Re: [Bacula-users] mysql bacula tables

2006-04-11 Thread Jonas Björklund
Hello, On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, victoria wrote: for a moment i'm writing simple script, which makes for me summary report about last backup process. I want select records directly from database. So i just got a few questions. I want to know where in a database i can find following records: - Rate

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Type -- Can one skip differentials?

2006-04-11 Thread Troy Daniels
Hi Mark, Normally different levels are specified in the Schedule with something like the Schedule { Name = WeeklyCycle Run = Full Pool=slain_full_weekly Fri at 12:00 Run = Incremental Sat-Thu } If this doesn't help, We'll need more information than you've provided I'm afraid.

Re: [Bacula-users] column file.markedid does not exist error

2006-04-11 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 10 April 2006 21:33, Joe Park wrote: bacula ver: 1.38.6 OS: FreeBSD 6.0 DB: postgresql 8.1.3 Changer/Tapedrive: Dell PowerVault 122T Hello, I have this error messeges repeated in system log file -- Apr 9 03:40:47 localhost postgres[18833]: [1-1] ERROR: column file.markedid

[Bacula-users] Backup Type -- Can one skip differentials?

2006-04-11 Thread Mark Clarke
Hi all, I am trying to setup a job schedule that does a full weekly backup and then an incremental backup daily for 7 days. I have a job defined as JobDefs { Name = Job Type = Backup Level = Incremental Client = slain-fd FileSet = Full Set Schedule = WeeklyCycle Storage =

Re: [Bacula-users] mysql bacula tables

2006-04-11 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 07:53, victoria wrote: Hello, for a moment i'm writing simple script, which makes for me summary report about last backup process. I want select records directly from database. So i just got a few questions. I want to know where in a database i can find following

Re: [Bacula-users] mysql bacula tables

2006-04-11 Thread victoria
Yes, thanks. I got installed it before, but it didn't give features, which i need most of all. So we decided make own web tool, but it's another story. :) Thanks anyway. v. On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 09:37 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 07:53, victoria wrote: Hello, for a

Re: [Bacula-devel] Re: [Bacula-users] Surprise bug + Scratch pool algorithm

2006-04-11 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, This Scratch pool algorithm problem has turned out to be quite interesting. As it turns out, the guys that asked for the change in the algorithm were correct and the guys that are complaining about the change in the algorithm are correct, and best of all I think I have a solution that

Re: [Bacula-users] Adding Capacity to Backup Server

2006-04-11 Thread Danie
Hello again , Andreas Wilm wrote: Dimitri Puzin wrote: Danie schrieb: Hi All , Hello, [...] FC3 , running in a RAID 5 setup ( 4 x 300GB) , no LVM My question , if I want to add another disk to the array , will I need to reconfigure my whole logical disk?

Re: [Bacula-users] Device flags

2006-04-11 Thread Kern Sibbald
It looks like it is trying to read off the end of the tape and getting an I/O error. Possibly setting TWOEOF = yes may solve the problem. On Tuesday 11 April 2006 10:55, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Hello, I upgraded and read your latests manual. So now, I'm playing with the device flags to check

Re: [Bacula-devel] Re: [Bacula-users] Surprise bug + Scratch pool algorithm

2006-04-11 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, John Kodis wrote: On a somewhat related note, I'm not clear on how the tape selection algorithm is altered when an autochanger is available. For example, if there are two equally eligible volumes available, only one of which is in the autochanger, would this volume be

Re: [Bacula-devel] Re: [Bacula-users] Surprise bug + Scratch pool algorithm

2006-04-11 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: I'd like to add a third. I don't use scratch pools at all, currently, but I can't see why I'd want a new volume being added to the pool when I've got one in there that's supposed to be used. Wouldn't that mean that it would ALWAYS choose a scratch volume

[Bacula-users] Solaris Device problem SOLVED

2006-04-11 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Maybe this is a silly discovery, but I did not find any writing about it anywhere, so I'm sendingyou the solution. Maybe would be nice to have a mention on the pdf documentation.Running Bacula on Solaris : you HAVE to use the "b" device on tapes!Read the Solaris 10 mtio man page extract: Read

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: GFS rotating howto

2006-04-11 Thread Georg Lutz
On 2006-04-10, Mark Nienberg wrote: How is your method different from the Daily, Weekly, Monthly Tape Usage Example in the Bacula Documentation? 1. The scheduling is different. In Bacula you cannot schedule on the last workday of a month or week because Bacula doesn't know of workdays and

Re: [Bacula-users] Solaris Device problem SOLVED

2006-04-11 Thread Ryan Novosielski
It is not technically in writing that I've seen so far as the documentation goes, but I ripped off 0cbn (or whatever order those letters are in :)) from the sample config file. There are several examples provided for the different operating systems, and Solaris is one of them. Gabriele Bulfon

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: GFS rotating howto

2006-04-11 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Georg Lutz wrote: 1. The scheduling is different. In Bacula you cannot schedule on the last workday of a month or week because Bacula doesn't know of workdays and holidays. The internal scheduling mechanism does also not know of exceptions. At least at my site there are

Re: [Bacula-users] Solaris Device problem SOLVED

2006-04-11 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
You are right, but "ripping off" a configuration, is a different thing than understanding.It's a fact that sending many emails about this problem, and sending config files specifying thewrong device, never happened to find someone mentioning this.I believe that the manual should state this when

[Bacula-users] Autochanger device returning tape contents

2006-04-11 Thread Jason Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 resending, mailman seems to have ate the last one I'm having a problem whereby the mtx command is opening the changer device and getting back the contents of the tape. I repeatedly reproduce this if I do the following: 1. Perform some operation,

Re: [Bacula-devel] Re: [Bacula-users] Surprise bug + Scratch pool algorithm

2006-04-11 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 13:06, Alan Brown wrote: On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: I'd like to add a third. I don't use scratch pools at all, currently, but I can't see why I'd want a new volume being added to the pool when I've got one in there that's supposed to be used. Wouldn't

[Bacula-users] Re: Solaris Device problem SOLVED

2006-04-11 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 13:14, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Maybe this is a silly discovery, but I did not find any writing about it anywhere, so I'm sending you the solution. Maybe would be nice to have a mention on the pdf documentation. Running Bacula on Solaris : you HAVE to use the b device on

[Bacula-users] Bacula database

2006-04-11 Thread graham . dicker
Hi I need to write a little C++ utility to access some of the data in Bacula's database (I'm using mysql) but the ODBC driver I'm using is giving me hex codes instead of characters for columns that contain text e.g. Pool names. I believe it is a Unicode issue but I can't find any information

[Bacula-users] Re: GFS rotating howto

2006-04-11 Thread Mark Nienberg
Georg Lutz wrote: On 2006-04-10, Mark Nienberg wrote: How is your method different from the Daily, Weekly, Monthly Tape Usage Example in the Bacula Documentation? 1. The scheduling is different. In Bacula you cannot schedule on the last workday of a month or week because Bacula doesn't know

[Bacula-users] High memory usage when backing up

2006-04-11 Thread Aaron Zschau
I'm noticing extremely heavy memory loads when running a large bacula job. The system running the fd and director processes spikes to using all but about 18mb of the 5gb of memory installed. If I sort by memory usage in Top, no processes are using anywhere near the missing memory,

Re: [Bacula-users] difference between autostarting and manually starting bacula daemon?

2006-04-11 Thread Joe Park
Hello,My machine is finally available (was doing stress testing) and tried modifing group parameters of bacula daemon start up scripts. I used operator group for both dir and sd daemon and confirmed it in ps. However, I still see same problem. After system boot up, tried to label a tape and got

Re: [Bacula-users] High memory usage when backing up

2006-04-11 Thread Eric Warnke
What you are seeing appears to be normal block device caching under the linux kernel and nothing to worry about. Cheers, Eric On 4/11/06, Aaron Zschau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm noticing extremely heavy memory loads when running a large bacula job. The system running the fd and director

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore more than one client

2006-04-11 Thread Leonardo dos Santos Goldim
mr. erich i tried again to configure bacula on my server... i installed the newest bacula's version and configure only one client (my own machine)... until now it's work fine, i create and restore backup with no problems... if i add a new cliente my problems start... looking your email i saw

Re: [Bacula-users] High memory usage when backing up

2006-04-11 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've noticed when running 2.6, the machine appears to want to use all of the RAM. However, running more processes will not make it swap until it would have otherwise begun swapping. Seems to handle the memory usage pretty well, IMO. _ _ _ _

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore more than one client

2006-04-11 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm pretty sure that neither one is true. Hopefully I'm not wrong. crosses fingers _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - User Support Spec. III |$| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922

Re: [Bacula-users] column file.markedid does not exist error

2006-04-11 Thread Joe Park
Can you tell me any consequences from this bug? I'm testing bacula before using them in our production environment and would like to know if this is a show stopper.Thanks,Joe On 4/11/06, Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 10 April 2006 21:33, Joe Park wrote: bacula ver: 1.38.6 OS:

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore more than one client

2006-04-11 Thread Leonardo dos Santos Goldim
so, what i need to do to my bacula works with more than one client? tks Goldim Ryan Novosielski wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm pretty sure that neither one is true. Hopefully I'm not wrong. crosses fingers _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore more than one client

2006-04-11 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For one, you need to explain what your problem is in the first place. You have provided no error messages and no information on your configuration. _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - User Support Spec. III

Re: [Bacula-users] When is a tape Full?

2006-04-11 Thread Erik P. Olsen
Martin Simmons wrote: On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:12:48 +0200, Erik P. Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Martin Simmons wrote: On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 12:16:51 +0200, Erik P. Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am infrequently getting tape full conditions at times when I did not expect it. My tapes are DDS-4

Re: [Bacula-users] column file.markedid does not exist error

2006-04-11 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 21:00, Joe Park wrote: Can you tell me any consequences from this bug? I'm testing bacula before using them in our production environment and would like to know if this is a show stopper. In doing a Verify Catalog Job, the bug caused the names of missing files not to

Re: [Bacula-users] High memory usage when backing up

2006-04-11 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Eric Warnke wrote: What you are seeing appears to be normal block device caching under the linux kernel and nothing to worry about. To explain: buffers = i/o (disk) write buffers cache = i/o (disk) read cache These are dynamic. Linux works on the principle that if the

[Bacula-users] Backup only to Hard Drive

2006-04-11 Thread Max Clark
Hi all, I am interested in configuring a backup platform that will only backup to the server's internal hard drive (in this case a 2TB filesystem). Are there any pointers/configuration guides out there for this? Thanks, Max -- Max Clark http://www.clarksys.com

[Bacula-users] building without gconsole

2006-04-11 Thread RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN
Hello I am tring to build bacula from src on fedora core 3 and do not want to build all the X windows stuff. My fedora box does not have X windows installed and i do not need/want the gconsole. When i build with the command below it tries to build a bunch of stuff that requires alsa, esound,

Re: [Bacula-users] building without gconsole

2006-04-11 Thread Eric Warnke
--define nobuild_gconsole 1Cheers,EricOn 4/11/06, RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hello I am tring to build bacula from src on fedora core 3 and do not want to build all the X windows stuff. My fedora box does not have X windows installed and i do not need/want the gconsole.When i

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup only to Hard Drive

2006-04-11 Thread Greg Vickers
Hi, hikari wrote: Max Clark wrote: I am interested in configuring a backup platform that will only backup to the server's internal hard drive (in this case a 2TB filesystem). Are there any pointers/configuration guides out there for this? Just setup a file storage device in the

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Type -- Can one skip differentials?

2006-04-11 Thread Mark Clarke
Hi Troy, Here are the jobs and the schedule. thanks for the help. Job { Name = Slain JobDefs = Job Write Bootstrap = /var/lib/bacula/slain.bsr } Schedule { Name = WeeklyCycle Run = Full 1st-5th on Sunday at 8:00pm Run = Incremental on Mon-Sat at 10:00pm } Regards Mark Troy

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup only to Hard Drive

2006-04-11 Thread Mark Clarke
dont forget to read http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Automated_Disk_Backup.html It helped me alot. Especially how to make sure there are volumes that get recycled. Greg Vickers wrote: Hi, hikari wrote: Max Clark wrote: I am interested in configuring a backup platform that will