Re: [Bacula-users] Some kind of backup quota

2006-03-16 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 17 March 2006 00:45, Tom Fischer wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to set a kind of quota to a client defintion? We do a > Fullbackup once a week on online media and every day an incremental > backup, on one day we have an Full Offline Backup on removeable media. > So if a Customer only wan

Re: [Bacula-users] Some kind of backup quota

2006-03-16 Thread Ryan Novosielski
There IS a problem with this idea, and that is that assuming you're writing to the same volume each time, if the whole volume recycles, this is probably going to be a problem because you will have NO old backups ever. Although, I guess what you're attempting to do is keep very quick backups, mo

Re: [Bacula-users] Some kind of backup quota

2006-03-16 Thread Tom Fischer
Hi, thx for your answer. If i do so the volume doesn't recycle. Archive "FileStorage-Online-nixe001" is not open or does not exist. Device is BLOCKED waiting for appendable media. without much doubt an error in my config. bacula-dir.conf: Schedule { Name = "eBuz Online Backup"

Re: [Bacula-users] Some kind of backup quota

2006-03-16 Thread Ryan Novosielski
Exactly as you put it is possible... set max of one volume and limit the size to 5GB. This is done in the pool definition. Make sure that your pool is updated from the resource. Tom Fischer wrote: Hi, is it possible to set a kind of quota to a client defintion? We do a Fullbackup once a week

[Bacula-users] Some kind of backup quota

2006-03-16 Thread Tom Fischer
Hi, is it possible to set a kind of quota to a client defintion? We do a Fullbackup once a week on online media and every day an incremental backup, on one day we have an Full Offline Backup on removeable media. So if a Customer only wants 5GB Space can i prevent that he backups more than 5gb

Re: [Bacula-users] Strange Question during Restore.

2006-03-16 Thread Erik P. Olsen
Ryan Novosielski wrote: Are you mixing any daemon versions? This is a wild guess, but it seems like something that might turn up in that case. No, I've only installed version 1.38.5 on linux and 1.38.4 on Windows and they are as far as I know latest versions. -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen

[Bacula-users] Re: Bug #533 rpm install permissions problems

2006-03-16 Thread Mark Nienberg
Kern Sibbald wrote: Good. You will probably need to change the SD to use group "disk" to get writing to tapes to work -- assuming you want to used tapes. If you mean the SD_GROUP setting in the /etc/init.d/bacula-sd file, then it is already set to "disk". Mark -

Re: [Bacula-users] Strange Question during Restore.

2006-03-16 Thread Ryan Novosielski
Are you mixing any daemon versions? This is a wild guess, but it seems like something that might turn up in that case. _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - User Support Spec. III |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/

[Bacula-users] Bacula BETA version 1.38.6-beta6-20060314 released

2006-03-16 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, I have released the tar source code for Bacula BETA version 1.38.6-beta6-20060314 to the bacula-beta project of the Bacula section of Source Forge. The changes are mostly bug fixes ... - Fix bug #537 to allow arbitrary time to mount a volume for restore, if polling is turned on. - If

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bug #533 rpm install permissions problems

2006-03-16 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 16 March 2006 21:01, Martin Simmons wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:57:55 +0100, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > said: > > > > Hello Scott, > > > > I think we are having a few problems with directory permissions on the > > Bacula working directory, which for the rpm is /v

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Bug #533 rpm install permissions problems

2006-03-16 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 16 March 2006 20:40, Mark Nienberg wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Hello Scott, > > > > I think we are having a few problems with directory permissions on the > > Bacula working directory, which for the rpm is /var/bacula. I think we > > need some changer in the configuration code to

[Bacula-users] Strange Question during Restore.

2006-03-16 Thread Erik P. Olsen
What am I supposed to answer to the question in the attached message box? It poped up during restore of files just backed up from a windows client. Nothing in the back-up process indicated any failure. It reported 9 files and 9,436,595 bytes written by the Storage Daemon. I assume the tape is OK

Re: [Bacula-users] Connect problem solved (was: CYGWIN and win32 Bacula.)

2006-03-16 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 3/16/2006 4:50 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: I think I owe an explanation of this problem. Good that you got it running. Ignore my other posts... ... I am slowly learning the various ramifications of linux I suppose many others went through similar problems :-) and had reasons to blu

Re: [Bacula-users] CYGWIN and win32 Bacula.

