Re: [Bacula-users] VMware vSphere support with VADP

2010-03-18 Thread Arthur Emerson III
may be limited to just a few of us. (Even smaller group than for the Exchange plugin?) Unfortunately, I do not have any funding, programming resources, or skills to throw at such an endeavor. -Arthur ------------- Arthur Eme

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple disks as a single storage

2010-02-18 Thread Arthur Emerson III
the drive was mounted. Of course, you might be better off using LVM or a vchanger, but symlinks have been working fine for me in what sounds like the same environment you're trying to build. -Arthur ------------- Arthur Emerso

[Bacula-users] Rif: Re: Bacula - ESXi - vmdk hot backup

2010-01-22 Thread Arthur Emerson III
included a well-documented API for third-party enterprise backup software to utilize for doing VM backups. It may be worth someone with some programming experience investigating this interface scheme to see if Bacula can exploit it for a plugin or something... -Arthur ----

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula server hardware requirement

2007-06-22 Thread Arthur Emerson III
never have enough disk space for backups. -Arthur ------------- Arthur Emerson III Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator InterNIC: AE81 Mount Saint Mary College MaBell: (845) 561-0800 Ext. 3109 3

Re: [Bacula-users] N00b question: how to do a one-off backup?

2007-05-28 Thread Arthur Emerson III
, since Catalog is defined per-client in the config file, you could make a second catalog for this job so that it doesn't pollute your default one with archived entries. Hope this helps. -Arthur --------- A

Re: [Bacula-users] File Storage on multiple partitions

2007-05-18 Thread Arthur Emerson III
'm all ears. -Arthur ------------- Arthur Emerson III Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator InterNIC: AE81 Mount Saint Mary College MaBell: (845) 561-0800 Ext. 3109 330 Powell Ave.Fax:

Re: [Bacula-users] too many files backed up

2007-05-10 Thread Arthur Emerson III
if the client system wrote a file with a time stamp that's even in the future of it's own clock, then all bets are obviously off. Might as well back it up, though. :-) -Arthur ------------- Arthur Emerson III

Re: [Bacula-users] too many files backed up

2007-05-07 Thread Arthur Emerson III
incremental backups... -Arthur ------------- Arthur Emerson III Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator InterNIC: AE81 Mount Saint Mary College MaBell: (845) 561-0800 Ext. 3109 330 Pow

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula, Mondo and Mindi

2007-04-30 Thread Arthur Emerson III
ector/database virtually as well.) I'm going to make the catalog backup job also trigger a VM snapshot/copy/export of the director one of these days, which will make it just about as disaster-proof as I can get it. -Arthur --------------

Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size greater than files

2007-04-02 Thread Arthur Emerson III
ula backs them up. Feel free to list the files in the archive and add up the storage in these two folders from your backup to see if they account for the extra 3 gigs of backup size. -Arthur - Arthur Emerson III

[Bacula-users] Timestamps in catalog for files open during VSS backup

2007-03-30 Thread Arthur Emerson III
completed backup on the 2.0.x box, I'm hesitant to touch the running 1.38.5 box and/or perform any software updates to it. Thanks again to everyone for your hard work on a great project!!! -Arthur ------------- Arthur E

Re: [Bacula-users] Two SDs (file) - Strange behavior...

2007-03-19 Thread Arthur Emerson III
mon and disk controller is probably a little bit of a plus to better disk throughput as well. Of course, I may be wrong, but my $0.02 is to start by checking the disk throughput on your "backup1" box before you dig any deeper into Bacula's configuration. -Arthur

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir process failing to start. [SOLVED]

2006-02-01 Thread Arthur Emerson III
Will McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> When I did the upgrade from 1.38.2 to 1.38.5-2 on my RHEL4.2 >> system via rpmbuild, there were a few gotchas that stopped >> the director from starting. One was that /etc/sysconfig/bacula >> needed these lines: >> >> DIR_USER="bacula" >> DIR_GROUP="d

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir process failing to start.

2006-01-31 Thread Arthur Emerson III
Will McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I've switched to 1.38.5-4 in the hopes of resolving the volume > management problems I've been having. [snip] > I built these RPMs on a CentOS 4 system with... > > rpmbuild --rebuild --define "build_centos4 1" --define "build_mysql 1" > --define "build_mysql4

[Bacula-users] Re: Time for a Bacula book?

2006-01-12 Thread Arthur Emerson III
Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nevertheless, I would like to find someone to undertake this > project, preferrably with the kinds of skills mentioned by John. > For my part, I can work on finding a publisher, contribute a good > amount of the work and provide authorization to use any

[Bacula-users] Re: Making Rescue CD [from RPM install]

2005-12-28 Thread Arthur Emerson III
Kern Sibbald wrote: > > There seems to be some problem here, because the rescue rpm > should load a copy of the rescue directory that "knows" that > it was installed by an rpm and hence it should pick up the > static bacula FD that was installed with your normal rpm. > Apparently it is not doing t

Re: [Bacula-users] Pruning help

2005-11-16 Thread Arthur Emerson III
Thomas Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When bacula fills all the tapes in the library I > would like it to prune the oldest tape > available, is this possible. I'm not a Bacula guru by a long shot, but the fix seems as simple as adding Maximum Volumes = 9 (or whatever the number of tapes y

[Bacula-users] 1.38.0 RPM conflict with mtx on RHEL4

2005-11-08 Thread Arthur Emerson III
I just went to install the MySQL EL3 1.38.0 RPM onto a fresh RHEL4 system, and received the following errors: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm --install bacula-mysql-1.38.0-1.EL3.i386.rpm warning: bacula-mysql-1.38.0-1.EL3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 10a792ad file /usr/sbin/loader

[Bacula-users] Tape + Disk storage logic suggestion

2005-10-04 Thread Arthur Emerson III
Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only part of this implementation that I have not worked out > in my head is how to deal with the catalog. If there are two > identical backups of a Job on two different Volumes, the Director > is not currently aware of it. There needs to be some wa

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with WX-Console

2005-09-20 Thread Arthur Emerson III
"Mike Pultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I get to the restore tree page (where it lists all the > files/directories, and you're supposed to select the files you > want to restore), for some reason, if the directory I'm browsing > it has more than a certain number of files (not sure exactly

Re: [Bacula-users] strange network problem with windows client

2005-09-13 Thread Arthur Emerson III
"Michael Dauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am stuck. I succeeded to make a backup from a WinXP Pro as it > was inside the LAN. Then I moved it outside and adapted the IP > addresses in all configs. If "outside the LAN" includes a network address translation (NAT) router, then you will need

Re: [Bacula-users] network performance

2005-09-09 Thread Arthur Emerson III
n live with this throughput on a 100 megabit ethernet... -Arthur ------------- Arthur Emerson III Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator InterNIC: AE81 Mount Saint Mary College MaBell: (845) 561-0800 Ext. 3109 330 Powell Ave.

Re: [Bacula-users] Big problems with my Bacula.....

2005-09-07 Thread Arthur Emerson III
operly, I'll install a copy of the Bacula SD onto the ARCserve box and liberate the tape changer as the last step of freeing ourselves from CA's pile of toss software. -Arthur - Arthur Emerson III Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Adm