Re: [Bacula-users] [bacula 0000888]: Spurious connection drops killing backups

2007-06-18 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, I've been thinking about possible causes of "spurious" connection drops and how to debug them. As I have noted a number of times, the most likely culprit is a bad network (in particular switches or ethernet cards that have bad firmware -- several cases such as this are documented in the

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with a backup behind a firewall

2007-06-18 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:14:09 +0200, Jean-François Leroux said: > > Hi, > I'm trying to backup a server in an external zone. > > Here's my setup : > > Director is in machine located in the private network. Storage is (disk) on > another machine in the private network. Client is a machine in

Re: [Bacula-users] No upgrade from incremental to full ?

2007-06-18 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 12:12:58 -0400, Ryan Novosielski said: > > He, theoretically, should not need this if his retention times are set > properly, as the job will always automatically upgrade to full, unless > you have disabled this (if that's possible). I wouldn't plan my backups > that way,

Re: [Bacula-users] network error job aborted

2007-06-18 Thread Dave
Hello, I really hate it when i try to respond to questions and when i do bacula does not duplicate the error. Brian, a status on the client showed that it never went down, i restarted it manually with the flags you indicated and nothing more verbose came through. Like Frank i

Re: [Bacula-users] time to consider bacula, again

2007-06-18 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 AFAIK, there is a big chapter in the manual on it that should be more than sufficient. As for specific cookbooks or anything like that, you'd have to use Google. I'm not sure that anyone has written one. Jonathan Horne wrote: > regretfully, the last t

[Bacula-users] time to consider bacula, again

2007-06-18 Thread Jonathan Horne
regretfully, the last time i tried bacula, i was not able to get a job to run. i had the daemons talking, but alas, i was defeated (by what detail, i have no idea). i see in the supported operating systems page, that: Windows Vista VSS (Volume Shadow Copy) is reported not to work with Bacula.

Re: [Bacula-users] No upgrade from incremental to full ?

2007-06-18 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 He, theoretically, should not need this if his retention times are set properly, as the job will always automatically upgrade to full, unless you have disabled this (if that's possible). I wouldn't plan my backups that way, but he is onto something her

Re: [Bacula-users] Disable File and Job Retention

2007-06-18 Thread Sascha Wilde
Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Sascha Wilde wrote: > >> as my other mail shows I successfully used file retention top shoot my >> food -- so I'm thinking of deactivating retention all together. What >> is the value I must set for File and Job Retention, to disable it

Re: [Bacula-users] Error in multiple backups

2007-06-18 Thread Frank Sweetser
Jorge González wrote: > hi all! > > I saw this error, in many backups and many servers, the last two days, > It has been working fine along 3 months > > 18-Jun 13:48 bacula-intranet-dir: Job Flexo_SVN.2007-06-18_13.48.03 > waiting 3600 seconds for scheduled start time. > 18-Jun 14:48 bacula-intra

[Bacula-users] Error in multiple backups

2007-06-18 Thread Jorge González
hi all! I saw this error, in many backups and many servers, the last two days, It has been working fine along 3 months 18-Jun 13:48 bacula-intranet-dir: Job Flexo_SVN.2007-06-18_13.48.03 waiting 3600 seconds for scheduled start time. 18-Jun 14:48 bacula-intranet-dir: Start Backup JobId 1504,

Re: [Bacula-users] User access restrictions to backup data implemented jet?

2007-06-18 Thread Steen
Fredag 15 juni 2007 17:41 skrev Alejandro Lencina: > Where can I find whether restricted client acces to backup data is > implemented? Search the manual for restricted consoles > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > - > T

Re: [Bacula-users] network error job aborted

2007-06-18 Thread Frank Sweetser
Dave wrote: > Hello, > I've got a bacula win32 2.03 client that has been backing up fine. This > morning it didn't and gave me a fatal network error. I'm open to > suggestions, i've confirmed that all the daemons are still running. Here's > an excerpt from my bacula log. > > 18-Jun 04:38 ti

