Re: [Fwd: [Bacula-users] restore files]

2005-08-23 Thread Dmitry S. Vlasov
thanks a lot :) Kern Sibbald wrote: On Tuesday 23 August 2005 20:08, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, Dmitry S. Vlasov wrote: Hm I decide to wait and got this after ~38 minutes: JobId: 47 Job:RestoreFiles.2005-08-23_18.24.28 Client:

[Bacula-users] Bad Response to Append Data Command

2005-08-23 Thread Aaron Summers
This error is appearing more and more. Sometimes the backups run, sometimes I get the following error: We are obviously writing data to a file, other backups are running on the machine. I am perplexed since sometimes it works, other times it fails. 23-Aug 20:36 vortech-dir: Start Backup JobId 2

Re: [Bacula-users] bsmtp still uses the old IP address

2005-08-23 Thread Bradley D. Larson
Previously I have done (many times in trying to solve this) a: ./bacula restart to stop and start bacula my problem continued. This time (for something completely different) I performed a ./bacula stop ./bacula start and the IP is correct Martin Simmons wrote: On Mon, 2

RE: [Bacula-users] FW: Other testimonials?

2005-08-23 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 16:42 -0500, Quintin Giesbrecht wrote: > Point taken, sorry for mis-leading - I guess I meant that the basic > day-to-day stuff can be done by anyone - yes, restores need a system > admin, or at least someone with some training specific to bacula / > basic > linux. Quite so.

RE: [Bacula-users] FW: Other testimonials?

2005-08-23 Thread Quintin Giesbrecht
Point taken, sorry for mis-leading - I guess I meant that the basic day-to-day stuff can be done by anyone - yes, restores need a system admin, or at least someone with some training specific to bacula / basic linux. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On B

RE: [Bacula-users] FW: Other testimonials?

2005-08-23 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 16:10 -0500, Quintin Giesbrecht wrote: > Restores work fine too, and regardless of what software you run, > should > be done by a sys admin, imho. > > Changing tapes, and checking the backup should be able to be done by > anyone, and bacula is quite capable of that. > > The

RE: [Bacula-users] FW: Other testimonials?

2005-08-23 Thread Quintin Giesbrecht
Restores work fine too, and regardless of what software you run, should be done by a sys admin, imho. Changing tapes, and checking the backup should be able to be done by anyone, and bacula is quite capable of that. The reason I mentioned only 3 weeks, is because that is when the new drive went i

[Bacula-users] why do i need to label this?

2005-08-23 Thread Joe Stump
Bacula gives me this error:23-Aug 14:06 camus-sd: Job camus-weekly-tape-job.2005-08-23_14.05.34 waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes.Please use the "label"  command to create a new Volume for:    Storage:      tape-storage    Media type:   DDS-4    Pool:         camus-weekly-tape-poolDespite

Re: [Bacula-users] bsmtp still uses the old IP address

2005-08-23 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:25:21 -0400, Ryan Novosielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: Ryan> Make sure you did a reload, and make sure the config file you think you Ryan> are using is the one you're actually using. The "show all" console command is useful here to see what is loaded. __

RE: [Bacula-users] FW: Other testimonials?

2005-08-23 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 15:09 -0500, Quintin Giesbrecht wrote: > I would like to point out, that using bacula-web together with bacula, I > NEVER have to go to the console to do anything - I have everything > scripted - I backup 6 servers - all to ONE 100/200GB LTO tape. I don't > even check the bac

Re: [Bacula-users] errors with 1.37.36 version

2005-08-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Well, the first thing that I see is that you are using an autochanger but have not defined an Autochanger resource in the SD. Under 1.37.30, this might have continued to work as it did in 1.36, because the new autochanger code was only partially implemented. In 1.37.36, you *must* use

RE: [Bacula-users] FW: Other testimonials?

2005-08-23 Thread Quintin Giesbrecht
I would like to point out, that using bacula-web together with bacula, I NEVER have to go to the console to do anything - I have everything scripted - I backup 6 servers - all to ONE 100/200GB LTO tape. I don't even check the backup - a lower tech on the totem pole checks the backup / changes tape

Re: [Bacula-users] FW: Other testimonials?

2005-08-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 21:21, Ron Wheeler wrote: > Bacula requires an operator as opposed to a more simple system like > Lone-tar where you just have a secretary stick in the next tape and the > backup runs. Yes this is true if all you have is one system or a few systems where all the data fit

Re: [Bacula-users] FW: Other testimonials?

