragraph of the bconsole | reload section on pg 264 of the user guide is any indication, I would not feel comfortable adding new clients to a production situation in this manner. Using the reload command is totally fine. I have used it several hundred times in the 4 years I have used bacula at home and at work. The only thing is you probably want to issue a test first: bacula-dir -t /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf This will test if your changes to the config files are correct. A good reason for this is in the past if you issued a reload command from the console and your config file was bad bacula would crash. Testing eliminates this problem. John - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Include statements in bacula-dir.conf file
John, Found it on pg 156 in the section related to including filenames in a fileset resource. Feel like I'm studying for MCSE exam... /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ David Gardner email: djgardner(at)yahoo.com Yahoo! IM: djgardner AIM: dgardner09 Everything is a learning experience, even a mistake. - Original Message From: John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, November 8, 2007 10:02:14 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Include statements in bacula-dir.conf file On Nov 8, 2007 12:55 PM, David Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey gang, Can I break the bacula-dir.conf file in parts for easier management? Specifically, does bacula understand the include (or some variation thereof) to read in the various parts of the bacula-dir.conf file? Along the same line of reasoning, can the developers add the reload argument to the Bacula executable? This would be nice when a small tweak to the bacula-dir.conf file has been made and does not require a full restart of the system. Here is my include section from my bacula-dir.conf file at home. The key here is the @ symbol. BTW, this is in the manual. @/etc/bacula/bacula-dir-filesets.conf @/etc/bacula/bacula-dir-jobs.conf @/etc/bacula/bacula-dir-jobdefs.conf @/etc/bacula/bacula-dir-clients.conf @/etc/bacula/bacula-dir-storage.conf @/etc/bacula/bacula-dir-pools.conf @/etc/bacula/bacula-dir-schedules.conf John __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Tape devices and tapeinfo devices (Problems with the list resolved :)
Augusto Camarotti wrote:
I have a Seagate Tape Driver DAT72.
In my system it`s referenced as /dev/st0.
So i configured my bacula-sd.conf this way :
Do you actually have an autochanger? It wasn't clear to me from your
description.
Device {
Name = DDS-72#
Media Type = DDS-72
Archive Device = /dev/st0
AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
AlwaysOpen = no;
RemovableMedia = yes;
RandomAccess = no;
# Changer Command = /etc/bacula/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d
Changer Device = /dev/st0
Won't work, st0 and nst0 are tape devices, not autochanger devices. You
need the scsi generic sgN device.
Am I doing the correct thing? Why is that? Am I supposed to use /dev/sg4 as
my tape device? Cause i`m having problems with it, which I `ll explain in my
No. sg4 would be your autochanger (if you have one).
Autochangers and tape drives are controlled separately using different
devices.
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Re: [Bacula-users] Strange problem reusing a tape
Hi, 08.11.2007 19:37,, Augusto Camarotti wrote:: Im using Bacula 2.2.4 . Everything was doing fine and was doing my diary cicle just as usual. Then, this error starts to happen everytime Bacula recycles a tape and try to reuse it. One real example : Yesterday(Wednesday) Bacula canceled my last job (I`m using Max Wait Time=5h) and said this : 07-Nov 22:00 infoserver-dir: BeforeJob: run command /etc/bacula/antes_do_backup-prpb2.sh 07-Nov 22:00 infoserver-dir: Start Backup JobId 63, Job=BackupPrpb2.2007-11-07_22.00.00 08-Nov 03:00 infoserver-dir: BackupPrpb2.2007-11-07_22.00.00 Fatal error: Max wait time exceeded. Job canceled. 08-Nov 03:00 infoserver-sd: Job BackupPrpb2.2007-11-07_22.00.00 marked to be canceled. 08-Nov 03:00 infoserver-dir: 3000 Job BackupPrpb2.2007-11-07_22.00.00 marked to be canceled. 08-Nov 03:00 infoserver-sd: Failed command: Jmsg I've never seen this. Could it be that the SD or DIR are running on a machine with serious hardware problems? Job=BackupPrpb2.2007-11-07_22.00.00 type=6 level=1194505235 infoserver-sd: Job BackupPrpb2.2007-11-07_22.00.00 marked to be canceled. 08-Nov 03:00 infoserver-sd: BackupPrpb2.2007-11-07_22.00.00 Fatal error: Device DDS-72 with MediaType DDS-72 requested by DIR not found in SD Device resources. Looks like the SD is either misconfigured (unlikely if other jobs ran correctly) or suffers from hardware problems. 08-Nov 03:00 infoserver-dir: BackupPrpb2.2007-11-07_22.00.00 Fatal error: Storage daemon didn't accept Device DDS-72 because: 3924 Device DDS-72 not in SD Device resources. Or your SD was (re-)started with the wrong configuration. 08-Nov 03:00 infoserver-dir: Bacula infoserver-dir 2.2.4 (14Sep07): 08-Nov-2007 03:00:58 Build OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu suse 10.1 JobId: 63 Job:BackupPrpb2.2007-11-07_22.00.00 Backup Level: Full Client: infoserver-fd 2.2.4 (14Sep07) i686-pc-linux-gnu,suse,10.1 FileSet:PRPB_SERVER2 2007-09-28 11:27:55 Pool: Quarta (From Run pool override) Storage:DDS-72 (From Job resource) Scheduled time: 07-Nov-2007 22:00:00 Start time: 07-Nov-2007 22:00:02 End time: 08-Nov-2007 03:00:58 Elapsed time: 5 hours 56 secs Priority: 10 FD Files Written: 0 SD Files Written: 0 FD Bytes Written: 0 (0 B) SD Bytes Written: 0 (0 B) Rate: 0.0 KB/s Software Compression: None VSS:no Encryption: no Volume name(s): Volume Session Id: 5 Volume Session Time:1194285486 Last Volume Bytes: 0 (0 B) Non-fatal FD errors:0 SD Errors: 0 FD termination status: SD termination status: Termination:Backup Canceled Ok, He didn`t get the proper tape to use. But then, in the other day ,when i saw this message, i tried to mount the tape that was in the drive and got this : mount Select Storage resource (1-2): block.c:275 Volume data error at 0:0! Wanted ID: BB02, got . Buffer discarded. Again - Hardware problems. In this case it might be a rancid DDS tape. It wouldn't be the first... 3902 Cannot mount Volume on Storage Device DDS-72 (/dev/st0) because: Requested Volume on DDS-72 (/dev/st0) is not a Bacula labeled Volume, because: ERR=block.c:275 Volume data error at 0:0! Wanted ID: BB02, got . Buffer discarded. 3905 Device DDS-72 (/dev/st0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted. If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume. Well, it seems like the tape it`s blank, but if you watch the media list we have : Pool: Quarta +-++---+-++--+--+-+--+---+---+-+ | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes | VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten | +-++---+-++--+--+-+--+---+---+-+ | 15 | quarta | Used | 1 | 21,654,484,992 | 22 | 518,400 | 1 |0 | 0 | DDS-72| 2007-10-31 23:25:20 | +-++---+-++--+--+-+--+---+---+-+ It was used last Wednesday just fine. So the tape got erased from nothing(I guess). Anyone have a clue on this problem? DDS. Quite unreliable, in my experience. Especially if the drive or the tape are really heavily used. Arno Regards, Augusto Camarotti
Re: [Bacula-users] MySQL (Innodb) - table is full ???
