[Bacula-users] Bacula Query

2013-01-23 Thread krishna pawankar
Hi All,   I want to install bacula 5.2.6 for taking backup on HDD and not on tapes. What are things i should need to take care since what i know about bacula is we can only use tapes or VTLs for taking backups. Now there is no autochanger since i am not using tapes here. Please provide your guidan

Re: [Bacula-users] A Bacula ebook

2013-01-23 Thread Alan McKay
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > Well, the above is a name over multiple lines. Are you sure this is from the > ebook or a copy/paste wrap error? No that's gmail unfortunately. I did catch some similar errors copying from the ebook to the config file but have gotten them

[Bacula-users] Fwd: where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Drescher Date: Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:05 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] where to start? To: Alan McKay On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:01 PM, John Drescher wrote: >> That is with the exception of

Re: [Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:59 PM, John Drescher wrote: >> OK, I'm back to my original question in this thread - is there not a >> better quick start guide out there somewhere? > > I really can not help with that. I have used bacula for over a decade. > I have not looked at a guide in at least 8 yea

Re: [Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread John Drescher
> OK, I'm back to my original question in this thread - is there not a > better quick start guide out there somewhere? I really can not help with that. I have used bacula for over a decade. I have not looked at a guide in at least 8 years.. John --

Re: [Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread Alan McKay
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:52 PM, John Drescher wrote: > If you want to use bacula as a network backup program replace > 127.0.0.1 with the nic address. Your clients need to initiate a > connection to the SD to send their backup data. yes, i know i'll have to change that at some point but right no

Re: [Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Alan McKay > wrote: >> Default by the looks of it. > > Well, I sort of have all the tapes in 2 pools by the looks of it. I > recall futzing around and setting up a pool with a prefix of "BACULA" > but I did n

Re: [Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:29 PM, John Drescher wrote: >> When you labeled the barcodes did you put them into the Scratch pool >> or the Default pool? > > Default by the looks of it. How about the output of list media pool=Default. I want to t

Re: [Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread Alan McKay
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > Default by the looks of it. Well, I sort of have all the tapes in 2 pools by the looks of it. I recall futzing around and setting up a pool with a prefix of "BACULA" but I did not think I had it working. So here is what I have now. Each tape

Re: [Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread Alan McKay
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:29 PM, John Drescher wrote: > When you labeled the barcodes did you put them into the Scratch pool > or the Default pool? Default by the looks of it. -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, AS

Re: [Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Alan McKay > wrote: >> So I'll see what I can make of running the job from the non GUI console. > > It did not complete properly > > *status storage > The defined Storage resources are: > 1: File > 2:

Re: [Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread Alan McKay
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > So I'll see what I can make of running the job from the non GUI console. It did not complete properly *status storage The defined Storage resources are: 1: File 2: SL24 Select Storage resource (1-2): 2 Connecting to Storage daemon SL

Re: [Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread Alan McKay
Well bacula-console-qt does not seem very robust. Everytime I try to run a job it core dumps. If it matters, I am double-hopskotched from my Mac to a gateway to my backup host using ssh -X twice. But I do that a fair bit with no issues. So I'll see what I can make of running the job from the no

Re: [Bacula-users] A Bacula ebook

2013-01-23 Thread Dan Langille
On Jan 23, 2013, at 1:30 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > Well I'm following the book and getting some pretty basic errors right > from the beginning. It tells me to replace my bacula-dir.conf with > the following contents - which when I try to start director seems to > be missing some items like a pool

Re: [Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread Dan Langille
On Jan 23, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > Things are looking up ... > > *label barcodes > Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog > Using Catalog "MyCatalog" > The defined Storage resources are: > 1: File > 2: SL24 > Select Storage resource (1-2): 2 > Connecting to Storage daemo

Re: [Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > Things are looking up ... > > *label barcodes > Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog > Using Catalog "MyCatalog" > The defined Storage resources are: > 1: File > 2: SL24 > Select Storage resource (1-2): 2 > Connecting to Storage d

Re: [Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread Alan McKay
Things are looking up ... *label barcodes Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog Using Catalog "MyCatalog" The defined Storage resources are: 1: File 2: SL24 Select Storage resource (1-2): 2 Connecting to Storage daemon SL24 at 127.0.0.1:9103 ... Connecting to Storage daemon SL24 at 1