2006-03-16 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 3/15/2006 8:00 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: Erik P. Olsen wrote: Arno Lehmann wrote: Hello, On 3/15/2006 11:29 AM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: Arno Lehmann wrote: On 3/15/2006 8:00 AM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: If you don't use DNS for resolving, you can either use the IP address - like 10.2

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bug #533 rpm install permissions problems

2006-03-16 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:57:55 +0100, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Hello Scott, > > I think we are having a few problems with directory permissions on the Bacula > working directory, which for the rpm is /var/bacula. I think we need some > changer in the configuration code to

[Bacula-users] Re: Bug #533 rpm install permissions problems

2006-03-16 Thread Mark Nienberg
Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello Scott, I think we are having a few problems with directory permissions on the Bacula working directory, which for the rpm is /var/bacula. I think we need some changer in the configuration code to fix it, because currently all three daemons use the same directory, wh

Re: [Bacula-users] user complains bacula slows his laptop

2006-03-16 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Alex Finch wrote: So the user with the laptop finally dropped in again this week and we had a chance to pursue why bacula brings his machine to its knees. We worked through your suggestions and it turned out one of them was right. We turned off Norton Antivirus and everyth

[Bacula-users] Error on first mount

2006-03-16 Thread Jeremy Koppel
Hello,       In one of our stand-alone servers, with a single tape drive, I am trying to automate backups as much as possible by having Bacula unmount and eject a tape when it’s time to be changed, and remount when it has been changed.  There’s a script to do this with the Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] user complains bacula slows his laptop

2006-03-16 Thread Alex Finch
Michel and bacula users, So the user with the laptop finally dropped in again this week and we had a chance to pursue why bacula brings his machine to its knees. We worked through your suggestions and it turned out one of them was right. We turned off Norton Antivirus and everything got a lo

[Bacula-users] Director daemon won't start

2006-03-16 Thread Mark Nienberg
I built and installed the rpms for bacula 1.38.5-4 on Fedora Core 4 x86. The storage and file daemons start up properly, but the director does not. [EMAIL PROTECTED] init.d]# service bacula-dir status bacula-dir is stopped [EMAIL PROTECTED] init.d]# service bacula-dir start Starting Bacula Dire

[Bacula-users] So why doesn't the Windows client report data amounts?

2006-03-16 Thread John Stoffel
I just Bacula on three systems at home, including one Windows one. I'm running 1.36.x on all of them. Sorry I don't have the Windows client version handy. Anyway, this is the type of message I get from the PC when it does backups, while the Linux ones tell me how much data was actually written

[Bacula-users] Connect problem solved (was: CYGWIN and win32 Bacula.)

2006-03-16 Thread Erik P. Olsen
I think I owe an explanation of this problem. First I couldn't ping my bacula server. That was because dhcp had changed the IP-address (blush). Secondly the file daemon on Windows 2000 couldn't connect to the server. That was because iptables was blocking the connection (another blush). I was

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 1.36.2-2sarge1 on Debian stable

2006-03-16 Thread hikari
Greg Vickers wrote: > Yup, they are the same. Do these passwords need quotes > surrounding them or should I remove the quotes that were present > in the default configuration files? Quotes in Bacula config files are standard "What's between these quotes is a single string" ones. They're

Re: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 1.36.2-2sarge1 on Debian stable

2006-03-16 Thread Greg Vickers
Hi David, > david robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > first thing check the bconsole.conf file having the same password in > director file and the address of the machine is correct in that file Yup, they are the same. Do these passwords need quotes surrounding them or should I remove the quo

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 1.36.2-2sarge1 on Debian stable

2006-03-16 Thread david robert
first thing check the bconsole.conf file having the same password in director file and the address of the machine is correct in that fileGreg Vickers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all,I've just joined the list and I apologise in advance for any Stupid Questions (TM).I've installed Bacula version 1

[Bacula-users] Bug #533 rpm install permissions problems

2006-03-16 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Scott, I think we are having a few problems with directory permissions on the Bacula working directory, which for the rpm is /var/bacula. I think we need some changer in the configuration code to fix it, because currently all three daemons use the same directory, which is fine from a Bac

[Bacula-users] Bacula 1.36.2-2sarge1 on Debian stable

2006-03-16 Thread Greg Vickers
Hi all, I've just joined the list and I apologise in advance for any Stupid Questions (TM). I've installed Bacula version 1.36.2-2sarge1 and I'm having trouble getting the console started: # bconsole -c ./bconsole.conf Connecting to Director :9101 Director authorization problem. Most li

[Bacula-users] bacula job status running and device status block

2006-03-16 Thread david robert
Hi Guys,   I am going really clue less now i am  checking my backup status with bconsole director status job running    34 Full    NightlySave.2006-03-16_00.10.00 is running   when i check the storage device status   Device status:Device "/dev/nst0" is mounted with Volume "Wednesday"    De

[Bacula-users] RAID or What?

2006-03-16 Thread David Thurston
I have a 4 Drive, Hot Swappable, External SATA Enclosure with 1+ Tb of storage. My goal is to be able to rotate drives off-site and just plug in (recycle) new drives for on-site backup like very big tapes. I can set it up RAID 5 so that I get parity and hotswap rebuild via the RAID setup, but t