2005-08-23 Thread Landon Fuller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | Disks are very convenient but a bit expensive for archival storage. A 72 GB DAT tape is about $20. A hard drive is a bit more. | | You have to think about the the threats that you are protecting against. These are real problems -- I'll address how

Re: [Bacula-users] after machine shutdown and restart, tapes are not recognized

2005-08-23 Thread Stelios Kyriacou
problem resolved: Here is the solution in case it helps someone else. With help from a private email from Sam De Francesco who pointed out that maybe there is a problem with tape writing, and help from a colleague here, I was able to pinpoint down the problem to need for a cleaning tape to c

Re: [Bacula-users] errors with 1.37.36 version

2005-08-23 Thread Jeronimo Zucco
Sorry, follow a description complete for my problems whith 1.37.36 version: We have 2 autoloaders (both have just one LTO2 drive) connected to one Intel server. We have being running bacula 1.37.30 without problems so far. Today we have upgraded to 1.37.36 and start to get this error: bacula-sd:

[Bacula-users] FW: Other testimonials?

2005-08-23 Thread Ron Wheeler
Bacula requires an operator as opposed to a more simple system like Lone-tar where you just have a secretary stick in the next tape and the backup runs. The handling and labeling of tapes is critical with bacula since backups can be spread all over the place and bacula wants to manage the tap

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Severe problem: director hangs in production system

2005-08-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 20:26, Martin Simmons wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:44:45 +0200, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > said: > > Kern> On Tuesday 23 August 2005 13:35, Martin Simmons wrote: > >> > On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:30:45 +0200, Kern Sibbald > >> > <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [Fwd: [Bacula-users] restore files]

2005-08-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 20:08, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > Dmitry S. Vlasov wrote: > > Hm > > I decide to wait and got this after ~38 minutes: > > > > JobId: 47 > > Job:RestoreFiles.2005-08-23_18.24.28 > > Client: main-fd > > Start ti

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula.db-journal?

2005-08-23 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Doug Sampson wrote: Below is a status report from bacula with an error message- "23-Aug 00:12 orion-fd: Could not stat /var/db/bacula/bacula.db-journal: ERR=No such file or directory". ... I cannot find any reference to that file in any of my FD, SD nor Dir conf files. I've searched

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Severe problem: director hangs in production system

2005-08-23 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:44:45 +0200, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Kern> On Tuesday 23 August 2005 13:35, Martin Simmons wrote: >> > On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:30:45 +0200, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > said: >> Kern> Hello Volker, >> Kern> I've now found

[Bacula-users] bacula.db-journal?

2005-08-23 Thread Doug Sampson
Below is a status report from bacula with an error message- "23-Aug 00:12 orion-fd: Could not stat /var/db/bacula/bacula.db-journal: ERR=No such file or directory". 23-Aug 00:05 orion-dir: Start Backup JobId 233, Job=Orion.2005-08-23_00.05.00 23-Aug 00:05 orion-sd: Volume "Tuesday-0001" previ

Re: [Fwd: [Bacula-users] restore files]

2005-08-23 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Dmitry S. Vlasov wrote: Hm I decide to wait and got this after ~38 minutes: JobId: 47 Job:RestoreFiles.2005-08-23_18.24.28 Client: main-fd Start time: 23-Aug-2005 18:24:30 End time: 23-Aug-2005 19:02:18

Re: [Bacula-users] **Long Post** Bacula doesn't seem to recognize my schedule

2005-08-23 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Robert W Hartzell wrote: Greetings all, I have been working on this for a few days but can't seem to get it right. Bacula seems to ignore my schedule and wants to run my jobs every night instead of the Full job once a month and the differential job every 2nd-5th Sunday. I ran a full

Re: [Bacula-users] despooling data

2005-08-23 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 18:59 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > I can't quite figure out the above sentence. Ok, I'll try to rephrase. My current spool size is 60gigs. My tape size is 100gigs uncompressed, and my total backup job size for all my servers is roughly 350gigs. When backups start, all my se

Re: [Bacula-users] despooling data

2005-08-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 18:47, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 09:30 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Multiple jobs may simultaneously spool, but only one job despools at a > > time all other jobs that are spooling continue spooling, all other jobs > > that want to despool wait their t

Re: [Bacula-users] despooling data

2005-08-23 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 09:30 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Multiple jobs may simultaneously spool, but only one job despools at a time > all other jobs that are spooling continue spooling, all other jobs that want > to despool wait their turn. This is only true if the spool is larger than all t

Re: [Bacula-users] ClientRunBefore only for Full Backup?

2005-08-23 Thread Karl Cunningham
--On Monday, August 22, 2005 9:26 PM -0400 Phil Stracchino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Karl Cunningham wrote: >> Hi All -- >> >> I have a need to execute a ClientRunBefore script on full backup but not >> on incremental for the same client. Does anyone know of a way to do >> this? > > Oy. > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Upgraded jobs not using full pool

2005-08-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 17:07, Thomas Simmons wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Monday 22 August 2005 14:21, Thomas Simmons wrote: > >>Kern Sibbald wrote: > >>>On Monday 22 August 2005 04:32, Peter Sjoberg wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 01:38 -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote: > >Thomas Simm

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrency with a single tape drive?

