Re: [Bacula-users] Solaris 8 Backup problem

2005-12-02 Thread Ove Risberg
Hi, Try to set MaximumNetworkBufferSize to 65536 in the file and storage daemon configuration? Calculating signatures can be very useful but timeconsuming so if you are not running any verify jobs you could try to remove signature=... from your FileSet. Try to run without compression once just

RE: [Bacula-users] Solaris 8 Backup problem

2005-12-02 Thread Ribi Roland
I disabled compression on my solaris boxes! It was very slow with gzip-compression. I have the 1.38.1 release of bacula and it workes fine. The MaximumNetworkBufferSize did'nt help to increase the performance, it was the gzip-compression which resulted in very slow performance... -Original

Re: [Bacula-users] Solaris 8 Backup problem

2005-12-02 Thread Daniel Holtkamp
Hi ! Ribi Roland wrote: I disabled compression on my solaris boxes! It was very slow with gzip-compression. Thanks for all your kind responses. I`ll try to go with no compression / no signature next run and see if it makes any difference. I sure hope so :-) Best regards, -- Daniel Holtkamp

[Bacula-users] Migration jobs and compression

2005-12-02 Thread Ove Risberg
Hi, Is is difficult to add a option to compress/decompress the files while migrating jobs? If I migrate a job from tape with compression to diskstorage I might want software compression to save space. Making backups to disk without compression is faster and the backup client does not have to do

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula Restore issue

2005-12-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
My best guess is that you did not read either the Bacula rescue manual chapter or the README in the rescue source, and hence you failed to run the configuration prior to trying to run make. On Friday 02 December 2005 10:50, Kumaran Babu wrote: I'm bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net trying to

[Bacula-users] Restoring filenames with spaces from Windows on Linux

2005-12-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I'm doing backups of WinXP/2000 files on a Linux (Mandrake 10.2) server. The backup seems to work OK, but not the restore of the Windows files on the Linux Server. In bacula-dir, I can see and mark the files, the backup files have the right size, the restore seems to work OK, but the

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-12-02 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 1 Dec 2005 at 9:29, Sebastian Stark wrote: You have to use the update command to first update the pool parameters from the config file and the use update again to update the volume parameters from the pool: update - pool from resource update - volume parameters - select pool -

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-12-02 Thread Sebastian Stark
On Friday 02 December 2005 18:12, Harondel J. Sibble wrote: On 1 Dec 2005 at 9:29, Sebastian Stark wrote: You have to use the update command to first update the pool parameters from the config file and the use update again to update the volume parameters from the pool: update - pool

Re: [Bacula-users] Selected Volume for job

2005-12-02 Thread Ryan Novosielski
Does anything else automatically modify 'In Changer'? I believe mounting a tape does, but I was curious what else. I haven't seen that in the manual. _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - User Support Spec. III |$| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| | [EMAIL

[Bacula-users] Re: Comm error with SD

2005-12-02 Thread rkvam
Aditional information: When trying to label tapes I got same problem as mention in the initial case: ### #error message# ### *label The defined Storage resources are: 1: Autochanger0 2: TapeLib0-Drive0 3: TapeLib0-Drive1 Select Storage resource (1-3): 1

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-12-02 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 2 Dec 2005 at 19:00, Sebastian Stark wrote: You can see the result in list media Nope, no difference. I had the run before update on the screen and compared it to the run afterwards, no difference. -- Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-12-02 Thread Martin Simmons
On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 07:57:42 -0800, Harondel J. Sibble [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Harondel On 1 Dec 2005 at 10:37, Kern Sibbald wrote: Yes, a shorter Volume retention period will force pruning of job and file data, but as the manual and a recent email point out, after changing the .conf

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring filenames with spaces from Windows on Linux

2005-12-02 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 02.12.2005 13:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm doing backups of WinXP/2000 files on a Linux (Mandrake 10.2) server. The backup seems to work OK, but not the restore of the Windows files on the Linux Server. In bacula-dir, I can see and mark the files, the backup files have

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Comm error with SD

2005-12-02 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 02.12.2005 19:22, rkvam wrote: Aditional information: ... When trying to run a backup-job, bacula loads the correct tape, but fail to use it. If I manualy load correct tape, and in the console mount the drive before starting the job, the job runs correct, the changer seams to

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-12-02 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 2 Dec 2005 at 20:09, Martin Simmons wrote: When was the volume last written? All the retention times are counted from the last write time. If you wrote it on day 5, then on day 7 the day 5 backup from was only 2 days old and still within the retention period, hence the tape should not

[Bacula-users] Re: Bacula pool def'n bug?

2005-12-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Phil, Please always copy the list. There is no such directive as Number of Volumes. I don't know why it was in the manual, and it is even more strange that no one ever complained before. I've removed it from the doc. On Friday 02 December 2005 20:26, Phil Schwartz wrote: Hi again

[Bacula-users] autochanger barcode labeling

2005-12-02 Thread Maria McKinley
Is there a way to label two tapes in an autochanger to different pools? It seems that there is not, but maybe I'm missing something. It appears that you have to put one tape in the autochanger, run the label barcodes command, and then add the next tape and run the command again. I didn't

[Bacula-users] Re: Comm error with SD

2005-12-02 Thread rkvam
I dont think thats the problem, I even increased the sleep time to 120 sek, just to rule it out. Roger Arno Lehmann wrote: Hello, On 02.12.2005 19:22, rkvam wrote: Aditional information: ... When trying to run a backup-job, bacula loads the correct tape, but fail to use it. If I manualy

[Bacula-users] Hog wild output on test of restor files

2005-12-02 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm still testing and learning bacula. I've setup a test backup from a winxp machine having the Director on a linux (gentoo) box and FD on a machine named chub (winxp). SD is writing to a file on reader (the gentoo box) where reader-dir is running. I've successfully done several backups of a