Re: [Bacula-users] Database insert error in bacula-5.2.5.

2012-02-08 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Geert Stappers wrote: > Op 20120202 om 18:12 schreef John Drescher: >> Op 20120202 om 17:40 schreef Marty Frasier: >> > I GRANTed rights to user bacula for that table and in addition usage >> > must be granted for the related sequence (

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes

2012-02-08 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Honia A wrote: > Yes there is, but I just found out it has been commented out. Not sure if > the previous IT person who installed Bacula intentially commented this out > or not. But if I leave it like that and disable the job BackupCatalog from > bconsole, what woul

Re: [Bacula-users] Database insert error in bacula-5.2.5.

2012-02-08 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:19 AM, John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Geert Stappers > wrote: >> Op 20120202 om 18:12 schreef John Drescher: >>> Op 20120202 om 17:40 schreef Marty Frasier: >>> > I GRANTed rights to user bacula for that table an

Re: [Bacula-users] Database insert error in bacula-5.2.5.

2012-02-08 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:43 PM, John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:19 AM, John Drescher wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Geert Stappers >> wrote: >>> Op 20120202 om 18:12 schreef John Drescher: >>>> Op 20120202 om 17:40 schreef Marty

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes

2012-02-08 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Honia A wrote: > When I go to bconsole and type status, then no. 4, I get the *Backup OK* > message at the end of all the jobs, so nothing fails. Is there any way I can > check to see what's failing? > >From your output a few emails back it was the catalog job that

Re: [Bacula-users] Unusually high compression ratio/capacity for LTO-4 tapes?

2012-02-08 Thread John Drescher
> Has anyone heard of getting more capacity out of an LTO-4 tape than it is > rated for? Or are the byte amounts inflated, possibly, by artificially > counting skipped-over file systems? I got several messages like "/boot is a > different filesystem. Will not descend from / into /boot", but you wou

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes

2012-02-08 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Honia wrote: > Right, that was when I had the BackupCatalog as a part of my backup routine. > But if I disable the BackupCatalog job, all other four jobs run smoothly > without any errors. Now my question was if I keep the BackupCatalog disabled, > does it have a

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes

2012-02-08 Thread John Drescher
> Thanks John, what is the catalog good for? Does it have any impact on the > four servers (mail server, file server, etc.) which have been backed up with > Bacula? > The catalog is the database that bacula uses to keep a record of what it has backed up, and what media it has used ... Without a c

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes

2012-02-10 Thread John Drescher
> Thanks for your help. What I can't understand is why all four backup jobs > running well without an error then? if I understand you correctly, you're > saying if the BackupCatalog fails, the backup jobs should all fail? No. I am saying if the catalog gets corrupted and you do not make regular ba

Re: [Bacula-users] SD crashes

2012-02-13 Thread John Drescher
2012/2/13 Joe Nyland : > Hello everyone, > > I hope someone would be able to offer any suggestions of why I am seeing the > following behaviour in my current Bacula setup: > > Since the tail end of last week, I have been having issues with my MySQL > backups in Bacula, where they would randomly app

Re: [Bacula-users] Set real size cartridge in bacula

2012-02-13 Thread John Drescher
> I am new to the list. I am also a beginner with bacula. > > I already have my environment almost set, server already running and has > clients storing files on my backup drive (IBM ULT3580-HH4). > > I am using original cartridges with a capacity of LTO4 800/1600GB. Use the > latest version of Cen

Re: [Bacula-users] strange error

2012-02-13 Thread John Drescher
> I always get a stange error message when i starting a job to my dell tl4000 > tape library. > > Tape > > Error: > > Volume "33L3" previously written, moving to end of data. > > Tape Ready to append to end of Volume "33L3" at file=65. > This is normal. Well except for the Error: part. I

Re: [Bacula-users] SD crashes

2012-02-14 Thread John Drescher
> I've been running the SD using the following command (I know the combination > of options I have used may be excessive, but I wanted as much chance of > catching the error as I could!) since yesterday afternoon: >    sudo bacula-sd -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -d 100 -dt -f -u bacula -g > tape -

Re: [Bacula-users] Set real size cartridge in bacula

2012-02-14 Thread John Drescher
2012/2/14 Darci Dambrós Junior : > Hello, > > I have 23 new cartridges and the problem occurs with all. The bacula holds > about 20gb and begins to make mistakes. > > Look what dmesg showed after the last backup error: > > st0: Sense Key : Medium Error [current] > Info fld=0xfc00 > st0: Add. Sense:

Re: [Bacula-users] Set real size cartridge in bacula

2012-02-16 Thread John Drescher
2012/2/16 Darci Dambrós Junior : > > 2012/2/16 Alan Brown >> >> >> how about btape? have you followed the instructions for testing things >> using that? >> > > I used the command btape for testing. Everything is ok, there was no error: > > btape-c bacula-sd.conf / dev/nst0 >     test > > > In addi

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent backups using spooling

2012-02-16 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:42 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: > Hi folks. > > I'm re-instating my bacula system after an althernative system failed. > Unfortunately the config files I have are not the right version and I can't > get concurrent backups working again. > > I have 30+ workstations and 10+ se

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula lost backup Job details / id

2012-02-20 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > Hi folks, > > bacula seems to have forgotten the job details for a job I was going > to test a restore on today. According to the bacula email, the backup > finished ok: > > Build OS:               x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu redhat >  JobId:  

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula lost backup Job details / id

2012-02-20 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 09:36:47AM -0500, John Drescher wrote: >> >> Has you job retention period expired? >> >> Either way you can get this back using the bacula volume utilities. >> http://www.bacula.org

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling hourly backups with different levels and pools

2012-02-22 Thread John Drescher
2012/2/22 : > > Hi, > > I'm in the process of setting up MySQL backups in Bacula, using mysqldump > for full backups and backing up my bin logs for incremental backups. > > What I would like to do is to perform a full backup to my full backup pool > at 00:00 every night, then perform incremental b

Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes not auto created

2012-02-22 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Raymond Norton wrote: > Bacula stopped creating new volumes. I can create them manually and jobs > run after that, but trying to figure out why they are not auto created > any longer. > > There were 7 volumes auto created before I had to manually create the > last

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Volumes not auto created

2012-02-22 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: Raymond Norton Date: Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:41 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes not auto created To: John Drescher Should have mentioned, the volume folder is an NFS mount. drwxrwxrwx   3 root     root      4096 2012-02-22 07:49 backups

Re: [Bacula-users] Automounting tape volumes for restoration

2012-02-22 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Conrad Lawes wrote: > Hello Bacula Users, > > I having a little problem.  I have  an Exabyte LTO3  Tape Library with > AutoChanger attached.   Whenever I create a restoration job  the Director > reports that it is waiting for the Storage device to become availabl

Re: [Bacula-users] Off site backups

2012-02-24 Thread John Drescher
2012/2/24 Johannes Fabian Rußek : > Hi everybody, > I'm planning on how move off-site backups around from bacula. > Originally I thought something like the copy or migration job from one > SD on one site to another SD at a second site, but I realized that > migration jobs only work within one SD. >

Re: [Bacula-users] Off site backups

2012-02-24 Thread John Drescher
> I'm sorry, maybe I did not write it clear enough into my mail: > > [...] and does not want to rely on NFS across datacenters > >> or rsyncing, for various reasons (throughput, security, >> reliability...) > My fault for not paying attention.. Obviously you could rsync the volume files to externa

Re: [Bacula-users] Off site backups

2012-02-24 Thread John Drescher
> ToT* protocol does have an amazing throughput but has a very high latency > and is very hard to monitor which is a dealbreaker for us unfortunately. > > Johannes > > *Tape over Truck > So are you using Tapes or disk volumes? I assumed you were using disk volumes because of ease of carrying tapes

