[Bacula-users] ERROR: new row for relation "media" violates check constraint "media_volstatus"

2006-02-22 Thread Ross Boylan
I got the error in the subject line while doing backups. I'm running bacula 1.36.3-2 on Debian with postgresql 7.4.9. This happened around the time my /var partition may have filled up, though it did have a reasonable looking amount of free space when I checked in the morning (/var holds the post

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Will bacula be faster than rsnapshot over 3 GB?

2006-02-22 Thread Jo
Harry Putnam schreef: Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm noticing a lengthy pause in an rsnapshot setup when the directories being shuffled are over 3gb or so. Rsnapshot makes a copy of the last backup to a new name then runs rsync against the original. Making that copy can take awh

Re: [Bacula-users] Will bacula be faster than rsnapshot over 3 GB?

2006-02-22 Thread Jo
Alan Brown schreef: On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm noticing a lengthy pause in an rsnapshot setup when the directories being shuffled are over 3gb or so. Rsnapshot makes a copy of the last backup to a new name then runs rsync against the original. Making that copy can take awhile

[Bacula-users] Re: Will bacula be faster than rsnapshot over 3 GB?

2006-02-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I'm noticing a lengthy pause in an rsnapshot setup when the >>> directories being shuffled are over 3gb or so. Rsnapshot makes a copy >>> of the last backup to a new name then runs rsync against the original. >>> Making that copy can take awhile. And mo

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling can slow Bacula

2006-02-22 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Hello, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > It will be slower, but perhaps not by a lot. It will likely be much faster > than if you simply ran 3 simultaneous jobs without spooling, and the total > backup time should be shorter with simultaneous spooling than running one job > after a

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

2006-02-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 06 February 2006 18:04, Russell Howe wrote: > 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 wit

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling can slow Bacula

2006-02-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 21:30, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > C) You run multiple jobs in parallel and want to keep jobs together on > > tape (to allow much faster restores, usually). > > How exactly is this working, especially when the spool size is

Re: [Bacula-users] FreeBSD autochangers

2006-02-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 00:20, Dan Langille wrote: > On 21 Feb 2006 at 23:26, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Dan: could you make some comment (off-list if you want) about the two > > chio-changer scripts? As I mentioned previously, unless a number of > > people tell me that there should only be one

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

2006-02-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 06 February 2006 20:13, 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 generi

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

2006-02-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 06 February 2006 17:50, Arno Lehmann wrote: > 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:

Re: [Bacula-users] Trouble restoring files created through a fifo

2006-02-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 17:18, Marcel Gsteiger wrote: > Hi all > > Did anybody succeed to restore a file that was backed up through a fifo? > I'm unable to get this done. The normal restore job gives an error message. > I then created a second restore job that re-creates the fifos, then tries

Re: [Bacula-users] DB Vacuuming in Postgres

2006-02-22 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:30:58 -0500, William Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Just a few quick questions before we start testing. > > Is this necessary to keep the DB size at a norm? I found it very necessary when using Postgres 7.3.4. It needs a full vacuum every week for me. > Will i

[Bacula-users] Client on Fedora Core 1

2006-02-22 Thread Ger Apeldoorn
Hi! I've got a few clients that run Fedora Core 1. I didn't see any packages that have FC1 in the name or something. What RPM package can I install? Or is a manual compilation nessesary? Many thanks, Ger --- This SF.net email is sponsored b

Re: [Bacula-users] Recovering Files

2006-02-22 Thread Jason Martin
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 05:13:28PM -0300, Everton Thomaz wrote: > Hi all. > I had a problem with my server but i have the backup of this server. > How can i restore my files? I reinstalled the bacula but I can't restore? > How can I recover my catalog? I'm using DLT tape. bscan can recover your cat

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Recovering Files

2006-02-22 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 2/22/2006 7:53 PM, Timo Neuvonen wrote: How is the syntax of the bscan command? Do you have an example? I read the manual but i didn't see one example of this procedure. Volume utility tools / bscan In 1.38.5 (Jan 19 2006) manual this topic starts on p. 417, there are several pages

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting the autochanger work with IBM Ultrium 3851

2006-02-22 Thread Simone Piccardi
Jason Balicki wrote: > I forgot to mention: > > You need to invoke the script with the -l option to force it > to scan the LUNs. I use this in my rc.local script to force > these scans at bootup: > > # rescan scsi bus to find changer device > if (cat /proc/scsi/scsi | grep Medium\ Changer >/dev/

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Does the winbacula.exe (File Daemon for Windows) work on Win 2003 Server?

