Re: [Bacula-users] HP or IBM LTO drive

2011-02-01 Thread Andrea Conti
Hello, > I'm curious what is the opinion of Bacula community about > the quality of LTO devices made by HP vs IBM? From my --admittedly very limited-- experience is with LTO2 drives from HP and LTO3 ones from IBM I would say that while IBM drives "feel" more solidly built, from a technology

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula pruning too much?

2011-02-01 Thread John Drescher
> I have a client for which I do not run a backup job on a scheduled > basis but only when I start it manually. > > Today I wanted to restore a file from the last backup. But there is > no backup left in the catalog! > > How can that happen? > > I know that there are different retention periods. Bu

Re: [Bacula-users] how to access a file backup manually

2011-02-01 Thread Dan Langille
On 2/1/2011 11:34 AM, Laurent HENRY wrote: > Hello > For some reason i don't know yet, there are files in my catalog which are > not restoring. How have you established this? How do you know the files are in your Catalog? > My backup was a file backup and i have some old backups files stil

Re: [Bacula-users] Several questions about the feasibility of restores

2011-02-01 Thread Dan Langille
On 2/1/2011 10:22 AM, ninintothevoid wrote: > We currently are implementing Bacula 3.0.3a as our backup system on a mix of > Windows XP and RHEL 4.8 machines. Please, if you can use a more recent version. You will thank yourself for that. -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ --

[Bacula-users] Bacula pruning too much?

2011-02-01 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
Hi all, Bacula 5.0.3. I have a client for which I do not run a backup job on a scheduled basis but only when I start it manually. Today I wanted to restore a file from the last backup. But there is no backup left in the catalog! How can that happen? I know that there are different retention pe

Re: [Bacula-users] HP or IBM LTO drive

2011-02-01 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 02/01/11 15:59, Arunav Mandal wrote: > at the moment I still use HP' Ultrium 448 LTO-2 drive and hope it will > work for some more time (those devices are not cheap for soho/home > usage). > > However, I'm aware one day we'll have to 'upgrade' (probably to > LTO-4), but I'm curious what is the

Re: [Bacula-users] HP LTO3 tapes reference

2011-02-01 Thread James Harper
> Hi, > > HP LTO3 tapes are labeled with a unique reference. > Is there any way to get this reference from a bash script? > sg_rmsn is supposed to read the Media Serial Number. It doesn't work for any of my tape drives though (including a HP LTO3). James ---

Re: [Bacula-users] dump my configuration?

2011-02-01 Thread Bill Arlofski
On 02/01/11 09:54, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > hymie! writes: > >> Kjetil Torgrim Homme writes: >>> you specified "Recycle", so Bacula will reuse old volumes. >> >> Thank you! I thought "Maximum Volume Jobs = 1" would prevent that, >> but once the job is purged, then there are no jobs in that

Re: [Bacula-users] HP or IBM LTO drive

2011-02-01 Thread Arunav Mandal
To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net From: g...@atmarama.net Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 21:46:33 +0100 Subject: [Bacula-users] HP or IBM LTO drive Hello, at the moment I still use HP' Ultrium 448 LTO-2 drive and hope it will work for some more time (those devices are not cheap for soho/home usa

[Bacula-users] HP or IBM LTO drive

2011-02-01 Thread Gour
Hello, at the moment I still use HP' Ultrium 448 LTO-2 drive and hope it will work for some more time (those devices are not cheap for soho/home usage). However, I'm aware one day we'll have to 'upgrade' (probably to LTO-4), but I'm curious what is the opinion of Bacula community about the qualit

[Bacula-users] Several questions about the feasibility of restores

2011-02-01 Thread ninintothevoid
We currently are implementing Bacula 3.0.3a as our backup system on a mix of Windows XP and RHEL 4.8 machines. We used a altlinux based distribution called Bran that offers a decent web interface for reporting and initiating backups. So far we haven't had any significant outages that would req

Re: [Bacula-users] how to access a file backup manually

2011-02-01 Thread Craig Miskell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Laurent HENRY wrote: > Hello > For some reason i don't know yet, there are files in my catalog which are > not restoring. > > My backup was a file backup and i have some old backups files still in my > possession but purged from the catalog. >

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula + RedHat 5 + LTO-4 driver

2011-02-01 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Gustavo Menezes wrote: > Good evening John! > The company where I work, we have a backup routine, scripts that perform > this backup device via cpio, > We can perform backups larger than 20GB, provided that each file has a > maximum of 2GB, this is a restriction of

