Re: [Bacula-users] problems with labels and misc

2005-06-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 24 June 2005 18:28, Karl Cunningham wrote: > --On Thursday, June 23, 2005 2:29 PM +0200 Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ... > > > > Yup -- and work, which is hard when it is 30+ degrees. :-) > > Perhaps an appreciative user base could take up a collection to install air > conditioning

[Bacula-users] Re: Relabeling

2005-06-24 Thread Richard White
OK. I think I have discovered the answer to my tape rotation dilemma. It's right in the manual of course. (I hope I can be forgiven for not reading the entire 548-page manual before installing and trying the software.) If I use the Full Backup Pool and Differential Backup Pool directives, it loo

Re: [Bacula-users] Implementing a simple backup strategy

2005-06-24 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, one question to all the list users: Do you also get the impression that this is a FAQ? In which case someone could probably write a short chapter for the manual? (Perhaps even I could... I'll see if I find the time soon). Hendrik Weimer wrote: Hello, I have started using Bacula a f

Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger problem

2005-06-24 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Michael Riexinger wrote: hi, i had a running bacula 1.36 with an dell 136t lto library. Now i upgraded to 1.37.25 with a fresh databases. I used the update slots and the label barcodes command. The label barcodes command said, that the tapes are already labeled. But now no tape is seen in

RE: [Bacula-users] Winbacula StartServiceCtrlDispatcher failed

2005-06-24 Thread Gary Kopp
Russell, Thanks for your help. The problem has now disappeared, and I can status the problematic FD just fine. I did delete the unneeded HKLM entry (and even found it on my "good" workstation). I really didn't do anything else, so the earlier FD "problem" wasn't really the failure of the FD to

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with labels and misc

2005-06-24 Thread Karl Cunningham
--On Thursday, June 23, 2005 2:29 PM +0200 Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 23 June 2005 13:34, Arno Lehmann wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Kern Sibbald wrote: >> > On Thursday 23 June 2005 09:57, Arno Lehmann wrote: >> >> variables: >> >> Yes, and after experimenting a bit I hope p

[Bacula-users] Re: Relabeling

2005-06-24 Thread Richard White
> I assume that the tape is still in the Default pool? Then you must > select that pool, also with the relable command. > > Moving tapes is done by updating volumes and selecting pool. > Labeling writes a label onto them themand puts them in a pool. > So, I assume you'd have to use relabel for the

Re: [Bacula-users] Splitting bacula-dir.conf / FileSets

2005-06-24 Thread Karl Cunningham
--On Thursday, June 23, 2005 4:08 PM +0200 Sebastian Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I meant something different. > > If I change a fileset then bacula will upgrade the next job to a full > backup for consistency reasons. That's documented behaviour and has > nothing to do with the reload

Re: [Bacula-users] Winbacula StartServiceCtrlDispatcher failed

2005-06-24 Thread Russell Howe
Gary Kopp wrote: > Bacula error: 1063 at ..\..\filed\win32\winservice.cpp: 325, > StartServiceCtrlDispatcher failed. The service process could not connect > to the service controller. > > Any ideas on where I can look to find out what the service control > dispatcher is having a problem with? I d

Re: [Bacula-users] Thinking of implementing bacula have a couple ?'s.

2005-06-24 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Thursday 23 June 2005 11:05 am, Sean wrote: > 2. Can bacula be compiled on a 64-bit linux system? (I imagine it could, > but has anyone had experience with this?) I haven't, personally, compiled it, but I've been running a 64-bit Bacula for over six months now on AMD64 Debian, Sarge. The packa

[Bacula-users] Winbacula StartServiceCtrlDispatcher failed

2005-06-24 Thread Gary Kopp
The winbacula FD is running fine on one of my two XP SP2 workstations. But on the other workstation at first glance everything looks OK; the cassette icon is there and shows a normal, idle status. But the Director can't connect to this FD. It turns out the FD didn't actually start correctly, but

Re: [Bacula-users] Changing tapes without console interaction.

2005-06-24 Thread Attila Fülöp
Frank, sorry, but that's not exactly right, everybody in group operator has tape access: crw-rw 1 root operator 229, 1 Jun 23 01:41 /dev/nsa0.0 user bacula is in group operator and bacula-sd runs as bacula:operator. bacula-dir runs as bacula:bacula. Therefore there is no need to run b

[Bacula-users] Implementing a simple backup strategy

2005-06-24 Thread Hendrik Weimer
Hello, I have started using Bacula a few weeks ago and I must say that it is really impressive. At the moment, I'm trying to implement a rather simple setup. I want to do a daily backup on a single computer using a tape drive. The backup strategy is simple: always overwrite the currently inserted

Re: [Bacula-users] Changing tapes without console interaction.

2005-06-24 Thread Frank Altpeter
2005/6/24, Attila Fülöp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The problem is, the FreeBSD Port installs bconsole with > 754 (rwxr-xr--) root:wheel and the director fails to execute > it since it runs as user+group bacula. Same problem with > bconsole.conf and (gnome|wx)-console. > > Is this a bacula "feature" or

[Bacula-users] Changing tapes without console interaction.

