Re: [Bacula-users] 1 second Network glitch kills Windows backups

2016-07-01 Thread Craig Shiroma
Thank you Wanderlei, Josh and Kern! Judging from Kern's and Josh's replies, the solution is to try and find a fix on Windows and the possibly the switches. I guess it's best just to live with the canceled jobs and re-run them. I'd rather have good backups than incomplete ones since as Kern indic

Re: [Bacula-users] 1 second Network glitch kills Windows backups

2016-07-01 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, In general, the TCP/IP protocol that Bacula uses is extremely tolerant, and should retry sending packets quite a number of times before finally giving up. It is designed to tolerate a significant number of dropped packets. However, then there are two things that enter to screw this up

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual autochangers: how to "reserve" devices and "media type"

2016-07-01 Thread Josh Fisher
On 7/1/2016 5:17 AM, Area de Sistemas wrote: Hi, We have been using bacula with DISK BASED BACKUP during years (in a multi-pool, multi-device configuration) Recently we have "redefined" the devices as autochangers according the Bacula documentation. Although the "whole thing" appears to

Re: [Bacula-users] 1 second Network glitch kills Windows backups

2016-07-01 Thread Josh Fisher
On 7/1/2016 1:26 AM, Craig Shiroma wrote: > Hello All, > > Is there a way in Bacula to prevent something like a 1 or 2 second > network glitch from cancelling Window Server backups? RHEL backups > seem to survive these episodes with no problems. > Bacula expects DIR-to-FD and FD-to-SD TCP conne

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual autochangers: how to "reserve" devices and "media type"

2016-07-01 Thread Francisco Javier Funes Nieto
Hi, In my config I use one Media Type for each AutoChanger. Each Autochanger it's linked to a set of clients (all of them for the same corp.) and each autochanger has its own restore device with autoselect=no. Bacula try to use the device for restore with higher number of concurrent jobs. You can

[Bacula-users] Virtual autochangers: how to "reserve" devices and "media type"

2016-07-01 Thread Area de Sistemas
Hi, We have been using bacula with DISK BASED BACKUP during years (in a multi-pool, multi-device configuration) Recently we have "redefined" the devices as autochangers according the Bacula documentation. Although the "whole thing" appears to be running ok we have TWO questions: 1) In the

[Bacula-users] Bacula-Web 7.2.0 available now

2016-07-01 Thread Davide Franco
Dear all, I'm glad to inform you that Bacula-Web 7.2.0 is available now. This new version is a minor feature and bug fix release and I'd strongly suggest everyone to upgrade to this version. The download page provide you more details about this new version. http://bacula-web.org/download.html T