[Bacula-users] How to set up large database backup

2008-11-24 Thread David Jurke
Hiya, We have a classic enterprise-type backup setup - a number of "clients" backing up across the network to a tape library attached to a dedicated backup host. This is the easy bit, and works quite happily. The tape library is an IBM TS3310 30-tape, 2-drive unit, "attached" to the backup hos

[Bacula-users] Run After - end of all jobs with changer device

2008-11-24 Thread Craig White
The itch I'm trying to scratch is to get the tape that was just used parked back into the magazine after the last job has run so that if someone changes the tapes in the magazines, there's no tapes still in the drive but they are all parked back into the magazine. I'm looking for a way to accompli

Re: [Bacula-users] Using Bacula for a Windows server upgrade

2008-11-24 Thread Kevin Keane
Bruno Friedmann wrote: > Kevin Keane wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am looking into using bacula for a slightly different purpose than the >> usual one, and would like some advice on what to watch out for, and >> whether bacula is even the right tool for the job. >> >> What I am planning to do is upg

Re: [Bacula-users] ERR=Could not mount DVD device

2008-11-24 Thread Nils Blanck-Wehde
Hello again! Maybe I should add that the first part indeed gets written to the dvd. So there IS something on the DVD, it's readable and look quite ok (bacula header then tar-ish concatenation of files) Thanks for any help! Nils Nils Blanck-Wehde schrieb: > Hello list! > > I am running bacula 2.

[Bacula-users] ERR=Could not mount DVD device

2008-11-24 Thread Nils Blanck-Wehde
Hello list! I am running bacula 2.4.2 from fschwarz's EL5 rpms on CentOS 5.2 I am having a hard time getting bacula to write backups to DVD. I have narrowed it down to the following: After burning a part to DVD, bacula mounts the volume to determine the used space and pass the result to growisofs

Re: [Bacula-users] Can Bacula write to firewire tape library?

2008-11-24 Thread Richard Todd
"Dirk H. Schulz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > is it possible to have Bacula write to Tandberg's firewire VXA > StorageLoader? > > And if yes, has someone tested that on MacOS X or Linux? Anyone out there > using this storage loader regularly? I don't have a StorageLoader, but I have th

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows XP networking dies

2008-11-24 Thread Josh Fisher
Jason Dixon wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:50:15PM -0500, Josh Fisher wrote: > >> Jason Dixon wrote: >> >>> We have three XP SP2 workstations that all have scheduled Bacula jobs. >>> Two of them run fine. The third one "loses networking" every Friday >>> during the FULL backup job.

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows XP networking dies

2008-11-24 Thread Jason Dixon
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:50:15PM -0500, Josh Fisher wrote: > > Jason Dixon wrote: >> We have three XP SP2 workstations that all have scheduled Bacula jobs. >> Two of them run fine. The third one "loses networking" every Friday >> during the FULL backup job. When it enters this state you can no

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows XP networking dies

2008-11-24 Thread Josh Fisher
Jason Dixon wrote: > We have three XP SP2 workstations that all have scheduled Bacula jobs. > Two of them run fine. The third one "loses networking" every Friday > during the FULL backup job. When it enters this state you can no longer > ping the box or perform any networking functionality. > Di

[Bacula-users] Solaris "Packet size too big" failures

2008-11-24 Thread Jason Dixon
We moved our Bacula Director off Linux to Solaris (not my choice) recently. Since then, we've encountered frequent failures of the catalog backup job which reads from the local FD. They always fail with a "Packet size too big" error, which seems to be more common with Windows hosts. Has anyone s

[Bacula-users] Windows XP networking dies

2008-11-24 Thread Jason Dixon
We have three XP SP2 workstations that all have scheduled Bacula jobs. Two of them run fine. The third one "loses networking" every Friday during the FULL backup job. When it enters this state you can no longer ping the box or perform any networking functionality. Disabling/re-enabling the interf

[Bacula-users] Problem adding second storage daemon

2008-11-24 Thread Misty Stanley-Jones
I have been using the same Bacula config for about three years now. Recently, due to a network change, it is not feasible for me to store one client's backup on the normal storage daemon, so I am trying to create a second storage daemon on said client's subnet. I thought this would be extremely ea

Re: [Bacula-users] Using Bacula for a Windows server upgrade

2008-11-24 Thread Bruno Friedmann
Kevin Keane wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking into using bacula for a slightly different purpose than the > usual one, and would like some advice on what to watch out for, and > whether bacula is even the right tool for the job. > > What I am planning to do is upgrade server hardware; both the hard

[Bacula-users] Problem to label a tape

2008-11-24 Thread Luis Marcelo Achite
Hi, I´m facing a strange problem with bacula 2.4.3 and 2.4.2 versions. When a backup begin and there is no label available for backup, label is not working properly and I receive an error message. The most strange part is that after this tentative, I can no use the drive anymor, as bacula informs

Re: [Bacula-users] Fibre Channel drives keep switching

2008-11-24 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Robert LeBlanc wrote: > Debian Lenny only picked up the changer in /dev/tape/by-id, but > /dev/tape/by-path had both tape drives, but the names are horribly long: > pci-:01:04.0-fc-0x500110a00058bd40:0x-nst-nst > pci-:01:04.0-fc-0x500110a00058bd40:0x000

[Bacula-users] Sending messages

2008-11-24 Thread Personal Técnico
Hi, I'm trying to configure "bacula-dir.conf" a messages resource that allows me sending messages to job's owner: Messages { Name = User mail = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = all, !skipped, !restored operator = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = all, !skipped, !restored console = all, !skipped, !restored

[Bacula-users] Using Bacula for a Windows server upgrade

2008-11-24 Thread Kevin Keane
Hi, I am looking into using bacula for a slightly different purpose than the usual one, and would like some advice on what to watch out for, and whether bacula is even the right tool for the job. What I am planning to do is upgrade server hardware; both the hard disks and the RAID controller n

Re: [Bacula-users] Can Bacula write to firewire tape library?

2008-11-24 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 1:09 AM, Dirk H. Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan, > > --On 23. November 2008 16:49:46 -0500 Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> On Nov 23, 2008, at 4:59 AM, Dirk H. Schulz wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> is it possible to have Bacula write to Tandberg's firewir

Re: [Bacula-users] Can Bacula write to firewire tape library?

2008-11-24 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 23.11.2008 22:49, Dan Langille wrote: > On Nov 23, 2008, at 4:59 AM, Dirk H. Schulz wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> is it possible to have Bacula write to Tandberg's firewire VXA >> StorageLoader? > > How does the device present itself to the OS? If it appears as a SCSI > tape device, then it *should