[Bacula-users] Re: Constructive criticism of current bacula systems

2006-04-24 Thread Francisco Reyes
Dan Langille writes: 11: Enter a list of directories to restore for found JobIds 12: Cancel Select item: (1-12): FR is talking about #11 JK is talking about 3, 5, 6, 7, etc. Sorry I was not clear. Yes i was referring to the restore using option 11. It is a very common restore type for us

Re: [Bacula-users] Backups too big, and other questions

2006-04-24 Thread Scott Ruckh
This is what you said Jason Martin > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 06:50:33PM -0700, Scott Ruckh wrote: >> I think I have found the culprit, /var/log/lastlog . It is a sparse >> file >> and appears to be 1.2TB, which is way larger then the total space of the >> filesystem, In reality, this file only us

[Bacula-users] bacula-web image test/phplot fails with "argument not an array" errors

2006-04-24 Thread Cedric Tefft
Hi all - I'm struggling to get bacula-web 1.1 working. System is Fedora core 5, Apache 2.2.0, PHP 5.1.2, gd 2.0.33, bacula 1.38.8. test.php reports GetText, Pear(DB), and GD are all OK. Then I click on the link to test the graph system capabilities, and all the image links are broken. The

Re: [Bacula-users] Backups too big, and other questions

2006-04-24 Thread Dan Langille
If you'd CC'd me on your post to the list, I'd have gotten sooner and you'd have gotten your reply sooner too. :) On 24 Apr 2006 at 18:50, Scott Ruckh wrote: > This is what you said Jason Martin > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 07:31:43PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > >> > The backup is to disk for

Re: [Bacula-users] Backups too big, and other questions

2006-04-24 Thread Jason Martin
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 06:50:33PM -0700, Scott Ruckh wrote: > I think I have found the culprit, /var/log/lastlog . It is a sparse file > and appears to be 1.2TB, which is way larger then the total space of the > filesystem, In reality, this file only uses 64K of actual used disk > space, but I a

Re: [Bacula-users] Backups too big, and other questions

2006-04-24 Thread Scott Ruckh
This is what you said Jason Martin > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 07:31:43PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: >> > The backup is to disk for this single system and the backup is well >> over >> > 143GB in space. The actual data being backed up is less then 30GB. >> Why >> > is this backup so big? >> >> Run t

[Bacula-users] Tape write Error

2006-04-24 Thread Jeronimo Zucco
I am usiing bacula 1-38.8 in both server and client sides. I have started mannualy a lot of jobs at the same time, and I use Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 3 on Director and Jobs. The jobs started to write on my autoloader, and after same time I received the following error message : 24

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting Version error for database "bacula"

2006-04-24 Thread Cedric Tefft
Raffaele Pantaleoni wrote: Hi, this is the first time I write. I'm going to use bacula in my office network to help my users with a network backup. So during the last days I was playing with Bacula to understand it (I already printed and read the huge manual). After some useful tests I tried to u

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Constructive criticism of current bacula systems

2006-04-24 Thread Dan Langille
On 24 Apr 2006 at 16:22, Joshua Kugler wrote: > On Monday 24 April 2006 14:04, Francisco Reyes wrote: > > Also if you need to restore files from a directory right now your only > > choice is to restore the whole directory. One can not get a listing of all > > the files and then mark them. So, your

[Bacula-users] Re: Constructive criticism of current bacula systems

2006-04-24 Thread Joshua Kugler
On Monday 24 April 2006 14:04, Francisco Reyes wrote: > Also if you need to restore files from a directory right now your only > choice is to restore the whole directory. One can not get a listing of all > the files and then mark them. So, your choice is to spend a long time to > get full listing o

Re: [Bacula-users] Backups too big, and other questions

2006-04-24 Thread Jason Martin
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 07:31:43PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > > The backup is to disk for this single system and the backup is well over > > 143GB in space. The actual data being backed up is less then 30GB. Why > > is this backup so big? > > Run the estimate command. Something is taking up t

