Re: [Bacula-users] randomized full backups? balanced schedules?

2006-06-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 29 June 2006 00:18, Jo Rhett wrote: > Is there any possible way for Bacula to randomize the full backups > across > the week, or otherwise spread them out? > > Like most large facilities, we're backing up a terabytes every night. > Trying to juggle which systems get full backups on whic

Re: [Bacula-users] complex schedules? will this work?

2006-06-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 29 June 2006 00:18, Jo Rhett wrote: > I'm wondering if any others have some complex schedules they can > document > for examples. The schedules documented are pretty basic. > > For example, the director didn't barf reading this, but will this work? > >Run = Level=Full Pool=Quarterl

[Bacula-users] autochanger device directive needed for HP DAT 72x6?

2006-06-28 Thread veronica . hill
Hi people, I have a HP DAT 72x6 autochanger external tape drive. After reading the most recent Bacula Manual, I am a bit confused as to whether I need to put an Autochanger resource definition in the SD conf file. The example that I have modified is this, is it sufficient?: # A Linu

Re: [Bacula-users] Parallel restore job

2006-06-28 Thread Santa Claus
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Re: [Bacula-users] complex schedules? will this work?

2006-06-28 Thread Bill Moran
Jo Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm wondering if any others have some complex schedules they can > document > for examples. The schedules documented are pretty basic. > > For example, the director didn't barf reading this, but will this work? > >Run = Level=Full Pool=Quarterly on 1s

[Bacula-users] randomized full backups? balanced schedules?

2006-06-28 Thread Jo Rhett
Is there any possible way for Bacula to randomize the full backups across the week, or otherwise spread them out? Like most large facilities, we're backing up a terabytes every night. Trying to juggle which systems get full backups on which day of the week has become almost a full time job. Ama

[Bacula-users] complex schedules? will this work?

2006-06-28 Thread Jo Rhett
I'm wondering if any others have some complex schedules they can document for examples. The schedules documented are pretty basic. For example, the director didn't barf reading this, but will this work? Run = Level=Full Pool=Quarterly on 1st sun jan,april,jul,oct at 12:05 Run = Level=Ful

Re: [Bacula-users] loging in using recovery cd fails rescue-cd 1.8.3

2006-06-28 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Maybe this is just a typo or bad manual copy and paste, but /bin/sh is a link to /bin/bash, but you cite rootSbin.list. Is bash in /bin or /sbin? IIRC, it is normally in /bin so normal users have access. HTH, Jeff Quoting Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am posting this again, as I have no

Re: [Bacula-users] (no subject)

2006-06-28 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:17:23 -0700 (PDT), said: > > After moving my catalog from one postgres server to a new one I am now > getting the > following warnings (but the backups seem to be working): > > 27-Jun 19:09 fileserver-dir: user-private.2006-06-27_19.09.19 Error: > sql_create.c:470

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status report

2006-06-28 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 05:02, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Searching for a new distro is not so easy. Kubuntu treats users as idiots by > disabling the root account and giving full sudo privilege to the main user.   Well, I suppose...but I've found it quite easy to adapt. I suppose you could say it

[Bacula-users] Fwd: 1.38.10 bacula-dir with the scheduler patch crashed

2006-06-28 Thread Rumko
Forgot to put the list on CC. -- Forwarded message -- From: Rumko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jun 28, 2006 6:52 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] 1.38.10 bacula-dir with the scheduler patch crashed To: Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> As is visible from the attachement in my previous

Re: [Bacula-users] 1.38.10 bacula-dir with the scheduler patch crashed

2006-06-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 17:06, Rumko wrote: > I had 2 jobs working in parallel on the same pool and same tape drive > (and ofcourse same volume). Did a status storage=DAT72 (DAT72 is the > name of the device in sd) ... it stopped in the middle of the output > (when it wanted to print what jobs ar

Re: [Bacula-users] incorrect fstype identification, backups fail (bacula 1.38.9, Irix 6.5)

2006-06-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 17:37, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > I'm confused at this point as well. The R5000 does not report back as > 64-bit, but I see from reading Wiki that the first 64-bit chip was > R4000. I have an R8000 that is, but my R4400's and R5000's are all 32 > according to the OS. The i

[Bacula-users] (no subject)

2006-06-28 Thread drescher0110-bacula
After moving my catalog from one postgres server to a new one I am now getting the following warnings (but the backups seem to be working): 27-Jun 19:09 fileserver-dir: user-private.2006-06-27_19.09.19 Error: sql_create.c:470 More than one Client!: 2 27-Jun 19:09 fileserver-dir: No prior Full bac

Re: [Bacula-users] incorrect fstype identification, backups fail (bacula 1.38.9, Irix 6.5)

2006-06-28 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm confused at this point as well. The R5000 does not report back as 64-bit, but I see from reading Wiki that the first 64-bit chip was R4000. I have an R8000 that is, but my R4400's and R5000's are all 32 according to the OS. As far as running 32-bi

[Bacula-users] Reducing Bacula retention to gain space

2006-06-28 Thread DAve
Good morning, We have been running Bacula on a few webservers with great success but we find we need to reduce the retention period on one server. We currently have the following setup. Pool { Name = Inc-Pool Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 8 d

[Bacula-users] 1.38.10 bacula-dir with the scheduler patch crashed

2006-06-28 Thread Rumko
I had 2 jobs working in parallel on the same pool and same tape drive (and ofcourse same volume). Did a status storage=DAT72 (DAT72 is the name of the device in sd) ... it stopped in the middle of the output (when it wanted to print what jobs are waiting to reserve the drive) and I did a ctrl+c ..

