Re: [Bacula-users] Can Bacula Read Tapes Created With BackupExec?

2005-10-06 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 10/6/2005 3:21 PM Joshua Kugler wrote: On Thursday 06 October 2005 12:30, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I suspect the answer to my questions is "no" but wanted to ask before I give up on a batch of tapes created by BackupExec 8.x. Apparently, BackupExec is so "stupid" that if it encounters an er

Re: [Bacula-users] Can Bacula Read Tapes Created With BackupExec?

2005-10-06 Thread Joshua Kugler
On Thursday 06 October 2005 12:30, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I suspect the answer to my questions is "no" but wanted to ask before I > give up on a batch of tapes created by BackupExec 8.x. Apparently, > BackupExec is so "stupid" that if it encounters an error on any tape of > a multiple tape volume

Re: More info: Re: [Bacula-users] Getting "Fatal Error: Cannot write block"

2005-10-06 Thread Joshua Kugler
No, I never did try that. I may if I get time. Things are busy right now, so now that it's working again, I'm good. :) j- k- On Thursday 06 October 2005 13:14, Alan Brown wrote: > On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Joshua Kugler wrote: > > And yet more info (long, with lots of job reports). > > > > T

Re: [Bacula-users] Can Bacula Read Tapes Created With BackupExec?

2005-10-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I suspect the answer to my questions is "no" but wanted to ask before I > give up on a batch of tapes created by BackupExec 8.x. Apparently, > BackupExec is so "stupid" that if it encounters an error on any tape of > a multiple tape volume set, it can't restore anything pas

Re: [Bacula-users] Can Bacula Read Tapes Created With BackupExec?

2005-10-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 06.10.2005 22:30, Drew Tomlinson wrote: I suspect the answer to my questions is "no" I'm quite sure the answer is indded "no". but wanted to ask before I give up on a batch of tapes created by BackupExec 8.x. Apparently, BackupExec is so "stupid" that if it encounters an error on a

Re: More info: Re: [Bacula-users] Getting "Fatal Error: Cannot write block"

2005-10-06 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Joshua Kugler wrote: And yet more info (long, with lots of job reports). This error actually happened with *two* different tapes, and in both cases, when they errored, they had the same "last volume bytes" value. Have you tried running btape to see what it says? ---

[Bacula-users] Can Bacula Read Tapes Created With BackupExec?

2005-10-06 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I suspect the answer to my questions is "no" but wanted to ask before I give up on a batch of tapes created by BackupExec 8.x. Apparently, BackupExec is so "stupid" that if it encounters an error on any tape of a multiple tape volume set, it can't restore anything past the error. For example

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple storage locations

2005-10-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
Mr. Bush wrote: > Phil, > > Thank you for the reply. Just another quick question > > On the remote storage server that I configure, do I have to also enable > the director on this server or do I configure the server with the > default settings, but never enable the director on the second ser

Re: [Bacula-users] labeling with btape

2005-10-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 06.10.2005 17:54, Tobias Kuckuck wrote: Hello, I had the following problem. After a tape error occured on one old tape, I wanted to copy the tape contens to disk and from there to a new tape using the same label than the damaged tape. Therefore I labeled the new tape with btape. Ho

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple storage locations

2005-10-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
Mr. Bush wrote: > Is it possible to have a single director and multiple storage devices in > various locations? We have two locations that we are currently backing > up and our remote office only has a T1 -- backing up 6GB of data takes a > lengthy period of time at night. What I was wondering is

[Bacula-users] Multiple storage locations

2005-10-06 Thread Mr. Bush
Is it possible to have a single director and multiple storage devices in various locations? We have two locations that we are currently backing up and our remote office only has a T1 -- backing up 6GB of data takes a lengthy period of time at night. What I was wondering is if we have a direto

Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding Priority

2005-10-06 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 09:09:57AM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Wednesday 05 October 2005 19:52, Ross Boylan wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:42:09AM +0100, Russell Howe wrote: > > > Ross Boylan wrote: ... > > 2) single jobs. Priorities may influence which of several > > simultaneously sch

Re: [Bacula-users] pool confusion

2005-10-06 Thread Michael Koppelman
Thank you for your responses. I seem to have it working now. I set the default pool to Full so that if any jobs get upgraded they will go in the correct pool. The main confusion, which I already mentioned but will reiterate is/was: 1. I would have thought or hoped that somehow the pool cou

Re: More info: Re: [Bacula-users] Getting "Fatal Error: Cannot write block"

