Re: [Bacula-users] Can't run bacula any more.

2017-03-12 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 3/12/2017 10:29, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > [snip] > > mysql -u bacula > > was OK. > > show databases; > > gave: > > ++ > | Database | > ++ > | information_schema | > | test | > ++ > > So apparently the scripts did

Re: [Bacula-users] LZO compression on Windows Client

2017-02-18 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 2/17/2017 04:18, Norbert Gomes wrote: > Hi list ! > > GZIP compression is quite slow on our Windows clients (5.2.10), it > increases a lot the duration of theses backups. The speed of the network > transfer is at: 20 MB/s with GZIP and 100 MB/s without compression > > I read that LZO would be fa

Re: [Bacula-users] resetting bacula to a clean state

2016-11-02 Thread Mike Ruskai
make_mysql_tables is a shell script, not just a set of SQL statements. Run it by itself, providing whatever options you need to connect to and authenticate with the correct MySQL instance. In your case, it looks like you just need to get rid of "mysql <" on your command line. On 11/2/2016 1

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple full backups in same month

2015-06-25 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 6/25/2015 10:21 AM, Silver Salonen wrote: On 06/25/2015 05:06 PM, Rodrigo Abrantes Antunes wrote: Citando Silver Salonen >: On 06/25/2015 03:05 PM, Rodrigo Abrantes Antunes wrote: Citando Heitor Faria : Hi, I had a problem with space in my bacula s

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula.org web site non-functional?

2014-07-26 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 7/26/2014 3:51 PM, Brady, Mike wrote: > On 2014-07-26 19:07, Wolfgang Denk wrote: >> Dear Luc Van der Veken, >> >> In message >> you >> wrote: >>> The Blog and Recent Topics sections at the top remain the same >>> everywhere and take up so much space that I have to page down to see >>> the actu

Re: [Bacula-users] Universal Restore

2012-04-11 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 4/11/2012 4:01 AM, Moritz Herrmann wrote: > Hello, > > is there a feature like Acronis Universal Restore available for bacula > to restore saved MS Windows Machines on different Hardware? > > thanks > Moritz Herrmann > > > Bacula isn't really about bare-metal recovery, especially when it com

Re: [Bacula-users] automatic mount / unmount after Backup

2012-04-02 Thread Mike Ruskai
I don't think those commands ever worked. I tried using them as well a while back, but had to use Run Before Job and Run After Job to get automatic mounting/unmounting to work. I no longer do that, but that's what you'll want to do. On 4/2/2012 4:00 PM, Oliver Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > I'm bac

Re: [Bacula-users] ERR=Connection reset by peer

2012-03-27 Thread Mike Ruskai
I had similar errors at one point, with a single client. I also found no network problems with any of the tests I did. Yet I replaced the cable between the client and the switch, and the problems went away. I'm not saying a new cable will solve your problem, but it's certainly the cheapest a

Re: [Bacula-users] Connection reset by peer

2011-07-26 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 7/26/2011 9:44 PM, scar wrote: > i am getting this error on one of my remote clients, work1-fd. what is > confusing to me is that i have another system, work2-fd, on the same > network, behind the same router, running the same OS and bacula version > (ubuntu 10.04, 5.0.1) which doesn't have any

Re: [Bacula-users] SPEED!

2011-07-06 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 7/6/2011 12:31 PM, Jake Debord wrote: I have a machine I back up that when done averages: Elapsed time: 41 mins 47 secs Priority: 1 FD Files Written: 6,948 SD Files Written: 6,948 FD Bytes Written: 14,587,852,350 (14.58 GB) SD Bytes Written:

Re: [Bacula-users] comparison network traffic amanada - bacula @restore

2011-01-19 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 1/19/2011 7:47 PM, Juergen Zahrer wrote: > Hi list, > > amanda passes the whole archive to the client even if only a few files > are restored. that takes a very very long time for > one small file in a big dump over 100 Mb. > what about bacula? does bacula "unpack and extract" the requested fil

Re: [Bacula-users] Using one job config for multiple individual file backups?

2011-01-15 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 1/14/2011 2:18 PM, Stan M. Hammond wrote: > I am looking to see if anyone has any ideas or even if it can be done. > We have a number of data files (3TB - over 12K files) that we want to > requests. Request ignored" and then in our case crash bacula-dir. I am > wondering if there is a way to

Re: [Bacula-users] Serializing catalog backup

2011-01-10 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 1/10/2011 4:20 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 01/10/11 15:48, Mike Ruskai wrote: > >> I know how to backup the database. That's not my question. My question >> is how to create a schedule, in an environment with multiple concurrent >> jobs, that guarantees

Re: [Bacula-users] Serializing catalog backup

2011-01-10 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 1/8/2011 2:07 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > On 1/7/2011 3:03 PM, Mike Ruskai wrote: >> Right now, I'm backing up to a drive array with one concurrent job. I'd >> like to increase that, and really need to for a new backup environment >> I'm creating soon.

