Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes

2012-02-10 Thread John Drescher
> Thanks for your help. What I can't understand is why all four backup jobs > running well without an error then? if I understand you correctly, you're > saying if the BackupCatalog fails, the backup jobs should all fail? No. I am saying if the catalog gets corrupted and you do not make regular ba

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes

2012-02-08 Thread John Drescher
> Thanks John, what is the catalog good for? Does it have any impact on the > four servers (mail server, file server, etc.) which have been backed up with > Bacula? > The catalog is the database that bacula uses to keep a record of what it has backed up, and what media it has used ... Without a c

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes

2012-02-08 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Honia wrote: > Right, that was when I had the BackupCatalog as a part of my backup routine. > But if I disable the BackupCatalog job, all other four jobs run smoothly > without any errors. Now my question was if I keep the BackupCatalog disabled, > does it have a

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes

2012-02-08 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Honia A wrote: > When I go to bconsole and type status, then no. 4, I get the *Backup OK* > message at the end of all the jobs, so nothing fails. Is there any way I can > check to see what's failing? > >From your output a few emails back it was the catalog job that

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes

2012-02-08 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Honia A wrote: > Yes there is, but I just found out it has been commented out. Not sure if > the previous IT person who installed Bacula intentially commented this out > or not. But if I leave it like that and disable the job BackupCatalog from > bconsole, what woul

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes

2012-02-02 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Honia A wrote: > OK, here's an update: > > Ran the following two commands and the permission error didn't show up > again: > > chown root:bacula /var/lib/bacula/bacula.sql > chmod 777 /var/lib/bacula/bacula.sql > > > But instead, got the errors below while trying t

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes

2012-01-16 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: >> On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:27:19 -0500, John Drescher said: >> >> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Honia A wrote: >> > I am logged in with user honia then su to root. Sorry I didn't understand >> > what you mean, how should I check for tha

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes

2012-01-16 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:27:19 -0500, John Drescher said: > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Honia A wrote: > > I am logged in with user honia then su to root. Sorry I didn't understand > > what you mean, how should I check for that user info? > > > > > > I want to to. > > 1. Figure out w

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes

2012-01-13 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Honia A wrote: > I am logged in with user honia then su to root. Sorry I didn't understand > what you mean, how should I check for that user info? > > I want to to. 1. Figure out what user bacula-fd runs on your system 2. Then login as that user (or su as that us

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes

2012-01-13 Thread Ben Walton
Excerpts from Honia A's message of Fri Jan 13 14:50:52 -0500 2012: > 13-Jan 14:51 babar-dir JobId 1651: shell command: run BeforeJob > "/etc/bacula/scripts/make_catalog_backup.pl MyCatalog" Is this the standard script as shipped with bacula? > 13-Jan 14:51 babar-dir JobId 1651: BeforeJob: sh: ca

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes

2012-01-13 Thread Honia A
From: honia2...@hotmail.com To: dresche...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:12:38 -0500 CC: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes I am logged in with user honia then su to root. Sorry I didn't understand what you mean, how should I check

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes

2012-01-13 Thread Honia A
py of the catalog RunAfterJob = "/etc/bacula/scripts/delete_catalog_backup" Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/%n.bsr" Priority = 11 # run after main backup } > Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:49:47 -0500 > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog f

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes

2012-01-13 Thread John Drescher
> I use Bacula to backup 5 servers. One of the server's called applecrisps is > no longer in service but I haven't deleted it from the backup process yet. > For the past weeks, I've noticed the BackupCatalog fails and not sure how I > can find out what is wrong here. > > 1650  Full  0  

[Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes

2012-01-13 Thread Honia A
Hi all, I use Bacula to backup 5 servers. One of the server's called applecrisps is no longer in service but I haven't deleted it from the backup process yet. For the past weeks, I've noticed the BackupCatalog fails and not sure how I can find out what is wrong here. 1650 Full 0