Re: [Bacula-users] Parallel restore job

2006-06-28 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Santa Claus wrote: > Hi, > > Further I start jobs: > "file1-to-pool1" > and > "restore.files" (restore all, jobid=2) > > >Running Jobs: > >Console connected at 28-Jun-06 15:32 > > JobId Level Name Status > >=

Re: [Bacula-users] Parallel restore job

2006-06-28 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Santa Claus wrote: > Hi, > > Here is my config in attached files. [...] > Further I start jobs: > "file1-to-pool1" > and > "restore.files" (restore all, jobid=2) > > >Running Jobs: > >Console connected at 28-Jun-06 15:32 > > JobId Level Name

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape labeling problem

2006-06-28 Thread Timo Neuvonen
> Have you run the btape tests, and did you make sure in the mtx-changer > script the timeout after loading a tape is long enough, or the function > waiting for the tape drive works as it should? > btape tests were ok. Timeout problem could make some sense -the drive could make some extra tape cond

[Bacula-users] Parallel restore job

2006-06-28 Thread Santa Claus
Hi,Here is my config in attached files.I run parallel jobs "file1-to-pool1" and "file2-to-pool2" >* status dir>JobId Level   Name   Status>== > 1 Full    file1-to-pool1.2006-06-28_15.32.32 is running> 2

Re: [Bacula-users] status dir

2006-06-28 Thread Sebastian Stark
On 28.06.2006, at 15:55, Julien Cigar wrote: > Yep it's turned on, but I have this messages every time I do a > *status dir, and nothing is pruned Have you checked your retention periods? Maybe this volume is just not "old enough". Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web servi

Re: [Bacula-users] status dir

2006-06-28 Thread Julien Cigar
Yep it's turned on, but I have this messages every time I do a *status dir, and nothing is pruned Sebastian Stark wrote: > > If you have automatic pruning turned on this is expected behaviour I > would say. > > > Sebastian > > On 28.06.2006, at 15:47, Julien Cigar wrote: > >> Hi ! >> >> I'm usin

Re: [Bacula-users] status dir

2006-06-28 Thread Sebastian Stark
If you have automatic pruning turned on this is expected behaviour I would say. Sebastian On 28.06.2006, at 15:47, Julien Cigar wrote: > Hi ! > > I'm using 1.38.9 (Debian) with PostgreSQL (8.1.4) > > Am I the only one to have this kind of message : 28-Jun 12:39 > phoenix-dir: Pruning oldest

[Bacula-users] status dir

2006-06-28 Thread Julien Cigar
Hi ! I'm using 1.38.9 (Debian) with PostgreSQL (8.1.4) Am I the only one to have this kind of message : 28-Jun 12:39 phoenix-dir: Pruning oldest volume "Canis-Incr-Disk-0001" when I do a *status dir ? (nothing is pruned of course) (Complete output is available on http://rafb.net/paste/results

[Bacula-users] Bacula status report

2006-06-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Bacula version 1.38.10: Well, this version despite careful testing here, turned out to be a rather disasterous release because there were a lot of users experiencing either a deadlocked Director (Linux) or Director crashes (FreeBSD). As best I can tell, this occurs (occurred) on systems

Re: [Bacula-users] /var/bacula write problem (sd, mtx-changer)

2006-06-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 13:26, Martin Simmons wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:32:14 +0200, Kern Sibbald said: > > > > On Wednesday 28 June 2006 11:57, user100 wrote: > > > Here: > > > crw-rw 1 root disk 21, 1 Jun 23 12:26 /dev/sg1 > > > crw-rw 1 root disk 9, 0 Jun 23 12:26 /dev/st

Re: [Bacula-users] /var/bacula write problem (sd, mtx-changer)

2006-06-28 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 12:32:14 +0200, Kern Sibbald said: > > On Wednesday 28 June 2006 11:57, user100 wrote: > > Here: > > crw-rw 1 root disk 21, 1 Jun 23 12:26 /dev/sg1 > > crw-rw 1 root disk 9, 0 Jun 23 12:26 /dev/st0 > > > > /etc/init.d/bacula-sd: > > SD_USER=bacula > > SD_GROUP=d

Re: [Bacula-users] /var/bacula write problem (sd, mtx-changer)

