Re: [Bacula-users] Drive Compatibility Question

2006-02-02 Thread Steve Loughran
I use Bacula on a PowerLoader LTO3 17 slot without any problems at all, if that helps... Steve William Reid wrote: Hi there, We are looking into purchasing an LoaderXpress LTO2 11 tape changer drive and was wondering if anyone has had any experience working with this unit within Bacula.

Re: [Bacula-users] The table 'File' is full

2006-02-02 Thread Sebastian Stark
This worked for me when I hit the limit: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/000796.html Be sure to have a recent dump in case anything goes wrong. -Sebastian On Feb 1, 2006, at 3:37 PM, Roger Kvam wrote: 27-Jan 00:45 alexandria-dir: LogicBackupAvr32.2006-01-27_00.05.10 Fatal

Re: [Bacula-users] include all dot-files from $HOME

2006-02-02 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 2/2/2006 1:06 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: Arno Lehmann wrote: By the way, the shell expansion does not use regular expressions... To select only stuff starting with a dot, in a regular expression you should write '\.[^\.].+'. Unless I'm wrong, of course :-) That RE would be spelled

[Bacula-users] Dir can't connect with SD

2006-02-02 Thread blythe44
When I try to backup to the "TMP" directory for a test I get the following error. The only thing that was changed in the configrations were the passwords. I've check the manual but can't find any answers. 01-Feb 12:58 ninja3-dir: *Console*.2006-02-01_12.51.37 Warning: bnet.c:853 Could not

[Bacula-users] DIR cannot connect to SD

2006-02-02 Thread Frank M. Blythe
Whenever I try to run a test backupto the "tmp" directory I get the following error.I have checked the manual and my configuration seems correct. The Dir password and SD password match. 01-Feb 12:58 ninja3-dir: *Console*.2006-02-01_12.51.37 Warning: bnet.c:853 Could not connect to Storage daemon

Re: [Bacula-users] Dir and SD can not connect

2006-02-02 Thread Juliet Kemp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every time I do a run and select client1 I get the following error messages: 01-Feb 12:58 ninja3-dir: *Console*.2006-02-01_12.51.37 Warning: bnet.c:853 Could not connect to Storage daemon on ninja3:9103. ERR=Connection refused All the passwords match is there

Re: [Bacula-users] Timeout - client off line

2006-02-02 Thread Kristian Ejvind
Excellent advice! I've been looking for an answer to this problem for a year, but apparenty sometimes you can't see the wood for the trees. May I suggest that this is added to the documentation? /Kristian On 30 jan 2006, at 12.34, Andrew Paterson wrote: This little problem seems to come

[Bacula-users] Dir and SD can not connect

2006-02-02 Thread blythe44
Every time I do a "run" and select client1 I get the following error messages: 01-Feb 12:58 ninja3-dir: *Console*.2006-02-01_12.51.37 Warning: bnet.c:853 Could not connect to Storage daemon on ninja3:9103. ERR=Connection refused Retrying ... 01-Feb 13:03 ninja3-dir:

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: The table 'File' is full

2006-02-02 Thread Daniel Holtkamp
Hi ! Roger wrote: What will happend to the MyISAM file, will it be converted, or just left behind an I need to start my backups from scratch? I think the MyISAM files got converted and deleted. Actually i`m pretty sure about that :) Best regards, -- Daniel HoltkampRiege

Re: [Bacula-users] regular error message ...

2006-02-02 Thread Martin Simmons
On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:57:22 +0100, Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hello, On 2/1/2006 1:55 PM, Florian Schnabel wrote: i still didn't find a reason for my problem ... bacula prunes old jobs, then i get an error no volume available, THEN the volume gets recycled and backup

Re: [Bacula-users] include all dot-files from $HOME

2006-02-02 Thread Martin Simmons
On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:42:22 +0100, Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi, On 2/2/2006 1:06 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: Arno Lehmann wrote: By the way, the shell expansion does not use regular expressions... To select only stuff starting with a dot, in a regular expression you

Re: [Bacula-users] include all dot-files from $HOME

2006-02-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
Martin Simmons wrote: The important part of that, for our purpose, is the last sentence, because it means that within a [] pair, a \ is just a \, a . is just a ., a psi is just a psi[1]. So not only is it impossible to escape the dot within a bracket expression but, fortunately, we don't need to.

