[Bacula-users] mysql database: table batch

2008-10-06 Thread Hösch Roland
Hello, I'm using bacula 2.4.1 on ubuntu 8.04. I'm doing backups of different clients, which are working. But the backup of one client (my server: this is where director, fd, sd and mysql are running), which is the largest amount of data to be saved, failes: nas-fd JobId 1603: /music is a d

Re: [Bacula-users] LVM or separate disks?

2008-10-06 Thread Chris Picton
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 11:51 -0500, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:26 AM, John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Chris Picton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 09:09 -0400, John Drescher wrote: > >>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008

Re: [Bacula-users] Correct bacula-sd.conf setup for Sony SDX-400V

2008-10-06 Thread Bruno Friedmann
Just a remark about the >> Media Type = 8mmAIT-2 # (what is this supposed to be set to??) You could insert what you want here. In fact it's mainly use when concurrent jobs are running. But what important is that this param is ask during restore ( using bls, bscan and other tools ) So If you

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula Status

2008-10-06 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 06 October 2008 22:04:39 Martin Simmons wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 13:05:49 +0200, Kern Sibbald said: > > > > On Monday 06 October 2008 06:22:51 Troy Daniels wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Not sure if this has been discussed elsewhere (been offline for a week > > > or so, so am still

Re: [Bacula-users] Possible upcoming feature request - Fileset Template

2008-10-06 Thread terryc
Ronald Buder wrote: > Just a few thoughts from us. Opinions welcome, maybe we are just > approaching this entirely wrong. However the environment here looks > somewhat like the scenario described above. We run plenty of Windows > Server boxes, Solaris and Linux, and for the exotic part AIX and

Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude Directory contents

2008-10-06 Thread Dagan McGregor
> -Original Message- > From: Michael Reifenberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 7 October 2008 7:52 AM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Bacula-users] Exclude Directory contents > > Hi, > what is the official way to exclude the content of a directory > but in

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula Status

2008-10-06 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
* Martin Simmons schrieb am 06.10.08 um 22:04 Uhr: > > If it hasn't been done already, it could be useful to consider how this > affects the mental model that users have of the include/exclude algorithm > (which is already a source of some difficulty). This applies to the fstypes > and drivetypes

Re: [Bacula-users] Changing backup completely / blanking or relabel tapes quickly

2008-10-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 06.10.2008 15:39, terryc wrote: > Keith Sudbury wrote: > >> Can I change the job pool the tape uses as well? Erm... in Bacula lingo, you should ask if you can change the pool a volume is a member of. The answer is yes. Use bconsole's 'update volume' command. > Yes, but you will have to c

[Bacula-users] not seeing useable volumes

2008-10-06 Thread Maria McKinley
Greetings, There are several volumes in my tape changer that are purged or recycled, and ready to be used for backup, but I keep getting messages that bacula cannot find any appendable volumes. Any idea what may be going on? I have tried several times to mount specific volumes, update slots, a

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula Status

2008-10-06 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 13:05:49 +0200, Kern Sibbald said: > > On Monday 06 October 2008 06:22:51 Troy Daniels wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Not sure if this has been discussed elsewhere (been offline for a week > > or so, so am still catching up on my emails :) ) > > Yes. > > > > > > It is not too la

[Bacula-users] Exclude Directory contents

2008-10-06 Thread Michael Reifenberger
Hi, what is the official way to exclude the content of a directory but include the directory itself in an Fileset definition. We often have the situation that we want to backup the directory entry for /tmp (since its a mountpoint) but not its contents... The example below would not satisfy this re

[Bacula-users] Windows File daemon problems with VSS on 64 bit systems.

2008-10-06 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Well, rather than back port, I simply copied the modified file back to the 2.4.3 source (not yet released) and rebuilt. This speeded up the work considerably. It has build with not problems. This version should be totally compatible with 2.4.x Directors and Storage daemons. However, pl

Re: [Bacula-users] LVM or separate disks?

2008-10-06 Thread Lukasz Szybalski
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:26 AM, John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Chris Picton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 09:09 -0400, John Drescher wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > On Fri, 26

Re: [Bacula-users] Bat with older version of Director

2008-10-06 Thread Steve Garcia
John Drescher wrote: >> Is this an incompatibility between this version of BAT and 1.38 of the >> director? If so, I'll just stick with the console for the moment. >> > BAT does not support this very old version of bacula. BAT was written > after 1.38 was out and there were changes to the director

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Windows File daemon problems with VSS on 64 bit systems.

