Re: [Bacula-users] windows client VSS issues

2015-05-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, The error shown below "VSS API failure ..." generally happens because the Windows VSS is broken.  Normally fixing it is done by stopping *all* VSS services then restarting them or for most people, it is easier simply to reboot the system.

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't make "Truncate on Purge" work.

2015-05-22 Thread Bill Arlofski
Erik, one more step I forgot to mention: Before doing anything I wrote in my last email, make sure you either restart the director (not necessary), or issue a "reload" in bconsole so the director picks up the pool configuration modifications. Bill -- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC http:/

Re: [Bacula-users] windows client VSS issues

2015-05-22 Thread Fernando Arturo Salaices Orozco
Dissabled case sensitivity and still no luck This is what the estimate command returns: Using Catalog "MyCatalog" Connecting to Client windows-fd at FGMACJAI.villacero.net.mx:9102 2000 OK estimate files=0 bytes=0 And this is the show client command returns: Client: name=windows-fd address=windows

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't make "Truncate on Purge" work.

2015-05-22 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 2015-05-22 at 14:52:30 Bill Arlofski wrote: > > Hi Erik > > After adding the "Action on Purge = truncate" to your pool(s), you > need to perform a few extra steps, especially if you have existing > volumes in those pool(s) already: > > In bconsole: > > * update pool=PoolYouModified (repea

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't make "Truncate on Purge" work.

2015-05-22 Thread Bill Arlofski
Hi Erik After adding the "Action on Purge = truncate" to your pool(s), you need to perform a few extra steps, especially if you have existing volumes in those pool(s) already: In bconsole: * update pool=PoolYouModified (repeat for each pool) then to set the Truncate on Purge flag for each vo

Re: [Bacula-users] windows client VSS issues

2015-05-22 Thread Heitor Faria
Just in time: please send us the output of this Job "estimate listing" === Heitor Medrado de Faria - LPIC-III | ITIL-F | Bacula Systems Certified Administrator II 15 a 26 de junho: Treinamento Telepresencial Bacula: http://ww

Re: [Bacula-users] windows client VSS issues

2015-05-22 Thread Heitor Faria
> Thank you all for your replies > Hector and Francisco: already tried with both slashes, got the same result. > I am reading the manual … I based my installation on a quick start manual I > found somewhere, but in this case I think I have to read the whole manual. Ok Fernando. Is case sensitivi

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow Backups to Disk?

2015-05-22 Thread Lloyd Brown
Never mind. Just reread your previous email, and realized you said that bacula was 20-25x slower than rsync. So definitely look at the DB tunings, especially if your DB is very large. Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.edu O

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow Backups to Disk?

2015-05-22 Thread Lloyd Brown
Not an expert, but it seems like you need to determine whether the problem is with bacula, or something underlying. Even if it's just a quick test, I would copy a large file to the destination, and time it, to figure out if the non-bacula transfer speed is consistent with the bacula backup jobs or

Re: [Bacula-users] windows client VSS issues

2015-05-22 Thread Fernando Arturo Salaices Orozco
Thank you all for your replies Hector and Francisco: already tried with both slashes, got the same result. I am reading the manual ... I based my installation on a quick start manual I found somewhere, but in this case I think I have to read the whole manual. Josh: I installed the 64 bit versi

Re: [Bacula-users] Number of files selected to be restored confusion

2015-05-22 Thread Heitor Faria
Just in time: "list files jobid=x" can bring only the list of files for a given job. -- Heitor Medrado de Faria +55 61 82684220 Precisa de treinamento Bacula presencial, telepresencial ou online? Acesse: http://www.bacula.com.br Em 22 de maio de 2015 13:58:23 BRT, Heitor Faria escreveu: >Did y

Re: [Bacula-users] Number of files selected to be restored confusion

2015-05-22 Thread Heitor Faria
Did you count each folder and subfolder? I wouldn't bother to do that. If Bacula can't restore or backup an existing file it would mostly appear on log. Regards, -- Heitor Medrado de Faria +55 61 82684220 Precisa de treinamento Bacula presencial, telepresencial ou online? Acesse: http://www.bacu

Re: [Bacula-users] Number of files selected to be restored confusion

2015-05-22 Thread Oliver Hoffmann
Hi, thanks for your reply. I counted files and folders but still 30 missing. > Hello Oliver: I think Bacula restore also adds restored folders to > that sum. -- > Heitor Medrado de Faria > +55 61 82684220 > Precisa de treinamento Bacula presencial, telepresencial ou online? > Acesse: http://www

Re: [Bacula-users] windows client VSS issues

2015-05-22 Thread Josh Fisher
Did you perhaps install the 32-bit client on 64-bit Windows? On 5/22/2015 11:36 AM, Fernando Arturo Salaices Orozco wrote: Hi all I just got Bacula to work backing up my linux machines, works like a charm. But now I have to dip my fingers in the windows world. I downloaded the windows clien

Re: [Bacula-users] windows client VSS issues

2015-05-22 Thread Francisco Javier Funes Nieto
Hi Fernando, You must see this link http://www.bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION0014110010 I think the FileSet you define is incorrect... try with File = "C:/hp" With forward slash ("/"). Regards, J. 2015-05-22 17:36 GMT+02:00 Fernando Artu

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow Backups to Disk?

