Re: [Bacula-users] bacula setup hangs, need help debugging

2024-09-11 Thread Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users
On 9/11/24 1:55 AM, Simon Flutura wrote: Hi, I inherited a bacula setup, backing several machines up on tape. Sadly the setup hangs, no network/cpu/io activity while jobs are running forever. We are running Bacula   11.0.6. Do you have any clue where to start in debugging the setup? Best,

[Bacula-users] bacula setup hangs, need help debugging

2024-09-11 Thread Simon Flutura
Hi, I inherited a bacula setup, backing several machines up on tape. Sadly the setup hangs, no network/cpu/io activity while jobs are running forever. We are running Bacula   11.0.6. Do you have any clue where to start in debugging the setup? Best, Simon _

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Setup

2015-03-21 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, If you are planning to use more than one Storage daemon to access the tape drive, you should consider contacting Bacula Systems to get the Enterprise version of Bacula which supports SAN shared tape storage with a plugin. The other alternative is to use the community version and partit

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Setup

2015-03-17 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Mansoor Hafeez wrote: > Hi > > I am setting up Bacula for backing up the data to the TAPES. I want to > design the following setup with Bacula: > > 1. The tapes/autochanger are connected via SAN to the client machines. These > client machines are hosting the files

[Bacula-users] Bacula Setup

2015-03-17 Thread Mansoor Hafeez
Hi I am setting up Bacula for backing up the data to the TAPES. I want to design the following setup with Bacula: 1. The tapes/autochanger are connected via SAN to the client machines. These client machines are hosting the files those need to be backed up. 2. The File daemon and Storage Daemon wi

[Bacula-users] Bacula setup using multiple disks...

2011-10-21 Thread ralste
Hai da, together!! Could anyone provide us with an example script on how to setup bacula using multiple disks and automated labeling, please? Thousands of thanks... Ralf :- +-- |This was sent by stec...@lifebiosystems.com

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula setup driving me nuts

2011-08-25 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:59 AM, wrote: > In the message dated: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:44:00 EDT, > The pithy ruminations from John Drescher on > were: > => On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:19 AM, selanty > wrote: > => > That is good now test the bacula > => > > => > mtx-changer > => > > => > Pf th

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula setup driving me nuts

2011-08-25 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:19 AM, selanty wrote: > That is good now test the bacula > > mtx-changer > > Pf thx guys thru testing with mtx-changer i solved my problem >  [Rolling Eyes] finaly i ended up switching the cabels at the back off the > backup unit. > needed to make from sg5 sg4 and it

[Bacula-users] Bacula setup driving me nuts

2011-08-24 Thread selanty
That is good now test the bacula mtx-changer Pf thx guys thru testing with mtx-changer i solved my problem [Rolling Eyes] finaly i ended up switching the cabels at the back off the backup unit. needed to make from sg5 sg4 and it worked. Stupid me. Thx for the help. Marcel +-

[Bacula-users] Bacula setup driving me nuts

2011-08-24 Thread selanty
That is good now test the bacula mtx-changer Pf thx guys thru testing with mtx-changer i solved my problem [Rolling Eyes] finaly i ended up switching the cabels at the back off the backup unit. needed to make from sg5 sg4 and it worked. Stupid me. Thx for the help. Marcel +-

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula setup driving me nuts

2011-08-23 Thread Francisco Javier Funes Nieto
Hi, Only for testing, could you use "/dev/nst0" and "/dev/nst1" in Device section. This use the "non-rewind" device type. Try mount again then. J. 2011/8/23 selanty : > Hi all, > > I have a strange problem when i try to mount a tape. > First what i have i use centos 5.4 with bacula 5.0.3 > Har

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula setup driving me nuts

2011-08-23 Thread John Drescher
> 3304 Issuing autochanger "load slot 5, drive 0" command. > 3992 Bad autochanger "load slot 5, drive 0": ERR=Child died from signal 15: > Termination. >  Results=Program killed by Bacula (timeout) > > have you tried to run /etc/bacula/mtx-changer with load command manually ? > > Yes i did i tried

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula setup driving me nuts

2011-08-23 Thread Pietro Bertera
Hi, 2011/8/23 selanty : > hi Pietro, > > 3304 Issuing autochanger "load slot 5, drive 0" command. > 3992 Bad autochanger "load slot 5, drive 0": ERR=Child died from signal 15: > Termination. >  Results=Program killed by Bacula (timeout) > > have you tried to run /etc/bacula/mtx-changer with load

[Bacula-users] Bacula setup driving me nuts

2011-08-23 Thread selanty
hi Pietro, 3304 Issuing autochanger "load slot 5, drive 0" command. 3992 Bad autochanger "load slot 5, drive 0": ERR=Child died from signal 15: Termination. Results=Program killed by Bacula (timeout) have you tried to run /etc/bacula/mtx-changer with load command manually ? Yes i did i trie

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula setup driving me nuts

2011-08-23 Thread Pietro Bertera
Hi, 2011/8/23 selanty : > 3304 Issuing autochanger "load slot 5, drive 0" command. > 3992 Bad autochanger "load slot 5, drive 0": ERR=Child died from signal 15: > Termination. > Results=Program killed by Bacula (timeout) have you tried to run /etc/bacula/mtx-changer with load command manually ?

