Re: [Bacula-users] Backup more than on client within a job

2007-01-08 Thread Alan Brown
On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Jonathan Horne wrote: getting back OT... can bacula run multiple clients simultaneously? Yes. and, so far ive not read that it cant be done, but one of my clients is a linux running on ppc... Bacula-fd (the client) compiled for linux-ppc (ubuntu) works fine here.

Re: [Bacula-users] resume failed job

2007-01-08 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Silver Salonen wrote: To me it sounds very.. um.. important. I've had similar situations, but with 20-30 GB, so it hasn't been SO critical (only sufficiently as I do backups via WAN). I've had it happen 700Gb into 1Tb backups. There's a few good reasons to keep backup

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling of backup to disk

2007-01-08 Thread Alan Brown
On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Arno Lehmann wrote: In theory, a 600 GB tape with a 200 GB spool file would be filled in three chunks. As the sizes never add up that well, and the actual tape capacity is never that exact, you will find that it takes three or four despooling turns which doesn't sound too

Re: [Bacula-users] Fedora core RPMs

2007-01-05 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Felix Schwarz wrote: Chris Rodgers schrieb: In case anyone finds them useful, I built a set of RPMs of Bacula 2.0 for Fedora Core. They are available at http://rodgers.org.uk/ . I presume that proper RPMs will become available soon. RPMs for FC5 (i386, x86_64), FC6

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog waiting to reserve a device

2007-01-04 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Erich Prinz wrote: You might configure concurrent jobs as a solution. It won't help in this situation and the message tends to indicate concurrent jobs are setup. waiting to reserve a device means that all available tape drives are in use by jobs using other Pools. In

Re: [Bacula-users] Migration job question.

2007-01-04 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Don MacArthur wrote: I'm preparing to upgrade from 1.38.7. My current nightly process looks like this: 1. Backup to tape. 2. Backup to file. My question is, can I use a migration job to *copy* my backup jobs to new volumes - as opposed to *moving* them? If so, can you

Re: [Bacula-users] BUG?: BackupCatalog waiting to reserve a device

2007-01-04 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Chris Rodgers wrote: You need to add a RunBeforeJob which will exit with an error if ngorongoro is not online. Ther ewas some discussion on this in the past relating to laptops and there may already be a script for it somewhere. This sounds like a bacula bug to me. Surely

[Bacula-users] BETA question

2007-01-03 Thread Alan Brown
Is there a summary of required configuration syntax changes between 1.38.11 and 1.39.34-1/1.40? The development manual is currently announcing itself as for bacula 2.0.0 AB - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future

Re: [Bacula-users] State of bare metal restore (more)

2007-01-02 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Christopher DeMarco wrote: My position is still that staying out of the bootup process is best. Let KNOPPIX, or MORPHIX or whateverix get me to a bash prompt and then I'll handle getting bacula-fd running. KNOPPIX will boot the majority of boxes out there, so I'll begin

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] What a difference a database makes

2007-01-02 Thread Alan Brown
Regarding SQLite. When I set up Bacula initially it was pretty clear that SQLite was for TEST purposes. If that has not changed, then perhaps the speed problem should be left as-is and the documentation changed to note that SQLite is there for testing, not production systems? AB

Re: [Bacula-users] Catalogue recovery problem.

2006-12-21 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Michel Meyers wrote: Yesterday night my back-up was terminated due to a power cut. Two out of [...] without any visible problem. However, at the next scheduled back-up sequence bacula error flagged the last tape volume because it did not contain the number of files

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-users Digest, Vol 8, Issue 93

2006-12-21 Thread Alan Davis
a separate pool rather than just using the most available drive. Alan Davis Senior Architect Ruckus Network, Inc. 703.464.6578 (o) 410.365.7175 (m) [EMAIL PROTECTED] alancdavis AIM Message: 2 Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:40:54 +0100 From: Pedro Sep?lveda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] mount a resquested tape

2006-12-21 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Jaime Ventura wrote: You say, about the update slots command , «assuming the drive is empty AND there is nothing actively attempting to using the drive ». The update slots command its not save because in order to bacula know which tape is in the slots, it needs to load

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow positioning at the end of the tape?

