[Bacula-users] Questions regarding upgrading old bacula version (rpm install)
I am running bacula 1.36.1. It was installed via rpms that Scott built, back in 2004. This is what I currently have: backup server: runs: CentOS 3.8 bacula: bacula-mysql-1.36.1-1.i386.wb3.rpm mysql: 4.1.14 from MySQL-AB client group #1: runs: Red Hat 9 bacula: bacula-client-1.36.1-1.i386.rh9.rpm client group #2: runs: Red Hat 7.1 runs: Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1AS bacula: bacula-client-1.36.1-1.i386.rh7.rpm client group #3: runs: Windows Server 2000 bacula: winbacula-1.36.1-1.exe I need to upgrade to the latest stable release of bacula, site-wide. It seems to me that it should be very simple to upgrade all of the clients, assuming there are rpms for all these old OSes. BTW, where do I get the rpms from and does Scott still maintain them? What about upgrading the backup server? I need to not screw it up. :) Any suggestions, gotchas, tips? I've never done a bacula upgrade before. Will I still be able to read the tapes made with my old installation? If there's anything I haven't mentioned, that's important to my successfully performing this upgrade, please tell me, and thank you all very much, in advance. -- -ste - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Questions regarding upgrading old bacula version (rpm install)
On Saturday 07 April 2007 15:09, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: I am running bacula 1.36.1. It was installed via rpms that Scott built, back in 2004. This is what I currently have: backup server: runs: CentOS 3.8 bacula: bacula-mysql-1.36.1-1.i386.wb3.rpm mysql: 4.1.14 from MySQL-AB client group #1: runs: Red Hat 9 bacula: bacula-client-1.36.1-1.i386.rh9.rpm client group #2: runs: Red Hat 7.1 runs: Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1AS bacula: bacula-client-1.36.1-1.i386.rh7.rpm client group #3: runs: Windows Server 2000 bacula: winbacula-1.36.1-1.exe I need to upgrade to the latest stable release of bacula, site-wide. It seems to me that it should be very simple to upgrade all of the clients, assuming there are rpms for all these old OSes. BTW, where do I get the rpms from and does Scott still maintain them? What about upgrading the backup server? I need to not screw it up. :) Any suggestions, gotchas, tips? I've never done a bacula upgrade before. Will I still be able to read the tapes made with my old installation? I am sure you will get some responses that answer your questions, but two tips: 1. Read the upgrading sections of the manual -- there are two or three (see Upgrading in the index of the Development manual). 2. Realize that you are upgrading two database levels, so you will probably need to upgrade the database to 1.38.x first (probably manually) then do a 2.0.x upgrade. If there's anything I haven't mentioned, that's important to my successfully performing this upgrade, please tell me, and thank you all very much, in advance. -- -ste - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Questions regarding upgrading old bacula version (rpm install)
On 4/7/07, Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sure you will get some responses that answer your questions, but two tips: 1. Read the upgrading sections of the manual -- there are two or three (see Upgrading in the index of the Development manual). 2. Realize that you are upgrading two database levels, so you will probably need to upgrade the database to 1.38.x first (probably manually) then do a 2.0.x upgrade. Thanks, Kern. I've done some digging and I have answered a number of my questions. I've read that the tapes will be able to be read by the newer version. I also found that Scott (and others) do still make the rpms and that they're on sourceforge. I see that there is no rh7 rpm built though, so I downloaded the srpm and tried to compile it with this command: rpmbuild -ba --define build_client_only 1 --define build_rh7 1 rpmbuild/SPECS/bacula.spec It's failing, complaining of a build-time requirement of libxml2-devel, yet I can find no libxml2 and libxml2-devel for RH7.1 on the Red Hat archive site in the original release or the updates to it. I don't know how to proceed. I noticed in the manual section on building rpms that there were permission changes between 1.36 and 1.38. I'll watch out for that when moving to the latest release, but was wondering if the rpms just take care of fixing it if needed? I also see that the scripts needed to do the db upgrade yoou mentioned are in an rpm from Scott, so I should be ok there. My main problem is building that rh7 client ... suggestions anyone? -- -ste - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Questions regarding upgrading old bacula version (rpm install)
