Re: [Bacula-users] Anyone written any handy queries (query.sql)???

2009-08-12 Thread Russell Howe
ll and all subsequent differentials): SELECT DISTINCT res.volumename FROM ( SELECT lastfullbackuptapes.volumename FROM lastfullbackuptapes UNION SELECT lastdiffbackuptapes.volumename FROM lastdiffbackuptapes) res ORDER BY res.volumename; -- Russell Howe, IT Manager. BMT Mari

Re: [Bacula-users] How to automate Windows installer for a large number of hosts?

2009-01-26 Thread Russell Howe
licated - I remember using it ages ago to package openphone for internal use -- Russell Howe, IT Manager. BMT Marine & Offshore Surveys Ltd. 新年快乐! -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wan

Re: [Bacula-users] Clustering the win32 FD

2007-10-19 Thread Russell Howe
currently doing it (with 0.0.0.0:9102) listening addresses (the default). But, I'd really like it as a clustered service, and it shouldn't be that hard to do. I'll have another stab at it next week. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Bacula-users] Clustering the win32 FD

2007-10-19 Thread Russell Howe
the director and the config of the servers. It looks like it should be relatively easy, but I think maybe with my messing around trying to get it to work, I may have left trails of destruction in the parts of the registry to do with service registrations and got Windows all confuddled. -- Rus

[Bacula-users] Clustering the win32 FD

2007-10-19 Thread Russell Howe
Has anybody ever run bacula-fd under the Windows cluster service? I've been trying to create it as a "Generic Service" without a whole lot of success. Still, I haven't exhausted all troubleshooting options as yet, so I might get it going... -- Russell H

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up MS SQL server with Bacula?

2007-10-11 Thread Russell Howe
7;ve posted the prune & compress script here before, so it should be in the archives somewhere. It's nothing fancy. -- Russell Howe, IT Manager. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BMT Marine & Offshore Surveys Ltd. -

Re: [Bacula-users] Database odbc or one more driver.

2007-08-21 Thread Russell Howe
least a couple of critical apps here are written to work with SQL Server and SQL Server alone - even to the point of using encrypted stored procedures, no less!). ODBC would seem like the way to go, although it could just use the TDS libraries directly I suppose.. -- Russell Howe, IT

Re: [Bacula-users] Has this list been having problems sending mail?

2007-06-15 Thread Russell Howe
Rich wrote, sometime around 15/06/07 16:23: > On 2007.06.15. 18:15, Russell Howe wrote: > ... >> It could also be the original poster gets fed up waiting for me to >> find time to run through the queue, and so subscribes and then reposts. >> >> Then when I go th

Re: [Bacula-users] Has this list been having problems sending mail?

2007-06-15 Thread Russell Howe
queue (nor can I even find the time to maintain my bacula install!) To anyone reading this who isn't subscribed, may I recommend subscribing and setting your subscription to "nomail". That way, your posts won

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 2.0.3 for Win32 can't backup top level Chinese folder!

2007-05-16 Thread Russell Howe
See "Buffer Options" for the character set selector (you can also switch between different line terminators). I think even Windows notepad is unicode-aware these days, although whether it uses UTF8 or one of the other encodings, I don't know. -- Rus

[Bacula-users] Coping with brief network outages when talking to clients

2007-03-17 Thread Russell Howe
l...). Has this ever been considered, and how much work would it be to implement? -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get

Re: [Bacula-users] alternative postgres config

2007-02-15 Thread Russell Howe
bacula ident bacula I don't think you need identd for this - when using unix sockets, postgres gets the other user's uid via a syscall on the socket, IIRC. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys

Re: [Bacula-users] Hierarchical storage systems?

