Re: [Bacula-users] Feature requests?

2012-05-13 Thread Ralf Gross
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk schrieb: > > I filed a feature request on > http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1866, only to have it closed with > reason "no change required". Is there another preferred way to file > feature requests than using the bug tracker? If so, can you please > remove the "feature" le

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling question

2011-12-04 Thread Ralf Gross
Phil Stracchino schrieb: > I've just acquired an LTO4 drive, and am setting up spooling for the > first time. (The machine with the LTO4 drive attached has mirrored SSDs > and a 6GB/s SAS controller, so it's a great setup for spooling.) > There's one thing I'm not clear on: It appears to me that

Re: [Bacula-users] Label barcodes -> unsure if bacula labels everything

2011-11-14 Thread Ralf Gross
Denny Schierz schrieb: > hi, > > I've printed some barcodes for our LTO-2 Autochanger which is also used for > Amanda. For testing I want to label the tapes from 001 till 020 and not more: > > [..] better use 'label barcode slots 1-20' Ralf

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple spool files per job

2011-10-08 Thread Ralf Gross
James Harper schrieb: > Is there a way to make bacula write multiple spool files per job? Two > would do. What I'm seeing is that 4 jobs start, all hit their spool > limit around the same time, then all wait in a queue until the file is > despooled. The despool happens fairly quickly (much quicker

Re: [Bacula-users] Verify Catalog

2011-06-02 Thread Ralf Gross
John Drescher schrieb: > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Ralf Gross wrote: > > John Drescher schrieb: > >> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Ralf Gross wrote: > >> > Rickifer Barros schrieb: > >> >> Yes John... > >> >> > >>

Re: [Bacula-users] Verify Catalog

2011-06-02 Thread Ralf Gross
John Drescher schrieb: > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Ralf Gross wrote: > > Rickifer Barros schrieb: > >> Yes John... > >> > >> Now, I think that I understood perfectly and I have tested it too. > >> > >> VolumeToCatalog = C

Re: [Bacula-users] Verify Catalog

2011-06-02 Thread Ralf Gross
Rickifer Barros schrieb: > Yes John... > > Now, I think that I understood perfectly and I have tested it too. > > VolumeToCatalog = Compares the files in a Storage Volume with the Catalog; VolumeToCatalog does not read the file content and compares it, it just reads the attributs and compares t

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO5 not filling

2011-05-27 Thread Ralf Gross
Juan Pablo Lorier schrieb: > > ... > > Device { > > Name = LTO-5 > > Drive Index = 0 > > Media Type = LTO-5 > > Archive Device = /dev/nst0 > > AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it > > AlwaysOpen = yes; > > RemovableMedia

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Progress

2011-05-12 Thread Ralf Gross
Rickifer Barros schrieb: > There's some way to see the progress of a Backup or Restore during your > execution? Because with the "status dir" command, I can just see the "backup > is running" and nothing more. I didn't found nothing in the Manual about > that too. try "status client=yourclientname

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

2011-04-29 Thread Ralf Gross
Jason Voorhees schrieb: > > I got the biggest gain by changing "Maximum File Size" to 5 GB. How > > fast is the disk where you spool file is locatet? > > > > A different test would be to create a 10 GB file with data from > > /dev/urandom in the spool directory and the write this file to tape > > (

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

2011-04-28 Thread Ralf Gross
Jason Voorhees schrieb: > > I think I was confusing some terms. The speed I reported was the total > elapsed time that my backup took. But now according to your comments I > got this from my logs: > > With spooling enabled: > > - Job write elapsed time: 102 MB/s average > - Despooling elapsed ti

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

2011-04-28 Thread Ralf Gross
Jason Voorhees schrieb: > > I'm running Bacula 5.0.3 in RHEL 6.0 x86_64 with a Library tape IBM > TS3100 with hardware compression enabled and software (Bacula) > compression disabled, using LTO-5 tapes. I have a Gigabit Ethernet > network and iperf tests report me a bandwidth of 112 MB/s. > > I'

Re: [Bacula-users] Verify Job for certain Backup Job

2011-04-26 Thread Ralf Gross
Krysztofiak schrieb: > Hello, > is there a possibility to run Verify Job for a certain Backup Job (not the > last one) with Level=VolumeToCatalog? > For example I run two Backup Jobs with ids 1 and 2 and then I want to Verify > the first one. that's not possible at the moment with 5.0.x, but it'

