Re: [Bacula-users] error backing up Exchange 2003

2011-10-04 Thread Kevin Keane
On 10/4/2011 3:49 PM, James Harper wrote: >> I have this error backing up Exchange on a Windows 2008 Standard 64 > bit >> system. >> "HrESEBackupSetup" seems to be a Windows call. Bacula reports the > error >> and yet seems to back up the proper amount of data though I cannot > access >> it since i

[Bacula-users] Problem with Bacula over IPSec

2011-09-27 Thread Kevin Keane
Hi, I recently made several changes to my network, and ever since my bacula backups to the affected server error out after exactly 15 minutes. I don't know exactly which change is the culprit, but I suspect it is somehow IPSec-related, and would appreciate some help troubleshooting the problem.

Re: [Bacula-users] Scripting restores?

2011-07-19 Thread Kevin Keane
Maybe bextract will help you? Instead of restoring from within bconsole, you can access the tape/file volumes directly. Kevin Keane The NetTech http://www.4nettech.com -Original Message- From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk [mailto:r...@karlsbakk.net] Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 8:30 AM To

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula IPv6 status (unofficially)

2011-06-12 Thread Kevin Keane
Thank you very much! It does seem like a major improvement, then. It used to be that when the IPv6 connection failed, bacula would fail in a pretty bad way, and not fail over to IPv4. Great to hear that it now gracefully degrades! Kevin Keane The NetTech (North County Tech Center, LLC dba The

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula IPv6 status (unofficially)

2011-06-11 Thread Kevin Keane
figuration files. For the Windows machines, I had to create a second DNS name for the same machine that only had an A record but not an record. Kevin Keane -Original Message- From: Craig Van Tassle [mailto:cvantas...@purdue.edu] Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 8:07 AM To: ba

Re: [Bacula-users] friday vs saturday

2011-04-25 Thread Kevin Keane
still keep it working the same way) Kevin Keane The NetTech (North County Tech Center, LLC dba The NetTech) 760-721-8339 http://www.4nettech.com -Original Message- From: hymie! [mailto:hy...@lactose.homelinux.net] Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 12:03 PM To: Kevin Keane Cc: bacula-users@

Re: [Bacula-users] friday vs saturday

2011-04-25 Thread Kevin Keane
ackups are finished. That means that the exact time you schedule the differentials doesn't matter. Just schedule them to start five minutes after the fulls (at 22:10), and with a lower priority. Kevin Keane The NetTech (North County Tech Center, LLC dba The NetTech) 760-721-8339 http://w

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple Next Pools

2010-07-21 Thread Kevin Keane
Are you using a separate volume per job? In that case, you could simply forego a copy job altogether and just copy the disk files themselves. 100 years from now, you may have a problem simply reading the database. So it may be easier and better to just rely on the files themselves. Write a shell

Re: [Bacula-users] How to move existing backups to another SD?

2010-07-17 Thread Kevin Keane
Are all the full backups on separate volumes (separate tapes or separate disk files?) If so, I believe all you need to do is move the volumes over to the new server and add the second SD to the pool. Bacula doesn't store SD information with the backups. -Original Message- From: Mister I

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula on Windows SBS 2008

2010-07-15 Thread Kevin Keane
I've been using Bacula on a Windows 2008 server for a while now. A couple things: - Forget tape drives. With SBS Server, use USB hard disks for backup. Use 2008's native backup (Not NTBackup any more - the new one is MUCH improved once you get over the completely new concepts). - Forget BackupE

Re: [Bacula-users] Client defs

2010-07-08 Thread Kevin Keane
I'm instead using a shell script to build the client defs. It's actually easier and more flexible. You simply include a shell script in your bacula-dir.conf with the @| syntax (like so: @|/etc/bacula/jobs/alljobs.bash A template approach for clients isn't all that useful because almost all the

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup

2010-05-12 Thread Kevin Keane
> -Original Message- > From: Foo [mailto:bfo...@yahoo.co.uk] > Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 3:21 AM > To: Kevin Keane; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup > > On Wed, 12 May 2010 06:51:42 +0200, K

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup

2010-05-11 Thread Kevin Keane
> -Original Message- > From: Henrik Johansen [mailto:hen...@scannet.dk] > Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 1:11 AM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup > > On 05/11/10 10:04 AM, Graham Keeling wrote: > > On Tue, May 11, 2010

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup

2010-05-11 Thread Kevin Keane
> -Original Message- > > I'm using Windows backup to an iSCSI drive, and then use bacula to > > back up a snapshot of that iSCSI volume. > > Is the result of that a monolothic blob like W2K3's ntbackup .bkf or single > files? If it's a monolithic blob, Bacula can't do incrementals anymore.

