[Bacula-users] Re: Base-64 encoding in Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Howard Thomson
Hi Mark, Mark Nienberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks, I'll have a look.  Was it decided to leave the encoding the way >it is for backward compatibility or will it eventually be done in the >standard way? A patch was proposed, which Kern will probably apply initially with a compile option

[Bacula-users] Re: Base-64 encoding in Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Mark Nienberg
Howard Thomson wrote: Hi Mark, There was a recent, i.e. within the last three weeks or so, discussion on the bacula-devel list, about the 'standards' compliance of the base-64 encoding in the Bacula source tree. Kern Sibbald agreed that there was a bug in the implementation in the Bacula so

[Bacula-users] Re: File attributes

2006-05-11 Thread Mark Nienberg
James Harper wrote: I just threw together some MS SQL (because that's what I've got in front of me) code that sort of does what you want, but not in a way that could be used in a query (you'd have to put it in a user defined function, which is easy enough to do), and being MSSQL it won't work as

RE: [Bacula-users] Multihomed backup server

2006-05-11 Thread James Harper
> > > Maybe some other way exists? > > > > Can you store the IP address of "bacula-sd" in DNS instead of the hosts > > file? The DNS could then be different in each VLAN. > > The correct solution here is probably a DNS with views. That way the same > DNS server can reply with different addresses

RE: [Bacula-users] Compression is client side?

2006-05-11 Thread James Harper
Compression is enabled on the client (eg compression=GZIP), which means that the client will write a compressed stream to the sd. The sd can also enable hardware compression on the actual backup device if it is available on the device. Which is better depends on the circumstances, eg CPU of the c

Re: [Bacula-users] Storage Only

2006-05-11 Thread Dominic Marks
Renato Otranto Jr. wrote: Hi all, I know that it is possible to build just the bacula client (FD), using the option "--enable-client-only". I have an heterogeneous distributed environment. However, I need to install just the storage daemon on a FreeBSD 6.0 machine, without the others compon

[Bacula-users] Storage Only

2006-05-11 Thread Renato Otranto Jr.
Hi all, I know that it is possible to build just the bacula client (FD), using the option "--enable-client-only". I have an heterogeneous distributed environment. However, I need to install just the storage daemon on a FreeBSD 6.0 machine, without the others components. Is there any way to

[Bacula-users] OS X restore successful, but with warnings

2006-05-11 Thread Gregory Brauer
I have just successfully tested the OS X HFS+ backup functionality. Good stuff! However on restore I received a warning on each file: 09-May 11:10 rivas-fd: RestoreFiles.2006-05-09_10.32.13 Warning: restore.c:347 Can't restore ACL of /Volumes/RAID/test.mov The permissions and resource forks

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger *almost* working (resolved with uglyhack)

2006-05-11 Thread Gregory Brauer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Gregory & Brauer, I circumvented this issue in 1.36 using the following technique: We have an autoloader that has tapes changed every day. Prior to running the scheduled jobs for the night the first job (with high priority so it runs first) is an admin job that uses

Re: [Bacula-users] HP Ultrium 232 Device Can you Recomended Me To Buy..?

2006-05-11 Thread pedro moreno
On 4/27/06, MaxxAtWork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/26/06, pedro moreno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> On 4/26/06, Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, pedro moreno wrote: > >> > >  Hi People.> > >> > >   Ok My HP Surestore Ultrium 230 is dead.> > >> > >   HP dosent want to

Re: [Bacula-users] DVD backup problem.

2006-05-11 Thread Jacek Konieczny
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:31:07PM -0400, Yanik Doucet wrote: > Now everything seems to work fine for normal backup, but I'd like to use > the dvd writing feature. If I try to make the backup to dvd, I'm told > to use the label command first, so here's the output of label: > > ---

[Bacula-users] DVD backup problem.

