Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula packages repo for debian 12

2023-10-31 Thread Bob McNabb
I'm wondering that myself. I was able to install the 13.0.3 client on a debian 12 machine by downloading and installing the libssl1.1_1.1.1w-0+deb11u1_amd64.deb package and then the 13.0.3 debian 11 binaries run. Bob On 10/31/23 12:45 PM, Elias Pereira wrote: hello, Any idea when b

Re: [Bacula-users] access key

2023-09-14 Thread Bob McNabb
That was it Rob, thanks.  In spite of the instructions saying an email would be sent with the key it wasn't. Bob On 9/13/23 7:22 PM, Rob Gerber wrote: Another user ran into this recently - the link may not be emailed. At this time I don't think the key is emailed for Bacula Co

Re: [Bacula-users] access key

2023-09-13 Thread Bob McNabb
ad with a line specifying that your access key is "here". the key is in the url for that link. https://www.bacula.org/bacula-binary-package-download/Regards,Robert Gerber402-237-8692r...@craeon.netOn Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 5:54 PM Phil Stracchino <ph...@caerllewys.net> wrote:On 9/13/2

[Bacula-users] access key

2023-09-13 Thread Bob McNabb
Where do I obtain the access key for installing the community edition? Bob ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Sending spooled attrs to the Director Fatal error: Network error with FD during Backup: ERR=Connection reset by peer ?

2011-12-06 Thread Bob Hetzel
I've been doing backups for a long time now and one thing I've learned is that if you have a backup that takes more than 24 hrs you're asking for trouble. In theory this should work but since your fulls take so long you won't be able to get any changed files that it misses until you complete

Re: [Bacula-users] Medium set to "Error" after removing mobile Laptop

2011-11-10 Thread Bob Hetzel
> From: Ralph Kutschera > > Hallo! > >I'm having this problem since a while without finding a proper > solution. I use Bacula 5.0.2 on Debian 5.0.8 (Lenny). > >I'm backing up a Laptop which can be removed from the network > anytime, even during a backup job. To be honest I don't care wheth

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Changer / Marking Volume "xxxxx" in Error in Catalog

2011-11-02 Thread Bob Hetzel
and concurrently running 10-15 jobs concurrently on two drives. Also, I believe Kern said that was an "unsupported" configuration a while back, but they do intend to fix any bugs found in the "Maximum Concurrent Jobs " per device code. Bob

[Bacula-users] odd bacula error: ERR=Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service.

2011-11-02 Thread Bob Hetzel
so, it seems not to matter whether I use VSS or not in the fileset definition. I don't think the resource issue is in the directory but is in the fd as Bacula runs great on all my other servers. Just this one filesystem containing just IIS logs gives it some grief. Anybody

Re: [Bacula-users] junction point pain

2011-09-19 Thread Bob Hetzel
lease. Bob > > From: Ben Walton > Subject: [Bacula-users] junction point pain > To: Bacula Users > Message-ID: <131686-sup-9...@pinkfloyd.chass.utoronto.ca> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > > Hi All, > > Is there an easy way to define a fileset

Re: [Bacula-users] Please mount Volume

2011-09-15 Thread Bob Hetzel
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Please mount Volume > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: <4e71b856.4090...@phoenixsoftware.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Am 14.09.2011 10:37, schrieb lalecherej: >> Hello, >> >> Yes, there are others volumes "append" in the I

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula changes volume status from append to used. Why?

2011-08-17 Thread Bob Hetzel
> Hello, > > we like to backup 18 different hosts on one tape. After the last job has > finished, Bacula should close the tape. > The problem is that Bacula closes the volume already after the first (!) > job, so that the next job waits for an appendable volume. > > We changed the status of the

Re: [Bacula-users] Save to run clients with version 2.4 together with director and storage with version 5.x?

2011-08-16 Thread Bob Hetzel
> > Hello, > > just a simple question: is it save to run director and storages in > version 5.X together with clients with version 2.4? Background is, I > have to update director and storages sooner or later since more and more > of the clients come with version 5.X when installed. But it is >

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Volume creation

2011-07-07 Thread Bob Hetzel
that you may prefer. > > -- > Bill Arlofski > Reverse Polarity, LLC > http://www.revpol.com/ > Folks, Put a "Label Media = yes" line in your device config of your bacula-sd.conf file. Do NOT set a LabeLFormat value for tapes if you're using barcodes. The onl

[Bacula-users] Performance options for single large (100TB) server backup?

