Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot restore portable Windows files

2006-05-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Bacula version 1.38.9 has two new "features" in this area. One is that the Director prohibits backslashes in filenames, unless you enclose them in double quotes. This should avoid a good number of such cases, unfortunately not all. The second is that during restores, the FD converts backsl

Re: [Bacula-users] Saving a list of jobs from bconsole

2006-05-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
> On Fri, 19 May 2006 12:44:12 -0700 > Willard Farqwark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there a way to save the output of 'list jobs jobnum=' while in >> bconsole? >> Can I do it on the command line or do I have to use sql? Which I hate > > man script Yes, see the "output" and "tee" comma

Re: [Bacula-users] director crash(?) and empty report email

2006-05-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I don't believe so, but I could be wrong. I don't think there's > presently any trapping for config problems. In my experience, it will > die and you can get the error by attempting to restart it. In 1.38.x you should test the changed conf wit

Re: [Bacula-users] MySQL Indexes

2006-05-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
> Kern Sibbald wrote: >>>Peter Eriksson wrote: >>> Hi List! :-) I'm (again) trying to improve the performance of our Bacula installation. Currently it takes approx 2 full days for a full recover to generate the (in bacula-dir) incore tree of files to restore for

[Bacula-users] CDRW bacula-sd.conf

2006-05-24 Thread Christopher
Hello, I have searched the archives and in the posts that I have found regarding cdr's they have not shown exactly what is needed in the bacula-sd.conf files. Now it seems that in bacula-1.38.9 there is the option for DVD writing, which is not what I wish to do. I do not have a dvd writer and ha

Re: [Bacula-users] director crash(?) and empty report email

2006-05-24 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I don't believe so, but I could be wrong. I don't think there's presently any trapping for config problems. In my experience, it will die and you can get the error by attempting to restart it. Bill Moran wrote: > On Wed, 24 May 2006 11:23:07 +0200 "R

Re: [Bacula-users] MySQL Indexes

2006-05-24 Thread Dan Trainor
Kern Sibbald wrote: Peter Eriksson wrote: Hi List! :-) I'm (again) trying to improve the performance of our Bacula installation. Currently it takes approx 2 full days for a full recover to generate the (in bacula-dir) incore tree of files to restore for a 360GB partition which is kind of anno

[Bacula-users] data spooling

2006-05-24 Thread Dave
Hello, Running bacula 1.38.9 on freebsd. I'm trying to get data spooling to work for my tape jobs, those files i offload off of disk(s) on to tape. I've got the below configuration, but as i understand it data spooling is suppose to increase backup speed by writing continuously to tape so it

Re: [Bacula-users] MySQL Indexes

2006-05-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
> Peter Eriksson wrote: >> Hi List! :-) >> >> I'm (again) trying to improve the performance of our Bacula >> installation. >> >> Currently it takes approx 2 full days for a full recover to generate the >> (in bacula-dir) incore tree of files to restore for a 360GB partition >> which is kind of ann

Re: [Bacula-users] Maildir Backups

2006-05-24 Thread DAve
Bill Moran wrote: On Wed, 24 May 2006 14:16:07 -0400 D Canfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm just curious how other users are backing up maildirs using bacula. We're using cyrus as our mail server, so we've got about 162GB of data stored in 4.4 million files, or an average of 37K per messag

Re: [Bacula-users] Maildir Backups

2006-05-24 Thread Bill Moran
On Wed, 24 May 2006 15:04:51 -0400 (EDT) Ryan Novosielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 24 May 2006, Dan Trainor wrote: [snip] > > I think Ryan suggested against Bacula for those 4.4 million files because > > it > > would take a while, leading to inconsistancies. At least that's what I

Re: [Bacula-users] Maildir Backups

2006-05-24 Thread Bill Moran
On Wed, 24 May 2006 14:16:07 -0400 D Canfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just curious how other users are backing up maildirs using bacula. > We're using cyrus as our mail server, so we've got about 162GB of data > stored in 4.4 million files, or an average of 37K per message. Most > ot

