Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-10-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, I suspect that what Martin has said in the second to last paragraph is correct.  At the same time, Bacula really should print a reason why the label command did not work. Have you already posted your complete bacula-sd.conf file?  If not, please do so. Best regards, Kern On 09/28/2

Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-10-01 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 14:25:51 -0400, Gary Dale said: > > On 2018-09-28 09:32 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: > >> On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 20:57:35 -0400, Gary Dale said: > >> On 2018-09-27 11:05 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 23:38:39 -0400, Gary Dale said: > On 2018-

Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-09-29 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, pt., 28 wrz 2018 o 20:19 Gary Dale napisał(a): > Of course I restrict the volume size. That's normal for Bacula. > Well, it is not normal unless you want to limit storage size allocated by your backups where you additionally define the maximum number of volumes in pool. In any other case

Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-09-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-09-28 09:32 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 20:57:35 -0400, Gary Dale said: On 2018-09-27 11:05 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 23:38:39 -0400, Gary Dale said: On 2018-09-26 11:33 AM, Bill Arlofski wrote: On 09/26/2018 06:22 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: Try

Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-09-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-09-28 06:13 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, It should not take "I need a lot of new volumes to handle what amounts to a full backup of 160G of data" unless you are artificially restricting volume size.  Unless I misunderstood what you wrote, you should not have 40 volumes to store 160G

Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-09-28 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 20:57:35 -0400, Gary Dale said: > > On 2018-09-27 11:05 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: > >> On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 23:38:39 -0400, Gary Dale said: > >> On 2018-09-26 11:33 AM, Bill Arlofski wrote: > >>> On 09/26/2018 06:22 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: > Try > > se

Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-09-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, It should not take "I need a lot of new volumes to handle what amounts to a full backup of 160G of data" unless you are artificially restricting volume size.  Unless I misunderstood what you wrote, you should not have 40 volumes to store 160G of data. One would be sufficient.   In fact

Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-09-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-09-27 11:05 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 23:38:39 -0400, Gary Dale said: On 2018-09-26 11:33 AM, Bill Arlofski wrote: On 09/26/2018 06:22 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: Try setdebug level=150 trace=1 Storage and look for a file matching *.trace (probably in the SD's Worki

Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-09-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-09-27 05:10 AM, Jérôme Blion wrote: Le 27/09/2018 à 05:38, Gary Dale a écrit : On 2018-09-26 11:33 AM, Bill Arlofski wrote: On 09/26/2018 06:22 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: Try setdebug level=150 trace=1 Storage and look for a file matching *.trace (probably in the SD's WorkingDirector

Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-09-27 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 23:38:39 -0400, Gary Dale said: > > On 2018-09-26 11:33 AM, Bill Arlofski wrote: > > On 09/26/2018 06:22 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: > >> Try > >> > >> setdebug level=150 trace=1 Storage > >> > >> and look for a file matching *.trace (probably in the SD's > >> WorkingDirec

Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-09-27 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 27/09/2018 à 05:38, Gary Dale a écrit : On 2018-09-26 11:33 AM, Bill Arlofski wrote: On 09/26/2018 06:22 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: Try setdebug level=150 trace=1 Storage and look for a file matching *.trace (probably in the SD's WorkingDirectory). ...and you can also add options=t to have

Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-09-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-09-26 11:33 AM, Bill Arlofski wrote: On 09/26/2018 06:22 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: Try setdebug level=150 trace=1 Storage and look for a file matching *.trace (probably in the SD's WorkingDirectory). ...and you can also add options=t to have timestamps in the *.trace file. Best rega

Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-09-26 Thread Bill Arlofski
On 09/26/2018 06:22 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: > Try > > setdebug level=150 trace=1 Storage > > and look for a file matching *.trace (probably in the SD's WorkingDirectory). ...and you can also add options=t to have timestamps in the *.trace file. Best regards, Bill -- Bill Arlofski http://

Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-09-26 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 00:06:48 -0400, Gary Dale said: > > On 2018-09-20 06:09 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Hello, > > > > The output produced by Bacula seems unusually short.  Normally Bacula > > displays a reason for the failure. > > > > I recommend trying your label command again, but turn o

Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-09-25 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-09-20 06:09 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, The output produced by Bacula seems unusually short.  Normally Bacula displays a reason for the failure. I recommend trying your label command again, but turn on debug with something link setdebug level=150 Storage prior to doing the labe

Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-09-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Martin, Yes, the variable expansion code is deprecated (destined to be removed at some future unspecified time), but as I do not yet have a replacement for it, I have keep to the code. I have some ideas about how to replace the old functionality, but have not yet implemented it as ther

Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-09-20 Thread Martin Simmons
Hi Kern, Is variable expansion fully supported again now? The doc (http://www.bacula.org/9.2.x-manuals/en/misc/Variable_Expansion.html) still says that it was deprecated as of version 1.37, but the replacement python scripting has been removed. __Martin > On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:09:25 +0200,

Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-09-20 Thread Josh Fisher
Check permissions on the disk, including SELinux or other ACLs. The bacula-sd user must have read/write permissions. On 9/19/2018 3:40 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running bacula 7.4.4 on a Debian/Stretch AMD64 server. When I try to create a new disk volume for my steadily increasing amount of d

Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-09-20 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, The output produced by Bacula seems unusually short.  Normally Bacula displays a reason for the failure. I recommend trying your label command again, but turn on debug with something link setdebug level=150 Storage prior to doing the label command.  It should give you a more detaile

Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-09-20 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 20/09/2018 à 05:23, Gary Dale a écrit : On 2018-09-19 05:35 PM, Jérôme Blion wrote: Le 19/09/2018 à 21:40, Gary Dale a écrit : I'm running bacula 7.4.4 on a Debian/Stretch AMD64 server. When I try to create a new disk volume for my steadily increasing amount of data needing to be backed up

Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-09-19 Thread Gary Dale
On 2018-09-19 05:35 PM, Jérôme Blion wrote: Le 19/09/2018 à 21:40, Gary Dale a écrit : I'm running bacula 7.4.4 on a Debian/Stretch AMD64 server. When I try to create a new disk volume for my steadily increasing amount of data needing to be backed up, it usually fails after I create the first

Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-09-19 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 19/09/2018 à 21:40, Gary Dale a écrit : I'm running bacula 7.4.4 on a Debian/Stretch AMD64 server. When I try to create a new disk volume for my steadily increasing amount of data needing to be backed up, it usually fails after I create the first new volume. There is lots of free space on t

[Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-09-19 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running bacula 7.4.4 on a Debian/Stretch AMD64 server. When I try to create a new disk volume for my steadily increasing amount of data needing to be backed up, it usually fails after I create the first new volume. There is lots of free space on the disk, so it's not that. Eventually I mig