In addition to Arno's suggestions,
you can try also a simple 'list volumes' command.
It should list in which slot each volume is (or was last time).
Check the Slot and InChanger fields.
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Hello,
when upgrading a bacula backup environment with many clients
from which side is wiser to start? Clients or director/sd ?
In other words which of these two situations is less likely to be troublesome:
- old client talking with new director/sd
- new client talking with old director/sd
I'm th
On 2/26/07, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2007-02-26, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > As always, thanks :-)
>
> No problem. I have now uploaded the 2.0.2 docs as well.
>
> -- John
John, any chance to see some day the backport for the 2.0.x ?
(and BTW, thanks A LOT for t
On 3/5/07, Xeos Laenor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use bacula with success on a RhEL4 Server and i need integrate a HP-UX
> client in order to backup it.
> Does a binary client exist for HP-UX (v11 for itanium)?
> if not, have you some advises for compiling bacula-client on HP-UX (from
> your ow
On 3/6/07, Jansen,Quinton [PYR] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Would that be the LSI22320-R? I take it the RAID is not causing any
> problems.
>
Check that the SCSI HBA supports multi-LUN.
Tape changers often need it, and RAID controllers usually don't have it :-)
Cheers
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On 3/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I cannot help with the specific Windows problem (I just steer away from
Windows
servers ;-) but regarding this issue:
I think the DLT-8000 is not the best Media Type to put there ! am I right
?
(;-)) please, if you know which me
On 3/22/07, Kev Latimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My question may have been answered before - what would be the
recommended approacjh to installing Bacula on a Debian box? Apt-getting
will grab you either 1.36.2, 1.38.11 or 2.0.3, depending on your flavour
of Debian (Sarge, Etch, Sid) and ther
Hello,
I have installed bweb from debian package (2.0.3-1);
for the installation, I followed the notes in the INSTALL file and filled
the
config form shown at first run of bweb.pl.
Now it mostly looks ok, however I have a few questions/notes:
1) I think I read somewhere that I should issue an In
Database size works only with mysql > 5 and postgresql.
To activate it with mysql5 see INSTALL "POSTGRESQL AND MYSQL5 NOTES"
Ok, I see. In debian package it wasn't there...
I have now Bweb.pm 4284 2007-02-28 19:49:08Z and the DB_SIZE macro is not
there.
Should I reinstall bweb from sources or
On 3/23/07, Kristian Rink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Folks;
not sure whether this is worth a question around, but I think of my
autochanger configuration to be messed-up somehow. By now I tracked
down things as far as having /etc/bacula/scripts/mtx-changer
successfully (un)loading tapes while
On 3/28/07, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I like "dock", but "undock" though it is completely clear is not really an
> English word. Dock and detach or dock and release are not bad.
>
Well, my mother language is not English, but the faithful Merriam-Websters says:
Main Entry:un·d
On 3/28/07, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > detach attach
> > float attach
>
> I prefer detach/attach, but float/attach would also work at somewhat of
> a disadvantage. I'm not sure J Random User would understand the float
> terminology, as I think that implies that the window would alw
On 4/23/07, Silver Salonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I've got a strange problem here. I'm running Bacula 2.0.2 on FreeBSD 6.1.
>
> It seems like bacula DIR doesn't recognize pool's keywords:
> =
> # bacula-dir -t -c /usr/local/etc/bacula-dir.conf
> 23-Apr 13:33 bacula-dir: ERROR T
On 4/26/07, Jonas Björklund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Hassan El Jacifi wrote:
>
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I try to backup 193GB with bacula 2.0.3 on a tape library Powervault
> > 124T with LTO3.
> >
> > The backup take 7 hours to terminate. The specification for PV 12
On 5/14/07, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK, I have included a screen shot of the current Bacula. One could easily
> start on the tool bar icons. From left to right, the icons are:
>
> - Connect (connect to director) -- there is a corresponding disconnected icon
> as well.
> - S
On 9/11/06, Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The original setup was one Sun280R machine running all the daemons and postgres.
This machine is responsible for backups.
Because the DB is too slow, and slow down the overall backup
performance (from 10K it slows down to 1K...), I wanted to
Hello,
I have a minor request/suggestion about documentation: would it be
possible to generate the manual pages so that in the header or footer
it is reported document name + chapter + bacula version?
