Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Windows NTFS encryption

2006-01-25 Thread Thomas Simmons
Marco wrote: Joshua Kugler wrote: I believe there is a Backup user or group that allows you to backup files that are encrypted. You might check that out. Joshua, thanks for the hint. But unfortunately there is no backup user under WinXP Pro. There is a group named "Backup Operators" Any

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula with sqlite on sarge

2006-01-22 Thread Thomas Simmons
Marco wrote: Hi, I am trying to install Bacula on Debian Sarge. compiled and installed sqlite-2.8.16kes compiled and installed bacula-1.38.5 But after starting bacula-dir I get the following error: /usr/sbin/bacula-dir: error while loading shared libraries: libsqlite.so.0: cannot open shared o

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape usage order

2006-01-13 Thread Thomas Simmons
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 - 9:35am, Thomas Simmons wrote: Hello, I just realized that bacula is recycling previously written tapes before taking any from the scratch pool. My pool directives are below. With this setup, I would think that bacula *could* overwrite any tape after four weeks, but

[Bacula-users] Tape usage order

2006-01-13 Thread Thomas Simmons
Hello, I just realized that bacula is recycling previously written tapes before taking any from the scratch pool. My pool directives are below. With this setup, I would think that bacula *could* overwrite any tape after four weeks, but shouldn't if any are available in the scratch pool. Unfortun

Re: [Bacula-users] Director for Win32

2006-01-06 Thread Thomas Simmons
Two questions, actually... We are very impressed with Bacula and use it in several locations. Hope I put these questions in the correct mailing list. Has the Director been built for Windows or Cygwin? Our machines are Windows based and behind firewalls. Since we are using Bacula for remot

Re: [Bacula-users] Network Backup

2005-11-22 Thread Thomas Simmons
Richard W. Knight wrote: Thomas, Thanks for your reply. In my last post I said I was using pmfirewall. Scratch that. I switched to iptables a few years ago. Anyway, Thomas Simmons wrote: Dave, Thanks for the reply. I'm running pmfirewall on an RH7 box. It also does my routing

Re: [Bacula-users] Network Backup

2005-11-22 Thread Thomas Simmons
Dave, Thanks for the reply. I'm running pmfirewall on an RH7 box. It also does my routing. I removed the block from public 192.168.n.n but I still could not see the private server from the public. I set this up so long ago, I've forgotten a lot of the configs so I guess I need to do some sno

Re: [Bacula-users] Pruning help

2005-11-17 Thread Thomas Simmons
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good eye Matt, but that was a just a typo in the email. I did wonder if it was :-) After doing some math I noticed that the volume retention period was one year for all of my tapes, even though it was set to four weeks in the pool resource. I purged a tape and relab

Re: [Bacula-users] Pruning help

2005-11-17 Thread Thomas Simmons
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Thomas, I think you're missing an =. Should be "Volume Retention = 4 weeks" Also try "Recycle Current Volume = yes". Bacula will use whichever volume is mounted, but obeys the retention periods. Hope this helps, Matt Good eye Matt, but that was a just a typo in

[Bacula-users] Pruning help

2005-11-16 Thread Thomas Simmons
All tapes in my library are now filled and I expected bacula to grab a previous tape and overwrite it, but that didn't happen. Sometime last night the backups just stopped while bacula waited for me to label a tape. Here is my pool resource. Pool { Name = Full-Pool Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-flavor

2005-09-15 Thread Thomas Simmons
Arno Lehmann wrote: Hello, On 15.09.2005 23:08, Maria McKinley wrote: Could someone tell me what the file /etc/bacula/bacula_flavor is suppose to contain? I am getting the message: 15-Sep 01:20 billie-dir: RunBefore: cat: /etc/bacula/bacula_flavor: No such file or directory 15-Sep 01:20 bi

Re: [Bacula-users] Bad Bad response to Append Data command.

