Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BLOCK issue where already created volumes not being read

2009-02-12 Thread Kevin Keane
ation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourcefo

Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with recycling after moving from 2.0 to 2.4

2009-02-13 Thread Kevin Keane
3-fév 10:34 backuppa-sd JobId 50: Job sso.2009-02-12_22.30.01.30 canceled > while waiting for mount on Storage Device ""SAVE-SSO" (/save/sso)". > > > This happened several times on differents jobs, but not always (that's > why i am a little > confused...).

Re: [Bacula-users] LabelFormat question

2009-02-13 Thread Kevin Keane
l/Basic_Volume_Management.html#SECTION006131200 > ? > > Thank you very much for the help > > Regards > -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com

Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with recycling after moving from 2.0 to 2.4

2009-02-13 Thread Kevin Keane
Yann Cézard wrote: > Kevin Keane a écrit : >> If my math is right, the 12th is the 13th day of the retention >> period. Since the previous job finished at 22:43, and your new job >> started at 22:38, the rentention period hadn't elapsed yet, by about >> five

Re: [Bacula-users] LabelFormat question

2009-02-14 Thread Kevin Keane
example I may just use this: > > LabelFormat = "server1-" > > or how did you solve this problem on your side ? I guess you are then also > using files instead of tapes... > > Regards > > > > --- On Fri, 2/13/09, Kevin Keane wrote: > > >> Fr

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Delete volume on purge

2009-02-16 Thread Kevin Keane
ve that this approach is a little outdated, and some help >> should be pointed towards the users who use Servers for the purpose of >> backing up. >> >> Thank you. >> -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never

Re: [Bacula-users] Offsite backup solution

2009-02-16 Thread Kevin Keane
at maybe rsync would be another option to accomplish basically the same goal? Or am I way off base here? -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e-mail and attachments

Re: [Bacula-users] client-side data encryption without routine access to private key

2009-02-17 Thread Kevin Keane
ual backup and keep the data secure in transit. The main advantage such a solution would have is that SSH is a well-proven and well-understood configuration, so it is less likely that you accidentally open security holes. -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solu

[Bacula-users] How to run on Windows

2009-02-21 Thread Kevin Keane
o run bacula on the server with just the user interface running on Windows. Hopefully, it will help somebody! -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e-mail and attachment

Re: [Bacula-users] How to run on Windows

2009-02-22 Thread Kevin Keane
Bruno Friedmann wrote: > Kevin Keane wrote: > >> For those of us using Windows to administer bacula, I found an easy way >> to run bat. Read up about it in the Wiki page at >> http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=hints_tips:bat_over_ssh_-_another_approach >> >

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula director not starting ...help

2009-02-23 Thread Kevin Keane
acula: %t %e of %c %l\" %r" > > operatorcommand = "\"C:\\Program Files\\Bacula\\bin\\bsmtp\" -h > mailhost.edt.com -f \"\(Bacula\) %r\" -s \"Bacula: Intervention needed > for %j\" %r" > > mail = jlo...@edt.com = all, !skipped

[Bacula-users] Volume labeling SQL error: sql_create.c "Volume already exists"

2009-02-23 Thread Kevin Keane
ncremental Storage=Disk2-scalix on 31 at 19:05 } Storage { Name = Disk2-scalix Address = bacula.int.nctechcenter.com SDPort = 9103 Password = "" Device = USBDisk2 Media Type = File Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1 } Storage { Name = Disk3-scalix Address = bacula.int.nctec

[Bacula-users] How to force a full backup?

2009-03-03 Thread Kevin Keane
:05 } -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e-mail and attachments, if any, may contain confidential and/or proprietary information. Please be advised that the

[Bacula-users] How to force a full backup?

2009-03-03 Thread Kevin Keane
:05 } -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e-mail and attachments, if any, may contain confidential and/or proprietary information. Please be advised that the

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Bacula went fubar after some weeks

2009-03-03 Thread Kevin Keane
e above). >> After some manual pruning and updating volumes suddenly Bacula wanted >> volume/tape Tuesday. At this time it was way beyond 00.00 so it actually >> was Tuesday but the jobs were executed to use volume/tape Monday. >> For some reason (it ran towards 03.00 am) I wanted some s

Re: [Bacula-users] How to force a full backup?

