[Bacula-users] multiple copies

2009-07-28 Thread Daniel De Marco
Hi, I'm trying to use bacula to keep two independent sets of backups for some particular machines. I have two storage daemons setup (one of them offsite) so I can't use Migration or Copy Jobs. My first try has been to setup a second set of jobs to do the backups to the offsite location. For exam

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple copies

2009-07-28 Thread Daniel De Marco
Julian & John, * Fahrer, Julian [07/28/2009 17:14]: >Two filesets should also work if i understood u right. * Mike Ruskai [07/28/2009 17:17] > I'm pretty sure Bacula considers the file set the backup unit of > relevance here. Use two identical but differently-named FileSet > definitions in

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple copies

2009-07-28 Thread Daniel De Marco
John, * John Drescher [07/28/2009 16:52]: > This is interesting to me. I did this a long while back (like 2 years > ago) and it worked. I still have the configs in my bacula. I'm using version 3.0.2, I assume you were using 2.something ? Daniel.

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple copies

2009-07-28 Thread Daniel De Marco
* Kevin Keane [07/28/2009 21:51]: > I didn't follow this thread, but there is a simple solution to this > problem. You can generate the actual content of the file set with a > script, and call the same script from within both file sets in the > bacula configuration file. Thanks, but in this ca

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple copies

2009-07-29 Thread Daniel De Marco
Kevin, * Kevin Keane [07/28/2009 22:49]: > the whole goal was. What I saw was that apparently you wanted to have > two separate file sets (with different names, obviously) that both > contain the exact same files - and needed a way to maintain it that way. > Basically, you would end up with tw

[Bacula-users] stuck job blocks all queue

2010-01-13 Thread Daniel De Marco
Hi, I have a weird configuration problem with bacula (3.0.2). I looked through the manual, the faq and the mailing list archives, but my searches couldn't come up with any relevant info. If one of the jobs in my queue gets stuck "waiting for an appendable volume" all the jobs after that one are b

Re: [Bacula-users] stuck job blocks all queue

2010-01-13 Thread Daniel De Marco
* Dan Langille [01/13/2010 20:03]: > I think you need to read up on 'concurrent jobs'. > "If you want to run concurrent jobs you should keep these points in mind: > * See Running Concurrent Jobs on how to setup concurrent jobs. > * Bacula concurrently runs jobs of only one priority at a

[Bacula-users] Max Wait Time

2010-01-25 Thread Daniel De Marco
Hi, I'm trying to use Max Wait Time to abort jobs that are stuck waiting for an appendable volume. From reading the mailing list and the manual my understanding is that this should work starting from version 3. In my case though the jobs are not cancelled, but they stay in the queue and block all

[Bacula-users] Odd behaviour with Verify Jobs

2010-03-05 Thread Daniel De Marco
Hi, I've been using InitCatalog and Verify jobs to monitor my production machines. This seems to work very well when there are modified files. However if a new files appears in one of the monitored directories then all the files from then on will be reported at the same time as missing and as new

[Bacula-users] Problem with RunScript

2010-03-05 Thread Daniel De Marco
Hi, I have the following RunScript directive in my jobdefs to notify nagios about the status of backups: RunScript { Command = "/usr/local/sbin/bacula2nagios.sh \"%n\" \"%e\" \"%e %l %v\"" RunsWhen = After RunsOnFailure = yes RunsOnClient = no RunsOnSuccess

Re: [Bacula-users] Odd behaviour with Verify Jobs

2010-03-05 Thread Daniel De Marco
quot;accurate backup" feature was implemented in > 3.0.0. > (i don't know if this causes the problem, but it is my favourite candidate > for that :) ) > > someone should file a bug report :) > > Thomas > > > > Daniel De Marco schrieb: > > Hi, > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Odd behaviour with Verify Jobs

2010-03-08 Thread Daniel De Marco
FYI: Kern added a patch that fixes the problem. It is attached to the bug report at http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1524 Daniel. * Daniel De Marco [03/05/2010 16:13]: > I just updated to 5.0.1 and I can confirm the problem is still present. > > I also filed the report a

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with RunScript

2010-03-23 Thread Daniel De Marco
Hi, I just tested the patch at: http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1526 and it works fine and solves the problem in my case. Thank you. Daniel. * Daniel De Marco [03/05/2010 12:54]: > Hi, > > I have the following RunScript directive in my jobdefs to notify nagios > about t

Re: [Bacula-users] recommendations for scheduling

2011-06-16 Thread Daniel De Marco
Ben, * Ben Walton [06/16/2011 11:27]: > Thanks for this info. It helps. I was just hoping that I wasn't > missing some setting that made the staggering dynamically > configurable. my plan was to use "Max Full Interval" to solve this problem, but I didn't test it yet. In principle if you set it

Re: [Bacula-users] recommendations for scheduling

2011-06-16 Thread Daniel De Marco
* Ben Walton [06/16/2011 14:03]: > This is interesting, but I'm not sure I understand how it would remain > staggered. > > Say my schedule is: > > Schedule { > Name = "MonthlyCycle" > Run = Full 1st sun at 23:05 > Run = Differential 2nd-5th sun at 23:05 > Run = Incremental mon-sat at 23: