Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 5.2 in Debian

2012-05-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 04 May 2012 15:07:17 +0200 schrieb mailing: > Hey folks... > > can youtell me when Debian takes Bacula 5.2 in in the repository? > guess this is more a question for the debian bacula packaging group: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-bacula-devel and try go

Re: [Bacula-users] Full backup forced if client changes

2012-03-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:52:32 -0400 schrieb Steve Thompson: > Bacula 5.0.2. For the following example job: > ... > } > > more than one client is available to backup the (shared) storage. If I > change the name of the client in the Job definition, a full backup > always occurs the next time a job

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Server disaster recovery.

2012-03-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 02.03.2012 14:32, Wassim Zaarour wrote: > So if I take a backup of MySql and I have the configuration files and the > volumes of the data, I could simple export mysql database to a new server, > install bacula and use the backed up conf files and put the volumes in the > same configured lo

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Server disaster recovery.

2012-03-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:02:23 +0200 schrieb Wassim Zaarour: > Hi List, > > We are backing up to disks not tapes, now I need to set up a plan in > case the bacula server (director) crashes. > What to do in case the MySQL catalog is lost? Can we recover? I guess it > is easy to keep copy of configur

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up Outlook PST files.

2012-03-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:38:52 +0200 schrieb Wassim Zaarour: > Hello List, > > I was wondering if anyone is able to back Outlook PST files in an > efficient way with Bacula. > For my understanding if the PST file will be modified everyday, than > Bacula will be backing it up everyday with any level

Re: [Bacula-users] Client Password based data encryption.

2012-02-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:01:57 -0500 schrieb Phil Stracchino: > On 02/16/2012 05:01 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote: >> In theory encryption does just need the public-key. Encrypting needs >> the private key. but I don't know if it is possible to provide only the >> public key to

Re: [Bacula-users] Space reclamation

2012-02-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:36:45 +0100 schrieb Demeter Tibor: > Hi, > > > Are there any option in bacula for the tape space reclamation ? I know > and use this option from Tivol storage manager. > > > How can I "defragment" my tapes? IMHO there is no such thing like "defragment" for tapes. you c

Re: [Bacula-users] Client Password based data encryption.

2012-02-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
; but it fails with "Failed to load private key for File daemon". - Thomas > > > > On 2/16/12 12:01 PM, "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > >> Am Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:07:40 +0200 schrieb Wassim Zaarour: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Current

Re: [Bacula-users] Client Password based data encryption.

2012-02-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:07:40 +0200 schrieb Wassim Zaarour: > Hello, > > Currently the data encryption option in Bacula is based on certificates, > meaning that if the person creating the certificates for the client > keeps his copy of the certs, he is able to restore and decrypt the data > withou

Re: [Bacula-users] Encrypting Data on Tape

2012-01-10 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:12:26 -0500 schrieb Craig Van Tassle: > I'm sorry if this has been asked before. > > I'm running a Scalar 50 with HP LTO-4 Drives. I want to encrypt the data > that is put on the tape, We already have encryption going between the > Dir/SD and FD's. I just want to encrypt th

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore with data encryption?

2011-12-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:14:15 +0100 schrieb Oliver Hoffmann: > Hi all, > > I do backups with data encryption. Backups as well as restores on the > clients work without problems. > Now I want to be able to do restores with the server (or another one) > only. The doc says that adding the following l

Re: [Bacula-users] Permanently disabling clients without deleting them

2011-12-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:31:09 +1100 schrieb Gary R. Schmidt: > Hi, > Bacula 3.0.3. > > I've had some machines be removed from use, but I don't want their > backups to go away until we are sure their replacements are complete. > > I can disable them individually from the console, but is there some

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtualfull

2011-12-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 01.12.2011 13:42, Miikael Havelock Nilson wrote: > Hello, > > > I have a small question. When virtualfull is made will data pass trought the > director? Question is in the case the storage is on low bandwith will data > move from storage to director and back to storage or storage to storage? >

Re: [Bacula-users] Volume Use Duration not working in 5.2.1

2011-11-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 24.11.2011 17:01, Fahrer, Julian wrote: > Hi, > > Am I missing something or is the "Volume Use Duration" parameter in the > pool not working in 5.2.1? > > I defined the pool like this: > --- > Pool { >Name = NEO200S_Weekly_Pool >Pool Type = Backup >Recycle = yes >AutoPrune = yes

Re: [Bacula-users] Force Bacula to retain at least one Full backup per job?

