Does Bacula 9.6.7 (from Debian 11 repository) likely support backups
encryption out of the box?
Or do I need to compile it with ./configure --with-openssl ?
How do I check if encryption is currently available?
I'm using it with LTO-8 ULTRIUM-HH8 external tape drive.
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they are.
6. The job should complete in under 10 hrs.
What's the best way to achieve this?
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it's not running:
*cancel jobid=5113
Warning Job JobId=5113 is not running.
What made them all disappear was a full server reboot.
Possibly a storage and director restart would have sufficed).
All subsequent scheduled jobs completed fine.
Is it a bug resulting in zombie jobs being left hanging
Trying to manually run a one-off full backup for a single client also
gets stuck at "job is waiting on Storage".
On 02/01/2025 11:42, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
Forgot to add I'm using LTO-8 tapes.
On 02/01/2025 11:41, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
Hi all,
Bacula 9.6.7 on Debian 11.
I run a free space check on it, it reports as half full.
I've manually changed the status to "append" which has made no difference.
Can somebody advise how to get back on track?
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Forgot to add I'm using LTO-8 tapes.
On 02/01/2025 11:41, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
Hi all,
Bacula 9.6.7 on Debian 11.
There has been some mess up around Xmas time:
1. On 27 Dec some scheduled jobs exceeded max run time (18 hrs) and
got cancelled.
2. On the same day, the tape drive was
I think the problem was 3 large full backup jobs of the same client
running on the same day.
The reason for that was a very high transmission error rate on the
network interface for that client slowing down transfers to a crawl.
Subsequently fixed.
JobId 4133
Backup Canceled
Fatal error: Max
ailed -- Incomplete
What on earth has happened here?
On 23/08/2024 18:33, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
Hi all,
Bacula 9.6.7 on Debian 11.
I'm backing up a 777 GB folder of an external xxx server. The backup job
has been running for a number of hours.
To my surprise, Bacula backup server has just COMPLETE
like below:
Before: Device: Remaining Native Capacity in Partition (MiB) (10,620,751)
Now: Device: Remaining Native Capacity in Partition (MiB) (10,176,636)
Is this backup going to fail or succeed? Since it's Fri evening here I
would kind of prefer to know now...
would be ok?
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On 17/06/2024 18:50, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote:
Hello Adam,
Not sure if this will be any help at all, but I just checked and see
that in my `mtx-changer-python.py` drop-in replacement script, to check
for tape cleaning required messages, I am using:
8<
sg_logs --p
y fine.
I don't have any spare hardware try different configuration.
Is there anything else to try to determine the root cause?
Why would a reboot alone trigger it?
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1. Are you suggesting running a round with a cleaning cartridge? The
drive is not asking for it (by showing "C").
2. I don't get what you mean. This is a new thread.
On 13/06/2024 13:07, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:
Any idea what's going on?
1 - Clean your heads.
2 - Don't hijack threads, start
00
Error 9 occurred, no data received
Illegal request, Invalid opcode
-
All scheduled backups were written last night and all other Bacula
scripts executed fine.
Any idea what's going on?
...obviously TA!
On 25/03/2024 12:31, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
I believe this is a bconsole command.
-Chris-
On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, 12:28 Adam Weremczuk,
wrote:
Hi all,
Bacula 9.6.7-3 (free version)
Baculum-web 9.6.6.3
Debian 11
Every quarter or so I run "dbcheck
ry to clear the BVFS Cache
first with the bconsole ".bvfs_clear_cache yes" command."
BVFS is nowhere to be found in my installation.
Shall I install it and how? Is it free? Shall I bother at all?
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he yes" before typing yes.
Is it really a necessary step requiring opening a second shell and
running this command manually?
Is there any reason this step hasn't been directly incorporated into
"dbcheck"?
Regards,
Adam
_
main unchanged throughout further updates.
Hope this helps someone!
Adam
On 23/03/2023 09:51, Vanush "Misha" Paturyan wrote:
I do not have any experience with clients going above 9.6.7, but I did
have to restrict clients from upgrading beyond 7.4.4 during Debian
dist-upgrade to "
Will it likely continue working without issues as long as the version
gap is not too big?
Will I get a stern warning on the server if there is a problem?
Or could it fail silently only for a serious issue to be discovered on
restore?
