Re: [Bacula-users] progress of backup

2008-11-18 Thread Dan Langille
On Nov 18, 2008, at 9:41 PM, John Drescher wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:41 PM, John Drescher > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 5:53 PM, subbustrato >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Now with estimate command i can know what is the size of a job, >>> but if i need

Re: [Bacula-users] How to run bacula dir and sd as non-root?

2008-11-18 Thread Dan Langille
On Nov 18, 2008, at 10:49 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > > On Nov 18, 2008, at 12:37 PM, John Drescher wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Kevin Keane >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> In the documentation, I saw the tip to run the director and the SD >>> as a >>> non-root user ( >>> http://w

Re: [Bacula-users] Cleaning Bacula DB

2008-11-18 Thread Hemant Shah
--- On Tue, 11/18/08, Reynier Perez Mira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Reynier Perez Mira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Bacula-users] Cleaning Bacula DB > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 1:11 PM > Hi every: > I've using Bacula with PostgreSQL DB.

Re: [Bacula-users] How to run bacula dir and sd as non-root?

2008-11-18 Thread Dan Langille
On Nov 18, 2008, at 12:37 PM, John Drescher wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Kevin Keane > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In the documentation, I saw the tip to run the director and the SD >> as a >> non-root user ( >> http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Bacula_Security_Issues.html#S

Re: [Bacula-users] progress of backup

2008-11-18 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 9:41 PM, John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 5:53 PM, subbustrato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Now with estimate command i can know what is the size of a job, but if i >> need of >> some indication about backup progress?(i.e : percent of comp

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Catalog File - How to reduce its size

2008-11-18 Thread John Drescher
> Thank you very much, John. That's exactly what I need and I think I > understood what is the hole idea here. I'll check the manuals for > understanding what those options mean. Tomorrow morning I'll do my tests. If > I have additional doubts, I'll ask you. I'm not sure if I would need to > recycl

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Catalog File - How to reduce its size

2008-11-18 Thread Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas
John Drescher escreveu: >> What would happen if I just deleted the Catalog backup file? What is the >> reason about backing up multiple catalog backups? Why just the last one (or >> the last 3) is not enough? >> >> > > Wait a minute. I think I misunderstood your question. > > You have a disk

[Bacula-users] progress of backup

2008-11-18 Thread subbustrato
Now with estimate command i can know what is the size of a job, but if i need of some indication about backup progress?(i.e : percent of completion or time that remain at the end of job) bye, sub - This SF.Net email is spons

Re: [Bacula-users] Bare metal restore using a single server.....

2008-11-18 Thread Bruno Friedmann
Hi Kevin, I'm totally agree with Arno's description. For us usually bacula reside on it's own server. As their are not so much moving on this serveur, db are dumped and system are tar.gz on external media (external to the enterprise ) If tapes are used, a spare part are also store externally ( N

Re: [Bacula-users] Bare metal restore using a single server.....

2008-11-18 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 18.11.2008 13:54, Kevin Thorpe wrote: > Hi all, > I have a single server which is now backed up with bacula. The > fd, sd and director are all on this single server. > I've read the bare metal restore notes but they only really document > restoring a client (fd). What happens if

[Bacula-users] Cleaning Bacula DB

2008-11-18 Thread Reynier Perez Mira
Hi every: I've using Bacula with PostgreSQL DB. I need to delete every record stored in the tables because all of them was for testing purpose and may confuse some clients. Can any say me which tables I need to empty? Or is better recreate the DB? Cheers and thanks in advance Ing. Reynier Pérez

Re: [Bacula-users] Win32 client incremental backup fails: Permission denied / IS DIRECTORY ??

2008-11-18 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:39:33 +0100, Tilman Schmidt said: > > A Linux backup server running Bacula 2.2.8 on openSUSE 10.3 should > back up a single directory D:\SQL-Backup on a Windows client > running the WinBacula 2.4.3 file daemon on Windows Server 2003, > incrementally on weekdays and ful

Re: [Bacula-users] AutomaticMount=yes does not work

2008-11-18 Thread Lucio Crusca
I wrote: > What am I missing? I suspect the problem is timing. I try to explain: when bacula starts a new job, it tries to mount the disk but it fails, because it happens there is the wrong usb disk plugged in (or no disk at all). Bacula then mails the operator asking for the correct disk (not th

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting some stat errors during backup

2008-11-18 Thread Charlie Reddington
I really hate to admit it, but there was a type, in the directory name, had an extra letter on it. (I'm dumb) Thanks for all the suggestions otherwise, I was really confused where to begin with the stat error. So thanks for clearing that up. On Nov 18, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Kevin Keane wrote

Re: [Bacula-users] How to run bacula dir and sd as non-root?