2011-11-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 23.11.2011 15:01, Ralph Kutschera wrote: > Hallo! > > Am 16.04.2011 00:43, schrieb CDuv: >> Hello, >> >> While testing Bacula, I've had this bad "No full backup before >> 2011-04-15 13:37:00 found" surprise when trying to restore files of a >> Job >> >> The client status shows that jobs were cor

Re: [Bacula-users] Looking for configuration advice

2011-10-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 19.10.2011 16:44, Johnston, James C. (GRC-RXP0) wrote: > I’m trying to back up a bunch of computational data – about 16 – 18 TB > at the moment. I’ll be backing a single fileserver up to a ~36 TB RAID > array connected to the server via fiber channel. > > > I’m considering how often I do a Full

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental Pruning Full Backup?

2011-10-15 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 14.10.2011 16:09, Henrique Machado wrote: > > I've migrated from bacula 3.0.3 to 5.0.3, and my bacula-dir.conf stay > the same. But now, on this new version my Incremental backup looks like is > pruning the Full Backup for this client: > > http://pastebin.ca/2090064 > > Somebody have an idea? T

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple spool files per job

2011-10-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 13.10.2011 11:51, Stefan Lubitz wrote: > Hi, > > this feature would be really great. We have three Backup serves which all > have single Jobs to backup (each job app. 13TB). > The Time to despool is absolutely waste of time and could be used more > efficient. This feature request is more than

Re: [Bacula-users] Error vs OK

2011-10-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 04.10.2011 23:31, tscollins wrote: > I'm trying to figure out why 'Director Status' shows a Job Status as Error > but when I click on the Client Status it shows the Job Status as OK? Attached > screenshots show error and OK. > > (http://postimage.org/image/2emhnufwk/) > > (http://postima

Re: [Bacula-users] How do I remove clients from the database?

2011-09-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 28.09.2011 20:41, Stefan Michael Guenther wrote: > Hello, > > I have removed a number of clients from bacula-dir.conf and restarted the > director. > > In the bconsole "list clients" still lists the removed clients. The delete > command only allows me to remove volumes, pools and jobids. > > S

Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude directories

2011-09-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 26.09.2011 10:47, Lyn Amery wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been wading through the documentation on how to exclude > files and directories from backup jobs but have had no luck. > I'm trying to exclude files like .pgpass and .svn directories > from wherever they occur in the filesystem. > > The fol

Re: [Bacula-users] Upgrade from Bacula 5.0 to 5.0.3

2011-08-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 18.08.2011 08:37, bantumi wrote: > Hello; > > I'm kinda new on bacula and want to upgrade from 5.0 to 5.0.3 > > My OS: CentOS 5 > I would do it! - Thomas -- Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich syst

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs exceeded on the FD

2011-08-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 16.08.2011 11:25, Joris Heinrich wrote: > Hallo List, > > in our company we use 2. directors with the same jobdefinitions. one is > responsible for the on site backup and the other one for the off site > backup. > > All file daemons are configured with Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1. This > is nece

Re: [Bacula-users] API to Communicate with Bacula from a client portal?

2011-08-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 09.08.2011 17:31, Yazan wrote: > Hey guys, > > We have been using Bacula for some time now and I wanted to automate a few > things and allow the clients to take control of their backups. We want to > give our clients the option of buying backup space and creating/editing > backup schedules of

Re: [Bacula-users] Ignore fileset changes

2011-08-15 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:43:05 +0200 schrieb Olle Romo: > Thank you Uwe. I misunderstood the concept. > > Is there a way to have Bacula just continue incremental backup of a > drive even if it was offline for one run? > IMHO no, it will fail if a path is not available. you could create a sort o

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup error

2011-07-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:35:10 -0500 schrieb Jake Debord: > I have ran successful backups with XP. This is my first machine to > backup running Vista (hate vista). Bacula throws this error: > > 01-Jul 11:31 tamara-fd JobId 205: C:/Documents and Settings/All > Users is a junction point or a dif

