Re: [Bacula-devel] Director bug when using two storage daemons?

2008-11-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
ot solve your particular problem. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It&#

Re: [Bacula-devel] Director bug when using two storage daemons?

2008-11-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
Graham Keeling wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 08:54:13AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: >> By setting up the requirements and configuration the way you have, you've >> painted yourself into a corner in which two jobs running concurrently must >> both have exclusive a

Re: [Bacula-devel] Manual Volume recycling and overwritten data

2009-01-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
hange each of those 40 volumes to "Recycle" status, which takes me about ... let's say 20 minutes. (Much less, if we extend the 'Update volume' command to add the ability to make batch changes to a list of volumes, as we previously did with the 'Delete job' command.)

Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula in the press

2009-01-17 Thread Phil Stracchino
James Harper, and the funding to make this happen was > very kindly provided by Equiinet (www.equiinet.com), and we thank them very > much. > > Best regards, > > Kern I'm very pleased to see this taking off so well. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#2997924

Re: [Bacula-devel] One client, one fileset, two job definitions.

2009-03-09 Thread Phil Stracchino
replicating your Full jobs to storage2 with a copy job). -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free State

Re: [Bacula-devel] One client, one fileset, two job definitions.

2009-03-10 Thread Phil Stracchino
same result: >> >> Have two FileSets with identical content but different names. >> >> I am pretty sure the goal is to manage just one FileSet. I suspect you >> can do this with the existing Bacula directives. > > This is what I'm going to have to do for n

Re: [Bacula-devel] One client, one fileset, two job definitions.

2009-03-10 Thread Phil Stracchino
Graham Keeling wrote: > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:30:58PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote: >> You still haven't answered what your actual goal is, i.e. what (at high >> level) you're trying to accomplish. There may well be a better way to >> do it. If we understand

Re: [Bacula-devel] [Bacula-users] Manual Volume recycling and overwritten data

2009-03-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
s from the tool would be bad. >> Or is it a PEBKAC, as I should not use the >> update command to recycle volumes? The latter. That's not what the command is for, and not what it does. Use 'Purge volume' to manually recycle volumes. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#29

Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula BETA 2.5.42-b2 released to Source Forge

2009-03-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
singly many machines out there that WILL NOT, NOHOW, NO WAY, PERIOD, boot from a USB device. *ANY* USB device. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, U

Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula BETA 2.5.42-b2 released to Source Forge

2009-03-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Wednesday 18 March 2009 20:15:49 Phil Stracchino wrote: >> The one downside I see to this is that there's still surprisingly many >> machines out there that WILL NOT, NOHOW, NO WAY, PERIOD, boot from a USB >> device. *ANY* USB device. > >

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature Request: PROXY support and reverse (callback) TCP handshake support

2009-03-26 Thread Phil Stracchino
rves, been documented for some time. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater I

Re: [Bacula-devel] placement of Bacula files

2009-03-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
ake them conform to "the standard" is actively harmful. The trick is to recognize the occasions upon which applying "the standard" is not appropriate. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p.

Re: [Bacula-devel] placement of Bacula files

2009-04-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
lsb'), Gentoo users could decide for themselves whether to use the lsb or the recommended Bacula layout simply by setting or unsetting the USE flag. Binary-package distributions such as Debian could perhaps even be persuaded to offer both bacula-lsb and bacula-std packages. -- Phi

Re: [Bacula-devel] [Bacula-users] bacula.db missing

2009-04-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
more readily apparent what has been changed. Thank you. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not t

Re: [Bacula-devel] The Bacula Twitter Account

2009-04-28 Thread Phil Stracchino
Twitter, I've yet to have it explained to me by a Twitter user. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It&#x

[Bacula-devel] Looks like a problem with 3.x Windows ClientRunBeforeJob

2009-05-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
have a documented solution or workaround for this? If this doesn't work, no other ClientRunBeforeJob with a space in the pathname will work, either. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.o

[Bacula-devel] Configuration syntax problem

2009-05-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
error and emit a message along the lines of "This directive must go in the Director's Storage resource." Make it REQUIRED in bacula-dir.conf's storage{}, even if explicitly set to 1. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.

