able to show that the drive was failing, regardless of tape
or application.
As always, I appreciate the help I see on this list.
Mike Morgan
Michael Morgan wrote:
I seem to be having trouble writing large backups to tape from bacula.
It has been working just fine for months, and within
I seem to be having trouble writing large backups to tape from bacula.
It has been working just fine for months, and within the last 2-3 weeks,
I have started seeing errors and the backups will not complete.
What happens it that it spools to disk, then begins to write to tape.
After 3-9GB of
First of all, let me just say that Bacula is wonderful. I migrated to it
after a very unreliable (and expensive) commercial product
implementation. Bacula works flawlessly, and is very simple to configure
and operate. Great product! Keep up the good work.
Now for my question:
Does anyone have
outcome. See if
the drive vendor has any diagnostic utilities.
Don.
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 11:55 -0700, Michael Morgan wrote:
First of all, let me just say that Bacula is wonderful. I migrated to it
after a very unreliable (and expensive) commercial product
implementation. Bacula works
I've seen similar data on my backups, but generally, only with very
small backup sizes (less than 1GB). When I back up over 1GB, the rates
increase dramatically, although backup from the Windows server is still
only about 1/2 to 1/3 the Linux server rate. Before you get too
concerned, try a
with it,
including backing up several servers to a central backup server.
I highly recommend the LTO-2 drives and bacula!
Good luck.
Michael Morgan
Iodynamics, LLC
pedro moreno wrote:
On 7/19/06, *Mathew Brown* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I couldn't find much
I recently configured several remote servers to back up to a central
bacula server. They are backing up to a spool file and then spooling to
tape. I set the spool file size at approximately 4GB. Is there an
optimal size, or should I just set it to auto and let it spool as much
as it wants?
I had the exact same problem when I first tried to restore some files
from one of my bacula installations. The problem was the database on the
back end. I had my database expert (who isn't me!) reindex the database
and everything became MUCH faster (like seconds instead of hours). We
have a
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael
Morgan
Sent: 08 March 2006 8:34PM
To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Bacula-users] Trouble restoring backed up file
I am trying to restore a single file or directory from a full backup
job. However, when I specify the jobid in the console, it just
