Re: [Bacula-users] one system always failing backup -- logs, SD debug, config files

2008-12-16 Thread Jo Rhett
On Dec 16, 2008, at 7:27 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: > I, and some others on this list, have had similar issues that turned > out to be broken ethernet NICs or drivers. Because Bacula expects a > rather long duration TCP connection to be maintained between the FD > and the SD, it is unforgiving of

Re: [Bacula-users] one system always failing backup -- logs, SD debug, config files

2008-12-16 Thread Jo Rhett
On Dec 15, 2008, at 9:31 PM, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > Sorta looks like something related to the catalog to me more than the > system. Probably what I would do is a dbcheck and or DB > consistency/repair (I skimmed but I don't see anyplace obvious where > the Actually, this host was the 1st host

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-16 Thread Kevin Keane
Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > 16.12.2008 18:14, Kevin Keane wrote: > >> Alex Chekholko wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:05:49 +0100 >>> Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: >>> >>> >>> Other advantages I see compared to using mailing lists only: 1) Improved overview since it i

[Bacula-users] Using clean volumes instead of purging ones

2008-12-16 Thread J. Pablo" Fernández
Hello, I have 10 volumes, with retention of 30 days. When it filled volume 4 instead of using volume 5, which is empty, never used, it purged and used volume 1. Is it possible to configure Bacula to give priority to the oldest/cleanest volume? so that if the amount of volumes allow it, I'll have m

Re: [Bacula-users] Random "Unable to authenticate" error

2008-12-16 Thread James Harper
> Hi everyone, > > I wonder if someone could help me find a solution. We are running Bacula > for > a couple months and from time to time (at least 2 or 3 a week) we have > failed run with the following error message. Clients and occurrences are > random. > > > -- start of message -- > 15-Dec 23

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring from tape, sans database

2008-12-16 Thread James Harper
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Alex Funk > wrote: > > I have the need to recover a file that's expired it's retension but I > > still have the tape. Is there a way to read the tape contents back in > > or back in far enough to restore files? > > > > bscan, bls, bextract > > http://bacula.or

Re: [Bacula-users] Random "Unable to authenticate" error

2008-12-16 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 16.12.2008 21:35, J-P wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I wonder if someone could help me find a solution. We are running Bacula for > a couple months and from time to time (at least 2 or 3 a week) we have > failed run with the following error message. Clients and occurrences are > random. > > > --

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with fileset and "\\<"

2008-12-16 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 16.12.2008 16:32, Personal Técnico wrote: > Hi, > > I have configured a windows fileset with this option: >Include { > File = "\\} > > With this, users can modify in their computer what files will be backup > and I will not restart server. They only need to creat

[Bacula-users] Random "Unable to authenticate" error

2008-12-16 Thread J-P
Hi everyone, I wonder if someone could help me find a solution. We are running Bacula for a couple months and from time to time (at least 2 or 3 a week) we have failed run with the following error message. Clients and occurrences are random. -- start of message -- 15-Dec 23:26 x-dir: Start B

Re: [Bacula-users] Update slots

2008-12-16 Thread Massimo Schenone
Ok, so I can use "update slots" on an autochanger where barcode reader and barcode labels are available; whenever the former or the latter is missing I had to launch a full inventory of the library with "update slots scan". I guess the best practice is to label all the available volumes and then r

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-16 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Keane wrote: >> As a matter >> of fact, I get more emails from the bacula mailing list every day than >> pass my spam filter! Once I have bacula running, hopefully I will not >> need this mailing list for weeks on end. Something that may not

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-16 Thread John Drescher
> Ultimately, it will have to work with Microsoft Outlook and Exchange - > my guess is that the majority of corporate types are using that. > We have that as our official email client. However I refuse to use it for the most part because of the unreasonable limitations that corporate has set. Most

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-16 Thread Blake Irvin
This is actually a really good reason to consider a forum/yahoo group/ google group with 'watch this thread' options as an addition to, rather than replacement for, the bacula-users list. Dealing with list mail in Outlook is not that fun, IIRC. cheers, Blake (I think non-Google accounts can

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-16 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 16.12.2008 18:14, Kevin Keane wrote: > Alex Chekholko wrote: >> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:05:49 +0100 >> Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: >> >> >>> Other advantages I see compared to using mailing lists only: >>> 1) Improved overview since it is visually more pleasing and more >>> sub-categories can

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-16 Thread Kevin Keane
John Drescher wrote: >> For such people, like me, an email list >> means that my mailbox gets filled up every day with posts from people >> who have questions completely unrelated to how I use bacula. >> > > This is where gmail helps. The box never fills up and I generally do > not delete non

