Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] MTX Announcement

2007-02-05 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Sunday 04 February 2007 22:08, Robert Nelson wrote: > I'm now the owner / maintainer of the mtx project ( > http://sourceforge.net/projects/mtx ). Gee Robert, this is really great news. I'm really amazed. When I first started working on Bacula, I submitted some changes to him that eliminate

[Bacula-users] FileSet quirks

2007-02-05 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Hello, back in 1.38.11 I wrote this fileset which appeared to work quite nice. FileSet { Name = "data-users-media" Include { Options { signature = md5 wilddir = "/home/*/Movies" wilddir = "/home/*/Music" wilddir = "/home/*/Pictures" } # I

Re: [Bacula-users] BSMTP Error Win32 v2.1.1

2007-02-05 Thread Erich Prinz
But Robert, if it's a bug in BSMTP you've taken away my love-to-bash- Exchange mantra! Say it ain't so! :-) E~ On Feb 4, 2007, at 10:46 AM, Robert Nelson wrote: > Actually the problem is most definitely a bug in bsmtp. All > Exchange is > doing is insisting the From address be a correctly

Re: [Bacula-users] BSMTP Error Win32 v2.1.1

2007-02-05 Thread Robert Nelson
Hey I like to bash Microsoft and their products as much as the next guy :-) I've used their products for over 20 years and worked there on the NT kernel for 12 years starting before the first release. So I certainly know all the warts and skeletons. :-O Exchange is definitely one of the package

[Bacula-users] 1.38 and 1.39 compatibility?

2007-02-05 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all: I currently have v1.39.22 on my testing server which is due to be retired. Before it is removed from the rack, I wish to take a full backup of the machine. It would be somewhat of a waste of time for me to install 1.38.11 on this box since

Re: [Bacula-users] BSMTP Error Win32 v2.1.1

2007-02-05 Thread Erich Prinz
I'm with you. Thanks for keeping me on the straight! E~ On Feb 5, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Robert Nelson wrote: > Hey I like to bash Microsoft and their products as much as the next > guy :-) > > > I've used their products for over 20 years and worked there on the > NT kernel > for 12 years sta

[Bacula-users] Some files always backed up, even without changes

2007-02-05 Thread Adam Compton
Hello, I am having a strange issue with some files always being backed up during incremental runs, even if they have not changed since the last incremental backup. In particular, I have a working directory of custom installer packages for some of the educational software we run here, and two o

Re: [Bacula-users] Some files always backed up, even without changes

2007-02-05 Thread Robert Nelson
Incremental backups are based solely on the modification date of the file. If the file modification date is later than the last full or differential backup then the file will be included in the incremental backup. Most likely these files have bogus modification dates sometime in the future. > ---

Re: [Bacula-users] Splitting config files

2007-02-05 Thread Robert Nelson
Yes this is a bug, please enter it and assign it to me. Thanks, > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bacula-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Debelius > Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 10:49 AM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

2007-02-05 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 22:01:00 -0800, Tauren Mills said: > > I'm not having file size issues of 17GB on disk. I'm talking about > the data written to tape is about 17GB or 18GB. It seems like the > tape drive isn't compressing the data. But if it isn't, why would it > not get closer to 20GB?

[Bacula-users] Concurrent jobs to disk

2007-02-05 Thread Brian Debelius
Hello, How can I set up my storage and jobs so that I can have multiple jobs writing to disk at the same, without having each job get its own file device? Thanks, Brian - stealing threads in the dark of the night. - Using

[Bacula-users] Database Diff/Incremental Backups

2007-02-05 Thread Darien Hager
I'm wondering if anyone has advice for backing up databases. I have some python scripts working to do per-database backup/restore over FIFOs (pg_dump, pg_restore, nonblocking fifo polling), but the nature of the method means that there is almost no such thing as a differential or incrementa

Re: [Bacula-users] Database Diff/Incremental Backups

2007-02-05 Thread Marc Cousin
On Monday 05 February 2007 20:19, Darien Hager wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone has advice for backing up databases. I have > some python scripts working to do per-database backup/restore over > FIFOs (pg_dump, pg_restore, nonblocking fifo polling), but the nature > of the method means that there i

Re: [Bacula-users] Some files always backed up, even without changes

2007-02-05 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 2/5/2007 6:35 PM, Robert Nelson wrote: > Incremental backups are based solely on the modification date of the file. > If the file modification date is later than the last full or differential > backup then the file will be included in the incremental backup. > > Most likely these files hav

[Bacula-users] Backing up and restoring Windows permissions

2007-02-05 Thread Ralf Ertzinger
Hi. I am currently evaluating bacula, especially for backing up Windows machines. My basic test setup works (director and storage on Linux (2.0.2), fd on Windows (2.0.1)) and I can backup and restore data from the Windows machine. However, I can not seem to recreate the permissions on restore.

