[Bacula-users] Can Bacule use DVD-RAM?

2007-09-07 Thread Eric Böse-Wolf
Hello everybody, as DVD-Ram Media is the most reliable optical media in the DVD area, I would like to use it. I aked myself can Bacula use DVD-RAM? I read parts of the manual and found only things regarding DVD+-R(W), which need a special treatment due to mounting, burning and so on But

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Webmin Bacula-Module does not connect to database

2007-09-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, On Friday 07 September 2007 11:13, Benjamin E. Zeller wrote: On Thursday 06 September 2007 21:41:14 Arno Lehmann wrote: Hello, 06.09.2007 15:15,, Ferdi Giese wrote:: Hi, bacula-2.1.1 is working fine on mysql-database at localhost (SLES10-SP1), but when I want to use the

[Bacula-users] Presentation screenshots - program?

2007-09-07 Thread Bastian Friedrich
Hi, I'm currently evaluating Bacula. During reading the presentation slides on the website (http://www.bacula.org/presentations/Bacula-FOSDEM-talk-25Feb07.pdf), I found the screenshots on the last pages. Can you tell me what program is shown in these screenshots? It looks great :) Thx,

Re: [Bacula-users] performance

2007-09-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 07.09.2007 12:52,, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:: haha, mysql should be fast enough on a Sun T2000 8Gb RAMor not?! I think so... of course you could almways find a faster DB machine :-) Is this the machine the DIR is running on, too? If not, you might havethe bottleneck in the network

Re: [Bacula-users] performance

2007-09-07 Thread Tom Sommer
On Fri, September 7, 2007 12:52, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: haha, mysql should be fast enough on a Sun T2000 8Gb RAMor not?! Anyway, I'm installing the 2.2.2 from scratch on a test machine. - Rebuilt mysql 5.0.33 with thread-safe switch on. - Built Bacula with batch-insert on Once

Re: [Bacula-users] Post-upgrade database issues, Bacula 1.38.11 to 2.2.1 on Solaris

2007-09-07 Thread Dan Langille
On 7 Sep 2007 at 10:16, Martin Simmons wrote: On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:25:07 -0400, Dan Langille said: You were not the first to encounter this problem. We are now updating the release notes and hope to send out an announcement soon letting people know of the new requirement.

Re: [Bacula-users] HP Storagework 1/8

2007-09-07 Thread Chris Howells
Martin Mielke wrote: I've been searching the archives for a way to configure Bacula to access the HP Storagework 1/8 that we want to use but I can't find anything on them... It will probably just work. First of all try using mtx to control the changer. Then try using it is a normal tape

[Bacula-users] HP Storagework 1/8

2007-09-07 Thread Martin Mielke
Hello all, this is my first experience with Bacula so please bear with me... I've been searching the archives for a way to configure Bacula to access the HP Storagework 1/8 that we want to use but I can't find anything on them... Has anyone managed to get such a device working? TIA, Martin

Re: [Bacula-users] Can Bacule use DVD-RAM?

2007-09-07 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 B) Format the medium with another non-journaling filesystem (like ext3 without the journal option) and then use larger files. This sounds like a _very_ bad idea at first glance, but in my tests, it worked surprisingly well - i.e. without too much

Re: [Bacula-users] restore problem (Tom Sommer)

2007-09-07 Thread Kelly, Brian
I don't have an answer but I can tell you I'm having the same problem. I recently had to do a couple restores and both jobs errored as follows: clketchu.uwsp.edu: -rwxrwxrwx 1 008 2007-08-26 10:25:47 /tmp/C/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application

Re: [Bacula-users] performance

2007-09-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 07.09.2007 10:32,, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:: Hello, I need to speed up the backup of a machine with a lot of very small files (600,000 = 90Gb). I have verified that the problem is the mysql database, slowing down the backup because it has to write 600,000 records in the catalog. I'm

Re: [Bacula-users] restore: device is blocked waiting for media

2007-09-07 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, 07.09.2007 09:58,, Luca Ferrari wrote:: On Thursday 6 September 2007 Arno Lehmann's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote: So my only idea is that perhaps you use several file storage devices with identical Media Type

Re: [Bacula-users] performance

2007-09-07 Thread Jason Harley
Gabriele Bulfon wrote, on 07/09/07 06:52 AM: haha, mysql should be fast enough on a Sun T2000 8Gb RAMor not?! It's likely got a lot more to do with your MySQL tuning... I'd recommend PostgreSQL for a large database if you really want to see it scale. Also, what is prstat, iostat and

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Presentation screenshots - program?

