Re: [Bacula-users] restoring without a bsr file or catalog

2006-09-16 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Friday 15 September 2006 18:07, Dave wrote: > Hello, > I've been given a tape that has some data saved by bacula i believe the > version was 1.38.4 or so. There is no .bsr file and no catalog, i have a > tape and that's it, it has two jobs on it. He wants me to try to recover > the files in

Re: [Bacula-users] help with schedules

2006-09-16 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Saturday 16 September 2006 12:09, Jim Peters wrote: > Are there any good tutorials or advice on how to create different schedules > for bacula? What I would like to do is schedule each client to back up each > day (mon-sun) and keep each backup until the next time that day comes > around. (Actua

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring file from volume

2006-09-22 Thread Mike Reinehr
Daniel, On Thursday 21 September 2006 15:51, Daniel Hoeving wrote: > I'm trying to restore a specific file from a tape in my monthly pool. > The back-up is about three months old - the job is still listed in the > catalog. When I run a "list jobs" command it shows the job with one file > (the one

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring file from volume

2006-09-26 Thread Mike Reinehr
lite.8.gz >From comparing the output of your locate command to mine, it looks as if your copy of bscan somehow may have been removed in error. Cheers! cmr > Daniel Hoeving > Network Administrator > Campus Crusade for Christ, Canada > E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > P: (604)514-2107 >

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring file from volume

2006-09-27 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 17:06, Richard Mortimer wrote: > On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 08:13 -0700, Daniel Hoeving wrote: > > > That looks like the 1.36.x packages in Debian/Sarge. They ship three > versions of bscan for each of the three different director backends. > Just use the appropriate versio

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help

2006-09-29 Thread Mike Reinehr
I'm catching up with this thread with interest after just coming into work this morning. Kern, my sympathy. I can imagine how frustrated you are, but it just goes to show how good a programmer you are, that it wasn't Bacula after all! After reading the merits & weaknesses of RHEL, SUSE, & Cento

Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

2006-10-10 Thread Mike Reinehr
Server: Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 Stable(Sarge) On Tuesday 10 October 2006 05:51, Peter L. Buschman wrote: > All: > > If it isn't too much of an imposition, I'd like to survey the list > and ask the question > "what operating system are you running Bacula on?". I'm interested in which > OS distribut

Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

2006-11-06 Thread Mike Reinehr
Peter, I have three (3) Dual-Opteron servers, all running Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 Stable (Sarge), one of which hosts Bacula, backing up all three servers. In addition we have seven (7) PC workstations (Athlon XP's & Sempron 64's), running everything from Caldera Open Linux to Debian Testing (Etc

Re: [Bacula-users] deleting old volumes

2006-11-13 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Friday 10 November 2006 03:10, Mantas Marčiulaitis wrote: > I'm using disk as backup media. A the moment I only use one pool with label > format set as follows: "Label Format = > "Full-${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Day:p/2/0/r}-${Client}". > > Every night bacula creates a new file, however although

Re: [Bacula-users] Retaining Job information

2006-11-22 Thread Mike Reinehr
Dave, On Tuesday 21 November 2006 15:43, DAve wrote: > Martin Simmons wrote: > >> On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:07:27 -0500, DAve said: > >> > >> I've read through the following portions of the manual and I think I > >> might not be able to do what I need. > >> > >> http://bacula.org/rel-manual/Auto

Re: [Bacula-users] Merry Christmas...

2006-12-23 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Saturday 23 December 2006 07:40, Arno Lehmann wrote: > ... to all of you, even if you aren't christian, or have to work, or > whatever. Have some nice days! > > Arno "Merry Christmas to all, and to all good night." cmr -- Debian 'Etch': Registered Linux User #241964 "More laws, less just

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] What a difference a database makes

2006-12-29 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Friday 29 December 2006 02:02, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Friday 29 December 2006 06:19, John Jorgensen wrote: > > Seeing this discussion about SQLite3 performance has finally > > prompted me to share an observation that I made about a year ago, > > when building bacula together with sqlite-3.3.6

Re: [Bacula-users] Recycling Tapes / Device BLOCKED problem

2005-12-06 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 01:14 pm, deann corum wrote: > I'm trying to recycle some older tapes and having issues with Bacula: > > a) Bacula not wanting to purge the old tape volume from the catalog. > Bconsole just sits there for hours after I type 'purge' and subsequently > select the volume to

