[Bacula-users] Bacula tapes marked FULL too early - VolBytes too low
The funny thing is the problem went away by itself. Tapes were again filling up at approx 420GB per tape. It was doing that for a few months of regular backup cycles. But now unfortunately tapes are once again coming up as Full at only 320GB. We do regular rewind and WEOF on these tapes prior to any backup. This is quite strange. We are sure it is not the drive itself or the tapes. Must be something else. At this point nothing left to do but try to locate something in the logs. cheers +-- |This was sent by goran@momento.com.au via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Own the Future-Intel(R) Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/12124-176961-30367-2 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Increme job_backup.2013 has a fatal error
Hello, Overnight we have noticed that bacula requested a new tape which was not loaded into auto changer. This morning when we loaded it we noticed that some jobs (belonging in the same pool but also in the queued pool) all had fatal error in the status dir. I think sd crashed. Canceling the job will mean starting over. Can you advise if there is any way we can resume without canceling. How to restart sd and continue incremental backup process. Matter is urgent, please advise asap. Thanks +-- |This was sent by goran@momento.com.au via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Increme job_backup.2013 has a fatal error
The good news is bacula-sd is running. Not stopped. However looking at the logs it is clear that sd crashed. Not sure if that helps you? +-- |This was sent by goran@momento.com.au via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Increme job_backup.2013 has a fatal error
Thanks for your quick responses and suggestions. Not that I know off. Quickly checked our script folders and start up folders, nothing points to bacula. I have cancelled all the pending and queued up jobs other than the one needed to complete, in hope sd would pick it up (where it left off) but do not think I have a choice but to cancel and re start. :( +-- |This was sent by goran@momento.com.au via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Increme job_backup.2013 has a fatal error
Status dir: JobId Level Name Status == 10079 Increme job_backup.2013-01-22_14.46.39_03 has a fatal error 10087 Fulljob2_backup.2013-01-23_01.00.01_11 has been canceled Canceled job has been marked canceled but have not yet dropped off the status dir list. No jobs waiting for storage. they are all marked canceled other than the one I am trying to run (continue) which is marked has a fatal error. When typing status sto at the Used Volume status: it freezes. does not go any further. Jobs waiting to reserve a drive: looking for the queued up jobIDs (all the ones I have canceled - which belong to another pool) There are six jobID's in the Jobs waiting table. Hope this helps. Thanks +-- |This was sent by goran@momento.com.au via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Increme job_backup.2013 has a fatal error
Thanks John. +-- |This was sent by goran@momento.com.au via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Bacula tapes marked FULL too early - VolBytes too low
It would seem the problem resolved itself. All our tapes are now getting full at 410GB and over. No tape is under 400GB so far (about 10 of them swapped around). Do not believe it was tape drive itself. All we've done to the machine was regular ubuntu upgrades and machine restarts. Occasionally we would clean the drive with a cleaning tape (even when not asked). In addition, we ran the tapes through rewinding and weof process before running each nightly Full backup (did not bother to do this for Differential sets). We are happy, atleast for a moment. 8) +-- |This was sent by goran@momento.com.au via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122712 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Bacula tapes marked FULL too early - VolBytes too low
Thanks Alan re: Cleaning tapes are abrasive. Don't use them unless the drive asks for them. LTO drives and media have internal head and path wiper mechanisms which keep things under control under normal circumstances - cleaning tapes are a last resort. Noted. Will do so only when drive asks from now on. +-- |This was sent by goran@momento.com.au via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122712 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Bacula tapes marked FULL too early - VolBytes too low
Just an update, however no good news. We've got nowhere with this unfortunately and are left to run the critical backups anyway knowing we would basically loose about 100GB per tape (x30+ tapes) this becomes an $$$ issue. We tried a few things, but nothing has worked. If anyone has any ideas as to how to solve my issue (see first page) please let me know. Cheers +-- |This was sent by goran@momento.com.au via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: VERIFY Test and improve your parallel project with help from experts and peers. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Bacula tapes marked FULL too early - VolBytes too low
Thanks for your reply there John, I am currently running a backup job of 1 large iso file and checking the logs to see what it could be. Perhaps an issue with software rather than hardware. We look after our drive well with cleans whenever asked by the machine. We have a EXABYTE Model: LTO 1x7 2U. Other than bacula/log is there any other logs I could be checking? Any other suggestions? Thankyou. :P +-- |This was sent by goran@momento.com.au via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Bacula tapes marked FULL too early - VolBytes too low
Thanks John, We've had these tapes fill up to 420GB in the past (to it's native size). I have added some extra Messages to see if error becomes apparent. We have multiple pools/multiple tapes (up to 50 tapes) they all are full on odd 300GB now days. Tape drive configuration in bacula is unchanged from the time when it used to fill up to 420GB. Few lines in bacula-dir config added. append = /var/log/bacula/messages.log = all, !skipped append = /var/log/bacula/errors.log = error, fatal, terminate append = /var/log/bacula/warnings.log = warning, security, alert Not sure if I will learn anything new from these, but worth a shot. +-- |This was sent by goran@momento.com.au via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Bacula tapes marked FULL too early - VolBytes too low
Hello, First time poster, love the community, been reading it for years but never had an issue worth posting, until today. :) Using Bacula Version: 5.0.1 (24 February 2010). Our brand new LTO3 tapes are filling up too quick. Tapes that normally take 420GB are full at 320GB. This is a major concern for us. Please advise as to what may be causing this? Example: | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes| VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten | +-++---+-+-+--++-+--+---+---+-+ | 1 | Tape 1 | Full | 1 | 325,470,071,808 | 326 | 31,536,000,000 | 0 |1 | 1 | LTO3 | 2012-11-16 12:26:42 | All our tapes show VolStatus like this, brand new or used only ones (which was 420GB Full) I am sorry I do not know how to make this selection a quote. Thankyou in advance. :P +-- |This was sent by goran@momento.com.au via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