Re: [Bacula-users] Single File Restore to Win Vista

2011-07-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:01:45 -0700 schrieb jake debord: > Trying to restore a single file, when i search for it, it finds the job > it's backed up in. But when I choose the FD then try to backup it > requires a full path of the file. So i type the full path as it would > appear in windows C:\Users

Re: [Bacula-users] force backup of unchanged file in incremental backup

2011-04-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
>>> Is there a way to force the backup of specific unchanged files during > an >>> incremental or differential backup? Eg: >>> >>> Option { >>>File = "C:/database/mydb.mdf" >>>Always Back Up = Yes >>> } >>> >> >> you could create a backup job with just that file in it and run it > always >

Re: [Bacula-users] force backup of unchanged file in incremental backup

2011-04-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:33:14 +1000 schrieb James Harper: > The "last modified" datestamp on MSSQL database files doesn't get > changed unless the actual file dimensions change (eg it 'grows') or when > the file is closed. This means that an incremental backup won't > necessarily back up the databa

Re: [Bacula-users] It's possible to parallelize backups?

2011-02-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:36:13 +0100 schrieb Simone Martina: > Hi at all, > since some weeks I got a new SCSI controller due to use a second tape > reader into the HP MSL6030 (a Overland NEO 2000 clone) tape library. > After some initially troubles and a some telephonic shout with HP > support, now

Re: [Bacula-users] Reload Config while bacula-dir is still running?

2011-01-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:45:51 + schrieb Mister IT Guru: > I'm making amendments and changes to my bacula config, but at the same > time I need to run my backups. Other than setting up a separate machine > to test my config, (which I will be doing in coming days, when the > hardware purchased fo

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention per Job or Fileset?

2011-01-10 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:59:04 +0100 schrieb Michael Patzer: > Hi all, > > i've two jobs for one client, going to the same pool - and couldn't > change that. > > the first job has a retention of 22 days, but the second job needs a > retention of 4 days. > > any ideas how i could setup such a cons

Re: [Bacula-users] seeding offsite backups

2011-01-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:23:43 -0700 schrieb Devin Reade: > I have a situation where I have two geographically separate networks, > both of which are using bacula locally. I'll call them network A and > network B. Currently, (bacula) server A on network A backs up network A > machines, and server

Re: [Bacula-users] Creating "archival" backup

2011-01-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:48:40 -0300 schrieb Kleber Leal: > I do it at last 31th december. > I created a Full backup (VirtualFull) to a tape and purged the volume. > But, you should not to do differential ou incremental backups between > you full and purge. > You can use bscan to repopulate the cata

Re: [Bacula-users] Server is Client of Multiple Directors

2011-01-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:57:49 -0600 schrieb Patrick McEvoy: > Hello, > > I would like to have two machines acting as directors for the same > clients in order to have redundant backups of the servers. I have > looked in the manual and searched the internet but only find multiple > clients for a

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula configration for FC LTO-5 tape drive

2011-01-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:55:56 +0100 schrieb Arunav Mandal: > I have a Tandberg T40+ Tapeloader with HP LTO-5 tape drive connected to > "QLogic Corp. ISP2532-based 8Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA" on a > Dell 2950 running Ubuntu Server 10.10. The kernel version is > 2.6.35-24-server. The autolo

Re: [Bacula-users] Extremly slow backup

2011-01-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:38:17 +0100 schrieb Marcin Krol: >> did you enable "Spool Attributes" or "Spool Data" in the job resource? > >> did you run the btape tests? do you have compression or encryption >> enabled? >> >> your config and some infos about the bacula version may help. > > "Spool Att

Re: [Bacula-users] Extremly slow backup

2011-01-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:28:22 +0100 schrieb Marcin Krol: > Hello. > > I've problem with bacula performance on one of my machines. The machine > in question is my mail server that holds about 220 GB of data in 660 > thousands of files. Full backup takes about 2 days and 11 hours with > average spee

Re: [Bacula-users] why do copy/verify jobs use file daemons?

2010-12-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:05:37 +0100 schrieb C.Keschnat: > Is it normal behaviour that the file daemon is involved when making > copies/verifies? That's not very efficient when verifying jobs from > external servers. just speaking for verify jobs: the verify work is done by the filedaemon. If no d

Re: [Bacula-users] "Archiving" out a tape.

2010-12-21 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:02:38 +1100 schrieb Gary R. Schmidt: > Hi all, > Bacula 3.0.3 server, mix of 302 and 303 clients on *NIX and Windows. > > I'm taking a full backup of everything, for EOY archiving purposes, and > I was wondering should I purge the tape volume(s) created by this so as > to m

Re: [Bacula-users] How to discard "tape" (file actually) on failed backup?

2010-12-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
> > Job "serverA" runs, and auto-labels a new file as > "/store/serverA-434"... but the job fails because ServerA is > unreachable. So bacula times out, and then proceeds with backup job > "serverB", but it uses the file it's already created for serverA's > backup. > > Any way around this? you

Re: [Bacula-users] keep a backup forever?

2010-12-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
>> Before I put the new (replacement) machine into the backup system, I >> would like to know if there is a way that I can save the last bacukp(s) >> of the original (now-dead) machine for longer than my 3-month rotation >> schedule, just in case. >> > >>

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula has write errors after replacing Autoloader

2010-12-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Sun, 12 Dec 2010 10:22:27 +1100 schrieb James Harper: >> I'm having a problem with Bacula and my Autoloader/tape drive. >> >> > Any errors in the kernel logs? > > If it was a HP drive you'd run HP Library & Tape Tools to verify the > drive. Maybe Quantum have a similar tool. the quantum di

Re: [Bacula-users] When are volumes marked "Purged"?

2010-12-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:57:47 + schrieb Martin Simmons: > > The only operations that mark volumes as purged are the purge command > and the volume recycling code. The latter happens when Bacula needs a > new volume (as you noticed) and it stops looks when it finds a volume > that can be purg

Re: [Bacula-users] Stupid build question...

2010-12-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Thu, 02 Dec 2010 11:15:34 -0600 schrieb Sean Clark: > Is it not possible to build a version of bacula that supports both mysql > and postgresql? > > (I enabled both, but got an error while compiling. Googling turns up a > post from back in August mentioning that the error indicates that the >

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about file service [agent]

2010-12-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
> I would pre- und possible post- job steps to execute, before the backup > starts. > "RunScript" is what you are looking for: http://bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#6982 can be run on the director (dir) or the client (fd) - but not on the storage daemon (sd).

[Bacula-users] "Unexpected cryptographic session data stream." on restore with "replace: ifnewer"

2010-11-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
hi On restores from encrypted backups if you select "replace: ifnewer": you will get flooded by messages like this: 25-Nov 11:39 testhost JobId 3459: Error: restore.c:433 Unexpected cryptographic session data stream. 25-Nov 11:39 testhost JobId 3459: Error: restore.c:433 Unexpected cryptograp

Re: [Bacula-users] TLS and PKI, How to limit de encryption overhead ?

2010-11-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 18.11.2010 02:01, Dan Langille wrote: >> >> IMHO TLS is only used for the "control-channel" not for the "data- >> channel". > > Really? I hope not. Can you prove this? > ok maybe you're right. i've had in mind that it was not encrypted, but written is that the volumes written by sd are not en

Re: [Bacula-users] TLS and PKI, How to limit de encryption overhead ?

2010-11-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:52:20 +0100 schrieb Hugo Letemplier: > Hi > I am Implementing Bacula and I have to cypher the backed up data. Also I > don't want that the console and client authentication to be done clearly > over the network. > I want to implement TLS but data are already cyphered via PKI

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula works with Tape drives with SAS interface??

2010-11-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 11.11.2010 15:49, Mauricio Valencia wrote: > Thanks for your answer Thomas, i'll sent de btape results, what drivers > do you have (DELL, IBM and what model) > Quantum. IMHO there are only a few real manufacturers of LTO drives. Dell is not one of them. The full list: http://www.ultrium.com/l

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula works with Tape drives with SAS interface??

