Re: [Bacula-users] Large network bacula tips?

2005-10-13 Thread Florian Schnabel
Lyle Vogtmann wrote: Hello fellow Bacula users! I've only been lurking on this list for a little while, please excuse me if this topic has been covered previously. I've got what I would consider a large network of machines each hosting many virtual private servers with Virtuozzo. http://www.sw

Re: [Bacula-users] Job w/ multiple clients?

2005-10-13 Thread Frederic PIERROT
Hi, At 03:04 13/10/2005, you wrote: Hmm. Bummer. So what you're telling me is that for the 50 boxes I have I'll need to set up 50 different jobs? And then I'll have to kick off each one separately, sequentially? Or is there some additional mechanism that I'm missing, that handles the schedul

[Bacula-users] Re: help about bacula

2005-10-13 Thread Timo Neuvonen
> need to. The random passwords generated at install time are just that: > randomly generated passwords, and nothing more. However, you can use > whatever you want as Bacula passwords. > A further question: are passwords set by random only installations made from tarball and compiled by myself, o

[Bacula-users] Large network bacula tips?

2005-10-13 Thread Lyle Vogtmann
Hello fellow Bacula users! I've only been lurking on this list for a little while, please excuse me if this topic has been covered previously. I've got what I would consider a large network of machines each hosting many virtual private servers with Virtuozzo. http://www.swsoft.com/en/products/vi

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring to Windows Client

2005-10-13 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 13.10.2005 21:24, George R. Kasica wrote: ... Would the idea of the restore path of D:/Fedora work as I mention a few lines down?? As far as I know, that should work. ... No not multiple copies at all. I'll try again more simply: Say I have a Drive C, D and E and I want to rest

Re: [Bacula-users] OT: downloadable bacula mailing list archives?

2005-10-13 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:27:01 +0200, Thorsten Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: Thorsten> is there somewhere a downloadable archive of the bacula-users and Thorsten> bacula-devel mailinglists? I cannont find such a service on Thorsten> sourceforge or any hints in recent mails in th

[Bacula-users] Sony AIT Drives

2005-10-13 Thread brandon
Greetings, Has anyone had success with using Sony AIT-3 (AITe260S, AITi260S) drives with Bacula? Any special setup needed for using these drives with Bacula? Thanks, Brandon --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource

Re: [Bacula-users] help about bacula

2005-10-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi, my name is luis from Ecuador i need you help, i want to know who can i > encripter password bacula director and bacula client, in the file > configuration. > > please help... If I understand your question correctly, the answer is that you don't need to. The random

Re: [Bacula-users] Job w/ multiple clients?

2005-10-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
Bob Kryger wrote: > Hmm. Bummer. So what you're telling me is that for the 50 boxes I have > I'll need to set up 50 different jobs? And then I'll have to kick off > each one separately, sequentially? Or is there some additional mechanism > that I'm missing, that handles the scheduling the jobs? I

Re: [Bacula-users] Job w/ multiple clients?

2005-10-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
Dean Waldow wrote: > This discussion relates to a question or an idea for bacula use with > many clients. For some linux programs, config files are sometimes being > organized as nested folders. The current method of a single > configuration file for each (dir, sd, and fd) seems very reasonable.

Re: [Bacula-users] Job w/ multiple clients?

2005-10-13 Thread Dean Waldow
Hmm. Bummer.  So what you're telling me is that for the 50 boxes I have I'll need to set up 50 different jobs? Yes.  You can specify JobDefaults.  Then just change the client name on each job.This discussion relates to a question or an idea for bacula use with many clients.  For some linux programs

Re: [Bacula-users] ReSchedule not re-scheduling

2005-10-13 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 13.10.2005 17:45, Christian Reiss wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy again, Pruning et all is working, only thing not yet working is the re-scheduling of items. For example, i have this: Job { Name= "Backup_PDA" client = pda-fd typ

[Bacula-users] help about bacula

2005-10-13 Thread lacuenca
hi, my name is luis from Ecuador i need you help, i want to know who can i encripter password bacula director and bacula client, in the file configuration. please help... - Este correo fue enviado por el MENSAJERO UTPL. http://www.utpl.edu.ec/mail/ -

[Bacula-users] regarding last post [Re-Scheduling]

2005-10-13 Thread Christian Reiss
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, After "RTFM"-yet again, i found a nice paragraph: "Any abbreviation of these modifiers is also permitted (i.e. seconds may be specified as sec or s. A specification of m will be taken as months." Thus, my "15 m" would be 15 months. Thats.. a

Re: [Bacula-users] Job w/ multiple clients?