Re: [Bacula-users] Backups too big, and other questions

2006-04-24 Thread Dan Langille
On 24 Apr 2006 at 16:21, Scott Ruckh wrote: > Output from df -h looks like the following: > > df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda6 129G 23G 100G 19% / > /dev/sda1 99M 27M 68M 29% /boot > none 1006M 0 1006M

[Bacula-users] Backups too big, and other questions

2006-04-24 Thread Scott Ruckh
Output from df -h looks like the following: df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 129G 23G 100G 19% / /dev/sda1 99M 27M 68M 29% /boot none 1006M 0 1006M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda3 49G 109M 46G 1%

Re: [Bacula-users] Constructive criticism of current bacula systems

2006-04-24 Thread Francisco Reyes
Eric Warnke writes: I am a recent newcomer to Bacula and have bumped into a number of limitations. current backing up 700GiB of online storage What type of files? Lots of small files or medium large files? So far I have added only 2 servers to be backed up with Bacula. About 500GB with 6 m

[Bacula-users] bacula-web: is it normal for index.php to be blank if there are no jobs set up.

2006-04-24 Thread Chuck Bunn
Hi, I am just getting a blank page with no errors when I go to 'mymachine/bacula-web/index.php'. When I go to 'mymachine/bacula-web/stats.php' I get a small table that says "None data to process" (yes it says 'None' instead of 'No'). Is all of this normal or do I have a problem somewhere. I w

[Bacula-users] bacula-web: GD not compiled with php in CENTOS 4.3

2006-04-24 Thread Chuck Bunn
Hi, In case anyone else runs across this problem I thought I would post the solution I found. Apparently in Centos 4.3 php is NOT compiled with GD support, to fix this problem just install 'php-gd' and then restart httpd and it will work. yum install php-gd service httpd restart Refresh the

Re: [Bacula-users] Constructive criticism of current bacula syste ms

2006-04-24 Thread Steen
Hmmm - I don't get that: > you can not discard/recycle the differential before a new full The way I understand it is that differential is everything changed since the last full (unlike some other systems definitions). That to me means that after a new differential, you can abandon all older inc

Re: [Bacula-users] Constructive criticism of current bacula syste ms

2006-04-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 24 April 2006 20:54, Eric Warnke wrote: > Clarification on the differentials comment > > What I'm suggesting is... > > Full = Full > Incremental = Changes since last Full or Incremental > Differential = Changes since last Full ( effectively becoming an > incremental since last full ). > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Where is the bacula-web source?

2006-04-24 Thread Chuck Bunn
Hi, Thanks that worked I did not realize I have to specify the path as well. Thanks Again Dan Langille wrote: On 24 Apr 2006 at 14:23, Chuck Bunn wrote: Hi, Okay I tried following the steps for downloading but I guess the bacula-web is not the name of the module. How do I get these file

Re: [Bacula-users] Where is the bacula-web source?

2006-04-24 Thread Dan Langille
On 24 Apr 2006 at 14:23, Chuck Bunn wrote: > Hi, > > Okay I tried following the steps for downloading but I guess the > bacula-web is not the name of the module. How do I get these files down > to my machine? What is the name of the bacula-web module? See http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/

Re: [Bacula-users] Where is the bacula-web source?

2006-04-24 Thread Chuck Bunn
Hi, Okay I tried following the steps for downloading but I guess the bacula-web is not the name of the module. How do I get these files down to my machine? What is the name of the bacula-web module? Thanks Juan Luis Frances wrote: Hello Chuck, You can download the latest version from CVS:

Re: [Bacula-users] Constructive criticism of current bacula systems

2006-04-24 Thread Dan Langille
On 24 Apr 2006 at 12:29, Eric Warnke wrote: > 3) Config files are needlessly over complex. It has taken weeks to > fine tune the config files in order to achieve a stated goal for our > in-house needs that is not overly complex ( 90 days of guaranteed > backups ). Almost every time a complex cha

Re: [Bacula-users] Constructive criticism of current bacula syste ms

2006-04-24 Thread Eric Warnke
Clarification on the differentials commentWhat I'm suggesting is...Full = FullIncremental = Changes since last Full or IncrementalDifferential = Changes since last Full ( effectively becoming an incremental since last full ). Right now, incremental track from either full, differential, or increment

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore error!