I tried commenting out the build-requirement of libxml2-devel, hoping the client didn't need it. That got me a lot further. Now I'm seeing two things: openssl/asn1t.h appears to be missing, yet I have openssl and openssl-devel installed, and objdump is complaining it doesn't understand the file format of a lot of files. -- -ste - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Change of address
Dan, Congratulations from me, as well. Get ready for a significant culture shock as well as a weather shock. You'll find south Florida to be a much more laid back, casual place to work. On a more negative note, be prepaired for higher property taxes insurance and hurricanes. (I don't know anything about property taxes in Ottawa but property taxes in FL are high relative to most of the USA, and, of course you don't get many hurricanes in Ottawa :-) I second Kern's recommendation re airconditioning. Life couldn't exist, here in the southern US, without A/C. Feel free to make a stop in Montgomery AL on your drive down. My wife is from Miami so we can give you some insight into FL, the southern USA as well as provide you a free bed for a night! Cheers! cmr On Saturday 07 April 2007 02:20, Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello Dan, Congratulations on your new job. The only thing that they probably didn't tell you is that depending on exactly where you will be, unless you learn Spanish you might feel a bit disadvantaged :-) I don't consider that a negative point, but rather a nice opportunity. About the weather, I wouldn't worry too much. I lived 12 years in Maryland, which has similar summer weather (with winter weather like the northern US) and once you learn how to slow down your movement in the summer, everything goes pretty well. If you have a car, I recommend selling it and getting one with air conditioning -- that will make life a lot nicer in the summer. The only unpleasant moments were when it was 90 F degrees (32 C) outside, my car had been sitting in the sun (40-45 C inside), and it would start raining around. Typically this is around 3pm. It becomes somewhat of a catastrophy without A/C trying to deal with the heat (windows rolled up to prevent inondation) and fogged windows. :-) Car A/C solves the problem. We wish you the best and look forward to hearing from you and hopefully your continuing participation. Best regards, Kern On Friday 06 April 2007 23:00, Dan Langille wrote: Folks: I've accepted a job offer from eSilo.com. This means I'm moving to Jupiter (north of Miami) Florida from Ottawa. eSilo does backups over the Internet. It's a turn-key solution. I'm not yet sure how much I can talk about what I'm going to be doing, but my primary roles do not intersect with the work I've done on Bacula. There will be an NDA for me to work on, but that won't prevent me from continuing to contribute to Bacula. Biggest tasks to hand: find a place to live, move my stuff down there. Biggest thing to move that I can't drive there: my HD TV -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference - http://www.pgcon.org/ - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental is really a full on FC6
Well, after doing a stat on many, many files, it appears that Nautilus
or some other application (possibly updatedb) is modifying the
timestamps on every file on the system. There is no virus checker as
this is a Linux system.
Placing mtimeonly=yes in the Options seems to take care of the problem.
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 05:31 -0600, Ridley wrote:
I have Bacula backing up only /home on a Linux workstation running FC6.
This is the Fileset:
FileSet {
Name = Home Set
Include {
Options {
signature = MD5
compression = GZIP
Exclude = yes
WildFile = /home/*/.mozilla/firefox/*/Cache/*
WildFile = /home/*/.mozilla/default/*/Cache/*
WildFile = /home/*/.mozilla/eclipse/Cache/*
WildFile = /home/*/.gnome2/epiphany/mozilla/epiphany/Cache/*
WildDir = /home/*/.beagle/TextCache
WildDir = /home/*/.evolution/cache
WildDir = /home/*/.java/deployment/cache
}
File = /home
}
# Exclude {
# }
}
And this is the Schedule:
Schedule {
Name = WeeklyCycle
Run = Full 1st sun at 23:05
Run = Differential 2nd-5th sun at 23:05
Run = Incremental mon-sat at 23:05
}
Unfortunately, even though the Job says it is supposed to perform
Incrementals mon-sat and the messages say it is an incremental, it uses
nearly the same amount of space every time:
Job run manually:
...
Backup Level: Full (upgraded from Incremental)
...
FD Bytes Written: 32,908,099,036 (32.90 GB)
SD Bytes Written: 32,921,345,734 (32.92 GB)
...
Job run automatically later in day:
...
Backup Level: Incremental, since=2007-03-29 14:05:18
...
FD Bytes Written: 31,923,730,782 (31.92 GB)
SD Bytes Written: 31,930,104,420 (31.93 GB)
...
