[Bacula-users] switching media

2005-09-28 Thread Sim Zacks
I am using 4 external hard disks to back up my data. My schedule is at the beginning of the month it does a full backup of all the computers and then every night it does incremental. Do I have to do anything with pools and volumes, or can I just plug in the new hard drive and label it? If I have

Re: [Bacula-users] Auto-labeling volumes depending on tape-in-drive?

2005-09-28 Thread Joe Rhett
What do you mean? I'm talking about limiting this aggressive "wishism". I'm not certain how a scratch pool would apply to this issue. On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 02:32:58PM -0400, Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure) wrote: > Isn't this what the scratch pool is for? > > I have to admit that I haven't

Re: [Bacula-users] Correct way to change magazine in v1.37.latest ?

2005-09-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 23:17, Peter Sjoberg wrote: > On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 19:16 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > The output below shows how I update drive 1 and it unloads drive 0. Why > > > did I even specify drive if it always uses 0 anyway ? > > > > Because you may have more than one dr

Re: [Bacula-users] Correct way to change magazine in v1.37.latest ?

2005-09-28 Thread Peter Sjoberg
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 19:16 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > > The output below shows how I update drive 1 and it unloads drive 0. Why > > did I even specify drive if it always uses 0 anyway ? > > Because you may have more than one drive, and the Director does not know. See > previous list discu

Re: [Bacula-users] Internal network (10.0.0.x) setup question?

2005-09-28 Thread Dean Waldow
I could easily be on the wrong track. :) Sorry, I will try to be a bit clearer on the network configuration. Not quite sure what pieces are most useful however... Here is my guess at a clearer network configuration. Basically, I have one linux box that has two ethernet cards running ipta

Re: [Bacula-users] Differentials Jobs referencing obsolete Full Job

2005-09-28 Thread Phil Stracchino
Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure) wrote: > Is it possible that Bacula's Diff jobs are purposefully not referencing > a "Good" Full backup because of the mail warning? In short, no. Bacula is referencing a Full backup that it believes to be good; if it's not good, then Bacula doesn't know it isn'

[Bacula-users] Differentials Jobs referencing obsolete Full Job

2005-09-28 Thread Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure)
Hi All,   I am using Bacula 1.36.2:   Looking at the bacula console output, my daily differentials seem to be referencing an old Full back up job. The line in question reads.   Backup Level:    Differential, since=2005-08-15 01:05:02   I have not been able to find the reason for this,

Re: [Bacula-users] Changes after Release of 1.36.3

2005-09-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 11:33, Masopust Christian wrote: > This is maybe only (?) for Kern... > > Is there a list of changes done to 1.36.3 after it has been released? Any official patches are always kept in the current CVS in the directory /patches > > Background... as I had to reinstall m

Re: [Bacula-users] Internal network (10.0.0.x) setup question?

2005-09-28 Thread Ryan Novosielski
Not sure you're on the right track. I assume these machines can communicate with each other for other purposes. To me what jumps out is that the director is not listening on 10.0.0.5:9101 -- either because it's listening on its external IP itself, or it's not running. There is no clear indicati

[Bacula-users] Internal network (10.0.0.x) setup question?

2005-09-28 Thread Dean Waldow
Hi,I have been trying to install bacula on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux ESrelease 4 box with out additional clients to start with. I have beenhaving trouble with either I believe network issues or authorizationissues. I can't tell.  I currently have the box behind a NAT with aninternal IP. I have it

[Bacula-users] Re: Bacula-users digest, Vol 1 #2415 - 3 msgs

2005-09-28 Thread Fernanda Santoro
Thanks Martin! I can started /usr/sbin/bacula-fd because the bacula-fd already done before the error on bconsole as you said before. I try: /usr/sbin/bacula-fd -c /etc/bacula/bacula.conf -d 99 And it returns me error that /var/run was not created, after I do it the bacula-fd run without problems.

Re: [Bacula-users] New to bacula, problems with MAC OS X Client

2005-09-28 Thread Phil Stracchino
Mountain, Graham wrote: > Hi, > I'm new to bacula, and have setup the bacula software on a linux > machine and have been able to connect to clients running on linux and > Windows and safely backup thos machines. I am now trying to connect to > a client running the OS X Tiger software, and have

Re: [Bacula-users] Correct way to change magazine in v1.37.latest ?

2005-09-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 16:15, Peter Sjoberg wrote: > On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 09:53 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Wednesday 28 September 2005 03:47, Peter Sjoberg wrote: > > > What is the correct way to do a thing like changing the magazine in a > > > autoloader ? > > > > "unmount" any mou

Re: [Bacula-users] New to bacula, problems with MAC OS X Client

2005-09-28 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Mountain, Graham wrote: I'm new to bacula, and have setup the bacula software on a linux machine and have been able to connect to clients running on linux and Windows and safely backup thos machines. I am now trying to connect to a client running the OS X Tiger software,

[Bacula-users] New to bacula, problems with MAC OS X Client

2005-09-28 Thread Mountain, Graham
Hi,     I'm new to bacula, and have setup the bacula software on a linux machine and have been able to connect to clients running on linux and Windows and safely backup thos machines.  I am now trying to connect to a client running the OS X Tiger software, and have downloaded the OS X client

[Bacula-users] which verify level for tape checks?

2005-09-28 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Hi, I only want bacula to read each tape to make sure the tape is ok. I don't need the tripwire style checks. which verify level will do this? with each backup checksums are written to the catalog (signature=MD5 flag on the Include line in the fileset). so I hope bacula can read the tape and chec

Re: [Bacula-users] Excluding a nfs mount

2005-09-28 Thread Thomas E. Ruth
Hi Trevor, One of the FileSet resources I use which seems to be portable across all my systems is this one (following). Take special note of the line File = "\\|bash -c \"df -PklF ext3 | tail +2 | awk '{print \$6}'\"", this backs up all my ext3 filesystems, excluding /proc, anything with d

Re: [Bacula-users] Correct way to change magazine in v1.37.latest ?

2005-09-28 Thread Peter Sjoberg
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 09:53 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Wednesday 28 September 2005 03:47, Peter Sjoberg wrote: > > What is the correct way to do a thing like changing the magazine in a > > autoloader ? > > "unmount" any mounted drives using bconsole, and discharge the magazine. If > there

Re: [Bacula-users] Correct way to change magazine in v1.37.latest ?

2005-09-28 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: "unmount" any mounted drives using bconsole, and discharge the magazine. If there are any loaded drives, most autochangers unload them. Only the smaller ones. None of our magazine based loaders unload tapes to the magazine before making them available

Re: [Bacula-users] Correct way to change magazine in v1.37.latest ?

2005-09-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 03:47, Peter Sjoberg wrote: > What is the correct way to do a thing like changing the magazine in a > autoloader ? "unmount" any mounted drives using bconsole, and discharge the magazine. If there are any loaded drives, most autochangers unload them. If that is n

Re: [Bacula-users] compress for windows clients

2005-09-28 Thread Jonas Björklund
Hello, On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Peter Sjoberg wrote: Is there a way to compress the traffic between a windows client (that is connected over vpn) and the (linux) bacula server? Both sides run a late version of the stable 1.36 code. Doesn't "compression = GZIP" in FileSet work? I use that on seve