[Bacula-users] NSS volumes revisited

could be a brisk market ins such a product, since Novell is pushing all of its existing customers to Linux and many will be looking for a robust backup solution. -- Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6, Linux+ Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger questions

Then this weekend, it want to use the last tape from last weekend's backup. Oh, well. It works fine. -- Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6, Linux+ Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Bacula-users] Autochanger questions

intervention. Have I been laboring under a misconception? -- Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6, Linux+ Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still

[Bacula-users] Bacula won't label barcodes

= 9103 # Password = "ourpassword" # Device = "VXA3" # Media Type = "VXA-3" # Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 5 #} Please note that I have run this without the comments as well, but the result is the same. Is there a log file I can examine th

Re: [Bacula-users] Autoloader not Autloading

gt;> And that's all I know right now. I hope not. Do you have any further log where the tape was successfully loaded? No. These are brand-new, never-been-used tapes. -- Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6, Linux+ Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[Bacula-users] 'When The Tape Fills'

e point is, logic, and a reasonable interpretation of the docs, inform me that a blank, labeled tape in the Pool, in the next available slot will be chosen, perhaps in preference to a Recycled volume. Is this the case? -- Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6, Linux+ Network Engineer Mason County, Washi

Re: [Bacula-users] Autoloader not autoloading

t error. 27-Aug 07:34 bacula-sd: Please mount Volume "A005" on Storage Device "VXA3" (/dev/nst0) for Job GIS_One.2007-08-25_17.35.00 At 8:17 I finally got the tape loaded, as I described, and the backup proceded. And that's all I know right now. -- Tks n rgds, Richar

[Bacula-users] Autoloader not autoloading

ula-dir.conf storage resource above, the Auto resource media type has no quotes around it, but the VXA resource's media type does. An oversight on my part, surely, but does it make any difference? Bacula certainly never complains about a syntax error. -- Tks n rgds, Richard White

Re: [Bacula-users] New Exabyte Autochanger question

>>> On 7/9/2007 at 11:57 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John Drescher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/9/07, Richard White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> On 7/9/2007 at 11:32 AM, in message >> <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Bacula-users] New Exabyte Autochanger question

dev/nst0 0' at the shell prompt), then issue: *label storage=VXA volume=A002 That will work. Now that I have my tapes labeled, I need to figure out how to do a backup with this library. -- Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6, Linux+ Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [

Re: [Bacula-users] New Exabyte Autochanger question

storage=Auto volume=A002 slot=2 Bacula deals with it flawlessly. I do get the I/O error mentioned in the manual, but otherwise it's OK. Much ado about nothing, I suppose, but I'm under some pressure here. Thanks to all. -- Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6, Linux+ Network Engineer Mas

Re: [Bacula-users] New Exabyte Autochanger question

# groupadd bacula # vi /etc/group Make the last line look like this: bacula:!:1000:root,bacula,richarw # chown bacula:bacula /dev/nst0 At this point, presumably the user and group bacula own /dev/nst0. # ls -l /dev/nst0 # crw-rw 1 bacula bacula 9, 128 Jul 5 15:14 /dev/nst0 No change

Re: [Bacula-users] New Exabyte Autochanger question

-test SDPort = 9103 Password = "REMOVED" Device = "VXA3" Media Type = "VXA-3" Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 5 } Please also note that, in the new and improved versio

Re: [Bacula-users] New Exabyte Autochanger question

dev/st1 gives an error. The mtx-changer command works, as does the label barcode command. WooHoo! I get to keep my miserable job. Thanks. Does the OS -- and, by extension, Bacula -- associate the device names with the SCSI ID number? E.g., if the tape drive is ID 0, it will be /dev/st0, and if

[Bacula-users] New Exabyte Autochanger question

a-test:9103 ... Connecting to Storage daemon VXA at bacula-test:9103 ... 3306 Issuing autochanger "slots" command. Device "VXA3" has 0 slots. No slots in changer to scan. It appears that my system is currently unaware of the existence of the autochanger as such. I know I'm

[Bacula-users] Bacula and OES Linux with NSS

of course, if a real programmer wrote a file daemon that would handle NSS trustees. FWIW, here is a link to get tbackup.sh: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/18952.html -- Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6, Linux+ Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and OES Linux with NSS

FWIW, here is a link to get tbackup.sh: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/18952.html -- Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6, Linux+ Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This

[Bacula-users] Bacula and OES Linux with NSS

of course, if a real programmer wrote a file daemon that would handle NSS trustees. -- Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6, Linux+ Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.net email is

[Bacula-users] wx-console is bent

entry in my hosts file for the Bacula server. This behavior seems to coincide with that described in the previous post, but since that one has been fixed, why would this persist? -- Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROT

[Bacula-users] Spooling questions

kups, does Bacula de-spool from disk at the same time that the FD is spooling data to the disk? This seems to be what happens, as I can see tape activity pretty much right away on full backup jobs, but my boss wonders about this. -- Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Wash

Re: [Bacula-users] What causes this?

> Oops. Worng. I was editing the director configuration. After a more > careful reading, I learned that I should have been editing the storage >daemon and file daemon configuration files. I have done so and will > test. That worked! Thanks. -- Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Netw

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-users Digest, Vol 10, Issue 6

TED] > Thanks, Darien. Alas, I have Bacula 1.36.3, and this is unsupported. I will soon upgrade. Oops. Worng. I was editing the director configuration. After a more careful reading, I learned that I should have been editing the storage daemon and file daemon configuration files. I ha

Re: [Bacula-users] What causes this?

what units are the time intervals? I.e., what will this mean: Heartbeat Interval = 100 -- Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Using Tomcat but need to do more

[Bacula-users] What causes this?

-dir: ArcIMS.2007-01-29_16.07.46 Fatal error: No Job status returned from FD. -- Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need

Re: [Bacula-users] Don't understand error

is being "reset by peer", and then there is "No Job status returned from FD." What causes this? -- Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [Bacula-users] How can Novell contribute

solution instead of two (we currently use Backup Exec 9 for NetWare and some Winders). If we can help, let me know. -- Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Bacula-users] Don't understand error

obs] 1462 Full 0 0 Error29-Jan-07 18:07 ArcIMS I am puzzled why there are 13,339 SD files and 9,959,280,437 bytes written, but zero FD files and bytes written. -- Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Maso

Re: [Bacula-users] Backs up Windows, but can't restore

this: Invalid path given. cwd is: / And so on. It has been a couple of months since I did the testing on my W2K Pro desktop, but I know I restored files in the "usual" way. -- Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Bacula-users] Backs up Windows, but can't restore

>>> On 12/12/2006 at 9:08 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In response to "Richard White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> This is Bacula 1.36.3. I have been backing up Linux servers for more >> than a ye

[Bacula-users] Backs up Windows, but can't restore

cd to any known directory and can't mark any file for restore. The manual's caveats for Windows refer to the (ab)use of '\' and to be mindful of the treatment of NTFS naming conventions. Any ideas on where I am going worng? -- Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore whacks server

OK, I complained too soon. A standard re-boot now works. At least once. It's still weird, but right now it's working. This is probably the result of using a retired desktop workstation as a test bed. Richard - Using Tomcat bu

[Bacula-users] Restore whacks server

's behavior in SLES 10 is very different from SLES 9, at least where installing software from RPMs is concerned, and I still haven't got that figured out. -- Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washi

Re: [Bacula-users] More newbie whining

>>> On 9/26/2006 at 11:22 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 27 September 2006 01:41, Richard White wrote: >> As part of my exercise to get Bacula 1.38 running with full GUI toys, I have > > installed S

[Bacula-users] More newbie whining

installed or that SLES has them in unconventional places where the scripts will not find them? If this is the case, is there a straightforward change that will let them be found? If not, could I expect all these items to install on RH without these errors? -- Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Netwo

[Bacula-users] Using the gnome console and KDE question

that might be difficult (what would we put on the PO?). I'd be glad to send you a case of beer, but it's a long way to Switzerland and, anyway, you've got better talent locally (although the microbreweries that have cropped up here in the last dozen years have certainly improved t

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 53

all the gcc items. -- Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users

[Bacula-users] Cannot find -ltermcap

set up with the same CDs, both of the OS and the app? Does anyone have any comments or advice? Richard White Network Engineer Mason County, Washington ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users