2005-09-14 Thread Thomas Simmons
Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi all, as I've seen some error reports with the message given in the subject line and I'm having some trouble with this myself I think it's useful to collect some more specific data concerning this special error. There are some current threads discussing this problem, an

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent backups

2005-09-07 Thread Thomas Simmons
Arunav Mandal wrote: We have 150 clients to backup everynight and I am using 1TB as spool. All setup is on linux. I can see now only one client is doing backups at any given time. How can I do multiple backups at same time. Do you have "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" set?. In bacula-dir.conf this n

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple backup failures (1.37.36 + patches)

2005-09-01 Thread Thomas Simmons
Arno Lehmann wrote: Hello, Thomas Simmons wrote: Looks like I found another problem with 1.37.37. It seems I can't cancel jobs. status dir shows: Running Jobs: JobId Level Name Status == 122

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple backup failures (1.37.36 + patches)

2005-08-31 Thread Thomas Simmons
Upgrade to 1.37.37. I don't know about the first problem, but the second is fixed according to my tests and user feedback in version 1.37.37. I upgraded to 1.37.37, but tonight the same failures occured. The first night (full backups), this didn't happen, which is when I would think a timeo

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple backup failures (1.37.36 + patches)

2005-08-30 Thread Thomas Simmons
Kern Sibbald wrote: On Tuesday 30 August 2005 14:44, Thomas Simmons wrote: Last night five clients failed with the following error. These are clients that were successfully backed up Friday, with no change to any configs. 29-Aug 20:47 sioux-dir: auriga.2005-08-29_20.00.29 Fatal error

[Bacula-users] Multiple backup failures (1.37.36 + patches)

2005-08-30 Thread Thomas Simmons
Last night five clients failed with the following error. These are clients that were successfully backed up Friday, with no change to any configs. 29-Aug 20:47 sioux-dir: auriga.2005-08-29_20.00.29 Fatal error: authenticate.c:99 Unable to authenticate with Storage daemon. Possible causes: Pa

Re: [Bacula-users] Oversize LTO2 IBM 3580 Drive

2005-08-26 Thread Thomas Simmons
Caesar Neron wrote: I´m Running Bacula on a Debian with 2.4.27-2-386 Kernel, bacula reports 556.44 GB recorded on the tape and it is not Full. Is it right? should I configure someting with mt parameters the tape drive? It depends on how compressible the data is. If the data is highly compressib

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula does not backup mounted disk

2005-08-24 Thread Thomas Simmons
Michael Dauer wrote: Hello, I have a second partition mounted as /var. Despite Bacula should backup all (/) it does not include /var. Both root partition and var partition are ext3. The relevant file set is: FileSet { Name = "Full Set" Include { Options { signature = MD5 c

Re: [Bacula-users] Upgraded jobs not using full pool

2005-08-23 Thread Thomas Simmons
Kern Sibbald wrote: On Monday 22 August 2005 14:21, Thomas Simmons wrote: Kern Sibbald wrote: On Monday 22 August 2005 04:32, Peter Sjoberg wrote: On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 01:38 -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote: Thomas Simmons wrote: No one has any thoughts on this? Thanks, Thomas Thomas

Re: [Bacula-users] Upgraded jobs not using full pool

2005-08-22 Thread Thomas Simmons
Kern Sibbald wrote: On Monday 22 August 2005 04:32, Peter Sjoberg wrote: On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 01:38 -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote: Thomas Simmons wrote: No one has any thoughts on this? Thanks, Thomas Thomas Simmons wrote: Hello Everyone, From what I understand, if I have "Full B

Re: [Bacula-users] Upgraded jobs not using full pool

2005-08-19 Thread Thomas Simmons
No one has any thoughts on this? Thanks, Thomas Thomas Simmons wrote: Hello Everyone, From what I understand, if I have "Full Backup Pool = Full-Pool" in the job resource then any job on that client that gets upgraded to full, should use the "Full-Pool". This is not hap

[Bacula-users] Upgraded jobs not using full pool

2005-08-18 Thread Thomas Simmons
Hello Everyone, From what I understand, if I have "Full Backup Pool = Full-Pool" in the job resource then any job on that client that gets upgraded to full, should use the "Full-Pool". This is not happening and is really a big problem for laptops that are not on site everynight. If the laptop miss

[Bacula-users] Upgraded jobs not using full pool

2005-08-18 Thread Thomas Simmons
Hello Everyone, From what I understand, if I have "Full Backup Pool = Full-Pool" in the job resource then any job on that client that gets upgraded to full, should use the "Full-Pool". This is not happening and is really a big problem for laptops that are not on site everynight. If the laptop

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring single files -- what's the best way to do it?