Hi All, My bacula database (with MyISAM tables) is currently 5.3 GB in size after only 10 months of use. Last weekend my File table filled up, which was easily fixed by doing the following as recommended at http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Catalog_Maintenance.html#SECTION00244 : ALTER TABLE File MAX_ROWS=281474976710656; But, the above command made me wonder if I will fill the File table again in the future. It also made me consider migrating my tables from MyISAM to InnoDB. Do you think the migration is worth the hassle? I should mention that I do AutoPrune my normal backups, but I must keep my archival backups indefinitely. These archival backups total over 2 TB per month. Btw, with the rate at which my users generate data it is conceivable that the normal and archival backups will continue to grow in size. Fyi, my autochanger is stackable, which means that I can just buy another unit and have 38 new slots (and possible 2 more drives) instantly available within the same storage resource. I mention this to denote that I am only worried about the limitations of my *database* storage not tape storage. Any thoughts? Regards, Mike Drew Bentley wrote: On 8/17/07, Alan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Drew Bentley wrote: Yeah, autoextend for InnoDB seems to have bitten you. I usually never do this and have monitors to tell me if it's reaching a certain threshold, as you're probably not even using all of the InnoDB space allocated, as it's not particularly nice in giving back space that was once used, at least in my experience. Is there any way to see how much it's actually using? Not that I'm aware of, only show table status and or innodb status will print out the usage. If you perform a full dump and reinsert, you're always going to gain usage in space. -drew - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] 'label barcodes' and adding volumes to a particular pool
Hi, Arno Lehmann wrote: Run it several times with different slot ranges, like 'label barcodes slots=1-3 pool=F01' and so on. Brilliant - thank you. The fact that you can use slots and pool seems to be missing from the docs, so I guess I should work on trying to add it :) It only seems to want to allow me to put the tapes into a single pool. I could allow it to put everything into the default pool but there doesn't seem to be a way of moving volumes to a different pool with 'add' and 'delete' of each one which is a bit of a pain. Use 'update volume=F01T01L4 pool=F01' and so on. Or use the menu after 'update volume=F01T01L4', of course. Ah great too, very useful :) Thank you. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula using one drive in a Vchanger
Hi Arno, Thanks for the tip; that really helped. I set Prefer Mounted Volume = no and jobs started getting on the other virtual drives as I expected. I did not know that this directive affected concurrency... Anyway, I'm still testing, and of course facing other problems that I'm working my way through. When I'm ready I will probably post a short note, and if our version of the vchanger works well, then I will share it with the group, along with some write up; but I've got to get it working first. Thanks again, Elie Azar Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, 07.11.2007 01:14,, Elie Azar wrote:: Hi Josh, I'm not Josh, but perhaps I see something, too :-) I have upgraded to bacula 2.2.5 and I'm still having the same problems. It seems like drive-1 in the vchanger is never used. Have you ever seen it used, and if so, what kind of configuration do I need; I followed the instruction in the HowTo document (Rev 0.7.4 2006-12-12). I tried many configurations but I still can't get it to run more than one job. If I start a second job it will fail. You probably still have the volumes to accept only one Job, and the jobs are probably set up to prefer the same volume. To get the desired results, you have to carefully adjust the job concurreny settings, and not forget about the Prefer Mounted Volume directive. By default, Bacula will try to run several jobs to a single volume if one is already mounted. So either you set up your jobs to use different pools, or set Prefer Mounted Volume to No. Also, the Maximum Concurrent Jobs setting for the storage device should be limited. If you set up your volumes to only accept one Job, yozu should also allow only one job going to the storage devices at the same time. Does that make sense? Arno What I'm trying to accomplish is the following: I created an LVM disk using 2x500GB disks. I created a vchanger with 2 virtual disks to backup to the LVM. Originally I created the vchangers with multiple 500GB disks, but I changed to use the LVM; that setup didn't work either. Even with one vchanger per 500GB disk, I still couldn't start more than one job at a time. I can the relevant parts of my conf files if that helps. I would like to run concurrent jobs to backup to different volumes on the LVM disk. Bacula doesn't seem to be able to do that. Every time I start more than one job, each one after the first fails. Here is a sample console output illustrating this problem: *run A job name must be specified. The defined Job resources are: 1: RestoreFiles 2: BackupCatalog Select Job resource (1-122): 99 Run Backup job JobName: Redmail-FS Level:Incremental Client: redmail-fd FileSet: Redmail root dev dev-shm impulse Pool: BLV01Pool13 (From Job resource) Storage: BLV01S (From Job resource) When: 2007-11-06 15:29:08 Priority: 10 OK to run? (yes/mod/no): yes Job queued. JobId=13736 * *mes 06-Nov 15:29 coal-dir JobId 13736: Start Backup JobId 13736, Job=Redmail-FS.2007-11-06_15.29.19 06-Nov 15:29 coal-dir JobId 13736: Using Volume BLV01m01s006 from 'Scratch' pool. 06-Nov 15:29 coal-dir JobId 13736: Using Device BLV01-drive-0 06-Nov 15:29 redmail-fd: DIR and FD clocks differ by 18 seconds, FD automatically adjusting. 06-Nov 15:29 coal-sd JobId 13736: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0 command. 06-Nov 15:29 coal-sd JobId 13736: 3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result is Slot 5. 06-Nov 15:29 coal-sd JobId 13736: 3307 Issuing autochanger unload slot 5, drive 0 command. 06-Nov 15:29 coal-sd JobId 13736: 3304 Issuing autochanger load slot 6, drive 0 command. 06-Nov 15:29 coal-sd JobId 13736: 3305 Autochanger load slot 6, drive 0, status is OK. 06-Nov 15:29 coal-sd JobId 13736: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0 command. 06-Nov 15:29 coal-sd JobId 13736: 3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result is Slot 6. 06-Nov 15:29 coal-sd JobId 13736: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume BLV01m01s006 on device BLV01-drive-0 (/var/lib/bacula/vchanger/BLV01/drive0) 06-Nov 15:29 coal-dir JobId 13736: Max Volume jobs exceeded. Marking Volume BLV01m01s006 as Used. redmail-fd: /sys is a different filesystem. Will not descend from / into /sys * * *run A job name must be specified. The defined Job resources are: 1: RestoreFiles 2: BackupCatalog ... Select Job resource (1-122): 59 Run Backup job JobName: Linux2-Test1 Level:Incremental Client: linux2-fd FileSet: Test Set Pool: BLV01Pool13 (From Job resource) Storage: BLV01S (From Job resource) When: 2007-11-06 15:29:31 Priority: 10 OK to run? (yes/mod/no): yes Job queued. JobId=1373*mes 06-Nov 15:29 coal-dir JobId 13737: Start Backup JobId 13737, Job=Linux2-Test1.2007-11-06_15.29.20 06-Nov 15:29 coal-dir JobId 13737: There are no more Jobs associated with Volume BLV01m01s006. Marking it
Re: [Bacula-users] MySQL (Innodb) - table is full ???