Re: [Bacula-users] include all dot-files from $HOME

2006-02-02 Thread Frank Sweetser
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:42:22AM +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote: So, the above expression can be read as thus: ^\.Match anything which begins with a literal . ( followed by EITHER [^.] a character which is not a literal . |\.. OR a second literal . followed by ANY character )

Re: [Bacula-users] Dir and SD can not connect

2006-02-02 Thread drescher0110-bacula
Are you certain that the storage daemon is actually running? 'ps -A' look for a line with 'bacula-sd'. Agreed, If you have the set the same password on the both machines this it is highly likely that the director is not running. Did you remember to add bacula to the startup scripts on the

[Bacula-users] Why use the wiki?

2006-02-02 Thread Dan Langille
On 2 Feb 2006 at 8:38, Frank Sweetser wrote: On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:42:22AM +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote: So, the above expression can be read as thus: ^\.Match anything which begins with a literal . ( followed by EITHER [^.] a character which is not a literal . |\..

[Bacula-users] Purged all jobs for a host

2006-02-02 Thread Eric Peterson
I was trying to recycle a volume following the directions on the website. I guess they are only for newer versions or I didn't do things quite right. I selected 'purge', 'jobs', and then it asked for a file daemon so I chose the file daemon that needed a volume. I thought it would then ask me

Re: [Bacula-users] Dir and SD can not connect

2006-02-02 Thread drescher0110-bacula
When I do a ./bconsole and then status. I choose 4 and it says that all the daemons are running. That is odd because to generate the status it connects using the password. Are you using just one machine at the moment that has all the daemons installed?

Re: [Bacula-users] Dir and SD can not connect

2006-02-02 Thread drescher0110-bacula
I see all daemons are started. Could you post your bacula-sd.conf? And did you edit any of the .conf files after you started the daemons? John --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems?

Re: [Bacula-users] Dir and SD can not connect

2006-02-02 Thread drescher0110-bacula
Director { Name = ninja3-mon Password = 170lKcTnVSAwDoqTiO7eZScbIXSYAjVtn5dKl6/CSPWI Monitor = no } Hmm. I have Monitor = yes here but I do not think this is your problem. I assume ninja3 is the name of the one machine that you are running bacula on. Is ninja3 in your /etc/hosts file?

Re: [Bacula-users] Dir and SD can not connect

2006-02-02 Thread drescher0110-bacula
Didn't edit a thing except made sure all the passwords matched. The reason I asked that is any change at all in any of the .conf files with bacula running requires either bacula to be restarted (all daemons that are involved in the change) or you to execute reload in the the bconsole window.

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged all jobs for a host

2006-02-02 Thread Ludovic Strappazon
Hi Eric, I think you should restore your catalog Ludovic Strappazon Eric Peterson a écrit : I was trying to recycle a volume following the directions on the website. I guess they are only for newer versions or I didn't do things quite right. I selected 'purge', 'jobs', and then it asked

Re: [Bacula-users] Dir and SD can not connect

2006-02-02 Thread drescher0110-bacula
trust me, I've done all of that. I have a few questions. What version of bacula are you running? What os / version / kernel are you running? And could you post your bacula-dir.conf? Als o are your conf files in /etc/bacula or /var/lib/bacula or somewhere else? Are you sure bacula is using

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged all jobs for a host

2006-02-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
Ludovic Strappazon wrote: Hi Eric, I think you should restore your catalog Ludovic Strappazon Eric Peterson a écrit : I was trying to recycle a volume following the directions on the website. I guess they are only for newer versions or I didn't do things quite right. I selected

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged all jobs for a host

2006-02-02 Thread Eric Peterson
That's what I was trying to do, but then apparently as part of the catalog restore it started do a backup first and overwrote my last catalog backup with the now purged catalog. So I'm out of luck. At least I should be able to restore using bextract if I have to. Correct me if I'm wrong! I was

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged all jobs for a host

2006-02-02 Thread Dan Langille
Overwrote? There should be no overwriting of any backup. It still exists on tape. I'm sure. On 2 Feb 2006 at 9:27, Eric Peterson wrote: That's what I was trying to do, but then apparently as part of the catalog restore it started do a backup first and overwrote my last catalog backup with

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged all jobs for a host

2006-02-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
Eric Peterson wrote: That's what I was trying to do, but then apparently as part of the catalog restore it started do a backup first and overwrote my last catalog backup with the now purged catalog. So I'm out of luck. as part of the catalog restore?!? If any restore job is starting out

RE: [Bacula-users] Exchange Backup

2006-02-02 Thread Heigl Florian - Munich-MR - external
Hi, Brad, Michel Brad Pinkston wrote: I apologize if this has already been posted. How can I backup Exchange 2003 with bacula? I am currently using windows backup to a share and backing up that file, but this isn't efficient. I'd like to be able to connect to the exchange server

[Bacula-users] daemon news

2006-02-02 Thread Mikel King
Greetings all, Since Chris and I are revamping the dn article submission system I have setup a temporary daemonsnews at yahoogroups.com holding site. Anyone who is interesting in submitting an article please join the group and post it there. We are looking to add a couple of articles per

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged all jobs for a host

2006-02-02 Thread Ludovic Strappazon
I think you are right, but I never had to use bextract, I always keep the 3 last gziped catalogs backups on another server. Ludovic. Eric Peterson a écrit : That's what I was trying to do, but then apparently as part of the catalog restore it started do a backup first and overwrote my last

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged all jobs for a host

2006-02-02 Thread Eric Peterson
The catalog backup was waiting on another job to finish. I thought I cancelled all jobs, but apparently the catalog backup still ran. I'm not sure how or why. That's why I thought the restore had started the backup. Anyways my last catalog backup is a couple days old so I'm not sure I really want

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged all jobs for a host

2006-02-02 Thread Ryan Novosielski
And if you haven't been backing up your catalog regularly (like me when one of my staff did this one to me ;)), you can bscan all the tapes. For me, it was 3 tapes, so it was not a big deal. _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - User Support Spec. III |$|

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged all jobs for a host

2006-02-02 Thread Steve Loughran
(/me looks at cupboard full of tapes, and the DR tape list, and then looks at ensuring safe backup of catalogs...) Ryan Novosielski wrote: And if you haven't been backing up your catalog regularly (like me when one of my staff did this one to me ;)), you can bscan all the tapes. For me, it

Re: [Bacula-users] The table 'File' is full

2006-02-02 Thread Ryan Sizemore
So it would *seem* that using this option (increasing max_rows) is a better option that converting to InnoDB, since MyISAM is faster for inserting. Does this make sense? Ryan Sebastian Stark wrote: This worked for me when I hit the limit:

Re: [Bacula-users] The table 'File' is full

2006-02-02 Thread Sebastian Stark
Am 02.02.2006 um 18:31 schrieb Ryan Sizemore: So it would *seem* that using this option (increasing max_rows) is a better option that converting to InnoDB, since MyISAM is faster for inserting. Does this make sense? I really don't know, we chose this way because it seemed the least

Re: [Bacula-users] The table 'File' is full

2006-02-02 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Daniel Holtkamp wrote: Hi ! Roger Kvam wrote: My MySQL database is 6.8G, while the File.MYD is 4.0G You ran into a mysql-limit there. The File Table apparently uses MyISAM as storage engine and the max-limit there is 4 GB. Only by default. It _can_ be increased and

Re: [Bacula-users] Unlisted fstype on MS-XP

2006-02-02 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 2/2/2006 4:53 PM, John Kodis wrote: I'm trying to add my first Microsoft XP client to a well established Bacula installation, but if I include the fstype = ntfs specification in the fileset/include/options resource, attempts to estimate the job size fail with the report that Top level

[Bacula-users] migrating to different database backend

2006-02-02 Thread Aleksandar Milivojevic
I'd like to migrate one of my servers from PostgreSQL to MySQL. My plan was to use pg_dump to create a file with just insert commands, recreate tables in MySQL and then run commands from dump file to populate them. Reinstall director (with MySQL backend). Is this going to fly? Is there

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: bacula restores

2006-02-02 Thread Karl Hakimian
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 09:34:56PM +0100, Roger wrote: I had the exact same problem, running out of free memory while having 2GB installed, I had to split the backups into 10 separate jobs, where the biggest consist of 3,8M files and 250GB data, and even this takes a lot of time on my dual

Re: [Bacula-users] Drive Compatibility Question

2006-02-02 Thread Keith Brautigam
I just purchased a LoaderXpress LTO 3 11 tape changer (drive made by HP). mt and mtx commands work fine as well as using tar to write to /dev/nst0, so I don't expect any problems with bacula. I'll be seeing what kind of throughput I really get out of it and testing it with bacula over the

[Bacula-users] Restoring a database with bscan

2006-02-02 Thread Ryan Sizemore
In the process of testing bacula, I am attempting to restore the catalog using bscan. According to the documentation, It should be noted that *bscan* cannot restore a database to the exact condition it was in previously because a lot of the less important information contained in the database is

[Bacula-users] bacula restore logging

2006-02-02 Thread Ryan Sizemore
In the process of restoring nearly 10,000,000 files from tape, I have noticed that it logs each file that it restores. This is great for restoring a few files, but needless to say, our logs are huge. Is there a way to turn this behavior off? Best Regards, Ryan Sizemore

Re: [Bacula-users] migrating to different database backend

2006-02-02 Thread Dan Langille
On 2 Feb 2006 at 13:57, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: I'd like to migrate one of my servers from PostgreSQL to MySQL. My plan was to use pg_dump to create a file with just insert commands, recreate tables in MySQL and then run commands from dump file to populate them. Reinstall director

Re: [Bacula-users] monthy full backup - archive

2006-02-02 Thread Kel Raywood
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Frank Sweetser wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 11:17:09AM -0800, Kel Raywood wrote: I think that the archive is intended to be used in cases of a complete disaster of the backup system. i.e. the catalog is lost and you have to rebuild it from the archive tapes. In that

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-fd exits with status 208

2006-02-02 Thread Robert W Hartzell
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 09:10, Ryan Novosielski wrote: As an aside, I would really appreciate you releasing your manifest file to the list when it is finished (or even now -- it may actually help solve the problem). Having written one myself for MySQL I believe it was, I know what a timesaver

Re: [Bacula-users] migrating to different database backend

2006-02-02 Thread Aleksandar Milivojevic
Dan Langille wrote: On 2 Feb 2006 at 13:57, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: I'd like to migrate one of my servers from PostgreSQL to MySQL. My plan was to use pg_dump to create a file with just insert commands, recreate tables in MySQL and then run commands from dump file to populate them.

[Bacula-users] Label barcodes with mixed library

2006-02-02 Thread Ian Levesque
Greetings, I installed version 1.38.5 this week and am thus far impressed! With some tweaking, I have it interfacing w/ an ADIC Scalar 100 (50 slots) housing one LTO-1 and one LTO-2 drive. I have a few initial questions regarding this solution, and would appreciate any advice: 1. How

Re: [Bacula-users] Label barcodes with mixed library

2006-02-02 Thread Ryan Sizemore
Ian Levesque wrote: Greetings, I installed version 1.38.5 this week and am thus far impressed! Good to hear! With some tweaking, I have it interfacing w/ an ADIC Scalar 100 (50 slots) housing one LTO-1 and one LTO-2 drive. Awesome. I run a Scalar 220 with AIT2 tapes, but LTO can't be

Re: [Bacula-users] Label barcodes with mixed library

2006-02-02 Thread Ian Levesque
Dear Ryan, et al., Thank you for your response. 1. How should I manage the mixture of LTO-1 and LTO-2 tapes in the ADIC with bacula? I set up two pools, one for each media type. I run the label barcodes command to use the ADIC's barcode scanner to add the tapes to the database, but this puts

[Bacula-users] Offsite Volumes | GFS Schedule | Policy Planning

2006-02-02 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
All, a couple of things: There doesn't seem to be an official definition of GFS, but the most popular explanation to be found involves Full/0 backups on Friday and incremental/differentials on Monday through Thursday. That's great for 9-5 office environments, but what about data centers? It's

Re: [Bacula-users] Label barcodes with mixed library

2006-02-02 Thread Ryan Sizemore
Ian Levesque wrote: Dear Ryan, et al., Thank you for your response. 1. How should I manage the mixture of LTO-1 and LTO-2 tapes in the ADIC with bacula? I set up two pools, one for each media type. I run the label barcodes command to use the ADIC's barcode scanner to add the tapes to the

[Bacula-users] Re: Bacula-users digest, Vol 1 #2932 - 9 msgs

2006-02-02 Thread Stephan Holl
Hello Phil, Arno, Martin, On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 02:02:02 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To catch ALL dotfiles in Bacula, where . and .. are not concerns, one could simply use the following regex: '^\..*' which would denote any filename beginning with a literal . followed by zero or