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup

2010-05-10 Thread Kevin Keane
There is no such thing as "system state backup" any more in Windows 2008. It's always the whole C: drive. I'm not sure how well bacula handles it in the end. There also is the issue that Windows 2008 relies heavily on junction points, which bacula doesn't handle well. I'm using Windows backup t

Re: [Bacula-users] iSCSI and Windows Server Backup

2010-05-05 Thread Kevin Keane
I am also using W2K8 and back up with Windows Backup to an iSCSI server. There really is no good way around Windows backup (unless you want a paid solution). W2K8 relies heavily on junction points, which bacula doesn't back up. BTW, if you are using Exchange 2007, be sure to install SP2 - before

Re: [Bacula-users] Installing with RPMs

2010-05-04 Thread Kevin Keane
> -Original Message- > From: Joseph Spenner [mailto:joseph85...@yahoo.com] > Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 10:30 AM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Installing with RPMs > > --- On Tue, 5/4/10, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > > > I have mysql running on my

Re: [Bacula-users] Laptop backup

2010-04-18 Thread Kevin Keane
You are right, ping is an active polling method, and probably not the best tool for the job. It would probably work if you only have a few laptops. If you want to back up many of them, I agree that it may cause too much ICMP traffic. Also, you would need a mechanism to detect that a backup has a

Re: [Bacula-users] Laptop backup

2010-04-18 Thread Kevin Keane
You can indeed script bacula, although it's a bit awkward: simply pipe the commands and all the input data into bconsole via stdin. If you have access to your DHCP server, you could use a lease renewal to trigger the backup (keep in mind that the lease will likely be renewed well before the lap

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-08 Thread Kevin Keane
> -Original Message- > From: Phil Stracchino [mailto:ala...@metrocast.net] > Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 2:50 PM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd > > On 04/06/10 17:17, Kevin Keane

Re: [Bacula-users] Simplified pools

2010-04-08 Thread Kevin Keane
> -Original Message- > From: Phil Stracchino [mailto:ala...@metrocast.net] > Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 3:05 PM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Simplified pools > > On 04/06/10 17:28, Kevin Keane wrote: > >> Fro

Re: [Bacula-users] Simplified pools

2010-04-06 Thread Kevin Keane
> -Original Message- > From: Phil Stracchino [mailto:ala...@metrocast.net] > Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 5:53 AM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Simplified pools > > On 04/06/10 06:00, Kevin Keane wrote: > > Your i

Re: [Bacula-users] Simplified pools

2010-04-06 Thread Kevin Keane
> > I would NOT recommend the AddLevelSuffix directive - that is too > > inflexible, as well as unnecessary. You can simply include ${Level} > > in your LabelFormat directive. Note that if you include a variable in > > the label format, Bacula will no longer automatically append the > > volume ID.

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-06 Thread Kevin Keane
> -Original Message- > From: Phil Stracchino [mailto:ala...@metrocast.net] > Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 6:05 AM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd > > On 04/06/10 05:51, Kevin Keane

Re: [Bacula-users] Simplified pools

2010-04-06 Thread Kevin Keane
I second this idea. Maybe you could turn it into a feature request (see the Web site for instructions on how to do that). Your idea would solve very nicely solve one really ugly problem: when manually running a backup job, the job may end up in the wrong pool - even if you actually remembered t

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-06 Thread Kevin Keane
Hi, First of all - I agree that the volume handling on disks is one of bacula's two weakest points. Whether a dedicated disk-based SD would actually solve anything is an open question in my mind, though, because most of the problems come from the overall architecture, and that's largely baked i

Re: [Bacula-users] Same file, same job, backed up two or three times

2010-04-02 Thread Kevin Keane
. Thanks for the answer, though! Regards, Kevin > -Original Message- > From: Gabor Heja [mailto:kakaopor2...@stdio.hu] > Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 3:06 AM > To: Kevin Keane > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Same file, same job, back

[Bacula-users] Same file, same job, backed up two or three times

2010-04-02 Thread Kevin Keane
ttpd/error.* File = /virtual } } Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Direct: 760-721-8339 Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e-mail and attachments, if any, may contain confidential and/or p

Re: [Bacula-users] Shell script question.

