[Bacula-users] help using bacula
I am a new user to bacula, i have read through the documentation, have it installed on gentoo, and have made one successful backup. This is all rather confusing to me. After playing around with it i have a ton of listed backup jobs, but i can find no where to delete them. +---+---+-+--+---+--+--+---+ | JobId | Name | StartTime | Type | Level | JobFiles | JobBytes | JobStatus | +---+---+-+--+---+--+--+---+ |30 | MailBackup| -00-00 00:00:00 | B| I | 0 |0 | C | |29 | BackupCatalog | -00-00 00:00:00 | B| F | 0 |0 | C | |28 | MailBackup| -00-00 00:00:00 | B| D | 0 |0 | C | |27 | BackupCatalog | -00-00 00:00:00 | B| F | 0 |0 | C | |25 | BackupCatalog | -00-00 00:00:00 | B| F | 0 |0 | C | |24 | MailBackup| -00-00 00:00:00 | B| I | 0 |0 | C | |23 | BackupCatalog | -00-00 00:00:00 | B| F | 0 |0 | C | |17 | BackupCatalog | -00-00 00:00:00 | B| F | 0 |0 | C | |19 | BackupCatalog | -00-00 00:00:00 | B| F | 0 |0 | C | |21 | BackupCatalog | -00-00 00:00:00 | B| F | 0 |0 | C | |31 | BackupCatalog | -00-00 00:00:00 | B| F | 0 |0 | C | |33 | BackupCatalog | -00-00 00:00:00 | B| F | 0 |0 | C | |34 | MailBackup| -00-00 00:00:00 | B| I | 0 |0 | C | |35 | BackupCatalog | -00-00 00:00:00 | B| F | 0 |0 | C | |36 | MailBackup| -00-00 00:00:00 | B| I | 0 |0 | C | |37 | BackupCatalog | -00-00 00:00:00 | B| F | 0 |0 | C | | 2 | MailBackup| 2006-03-10 11:24:15 | B| F | 0 |0 | A | | 5 | MailBackup| 2006-03-10 18:50:13 | B| F | 0 |0 | A | | 6 | MailBackup| 2006-03-10 18:54:58 | B| F | 0 |0 | f | | 9 | BackupCatalog | 2006-03-11 01:24:18 | B| F | 0 |0 | f | |11 | BackupCatalog | 2006-03-12 01:25:13 | B| F | 0 |0 | f | |13 | BackupCatalog | 2006-03-13 01:25:05 | B| F | 0 |0 | f | |15 | BackupCatalog | 2006-03-14 01:24:45 | B| F | 0 |0 | f | |18 | MailBackup| 2006-03-21 01:05:02 | B| I | 0 |0 | f | |20 | MailBackup| 2006-03-22 01:05:02 | B| I | 0 |0 | f | |22 | MailBackup| 2006-03-23 01:05:02 | B| F | 0 |0 | f | |26 | MailBackup| 2006-03-25 01:05:02 | B| F | 0 |0 | f | |32 | MailBackup| 2006-03-28 01:05:02 | B| F | 0 |0 | R | +---+---+-+--+---+--+--+---+ I still just dont understand what im doing wrong. All i want it to do is backup the selected directories once a day (which it did once), but i only want to use one tape and i want it to reuse the tape every night. i keep getting that the device is full, which i want it to either erase whats on there or recursively backup the files that have changed (even better). But i dont know how to do that. i have tried adding tapes and think i have failed with that because it keeps asking me now to insert a different volume 25-Mar 01:05 mail-sd: MailBackup.2006-03-25_01.05.00 Warning: Director wanted Volume Vol-10001. Current Volume Backup1 not acceptable because: 1998 Volume Backup1 status is Full, but should be Append, Purged or Recycle. I guess what i want to do is start over with the whole volume/job thing and start fresh and see if i can get this working, so how do i delete volumes and jobs so i can recreate? and also how do i tell it to either erase the tape on a new backup or recursively backup the changed files from day to day? thanks for any help Nick --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid0944bid$1720dat1642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] help using bacula
Hello, On 3/30/2006 10:18 PM, Nick Smith wrote: I am a new user to bacula, i have read through the documentation, have it installed on gentoo, and have made one successful backup. This is all rather confusing to me. After playing around with it i have a ton of listed backup jobs, but i can find no where to delete them. The delete command... ... but be careful with it. ... I still just dont understand what im doing wrong. All i want it to do is backup the selected directories once a day (which it did once), but i only want to use one tape and i want it to reuse the tape every night. Sorry, I can't help you with such a setup because a) you will have to force Bacula to do something it is not designed for, and b) thus I never tried it ;-) and c) I wouldn't tell you if I knew because your backup scheme is, excuse my language, crap. IMO, of course. i keep getting that the device is full, which i want it to either erase whats on there or recursively backup the files that have changed (even better). But i dont know how to do that. i have tried adding tapes and think i have failed with that because it keeps asking me now to insert a different volume 25-Mar 01:05 mail-sd: MailBackup.2006-03-25_01.05.00 Warning: Director wanted Volume Vol-10001. Current Volume Backup1 not acceptable because: 1998 Volume Backup1 status is Full, but should be Append, Purged or Recycle. I guess what i want to do is start over with the whole volume/job thing and start fresh and see if i can get this working, so how do i delete volumes and jobs so i can recreate? and also how do i tell it to either erase the tape on a new backup or recursively backup the changed files from day to day? You will have to set a short volume retention time, a short volume use duration, and probably you will need a job triggering automatic pruning before you backup job starts. You will also not have a useful backup (for most applications). What you want to do is much more easily achieved using tar, dump, cpio or some other tool. Arno thanks for any help Nick --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=kkid0944bid$1720dat1642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- IT-Service Lehmann[EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