2010-11-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:15:58 -0400 schrieb Mauricio Valencia: > Hi all > > Any one has a Bacula configuration with a Tape Drive LTO5 with a SAS > Interface, i will config it on a centos VM over VMWARE. > > Or what tape drive could you suggest me to buy, i want to use it over > vmware in centos,

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup fails when creating a large backup

2010-11-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:11:39 +0100 schrieb Primož Kolarič: > Hellp > > Backing up quite some data (2.390TB at the point of failure) bacula > fails with: 07-Nov 02:19 xxx..yyy-fd JobId 425: Fatal error: > backup.c:1019 Network send error to SD. ERR=Broken pipe > > There's a network conn

[Bacula-users] sd mount/unmount commands - %v not available on "user defined maximum volume capacity exeeded"

2010-11-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
hi After failing with s3fs (many volume read errors on verify/restore) I wrote a skript to get/put file-volumes from/to Amazon S3 with the "Requires Mount", "Mount Command" and "Unmount Command" directives. It's working fine so long, but if the medium reaches the user defined volume capacity,

Re: [Bacula-users] Bad disk noises - replace the volume without restarting the backup?

2010-11-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
>>> Item  1: Ability to restart failed jobs >>> >>> If you are not a coder, you could use >>> http://bacula.org/en/?page=makedonation to help getting it done. >>> >>> - Thomas >> That seems to be the general consensus. Thank you. >> >> > I caution that this method may not work as you expect. Being

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula does 2 Fullbackups

2010-11-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
> The first Backup starts and notice das there is no prior Full-Backup, so > Bacula does a Full-Backup. That´s fine. But the Full-Backup runs more > than 24 hours, so next time Bacula starts his Backup-Job he seems to > notice that there is no Full-Backup and he generates a second > Full-Backup jo

Re: [Bacula-users] Bad disk noises - replace the volume without restarting the backup?

2010-11-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
>> So is there a way for me to replace that disk without invalidating the >> entire backup? Running on Linux with an external SATA / FW enclosure, >> bacula version 3.0.2 > > If there is a way to temporarily freeze a job (possible using signals) > to prevent it from writing anything while using L

Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning for large (millions of files) backups?

2010-11-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 01 Nov 2010 06:15:18 +0100 schrieb Ondrej PLANKA (Ignum profile): > Thanks :) > Which type of MySQL storage engine are you using? MyISAM or InnoDB for > large Bacula system? > Can you please copy/paste your MySQL configuration? I mean my.cnf file > > Thanks, Ondrej. I would use InnoDB.

Re: [Bacula-users] Live backup

2010-10-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:07:34 -0400 schrieb ivane91: > Yes, It's a linux box. By now , I decide to not backup logs. So I will > be waiting another answer.. > the only way to get a consistent backupstate is to take a filesystem snapshot with a script. - Thomas

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple file restores from pruned files

2010-09-27 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:23:31 -0400 schrieb Win Htin: > Hi folks, > > I need to restore files older than 6 months from different days (all > from same directory structure). Following is the partial definition of > the client. > > File Retention = 180 days > Job Retention = 60 mo

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.0.3 backport for debian lenny?

2010-09-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:41:04 +0200 schrieb Ralf Gross: > Hi, > > I'm still using bacula 3.0.3 on debian lenny (amd64). In the next weeks > I wanted to move on to 5.0.x. But due to the freeze of the next debian > stable release there will be no 5.0.3 in debian for some time. 5.0.3 > seems to have

Re: [Bacula-users] Network performance

2010-08-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Thank you for your suggestion (and sorry for not replying to the > off-list mail sooner - forgot about it); with PKI off: > > >em0 in 5.189 MB/s 5.206 MB/s 16.899 GB > out 148.275 KB/s151.429 KB/s > 508.40

Re: [Bacula-users] Network performance

2010-08-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
> > I had to disable the Maximum Network Buffer Size in the mean time, > coincidence or not the director started throwing out "unknown errors" > while connecting to storage, so this test is run with default buffer > sizes (which shouldn't be a problem - I got 91-93% of the max link > speed w

Re: [Bacula-users] Network performance

2010-08-10 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:13:07 +0100 schrieb Hugo Silva: > Hello, > > I'm backing up a server in Germany from a director in The Netherlands. > Using bacula, I can't seem to get past ~3000KB/s. > > Here's an iperf result: > [ 3] local [fd-addr] port 16625 connected with [dir-addr] port 5001 [ > ID