2010-03-04 Thread Kevin Keane
There are several reasons. a) not all shells understand -z. Specifically, csh doesn't. Also, command.com and cmd.exe don't understand it. People used to any of these would naturally gravitate towards the alternative solution. b) your version actually is incorrect. Even with -z, $var still needs

Re: [Bacula-users] One Job, many clients... (I really need help with this!)

2010-02-28 Thread Kevin Keane
I have a guess that what you are really looking for is not for the three clients to share one job, but rather one fileset. You can't share jobs, but you can share file sets. Basically, a job connects the file set with the client (and then says which storage daemon to use, and all the other good

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up > 100 servers

2010-02-27 Thread Kevin Keane
> -Original Message- > From: Stan Meier [mailto:stan.me...@billigmail.org] > Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 11:07 AM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up > 100 servers > > * Kevin Keane : > We don't backup who

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up > 100 servers

2010-02-27 Thread Kevin Keane
> -Original Message- > From: Stan Meier [mailto:stan.me...@billigmail.org] > Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 10:08 AM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up > 100 servers > > While you are right and creating a configuration based on scripts is

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up > 100 servers

2010-02-27 Thread Kevin Keane
You may want to look into using a script instead of a text configuration file. Bacula-dir.conf supports include files with the syntax @ If you instead use @| then bacula-dir will treat as a shell script, execute it and use the output from stdout in its configuration. As for your second ques

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS Windows Backups

2010-02-17 Thread Kevin Keane
> -Original Message- > From: Bob Hetzel [mailto:b...@case.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:30 PM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] VSS Windows Backups > > >> > 2) I couldn't get far enough for this to be an issue but I believe > >> > bacul

Re: [Bacula-users] prune not working as expected

2010-01-11 Thread Kevin Keane
Media SET FirstWritten='2008-01-01' WHERE FirstWritten = '-00-00'; > -Original Message----- > From: Kevin Keane [mailto:subscript...@kkeane.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 2:58 PM > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-u

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/Vista 64 bit bacula

2010-01-03 Thread Kevin Keane
Oh yes, that was me. Ultimately, it's a bug in bacula; it has some inconsistent default values: by default, the director tries to connect on IPv6 when the machine has an record listed. But the FD does not listen on IPv6 (in Linux, you can turn it on to make it work, in Windows, IPv6 is not

Re: [Bacula-users] IPv6 bug - was RE: Windows client firewalling problem

2009-12-22 Thread Kevin Keane
> -Original Message- > From: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 6:45 AM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] IPv6 bug - was RE: Windows client > firewalling problem > > 2009/12/22 Kevin

[Bacula-users] IPv6 bug - was RE: Windows client firewalling problem

2009-12-22 Thread Kevin Keane
involved that have only A but no records associated, and use these alternate names in the bacula configuration files. From: Kevin Keane [mailto:subscript...@kkeane.com] Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 1:47 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] Windows client

Re: [Bacula-users] Install Bacula-FD on windows en masse? (group policy)

2009-12-18 Thread Kevin Keane
I started using GPOs for deploying software, and ditched it pretty quickly. Too many limitations; the biggest of them is that it can only install MSI files, not applications packaged as executables or any other way. Of course you can create MSI files yourself with tools such as makemsi, but it'

Re: [Bacula-users] prune not working as expected

2009-12-15 Thread Kevin Keane
> -Original Message- > > I also checked: there are no jobs associated with these volumes. > > Yes, prune should mark those volumes are purged if there are no jobs. > It's a mystery. Is there a way to turn on something like verbose output for pruning so I can find out exactly what it does

Re: [Bacula-users] prune not working as expected

2009-12-11 Thread Kevin Keane
> -Original Message- > From: Martin Simmons [mailto:mar...@lispworks.com] > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 12:44 PM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] prune not working as expected > > >>>>> On Thu, 10 Dec 2