2007-09-07 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sep 7, 2007 8:06 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Presentation screenshots - program? To: Bastian Friedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 9/7/07, Bastian Friedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm currently evaluating

Re: [Bacula-users] Presentation screenshots - program?

2007-09-07 Thread Frank Sweetser
Bastian Friedrich wrote: Hi, I'm currently evaluating Bacula. During reading the presentation slides on the website (http://www.bacula.org/presentations/Bacula-FOSDEM-talk-25Feb07.pdf), I found the screenshots on the last pages. Can you tell me what program is shown in these

Re: [Bacula-users] restore problem

2007-09-07 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christoff van Zyl wrote: On Friday 07 September 2007 08:32:41 Tom Sommer wrote: On Thu, September 6, 2007 23:36, Steve Thompson wrote: Bacula 2.0.3, director is 32-bit CentOS 4.5, clients are all CentOS 4.5, both 32-bit and 64-bit. Backups are to

Re: [Bacula-users] restore problem

2007-09-07 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christoff van Zyl wrote: On Friday 07 September 2007 08:32:41 Tom Sommer wrote: On Thu, September 6, 2007 23:36, Steve Thompson wrote: Bacula 2.0.3, director is 32-bit CentOS 4.5, clients are all CentOS 4.5, both 32-bit and 64-bit. Backups are to

Re: [Bacula-users] performance

2007-09-07 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
haha, mysql should be fast enough on a Sun T2000 8Gb RAMor not?! Anyway, I'm installing the 2.2.2 from scratch on a test machine. - Rebuilt mysql 5.0.33 with thread-safe switch on. - Built Bacula with batch-insert on Once prepared the clean db and everything needed for my existing volumes,

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup progress information

2007-09-07 Thread Carlos Cristóbal Sabroe Yde
Hi, yes there is: if you have a job running for lets say client1, from the console you should be able to do the following command stat client=client1 You cannot know how many bytes are left to be backed up (unless you estimated it before). Saludos! El Jueves, 6 de Septiembre de 2007 04:22,

[Bacula-users] Bweb ...... Where it is?

2007-09-07 Thread Miguel Angel
Hi, I have install Bacula 2.2.2 from rpm's on Mandrake 10.2 and use bacula-web, but I find bweb Where it is? Any diference with bacula-web?? Thank you for any help. -- Atentamente, Miguel Angel Moreno Bolaños Usuario Linux registrado No. 391784 http://counter.li.org El amor es un

Re: [Bacula-users] HP Storagework 1/8

2007-09-07 Thread João Carneiro - DLS
Hi there, Yes, it seems to Work out of the box. I have one myself. Just didn't submitted a compatibility report so that it could be included in the supported list because my tests weren't that exaustive. My server just got back up after a couple of months of inactivity so I'll be configuring

Re: [Bacula-users] Can Bacule use DVD-RAM?

2007-09-07 Thread John Drescher
I've thought that ext3 was basically ext2 with journaling (since it seems like you can convert one to the other just by using tune2fs). Does anyone know if that is or is not true? ext3 is ext2 + journaling of data and metadata. In the default settings it is slower than other journaling

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula client as a virus

2007-09-07 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ryan Novosielski wrote: This happened before. You don't mention a version, but I believe that the version was 2.0.2. The problem though is that you say that the -fd file itself has a virus. That file could have been infected after installation, I

[Bacula-users] bacula client as a virus

2007-09-07 Thread Bill Szkotnicki
Hello, I have had a strange thing happen. Here we use McAfee virus scan for our windows machines and recently McAfee seems to think that the bacula client bacula-fd.exe contains a virus. Has anyone encountered this? And is it possible that there is a virus? Thanks, Bill

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula client as a virus

2007-09-07 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This happened before. You don't mention a version, but I believe that the version was 2.0.2. The problem though is that you say that the -fd file itself has a virus. That file could have been infected after installation, I suppose... you don't make it

Re: [Bacula-users] Bweb ...... Where it is?

2007-09-07 Thread John Drescher
On 9/7/07, Miguel Angel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have install Bacula 2.2.2 from rpm's on Mandrake 10.2 and use bacula-web, but I find bweb Where it is? Any diference with bacula-web?? It is normally in the gui package but I do not use Mandrake or build from rpms so I do not

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Webmin Bacula-Module does not connect to database

2007-09-07 Thread John Drescher
Yes, I am interested, and really sorry to hear such stories. I prefer not to be a policeman for Bacula add-ons, but if they are putting out something that is really terrible, please send me a condensed summary of the problems, the amount of time these problems have existed, and the email

Re: [Bacula-users] Webmin Bacula-Module does not connect to database

2007-09-07 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 11:13 +0200, Benjamin E. Zeller wrote: On Thursday 06 September 2007 21:41:14 Arno Lehmann wrote: Hello, 06.09.2007 15:15,, Ferdi Giese wrote:: Hi, bacula-2.1.1 is working fine on mysql-database at localhost (SLES10-SP1), but when I want to use the

Re: [Bacula-users] restore: device is blocked waiting for media

2007-09-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 07.09.2007 09:58,, Luca Ferrari wrote:: On Thursday 6 September 2007 Arno Lehmann's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote: So my only idea is that perhaps you use several file storage devices with identical Media Type settings and Bacula chooses the wrong device for the needed volumes.

