[Bacula-users] Tuning SD/FD/DIR Maximum Concurrent Jobs

2016-05-12 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I've been using Bacula for about 7 years and have never quite understood how to properly configure these values in relation to each other. In terms of an FD on a normal client I will typically use a Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 5 setting in bacula-fd.conf. On my "Backup Server" I run t

[Bacula-users] SchedTime Versus StartTime

2016-04-15 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I am looking for a solution to a specifc problem. Occasionally and for a variety of reasons, the Job queue will be have many Jobs waiting to start while other Jobs complete and resources become available. This will sometimes cause a job to have a StartTime hours after its SchedTime.

Re: [Bacula-users] Failing Windows Backups

2016-04-15 Thread Mingus Dew
uptarget:C: -keepversions:0 -quiet" 2016-04-15 04:36:47mt-back4.director JobId 711684: Fatal error: Network error with FD during Backup: ERR=Connection reset by peer 2016-04-15 04:36:47mt-back4.director JobId 711684: Error: Bacula mt-back4.director 5.2.13 (19Jan13): JobId:

[Bacula-users] Failing Windows Backups

2016-04-15 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I'm assuming that setting "Heartbeat Interval = 300" is the same as 5 minutes. I want to be clear on it's usage though.. it would be for when a Firewall or Router is not honoring KeepAlive? I'm having issues with backup failures on a mix of Windows clients. These all seem to ha

[Bacula-users] Bacula Windows Status?

2016-03-02 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I'm just wondering if there are binaries newer than 5.x available for Windows Thanks, Shon -- Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App inst

Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with In-Changer Media after replacing Tape Library

2016-03-01 Thread Mingus Dew
change the 'InChanger' flag from a '1' to a '0' for the > affected tapes, it at least doesn't look like there are too many of them. > You can also delete those volumes all together if you no longer need to get > any data from them. > > Bryn > >

[Bacula-users] Issue with In-Changer Media after replacing Tape Library

2016-03-01 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I recently replaced a malfunctioning LTO5 TL2000 tape library with a new LTO6 TL4000 tape library. I've been having a lot of failing tape jobs since then, and I think I've finally rooted out the problem, but am not sure where to begin fixing it. Essentially, when I do a query to sh

Re: [Bacula-users] Storage Devices not displaying in bconsole status

2016-02-10 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear Ben, Thank you very much. Part of my mind had wondered if it was a change in display behavior as I only recently upgraded to 7.0. As you can see from the configs they are all on the same SD instance. I think it doesn't deduplicate the other Disk storage because it's using a different loc

[Bacula-users] Storage Devices not displaying in bconsole status

2016-02-09 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I am having an issue where when I run a status command in bconsole, select "Storage", I am only presented with the option for status on 3 of my defined storage resources. I am trying to figure out why this is, but am being left with a blank. Backups do seem to be running at present,

[Bacula-users] Help w/ Crashing bacula-dir

2014-02-04 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I'm running bacula-5.2.13 on Solaris 10 x86. Recently the bacula-dir has begun segfaulting and crashing on my server, but I have no idea why. I realize this is a pretty general question and I'll respond with as much additional information as I can, but need a starting point.

Re: [Bacula-users] Error compiling Bacula 5.2.13

2013-12-19 Thread Mingus Dew
I was compiling against 64-bit mysql and it didn't like that derp... -Shon On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Mingus Dew wrote: > Dear All, > I am compliing Bacula 5.2.13 on Solaris10. I am getting the following > error and can't figure out what's causing it. Ca

[Bacula-users] Error compiling Bacula 5.2.13

2013-12-19 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I am compliing Bacula 5.2.13 on Solaris10. I am getting the following error and can't figure out what's causing it. Can't even find where "-mt" is coming from. Compiling mysql.c Making libbaccats-mysql.la ... /root/Bacula/src/bacula-5.2.13/libtool --silent --tag=CXX --mode=link /opt

[Bacula-users] MySQL version to compile Bacula 5.2.13 against?