2009-03-05 Thread Kevin Keane
pache >Run = Level=Full Storage=Disk3-apache on 1,16 at 19:05 >Run = Level=Differential Storage=Disk3-apache on 8,23 at 19:05 >Run = Level=Incremental Storage=Disk3-apache on 2-7,9-15,17-22,24-31 at > 19:05 > } > > > On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 01:15:18AM -0800, Kev

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestions for selecting Bacula version

2009-03-12 Thread Kevin Keane
e repository for LTS (Ubuntu 8.04) release. This will be fine? > Thanks and cheers in advance > -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e-mail and attachments, if any

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestions for selecting Bacula version

2009-03-12 Thread Kevin Keane
acula is definitely one to > compile here where I work. Since you're running a Linux variant and > bacula's active development takes place on Linux you won't likely hit a > compiling problem that's not easy to solve. > > In my case I just put my compile options in a scr

Re: [Bacula-users] how to format volume names?

2009-03-13 Thread Kevin Keane
I see your question already got answered. Just remember to also turn off recycling. Bacula does not understand what the label means to a human, and will recycle it for any job. The end result is that the job in a volume will have no relationship to the label. Charlie wrote: > Is there a place w

Re: [Bacula-users] format of feature requests

2009-03-14 Thread Kevin Keane
o prevent spam, and the problem is mostly solved (misformatting could still happen while the feature request is being discussed, of course, but at least the initial request would come out perfectly every time). -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Networ

[Bacula-users] Resuming an interrupted backup job?

2009-03-16 Thread Kevin Keane
ad of waiting until the next scheduled time. -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e-mail and attachments, if any, may contain confidential and/or proprietary inform

[Bacula-users] Manually running a scheduled job?

2009-03-16 Thread Kevin Keane
e the pool correspondingly. -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e-mail and attachments, if any, may contain confidential and/or proprietary information. Please be advise

Re: [Bacula-users] What is the best to do ? I need some space.

2009-03-16 Thread Kevin Keane
ring_Director.html#ClientResource2 > > So... how do you actually delete (from disk) the actual old data in > the backup ? > > 2009/2/11 Kevin Keane <mailto:subscript...@kkeane.com>> > > First of all, depending on your situation, I find that a full backup &

Re: [Bacula-users] Encryption backup using GPG

2009-03-16 Thread Kevin Keane
gt; > Has anyone tried GPG encrypted backup on tapes? > If yes, can you please point me to some documentation. > > GPG encryption works fine on my server, just want to embed it in bacula, > and encrypt the files for offisite storage, > > Kind regards, > Prashant > -- Ke

Re: [Bacula-users] Attribute create error: "Pool record not found in Catalog."

2009-03-16 Thread Kevin Keane
your configuration file. Then restart bacula-dir. Next, let's take a step back and analyze the problem. Let's see what bacula-dir thinks its pools are. Open bconsole, and type the command list pools Do you see that pool listed? -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon:

Re: [Bacula-users] externalize backups

2009-03-16 Thread Kevin Keane
sending each time the growing file to the other > datacenter ? > I also want to keep a copy in each datacenter. > I was thinking of a diff between the last backup and the new but on a file > of 300Gb it will take a moment > > Thanks for helping me. > -- Kevin Keane O

Re: [Bacula-users] Attribute create error: "Pool record not found in Catalog."

2009-03-16 Thread Kevin Keane
Andreas Schuldei wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Kevin Keane wrote: > >> Andreas Schuldei wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:04 PM, John Drescher wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Andreas S

Re: [Bacula-users] Resuming an interrupted backup job?

2009-03-16 Thread Kevin Keane
Thomas Mueller wrote: > On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:47:18 -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: > >> I'm wondering if there is a way to resume (rather than restart from the >> beginning) a backup job that has aborted with an error? >> >> My situation is that I am backi

Re: [Bacula-users] externalize backups

2009-03-16 Thread Kevin Keane
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Re: [Bacula-users] Backups not starting (network prob?)