2006-04-24 Thread Zakai Kinan
Thanks for the answer. I have another question my storage file tells me that I have 10GB of data, but a restore shows that most of the files are empty. Bextract is not working and it is saying that gzip is supported in win32. Thanks for any help, ZK --- Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

RE: [Bacula-users] Constructive criticism of current bacula syste ms

2006-04-24 Thread Meidal, Knut
Greetings! A well-researched and well-written posting! Comments inline. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Warnke Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 9:30 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] Constructive cri

RE: [Bacula-users] Constructive criticism of current bacula systems

2006-04-24 Thread Heigl Florian - Munich-MR - external
Hello Eric and list, thank You for taking the time for this write-up. I'm using bacula and very confident about it, but agree on all points mentioned, and still lack a 'good feeling' about my configuration, which is the reason I'm backing up about 20 clients in a completely ashaming schedule of

Re: [Bacula-users] Newbie: How to manage multiple pools and multiple FDs

2006-04-24 Thread Cedric Tefft
Ryan Novosielski wrote: Sorry I wasn't clearer -- why I'd want multiple pools is fairly obvious. Why I'd possibly want multiple catalogs is what I didn't understand. Well, one possible reason would be to keep your catalog(s) to a manageable size. There are other threads on the list right no

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with new process to start bacula on FreeBSD, rc.conf...?

2006-04-24 Thread DAve
pedro moreno wrote: Hi people. I already install bacula 1.38.8 no FreeBSD setup my /etc/rc.conf file to start bacula, that method is very good, but i have some problems every time i restart my system or try to stop the bacula-dir.daemon. 1; Every time that my system boots he try to start

Re: [Bacula-users] Constructive criticism of current bacula systems

2006-04-24 Thread Eric Warnke
SQLite was chosen as a simple, no-daemon option before limitations were realized.  Before moving to production we will move it to a MySQL database we will already run.Cheers,Eric Have you tried out MySQL or PostgreSQL?

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore error!

2006-04-24 Thread Frank Sweetser
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:43:54AM -0700, Zakai Kinan wrote: > here is more info. My backup is using external USB > hardrives and I moved this weekend. After the move > the hardrives change for example from /dev/sdc to > /dev/sdd. I went into the bacula-sd.conf file and > made the necessary chan

Re: [Bacula-users] Constructive criticism of current bacula systems

2006-04-24 Thread Bill Moran
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:29:47 -0400 "Eric Warnke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > 2) SQLite has undocumented limitations that make it inappropriate for many > site that might be interested in this product. First off, if there is any > contention for the database ( ie, looking at the state of

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore error!

2006-04-24 Thread Zakai Kinan
here is more info. My backup is using external USB hardrives and I moved this weekend. After the move the hardrives change for example from /dev/sdc to /dev/sdd. I went into the bacula-sd.conf file and made the necessary changes. Is that the problem? Thanks for the quick response, ZK -

[Bacula-users] Constructive criticism of current bacula systems

2006-04-24 Thread Eric Warnke
We are currently evaluating OSS backup solutions for our research file storage needs and are running into several issues with bacula.  We are current backing up 700GiB of online storage, and we have physical storage for over 10TiB.  We have an autochanger with 23 slots and LTO3 tapes ( 400/800 ), s

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore error!

2006-04-24 Thread Frank Sweetser
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:02:33AM -0700, Zakai Kinan wrote: > what does this error mean exactly? > > Query failed: SELECT DISTINCT FileSet.FileSet FROM > Job,Client,FileSet WHERE > Job.FileSetId=FileSet.FileSetId AND Job.ClientId=4 AND > Client.ClientId=4 ORDER BY FileSet.FileSet: ERR=Got > error

[Bacula-users] Problems with new process to start bacula on FreeBSD, rc.conf...?

2006-04-24 Thread pedro moreno
  Hi people.    I already install bacula 1.38.8 no FreeBSD setup my /etc/rc.conf file to start bacula, that method is very good, but i have some problems every time i restart my system or try to stopthe bacula-dir.daemon .1; Every time that my system boots he try to start bacula first and latter my

[Bacula-users] Restore error!

