Re: [Bacula-users] data error... buffer discarded

2007-07-11 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 11.07.2007 03:30,, Charles Sprickman wrote:: > Hi all, > > I'm doing my first live backup and the first host seems to have gone > alright, but there's one error in the run that is not clear to me: > > 10-Jul 20:40 devel2-sd: devel2.2007-07-10_20.39.56 Error: block.c:275 > Volume data error

Re: [Bacula-users] confused by automatic purging

2007-07-11 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:50:46 -0700, Craig White said: > > I have a 3 week rotation with a full backup each Friday and differential > backups every weekday. > > Last night, upon execution, the 1_Monday_Week_1 AND 1_Monday_Week_2 were > both purged and it shouldn't have purged 1_Monday_Week_2

Re: [Bacula-users] Nasty Gotcha with bacula

2007-07-11 Thread Magnus Ahl
John Huttley wrote: > No DNS, no connect, no bacula, no restoring dns files! Tip #1: All infrastructure needed for a correct backup/restore should go in /etc/hosts on all clients beeing backed up. Make this a documented routine as you roll out your backup software on all the clients. Tip #2: If

Re: [Bacula-users] baffled - fbsd and arcvault12 issues

2007-07-11 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Ken Gunderson wrote: > Sorry to follow up twice but one more thing here. Any ideas why btape > fill is writing only 200GB when hardware compression is turned on? Fil generates random (non-compressible) data so it should give very close to the tape's native capacity. Markete

Re: [Bacula-users] baffled - fbsd and arcvault12 issues

2007-07-11 Thread Francisco Rodrigo Cortinas Maseda
Hello, Building my first rescue CD on a linux machine (RHEL4 Update3) i have seen that the VLAN tag support was not included. The scripts that made the CD does not read the vlans that we have created on the server. My case: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bacula-maquina23]# ll total 104 -rw-r--r-- 1 500 pega

Re: [Bacula-users] btape and bsr sd.conf tweaks

2007-07-11 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:15:06 -0600, Ken Gunderson said: > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:59:37 +0100 > Martin Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:10:24 -0600, Ken Gunderson said: > > > > > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:12:35 +0100 > > > Martin Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECT

[Bacula-users] Change from 1.38 to 2.0.3: VolumetoCatalog 'Verify differ'

2007-07-11 Thread user100
Hello, Do somebody have an idea why my 'VolumetoCatalog' verify differ (I think on each file) on the AIX4 machine while the other machines (linux, windows) are ok? I got 'MD5 digest differs' or 'SHA1 digest differs' all the time. But when I restore such a file and make a 'diff' the files are

Re: [Bacula-users] Winows fd random shutdowns debunked

2007-07-11 Thread John Drescher
On 7/10/07, Mantas M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi John, > > Yes, it would be great if You could email the executable or upload it > somewhere. Did you try the new bacula? Did it fix the problem? John - This SF.net email i

Re: [Bacula-users] Winows fd random shutdowns debunked

2007-07-11 Thread Mantas M.
Yes, i did try the new bacula, and yes, it did fix the problem. I must say quite like it without the systray monitor as well:) Thanks, John. John Drescher wrote: > On 7/10/07, Mantas M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi John, >> >> Yes, it would be great if You could email the executable or uploa

[Bacula-users] Random Backup Failures

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Morris
Since I've introduced FreeBSD snapshots into my Bacula plan, I've started getting random backup failures. A server will fail one day, and back up just fine the next. A server will back up fine one day and fail the next. ...all with no changes to the Bacula configuration. Below, I've posted p

[Bacula-users] bconsole status dir slow

2007-07-11 Thread Brian DeRocher
Hi, I'm using Bacula 1.38.11-7 on Debian Sid with a PostgreSQL 8.1 catalog. We backup about 3TB of data per month over a dozen machines. When i run the bconsole, status dir command, it's really slow; specifically the Scheduled Jobs: section. It takes about 3 minutues to repond. I check to see

Re: [Bacula-users] Help with backup plan

2007-07-11 Thread Steen
Onsdag 11 juli 2007 05:21 skrev Charles Sprickman: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Steen wrote: > > On Friday 06 July 2007 06:23:22 Charles Sprickman wrote: > >> What I'd like to do is the following: > >> > >> -Full backup each sunday, keeping the tapes for a year. After that I > >> would likely manually r

Re: [Bacula-users] Random Backup Failures

2007-07-11 Thread Dan Langille
On 11 Jul 2007 at 11:15, Chris Morris wrote: > Since I've introduced FreeBSD snapshots into my Bacula plan, I've > started getting random backup failures. A server will fail one day, and > back up just fine the next. A server will back up fine one day and fail > the next. ...all with no chan