2006-02-22 Thread Dominic Marks
Moritz Bunkus wrote: Hey, On Tuesday 21 February 2006 19:36, Joshua Kugler wrote: I've been using Bacula 1.36.x on a Win 2003 box for several weeks now. No problems. Haven't tried 1.38. Same here: Bacula 1.36.3 (due to the fact that there still are no newer Debian packages availabel) on a W

[Bacula-users] Re: Recovering Files

2006-02-22 Thread Timo Neuvonen
> How is the syntax of the bscan command? > Do you have an example? > > I read the manual but i didn't see one example of this procedure. > Volume utility tools / bscan In 1.38.5 (Jan 19 2006) manual this topic starts on p. 417, there are several pages about it, also some examples. I've never used

Re: [Bacula-users] Will bacula be faster than rsnapshot over 3 GB?

2006-02-22 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Alan Brown wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm noticing a lengthy pause in an rsnapshot setup when the directories being shuffled are over 3gb or so. Rsnapshot makes a copy of the last backup to a new name then runs rsync against the original. Making that

Re: [Bacula-users] DB Vacuuming in Postgres

2006-02-22 Thread Dan Langille
On 22 Feb 2006 at 13:30, William Reid wrote: > Just a few quick questions before we start testing. > > Is this necessary to keep the DB size at a norm? It reclaims space that would otherwise be unused in future. > Will it hurt anything? Shouldn't. > Has anyone setup a cronjob to handle this p

[Bacula-users] DB Vacuuming in Postgres

2006-02-22 Thread William Reid
Just a few quick questions before we start testing. Is this necessary to keep the DB size at a norm? Will it hurt anything? Has anyone setup a cronjob to handle this pre/post backup? Time - If anyone is currently doing this whats the average time it takes for you database? And how large is your

Re: [Bacula-users] Will bacula be faster than rsnapshot over 3 GB?

2006-02-22 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm noticing a lengthy pause in an rsnapshot setup when the directories being shuffled are over 3gb or so. Rsnapshot makes a copy of the last backup to a new name then runs rsync against the original. Making that copy can take awhile. And more so as it

RES: [Bacula-users] Recovering Files

2006-02-22 Thread Everton Thomaz
How is the syntax of the bscan command? Do you have an example? I read the manual but i didn't see one example of this procedure. Thanks for the help. Everton Thomaz -Mensagem original- De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Em nome de Arno Lehmann Enviada em: quarta-feira, 22

[Bacula-users] Trouble restoring files created through a fifo

2006-02-22 Thread Marcel Gsteiger
Hi all Did anybody succeed to restore a file that was backed up through a fifo? I'm unable to get this done. The normal restore job gives an error message. I then created a second restore job that re-creates the fifos, then tries to restore to the original location. When I set the "overwrite" o

Re: [Bacula-users] Listing filenames of backed up files

2006-02-22 Thread Karl Hakimian
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 02:58:11PM +0100, Geir Asle Borgen wrote: > OK, but I'm no SQL guru ... I'm capable to get in to query-mode (using > bconsole) ... But any hint om SQL queryes for MySQL is welcome :) Not sure why you would need to do this directly in sql, but the query in postgres looks lik

Re: [Bacula-users] Listing filenames of backed up files

2006-02-22 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 2/22/2006 2:58 PM, Geir Asle Borgen wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 14:39 +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, On 2/21/2006 8:36 PM, Geir Asle Borgen wrote: Is it possible to genrate a list of the name of files that are backed up during a incremental job on a client. The easiest way would b

