Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware or bacula-problem?

2005-06-03 Thread Dietz Proepper
Stephan Holl: > > Replace the cartridge. Clean the drive. Hold your thumbs :-) > > I did that 1 week ago. Why do I need to clean the drive that often? I > should think about buying more reliable hardware... If we're talking about a DDS drive then once a week is rather not a sign of crappy hardwar

[Bacula-users] strange behaviour withe Exclude stanza

2005-06-03 Thread Dietz Proepper
Hi, yesterday I noticed some strange behaviour of my bacula installation: One machine named ebola is backuped by means of the following file set: FileSet { Name = "Ebola Full Set" Ignore FileSet Changes = yes Include { Options { signature=MD5 onefs=no sparse=yes }

Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware or bacula-problem?

2005-06-03 Thread Stephan Holl
Hello Dietz, On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 17:41:42 +0200 Dietz Proepper wrote: > Stephan Holl: > > > Replace the cartridge. Clean the drive. Hold your thumbs :-) > > > > I did that 1 week ago. Why do I need to clean the drive that often? > > I should think about buying more reliable hardware... > > If w

Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware or bacula-problem?

2005-06-03 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Stephan Holl wrote: Hello Dietz, On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 17:41:42 +0200 Dietz Proepper wrote: Stephan Holl: Replace the cartridge. Clean the drive. Hold your thumbs :-) I did that 1 week ago. Why do I need to clean the drive that often? I should think about buying more reliable hard

RE: [Bacula-users] Hardware or bacula-problem?

2005-06-03 Thread Andrew Paterson
Yes yes ... DDS are crap!! The trouble is that I for one (on my home systems) find it very handy that DDS are crap - I tend to be able to acquire drives & tapes that are about to be thrown out!!! :) & that is probably why we have so many people using them right now! Andrew R Paterson Systems Engi

[Bacula-users] Variable expansion in Label Format

2005-06-03 Thread Misty Stanley-Jones
I want my labels to look like the following: hostname-level-0001 hostname-level-0002 I am putting the level myself because I have a different pool for each level. So here is the label format I have come up with: Label Format = "${Client}-Full-" The counter is not there. I am getting: hostname

[Bacula-users] Backup by most recent timestamp/job

2005-06-03 Thread Josh Valmas
First I would like to apologize for this post if the question has already been asked. I did some searching and couldnt find anything related to what I was trying to do. So here goes: Currently I use bacula to backup-to-disk on a nightly basis a number of servers. It does a full backup of eve

[Bacula-users] Problems getting two tape drive strategy working

2005-06-03 Thread Jeff Ramen
Hello, I have a backup server, which acts as a repository for network backups. Attached to this server is a HP Ultrium-1 LTO drive and an Exabyte VXA2 Autoloader drive. What I am trying to do is have Monthly full backups go to the LTO drive, and the daily incremental backups go to the Exabyte.

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup by most recent timestamp/job

2005-06-03 Thread Misty Stanley-Jones
On Friday 03 June 2005 10:20 am, Josh Valmas wrote: > Bacula does auto file naming for me, so my retention period > (week-diff/month- full) will keep backup files around for ahwhile on the > disk, and then recycle them the next time through. I want to grab the most > recent volumes that bacula re

Re: [Bacula-users] Variable expansion in Label Format

2005-06-03 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote: I want my labels to look like the following: hostname-level-0001 hostname-level-0002 I am putting the level myself because I have a different pool for each level. So here is the label format I have come up with: Label Format = "${Client}-Full-" Now, take

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems getting two tape drive strategy working

2005-06-03 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Jeff Ramen wrote: Hello, I have a backup server, which acts as a repository for network backups. Attached to this server is a HP Ultrium-1 LTO drive and an Exabyte VXA2 Autoloader drive. What I am trying to do is have Monthly full backups go to the LTO drive, and the daily incrementa

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup by most recent timestamp/job

2005-06-03 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Josh Valmas wrote: First I would like to apologize for this post if the question has already been asked. I did some searching and couldnt find anything related to what I was trying to do. So here goes: No need to apologize - my imression is that on this list, almost everybody with

[Bacula-users] Renaming Volumes?

2005-06-03 Thread Misty Stanley-Jones
Can I rename a disk volume somehow? i figured out how I want to label the volumes now but it was wrong yesterday. The backups were good, but the names are not what I want. I have auto labeling so I assume that when they expirre they will just get deleted but can I fix them before that? One o

Re: [Bacula-users] Renaming Volumes?

2005-06-03 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Friday 03 June 2005 03:39 pm, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote: > Can I rename a disk volume somehow? i figured out how I want to label the > volumes now but it was wrong yesterday. The backups were good, but the > names are not what I want. I have auto labeling so I assume that when they > expirre

Re: [Bacula-users] Renaming Volumes?

2005-06-03 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 03 June 2005 22:51, Mike Reinehr wrote: > On Friday 03 June 2005 03:39 pm, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote: > > Can I rename a disk volume somehow? i figured out how I want to label > > the volumes now but it was wrong yesterday. The backups were good, but > > the names are not what I want.

Re: [Bacula-users] Renaming Volumes?

2005-06-03 Thread Misty Stanley-Jones
On Friday 03 June 2005 04:02 pm, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Unfortunately, neither of those good ideas will help. The Volume name is > embedded in the Bacula Volume label record on the medium so that Bacula can > find out what the Volume name really is. To change it, you would need to > change the V

Re: [Bacula-users] Renaming Volumes?

2005-06-03 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Friday 03 June 2005 04:02 pm, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Friday 03 June 2005 22:51, Mike Reinehr wrote: > > On Friday 03 June 2005 03:39 pm, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote: > > > Can I rename a disk volume somehow? i figured out how I want to label > > > the volumes now but it was wrong yesterday. Th

Re: [Bacula-users] Renaming Volumes?

2005-06-03 Thread C M Reinehr
On Friday 03 June 2005 04:14 pm, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote: > On Friday 03 June 2005 04:02 pm, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Unfortunately, neither of those good ideas will help. The Volume name is > > embedded in the Bacula Volume label record on the medium so that Bacula > > can find out what the Volu

Re: [Bacula-users] [OT: Was: Re: bscan segfault]

2005-06-03 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Thursday 02 June 2005 06:39 am, José Luis Tallón wrote: > > Kern: this is bacula-1.36.3, save for the old include/exclude support > and the documentation updates, FYI. > bscan comes in 3 flavors, each statically linked to its corresponding > version of 'cats' and client libraries > > >(i386 Pen

Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware or bacula-problem?

2005-06-03 Thread Dietz Proepper
Arno Lehmann: > >>If we're talking about a DDS drive then once a week is rather not a > >>sign of crappy hardware. When I was using DDS kind of hardware for my > >>backups I had to run the cleaning tape after about 5 completely > >>written tapes. > > > > Thanks for your tips. I will use that more o