Re: [Bacula-users] Tapes not fully used

2015-08-17 Thread More, Ankush
Hi Ana, Please find attached log, in same pool some tapes are underutilized and some over. “Maximum Volume Bytes” not specified for pool using tapes. [root@bacula bacula]# lsscsi -g [0:0:0:0]cd/dvd HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4244N 2.00 /dev/sr0 /dev/sg0 [2:0:0:0]mediumx HP MSL6000 Ser

[Bacula-users] LZO support error in Debian (Bacula 7.2.0) (maybe a bug?)

2015-08-17 Thread Francisco Javier Funes Nieto
Hi All, Today I come back from holidays and try the fresh new release of our favourite Backup Solution. A Debian 8 VM amd 64 minimal system as base, Bacula 7.2.0 from source. Configure: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc/bacula --with-scriptdir=/etc/bacula --enable-

Re: [Bacula-users] Tapes not fully used

2015-08-17 Thread Josip Deanovic
On Monday 2015-08-17 12:30:05 More, Ankush wrote: > Hi Team, > > Bacula version 7.0.5 > > Using tape LTO-4 with autochanger, I notice some tapes are not fully > utilized, still show "VolStatus" as Full. [...] > Some tape are utilized full or beyond the capacity. If I am not mistaken tapes migh

Re: [Bacula-users] Pool Types

2015-08-17 Thread Heitor Faria
> Dear community, > Can somebody explain me the function and the differences of the following Pool > Types: > * Backup > * Archive > * Clone > * Migration > * Copy > * Save I think only Kern can answer this since it's still in a conceptual stage: " Note, only Backup is c

[Bacula-users] Pool Types

2015-08-17 Thread E.L.L. Assoua
Dear community, Can somebody explain me the function and the differences of the following Pool Types: * Backup * Archive * Clone * Migration * Copy * Save Best regards, Luc Assoua -- __

Re: [Bacula-users] Tapes not fully used

2015-08-17 Thread Ana Emília M . Arruda
Hello Ankush, Bacula marks a volume as Full when Maximum Volume Bytes (if specified in Pool resource) or if it reaches de end of the medium you are using (a disk partition, a tape, etc.). Based only on your list media output, in some cases we can say that the end of medium was reached, but this i

Re: [Bacula-users] Choosing a backup strategy

2015-08-17 Thread Josip Deanovic
On Monday 2015-08-17 13:25:59 Waqar Khan wrote: > Heitor, Josip, > > Thanks for the replies. That does make sense. > > I don't see a huge benefit at the moment from doing differential > backups. Most of the data which is backed up is not changing but being > added to ( so volumes are getting big

Re: [Bacula-users] Choosing a backup strategy

2015-08-17 Thread Heitor Faria
> Heitor, Josip, > > Thanks for the replies. That does make sense. > > I don't see a huge benefit at the moment from doing differential backups. Most > of the data which is backed up is not changing but being added to ( so volumes > are getting bigger due to additional files). In the video its ex

[Bacula-users] Tapes not fully used

2015-08-17 Thread More, Ankush
Hi Team, Bacula version 7.0.5 Using tape LTO-4 with autochanger, I notice some tapes are not fully utilized, still show "VolStatus" as Full. | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes| VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten

Re: [Bacula-users] Choosing a backup strategy

2015-08-17 Thread Waqar Khan
Heitor, Josip, Thanks for the replies. That does make sense. I don't see a huge benefit at the moment from doing differential backups. Most of the data which is backed up is not changing but being added to ( so volumes are getting bigger due to additional files). In the video its explained tha

Re: [Bacula-users] Choosing a backup strategy

2015-08-17 Thread Josip Deanovic
On Monday 2015-08-17 12:09:15 Waqar Khan wrote: > Hi all. > > Bacula version: 5.0.0 > > At the moment I do a full backup at the start of the month then do a > diff backup every weekend and incremental backups every evening. I > would like a way to speed up the entire backup process. I am thinking

Re: [Bacula-users] Choosing a backup strategy

2015-08-17 Thread Heitor Faria
> Hi all. > Bacula version: 5.0.0 > At the moment I do a full backup at the start of the month then do a diff > backup > every weekend and incremental backups every evening. I would like a way to > speed up the entire backup process. I am thinking of removing the diff backup > jobs and only runn

[Bacula-users] Choosing a backup strategy

2015-08-17 Thread Waqar Khan
Hi all. Bacula version: 5.0.0 At the moment I do a full backup at the start of the month then do a diff backup every weekend and incremental backups every evening. I would like a way to speed up the entire backup process. I am thinking of removing the diff backup jobs and only running full and