Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot find any appendable volumes ???

2007-06-21 Thread Wolfgang Powisch (privat)
Am 22.06.2007 00:05, Martin Simmons schrieb: >> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:33:27 +0200, Wolfgang Powisch (privat) said: >> Hello, >> >> My setup is as follows: >> >> - Bacula 1.38.0 >> - One large Pool with 1125 on-Disk Volumes (each 2GB) >> - about 14 Clients >> - Schedule: weekly full, daily incr

Re: [Bacula-users] bextract - extracted files with a wrong encoding?

2007-06-21 Thread Marco Strullato
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Re: [Bacula-users] Mounting autochanger

2007-06-21 Thread Andreas Helmcke
On 21.06.2007 23:08, Brian Debelius wrote: > Why does bacula ask for a slot number to mount, when I mount my VXA > autochanger? It seems to me, that bacula should load whatever tape it > feels appropriate automatically when the autochanger is loaded. I > usually just pick some random number to

[Bacula-users] Client disconnect

2007-06-21 Thread Support
Dear All I am running Bacula 2.0.3 on a linux 2.6.21.1 server and backing up XP clients. There is a problem when the client is disconnected in the middle of a backup - powered off or cable disconnected. The storage daemon sits and waits for the client. Using bconsole you cannot cancel the job a

Re: [Bacula-users] need help managing disk configuration

2007-06-21 Thread Jeff Kalchik
> El jue, 21-06-2007 a las 14:38 -0500, Jeff Kalchik escribió: > > > >> on RAID5 volumes. I pointed out that his high performance database had >> been running on a RAID5 (hardware implementation over Fibre Channel) >> volume set for 6 months. > > With a lot of NVRAM in the storage cabinet? ;) Ac

Re: [Bacula-users] "Zlib data error" failure on only one file in restore

2007-06-21 Thread Ralf Winkler
I was able to check for the version of zlib we use on our boxes (yes, we have more then one running), Bacula was build on Debian with the "zlib1g-dev" Version 1.2.3-13. Now i have to ask, where do the compression happen, in the FD or in the SD? Someone can enlighten me? BR Ralf On 6/15/07, Ryan

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula through natd

2007-06-21 Thread RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN
nothing seems to be happening the command you suggest bacula-fd -f -d50 on the machine behind the firewall never responds just waits for connection. However the server that is the filewall is giving this error when i run the same command. tokyo.computerking.ca > /usr/local/etc/rc.d #bacula-fd -

[Bacula-users] btape fill question

2007-06-21 Thread Cory A. Wynn
I have a Sun Storedge that I have been allowed to play with for backups. I am able to run btape fill test where it writes to tape. However when changer is called it errors out due to the following message: .. Wrote blk_block=48, dev_blk_num=1000 VolBytes=30,965,695,488 rate= 4449.7 KB/

Re: [Bacula-users] need help managing disk configuration

2007-06-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
El jue, 21-06-2007 a las 14:38 -0500, Jeff Kalchik escribió: > on RAID5 volumes. I pointed out that his high performance database had > been running on a RAID5 (hardware implementation over Fibre Channel) > volume set for 6 months. With a lot of NVRAM in the storage cabinet? ;) Regards D.

Re: [Bacula-users] Mounting autochanger

2007-06-21 Thread Michael Nelson
Brian Debelius wrote: > Why does bacula ask for a slot number to mount, when I mount my VXA > autochanger? It seems to me, that bacula should load whatever tape it > feels appropriate automatically when the autochanger is loaded. I > usually just pick some random number to load, assuming that

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot find any appendable volumes ???

2007-06-21 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:33:27 +0200, Wolfgang Powisch (privat) said: > > Hello, > > My setup is as follows: > > - Bacula 1.38.0 > - One large Pool with 1125 on-Disk Volumes (each 2GB) > - about 14 Clients > - Schedule: weekly full, daily incremental > - Job-Retention: between 1 and 8 weeks,

[Bacula-users] Mounting autochanger

2007-06-21 Thread Brian Debelius
Why does bacula ask for a slot number to mount, when I mount my VXA autochanger? It seems to me, that bacula should load whatever tape it feels appropriate automatically when the autochanger is loaded. I usually just pick some random number to load, assuming that bacula will (it alwasy seems

Re: [Bacula-users] Removable USB Howto -

2007-06-21 Thread Josh Fisher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Josh > > thanks again for your quick answer. > > I think I have understood the theoratical configuration of the virtuel > autochanger > > But now I have a practical question: > I configured the autochanger as discripted in the Howto. > If I want to label the volume (

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula through natd

2007-06-21 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:56:46 -0700 (MST), RYAN M vAN GINNEKEN said: > > THANKS DAVE as i mentioned bacula used to work when these two machine were > on the same internal network. So i believe the password should not have > changed however i have attached some relevant files. Try running bac

[Bacula-users] SOLVED? Using whatever tapes are in the changer/drive.

