Re: [Bacula-users] New Exabyte Autochanger question

Hi Richard, Hi Group, On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 12:01:51PM -0700, Richard White wrote: > > Are you 100% sure that /dev/sg0 is your changer? … > You are right! /dev/sg0 yields some ATA nonsense, but > /dev/sg1 tells me it is an Exabyte 1x10 1u. I will > give it another try. I recently had to strugg

[Bacula-users] Pruning to the scratch pool.

Hi, Bacula 2-0-3 from rpm, os10.2 32bit x86, adic scalar24 with 2 SDLT320, 5,5TB NTEC IceBox over SCSI I mean on any post in the last weeks i've read (only with one eye) over a option thats allows a volume after pruning, automatically moving to the scratch pool. That can be a very nice featur

Re: [Bacula-users] New Exabyte Autochanger question

Richard White wrote: On 7/9/2007 at 3:47 PM, in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John Drescher" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Please also note that, in the new and improved versions, the device name >>> is enclosed in double quotes, just like in the book and your examples, but >>> not, alas,

[Bacula-users] Job Failed Fatal error: sql_create.c:93 Create DB Job record

Updated MySQL yesterday and all backups fail with the following message(s): Job failed. 10-Jul 10:05 backup-dir: sql_create.c:91 INSERT INTO Job (Job,Name,Type,Level,JobStatus,SchedTime,JobTDate) VALUES ('halrouter.2007-07-10_10.05.22','halrouter','B','I','C','2007-07-10 10:05:20',1184054720) 10-

Re: [Bacula-users] Job Failed Fatal error: sql_create.c:93 Create DB Job record

Hi, 10.07.2007 10:56,, Pieter (NL) wrote:: > Updated MySQL yesterday and all backups fail with the following message(s): > > Job failed. > 10-Jul 10:05 backup-dir: sql_create.c:91 INSERT INTO Job > (Job,Name,Type,Level,JobStatus,SchedTime,JobTDate) VALUES > ('halrouter.2007-07-10_10.05.22','halro

Re: [Bacula-users] btape and bsr sd.conf tweaks

> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 20:27:23 -0600, Ken Gunderson said: > > Greetings: > > Since my baffled post I've been doing some testing w/various sd.conf > tweaks. btape results and fbsd ports message initially recommended: > > Due to lack of some features in the FreeBSD tape driver > implementation

Re: [Bacula-users] Winows fd random shutdowns debunked

Hello, 10.07.2007 12:35,, Mantas M. wrote:: > Hello, > > I've just submited a bug report regarding this issue, but until it > remains unsolved, i'll share my experience in case anyone else runs in > to the same problem: > > For a long period of time i had a strange issue with windows (xp pro,

[Bacula-users] Winows fd random shutdowns debunked

Hello, I've just submited a bug report regarding this issue, but until it remains unsolved, i'll share my experience in case anyone else runs in to the same problem: For a long period of time i had a strange issue with windows (xp pro, server 2003) fds randomly shutting down. At last, today I

Re: [Bacula-users] Winows fd random shutdowns debunked

> Currently, development is under progress to separate the tray monitor > from the FD itself (required for vista). That should fix this issue. > Sorry about the delay of that I had problems with my car that are prevented me from working on this last week. At this point the tray has been removed fro

Re: [Bacula-users] Help with backup plan

On Friday 06 July 2007 06:23:22 Charles Sprickman wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm very happy with Bacula so far. I've got a bunch of clients setup and > have a basic config ready to go. So far backing up to disk is working > well and I need to figure out how to implement my real schedule and tape > usag

Re: [Bacula-users] Winows fd random shutdowns debunked

Hi John, Yes, it would be great if You could email the executable or upload it somewhere. Thanks, Mantas. John Drescher wrote: >> Currently, development is under progress to separate the tray monitor >> from the FD itself (required for vista). That should fix this issue. >> > Sorry about the

Re: [Bacula-users] Winows fd random shutdowns debunked

On 7/10/07, Mantas M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi John, > > Yes, it would be great if You could email the executable or upload it > somewhere. > I was having a very difficult time trying to get gmail or comcast to host the file so I tried a free binary host service.The link is below. You go to

[Bacula-users] bacula lto-2 drive performance?

Hi all, I'm currently implementing a new bacula server running on a new dual core/dual cpu Dell PowerEdge 2900 server into a Dell Powervault 136T with a LTO-2 drive (IBM Ultrium-td2 model). The tape drive and robot are on a dedicated Adaptec 29160 card. The OS is OpenSuse 10.2 I think I shou

Re: [Bacula-users] Job Failed Fatal error: sql_create.c:93 Create DB Job record

There was really no error message. Rebooted the server and recompiled and reinstalled mysql51-server and client and it's working again. Don't know why the problem disappeared. Arno Lehmann wrote: > > Hi, > > 10.07.2007 10:56,, Pieter (NL) wrote:: >> Updated MySQL yesterday and all backups fai

[Bacula-users] Please mount volume...but volume is already mounted.

elkton-dir Version: 2.1.22 (26 June 2007) Linux Cross-compile Win32 Hey, I am still getting this mounting problem. Bacula loads the correct tape, but then says that I need to mount it. After which I release, and mount the same tape, and it then proceed to backup. brian- 10-Jul 09:28 elkton-

Re: [Bacula-users] Please mount volume...but volume is already mounted.

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Brian Debelius might have said: > elkton-dir Version: 2.1.22 (26 June 2007) Linux Cross-compile Win32 > > Hey, > I am still getting this mounting problem. Bacula loads the correct > tape, but then says that I need to mount it. After which I release, and > mount the same t

Re: [Bacula-users] btape and bsr sd.conf tweaks

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:12:35 +0100 Martin Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 20:27:23 -0600, Ken Gunderson said: > > > > Greetings: > > > > Since my baffled post I've been doing some testing w/various sd.conf > > tweaks. btape results and fbsd ports message initially

[Bacula-users] confused by automatic purging

I have a 3 week rotation with a full backup each Friday and differential backups every weekday. Last night, upon execution, the 1_Monday_Week_1 AND 1_Monday_Week_2 were both purged and it shouldn't have purged 1_Monday_Week_2 from my backup logs... 09-Jul 20:00 SRV1: Start Backup JobId 91, Job=S

Re: [Bacula-users] btape and bsr sd.conf tweaks

> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:10:24 -0600, Ken Gunderson said: > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:12:35 +0100 > Martin Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 20:27:23 -0600, Ken Gunderson said: > > > > > > Greetings: > > > > > > Since my baffled post I've been doing some testi

Re: [Bacula-users] New Exabyte Autochanger question

> what means u should stick it in place like /etc/devfs.conf on FreeBSD This is SUSE, so I have no /etc/devfs.conf. Well, my problem is not with Bacula itself. I loaded a tape into the drive and issued this at the command line: # mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind # mt: /dev/nst0: Input/output error So t

Re: [Bacula-users] confused by automatic purging

On 7/10/07, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a 3 week rotation with a full backup each Friday and differential backups every weekday. Last night, upon execution, the 1_Monday_Week_1 AND 1_Monday_Week_2 were both purged and it shouldn't have purged 1_Monday_Week_2 from my backup lo

Re: [Bacula-users] New Exabyte Autochanger question

I spoke too soon. If I issue this command: *label storage=Auto volume=A002 slot=2 the command will fail. If, however, I load slot 2 into the drive (of course, it will already be there if I issued the above command; if I haven't, I can load it with './mtx-changer /dev/sg1 load 2 /dev/nst0 0'

Re: [Bacula-users] Pruning to the scratch pool.

Falk Sauer wrote: > I mean on any post in the last weeks i've read (only with one eye) over a > option thats allows a volume after pruning, automatically moving to the > scratch pool. > > That can be a very nice feature, in the moment i make this manually. > > From which version of bacula is th

[Bacula-users] Unsure of btape output when testing autochanger

I am not sure of the expected behaviour of btape and am following the User Guide in configuring, testing my autochanger (Exabyte Magnum 224 LTO-3) with Bacula. I have already tested the tape device with mt and the changer with mtx. The mtx-changer script is working as described by the guide. I sta

Re: [Bacula-users] confused by automatic purging

Hi, 10.07.2007 20:11,, John Drescher wrote:: > > > On 7/10/07, *Craig White* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > I have a 3 week rotation with a full backup each Friday and differential > backups every weekday. > > Last night, upon execution, the 1_Monday_W

Re: [Bacula-users] Unsure of btape output when testing autochanger

Hi, 10.07.2007 21:01,, Shon Stephens wrote:: > I am not sure of the expected behaviour of btape and am following the > User Guide in configuring, testing my autochanger (Exabyte Magnum 224 > LTO-3) with Bacula. I have already tested the tape device with mt and > the changer with mtx. The mtx-ch

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula lto-2 drive performance?

