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INQUIRY command Failed

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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 Sense: Additional Sense Qualifier = 00 mtx: Request Sense: BPV=no mtx: Request Sense: Error in CDB=no mtx: Request […]

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Copying to tape, missed something….

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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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zfs destroy

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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 4.4T 3.0T 1.4T 68% /storage/compressed/bacula storage/compressed/home 1.4T 2.7G 1.4T 0% /storage/compressed/home storage/pgsql 1.4T 5.5G 1.4T 0% /storage/pgsql And

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How much are those volumes in the library? (redone)

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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 | volumename | volstatus | slot | inchanger | name | pg_size_pretty ---------+------------+-----------+------+-----------+---------------+---------------- 1328 | ETU021 | Append

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How much are those volumes in the library?

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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, pool WHERE media.poolid = pool.poolid AND volumename LIKE ‘ETU0%’ AND inchanger != 0 ORDER BY slot; mediaid |

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Why not use the tape that’s there?

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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: kraken 20: nyi maildir 21: nyi maildir tarball 22: nyi basic 23: nyi 24: supernews basic 25: supernews

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zfs send | zfs receive

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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 copying my Bacula Volumes from non-compressed ZFS to compressed ZFS. # zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT

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ntp wasn’t running but Nagios didn’t notice

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Earlier today, I noticed the following output from a Bacula job: 24-Sep 14:14 bacula-dir JobId 38548: Start Backup JobId 38548, Job=latens_home.2010-09-24_14.12.38_31 24-Sep 14:14 bacula-dir JobId 38548: Using Device “MegaFile-latens” 24-Sep 14:09 latens-fd JobId 38548: DIR and FD clocks differ by -307 seconds, FD automatically compensating. That’s 5 minutes. It shouldn’t be varying by that much. So I started ntp. That’s when I noticed it was not being started by /etc/rc.conf. But I thought

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ZFS – how much space do I have?

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According to this, I have 5.41T available. $ zpool list NAME SIZE USED AVAIL CAP HEALTH ALTROOT storage 12.7T 7.28T 5.41T 57% ONLINE – According to this, I have 3.7T available: $ df -h | grep stora storage 3.7T 1.7G 3.7T 0% /storage storage/Retored 3.7T 39K 3.7T 0% /storage/Retored storage/bacula 8.0T 4.3T 3.7T 54% /storage/bacula storage/pgsql 3.7T 5.5G 3.7T 0% /storage/pgsql Which is correct?

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Why no Drobo? Or SmartStor?

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People have asked me why I’m creating what amounts to a NAS. Why don’t I use Drobo or SmartStor for example? The above don’t have ZFS, which is the best solution for redundant storage. I can’t install Bacula on those systems. Sure, Bacula could run on another system and access that storage, but being directly on the system has advantages. Or why don’t you use FreeNAS for example? You’d be running FreeBSD! FreeNAS,

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