Re: [Bacula-users] Does bacula track and or store tape soft errors?

2007-02-24 Thread Rex Wheeler
On February 24, 2007 6:41 PM Dan Langille wrote: > > On 24 Feb 2007 at 17:58, Rex Wheeler wrote: > > > Does anyone know if bacula keeps track of tape soft errors? (Soft errors > > being correctable errors that were corrected by the tape drive > > hardware.) > > Bacula does not keep track of th

Re: [Bacula-users] Does bacula track and or store tape soft errors?

2007-02-24 Thread Dan Langille
On 25 Feb 2007 at 3:33, Florian Heigl wrote: > Just a silent heads up, if I may... Umm, how is this silent? ;) > I never noticed bacula didn't track media errors, but this *is* a missing > feature - the backup tool is expected to have error counters for tape devices > and media, both will fail

Re: [Bacula-users] Does bacula track and or store tape soft errors?

2007-02-24 Thread Dan Langille
resent, to bacula-users On 24 Feb 2007 at 17:58, Rex Wheeler wrote: > Does anyone know if bacula keeps track of tape soft errors? (Soft errors > being correctable errors that were corrected by the tape drive > hardware.) Bacula does not keep track of this. > I like to use the number of soft err

[Bacula-users] Does bacula track and or store tape soft errors?

2007-02-24 Thread Rex Wheeler
Does anyone know if bacula keeps track of tape soft errors? (Soft errors being correctable errors that were corrected by the tape drive hardware.) I like to use the number of soft errors as an early warning indicator as to tape failure. I am currently using Veritas Backup Exec and it tracks total

[Bacula-users] Conditional back-ups.

2007-02-24 Thread Erik P. Olsen
We take back-ups every night at 2 o'clock of a series of boxes of which some may not be at the office at that time because they are out in the field (notebooks). Is there a way to automatically skip the back-up job if there is "no route to host"? At the moment the failing back-up job is retried 6

Re: [Bacula-users] Debian packages uploaded to experimental

2007-02-24 Thread John Goerzen
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 10:40:30PM +0100, Lech Karol Paw??aszek wrote: > >Debian packages of Bacula 2.0.2 have been uploaded to Debian > >experimental and should hit your local mirror within 24 hours. > [...] > > Beautiful. Do packages include "fixed"[1] version of restore.c? > > [1] - > http://

[Bacula-users] minimum privileges for bweb

2007-02-24 Thread Florian Heigl
Hi list, firstofall, I'm just asking here for I'm not aware of a list dealing with bweb yet, and secondly most/all of it's users are going to read it here anyway. i'm currently setting up mysql permissions for bacula and bweb - does anyone know if bweb only needs readonly permissions and does the

Re: [Bacula-users] Fifo Device

2007-02-24 Thread Eric Bollengier
> I found the reason for that error in the source code: > in file dev.c at line 385 bacula tries to rewind the fifo Thanks, it's ok in 2.0.x and 2.1.x now. > But now I face the next problem. Restore by the fifo device doesn't work. I > can restore when I use a file device. Therefore I backup

Re: [Bacula-users] Debian packages uploaded to experimental

2007-02-24 Thread Lech Karol Pawłaszek
John Goerzen napisał(a): > Hello, > > Debian packages of Bacula 2.0.2 have been uploaded to Debian > experimental and should hit your local mirror within 24 hours. [...] Beautiful. Do packages include "fixed"[1] version of restore.c? [1] - http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=

Re: [Bacula-users] Long Backups on an FC6 system

2007-02-24 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 2/24/2007 5:31 PM, Mike Hanby wrote: ... > Bacula-dir, bacula-sd and bacula-fd are all on this same computer, Linux > Redhat FC6 box backing up to a locally connected 500GB USB 2.0 hard > drive. So, everything is local. ... > It is now 10:00, 16.5 hours later and 57GB's have been backed u

Re: [Bacula-users] Cleaning Jobs

2007-02-24 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 2/24/2007 11:43 AM, Pierre Bernhardt wrote: > Arno Lehmann schrieb: > >>>Here my feature request for a cleaning enhacement: >> >>If you really want that to be a feature request you should rewrite it >>into the format suggested by Kern. You can find that on the project web >>site, I belie

[Bacula-users] Long Backups on an FC6 system

2007-02-24 Thread Mike Hanby
Howdy, I'm backing up my first machine using Bacula. Bacula-dir, bacula-sd and bacula-fd are all on this same computer, Linux Redhat FC6 box backing up to a locally connected 500GB USB 2.0 hard drive. So, everything is local. The system is an AMD Athlon XP 1900+ with 512 MB's of DDR and it

[Bacula-users] Debian packages uploaded to experimental

2007-02-24 Thread John Goerzen
Hello, Debian packages of Bacula 2.0.2 have been uploaded to Debian experimental and should hit your local mirror within 24 hours. These packages will eventually be uploaded to unstable when I feel that they're solid enough to do so. (Also we must wait a bit due to an unrelated propogation to te

[Bacula-users] bacula as a vtl?

2007-02-24 Thread mikee
I'm starting to think about expanding my use of bacula. Currently I rsync other boxes to my backup box, then on the backup box I use bacula to write to tapes. Has anyone thought about or is anyone using bacula's volume-on-disk abilities as a VTL? Mike -

Re: [Bacula-users] 'PURGE' command

2007-02-24 Thread Pierre Bernhardt
Hi, > The delete command can have... unwanted side-effects, too. Yes, I've found that the commands in bconsole are a little bit more clement than they should. For example I can have the following line: *list volumes pool=Scratch All ok the volumes in pool Scratch are shown. *list volumes pool

Re: [Bacula-users] Cleaning Jobs

2007-02-24 Thread Pierre Bernhardt
Andrea Conti schrieb: >> But update slots scan command after cartrige change of the other ones >> are not a good Idea because the cleaning cartrige is loaded, too. > > You can limit the scanning to a subset of slots by saying > > update slots= scan > > For example, on a 6-slot autochanger with a

Re: [Bacula-users] Cleaning Jobs

2007-02-24 Thread Pierre Bernhardt
Arno Lehmann schrieb: >> Here my feature request for a cleaning enhacement: > > If you really want that to be a feature request you should rewrite it > into the format suggested by Kern. You can find that on the project web > site, I believe. > >> 1. It should be possible to declare for one or