Re: [Bacula-users] migrating to different database backend

2006-02-06 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 21:36:36 +0100, "Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > > OTOH, at least 15% of the 9 million rows in the File table > > are deleted (by > > pruning) and reinserted (by backup) every weekend. Within 2 > > months, almost 100% of the rows will have been dele

[Bacula-users] Bare-metal recovery Windows 2003 Server (PDC)

2006-02-06 Thread John Smith
* * Bare-metal recovery Windows 2003 Server (PDC) * * 06 Feb 2006 (copyleft) Santa Claus temp99 [mad dog] gmail [dot] com I apologize for my bad English. Please correc

RE: [Bacula-users] Re: abysmal database write performance

2006-02-06 Thread Magnus Hagander
> >> [...] I tried to "tune" postgreSQL by modifying some > settings in the > >> postgresql.conf: shared_buffers = 2048 wal_buffers = 64 > >> max_connections = 40 Nevertheless, it doesn't help. :-( > > > > What kind of hardware are you on? 2048 shared buffers is > very low for > > a lot of sy

[Bacula-users] Re: abysmal database write performance

2006-02-06 Thread Jens Boettge
Magnus Hagander wrote: >> [...] I tried to "tune" postgreSQL by modifying some settings in >> the postgresql.conf: shared_buffers = 2048 wal_buffers = 64 >> max_connections = 40 Nevertheless, it doesn't help. :-( > > What kind of hardware are you on? 2048 shared buffers is very low for > a lot of

RE: [Bacula-users] migrating to different database backend

2006-02-06 Thread Magnus Hagander
> > > > This sounds like either table or index bloat. Typical > > > reasons for tihs > > > > are not doing vacuum (which obviously isn't your problem), > > > or having > > > > too few FSM pages. This can also be caused by not > running vacuum > > > > earlier, but doing it now - if you got far eno

Re: [Bacula-users] windows shortcuts

2006-02-06 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 20:41:15 +0100, Georges Toth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > That's very strange, because shortcuts in Windows are just normal files > > with a .lnk extension. What is your fileset definition? Were there any > > warnings when doing the backup? Does the "estimate listing

[Bacula-users] Incremental backups

2006-02-06 Thread Georges Toth
Hey, With my current backup solution (rsnapshot), every backup (allthough it is incremental) contains a complete image of the files present when the backup was done (using hardlinks from previous backups). Is that also possible with bacula ? I mean so that I only have to do a full-backup once,

Re: [Bacula-users] migrating to different database backend

2006-02-06 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 23:15:47 +0100, "Magnus Hagander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Content-class: urn:content-classes:message > Thread-Topic: [Bacula-users] migrating to different database backend > > > > This sounds like either table or index bloat. Typical > > reasons for tihs > > >

Re: [Bacula-users] windows shortcuts

2006-02-06 Thread Georges Toth
> That's very strange, because shortcuts in Windows are just normal files > with a .lnk extension. What is your fileset definition? Were there any > warnings when doing the backup? Does the "estimate listing" command show > the shortcuts? After some more testing I now seem to have resolved this

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up to removable hard drive

2006-02-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 2/6/2006 8:13 PM, John Demme wrote: So the requires mount option and family have very misleading names. In my not-so-humble opinion, the correct way to implement removable hard drive backup is to rename the current options to something like dvd mount ..., and use the generic names f

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up to removable hard drive

2006-02-06 Thread John Demme
So the requires mount option and family have very misleading names.  In my not-so-humble opinion, the correct way to implement removable hard drive backup is to rename the current options to something like dvd mount ..., and use the generic names for a generic mount/umount scheme.  That is, require

[Bacula-users] Re: natted bacula server

2006-02-06 Thread Joshua Kugler
On Saturday 04 February 2006 12:30, Dave wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to implement cross-internet bacula backups. And i'm trying > to keep this as simple as i can. All servers and clients are running > freebsd and bacula 1.38.5 via ports. On the client box which has a public > IP address i've g

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger with multiple drives

2006-02-06 Thread Ian Levesque
On Feb 5, 2006, at 11:24 PM, Ian Levesque wrote: On Feb 3, 2006, at 11:38 AM, David Muench wrote: On 2/3/06, Christoph Brunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, now Bacula tries to use more than one drive. Unfortunately it tries to load the same volume into several drives ... I suspect to d