[Bacula-users] prune not working as expected

2009-12-10 Thread Kevin Keane
I have a couple older volumes that I expected to get pruned by now, but they don't. I am using bacula 3.0.2 on OpenSuSE. Here is one example: | 244 | randamai_20091101223426_Full.bacula| Archive | 1 | 93,005,712,230 | 21 |2,851,200 | 0 |0 |

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Problem Storage File

2009-12-07 Thread Kevin Keane
Since telnet is refused, too, odds are that either there is a firewall involved, or the FQDN resolves to the wrong host. BTW, telnet failing is no longer always a reliable indicator of whether the firewall is configured correctly, since many firewalls have different rules on a per-application b

[Bacula-users] Windows client firewalling problem

2009-12-07 Thread Kevin Keane
I recently upgraded my bacula from 2.4 to 3.0. Almost everything works beautifully, except for one Windows 2008 Standard client machine (64 version). This machine is running the 64-bit version of winbacula 3.0.2. The directory and SD both are on other machines on the same subnet. The Windows ser

Re: [Bacula-users] RFC: backing up hundreds of TB

2009-11-29 Thread Kevin Keane
> -Original Message- > From: Ralf Gross [mailto:ralf-li...@ralfgross.de] > Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 6:23 AM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Cc: bacula-de...@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] RFC: backing up hundreds of TB >

Re: [Bacula-users] RFC: backing up hundreds of TB

2009-11-27 Thread Kevin Keane
Just a thought... If I understand you correctly, the files never change once they are created? In that case, your best bet might be to use a copy-based scheme for backup. I'd create two directories on your main server. /current /to_backup Both on the same file system. /current (or whatever yo

Re: [Bacula-users] Using bacula for local and cloud backup

2009-11-14 Thread Kevin Keane
You could take the approach of "append to incremental file every night" but I don't think it would help you, and actually would hurt. Your idea of using small, 100 MB volumes to encourage rsync to work more efficiently really is redoing something that bacula already does for you. If you simply

Re: [Bacula-users] eSATA / USB disks as media for Bacula

2009-11-13 Thread Kevin Keane
> -Original Message- > From: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 5:06 AM > To: Bruno Friedmann; bacula-users > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] eSATA / USB disks as media for Bacula > > > Just an add to the previous great comments. > > > > If you envisa

[Bacula-users] Bacula 3.0 RPMs for SuSE?

2009-11-04 Thread Kevin Keane
I am currently using version 2.4.2 on OpenSUSE 11.1 (x86_64), and would like to upgrade to 3.0, but I don't want to recompile from source. OpenSUSE 11.1 still only includes bacula 2.4. Are there any 3.0 RPMs? The OpenSUSE build service usually has newer RPMs, but even there I only found the bacu

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore a LVM RAW Partition

2009-10-20 Thread Kevin Keane
e (name)? As > i am using a snaphot for Backup it is not possible, to restore to the same > location (or i am wrong?) ... > > Regards, > Peter > -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642

[Bacula-users] Windows bacula-fd and IPv6?

2009-10-18 Thread Kevin Keane
quite yet; I'm stuck with 2.4.2 for the time being. Thanks! -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e-mail and attachments, if any, may contain confidential

Re: [Bacula-users] Unable to do more than one backup with NAT involved

2009-10-14 Thread Kevin Keane
-oct 01:11 baculaos-dir JobId 30: Fatal error: Network error with FD during > Backup: ERR=Connection closed timeout > > So, could this be a problem with some configuration either on the client or > the bacula server or is this a problem with the router/firewall ? > > Thanks. >

Re: [Bacula-users] Unchanged files still saved in incremental backup

2009-10-05 Thread Kevin Keane
saved by a Full backup and then by all >> the Incremental backups while its HASH didn't change. >> >> >> Any idea about this ? >> >> >> Klaas >> -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have t

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Exchange Server 2007

2009-09-29 Thread Kevin Keane
original battle with this: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-de...@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03837.htm >> l >> > > I just tested Bacula with Windows server 2003 and Exchange 2007 - backup > works > OK, although I left VSS on in the fileset. I managed t

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Exchange Server 2007

2009-09-29 Thread Kevin Keane
s Exclude will only leave out a few random ones out of the middle of the database. Exchange, like most databases, writes changes first to the log files before it updates the actual database. The log files stay around until the next backup of the database. Doing a file-level backup of Exchange r

[Bacula-users] Backing up iSCSI volume image files?

