Re: [Bacula-users] Limiting FD file views???

2006-02-08 Thread Steen . L . Meyer
It seems to me that setting up a restricted console to use from the specific client might be something in the direction of what you want. As far as I know it restricts the view that the user at the client sees - maybe not the fd itself regards Steen

[Bacula-users] Timing out if tape not available

2006-02-08 Thread Juliet Kemp
Hi, Whilst fiddling with my Bacula config, a couple of times I've come in in the morning to find that for whatever reason the tape I thought was available was not in fact so. This means that any backup job due to run after the blocked one fails to run. Is there any way that I can get

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I change my setup?

2006-02-08 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Beren Gamble wrote: I'm wondering if I should bin the first two servers and put everything on the one with the autochanger. I would. I'd have to change the backup type to Incremental. Is restoring from incremental backups easy with Bacula? Yes. Also, my database

Re: [Bacula-users] Erasing database entries

2006-02-08 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 2/8/2006 9:16 AM, Javier Payno wrote: Hi Arno Fist of all, apologize for my English :-S Nothing to worry about - it might only take longer until two non-native speakers know what they're talking about :-) El Martes, 7 de Febrero de 2006 20:04, Arno Lehmann escribió: I can't

Re: [Bacula-users] Erasing database entries

2006-02-08 Thread Javier Payno
El Miércoles, 8 de Febrero de 2006 11:17, Arno Lehmann escribió: Why don't you query the catalog for pruned volumes, store that list, delete the corresponding files, and use the list to send the proper delete commands, via bconsole, to the DIR? I would like use my script with XML-RPC and give

Re: [Bacula-users] Erasing database entries

2006-02-08 Thread Martin Simmons
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 09:16:06 +0100, Javier Payno [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi Arno Fist of all, apologize for my English :-S El Martes, 7 de Febrero de 2006 20:04, Arno Lehmann escribió: I can't say I actually understand every detail of your question, but you should try the 'delete

[Bacula-users] chio-changer script bug with multiple changers

2006-02-08 Thread Alexander Kuehn
Hi, I just attached a second changer and found a glitch in the chio-changer script while testing it with bacula. I attached the patch to fix it. Kind regards, - -- Alexander Kuehn Papendorf Software Engineering Cell phone: +49 (0)177 6461165 Cell fax: +49 (0)177 6468001 Fax @Office: +49

Re: [Bacula-users] Erasing database entries

2006-02-08 Thread Javier Payno
El Miércoles, 8 de Febrero de 2006 12:33, Martin Simmons escribió: db_delete_media_record Thank you, is that what I was looking for. So stupid by my side forget the source code when I want to program something... Thanks twice -- Javier Payno

Re: [Bacula-users] Bare-metal recovery Windows 2003 Server (PDC)

2006-02-08 Thread Frank Sweetser
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 11:33:01PM +0200, John Smith wrote: * * Bare-metal recovery Windows 2003 Server (PDC) * * 06 Feb 2006 (copyleft) Santa Claus temp99 [mad

Re: [Bacula-users] Limiting FD file views???

2006-02-08 Thread Erich Prinz
Thanks for the feedback everyone. My goal is for the 'owner' of the client machine to do their own restores. When connecting to the director from the client side wx- console, the end user is presented with all the variables (though locked down via ACL entries specific to that console

[Bacula-users] backups always waiting for appendable volume

2006-02-08 Thread Eric Peterson
I'm using 1.36.3 on a Debian server. I'm writing all my backups to disk. I was having problems with backups waiting on volumes because I had a full disk. I have since converted my old disk to use LVM and have added another drive to volume. So I now have over 100 GB free. However, this morning I

[Bacula-users] Bare-metal recovery Windows XP

2006-02-08 Thread Dave
Hello, Does anyone have a procedure for a bare-metal recovery of an xp box? I've got a machine that if it goes i need to be able to recover it fast. Thanks. Dave. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log

[Bacula-users] port 9102 not open on localhost

2006-02-08 Thread Raymond Norton
Bacula cannot connect to local-fd on port 9102. With bacula started I can telnet to port 9101 and 9103, but not 9102. I have turned firewalling off, but it does not help. This is on a Knoppix box that I uninstalled the bacula client from and did a full install of Bacula using bianaries. Raymond

Re: [Bacula-users] backups always waiting for appendable volume

2006-02-08 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 2/8/2006 3:54 PM, Eric Peterson wrote: I'm using 1.36.3 on a Debian server. I'm writing all my backups to disk. I was having problems with backups waiting on volumes because I had a full disk. I have since converted my old disk to use LVM and have added another drive to volume. So I

RE: [Bacula-users] port 9102 not open on localhost

2006-02-08 Thread Lee, Raymond
If port 9102 is being used by something else, you can run the FD on a different port. You can use the --with-baseport= option in the configure script when installing Bacula. So if =8100, the DIR will run on 8101, FD on 8102, and SD on 8103. Otherwise, you can edit your *.conf files,

Re: [Bacula-users] Simulate/Test Scheduler?

2006-02-08 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Bumping the clock around on the machine seems reasonable, but ugly. File system activity can also be scripted outside of the system. Somehow I don't understand what file system activity has to do with the schedules... I guess I need to test more than just the schedule. I need to

RE: [Bacula-users] port 9102 not open on localhost

2006-02-08 Thread Raymond Norton
If port 9102 is being used by something else, you can run the FD on a different port. You can use the --with-baseport= option in the configure script when installing Bacula. So if =8100, the DIR will run on 8101, FD on 8102, and SD on 8103. Otherwise, you can edit your *.conf

[Bacula-users] automatic mount

2006-02-08 Thread Julien Cigar
Hello list ! I'm using bacula 1.36.3 under debian linux (testing) with a 2.4 kernel. My tape drive is a Sony SDX-500C (SCSI). The backup machine runs for several months now without problem. At the moment when Bacula wants another tape I manually eject the tape, put another one in the tape

[Bacula-users] Urgent: Error during restore -- Could not unserialize Volume label

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Wilson
Hi, Im currently trying to restore a filesystem on a production Linux PostgreSQL database server. Ive been doing weekly full backups with daily incrementals for some time now using an Exabyte 480 autoloader. The files to be restored span 4 tapes. The restore process was going

[Bacula-users] slow performance when backing up server itself (compress+tls)

2006-02-08 Thread Aleksandar Milivojevic
I've noticed that when my backup server (running 1.38.2) is backing up itself, the performance is terrible. The load average on the box goes through the roof, and I'm getting something like 60 bytes per second. The backup server is running on an older 1.7GHz machine, but still it should be

Re: [Bacula-users] Urgent: Error during restore -- Could not unserialize Volume label

2006-02-08 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 2/8/2006 9:02 PM, Chris Wilson wrote: Hi, I’m currently trying to restore a filesystem on a production Linux PostgreSQL database server. I’ve been doing weekly full backups with daily incrementals for some time now using an Exabyte 480 autoloader. The files to be

RE: [Bacula-users] Tape Changer Weirdness

2006-02-08 Thread Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure)
Yes that fixed it... I find it troublesome that the catalog values for the slot were changed to 0 after a reboot. Anyone know how this could have happened. Cheers, Silas =0) -Original Message- From: Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure) Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 12:48 PM To:

[Bacula-users] naive question: upgrade from 1.38.2 to latest and still restore old backups?

2006-02-08 Thread Chris Wilson
This is (hopefully) a silly question, but if I upgrade from bacula 1.38.2 to the latest version, will it still be able to restore from backups made with the previous version? Will the 1.38.2 catalog be readable in the latest version? Thanks, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Bacula-users] Dell PowerVault 110T and 120T

2006-02-08 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
For the sake of the list archives (no mention so far), the: Dell PowerVault 110T and 120T (the former simply being a desktop model, and the later being a rack-mount model), work well with Bacula 1.38.5 on NetBSD 3.0_STABLE and FreeBSD 5.3-p26. They both pass btape(8) tests. The drives are

Re: [Bacula-users] naive question: upgrade from 1.38.2 to latest and still restore old backups?

2006-02-08 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 2/8/2006 9:44 PM, Chris Wilson wrote: still in trouble? This is (hopefully) a silly question, but if I upgrade from bacula 1.38.2 to the latest version, will it still be able to restore from backups made with the previous version? Will the 1.38.2 catalog be readable in the

[Bacula-users] Hit me w/ a Clue-by-Four (Amanda user)

2006-02-08 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Sorry to keep flooding the list...but I live for this stuff:} Situation: 1) I have multiple servers, different platforms, different functions 2) Some servers have common paths to be backed up (/etc, /var/log, etc.) 3) Some have platform/function-specific paths: (/var/adm, /opt/oracle) 4) A Job