[Bacula-users] A script to ease the pain of switching from SQLite to PostgreSQL

2006-02-06 Thread Russell Howe
Well, the time is nigh. Our SQLite database has hit 1.3GB and creates a 900MB dump file, which is big enough to cause our bacula Xen virtual machine to run out of space when running a catalog backup. We have a Postgres (7.4) server with plenty of space, so I thought I'd try importing the catalog i

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up to removable hard drive

2006-02-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 2/6/2006 4:20 PM, John Demme wrote: I'm trying to get Bacula to backup to my removable SATA hard drive. I want bacula to manage whether of not the drive is mounted. Thus, I have the following bacula-sd device area: Device { Name = FileStorage Media Type = RemovableFile Archi

Re: [Bacula-users] windows shortcuts

2006-02-06 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 22:13:37 +0100, Georges Toth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Hi, > > I'm new to bacula. > I've setup the server (dir, sd, fd) on a linux server, and tried to backup a > windows machine (xp). > The backup and restore worked fine, except one problem. > Shortcuts didn't get r

[Bacula-users] bextract: "*none*" entries, "File size of restored file... not correct" and "Unknown stream=... ignored"

2006-02-06 Thread Moritz Bunkus
Hey, We're running Bacula 1.36.3 on Debian/Sarge (standard Debian packages) on a standard PC (AMD Athlon XP, IDE hard discs, one HP DDS4 SCSI streamer). We're backing up six Linux clients and one Windows client simultaneously, meaning the data from the clients is interleaved on the tapes. Now I w

[Bacula-users] Backing up to removable hard drive

2006-02-06 Thread John Demme
I'm trying to get Bacula to backup to my removable SATA hard drive.  I want bacula to manage whether of not the drive is mounted.  Thus, I have the following bacula-sd device area: Device {   Name = FileStorage   Media Type = RemovableFile   Archive Device = /dev/sdg1   Requires Mount = yes   Mou

Re: [Bacula-users] client side backup exclude (feature request?)

2006-02-06 Thread Alan Brown
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, [ISO-8859-15] Jens Böttge wrote: Background: many of our users have temporary or unimportant datas in their directory, it not "worth" to be backed up to tape. The decision over this is with the user. I've achieved this for the moment by agreeing with the users that files

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula FileSet Problem

2006-02-06 Thread Sim Zacks
Try this: Fileset { Name="fileset" Include{ Options{ WildFile=*.ppt Wildfile=*.xls WildFile=*.txt WildFile=*.sxw } Options{

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula FileSet Problem

2006-02-06 Thread Danie Theron
Try the following : FileSet { Name = "fileset" Include { File = "c:/*.ppt" File = "c:/*.xls" File = "c:/*.txt" } } KeenLearner (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: Hi to all, i am new to Bacula, so need ur help regarding File Set syntax. i have a mixed platform clients .like

Re: [Bacula-users] Overland Neo 2000

2006-02-06 Thread Juliet Kemp
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 03:56:23PM -0500, Erik Dykema wrote: > I'm looking to upgrade to a new tape library, and am looking at the > "Overland Neo 2000" with Ultrium 3 drives. I saw on the bacula web page > that it's listed as 'supported', but with LTO-1 drives. > Is anyone out there usi

[Bacula-users] Problem with relabelled tape?

2006-02-06 Thread Juliet Kemp
Hi, I'm getting the following error from Bacula: Error: block.c:782 Read error at file:blk 0:0 on device /dev/st0. ERR=Input/output error. Warning: Requested volume ABK787L3 on /dev/st0 is not a Bacula labeled Volume, because: [repeat of line above] Please mount Volume "ABK787L3" on Storage D

Re: [Bacula-users] client side backup exclude (feature request?)

2006-02-06 Thread Sim Zacks
I gave some of my users the possibility to include directories, I never tried excluding but I would think it is the same thing. My bacula-dir.conf includes: Include{ Options{ ... } File = \ Hello, > > I'm searching for a possibility to define an exc

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula restore logging

2006-02-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, I wasn't folowing the list very closely the last days, so this might already be answered... On 2/2/2006 11:27 PM, Ryan Sizemore wrote: In the process of restoring nearly 10,000,000 files from tape, I have noticed that it logs each file that it restores. This is great for restoring a fe

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Expiring old tapes

2006-02-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 2/5/2006 10:10 PM, Timo Neuvonen wrote: Does bacula have a way of keeping track how many times it writes to a tape completely so that it can declare a tape old and needs to be replaced after so many complete writes? I guess this is item #7 in to-do list: http://www.bacula.org/?p