2006-04-24 Thread Zakai Kinan
what does this error mean exactly? Query failed: SELECT DISTINCT FileSet.FileSet FROM Job,Client,FileSet WHERE Job.FileSetId=FileSet.FileSetId AND Job.ClientId=4 AND Client.ClientId=4 ORDER BY FileSet.FileSet: ERR=Got error 28 from storage engine The better question is how can I fix it in order t

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger suggestions..

2006-04-24 Thread John Boris
Brett, I am using Bacula on Fedora Core 3 with the Dell 124T. It took me a while to get it working but so far it has proven to be a good buy. We got it on an Educational Pricing from Dell but it was near your budget figure. We got it with one magazine and 10 Ultrium-2 Data cartridges. We also purch

Re: [Bacula-users] Complie errors during make install

2006-04-24 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:09:16 -0600, Chuck Bunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Hi, > > Okay you are right the compile now finishes. But now I do not have any > config files for running bacula. Do I need to hand copy examples? Also > the documentation specifically states 'make install' go fi

[Bacula-users] Autochanger suggestions..

2006-04-24 Thread Brett Curtis
Hi, First post to the list. I have been using bacula for a few months now. Doing basic backups to the files system. I am looking into buying an autochanger. I was wondering if folks have had any luck with the adic faststor 1? Looking at the Supported_Autochanges.html I see the adic faststo

Re: [Bacula-users] Where is the bacula-web source?

2006-04-24 Thread Juan Luis Frances
Hello Chuck, You can download the latest version from CVS: http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=50727 Best regards, Juan Luis Francés El Lunes 24 Abril 2006 17:19, Chuck Bunn escribió: > Hi, > > Where is the bacula-web source files. I downloaded bacula-1.38.8 and > they are not there . I also s

[Bacula-users] Where is the bacula-web source?

2006-04-24 Thread Chuck Bunn
Hi, Where is the bacula-web source files. I downloaded bacula-1.38.8 and they are not there . I also searched the download site and I do not see anything there. Anyone know where I might look? Thanks --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? N

Re: [Bacula-users] Complie errors during make install

2006-04-24 Thread Chuck Bunn
Hi, Okay you are right the compile now finishes. But now I do not have any config files for running bacula. Do I need to hand copy examples? Also the documentation specifically states 'make install' go figure? Thanks Martin Simmons wrote: On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:19:20 -0600, Chuck Bunn <[EM

Re: [Bacula-users] Complie errors during make install

2006-04-24 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:19:20 -0600, Chuck Bunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Hi, > > Okay here is all of the output: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bacula-1.38.8]# make install Ah, I see now...you can't build Bacula with "make install" -- try just "make" instead. __Martin --

Re: [Bacula-users] Complie errors during make install

2006-04-24 Thread Chuck Bunn
Hi, Okay here is all of the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bacula-1.38.8]# make install ./autoconf/mkinstalldirs /usr/sbin ./autoconf/mkinstalldirs /etc/bacula ./autoconf/mkinstalldirs /etc/bacula if test ! -d /var/bacula ; then \ ./autoconf/mkinstalldirs /var/bacula; \ chmod 770 /var/bacula; \ f

Re: [Bacula-users] Failing jobs running in parallel

2006-04-24 Thread Martin Horcicka
Dan Langille wrote: > On 24 Apr 2006 at 12:05, Martin Horcicka wrote: > >> I run a lot of jobs in parallel (with spooling) and a few of them (different >> ones every day) usually fail with this message from the client daemons: >> >> Fatal error: Bad response from stored to open command > > Is e

Re: [Bacula-users] Complie errors during make install

2006-04-24 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:49:55 -0600, Chuck Bunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Hi, > > I reran the make install (ran a make clean first) and the first error is: > > ... > /usr/bin/g++ -c -I. -I.. -g -Wall verify.c > /usr/bin/g++ -c -I. -I.. -g -Wall verify_vol.c > make[1]: **

[Bacula-users] Getting Version error for database "bacula"

2006-04-24 Thread Raffaele Pantaleoni
Hi, this is the first time I write. I'm going to use bacula in my office network to help my users with a network backup. So during the last days I was playing with Bacula to understand it (I already printed and read the huge manual). After some useful tests I tried to uninstall it and reinstall, bu