2011-06-28 Thread Bob Hetzel
Steve, You should be able to run multiple file daemons on the storage device, but a better idea might be to run the backups (and restores) off the clients, as many in parallel as your system can handle. Look into concurrency. If you split up the fileset into separate jobs you can have them go

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems backing up to disk

2011-06-27 Thread Bob Hetzel
On 6/25/11 1:13 PM, mikewilt wrote: >> > I have set up two similar installations at home and at church. They both >> > have the same problem. Both are running under Linux: >> > >> > Linux version 2.6.26-2-686 (Debian 2.6.26-26lenny1) (da...@debian.org) >> > (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704 (prerel

Re: [Bacula-users] Long running restore canceled by tape error? Any way to continue?

2011-06-13 Thread Bob Hetzel
The problem is that your setup is stretching your hardware way beyond the limits as you've configured it. In most cases I would say that you should configure your file sets such that backups and restores take less than one day each. If that means you have to break up a 50TB filesystem into 25

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Recycling Methods

2011-05-10 Thread Bob Hetzel
my tapes works great. I use an auto-loader with bar-codes and let Bacula worry about what tape to grab next. If you're going to have all the same hardware and media type, you probably won't get any utility out of multiple pools for differential, increme

Re: [Bacula-users] Help Troubleshooting Windows FD

2011-05-04 Thread Bob Hetzel
> From: Mingus Dew > Dear All, > I am trying to install the latest Win64 client downloaded from > bacula.org on a Windows 2008 server. The application does appear to install > correctly, but when trying to start the service it fails to start and > generates "Error 1067: The process terminate

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

2011-04-29 Thread Bob Hetzel
> From: Jason Voorhees > >> > >> > to get the maximum speed with your LTO-5 drive you should enable data >> > spooling and change the "Maximum File Size" parameter. The spool disk >> > must be a fast one, especially if you want to run concurrent jobs. >> > Forget hdparm as benchmark, use bonnie++

[Bacula-users] Exclude Dir Containing directive only works with just one value

2011-04-19 Thread Bob Hetzel
before the first Exclude Dir Containing directive was added to the FileSet. Can anybody confirm this or has anybody found a work-around of some sort? Since we'd like end-users to create the file themselves it would be helpful if it would work either way, due to the odd way windows work

Re: [Bacula-users] force backup of unchanged file, inincrementalbackup

2011-04-15 Thread Bob Hetzel
full backup of the user dbs, and 1 to do transaction log backups of the user dbs. The backup files can even be compressed in SQL 2008. Bacula backs up those db backup files quite well. If you try to do your backups of closed systems like Microsoft products in ways specifically warned against

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-users Digest, Vol 59, Issue 27

2011-03-31 Thread Bob Hetzel
It still applies because bacula (and most everything else too nowadays from the look of things) uses shared libraries. If you upgrade the libraries you may need to re-compile anything that was built with the old versions if you want rock solid reliability. In my environment I kept getting cras

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula restore to Windows 2008 R2

2011-03-11 Thread Bob Hetzel
lem was created during backup or during restore, though. Bob > From: Joseph Dickson > Subject: [Bacula-users] Bacula restore to Windows 2008 R2 > To: "bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net" > > Message-ID: > <6ec20b642833cc4da01b66d0064cf84bc9fdb66...

Re: [Bacula-users] Include Dir Containing?

2011-03-03 Thread Bob Hetzel
> From: Christian Manal > Subject: > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: <4d6cb79b.3070...@informatik.uni-bremen.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Am 26.02.2011 04:52, schrieb Dan Langille: >> > On 2/25/2011 5:49 AM, Christian Manal wrote: >>> >> Am 22.