Regards,
Adam
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It worked, thank you Marcin.
On 09/03/2023 19:13, Marcin Haba wrote:
Hello Adam,
Thanks for your detailed report.
Described behavior is not dangerous but I agree that it is not too
natural. It will be fixed in the next release.
For now if you want you can try a patch. I am sending it in
?name=restore&limit=15000&director=bacula-dir: 50
Time(s)
/api/v1/joblog/64/?show_time=0&director=bacula-dir: 43 Time(s)
/api/v1/jobs/64?director=bacula-dir: 42 Time(s)
/api/v1/config?director=bacula-dir: 19 Time(s)
(...)
What authorization is missing and how to fix it?
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My questions:
1. Has the script been updated since 2017?
2. If so, does the latest version support LTO-8?
3. Does it address the above bug?
4. Where can I get it from?
Regards,
Adam
On 07/08/2018 13:24, Alan Brown wrote:
On 07/08/18 13:04, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
On
cula-sd -> ../init.d/bacula-sd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Jul 4 2019 S04bacula-fd -> ../init.d/bacula-fd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Jul 4 2019 S19bacula-director ->
../init.d/bacula-director
On 27/02/2023 16:14, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote:
On 2/27/23 09:03, Adam Weremczuk wrot
l
crw-rw 1 root tape 9, 64 Feb 24 18:29 st0m
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 80 Feb 24 18:29 tape
cat /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf | grep /dev | grep -v ^#
Archive Device = /dev/nst0
Changer Device = /dev/st0
What's the reason for my error and how to fix it?
Regards,
Adam
Hi all,
Is it possible to tell a client to stop a list of services in a specific
order before starting a backup job? Then start them up after backup run
is complete.
Bacula server runs on Debian 11 and the client on Windows Server 2019
Standard.
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Adam
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box dies but I have the drive and tapes - will I be
able to access all data on tapes by connecting the drive to a new box
followed by "bextract" and "bls" commands alone?
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but I would prefer not to be limited and locked to this one particular
model + software.
I'm assuming that I should still be able to run Bacula with the above?
Any advise?
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Hi all,
Synology RS1221+ 8-Bay NAS specifically.
Are there any officially supported fairly recent clients and
installation guides available?
If not Synology what other budget NAS brands are supported best?
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One weekly one executed at convenient time would be much
better than no backup at all.
I'm after a secure solution - just allow clients to perform a single
operation rather than grant root access to Bacula server.
I'm running an old Bacula version 5.2.6.
Plea
Yes, brand new tapes.
Same error for all four I've added.
I've already written to and read from one of them and everything appears
to be fine.
On 25/09/19 09:12, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote:
Hello,
pt., 20 wrz 2019 o 10:46 Adam Weremczuk <mailto:ad...@matrixscience.co
lume
"LTO-W20190920A"
I haven't done much labeling but can't recall seeing this error before.
Can it be safely ignored?
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heers,
Adam
On 07/08/18 15:02, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
On 07/08/18 13:24, Alan Brown wrote:
sg_raw -o - -r 1024 -t 60 -v /dev/nst0 (or its /dev/sg) 8c 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00
And pipe it through the script I posted at
https://github.com/hreinecke/sg3_utils/issues/18
Bingo
tions.
I'm not sure if this is the best example as I think a few other Linux
distributions also split out the build into multiple packages, but I'm
not so familiar with those.
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Unfortunately when I run bconsole -> estimate job=node_backup listing
client=node_fd my regexfile (which I want to include) is not listed.
What am I doing wrong?
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also right about the config change not resulting in a full
backup (just incremental) so my tape hasn't run out of space.
Thanks everyone!
Adam
On 25/07/19 12:18, Josip Deanovic wrote:
On Thursday 2019-07-25 12:11:58 Martin Simmons wrote:
I don't think this change will cause a full
config change
suggested by Martin has made any difference.
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On 25/07/19 15:40, Josip Deanovic wrote:
If I understand correctly you have run bacula-dir -t with the the client
config excerpt.
You should run bacula-dir -t with the main bacula configuration file.
Yes, bacula-dir -t /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf doesn't complain about
anything so I should be
On 25/07/19 12:16, Josip Deanovic wrote:
When you perform some change you can always test the configuration
with the bacula-dir -t command.
