[Bacula-users] Bacula dir crashing

2005-09-13 Thread Arunav Mandal
Now I got another problem bacula dir crashed without any reason. What debug level I should use to see what's going on? Arunav. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download

Re: [Bacula-users] commandline for "update all volumes from pool" ?

2005-09-13 Thread Matthias Kurz
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: [...] > There is no single command line that can do update all volumes from pool. > Unfortunately, not every option of every command is available through command > line arguments. Thanks, this saved my time, because i planned to dig through the code

Re: [Bacula-users] Rescue disk problems on a FC 4 box

2005-09-13 Thread Aleksandar Milivojevic
Kern Sibbald wrote: As far as I know, this is not a bug with Bacula, and there is nothing I can do to fix it. Bacula does not restore file permissions with user/group names, but rather uses the Ids. As noted in the document, if you try to restore files to a different system with a different

[Bacula-users] Re: strange network problem with windows client

2005-09-13 Thread Michael Dauer
Arthur Emerson III wrote: > If "outside the LAN" includes a network address translation (NAT) > router, then you will need to configure it to pass port 9102 > traffic through to your WinXP system. The quick test for the > presense of a NAT device is to type "ipconfig" at a command > prompt. If y

Re: [Bacula-users] Accidental Purge

2005-09-13 Thread Glen Davison
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 16:46, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hello, > > On 13.09.2005 07:42, Glen Davison wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > we run bacula-mysql-1.36.3-1 with a bunch of homegrown perl scripts > > under Linux (RHEL3). We use it to archive (static, structured data) not > > for incremental back

Re: [Bacula-users] recycling status

2005-09-13 Thread Jesús Arnáiz
Hi there Arno Lehmann wrote: Hello, On 13.09.2005 19:14, Jesús Arnáiz wrote: Hi there. I use Version: 1.36.3 of bacula. I use file disk as storage media. In our configuration we have the default Pool with these options: (...) Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 90 days (...)

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-13 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 22:31, Arunav Mandal wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Kern Sibbald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Cc: "Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Arunav Mandal" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 10:26 PM > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Tape e

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-13 Thread Arunav Mandal
- Original Message - From: "Kern Sibbald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: "Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Arunav Mandal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 10:26 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error On Tuesday 13 September 2005 19:07, Dan Langille wrote:

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-13 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 19:07, Dan Langille wrote: > On 13 Sep 2005 at 19:00, Arunav Mandal wrote: > > I have seen errors given below quite often even with new tapes. This > > happens mostly when I try to restore files from a tape that has been > > recently written and got a Append tag. It res

Re: [Bacula-users] Compiling 1.36.3 on FreeBSD 2.x and 3.x

2005-09-13 Thread Kern Sibbald
It looks to me like you are using a g++ that is too old. Anything before 2.95 is likely to be unusable. Bacula has never been built or run on a pre-4.x FreeBSD to the best of my knowledge. On Tuesday 13 September 2005 16:24, Brian Keifer wrote: > Greetings! > > I've been tasked with backing up

Re: [Bacula-users] Rescue disk problems on a FC 4 box

2005-09-13 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 15:19, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > Quoting Trevor Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > > > > I just got Bacula up and running on a FC 4 box and I am backing up a > > FC 3 and a RH 9 box. This is a great program with excellent > > documentation. My question is I

Re: [Bacula-users] commandline for "update all volumes from pool" ?

2005-09-13 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 13 September 2005 08:53, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > On 12.09.2005 18:54, Matthias Kurz wrote: > > ... > > > Sorry. I'm running the development version (very latest from CVS). > > 'update all volumes from pool[=]' does the same as > > 'update pool[=]'. The media/volume records are unch

Re: [Bacula-users] Rescue disk problems on a FC 4 box

2005-09-13 Thread Kern Sibbald
Please try downloading and using: www.sibbald.com/download/bacula-rescue-1.8.0.tar.gz Please read the README carefully, as the configuration is totally different from the 1.36 rescue disk. I believe but am not sure that the development documentation has been appropriately updated. On Tuesd

Re: [Bacula-users] Prefer Tapes in AutoChanger? (Modified by Bill McGonigle)