2007-02-14 Thread Russell Howe
, but XFS has an API for Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) apps called DMAPI. It's an SGI thing, and there must be at least one or two HSM apps out there. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. In

Re: [Bacula-users] WOW

2006-09-11 Thread Russell Howe
Yup - I got a new one this Saturday, and it does POP3, IMAP and SMTP, all with SSL as an option (it even validates the certificate!). Most impressed, I was, until I saw what Orange wanted to charge me for GPRS on my tariff :) -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [Bacula-users] WOW

2006-09-11 Thread Russell Howe
omething like ./sendsms --to +4477123123123 "This is an SMS" Once you have that, it's easy enough to interface to Bacula, in the same way that job results are emailed. You'll probably find the same tool useful for a bazillion other things (pushing y

Re: [Bacula-users] FileList scripting help

2006-08-09 Thread Russell Howe
': >> ERR=No such >> file or directory Bacula is looking for a file called: |get_newest_file.py /usr/local/backups/ Take out your single quotes -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Using Tomcat but need t

Re: [Bacula-users] Estimate + Exclusion Question

2006-08-04 Thread Russell Howe
ut that (presumably if I'd read the documentation a bit more carefully), I could have saved many many an hour of messing around before. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Futu

Re: [Bacula-users] restore to local file

2006-08-03 Thread Russell Howe
Tom Newton wrote, sometime around 03/08/06 16:13: > On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 16:07 +0100, Russell Howe wrote: >> are you running the exact same versions of bacula on director, file >> daemon and storage daemon? If you're not, things can get 'interesting'... > >

Re: [Bacula-users] restore to local file

2006-08-03 Thread Russell Howe
p? Hm, not me :) Still, it looks like the FD is closing the connection for some reason - are you running the exact same versions of bacula on director, file daemon and storage daemon? If you're not, things can get 'interesting'

Re: [Bacula-users] restore to local file

2006-08-03 Thread Russell Howe
Kern Sibbald wrote, sometime around 03/08/06 13:54: > On Thursday 03 August 2006 13:56, Russell Howe wrote: >> Unless you specify that Windows backups are written in 'portable' >> format, the Windows backup API is used which writes data in its own >> 'speci

Re: [Bacula-users] restore to local file

2006-08-03 Thread Russell Howe
Tom Newton wrote, sometime around 03/08/06 15:19: > On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 15:11 +0100, Russell Howe wrote: >> It said the fd closed the connection - anything in the FD's logs (on the >> Windows box) explaining why? > > Where might I find such a log? Hmmm.. I thought it

Re: [Bacula-users] restore to local file

2006-08-03 Thread Russell Howe
which exists on the target client. e.g. I have a 'restored files' on a drive lettered T:, so I restore to: T:/restored files HTH -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT

Re: [Bacula-users] restore to local file

2006-08-03 Thread Russell Howe
Tom Newton wrote, sometime around 03/08/06 15:05: > On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 14:57 +0100, Russell Howe wrote: >> It should be a path which exists on the target client. > > Tried "C:/tmp" which I *know* exists, but still getting the same errors. > Starting to really get m

Re: [Bacula-users] restore to local file

2006-08-03 Thread Russell Howe
Tom Newton wrote, sometime around 03/08/06 12:44: > On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 12:15 +0100, Russell Howe wrote: >> Choose the 'mod' option when running a restore job and alter the client. >> That one's gotta be in the manual, surely? :) > > thanks, did not read wha

Re: [Bacula-users] restore to local file

2006-08-03 Thread Russell Howe
e me the files in /tmp on my > server. Can I do this? How? Choose the 'mod' option when running a restore job and alter the client. That one's gotta be in the manual, surely? :) -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature request - SQL Server (freetds? odbc?) support for catalog database

2006-07-27 Thread Russell Howe
Dan Langille wrote, sometime around 27/07/06 16:29: > On 26 Jul 2006 at 11:55, Russell Howe wrote: > >> I haven't seen Bacula's database routines, but it seems like it's fairly >> modular and so I'm guessing that adding another database wouldn't b

[Bacula-users] Feature request - SQL Server (freetds? odbc?) support for catalog database

2006-07-27 Thread Russell Howe
I didn't see a feature request on the site for extra database support, so here goes: Origin: Russell Howe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 26 July 2006 What: It would be nice for the database backend to support more databases. I'm thinking of SQL Server at the moment, but I gu

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with the list???

