[Bacula-users] Why bacula requests available tape?

2006-09-04 Thread Mindaugas
Hello, I just got an e-mail from Bacula: 05-Sep 04:05 bh1-sd: Please mount Volume "Daily-02-02" on Storage Device "LTO-2" (/dev/nst0) for Job server1.2006-09-04_01.05.01 But "mtx status" shows that this tape is loaded: Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 8 Loaded):VolumeTag = D

Re: [Bacula-users] Guides to TLS and Nagios Monitoring

2006-09-04 Thread Dan Langille
On 19 Jul 2006 at 20:31, R.I. Pienaar wrote: > hello, > > I am in the process of deploying Bacula for my own use and that of > some people I contract to, I had a need for TLS between the various > connections and found the documentation were very misleading and > incomplete so after much list sea

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] TLS - required/enabled

2006-09-04 Thread Dan Langille
On 4 Sep 2006 at 17:42, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Monday 04 September 2006 16:53, Dan Langille wrote: > > I've found that "TLS Require = yes" stops comms from working. > > > > I needed "TLS Enable = yes". This is with a 1.38.8 Director and a > > bacula-client-1.38.11_1. Does that make sense? Wi

Re: [Bacula-users] Last Friday of Month

2006-09-04 Thread Dan Langille
On 4 Sep 2006 at 17:48, Beren wrote: > How do I perform a backup on the Last Friday of the month? There > doesn't seem to be a "last" keyword. Has anyone figured out how to do > a monthly backup? I can think of a way to do it. Create a script that determines the last Friday of the month (there

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup-on-demand.

2006-09-04 Thread Lech Karol Pawłaszek
On Sunday 03 September 2006 21:54, Arno Lehmann wrote: [...] > Why not install bconsole on these machines, limit their access to the > nexessary commands, and use them in a script where you pipe the command > to start the job to the console program? Like > > echo < run level=incremental job=ThisCli

[Bacula-users] Data encryption.

2006-09-04 Thread Lech Karol Pawłaszek
Hello bacula users! I wonder if any of you have tried to encrypt your data (on a client-side) using a symmetric algorithm (like AES). I know that -beta can perform signing and encrypting data using asymmetric RSA keys, but AFAIK it's much more time expensive way to encrypt data. And encrypting

Re: [Bacula-users] Last Friday of Month

2006-09-04 Thread Bill Moran
Beren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I perform a backup on the Last Friday of the month? There > doesn't seem to be a "last" keyword. Has anyone figured out how to do > a monthly backup? I know this doesn't answer your first question, but the answer to your second question is "Yes, I just do

[Bacula-users] Last Friday of Month

2006-09-04 Thread Beren
How do I perform a backup on the Last Friday of the month? There doesn't seem to be a "last" keyword. Has anyone figured out how to do a monthly backup? Cheers, Beren - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web s

Re: [Bacula-users] Prevent bacula from requesting volumes *not* in changer

2006-09-04 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 04 September 2006 15:36, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:09:16PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > From: Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Cc: Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 23:09:16 +0200 > > Subjec

Re: [Bacula-users] Probable BUG: Update slots and changers

2006-09-04 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 04 September 2006 14:04, Alan Brown wrote: > On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > >> (Kern, I'll file this in bugs shortly) > > > > Probably not worth the effort. See my responses below. > > > > Bacula 1.38.11 and below do not permit doing a update slots at the same > > time a

[Bacula-users] Backup not excluding listed files

2006-09-04 Thread Kris Monstad
Hi there, Im looking for some help with a particular bacula problem Im having, any advice is greatly appreciated... Im using Bacula 1.36.2 with a Debian Sarge (kernel 2.6.8) director and a CentOS 4 (kernel 2.6.9) client. Im trying to exclude certain sub-directories from a backup job. Ive con

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling

2006-09-04 Thread Georger Araujo
I use 10 GB. Georger --- AltGrendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > > > Hello, > > I worked with Bacula spooling to see the effects > on Sparc 280R > > machines (that continue to work very slow without > spooling, almost > > 1000K/s). > > I tried with different spooli

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling

2006-09-04 Thread AltGrendel
Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > Hello, > I worked with Bacula spooling to see the effects on Sparc 280R > machines (that continue to work very slow without spooling, almost > 1000K/s). > I tried with different spooling dimensions (10Mb, 100Mb, 250Mb), the > result was almost the same: during a single

Re: [Bacula-users] Prevent bacula from requesting volumes *not* in changer

2006-09-04 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 11:09:16PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > From: Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Cc: Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 23:09:16 +0200 > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Prevent bacula from requesting volumes *not* in

[Bacula-users] What are the best way to recover a corrupted catalog?

