[Bacula-users] R.E: All the problems with bacula

2007-11-21 Thread Andrew Paterson
Hi All, whilst still waiting for some responses to my earlier query & having sympathy for the guy who lost it and emptied his bowels onto a mailing list - to be recorded for posterity (to his ovious subsequent regret!), these things happen to us all sometimes. I think it would be nice i

[Bacula-users] Bacula V2.0.2 - Solaris

2007-11-21 Thread Andrew Paterson
Hi, I've no doubt I will be referred to some part of the manual that I missed ;). But I have had a problem for some time now and done nothing about it. If a job takes long enough to cause subsequent job(s) to fail with start wait time exceeded. (Fatal error: Job cancelled because max

Re: [Bacula-users] Post upgrade 1.36.1 -> 2.0.2

2007-03-06 Thread Andrew Paterson
ecommendation: always read the full ReleaseNotes for all major > versions when upgrading. In your case: 1.38.11 and 2.0.2. > > You are apparently missing the new Autochanger resource introduced in > 1.38.x, which is required. > > > > On Monday 05 March 2007 13:56, Andrew P

[Bacula-users] Post upgrade 1.36.1 -> 2.0.2

2007-03-05 Thread Andrew Paterson
Hi, Solaris 9 (sun4u) bacula-2.0.2 (recently upgraded from 1.36.1) [Mysql 4.0.21 Solaris 8,9,10, Linux 2.6 (FC5 & GENTOO), WIN-32 (WIN-XP) Clients.] - Bacula built from source. - Director & Storage Daemon on same machine. - Storage device LTO STOREDGE-L8 Autochanger (Actually an HP autoch

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape drive mount problems

2007-03-02 Thread Andrew Paterson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Michael Brennen wrote: > > > That's what I get for working with things I don't fully > understand. :) > > Heh... "working with things I don't fully understand" is the story of > my life. That's it that's just Brilliant That is the precise inscription I want on my

Re: [Bacula-users] Upgrading from 1.36.1 - 2.0.2 - not going smoothly.

2007-02-20 Thread Andrew Paterson
t to modify it (I think the manual has something on this). > > On Monday 19 February 2007 17:44, Andrew Paterson wrote: >> Hi All, >> Solaris 9 (sun4u) Bacula-1.36.1 working (worked!) fine -> upgrading >> to bacula-2.0.2. [Mysql 4.0.21 Solaris 8,9,10, Linux 2.6 (FC

[Bacula-users] Upgrading from 1.36.1 - 2.0.2 - not going smoothly.

2007-02-19 Thread Andrew Paterson
Hi All, Solaris 9 (sun4u) Bacula-1.36.1 working (worked!) fine -> upgrading to bacula-2.0.2. [Mysql 4.0.21 Solaris 8,9,10, Linux 2.6 (FC5 & GENTOO), WIN-32 (WIN-XP) Clients.] (Bacula built from source). Upgrading initially just the backup server - comprising director on a dedicated Sola

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Admin Tool (bat)

2007-01-31 Thread Andrew Paterson
Andy -Original Message- From: Michel Meyers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 31 January 2007 12:39PM To: Andrew Paterson Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Admin Tool (bat) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ger Apeldoorn wrote: > Per

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Admin Tool (bat)

2007-01-31 Thread Andrew Paterson
Hi, I know I am a little late with this comment and it is probably not welcome... But I feel it needs stating <...RANT...> I am not happy with the client-specific gui (bat). It would surely be better to have a server based gui run from a web-browser - what I had hoped bacula-web would

RE: [Bacula-users] Trouble restoring backed up file

2006-03-09 Thread Andrew Paterson
Yes, I've had this happen to me on at least one ocasion & I beleive it ultimately amounts to the director (I think) running out of memory. I sincerely hope I'm wrong, but it looks to me like bacula builds its file tree in memory & if so, then well thats just asking for trouble isnt it - I

RE: [Bacula-users] Timeout - client off line

2006-01-30 Thread Andrew Paterson
This little problem seems to come up repeatedly. To solve it simply add a RunBeforeJob that does a ping of the workstation before performing the actual job. RunBeforejob = "/usr/sbin/ping " should do it (add any other params to ping that take your fancy. Thus you use ping to determine your tim