2013-12-19 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I am migrating my Bacula environment to a new Solaris 10 servers. I currently am compiled against MySQL 4.1 and running MySQL 5.1.47 as the database. Can anyone advise me as to what version of MySQL I should compile against on my new server? I remember there once being some iss

[Bacula-users] bconsole status is VERY slow

2013-12-05 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I'm trying to figure out why it sometimes takes 40 minutes for that status command to return results. It wasn't always this way and I'm not sure even remotely what might be happening. This seems to be occurring even when there are only a few (less than 10) jobs in queue. Any ideas?

[Bacula-users] How to use multiple volumes from the same pool, simultaneously?

2013-11-19 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I would like some advice on how to configure Bacula so that volumes from my Disk pools can be read for Copying at the same time that other volumes in the same pools are being written for backups. Currently if there is a backup writing, none of my copy jobs will run since the dev

[Bacula-users] Remove media while Job "Dir inserting Attributes"?

2013-08-01 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I have a job that takes 7 days to run. Its currently in the "Dir inserting Attributes" state. Can I remove the tapes from the library while its in that state? Its overlapping my normal tape swap and I can't adjust today's pickup. Yours, Shon -

Re: [Bacula-users] Is Truncate just broken?

2013-07-30 Thread Mingus Dew
; Nothing has changed in that code for many years. > > Best regards, > Kern > > > On 07/22/2013 04:06 PM, Mingus Dew wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. Specifically I'm using Bacula 5.2.13 on Solaris 10 > x86. My disk backups are stored on ZFS. I saw some old threads ab

Re: [Bacula-users] Need help understanding and applying some Retention/Recycle concepts

2013-07-22 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear Ana, Thanks for the response. It took a few days to find this in the Inbox. I see what you're saying. What else besides Max Volumes tells Bacula not to label anymore. I kind of wanted it to manage that on its own, otherwise I'll be changing that everytime I add a new client. Then of course

Re: [Bacula-users] Is Truncate just broken?

2013-07-22 Thread Mingus Dew
know this used to work for me, but doesn't seem to anymore. I'm wondering if something happened in more recent Bacula versions that changed this again. * * Yours, Shon* * On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Radosław Korzeniewski < rados...@korzeniewski.net> wrote: > Hello, > >

[Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs for Devices

2013-07-22 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I'm trying to understand how to properly use this directive and if its possible to configure Bacula the way I think I can using this directive. I'm using Version: 5.2.13 (19 February 2013) i386-pc-solaris2.10 solaris 5.10 The manual at http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/main/main/N

[Bacula-users] Is Truncate just broken?

2013-07-11 Thread Mingus Dew
I don't think I've ever gotten it to work under any circumstance, either manually or automated. Yours, Shon -- See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application mon

[Bacula-users] Need help understanding and applying some Retention/Recycle concepts

2013-07-11 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I am running Bacula Community Edition 5.2.13 on Solaris 10 x86. I am trying to understand why Bacula doesn't seem to recycle when I think it should. I have recently moved to a configuration where each Volume contains only a single Job. I had envisioned that when the Volume Reten

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole - connection refused

2013-07-11 Thread Mingus Dew
startup scripts to set the ulimit and set and ENV variable to overcome the stdio.h limitation Thanks Shon On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Marcin Haba wrote: > > > Dnia 2013-06-10, pon o godzinie 15:55 -0400, Mingus Dew pisze: > > :-) At first I thought you were trolling me a lit

[Bacula-users] bacula-dir died...what now?

2013-06-10 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I posted under another topic earlier, but since disovering that my Director crashed, I was wondering what I can do before restarting it to find out what happened. Thanks, Shon -- This SF.net email is sponsor

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole - connection refused

2013-06-10 Thread Mingus Dew
:-) At first I thought you were trolling me a little, but then I looked and sure enough, my Director has died. How can I find out what happened? Thanks, Shon On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Radosław Korzeniewski < rados...@korzeniewski.net> wrote: > Hello, > > 2013/6/10 Mingus

[Bacula-users] bconsole - connection refused

2013-06-10 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I'm having an issue with bconsole not being able to connect to the Director bconsole[18490]: [ID 702911 daemon.error] bsock.c:138 Unable to connect to Director daemon on mt-back4.mentora.:9101. ERR=Connection refused I *think* what has happened is that so many jobs are in queue tha

[Bacula-users] Where can "Catalog" be used?

