Re: [Bacula-users] Last piece of the puzzle...

2007-11-06 Thread Michael Short
In order for us to know whats wrong we need to see your director and storage configurations. Sincerely, -Michael - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now S

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems building RPM packages

2007-11-06 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 2.2.5 is now available in BlastWave's unstable repository. Ryan Novosielski wrote: > Blastwave has newer pacakges in testing. If you can't find them (I believe > it may be as simple as changing the URL to include testing instead of the > other repos

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Mini project

2007-11-06 Thread John Jorgensen
> "dboyes" == David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dboyes> I agree with you. It's dumb to do an incremental dboyes> followed immediately by a full backup if they're dboyes> going to dump the same data in roughly the same dboyes> timeframe. What if the incremental and full b

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula speed limitations?

2007-11-06 Thread Ryan Novosielski
It is quite possible that your catalog database cannot keep up with your backups. I'd start there. .. Original Message ... On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:17:10 -0500 "Shon Stephens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I was just wondering what the factors limiting the speed with which >Bacula writes to

[Bacula-users] can't restore ACL of /tmp/bacula-restores/*

2007-11-06 Thread Doug Sampson
I am testing the restore function of Bacula 2.2.5 on FreeBSD 6.2 and in the process of restoring ~20,000 files recursively from the /var directory, I am seeing numerous error messages as follows: <..snip..> 06-Nov 17:37 aries-fd JobId 2326: Warning: restore.c:588 Can't restore ACL of /tmp/bacula-r

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't run concurrent jobs to the same resource

2007-11-06 Thread Elie Azar
Hi, I implemented a setup with one LVM disk (2x500GB drives) and an autochanger with 2 virtual disks (disk-0 and disk-1) following the instructions in the Vchanger HowTo document (rev. 0.7.4 2006-12-12). I created the conf file for the vchanger, and I updatd the bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.con

Re: [Bacula-users] Tandberg LTO2 (420LTO) good choice for bacula?

2007-11-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 06.11.2007 12:24,, Alan Brown wrote:: > On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Arno Lehmann wrote: > >> For the single-spindle tapes, like DLT and LTO, retensioning should >> never be needed. Thus it's only reasonable for the drive firmware to >> not accept this command. > > I can think of a number of instance

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula using one drive in a Vchanger

2007-11-06 Thread Elie Azar
Hi Josh, I have upgraded to bacula 2.2.5 and I'm still having the same problems. It seems like drive-1 in the vchanger is never used. Have you ever seen it used, and if so, what kind of configuration do I need; I followed the instruction in the HowTo document (Rev 0.7.4 2006-12-12). I tried many

[Bacula-users] Last piece of the puzzle...

2007-11-06 Thread David Gardner
Hey folks, I have four servers I want to backup to a single volume, e.g., one file on BU server or one tape (drive). It looks to me that I simply need the volume to be appendable but I don't see a configuration setting to make this happen. Currently, when a server's file set is backed-up, Bacul

Re: [Bacula-users] Media changer causing my server not to, boot. (solved)

2007-11-06 Thread John Huttley
The answer is update the firmware. Many thanks to Bob Hetzel, who perservered with me. Regards, John - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log

Re: [Bacula-users] Linux scsi tape driver modes

2007-11-06 Thread John Huttley
Thanks to Arno and Michel for this. One more thing not to worry about! Regards, john Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, 06.11.2007 22:39,, John Huttley wrote:: Hi folks, I'm trying to get my head around the details of tape devices, as in /dev/st0. I had thought that for each physical device, two n

Re: [Bacula-users] Linux scsi tape driver modes

2007-11-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 06.11.2007 22:39,, John Huttley wrote:: > Hi folks, > I'm trying to get my head around the details of tape devices, as in > /dev/st0. > I had thought that for each physical device, two nodes were created > /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0. > The latter does not rewind when closed, thats the one used