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Mike Seda wrote: Hi All, My bacula database (with MyISAM tables) is currently 5.3 GB in size after only 10 months of use. Last weekend my File table filled up, which was easily fixed by doing the following as recommended at http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Catalog_Maintenance.html#SECTION00244 : ALTER TABLE File MAX_ROWS=281474976710656; Right. You now have room in your table for data on 281.5 trillion files. should mention that I do AutoPrune my normal backups, but I must keep my archival backups indefinitely. These archival backups total over 2 TB per month. How many files are in each of your archival backups? At 100 million files per backup, you've got room in your DB for 2.8 million backup sessions. Depending on which version of MySQL you've installed and the filesystem the database is stored on, it's possible that you'll eventually run into an issue with physical size of the database files, but you're not going to run out of rows in the table any time soon. -- D - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Prevent Bacula from writing files to Catalog DB?
Shon Stephens wrote: I remember reading somewhere that its possible to configure a Job so that the files and attributes are not added to the Catalog DB. However, I can't find this documentation now. I'm not sure. Basically, I have a client with millions of files, and don't want all that going into the database. My understanding is that if a backup is Why? This should only take a few hundred megabytes of catalog space at most. done without saving this information to the Catalog, that it can only be restored in a very specific way, and I won't be able to extract files by name. You won't be able to restore files using 'restore' in bconsole because bacula doesn't know what files. you will have to use bls and bextract instead. Basically, I would advise against what you are trying to do, unless you want to spend hours and hours every time you want to restore a file. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] continuation tapes
Pool {
Name = ThursdayPool
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 19d
Volume Use Duration = 4d
Maximum Volume Jobs = 4
}
Since 1_Friday_Week_3 was last written 2007-11-02 and more than 4d have
passed, it's pretty clear that if Bacula was going to mark that volume
'Used', it would have done so by now. It hasn't
Short of marking the volume 'Used' manually, how can I ensure that the
Volume is properly prevented from re-use during the 19 days of Volume
Retention?
Did you change the Pool params after you labeled the tape?
John
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Re: [Bacula-users] continuation tapes
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 23:05 +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hi,
02.11.2007 21:48,, Craig White wrote::
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 21:38 +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hi,
02.11.2007 21:26,, Craig White wrote::
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 15:08 -0400, John Drescher wrote:
On 11/2/07, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am a bit befuddled.
I have a 'Full' backup which consists of 4 jobs but it extends onto 2
tapes.
the Pool permits 4 jobs
Maximum Volume Jobs = 4
Volume Retention = 19d
Volume Use Duration = 4d
I believe Maximum Volume Jobs here will allow at most 4 jobs to a
single volume and since there are only 2 jobs written to the last
volume it can hold 2 more.
I get that. I can't change the number to 2 because then it would stop
after the second job and force me into a new tape leaving half the first
tape filled and not enough room on second tape to complete the next 2
jobs (the second being a standard BackupCatalog job).
I find it hard to believe that I am the only one who is spanning tapes
on a single Pool and wanting to have the last tape marked 'Used' instead
of 'Append'
True... but as it is, many users try to avoid problems they might run
into when jobs are added, or don't run for whatever reason, so they
don't limit the volume use by the number of jobs, but rather by the
time it can be used after an initial write ;-)
So my suggestion is to use Volume Use Duration instead of the job
limit. Depending on your needs, limiting by size might also be useful
- Maximum Volume Bytes is the corresponding option.
Does that help?
in that I have set (as noted above) Volume Use Duration to 4d, if it
marks the set as 'Used' on Tuesday (Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday)
constituting the 4 days and then Bacula respects the 'Volume Retention',
I am good to go.
In my experience, Bacula does handle retention periods correctly.
As you might expect, I am concerned that the next usage of ThursdayPool,
that it asks for this Volume because it is still marked 'Append' and I
would want it to ultimately ask for the one of the ThursdayPool volumes
whose 'Volume Retention' has expired.
Let's say your volume is marked as used on Thursday, and it's been
last written to on Thursday, too, and you've got a retention time of
six days, that volume could be recycled next weeks Thursday.
If you swapped the volumes and updated the catalog accordingly, Bacula
will prefer volumes in the autochanger, i.e. when it needs a Thursday
volume, it will prune, recycle, and use that volume automatically.
I think this is what you need.
OK - here it is the next Thursday.
Tape with 2 jobs from last Friday is not now, nor was ever marked 'Used'
- it is still marked 'Append'
# bconsole
Connecting to Director linserv1.mullenpr.com:9101
1000 OK: LINSERV1 Version: 2.2.5 (09 October 2007)
Enter a period to cancel a command.
*list media pool=ThursdayPool
Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog
Using Catalog MyCatalog
+-+---+---+-+-+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+
| MediaId | VolumeName| VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes|
VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType |
LastWritten |
+-+---+---+-+-+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+
| 10 | 1_Friday_Week_3 | Append| 1 | 39,130,656,768 |
41 |1,641,600 | 1 |0 | 0 | LTO | 2007-11-02
10:50:33 |
| 11 | 1_Thursday_Week_3 | Full | 1 | 130,561,191,936 |
132 |1,641,600 | 1 |0 | 0 | LTO | 2007-11-02
03:30:19 |
| 16 | 1_Friday_Week_1 | Append| 1 | 64,512 |
0 |1,641,600 | 1 |0 | 0 | LTO | -00-00
00:00:00 |
+-+---+---+-+-+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+
Pool {
Name = ThursdayPool
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 19d
Volume Use Duration = 4d
Maximum Volume Jobs = 4
}
Since 1_Friday_Week_3 was last written 2007-11-02 and more than 4d have
passed, it's pretty clear that if Bacula was going to mark that volume
'Used', it would have done so by now. It hasn't
Short of marking the volume 'Used' manually, how can I ensure that the
Volume is properly prevented from re-use during the 19 days of Volume
Retention?
Craig
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Re: [Bacula-users] scsi problems
Michael Galloway schrieb: [...] with these changes implemented, the btape test passes (with a couple of modifications to bacula-sd.conf) and the autochanger test passes. of of curiosity, what are others with LTO-4 using for scsi adapaters? LSI20320, no problems with bacula. The only problem is that both HP LTO-4 drives only negotiate to U160 mode. Althought the controller offers U320 mode (min_period=0x08). mptscsih: ioc0: debug_level=0200h mptspi: ioc0: id=1 Requested = 0x ( factor = 0x00 @ offset = 0x00 ) Vendor: HPModel: Ultrium 4-SCSIRev: B12H Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 mptspi: ioc0: id=1 min_period=0x08 max_offset=0x7f max_width=1 st 5:0:1:0: Attached scsi tape st0 st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B) st 5:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 1 I tested this with an Adaptec 29320 and got the same U160 settings. But I didn't test bacula with the Adaptec controller, so I can't say if it would had worked with bacula. Ralf - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] 'label barcodes' and adding volumes to a particular pool
On Nov 8, 2007 7:20 PM, Chris Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Arno Lehmann wrote: Run it several times with different slot ranges, like 'label barcodes slots=1-3 pool=F01' and so on. Brilliant - thank you. The fact that you can use slots and pool seems to be missing from the docs, so I guess I should work on trying to add it :) It only seems to want to allow me to put the tapes into a single pool. I could allow it to put everything into the default pool but there doesn't seem to be a way of moving volumes to a different pool with 'add' and 'delete' of each one which is a bit of a pain. Use 'update volume=F01T01L4 pool=F01' and so on. Or use the menu after 'update volume=F01T01L4', of course. Ah great too, very useful :) One other thing I would like to mention is that with my changer I have bacula put all the tapes into the Scratch pool and then bacula will grab tapes from this pool when no tape is available in the pool it is using. I find this works better for me than pre-allocating tapes for each pool that I use. John - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] VolumeToCatalog connecting to FD
Jason Martin schrieb: I performed a scheduled incremental backup (to a file-device) of my system, followed by a VolumeToCatalog verify. The verify failed and included the following log entries: 07-Nov 23:19 butler-dir JobId 428: Fatal error: verify.c:730 bdirdfiled: bad attributes from filed n=-2 : No data available 07-Nov 23:19 butler-dir JobId 428: Fatal error: Network error with FD during Verify: ERR=No data available 07-Nov 23:19 butler-sd JobId 428: Job MalVerify.2007-11-07_23.10.03 marked to be canceled. 07-Nov 23:19 butler-dir JobId 428: Fatal error: No Job status returned from FD. I don't understand why VolumeToCatalog involes the FD -- I would think the FD is only involved in a DiskToCatalog check. Any suggestions? Yes, the verify code is in the FD. You can even use an other client's FD in your config for verify jobs. I use the directors FD for all of my verify jobs, you have just to add 'client = otherfd' to the job config. Ralf - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Strange problem reusing a tape
Im using Bacula 2.2.4 . Everything was doing fine and was doing my diary cicle just as usual. Then, this error starts to happen everytime Bacula recycles a tape and try to reuse it. One real example : Yesterday(Wednesday) Bacula canceled my last job (I`m using Max Wait Time=5h) and said this : 07-Nov 22:00 infoserver-dir: BeforeJob: run command /etc/bacula/antes_do_backup-prpb2.sh 07-Nov 22:00 infoserver-dir: Start Backup JobId 63, Job= BackupPrpb2.2007-11-07_22.00.00 08-Nov 03:00 infoserver-dir: BackupPrpb2.2007-11-07_22.00.00 Fatal error: Max wait time exceeded. Job canceled. 08-Nov 03:00 infoserver-sd: Job BackupPrpb2.2007-11-07_22.00.00 marked to be canceled. 08-Nov 03:00 infoserver-dir: 3000 Job BackupPrpb2.2007-11-07_22.00.00 marked to be canceled. 08-Nov 03:00 infoserver-sd: Failed command: Jmsg Job= BackupPrpb2.2007-11-07_22.00.00 type=6 level=1194505235 infoserver-sd: Job BackupPrpb2.2007-11-07_22.00.00 marked to be canceled. 08-Nov 03:00 infoserver-sd: BackupPrpb2.2007-11-07_22.00.00 Fatal error: Device DDS-72 with MediaType DDS-72 requested by DIR not found in SD Device resources. 08-Nov 03:00 infoserver-dir: BackupPrpb2.2007-11-07_22.00.00 Fatal error: Storage daemon didn't accept Device DDS-72 because: 3924 Device DDS-72 not in SD Device resources. 08-Nov 03:00 infoserver-dir: Bacula infoserver-dir 2.2.4 (14Sep07): 08-Nov-2007 03:00:58 Build OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu suse 10.1 JobId: 63 Job:BackupPrpb2.2007-11-07_22.00.00 Backup Level: Full Client: infoserver-fd 2.2.4 (14Sep07) i686-pc-linux-gnu,suse,10.1 FileSet:PRPB_SERVER2 2007-09-28 11:27:55 Pool: Quarta (From Run pool override) Storage:DDS-72 (From Job resource) Scheduled time: 07-Nov-2007 22:00:00 Start time: 07-Nov-2007 22:00:02 End time: 08-Nov-2007 03:00:58 Elapsed time: 5 hours 56 secs Priority: 10 FD Files Written: 0 SD Files Written: 0 FD Bytes Written: 0 (0 B) SD Bytes Written: 0 (0 B) Rate: 0.0 KB/s Software Compression: None VSS:no Encryption: no Volume name(s): Volume Session Id: 5 Volume Session Time:1194285486 Last Volume Bytes: 0 (0 B) Non-fatal FD errors:0 SD Errors: 0 FD termination status: SD termination status: Termination:Backup Canceled Ok, He didn`t get the proper tape to use. But then, in the other day ,when i saw this message, i tried to mount the tape that was in the drive and got this : mount Select Storage resource (1-2): block.c:275 Volume data error at 0:0! Wanted ID: BB02, got . Buffer discarded. 