2013-06-06 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I've been reading the manual, but can only find 1 place where "Catalog" is used.. in the Client definition. Obviously its defined in the Director definition, but I can only find it used in Client. Does anyone know anywhere else it can be used? I tried in Pool, but that violates

[Bacula-users] Question on Copy Jobs - Selection Type PoolUncopiedJobs

2013-06-04 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I have an existing Bacula installation that uses separate disk pools for Incremental and Full backups. I have setup a Copy Job to tape pool setup using the PoolUncopiedJobs Selection Type for the Full disk pool only. I now wish to set this up for the Incremental pool, but only

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple Catalog Configuration

2013-06-04 Thread Mingus Dew
Thanks very much for the replie and clarification. I'll be able to get to work on this with peace of mind. Yours, Shon On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 03:45:48PM -0400, Mingus Dew wrote: > > Does anyone have an example they can

[Bacula-users] Multiple Catalog Configuration

2013-06-03 Thread Mingus Dew
Does anyone have an example they can share of using mutliple catalogs? I have a particular set of NAS backups that has over 500,000,000 file records and pretty much need to use a separate catalog to hopefully overcome 3 days of table locking while inserting preventing other jobs from completing. T

[Bacula-users] Broken Job History

2013-04-02 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I am running Bacula 5.2.10. I have the following configured in bacula-dir.conf Statistics Retention = 90 days However, Bacula seems to have stopped updating the JobHisto well over a year ago. I am uncertain as to why this wouldn't be working. Any Ideas? Yours, Shon -

Re: [Bacula-users] Pools not updating Attributes

2013-04-02 Thread Mingus Dew
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 05:18:37PM -0400, Mingus Dew wrote: >> Dear All, >> I am running bacula-5.2.10 on Solaris 10 x86. I've noticed an >> issue recently where I've wanted to restrict further restrict the >> Maximum Volumes in a couple of Pools. >&g

Re: [Bacula-users] Pools not updating Attributes

2013-03-20 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear John, Thanks for the quick response. On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:26 PM, John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Mingus Dew wrote: >> Dear All, >> I am running bacula-5.2.10 on Solaris 10 x86. I've noticed an >> issue recently where I

[Bacula-users] Pools not updating Attributes

2013-03-20 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I am running bacula-5.2.10 on Solaris 10 x86. I've noticed an issue recently where I've wanted to restrict further restrict the Maximum Volumes in a couple of Pools. I edited the config and changed "Maximum Volumes = 3". I then reloaded and updated the Pools from Resource. It says it

Re: [Bacula-users] How to specify drive of Autochanger?

2012-08-07 Thread Mingus Dew
t 10:44 AM, John Drescher wrote: > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Mingus Dew wrote: >> Dear All, >> Does anyone know if its possible to run a job from Command line >> that specifies the drive of the autochanger to be used? >> > > I have a device for each o

Re: [Bacula-users] Strange Device Status - Device is BLOCKED. User unmounted

2012-08-07 Thread Mingus Dew
me. It does not matter if I > use the volume or not, but it clears the BLOCKED status. > > Patti Clark > Information International Associates, Inc. > Linux Administrator and subcontractor to: > Research and Development Systems Support Oak Ridge National Laboratory > > &

[Bacula-users] Strange Device Status - Device is BLOCKED. User unmounted

2012-08-06 Thread Mingus Dew
Device "TL2000_DTE1" (/dev/rmt/1cbn) is not open. Device is BLOCKED. User unmounted. Drive 1 status unknown. I'm not sure why this is in this status or how to unblock. Yours, Shon -- Live Security Virtual Confer

[Bacula-users] How to specify drive of Autochanger?

2012-08-06 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, Does anyone know if its possible to run a job from Command line that specifies the drive of the autochanger to be used? Yours, Shon -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the

[Bacula-users] Perpetual Issues w/ 2 Drive Autochangers not utilizing 2nd drive

2012-08-06 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear Bacula Users, I have been using Bacula for about 4 years now. I recently moved from a single drive LTO-3 Exabyte Autochanger to a 2 drive LTO-5 TL-2000 Autochanger. All the devices are recognized properly and I can read/write from both jobs. The issue I'm having is that Bacula almost never

[Bacula-users] Synthetic, Copy, Restore from either?

