Re: [Bacula-users] external disk recommendations

2006-09-07 Thread James Harper
> In my opinion any 2.5" HDD enclosure will do the job. > They use laptop hdd's so they do not need additional power supply and > once disconnected they are more resistible to shocks. > As for performance it is slightly lower, but it should not be a problem. The 2.5" drives are only available up t

Re: [Bacula-users] DDS4 Tape not reaching capacity

2006-09-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 07 September 2006 23:20, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > Martin Simmons wrote: > >> On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:48:18 -0400, Ryan Novosielski said: > >> I have a question about my DDS4 drive... > >> > >> I have been backing up a 20GB FS with a DDS4 drive for quite some time. > >> The filesyste

Re: [Bacula-users] Autoloader: Replace tape in magazine after backups complete?

2006-09-07 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 16:55:15 EDT, The pithy ruminations from "Jeremy Koppel" on <[Bacula-users] Autoloader: Replace tape in magazine after backups complete?> w ere: => => Well, we just had an autoloader go bad on us. Quantum sent us a new Ouch. => chassis under warranty,

Re: [Bacula-users] DDS4 Tape not reaching capacity

2006-09-07 Thread Ryan Novosielski
Martin Simmons wrote: >> On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:48:18 -0400, Ryan Novosielski said: >> I have a question about my DDS4 drive... >> >> I have been backing up a 20GB FS with a DDS4 drive for quite some time. >> The filesystem has been getting increasingly full, and until recently >> was only 75%

Re: [Bacula-users] DDS4 Tape not reaching capacity

2006-09-07 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:48:18 -0400, Ryan Novosielski said: > > I have a question about my DDS4 drive... > > I have been backing up a 20GB FS with a DDS4 drive for quite some time. > The filesystem has been getting increasingly full, and until recently > was only 75% or so. I've reached 95%

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula for mixed file and tape backups

2006-09-07 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jeff Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > We'd like easy access to recent files for the case where someone deletes > the wrong file. We also want to take full backups (probably monthly) > offsite for long-term archiving and disaster recovery. > > My idea right now is to use a second m

[Bacula-users] Autoloader: Replace tape in magazine after backups complete?

2006-09-07 Thread Jeremy Koppel
Well, we just had an autoloader go bad on us.  Quantum sent us a new chassis under warranty, but there was a tape in the drive when the unit tanked out on us.  There’s no way to get at it manually, and no user serviceable parts.  They tell me that the only way to get it out is by disassembl

[Bacula-users] Bacula for mixed file and tape backups

2006-09-07 Thread Jeff Tucker
Hi, I've got what is probably a simple question, but the various pool and volume options confuse me. I've got about 250 GB of data I want to backup on a single linux server. These are users' home directories and email. Most of that data doesn't change much, but we don't have a good way of figu

[Bacula-users] Multi-drive select process

2006-09-07 Thread Michael Brennen
I have a schedule set up for several jobs to start at staggered times. I am about 15 tapes and three weeks into a backup set on a 4 drive, 60 slot autochanger. I am running CVS as of a couple of days ago. A few days ago I changed the schedule so that a job, call it B, that normally started la

Re: [Bacula-users] How to set tape drive settings?

2006-09-07 Thread Dan Langille
On 7 Sep 2006 at 10:18, Jonathan B Bayer wrote: > Hello bacula-users, > > I would like to be able to set a parameter on a tape drive before > opening it (I want to enable the hardware compression in the tape > drive). Right now I do it when Bacula is started, but I would like to > do it explicit

Re: [Bacula-users] Data encryption.

2006-09-07 Thread Vladimir Doisan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 BTW, forgot to mention, I've used symmetric encryption on clients with AxCrypt utility (does AES128 encryption and compression) http://sourceforge.net/projects/axcrypt with success. However I moved to Bacula/GnuPG combo because I can manage it centrall

[Bacula-users] How to set tape drive settings?

2006-09-07 Thread Jonathan B Bayer
Hello bacula-users, I would like to be able to set a parameter on a tape drive before opening it (I want to enable the hardware compression in the tape drive). Right now I do it when Bacula is started, but I would like to do it explicitly inside Bacula. Any ideas? JBB --- Superior solutions

Re: [Bacula-users] Data encryption.