2006-12-15 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Jose Molina wrote: 14-Dec 23:02 rap-sd: Volume Diario-02 previously written, moving to end of data. 14-Dec 23:46 rap-sd: Ready to append to end of Volume Diario-02 at file=48. This is wildly wrong with LTO of any type. Are these numbers normal? No. The LTOs here

Re: [Bacula-users] Status storage hangs without error

2006-12-15 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Jason Dixon wrote: All of the configuration files were moved intact, with the exception of changing the director name and the scsi device. Ownerships/permissions of the device(s) ? I am able to see the changer and drives via dmesg, proc and mtx, but it simply times out

Re: [Bacula-users] 1.38.11 - possible bug in Rerun Failed Levels.

2006-12-14 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, On 12/13/2006 1:07 PM, Alan Brown wrote: Can anyone else confirm this? Rerun Failed Levels = yes If an incremental job is scheduled to start before a full or differential job has completed (ie, still running): When the incremental job

Re: [Bacula-users] 1.38.11 - possible bug in Rerun Failed Levels.

2006-12-14 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Alan Brown wrote: Can anyone else confirm this? Rerun Failed Levels = yes If an incremental job is scheduled to start before a full or differential job has completed (ie, still running): When the incremental job starts the previous (still running) job

Re: [Bacula-users] 1.38.11 - possible bug in Rerun Failed Levels.

2006-12-14 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: Kern, any ideas? 1. Probably you modified the Fileset. All the jobs have ignore fileset changes = yes 2. You could try running the following SQL where you fill in the missing pieces: SELECT Level FROM Job WHERE JobStatus!='T' AND Type='%c' AND %c

Re: [Bacula-users] 1.38.11 - possible bug in Rerun Failed Levels.

2006-12-14 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: That isn't a good idea: A 1Tb full backup may take several days to run, in LTO2 spool/despool time alone. Incrementals tend to run daily... I just described how it is implemented. Something else I've spotted If max concurrent jobs is set

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with hardlinks to schg secured files on FreeBSD on restore

2006-12-13 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: The solution proposed is to keep file flags in a list and set them after all files have been restored, so that all hardlinks can be created. Though it is probably enough to do this for hardlinked files. Looks like this would make the restore code even

[Bacula-users] 1.38.11 - possible bug in Rerun Failed Levels.

2006-12-13 Thread Alan Brown
Can anyone else confirm this? Rerun Failed Levels = yes If an incremental job is scheduled to start before a full or differential job has completed (ie, still running): When the incremental job starts the previous (still running) job is detected as failed and the incremental is

Re: [Bacula-users] mount a resquested tape

2006-12-11 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Jaime Ventura wrote: So, my second question is, is there any way to say to bacula that the tape is there and he may continue the backup? Update volume - set the slot and inchanger flags - Take

Re: [Bacula-users] Off-topic: FAT32 disaster recovery

2006-12-08 Thread Alan Brown
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

Re: [Bacula-users] Migrating to Bacula

2006-12-08 Thread Alan Brown
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

Re: [Bacula-users] Off-topic: FAT32 disaster recovery

2006-12-08 Thread Alan Brown
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

Re: [Bacula-users] Restorejob bigger than space on originalserver (no delete record) - possible workaround but...

2006-12-06 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Georg Altmann wrote: Um, I think Alan meant the thread Incremental backup, not accurate? You can find it here: http://gmane.org/ also currently project no. 3: http://www.bacula.org/?page=projects Yes. Note that projects 3 and 10 are quite closely related in terms

Re: [Bacula-users] Restorejob bigger than space on originalserver (no delete record) - possible workaround but...

2006-12-05 Thread Alan Brown
So in theory when creating a filelist we have just to restore the filelist.txt from the last incremental set and make the full restore based on this filelist with option 7: Enter a list of files to restore and enter filelist.txt. However it seems this function tooks long with entries 1

[Bacula-users] Spooling/unspooling tweaks?

2006-12-05 Thread Alan Brown
Kern, Is there enough flexibility on the code to assign greater or lesser priority to spooling/despooling processes? With current readily available tape technology (LTO2) running at speads equal to most disk drives and newer technology (LTO3) running significantly faster than this, there is

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error - attempt to load empty slot in autochanger

2006-12-04 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Alan Brown wrote: It appears to me that you have run into some sort of race condition where two threads want to use the same Volume and they were both given access. Normally that is no problem. However, one thread wanted the particular Volume in drive 0

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error - attempt to load empty slot in autochanger

2006-12-01 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: It appears to me that you have run into some sort of race condition where two threads want to use the same Volume and they were both given access. Normally that is no problem. However, one thread wanted the particular Volume in drive 0, but it was

