Hi -
I'm curious about using Bacula in a slightly different way than it was
apparently intended. We have large directories of data that need to
periodically be moved offline to tape. I've got a Scalar 100 with two
LTO2 drives. I wouldn't be doing incremental/differential backups, or
schedu
I use a simple technique - my client configurations have an exclude
statement for "*.nobackup". If a user doesn't want to back up a
directory, he can rename the directory with a .nobackup 'extension'.
This is easier for a user to see and it's quite obvious later when he
adds additional file
Priority Project Number
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127
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514
Item 27: Allow FD to initiate a backup
Item 1: Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files
Item 6: Merge multiple backups (Synthetic Backup or Cons
Does anybody have any ideas? Even a "me too" would help at this
point, if only to determine if a common configuration issue can be
narrowed down...
On Dec 4, 2006, at 10:40 PM, Ian Levesque wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> After a few Full jobs just failed, I noticed something t
Hi folks,
After a few Full jobs just failed, I noticed something that I thought
had disappeared a few months ago, but I'm seeing a problem where
Bacula's storage daemon knows there are jobs running on a drive, but
its "In Use Volume" status doesn't show the drive as in-use. As a
result, it
Has anybody run into this problem? This is the first time I've seen
this, and I've been running Bacula for almost a year. It looks like
two jobs simultaneously wanted the same tape -- I seem to recall the
need to use some sort of lock in the mtx script prior to 1.38, but
I'm running 1.39.28
On Nov 23, 2006, at 8:11 AM, Alan Brown wrote:
> 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 confi
7;re
in an old building with shoddy generators). I can't say I know what
happened this time around that was any different...
On Nov 7, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> Who was the vendor with the lousy RAID cage that can't survive a power
> unplug?!
>
> Ian
Hi All,
I just wanted to report back to the community on a successful restore
that really saved me. When a power plug was accidentally unplugged
from one of our primary file servers last week, 4 drives out of 12
stopped working, killing our RAID-5. I put the tapes used in last
month's full
On Oct 20, 2006, at 12:02 PM, DAve wrote:
> Looking through the manual again and checking some others scripts I
> think a SQL query posting the required data to a DB is the best way to
> handle Cacti monitoring. I'll pursue that route. Anyone interested in
> what I come up with?
>
I'd also be in
On Oct 10, 2006, at 6:51 AM, Peter L. Buschman wrote:
> "what operating system are you running Bacula on?". I'm interested
> in which OS
> distributions, versions and platforms are being deployed as Bacula
> servers.
Hi Peter,
Our SD and DIR run on a dual-Opteron 244 box, 4GB RAM, MySQL, Fed
Hi All,
For the past few months, I've had the following problem:
1. I run a series of jobs
2. The first job picks a volume and starts loading the first drive
3. One of the next few jobs wants to use the same volume as an
earlier job but on another drive
In the logs I include below, note in par
Hi all,
Here was the situation this evening:
I'm backing up to a 3-drive LTO2 autochanger. There were six jobs
running, filling the max clients per drive (set at 2 concurrent jobs
each). All were full backups using a "Fulls" pool.
Then, one of the full backups completes, opening the door for
Hi All,
On a new installation of bacula, interfacing with three LTO2 drives
through an ADIC Scalar 100 autochanger, I've come across the problem
where multiple jobs are requesting the same volume on different drives.
This used to be a problem prior to 1.38.6-b1 but I'm running 1.38.9
here. I doubt
Hi Westley,
I'm looking at using Bacula to provide backup for our remote
offices over
the Internet. Is this possible? I only want to backup to hard-
disk, not to
tape.
Bacula provides a backup to disk option, which several people on this
list use (I don't). As for backing up over the in
[resent twice; the messages I send to this list keep vanishing...]
On Apr 13, 2006, at 4:50 PM, Martin Simmons wrote:
Are these times the same as those in the graphs? It is strange
that outbound
traffic is high between 00:00 and 00:30. It looks like something
else is
accessing the server
Hi,
On Apr 13, 2006, at 12:34 PM, Martin Simmons wrote:
Did you try using spooling?
Yes, it puts an enormous load on the backup server; I'm not sure why.
I do utilize spooling for incrementals, but I expect them to be
slower (which they are).
Spooling splits the backup into phases of co
On Apr 12, 2006, at 3:42 PM, Ian Levesque wrote:
I've been trying to optimize the backup speed of my bacula
installation. My full backups, no spooling, max out at around
12-13MB/s per client, where I think I should be seeing over 40MB/s.
It doesn't appear to affect the speed of
Hi Martin,
On Apr 12, 2006, at 6:11 PM, Martin Simmons wrote:
Since you have a multi-CPU server, what kind of CPU utilization is
50% (the
whole machine or one of the daemon processes)?