[Bacula-users] performance

2007-09-07 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Hello, I need to speed up the backup of a machine with a lot of very small files (600,000 = 90Gb). I have verified that the problem is the mysql database, slowing down the backup because it has to write 600,000 records in the catalog. I'm thinking of 2 options: 1- forcing transactions at the

[Bacula-users] More jobs concurently

2007-09-07 Thread Marek Simon
I have one basic disc storage with 400BG, one extra storage on other 400GB disk and one DDS Tape. All the storages are in same server. I use the basic storage for common backup of systems and user data and the extra storage for backup of one special project. The extended storage is often full

Re: [Bacula-users] performance

2007-09-07 Thread Marc Cousin
I'd say you'll get the best performance with postgresql right now : batch insert has been made primarily for it (and uses a special bulk insert statement with postgresql). I guess some optimizations could be done for mysql too, but I don't think they've been done for now ... On Friday 07

Re: [Bacula-users] Webmin Bacula-Module does not connect to database

2007-09-07 Thread Benjamin E. Zeller
On Thursday 06 September 2007 21:41:14 Arno Lehmann wrote: Hello, 06.09.2007 15:15,, Ferdi Giese wrote:: Hi, bacula-2.1.1 is working fine on mysql-database at localhost (SLES10-SP1), but when I want to use the Webmin-Module for administration, it echos Failed to connect to the Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Can Bacule use DVD-RAM?

2007-09-07 Thread Mike Follwerk - T²BF
Hello Eric, mind you, I am no bacula expert myself (yet), but I spent some time to get it running with REV-drives, which is quite similar to DVD-RAM in terms of actual usage. Eric Böse-Wolf schrieb: But DVD-RAM could be used like a harddrive, just put in the DVD-RAM and use e.g. /dev/hda as

Re: [Bacula-users] StorageTek C2?

2007-09-07 Thread Michael Hocke
On Sep 6, 2007, at 12:21 PM, Jason Harley wrote: Has anyone had any experience using Bacula (on Linux, Solaris or FreeBSD -- I'm platform agnostic) with a StorageTek C2 autochanger? Sure. We are running Bacula 2.0.3 under Solaris 10 on a Sun Fire V210 with a StorEdge/StorageTek C2

Re: [Bacula-users] Post-upgrade database issues, Bacula 1.38.11 to 2.2.1 on Solaris

2007-09-07 Thread Martin Simmons
On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:25:07 -0400, Dan Langille said: You were not the first to encounter this problem. We are now updating the release notes and hope to send out an announcement soon letting people know of the new requirement. FYI: MySQL = 4.1, PostgreSQL 7.4 What does 7.4 mean?

Re: [Bacula-users] restore problem

2007-09-07 Thread Christoff van Zyl
On Friday 07 September 2007 08:32:41 Tom Sommer wrote: On Thu, September 6, 2007 23:36, Steve Thompson wrote: Bacula 2.0.3, director is 32-bit CentOS 4.5, clients are all CentOS 4.5, both 32-bit and 64-bit. Backups are to disk files. I find that I cannot do any restores: 06-Sep

Re: [Bacula-users] restore problem

2007-09-07 Thread Tom Sommer
On Thu, September 6, 2007 23:36, Steve Thompson wrote: Bacula 2.0.3, director is 32-bit CentOS 4.5, clients are all CentOS 4.5, both 32-bit and 64-bit. Backups are to disk files. I find that I cannot do any restores: 06-Sep 13:59 dante-sd: RestoreFiles.2007-09-06_13.58.29 Error:

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Webmin Bacula-Module does not connect to database

2007-09-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 07 September 2007 18:07, John Drescher wrote: Yes, I am interested, and really sorry to hear such stories. I prefer not to be a policeman for Bacula add-ons, but if they are putting out something that is really terrible, please send me a condensed summary of the problems, the

