[Bacula-users] hanging jobs - how to terminate by script

2009-08-19 Thread Ralf Brinkmann
an unknown unreproducible error with the autochanger device left behind lots of jobs with status code "C" (Created, but not running) blocking all current jobs. My idea is to add a "RunBeforeJob"-script that ensures all expired jobs are deleted from the job list before the actual backup starts. Ha

[Bacula-users] 3.0.2 on Ubuntu 8.04 server compile error

2009-08-19 Thread Glynd
I cannot find why I am getting these errors. The only thing odd about the installation is that mysql is not in the standard place but i use the -with-mysql=dir. Here is a snippet of the error but it comes up for sd, fd and director. It is complaining about -lssl but I have no idea what this is. TI

[Bacula-users] Concurrent Jobs problem

2009-08-19 Thread Christian Tardif
Hi, I'm trying to figure out why I can't run concurrent jobs on my installation. The Director, the FileDaemon and the Storage are all set as: Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20 All the bacula setup resides on a single server: 2 SCSI tapes, data to backup, and bacula progs. I have two jobs I would

Re: [Bacula-users] Some Operational Questions: Backing up lots of stuff

2009-08-19 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 14.08.2009 23:16, K. M. Peterson wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have some strategy questions. Actually, I think you had a bunch of very interesting things to tell us ;-) > We've been using Bacula for about 18 months; backing up ~3.5TB/week to > DLT-S4 (Quantum SuperLoader). We are still on

Re: [Bacula-users] libmysqlclient_r.so.12

2009-08-19 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
I have reinstalled and upgraded a bunch of packages trying to fix this issue even broke all my virtual drupal sites for a couple of hours very scary heehee. Anyways here some more info ldd /usr/sbin/bacula-dir used to say file not found for libmysqlclient_r.so.12 however now it finds version 1

[Bacula-users] VirtualFull for disk to tape jobs

2009-08-19 Thread Troy Stanger
I have some questions related to the new VirtualFull backup level in bacula 3.0. I have upgraded to 3.0 and am looking to use VirtualFull jobs to synthesize our disk backups onto tape media. This worked fine the first week, but now I am running into some problems. When I go to run the ne

Re: [Bacula-users] Client backups crash director until full backup is run -- UPDATE

2009-08-19 Thread Corey Shaw
I ran the memtest on our bacula server last night. After 14 hours and 8 passes it didn't find any problems. I'm at the end of my rope here. I'm trying a new virtual server to see if that fixes the issue. _ Corey Shaw Technology Specialist O. 801.491.0705 (x. 157) F.

[Bacula-users] Minimum time between jobs

2009-08-19 Thread Quinton Jansen
Is there a directive to specify the Minimum lapsed time between backup jobs? I.e. I don't need Bacula 3.0.2 running the same job multiple times in a row, as it got hung up waiting for a tape.. I already have the following in jobdefs: Allow duplicate jobs = no Cancel Queued Duplicates = yes

Re: [Bacula-users] Migrating APPEND volumes

2009-08-19 Thread Mark Nienberg
Mark Nienberg wrote: > In the documentation it says: > > "Jobs on Volumes will be Migration only if the Volume is marked, Full, Used, > or > Error. Volumes that are still marked Append will not be considered for > migration." > > That seems like a good idea. But will Bacula examine the volumes

[Bacula-users] Restoring unknown files under a sub-directory

2009-08-19 Thread Win Htin
HI folks, I assumed providing the deleted sub-directory e.g. /home/john/deleted_dirname would restore not only the directory but all files underneath. Found out the hard way it doesn't. The end user doesn't remember the name of files. How can I restore whatever was under the deleted sub-directory.

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk Backup / LabelMedia / UseVolumeOnce / VolumeRetention

2009-08-19 Thread ganiuszka
jaschu wrote: > > Now the question: Will old Volumes be deleted automatically, after > VolumeRetention has passed, or will they remain on disk, in which case I > would have to delete them manually? > Hi, >From Bacula documentation about volume recycling: "...when Bacula recycles a Volume, th

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula freezes with batch-table

2009-08-19 Thread Michael Patzer
solved that issue by setting "Heartbeat Interval = 60" in the fd-config. thx michael -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and dep

[Bacula-users] bacula freezes with batch-table

2009-08-19 Thread Michael Patzer
hi, i've a fresh bacula-setup (3.0.1), and the following problem.. after a job is finished, the director didn't write the batch-table into the database.. that is what it looks like for me.. the job is just frozen... but some smaller jobs work well. any hints? i already set my.cnf [mysqld] wait

[Bacula-users] Best advise to migrate to postgresql from mysql

2009-08-19 Thread Bruno Friedmann
Hi dear Bacula'ers ! I've one customer where we will change the server hardware to a new one. ( changing also from 32bits to 64bits opensuse Linux ) We use now many projects with postgresql database, and mysql was just keep for historical reason (bacula running with form the 1.3x version to the

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk Backup / LabelMedia / UseVolumeOnce / VolumeRetention

2009-08-19 Thread John Drescher
> I want to backup to disk, having each Job in a separate Volume. > > For this purpose, I have in bacula-dir.conf > Pool { >  UseVolumeOnce   = yes >  VolumeRetention = 30 days >  AutoPrune       = yes >  ... > } > > ... and in bacula-sd.conf > Device { >  LabelMedia     = yes >  AutomaticMount = y

[Bacula-users] Disk Backup / LabelMedia / UseVolumeOnce / VolumeRetention

2009-08-19 Thread Jan Schulze
Hi all, I want to backup to disk, having each Job in a separate Volume. For this purpose, I have in bacula-dir.conf Pool { UseVolumeOnce = yes VolumeRetention = 30 days AutoPrune = yes ... } ... and in bacula-sd.conf Device { LabelMedia = yes AutomaticMount = yes ... }

Re: [Bacula-users] libmysqlclient_r.so.12

2009-08-19 Thread Olaf Zevenboom
Allan Black wrote: > RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: > >> sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient15off >> Reading package lists... Done >> Building dependency tree >> Reading state information... Done >> libmysqlclient15off is already the newest version. >> > > >>> Starting Bacula Director: /sbin/b

[Bacula-users] Feature Request: compression based on filesize

2009-08-19 Thread Michael Patzer
Item 41: compression based on filesize Origin: Michael Patzer (mpatzer-at-dunkel.de) Date: 19. August 2009 Status: feature request What: The ability to define a minimum filesize a file must have, to run into gzip compression. Why:If you have a system with a lot of s