2006-05-24 Thread Russell Howe
itimate message through, as I can't find time to keep up with everyone's messages on the list (this is a good thing - a nice healthy, active user community!). -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- All the advantages of Linux Managed Host

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with the list???

2006-05-24 Thread Russell Howe
now why you would hold my postings since I have been subscribed for > more then a year. Ah, well if you're subscribed then I'd assume it's to do with the mailman migration that others mentioned (I didn't know that it was taking p

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with the list???

2006-05-24 Thread Russell Howe
n't seen anything to suggest that. Your friendly local list admin, -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! Fully trained technicians. The highest number of Red Hat cer

Re: [Bacula-users] Backups too big, and other questions

2006-05-08 Thread Russell Howe
(you'll have 'gained' any disk space previously occupied by zeros). And no, you don't need to be root to perform the ioctl. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web servic

Re: [Bacula-users] backing up msexchange or mssql

2006-05-02 Thread Russell Howe
obably be better written in perl or python etc. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] backupmgr.sh Description: application/shellscript

Re: [Bacula-users] FOSDEM 2006

2006-02-27 Thread Russell Howe
Jo wrote: > Russell Howe schreef: > >> Is anyone else going to FOSDEM 2006 in Brussels? >> > I'm living 30 kilometers from Brussels. I'll probably be there on Sunday > and maybe Saturday afternoon. My cell phone number is +32 (0)478-33 76 27. > > May

[Bacula-users] FOSDEM 2006

2006-02-23 Thread Russell Howe
Is anyone else going to FOSDEM 2006 in Brussels? http://www.fosdem.org/ I'll be arriving Friday afternoon, and will stay until sometime Sunday afternoon/evening. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by

Re: [Bacula-users] A script to ease the pain of switching from SQLite to PostgreSQL

2006-02-23 Thread Russell Howe
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Monday 06 February 2006 18:04, Russell Howe wrote: > >>Well, the time is nigh. Our SQLite database has hit 1.3GB and creates a >>900MB dump file, which is big enough to cause our bacula Xen virtual >>machine to run out of space when running a cata

Re: Date/Time poll'ing ? (WAS: Re: [Bacula-users] Simulate/Test Scheduler?)

2006-02-13 Thread Russell Howe
r 'status dir' > when Bacula needs to decide which volume to use. You can trigger them by running a job of type Admin -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files f

Re: "JobSet", "Batch", or "Aggregate" Concept / Max tape usage per (WAS: Re: [Bacula-users] Hit me w/ a Clue-by-Four (Amanda user))

2006-02-13 Thread Russell Howe
Russell Howe wrote: > I have this comment in the configuration to remind anyone who might > inherit this setup: # ** VERY IMPORTANT ** # In the database, the media entries have a MaxVolJobs setting. This is # what determines that a tape is full. # # Current values are: # Cases tapes: 10

Re: "JobSet", "Batch", or "Aggregate" Concept / Max tape usage per (WAS: Re: [Bacula-users] Hit me w/ a Clue-by-Four (Amanda user))

2006-02-13 Thread Russell Howe
Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 10:37 +0000, Russell Howe wrote: >>Bacula will do this. Check you don't have "Maximum Volume Jobs = 1" in > > > I do. This is because I'm trying to enforce a specific threshold of a > single-tape-per-da

Re: [Bacula-users] user complains bacula slows his laptop

2006-02-10 Thread Russell Howe
One other thing he can try (assuming he has permission to do so - he might not) is lowering the process priority of the FD when it's running. You can do this from Windows Task Manager, although if it's running under the local SYSTEM account, you might not be able to change it, even as A

Re: [Bacula-users] Hit me w/ a Clue-by-Four (Amanda user)