Re: [Bacula-users] Disable File and Job Retention

2007-06-18 Thread Sascha Wilde
Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/18/2007 12:02 PM, Sascha Wilde wrote: >> as my other mail shows I successfully used file retention top shoot my >> food -- so I'm thinking of deactivating retention all together. What >> is the value I must set for File and Job Retention, to disable i

Re: [Bacula-users] network error job aborted

2007-06-18 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
what does: "status client=backup_titan" show? Did you restart the bacula-fd service on the client? Check the windows event viewer? Re-start the bacula-fd.exe process from command line manually with -d99 -f -v ? ~BAS On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 07:41 -0400, Dave wrote: > zeus-dir -- Brian A. Sekle

[Bacula-users] network error job aborted

2007-06-18 Thread Dave
Hello, I've got a bacula win32 2.03 client that has been backing up fine. This morning it didn't and gave me a fatal network error. I'm open to suggestions, i've confirmed that all the daemons are still running. Here's an excerpt from my bacula log. 18-Jun 04:38 titan-fd: Generate VSS snaps

Re: [Bacula-users] Disable File and Job Retention

2007-06-18 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 6/18/2007 12:02 PM, Sascha Wilde wrote: > Hi *, > > as my other mail shows I successfully used file retention top shoot my > food -- so I'm thinking of deactivating retention all together. What > is the value I must set for File and Job Retention, to disable it all > together? If you rea

Re: [Bacula-users] Disable File and Job Retention

2007-06-18 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Sascha Wilde wrote: > as my other mail shows I successfully used file retention top shoot my > food -- so I'm thinking of deactivating retention all together. What > is the value I must set for File and Job Retention, to disable it all > together? If you set all three retent

Re: [Bacula-users] FAQ-ish question - Tough situation, I think it's impossible w/ bacula...

2007-06-18 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, John Drescher wrote: > The problem here is after manually switching tapes in the autochanger > someone must run the update slots command from bacula before any jobs are > run. This can be as simple as clicking on a button that feeds the command > into bconsole. Or even more s

[Bacula-users] Disable File and Job Retention

2007-06-18 Thread Sascha Wilde
Hi *, as my other mail shows I successfully used file retention top shoot my food -- so I'm thinking of deactivating retention all together. What is the value I must set for File and Job Retention, to disable it all together? sascha -- Sascha Wilde "The primary difference [...] is that the Java

Re: [Bacula-users] freebsd - chio vs mtx-changer

2007-06-18 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 6/16/2007 10:30 PM, Ken Gunderson wrote: > Hello: > > Some experience fbsd user can provide me with some insights of chio vs. > mtx-changer? I know mtx-changer works but haven't yet done anything > with chio. Which is preferred under fbsd? I guess it's a matter of taste... chio is the m

Re: [Bacula-users] DVD-Ram Backup strategie

2007-06-18 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 6/16/2007 6:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello List, > > once again, the DVD Media issue :) > This time i will try to get it right, explain it well and define my > requirements. > > My original goal was to write to DVD-R or DVD-RW. > Since bacula does not: > a) carry on the backup e

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with a backup behind a firewall

2007-06-18 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 6/16/2007 6:14 PM, Jean-François Leroux wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to backup a server in an external zone. > > Here's my setup : > > Director is in machine located in the private network. Storage is (disk) > on another machine in the private network. Client is a machine in the > external

Re: [Bacula-users] No upgrade from incremental to full ?

2007-06-18 Thread Rupen Momaya
Your Scheduled parameter mentioned in the Job defination of the client should have a defination such as below : Schedule { Name = "EveryDays" *Run = level=Full sun at 23:05* Run = level=Incremental mon-sat at 23:05 } Regards, Rupen Ralf Winkler wrote: May i ask how bacula should know when

[Bacula-users] bscan from more then one DVD volume fails -- Bug?

2007-06-18 Thread Sascha Wilde
Hi *, I'm using bacula 2.0.3 with DVD-Rs as backup media. Now I have the problem, that I need to restore files from a fileset where the file information has been (partly[0]) pruned from the database (too short File Retention...). So I thought bscan is the way to go. The initial full backup spawn