[Bacula-devel] 3.0.1 configure issue

2009-05-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
Statically Linked FD:yes Statically Linked SD:no Statically Linked DIR: no Statically Linked CONS: no [...] client-only: yes build-dird: yes build-stored:yes -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71

Re: [Bacula-devel] 3.0.1 configure issue

2009-05-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
Phil Stracchino wrote: > It might be just me, but shouldn't configuring with > --enable-client-only automatically disable dird/stored? > > This is on an OpenBSD client, the first Unix machine I've tried a > client-only 3.0.x build on. Further to this: Just fo

Re: [Bacula-devel] Configuration syntax problem

2009-05-12 Thread Phil Stracchino
John Drescher wrote: > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: >> I've just spent two hours going nuts trying to get concurrent jobs >> running on my new 3.0.1 install on my new server, because of an >> oversight in the config file syntax and syntax che

Re: [Bacula-devel] Configuration syntax problem

2009-05-12 Thread Phil Stracchino
e, at least on Solaris 10 x86, if there is no Max Concurrent Jobs directive in bacula-dir.conf->Storage{}, then a Max Concurrent Jobs directive in bacula-sd.conf->Storage{} has no apparent effect. If this is not what's *intended* to happen, then it needs to be looked into. -- Ph

[Bacula-devel] Suggestion: The quoting problem revisited, and a potential class solution

2009-05-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
or quoting issues, then decoded back into a command line only when about to be issued by whatever daemon is going to emit the script call. This should eliminate almost all quoting/escaping issues involved in running scripts from Bacula. Thoughts? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458

Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula Program Files Problem

2009-05-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
as using ^ as the delimiter. > > Ex. > Client Run After Job = "C:/Program^ Files/bacula/local/logwriter.cmd" > > Let me know if it works for you. > Thanks, > > -Noah Confirmed! Nice work, Noah. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355

Re: [Bacula-devel] restoring without GID/UID

2009-05-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
ution here is: - Install new minimal base OS - Install bacula agent - Restore /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/shadow - Restore everything else To speed this up, you could even have a separate backup of an "auth" fileset containing only those three files. ...Matter of fact, I think I'm

Re: [Bacula-devel] restoring without GID/UID

2009-05-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Thursday 14 May 2009 16:58:42 Phil Stracchino wrote: >> To speed this up, you could even have a separate backup of an "auth" >> fileset containing only those three files. >> >> ...Matter of fact, I think I'm going to do that righ

Re: [Bacula-devel] VirtualFull

2009-06-22 Thread Phil Stracchino
k between pools owned by different SDs? I'm still trying to get caught up on a lot of things and haven't looked in detail at the current implementation yet. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.n

Re: [Bacula-devel] VirtualFull

2009-06-22 Thread Phil Stracchino
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Monday 22 June 2009 21:38:01 Phil Stracchino wrote: >> On this subject, now that I have a current dev environment again, >> roughly what would be involved and what would have to be borne in mine >> if I were to enveavor to extend the Copy and Migra

Re: [Bacula-devel] SVN open

2009-07-21 Thread Phil Stracchino
Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > I have released version 3.0.2, so feel free to do normal commits again. > Thanks for your patience. > > Best regards, > > Kern Does 3.0.2 include the recently-submitted patch for restores from multiple SDs? -- Phil Stracchino,

Re: [Bacula-devel] Typo

2009-09-03 Thread Phil Stracchino
disk-to-disk-to-tape backup (DTDTT). A sample config could > look somethings like the one below: > > That should be 'can be built'. And "look something like". -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metro

[Bacula-devel] Minor feature suggestion

2009-09-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
elieve this would be a handy enhancement for managing similar setups. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater

Re: [Bacula-devel] Minor feature suggestion

2009-09-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Friday 11 September 2009 13:52:52 Phil Stracchino wrote: >> Does anyone see a reason NOT TO extend the "purge jobs" and "delete >> volumes" commands to be able to operate on MediaId as well as volume >> name? I was thinking about t