Re: [Bacula-users] Some files always backed up, even without changes

2007-02-05 Thread Darien Hager
On Feb 5, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > On 2/5/2007 6:35 PM, Robert Nelson wrote: >> Incremental backups are based solely on the modification date of >> the file. >> If the file modification date is later than the last full or >> differential >> backup then the file will be

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

2007-02-05 Thread Dwight Tovey
On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 15:31 -0800, Tauren Mills wrote: > > Even though option #3 has some drawbacks, the likelihood of those > drawbacks happening are slim, especially if I mirror my big backup > drive. I'm leaning toward it at the moment unless someone can suggest > a way to make a COPY of a vo

[Bacula-users] Why is bacula try to read a tape when there is not one in a drive

2007-02-05 Thread jeffrey Lang
Hi all I've run into an interesting problem where doing a mount with no tape in the drive is generating an error, see the output below. Why is it doing this? My current Environment Is: DIR - Solaris 10, SD - Solaris 10, FD - Solaris10, Linux (different distros), Windows (SP). Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Some files always backed up, even without changes

2007-02-05 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
Darien Hager wrote: > On Feb 5, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Arno Lehmann wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> On 2/5/2007 6:35 PM, Robert Nelson wrote: >> >>> Incremental backups are based solely on the modification date of >>> the file. >>> If the file modification date is later than the last full or >>>

Re: [Bacula-users] More help with DVDs [solved?]

2007-02-05 Thread Andrew Fabian
I've made some progress here. It appears that in my original configuration, the last session on a disk isn't readable, though bacula thinks that it is written properly. Here's why I think that, and my solution follows. If I run a small, 50 meg backup job twice, then run a 5 gig backup job, m

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up and restoring Windows permissions

2007-02-05 Thread Robert Nelson
Can you run the following commands and post the results? Cacls c:\temp Create the file Cacls c:\temp\file Add additional permissions Cacls c:\temp\file Backup file. Remove file. Restore file. Cacls c:\temp\file Thanks, > -Original Message- > From:

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

2007-02-05 Thread Tauren Mills
Dwight, Thanks for the thoughts, very helpful! > > Even though option #3 has some drawbacks, the likelihood of those > > drawbacks happening are slim, especially if I mirror my big backup > > drive. I'm leaning toward it at the moment unless someone can suggest > > a way to make a COPY of a volu

[Bacula-users] Director core Dumpes

2007-02-05 Thread jeffrey Lang
OK, while making a change to my schedules in bacula i made a typo, on one of the schedule lines for my host omega. When i did a reload the director core dumped. 05-Feb 14:28 bkupsvr-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at parse_conf.c:482 Config error: Could not find config Resource SteveCycle referenced

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent jobs to disk

2007-02-05 Thread Erich Prinz
There's a section on concurrent jobs in the Tips and Tricks section of the docs. Short version: each config file has an entry for MaxConcurrentJobs = (or something like that) and each entry MUST be configured with the identical number of concurrent jobs in order to work. I've done this an

Re: [Bacula-users] Director core Dumpes

2007-02-05 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 2/5/2007 10:47 PM, jeffrey Lang wrote: > OK, while making a change to my schedules in bacula i made a typo, on > one of the schedule lines for my host omega. When i did a reload the > director core dumped. > > 05-Feb 14:28 bkupsvr-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at parse_conf.c:482 > Config er

Re: [Bacula-users] More help with DVDs [solved?]

2007-02-05 Thread Richard Mortimer
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 16:06 -0500, Andrew Fabian wrote: > I've made some progress here. It appears that in my original > configuration, the last session on a disk isn't readable, though bacula > thinks that it is written properly. Here's why I think that, and my > solution follows. > > If I

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

2007-02-05 Thread Dwight Tovey
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 13:44 -0800, Tauren Mills wrote: > > Would you use bcopy separate from bacula, creating your own scripts > that run off a cron job? Or would you somehow integrate using bcopy > into a bacula job using custom bacula scripts? > I plan on creating my own scripts, but called

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

2007-02-05 Thread Tauren Mills
Dwight, > > Would you use bcopy separate from bacula, creating your own scripts > > that run off a cron job? Or would you somehow integrate using bcopy > > into a bacula job using custom bacula scripts? > > I plan on creating my own scripts, but called as part of the Catalog > backup job. It wil

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent jobs to disk

2007-02-05 Thread Erich Prinz
Actually, the FD must also match the total number of concurrent connections. I have two FD which are set to MaxJobs = 1... this forces the second FD to wait in line until the first one completes. On the other 6 FD, the MaxJobs is set to 10. This permits all 6 to run concurrently (provided t

[Bacula-users] high load average

2007-02-05 Thread Mike Seda
Wow... On my server running bacula-sd and bacula-dir, the load average can get as high as 9.2 when doing full backups of certain machines... Any thoughts as to why? Server specs: Dell PE 2650 (2 x 3.06 GHz Xeon 32-bit single-core) PX502 LTO-3 FC AutoChanger RHEL 4 AS bacula 2.0.1 i386 (via rpm) d