2005-09-13 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 13.09.2005 19:47, Bill McGonigle wrote: On Sep 13, 2005, at 12:42, Arno Lehmann wrote: You're using 1.36.3 or lower, right? The see the directive "Accept Any Volume" in the pool definition chapter in the manual. http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/ Configuring_Director.html#SECTION000

Re: [Bacula-users] recycling status

2005-09-13 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 13.09.2005 19:14, Jesús Arnáiz wrote: Hi there. I use Version: 1.36.3 of bacula. I use file disk as storage media. In our configuration we have the default Pool with these options: (...) Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 90 days (...) It is posible to know the statu

RE: [Bacula-users] Re: Restoring to a Running Linux System

2005-09-13 Thread Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure)
Go to http://www.knoppix.net instead then. >From the change-log: * V3.9-2005-05-27 - OpenOffice 2.0 BETA (german and english) - KDE 3.4.0 from alioth - Kernel 2.6.11.10 - Small WIFI and hwsetup updates - unionfs update - dist-upgrade from sid Version 4 is currently only released on DVD, but the

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula & Disk-to-disk

2005-09-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
Bill Szkotnicki wrote: > Thanks for the very useful info below. > More questions: > > If the system bacula is running on crashes what does one do? > If all you have left is a bunch of volumes then you have to go through the > arduous "bare metal" process. > The manual talks about backing up the da

RE: [Bacula-users] Re: Restoring to a Running Linux System

2005-09-13 Thread Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure)
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Dauer Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 6:40 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] Re: Restoring to a Running Linux System Phil Stracchino wrote: > Michael Dauer wrote: > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Prefer Tapes in AutoChanger? (Modified by Bill McGonigle)

2005-09-13 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Sep 13, 2005, at 12:42, Arno Lehmann wrote: You're using 1.36.3 or lower, right? The see the directive "Accept Any Volume" in the pool definition chapter in the manual. http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/ Configuring_Director.html#SECTION000141 It should do what you want,

RE: [Bacula-users] Bacula & Disk-to-disk

2005-09-13 Thread Bill Szkotnicki
Thanks for the very useful info below. More questions: If the system bacula is running on crashes what does one do? If all you have left is a bunch of volumes then you have to go through the arduous "bare metal" process. The manual talks about backing up the database. If you have done that and ha

Re: [Bacula-users] can't reload config files from bconsole

2005-09-13 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Dan Langille -- > Reload is not implemetned in 1.34.4. It was introduced in a later > version. ahh ok thanks, I will update it then... :) -- I'll get a bunch of monkeys, dress 'em up, and make 'em reenact the Civil War! Heh, heh, heh! -- Homer Simpson Homer t

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
Arunav Mandal wrote: > - Original Message - From: "Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> On 13 Sep 2005 at 19:00, Arunav Mandal wrote: >>> Error: I canot write on Volume "SDLT010" because: >>> The number of files mismatch! Volume=303 Catalog=301 >>> 13-Sep 16:32 abc-sd: Marking Volume "SDLT0

Re: [Bacula-users] Disabling hardware compression, again

2005-09-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
Marcus wrote: > Rather then fight it, is there a problem with me > leaving data compression on? I wanted to avoid that > since I thought it would slow the drive down (my data > isn't very compressable). But the drive seems to > prefer (or provoke) running compressed. My high > priority is to prolon

Re: [Bacula-users] can't reload config files from bconsole

2005-09-13 Thread Dan Langille
On 13 Sep 2005 at 19:21, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > Hi all, > > I am running bacula 1.34.4 on my workstation. Config seems to work, but > when I want to reload it from bconsole, I get the following error: > > *reload > You have messages. > *mess > 13-Sep-2005 19:19 itchy-dir: Error: Com

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-13 Thread Dan Langille
On 13 Sep 2005 at 19:23, Arunav Mandal wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Arunav Mandal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 7:07 PM > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error > > > > On 13 Sep 2005 at 19:00, Arunav M

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-13 Thread Arunav Mandal
- Original Message - From: "Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Arunav Mandal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 7:07 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error On 13 Sep 2005 at 19:00, Arunav Mandal wrote: I have seen errors given below quite often even

