Re: [Bacula-users] Don't run as root if you can avoid it.

On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 18:07 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > On 14 Jan 2006 at 18:00, James P. Kinney III wrote: > > > On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 19:20 +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > On Saturday 14 January 2006 18:14, James P. Kinney III wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 15:31 +0100, Kern Sibbald wrot

[Bacula-users] how to successfully recover from bacula-server loss?

My home bacula server died hard the other day. No problem, everything is backed up. So I rebuilt the server with new hard disks, built a minimal bacula config (I can restore the old one from tape, right?) and bscanned the volumes back into the catalog. That seemed to go well. (jobid#, 193,924

[Bacula-users] Don't run as root if you can avoid it.

On 14 Jan 2006 at 18:00, James P. Kinney III wrote: > On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 19:20 +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Saturday 14 January 2006 18:14, James P. Kinney III wrote: > > > On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 15:31 +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > > > So it looks like the mtx-changer is not being touche

Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger "slots" returns "no slots found"

On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 19:20 +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Saturday 14 January 2006 18:14, James P. Kinney III wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 15:31 +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > > So it looks like the mtx-changer is not being touched. > > > > > > More likely, there is a problem with paths (i.

[Bacula-users] Creating, from scratch, my three bacula daemon configuration files.

Greetings! I'm reading through the manual, and I'm trying to completely create my three bacula (daemon) configuration files. Here is my config.out file: <<>> Configuration on Tue Oct 11 22:18:22 EDT 2005: Host: i686-redhat-linux-gnu -- redhat (Stentz) Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] USB devices

Good evening. On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Chris Hunter wrote: I'll just throw in my 0.02 about USB: In 2.6 kernels, Redhat/Fedora use hal (hardware application layer?). However Suse does something completely different (and OSX?); fiddling with hal and fstab-sync isn't a universal fix. Wrong, SuSE dr

[Bacula-users] USB devices

I'll just throw in my 0.02 about USB: In 2.6 kernels, Redhat/Fedora use hal (hardware application layer?). However Suse does something completely different (and OSX?); fiddling with hal and fstab-sync isn't a universal fix. I know two ways to "label" usb devices: i) for ext2/ext3 filesystems use

[Bacula-users] invalid byte sequence for encoding

This note describes a problem that I recently encountered and worked around, posted here for ease of Googling to help anyone who hits the same problem in the future. I wanted to set up a copy of my Bacula Postgres database on another machine. I used the make-catalog-backup script to generate a ba

Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger "slots" returns "no slots found"

On Saturday 14 January 2006 15:07, James P. Kinney III wrote: > I am setting up a new installation using 1.38.3 built from src.rpm on a > Fedora 3 system. The btape program finds the autochanger and it's slots > OK. The mtx-changer script does as well if I use it manually > (mtx-changer /dev/sg4 sl

Re: [Bacula-users] I/O Error on tape, maintainance of DLT1 drives

I had exactly the same problem some months ago, full thread can be found here: http://www.nabble.com/Still-problems-with-my-Sony-tapes-t504270.html Alexander Bergolth wrote: Hi! Tonight, I got the following I/O error for the first time: The Drive is a DLT1 tape: Vendor: BNCHMARK Model: DLT

Re: [Bacula-users] Time for a Bacula book?

Hello Kern, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > My idea was to create the following from the current *giant* Bacula manual: > > - An Installation manual > - A Tutorial > - A Configuration manual (how to setup a few standard > configurations). > - A Deployment manual (tips, tricks, ca

[Bacula-users] autochanger "slots" returns "no slots found"

I am setting up a new installation using 1.38.3 built from src.rpm on a Fedora 3 system. The btape program finds the autochanger and it's slots OK. The mtx-changer script does as well if I use it manually (mtx-changer /dev/sg4 slots which correctly returns "30"). But bconsole fails every time. Th

Re: [Bacula-users] Backups which have been working now are not, with no change to the configuration files

Hi Kern! On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 11:16:22AM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: > It is nice to hear this kind of enthousiasm and success ! It was great just to finally figure this out! :-O I mean, I did understand, after I tried it, that bacula could not be expected to deal with two different dis

[Bacula-users] I/O Error on tape, maintainance of DLT1 drives

Hi! Tonight, I got the following I/O error for the first time: The Drive is a DLT1 tape: Vendor: BNCHMARK Model: DLT1 Rev: 5538 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 snipp! 14-Jan 01:55 samba-sd: Writing spoo

Re: [Bacula-users] Backups which have been working now are not, with no change to the configuration files

Hello Barry, It is nice to hear this kind of enthousiasm and success ! Please when you get it going to your satisfaction, send us the details. I am sure there a lot of users who would like to accomplish the same thing. I'm still concerned about how Bacula is going to deal with directories and

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula configure script

On Thursday 12 January 2006 21:49, Martin Simmons wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 19:17:07 +0100, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > said: > > Kern> On Thursday 12 January 2006 18:37, Dimitri Puzin wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> when configuring bacula sources like > >> $ ./config