2008-10-06 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 06 October 2008 17:07:01 Michael Da Cova wrote: > Hi Kern > > I did have a quick go at testing the client on a Vista 64bit AMD pc and I > get > > |-Original Message- > |06-Oct 15:53 -dir JobId 0: Fatal error: File daemon > |at "192.168.200.13:9102" rejected Hello command Than

Re: [Bacula-users] LVM or separate disks?

2008-10-06 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Chris Picton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 09:09 -0400, John Drescher wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, John Drescher wrote: >> > >> >> BTW, I would never use raid0 or LVM (

Re: [Bacula-users] catalog recovery

2008-10-06 Thread T. Horsnell
Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > "T. Horsnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>I can recover the catalog.sql file with bextract, but do I then have >>to start using mysql commands to convert this ascii file into a >>mysql database, or are there bacula commands to do it. The catalog >>maintenance s

Re: [Bacula-users] LVM or separate disks?

2008-10-06 Thread Chris Picton
On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 09:09 -0400, John Drescher wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, John Drescher wrote: > > > >> BTW, I would never use raid0 or LVM (without every PV being raided) > >> for backup data that I cared about. > > > >

[Bacula-users] bweb + postgresql 8 ; cant get jobib logs

2008-10-06 Thread Pascal Clermont
Hi, I am currently testing bacula in order to replace our current backup solution. I have been using bweb, since I like how things are displayed. My current issue is the fact that bweb cannot display any of the details of a jobs runned and it displays this : Can't get log for jobid 18. here is w

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Windows File daemon problems with VSS on 64 bit systems.

2008-10-06 Thread Michael Da Cova
Hi Kern I did have a quick go at testing the client on a Vista 64bit AMD pc and I get |-Original Message- |06-Oct 15:53 -dir JobId 0: Fatal error: File daemon |at "192.168.200.13:9102" rejected Hello command Michael |-Original Message- |From: Kern Sibbald [mailto:[EMA

Re: [Bacula-users] catalog recovery

2008-10-06 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
"T. Horsnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can recover the catalog.sql file with bextract, but do I then have > to start using mysql commands to convert this ascii file into a > mysql database, or are there bacula commands to do it. The catalog > maintenance section doesnt tell me you need to

Re: [Bacula-users] Again: restore all most recent backed up files without using full backups

2008-10-06 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
gvm999 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I found out I accidentally deleted volumes with a full backup. Or > the files are not in the database anymore. the difference is significant, but it sounds like the latter is your problem. > So now I wonder, how can I make bacula restore all the files that >

Re: [Bacula-users] Changing backup completely / blanking or relabel tapes quickly

2008-10-06 Thread terryc
Keith Sudbury wrote: > Can I change the job pool the tape uses as well? Yes, but you will have to change the name, say 007 becomes 007A this is because the old name will still exist in the catalogue under the old pool. -- Terry Collins {:-)} ---

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with the Include Option "File ="

2008-10-06 Thread Dan Langille
On Oct 6, 2008, at 9:16 AM, Jon Ingason wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have two of FreeBDS 6.3 machines running a few jails each and want > to > backup some directory in the different jails. What I did was to put > following lines in the bacula-dir.conf file: > >

[Bacula-users] Problem with the Include Option "File ="

2008-10-06 Thread Jon Ingason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have two of FreeBDS 6.3 machines running a few jails each and want to backup some directory in the different jails. What I did was to put following lines in the bacula-dir.conf file: File = "\\|/usr/local/bin/bash -c \"find /usr/jails/*/etc\"" Fil

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent Jobs (shouldn't be)

2008-10-06 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > >>This directive is only implemented in version 2.5 and later. When >>set to {\bf yes} (default {\bf no}), this job may run even if lower >>priority jobs are already running. This means a high

[Bacula-users] Possible upcoming feature request - Fileset Template

2008-10-06 Thread Ronald Buder
Hello everybody, we've been discussing this for the last couple of days here in the office, just figured I'd spill it out for you 'fore I actually post it as a feature request (maybe I should wait for 3.0 to be released in order to keep to the code "The best time to submit a Feature Request is

Re: [Bacula-users] LVM or separate disks?