2006-05-11 Thread Yanik Doucet
Hi everyone, First post here, bacula newbie... I'm doing tests here with bacula 1.38.8. I'm testing with 3 workstations in the lab (linux/windows) and a bacula server running the director and the storage daemons. Now everything seems to work fine for normal backup, but I'd like to use the dvd

RE: [Bacula-users] bacula on solaris 10 with fibre attached library

2006-05-11 Thread tom.boyda
Brian,   After you edit the st.conf and sgen.conf make sure you do a ‘reboot –r’ so that Solaris will reconfigure your devices and add any new devices found.   We have been running it for about 10 months now and it has been a very good for us. The only maintenance we need to do is updat

Re: [Bacula-users] Compression is client side?

2006-05-11 Thread Steen
On Thursday 11 May 2006 17:41, Chris Fisher wrote: > Hello, > > Our company is switching from Amanda/rsync scripts to Bacula company > wide. So far very impressed! One thing we are confused on, and I have > dug through lots of Bacula docs and email threads... I can't find a > solid answer if (when

RE: [Bacula-users] bacula on solaris 10 with fibre attached library

2006-05-11 Thread tom.boyda
Hello Brian,   I have a Solaris 9 system on a SunFire v240 running a Qualstar RLS8232 SCSI Attached with 2 LTO1 tape drives.   It is a little different – but similar enough to demonstrate what needs to be done.   I edited the /kernel/drv/st.conf to make sure the tape devices would get

[Bacula-users] bacula on solaris 10 with fibre attached library

2006-05-11 Thread Waldock, Brian
Before I go any further in building this environment, I wanted to see if anyone has any experience with the following configuration or similar.   Sun e480 running Solaris 10 OS Sun storedge L180 fiber attached autochanger with 6 LTO2 fibre attached drives. The 6 drives are connected t

Re: [Bacula-users] Examples on the website

2006-05-11 Thread Frank Sweetser
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 03:23:01PM +0100, Gavin Conway wrote: > >http://paramount.ind.wpi.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=sample_configs > > > > > > > "The" wiki? Interestingly I don't recall seeing this mentioned on the > bacula website? And to be perfectly honest it wasn't an 'unofficial' > version I was

[Bacula-users] Compression is client side?

2006-05-11 Thread Chris Fisher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Our company is switching from Amanda/rsync scripts to Bacula company wide. So far very impressed! One thing we are confused on, and I have dug through lots of Bacula docs and email threads... I can't find a solid answer if (when enabled) compre

[Bacula-users] Question: decision how tapes are choosed from a pool

2006-05-11 Thread Robert Wirth
Hi, I recently studied the Pool/Volumes section in the manual, but I didn't find a hint about which algorithm is running when bacula has to choose a tape from a pool for an actual job. Example (or my actual problem, you know ;-) - the system is an autochanger with barcode, 60 slots and 2 LTO

Re: [Bacula-users] Multihomed backup server

2006-05-11 Thread Roberto Alsina
El Jueves, 11 de Mayo de 2006 11:19, Martin Simmons escribió: > > On Thu, 11 May 2006 15:36:12 +0300, "Mindaugas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > said: > > > > Hello, > > > > Few days ago I wrote about the problem but I would like to discuss > > about possible solutions. > > > > Description:

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about Bacula usability?

2006-05-11 Thread Eric Warnke
1) No 2) Yes Cheers, Eric On 5/11/06, Hargreaves, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, I've not installed Bacula as at the moment I use rsnapshot to maintain backups of data between my two Linux hard disks and a few home clients. I'm thinking of switching but have a few questions that

[Bacula-users] Questions about Bacula usability?

2006-05-11 Thread Hargreaves, Paul
Hi there,   I've not installed Bacula as at the moment I use rsnapshot to maintain backups of data between my two Linux hard disks and a few home clients. I'm thinking of switching but have a few questions that the FAQ doesn't appear to cover.   1) Functionality like Synthetic backups. i.e.

Re: [Bacula-users] Some clarification needed.