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula RPMs without gconsole (patch)

2006-02-22 Thread Mindaugas
> Attached patch for bacula.spec file to be able to build without > gconsole (build_gconsole define). Then server/client build requires > much fewer gnome and other needed RPMs installed. > > Questions and notices: > - I think "BuildRequires: glibc-devel" can be removed because anyway >

Re: [Bacula-users] Listing filenames of backed up files

2006-02-22 Thread Geir Asle Borgen
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 14:39 +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > On 2/21/2006 8:36 PM, Geir Asle Borgen wrote: > > Is it possible to genrate a list of the name of files that are backed up > > during a incremental job on a client. > > The easiest way would be to use the query "List files for a sel

Re: [Bacula-users] Listing filenames of backed up files

2006-02-22 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 2/21/2006 8:36 PM, Geir Asle Borgen wrote: Is it possible to genrate a list of the name of files that are backed up during a incremental job on a client. The easiest way would be to use the query "List files for a selected JobId" and supplying the job ID which is reported in the job re

Re: [Bacula-users] one director and two storage daemon how to configure

2006-02-22 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 2/22/2006 1:18 PM, david robert wrote: Hi, I have two tape drives located in different machines.I have installed bacula in one machine now i need to use this configuration and take the backup of other machine in different tape drive like. I want to use only ine director and two stor

Re: [Bacula-users] Recovering Files

2006-02-22 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 2/21/2006 9:13 PM, Everton Thomaz wrote: Hi all. I had a problem with my server but i have the backup of this server. How can i restore my files? I reinstalled the bacula but I can’t restore? How can I recover my catalog? I’m using DLT tape. The simplest solution is to use t

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Contributing to Bacula

2006-02-22 Thread Dan Langille
n 22 Feb 2006 at 4:55, David wrote: > Hello Bacula > > > My company InterStructures (www.interstructures.com) is interested in > making improvements and updates to Amanda. Are you sure? ;) > We would like to understand what direction the core team is thinking > and make additions in conj

[Bacula-users] one director and two storage daemon how to configure

2006-02-22 Thread david robert
Hi,   I have two tape drives located in different machines.I have installed bacula in one machine now i need to use this configuration and take the backup of other machine in different tape drive like.   I want to use only ine director and two storage daemons to send the backup to perticular ma

[Bacula-users] Recovering Files

2006-02-22 Thread Everton Thomaz
Hi all.   I had a problem with my server but i have the backup of this server. How can i restore my files? I reinstalled the bacula but I can’t restore? How can I recover my catalog? I’m using DLT tape.   Thanks, Everton Thomaz

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling can slow Bacula

2006-02-22 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 2/21/2006 9:30 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: C) You run multiple jobs in parallel and want to keep jobs together on tape (to allow much faster restores, usually). How exactly is this working, especially when the spool size is smaller the

[Bacula-users] Will bacula be faster than rsnapshot over 3 GB?

2006-02-22 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm noticing a lengthy pause in an rsnapshot setup when the directories being shuffled are over 3gb or so. Rsnapshot makes a copy of the last backup to a new name then runs rsync against the original. Making that copy can take awhile. And more so as it gets bigger. I'm not stating a flame war I

[Bacula-users] Bacula RPMs without gconsole (patch)

2006-02-22 Thread Mindaugas
Hello, Attached patch for bacula.spec file to be able to build without gconsole (build_gconsole define). Then server/client build requires much fewer gnome and other needed RPMs installed. Questions and notices: - I think "BuildRequires: glibc-devel" can be removed because anyway on

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula daemon message, do i worry?

2006-02-22 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 2/22/2006 4:15 AM, Erich Prinz wrote: Not unless you're dead set on getting the full monty report via email. The error is simply telling you the dir was unable to send an email. ... because the mail was too large. The reason for that is most probably that you've included every res