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole status dir slow

2007-07-11 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My understanding is that what it is doing there is checking to see what tapes might be used for these scheduled jobs that are going to occur in the future. How it arrives at that conclusion and what kind of statements it needs to establish that are no

Re: [Bacula-users] Random Backup Failures

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Morris
Dan Langille wrote: > > You say the jobs fail. What is the "failure"? Error message? > > Below, I've pasted in a failure notification email that Bacula automatically sends. 11-Jul 07:18 admin01-dir: Start Backup JobId 255, Job=app11_BSD.2007-07-10_23.35.04 11-Jul 01:19 app11-fd: DIR a

Re: [Bacula-users] Please mount volume...but volume is already mounted.

2007-07-11 Thread Brian Debelius
It happened again today. This time I unmounted the tape, and mounted it again Brian Debelius wrote: > elkton-dir Version: 2.1.22 (26 June 2007) Linux Cross-compile Win32 > > Hey, > I am still getting this mounting problem. Bacula loads the correct > tape, but then says that I need to mount it.

Re: [Bacula-users] Random Backup Failures

2007-07-11 Thread John Drescher
On 7/11/07, Chris Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dan Langille wrote: > > You say the jobs fail. What is the "failure"? Error message? > > Below, I've pasted in a failure notification email that Bacula automatically sends. 11-Jul 07:18 admin01-dir: Start Backup JobId 255, Job=app11_BSD.2

Re: [Bacula-users] Please mount volume...but volume is already mounted.

2007-07-11 Thread John Drescher
On 7/11/07, Brian Debelius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It happened again today. This time I unmounted the tape, and mounted it again I have seen this happen in the past and usually the solution is to just do a mount on the drive that it is asking for. John ---

Re: [Bacula-users] confused by automatic purging

2007-07-11 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 10:15 +0100, Martin Simmons wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:50:46 -0700, Craig White said: > > > > I have a 3 week rotation with a full backup each Friday and differential > > backups every weekday. > > > > Last night, upon execution, the 1_Monday_Week_1 AND 1_Monday_W

[Bacula-users] jobs block execution if one FD times out

2007-07-11 Thread Faraz Khan
Dear all, If one of my FD is unreachable (due to network problems) then bacula blocks all other jobs with the message: [job] is waiting for Client [client-name] to connect to Storage File I've tried concurrent jobs, max wait time, everything but it takes a VERY long time for bacula to realize t

Re: [Bacula-users] Random Backup Failures

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Morris
For the benefit of list readers and those that may still be trying to assist me with troubleshooting. I have finally been able to duplicate the errors on my own terms. I could never duplicate this before, because I would sit at a terminal window and make the snapshot, mount the snapshot, brow

[Bacula-users] bacula beta can't find qt on compile

2007-07-11 Thread Megan Kispert
I think I did something wrong. I have a centos 4.5 server. I compiled then installed QT from qt-x11-opensource-src-4.3.0 with all defaults. It installed in /usr/local/Rtolltech/Qt-4.3.0. I added /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.3.0/bin to root's path and /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.3.0/lib to /etc

[Bacula-users] Tape Recycling/rotation question

2007-07-11 Thread Jason King
Ok, I have a question about tape recycling and rotation. I have 9 tapes in a rotation. Each tape has a retention period of 2 months. The tapes are switched out when they are full. When I get to tape 9 and bacula then wants to goto the next available "appendable" volume, which should be tapes 1-

Re: [Bacula-users] confused by automatic purging

2007-07-11 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 08:53:22 -0700, Craig White said: > > On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 10:15 +0100, Martin Simmons wrote: > > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:50:46 -0700, Craig White said: > > > > > > I have a 3 week rotation with a full backup each Friday and differential > > > backups every weekday

Re: [Bacula-users] btape and bsr sd.conf tweaks

2007-07-11 Thread Ken Gunderson
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:23:47 +0100 Martin Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:15:06 -0600, Ken Gunderson said: > > > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:59:37 +0100 > > Martin Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:10:24 -0600, Ken Gunderson

[Bacula-users] Any FileSet change determine a Full backup

2007-07-11 Thread Zeratul
Hi Every time when I'm doing a change in the FileSet for a client, the next backup is upgraded to Full from Incremental. There is any posibility to avoid this behavior? Sometimes the changes are really small but the full backup takes a lot of space and time. Any idea will be appreciated. Thanks

