On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Gregory Brauer wrote:
To answer our own question, in case there's anybody interested,
we found that mounting the NetApp via NFS over TCP dramatically
increased performance from NFS over UDP, matching or even
slighlty exceeding the native bacula-fd client transfer speed.
Is this
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Richard Caley wrote:
Actually I have no idea why I did my script in /bin/sh, maybe I had
something off for lunch that day:-).
If you ever check perl vs sh, you'll find that perl is HUGE and takes a
long time to start, compared to sh. I only switch to perl when scripts get
com
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Jonas Björklund wrote:
Ahh! Am I the only one who thinks backup hardware is sexy? =)
Many years ago I used an old dead scsi tape drive as a coffee table.
It was the 'perfect' size, if a little heavy
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Joshua Kugler wrote:
Is he willing to sell? We could buy it and donate it to Kern for testing. :)
Kern already has something supposedly being shipped by Overland Data.
It seems to have gone walkabout since January...
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On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Alejandro Alfonso wrote:
my company uses a RAID5 disk... 400Gb. A full backup job takes about two
days and near 13 tapes (more than 3 million files). An incremental
backup only two hours.
This is _VERY_ slow. Consider using disk spooling to minimise tape seeking.
Even better:
D
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Wilson Guerrero C. wrote
I have a similar system with windows machines also.
I'm sending you via other email a binary of the file daemon for
Tru64 Unix 5.1B in production.
I would like to obtain a copy of that too.
Wilson, perhaps you can contribute this to the sourceforge arch
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Slartibartfast wrote:
Trying to label the tapes in the autochanger and I'm running into the
following errors:
3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded drive 0" command.
3991 Bad autochanger "loaded drive 0" command: ERR=Child exited with
code 1.
What UID is the mtx-changer script bein
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Romain GABEAU wrote:
P.S. : I am also searching binaries for bacula-fd on SCO OpenServer V.
this is still true !!
As I understand it, SCO is specifically NOT supported due to their attacks
on the open source movement
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Andreas Kopecki wrote:
Test-Server: Dual PIII 1GHz on a GRAU Tape Silo running Bacula Postgresql
1.36.2 spooling on a software Raid-0 2x80GB PATA Disks.
How much ram?
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On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Andreas Kopecki wrote:
Test-Server: Dual PIII 1GHz on a GRAU Tape Silo running Bacula Postgresql
1.36.2 spooling on a software Raid-0 2x80GB PATA Disks.
How much ram?
2Gig, I think that should be sufficient?
More than enough, but you'll ensure postgres is actually using it.
How
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Andreas Kopecki wrote:
More than enough, but you'll ensure postgres is actually using it.
How big is its memory footprint?
postgres 19292 /usr/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
postgres 10088 postgres: stats buffer process
postgres 9096 postgres: stats collector process
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Ante [iso-8859-2] Karamati^G wrote:
On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 08:12 +0200, Ante Karamatiÿÿ wrote:
What am I missing? I would like it to take oldest Volume or/and to mark
Volumes older than 6 days as Purged/Recycle.
Ah... Nobody? ;..(
look at the following parameters in bacula-dir.c
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Clark wrote:
I have bacula installed on a single machine. When it runs any backup the
file daemon, storage daemon and mysql monopolise the cpu and the machine
becomes practically unusable. This is very frustrating because backing
up 320GB to LTO2 is also taking 11 hours(8626
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Russell Howe wrote:
ARCserve had a special "prune database" job you could
schedule which would make sure the database was pruned at a set time.
You can do this with a scheduled job in bacula.
Just backup nothing and set a runbefore or runafter script
Or more simply just set
On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, Piet le Roux wrote:
A client need to backup user files from +/- 800 Windows workstations at least
once a week to a Linux server.
We estimated about 5Mb changed files per workstation per week.
