[Bacula-users] Incremental backup does a "full" most of the time?

2005-08-18 Thread j2
I have a Full/incremental setup in place, but most days, it gets updated to "full" backup. How can I find out _why_ this is happening, since I am now using way more disk space then planned? It seem to run "incremental" only as long as the job is done on the same day as the "full", and do a new "ful

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: [Bacula-devel] Proposal for location of gnome-console

2005-08-18 Thread Landon Fuller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Lee wrote: | Switching gears for a moment... | Jesse also brought up another subject which has occurred to me as well. For | the daemons I completely agree with keeping the config files in /etc/bacula | but for console and gui programs it makes

RE: [Bacula-users] Fwd: [Bacula-devel] Proposal for location of gnome-console

2005-08-18 Thread Chris Lee
I agree with Jesse that this is almost a packaging issue. However, I do think that certain files should be moved. Specifically: All daemons should go in "$(sbindir)". The sd tools, bconsole, and any other gui console or monitoring program should go in "$(bindir)". The bsmtp tool, the mtx-changer

RE: [Bacula-users] bscan robustness

2005-08-18 Thread Ron Wheeler
1) Can anyone give any hints about how to modify bscan to record as many files as it finds on a tape even if the read of the tape ends in an error. I need to have access to everything that it did find even if the whole backup is not there. 2) Is there anyway to get the date of backup displayed w

Re: [Bacula-devel] Re: [Bacula-users] Couple of ideas for the Todo list

2005-08-18 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 18 August 2005 21:54, Joshua Kugler wrote: > On Thursday 18 August 2005 11:10, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > 1. Backup up data as it changes. > > > > If I am not mistaken, this is part of fnctl() and the program is notified > > by a signal. The problem with implementing this at the moment

Re: [Bacula-users] Need to find out how bacula would behave if i do this ..

2005-08-18 Thread Joshua Kugler
On Thursday 18 August 2005 00:12, Florian Schnabel wrote: > Hi folks > > here is my situation: > I took a new job as sysadmin here two weeks ago and found a bacula > backup system running .. .so far so good. > Problem is i don't trust the Fileserver that does the backup further > than i can throw i

Re: [Bacula-devel] Re: [Bacula-users] Couple of ideas for the Todo list

2005-08-18 Thread Joshua Kugler
On Thursday 18 August 2005 12:01, Dr. Michael A. Mackey wrote: > On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 11:54 -0800, Joshua Kugler wrote: > > On Thursday 18 August 2005 11:10, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > > 1. Backup up data as it changes. > > > > > > If I am not mistaken, this is part of fnctl() and the program is >

Re: [Bacula-users] what kind of error?

2005-08-18 Thread Peter Sjoberg
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 17:38 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Wednesday 17 August 2005 15:36, Peter Sjöberg wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 14:06 +0200, Jonas Björklund wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, viktorija wrote: > > > > tonight i got following situation: > > > > > > > >

[Bacula-users] Need to find out how bacula would behave if i do this ..

2005-08-18 Thread Florian Schnabel
Hi folks here is my situation: I took a new job as sysadmin here two weeks ago and found a bacula backup system running .. .so far so good. Problem is i don't trust the Fileserver that does the backup further than i can throw it without breaking it ^^ I want to get a new one as soon as possib

Re: [Bacula-devel] Re: [Bacula-users] Couple of ideas for the Todo list

2005-08-18 Thread Joshua Kugler
On Thursday 18 August 2005 11:10, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > 1. Backup up data as it changes. > > If I am not mistaken, this is part of fnctl() and the program is notified > by a signal. The problem with implementing this at the moment is that > Bacula is job based, and things are only backed up by a

Re: [Bacula-users] How to exclude directory from backup which contains a specific file

2005-08-18 Thread Joshua Kugler
On Thursday 18 August 2005 10:30, John Stoffel wrote: > Kern> On Thursday 18 August 2005 20:02, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > Kern> I'm not in favor of taking the control of what is backed up out > Kern> of the hands of the administrator and the centralized Director. > Kern> The same functionality can

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: restore complete file system branches

2005-08-18 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:31:18 + (UTC), "Mick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Mick> Martin Simmons wrote: >> Bacula 1.37 beta has an extra option in restore to take a whole >> directory (but not its subdirs for some reason). >> >> __Martin Mick> I can't believe that a sophisticat

Re: [Bacula-users] Couple of ideas for the Todo list

2005-08-18 Thread Dan Johansson
> I would like a browser based solution, but I detest writing GUIs -- perhaps I > will change my mind after I get a bit more experience with Qt because it is > the first GUI that has what I consider the necessary tools to keep the > programmer from having to worry about little details. > > Anyway,

Re: [Bacula-users] Couple of ideas for the Todo list

2005-08-18 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 18 August 2005 20:46, Joshua Kugler wrote: > I was reading InfoWorld today and came across a couple of ideas that would > be really cool to see implemented for Bacula. One is server/architecture > side, and the other is more client side. > > 1. Backup up data as it changes. > Microsoft

[Bacula-users] Couple of ideas for the Todo list

2005-08-18 Thread Joshua Kugler
I was reading InfoWorld today and came across a couple of ideas that would be really cool to see implemented for Bacula. One is server/architecture side, and the other is more client side. 1. Backup up data as it changes. Microsoft's Data Protection Manager does this. This would be really grea

RE: [Bacula-users] How to exclude directory from backup which contains a specific file

2005-08-18 Thread Knut E. Meidal
Or maybe an option in the bacula-dir.conf Override_Local_Exclude = Yes Respect_Local_Exclude = No Or similar Knut -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Stoffel Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 11:30 AM To: Kern Sibbald Cc: bacula-users@lis

[Bacula-users] Re: Bacula-users -- confirmation of subscription -- request 720429

2005-08-18 Thread Javier Payno
El Jueves, 18 de Agosto de 2005 10:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > Bacula-users -- confirmation of subscription -- request 720429 > > We have received a request from 193.127.3.89 for subscription of your > email address, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, to the > bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net mailing li

Re: [Bacula-users] How to exclude directory from backup which contains a specific file

2005-08-18 Thread John Stoffel
Kern> On Thursday 18 August 2005 20:02, Phil Stracchino wrote: Kern> I'm not in favor of taking the control of what is backed up out Kern> of the hands of the administrator and the centralized Director. Kern> The same functionality can be obtained with the Exclude Kern> directive, though somewhat

Re: [Bacula-users] How to exclude directory from backup which contains a specific file

2005-08-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Thursday 18 August 2005 20:02, Phil Stracchino wrote: > >>Alexander Loehr wrote: >> >>>Hi! >>> >>>I want to move from Arkeia to Bacula and I'm already able to run >>>backups. Arkeia was able to exclude directories from backup when a file >>>with name .OPB_NOBACKUP exists i

Re: [Bacula-users] How to exclude directory from backup which contains a specific file

2005-08-18 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 18 August 2005 20:02, Phil Stracchino wrote: > Alexander Loehr wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I want to move from Arkeia to Bacula and I'm already able to run > > backups. Arkeia was able to exclude directories from backup when a file > > with name .OPB_NOBACKUP exists in a directory. Does Bacu

Re: [Bacula-users] How to exclude directory from backup which contains a specific file

2005-08-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
Alexander Loehr wrote: > Hi! > > I want to move from Arkeia to Bacula and I'm already able to run > backups. Arkeia was able to exclude directories from backup when a file > with name .OPB_NOBACKUP exists in a directory. Does Bacula support a > similar functionality and how do I use it? This func

Re: [Bacula-users] mount USB disk

2005-08-18 Thread Josh Fisher
Daniel Bloemer wrote: Hello, Josh Fisher wrote: A RunBeforeJob script could mount the device with a simple mount command. It could also tell if the drive was inserted by testing whether or not the mountpoint existed. A RunAfterJob could unmount the device just as easily. Of course, if multi

[Bacula-users] Upgraded jobs not using full pool

2005-08-18 Thread Thomas Simmons
Hello Everyone, From what I understand, if I have "Full Backup Pool = Full-Pool" in the job resource then any job on that client that gets upgraded to full, should use the "Full-Pool". This is not happening and is really a big problem for laptops that are not on site everynight. If the laptop miss

[Bacula-users] Upgraded jobs not using full pool

2005-08-18 Thread Thomas Simmons
Hello Everyone, From what I understand, if I have "Full Backup Pool = Full-Pool" in the job resource then any job on that client that gets upgraded to full, should use the "Full-Pool". This is not happening and is really a big problem for laptops that are not on site everynight. If the laptop

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: [Bacula-devel] Proposal for location of gnome-console

2005-08-18 Thread Jesse Keating
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 17:59 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Are there any comments on this proposal? > > To be consistent, I would imagine we would need to include bconsole, > wxconsole, and possibly a number of other files in /usr/bin as well. I can > understand Daniel's point, but probably pr

[Bacula-users] Fwd: [Bacula-devel] Proposal for location of gnome-console

2005-08-18 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Are there any comments on this proposal? To be consistent, I would imagine we would need to include bconsole, wxconsole, and possibly a number of other files in /usr/bin as well. I can understand Daniel's point, but probably prefer to let the user move or link the file to where he want

[Bacula-users] How to exclude directory from backup which contains a specific file

2005-08-18 Thread Alexander Loehr
Hi! I want to move from Arkeia to Bacula and I'm already able to run backups. Arkeia was able to exclude directories from backup when a file with name .OPB_NOBACKUP exists in a directory. Does Bacula support a similar functionality and how do I use it? Thanks, Alex. -- Alexander Löhr Senior Soft

[Bacula-users] Multiple Tapers and Concurrent jobs

2005-08-18 Thread LHERBIER Lois
Hello, I have a problem to set up multiple tapers with concurrent jobs. I have 2 backup servers : - the first one (S1) with a taper + Director + SD - the second one (S2) only with another taper + SD My Director is managing the backup jobs on the 2 tapers. I have jobs for one taper and jobs for th