Re: [Bacula-users] Freshmeat volunteer wanted

2006-06-22 Thread Dan Langille
On 21 Jun 2006 at 16:15, Dan Langille wrote: > I am combining messages > > On 20 Jun 2006 at 14:42, Zakai Kinan wrote: > > > I can do that. Let me know what is involved in > > updating the website. > > On 20 Jun 2006 at 17:39, Nicholas Accad wrote: > > > If no one else volunteers in the next

[Bacula-users] IBM Magstar 3570 bacula support

2006-06-22 Thread Fernando Gonz�lez V.
Is bacula supporting tapes magstar 3570? I saw in the Web page the list of supporting tapes but can tell me anyone about the difference between 3480, 3480XL, 3490, 3490E, 3580 and 3590 drives and 3570?. Thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Ya

[Bacula-users] Base level backups

2006-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
I've noticed a lot of references to base level backups. When modifying a manually started job, one of the options for the backup level is "base". Also, while snooping through the database, I see a table called "basefiles". What is the status of base level backups? I can't find anything in the

Re: [Bacula-users] No problems ! Just praise....

2006-06-22 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
Sounds good. Can you post the scripts? j On Thursday 22 June 2006 15:39, Mario Lobo wrote: > I hope it helped -- Joshua Kugler Lead System Admin -- Senior Programmer http://www.eeinternet.com PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0xDB26D7CE PO Box 80086 -- Fairbanks, AK

Re: [Bacula-users] No problems ! Just praise....

2006-06-22 Thread Mario Lobo
> > I may be soon setting up a "disk swapping" system, so would be interested to > see how you managed it. > > j > > -- > Joshua Kugler Ok Joshua; The backup machine: AMD64 dual with 4 Gigs RAM Gigabit ethernet on a gigabit switch a 80G IDE just for freeBSD 6.1 /

Re: [Bacula-users] No problems ! Just praise....

2006-06-22 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 6/23/2006 12:22 AM, Mario Lobo wrote: > Hello; > > Forgive me for off-topic but I figured this would be the best place to say > how happy I am with this > software. That's definitely nice to hear. ... > Well, then came bacula. After throughly reading everything I could Indeed an im

Re: [Bacula-users] No problems ! Just praise....

2006-06-22 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Thursday 22 June 2006 14:22, Mario Lobo wrote: > If anyone is interested on the specs of our setup, the scripts I wrote to > swap the disks (i.e. to bring back the system to the state it was with the > swapped disk (database included) or to prepare a new disk), the .confs, > I'll be happy to sha

[Bacula-users] No problems ! Just praise....

2006-06-22 Thread Mario Lobo
Hello; Forgive me for off-topic but I figured this would be the best place to say how happy I am with this software. I've been working to build a backup setup with amanda for 30 days. After that time, I got it working but the 10 servers I have to backup took 14 hours, that the best I could m

Re: [Bacula-users] 1.38.10 crashes on FreeBSD 6.1

2006-06-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 22 June 2006 21:58, Dan Langille wrote: > On 22 Jun 2006 at 20:59, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > I don't know if you have seen the bugs database yet, but there is one > > user who claims that Bacula 1.38.10 crashes on FreeBSD 6.1. > > No, I didn't see it. I just replied. I'm not sure of the

[Bacula-users] Non-local Backup Error

2006-06-22 Thread Rodrigo Gama
I'm trying to backup a machine that's connected to my LAN. When I try to backup the local machine, everything goes OK if I use this IP address 127.0.0.1, the local machine, as the IP where the file deamon is running. But if I use my IP on the network ( 192.168.1.8), I cannot connect to the File Dae

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Poor quality of reported problems.

