Re: [Bacula-users] Error writing final EOF to tape (tape errors) - solved

2007-03-02 Thread Michael Morgan
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

[Bacula-users] Error writing final EOF to tape (tape errors)

2007-02-19 Thread Michael Morgan
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

[Bacula-users] LTO-2 tape life spans and drive life spans

2007-02-01 Thread Michael Morgan
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

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-2 tape life spans and drive life spans

2007-02-01 Thread Michael Morgan
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

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow Backup Performance on Windows 2003.

2006-08-10 Thread Michael Morgan
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

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO Tape Doubts/Recommendations for Use with Bacula

2006-07-19 Thread Michael Morgan
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

[Bacula-users] is there an 'ideal' spool file size?

2006-07-19 Thread Michael Morgan
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?

Re: [Bacula-users] Long wait time for restore

2006-05-08 Thread Michael Morgan
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

Re: [Bacula-users] Trouble restoring backed up file

2006-03-20 Thread Michael Morgan
:[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