[Bacula-users] Recommendation for backup schedule.

2008-03-03 Thread Hemant Shah
Folks, We just bought a new system with 1.3 TB of RAID6 disk and HP LTO-3 tape drive for bacula. we will be keeping all the backups on the disk except full backup which we want to copy to the tape and store it offsite. We want to be able to restore files for any day for one month, after that we

[Bacula-users] Bacula on virtual machines

2008-03-03 Thread Dan Langille
found this, didn't read it, but it mentions Bacula :) http://searchstorage.techtarget.com.au/topics/article.asp?DocID=1299111 -- Dan Langille -- http://www.langille.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.net email is spon

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] [Fwd: Re: bacula : about thebacula.spec formrpms]

2008-03-03 Thread David Boyes
> So this deviation would be eliminated by: > 1. changing %script_dir to %_libdir/bacula > 2. changing the installed location of the rescue files from %sysconf_dir > to %script_dir? I think this is correct, based on my reading of the FHS. It does seem to address the complaints the SRB raised. -

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] [Fwd: Re: bacula : aboutthe bacula.spec formrpms]

2008-03-03 Thread David Boyes
> Personally I think the official rpms should be FHS compliant > for reasons that David Boyes articulated. He is quite correct about > large enterprise IT departments. I could have you buy me beers for an > entire evening and regale you with stupid IT stories from US Airways. > Rigidity doesn't eve

Re: [Bacula-users] tape read errors

2008-03-03 Thread Mark Nienberg
John Drescher wrote: > On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Mark Nienberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> John Drescher wrote: >> >> > Have you tried adding a delay in your mtxchanger script where it says >> > it might be needed? >> >> In mtx-changer >> >> # Increase the sleep time if you have a slow

Re: [Bacula-users] tape read errors

2008-03-03 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Mark Nienberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Drescher wrote: > > > Have you tried adding a delay in your mtxchanger script where it says > > it might be needed? > > In mtx-changer > > # Increase the sleep time if you have a slow device > # or remove the sleep

Re: [Bacula-users] tape read errors

2008-03-03 Thread Mark Nienberg
John Drescher wrote: > Have you tried adding a delay in your mtxchanger script where it says > it might be needed? In mtx-changer # Increase the sleep time if you have a slow device # or remove the sleep and add the following: # sleep 15 wait_for_drive $device so it is using the wait

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] [Fwd: Re: bacula : about the bacula.spec formrpms]

2008-03-03 Thread Scott Barninger
OK, so what would you all like "me" to do? Yes there are standards for things like /usr/local/... but that would I think introduce some path problems? Personally I think the official rpms should be FHS compliant for reasons that David Boyes articulated. He is quite correct about large enterprise IT

Re: [Bacula-users] tape read errors

2008-03-03 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Mark Nienberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm seeing this happen more often: > > 3304 Issuing autochanger "load slot 2, drive 0" command. > 3305 Autochanger "load slot 2, drive 0", status is OK. > 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" command. > 3302 Autoch

[Bacula-users] tape read errors

2008-03-03 Thread Mark Nienberg
I'm seeing this happen more often: 3304 Issuing autochanger "load slot 2, drive 0" command. 3305 Autochanger "load slot 2, drive 0", status is OK. 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" command. 3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result is Slot 2. block.c:995 Read error on fd=6 at file:blk 0:

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] [Fwd: Re: bacula : about the bacula.spec form rpms]

2008-03-03 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 03 March 2008 22.00:23 Frank Sweetser wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > >> If you do it by reinstalling the OS from normal distro media, then you > >> can also reinstall Bacula from rpms on a CD. > > > > As mentioned above, the binaries are not necessarily the most critical > > part unless p

Re: [Bacula-users] Job is in unknown state i

2008-03-03 Thread Rudolph Bott
Hey list, Dan Langille schrieb: > James Harper wrote: >> Does anyone know what 'unknown state i' means? >> >> >From a 'status dir': >> >> " >> Running Jobs: >> ... >> 2031 Fullkalgan-file-full.2008-01-29_21.00.20 is in unknown state >> i >> ... >> " >> >> The director runs 13 jobs each night

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup strategy with new big BaculaServer (HD+Tape backup)

2008-03-03 Thread Drew Bentley
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 7:56 AM, thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > we use bacula a long time(6 years) to backup linux and windows server. > It works create!!! > > Now one harddisk (Raid5) is defect in the bacula server and we consider > to buy a new server. > I think we can buy a larg

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] [Fwd: Re: bacula : about thebacula.spec formrpms]

2008-03-03 Thread C M Reinehr
On Monday 03 March 2008 08:46, David Boyes wrote: > > Just to expand on this point a bit - as security enhancements such as > > SELinux > > become more commonplace, it's very realistic to expect that files that > > are > > > not > > in directories indicated by security policy as holding executables

[Bacula-users] Too many open reload requests?