2006-02-09 Thread Russell Howe
s - the value is set in the database for already created volumes, and needs updating explicitly if you want to change it. See the manual). Also, if you'd rather ensure that no single client is having multiple jobs run against it at once, then you could set maximum concurrent jo

[Bacula-users] A script to ease the pain of switching from SQLite to PostgreSQL

2006-02-06 Thread Russell Howe
stgres while you do the import - I haven't benchmarked, but it should make things go a good bit quicker. I haven't actually tested this yet, so it's probably broken and riddled with bugs. Still, enjoy :) -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/bash # Import an SQLite dump of

Re: [Bacula-users] Please remove me from the list

2006-01-27 Thread Russell Howe
If you're really stuck with usage of the list, email the list admin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't bother the list with administrivia. -- Russell Howe, bacula-users moderator [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is sponsored by:

Re: [Bacula-users] Don't run as root if you can avoid it.

2006-01-16 Thread Russell Howe
James P. Kinney III wrote: > bacula is a member of the disk group. Isn't being a member of the disk group effectively the same as being root, since you can gain access to the block devices containing the local filesystems? -- Russell Howe [EMAIL P

Re: [Bacula-users] DLT tape errors suddenly start

2006-01-10 Thread Russell Howe
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 07:59:05PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > My DLT tape drive has been going along nicely for almost a year. > Tonight, the day before I head away for a trip, it starts giving > errors. You did, presumably, try a cleaning tape in it? :) -- Russell Howe | Wh

Re: [Bacula-users] Solaris 10 client change root password

2005-12-14 Thread Russell Howe
iate suggestions. > > Good question. NOTHING, I repeat NOTHING, in the Bacula build process > should be asking you to change the root password. Nor should ./configure or the build process really be run as root, I'd suggest... -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [Bacula-users] single instance storage?

2005-12-08 Thread Russell Howe
Mordechai T. Abzug wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:05:40PM +0000, Russell Howe wrote: > > >>If you look at the recent "Project voting" email, I think this is what >>Kern terms "Base Jobs". In short, no, not yet, but it's planned I think. >

Re: [Bacula-users] single instance storage?

2005-12-08 Thread Russell Howe
whatever the hardlinking backup software thingie is called) to provide a hardlinked backup of your boxes, and then back that up with bacula to save space. I think that should be possible in the absence of base jobs. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: FW: [Bacula-users] Performance testing and tuning

2005-11-08 Thread Russell Howe
sdump from solaris. Are the only devices on the SCSI bus the drive and the controller? Not knowing anything about Solaris, I don't know what you can do with the OS to query/test the bus performance. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- S

[Bacula-users] Error with win32 fd caused director to block, awaiting manual intervention on the client

2005-11-07 Thread Russell Howe
s queued for other clients in this way. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv o

Re: [Bacula-users] mail notifications

2005-10-31 Thread Russell Howe
d which calls bsmtp/sendmail/mailx/ssmtp/etc with the appropriate options? -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course Free Certification Exam

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Database Must Be Broken - Was Restore Doesn't List Any Files?

2005-10-27 Thread Russell Howe
mportant * Hope that the catalog backup you restored wasn't corrupted. You may be able to use bextract instead of bscan+restore to extract just the database dump, which would probably save you considerable time and fustration. -- Russell Howe | Why be just another cog in

Re: [Bacula-users] Compile on XP Instructions. (64 bit offer)

2005-10-26 Thread Russell Howe
05, it doesn't > quite look like all the support libraries are available for Win64 anyway...? I don't think mingw supports 64 bit Windows yet, and I don't think the developers are planning to support it without extra help. (I'm assuming the windows port of

Re: [Bacula-users] *Extreme* low MySQL performance when prunnig or purging jobs/volumes

2005-10-26 Thread Russell Howe
27;t see the need for synchronous operation, unless you absolutely cannot have your database server down for the time it would take to restore the catalog in the event of a power failure or somesuch. I'll be turning it off tonight, to see what difference i

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-fd service doesn't respond

2005-10-26 Thread Russell Howe
x27;, nothing is listening on port >>9102. Have you checked to see if the installed service is being started automatically by Windows? Check the 'Services' MMC snapin. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalogue errors

2005-10-26 Thread Russell Howe
like there isn't a mail server running on the host, or if there is, it's not listening on 127.0.0.1 I assume the error is coming from the host running the director (neither the sd nor the fd seem to have the ability to send email alerts).