I get the following for every single client conf:
bacula-dir -t /etc/bacula/clients/server.conf
25-Jul 15:19 bacula-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at parse_conf.c
On 25/07/19 13:15, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote:
no, I don't think so. If you run parallel Jobs the data will be interleaved on
the tape, and a tape being a seq. access medium you are out of luck here.
How about if I set:
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1
Then all jobs will be written on continuous tape s
it at all possible with LTO-4 and Bacula?
Thanks,
Adam
On 25/07/19 12:50, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote:
Hello Adam,
if you don't mind having to re-label the volume aftwards a
delete volume=
followed by an
mt -f /dev/st0 weof # insert your tape device here
should reliably wipe your tape.
All the bes
On 25/07/19 12:39, Josip Deanovic wrote:
About the deletion of old jobs...
What kind of storage type are using? Are you using real tapes or
files on disk?
See my "[Bacula-users] deleting data written to volume" post from about
an hour ago.
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Just checked the documentation.
@Martin, I think you are right.
https://www.bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION00147
"Any change to the list of the included files will cause Bacula to
automatically cr
On 25/07/19 12:18, Josip Deanovic wrote:
On Thursday 2019-07-25 12:11:58 Martin Simmons wrote:
I don't think this change will cause a full backup -- only changes to
File= and Plugin= lines will do that.
Curious to hear if this is correct. :-)
Thanks Josip.
I'm leaning towards agreeing with y
On 25/07/19 11:44, Josip Deanovic wrote:
Additionally, the first one seems to be linked with Eset antivirus
library.
Well spotted :)
ESET Node32 was installed much later and it's just a silly experiment.
I wouldn't thought it could affect operations of Bacula client.
The suspicion is my config
I would like tape space to be freed up and I'm ok with
the job still being listed.
As long as Bacula is aware of the situation and e.g. doesn't try to
access the deleted data later.
Obliterating both the data and the job info as if they've never existed
On 25/07/19 10:55, Martin Simmons wrote:
Yes, the FileSet may be the problem -- try reordering the Options clauses so
that the "default" Options clause containing xattrsupport etc is the last one.
The manual says: "However, one additional point is that in the case that no
match was found, Bacul
On 24/07/19 16:49, Martin Simmons wrote:
What happens if you take a backup from the broken client and restore it on the
working client? And vice versa?
Restore from the broken client to a working one misses ACLs.
Restore from working client to broken shows them correctly.
Could it be somethin
On 25/07/19 03:52, Josip Deanovic wrote:
Can you also check ldd bacula-fd on both clients (working and not
working)?
I cannot check now if samba is using libacl or its own implementation.
client with working ACL backup/restore:
ldd /usr/sbin/bacula-fd
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x7fffb519b0
On 24/07/19 16:33, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
On 24/07/19 16:24, Martin Simmons wrote:
Have you checked if acl and xattr support is compiled into the
bacula-fd?
objdump -T ...path..to../bacula-fd | egrep 'acl|xattr'
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objdump -T /usr/sbin/bacula-fd | egrep 'acl|xattr&#x
On 24/07/19 16:24, Martin Simmons wrote:
Have you checked if acl and xattr support is compiled into the bacula-fd?
objdump -T ...path..to../bacula-fd | egrep 'acl|xattr'
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objdump -T /usr/sbin/bacula-fd | egrep 'acl|xattr'
DF *UND* ACL_1.0 a
On 23/07/19 19:16, Josip Deanovic wrote:
Have you checked both file systems for the ACL support?
ACL support might be disabled.
The client in question (fd) also happens to be Bacula director and sd.
An yes, it does support ACL:
cat /etc/mtab | grep acl | grep var
/dev/mapper/vg0-var /var ext4
Strangely both options were already in client's config file, just failed
to be executed for some reason:
FileSet {
Name = server_fileset
Include {
Options {
signature = SHA1
##sparse = yes
xattrsupport = yes
aclsupport = yes
noatime = yes
checkfilechan
glad I've discovered it now, not in a panic disaster recovery
situation...
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> The 2 drive is LTO5. The tape is LTO5.
Who manufactured the drives? HP or IBM? Can you find out the model
numbers?
