[Bacula-users] Spool block too big
Martin Simmons wrote: I think this can only be caused by a bug, so it is probably a good idead to upgrade to Bacula 3.0.1 to see if that fixes it. Are you using simultaneous jobs? What values does the error give for the sizes of the blocks? __Martin -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users at lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users Hi Martin, We are actually in the process of upgrading to 3.01. We do run simultaneous jobs, with a limit of 2 since we have two tape drives. The error we've seen is similar but not exact in all cases so far, here's an example: Fatal error: spool.c:396 Spool block too big. Max 64512 bytes, got 4288020370 Sometimes the number is much smaller, but often it is very large, like above. I'm hoping it disappears with Bacula 3.01 :) Thanks, Tom +-- |This was sent by tomisom.s...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] How do Jobs Queue?
Martin Simmons wrote: I think they are considered in the order that the Job definitions appear in the bacula-dir.conf. To guarantee the order, it is best to use different priorities. I use priorities 1, 2, 3 etc for the backups and 201, 202, 203 etc for the corresponding verifies. __Martin -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users at lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users Hi Martin, I wish it were that simple, unfortunately the testing I've done shows there is more involved than just the order. My nightly Incrementals are set for the same time, and they get scheduled in the order they appear in the file. Then the different verify jobs are scheduled at the same time, but the verifies for one job type get scheduled, then the verifies for the other job type. Also, the first gets scheduled in one order (first client to last), while the other gets scheduled in opposite (last client to first). It's like Bacula scans the job list from top to bottom, then back up, and back down, etc, until all jobs are queued for that day. I like your suggestion about priorities, but the way I read the instructions was that jobs of a lower priority would wait until all jobs of a higher priority finish before starting. Since we have two tape drives, and use one of them for our large filesets, there would be times where the first tape drive would sit idle for a day or two while waiting for all the higher priority jobs to complete. Am I misunderstanding the way priority is implemented? Thanks for your help! Tom +-- |This was sent by tomisom.s...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] method to keep minimum # of backups?
Mark, My understanding is that Bacula will hold onto the Volume info as long as possible. Also, it won't delete the files from the tape/disk, just the reference to them in the catalog. If you find that you're failing several backups in a row and want to make sure the most recent good backup isn't lost, the easiest thing is probably to set that volume aside and not use it until you get another good backup. The worst you would have to do for a restore is use bscan to find the file(s) you needed on the tape/disk. Hope that helps :) Tom +-- |This was sent by tomisom.s...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] How do Jobs Queue?
Greetings! I've been working on adding automated Verify jobs to my configuration. I'd like to abuse my tape drive as little as possible, so I have the backups set to run as a group, then the verifies set to run at a later time as a group. On a normal weeknight (like tonight), I have two Incremental jobs for each client, backing up two different FileSets. The Scheduled queue in the Director status for tonight shows my normal Incremental jobs, apparently sorted by client, starting with the last client in the config file and going backwards to the first client. These jobs are set to start at the same time. After this section I see the Verify jobs listed. The odd thing is that the list begins with the verify for one fileset only, listing that job from the first client in the configuration file to the last, and then lists the other verify job from the last client to the first. This will cause a ton of tape movement. What I was hoping to see would be that the backups would proceed as normal, both jobs for each client, then the verify jobs would follow the same pattern, so that the tape used would only need to rewind and move forward one time. Here's a sample of what I see in the Director Status: Incremental Backup10 30-Jul-09 21:00Client4Nikola SSLI-064 Incremental Backup10 30-Jul-09 21:00Client4HomesSSLI-064 Incremental Backup10 30-Jul-09 21:00Client3Nikola SSLI-064 Incremental Backup10 30-Jul-09 21:00Client3HomesSSLI-064 Incremental Backup10 30-Jul-09 21:00Client2Nikola SSLI-064 Incremental Backup10 30-Jul-09 21:00Client2HomesSSLI-064 Incremental Backup10 30-Jul-09 21:00Client1Nikola SSLI-064 Incremental Backup10 30-Jul-09 21:00Client1HomesSSLI-064 VolumeToCatalog Verify10 30-Jul-09 21:45Client1Homes.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify10 30-Jul-09 21:45Client2Homes.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify10 30-Jul-09 21:45Client3Homes.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify10 30-Jul-09 21:45Client4Homes.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify10 30-Jul-09 21:45Client4Nikola.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify10 30-Jul-09 21:45Client3Nikola.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify10 30-Jul-09 21:45Client2Nikola.