2012-07-30 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I was hoping someone could clarify for me a few points regarding Synthetic Jobs, Copy Jobs, and restoring from Copy Jobs The Synthetic job uses the last Full backup and subsequent Incremental backups to create a new "Full" backup from current Volume data into a new Pool/Volume. Does

[Bacula-users] Running Jobs Table?

2012-05-16 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I was wondering if bacula keeps current state information in a sql table (running jobs, status) or any other place that can be accessed w/o bconsole? I'd like to monitor different aspects fo the running job queue (how long job has been running, how many jobs waiting for resources, et

[Bacula-users] Right way to clean up from old clients, jobs?

2012-05-16 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, When decommissioning a client, what is the best practice to clean up old client, job data? In trying to do some reporting from the database, I still see clients that I removed from the config long ago, and job data for clients and jobs that haven't existed in years. Thanks, Shon -

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

2012-03-16 Thread Mingus Dew
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 error 1067 Process quit unexpectedly. Any ideas why it doesn

[Bacula-users] NDMP Plugin coming to community release?

2012-03-05 Thread Mingus Dew
Just wondering if anyone knows if the NDMP plugin will be coming to the community release of Bacula anytime soon. Yours, Shon -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning libra

[Bacula-users] Bacula Events and Python Scripting

2012-02-14 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I am currently truncating volumes on disk manually. In my disk pools I keep 5 volumes (max volumes = 5) . Each of these volumes is limited with max jobs = 6 * N-clients (incremental volumes) and max jobs = 1 * N-clients (full volumes). All the volumes have the Action On Purge value s

[Bacula-users] Dell TL2000 (IBM Ultrium HH LTO-5) and Solaris

2012-01-09 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear Bacula Community, I am seeking help from anyone who has a TL2000/4000 or other autochanger that utilized the IBM Ultrium HH LTO-5 drives or similar on a Solaris 10 system. I am seeking correct st.conf definition for this drive. I have an exisiting definition for an LTO-3 drive and the sys

Re: [Bacula-users] Using Multi-Drive Autochangers - My Autochanger is only utilizing 1 Tape Drive

2011-12-08 Thread Mingus Dew
Thank you On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:20 AM, John Drescher wrote: >> Job A in Pool A writing to Tape 0 can run at that same time as Job B >> in Pool B writing on Tape 1 >> > Yes. That should work (and does for me) without much fuss. You get > into a more difficult situation if you want both drives

[Bacula-users] Using Multi-Drive Autochangers - My Autochanger is only utilizing 1 Tape Drive

2011-12-08 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I am running bacula 5.0.3 on Solaris 10 x86. I have a Dell TL2000 24-slots Autoloader Library with 2 HH LTO5 Drives. The changer works and the device will load tapes and write backups. However, I'm kind of in the dark as to how to get it to use the 2nd drive. The documentation is rea

[Bacula-users] Help - Client Status shows Backup OK - Job not in Catalog

2011-08-18 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All,      I am running Version: 5.0.3 (04 August 2010) i386-pc-solaris2.10 solaris 5.10  Bacula. I have a situation where backups are running and the client status reports the backups as OK, but they jobs do not appear when I query "List all backups for a Client". I know that the jobs aren't m

[Bacula-users] Help w/ failed Jobs while Dir Inserting Attributes

2011-07-01 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear Bacula Users, I am running v5.0.3 on Solaris 10 x86 platform with MySQL 5.1 as the backend. I am currently having a problem where a few very large (15 million+ files) backups to the tape device are causing disk backup jobs to fail. 89787 FullAdvisen_NFS2_AMX_Tape.2011-06-29_23.00.00

[Bacula-users] NDMP Support

2011-06-29 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I recently saw that NDMP support is/was added to the Bacula Systems Enterprise edition. When will this feature become available in the public version? Yours, Shon -- All of the data generated in your IT infr

Re: [Bacula-users] Help Troubleshooting Windows FD

2011-05-05 Thread Mingus Dew
On Wed, 4 May 2011 08:17:18 -0400 > Mingus Dew wrote: > > > I am trying to install the latest Win64 client downloaded from > > bacula.org on a Windows 2008 server. The application does appear to > > install correctly, but when trying to start the service it fails to &g

[Bacula-users] Help Troubleshooting Windows FD

2011-05-04 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I am trying to install the latest Win64 client downloaded from bacula.org on a Windows 2008 server. The application does appear to install correctly, but when trying to start the service it fails to start and generates "Error 1067: The process terminated unexpectedly". I actual

[Bacula-users] Why does Bacula run Disk jobs before previously queued Tape Jobs?

