Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Langille wrote: > - Bacula supports different catalogs for different jobs (I think from > the very > beginning). My setup uses two different catalogs on the same server, > but you > can even use them on different servers. Dan, Any chance you

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I figured you had access to a search engine :) > > basically Augeas is a language for describing configuration files so > that they can be parsed into trees and manipulated uniformly. e.g., > you could run > > set /files/etc/bacula/bacula-dir.co

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Dagan McGregor
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 22:23 +, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote: > Hi! > > I just don't get it: what is the problem that the web/desktop/whatever > front-end modify a plain text file? Because plain text doesn't look fancy enough, and doesn't sound complicated enough... ? > Now, I got

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Florian Heigl
hi, 2008/11/6, Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Nov 5, 2008, at 6:23 PM, Florian Heigl wrote: >> >> If Kern's "Bacula Inc." would release a real, professional guy that >> doesn't bloat my configs I'd pay for that any day. But bloating the >> configs just in case a good gui comes around? he

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa
Hi! I just don't get it: what is the problem that the web/desktop/whatever front-end modify a plain text file? I mean, the current config file format is so easy, that I have been able to make some "windows-only" (by this I mean people who almost never had touched a command prompt) admins actually

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Dan Langille
On Nov 5, 2008, at 6:23 PM, Florian Heigl wrote: > > If Kern's "Bacula Inc." would release a real, professional guy that > doesn't bloat my configs I'd pay for that any day. But bloating the > configs just in case a good gui comes around? hell no! > > sorry to be that harsh, but in this case I rat

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Dan Langille
On Nov 5, 2008, at 7:28 PM, James Harper wrote: >> >> I agree. However, using an optional 'third-party' tool is quite >> acceptable to all. I refer here to Fruity and Nagios. The use >> of Fruity is optional. It produces plain text configuration files >> to be used by Nagios. That is the app

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread James Harper
> > I agree. However, using an optional 'third-party' tool is quite > acceptable to all. I refer here to Fruity and Nagios. The use > of Fruity is optional. It produces plain text configuration files > to be used by Nagios. That is the approach I would endorse > for Bacula should anyone desir

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Steve Thompson
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Hemant Shah wrote: > I use/edit XML just about everyday and I do not find it difficult. > Converting current config to XML should be pretty easy. I don't find it difficult either, but that doesn't mean I like the idea at all; in fact I detest XML with a passion. And the admi

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Florian Heigl
2008/11/5, Hemant Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > --- On Thu, 11/6/08, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> From: Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for? >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Cc: "John D

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Dan Langille
On Nov 5, 2008, at 5:35 PM, Mark V wrote: > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:37 AM, Steve Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, John Drescher wrote: >> Converting it to an XML file would not pose the problems specified in the above wiki, there are lots of tools t

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Hemant Shah
--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for? > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: "John Drescher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "bacula-users@lists.sourc

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Mark V
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:37 AM, Steve Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, John Drescher wrote: > >>> Converting it to an XML file would not pose the problems specified in >>> the above wiki, there are lots of tools to create/parse XML files tha >>> could be useful. >>> >> I w

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Doytchin Spiridonov
By the way I am curious what percentage of users using Bacula are aware of your experience. It is mentioned in the docs but I am sure a lot of people miss that info. We also run a find script - this helps to remove the revived deleted files after restore... Regards. Wednesday, November 5, 2008,

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Kevin Keane
Dan Langille wrote: > - From the beginning Bacula works with multiple volumes in a given > directory. > This is well documented in the Pool example chapter where I describe > setting > up an automated system using three different pools. > I'm not sure if this is in response to an earlier fea

Re: [Bacula-users] Mount, label, etc not using anything but Drive 0 with an autochanger [Was: SD not using more than 1 drive in autochanger]

2008-11-05 Thread Jeff Falgout
Thanks Alex, On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Alex Chekholko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 16:23:10 -0600 > "Jeff Falgout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > *status >> > >> > >> > Device status: >> > Autochanger "T200-1" with devices: >> > "T200-1-Drive-0" (/dev/nst0) >>

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Dan Langille
These points were passed to me off list. They address some points raised elsewhere in this thread. - Bacula has known how to use the current tape that is a drive for a long time now. It is discouraged, but just a matter of configuration. - XML for configuration. No, for the reasons that are

[Bacula-users] file dir computer restarts resulting in mismatched file count error on tape

2008-11-05 Thread Bob Hetzel
I think I may have found a bug or perhaps at least a design limitation in Bacula. I'm running version 2.4.3. I use spooling and I back up to tape. I seem to get periodic errors logged about a file count mismatch resulting in a tape getting marked as status "Error". I think I was able to det

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Ralf Gross
Doytchin Spiridonov schrieb: > > the no.1 item from the list here: > > http://www.bacula.org/en/?page=projects > > > Item: 1 Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files That's the most important new feature I'm looking forward to. I recently was hit by a filesystem corruption and had to

Re: [Bacula-users] Different IP for the same SD

2008-11-05 Thread Dan Langille
On Nov 6, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote: > Hi! > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 6, 2008, at 7:12 AM, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote: > > Hi! > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > w

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Doytchin Spiridonov
Hello, the no.1 item from the list here: http://www.bacula.org/en/?page=projects Item: 1 Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files Regards. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's c

Re: [Bacula-users] Different IP for the same SD

2008-11-05 Thread Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa
Hi! On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 6, 2008, at 7:12 AM, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote: > > Hi! >> >> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Here is how I do different IP for the same SD. In my case, rem

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote: > That's not the problem, it can listen on *all* interfaces (0.0.0.0), but > then: how do you make "client X connect to A address, and client Y connect > to B address"? I do it by putting the specific address I want client Y to use in /etc/

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Hemant Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- On Tue, 11/4/08, John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for? > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: "junior.

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Nov 5, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: >> another approach is to write an Augeas lens for the Bacula >> configuration. it may be necessary/useful to restrict the Bacula >> syntax somewhat, e.g., require users to remove the optional spac

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Frank Sweetser
Dan Langille wrote: > > You say that without telling us what an Augeas lens is. :) > http://augeas.net/ Augeas is a very slick library that gathers up all of the various text config file formats, and maps them onto a simple, consistent API. Within your program, you use the same syntax to edi

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Web - Trac all jobs in a schedule?

2008-11-05 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
"Brian A. Seklecki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > B-W feature question: > > Could we write a query that examines overall pool volume write > capacity? no, since the configuration files need to be available. > It would be nice to track historical bytes written by a select set > of jobs (normally

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Dan Langille
On Nov 5, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I know of another project that does something similar. Nagios. >> >> Nagios has a sister project, Lilac (previously called Fruity). >> Fruity is a web-based interface for maintaining your Nagio

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know of another project that does something similar. Nagios. > > Nagios has a sister project, Lilac (previously called Fruity). > Fruity is a web-based interface for maintaining your Nagios > configuration files. It is quite good. You export your > Fr

Re: [Bacula-users] Catalog Volume still grows to very large filesize

2008-11-05 Thread Steve Campbell
Thanks John, I went with "Volume Use Duration" and it switched right away to the next available volume in the pool. Hopefully, this will fix the problem I've created. Steve John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Steve Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I had asked abo

Re: [Bacula-users] Catalog Volume still grows to very large filesize

2008-11-05 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Steve Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had asked about this ages ago, and thought I had it solved, but > apparently not. > > I use the standard CatalogBackup job that ships with Bacula (old version > 2.03), and the size of the Volume that thiis job uses grows

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Dan Langille
On Nov 5, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Hemant Shah wrote: > ≈ > > --- On Tue, 11/4/08, Kevin Keane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> From: Kevin Keane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for? >> To: >> Cc: "bacula-users" >> Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 2:18

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] MaximumBlockSize Problem and Question

2008-11-05 Thread Bruno Friedmann
John Drescher wrote: >> tape compression was on >> > > I would repeat these tests with the raid device as a source instead of > /dev/zero. The reason is that /dev/zero will compress so well on a > tape drive that you really are not writing much to the tape. > > John > Otherwise create a big fil

[Bacula-users] Catalog Volume still grows to very large filesize

2008-11-05 Thread Steve Campbell
I had asked about this ages ago, and thought I had it solved, but apparently not. I use the standard CatalogBackup job that ships with Bacula (old version 2.03), and the size of the Volume that thiis job uses grows to 2GB+. I have reduced the Default Pool Volume Retention to 4 months, but it d

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows backups slow for remote (internet)

2008-11-05 Thread Marc DeTrano
Kevin Keane Wrote: What kind of Internet connection is it? Since you say, 8 Mbps, I'm guessing either a DSL or Cable modem connection; these are the only 8 Mbps Internet connections I'm aware of. Those connections are asymmetric. The 8 Mbps would only apply TO your system. Th

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Chris Howells
On Wednesday 05 November 2008 01:14:21 Flavio Junior wrote: > Hi ;) .. > > I think would be nice support for LTO-4 Libraries... > > I'd bought a TS3100 LTO-4 Library and need to use TSM with it :( > > I'll really prefer to use bacula instead. Bacula already works with LTO-4 libraries, I've been u

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Hemant Shah
≈ --- On Tue, 11/4/08, Kevin Keane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Kevin Keane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for? > To: > Cc: "bacula-users" > Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 2:18 PM > Hemant Shah wrote: > > --- On Mon, 11/3/08, Frank Swe

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Steve Thompson
On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, John Drescher wrote: >> Converting it to an XML file would not pose the problems specified in >> the above wiki, there are lots of tools to create/parse XML files tha >> could be useful. >> > I would vote against this if I could. I mean this will make it harder > for me to e

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Hemant Shah
--- On Tue, 11/4/08, John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for? > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: "junior.listas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Frank Sweetser" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]>, "bacula-users@li

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] MaximumBlockSize Problem and Question

2008-11-05 Thread John Drescher
> tape compression was on > I would repeat these tests with the raid device as a source instead of /dev/zero. The reason is that /dev/zero will compress so well on a tape drive that you really are not writing much to the tape. John

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] MaximumBlockSize Problem and Question

2008-11-05 Thread Ulrich Leodolter
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 08:51 -0500, John Drescher wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nst1 bs=4k count=256k > > 262144+0 records in > > 262144+0 records out > > 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 48.2057 seconds, 22.3 MB/s > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nst

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] MaximumBlockSize Problem and Question

2008-11-05 Thread John Drescher
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nst1 bs=4k count=256k > 262144+0 records in > 262144+0 records out > 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 48.2057 seconds, 22.3 MB/s > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nst1 bs=64k count=64k > 65536+0 records in > 65536+0 records out > 4294

Re: [Bacula-users] Different IP for the same SD

2008-11-05 Thread Dan Langille
On Nov 6, 2008, at 7:12 AM, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote: > Hi! > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > Here is how I do different IP for the same SD. In my case, remote > clients > access the SD via the gateway (public IP address which is forwa

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:25 AM, Silver Salonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 03 November 2008 01:29:45 Dan Langille wrote: > > > With the upcoming release of Bacula, what new feature are you waiting > for? > > One more :) > > Resume uncompleted backup. > > I guess this should be quite ea

Re: [Bacula-users] slow performance copy/migrate disk to tape

2008-11-05 Thread Ulrich Leodolter
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 13:38 +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:21:54PM +0100, Ulrich Leodolter wrote: > > > > Job { > > Name = "CopyDiskToTape" > > Type = Copy > > Client = dir-fd > > Level = Full # must be defined, but is ignored > > FileSet = "F

Re: [Bacula-users] Different IP for the same SD

2008-11-05 Thread Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa
Hi! On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is how I do different IP for the same SD. In my case, remote clients > access the SD via the gateway (public IP address which is forwarded > from my gateway to the SD) and local clients access the local IP addres

Re: [Bacula-users] slow performance copy/migrate disk to tape

2008-11-05 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:21:54PM +0100, Ulrich Leodolter wrote: > > Job { > Name = "CopyDiskToTape" > Type = Copy > Client = dir-fd > Level = Full # must be defined, but is ignored > FileSet = "Full Set" # must be defined, but is ignored > Pool = DiskBackup

[Bacula-users] FW: Fatal error: File daemonat "192.168.0.13:9102"rejected Hello command

2008-11-05 Thread Stefan Eriksson
How can I move forward with this, I cant post a bugreport without given permission to do so here, if I post a bugreport maybe its easier to get this issue solved or corrected, I'll be available to try new code on a test machine --- Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error: File daemonat "192