2006-06-22 Thread David Boyes
> Another solution might be to have a "Support form" that must be completed > and > sent before support is given. This support form could have a few simple > questions and requests for information that could speed up a lot of > support > requests. IMHO, this is the only possibility that's likely

[Bacula-users] 1.38.10 crashes on FreeBSD 6.1

2006-06-22 Thread Dan Langille
On 22 Jun 2006 at 20:59, Kern Sibbald wrote: > I don't know if you have seen the bugs database yet, but there is one user > who > claims that Bacula 1.38.10 crashes on FreeBSD 6.1. No, I didn't see it. I just replied. I'm not sure of the cause. -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking f

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir 1.38.10 segmentation fault

2006-06-22 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:30:10 -0700, Doug Sampson said: > > > > This is a FYI. > > > > > > Got the following message in bconsole: > > > > > > 20-Jun 00:05 aries-dir: ABORTING due to ERROR in bsys.c:375 > > > Mutex lock failure. ERR=Resource deadlock avoided > > > 20-Jun 00:05 aries-dir: Fatal

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem: my tapes are being automatically relabeled with wrong label.

2006-06-22 Thread Bill Moran
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:04:19 -0400 Emery Guevremont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well I finished running dbcheck in fix mode. It deleted a bunch of > fileids, but the problem is still there. But here's what I've been doing > to test it out. > > Using btape, I use the label command to put the sa

Re: [Bacula-users] Tapes ending before they're full

2006-06-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 22 June 2006 19:15, Dan Langille wrote: > On 22 Jun 2006 at 19:07, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Thursday 22 June 2006 17:21, Dan Langille wrote: > > > On 22 Jun 2006 at 17:09, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > > On Thursday 22 June 2006 14:17, James Cort wrote: > > > > > A few weeks ago I posted

[Bacula-users] incorrect fstype identification, backups fail (bacula 1.38.9, Irix 6.5)

2006-06-22 Thread mark . bergman
I'm trying to get bacula to backup some SGI machines running Irix 6.5 (64 bit). The bacula-fd executable compiles and runs, and communication between the bacula-dir and fd client is successful. However, the filesystem type isn't recognized: --- from the bconsole

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir crashes while building the dir tree on a restore job

2006-06-22 Thread Frank Sweetser
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 08:40:25PM +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hmm. The only performance tuning hints in the manual I could find are > rather cursory: "For MySQL, what seems to be very important is to use > the examine the my.cnf file. You may obtain significant performances by > switching to t

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir crashes while building the dir tree on a restore job

2006-06-22 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 6/22/2006 1:55 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Monday 19 June 2006 22:11, Arno Lehmann wrote: ... >>>The Backup machine has 2 Gbyte of Ram and 4 Gbyte of swap. During >>>building the dir tree the phsysical Ram is only 50Mbyte and the swap has >>> only 50% of his capacity. With "sar -r" i foll

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem: my tapes are being automatically relabeled with wrong label.

2006-06-22 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 6/22/2006 8:04 PM, Emery Guevremont wrote: > Well I finished running dbcheck in fix mode. It deleted a bunch of > fileids, but the problem is still there. But here's what I've been doing > to test it out. > > Using btape, I use the label command to put the same label as what the > barco

Re: [Bacula-users] How do I get Bacula to stop asking for Volume_0001 when that Volume was deleted from the Database?

2006-06-22 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 6/22/2006 6:10 PM, John Boris wrote: > Okay, I've asked this question a few times and I am still trying to get > bacula back to a working state. ... > My Intent was to start over and to force bacula > to do a Full backup on the first tape. Now I get this error message. > All I want to do

Re: [Bacula-users] It's really killing me waiting on max Storage

2006-06-22 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 6/22/2006 5:58 PM, Przemysław Staniszewski wrote: > Hey > > Now I have got one of this strange situations. > > I run 3 jobs, one by one. First job run another was waiting on max > storage.. > But when 1 was end, 2 and 3 job just changed status to 'is waiting for > its start time'. > T

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula does not start scheduled jobs and bconsole hangs

2006-06-22 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 6/22/2006 5:20 PM, Niels Huylebroeck wrote: > Bacula version : 1.38.10 > OS : CentOS 4.3 on P3 with 256Mb RAM > Storage: on disk (no tape) > > Hi, > > Some backgroun : I'm fairly new with bacula and am in testing phase > before deploying to several sites for small to medium backups. >

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem: my tapes are being automatically relabeled with wrong label.