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate backup and memory usage

2011-03-15 Thread Ralf Gross
Christian Manal schrieb: > Thanks for the pointer. From Solaris 10 malloc(3C): > > [...] After free() > is executed, this space is made available for further allo- > cation by the application, though not returned to the sys- > tem. Memory is returned to the system only upon

Re: [Bacula-users] problem with etc/init.d/bacula-director

2011-02-26 Thread Ralf Gross
Ralf Gross schrieb: > giannife fe schrieb: > > Hi, my bacula works perfectly, except that I have to start manually > > bacula-dir (bacula-sd and bacula-fd start as they should). > > I've got bacula 5.0.2 precompiled for ubuntu. > > > > Here is the output o

Re: [Bacula-users] problem with etc/init.d/bacula-director

2011-02-26 Thread Ralf Gross
giannife fe schrieb: > Hi, my bacula works perfectly, except that I have to start manually > bacula-dir (bacula-sd and bacula-fd start as they should). > I've got bacula 5.0.2 precompiled for ubuntu. > > Here is the output of some commands: > root@dragon:/home/ego# /etc/init.d/bacula-director star

Re: [Bacula-users] no upgrade path for windows servers?

2011-02-09 Thread Ralf Gross
Jeff Shanholtz schrieb: > ... > Finally, I assume that if I stay with 3.0.1 on the server, I can upgrade > clients to 5.0.3, correct? I'm crossing my fingers that the client "status" > window will be a little more informative than just a big blank window like > it is in 3.0.1. :) don't know abou

Re: [Bacula-users] usb LTO4/5 tape

2011-02-08 Thread Ralf Gross
Alessandro Bono schrieb: > > I need an LTO4 or LTO5 tape with usb interface, someone know a similar > beast? I don't think there is something like this. LTO-4 needs a minimum speed of 40 MB/s, if it falls below that the drive starts shoe-shining which will damage the tapes and drive heads sooner

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula paid support

2011-02-02 Thread Ralf Gross
John Drescher schrieb: > > Does anyone know or have experience with a company that offers a bacula > > support contract? I just talked with  a rep from Bacula Systems in > > Switzerland, the prices were much more than we can afford. > > > > There are a couple of users on this list that provide pai

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape compression not working LTO-5

2011-01-15 Thread Ralf Gross
Arunav Mandal schrieb: > I have a LT05 tape drive and I am getting only 1.5TB per tape even the tape > compression is on. I am using st driver for my tape drive. What tape brands/types are you using? Ralf -- Protect Your

Re: [Bacula-users] restore ok, file permissions/owner wrong

2010-12-15 Thread Ralf Gross
Martin Simmons schrieb: > >>>>> On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:44:43 +0100, Ralf Gross said: > > > > I had to do a restore 1,5K files, the files that needed to be restored > > were known. So I choose restore option 7 (list of files). > > > > The restore w

[Bacula-users] restore ok, file permissions/owner wrong

2010-12-15 Thread Ralf Gross
Hi, I had to do a restore 1,5K files, the files that needed to be restored were known. So I choose restore option 7 (list of files). The restore was done and all seemd fine, file permissions and ACLs of the restored files were correct. _But_ bacula also changed the ownership/permissions/acls of t

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental Backup / Moved File doesn't get stored in the backup

2010-11-24 Thread Ralf Gross
Paulo Martinez schrieb: > One thing that i found interesting: the "moved" files respectively > the old locations are listed in the bacula job file list. Restoring > corresponding locations shows correct behavior (moved file vanished). > ... http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1651 The developers c

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula Project will Die

2010-11-05 Thread Ralf Gross
Heitor Medrado de Faria schrieb: > Guys, > > Each new Bacula Enterprise feature, like the: New GUI Configurator, > makes me feel that Bacula project will die. > It's very frustrating that a project that become a huge success being a > free software, is being destroyed like that. > I acknowledge

Re: [Bacula-users] broken threading

2010-11-01 Thread Ralf Gross
Dan Langille schrieb: > Over the past few days, I've become increasingly impatient and > frustrated by posts that break threading. That is, posts that lack the > headers necessary for properly threading of emails. Specifically, the > References: and In-Reply-To: headers are not being preserved

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Email Confirmation

2010-10-27 Thread Ralf Gross
Mark Gordon schrieb: > Hello all I'm using Bacula 5.02 and find it very useful. However is > there a way to include in the email notification that the job completed > ok to list all the files that were sent to the storage. Ex when under > ./bconsole > > list files jobid=316 | more With Accurate B

Re: [Bacula-users] Disabled Jobs Question

2010-10-07 Thread Ralf Gross
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. I think I'll disable the job > > in bconsole and try to start it remotely. Just see what happens... > > Mi

Re: [Bacula-users] Error: Could not get Job Volume Parameters to update Bootstrap file. ERR=sql_get.c:433 No volumes found for JobId=xxxx

2010-10-05 Thread Ralf Gross
Ralf Gross schrieb: > > job with the checksum errors: > > > > 05-Okt 04:05 VUMEM004-sd JobId 26039: Volume "vumem008-inc-0655" previously > > written, moving to end of data. > > 05-Okt 04:05 VUMEM004-sd JobId 26039: Ready to append to end of Volume > &

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate Backups

2010-10-05 Thread Ralf Gross
Martin Simmons schrieb: > >>>>> On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:13:59 +0200, Ralf Gross said: > > > > All the information about the job tells me that 3 files and a directory were > > backed up. But the size of the backup (4,478,194,813 bytes) does not fit > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate Backups

2010-10-05 Thread Ralf Gross
Ralf Gross schrieb: > Hi, > > after updateing to 5.0.3 it checked the state of some accurate backups. I'm > not > sure if I fully understand why bacula is backing up some files. > > I'm interested in the job VUMEM008-psql-dumps. > > > Terminated J

Re: [Bacula-users] Error: Could not get Job Volume Parameters to update Bootstrap file. ERR=sql_get.c:433 No volumes found for JobId=xxxx

2010-10-05 Thread Ralf Gross
Ralf Gross schrieb: > > it seems that I messed something up during the upgrade from 3.0.3 to > 5.0.3 (Debian Lenny, AMD64, psql 8.4). > > There is one job that repeatedly ends with error. > > ERR=sql_get.c:433 No volumes found for JobId= I purged the 2 volume,

[Bacula-users] Error: Could not get Job Volume Parameters to update Bootstrap file. ERR=sql_get.c:433 No volumes found for JobId=xxxx

2010-10-05 Thread Ralf Gross
Hi, it seems that I messed something up during the upgrade from 3.0.3 to 5.0.3 (Debian Lenny, AMD64, psql 8.4). There is one job that repeatedly ends with error. ERR=sql_get.c:433 No volumes found for JobId= I'm not sure what the real problem is. Volume vumem008-inc-0663 is there and was wr

[Bacula-users] Accurate Backups

2010-10-04 Thread Ralf Gross
Hi, after updateing to 5.0.3 it checked the state of some accurate backups. I'm not sure if I fully understand why bacula is backing up some files. I'm interested in the job VUMEM008-psql-dumps. Terminated Jobs: JobId LevelFiles Bytes Status FinishedName

Re: [Bacula-users] 5.0.3 psql indexes after upgrade

2010-10-04 Thread Ralf Gross
John Drescher schrieb: > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Ralf Gross wrote: > > Rory Campbell-Lange schrieb: > >> On 04/10/10, Ralf Gross (ralf-li...@ralfgross.de) wrote: > >> > >> All of the indexes are below; you seem to have the correct ones for the &

Re: [Bacula-users] 5.0.3 psql indexes after upgrade

2010-10-04 Thread Ralf Gross
Rory Campbell-Lange schrieb: > On 04/10/10, Ralf Gross (ralf-li...@ralfgross.de) wrote: > > All of the indexes are below; you seem to have the correct ones for the file > table. > > The Debian problems with 5.0.3 were/are related to the upgrade trying to > create > an i

[Bacula-users] 5.0.3 psql indexes after upgrade

2010-10-04 Thread Ralf Gross
Hi, I just updated from 3.0.3 to 5.0.3. I know that there have been problems with the update_postgresql_tables script. Here are my indexes: bacula=# select * from pg_indexes where tablename='file'; schemaname | tablename | indexname| tablespace | indexdef

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Rescue

2010-09-17 Thread Ralf Gross
Heitor Faria schrieb: > > For several months, I cant compile Bacula Disaster recovery cd-rom on > Debian 5. > The make command, return several dependencies and missed paths (e.g. > networking). > Does anyone knows what is happening? I'm not sure if the Rescue CD is still supported / maintained

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.0.3 backport for debian lenny?

2010-09-17 Thread Ralf Gross
Thomas Mueller schrieb: > Am Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:41:04 +0200 schrieb Ralf Gross: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm still using bacula 3.0.3 on debian lenny (amd64). In the next weeks > > I wanted to move on to 5.0.x. But due to the freeze of the next debian > >

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.0.3 backport for debian lenny?

2010-09-14 Thread Ralf Gross
Sven Hartge schrieb: > On 14.09.2010 18:02, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > On 14/09/10, Ralf Gross (ralf-li...@ralfgross.de) wrote: > > >> Thanks, I know this version from backports, and if there is no other > >> deb available, I'll give it a try. > >&

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.0.3 backport for debian lenny?

2010-09-14 Thread Ralf Gross
Rory Campbell-Lange schrieb: > On 14/09/10, Ralf Gross (ralf-li...@ralfgross.de) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm still using bacula 3.0.3 on debian lenny (amd64). In the next > > weeks I wanted to move on to 5.0.x. But due to the freeze of the next > > debian st

[Bacula-users] bacula 5.0.3 backport for debian lenny?

2010-09-14 Thread Ralf Gross
Hi, I'm still using bacula 3.0.3 on debian lenny (amd64). In the next weeks I wanted to move on to 5.0.x. But due to the freeze of the next debian stable release there will be no 5.0.3 in debian for some time. 5.0.3 seems to have a lot of importent bug fixes, so I'd like to skip 5.0.2 which is ava

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole command to display jobs on volume

2010-07-28 Thread Ralf Gross
Lamp Zy schrieb: > > I'm using bacula-5.0.2. > > Is there a way in bconsole to see which jobs used a particular tape? > > I can run "list jobmedia", save the output to a file and then grep for > the media name but it's a lot of steps and it shows only the jobid. bconsole -> query 13: List Job

Re: [Bacula-users] Using HP Storageworks 1/8 G2 with Bacula

2010-06-14 Thread Ralf Gross
Alan Brown schrieb: > On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > > > This card uses the module 'cciss' which has been loaded by the kernel: > > AFAIK cciss only supports disks. Hm, no it should work with tapes. http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt - quote - SCSI sequent

Re: [Bacula-users] Using HP Storageworks 1/8 G2 with Bacula

2010-06-13 Thread Ralf Gross
Daniel Bareiro schrieb: > ... > Now that I see, this has nothing to do with the tape drive: > > - > backup:~# smartctl -i /dev/sda > smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce > Allen > Home page is h

Re: [Bacula-users] low despooling speeds when parallelism is increased

2010-06-02 Thread Ralf Gross
Athanasios Douitsis schrieb: > Tuning it down to 3+3 (from the original 6+6) seems to alleviate but not > solve the problem completely. I totaly agree with your suggestion, from > this point onwards it seems to be a case of finding a spooling setup > with enough I/O oomph. > > One question howeve

Re: [Bacula-users] low despooling speeds when parallelism is increased

2010-06-02 Thread Ralf Gross
Athanasios Douitsis schrieb: > > Hi everyone, > > Our setup consists of a Dell 2950 server (PERC6i) w/ FreeBSD7 and two HP > Ultrium LTO4 drives installed in a twin Quantum autochanger enclosure. > Our bacula version is 5.0.0 (which is the current FreeBSD port version). > > Here is our problem

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-4 Drive issues

2010-05-24 Thread Ralf Gross
skipunk schrieb: > > I am aware that more nic's do not increase throughput. Basically a > backup server has to be in place tonight and I really don't want to > start from scratch and now reaching for anything that will resolve > the issue within the next few hours. 1. test the lto drive with tar/

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-4 Drive issues

2010-05-22 Thread Ralf Gross
skipunk schrieb: > > Hoping someone could help me out. My department recently purchased > a Dell PowerVault TL2000 autochanger connected via SAS5. > > We are upgrading from a spectralogic AIT4 system. > > The sad part is the LTO-4 drive is running much slower than the AIT > system. I'm avg aro

Re: [Bacula-users] Ubuntu Lucid

2010-04-27 Thread Ralf Gross
Uwe Schuerkamp schrieb: > Hi folks, > > looks like lucid comes with bacula v5 which seemingly is unable to > talk to our server running bacula 2.4.x: > > bacula-fd -c /etc/bacula/bacula-fd.conf -d 99 -f > bacula-fd: filed_conf.c:452-0 Inserting director res: lotus-mon > lotus-fd: filed.c:275-0

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-21 Thread Ralf Gross
Phil Stracchino schrieb: > > The /usr slice is about 4.8G, and shouldn't be changing-- at least > > not at the tune of 51M every night. > > > "Shouldn't" is a powerful word. You might want to test the theory by > doing something like this: > > find /usr /opt/bacula/bin -mtime -1 -ls > > to lis

Re: [Bacula-users] heartbeat problems

2010-04-21 Thread Ralf Gross
Spencer Marshall schrieb: > > Has anyone else experienced problems with "Packet size too big" in > 5.0.1?  I was running a Level=VolumeToCatalog at the time.  I found > bug an old bug http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1061 which > appeared to have the same problems.  I removed the "Heartbeat > In