Re: [Bacula-users] Maildir Backups

2006-05-24 Thread Ryan Novosielski
On Wed, 24 May 2006, Dan Trainor wrote: D Canfield wrote: Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but I would have assumed Maildir to be *less* prone to consistency errors. I may not be able to say "here's exactly what the server looked like at 11:59 on 5/23" but I don't see how the backups w

Re: [Bacula-users] Maildir Backups

2006-05-24 Thread Dan Trainor
D Canfield wrote: Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but I would have assumed Maildir to be *less* prone to consistency errors. I may not be able to say "here's exactly what the server looked like at 11:59 on 5/23" but I don't see how the backups would be invalid. I could see issues with

Re: [Bacula-users] Maildir Backups

2006-05-24 Thread D Canfield
Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but I would have assumed Maildir to be *less* prone to consistency errors. I may not be able to say "here's exactly what the server looked like at 11:59 on 5/23" but I don't see how the backups would be invalid. I could see issues with mbox storage where

Re: [Bacula-users] Maildir Backups

2006-05-24 Thread Ryan Novosielski
You'd almost need an LVM snap anyway, wouldn't you, for consistency's sake? Seems to me Maildir is particularly vulnerable to inconsistency if backed up while the server is running. _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - User Support Spec. III |$&| |__| |

[Bacula-users] Maildir Backups

2006-05-24 Thread D Canfield
I'm just curious how other users are backing up maildirs using bacula. We're using cyrus as our mail server, so we've got about 162GB of data stored in 4.4 million files, or an average of 37K per message. Most other products I've tried (both commercial and open source) have not been too happy

Re: [Bacula-users] MySQL Indexes

2006-05-24 Thread Peter Eriksson
> I couldn't help but notice you mentioning that it had taken over two > whole days to recover 360G of data. Are you kidding? Actually it hasn't even started to actual _recover_ process yet. It's busy building a tree (approx 1.3GB of RAM will be used for that) of what files to restore: >Select

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with the list???

2006-05-24 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Wed, 24 May 2006 17:01:16 +0100, Russell Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Martin Simmons wrote, sometime around 24/05/06 15:56: > > Looking at the "Received:" headers might show where the delay occurs. > > > > FWIW, the delayed messages that I see are usually duplicates, possibly > >

Re: [Bacula-users] MySQL Indexes

2006-05-24 Thread Dan Trainor
Peter Eriksson wrote: Hi List! :-) I'm (again) trying to improve the performance of our Bacula installation. Currently it takes approx 2 full days for a full recover to generate the (in bacula-dir) incore tree of files to restore for a 360GB partition which is kind of annoying (especially when

Re: [Bacula-users] automatic (un)mount of USB disk does not work

2006-05-24 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 24 May 2006, Henning Holtschneider wrote: You cannot guarantee it will always be there. That's true, but I wasn't at the point to deal with this, yet :-) I meant at /dev/sdb, but there's always "not there at all" so I created this device configuration for the Storage Daemon: It's

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula is backing up files again, which allready has been backuped

2006-05-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
This is fixed in 1.38.9 > Hello > > We're using bacula on our productiv systems. It works well except for one > thing which is annoying. As we took a closer look to the tranfered > filesize, the filesize of the differential backup was bigger than the > fullbackup itself. But not many files has re

[Bacula-users] MySQL Indexes

2006-05-24 Thread Peter Eriksson
Hi List! :-) I'm (again) trying to improve the performance of our Bacula installation. Currently it takes approx 2 full days for a full recover to generate the (in bacula-dir) incore tree of files to restore for a 360GB partition which is kind of annoying (especially when you make mistakes like I

Re: [Bacula-users] automatic (un)mount of USB disk does not work

2006-05-24 Thread Henning Holtschneider
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 17:34, Alan Brown wrote: > On Wed, 24 May 2006, Henning Holtschneider wrote: > > I'm trying to get a USB disk to be automatically mounted and unmounted > > before/after each backup job with Bacula 1.38.9. My USB drive in at > > /dev/sdb, > > You cannot guarantee it will al

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with the list???

2006-05-24 Thread Russell Howe
Martin Simmons wrote, sometime around 24/05/06 15:56: > Looking at the "Received:" headers might show where the delay occurs. > > FWIW, the delayed messages that I see are usually duplicates, possibly because > they are resent by the poster on the original date after subscribing and then > the ori

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with the list???

