[Bacula-users] No appendable volumes, issue.

2006-02-13 Thread Gert Burger
Morning As of a week or so ago my bacula installation started giving errors as follow: 13-Feb 09:12 apiary-sd: Job BackupCatalog.2006-02-13_01.10.00 waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes. Please use the label command to create a new Volume for: Storage: FileStorage Media

Re: [Bacula-users] Single Pool, multiple Storage

2006-02-13 Thread Geir Asle Borgen
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 18:11 -0500, Matthew Butt wrote: I'm setting up a backup to disk system (USB external drives), basically running Full monthly, Diff weekly, Inc daily, very similar to the system here: http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Automated_Disk_Backup.html The difference is that I

Re: Date/Time poll'ing ? (WAS: Re: [Bacula-users] Simulate/Test Scheduler?)

2006-02-13 Thread Martin Simmons
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:18:01 -0500, Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 22:10 +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: =20 In many cases (i.e. when, during the mv operation, to time stamp of the= =20 testfile inode was

[Bacula-users] job does not work anymore after upgrade to 1.38

2006-02-13 Thread Sebastian Stark
After upgrading from 1.36.2 to 1.38.3 everything worked perfect but one job refuses to backup anything. An upgrade to 1.38.5 did not fix this. The FileSet definition did not change and there are definitely files that need to be backed up (new files, changed files..). The job and

Re: JobSet, Batch, or Aggregate Concept / Max tape usage per (WAS: Re: [Bacula-users] Hit me w/ a Clue-by-Four (Amanda user))

2006-02-13 Thread Russell Howe
Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 10:37 +, Russell Howe wrote: Bacula will do this. Check you don't have Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 in I do. This is because I'm trying to enforce a specific threshold of a single-tape-per-day policy. Ah, but this is a single-tape-per-job

Re: [Bacula-users] job does not work anymore after upgrade to 1.38

2006-02-13 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sebastian Stark wrote: After upgrading from 1.36.2 to 1.38.3 everything worked perfect but one job refuses to backup anything. An upgrade to 1.38.5 did not fix this. The FileSet definition did not change and there are definitely files that need to

Re: JobSet, Batch, or Aggregate Concept / Max tape usage per (WAS: Re: [Bacula-users] Hit me w/ a Clue-by-Four (Amanda user))

2006-02-13 Thread Russell Howe
Russell Howe wrote: I have this comment in the configuration to remind anyone who might inherit this setup: # ** VERY IMPORTANT ** # In the database, the media entries have a MaxVolJobs setting. This is # what determines that a tape is full. # # Current values are: # Cases tapes: 10 (Cases,

Re: Date/Time poll'ing ? (WAS: Re: [Bacula-users] Simulate/Test Scheduler?)

2006-02-13 Thread Russell Howe
Martin Simmons wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:18:01 -0500, Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: How often does the Director poll the system date time? How often does the Storage director? I don't see any options in the config to control this. Specifically, for periodic maintenance like

[Bacula-users] How to get mount requests before the job runs?

2006-02-13 Thread Chris Dennis
Hello Bacula users I'm new to Bacula, and beginning to get the hang of it. I can't find a way to get the operator notified of which tape to mount *before* the jobs runs. For example, if the daily backup is due to run at 10pm, the operator needs to get the notification before they go home at

Re: [Bacula-users] How to get mount requests before the job runs?

2006-02-13 Thread Thomas Glatthor
Hi Chris, you can use a cron-job, which mails the output of this script #!bin/bash ./bconsole -c ./bconsole.conf END_OF_DATA status dir quit END_OF_DATA to your mail account 60 minutes before you'll go home. or you can use the RunAfterJob = /etc/bacula/mailmethenextrequiredtapename.sh

Re: [Bacula-users] job does not work anymore after upgrade to 1.38

2006-02-13 Thread Sebastian Stark
On 13.02.2006, at 11:56, Michel Meyers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sebastian Stark wrote: After upgrading from 1.36.2 to 1.38.3 everything worked perfect but one job refuses to backup anything. An upgrade to 1.38.5 did not fix this. The FileSet definition did

Re: [Bacula-users] job does not work anymore after upgrade to 1.38

2006-02-13 Thread Sebastian Stark
On 13.02.2006, at 12:24, Sebastian Stark wrote: On 13.02.2006, at 11:56, Michel Meyers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sebastian Stark wrote: After upgrading from 1.36.2 to 1.38.3 everything worked perfect but one job refuses to backup anything. An upgrade to

Re: [Bacula-users] job does not work anymore after upgrade to 1.38

2006-02-13 Thread Dan Langille
On 13 Feb 2006 at 13:10, Sebastian Stark wrote: On 13.02.2006, at 12:24, Sebastian Stark wrote: On 13.02.2006, at 11:56, Michel Meyers wrote: Sebastian Stark wrote: After upgrading from 1.36.2 to 1.38.3 everything worked perfect but one job refuses to backup anything. An

Re: [Bacula-users] job does not work anymore after upgrade to 1.38

2006-02-13 Thread Sebastian Stark
On 13.02.2006, at 13:52, Dan Langille wrote: On 13 Feb 2006 at 13:10, Sebastian Stark wrote: On 13.02.2006, at 12:24, Sebastian Stark wrote: On 13.02.2006, at 11:56, Michel Meyers wrote: Sebastian Stark wrote: After upgrading from 1.36.2 to 1.38.3 everything worked perfect but one job

Re: [Bacula-users] job does not work anymore after upgrade to 1.38

2006-02-13 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Langille wrote: On 13 Feb 2006 at 13:10, Sebastian Stark wrote: On 13.02.2006, at 12:24, Sebastian Stark wrote: On 13.02.2006, at 11:56, Michel Meyers wrote: Sebastian Stark wrote: After upgrading from 1.36.2 to 1.38.3 everything worked

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Encryption Status

2006-02-13 Thread Dan Langille
On 12 Feb 2006 at 13:49, Landon Fuller wrote: Dan Langille wrote: On 5 Feb 2006 at 18:33, Landon Fuller wrote: In the spirit of status reports -- Bacula's File Daemon now has complete support for signing and encryption data prior to sending it to the Storage Daemon, and decrypting

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Encryption Status

2006-02-13 Thread Dan Langille
On 12 Feb 2006 at 14:07, Landon Fuller wrote: Landon Fuller wrote: One other issue worth raising -- The director can currently overwrite any file on the FD, including the encryption keys or the FD configuration file, thus exposing private data to the director. Something else I forgot

[Bacula-users] Volume Status - Options: Differences

2006-02-13 Thread Christoff Buch
Hello there, (on the bconsole) by doing: update - Volume parameters - (choosing pool and entering media id), then choosing Volume Status you can get to: Possible Values are: 1: Append 2: Archive 3: Disabled 4: Full 5: Used 6: Cleaning 7: Read-Only Question is: What are the exact

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Encryption Status

2006-02-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
Dan Langille wrote: On 12 Feb 2006 at 14:07, Landon Fuller wrote: Kern, is it reasonable to assume that the Storage Daemon will always provide per-file stream data in the order it was written by the File Daemon? If not, I'd guess the alternative is to cache the file attributes on restore and

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Encryption Status

2006-02-13 Thread Dan Langille
On 13 Feb 2006 at 9:02, Phil Stracchino wrote: Dan Langille wrote: On 12 Feb 2006 at 14:07, Landon Fuller wrote: Kern, is it reasonable to assume that the Storage Daemon will always provide per-file stream data in the order it was written by the File Daemon? If not, I'd guess the

[Bacula-users] bacula stop

2006-02-13 Thread Enrique de la Torre Gordaliza
Hello, I'm creating a shutdown script for my UPS software on the bacula server. First of all I stop director, storage and file daemons. Then I stop mysql daemon. But, what could happen if a job is running when I make director stop? Should I issue a cancel command to the console before? How

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula stop

2006-02-13 Thread Dan Langille
On 13 Feb 2006 at 15:06, Enrique de la Torre Gordaliza wrote: I'm creating a shutdown script for my UPS software on the bacula server. First of all I stop director, storage and file daemons. Then I stop mysql daemon. But, what could happen if a job is running when I make director stop? Should

[Bacula-users] Strange info-message [Fwd: Bacula: *none* *none* of *none* *none*]

2006-02-13 Thread Dirk große Osterhues
Hi, I experience one annoying thing in a backup-system maintained by me. I can't get rid of the message quoted below with the forwarded strange subject: 13-Feb 07:30 digo-dir: Pruned 1 Job on Volume Daily-Tape_0001 from catalog. 13-Feb 07:30 digo-dir: Pruned 3 Jobs on Volume Daily-Tape_0002

Re: Date/Time poll'ing ? (WAS: Re: [Bacula-users] Simulate/Test Scheduler?)

