Re: [Bacula-users] Disk Backup Strategy Advice

2006-01-31 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 1/31/2006 6:42 PM, Brad Pinkston wrote: I have 1.2TB worth of space to back up 25 servers. I’d like to do three weeks of backups. Well, at least you have to give some more information: How much data does a full backup consist of today, how many generations of backups do you nee

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling speed

2006-01-31 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 1/31/2006 5:42 PM, Ryan Novosielski wrote: Ah! Never even occurred to me. Is there ANY way to get the tape head speed, other than attempting to do it mathematically? not completely without matematics... but when you look into the job reports, you'll notice that they give time and an

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling speed

2006-01-31 Thread Ryan Novosielski
Ah! Never even occurred to me. Is there ANY way to get the tape head speed, other than attempting to do it mathematically? _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - User Support Spec. III |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922)

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir process failing to start. [SOLVED]

2006-01-31 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 1/31/2006 8:59 PM, Will McDonald wrote: On 31/01/06, Arthur Emerson III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... This is all due to the well-documented change of default behavior some place between 1.38.2 and 1.38.5, where the RPM's are installed running as non-root users by default instead of

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir process failing to start. [SOLVED]

2006-01-31 Thread Will McDonald
On 31/01/06, Arthur Emerson III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I've switched to 1.38.5-4 in the hopes of resolving the volume > > management problems I've been having. > [snip] > > > I built these RPMs on a CentOS 4 system with... > > > > rpmbuild --rebuild -

[Bacula-users] Sd crashing at start up

2006-01-31 Thread Bissot_j
Hi I already post about this problems but the help of Martin Simmons i dig up a bit and lok like my problems come from the function : bool init_autochangers() if (!device->changer_name && changer->changer_name) { device->changer_name = bstrdup(changer->changer_name); } if (!device->changer_

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochange support

2006-01-31 Thread Frank Sweetser
On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 09:59:28AM -0800, Ryan Sizemore wrote: > All, > > I currently run bacula at home and it is working superbly (with an ADIC > Scalar 220). Our company is looking at bacula for its tape archival needs, > and I would like to hear from the bacula community on how well is scales

[Bacula-users] Autochange support

2006-01-31 Thread Ryan Sizemore
All, I currently run bacula at home and it is working superbly (with an ADIC Scalar 220). Our company is looking at bacula for its tape archival needs, and I would like to hear from the bacula community on how well is scales for our needs. At the moment, we are currently backing up about a terab

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir process failing to start.

2006-01-31 Thread Arthur Emerson III
Will McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I've switched to 1.38.5-4 in the hopes of resolving the volume > management problems I've been having. [snip] > I built these RPMs on a CentOS 4 system with... > > rpmbuild --rebuild --define "build_centos4 1" --define "build_mysql 1" > --define "build_mysql4

RE: [Bacula-users] Re: Bacula-users digest, Vol 1 #2922 - 1 msg

2006-01-31 Thread Andreas Freyvogel
We are using chio-bacula to manage the tapes (MTX=/bin/chio) -Andreas -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wyness Casama Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 9:20 PM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] Re: Bacula-users digest

[Bacula-users] Disk Backup Strategy Advice

2006-01-31 Thread Brad Pinkston
I have 1.2TB worth of space to back up 25 servers.  I’d like to do three weeks of backups.  The director and storage are currently running on the same machine.  I’d like to set this up to do concurrent backups.  I apologize for leaving this so vague, but want to start as much conversation a

[Bacula-users] Exchange Backup

2006-01-31 Thread Brad Pinkston
I apologize if this has already been posted.   How can I backup Exchange 2003 with bacula?  I am currently using windows backup to a share and backing up that file, but this isn’t efficient.  I’d like to be able to connect to the exchange server if at all possible.   Brad Pinkston Sr. L

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling speed

2006-01-31 Thread Marc Cousin
Hi, When bacula is sending from the spool to the tape, are there some tasks that are locked ? (all the backups using the spool, the backup being sent to tape...) ? Le Mardi 31 Janvier 2006 17:32, Steve Loughran a écrit : > IHi Ryan > > ts because the data is being transferred twice, once from

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling speed

2006-01-31 Thread Steve Loughran
Not as far as I know :( Steve Ryan Novosielski wrote: Ah! Never even occurred to me. Is there ANY way to get the tape head speed, other than attempting to do it mathematically? --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you g

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling speed

2006-01-31 Thread Steve Loughran
IHi Ryan ts because the data is being transferred twice, once from client to the spool area , then again from the spool area to $TAPE. From a backup point of view, its taken longer to backup the same amount of data. What would be nice is two separate values, one for spool data rate and one f

[Bacula-users] bacula-dir process failing to start.