2005-08-23 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Josh Endries wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is it possible to have multiple clients back up nightly to a bacula server with one autochanger? Yes. I've been trying to get mine going with three test clients but, even though spooling works, it does them one at a time

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Severe problem: director hangs in production system

2005-08-23 Thread José Luis Tallón
Volker Sauer wrote: >On Di, 23 Aug 2005, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Is there any chance you can upgrade to version 1.37.36 at least for this >>machine? I'm 99% sure I've resolved all these kinds of lockups in the >>Director. You would be a really good test case. >> >>

[Fwd: [Bacula-users] restore files]

2005-08-23 Thread Dmitry S. Vlasov
Hm I decide to wait and got this after ~38 minutes: JobId: 47 Job:RestoreFiles.2005-08-23_18.24.28 Client: main-fd Start time: 23-Aug-2005 18:24:30 End time: 23-Aug-2005 19:02:18 Files Expected: 1 Files

[Bacula-users] **Long Post** Bacula doesn't seem to recognize my schedule

2005-08-23 Thread Robert W Hartzell
Greetings all, I have been working on this for a few days but can't seem to get it right. Bacula seems to ignore my schedule and wants to run my jobs every night instead of the Full job once a month and the differential job every 2nd-5th Sunday. I ran a full job after setting up bacula but all

Re: [Bacula-users] errors with 1.37.36 version

2005-08-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 16:18, Jeronimo Zucco wrote: > Another problem: the warnings e erros sending by e-mail having the date 30 > of december of 1969, with version 1.37.36. :-) I'm sorry, but if you don't send some sample output and explain the context, there is zero anyone can do about your

Re: [Bacula-users] Upgraded jobs not using full pool

2005-08-23 Thread Thomas Simmons
Kern Sibbald wrote: On Monday 22 August 2005 14:21, Thomas Simmons wrote: Kern Sibbald wrote: On Monday 22 August 2005 04:32, Peter Sjoberg wrote: On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 01:38 -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote: Thomas Simmons wrote: No one has any thoughts on this? Thanks, Thomas Thomas Sim

[Bacula-users] Concurrency with a single tape drive?

2005-08-23 Thread Josh Endries
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is it possible to have multiple clients back up nightly to a bacula server with one autochanger? I've been trying to get mine going with three test clients but, even though spooling works, it does them one at a time. The only thing I can think of is b

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Severe problem: director hangs in production system

2005-08-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 16:07, Volker Sauer wrote: > On Di, 23 Aug 2005, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there any chance you can upgrade to version 1.37.36 at least for this > > machine? I'm 99% sure I've resolved all these kinds of lockups in the > > Director. You would be a re

Re: [Bacula-users] errors with 1.37.36 version

2005-08-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 16:05, Jeronimo Zucco wrote: > I have bacula running today with version 1.37.30, 2 HP autoloaders, > whithout problems. > > I upgrade to version 1.37.36 (for tests), and the following error occurs: > > bacula-sd: 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded. >

Re: [Bacula-users] mount USB disk

2005-08-23 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Daniel Bloemer wrote: Hello, Alan Brown wrote: Each usb mass stoarge device has a unique serial number - this can be mapped to a fixed mount point. Not every usb-device has this. Some Chips just return vendor- and productID . :-( Anything which does this is arguab

[Bacula-users] Testing Bacula with Tandberg SDLT 320

2005-08-23 Thread Syed Ali Saim
Hi all, Testing Tandberg Data SDLT 320 with bacula, btape tests are fine, lets see what happens with the real backup and restore, just sharing info incase someone might find it usefull Regards Syed Ali Saim Implementation Engineer www.emergen.biz --

RE: [Bacula-users] Incremental backup does a "full" most of the time?