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 11 May 2006 10:56:25 +0200, "Erik P. Olsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > I haven't been able to find the answers in the docs, so could someone please > explain: > > 1. The difference between VolStat of "Used" and "Full" I think Bacula treats them as the same. The differen

Re: [Bacula-users] Multihomed backup server

2006-05-11 Thread Mindaugas
> > Kern suggested to put something like "bacula-sd" in Address field and then > > put appropriate IP address in /etc/hosts file of the client. I modified my > > configuration in this way and everything works. But I do not like such > > solution > > because it decentralizes management. What if I

Re: [Bacula-users] Examples on the website

2006-05-11 Thread Gavin Conway
Frank Sweetser wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 08:09:25AM +0100, Gavin Conway wrote: As someone that's now deployed bacula both for internal use and to external companies the one thing that I always miss (and search for) is good examples of deployments. As we all know it's generally simple

Re: [Bacula-users] Multihomed backup server

2006-05-11 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 11 May 2006 15:36:12 +0300, "Mindaugas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Hello, > > Few days ago I wrote about the problem but I would like to discuss about > possible solutions. > > Description: > I have backup server which is connected to multiple VLANs and has several > IP

[Bacula-users] RE: Bacula performance problem

2006-05-11 Thread tom.boyda
Hello Thorsten, > I try to reproduce the problem you have. As the win32 fd changed a lot for > being Unicode, VSS and 32K path length enabled, the code lines increased. > Let me try to narrow your problem: > > Do you have *many* files? (if this causes problems, it may lie within > unicode, 32K co

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-sd.conf for Exabyte Mammoth EXB-8900 8mm

2006-05-11 Thread Birger Blixt
On 2006-05-10 21:41, lreynolds wrote: I'm trying to get a single Exabyte Mammoth EXB-8900 8mm tape drive working under solaris 8. Everything seems happy except for that when I run the btape tests, I get the following error message at the end: === End Forward space files test === *btape: btap

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: excluding with wildcards

2006-05-11 Thread John Kodis
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 03:00:46AM -0700, Cedric Tefft wrote: > Mark Nienberg wrote: > > > I understand that I can't change a fileset definition without > >triggering a full backup > > > > > Actually, you can. Just add the line: > > Ignore FileSet Changes = yes > > to your file set definitio

Re: [Bacula-users] Multihomed backup server

2006-05-11 Thread Mindaugas
> I don't recall the original email and can't seem to find it anywhere... > but I'm not sure I understand the problem, unless your network doesn't > allow access between the VLANs? You should be able to route a client on Network does not allow access between VLANs. Sorry. :) Mindaugas --

Re: [Bacula-users] Storage Daemon ported to Windows

2006-05-11 Thread Danie
Robert Nelson wrote: It's a native port of 1.38.9 built with Visual Studio 2005. I haven't tested files or dvds yet. Also I don't have a changer so I can't test that. Since I created an emulation for the ioctl interface defined in mtio.h, it should be fairly easy to port mtx. Ok , you kinda

RE: [Bacula-users] Multihomed backup server

2006-05-11 Thread James Harper
I don't recall the original email and can't seem to find it anywhere... but I'm not sure I understand the problem, unless your network doesn't allow access between the VLANs? You should be able to route a client on one VLAN to another. If you don't want to do this for efficiency reasons (router bec

[Bacula-users] RE: [Bacula-devel] Performance problem with v1.38.8 and v1.38.9 of the Win32 client

2006-05-11 Thread tom.boyda
Hello Robert, > I was having similar performance problems until I made sure flow control > was > enabled on the two machines and the switches in between them. After a lot > of > tweaking I have transfer rates around 10 MB/s. Hmm... Could be, but why would the bacula 1.37.32 client transfer over

[Bacula-users] Multihomed backup server

2006-05-11 Thread Mindaugas
Hello, Few days ago I wrote about the problem but I would like to discuss about possible solutions. Description: I have backup server which is connected to multiple VLANs and has several IP addresses. Director sends to clients Address from Storage resource where clients has to connect. P