2009-09-27 Thread Kevin Keane
systems involved, I have to set OneFS=no. Thanks! -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e-mail and attachments, if any, may contain confidential and/or proprietary in

Re: [Bacula-users] Two questions concerning Bacula (Off Course)

2009-09-09 Thread Kevin Keane
b directives? RunBeforeJob and RunAfterJob are executed by the director, and run as whatever user the director is running (usually, user bacula). ClientRunBeforeJob and ClientRunAfterJob are executed by the FD, and run as whatever user the FD is running (usually root, as you already said). --

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup challenge :-)

2009-09-01 Thread Kevin Keane
's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > ---- > > ___ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourc

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS on Vista/Win2008 x64

2009-08-04 Thread Kevin Keane
I don't know if this is your problem, but there is a bug in VSS for both Vista and Windows 2008 that causes VSS to time out and fail. I don't know what the symptom would be in bacula, but it's entirely possible that you are seeing that. Check your event log for any related events. The issue is

Re: [Bacula-users] Onde Fileset for two clients - Is it possible?

2009-08-02 Thread Kevin Keane
Use the same fileset in two jobs. Eduardo Sieber wrote: > Hello people! > > That's My problem... I have 1 fileset that list files to backup from > one server... But I wanna use the same job to backup some files from > another server... > How can I handle this? Do I have two clients at same files

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple copies

2009-07-28 Thread Kevin Keane
Daniel De Marco wrote: > * Kevin Keane [07/28/2009 21:51]: > >> I didn't follow this thread, but there is a simple solution to this >> problem. You can generate the actual content of the file set with a >> script, and call the same script from within bot

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple copies

2009-07-28 Thread Kevin Keane
th a script, and call the same script from within both file sets in the bacula configuration file. -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e-mail and attachments

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula spool on SSD -- solid state drive?performance testing?

2009-07-24 Thread Kevin Keane
nk even the cheapest flash memory has an MTBF of 10,000 write cycles, which means that an SSD used for spooling should last for 1000 full backups - even more differential or incremental ones. Or is my reasoning wrong here? Without practical experience, that's entirely possible. -- Kevin Kean

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole password

2009-07-21 Thread Kevin Keane
> Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-71

Re: [Bacula-users] Backuping 2000+ host with bacula?

2009-07-16 Thread Kevin Keane
over the same several volumes. That makes recycling difficult - even more so when some of the backup jobs are full and some are incrementals. The bacula manual has some additional considerations at http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Basic_Volume_Management.html#SECTION00262 --

Re: [Bacula-users] Backuping 2000+ host with bacula?

2009-07-16 Thread Kevin Keane
issue that restoring a backup may take unacceptably long due to the database size and all the other activity going on in your system. Of course, if you are not actually backing up the Windows image, just documents, my calculation could be completely different. -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech F

Re: [Bacula-users] backup catalog fail?

2009-07-03 Thread Kevin Keane
__ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems restoring an Exchange plugin backup

2009-06-25 Thread Kevin Keane
(you'd lose the emails that arrived in the meantime), but into a recovery storage group. You can then access the mailboxes in that file for recovery purposes (hint: get the EXMERGE utility to export each mailbox into a PDB file, and then to import the mailbox into the regular mailbox). --

Re: [Bacula-users] how to recycle volumes ahead of time?

2009-06-17 Thread Kevin Keane
/$$.1 rm -f /tmp/$$.1 Andreas Schuldei wrote: > hi! > i dont want to wait untill my filesystem is filled up on my storage > cluster and want to start to purge and recycle volumes now. > > i want to recycle all volumes that have the status "purged". i am not > afraid t

Re: [Bacula-users] Firewall woes

2009-06-15 Thread Kevin Keane
gt;> tcp -- 192.168.2.1460.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:9102 state >>> >> NEW >> >> >> You need state ESTABLISHED and RELATED for the other direction, not? >> >> >> >>> >>> On the director the iptable entry r

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore client problems

2009-06-09 Thread Kevin Keane
and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > ___ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the

Re: [Bacula-users] Era of virtual machines (block level differentials and incrementals)?

