[Bacula-users] Tape usage question

2005-08-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
Kern, This question is probably your bailiwick. In the event of a failed job in bacula, is there any existing mechanism to tell Bacula to (logically) erase that job from the tape and treat that portion of the tape as unused? Logic says it should be basically a simple matter of resetting VolBytes

Re: [Bacula-users] Differential Backup to which Full backup ?

2005-08-13 Thread Philipp Steinkrueger
Phil Stracchino wrote: Philipp Steinkrueger wrote: Phil Stracchino wrote: Well, there are future features coming that will make much of this easier, including the copy job (duplicate media), and the migration job (migrate a job from disk to tape). These would allow you to: 1. Make ful

Re: [Bacula-users] Differential Backup to which Full backup ?

2005-08-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
Philipp Steinkrueger wrote: > Phil Stracchino wrote: >> Well, there are future features coming that will make much of this >> easier, including the copy job (duplicate media), and the migration job >> (migrate a job from disk to tape). These would allow you to: >> >> 1. Make full backup >> 2. Dupli

Re: [Bacula-users] Differential Backup to which Full backup ?

2005-08-13 Thread Philipp Steinkrueger
Phil Stracchino wrote: Philipp Steinkrueger wrote: Okay, i'll try to explain my idea again: I have two primary goals: G1: Protect data against burn down of the autochanger location G2: Be able to restore any data anytime without inserting tapes into the autochanger I dont think there are

Re: [Bacula-users] Failing jobs.

2005-08-13 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Saturday 13 August 2005 16:21, James Ashton wrote: > Using 1.36.3 at the moment. OK. The problem is that you are trying to "mount" two different Volumes at the same time on a single SD Device. That may sound wrong or odd to you, but Bacula treats Disk Volumes almost identically to tape Volu

Re: [Bacula-users] Differential Backup to which Full backup ?

2005-08-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
Philipp Steinkrueger wrote: > Okay, i'll try to explain my idea again: > > I have two primary goals: > > G1: Protect data against burn down of the autochanger location > G2: Be able to restore any data anytime without inserting tapes into the > autochanger > > I dont think there are many options

RE: [Bacula-users] Failing jobs.

2005-08-13 Thread James Ashton
Using 1.36.3 at the moment. James Ashton Peering and Network OPS Vortech Inc AS32065 -Original Message- From: Kern Sibbald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 10:12 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: James Ashton Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Failing jobs

Re: [Bacula-users] Failing jobs.

2005-08-13 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, What version of Bacula are you using? On Saturday 13 August 2005 15:59, James Ashton wrote: > Hello, > We are backing up around 130 boxes using bacula. We have a directory box > with 4 backup servers and are backup up using Files on a 1 large raid array > for each of these backup servers.

[Bacula-users] Failing jobs.

2005-08-13 Thread James Ashton
Hello, We are backing up around 130 boxes using bacula. We have a directory box with 4 backup servers and are backup up using Files on a 1 large raid array for each of these backup servers. Each night I gent dozens of failed Jobs. The errors are all similar to: 13-Aug 08:43 backup3-sd: unix3.2

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup / Restore of DB2 Databases using Fifo's

2005-08-13 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Phil, On Friday 12 August 2005 20:52, Phil Stracchino wrote: > Thomas E. Ruth wrote: > > I havn't been able to automate a restore completely within bacula for > > DB2 databases, but I've gotten close. The bacula restore process > > creates a FIFO with only root permissions but doesn't chang

Re: [Bacula-users] Differential Backup to which Full backup ?

2005-08-13 Thread Philipp Steinkrueger
Hi Phil, I'm not sure I see what you're after here. In general, it would be a bad idea -- and increase the amount of data to back up -- to make a differential against anything BUT the latest full backup. I utterly fail to see how intentionally running a differential against an older Full backu