Have you tried running the OEM diagnostics on them to see what
they say? The HP ones are particularly detailed and informative.
Cheers,
A
On 16/05/19 10:20, Heitor Faria wrote:
Please issue a:
list help
*list help
Unknown list keyword: help
*list
copies files jobid= jobs jobtotals media
pool= pools volume
I'm running pretty old version: 5.2.6 (21 February 2012)
On 16/05/19 09:32, Heitor Faria wrote:
list jobs client=xxx
Unknown list keyword: client
So it lists ALL jobs ever run, 49k in my case.
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Hopefully a trivial question I struggle to find an answer to:
status client=client_name
only shows the last 10 jobs.
How do I increase the number to say last 100?
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ound messages about the head not
moving the expected distance which led me to disassemble a failing LTO5
drive[1] to clean the head mechanism and get the drive back in service).
I'm assuming you've done the obvious and used a cleaning tape recently
of course.
Cheers,
Adam.
[1]: Just
n LTO3
drive) can be set to automatically load a cleaning tape when the drive
requests one, so I imagine most tape libraries have this functionality
in them somewhere.
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it's probably better to handle that at the pool level.
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Thanks Martin, it behaved just as you said.
What I'm trying to troubleshoot is a post job script failing:
09-Apr 22:38 bacula_dir JobId 48848: AfterJob: /sent: Permission denied
(errno = 13)
09-Apr 22:38 bacula_dir JobId 48848: AfterJob: Could not send the message.
It was running fine for mon
define a job not involving a client, file set and tapes?
This is a production system and all I want it to do is test running a
script without having to create an entire dummy structure, change tapes etc.
Please advise.
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high for one drive then that could explain what's going on.
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r Bacula scratch space, and live with shoe shine as
well because tapes are never exactly 800GB.
4. Implement buffering support in Bacula so that I can eliminate
shoe shining and speed up my backups, without buying new hardware.
I definit
t
tricky, because you need to return success/fail for each written data
block, but you can't really do this if you're caching them for writing
later. This is because if there's a write error, it's difficult to
handle the error when the block wa
;1"
Here it suggests that changing the rule from type 8 to type 1 will only
match tape drives. On my system a DVD drive is 5 and a hard drive is
0, so I guess using type 1 should work for tapes only.
Cheers,
Adam.
[1]:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/39370/how-to-reload-udev-r
ev so you don't need to rewrite the Bacula
config file. But this is pretty much what udev does already so better
to get that working if you can.
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There's a more recent firmware for
> my tape library, a Dell ML6000, that I've held off installing. Do you
> think a new firmware might allow the sg driver to provide more output?
Nope, this is all part of the udev rule system.
Cheers,
Adam.
[1]:
h
Hello,
You might be interested in checking this thread:
https://sourceforge.net/p/bacula/mailman/message/36386670/
A perl script is mentioned there:
https://github.com/hreinecke/sg3_utils/issues/18 which can provide you
with e.g. daily reports of raw space remaining on tapes.
Thanks,
Adam
agine it would take even one hour to set up
something like this, much less if you've used OpenVPN before.
I know you want an answer that will work for SSH, but this is the first
clue that you're trying to bang a nail in with a shoe, instead of using
a hammer[
why you're using SSH rather than something
like OpenVPN? OpenVPN will automatically connect as needed so it's
much easier to manage in scripted environments, so just wondering what
makes SSH the preferred option in this case.
Cheers,
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Autochanger section, this is just a newer way of writing it that
works with recent Bacula versions. (Definitely 9.x, not sure
about 7.x though.)
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es back to mtx-changer.
This is assuming nobody else has posted a working mtx-changer script
for your autochanger already of course!
> I split my bacula-dir into components so here are the relevant ones
Everything else here looks like it should be fine. Once you get
mtx-changer wor
t actually is.
I don't think this will cause any problems unless you actually have a
single Bacula setup that uses multiple tape types at the same time,
and it needs to look at the Media Type in order to decide which drive
to load the tape into.
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else was upgraded? Just wondering whether any system
libraries that Bacula uses could also be involved.
I had a quick look at the kernel history but couldn't really see
anything that might cause incorrect data to be read back from a tape.
Cheers,
Adam.
x27;s diagnostic tools installed (itdt) you could see
whether that has anything you can run to check the health of the tape.
