Re: [Bacula-users] Hierarchical storage systems?

2007-02-14 Thread Russell Howe
, but XFS has an API for Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) apps called DMAPI. It's an SGI thing, and there must be at least one or two HSM apps out there. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. In

Re: [Bacula-users] alternative postgres config

2007-02-15 Thread Russell Howe
bacula ident bacula I don't think you need identd for this - when using unix sockets, postgres gets the other user's uid via a syscall on the socket, IIRC. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys

[Bacula-users] Coping with brief network outages when talking to clients

2007-03-17 Thread Russell Howe
l...). Has this ever been considered, and how much work would it be to implement? -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 2.0.3 for Win32 can't backup top level Chinese folder!

2007-05-16 Thread Russell Howe
See "Buffer Options" for the character set selector (you can also switch between different line terminators). I think even Windows notepad is unicode-aware these days, although whether it uses UTF8 or one of the other encodings, I don't know. -- Rus

Re: [Bacula-users] Has this list been having problems sending mail?

2007-06-15 Thread Russell Howe
queue (nor can I even find the time to maintain my bacula install!) To anyone reading this who isn't subscribed, may I recommend subscribing and setting your subscription to "nomail". That way, your posts won

Re: [Bacula-users] Has this list been having problems sending mail?

2007-06-15 Thread Russell Howe
Rich wrote, sometime around 15/06/07 16:23: > On 2007.06.15. 18:15, Russell Howe wrote: > ... >> It could also be the original poster gets fed up waiting for me to >> find time to run through the queue, and so subscribes and then reposts. >> >> Then when I go th

Re: [Bacula-users] WOW

2006-09-11 Thread Russell Howe
omething like ./sendsms --to +4477123123123 "This is an SMS" Once you have that, it's easy enough to interface to Bacula, in the same way that job results are emailed. You'll probably find the same tool useful for a bazillion other things (pushing y

Re: [Bacula-users] WOW

2006-09-11 Thread Russell Howe
Yup - I got a new one this Saturday, and it does POP3, IMAP and SMTP, all with SSL as an option (it even validates the certificate!). Most impressed, I was, until I saw what Orange wanted to charge me for GPRS on my tariff :) -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole questions

2005-10-05 Thread Russell Howe
the size of the average catalog db, I expect. select statuslong from statustext where code = 'C' and lang = 'en'; or something.. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by:

Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding Priority

2005-10-05 Thread Russell Howe
same priority (I want them to run concurrently). Group #3 is scheduled to start a few minutes after group #1 with the same priority (it will wait on max storage jobs until all the jobs in group #1 have finished) Group #4 has a larger priority value so that it waits until the other jo

Re: [Bacula-users] special characters

2005-10-13 Thread Russell Howe
using RegexFile, which doesn't yet work on the Windows fd, IIRC) > File = "C:/Documents and Settings/mperez/Configuración local/Historial" -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Ar

Re: [Bacula-users] write error

2005-10-14 Thread Russell Howe
the drive? Several times I've seen "Improved SCSI compliance" or other such catch-all terms in the changelog for drive firmware updates. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored b

Re: [Bacula-users] Reality Check: Multiple fd's on a machine

2005-10-14 Thread Russell Howe
restore shouldn't be tricky really.. you can restore any job to any client (well, unless you want to restore Windows files to a non-Windows box and you didn't use the "Portable" directive) -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: [Bacula-users] Reality Check: Multiple fd's on a machine

2005-10-14 Thread Russell Howe
example. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibma

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem ERROR Backing UP

2005-10-17 Thread Russell Howe
pted somehow. Got a backup? ;) Oh, and your mail had a weird Date: header claiming to be from 1970... -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestion for a REALLY handy enhancement, shouldn't be hard either...