2015-05-22 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/22/2015 5:28 AM, Charles Tassell wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using external USB drives setup with the vchanger system to > simulate a tape library, and I've got a problem where the backups are > running horrendously slow. IE, the full backup of my small server > (5.5GB) takes 8 hours and 10

Re: [Bacula-users] windows client VSS issues

2015-05-22 Thread Heitor Faria
Hello Fernando: in Windows FileSets you should still use regular regular slashes (/), unix standard, instead of back ones. Regards, -- Heitor Medrado de Faria +55 61 82684220 Precisa de treinamento Bacula presencial, telepresencial ou online? Acesse: http://www.bacula.com.br Em 22 de maio de 20

Re: [Bacula-users] Number of files selected to be restored confusion

2015-05-22 Thread Heitor Faria
Hello Oliver: I think Bacula restore also adds restored folders to that sum. -- Heitor Medrado de Faria +55 61 82684220 Precisa de treinamento Bacula presencial, telepresencial ou online? Acesse: http://www.bacula.com.br Em 22 de maio de 2015 13:09:57 BRT, Oliver Hoffmann escreveu: >Hi all, > >

[Bacula-users] Number of files selected to be restored confusion

2015-05-22 Thread Oliver Hoffmann
Hi all, I did a restore and after adding a folder with lots of subdirectories it said 5,128 files selected to be restored. Then I counted the files and directories with find and wc -l. Result: 5098. Hence 30 missing. How can that be? Ubuntu 12.04, Bacula 5.2.5, mysql-server 5.5.43. Volumes are

[Bacula-users] windows client VSS issues

2015-05-22 Thread Fernando Arturo Salaices Orozco
Hi all I just got Bacula to work backing up my linux machines, works like a charm. But now I have to dip my fingers in the windows world. I downloaded the windows client from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bacula/files/Win32_64/ Installed it and was able to establish communication from

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow Backups to Disk?

2015-05-22 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 2015-05-22 04:28, Charles Tassell wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using external USB drives setup with the vchanger system to > simulate a tape library, and I've got a problem where the backups are > running horrendously slow. ... > backups take 20-25x longer than with rsync... I would say TLER on

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't make "Truncate on Purge" work.

2015-05-22 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 2015-05-22 at 10:52:29 Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote: > Hello Erik, > > You´re welcome. Did you issued a purge command on these volumes > before? With the > ​ > "Action > on purge = truncate" > ​ configured, the purged volumes will be truncated.​ So, if these > volumes are with purged status, the

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't make "Truncate on Purge" work.

2015-05-22 Thread Ana Emília M . Arruda
Hello Erik, You´re welcome. Did you issued a purge command on these volumes before? With the ​ "Action on purge = truncate" ​ configured, the purged volumes will be truncated.​ So, if these volumes are with purged status, they are already truncated. ​Best regards, Ana​ On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't make "Truncate on Purge" work.

2015-05-22 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 2015-05-22 at 08:42:20 Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote: > Hello Erik, > > On Bacula 7.0.5 version, the "purge action=truncate" do not exist any > more. There is a new truncate command that substittutes the "purge + > action=truncate" from previous versions: > > Command Description >

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't make "Truncate on Purge" work.

2015-05-22 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 2015-05-22 at 14:33:12 Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > The concept of Truncate on Purge is and was very useful, and it was > designed to be a bit safe to use to protect users from accidently > destroying data. However, I also found the old method complicated to > use so I replaced it in vers

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't make "Truncate on Purge" work.

2015-05-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, The concept of Truncate on Purge is and was very useful, and it was designed to be a bit safe to use to protect users from accidently destroying data. However, I also found the old method complicated to use so I replaced it in version 7.0.x (as pointed out by Ana) with something that is mo

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow Backups to Disk?

2015-05-22 Thread Heitor Faria
> I'm using external USB drives setup with the vchanger system to > simulate a tape library, and I've got a problem where the backups are > running horrendously slow. IE, the full backup of my small server > (5.5GB) takes 8 hours and 10 minutes, and the backup of my 690GB file > server takes 5

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't make "Truncate on Purge" work.

2015-05-22 Thread Ana Emília M . Arruda
Hello Erik, On Bacula 7.0.5 version, the "purge action=truncate" do not exist any more. There is a new truncate command that substittutes the "purge + action=truncate" from previous versions: Command Description === === truncate Truncate one or more Volumes Arg

[Bacula-users] Can't make "Truncate on Purge" work.

2015-05-22 Thread Erik P. Olsen
I have tried to use this feature without success. I am using Bacula 7.0.5 and the following is the directives I use. Hopefully someone can pinpoint what I am doing wrong: JobDefs { Name = "DefaultJob" Type = Backup Level = Incremental Accurate = yes Client = epohost-fd FileSet

[Bacula-users] Slow Backups to Disk?

2015-05-22 Thread Charles Tassell
Hello, I'm using external USB drives setup with the vchanger system to simulate a tape library, and I've got a problem where the backups are running horrendously slow. IE, the full backup of my small server (5.5GB) takes 8 hours and 10 minutes, and the backup of my 690GB file server takes