2007-06-21 Thread Flak Magnet
This is kinda long winded folks, don't say I didn't warn you. I believe I have solved the "asking for a volume that's NOT in the changer even when a volume that ought to be usable is in the changer" problem. I believe this addresses the issue many people have where they want to restrict bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] need help managing disk configuration

2007-06-21 Thread Jeff Kalchik
> We can argue/discuss this until we're blue in the face but IMHO RAID10 > is the way to go. Better performance, better redundancy, and better > reliability. And increasingly I want to do in in software rather than > hardware. Oh, absolutely, this can be debated past the end of time. Different g

Re: [Bacula-users] need help managing disk configuration

2007-06-21 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:30:20 -0400 "John Drescher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I know that RAID5 is very appealing 'cause you end with 'a lot of usable > > disk space' but, I always discourage to use it. > > > > Each chunk of data to be written to disk is divided in Numer of physical > > RA

Re: [Bacula-users] need help managing disk configuration

2007-06-21 Thread Kyle Marsh
While this debate on the various merits of RaidN vs. RaidX is interesting and helpful, I don't believe it is what Scott was asking about. He was asking how one should configure Bacula to make the best use of his space. I looked at the example in the manual, here: http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/

Re: [Bacula-users] need help managing disk configuration

2007-06-21 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
John Drescher wrote: > > I know that RAID5 is very appealing 'cause you end with 'a lot of > usable disk space' but, I always discourage to use it. > > Each chunk of data to be written to disk is divided in Numer of > physical RAID disks writes - 1 plus another write to store CRC

[Bacula-users] bacula through natd

2007-06-21 Thread RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN
- Forwarded Message - From: RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 11:01:25 AM GMT-0700 Subject: [Bacula-users] firewall/natd THANKS DAVE as i mentioned bacula used to work when

[Bacula-users] renaming jobs

2007-06-21 Thread Craig White
If I change the name of a Job prior to executing a 'Full' backup, is there any gotcha's beyond the duplication of all of the file names stored in the database until they are ultimately purged? -- Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

Re: [Bacula-users] "MySQL server has gone away" during catalog backup

2007-06-21 Thread Frank Sweetser
Jeff Dickens wrote: > # mysql -V > mysql Ver 14.7 Distrib 4.1.20, for redhat-linux-gnu (i686) using > readline 4.3 I'd still give the workaround on the wiki a shot, just to make sure. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer |

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot find any appendable volume problem

2007-06-21 Thread Minkus
Mihai Tanasescu wrote: > Hello, > > > I've just recently configured bacula to backup some machines and after > 4-5 days of doing backups I started getting: > > "Cannot find any appendable volumes", although I have the LabelMedia=yes > specified in the storage daemon > > > My setup looks like

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot find any appendable volume problem

2007-06-21 Thread Minkus
Kyle Marsh wrote: > I was wondering about this sort of thing earlier and never got a > proper answer; let's assume I define a pool for incremental backups. > I've got three clients (for the sake of example) and I want to make > nightly incremental backups. If I use the example given in the > manua

Re: [Bacula-users] "MySQL server has gone away" during catalog backup

2007-06-21 Thread Jeff Dickens
# mysql -V mysql Ver 14.7 Distrib 4.1.20, for redhat-linux-gnu (i686) using readline 4.3 Frank Sweetser wrote: Jeff Dickens wrote: My catalog backup failed like this last night. The odd thing is that immediately afterwards, I have a second catalog backup running to tape, and that one w

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula with 2 tapes how??

2007-06-21 Thread John Drescher
On 6/21/07, John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/21/07, ..::Sebastian Syrynski-Giro::.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Maybe someone know how I should cofigure Bacula to work with two HP > tapes?? > > > > > Do you mean to use two tape drives on a single job? As this is not

Re: [Bacula-users] Removable USB Howto -

2007-06-21 Thread spass . haas
Hi Josh thanks again for your quick answer. I think I have understood the theoratical configuration of the virtuel autochanger But now I have a practical question: I configured the autochanger as discripted in the Howto. If I want to label the volume (Howto 9.1) I got the following error: 3306

[Bacula-users] Bacula with 2 tapes how??

2007-06-21 Thread ..::Sebastian Syrynski-Giro::..
Hi, Maybe someone know how I should cofigure Bacula to work with two HP tapes?? -- Best regards Seba - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control

Re: [Bacula-users] need help managing disk configuration

2007-06-21 Thread David Romerstein
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, John Drescher wrote: > How about raid 6? With raid 6 you can loose 2 disks and you loose nothing. I > have around 10TB mostly on raid 6 using 250GB and 330 GB SATA drives and > they work great. I have had to replace a disk from time to time but I have > never had 2 go bad at

Re: [Bacula-users] Using CSWbacula package from Blastwave, is mtx supported?

