[Bacula-users] slightly OT: nearline archival tape system

2007-05-18 Thread Antoine Durr
Hi, Does anyone know of any systems that are similar to Quantum/ADIC's AMASS software? Now that I have Bacula running on my Superloader 3, I'd also like to use part of the autoloader as a nearline/offline system, e.g. present an arbitrary number of tapes as a large, contiguous drive. S

[Bacula-users] Bacula keeps switching tapes

2007-05-18 Thread Andreas Helmcke
running bacula 2.0.3 with mysql 4.1.13 on SuSE 10.0; ADIC scalar-100 with 4 LTO-1 drives Hello, I am still having a problem with concurrent jobs. Bacula is unnecessarily changing tapes and tapedrives. Basically i want to backup three different server every night and i want to use one drive for e

Re: [Bacula-users] Dead server and restore not going so well

2007-05-18 Thread Paul Waldo
Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > * Paul Waldo schrieb am 18.05.07 um 18:00 Uhr: > > [...] > > >> A fun added wrinkle is that the ubuntu dapper bacula packages don't >> contain bscan :-O >> > > Sure? Is bacula-sd-pgsql or bacula-sd-mysql installed? > > -Marc > Yep, positive. http://packages.ubu

Re: [Bacula-users] feature request : clustered server

2007-05-18 Thread Mikael Kermorgant
2007/5/18, Andrew Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: It's worth pointing out that you can build a failover pair of bacula directors and FDs with no software modifications, providing you've got shared storage for your data. The Heartbeat project has a mechanism for having a backup server take over a pr

[Bacula-users] can't understand the error message

2007-05-18 Thread Naufal Sheikh
Hi, I am getting the following error, and I have no idea about what is happening. Things were going perfectly alright till this error started to come for invcremental backups. Job started. JobId=337 18-May 12:44 tracfire-dir: Start Backup JobId 337, Job= client059-Windows-Job.2007-05-18_12.44.4

Re: [Bacula-users] Dead server and restore not going so well

2007-05-18 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
* Paul Waldo schrieb am 18.05.07 um 18:00 Uhr: [...] > > A fun added wrinkle is that the ubuntu dapper bacula packages don't > contain bscan :-O Sure? Is bacula-sd-pgsql or bacula-sd-mysql installed? -Marc -- +--+ |

Re: [Bacula-users] feature request : clustered server

2007-05-18 Thread Andrew Fabian
It's worth pointing out that you can build a failover pair of bacula directors and FDs with no software modifications, providing you've got shared storage for your data. The Heartbeat project has a mechanism for having a backup server take over a primary server's IP address when the primary go

Re: [Bacula-users] Dead server and restore not going so well

2007-05-18 Thread Paul Waldo
John Drescher wrote: > On 5/18/07, Paul Waldo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Troy Daniels wrote: >> > Hope this isn't redundant, but have you tried doing a restore of >> job 214? >> > >> > That appears to be your most recent full backup according to the table >> > below. Hopefully it's file records

Re: [Bacula-users] How to unload all loaded tapes to library ?

2007-05-18 Thread Adam Cécile
Hi, Thanks for you reply. I made my own script based on yours and I added stuff to set inchanger flag to no for all volumes. Here is the script : #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/bconsole -c /etc/bacula/bconsole.conf <> ${temp} done cat ${temp} | bconsole -c /etc/bacula/bconsole.conf rm ${temp} And bacula-di

[Bacula-users] DVD backup not starting

2007-05-18 Thread Lucio Crusca
Hello *, I've a problem with my 1st bacula installation (quite normal I suppose). I'm running bacula 2.0.3 on Debian Etch/i386. It has to backup a single folder on DVD, classic full/monthly, diff/weekly, incr/daily schema. When I enter bacula-console I try a test backup with the "run" command.

