Re: [Bacula-users] strange file permissions on restore

2005-09-07 Thread Daniel Holtkamp
Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: Hmmm... Is there a way to tell Bacula to simply restore using numeric UIDs and GIDs for files, and set permissions to their original, ignoring whatever /etc/passwd and group files are currently on the system? I hope that is the default behaviour because we use a c

Re: [Bacula-users] Alternative mailer with bacula

2005-09-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Jesus Salvo Jr. wrote: Is anyone using another mailer with bacula apart from bsmtp ?? Is it simply a matter of replacing bsmtp with mailx in Messages directive ?? I know about people who do, and I don't see any reason why you couldn't, too. It's just a question of setting up the messages

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula wouldn't overwrite and append... would it?

2005-09-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Marcus wrote: Bacula just stumped me; I started it off appending to a volume. Bacula diligently stated that it would have to skip to the unused block (I'd un/mounted the volume, so it back at 1). However, as it seeked, the drives' LCD said "WRITING" instead of "SEEKING" which it usually

Re: [Bacula-users] strange file permissions on restore

2005-09-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Daniel Holtkamp wrote: Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: Hmmm... Is there a way to tell Bacula to simply restore using numeric UIDs and GIDs for files, and set permissions to their original, ignoring whatever /etc/passwd and group files are currently on the system? I hope that is the

Re: [Bacula-users] strange file permissions on restore

2005-09-07 Thread Juan Luis Frances
> > Also with this job the database jumped from 10mb to 260mb ... with only > > 3 clients beein backed up ... (final number: 32 systems backing up) > > > > I`m getting the impression that the database is going to be HUGE > > Oh, usually we're talking about GB here :-) > > More seriously - I've got

Re: [Bacula-users] strange file permissions on restore

2005-09-07 Thread Daniel Holtkamp
Juan Luis Frances wrote: Also with this job the database jumped from 10mb to 260mb ... with only 3 clients beein backed up ... (final number: 32 systems backing up) I`m getting the impression that the database is going to be HUGE Oh, usually we're talking about GB here :-) More seriously - I'

Re: [Bacula-users] Running out of disk space.

2005-09-07 Thread Gert Burger
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 17:03 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Tuesday 06 September 2005 12:52, Arno Lehmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Gert Burger wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 11:52 +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > I do have automatic naming on. If I limit the amount of volumes, wil

Re: [Bacula-users] Delay between Pruning and Purging

2005-09-07 Thread Russell Howe
Jesus Salvo Jr. wrote: > Why is there a large delay between a Pruning and Purging of a volume ?? > Take for example below. all of the jobs from volumes DailyPool-03 and > DailyPool-04 were pruned at 10:18, > but they were only marked as purged at 11:15 Maybe it took almost an hour to prune the da

Re: [Bacula-users] Running out of disk space.

2005-09-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Gert Burger wrote: ... Now, my last question. How can I go from autonaming to a fixed set of volumes without losing any backups, except the ones that will be re-used? First, disable automatic volume creation. Enable automatic pruning, and be careful to consider the retention times. Wait

Re: [Bacula-users] Big problems with my Bacula.....

2005-09-07 Thread Philipp Steinkrueger
Hi Kern, Perhaps it didn't drop the database but it did drop each table -- otherwise, how can the example from the Catalog Maintenance chapter of the manual work? mysqldump -f --opt bacula > bacula.sql mysql bacula < bacula.sql rm -f bacula.sql because of the --opt parameter in the mysqld

[Bacula-users] ClientRunBeforeJob

2005-09-07 Thread Dmitry S. Vlasov
Hello! I Still have obscure problem with subject So, I create Job: Job { ClientRunBeforeJob = "/etc/backup_mysql.sh" ClientRunAfterJob = "rm -r /tmp/mysql" ... } and write little sh script /etc/backup_mysql.sh on the remote host: #! /bin/sh /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server.sh stop >/dev/null

[Bacula-users] Luiz NOGUEIRA/Campinas/VWS/VALEO is out of the office.