2007-06-21 Thread jeffrey Lang
I just looked on the blastwave site and there is an MTX package out there. Shon Stephens wrote: John, Thanks for the reply. I'm testing this on a Solaris x86 platform. Blastwave is a software repository that can be accessed with pkg-get to install precompiled binary packages onto Solaris

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Windows Vista

2007-06-21 Thread Mike Hanby
I've done some testing on my own Vista system, I posted previously, but here's a short recap followed by the results after some tweaking. 1. Using my FileSet that I had defined for my XP system, my full backup would end up over 300GB's, when the Vista drive only had 100GB's on it. 2. I'd see a bu

Re: [Bacula-users] "MySQL server has gone away" during catalog backup

2007-06-21 Thread Frank Sweetser
Jeff Dickens wrote: > My catalog backup failed like this last night. The odd thing is that > immediately afterwards, I have a second catalog backup running to tape, > and that one worked fine. > > A resource problem perhaps? Any ideas what to check? Usually this is brought about by an upgrad

[Bacula-users] "MySQL server has gone away" during catalog backup

2007-06-21 Thread Jeff Dickens
My catalog backup failed like this last night. The odd thing is that immediately afterwards, I have a second catalog backup running to tape, and that one worked fine. A resource problem perhaps? Any ideas what to check? 21-Jun 08:19 packrat-dir: BeforeJob: run command "/etc/bacula/make_cata

Re: [Bacula-users] Using CSWbacula package from Blastwave, is mtx supported?

2007-06-21 Thread Shon Stephens
John, Thanks for the reply. I'm testing this on a Solaris x86 platform. Blastwave is a software repository that can be accessed with pkg-get to install precompiled binary packages onto Solaris systems. My Magnum 224 only has 1 LTO-3 drive. What I am having issue with at the moment is what devi

Re: [Bacula-users] need help managing disk configuration

2007-06-21 Thread Peter Eisch
Below are excerpts from my configs. My /u1 is a 1.4T filesystem. I backup to disk daily and then migrate weekly to tape. If you jump down to the sd.conf excerpt at the bottom I added a wrinkle of keeping each pool of volumes for each client system in a separate directory. I then have multiple

Re: [Bacula-users] need help managing disk configuration

2007-06-21 Thread John Drescher
I know that RAID5 is very appealing 'cause you end with 'a lot of usable disk space' but, I always discourage to use it. Each chunk of data to be written to disk is divided in Numer of physical RAID disks writes - 1 plus another write to store CRC on to the remaining disk ( the CRC chunk is wri

Re: [Bacula-users] need help managing disk configuration

2007-06-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
El jue, 21-06-2007 a las 06:55 -0500, mikee escribió: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Scott McDaniel might have said: > I'm doing this now and should end up with about ~2T of RAID5 when I know that RAID5 is very appealing 'cause you end with 'a lot of usable disk space' but, I always discourage to use

Re: [Bacula-users] need help managing disk configuration

2007-06-21 Thread mikee
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Scott McDaniel might have said: > Dear All, > > I have been given a rare opportunity to get hardware nicer then I have > ever had before. I now have a new with a 2Terabyte area for disk > backups. In the past, I only used tape and therefore volumes were > dictated by the

[Bacula-users] need help managing disk configuration

2007-06-21 Thread Scott McDaniel
Dear All, I have been given a rare opportunity to get hardware nicer then I have ever had before. I now have a new with a 2Terabyte area for disk backups. In the past, I only used tape and therefore volumes were dictated by the tape. Now that I have this huge ocean for disk backups, I'm get

[Bacula-users] bextract - extracted files with a wrong encoding?

2007-06-21 Thread Marco Strullato
Hi all! I have a big problem with bacula: a windows pc crashed and I have to restore all data. Because of some unluckly facts I have to restore directly from the volume: I have a full backup of that pc. I used bextract and I get all files but they are unreadable! I mean Every kind of files, from t

[Bacula-users] Problem with long running Client Run Before Job

2007-06-21 Thread James Ray
All, I have a Client Run Before Job script that takes about about 5 hrs to run. After this i see the following error message in the bacula logs and the job fails to run: 21-Jun 02:32 omicron-fd: omicron-courses.2007-06-20_21.00.00 Fatal error: Authorization key rejected by Storage daemon. P

[Bacula-users] Bacula and Windows Vista

2007-06-21 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Recently, I bought a Windows Vista laptop ($$$ -- hint), so that I could test the Bacula FD on it. First a few comments on Vista: Good things (at least for users): 1. It has nice looking graphics 2. It has a lot of features 3. They sure are packing a lot of "3rd party" software into their

[Bacula-users] bconsole interweaving messages

2007-06-21 Thread Georg Weiß
hi list I have some jobs which are scheduled to start on the same time. This leads to interweaving messages from both jobs on the console.As you can see it is hard to distinguish the jobs on the console. Is it possible to add something (i.e. jobid, jobname) to the messages from each job? --8<-- 2

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Re: one client and multiple storages with TLS

2007-06-21 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, On Thursday 21 June 2007 08:25, Silver Salonen wrote: > Hello. > > Sorry I'm contacting you directly, but I suspect you've not seen this > discussion. I've resent this e-mail to bacula-users list once again, but it > seems noone has been in touch with this issue. > > Can you verify my s

[Bacula-users] Cannot find any appendable volumes ???

2007-06-21 Thread Wolfgang Powisch (privat)
Hello, My setup is as follows: - Bacula 1.38.0 - One large Pool with 1125 on-Disk Volumes (each 2GB) - about 14 Clients - Schedule: weekly full, daily incremental - Job-Retention: between 1 and 8 weeks, depending on client - Volume retention 2 month My Problem: After some time all Volume get sta