Re: [Bacula-users] RFC: client after fail command

2005-10-26 Thread Russell Howe
Kern Sibbald wrote: > If I see that users just cannot "get" or tolerate Python scripting, then > falling back to Phil's suggestion would be a solution. I'm sure it must be fairly easy to write a short python script to perform actions in a way which doesn't require

Re: [Bacula-users] dev open failed

2005-10-26 Thread Russell Howe
ll as a bunch of held posts). -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005

Re: [Bacula-users] *Extreme* low MySQL performance when prunnig or purging jobs/volumes

2005-10-26 Thread Russell Howe
f you can disable that, things should get a *LOT* faster. I posted a link to some Postgresql performance tuning documents a while back - they're linked to from the postgres website too. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net ema

[Bacula-users] VSS fixes for Windows 2003

2005-10-25 Thread Russell Howe
For anyone using VSS on Windows 2003, I just stumbled across this MS knowledgebase article. Might be of help if you're having problems. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891957 -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net ema

Re: [Bacula-users] authorization security

2005-10-25 Thread Russell Howe
be lovely, but I doubt it's even on the list of things to consider at the moment. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course Free Certific

Re: [Bacula-users] Ensuring tape is not appended

2005-10-24 Thread Russell Howe
acula to 'promote' it into the correct pool for whichever job required it? -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course Free Certifica

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestion for a REALLY handy enhancement, shouldn't be hard either...

2005-10-21 Thread Russell Howe
Sherwood McGowan wrote: > > It does accept STDIN, but wouldn't that just allow a one line command? Or do > you mean something like: > > Cat batchcommands | /etc/bconsole indeed. Or bconsole

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem ERROR Backing UP

2005-10-17 Thread Russell Howe
pted somehow. Got a backup? ;) Oh, and your mail had a weird Date: header claiming to be from 1970... -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content

Re: [Bacula-users] Reality Check: Multiple fd's on a machine

2005-10-14 Thread Russell Howe
example. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibma

Re: [Bacula-users] Reality Check: Multiple fd's on a machine

2005-10-14 Thread Russell Howe
restore shouldn't be tricky really.. you can restore any job to any client (well, unless you want to restore Windows files to a non-Windows box and you didn't use the "Portable" directive) -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: [Bacula-users] write error

2005-10-14 Thread Russell Howe
the drive? Several times I've seen "Improved SCSI compliance" or other such catch-all terms in the changelog for drive firmware updates. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored b

Re: [Bacula-users] special characters

2005-10-13 Thread Russell Howe
using RegexFile, which doesn't yet work on the Windows fd, IIRC) > File = "C:/Documents and Settings/mperez/Configuración local/Historial" -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Ar

Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding Priority

2005-10-05 Thread Russell Howe
same priority (I want them to run concurrently). Group #3 is scheduled to start a few minutes after group #1 with the same priority (it will wait on max storage jobs until all the jobs in group #1 have finished) Group #4 has a larger priority value so that it waits until the other jo

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole questions

2005-10-05 Thread Russell Howe
the size of the average catalog db, I expect. select statuslong from statustext where code = 'C' and lang = 'en'; or something.. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by:

Re: [Bacula-users] Differentials Jobs referencing obsolete Full Job

2005-10-03 Thread Russell Howe
s are executed in a specific sequence, you should have multiple schedules staggering their start times. Then you can use job priorities to control which jobs run concurrently. This is what I do, anyway. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [Bacula-users] error in event log