This would be a good candidate for a "base" job, if that code was
completed and worki
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Russell Howe wrote:
Lars Köller wrote:
That's the weekness of the "old" BSD startup concept. At home I always
move the scripts to something like:
400.mysql.sh
600.bacula.sh
700.httpd.sh
800.imapd.sh
This is why most linux distros moved to SysV-style rc.[N] startup script
On Tue, 3 May 2005, Christopher Rasch-Olsen Raa wrote:
At the office we are going to have 20+ clients that are to be taken
backup of regularly. These clients recieve their ip's via DHCP.
HOw long are the leases?
Is there any reason why those leases can't be set for (say) 12 months?)
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On Wed, 4 May 2005, Leni Mayo wrote:
Incidentally, the reason I'd earlier seen good results by gzipping the volume
was because I'd built the static bacula fd in the absence of a static zlib!
Does lack of zlib matter in the face of a good tape drive with onboard
compression?
Can we PLEASE have the list switched to members-posting only?
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On Sat, 7 May 2005, John Hayden wrote:
Except, the same code on another RH9 system only spawns 1 instance
and on this system all 3 instances are listening on port 9102. It would seem
to me that multiple instances should be listening on different ports. I'm
fairly certain there should only be on
On Mon, 9 May 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
On Monday 09 May 2005 14:11, Alan Brown wrote:
Can we PLEASE have the list switched to members-posting only?
I don't see any SPAM because I use a Bayesian filter.
Perhaps the Bayesian filter should be in front of the submission ad
On Mon, 9 May 2005, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
I am new to Bacula so consider this an idea to look at, not a
definitive answer to do. If this were my problem, I'd look at the
retention of jobs. If the last full backup is purged before doing the
last incremental in the week, I would expect the incre
On Mon, 9 May 2005, Michel Meyers wrote:
Incremental is a little different: It backs up the files changed since
the last backup (be that Full or Incremental)
Or differential.
. As a result of that, to
do a full restore you will need the last Full backup and ALL
Incrementals that happened since then
On Mon, 9 May 2005, David Clymer wrote:
For another opinion:
I really can't remember any previous instances of spam on the list.
There have been about a dozen in the last 6 months.
... but the point is that i dont believe spam is a common
occurance on bacula-users.
Speaking with 15 years mail and u
On Tue, 10 May 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Prior to having a spam filter I'd found that pressing the delete key works
pretty well and amazingly fast.
The dangers of deleting legitimate mail unread should be obvious.
As are the dangers of having any filter which accepts then dumps mail, or
tags it fo
On Tue, 10 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've recently started receiving errors on about 90% of my backup jobs.
At first I thought it was a tape issue, but after replacing all the tape
media and restarting the daemons on both bacula clients and server I am
still getting the same errors. Here is
I just updated to 1.36.3 and left it running. It's immediately attempted
to start backing up the last few missed sessions and has wedged.
Did anyone come up with a solution to processes piling up and the backups
stalling or not?
AB
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I know that the spool directory is safe to clear out when Bacula isn't
running, but what about the working directory?
Perhaps temporrary directory cleanouts should be added to the
startup/shutdown scripts. :)
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On Tue, 17 May 2005, Henry Yen wrote:
Moreover, other closed lists that I'm on occasionally get spam from
listmembers whose machines are compromised (100.00% windows 'bots, so far).
Or mail forged to be from list members - the actual checking is fairly
dain bramaged in almost all lists and relies
On Tue, 17 May 2005, Ivan Petrovich wrote:
My subscription goes to address A where mail gets forwards to address
B or C or ... depending on where I am at the time. If I need to make a
posting, I would do it from, say, B, adding a reply-to line pointing
to address A. But that fails to work with many
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Arno Lehmann wrote:
This says to me that as long as the Pools of the Jobs being queued match,
the Jobs will all run concurrently. Jobs however that have mismatching
Pools will instead queue and wait for the storage device to free when
previous jobs complete.
That's about it,
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Well, the idea of obtaining a tape drive at the last minute is interesting,
and I'm going to think about it carefully, but my intuition tells me it is
dangerous. You could have 10 jobs partially completed all waiting for one
tape drive. This could bring yo
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Arno Lehmann wrote:
As far as I know, NTFS has similar timestamps - atime, mtime and ctime - as
normal unix file systems. I'm not sure, but I think I remember reading
somewhere that under Windows you can avoid changing them when you modify a
file.
