Re: [Bacula-users] Pool

2005-11-29 Thread Ryan Novosielski
I would like to argue with this one slightly. Most of the backups I do are for disaster recovery (ie. fire, monumental screwup, disk failure, etc.). I don't need generations of data because our policy is that we don't keep things for data-recovery purposes, only for our own mistakes or troubles.

[Bacula-users] Recycling Directives (was: Pool)

2005-11-29 Thread Ryan Novosielski
Kern, This is finally the chance for me to ask my question. ;) I'm staring right at the manual as we speak. I clearly don't want Purge Oldest Volume, as this one is dangerous and doesn't respect retention periods. However, with regard to Recycle Oldest Volume and Recycle Current Volume, I see

Re: [Bacula-users] What's the meaning of the name "Bacula" ?

2005-11-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Tuesday 29 November 2005 20:51, Phil Stracchino wrote: >>Also, a baculum is a rod or stick. > > Well, that is a slightly watered down meaning ... :-) No, it's just that zoologists co-opted the word to mean a specific bone. :) Just like the malleus in your middle ear i

[Bacula-users] Restore with empty database

2005-11-29 Thread Everton Thomaz
Hi all. If happen some problem in my server and i need to reinstall my server and database, how can i do a restore with an empty database? Thanks, -- Everton Thomaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Yahoo! doce lar

Re: [Bacula-users] Hey Kern....

2005-11-29 Thread Diogo Melo
In fact we all must thank Kern Sibbald and Bacula gurus! God bless you all! Cheers, Diogo. Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello Mark, Kind notes like yours are one of the big motivations for continuing to work on Bacula, since it already does a lot more than I need here ... Thanks. On Tuesday 29

[Bacula-users] Trouble with auto changer

2005-11-29 Thread Jason Baker
I just installed Bacula on a fresh install of Fedora 4. I am using Postgres 8. I have everything running fine, except my autochanger. I have an HP Surestor 40x6. The probelm is, when I enter the label command in Bacula, it returns the following: Enter autochanger drive [0]: So I enter 0, sinc

Re: **Possibile SPAM**[Bacula-users] Restore files

2005-11-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
Try putting the attached file in your scripts directory, then do in bconsole: query 16 (jobid) /uno/notesdata/ravarino/ mmonesi.nsf (jobid) (jobid) (jobid) where you replace (jobid) with the jobid of the backup job where /uno/notesdata/ravarino/mmonesi.nsf was saved Th

Re: [Bacula-users] Hey Kern....

2005-11-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Mark, Kind notes like yours are one of the big motivations for continuing to work on Bacula, since it already does a lot more than I need here ... Thanks. On Tuesday 29 November 2005 21:26, Mark Hazen wrote: > Kern- > > Knowing full and well the weight that publically supporting a project

[Bacula-users] Hey Kern

2005-11-29 Thread Ray Pengelly
I would like to second Mark Hazen’s notion. Bacula is great and anyone who has any part in developing and supporting this software deserves many hearty thank yous. If you are ever in the Kingston, Ontario area let me know and drinks are on me.   Ray   Ray Pengelly Computer Systems Adm

[Bacula-users] Hey Kern....

2005-11-29 Thread Mark Hazen
Kern- Knowing full and well the weight that publically supporting a project with the size and scope of Bacula puts on your shoulders, I'd like to say thank you, thank you, thank you. You do an admirable job, and yes, while Bacula may not be as easy to get into as some of the commercial backup

Re: [Bacula-users] What's the meaning of the name "Bacula" ?

2005-11-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 20:51, Phil Stracchino wrote: > McCann, Brian wrote: > > It's a play on words...Dracula and Backup. That's why the documentation > > starts with " It comes in the night and sucks the essence from your > > computers." > > Also, a baculum is a rod or stick. Well, that

Re: [Bacula-users] What's the meaning of the name "Bacula" ?