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems getting restore to work

2010-04-13 Thread Ralf Gross
Jerry Lowry schrieb: > Martin, I am trying to restore the files to the file system on the > bacula server. The client 'swift-fd' definitely does NOT have room on > the disk to restore all the pdfs. That is why my restore is configured > with -> "where= /backup0/bacula-restores". > > No, >

Re: [Bacula-users] How to Backup a bacula director with another bacula

2010-04-13 Thread Ralf Gross
Bellucci Srl3 Bellucci Srl schrieb: > "13-Apr 12:19 bckam101-dir JobId 46775: Fatal error: Unable to authenticate > with File daemon at "bckam102:9102". Possible causes: Passwords or names not > the same or > > Maximum Concurrent Jobs exceeded on the FD or FD networking messed up > (restart dae

Re: [Bacula-users] verify old volume checksums

2010-03-16 Thread Ralf Gross
Brock Palen schrieb: > Is there a way to verify a volumes internal checksums against its data? > > Even better is there a way to have the catalog compare its checksums > against the files in volumes? I know about the verify job but that > appears to be only for the most recent job run. I wo

Re: [Bacula-users] what strategy for backing up files only once?

2010-03-01 Thread Ralf Gross
Gavin McCullagh schrieb: > Hi, > > On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Ralf Gross wrote: > > > I'm still thinking if it would be possible to use bacula for backing > > up xxx TB of data, instead of a more expensive solution with LAN-less > > backups and snapshots. >

[Bacula-users] what strategy for backing up files only once?

2010-02-26 Thread Ralf Gross
Howdy! I'm still thinking if it would be possible to use bacula for backing up xxx TB of data, instead of a more expensive solution with LAN-less backups and snapshots. Problem is the time window and bandwith. If there would be something like a incremental forever feature in bacula the problem c

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't restore a file. Might have an issue with my mysql DB.

2010-02-23 Thread Ralf Gross
Arno Lehmann schrieb: > Hello, > > 23.02.2010 14:05, jch2os wrote: > > So I'm trying to restore a file. Here is what I'm doing. > ... > > You are now entering file selection mode where you add (mark) and > > remove (unmark) files to be restored. No files are initially added, unless > > you used t

Re: [Bacula-users] list volumes comes blank

2010-02-23 Thread Ralf Gross
Bostjan Müller schrieb: > > I have been testing our storage system and after the tests I deleted the > databases and created them anew. After the new startup the Pools came out > blank - there are no volumes in them. I ran the label barcodes command and > it found all the tapes, but it did not add

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent spooling and despooling

2010-02-17 Thread Ralf Gross
Arno Lehmann schrieb: > > A better way in my opinion is to used a spool sized ring buffer in > > memory rather then a disk based spool. The consumer would only start > > after the producer had put a large set amount in it and continued until > > drained the buffer. > > Sure... those approaches

Re: [Bacula-users] Re store OK but no files are restored

2010-02-12 Thread Ralf Gross
Glynd schrieb: > > Here is the ls -l on the ubuntu server where the bacula dir runs > > r...@mistral:/home/cirrus/mailarchiva_dist# ls -l /bacula-restores/ > total 0 > > There is also the same directory on the Windows 7 glyn-laptop. and when I > look in there the directory structure is there, bu

Re: [Bacula-users] Re store OK but no files are restored

2010-02-12 Thread Ralf Gross
glynd schrieb: > 1 file selected to be restored. > > Run Restore job > JobName: RestoreFiles > Bootstrap: /var/lib/bacula/bin/working/mistral-dir.restore.9.bsr > Where: /bacula-restores > Replace: always > FileSet: Sugar Set > Backup Client: glyn-laptop-fd

Re: [Bacula-users] Re store OK but no files are restored

2010-02-12 Thread Ralf Gross
Glynd schrieb: > > The "where" argument I left at default /bacula-restores and that is where I > looked. Can you post all the options you choose for the restore (cut & paste)? Ralf -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Cente

Re: [Bacula-users] Re store OK but no files are restored

2010-02-12 Thread Ralf Gross
Glynd schrieb: > > I am running Bacula 3.0.2 on Ubuntu server Apache2 MySQL > > The backups seem to be working OK so I thought I had better test a restore! > This also seemed to run OK, but there were no files restored. I tried > different "where" locations but still no joy. > The log snip below

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error: fd_cmds.c:177 FD command not found: <8F>~<8D>