[Bacula-users] can't reload config files from bconsole

2005-09-13 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I am running bacula 1.34.4 on my workstation. Config seems to work, but when I want to reload it from bconsole, I get the following error: *reload You have messages. *mess 13-Sep-2005 19:19 itchy-dir: Error: Command not implemented Any ideas why this could happen? And why do I have to

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-13 Thread Arunav Mandal
- Original Message - From: "Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Arunav Mandal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 7:07 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error On 13 Sep 2005 at 19:00, Arunav Mandal wrote: I have seen errors given below quite often even

Re: [Bacula-users] Prefer Tapes in AutoChanger? (Modified by Bill McGonigle)

2005-09-13 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Sep 13, 2005, at 12:42, Arno Lehmann wrote: You're using 1.36.3 or lower, right? The see the directive "Accept Any Volume" in the pool definition chapter in the manual. http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/ Configuring_Director.html#SECTION000141 It should do what you want,

[Bacula-users] recycling status

2005-09-13 Thread Jesús Arnáiz
Hi there. I use Version: 1.36.3 of bacula. I use file disk as storage media. In our configuration we have the default Pool with these options: (...) Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 90 days (...) It is posible to know the status of the recycling process? I mean when bacula goes

Re: [Bacula-users] Disabling hardware compression, again

2005-09-13 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 13.09.2005 18:56, Marcus wrote: I think I've been having trouble with used tapes so I'm on new Fuji's now. Figured my data compression woes would be gone now that I have true unformatted tapes, but upon loading one, the drive's "DC" light comes on. :P That setting is tape dependent,

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-13 Thread Dan Langille
On 13 Sep 2005 at 19:00, Arunav Mandal wrote: > I have seen errors given below quite often even with new tapes. This > happens mostly when I try to restore files from a tape that has been > recently written and got a Append tag. It restores fine but when it > try to write again this error comes up

Re: [Bacula-users] Interesting Occurance (Firewall, Disk Spool, Timeouts)

2005-09-13 Thread Dan Langille
On 13 Sep 2005 at 11:55, Mark Bober wrote: > > Had an interesting thing happen. > > Our firewall, for whatever reason, drops connections at 300sec. of > inactivity by default. Have you looked at Keep Alive? It's an option in the Bacula configuration . -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.or

Re: [Bacula-users] Interesting Occurance (Firewall, Disk Spool, Timeouts)

2005-09-13 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 13.09.2005 18:55, Mark Bober wrote: Had an interesting thing happen. Our firewall, for whatever reason, drops connections at 300sec. of inactivity by default. To avoid broblems with broken network hardware :-) the Heartbeat Interval setting in the configuration is a good choice.

[Bacula-users] Tape error

2005-09-13 Thread Arunav Mandal
I have seen errors given below quite often even with new tapes. This happens mostly when I try to restore files from a tape that has been recently written and got a Append tag. It restores fine but when it try to write again this error comes up maybe because the tape media has moved forward or

[Bacula-users] Disabling hardware compression, again

2005-09-13 Thread Marcus
I think I've been having trouble with used tapes so I'm on new Fuji's now. Figured my data compression woes would be gone now that I have true unformatted tapes, but upon loading one, the drive's "DC" light comes on. :P After that, set the drive to 40g/no compression and wrote some data, then quit

[Bacula-users] Interesting Occurance (Firewall, Disk Spool, Timeouts)

2005-09-13 Thread Mark Bober
Had an interesting thing happen. Our firewall, for whatever reason, drops connections at 300sec. of inactivity by default. I'd been backing up a few hosts outside our firewall, and once I started using the disk spool, they were getting 'hung'. What happened was such : once the disk file start

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula & Disk-to-disk

2005-09-13 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 13.09.2005 15:33, Bill Szkotnicki wrote: Hello Arno, I am trying to do just that. Disk to disk, one partition (NFS actually on a remote storage device) Below you suggest that it is possible to limit the number of volumes used. I don't think that is working for me so How is it done?

Re: [Bacula-users] Is 1.37.38 stable *enough* ?

2005-09-13 Thread Landon Fuller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike wrote: | Hello, | | I'm going to be setting up a new backup "system" for my work in the next | couple of days, | and I'm interested in using a new (1.37.38) version of Bacula (as I'm | interested in the | database changes, and the SSL support)- b

Re: [Bacula-users] Device BLOCKED and waiting :?