Re: [Bacula-users] Linux scsi tape driver modes

2007-11-06 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Huttley wrote: > Hi folks, > I'm trying to get my head around the details of tape devices, as in > /dev/st0. > I had thought that for each physical device, two nodes were created > /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0. > The latter does not rewind when clos

Re: [Bacula-users] Auto-labeling volumes from Python

2007-11-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 06.11.2007 21:51,, Ben Beuchler wrote:: > The example DirStartup.py shows an example NewVolume method that just > assigns a generated volume name to job.VolumeName. Is that all that's > needed for the system to label a new volume? Does it just label a new > volume using the defaults defined

Re: [Bacula-users] python support removal

2007-11-06 Thread Ben Beuchler
On 10/31/07, Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > see > http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=998 > > "After version 2.2.x Python will no longer be support -- there are an > insufficient number of users." Oy vey! I am even as we speak working on implementing some Python code to handle volume labeling!

[Bacula-users] Linux scsi tape driver modes

2007-11-06 Thread John Huttley
Hi folks, I'm trying to get my head around the details of tape devices, as in /dev/st0. I had thought that for each physical device, two nodes were created /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0. The latter does not rewind when closed, thats the one used with bacula. Untrue! its creates 8 modes. For each on s

Re: [Bacula-users] python support removal

2007-11-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, 06.11.2007 20:44,, Kern Sibbald wrote:: Thanks for clarifying this. > On Monday 05 November 2007 13:12, Arno Lehmann wrote: ... True. But chances might be better to find such a person if python was left in... if we had it in Bacula (as long as possible - Bacula core develop

[Bacula-users] Auto-labeling volumes from Python

2007-11-06 Thread Ben Beuchler
The example DirStartup.py shows an example NewVolume method that just assigns a generated volume name to job.VolumeName. Is that all that's needed for the system to label a new volume? Does it just label a new volume using the defaults defined in bacula-dir.conf? Thanks! -Ben -

Re: [Bacula-users] Why use multiple pools with disk-based backup?

2007-11-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 06.11.2007 00:43,, Ben Beuchler wrote:: > I feel like I'm missing something: > > If I'm doing all of my backups to disk, is there an advantage to > maintaining three distinct pools? If you want to have different retention times for full, differential, and incremental backups, for example. Y

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't run concurrent jobs to the same resource

2007-11-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 06.11.2007 00:22,, Elie Azar wrote:: > Sorry for the previous reply; I clicked on the wrong "Reply To" button... I was almost sure it was something like that :-) > So, what you're suggesting is to setup large filesystems using LVM, > something like BLV01, BLV02, etc. each with several hard d

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple autochangers

2007-11-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, 06.11.2007 21:01,, Mike Seda wrote:: > All, > I am interested in purchasing another autochanger. > > I am under the impression that the only way to conveniently (without the > annoyance of manual shuffling) use two autochangers is to have different > MediaTypes assigned to them. Is that

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula backup running amok with "not configured to autolabel Volumes" messages

2007-11-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 06.11.2007 20:36,, Win Htin wrote:: > Hi folks, > > I have a RedHat EL4 server connected through FC to an IBM TS3200 tape > changer with single LTO4 drive with 44 slots. The bacula version is > 2.2.5. I have set the label to use the barcode labels and wiped all 25 > tapes in the changer cl

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple autochangers

2007-11-06 Thread Mike Seda
All, I am interested in purchasing another autochanger. I am under the impression that the only way to conveniently (without the annoyance of manual shuffling) use two autochangers is to have different MediaTypes assigned to them. Is that correct? Thx, Mike Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > On 12

Re: [Bacula-users] Orphaned Buffers?