2009-03-16 Thread Kevin Keane
daffy > > This is the problem. Fix this with the external ip address instead of > 127.0.0.1. The reason for this is that the bacula-sd will only listen > on the 127.0.0.1 ip address on daffy so that the only computer that > can backup data will be daffy since that is the

[Bacula-users] Network connection failure

2009-03-16 Thread Kevin Keane
on-fatal FD errors:0 SD Errors: 0 FD termination status: Error SD termination status: Error Termination:*** Backup Error *** -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://

Re: [Bacula-users] Manually running a scheduled job?

2009-03-16 Thread Kevin Keane
terryc wrote: > Kevin Keane wrote: > >> Is there a way in bconsole to run a job from a schedule? >> > > enter "run" and chose fom the list of jobs defined in bacula-dir.conf > >> Of course I could use the run command, and then modify all the

Re: [Bacula-users] Manually running a scheduled job?

2009-03-16 Thread Kevin Keane
terryc wrote: > Kevin Keane wrote: > >> Is there a way in bconsole to run a job from a schedule? >> > > enter "run" and chose fom the list of jobs defined in bacula-dir.conf > >> Of course I could use the run command, and then modify all the

Re: [Bacula-users] HOWTO set pass word for windows clinet to use?

2009-03-16 Thread Kevin Keane
bs which isn't the problem (only run one at a time. > > cluebies. > > T.I.A. > > -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e-mail and attachments, if any, may

Re: [Bacula-users] HOWTO set pass word for windows clinet to use?

2009-03-16 Thread Kevin Keane
bs which isn't the problem (only run one at a time. > > cluebies. > > T.I.A. > > -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e-mail and attachments, if any, may

Re: [Bacula-users] use an FTP to making backup ?

2009-03-18 Thread Kevin Keane
using , bacula , with an big autoloader , and is work fine .I > LOVE IT ! > > but , i m needing an strange function ;making backup on an ftp > account . > > Maybe i dont seeing this in ten man , but > > Does anyone can help ? > > Regards and thanks >

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-19 Thread Kevin Keane
I'd like to ask you all first to see if there's a better way, or maybe > I've just missed something simple. > > Thanks, > > -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http:/

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-19 Thread Kevin Keane
Jason Dixon wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 03:41:10PM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: > >> If you are using a single tape drive, you will have an issue. >> >> One thing you could theoretically do is configure the storage daemon, >> storage resource, job, and pool al

Re: [Bacula-users] Better way to garbage collect postgresql database

2009-03-19 Thread Kevin Keane
ust has been too long. > My database is about 9GB. > > If I backup database using pgdump and then restore it, will it do the same > thing as vacuumdb and reindexdb commands? > Pretty close, but keep in mind that you would have considerable database downtime. You can do this, too

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-20 Thread Kevin Keane
Jason Dixon wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 06:08:23PM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: > >> Jason Dixon wrote: >> >>> I've tried that. But since the scheduled OS backup jobs are already >>> running, the client-initiated transaction log jobs are forc

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-20 Thread Kevin Keane
Jason Dixon wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 03:51:58AM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: > >> Jason Dixon wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 06:08:23PM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Jason Dixon wrote: >>>>

Re: [Bacula-users] Better way to garbage collect postgresql database

2009-03-20 Thread Kevin Keane
Hemant Shah wrote: > > --- On Thu, 3/19/09, Kevin Keane wrote: > > >> From: Kevin Keane >> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Better way to garbage collect postgresql database >> To: >> Cc: "baculausers" >> Date: Thursday, March 19, 2

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-20 Thread Kevin Keane
Jason Dixon wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 06:56:38AM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: > >> Jason Dixon wrote: >> >>> They don't. Previously, the OS backups and the log backups each had >>> their own pool on the same storage device (tape drive). Rec

Re: [Bacula-users] Better way to garbage collect postgresql database

2009-03-20 Thread Kevin Keane
efficient it is in space usage. I was afraid that the data would be > fragmented if it re-uses the free space. > The opposite is true, actually. When there is no free space left in the database, postgres has no choice but to append new data at the end, regardless of where the remaini