2005-09-13 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 13.09.2005 11:58, Javi Polo wrote: Hi there I'm having some problems with bacula it runs the scheduled jobs, but no backup is performed, as it's waiting for media ... I purged the volume, relabeled it, but still no results :/ Have you tried submitting the mount command? Depen

Re: [Bacula-users] Prefer Tapes in AutoChanger? (Modified by Bill McGonigle)

2005-09-13 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 13.09.2005 16:38, Bill McGonigle wrote: Here's what I'd like to achieve: Load a new set of tapes (9 in this case) into auto changer. Backup happens every night to as many tapes as a backup takes. If all of the tapes have been written, recycle the oldest tape *in the chan

Re: [Bacula-users] Is 1.37.38 stable *enough* ?

2005-09-13 Thread Mike
Thanks for the response everybody- >I am the same position. I have decided to pause the whole project until >1.38. I'm basing this decision on the fact that there is a lot of new >features in this release and I definately don't want to roll out a flawed >product on the network. > >I suggest you co

[Bacula-users] Prefer Tapes in AutoChanger? (Modified by Bill McGonigle)

2005-09-13 Thread Bill McGonigle
Here's what I'd like to achieve: Load a new set of tapes (9 in this case) into auto changer. Backup happens every night to as many tapes as a backup takes. If all of the tapes have been written, recycle the oldest tape *in the changer* Repeat. So I seem to have that al

[Bacula-users] Bacula client in a jail

2005-09-13 Thread Dan Langille
Not that this should be suprising, but I have bacula-fd running in a jail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $ ps auwx | grep bacula root 601 0.0 0.4 3516 1832 ?? Ss8:01PM 0:00.16 /usr/local/sbin/bacula-fd -u root -g wheel -v -c /usr/local/etc/bacula-fd.conf root28275 0.0 0.4 3088 2

[Bacula-users] Compiling 1.36.3 on FreeBSD 2.x and 3.x

2005-09-13 Thread Brian Keifer
Greetings! I've been tasked with backing up two older FreeBSD machines - one's running 2.2.8 and the other is 3.4. I'm having some troubles getting Bacula 1.36.3 to compile on these two machines and was hoping someone here may be able to shed some light on the problem. My configure line is: ./c

Re: [Bacula-users] strange network problem with windows client

2005-09-13 Thread Arthur Emerson III
"Michael Dauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am stuck. I succeeded to make a backup from a WinXP Pro as it > was inside the LAN. Then I moved it outside and adapted the IP > addresses in all configs. If "outside the LAN" includes a network address translation (NAT) router, then you will need

RE: [Bacula-users] Bacula & Disk-to-disk

2005-09-13 Thread Bill Szkotnicki
Hello Arno, I am trying to do just that. Disk to disk, one partition (NFS actually on a remote storage device) Below you suggest that it is possible to limit the number of volumes used. I don't think that is working for me so How is it done? In my case I have restricted the volume size to 20GB

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Restoring to a Running Linux System

2005-09-13 Thread Aleksandar Milivojevic
Quoting Michael Dauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I guess I need more the bacula-fd if I want to recover the backup server - at least space for all bacula daemons and console, sqlite, and the catalog. I haven't attempted recovery of the backup server itself, yet. But it should be doable by booting

Re: [Bacula-users] Rescue disk problems on a FC 4 box

2005-09-13 Thread Aleksandar Milivojevic
Quoting Trevor Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, I just got Bacula up and running on a FC 4 box and I am backing up a FC 3 and a RH 9 box. This is a great program with excellent documentation. My question is I can make the rescue cd for both the FC 3 and RH 9 boxes, but not for the FC 4 bo

Re: Fw: [Bacula-users] Filset exclusions

2005-09-13 Thread Arunav Mandal
On Monday 12 September 2005 21:20, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > I'd recommend that you try the following: > > Test1: > - remove the "onefs = no" > - explicitly add the partitions you want to be backed up to > the FileSet. I tried the Test 1 and same result mp3 were backed up. I didnt try the

Re: [Bacula-users] Is 1.37.38 stable *enough* ?

