Re: [Bacula-users] State of bare metal restore (more)

2007-01-02 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Christopher DeMarco wrote: My position is still that staying out of the bootup process is best. Let KNOPPIX, or MORPHIX or whateverix get me to a bash prompt and then I'll handle getting bacula-fd running. KNOPPIX will boot the majority of boxes out there, so I'll begin

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] What a difference a database makes

2007-01-02 Thread Alan Brown
Regarding SQLite. When I set up Bacula initially it was pretty clear that SQLite was for TEST purposes. If that has not changed, then perhaps the speed problem should be left as-is and the documentation changed to note that SQLite is there for testing, not production systems? AB

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2007-01-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 12:23, Alan Brown wrote: On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: Is there any reason that it can't be on the tape and restored first up as part of the DR process? That would be having the cart before the horse. The snapshot of the hard disk configuration

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] What a difference a database makes

2007-01-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 12:51, Alan Brown wrote: Regarding SQLite. When I set up Bacula initially it was pretty clear that SQLite was for TEST purposes. If that has not changed, then perhaps the speed problem should be left as-is and the documentation changed to note that SQLite is

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2007-01-02 Thread James Harper
What I would like to see, and where I would be happy to participate, is to convince the OS vendors (i.e. RedHat/Fedora, SuSE, Debian, Ubantu, FreeBSD, Solaris, HP, ...) that they should have an easy way for the user to make a rescue disk that captures the state of the current harddisk(s) and

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2007-01-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 14:30, James Harper wrote: What I would like to see, and where I would be happy to participate, is to convince the OS vendors (i.e. RedHat/Fedora, SuSE, Debian, Ubantu, FreeBSD, Solaris, HP, ...) that they should have an easy way for the user to make a rescue

[Bacula-users] backup to two alternating USB disks

2007-01-02 Thread Marco Mandl
Hello, I have setup bacula to make 3 generation backups to an USB disk. Now I want to extend it with the possibility to swap this disk to always have on stored remote. To give you some background, actually I make backups of two machines to a corresponding local USB disk. I think of swapping

Re: [Bacula-users] backup to two alternating USB disks

2007-01-02 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 1/2/2007 6:19 PM, Marco Mandl wrote: Hello, I have setup bacula to make 3 generation backups to an USB disk. Now I want to extend it with the possibility to swap this disk to always have on stored remote. To give you some background, actually I make backups of two machines to a

Re: [Bacula-users] State of bare metal restore (more)

2007-01-02 Thread Steen Meyer
Which version of bacula-fd? Tirsdag 02 januar 2007 12:35 skrev Alan Brown: On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Christopher DeMarco wrote: So I downloaded the latest KNOPPIX, which includes a bacula-fd. It would appear that my previous mail has already been addressed.. :-)

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2007-01-02 Thread James Harper
If you are not taking a tape off-site every night, there is no need to remove it. Bacula can very easily handle the different backup levels. Multiple levels and multiple tapes is no more complicated than one. That's what a good computer program will do for you ... :-) We always encourage

Re: [Bacula-users] Messages {}

2007-01-02 Thread Martin Simmons
On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 11:26:14 -0600, Mike said: I'm trying to get a list of all files saved that is in a file rather than only in the database. I have the Messages{} section below and have restarted the three bacula daemons. I am using a job that specifies the Messages{} section below. I do

Re: [Bacula-users] Seeking clarification on bootstrap files.

2007-01-02 Thread Martin Simmons
On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:36:38 +0100, Erik P Olsen said: I have a lot of bootstrap files from previous restore jobs. They are quite old so I wonder whether they will ever be erase or whether I should removed them manually. What do they serve when the restore job has long been run? Nothing

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and tape ejects from Autoloader

2007-01-02 Thread Meidal, Knut
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern Sibbald Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 12:43 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Meidal, Knut Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and tape ejects from Autoloader On Friday 22 December 2006

[Bacula-users] Using btraceback

2007-01-02 Thread DAve
I have a problem that may be simple. But trying to get a traceback is proving to be problematic. Following the directions in the manual, and what I could find in archives, I believe I am doing it correctly. However a couple issues spring up. First, the manual states that running btraceback

[Bacula-users] Running Concurrent Jobs

2007-01-02 Thread Ondrej PLANKA
Hi list, I have Bacula ver. 1.38.11 and I want run concurrent jobs - I want two different jobs to run simultaneously backing up the same Client to the same Storage device. I set Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10 in the Director resource, the Client resource, and the Storage resource in