[Bacula-users] Auto Recycling & Purging

means that Bacula will continue to write to a volume that is already flagged as "recycle" until it is full, and only then will it actually recycle and purge that volume. Will Bacula not purge and recycle a volume before it is full?   Tks n rgds,Richard White CNE6Network EngineerMa

Re: [Bacula-users] New controller for external drives

ow mount and unmount as advertised. I will attempt to do a full backup on the Right drive tomorrow. Still don't know why the other adapter had problems, but that's hardware. Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

[Bacula-users] Re: New controller for external drives

OK, the full backup finished successfully on the "Internal" RakPak drive, indicating that at least it will not fail when using the external port/channel on this "new" 2940UW. I will attempt a similar feat on the "Left" (right) RakPak drive. Film at 11:00. Richard

[Bacula-users] New controller for external drives

We have Bacula on RH 9 with an internal VXA-1 drive attached to an Adaptec 2940UW and an external RakPak (2 VXA-1 drives) that had been attached to the external port/channel on the same adapter. Configured in this way, Bacula would recognize all three drives, but we encountered a peculiar probl

[Bacula-users] Re: Tape device definitions

oth drives are labeling new tapes. It's just an old piece of hardware that needs to retire. Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: D

[Bacula-users] Tape device definitions

p to a point. The last two unsuccessful backups put 592,030,570 bytes and 750,959,576 bytes on them, respectively, before quitting. If I can just identify them correctly, I am confident that they will work for me. Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County,

[Bacula-users] Re: Bacula-users digest, Vol 1 #2164 - 5 msgs

>> OK. I neglected to mention that the bacula-fd.conf on the client is >> essentially the same as that on the server, so its Maximum Concurrent >> Jobs is 20 as well. Again, since i didn't change this value, I assume >> it is the installed default. > > You need also to look into the client sect

[Bacula-users] Re: Can't run concurrent jobs

in /sbin. I am still learning Linux and haven't gotten to the part about how to run programs at bootup, so I start this one manually from the shell thus: cd /etc/bacula bacula-fd Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 36

[Bacula-users] Can't run concurrent jobs

drive. I am not trying to run concurrent jobs on the same drive, but on three different drives; each drive will run only one job at a time. Am I mistaken here? Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Bacula-users] Drive not available

>>> Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 7/13/2005 1:47 AM: > Probably /dev/nst1 does not exist or has no tape mounted. After I posted my message, I changed /dev/nst1 to /dev/st1. It worked, so I changed the others as well. Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Eng

[Bacula-users] Drive not available

that the line "Name = LeftDrive" did not end at the "e", but had a trailing space, so I removed it, then stopped Bacula and re-started it. It didn't make any difference. Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason Cou

[Bacula-users] Mounting tapes from the command line

Is there a shell command that will mount * or unmount * a tape so that Bacula will recognize what is in the drive? (As opposed to using Bacula's internal mount and umount commands.) Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROT

[Bacula-users] Mail errors

p OK of GIS2-fd Full" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ERR=Child exited with code 1 I can see that this has to do with dropping messages in the mailbox, so maybe it's rights, maybe it's directory location. I don't know. Incidentally, this is running on RH 9.0. Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Netwo

[Bacula-users] Mario's email

I am attempting to use Mario Wolff's shell script to get Bacula to span tapes on two drives. His script is in this list's archives, Jan. 28 of this year. However, the archive truncates the email addresses. Does anyone have his address? Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engi

[Bacula-users] Update

FWIW Latest installment in the ongoing saga of Bacula on the Mason County (Washington) network. For reasons that quite escape me, Bacula began having trouble with tape drives. The typical error when I would try to mount a tape on a drive that had previously had no problems at all was that it f

[Bacula-users] Error while trying to span tapes

OK. After reading the comments in the multitape-changer script in greater detail, I made this change to the bacula-sd.conf: Changer Command = "/etc/bacula/scripts/multitape-changer /dev/null load 1 /dev/nst1 0"

[Bacula-users] Error while trying to span tapes

One more item that I overlooked in last msg. The multitape-changer script has a line referring to the label directory (/etc/bacula/tapelabel). I created this directory, but I don't know what to put there. It may be important, since the script referes to label files a short way down from there.