Re: [Bacula-users] checksums

2006-11-30 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Michael Koppelman wrote: Yes we could. It doesn't change the fact, in my opinion, that is it wasteful to back up files that have not changed. They have changed - their mtime has altered. - Take

Re: [Bacula-users] Travan tape - very slow

2006-11-28 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Peter Crighton wrote: I did read that and yes I understand it says don't use 512 byte blocks, but that is the only way that I've managed to get it to work. http://www.arkeia.com/archives_indexed/2003/08/msg00167.html makes comments about the extreme slowness of the drives

[Bacula-users] 2 useful queries for those with changers.

2006-11-27 Thread Alan Brown
These should be useful for Bacula users with changers and may be useful for those who don't have them. in /etc/bacula/query: # 18 :List Volumes Bacula thinks should be removed from changer SELECT Storage.Name AS Location,Slot,VolumeName,VolStatus, VolBytes/(1024*1024*1024) AS

Re: [Bacula-users] Travan tape - very slow

2006-11-27 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, John Drescher wrote: I did read that and yes I understand it says don't use 512 byte blocks, but that is the only way that I've managed to get it to work. Did you use a blank tape when you tested bacula for the first time? More importantly, was btape used? IIRC this

Re: [Bacula-users] Travan tape - very slow

2006-11-27 Thread Alan Brown
On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Peter Crighton wrote: What are the best alternative type of drive (it's for a home office so only requires a modest capability) Define modest With many home computers now holding up to 1Tb of local disk, that's an awful lot of DATs to be stuffing into the drive for one

Re: [Bacula-users] The number of files mismatch!

2006-11-27 Thread Alan Brown
On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Ian Levesque wrote: We have been seeing this irregularly too, usually when there are multiple jobs writing to the same volume simultaneously. I've seen this now and again, as well, in my 3-drive autochanger. I haven't had the time to put together a proper bug report,

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula compatible with Sony SDX-520C AIT2?

2006-11-24 Thread Alan To
help me to resolve my problem. I also know that it has worked in the past, as I have a First Full Backup tape written using Bacula many months ago. -- Regards Alan To BCo From: Robert Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 November 2006 18:43 To: 'Alan To';bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] The number of files mismatch!

2006-11-23 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: Most likely either the Dir or SD has crashed during a backup, or you haven't successfully run the btape test and fill commands, in which case, you Device resource is not properly configured for your OS/drive. We have been seeing this irregularly too,

Re: [Bacula-users] attn: Kern Re: Incremental backup, not accurate?

2006-11-22 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 21 Nov 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: The voting determines the priority, but for a feature to be implemented, it requires a developer to implement it. Item 1 was encryption, and Landon implemented that. Item 2 was migration, I implemented that. No one signed up for Item 3, which is

Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: Re: SUSE SLES 9 bacula client 1.38.11

2006-11-21 Thread Alan Brown
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Scott Barninger wrote: Alan Brown was having the same issue with some older RH7 boxes so I created a client-only-static spec for him to use, with which I believe he was successful. I was - and it's working well. The only problems encountered recently were due to a bad

[Bacula-users] attn: Kern Re: Incremental backup, not accurate?

2006-11-16 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Martin Simmons wrote: Incremental backups use the ctime as well as the mtime by default, so it depends on whether mv changes the ctime (some file systems do, some don't). rsync processes mirror both the ctime and mtime by default. This raises a problem if files older than

Re: [Bacula-users] Res: electrical cut during a job

2006-11-14 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Hristo Benev wrote: A UPS is relatively cheap. Why not buy one? Question about your last comment about UPS Yes UPS is relatively cheap, but it does not last more than 10-20 min comparing to Bacula jobs 1-2h on bigger data. That depends how big your UPS battery is.

Re: [Bacula-users] (no subject)

2006-11-14 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Landon Fuller wrote: This argument is predicated on a few assumptions: 1) Vendor's usage of GPL software denotes blanket superiority of said software. No, however using software subject to the GPL licence means that the vendor must comply with it. The flaw

Re: [Bacula-users] Offsite vol management

2006-11-14 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, James Ray wrote: Having an on-site fire safe is not a good idea IMHO. It's better than having the tapes onsite burn up. If you have the fire safe in the same location as your machine room then you are unlikely to be able to gain access to that to restore any data for

[Bacula-users] Bacula compatible with Sony SDX-520C AIT2?