Re: [Bacula-users] Dead server and restore not going so well

2007-05-18 Thread John Drescher
On 5/18/07, Paul Waldo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Troy Daniels wrote: > > Hope this isn't redundant, but have you tried doing a restore of job 214? > > > > That appears to be your most recent full backup according to the table > > below. Hopefully it's file records haven't been cleaned from the >

Re: [Bacula-users] File Storage on multiple partitions

2007-05-18 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
If the new volumes follow a naming convention, and no autolabel, maybe use symbolic links before labing? On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 10:50 +0200, Ekkehard Burkon wrote: > This was not enough. So we added some disks and added -- Brian A. Seklecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Collaborative Fusion, Inc. IMPORT

Re: [Bacula-users] Dead server and restore not going so well

2007-05-18 Thread Paul Waldo
Troy Daniels wrote: > Hope this isn't redundant, but have you tried doing a restore of job 214? > > That appears to be your most recent full backup according to the table > below. Hopefully it's file records haven't been cleaned from the > database. > > After that I believe you'd just need to res

Re: [Bacula-users] Dead server and restore not going so well

2007-05-18 Thread Troy Daniels
Hope this isn't redundant, but have you tried doing a restore of job 214? That appears to be your most recent full backup according to the table below. Hopefully it's file records haven't been cleaned from the database. After that I believe you'd just need to restore jobs 274 (Most recent diff)

Re: [Bacula-users] Dead server and restore not going so well

2007-05-18 Thread Paul Waldo
Michel Meyers wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michel Meyers wrote: > >> Did you maybe set the File Retention lower than the Job retention? >> >> http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Catalog_Maintenance.html#SECTION00241 >> >> If so, then your File Entries

Re: [Bacula-users] File Storage on multiple partitions

2007-05-18 Thread Arthur Emerson III
Ekkehard Burkon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is it possible to distribute the the storage files > on multiple partitions. Absolutely...assuming that you are using pre-defined disk volumes and are not letting Bacula create them on the fly. Just create symlinks to the real location of each disk v

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula documents

2007-05-18 Thread Ralf Gross
Kern Sibbald schrieb: > > Currently all the Bacula documents (web site, technotes, manual, manual > translations, ...) are all in the same SVN repository directory. The result > is that when it is downloaded, and built to contain the final documents > needed by most release systems, the tar.gz

Re: [Bacula-users] Connection failures, backup failures, restore failures - (solved)

2007-05-18 Thread Joseph Wright
On May 17, 2007, at 10:07 AM, Joseph Wright wrote: > Hello, > > I know it's a lot of problems, but they all started last night. > > Running 'status jobs' shows that all jobs ended with errors. > However, there were no logs to tell me what happened. > > When I tried to run a restore, it started t

Re: [Bacula-users] How to unload all loaded tapes to library ?

2007-05-18 Thread Thomas Sturm
Hello Adam, that is what I do: I have an admin-Job: Job { Name = "unload_tape" Type = admin Client = bacula-fd JobDefs = "backup" FileSet="Catalog" RunBeforeJob = "/usr/libexec/bacula/unload_tape" Schedule = "nachts" Priority = 99 # } /usr/libexec/bacula/unload_t

Re: [Bacula-users] Error Message - windows clients

2007-05-18 Thread Sandro Mendes
Ralf, I'm using Windows XP Pro. Tks! Sandro > Sandro, > > which Windows version do you use? > In Vista the the user MUST have admin rights. > > Ralf > > On 5/18/07, Sandro Mendes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > I'm doing some clients backups in Windows and everything is working.

[Bacula-users] feature request : clustered server

2007-05-18 Thread Rich
this probably is the worst time to submit a request, but given it's scope it probably won't have huge impact :) i am not currently subscribed to -devel - please, cc me or -users (or force me to subscribe, if the discussion would be limited to that list). ps. page http://www.bacula.org/?page=vot

Re: [Bacula-users] Dead server and restore not going so well

2007-05-18 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michel Meyers wrote: > Did you maybe set the File Retention lower than the Job retention? > > http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Catalog_Maintenance.html#SECTION00241 > > If so, then your File Entries will be gone (even though the job i

Re: [Bacula-users] Dead server and restore not going so well

2007-05-18 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Waldo wrote: > John Drescher wrote: >> On 5/17/07, Paul Waldo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I have been backing up a file server with Bacula for a year or so. The >>> server has died and I am trying to restore the files to anothe