[Bacula-users] Error while trying to span tapes

Thanks to all for the tips on spanning tapes/drives. I have attempted to implement Mario Wolff's solution (archives, Jan. 28 & 29). Bacula loads, but can't recognize the multitape drive. Here are the critical sections: bacula-sd.conf . . . # Multi-tape drive Device { Name = Multitape Media Typ

[Bacula-users] Mount/dismount speed

Sometimes Bacula will dismount or even mount a tape nearly instantaneously, but usually it takes minutes. Is this normal? Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net

Re: [Bacula-users] NetWare, anyone?

have a graphical front end. I am (so far) happy with bconsole, but my boss wants a gui so that if I bite the big one, someone else can quickly take over managing backups. Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427

[Bacula-users] NetWare, anyone?

Is there anyone on this list who uses Bacula to back up NetWare servers? If so, is there any acquired wisdom you could share? Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net

[Bacula-users] Re: Relabeling

s, it looks like I can put my full backups into the Weekly pool, even when they run on weekdays. I'd try something like that right now, except a backup job is running. Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL

[Bacula-users] Re: Relabeling

stand Bacula (a distinct possibility), it would repeatedly write to the beginning of the each tape, rather than appending jobs till the tape is full (which is what we want). I suppose I can manage by letting Bacula perform a full for each of the four daily

[Bacula-users] Relabeling

at did it. Is there any way to tell the jobs that run on Monday - Thursday to skip the full backup, since the weekend job does that, and just to the diff? Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

[Bacula-users] Scheduled jobs?

erential mon-thu at 20:00 } Schedule { Name = "WeeklyCycle" Run = Ful 1st-5th sat at 17:00 } So why does bconsole|status dir show only this?: Scheduled Jobs: Level TypePri Scheduled NameVolume ==== Different

[Bacula-users] Spanning drives

tape would automatically span to the tape in the right-hand drive. Is there a way to configure Bacula to do the same? The internal drive is /dev/nst0 and the external drives are /dev/nst1 and /dev/nst2. Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL

[Bacula-users] Re: Re-install roadblocks

t I am making progress. Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follo

[Bacula-users] Re: Re-install roadblocks

all, of these problems will at least diminish under that OS. Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from

Re: [Bacula-users] Re-install roadblocks

When I first installed gnome, I didn't select any of the devel packages (hey, I'm not a developer). I guess from now on I will always install all the devel packages for whatever I use. Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-42

[Bacula-users] Re-install roadblocks

ound wx-config program not found. wx-console disabled. ./configure: line 1: pgk-config: command not found So at this point, configure completes, but I don't have wx-console. The doc hasn't helped me with this one. Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washi

[Bacula-users] Re: Unable to connect (yet more info)

s for your patience. Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, strai

[Bacula-users] Unable to connect (yet more info)

further from there before coming up with another question. Ultimately, all I want to do is to back up a remote SLES 9 server * actually, only part of it * and little else. I have already put the File Daemon and configuration file on that remote server and am just trying to run a successful local

[Bacula-users] Unable to connect (more info)

clude/Exclude not supported : line 218, column 11 of file ./bacula-dir.conf Include = I'm concluding that there is something wrong with the syntax in my FileSet section, but I can't find the problem in the docs. Tks n r

[Bacula-users] Unable to connect

d are my bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf files. I am getting close, but I'm not quite there yet. Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] bacula-dir.conf Description: Binary data bacula-sd.conf Description: Binary data

[Bacula-users] Installing client on remote server

Never mind. For now anyway. Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can

[Bacula-users] Installing client on remote server

the database (MySQL, in our case) on the client computer as well? My experience with the backup server is that Bacula will not install otherwise. Is there a way to get enough of Bacula on the remote computer so that it will be visible to the backup server? Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network

[Bacula-users] Media types

is a Media Type line, but I am unsure what to put there. Will bacula accept 'VXA1' as a valid media type? I am sure I will have more questions, but I promise to scour the excellent doc before I post anything here. Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washingt

[Bacula-users] Can't configure bacula

tions I'm real eager to try this product; I'm just a little out of my element troubleshooting this kind of thing. Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6 Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net e