2005-09-07 Thread luiz . nogueira
I will be out of the office starting 05/09/2005 and will not return until 16/09/2005. A partir de 05/09/2005 favor encaminhar os emails para Sr. Dennys FUMACHI, no email [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Softwar

[Bacula-users] RunBeforeJob not "always" working

2005-09-07 Thread Jonas Björklund
Hello, I have a RunBeforeJob which executes a shell script (ssh tunnel). I have 4 jobs that are executed 13:05 wich the same script and most of thee times the first job fail with the following error: 07-Sep 13:05 X-dir: XXX-fd.2005-09-07_13.05.01 Fatal error: RunBeforeJob error: ERR=No

Re: [Bacula-users] Alternative mailer with bacula

2005-09-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
Jesus Salvo Jr. wrote: > Is anyone using another mailer with bacula apart from bsmtp ?? > Is it simply a matter of replacing bsmtp with mailx in Messages directive ?? You need to replace the bsmtp command lines with something appropriate to the mailer you're using. Depending on the command-line a

Re: [Bacula-users] Big problems with my Bacula.....

2005-09-07 Thread preissler thomas
Hello, Am 07.09.2005 schrieb Philipp Steinkrueger: > Hi Kern, > > > >Perhaps it didn't drop the database but it did drop each table -- > >otherwise, how can the example from the Catalog Maintenance chapter of the > >manual work? > > > >mysqldump -f --opt bacula > bacula.sql > >mysql bacula < b

Re: [Bacula-users] Alternative mailer with bacula

2005-09-07 Thread Dan Langille
On 7 Sep 2005 at 8:07, Phil Stracchino wrote: > Jesus Salvo Jr. wrote: > > Is anyone using another mailer with bacula apart from bsmtp ?? > > Is it simply a matter of replacing bsmtp with mailx in Messages directive ?? > > You need to replace the bsmtp command lines with something appropriate > t

[Bacula-users] Very slow despooling to tape

2005-09-07 Thread Andreas Koch
I am just running my first ``real'' backup job. It consists of backing up roughly 300GB of data via a 75GB spool partition to a DLT VS80 drive. While the process generally works as expected, I am somewhat disappointed by the performance: According to the `status all' statistics, Bacula 1.36.3 ac

[Bacula-users] backup policies ?

2005-09-07 Thread Alan Brown
For some reason Bacula is backing up 27Gb/night on one disk when only a few hundred Mb/night is actually changing. The _only_ thing that I can see which might be affecting things is a ctime/mtime update on the parent directory, but only 100-200 files (out of several thousand) are actually ch

[Bacula-users] SOLVED: Very slow despooling to tape

2005-09-07 Thread Andreas Koch
... now that I have actually switched on DMA for the IDE spool disk, the tape is streaming along nicely :-) Andreas Koch On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 03:29:27PM +0200, Andreas Koch wrote: > all' statistics, Bacula 1.36.3 achieves roughly 1.5MB/s, and is > shoe-shining the tape during despooling quite

[Bacula-users] Concurrent backups

2005-09-07 Thread Arunav Mandal
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. -- Arunav Mandal - amandal at trolltech.com ---

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula wouldn't overwrite an append... would it?

2005-09-07 Thread Marcus
--- Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know about your LEDs, but mine never lied > :-) but it might have > been a misunderstanding... > > Anyway, you can check the volume using the bls or > btape commands and see Thanks for all the tips. According to btape, it is the right label

RE: [Bacula-users] config help

2005-09-07 Thread Bill Szkotnicki
OK here is how I've configured bacula (relevant parts)and my first full job is running. I am hoping that: 1) volumes will be automatically reused/recycled after 31 days 2) pruning will happen automatically If anyone sees something wrong I would appreciate hearing about it. Thanks

[Bacula-users] backup-sd log question

2005-09-07 Thread Daniel Holtkamp
Hello ! 07-Sep 10:58 backup-sd: Committing spooled data to Volume. Despooling 2,277,939,503 bytes ... 07-Sep 11:01 backup-sd: Alert: mtx: cannot open SCSI device '*None*' - No such file or directory 07-Sep 11:01 backup-sd: Sending spooled attrs to the Director. Despooling 9,194,993 bytes ...

Re: [Bacula-users] Big problems with my Bacula.....