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula update

2005-12-08 Thread Mike Reinehr
Kern, I really don't have a dog in this fight, as I am running Debian "Sarge" servers which still are at 1.36.2, however, I would like to make these two observations. 1) This raises a question about just what version numbers mean. I've read an article or two about "corruption" to versioning sc

Re: [Bacula-users] RunAfter job problem

2005-12-19 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Sunday 18 December 2005 05:46 am, Natxo Asenjo wrote: > On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, 09:54:28PM +0100¨, Arno Lehmann said: > > >17-Dec 20:26 tux-dir: RunAfter: root > > >17-Dec 20:26 tux-dir: RunAfter: + /etc/bacula/delete_catalog_backup > > >17-Dec 20:26 tux-dir: RunAfter: + mt rewind > > >17-Dec 20

Re: [Bacula-users] How to recover from loss of sync between catalog and volumes?

2005-03-17 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Thursday 17 March 2005 04:58 am, Mike Winiberg wrote: > Hi, > > We recently had a problem which I haven't been able to fully recover from, > and would appreciate some advice about the best thing to do should > something like this happen again: [...] > However, when I next tried to run a backup,

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: bcopy problems

2005-03-18 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Thursday 17 March 2005 03:00 pm, Brennon Church wrote: > My intention is actually to do my full and incremental backups to a > large RAID.  Once a week, I wanted to copy the volumes from my full job > pool to tape for off-site storage.  It sounds like Bacula is not quite > up to such a configura

Re: [Bacula-users] FileSet Exclude by Default

2005-03-23 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 07:41 pm, David Fuchs wrote: > 22-Mar 17:26 davidfuchs-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at inc_conf.c:495 > Config error: Regex compile error. ERR=repetition-operator operand invalid > >             : line 119, col 35 of file > /usr/local/bacula/etc/bacula-dir.conf RegexFile = "^.?*$

[Bacula-users] Admin Job - Prune Volumes

2005-05-13 Thread Mike Reinehr
I have the following described job in my bacula-dir.conf file: Job { Name = "Bilskirnir-Prune" Type = Admin Messages = Standard Priority = 10 Schedule = "WeeklyPrune" Storage = File Client = bilskirnir-fd FileSet = "Bilskirnir File Set" Pool = "Bilskirnir Files" Full Backup Poo

Re: [Bacula-users] Admin Job - Prune Volumes

2005-05-13 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Friday 13 May 2005 03:24 pm, Martin Simmons wrote: > >>>>> On Fri, 13 May 2005 12:26:16 -0500, Mike Reinehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>> said: > > Mike> I have the following described job in my bacula-dir.conf file: > > Mike>

Re: [OT][Bacula-users] RAID1

2005-05-25 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Wednesday 25 May 2005 03:00 am, Danie Theron wrote: > Hi , > > I know this is a bit off bacula topic probably. I want to remove RAID1 > from a disk , everytime I boot it it's looking for the 2nd disk. I want > to simpy boot into a normal "vanilla" disk. Can I edit the fstab and > just change the

Re: [Bacula-users] Conceptual difficulty...

2005-05-26 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Thursday 26 May 2005 02:02 pm, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote: > Hi, > > Eventually I want to use Bacula to implement SAN for multiple servers. > Right now I am in a getting-to-know-you stage with Bacula and want to > switch one server (the one that will run the director and storage manager) > to it

Re: [Bacula-users] Test

2005-05-27 Thread Mike Reinehr
Are you subscribed? cmr On Thursday 26 May 2005 04:15 pm, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote: > I am not seeing messages from this list except through the web archives. > Please forgive this test. > > Misty > > > --- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by Y

Re: [Bacula-users] Test

2005-05-27 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Friday 27 May 2005 09:36 am, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote: > I sent the message and got a blank reply so I don't know. > > On Friday 27 May 2005 09:32 am, Mike Reinehr wrote: > > Are you subscribed? > > > > cmr > > > > On Thursday 26 May 2005 04:15 p

