Re: [Bacula-users] Error writing final EOF to tape LTO-5

2011-05-10 Thread Alex Chekholko
The errors below are just straight I/O errors from the underlying device. Nothing to do with Bacula. So check if those two tapes are bad. Check if that drive needs cleaning. Run drive diagnostics on that drive. See if you can reproduce the problem with just, say, tar of some files to a

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

2011-04-28 Thread Alex Chekholko
Try changing your Maximum Network Buffer size in your bacula-sd config. Something like Maximum Network Buffer Size = 262144 #65536 Maximum block size = 262144 Keep in mind that this will make your sd unable to read previous backups, IIRC. Search archives for this parameter, e.g.

Re: [Bacula-users] exclude files by size

2010-08-13 Thread Alex Chekholko
to do that. You'll want to generate a list of the files you don't want to back up, and feed that list to the Exclude directive of the job. You can either use the previous backup jobs to generate the list, or do a find on those workstations. Regards, -- Alex Chekholko ch...@genomics.upenn.edu

Re: [Bacula-users] Limit backup speed

2010-08-13 Thread Alex Chekholko
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Re: [Bacula-users] Changing Maximum Block Size: reading previous backups

2010-07-20 Thread Alex Chekholko
test any restores from the tapes written with the old block size. And eventually they were recycled. Regards, -- Alex Chekholko ch...@genomics.upenn.edu -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do

Re: [Bacula-users] [Newbie] Differences to Amanda

2010-07-15 Thread Alex Chekholko
own tape format and that over time, this has changed. The format is documented and the utilities required to read/write it are Free Software. So it's equivalent to, say, GNU tar. Set it up and try it out! I think you will find it easier than Amanda. Regards, -- Alex Chekholko ch

Re: [Bacula-users] Is there a way...

2010-07-08 Thread Alex Chekholko
is the retention period? Read up on the retention periods for files, jobs, volumes. Do you do an update slots after you remove the tape? Bacula shouldn't ask for a tape that's not available. -- Alex Chekholko ch...@genomics.upenn.edu

Re: [Bacula-users] Using HP Storageworks 1/8 G2 with Bacula

2010-06-19 Thread Alex Chekholko
card's BIOS interface at boot, does it detect and show all of devices you have physically connected to it? Regards, -- Alex Chekholko ch...@genomics.upenn.edu -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate

Re: [Bacula-users] Using HP Storageworks 1/8 G2 with Bacula

2010-06-18 Thread Alex Chekholko
all of devices you have physically connected to it? -- Alex Chekholko ch...@genomics.upenn.edu -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky

Re: [Bacula-users] labeling my volumes

2010-06-08 Thread Alex Chekholko
=No medium found Label command failed for Volume Offsite-Vol1-6-8-10. Do not forget to mount the drive!!! You have messages. * You probably forgot an 'update slots'. But more generally, make sure all of the btape tests work first (see tape testing section of the manual. Regards, -- Alex

Re: [Bacula-users] IBM TS3100 autochanger

2010-06-01 Thread Alex Chekholko
on the various sg devices. -- Alex Chekholko ch...@genomics.upenn.edu -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists

Re: [Bacula-users] Mail error: bsmtp cannot find libbac-5.0.1.so after upgrade from 3.0.3 to 5.0.2

2010-05-27 Thread Alex Chekholko
: libbacsql-5.0.1.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory The fix was as Foo suggested (my libs are at a different path): # chown root:bacula /opt/bacula/lib64/libbac* Regards, -- Alex Chekholko ch...@genomics.upenn.edu

Re: [Bacula-users] How to configure bacula to backup servers on different network domains

2010-05-18 Thread Alex Chekholko
as the SD address and then each client has a local /etc/hosts entry that points to the appropriate IP for that client. The dir connects to the fd and tells the fd to connect to the sd. But it passes it the hostname, not the IP. Regards, -- Alex Chekholko ch...@genomics.upenn.edu

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent Jobs Setup

2010-05-18 Thread Alex Chekholko
Jobs = 6 bacula-dir.conf: Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 6 bacula-fd.conf: Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20 bacula-sd.conf: Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20 clients.conf:maximum concurrent jobs = 6 -- Alex Chekholko ch...@genomics.upenn.edu

Re: [Bacula-users] I need to buy a Tape Library

2010-05-17 Thread Alex Chekholko
are better. That MSL6030 looks good. Regards, -- Alex Chekholko ch...@genomics.upenn.edu -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?