2008-03-03 Thread Mingus Dew
I am running Bacula 2.2.7 on Solaris 10_x86. When I make changes I usually do the following: Edit configuration file Test with bacula-dir -t -c bacula-dir.conf Launch bconsole and issue "reload" command Recently I started getting these error messages after issuing a "reload" 03-Mar 16:16 mt-back

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] [Fwd: Re: bacula : about the bacula.spec formrpms]

2008-03-03 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 03 March 2008 15.41:20 Frank Sweetser wrote: > David Boyes wrote: > >> There are standards such as FHS, and these are good and useful for > > > > most > > > >> programs, but they really do a big disservice to Bacula users when we > > > > are > > > >> dealing with recovery. If you spread

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] [Fwd: Re: bacula : about the bacula.spec form rpms]

2008-03-03 Thread John Stoffel
> "Frank" == Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Frank> Kern Sibbald wrote: >>> If you do it by reinstalling the OS from normal distro media, then you can >>> also reinstall Bacula from rpms on a CD. >> >> As mentioned above, the binaries are not necessarily the most critical part >>

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] [Fwd: Re: bacula : about the bacula.spec form rpms]

2008-03-03 Thread Frank Sweetser
Kern Sibbald wrote: >> If you do it by reinstalling the OS from normal distro media, then you can >> also reinstall Bacula from rpms on a CD. > > As mentioned above, the binaries are not necessarily the most critical part > unless perhaps you have applied a number of critical patches. The most

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] [Fwd: Re: bacula : about the bacula.spec form rpms]

2008-03-03 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 03 March 2008 20.29:09 Martin Simmons wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:48:37 +0100, Kern Sibbald said: > > > > Hello Scott, > > > > I've copied the bacula-users list because some people may not be aware of > > the problems they are getting themselves into using *standard* packages > >

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] [Fwd: Re: bacula : about the bacula.spec formrpms]

2008-03-03 Thread Scott Barninger
On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 09:35 -0500, David Boyes wrote: > > There are standards such as FHS, and these are good and useful for > most > > programs, but they really do a big disservice to Bacula users when we > are > > dealing with recovery. If you spread the Bacula installation all > around > > your

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] [Fwd: Re: bacula : about the bacula.spec form rpms]

2008-03-03 Thread Dan Langille
Martin Simmons wrote: > If you do it using a recovery disk, then you'll need to put all the critical > files on that disk anyway. You can also include the Bacula rpms on the > recovery disk, to allow them to be reinstalled on the server or on a new > server. The plugins should also be installed

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] [Fwd: Re: bacula : about the bacula.spec form rpms]

2008-03-03 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:48:37 +0100, Kern Sibbald said: > > Hello Scott, > > I've copied the bacula-users list because some people may not be aware of the > problems they are getting themselves into using *standard* packages to > install Bacula. > > I *strongly* recommend that we completel

Re: [Bacula-users] How does a change to Volume Use Duration take effect?

2008-03-03 Thread Mingus Dew
This is great too. Thanks Brian. This actually answers a question I was going to pose about tapes. I have some tapes that I changed pool definitions for, but wasn't quite sure how to update that on tape. Thanks again On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Brian Debelius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I

Re: [Bacula-users] How does a change to Volume Use Duration take effect?