Re: [Bacula-users] Update volume parameters on multiple volumes

2012-02-29 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:41 PM, LasseKongo wrote: > Is there a way to update parameters on multiple volumes in a pool with one > command? > > In my case I want to change the recycle flag from yes to no for all volumes > in one > of my pools, but I have so far only been able to change one volume

Re: [Bacula-users] Update volume parameters on multiple volumes

2012-02-29 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:00 PM, John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 3:41 PM, LasseKongo > wrote: >> Is there a way to update parameters on multiple volumes in a pool with one >> command? >> >> In my case I want to change the recycle flag from yes to

Re: [Bacula-users] Multi-cores compression

2012-03-05 Thread John Drescher
> I’d like to know if there is a way to allow the use of multi-cores during a > backup and especially for the compression of the data? > I do not believe this is available in bacula at the moment. However you may be able to turn compression off and use a filesystem that supports compression like b

Re: [Bacula-users] Transfert a Volume to another storage daemon ?

2012-03-05 Thread John Drescher
2012/3/5 Olivier L. : > Hi all, > > I have two storage daemon with file device on each. > > I know that i can't use a copy job to transfer a Volume between my two > storage daemon, but i need to transfert all my volumes on my second storage. > > Do you have any solution to my problem ? > rsync Jo

Re: [Bacula-users] Multi-cores compression

2012-03-05 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Gael Guilmin wrote: > To gain space on the LT0. > You mean tape. Do not use bacula compression with tape. The HW does compression automatically and it is much faster. John -- Try before y

Re: [Bacula-users] Multi-cores compression

2012-03-05 Thread John Drescher
> Thanks for the answer. > When you say "at the moment", you mean that in the future it'll? > Possibly. This is covered by a few planned projects. http://bacula.org/en/?page=feature-request http://www.bacula.org/git/cgit.cgi/bacula/plain/bacula/projects?h=Branch-5.2 John ---

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO media type mixup

2012-03-05 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Am 05.03.2012 15:43, schrieb Alan Brown: >> On 05/03/12 14:17, Adrian Reyer wrote: > >>> Well, 'Media Type' is misleading. It is more a 'Media Group'. every >>> medium in the same group can be requested on every SD that support that >>> 'Med

Re: [Bacula-users] Multi-cores compression

2012-03-06 Thread John Drescher
> I thought about that, and so I'm wondering if it's really useful to use an > MD5/SHA1 signature? > I think its very useful. I use that on all of my backups or ~40TB. This allows verification that the tapes are consistent and you can also compare that what is on the filesystem matches the hashes

Re: [Bacula-users] Standalone client question

2012-03-13 Thread John Drescher
> I’m wondering if there is a way to install a standalone (minimal) client of > bacula on my systems instead of installing SQL and web based management on > each of my machines? > That would depend on your distribution. On my distribution gentoo I ask for client only and get only the client. John

Re: [Bacula-users] Standalone client question

2012-03-13 Thread John Drescher
> Not sure I follow, I'm on CentOS but isn't there only one Linux client? > I can't find any decent install procedures that don't come with other > software on top of bacula. > You will have to ask Centos how they packaged bacula. Each distribution has its own install procedure and packages its ow

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Standalone client question

2012-03-13 Thread John Drescher
> Once the client is installed, how do I control it from my server? Is > that even passible? > All control is handled from the director always. So yes this is the only way. John -- John M. Drescher -- Keep Your Develo

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Standalone client question

2012-03-13 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Drescher Date: Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:49 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Standalone client question To: "Babadostov, Imanuel G [Contractor]" > Ok, so best I can tell I need to install the bacula client and copy the > content

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.2.6 working directory

2012-03-15 Thread John Drescher
2012/3/15 Rao, Uthra R. (GSFC-672.0)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC] : > I compiled Bacula 5.2.6 with the following configure options: > > > > ./configure \ > > --prefix=/usr/local/bacula-5.2.6 \ > > --enable-smartalloc \ > > --with-postgresql \ > > --with-dump-email=uthra.r@nasa.gov \ > > --with-job-email=