2006-06-22 Thread Emery Guevremont
Well I finished running dbcheck in fix mode. It deleted a bunch of fileids, but the problem is still there. But here's what I've been doing to test it out. Using btape, I use the label command to put the same label as what the barcode reads. After I restart bacula-sd, and I run a job to use on

Re: [Bacula-users] Tapes ending before they're full

2006-06-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 22 June 2006 17:49, Martin Simmons wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:21:41 -0400, Dan Langille said: > > > > Priority: normal > > Content-description: Mail message body > > > > On 22 Jun 2006 at 17:09, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > On Thursday 22 June 2006 14:17, James Cort wrote: > > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Tapes ending before they're full

2006-06-22 Thread Dan Langille
On 22 Jun 2006 at 19:07, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Thursday 22 June 2006 17:21, Dan Langille wrote: > > On 22 Jun 2006 at 17:09, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > On Thursday 22 June 2006 14:17, James Cort wrote: > > > > A few weeks ago I posted to this list with a problem concerning my > > > > tapes encou

Re: [Bacula-users] Tapes ending before they're full

2006-06-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 22 June 2006 17:21, Dan Langille wrote: > On 22 Jun 2006 at 17:09, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Thursday 22 June 2006 14:17, James Cort wrote: > > > A few weeks ago I posted to this list with a problem concerning my > > > tapes encountering errors around the 100G mark which resulted in ba

Re: [Bacula-users] It's really killing me waiting on max Storage

2006-06-22 Thread Przemysław Staniszewski
Przemysław Staniszewski wrote: > Hey > > Now I have got one of this strange situations. > > I run 3 jobs, one by one. First job run another was waiting on max > storage.. > But when 1 was end, 2 and 3 job just changed status to 'is waiting for > its start time'. > That never should happen for me.

[Bacula-users] How do I get Bacula to stop asking for Volume_0001 when that Volume was deleted from the Database?

2006-06-22 Thread John Boris
Okay, I've asked this question a few times and I am still trying to get bacula back to a working state. I had a working configuration on Fedora Core 4, Athlon 64 bit, attached to a Dell 124T Tape library. I use Bacula to do a Master Backup once a month and incrementals the rest. This server handle

Re: [Bacula-users] It's really killing me waiting on max Storage

2006-06-22 Thread Przemysław Staniszewski
Hey Now I have got one of this strange situations. I run 3 jobs, one by one. First job run another was waiting on max storage.. But when 1 was end, 2 and 3 job just changed status to 'is waiting for its start time'. That never should happen for me. I don't know what can I do now. Cancel them by

Re: [Bacula-users] Tapes ending before they're full

2006-06-22 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:21:41 -0400, Dan Langille said: > Priority: normal > Content-description: Mail message body > > On 22 Jun 2006 at 17:09, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > > On Thursday 22 June 2006 14:17, James Cort wrote: > > > A few weeks ago I posted to this list with a problem concerning m

Re: [Bacula-users] Poor quality of reported problems.

2006-06-22 Thread Christoff Buch
Sounds pretty good to me. I can imagine that'll work. Give it a try, I would say! Here is something that I just wiped up.  What do you think? = SUPPORT ===   Bacula Support request form. Please fill it out and email it to        bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net

[Bacula-users] More write errors on restore

2006-06-22 Thread Erik Dykema
Hi all- I'm having a problem restoring to a windows client: 22-Jun 10:28 babylon2-fd: RestoreFiles.2006-06-22_09.08.30 Error: c:\cygwin\home\kern\bacula\k\src\win32\filed\../../filed/restore.c:540 Write error on e:/e/USERS/.../filename.xyz: Not enough storage is available to process this comma

Re: [Bacula-users] Tapes ending before they're full

2006-06-22 Thread Dan Langille
On 22 Jun 2006 at 17:09, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Thursday 22 June 2006 14:17, James Cort wrote: > > A few weeks ago I posted to this list with a problem concerning my tapes > > encountering errors around the 100G mark which resulted in bacula ending > > them and moving onto another tape. > > > >

[Bacula-users] Poor quality of reported problems.