3902 Cannot mount Volume on Storage Device DDS-72 (/dev/st0) because: Requested Volume on DDS-72 (/dev/st0) is not a Bacula labeled Volume, because: ERR=block.c:275 Volume data error at 0:0! Wanted ID: BB02, got . Buffer discarded. 3905 Device DDS-72 (/dev/st0) open but no Bacula volume is mounted. If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume. Well, it seems like the tape it`s blank, but if you watch the media list we have : Pool: Quarta +-++---+-++--+--+-+--+---+---+-+ | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes | VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten | +-++---+-++--+--+-+--+---+---+-+ | 15 | quarta | Used | 1 | 21,654,484,992 | 22 | 518,400 | 1 |0 | 0 | DDS-72| 2007-10-31 23:25:20 | +-++---+-++--+--+-+--+---+---+-+ It was used last Wednesday just fine. So the tape got erased from nothing(I guess). Anyone have a clue on this problem? Regards, Augusto Camarotti - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Odd Restores
I can't say for sure, but you could have a JobDef assigned to the restore job configuration which contains a schedule. However, I haven't ever heard of jobs just starting by themselves. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Tapes(Volumes) put into ERROR status
Hi Arno, Added Two EOF = Yes and re-ran the btape test and the problem disappeared. Thanks again!! Win Hi, 08.11.2007 15:17,, Win Htin wrote:: Hi folks, Just as I thought I have fixed my problems, I am again stumped with Volumes being put into Error with /*Error: Unable to position to end of data on device*/ messages. As previously mentioned in my other post, all the tapes were erased once over to make sure everything starts cleanly. The tapes were bought brand new from IBM and some were used previously for my Bacula tests (btape + actual backups). analysing the pattern, I suspect once all the backups are done EOF/EOD is not written to the tape/volume causing next run(s) to put the tape into Error and use the next available volume. Have you set Two EOF = Yes in the SD configuration? Seems like setting that, and BSF at EOM, too, might help you... you'll have to try. Arno - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Prevent Bacula from writing files to Catalog DB?
Hi, 08.11.2007 21:56,, Shon Stephens wrote:: I remember reading somewhere that its possible to configure a Job so that the files and attributes are not added to the Catalog DB. However, I can't find this documentation now. In the pool you use, set Catalog Files = No. This may get you into all sorts of trouble later, though... Basically, I have a client with millions of files, and don't want all that going into the database. My understanding is that if a backup is done without saving this information to the Catalog, that it can only be restored in a very specific way, and I won't be able to extract files by name. Yes, and this is the most problematic thing here... to restore a single file from that backup, you'll either have to use bextract, possibly loading the complete backup from the volumes to a disk, or bscan to add the contents to the catalog. I wouldn't do it - the catalog will most probably not break when you have a a few millions of file entries more. Arno Can anyone clue me in re: this type of backup? Thanks, Shon - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] continuation tapes
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 16:19 -0500, John Drescher wrote:
Pool {
Name = ThursdayPool
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 19d
Volume Use Duration = 4d
Maximum Volume Jobs = 4
}
Since 1_Friday_Week_3 was last written 2007-11-02 and more than 4d have
passed, it's pretty clear that if Bacula was going to mark that volume
'Used', it would have done so by now. It hasn't
Short of marking the volume 'Used' manually, how can I ensure that the
Volume is properly prevented from re-use during the 19 days of Volume
Retention?
Did you change the Pool params after you labeled the tape?
I am fairly certain that I haven't - this is now my 4th setup of
Bacula...but the first one where the 'Full' backup spans with 2 jobs on
the first tape and then 2 jobs on the second tape.
I double checked though...nothing changed (volume_id 10 is the subject
tape)
see below
Craig
*update
Update choice:
1: Volume parameters
2: Pool from resource
3: Slots from autochanger
Choose catalog item to update (1-3): 1
Parameters to modify:
1: Volume Status
2: Volume Retention Period
3: Volume Use Duration
4: Maximum Volume Jobs
5: Maximum Volume Files
6: Maximum Volume Bytes
7: Recycle Flag
8: Slot
9: InChanger Flag
10: Volume Files
11: Pool
12: Volume from Pool
13: All Volumes from Pool
14: Enabled
15: RecyclePool
16: Done
Select parameter to modify (1-16): 4
Defined Pools:
1: Default
2: MondayPool
3: TuesdayPool
4: WednesdayPool
5: ThursdayPool
6: FridayPool
7: CarterPool
Select the Pool (1-7): 5
snip
Enter MediaId or Volume name: 10
Updating Volume 1_Friday_Week_3
Current max jobs is: 4
Enter new Maximum Jobs: 4
New max jobs is: 4
Parameters to modify:
1: Volume Status
2: Volume Retention Period
3: Volume Use Duration
4: Maximum Volume Jobs
5: Maximum Volume Files
6: Maximum Volume Bytes
7: Recycle Flag
8: Slot
9: InChanger Flag
10: Volume Files
11: Pool
12: Volume from Pool
13: All Volumes from Pool
14: Enabled
15: RecyclePool
16: Done
Select parameter to modify (1-16): 2
Defined Pools:
1: Default
2: MondayPool
3: TuesdayPool
4: WednesdayPool
5: ThursdayPool
6: FridayPool
7: CarterPool
Select the Pool (1-7): 5
snip
Enter MediaId or Volume name: 10
Updating Volume 1_Friday_Week_3
Current retention period is: 19 days
Enter Volume Retention period: 19
New retention period is: 19 days
Parameters to modify:
1: Volume Status
2: Volume Retention Period
3: Volume Use Duration
4: Maximum Volume Jobs
5: Maximum Volume Files
6: Maximum Volume Bytes
7: Recycle Flag
8: Slot
9: InChanger Flag
10: Volume Files
11: Pool
12: Volume from Pool
13: All Volumes from Pool
14: Enabled
15: RecyclePool
16: Done
Select parameter to modify (1-16): 16
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Re: [Bacula-users] Tape devices and tapeinfo devices (Problems with the list resolved :)
Hi,
08.11.2007 19:18,, Augusto Camarotti wrote::
By the way, I just decided to use my gmail account for subscribing
bacula-users. It`s much reliable than my organization e-mail which was
giving me so much trouble. :D
I have a Seagate Tape Driver DAT72.