There are more attributes t
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Arno Lehmann wrote:
There are more attributes than that and there are more access attributes
than just user/group/world too.
Well, sure, but those don't matter here :-)
I have actually used them.
More importantly, it appears that WinXP service pack 2 is starting to
implement t
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Alan,
do you have more information on that? Like, for example, what the ADS has to
be named and what it contains?
Not yet, I only discovered this last week and my Bacula brief doesn't
cover windows systems, so I haven't been able to justify spending time
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
This problem seems to be rather current on Win2000 systems, and other Windows
systems. Though I do not have any proof except that it only happens with
Windows systems, I attribute it to a bug or deliberate throttling in the
Microsoft networking code.
I woul
On Sat, 21 May 2005, Arno Lehmann wrote:
However for the last two Friday nights the bacula
director has been freezing after backing up the first
seven clients.
I did experience the same, couldn't find any reason, but after the upgrade to
1.36.2 that didn't happen again. So, I suggest you do a
On Sun, 22 May 2005, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Replace the cartridge. Clean the drive. Hold your thumbs :-)
mt retension sometimes helps, as does storing the tapes on their edge
instead of flat (it keeps the tape "pancake" even)
I did that 1 week ago. Why do I need to clean the drive that often?
On Thu, 26 May 2005, Russell Howe wrote:
Check the disk and CPU activity. Could your commands be triggering
automatic pruning of the database (which can take a while)?
When this is triggeered here, no untoward mysql activity is being seen and
the proecesses do not resume even after several da
On Thu, 26 May 2005, Richard White wrote:
I just downloaded bacula and am following the directions to install it
on a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (hereinafter "SLES") machine. I
elected to use SQLite, so I downloaded the depgks. My directories look
like this:
That had better be SLES9
SLES8
On Mon, 30 May 2005, Masopust Christian wrote:
maybe you'll have a look at bugs.bacula.org at bug 331. i had a similar
problem
where bacula-dir randomly hangs. after applying kerns patch it didn't happen
until
now, but before closing this bug i would prefere to wait at least one week
;-))
As
On Tue, 31 May 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
On version 1.37.20, providing you are using the new Autochanger resource in
the SD, your second job will automatically select another drive if one is
available, otherwise wait.
Management won't let me test "unstable" versions.
Within a week or so, I ho
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Like me, for instance. For some reason(*) a couple of my personal domains
feature quite frequently in spam forgeries.
, I prefer to try to inform real users that
their message has not been accepted -- sending back a rejection message
is what 99.9% of all
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
I don't see the difference, unless I am mistaken, in both cases the
message goes back to the same place.
The difference is that the reject/failure message is sent by the SMTP
_ORIGIN_ host, not the receiving one.
Oh that is interesting. I had never tho
Considering the price of a good tape drive and tapes (or even of a few
removable hard drives) a good UPS isn't particularly expensive.
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This has been happening since I updated to 1.36.3
10-Jun 00:27 msslas-dir: RunBefore: /usr/bin/mysqldump: option requires an
argument -- u
10-Jun 00:27 msslas-dir: Start Backup JobId 5119,
Job=BackupCatalog.2005-06-09_23.50.00
10-Jun 00:27 msslas-sd: Spooling data ...
10-Jun 00:27 msslas-fd:
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
You didn't mention how many files/job you have. If it is more than
about 500K then I can understand the problem.
Some of my backup sets (usually 1TB partitions) contain upwards of 4
million files(*) :-)
Some ideas:
- Split your jobs to keep t
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
The problem is that inode is a machine specific concept. Though it can be
simulated, it doesn't exist on Win32 or Mac (well perhaps on OS X). Though
this would work nicely as you say, I always like to do things in machine
independent ways.
It doesn't e
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Bacula should never prune and hence recycle the last valid Full,... backup it
has done.