2005-09-07 Thread Arthur Emerson III
Philipp Steinkrueger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > if you dump the database and reload it into the server, > there are chances that the autoincrement values are renumberd. > i cant find a reference for that at mysql.com at the moment, > but i am pretty sure i've read something like this and the p

Re: [Bacula-users] Very slow despooling to tape

2005-09-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
Andreas Koch wrote: > I am just running my first ``real'' backup job. It consists of > backing up roughly 300GB of data via a 75GB spool partition to a DLT > VS80 drive. While the process generally works as expected, I am > somewhat disappointed by the performance: According to the `status > all

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] SOLVED: Very slow despooling to tape

2005-09-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
Andreas Koch wrote: > ... now that I have actually switched on DMA for the IDE spool disk, > the tape is streaming along nicely :-) Ah, yeah, that'd make a big difference too :) -- Phil Stracchino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Renaissance Man, Unix generalist, Perl hacker Mobile: 603-216-7037

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent backups

2005-09-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
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. You need job concurrency on the Storage daemon and the Director se

Re: [Bacula-users] config help

2005-09-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
Bill Szkotnicki wrote: > OK here is how I've configured bacula (relevant parts)and my first full job > is running. > I am hoping that: > 1) volumes will be automatically reused/recycled after 31 days > 2) pruning will happen automatically > If anyone sees something wrong I would appreciate hearing

Re: [Bacula-users] strange file permissions on restore

2005-09-07 Thread Aleksandar Milivojevic
Quoting Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, Daniel Holtkamp wrote: Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: Hmmm... Is there a way to tell Bacula to simply restore using numeric UIDs and GIDs for files, and set permissions to their original, ignoring whatever /etc/passwd and group files are cur

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent backups

2005-09-07 Thread Arunav Mandal
The storage demaon and the director is on seperate servers. The configration is given below. I did went through the docs. bacula-dir.conf Storage { Name = SDLT6K-1 Address = abc.com SDPort = 9103 Password = "xxx" Device = SDLT6K-1 Media Type = SDLT600 Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10 Autoch

[Bacula-users] Auto-Mounting problems

2005-09-07 Thread Jimmy Cartrette
Hi, I've just started using Bacula, and I'm having several issues. The pressing one right now is, I just went to a customer site, and used wx-console to show them how to do a restore. I set her to the operator email address, and she got an email to insert the "Wednesday-2" tape. We did that, but i

[Bacula-users] differential vs incremental

2005-09-07 Thread Bill Szkotnicki
 In the manual there are the following two definitions:   Differential A backup that includes all files changed since the last Full save started. Note, other backup programs may define this differently. Incremental A backup that includes all files changed since the last Full, Different

Re: [Bacula-users] differential vs incremental

2005-09-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
Bill Szkotnicki wrote: > In the manual there are the following two definitions: > > ** ** > > **Differential** > > A backup that includes all files changed since the last Full save > started. Note, other backup programs may define this differently. > > **Incremental** > > A backup that includ

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole restore - æøå problem

2005-09-07 Thread Per Jensen
Kern Sibbald wrote: On Tuesday 06 September 2005 14:15, Per Jensen wrote: List, Version used: bacula 1.34.6 The other day I had to restore a few directories. I fired up bconsole, and started the restore command. I was not able to get bconsole to recognize the 'æøå' characters and was there

Re: [Bacula-users] Big problems with my Bacula.....

2005-09-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 12:56, Philipp Steinkrueger wrote: > Hi Kern, > > >Perhaps it didn't drop the database but it did drop each table -- > > otherwise, how can the example from the Catalog Maintenance chapter of > > the manual work? > > > >mysqldump -f --opt bacula > bacula.sql > >mysql

[Bacula-users] backup strategy

2005-09-07 Thread Aditya Ivaturi
I have 10 systems to be backed up evenly divided into linux and windows boxes (5 & 5). I want to maintain two pools one for each type and have separate volume for each job. So Pool-A will have vol-001, vol-002 and so on for the 5 linux machines and similarly for the windows machine pool. Each pool

[Bacula-users] network performance

2005-09-07 Thread Maurizio Santini
Hi, It might be a silly question but does the directive "Maximum Network Buffer Size = " need to be set in any bacula-fd.conf (I mean all clients) or only in the machine where the tape drive reside? Thanks, Maurizio --- SF.Net email is Spons

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

2005-09-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
Aditya Ivaturi wrote: > and so on. In this case Lun11 and Lun12 are the two partitions defined > by individual storage configs. Thus this should create 5 volumes labled > LIN-0001 and so on for linux boxes on Lun11 and recycle them right? Well > the jobs ran fine the first day and created those vol