2006-11-14 Thread Alan To
-gnu redhat.) I'm relunctant to upgrade Bacula to the latest (Beta) version, as my current version of Bacula was installed with the ClarkConnect kernal/front-end; and I don't know how to install/upgrade properly anyway. Many Thanks Alan To Bernhard and Company LtdBilton Road * Rugby * England * CV22

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula compatible with Sony SDX-520C AIT2?

2006-11-14 Thread Alan To
also been using other brand new (unopened) AIT-2 Tapes as well as the cleaning tape quite a few times too. -- Many Thanks Alan To BCo From: Robert Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 November 2006 17:18To: 'Alan To';bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: RE: [Bacula-users] Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] (no subject)

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Les Mikesell wrote: Is a non-free version a big issue for you? I've always been a big fan of perl's dual-license approach which effectively removes the restrictions of the GPL while allowing it to co-exist with GPL'd components. I think it's been a good thing for

Re: [Bacula-users] (no subject)

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: To put it bluntly anyone who violates the licensing agreement is a software pirate. Software piracy is a criminal activity in most countries, usually with some threshold for enforcement - but in the case of embedded systems that's trivially reached

Re: [Bacula-users] Offsite vol management

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Eric Rousse wrote: Currently, I store tape locally In a data safe? and in the tape changer. But we also bring our tapes offsite, just in case anything happen to our server room. Is the offsite storage in a data safe? But is there a way to track that information

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-10 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, John Drescher wrote: Have you tried a test of the raw tape speed? When I first got mt lto-2 library I did a few tests like the following time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/nst0 bs=1G count=10 and I got around 35MB/s. Try if=/dev/zero and if=/dev/random I did not do

Re: [Bacula-users] Server Crash on SLES 10

2006-11-10 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: I suggest you use all means possible to complain to SuSE and Novell about this problem. Specifically, you can start by expressing your concern in the bug report. I find it totally unacceptable that a so called serious Linux OS provider would allow

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-10 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Rudolf Cejka wrote: Alan Brown wrote (2006/11/10): I did not do /dev/zero because of hardware compression. I guess I could turn that off but isn't /dev/random 1 byte at a time?? It's fast enough on most systems. Really? My experience is that the speed of /dev/random

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Method with Multiple Media Types - AIT2 Issue

2006-11-09 Thread Alan To
problem lies, incorrect device? -- Best Regards Alan To -Original Message- From: Robert Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 November 2006 20:41 To: 'Alan To';bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] Backup Method with Multiple Media Types - AIT2 Issue

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Method with Multiple Media Types - AIT2 Issue

2006-11-09 Thread Alan To
with ClarkConnect Office Edition 3.2r1, Kernal Version 2.6.9-28.ccsmp (SMP). Server-dir Version: 1.36.2 (28 February 2005) i686-redhat-linux-gnu redhat. -- Regards Alan To -Original Message- From: Alan To [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 November 2006 09:32 To: 'Robert Nelson

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-09 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, John Drescher wrote: Have you tried a test of the raw tape speed? When I first got mt lto-2 library I did a few tests like the following time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/nst0 bs=1G count=10 and I got around 35MB/s. Try if=/dev/zero and if=/dev/random AB

[Bacula-users] Backup Method with Multiple Media Types - AIT2 Issue

2006-11-08 Thread Alan To
configurations that I need to make first? -- Many Thanks Alan To 07-Nov 21:30 Server-dir: Start Backup JobId 26, Job=2006_BCo_Scheduled_Backup.2006-11-07_21.30.00 07-Nov 21:30 Server-dir: Created new Volume Daily-0001 in catalog. 07-Nov 21:30 Server-sd: 2006_BCo_Scheduled_Backup.2006-11

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula is my friend

2006-11-08 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Ian Levesque wrote: Don't know - it was purchased before I started here (back when a proprietary backup software was causing the previous admin all sorts of headaches). It's a no-name custom-built rig. Can't say it's a bad box - it has survived at least a dozen previous

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-08 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Adam Huffman wrote: What sort of backup speed should I expect when using Bacula with an LTO3 library? I'm seeing nothing like the advertised 60-80MB/s. What speeds _are_ you seeing? Is the data compressable?

