[Bacula-users] automatic purge/delete volumes on full 'File' storage

2014-10-28 Thread Alexei Babich
Hello everyone. Tell me, please, how in the bacula possible to automate the process of automatic removal (or reuse) volumes, and, of course, prune jobs in database, when storage with 'File' type is completely full? In my case jobs/volumes retention period is 2 month, but disk filled before two

Re: [Bacula-users] Configuration reload for bacula-sd

2014-10-28 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 10/28/2014 01:46 PM, Alan Brown wrote: > On 28/10/14 18:39, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: >> (As an aside, bacula, specifically, seems to force you to use different >> Media Type for each physical device so I don't get how it would work >> with multiple drives in the same jukebox, either -- thankfully

Re: [Bacula-users] Configuration reload for bacula-sd

2014-10-28 Thread Ana Emília M . Arruda
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Alan Brown wrote: > On 28/10/14 18:39, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > What it can't handle is that you can load media types LTO4 RW in the > LTO5 drives and also LTO3 RO, which would be extremely handy. > > ​You can get this just defining two device that references the

Re: [Bacula-users] Configuration reload for bacula-sd

2014-10-28 Thread Alan Brown
On 28/10/14 18:39, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > There is no reason to see file volumes as dedicated to a client AFAICT; Habit, I suspect. It's a bad one, given there's a database driving everything to tell you what is where. > (As an aside, bacula, specifically, seems to force you to use different >

Re: [Bacula-users] Configuration reload for bacula-sd

2014-10-28 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 10/28/2014 01:04 PM, Alan Brown wrote: > > Block devices may be block devices, but a tape drive is a character device. Oops. Works either way, disks are char aka "raw" devices too. > People coming from a tape environment tend to see tapes (volumes) as > something you use for a pool of clients

Re: [Bacula-users] Configuration reload for bacula-sd

2014-10-28 Thread Alan Brown
On 28/10/14 14:59, Dmitri Maziuk wrote: > OT comment: I'll probably never understand that, I always thought a > block device is a block device and one of the unix's strong points was > to abstract away the physical differences and let the same code work > with either. Block devices may be block d

Re: [Bacula-users] Configuration reload for bacula-sd

2014-10-28 Thread Ana Emília M . Arruda
I´m very very sorry. I´m not presuming to lecture you about what you should do or should not be doing in your enterprise environment. Maybe my english was too bad to lead to this embarrassment situation. I was just trying to find, colaboring with all the others here, a solution for your case, with

Re: [Bacula-users] Configuration reload for bacula-sd

2014-10-28 Thread Josh Fisher
On 10/28/2014 9:24 AM, Alan Brown wrote: > On 28/10/14 12:46, Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote: > > >> , maybe >> a second device definition for a job or pool could be more helpful than >> a bacula-sd.conf reload on-the-fly or the enable/disable commands. > This does not work. I've tried it. > > If an a

Re: [Bacula-users] Configuration reload for bacula-sd

2014-10-28 Thread Dmitri Maziuk
On 10/28/2014 8:24 AM, Alan Brown wrote: ... > Tape and disk are different animals and need to be approached differently. > > Virtual autochangers are a kludge to allow for removable disks but in > most configured installations they do _not_ treat those disks in the > same way as real tape drives.

Re: [Bacula-users] Configuration reload for bacula-sd

2014-10-28 Thread Alan Brown
On 28/10/14 12:46, Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote: > ​You have autochangers resources (fisical for tape librareis and virtual > for disks) in Bacula. They are a "pool of drives" to be used by your > jobs. I still think about having jobs and pools associated with clients > instead of devices associated

Re: [Bacula-users] Configuration reload for bacula-sd

2014-10-28 Thread Ana Emília M . Arruda
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 7:25 AM, Alan Brown wrote: > On 24/10/14 23:27, Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote: > >> Maybe this could be usefull. But I'm still trying to understand why are >> you using disk drives directly in archive device configuration. >> > > We don't. We use tape drives. ​IMHO. ​You h

Re: [Bacula-users] Webacula 7. Coming…

2014-10-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, It is not particularly easy to parse Bacula configuration files, particularly the FileSet resource, and I am not sure it can be done with regex. However, Bacula does read its own conf files, and there is a program named DassModus (posted on Internet) that reads Bacula conf files in Py

Re: [Bacula-users] Inconsistent backups of windows clients

2014-10-28 Thread Gary R. Schmidt
On 28/10/2014 5:30 PM, Florian wrote: > Hello again. > > So, after maybe 4 days, one of the clients again randomly couldn't be > reached, so apperently adding 30 seconds sleep between wake-on-lan and > backup didn't help... > Your network environment is slow. The network topology is dodgy, or it s

Re: [Bacula-users] How to mask spaces in script?

2014-10-28 Thread Heitor Faria
Florian, Yes, you can mask any shell special character in bacula confs with \. Regards, -- Heitor Medrado de Faria +55 61 82684220 Precisa de treinamento Bacula presencial, telepresencial ou online? Acesse: http://www.bacula.com.br Em 28 de outubro de 2014 04:51:57 BRST, Florian escreveu: >He

Re: [Bacula-users] Inconsistent backups of windows clients

2014-10-28 Thread Heitor Faria
Just in time: "s/Retry on Error/Reschedule on Error/g" -- Heitor Medrado de Faria +55 61 82684220 Precisa de treinamento Bacula presencial, telepresencial ou online? Acesse: http://www.bacula.com.br Em 28 de outubro de 2014 05:41:45 BRST, Heitor Faria escreveu: >Mr. Florian, > >Hey... I'm glad

Re: [Bacula-users] Migrate: copy or duplicate?

2014-10-28 Thread Luc Van der Veken
Sorry, as usual I think I found it within minutes after sending out a request for help. I should have re-read the documentation first, instead of afterward. Selection Type = PoolUncopiedJobs I had left it at PoolTime and reduced the time to 1 minute. -Original Message- From: Luc Van

Re: [Bacula-users] Inconsistent backups of windows clients

2014-10-28 Thread Heitor Faria
Mr. Florian, Hey... I'm glad you tried my sugestion. lol Maybe could you try more something like 60 secs? Some machines may take some time to turn on. As a workaround, alternativaly, you could use the Retry on Error option, in order to assure the backup execution in the time frame you need. -- H

Re: [Bacula-users] Migrate: copy or duplicate?

2014-10-28 Thread Luc Van der Veken
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but with copy instead of migrate, how do you keep Bacula from copying the same jobs over and over again each time a copy job is being run? My original backup schema was like this: * Full backup to disk once a month on Friday night, systems distributed about

Re: [Bacula-users] How to mask spaces in script?

2014-10-28 Thread David Prieto
I haven't tested it with scripts, but I use double quotes when specifying paths in a fileset: File = "c:/documents and settings/davidp/" It should be the same with scripts. On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Florian wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > I have a small problem: > I went to start a scri