2005-09-13 Thread Jeronimo Zucco
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am running 1.37.38 version of bacula without problems, with more then 20 servers and 2 autoloaders with 16 tapes, 6 pools (diferential diary even/odd, full weekly even/odd, full month even/odd). - -- Jeronimo Zucco LPIC-1 Linux Professional

[Bacula-users] Re: Restoring to a Running Linux System

2005-09-13 Thread Michael Dauer
Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > Quoting Michael Dauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > But I think most people here are doing sth like this. Isn't there a CD image > > with 2.6 kernel available which was prepared by somebody who has a better > > idea of what he is doing than I have. > > What Linux di

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula & Disk-to-disk

2005-09-13 Thread John
great, thanksOn 9/12/05, Michael Galloway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi John!yes, see, for example:http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Basic_Volume_Management.html#_ChapterStart39 -- michaelOn Mon, 12 Sep 2005, John wrote:> Does Bacula support disk-to-disk backups? ie. I use a partition to keep the> b

[Bacula-users] Re: Restoring to a Running Linux System

2005-09-13 Thread Michael Dauer
Michael Galloway wrote: > Moin Michael! > > not, so, the current knoppix cd does indeed support 2.6.x: I still don't find a CD image of version 4.x on knoppix.org. AFAIK version 3.x is based on kernel 2.4.x. /M --- SF.Net email is Sponsored

[Bacula-users] Multiple catalogs for one pool?

2005-09-13 Thread Brian Keifer
Hi, all. First of all, a little background... I'm in the process of setting up a large new disk- and tape-based backup server using Bacula 1.36.3. We expect the server to handle the backups of between 20 and 30 other servers. Initial counts show that we'll be grabbing about 110GB (totalling jus

[Bacula-users] strange network problem with windows client

2005-09-13 Thread Michael Dauer
Hello, I am stuck. I succeeded to make a backup from a WinXP Pro as it was inside the LAN. Then I moved it outside and adapted the IP addresses in all configs. Now I can still connect from this client with wxconsole to the director on the server. But nothing can connect to bacula-fd. First I thou

[Bacula-users] Device BLOCKED and waiting :?

2005-09-13 Thread Javi Polo
Hi there I'm having some problems with bacula it runs the scheduled jobs, but no backup is performed, as it's waiting for media ... I purged the volume, relabeled it, but still no results :/ That's what I see: Device "/dev/nst0" is mounted with Volume "WEBSERVER-MON-3" Device is BLOCKE

Re: AW: [Bacula-users] Big problems with my Bacula.....

2005-09-13 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 13.09.2005 09:07, Masopust Christian wrote: ... all right, here is my configuration: backup-server is a P4 2,8GHz on a Fujitsu-Siemens Mainboard, I knew that about the mainboard :-) 512MB RAM (upgrade to 2GB planned), 2 SATA disks for system (soft-mirrored), Gigabit ethernet (3C996

Re: [Bacula-users] Is 1.37.38 stable *enough* ?

2005-09-13 Thread Dominic Marks
Mike wrote: > Hello, > > I'm going to be setting up a new backup "system" for my work in the next > couple of days, > and I'm interested in using a new (1.37.38) version of Bacula (as I'm > interested in the > database changes, and the SSL support)- but I'm a little wary since > 1.37.38 is still >

Re: [Bacula-users] Is 1.37.38 stable *enough* ?

2005-09-13 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 13.09.2005 09:07, Mike wrote: Hello, I'm going to be setting up a new backup "system" for my work in the next couple of days, and I'm interested in using a new (1.37.38) version of Bacula (as I'm interested in the database changes, and the SSL support)- but I'm a little wary since

[Bacula-users] Is 1.37.38 stable *enough* ?

2005-09-13 Thread Mike
Hello,   I'm going to be setting up a new backup "system" for my work in the next couple of days, and I'm interested in using a new (1.37.38) version of Bacula (as I'm interested in the database changes, and the SSL support)- but I'm a little wary since 1.37.38 is still flagged as beta-   Is

RE: AW: [Bacula-users] Big problems with my Bacula.....

2005-09-13 Thread Masopust Christian
> > > > all right, it really is no problem in bacula, i've some > problems with my > > backup-server. it suddenly stops working during backup and > after reboot i > > always get these messages. seems that database gets currupt > when my server > > stops... > > This doesn't seem at all normal to