[Bacula-users] Eject the tape

2007-05-21 Thread Marek Simon
I want to eject the tape after backup. I found somesthing like 'Run after backup = "script_with_bconsole_umount_and_shell_eject', but it seems to me a bit dumpy. Is it possible to do it (I mean umount and eject) in the director config or some other (cleaner) way? Marek

[Bacula-users] rotate volumes on disk

2005-10-11 Thread Marek Simon
I have one machine with data and one backup machine with bacula dir, both linux. I want to do backups on disk on backup machine. I have one default pool and few volumes on same disk. Bacula appends to one volume until it is full, then it searches for other volumes which are null sized, but full

[Bacula-users] changing volumes on disk

2005-10-12 Thread Marek Simon
Hi, I have one machine with data and one backup machine with bacula dir, both linux. I want to do backups on disk on backup machine. I have one default pool and few volumes on same disk. Bacula appends to one volume until it is full, then it searches for other volumes which are null sized, but

[Bacula-users] Remote client commands after bacula's fail

2005-10-18 Thread Marek Simon
I backup oracle with by way: shut down the server, copy dbf files and start up the server both commands are sent by bacula through "Client Run Before Job" and "Client Run After Job" parameters. but when bacula fails to do backup (full storage etc), the after command don't start and the server re

[Bacula-users] RFC: client after fail command

2005-10-26 Thread Marek Simon
parameter, which would the director run on client, when the backup fails. I think it is better then some obscur scripts which check it with some bmonitor. Marek Simon --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today

[Bacula-users] Purging ancestor of incremental backup

2007-09-06 Thread Marek Simon
Hi. I accidentaly get myself to the situation, that one of my backup storages is filled up and no space on disk is free. I had to purge some of my backups. If there is one full backup and 1st, 2nd 3rd incremental backup, and I purge volume with the 2nd incremental backup, which backup will the

[Bacula-users] More jobs concurently

2007-09-07 Thread Marek Simon
I have one basic disc storage with 400BG, one extra storage on other 400GB disk and one DDS Tape. All the storages are in same server. I use the basic storage for common backup of systems and user data and the extra storage for backup of one special project. The extended storage is often full a

[Bacula-users] client max concurrent jobs

2007-10-02 Thread Marek Simon
Hi, I tried to set up Maximum Concurrent Jobs for client in Client resource in Director config file. In manula it is allowed option. But when reloaded, director tells me, that this directive is not allowed in this scope. I have 1.38.11 version, Debian linux. Is it a bug or do I something wrong?

[Bacula-users] backward compability

2007-10-02 Thread Marek Simon
Hi, I have director 1.38.11 from stable debian release. I tried to get windows client of the same version, I searched for it very long, but I did not succeed. I tried a new windows client (2.2.4), but it does not work (as said in manual). Can I dig winbacula-1.38.11 installation program somewhe

Re: [Bacula-users] howt to split the bacula-dir.conf

2007-10-02 Thread Marek Simon
Or you can include a filelist and allow someone else to edit it and modify files to backup. But be carefull, files are included "as is", with no limit. If the file or editor's user account is not secure enough, it can turn to major vurneability. Marek Michal Medvecký napsal(a): > luyigui loholh

Re: [Bacula-users] backward compability

2007-10-03 Thread Marek Simon
We will see if it helps, maybe the problem is somewhere else. M. Rich napsal(a): > On 2007.10.02. 18:57, Marek Simon wrote: > >> Hi, >> I have director 1.38.11 from stable debian release. I tried to get >> windows client of the same version, I searched for it very

Re: [Bacula-users] backward compability

2007-10-04 Thread Marek Simon
for it. Marek Marek Simon napsal(a): > We will see if it helps, maybe the problem is somewhere else. > M. > > Rich napsal(a): > >> On 2007.10.02. 18:57, Marek Simon wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> I have director 1.38.11 from stable debian

[Bacula-users] restoring from bad volume

2007-10-19 Thread Marek Simon
Hi, today I made a small restore test. I have three storages: 1) the Main storage on a disk array 2) the Tape storage 3) the Extra storage on a removable SATA disk, which is used to backup one special project. I run the restore command, selected the file, it was found in Catalog on volume "supl

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk backup recycling

2007-10-23 Thread Marek Simon
Hi, I suggest to solve like this: One Pool only. 8 volumes. Retention time 7 days and few hours. Use time 1 day. The use will be like this: first Monday: full backup. volume 1 used and contains the full backup Tue to Sun: diff backup using volumes 2 to 7 (automaticaly selected or created by bacu

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk backup recycling

2007-10-24 Thread Marek Simon
My opinion to your ideas: 0) Leave the schema as I submited and buy more disk space for backuping. :-) 1) It is best variant I think. The other advantage is that the full backup of all clients would take much longer time then 1/7th full and other differential. Now what to do with Catalog: You ca

[Bacula-users] Bacula and Day saving time

2007-10-30 Thread Marek Simon
Hi all, I have my bacula (1.38.11) set up to start certain Job on Sunday 2:05. On 28th October the Daylight saving time was ended and time between 2am and 3am has repeated (like in Red Dwarf :-) ). The backup has started twice (and the second run has stuck waiting for a volume). What would happ

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Day saving time]

2007-10-31 Thread Marek Simon
Czech Republic belongs to European Union and DST law is unified for whole Europe (may be except Albania). May be it is different from US law. However my system (debian linux) had no problem switching to DST because it is often updated and internal time is UTC. My question was, what would bacul

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

2007-11-19 Thread Marek Simon
David is right. Bacula is not able to clear a part of a volume. She can only append to a volume or clean it completely. I can recommend to have one volume for one day (Use duration 23 hours). Bacula will create new volumes everywhen she needs. Marek David Legg napsal(a): > Hi Sebastian, > > I'm

Re: [Bacula-users] backup strategy

2007-11-20 Thread Marek Simon
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[Bacula-users] Make waiting job continue

2009-04-22 Thread Marek Simon
Hi, I have a Job waiting for a appendable media. I purged and recycled some media, but Job is still waiting. Sometimes it continues after long waiting, but usualy I need to cancel it and run it manualy. Is there some possibility how to make the Job continue? Marek -

[Bacula-users] Frozen canceled jobs

2009-05-11 Thread Marek Simon
Hi, I have jobs, which have frozen. The reason of frozing is not subject of this message, I will deal with it next time. But now I have canceled the job. The job has been marked canceled, but still hangs in the queue and block other jobs to proceed (they are waiting for releasing storage media)

Re: [Bacula-users] Bad Hello command from Director at client

2009-08-12 Thread Marek Simon
What are your director and file daemon versions? Marek David Touzeau napsal(a): > Dear > > I have compiled latest bacula version with the following tokens > > ./configure --config-cache --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/bacula > --with-scriptdir=/etc/bacula/scripts --sharedstatedir=/var/lib/bacul

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 1.38 file daemon compatibility with latest 3.0 Bacula Server Solution

2009-08-13 Thread Marek Simon
I used combination 1.38 FD and 2.4.4 director + SD, and it works, except if I use the Runscript directive - the Filedaemon did not know it. I have no experience with bacula 3.0 director Marek Michael Halfhill napsal(a): > Has anyone confirmed if there are any complications or issues with > remo

[Bacula-users] Multiple jobs with multiple clients and multiple storages

2009-09-23 Thread Marek Simon
Hi, Why bacula jobs say: waiting for Max Storage jobs, when the real reason is Directory limit? Is it a bug? I have 2.4.4. I spend plenty of time when solving that. Marek -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Develope

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestions of backups

2009-10-07 Thread Marek Simon
Your problem is quite complex and I think it is not solvable in one forum thread. You will need to split jobs in more Storages, one of them can be the DVD. I advice not to have all backups in one file which grows forever, you should setup some cykling policy. You will need to study more about t

[Bacula-users] Not to block Storage when inserting attributes

2009-10-07 Thread Marek Simon
Hi, I have a complex bacula config (2.4.4) with about 100 clients, 300 Jobs and 48 Storages on two Storage Daemons (32 on one and 16 on the other). The multiplicity of Storages is for paralelism. The clients are spread among the storages with config generator, which selects the Storage for them

Re: [Bacula-users] Not to block Storage when inserting attributes

2009-10-08 Thread Marek Simon
Alan is right. The problem is not the inserting itself but the fact, that Storage is blocked while the job do not need it more. If I disable attribute spooling the attributes will be stored with data and the time the job spends will be the same (I think). The database performance is another prob

Re: [Bacula-users] Confusion in setting up Bacula to Windows Clients

2009-10-08 Thread Marek Simon
My experience is that the Director name must match, the password must match and fd name doesn't need to match, maybe in some lastest version must match too. And to the bacula passwords: in my bacula I always generate a long random password (fifty chars of filth) and write it to both configs (t

[Bacula-users] Compatibility with older bacula-fd

2009-10-15 Thread Marek Simon
Hi, I have a box with pretty old operating system, which cannot be upgraded, but I need to have there a bacula client. The newest version I have run there was 1.36.6. I have Director 2.4.4. The full backup was OK, but when I start an Incremental Job I got this Error: 15-říj 14:40 the-host-fd: t

Re: [Bacula-users] Script to read bacula jobs info

2009-12-31 Thread Marek Simon
alexan...@nautae.eti.br napsal(a): > Hi. > > I have to integrate Bacula with GLPI inventory system. > > So, I have to read jobs info like Name, FileSet, Pool, Level, > Schedule, etc, from each job, > > and put it in a data structure to export to GLPI. > > So, I'm about to write a Perl script

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup diffrensial Bacula

2009-12-31 Thread Marek Simon
togum napsal(a): > Howdy friends, > > I'm using bacula in our companny backup system. But I always have a problem > if our tape have been full. I'm using diffrensial bacula backup. If our tape > full then i changed with the new tape, it will be full backup again and > continue to do so. > > Pl

Re: [Bacula-users] Auto-deleting purged volumes

2010-01-06 Thread Marek Simon
Bacula is not intended to delete anything. The way you have a new volume for a new day with a new uniq date-based name is not a good way for bacula. You shuld have the volumes with generic names and recycle them instead of removing them (you do not destroy the tapes after one use either). Howev

[Bacula-users] No constraints in bacula database

2010-01-06 Thread Marek Simon
Hi, I do some experiments with bacula database and I found that there is no foreign key constraint between jobmedia and job, jobmedia and media, job and file and many similar logicaly connected tables. Why? Constraints prevent arising void references (File with empty job, File with empty filena

Re: [Bacula-users] No Full backup in first weekend of january

2010-01-11 Thread Marek Simon
Bacula follows the ISO 8601 specification. The first week of years is the first week that has the first Thursday in this year. The first weekend was not in the first week of the year. More in Bacula Documentation, Section Schedule Resource. Marek Fahrer, Julian napsal(a): > I ve seen the same th