2011-03-15 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I am using Bacula 5.0.3 on Solaris 10_x86. I am currently having an issue where sometimes Tape jobs are hung in queue waiting for Disk jobs to complete. I realize this is a factor of the Concurrent Jobs setting. However, Bacula seems to continue processing Disk jobs that were schedul

[Bacula-users] Hardware Encryption?

2011-01-05 Thread Mingus Dew
Fellow Bacula Users, I am in search of a hardware based encryption solution that is OS/Storage independent. Whether it be a new drive or something else even Bacula compatible. The encryption provided within Bacula itself is not sufficient for my needs and during my last search I was unable to

[Bacula-users] Synthetic to Tape

2010-11-02 Thread Mingus Dew
I want to setup "Synthetic" backups and write them to tape. I suspect that I can use the "Next Pool" directive to point to a pool containing tape volumes. My intention is that I will be taking the last Full and subsequent Incrementals from the Disk-To-Disk backup jobs and writing them to tape as a

[Bacula-users] Need some Solaris advice - Bacula, MySQL memory leak?

2010-11-02 Thread Mingus Dew
Hi all, I recently upgraded to MySQL 5.1.57 from Blastwave packages. I then upgraded to Bacula 5.0.3 I read somewhere about a memory leak on Solaris and think I'm encountering it. I was wondering if this is a leak in Bacula, or in MySQL. I'm running Solaris 10 x86_64 127128-11 Basically, the

[Bacula-users] Job, File, Volume Retention?

2010-10-25 Thread Mingus Dew
All, I recall reading about this long ago, when I read the manual like a book. I'm having a hard time finding the information now, I have configured Job and File Retention periods in the Job Definitions and then Volume Retention periods in the Pool Definitions Job Retention = 30d File Retent

Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning for large (millions of files) backups?

2010-10-14 Thread Mingus Dew
quot; job yet. Just curious as a fellow Solaris deployer... Thanks, Shon On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Henrik Johansen wrote: > 'Mingus Dew' wrote: > >> All, >> I am running Bacula 5.0.1 on Solaris 10 x86. I'm currently running >> MySQL 4.1.22 for the

Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning for large (millions of files) backups?

2010-10-12 Thread Mingus Dew
Henrik, I really appreciate your reply, particularly as a fellow Bacula-on-Solaris user. I do not have my databases on ZFS, only my Bacula storage. I'll probably have to tune for local disk. Thanks very much, Shon On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Henrik Johansen wrote: > 'Ming

Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning for large (millions of files) backups?

2010-10-08 Thread Mingus Dew
? I'm assuming I'm using batch inserts because Bacula uses a table called 'batch' -Shon On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Bruno Friedmann wrote: > On 10/07/2010 11:03 PM, Mingus Dew wrote: > > All, > > I am running Bacula 5.0.1 on Solaris 10 x86. I'

[Bacula-users] Tuning for large (millions of files) backups?

2010-10-07 Thread Mingus Dew
All, I am running Bacula 5.0.1 on Solaris 10 x86. I'm currently running MySQL 4.1.22 for the database server. I do plan on upgrading to a compatible version of MySQL 5, but migrating to PostgreSQL isn't an option at this time. I am trying to backup to tape a very large number of files fo

Re: [Bacula-users] Disabled Jobs Question

2010-10-07 Thread Mingus Dew
t; On 10/07/10 04:10, Ralf Gross wrote: > > Phil Stracchino schrieb: > >> On 10/06/10 14:35, Mingus Dew wrote: > >>> John, > >>> I think I had to create a bogus schedule, that bacula wouldn't > >>> accept the job config without a schedule.

