Re: [Bacula-users] SpoolDirectory seems to be ignored

2006-07-11 Thread Greg Cope
Ah - ok To make spooling work with the default rpms the perms on the /var/bacula dir need to change so that the sd can write to it. The rpm sets the perms to root:bacula Whilst the sd is run as bacula:disks It seems the sd spools some data to the /var/bacula then it starts to use SpoolDirectory

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula, backup on tapes : ask for the volume of the next job

2006-07-11 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 11.07.2006, 10:33 +0200 schrieb Benoit Guguin: > Hi, > > I'm currently using Bacula 1.36 on a Debian Sarge. > > I've configured multiples backups on tapes. > > So my question is : > How can I configure Bacula to send a mail that ask the needed and > appropriated > volume

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula, backup on tapes : ask for the volume of the next job

2006-07-11 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 11.07.2006, 10:33 +0200 schrieb Benoit Guguin: > Hi, > > I'm currently using Bacula 1.36 on a Debian Sarge. > > I've configured multiples backups on tapes. > > So my question is : > How can I configure Bacula to send a mail that ask the needed and > appropriated > volume

Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes Use Duration not honored

2006-07-11 Thread Costyn van Dongen
Ryan Novosielski wrote: > Volume retention is a minimum, not a maximum. If there is no pressing > need to recycle/prune a tape, Bacula will not (if it's still appendable, > for example). You need to limit tape usage by size/jobs/time in order > for this to work as you expect, I think. Ok, so I sho

Re: [Bacula-users] Backups are growing furiously and I'm confused

2006-07-11 Thread Alexei
Hello Bill, (previous answer was sent personally, sorry) Thanks a lot for a prompt reply. I've already revised volume creation/retention/labeling policies so that they will use 60 Gbs of disk space as maximum and Bacula will be able to reuse them if needed. Configuration of the Pool is the follow

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula Migration project status + misc

2006-07-11 Thread Jonas Björklund
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > Migration: > This is to let you know that the Bacula migration project is advancing nicely, > though it is about 6 weeks behind schedule mostly due to an unplanned 1 month > vacation and 2 weeks of little work because of a virus. Great job! R

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula Migration project status +misc [Off Topic -- SSH X11Forwarding]

2006-07-11 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Tuesday 11 July 2006 22:58, Bennett, Silas (GE Indust, Security) wrote: >> You should use ssh -X not ssh -Y, read below... > > After seeing everyone's kind responses, I realized that I had gone through > this 5 or 6 years ago

Re: [Bacula-users] Tray Monitor: bogus error?

2006-07-11 Thread Michael Nelson
> Try to modify the section below in bacula-dir.conf to > look like this: > > # Restricted console used by tray-monitor to get the > status of the director > Console { > Name = bacula-mon > Password = "bacula-mon-password" > CommandACL = status, .status > CatalogACL = *all* > JobACL = *a

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula Migration project status +misc [Off Topic -- SSH X11Forwarding]

2006-07-11 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 22:58, Bennett, Silas (GE Indust, Security) wrote: > You should use ssh -X not ssh -Y, read below... After seeing everyone's kind responses, I realized that I had gone through this 5 or 6 years ago and simply turned on X11 forwarding in my default ssh conf file, and over

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Migration project status + misc

2006-07-11 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kern Sibbald wrote: > By the way, ssh -X also works for me. I wonder why I never needed it > before. > Perhaps because I turned on X11Forwarding and forgot to do so in my new > configuration. Oh, well, at least I have my graphical apps back on

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula Migration project status +misc [Off Topic -- SSH X11Forwarding]

2006-07-11 Thread Bennett, Silas (GE Indust, Security)
You should use ssh -X not ssh -Y, read below... >From the ssh manual: """ -X Enables X11 forwarding. This can also be specified on a per-host basis in a configuration file. X11 forwarding should be enabled with caution. Users with the ability to

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Migration project status + misc

2006-07-11 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 22:28, Bennett, Silas (GE Indust, Security) wrote: > Hi Kern, > > About your ssh Xforwarding issue... > You need to add the following line to your /etc/sshd_config file: > > X11Forwarding yes > > then just ssh to the remote machine using: > > ssh -X remote-machine > > and yo

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula Migration project status + misc

2006-07-11 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 22:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 09:46:58PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > PS: more trivia while I have you on the line: > > If anyone on the list understands X privileges, perhaps you could > > point me to what needs to change to make X work between

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Migration project status + misc

2006-07-11 Thread Leander Koornneef
Hi, On 11-jul-2006, at 21:46, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > PS: more trivia while I have you on the line: > If anyone on the list understands X privileges, perhaps you could > point me to > what needs to change to make X work between machines. Previously, > I could > always run a graphical program

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Migration project status + misc

2006-07-11 Thread Bennett, Silas (GE Indust, Security)
Hi Kern, About your ssh Xforwarding issue... You need to add the following line to your /etc/sshd_config file: X11Forwarding yes then just ssh to the remote machine using: ssh -X remote-machine and you should be able to run remote graphical apps using your local Xserver. Note that this is usu

[Bacula-users] Bacula Migration project status + misc

2006-07-11 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Migration: This is to let you know that the Bacula migration project is advancing nicely, though it is about 6 weeks behind schedule mostly due to an unplanned 1 month vacation and 2 weeks of little work because of a virus. I've now got all the basic parts working quite well and they pas

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem restoring client files on bacule server.

2006-07-11 Thread Erik P. Olsen
Dan Langille wrote: > On 11 Jul 2006 at 17:47, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > >> A couple of weeks ago the harddisk of my old laptop died. I got a new disk >> and >> have now installed a vanilla system (W2K) on it. I've now come to restoring >> the >> missing files which I am happy to say all have bee

[Bacula-users] Slot Number in Catalog Keeps getting set to 0

2006-07-11 Thread Bennett, Silas (GE Indust, Security)
Hi All, I have been having a little problem for the last couple of weeks. The catalog record for the currently used tape in my Diff pool keeps getting borked. The slot number which should be 19, keeps getting set to 0 somehow. Then in the morning when I get in to work my mail box is full of the

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to directory

2006-07-11 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Monday 10 July 2006 22:07, Göran Törnquist wrote: > Hi, > I have recently been able to test bacula in a > tapeless configuration. From my tests I > understand that the device listed below > corresponds to a single file. > > Device { >Name = CaliStorage >ArchiveDevice = /home/storage/ >

Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes Use Duration not honored

2006-07-11 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bacula will also not purge an appendable volume, as far as I know. You need to make sure that the tape is not in a writable state prior to when you expect it to be purged; others reading this list feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. Volume retention

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem restoring client files on bacule server.

2006-07-11 Thread Dan Langille
On 11 Jul 2006 at 17:47, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > A couple of weeks ago the harddisk of my old laptop died. I got a new disk > and > have now installed a vanilla system (W2K) on it. I've now come to restoring > the > missing files which I am happy to say all have been backed up. I use > wx-cons

Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes Use Duration not honored

2006-07-11 Thread Costyn van Dongen
Hi Ryan, Okay yes that is a good point. However, the behaviour we are seeing is that the volume is still on status 'Append' 2 weeks later (tapes get re-used every 2 weeks). Bacula will happily start writing to the tape, and not recycle it first, which it should because Volume Retention is 11 days

Re: [Bacula-users] SpoolDirectory seems to be ignored

2006-07-11 Thread Greg Cope, e-DBA Team
On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 11:12 -0400, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Seems to me that that should be writable either way, don't you figure? /var/bacula is not writable by the bacula-sd process as it has group disks, whilst /var/bacula is owner:group bac

Re: [Bacula-users] SpoolDirectory seems to be ignored

2006-07-11 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Seems to me that that should be writable either way, don't you figure? In any case, after adding that definition, did you reload bacula? _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer III |$&| |__| |

Re: [Bacula-users] Tray Monitor: bogus error?

