Re: [Bacula-users] How do I reuse tapes that have been written to by accident?

2008-10-08 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Thomas Arseneault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The storage daemon died on my storage box causing the dump to fatally error > out. I fixed the daemon problem but now I have 4 tapes that I would like to > reuse but they are far from their retention time so how do I pu

[Bacula-users] How do I reuse tapes that have been written to by accident?

2008-10-08 Thread Thomas Arseneault
The storage daemon died on my storage box causing the dump to fatally error out. I fixed the daemon problem but now I have 4 tapes that I would like to reuse but they are far from their retention time so how do I purge/relabel what ever to reuse them immediately? Thomas J. Arseneault Network E

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

2008-10-08 Thread Doug Sampson
Hi all, I'm running Bacula 2.4.2 off a FreeBSD 7.0 server using a DDS-3 tape drive. I'm using a Grandfather/father/son tape rotational scheme where I back up the data and the catalog as two nightly jobs onto a tape each time that it runs. All is well. Except for the monthly full backup. It will s

Re: [Bacula-users] purging data on full disk devices

2008-10-08 Thread Lukasz Szybalski
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:59 AM, John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Terry L. Inzauro wrote: >>> is there a document that outlines the steps necessary to purge 'older' data >>> on a disk device that is >>> full? i understand that my retention levels are not correct, but i wish to >>> purg

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring large sets of data

2008-10-08 Thread Joe Mannuzza
OK, at our next restore, I will send an outpu. We have a 300 meg bandwidth down and up, so that isn't the problem. Possibly the amount of files is the problem. Dan Langille wrote: > On Oct 8, 2008, at 4:15 PM, Joe Mannuzza wrote: > >> >> Dan Langille wrote: >>> >>> On Oct 8, 2008, at 3:57 PM,

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring large sets of data

2008-10-08 Thread Dan Langille
On Oct 8, 2008, at 4:15 PM, Joe Mannuzza wrote: > > Dan Langille wrote: >> >> On Oct 8, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Joe Mannuzza wrote: >> >>> Dan Langille wrote: On Oct 8, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Joe Mannuzza wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: >> >> On Oct 2, 2008, at 1:54 PM, Joe Mannuzza w

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring large sets of data

2008-10-08 Thread Dan Langille
On Oct 8, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Joe Mannuzza wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: >> >> On Oct 8, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Joe Mannuzza wrote: >> >>> Dan Langille wrote: On Oct 2, 2008, at 1:54 PM, Joe Mannuzza wrote: > > Has anyone had issues doing a restore of large sets of data via > bacu

Re: [Bacula-users] not seeing useable volumes - resent

2008-10-08 Thread Maria McKinley
John Drescher wrote: >> Does the lack of response mean there is no reason anyone can see for >> this behavior? Any ideas what to do about it? > > I generally try to answer as many user questions that I can add some > relevant info to, but I did not see a good reason for this behavior. > >> My bac

Re: [Bacula-users] file inclusion directive - @|sh - causes error

2008-10-08 Thread Guy Matz
nope, not that either. are you guys just taking stabs in the dark!? ;-) thanks, guy On 10/08/2008 03:28 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: >> On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:44:17 -0400, Guy Matz said: >> >> hey-hey, >> i'm getting the following error when trying to use the "@|" notation to

Re: [Bacula-users] not seeing useable volumes - resent

2008-10-08 Thread John Drescher
> Does the lack of response mean there is no reason anyone can see for > this behavior? Any ideas what to do about it? I generally try to answer as many user questions that I can add some relevant info to, but I did not see a good reason for this behavior. >My backup is hanging > currently, and I

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring large sets of data

2008-10-08 Thread Dan Langille
On Oct 8, 2008, at 1:11 PM, Joe Mannuzza wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: >> >> On Oct 2, 2008, at 1:54 PM, Joe Mannuzza wrote: >>> >>> Has anyone had issues doing a restore of large sets of data via >>> bacula? >>> Specifically, has anyone also noticed the process taxing the CPU? >> >> >> Can you

Re: [Bacula-users] file inclusion directive - @|sh - causes error

2008-10-08 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:44:17 -0400, Guy Matz said: > > hey-hey, > i'm getting the following error when trying to use the "@|" notation to > include multiple files . . . > > Starting bacula-dir: 03-Oct 18:40 bacula-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at lex.c:545 > Config error: Cannot open included conf

Re: [Bacula-users] not seeing useable volumes - resent

2008-10-08 Thread Maria McKinley
Maria McKinley wrote: > 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

Re: [Bacula-users] file inclusion directive - @|sh - causes error

2008-10-08 Thread Guy Matz
no, parser doesn't like that either. :-( On 10/08/2008 02:29 PM, Teodor wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Guy Matz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Starting bacula-dir: 03-Oct 18:40 bacula-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at lex.c:545 >> Config error: Cannot open included config file |: No such fi

Re: [Bacula-users] file inclusion directive - @|sh - causes error

2008-10-08 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Teodor wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Guy Matz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Starting bacula-dir: 03-Oct 18:40 bacula-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at lex.c:545 >> Config error: Cannot open included config file |: No such file or directory >> >>

Re: [Bacula-users] file inclusion directive - @|sh - causes error

2008-10-08 Thread Teodor
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Guy Matz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Starting bacula-dir: 03-Oct 18:40 bacula-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at lex.c:545 > Config error: Cannot open included config file |: No such file or directory > > : line 4, col 3 of file /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.d/job.conf

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Director doesn't listen on 9101

2008-10-08 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:29 PM, subbustrato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thank yuo very mouch for your advise, > this is the outpot of the debug command: > $ sudo /sbin/bacula-dir -d100 -c /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf > bacula-dir: dird.c:157-0 Debug level = 100 > bacula-dir: bsys.c:566-0 Could not

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention Periods and Volume Use Duration

2008-10-08 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:54 PM, John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:47 PM, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What is stopping bacula from using volume 44??? >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Last Written time on that was 2008-10-02 02:42:07 > > so then

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention Periods and Volume Use Duration

2008-10-08 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
What is stopping bacula from using volume 44??? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:49 AM, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all i am still having difficulty with retention periods and > the like could someone kindly help me with this. > > > > Basically fo

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Director doesn't listen on 9101

2008-10-08 Thread Teodor
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Michele Delcastello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have install bacula 2.4.2 from source packet on Ubuntu 7.04. For the > installation i had followed the Debian's guide on wiki section in > "bacula.org". > > The broblem is that bacula-dir demon doesn't run (checked w

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Director doesn't listen on 9101

2008-10-08 Thread subbustrato
thank yuo very mouch for your advise, this is the outpot of the debug command: $ sudo /sbin/bacula-dir -d100 -c /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf bacula-dir: dird.c:157-0 Debug level = 100 bacula-dir: bsys.c:566-0 Could not open state file. sfd=-1 size=188: ERR=No such file or directory bacula-dir: mysq

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

2008-10-08 Thread Lukasz Szybalski
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 3:44 PM, John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am using a PCIe megaraid SAS controller, and the drives are 7200 RPM SATA. >> >> I have just tried reconfiguring the drives as a hardware raid 5 array, and I >> still only get about 66 MB/sec throughput. I have tried bo

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Director doesn't listen on 9101

2008-10-08 Thread John Drescher
> Also consider not using localhost 127.0.0.1 > and use fqdn name for dir,sd,fd. > The reason for this is that bacula will not be able to backup any machine other than the director if you use 127.0.0.1 or localhost anywhere in your configuration files. John ---

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring large sets of data

2008-10-08 Thread Joe Mannuzza
Dan, Thanks for the response. I am unsure at what stage it gets bogged down. Is there a way to check after the fact? Also, there were many backups going on at the same time of the failure- around 40. Server info: 2 Xeon 5150 @2.66 gigs, 3 gigs of RAM. Thanks, Joe Dan Langille wrote: > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Director doesn't listen on 9101

2008-10-08 Thread Bruno Friedmann
subbustrato wrote: > I have install bacula 2.4.2 from source packet on Ubuntu 7.04. For the > installation i had followed the Debian's guide on wiki section in > "bacula.org". > > bacula-dir, bacula-fd and bacula-sd are in defaulte state (I only change > passwords, the same for all). > > Direct

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention Periods and Volume Use Duration

2008-10-08 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:49 AM, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all i am still having difficulty with retention periods and the like > could someone kindly help me with this. > > Basically for the local intranet i would like bacula to take a full back at > the first of each

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Director doesn't listen on 9101

2008-10-08 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
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[Bacula-users] Bacula Director doesn't listen on 9101