Re: [Bacula-users] Volume retention periods

2011-02-22 Thread Bob Hetzel
> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:43:52 -0500 > From: Javier Gomez > Subject: [Bacula-users] Volume retention periods > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > We have been using Bacula for a few years now and have enjoyed its > features. But I need some help to understand one key retention p

Re: [Bacula-users] looking for a tape

2011-02-22 Thread Bob Hetzel
, bacula ignores the InChanger field. Bob > Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:47:15 -0600 > From: > Subject: [Bacula-users] looking for a tape > To: > Message-ID: > > > > The following is on a CentOS 5.5 x86_64 system with bacula 2.0.3-10 installed > and work

Re: [Bacula-users] no upgrade path for windows servers?

2011-02-15 Thread Bob Hetzel
On 2/14/2011 7:25 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > On 2/14/2011 4:52 PM, Bob Hetzel wrote: >> >> In summary, Dir and FD need to be at the same version, FD version should be >> really close if you want to be sure you can use newer features, bug >> fixes, etc. > > Did you

Re: [Bacula-users] no upgrade path for windows servers?

2011-02-14 Thread Bob Hetzel
Jeff Shanholtz schrieb: >> > ... >> > Finally, I assume that if I stay with 3.0.1 on the server, I can upgrade >> > clients to 5.0.3, correct? I'm crossing my fingers that the client "status" >> > window will be a little more informative than just a big blank window like >> > it is in 3.0.1. :)

Re: [Bacula-users] What does VolStatus = Error mean?

2011-01-27 Thread Bob Hetzel
On 1/27/2011 4:19 AM, ml ml wrote: >>> >>> What does VolStatus = Error mean? I might have restarted my Storage >>> Deamon whilst a Backup run was in progress. That might haved caused >>> the error. >>> However, since i am using Autolabeling, i am running out of Volumes. >>> Are the Volumes now usel

Re: [Bacula-users] What does VolStatus = Error mean?

2011-01-26 Thread Bob Hetzel
> Hello List, > > list volumes gives me this list: > > +-+-+---+-+---+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+ > | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes | > VolFiles | VolRetentio

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs + autochanger

2011-01-26 Thread Bob Hetzel
> Hello, > I'm completely lost regarding the Maximum Concurrent Jobs directive on > multiple places. > > First, my setup: > -Autochanger, about 70 slots > -2 LTO4 Drives inside autochanger > -2 backup Pools defined, and a Scratch pool. pool1 used by Job1 for unix > clients, pool2 used by Job2 and

Re: [Bacula-users] How change the MedId for an exist Volume

2010-12-16 Thread Bob Hetzel
by MediaId' to use something 'order by VolumeName' instead. I figured that would be a great enhancement to the bacula code but didn't know if there were actually some people who preferred the MediaId order, perhaps because they're mixing LTO3 and LTO4 tapes or something,

Re: [Bacula-users] Storage error: "The sizes do not match!"

2010-12-15 Thread Bob Hetzel
ppending to the volume w/o marking the volume in error. Bob > From: dmbo > Subject: [Bacula-users] Storage error: "The sizes do not match!" > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: <1291857583.m2f.348...@www.backupcentral.com> > > Hi, >

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy Job performance issues

2010-12-07 Thread Bob Hetzel
This comes up periodically on the list. Check this thread for more settings you'll need to tweak to get more write speed: http://marc.info/?t=12899980386&r=1&w=2 > Subject: [Bacula-users] Copy Job performance issues > To: bacula-users > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us

Re: [Bacula-users] bscan, file retention, and pruning

2010-11-19 Thread Bob Hetzel
On 11/18/2010 11:00 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > On 11/18/2010 4:20 PM, Bob Hetzel wrote: >>> From: Craig Miskell >>> Subject: [Bacula-users] bscan, file retention, and pruning >>> To: bacula-users >>> Message-ID:<4ce45109.4010...@opus.co.nz> >

Re: [Bacula-users] bscan, file retention, and pruning

2010-11-18 Thread Bob Hetzel
this change might be, though. It seems rather counter intuitive for bacula to try to prune something at the end of a restore job (successful or failed) so it may be a bigger project than adding a simple if statement... Has anybody dug into that part of the code? Bob > From: Craig Misk

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow LTO4 write speed

2010-11-18 Thread Bob Hetzel
for most users don't seem to improve performance. If you are interested in improving your backup speeds, this is definitely a place to experiment. You will probably also want to make the corresponding change in each of your File daemons conf files. Bob > > Hi! > > We'

Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning for large (millions of files) backups?