Re: [Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread Alan McKay
OK, I found that problem.I had FileSet comment out in this definition ... pushing on further JobDefs { Name = "DefaultJob" Type = Backup Level = Incremental Client = nashead01-fd FileSet = "Full Set" Schedule = "WeeklyCycle" Storage = SL24 Messages = Standard Pool = Default

Re: [Bacula-users] A Bacula ebook

2013-01-23 Thread Alan McKay
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > In general - not impressed with the ebook. The good news is maybe I can produce a better one out of this :-) -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012

Re: [Bacula-users] A Bacula ebook

2013-01-23 Thread Alan McKay
Well I'm following the book and getting some pretty basic errors right from the beginning. It tells me to replace my bacula-dir.conf with the following contents - which when I try to start director seems to be missing some items like a pool definition for one. Pretty sure I am following it to the

Re: [Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread Alan McKay
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:49 PM, John Drescher wrote: > Please post your bacula-dir.conf. Your wish is my command! :-) This is largely defaults from Ubuntu 12.10 with not a whole lot of changes by me Perhaps I should be looking at this instead : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Bacula Dir

Re: [Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp > wrote: >> check the mail archive, I think Ken pointed out a recently published >> ebook about bacula. While I haven't read it myself yet, I think it >> would get you going quite quickly. > > F

Re: [Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread Alan McKay
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > check the mail archive, I think Ken pointed out a recently published > ebook about bacula. While I haven't read it myself yet, I think it > would get you going quite quickly. Found it ... will try it and let you all know > What devices ar

Re: [Bacula-users] A Bacula ebook

2013-01-23 Thread Alan McKay
Gefunden ... danke Uwe fuer den Hinweis ... I'll report back on how good it is for a complete newbie ... -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much mor

Re: [Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:04:34AM -0500, Alan McKay wrote: > > This is all a little overwhelming. Is there a better tutorial > somewhere to get me off the ground? > Hi Alan, check the mail archive, I think Ken pointed out a recently published ebook about bacula. While I haven't read it myself

[Bacula-users] where to start?

2013-01-23 Thread Alan McKay
OK, I have obviously found the manual at http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/ but wow it does not seem to be suited to someone who has no idea what they are doing here. I've got decades of Linux / UNIX experience but it has been many years since I"ve had to deal with tapes, and this is my first time

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula to Disk to Tape

2013-01-23 Thread Gary R. Schmidt
[Sent directly, in error, re-sending to mailing list] On 23/01/2013 10:02 PM, Jozo Barac wrote: > Hi, > I want to change my bacula backup from File to Tape into File to Disk to > Tape. > I have 40 Servers, I would like to save the files at first on Disk and > later on Tapes. > how can I do that wit

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula to Disk to Tape

2013-01-23 Thread Dan Langille
On Jan 23, 2013, at 6:02 AM, Jozo Barac wrote: > Hi, > I want to change my bacula backup from File to Tape into File to Disk to > Tape. > I have 40 Servers, I would like to save the files at first on Disk and > later on Tapes. > how can I do that with bacula? I do similar with Copy Jobs. I wr

Re: [Bacula-users] Increme job_backup.2013 has a fatal error

2013-01-23 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 04:29:39PM -0800, UserMOP wrote: > When typing status sto at the Used Volume status: it freezes. does not go any > further. > ah, another bacula user with the same problem. I guess it *is* a bug in bacula-sd, and I've found no way around the above situation except for re

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Is my tape jukebox borked?

2013-01-23 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 03:06:33PM -0500, John Drescher wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Alan McKay > Date: Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:51 PM > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Is my tape jukebox borked? > To: John Drescher > > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:44 PM, John Drescher wro

[Bacula-users] Bacula to Disk to Tape

2013-01-23 Thread Jozo Barac
Hi, I want to change my bacula backup from File to Tape into File to Disk to Tape. I have 40 Servers, I would like to save the files at first on Disk and later on Tapes. how can I do that with bacula? Is it possible to save the Files at another place ( other Server). We use bacula 3. 0. 2 at the