2008-10-08 Thread subbustrato
I have install bacula 2.4.2 from source packet on Ubuntu 7.04. For the installation i had followed the Debian's guide on wiki section in "bacula.org". bacula-dir, bacula-fd and bacula-sd are in defaulte state (I only change passwords, the same for all). Director,Storage and Client are in the sa

[Bacula-users] Bacula Director doesn't listen on 9101

2008-10-08 Thread Michele Delcastello
I have install bacula 2.4.2 from source packet on Ubuntu 7.04. For the installation i had followed the Debian's guide on wiki section in "bacula.org". bacula-dir, bacula-fd and bacula-sd are in defaulte state (I only change passwords, the same for all). Director,Storage and Client are in the sa

[Bacula-users] Retention Periods and Volume Use Duration

2008-10-08 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
Hello all i am still having difficulty with retention periods and the like could someone kindly help me with this. Basically for the local intranet i would like bacula to take a full back at the first of each month ie (October 1) then incremental each night until the first of the next month. H

Re: [Bacula-users] purging data on full disk devices

2008-10-08 Thread John Drescher
> Terry L. Inzauro wrote: >> is there a document that outlines the steps necessary to purge 'older' data >> on a disk device that is >> full? i understand that my retention levels are not correct, but i wish to >> purge data at my >> discression until i get it all figured out. > > You can purge e

Re: [Bacula-users] purging data on full disk devices

2008-10-08 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Terry L. Inzauro wrote: > is there a document that outlines the steps necessary to purge 'older' data > on a disk device that is > full? i understand that my retention levels are not correct, but i wish to > purge data at my > discression until i get

[Bacula-users] file inclusion directive - @|sh - causes error

2008-10-08 Thread Guy Matz
hey-hey, i'm getting the following error when trying to use the "@|" notation to include multiple files . . . Starting bacula-dir: 03-Oct 18:40 bacula-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at lex.c:545 Config error: Cannot open included config file |: No such file or directory : line 4, col 3 of fil

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

2008-10-08 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Langille wrote: > On Oct 2, 2008, at 8:46 PM, Hemant Shah wrote: > There are ReleaseNotes with each release. That is what you should be > reading. > > Surely you don't expect someone to scan a 900 page document to find > out of there's somet

[Bacula-users] Bacula and Iomega REV

2008-10-08 Thread Felix Brack
I use bacula 2.4.2 (from debian backports) together with a Iomega removable hard disk system. After some experimenting I use the following SD configuration: Storage { Name = lexington-sd WorkingDirectory = "/var/lib/bacula" Pid Directory = "/var/run/bacula" Maximum Concurrent Jobs =

Re: [Bacula-users] using more than one backup disk.

2008-10-08 Thread Marc Richter
Hi Steven, you can mount them on different mountpoints within the Filesystem and add them as additional Devices to the Pool you're using as Destination for your backups. See this to get a basic knowledge of this Pool/Volumes/Devices Grouping: http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Getting_Started_wi

[Bacula-users] Bacula recycles Volumes instead of creating new ones

2008-10-08 Thread Marc Richter
Hi There! This is my first mail to this list, so please be patient, if I'm missing a point. We're using Bacula for several months now. As "Backup Drive" we configured three pools. One pool for Monthly Backups within the months 1,3,5,...11, one pool for Monthly Backups within the months 2,4,6,...1

Re: [Bacula-users] Two Disks At Once?

2008-10-08 Thread bacula
Grant schrieb: > Is it possible to setup jobs to backup to two different disks at the > same time? > > > - > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applicat

[Bacula-users] baula-fd

2008-10-08 Thread Adrian Moisey
Hi Is it possible for the bacula-fd to restrict what files the bacula-dir is allowed to access? Specifically on a windows box -- Adrian Moisey Systems Administrator | CareerJunction | Your Future Starts Here. Web: www.careerjunction.co.za | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +27 21 818 8621 | Mobi

Re: [Bacula-users] using more than one backup disk.

2008-10-08 Thread thing
Also if I have stalled jobs because I ran out of disk a few days ago, how can I restart the system? Steven Jones - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based ap

[Bacula-users] using more than one backup disk.

2008-10-08 Thread Steven Jones
Hi, I have been using a single 146 gb disk to backup to, now its full, so I have installed two more diskshow to I get bacula to backup to these? Mount them one at a time on the old mount point? regards Steven - This S