2005-08-16 Thread Thomas Simmons
I don't know if there's a "proper" way to do it, but you can search for a file using grep, which will give you the full path, then you can restore it with the restore command. lightning:~# echo "list files jobid=2" | bconsole | grep bacula-fd.conf | c:/bacula/bin/bacula-fd.conf

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS Problems

2005-08-16 Thread Thomas Simmons
I have also been randomly recieving a VSS error, however it is different than the one previously mentioned. bacula-dir prints the following message. Warning: Generate VSS snapshots failed. ERR=The system could not find the environment option that was entered. While the following is logged in

[Bacula-users] Win32 & Nforce client drops connection [solution?]

2005-08-16 Thread Thomas Simmons
Hello List, I remember reading about this problem on the list a while back. I just ran into it myself and found a solution. (tested on a nforce4 board with onboard nvidia gigabit NIC) Browse to: Start > Control Panel > Network Connections Right click the connection for the nvidia adapter and

Re: [Bacula-users] Backula Autoloader Weirdness

2005-08-11 Thread Thomas Simmons
Does the user "bacula", or the group "tape" have permission to access /dev/sg3? Thanks, Thomas Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure) wrote: Just a reminder that I am waiting patiently... ;0) So far bacula works fine for everything but controlling the autoloader. The mtx-changer script works fin

Re: [Bacula-users] [1.37.30] Recover takes long time

2005-08-05 Thread Thomas Simmons
That seems pretty slow to me. I just did a test and it took 10 seconds to build the tree for ~400,000 files. Like you, I too have an opteron system, a dual 246 w 1/GB ram, however I keep the database on a set of mirrored sata disks on the local server. Have you tried installing the database on

Re: [Bacula-users] Config error: Keyword EnableVSS not permitted in this re

2005-07-22 Thread Thomas Simmons
Some testing will be necessary before I post a new version. More later today. On Thursday 21 July 2005 04:30, Thomas Simmons wrote: Seems I spoke too soon. After seeing the output: 21-Jul 21:59 nemo-fd: Generate VSS snapshots. Driver="VSS WinXP", Drive(s)="C" 21-Jul 21:

Re: [Bacula-users] Config error: Keyword EnableVSS not permitted in this re

2005-07-21 Thread Thomas Simmons
Seems I spoke too soon. After seeing the output: 21-Jul 21:59 nemo-fd: Generate VSS snapshots. Driver="VSS WinXP", Drive(s)="C" 21-Jul 21:59 nemo-fd: VSS Writer: "MSDEWriter", State: 1 (VSS_WS_STABLE) 21-Jul 21:59 nemo-fd: VSS Writer: "Microsoft Writer (Bootable State)", State: 1 (VSS_WS_STABL

Re: [Bacula-users] Config error: Keyword EnableVSS not permitted in this re

2005-07-21 Thread Thomas Simmons
Kern, List, I figured out what the issue is! When backing up an entire drive, an asterix must follow the trailing /. If the fileset is specified as follows VSS will not be used: FileSet { Name = "default-winxp" Enable VSS = yes Include { Options { signature = MD5

Re: [Bacula-users] Config error: Keyword EnableVSS not permitted in this resource

2005-07-20 Thread Thomas Simmons
Ok, I set everything up here at home and I'm getting the same thing. I first tried backing up my laptop, which was the client I was testing with at work, the "cannot open file" errors persisted. I then set up the FD on another XP system I have here. Unfortunately it has the same issue. Here's s

[Bacula-users] 1.37.30 - configure fails w/ Invalid MySQL directory...

2005-07-19 Thread Thomas Simmons
I'm trying to install 1.37.30 on debian sarge, I've installed mysql and the mysql dev package via apt. Here's the output I get. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/bacula-1.37.30$ ./configure --sbindir=/usr/lib/bacula/bin --sysconfdir=/usr/lib/bacula/bin --with-pid-dir=/var/lib/bacula/bin/working --with-subs

[Bacula-users] Help scheduling backups

2005-07-07 Thread Thomas Simmons
Hello everyone, I have 5 hosts to backup, currently I have a single job setup for each host, and bacula's been running a full on sun and diffs every other day like it's supposed to. Now my backup HDD is full and I need to setup bacula for the long term. The backup HDD can hold two weeks worth

[Bacula-users] bacula hangs when no tape in drive

2005-06-26 Thread Thomas Simmons
I've got everything working with filestorage, and now I want to do some testing with my library (exabyte 10h w/8705). The mtx scripts and btape both seem to work fine. Whenever I try to access the storage daemon (label, status...), bacula(1.36.2) hangs indefinitely. If I manually put a tape in