RE: [Bacula-users] Re: What do I need to do to get bacula talking to mysql

2005-11-28 Thread Andrew Paterson
Harry, I can confidently say that in this business, its not what you know that's important but how quickly you can learn something new. >From what you've said, you obviously don't have anything to worry about on >that score! Regards Andrew R Paterson DS Ltd. Cedar Office Park Cobham Ro

RE: [Bacula-users] prevent full backup after files set change

2005-09-06 Thread Andrew Paterson
Been there... Done that! In the FileSet specification (before the Include directive) add the followig directive Ignore FileSet Changes = Yes Regards Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Dauer Sent: 06 September 2005 9:46AM To:

[Bacula-users] JobDefs directive

2005-09-05 Thread Andrew Paterson
Hi All, Is it allowable in bacula-dir.conf to have one 'JobDefs' directive referencing another one? (I'm trying to tidy up my config files & remove some of th duplication). Regards Andrew R Paterson DS Ltd. Cedar Office Park Cobham Road Ferndown Dorset BH21 7SB Tel: +44 (0) 1202 877188

RE: [Bacula-users] Re: Trying to use Bacula-web

2005-06-08 Thread Andrew Paterson
unning outlook - no excuse really!! Micro$oft does things like that to you :P Best Regards Andrew Paterson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arno Lehmann Sent: 08 June 2005 21:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: bacula-users@lists.sour

RE: [Bacula-users] Re: Trying to use Bacula-web

2005-06-08 Thread Andrew Paterson
uch time working > > through it. > > > > And, since I know that others have it working correctly, I think the > > problem must be somewhere in my installation. Ah, I just looked - the > > missing images are a result of the notices because php can't set up the

RE: [Bacula-users] Trying to use Bacula-web

2005-06-07 Thread Andrew Paterson
Yes I have it working (on Solaris 9 & linux) and it is a really good piece of software. Its easy to get working on linux, solaris is another matter. You shouldn't need to do any moves (try a copy next time) since you are just asking to break something else doing that! Also if you get yo

RE: [Bacula-users] Bacula-Client only on Solaris 2.5.1

2005-06-07 Thread Andrew Paterson
Title: Bacula-Client only on Solaris 2.5.1 Yes.     g++ (gcc) 3.3.1 Minor changes are needed to fix copmilation errors regarding the non-definition of gethostid() and gethostname(). They are pretty easy tio fix.   However, I only built the client (my director runs on Solaris 9!) I b

RE: [Bacula-users] Hardware or bacula-problem?

2005-06-03 Thread Andrew Paterson
Yes yes ... DDS are crap!! The trouble is that I for one (on my home systems) find it very handy that DDS are crap - I tend to be able to acquire drives & tapes that are about to be thrown out!!! :) & that is probably why we have so many people using them right now! Andrew R Paterson Systems Engi

[Bacula-users] bacula-1.36.3 oddity

2005-06-02 Thread Andrew Paterson
acula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Andrew Paterson Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-1.36.3 oddity On Thursday 02 June 2005 10:37, Andrew Paterson wrote: > Hi list, > having successfully upgraded from 1.34.6 to 1.36.3 > (or at least it appears successful so far(!)) > > I h

[Bacula-users] bacula-1.36.3 oddity

2005-06-02 Thread Andrew Paterson
Hi list, having successfully upgraded from 1.34.6 to 1.36.3 (or at least it appears successful so far(!)) I have an initial query regarding one strange & consistent occurrence from 1.36.3.. As an example.. 02-Jun 01:06 fernbackup-dir: Start Backup JobId 2638, Job=RavenbackupDail

[Bacula-users] Upgrading 1.34.6->1.36.3

2005-05-17 Thread Andrew Paterson
Hi, I knew I'd missed something important (& obvious!). On reaching the situation where I have two bacula directories in /etc: /etc/bacula_1.34.6 & /etc/bacula_1.36.3 I then need to copy/merge my config files from 1.34.6 to 1.36.3. I say merge baecause I understand there are changes in the config

[Bacula-users] RE: Upgrading from 1.34.6 to 1.36.3

2005-05-17 Thread Andrew Paterson
r for anything in this (dumb) procedure, If I've missed something please let me know. Arno, have you got any advice here? Just my 10cents Andrew R Paterson Systems Engineer DS Ltd -Original Message- From: Danie Theron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 May 2005 10:02AM To: Andrew P

RE: [Bacula-users] Bad story

2005-05-16 Thread Andrew Paterson
Hi Ogee, you say you are getting checksum errors. This will be because you are backing up files whilst they are changing. No backup system can cope with that. If you use (ufs)dump for instance it will appear to work but you will still get a corrupted file. The good thing about bacula is

[Bacula-users] RE: Device is BLOCKED waiting for appendable media.

