[Bacula-users] Upgrade from 2.2.7 to 3.0.2 by rpm

2009-09-01 Thread Ken Barclay
This morning I finally gathered up the courage to upgrade Bacula. The old version wasn't installed by me but I know that it was installed from an rpm. I used these commands: rpm -Uvh bacula-postgresql-3.0.2-1.el5.x86_64.rpm rpm -Uvh bacula-mtx-3.0.2-1.el5.x86_64.rpm All appeared to be fi

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula backups and restores

2009-09-01 Thread Cedric Tefft
tqz wrote: > Hmm...I may be getting confused with another response I received from another > forum... > > I have my keys stored off site in a secured location, as well as the bacula > config files. So in the event of a disaster, if I reinstall bacula and my > database management system, restore

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup challenge :-)

2009-09-01 Thread Kevin Keane
Your rsync script may actually be appropriate for your job, after all. The trick is to use hard links. I don't remember the exact options off the top of my head, but here is approximately what I did in a somewhat similar situation. For this to work, your full and incremental backups must be on

Re: [Bacula-users] How do Jobs Queue?

2009-09-01 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:59:29 -0400, teksupptom said: > > Martin Simmons wrote: > > > > I think they are considered in the order that the Job definitions appear in > > the bacula-dir.conf. > > > > To guarantee the order, it is best to use different priorities. I use > > priorities 1, 2, 3

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Bacula configuration file examples and mtx-changer examples for Windows

2009-09-01 Thread John Drescher
I am busy right now and I have never used windows as a bacula server so I will take option 3.. -- Forwarded message -- From: Matthews, John W. Date: Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 2:24 PM Subject: Bacula configuration file examples and mtx-changer examples for Windows To: dresche...@gmail.co

Re: [Bacula-users] persistant drive letters under Windows

2009-09-01 Thread Josh Fisher
Thomas Mueller wrote: > On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:26:45 +1000, James Harper wrote: > > >> I am running the bacula-sd on windows and using removable USB drives as >> the backup media. There are currently 3 disks labelled DISK001, DISK002, >> and DISK003. On each disk are volumes labelled the same a

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup challenge :-)

2009-09-01 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:14 AM, John Drescher wrote: > 2009/9/1  : >> Dear Bacula users, >> >> I am looking for a backup solution for our company and found bacula on the >> net. >> We use a linux (centos 4.4) server running samba to serve our domain and >> windows clients. >> At the moment I hav

[Bacula-users] Backup challenge :-)

2009-09-01 Thread ict
Dear Bacula users, I am looking for a backup solution for our company and found bacula on the net. We use a linux (centos 4.4) server running samba to serve our domain and windows clients. At the moment I have an Iscsi network storage of 4 TB and use the rsync commands (in a neat script) to crea

Re: [Bacula-users] SQLite 2 to SQLite 3 migration

2009-09-01 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi John, On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, John Goerzen wrote: > Over at Debian, we received a bug report at > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=542810 regarding the > migration from sqlite2 to sqlite3. We are doing the process implied > by the make_catalog_backup command; namely: Did you fin

[Bacula-users] migrating database from sqlite -> pgsql/mysql

2009-09-01 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, wanting to keep things simple in my early days with Bacula I decided to use a sqlite database. A few months later, I'm looking at growing things a little more and starting to think sqlite might not have been the wisest choice. The database is now 1.4GB in size and the combined size of the vo

Re: [Bacula-users] persistant drive letters under Windows

2009-09-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:26:45 +1000, James Harper wrote: > I am running the bacula-sd on windows and using removable USB drives as > the backup media. There are currently 3 disks labelled DISK001, DISK002, > and DISK003. On each disk are volumes labelled the same as the disk but > with a letter suf

[Bacula-users] Unsupported feature concerning the Storage definitions?

2009-09-01 Thread Graham Keeling
Hello, On http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1356 Kern told me this... "...you are using an undocumented feature concerning the Storage definitions, and in any case, the way you are using it is definitely not supported and at some time will probably cause severe restore problems. You need some su

[Bacula-users] persistant drive letters under Windows

2009-09-01 Thread James Harper
I am running the bacula-sd on windows and using removable USB drives as the backup media. There are currently 3 disks labelled DISK001, DISK002, and DISK003. On each disk are volumes labelled the same as the disk but with a letter suffix, eg DISK001A, DISK001B, DISK001C, etc I plug the USB drive i