2010-03-18 Thread Alex Chekholko
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:37:48 +1100 Norberto Meijome numard...@gmail.com wrote: Any time you add/remove tapes from the tape library, you need to do 'update slots' and 'label barcodes' in bacula. Does that not behave as you expect? -- Alex Chekholko ch...@pcbi.upenn.edu

Re: [Bacula-users] How many jobs can I schedule for the same time?

2010-03-03 Thread Alex Chekholko
I've ever had more than 6 jobs running concurrently. Regards, -- Alex Chekholko ch...@pcbi.upenn.edu -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs

Re: [Bacula-users] using bscan

2010-02-22 Thread Alex Chekholko
status' and 'tapeinfo -f /dev/sgX' to see the status of the drive. Then you can try something simple like 'dd if=/dev/st0 of=/dev/null' to see if that causes any error. Regards, -- Alex Chekholko ch...@pcbi.upenn.edu

Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i40 and second tape drive

2010-02-12 Thread Alex Chekholko
not able to use the second drive. Check dmesg for relevant messages and do something like ls -lah /dev/*st* to see if they're there? Regards, -- Alex Chekholko ch...@pcbi.upenn.edu -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't find the tape changer

2010-01-19 Thread Alex Chekholko
Command Failed How about tapeinfo? # tapeinfo -f /dev/sg10 Product Type: Medium Changer Vendor ID: 'IBM ' Product ID: '3576-MTL' Revision: '570G' Attached Changer: No SerialNumber: '01312306_LLA' SCSI ID: 2 SCSI LUN: 1 Ready: yes -- Alex Chekholko ch...@pcbi.upenn.edu

Re: [Bacula-users] Is Btape limited to 100000 max block size?

2010-01-11 Thread Alex Chekholko
, no good answer. You can search for my name and maximum block size. But there doesn't seem to be any benefit to much larger block size. -- Alex Chekholko ch...@pcbi.upenn.edu -- This SF.Net email is sponsored

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 getting the lead out.

2010-01-05 Thread Alex Chekholko
Keep in mind that tapes written with different block sizes will be incompatible, I think. So you won't be able to read your old backups unless you remove that new block size from the sd config, I think. Regards, -- Alex Chekholko ch...@pcbi.upenn.edu

Re: [Bacula-users] estimating time remaining on a backup

2009-12-07 Thread Alex Chekholko
and slows things down even further. 1.5MB/sec :-( Doesn't that tell you all you need to know? Knowing this rate: 1.5MB/s and the total amount of data in the full backup will tell you the total time, no? -- Alex Chekholko ch...@pcbi.upenn.edu

Re: [Bacula-users] Compatibility

2009-10-15 Thread Alex Chekholko
Hi, Familiarize yourself with the 'mt', 'tapeinfo', and 'mtx' commands. They are standard Linux commands for dealing with the tape drives. Then try out the 'btape' regular and autochanger tests:

[Bacula-users] additions to supported autochangers

2009-10-15 Thread Alex Chekholko
(SCSI) SpectraLogic T120 with 2 LTO-3 drives and 50 slots (SCSI) IBM TS3310 with 3 LTO-4 drives and 116 slots (SAS) All on Linux, without any special drivers other than what is in RHEL. Regards, -- Alex Chekholko ch...@pcbi.upenn.edu

Re: [Bacula-users] Label Barcodes delete data?

2009-09-21 Thread Alex Chekholko
Bacula installs. A 'purge volume' or maybe 'detete volume' should do it, check the manual. Regards, -- Alex Chekholko ch...@pcbi.upenn.edu -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF, CA

Re: [Bacula-users] Creating a Volume on a tape times out

2009-09-17 Thread Alex Chekholko
Hi Joe, Before dealing with bacula, make sure you understand how to use the commands 'mt', 'mtx', 'tapeinfo' and then make sure that they are working correctly. Then see how 'mtx-changer' uses 'mtx' to do its business. E.g. try: cat /proc/scsi/scsi (this will show you the devices, 0,1,2,..)

