[Bacula-users] stuck on upgrading from 7.0.5 to 9.0.6

2018-06-07 Thread Jonathan Horne
the right direction i would appreciate the assist. or if there is a better way to get from Cent68/bacula705 to ubuntu18/bacula906, i am making this crazy leap (from OS to OS) because newer rpms/repositories for CentOS 6 seemed to have run dry. thank you kindly, Jona

Re: [Bacula-users] Bare metal restore

2013-05-09 Thread Jonathan Horne
This is the way I have performed baremetal recoverys lately of a VM: 1) Take the anaconda.ks script from the subject system and use it as the basis to install a fresh system on a newly created. I use the anaconda.ks from the subject system so that things like file system sizes, volumegrou

Re: [Bacula-users] Recommended hardware

2013-05-03 Thread Jonathan Horne
I have had outstanding success with a powervault TL4000. Cheers, Jonathan From: Francisco Garcia Perez [mailto:fga...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 2:23 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] Recommended hardware Hello, I have a PowerVault 124T, but I want buy

[Bacula-users] question about job resource

2013-04-26 Thread Jonathan Horne
Hello, I am wondering about the relationship between the default job and the general jobs for other clients that are configured. It was impression that the default job sets the basic specifications, and that each job that is configured inherits the defaults parameters, and anything that is spec

Re: [Bacula-users] what would cause a server to not auto-label a new file?

2013-04-10 Thread Jonathan Horne
- From: Jonathan Horne [mailto:jho...@skopos.us] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 2:30 PM To: Uwe Schuerkamp Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] what would cause a server to not auto-label a new file? No, the bacula.log is empty, nor have I seen messages like the

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula saying volume limit hit on tape drive

2013-04-09 Thread Jonathan Horne
} I did not previously have a max volume bytes specified, so it must have been inheriting it from somewhere. But now I have restarted my copy job, and its at 188GB now, and still rolling along. Thanks, jonathan From: Jonathan Horne [mailto:jho...@skopos.us] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 11:05 AM

[Bacula-users] bacula saying volume limit hit on tape drive

2013-04-09 Thread Jonathan Horne
Hello, bacula is writing just 53GB to 400GB LTO3 tapes, declaring that the specified size limit has been exceeded. 09-Apr 10:51 bacula-sd JobId 11602: User defined maximum volume capacity 53,687,091,200 exceeded on device "TL4000D2" (/dev/nst1). 09-Apr 10:51 bacula-sd JobId 11602: Re-read of las

Re: [Bacula-users] what would cause a server to not auto-label a new file?

2013-03-20 Thread Jonathan Horne
y the file installed, as far as I know ( didn't change it). Thanks, jonathan -Original Message- From: Uwe Schuerkamp [mailto:uwe.schuerk...@nionex.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 9:22 AM To: Jonathan Horne Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] what wou

Re: [Bacula-users] what would cause a server to not auto-label a new file?

2013-03-19 Thread Jonathan Horne
recently started just hanging up and waiting on user intervention. What would cause this to change, and how can I get this server back on track with auto-creation as needed? Any ideas? Thanks, jonathan From: Jonathan Horne [mailto:jho...@skopos.us] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 8:07 AM To

[Bacula-users] retire an old bacula server

2013-03-04 Thread Jonathan Horne
Hello, I have an older bacula server that I want to retire in favor or a newer one I built recently. Is there a good way to get the backup jobs that are in the on-disk files transferred from the old to the new so that they are usable for restores later? Thanks, jonathan __

[Bacula-users] what would cause a server to not auto-label a new file?

2013-02-27 Thread Jonathan Horne
I have 2 bacula servers, both 5.0.0.x from centos repo. One server, has never one time failed to label/create a new file to continue backing up. This other server, a couple days ago on a full backup, labeled a few files, then stopped. And now it wont label them unless I give the commands by ha

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental pool used when job upgraded from inc tofull

2013-02-18 Thread Jonathan Horne
-Original Message- From: Fahrer, Julian [mailto:jul...@fahrer.net] Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 5:34 AM To: Michael Anderson; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental pool used when job upgraded from inc tofull > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- >

Re: [Bacula-users] dell PV-124T works with btape, but not with jobs

2013-02-08 Thread Jonathan Horne
AM, "Jonathan Horne" wrote: >he (bacula) should be able to. > >[root@d0lphb040 bacula]# ls -la /dev/sg8 >crw-rw 1 root tape 21, 8 Feb 7 13:00 /dev/sg8 >[root@d0lphb040 bacula]# ls -la /dev/nst0 >crw-rw 1 root tape 9, 128 Feb 7 13:00 /dev/nst0 >[root@d0lphb0

Re: [Bacula-users] dell PV-124T works with btape, but not with jobs

2013-02-08 Thread Jonathan Horne
rote: >On 08/02/13 15:02, Jonathan Horne wrote: >> well, ill retry them all again, but the drive works enough to label all >> the barcodes in the drive. > >What uid is bacula-sd running as? > >Does that uid have permission to access the tape drives? > > ___

Re: [Bacula-users] dell PV-124T works with btape, but not with jobs

2013-02-08 Thread Jonathan Horne
o INQUIRY Command Failed that is where i am focusing right now. On 2/8/13 9:55 AM, "Alan Brown" wrote: >On 08/02/13 15:02, Jonathan Horne wrote: >> well, ill retry them all again, but the drive works enough to label all >> the barcodes in the drive. > >What

Re: [Bacula-users] dell PV-124T works with btape, but not with jobs

2013-02-08 Thread Jonathan Horne
| | +-++---+-+--+--+--- ---+-+--+ it will load, unload, read the contents of the slots, but it just won't roll tapes when i say "COPY!" back to the drawing boardŠ :) JONATHAN HORNE | Systems Administrato

Re: [Bacula-users] dell PV-124T works with btape, but not with jobs

2013-02-08 Thread Jonathan Horne
at von Jonathan Horne : > >> as title says, i have a PV-124T that works with btape like a champ, >> but not within bacula for running jobs. when i submit a job to run >> to tape, the jobs just sit there. >> >> i have identical job configuration on another server with

[Bacula-users] cataloging backup files

2013-02-07 Thread Jonathan Horne
i would like to completely kill and reinstall bacula from the ground up.id like to keep the backup files i have on disk, and just import them into the next bacula install, and be able to run restores from them as time passes. i have not seen syntax for this yet, is this possible? maybe I'v

[Bacula-users] dell PV-124T works with btape, but not with jobs

2013-02-07 Thread Jonathan Horne
as title says, i have a PV-124T that works with btape like a champ, but not within bacula for running jobs. when i submit a job to run to tape, the jobs just sit there. i have identical job configuration on another server with a larger power vault tape drive, and its runing like a top. when yo

[Bacula-users] multiple tape drives

2013-02-04 Thread Jonathan Horne
My boss needs me to take the 2 tape drives inside the PV4000 and form them into 1 logical drive and stripe the backups across them simultaneously. Please help me figure this out, is this possible? Thanks, Jonathan This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the i

[Bacula-users] something very strange going on with my backup jobs lately.

2013-01-18 Thread Jonathan Horne
This is the older server in the environment, that im stuck with a couple months more while this legacy set of severs sets to stand down soon. So im stuck with this install that the previous admin left. Fortunately, my new server is running like a top. So today, I come in, and I see this:

[Bacula-users] estimate query

2013-01-16 Thread Jonathan Horne
Is there a way to make a query that will pull estimate from all clients? This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of content, this e

[Bacula-users] backing up a fedora 17

2013-01-16 Thread Jonathan Horne
Today I backed up a fedora 17 for the first time. Fedora 17 does funny things with the file systems that I don't yet understand the concept of what they are doing, but it looks like this: [jonathan@h0luvm000 ~]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs

Re: [Bacula-users] getting my tape drive online

2013-01-11 Thread Jonathan Horne
--Original Message----- From: Jonathan Horne [mailto:jho...@skopos.us] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 11:14 AM To: Dan Langille; lst_ho...@kwsoft.de Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] getting my tape drive online -Original Message- From: Dan Langille

Re: [Bacula-users] getting my tape drive online

2013-01-11 Thread Jonathan Horne
: > > Zitat von Jonathan Horne : > >> My drive appears to be working correctly, and the devices I poll here >> correspond to configurations I use in my config file. Tests all seem >> fine (to my layman's observation), but in practice actual commands >> are failing. &g

Re: [Bacula-users] getting my tape drive online

2013-01-10 Thread Jonathan Horne
/EXPORT:Empty Storage Element 47 IMPORT/EXPORT:Empty -Original Message- From: Dan Langille [mailto:d...@langille.org] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 10:21 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] getting my tape drive online On 2013-01-09 16:13, Jonathan Hor

Re: [Bacula-users] getting my tape drive online

2013-01-09 Thread Jonathan Horne
On 1/9/13 4:56 PM, "John Drescher" wrote: >> This is my section for my tape drive, i am not sure what i should edit >>as >> far as the mtx-changer. >> > >I expect you need to test the functionality of mtx directly and edit >the file /usr/libexec/bacula/mtx-changer to make sure the load command

Re: [Bacula-users] getting my tape drive online

2013-01-09 Thread Jonathan Horne
On 1/9/13 3:35 PM, "John Drescher" wrote: >On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Jonathan Horne wrote: >> i have a 44 slot PV-TL4000 that i have just brought online with my >>bacula. >> my first attempt at labeling the media based on the barcodes failed. >>below

[Bacula-users] getting my tape drive online

2013-01-09 Thread Jonathan Horne
i have a 44 slot PV-TL4000 that i have just brought online with my bacula. my first attempt at labeling the media based on the barcodes failed. below is the output, can anyone give me some ideas on what to start checking? *label barcodes Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog Using Catalog

[Bacula-users] postgres database

2012-12-05 Thread Jonathan Horne
What process keeps the bacula database size under control? Mine is growing and growing, and I'm not sure how much space i need to allocate for future growth. Thanks, This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copyin

[Bacula-users] how to tell what is about to be expire

2012-12-03 Thread Jonathan Horne
Is there a console command to see what previously saved backups are about to expire? This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete without copying and kindly advise us by e-mail of the mistake in delivery. NOTE: Regardless of co

[Bacula-users] concurrent jobs previously working but now only 2

2012-12-03 Thread Jonathan Horne
A previous test build, i had concurrent jobs working, that my systems would backup 4 at a time. Now that I've taken it down and rebuilt it, I've obviously missed something because even tho i have: Director {# define myself Name = bacula-dir DIRport = 9101

[Bacula-users] job afinity

2012-11-29 Thread Jonathan Horne
If i have say, 2 data base servers, can i set bacula to ensure they are not being backed up at the same time? Even if they are the last 2 jobs running, id like to not back them both up simultaneously. Is this possible? Thanks, jonathan This is a PRIVATE messag

[Bacula-users] disaster recovery of the actual bacula server

2012-11-29 Thread Jonathan Horne
I am getting ready to deploy my first bacula server to our production environment. I would like to practice 2 scenarios of recovery. First, I will recover the configuration files and mysql database (from dump files), and hopefully continue on. The second, I will recover only the configuratio

Re: [Bacula-users] tcp ports for bacula

2007-09-30 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Sunday 30 September 2007 09:30:12 Frank Sweetser wrote: > http://bacula.org/rel-manual/Dealing_with_Firewalls.html perfect, thank you! that was exactly what i was looking for. cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [EMAIL PROTEC

[Bacula-users] tcp ports for bacula

2007-09-30 Thread Jonathan Horne
would need open too) cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go