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify10 30-Jul-09 21:45Client1Nikola.Verify Here's a sample of what I would like to see: Incremental Backup10 30-Jul-09 21:00Client4Nikola SSLI-064 Incremental Backup10 30-Jul-09 21:00Client4HomesSSLI-064 Incremental Backup10 30-Jul-09 21:00Client3Nikola SSLI-064 Incremental Backup10 30-Jul-09 21:00Client3HomesSSLI-064 Incremental Backup10 30-Jul-09 21:00Client2Nikola SSLI-064 Incremental Backup10 30-Jul-09 21:00Client2HomesSSLI-064 Incremental Backup10 30-Jul-09 21:00Client1Nikola SSLI-064 Incremental Backup10 30-Jul-09 21:00Client1HomesSSLI-064 VolumeToCatalog Verify10 30-Jul-09 21:45Client4Nikola.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify10 30-Jul-09 21:45Client4Homes.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify10 30-Jul-09 21:45Client3Nikola.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify10 30-Jul-09 21:45Client3Homes.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify10 30-Jul-09 21:45Client2Nikola.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify10 30-Jul-09 21:45Client2Homes.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify10 30-Jul-09 21:45Client1Nikola.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify10 30-Jul-09 21:45Client1Homes.Verify Any ideas or suggestions? Does anyone know the algorithm used to queue the jobs? Thanks! +-- |This was sent by tomisom.s...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Spool block too big
Hello, We've been intermittently having an issue with backups failing due to the error Spool block too big. It's happened exactly 10 times since 4/27/09. It generally happens during large backups (900GB+). The most recent error happened after the data had been spooled, and was being written to tape. These usually occur overnight so I don't always get to see what's going on, but this one happened during my normal shift. Prior to it happening I had noticed that the SD status showed the correct data spool file size, but showed 0 bytes for the attribute spool size. I double checked the directory we use to store the attribute spool file (same directory where the mail files are kept, but different from where we spool the data), and there was a 6GB+ attribute spool file for the job. Not sure if this is what other people are seeing when this error occurs, but I'm hoping it can help in tracking down the source. We're running Bacula 2.4.4 using PostGreSQL 7.4.19. +-- |This was sent by tomisom.s...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Overriding Job and/or File Retention Periods?
Thanks for the suggestions Dirk. I was afraid that it would come down to scripting; being a temp Student admin I'm trying to keep things as straightforward as possible for the next person who has to deal with it. I was hoping I had missed something and that the Job resource could also set the job retention period. Thank You :) Tom +-- |This was sent by tomisom.s...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Passing the current Storage to a Run Before Job script
Greetings!
I'm hopeful that someone can give us a little help. We currently run Bacula
2.4.4. We have backups run on two storage devices, and each device has its own
spool file directory. We've created a script that will check the spool
directory at the start of each job to make sure that it's empty, since we've
had a few issues with Bacula not deleting files due to crashes.
The issue comes in when we have to run a job on the other drive. For example,
twice a year we run full backups of all of our file sets to be stored offsite.
During this period, jobs that would normally run on our second tape drive are
manually run on the primary drive instead, so that the second drive can be
devoted to the offsite jobs. Unfortunately, the spool check script doesn't know
about the storage change, so it will end up clobbering a valid spool file for
the secondary drive, instead of checking the directory for the primary drive.
I've tried to find a variable to pass to the Run Before Job command to tell
it the actual current storage, but have had no luck (${Storage} doesn't expand
during the call). Does anyone know of a way to pass the storage to the script
(without using Python)?
Thank You,
Tom
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[Bacula-users] Overriding Job and/or File Retention Periods?
Greetings! Is there any way, in Bacula 2.4.4, to override the File and/or Job retention period in either the Job, Schedule, or FileSet resource? The reason I ask is that we have a couple of filesets that are extremely large, but only on a handful of clients. We don't have the space to restore these sets except 'in-place', so we were looking for a way to keep the files/jobs for those jobs in the catalog until the volumes themselves were purged. Any ideas are appreciated :) Tom +-- |This was sent by tomisom.s...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Overriding Job and/or File Retention Periods?
Trying to work around the file/job retention question above, is it possible to set up multiple Client resources for a single client machine, without running multiple file daemons on the client? The way I read the manual, the name given to the client file daemon is what needs to be used for the client resource in the Director config. Is that true, or am I reading it incorrectly? Thanks for any help, Tom +-- |This was sent by tomisom.s...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
