Re: [Bacula-users] Path length

2007-03-16 Thread Kel Raywood
Hi Rui, you wrote: > ... > ERR=The system cannot find the path specified. > > The error is caused by the PATH length ? > ... > Bacula 1.38.2 > OS Linux Redhat > > In bacula-dir.conf the FileSet is configured as File = "D:/" You didn't mention the version of the the windows client. However, ther

Re: [Bacula-users] On-Site and Off-Site Backup Replicas... Wait For Copy Job?

2007-03-09 Thread Kel Raywood
I wrote: >> Pre-flight script: >> >> umount /var/lib/bacula/volumes >> mount --bind /media/usbdisk/volumes /var/lib/bacula/volumes >> >> Post-flight script: >> >> umount /var/lib/bacula/volumes >> rsync -a /media/usbdisk/volumes/ /on-site/bacula/volumes/ >> mount --bind /on-sit

Re: [Bacula-users] On-Site and Off-Site Backup Replicas... Wait For Copy Job?

2007-03-07 Thread Kel Raywood
A few weeks ago there was a short thread on a similar theme. See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.general/31927 and other posts in the thread. In that thread, the on-site disk-volumes were written first and then copied to tape for off-site protection. However your requ

Re: [Bacula-users] Can bacula do this for me?

2007-02-16 Thread Kel Raywood
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Kern Sibbald wrote: > ... your main plan should restore the database by one of the two (of > both) following ways: > > 1. Save the catalog with the standard Bacula job and script, but write > a .bsr file, and write that bsr file to your tar tape. ... Or email it off-site. T

Re: [Bacula-users] Can bacula do this for me?

2007-02-16 Thread Kel Raywood
perate the tape-library using the mtx command. If you are using multiple drives, you will need to use lockfiles or semaphores to avoid conflicts with the user of the changer. Hope this helps. Kel Raywood - Take Surveys. Earn

Re: [Bacula-users] Hierarchical storage systems?

2007-02-14 Thread Kel Raywood
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Alan Brown wrote: > I know this is outside the scope of the list, (despite someone having this > on the wishlist), but I'm looking for a *nix-compatible (pref linux) > hierarchical storage system. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager has an HSM component called TSM for Space Management

[Bacula-users] FOSDEM interview error

2007-02-06 Thread Kel Raywood
Bacula _has_. Kern - I wonder if you could get the page corrected. Sincerely, Kel Raywood - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to

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

2006-10-14 Thread Kel Raywood
I missed the original post on this thread. I manage backups for several research groups and have a single instance of bacula and but multiple catalogs and storage devices. The main backup server is: Bacula 1.38.11 compiled from source RedHat-EL 4.4 for 64-bit IBM POWER IBM p5-505 (POWER5 dual-

[Bacula-users] Rocket science: was Re: Bacula version 1.38.10 released

2006-06-14 Thread Kel Raywood
On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > ... It is now necessary to be a rocket scientist before even > considering using the GNU C++ compiler :-( Rocket scientists are notoriously bad programmers so I don't think that this is some to aspire to. They crashed a Mars polar-lander because they

Re: [Bacula-users] backing up snapshots?

2006-05-16 Thread Kel Raywood
On Mon, 15 May 2006, Alan Brown wrote: Has anyone used LVM/EVMS snapshots to get a stable image to backup? If so, how do you do it? I do it under CentOS-4 with xfs and ext3 filesystems using the ClientRunBefore and ClientRunAfter directives in the job file. I mount the snapshots under /mnt a

Re: [Bacula-users] having to manually load tapes

2006-03-10 Thread Kel Raywood
On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Beren Gamble wrote: Any idea why this is happening? - I have to manually load the tape using mtx-changer. *m 10-Mar 16:57 backup2-sd: 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command. 10-Mar 16:57 backup2-sd: 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: nothing loaded. 10-Ma

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger with multiple drives

2006-02-03 Thread Kel Raywood
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, David Muench wrote: On 2/3/06, Christoph Brunner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, now Bacula tries to use more than one drive. Unfortunately it tries to load the same volume into several drives ... I suspect to do some locking with volumes, right?! In the examples i found on

Re: [Bacula-users] monthy full backup -> archive

2006-02-02 Thread Kel Raywood
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Frank Sweetser wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 11:17:09AM -0800, Kel Raywood wrote: I think that the archive is intended to be used in cases of a complete disaster of the backup system. i.e. the catalog is lost and you have to rebuild it from the archive tapes. In that

Re: [Bacula-users] monthy full backup -> archive

2006-01-30 Thread Kel Raywood
I wrote: ... I don't think that the Archive flag is intended for the use you want. I think that it's supposed to indicate that the volume entry will be removed from the catalog when the volume is unmounted. On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Arno Lehmann wrote: Oops... that would be not so good with my sug

Re: [Bacula-users] Different Pools on Autochanger & Archive-Pools

2006-01-27 Thread Kel Raywood
Daniel Amkreutz wrote: 2. Are disk-to-disk-to-tape backups jet implemented ? Alan Brown replied: No, but you can fudge it manually using bcopy. Disk spooling is implimented with no need for fudging. If you mean something like making an identical copy on another disk and then backing that

Re: [Bacula-users] monthy full backup -> archive

2006-01-27 Thread Kel Raywood
Arno Lehmann wrote: ... Anyway, setting them [tapes in a pool] to status "Archive" either manually or using a script should do what you need - it marks them as unavailable for Bacula, and you can easily track them in the catalog. Ralf Gross wrote: I'll do it that way, but I'm still curious, w

Re: [Bacula-users] Removing Offsite Volumes from Volume List

2006-01-13 Thread Kel Raywood
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Azizi, Basheer wrote: ... I have an offsite pool that fills up two tapes every Saturday which I ship offsite. However, the tapes continue to show up in volume list. I've tried changing their status to Archive but they are still there. I believe that "Archive" type has a * i

Re: [Bacula-users] Possible to modify a job resource on-the-fly from the bconsole?

2006-01-09 Thread Kel Raywood
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Evan Kaufman wrote: I know this is an unusual question, but is there a way to modify the parameters of a job on-the-fly from the console? Yes. After issuing the "run" command and choosing a job, the console gives you the option to modify the parameters. ... i'd like to