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-21 Thread Kevin Keane
of 10. I think the phrase "waiting for running jobs to > finish" would be more appropriate. > What's the priority of jobs 11240 and 11241? My guess is that 11242 is actually waiting for those two, rather than for 11239. They, in turn, are waiting for 11239 due to a Max C

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Priorities and Maximum Concurrent Jobs

2009-03-21 Thread Kevin Keane
avior you describe (any other job postpones the lower-priority one, regardless of storage or pool) is exactly the desired behavior. -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e

Re: [Bacula-users] May I backup Mysql databases and tables in Bacula?

2009-03-21 Thread Kevin Keane
ks up the dump. It is actually described in the bacula manual at http://bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Catalog_Maintenance.html#SECTION002412 openbsd shen wrote: > I want backup my Mysql databases and tables, may I do it in Bacula? > -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find t

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bat help files

2009-03-23 Thread Kevin Keane
ocumentation files such as readme. I'm thinking that the installation directory would probably be the best place. Either that, or create a directory /usr/share/bacula (not under the doc directory). Maybe even /usr/lib/bacula although I think that's a stretch. Obviously, all that shoul

Re: [Bacula-users] Debian Packages: Bacula Beta 2.5.42-b2

2009-03-24 Thread Kevin Keane
it into the repository dir. > > ... now the hardy/intrepid repo is populated with packages... > seems i had > my brain lost somewhere as i created the repo for > hardy/intrepid... sorry. > > "apt-cache policy " will tell you from which repo >

Re: [Bacula-users] How to display specific jobids in bconsole

2009-03-25 Thread Kevin Keane
c jobids of one client at a time > rather than evey single one. > > Thanks > -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e-mail and attachments, if any, may

Re: [Bacula-users] Doubt on recycling of volumes

2009-03-25 Thread Kevin Keane
- > > ___ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find

Re: [Bacula-users] Doubt on recycling of volumes

2009-03-25 Thread Kevin Keane
ecycled' in each volume must be zero? > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > Daniel > > > > -- > > > > ___ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users &g

Re: [Bacula-users] Doubt on recycling of volumes

2009-03-25 Thread Kevin Keane
ecycled' in each volume must be zero? > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > Daniel > > > > -- > > > > ___ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users &g

Re: [Bacula-users] Monitoring bacula with Nagios

2009-03-26 Thread Kevin Keane
ich makes it a little tricky to write my own. > > Any other suggestions for achiving it? > > Mike. > -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e-mail and attach

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: bacula client on windows vista

2009-03-28 Thread Kevin Keane
n icon in the running tray but the service seems > to be running so I wonder how to get status? > > > > Short story, there is no icon in the tray because vista does not allow > it. Basically system services are not allowed to interact with the > gui. At one point (more than

Re: [Bacula-users] Doubt on recycling of volumes

2009-03-28 Thread Kevin Keane
canned volumes/jobs/files would be recognized as old again, and be pruned right back out of the database. -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e-mail and attachments, if an

Re: [Bacula-users] And You Thought YOU Have Maildir Problems With Indexing

2009-03-28 Thread Kevin Keane
sfer completed. > > CAN SOMEONE HELP ME? > > I suspect the PG tweaks are not right and I am dealing with a large > number of files are my main problems. It could also have something to > do with the two previous indexing which I stopped. > > Yudhvir > -- Kevin Keane O

Re: [Bacula-users] Doubt on recycling of volumes

2009-03-28 Thread Kevin Keane
gt; > Running que update command selecting 'Pool from resource' after to have > configured the parameters 'AutoPrune = no' and 'Recycle = no' in the > resource Pool I suppose that must give the same effect that to perform a > 'reload' of the

Re: [Bacula-users] binding of outgoing connection to specific address

2009-03-31 Thread Kevin Keane
difference between FDSourceAddress and FDAddress? >> > FDAddress is the destination address when the dir connects to the FD Inquiring minds want to know: why would you want to control the source address? Doesn't the routing table automatically select the correct one based on the de

Re: [Bacula-users] binding of outgoing connection to specific address

2009-03-31 Thread Kevin Keane
Steve Polyack wrote: > Kevin Keane wrote: >> Inquiring minds want to know: why would you want to control the >> source address? Doesn't the routing table automatically select the >> correct one based on the destination address you want to reach? >> >&g

Re: [Bacula-users] phantom filesystems in Windows

2009-04-02 Thread Kevin Keane
t; Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.