Re: [Bacula-users] Nasty Gotcha with bacula

2007-07-09 Thread Jonathan Horne
DNS and > > bacula both", help help! > > Yep. Experience will help that situation. a good temp solution, might be to edit the /etc/hosts file with some IPs and hostnames on your network, so your bacula box can find its way around when DNS is down. cheers, -- Jonathan

Re: [Bacula-users] Newbie question

2007-06-19 Thread Jonathan Horne
verkill for what I am doing. > Any suggestions? > Thanks, > Steve i think rsync would be much less trouble :) -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Exp

[Bacula-users] time to consider bacula, again

2007-06-18 Thread Jonathan Horne
to disk, which will then be written to a tape library (HP surestore 1/9, 9 slot DLT4). i dont think i got very far with the library last time, have there been any good howto's written on how to get a tape library working with bacula? cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [

Re: [Bacula-users] today is my lucky day!

2007-02-02 Thread Jonathan Horne
any examples geared towards my hp autoloader. again, any direction or advice at all would be highly appreciated! i really want to migrate away from netbackup! thanks, jonathan On Friday 02 February 2007 18:23, Jonathan Horne wrote: > today, i finally begin my bacula project. ive been wait

[Bacula-users] today is my lucky day!

2007-02-02 Thread Jonathan Horne
today, i finally begin my bacula project. ive been waiting, because today i finally talked our CEO out of a 9 slot DLT drive that has been sitting motionless in our datacenter for 3 years! i nabbed it for a sum of $50!! man i cant wait to start working on this with bacula! cheers, jonathan -

Re: [Bacula-users] as my Bacula project progresses...

2007-01-06 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Saturday 06 January 2007 15:57, Jonathan Horne wrote: > well, ive made some pretty fair progress. ive got to where i can get the > job to start... but it wont move. for my first test example, im trying to > get my dev server to back itself up. > > this is the message im getting

Re: [Bacula-users] as my Bacula project progresses...

2007-01-06 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Saturday 06 January 2007 14:14, Jonathan Horne wrote: > ok, im backing up, and starting over. looks like 2.0 was just committed to > freebsd ports. > > question: is it best to use those random generated passwords, or to put in > my own? > > cheers, > jonathan well, i

Re: [Bacula-users] as my Bacula project progresses...

2007-01-06 Thread Jonathan Horne
ok, im backing up, and starting over. looks like 2.0 was just committed to freebsd ports. question: is it best to use those random generated passwords, or to put in my own? cheers, jonathan - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Infl

[Bacula-users] as my Bacula project progresses...

2007-01-06 Thread Jonathan Horne
as i mentioned in another thread, i am migrating from netbackup to bacula. my bacula dev server: FreeBSD fbsd62-1.dev.dfwlp.com 6.1-SECURITY FreeBSD 6.1-SECURITY #0: Mon Dec 4 07:53:55 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 my clients will range from FreeBSD, Open

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup more than on client within a job

2007-01-06 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Saturday 06 January 2007 09:56, Charles Galpin wrote: > If it's linux on ppc, it shouldn't be a problem. Just compile from   > source with --enable-client-only if you distro doesn't have pre-built   > packages. What distro? > > hth > charles thanks for the tip charles, its Suse 10.1-PPC. cheer

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup more than on client within a job

2007-01-06 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Friday 05 January 2007 20:14, Grant Hess wrote: > It isn't really a problem for me, only curiosity.  I've only got a dozen > machines backing up at this point, easy enough to build a configuration > to handle it out of individual jobs. > > Thanks for the information, > > Grant. im in the proces

[Bacula-users] looking at bacula

2006-12-19 Thread Jonathan Horne
greetings list! i am taking a diligent look at what i can do with bacula. on my network, i currently use Veritas NetBackup, so i know looking for a suitable replacement is a tall order. I have a mix of linux, a windows or 2, and the rest are all bsds (90% free, 10% open). i currently use bac