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

2005-09-07 Thread Aditya Ivaturi
> > What is the output of a "List Volumes" command? > > Little background - "Default" Pool was set up initially when I was just getting everything set up. Then I moved things around to have a more structure. Default is not in use any more but the catalog is still the same. The jobs for window

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole restore - æøå problem

2005-09-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 19:11, Per Jensen wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > >On Tuesday 06 September 2005 14:15, Per Jensen wrote: > >>List, > >> > >>Version used: bacula 1.34.6 > >> > >>The other day I had to restore a few directories. I fired up bconsole, > >>and started the restore command.

Re: [Bacula-users] backup policies ?

2005-09-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 15:39, Alan Brown wrote: > For some reason Bacula is backing up 27Gb/night on one disk when only a > few hundred Mb/night is actually changing. > > The _only_ thing that I can see which might be affecting things is a > ctime/mtime update on the parent directory, but o

[Bacula-users] btape says, Bad status from rewind.

2005-09-07 Thread John Lidström
I have just started with Bacula and would really like to get this to work. I have a Compaq SDT-1 DDS-4 on /dev/sg0 I run Bacula on Clarkconnect Home Edition v 3.1. I have tried to follow the instructions to verify the functions of Bacula but I run into problem very early... This is what happen

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

2005-09-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
Aditya Ivaturi wrote: > Pool: Default > +-+-+---+--+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+ > > | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | VolBytes | VolFiles | VolRetention > | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType

Re: [Bacula-users] RunBeforeJob not "always" working

2005-09-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Jonas Björklund wrote: Hello, I have a RunBeforeJob which executes a shell script (ssh tunnel). I have 4 jobs that are executed 13:05 wich the same script and most of thee times the first job fail with the following error: 07-Sep 13:05 X-dir: XXX-fd.2005-09-07_13.05.01 Fatal

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent backups

2005-09-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, 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. First: Multiple concurrent jobs work here, so I assume they c

Re: [Bacula-users] differential vs incremental

2005-09-07 Thread Mike Hemstock
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 16:54, Bill Szkotnicki wrote: > In the manual there are the following two definitions: > > > > Differential > > A backup that includes all files changed since the last Full save started. > Note, other backup programs may define this differently. > > Incremental > > A

Re: [Bacula-users] Auto-Mounting problems

2005-09-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Jimmy Cartrette wrote: Hi, I've just started using Bacula, and I'm having several issues. The pressing one right now is, I just went to a customer site, and used wx-console to show them how to do a restore. I set her to the operator email address, and she got an email to insert the "Wedn

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

2005-09-07 Thread Aditya Ivaturi
> > Well, right away it's apparent that there's no volumes in your Win-Pool > (therefore, no appendable volumes); all the volumes in your Lin-pool are > used (all on the same day), but not recycled -- presumably they have not > reached their retention date; and all the volumes in your Default po

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

2005-09-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Aditya Ivaturi wrote: I have 10 systems to be backed up evenly divided into linux and windows boxes (5 & 5). I want to maintain two pools one for each type and have separate volume for each job. So Pool-A will have vol-001, vol-002 and so on for the 5 linux machines and similarly for

Re: [Bacula-users] btape says, Bad status from rewind.

2005-09-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, John Lidström wrote: I have just started with Bacula and would really like to get this to work. I have a Compaq SDT-1 DDS-4 on /dev/sg0 make that /dev/nst0 and things should work better, I guess. I run Bacula on Clarkconnect Home Edition v 3.1. I have tried to follow the instruct

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

2005-09-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, theres no need to include "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the To-addresses. I admit that sometimes I forget to trim the addresses, but usually you will never have to deal with that address... Aditya Ivaturi wrote: ... So if I am understanding it correctly, my config was default i.e "0" which mean

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

2005-09-07 Thread Aditya Ivaturi
> > Pool { > >   Name = Lin-pool > >   Pool Type = Backup > >   Recycle = yes           # automatically recycle Volumes > >   AutoPrune = yes         # Prune expired volumes > >   Volume Retention = 6 months > >   Accept Any Volume = yes # write on any volume in the pool > >   Maximum Volume Jobs