2010-11-12 Thread Bob Hetzel
> From: Gavin McCullagh > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning for large (millions of files) > backups? > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: <2010144733.gz20...@gcd.ie> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Mon, 08 Nov 2010, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > >> > W

Re: [Bacula-users] Can you tell which are active clients from Bacula's database?

2010-11-05 Thread Bob Hetzel
olve your concern of eliminating records from the resultset that aren't "current". However, once the no-longer-active clients' backups have fully expired and you run the bacula 'dbcheck' tool they will be purged from the client list in the db so should be eliminate

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula problems in windows 7 64 bit

2010-10-29 Thread Bob Hetzel
make sure there aren't any remaining sections that say something like Name = @monitor_n...@. To fix this you'd have to fill in all the @variables with actual values and then restart the bacula-fd service. Bob > From: List Man > Subject: [Bacula-users] Bacula problems in

Re: [Bacula-users] Introduction and Help Needed

2010-10-25 Thread Bob Hetzel
> From: Brian Blater > Subject: [Bacula-users] Introduction and Help Needed > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Ok, I'm new to Bacula but I'm in no way new to IT or backups. I've > been around the "IT block" many tim

Re: [Bacula-users] No medium found.. How to force it?

2010-10-06 Thread Bob Hetzel
are using an autochanger you need to specify 'Autochanger = yes' so bacula will check the InChanger field when it works with media. Bob -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards

[Bacula-users] Bacula failures reporting or sql query help...

2010-09-23 Thread Bob Hetzel
on't show up in my result set, so I'm asking here if somebody else has already gone down this path and figured out the solution. Bob -- Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North Am

[Bacula-users] Suggestion: order by VolumeName instead of MediaId

2010-09-09 Thread Bob Hetzel
isn't meant to imply that it doesn't exist). It may or may not be worth it to add a configure parameter or .conf setting so the end user can choose... barring both of those does anybody have a concern about just changing the 'list volumes' query to order the volumes by

[Bacula-users] Testing bacula configs generates orphaned buffer message: bacula 5.0.3

2010-09-09 Thread Bob Hetzel
r typos difficult to say the least. Anybody have any other ideas for how to parse the files looking for obvious issues like quoting, etc? Bob -- This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programmi

Re: [Bacula-users] bare metal windows server 2003 restore

2010-06-14 Thread Bob Hetzel
g to wipe the drive after the backup you really want to eliminate all writes that can't be lost before taking the final backup. Bob > From: Bruno Friedmann > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bare metal windows server 2003 restore > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Messag

Re: [Bacula-users] low despooling speeds when parallelism is increased

2010-06-02 Thread Bob Hetzel
when using a SAN I'd think that the bottleneck is the server CPU. If you're not CPU bound, then increasing the read cache wherever you're holding the spool should help. Bob > From: Athanasios Douitsis > > Hi everyone, > > Our setup consists of a Dell 2950 ser

Re: [Bacula-users] Basic question on Pruning and Volume Retention

2010-05-24 Thread Bob Hetzel
> Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 10:34:26 +0200 > From: Marcus M?lb?sch > Subject: > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: <4bf4f412.40...@as-infodienste.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >> >I have to admit I am a bit confused now with t

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Eject tape once job finishes

2010-05-17 Thread Bob Hetzel
> From: taisgeal > Subject: [Bacula-users] Automatic Eject tape once job finishes > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: <1273850935.m2f.334...@www.backupcentral.com> > > > Hello, > > I have read and reread dozens of threads on this board and at this stage am > at my wit's end.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula timeouts on usb-drive

2010-04-22 Thread Bob Hetzel
gt; fine. > > Does anybody have a suggestion on what to do? > > /Mike You could try a RunBeforeJob command that includes something like /bin/ls /auto-mounted-fs >>/dev/null /bin/sleep 60 You may not actually need the sleep statement so try it without too. a