Re: [Bacula-users] Any FileSet change determine a Full backup

2007-07-11 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 12:59 -0500, Zeratul wrote: > Hi > > Every time when I'm doing a change in the FileSet for a client, the next > backup is upgraded to Full from Incremental. There is any posibility to avoid > this behavior? Sometimes the changes are really small but the full backup > takes a

[Bacula-users] 2.0.3 agents with 1.36 backend

2007-07-11 Thread Rich
is it possible to use 2.0.3 (or even 2.2) agents with 1.36 director/sd ? this is intended only as a temporary solution until serverside is upgraded (1.36 agent fails to compile on a recent system) -- Rich - This SF.net em

Re: [Bacula-users] 2.0.3 agents with 1.36 backend

2007-07-11 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich wrote: > is it possible to use 2.0.3 (or even 2.2) agents with 1.36 director/sd ? > > this is intended only as a temporary solution until serverside is > upgraded (1.36 agent fails to compile on a recent system) Well the strict answer would be:

Re: [Bacula-users] Any FileSet change determine a Full backup

2007-07-11 Thread Thomas Glatthor
this is one of the first lines in the chapter "The FileSet Resource" of the manual: > Ignore FileSet Changes = > Normally, if you modify the FileSet Include or Exclude lists, the next > backup will be forced to a Full so that Bacula can guarantee that any > additions or deletions are prope

Re: [Bacula-users] Any FileSet change determine a Full backup

2007-07-11 Thread Julien
from the docs: Ignore FileSet Changes = Normally, if you modify the FileSet Include or Exclude lists, the next backup will be forced to a Full so that Bacula can guarantee that any additions or deletions are properly saved. If this directive is set to yes

[Bacula-users] Imitate Veritas behaviour

2007-07-11 Thread Guy Zuercher
Hello List, my company is using bacula for quite a while and we find it is a really cool piece of software! So thanks to Kern and everybody else involved. I would like to know if anybody managed to imitate the behaviour of Veritas as close as possible for the following scenario: - Custome

Re: [Bacula-users] data error... buffer discarded

2007-07-11 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > 11.07.2007 03:30,, Charles Sprickman wrote:: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm doing my first live backup and the first host seems to have gone >> alright, but there's one error in the run that is not clear to me: >> >> 10-Jul 20:40 devel2-sd: devel2.2007-07-1

Re: [Bacula-users] btape test works;backup works;restore doesn't

2007-07-11 Thread Michael Hughes
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:36:59 -0500 Michael Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have loaded Bacula 2.0.3 from source on my FreeBSD system. I ran > btape test and it passed all the tests. Also ran the autoloader test > and that passed. > > I did a full backup which fit on one DLT IV tape.

Re: [Bacula-users] Reuse old tapes not working correctly

2007-07-11 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason King wrote: > I have 8 tapes in a cycle. Bacula is suppose to run until the tape is > full. I have the volume retention set to 4 months, then after that 4 > months the tape should then be in "recycle" or "append" mode and I > should be able to

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape Recycling/rotation question

2007-07-11 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason King wrote: > Ok, I have a question about tape recycling and rotation. I have 9 tapes > in a rotation. Each tape has a retention period of 2 months. The tapes > are switched out when they are full. When I get to tape 9 and bacula > then wants

[Bacula-users] Restore question

2007-07-11 Thread Ivan Adzhubey
Hi, I have been using bacula for 5 years now and finally comes the first time I need to do a major restore from our tapes. I read the tutorial, tried the instructions and it seemingly worked as designed (I haven't run actual restore yet) but I am not sure which exactly files it was going to res

Re: [Bacula-users] Any FileSet change determine a Full backup

2007-07-11 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone done a test that verifies exactly what this does? If I add a new directory to my fileset, and I have this directive turns on, do the new files get backed up as part of the incremental? I have personally been doing as Craig said -- adding n

Re: [Bacula-users] data error... buffer discarded

2007-07-11 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This one comes up now and again. Probably would be good to add it to the wiki, but another thing might be to get this error message clarified or expanded upon. Probably wouldn't be hard to make it say something that's less scary, if it can determine t

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula beta can't find qt on compile

2007-07-11 Thread Erich Prinz
This is from the Dev List and straight from Kern... It may address the issue you are experiencing. Hello, Scott Barninger brought my attention to the fact that the way I was dealing with including the third party qwt Graphic library for Qt into bat doesn't play well with rpms and such. As

[Bacula-users] Problem with the zlib on windows clients!

2007-07-11 Thread Ralf Winkler
I know, the topic was here before. I had investigate a bit more and this is what i found out so far. 1. The FD version is the same (1.38.10). 2. After the error, the file is created and the size is correct, you can open it with word or excel, but there is no visible content. 3. It happen with fi