2005-10-21 Thread Russell Howe
Sherwood McGowan wrote: > > It does accept STDIN, but wouldn't that just allow a one line command? Or do > you mean something like: > > Cat batchcommands | /etc/bconsole indeed. Or bconsole

Re: [Bacula-users] Ensuring tape is not appended

2005-10-24 Thread Russell Howe
acula to 'promote' it into the correct pool for whichever job required it? -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course Free Certifica

Re: [Bacula-users] authorization security

2005-10-25 Thread Russell Howe
be lovely, but I doubt it's even on the list of things to consider at the moment. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course Free Certific

[Bacula-users] VSS fixes for Windows 2003

2005-10-25 Thread Russell Howe
For anyone using VSS on Windows 2003, I just stumbled across this MS knowledgebase article. Might be of help if you're having problems. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891957 -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net ema

Re: [Bacula-users] *Extreme* low MySQL performance when prunnig or purging jobs/volumes

2005-10-26 Thread Russell Howe
f you can disable that, things should get a *LOT* faster. I posted a link to some Postgresql performance tuning documents a while back - they're linked to from the postgres website too. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net ema

Re: [Bacula-users] dev open failed

2005-10-26 Thread Russell Howe
ll as a bunch of held posts). -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005

Re: [Bacula-users] RFC: client after fail command

2005-10-26 Thread Russell Howe
Kern Sibbald wrote: > If I see that users just cannot "get" or tolerate Python scripting, then > falling back to Phil's suggestion would be a solution. I'm sure it must be fairly easy to write a short python script to perform actions in a way which doesn't require

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalogue errors

2005-10-26 Thread Russell Howe
like there isn't a mail server running on the host, or if there is, it's not listening on 127.0.0.1 I assume the error is coming from the host running the director (neither the sd nor the fd seem to have the ability to send email alerts).

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-fd service doesn't respond

2005-10-26 Thread Russell Howe
x27;, nothing is listening on port >>9102. Have you checked to see if the installed service is being started automatically by Windows? Check the 'Services' MMC snapin. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email

Re: [Bacula-users] *Extreme* low MySQL performance when prunnig or purging jobs/volumes

2005-10-26 Thread Russell Howe
27;t see the need for synchronous operation, unless you absolutely cannot have your database server down for the time it would take to restore the catalog in the event of a power failure or somesuch. I'll be turning it off tonight, to see what difference i

Re: [Bacula-users] Compile on XP Instructions. (64 bit offer)

2005-10-26 Thread Russell Howe
05, it doesn't > quite look like all the support libraries are available for Win64 anyway...? I don't think mingw supports 64 bit Windows yet, and I don't think the developers are planning to support it without extra help. (I'm assuming the windows port of

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Database Must Be Broken - Was Restore Doesn't List Any Files?

2005-10-27 Thread Russell Howe
mportant * Hope that the catalog backup you restored wasn't corrupted. You may be able to use bextract instead of bscan+restore to extract just the database dump, which would probably save you considerable time and fustration. -- Russell Howe | Why be just another cog in

Re: [Bacula-users] mail notifications

2005-10-31 Thread Russell Howe
d which calls bsmtp/sendmail/mailx/ssmtp/etc with the appropriate options? -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course Free Certification Exam

[Bacula-users] Error with win32 fd caused director to block, awaiting manual intervention on the client

2005-11-07 Thread Russell Howe
s queued for other clients in this way. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv o

Re: FW: [Bacula-users] Performance testing and tuning

2005-11-08 Thread Russell Howe
sdump from solaris. Are the only devices on the SCSI bus the drive and the controller? Not knowing anything about Solaris, I don't know what you can do with the OS to query/test the bus performance. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- S

Re: [Bacula-users] single instance storage?

2005-12-08 Thread Russell Howe
whatever the hardlinking backup software thingie is called) to provide a hardlinked backup of your boxes, and then back that up with bacula to save space. I think that should be possible in the absence of base jobs. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: [Bacula-users] single instance storage?