Re: [Bacula-users] About pool retention

2010-08-10 Thread Thomas Mueller
>> >> If you do everyday a backup you need to change the "Volume Retention" >> to something lower than 7 days because the retention is counted from >> the last written date. > > Can you be more detail here? I need to make it less then 7 to make it > recycle? > > Im little confused about all Bacu

Re: [Bacula-users] About pool retention

2010-08-10 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:09:00 +0400 schrieb Proskurin Kirill: > Hello all. > > Bacula-5.0.2 > > I have such pool definition: > > Pool { >Name = host.domain.org >Pool Type = Backup >Recycle = yes >AutoPrune = yes >Volume Retention = 7 days >UseVolumeOnce = yes >Maximum

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Bacula: Backup Error of storage-fd Incremental

2010-08-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:11:37 +0200 schrieb C.Keschnat: > Error: Bacula bacula-dir 5.0.2 (28Apr10): 06-Aug-2010 14:06:00 > Build OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu debian 5.0.4 JobId: > 12541 > Job:storage.2010-08-06_14.05.00_52 Backup Level: >

Re: [Bacula-users] Shutdown Windows Box after backup? Howto?

2010-08-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:27:21 +0100 schrieb Mister IT Guru: > I would like to know if it is possible to get a windows box to shutdown > after it's finished a job? > script after backup? http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html keywords: * RunScript * Runs On Cl

Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed

2010-08-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
> > Hi Thomas > > The spooling attribute was not enabled, I have enabled it now. This is > what I get writing to disk and then also writing that file to tape with > tar: > > > This is a 10gb file to disk: > ]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/bigfile bs=1M count=1 1+0 > records in > 1+0 re

Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed

2010-08-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:57:06 -0400 schrieb ekke85: > Hi > > I have a Quantum Scalar i500 and it works in Bacula, but it is very > slow. It writes at 22mb/sec. The drives should be able to do a lot more > then that. I have to backup 11TB that takes a couple of days to > complete, I don't want to t

Re: [Bacula-users] Limit backup size

2010-06-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:06:00 +0400 schrieb Matthieu Patou: > Hello, > > For reason of space and time I would like to limit the size, is there a > way to make a job fail if the stored size is more than xx bytes (note: I > do the storage on disks). > you could limit pool size or job time (see bac

Re: [Bacula-users] Using HP Storageworks 1/8 G2 with Bacula

2010-06-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:49:37 -0300 schrieb Daniel Bareiro: >> > did you try backports kernel 2.6.32 ? (www.backports.org) > >> I finish installing 2.6.32 of backports to test: > >> backup:~# uname -a >> Linux backup 2.6.32-bpo.5-686 #1 SMP Fri Jun 11 22:20:29 UTC 2010 i686 >> GNU/Linux >> >> ba

Re: [Bacula-users] Using HP Storageworks 1/8 G2 with Bacula

2010-06-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:36:47 -0300 schrieb Daniel Bareiro: > Hi all! > > I'm doing tests with a brand new HP Storageworks 1/8 G2 I plan to use > with Bacula on Debian GNU/Linux Lenny. > > The tape autoloader is connected to a PC through an HP Smart Array P212 > card. It is HP's entry level PCI E

Re: [Bacula-users] 11TB backup run out of memory and dies

2010-06-09 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:29:37 -0400 schrieb ekke85: > Hi > > I have a Scalar i500 library with 5 drives and 135 slots. I have a Red > Hat 5 server with a 1gb nic. The setup works fine for backups on most > systems. The problem I have is a NFS share with 11TB of data that I need > to backup. Every

Re: [Bacula-users] Unable to open device "driv" (/dev/st0): ERR=No medium found

2010-06-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:00:28 -0400 schrieb sofsof: > I have a problem after a forced restart, in fact : status dir return me > that my client > "is waiting for a mount request" > in fact status storage return me: > > Device status: > Device "drive" (/dev/st0) is not open. > Device is BLOCKED.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula slow, possibly network

2010-05-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 11 May 2010 03:47:05 -0700 schrieb martinofmoscow: > Hi, we've come over from an Amanda backup system which had become a > nightmare to administer, and generally we're very happy with Bacula. > > My concern thought is speed: Bacula is proving to be very slow, possibly > in relation - it s

