Re: [Bacula-users] Giant Job bscan

2009-05-20 Thread Glen Davison
b 0 File ie the bscan looked "successful", but never found the job or files. It's starting to sound like the entire giant job was broken somehow right from the start - which is possible. What a complete waste of time and effort. And tapes. :( Glen -- Glen Davison

[Bacula-users] Giant Job bscan

2009-05-20 Thread Glen Davison
sh rolling around on the floor laughing. ;) Thanks Glen -- Glen Davison d...@sirca.org.au SIRCA Pty Ltd Ph (02) 9236 9133-- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Tria

Re: [Bacula-users] scsi help

2009-01-08 Thread Glen Davison
27;s obviously different to mine. You could try looking here: ls -l /dev/st[0-9] /dev/nst[0-9] Look at the major and minor numbers. On linux, st? and nst? are created in order of discovery; while mtx is talking about the library's internal concept of drive numbering. Why they are out of sync: v

Re: [Bacula-users] How to handle long, time consuming backups

2008-12-30 Thread Glen Davison
and low bandwidth connection: this is rsync's specialty! If you are not familiar with it, look here: http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/ I suggest you use rsync to sync your Windows client to a copy at your main site (costs you 20GB of disk space somewhere) then do your full Bacula backup

Re: [Bacula-users] How to get tapes from autoloader to offsite-storage?

2008-12-17 Thread Glen Davison
cause most of my libraries have two drives, I have put a locking wrapper around mtx, to stop myself from accidentally interfering with the robot at the same time as bacula. Probably paranoid but just in case... Glen -- Glen Davison d...@sirca.org.au SIRCA Pty Ltd

[Bacula-users] bscan Desirables

2008-12-04 Thread Glen Davison
olume." Is this still accurate? I spent some time experimenting with bscan, and from what I could tell bscanning an individual volume seemed to be problem-free. If it is still true, that could also relate to a) above. Thanks Glen -- Glen Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] SIR

Re: [Bacula-users] Data Loss on Tapes

2008-12-02 Thread Glen Davison
Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 03/12/2008 12:31:42 AM: > On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Glen Davison wrote: > > > The symptoms vary - sometimes there is an error at some point through the > > tape, and sometimes (suspiciously often) it seems to have lost the bacula >

[Bacula-users] Data Loss on Tapes

2008-12-01 Thread Glen Davison
at the start of a tape is bad, is there any way to recover parts of data from later in the tape? Something along the lines of: mt fsf 10 dd if= ...feed files through bacula s/w...? I really need this data, if it is at all possible to get it back. Thanks for any assistance, Glen -- Glen

[Bacula-users] Bacula Catalog Corruption

2008-11-30 Thread Glen Davison
y problem. b) Does anyone know what caused this problem, or in fact exactly what my problem was? c) I installed the 2.4.2 code, and haven't seen the problem re-occur. Can I be confident that it was fixed sometime before 2.4.2? Thanks for any help Glen -- Glen Davison

Re: [Bacula-users] Accidental Purge

2005-09-13 Thread Glen Davison
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 16:46, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hello, > > On 13.09.2005 07:42, Glen Davison wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > we run bacula-mysql-1.36.3-1 with a bunch of homegrown perl scripts > > under Linux (RHEL3). We use it to archive (static, stru

[Bacula-users] Accidental Purge

2005-09-12 Thread Glen Davison
from the catalog, so that my script can realise it should be re-archived? If not, any suggestions? Likewise for half files at the start of tapes. Thanks Glen Davison --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference &