Re: [Bacula-users] [OFF-TOPIC] Bacula Web-based

2007-07-23 Thread John Kodis
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 06:18:02PM +0300, Mantas M. wrote: > there are two web based tools that allow you to _get info_ about the > backups from the database. > > bacula web: http://www.bacula.org/bacula-web/bacula-web.html > and > webacula: https://sourceforge.net/projects/webacula Let me add a

Re: [Bacula-users] make_catalog_backup and passwords

2007-04-16 Thread kodis
is no password required for a process running as the bacula user to connect to the bacula database instance from the machine that is running Postgres. -- John Kodis. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB

Re: [Bacula-users] reusing tapes in Error-State

2007-03-06 Thread kodis
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 03:36:39AM +, Alan Brown wrote: > On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > >>I'm also seeing this using Bacula 2.0.1 on RHEL-4 with a jukebox > >>holding two LTO-3 drives. It's an intermittent problem that I haven't > >>been able to reproduce reliably, so I haven't

Re: [Bacula-users] reusing tapes in Error-State

2007-03-05 Thread kodis
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 06:34:08PM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Monday 05 March 2007 16:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:28:29PM +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote: > > > On 3/3/2007 12:24 PM, Christoph Litauer wrote: > > > > a few of my autochanger tapes have VolStatus: Error.

Re: [Bacula-users] reusing tapes in Error-State

2007-03-05 Thread kodis
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:28:29PM +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote: > On 3/3/2007 12:24 PM, Christoph Litauer wrote: > > a few of my autochanger tapes have VolStatus: Error. This is because the > > number of files in the catalogue didn't match the number of files on the > > tape. I don't know why this ha

[Bacula-users] Odd tape mount problem

2007-02-21 Thread kodis
I ran into an odd tape mount problem this morning. I'm using version 2.0.1 of bacula on RHEL-4 in a configuration that's been fairly stable for months now. Here's how events seem to have unfolded: - At 03:15, Bacula successfully unloaded drive 0 from a two-drive jukebox. - At 03:16, Bacula succ

Re: [Bacula-users] Job groups or hierarchy

2007-02-06 Thread kodis
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:18:15AM -0600, Zeratul wrote: > I'm wondering if there is any posibility to group more jobs under a generic > name or to create any kind of hierarchy. I have a total (until now) of 30 > clients with 2 types of backup jobs, with 2 types of storage (disk and tape) > and wi

Re: [Bacula-users] Storage daemon stuck on a job

2007-02-01 Thread kodis
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:15:39AM -0500, John Drescher wrote: > On 2/1/07, Joseph S. Rizzari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been doing some testing with Bacula 2.0.1 and my storage > > daemon has is stuck on a job. > > > > My test was to back up a laptop and then during the backup unplug >

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula scripting with Ruby?

2006-11-28 Thread kodis
run from a cron job, and is configured to send an email message with a single line status report on each backup job to the Bacula administrator and optionally to send a more detailed report on each job to the user of the machine which that j

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-08 Thread kodis
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 10:37:48AM -0500, John Drescher wrote: > On 11/8/06, Adam Huffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >What sort of backup speed should I expect when using Bacula with an > >LTO3 library? I'm seeing nothing like the advertised 60-80MB/s. I'm seeing sustained rates in the 30M

Re: [Bacula-users] Trying to get bacula working with postgres

2006-08-22 Thread kodis
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 03:39:03PM -0700, Scott Simpson wrote: > I'm trying to get bacula working with Postgres but I'm having > trouble getting the director to connect. I can connect to Postgres > as bacula: > > sh-3.1$ id > uid=118(bacula) gid=118(bacula) groups=26(tape),118(bacula) > sh-3.1$ p

Re: [Bacula-users] Re : SQL help needed predicting next tapes to recycle

2006-08-05 Thread kodis
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 02:58:01PM +0200, Eric Bollengier wrote: >FROM_UNIXTIME( > UNIX_TIMESTAMP(Media.LastWritten) > + (Media.VolRetention) >) AS expire Or, if you're using Postgres rather than MySQL... lastwritten + volretention * interval '1 second' as

Re: [Bacula-users] posting via mutt

2006-07-24 Thread kodis
Recieved:" headers. $ head .muttrc my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set sendmail="/usr/local/bin/msmtp \ --host=smtp.comcast.net \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- John Kodis. - Take Surveys. Earn C

Re: [Bacula-users] Turning prompt off?

2006-07-01 Thread John Kodis
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 12:02:45PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: > John Kodis writes: > > >You could use a shell script to automate the task. Something like: > > for n in $(seq 27 42); do > >echo -e "delete volume=junk-$n\nyes" | bconsole >

Re: [Bacula-users] Turning prompt off?

