Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically marking a tape as full
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Jesse Keating wrote: After all the backups in a given week occur, I'd like to automatically mark the last tape used as full, so that the next set of backups uses a new clean tape. Is there a way to do this? Kick off a nice big render? ;-) If you have an autoloader you can simply swap mags and have bacula rescan the library, after that it should prefer those tapes instead of the ones out of the changer. I think that's what you're getting at... weekly rotation of tape media through the changer to support the full retention period? As to specifically marking a tape (or set of tapes) as Full to force the Director to pick a pre-defined tape I don't know. You could probably manipulate the MySQL database behind Bacula's back and then HUP it to pick up changes... I might mention that just because you *can* do something doesn't mean you *should* do something :) HTH, -n -- --- nathan hruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uga enterprise information technology services production systems support --- "Back in the good old days, we would just look in the system log file to see what was really going on. The new crowd of Linux users would rather not have to do that, however; they expect the system to tell them, politely, that their hardware is on fire and that they are about to deeply regret not having run any backups since sometime last winter." http://lwn.net/Articles/140815 --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically marking a tape as full
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:45:54 -0700, Jesse Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: Jesse> After all the backups in a given week occur, I'd like to automatically Jesse> mark the last tape used as full, so that the next set of backups uses a Jesse> new clean tape. Is there a way to do this? Really "Full" and not "Used"? If the latter is OK, then you should be able to configure the Pool resource to make it happen automatically. If that doesn't work out, then the correct way to force the volstatus is to invoke the bconsole update command, e.g. echo 'update media volume=Daily002 volstatus=Used' | bconsole This requires that you know the volume name. __Martin --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically marking a tape as full
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 22:49 -0400, nathan r. hruby wrote: > > If you have an autoloader you can simply swap mags and have bacula rescan > the library, after that it should prefer those tapes instead of the ones > out of the changer. I think that's what you're getting at... weekly > rotation of tape media through the changer to support the full retention > period? I needed this to be automated. On the first Sunday of every month, I need to do a second round of full backups to tape which will be shipped off site. Every Sunday a full backup is done, and these are kept onsite. So I just need that second round of full backups to start with a clean tape so that I'm not taking part of the local full backup content with the tapes to go offsite. And this needs to happen on the weekend when nobody is here. > As to specifically marking a tape (or set of tapes) as Full to force > the Director to pick a pre-defined tape I don't know. You could probably > manipulate the MySQL database behind Bacula's back and then HUP it to pick > up changes... I might mention that just because you *can* do something > doesn't mean you *should* do something :) > Heh, thanks for the suggestion. -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically marking a tape as full
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 10:53 +0100, Martin Simmons wrote: > Really "Full" and not "Used"? If the latter is OK, then you should be able to > configure the Pool resource to make it happen automatically. Well, I don't have a use only once clause because my backups are smaller than the tape size itself. I can squeeze two or maybe 3 full server backups onto a single 100gig tape. However when the tape is marked Full, it will not be used anymore. > If that doesn't work out, then the correct way to force the volstatus is to > invoke the bconsole update command, e.g. > > echo 'update media volume=Daily002 volstatus=Used' | bconsole > > This requires that you know the volume name. It is possible for me to do a single file backup, and have a Run After Command that does this perhaps. Does this seem logical: Run After Job = /etc/bacula/markfull %v where /etc/bacula/markfull expects a volume name as an argument and issues a command to bconsole using this? -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically marking a tape as full
> On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:32:14 -0700, Jesse Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: Jesse> On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 10:53 +0100, Martin Simmons wrote: >> Really "Full" and not "Used"? If the latter is OK, then you should be able to >> configure the Pool resource to make it happen automatically. Jesse> Well, I don't have a use only once clause because my backups are smaller Jesse> than the tape size itself. I can squeeze two or maybe 3 full server Jesse> backups onto a single 100gig tape. However when the tape is marked Jesse> Full, it will not be used anymore. Ok, but Volume Use Duration might work. >> If that doesn't work out, then the correct way to force the volstatus is to >> invoke the bconsole update command, e.g. >> >> echo 'update media volume=Daily002 volstatus=Used' | bconsole >> >> This requires that you know the volume name. Jesse> It is possible for me to do a single file backup, and have a Run After Jesse> Command that does this perhaps. Does this seem logical: Jesse> Run After Job = /etc/bacula/markfull %v Jesse> where /etc/bacula/markfull expects a volume name as an argument and Jesse> issues a command to bconsole using this? Probably -- Run After Job certainly runs after Bacula's normal job termination code. I've never tried %v though. __Martin --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically marking a tape as full
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Jesse Keating wrote: I needed this to be automated. On the first Sunday of every month, I need to do a second round of full backups to tape which will be shipped off site. Right now you need a second backupset and pool pool defined with its own schedule --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically marking a tape as full
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 20:20 +0100, Martin Simmons wrote: > Probably -- Run After Job certainly runs after Bacula's normal job termination > code. I've never tried %v though. I just tried this and it works a treat. 28-Jul 15:31 dragul: RunAfter: Connecting to Director 192.168.1.66:9101 28-Jul 15:31 dragul: RunAfter: 1000 OK: dragul Version: 1.36.3 (22 April 2005) 28-Jul 15:31 dragul: RunAfter: Enter a period to cancel a command. 28-Jul 15:31 dragul: RunAfter: update media volume=BNR630 volstatus=FullUsing default Catalog name=MyCatalog DB=bacula 28-Jul 15:31 dragul: RunAfter: New Volume status is: Full 28-Jul 15:31 dragul: RunAfter: You have messages. 28-Jul 15:31 dragul: RunAfter: Volume BNR630 was marked as full. Looks like this will do exactly what I need it to do, thanks for the help. I created the script in Python, just because I need to continue to grow my python skills. It just takes an argument (%v) and uses this value in a string it passes to a pipe it opens to bconsole. -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