I ask this because e.g. right now I found a printout of the disaster
recovery chapter, but I real
On 9/12/06, Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Trying psql was the first check I did when I saw the problem.As you suggested, I tried with snoop, and verified that the 280 was actually connecting to the correct machine.
So, I looked into the postgres.log of the remote db machine...and fou
On 9/12/06, MaxxAtWork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry, I'm no expert in postgres but what I would do is:
> - check google results for that postgres error
> - sniff deeper the net and have a look at packet contents, first logging a
> successful connection (e.g. that one
On 9/12/06, Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
iserver-dir: postgresql.c:77 db_open first timeiserver-dir: bsys.c:70 pthread_cond_timedwait sec=5 usec=0iserver-dir: bsys.c:77 pthread_cond_timedwait stat=145 ERR=Connection timed out
Huh... it seems the failure is during bmicrosleep(), when
On 9/13/06, Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...I also found this on the FD client machine:Name Mtu Net/Dest Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Collis Queue
lo0 8232 loopback localhost 17627 0 17627 0 0 0
eri0 1500 ALTEA
On 9/21/06, Ian Leithhead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This seems odd.
>
> Bacula job starts , connects to a remote client (no firewall, etc), and
> storms away transferring data very fast.
>
> Then after some time or volume, it just stops. Packet sniffing indicates
> very light (keep alive?) tr
On 10/3/06, Grasso Maurizio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> I have a HP Ultrium 1/8 (8 cassette) with Autoloader device
>
> When I try to backup on this device I have the followed messages
>
>
> -Connecting to Storage daemon Ultrium at redoranas:9103 ...
> -Sending label command for Volume "SALVAT
On 10/4/06, Grasso Maurizio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi MAx
>
> have you got an example of bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf for manage
> the HP Ultrium?
>
> thanks a lot
Hi,
below here are some fragments taken from my bacula-sd.conf and bacula-dir.conf,
hopefully enough to help you get the
My Director/Storage/Catalogue run on
- Debian testing dual Xeon 2.8 GHz
- Bacula 1.38.9 (installed from .deb)
- MySQL is 5.0.22
- Backup device is a HP Ultrium 1/8 Autoloader
Clients are a handful of Solaris 9 and HP-UX 11i servers
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On 10/12/06, Gour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is the justification in HP's higher price (Ultrium 448) over Quantum's
> LTO-2 drive?
>
> Is there any other option I didn't consider?
>
Hi,
I don't have any opinion on the brand choice but I would
suggest you to check not only the h/w specs but also
On 10/20/06, DAve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Looking through the manual again and checking some others scripts I
> think a SQL query posting the required data to a DB is the best way to
> handle Cacti monitoring. I'll pursue that route. Anyone interested in
> what I come up with?
>
I would be in
On 11/9/06, John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Try if=/dev/zero and if=/dev/random
> >
> > AB
Note that depending on the platform where you try,
/dev/urandom as a source might be faster than /dev/random.
("/dev/random blocks until more entropy can be obtained" says
e.g. the Solaris man p
On 11/22/06, Erich Prinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So Thorsten, you're using a Bacula beta build on production server?
> Can this be true?
>
> ;-)
>
With a *credit card* shop server, I would add... :-O
Cheers
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On 1/17/07, David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > "VanHelsing" did spring to mind - A tool to tame Bacula :)
>
> Garlic, anyone? 8-)
>
My vote is for "bat", with "bacon" as second choice.
However, I think Garlic would be a good name for a subproject
wrt interfacing Bacula with the outside w
On 1/16/07, James Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 January 2007 12:20, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 16 January 2007 19:32, Peter Buschman wrote:
> > > > Bacula Admin Tool (B.A.T)
> > >
> > > Yes, that is by far the best one I have heard. :-)
> >
> > Amazingly, apt-file s
On 1/17/07, Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 17 Jan 2007 at 14:16, MaxxAtWork wrote:
>
> > Apart of checking e.g. in http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
> > is there some other way (more generic than only Debian distro)
> > to check whether a nam
On 1/23/07, Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Do you think that the switch may setup its port in half-duplex even if
the x86 card says it's full-duplex?
It's rare but possible.
If you think this may happen, is there any software tool that would let me
verify if the connection betw
Hello,
I'm already using bacula to keep backup of some Unix servers.