2010-02-11 Thread Ralf Gross
Ralf Gross schrieb: > Ralf Gross schrieb: > > follow up > > > > Cacti shows that swap started growing this morning and reached it's > > maximum when the job failed... > > Restarted the job yesterday evening. Now after 24h the SD seems to eat up > me

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error: fd_cmds.c:177 FD command not found: <8F>~<8D>

2010-02-11 Thread Ralf Gross
Ralf Gross schrieb: > follow up > > Cacti shows that swap started growing this morning and reached it's > maximum when the job failed... Restarted the job yesterday evening. Now after 24h the SD seems to eat up memory again. Tasks: 172 total, 1 running, 171 sleeping,

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error: fd_cmds.c:177 FD command not found: <8F>~<8D>

2010-02-10 Thread Ralf Gross
follow up Cacti shows that swap started growing this morning and reached it's maximum when the job failed... Ralf Gross schrieb: > Hi, > > bacula 3.0.3 SD+ DIR, 2.4.4 FD, Debian Lenny, psql 8.4 > > The backup job 19429 was running for nearly two days and then failed

[Bacula-users] Fatal error: fd_cmds.c:177 FD command not found: <8F>~<8D>

2010-02-10 Thread Ralf Gross
Hi, bacula 3.0.3 SD+ DIR, 2.4.4 FD, Debian Lenny, psql 8.4 The backup job 19429 was running for nearly two days and then failed while changing the LTO3 tape. The job failed two times now. No messages in syslog. The message "ERR=Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden" means "ERR=file or directory

Re: [Bacula-users] ClientTroubleShootHelp

2010-01-31 Thread Ralf Gross
Tommy schrieb: > New to bacula > > Ubuntu9.10 (Karmic..) > bacula 2.4.4 > mysql > > Director runs on machine dell.xxx.xxx as dell-dir > dell-fd and dell-sd test backups run fine > Client (5.0.x) runs on thinky.xxx.xxx as thinky-fd You can't use 5.0 bacula-fd with < 5.0 bacula-dir. Ralf -

Re: [Bacula-users] Different Retention Periods for same Client

2010-01-20 Thread Ralf Gross
CoolAtt NNA schrieb: > > Hi All... > > I want to backup a client with 2 different filesets each with different file > retention period. > please help me how do i proceed. > > I have the following in bacula-dir.conf : > > Client { > Name = mypc > Address = 10.0.0.45 > FDPort = 9102 > Ca

Re: [Bacula-users] How to avoid backing up restored files?

2010-01-14 Thread Ralf Gross
Steve Costaras schrieb: > > > Some history: > > On 01/14/2010 16:24, Dan Langille wrote: > > Steve Costaras wrote: > >> On 01/14/2010 15:59, Dan Langille wrote: > >>> Steve Costaras wrote: > I see the mtimeonly flag in the fileset options but there are many > caveats about using it as

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Can 2.x clients talk to a 3.0.3 server?

2010-01-14 Thread Ralf Gross
Uwe Schuerkamp schrieb: > Hi folks, > > I just set up the first 3.0.3 bacula server (compiled from source on > CentOS 5.4) in our environment and was wondering wether 2.x clients > cann still talk to a 3.x server version? I cannot test this right now > without going through major changes because t

Re: [Bacula-users] archive support?

2010-01-11 Thread Ralf Gross
Thomas Wakefield schrieb: > Take a directory, dump it to tape, and it will live forever (roughly > 5-10 years) on tape. And the copy on disk will be deleted. But if > needed, we could pull the copy back from tape. We could possibly > write 2 copies to tape for redundancy. > > I already use bacu

Re: [Bacula-users] Client Rejects Hello Command

2010-01-11 Thread Ralf Gross
jk04 schrieb: > > Debian Server: bacula-server-2.4.4-1 > Fedora Client: bacula-client-3.0.3-5 > > When I check the client's status from the server the following message > is displayed: > > Fatal error: File daemon at "192.168.0.55:9102" rejected Hello command > > I believe this is because the

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity lower than expected

2010-01-07 Thread Ralf Gross
Thomas Mueller schrieb: > > >> > With > >> > > >> > Maximum File Size = 5G > >> > Maximum Block Size = 262144 > >> > Maximum Network Buffer Size = 262144 > >> > > >> > I get up to 150M MB/s while despooling to LTO-4 drives. Maximum File > >> > Size gave me some extra MB/s, I think it's as import

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity lower than expected

2010-01-06 Thread Ralf Gross
Thomas Mueller schrieb: > > >> > I tried to do that years ago but I believe this made all tapes that > >> > were already written to unreadable (and I now have 80) so I gave this > >> > up. With my 5+ year old dual processor Opteron 248 server I get > >> > 25MB/s to 45MB/s despools (which measures

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 tape capacity lower than expected

2010-01-06 Thread Ralf Gross
Tino Schwarze schrieb: > On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 04:55:51PM -0500, John Drescher wrote: > > > >> I'm not seeing anywhere close to 60M/s ( < 30 ).  I think I just fixed > > >> that.  I increased the block size to 1M, and that seemed to really > > >> increase the throughput, in the test I just did.