[Bacula-users] Bacula setup driving me nuts

2011-08-23 Thread selanty
Hi all, I have a strange problem when i try to mount a tape. First what i have i use centos 5.4 with bacula 5.0.3 Hardware is an IBM TS3100 (3573-TL) with 2 LTO5 (ULT3580-HH5) config from bacula-sd.conf Autochanger { Name = Autochanger Device = LTO5_1, LTO5_2 Changer Device = /dev/sg5 Changer Com

[Bacula-users] Bacula setup help

2009-07-30 Thread Ravishankar Bharadwaj
Hi, I am trying to install Bacula for the first time. I am running on Fedora 8. I followed this link to install it: http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=howto_install_and_configure_bacula_on_fedora_9_using_yum Steps: *Install all of the following packages Dependencies are listed inside

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Setup for 300 clients & 20 Servers

2009-04-23 Thread Justin Williams
Oops; forgot to reply all... I set up, for my web server, after a pretty disastrous outage a couple months ago, a bacula system where, from home, I have a mac laptop open up a vpn tunnel to the server, and then use that tunnel to back up the entire server. Not as big a job as it sounds, as it's pr

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Setup for 300 clients & 20 Servers

2009-04-23 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, and welcome to the mailing list! I hope we can help you solve any issues you encounter with running Bacula, and of course I also hope that you'll help others as well! 22.04.2009 23:29, Jayson Broughton wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > We are currently in the process of scrapping ou

[Bacula-users] Bacula Setup for 300 clients & 20 Servers

2009-04-22 Thread Jayson Broughton
Hello list, We are currently in the process of scrapping our old backup solution (windows nt client backup), and going with Bacula. I have been tasked with setting up a test environment for this. As of right now I have bacula backing up 6 clients to an external SD. The DIR & SD are located o

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula setup plans - expert's help needed please

2007-07-31 Thread John Drescher
> > > because bacula has a very complex tape scheduling routines... > Its even more complex. One thing I missed is what happens when a job needs a tape from a pool but all tapes in the pool are marked as Full, Used, Error or Archive. I believe in this case bacula first checks if it can Recycle any

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula setup plans - expert's help needed please

2007-07-31 Thread Ralf Auer
Thank You. > because bacula has a very complex tape scheduling routines... Right, and that confuses an (ex-)Amanda user like me... > It asks for a specific tape but you can give it any appendable tape > from the pool that it is using or a tape from the Scratch pool (see > the docs on the Scratc

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula setup plans - expert's help needed please

2007-07-31 Thread John Drescher
On 7/31/07, Ralf Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I do not believe the DB has this information as this is handled by the > > scheduler while bacula is running. Although it may be possible for you > > to query the list of jobs to be run then try to figure out what tape > > would be needed. > > Bu

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula setup plans - expert's help needed please

2007-07-31 Thread Ralf Auer
> I do not believe the DB has this information as this is handled by the > scheduler while bacula is running. Although it may be possible for you > to query the list of jobs to be run then try to figure out what tape > would be needed. But the scheduler has to get his info from somewhere or somebo

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula setup plans - expert's help needed please

2007-07-31 Thread John Drescher
On 7/31/07, Ralf Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wow, that was quick! > > > > You can have it do that when a job is running and a tape is needed but > Right, I already configured that. > > > > I am not sure of a way of doing that before the job that needs the > > tape is running. > O.K., that's n

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula setup plans - expert's help needed please

2007-07-31 Thread Ralf Auer
Hi Frank, nice to get so much help. >> My problem is, that I have to write to both tapes simultaneously for >> timing reason (but spooling to my HD-RAID). That's why I don't have a >> tape changer and introduced the two different pools for 'full' and >> 'incremental'. If it is possible to

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula setup plans - expert's help needed please

2007-07-31 Thread Frank Sweetser
Ralf Auer wrote: > Hello Frank, > > obviously I found an expert... Thanks for your reply. Eh, I've just read the manual a few times =) > The reason why I decided to have so many different pools was motivated > by the (confusing) examples in the manual, so I DID read it, even more > than tw

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula setup plans - expert's help needed please

2007-07-31 Thread Ralf Auer
wow, that was quick! > You can have it do that when a job is running and a tape is needed but Right, I already configured that. > I am not sure of a way of doing that before the job that needs the > tape is running. O.K., that's not good, 'cause I will not wait in the office until Bacula compla

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula setup plans - expert's help needed please

2007-07-31 Thread John Drescher
> And a more practial question: > * 'Amanda' has this nice feature to send me a mail which tape to put > into each drive before leaving office ('amcheck' cronjob). > How does bacula remind me which tapes to put in today ? > You can have it do that when a job is running and a tape is needed but I am

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula setup plans - expert's help needed please

2007-07-31 Thread Ralf Auer
Hello Frank, obviously I found an expert... Thanks for your reply. The reason why I decided to have so many different pools was motivated by the (confusing) examples in the manual, so I DID read it, even more than twice ;-) My problem is, that I have to write to both tapes simultaneously

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula setup plans - expert's help needed please

2007-07-30 Thread Frank Sweetser
Ralf Auer wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I need a little help from someone more experienced with Bacula than I > am. > > My cluster consists of ~40 clients, the total amount of data that has to > be backed up is around 6 TB. To accomplish this I have two HP Ultrium > 960 (400/800GB) and a s

[Bacula-users] Bacula setup plans - expert's help needed please

2007-07-30 Thread Ralf Auer
Hello everybody, I need a little help from someone more experienced with Bacula than I am. My cluster consists of ~40 clients, the total amount of data that has to be backed up is around 6 TB. To accomplish this I have two HP Ultrium 960 (400/800GB) and a sufficient number of tapes. I a