Re: [Bacula-users] Want to run dbcheck but can't because of database size

2007-02-07 Thread James Cort
hose two versions. I'll give it a go. Many thanks, James Cort -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pr

Re: [Bacula-users] Want to run dbcheck but can't because of database size

2007-02-12 Thread James Cort
Juan Luis Frances wrote: > Now the correct patch, sorry ;-) > > El Wednesday 07 February 2007 12:29:40 Juan Luis Frances escribió: > >> What version of bacula? >> >> I had the same problems with 1.38.5. I attach my "dirty" patch. >> Many thanks for your patch. I compiled it, and it's bee

[Bacula-users] Can't get migrating jobs across storage daemons to work

2007-03-23 Thread James Cort
Hi, I have two tape drives. One is a DLT-V4, the other is Dell Powervault 124T with an LTO-3 drive. I want to migrate everything from the DLT-V4 to the Dell. Ultimately, I want to control two SDs (for reasons which aren't particularly relevant to this discussion) from bacula, so I'm trying t

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't get migrating jobs across storage daemons to work

2007-03-23 Thread James Cort
Kern Sibbald wrote: Migrating across Storage daemons is not implemented. Thought as much. For the record, in case anyone else brings it up (and to make sure there's a suggestion in the list archives) I'm working around it as follows: * Setting up another pool which is disk-based going to

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't get migrating jobs across storage daemons to work

2007-03-23 Thread James Cort
Kern Sibbald wrote: > If Bacula is writing to Volumes mounted on an NFS filesystem, you will > probably take an *enormous* performance hit compared to a local disk. > > Thanks for letting me know, but considering it's coming off a DLT-v4 drive (max. speed: 10MB/sec, typical speed about half th

[Bacula-users] Bacula recycling volumes before their time

2007-04-02 Thread James Cort
Hi, I'm using bacula 2.0.3 and I'm having a problem with Bacula recycling volumes before I want it to. This problem has been ongoing since version 1.38.something so it's either a very longstanding bug or my configuration is broken. What equipment I have to make sure this all works: A Dell Po

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula recycling volumes before their time

2007-04-03 Thread James Cort
Ryan Novosielski wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Cort wrote: I don't want to purge any records for tapes which aren't due for recycling. As long as the tape itself hasn't been recycled, I want to be able to restore any file from it without res

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula recycling volumes before their time

2007-04-03 Thread James Cort
Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, On 4/3/2007 11:31 AM, James Cort wrote: Ryan Novosielski wrote: If I'm not mistaken, if you prune the job, it will take the files with it (as there will be nothing to restore from). I think you may be. I think Ryan is right :-) You can fi

[Bacula-users] Can I limit how deep into the directory tree file records are kept?

2006-12-14 Thread James Cort
sk space on the mailserver, which I don't have. And with a 46GB mail store, I'd like to avoid adding extra processing. I can't find mention of such a feature in the docs, does it exist? James Cort - Take Surveys. E

Re: [Bacula-users] tape marked full, but has 340GB free

2006-12-15 Thread James Cort
Nick Jones wrote: > Does anyone know why or how my tape7 could have been marked full even > though it is the same capacity as the other tapes and is not full > according to bacula. Now it is appending to tape4. Also, it is hard > to read but it says 0 for 'in changer' for tapes 1,2, and 4 whic

Re: [Bacula-users] Volume use duration

2007-01-08 Thread James Cort
Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Amiche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> Whan bacula start the backup of the night on a tape volume, I want the >> status of >> the volume pass immediatly as Used when the last job is terminated. >> So I defined "Volume Use Duration = 10h" but Bacula wait for the n

[Bacula-users] Want to run dbcheck but can't because of database size

2007-02-07 Thread James Cort
't use anywhere near that amount of swap before running out of memory, though - perhaps the per-process memory limit is the problem? Has anyone encountered (and more importantly solved) a similar problem in the past? James Cort -- U4EA Technologies htt

[Bacula-users] Automatic labelling w/o autochanger doesn't

2007-07-31 Thread James Cort
tch) - is it possible that there's an incompatibility between these versions or have I missed something? Many thanks, James Cort -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling w/o autochanger doesn't

2007-08-01 Thread James Cort
John Drescher wrote: >> Instead, however, I get this: >> >> - and it'll sit there indefinitely waiting for me to mount a volume >> which it's created in the catalog but not labelled. >> > Type mount from the console, the actual labeling will happen after the > drive mounts and it detects it ha

[Bacula-users] Recycling on an annual basis not working

2006-05-30 Thread James Cort
Hi, I have 3 pools in my Bacula configuration: DailyTape : Recycled once a month MonthlyTape : Recycled once a year AnnualTape : Recycled once every 20 years. However, Bacula has decided that it wants to recycle last month's monthly tape. Could anyone suggest why this might be? The various sta

[Bacula-users] Re-read of last block failed : Is my understanding correct?