Re: [Bacula-users] Dead server and restore not going so well

2007-05-18 Thread Paul Waldo
John Drescher wrote: > On 5/17/07, Paul Waldo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have been backing up a file server with Bacula for a year or so. The >> server has died and I am trying to restore the files to another machine >> and not having much luck. >> >> Using the "restore" command

[Bacula-users] Client win x64 download

2007-05-18 Thread spouynt
Hi all ! can someone tell me where I can find the bacula client for an x64 machine running under Windows 2003 server ? Thanks all Nawfel BERAICH _ Ne gardez plus qu'une seule adresse mail ! Copiez vos mails

Re: [Bacula-users] How to unload all loaded tapes to library ?

2007-05-18 Thread Troy Daniels
Forgot to mention that in the older 1.38.x version of Bacula I used 'update slots' to trigger an unload of the tape. We were then able to use the controls on the front of the autochanger to swap tapes in the unit with new ones. I only have 8 slots in my autochanger so it doesn't take long to up

Re: [Bacula-users] How to unload all loaded tapes to library ?

2007-05-18 Thread Troy Daniels
You didn't mention which version of bacula you are running but I know 2.0.2 has a 'release' command that releases the tape and bacula knows to check the drive before trying to access it the next time. Not sure what version it was introduced in however. Troy. Adam Cécile wrote: > Hi, > > All w

Re: [Bacula-users] mail job report to user - variables and python

2007-05-18 Thread Troy Daniels
Hi there, If I had to do this in the current Bacula setup, I'd write a script to be called by the mailcommand. It could then work out the appropriate user to mail the log to based on one of the parameters passed (Job name or similiar) It could then call the bsmtp program with the appropriate r

Re: [Bacula-users] Volume purging/recycling

2007-05-18 Thread Troy Daniels
Hi, Seems to me that Ryan's suggestion to setup an Admin job would work. A simple script to get the currently loaded tape via bconsole, followed by 2 prune commands should work. You need 2 prune commands to ensure it gets set to Purged or Recycled (Cant remember which)- the second one realizes

Re: [Bacula-users] Error Message - windows clients

2007-05-18 Thread Ralf Winkler
Sandro, which Windows version do you use? In Vista the the user MUST have admin rights. Ralf On 5/18/07, Sandro Mendes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'm doing some clients backups in Windows and everything is working. This users are in Windows local administrators group. When I try to mak

[Bacula-users] Bacula documents

2007-05-18 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Currently all the Bacula documents (web site, technotes, manual, manual translations, ...) are all in the same SVN repository directory. The result is that when it is downloaded, and built to contain the final documents needed by most release systems, the tar.gz file is over 30 MB, whic

[Bacula-users] File Storage on multiple partitions

2007-05-18 Thread Ekkehard Burkon
Hi, is it possible to distribute the the storage files on multiple partitions. We have the following setup: Bacula is using file storage only. We have the file storage sepperated into files of 25GB each. Alltogether 1,8 TB. This was not enough. So we added some disks and added another partition

Re: [Bacula-users] clustered bacula servers

2007-05-18 Thread Rich
On 2007.05.17. 23:52, Florian Heigl wrote: > Hi, > > 2007/5/17, Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> is there a functionality (or planned functionality) in bacula to allow >> two or more server instances work in a way similar to a cluster ? > > no, and maybe > >> that would probably include two separate

[Bacula-users] Bacula ask for a volume which has inchanger=no ?!?!?

2007-05-18 Thread Adam Cécile
Hi, Today my director was blocked. It was asking for a volume which had inchangler flag set to no while there was 4 purged volume in the right pool. I had to load the volume into the drive manually (with mtx) and then mount it, otherwise bacula keeps asking for the missing volume. How could this

Re: [Bacula-users] automatically removing disk based volumes

2007-05-18 Thread Rich
oops. resending to the list. On 2007.05.17. 23:56, Martin Simmons wrote: >> On Thu, 17 May 2007 13:32:54 +0300, Rich said: >> can bacula be configured to automatically remove disk based volumes, >> once the volume contains no data (after pruning db records) ? > > No, but it is feature reque