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup error (Solved)

2011-02-01 Thread Arunav Mandal
> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:05:33 -0500 > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup error > From: dresche...@gmail.com > To: di...@hotmail.com > CC: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Arunav Mandal wrote: > > > > > >> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:39:22 -0500 > >> S

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula + RedHat 5 + LTO-4 driver

2011-02-01 Thread John Drescher
> I checked the bacula log file (in my redhat it is in /var/lib/bacula/log) > This log shows the same message on the screen of bconsole. > The log says there is no space on tape. > If not asking too much, I would spend my bacula configuration files and log > it generated for analysis, > sometimes i

Re: [Bacula-users] HP LTO3 tapes reference

2011-02-01 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 01/02/11, Jose Antonio Rodriguez Martin (jarodrig...@cgi.es) wrote: > HP LTO3 tapes are labeled with a unique reference. > Is there any way to get this reference from a bash script? If you are referring to the tape volumename, a convenient way of extracting volumenames can be to run a database

Re: [Bacula-users] IBM 3573-TL, LTO5, speed

2011-02-01 Thread John Drescher
> I'm with Debian/Squeez and Bacula 5.0.2. 5.0.3 would be better since it has several bug fixes for problems in 5.0.2 and earlier. > I use the tape library TS3100 with a IBM 3573-TL. > > Questions: > 1) mount a tape to the drive 2 > 2) speed up the backup with LTO5 > > > 1) > And i've got 2 drive

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula + RedHat 5 + LTO-4 driver

2011-02-01 Thread John Drescher
> I wonder if the bacula recognizes the hardware HP StorageWorks Ultrium 1760 > SAS? > I installed the bacula server version 5.0.3 on a machine with RedHat 5, and > got the bacula client (same version) installed on a Windows Server 2003 > Standard > My problem is that bacula does not recognize the

[Bacula-users] how to access a file backup manually

2011-02-01 Thread Laurent HENRY
Hello For some reason i don't know yet, there are files in my catalog which are not restoring. My backup was a file backup and i have some old backups files still in my possession but purged from the catalog. I read somewhere, but i don't remember where, we can access an old tape direclty

[Bacula-users] HP LTO3 tapes reference

2011-02-01 Thread Jose Antonio Rodriguez Martin
Hi, HP LTO3 tapes are labeled with a unique reference. Is there any way to get this reference from a bash script? Thanks!! -- Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log

[Bacula-users] Bacula + RedHat 5 + LTO-4 driver

2011-02-01 Thread Gustavo Menezes
Good afternoon everyone! I wonder if the bacula recognizes the hardware HP StorageWorks Ultrium 1760 SAS? I installed the bacula server version 5.0.3 on a machine with RedHat 5, and got the bacula client (same version) installed on a Windows Server 2003 Standard My problem is that bacula does not r

[Bacula-users] IBM 3573-TL, LTO5, speed

2011-02-01 Thread yesi
Hi, I'm with Debian/Squeez and Bacula 5.0.2. I use the tape library TS3100 with a IBM 3573-TL. Questions: 1) mount a tape to the drive 2 2) speed up the backup with LTO5 1) And i've got 2 drives. A drive 1 is mounted with a tape e.g. LT00X. And i'd like to use the drive 2. So i've mounted it wi

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula backup

2011-02-01 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Laxansh K. Adesara: > I have installed bacula-dir on ubuntu and bacula-client on window > machine and also configured it so I am able to connect bacula-dir from > bacula client machine form console and now I want to do backup by using > LTO 4 tape drive which is installed on window 2003 server and

[Bacula-users] Bacula backup

2011-02-01 Thread Laxansh K. Adesara
Hi, I have installed bacula-dir on ubuntu and bacula-client on window machine and also configured it so I am able to connect bacula-dir from bacula client machine form console and now I want to do backup by using LTO 4 tape drive which is installed on window 2003 server and I have already teste

[Bacula-users] Bacula backup

2011-02-01 Thread Laxansh K. Adesara
Hi, I have installed bacula-dir on ubuntu and bacula-client on window machine and also configured it so I am able to connect bacula-dir from bacula client machine form console and now I want to do backup by using LTO 4 tape drive which is installed on window 2003 server and I have already teste

Re: [Bacula-users] Help on restore

2011-02-01 Thread Bart Swedrowski
Valerio Pachera wrote: > I wonder wy, on bat (the qt gui), it doen't show files directly under > the backued up folder but only files in into subdirectories. > Did you experienced the same problem? Sorry - I'm exclusively bconsole user (command line). -

Re: [Bacula-users] dump my configuration?