El mar, 10-07-2007 a las 10:31 -0400, Bob Hetzel escribió: > Hi all, > > I'm currently implementing a new bacula server running on a new dual > core/dual cpu Dell PowerEdge 2900 server into a Dell Powervault 136T > with a LTO-2 drive (IBM Ultrium-td2 model). The tape drive and robot > are on a

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula lto-2 drive performance?

I'm interested too, I've an HP LTO-2 and bacula says that gets 1,5 MB/sec ( for both backup clients, local and remote ) I'm not an average user of scsi tape devices, any tip will be very wellcome :) These numbers are highly dependent on the backup type (full, incremental ...) and the ability

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula lto-2 drive performance?

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, John Drescher wrote: >> I'm interested too, I've an HP LTO-2 and bacula says that gets 1,5 >> MB/sec ( for both backup clients, local and remote ) >> >> I'm not an average user of scsi tape devices, any tip will be very >> wellcome :) > > These numbers are highly dependent

[Bacula-users] Reuse old tapes not working correctly

I have 8 tapes in a cycle. Bacula is suppose to run until the tape is full. I have the volume retention set to 4 months, then after that 4 months the tape should then be in "recycle" or "append" mode and I should be able to write data to it fresh. But now each tape is only holding a fraction of

[Bacula-users] btape test works;backup works;restore doesn't

I have loaded Bacula 2.0.3 from source on my FreeBSD system. I ran btape test and it passed all the tests. Also ran the autoloader test and that passed. I did a full backup which fit on one DLT IV tape. Then I wanted to do a test restore to make sure things are working before I stop doing m

Re: [Bacula-users] New Exabyte Autochanger question

Richard White wrote: > I spoke too soon. If I issue this command: > > *label storage=Auto volume=A002 slot=2 > > the command will fail. If, however, I load slot 2 into the drive (of course, > it will already be there if I issued the above command; if I haven't, I can > load it with './mtx-c

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula lto-2 drive performance?

It was suggested that perhaps my 50 GB/hr data rate was due to the client maxing out around that rate. I believe I have verified this. Previously I had been used to seeing much higher rates on another backup system, but I was only backing up servers using high performance SCSI disks, RAIDed t

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula lto-2 drive performance?

Bob Hetzel wrote: > I installed the bacula client on one of those servers, where I saw a > backup rate of about 77 GB/hr (21375.8 KB/s as reported by bacula). > That's what I get using LTO-3 drives, so that sounds pretty good to me for LTO-2. Michael -- The music business is a cruel and sh

Re: [Bacula-users] btape test works;backup works;restore doesn't

I am getting the same error, or one very similar to it. FreeBSD 6.1, Bacula 2.0.?, Using an LTO2 drive. I'm still doing tests to determine if it is my device or a problem with Bacula. I have another backup server with an almost identical setup (different tape drive) which does not have this probl

Re: [Bacula-users] btape and bsr sd.conf tweaks

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:59:37 +0100 Martin Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:10:24 -0600, Ken Gunderson said: > > > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:12:35 +0100 > > Martin Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 20:27:23 -0600, Ken Gunderson s

[Bacula-users] data error... buffer discarded

Hi all, I'm doing my first live backup and the first host seems to have gone alright, but there's one error in the run that is not clear to me: 10-Jul 20:40 devel2-sd: devel2.2007-07-10_20.39.56 Error: block.c:275 Volume data error at 0:0! Wanted ID: "BB02", got "". Buffer discarded. I'm guessi

Re: [Bacula-users] Help with backup plan

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Steen wrote: > On Friday 06 July 2007 06:23:22 Charles Sprickman wrote: >> What I'd like to do is the following: >> >> -Full backup each sunday, keeping the tapes for a year. After that I >> would likely manually relabel all the tapes but one. These tapes would >> all be in

Re: [Bacula-users] Pruning to the scratch pool.

Hi Andreas, thanks for your helpful answer! Ok we know, that we know nothing quite right how its works. ;-) I will test especially this new Feature if a released Version is available in suse rpm format. I would also find statistically overviews of volume usage very helpful for proactive changi