Re: [Bacula-users] bacula causing a FC5 machine to freeze?

2006-12-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 29 December 2006 00:36, Mike wrote: > I'm not pointing fingers, I'm trying to figure out why one of my > machines will just freeze. The box is a FC5 that is up to date with > all patches. Currently it is running bacula 1.38.11 and other stuff. > Since Saturday evening the box has frozen m

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 29 December 2006 00:54, Steen Meyer wrote: > Fredag 29 december 2006 00:20 skrev Kern Sibbald: > > On Friday 29 December 2006 00:03, Steen Meyer wrote: > > > Onsdag 27 december 2006 18:50 skrev Kern Sibbald: > > > > On Tuesday 26 December 2006 15:39, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > > > > > * Ke

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] What a difference a database makes

2006-12-28 Thread John Jorgensen
Seeing this discussion about SQLite3 performance has finally prompted me to share an observation that I made about a year ago, when building bacula together with sqlite-3.3.6 for personal use on my home machine. I believe that the "default_synchronous" PRAGMA that Kern mentions in his reply has no

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula causing a FC5 machine to freeze?

2006-12-28 Thread Mike
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Mike might have said: > On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Mike might have said: > > > I'm not pointing fingers, I'm trying to figure out why one of my > > machines will just freeze. The box is a FC5 that is up to date with > > all patches. Currently it is running bacula 1.38.11 and other

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-28 Thread Steen Meyer
Fredag 29 december 2006 00:20 skrev Kern Sibbald: > On Friday 29 December 2006 00:03, Steen Meyer wrote: > > Onsdag 27 december 2006 18:50 skrev Kern Sibbald: > > > On Tuesday 26 December 2006 15:39, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > > > > * Kern Sibbald schrieb am 26.12.06 um 15:03 Uhr: > > > > > > > > Hi

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula causing a FC5 machine to freeze?

2006-12-28 Thread Mike
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Mike might have said: > I'm not pointing fingers, I'm trying to figure out why one of my > machines will just freeze. The box is a FC5 that is up to date with > all patches. Currently it is running bacula 1.38.11 and other stuff. > Since Saturday evening the box has frozen may

[Bacula-users] bacula causing a FC5 machine to freeze?

2006-12-28 Thread Mike
I'm not pointing fingers, I'm trying to figure out why one of my machines will just freeze. The box is a FC5 that is up to date with all patches. Currently it is running bacula 1.38.11 and other stuff. Since Saturday evening the box has frozen maybe eight times so hard that I cannot login. The only

[Bacula-users] Restore of Windows from Linux recovery CD - working in a very basic form

2006-12-28 Thread James Harper
Using a recovery CD I made up with ntfs-3g on it, I have been able to restore a windows system (without any ACL's or attrib's or anything). Also, mkntfs didn't give me a filesystem that I could boot off, no matter what fixboot, fixmbr, or repair operations I did. In the end I used the windows insta

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 29 December 2006 00:03, Steen Meyer wrote: > Onsdag 27 december 2006 18:50 skrev Kern Sibbald: > > On Tuesday 26 December 2006 15:39, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > > > * Kern Sibbald schrieb am 26.12.06 um 15:03 Uhr: > > > > > > Hi Kern, > > > > > > [ progress on rescue cd ] > > > > > > > If

Re: [Bacula-users] How to auto create volumes, when old volumes deleted?

2006-12-28 Thread Steen Meyer
As I understand it you can either: 1. Change your plans and copy your volumes to external HDD. Then Bacula will overwrite and fill with new content, which you can again copy. That leaves you with the task of keeping track of dates etc. 2. Configure volume retention times very long and configure

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-28 Thread Steen Meyer
Onsdag 27 december 2006 18:50 skrev Kern Sibbald: > On Tuesday 26 December 2006 15:39, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > > * Kern Sibbald schrieb am 26.12.06 um 15:03 Uhr: > > > > Hi Kern, > > > > [ progress on rescue cd ] > > > > > If anyone has some better ideas, I would appreciate it to hear them ... >

Re: [Bacula-users] errors with make

2006-12-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 28 December 2006 22:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have attempted to install two versions of bacula (client only), on FC6, > and get the following errors with "make": > > make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/bacula-1.38.11/src/filed' > ==>Entering directory /root/bacula-1.38.11/src/con

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-28 Thread James Harper
> > 28-Dec 00:51 testing-9bt6t7m-fd: RestoreFiles.2006-12-28_00.46.42 Error: > > attribs.c:409 File size of restored file /mnt/C:/D > > ocuments and Settings/NetworkService/ntuser.dat.LOG not correct. > > Original 1024, restored 16384. > > > > Is this just an artefact of Bacula extracting data out

[Bacula-users] errors with make

2006-12-28 Thread admin
I have attempted to install two versions of bacula (client only), on FC6, and get the following errors with "make": make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/bacula-1.38.11/src/filed' ==>Entering directory /root/bacula-1.38.11/src/console make[1]: Entering directory `/root/bacula-1.38.11/src/console' /usr