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem connecting to FD

2010-05-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Thu, 06 May 2010 19:57:59 +0100 schrieb Paul Bradley: > IN BACULA-FD.CONF > > > Director { > Name = server-dir > Password = "SOME PASSWORD (MATCHES OTHER ENTRY BELOW)" > } > > IN BACULA-DIR.CONF > > Client { > Name = server-fd > Address = server > FDPort = 9102 > Catalog = MyCatalog

Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware configuration and off-site backup

2010-05-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 04 May 2010 08:34:15 +0200 schrieb Vlamsdoem: > Hello, > > I have few questions about my new backup configuration. Before asking my > questions I will give you some useful information about what I need to > do. > I need a backup ± 10 servers with one full backup every week of 3,5 TB > and

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows registry restore possible?

2010-04-27 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:50:30 -0400 schrieb jdb: > I'm primarily a Linux user, and have been quite happy with Bacula on > Linux. I also have some Windows servers which I'm stuck managing as > well, and I have Bacula configured on those. One of those servers, a > Windows Server 2003 machine, recen

Re: [Bacula-users] bcopy fails: "No Volume name given"

2010-04-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
> You used wrong devices. Bcopy and most other bacula tools operating on > devices (for example: btape, bscan, bls) use a device path (defined in > the Archive Device directive from the Device resource) in a command > line. > > You can use somethings like that: > > bcopy -v -c /etc/bacula/bacula

[Bacula-users] bcopy fails: "No Volume name given"

2010-04-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
hi i'm failing to use the bcopy utility. I want to copy from tape to disk. i keeps telling me, that "No Volume name" is given (see log output below) somebody maybe know what's going wrong? bacula is version 5.0.1 on debian. - Thomas # bcopy -v -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -i35L4 -oCOPY00

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.0.1 and db issues - please, share your experience

2010-04-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:59:25 +0200 schrieb Koldo Santisteban: > thanks for your answer. > The first stage was with mysql 5.0.77, and works with bacula 3.0.3 > without > problems. I have used the same database and server with bacula 5.0.1. > The bacula server + DB is a 3,5 Gb Ram with a Xeon proc

Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes on full disk - lots of 0 byte files

2010-04-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:17:53 +1000 schrieb Rex Chan: > Hi guys, > > once disk space becomes full, our bacula configuration starts writing > out a whole bunch of 0 byte volumes to disk. maybe you wan't to delete them with "delete volume=xyz" on bconsole. > > I can manually delete all the 0 byt

Re: [Bacula-users] Deleting files/folders on restores

2010-04-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:54:51 +0200 schrieb Marco Zimmermann: > How can I change this behavior? I mean restore in a way that newer > files/folders will be deleted? IMHO this is not supported. it only restores accurate but does not delete what is already there. you would need to delete the fol

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy Jobs for replication

2010-03-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:18:18 +0200 schrieb My Name: > Hi, > > What: What I want to do is to replicate specific backup jobs to another > bacula system (other Director & Storage). Is there a good solution to do > this? > > Why: Very important backups should be replicated to another backup > system

Re: [Bacula-users] Hard disk as backup media

2010-03-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
bacula-users-lists wrote: > Ok, you've piqued my curiosity - why would one not use disk versus > ¿tape? as a long term storage medium? Do you have any sites, > documentation, whitepapers on the subject? Even unsupported hunches are > food for thought - mind sharing? do not have whitepapers or th

Re: [Bacula-users] Hard disk as backup media

2010-03-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:57:18 -0300 schrieb Marcio Vogel Merlone dos Santos: > Hi all, > > I am currently using bacula 2.4.2-1ubuntu4~hardy1, but the web docs > refer to 5.0. Could please someone point to this lazy/buzy admin some > docs which could help me setup a hard-disk as a "perpetual" reten

Re: [Bacula-users] How to re-use existing volumes in pool?

2010-03-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
Sean Carolan wrote: >> 23-Mar 20:56 bacula-sd: Invalid slot=0 defined, cannot autoload Volume. >> 23-Mar 20:56 bacula-sd: Please mount Volume "Bacula_Catalog" on >> Storage Device "d2d4112" (/dev/nst0) for Job >> BackupCatalog.2010-03-22_23.05.00 >> >> Any ideas how I can help it find the right slo

Re: [Bacula-users] How to re-use existing volumes in pool?