Re: [Bacula-users] What jobs are on those tapes?

2009-08-28 Thread Alex Chekholko
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:09:46 -0400 Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: Just published: http://dan.langille.org/2009/08/28/what-jobs-are-on-these-tapes/ what jobs are on this volume is also query - 13 So I usually check 'list media jobid=X' then 'query, 13, mediaid'. -- Alex Chekholko

Re: [Bacula-users] change default tape blocksize

2009-05-12 Thread Alex Chekholko
, and luckily did not need to refer to any older backups since. Regards, -- Alex Chekholko ch...@pcbi.upenn.edu -- The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment

Re: [Bacula-users] Troubleshooting question

2009-02-19 Thread Alex Chekholko
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Re: [Bacula-users] tape replacement

2009-01-16 Thread Alex Chekholko
. Can anyone tell me if this is possible? I think you just use the 'btape' command and once there, 'label' the tape with the same label? Regards, -- Alex Chekholko ch...@pcbi.upenn.edu -- This SF.net email is sponsored

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-16 Thread Alex Chekholko
: http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/bacula-25/ I haven't tried posting from there, but browsing there can be quicker than the mailing list. Regards, -- Alex Chekholko ch...@pcbi.upenn.edu

Re: [Bacula-users] multi drive changer, limit concurrent jobs for each drive

2008-12-11 Thread Alex Chekholko
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:22:55 +0100 Ralf Gross ralf-li...@ralfgross.de wrote: Alex Chekholko schrieb: On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 21:02:02 +0100 Ralf Gross ralf-li...@ralfgross.de wrote: # grep Maximum /etc/bacula/bacula-*.conf /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf: Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 3

Re: [Bacula-users] Changed pool name - volumes are gone

2008-12-09 Thread Alex Chekholko
have a Bacula label on them. To re-use labeled tapes, I write a quick script to load each tape with mtx, write an EOF with mt, rewind, load next... (This will of course destroy the data on the tape.) Then label barcodes in bconsole. Regards, -- Alex Chekholko [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Bacula-users] multi drive changer, limit concurrent jobs for each drive

2008-12-09 Thread Alex Chekholko
Hi Ralf, Doesn't your config do exactly what you want? Storage { Name = Neo4100 Address = SDPort = 9103 Password = wiped Device = Neo4100 Media Type = LTO4 Autochanger = yes Heartbeat Interval = 5min Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 3 } Storage {

Re: [Bacula-users] multi drive changer, limit concurrent jobs for each drive

2008-12-09 Thread Alex Chekholko
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Re: [Bacula-users] Speed and integration issues

2008-12-05 Thread Alex Chekholko
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Re: [Bacula-users] IBM TS-3100 too slow on bacula

2008-11-10 Thread Alex Chekholko
Maximum Job Spool Size = 200100100100 Spool Directory = /reduc/var/bak/general/spool } Any ideas? Thanks in advance. -- Alex Chekholko - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] MaximumBlockSize Problem and Question

2008-11-06 Thread Alex Chekholko
/Bacula-users/2008-05/msg00504.html So I am still stuck at ~22MB/s writing to LTO-4 with the default block size. Regards, -- Alex Chekholko - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build

Re: [Bacula-users] SD not using more than 1 drive in autochanger

2008-11-04 Thread Alex Chekholko
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 16:23:10 -0600 Jeff Falgout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *status snipped Device status: Autochanger T200-1 with devices: T200-1-Drive-0 (/dev/nst0) T200-1-Drive-2 (/dev/nst1) T200-1-Drive-3 (/dev/nst2) Device T200-1-Drive-0 (/dev/nst0) is mounted with:

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Bacula and LTO4 weirdness.