For some strange reason, I never implemented code to check and no one
complained until recently. There is already an open bug report on this.
*wishlist: last comple
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
I'm now working on getting "update slots" working with multiple drive
autochangers. It currently works OK with a single drive changer by unloading
any loaded drive, then doing an mtx status. Now with a 30 drive autochanger,
it will be a bit of chaos to u
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Phil Stracchino wrote:
The immediately apparent problem with this is that in order to ever
perform a full restore, you will need to keep all of your incremental
backups forever. If you have to restore a machine after six months of
this, you'll have to restore over 180 jobs.
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
*wishlist: last complete Full backup by default, but user-defineable
number would be even better (to allow for 2 complete sets in safe, etc)
The problem I have with this is: suppose you backup a Client containing a
terabyte of data. You set your retent
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Paul Waldo wrote:
Hi Arno,
No the tape was not labeled--it was blank as can be.
I am seeing this behaviour with truely blank LTOs too.
Try writing 2 EOFs to the start of the tapes and try it again.
Nor was that volume
label in the catalog. I was under the impression f
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
I am seeing this behaviour with truely blank LTOs too.
Try writing 2 EOFs to the start of the tapes and try it again.
No, but bacula needs to detect the tapes are blank, rather than
empty/erased.
Huh. What is the difference?
There is something on
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Morten A. Middelthon wrote:
I'm having trouble getting bacula's automatic labelling working like I want
it to. I have created three types of pools, inc, diff and full:
Bear in mind that the maximum supported by most barcode readers is 8
characters, so it is a bad idea to
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
There is something on the tape which bacula doesn't like when it scans the
start of the tape. Writing an EOF solves the problem but it means tapes
need massaging and can't simply be unwrapped, labelled and stuck in
magazines.
Well, this is a function of
Has anyone got scripts to produce daily summaries of all jobs?
I've been asked to start having bacula mail all members of our group with
completion results, only to have them suddenly realise it's sending
upwards of 30 mails/day (one per job) and this is undesirable.
Personally I'd use a dig
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Taymour A. El Erian wrote:
This happens regularly with worn-out DAT media here.
Replace the tape.
This is a new LTO2 tape, used once every 3 weeks and for 5 months only,
now I just relabled it and it is working
Check the entire tape - run btape on it.
We have had the oc
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
I suspect that this is because the tape is in the drive and the "update slots
scan ..." did not unload it.
I have only ever seen that happen when things are well and truely messed
up on the changer.
If I am not mistaken, this will be corrected by
t
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Matthias Kurz wrote:
Now, it would be nice if it would be possible to spin down the disks after
usage.
RunAfterJob - some variant of hdparm will do it
(either put the drive in powersave mode or set an idle timer)
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On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
This brings up another small problem:
We're currently using 'update slots' to park all tapes prior to opening
the changer, in order to avoid people loading tapes into slots used by the
tapes in the drive(s) (I can work out how to avoid the appropriate sl
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Scott Syms wrote:
Is there any way to configure a backup so that it can be run manually
only? I've got limited backup gear and want to initiate the backup
backup myself.
Create a "never" schedule and use that for your backups.
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This is the manifestation which happens when a _truely_ blank tape is
loaded. (ie, virgin tape, just out of the wrapper.)
23-Jul 03:43 msslas-sd: 3304 Issuing autochanger "load slot 3, drive 0"
command.
23-Jul 03:43 msslas-sd: 3305 Autochanger "load slot 3, drive 0", status is
OK.
23-
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
What kind of output/debugging do you need to analyse and detect virgin
blank tapes?
I don't know of any way to detect blank media. If you know how, using
standard Unix system calls, please fill me in. In fact, there is
generally, no universal Unix me
After about 10 minutes, the tape was rewound and labelled.
Either you are not waiting long enough after issuing the mtx load
command, or you are not using one of the wait loops that are in the
mtx-changer script. As a consequence, the mtx-changer script returns to
Bacula *before* the tape is
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Alan Brown wrote:
The script default is 15 seconds.
More tests showed the problem.
