Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up vmware-based virtual machines using Bacula

2012-08-07 Thread Silver Salonen
On 07.08.2012 23:52, Michael D. Wood wrote: Not the prettiest way...but this is how I backed up VM's. I attached a backup device to a Windows VM and shared out backup directories I created. I edited fstab where Bacula Director daemon is running and configured it to mount the shares on boot.

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up vmware-based virtual machines using Bacula

2012-08-07 Thread Michael D. Wood
Not the prettiest way.but this is how I backed up VM's. I attached a backup device to a Windows VM and shared out backup directories I created. I edited fstab where Bacula Director daemon is running and configured it to mount the shares on boot. The shares were also created and owned on the W

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate mode problem, multiple jobs on one client

2012-08-07 Thread Jari Fredriksson
08.08.2012 00:30, Edward kirjoitti: > Dir/SD: openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) - v5.0.3 (from rpm) > Client: Solaris 10 x86 - v5.0.3 > > I am having problems with an incremental backup using the accurate option. > Accurate option fails with your setup. It was not designed for that, it must fail if it honors

[Bacula-users] Accurate mode problem, multiple jobs on one client

2012-08-07 Thread Edward
Dir/SD: openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) - v5.0.3 (from rpm) Client: Solaris 10 x86 - v5.0.3 I am having problems with an incremental backup using the accurate option. I have two jobs for the client both of which use a script to generate a file list of individual files (no recursion) is used. The scripts c

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Autochanger Problems

2012-08-07 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Leandro César wrote: > Had already restarting the bacula-sd daemon. Restarting again, but the error > remains. > I can not see what is wrong with your config files. However here is what I am using: bacula-dir.conf Storage { Name = "DEV6-Changer" Address = dev

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Autochanger Problems

2012-08-07 Thread John Drescher
> After setting the permissions and change my mtx-changer, I was able to give > a label on the tapes. > After the running label barcodes: > > *list media > Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog > Using Catalog "MyCatalog" > Pool: Diario > No results to list. > Pool: Semanal > No results to list

Re: [Bacula-users] segmentation fault after server crash

2012-08-07 Thread J. Echter
Am 07.08.2012 20:09, schrieb Martin Simmons: >> On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:56:38 +0200, JÜrgen Echter said: >> Am 07.08.2012 14:24, schrieb Jürgen Echter: >>> and i get the following via email: >>> >>> ptrace: operation not allowed. >>> /var/lib/bacula/30330: file or directory not found. >>> $1 = 0

Re: [Bacula-users] segmentation fault after server crash

2012-08-07 Thread J. Echter
Am 07.08.2012 15:10, schrieb Machiel van Veen: > On Tuesday 07 August 2012 11:03:34 Jürgen Echter wrote: >> Hi, >> >> i have a serious problem since our server crashed yesterday. >> >> bacula 5.0.3 >> >> if i want to backup my server locally, it works. >> >> if i want backup my remote boxes i get t

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up vmware-based virtual machines using Bacula

2012-08-07 Thread Silver Salonen
On 07.08.2012 18:37, Michael Namaiandeh wrote: Hi everyone, I have another question about Bacula. This time it's regarding a vmware environment. I would like to have Bacula backup some VM's that I have on ESX machines. I know this is typically done (with other backup software such as BackupE

Re: [Bacula-users] segmentation fault after server crash

2012-08-07 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:56:38 +0200, JÜrgen Echter said: > > Am 07.08.2012 14:24, schrieb Jürgen Echter: > > and i get the following via email: > > > > ptrace: operation not allowed. > > /var/lib/bacula/30330: file or directory not found. > > $1 = 0 > > /etc/bacula/scripts/btraceback.gdb:2: E

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.2.10 upgrade question

2012-08-07 Thread Rao, Uthra R. (GSFC-672.0)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC]
Uwe, I installed #yum install readline-devel and then ran ./configure as follows: ./configure \ --prefix=/usr/local/bacula-5.2.10 \ --enable-smartalloc \ --with-postgresql \ --with-dump-email=uthra.r@nasa.gov \ --with-job-email=uthra.r@nasa.gov \ --with-smtp-host=mailhost.gsfc.nasa.gov \