2008-11-18 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Kevin Keane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the documentation, I saw the tip to run the director and the SD as a > non-root user ( > http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Bacula_Security_Issues.html#SECTION00463 > ) I like that idea very much. > > But

[Bacula-users] How to run bacula dir and sd as non-root?

2008-11-18 Thread Kevin Keane
In the documentation, I saw the tip to run the director and the SD as a non-root user ( http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Bacula_Security_Issues.html#SECTION00463 ) I like that idea very much. But I can't quite figure out how to actually do it, because I can't figure out how

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting some stat errors during backup

2008-11-18 Thread Kevin Keane
Double-check spelling and other details. The error message pretty clearly includes the notes "no such file or directory" which means that, as far as Bacula is concerned, the file does not exist. It's also not a permission problem - else you'd see something about "permission denied" or a similar

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting some stat errors during backup

2008-11-18 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Mike Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Either the directories or files don't exist, or permissions on the > directories disallow the current user to look inside them. If the files > and dirs really do exist, then check the permissions on all the > directories /,

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting some stat errors during backup

2008-11-18 Thread Charlie Reddington
It DOES exist. drwxrwsr-x 4 user group 4096 Nov 18 16:02 bin On Nov 18, 2008, at 10:06 AM, John Drescher wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Charlie Reddington > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Okay, that makes sense. So if the file / directory DOES exist, with >> proper read permissions,

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting some stat errors during backup

2008-11-18 Thread Mike Holden
Either the directories or files don't exist, or permissions on the directories disallow the current user to look inside them. If the files and dirs really do exist, then check the permissions on all the directories /, /directory, /directory/directory, /driectory/directory/zips etc with ls -ld and

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting some stat errors during backup

2008-11-18 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Charlie Reddington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, that makes sense. So if the file / directory DOES exist, with > proper read permissions, what can be causing me this error? > What about /directory/directory/bin John -

Re: [Bacula-users] Win32 client incremental backup fails: Permission denied / IS DIRECTORY ??

2008-11-18 Thread John Drescher
>runs fine with level=Full, but with level=Incremental does not back > up anything, instead writing this to the log (including the > extraneous newline): > Unless absolutely necessary, I would turn off VSS for that fileset. John ---

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting some stat errors during backup

2008-11-18 Thread Charlie Reddington
Okay, that makes sense. So if the file / directory DOES exist, with proper read permissions, what can be causing me this error? Thanks, - charlie - On Nov 18, 2008, at 9:29 AM, Kevin Keane wrote: > "Could not stat" is Unix-speak for "file not found". The reason many > programs call it "could

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Catalog File - How to reduce its size

2008-11-18 Thread John Drescher
> What would happen if I just deleted the Catalog backup file? What is the > reason about backing up multiple catalog backups? Why just the last one (or > the last 3) is not enough? > Wait a minute. I think I misunderstood your question. You have a disk based volume for your catalog backups? A

Re: [Bacula-users] Please help me with Bacula tape load issues

2008-11-18 Thread John Drescher
> A00046 is in the changer. Its status is Recycle. When I check the Storage > status I see > > Device status: > Autochanger "Magnum_224" with devices: >"Ultrium-TD3" (/dev/rmt/0cbn) > Device "Ultrium-TD3" (/dev/rmt/0cbn) open but no Bacula volume is currently > mounted. > Device is BLOCKED

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting some stat errors during backup

2008-11-18 Thread Kevin Keane
"Could not stat" is Unix-speak for "file not found". The reason many programs call it "could not stat" is that the system call to find out basic information about a file (time stamp, size, etc.) is called stat - and when stat fails, it usually means that the file or directory doesn't exist. Ch

Re: [Bacula-users] Improving Backup speed

2008-11-18 Thread Hemant Shah
--- On Tue, 11/18/08, Pascal Clermont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Pascal Clermont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Improving Backup speed > To: "Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 7:40 AM > Dan L

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Catalog File - How to reduce its size

2008-11-18 Thread Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas
> De: John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Assunto: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Catalog File - How to reduce its size > Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Data: Terça-feira, 18 de Novembro de 2008, 12:04 > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas > <[EMA

[Bacula-users] Getting some stat errors during backup

2008-11-18 Thread Charlie Reddington
Hi, Everything looks to be running pretty smooth, but I have one server which is giving me some problems. It looks like it's backing up some of the stuff, but it's missing some. Here's the log after the backup runs. I kind of expected errors with the *.pl and *.sh files, but the other o