[Bacula-users] Base-64 encoding in Bacula

2006-05-11 Thread Howard Thomson
Hi Mark, There was a recent, i.e. within the last three weeks or so, discussion on the bacula-devel list, about the 'standards' compliance of the base-64 encoding in the Bacula source tree. Kern Sibbald agreed that there was a bug in the implementation in the Bacula source, which made it parti

Re: [Bacula-users] Examples on the website

2006-05-11 Thread Frank Sweetser
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 08:09:25AM +0100, Gavin Conway wrote: > As someone that's now deployed bacula both for internal use and to > external companies the one thing that I always miss (and search for) is > good examples of deployments. As we all know it's generally simpler to > modify an existi

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Examples on the website

2006-05-11 Thread Manpreet Singh Nehra
Timo Neuvonen wrote: >> So what I'm suggesting is that we submit some of our own configs (with >> relevant secure data excluded) to the website so that they can build up >> a good list of configurations for people to use. >> >> What do people think? Would they find this beneficial. >> >> > I

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Storage Daemon ported to Windows

2006-05-11 Thread Dominic Marks
Robert Nelson wrote: > I've ported the Storage Daemon and related tools to Windows. Tested > the > tape with btape and all tests passed. WooHoo!! This is excellent news!! Thank you very much Robert. > Next I need to get the Daemon running as a service and do some more > backup / > restore test

[Bacula-users] renaming file-volumes

2006-05-11 Thread Silver Salonen
Hi baculas! I've messed up my Bacula volumes a little. I'm using files as volumes and I've created a different device with a different folder for every job. I've also assigned "Maximum Volume Jobs = 1" and "Maximum Volumes = ..." for every pool so that the same files should be reused when they

RE: [Bacula-users] Storage Daemon ported to Windows

2006-05-11 Thread Robert Nelson
It's a native port of 1.38.9 built with Visual Studio 2005. I haven't tested files or dvds yet. Also I don't have a changer so I can't test that. Since I created an emulation for the ioctl interface defined in mtio.h, it should be fairly easy to port mtx. -Original Message- From: Danie [

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: excluding with wildcards

2006-05-11 Thread Cedric Tefft
Mark Nienberg wrote: I understand that I can't change a fileset definition without triggering a full backup Actually, you can. Just add the line: Ignore FileSet Changes = yes to your file set definition. - Cedric --- Using Tomcat

RE: [Bacula-users] Autochanger *almost* working (resolved with uglyhack)

2006-05-11 Thread brett.dellegrazie
Dear Gregory & Brauer, I circumvented this issue in 1.36 using the following technique: We have an autoloader that has tapes changed every day. Prior to running the scheduled jobs for the night the first job (with high priority so it runs first) is an admin job that uses the RunBeforeJob script to

Re: [Bacula-users] Storage Daemon ported to Windows

2006-05-11 Thread Danie
Robert Nelson wrote: I've ported the Storage Daemon and related tools to Windows. Tested the tape with btape and all tests passed. WooHoo!! Next I need to get the Daemon running as a service and do some more backup / restore testing. Hi Robert , Congrats on getting it ported! I would lik

[Bacula-users] Some clarification needed.

2006-05-11 Thread Erik P. Olsen
I haven't been able to find the answers in the docs, so could someone please explain: 1. The difference between VolStat of "Used" and "Full" 2. The effect of specifying "Accept Any Volume = no" on the Pool directive? Thanks in advance, Erik P. Olsen --

[Bacula-users] Re: Examples on the website

2006-05-11 Thread Timo Neuvonen
> So what I'm suggesting is that we submit some of our own configs (with > relevant secure data excluded) to the website so that they can build up > a good list of configurations for people to use. > > What do people think? Would they find this beneficial. > I think there are some examples in the m

[Bacula-users] Examples on the website

2006-05-11 Thread Gavin Conway
As someone that's now deployed bacula both for internal use and to external companies the one thing that I always miss (and search for) is good examples of deployments. As we all know it's generally simpler to modify an existing config than it is to build one from scratch. So what I'm suggesti