Re: [Bacula-users] advice about tape drives

2024-04-22 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 22.04.2024 um 16:58 schrieb Alan Polinsky: [...] I need to understand the backward capabilities of more recent drives. As a rule of thumb, LTO drives can write to one previous generation of tapes and read from two previous generations of tapes. (There are some exceptions for LTO8 and

Re: [Bacula-users] I am missing Debs for Buster 32 bit (for Raspberry Pi machines running RaspiOS)

2022-08-26 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 26.08.2022 um 14:19 schrieb Justin Case: You mean the script will also work on RaspiOS 32 bit? (note: Raspbian != RasiOS) [...] To be honest, I've never heard of a system called "RaspiOS" exactly, but "Raspberry Pi OS" is definetly just a rename of what was formerly called "Raspbian" -

[Bacula-users] How are "new" files determined?

2021-12-30 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Hi everyone! How exactly are "new" files, which have to be backed up, determined by Bacula? The reason for asking: Recently, I migrated my main data to a new set of hard drives. I did so by using "rsync -aH" which *should* leave all file timestamps etc. untouched. After the migration was

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with missing EOD/EOF on LTO-5 Tape

2021-02-26 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 23.02.2021 um 15:11 schrieb Christian Lehmann: > I have a problem with a single LTO-5 Tape drive (Tandberg LTO-5 HH). > > I do backups spanning multiple Tapes, changing them manually. > > So I configured the storage daemon that it is automatically pushing out > the tape as soon as it is

[Bacula-users] Backup of Windows clients - best practices?

2021-02-21 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Hi all! So far, I'm using Bacula to back up various Linux clients and it works great. Now, I would like to add another client to be backup which is running under Windows 10 Pro 64bit. I already went through the "Windows" chapter of the Bacula main manual, but this seems to be focusing more on

Re: [Bacula-users] sqlite to postgres|maridb migration -- how to confirm success?

2020-12-23 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 23.12.2020 um 05:21 schrieb Gary R. Schmidt: > [...] > I would suggest moving to PostgreSQL rather than MariaDB. > > PostgreSQL is fully supported by Bacula, MariaDB has thrown up a few > nasties where is is not quite the same as MySQL, and those will probably > increase. > [...] Just out

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape issue: less size than before for LTO-4 tapes

2020-03-13 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 10.03.2020 um 09:26 schrieb Pierre Bernhardt: > since beginning of this year a tape issue has been arrived my backups. > All my LTO-4 Tapes will not fill any more to the ~ 760 GiByte than > before. Only ~ 510-580 GiByte will be stored on the tapes which is > shown by the list volume command.

Re: [Bacula-users] Why did Bacula not reuse an Error tape?

2019-06-03 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 03.06.2019 um 12:15 schrieb Ian Douglas: > On Monday, 03 June 2019 11:44:34 SAST Tilman Schmidt wrote: > >> It's by design. The "Error" state for a tape means it's defective and should >> not be used anymore. If you want Bacula to use it again (and i you are sure >> what you are doing) you

[Bacula-users] Problems with LTO5 drive

2019-04-07 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Hi all! Currently, I'm running a Bacula installation that writes backups to a LTO4 drive. This is all running perfectly fine. Recently, I bought a second-hand LTO5 drive to beef up my storage capacity a bit. But when I wanted to test the "new" drive, I came across a somewhat strange problem:

Re: [Bacula-users] MySQL files filling up the disk

2019-03-02 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 02.03.2019 um 19:35 schrieb Shawn Rappaport: > I'm running Bacula 9.06 on CentOS 7.5 with MariaDB version 5.5.56-2. > The Bacula-web interface shows the DB is 69.10GB in size. However, the > MySQL files on my server are consuming 442GB of disk space, which is > starting to fill up the disk on

Re: [Bacula-users] Long pause with no logging or any activity at all

2019-02-16 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 15.02.2019 um 16:10 schrieb William Muriithi: >> have you tried the "stat client" command? If you run it a few times you >> should be able to spot if there's still data transfer activity. > > Daemon started 12-Feb-19 11:53. Jobs: run=4 running=0. > Heap: heap=135,168 smbytes=586,060

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-Web 8.2.0 released

2019-01-12 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 07.01.2019 um 12:19 schrieb Davide Franco: > Dear all, > > I'm pleased to inform you that Bacula-Web 8.2.0 is available from now. > > This version Include 2 new features and 7 bug fixes > > The release notes is available here > https://www.bacula-web.org/2019/01/06/bacula-web-8-2-0/ >

Re: [Bacula-users] mtx and mtx-changer not functioning

2019-01-12 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 11.01.2019 um 23:13 schrieb Jeffrey R. Lang: > In your mtx command output one thing I don't see is the Data Transfer Unit > (i.e. tape drive) associated with the tape library. > [...] Have a second look, there is a "Data Transfer Element" line in Richard's output. It seems as if your mail

Re: [Bacula-users] mtx and mtx-changer not functioning

2019-01-11 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 11.01.2019 um 14:49 schrieb Richard Couture: >> Does mtx work when you explicitly specify the slots? I.e.: >> >> mtx -f /dev/sg3 load 1 0 >> mtx -f /dev/sg3 unload 1 0 > > No Then, in my opinion, the problem is somewhere outside of Bacula. My best guess is that either your library and your

Re: [Bacula-users] mtx and mtx-changer not functioning

2019-01-10 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 11.01.2019 um 02:05 schrieb Richard Couture: > [...] > [root@LTOMag scripts]# mtx -f /dev/sg3 unload > Unloading drive 0 into Storage Element 1...mtx: Request Sense: Long > Report=yes > mtx: Request Sense: Valid Residual=no > mtx: Request Sense: Error Code=70 (Current) > mtx: Request Sense:

Re: [Bacula-users] "ERR=database or disk is full" while building directory tree for restore

2018-12-27 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 27.12.2018 um 08:32 schrieb Adam Nielsen: > [...] > MariaDB has already replaced MySQL in most Linux distributions, at > least those aimed at the desktop. There have been very few > compatibility problems. I am currently running Bacula with MariaDB on > the Arch Linux distribution and

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape shoe-shining with spooling enabled - why?

2018-12-22 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 22.12.2018 um 01:46 schrieb Adam Nielsen: > I've been using Bacula for a number of years but recently got hold of > an old tape autochanger with an LTO-4 drive, which I would like to use > to have Bacula write to tape instead of my previous disk/file config. > > I think I have everything set

[Bacula-users] Volume status "Used" vs. "Full"

2018-11-18 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Hi everyone! In my Bacula installation (v7.4.4, Debian), I have a certain Full backup job that is configured to go to a pool of tapes. One run of this backup job currently spans abot 2.5 tapes. In order to make handling of the tapes a bit more easier (I'm taking them to an off-site storage and

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-Web 8.1.0 release

2018-11-11 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 11.11.2018 um 20:16 schrieb Maciolek, Mark: Hi! > These are my permissions for application.db > > /var/www/html/bacula-web/application/assets/protected$ ls -al > total 16 > drwxr-xr-- 2 www-data www-data 4096 Nov 10 04:22 . > drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Nov 10 02:06 .. > -rw-r- 1

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-Web 8.1.0 release

2018-11-11 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 10.11.2018 um 11:41 schrieb Chris Wilkinson: > I had trouble with the curl -o command but got it with wget instead. > CURL just downloaded ~370 bytes. Yes, me too. I guess it's because the manual states a HTTP address which the server redirects to a HTTPS address which can't be handled by

Re: [Bacula-users] Changing volume of running job?

2018-09-05 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 05.09.2018 um 17:16 schrieb Martin Simmons: >>>>>> On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 19:50:43 +0200, Sebastian Suchanek said: >> >> [...] >> The only thing that still puzzles me: When I just re-ran the aborted >> job, Bacula didn't ask for a tape that isn't i

Re: [Bacula-users] Changing volume of running job?

2018-09-04 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 04.09.2018 um 13:54 schrieb Martin Simmons: >>>>>> On Mon, 3 Sep 2018 21:40:02 +0200, Sebastian Suchanek said: >> Am 03.09.2018 um 21:15 schrieb Bill Arlofski: >> > >> > [...] >> > Bacula honors the "InChanger" field for v

Re: [Bacula-users] Changing volume of running job?

2018-09-03 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 03.09.2018 um 21:15 schrieb Bill Arlofski: > > Assuming this is a tape library with barcode reader, Yes, it is. > you will need to let > Bacula know which tapes are in the library: > > * update slots storage= drive= > > Bacula honors the "InChanger" field for volumes when choosing

Re: [Bacula-users] Changing volume of running job?

2018-09-03 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 03.09.2018 um 19:54 schrieb Tilman Schmidt: > Am 03.09.2018 um 16:52 schrieb Sebastian Suchanek: >> Hi everyone, >> >> last night I encountered the following situation: a scheduled backup >> started, using a certain backup pool (a set of tapes). From that pool,

[Bacula-users] Changing volume of running job?

