Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to force a volume to recycle so it can be used immediately

ed for new backups. I think you should use the "purge" command on each volume you want to empty. Like: purge jobs volume= -- Marcello Romani -- Master HTML5, CSS3, ASP.NET, MVC, AJAX, Knockout.js, Web API and m

[Bacula-users] Director console connection failures after upgrading from squeeze to wheezy (5.0->5.2)

Hi, I have recently upgraded my bacula box to debian wheezy. Bacula got upgraded to 5.2.6 (previous version was 5.0.2 IIRC). I started to get messages like the following one every minute: bacula-dir: ERROR in authenticate.c:415 Unable to authenticate console "*UserAgent*" at client: Durin

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-Web 6.0.0 released

ers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > Yes, it's annoying when tar archives unpack everything in the current directory. That's exactly what the OP is complaining about. He'd like tar xjf to create

Re: [Bacula-users] Large scale disk-to-disk Bacula deployment

han yours (to say the least). Your first post got me very interested. I hope to read soom the other chapters of the tale... -- Marcello Romani -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple storage daemons on the same machine

s question: if I have one storage daemon with two storage devices defined, one File and on Tape, can I have two backup jobs running simultaneously, provided one goes on the File device and the other one on the Tape one ? Thanks -- Marcello Romani

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple storage daemons on the same machine

storage daemon. > > John Thanks everybody for the clarification. -- Marcello Romani -- The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find

Re: [Bacula-users] no upgrade path for windows servers?

rver daemons (Director and Storage daemon) are no longer included in the Windows installer. If you want the Windows servers, you will either need to build them yourself (note they have not been ported to 64 bits), or you can contact Bacula Systems about this." -- Marcello Romani -

Re: [Bacula-users] no upgrade path for windows servers?

director and a mixture of 2.4.x and 5.0.x storage daemons, and all works fine. Being on debian, I had to enable lenny-backports to install bacula 5.0.x on the server, otherwise the 2.4.x version provided by the stable branch

[Bacula-users] Job renaming

ry table. To create and populate it with the actual records, I used the following commands: bacula=# CREATE TABLE test_rename(jobid integer, job text, name text); bacula=# INSERT INTO test_rename(jobid, job, name) SELECT jobid, job, name FROM job; Obviously a DROP TABLE test should be issued at the

Re: [Bacula-users] no upgrade path for windows servers?

Il 10/02/2011 09:00, Randy Katz ha scritto: > On 2/9/2011 11:40 PM, Marcello Romani wrote: >> Il 10/02/2011 08:14, Ralf Gross ha scritto: >>> Jeff Shanholtz schrieb: >>>> ... >>>> Finally, I assume that if I stay with 3.0.1 on the server, I can >&g

Re: [Bacula-users] no upgrade path for windows servers?

Il 10/02/2011 08:59, James Harper ha scritto: > Ever tried colinux in this configuration? > http://www.colinux.org Amazing! Although I don't see why bother running a stable OS under an unstable one instead of the other way around... :-) -- Marc

Re: [Bacula-users] Job renaming

Il 10/02/2011 10.38, Timo Neuvonen ha scritto: >> Hallo, >> I found a typo in a Job resource that has been backed up for a >> couple of weeks, so I wanted to rename it. Here are the steps I took. I >> hope it will be useful to somebody else. >> Bacula gurus feel free to burn me if this is here

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows XP Backup

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Re: [Bacula-users] Off topic: Backing up Client Workstations

nection was not stable enough to handle the whole backup job traffic. The solution proposed was to mirror the client with rsync and use bacula to backup the rsync'd client image. HTH -- Marcello Romani -- Th

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows XP Backup

ly configured storage that uses 127.0.0.1 or localhost as its address? > > John Or even an /etc/hosts file where the fqdn of the storage daemon is translated to 127.0.0.1 Debian has this default, for example. -- Marcello Romani --

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I use data spooling when writing to nfs mounted storage?

te in your jobs? These rates are >> normal or are they slow compared to yours? > > Is there any way you can run your SD directly on the storage device, > instead of the SD writing to storage mounted over NFS? > > Also, what about using a dedicated NIC to link SD with NFS storage

[Bacula-users] One tape per day and Volume Use Duration

shouldn't this value take into account the time it takes for the backup to complete (otherwise subsequent backups are delayed until the previous day's tape becomes 'used') ? Is it correct to set it to something like 12 hours to remain on the safe s