2007-11-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 06.11.2007 18:25,, Dep, Khushil (GE Money) wrote:: > > Orphaned buffer: MigWebSSCbkp1-dir 40 bytes buf=8249400 allocated > at alist.c:53 ... > Orphaned buffer: MigWebSSCbkp1-dir272 bytes buf=824b288 allocated > at job.c:950 > > can anyone tell what all this is? That's a report

Re: [Bacula-users] python support removal

2007-11-06 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 05 November 2007 13:12, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sending this to the list - I suppose you wanted it to go there, too. > > 05.11.2007 10:58,, Rich wrote:: > > On 2007.11.04. 23:02, Arno Lehmann wrote: > > ... > > > >> True. But chances might be better to find such a person if pyth

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochangers over Fiber Channel

2007-11-06 Thread Mike Seda
Hi Flak, I use mtx all the time with my Quantum PX502 Autochanger (LTO-3, FC, One Drive) on RHEL 4 AS (32-bit). The only gotcha is that FC AL does not work with the autochanger, and I was forced to use FC Point-to-Point. If you are doing FC Point-to-Point you need to have an FC switch or a mult

Re: [Bacula-users] FW: backing up small, dense fileset

2007-11-06 Thread Michael Lewinger
Kudos - you have probably learned a lot during the debugging. thanks for sharing ! Michael On Nov 6, 2007 6:06 AM, Ron Cormier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > I just wanted to share an experience I had setting up a backup this > weekend. > > Quick overview: > The file daemon on my Windows s

[Bacula-users] Bacula backup running amok with "not configured to autolabel Volumes" messages

2007-11-06 Thread Win Htin
Hi folks, I have a RedHat EL4 server connected through FC to an IBM TS3200 tape changer with single LTO4 drive with 44 slots. The bacula version is 2.2.5. I have set the label to use the barcode labels and wiped all 25 tapes in the changer clean with the command "mt rewind && mt weof && mt rewind"

[Bacula-users] Orphaned Buffers?

2007-11-06 Thread Dep, Khushil (GE Money)
Orphaned buffer: MigWebSSCbkp1-dir 40 bytes buf=8249400 allocated at alist.c:53 Orphaned buffer: MigWebSSCbkp1-dir528 bytes buf=8249448 allocated at job.c:1130 Orphaned buffer: MigWebSSCbkp1-dir146 bytes buf=8249678 allocated at job.c:966 Orphaned buffer: MigWebSSCbkp1-dir 6 by

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 2.2.5 Change FileRetention and JobRetention in Client Table?

2007-11-06 Thread pedro moreno
You were right. Everything is working very well. Thanks Arno, much to learn!!! On 11/5/07, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > 05.11.2007 19:56,, pedro moreno wrote:: > > Hi. > > > > I update bacula server from 1.38.x to 2.2.5, looks everything right, i > > test a r

[Bacula-users] Bacula speed limitations?

2007-11-06 Thread Shon Stephens
I was just wondering what the factors limiting the speed with which Bacula writes to tape are? I performed some testing on my LTO-3 drive and found that the theoretical limit is 276G/hr, while my backups are writing at around 174G/hr. The client is the Bacula system itself. The FD is reading files

[Bacula-users] bat: client list jobtotals

2007-11-06 Thread João Henrique Freitas
Hello, Anybody has the same issue in bat when: 1- Client -> Rigth click on any client 2- Select "List Jobs of Client" 3- Select (on left panel) "JobList of Client xxx" and right clik on it 4- Select "List Jobs Totals in Console" On this time the bat show a error about list jobtotals4 command. I

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula doesn't see tape in drive after label barcodes

2007-11-06 Thread Shon Stephens
So far so good. I can just post this as a workaround. For me, its only happened when labeling from barcodes. -Shon On Nov 5, 2007 10:21 AM, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > 05.11.2007 13:53,, Shon Stephens wrote:: > > > I have an autochanger with 12 tapes. I issue the label barco

Re: [Bacula-users] ClientRunAfterJob Problems

2007-11-06 Thread Markus Falb
Dep, Khushil (GE Money ge.com> writes: > > Still struggling with why this feature isn't working > for me, I have set the following in bacula-dir.conf for the job in > question:   > RunScript { >     RunsWhen = After > RunsOnSuccess = Yes >     RunsOnFailure = No >     Run