I'm not familiar with IBM's tools, but the HP Tape Tools diagnostic
does have a test for tape quality.
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containers, without affecting anything on your host machine.
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> to open device "Default" (/dev/nst0): ERR=Device or resource busy
Something else is running that is accessing the tape. Have you
unmounted the tape or temporarily stopped the bacula-sd daemon?
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I.
Support for MTWEOFI was added to the kernel[2] back in October 2010,
and looks like it was first released in 2.6.37, so it's not something
new.
I am not familiar with Bacula's cross-platform support, so is this
something that can simply be changed? Or could it just be wrapped by
ng of EOF marks is not
an option? Is there any way to somehow disable flushing on EOF?
I'm running Linux kernel 4.18.16 if that's relevant.
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ly the drive stops, rewinds a little, then gets ready to go
again when more data comes through.
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Do you have any idea why this might be happening?
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r day or two at this rate) but
I'm not sure why that would affect things either.
Does anyone know why despooling 8GB of data from memory onto the tape
drive would result in shoe-shining?
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copied to "restored" folder?
The search for it is still likely to take hours, right?
Is it expected to use extreme amounts of CPU and/or memory?
Just double checking before wrecking havoc :)
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Adam
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On 06/09/18 09:21, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
For backups > 65 days < 2 years I can use "restore" command and
regular expressions to perform searches.
Attempted just now:
(...)
Do you want to restore all the files? (yes|no): no
Regexp matching files to restore? (empty to a
On 05/09/18 10:45, Jérôme Blion wrote:
Also, to my surprise, I've just received this message:
05-Sep 09:24 backup_dir JobId 0: Max configured use duration=172,800
sec. exceeded. Marking Volume "LTO-M20120606A" as Used.
05-Sep 09:24 backup_dir JobId 0: There are no more Jobs associated
with Vo
On 05/09/18 10:45, Jérôme Blion wrote:
Check File Retention and Job Retention. I suppose they are much lower
than volume retention.
That means that you keep the volume but you don't know exactly what's
on it because catalog has been cleaned up.
Indeed. This is what I found in client's config
". Marking it purged.
05-Sep 09:24 backup_dir JobId 0: Recycled volume "LTO-M20130703A"
I haven't made any config changes, just did a couple of listings and
attempted one restore which I aborted.
Weird...
On 05/09/18 09:47, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
Hi all,
I'm usi
d by "dbcheck -f -c /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf" I run
every quarter or so?
Is it a good idea to do this:
Regexp matching files to restore? (empty to abort): auth.log
?
Thanks,
Adam
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refer Bacula to report the current actual state.
I'm aware of bconsole, btape etc. but they are all interactive consoles.
I think it's possible to query Bacula database (MySQL in my case).
Any neat "one li
On 07/08/18 16:15, Alan Brown wrote:
use the corresponding /dev/sg
Awesome, ta Alan!
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My last concern is the level of additional wear of drive and tapes.
Execution of sg_raw required the tape to be unmounted:
/dev/nst0: Device or resource busy
Which now needs to be re-mounted for the next backup run.
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On 07/08/18 13:24, Alan Brown wrote:
sg_raw -o - -r 1024 -t 60 -v /dev/nst0 (or its /dev/sg) 8c 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04 00 00 00
And pipe it through the script I posted at
https://github.com/hreinecke/sg3_utils/issues/18
Bingo!
id=0x writable=RO format=0 attrlen=0x0008=8
On 07/08/18 12:31, Alan Brown wrote:
For LTO, there are a number of relatively easy ways of answering these
questions _without_ moving the tape - as long as you have the latest
version of sg3_utils installed
Thank you Alan.
The utilities look very promising.
The problem is my Bacula system
On 06/08/18 14:54, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
It would still be useful to have e.g. a daily cron job examining the
tape and determining how much raw uncompressed space it has left.
https://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=faq#can_bacula_tell_me_how_much_space_is_left_on_my_tapes
"it's p
On 06/08/18 14:08, Jérôme Blion wrote:
LTO-4 are supposed to store 800GB uncompressed. That's the only value
you can expect from the tape.
Depending on the data pieces you want to backup, you can have a ratio
lower than 2. If data pieces are already compressed you won't have a
good compression
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