2008-11-04 Thread Alex Chekholko
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Re: [Bacula-users] Barcode Labels

2008-02-14 Thread Alex Chekholko
Hi all, Just wanted to chime in about making barcode labels. I'm cheap and I happen to have some full 8.5x11 adhesive sheets (Avery #5455) so I just use GNU barcode and a regular laser printer and then cut the labels by hand with a nice big paper cutter. for ((i=1; i=60; i++)); do printf

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 speed testing

2008-01-30 Thread Alex Chekholko
Robin, ~50-60 MB/s is what I see on the LTO-3 based bacula install I inherited. I believe that's regular performance. We use disk spooling in order to achieve that speed as the network is much slower. Regards, -- Alex Chekholko

Re: [Bacula-users] backup does nothing

2007-03-22 Thread Alex Chekholko
issue, in the console: status dir status sd status client It will tell you more. Make sure you network settings allow the dir to initiate a connection to the fd and then allow the fd to initiate a connection to the sd. -- Alex Chekholko

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-mysql rpm error? buildcentos4 hostname?

2006-11-09 Thread Alex Chekholko
On Nov 7, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Paul Cubbage wrote: When I install using bacula-mysql-1.38.11-3i386.rpm bacula-mtx-1.38.11-3i386.rpm the config files all have buildcentos4 as the hostname and the address = name That hostname string is nowhere on my system before I install the rpms but it

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Rescue - Solaris 10 - getdiskinfo errors - error on route command

2006-11-09 Thread Alex Chekholko
On Nov 8, 2006, at 2:05 PM, Attila Fülöp wrote: A Think Tank wrote: I am trying to go though the rescue procedures / preparation for Solaris, SunOS 5.10 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240, as directed by the documentation. I have a couple of errors with the command

Re: [Bacula-users] SUN L280 autochanger troubles

2006-11-03 Thread Alex Chekholko
On Nov 3, 2006, at 6:42 AM, Gerard Sharpe wrote: Gerard Sharpe wrote: Alex Chekholko wrote: On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:13:32 +1100 Gerard Sharpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am a first time user of Bacula trying to get a Sun L280 DLT7000 tape drive (operating mode set to random

Re: [Bacula-users] SUN L280 autochanger troubles

2006-11-02 Thread Alex Chekholko
On Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:13:32 +1100 Gerard Sharpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am a first time user of Bacula trying to get a Sun L280 DLT7000 tape drive (operating mode set to random) with autochanger working. I have confirmed the drive works with the btape test however am having no

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula not loading autochanger (lots more info)

2006-10-24 Thread Alex Chekholko
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:17:06 -0700 John Felczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks quite a bit better, although still not sure why mtx keeps blanking out on the label on the tape in slot 8. Probably because your barcode reader doesn't read that label. Does your library front panel show the

Re: [Bacula-users] Did Max Start Delay screw up my backups?

2006-10-17 Thread Alex Chekholko
David Hatcher wrote: [snip] I just realized those four jobs that were strangely canceled had a priority of 11. All the jobs but the last six have a priority of 11 (and one job as a priority of 10, but that one finish early, in fourth place). The last six have priorities of 13, 13, 13, 13,

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 1.38 for Debian (Sarge) ADM64

2006-10-17 Thread Alex Chekholko
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:51:26 +0200 (CEST) Jonas Björklund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hej, On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Jon Ingason wrote: Does anyone have a backort for Bacula 1.38 for Debian (Sarge) ADM64? What do you mean? backort? When I type backort into Google, it says Do you mean

[Bacula-users] bacula and autochanger problems

2006-10-16 Thread Alex Chekholko
Hi all, This is a rather lengthy e-mail, and there may be more than one configuration error. Please feel free to respond to only a piece of it. Configuration files and permissions info are at the end of the e-mail. I have been trying to get bacula to work for almost three days now; I have read

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula and autochanger problems

2006-10-16 Thread Alex Chekholko
So I figured out a few more things so far, and I'd like to update my post. The Unix commands mt and mtx work without problems. I also checked the mtx-changer section of the manual (http://dna.dbi.udel.edu/manuals/bacula/Autochanger_Support.html#SECTION0002915000) and the commands