In my system it`s referenced as /dev/st0.
So i configured my bacula-sd.conf this way :
Device {
Name = DDS-72#
Media Type = DDS-72
Archive Device = /dev/st0
AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
AlwaysOpen = no;
RemovableMedia = yes;
RandomAccess = no;
# Changer Command = /etc/bacula/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d
Changer Device = /dev/st0
Try /dev/sg0 or whatever raw SCSI device your tape drive is.
AutoChanger = no
# Enable the Alert command only if you have the mtx package loaded
Alert Command = sh -c 'tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|cat'
# If you have smartctl, enable this, it has more info than tapeinfo
# Alert Command = sh -c 'smartctl -H -l error %c'
}
But it was giving this erros using tapeinfo with that device (/dev/st0) :
mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes
mtx: Request Sense: Valid Residual=no
mtx: Request Sense: Error Code=0 (Unknown?!)
mtx: Request Sense: Sense Key=No Sense
mtx: Request Sense: FileMark=no
mtx: Request Sense: EOM=no
mtx: Request Sense: ILI=no
mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Code = 00
mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Qualifier = 00
mtx: Request Sense: BPV=no
mtx: Request Sense: Error in CDB=no
mtx: Request Sense: SKSV=no
INQUIRY Command Failed
And this was showing after each job of Bacula. Then I discover that my
tape device have another name, /dev/sg4, that shows this when given to
tapeinfo :
Product Type: Tape Drive
Vendor ID: 'SEAGATE '
Product ID: 'DATDAT72-052'
Revision: 'A060'
Attached Changer: No
SerialNumber: 'HV07G3D'
MinBlock:1
MaxBlock:16777215
SCSI ID: 6
SCSI LUN: 0
Ready: yes
BufferedMode: yes
Medium Type: 0x35
Density Code: 0x47
BlockSize: 0
DataCompEnabled: yes
DataCompCapable: yes
DataDeCompEnabled: yes
CompType: 0x20
DeCompType: 0x20
BOP: yes
Block Position: 0
So I change my storage configuration to that and I`ll be good?
Device {
Name = DDS-72#
Media Type = DDS-72
Archive Device = /dev/st0
AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
AlwaysOpen = no;
RemovableMedia = yes;
RandomAccess = no;
# Changer Command = /etc/bacula/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d
Changer Device = /dev/sg4
See above - this seems to be your tape drive, so it should be ok.
AutoChanger = no
# Enable the Alert command only if you have the mtx package loaded
Alert Command = sh -c 'tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|cat'
# If you have smartctl, enable this, it has more info than tapeinfo
# Alert Command = sh -c 'smartctl -H -l error %c'
}
Am I doing the correct thing? Why is that? Am I supposed to use /dev/sg4
as my tape device? Cause i`m having problems with it, which I `ll
explain in my next e-mail.
Yes. Because tapeinfo needs the SCSI generic device, not the tape
driver to talk to. No. And sure. :-)
Arno
Regards,
Augusto Camarotti
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[Bacula-users] Prevent Bacula from writing files to Catalog DB?
I remember reading somewhere that its possible to configure a Job so that the files and attributes are not added to the Catalog DB. However, I can't find this documentation now. Basically, I have a client with millions of files, and don't want all that going into the database. My understanding is that if a backup is done without saving this information to the Catalog, that it can only be restored in a very specific way, and I won't be able to extract files by name. Can anyone clue me in re: this type of backup? Thanks, Shon - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] continuation tapes
Hi,
08.11.2007 22:05,, Craig White wrote::
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 23:05 +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hi,
02.11.2007 21:48,, Craig White wrote::
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 21:38 +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hi,
02.11.2007 21:26,, Craig White wrote::
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 15:08 -0400, John Drescher wrote:
On 11/2/07, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am a bit befuddled.
I have a 'Full' backup which consists of 4 jobs but it extends onto 2
tapes.
the Pool permits 4 jobs
Maximum Volume Jobs = 4
Volume Retention = 19d
Volume Use Duration = 4d
I believe Maximum Volume Jobs here will allow at most 4 jobs to a
single volume and since there are only 2 jobs written to the last
volume it can hold 2 more.
I get that. I can't change the number to 2 because then it would stop
after the second job and force me into a new tape leaving half the first
tape filled and not enough room on second tape to complete the next 2
jobs (the second being a standard BackupCatalog job).
I find it hard to believe that I am the only one who is spanning tapes
on a single Pool and wanting to have the last tape marked 'Used' instead
of 'Append'
True... but as it is, many users try to avoid problems they might run
into when jobs are added, or don't run for whatever reason, so they
don't limit the volume use by the number of jobs, but rather by the
time it can be used after an initial write ;-)
So my suggestion is to use Volume Use Duration instead of the job
limit. Depending on your needs, limiting by size might also be useful
- Maximum Volume Bytes is the corresponding option.
Does that help?
in that I have set (as noted above) Volume Use Duration to 4d, if it
marks the set as 'Used' on Tuesday (Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday)
constituting the 4 days and then Bacula respects the 'Volume Retention',
I am good to go.
In my experience, Bacula does handle retention periods correctly.
As you might expect, I am concerned that the next usage of ThursdayPool,
that it asks for this Volume because it is still marked 'Append' and I
would want it to ultimately ask for the one of the ThursdayPool volumes
whose 'Volume Retention' has expired.
Let's say your volume is marked as used on Thursday, and it's been
last written to on Thursday, too, and you've got a retention time of
six days, that volume could be recycled next weeks Thursday.
If you swapped the volumes and updated the catalog accordingly, Bacula
will prefer volumes in the autochanger, i.e. when it needs a Thursday
volume, it will prune, recycle, and use that volume automatically.
I think this is what you need.
OK - here it is the next Thursday.
Tape with 2 jobs from last Friday is not now, nor was ever marked 'Used'
- it is still marked 'Append'
# bconsole
Connecting to Director linserv1.mullenpr.com:9101
1000 OK: LINSERV1 Version: 2.2.5 (09 October 2007)
Enter a period to cancel a command.
