hello,
how can i get the name of the volume which is in the drive without
mounting the volume?
is there a command in the bconsole etc.?
thanks
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Manuel Staechele said:
how can i get the name of the volume which is in the drive without
mounting the volume?
is there a command in the bconsole etc.?
You can use the mtx-changer command for that.
# /opt/bacula/etc/mtx-changer /dev/NEC-T40A list 0 /dev/nst0 0
1:06D120L3
2:06D121L3
3:06D122L3
Georg Altmann skrev:
--On Donnerstag, 7. Dezember 2006 15:28 +0100 Jon Ingason
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have installed new bacula server 1.38.11 on debian testing/unstable
runnig on PC and one of the clients, running on FreeBSD 6.1 version
1.38.5_1, is giving me problem:
run
--On Donnerstag, 7. Dezember 2006 14:58 -0500 Andrew Fabian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any thoughts on this scenario? I'm not sure that a quick answer exists.
I'd like to have bacula back up our collection of hosts to it's
file-based pool, so that we can browse backups online and restore
Hi,
After a HD failure and following new install, I have to rebuild some catalogs
from tapes in a separate new db. (the new one is utf-8)
As I understood I can use bscan for this.
Using this command:
bscan -V FULL-20060901-2 -v -s -m -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -n
bacula-oldcoded -u bacula
On Friday 08 December 2006 12:15, Georg Altmann wrote:
--On Donnerstag, 7. Dezember 2006 14:58 -0500 Andrew Fabian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any thoughts on this scenario? I'm not sure that a quick answer exists.
I'd like to have bacula back up our collection of hosts to it's
Ralf Gross schrieb:
Manuel Staechele said:
how can i get the name of the volume which is in the drive without
mounting the volume?
is there a command in the bconsole etc.?
You can use the mtx-changer command for that.
i have no autochanger... is there a similar command for a tape drive?
Michel Meyers schrieb:
Manuel Staechele wrote:
hello,
how can i get the name of the volume which is in the drive without
mounting the volume?
is there a command in the bconsole etc.?
btape can read labels with the 'readlabel' command as far as I know. I'm
not sure you'll be able to use
Hello,
I know this is off topic, but I hope to reach some people on this list, who
might be able to help me with the daunting task I am facing. Please excuse
the impertinence to post it here. The whole story is a bit lengthy - just
ignore the post in case you're not interested.
A friend of
--On Freitag, 8. Dezember 2006 12:26 +0100 Angela Gavazzi
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Hi,
After a HD failure and following new install, I have to rebuild some
catalogs from tapes in a separate new db. (the new one is utf-8)
As I understood I can use bscan for this.
Using this command:
--On Freitag, 8. Dezember 2006 11:55 + Alan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Georg Altmann wrote:
We use a LTO1 drive and only backup about 100 GB a week. The drive is in
service for over one year now and never needed to be cleaned so far.
Our LTO drives have only
Gidday,
I was at LISA06 (http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa06/). I spent my
time at BSD booth for the trade-show part of the event. Also helping
out was Dru Lavinge (blogs.ittoolbox.com/unix/bsd/ ).
During the first day (Wednesday), I found out that Bacula was part of
one of the courses being
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Georg Altmann wrote:
Unfortunately nice people from Redmond can get in your way here.
understatement
I
attached the FireWire disk to my desktop, booted Windows XP
Now you know why you should NEVER use MS products and operating systems to
recover corrupted MS
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Georg Altmann wrote:
Our LTO drives have only ever required cleaning after an incident in the
server room (builders being careless) raised a lot of dust which was
sucked into the racks.
builders in the server room? Doesn't sound good to me... ;-)
They were in the room
--On Freitag, 8. Dezember 2006 14:16 + Alan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Georg Altmann wrote:
Unfortunately nice people from Redmond can get in your way here.
understatement
:-)
I
attached the FireWire disk to my desktop, booted Windows XP
Now you know
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Why not just format it to something else?