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Method with Multiple Media Types - Resend

2006-11-03 Thread Alan To
Client and FileSet linked to its last successful Full Backup? -- Regards Alan -Original Message- From: Martin Simmons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 November 2006 18:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Method

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Method with Multiple Media Types - Resend

2006-11-03 Thread Alan To
= TueFri Bacula is complaining that I have a different job name (which I do). Therefore it will run Job B as a Full backup instead of its original Differential. Can I get Bacula to not upgrade Job-B (on Tuesday) to a Full Backup? -- Regards Alan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Bacula-users] Encryption/Compression Conflict in CVS

2006-11-02 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Arno Lehmann wrote: Not if compression happens prior to encryption. :) Theoretically - yes, but I'm quite sure that encryption usually also compresses data. If the encryption routines also contain compression routines. This is completely unverified and refers to

Re: [Bacula-users] minor issue question on console interface

2006-10-12 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Jaime Ventura wrote: Hello, Is there any way to cancel a command on console, instead of CTRL+C and run the console again? type . and hit enter. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support

[Bacula-users] Priority checking bug?

2006-10-11 Thread Alan Brown
Version: 1.38.11 Stat dir: Running Jobs: JobId Level Name Status == 16879 Increme Med-churn-plasma3.2006-10-11_18.51.28 is running 16880 Increme Low-churn-cassini2.2006-10-11_18.51.37 is

[Bacula-users] Summary: RE: concurrent jobs on 2 drives

2006-10-11 Thread Alan Davis
Mounted Volumes = no You will also need to increase 'Maximum Concurrent Jobs' appropriately. Keywords: bacula simultaneous jobs autochanger concurrent interleave multiple drives Alan Davis Senior Architect Ruckus Network, Inc. 703.464.6578 (o) 410.365.7175 (m) [EMAIL PROTECTED] alancdavis AIM

Re: [Bacula-users] Resolved: FW: Autoloader: Replace tape in magazine after backups complete?

2006-10-10 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Jeremy Koppel wrote: . except our Quantum SuperLoader3 has an inaccessible tape drive, and in the event of a malfunction, like we had, your tape is stuck in that drive for life (to try to remove it voids the warranty). The Bacula documentation entry for the unit's

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula: backup is slow

2006-10-10 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Ryan Novosielski wrote: That's not the behavior I've seen however. THAT I understand, and if I'm not mistaken, it is per spec. However, what I've seen is many cases where I said to our telecomm staff please leave that port at autonegotiate and then hooked up equipment --

[Bacula-users] concurrent jobs on 2 drives

2006-10-10 Thread Alan Davis
it suggests that you should allow bacula to choose the volume that it wants to use, this seems counter-intuitive. I've looked at Use Volume Once, Maximum Volume Jobs and retention and recycle times directives but none of them seem appropriate. Alan Davis Senior Architect Ruckus Network, Inc

[Bacula-users] Summary RE: tape positioning error TL892/TZ89 drives

2006-10-10 Thread Alan Davis
are: Offline On Unmount = no Hardware End of Medium = yes BSF at EOM = yes Backward Space Record = yes Backward Space File = yes Fast Forward Space File = yes Use MTIOCGET= yes TWO EOF = yes Alan Davis Senior Architect Ruckus Network, Inc

Re: [Bacula-users] The number of files mismatch

2006-10-05 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Julien Cigar wrote: Thanks for reply. I read that in the manual, but unfortunately I haven't interrupt a backup, and Bacula didn't crashed ... What's strange is that the backup starts at 03:00am, and the last full backup completed sucessfully I have been seeing this

[Bacula-users] tape positioning error TL892/TZ89 drives

2006-10-05 Thread Alan Davis
TapeAlert|cat' Offline On Unmount = no Hardware End of Medium = no BSF at EOM = yes Backward Space Record = no Fast Forward Space File = no TWO EOF = yes LabelMedia = yes; # lets Bacula label unlabeled media } Alan Davis Senior Architect Ruckus Network, Inc. 703.464.6578 (o

Re: [Bacula-users] btape won't autoload for TL892 on Solaris 10?

2006-10-03 Thread Alan Davis
the Autochanger-Directive in the SD configuration. Use that device with btape and (usually) in the DIR config. Alan Davis Senior Architect Ruckus Network, Inc. 703.464.6578 (o) 410.365.7175 (m) [EMAIL PROTECTED] alancdavis AIM -Original Message- From: Alan Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: [Bacula-users] btape won't autoload for TL892 on Solaris 10?