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple drives in changer

2010-04-07 Thread Bob Hetzel
> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 08:52:24 -0600 > From: Robert LeBlanc > > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Matija Nalis > >> > wrote: >> > On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 10:36:59AM -0600, Robert LeBlanc wrote: >>> > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 2:44 AM, Matija Nalis >>> > > >>> > > > > > I think you need to s

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula volume selection -- InChanger

2010-04-07 Thread Bob Hetzel
Tom > Tom, In your bacula-dir.conf file, go to the Storage section. Do you have a line that says "Autochanger = yes"? If not, add it. Bob -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new so

Re: [Bacula-users] Recycle Pool and autoloaders

2010-03-31 Thread Bob Hetzel
You may want to upgrade bacula to 5.0.1. One change I've noticed is that prior versions didn't purge/recycle tapes not found in the autochanger, which as a consequence didn't add them back into the Scratch pool. > Hi, > Yes, that's exactly the feature i need. I'll put it in as a feature > req

Re: [Bacula-users] Long-term backups - was: Hard disk as backup media

2010-03-26 Thread Bob Hetzel
>> > >> > What is the best strategy and storage media for long-term backups, say >> > to 10 or 20 years (if any)? I ask because I do have an old DLT tape >> > drive and some tapes, unusable, because its SCSI controller is no longer >> > among us. It is not 10 years old and is already a problem. >

[Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-16 Thread Bob Cousins
The online documentation indicates that enhancement requests should be posted to this group. I'd like to see a small number of enhancements. Many of these have been mentioned before, so please just consider this comment a "Me Too!" to add weight to those who decide what is next. - Clean/automat

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows XP File Daemon - Service Stops With Unknown Error

2010-03-09 Thread Bob Hetzel
. In all cases these issues caused the windows FD to stop during a backup, so I hope this helps but if not, you may have to turn on debugging in the FD and cross your fingers that it happens and logs what went wrong. Bob > From: Drew Bentley >> > I can't seem to figure

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS Windows Backups

2010-02-17 Thread Bob Hetzel
> From: Arno Lehmann > Subject: Re: > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: <4b7bc766.4040...@its-lehmann.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi, > > 16.02.2010 16:48, Bob Hetzel wrote: > >> > Las

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS Windows Backups

2010-02-16 Thread Bob Hetzel
> > Hello, > > 15.02.2010 20:15, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>> >> For such a full backup, you need some secondary windows installation >>> >> for the resore itself - for Server 2003 and XP, BartPE is a convenient >>> >> way to get such a thing. For newer Windows versions, you probably best >>> >

Re: [Bacula-users] Re store OK but no files are restored

2010-02-12 Thread Bob Hetzel
> I am running Bacula 3.0.2 on Ubuntu server Apache2 MySQL > > The backups seem to be working OK so I thought I had better test a restore! > This also seemed to run OK, but there were no files restored. I tried > different "where" locations but still no joy. > The log snip below shows all is well

Re: [Bacula-users] Full Backup After Previously Successful Full with Ignore FileSet Changes Enabled

2010-02-11 Thread Bob Hetzel
#x27;t the latest released Bacula. Then the Real Gurus (not me) > here might immediatedly be able to say "oh yes, that was a bug that was fixed > in x.y" > Here's my understanding of why it didn't work as you expect... when you add the Ignore Fileset Changes

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] bug in autolabel code in 5.0.0?

2010-02-04 Thread Bob Hetzel
Richard Scobie wrote: > Bob Hetzel wrote: > >> My next thought was to try use "tar" to read and write from a tape. That >> works fine: I've been able to back up an entire directory and restore >> files from it. I've also back up a single file an

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] bug in autolabel code in 5.0.0?

2010-02-04 Thread Bob Hetzel
Richard Scobie wrote: > Bob Hetzel wrote: >> >> Has anybody gotten 5.0.0 to label tapes properly? I upgraded to 5.0.0 a >> couple days ago and backups worked that first night until they ran out of >> appendable (i.e. already partially written) media. Since t

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] bug in autolabel code in 5.0.0?

2010-02-03 Thread Bob Hetzel
Has anybody gotten 5.0.0 to label tapes properly? I upgraded to 5.0.0 a couple days ago and backups worked that first night until they ran out of appendable (i.e. already partially written) media. Since that point, I've been completely stuck. I just ran the btape "auto" test on a lark and th

Re: [Bacula-users] Post-upgrade, from 2.4.4 to 3.0.2, bconsole is hung up.