2005-11-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 18:48, Diogo Melo wrote: > Just for Curiosity, what's the meaning of the name "Bacula" ? Is this a > kind of a bat? I've search the meaning of that word in google and I've just > found the Bacula software... > And how do we pronounce it? Is the strong syllable bacula,

[Bacula-users] Recycling is triggered by what?

2005-11-29 Thread Magne J. Andreassen
hi, Seems that I can't get recycling to work as expected. Somethimes I have to manually issue a 'mount' to make Bacula recycle the volume. After that, the jobs start running emediatly. Othertimes everything works as expected. Normaly, when the volum is recycled, I get this messages: 23-Nov 17:09

Re: [Bacula-users] What's the meaning of the name "Bacula" ?

2005-11-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
McCann, Brian wrote: > It's a play on words...Dracula and Backup. That's why the documentation > starts with " It comes in the night and sucks the essence from your > computers." Also, a baculum is a rod or stick. So Bacula, plural, is a set of big sticks to hit your backup problem with. :) -

Re: [Bacula-users] Possible buglet in regex code?

2005-11-29 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:24:27 +0100, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Attila_F=FCl=F6p?= > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Attila> Martin Simmons wrote: >>> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:03:27 +0100, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Attila_F=FCl=F6p?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> Attila> Martin Simmons wrote: >> >

Re: [Bacula-users] Possible buglet in regex code?

2005-11-29 Thread Attila Fülöp
Martin Simmons wrote: On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:03:27 +0100, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Attila_F=FCl=F6p?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Attila> Martin Simmons wrote: >>> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:09:48 +0100, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Attila_F=FCl=F6p?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> Attila> Kern Sibbald w

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem installing on Fedora 4

2005-11-29 Thread Jason Baker
Title: Untitled Document Thanks, I uninstalled all of the RPM's for Postgres, installed the lastest Postgres from source, then ran ./configure --with-postgresql=/usr/local/pgsql. That finally worked. So far everything is running well under FC4. Jason Baker IT Coordinator Glastender Inc. 540

Re: [Bacula-users] What's the meaning of the name "Bacula" ?

2005-11-29 Thread Michael Galloway
i think its a pun on the word dracula -- michael On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 03:48:47PM -0200, Diogo Melo wrote: > Just for Curiosity, what's the meaning of the name "Bacula" ? Is this a > kind of a bat? I've search the meaning of that word in google and I've just > found the Bacula software...

RE: [Bacula-users] What's the meaning of the name "Bacula" ?

2005-11-29 Thread McCann, Brian
It's a play on words...Dracula and Backup. That's why the documentation starts with " It comes in the night and sucks the essence from your computers." :) --Brian From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Diogo Melo Sent: Tuesday, November

[Bacula-users] What's the meaning of the name "Bacula" ?

2005-11-29 Thread Diogo Melo
 Just for Curiosity, what's the meaning of the name "Bacula" ? Is this a kind of a bat? I've search the meaning of that word in google and I've just found the Bacula software...  And how do we pronounce it? Is the strong syllable bacula, ba cula or bacula? Thanks!! :-) Diogo

[Bacula-users] Re: Travan 40 (Seagate Hornet, STT3401A)

2005-11-29 Thread richard (MQ)
Hi Greg, Greg Cockburn wrote: Fall? It is Autumn for me too. (New Zealander living in Australia) Oops - pardon me! Yeah I saw your posts in the archives Richard and was trying all those suggestions. Looks like the best idea is to sell it on e-bay. Anyone got a recommendation for a "good c

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula use with Iomega Rev

2005-11-29 Thread richard (MQ)
Hi Benjamin, Benjamin Chambers wrote: We implemented and tested Bacula + Iomega REV (IDE/ATAPI) extensively in our small business server, ClarkConnectplug>. It pretty straightforward, with the REV drive being treated as any 'file' based backup, with the exception that it is removable. Than

Re: [Bacula-users] Win32 FD with your new BackupWrite extraction code.