Re: [Bacula-users] SMTP date problem

2006-02-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 2/6/2006 11:11 AM, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: Hi, I use a Bacula feature to send me an email when a backup is done. The mail is sent to me but with a date of 01-01-1970 (the date of the smtp server seems good). I use Baucla 1.38.5. Any ideas ? This has been reported before. I don't kn

Re: [Bacula-users] status of simultaneous backups to different storages

2006-02-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 2/3/2006 3:08 PM, Christian Michallek wrote: hi list. my goal is to write one job simultaneously to a disk volume and a tapedrive. as far as i've understood this isnt possible with bacula yet. most posts about this are already a bit older, so i wanted to ask if this is still the case,

Re: [Bacula-users] client side backup exclude (feature request?)

2006-02-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 2/5/2006 3:37 PM, Jens Böttge wrote: Hello, I'm searching for a possibility to define an exclusion on the client side. The consultation of the outstanding documentation unfortunately brought no explanation. I hope, I surveyed nothing. Unfortunately, you didn't overlook anything. B

[Bacula-users] Error on Restore

2006-02-06 Thread Florian Kieling
Hi Folks, I would run a restore. but i become this error: Error: block.c:305 Volume data error at 0:96639171! Block checksum mismatch in block=1499 len=64512: calc=72f40236 blk=1ae55720 Which problem has bacula? What can I do? Kind regards Florian -

[Bacula-users] Bacula FileSet Problem

2006-02-06 Thread KeenLearner (sent by Nabble.com)
Hi to all, i am new to Bacula, so need ur help regarding File Set syntax. i have a mixed platform clients .like win-98, win-2000, win-xp, linux my requirement is to take backup of every txt, ppt, xls,sxw files from all the client machines. But as far as i knw abt bacula..we can exclude the file b

RE: [Bacula-users] abysmal database write performance

2006-02-06 Thread Magnus Hagander
> Hi there, > > currently we are using postgresql 8.0.6 (default configuration) under > FC4 for the catalog (with bacula 1.38.5). > I decided to spool the attributes of our jobs before storing > in the database because of a bad performance. Some jobs are > having a lot of files and so the attrib

[Bacula-users] client side backup exclude (feature request?)

2006-02-06 Thread Jens Böttge
Hello, I'm searching for a possibility to define an exclusion on the client side. The consultation of the outstanding documentation unfortunately brought no explanation. I hope, I surveyed nothing. Background: many of our users have temporary or unimportant datas in their directory, it not "w

[Bacula-users] alternating/simultaneous usage of tape drives

2006-02-06 Thread Jens Böttge
Hello, currently I'm evaluating bacula (v1.38.5) as the favourite solution for our backup. But I still have some problems and no answers. :-( We are using a SpectraLogic T50 library with two LTO3 drives. The configuration of the autochanger works fine. But bacula doesn't use the second drive

[Bacula-users] abysmal database write performance

2006-02-06 Thread Jens Böttge
Hi there, currently we are using postgresql 8.0.6 (default configuration) under FC4 for the catalog (with bacula 1.38.5). I decided to spool the attributes of our jobs before storing in the database because of a bad performance. Some jobs are having a lot of files and so the attribute spool fi

[Bacula-users] status of simultaneous backups to different storages

2006-02-06 Thread Christian Michallek
hi list. my goal is to write one job simultaneously to a disk volume and a tapedrive. as far as i've understood this isnt possible with bacula yet. most posts about this are already a bit older, so i wanted to ask if this is still the case, or perhaps someone has a new workaround/patch for this p

Re: [Bacula-users] SMTP date problem

2006-02-06 Thread Florian Schnabel
Luc MAIGNAN wrote: Hi, I use a Bacula feature to send me an email when a backup is done. The mail is sent to me but with a date of 01-01-1970 (the date of the smtp server seems good). I use Baucla 1.38.5. Any ideas ? Best regards check the date of every box involved ... so the box the bacu

[Bacula-users] SMTP date problem

2006-02-06 Thread Luc MAIGNAN
Hi, I use a Bacula feature to send me an email when a backup is done. The mail is sent to me but with a date of 01-01-1970 (the date of the smtp server seems good). I use Baucla 1.38.5. Any ideas ? Best regards

[Bacula-users] volume archiving / is "bextract" enough ?

2006-02-06 Thread Mikael
Hello, I'm currently using bacula with a disk based backup strategy. Each month, I do a full backup of each machine on a dedicated volume (each volume only contains one full backup of one machine). I would like to archive these volumes in a safe place by copying them to a big hard drive but I