2010-02-03 Thread Bob Gamble
I remember bconsole not working after upgrading to 3.x too, but I had backed up the 2.4 version before upgrading. I simply copied the bconsole binary from 2.4.x into the 3.x install directory and it worked fine for me. Whether that is recommended I couldn't say, but it has been working for me for

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] bug in autolabel code in 5.0.0?

2010-02-02 Thread Bob Hetzel
John Drescher wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Bob Hetzel wrote: >> >> John Drescher wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Bob Hetzel wrote: >>>> Greetings, >>>> >>>> I've just upgraded to 5.0.0 and have run into

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 3.0.3 maintain ctime on restored files?

2010-01-15 Thread Bob Hetzel
> In the case here it's rather a large issue (granted due to other > problems like hardware or software issues that require restores of data > and is NOT something that I want to continue, however we are living in > an imperfect world) but to give you an idea the dataset size is about > 30-40T

Re: [Bacula-users] Multi Volume Archives

2009-12-14 Thread Bob Hetzel
> On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 15:39 -0500, Bob Hetzel wrote: >> 1) Bacula is indeed able to seek within a tape. If you're having trouble >> with this functionality you need to look at the storage daemon options at >> >> http://www.bacula.org/

Re: [Bacula-users] Multi Volume Archives

2009-12-14 Thread Bob Hetzel
u won't be able to give it tape 10. However, the tape 9 files will already be written and canceling the restore does not delete them. Bob > Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:30:29 +1300 > From: Richard Scobie > If a tape is damaged in a multi volume archive, is it possible to > r

Re: [Bacula-users] Monthly rotation strategies

2009-12-03 Thread Bob Hetzel
As I've said before... do NOT rely on all your backups for an entire month being on one tape. If the tape breaks on the last backup of the month, the net result is that you'll have no backup at all. I currently have Volume Use Duration set to 5 in my environment and I feel like that's even a lit

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] RFC: backing up hundreds of TB

2009-11-28 Thread Bob Hetzel
Ralf Gross wrote: > Arno Lehmann schrieb: >> 27.11.2009 13:23, Ralf Gross wrote: >>> [crosspost to -users and -devel list] >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> we are happily using bacula since a few years and already backing up >>> some dozens of TB (large video files) to tape. >>> >>> In the next 2-3 years the

[Bacula-users] Limitations displaying large file sizes in bconsole when browsing for a restore?

2009-11-17 Thread Bob Hetzel
Are there any odd limitations in the bconsole (both 'restore' and 'estimate listing' sections) browsing with regard to large files, such as VMware disk files? I've just stumbled onto this oddity... # ls -l pituitary-flat.vmdk -rw-r- 1 root root 21474836480 Nov 17 15:27 pituitary-flat.vmdk

[Bacula-users] bconsole shortcut command parameters: specifically add command

2009-11-11 Thread Bob Hetzel
ht parameters to the add command so as to specify the label on the command line. Has anybody figured this out how to skip past this prompt ? "Enter number of Volumes to create. 0=>fixed name. Max=1000: " Bob ---

Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger and barcode

2009-10-16 Thread Bob Hetzel
nchanger-out of changer tape rotation, periodically remove tapes marked Full or Used. To label them do 'label barcodes slots=first-last" substituting the slot numbers for the first and last slots holding the tapes to be labelled. Bob > From: Nicola Quargentan > Subject: [Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] 2 issues that driving me nuts

2009-10-05 Thread Bob Hetzel
sing a changer in both the bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf files. So for me, the appropriate section of my bacula-dir.conf file is... Storage { Name = Dell-PV136T Autochanger = yes Address = gyrus SDPort = 9103 Device = Dell-PV136T Medi

Re: [Bacula-users] Howto make bacula unmount a disk after backup?