2005-11-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 18:01, Steve Loughran wrote: > Hi all > > Was just wondering which release this new code will be in, or if I have > missed it in the release notes for 1.38.0/.1/.2 ? It is in the current CVS and seems to be working fine. I have not tried it yet on bigendian machines (

[Bacula-users] Re: Bacula Voting

2005-11-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
Thanks. Your vote is counted. On Tuesday 29 November 2005 17:55, Mike Reinehr wrote: > Priority:    1 |  2   |  3   |  4  |  5   | >            |--|--|-|--| > Vote:       1  | 25 | 6  | 23 |  19 | > > Priority:    6 |  7   |  8  |  9   |  10  | >             ---|--|-|

Re: [Bacula-users] Possible buglet in regex code?

2005-11-29 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:03:27 +0100, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Attila_F=FCl=F6p?= > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Attila> Martin Simmons wrote: >>> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:09:48 +0100, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Attila_F=FCl=F6p?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> Attila> Kern Sibbald wrote: >>

Re: [Bacula-users] Win32 FD with your new BackupWrite extraction code.

2005-11-29 Thread Steve Loughran
Hi all Was just wondering which release this new code will be in, or if I have missed it in the release notes for 1.38.0/.1/.2 ? Steve Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello Thorsten, This is just to let you know that I have just successfully restored a non-portable (BackupWrite) Win32 backup to Linux.

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem installing on Fedora 4

2005-11-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
Most likely you don't have postgresql installed correctly. You must have both postgresql installed, and postgresql-devel. Without the -devel rpm, there are no client libraries for Bacula to link against. I just tested this on my system (FC4), and it works fine. The only difference is I used

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling - "do x the day before y happens"

2005-11-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got a fairly simple single computer setup, it backs up about > 7.5GB of data to a DDS-3 tape on the first Sunday of each month. For > the rest of the month it does nothing but incrementals (plus full > backup of the catalog) every night, amounting to les

[Bacula-users] Problem installing on Fedora 4

2005-11-29 Thread Jason Baker
I am installing the most current version of Bacula on a Fedora Core 4 system. The box is a Dell Dimension 2350, 256 MB RAM, 30 gig HD. Operating system is functioning normal. I installed Postgres during the install of FC4 from the packages located on the installation CDs. Postgres is version 8.

[Bacula-users] Director hang after DNS lookup failure

2005-11-29 Thread Stuart Griffith
Hi, I've got a Bacula setup that has hung on me a couple of time recently. I am ready and willing to pursue the problem, but would like to know if someone else is already working on it. I did check the bug reports and scanned the email archives, but did not find anything that looked like this pro

Re: [Bacula-users] which pool to use during a restore

2005-11-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
Rob Burris wrote: > Hello all, > > I was wondering what Pool you should you specify in a Job Restore when > you have more than one. For example, I have two Pools, one for Full > backups and for Incremental. > > Pool { > Name = Full-Pool > Pool Type = Backup > AutoPrune = yes > Volume Retentio

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Migration jobs

2005-11-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 16:15, David Boyes wrote: > > > And these values apply to all volumes in the pool, right? > > > > Yes, which may encourage some users to create different Pools > > for different Media Types. > > Good. This is a productive direction..8-). > > > > Operationally, I think yo

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature requests

2005-11-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 18:44, Deim Ágoston wrote: > Hi Kern, > > last week we had a displeasing exprience. When we restored a directory > tree from the console we got the following error message: > > Error: block.c:304 Volume data error at 0:2482648813! Block checksum > mismatch in block 970:

[Bacula-users] Feature requests

2005-11-29 Thread Deim Ágoston
Hi Kern, last week we had a displeasing exprience. When we restored a directory tree from the console we got the following error message: Error: block.c:304 Volume data error at 0:2482648813! Block checksum mismatch in block 970: calc=fbd73d8f blk=8425024b So, it means that a block in one of

Re: [Bacula-users] Possible buglet in regex code?

