As part of my magical Bacula website, I wanted to know when my tape drive required a cleaning tape. It appears that smartctl will reveal this information: [dan@kraken:/usr/home/dan] $ sudo /usr/local/sbin/in/smartctl -d scsi -x /dev/nsa0 Password: smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net Device: DEC TZ89 […]
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I use a ZFS array for backups. The data is first copied to this array, and later copied to tape. This post contains some information which might be useful should I need to replace one of the drives in the array. We have 10 HDD in this system. Two are used in a gmirror for
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Today is the first Sunday since I started using a scratch pool with Bacula. I was disappointed to see an email asking for a tape to be mounted. Why? With four tapes in the scratch pool, I shouldn’t be asked for a tape. Something is wrong. But there is no directive on a pool to
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I hate it when this happens: [root@kraken /usr/home/dan]# /usr/local/sbin/mtx-changer /dev/pass10 list mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes mtx: Request Sense: Valid Residual=no mtx: Request Sense: Error Code=0 (Unknown?!) mtx: Request Sense: Sense Key=No Sense mtx: Request Sense: FileMark=no mtx: Request Sense: EOM=no mtx: Request Sense: ILI=no mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Code = 00 mtx: Request
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I recently wrote about copying jobs with a very good backup tool. My goal was to keep copies of the backups on both disk and tape. Since then, I started playing around with a little webpage to keep tabs on what’s in my tape libary. Today I noticed a little problem. I have backups from 75 days ago that are waiting to be copied to tape.
I’ll just let you think about why this happened. Yesterday, this queue held jobs that were about 16 hours old. How did this old job get into the queue?
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Here I go, removing an old ZFS dataset that is no longer required. But first, some stats (which have been edited to remove non-zfs output): [dan@kraken:~] $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on storage 1.4T 15G 1.4T 1% /storage storage/bacula.DO.NOT.USE 5.8T 4.4T 1.4T 76% /storage/bacula.DO.NOT.USE storage/compressed 1.4T 49K 1.4T 0% /storage/compressed storage/compressed/bacula
I have an improvement on the original query. This one outputs ‘nil’ if the volume is empty. bacula=# SELECT mediaid, volumename, volstatus, slot, inchanger, pool.name, CASE WHEN volbytes < = 64512 THEN 'nil' else pg_size_pretty(volbytes) END FROM media, pool WHERE media.poolid = pool.poolid AND volumename LIKE 'ETU0%' AND inchanger != 0 ORDER BY slot; mediaid
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I pretty much ignore my tape library. It asks for tapes when it runs out. However, I think I should be looking ahead and anticipating requests. Thus, I came up with this SQL query: [dan@ngaio:~] $ psql bacula psql (8.4.5) Type “help” for help. bacula=# SELECT mediaid, volumename, volstatus, slot, inchanger, pool.name, volbytes FROM media,
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*run A job name must be specified. The defined Job resources are: 1: BackupCatalog 2: RestoreFiles 3: MigrateDiskToTape 4: CopyMegaFileToTape 5: laptop 6: laptop-vpn 7: laptop-wifi-5.3 8: laptop-verify 9: laptop-websites 10: laptop-xp 11: wocker 12: bast basic 13: bast home 14: dbclone basic 15: dbclone home 16: polo basic 17: polo 18: kraken basic 19:
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For the record, I was doing a copy within a system recently: # time zfs send storage/bacula@transfer | mbuffer | zfs receive storage/compressed/bacula-buffer in @ 0.0 kB/s, out @ 0.0 kB/s, 4394 GB total, buffer 100% fullll summary: 4394 GByte in 35 h 11 min 35.5 MB/s real 2111m18.302s user 11m44.831s sys 258m59.151s I was
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