Now I was thinking about extending its usage to create
bare metal recovery procedures for some Windows workstations.
I read on the bacula documentation about the solution with BartPE kit,
and I understood that I'd need a Win 200
On 11/7/05, TássiaCamõesAraújo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> About 10 days ago I wrote a message saying that I had some
> "Authorization Errors" going on, but I didn't have any ideia of what
> could be causing the problem.
> At that time I didn't give information enough for someone to
Hello,
in my Bacula system I take differential or full backups on Monday
morning (and they go on one pool) and incrementals from Tuesday to
Friday (and they go on a different pool).
Tape is a manually operated DLT7000.
Now, I would like that when last incremental job on Friday has
finished, Bacul
Hello,
I apologize if it's a stupid question, I didn't yet experience much
with Bacula syntax.
My wish is that after Bacula terminates a full backup, the volume
currently mounted
would be marked as used, so that next weekly full would start from a
different tape.
I thought that perhaps I could use
Thank you for all the suggestions.
The "Volume Use Duration" sounds really nice, since
it gives also the flexibility to store several full backups scheduled for
the same day to go into the same volume
(which not everybody may want, but it fits my needs :)
Cheers
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Hello,
I'd like to upgrade MySQL in use for Bacula from 3.23 to 5.0 (or at least 4.1).
I'm running Bacula 1.36 on RHEL3, and I've found a post by Scott Barniger
dated just one year ago that it's possible to install the shared-compat rpm
in order to avoid recompilation of Bacula.
What would be a s
On 8/10/07, Jarrod Lewis-Peacock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm re-installing Bacula using MySQL instead of SQLite. I'm having problems
> linking with a mysql shared library.
>
> >> ./bacula start
> Starting the Bacula Storage daemon
> Starting the Bacula File daemon
> Starting the Ba
On 8/23/07, Angel Mieres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Im testing bacula with two jobs. One of them, backup over 70.000 files
> and have 2 Gb. Second one have over 100 files and have 1Gb.
> Why the first job is getting speed of 3.000 KB/sec and the second one
> 25.000 KB/sec?(the backup
On 4/26/06, pedro moreno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/26/06, Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, pedro moreno wrote:
> >
> > > Hi People.
> > >
> > > Ok My HP Surestore Ultrium 230 is dead.
> > >
> > > HP dosent want to repair because they say is old. Ok they of
On 5/5/06, Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 4 May 2006 at 18:58, Dan Langille wrote:
> I have updated the Bacula brochure. My DOC to PDF conversion is not
> working. Can you convert a DOC to a PDF? I have a WORD file here
> that needs to be converted to a PDF. Thanks.
Thanks! I h
Hello,
has anyone used the HP Storageworks 1/8 Autoloader?
Time to go for shopping and set the stable bacula environment, so I'd
like to hear if that model has some idiosyncrasy to work with Bacula.
TIA
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Hello,
I have a problem with bacula-web, on RHEL 3, with mysql: I get only
"DB error: no such database".
Results from test.php are all OK.
I saw a couple of messages on the list regarding this, but the only
suggestion was to install pear (which in my case is already
installed).
I enabled the gene
On 5/18/06, MaxxAtWork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a problem with bacula-web, on RHEL 3, with mysql: I get only
"DB error: no such database".
Forget my previous message, problem solved :-)
As often happens, you fight a whole day to solve a problem and you don't
Hello,
I'm going to roll out bacula client 1.38 on a HP-UX 11.11 server, but
before to go in production, I'd like to test it first on a similar
server, that runs on 11.00.
Is there anything available for 11.00 or can you at least suggest
whether it's possible to get the client compiled with gcc?
On 5/26/06, Heigl Florian - Munich-MR - external <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> A 11.00 client might work, but You shouldn't expect it to be easy.
> It is on my list to retry it when I have some more understanding of
> all the weird stuff linkers do, but on the other hand... 11.00 has it's
> EOL
>
Hello,
I'm testing bacula to backup a CVS-like repository.
In order to have a consistent archive, before to run the backup
I create a snapshot (HP-UX filesystems) of the partition to be
backupped and I actually make the backup of the snapshot.
When backup is complete, I undo the snapshot.
Now, af
On 5/31/06, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> If anyone on this list is using XFS and ACLs, would you please let me know. I
> need some help debugging an apparent problem with Bacula ACLs.
