Re: [Bacula-users] as my Bacula project progresses...

[Jonathan H. <ba...@df...>]

On Saturday 06 January 2007 15:57, Jonathan Horne wrote:
> well, ive made some pretty fair progress.  ive got to where i can get the
> job to start... but it wont move.  for my first test example, im trying to
> get my dev server to back itself up.
>
> this is the message im getting:
>
> *messages
> 06-Jan 15:38 fbsd62-1-dir: Start Backup JobId 2,
> Job=Client1.2007-01-06_15.38.53
> 06-Jan 15:38 fbsd62-1-sd: Job Client1.2007-01-06_15.38.53 waiting. Cannot
> find any appendable volumes.
> Please use the "label"  command to create a new Volume for:
>     Storage:      "FileStorage" (/usr/backups)
>     Media type:   File
>     Pool:         Default
>
> in the file definition, ive specified the /, and added /usr/backups to the
> omitted files.  as ive mentioned before, im trying to set up bacula to only
> backup to files.  my current backup server has:
>
> 108GB drive for incrementals/cumulative
> 550GB drive for full backups
> 270GB drive for monthly backups
>
> i keep incrementals for 6 weeks, fulls for 2 months, and montly for 3
> months (thats all the space i can hold for monthlys, for now).  somehow
> when i migrate this windows server to FreeBSD/Bacula, ill need to
> effectively use these disks based on how much data i backup and how long
> its retained (i backup about 90 GB on full jobs, sometimes 3-5GB on
> dailies).
>
> anyway, can anyone point me in the right direction ?
>
> cheers,
> jonathan
>

looks like this is the cause of my problem.. still trying to solve this one:

...
Running Jobs:
Writing: Full Backup job Client1 JobId=2 Volume=""
    pool="Default" device=""FileStorage" (/usr/backups)"
    Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0
    FDReadSeqNo=6 in_msg=6 out_msg=4 fd=6
Writing: Full Backup job Client1 JobId=3 Volume=""
    pool="Default" device=""FileStorage" (/usr/backups)"
    Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0
    FDReadSeqNo=6 in_msg=6 out_msg=4 fd=8
...

Device status:
Device "FileStorage" (/usr/backups) is not open.
    Device is BLOCKED waiting for media.
====

cheers,
jonathan