2006-07-01 Thread John Kodis
2); do echo -e "delete volume=junk-$n\nyes" | bconsole done Just make sure that you've got the range of volumes right first! -- John Kodis. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: excluding with wildcards

2006-05-11 Thread John Kodis
backup. I found this confusing when I tried it, until Arno pointed out that that's just the way it is. -- John Kodis. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated tech

Re: [Bacula-users] Huge/slow index in MySQL

2006-05-01 Thread John Kodis
es than a similar Postgres installation does. -- John Kodis. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Ap

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

2006-04-25 Thread John Kodis
releases of their distribution. $ uname -p x86_64 $ ls -l /var/log/lastlog -r 1 root root 11390920 Apr 25 07:49 /var/log/lastlog Just FYI. -- John Kodis. --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web serv

Re: [Bacula-users] New user questions

2006-04-15 Thread John Kodis
for each file to PostgreSQL? Any way > to pool several files as to have them in a single transaction? I have no idea, nor any reason to care as the database stuff has always just worked. Are you just curious, or is there some other issue that you're chasing? -- John Kodis. -

Re: [Bacula-devel] Re: [Bacula-users] Surprise bug + Scratch pool algorithm

2006-04-10 Thread John Kodis
r on whether Bacula currently tracks which volumes are in an autochanger. Right now, I have two volumes that are both recorded in the database as "InChanger = 1" and "Slot = 4", but it's not obvious which tape is actually in the changer. -- John Kodis. ---

[Bacula-users] Review of Bacula

2006-04-05 Thread John Kodis
There's a brief review of Bacula at: http://osreviews.net/reviews/admin/bacula It's fairly positive, but criticizes the tape selection algorithm as being "far from intuitive". -- John Kodis. --- This SF.Net email is

Re: [Bacula-users] Running Jobs simultaneously on two streamers of same type - Sorry to come "back up" ;-) with this again

2006-03-30 Thread John Kodis
kup immediately after all the client backups have completed. While jobs at the same priority seem to normally run in the order in which they get queued up, there's no guarantee of this. There is such a guarantee with priorities. -- John Kodis. -

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula jobstatus codes

2006-03-30 Thread John Kodis
ting for job resource c | Waiting for client resource d | Waiting on maximum jobs t | Waiting on start time p | Waiting on higher priority jobs (19 rows) -- John Kodis. --- This SF.Net

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Announcing Bacuview-1.3, now with MySQL support

2006-03-22 Thread John Kodis
let bconsole and friends handle the restores (but then, prior to a few months ago, I had no idea that I'd be developing an application like Bacuview to begin with, so you never know!) -- John Kodis. On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 10:18:15AM -0800, Mark Nienberg wrote: > John Kodis wrote: > >I&#

[Bacula-users] Announcing Bacuview-1.3, now with MySQL support

2006-03-20 Thread John Kodis
ferences between Postgres and MySQL databases. I'd be happy to answer any questions that you have, and to hear of any suggestions that you have for this project. I hope that you find it useful. -- John Kodis. --- This SF.Net email is

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 1.38.x for mac osx 10.3

2006-03-08 Thread John Kodis
f -v -c /etc/bacula/bacula-fd.conf -- John Kodis. PS: It sure would have been nice if instead of 20 lines of fairly illegible XML we could just write something like: label = net.bacula-fd program = /sbin/bacula-fd -f -v -c /etc/bacula/bacula-fd.conf

Re: [Bacula-users] appending position

2006-03-02 Thread John Kodis
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:03:59PM +0100, Thomas Franz wrote: > In the case of a backup run it takes a long time ( up to hours ) > until the storage daemon is finding the end-of-data position . ( Of > course only if the tape is nearly full). We are using bacula 1.36.3 > on a FreeBSD 4.11 machine.

[Bacula-users] DB problems due to character set encoding

2006-03-01 Thread John Kodis
character set is a requirement for Bacula, it seems like it would be a good idea to force this by adding "--encoding utf-8" to the Postgres database creation script, and whatever the equivalent is to the scripts for the other databases. -- John Kodis. ---

[Bacula-users] Announcing Bacuview-1.2, a Bacula monitoring web application

2006-02-28 Thread John Kodis
ids setting cookies so as to not upset the powers that be. Currently planned for the next release... - MySQL support. I'd be happy to answer any questions that you have, and to hear of any suggestions that you have for this project. I hope that you find it useful

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling can slow Bacula

2006-02-20 Thread John Kodis
= SpoolData=yes pool="MyPool" Storage="LTOdrive" Differential mon-thu at > 20:30 > Run = SpoolData=yes pool="MyPool" Storage="LTOdrive" Incremental fri at 11:35 > } > > Ludovic Strappazon. This looks like the way to go. If I leave spool

[Bacula-users] Spooling can slow Bacula

2006-02-20 Thread John Kodis
down the speed of the job. On the other hand, I did notice a speed improvement in the concurrent backup of several remote clients with the spool file enabled. So while there are many good reasons for using a spool file listed in the "Data Spooling" section of the manual, speed isn&#

[Bacula-users] Announcing Bacuview, a Bacula monitoring web application

2006-02-20 Thread John Kodis
l down a tar file or do a subversion checkout to get a copy of the code. I'd be happy to answer any questions that you have, and to hear of any suggestions that you have for this project. I hope that you find it useful. -- John Kodis. ---

Re: [Bacula-users] Schedule and Director question

2006-02-18 Thread John Kodis
uot;The FileSet Resource", see the description of the "" directive, especially the part about using "\<" to read the file list from a file on the client machine. Best of luck. -- John Kodis. --- This SF.net email is

