[Bacula-users] help.. backup catalog problem

2013-06-04 Thread revslikehell
i have reinstalled everthing from scatch.. and did what you said.. it created the file /var/spool/bacula/bacula.sql but when i run backupcatalog.. same error appears.. OMG.. what am i gonna do know... :? +-- |This was sent

[Bacula-users] help.. backup catalog problem

2013-06-04 Thread revslikehell
sorry man. i am totally noob in bacula and linux... this is the script.. i havent changed the code yet.. its still the default from the bacula installation #!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; =head1 SCRIPT This script dumps your Bacula catalog in ASCII format It works for MySQL, SQLite, and Po

Re: [Bacula-users] help.. backup catalog problem

2013-06-04 Thread Novosielski, Ryan
Yeah. Test it like you would any other script. See if the commands work, etc. One tip is to add -x to the top #!/bin/sh line -- it will show debugging info if you run the script. - Original Message - From: revslikehell [mailto:bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 20

[Bacula-users] help.. backup catalog problem

2013-06-04 Thread revslikehell
maybe there si something wrong with make_backup_catalog script? or something.? +-- |This was sent by aristotleah...@yahoo.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-

Re: [Bacula-users] help.. backup catalog problem

2013-06-04 Thread Novosielski, Ryan
You should see what your pre-script is doing and make sure that what it is doing can actually generate the backup file. - Original Message - From: revslikehell [mailto:bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2013 11:33 PM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

[Bacula-users] help.. backup catalog problem

2013-06-04 Thread revslikehell
hmmm.. that seems to be the problem.. the file bacula.sql doest exist in the /var/spool/bacula/ could you help me fix this problem.. thanks +-- |This was sent by aristotleah...@yahoo.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab..

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically create volume and continue writing to it

2013-06-04 Thread Michael D. Wood
On 06/04/2013 12:28 PM, John Drescher wrote: >> It's trivial, as long as there are open slots in the pool. You >> don't >> need to use the vchanger. Just define an autolabelling format and >> turn >> it loose. But why on earth would you split your volumes into 5GB >> chunks? That's just a lit

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically create volume and continue writing to it

2013-06-04 Thread Michael D. Wood
On 06/04/2013 10:47 AM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On 2013-06-04 01:56, Michael D. Wood wrote: > ... I have messed >> around with the Max Volume Bytes directive but wasn't sure if I >> needed >> to use vchanger with this? > > You need the changer only if you use more than one drive. With single > dr

Re: [Bacula-users] LZO compression on FreeBSD

2013-06-04 Thread Doug Sampson
> > Thanks for confirming this. I've recompiled both the server and client > on the Bacula server and the configure options confirms the LZO support > option is enabled. > > Nice, you should now have a director (bacula-dir)with lzo compression > options and storage (bacula-sd) with lzo stream supp

Re: [Bacula-users] LZO compression on FreeBSD

2013-06-04 Thread Laurent Papier
On Tue, 4 Jun 2013 17:17:05 + Doug Sampson wrote: > > Thanks for confirming this. I've recompiled both the server and client on the > Bacula server and the configure options confirms the LZO support option is > enabled. Nice, you should now have a director (bacula-dir)with lzo compression

[Bacula-users] Question on Copy Jobs - Selection Type PoolUncopiedJobs

2013-06-04 Thread Mingus Dew
Dear All, I have an existing Bacula installation that uses separate disk pools for Incremental and Full backups. I have setup a Copy Job to tape pool setup using the PoolUncopiedJobs Selection Type for the Full disk pool only. I now wish to set this up for the Incremental pool, but only

Re: [Bacula-users] LZO compression on FreeBSD

2013-06-04 Thread Doug Sampson
> yes you need to have LZO include and lib installed in your system AND you > need to compile bacula (client, storage and director) in order to get LZO > compression support. > > There is a major compression speed improvement in LZO 2.05 and up on > 64bits Intel system. Check that you have at leas

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically create volume and continue writing to it

2013-06-04 Thread John Drescher
> It's trivial, as long as there are open slots in the pool. You don't > need to use the vchanger. Just define an autolabelling format and turn > it loose. But why on earth would you split your volumes into 5GB > chunks? That's just a little too big to fit onto a DVD, and > impractically small

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically create volume and continue writing to it

2013-06-04 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 06/04/13 02:56, Michael D. Wood wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I've been combing through the mailing list and forums and trying to > wrap my head around what I'm trying to accomplish. Hopefully, someone > here can point me in the right direction. This is just a home setup > backing up 2 Linux and 1