2006-06-02 Thread James Cort
Hi, I've had the same problem with a few tapes now: 31-May 03:35 gemini-sd: Committing spooled data to Volume. Despooling 36,455,289,794 bytes ... 31-May 03:35 gemini-sd: cygnus_new.2006-05-31_00.05.02 Error: block.c:552 Write error at 105:4237 on device /dev/nst0. ERR=Device or resource busy. 3

Re: [Bacula-users] ERR=Device or resource busy

2006-06-05 Thread James Cort
Kern Sibbald wrote: > I recommend the following things (obviously 2-4 are unnecessary if 1 fixes > the > problem): > > 1. This still looks most like a kernel driver problem to me. Backing up to > kernel-2.6.16-1.2111 would most likely clear up this point. > I've had a few kernel driver prob

Re: [Bacula-users] ERR=Device or resource busy

2006-06-06 Thread James Cort
Kern Sibbald wrote: > Unfortunately, Bacula is sufficiently demanding that it often brings out > driver problems that don't show up using most Unix tape utilities, which tend > to be rather "simple" minded. They either simply write() or read(). Bacula > uses quite a lot more features of the driv

[Bacula-users] Tapes ending before they're full

2006-06-22 Thread James Cort
A few weeks ago I posted to this list with a problem concerning my tapes encountering errors around the 100G mark which resulted in bacula ending them and moving onto another tape. As suggested, I swapped the SCSI card for an Adaptec unit, however the problem persists: 22-Jun 12:16 gemini-sd: Sen

[Bacula-users] Mixing 1.38.9 SD/director with 1.36 FD

2006-07-10 Thread James Cort
Hi, I know the release notes for 1.38 say "upgrade everything", but I thought I'd ask on the off-chance. Has anyone successfully used a 1.36 FD in conjunction with a 1.38.9 SD/director? My own limited testing suggests that it works OK, but I was wondering if anyone else has tried the same. Jam

Re: [Bacula-users] mucking with autochanger

2008-10-16 Thread James Cort
ll appear to Bacula. Go to the web interface and it's under the "Configuration" menu, second option from the bottom on mine. -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd. -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com --

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Fwd: 64bit for File.FileId

2008-11-07 Thread James Cort
- 174610251 (1 row) I've been using Bacula for almost three years so that's 3 years worth of fileids there. -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd. -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com - Thi

[Bacula-users] Ran out of fileid's in postgres-backed database

2008-11-07 Thread James Cort
I appear to have run out of fileids in my bacula database. I'm using bacula 2.2.8-8~bpo40+1 (the Debian Etch backported package) and my backups have failed with the error: Fatal error: Can't fill File table Query failed: INSERT INTO File (FileIndex, JobId, PathId, FilenameId, LStat, MD5)SELECT b

Re: [Bacula-users] Looking for a better setup

2008-11-12 Thread James Cort
icates that this should work but I'm a little nervous as it's far from a properly supported solution. James. -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd. -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com - This S

Re: [Bacula-users] Don't understant recycling and Scratch pool

2008-11-13 Thread James Cort
look for volumes which may be recycled but are part of another pool, nor will it move volumes back to scratch when they become eligible for recycling. Though that's an interesting idea. HTH, James. -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd. -- U4EA Technologies http://www

Re: [Bacula-users] Don't understant recycling and Scratch pool

2008-11-13 Thread James Cort
urrent Volume = yes Volume Retention = 27 days Volume Use Duration = 23 hours RecyclePool = Scratch } however, the manual states: "This directive is probably most useful when defined in the Scratch pool" - surely the scratch pool is one pool in which you wouldn't define thi

Re: [Bacula-users] Occasional read error when labelling tapes in autochanger (Bacula 2.4.3 on SLES 10.1)

2008-11-21 Thread James Cort
e is new, there won't be anything on there. I've seen the exact same thing across two tape drives (and indeed types of tape media) for the last couple of years - it can safely be ignored. -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd. -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com

Re: [Bacula-users] How to set up large database backup

2008-11-25 Thread James Cort
s process than Bacula. Does the SAN support snapshots? You could always take a snapshot, back it up and then remove the snapshot afterwards. There may need to be some scripting to make sure the database is in a consistent state before you do this, but it'd be a lot quicker than copying t

Re: [Bacula-users] Large maildir backup

2008-11-27 Thread James Cort
ils have been read or replied to and recently received/sent email won't be a perfect snapshot of how the mailserver looked at any given point in time. -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd. -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com ---

Re: [Bacula-users] Large maildir backup

2008-11-27 Thread James Cort
enabled. Is that where it inserts everything to a temporary table then copies the entire table into the "live" one? James. -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd. -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com

Re: [Bacula-users] FW: Re: Large maildir backup

2008-11-27 Thread James Cort
got all the necessary Information (bacula-director Version 1.38.11-8): >> > That version number is, by an amazing coincidence, the exact patchlevel assigned by Debian to their build in current Debian Stable. 2.4.3 is available in Debian Backports and seems pretty stable to me. -- Ja

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup of in one directory with 800.000 files

2008-11-27 Thread James Cort
0 files, that sounds very slow. How much data is involved, how is it stored and how fast is your database server? -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd. -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com - This SF.

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up a VMware Server on 64-bit Linux

2008-12-02 Thread James Cort
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Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-17 Thread James Cort
e on the bacula website but it's right at the bottom. Perhaps it could be moved higher up the page? -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd. -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com -- SF.Net email i

Re: [Bacula-users] How to handle long, time consuming backups

2008-12-30 Thread James Cort
, are much less painful. Part 2: Spool to storage (be it tape, disk etc). Because you're going over the LAN here, you get LAN performance. Restore: May be just as easy to pull the data from bacula, put it on a hard disk locally and courier it to the remote site. -- James Cort IT Man

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula binaries for mac?

2009-01-02 Thread James Cort
sons laptop (intel) which I would rather not do. ICBW but ISTR that xcode on powerpc can be persuaded to create universal binaries quite happily: http://developer.apple.com/macosx/adoptinguniversalbinaries.html > Is bat available on Mac? Any other GUI interface available for Mac? -- James

[Bacula-users] Have I got it wrong or should this be a feature request?

2009-02-04 Thread James Cort
because it probably won't affect me again anyway). James. -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd. -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com -- Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser w

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and databases ...

2009-02-05 Thread James Cort
. In theory at least (and I've asked on the Postgres IRC channel) that should be fine - though the database will have to do crash recovery when it restarts. James. -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd. -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com ---