Re: [Bacula-users] Complie errors during make install

2006-04-24 Thread Chuck Bunn
Hi, I reran the make install (ran a make clean first) and the first error is: ... /usr/bin/g++ -c -I. -I.. -g -Wall verify.c /usr/bin/g++ -c -I. -I.. -g -Wall verify_vol.c make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../findlib/libfind.a', needed by `bacula-fd'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving

[Bacula-users] Memory requirements when restoring multi-million jobs

2006-04-24 Thread Francisco Reyes
A couple of days ago did my first production full backups. While trying to do a test restore ran into problems. The director ran into FreeBSD's per process memory limit of 512MB. Had to increase the per process limit to 1.5 to get the list of files to select. While monitoring the process I saw

Re: [Bacula-users] Failing jobs running in parallel

2006-04-24 Thread Dan Langille
On 24 Apr 2006 at 12:05, Martin Horcicka wrote: > Hi, > > I run a lot of jobs in parallel (with spooling) and a few of them (different > ones every day) usually fail with this message from the client daemons: > > Fatal error: Bad response from stored to open command Is everthing on the same b

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole does not come up completly

2006-04-24 Thread Dan Langille
On 23 Apr 2006 at 19:30, Chuck Bunn wrote: > Hi, > > More info: using Windows XP Pro SP 2 as a remote client to test setup > and manage a Fedora 4 server (with 2.6 kernel) located across the city. > Bacula is latest version 1.38.8. A port (port 22) is mapped from the > public IP to a private I

Re: [Bacula-users] Newbie: How to manage multiple pools and multiple FDs

2006-04-24 Thread Ryan Novosielski
Cedric Tefft wrote: Ryan Novosielski wrote: Can anyone explain why one might want to have more than one? I don't recall this being covered in the manual. I know there are slightly obvious reasons, but they aren't coming to me at present. The answer to your question is cleverly hidden in th

Re: [Bacula-users] Director not connecting

2006-04-24 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 4/24/2006 12:24 PM, Birger Blixt wrote: On 2006-04-24 09:56, david robert wrote: Hi Guys, I am trying to check the director status in my bacula backup.When i use status and select 1 for director i am getting the following backup1-dir Version: 1.36.2 (28 February 2005) i386-pc-li

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows client problems

2006-04-24 Thread Cedric Tefft
Brian McCann wrote: Hi all. I'm having a problem with a Windows client when I try to run the system state backup. If the bacula-fd service is set to run as LocalSystem, it runs fine. But, when I change the service to run as Administrator, it dies right away and doesn't run the backup. To mak

Re: [Bacula-users] Director not connecting

2006-04-24 Thread Birger Blixt
On 2006-04-24 09:56, david robert wrote: Hi Guys, I am trying to check the director status in my bacula backup.When i use status and select 1 for director i am getting the following backup1-dir Version: 1.36.2 (28 February 2005) i386-pc-linux-gnu debian 3.1 Daemon started 24-Apr-06 08:38, 0

Re: [Bacula-users] Complie errors during make install

2006-04-24 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 20:02:14 -0600, Chuck Bunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Hi, > > I may have just discovered my problems from previous post... I some how > missed a compile error that was occurring (too many things at once I > guess) . I get the following errors: > > make[1]: *** No r

[Bacula-users] Failing jobs running in parallel

2006-04-24 Thread Martin Horcicka
Hi, I run a lot of jobs in parallel (with spooling) and a few of them (different ones every day) usually fail with this message from the client daemons: Fatal error: Bad response from stored to open command It seems to happen after elapsing of the job's MaxRunTime or MaxWaitTime and the jobs d

[Bacula-users] Director not connecting

2006-04-24 Thread david robert
Hi Guys,   I am trying to check the director status in my bacula backup.When i use status and select 1 for director i am getting the following   backup1-dir Version: 1.36.2 (28 February 2005) i386-pc-linux-gnu debian 3.1Daemon started 24-Apr-06 08:38, 0 Jobs run since started. Scheduled Jobs:Level