2006-05-24 Thread Russell Howe
Robert W Hartzell wrote, sometime around 24/05/06 15:40: > I have been subscribed to the list for a long time and it seems that > others are experiencing the same problems. I get e-mails from the list > daily the problem is that sometimes they are several days old. I don't > know why you would hold

[Bacula-users] [Fwd: Bacula]

2006-05-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
Original Message Subject: Bacula From:"Calvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:Mon, May 15, 2006 10:56 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Hi... Sorry not emailing to [

Re: [Bacula-users] Resume interrupted jobs

2006-05-24 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 24 May 2006, Cassiano Pilipavicius wrote: Sometimes the tape get locked in the device. Why? Is something holding it active? And we need to reboot the backup server to eject the tape. Why? Almost every tape drive has some magic code to force an eject. (Try pressing the eject button

Re: [Bacula-users] automatic (un)mount of USB disk does not work

2006-05-24 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 24 May 2006, Henning Holtschneider wrote: I'm trying to get a USB disk to be automatically mounted and unmounted before/after each backup job with Bacula 1.38.9. My USB drive in at /dev/sdb, You cannot guarantee it will always be there. so I created this device configuration for the

[Bacula-users] Remove a job that is no longer used

2006-05-24 Thread Greg Cope
Hiya, Using bconsole I have a fileset that appears as an option in bconsole as a restore option, but as it has not been run in months there are no real jobs. It has also been commented out of the bacula-dir.conf Any ideas how I purge the DB of this job/fileset? Is it as simple as deleting the

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with the list???

2006-05-24 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Wed, 24 May 2006 07:40:43 -0700, Robert W Hartzell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > Russell Howe wrote: > > Robert W Hartzell wrote, sometime around 23/05/06 22:06: > >> Has anyone else noticed a problem with delivery of the list messages? I > >> seem to be getting messages today that

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with the list???

2006-05-24 Thread Robert W Hartzell
Russell Howe wrote: Robert W Hartzell wrote, sometime around 23/05/06 22:06: Has anyone else noticed a problem with delivery of the list messages? I seem to be getting messages today that are 4 or 5 days old and 2 messages that I sent never showed up on the list. That'll be me, then... I have

[Bacula-users] Help with Rescue-CD Kernel Panic

2006-05-24 Thread Hugues Belanger
Hi All, I'm having trouble with a rescue cd created on Gentoo and I really need some guidance. The system is running gentoo 2005 -> x86_64 I build a static version of bacula-fd  1.36.1 Create the cd with Bacula-rescue version 1.8.3  But it system kernel panics at boot time with the followi

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem rewriting on a tape with an autoloader

2006-05-24 Thread Stefan MARTEL
Quoting Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, On 5/23/2006 11:36 AM, eklektik wrote: Hi everybody I work with ubuntu 5.10 and bacula 1.36.3 and i have a problem Good time to upgrade to 1.38.current, perhaps... I know but i have a problem (with a mysql file) when i try to install When

[Bacula-users] Corrupt database question

2006-05-24 Thread graham . dicker
I am using Bacula version 1.36.1 and Mysql version 12.22 and backing up onto USB hard drives. I occasionally get a huge list of database error messages in the log file. Usually the table is the 'File' table. When this happens I just repair the database. Should I do more? Perhaps run bscan to reb

[Bacula-users] Bacula is backing up files again, which allready has been backuped

2006-05-24 Thread Berner Martin
Hello We're using bacula on our productiv systems. It works well except for one thing which is annoying. As we took a closer look to the tranfered filesize, the filesize of the differential backup was bigger than the fullbackup itself. But not many files has really changed since then. So we tra

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows Clients: folder name with space

2006-05-24 Thread hikari
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aykut YILDIZGORUR wrote: > what can i do ?? Put doulbe quotes round it, ie "c:/Documents and Settings/aykut/My Documents" > thanks for helps > Aykut - -- Chris Crowther Developer J&M Crowther Ltd. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2