2005-12-08 Thread Russell Howe
Mordechai T. Abzug wrote: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:05:40PM +0000, Russell Howe wrote: > > >>If you look at the recent "Project voting" email, I think this is what >>Kern terms "Base Jobs". In short, no, not yet, but it's planned I think. >

Re: [Bacula-users] Solaris 10 client change root password

2005-12-14 Thread Russell Howe
iate suggestions. > > Good question. NOTHING, I repeat NOTHING, in the Bacula build process > should be asking you to change the root password. Nor should ./configure or the build process really be run as root, I'd suggest... -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [Bacula-users] DLT tape errors suddenly start

2006-01-10 Thread Russell Howe
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 07:59:05PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > My DLT tape drive has been going along nicely for almost a year. > Tonight, the day before I head away for a trip, it starts giving > errors. You did, presumably, try a cleaning tape in it? :) -- Russell Howe | Wh

Re: [Bacula-users] Don't run as root if you can avoid it.

2006-01-16 Thread Russell Howe
James P. Kinney III wrote: > bacula is a member of the disk group. Isn't being a member of the disk group effectively the same as being root, since you can gain access to the block devices containing the local filesystems? -- Russell Howe [EMAIL P

Re: [Bacula-users] Please remove me from the list

2006-01-27 Thread Russell Howe
If you're really stuck with usage of the list, email the list admin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't bother the list with administrivia. -- Russell Howe, bacula-users moderator [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is sponsored by:

[Bacula-users] A script to ease the pain of switching from SQLite to PostgreSQL

2006-02-06 Thread Russell Howe
stgres while you do the import - I haven't benchmarked, but it should make things go a good bit quicker. I haven't actually tested this yet, so it's probably broken and riddled with bugs. Still, enjoy :) -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/bash # Import an SQLite dump of

Re: [Bacula-users] Hit me w/ a Clue-by-Four (Amanda user)

2006-02-09 Thread Russell Howe
s - the value is set in the database for already created volumes, and needs updating explicitly if you want to change it. See the manual). Also, if you'd rather ensure that no single client is having multiple jobs run against it at once, then you could set maximum concurrent jo

Re: [Bacula-users] user complains bacula slows his laptop

2006-02-10 Thread Russell Howe
One other thing he can try (assuming he has permission to do so - he might not) is lowering the process priority of the FD when it's running. You can do this from Windows Task Manager, although if it's running under the local SYSTEM account, you might not be able to change it, even as A

Re: "JobSet", "Batch", or "Aggregate" Concept / Max tape usage per (WAS: Re: [Bacula-users] Hit me w/ a Clue-by-Four (Amanda user))

2006-02-13 Thread Russell Howe
Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 10:37 +0000, Russell Howe wrote: >>Bacula will do this. Check you don't have "Maximum Volume Jobs = 1" in > > > I do. This is because I'm trying to enforce a specific threshold of a > single-tape-per-da

Re: "JobSet", "Batch", or "Aggregate" Concept / Max tape usage per (WAS: Re: [Bacula-users] Hit me w/ a Clue-by-Four (Amanda user))

2006-02-13 Thread Russell Howe
Russell Howe wrote: > I have this comment in the configuration to remind anyone who might > inherit this setup: # ** VERY IMPORTANT ** # In the database, the media entries have a MaxVolJobs setting. This is # what determines that a tape is full. # # Current values are: # Cases tapes: 10

Re: Date/Time poll'ing ? (WAS: Re: [Bacula-users] Simulate/Test Scheduler?)

2006-02-13 Thread Russell Howe
r 'status dir' > when Bacula needs to decide which volume to use. You can trigger them by running a job of type Admin -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files f

Re: [Bacula-users] A script to ease the pain of switching from SQLite to PostgreSQL

2006-02-23 Thread Russell Howe
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Monday 06 February 2006 18:04, Russell Howe wrote: > >>Well, the time is nigh. Our SQLite database has hit 1.3GB and creates a >>900MB dump file, which is big enough to cause our bacula Xen virtual >>machine to run out of space when running a cata

[Bacula-users] FOSDEM 2006

2006-02-23 Thread Russell Howe
Is anyone else going to FOSDEM 2006 in Brussels? http://www.fosdem.org/ I'll be arriving Friday afternoon, and will stay until sometime Sunday afternoon/evening. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by

Re: [Bacula-users] FOSDEM 2006

2006-02-27 Thread Russell Howe
Jo wrote: > Russell Howe schreef: > >> Is anyone else going to FOSDEM 2006 in Brussels? >> > I'm living 30 kilometers from Brussels. I'll probably be there on Sunday > and maybe Saturday afternoon. My cell phone number is +32 (0)478-33 76 27. > > May

Re: [Bacula-users] Database odbc or one more driver.

