Re: [Bacula-users] Ensuring files made during the backup run are archived (hot-backup PostgreSQL)

2012-01-27 Thread Steven Schlansker
Thanks to everyone for the input. I'll outline on what I settled on and why, in case someone later is interested in what worked for us. Instead of archiving these WAL files in the main backup, I set up a script to ship them as they are created directly to the backup server. This removes all th

Re: [Bacula-users] Client Run Before Job and client connection to fd.

2012-01-27 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:05:03 +0200, Jari Fredriksson said: > > I have a feeling that the client must be connected > to the SD before the script is run. Is that the case? Yes. __Martin -- Try

[Bacula-users] Release Bacula version 5.2.5

2012-01-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Yesterday, we released Bacula version 5.2.5 to Source Forge. Below for your convenience are the ReleaseNotes. Best regards, Kern Release Notes for Bacula 5.2.5 Bacula code: Total files = 1,110 Total lines = 231,439 General: The 5.2.5 version is a bug fix rel

[Bacula-users] Client Run Before Job and client connection to fd.

2012-01-27 Thread Jari Fredriksson
I have a direct connection from my dir to the fd. But the fd can't connect to sd or dir. OK, I set up an ssh-client with port listener for sd for the client. I try to launch this connection via Client Run Before Job. But it does not work. I have a feeling that the client must be connected to the

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows File Daemon: "VSS" or "System State" or both ?

2012-01-27 Thread subscriptions
A VSS backup and system state are *not* equivalent. In my mind, trying to back up Windows with plain VSS snapshots is not much better than not having any backups.   Conceptually, the system state backup is two things: a predefined file set, and a mechanism to do snapshot it. But that's on

Re: [Bacula-users] Ensuring files made during the backup run are archived (hot-backup PostgreSQL)

2012-01-27 Thread subscriptions
  -Original message- From:Steven Schlansker Sent:Wed 25-01-2012 11:51 Subject:Re: [Bacula-users] Ensuring files made during the backup run are archived (hot-backup PostgreSQL) To:Martin Simmons ; CC:bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net; On Jan 25, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Martin Simmons wrote

Re: [Bacula-users] New(ish) tool for MySQL catalog backups

2012-01-27 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/27/2012 04:05 AM, Jérôme Blion wrote: > For huge databases, a dump is really too slow to restore. mylvmbackup > can take a consistent snapshot of the database. > The backup is a bit longer, the backup file is bigger, restore is much > faster ! Snapshot backups are definitely the way to go

Re: [Bacula-users] "Connection Reset by Peer" Error message

2012-01-27 Thread Christopher Hylarides
On 12-01-27 9:03 AM, René Moser wrote: > Hi Chris > > On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 13:29 -0500, Christopher Hylarides wrote: >> >> Scheduled time: 25-Jan-2012 22:00:00 >> Start time: 25-Jan-2012 22:00:01 >> End time: 26-Jan-2012 00:27:32 >> Elapsed time:

Re: [Bacula-users] "Connection Reset by Peer" Error message

2012-01-27 Thread René Moser
Hi Chris On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 13:29 -0500, Christopher Hylarides wrote: > >Scheduled time: 25-Jan-2012 22:00:00 >Start time: 25-Jan-2012 22:00:01 >End time: 26-Jan-2012 00:27:32 >Elapsed time: 2 hours 27 mins 31 secs It is just a gues

[Bacula-users] Migration job tape-to-tape with 1 drive

2012-01-27 Thread René Moser
Version: Bacula 5.0.1 Hi We use a disk-to-disk-to-tape backup workflow. We also defined a scratch pool which holds some tapes. Scenario: If no disk/file volumes are available for writing anymore, a volume (tape) from the scratch pool will be placed in the disk pool and the job is written to tha

Re: [Bacula-users] New(ish) tool for MySQL catalog backups

2012-01-27 Thread Jérôme Blion
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:28:43 -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: > Possibly *slightly* off-topic: > > Those using MySQL for their catalog DB (well, actually, any of you > using > MySQL, but that includes Bacula catalogs) may find this interesting: > > http://www.mydumper.org/ > > It is a mysqldump repla