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup/Delete/Restore & subsequent backups

2010-01-04 Thread Ralf Gross
Steve Costaras schrieb: > > I've been diving into Bacula the past 2-3 weeks to come up with a backup > system here for some small server count but very large data store sizes > (30+TiB per server). > > In the coarse of my testing I have noticed something and want to know if > it's by design (

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with concurrent jobs on same Device resource

2009-12-21 Thread Ralf Gross
Martin Reissner schrieb: > Hello, > > once again I have a problem with running concurrent jobs on my bacula > setup. I'm using Version: 3.0.3 (18 October 2009) on DIR and SD and all > data goes to a single SD where multiple Device Resources are configured > (RAID-6 Harddisk Storage). Running concu

Re: [Bacula-users] Purge Jobs

2009-12-21 Thread Ralf Gross
Gabriel - IP Guys schrieb: > > I want to purge all failed jobs from bacula, before I synchronised my > disk which I keep the backups on. > > If I purge a job, will that job just be removed from the index, or will > the data actually be removed from the volumes? > [...] the job will just be remov

Re: [Bacula-users] Newbie question about volumes and label command

2009-12-19 Thread Ralf Gross
Tom Epperly schrieb: > Ralf Gross wrote: >> Tom Epperly schrieb: >> >>> I don't understand why bacula seems to automatically create volumes >>> for some pools, but forces me to use the "label" command for others. >>> I've

Re: [Bacula-users] Newbie question about volumes and label command

2009-12-19 Thread Ralf Gross
Tom Epperly schrieb: > I don't understand why bacula seems to automatically create volumes for > some pools, but forces me to use the "label" command for others. I've > tried increasing the "Maximum Volumes" setting, but it doesn't seem to > help. Have set 'LabelMedia = yes' in the Device co

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal append error on device - Command error with FD

2009-12-08 Thread Ralf Gross
thebuzz schrieb: > > Im having a big problem with an Windows 2000 old ASP server that I try to > backup via Bacula > > FD on Windows server is 3.0.2 and server is 3.0.2 > > I get an 3Gb backup every time - but when I do an bconsole command > list files jobid=17 > it shows > > *list files job

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] RFC: backing up hundreds of TB

2009-11-30 Thread Ralf Gross
Kern Sibbald schrieb: > > [...] > > Anyone else here with the same problem? Anyone (maybe Kern or Eric) > > here that can tell if one of the upcoming new bacula features (dedup?) > > could help to solve the problem with the massive amount of tapes > > needed and the growing time windows and bandwid

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] RFC: backing up hundreds of TB

2009-11-28 Thread Ralf Gross
Arno Lehmann schrieb: > 27.11.2009 13:23, Ralf Gross wrote: > > [crosspost to -users and -devel list] > > > > Hi, > > > > we are happily using bacula since a few years and already backing up > > some dozens of TB (large video files) to tape. > > >

Re: [Bacula-users] RFC: backing up hundreds of TB

2009-11-28 Thread Ralf Gross
Alan Brown schrieb: > On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Ralf Gross wrote: > > > Most files will be written once and maybe never been accessed again. But > > the data need to be online and there is a requirement for backup and the > > ability to restore deleted files (retention time

Re: [Bacula-users] RFC: backing up hundreds of TB

2009-11-28 Thread Ralf Gross
Kevin Keane schrieb: > Just a thought... If I understand you correctly, the files never > change once they are created? In that case, your best bet might be > to use a copy-based scheme for backup. Yes, the files won't change. They are mostly raw camera data. They will be read again, but not chan

[Bacula-users] RFC: backing up hundreds of TB

2009-11-27 Thread Ralf Gross
[crosspost to -users and -devel list] Hi, we are happily using bacula since a few years and already backing up some dozens of TB (large video files) to tape. In the next 2-3 years the amount of data will be growing to 300+ TB. We are looking for some very pricy solutions for the primary storage

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental and full backups of the same host to different disks