[Bacula-users] Please help me with Bacula tape load issues

2008-11-18 Thread Mingus Dew
Bacula 2.4.2 has been running generally well for me over a year now. I've upgraded to 2.4.2 from 2 previous versions. Lately I have been having multiple issues with Bacula losing track of tapes in the autochanger, not being able to load tapes that are in the changer, and just generally not working

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Catalog File - How to reduce its size

2008-11-18 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using the default settings of Bacula configurations to write the bacula > catalog backups to a file. The file is growing fast. I had a problem with > power failure and lost 4 months of backup due to a tape f

Re: [Bacula-users] Improving Backup speed

2008-11-18 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Pascal Clermont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Currently spending a lot of time on improving the speeds of this network. > After several tests I have realized that the database is "inserting > attributes" was taking quite a lot of time. In order to improve this

Re: [Bacula-users] Improving Backup speed

2008-11-18 Thread Frank Sweetser
Pascal Clermont wrote: > Ok here is the steps I took that made me believe that I do not have libpq.a: libpq.a is part of the postgresql-devel package. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong.

[Bacula-users] Bacula Catalog File - How to reduce its size

2008-11-18 Thread Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas
I'm using the default settings of Bacula configurations to write the bacula catalog backups to a file. The file is growing fast. I had a problem with power failure and lost 4 months of backup due to a tape failure. I would like to purge all jobids < 100, for instance, since the related tape does

Re: [Bacula-users] Improving Backup speed

2008-11-18 Thread Pascal Clermont
Dan Langille wrote: > On Nov 17, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Pascal Clermont wrote: > >> Hi, >> Currently spending a lot of time on improving the speeds of this >> network. >> After several tests I have realized that the database is "inserting >> attributes" was taking quite a lot of time. In order to imp

[Bacula-users] syntax error for "File" entry?

2008-11-18 Thread Win Htin
Hi folks, On a CentOS 5.2 server running Bacula 2.4.3, I modified the "File" parameter in "FileSet" definition to the following: File = "\\|bash -c \"df -kFext3 -Fgfs|egrep -v \"Filesystem|mapper\" |cut -b 56- \"" Checking the syntax from command line proves it is correct. --- start

[Bacula-users] Bare metal restore using a single server.....

2008-11-18 Thread Kevin Thorpe
Hi all, I have a single server which is now backed up with bacula. The fd, sd and director are all on this single server. I've read the bare metal restore notes but they only really document restoring a client (fd). What happens if I lose the director and catalogue? I cant find any docu

Re: [Bacula-users] possible console interface improvement

2008-11-18 Thread Tilman Schmidt
On 17.11.2008 20:36, Arno Lehmann wrote: > 17.11.2008 11:46, Tilman Schmidt wrote: >> What other approach do you propose for finding the information that >> is currently missing from the manual? > > It would be easiest to track the -users list and simply write a > paragraph whenever you believe

[Bacula-users] Win32 client incremental backup fails: Permission denied / IS DIRECTORY ??

2008-11-18 Thread Tilman Schmidt
A Linux backup server running Bacula 2.2.8 on openSUSE 10.3 should back up a single directory D:\SQL-Backup on a Windows client running the WinBacula 2.4.3 file daemon on Windows Server 2003, incrementally on weekdays and fully on weekends. This job definition: JobDefs { Name = "DefaultJob" Ty

Re: [Bacula-users] [OT] How to get BSMTP to add email header

2008-11-18 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 18.11.2008 11:15, Bill Damage wrote: > > The emails from various backups are working fine now but theres so many > I'd like to filter them according to the job. I don't want to change the > subject line as its dynamic and we are still adding/dropping jobs as the > server pool changes. So t

[Bacula-users] [OT] How to get BSMTP to add email header

2008-11-18 Thread Bill Damage
The emails from various backups are working fine now but theres so many I'd like to filter them according to the job. I don't want to change the subject line as its dynamic and we are still adding/dropping jobs as the server pool changes. So the obvious place is to add a header like . Is this p

Re: [Bacula-users] regex/regexdir: how to make case insensitive?

2008-11-18 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The subject says it all really. > > > > I really don't want to convert all my match lines to > > ".*/[T|t][E|e][[M|m][P|p]/", etc etc > > "ignore case = yes", perhaps? :-) Perfect. I even had it in my

Re: [Bacula-users] Newbee questions client/server + GUI

2008-11-18 Thread Sebastian Lehmann
Am Mo 17.11.2008 23:26 schrieb Johnny SSH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Thanks alot for everyones advice > > bweb and brestore are found here: > > > http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/GUI_Programs.html#SECTION00231 > > and here: > > http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=3rd_party_addons