2006-10-03 Thread Alan Davis
*Storage Element [0-9]*:.*Full | awk {print \$3 #\$4} | sed s/Full *\(:VolumeTag=\)*// cat ${TMPFILE} | grep ' *Storage Element [0-9]*:.*Full' | awk '{print $3 $4}' | sed 's/Full *:VolumeTag=*//' | sed 's/^\([0-9]*:\)Full/\1/' Alan Davis Senior Architect Ruckus Network, Inc. 703.464.6578 (o

Re: [Bacula-users] btape won't autoload for TL892 on Solaris 10?

2006-10-03 Thread Alan Davis
into the developer's manual but if anyone wants to take a look at it I'd certainly appreciate it. The bottom line is that I think I've convinced myself that the btape error is specific to btape and bacula_sd will function as expected. Alan Davis Senior Architect Ruckus Network, Inc. 703.464.6578 (o

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help

2006-10-02 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Les Mikesell wrote: This is getting well outside the realm of Bacula itself, but I would really like to see the Enterprise volume management system (EVMS) in widespread use, as it makes disk hardware migration a painless operation while bringing all the various

[Bacula-users] btape won't autoload for TL892 on Solaris 10?

2006-10-02 Thread Alan Davis
= no Hardware End of Medium = no BSF at EOM = yes Backward Space Record = no Fast Forward Space File = no TWO EOF = yes LabelMedia = yes; # lets Bacula label unlabeled media } Alan Davis Senior Architect Ruckus Network, Inc. 703.464.6578 (o

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help

2006-09-29 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: After having been totally frustrated chasing this kernel crash for the last few weeks (I really could not believe that it was not a Bacula bug), I have finally found a work around and at the same time, proven that it is a SuSE problem. One of the

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help

2006-09-29 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: One of the reason we dumped SLES on our production machines in favour of RHEL was that SUSE was consistently shipping with mismatching dynamic and static library versions - and would not fix it even when notified. SuSE may be great for home systems

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help

2006-09-29 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: Centos is _very_ stable. RHEL can be licensed quite cheaply if you don't buy the support package (about US$10/machine) The last time I looked (some time ago), it was over $200/machine. That is too much for me. For a company or someone serious about

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help

2006-09-29 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Les Mikesell wrote: CentOS has some additions to the stock RH version as well, like an optional kernel with firewire support and the reiserfs and xfs filesystems. It uses yum for updates and they generally stay within a few days of RH update releases. This is getting

Re: [Bacula-users] confused about Full vrs. Incremental backups pools

2006-09-26 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Arno Lehmann wrote: Not exactly true. Theoretically, you're right of course, but Marks setup uses only Full and Incre backups. Nark really should look at using Differentials, even if only from a safety point of view (any broken incremental in a chain = possibly

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring file from volume

2006-09-26 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Ryan Novosielski wrote: I'd like to ask a side question (which I hope will not offend the original author: I know that in my former backup software (HP Data Protector), there was some value to keeping jobs longer than files. Primarily smaller databases You would still

Re: [Bacula-users] confused about Full vrs. Incremental backups pools

2006-09-26 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Bill Moran wrote: You need an unbroken chain of incrementals, i.e. from the last full backup to the current date no incremental backup can be pruned. Not exactly true. Differentials can be used to consolidate incrementals. Assuming you make incrementals 6 days a week,

Re: [Bacula-users] Forcing use of next tape in Autochanger

2006-09-26 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Ryan Novosielski wrote: P.S. My guess is yes, the Volume parameter does get updated. I conclude that because of the relabelling, which creates a new Volume. There will be a new entry in the Volume table. New label == new volume. I still recommend testing to

Re: [Bacula-users] Manual ejection of tape confuses bacula

2006-09-26 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: Kern, is it possible to insert some sanity checks when starting jobs to ensure the tape is positioned where bacula thinks it should be? It is possible on most systems to do an ioctl(). I'm considering it, but the problem is that it is not always

Re: [Bacula-users] Manual ejection of tape confuses bacula

2006-09-25 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Sarath Jayewardena wrote: How about if I had not started a new backup after re-inserting the tape, yet? You would probably be ok. Will an unmount/mount before running any jobs make bacula accept the tape? Probably. The safest action is to NEVER insert a new tape