[Bacula-users] Backing up vmware-based virtual machines using Bacula

2012-08-07 Thread Michael Namaiandeh
Hi everyone, I have another question about Bacula. This time it's regarding a vmware environment. I would like to have Bacula backup some VM's that I have on ESX machines. I know this is typically done (with other backup software such as BackupExec) via snapshots. You would set up a service acc

Re: [Bacula-users] Nagios Plungin to check mount requests

2012-08-07 Thread John Drescher
> if test ${status} -eq 127; then > echo "STATUS UNKNOWN - command not found (did > you install bconsole)" > [ Wrote 65 lines ] > Oops.. I did not get the whole script. Here goes: vs_www plugins # cat

Re: [Bacula-users] Nagios Plungin to check mount requests

2012-08-07 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 11:26:44AM -0400, John Drescher wrote: >> >> I agree it should be pretty simple. I was asking before I had to spend >> 30 minutes to 1 hour of work to figure it all out since I have never >> written a nagios plugin ye

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula - Error Code 127

2012-08-07 Thread Steven Ellis
On 8/7/2012 7:39 AM, Michael Namaiandeh wrote: I am receiving the following error message (Copy Error): Error: block.c:275 Volume data error at 0:1000323284! Wanted ID: "BB02", got "". Buffer discarded. Alert: sh: smartctl: command not found 3997 Bad alert command: sh -c 'smartctl -H -l err

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula - Error Code 127

2012-08-07 Thread John Drescher
> Error: block.c:275 Volume data error at 0:1000323284! Wanted ID: "BB02", got > "". Buffer discarded. > This is the real error. The volume is corrupt. Bacula can not find the required header. > Alert: sh: smartctl: command not found > This means you do not have smartmontools installed. So bacul

[Bacula-users] Bacula - Error Code 127

2012-08-07 Thread Michael Namaiandeh
I am receiving the following error message (Copy Error): Error: block.c:275 Volume data error at 0:1000323284! Wanted ID: "BB02", got "". Buffer discarded. Alert: sh: smartctl: command not found 3997 Bad alert command: sh -c 'smartctl -H -l error /dev/sg4': ERR=Child exited with code 127. T

Re: [Bacula-users] How to specify drive of Autochanger?

2012-08-07 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Mingus Dew wrote: > Dear John, > Can you send me a copy of the relevant parts of your config. I'd > like to compare them to mine. I think what you're saying is that you > can send jobs to either drive, or the autochanger, but the robot will > handle the tapes

Re: [Bacula-users] How to specify drive of Autochanger?

2012-08-07 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear John, Can you send me a copy of the relevant parts of your config. I'd like to compare them to mine. I think what you're saying is that you can send jobs to either drive, or the autochanger, but the robot will handle the tapes in either case? Yours, Shon On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:44 AM,

Re: [Bacula-users] Strange Device Status - Device is BLOCKED. User unmounted

2012-08-07 Thread Mingus Dew
Thanks Patti, I mounted a volume and then use relase as suggested by John. That cleared it up On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Clark, Patricia A. wrote: > I've encountered this whenever I've used an unmount command. It will stay > that way until I manually mount a tape volume. It does not matte

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.2.10 upgrade question

2012-08-07 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 08:15:45AM -0500, Rao, Uthra R. (GSFC-672.0)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC] wrote: > Uwe, > > Thank you for your email. > > 1) On my system I checked for readline-devel: > > # rpm -qa | grep readline > readline-6.0-3.el6.x86_64 > compat-readline5-5.2-17.1.el6.x86_64 > > So, should

Re: [Bacula-users] segmentation fault after server crash

2012-08-07 Thread Machiel van Veen
On Tuesday 07 August 2012 11:03:34 Jürgen Echter wrote: > Hi, > > i have a serious problem since our server crashed yesterday. > > bacula 5.0.3 > > if i want to backup my server locally, it works. > > if i want backup my remote boxes i get the following (in debug=15 mode) > I would attempt a

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.2.10 upgrade question

2012-08-07 Thread Rao, Uthra R. (GSFC-672.0)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC]
Uwe, Thank you for your email. 1) On my system I checked for readline-devel: # rpm -qa | grep readline readline-6.0-3.el6.x86_64 compat-readline5-5.2-17.1.el6.x86_64 So, should I install "yum install readline-devel" before I configure new version of bacula?? 2)I looked in to the configure -

Re: [Bacula-users] segmentation fault after server crash

2012-08-07 Thread Jürgen Echter
Am 07.08.2012 14:24, schrieb Jürgen Echter: > and i get the following via email: > > ptrace: operation not allowed. > /var/lib/bacula/30330: file or directory not found. > $1 = 0 > /etc/bacula/scripts/btraceback.gdb:2: Error in sourced command file: > No symbol table is loaded. Use the "file" comm

Re: [Bacula-users] segmentation fault after server crash

2012-08-07 Thread Jürgen Echter
and i get the following via email: ptrace: operation not allowed. /var/lib/bacula/30330: file or directory not found. $1 = 0 /etc/bacula/scripts/btraceback.gdb:2: Error in sourced command file: No symbol table is loaded. Use the "file" command. thanks. juergen -

Re: [Bacula-users] create large disk volumes for backup

2012-08-07 Thread John Drescher
> I want to use single large volumes to backup because I need to rsync bacula > backup volumes to remote site. and I think a single large volume for every > job > (full,diff,inc every month,weekend,day) is better for rsync (it only need to > sync > different volumes after each job) . > >if ther

Re: [Bacula-users] create large disk volumes for backup

2012-08-07 Thread d tbsky
2012/8/7 Uwe Schuerkamp > > > In a way, yes, but we're not happy with it because of the extremely > long recycle times. Most of our backups run on the weekend, so as a > consequence or volume for that day is rather big and I've begun moving > large and / or long-running backups to their own pools

Re: [Bacula-users] Database sizing estimates

2012-08-07 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, 2012/7/19 Clark, Patricia A. > I know that the quantity of files and the retention time are the big > factors in the size of the catalog database in bacula. What would be a > good calculation to use to ensure a healthy amount of space for the > database? I have a postgresql database sit

[Bacula-users] segmentation fault after server crash

2012-08-07 Thread Jürgen Echter
Hi, i have a serious problem since our server crashed yesterday. bacula 5.0.3 if i want to backup my server locally, it works. if i want backup my remote boxes i get the following (in debug=15 mode) cat bacula-dir.5288.bactrace Attempt to dump current JCRs. njcrs=3 threadid=(nil) JobId=0 JobSt

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-fd for Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

2012-08-07 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, 2012/8/6 Pietro Leone Pola Falletti di Villafalletto > Hallo, I'm struggling in order to learn Bacula and I'm using my home > network as a test environment. I need to backup several computers, but > my real problem is an old Apple G4 used by my father, the OS is Mac OS X > 1.4 PPC, where

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.2.10 upgrade question

2012-08-07 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 10:09:31AM -0500, Rao, Uthra R. (GSFC-672.0)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC] wrote: > I am currently on bacula 5.2.6 on a RHEL6 machine. When I had compiled > bacula 5.2.6 sometime back I had used the following switches but when I go > to "bconsole" and type commands and later if I

Re: [Bacula-users] create large disk volumes for backup

2012-08-07 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 02:26:51PM +0800, d tbsky wrote: > 2012/8/5 Phil Stracchino > > > On 08/05/12 05:57, d tbsky wrote: > > >First of all note that 5.2.10 is a considerably more recent version than > > >2.0.0, and does nut therefore fall under "until 2.0.0". :) This should > > >answer your