2006-06-28 Thread user100
No I´m afraid it´s not so easy (while all these test): [EMAIL PROTECTED] bacula]# cat /etc/passwd | grep bacula bacula:x:101:6:Bacula:/var/bacula:/sbin/nologin [EMAIL PROTECTED] bacula]# cat /etc/group | grep bacula disk:x:6:root,bacula bacula:x:101:bacula,postgres [EMAIL PROTECTED] bacula]# I t

Re: [Bacula-users] ERR=Device or resource busy

2006-06-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 12:13, Tom Yates wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Unfortunately, Bacula is sufficiently demanding that it often brings out > > driver problems that don't show up using most Unix tape utilities, which > > tend to be rather "simple" minded. They either si

Re: [Bacula-users] /var/bacula write problem (sd, mtx-changer)

2006-06-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 11:57, user100 wrote: > Here: > crw-rw 1 root disk 21, 1 Jun 23 12:26 /dev/sg1 > crw-rw 1 root disk 9, 0 Jun 23 12:26 /dev/st0 > > /etc/init.d/bacula-sd: > SD_USER=bacula > SD_GROUP=disk > > Standard permissions after installation (I think): > drwxrwx--- 2 root

Re: [Bacula-users] incorrect fstype identification, backups fail (bacula 1.38.9, Irix 6.5)

2006-06-28 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:36:49 -0400, Ryan Novosielski said: > > And FYI, I have just retired about 20 IRIX systems, so I have more than > enough to go around for software testing should that be desirable. I run > Bacula currently on an IRIX machine to back up a webserver running on > that hos

Re: [Bacula-users] ERR=Device or resource busy

2006-06-28 Thread Tom Yates
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Unfortunately, Bacula is sufficiently demanding that it often brings out > driver problems that don't show up using most Unix tape utilities, which > tend to be rather "simple" minded. They either simply write() or read(). > Bacula uses quite a lot more

Re: [Bacula-users] /var/bacula write problem (sd, mtx-changer)

2006-06-28 Thread user100
Here: crw-rw 1 root disk 21, 1 Jun 23 12:26 /dev/sg1 crw-rw 1 root disk 9, 0 Jun 23 12:26 /dev/st0 /etc/init.d/bacula-sd: SD_USER=bacula SD_GROUP=disk Standard permissions after installation (I think): drwxrwx--- 2 root bacula 4096 Jun 28 11:30 /var/bacula [EMAIL PROTECTED] var]# ps -

[Bacula-users] Autochanger: Unloading/Reloading tape for follow-up job - Bad autochanger loaded drive 0 command: ???

2006-06-28 Thread Christoff Buch
Hello Users! I hope someone with autochanger expierience can help me with my concerns First of all my environment: - bacula 1.38.9 (from source) - mtx 1.2.18rel (from rpm) - SuSE 9.0 Kernel 2.4.21-99 - Exabyte 221L TapeLibrary (21 slots in 3 Magazines, Barcodereader, 1 IBM Ultrium LTO-2 driv

Re: [Bacula-users] /var/bacula write problem (sd, mtx-changer)

2006-06-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 10:04, Timo Neuvonen wrote: > > > So, is anyone running autochanger with storage daemon as non-root > > > (bacula:disk)? > > > > I am, on a Debian/sid system with the 1.36.3 packages still: > > > > 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps -ef | grep bacula-sd > > bacula9101 1 0

Re: [Bacula-users] /var/bacula write problem (sd, mtx-changer)

2006-06-28 Thread Timo Neuvonen
> > So, is anyone running autochanger with storage daemon as non-root > > (bacula:disk)? > > I am, on a Debian/sid system with the 1.36.3 packages still: > > 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps -ef | grep bacula-sd > bacula9101 1 0 Mar12 ? > 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/bacula-sd -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf

[Bacula-users] excluding directories if a special file is present

2006-06-28 Thread Moritz Bunkus
Hey, we've been using Bacula for quite some time now. Before that we were using Arkeia, and one feature I rather liked about Arkeia was that you could simply create a file called .ARK_NOBACKUP in a directory and Arkeia would exclude that directory and all of its children from the backup. This all

Re: [Bacula-users] /var/bacula write problem (sd, mtx-changer)

2006-06-28 Thread Timo Neuvonen
> I think there was a permissionproblem (1.38.10.? - .src.rpm) with the > "mtx-changer" script itself (/etc/bacula/mtx-changer). When I´m not wrong > then changing the user in the sd-init-script does not help so good - but I > don´t know if this was 1.38.10.3 or 1.38.10.1 ... > Script is run with u

Re: [Bacula-users] /var/bacula write problem (sd, mtx-changer)

2006-06-28 Thread Moritz Bunkus
Hey, On Wednesday 28 June 2006 07:01, Timo Neuvonen wrote: > So, is anyone running autochanger with storage daemon as non-root > (bacula:disk)? I am, on a Debian/sid system with the 1.36.3 packages still: 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps -ef | grep bacula-sd bacula9101 1 0 Mar12 ? 00: