[Bacula-users] UPDATE: Bacula Encryption Project and EFF Fundraiser

2005-08-14 Thread Landon Fuller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, A few weeks ago we announced the Bacula data encryption project -- an endeavor to add data encryption support to Bacula and raise funds for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The original announcement can be found here: http://www.bacula.org/

[Bacula-users] Bacula Data Encryption - High Level Design

2005-08-14 Thread Landon Fuller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The easiest method for adding encryption to Bacula would be via basic symmetric key encryption, coupled with MAC for data integrity validation. However, public key algorithms provide a few key features that symmetric algorithms can not, namely:

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape usage question

2005-08-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Sunday 14 August 2005 04:04, Phil Stracchino wrote: > Kern, > This question is probably your bailiwick. In the event of a failed job > in bacula, is there any existing mechanism to tell Bacula to (logically) > erase that job from the tape and treat that portion of the tape as > unused? Logic s

Re: [Bacula-users] reusing of already made backups - "resume job"

2005-08-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Sunday 14 August 2005 09:28, Thorsten Sandfuchs wrote: > hi, > my fullbackup-job went down at 90% thru a network error and as I have to > pay for the traffic on one site, I really like to use every bit I received > from it. (shure for restoring, I could still reuse the volumes written, so > fare

[Bacula-users] DLT labels

2005-08-14 Thread Dan Langille
If you have any spare unused DLT labels, I could use them. I'm looking for the labels that slide into the slot on a DLT tape. thanks -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/ -

Re: [Bacula-users] Storing job reports as files

2005-08-14 Thread Dominic Marks
On Friday 12 August 2005 10:13, Russell Howe wrote: > Dominic Marks wrote: > > How I did it in the end: > > > > Direct E-Mails to an alias which delivers to a process, write a > > small application which receives the reports, parses them and > > inserts them into a table. > > Is the information you

[Bacula-users] IDE Travan Tapedrive

2005-08-14 Thread Sascha Alexander Jopen
Hi list, i'm trying to get my Seagate STT2A IDE Travan Tapedrive to work with bacula-1.36.3 with no success. I think this should be possible, but i can't figure out the right parameters for this drive. I tried both the native ide-tape driver and the ide-scsi/st drivers for this tape. When us

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape usage question

2005-08-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Sunday 14 August 2005 04:04, Phil Stracchino wrote: > >>Kern, >>This question is probably your bailiwick. In the event of a failed job >>in bacula, is there any existing mechanism to tell Bacula to (logically) >>erase that job from the tape and treat that portion of the t

[Bacula-users] bacula storage area maintence

2005-08-14 Thread dave
Hello, I've got bacula running on a freebsd 5.4 machine backing up my network of computers, two laptops, two additional freebsd machines, and trying to figure out one dual boot box, is it possible for bacula to do these, one drive is xp, the other fc3? My main question is my /var/db/bacula and

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape usage question

2005-08-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Sunday 14 August 2005 21:23, Phil Stracchino wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Sunday 14 August 2005 04:04, Phil Stracchino wrote: > >>Kern, > >>This question is probably your bailiwick. In the event of a failed job > >>in bacula, is there any existing mechanism to tell Bacula to (logically)

[Bacula-users] vol size out of control

2005-08-14 Thread Raymond Norton
I have a few servers backing up to a single volume. The config is set to keep one month of jobs. I see notices that so many files were pruned from time to time, but the volume has reached a 100 gig. I expected it to stay under 50. Is there a way to delete unwanted jobs manually?

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape usage question

2005-08-14 Thread Jesse Keating
On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 11:46 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > No, and given the difficulties in dealing with tapes, this is probably not > something I am going to try. First, there should not be any failed jobs. > Second, I think this kind of problem will probably be best dealt with by > "merging" t

[Bacula-users] Autochanger problems

2005-08-14 Thread Alexander Loehr
Hi! I want to replace Arkeia 4 with bacula 1.36.3 running on a Solaris 2.6 machine with a HP C5713A DDS 4 autochanger. I think I've already managed to configure everything but bacula failes very often because it's not able to run mtx-changer properly. It looks like the device is busy. I'm using /d