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.2.6 working directory

2012-03-15 Thread John Drescher
> Don't put the .bsr files in the working directory. Give them a full > path. For example I put mine in /auto/backup/BootStrap BTW, I do that in the jobs resource: Write Bootstrap = "/auto/backups/BootStrap/%c_%n.bsr" John

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.2.6 working directory

2012-03-15 Thread John Drescher
> Thanks for your reply. So what you are saying is I really don't have to > recompile Bacula with "--with-bsrdir=PATH" instead I can change the path to > the *.bsr files in the Bacula configuration directory. Instead of having: > > bacula-dir.conf:       Write Bootstrap = "/var/bacula/working/%c.

Re: [Bacula-users] Why does installing WinBacula NEVER work?

2012-03-16 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Mingus Dew wrote: > Dear All, >     I realize its kind of a strong subject line, but I seriously > haven't gotten the windows FD to run on any platform in a very long > time. It installs, the config looks good, but I ALWAYS on any platform > (2k, 2k3, 2k8) get erro

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bscok error

2012-03-21 Thread John Drescher
> > I am seeing the following error messages in my log file on my bacula server > and not sure what to do? > > > > Mar 21 11:28:30 bacula-sd: bsock.c:335 Socket has errors=1 on call to > client:***.***.***.***:36643 > > > > I am on bacula 5.2.6. > I am sorry I can not help with this error. I

Re: [Bacula-users] Bug while refreshing job

2012-03-23 Thread John Drescher
2012/3/23 Nicolas : > Hi, > > When I refresh a Full Job (working with a base job), on BAT, the application > doesn't respond. The CPU of DIR server is at 100% on mysql. > > While rebooting mysql service, problem disapears, and I've got the error on > BAT : > > Select Distinct MediaType From MediaTy

Re: [Bacula-users] Re-using pool volume

2012-03-26 Thread John Drescher
> I'm using bacula with files backup. When I create a pool, and add a volume, > the file is correctly created. > > Can I backup this volume's file, and remount it on pool later ?? > > > > I don't find how.. > You need to recycle it to reuse it. John

Re: [Bacula-users] Re-using pool volume

2012-03-26 Thread John Drescher
> but, I dont want to loose datas in the volume. can we unmount the volume, to > remount later and restore datas on lt ? > Sorry I did not understand what you were asking. Yes you can do that. You probably want to do do this automatically with directives like "Use volume once" or "maximum volume

Re: [Bacula-users] Re-using pool volume

2012-03-26 Thread John Drescher
> I just want to know, if the volume file created by bacula, is saved on > another filler (manually), if I can reconnect it to bacula to restore datas > on it. > Yes. You can copy bacula volume files to remote locations and even restore them to independent bacula directors / databases provided you

Re: [Bacula-users] Low request Mysql

2012-03-26 Thread John Drescher
> Is it normal that the request is very long or is it a bug ? Server is with > Xeon 2Ghz CPU. > Neither. You need to tune your database server. John -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days C

Re: [Bacula-users] Low request Mysql

2012-03-26 Thread John Drescher
> What do you want to say by "tune my database server" ? > Look into mysql guides for improving database performance. By default most distributions optimize their databases for machines with a ridiculously low amount of ram like 32MB. Yes even in 2012 I see my.cfg files that are optimized for 32 M

Re: [Bacula-users] Low request Mysql

2012-03-26 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Nicolas wrote: > good idea ! i'll try it asap and let you know. > Also its best if you can have the database on a different raid than the storage or put the database on an SSD. John M. Drescher ---

Re: [Bacula-users] Low request Mysql

2012-03-26 Thread John Drescher
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Nicolas wrote: >> good idea ! i'll try it asap and let you know. >> BTW, Please excuse me for being very short on the replies today. I am not feeling at all well today. The pollen / changing whether has made it very difficult to breathe. John

Re: [Bacula-users] Low request Mysql

2012-03-26 Thread John Drescher
> If it's pollen, a good dustmask/halfmask works far better than any drug > available - and the only side effect is looking a little odd. You'll usually > notice the change within 15 minutes. > I may try this at home. At work I will have to tough this one out.. John -

Re: [Bacula-users] Low request Mysql

2012-03-26 Thread John Drescher
> don't worry for your responses :) > > where are you ? I'm in france > Pittsburgh, PA, USA. John -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure __

Re: [Bacula-users] Removing tape from library

2012-03-29 Thread John Drescher
> What is process for removing tapes that are not yet full from that tape > library? > When I remove a  not-yet-full tape from tape library and neglect to change > its status to "Full",  Bacula  does not alert me that it's waiting for that   > tape to be mounted.  Furthermore, it does not attempt

Re: [Bacula-users] Removing tape from library

2012-03-29 Thread John Drescher
> What I'm after is  a more hands-off approach.  A simple set-it and forget-it > feature.  I need Bacula to "make these decisions" without any human > intervention. > > If the last tape with Append status is  not available bacula should do the > following: > > 1. Notify the backup admin > 2.  Th

Re: [Bacula-users] Removing tape from library

2012-03-29 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:49 PM, John Drescher wrote: >> What I'm after is  a more hands-off approach.  A simple set-it and forget-it >> feature.  I need Bacula to "make these decisions" without any human >> intervention. >> >> If the last tape with

Re: [Bacula-users] Removing tape from library

2012-03-30 Thread John Drescher
> Could you elaborate more on "you can use Admin job which will change volume > status when it is not available in tape library" > What is an admin job? A backup job you schedule at the admin level. Primarily it will run a server side script for you. > How does one create a job to change volume s

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Volume Recycling

2012-04-03 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Ward Poelmans wrote: > Hi, > > I'm rather new to bacula: i've worked with it for 6 months now. But > now, there is happening something which I do not understand: Automatic > Volume Recycling. I've got a client with a job retention of 6 months > with autoprune on. It

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Volume Recycling

2012-04-03 Thread John Drescher
> Well, from the docs: "The Volume Retention record defines the length > of time that Bacula will guarantee that the Volume is not reused > counting from the time the last job stored on the Volume terminated." That is correct. > It also doesn't make sense to recycle as soon as the job no longer >

Re: [Bacula-users] Files from windows Client doesn't transfer

2012-04-03 Thread John Drescher
2012/4/3 Juan Pablo Botero : > Hi all. > > I have configured bacula Server in CentOS and a client in windows, so the > Server can see the client, testing the FileSet i can see the files of the > client, the job run but it doesn't transfer any byte to the disk. > > The Storage Section in bacula-dir.

Re: [Bacula-users] Files from windows Client doesn't transfer

2012-04-03 Thread John Drescher
> Get rid of 127.0.0.1 and localhost from all bacula files. Using this (127.0.0.1 or localhost) prevents bacula from being a network backup program since the external client can not access the server via 127.0.0.1.. John M. Drescher ---

Re: [Bacula-users] Files from windows Client doesn't transfer

2012-04-03 Thread John Drescher
> I edit the Address with the name of the host and with the ip addres and > still the same. > > Did you restart the bacula server? If so print the error message you get when you run your backup. John -- Better than sec? N

Re: [Bacula-users] parallelizing jobs

2012-04-05 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > Hi, > > I wonder why I see situations that a client is waiting for another job > to complete, that is only despooling, i. e. that does not block any > resources on the client: > >  53100 Increme   SD despooling Data >  53101 Increme   is wai

Re: [Bacula-users] parallelizing jobs

2012-04-05 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear John Drescher, > > In message > you > wrote: >> >> Do you have any restrictions on how many jobs go per volume? > > No. Is the same volume used by both clients? I mean you are not using a different

Re: [Bacula-users] parallelizing jobs

2012-04-05 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear John Drescher, > > In message > you > wrote: >> >> >> Do you have any restrictions on how many jobs go per volume? >> > >> > No. >> >> Is the same volume used by both clie

