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Hi,

I'm trying to restore a full directory which contains more than 700 files. The
estimate command returns this :

326099 total files; 711 marked to be restored; 130,595,005 bytes.

Does anyone knows what would be approximately the duration of such a job ?

On each side, we do have Intel Xeon Bi-pro and a 10-100 Mbits Network but I
guess it doesn't depends only on hardware specs. The server is running Backup
Version: 1.38.5.

I'm asking you this because I've launched the job yesterday and still nothing
has been backuped...

Is there a way to look at what's happening in real time ?

Best regards.

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Arnaud Mombrial
T : +33 141 123 041
F : +33 141 123 001
admin < at > pr...

On 3/21/07, Arnaud Mombrial <a.mombrial < at > pr...> wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to restore a full directory which contains more than 700 files. The
estimate command returns this :

326099 total files; 711 marked to be restored; 130,595,005 bytes.

Does anyone knows what would be approximately the duration of such a job ?

On each side, we do have Intel Xeon Bi-pro and a 10-100 Mbits Network but I
guess it doesn't depends only on hardware specs. The server is running Backup
Version: 1.38.5.

I'm asking you this because I've launched the job yesterday and still nothing
has been backuped...

Is there a way to look at what's happening in real time ?

Did you try the status commands? status director? status storage? status client?

John

Thank you John for your advice.=20

The status director gives numerous job in "waiting execution" state.

How can I know what bacula is waiting for ?

I've received this message yesterday :

20-Mar 10:45 Storage: Please mount Volume "INC-server-prod.35" on Storage=20
Device "server-prod" (/home/bacula/server-prod) for Job=20
server-prod.2007-03-13_01.00.01

from bacula and I suppose this is why nothing happens since...

Unfortunately, this volume appears to be empty :

=2Drw-r----- 1 bacula-sd bacula 0 Mar 20 10:45 INC-server-prod.35

The problem is that this server is nearly full...

Do you know if there is a way to force the execution a job ?

Best regards.

Le Wednesday 21 March 2007 13:53:34, vous avez =E9crit=A0:
On 3/21/07, Arnaud Mombrial <a.mombrial < at > pr...> wrote:
Hi,

I'm trying to restore a full directory which contains more than 700
files. The estimate command returns this :

326099 total files; 711 marked to be restored; 130,595,005 bytes.

Does anyone knows what would be approximately the duration of such a job
?

On each side, we do have Intel Xeon Bi-pro and a 10-100 Mbits Network b=
ut
I guess it doesn't depends only on hardware specs. The server is running
Backup Version: 1.38.5.

I'm asking you this because I've launched the job yesterday and still
nothing has been backuped...

Is there a way to look at what's happening in real time ?

Did you try the status commands? status director? status storage? status
client?

John

=2D-=20
Arnaud Mombrial
T : +33 141 123 041
=46 : +33 141 123 001
admin < at > pr...

The status director gives numerous job in "waiting execution" state.

How can I know what bacula is waiting for ?

I've received this message yesterday :

20-Mar 10:45 Storage: Please mount Volume "INC-server-prod.35" on Storage
Device "server-prod" (/home/bacula/server-prod) for Job
server-prod.2007-03-13_01.00.01

This is probably what it is waiting for. A status storage should
reveal that it is BLOCKED.

from bacula and I suppose this is why nothing happens since...

Unfortunately, this volume appears to be empty :

-rw-r----- 1 bacula-sd bacula 0 Mar 20 10:45 INC-server-prod.35

The problem is that this server is nearly full...

I gather that you are using file based volumes. Do you mean that there
is no space left to create a new volume? I have only used file based
volumes for a backup of the catalog so I am not sure what to do.
Possibly a mount command will fix this. Also if you have no space to
put the volume can you remove older volumes? If so the purge volume
command should help. You may need to actually delete the volume file
after the purge.

Do you know if there is a way to force the execution a job ?

You can restart the director throwing out everything in the current
job queue. Otherwise you need to solve the blocked problem.

John

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John Drescher wrote:
The status director gives numerous job in "waiting execution" state.

How can I know what bacula is waiting for ?

I've received this message yesterday :

20-Mar 10:45 Storage: Please mount Volume "INC-server-prod.35" on Storage
Device "server-prod" (/home/bacula/server-prod) for Job
server-prod.2007-03-13_01.00.01

This is probably what it is waiting for. A status storage should
reveal that it is BLOCKED.

from bacula and I suppose this is why nothing happens since...

Unfortunately, this volume appears to be empty :

-rw-r----- 1 bacula-sd bacula 0 Mar 20 10:45 INC-server-prod.35

The problem is that this server is nearly full...

I gather that you are using file based volumes. Do you mean that there
is no space left to create a new volume? I have only used file based
volumes for a backup of the catalog so I am not sure what to do.
Possibly a mount command will fix this. Also if you have no space to
put the volume can you remove older volumes? If so the purge volume
command should help. You may need to actually delete the volume file
after the purge.

He's doing a restore and it's asking him to mount a volume that contains
no files. I say go ahead and mount it and see what happens. It may then
move on, or it may error out. I'd be curious why you have an empty
volume there, though. I believe even on a recycle, files are not zero
length, but I could be wrong.

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He's doing a restore and it's asking him to mount a volume that contains
no files. I say go ahead and mount it and see what happens. It may then
move on, or it may error out. I'd be curious why you have an empty
volume there, though. I believe even on a recycle, files are not zero
length, but I could be wrong.

I assumed that message was for a previous job blocking the storage so
that the restore would be blocked as well.

John