2007-08-21 Thread Russell Howe
least a couple of critical apps here are written to work with SQL Server and SQL Server alone - even to the point of using encrypted stored procedures, no less!). ODBC would seem like the way to go, although it could just use the TDS libraries directly I suppose.. -- Russell Howe, IT

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up MS SQL server with Bacula?

2007-10-11 Thread Russell Howe
7;ve posted the prune & compress script here before, so it should be in the archives somewhere. It's nothing fancy. -- Russell Howe, IT Manager. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BMT Marine & Offshore Surveys Ltd. -

Re: [Bacula-users] Clustering the win32 FD

2007-10-19 Thread Russell Howe
currently doing it (with 0.0.0.0:9102) listening addresses (the default). But, I'd really like it as a clustered service, and it shouldn't be that hard to do. I'll have another stab at it next week. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Bacula-users] Clustering the win32 FD

2007-10-19 Thread Russell Howe
the director and the config of the servers. It looks like it should be relatively easy, but I think maybe with my messing around trying to get it to work, I may have left trails of destruction in the parts of the registry to do with service registrations and got Windows all confuddled. -- Rus

[Bacula-users] Clustering the win32 FD

2007-10-19 Thread Russell Howe
Has anybody ever run bacula-fd under the Windows cluster service? I've been trying to create it as a "Generic Service" without a whole lot of success. Still, I haven't exhausted all troubleshooting options as yet, so I might get it going... -- Russell H

[Bacula-users] Windows 2000 FileSet

2005-04-18 Thread Russell Howe
install than restore from # backup WildDir = "[A-Z]:/cygwin" WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Program Files/Grisoft" WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Program Files/Java" WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Program Files/Java Web Start" WildDir = "[A-Z]:/Program Files/JavaSoft" WildDir = "[A-Z

[Bacula-users] win32 bacula-fd & StartServiceCtrlDispatcher failures

2005-04-19 Thread Russell Howe
same messages. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Nemi: http://www.metro.co.uk/img/pix/nemi_apr19.jpg smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [Bacula-users] RE: [Bacula-users] restore

2005-04-19 Thread Russell Howe
disk as a *very* large spool directory? -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Nemi: http://www.metro.co.uk/img/pix/nemi_apr19.jpg --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: New Crystal Reports XI. Version 11 adds new functionality

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with tape configuration

2005-04-26 Thread Russell Howe
ated the volume, you need to update the database to change these parameters. Details in The Fine Manual (which I have to say, is rather fine - good job Kern) -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Nemi: http://www.metro.co.uk/img/pix/nemi_apr26.jpg --

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with tape configuration

2005-04-26 Thread Russell Howe
u can also do it from "update media" in the console. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Nemi: http://www.metro.co.uk/img/pix/nemi_apr26.jpg --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tell us your software development plans! T

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore question

2005-04-29 Thread Russell Howe
and files which I wrote on the tape. > It seems that file retetntion period set was wrong: > JobRetention=1 month FileRetention=1 month AutoPrune=1 > > What should I do to restore those files I need and do not damage anything. I think bscan is the tool you're looking for.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status

2005-04-29 Thread Russell Howe
l "prune database" job you could schedule which would make sure the database was pruned at a set time. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Nemi: http://www.metro.co.uk/img/pix/nemi_apr29.jpg --- SF.Net email is sponsored by:

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status

2005-04-29 Thread Russell Howe
us know how it works. :-) Sounds good. I don't want to change the configuration before the weekly backup though, and it's a bank holiday on Monday, so I'll give it a shot on Tuesday - thanks to all who responded :) -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Nemi: http://www.

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula, mysql, on Freebsd 5.3

2005-05-03 Thread Russell Howe
We could always ask Kern to change the name of Bacula so that it appears later in the collation order than the name of any database or other required service.. :) -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Nemi: http://www.metro.co.uk/img/pix/nemi_may3.jpg ---

Re: [Bacula-users] Paris

2005-05-09 Thread Russell Howe
Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > If any of you are in Paris tomorrow evening (Tuesday 11 May) Surely you mean Tuesday the 10th May? :) -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Nemi: http://www.metro.co.uk/img/pix/nemi_may9.jpg smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [Bacula-users] lto-2 tape capacity issue

2005-05-10 Thread Russell Howe
tape by Bacula. As an aside, do you know of a general way to see how much of a tape is used when the drive is doing hardware compression? We are using 40/80G DLT4s in two DLT8000's, and our backups are pretty much sitting around the 40G mark. It would be interesting to see how close to filling the

Re: [Bacula-users] Access denied errors in XP

2005-05-11 Thread Russell Howe
om one machine to another (or one installation to another, to be precise). Sometimes you will find that the partition's ACLs are set for the old install's SIDs, and you don't have permission to do anything. Changing the ownership of the filesystem fixes that one :) -- Russ

Re: [Bacula-users] Event Viewer errors

2005-05-11 Thread Russell Howe
s first started up, so it seemed a little odd. Still, bigger fish to fry at work, and bacula's keeping a low profile at the moment :) -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Nemi: http://www.metro.co.uk/img/pix/nemi_may11.jpg smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [Bacula-users] Event Viewer errors

2005-05-13 Thread Russell Howe
gt; time > to time or what? I meant that it seemed a little odd that this message was being logged multiple times when I certainly wasn't restarting the fd on the Windows machine. I know the service manager does have the facility to restart services, but as far as I am aware, it's not

Re: [Bacula-users] Event Viewer errors

2005-05-13 Thread Russell Howe
pplication for debugging purposes, structure it such that service-specific code is not called when this error is returned. Looks like bacula-fd.exe is being executed at login time and is trying to execute code which only makes sense when being started as a service by the service controller. -- Russe

Re: [Bacula-users] Event Viewer errors

2005-05-13 Thread Russell Howe
t;/servicehelper", "/service", 8) and is only matching on the 1st 8 characters of "/servicehelper". "/service" is then seen as equal to "/servicehelper" Should it not be strcmp(&szCmdLine[i], BaculaRunService)? Is szCmdLine[i] trusted? -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Nemi: http://www.metro.co.uk/img/pix/nemi_may13.jpg smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [Bacula-users] Event Viewer errors

2005-05-16 Thread Russell Howe
= 0) { or to change the commandline parameters so that there is no conflict when comparing with strncmp (i.e. don't have any parameters where one is a substring of another, beginning at the 1st character). Changing the command line parameters would seem to break things, however. > On Frid

Re: [Bacula-users] Event Viewer errors

2005-05-17 Thread Russell Howe
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Monday 16 May 2005 11:25, Russell Howe wrote: > >>/servicehelper, which looks to mean "Display pretty system tray icon". > > No, see below. OK, I had misconceptions about the /servicehelper switch. > /servicehelper is an old artifact

Re: [Bacula-users] Event Viewer errors

2005-05-17 Thread Russell Howe
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Tuesday 17 May 2005 11:37, Russell Howe wrote: >>Removing the key certainly >>stops the warning messages being logged when users log in via terminal >>services. > > Well, this is a big surprise. If this is all that it takes to correct the

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of Windows FD

2005-05-19 Thread Russell Howe
7;s full duplex (I think CSMA/CD becomes too difficult or something). -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Nemi: http://www.metro.co.uk/img/pix/nemi_may19.jpg smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [Bacula-users] Vacation

2005-05-22 Thread Russell Howe
e good news is that I have high speed internet access for most of the day > and have added my alternative email server address to the Bacula email lists, > so I am now receiving the emails and will monitor them for anything important > from time to time. You're supposed to be on holi

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole freeze

2005-05-26 Thread Russell Howe
a restart of the director let bconsole > work again. > > probably a problem in the director? Check the disk and CPU activity. Could your commands be triggering automatic pruning of the database (which can take a while)? -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Nemi: http://www.met

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole freeze

2005-05-26 Thread Russell Howe
nd blocks out). You want to do this on the machine that houses the database bacula is using for your catalog. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Nemi: http://www.metro.co.uk/img/pix/nemi_may26.jpg smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

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

2005-06-01 Thread Russell Howe
Jobs for client artemis-fd from catalog. 01-Jun 16:54 spanky-dir: End auto prune. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Nemi: http://www.metro.co.uk/img/pix/nemi_jun1.jpg --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo

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

2005-06-02 Thread Russell Howe
o that box... -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Nemi: http://www.metro.co.uk/img/pix/nemi_jun2.jpg smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [Bacula-users] Event Viewer errors

2005-06-06 Thread Russell Howe
ws\CurrentVersion\Run entry which references Bacula. It isn't needed if the FD is installed as a service. At least, that was the impression I got. I Cc'ed the bacula-users list, as I believe this to be generally useful, and it could do with some verification too! --

[Bacula-users] Suppressing autopruning

2005-06-06 Thread Russell Howe
t the "End time" value above is the same as the start time. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Default Bacula Director Configuration file # # The only thing that MUST be changed is to add one or more # file or directory names in the Include directive of the # FileSet resource. # #

[Bacula-users] Are your catalog backup sizes looking a little too constant?

2005-06-08 Thread Russell Howe
sqlite database. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize,

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: bacula message ressource

2005-06-09 Thread Russell Howe
backup. > > Yes, good idea. I've added it to my todo list. I'm not sure when it will be > implemented. Perhaps 1.37 ... How about a field for backup duration, too? If not in the subject line, then in the message body, perhaps after "Star

Re: [Bacula-users] backup catalog job failing

2005-06-10 Thread Russell Howe
script expects the first argument, $1, to be the name of the database, and the second argument, $2 to be the user to connect as. You are running the following, which is probably not what you intend: /usr/bin/mysqldump -u bacula -f --opt -u > -u.sql -- R

Re: [Bacula-users] Raw LVM2 partition backup

2005-06-10 Thread Russell Howe
; SD Bytes Written: 101 Maybe bacula is just backing up the device node, rather than the contents of the block device? -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a

[Bacula-users] Storage status seems to be per-sd, rather than per storage device

2005-06-16 Thread Russell Howe
st2" is mounted with Volume "ServersDAILY_4" Total Bytes=22,655,677,964 Blocks=351,187 Bytes/block=64,511 Positioned at File=23 Block=2,874 -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover

Re: [Bacula-users] Storage status seems to be per-sd, rather than per storage device

2005-06-16 Thread Russell Howe
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Thursday 16 June 2005 15:44, Russell Howe wrote: > >>We have two tape drives, connected to the same box. When I request the >>status of one of the corresponding storage devices, I get the status of >>both returned - is this how it should be? >

Re: [Bacula-users] RE: Database creation

2005-06-18 Thread Russell Howe
se... MySQL seems to be good at these :) -- Russell Howe | Why be just another cog in the machine, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | when you can be the spanner in the works? --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies fr

Re: [Bacula-users] Is there a way to split the dir-conf file ?