2018-09-03 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Hi everyone, last night I encountered the following situation: a scheduled backup started, using a certain backup pool (a set of tapes). From that pool, Bacula (v7.4.4) selected an empty volume X, but since this was not in the tapelibrary, Bacula kept asking for it. (Since I was ~250km away, I

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-Web 8.0.1 released

2018-07-03 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 22.06.2018 um 17:45 schrieb bacula-...@dflc.ch: Hi Davide! > I'm pleased to inform you that Bacula-Web 8.0.1 is available now. First of all, thank you for Bacula-Web and all the efforts you're putting into it, I've been using it for some months now (v7.4.0) and I like it a lot. Recently, I

Re: [Bacula-users] Support bacula please help me

2018-05-09 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 09.05.2018 um 09:30 schrieb Hang Vinh Nam: > - Can you show me how to eliminate all backup error? No, not really - sorry. But given the fact that your logs contain a lot of "gethostbyname()" errors and "Error: Director's connection to SD for this Job was lost." messages, my best guess is that

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger not changing

2018-05-08 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 08.04.2018 um 21:08 schrieb Sebastian Suchanek: > [...] > This makes me wonder if the problem is maybe caused by the LTO4 drive > itself. But what I didn't mention so far: during my various trial runs > around this problem, I also replaced the LTO4 drive with another one. > (AFA

Re: [Bacula-users] Support bacula please help me

2018-05-08 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 08.05.2018 um 09:26 schrieb Hang Vinh Nam: > - I see compression job, but i don't understand why backup file on hdd > is lager data on client as you see attach file. Because, looking at the mailbox content you posted previously, Bacula tried to write at least three backup jobs to the file

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger not changing

2018-04-13 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 09.04.2018 um 17:46 schrieb Kern Sibbald: Hi Kern! > The output from lsscsi looks odd. From what I see, I am not reassured > that both the tape drives are actually part one at a time and see if > physically the right tapes are mounted. I'm afraid, I didn't fully understand what you meant

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger not changing

2018-04-08 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 07.04.2018 um 22:11 schrieb Dan Langille: >> On Apr 1, 2018, at 11:12 AM, Sebastian Suchanek <bac...@suchanek.de> wrote: >> >> [...] >> Any idea what exactly is going wrong here? What can I do to track down >> the reason for this error? What can I do to fi

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger not changing

2018-04-08 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 01.04.2018 um 17:12 schrieb Sebastian Suchanek: > while still setting up Bacula (v5.2.6), I've come accross a rather > strange issue with my tape library (an Overland NEO2000) with a > LTO4-FC-Drive. When I do "fill" test with btape over multiple tapes, > every

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger not changing

2018-04-02 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 02.04.2018 um 09:54 schrieb Kern Sibbald: Hello Kern, thank you for your reply. > First, I would recommend that you use at *most* 1MB block sizes for > LT0-1 and LTO-4 tapes. OK, I changed that for the LTO-4 drive. (I don't want go below 1MB though, because it significantly reduces write

[Bacula-users] Autochanger not changing

2018-04-01 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Hi everyone, while still setting up Bacula (v5.2.6), I've come accross a rather strange issue with my tape library (an Overland NEO2000) with a LTO4-FC-Drive. When I do "fill" test with btape over multiple tapes, everything works fine. Also, for example, when I do a "label barcodes" command in

[Bacula-users] Simultaneously spooling and writing to tape

2018-03-27 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Hi everyone! Currently, my Bacula seup (v5.2.6) is as follows: The director, the storage daemon and a file daemon are running on my server, two backup jobs are configured to run directly from the server. Additionally, there's a client with another file daemon and one backup job configured. The

[Bacula-users] Schedule for every second month?

2018-03-26 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Hi everyone! In Bacula v5.2.6, I would like to define a job that runs on the first Monday every second month. As an example: - 1st Monday in January -> Full Backup - 1st Monday in February -> Differential Backup - 1st Monday in March -> Full Backup - 1st Monday in April -> Differetial Backup and

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to file, filesize limit not working

2018-03-16 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 15.03.2018 um 21:47 schrieb Dimitri Maziuk: > On 03/15/2018 03:11 PM, Sebastian Suchanek wrote: > >> I just did - unfortunately, with no effect. After restarting the >> director and letting the backup job run manually, the backup file just >> got even bigger. > &g

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to file, filesize limit not working

2018-03-15 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 15.03.2018 um 20:38 schrieb Pedro Oliveira: Hi Pedro! > Hi Sebastian, try to change the > > Maximum Volume Bytes = 500MB > > To > > Maximum Volume Bytes = 5 I just did - unfortunately, with no effect. After restarting the director and letting the backup job run manually, the

[Bacula-users] Backup to file, filesize limit not working

2018-03-15 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Hi all! Currently, I'm trying to set up and getting familiar with Bacula. (v5.2.6 - that's the version that comes with my Linux distribution Debian Jessie.) For making backups of the Bacula catalog, I've made the following configurations: - bacula-sd.conf -- [...] Device