Re: [Bacula-users] Safely reusing tapes that are still labelled as Full

[Kern Sibbald]

Hello,

I set my volume retention time to one year, but currently I do not have 
enough tapes to keep them a year, which means that ultimately Bacula 
asks me to label a new tape, which I don't have.  So what I do from time 
to time is select oldest Volume that is marked Full (or sometimes Error) 
and I purge it.  For me (may not be your case) the risk that I lose some 
valid data is essentially zero because the other volumes have many Full 
backups on them.  In addition when I have needed to restore data it has 
always been to restore the most recent backups.


Obviously the best situation is to have sufficient backup space (either 
on disk or tape) to be able to keep backups for the period you specify 
as your Volume Retention time.


Best regards,

Kern

On 7/10/19 2:07 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:

On 7/9/19 2:30 PM, William Muriithi wrote:

Hello

I stated using bacula about 6 months ago.  When I originally set it up, I just 
specified Volume retention period.  The File Retention period, and the Job 
Retention period periods are longer and hence most of the tapes aren't still 
labelled as ready for recycle.

Since I have almost used up all the tapes now, I want to re-use the older once 
but I am wondering what would be the safest way to ensure I can choose tapes 
that will never be needed should I require getting some data from the backups.?

Regards,
William


Honestly, if you have inconsistent retention times, you're largely just
going to have to figure out for yourself which volumes are safe for you
to purge and reuse.





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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 9.44 Aligned -Disk Driver Not Working

[Olivier Delestre]

Hi,

I reactivate the plugin  with bacula 9.4.4 / PostgreSql / CentOs 7 ( 
same type of install from the rpm repo Bacula )


And i have the same error :
--
15-Jul 11:26 baculasrv-sd JobId 1028: Error: [SE0003] Lookup of symbol 
"BaculaSDdriver" in driver Aligned-savins-1 for device 
/opt/bacula/plugins/bacula-sd-aligned-driver-9.4.4.so failed: 
ERR=/opt/bacula/plugins/bacula-sd-aligned-driver-9.4.4.so: undefined 
symbol: BaculaSDdriver

--

it's work before ( 9.0.8 ? ) but my material was not powerful enough ( 
16 Go Ram )


is the plugin still available for this community version ??




Le 11/07/2019 à 18:49, J W a écrit :
I just installed Bacula 9.44 Community and am backing up to a ZFS 
drive. It works fine with a regular setup.


If I switch to using the Aligned device type then I get the error 
below. I switched back to a regular setup but would like to use 
deduplication since it would save me a lot of space because my full 
backups are 5 TB but most of the files are not changing between ful 
backups.

-
     Device "Aligned-Disk" requested by DIR could not be opened or 
does not exist.
11-Jul 09:29 jw-sd JobId 13: Error: [SE0003] Lookup of symbol 
"BaculaSDdriver" in driver Aligned-Disk for device 
/opt/bacula/plugins/bacula-sd-aligned-driver-9.4.4.so 
 failed: 
ERR=/opt/bacula/plugins/bacula-sd-aligned-driver-9.4.4.so 
: undefined symbol: 
BaculaSDdriver

---
My OS is latest Centos 7. I installed Bacula from the Bacula 9.4.4 
repo. It appeared to install the plugin successfuly. Yum shows it as 
installed. It seems like Bacula is finding it since it lists the 
correct path to the plugin.


I set up Bacula for deduplication using the directions at 
http://www.bacula.lat/block-level-deduplication-with-aligned-volumes-tutorial-bacula-7-9-9-0-and-above/?lang=en. 
See my device entry quoted further down below.


I ran a few programs on the plugin to show the symbols but they do not 
show BaculaSDdriver in the plugin. I do not really know what I am 
doing with that. I also looked at the plugin itself for text with this 
value but did not see it.





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