Re: [Bacula-users] VSS on Vista/Win2008 x64

2009-08-05 Thread Shawn
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 10:48 -0700, Steve Ellis wrote: > On 8/5/2009 9:34 AM, Shawn wrote: > > > Yes, the problem is the "Hello command" which was introduced in 3.x > > > > On a 2.x director, it will simply state "Hello command rejected" as > > the failure in connecting to the FD from the dir

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS on Vista/Win2008 x64

2009-08-05 Thread Steve Ellis
On 8/5/2009 9:34 AM, Shawn wrote: Yes, the problem is the "Hello command" which was introduced in 3.x On a 2.x director, it will simply state "Hello command rejected" as the failure in connecting to the FD from the director, I've tested this before and go the same results regardless of the pla

Re: [Bacula-users] Backups on Windows 2008 Servers

2009-08-05 Thread Shawn
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 12:15 +0100, Liam Brennan wrote: > Hi, > > We’re currently testing an upgrade to Bacula 3.0.1 to resolve some > issues we’ve been experiencing with Windows 2008 servers. > > Since upgrading I have managed to fix problems we were having with VSS > and what seems like junct

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS on Vista/Win2008 x64

2009-08-05 Thread Shawn
Thanks, On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 17:54 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 05 Aug 2009, Shawn wrote: > > > > Has anyone looked into compiling a 64-bit v2.4 package? > > > Would that resolve this? I'm also trying the hotfix mentioned in another > > response, will see if that does the

[Bacula-users] empty storage resource used for restore jobs

2009-08-05 Thread Brian Clarkson
I've almost completed my upgrades from 1.36.3 to 2.4.1 but I've encountered one last problem. Backup jobs appear to run correctly. Restore jobs do not. (I can't be 100% sure about proper backup unless I can restore files.) When using the (command-line) console to restore a file I get the follow

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS on Vista/Win2008 x64

2009-08-05 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 05 Aug 2009, Shawn wrote: > > Has anyone looked into compiling a 64-bit v2.4 package? > Would that resolve this? I'm also trying the hotfix mentioned in another > response, will see if that does the trick first. If these posts are to be believed, it might. http://www.adsm.o

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS on Vista/Win2008 x64

2009-08-05 Thread Shawn
Would that resolve this? I'm also trying the hotfix mentioned in another response, will see if that does the trick first. On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 14:29 +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > Hi John > > On Wed, 05 Aug 2009, John Drescher wrote: > > > > I'm pretty sure I had a problem doing that. Off t

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS on Vista/Win2008 x64

2009-08-05 Thread Shawn
Yes, the problem is the "Hello command" which was introduced in 3.x On a 2.x director, it will simply state "Hello command rejected" as the failure in connecting to the FD from the director, I've tested this before and go the same results regardless of the platform (Mac OS X PPC/Intel, Fedora 6 i3

[Bacula-users] number of files mismatch question

2009-08-05 Thread uhog-v9e4
Hi all, I am a new bacula user running 3.02 on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. I am backing up about 7 clients(mix of windows and linux) to a DDS3 tape autochanger. After testing and configuring for a few days I went live with this on Sunday with a full backup of all clients and doing incrementals Mon-Fri. S

Re: [Bacula-users] disk full, need to reset and upgrade

2009-08-05 Thread Thomas Manson
Hi Richard, My current backup have loads of un necessary data... That's why I'd like to reset my bacula. Also to re-work the exclude list I've setup and that doesn't work, I need to know what file was backup during the last job. How I do that ? I've tryed to browse the mysql database, but

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS on Vista/Win2008 x64

2009-08-05 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi John On Wed, 05 Aug 2009, John Drescher wrote: > > I'm pretty sure I had a problem doing that.  Off the top of my head there's > > some complaint about a hello not getting responded to properly.  Possibly > > the v3 bacula-fd doesn't like talking to a v2 bacula-sd, I'm not sure. > > > > I'd lo

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS on Vista/Win2008 x64

2009-08-05 Thread John Drescher
>> I don't think it's recommended but I don't think you'll have any problems >> installing a 3.0.2 fd and using it with a 2.4.4 dir+sd. > > I'm pretty sure I had a problem doing that.  Off the top of my head there's > some complaint about a hello not getting responded to properly.  Possibly > the v

[Bacula-users] Backups on Windows 2008 Servers

2009-08-05 Thread Liam Brennan
Hi, We're currently testing an upgrade to Bacula 3.0.1 to resolve some issues we've been experiencing with Windows 2008 servers. Since upgrading I have managed to fix problems we were having with VSS and what seems like junction points being created but now we're getting a fairly bizarre error

Re: [Bacula-users] Catalog too big / not pruning?

2009-08-05 Thread Martin Simmons
The job table is probably not causing the bloat, unless you have millions of rows. The space is usually consumed by the file table and its indexes. Try running vacuumdb with the --analyze and --verbose options, which prints info about the number of pages used by each table/indexes and also the nu

Re: [Bacula-users] specifying non-existant files or directories?

2009-08-05 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
* Toni Mueller schrieb am 05.08.09 um 11:15 Uhr: > > > Hi, > > my backups appear to basically work now (no frills, though), but I've > got some questions left. > > I'd like to simplify my configuration by merging some FileSet > resources. This would requrire me to specify non-existant directori

[Bacula-users] specifying non-existant files or directories?

2009-08-05 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, my backups appear to basically work now (no frills, though), but I've got some questions left. I'd like to simplify my configuration by merging some FileSet resources. This would requrire me to specify non-existant directories in one of the FileSet specifications. Maybe the same effect can

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS on Vista/Win2008 x64

2009-08-05 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 05 Aug 2009, James Harper wrote: > > We're primarily a 95% linux desktop and server environment, with some > > Macs, but we have a couple of pain in the necks we need to back up and I'm > > concerned about VSS. One is a Windows Server 2008 64-bit, and another is > > Vista 64-bit.