2005-10-06 Thread Joshua Kugler
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 23:18, Kern Sibbald wrote: > This is somewhat of a wild shot, but I recently saw a kernel bug fix > against the aic7xxx drivers. If I remember right (I'm a bit hazy on this) > there was a problem after writing 35GB of data. According to lspcidrake (Mandrake's lspci ex

[Bacula-users] labeling with btape

2005-10-06 Thread Tobias Kuckuck
Hello, I had the following problem. After a tape error occured on one old tape, I wanted to copy the tape contens to disk and from there to a new tape using the same label than the damaged tape. Therefore I labeled the new tape with btape. Copying was successfull, but after all, using readla

[Bacula-users] Backup not using full capacity of tapes

2005-10-06 Thread Andrew Ford
I have just purchased an Dell (HP) 8 tape Ultrium autoloader. The tapes I am using are all brand new and are marked as 100GB uncompressed capacity, but I am only getting 45 to 60GB per tape, i.e. 45-60% of the rated uncompressed capacity. My previous tape system was an AIT1 autoloader and I w

Re: [Bacula-users] configuration advice (usb disks and filesets)

2005-10-06 Thread Josh Fisher
Arno Lehmann wrote: Hello, On 06.10.2005 09:30, Sebastian Stark wrote: On Thursday 06 October 2005 00:11, Arno Lehmann wrote: (If you really want to use external disks, use 2.5" drives for notebooks, and operate them with a proper power supply.) Why? Are 2.5" drives more shock-proof?

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore with windows bconsole

2005-10-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 06.10.2005 12:23, Achim Schmidt [Baclua] wrote: ^^ is this intentional? ;-) Hi, I've some problems to restore files I restored from windows client (console & windows fd). the backup runs without any errors and problems. but it seems i'm doing

Re: [Bacula-users] Build of xw-console failed on Linux

2005-10-06 Thread Tobias Kuckuck
Hello Nicolas, thanks for your answer. I just tried to build wx-console with bacula-1.37.40 in the same environment and it worked without any problems. Tobias Nicolas Boichat schrieb: Hello, You should use a stable version of wxGTK (e.g. 2.6.1), I think it should fix the problem. Best rega

Re: [Bacula-users] Build of xw-console failed on Linux

2005-10-06 Thread Nicolas Boichat
Hello, You should use a stable version of wxGTK (e.g. 2.6.1), I think it should fix the problem. Best regards, Nicolas On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 09:23 +0200, Tobias Kuckuck wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to Bacula and at first I want to say that this software is a > nice piece of work. I just tried to

[Bacula-users] Restore with windows bconsole

2005-10-06 Thread Achim Schmidt [Baclua]
Hi, I've some problems to restore files I restored from windows client (console & windows fd). the backup runs without any errors and problems. but it seems i'm doing something wrong with the restore. If I try to restore by using the bconsole fpr windows, I get this message: 06-Oct 12:18 back

Re: More info: Re: [Bacula-users] Getting "Fatal Error: Cannot write block"

2005-10-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Josh, On 06.10.2005 00:38, Joshua Kugler wrote: OK, a little more info on this weird occurrence. what you describe looks like a driver or hardware problem to me. Alhough I can't be sure, I'm not able to imagine anything bacula-related leading to such problems. If you can reproduce the pro

Re: [Bacula-users] configuration advice (usb disks and filesets)

2005-10-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 06.10.2005 09:30, Sebastian Stark wrote: On Thursday 06 October 2005 00:11, Arno Lehmann wrote: (If you really want to use external disks, use 2.5" drives for notebooks, and operate them with a proper power supply.) Why? Are 2.5" drives more shock-proof? In general, they are.

Re: [Bacula-users] configuration advice (usb disks and filesets)

2005-10-06 Thread Sebastian Stark
On Thursday 06 October 2005 00:11, Arno Lehmann wrote: > (If you really want to use > external disks, use 2.5" drives for notebooks, and operate them with a > proper power supply.) Why? Are 2.5" drives more shock-proof? I'm asking because I sometimes exchange big datasets with people by sending

Re: More info: Re: [Bacula-users] Getting "Fatal Error: Cannot write block"

2005-10-06 Thread Kern Sibbald
This is somewhat of a wild shot, but I recently saw a kernel bug fix against the aic7xxx drivers. If I remember right (I'm a bit hazy on this) there was a problem after writing 35GB of data. On Thursday 06 October 2005 02:12, Joshua Kugler wrote: > And yet more info (long, with lots of job repo

Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding Priority

2005-10-06 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 19:52, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:42:09AM +0100, Russell Howe wrote: > > Ross Boylan wrote: > > ... > > > > Given jobs scheduled at different times, does priority add anything to > > > when they are run? > > > > If a higher priority job is running,