Re: [Bacula-users] Creating "archival" backup

2011-01-09 Thread Ben Beuchler
>> Once a year, I need to create a full backup that will be stored >> off-site.  This backup will not be readily available for normal >> restores.  The obvious approach would be to delete that backup (and >> its volumes) from the catalog so they will not be considered when >> performing future back

[Bacula-users] Creating "archival" backup

2011-01-05 Thread Ben Beuchler
Once a year, I need to create a full backup that will be stored off-site. This backup will not be readily available for normal restores. The obvious approach would be to delete that backup (and its volumes) from the catalog so they will not be considered when performing future backups/restores.

Re: [Bacula-users] mtx only sees half of the tapes in my Powervault 124T

2010-08-27 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Jeremiah D. Jester wrote: > Yup it's pretty dumb that the default configuration only recognizes one > magazine atleast > this was the case for us. You have to go into the web interface or menu and > specify "both" That did it, thanks! --

[Bacula-users] mtx only sees half of the tapes in my Powervault 124T

2010-08-26 Thread Ben Beuchler
I just hooked up my shiny new Powervault 124T with dual magazines to an Ubuntu 10.04 server via SAS. For some reason, mtx can only see the first (left) magazine. The output of mtx is below. The front panel interface sees all 16 slots just fine. Any suggestions? -Ben root:~# mtx -f /dev/sg4 in

[Bacula-users] How can I identifying "slack" in backup volumes?

2009-10-12 Thread Ben Beuchler
I'm doing disk-to-disk backups. Since backup sets fluctuate in size quite a bit, it's hard to tell how many volumes may be available to be recycled. This makes it difficult to tell when I need to add additional disks. As it stands, I may have hit a peak in backup size several months ago and may

Re: [Bacula-users] python support removal

2007-11-06 Thread Ben Beuchler
On 10/31/07, Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > see > http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=998 > > "After version 2.2.x Python will no longer be support -- there are an > insufficient number of users." Oy vey! I am even as we speak working on implementing some Python code to handle volume labeling!

[Bacula-users] Auto-labeling volumes from Python

2007-11-06 Thread Ben Beuchler
The example DirStartup.py shows an example NewVolume method that just assigns a generated volume name to job.VolumeName. Is that all that's needed for the system to label a new volume? Does it just label a new volume using the defaults defined in bacula-dir.conf? Thanks! -Ben -

[Bacula-users] Why use multiple pools with disk-based backup?

2007-11-05 Thread Ben Beuchler
I feel like I'm missing something: If I'm doing all of my backups to disk, is there an advantage to maintaining three distinct pools? Thanks! -Ben - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log