Re: [Bacula-users] Backporting FD Encryption

2009-03-12 Thread Dan Langille
Steve Polyack wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: >> Philipp Geschke wrote: >> >> >>> After that you will have a bacula-fd installed that is able to perform data >>> and transport encryption. >>> >> FD encryption is cool and all. But I'd like to see SD-side encryption. >> >> > I have to agree

Re: [Bacula-users] Backporting FD Encryption

2009-03-12 Thread Steve Polyack
Dan Langille wrote: > Philipp Geschke wrote: > > >> After that you will have a bacula-fd installed that is able to perform data >> and transport encryption. >> > > FD encryption is cool and all. But I'd like to see SD-side encryption. > > I have to agree; I even put in a feature reques

Re: [Bacula-users] Backporting FD Encryption

2009-03-12 Thread Dan Langille
Philipp Geschke wrote: > After that you will have a bacula-fd installed that is able to perform data > and transport encryption. FD encryption is cool and all. But I'd like to see SD-side encryption. -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The

Re: [Bacula-users] Backporting FD Encryption

2009-03-12 Thread Philipp Geschke
Hi, Matthew King schrieb: > I see that encryption of data is working (or at least it's written and > compiles) in bacula's SVN repository. > > Is this version of bacula (3.0 or 2.5 by the way?) likely to become > stable soon, or if not, is backporting the encryption into 2.4 likely to > be a mamm

[Bacula-users] Backporting FD Encryption

2009-03-12 Thread Matthew King
I see that encryption of data is working (or at least it's written and compiles) in bacula's SVN repository. Is this version of bacula (3.0 or 2.5 by the way?) likely to become stable soon, or if not, is backporting the encryption into 2.4 likely to be a mammoth task not worth the effort? I would

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestions for selecting Bacula version

2009-03-12 Thread Kevin Keane
I think you may be thinking of a lab setup, but the original poster seems to have been talking about putting bacula into production. Understanding how to recompile is indeed very important. And actually recompiling makes a lot of sense in a lab environment. It really is not very difficult. Reco

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Feature request:

2009-03-12 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, I think what you are asking for is probably a much bigger issue than you might imagine. Hopefully what follows will give a rough overview the issues. The scheme you are suggesting has a number of things that worry me: 1. As a general principle, it is not a good idea to be cycling throug

Re: [Bacula-users] Pruning oldest volume / File System Full

2009-03-12 Thread Thiago Simoes
John Drescher wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:30 AM, François Mehault > wrote: > >> No they are on a different filesystem. I try to recycle manually a volume, i >> followed instructions on this page >> http://bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.html#SECTION00258000

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestions for selecting Bacula version

2009-03-12 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Bob Hetzel wrote: > > 1) If you use the version that's not the latest, the bacula folks will most > likely just tell you to upgrade to the latest version, so you might as well > start there now and try to stay current. > One reason for this is the developers are u

[Bacula-users] Feature request:

2009-03-12 Thread Graham Keeling
Hello, I may implement this myself, after people have commented. Thanks, Graham. Item n: Restore from volumes on multiple storage daemons Origin: Graham Keeling (gra...@equiinet.com) Date: 12 March 2009 Status: Proposing What: The ability to restore from volumes held by multiple storage daemo

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestions for selecting Bacula version

2009-03-12 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 We've all got opinions. I tend to go the other way, and use packaged software. Compiling doesn't take THAT much more time, but it's certainly not as easy as working with packages (if you know what you're doing that is -- if you don't, it's probably 6 o

Re: [Bacula-users] Strange backup errors on Windows 2003, 2.4.4 fd, 2.4.3 director

2009-03-12 Thread Foo
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:19:53 +0100, Maarten Hoogveld wrote: > This problem sounds farmilliar to me. I have an fd running on a WinXP > machine which sometimes yields the same error's. Most of the times it's > about ntuser.log but also some Firefox cache related files and > hiberfil.sys > which I

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestions for selecting Bacula version

2009-03-12 Thread Bob Hetzel
1) If you use the version that's not the latest, the bacula folks will most likely just tell you to upgrade to the latest version, so you might as well start there now and try to stay current. 2) On open source software that's where development is still "active" I'd highly recommend learning t

Re: [Bacula-users] Pruning oldest volume / File System Full

2009-03-12 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:30 AM, François Mehault wrote: > No they are on a different filesystem. I try to recycle manually a volume, i > followed instructions on this page > http://bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.html#SECTION00258 > , but it permits only to

Re: [Bacula-users] Pruning oldest volume / File System Full

2009-03-12 Thread François Mehault
No they are on a different filesystem. I try to recycle manually a volume, i followed instructions on this page http://bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.html#SECTION00258 , but it permits only to change the volume status and not delete the data in the volume li

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula not use all bandwidth of network

2009-03-12 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Dan Langille wrote: > John Drescher wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Victor Hugo dos Santos >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:37 PM, John Drescher wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Victor Hugo dos Santos wrote: >>> [...] >>>

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula not use all bandwidth of network

2009-03-12 Thread Dan Langille
John Drescher wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Victor Hugo dos Santos > wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:37 PM, John Drescher wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Victor Hugo dos Santos >>> wrote: >> [...] >> >>> This is expected for incremental backups because the hard drive

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula not use all bandwidth of network

2009-03-12 Thread Thomas Glatthor
Victor Hugo dos Santos schrieb: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:37 PM, John Drescher wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Victor Hugo dos Santos >> wrote: > > [...] > >> This is expected for incremental backups because the hard drive spends >> most of the time thrashing finding the files to

Re: [Bacula-users] Pruning oldest volume / File System Full

2009-03-12 Thread John Drescher
> I have a problem this morning, all my jobs had status « is waiting », they > was like that because my bacula-dir tried to prune an oldest volume. This > volume is on a disk which is full, so I think that’s why bacula-dir didn’t > succeed to prune the volume. But i can’t fix the problem about file

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula not use all bandwidth of network

2009-03-12 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Victor Hugo dos Santos wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:37 PM, John Drescher wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Victor Hugo dos Santos >> wrote: > > [...] > >> This is expected for incremental backups because the hard drive spends >> most of the time th

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestions for selecting Bacula version

2009-03-12 Thread Kevin Keane
There is no 100% cut-and-dried answer here, but a couple thoughts: - Regardless of what you do, I would not use a version older than, say, 2.2. Preferably use 2.4. - You may want to stay with the version you have been testing. After all, your test results may not apply to other versions. - If

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula not use all bandwidth of network

2009-03-12 Thread Victor Hugo dos Santos
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > Victor Hugo dos Santos wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I have this network topology: >> - ~ 40 servers/clients >> - 1 director >> - 2 storages >> - all servers connect in Gigabits switches and GB network cards too.  :-) >> - all baculas (director an

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula not use all bandwidth of network

2009-03-12 Thread Victor Hugo dos Santos
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 6:37 PM, John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Victor Hugo dos Santos > wrote: [...] > This is expected for incremental backups because the hard drive spends > most of the time thrashing finding the files to backup. However in > most cases even with the

[Bacula-users] Suggestions for selecting Bacula version

2009-03-12 Thread Reynier Pérez Mira
Hi every: I've been testing Bacula for more than six months. Right now my boss ask to me for a suitable version for production. Wich version did yours recommend me? I use Ubuntu Server and I was thinking to use the version post in the repository for LTS (Ubuntu 8.04) release. This will be fine? Tha

[Bacula-users] Pruning oldest volume / File System Full

2009-03-12 Thread François Mehault
Hi, I have a problem this morning, all my jobs had status « is waiting », they was like that because my bacula-dir tried to prune an oldest volume. This volume is on a disk which is full, so I think that's why bacula-dir didn't succeed to prune the volume. But i can't fix the problem about file

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestions to make a backup

2009-03-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
> > I want to make a Tape Backup (LTO3) of the data in this Samba share > (about 1TB) but I cannot change the tape for filling all the data in the > night because the office is closed. In the day, the samba share is > continuously changing and the backup is not possible. consider installing bacu

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestions to make a backup

2009-03-12 Thread Massimo Schenone
If your daily modified data can fit into an LTO3 (about 600GB in my experience), may be you can set an incremental forever policy for your schedule. Usually restore requests on file servers refer to a file or directory, so only one tape is necessary to accomplish the job. Of course, in case of a d

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with Verify

2009-03-12 Thread Ralf Gross
Alex Bremer schrieb: > 2009/3/12, Ralf Gross : > > The verify is done in the fd, so I would addd the debug option there > > too. And also to the sd, because if bacula complains about a file that > > is missing on the volume, you might find the answer there. > > Yes, I did this, but at least the fd

[Bacula-users] Suggestions to make a backup

2009-03-12 Thread francisco javier funes nieto
Hi all... I've a server with Bacula 2.4.4 that it's running a Samba share in Debian Etch. I want to make a Tape Backup (LTO3) of the data in this Samba share (about 1TB) but I cannot change the tape for filling all the data in the night because the office is closed. In the day, the samba share is

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with Verify

2009-03-12 Thread Alex Bremer
2009/3/12, Ralf Gross : > The verify is done in the fd, so I would addd the debug option there > too. And also to the sd, because if bacula complains about a file that > is missing on the volume, you might find the answer there. Yes, I did this, but at least the fd logfile does not seem to contain

Re: [Bacula-users] Strange backup errors on Windows 2003, 2.4.4 fd, 2.4.3 director

2009-03-12 Thread Maarten Hoogveld
Hello Foo, This problem sounds farmilliar to me. I have an fd running on a WinXP machine which sometimes yields the same error's. Most of the times it's about ntuser.log but also some Firefox cache related files and hiberfil.sys which I accidently backed up that time. All files are known for being

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with Verify

2009-03-12 Thread Ralf Gross
Alex Bremer schrieb: > 2009/3/11, Ralf Gross : > > So the volume only has 7 volume files (markers/chunks). You could add > > -d 100 or 200 to the daemon options in the bacula-fd start script on > > the client where the verify is running and redirect the output to a > > file. > > Thanks for that ti

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with Verify

2009-03-12 Thread Alex Bremer
2009/3/11, Ralf Gross : > So the volume only has 7 volume files (markers/chunks). You could add > -d 100 or 200 to the daemon options in the bacula-fd start script on > the client where the verify is running and redirect the output to a > file. Thanks for that tip. I added -d 100 to all of the sta

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Webmin

2009-03-12 Thread K. Lelong
Chris Cameron schreef: > I'm running 2.4.2 on Ubuntu. So your save/delete job buttons DO come up > when the daemons are up? > > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:27 AM, K. Lelong > wrote: ... > Indeed, I just tried again, about ten times. Two times I did not get th