2005-10-13 Thread Dan Langille
On 12 Oct 2005 at 21:04, Bob Kryger wrote: > Hmm. Bummer. So what you're telling me is that for the 50 boxes I have > I'll need to set up 50 different jobs? Yes. You can specify JobDefaults. Then just change the client name on each job. > And then I'll have to kick off > each one separate

Re: [Bacula-users] write error

2005-10-13 Thread Josh Fisher
I have occasional problems with Sony AIT drives on 2940UW controllers. I believe it's the tape drive that gets confused, because when it happens, ("it" being the drive stops communicating), even a reboot of the server doesn't fix the problem when the drive is left powered on. Power cycling the

Re: [Bacula-users] Job w/ multiple clients?

2005-10-13 Thread Bob Kryger
Hmm. Bummer. So what you're telling me is that for the 50 boxes I have I'll need to set up 50 different jobs? And then I'll have to kick off each one separately, sequentially? Or is there some additional mechanism that I'm missing, that handles the scheduling the jobs? bob Dan Langille wrote

[Bacula-users] ReSchedule not re-scheduling

2005-10-13 Thread Christian Reiss
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howdy again, Pruning et all is working, only thing not yet working is the re-scheduling of items. For example, i have this: Job { Name= "Backup_PDA" client = pda-fd type= backup messages= Standard st

Re: [Bacula-users] special characters

2005-10-13 Thread Maurizio Santini
Thank you to all of you who answered. Using Wild = "C:/Documents and Settings/mperez/Configuraci*/Archivos" solved the problem. Maurizio On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 01:35 +, Deim Ágoston wrote: > hi, > > Maurizio Santini wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >I trying to exclude a directory from the backup

[Bacula-users] Backup Strategy

2005-10-13 Thread Yu Safin
I have set up Bacula's director to manage about 50 GB of daily changes out of 200 GB of disk space expected to grow to 1 TB this year as follows: 1) It uses disk i.e. storage=file (instead of tape) for the actual backups. 2) The disk is actually an NFS mount point that gets backed up (think dd) wee

Re: [Bacula-users] write error

2005-10-13 Thread Julien Cigar
I runned the btape cap : phoenix:/etc/bacula# btape /dev/st0 Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes. btape: butil.c:258 Using device: "/dev/st0" for writing. btape: btape.c:335 open_dev /dev/st0 OK *cap Configured device capabilities: EOF BSR BSF FSR FSF FASTFSF !BSFATEOM EOM REM !RACCESS !AUTOMOUN

Re: [Bacula-users] write error

2005-10-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
Julien Cigar wrote: >> Did you use the cap command to list tape capabilities? Did you run a >> fill test to ensure that Bacula can fill up a tape and write on to the >> next? There are several capabilities that are crucial for Bacula. > > > I runned all the tests which are in the documentation

[Bacula-users] OT: downloadable bacula mailing list archives?

2005-10-13 Thread Thorsten Huber
Hi, is there somewhere a downloadable archive of the bacula-users and bacula-devel mailinglists? I cannont find such a service on sourceforge or any hints in recent mails in the sourceforge webinterface to the bacula archives. -- Gruss / Best regards | LF.net GmbH| fon +49 711 90074-4

Re: [Bacula-users] write error

2005-10-13 Thread Julien Cigar
Did you use the cap command to list tape capabilities? Did you run a fill test to ensure that Bacula can fill up a tape and write on to the next? There are several capabilities that are crucial for Bacula. I runned all the tests which are in the documentation and they completed successfully.