2009-06-02 Thread Kevin Keane
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Re: [Bacula-users] How to test my conf file

2009-05-26 Thread Kevin Keane
{start|stop|restart|status} I can't test > config files? I really need to see if all is fine. > -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e-mail and a

Re: [Bacula-users] backup nas on windows fd

2009-05-24 Thread Kevin Keane
te frequent under windows where God is not so God ;-) > On Windows, the Local System account has rights to just about everything on that machine. I'm not sure if it is allowed to listen to a socket, though. Backup Operator also can back up and restore files without permissions, if t

Re: [Bacula-users] backup nas on windows fd

2009-05-19 Thread Kevin Keane
> windows job. > > If I run the batch file manually, everything works perfect. > Why it doesn't work when bacula-fd do it? > Should I change some service property? > > Thanx > Gabriele. > > <http://www.sonicle.com> > Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. > Te

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: eSATA drive for storage

2009-05-18 Thread Kevin Keane
turers are cutting corners and put a cheaper internal SATA connector on the external bracket. That's actually illegal (can get you in trouble with the FCC for radio interference). Worse - at first glance, the two connectors look the same, but they actually have different shapes (SATA is L

Re: [Bacula-users] preserving ownership of restored files

2009-05-14 Thread Kevin Keane
> Or maybe it will also reset the ownership when writing the file during the restore itself? Note to self: when doing such a restore, restore /etc/passwd and /etc/group (or the LDAP configuration or whatever else is used) before anything else. That's 20/20 hindsight, of course. --

Re: [Bacula-users] bad file dates cause incremental backups

2009-05-12 Thread Kevin Keane
a digital camera > that > probably had the date set incorrectly. > > I noticed that these files are included in every incremental backup, even > though they > have not changed since the last full backup. > > The director/storage is bacula 2.4.4 on a fedora 7. The server

Re: [Bacula-users] Is that ok using Bacula to write on DVDs?

2009-05-07 Thread Kevin Keane
s not a lot if you think about it. Solid state disks are more reliable because they use redundancy and are able to detect and replace failed memory cells. That's why I would probably trust a DVD more than solid-state. Ultimately, though, all media fails. Tapes wear out, too. -- Kevin Kea

Re: [Bacula-users] How to deal with NAT

2009-05-06 Thread Kevin Keane
Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: > * Kevin Keane : > >> I solved exactly this issue with SSH tunnels. The description on how I >> did it is in the Bacula Wiki in the howto section. >> > > Thanks for the reference. I had had a look at it earlier and had kept it on m

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula project voting / Feature request

2009-05-06 Thread Kevin Keane
and it won't > be > changed when the volume is re-used.. so the name is incorrect after > recycling > and re-using the volume.. > > I guess this feature is mostly useful with disk volumes. > > -- Pasi > Check out item 8. I think it will do what you (and I) w

Re: [Bacula-users] How to deal with NAT

2009-05-04 Thread Kevin Keane
er. > > Am I right? > > Are there any other 'good solutions' to deal with such a setup? I believe this > is a typical requirement and I would expect there to be more than one > approach. > > Thanks, > > p...@rick > > -- Kevin Keane Owner The N

Re: [Bacula-users] minimizing full backups

2009-04-30 Thread Kevin Keane
d the optimal > list of all the old files/folders to be excluded, but it turned out to be > much > more difficult I initially expected. > > Is anyone else doing smth like that? > -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never H

Re: [Bacula-users] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Large scale disk basedbackups

2009-04-30 Thread Kevin Keane
at isn't being used off site. Since the schedule is rigid, I'm not sure how to handle the situation when the "wrong" disk is plugged into the USB port. -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office:

Re: [Bacula-users] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Large scale disk based backups

2009-04-30 Thread Kevin Keane
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Re: [Bacula-users] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Large scale disk based backups

2009-04-29 Thread Kevin Keane
sk2 Media Type = File Device Type = File Archive Device = /misc/BACKUP2 LabelMedia = yes Random Access = Yes AutomaticMount = yes RemovableMedia = no AlwaysOpen = no RequiresMount = No } -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Nev

Re: [Bacula-users] Newbie: Disk-To-Disk-To-Tape

2009-04-27 Thread Kevin Keane
Steven Palm wrote: > On Apr 27, 2009, at 12:47 PM, Kevin Keane wrote: > >> This depends on your situation, of course, but I found that very >> often, >> backing up workstations really isn't all that useful. Ideally, they >> don't hold any data

