Re: [Bacula-users] Again LTO9 and performances...

2024-05-18 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 5/17/24 06:29, Marco Gaiarin wrote: I'm still fiddling with LTO9 and backup performances; finally i've managed to test a shiny new server with an LTO9 tape (library indeed, but...) and i can reach with 'btape test' 300MB/s, that is pretty cool, even if IBM specification say that the tape

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull and correct volume management...

2024-05-10 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 5/9/24 10:02, Marco Gaiarin wrote: I've setup some backup jobs for some (mostly windows) client computer; i mean 'client' as 'not always on'. ... 2) There's some way i can get the 'jobs in volume X'? I can query jobs for volume, but i've not found a way to query volumes for jobs I use

Re: [Bacula-users] advice about tape drives

2024-04-22 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
Why not migrate the LTO-2 volumes to disk, then install whatever version of tape drive you wish and migrate the disk volumes to the new LTO tapes? On 4/22/24 11:29, Gary R. Schmidt wrote: On 23/04/2024 00:58, Alan Polinsky wrote: I have used Bacula for many years, since version 5. In the

Re: [Bacula-users] Any suggestions for fail2ban jail for Bacula Director ?

2024-04-03 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
Nothing against fail2ban, which is quite good at mitigating brute force and dictionary attacks against password protection, but for opening Dir to the public internet, I would most definitely suggest looking into using TLS certificates issued by your own private CA instead. On 4/2/24 19:05,

Re: [Bacula-users] Again vchanger and volumes in error...

2024-04-03 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
I have found the problem. See below. On 4/2/24 05:33, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Mandi! Josh Fisher via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... This is the Easter weekend in italy, so backup will fail in most of my sites; i'm enabling debug for sites, i'll come back here on monday... When

Re: [Bacula-users] Again vchanger and volumes in error...

2024-03-28 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 3/28/24 09:30, Marco Gaiarin wrote: I can't explain that, unless the volumes that are in changer, those assigned to a slot > 0, are not getting their current slot set to zero when the magazine is ejected. Exactly. This is the Easter weekend in italy, so backup will fail in most of my

Re: [Bacula-users] Again vchanger and volumes in error...

2024-03-26 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 3/21/24 16:36, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Mandi! Josh Fisher via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... 'Log Level = LOG_DEBUG' in the vchanger.conf file. That will log everything 'log level = 7', do you mean, right? Yes. The configuration parser will also understand "LOG_DEBUG&q

Re: [Bacula-users] Again vchanger and volumes in error...

2024-03-20 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 3/19/24 08:31, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Mandi! Josh Fisher via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... This Looks like the volume is marked as being in a slot in the bacula catalog, but the RDX cartridge containing that volume is not actually mounted. This can happen if a cartridge

Re: [Bacula-users] Again vchanger and volumes in error...

2024-03-19 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 3/18/24 14:36, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote: This is in response to Josh... In my experience, with RDX, the docking bay itself shows up as a device... (/dev/usbX or /dev/sdX, I forget) But plugging/unplugging an RDX cartridge does not notify the kernel in any way, so udev

Re: [Bacula-users] Again vchanger and volumes in error...

2024-03-18 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 3/15/24 12:28, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Following the hint on: https://gitlab.bacula.org/bacula-community-edition/bacula-community/-/issues/2683 i (re)post here, seeking feedback. Situation: bacula 9.4 (debian buster), using RDX cassette/disks for backup, using the wonderful

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO tape performances, again...

2024-01-25 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 1/24/24 12:48, Marco Gaiarin wrote: My new IBM LTO9 tape unit have a data sheet performace of: https://www.ibm.com/docs/it/ts4500-tape-library/1.10.0?topic=performance-lto-specifications so on worst case (compression disabled) seems to perform 400 MB/s on an LTO9 tape.

Re: [Bacula-users] Having difficulty mounting curlftpfs on bacula : "Device is BLOCKED waiting for mount of volume"

2023-11-29 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 11/29/23 05:47, MylesDearBusiness via Bacula-users wrote: Hello, Bacula experts. Due to message length limitations of this mailing list, I have been unable to post the majority of necessary details, which is why I was using my github gist system to store, apologies for the confusion or

Re: [Bacula-users] fd lose connection

2023-11-08 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 11/8/23 13:32, Martin Simmons wrote: On Wed, 8 Nov 2023 11:09:44 -0500, Josh Fisher via Bacula-users said: On 11/7/23 19:26, Lionel PLASSE wrote: I’m sorry but no wi-fi nor 5G in our factory, and don't use my phone too to backup my servers :) . I was talking about ssh (scp) transfer just

Re: [Bacula-users] fd lose connection

2023-11-08 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
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Re: [Bacula-users] fd lose connection

2023-11-07 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 11/7/23 04:34, Lionel PLASSE wrote: Hello , Could Encryption have any impact in my problem. I am testing without any encryption between SD/DIR/BConsole or FD and it seems to be more stable. (short sized job right done , longest job already running : 750Gb to migrate) My WAN connection

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-29 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 9/29/23 06:07, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Mandi! Josh Fisher via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... I'm really getting mad. This make sense for the behaviour (the first VirtualFull worked because read full and incremental for the same pool) but still the docs confuse me. https

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-27 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 9/26/23 12:48, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Mandi! Rados??aw Korzeniewski In chel di` si favelave... Because of this. To make Virtual Full Bacula needs to read all backup jobs starting from Full, Diff and all Incrementals. Your Full (as volume suggests) is stored on Obito_Full_0001 which has