2008-10-06 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, John Drescher wrote: > >> BTW, I would never use raid0 or LVM (without every PV being raided) >> for backup data that I cared about. > > Spooled data isn't exactly worth keeping. After a bacula restart the

Re: [Bacula-users] Director dies every morning!

2008-10-06 Thread Frederico Argolo
I think that's a bacula problembecause there are no jobs running but when you list the jobs you see JobStatus = R (running) So...when I got this, I delete the job! * delete jobid= Fred On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:37 AM, Bill Damage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Original Message > F

Re: [Bacula-users] recycling a volume with "Error" status

2008-10-06 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, T. Horsnell wrote: > Hi all, > A couple of my volumes have accumulated "Error" status, and so are not > being re-used. I've purged one of them and updated it's status to > Append, but Bacula then seemed to mark it 'Full' and didnt use it. I > then tried to re-label it with the

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent Jobs (shouldn't be)

2008-10-06 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: >This directive is only implemented in version 2.5 and later. When >set to {\bf yes} (default {\bf no}), this job may run even if lower >priority jobs are already running. This means a high priority job >will not have to wait for ot

Re: [Bacula-users] LVM or separate disks?

2008-10-06 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, John Drescher wrote: > BTW, I would never use raid0 or LVM (without every PV being raided) > for backup data that I cared about. Spooled data isn't exactly worth keeping. After a bacula restart the contents of those directories are useless anyway. -

Re: [Bacula-users] Changing backup completely / blanking or relabel tapes quickly

2008-10-06 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Keith Sudbury wrote: > I am wondering what is the quickest way to blank / relabel a tape. Use the "purge" command in bconsole Bacula will recycle and relabel the tape itself, you don't need to do so manually (and doing so will usually mess things up) > I have a whole pile of

Re: [Bacula-users] Changing backup completely / blanking or relabel tapes quickly

2008-10-06 Thread Keith Sudbury
Alan Brown wrote: > On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Keith Sudbury wrote: > > >> I am wondering what is the quickest way to blank / relabel a tape. >> > > Use the "purge" command in bconsole > > Bacula will recycle and relabel the tape itself, you don't need to do so > manually (and doing so will usuall

Re: [Bacula-users] recycling a volume with "Error" status

2008-10-06 Thread T. Horsnell
Alan Brown wrote: > On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, T. Horsnell wrote: > > >>Hi all, >>A couple of my volumes have accumulated "Error" status, and so are not >>being re-used. I've purged one of them and updated it's status to >>Append, but Bacula then seemed to mark it 'Full' and didnt use it. I >>then tried

[Bacula-users] 2 tapes for a full backup

2008-10-06 Thread Adrian Moisey
Hi My current full backups takes 2 tapes. When the first tape is full, bacula marks it as "Full" and asks for a new one. Can I get it to unmount then eject the tape after it gets marked as full? Once my last backup runs (the backup of the catalog) I have to set that volume to used, unmount th

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent Jobs (shouldn't be)

2008-10-06 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That was just an overview. Each Job is tied to a single client. I > haven't been able to get this working properly yet; the lower > priority jobs always "multiplex" (to use a NetBackup term) > concurrently and force the higher priority job to wait. My pa

[Bacula-users] Changing backup completely / blanking or relabel tapes quickly

2008-10-06 Thread Keith Sudbury
Hi Guys, Currently we backup every day to tape, we are changing to backup every thing to NAS each night and then backing the NAS up with Bacula every Friday. I am wondering what is the quickest way to blank / relabel a tape. I have a whole pile of tapes I need to add to Fridays job pool that a

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula Status

2008-10-06 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 06 October 2008 06:22:51 Troy Daniels wrote: > Hi, > > Not sure if this has been discussed elsewhere (been offline for a week > or so, so am still catching up on my emails :) ) Yes. > > > It is not too late to change the name of the directive, but I would like > > to see some discussion

Re: [Bacula-users] Clean volume file

2008-10-06 Thread Ralf Gross
Riho Lodi schrieb: > > Can I clean up volume file from old backup jobs (files) to make volume > file smaller? no, you can only recyle the whole volume. Ralf - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Develope

[Bacula-users] Clean volume file

2008-10-06 Thread Riho Lodi
Hi! Can I clean up volume file from old backup jobs (files) to make volume file smaller Riho - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Mo