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with the list

2007-11-06 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > Shortly, the sourceforge server contacts my server with a callback > attempting to validate a null sender going back to my email address. If > either the null sender or my email address fail, then sourceforge will > fail my message. This is one of

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula doesn't see tape in drive after label barcodes

2007-11-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, ok, I captured some debug output regarding the issue when the SD can't detect a usable volume in the tape drive. This only happens (in my installations) when the pool requested is changed. In this case, the full backups from one pool ran fine, and the incremental backups for the week start

Re: [Bacula-users] ClientRunAfterJob Problems

2007-11-06 Thread Dep, Khushil (GE Money)
Still struggling with why this feature isn't working for me, I have set the following in bacula-dir.conf for the job in question: Job { Name = "TEST-001-BKP" Type = Backup JobDefs = DefaultJob Client = test-fd FileSet = "TEST-BackupFileSet" Schedule = SCH_TESTING Storage = BackupSto

Re: [Bacula-users] Tandberg LTO2 (420LTO) good choice for bacula?

2007-11-06 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Arno Lehmann wrote: > For the single-spindle tapes, like DLT and LTO, retensioning should > never be needed. Thus it's only reasonable for the drive firmware to > not accept this command. I can think of a number of instances when retensioning is needed - particularly if the c

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bug Tracking System

2007-11-06 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, On Monday 05 November 2007 18:12, Michael Short wrote: > Today I want to start a Restore job with Bacula 2.0.3 but it would > fail miserably after issuing a "status director" shortly after > starting the restore. I wasn't sure if this was a bug which was > already addressed, so I made my wa

Re: [Bacula-users] Ignoring fileset changes

2007-11-06 Thread Lucas B. Cohen
> Hi, > > After fine-tuning the definition of a Fileset resource (adding a directory > exclusion), I omitted to enable the 'Ignore Fileset Changes' setting. > Obviously, the corresponding next incremental backup got promoted to a > full > one, which I cancelled. > > However, enabling 'Ignore File

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with the list

2007-11-06 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, On Tuesday 06 November 2007 00:08, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: > I want to apologize to Kern and to the list for being mistaken and for > pushing my mistaken point of view too far. Thank your for your feedback, there is really nothing to apologize for. We need to keep all our discussions open

[Bacula-users] ClientRunAfterJob Problems

2007-11-06 Thread Dep, Khushil (GE Money)
Hey all, I've my jobs setup with the line ClientRunAfterJob = "rm -rf /path/to/source/*" which as I understand it should issue that command on the client after job runs? Looking at the job log on the director, it is issuing the command and yet, it does not seem to be executing on the client as th

[Bacula-users] What is the strategy for MaximumPartSize?

2007-11-06 Thread Hydro Meteor
Hello all, This question probably has an obvious answer that I'm missing, but with regard to DVD backups, the Device Resource in the Storage Daemon Configuration has an optional Directive named "MaximumPartSize". From the Bacula Usesr's Guide, I think I understand that setting a value for this Dir

Re: [Bacula-users] Tandberg LTO2 (420LTO) good choice for bacula?

2007-11-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 06.11.2007 00:28,, Lucas B. Cohen wrote:: >> Hi all, >> >> I have a short question? I'm using bacula 2.2.4 on a Debian etch >> machine. Now I want to extend the backup-to-disk to backup-to-tape. >> >> Is this tape a good (Tandberg LTO2 (420LTO) choice and known to work? >> Any hints or experi

[Bacula-users] Doesn't want to recycle tape in the drive

2007-11-06 Thread Adam Cécile
Hi, Here is my problem: I have five tapes (Dailly-00[1-5]). Let's assume Daily-005 is purged and Daily-001 is used (but data expired). If Daily-001 is in the drive, Bacula won't recycle it, instead it will keep asking for Daily-005. If I set Daily-005 as disabled, bacula automatically purge Daily