Re: [Bacula-devel] Learning Git

2009-09-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
Git (in my opinion) is many, many > times better than svn in practically all respects. > > In any case, our source code is now switched to Git, and we will shortly be > converting the remaining parts (docs and rescue) from svn to Git as well. Just as a memory jog, where is the Bacul

[Bacula-devel] RunScript variables; typo in warning message

2009-09-17 Thread Phil Stracchino
"for retention periods. Normally you should use the\n" "PRUNE command, which respects retention periods.\n")); Either it is or it can be, but "is can be" is just wrong. It needs to be one or the other, but I don't know which is intended (or I&#

[Bacula-devel] Proposal: Better support for portable clients that may have multiple addresses

2009-09-22 Thread Phil Stracchino
tted to run via that interface and the job is cancelled. If the field does not exist in the client record, then all job types are presumed to be permitted. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordin

Re: [Bacula-devel] Proposal: Better support for portable clients that may have multiple addresses

2009-09-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
Dan Langille wrote: > Phil Stracchino wrote: >> When attempting to contact a client, Bacula will attempt to contact it >> using the address or FQDN given in the Address record first. If the >> client is not reachable at this address, AND a "Secondary Address" fi

Re: [Bacula-devel] Restoring a Windows system from Linux

2009-10-26 Thread Phil Stracchino
Marco van Wieringen wrote: > Like I said in a previous mail we might much around > for backwards compatibility but we should seperate the streams for the > future. Just make sure we don't *cross* the streams. ;) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607,

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature Request: Allow schedule to override NextPool

2009-11-22 Thread Phil Stracchino
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Sunday 22 November 2009 18:23:36 Phil Stracchino wrote: >> Unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean, I personally believe this >> would be a serious mistake, unless it is replaced with an alternate >> mechanism for accomplishing the same ends.

Re: [Bacula-devel] Sun's incompetence

2009-12-01 Thread Phil Stracchino
blems with it, but I've heard many reports thaqt code from the OpenSolaris project is of ... shall we say, dubious stability. OpenSolaris is widely considered not ready for production. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.ne

Re: [Bacula-devel] [Bacula-users] Sun's incompetence

2009-12-01 Thread Phil Stracchino
the choice between two user interfaces and I made the bad choice. "Java Desktop" is what Sun is calling their Gnome-based desktop, afaik. They do offer two interface choices out of the box: the Gnome "Java Desktop", or CDE. Much though I detest Gnome, it's the more us

Re: [Bacula-devel] [Bacula-users] Sun's incompetence

2009-12-01 Thread Phil Stracchino
UI in many years because they're fully aware that >90% (probably >95%) of machines running Solaris are running it as a server OS. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Ren

Re: [Bacula-devel] [Bacula-users] Sun's incompetence

2009-12-01 Thread Phil Stracchino
the deal goes through they don't intend to mess with it. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's

[Bacula-devel] Possible configuration error?

2009-12-04 Thread Phil Stracchino
reconfigure. SHOULD building a SD require that a database be specified? I thought that all database interaction was confined to the Director, and that only the director needed to be built against a DB client library. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 a

Re: [Bacula-devel] Possible configuration error?

2009-12-04 Thread Phil Stracchino
gt; database. Ah, OK, that makes perfect sense. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not t

Re: [Bacula-devel] Open issues with building of Bacula 3.1.4

2009-12-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
Jason A. Kates wrote: > Quick type-o in my last e-mail, I should have said: > The link that you provided does not seem to work. I confirm; the site does not respond. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.n

Re: [Bacula-devel] Open issues with building of Bacula 3.1.4

2009-12-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
ting > new features and correct bugs. I thought we didn't want to create bugs at all, correct or not ;) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix

[Bacula-devel] Doc error

2009-12-21 Thread Phil Stracchino
In the "What's new in 3.0.0" section, under the "Microsoft Exchange Server 2003/2007 Plugin" heading, the subhead "Backup up" should be "Backing up". -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net