2006-02-13 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
{Increm/Diferer}ential to Full... How often does the Director poll the system date time? How often does the Storage director? I don't see any options in the config to control this. Specifically, for periodic maintenance like recycling/pruning/volume status flagging. AFAIK, these

[Bacula-users] Strange problem going to firewall

2006-02-13 Thread Ger Apeldoorn
Hi all, I'm running the latest bacula, and everything works fine when I backup on the LAN. However, I need to backup a server on the DMZ. This is what I did; 1) Install the file daemon on the dmzserver. 2) opened port 9101-9103 in the firewall for traffic going from DMZ, to the LAN. 3)

Re: [Bacula-users] Fileset help

2006-02-13 Thread Martin Simmons
On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:32:24 -0800, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm trying to create a FileSet config for one of our FreeBSD jail host machines, and I'm having a little trouble getting it just right. I have a directory (/u/jail) which has serveral instances of a FreeBSD jail (basically a

Re: [Bacula-users] Strange problem going to firewall

2006-02-13 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Every firewall has a different timeout for TCP sockets. I would investigate what the maximum NAT/PAT time duration is on yours. Enable verbose debugging to see on what condition it's tearing down the state table/translation. Also, check a state table thresholds for timeouts/max durations/max

[Bacula-users] I/O errors on gentoo between 1.36 client and 1.38 server // missing current ebuild

2006-02-13 Thread Frank Altpeter
Hi list, First of all a little question to whom it does concern: Who is the responsible person to update the gentoo portage tree with a current bacula ebuild? Currently it looks like there is only bacula-1.36.3-r2.ebuild while 1.38.5 should be available by now. But the more important question:

Re: [Bacula-users] Strange problem going to firewall

2006-02-13 Thread Ger Apeldoorn
Hi brian, Thanks for your reply, please see below, On Monday 13 February 2006 16:29, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: Every firewall has a different timeout for TCP sockets. I would investigate what the maximum NAT/PAT time duration is on yours. I'm not using NAT or PAT, only 'real' hosts. The TCP

Re: JobSet, Batch, or Aggregate Concept / Max tape usage per (WAS: Re: [Bacula-users] Hit me w/ a Clue-by-Four (Amanda user))

2006-02-13 Thread Alan Brown
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: Bacula will do this. Check you don't have Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 in I do. This is because I'm trying to enforce a specific threshold of a single-tape-per-day policy. Wrong directive. Try Volume Use Duration = 23 hours in the pool definition.

[Bacula-users] Possibility to choose catalog from job instead of client

2006-02-13 Thread Wanderson Berbert
it is possible to choose witch calalog will be used from job instead of client or use the job to override the definition in the client? I d like separate calatogs from diferents jobs. thanks -- Wanderson Berbert Gerente de Informática Sermap Comércio Indústria e Serviços Ltda -- Esta

Re: JobSet, Batch, or Aggregate Concept / Max tape usage per (WAS: Re: [Bacula-users] Hit me w/ a Clue-by-Four (Amanda user))

2006-02-13 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 10:42 +, Russell Howe wrote: When it comes to marking tapes as Used or Full, there seem to be two ways to do it currently: * Maximum Volume Jobs * Volume Use Duration So, you can either say 23 hours after the first job which wrote to this tape

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

2006-02-13 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 09:02 +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hello, On 2/8/2006 6:54 AM, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: Is there any built-in mechanism to test Schedule {} planning? I need to verify the behavior will work as expected. If you trust Bacula itself, use the show job=xxx command. Part

[Bacula-users] Backing up PostgreSQL using Bacula and a fifo

2006-02-13 Thread Marcel Gsteiger
Hi all After a few hours of troubleshooting, I finally have my PostgreSQL database backup running. My backup job creates separate schema/data backups for each database, along with a separate backup of global objects. This is much easier and safer to handle than all-in-one-file backups.

[Bacula-users] Bacula dell PowerVault 110T LTO2 drive

2006-02-13 Thread romje
Hi all, I'd like to buy a LTO 2 drive from Dell (110T) it seems to work fine on Linux I'd just want to check that it works with Bacula ? running an Ubuntu Linux 5.010 (2.6 based kernel) Any feedback would be greatly appreciated Cheers jerome -- Auteur cahiers du programmeur J2EE - Eyrolles

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula dell PowerVault 110T LTO2 drive

2006-02-13 Thread Frank Sweetser
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 07:11:40PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'd like to buy a LTO 2 drive from Dell (110T) it seems to work fine on Linux I'd just want to check that it works with Bacula ? running an Ubuntu Linux 5.010 (2.6 based kernel) Our 132T dual LTO2 works quite happily

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula dell PowerVault 110T LTO2 drive

2006-02-13 Thread romje
On Mon, February 13, 2006 7:13 pm, Frank Sweetser said: On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 07:11:40PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'd like to buy a LTO 2 drive from Dell (110T) it seems to work fine on Linux I'd just want to check that it works with Bacula ? running an Ubuntu Linux 5.010

RE: [Bacula-users] Backing up PostgreSQL using Bacula and a fifo

2006-02-13 Thread Magnus Hagander
First, create the directory /var/lib/pgsql/data/dump and /var/lib/pgsql/data/dump/fifo , chown postgres:bacula, chmod 750. Ensure that the database user postgres running on the local host has trust access to all databases (no passwords needed). This script also works for backup of remote

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up PostgreSQL using Bacula and a fifo

2006-02-13 Thread Dan Langille
On 13 Feb 2006 at 18:03, Marcel Gsteiger wrote: Hi all After a few hours of troubleshooting, I finally have my PostgreSQL database backup running. My backup job creates separate schema/data backups for each database, along with a separate backup of global objects. This is much easier and

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula stop

2006-02-13 Thread Martin Simmons
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:06:15 +0100, Enrique de la Torre Gordaliza [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm creating a shutdown script for my UPS software on the bacula server. First of all I stop director, storage and file daemons. Then I stop mysql daemon. But, what could happen if a job is

Re: [Bacula-users] Volume Status - Options: Differences

2006-02-13 Thread Martin Simmons
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:43:15 +0100, Christoff Buch [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: (on the bconsole) by doing: update - Volume parameters - (choosing pool and entering media id), then choosing Volume Status you can get to: Possible Values are: 1: Append 2: Archive 3: Disabled

Re: [Bacula-users] How to get mount requests before the job runs?

2006-02-13 Thread Guy Zuercher
I did something like this which works for me. Of course you should adopt the jobname and email in order to try with copy/paste. echo Please insert tape: `echo 'status dir' | bconsole tmp1 ; head -n \`grep -n 'Running Jobs:' tmp1 | cut -d: -f1\` tmp1 | grep -o 'YOUR-BACKUP-JOB-NAME.*' | cut

Re: [Bacula-users] How to get mount requests before the job runs?

2006-02-13 Thread Chris Dennis
Thomas Glatthor wrote: Hi Chris, you can use a cron-job, which mails the output of this script #!bin/bash ./bconsole -c ./bconsole.conf END_OF_DATA status dir quit END_OF_DATA OK, thanks for that. Has anyone written a script to parse the output of 'status dir' to extract the (likely) next

Re: [Bacula-users] How to get mount requests before the job runs?

2006-02-13 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 23:57 +, Chris Dennis wrote: Thomas Glatthor wrote: Hi Chris, you can use a cron-job, which mails the output of this script #!bin/bash ./bconsole -c ./bconsole.conf END_OF_DATA status dir quit END_OF_DATA OK, thanks for that. echo -n status dir |

[Bacula-users] Disable upgrade of Incremental to Full?

2006-02-13 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Is there any way to disable the auto-upgrade option of Incremental/ Differential to Full or stipulate that an Incremental / Differential job failure condition occurs when no Full backup exists (instead of promotion)? ~lava smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [Bacula-users] Disable upgrade of Incremental to Full?

2006-02-13 Thread Dan Langille
On 13 Feb 2006 at 19:41, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: Is there any way to disable the auto-upgrade option of Incremental/ Differential to Full or stipulate that an Incremental / Differential job failure condition occurs when no Full backup exists (instead of promotion)? Yes, I think I read

Re: [Bacula-users] Disable upgrade of Incremental to Full?

2006-02-13 Thread Ryan Novosielski
If I remember correctly, it's right in the manual. Dan Langille wrote: On 13 Feb 2006 at 19:41, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: Is there any way to disable the auto-upgrade option of Incremental/ Differential to Full or stipulate that an Incremental / Differential job failure condition occurs

[Bacula-users] Re: Disable upgrade of Incremental to Full?

2006-02-13 Thread Jens Boettge
Brian A. Seklecki wrote: Is there any way to disable the auto-upgrade option of Incremental/ Differential to Full or stipulate that an Incremental / Differential job failure condition occurs when no Full backup exists (instead of promotion)? Why do You want to do that? If You don't have a

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Disable upgrade of Incremental to Full?

2006-02-13 Thread Gregory Orange
Jens Boettge wrote: Brian A. Seklecki wrote: Is there any way to disable the auto-upgrade option of Incremental/ Differential to Full or stipulate that an Incremental / Differential job failure condition occurs when no Full backup exists (instead of promotion)? Why do You want to do that? If

Re: [Bacula-users] Disable upgrade of Incremental to Full?

2006-02-13 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
I think we might be talking about: Rerun Failed Levels = yes|no If this directive is set to yes (default no), and Bacula detects that a previous job at a higher level (i.e. Full or Di erential) has failed, the current job level will be upgraded to the higher level. This is particularly useful