Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, unfortunately the virtual autochanger is also something that doesn't have a HOWTO, but is extremely useful.  It is used extensively among Enterprise users who want disk "autochangers". There exists an Enter

Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

On 06/03/2014 11:50 AM, Steven Haigh wrote: > On 03/06/14 02:35, Kern Sibbald wrote: ... The problem is that most people don't know how to configure >> them properly. vchanger or even Bacula's virtual autochanger is >> overkill for removable media. > > Do you have any good links for this? I've o

Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/03/2014 06:50 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: > On 03/06/14 02:35, Kern Sibbald wrote: >>> The whole concept of removable media in Bacula makes sense for tapes, >>> but does not translate well to removable disks. vchanger is a rather >>> nasty hack - bu

Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

On 03/06/14 02:35, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> The whole concept of removable media in Bacula makes sense for tapes, >> but does not translate well to removable disks. vchanger is a rather >> nasty hack - but (kinda) works. It would be much nicer to have bacula >> deal with removable disks directly - an

Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/02/2014 03:16 PM, Steven Haigh wrote: > On 02/06/14 23:01, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Your comments are quite valid. However a better approach to solving the >> problem is when people like you (especially English speakers) find the

Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/02/14 09:47, Steven Haigh wrote: > On 02/06/14 23:30, Phil Stracchino wrote: >> Have you considered virtual full backups? After you run a >> Differential, you could create a virtual full backup (though I >> think "synthetic full backup" might

Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

On 02/06/14 23:30, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 06/02/14 09:16, Steven Haigh wrote: >> On 02/06/14 23:01, Kern Sibbald wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Your comments are quite valid. However a better approach to >>> solving the problem is when people like you (especially English >>> speakers) find the

Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/02/14 09:16, Steven Haigh wrote: > On 02/06/14 23:01, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Your comments are quite valid. However a better approach to >> solving the problem is when people like you (especially English >> speakers) find the

Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

On 02/06/14 23:01, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Hello, > > Your comments are quite valid. However a better approach to solving the > problem is when people like you (especially English speakers) find the > solutions, you modify the documentation to include the correct words for > someone not familiar

Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Your comments are quite valid.  However a better approach to solving the problem is when people like you (especially English speakers) find the solutions, you modify the documentation to include the

Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

Hello, Given that you are most likely German, I wonder if you are actually running a Bacula fork ... In any case, Bacula is a bit complicated. In version 7.0, the problems you described will be a bit less likely to happen because the default co

Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 04:08:38PM -0700, Rickinfl wrote: > "Well, the first ting that comes to notice is that your maximum volume > size is set to 3.7 terabytes, with 100 volumes allowed. Is that > intentional? You're telling Bacula it can use up to 370TB of disk > space. Do you *have* 370TB of

Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

1970.01.01 00:00:00 44 4 7 2 34 35 --- 2014.04.07 02:34:35 Rickinfl schrieb: > Think I've got it now... Thanks to everyone's help. Thank You! > > I can set Bacula up and configure it including File sets, backup schedules > and backup Jobs ... Setup the Clients without any

Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 11:05 PM, Rickinfl wrote: > Phil, This is why I'm so confused with Bacula. Nothing makes sense from what > I'm use too. Yes I read the confusing manual. I'm just totally lost now. . > > Is this better? > Yes its better. And no it will not work at all. I mean 2 X 16 = 32

Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Rickinfl wrote: > I posted my bacula-dir file. Can someone show me what I need to change in > there? My total drive size is 4TB but I made it 3.7TB i read you should > never use the whole drive space. > > I don't need to keep anything over 30 days. I would li

Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

On 05/26/14 19:27, Rickinfl wrote: > Is this correct now? I was confused earlier. > > > # File Pool definition > Pool { > Name = File > Pool Type = Backup > Recycle = yes > AutoPrune = yes > Volume Retention = 30 days > Maximum Volume Bytes = 3700G > Maximum Volumes = 1

Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

On 05/26/14 19:08, Rickinfl wrote: > "Well, the first ting that comes to notice is that your maximum volume > size is set to 3.7 terabytes, with 100 volumes allowed. Is that > intentional? You're telling Bacula it can use up to 370TB of disk > space. Do you *have* 370TB of free disk space? " >

Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

I've got to say, I don't see the wisdom of going on the mailing list for a piece of software (from my brief search, for the first time) to complain about a piece of software that is provided to you completely for free, complain that there's no forum (who cares -- that's what THIS is for) and ask

Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

On 05/26/14 17:46, Rickinfl wrote: > Here is my bacula-dir file. I would really like to get Bacula to > work. Just need some help getting it setup right then I'll be off > running. Thanks for the help just so frustrated fighting this for > almost a year now. For now I just delete the pool and recr

Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

You might check out Amanda..Yes, i agree with you in that some sense Bacula lacks features that make it "usable" for people like a GUI, although BAT is not too bad.If you are resourceful, you can script backups using tar...like they did in the "old" days. In this case you do not need bacul

Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

Hi, I think Bacula is the best backup software in planet earth. It's free, it's open source. I've been using it for 8 years now. Read the manual. Ask for help. Or go Enterprise with www.baculasystems.com Regards L 2014-05-26 15:42 GMT-03:00 Rickinfl : > Hi, > > Is there any other good software

Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

On 27/05/14 05:49, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: > Hello, > > 2014-05-26 20:42 GMT+02:00 Rickinfl >: > > Hi, > > Is there any other good software than Bacula? I've just totally had > it with Bacula. There is no support and every system I've set

Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

Hi Rickinfl, it sound like you are using filestorage - is that correct? If so, you probably forgot to setup "Pool Options to Limit the Volume Usage" (see: http://www.bacula .org/5.2.x-manuals/en/main/main/Basic_Volume_Management.html) This way you end up with one file per pool on that grows till y

Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

Quoting message written on Monday 2014-05-26 11:42:52: > Hi, > > Is there any other good software than Bacula? I've just totally had it > with Bacula. There is no support and every system I've setup crashes > because it will not purge/prune or recycle the pool. It just fills up > and crashes. I h

Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

Hello, 2014-05-26 20:42 GMT+02:00 Rickinfl : > Hi, > > Is there any other good software than Bacula? I've just totally had it > with Bacula. There is no support and every system I've setup crashes > because it will not purge/prune or recycle the pool. It just fills up and > crashes. I have every

Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

> very system I've setup crashes because it will not purge/prune or recycle the pool. It just fills up and crashes. It took me a long time to figure out how to set up pools, etc. correctly. I did everything the wrong way the first few times. But now it actually prunes a few items after each backup