[Bacula-users] btape

2005-09-07 Thread Maurizio Santini
Hi, Is there a way of running btape at the same time as bacula? I'm stuck in a backup (bacula is asking to label a new volume) where I need to erase an old tape and label it but I cannot because bacula locked the drive. I don't want to stop the backup and I wonder if there's a way of achieving t

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

2005-09-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
Aditya Ivaturi wrote: > "The Volume Use Duration directive defines the time period that the > Volume can be written beginning from the time of first data write to the > Volume. If the time-period specified is zero (the default), the Volume > can be written indefinitely. Otherwise, when the time per

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

2005-09-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Aditya Ivaturi wrote: ... I was actually thinking the same thing what you pointed out, but I followed the example that was given in "Using Pools to Manage Volume" http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Using_Pools_Manage_Volumes.html. If you see the example there, you'll notice that I did somew

Re: [Bacula-users] btape

2005-09-07 Thread Maurizio Santini
I found the way of doing it. I ran umount instead of unmount from bconsole. That unlocked the drive and allowed me to create a bacula volume. Maurizio On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 16:38, Maurizio Santini wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way of running btape at the same time as bacula? I'm stuck > in a

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

2005-09-07 Thread Aditya Ivaturi
> > Might be :-) > > The examples given seem to be right - you have to consider when jobs are > run to go to the pools in the example. > > There will, for example, be a Diff pool for differentials. These are run > once a week, and they expire after 40 days - and there is only one job > in h

Re: [Bacula-users] Auto-Mounting problems

2005-09-07 Thread Jimmy Cartrette
Arno, These customers are not the most technically feasible people, and I balk at them actually using a console program to do restores. They were previously using a graphical Arcserve program under Netware. I really don't want to make them open up another wx-console and type mount, but from what

Re: [Bacula-users] backup-sd log question

2005-09-07 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:18:45 +0200, Daniel Holtkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: Daniel> Hello ! Daniel> 07-Sep 10:58 backup-sd: Committing spooled data to Volume. Despooling Daniel> 2,277,939,503 bytes ... Daniel> 07-Sep 11:01 backup-sd: Alert: mtx: cannot open SCSI device '*N

Re: [Bacula-users] Auto-Mounting problems

2005-09-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Jimmy Cartrette wrote: Arno, These customers are not the most technically feasible people, and I balk at them actually using a console program to do restores. I won't argue here... They were previously using a graphical Arcserve program under Netware. I really don't want to make them

Re: [Bacula-users] backup-sd log question

2005-09-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Martin Simmons wrote: On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:18:45 +0200, Daniel Holtkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Daniel> Hello ! Daniel> 07-Sep 10:58 backup-sd: Committing spooled data to Volume. Despooling Daniel> 2,277,939,503 bytes ... Daniel> 07-Sep 11:01 backup-sd: Alert: mtx: cannot o

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent backups

2005-09-07 Thread Arunav Mandal
I am using bacula 1.36.3 both at director and storage deamon but different versions at file deamon. Last night I did status director and there were 78 jobs waiting for execution. But did I miss anything in the conf. file? One more thing I also have some problems with exclusion as I wanted all mp

Re: [Bacula-users] Delay between Pruning and Purging

2005-09-07 Thread Jesus Salvo Jr.
On Wednesday 07 September 2005 19:54, Russell Howe wrote: > Jesus Salvo Jr. wrote: > > Why is there a large delay between a Pruning and Purging of a volume ?? > > Take for example below. all of the jobs from volumes DailyPool-03 and > > DailyPool-04 were pruned at 10:18, but they were only marked a

[Bacula-users] file names in different languages

2005-09-07 Thread Sim Zacks
I have a number of files on my computer with Hebrew filenames and they didn't get backed up. The error messages looked like this: 08-Sep 07:45 BackupServer: TamiBackup.2005-09-08_07.45.01 Fatal error: sql_create.c:658 sql_create.c:658 query SELECT FilenameId FROM Filename WHERE Name='ùìåí.doc' fai

[Bacula-users] Problem with SLR tapes

2005-09-07 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
Hi all, I have a problem with bacula and some SLR tapes. My server has an "TANDBERG SLR100" SCSI tape drive, which is capable of storing 50GB or 100GB (compressed) onto SLR tapes. I have about 50GB+ data to save, so I want to use tape drive compression. First, I used an "old" tape to store tho