Re: [Bacula-users] invalid catalog request again

2009-04-03 Thread Kevin Keane
OK > SD termination status: Error > Termination:*** Backup Error *** > > > __ > Scanned by Google Message Security - Leaving Seaman Paper > > --

Re: [Bacula-users] invalid catalog request again

2009-04-03 Thread Kevin Keane
OK > SD termination status: Error > Termination:*** Backup Error *** > > > __ > Scanned by Google Message Security - Leaving Seaman Paper > > --

Re: [Bacula-users] phantom filesystems in Windows

2009-04-03 Thread Kevin Keane
Foo wrote: > On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:57:32 +0200, John Drescher > wrote: > > >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Kevin Keane >> wrote: >> >>> This actually is correct behavior. If you look carefully, you will see >>> that these two dire

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic volume numbering

2009-04-04 Thread Kevin Keane
t; Client1Full0001 > Client1Incremental0001 > Client2Full0001 > Client2Full0002 > > Known bug? > -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e-mail and attachments, if

Re: [Bacula-users] phantom filesystems in Windows

2009-04-04 Thread Kevin Keane
Erik P. Olsen wrote: > On 03/04/09 21:19, Kevin Keane wrote: > >> Erik P. Olsen wrote: >> >>> On 03/04/09 18:56, Kevin Keane wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Foo wrote: >>>> >>>&g

Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude only for incremental?

2009-04-04 Thread Kevin Keane
nly, not > full backups? > -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e-mail and attachments, if any, may contain confidential and/or proprietary information. Please b

Re: [Bacula-users] Howto recover from a job being rerun around a summer time change

2009-04-05 Thread Kevin Keane
blem doesn't exist, and simply cancel the job when it happens. It's only once a year. I think the first two options are better. Otherwise, you run into the reverse issue in Fall; the backup won't run at all when switching back. -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Exp

Re: [Bacula-users] Howto recover from a job being rerun around a summer time change

2009-04-05 Thread Kevin Keane
blem doesn't exist, and simply cancel the job when it happens. It's only once a year. I think the first two options are better. Otherwise, you run into the reverse issue in Fall; the backup won't run at all when switching back. -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Exp

Re: [Bacula-users] Howto recover from a job being rerun around a summer time change

2009-04-05 Thread Kevin Keane
blem doesn't exist, and simply cancel the job when it happens. It's only once a year. I think the first two options are better. Otherwise, you run into the reverse issue in Fall; the backup won't run at all when switching back. -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Exp

Re: [Bacula-users] Howto recover from a job being rerun around a summer time change

2009-04-05 Thread Kevin Keane
blem doesn't exist, and simply cancel the job when it happens. It's only once a year. I think the first two options are better. Otherwise, you run into the reverse issue in Fall; the backup won't run at all when switching back. -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Exp

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic volume numbering

2009-04-05 Thread Kevin Keane
John Drescher wrote: >> On 04/04/2009 04:52, Kevin Keane wrote: >> >>> No, it's documented behavior. The numbers are actually the media IDs - >>> basically, the database primary key. If you deleted these volumes from >>> bacula c

[Bacula-users] New Wiki entry - Nagios monitoring

2009-04-05 Thread Kevin Keane
I've seen a couple requests over time for monitoring bacula with Nagios. So I put a writeup of my solution on the Bacula Wiki at http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=nagios -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About O

Re: [Bacula-users] New Wiki entry - Nagios monitoring

2009-04-06 Thread Kevin Keane
I didn't find the script on either nagiosexchange or netways.de, so unless the script is trivial, it probably is only included with support from netways.de. Or maybe he simply forgot to publish it. The only way to find out for sure is to ask. -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the

[Bacula-users] Feature request: relative rentention times

2009-04-07 Thread Kevin Keane
Item n: implement retention times specified as number of copies. Date: 4/6/2009 Origin: Kevin Keane - subscription at kkeane dot com Status: What: Currently, the retention time for a volume/job etc. is a fixed number of seconds from the last time the item (volume

Re: [Bacula-users] thannyd earthlink.net

2009-04-07 Thread Kevin Keane
rd to argue that they are all "improperly configured". The second reason is that you may have some kind of front-end relay server that simply does not know all the recipients on the final server. That said, I, too, find these "please verify" messages exceedingly rude; I us

Re: [Bacula-users] Howto recover from a job being rerun around a summer time change

2009-04-07 Thread Kevin Keane
e == 0) lastDispatchTime = currentTime - 1 minute; if (currentTime < lastDispatchTime) { // do nothing. We are in the duplicate hour in spring. } else { // identify all events that were scheduled between lastDispatchTime and currentTime. // This will execute everything due to

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula client is causing error in Server 2008 eventlog

2009-04-08 Thread Kevin Keane
75 6c 61 2d 66 64 2e cula-fd. > > 00b8: 63 6f 6e 66 22 20 20 20 conf" > > 00c0: 2d 20 55 73 65 72 3a 20 - User: > > The rest is deleted > > Any ideas? > > Thanks! > > Arch > > > &

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature request: relative rentention times

2009-04-08 Thread Kevin Keane
Dan Langille wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Kevin Keane wrote: > >> Item n: implement retention times specified as number of copies. >> Date: 4/6/2009 >> Origin: Kevin Keane - subscription at kkeane dot com >> S

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature request: relative rentention times

2009-04-09 Thread Kevin Keane
Mike Ruskai wrote: > On 04/07/2009 04:21, Kevin Keane wrote: > >> Item n: implement retention times specified as number of copies. >> Date: 4/6/2009 >> Origin: Kevin Keane - subscription at kkeane dot com >> Status: >> >> >> &

Re: [Bacula-users] "status jobs" shows odd sizes

2009-04-09 Thread Kevin Keane
. As long as the data very is compressible, it could fit quite comfortably. It actually supports my suspicion that it may be a single large database file; database files can often be compressed to as little as a few percent of their original size, because they are often sparse files. -- Kevin Kean

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula and ssh-tunnel FD <-> SD

2009-04-10 Thread Kevin Keane
directive entry like explain in the how-to (i think). > > Do you have a explain ? a schema to explain this ( forwardind port ... )? > What can i put in the variable "LOCAL" ? a full qualified name or not ? > > I a beginner with bacula and in english ;-) sorry > > Thanks

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula version 3.0.0 released to Source Forge

2009-04-10 Thread Kevin Keane
ntributors) work on bacula! > And a very hearty thank-you from me, too. Bacula is really great software! Kevin -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e-ma

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature request: relative rentention times

2009-04-14 Thread Kevin Keane
Victor Hugo dos Santos wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Kevin Keane wrote: > > [...] > > >> Notes: This feature may only makes sense for jobs and files, maybe not for >> volumes. >> I haven't fully thought through the implications y

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot backup a windows network drive

2009-04-18 Thread Kevin Keane
f view, if I go into Computer and open the T > drive, I can do anything. > I thought it was some kind of permissions problem, so I checked the > bacula-fd service and changed > the running user from System to Administrator. > Nothing changed. > > What may be the problem? >

Re: [Bacula-users] FileID greater then 4.2 billion on rev. 2.4.4

2009-04-22 Thread Kevin Keane
if there is a workaround on FileID having reached > the 2**32 max on rev. 2.4.4? > I would like to wait some more time before upgrading to rev. 3.0 in > the production environment (I believe rev. 3 has a bigger slot for > that value, isn't it?). > > Regards, -- Kevin Kean

Re: [Bacula-users] Newbie: Disk-To-Disk-To-Tape

2009-04-27 Thread Kevin Keane
o store desktop settings etc. on the server. An actual Windows server (not a Linux server, though) also has a very nice interface for retrieving old files. Of course, that isn't always true; some workstations do hold important data that isn't replicated anywhere else. So your mile