>
Hello Kern,
I'm not exactly using XFS and ACL, but on my bacula-director server
(not ye
On 6/1/06, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for your offer of help.
>
>
> Yes, it sounds like you might be an ideal site for testing the problems
> reported on the developer's list. I include a copy of the email below. I am
> going to try to learn more about his setup t
On 7/11/06, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> At least one user has reported that he is unable to send email to the list.
> Well, Source Forge recently put up a new version of Mailman, which is much
> more strict in what it lets through, probably in an effort to avoid spam.
>
I
Hello,
sorry if this turns being a stupid question but...
I'm testing my new autochanger (HP autoloader 1x8, with Ultrium-448).
When I run the 'fill' btape test, in multiple tape mode,
should the program change the tape by itself, is it expected behaviour
that I manually change tape?
Here is the
On 7/13/06, Julien Cigar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> phoenix:/etc/bacula# tapeinfo -f /dev/nst0
> mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes
> mtx: Request Sense: Valid Residual=no
> mtx: Request Sense: Error Code=0 (Unknown?!)
> mtx: Request Sense: Sense Key=No Sense
> mtx: Request Sense: FileMark=no
>
On 7/14/06, Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,I have some bacula installations on SunFire 280R Sparc machines, with Solaris 10.These machines apperar to be very very slow with respect to other installations (such as v20z) with same LTO2 device.
As you can see from the report, 60Gb
On 7/19/06, Mathew Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I couldn't find much information regarding LTO drives and support
> besides the basic information provided by:
>
> http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Supported_Tape_Drives.html
>
> which shows that Bacula should work fine with LTO drives
On 7/19/06, Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Do you mean that the whole 280R machine maybe running at half-duplex?!I'm not sure what interface you are using for the backups (probably an eriX),
but to get the link status and link capabilities from the Solaris side you can e.g. use this
Hello,
I'm planning to configure my backup environment so that most of the server-fd's
can access the storage daemon via regular Intranet, but a couple of them, with
higher backup requirements, would use instead a private (gigabit?)
backup-LAN that
is connected to the server-sd&dir via a second NI
On 7/22/06, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That old trick will no longer work with Bacula 1.38.x at least not if you are
> using an autochanger. It relied on the fact that Bacula only supported a
> single autochanger and thus never kept track of it. In 1.38.x Bacula works
> with multip
On 7/14/06, Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
> I have some bacula installations on SunFire 280R Sparc machines, with Solaris
> 10.
> These machines apperar to be very very slow with respect to other
> installations
> (such as v20z) with same LTO2 device.
> As you can see fr
On 7/24/06, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you get this to work using a single SD with an Address name that is
> resolved differently on the Director and on the Client, please let me know.
> It is always conforting to have a confirmation of something that we put in
> the manual.
>
I
On 7/26/06, Chris Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I tried to find 1.36.3 fd for win32 but I haven't seen any out there. I think
> it would be easier to role the fd's back rather than update the director.
> Anyone know where I can find the older fd's for win32?
If it's contained in a winbacula-1
Item n: Split documentation
Origin: Maxx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 27th July 2006
Status:
What: Split documentation in several books
Why:Bacula manual has now more than 600 pages, and looking for
implementation details is getting complicated.
I thin
Hello Marco,
> make: Cannot find a rule to create target ../findlib/libfind.a from
> dependencies.
> Stop.
>
> the problem seem to be into ../findlib/libfind
>
> can you suggest me anything?
>
are you using only gnu tools for compiling (make, cc, etc.) ?
It sounds like either your 'make' doe
On 8/23/06, Peteris Krišjānis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone, I would like to know is there anyone with expierence "HP
> StorageWorks 1/8 Tape Autoloader with Ultrium 2 support and Bacula" or
> something like that? Under OS X or Linux? How it is different from any
> other autoloaders or s
On 8/29/06, Marco Strullato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> VolumeRetention = 7
Volume retention is 7 *what*, when unit is not specified?
Seconds, perhaps?
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Hello,
I would like to run Bacula on my Synology NAS to take backups on
external SATA disks,
using an additional USB dock.
I see that there is a vchanger tool available to manage the operation
of replacing disk volumes,
but the requirements of the tool are not easy to meet with what the NAS offer
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