2005-06-20 Thread Russell Howe
bacula.org/rel-manual/Customizin_Configurat_Files.html -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative W

Re: [Bacula-users] connecting bacula with mysql

2005-06-23 Thread Russell Howe
ng - this is my ./configure > > MySQL is already running on my machine > > CFLAGS="-g -Wall" ./configure \ > --with-mysql=/usr/local/bin/mysql \ Are you sure that ./configure detected the presence of MySQL and therefore that support for MySQL was compiled into bacula? Che

Re: [Bacula-users] Winbacula StartServiceCtrlDispatcher failed

2005-06-24 Thread Russell Howe
rted as a service, and the HKLM entry just seems to create noise. The failure for the FD to start up is likely something else - can you start it as a service, using the 'Services' entry under Administrative tools? (or the 'Services' entry under 'Comput

[Bacula-users] pics of Bunny

2005-06-27 Thread Russell Howe
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Re: [Bacula-users] pics of Bunny

2005-06-27 Thread Russell Howe
Russell Howe wrote: > http://siksai.co.uk/hidden/recvdphotos/from%20Bunny/ Er, forget about that! Wrong address :P -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [Bacula-users] exclude by files time

2005-06-29 Thread Russell Howe
files you wish to back up. Kern, find(1) can output null-terminated strings, which may help when there are files with weird names. Would it be possible for bacula to somehow support this format of output? I guess it may be useful... -- Russ

Re: [Bacula-users] exclude by files time

2005-06-29 Thread Russell Howe
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Wednesday 29 June 2005 11:47, Russell Howe wrote: >>Kern, find(1) can output null-terminated strings, which may help when >>there are files with weird names. Would it be possible for bacula to >>somehow support this format of output? I guess it may be

Re: [Bacula-users] exclude by files time

2005-06-29 Thread Russell Howe
about the possibility of a malicious user causing files to be unintentionally backed up isn't of any grave concern then? I would tend to agree, that it's not much of a problem, but it could be classed as at least a privacy breach, if not a security flaw (although it's really stretching

Re: [Bacula-users] exclude by files time

2005-06-29 Thread Russell Howe
e an error, > - scripts should have to be owned by root or the user bacula runs as and > must have access rights 0700. For example. None of these would protect against a directory name which ends in \n -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Security issues? was: Re: [Bacula-users] exclude by files time

2005-06-30 Thread Russell Howe
ated by something like \0, I would imagine that would make the scripts pretty messy too unless the output was purely from find (and, of course, it would break all existing setups that use the File = "|foo" construct, which I doubt is acceptable someho

Re: [Bacula-users] mssql backup with bacula

2005-06-30 Thread Russell Howe
QL Server backups # 2004/08/25 (c) Russell Howe # 2004/10/12 - Updated to compress transaction log files (*.TRN) # Where the backups live (D:\SQLBACKUP) BACKUPDIR=/cygdrive/j/sqlbackup # How many days of backups to keep (this is real days, not weekdays!) # FIXME: Change to "How many copi

Re: [Bacula-users] Regex

2005-07-05 Thread Russell Howe
yes > RegexFile = "^.?*$" This regex matches everything. It's the same as saying ".*" > } > File = "c:/My Documents/*" Why not just say Options { Exclude = yes RegexFile = ".*\.[^Dd][^Oo

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of concurrent jobs

2005-07-11 Thread Russell Howe
You could also try out the spooling options, if your boxes running the SD (I think this is where the data gets spooled, would need to check the docs to be sure) have the space. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 1.37.25 and Volume Shadow Copy Service?

2005-07-11 Thread Russell Howe
ou will have to fsck it, and there is *NO* guarantee that you won't lose data (in fact, it's very likely that you will). -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webin

Re: [Bacula-users] Import from tape to Cataloge

2005-07-11 Thread Russell Howe
Matthew Scarrow wrote: > How would I import the data on a tape into the cataloge. The tape had > already been pruned from the cataloge but I need some files that are on > it. Look at bscan -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Th

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: disaster recovery & windows

2005-07-12 Thread Russell Howe
Have you any solution for disaster recovery for windows "on line" ? My suggestion would be to use something like the Unattended project to allow you to reinstall your Windows boxes with minimal effort. http://unattended.sf.net/ -- Russell Howe [EMAIL

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