Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with incremental backups

2005-09-29 Thread Sebastian Haas
Phil Stracchino wrote: > Sebastian Haas wrote: > If they changed again today, they should be saved again; otherwise, not. > However, I don't expect this to fix your main problem; it will only fix > that "DIR and FD clocks differ" warning. Okay you are right, this doesn't fixed the problem but the

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

2005-09-29 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 30.09.2005 00:01, Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure) wrote: ... BINGO!!! That is it exactly. The documentation was not clear at all on this. Thank you very much, I would have never been able to figure that out from the docs. Is there someplace to issue a bug report against the docum

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

2005-09-29 Thread Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure)
-Original Message- From: Phil Stracchino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 1:31 PM To: Arno Lehmann Cc: Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure); bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Differentials Jobs referencing obsolete Full Job >Arno Le

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

2005-09-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hello, > > I'll put my answer to Phil's post here... it just fits better. > > Phil, if he scenario you describe really can happen I think it would be > time to consider the time stamp stored in the FileSet when looking for > previous backups. sqlquery follows: I don't know

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

2005-09-29 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, I'll put my answer to Phil's post here... it just fits better. Phil, if he scenario you describe really can happen I think it would be time to consider the time stamp stored in the FileSet when looking for previous backups. sqlquery follows: select * from FileSet; +---+--

[Bacula-users] Bacula status

2005-09-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, There are three general topics that I would like to address: 1. The current status of version 1.37 to be released as 1.38.0 2. The next development version (wishlists, projects and such interesting topics). 3. My current thoughts on donations Since there is a lot to say, I'll do it i

[Bacula-users] bextract - How To Eject and Load Next Volume?

2005-09-29 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 and using bextract 1.36.3 to restore multiple tape volumes to a drive I lost. It's giving me the following message: 29-Sep 10:39 bextract: End of Volume at file 16 on device /dev/nsa0, Volume "TAPE-0003|TAPE-0004|TAPE-0005|TAPE-0006|TAPE-0010|TAPE-0011|TAPE-0012" 29-Se

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

2005-09-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure) wrote: > The Full backup it is referencing "_IS_" good, but it is old. As a result the > differentials are much bigger than they need to be. My question is why is it > referencing an old Good Full backup verses a new Good Full backup? Well, basically, I can see

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

2005-09-29 Thread Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure)
-Original Message- From: Phil Stracchino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 12:50 PM To: Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure) Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Differentials Jobs referencing obsolete Full Job > >Bennett, Silas (GE

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

2005-09-29 Thread Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure)
>But with tapes you do have the > simple constraint of "is there really a tape for this?" > > Is it possible to constrain bacula to only create volumes when it has a > blank tape in the drive to label? This whole thing with creating a volume > that has no physical reality is what confuses me. T

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with incremental backups

2005-09-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
Sebastian Haas wrote: >>>As the jobs started I've noticed the following message from the director: >>>29-Sep 00:52 fileserver01-fd: DIR and FD clocks differ by -730 seconds, >>>FD automatically adjusting. >>> >>>The director started the job at 1:05am while the FD's clock was 00:52. >>>But I would a

[Bacula-users] Automatic restore on 1 machine

2005-09-29 Thread Tijl Van den Broeck
Hi, I have learned to use and love bacula in it's way of configuration and working but a tiny problem arose. Now I have to configure it in a mixed environment (several MacOS X's, 1 linux and 2 Win2K's) with a single Travan tape drive in the linux. Because of all the issues with its crappy driver a

Re: [Bacula-users] compress for windows clients

2005-09-29 Thread Peter Sjoberg
On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 09:37 +0200, Jonas Björklund wrote: > 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.

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with incremental backups

2005-09-29 Thread Sebastian Haas
Hello, Phil Stracchino wrote: > Sebastian Haas wrote: > >>I've did a incremental backup last night and I notice that the backup >>was bigger than I did assumed. >> >>I did then an "bls" to show which files bacula backed up, and the most >>of the files bacula backed up shouldn't changed to the las

Re: [Bacula-users] I need advice on permanent setup.

2005-09-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
Robert W Hartzell wrote: > Thanks for your input Phil. This is how I have setup my pools, I think > this will do what I want. Once I see how many incremental jobs will fit > a single volume I will adjust the values. Hopefully an entire month will > fit on one volume so I can minimize tape changes.

Re: [Bacula-users] I need advice on permanent setup.

2005-09-29 Thread Robert W Hartzell
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 06:05, Phil Stracchino wrote: > Robert W Hartzell wrote: > > I want to retain Full backups 6 months but I'm not sure how long I need > > to save Differential and Incremental backups. > > > > Should I use different pools for each machine or just three pools Full, > > Diff, an

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with incremental backups

2005-09-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
Sebastian Haas wrote: > I've did a incremental backup last night and I notice that the backup > was bigger than I did assumed. > > I did then an "bls" to show which files bacula backed up, and the most > of the files bacula backed up shouldn't changed to the last backup. By > the way, I did a full

[Bacula-users] Re: Bacula?

2005-09-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Your best bet is to ask the list. They are much better at responding in detail to these kinds of questions than I am. I've copied the list as you may get additional help. Just the same, here are a few quickie answers ... On Thursday 29 September 2005 13:30, Joe McGuckin wrote: > Kern, >

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

2005-09-29 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, the first thing I'd try is, on the client you can't connect to, run he DIR in the foreground with debug output enabled. That should tell you if the connections get through to the DIR itself. If they don't, but the host itself can be reached, it's probably a firewall issue. You might w

[Bacula-users] Problems with incremental backups

2005-09-29 Thread Sebastian Haas
Dear list, I've did a incremental backup last night and I notice that the backup was bigger than I did assumed. I did then an "bls" to show which files bacula backed up, and the most of the files bacula backed up shouldn't changed to the last backup. By the way, I did a full back yesterday. But