Re: [Bacula-users] Newbie: Disk-To-Disk-To-Tape

2009-04-27 Thread Kevin Keane
Steven Palm wrote: > On Apr 27, 2009, at 12:47 PM, Kevin Keane wrote: > >> This depends on your situation, of course, but I found that very >> often, >> backing up workstations really isn't all that useful. Ideally, they >> don't hold any data

Re: [Bacula-users] Newbie: Disk-To-Disk-To-Tape

2009-04-27 Thread Kevin Keane
Steven Palm wrote: > On Apr 27, 2009, at 12:47 PM, Kevin Keane wrote: > >> This depends on your situation, of course, but I found that very >> often, >> backing up workstations really isn't all that useful. Ideally, they >> don't hold any data

Re: [Bacula-users] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Large scale disk based backups

2009-04-29 Thread Kevin Keane
sk2 Media Type = File Device Type = File Archive Device = /misc/BACKUP2 LabelMedia = yes Random Access = Yes AutomaticMount = yes RemovableMedia = no AlwaysOpen = no RequiresMount = No } -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Nev

Re: [Bacula-users] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Large scale disk based backups

2009-04-30 Thread Kevin Keane
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Re: [Bacula-users] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Large scale disk basedbackups

2009-04-30 Thread Kevin Keane
at isn't being used off site. Since the schedule is rigid, I'm not sure how to handle the situation when the "wrong" disk is plugged into the USB port. -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office:

Re: [Bacula-users] minimizing full backups

2009-04-30 Thread Kevin Keane
d the optimal > list of all the old files/folders to be excluded, but it turned out to be > much > more difficult I initially expected. > > Is anyone else doing smth like that? > -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never H

Re: [Bacula-users] How to deal with NAT

2009-05-04 Thread Kevin Keane
er. > > Am I right? > > Are there any other 'good solutions' to deal with such a setup? I believe this > is a typical requirement and I would expect there to be more than one > approach. > > Thanks, > > p...@rick > > -- Kevin Keane Owner The N

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula project voting / Feature request

2009-05-06 Thread Kevin Keane
and it won't > be > changed when the volume is re-used.. so the name is incorrect after > recycling > and re-using the volume.. > > I guess this feature is mostly useful with disk volumes. > > -- Pasi > Check out item 8. I think it will do what you (and I) w

Re: [Bacula-users] How to deal with NAT

2009-05-06 Thread Kevin Keane
Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: > * Kevin Keane : > >> I solved exactly this issue with SSH tunnels. The description on how I >> did it is in the Bacula Wiki in the howto section. >> > > Thanks for the reference. I had had a look at it earlier and had kept it on m

Re: [Bacula-users] Is that ok using Bacula to write on DVDs?

2009-05-07 Thread Kevin Keane
s not a lot if you think about it. Solid state disks are more reliable because they use redundancy and are able to detect and replace failed memory cells. That's why I would probably trust a DVD more than solid-state. Ultimately, though, all media fails. Tapes wear out, too. -- Kevin Kea

Re: [Bacula-users] bad file dates cause incremental backups

2009-05-12 Thread Kevin Keane
a digital camera > that > probably had the date set incorrectly. > > I noticed that these files are included in every incremental backup, even > though they > have not changed since the last full backup. > > The director/storage is bacula 2.4.4 on a fedora 7. The server

Re: [Bacula-users] preserving ownership of restored files

2009-05-14 Thread Kevin Keane
> Or maybe it will also reset the ownership when writing the file during the restore itself? Note to self: when doing such a restore, restore /etc/passwd and /etc/group (or the LDAP configuration or whatever else is used) before anything else. That's 20/20 hindsight, of course. --

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: eSATA drive for storage

2009-05-18 Thread Kevin Keane
turers are cutting corners and put a cheaper internal SATA connector on the external bracket. That's actually illegal (can get you in trouble with the FCC for radio interference). Worse - at first glance, the two connectors look the same, but they actually have different shapes (SATA is L

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