2006-01-31 Thread Will McDonald
I've switched to 1.38.5-4 in the hopes of resolving the volume management problems I've been having. Backed up all my configs and the MySQL catalog safely. Removed the old 1.36 RPM and started from scratch with a new, clean database and an install of... bacula-mysql-1.38.5-4 bacula-mtx-1.38.5-4 I

[Bacula-users] Spooling speed

2006-01-31 Thread Ryan Novosielski
So, I have switched to spooling, on the advice I've seen written recently... sounds like the way to go, especially if you only have one tape drive. I expected a speed increase too, as the drive would be used more efficiently. What I did not expect is the 1000Kps speed DECREASE. Can anyone tell

[Bacula-users] Run After Job command

2006-01-31 Thread Daniel Holtkamp
Hi ! Is the "Run After Job" command executed if the job failed ? It appears not to do so and the documentation didn`t help. Or is there a way to get it executed even if the job failed ? For example one backup job backups our oracle-server. I stop the oracle with the "Run Before Job" command,

[Bacula-users] EMail notification for mounting tape

2006-01-31 Thread Guy Zürcher
Hello Bacula Users, i would like to inform the end users (mostly secretaries) what tape has to be mounted, each day. In fact Bacula (or some script) shall send a daily email, indicating the correct tape to mount. The problem is, that we have quite a special pool setup (for daily, mont

[Bacula-users] include all dot-files from $HOME

2006-01-31 Thread Stephan Holl
Dear list. I am trying to implement all dot-files into a fileset. but cannot manage it correctly. Perhaps someone has done that successfully. # TEST-fileset FileSet { Name = "testfileset" Include { Options { wildfile = "*." } Options { Exclude = yes RegexFi

Re: [Bacula-users] Wanted: a better mousetrap (Bscan)

2006-01-31 Thread Frank Sweetser
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:39:55PM +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote: > > The reason for that is as I read the documentation, bscan discards > > "incomplete" save sets (ie, where the saveset spans multiple tapes > > and not all of them are read in one invokation of Bscan. > > That might be a technical

[Bacula-users] Bacula with multiple SDs

2006-01-31 Thread Dominic Marks
Hello, We have two storage daemons at present. As the first one became full I have changed the Storage {} entries for some of the backup clients to point to the second SD. I'm assuming Bacula encodes the SD it put the job on with every backup, right? Otherwise how would you allow a client to span

Re: [Bacula-users] tape did not come out

2006-01-31 Thread Natxo Asenjo
On 1/31/06, Michael 'buk' Scherer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi.Please remove the write-protection from the tape. well, this morning I checked and that was not enabled. I rechecked and it all looks fine. We'll see next week-- Groeten,J.Asenjo

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem restoring windows files - SOLVED

2006-01-31 Thread Angela Gavazzi
Sorry I was sic the last days... Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2006 21.10 schrieb Arno Lehmann: > Hi, > > On 1/27/2006 1:39 PM, Angela Gavazzi wrote: > > Am Freitag, 27. Januar 2006 12.38 schrieb Arno Lehmann: > >>Hello, > >> > >>On 1/27/2006 11:54 AM, Angela Gavazzi wrote: > >>>Hallo! > >>> > >>>I'm usi

[Bacula-users] email setup - sender address

2006-01-31 Thread Florian Kieling
Hi Folks, my bacula - backup is running successful. But I've little question: I get an email after a job ist running. Okay. It's good. But the sender is [EMAIL PROTECTED] But I would there an 'official' email-address. Where can I configure this? Florian -

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula killing disks?

2006-01-31 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: AFAICT, it is not a Promise controller. Below are the relevant lines from the boot log. NFORCE2-U400R: IDE controller at PCI slot :00:09.0 NFORCE2-U400R: chipset revision 163 There have been threads in the kernel lists about Nforce DMA err

Re: [Bacula-users] Wanted: a better mousetrap (Bscan)

2006-01-31 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Arno Lehmann wrote: Sh*t. Probably too late now, but taking the job status mails and extracting some sort of volume use logs which contain at least the information which job, on which volume, was written to which tape and print that might be interesting... but of course ev

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula killing disks?

2006-01-31 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, William Reid wrote: On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have this same issue related to promise controllers on our backup server, However we haven't migrated to Bacula yet, we're still using the freeware version of Arkeia. We're using P3 - Acer Motherboards

Re: [Bacula-users] tape did not come out

2006-01-31 Thread Michael 'buk' Scherer
Hi. Please remove the write-protection from the tape. Greetings, Michael On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 - 8:43am, Natxo Asenjo wrote: >Hi, > >After some weeks where everything worked perfectly fine, yesterday the tape >did not come out. > >I am using a daily tape rotation as explained in the manual: > >h

Re: [Bacula-users] error with email setup

2006-01-31 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:16:49 -0500, "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Hi, > For the entry in question here's what is in my postfix maillog: > > Jan 27 15:35:18 machinename postfix/smtpd[9209]: connect from > unknown[127.0.0.1] > Jan 27 15:35:18 machinename postfix/smtpd[9209]: warni

Re: [Bacula-users] error with email setup

2006-01-31 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 1/31/2006 5:16 AM, Dave wrote: Hi, For the entry in question here's what is in my postfix maillog: Jan 27 15:35:18 machinename postfix/smtpd[9209]: connect from unknown[127.0.0.1] Jan 27 15:35:18 machinename postfix/smtpd[9209]: warning: Illegal address syntax from unknown[127.0.

Re: [Bacula-users] VXA-2 Autochanger not correctly changing tapes (FBSD 6.0-REL, Bacula 1.38.5)

2006-01-31 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 1/31/2006 1:04 AM, Andreas Freyvogel wrote: We were having exactly this problem on our autochanger, running on FreeBSD 5.4. Check your changer command line and ensure you are using the correct syntax: %S is for base 0 slots and %s is for base 1. I had to go with base 1 even though ours

RE: [Bacula-users] tape did not come out

2006-01-31 Thread Chris Lee
Exact same thing happened to me a few weeks back.  Drive ate the tape.  DDS is notorious for this.   Thanks,Chris   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Natxo AsenjoSent: Tuesday, 31 January, 2006 01:43To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: [