Re: [Bacula-users] Forcing use of next tape in Autochanger

2006-09-25 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Dan Langille wrote: If you added that directive to the Pool after the Volume was created, you'll need to update the Volume parameters from the Pool definition. This can be done from bcsonole with the update command. Just to clarify Does this parameter get updated for

Re: [Bacula-users] Using the gnome console and KDE question

2006-09-22 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Richard White wrote: When I installed Bacula, I did so enabling the gnome console. It runs, but there is a problem. When I select the Run item from the menu bar, an interactive window pops up offering me Job, Client, Fileset, Level, etc. Each of these lines is blank, of

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 1.38.11 wants tape to be in the other drive in autochanger

2006-09-21 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running into a situation where Bacula wants a given volume to be in one drive of our autochanger, and it doesn't seem to find the volume when it's already in the other drive. I saw similar situations under Bacula 1.38.9, but I've since upgraded

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula GZip question

2006-09-21 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Vadim A. Umanski wrote: But the mail server data can be compressed approx. 50% and I wouldn't like to spend unneeded space ... Full backup would take about 80-90 GB of raw data. Assuming you have a modern tape drive (anything more recent than last 10 years), then

Re: [Bacula-users] Packet size too big + xinetd client

2006-09-20 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Junior Cunha wrote: I recently upgrade all my clients to run under xinetd Um. why? - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the

Re: [Bacula-users] Proper Autochanger configuration with different drives in same changer

2006-09-20 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm... What if you define all the media types as LTO3...does bacula check the media type when loading a volume, or just the volume name? As far as I know, it only checks Volume media type vs device media type in the database. If bacula loads an

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged volumes not getting used

2006-09-20 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Francisco Reyes wrote: Jo Rhett writes: Sorry, Kern, but this isn't true. Recycling DOES work properly, but create a new volume is happening earlier in the decision process than the recycling. You have to hit max volumes to make recycling happen. Sometimes it does

Re: [Bacula-users] ADIC Scalar 24 robot not detected

2006-09-19 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Adam Kosmin wrote: never mind. After resetting the device to factory defaults, I see everything. A common problem with scsi lun scanning is that by default linux stops after the first null lun - some changers have the drives at lun0/lun1 and the robot on lun7/lun16 etc.

Re: [Bacula-users] Proper Autochanger configuration with different drives in same changer

2006-09-19 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Pietari Hyvärinen wrote: Hi! Our Autochcanger ( dell136T) is connected to four tape drives. Two of the are older LTO-2 and the rest are LTO-3 capable drives. How I define bacula-dir to understand that there are two of each drives in same autochanger? You have the

Re: [Bacula-users] Compilation problem with x86_64

2006-09-19 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Raffaele Pantaleoni wrote: When I try to make I got the following error: /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.a when searching for -lmysqlclient_r. What does it mean? It this related to the x86_64 bit architecture? How could I solve it?

Re: [Bacula-users] fatal error--Bacula wants tape to be in the other drive in autochanger

2006-09-13 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Michael Brennen wrote: I'm running into a frequent situation where Bacula wants a given volume to be in one drive of our autochanger, and it doesn't seem to find the volume when it's already in the other drive. I have seen the same thing and posted to that effect last

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic creation/labeling of volumes while backing up to disk. UPDATED...Is this a BUG?

2006-09-11 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Jaime Ventura wrote: Hello, Can anyone help me find the reason why bacula is asking me to create a new volume? 08-Sep 12:33 bserver-sd: Job Job.jtgv.gsi.2006-09-08_12.33.41 waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes. Please use the label command to create a new

Re: [Bacula-users] WOW

2006-09-11 Thread Alan Brown
On Sat, 9 Sep 2006, Matt Cowger wrote: My apologies - your email address was .co.za, so i assumed Zaire. .za = south africa Didn't realize your SMSs were so limited - indeed a script to attach to a GSM phone might be your best route, but I can't give you any guidance on that :(. Many years

Re: [Bacula-users] Renewed question about schedules

2006-09-11 Thread Alan Brown
Most PC-class hardware has bios options to startup at specified time-of-day. That would take care of the scheduling issue. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic creation/labeling of volumes while backing up to disk. UPDATED...Is this a BUG?

2006-09-11 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Jaime Ventura wrote: I solved the problem in the very same day I requested help. As I told on message with the subject Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic creation/labeling of volumes while backing up to disk. UPDATED...Is this a BUG? -PLEASE IGNORE, my mistake , the

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