Re: [Bacula-users] Check database when bacula-dir start

2012-04-06 Thread John Drescher
> I have a bacual-dir with ~250 clients. And each client has its own catalog. > > When bacula-dir start, bacula-dir checks each database (~10s per client = > ~45 minutes !!!) > Meanwhile, the director is not accessible... > > How can I bypass that or reduce that ? > I would try speeding up your da

Re: [Bacula-users] Check database when bacula-dir start

2012-04-09 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Julien S wrote: > Do you think if I tuning databases with : > http://www.newitperson.com/2011/01/reduce-bacula-dbcheck-time/ > CREATE INDEX File_JobId_idx ON File(JobId); > CREATE INDEX File_PathId_idx ON File(PathId); > CREATE INDEX File_FilenameId_idx ON File(File

Re: [Bacula-users] Universal Restore

2012-04-11 Thread John Drescher
> Bacula isn't really about bare-metal recovery, especially when it comes > to Windows.  Using just Bacula, the answer for Windows is to install the > system from scratch on the new hardware, install the Bacula client, then > do a restore.  I'm not even sure how simple restore will work with > lock

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple volumes moved from scratch pool

2012-04-11 Thread John Drescher
> I reported this back in July of 2010 > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=25685277 > This has happened to me several times since then but I haven't been able to > figure out why. It is strange that for some unknown reason bacula will grab > all available volumes from the scr

Re: [Bacula-users] How to share a tape library between two bacula servers.

2012-04-12 Thread John Drescher
> I was looking in Internet without any luck (maybe because I'm not an > english native, and my text search strings wasn't enough good). > > Please, I need information about the possibility of use one LTO device > attached to one bacula server machine, by another bacula server > machine. Maybe I co

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula problem with CentOS Linux 64 Bit

2012-04-12 Thread John Drescher
2012/4/12 Carlo Filippetto : > Hi, > I have bacula-server installed on a CentOS 5.2, version 5.2.3, kernel i686 > > Today I installed fot the first time a client with CentOS 6.2 x86_64 > (installation made with yum with bacula 5.0.0.9) > > I can't understand why I have this error: > > 12-apr 16:44

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula problem with CentOS Linux 64 Bit

2012-04-12 Thread John Drescher
> Yes, > but I can't fine the answer > Did you verify the passwords match? If so make sure that no bacula config file uses 127.0.0.1 or localhost as its IP address. -- John M. Drescher -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happe

Re: [Bacula-users] How to share a tape library between two bacula servers.

2012-04-12 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Manuel Trujillo wrote: > 2012/4/12 John Drescher : >> You can share a SD between directors. However do you really need 2 >> directors, independent databases ... ? > > The problem is that I need to make copy jobs to LTO from the 2nd > bacu

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula problem with CentOS Linux 64 Bit

2012-04-12 Thread John Drescher
> There's any problem with client 64 bit and server 32 bit? No. At least I have not seen that in the 7 to 8 years I have had 64 bit bacula servers and 32 bit clients. > This is the firts client I install with yum, usually I compile it with > --enable-client-only, may be this the problem? I can n

Re: [Bacula-users] Running out of space on tape

2012-04-16 Thread John Drescher
> I am using Bacula 5.0.1 running on an Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit server with a Dell > PowerVault TL2000 tape library attached via a SAS controller.  In the > library are two LTO4 drives and I am using LTO4 media.  From a backup over > the weekend I found the following message in the bacula log: > > > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Running out of space on tape

2012-04-16 Thread John Drescher
> Thanks for the quick reply.  No errors that I can find in dmesg.  However, > there are a lot of jpeg files on this server...that does make sense that > compressed files cannot be compressed a second time. > Also if you are using encryption in bacula. I am not sure if that bacula uses compressibl

Re: [Bacula-users] Tandberg LTO-3 only writing ~200GB

2012-04-18 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Andre Rossouw wrote: > Hello. > > I have a system running Ubuntu 10.04 with Bacula 5.0.1. and a SCSI > Tandberg LTO-3 HH drive. It has been running without problems since > 2010. Last week it started writing ~200GB data to the media, and > reporting that the media

