Re: [Bacula-users] changing the retention period to indefinite

2010-03-13 Thread John Jorgensen
Oops, I forgot to say that you can change the Volume Retention of an individual volume using bconsole's "update volume" command. Something like this update volume=003018 volretention="12.5 months" is possible, but you can also just run "update" and then have bconsole walk you through the menus.

Re: [Bacula-users] changing the retention period to indefinite

2010-03-13 Thread John Jorgensen
> "thomas" == Thomas Mueller writes: thomas> Am Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:53:42 -0500 schrieb Guy Matz: >> hello, my brothers. >> >> a machine of mine has died and i would like to keep the >> last set of backups "forever" . . . can someone tell me >> the right way to go ab

Re: [Bacula-users] HELP - Bacula 5.0.0 migration jobs not honoring retention period

2010-03-06 Thread John Jorgensen
3_15.37.30'; I don't create SQL queries often, so my sketch above might include syntax errors, but the general idea of changing the job status from 'M' back to 'B' worked. We were running bacula 2.4.3 at the time, so it's conceivable t

[Bacula-users] Which tapes to put into the tape library?

2010-01-21 Thread John Jorgensen
> "dan" == Dan Langille writes: dan> I have about 100 tapes. My tape library holds only 10 tapes. dan> How do you decide which tapes to load into the library? What strategy do dan> you use? I have a variant of your query that orders the volumes by the date when they should be

Re: [Bacula-users] Job modifications in bconsole being ignored by 3.0.3?

2010-01-14 Thread John Jorgensen
her to source code or documentation (we're still running Bacula 2.4.3, though, so my experience might be dated). John Jorgensen -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world'

[Bacula-users] ACL Support = yes gives acl_get_file error on file errors

2009-08-29 Thread John Jorgensen
> "adam.cecile" == Adam Cécile writes: adam.cecile> Hello, I just upgraded to bacula 3.0.2 and I'm adam.cecile> seeing strange messages when backing up an OSX adam.cecile> computer. The log is full of "acl_get_file adam.cecile> error on file", see below. Check if the files f

Re: [Bacula-users] Doubt on recycling of volumes

2009-03-25 Thread John Jorgensen
> "subscription" == Kevin Keane writes: > If you want tapes around forever, I think your > best bet is to change the retention time in the > pool to, say, ten years (I'm not sure if you > can do an infinite retention time off the top > of my head). Usually, if bacula can m

Re: [Bacula-users] (it was Remote storage) LTO3 is not working, needing urgent help

2008-12-26 Thread John Jorgensen
I remember correctly, a posting on backupcentral (which I can't find again now) speculated that the erase command overwrote a directory between tape files and tape blocks, hence leaving the drive lost when it initially reloaded the tape. -- John Jorgensen LCD System Administrator jo

[Bacula-users] possible bug with very long Job (or File?) Retention

2008-11-29 Thread John Jorgensen
I think I've discovered a minor bug in Bacula 2.4.3 (running on Scientific Linux 4.5, but that's probably not relevant), so I'm following the standing suggestion to ask about it here on bacula-users before reporting it to the bug database. The bug can most succinctly be described by quoting the co

Re: [Bacula-users] Organising your config-files

2008-11-15 Thread John Jorgensen
>> On Nov 15, 2008, at 6:26 AM, Nils Blanck-Wehde wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> after a while my bacula-configuration files tend to get a >> little messed up. I was wondering whether anyone tried to >> split especially the director config-file into seperate >> files for shedules, filesets, cl

[Bacula-users] Feature Request #26

2008-10-19 Thread John Jorgensen
> "cameron.ord" == Cameron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: cameron.ord> Status: New request cameron.ord> What: A directive something like "IncludeConf = /etc/bacula/subconfs" cameron.ord> Every time Bacula Director restarts or reloads, it will walk the given directory (

Re: [Bacula-users] *list* nextvol crashes director

2008-03-01 Thread John Jorgensen
I've never used "list nextvol" before, but I tried it after seeing Tilman's report, and sure enough, it kills my Director too. I'm running bacula 2.2.8 on Scientific Linux 4.5 (essentially recompiled Red Hat 4.5), with the catalog in a PostgreSQL 8.2.6 server the same machine (an old Dell PowerEdg

[Bacula-users] soliciting advice on choice of tape library

2007-11-27 Thread John Jorgensen
, any one of the available choices would be satisfactory, but I'd welcome any insights that aid in making the choice. Thanks. -- John Jorgensen LCD System Administrator - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Mini project

2007-11-06 Thread John Jorgensen
> "dboyes" == David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dboyes> I agree with you. It's dumb to do an incremental dboyes> followed immediately by a full backup if they're dboyes> going to dump the same data in roughly the same dboyes> timeframe. What if the incremental and full b

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] What a difference a database makes

2006-12-29 Thread John Jorgensen
> "kern" == Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: kern> Could you look to see if there is some way to set the kern> synchronous value to a default? I cannot imagine that kern> the author of SQLite would not provide some way to do kern> so. It's clear---from Dysmas de Lassu

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] What a difference a database makes

2006-12-28 Thread John Jorgensen
Seeing this discussion about SQLite3 performance has finally prompted me to share an observation that I made about a year ago, when building bacula together with sqlite-3.3.6 for personal use on my home machine. I believe that the "default_synchronous" PRAGMA that Kern mentions in his reply has no

[Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

2006-10-30 Thread John Jorgensen
> "plblists" == Peter L Buschman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: plblists> If it isn't too much of an imposition, I'd like to plblists> survey the list and ask the question "what plblists> operating system are you running Bacula on?". I'm responding to this late (while catching up on