Georg Altmann wrote:
--On Freitag, 8. Dezember 2006 14:16 + Alan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Georg Altmann wrote:
Unfortunately nice people from Redmond can get in your
Yep Microsoft is so obviously at fault here. First of all they designed FAT
in the late 70s. Shame on them for using a filesystem design similar to all
the other systems at the time. Then to top it off they have the audacity to
try and repair it when the user boots the system with a drive
I'd say the chances of your friend recoverings his/her data are very slim. The
right thing to do in such a case is to keep the filesystem as untouched as
possible and then run some data recovery tool such as
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm or
Hi Kern,
On thing that you might try is to add the Volume name(s) to the catalog by
doing an add command before running the restore.
This can't be done because there are no pools defined in an empty database and
the pool is not included in the BSR:
bcsonole start
*add volume
You
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Oh... I'd forgotten... allow me to recommend SpinRite.
It's somewhat expensive, but for me it did the trick. I hear it's very
well rated:
http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm
Georger Araujo wrote:
I'd say the chances of your friend recoverings his/her
I'm not sure if this affects your choices but Kern has checked in a fix to
1.40 that solves this problem.
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Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 7:06 AM
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I've been working on the regression tests for the imminent release of 1.40.
Initially I was using SQLite3 since it has zero maintenance and zero setup
and the tests aren't all that strenuous (at least as far as the database is
concerned).
However, I found a stress run was taking 12 hours on a
--On Freitag, 8. Dezember 2006 06:50 -0800 Robert Nelson
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Yep Microsoft is so obviously at fault here. First of all they designed
FAT in the late 70s. Shame on them for using a filesystem design similar
to all the other systems at the time. Then to top it off they
On Friday 08 December 2006 16:06, Benjamin Chambers wrote:
Hi Kern,
On thing that you might try is to add the Volume name(s) to the catalog
by
doing an add command before running the restore.
This can't be done because there are no pools defined in an empty database
and
the pool
--On Freitag, 8. Dezember 2006 08:08 -0800 Robert Nelson
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Yet more disinformation, Microsoft hasn't released a desktop OS in more
than 7 years that required FAT or even selected it as the default on new
installations.
Wow, great more than seven years, you mean like
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Robert Nelson wrote:
Yet more disinformation, Microsoft hasn't released a desktop OS in more than
7 years that required FAT or even selected it as the default on new
installations.
FAT32 is STILL the standard shipped filesystem on most laptops, prebuilt
desktops and
No I haven't incorporated the gigaslam test yet.
This is just the standard non-root file tests.
I'll take a look at those two pragmas and see if that helps.
More than 10 times slower is what I'm seeing.
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Robert Nelson wrote:
Yet more disinformation, Microsoft hasn't released a desktop OS in more than
7 years that required FAT or even selected it as the default on new
installations.
Yes all Microsoft Operating Systems still support FAT as do all
On Friday 08 December 2006 16:21, Robert Nelson wrote:
I've been working on the regression tests for the imminent release of 1.40.
Initially I was using SQLite3 since it has zero maintenance and zero setup
and the tests aren't all that strenuous (at least as far as the database is
concerned).
First off you're one of the ones that started this war with your
anti-Microsoft comments.
Second Minix isn't a file system it is a UNIX clone, which Microsoft never
sold. They did however sell Xenix at one time, which they ended up
licensing to SCO.
As far as the rest of your post, I'm not sure
I have a question on the speed of backing up Windows 2003/2000/XP boxes to
disk across the network.
For 2 windows boxes, here is the rates I am getting though it is the same
for all the windows boxes:
Rate: 432.1 KB/s
Rate: 528.4 KB/s
For the Linux boxes,
Brian Jones wrote:
I have a question on the speed of backing up Windows 2003/2000/XP boxes to
disk across the network.
For 2 windows boxes, here is the rates I am getting though it is the same
for all the windows boxes:
Rate: 432.1 KB/s
Rate: 528.4
On Friday 08 December 2006 17:48, Robert Nelson wrote:
No I haven't incorporated the gigaslam test yet.
Yes, if you do, be careful to not leave any copies of gigaslam.gif hanging
around in the regression directory -- my first few cuts did that and I
thought my kernel was going south because I
Yet more disinformation, Microsoft hasn't released a desktop OS in more than
7 years that required FAT or even selected it as the default on new
installations.