2009-08-25 Thread Bob Hetzel
to once place and create some other job to copy it to removable USB media when you're ready to unmount it. If you unmount it from a schedule and don't actually unplug the drive you may not be able to write any more stuff to it until it's unplugged/replugged. Bob > From: A

Re: [Bacula-users] status storage freezes at "Used Volume Status"

2009-08-20 Thread Bob Hetzel
Ralf, My suggestion is to try upgrading your server to 3.0.2. You won't need to upgrade all your FD's. Since I went through that, the things that used to hang bacula in my environment (at exactly the same place you describe) are fixed. Bob > From: Ralf Gross > > Hi

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula spool on SSD -- solid state drive performance testing?

2009-07-22 Thread Bob Hetzel
John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Bob Hetzel wrote: >> >> John Drescher wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Bob Hetzel wrote: >>>> Has anybody tinkered around with spooling backups on an SSD (aka solid >>>> state drive)

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula spool on SSD -- solid state drive performance testing?

2009-07-22 Thread Bob Hetzel
John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Bob Hetzel wrote: >> Has anybody tinkered around with spooling backups on an SSD (aka solid >> state drive) or a raid-0 pair of them for higher performance? >> > > I spool to a 4 drive sata raid 0 but since I o

[Bacula-users] Bacula spool on SSD -- solid state drive performance testing?

2009-07-22 Thread Bob Hetzel
Has anybody tinkered around with spooling backups on an SSD (aka solid state drive) or a raid-0 pair of them for higher performance? It would seem that the issue of latency introduced by thrashing the hard drive with several concurrent readers and writers would be lessened on flash ram, but I'

Re: [Bacula-users] migration and copying

2009-07-17 Thread Bob Gamble
Hmm, thanks. With that news I'm at a stand still with full volumes. Would it work to mount the storage on to the same server that does the backup? On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Dirk Bartley wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 16:57 -0800, Bob Gamble wrote: > > Can someone expla

[Bacula-users] migration and copying

2009-07-16 Thread Bob Gamble
Can someone explain to me how a migration or copy is generally supposed to work? In my mind, I would like to take a full volume, which has Full/Differential/Incremental backups in it and copy or migrate it to another storage server. I know the volume contains good backups and is marked as "Full."

Re: [Bacula-users] mystifying restore problem w/ bacula-fd for, windows 3.0.1 .. invisible directories created

2009-07-02 Thread Bob Hetzel
will affect the command prompt behavior that you've found but that behavior is not unusual for when directories are marked System or Hidden. Bob > Apparently I need to do much more comprehensive restore testing, because > when I need, it my bacula installation has fallen down a

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with accurate backups

2009-06-15 Thread Bob
f complexity to using bacula on solaris that i'm not looking forward to. Does anyone know if using bacula compiled against mysql 4.0 is going to cause any issues when connecting to a database running version 5.0 or newer? Bob --

[Bacula-users] Problem with accurate backups

2009-06-14 Thread Bob
I have installed both 3.0.0 & 3.0.1 on a test sever using the same configuration and hardware as my production serer. Everything works as expected until I enable accurate backups. I can run a level full backup which runs with no problem but when I try an incremental i get this error. JobId 2:

[Bacula-users] The number of files mismatch! Marking volume in Error in Catalog

2009-06-02 Thread Bob Hetzel
semed.case.edu/admin_computing/bacula/bacula-2009-06-01.log.txt Bob -- OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the la

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't relabel a tape

2009-05-28 Thread Bob Hetzel
Previously John Drescher said, > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:52 AM, C.DriK wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > Thank you for your reply. >> > My bacula configuration is not perfect, and sometimes I have some problem >> > (especially with the autochanger, it not change the tape automaticaly). >> > Once a

Re: [Bacula-users] fileset question

2009-05-15 Thread Bob Hetzel
e you'd want to exclude .lnk files? Also, after setting this up, you can log the list of files it gets with the command @output /tmp/file-listing.txt estimate listing job= @output I typically look over those lists for stuff to exclude, but mainly I sort it by size to exclude big stuff

Re: [Bacula-users] Use new client with old server?

2009-04-01 Thread Bob Hetzel
> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 13:44:47 -0400 > From: John Drescher > > 2009/4/1 Arch Willingham : >> > Our server is still at 2.4.2 (Ubuntu)?.does it matter which version of >> > Windows clients are used? How about the beta clients >> > winbacula-2.5.42-b2.exe? >> > >> > >> > >> > ?I just tried upgradi

Re: [Bacula-users] Severe Performance Issues with high volume of files

2009-04-01 Thread Bob Hetzel
with 64 bit linux. Have you considered upgrading to LTO-2 or better? If you ever have to get all 5 TB off tape at LTO-1 speeds you're probably going to be under a lot of stress. Bob > Hi ! > > TL;DR > When backing up / migrating clients with a high volume of files the

Re: [Bacula-users] How to display specific jobids in bconsole

2009-03-26 Thread Bob Hetzel
I see option "10: Find the JobIds for a backup for a client before a specified time" only lists the most recent Full and it's following incrementals (with regard to the date entered)

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestions for selecting Bacula version

2009-03-13 Thread Bob Hetzel
x27;t use but may be desired after getting things going. Reynier Pérez Mira wrote: > On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 11:39 -0400, Bob Hetzel wrote: > > First of all let me thanks to every people who takes a minutes or maybe > more to answer my questions. I and some others guy starting a DataCenter

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestions for selecting Bacula version

2009-03-12 Thread Bob Hetzel
g problem that's not easy to solve. In my case I just put my compile options in a script so I don't have to re-figure them out every time and so it takes only about 5 mins to install a new bacula version or a patch fix. Bob Previously, Kevin Keane said... > There is no 100%

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula limits

2009-03-02 Thread Bob Hetzel
I think I might have one of the bigger installations doing both servers and desktops... although judging from the wiki stats page referenced in this thread I'm clearly not the biggest in any category. The Catalog, SD, and Dir are all on same box. System Description: Centos 5.2 x86_64, 2xIntel

Re: [Bacula-users] Some restores slow, some restores fast

2009-03-02 Thread Bob Hetzel
Is it possible that the network driver on your boot device is just out of date (i.e. buggy) or that the firmware (hard drives, controllers, network adapter, etc) on the server with the problem just needs updating? While we're on the topic... how did you get the windows bare metal restore to wor

[Bacula-users] re-run restore job by jobid?

2009-02-19 Thread Bob Hetzel
tell it 'run jobid=12345' so I wouldn't have to re-select all the files again. Does this already exist? Bob -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles

[Bacula-users] restore oddities: files restored more than files expected and job pruning

2009-01-13 Thread Bob Hetzel
Here's the specifics of my bacula installation gyrus-dir Version: 2.4.3 (10 October 2008) i686-pc-linux-gnu suse 10.2 Daemon started 08-Jan-09 19:31, 799 Jobs run since started. Heap: heap=1,871,872 smbytes=632,680 max_bytes=2,934,571 bufs=5,050 max_bufs=10,223 I recently ran a restore job and

Re: [Bacula-users] How to do a systemstate backup?

2009-01-09 Thread Bob Duman
s for > just about anything Open Source. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB > ___ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users Thanks, Bob Duman Senior Systems Engineer Cle

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] bacula hang issue. was: bacula sometimes gets stuck when volume wanted is already in a different drive

2009-01-06 Thread Bob Hetzel
tex_lock_wait () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #2 0xb7e1aa3c in _L_mutex_lock_88 () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 > > On Tuesday 06 January 2009 15:59:13 Bob Hetzel wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've had a problem for a while whereby bacula hangs waiting for storage. >> >

[Bacula-users] bacula hang issue. was: bacula sometimes gets stuck when volume wanted is already in a different drive

2009-01-06 Thread Bob Hetzel
Hi all, I've had a problem for a while whereby bacula hangs waiting for storage. Here's the message I posted to the bacula-users list previously. http://marc.info/?l=bacula-users&m=123004380923706&w=2 Yesterday I upgraded to 2.4.4 and I think I've still got that problem--bacula still stops pro

[Bacula-users] bacula sometimes gets stuck when volume wanted is already in a different drive

2008-12-23 Thread Bob Hetzel
I'm running v 2.4.3 of bacula on OpenSuse 10.2 with a two tape-drive autoloader and I've been having this problem every few days for a while now: bacula wants a tape that's already loaded but in a different drive and it's not able to just unload the tape and move it or better yet just use it w

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