[Bacula-users] Migration Pools and Volume recycling

2010-12-04 Thread Jan Lentfer
Pool on state "Error" leading to not using the full 5GB of these volumes? Volume recycling will happen after 14th volume is full, recycling 1st volume also if this 1st volume is not yet migrated to tape because "Migration High Bytes" has not yet been reached? I ho

Re: [Bacula-users] How would I 'nuke' my bacula instance - Start afresh so to speak.

2011-01-05 Thread Jan Lentfer
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:38:14 +, Mister IT Guru wrote: > I've run lots of test jobs, and I have a lot of backup data, that I > don't really need, around 2TB or so! (we have a few servers!) I would > like to know if it's possible to remove all of those jobs out of the > bacula database. Perso

Re: [Bacula-users] How would I 'nuke' my bacula instance - Start afresh so to speak.

2011-01-05 Thread Jan Lentfer
On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:15:10 +, Mister IT Guru wrote: > Thanks for the link, most useful! But I'm going to assume that all disk > based volumes already have an EOF? I can understand having to mark > tapes, so can I assume that the disk based volumes that are already in > existence will jus

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental jobs upgraded to full backups

2011-02-03 Thread Jan Lentfer
On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 08:48:51 -0500, Win Htin wrote: > Hi folks, > > Looking at last evening's backup reports, I noticed 3 incremental jobs > ran as full backups. > Since those 3 jobs are not newly created client jobs I am a bit > perplexed with the sudden change. Maybe your full backups where pru

[Bacula-users] client address in RunAfter Script

2011-02-06 Thread Jan Lentfer
Hi, I am in the need to know the client address / hostname (as configured in the Client definition) in a "Run After Job" script. According to the manual there are only these place holders: %c = Client's name %d = Director's name %e = Job Exit Status %i = JobId %j = Unique J

Re: [Bacula-users] client address in RunAfter Script

2011-02-06 Thread Jan Lentfer
Am 06.02.2011 12:22, schrieb Randy Katz: > On 2/6/2011 2:03 AM, Jan Lentfer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am in the need to know the client address / hostname (as configured >> in the Client definition) in a "Run After Job" script. According to the >>

Re: [Bacula-users] client address in RunAfter Script

2011-02-06 Thread Jan Lentfer
Am 06.02.2011 12:51, schrieb Randy Katz: > Almost the same question was asked in a previous post, I believe > yesterday titled: Re: [Bacula-users] character substitution / client ip > So you are not alone! Be well, Uh, missed that one :( Shame on me. Thanks for the hint. Jan -- professional: h

Re: [Bacula-users] Job copy/migration: do it in bulk

2011-02-07 Thread Jan Lentfer
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:02:13 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > I recently changed how I do job copy. I used to do them all at once. > and frequently. Now I've moved to doing them in batches, once a day. > All my incr, all my diff, and all the fulls. > >http://www.freebsddiary.org/bacula-disk-t

[Bacula-users] Retrieving Client Adress from bacula-dir.conf

2011-02-09 Thread Jan Lentfer
Hi, we had the discussion here latley on how to retrieve the client's adress from bacula-dir.conf for RunAfter/Before scripts. I got some awk here that works for me that I'd like to share: BEGIN {RS="}\n"; FS = "\n";} /Client[[:space:]]+{/ { found = 0; for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++) {

Re: [Bacula-users] how to backup only the latest file of a daily sql backup

2011-02-12 Thread Jan Lentfer
Hi Jürgen, Am 12.02.2011 08:29, schrieb J. Echter: > can anybody tell me how to handle this? > > what i have: > > - a daily backup of a sql db > - the backup files are kept 14 days on the server itself > - i want to backup only the newest file to tape > > files are called, for example: > > sql_bac

Re: [Bacula-users] how to backup only the latest file of a daily sql backup

2011-02-12 Thread Jan Lentfer
Am 12.02.2011 09:11, schrieb J. Echter: > Am 12.02.2011 08:57, schrieb Jan Lentfer: >> machine is a windows 7 x64. >> I don't exactly get what you mean. If you dump daily to the same >> directory and run incremental over that directory, only the dump of >> th

Re: [Bacula-users] Extremely long restore times.

2011-02-24 Thread Jan Lentfer
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 12:08:43 +0100, "Erik P. Olsen" wrote: > Since I moved to version 5.0.3 I have experienced extemely long restore > times. > The time is mostly spend in the building of directory trees. The time used > to be > measured in minutes, now it is hours. > > My system is Fedora 14,

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy/Move Jobs to another volume?

2011-03-03 Thread Jan Lentfer
Am 03.03.2011 17:43, schrieb Dan Schaefer: I had Bacula misconfigured and now I have multiple jobs (Full Backups) written to a single File Volume. Can someone advise on how I can move a certain job into another volume so that I can purge and delete the oversized volume? I hope this is possible.

Re: [Bacula-users] Roadwarriors break volumes

2011-03-22 Thread Jan Lentfer
Am 18.03.2011 17:22, schrieb Phil Stracchino: > On 03/18/11 11:43, Jacek Bilski wrote: >> Is there any way to prevent this? Or at least to mark this volume as >> recycle? How do you deal with such situations? > The best strategy for mobile users, really, is to rsync to a local disk > pool and then

[Bacula-users] Virtual Full - Set NextPool for the virtual job only

2012-02-05 Thread Jan Lentfer
Currently I have a setup where I use 3 file pools for Incr, Diff and Full. I use copy jobs to copy the incr jobs to one tape drive (DLT) and the full and diff jobs to another tape drive (LTO-1). Now I thought about doing Virtual Full Backups from the file pools to a 3rd drive every 2nd month or

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Full - Set NextPool for the virtual job only

2012-02-05 Thread Jan Lentfer
Am 05.02.2012 11:26, schrieb Jan Lentfer: > Currently I have a setup where I use 3 file pools for Incr, Diff and > Full. I use copy jobs to copy the incr jobs to one tape drive (DLT) and > the full and diff jobs to another tape drive (LTO-1). > > Now I thought about doing Virtual Fu

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Full - Set NextPool for the virtual job only

2012-02-09 Thread Jan Lentfer
Am 06.02.2012 12:51, schrieb Martin Simmons: > > Not quite what you are asking, but you could set the NextPool as necessary for > the Virtual Fulls and then use this hack for the Copy jobs: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.devel/14084 Thanks for the input everyone. I f