[Bacula-users] two usage questions

2014-01-08 Thread Florian Heigl
Hi, do you know when you have some itching question that just won’t go away? First one: I know various people (including me) that store to disk, and tried Action on Purge = Truncate but they all reported that the actual filesystem files did not get truncated to zero bytes. Especially when usi

[Bacula-users] Dynamic Filesets / excludes

2013-10-03 Thread Florian Heigl
Hi there, I've been taking my first steps with a client side script in my filesets. The script should detect all local filesystems. It seems this works (cool), but it seems my excludes stopped working (bad). This is the most of my fileset definition: FileSet { Name = "Full Set" Include {

Re: [Bacula-users] save DB's online

2013-01-19 Thread Florian Heigl
For Postgres the Bacula wiki has a nice description that uses the archive log mode & bpipe. I think that gets along online well. For MySQL I've also read that some people use dedicated slaves for the backups. Imho that's a nice method if you have "more than a little" of data to safe and no downtim

Re: [Bacula-users] Adhoc Job and waiting it out ;)

2013-01-19 Thread Florian Heigl
Hi, 2013/1/19 Adrian Reyer > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 04:00:47PM +0200, Florian Heigl wrote: > > ssh client-to-backup -n bconsole "run a backup for this box and keep > > sitting until the backup is completed" > > Something like this should do the trick: >

[Bacula-users] Adhoc Job and waiting it out ;)

2013-01-18 Thread Florian Heigl
Hi, I'm currently building some poor man's batch jobs, for example for updating a clients' operating system I would to automate - the update - the backup prior to the update Now, the question is: Can I do the following: ssh client-to-backup -n bconsole "run a backup for this box and keep sitting

Re: [Bacula-users] GZIP not supported on this Client

2013-01-16 Thread Florian Heigl
2013/1/15 Novosielski, Ryan : > Sounds to me like the client was built without the GZIP library or something > like that. That's unfortunate, but my guess is the solution is to > create/restore a backup that isn't GZIP compressed or to build a new client > that includes support. Generally, that so

[Bacula-users] Client side FS detection

2013-01-16 Thread Florian Heigl
Hi all, I'm aware this must be sort of an FAQ. I just failed to find good examples in my searches. What I'm looking for is how others solved listing the filesystems on a client using a client-side command that is configured on the dir. My goal is to backup everything "local" on a system, but the

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO5 speed

2013-01-12 Thread Florian Heigl
Hey Frank, 2013/1/3 : > thank you all for your replies. I did some testing and set Maximum File > Size to 30GB now instead of the 1GB default. Now the drive sounds much > healthier. > >> from what i remember the manual recommends something like 2GB Maximum >> File Size for LTO2-3, so i guess LTO

Re: [Bacula-users] Configuring Bacula-SNMP subagent

2012-04-28 Thread Florian Heigl
Hi, 2012/4/27 Martin Simmons : >>>>>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:10:41 +0200, Florian Heigl said: >> I'm getting an error that says the following (which I translate to >> "Hey user, I didn't read my config") Thanks Martin! > Get rid of all of the

[Bacula-users] Configuring Bacula-SNMP subagent

2012-04-26 Thread Florian Heigl
Hi, I'm trying to make the snmp subagent from http://www.bayour.com/Softwares/bacula-snmp/ work. If I get it to work I could write a small tiny Nagios Check for it like the already included Cacti template. This works by connecting to the bacula database using Perl DBD:MySQL which I installed. I'm

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

2011-07-06 Thread Florian Heigl
Hi, Breaking the server into multiple file daemons sounds as broken as breaking the stuff amanda users had to do (break your filesystem into something that fits a tape). Saving multiple streams is something that has been proven as a solution for many years, and where that is still too slow NDMP co

[Bacula-users] Console ACL help needed

2011-07-02 Thread Florian Heigl
Hi all, I'm going to use Bacula for a hosting-like scenario where I need to go really really sure that every user can only access his own data. They might have multiple backuped clients and it would be OK for them to restore from one to another, but no other client should be visible or accessible.

Re: [Bacula-users] postgres tuning?

2010-06-07 Thread Florian Heigl
> Also, I don't know if I would value RedHat supporting postgre 8.1 > higher than running 8.4.1  :) after all, you had to ask here, not at RedHat. -- 'Sie brauchen sich um Ihre Zukunft keine Gedanken zu machen' -- Thin

Re: [Bacula-users] postgres tuning?

2010-06-07 Thread Florian Heigl
Hi all, > Within psql/mysql: > 1) select count(*) from File;                    1sec    30min Disclaimer: I don't know a dime's worth of databases per se. But I spend a lot of time hunting other peoples performance issues. :) I think you should start identifying the cause for this bit at the ver

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Florian Heigl
hi, 2008/11/6, Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Nov 5, 2008, at 6:23 PM, Florian Heigl wrote: >> >> If Kern's "Bacula Inc." would release a real, professional guy that >> doesn't bloat my configs I'd pay for that any day. But bloat

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Florian Heigl
2008/11/5, Hemant Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > --- On Thu, 11/6/08, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> From: Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for? >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Cc: "John D

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] feature request : clustered server

2007-05-27 Thread Florian Heigl
Hi, it's also quite close to overkill, but maybe the editiorial queue of "scoop" (think kuro5hin.org) could be abused. I don't see much of a difference between voting up a good story or a good feature :) Downloads and information are here: http://scoop.kuro5hin.org/ Florian

Re: [Bacula-users] clustered bacula servers

2007-05-17 Thread Florian Heigl
Hi, 2007/5/17, Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > is there a functionality (or planned functionality) in bacula to allow > two or more server instances work in a way similar to a cluster ? no, and maybe > that would probably include two separate instances of director, storage > daemon and database that

Re: [Bacula-users] rpm for fc6 in a production environment

2007-05-11 Thread Florian Heigl
Hi. 2007/5/5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > i have to compile the last bacula release on a server with a > strict security policy (production environment) so on the > server there isn't gcc. > > is there an rpm for fedora core 6 pre build and ready to > install? There are prebuilt rpms

[Bacula-users] make_catalog_backup and passwords

2007-04-16 Thread Florian Heigl
Hi, according to the script, make_catalog_backup expects a database password, if used, to be supplied as Argument $3, which will make catalog backups work in case one is using a password. But, this means one will have the database password showing up in backup logs, which might be available to a w

Re: [Bacula-users] confused about multiple filestorages and one sd :)

2007-04-13 Thread Florian Heigl
2007/4/13, MasterBrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > > Device { > > Name = FileStorage00 > > Media Type = File > > Archive Device = /mnt/new/bacula/storage/00 > > LabelMedia = yes; # lets Bacula label unlabeled media > > Random Access = Yes; > > AutomaticMount = yes;

[Bacula-users] confused about multiple filestorages and one sd :)

2007-04-13 Thread Florian Heigl
Hi all, i have been very successful in messing up my configuration today and would like to share it with you, either for a laugh or maybe a hint. :) i still assume that a storage daemon can have multiple devices, but i'm not even sure about that by now, this is why i'm looking for help - i'll loo

[Bacula-users] bweb "database size" field is "???"

2007-04-09 Thread Florian Heigl
Hi, i already hit some to the apparently more common errors - ( no ttf font set, no joblog-into-database setting ) and fixed these; now i'm left with one i really don't know where to fix. at the bweb status page there is a field called database size, which unfortunately only shows three question m

Re: [Bacula-users] Installing Bacula on Hostsystem or XEN

2007-03-07 Thread Florian Heigl
Hi, 2007/3/5, Dominik Jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > we got a new server in our company. It run several services on several > XEN virtual machines (e.g. mail, webserver, yp). I want to know if it is > better to run bacula in its own XEN or directly on the hostsystem? This > server has enough hardwar

Re: [Bacula-users] HP-UX clients

2007-03-07 Thread Florian Heigl
Hi, List > Florian Heigl had a repository of binaries for HP-UX (11i) here: > http://deranfangvomen.de/~floh/bacula/ > but at least now the site is not accessible. The wonders of cheap virtual hosting. The hoster 'migrated servers' and rumor has it there is a backup of my old

Re: [Bacula-users] Info on setting up a second catalog?

2007-02-26 Thread Florian Heigl
2007/2/27, Alan Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Questions for anyone who's currently using secondary catalogs: > > I may be making this harder than it needs to be, but I need some > guidance > on just how the second catalog gets used. Either you're making it harder than it needs be, or I missed

[Bacula-users] minimum privileges for bweb

2007-02-24 Thread Florian Heigl
Hi list, firstofall, I'm just asking here for I'm not aware of a list dealing with bweb yet, and secondly most/all of it's users are going to read it here anyway. i'm currently setting up mysql permissions for bacula and bweb - does anyone know if bweb only needs readonly permissions and does the

Re: [Bacula-users] Fixed ip binding for bacula daemons?

2007-02-21 Thread Florian Heigl
-with-sd-group=disk --with-fd-user=root --with-fd-group=bacula && make (thank You for not pointing out that /mnt/new is a stupid path) So long and thanks to all that helped! Florian 2007/2/4, Florian Heigl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I'm currently working on cluste

Re: [Bacula-users] Fixed ip binding for bacula daemons?

2007-02-18 Thread Florian Heigl
for some reasons I didn't notice the replies until just now :( 2007/2/7, Martin Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>>>> On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:14:19 +0100, Arno Lehmann said: > > > > Hello, > > > > On 2/4/2007 10:34 PM, Florian Heigl wrote: >

[Bacula-users] Fixed ip binding for bacula daemons?

2007-02-07 Thread Florian Heigl
Hi, I'm currently working on clustering bacula (howto follows as all quirks are removed) My requirement is running a bacula fd on each of the cluster nodes, and one for the cluster package. If someone thinks, this makes no sense, I'd be also glad to hear why. For the meantime I'm mostly concerned

[Bacula-users] feature request For next years vote - NDMPv5

2007-02-07 Thread Florian Heigl
Hi all, I'm still unsubscribed from the bacula lists from my holiday last may, so I missed the vote this year, but according to the web site this is just the right time to submit. :) anyway... Item 41: NDMP Support Date: 20070204 Origin: Florian Heigl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: [Bacula-users] cannot compile bacula-fd on HP UX 11.11

2006-12-05 Thread Florian Heigl
Hi Christian & list, please exclude the top post, I'm in some laundry shop with approximately 30% paket loss, and just happy to get the mail out *at all* Bacula HP-UX (and other odd operating system) binaries http://deranfangvomen.de/~floh/bacula/ Static HP-UX 11.11 FD http://deranfangvomen.de/