Re: [Bacula-users] Tandberg LTO-3 only writing ~200GB

2012-04-19 Thread John Drescher
> Could there be any other reason you may think of (possibly outside of > bacula) that would cause a drive to think it's written more than it has, > or for the job to start at the wrong point on the tape? > LTO media does not work that way. To write from beginning to end it does multiple passes of

Re: [Bacula-users] Tandberg LTO-3 only writing ~200GB

2012-04-19 Thread John Drescher
> Thanks for the info. Another question: the text on wikipedia states > "LTO-3 and LTO-4 use a similar format with 1,616,940-byte blocks" - is > this something I would need to add as a directive (in trying to resolve > my current issue), or would Bacula set this appropriately when I set > media typ

Re: [Bacula-users] Cant connect to bacula-sd on debian system

2012-04-19 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:47 AM, alexturner wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm trying to set up a bacula sever to backup all machines on the network to > LTO tape. I'm having a hard time getting my config to work. For starters > bacula-dir wont start from the /etc/init.d/bacula-director script but it wil

Re: [Bacula-users] Cant connect to bacula-sd on debian system

2012-04-19 Thread John Drescher
> If you want bacula to function as a network backup program you need to > remove 127.0.0.1 and localhost from all bacula config files and > replace these with the eternal ipaddress otherwise bacula can not > communicate on the network.. I meant external ipaddress. The gmail new look has made it v

Re: [Bacula-users] Cant connect to bacula-sd on debian system

2012-04-19 Thread John Drescher
> Your director's name is not the same in your files. Passwords are not > the same neither. > In bacula-sd.conf, your director's password has to match the Storage's > one in bacula-dir.conf. > I agree. On top of the 127.0.0.1 problem these other problems also need to be corrected. John -

[Bacula-users] Fwd: How to get free hard disk space back ?

2012-04-19 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Drescher Date: Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 5:14 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How to get free hard disk space back ? To: Jerome Alet On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Jerome Alet wrote: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:11:20AM -0400, Josh Fisher wr

Re: [Bacula-users] Tandberg LTO-3 only writing ~200GB

2012-04-19 Thread John Drescher
>> Bacula defaults to fixed blocks of ~ 64K. This will work with all LTO >> drives but can be suboptimal in performance. You can change the block >> settings in bacula-sd.conf however I believe that will make all tapes >> that were written with the 64K blocks unusable without you manually >> erasin

Re: [Bacula-users] Tandberg LTO-3 only writing ~200GB

2012-04-23 Thread John Drescher
> When you recycle tapes they get relabelled. At that point the larger block > size will be used automatically. > > It works for me. Thanks. I will try to test this soon provided I get some time. John -- For Developers,

[Bacula-users] Fwd: mtx and Overland Neo8000e

2012-04-25 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jesper Krogh Date: Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 2:29 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] mtx and Overland Neo8000e To: John Drescher On 25/04/12 20:26, John Drescher wrote: >> >> But the time it takes for status/load/unload is about 2 minute

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem Running Concurrent Jobs For One Client

2012-04-25 Thread John Drescher
> The go to different storage devices which are of the same media type (File) & > use the same Archive Device (/data1). Is the problem that they are writing to > the same archive device? Thanks! - Steve > That should be fine. Some users make the mistake of trying to use a single storage device a

Re: [Bacula-users] For those of you who might be interested

2012-04-25 Thread John Drescher
> Any comment is very welcome. > I have used this several times in the past at work. I would like to see full sheet label paper better supported. I am talking about avery 5165. By the way thanks for making this free, John --

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem Running Concurrent Jobs For One Client

2012-04-25 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Boutin, Stephen wrote: > Ok, thanks. They do write to different files within that archive device, as > well. Any other thoughts/ideas as to what might be causing my issue? > You do have the Maximum Concurrent Jobs like I discussed in my first reply? -- John M.