A formatted (erased or written) LTO2 tape loads in 14 seconds.
An unformatted (new blank) LTO2 tape loads in 16
Clearly this is long enough if the tape has something on the start, but
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Roland Arendes wrote:
The 'status dir' output is a good guess anyway, if I remember correctly.
It only shows the guess for the next tape.
A lot of us need to know the next 5, 10, whatever tapes to insert in a
magazine.
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Jesse Keating wrote:
I needed this to be automated. On the first Sunday of every month, I
need to do a second round of full backups to tape which will be shipped
off site.
Right now you need a second backupset and pool pool defined with its own
schedule
-
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Phil Stracchino wrote:
Yes, but I think what he wants is hourly/N for some integer N.
It would be useful. It'd also be useful to do the same with days/N and
months/N, but I suspect too hard to implement.
It's actually fairly awkward having 8 Tb of full backups all kicki
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 21:49 +0100, Martin Simmons wrote:
Oh, I thought the blockage and mount command is per storage device,
not per
tape.
It does block the storage device. It prevents the storage device from
automounting the next usable tape. I hav
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Jesse Keating wrote:
SO really, all I need to do after marking the tape as full is issue a
update slots command. Easy sleasy. Of course if Kern ever changes how
this works I may be in trouble as this is not the expected use of update
slots (:
It pays to issue "mount" com
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Georg Lutz wrote:
I think for most sites it's a major issue to know in advance what tapes
bacula wants to use next in a particular pool.
AMEN!
I've been trying to build my pools out so there are always enough purged
tapes to just fill the magazines, but it's time consumin
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Ferdinando Pasqualetti wrote:
I think you should recreate an empty database (using the scripts in
/etc/bacula) and the bscan on all your backups tha should reconstruct your
jobs.
Once the database is reconstructed you should be able to restore the last
database backup
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
By the way, you all might be interested to know that Microsoft has filed a
patent application for what are essentially smilies :-) ;-) :-( ... The
patent is on converting them to graphics. If it passes, my program Kmail
would be in violation of their p
On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Georg Lutz wrote:
1. We life in a part of Germany where there are (fourtunately ? ;-)) a
lot of holidays.
We moved our main backup and tape change days to mid-week to deal with
this problem
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I'm not on the devel list.
In terms of "next tapes", what is bacula's order of preference for using
tapes?
Append, then recycle, then purged?
If so, then that part's easy (It's what I'm doing by hand anwyay)
If there aren't enough tapes, you're right, some form of "show pruning
candidates"
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Mick wrote:
I use an USB disk as backup target for Bacula. It works fine. But there
is one issue: I want to mount it immediatly before the backup and
unmount it afterwards. There is even a mount option for the config file
(sd.config I think), but this option is not allowed fo
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure) wrote:
Just a reminder that I am waiting patiently... ;0)
1: Are you running mtx and mtx-changer as the effective Bacula user
2: Does the changer device have suitable permissions for the effective
Bacula user?
That seems to be the mo
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Phil Stracchino wrote:
On the other hand, do you want to PHYSICALLY ERASE the tape and all data
on it to make sure it cannot be trivially recovered off the tape by
someone you don't wish to have it? Buy a bulk eraser, but be aware that
someone who's really determined and ha
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Philipp Steinkrueger wrote:
yes, that would be enough to meet my needs, but it would have a big
disadvantage
over my scheme, because duplicating media would take _hours_. we calculated,
that for our current data to be fully backuped, it would take more than 10
hours.
It
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Dan Langille wrote:
If you have any spare unused DLT labels, I could use them.
I'm looking for the labels that slide into the slot on a DLT tape.
Dan:
We gave up on these things a long time ago as too finicky, prone to
damage and usually don't give us the barcode titles
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Daniel Bloemer wrote:
Assuming you're using a linux system, why not allow hotplug and subfs to do
this for you automagically?
I am working on a similiar solution here. The problem is, that the
hotplug-agent doesnt mount the USB-Harddisc on a fixed mountpoint.