[Bacula-users] Windows Clients: folder name with space

2006-05-24 Thread Aykut YILDIZGORUR
Hi,   i am installed bacula-dir 1.38.9 on a linux machine. then, installed bacula-fd to windows clients.   now, if folder name have a space character ( C:/Documents and Settings ) backup proses dont working. but without space it is working good ( like c:\test ).   in my bacula-dir.conf # Thi

Re: [Bacula-users] director crash(?) and empty report email

2006-05-24 Thread Bill Moran
On Wed, 24 May 2006 11:23:07 +0200 "Robert Wirth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using bacula 1.38.7. Today, when I changed the director's > configuration a bit --just changed a MaxWaitTime entry in a JobDefs > resource--, the director daemon terminated after the reload and sent > th

[Bacula-users] automatic (un)mount of USB disk does not work

2006-05-24 Thread Henning Holtschneider
Hi, I'm trying to get a USB disk to be automatically mounted and unmounted before/after each backup job with Bacula 1.38.9. My USB drive in at /dev/sdb, so I created this device configuration for the Storage Daemon: Device { Name = FileStorage Media Type = File Archive Device = /dev/sdb1

Re: [Bacula-users] Saving a list of jobs from bconsole

2006-05-24 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Fri, 19 May 2006 12:44:12 -0700, Willard Farqwark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > Is there a way to save the output of 'list jobs jobnum=' while in > bconsole? > Can I do it on the command line or do I have to use sql? Which I hate You can use bconsole's @output command. __Ma

Re: [Bacula-users] Saving a list of jobs from bconsole

2006-05-24 Thread Ger Apeldoorn
Hi, Do you want to generate a list of files that was backupped or something? I made the following Perl script to do that (of the last 200 jobs) and dump it to files. You can use the -f switch and feed it a jobname if you like. %< #!/usr/bin/perl use

Re: [Bacula-users] Abnormally Slow Backup Behavior on x86_64 Platform

2006-05-24 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Fri, 19 May 2006 15:23:18 + (UTC), Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Hello, > I am running a Bacula backup server (ver.1.38.5) on a RH-EL4 system with ~30 > Linux clients. All the clients are running on Intel i386 platforms with the > exception of one system. This x86_64 system is r

Re: [Bacula-users] is it possible to install bacula with remote database server

2006-05-24 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Tue, 23 May 2006 21:58:11 -0400 (EDT), Robin Mordasiewicz <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: > > I am trying to figure out how to configure/install bacula so that I can > use a postgres database running on a separate server. Is this possible ? Yes. You'll need the pqsql client libraries

[Bacula-users] Autochanger does not autoload

2006-05-24 Thread Thomas Sturm
Linux bacula 2.4.25_pre7-gss-r3 #8 Mo Mär 7 09:53:29 CET 2005 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux 1000 OK: bacula-dir Version: 1.38.9 (02 May 2006) Volume Mi_1-s8 is in slot 8 of the changer. I have startet a backup-job: 24-Mai 11:22 bacula-sd: Please mount Volume "Di_1-

[Bacula-users] director crash(?) and empty report email

2006-05-24 Thread Robert Wirth
Hi! I'm using bacula 1.38.7. Today, when I changed the director's configuration a bit --just changed a MaxWaitTime entry in a JobDefs resource--, the director daemon terminated after the reload and sent the email attached here. The email has a subject which I don't understand, and an empty bo

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with the list???

2006-05-24 Thread Russell Howe
Robert W Hartzell wrote, sometime around 23/05/06 22:06: > Has anyone else noticed a problem with delivery of the list messages? I > seem to be getting messages today that are 4 or 5 days old and 2 > messages that I sent never showed up on the list. That'll be me, then... I haven't been going thr

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Confusion about changer volumes

2006-05-24 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:52:35AM +0800, Troy Daniels wrote: > John, > > What tape do you want it to use? > > Unless you've removed tapes from the following table, Bacula has chosen > the one and only writable tape in the list. At least JL6922L3 was prunable and recyclable according to the def

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with the list???

2006-05-24 Thread Wolfgang Denk
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > Yesterday, I got a mailing from sourceforge that they are migrating their > mailinglists to Mailman 2.1.8 (first major upgrade in four years) > > That is probably the cause of these inconveniences that I've noticed too. Actually it's the other way