Re: [Bacula-users] Unlisted fstype on MS-XP

2006-02-03 Thread John Kodis
up configuration when someone added a new disk to their PC. It looks like it may be best to just manually track the drive letters though. That won't be a great deal of effort, I was just looking for an easy way to automate it. Thanks again for the clarification and help. -- John Kodis. -

[Bacula-users] Unlisted fstype on MS-XP

2006-02-02 Thread John Kodis
pe 2000 OK estimate files=0 bytes=0 Thanks in advance for any insights that you can offer. -- John Kodis. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search e

Re: [Bacula-users] Extensions to query.sql (was: problems with update slots)

2006-01-16 Thread John Kodis
R BY MediaType ASC, Slot ASC; mediaid | volumename | gb | storage | slot | pool | mediatype | volstatus -++-+-+--+--+---+--- 9 | A1L3 | 755 | Tape|1 | LTO3-backups | LTO-3 | Full ... snip ... 58 | A00050L3 | 0 | tape| 50 | LTO3-backups | LTO-3

[Bacula-users] invalid byte sequence for encoding

2006-01-14 Thread John Kodis
This note describes a problem that I recently encountered and worked around, posted here for ease of Googling to help anyone who hits the same problem in the future. I wanted to set up a copy of my Bacula Postgres database on another machine. I used the make-catalog-backup script to generate a ba

[Bacula-users] Experience summaries

2006-01-04 Thread John Kodis
the compressibility of the data. The only problems that I've encountered have all been of the "climbing the learning curve" variety, and I hope that those days are behind me. We're currently considering expanding to another similar installation, and moving our Mac and M

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-web: a status request

2005-12-20 Thread John Kodis
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 11:14:20PM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Monday 19 December 2005 20:41, John Kodis wrote: > > - Although the web page itself doesn't give any information beyond "DB > > Connect error", there is excellent diagnostic information in

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-web: a status request

2005-12-19 Thread John Kodis
pip_socket = true" to the /var/lib/pgsql/data/postgresql.conf file, and restarting Postgres. TCP/IP access must also be allowed by the pg_hba.conf file. My current stumbling block is this error: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined method DB_Error::numRows() in /home/kodis/public_html/c

[Bacula-users] Bacula-web: a status request

2005-12-19 Thread John Kodis
he main bacula-web page is an error saying that a database error has occurred. Has anyone gotten this to work with a Postgres database? Is there any way to get further debugging information? As always, thanks for any assistance that anyone can o

Re: [Bacula-users] Filesystem change prohibited

2005-12-19 Thread John Kodis
nt "From ", val['Start time'], " to ", val['End time'], "\n" print "Wrote ", val['FD Files Written'], " files, ", \ val['FD Bytes Written'], " bytes at ", val['Rate'], "\

Re: [Bacula-users] A scheduling quirk

2005-12-12 Thread John Kodis
7;m pretty sure that I read through that section of the documentation when I began setting up Bacula, but it didn't occur to me that this could be used to eliminate the back to back incremental and catalog backups that I've noticed. Thanks once more for t

Re: [Bacula-users] A scheduling quirk

2005-12-12 Thread John Kodis
r a more general solution. > Sorry for not being able to actually answer the question. That's quite alright. It at least tells me that there's not an obvious solution that I've just overlooked, and I'm grateful for that alone. Thanks! -- John Kodis. -

Re: [Bacula-users] A scheduling quirk

2005-12-12 Thread John Kodis
good reason to leave the default action as is, although in my situation I'd still like to be able to override it. -- John Kodis. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download t

[Bacula-users] A scheduling quirk

2005-12-12 Thread John Kodis
there a job directive or some other way to say "Don't schedule another instance of a job if the same job is already waiting to run?" -- John Kodis. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for p

[Bacula-users] Ignore FileSet Changes being ignored

2005-11-11 Thread John Kodis
his job to full. Is there anything else that I have to do to avoid this full backup, or any other way to work around the problem? -- John Kodis. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App

[Bacula-users] Tape positioning oddity

2005-11-09 Thread John Kodis
in behavior bothers me. I'd rest easier if I knew why this change happened. Has anyone seem anything like this, or know what might cause it or where I could look to investigate further? Thanks for any suggestions. -- John Kodis. --- SF

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup across filesystems

2005-11-01 Thread John Kodis
s decent to filesystems of type ext2. On a typical Linux setup, this will cause bacula to back up all the local disk-based file systems, while preventing bacula from trying to back up NFS mounted filesystems or the /proc and /sysfs filesystems. -- John Kodis -

Re: [Bacula-users] btape dumps core

2005-10-21 Thread John Kodis
h gdb trying to figure out what was going wrong. -- John KodisGoddard Space Flight Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greenbelt, Maryland, USA Phone: 301-286-7376 Fax: 301-286-1771 --

[Bacula-users] btape dumps core

2005-10-21 Thread John Kodis
ase" No stack. /opt/bacula/etc/btraceback.gdb:11: Error in sourced command file: No stack. I'd welcome any suggestions about what further steps I can take to track down what's going wrong here. -- John Kodis