I tried to
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, viktorija wrote:
17-Aug 01:07 backup-dir: Start Backup JobId 1840, Job=wise.2005-08-16_22.00.21
17-Aug 01:07 backup-sd: wise.2005-08-16_22.00.21 Fatal error: Device /baculabk
is busy writing on another Volume.
17-Aug 01:07 wise-fd: wise.2005-08-16_22.00.21 Fatal error: job.
On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Daniel Bloemer wrote:
Hello,
Alan Brown wrote:
Each usb mass stoarge device has a unique serial number - this can be
mapped to a fixed mount point.
Not every usb-device has this. Some Chips just return vendor- and productID
. :-(
Anything which does this is
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Alex Polvi wrote:
Also, we are leaning toward using spinning disks instead of tapes. We
have systems at a few different co-locations and do not have the man
power to administer tape-driven backups across our entire infrastructure.
Are there any advantages of bacula and tapes
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Quintin Giesbrecht wrote:
Restores work fine too, and regardless of what software you run, should
be done by a sys admin, imho.
I agree - if only because having users able to run restores trivially off
tape keeps them in bad habits about restoring data.
We have a _manda
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Pal Dorogi wrote:
From my experience, and I'm sure someone's already said this... the best
was to get money, at least where I work, is to consider the money a support
contract. My superiors like running software without a support contract
even less than they like paying fo
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Timo Eissler wrote:
I don´t want to read 68 short emails every day. I think it is better to have
2 long emails in which all clients of these job are, but
this is not my main problem.
I'd like this as well, and I'm sure a lot of admins with lots of jobs have
the same issu
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
I agree with this, but who is going to provide the support.
Paying $500/year for development support would be easily justifiable, with
support charges ramping up for those who actually need handholding, via an
external contractor
I'm sure there are
Has anyone seen this?
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/summerofcode/
Perhaps this could be useful for bacula?
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On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Under 1.37, I have "unified" the naming convention of all Bacula temporary
files so that it will be easy to know which ones are used for what (the use
is always postfixed -- e.g. .spool, .mail, ...) and it will be easier to do
spool/working directory clea
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Would you either restate this, or explain what you mean, because on
the face, this is patently false.
You have just made a flat statement without any detail, and I am a bit tired
of this subject, so I am not going to respond until I see some reasonable
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Philipp Steinkrueger wrote:
thats right. if you want to use the software itself to make new software
and you want to make money by seeling it, GPL is indeed a nightmare.
No it's not.
You are free to charge as much as you want for selling GPL software and
support, however
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Even the cases above, what's happened is that the companies concerned have
been forced to release the sourcecode for modifications to GCC,
modifications to Linux and Linux device drivers, but thay have NOT been
forced to give up the proprietary software w
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Caesar Neron wrote:
I´m Running Bacula on a Debian with 2.4.27-2-386 Kernel, bacula reports
556.44 GB recorded on the tape and it is not Full. Is it right? should I
configure someting with mt parameters the tape drive?
This is highly possible depending what you backup.
My
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Martin Simmons wrote:
Alan> Proprietary code including lesser GPL (lGPL) libraries is not forced into
Alan> the GPL either.
Quite correct, but isn't there a common problem is that something is GPL but
you want to use a small part of it as a library?
If the libraries are
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Hendrik Weimer wrote:
Companies which are totally risk-averse may decide to compile static
images using proprietary libraries and compilers, at extra cost, but
they retain 100% of their copyright even if having to pay distribution
license royalties to Borland or Intel or who
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Gilberto Nunes Ferreira wrote:
Well...
In another way, how can I force Bacula to use different tape each week on a
month, consider a month with 5 weeks, and I have 10 tapes for this job?
1: Use the max duration time parameter
2: 2 generations of tape isn't enough, use 3
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Timo Eissler wrote:
I have DLT, the cleaning light comes on about once a year.
We have an AIT-2 drive. Once a year? this is great! our drive has such a
light too, but it is on almost every monday
when i change tapes.
The frequency of cleaning lights is _very_ much relat
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
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