[sclug] Bacula

[Nigel Pallett]

When using LTO Drives/Tapes under Linux, you have to be really careful 
with blocksize. I had similar problems to yourself even using when 
dump/restore, until I specified a blocksize of 256K

Hope this helps,
Best regards,
Nigel.

Scott Rixon wrote:
> Thanks for that.. I will have a play...
>
> Maybe you can help? I have an LTO-1 HP Ultrium 215 drive. For some
> reason it's only backing up about 50gb and then asking for a new tape..
> Any ideas? They should be 100gb native and 200gb compressed.
>
> Thanks..
>
> Scott
>
> On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 21:46 +0000, Dominic Storey wrote:
>   
>> I use bacula all the time ... once you get your head around the
>> concept it's great .. it's worth restructuring your bacula-dir.conf to
>> break out the jobs, schedules, filelists and pools ..
>>
>> Here's a little helper script I use for handling my tapes...
>>
>>     
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> case "$1" in
>> mount)
>> if [ "$2" != "now" ]; then
>>     echo "Sleeping for 2 minutes..."
>>      sleep 120
>> fi
>> sudo bconsole -c /etc/bacula/bconsole.conf <<END1
>> mount DLT
>> quit
>> END1
>> ;;
>> eject|umount|unmount)
>> sudo bconsole -c /etc/bacula/bconsole.conf <<END2
>> unmount DLT
>> quit
>> END2
>> sudo mt -f /dev/st0 eject
>> ;;
>> status|next|schedule)
>> echo "Scheduled Backups:"
>> echo "=================="
>> echo "status dir" | sudo bconsole -c /etc/bacula/bconsole.conf | grep
>> "Backup "
>> ;;
>> jobs)
>> echo "status dir" | sudo bconsole -c /etc/bacula/bconsole.conf
>> ;;
>> messages)
>> echo "messages" | sudo bconsole -c /etc/bacula/bconsole.conf
>> ;;
>> *)
>> echo "dlt [messages|mount|unmount|status|jobs|next|schedule]"
>> ;;
>> esac
>>
>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<
>>
>> regards Dom Storey
>>
>> 2008/12/24 Scott Rixon <Scott at green-flag.com>
>>         Hi all...
>>         
>>         A while back someone mentioned Bacula as a tape backup util. I
>>         made a
>>         note and filed it in the 'to do when I have a while' pile.
>>         
>>         Well I've had some time off work so I did battle with it on
>>         Ubuntu
>>         today. Backing up to tape has been a nemesis for me, I spend
>>         my days
>>         using and supporting BackupExec on Windows and also figured
>>         that it
>>         can't be this tough. Using Tar direct to tape is too basic and
>>         Amanda
>>         blew my mind so much I couldn't get it working..
>>         
>>         Bacula is an odd beast. Not quite sure I like the fact the
>>         backup sets
>>         are in the config files? But it's working and I have a little
>>         tool in
>>         the Gnome tray that tells me it's running :) (If the tape
>>         noise wasn't a
>>         give away)
>>         
>>         Also setup a software mirror of 2 1TB drives this week.. It's
>>         all happy
>>         days :)
>>         
>>         Scott
>>         
>>
>>     
>
>