Re: [Bacula-users] Cascaded drive pool

2007-09-07 Thread Bob Duman
I finally have a working configuration of Bacula going and I still cannot figure out how to get what I've asked here to work. I have a two drive Quantum tape unit (LTO2), but it is NOT an autoloader. It is just two tape drives in one chassis and the drives are individually addressed as

Re: [Bacula-users] Cascaded drive pool

2007-09-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 07.09.2007 19:39,, Bob Duman wrote:: I finally have a working configuration of Bacula going and I still cannot figure out how to get what I've asked here to work. I have a two drive Quantum tape unit (LTO2), but it is NOT an autoloader. It is just two tape drives in one chassis and the

Re: [Bacula-users] SQL error after upgrading 2.0.3 - 2.2.0

2007-09-07 Thread Silver Salonen
On Thursday 06 September 2007 11:46, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, 06.09.2007 08:23,, Silver Salonen wrote:: Hello. Yesterday I upgraded Bacula (dir, sd, fd) from 2.0.3 to 2.2.0 on FreeBSD-5.3. I use Bacula with MySQL 4.0.27. In the evening all the backups failed with error: =

Re: [Bacula-users] restore: device is blocked waiting for media

2007-09-07 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Thursday 6 September 2007 Arno Lehmann's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote: So my only idea is that perhaps you use several file storage devices with identical Media Type settings and Bacula chooses the wrong device for the needed volumes. This is true! I mean, I've got several storages

[Bacula-users] Sony LIB-81 Bacula on CentOS?

2007-09-07 Thread Paul
I'm wondering if anybody has any experience running Bacula with a Sony LIB-81 tape library preferably on CentOS? A bit more specifically I'm looking at runing either a LIB-81/A4 or a LIB-81/A5 on CentOS 5 and switching to Bacula because we are starting to need something more robust than simple

Re: [Bacula-users] Post-upgrade database issues, Bacula 1.38.11 to 2.2.1 on Solaris

2007-09-07 Thread Martin Simmons
On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:45:07 -0400, Dan Langille said: Priority: normal Content-description: Mail message body On 7 Sep 2007 at 10:16, Martin Simmons wrote: On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:25:07 -0400, Dan Langille said: You were not the first to encounter this problem. We are now

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula environment

2007-09-07 Thread Martin Simmons
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 20:53:17 -0500, Kelly, Brian said: I am running a post job python script that fails because python is unable to import some libraries. I am running bacula as root. When running the script manually as root there are no problems. Issuing the env command as root yields a

Re: [Bacula-users] restore problem

2007-09-07 Thread Steve Thompson
On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Doytchin Spiridonov wrote: just to mention again that while there were suggestions this is a hardware problem we did a lot of tests and proved the problem is not hadrware but there is a bug (which however was closed with unable to reproduce reason) As you are the next

Re: [Bacula-users] restore problem

2007-09-07 Thread Doytchin Spiridonov
Hello, we have spent two weeks of testing until we found the root of the problem (concurrent jobs) and we were 100% sure it is a bug. However after I submitted it as a bug, it was closed as they couldn't replicate it, claiming we have a hardware problem (which we proved is not the case) and

Re: [Bacula-users] restore problem

2007-09-07 Thread Dan Langille
On 8 Sep 2007 at 2:42, Doytchin Spiridonov wrote: Hello, we have spent two weeks of testing until we found the root of the problem (concurrent jobs) and we were 100% sure it is a bug. However after I submitted it as a bug, it was closed as they couldn't replicate it, claiming we have a

[Bacula-users] Bacula 2.2.1 made on a Mac Intel Xserve successful

2007-09-07 Thread Hydro Meteor
Hello all, I just successfully went through a configure, make and make install process on an Intel Apple Xserve running Mac OS X Server 10.4.10 ... using PostgreSQL 8.1.9 as a back end for Bacula (I have yet to configure the database in the PostgreSQL cluster for Bacula but that's next). All of

Re: [Bacula-users] restore problem

2007-09-07 Thread Doytchin Spiridonov
Hello, Saturday, September 8, 2007, 2:45:48 AM: DL On 8 Sep 2007 at 2:42, Doytchin Spiridonov wrote: Hello, we have spent two weeks of testing until we found the root of the problem (concurrent jobs) and we were 100% sure it is a bug. However after I submitted it as a bug, it was closed

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 2.2.1 made on a Mac Intel Xserve successful

2007-09-07 Thread Dan Langille
On 7 Sep 2007 at 14:00, Hydro Meteor wrote: Hello all, I just successfully went through a configure, make and make install process on an Intel Apple Xserve running Mac OS X Server 10.4.10 ... using PostgreSQL 8.1.9 as a back end for Bacula (I have yet to configure the database in the