Re: [Bacula-users] ZFS and Bacula

2010-10-07 Thread Mingus Dew
I have been using this setup for awhile. You absolutely must disable Bacula compression on the ZFS Devices within the SD or for the specific Pools that have volumes on the ZFS. Doubling up encryption can actually increase file sizes and also lead to data errors. -Shon On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:11

Re: [Bacula-users] Disabled Jobs Question

2010-10-06 Thread Mingus Dew
John, I think I had to create a bogus schedule, that bacula wouldn't accept the job config without a schedule. I think I'll disable the job in bconsole and try to start it remotely. Just see what happens... -Shon On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:30 PM, John Drescher wrote: > 2010/10

[Bacula-users] Disabled Jobs Question

2010-10-06 Thread Mingus Dew
I am running Bacula 5.0.1 and have a question about Disabled Jobs. I have some jobs configured that do not have an active schedule (i.e., bacula never automatically queues or runs them) Instead, these jobs are run by a remote user that logs into the backup server and runs a script to run the confi

[Bacula-users] High Resource Utilization with Bacula FD on VMWare Virtual Machines

2010-07-17 Thread Mingus Dew
All, I have ESXi 4.0 servers clustered and hosting a variety of Virtual Machines. The VM's vary between RHEL, Solaris, Windows, and Debian. I run various versions of the bacula-fd (5.x, 2.x, 3.x) on these VMs for taking OS backups. No matter what the FD version though, I am seeing high IOwait

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 5.0.2 "Truncate" feature not working

2010-06-23 Thread Mingus Dew
Marc, Thanks for the tip. Is it recommended to run this daily as a runscript, or after each job? Thanks, Shon On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > * Mingus Dew schrieb am 21.06.10 um 19:43 Uhr: > > I am running 5.0.2 on Solaris 10 x86 edition. I upgraded

[Bacula-users] Bacula 5.0.2 "Truncate" feature not working

2010-06-21 Thread Mingus Dew
I am running 5.0.2 on Solaris 10 x86 edition. I upgraded to 5.0.2 specifically to use the Truncate volumes on purge feature. I have setup Pool and updated volumes and followed the manual, but still my volumes do not seem to be truncating. I was wondering if anyone has this setup and working and co

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions on Copy Jobs

2009-12-10 Thread Mingus Dew
0:00') AND Job.JobId NOT IN (SELECT > PriorJobId FROM Job WHERE Type IN ('B','C') AND Job.JobStatus IN ('T','W') > AND PrioJobId != 0) ORDER by Job.StartTime; > > Mingus Dew wrote: > >> In the documentation, there is an example for a

[Bacula-users] Question on RunAfterJob directive

2009-12-10 Thread Mingus Dew
I'd like to run a Bacula Job after the successful run of another Bacula job. Does RunAfterJob only work for external commands, or do I have to fully define using a RunScript directive? Thanks, Shon -- Return on Informatio

Re: [Bacula-users] Bug or Feature Request - Config token too long?

2009-12-10 Thread Mingus Dew
Thank you. Great tip. I won't implement because I'd need to update though. But it did lead me to the right place. -Shon On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > 24.11.2009 15:47, Mingus Dew wrote: > > All, > > Running Bacula 3. on Sola

[Bacula-users] Bug or Feature Request - Config token too long?

2009-11-24 Thread Mingus Dew
All, Running Bacula 3. on Solaris 10 x86. I'm setting up some Copy jobs using the Selection Type = SQLQuery. When I try to test the config file I get the error: bac...@backup_svr: bacula-dir -t -c /opt/csw/etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf 24-Nov 01:51 bacula-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at lex.c:270 Conf

[Bacula-users] Questions on Copy Jobs

2009-10-27 Thread Mingus Dew
In the documentation, there is an example for a Copy Job using the Selection Type "PoolUncopiedJobs". I'd like to implement Copy Jobs using this selection type. I currently have about 30 clients backed up into the same Disk Pool. There are 28 days of backups on Disk for each client. If I setup a C

[Bacula-users] Verify Jobs

2009-10-27 Thread Mingus Dew
There doesn't seem to be much in the docs on Verify Jobs, unless I'm missing a section somewhere. Can a Verify Job be run from the console, or does it have to be configured in a Job Definition? What are best practices for running Verify Jobs? Thanks, Shon --

[Bacula-users] Testing Backups?

2009-10-26 Thread Mingus Dew
I have a need to perform a full restore and verification of the backups of 2 hosts. I'm not sure the best way to do this, or rather what best practices are for verifying backups, their readability, and completeness. Can anyone suggest some methods for accomplishing this? Thanks, Shon -

[Bacula-users] Adding used tapes back to the Scratch Pool?