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple Catalog Configuration

2013-06-04 Thread Mingus Dew
Thanks very much for the replie and clarification. I'll be able to get to work on this with peace of mind. Yours, Shon On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 03:45:48PM -0400, Mingus Dew wrote: > > Does anyone have an example they can share of using mutl

Re: [Bacula-users] HELP how to backup postgresql

2013-06-04 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 06/04/13 01:01, revslikehell wrote: > hi guys.. can you help me how to back up a postgresql server.. thanks in > advance.. i am using centos 6.3 and bacula 5.2.13 This isn't really a Bacula question. But a hint: Look for the pg_dumpall script. Never try to back up your live DB data at file

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically create volume and continue writing to it

2013-06-04 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 2013-06-04 01:56, Michael D. Wood wrote: ... I have messed > around with the Max Volume Bytes directive but wasn't sure if I needed > to use vchanger with this? You need the changer only if you use more than one drive. With single drive Uwe's recipe will do the trick. Dimitr --

Re: [Bacula-users] problems restoring directory

2013-06-04 Thread Tim Dunphy
|If that's an issue, consider switching to "exact" style backup |jobs. ;-) Yep! Moving to a specific restore rather than an a 'restore all' approach seems to have done the trick. Thanks for your input. :) Tim On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 10:

Re: [Bacula-users] problems restoring directory

2013-06-04 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 10:10:51AM -0400, Tim Dunphy wrote: > Hello list, > > > I have a working bacula system backing up a few cloud instances. But when I > tried to perform a restore, I went into the bacula console and gave the > 'restore all' command and walked through the steps to select the

[Bacula-users] problems restoring directory

2013-06-04 Thread Tim Dunphy
Hello list, I have a working bacula system backing up a few cloud instances. But when I tried to perform a restore, I went into the bacula console and gave the 'restore all' command and walked through the steps to select the directory I wanted to restore. The command fails with the following out

Re: [Bacula-users] help.. backup catalog problem

2013-06-04 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 8:31 PM, revslikehell wrote: > i did this.. > > #su bacula > #/usr/libexec/bacula/make_backup_catalog.pl MyCatalog > > but nothing happens.. It was supposed to create the following file /var/spool/bacula/bacula.sql Does that exist? John -

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically create volume and continue writing to it

2013-06-04 Thread Michael D. Wood
Thank you sir! I will try this in a little while. On 06/04/2013 05:16 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 02:56:34AM -0400, Michael D. Wood wrote: >> Hi Guys, >> >> I've been combing through the mailing list and forums and trying to >> wrap my head around what I'm trying to accomp

Re: [Bacula-users] HELP how to backup postgresql

2013-06-04 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, 2013/6/4 revslikehell > hi guys.. can you help me how to back up a postgresql server.. thanks in > advance.. i am using centos 6.3 and bacula 5.2.13 > You can use pg_dump for that. best regards -- Radosław Korzeniewski rados...@korzeniewski.net -

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically create volume and continue writing to it

2013-06-04 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 02:56:34AM -0400, Michael D. Wood wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I've been combing through the mailing list and forums and trying to > wrap my head around what I'm trying to accomplish. Hopefully, someone > here can point me in the right direction. This is just a home setup > b

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple Catalog Configuration

2013-06-04 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Mon, Jun 03, 2013 at 03:45:48PM -0400, Mingus Dew wrote: > Does anyone have an example they can share of using mutliple catalogs? I > have a particular set of NAS backups that has over 500,000,000 file records > and pretty much need to use a separate catalog to hopefully overcome 3 days > of tab

Re: [Bacula-users] LZO compression on FreeBSD

2013-06-04 Thread bacula
Le Mon, 3 Jun 2013 23:28:46 + Doug Sampson écrit: > Hello- > > I want to use LZO compression in two of my jobs instead of GZIP. These jobs > back up to hard drives on a FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE machine. Bacula v5.2.12. > > I installed archivers/lzo2 and verified that /usr/local/lib/liblzo2.so

[Bacula-users] Automatically create volume and continue writing to it

2013-06-04 Thread Michael D. Wood
Hi Guys, I've been combing through the mailing list and forums and trying to wrap my head around what I'm trying to accomplish. Hopefully, someone here can point me in the right direction. This is just a home setup backing up 2 Linux and 1 FreeBSD server. The backups are just going to a 1TB