2005-08-23 Thread Jan Johansson
>you have to increase the Volume numbers I thought this setup created new volumes "as needed"? smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [Bacula-users] errors with 1.37.36 version

2005-08-23 Thread Jeronimo Zucco
Another problem: the warnings e erros sending by e-mail having the date 30 of december of 1969, with version 1.37.36. :-) -- Jeronimo Zucco LPIC-1 Linux Professional Institute Certified Núcleo de Processamento de Dados Universidade de Caxias do Sul Citando Jeronimo Zucco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula status

2005-08-23 Thread Ryan Novosielski
From my experience, and I'm sure someone's already said this... the best was to get money, at least where I work, is to consider the money a support contract. My superiors like running software without a support contract even less than they like paying for things. ;) _ _ _ _ ___ _ _

[Bacula-users] restore files

2005-08-23 Thread Dmitry S. Vlasov
Hello! I've a problem while try to restore files. I've create a fake job (like it describe on manual): Job { Name = "RestoreFiles" Type = Restore Client = main-fd FileSet="FullSet" Storage = File Pool = Default Messages = Standard Where = /tmp/restore } and then try restore some backuped

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Severe problem: director hangs in production system

2005-08-23 Thread Volker Sauer
On Di, 23 Aug 2005, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there any chance you can upgrade to version 1.37.36 at least for this > machine? I'm 99% sure I've resolved all these kinds of lockups in the > Director. You would be a really good test case. Actually I wanted to wait for 1.38

[Bacula-users] errors with 1.37.36 version

2005-08-23 Thread Jeronimo Zucco
I have bacula running today with version 1.37.30, 2 HP autoloaders, whithout problems. I upgrade to version 1.37.36 (for tests), and the following error occurs: bacula-sd: 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded. 23-Ago 09:27 pan-fd: PanJob.2005-08-23_09.25.22 Fatal error: job.c

[Bacula-users] end user Bacula wishlist

2005-08-23 Thread Felix Schwarz
Hi all, I just wanted to tell about some features I would like to see implemented in/with Bacula. These features came to my mind after experimenting with a new business idea: Many people and small enterprises don't have real backups right now. My idea is to give them older PCs (currently small Co

[Bacula-users] RE: [Bacula-devel] Bacula status

2005-08-23 Thread David Boyes
> 2. I've looked into the idea of creating a Bacula Foundation, > and if done here in Switzerland where I live, it will cost > about $2000-3000 to create and $2000-3000 per year for > administrative fees (accounting, audit, ...) to run. > At this point, this is not feasible. If you wouldn't

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Severe problem: director hangs in production system

2005-08-23 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:28:53 +0200, Volker Sauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Volker> On Di, 23 Aug 2005, Martin Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:30:45 +0200, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>= Volker> said: >> =20 Kern> I've now found the time to loo

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Severe problem: director hangs in production system

2005-08-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
Try running Bacula without the debugger. If it still crashes or locks up, then you will need to run it under the debugger. Is there any chance you can upgrade to version 1.37.36 at least for this machine? I'm 99% sure I've resolved all these kinds of lockups in the Director. You would be a r

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Severe problem: director hangs in production system

2005-08-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 13:35, Martin Simmons wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:30:45 +0200, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > said: > > Kern> Hello Volker, > > Kern> I've now found the time to look over your debug output below. My > analysis Kern> leads me to believe that what is

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Severe problem: director hangs in production system

2005-08-23 Thread Volker Sauer
On Di, 23 Aug 2005, Martin Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:30:45 +0200, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > said: > > Kern> I've now found the time to look over your debug output below. My > analysis > Kern> leads me to believe that what is show is "i

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Severe problem: director hangs in production system

2005-08-23 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 12:30:45 +0200, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Kern> Hello Volker, Kern> I've now found the time to look over your debug output below. My analysis Kern> leads me to believe that what is show is "impossible". That is the code flow Kern> as created in

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Severe problem: director hangs in production system

2005-08-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Volker, I've now found the time to look over your debug output below. My analysis leads me to believe that what is show is "impossible". That is the code flow as created in the source code cannot possibly do what is indicated in the dump. What is shown in the dump is that the subroutine

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula status

2005-08-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 23 August 2005 10:51, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hello, > > nice to see see you all busy again :-) > > After my vacation, I already upgraded to 1.37.36 to continue testing. > And I even skimmed the heap of list mail. > > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Hello, > > ... > > > 2. I've looked into the ide

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula status

2005-08-23 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, nice to see see you all busy again :-) After my vacation, I already upgraded to 1.37.36 to continue testing. And I even skimmed the heap of list mail. Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, ... 2. I've looked into the idea of creating a Bacula Foundation, and if done here in Switzerland where I

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula status

2005-08-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello David, On Monday 22 August 2005 22:24, you wrote: > > 2. I've looked into the idea of creating a Bacula Foundation, > > and if done here in Switzerland where I live, it will cost > > about $2000-3000 to create and $2000-3000 per year for > > administrative fees (accounting, audit, ...) to ru

Re: [Bacula-users] despooling data

2005-08-23 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 22 August 2005 23:07, Jesse Keating wrote: > I'm spooling data before it gets written to tape, and I run multiple > jobs at the same time. My spool size is smaller than a single tape > size, so I have to flush the spool pretty often. Because of this each > tape can have a little bit of