2005-11-29 Thread Attila Fülöp
Martin Simmons wrote: On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:09:48 +0100, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Attila_F=FCl=F6p?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Attila> Kern Sibbald wrote: >> On Monday 28 November 2005 19:38, Martin Simmons wrote: >> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:06:00 +0100, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED

[Bacula-users] Preliminary voting results.

2005-11-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
With 16 votes cast: Unfortunately, the stupid Open Office does not permit copying to the clip board. Had I know, I would have used Excel ! So, I give a very brief summary: Total Item Project 89 9 Data encryption 73 24Acurrate restoration of renamed/deleted files 66

Re: [Bacula-users] Possible buglet in regex code?

2005-11-29 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:09:48 +0100, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Attila_F=FCl=F6p?= > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Attila> Kern Sibbald wrote: >> On Monday 28 November 2005 19:38, Martin Simmons wrote: >> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:06:00 +0100, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Bacula-users] Possible buglet in regex code?

2005-11-29 Thread Attila Fülöp
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Monday 28 November 2005 19:38, Martin Simmons wrote: > >>> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:06:00 +0100, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> said: >> >> >> Kern> On Monday 28 November 2005 15:55, Martin Simmons wrote: >> >> > On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 09:21:29 +, Greg

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple drives and simultaneous jobs with 1.38.0

2005-11-29 Thread Joshua Myles
On 11/28/2005 11:31 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Yes, you should file a bug report. That ensures that it will not be forgotten > and will be fixed. However, since I already have a test case, there is no > need for you to do anything with regress. Bug report submitted: http://bugs.bacula.org/bu

Re: [Bacula-users] which pool to use during a restore

2005-11-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 11:06, Martin Simmons wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:53:22 -0700, Rob Burris > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Rob> I was wondering what Pool you should you specify in a Job Restore > when Rob> you have more than one. For example, I have two Pools, one for >

Re: [Bacula-users] which pool to use during a restore

2005-11-29 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:53:22 -0700, Rob Burris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Rob> I was wondering what Pool you should you specify in a Job Restore when Rob> you have more than one. For example, I have two Pools, one for Full Rob> backups and for Incremental. It doesn't matter, but I th

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Travan 40 (Seagate Hornet, STT3401A)

2005-11-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 10:48, Greg Cockburn wrote: > Fall? It is Autumn for me too. (New Zealander living in Australia) > > Yeah I saw your posts in the archives Richard and was trying all those > suggestions. Looks like the best idea is to sell it on e-bay. > > Anyone got a recommendation fo

[Bacula-users] Re: Travan 40 (Seagate Hornet, STT3401A)

2005-11-29 Thread Greg Cockburn
Fall? It is Autumn for me too. (New Zealander living in Australia) Yeah I saw your posts in the archives Richard and was trying all those suggestions.  Looks like the best idea is to sell it on e-bay. Anyone got a recommendation for a "good cheap drive"? This is for home, I got this one cheap (a

[Bacula-users] How to configure multiple tapedrives for parallel use?

2005-11-29 Thread Ribi Roland
Hi, We will use two SDLT-Tapes (no autochanger) for backups. How should I configure this tapes, they are both the same devicetypes (Tandberg SDLT320). I would like to use them in parallel for multiple jobs from diffrent clients. So we can get faster backups. The drives are connectet to the same

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error: Socket error from Filed on Include command: ERR=Connection reset by peer - SOLUTION

2005-11-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 29 November 2005 09:49, Goran Tornqvist wrote: > Found the problem. > The director/server was running an older version than the fd/client. > I just downloaded the lastest bacula-client from bacula.org without > thinking about which version it was. > > On the server I had: > > server:/# d

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error: Socket error from Filed on Include command: ERR=Connection reset by peer - SOLUTION

2005-11-29 Thread Goran Tornqvist
Found the problem. The director/server was running an older version than the fd/client. I just downloaded the lastest bacula-client from bacula.org without thinking about which version it was.   On the server I had:   server:/# dpkg -l | grep bacula-dirii  bacula-directo 1.36.2-2sarge1 Networ