[Bacula-users] Setup second autoloader for remote restore

2006-12-28 Thread Corey Lewis
I'm a new user to Bacula. I have been asked to setup a second auto changer on a separate host to our current bacula setup for remote off site restores. What do I need to install on the remote host and what changes need to be made to the conf files to get this to work? Current host setup: Bacula

[Bacula-users] BackupCatalog waiting to reserve a device

2006-12-28 Thread Chris Rodgers
Dear all, I have bacula (bacula-mysql-1.38.2-1.rpm) installed on a Redhat FC4 system (Linux lilac.home 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 #1 Tue Jul 11 22:41:14 EDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux). Bacula is set to back up various systems, including another PC on my home network. Backups are saved to hard disk s

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup larger than files present

2006-12-28 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:32:16 -0500, Ryan Novosielski said: > > Per Andreas Buer wrote: > > Ryan Novosielski wrote: > >> I am looking for a little help on how to solve this problem. I'm running > >> Bacula 1.38.11 and attempting to run a full system backup. > >> > >> The result (I canceled it

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup larger than files present

2006-12-28 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kshatriya wrote: > Also, exlude the /proc tree. You can also find it in the standard exclude > that comes with the example configs. /proc is a memory filesystem, so > you're backing up your memory too, which is not what you want :-) > > K. Looks l

[Bacula-users] Bacula and Storage

2006-12-28 Thread DAve
We have convinced the powers to be to move to a SAN, which we are investigating now (any thoughts appreciated). This to enable a move to blade servers in the future for mail/web/ftp. Does anyone know what if anything, we should be aware of if we chose to use the SAN for our Bacula volumes? Tha

Re: [Bacula-users] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 28 December 2006 01:04, Dan Trainor wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Tuesday 26 December 2006 20:23, Dan Trainor wrote: > >> Kern Sibbald wrote: > >>> On Tuesday 26 December 2006 11:02, James Harper wrote: > Assuming that the user would be responsible for the initial partitioni

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 28 December 2006 06:18, James Harper wrote: > > One time I stupidly did something like: > > > >rm -rf xxx. * > > > > while running as root and cd'ed into the root directory. My rescue > disk > > very > > quickly allowed me to restore the 500 or so damaged files to my system > > w

Re: [Bacula-users] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 28 December 2006 06:56, James Harper wrote: > > Hi, Kern - > > > > I'll go ahead and see what I can do about getting a basic CD rolled. > > It's been a while since I have done it, so I will be a bit rusty, for > > sure - and for that reason, I cannot give you a timeframe. > > > > Howe

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup larger than files present

2006-12-28 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Per Andreas Buer wrote: > Ryan Novosielski wrote: >> I am looking for a little help on how to solve this problem. I'm running >> Bacula 1.38.11 and attempting to run a full system backup. >> >> The result (I canceled it): >> >> 1933 Full121,193 52

Re: [Bacula-users] Controlling the envelope sender in Messages

2006-12-28 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:00:39 +0100, Patrick Ben Koetter said: > Mail-Followup-To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Martin, > > thanks for picking my question up. > > * Martin Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 23:38:58 +0100, Patrick Ben Koetter said: > > > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup larger than files present

2006-12-28 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vladimir Doisan wrote: > Is it possible that this is your second run of the full backup and you > merely just adding more data to the volume? Nope, I'm running a special archive run before I re-install the OS and software on it -- the tape had been em

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup larger than files present

2006-12-28 Thread Per Andreas Buer
Ryan Novosielski wrote: > I am looking for a little help on how to solve this problem. I'm running > Bacula 1.38.11 and attempting to run a full system backup. > > The result (I canceled it): > > 1933 Full121,193 52,702,244,286 Cancel 27-Dec-06 17:37 SystemArchive > > ...however, supposedly,

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup larger than files present

2006-12-28 Thread Vladimir Doisan
Is it possible that this is your second run of the full backup and you merely just adding more data to the volume? - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the c

[Bacula-users] How to auto create volumes, when old volumes deleted?

2006-12-28 Thread dmichal
Hi, I'm using file as backup device in config I have LabelMedia=yes and LabelFormat="$JobName". It's working fine. For new clients it's creating and labeling new volume for first job. But I need to move all volumes to external HDD every week (low disk space on backup server). And then, when volume

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup larger than files present

2006-12-28 Thread Kshatriya
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > FileSet { > Name = "Everything" > Include { >File = / >Options { > onefs = no >} > } > } > > I'm guessing something in /var/adm is messing me up... At first I think it's best to backup every filesystem individually, instead of ju

Re: [Bacula-users] win32 bacula-fd.exe does not start

2006-12-28 Thread Marcus Hallberg
Hi! In my opinion the most common error for the filedaemon in windows not to start is that you have not specified the working directory and/or the piddirectory correct. If my memory is correct it is not a full path in the default config file and if you change it to the full path including the