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem Running Concurrent Jobs For One Client

2012-04-25 Thread John Drescher
> Correct. That is set at 22 in every place possible (6 different areas, I > believe). > I am out of ideas at the moment. Hopefully others will chime in.. John -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event wi

Re: [Bacula-users] 3999 Device "/dev/changer" not found or could not be opened.

2012-04-26 Thread John Drescher
2012/4/26 Marchon . : > Hi, > > Really really need help > > When running bconsole to mount or label the following error occurs. > -- > # bconsole > Connecting to Director abnspsrv05:9101 > 1000 OK: abnspsrv05.cnh-boavista.abnot Version: 5.2.6 (21 February 2012) > Enter a period to cancel a comm

Re: [Bacula-users] Determining next tapes to use

2012-04-27 Thread John Drescher
2012/4/27 Jack Cobb : > Hello everyone, > > > > We are using Bacula 5.0.1 running on an Ubuntu 10.04 server attached to a > Dell PowerVault TL2000 tape library.  I run differential daily backups > Monday thru Thursday and a full weekly backup on Friday.  I have pools setup > for both the daily and

Re: [Bacula-users] Bcopy help

2012-04-30 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Jack Cobb wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am wanting to copy data from one tape to a second tape so I have one > offsite and the other onsite.  I am using the bcopy utility but when I enter > the following command I receive an error message: > > bcopy -c /etc/bacul

Re: [Bacula-users] backup

2012-05-04 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Luis H. Forchesatto wrote: > Hi > > I'm receiving the following messages from bacula after changed the > destination of the backups. The destination had to be changed after an disk > failure, now an usb drive are beign used. > > The job status: > >  JobId Level   Na

[Bacula-users] Fwd: backup

2012-05-04 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: Luis H. Forchesatto Date: Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:55 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] backup To: John Drescher Yes. 2012/5/4 John Drescher > > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Luis H. Forchesatto > wrote: > > Hi > > > >

Re: [Bacula-users] How to properly delete Clients and data from DB

2012-05-07 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Martin Reissner wrote: > Hello, > > I had to remove several clients (fds) from my bacula setup and I found > no intructions on how to do this properly. Can someone please help me out? > What I want to achieve is that all database entries related to those > clients (

Re: [Bacula-users] DELL TL2000

2012-05-07 Thread John Drescher
> No help about this? > No one is using this library? > I do not use that library however you problem does not appear to have anything at all to do with your choice of hardware. I never ever use Copy jobs so I can not help with that either however I do have a 2 drive autochanger and I do use that

Re: [Bacula-users] tape drive on 2nd server

2012-05-07 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Bertrand, Guy wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I have a 2 server setup: > > > > Server 1: runs bacula-dir and has a lot of disk space, so I do nightly > backups to disk > > > > Server 2: has no disk space, but has a tape drive > > > > (and no, I cannot put the tape drive o

[Bacula-users] Fwd: DELL TL2000

2012-05-07 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: Gandalf Corvotempesta Date: Mon, May 7, 2012 at 11:01 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] DELL TL2000 To: John Drescher Il giorno lun, 07/05/2012 alle 10.01 -0400, John Drescher ha scritto: > I never ever use Copy jobs so I can not help with that eit

Re: [Bacula-users] tape drive on 2nd server

2012-05-07 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Guido Falsi wrote: > On 05/07/12 21:09, Denny Schierz wrote: >> hi, >> >> Am 07.05.2012 um 19:50 schrieb Guido Falsi: >> >>> I'm doing something like this, but I'm using a pass-through iscsi target. >> >> why don't use NFS? I use in my case a second bacula-sd which

Re: [Bacula-users] DELL TL2000

2012-05-10 Thread John Drescher
> Very stupid question, is the first time that I use > a tape library: should I put a physical label with > a barcode on the tape? > Yes. Your tape functionality will be greatly increased if you have a barcode reader on your archive and use barcode labels. After you do that. use the bacula update

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