Re: [Bacula-users] RAID1

2005-05-28 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Wednesday 25 May 2005 04:34 am, Jo wrote: > Danie Theron wrote: > > Hi , > > > > I know this is a bit off bacula topic probably. I want to remove RAID1 > > from a disk , everytime I boot it it's looking for the 2nd disk. I > > want to simpy boot into a normal "vanilla" disk. Can I edit the fstab

Re: [Bacula-users] no compression using seagate scorpian dss-4 drive

2005-05-31 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Monday 30 May 2005 02:25 pm, Christopher Mosentine wrote: > Hello: I am using bacula with my seagate scorpian dss-4 drive. I > love how bacula has support for my tape drive right out-of-the-box. > > Bacula is running fine but I am not able to achive any compression as > I am only able to put a

Re: [Bacula-users] [Fwd: Bacula: Admin OK of ArtemisPruneDB from artemis-fd]

2005-06-01 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Wednesday 01 June 2005 12:22 pm, Russell Howe wrote: > Once I have this tuned to how I want it, I'll post my configuration, as > I think it will be useful to quite a few people. Please do so! Thanks, cmr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 "More laws, less justice."

Re: [Bacula-users] Renaming Volumes?

2005-06-03 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Friday 03 June 2005 03:39 pm, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote: > Can I rename a disk volume somehow? i figured out how I want to label the > volumes now but it was wrong yesterday. The backups were good, but the > names are not what I want. I have auto labeling so I assume that when they > expirre

Re: [Bacula-users] Renaming Volumes?

2005-06-03 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Friday 03 June 2005 04:02 pm, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Friday 03 June 2005 22:51, Mike Reinehr wrote: > > On Friday 03 June 2005 03:39 pm, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote: > > > Can I rename a disk volume somehow? i figured out how I want to label > > > the volumes now

Re: [Bacula-users] [OT: Was: Re: bscan segfault]

2005-06-03 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Thursday 02 June 2005 06:39 am, José Luis Tallón wrote: > > Kern: this is bacula-1.36.3, save for the old include/exclude support > and the documentation updates, FYI. > bscan comes in 3 flavors, each statically linked to its corresponding > version of 'cats' and client libraries > > >(i386 Pen

Re: [Bacula-users] [OT: Was: Re: bscan segfault]

2005-06-08 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 02:52 pm, José Luis Tallón wrote: > Mike Reinehr wrote: > >On Thursday 02 June 2005 06:39 am, José Luis Tallón wrote: > > > > > >>Kern: this is bacula-1.36.3, save for the old include/exclude support > >>and the documentation upd

Re: [Bacula-users] Thinking of implementing bacula have a couple ?'s.

2005-06-24 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Thursday 23 June 2005 11:05 am, Sean wrote: > 2. Can bacula be compiled on a 64-bit linux system? (I imagine it could, > but has anyone had experience with this?) I haven't, personally, compiled it, but I've been running a 64-bit Bacula for over six months now on AMD64 Debian, Sarge. The packa

Re: [Bacula-users] DVD+/-RW as media without bimgmanager?

2005-06-27 Thread Mike Reinehr
I don't know if you're open to purchasing more hardware, but I'm surprised that more people don't use DVD-RAM. That's what I use here (not with Bacula, though) and I am able to make a file system, mount and write to a DVD-RAM disk in the same manner as a hard drive. DVD-RAM has been supported by

Re: [Bacula-users] DVD+/-RW as media without bimgmanager?

2005-06-27 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Monday 27 June 2005 03:10 pm, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 02:45:44PM -0500, Mike Reinehr wrote: > > I don't know if you're open to purchasing more hardware, but I'm > > surprised that more people don't use DVD-RAM. That's what I use

[Bacula-users] ERROR TERMINATION at lex.c:140

2005-06-27 Thread Mike Reinehr
Oh, oh! I seem to have just shot myself in the foot! I edited /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf to add the necessary paragraphs to support a new network client backup. Then I stopped bacula-director & tried to restart it with the following result: > Starting Bacula Director: 27-Jun 16:39 bacula-dir:

Re: [Bacula-users] ERROR TERMINATION at lex.c:140

2005-06-27 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Monday 27 June 2005 04:54 pm, Mike Reinehr wrote: > Oh, oh! I seem to have just shot myself in the foot! > > I edited /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf to add the necessary paragraphs to > support a new network client backup. Then I stopped bacula-director & tried > > to restart