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring from tape, sans database

2008-12-16 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Alex Funk wrote: > I have the need to recover a file that's expired it's retension but I > still have the tape. Is there a way to read the tape contents back in > or back in far enough to restore files? > bscan, bls, bextract http://bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Volu

[Bacula-users] Restoring from tape, sans database

2008-12-16 Thread Alex Funk
I have the need to recover a file that's expired it's retension but I still have the tape. Is there a way to read the tape contents back in or back in far enough to restore files? -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-16 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
I could settle for that, I like Google groups and its nice overview. Spam usually isn't an issue on my Google groups so I guess Google has a better solution in place for that compared to Yahoo. I have to say though, the backupcentral.com automatic mailing list board seems like a good solution as

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-16 Thread Blake Irvin
I have to agree with John here. I like the idea of using one of the free, public list/group solutions, but I think Google's tool works better than Yahoo's. Blake On Dec 16, 2008, at 12:37 PM, John Drescher wrote: > This is where gmail helps. The box never fills up and I generally do > not d

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-16 Thread John Drescher
> There is another problem with the email mailing list: please keep in > mind that the majority of people on this mailing list are ordinary > users. Not people who live and breath bacula 24 hours a day the way > developers do, but people who have another job to complete, and bacula > may be just 1%

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-16 Thread Kevin Keane
Jean Gobin wrote: > What I profoundly dislike about forums is the "so do I" kind of responses > that pollutes it: whenever someone asks a question, you'll have ten people > saying "I have the same problem". > It seems to me that this is actually not a good thing. These posts may be annoying,

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-16 Thread Kevin Keane
Alex Chekholko wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:05:49 +0100 > Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > > >> Other advantages I see compared to using mailing lists only: >> 1) Improved overview since it is visually more pleasing and more >> sub-categories can be used. >> 2) It's easier to track complex topics

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-16 Thread Bruno Friedmann
Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > Adding official forums would greatly benefit the Bacula project, I think. > Mailing lists are okay, but they do not provide some of the options and > benefits of forums. Forums would also provide easier support access to > younger folks (such as myself :P). > > Forum sp

Re: [Bacula-users] dbcheck takes enormous time

2008-12-16 Thread Ralf Gross
Tilman Schmidt schrieb: > ... > PS: This list could really use a better archive. Searching the SF mail > archive is no fun at all, it takes ages to respond, and the message > display is next to unreadable. gmane works fine for me http://news.gmane.org/search.php?match=bacula Ralf --

Re: [Bacula-users] dbcheck takes enormous time

2008-12-16 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > There are other ways to search the archives too. I think marc.info has > them... maybe Nabble also. But I get what you mean. > I usually just do a google search with the word bacula in

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-16 Thread John Drescher
> Though it is done on a quasi regular basis. I think there are some > aggregators out there that actually take THIS mailing list and import > the stuff into a forum interface. I wonder if that isn't the best of > both worlds? I don't go looking for that kind of stuff, so no I don't > know the addr

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-16 Thread John Drescher
> That would exacerbate the manpower problem. How many mailing list > participants will find the time to frequent a forum in addition? And if > none of the mailing list participants frequent the forum, who will provide > support there? It's doubtful that I would provide as much support as I curren

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-16 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Kalchik wrote: > I'll play Devil's Advocate... > > > >>> Mailing lists are okay, but they do not provide some of the options and >>> benefits of forums. Forums would also provide easier support access to >>> younger folks (such as myself :P). >>

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-16 Thread Jean Gobin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, What I profoundly dislike about forums is the "so do I" kind of responses that pollutes it: whenever someone asks a question, you'll have ten people saying "I have the same problem". I think that, if possible, a mailing-list with a knowl

Re: [Bacula-users] dbcheck takes enormous time

2008-12-16 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There are other ways to search the archives too. I think marc.info has them... maybe Nabble also. But I get what you mean. Yes, Tillman, you did find the thread I was talking about. Hope it helps. Blake Irvin wrote: > +1 > > On Dec 16, 2008, at 9:50

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-16 Thread Jeff Kalchik
I'll play Devil's Advocate... >> Adding official forums would greatly benefit the Bacula project, I >> think. > > That would require someone who'd act as a moderator for the forums, and > knowledgeable people to frequent it and answer questions. Unlike mailing > lists, forums stay usable only as l

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-16 Thread Alex Chekholko
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:05:49 +0100 Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > Other advantages I see compared to using mailing lists only: > 1) Improved overview since it is visually more pleasing and more > sub-categories can be used. > 2) It's easier to track complex topics. > > I'm not suggesting the remova

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-16 Thread Blake Irvin
These are valid points. I do, however, agree with a previous poster that the SF archive page for this list is mostly unusable. Fixing that would help a great deal (if for no other reason that to help keep re-posts of old, answered questions from cropping up all the time). cheers, Blake

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-16 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Sven-Hendrik Haase schrieb: > Adding official forums would greatly benefit the Bacula project, I think. That would require someone who'd act as a moderator for the forums, and knowledgeable people to frequent it and answer questions. Unlike mailing lists, forums stay usable only as long as someone

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Copy jobs in Bacula version 3.0.0

2008-12-16 Thread Josh Fisher
Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > I've been discussing with Eric how we might handle Copy jobs in our > development version. Currently, Copy jobs are implemented, and they work > much like Migration jobs (share 99% of the code). The difference is that > Migration jobs purge the original backup

Re: [Bacula-users] dbcheck takes enormous time

2008-12-16 Thread Blake Irvin
+1 On Dec 16, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > > > PS: This list could really use a better archive. Searching the SF mail > archive is no fun at all, it takes ages to respond, and the message > display is next to unreadable. > > -- > Tilman Schmidt > Phoenix Software GmbH > Bonn, Germa

[Bacula-users] Problems with fileset and "\\<"

2008-12-16 Thread Personal Técnico
Hi, I have configured a windows fileset with this option:        Include {             File = "\\        } With this, users can modify in their computer what files will be backup and I will not restart server. They only need to create a file called "lista.txt" in C:\. But I have found a prob

Re: [Bacula-users] one system always failing backup -- logs, SD debug, config files

2008-12-16 Thread Josh Fisher
Jo Rhett wrote: > We have a dozen systems backed up to a single host, on-disk backup. > We just rebuilt the host. One of the systems had periodically failed > backups (once every week or so) but all other systems were fine. > > Now this same system won't back up at all. This is private Giga

Re: [Bacula-users] dbcheck takes enormous time

2008-12-16 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Ryan Novosielski schrieb: > I was involved in a thread about 9 months ago that had to do with this. > There was a lot of back and forth between another person on this list > and me about what to do. It came down to indexes in the catalog database > and making sure your database was configured prope

[Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-16 Thread Sven-Hendrik Haase
Adding official forums would greatly benefit the Bacula project, I think. Mailing lists are okay, but they do not provide some of the options and benefits of forums. Forums would also provide easier support access to younger folks (such as myself :P). Forum spam shouldn't be a problem if a board s

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Copy jobs in Bacula version 3.0.0

2008-12-16 Thread Ulrich Leodolter
Hello, On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 12:41 +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 09:52:39PM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've been discussing with Eric how we might handle Copy jobs in our > > development version. Currently, Copy jobs are implemented, and they work >

[Bacula-users] How to get tapes from autoloader to offsite-storage?

2008-12-16 Thread Andreas Grabner
Hello, i'm using bacula (2.0.3) for some month now. now i got a "Quantum Superloader3" and try to figure out how to mangage offsite storage. Because there is no Import/Export Slot i have to eject tapes via the native quantum web-interface or at the autoloader. I would like to do a solution which

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Copy jobs in Bacula version 3.0.0

2008-12-16 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 09:52:39PM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > I've been discussing with Eric how we might handle Copy jobs in our > development version. Currently, Copy jobs are implemented, and they work > much like Migration jobs (share 99% of the code). The difference is that

Re: [Bacula-users] Enquiry about Bacula compatible with Windows

2008-12-16 Thread Andrea Conti
>>> Windows Server 2003 with 64 bits? >> You can just install a 32-bit version on it > Is the VSS issue resolved? AFAIK the issue is only with _2008_ Server, where VSS can only be used by native 64-bit apps. I am using 32-bit clients under XP x64 (which is basically a rebranded and stripped-dow

Re: [Bacula-users] Device is BLOCKED waiting for mount of volume "TapeVol-0001"

2008-12-16 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 16.12.2008 03:00, Arch Willingham wrote: > 1. "Have you ever tried mounting the requested tape, or labeling a new one?" > I tried mounting it from within Webmin but it would never mount. I know virtually nothing about webmin's Bacula module beyond the fact that it exists, so I can't help yo

Re: [Bacula-users] Enquiry about Bacula compatible with Windows

2008-12-16 Thread Silver Salonen
On Tuesday 16 December 2008 09:19:42 James Harper wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 December 2008 03:01:41 Alvin Tan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I would like to know whether Bacula is compatible installing in > > > Windows Server 2003 with 64 bits? > > > > > > If it does, can anyone provide me the link for