2005-09-27 Thread Russell Howe
he service controller. It then dies. Deleting the registry key seems to have no ill effects at all. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, dis

Re: [Bacula-users] client update

2005-09-26 Thread Russell Howe
hich need creating once you've installed it once, although you can't really rely on this being the case forever. Remote service stop/start can be done either via the Services thing, or via the 'net' command in a script, I thi

[Bacula-users] Moving from SQLite -> Postgresql & performance

2005-09-22 Thread Russell Howe
Note that I'm still using SQLite 2.x here. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42&

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Postgreql-PITR

2005-09-20 Thread Russell Howe
a job at the end of every day which backs up /mnt/server/archivedir You might want to run a script which prunes old archive files either before or after the job (I'd suggest after, just in case your script goes crazy and deletes too much!) -- Russ

Re: [Bacula-users] how to speed up directory tree building?

2005-09-16 Thread Russell Howe
ses (SQLite too). I wouldn't think light of dropping the primary key constraint (and inherent index, on all RDBMSs I know of) on the *Id attributes. You really don't want the possibility of two entries with the same (say) FileId in the File table, sur

[Bacula-users] SQLite 2.8 vs 3.0

2005-09-16 Thread Russell Howe
has been written to the disk surface. On the other hand, some operations are as much as 50 or more times faster with synchronous OFF. In SQLite version 2, the default value is NORMAL. For version 3, the default was changed to FULL. -- Russell H

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Strategies

2005-09-14 Thread Russell Howe
;t need to concern yourself about the rotation at all! Just let bacula do its job, and use the pool parameters to tune it so that it works smoothly. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your develop

Re: [Bacula-users] Replacing Arcserve Enterprise server

2005-09-12 Thread Russell Howe
problems, try asking here. You might want to set up a test system. Install the fd's on the machines and set up bacula-dir and bacula-sd on a test PC, running backups to hard disk. Then you can test your configuration (and, more importantly, your retention times, tape rotatations and restorati

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Strategies

2005-09-12 Thread Russell Howe
day will do what you want. Since you have "Accept any volume" on, just put in the tape which was used the longest time ago... Then your Schedule becomes really trivial and so does your tape management. -- Russell Howe | Why be just another cog in the machine, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | whe

Re: [Bacula-users] ms-sql database backup

2005-09-12 Thread Russell Howe
tore the .gz file, gunzip it and then restore it to the database server. If I didn't want to keep the online archive of databases then there wouldn't really be much point in gzipping the backups, but I feel that going to tape should be a last resort. As it is, I think I've had

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed: Adaptec 29160 card giving errors

2005-09-10 Thread Russell Howe
71 Swap: 406 2 403 Lowest spec production sd out there, perhaps? :) -- Russell Howe | Why be just another cog in the machine, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | when you can be the spanner in the works? --- SF.Net email is

Re: [Bacula-users] Delay between Pruning and Purging

2005-09-07 Thread Russell Howe
to prune the database of records? -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven De

Re: [Bacula-users] client fileset

2005-08-30 Thread Russell Howe
Danie Theron wrote: > Not sure where I'm going wrong seeing as all seems fine. Any help will > be greatly appreciated Wild stab in the dark... try converting the text format on the Windows box to UNIX line endings... -- Russell Howe [EMAI

Re: [Bacula-users] Strange popup from Win32 client

2005-08-26 Thread Russell Howe
'll also notice that it causes warnings in the Windows Event Log. Search back through the mailing list and you should find a thread on this. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conferen

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 1.37.36 fileset and vss

2005-08-26 Thread Russell Howe
Arno Lehmann wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: >> Since I don't know anyone >> that is running multiple simultaneous FD jobs (i.e. in one FD), I hope >> this won't be a problem. > > > I do :-) > But on a linux FD. I do too, on a Windo

Re: [Bacula-users] Use Any Volume = No

2005-08-26 Thread Russell Howe
ng a runafterjob on your full backups (to purge all incremental/differential tapes, shouldn't be hard to do - think sqlquery, update media set status=something where ..., and then run a prune volumes or something), but ultimately you are probably better off with using the retention schema bacu

Re: [Bacula-users] Excluding files?