2006-07-11 Thread Christian Jose
Hmm, seems to work for me. Many Thanks. Christian On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 12:53 -0300, Georger Araujo wrote: > Try to modify the section below in bacula-dir.conf to > look like this: > > # Restricted console used by tray-monitor to get the > status of the director > Console { > Name = bacula-mon

Re: [Bacula-users] Source Forge rejecting mail

2006-07-11 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 11 July 2006 15:27, Alan Brown wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Your emails to any Bacula list will be dropped if they do not contain at > > least one of the following content types: > > I believe they will also be dropped if the Message-ID format is invalid - > ther

Re: [Bacula-users] Tray Monitor: bogus error?

2006-07-11 Thread Christian Jose
I have the same problem and have spent 3 days trying to work out what the problem is with no joy so far. I'm using the 1.38.11 FC5 RPMs. With the tray monitor on a separate FC5 box from the Director. Regards Christian On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 08:43 -0700, Michael Nelson wrote: > Running 1.38.11, wh

Re: [Bacula-users] Tray Monitor: bogus error?

2006-07-11 Thread Georger Araujo
Try to modify the section below in bacula-dir.conf to look like this: # Restricted console used by tray-monitor to get the status of the director Console { Name = bacula-mon Password = "bacula-mon-password" CommandACL = status, .status CatalogACL = *all* JobACL = *all* ClientACL = *all

Re: [Bacula-users] Please help! Strange bacula behaviour lets some jobsfail on autoloader! - unfortntly still unresolved

2006-07-11 Thread Christoff Buch
Hi Alan Is 1.38.9 meant to be an older version? Jobs that fail are follow-up jobs where the predecessor succeeded. For example: First job succeeds fine. Twenty minutes later the said follow-up job starts at scheduled time, requiring the same(!) volume, which is still in the drive and is not used

[Bacula-users] Problem restoring client files on bacule server.

2006-07-11 Thread Erik P. Olsen
A couple of weeks ago the harddisk of my old laptop died. I got a new disk and have now installed a vanilla system (W2K) on it. I've now come to restoring the missing files which I am happy to say all have been backed up. I use wx-console for the restore. It gives me two problems: 1. It wants t

[Bacula-users] Tray Monitor: bogus error?

2006-07-11 Thread Michael Nelson
Running 1.38.11, when I start up the tray monitor it displays this error in the DIR section: "Current job: status error: You must specify a "use " command before continuing." It repeats the same message for "Last Job" However, if I check the log, I see no error, and if I use bconsole to check st

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

2006-07-11 Thread Emery Guevremont
So I finally found what was causing all the problems. It was the drive that had gone bad. Once I replaced the whole unit, including the autoloader, Bacula was able to continue to perform backups without having the tapes being relabeled. So thx everyone for your help. It was much appreciated.

Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes Use Duration not honored

2006-07-11 Thread Ryan Novosielski
The change occurs at the next attempted backup. That tape will be suggested for use, Bacula will check the duration and see that it is unacceptable because of the Volume Use Duration. Bacula will then use a different tape. _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosi

[Bacula-users] SpoolDirectory seems to be ignored

2006-07-11 Thread Greg Cope
Hi All, I am trying to spool to some spare disks, but using; I get the following error; 11-Jul 15:54 riti-sd: riti01Basic.2006-07-11_15.54.26 Fatal error: fopen attr spool file /var/bacula/riti-sd.attr.riti01Basic.2006-07-11_15.54.26.8.spool failed: ERR=Permission denied However in bacula-sd.co

Re: [Bacula-users] Source Forge rejecting mail

2006-07-11 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Your emails to any Bacula list will be dropped if they do not contain at least > one of the following content types: I believe they will also be dropped if the Message-ID format is invalid - there must be a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Many broken mail clients