Re: [Bacula-users] write error

2005-10-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
Julien Cigar wrote: > Thanks for replying > > The tape is: > > phoenix:/var/backups# cat /proc/scsi/scsi > Attached devices: > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 > Vendor: SONY Model: SDX-500C Rev: 010f > Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 > > and t

Re: [Bacula-users] write error

2005-10-13 Thread Julien Cigar
Thanks for replying The tape is: phoenix:/var/backups# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: SONY Model: SDX-500C Rev: 010f Type: Sequential-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 and the controller is: phoenix:/var/backups#

Re: [Bacula-users] write error

2005-10-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
Julien Cigar wrote: > Hello, > > sometimes I have "write error" messages during my full backup (on tapes) : > > 12-Oct 18:44 phoenix-sd: BebifFullBackup.2005-10-12_06.00.00 Error: > block.c:552 Write error at 15:111 on device /dev/st0. ERR=Input/output > error. > 12-Oct 18:44 phoenix-sd: BebifFul

Re: [Bacula-users] Recycling volumes

2005-10-13 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 13.10.2005 12:08, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Yes, I used one Volume per pool as stated in the sample of the pdf documentation. Could you tell me which example? Oh, maybe Max Wait Time will be helpful. I'll try. About Volume Use Duration...reading the documentation I understand that

Re: [Bacula-users] Recycling volumes

2005-10-13 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Yes, I used one Volume per pool as stated in the sample of the pdf documentation. Oh, maybe Max Wait Time will be helpful. I'll try. About Volume Use Duration...reading the documentation I understand that its use is for telling bacula how long the tape can be used, then consider it dead. Isn't i

Re: [Bacula-users] special characters

2005-10-13 Thread Russell Howe
Maurizio Santini wrote: > Hi all, > > I trying to exclude a directory from the backup but I cannot because of > the accent on ó. How could I achieve that? If Arno's suggestion on character sets doesn't sort you out, you could replace the ó with a ? (or a . if you were using RegexFile, which does

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Restore from multiple Media Types

2005-10-13 Thread Kern Sibbald
Please see the attached file for an explanation and possible work around. This file may be somewhat out of date as it was written over a year ago. On Thursday 13 October 2005 09:40, Thorsten Engel wrote: > Dear group, > > I regarded myself as very clever when trying to setup the backup strategy

Re: [Bacula-users] Recycling volumes

2005-10-13 Thread LHERBIER Lois
Hello, for a daily rotation I think that you may not lower the volume retention but limit the "volume use duration" to force bacula to use another tape every day. For example on my daily rotation I use : Volume Use Duration = 19 h And also Recycle Current Volume = yes; so if the volume in the tap

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Bacula tape handling.

2005-10-13 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 09:56 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Tuesday 11 October 2005 09:06, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > How does Bacula handle "foreign" tapes? I am currently using Amanda for > > back-up but planning to switch to Bacula and sometimes I erroneously > > leave an Amanda labeled tape in th

Re: [Bacula-users] Recycling volumes

2005-10-13 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 13.10.2005 10:50, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Hello, I am having a lot of trouble with my bacula configuration. - I have one LTO device with 1 manual tape. - I labeled 6 tapes for MON,TUE,WEN,THU,FRY,SAT. So I have 6 volumes with one tape each. - I used the sample configuration with Poo

[Bacula-users] Recycling volumes

2005-10-13 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Hello, I am having a lot of trouble with my bacula configuration. - I have one LTO device with 1 manual tape. - I labeled 6 tapes for MON,TUE,WEN,THU,FRY,SAT. So I have 6 volumes with one tape each. - I used the sample configuration with Pools assiging one volume per day. - I lowered the volume r

[Bacula-users] write error

2005-10-13 Thread Julien Cigar
Hello, sometimes I have "write error" messages during my full backup (on tapes) : 12-Oct 18:44 phoenix-sd: BebifFullBackup.2005-10-12_06.00.00 Error: block.c:552 Write error at 15:111 on device /dev/st0. ERR=Input/output error. 12-Oct 18:44 phoenix-sd: BebifFullBackup.2005-10-12_06.00.00 Error