[Bacula-users] Serializing catalog backup

2011-01-07 Thread Mike Ruskai
Right now, I'm backing up to a drive array with one concurrent job. I'd like to increase that, and really need to for a new backup environment I'm creating soon. With the single concurrent job, getting a consistent catalog backup is trivial - I just schedule it to run one minute after the last

Re: [Bacula-users] How many jobs can I schedule for the same time?

2010-03-02 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 3/2/2010 6:39 PM, Richard Hartmann wrote: > Hi all, > > how many backups can I start at once without causing errors? > Even with "only" 15 backups starting at once, I get one of the two > failures below: > > Fatal error: sql_create.c:784 Lock Path table Query failed: LOCK > TABLES Path write, ba

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

2010-02-27 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 2/27/2010 1:08 PM, Stan Meier wrote: > > I don't see how we can synchronize more than 120 backup jobs yet, to > be honest. We could run backup at 9pm and the copy job at 10am to > allow for a large margin of error, but that just doesn't feel like a > proper solution. > > > Stan > > You can s

Re: [Bacula-users] How to backup the catalog

2010-02-10 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 2/10/2010 10:52 AM, JanJaap Scholing wrote: Hi List, One question, how to backup the catalog. We are using MySQL for the bacula catalog. This database is approximately 46 Gb in size. When we use the backup script make_catalog_backup (supplied with bacula) to dump the database, bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Serious issues, should I start over?

2010-01-31 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 1/31/2010 1:20 AM, Eric Downing wrote:/bacula-dir.conf In MySQL there actually is no bacula database, so I created it and still got the same error. I also checked that the bacula password for MySQL and the password defined in /bacula-dir.conf were synced. Seeing as how these seem to be seri

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows client performance

2010-01-25 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 1/25/2010 2:46 PM, Timo Neuvonen wrote: "Mike Ruskai" kirjoitti viestissä news:4b5dcf2f.9050...@earthlink.net... On 1/25/2010 11:07 AM, Timo Neuvonen wrote: some more cpu load, but no peak in workstation's cpu load meter exceeded 50%. In Windows, 100%

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows client performance

2010-01-25 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 1/25/2010 11:07 AM, Timo Neuvonen wrote: > some more cpu load, but no peak in workstation's cpu load meter exceeded > 50%. > > In Windows, 100% load means all CPU's together at max load. If you have two cores, 50% means 100% load on one core. So you're seeing the best that CPU can do (and

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

2009-11-11 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 11/11/2009 4:53 AM, Andrew Vliet wrote: > Hello all, > > Been looking for a half hour or so now, and it /seems/ that - with > moderate work - Bacula can use disk as media..? Is that true? > > I'd be more interested in using eSATA than USB. > > Can anyone confirm that this can be done? > > Thank

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula not running correct job type

2009-09-11 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 9/11/2009 9:16 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: When you ran the job the first and second time, do you mean you initiated the job manually (i.e. with the "run" command in the console) or do you mean you sat back, did nothing, and let bacula start the job all by itself based on the schedule?

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple copies

2009-07-28 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 7/28/2009 10:25 PM, 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 both file sets in the bacula c

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple copies

2009-07-28 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 7/28/2009 3:59 PM, Daniel De Marco wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to use bacula to keep two independent sets of backups for > some particular machines. I have two storage daemons setup (one of them > offsite) so I can't use Migration or Copy Jobs. > > My first try has been to setup a second set of

Re: [Bacula-users] Odd Bacula article

2009-07-20 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 7/20/2009 9:32 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > I found this today: > > http://searchstorage.techtarget.com.au/articles/34020-Open-source-backup-tools-Amanda-BackupPC-and-Bacula-compared > > However, very little comparison is done. > > The Bacula information is based upon writings by Eric Burgener, but

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape size problem.

2009-07-13 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 07/13/2009 14:41, sieber wrote: > I tryied with defcompression and compression... > > With estimate command I got: > *estimate > The defined Job resources are: > 1: BackupCatalog > 2: RestoreFiles > 3: bkp > 4: RestoreBkp > Select Job resource (1-4): 3 > Using Catalog "My

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows console crashes a lot

2009-06-09 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 06/08/2009 23:49, James Harper wrote: Why is it that the Windows console crashes so much? I would assume it's because there's a bug in it and that either nobody has logged a bug report against it or that nobody is interested in fixing it :) Which console is it? I remember having some

[Bacula-users] Windows console crashes a lot

2009-06-08 Thread Mike Ruskai
Why is it that the Windows console crashes so much? The most recent was doing "list jobtotals", with a recorded error in ntdll.dll at address 0x000369da. It's always something like that, and it's not consistent. Restarting the console and running the same command succeeded. The only reliably

Re: [Bacula-users] Unwarranted promotion to full

2009-05-07 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 05/07/2009 06:44, Arno Lehmann wrote: > You could always tweak the catalog so that the latest full backup and > all backups based on it look like they were made with the new file > set. If you're comfortable with using a database tool like psql or > mysql, and you know what you do, that's a safe