*list media pool=ThursdayPool
Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog
Using Catalog MyCatalog
+-+---+---+-+-+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+
| MediaId | VolumeName| VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes|
VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType |
LastWritten |
+-+---+---+-+-+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+
| 10 | 1_Friday_Week_3 | Append| 1 | 39,130,656,768 |
41 |1,641,600 | 1 |0 | 0 | LTO | 2007-11-02
10:50:33 |
| 11 | 1_Thursday_Week_3 | Full | 1 | 130,561,191,936 |
132 |1,641,600 | 1 |0 | 0 | LTO | 2007-11-02
03:30:19 |
| 16 | 1_Friday_Week_1 | Append| 1 | 64,512 |
0 |1,641,600 | 1 |0 | 0 | LTO | -00-00
00:00:00 |
+-+---+---+-+-+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+
Pool {
Name = ThursdayPool
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 19d
Volume Use Duration = 4d
Maximum Volume Jobs = 4
}
Since 1_Friday_Week_3 was last written 2007-11-02 and more than 4d have
passed, it's pretty clear that if Bacula was going to mark that volume
'Used', it would have done so by now. It hasn't
It will only be marked Used when Bacula looks for a usable volume
and considers it. Bacula does not have an internal marker to indicate
that, on 2007-11-06 (or whatever the result of FirstWritten+4d would
be) this tape has to marked as used. Instead, only when considering
this as a volume to use, it encounters the state of
(FirstWritten+VolUseDurationnom() if that makes sense...) and sets
the status accordingly.
Short of marking the
Re: [Bacula-users] differential backups not reqiered?
Hi All,
I wish to save space on my tapes by changing backup levels in my
Monthly Schedule resource.
My current Monthly Schedule resource is:
Schedule {
Name = Monthly
Run = Level=Full Pool=Monthly 1st fri at 23:05
Run = Level=Full Pool=Weekly 2nd-5th fri at 23:05
Run = Level=Differential Pool=Weekly sat-thu at 23:05
}
I wish to change the aforementioned resource to:
Schedule {
Name = Monthly
Run = Level=Full Pool=Monthly 1st fri at 23:05
Run = Level=Differential Pool=Weekly 2nd-5th fri at 23:05
Run = Level=Incremental Pool=Daily sat-thu at 23:05
}
Btw, with my proposed changes to the backup levels, I plan to use the
following Volume Retention times while having Recycle = yes and
AutoPrune = yes :
Monthly = 372 days
Weekly = 37 days
Daily = 14 days
Do the proposed Schedule and Volume Retention times seem reasonable? I
added 7 days to each time as a fudge-factor. Any critiques and/or advice
is welcome.
Also, I have read that Bacula will not backup files that have a ctime
less than the last backup (of any level, i.e. Full, Differential,
Incremental). Is that still true with Bacula 2.0.1? If so, is there
anyway to circumvent this? Basically, will changing the 2nd, 3rd, 4th,
and 5th Friday backups from Full to Differentials put my data at more of
a risk if my users perform moves and untars? I feel that if I tell my
users (one of which is my boss) to touch all files/dirs after a move or
untar, he will then tell me to go get a quote for some new backup
software. This is not an option for me as I am a bigtime open-source
evangelist, and Bacula has served me well thus far. Please advise.
Thx,
Mike
Kern Sibbald wrote:
On Friday 03 November 2006 11:27, Jaap Stolk wrote:
On 11/3/06, Jaap Stolk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was wondering if i could do without the differential backups
altogether ?
(in reply to my own post)
I did some more reading and found that the differential backup only
looks at the file date/time, exactly like the incremental backup. so
this is no reason to use a differential backup.
Except that doing Differential backups allows you to restore faster and to
recycle your Incremental backups faster.
The other thing is a differential backup would reduce the number of
incremental backups i need to scan when restoring files, but since i
backup to a file this doesn't involve manual tape changes, so this is
also not a problem in my case.
I think i can detect files that are missed in the incremental backup
(because of an old file timestamp) using a verify job, and either
manual or automatically touch these files, so they will be backed up
in the next incremental backup.
That's an interesting idea ...
so i have no further questions, unless someone sees a bog problem in my
setup.
Kind regards,
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Re: [Bacula-users] using clone jobs
All,
I will soon purchase a second (identical) tape drive for my autochanger,
which will be used primarily for cloning jobs.
After reading the documentation, it seems that the following (with
site-specific modifications of job-name and media-type) is all that
needs to be added to each Job (or perhaps JobDefs) resource to make
cloning happen:
run = job-name level=%l since=\%s\ storage=media-type
Is this correct?
I suppose that I can have a job cloned to a different pool using the
storage keyword in that line, but I would much rather say:
run = job-name level=%l since=\%s\ *pool*=*pool-name*
Are there any plans to implement pool as a cloning keyword in the run
directive? I think that it would be much cleaner to refer to the
pool-name as opposed to media-type since some folks (like yours truly)
have one media-type, but multiple pools.
Also, how does Bacula handle cloned jobs when Spool Data = yes.
Basically, does Bacula then spool once or twice?
Please advise.
Cheers,
Mike
Michael Proto wrote:
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I neglected to mention that I have a 2nd tape drive that I plan to use
with this clone job, so there shouldn't be an issue with both running
simultaneously.
Michael Proto wrote:
As part of my monthly backup cycle, I am required to take 2 full backups
to 2 different pools at the beginning of each month, one to store
locally and one to store off-site. Up until now I have been running 2
independent schedules to take care of these:
bacula-dir.conf:
Schedule {
Name = WeeklyCycle
Run = Level=Full Pool=MonthlyOffsite Priority=9 1st sat at 1:05
Run = Level=Full Pool=Monthly Priority=9 1st sun at 1:05
Run = Level=Incremental Pool=Daily FullPool=Monthly mon-sat at 1:05
...
I see in the Director's Job resource that there is a Run directive
(not to be confused with the Run directive in the Schedule resource
above) that can be used to clone jobs. If possible I'd like to use this
to clone the Level=Full Pool=Monthly backup job shown above to the
MonthlyOffsite pool. Unfortunately I'm unable to wrap my head around
this directive based on the single example given in the documentation.
Here's a sample of one of my Job and JobDef resources:
JobDefs {
Name = DefaultJob
Type = Backup
Level = Incremental
FileSet = Full Set
Schedule = WeeklyCycle
Storage = ADIC-Library1
Messages = Standard
Pool = Daily
Full Backup Pool = Monthly
Priority = 10
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1
Spool Data = yes
}
Job {
Name = archive2
JobDefs = DefaultJob
Client = archive2-fd
FileSet = archive2
}
I imagine I'd need a line like this in the archive2 job:
Run = archive2 level=Full since=\%s\ pool=MonthlyOffsite
The way I see it, if I put that in the archive2 job resource it will run
every time a scheduled (incremental or full) job runs for this Job
resource. Is there a way to have a Run job ONLY run when the other
monthly full backup is scheduled to run? Or would I need to create
another Job resource for all of my clients, under another schedule, and
remove these full backups from my WeeklyCycle schedule?
Thanks,
Michael Proto
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Re: [Bacula-users] differential backups not reqiered?
On Friday 09 November 2007 00:59, Mike Seda wrote:
Hi All,
I wish to save space on my tapes by changing backup levels in my
Monthly Schedule resource.
My current Monthly Schedule resource is:
Schedule {
Name = Monthly
Run = Level=Full Pool=Monthly 1st fri at 23:05
Run = Level=Full Pool=Weekly 2nd-5th fri at 23:05
Run = Level=Differential Pool=Weekly sat-thu at 23:05
}
I wish to change the aforementioned resource to:
Schedule {
Name = Monthly
Run = Level=Full Pool=Monthly 1st fri at 23:05
Run = Level=Differential Pool=Weekly 2nd-5th fri at 23:05
Run = Level=Incremental Pool=Daily sat-thu at 23:05
}
Btw, with my proposed changes to the backup levels, I plan to use the
following Volume Retention times while having Recycle = yes and
AutoPrune = yes :
Monthly = 372 days
Weekly = 37 days
Daily = 14 days
Do the proposed Schedule and Volume Retention times seem reasonable? I
added 7 days to each time as a fudge-factor. Any critiques and/or advice
is welcome.
Also, I have read that Bacula will not backup files that have a ctime
less than the last backup (of any level, i.e. Full, Differential,
Incremental). Is that still true with Bacula 2.0.1?
That is true for Differential and Incremental jobs, but not for Full.
If so, is there anyway to circumvent this?
No other than touching the files or doing a Full backup. If it is critical
data, you could probably do some tricks with Verify jobs which can detect
these changes, but I don't quite see how.
Basically, will changing the 2nd, 3rd, 4th,
and 5th Friday backups from Full to Differentials put my data at more of
a risk if my users perform moves and untars?
Depending on the dates on the files that are moved or detared, they may not be
backed up by a Differential backup.
I'll let others respond to the other questions.
I feel that if I tell my
users (one of which is my boss) to touch all files/dirs after a move or
untar, he will then tell me to go get a quote for some new backup
software. This is not an option for me as I am a bigtime open-source
evangelist, and Bacula has served me well thus far. Please advise.
Thx,
Mike
Kern Sibbald wrote:
On Friday 03 November 2006 11:27, Jaap Stolk wrote:
On 11/3/06, Jaap Stolk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was wondering if i could do without the differential backups
altogether ?
(in reply to my own post)
I did some more reading and found that the differential backup only
looks at the file date/time, exactly like the incremental backup. so
this is no reason to use a differential backup.
Except that doing Differential backups allows you to restore faster and
to recycle your Incremental backups faster.
The other thing is a differential backup would reduce the number of
incremental backups i need to scan when restoring files, but since i
backup to a file this doesn't involve manual tape changes, so this is
also not a problem in my case.
I think i can detect files that are missed in the incremental backup
(because of an old file timestamp) using a verify job, and either
manual or automatically touch these files, so they will be backed up
in the next incremental backup.
That's an interesting idea ...
so i have no further questions, unless someone sees a bog problem in my
setup.
Kind regards,
Jaap Stolk
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Re: [Bacula-users] Best backup strategy with bacula and autochanger
Hi Bob As another pointed out... you'll want to get a higher capacity library in place before you hit 6TB of data of course. Depending on the nature of what's on that NAS you may find that you have too much data long before you hit 6TB too (i.e. if the data is already compressed a lot you'll not be able to compress it further on the tape drive). Your are right. Lots of data is compressed at the nas system because most files are videos in mpeg format. At this time the size of data is nearly 2TB. I configure the nas system in several partiton: 3 about ~2TB, 1 about ~500GB and ~10GB with the system partitons. I'm big on LTO style hardware for a variety of reasons, but that's not what you asked about... But in the mean time... I never mess around with differentials. I only do incrementals and fulls. You may find that if you do full backups less often than once per week the inconvenience will be quite a bit lower. Plan on keeping the backups more than a month... Unfortunately, bacula doesn't do 21 day rotation cycles like other systems so you're stuck with either manual intervention or once per month fulls... If you go that route plan on having at least 2 full backups so you're never run into a situation where a tape used in a full backup breaks and you lose everything... In fact i would like to hold the backup data for more than one month for archiving. It should be no problem for manual intervention, but i do not know how bacula communicate this. Sends bacula a mail message with the notice that one or more tape have to change? Well, if it is better i will be plan only full und incremental backups. Stefan -- Ist Ihr Browser Vista-kompatibel? Jetzt die neuesten Browser-Versionen downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/browser - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] duplicate backup to tape
Hi to all. I've search through doc and mailing list archive, but I've not found anything, so I've supposed I'm a dummy ;-) I've the following problem: at this moment I use two software for backup: backup exec on torino site and bacula on milano site. Bacula now work only on disk; backup exec work on disk and duplicate backup on tape. Reading manual I've found that bacula can do duplicate too, but is named migration. The only thing I don't understand is the following statement: As part of this process, the File catalog records associated with the first backup job are purged. In other words, Migration moves Bacula Job data from one Volume to another by reading the Job data from the Volume it is stored on, writing it to a different Volume in a different Pool, and then purging the database records for the first Job. Why it purge the file catalog record of the first job? I want to use this method only to have another copy of backup in a safe location, why bacula purge the disk bakup? Is there a way to tell to bacula to not purge the disk backup? Thanx -- - GIOVANNI COLAPINTO Resp. Logistica e Sistemi Informativi Assioma.net Via Quintino Sella 19 20094 Corsico (MI) Telefono: 02/45055818 Cellulare: 3404945829 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: Questo messaggio e gli eventuali allegati contengono informazioni riservate. Se vi e` stato recapitato per errore e non siete fra i destinatari elencati, siete pregati di darne immediatamente avviso al mittente. Le informazioni contenute non devono essere mostrate ad altri, ne` utilizzate, memorizzate o copiate in qualsiasi forma. -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: This e-mail and any attachments contain reserved information. If you are not one of the named recipients, please notify the sender immediately. Moreover, you should not disclose the contents to any other person, nor should the information contained be used for any purpose or stored or copied in any form. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
