Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger test fails

2005-06-27 Thread Jesus Salvo Jr.
On Monday 27 June 2005 14:39, Jesus Salvo Jr. wrote: === Autochanger test === 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded command. 3991 Bad autochanger command: /etc/bacula/mtx-changer /dev/scsi/changer/c2t1d0 loaded 1 /dev/rmt/1mbn 0 3991 result=/etc/bacula/mtx-changer: syntax error at line 45: `$'

Re: [Bacula-users] job priority question

2005-06-27 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Andrei Mikhailovsky wrote: Hello after reading the manuals, I couldn't find a solution to my question. Is it somehow possible to skip higher priority jobs and move to the lower once if the client with a higher priority is not available. No, that's not possible. Even canceling the

Re: [Bacula-users] job priority question

2005-06-27 Thread Yann Cézard
Arno Lehmann wrote: Hello, Andrei Mikhailovsky wrote: Hello after reading the manuals, I couldn't find a solution to my question. Is it somehow possible to skip higher priority jobs and move to the lower once if the client with a higher priority is not available. No, that's not possible.

Re: [Bacula-users] job priority question

2005-06-27 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Yann Cézard wrote: ... That's make me thinking of a possible enhancement in the (re-)scheduling of jobs. The problem I have met one or two times is that for one reason or another a job could not be run (missing free volumes in pool in my case), all the jobs with lower priority won't be

[Bacula-users] pics of Bunny

2005-06-27 Thread Russell Howe
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[Bacula-users] Help with SD error

2005-06-27 Thread Stephan Heine - [Genetic Interactive]
Hi, First off. Thank you for a fantastic backup solution. Secondly, sorry for the long post. The bacula configuration runs perfectly at his client's site, backing up about 15 clients. Flawlessly. Yesterday I included a new client into the backup that is a AMD system that runs NVidia based

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

2005-06-27 Thread Sean
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[Bacula-users] Error restoring raw partition /dev/hda1

2005-06-27 Thread Sydney Weidman
I tried backing up a raw partition /dev/hda1 ext3, and the backup was successful, but the restore gave me the following error: 24-Jun 15:27 A16313: RestoreFiles.2005-06-24_15.23.43 Error: attribs.c:339 File size of restored file /tmp/bacula-restores/dev/hda1 not correct. Original 0, restored

[Bacula-users] bacula time out error

2005-06-27 Thread S. Lloyd
My jobs are just timing out when I try to backup a remote client. I have opened all three of Baculas ports on the client firewall Here are the errors: lloydserver1-fd Version: 1.36.2 (28 February 2005) i386-portbld-freebsd5.4 freebsd 5.4-RELEASE Daemon started 24-Jun-05 10:46, 0 Jobs run

[Bacula-users] hesitation between incremental and differential backup

2005-06-27 Thread Romain
I hesitate between incremental and differential for my backup jobs. I don't want to keep several months of data history. I only want to go back to a D - 3 weeks state if necessary. So my backup planning is : - 1 full backup every week, 3 weeks of file retention - 1 diff or incr backup every day,

Re: [Bacula-users] hesitation between incremental and differential backup

2005-06-27 Thread Arno Lehmann
H, Romain wrote: I hesitate between incremental and differential for my backup jobs. I don't want to keep several months of data history. I only want to go back to a D - 3 weeks state if necessary. So my backup planning is : - 1 full backup every week, 3 weeks of file retention - 1 diff or

Re: [Bacula-users] Help with SD error

2005-06-27 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Stephan Heine - [Genetic Interactive] wrote: Hi, First off. Thank you for a fantastic backup solution. Secondly, sorry for the long post. We've seen longer ones... The bacula configuration runs perfectly at his client's site, backing up about 15 clients. Flawlessly. Yesterday I

Re: [Bacula-users] Error restoring raw partition /dev/hda1

2005-06-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 24 June 2005 22:30, Sydney Weidman wrote: I tried backing up a raw partition /dev/hda1 ext3, and the backup was successful, but the restore gave me the following error: 24-Jun 15:27 A16313: RestoreFiles.2005-06-24_15.23.43 Error: attribs.c:339 File size of restored file

[Bacula-users] Multiple external HDDs as backup media

2005-06-27 Thread Tony Whitmore
Hi, I've been working on using Bacula on our site (~500 PCs) for the last week or so, and have made great progress on test systems. I'll be backing up about 7 or 8 servers once it's all up and running. On the proper backup system I will be using 200GB USB2 external HDDs as the stoarge medium.

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple external HDDs as backup media

2005-06-27 Thread Rowdy
Tony Whitmore wrote: Hi, I've been working on using Bacula on our site (~500 PCs) for the last week or so, and have made great progress on test systems. I'll be backing up about 7 or 8 servers once it's all up and running. On the proper backup system I will be using 200GB USB2 external HDDs as

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple external HDDs as backup media

2005-06-27 Thread Tony Whitmore
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 09:05:13PM +1000, Rowdy wrote: Hi Tony, Hey Rowdy, thanks for your reply. I am running Bacula under FreeBSD and backing up about 6 servers to 120G hard drives mounted in an external USB enclosure. One drive is in the enclosure, the other (only two drives) is in the

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

2005-06-27 Thread Misty Stanley-Jones
I have one server that I want to back up to DVD. There are a couple ways to do it. Right now it is backing up to disk and running a script to copy the volume to dvd at the end. OK but then I cannot restore directly from DVD. I do not want to use bimagemanager because I do not want to have

[Bacula-users] Less defined schedules / Upgraded jobs

2005-06-27 Thread Silas Moeckel at web.com
I've been using bacula for awhile now and it works well. I cant seem to find any method of doing the following two things: I'd realy like to get Netbackup style scheduling were you can specify a full backup every x days rather than the hard coded on x day do this. Any ideas on how to get

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

2005-06-27 Thread Phil Stracchino
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 here (not with Bacula, though) and I am able to make a file system, mount and write to a DVD-RAM

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Backup of directory structures

2005-06-27 Thread Martin Simmons
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:20:49 +0200, Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Arno Hello, Arno Siju George wrote: On 6/20/05, Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am looking at Bacula but the line # Files deleted after a Full save will be included in a

Re: [Bacula-users] Back on the air

2005-06-27 Thread Jo
Phil Stracchino wrote: Now in New Hampshire, with real bandwidth (even if Verizon's service sucks), and back with my development machines again. Should be able to start jumping back in again pretty soon. (Right now, I can't find any of my tapes, and am uncertain whether they actually made it

[Bacula-users] Bacula Restore Errors, STILL

2005-06-27 Thread Michael Reith
/storage/bacula-restores/var/spool/postfix/incoming/ 27-Jun 14:36 snoid-fd: RestoreFiles.2005-06-27_14.33.06 Error: create_file.c:203 Cannot make node /storage/bacula-restores/var/spool/postfix/private/rewrite: ERR=Invalid argument 27-Jun 14:36 snoid-fd: RestoreFiles.2005-06-27_14.33.06 Error:

[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] Multiple external HDDs as backup media

2005-06-27 Thread Rowdy
Tony Whitmore wrote: On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 09:05:13PM +1000, Rowdy wrote: Hi Tony, Hey Rowdy, thanks for your reply. snip Excellent, I'll have a browse through the manual and see if I can work out how to do that. Quick question - do you perform full backups every time, or just

[Bacula-users] Label command not asking for slot number

2005-06-27 Thread Jesus Salvo Jr.
http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Autochangers_Support.html#SECTION000271000 .. says that the label command should ask the operator of the ( source ) slot of the volume that is being labeled: That each Volume (tape) to be used must be defined in the Catalog and have a Slot number