Re: [Bacula-users] Newbie: Disk-To-Disk-To-Tape

2009-04-27 Thread Kevin Keane
Steven Palm wrote: > On Apr 27, 2009, at 12:47 PM, Kevin Keane wrote: > >> This depends on your situation, of course, but I found that very >> often, >> backing up workstations really isn't all that useful. Ideally, they >> don't hold any data

Re: [Bacula-users] Newbie: Disk-To-Disk-To-Tape

2009-04-27 Thread Kevin Keane
o store desktop settings etc. on the server. An actual Windows server (not a Linux server, though) also has a very nice interface for retrieving old files. Of course, that isn't always true; some workstations do hold important data that isn't replicated anywhere else. So your mile

Re: [Bacula-users] FileID greater then 4.2 billion on rev. 2.4.4

2009-04-22 Thread Kevin Keane
if there is a workaround on FileID having reached > the 2**32 max on rev. 2.4.4? > I would like to wait some more time before upgrading to rev. 3.0 in > the production environment (I believe rev. 3 has a bigger slot for > that value, isn't it?). > > Regards, -- Kevin Kean

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot backup a windows network drive

2009-04-18 Thread Kevin Keane
f view, if I go into Computer and open the T > drive, I can do anything. > I thought it was some kind of permissions problem, so I checked the > bacula-fd service and changed > the running user from System to Administrator. > Nothing changed. > > What may be the problem? >

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature request: relative rentention times

2009-04-14 Thread Kevin Keane
Victor Hugo dos Santos wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Kevin Keane wrote: > > [...] > > >> Notes: This feature may only makes sense for jobs and files, maybe not for >> volumes. >> I haven't fully thought through the implications y

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula version 3.0.0 released to Source Forge

2009-04-10 Thread Kevin Keane
ntributors) work on bacula! > And a very hearty thank-you from me, too. Bacula is really great software! Kevin -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e-ma

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula and ssh-tunnel FD <-> SD

2009-04-10 Thread Kevin Keane
directive entry like explain in the how-to (i think). > > Do you have a explain ? a schema to explain this ( forwardind port ... )? > What can i put in the variable "LOCAL" ? a full qualified name or not ? > > I a beginner with bacula and in english ;-) sorry > > Thanks

Re: [Bacula-users] "status jobs" shows odd sizes

2009-04-09 Thread Kevin Keane
. As long as the data very is compressible, it could fit quite comfortably. It actually supports my suspicion that it may be a single large database file; database files can often be compressed to as little as a few percent of their original size, because they are often sparse files. -- Kevin Kean

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature request: relative rentention times

2009-04-09 Thread Kevin Keane
Mike Ruskai wrote: > On 04/07/2009 04:21, Kevin Keane wrote: > >> Item n: implement retention times specified as number of copies. >> Date: 4/6/2009 >> Origin: Kevin Keane - subscription at kkeane dot com >> Status: >> >> >> &

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature request: relative rentention times

2009-04-08 Thread Kevin Keane
Dan Langille wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Kevin Keane wrote: > >> Item n: implement retention times specified as number of copies. >> Date: 4/6/2009 >> Origin: Kevin Keane - subscription at kkeane dot com >> S

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula client is causing error in Server 2008 eventlog

2009-04-08 Thread Kevin Keane
75 6c 61 2d 66 64 2e cula-fd. > > 00b8: 63 6f 6e 66 22 20 20 20 conf" > > 00c0: 2d 20 55 73 65 72 3a 20 - User: > > The rest is deleted > > Any ideas? > > Thanks! > > Arch > > > &

Re: [Bacula-users] Howto recover from a job being rerun around a summer time change

2009-04-07 Thread Kevin Keane
e == 0) lastDispatchTime = currentTime - 1 minute; if (currentTime < lastDispatchTime) { // do nothing. We are in the duplicate hour in spring. } else { // identify all events that were scheduled between lastDispatchTime and currentTime. // This will execute everything due to

Re: [Bacula-users] thannyd earthlink.net

2009-04-07 Thread Kevin Keane
rd to argue that they are all "improperly configured". The second reason is that you may have some kind of front-end relay server that simply does not know all the recipients on the final server. That said, I, too, find these "please verify" messages exceedingly rude; I us

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