What gives? I know all 32 GB didn't change as they are mostly digital
pictures in the home directory? Is there something in gnome or FC6 that
changes the atime on every file?
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Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Change of address
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Congratulations, and it's good to hear that you will not be restricted from continued work. Ottawa to Florida is quite a move, but I can only assume you know what you're doing and that they've made it very worth your while. Consider, also, if you currently own a dark colored car that you might want to own one that is lighter -- the heat down there is such that this will make a difference. I'm personally of the personality that would be interested in moving farther north to actually get some snow again (I live in Newark, NJ and the snows seem to have stopped in the last few years), and to escape association with the US, which is kind of a disappointing country as of late. As far as what Kern said, though, I wouldn't consider Florida's summers similar to Maryland. Of course I never lived in Maryland, but I believe Florida's humidity changes things quite a bit. One nice thing about Florida, though, is the changeable weather; if it is pouring rain at 10:00a, it likely will not be by 2:00p... seems a whole day is seldom ruined by poor weather. C M Reinehr wrote: Dan, Congratulations from me, as well. Get ready for a significant culture shock as well as a weather shock. You'll find south Florida to be a much more laid back, casual place to work. On a more negative note, be prepaired for higher property taxes insurance and hurricanes. (I don't know anything about property taxes in Ottawa but property taxes in FL are high relative to most of the USA, and, of course you don't get many hurricanes in Ottawa :-) I second Kern's recommendation re airconditioning. Life couldn't exist, here in the southern US, without A/C. Feel free to make a stop in Montgomery AL on your drive down. My wife is from Miami so we can give you some insight into FL, the southern USA as well as provide you a free bed for a night! Cheers! cmr On Saturday 07 April 2007 02:20, Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello Dan, Congratulations on your new job. The only thing that they probably didn't tell you is that depending on exactly where you will be, unless you learn Spanish you might feel a bit disadvantaged :-) I don't consider that a negative point, but rather a nice opportunity. About the weather, I wouldn't worry too much. I lived 12 years in Maryland, which has similar summer weather (with winter weather like the northern US) and once you learn how to slow down your movement in the summer, everything goes pretty well. If you have a car, I recommend selling it and getting one with air conditioning -- that will make life a lot nicer in the summer. The only unpleasant moments were when it was 90 F degrees (32 C) outside, my car had been sitting in the sun (40-45 C inside), and it would start raining around. Typically this is around 3pm. It becomes somewhat of a catastrophy without A/C trying to deal with the heat (windows rolled up to prevent inondation) and fogged windows. :-) Car A/C solves the problem. We wish you the best and look forward to hearing from you and hopefully your continuing participation. Best regards, Kern On Friday 06 April 2007 23:00, Dan Langille wrote: Folks: I've accepted a job offer from eSilo.com. This means I'm moving to Jupiter (north of Miami) Florida from Ottawa. eSilo does backups over the Internet. It's a turn-key solution. I'm not yet sure how much I can talk about what I'm going to be doing, but my primary roles do not intersect with the work I've done on Bacula. There will be an NDA for me to work on, but that won't prevent me from continuing to contribute to Bacula. Biggest tasks to hand: find a place to live, move my stuff down there. Biggest thing to move that I can't drive there: my HD TV - -- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer III |$| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGF96Mmb+gadEcsb4RAsQyAJoC00z4zuxQ3PzVuQZBxRDPxPiaGwCgzjoq LhE0uPix3Qumo1gOBCJxkD4= =khyd -END PGP SIGNATURE- begin:vcard fn:Ryan Novosielski n:Novosielski;Ryan org:UMDNJ;IST/AST adr;dom:MSB C630;;185 South Orange Avenue;Newark;NJ;07103 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Systems Programmer III tel;work:(973) 972-0922 tel;fax:(973) 972-7412 tel;pager:(866) 20-UMDNJ x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ Bacula-users
[Bacula-users] DVD Support Clarification..
Hello, I've been reading the support documentation for bacula with regard to backing up to DVD media. ( http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/System_Requirements.html ) In the System Requirements section, the last bullet point says : If you want to use DVD as backup medium, you will need to download the dvd+rw-tools 5.21.4.10.8, apply the patch to make these tools compatible with Bacula, then compile and install them. Do not use the dvd+rw-tools provided by your distribution, they will not work with Bacula. My questions are: 1. There is a specific version of the dvd+rw-tools software listed here. Does this mean that this spefific version, and only this version; is required for bacula to be able to do backups to DVD? I run Gentoo Linux on the system I want to run bacula on, and it lists the current version of the dvd+rw-tools package as version 7.0. Do I need to un-install version 7.0 of the dvd+rw-tools package and go get version 5.21.4.10.8 in order for bacula to function? 2. In this same paragraph, the word patch is a hyperlink to: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/bacula/bacula/patches/dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8.bacula.patch However, this link is broken. If this patch is still required, where is the correct place to get it? -- -Monte - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Questions regarding upgrading old bacula version (rpm install)
On Saturday 07 April 2007 18:21, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: On 4/7/07, Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sure you will get some responses that answer your questions, but two tips: 1. Read the upgrading sections of the manual -- there are two or three (see Upgrading in the index of the Development manual). 2. Realize that you are upgrading two database levels, so you will probably need to upgrade the database to 1.38.x first (probably manually) then do a 2.0.x upgrade. Thanks, Kern. I've done some digging and I have answered a number of my questions. I've read that the tapes will be able to be read by the newer version. I also found that Scott (and others) do still make the rpms and that they're on sourceforge. I see that there is no rh7 rpm built though, so I downloaded the srpm and tried to compile it with this command: rpmbuild -ba --define build_client_only 1 --define build_rh7 1 rpmbuild/SPECS/bacula.spec It's failing, complaining of a build-time requirement of libxml2-devel, yet I can find no libxml2 and libxml2-devel for RH7.1 on the Red Hat archive site in the original release or the updates to it. I don't know how to proceed. I noticed in the manual section on building rpms that there were permission changes between 1.36 and 1.38. I'll watch out for that when moving to the latest release, but was wondering if the rpms just take care of fixing it if needed? I also see that the scripts needed to do the db upgrade yoou mentioned are in an rpm from Scott, so I should be ok there. My main problem is building that rh7 client ... suggestions anyone? Build from source. A site that I help administer has an old 7.1 machine with no CDROM (I removed it to add another hard disk), and I build everything from source. -- -ste - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] DVD Support Clarification..
On Saturday 07 April 2007 20:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've been reading the support documentation for bacula with regard to backing up to DVD media. ( http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/System_Requirements.html ) In the System Requirements section, the last bullet point says : If you want to use DVD as backup medium, you will need to download the dvd+rw-tools 5.21.4.10.8, apply the patch to make these tools compatible with Bacula, then compile and install them. Do not use the dvd+rw-tools provided by your distribution, they will not work with Bacula. My questions are: 1. There is a specific version of the dvd+rw-tools software listed here. Does this mean that this spefific version, and only this version; is required for bacula to be able to do backups to DVD? I run Gentoo Linux on the system I want to run bacula on, and it lists the current version of the dvd+rw-tools package as version 7.0. Do I need to un-install version 7.0 of the dvd+rw-tools package and go get version 5.21.4.10.8 in order for bacula to function? 2. In this same paragraph, the word patch is a hyperlink to: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/bacula/bacula/patches/dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8.bacula.patch However, this link is broken. If this patch is still required, where is the correct place to get it? See the patches directory in the source code. There is a patch for a later version. It is possible that version 7 has the patch integrated, but you will need to check that. I don't recommend using DVDs for any serious backup. The Bacula 2.0.x DVD backup seems to work, but I consider the code BETA, and even if it were production, I wouldn't put my data on DVD (CDROM perhaps, but not DVD). -- -Monte - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] DVD Support Clarification..