Re: [Bacula-users] One tape per day and Volume Use Duration

Il 10/03/2011 12:47, Martin Simmons ha scritto: >>>>>> On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:55:26 +0100, Marcello Romani said: >> >> searching the 'net for how to setup a one-tape-per-day schedule, I >> found in many places the suggestion to set the Volume Us

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

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Re: [Bacula-users] File Storage for Windows and Linux

omewhere in C:\docs and settings\whatever\appdata\etc. (don't have a machine to look up the actual location right now). HTH -- Marcello Romani -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determin

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and 16 bay JBOD

Il 16/03/2011 18:08, Mike Hobbs ha scritto: >Hello, I'm currently testing bacula v5.0.3 and so far so good. One > of my issues though, I have a 16 bay Promise Technologies VessJBOD. How > do I get bacula to use all the disks for writing volumes to? > > I guess the way I envision it working w

Re: [Bacula-users] File Storage for Windows and Linux

Il 17/03/2011 16:32, Mike Hendrie ha scritto: > I do not have the firewall running on the windows computer or the linux > box. Hmm > > Perhaps I will try the older bacula client to see if that will work. > > On Mar 17, 2011 10:28 AM, "Steve Ellis" > wrote: > > On 3/17/

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and 16 bay JBOD

Il 16/03/2011 18:38, Phil Stracchino ha scritto: > On 03/16/11 13:08, Mike Hobbs wrote: >>Hello, I'm currently testing bacula v5.0.3 and so far so good. One >> of my issues though, I have a 16 bay Promise Technologies VessJBOD. How >> do I get bacula to use all the disks for writing volumes

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and 16 bay JBOD

Il 18/03/2011 00:57, Phil Stracchino ha scritto: > On 03/17/11 18:46, Marcello Romani wrote: >> Il 16/03/2011 18:38, Phil Stracchino ha scritto: >>> On 03/16/11 13:08, Mike Hobbs wrote: >>>> Hello, I'm currently testing bacula v5.0.3 and so far so good. One

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and 16 bay JBOD

Il 18/03/2011 19:01, Mehma Sarja ha scritto: > On 3/17/11 4:57 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: >> On 03/17/11 18:46, Marcello Romani wrote: >>> Il 16/03/2011 18:38, Phil Stracchino ha scritto: >>>> On 03/16/11 13:08, Mike Hobbs wrote: >>>>> Hello, I&#x

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula jobs causing VM server reboot & consequent job fail

Il 24/03/2011 10.27, Sami Haahtinen ha scritto: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:49, farmershort > wrote: >> however, I had scheduled the first big test of this new bacula system a >> couple of days ago - and asked it to back up about 350GB from each of 2 >> servers - at the same time. Both of thes

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula jobs causing VM server reboot & consequent job fa

Il 24/03/2011 16.48, Bruno Friedmann ha scritto: > On 03/24/2011 02:50 PM, farmershort wrote: >> Thanks for all the replies folks... >> >> I've tried a few things, and I think I may have found the problem... >> although I've onyl had time to kick off 2 scheduled jobs since the fix, so >> it's not

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula on a mixed Win Ubuntu Lan

or pointers are most welcome. > > TIA > The Windows installer asks for the director name but doesn't set the password correctly. Copy the password from XP-fd.conf to the bacula-dir.conf HTH -- Marcello Romani -

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula on a mixed Win Ubuntu Lan

Il 10/04/2011 01:15, acorn12 ha scritto: > On 08/04/2011 12:29 AM, Marcello Romani wrote: >> Il 08/04/2011 02:33, acorn12 ha scritto: >>> I am trying to run bacula on a mixed LAN with some Win XP/Vista machines >>> and one Ubuntu 10.04 Server. >>> The server ha

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula on a mixed Win Ubuntu Lan

Il 11/04/2011 20:41, acorn12 ha scritto: > On 11/04/2011 1:23 AM, Marcello Romani wrote: >> Il 10/04/2011 01:15, acorn12 ha scritto: >>> On 08/04/2011 12:29 AM, Marcello Romani wrote: >>>> Il 08/04/2011 02:33, acorn12 ha scritto: >>>>> I am trying

[Bacula-users] backup level: last full timestamp ?

Hallo, daily bacula e-mail reports about job runs have a line like this: Backup Level: Incremental, since=2011-04-10 21:07:35 is it possible (or is it something to put into a wishlist) to have the last full backup timestamp also reported ? Thank you -- Marcello Romani

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-dir.conf - the DirAddress variable

rceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users One of these distros is debian. If you put the fqdn or hostname (as suggested by comments in the conf file) instead of the server IP address, che

Re: [Bacula-users] speed up my backups

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[Bacula-users] shutdown windows client after backup

backup job has finished. Disclaimer: I haven't tested this with unsaved documents open... HTH -- Marcello Romani -- vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual

Re: [Bacula-users] shutdown windows client after backup

Il 26/05/2011 09:51, J. Echter ha scritto: > Am 26.05.2011 09:23, schrieb Marcello Romani: >> Hi, >>I'd like to share a tip about shutting down a windows client after >> its backuò job has finished. >> Nothing spectacular, but I guessed somebody would f

Re: [Bacula-users] shutdown windows client after backup

Il 26/05/2011 11:00, Konstantin Khomoutov ha scritto: > On Thu, 26 May 2011 09:23:22 +0200 > Marcello Romani wrote: > >> I'd like to share a tip about shutting down a windows client >> after its backuò job has finished. >> Nothing spectacular, but I guessed somebo

Re: [Bacula-users] shutdown windows client after backup

Il 26/05/2011 09:23, Marcello Romani ha scritto: > Hi, > I'd like to share a tip about shutting down a windows client after > its backuò job has finished. > Nothing spectacular, but I guessed somebody would find it useful. > > 1) Create a batch file with a suitable nam

Re: [Bacula-users] Archive function ?

users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users I think you should look into file and job retention periods. -- Marcello Romani -- vRanger cut

Re: [Bacula-users] Director Control Protocol

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Re: [Bacula-users] LTO2 get filled at 136GB or 85GB

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Re: [Bacula-users] Full-Job gets killed by time limit

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Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about spooling

factors that it's almost impossible to use it as a benchmark for a single subsystem of the entire bacup process. In particular, look for bottlenecks at the client side: cpu, network and disk seek times. HTH. -- Marcello Romani -

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about spooling

write rate, otherwise the benefits of spooling on tape wear will be lost due to the tape having to stop to wait for data from spool area. HTH. -- Marcello Romani -- Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Fina

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about spooling

each job is spooled independently... About job speed: notice how the final speed reported for the whole job is very low compared to the despooling speed. That figure can be misleading. I think one has to conside

Re: [Bacula-users] Yet another 'Invalid command ".messages"' on restore

"messages" command. This will clear the unread messages queue in bacula. Now you can connect with BAT restore files without the ".messages" error. This is the procedure that currently works for me. HTH -- Marcello Romani --

Re: [Bacula-users] Yet another 'Invalid command ".messages"' on restore

Il 21/09/2011 16:28, Marcio Merlone ha scritto: > Em 21-09-2011 11:04, Marcello Romani escreveu: >> I suppose you're referring to Bat. If yes, > Sorry, yes. :) > >> do the following: Settings => Preferences Uncheck "Check messages", or >> leave it check

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about the database structure of Bacula

o; jobstatus --- A E f T (4 rows) bacula-dir Version: 5.0.2 (28 April 2010) i486-pc-linux-gnu debian 5.0.4 Anyway, if you're asking for an sql query you can try this: SELECT h.jobid, h.job, s.jobstatuslong FROM jobhisto h JOIN status s ON h.jobstatus=s.jobs

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple spool files per job

ate of the art. > > Regards, > Stefan > Hmmm... sounds like the perfect candidate for a paid enterprise feature request. I belive the creators of Bacula would be happy to hear from you. Just a hint... -- Marcello Romani -

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple spool files per job

Il 13/10/2011 15:16, Alan Brown ha scritto: > Marcello Romani wrote: > >> Hmmm... sounds like the perfect candidate for a paid enterprise >> feature request. I belive the creators of Bacula would be happy to >> hear from you. > > I looked into this earlier th

[Bacula-users] Searching through backed-up files

about how to solve this ? Thank you in advance to anyone who'll answer. -- Marcello Romani -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application perfor

Re: [Bacula-users] Noob user impressions and why I chose not to use Bacula

here I have a single tape drive (LTO-1, for the record). No autochanger. -- Marcello Romani -- Cloud Services Checklist: Pricing and Packaging Optimization This white paper is intended to serve as a reference, checklist an

Re: [Bacula-users] Noob user impressions and why I chose not to use Bacula

Il 06/12/2011 10:07, Phil Stracchino ha scritto: > On 12/06/11 03:10, Marcello Romani wrote: >> Il 05/12/2011 03:39, Jesse Molina ha scritto: >> >> [snip food for thought] >> >> The closest thing to a custom "eject tape" builtin command in bconsole I &