2009-10-06 Thread Mingus Dew
I'd like to know the recommended way to added previously used tapes back to the Scratch Pool. I have already purged the jobs that were on the tapes and updated the Pool to Scratch for each tape Volume. For the tapes that contained data, should I rewind them manually? What about the status? Most of

[Bacula-users] Need help w/ Volume Status "Error"

2009-10-05 Thread Mingus Dew
All, Using Bacula 3.0.2 on Solaris 10_x86. I have a question regarding how to properly recover tapes from a status of "Error". I also have some questions on reassigning tapes from one Storage Pool to a different Pool. I am not sure how this status came to be, but I currently have a few tapes

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem - All Media records for Volumes are missing!

2009-10-05 Thread Mingus Dew
Yes. I'd quite forgotten about that. Do recall reading it in Changelog or Readme... Thanks, Shon On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:32 AM, John Drescher wrote: > On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Christian Gaul > wrote: > > Mingus Dew schrieb: > >> Enter *MediaId or Volume n

[Bacula-users] Problem - All Media records for Volumes are missing!

2009-10-02 Thread Mingus Dew
All, I'm running Bacula version 3.0.2 for Solaris 10_x86. I'm running into an issue since upgrading from 2.x where I cannot perform any delete or purge operations on volumes. I need to because for some reason I now have many volumes with status "Error" and some volumes that need purged to clear D

[Bacula-users] What to do with "Error" Disk Volumes

2009-07-15 Thread Mingus Dew
All, I have a disk volume with a status of "Error" 149 | ShopCart-FS_Full-0149 | Error | 1 | 97,820,348,233 | 22 |1,814,400 | 1 |0 | 0 | ShopCart_File | 2009-07-02 02:59:40 Just wondering what is the proper method to clear or recover from this erro

[Bacula-users] Hardware Encryption

2009-05-12 Thread Mingus Dew
I checked out the survey and voted for features. However, one feature I didn't see was interfacing Bacula with Hardware Encryption capable LTO-4 drives. This is the latest in tape tech and absolutely should be supported for a full-featured solution. -Shon -

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula not finding SD resource properly defined and used by other jobs

2009-04-24 Thread Mingus Dew
ector 2.4.4 (28Dec08): 24-Apr-2009 07:50:08 -Shon On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > 24.04.2009 01:21, Mingus Dew wrote: > > All, > > I'm running Bacula 2.4.4 (not gone to 3.0 just yet) on Solaris > > 10_x86. I am having an issue wh

[Bacula-users] Bacula not finding SD resource properly defined and used by other jobs

2009-04-23 Thread Mingus Dew
All, I'm running Bacula 2.4.4 (not gone to 3.0 just yet) on Solaris 10_x86. I am having an issue where a couple of new jobs that I've created are hanging indefinitely (why doesn't they watchdog catch these?). I eventually have to cancel the jobs or all the other jobs get stuck "waiting execut

Re: [Bacula-users] gdb trace output?

2009-02-25 Thread Mingus Dew
Bruno, Not rude at all. I wouldn't have known that to be in the Manual. Thanks, Shon On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Bruno Friedmann wrote: > Mingus Dew wrote: > > I've seen from time to time other people posting gdb trace output from > > Bacula. It looks as thou

[Bacula-users] Help with alert configuration

2009-02-24 Thread Mingus Dew
Hello All, I've been scratching my brain but haven't figured out how to do this. I'd like to supress email alerts from Bacula for jobs that are manually canceled. Can anyone help? Thanks, Shon -- Open Source Business

[Bacula-users] gdb trace output?

2009-02-24 Thread Mingus Dew
I've seen from time to time other people posting gdb trace output from Bacula. It looks as though this was automatically generated after a problem is encountered and then sent via bsmtp. Is this true? If so how can I set this up? Thanks, Shon --

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs not completing, but not erroring?

2009-02-24 Thread Mingus Dew
could the director be waiting on? -Shon On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Mingus Dew wrote: > I checked mysql during one of these jobs thats just running. For one thing, > I can see that other jobs start, run, complete, terminate all while this > particular job is just hanging. > > Wr

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs not completing, but not erroring?