Re: [Bacula-users] Please help! Strange bacula behaviour lets some jobsfail on autoloader! - unfortntly still unresolved

2006-07-11 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Christoff Buch wrote: > Ok. But thanks for your time all the same! > > > "user100" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 10.07.2006 16:10:37: > >> Sorry forget it: "Fatal error: job.c: 1617 Bad response to Append Data >> command. Wanted 3000 OK data" - does not seems like the "permissi

Re: [Bacula-users] Backups are growing furiously and I'm confused

2006-07-11 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Alexei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > > I'm sorry for disturbing you since I know deep inside that it can be a dumb > question :) > The question is: > > I'm running Bacula without tape backups, using File as storage. There are 2 > huge jobs (about 5-6 Gb for full backup) runni

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to directory

2006-07-11 Thread Hristo Benev
On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 08:07 +0200, Göran Törnquist wrote: > Hi, > I have recently been able to test bacula in a > tapeless configuration. From my tests I > understand that the device listed below > corresponds to a single file. > It corresponds to storage. You need to add media after that and

[Bacula-users] Volumes Use Duration not honored

2006-07-11 Thread Costyn van Dongen
Hi, We use Bacula in a medium size setup, with 16 machines being backed up to tape on a Daily Tape Rotation schedule. We're having some problems with the volume use duration not being applied correctly and we were wondering if anyone has any suggestions with trying to find the source of this probl

[Bacula-users] large file backup

2006-07-11 Thread Andras Horvai
Dear List, I would like to backup files larger or equal than 4 GB. How can i do this with bacula? I got this error message: Could not stat c:/dvdimage.iso . Thanks in advance, Andras - Using Tomcat but need to do more?

Re: [Bacula-users] Source Forge rejecting mail

2006-07-11 Thread MaxxAtWork
On 7/11/06, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > At least one user has reported that he is unable to send email to the list. > Well, Source Forge recently put up a new version of Mailman, which is much > more strict in what it lets through, probably in an effort to avoid spam. > I

[Bacula-users] problem with TLS

2006-07-11 Thread David Rodriguez Demelos
Hi, I have rebuild bacula rmps to offer TLS suport (modifying --with-openssl option for --with-openssl=/ in bacula.spec file). I have created a certificate (/etc/bacula/cert.pem) and I have added TLS directives, only for one client (bacula-fd), in my bacula config files like this: - bacula-

[Bacula-users] Source Forge rejecting mail

2006-07-11 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, At least one user has reported that he is unable to send email to the list. Well, Source Forge recently put up a new version of Mailman, which is much more strict in what it lets through, probably in an effort to avoid spam. Your emails to any Bacula list will be dropped if they do not c

[Bacula-users] Backups are growing furiously and I'm confused

2006-07-11 Thread Alexei
Hi all, I'm sorry for disturbing you since I know deep inside that it can be a dumb question :) The question is: I'm running Bacula without tape backups, using File as storage. There are 2 huge jobs (about 5-6 Gb for full backup) running and I've run out of free space quickly. Now when it came

[Bacula-users] Bacula, backup on tapes : ask for the volume of the next job

2006-07-11 Thread Benoit Guguin
Hi, I'm currently using Bacula 1.36 on a Debian Sarge. I've configured multiples backups on tapes. So my question is : How can I configure Bacula to send a mail that ask the needed and appropriated volume (ie tape) for the next job on, and only on, the tape device ? I've see some directive

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with Autochanger on Bacula 1.38.11

2006-07-11 Thread Anwar
Hi Arno, I've been doing some tests as well as updating the firmware for both SCSI card and the Autoloader... just in case. >> > Thanks for replying. I've actually tested the mtx-changer script (by >> > default at /etc/bacula/mtx-changer) and it works fine. I can list the >> > number of slots, lo