Re: [Bacula-users] ERROR TERMINATION at lex.c:140

2005-07-01 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Wednesday 29 June 2005 01:22 pm, David Clymer wrote: > On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 17:09 -0500, Mike Reinehr wrote: > > On Monday 27 June 2005 04:54 pm, Mike Reinehr wrote: > > > Oh, oh! I seem to have just shot myself in the foot! > > > > > > I edited /etc/bacula/

Re: [Bacula-users] file-list

2005-07-11 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Monday 11 July 2005 10:10 am, Maurizio Santini wrote: > It worked! > > Bacula's manual should be corrected because it says to use "File = > @/what_ever_path/file.list" but as you suggested the word "File" is not > needed in bacula-dir.conf when the @ operator is used. > > Thank you very much, >

Re: [Bacula-users] file-list

2005-07-11 Thread Mike Reinehr
hen you start the director. Also make sure that the director has permission to read the file. Cheers! cmr > On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 14:21, Mike Reinehr wrote: > > On Monday 11 July 2005 10:10 am, Maurizio Santini wrote: > > > It worked! > > > > > >

Re: [Bacula-users] MTEOM

2005-07-13 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 02:42 am, Taymour A. El Erian wrote: > HI, > > I had a tape which bacula failed to write on so I did mt erase and > relabeled it with label command and started to reuse it, what happened > is that I got this error from bacula after it wrote several jobs on the > tape >

Re: [Bacula-users] Still confuse of connecting the storage daemon

2005-07-13 Thread Mike Reinehr
As Arno already has told you, you have problems in the following two areas: > 12-Jul 15:44 becky-fd: becky.2005-07-12_15.44.41 Error: .. \lib\../../lib/bnet.c:685 gethostbyname() for host "backup" failed: ERR=Authoritative answer for host not found. In other words, becky-fd can not resolve the n

Re: [Bacula-users] dev open failed: Could not open file device "DVD-WRITER" (/dev/hdc). No Volume name given.

2005-07-13 Thread Mike Reinehr
Mario, On Wednesday 13 July 2005 12:39 pm, Mario Ohnewald wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 16:12 +0200, Frederic PIERROT wrote: > > Hi, > > > > At 16:06 13/07/2005, you wrote: > > >i am trying to test my backup volume like the tutorial recommends: > > > > > >btape -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf /dev/

Re: [Bacula-users] dev open failed: Could not open file device "DVD-WRITER" (/dev/hdc). No Volume name given.

2005-07-14 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 05:33 pm, Mario Ohnewald wrote: > Hello Mike, > > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:24 -0500, Mike Reinehr wrote: > > Mario, > > > > On Wednesday 13 July 2005 12:39 pm, Mario Ohnewald wrote: > > > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 16:12 +0200

Re: [Bacula-users] Catalog stopped backing up?

2005-07-14 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Thursday 14 July 2005 09:37 am, DAve wrote: > Good morning all, > > I've read through the docs (doesn't mean I got it all) and successfully > installed and configured Bacula. Very nice program. I ran backups into a > single file for a while until we got an idea what we needed. I then > reread th

Re: [Bacula-users] Catalog stopped backing up?

2005-07-14 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Thursday 14 July 2005 11:50 am, DAve wrote: > Mike Reinehr wrote: > > On Thursday 14 July 2005 09:37 am, DAve wrote: > >>Good morning all, > >> > >>I've read through the docs (doesn't mean I got it all) and successfully > >>installed and c

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula fails to backup files with old/moved file stamp

2005-07-15 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Friday 15 July 2005 05:53 am, Mario Ohnewald wrote: > Hello List, > > at the moment i am backing up folder > /home/user/test > > it works well. > But when i move some files from a diffrent folder into my backup test > folder like this: > > mv /tmp/trash_big_files /home/user/test > > and i run

Re: [Bacula-users] Including Files in bacula-dir.conf?

