[Bacula-users] "Max Wait Time" Clarification

2007-08-30 Thread Charles Sprickman
Wait Time" is set to say, 6 hours, which one would apply to an Incremental job that has been waiting on a tape? Thanks, Charles ___ Charles Sprickman NetEng/SysAdmin Bway.net - New York's Best Internet - www.bway.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 212.655.9344

[Bacula-users] "status dir" and scheduled jobs

2007-08-27 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi all, I'm starting to work on a script to alert me to what tapes will be needed for upcoming runs. According to the manual (I think), this info should be shown in the "status dir" output. Mine looks like this, and has for as long as I can remember: *status dir Automatically selected Catalog

Re: [Bacula-users] signal 11: Segmentation violation

2007-08-27 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Dimitrios wrote: > On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:55:38 -0400 Charles Sprickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> I can't offer much in the way of suggestions, but I ran into the same >> thing the other day. This was bacula 2.0.3. My workaround was

Re: [Bacula-users] signal 11: Segmentation violation

2007-08-25 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Aug 25, 2007, at 4:48 AM, Dimitrios wrote: > Today i needed to recover a single file from my backup, thus i > executed > bconsole and run "restore", selected option number 7 (Enter a list of > files to restore), the client was automatically selected and i was > asked > to type the filename

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Where do we go after Bacula 2.2.0?

2007-08-21 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Nick Pope wrote: > > On Aug 21, 2007, at 8:25 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote: > >> On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Nick Pope wrote: >> >>> >>> On Aug 20, 2007, at 12:48 PM, David Boyes wrote: >>> >>>>> I would like to second

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Where do we go after Bacula 2.2.0?

2007-08-21 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Nick Pope wrote: > > On Aug 20, 2007, at 12:48 PM, David Boyes wrote: > >>> I would like to second this. Right now I have duplicates of >>> everything >>> to first do a local backup and 7 hours later another backup of the >> same >>> data (but without the scripts and longer ru

Re: [Bacula-users] Quick error clarification

2007-08-20 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > 21.08.2007 00:19,, Charles Sprickman wrote:: >> Hi all, >> >> In the middle of a restore, I issued a "status storage" command to get a >> peek at whether the tape was mounted and actively reading. The c

[Bacula-users] Quick error clarification

2007-08-20 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi all, In the middle of a restore, I issued a "status storage" command to get a peek at whether the tape was mounted and actively reading. The command in bconsole timed out, and then I was emailed the following: "20-Aug 17:28 devel2-dir: Error: bnet.c:439 Write error sending 1 bytes to clie

Re: [Bacula-users] Dealing with failed/missed jobs

2007-08-11 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > 08.08.2007 05:22,, Robert LeBlanc wrote:: >> >> >> On 8/7/07 5:32 PM, "Charles Sprickman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm having some trouble

[Bacula-users] Dealing with failed/missed jobs

2007-08-07 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi all, I'm having some trouble figuring out how to "catch up" when someone has forgotten to put a tape in or if I manually schedule a job that requires a different pool than what is in the tape. I think a real-world example is in order. My fulls are on the first weekend of the month, diffs e

[Bacula-users] "waiting to reserve a device"?

2007-08-01 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi all, I thought I had this nailed, but bacula went silent on me with no runs Monday or Tuesday nights. Tonight I received this cryptic email: 02-Aug 02:05 devel2-sd: Job devel2.2007-08-02_02.05.00 waiting to reserve a device. Tape is mounted, it's from my Daily pool for incrementals. No ot

[Bacula-users] Cleaning up failed jobs

2007-07-30 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi all, I've pretty much made my transition from Amanda to Bacula, and I'm pretty happy with it. I'm also starting to get the feel of the manual - everything is in there, it's just a bit hard to find sometimes. :) I'd just like to run by one simple question here about failed jobs. During my t

Re: [Bacula-users] Is there any option to retry backups of powered-off clients?

2007-07-24 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Brian Debelius wrote: > ohhh, ahhh, is this new? > > brian- > > Junior Cunha wrote: >> Steve Poulsen wrote: >> >>> I am backing up several machines, but a couple of them are only on >>> about 10% of the day. Is there any kind of option on the daily >>> backups to have it ret

[Bacula-users] running jobs and network outages

2007-07-15 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi all, I'm currently backing up mostly remote hosts. Generally our connectivity is good. Sometimes it's not... especially at night I find that our backup window coincides with someone's maintenance window. How does bacula deal with this? It didn't look like it retried the job, which would

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape full or other problem?

2007-07-15 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, John Drescher wrote: > On 7/12/07, Charles Sprickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Yesterday I ran a test backup and made it through about a dozen machines. >> I eventually ended up with this error as the last one that

[Bacula-users] Tape full or other problem?

2007-07-12 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi all, Yesterday I ran a test backup and made it through about a dozen machines. I eventually ended up with this error as the last one that worked was despooling to tape: 11-Jul 21:40 devel2-sd: Committing spooled data to Volume "Monthly0001". Despooling 12,781,472,694 bytes ... 11-Jul 21:42

Re: [Bacula-users] data error... buffer discarded

2007-07-11 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > 11.07.2007 03:30,, Charles Sprickman wrote:: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm doing my first live backup and the first host seems to have gone >> alright, but there's one error in the run that is not clear to me: &

Re: [Bacula-users] Help with backup plan

2007-07-10 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Steen wrote: > On Friday 06 July 2007 06:23:22 Charles Sprickman wrote: >> What I'd like to do is the following: >> >> -Full backup each sunday, keeping the tapes for a year. After that I >> would likely manually relabel all the tapes but one.

[Bacula-users] data error... buffer discarded

2007-07-10 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi all, I'm doing my first live backup and the first host seems to have gone alright, but there's one error in the run that is not clear to me: 10-Jul 20:40 devel2-sd: devel2.2007-07-10_20.39.56 Error: block.c:275 Volume data error at 0:0! Wanted ID: "BB02", got "". Buffer discarded. I'm guessi

[Bacula-users] Help with backup plan

2007-07-05 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hi all, I'm very happy with Bacula so far. I've got a bunch of clients setup and have a basic config ready to go. So far backing up to disk is working well and I need to figure out how to implement my real schedule and tape usage now. I'm coming from Amanda, so it's taking me a bit of time t

[Bacula-users] Considering move from Amanda

2007-06-22 Thread Charles Sprickman
Hello all, I've been having some trouble lately with the newer versions of Amanda - we had been running it for about five years and on the last upgrade we've found that it's not quite as robust as it used to be (at least in our environment). When we originally settled on Amanda I did look at B