2010-03-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
Sean Carolan wrote: >> you need to edit the "Pool" resource ("Maximum Volume Jobs" and "Volume >> Retention") in bacula-dir.conf > > Thank you, Thomas. I have read through the manual section on the Pool > resource. Here is one of my pool definitions: > > Pool { > Name = BackupPC_pool > Pool

Re: [Bacula-users] How to re-use existing volumes in pool?

2010-03-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
Sean Carolan wrote: >> maybe change VolumeRetention to 5 days and do an "update volumes from >> resource" (only changing *.conf won't do the trick). >> >> Also change "Use volume once" to "Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 " > > Here's what I have in my bacula-sd.conf: > > Device { > Name = d2d4112 > D

Re: [Bacula-users] How to re-use existing volumes in pool?

2010-03-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:16:19 -0500 schrieb Sean Carolan: > Due to disk space limitations I would like to re-use the same volumes > each week for a single full backup. Every time I try to run a new job, > I get an error stating that bacula cannot find any append-able volumes. > It has been over s

Re: [Bacula-users] changing the retention period to indefinite

2010-03-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:53:42 -0500 schrieb Guy Matz: > hello, my brothers. > > a machine of mine has died and i would like to keep the last set of > backups "forever" . . . can someone tell me the right way to go about > making changes to the DB - or whatever it is i need to do - in order to >

Re: [Bacula-users] restore error

2010-03-09 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:50:50 -0800 schrieb Mark Yarbrough: > I am getting the follwoing errors on restoring any file from tape: > > 09-Mar 07:22 storage-sd: 3302 Autochanger "loaded drive 0", result: > nothing loaded. 09-Mar 07:22 storage-sd: > RestoreFiles.2010-03-09_07.22.19 Warning: acquire.c:

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 7 Client Backup

2010-03-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:06:24 -0500 schrieb Phil Stracchino: > On 03/08/10 09:26, McCann, Brian wrote: >> Hi All. I'm having a hard time finding a solution to this...but I'm >> sure there is one. When all my desktops were on Windows XP, I used the >> "Client Run Before Job" command to run ntbacku

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with automatic labeling

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
> > I've made a test with the new label, it worked fine. But the volume name > hasn't a "speaking" name, it's just Day-0016, Day-0017.. you cold still label it yourself and name it what you like ("label" command). - Thomas -

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with automatic labeling

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
>>> be sure to set Retention times on the pool (e.g. for your schedule >>> maybe > 18 days) and and a use duration (maybe 1 day as you change it on a daily > basis). > > I know that my Retention times is wrong right now, but I'm just doing > some test so I purge volumes manually. But Thanks for t

Re: [Bacula-users] Copying huge number of files - very slow

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:03:53 -0600 schrieb Sean Carolan: >> Bacula and Amanda are intended to be network backup solutions. But, >> you've chosen to use many instances of BackupPC over the network. > > Actually there's only one instance of BackupPC. We have one BackupPC > server, and about 200 cl

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with automatic labeling

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:28:21 -0800 schrieb gnowar: > Because I change tape everyday during 20 days. > > It easyer to know wich tape I need if the volume name include the date > and time isn't it ? do you write the new tape labels on the tape every time you put the new one in it? or how do you r

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with automatic labeling

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:45:58 -0800 schrieb gnowar: > Hello, > > I've some problems with automatic labeling. Here is my conf : > Here is my BeforeJob script : > > #!/bin/sh > mt -f /dev/st0 rewind > mt -f /dev/st0 weof > /opt/bacula/sbin/bconsole -c /opt/bacula/sysconf/bconsole.conf > < END_OF_

Re: [Bacula-users] Building an 8TB SD

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:20:58 -0500 schrieb Dan Langille: > I'm in the early stages of building an SD which will hold 8TB. > > This is where you should start: > >http://dan.langille.org/2010/02/23/the-new-box-some-purchases/ > > Earlier: the hardware selection process > > Later: some slight

Re: [Bacula-users] Updating tables from 3.0.2 to 5.0.1

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:42:59 -0300 schrieb Daniel Bareiro: > Hi all! > > I'm trying to update the database tables of Bacula 3.0.2 using the > script update_bacula_tables, but when doing I obtain it the following > errors: > > -

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