2006-06-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
Here is something that I just wiped up. What do you think? = SUPPORT === Bacula Support request form. Please fill it out and email it to bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Bacula version: OS type and version: How was Bacula built/installed? Source, rpms, ... b

[Bacula-users] Bacula does not start scheduled jobs and bconsole hangs

2006-06-22 Thread Niels Huylebroeck
Bacula version : 1.38.10 OS : CentOS 4.3 on P3 with 256Mb RAM Storage: on disk (no tape) Hi, Some backgroun : I'm fairly new with bacula and am in testing phase before deploying to several sites for small to medium backups. 200Mb - 120Gb should be the high and low limit of my backups. My bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Tapes ending before they're full

2006-06-22 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:17:02 +0100, James Cort said: > > A few weeks ago I posted to this list with a problem concerning my tapes > encountering errors around the 100G mark which resulted in bacula ending > them and moving onto another tape. > > As suggested, I swapped the SCSI card for an

Re: [Bacula-users] Tapes ending before they're full

2006-06-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 22 June 2006 14:17, James Cort wrote: > A few weeks ago I posted to this list with a problem concerning my tapes > encountering errors around the 100G mark which resulted in bacula ending > them and moving onto another tape. > > As suggested, I swapped the SCSI card for an Adaptec unit,

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Poor quality of reported problems.

2006-06-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 22 June 2006 16:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > IMHO, this is the only possibility that's likely to succeed long-term > > w/o having to repeat yourself a zillion times. It's a lot less > > irritating if you're prompted to supply the information that someone > > actually needs to solve

Re: [Bacula-users] Poor quality of reported problems.

2006-06-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
What you show is pretty much my idea, but it needs a bit more information such as: OS and version, and database type with version if appropriate. On Thursday 22 June 2006 15:47, Christoff Buch wrote: > Hello, > > In my expierience it's sometimes hard to define what information to supply > is nec

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Poor quality of reported problems.

2006-06-22 Thread drescher0110-bacula
> IMHO, this is the only possibility that's likely to succeed long-term > w/o having to repeat yourself a zillion times. It's a lot less > irritating if you're prompted to supply the information that someone > actually needs to solve the problem, and most people don't report > problems often enough

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature request: Spooling data while despooling it

2006-06-22 Thread drescher0110-bacula
> > One possibility in continuing spooling would be to introduce "multiple" > > spool > > directories or some way to partition a spool directory so that it would say > > fill half-way and then begin despooling while the other half could continue > > spooling. > What about a configurable setting? S

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature request: Spooling data while despooling it

2006-06-22 Thread Christoff Buch
Hello again, Might I add a few lines I've already added to Rumkos original mail before?: Spooling is very good, but shouldn't slow down backup since this affects per-night-capacity. Also, I thought about simultaneous jobs going on several drives of one machine at a time: Could it be done to g

Re: [Bacula-users] Poor quality of reported problems.

2006-06-22 Thread Christoff Buch
Hello, In my expierience it's sometimes hard to define what information to supply is neccessary for a certain problem and what is not - especially since you don't know the cause for your problem and that's why one is posting to the users-list. So if you should decide to create a form, maybe a st

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature request: Spooling data while despooling it

2006-06-22 Thread Rumko
On 6/22/06, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am not likely to accept the Feature request as it stands (perhaps after some > changes) for the following two reasons: > > 1. You mention that this feature will prolong the tape's lifetime, but I see > no impovement in this regard o

Re: [Bacula-users] "Re-Run Missed Levels" with split storage...

2006-06-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 20:36, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hello, > > On 6/21/2006 11:21 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Friday 16 June 2006 21:06, Arno Lehmann wrote: > > ... > > >>Interesting option... but please provide us with a good API for all > >>sorts of status changes of jobs, volumes, and the

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature request: Spooling data while despooling it

2006-06-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, I am not likely to accept the Feature request as it stands (perhaps after some changes) for the following two reasons: 1. You mention that this feature will prolong the tape's lifetime, but I see no impovement in this regard over the current code. 2. Once the spool file fills, it is ful

Re: [Bacula-users] Poor quality of reported problems.