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow spooling and hashing speed

2023-09-15 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 9/14/23 15:35, Rob Gerber wrote: Bacula is transferring data at a fraction of the available link speed. I am backing up an SMB share hosted on a fast NAS appliance. The share is mounted on the bacula server in /mnt/NAS/sharename. I have dedicated 10gbe copper interfaces on the NAS and the

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore job forward space volume - usb file volume

2023-08-25 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 8/25/23 12:06, Martin Simmons wrote: On Thu, 24 Aug 2023 15:51:18 -0400, Josh Fisher via Bacula-users said: Probably you have compression and/or encryption turned on. In that case, Bacula cannot simply fseek to the offset. It has to decompress and/or decrypt all data in order

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore job forward space volume - usb file volume

2023-08-24 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 8/24/23 05:32, Lionel PLASSE wrote: Hello, For usb harddrive and file media volume, when I do a restore job I get a long waiting step : "Forward spacing Volume "T1" to addr=249122650420" I remember I managed to configure the storage resource to quickly restore sdd drives. Should I

Re: [Bacula-users] compression with lto?

2023-05-18 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 5/17/23 14:14, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 5/17/23 12:52, Marco Gaiarin wrote: I've LTO tape that work in very dusty environment by at least 6 years. Istead of dust, i've found that setting properly spooling and buffers prevent the spinup/spindown effect, that effectively can be very

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula, Autochangers, insist on loading 'not in changer' media...

2023-05-12 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
I would add that this problem appears to occur when all in-changer tapes are unavailable due to volume status AND the job's pool does contain available tapes, but those tapes are not in-changer. Bacula will attempt to load a tape that is not in-changer, where it should send an operator

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Full backups where nextpool is a different sd

2023-03-22 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 3/22/23 13:29, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote: On 3/22/23 10:23, Mark Guz wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get virtual full backups working.  I'm running 13.0.2. The differentials are being backed-up to a tape library in 1 location which is not usually manned, so I'm trying to get the

Re: [Bacula-users] SD stalled?!

2022-12-19 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 12/19/22 04:55, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Mandi! Josh Fisher In chel di` si favelave... Does the firewall on sdpve2.sd.lnf.it allow connections on TCP 9103? Is there an SD process on sdpve2.sd.lnf.it listening on port 9103? You can try to 'telnet sdpve2.sd.lnf.it 9103' command from the

Re: [Bacula-users] SD stalled?!

2022-12-16 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 12/15/22 04:37, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Mandi! Josh Fisher via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... Also, you have tried using 'umount' and 'update slots' in bconsole, but did you try the 'mount' command? It is the mount command that would cause bacula-dir to choose a volume and invoke

Re: [Bacula-users] SD stalled?!

2022-12-13 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 12/12/22 10:47, Marco Gaiarin wrote: I'm using 'vchanger' script defining some virtual changer. I don't see that Dir is reporting any errors invoking vchanger, no timeouts or vchanger errors, but are there any vchanger processes still running? The vchanger processes should be very short

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull, file storage, rsnapshot-like...

2022-11-03 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 11/2/22 14:13, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Mandi! Marco Gaiarin In chel di` si favelave... Pool definition: Pool { Name = VDMTMS1FilePool Pool Type = Backup Volume Use Duration = 1 week Recycle = yes # Bacula can automatically

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Client Behind NAT

2022-10-19 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 10/18/22 17:51, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote: Hello Josh (everyone else too), I can confirm that if the FD --> DIR connection is opened, then the Director does use this socket to communicate to the FD. Excellent! However, the "Connecting to Client..." message does not change,

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Client Behind NAT

2022-10-18 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 10/17/22 20:09, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote: On 10/17/22 13:14, Rodrigo Reimberg via Bacula-users wrote: > Telnet from DIR to FD on port 9102 not ok, I’m using ConnectToDirector parameter. Hello Rodrigo, Of course this will not work. The client is behind NAT, and the Director

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull, file storage, rsnapshot-like...

2022-10-17 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 10/16/22 12:21, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Mandi! Radosław Korzeniewski In chel di` si favelave... ... I do not understand your requirements. What is an "initial backup" you want to make? Are you referring to the first Full backup which has to be executed on the client? Exactly. VirtualFull

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Client Behind NAT

2022-10-17 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 10/16/22 11:44, Rodrigo Reimberg via Bacula-users wrote: Hello, Can someone help me? I did the configuration of the client behind nat. The client is communicating with the director as there is no error in the "working" directory. When I access bconsole in the director and run the

Re: [Bacula-users] best practices in separating servers support Bacula processes

2022-10-13 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
On 10/12/22 15:10, Robert M. Candey wrote: I've been using Bacula to back up many servers and desktops to a tape library since early on, but always had one server running all of the Bacula processes except for the individual file servers. I'm setting up a new tape library and have new data

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem Importing Tapes Into Catalog

2022-09-16 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
The volumes have been purged from the catalog, so thecatalog needs to be rebuilt using the bscan utility. See https://www.bacula.org/13.0.x-manuals/en/utility/Volume_Utility_Tools.html#SECTION00172 On 9/9/22 07:02, Charles Tassell wrote: Hello Everyone,   I'm having a problem

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO via USB

2022-08-23 Thread Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
I don't think it can be done by USB. The SAS-to-USB chips operate in "mass storage" mode, suitable for SAS hard drives. The LTO drive will need an adapter that operates in SCSI emulation mode. I don't know of any adapters that aren't strictly for hard drives, but maybe there are. Another