2006-09-04 Thread steen meyer
Hi all, Bacula catalog in Postgress has become corrupted it seems due to disk errors. I can still make a backup, but cannot dump the catalog anymore. It does write most of the catalog, but doesn't complete. This occurs after a lot of full backups this weekend, so I am not fond of deleting the c

Re: [Bacula-users] Probable BUG: Update slots and changers

2006-09-04 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> (Kern, I'll file this in bugs shortly) > > Probably not worth the effort. See my responses below. > Bacula 1.38.11 and below do not permit doing a update slots at the same > time a drive is in use. Which is one reason update slots may have been requi

Re: [Bacula-users] Probable BUG: Update slots and changers

2006-09-04 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 04 September 2006 12:43, Alan Brown wrote: > > (Kern, I'll file this in bugs shortly) Probably not worth the effort. See my responses below. > > I've just found a couple of "gotchas" for those of us running multidrive > changers. > > 1: Running "update slots" against the changer de

Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: Spooling

2006-09-04 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, Ferdinando Pasqualetti wrote: > Too bad the disk-to-tape operation of spooling is done suspending the > backup-to-disk operation (no concurrency with double buffering) and this > limits the usefulness of spooling (as far as I know). When multiple backups occur, they tend to

[Bacula-users] Probable BUG: Update slots and changers

2006-09-04 Thread Alan Brown
(Kern, I'll file this in bugs shortly) I've just found a couple of "gotchas" for those of us running multidrive changers. 1: Running "update slots" against the changer device will only ever unload drive 0 === *update slots The defined Storage resources are: 1: File

[Bacula-users] *ignore the earlier mail* SDLT600 tape is not fully used

2006-09-04 Thread Arunav Mandal
In bacula version 136.3 the tape is used to fill 800GB+ and sometimes upto 1.2TB but in bacula 1.38.11 the avg. tape used is 500GB. Any idea why that is happening? I didn't change the config file. Arunav. - Using Tomcat bu

[Bacula-users] SDLT800 tape is not fully used

2006-09-04 Thread Arunav Mandal
In bacula version 136.3 the tape is used to fill 800GB+ and sometimes upto 1.2TB but in bacula 1.38.11 the avg. tape used is 500GB. Any idea why that is happening? I didn't change the config file. Arunav. - Using Tomcat bu

Re: [Bacula-users] performance issue with mysql during the db update

2006-09-04 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Arno Lehmann wrote: >> I'm backing up several servers but one specifically is about 86Gb data >> and 1.6Million files. The data backup finish after a few hours (<6) but >> then it (I assume) updates the database with all the attributes and that >> takes >18h! >> I looked a lit

Re: [Bacula-users] unexpected end of volume message on tape

2006-09-04 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Arno Lehmann wrote: >> 01-Sep 03:05 server-sd: Recycled volume "donderdag" on device "tape" >> (/dev/st0), all previous data lost. >> 01-Sep 05:19 server-sd: End of Volume "donderdag" at 3:6763 on device >> "tape" (/dev/st0). Write of 64512 bytes got -1. >> 01-Sep 05:19 server-

Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: Spooling

2006-09-04 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 9/4/2006 11:17 AM, Ferdinando Pasqualetti wrote: > How big is your backup? If it fit completely in the spool area the > behavour seem lead to the fact tha your bottleneck is the tape throughput. > Backup rust faster to the spool area, but the tape writing take the same > time. > I bel

[Bacula-users] Rif: Spooling

2006-09-04 Thread Ferdinando Pasqualetti
How big is your backup? If it fit completely in the spool area the behavour seem lead to the fact tha your bottleneck is the tape throughput. Backup rust faster to the spool area, but the tape writing take the same time. I believe that spooling only gain performance when the FD cannot feed enou

Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with manaul run of job

2006-09-04 Thread Arunav Mandal
On Monday 04 September 2006 10:41, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hello, > > On 9/4/2006 9:45 AM, Arunav Mandal wrote: > > On Sunday 03 September 2006 22:20, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > ... > > > In my /var/lib/mysql there are a number of big files called > > dir_hostname-bin.01 and so on and they are quite

Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with manaul run of job

2006-09-04 Thread Arunav Mandal
On Monday 04 September 2006 10:41, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hello, > > On 9/4/2006 9:45 AM, Arunav Mandal wrote: > > On Sunday 03 September 2006 22:20, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > ... > > > In my /var/lib/mysql there are a number of big files called > > dir_hostname-bin.01 and so on and they are quite

Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with manaul run of job

2006-09-04 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 9/4/2006 9:45 AM, Arunav Mandal wrote: > On Sunday 03 September 2006 22:20, Kern Sibbald wrote: ... > In my /var/lib/mysql there are a number of big files called > dir_hostname-bin.01 and so on and they are quite big around 1.1G. To me > it looks like a index files. It is filling u

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Feature request: Automatically detection of silent data corruption

2006-09-04 Thread Jesper Krogh
> On Saturday 02 September 2006 00:20, Jesper Krogh wrote: > The cost of doing a Verify -- Catalog is really quite minimal, so in my > opinion, I don't see the benefit in complicatint Backup jobs any more than > they are. I don't know if they are complicated already.. This feature is far to small

Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with manaul run of job

2006-09-04 Thread Arunav Mandal
On Sunday 03 September 2006 22:20, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Sunday 03 September 2006 21:46, Arno Lehmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 9/3/2006 10:21 AM, Arunav Mandal wrote: > > > - Original Message - > > > From: "Arunav Mandal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: > > > Sent: Sunday, September 03,

[Bacula-users] Spooling

2006-09-04 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Hello,I worked with Bacula spooling to see the effects on Sparc 280R machines (that continue to work very slow without spooling, almost 1000K/s).I tried with different spooling dimensions (10Mb, 100Mb, 250Mb), the result was almost the same: during a single job backup, speed increased to almost 5

Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with manaul run of job

2006-09-04 Thread Arunav Mandal
On Sunday 03 September 2006 22:20, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Sunday 03 September 2006 21:46, Arno Lehmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 9/3/2006 10:21 AM, Arunav Mandal wrote: > > > - Original Message - > > > From: "Arunav Mandal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: > > > Sent: Sunday, September 03,