2011-02-01 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
hymie! writes: > Kjetil Torgrim Homme writes: >>you specified "Recycle", so Bacula will reuse old volumes. > > Thank you! I thought "Maximum Volume Jobs = 1" would prevent that, > but once the job is purged, then there are no jobs in that volume, so > it becomes fair game. BTW, this is one of t

Re: [Bacula-users] dump my configuration?

2011-02-01 Thread hymie!
Kjetil Torgrim Homme writes: >hymie! writes: >> GreatPlains-Backup job: >> (*) did not name the Volume correctly >> GreatPlains-Backup.2011-01-29_23.05.00_08 >> instead of >> GreatPlains-Backup.2011-01-29_23.05.00_08-Full >I can't explain this (I don't use this kind of Label Format myself). I >

Re: [Bacula-users] Help on restore

2011-02-01 Thread Valerio Pachera
2011/2/1 Bart Swedrowski : > 3: Enter list of comma separated JobIds to select This is ecactly what I was looking for. I wonder wy, on bat (the qt gui), it doen't show files directly under the backued up folder but only files in into subdirectories. Did you experienced the same problem? I'm

Re: [Bacula-users] dump my configuration?

2011-02-01 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
hymie! writes: > JobDefs { > Name = "DefaultJob" > Pool = IncPool > Full Backup Pool = FPool > Differential Backup Pool = DiffPool > Incremental Backup Pool = IncPool > } > > Job { > Name = "GreatPlains-Backup" > JobDefs = "DefaultJob" > } > > Job { > Name = "BackupCatalog" > Jo

Re: [Bacula-users] Help on restore

2011-02-01 Thread Bart Swedrowski
Valerio Pachera wrote: > As you can see, there is only one file. A different version of this > file has to exist for each bacup. > > But by bacula console I can only mark the latest version. > Do you know ho I can select prevous versions? Restore job allows you to select a date range from where yo

Re: [Bacula-users] Help on restore

2011-02-01 Thread Valerio Pachera
2011/2/1 Bart Swedrowski : > Also you may find "dir" command quite useful.  It took me a while before I > found out it being equivalent of "ls -al"... Thanks! I notice that bacula select automaticaly the data since the last incremental (and its relative full). Take this example: I have this job l

[Bacula-users] Problems with accurate backups

2011-02-01 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Hi, (if that has been already asked, sorry, feel free to provide a pointer...) that weekend I found time to upgrade a 2.4.2 bacula zu 5.0.3. Apart from an exploding mysql on restore, everything worked fine. But now I'm trying to look into accurate backups and feel confused ;-). To put it straigh

Re: [Bacula-users] Help on restore

2011-02-01 Thread Bart Swedrowski
Valerio Pachera wrote: > I see only one and I don't even know which date correspond. Also you may find "dir" command quite useful. It took me a while before I found out it being equivalent of "ls -al"... -- Special Offe

Re: [Bacula-users] Help on restore

2011-02-01 Thread Valerio Pachera
2011/2/1 Jari Fredriksson : > You have to cd backup > Then ls > > "ls foldername" does not work in Bacula, like one would think. Great!! I lost so much time on that stupid thing. Now I can se mu file name. But how can I choose the version? I see only one and I don't even know which date correspond

Re: [Bacula-users] dump my configuration?

2011-02-01 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:20:09 -0500, John Drescher said: > > BTW, there is no way to dump the current config like some other *nix > applications allow. The show command prints parts of the current config, though not in config format. __Martin ---

Re: [Bacula-users] Help on restore

2011-02-01 Thread Jari Fredriksson
> I type ls > > $ ls > c:\backup/ > > so the folder is there...but there's no way to see the content: > > ls c:\\backup > ---empty--- > > Whant am I doing wrong? > You have to cd backup Then ls "ls foldername" does not work in Bacula, like one would think. -

[Bacula-users] Help on restore

2011-02-01 Thread Valerio Pachera
Hi all, I'm trying to restore some data from bacula but I have difficulties. I have a folder c:\backup that contains a single file. This file chage each day. In my bacula fileset I wrote: File = "c:\\backup" >From 'bat' I select my job and client but I see no files. >From bacula console i di