2009-02-19 Thread Mingus Dew
GP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > You should check it out with 'mysqladmin processlist' -- you may learn > that something is going on. > > =R > > Mingus Dew wrote: > > Sorry. I forgot to mention MySQL 4. Its still responding. I've tested it > > w

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs not completing, but not erroring?

2009-02-18 Thread Mingus Dew
MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mingus Dew wrote: > > Hi all, > > Been using Bacula 2.4.2 on Solaris 10_x86 for almost 2 years now. > > Recently tape backups have been entering into a state that I can only > > describe as "limbo". > > > >

[Bacula-users] Jobs not completing, but not erroring?

2009-02-18 Thread Mingus Dew
Hi all, Been using Bacula 2.4.2 on Solaris 10_x86 for almost 2 years now. Recently tape backups have been entering into a state that I can only describe as "limbo". If I check the status of the director, I may see something like Running Jobs: JobId Level Name Status

[Bacula-users] Bacula "estimate listing" shows the files and attributes, backup job error is "Could not stat FILE=: ERR=No such file or directory"

2008-12-11 Thread Mingus Dew
All, I am having a very strange problem. My backup server is running Bacula 2.4.2 (Solaris 10_x86) and my client is Bacula 2.2.8 (Solaris 10_x86). This client is having intermittent job failures that I am at a loss to explain. Here is the log output from one of the "failed" jobs. Its completin

[Bacula-users] Please help me with Bacula tape load issues

2008-11-18 Thread Mingus Dew
Bacula 2.4.2 has been running generally well for me over a year now. I've upgraded to 2.4.2 from 2 previous versions. Lately I have been having multiple issues with Bacula losing track of tapes in the autochanger, not being able to load tapes that are in the changer, and just generally not working

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot find any appendable volumes. (but they are there!)

2008-11-10 Thread Mingus Dew
acula-dir.state, bacula-sd.state 5. Restart bacula-dir, bacula-sd 6. Run canceled tape jobs. -Shon On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Joerg Wunsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As Mingus Dew wrote: > > > I hope someone answers your question. I've seen this same issue reported &g

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot find any appendable volumes. (but they are there!)

2008-11-04 Thread Mingus Dew
I hope someone answers your question. I've seen this same issue reported my me and others with no admission that there is a bug. I personally can't find anything wrong with my configuration. Could you check your bacula.log for any errors in the tape jobs prior. I've noticed that library error (mtx

[Bacula-users] Need help with Bacula losing track of tapes

2008-10-30 Thread Mingus Dew
I'm not entirely sure if its a Bacula specific issue, but I could use some advice (as usual) I'm running Bacula 2.4.2 on Solaris 10_x68 with and Exabyte LTO-3 Tape libary. What is happening is that at some point an error occurs to the device and then Bacula can no longer load or even determine the

[Bacula-users] Too many open reload requests?

2008-03-03 Thread Mingus Dew
I am running Bacula 2.2.7 on Solaris 10_x86. When I make changes I usually do the following: Edit configuration file Test with bacula-dir -t -c bacula-dir.conf Launch bconsole and issue "reload" command Recently I started getting these error messages after issuing a "reload" 03-Mar 16:16 mt-back

Re: [Bacula-users] How does a change to Volume Use Duration take effect?

2008-03-03 Thread Mingus Dew
This is great too. Thanks Brian. This actually answers a question I was going to pose about tapes. I have some tapes that I changed pool definitions for, but wasn't quite sure how to update that on tape. Thanks again On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Brian Debelius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I

Re: [Bacula-users] How does a change to Volume Use Duration take effect?

2008-03-03 Thread Mingus Dew
Thanks Arno. I just wanted confirmation from someone more experienced. On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > 29.02.2008 17:30, John Drescher wrote: > >> By changing the Volume Use Duration in the Pool config, Bacula will > pick up > >> the change aft

Re: [Bacula-users] How does a change to Volume Use Duration take effect?

2008-02-29 Thread Mingus Dew
I figured out the Duration part, but I'm still not sure if this change is the correct way to address the larger issue of jobs failing. *query Available queries: 1: List up to 20 places where a File is saved regardless of the directory 2: List where the most recent copies of a file are sa

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