Re: [Bacula-users] Unwarranted promotion to full

2009-05-07 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 05/07/2009 05:38, Graham Keeling wrote: On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 05:18:45AM -0400, Mike Ruskai wrote: With Bacula 2.4.4, adding an exclusion to a file set causes an incremental backup to be promoted to full. Is this kind of thing fixed in 3.x? Do you know about the 'I

[Bacula-users] Unwarranted promotion to full

2009-05-07 Thread Mike Ruskai
With Bacula 2.4.4, adding an exclusion to a file set causes an incremental backup to be promoted to full. Is this kind of thing fixed in 3.x? -- The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your p

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental Backup Error

2009-04-29 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 04/28/2009 13:06, stipe wrote: > Hi > > I have this problem: I have 1 PC Windows XP SP2 (bacula-win 2.4.5) and a > bacula server (centos 5.2). I setup a full backup every month and incremental > the other days. So I made some tests and I run backup manually: the problem > in this: the first b

Re: [Bacula-users] Bug or misuse, file are not save ?

2009-04-17 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 04/17/2009 08:27, Olivier Delestre wrote: > Hello, > > A bug in bacula or misuse, I do not know. > Let me explain. > > I have a folder 1 that is saved. I have a folder 2 that is not. > The directories are on the same partition. > > Execution of a total folder 1 saved in whole > Moving a file to

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

2009-04-07 Thread Mike Ruskai
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: > > I very much like this idea. I have pretty much enough storage for two full backups plus in

Re: [Bacula-users] Schedule full backups without interrupting incrementals

2009-04-06 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 04/06/2009 17:19, (private) HKS wrote: > The obvious problem is that the weekly tape backup will disrupt my > incremental/differential scheme. Is there any way to avoid this? I'm > Use a separate job and file set. Or maybe just a separate job - not sure which Bacula uses to calculate the b

Re: [Bacula-users] thannyd earthlink.net

2009-04-06 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 04/05/2009 19:11, Dan Langille wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Please do not make your spam problem *our* spam problem. There are > better ways to handle this. > > Please do not expect every person on this mailing list to fill out this > webform every time they post

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic volume numbering

2009-04-05 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 04/04/2009 04:52, Kevin Keane wrote: > No, it's documented behavior. The numbers are actually the media IDs - > basically, the database primary key. If you deleted these volumes from > bacula completely, the numbering would start at 0005. > Documented where, exactly? I see no reference to t

[Bacula-users] Paths for Windows file daemons

2009-04-05 Thread Mike Ruskai
Exclude = "E:/path/directory" = ignored Exclude = "e:/path/directory" = respected I have never been a fan of case-sensitive file systems. There's no good reason to have them, and plenty of good reasons to not have them. But the fact is, Windows is case-preservative, not case-sensitive. Shouldn

[Bacula-users] Exclude only for incremental?

2009-04-04 Thread Mike Ruskai
Is there any way to exclude a file from incremental backups only, not full backups? -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforg

Re: [Bacula-users] Need help with installing file daemon on Windows Vista.

2009-04-04 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 04/04/2009 17:28, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > The service is attempted started by the command: > > "C:\Program Files\Bacula\bin\bacula-fd.exe" /service -c > "C:\ProgramData\Bacula\bacula-fd.conf" > > Since this Vista is Danish the directory "\Program Files" does not exist, it > is replaced by "\Prog

[Bacula-users] Automatic volume numbering

2009-04-04 Thread Mike Ruskai
Starting with a new database, Bacula numbered volumes from three separate pools like this: Client1Full0001 Client1Incremental0002 Client2Full0003 Client2Full0004 It should be this: Client1Full0001 Client1Incremental0001 Client2Full0001 Client2Full0002 Known bug? -

[Bacula-users] Tape vs disc volumes

2009-04-03 Thread Mike Ruskai
When a tape volume is recycled, the contents are lost. Is the same true for a disc volume? Is the whole file truncated, or does it just start from the beginning, and only destroy the contents it actually overwrites? -

[Bacula-users] File storage unmount

2009-03-24 Thread Mike Ruskai
I've just put together a small storage tower for backups, and I can't figure out how to get Bacula to run the unmount command after a job is complete. The goal is to make it so that I can just unplug the unit and carry it off so long as there are no active jobs. Here's the storage definition:

[Bacula-users] Win32 console in 2.2.0

2007-09-11 Thread Mike Ruskai
If I run bwx-console.exe, connect to the director (done automatically), then exit, I get an error. The instruction at "0x7c92ae24" referenced memory at "0x00070069". The memory could not be "read". Sounds like trying to access a freed pointer to me. When I hit OK to that dialog, the WinXP "e

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiplexing multiple jobs to tape

2007-08-31 Thread Mike Ruskai
At 05:31 08/31/2007, Chris Howells wrote: Hi, I am trying to figure out whether bacula supports multiplexing multiple simultaneous backup jobs to the same tape - having googled, the results are inconclusive :) I am currently playing with an LTO-4 tape drive which has a raw data transfer rate of