2005-06-24 Thread Attila Fülöp
Hi, If i understand the manual correctly, i need to write RunBefore/RunAfter scripts to mount/unmount the tapes automatically. I wrote two scripts to mount the tape before backup starts and to unmount and eject it after backup finishes. Both are run as RunBefore/RunAfter scripts in the aprop. Jo

[Bacula-users] autochanger problem

2005-06-24 Thread Michael Riexinger
hi, i had a running bacula 1.36 with an dell 136t lto library. Now i upgraded to 1.37.25 with a fresh databases. I used the update slots and the label barcodes command. The label barcodes command said, that the tapes are already labeled. But now no tape is seen in 'list volumes'. And when doing a

[Bacula-users] backup of remote client randomly errors

2005-06-24 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I have a problem with latest bacula and remote backup. I am running bacula-dir on a Linux box, and want to backup some remote machines running Linux (with 2.4 kernel) as well. Only a firewall is in between, open for all 3 ports 9101:9103. Unfortunately I can't give an exact error descr

Re: [Bacula-users] Relabelling a volume with status "Error"

2005-06-24 Thread Andrei Mikhailovsky
You can also try to change the status of the volume from the console and then relabel it. That is what i did; worked fine ;-) Andrei On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 17:19 +1000, Jesus Salvo Jr. wrote: > I presume I cannot use the relabel command within the console to relable a > volume that has a status o

Re: [Bacula-users] Thinking of implementing bacula have a couple?'s.

2005-06-24 Thread Juan Luis Frances
I have tested it on fedora core 3 x64. It compiles and runs ok. > > 2. Can bacula be compiled on a 64-bit linux system? (I imagine it could, > > but has anyone had experience with this?) > > If I'm not mistaken, it should compile (I seem to recall reading about > this on the list, you might want

Re: [Bacula-users] Thinking of implementing bacula have a couple?'s.

2005-06-24 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sean wrote: Hello everyone, The company I work for is in the process of overhauling our enterprise and I have been looking for viable backup solutions. Bacula has peaked my interest but I have a few short sweet questions that I was hoping some of yo

[Bacula-users] Backup to hotswap SATA drives?

2005-06-24 Thread Roland
I am wondering if it is possible to use bacula to use a removable SATA drive as a backup device? I.e. will bacula coope with the fact, that if using files as backup volumes, that they are not always in the expected place? RS --- SF.Net email

[Bacula-users] Thinking of implementing bacula have a couple ?'s.

2005-06-24 Thread Sean
Hello everyone, The company I work for is in the process of overhauling our enterprise and I have been looking for viable backup solutions. Bacula has peaked my interest but I have a few short sweet questions that I was hoping some of you might have the answers to. 1. Can bacula handle databas

Re: [Bacula-users] Relabelling a volume with status "Error"

2005-06-24 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (*) The volume got to the status of error because while backing up to the volume, the directory exited for whatever reason when I did a "query" on the console while a backup job was running. This left backup job incomplete on the volume. So I tried t

Fw: [Bacula-users] director can't connect to the file deamon

2005-06-24 Thread Talal Chaaban
Can someone help me  on this .   Best Regards,__ - Original Message - From: Talal Chaaban To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 9:40 AM Subject: [Bacula-users] director can't connect

Re: [Bacula-users] Relabelling a volume with status "Error"

2005-06-24 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Jesus Salvo Jr. wrote: I presume I cannot use the relabel command within the console to relable a volume that has a status of "Error" (*) Never tried it. So here's what I am thinking of doing: 1) delete the volume from the catalog via "delete volume= pool=" command in the console 2)

Re: [Bacula-users] Relabeling

2005-06-24 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Richard White wrote: I want to relabel a tape that is now called "Daily_4", and is part of the Default pool. I have created pools Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Weekly. This volume has never been written to, and it is marked "purged". If I use the label command, tell Bacula

[Bacula-users] Relabelling a volume with status "Error"

2005-06-24 Thread Jesus Salvo Jr.
I presume I cannot use the relabel command within the console to relable a volume that has a status of "Error" (*) So here's what I am thinking of doing: 1) delete the volume from the catalog via "delete volume= pool=" command in the console 2) Do a: mt rewind mt weof 3) label the volume aga

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with labels and misc

2005-06-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 24 June 2005 03:25, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 09:13:36PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Thursday 23 June 2005 18:02, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 12:59:22PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > > Now is *really* the time for people to start trying Pyt

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling again while de-spooling to tape

2005-06-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 24 June 2005 00:57, Jesus Salvo Jr. wrote: > On Friday 24 June 2005 00:32, Chris Lee wrote: > > I'm interested in this also. Perhaps a Minimum Spool Size directive so > > that the spool reaches a critical size to avoid shoe shining tapes, and > > once that size is reached the storage dae