I've only ever seen bacula take advantage of one CPU; typically I see
50% utilized on one CPU.
Wha
Hi Eric,
On Apr 12, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Eric Warnke wrote:
Are you using compression on the fileset? SHA1 signatures? That
can really bog down the director. When I dumped compression ( the
LTO drives we are using are quite capable ) + spooling our backup
speed jumped to 40MB/sec ( about th
Hi all,
I've been trying to optimize the backup speed of my bacula
installation. My full backups, no spooling, max out at around 12-13MB/
s per client, where I think I should be seeing over 40MB/s. It
doesn't appear to affect the speed of per-client backups when more
than one client is run
Hi,
On Mar 31, 2006, at 3:57 AM, Heinz Ulrich Stille wrote:
On Friday 31 March 2006 06:30, Ian Levesque wrote:
changer. The initially-scheduled jobs are incrementals that, when
run, are rightfully automatically upgraded to full backups. Only
problem is that once the jobs run, they've al
Hi all,
I've got a new installation using 1.38.6 interfacing with a 3-drive
changer. The initially-scheduled jobs are incrementals that, when
run, are rightfully automatically upgraded to full backups. Only
problem is that once the jobs run, they've already reserved a tape
from the increm
On Mar 23, 2006, at 12:17 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
In message <97B75254-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
I emailed this error to the list about a month ago, but Kern wasn't
sure it was a bacula issue. Search in the archives for "End of Volume
error" and you'll see my thread. What's your hardwar
Hi Wolfgang,
On Mar 23, 2006, at 4:06 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
can somebody share some hint what the follwing error messages mean,
what the actual problem is and how these problems can be avoided?
...
23-Mar 09:56 hydra3-sd: End of Volume "K-I-4" at 57:775 on device
"SLR100-2" (/dev/nst0)
Hello Kern,
On Feb 28, 2006, at 3:19 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
In fact, the output that I saw seemed to me to be non-fatal
What do you suppose worst-case scenario is here -- that roughly 64512
bytes may be lost at the end of the tapes?
My best guess is a tape defect. If it happens with
Hi Kern, et al,
I've noticed a pattern in my backups when two jobs are
simultaneously
writing to the same tape. When the tape ends, Bacula doesn't
respond
gracefully. This is only a problem when two jobs are running on
the
tape, not when a single job is running.
Are you spooling to disk
Hi Alan,
I've noticed a pattern in my backups when two jobs are
simultaneously writing to the same tape. When the tape ends,
Bacula doesn't respond gracefully. This is only a problem when two
jobs are running on the tape, not when a single job is running.
Are you spooling to disk or writi
Hi Dan,
I'm guessing: create two Storage resources, with different Media
Types, but both refer to the same device.
This is what I do to handle the LTO-1 and LTO-2 drives in my changer.
I have the autochanger specified as one storage resource, with the
drives specified separately as well. I
Hi Folks,
I've noticed a pattern in my backups when two jobs are simultaneously
writing to the same tape. When the tape ends, Bacula doesn't respond
gracefully. This is only a problem when two jobs are running on the
tape, not when a single job is running. I assume that only the final
64k
Hi Mikel,
Does Bacula offer some of the same metadata selectability under MAC
OSX as Retrospect?
I don't have any experience with generating client-side file lists,
but theoretically you could write a script that builds a list of
files/folders with certain metadata by using the OS X comma
If you search the list archive, you'll see that I documented similar
behavior a few weeks ago. I submitted a bug report that apparently
may have been fixed, though a patch has not yet been issued.
http://bugs.bacula.org/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=543
Cheers,
Ian
On Feb 17, 2006,
On Feb 5, 2006, at 11:24 PM, Ian Levesque wrote:
On Feb 3, 2006, at 11:38 AM, David Muench wrote:
On 2/3/06, Christoph Brunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK, now Bacula tries to use more than one drive. Unfortunately it
tries
to load the same volume into several drives ...
I susp
On Feb 3, 2006, at 11:38 AM, David Muench wrote:
On 2/3/06, Christoph Brunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK, now Bacula tries to use more than one drive. Unfortunately it
tries
to load the same volume into several drives ...
I suspect to do some locking with volumes, right?!
In the examples
Dear Ryan, et al.,
Thank you for your response.
1. How should I manage the mixture of LTO-1 and LTO-2 tapes in the
ADIC with bacula? I set up two pools, one for each media type. I run
the "label barcodes" command to use the ADIC's barcode scanner to add
the tapes to the database, but this puts
Greetings,
I installed version 1.38.5 this week and am thus far impressed! With
some tweaking, I have it interfacing w/ an ADIC Scalar 100 (50 slots)
housing one LTO-1 and one LTO-2 drive.
I have a few initial questions regarding this solution, and would
appreciate any advice:
1. How sh
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