Yes all Microsoft Operating Systems still support FAT as do all other
Operating Systems. Otherwise it would be very hard to get your
Kern,
Thanks to your email and Robert Nelson's, I saw the patch you applied in the
1.39 tree. Just one line removed, yes?
askdir.c
Remove dcr-VolumeName[0] = 0; from method do_get_volume_info.
I applied this to the version we are currently using (1.38.9), and tested. It
seems to have
On Friday 08 December 2006 18:49, Benjamin Chambers wrote:
Kern,
Thanks to your email and Robert Nelson's, I saw the patch you applied in the
1.39 tree. Just one line removed, yes?
Yes, but I also added an unbash_spaces(...) just a bit later in the same file.
If you don't apply the
I get similar times between all the combinations I test, Windows - Linux,
Linux - Windows, Linux - Linux and Windows - Windows.
However it did take some tweaking. The first thing to check is to see if
you are getting a lot of TCP/IP errors. This could indicate one of adapters
isn't running full
One other thing, as I was reminded earlier this week by a problem Arno was
having, whenever something weird is going on with your Window machine, try
disabling the anti-virus. The same goes with any firewall software. It
goes without saying (but I'm going to say it anyways :-), only do this with
Thanks for the replies. See comments below.
On 12/8/06 12:10 PM, Robert Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I get similar times between all the combinations I test, Windows - Linux,
Linux - Windows, Linux - Linux and Windows - Windows.
However it did take some tweaking. The first thing to
Hello list,
i am running bacula 1.38.11 and i would like to backup to DVD follwoing
this page: http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/DVD_Volumes.html
This page describes how bacula writes the backups to a local direcory
first, and then writes it to DVD.
status all shows me this error: Device is
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 11:51:22 -0500, Andrew Fabian said:
Hello,
I'm trying to write a script that tells bacula to restore job X to
client Y, which may not be the same client that job X came from.
Currently, I'm doing this:
[list of files to restore in filelist.txt]
[tempfile]:
On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:24:01 +0100, Manuel Staechele said:
Hello,
one question
the command
list nextvol job=NAME
works fine for me with bconsle version
Version: 1.36.3 (22 April 2005)
but in version:
Version: 1.38.11 (28 June 2006)
the nextvol job=NAME command shows
Hi there, I work with Rob Ostrander, the initiator of this thread.
I've also been working on the problem of bacula reporting that
the number of VolumeFiles mismatch between the volume and the catalog.
After reading the manual thoroughly and poking around the web, I'm still not
sure
what
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These files are those that are listed under 'list media.'
They are 1GB in size, unless you specify otherwise.
I'd love to point you to the manual for more info, but I looked around
and can't find anything. In any case, these are just seemingly to
Hello,
On 12/8/2006 2:38 PM, Manuel Staechele wrote:
Michel Meyers schrieb:
Manuel Staechele wrote:
hello,
how can i get the name of the volume which is in the drive without
mounting the volume?
is there a command in the bconsole etc.?
btape can read labels with the 'readlabel' command as
On Friday 08 December 2006 21:38, Forrest England wrote:
Hi there, I work with Rob Ostrander, the initiator of this thread.
I've also been working on the problem of bacula reporting that
the number of VolumeFiles mismatch between the volume and the catalog.
After reading the manual
Hi folks,
While at LISA06, I was asked about the extended attributes involved
with ZFS. Does Bacula handle them? I'm not sure what he's asking
about.
I have no idea what this is about... I don't know much about ZFS. I
have seen reports that people are using Bacula to backup ZFS-based
On Friday 08 December 2006 21:12, Martin Simmons wrote:
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 11:51:22 -0500, Andrew Fabian said:
Hello,
I'm trying to write a script that tells bacula to restore job X to
client Y, which may not be the same client that job X came from.
Currently, I'm doing this:
So, Bacula won't change from the first drive to the second, when the
first volume gets full??
This is correct bacula does not support that feature yet.