See the patches directory in the source code. There is a patch for a later version. It is possible that version 7 has the patch integrated, but you will need to check that. Is there a certain function/feature that I can look for in version 7 to know if it has what Bacula needs? I don't recommend using DVDs for any serious backup. The Bacula 2.0.x DVD backup seems to work, but I consider the code BETA, and even if it were production, I wouldn't put my data on DVD (CDROM perhaps, but not DVD). Interesting. Mind if I ask why? I need to back up close to 100 gigs. Why not write that to media that holds ~4 gigs per piece instead of to something that holds ~800 megs? With advances in capacity of optical media, is the general opinion that seemingly older technology is better for backups? Not trying to start a religious flame war, just wondering if there's something that others know about backup media that I need to learn. :) -- -Monte - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Soliciting opinions
Hi, My name is Ilya Volvovski and I am a software architect for a company called Cleversafe (www.cleversafe.org http://www.cleversafe.org/ and www.cleversafe.com http://www.cleversafe.com/ ) I address this discussion group to gauge interest in our proposition from people who make living by making sure that data is not lost. Cleversafe mission is to offer a product that would provide unlimited, secure, scalable, reliable data storage facility. We want to move storage from home tape devices, CD/DVD drives to Internet. If you look at our website, you would learn that are patented approach allows to achieve very high level of reliability with reasonably small data blowup (2.0 now but our next release would make it configurable: 30% data overhead still would still guarantee high reliability). Data could be optionally encrypted, compressed and then dispersed into several locations. Cleversafe Storage Grid is also self-healing: if a few slices are lost due to hardware problems, they could be recreated by the grid. Our software would give means to store data, but we are not backup experts. We want the existing backup solutions be used as before but enabled to store data on Cleversafe Storage Grid. Being an open source project we first looked at open source solutions and this lead us to Bacula. Cleversafe has no expertise in using Bacula. However we were able to install and we performed a very trivial integration with NO changes to the existing Bacula codebase. We confirmed that if we configure Bacula with a file type device, which happen to be our grid, we could use Bacula to store data on it. I have several questions to the group: - how interesting this idea sounds to system administrators and people who routinely perform backups - how interesting this idea sounds to software developers who work in the backup/storage world. Is there potential to change/enhance this software in order to target grid market - are there any caveats of using Bacula with file device? As I understand that it is not mainstream usage; Bacula is primarily geared towards tape devices. Regards, Ilya Volvovski __ Dispersed Storage: http://cleversafe.org http://cleversafe.org/ - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Change of address
On 7 Apr 2007 at 9:20, Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello Dan, Congratulations on your new job. The only thing that they probably didn't tell you is that depending on exactly where you will be, unless you learn Spanish you might feel a bit disadvantaged :-) I don't consider that a negative point, but rather a nice opportunity. We'll see.. The part of Florida I'll be in seems quite anglophone. About the weather, I wouldn't worry too much. I lived 12 years in Maryland, which has similar summer weather (with winter weather like the northern US) and once you learn how to slow down your movement in the summer, everything goes pretty well. If you have a car, I recommend selling it and getting one with air conditioning -- that will make life a lot nicer in the summer. The only unpleasant moments were when it was 90 F degrees (32 C) outside, my car had been sitting in the sun (40-45 C inside), and it would start raining around. Typically this is around 3pm. It becomes somewhat of a catastrophy without A/C trying to deal with the heat (windows rolled up to prevent inondation) and fogged windows. :-) Car A/C solves the problem. A/C is common in most cars in Canada. Mine is a 2001 Subaru, and we use the A/C frequently. It also comes in handy in winter for defrosting. Yes, we run the A/C and the heater at the same time. So it is warm dry air. We wish you the best and look forward to hearing from you and hopefully your continuing participation. cheers Best regards, Kern On Friday 06 April 2007 23:00, Dan Langille wrote: Folks: I've accepted a job offer from eSilo.com. This means I'm moving to Jupiter (north of Miami) Florida from Ottawa. eSilo does backups over the Internet. It's a turn-key solution. I'm not yet sure how much I can talk about what I'm going to be doing, but my primary roles do not intersect with the work I've done on Bacula. There will be an NDA for me to work on, but that won't prevent me from continuing to contribute to Bacula. Biggest tasks to hand: find a place to live, move my stuff down there. Biggest thing to move that I can't drive there: my HD TV -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference - http://www.pgcon.org/ - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference - http://www.pgcon.org/ - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Questions regarding upgrading old bacula version (rpm install)
On 4/7/07, Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Build from source. A site that I help administer has an old 7.1 machine with no CDROM (I removed it to add another hard disk), and I build everything from source. Ok. I did that for my RH7.1 and RHLAS2.1AS systems. Shortly, I'll be done upgrading the RPMs on my RH9 systems with the RPM Scott provides. Question: for my Windows Server 2000 boxes, do I uninstall the current winbacula client and then install the newer one, or do I install the newer one over the current one? Then it'll be on to upgrading the backup server itself. Joy. -- -ste - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