2005-05-16 Thread Andrew Paterson
Hi Evelyne,     if bacula detects a tape is already labelled it refuses to write a new label (it is trying to protect you!). All you have to do is use tar, dd or something else to write something to the tape to overwrite the existing bacula label before attempting to relabel.   You had be

[Bacula-users] Upgrading from 1.34.6 to 1.36.3

2005-05-16 Thread Andrew Paterson
Hi, I am considering upgrading from 1.34.6 to 1.36.3 and am (double!) checking the required DB updates. It appears that the Database schema follows its own versioning independent of the bacula source code (seems sensible). I conclude that I am running a Version 7 database schema (select *

[Bacula-users] RE: Upgrading live system from Bacula 1.34.6 tocurrent stable release

2005-05-13 Thread Andrew Paterson
generation ahead of postgres. Please enlighten me. Andrew R Paterson Systems Engineer DS Ltd -Original Message- From: Graham David Purcocks M.A.(Oxon.) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 May 2005 3:43PM Cc: bacula-users; Andrew Paterson Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Upgrading live system

[Bacula-users] FW: spam - it just gets to you(!)

2005-05-13 Thread Andrew Paterson
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 May 2005 10:13AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Andrew Paterson Subject: Re: FW: [Bacula-users] Subject : eBay Security Center On Tuesday 10 May 2005 10:03, Andrew Paterson wrote: > You ask what spam. > this kind of spam - I for one am registered

[Bacula-users] RE: Upgrading live system from Bacula 1.34.6 to current stable release

2005-05-11 Thread Andrew Paterson
t like linux generally in fact. Hence my desire to upgrade. Thanks for the reply Andrew Paterson -Original Message- From: Arno Lehmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 May 2005 21:08 To: Andrew Paterson Cc: Bacula-Users (E-mail) Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Upgrading live system f

[Bacula-users] Upgrading live system from Bacula 1.34.6 to current stable release

2005-05-11 Thread Andrew Paterson
Hi, I have been running Bacula 1.34.6 on WIN-XP, Solaris 2.6/7/8/9/10 (client only on XP & 2.6) for approximately a year now. What can I say ... I'm very fond of it :) However, I have a feeling I should upgrade to a newer version now - why? - (ummm! just a feeling in the ol' bones y'know!

[Bacula-users] Upgrading live system from Bacula 1.34.6 to current stable release

2005-05-11 Thread Andrew Paterson
Hi, I have been running Bacula 1.34.6 on WIN-XP, Solaris 2.6/7/8/9/10 (client only on XP & 2.6) for approximately a year now. What can I say ... I'm very fond of it :) However, I have a feeling I should upgrade to a newer version now - why? - (ummm! just a feeling in the ol' bones y'know!

FW: [Bacula-users] Subject : eBay Security Center

2005-05-10 Thread Andrew Paterson
You ask what spam. this kind of spam - I for one am registered in many mailing lists, yet I only receive this stuff from Bacula-users. It is very irritating   Andy Paterson   -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of eBaySent: 04 April 20

[Bacula-users] "IgnoreFileSets" bacula1.34.6

2005-04-27 Thread Andrew Paterson
Hi all, can anyone confirm that the "IgnoreFileSets" directive is supported in V1.34.6 please. I get : bacula-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at parse_conf.c:768 Config error: Keyword "IgnoreFileSetChanges" not permitted in this resource. Perhaps you left the trailing brace off of the previous res

RE: [Bacula-users] Whoops!

2005-04-08 Thread Andrew Paterson
's just that we can't afford loads of LTO tapes! Thanks again Andy >Hi. >Andrew Paterson wrote: >> Yesterday, I edited bacula-dir.conf to "update" my FileSet definitions. >> Last night this caused averything (15 hosts) to simultaneously upgrade >> them

[Bacula-users] Whoops!

2005-04-08 Thread Andrew Paterson
Yesterday, I edited bacula-dir.conf to "update" my FileSet definitions. Last night this caused averything (15 hosts) to simultaneously upgrade themselves to full level backups! (twelve hours later they have finished(!)). I would like to understand why this happened anybody? Andrew R Paterson