2008-03-03 Thread Mingus Dew
Thanks Arno. I just wanted confirmation from someone more experienced. On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > 29.02.2008 17:30, John Drescher wrote: > >> By changing the Volume Use Duration in the Pool config, Bacula will > pick up > >> the change aft

Re: [Bacula-users] Double/over scheduling

2008-03-03 Thread Jesse Peterson
On Mar 3, 2008, at 2:50 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Message: 16 > Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:00:41 +0100 > From: Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Double/over scheduling > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: tex

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] [Fwd: Re: bacula : about thebacula.spec formrpms]

2008-03-03 Thread David Boyes
> Just to expand on this point a bit - as security enhancements such as > SELinux > become more commonplace, it's very realistic to expect that files that are > not > in directories indicated by security policy as holding executables simply > can't be run as programs. If Bacula throws binary execu

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] [Fwd: Re: bacula : about the bacula.spec formrpms]

2008-03-03 Thread Frank Sweetser
David Boyes wrote: >> There are standards such as FHS, and these are good and useful for > most >> programs, but they really do a big disservice to Bacula users when we > are >> dealing with recovery. If you spread the Bacula installation all > around >> your >> computer filesystem as most package

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] [Fwd: Re: bacula : about the bacula.spec formrpms]

2008-03-03 Thread David Boyes
> There are standards such as FHS, and these are good and useful for most > programs, but they really do a big disservice to Bacula users when we are > dealing with recovery. If you spread the Bacula installation all around > your > computer filesystem as most packages do and as the standards spec

[Bacula-users] Backup strategy with new big BaculaServer (HD+Tape backup)

2008-03-03 Thread thomas
Hi, we use bacula a long time(6 years) to backup linux and windows server. It works create!!! Now one harddisk (Raid5) is defect in the bacula server and we consider to buy a new server. I think we can buy a large server with tapelibrary (DELL TL2000 LTO3). Our consideration are: - We want to ba

[Bacula-users] sshfs tunnel breaks during backup and bacula returns without an error

2008-03-03 Thread Reiner Dassing
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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula cannot write into a volume

2008-03-03 Thread Roberto Nebot
Ok thank you guys it worked perfecty! Who needs a company support having this great community ;-) !!! El lun, 03-03-2008 a las 14:24 +0100, Vladimirs Vecgailis escribió: > Roberto Nebot wrote: > > Hello folks! > > > > I am getting the following error: > > > > Error: Bacula cannot write on tape V

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula cannot write into a volume

2008-03-03 Thread Dan Langille
On Mar 3, 2008, at 8:19 AM, Roberto Nebot wrote: > Hello folks! > > I am getting the following error: > > Error: Bacula cannot write on tape Volume "mensual" because: > The number of files mismatch! Volume=5 Catalog=4 > > Does anyone know what can I do to make this volume writable?. http://www.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula cannot write into a volume

2008-03-03 Thread Frank Sweetser
Roberto Nebot wrote: > Hello folks! > > I am getting the following error: > > Error: Bacula cannot write on tape Volume "mensual" because: > The number of files mismatch! Volume=5 Catalog=4 > > Does anyone know what can I do to make this volume writable?. This should help: http://www.bacula.or

[Bacula-users] Bacula cannot write into a volume

2008-03-03 Thread Roberto Nebot
Hello folks! I am getting the following error: Error: Bacula cannot write on tape Volume "mensual" because: The number of files mismatch! Volume=5 Catalog=4 Does anyone know what can I do to make this volume writable?. Thanks in advance. ---

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] [Fwd: Re: bacula : about the bacula.spec form rpms]

2008-03-03 Thread Bruno Friedmann
Hi Kern, In a sense I agree with your definition for rescue bacula. But in real life, I would imagine this a bit differently. In a production environement : bacula server is it's own server. ( Dir and SD could be together ). I really preconise to have a tar of this system made before/after every

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] [Fwd: Re: bacula : about the bacula.spec form rpms]

2008-03-03 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Scott, I've copied the bacula-users list because some people may not be aware of the problems they are getting themselves into using *standard* packages to install Bacula. I *strongly* recommend that we completely reconsider the package directories that we use. The current way of instal

[Bacula-users] Setting up backup job

2008-03-03 Thread Jens78
Hi, I have a question about how to setup my backupjob correctly. I have a backupserver with bacula installed. To there i take backup from many remote hosts. Every host has its own backup-catalog on the server: /backup/host1, /backup/host2 and so on. Every host has its own pool of volumes. I ha

Re: [Bacula-users] Double/over scheduling

2008-03-03 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 03.03.2008 07:59, Jesse Peterson wrote: > Hello, > > Firstly I want to thank the developers, contributors and users for > helping make bacula a great product! For whatever it's worth it is > of great use to us with Mac OS X, NetBSD, Linux and Windows! > > Secondly I'd like to ask is it known