Re: [Bacula-users] Noob user impressions and why I chose not to use Bacula

le" >> RunAfterJob = "mt-st -f /dev/nst0 offl" >> } >> >> This works on my setup, where I have a single tape drive (LTO-1, for > the >> record). No autochanger. >> > > It a

Re: [Bacula-users] Noob user impressions and why I chose not to use Bacula

Il 06/12/2011 10:07, Phil Stracchino ha scritto: > On 12/06/11 03:10, Marcello Romani wrote: >> Il 05/12/2011 03:39, Jesse Molina ha scritto: >> >> [snip food for thought] >> >> The closest thing to a custom "eject tape" builtin command in bconsole I &

Re: [Bacula-users] Searching through backed-up files

Il 07/12/2011 13:29, Radosław Korzeniewski ha scritto: > Hello, > > 2011/12/2 Marcello Romani <mailto:mrom...@ottotecnica.com>> > > Hallo, > I've got a (hopefully not so) unusual problem. > I need look for a text string inside some text files th

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

5733.7 KB/s Software Compression: None VSS:no Encryption: no Accurate: no Volume name(s): ThursdayTape Volume Session Id: 242 Volume Session Time:1323245911 Last Volume Byt

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

y >> simple and effective. Unfortunately doing a data spool takes a long time and >> slow down an overall backup speed. >> >> best regards >> -- >> Radosław Korzeniewski >> rados...@korzeniewski.net Would be curious to know if data spooling made any difference

Re: [Bacula-users] Forcing recycle

o sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the > Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev > ___ > Bacula-users mailing list > Ba

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula database is getting too long

b/bacula could be owned by root:bacula, provided group permission is rwx as well. -- Marcello Romani -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 __

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula database is getting too long

r "bacula", >> who should have rwx access permission. Or, if user "bacula" is part of >> group "bacula", /var/lib/bacula could be owned by root:bacula, provided >> group permission is rwx as well. >> >> -- >> Marcello Romani >> >&g

Re: [Bacula-users] Have we reached bacula's limits?

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Re: [Bacula-users] Have we reached bacula's limits?

Il 24/01/2012 11:18, Xabier Elkano ha scritto: > El 24/01/12 10:49, Marcello Romani escribió: >> Il 24/01/2012 10:05, Xabier Elkano ha scritto: >>> El 23/01/12 16:28, Uwe Schuerkamp escribió: >>>> DB Size: >>>> Total clients: 107 Total b

Re: [Bacula-users] Have we reached bacula's limits?

Directors to maintain index and media database redundancy." so now bacula is limited to a single director which connects to a single database server. So it seems the only way to spread the load of a huge db onto multiple servers is to exploit the load balancing and replication feat

Re: [Bacula-users] Have we reached bacula's limits?

Il 24/01/2012 17:43, Xabier Elkano ha scritto: > El 24/01/12 17:02, Marcello Romani escribió: >> Il 24/01/2012 12:21, Xabier Elkano ha scritto: >> >> [snip] >> >>>> I'm just thinking out loud, but I don't see how having a catalog for >>>>

Re: [Bacula-users] Running out of space on tape

way (thus any other algorithm can't do much better than that). So the actual size of data that can be stored on a tape depends on the level of redundancy of the data itself. In other words, one can only make assumptions about the native (i.e. uncompressed) tape capacity. HTH -- Marcello R

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple bacula-sd dameons on same server?

> Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users Is it this ? http://myunix.dk/2010/12/01/large-scale-disk-to-disk-backups-using-bacula/ -- Marcello Romani -

Re: [Bacula-users] [release] Almir 0.1.2 (bacula web interface)

. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > > > > ___ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net &

Re: [Bacula-users] how to use Maximum Bandwidth ?

hreats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > ___ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Marcello Romani ---

Re: [Bacula-users] no connect to win7-client

Il 21/09/2012 10:06, Sven Gehr ha scritto: [snip] Not 100% sure, but I think the FDAddress field in -fd.conf should report he FQDN of the client machine, not its ip address. HTH -- Marcello Romani -- Got visibility

Re: [Bacula-users] no connect to win7-client

onfigs... > > I believe the problem that the OP needs to let bacula-fd through the > windows firewall. This will not be enabled by default. > > > John > Thanks for clarifying that detail. Windows firewall is the l

Re: [Bacula-users] no connect to win7-client

onfigs... > > I believe the problem that the OP needs to let bacula-fd through the > windows firewall. This will not be enabled by default. > > > John > Ehm... sorry, I answered before reading the rest of the thread... :P -- Marcello Romani ---