2005-07-15 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Friday 15 July 2005 02:07 pm, Rushowr wrote: > I searched the docs and the archives, and couldn't find an answer. I > apologize if I missed this, but I was wondering if you can include files in > the bacula-dir.conf file? Specifically, would it be possible to put an > include for a file such as

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula fails to backup files with old/moved file stamp

2005-07-21 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Thursday 21 July 2005 10:59 am, Mario Ohnewald wrote: > o the postix standard), and therefore it should be included in the > backup. > > Unfortunatelly, i wasn't able to find that point in the posix standard, > neither did i look into the problem why Sarge does not change the ctime. Sar

Re: [Bacula-users] Debian packages

2005-08-02 Thread Mike Reinehr
Hello Stack! On Tuesday 02 August 2005 11:00 am, Stack Stack wrote: > Hello everyone, > I am attempting to build Bacula on a Debian system. I am very much new > at Bacula, I have been reading the tutorials past several days, and > right now I am just doing testing on a secondary box before I mess

Re: [Bacula-users] Adding a Red Hat box to be backed up

2005-08-03 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 11:42 am, Stack Stack wrote: > Thanks, That at least fixed the problem on the Debian box. However, > still the same error on the Red Hat box. I reinstalled the fd client > on the Red Hat box. I also went through every bacula file that I could > find on both boxes, and ve

Re: [Bacula-users] Adding a Red Hat box to be backed up

2005-08-03 Thread Mike Reinehr
ard install. Cheers! cmr > On 8/3/05, Mike Reinehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 03 August 2005 11:42 am, Stack Stack wrote: > > > Thanks, That at least fixed the problem on the Debian box. However, > > > still the same error on th

Re: [Bacula-users] Variable for week of the month?

2005-08-05 Thread Mike Reinehr
Misty, On Friday 05 August 2005 11:24 am, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote: > On Friday 05 August 2005 11:18 am, Jesse Keating wrote: > > Keep in mind, when a volume is recycled it is not re-labeled. Only the > > first time the volume is created is it labeled. > > So if volume 31 is marked as purged and

Re: [Bacula-users] Review of Bacula

2006-04-05 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 09:36 am, John Kodis wrote: > There's a brief review of Bacula at: > > http://osreviews.net/reviews/admin/bacula > > It's fairly positive, but criticizes the tape selection algorithm as > being "far from intuitive". No argument there. In the short time that I

Re: [Bacula-users] Impossible Huge Backup

2006-07-19 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 01:52 pm, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > thanx for the advice, but this was the first thing I checked. Sounds as if the next step would be to use the bls command to list all of the files on the tape and then compare that listing with a listing of the files on the com

Re: [Bacula-users] zlib problem when restoring files

2006-08-02 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 04:09 am, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Wednesday 02 August 2006 10:58, Beda Kosata wrote: > > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > On Wednesday 02 August 2006 06:40, Beda Kosata wrote: > > >>Dear all, > > >>I am using bacula to backup several of our machines and I have run into > > >>a

Re: [Bacula-users] zlib problem when restoring files

2006-08-04 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Thursday 03 August 2006 12:37 am, Beda Kosata wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 August 2006 17:46, Mike Reinehr wrote: > >>On Wednesday 02 August 2006 04:09 am, Kern Sibbald wrote: > >>>On Wednesday 02 August 2006 10:58, Beda Kosata wrote: >

Re: [Bacula-users] debian rescue cd

2006-08-07 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Monday 07 August 2006 03:37 pm, Scott Lair wrote: > Hi folks, > > Been using bacula 1.36.2 for a few months on a debian sarge system. I > am having trouble making a rescue cd. First looked for a deb package to > help with the job but I do not see one on debian.org nor does google > yield anyth

Re: [Bacula-users] split configuration files

2006-08-30 Thread Mike Reinehr
Bruno, On Wednesday 30 August 2006 12:36, Bruno Savioli wrote: > Hello All, > > I am setting up a fairly big bacula solution. > I will be backing up aroung 150-200 linux clients. > As it will be a large deployment, I want to configure it to be easily > manageable and easy to add new clients. > > I

Re: [Bacula-users] split configuration files

2006-08-30 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 12:56, Bruno Savioli wrote: > Hello Mike, > > > Thanks for spotting that. That was the problem. > > Bruno More often than not, it's the simple things that trip us up! :-) cmr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus T