[Bacula-users] access restrictions for bconsole

2006-05-09 Thread Christoph Litauer
Dear admins, is it possible to give a client access to the director (via bsonsole) but restrict this access to only do restores? I want the admins of some machines to be able to start restores for their machines on their own. But they should not be able to label new tapes, delete jobs or something

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Noob needs help with autochanger

2006-05-09 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 5/8/2006 12:11 AM, Paul Kelly wrote: I inserted the following into my bacula-sd.conf and now it won't even start and fails with the error follwing what I inserted. I'm stumped, it looks right to me.. Any anyone? Thanks in advance. what I inserted. Autochanger { Na

[Bacula-users] storage daemon "sub-optimal" behaviour using 2 tape drives

2006-05-09 Thread Robert Wirth
Hi, just a hint about "sub-optimal" behavior of bacula's storage daemon. There's an autochanger with two LTO-3 tape drives. Sometimes, starting some (mostly identical) jobs in parallel leads to an obscure situation: Although all started jobs go into the same pool and on the same tape, the stora

Re: [Bacula-users] kernel: st0: MTSETDRVBUFFER only allowed for root

2006-05-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, I think I found an elegant solution : On my Debian Sarge with kernel 2.6.12.6 I use udev. Permission on device mountpoint are defined in /etc/udev/permissions.rules I edit this file and insert the line below at end of file : KERNEL=="nst[0-9]*", MODE="0660", OWNER="bacula", GROUP="tape" T

Re: [Bacula-users] storage daemon "sub-optimal" behaviour using 2 tape drives

2006-05-09 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 9 May 2006, Robert Wirth wrote: just a hint about "sub-optimal" behavior of bacula's storage daemon. There's an autochanger with two LTO-3 tape drives. Sometimes, starting some (mostly identical) jobs in parallel leads to an obscure situation: It's not that obscure and is well known i

[Bacula-users] restore of XP machine - success

2006-05-09 Thread James Harper
I have just successfully rebuilt an XP Pro PC (eg baremetal restore) using bacula, in order to resize the main partition. The backup procedure was just a standard bacula backup using the 1.38.9 win32 fd from sourceforge and with VSS enabled. The rest of bacula is running on a Debian 'Etch' server

[Bacula-users] database update scripts (bug/feature)

2006-05-09 Thread Jaime Ventura
Hello, I'm using several catalogs which means i have several databases(on a mysql server). Concerning database updates(for instance from version 8 to 9), i need to change the update_mysql_tables (the "USE bacula" line) for each database. I think i would be nicer if we could (should,

[Bacula-users] Can't label tape in HP loader (SureStore DAT24x6)

2006-05-09 Thread Stefan MARTEL
Hi everybody I work with ubuntu 5.10, bacula 1.36.3 and mtx 1.3.9 and i have a big problem. I can't write data on tape because bacula wrote error each i try to label and mount the autoloader In bconsole when i run label, i have this message : *label Using default Catalog name=MyCatalog DB=bac

Re: [Bacula-users] storage daemon "sub-optimal" behaviour using 2 tape drives

2006-05-09 Thread Robert Wirth
Hi Alan, > > just a hint about "sub-optimal" behavior of bacula's storage daemon. > > There's an autochanger with two LTO-3 tape drives. Sometimes, starting > > some (mostly identical) jobs in parallel leads to an obscure situation: > > It's not that obscure and is well known in versions prior t

Re: [Bacula-users] Compression (how to enable)

2006-05-09 Thread Birger Blixt
On 2006-05-01 00:45, Dan Langille wrote: On 30 Apr 2006 at 11:02, steven potvin wrote: hi i have been tring to enable compression and i have added compression=gzip at the end of my bacula-dir.conf file. but when i try to restart or start i get a error . can some one please indicate where to pla

Re: [Bacula-users] Query about Verification Jobs

2006-05-09 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Mon, 08 May 2006 11:16:18 +0800, Troy Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Greetings, > > I have a question about Verification Jobs that I thought I'd throw to > the community. > > Basically I need to know how fast a verification job should be compared > to the backup it's verifying.

[Bacula-users] Problem with my HP DAT72

2006-05-09 Thread Alessio Mineni - WaveGroup
my bacula-sd.conf Device { Name = "drive0" Drive Index = 0 Media Type = "Tape" Archive Device = /dev/nst0 AutomaticMount = yes AlwaysOpen = no RemovableMedia = yes RandomAccess = no AutoChanger = no } my bacula-dir.conf Storage { Name = drive0 Address = 192.168.0.10 SDPo

Re: [Bacula-users] storage daemon "sub-optimal" behaviour using 2 tape drives

2006-05-09 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 9 May 2006, Robert Wirth wrote: just a hint about "sub-optimal" behavior of bacula's storage daemon. There's an autochanger with two LTO-3 tape drives. Sometimes, starting some (mostly identical) jobs in parallel leads to an obscure situation: Are you using an older version of Bacula?

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with my HP DAT72

2006-05-09 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How about without the quotes? That is the only thing that jumps out at me, because I don't have any. _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - User Support Spec. III |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: [Bacula-users] Packet size too big

2006-05-09 Thread Dominic Marks
Dominic Marks wrote: > Hello, > > One of our systems is repeatedly giving this error. I found in the > documentation that the reported fix was to upgrade but both the client > and server are running 1.38.8. I now have another Windows XP system which has started to get this . Am I the only one seei

[Bacula-users] Autochanger difficulties (fixed)

2006-05-09 Thread Paul Kelly
Found and fixed, Thanks those who answered, it requires 1.38 and I have 1.36, the fresh ebuild from Gentoo HMMM, would somebody tell me what's wrong with this, when I comment out the autochanger stanza it starts, but won't with it in effect... I'm stumped I have tried moving the stanza a

Re: [Bacula-users] File Daemon loosed conx with directory

2006-05-09 Thread Chris Boyd
For some reason I'm getting TCP-out-of-order packets after the director initiates a connection. I've tried to look up what the possible cause of this is to no avail so far. Here's the ethereal dump: No. TimeSourceDestination Protocol Info 1 0.00

[Bacula-users] Autochanger issues ?

2006-05-09 Thread Greg Foster
Hi Folks, Running 1.38.8-1, and having some challenges. At this point, I'm sure it's something I've done, although I believe I'm following the config guidelines, but please prove me wrong ! :) Here are my definitions Autochanger { Name = Robot Device = Drive-1 Changer Command = "/etc/bacul

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger *almost* working (resolved with ugly hack)

2006-05-09 Thread Gregory Brauer
Gregory Brauer wrote: I believe I can get the behavior I want by setting all of my volumes as InChanger=1 and never running update slots again. I was unable to do this in the Bacula console interface as any time I would mark a volume InChanger=0, it would mark the other volume that was already

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with long-running jobs (>6 Days).

2006-05-09 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 5/8/2006 12:21 PM, Stephan Holl wrote: Dear List, I have a very long backup-run with about 7 volumes of DDS3-tapes still using your old equipment :-) using, but today it did not finish with the following message: 08-May 02:30 nw1-sd: Job backup_daten1.2006-05-02_10.39.22 waiting.

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger *almost* working (resolved with ugly hack)

2006-05-09 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 5/9/2006 7:37 PM, Gregory Brauer wrote: Gregory Brauer wrote: I believe I can get the behavior I want by setting all of my volumes as InChanger=1 and never running update slots again. I didn't follow this thread, but what behaviour would that be? I use two autochangers and tapes in t

[Bacula-users] After a manual recycle a 1 job limit for a volume

2006-05-09 Thread Damian Sobieralski
Hi all, I just found the list but have been using Bacula for about 6 months now. Great backup software!! I am having a problem that is frustrating me. This seemed to begin after I upgraded. When I try to manually purge and recycle a volume I am running into a problem. When I first label a tape

Re: [Bacula-users] After a manual recycle a 1 job limit for a volume

2006-05-09 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Do an update pools from config and an update volumes from pool and see what changes. Everything will likely start acting the same way and you can work from there. You can do llist media too, and possibly llist pool to check on the status of the configu

Re: [Bacula-users] File Daemon loosed conx with directory

2006-05-09 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 5/9/2006 4:32 PM, Chris Boyd wrote: For some reason I'm getting TCP-out-of-order packets after the director initiates a connection. I've tried to look up what the possible cause of this is to no avail so far. Sounds interesting... I'm not a network guru, so I don't know where a seq

Re: [Bacula-users] access restrictions for bconsole

2006-05-09 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 5/9/2006 9:04 AM, Christoph Litauer wrote: Dear admins, is it possible to give a client access to the director (via bsonsole) but restrict this access to only do restores? I want the admins of some machines to be able to start restores for their machines on their own. But they should

RE: [Bacula-users] After a manual recycle a 1 job limit for a volume

2006-05-09 Thread Damian Sobieralski
No go. The same problem. :( MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | VolBytes | VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten | +-++---++--+ --+-+--+---+---+

Re: [Bacula-users] TL891 Autochanger madness

2006-05-09 Thread Peter Sjoberg
I can't say for your specific case but I have a TL892 and I know I did play around a little with the settings before I got it to work properly. For me it was set so that when a tape is unloaded it did automatically load next, this did of course cause some issues for bacula which was much happier af

[Bacula-users] Re: Bacula-users digest, Vol 1 #3340 - 6 msgs

2006-05-09 Thread Stephan Holl
Hello Arno, On Tue, 09 May 2006 13:11:12 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > On 5/8/2006 12:21 PM, Stephan Holl wrote: > > Dear List, > > > > I have a very long backup-run with about 7 volumes of DDS3-tapes > > still using your old equipment :-) well, a clients one... > > > using, >