Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Letter to the Bacula Community concerning Bareos

2013-12-17 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Hi Marco Please explain your fork of Bacula with reference in particular to https://github.com/bareos/bareos/tree/9e1f8dc06d606e11a2128a29dc7cb0a55adcdaf3 It would be also useful if you could explain your reasons for the fork to the Bacula community. Is it true you were an commercial subcontrac

[Bacula-users] question about how retention works

2013-12-17 Thread Greg Woods
There is some stuff I still don't understand here, and I'd like to avoid learning the hard way. For instance, I never realized that "File Retention" referred to the individual file records in the database, not to the actual files on backup. So I ended up losing many of my File records (learning the

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Letter to the Bacula Community concerning Bareos

2013-12-17 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Paul, Thank you for your kind words; they mean much more to me than you might imagine. I for one use lots of open source, but find time to contribute to Bacula, so I understand that not everyone contribute. Besides for me the greatest part of Bacula is knowing that lots of people use it an

Re: [Bacula-users] Restores fail because of multiple storages

2013-12-17 Thread Thomas Lohman
> That seems a working solution, but creating a symbolic link for every > volume required by a restore job introduces a manual operation that > would be better to avoid, especially if a lot of incremental volumes are > being considered. We use symbolic links here and have never had any problems.

Re: [Bacula-users] Restores fail because of multiple storages

2013-12-17 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 9:36 AM, John Drescher wrote: >> But, in my opinion, an Autochanger is a too specific tape related concept >> that introduces a lot of complexity that is not really needed by a >> filesystem solution, i'd prefer not to deal with redundant configuration >> tasks performed ex

Re: [Bacula-users] Restores fail because of multiple storages

2013-12-17 Thread John Drescher
> But, in my opinion, an Autochanger is a too specific tape related concept > that introduces a lot of complexity that is not really needed by a > filesystem solution, i'd prefer not to deal with redundant configuration > tasks performed exclusively in order to work around software architectural >

Re: [Bacula-users] Restores fail because of multiple storages

2013-12-17 Thread stefano scotti
2013/12/17 Uwe Schuerkamp > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 05:09:18PM +0100, stefano scotti wrote: > > > > > > The problem here is that different storages refer to different > > directories, and Bacula pretends to find the new volume in the same > > directory of the old one. > > Now that the MediaType

Re: [Bacula-users] Restores fail because of multiple storages

2013-12-17 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 05:09:18PM +0100, stefano scotti wrote: > > > The problem here is that different storages refer to different > directories, and Bacula pretends to find the new volume in the same > directory of the old one. > Now that the MediaType is the same, no fatal errors are expose