2006-06-22 Thread Frank Sweetser
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 02:04:28PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > I think we need to treat these users with full respect, but refuse to answer > questions until they read the Support page and start providing the relevant > information. Clearly if it is not a database problem, they don't need to sa

[Bacula-users] Tapes ending before they're full

2006-06-22 Thread James Cort
A few weeks ago I posted to this list with a problem concerning my tapes encountering errors around the 100G mark which resulted in bacula ending them and moving onto another tape. As suggested, I swapped the SCSI card for an Adaptec unit, however the problem persists: 22-Jun 12:16 gemini-sd: Sen

Re: [Bacula-users] cannot read/write on tape with Bacula

2006-06-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
Try erasing the tape with mt. If that doesn't solve the problem, use another tape. The btape "test" program does not need the volume to be labeled by Bacula. It will in fact write over any existing label. On Wednesday 14 June 2006 14:42, Nikolai Brieger wrote: > **bug report**

Re: [Bacula-users] GDB Traceback

2006-06-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 11:30, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > Hello, > > bacula-dir (1.38.9) crashed last night, I was wondering if this list > is the right place to send the GDB traceback to, or would the > developers list be more appropriate? Normally the developers list is the right place to send trac

[Bacula-users] Poor quality of reported problems.

2006-06-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Perhaps I am wrong, but I have the very strong feeling that more and more users are reporting problems supplying *really* poor information to the point that some have no information. They don't state the OS, Bacula version, the database they are using, nor show any output. They simply s

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir crashes while building t he dir tree on a restore job

2006-06-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 19 June 2006 22:11, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hello, > > On 6/19/2006 5:15 PM, Lars Uhlemann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > we are runing bacula now for one year. Current runing version is 1.38.8. > > We backup a amount of around 4 TB of data and more than 15 Million > > files. > > > > OK, i start

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature request: Spooling data while despoolingit

2006-06-22 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rumko wrote: > On 6/22/06, Michel Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Both could be argued: Is performance really better when your backups >> system is reading from disk and writing to it simultaneously? Probably >> not. And given the performance hit

Re: [Bacula-users] It's really killing me waiting on max Storage

2006-06-22 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 6/22/2006 12:15 PM, Przemysław Staniszewski wrote: > Arno Lehmann wrote: > >>Unfortunately, you didn't describe the problem in a way I can understand. >> >>First you wrote that jobs wait too long, waiting for a cancelled job or >>one not able to run because a host is down, now it's the

Re: [Bacula-users] It's really killing me waiting on max Storage

2006-06-22 Thread Przemysław Staniszewski
Arno Lehmann wrote: > Unfortunately, you didn't describe the problem in a way I can understand. > > First you wrote that jobs wait too long, waiting for a cancelled job or > one not able to run because a host is down, now it's the DIR dying. > You have right. On the simple 1:1 (sd and dir on th

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature request: Spooling data while despoolingit

2006-06-22 Thread Rumko
On 6/22/06, Michel Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rumko wrote: > > Item n: Spooling data while despooling it > > Origin: Rumko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 21 June 2006 > > Status: > > > > What: Currently when fd runs out of da

Re: [Bacula-users] It's really killing me waiting on max Storage

2006-06-22 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 6/22/2006 9:03 AM, Przemysław Staniszewski wrote: > After changing status to append, choose done , I enter once again to > update command > but have change my mind and put ctrl+d there. And with this bacula-dir > dies too. Restart i manually, and want run some job. First job have > statu

[Bacula-users] Buffalo Terrastation with bacula?

2006-06-22 Thread Sim Zacks
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[Bacula-users] It's really killing me waiting on max Storage

2006-06-22 Thread Przemysław Staniszewski
After changing status to append, choose done , I enter once again to update command but have change my mind and put ctrl+d there. And with this bacula-dir dies too. Restart i manually, and want run some job. First job have status running but nothing happens (i don't know why). I choose cancel, seco