2005-08-22 Thread Russell Howe
uld use the WildFileRegex or whatever the option is called and specify "/var/log/.*\.t?gz" -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [Bacula-users] Excluding files?

2005-08-22 Thread Russell Howe
Wilddir = /var/log > Wildfile = *.tgz > Wildfile = *.tar.gz > } ... this > File = / > } > I think you'll find the following is the old-style exclude list - you should probably merge it in with the new-style one above, and remove this too: > Exclude { >

Re: [Bacula-users] Storing job reports as files

2005-08-12 Thread Russell Howe
le in the bacula database? -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [Bacula-users] "status director" and pruning

2005-08-04 Thread Russell Howe
et written to the database at label time, but the database seems to reflect my autoprune settings. I'd tell you exactly what the database looks like, except bacula has hung, and I'm trying to find out why :) -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [Bacula-users] "status director" and pruning

2005-08-03 Thread Russell Howe
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Wednesday 03 August 2005 14:18, Russell Howe wrote: > >>Should it be possible (via 'AutoPrune = no' options in all the right >>places, together with 'Prune {Job,Volume,File}s = no') to stop "status >>director" fro

[Bacula-users] "status director" and pruning

2005-08-03 Thread Russell Howe
o disable automatic pruning, but it still happens when I do "status director". I'd rather it say **unknown** than sit there for 20 minutes doing a prune. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Disco

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with VSS snapshots

2005-08-01 Thread Russell Howe
meska wrote: > Hi all , > > So i'm testing the VSS enabled bacula, and want to backup an outlook > data file ( .pst). But bacula returns with an error : I wouldn't expect that Outlook supports VSS. It would be one less reason for people to buy Exchange if it did... -

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Severe problem: director hangs in production system

2005-07-22 Thread Russell Howe
looks like you didn't follow the manual especially closely... Look at the section called "Get Rid of the /lib/tls Directory" at http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Getting_Started_with_Bacula.html#_ChapterStart37 Maybe this will improve y

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: disaster recovery & windows

2005-07-12 Thread Russell Howe
Have you any solution for disaster recovery for windows "on line" ? My suggestion would be to use something like the Unattended project to allow you to reinstall your Windows boxes with minimal effort. http://unattended.sf.net/ -- Russell Howe [EMAIL

Re: [Bacula-users] Import from tape to Cataloge

2005-07-11 Thread Russell Howe
Matthew Scarrow wrote: > How would I import the data on a tape into the cataloge. The tape had > already been pruned from the cataloge but I need some files that are on > it. Look at bscan -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Th

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 1.37.25 and Volume Shadow Copy Service?

2005-07-11 Thread Russell Howe
ou will have to fsck it, and there is *NO* guarantee that you won't lose data (in fact, it's very likely that you will). -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webin

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of concurrent jobs

2005-07-11 Thread Russell Howe
You could also try out the spooling options, if your boxes running the SD (I think this is where the data gets spooled, would need to check the docs to be sure) have the space. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored

Re: [Bacula-users] Regex

2005-07-05 Thread Russell Howe
yes > RegexFile = "^.?*$" This regex matches everything. It's the same as saying ".*" > } > File = "c:/My Documents/*" Why not just say Options { Exclude = yes RegexFile = ".*\.[^Dd][^Oo

Re: [Bacula-users] mssql backup with bacula

2005-06-30 Thread Russell Howe
QL Server backups # 2004/08/25 (c) Russell Howe # 2004/10/12 - Updated to compress transaction log files (*.TRN) # Where the backups live (D:\SQLBACKUP) BACKUPDIR=/cygdrive/j/sqlbackup # How many days of backups to keep (this is real days, not weekdays!) # FIXME: Change to "How many copi

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