2006-09-07 Thread Vladimir Doisan
Hi Lech Karol The only sure way to encrypt data right now is to encrypt it on the server (you could have 3rd party encryption on the client, but it gets messy). Basically when I finish backing up the clients with Bacula, I execute "RunAfter" script which uses GnuPG with public key to encrypt the vo

Re: [Bacula-users] external disk recommendations

2006-09-07 Thread Hristo Benev
James Harper wrote: > Can anyone recommend a good external usb2 enclosure for 3.5" harddisks? > > Cooling isn't really a concern as it will just be being used for > backups. > > Ideally the enclosure would be tough enough for someone to take home > each night (probably in a handbag :) without stre

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow postgres on Sun 280R

2006-09-07 Thread Centos-admin
Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > Still working on my problem on Sun 280R. > With your help I discovered that my slow backup problem is actually > Postgres working much slower on these machines. > The DB has been setup with the scripts bundled with the distribution, > so any index needed should be there. >

Re: [Bacula-users] Scratch Pool Question

2006-09-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 18:29, Michael Brennen wrote: > On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > > > I have a question regarding the scratch pool: The docs note that a > > volume from the scratch pool will be used whenever no other volume > > is available. Will this work for a tape-based

Re: [Bacula-users] external disk recommendations

2006-09-07 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, James Harper wrote: > Ideally the enclosure would be tough enough for someone to take home > each night (probably in a handbag :) without stressing the enclosed > drive too much. > > Even more ideally, it would allow the use of a docking station so that > either the whole enclo

[Bacula-users] Qualstar RSL5116 SAIT

2006-09-07 Thread Wolfgang Jaede
hello, has anyone get a Qualstar RSL5116 SAIT Autoloader got working well with bacula? regards -- Wolfgang Jaede Doormannsweg 43 Tel: 040/43169-283 Systemadministrator20259 Hamburg Fax: 040/43169-110 VCC Perfect Pictures AGGermany Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Bacula-users] conf.d for bacula conf files?

2006-09-07 Thread Niklas Larsson
Hi, I'm reorganizing our bacula backup, and are putting all konf for each client in a seperate file, and then including it in bacula-dir.conf with the @filename syntax. This is ok, but not perfect, i would like to create a conf.d directory and then put all files in there, add the directory to

Re: [Bacula-users] Last Friday of Month

2006-09-07 Thread Beren Gamble
That's cool, thanks!!!On 04/09/06, Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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.C

Re: [Bacula-users] Scratch Pool Question

2006-09-07 Thread Michael Brennen
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > I have a question regarding the scratch pool: The docs note that a > volume from the scratch pool will be used whenever no other volume > is available. Will this work for a tape-based pool > ("storage=DLT8000"), too? Yes. > i'd like bacula to switch

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error in windows

2006-09-07 Thread Dominic Marks
Arunav Mandal wrote: > On Tuesday 05 September 2006 10:41, Dominic Marks wrote: >> Arunav Mandal wrote: >>> In atleast 2 clients there is a fatal error. All the config is correct. >>> Errors are given below. >>> >>> >>> 05-Sep 00:48 bergen-fd: backup-bergen.2006-09-05_00.28.00 Fatal error: c: >>> \

[Bacula-users] Dual tape drives

2006-09-07 Thread Mike Leo
GreetingsI have just loaded the latest version of bacula for debian unstable and so far all is going quite well.One question, however, is I have 2 tape drives and I was wondering if i could stream one job across both of them to either speed up the job, or can i get 1 job to start on DLT1, then

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error in windows

2006-09-07 Thread Dominic Marks
Arunav Mandal wrote: > In atleast 2 clients there is a fatal error. All the config is correct. > Errors > are given below. > > > 05-Sep 00:48 bergen-fd: backup-bergen.2006-09-05_00.28.00 Fatal error: c: > \cygwin\home\kern\bacula\k\src\win32\filed\../../filed/backup.c:500 Network > send error

Re: [Bacula-users] dbcheck needs very long time...

2006-09-07 Thread Frank Sweetser
On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 10:58:49AM +0200, Masopust, Christian wrote: > > Hello Frank, > > thanks a lot for this info! but :-))) > > could anybody give the complete info (maybe also modify the wiki-page) how > these indexes should be created? The best place to find that is in the document

Re: [Bacula-users] maximum concurrent jobs for disk device

2006-09-07 Thread Silver Salonen
On Thursday 07 September 2006 12:47, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Thursday 07 September 2006 10:53, Silver Salonen wrote: > > On Thursday 07 September 2006 11:42, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > On Thursday 07 September 2006 10:32, Silver Salonen wrote: > > > > On Thursday 07 September 2006 10:49, Kern Sibba

Re: [Bacula-users] maximum concurrent jobs for disk device

2006-09-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 07 September 2006 10:53, Silver Salonen wrote: > On Thursday 07 September 2006 11:42, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Thursday 07 September 2006 10:32, Silver Salonen wrote: > > > On Thursday 07 September 2006 10:49, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > On Thursday 07 Septembe

[Bacula-users] Slow postgres on Sun 280R

2006-09-07 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Still working on my problem on Sun 280R.With your help I discovered that my slow backup problem is actually Postgres working much slower on these machines.The DB has been setup with the scripts bundled with the distribution, so any index needed should be there.From the system point of view, we al

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error in windows

2006-09-07 Thread Arunav Mandal
On Thursday 07 September 2006 11:18, Janco van der Merwe wrote: > I got the same error last night but mine was because of a bad AIT tape and > it asked for the previous night's backup volume. Is yours the same? Not that is not the case. > Janco v.d Merwe > Network Administrator > Dunns Stores (P

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error in windows

2006-09-07 Thread Janco van der Merwe
I got the same error last night but mine was because of a bad AIT tape and it asked for the previous night's backup volume. Is yours the same? Janco v.d Merwe Network Administrator Dunns Stores (PTY) Ltd Switchboard: 011 541 3000 Direct: 011 541 3007 Fax: 086 632 1708 -Original Message-

Re: [Bacula-users] dbcheck needs very long time...

2006-09-07 Thread Masopust, Christian
Hello Frank, thanks a lot for this info! but :-))) could anybody give the complete info (maybe also modify the wiki-page) how these indexes should be created? For example the already defined index Job.Name is of type "BTREE" and indexed column is Name with length 128 ... Index

Re: [Bacula-users] maximum concurrent jobs for disk device

2006-09-07 Thread Silver Salonen
On Thursday 07 September 2006 11:42, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Thursday 07 September 2006 10:32, Silver Salonen wrote: > > On Thursday 07 September 2006 10:49, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > On Thursday 07 September 2006 09:08, Silver Salonen wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > > > > > I have

Re: [Bacula-users] maximum concurrent jobs for disk device

2006-09-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 07 September 2006 10:32, Silver Salonen wrote: > On Thursday 07 September 2006 10:49, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Thursday 07 September 2006 09:08, Silver Salonen wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > I have multiple bacula-clients backing up to different directories on a > > di

Re: [Bacula-users] maximum concurrent jobs for disk device

2006-09-07 Thread Silver Salonen
On Thursday 07 September 2006 10:49, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > On Thursday 07 September 2006 09:08, Silver Salonen wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I have multiple bacula-clients backing up to different directories on a > disk. > > Concurrent jobs are working for different bacula-clients as each o

Re: [Bacula-users] external disk recommendations

2006-09-07 Thread brendan
Quoting James Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Can anyone recommend a good external usb2 enclosure for 3.5" harddisks? I've read good things about the CRU Dataport products, though I have no experience with them myself. http://www.cru-dataport.com/ They appear to have many lines, from basic plasti

[Bacula-users] "Run Script" directive problem

2006-09-07 Thread Silver Salonen
Hi again. I use Bacula 1.38.11 and I wanted to replace my "Client Run Before Job" and "Client Run After Job" directives with "Run Script", so that the script would run after failed job also. The Job resource is now: Job { ... Run Script { Command = "/some/before-script.sh" Runs

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup on Iomega Rev removable storage

2006-09-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 07 September 2006 09:29, Frederik wrote: > I'm trying to get Bacula making backups on an Iomega Rev drive. This > is a kind of drive using removable "disks", which are formatted in the > UDF file system. This means that Bacula should mount and unmount the > drive before and after starti

Re: [Bacula-users] maximum concurrent jobs for disk device

2006-09-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, On Thursday 07 September 2006 09:08, Silver Salonen wrote: > Hi. > > I have multiple bacula-clients backing up to different directories on a disk. > Concurrent jobs are working for different bacula-clients as each one of them > has a separate device resource with one job per volume. >

[Bacula-users] Backup on Iomega Rev removable storage

2006-09-07 Thread Frederik
I'm trying to get Bacula making backups on an Iomega Rev drive. This is a kind of drive using removable "disks", which are formatted in the UDF file system. This means that Bacula should mount and unmount the drive before and after starting the backup. On the other hand, as it has to write in a fil

Re: [Bacula-users] Why bacula requests available tape?

2006-09-07 Thread Mindaugas
> 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 Still no ideas? When I deleted "Daily-02-02" tape in bconsole backups started normally. Mindaugas

Re: [Bacula-users] backup rotation

2006-09-07 Thread Marco Strullato
Hello, I still can not rotate volumes.after I change pool's configuration toPool {  Name = PoolENGI5657  Use Volume >  Pool Type = Backup  LabelFormat = "ENGI5657-"   AutoPrune = yes  VolumeRetention = 7 days  Maximum Volumes = 8  Recycle = yes  Maximum Volume Jobs = 1  Recycle Oldest Volume = yes

[Bacula-users] maximum concurrent jobs for disk device

2006-09-07 Thread Silver Salonen
Hi. I have multiple bacula-clients backing up to different directories on a disk. Concurrent jobs are working for different bacula-clients as each one of them has a separate device resource with one job per volume. The problem is that every client can run only one job at a time. I'm backing up