[Bacula-devel] 3.0.3 compile failing on OpenBSD 4.6

2009-12-22 Thread Phil Stracchino
erform the expansion and edit the Makefile accordingly, the same problem occurs with LIBBACCFG_OBJS, then with LIBBACPY_OBJS. If I manually expand both of these as well, then also fix LIBOBJS in src/findlib/Makefile, the build completes and installs, and the client (at least) appears to work

Re: [Bacula-devel] 3.0.3 compile failing on OpenBSD 4.6

2009-12-22 Thread Phil Stracchino
Phil Stracchino wrote: > Bacula 3.0.3 is failing to compile on OpenBSD 4.6 x86. Here's the most > recent configuration try I used: > > > ./configure --prefix=/opt/cula --datarootdir=/usr/share [...] huh ... where'd the ba go? It was there when I configured, and I&#x

Re: [Bacula-devel] 3.0.3 compile failing on OpenBSD 4.6

2009-12-22 Thread Phil Stracchino
Martin Simmons wrote: >>>>>> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:01:55 -0500, Phil Stracchino said: >> The relevant Makefile fragment is: >> >> libbac.la: Makefile $(LIBBAC_OBJS) >> @echo "Making $@ ..." >> $(LIBTOOL_LINK) $(CXX) $(DEFS) $

Re: [Bacula-devel] Open issues with building of Bacula 3.1.4

2009-12-27 Thread Phil Stracchino
ate suggestion small enough to be acceptable? Markus, Is there a reason you're calling for autoconf 2.61 in bacula/autoconf/configure.in, but autoconf 2.59 in gui/autoconf/configure.in? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerll

Re: [Bacula-devel] Bug #1415: move check for autoconf version to the beginning of configuration templates

2009-12-27 Thread Phil Stracchino
"2.59" as recent > enough for an update from "2.13" of the requirements check. Do you need newer > tools? I don't know that we specifically need a particular version, I just think we should be consistent about what we require. Different version requirements in diffe

[Bacula-devel] Manual job modifications being ignored

2009-12-28 Thread Phil Stracchino
orage" (/spool/bacula). 28-Dec 00:40 babylon4-sd JobId 674: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume "FULL-20091228-00:40" on device "FileStorage" (/spool/bacula) Whatever the cause, runtime modifications from the console on a manually started job are being ignored, with no sign of any

Re: [Bacula-devel] Manual job modifications being ignored

2009-12-28 Thread Phil Stracchino
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Monday 28 December 2009 19:57:24 Phil Stracchino wrote: >> Since I got no response from the users list: >> >> When starting a job from the console and modifying the job parameters, >> the 'modify Pool' operation overrides the 

Re: [Bacula-devel] Manual job modifications being ignored

2009-12-28 Thread Phil Stracchino
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Monday 28 December 2009 21:09:49 Phil Stracchino wrote: >> Kern Sibbald wrote: >>> On Monday 28 December 2009 19:57:24 Phil Stracchino wrote: >>>> Since I got no response from the users list: >>>> >>>> When starting a

Re: [Bacula-devel] Manual job modifications being ignored

2010-01-03 Thread Phil Stracchino
f course, someone sends a reasonable patch. I'll put it on my list of things to look at once I finish getting my workstation updated and reinstalled. (I've finally gotten the hardware issues solved, and I'm down to just one or two unsolved issues with the last remaining crucial

Re: [Bacula-devel] Manual job modifications being ignored

2010-01-10 Thread Phil Stracchino
try and make sure I get it filed tomorrow. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater

[Bacula-devel] Filed that Pool override bug report

2010-01-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
ave a current dev environment again, probably starting with extending the Delete Volume command to delete multiple volumes after the fashion of the Delete Jobs command. I have quite a list of things queued up to work on by now, on various projects... -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458

[Bacula-devel] Resource reference needed in documentation

2010-01-20 Thread Phil Stracchino
ind unless you already know where to find it. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, i

Re: [Bacula-devel] Resource reference needed in documentation

2010-01-20 Thread Phil Stracchino
ht help prevent divergence between the code and the > documentation as people add new resources or modify the > interpretation of existing ones. That sounds like an excellent idea. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.

[Bacula-devel] An error I've never seen before

2010-01-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
ally compiled, running against the preinstalled Solaris 10 MySQL 4.0.31 package. Jobs both before and after this one completed without incident. Only this job, of a batch of ten running concurrently, failed. The CLOSEST to full filesystem on the server has over 110GB free. Is this something we need

Re: [Bacula-devel] An error I've never seen before

2010-01-26 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/26/10 15:16, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi all, > > 25.01.2010 17:16, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> On Monday 25 January 2010 16:45:49 Phil Stracchino wrote: >>> One of my ten differential backups last night failed with an error I've >>> never seen before: >>

Re: [Bacula-devel] An error I've never seen before

2010-01-27 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/26/10 23:16, Gary R. Schmidt wrote: > On Wed, January 27, 2010 08:28, Phil Stracchino wrote: > [SNIP] >> >> I can check and see if there's a newer Solaris 10 MySQL package. (I'm >> trying to stay as much as possible with original Sun packages on that >&

[Bacula-devel] Bug - Client running status does not update in bat 3.0.3?

2010-02-09 Thread Phil Stracchino
file it as a bug, I just wanted to check whether anyone else could verify this, whether it's a known bug, and whether it's already been fixed in 5.0. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.o

Re: [Bacula-devel] bat: sqlite3 and sql / permissions to run bat

2010-02-10 Thread Phil Stracchino
USING ()' to 'ON ()' break things? > > i think i've asked some time ago, why bat has to be run as root. i don't > think it is necessary but > maybe i'm wrong. I don't run bat as root there's no reason to do so that I'm aware of. -- P

Re: [Bacula-devel] Bug - Client running status does not update in bat 3.0.3?

2010-02-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
t is the ONLY problem I have observed. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not

Re: [Bacula-devel] Bug - Client running status does not update in bat 3.0.3?

2010-02-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
t is the ONLY problem I have observed. [er ... premature send] ...anyway, that being the case, I'll write it off as "known issue" and not waste effort filing a duplicate. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala..

Re: [Bacula-devel] Installation directory recommendations (5.0.1)

2010-03-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
and backs up all changed files that it has not been told to ignore. Is the idea behind this rationale to only even *scan* executable directories at infrequent intervals and thus risk missing changes? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@

Re: [Bacula-devel] encrypted backups now = problems later?

2007-09-30 Thread Phil Stracchino
Kern Sibbald wrote: > It is too bad we were not aware of these subtle licensing constraints a few > years ago when Landon and I agreed on what encryption package to use. I'm not sure I entirely follow the issues with OpenSSL licensing. What's the basic problem there?

Re: [Bacula-devel] multiple spool files / concurrent spooling/despooing

2007-10-01 Thread Phil Stracchino
rage device (autochanger with 2 LTO-4 drives) > attached to the server. I've no idea how to configure that or how this > could work. I'll have a look at the manual, maybe I find something > useful. I think the core of this issue, setting aside implementation details for the moment, re

Re: [Bacula-devel] Hosting Bacula Web site

2007-11-01 Thread Phil Stracchino
n do. I think this would fall within our purview of supporting the open-source community. -- Phil StracchinoCDK#2 Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Landline:

Re: [Bacula-devel] Mini project

2007-11-04 Thread Phil Stracchino
y, or end up with a job which ran at an inconsistent level and you couldn't really say for sure WHAT it had backed up. -- Phil StracchinoCDK#2 Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Landline: 603-429-0220

[Bacula-devel] Suggestion: change to console job modification

2007-11-09 Thread Phil Stracchino
anges, ready to run", and stay in the change menu until that is selected. The above then becomes: m 1 [select level] 7 [select priority] 8 [select pool] 0 OK to run (yes/mod/no)? It's a much shorter and more efficient process. -- Phil StracchinoCDK#2 Renaissance

Re: [Bacula-devel] bacula-sd crashes

2007-12-01 Thread Phil Stracchino
ooks broken to me) since it is dying in a call to nscd. Honestly, nscd has had a reputation for a long time of being horribly broken. The best advice regarding running nscd is "Just don't." Just about every admin I know disables nscd on sight. There are much better tools for the jo

Re: [Bacula-devel] bacula-sd crashes

2007-12-01 Thread Phil Stracchino
g's visibly broken, it just doesn't work" network problem fixed by simply turning off nscd) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Bacula-devel] Idea: "Flexibly scheduled" jobs

2008-01-22 Thread Phil Stracchino
the time comes for it to be backed up, but which has wake-on-LAN enabled. I could modify its Job definition like this: Job { Name = "Foo Save" JobDefs = Backup Client = foo FileSet = "Foo Full Set" Schedule = Night Retry = "2,10" # allow up

Re: [Bacula-devel] Idea: "Flexibly scheduled" jobs

2008-01-22 Thread Phil Stracchino
le clients. Eventually these jobs will either run or terminate. I use a checkhost RunBefore that pings and pokes the client to see if it's (a) alive and (b) accepting connections on the client port. It returns a failure if either of these is false. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 ICBM:

[Bacula-devel] Of interest

2010-03-23 Thread Phil Stracchino
http://blogs.digitar.com/jjww/2008/01/snapback-the-joys-of-backing-up-mysql-with-zfs/ A tool for backing up running MySQL databases via a fast snapshot (ZFS in this case). There may be things to be learned from this for Bacula. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607

[Bacula-devel] FYI: Bacula on Gentoo

2010-03-24 Thread Phil Stracchino
FYI, app-backup/bacula-5.0.1-r2 was just added to Gentoo portage last night, under an ~x86 mask. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free

Re: [Bacula-devel] Feature Request: allow writing to multiplevolumes concurrently on file-type devices

2010-03-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/29/10 08:22, Henrik Johansen wrote: > We'll top 300+ devices per SD once we are finished migrating. I hope you'll post a full writeup somewhere. :) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metr

[Bacula-devel] DVD backup support question

2010-04-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
en burn them to DVD by other means? [1] the section in question: http://bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html#SECTION00195 Also see http://bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Current_State_Bacula.html, which says writing to DVD is supported. -- Phil St

Re: [Bacula-devel] DVD backup support question

2010-04-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/02/10 16:25, Phil Stracchino wrote: > The gripping hand is, while the > referenced section[1] is there, it's very old, dating from v1.8.x. Er, sorry, typo: I meant v1.38.x. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewy

Re: [Bacula-devel] DVD backup support question

2010-04-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/02/10 17:36, John Drescher wrote: > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: >> So: *Is* backup directly to DVD officially supported? Or is the >> recommended procedure still to write DVD-size Bacula disk volumes, then >> burn them to DVD by othe

Re: [Bacula-devel] DVD backup support question

2010-04-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/02/10 17:38, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Friday 02 April 2010 22:25:42 Phil Stracchino wrote: >> So: *Is* backup directly to DVD officially supported? > > No. We just have not removed the old code nor the old documentation. > >> Or is the >> recommended pro

Re: [Bacula-devel] [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
e new disk-only SD and volumes of any kind on the traditional SD, because Bacula does not yet support copy or migration between different SDs. At this time, both source and destination devices are required to be on the same SD. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -

Re: [Bacula-devel] [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/07/10 16:15, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 04/07/10 12:06, Robert LeBlanc wrote (in bacula-users): >> So still thinking about this, is there any reason to not have a >> hierarchical file structure for disk based backup rather than a >> serialized stream? Here are my

Re: [Bacula-devel] [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
ly to another SD, something for which at present there is no provision. With that out of the way, implementing cross-SD copy-and-migrate would probably be fairly trivial. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@

Re: [Bacula-devel] [Bacula-users] Possibility of parallelising encryption?

2010-04-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
t; > It's a trivial change that would enable Bacula to use any builtin > hardware crypto engine supported by OpenSSL. Worth making, so that by > the time the new Intel hardware hits Bacula supports it? > > -- > Craig Ringer Sounds like a good idea to me. Want to write up

Re: [Bacula-devel] [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/08/10 03:53, Craig Ringer wrote: > BTW, When I suggested that greater write concurrency would be desirable > and should be easier, Phil Stracchino raised some concerns about > concurrent writes to a file system increasing fragmentation and hurting > overall performance. Rather th

Re: [Bacula-devel] [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/08/10 09:13, Craig Ringer wrote: > Phil Stracchino wrote: >> I'll be interested to see those results. Which filesystems are you testing? > > I'm interested in ext3, ext4 and xfs. I should probably look at zfs too, > but don't have any hosts that it runs

Re: [Bacula-devel] tool for concurrent write testing with/without posix_fallocate(...)

2010-04-09 Thread Phil Stracchino
me (but may need further investigation to fully > understand). > > The above is specific to our setup so YMMV on other platforms and hardware. What precisely is the hardware platform for this test? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewy

Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula 5.0.2 released

2010-04-28 Thread Phil Stracchino
.1. Confirming clean build on Solaris 10 x86. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the yea

[Bacula-devel] Compile warnings from static 5.0.2 client-only on OpenBSD, gcc-3.3.5

2010-04-30 Thread Phil Stracchino
ignoredir': /netstore/src/bacula-5.0.2/src/findlib/find_one.c:320: warning: strcat() is almost always misused, please use strlcat() Just checking ... are these known warnings for usages we know to be correct and safe? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355

[Bacula-devel] 5.0.2 on Gentoo

2010-05-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
a/bacula-5.0.2.ebuild manifest # emerge -av app-backup/bacula The ebuild manifest step is *important*. If you do not update the manifest after patching, the ebuild checksum will be wrong, and portage will helpfully re-download the ebuild for you, undoing your work. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2

[Bacula-devel] 5.0.2 issues: --enable-client-only doesn't? Are static Linux builds still possible?

2010-05-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
retrievably corrupted its filesystem sometime on Wednesday, and I spent most of yesterday testing the disk and all yesterday evening restoring it from bare metal. Because I couldn't get even a static fd to work on the rescue CD, I ended up having to restore to a different machine and r

[Bacula-devel] Proposal: Revise configure options

2010-05-15 Thread Phil Stracchino
used. Comments? Did I miss anything that should have been obvious? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater

Re: [Bacula-devel] Proposal: Revise configure options

2010-05-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 05/16/10 09:22, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Saturday 15 May 2010 17:41:10 Phil Stracchino wrote: >> After having messed around a bit with various configuration options in >> 5.x to see what produces what results, I wish to propose that the >> primary configure options in Bacu

Re: [Bacula-devel] Proposal: Revise configure options

2010-05-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 05/16/10 16:04, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Sunday 16 May 2010 19:25:04 Phil Stracchino wrote: >> Yes, it would definitely be a non-trivial project (and one requiring >> much more knowledge of autoconf than I have). I was quite taken back to >> discover how much of the co

Re: [Bacula-devel] Proposal: Revise configure options

2010-05-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
going on here that we need to be aware of, that there are cases in which you can build what appears to be a fully static Bacula client, which all checks (file, ldd) say is statically linked, and that will actually start up on its own, but that actually still requires some system runtime libs to be a

Re: [Bacula-devel] Proposal: Revise configure options

2010-05-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
uestion of the continued need for static executables. Solaris no longer supports static linking at all; all binaries are presumed to be dynamically linked. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.

[Bacula-devel] Waiting on max storage jobs

2010-06-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
and make sure it *REALLY IS* putting out enough power *under full load* to drive everything in the system. In this case, based on my calculations, the original power supply had to be falling short of its rated power output by almost 17%. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICB

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