2009-11-25 Thread Ralf Gross
Moby schrieb: > It is my understanding that one must use the same job name for full and > incremental backups, otherwise Bacula is not able to perform an > incremental backup. > I have a need to send full backups of machines to one disk and > incremental backups to another disk. If I have to use t

Re: [Bacula-users] Verify Job: Warning: The following files are in the Catalog but not on the Volume(s):

2009-11-13 Thread Ralf Gross
Martin Simmons schrieb: > >>>>> On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:56:33 +0100, Ralf Gross said: > > > > Martin Simmons schrieb: > > > >>>>> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:54:26 +0100, Ralf Gross said: > > > > > > > > Martin Simmo

Re: [Bacula-users] Verify Job: Warning: The following files are in the Catalog but not on the Volume(s):

2009-11-11 Thread Ralf Gross
Martin Simmons schrieb: > >>>>> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:54:26 +0100, Ralf Gross said: > > > > Martin Simmons schrieb: > > > >>>>> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 09:51:17 +0100, Ralf Gross said: > > > > > > > > bacula 3.0.2, psq

Re: [Bacula-users] Verify Job: Warning: The following files are in the Catalog but not on the Volume(s):

2009-11-10 Thread Ralf Gross
Martin Simmons schrieb: > >>>>> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 09:51:17 +0100, Ralf Gross said: > > > > bacula 3.0.2, psql, debian etch > > > > Every now and then I receive error mails about missing files from verify > > jobs > > where I can't fi

[Bacula-users] Verify Job: Warning: The following files are in the Catalog but not on the Volume(s):

2009-11-03 Thread Ralf Gross
Hi, bacula 3.0.2, psql, debian etch Every now and then I receive error mails about missing files from verify jobs where I can't find the problem. The backup job: 31-Okt 03:34 VUMEM004-dir JobId 16728: Bacula VUMEM004-dir 3.0.2 (18Jul09): 31-Okt-2009 03:34:20 Build OS: x86_64-p

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula features

2009-10-30 Thread Ralf Gross
Arno Lehmann schrieb: > Hi, > > 30.10.2009 11:56, James Harper wrote: > > > >> -Original Message----- > >> From: Ralf Gross [mailto:r...@stz-softwaretechnik.de] On Behalf Of Ralf > > Gross > >> Sent: Friday, 30 October 2009 2

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula features

2009-10-30 Thread Ralf Gross
James Harper schrieb: > > Arno Lehmann schrieb: > > > > > > 30.10.2009 07:24, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > > > > > > > 2. Span multiple target drives > > > > > > Sure. > > > > I'm not sure if he might has thought of a single backup job spanning > > multiple drives. > > > > This wouldn't be possible AFA

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula features

2009-10-30 Thread Ralf Gross
Arno Lehmann schrieb: > > 30.10.2009 07:24, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > > > 2. Span multiple target drives > > Sure. I'm not sure if he might has thought of a single backup job spanning multiple drives. This wouldn't be possible AFAIK. Ralf ---

Re: [Bacula-users] First Backup Completed - but still confusion, full backup only 23M?

2009-10-23 Thread Ralf Gross
Gabriel - IP Guys schrieb: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] > > Sent: 22 October 2009 18:13 > > To: Gabriel - IP Guys; bacula-users > > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] First Backup Completed - but still > > confusion, full backup only 23M? > >

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-4

2009-10-21 Thread Ralf Gross
Bernardus Belang (Berni) schrieb: > > I just want to know, whether or not IBM or HP LTO-4 tape drive connected > to RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 will work with Bakula ? > Thank you for your attention. As long as you OS supports the drive and the changer bacula will be working fine. So first test

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape Volumes

2009-10-14 Thread Ralf Gross
Pedro Bordin Hoffmann schrieb: > Hello! > Im doing some backup that required 2, 3 tapes.. so my question is.. > The label of first tape is monday. and when I put a second tape.. should I > name it like monday-2 ? or something else? Or Monday again? > When will I make a second time this backup, sho

Re: [Bacula-users] Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for:...

2009-09-11 Thread Ralf Gross
Ralf Gross schrieb: > John Drescher schrieb: > > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Ralf Gross wrote: > > > > > > *list medi

Re: [Bacula-users] Trying to restore data of server A's backup on server B

2009-09-11 Thread Ralf Gross
Willians Vivanco schrieb: > Hi, i need to restore data of server A's backup on to server B > filesystem... Any suggestion? err, where's the problem? What is not working? bconsole -> restore -> -> Restore Client: Ralf --

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