On 7/16/2010 12:16 PM, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > On 16/07/10, Dan Langille (d...@langille.org) wrote: >> On 7/16/2010 5:19 AM, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: >>> I'm just trying out Bacula and writing my first backup to tape (which >>> will span a few tapes).
BTW, try a restore from that backup which spans tapes... Then compare it to what you backed up. Tape spanning backups are the ones most likely to exhibit data loss. >>> All seems to be proceeding fine at the moment and I can see files >>> passing through bconsole. >> >> I assumed you are doing 'status client' repeatedly and can see the progress > > Quite right. > >>> While Postgres appears to be updated with the latest status of labels >>> and so on, I can't find any inserts of file names. Should I be expecting >>> this? >> >> It depends. Depending on how you configured it, the file attributes >> may not be added until the last stages of the job. "Attribute >> Spooling = yes" affects this. Check the table after the job. > > Thanks, I'll look into this setting. >> >>> I'm using Bacula 2.4.4-1 from Debian stable. >> >> If you can, I'd upgrade to 5.0.2 > > OK. I'd be grateful to know what the main reasons for upgrading to the > 5.0.2 series would be from the perspective of a single server backing > itself up. You'll be on the latest instead of something two years old. If a problem arises, you'll know it's most likely not 'something fixed in the latest version'. Well, perhaps not 2 years, but > 1 years and 2.4 started in summer 2008. Significant changes in the way things are done. -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