John
*Ok guys, me and my team just developed this solution, for anyone who
has more than one drive in the server. It checks if the tape is
I'm trying to set up disk volumes and have them automatically labeled.
According to the manual, this should be possible.
So I made sure my storage daemon had this line in it:
Label media = yes; # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
I then did a ./bacula restart. I then
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
Read the manual regarding this. You're missing a Maximum Concurrent
Jobs statement, though I couldn't swear whether it goes under Storage
or under Device. That should get you started, however.
Thank you for your help. Although it seemed out of
Josh Fisher wrote:
Michael Fung wrote:
Dear Josh,
Thanks for releasing the vchanger script and HOWTO!
However, I found a problem around line 94:
# Create nextmag file to hold max magazine index used
if [ ! -f ${statedir}/nextmag ]; then
echo 0 ${statedir}/nextmag
It
Hello,
On 12/8/2006 9:05 PM, mario wrote:
Hello list,
i am running bacula 1.38.11 and i would like to backup to DVD follwoing
this page: http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/DVD_Volumes.html
DVD writing with 1.38 is really not ready for production use. You might
even say it won't work :-)
I
This problem has been reported many times in the past, and every case that I
know of has boiled down to either a switch set in half-duplex mode, or a bad
Win32 ethernet card (i.e. hardware/firmware problems on the card itself).
The Win32 chapter of the manual documents a few of these problems.
On Friday 08 December 2006 23:02, Dan Langille wrote:
Hi folks,
While at LISA06, I was asked about the extended attributes involved
with ZFS. Does Bacula handle them?
I don't think so.
I'm not sure what he's asking about.
I have no idea what this is about... I don't know much about
On Friday 08 December 2006 01:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
Read the manual regarding this. You're missing a Maximum Concurrent
Jobs statement, though I couldn't swear whether it goes under Storage
or under Device. That should get you started,
Hi,
On 12/8/2006 9:38 PM, Forrest England wrote:
Hi there, I work with Rob Ostrander, the initiator of this thread.
I've also been working on the problem of bacula reporting that
the number of VolumeFiles mismatch between the volume and the catalog.
After reading the manual thoroughly and
Hello,
On 12/7/2006 8:11 AM, Brad Peterson wrote:
I'm trying to set up disk volumes and have them automatically labeled.
According to the manual, this should be possible.
It definitely is.
So I made sure my storage daemon had this line in it:
Label media = yes; # lets
--On Freitag, 8. Dezember 2006 08:59 -0800 Willard Farqwark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been running Bacula writing to disk for many months now. Very
fast and easy fast restore. I am building a new server with Bacula
writing to a LTO-2.
Question is - How do I set up a client Bacula-fd
Hi,
On 12/5/2006 12:04 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
On Tuesday 05 December 2006 11:04, Rudolf Cejka wrote:
Arno Lehmann wrote (2006/12/01):
On 11/30/2006 9:24 PM, Per Andreas Buer wrote:
...I would be very interested to know why you don't like Areika. Having
this information always helps ...
On 9 Dec 2006 at 0:47, Georg Altmann wrote:
--On Freitag, 8. Dezember 2006 08:59 -0800 Willard Farqwark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been running Bacula writing to disk for many months now. Very
fast and easy fast restore. I am building a new server with Bacula
writing to a LTO-2.
Hello Arno,
On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 23:08 +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hello,
On 12/8/2006 9:05 PM, mario wrote:
Hello list,
i am running bacula 1.38.11 and i would like to backup to DVD follwoing
this page: http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/DVD_Volumes.html
DVD writing with 1.38 is
On Saturday 09 December 2006 00:47, Georg Altmann wrote:
--On Freitag, 8. Dezember 2006 08:59 -0800 Willard Farqwark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been running Bacula writing to disk for many months now. Very
fast and easy fast restore. I am building a new server with Bacula
On Saturday 09 December 2006 02:15, mario wrote:
Hello Arno,
On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 23:08 +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hello,
On 12/8/2006 9:05 PM, mario wrote:
Hello list,
i am running bacula 1.38.11 and i would like to backup to DVD follwoing
this page:
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