Re: [Bacula-users] backward compability

2007-10-04 Thread Marek Simon
The problem is solve. John Drescher sent me an older version of bacula client and it runs good, but I had to fix some typo in config. Maybe that new version would work with corrected config either. Unfortunately windows client does no log (or I dont know about it). However thank John very much f

[Bacula-users] Mail problem

2007-10-04 Thread Andy Collyer
Hi all, When a job finishes, bacula sends an email from (e.g.) [EMAIL PROTECTED], but the server is actually on (e.g.) myother.domain.co.uk and the smtp relay at myother.domain.co.uk rejects the FROM domain and the email is returned to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where is the setting for who bacula is sen

Re: [Bacula-users] Mail problem

2007-10-04 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 11:00:05 +0100, Andy Collyer said: > > Hi all, > > When a job finishes, bacula sends an email from (e.g.) [EMAIL PROTECTED], > but the server is actually on (e.g.) myother.domain.co.uk and the smtp relay > at myother.domain.co.uk rejects the FROM domain and the email is

[Bacula-users] Silly question on Incremental backups

2007-10-04 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Hi all, I'm in the process of changing the backup strategy of a customer from a daily rotation to an incremental backup logic. Because I never happened to use the incremental strategy, I'm probably asking a very stupid question...so please excuse me if it is. When reading the Bacula documenta

[Bacula-users] multi-destination message

2007-10-04 Thread luyigui loholhlki
hi i'm just a beginner in bacula :) could u please tellme what to put in the clause ## Messages { Name = standard mailcommand = "/usr/sbin/bsmtp -h localhost -f \"\(Bacula\) %r\" -s \"message \" %r" mail = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = all, !skipped console = all, !skipped

Re: [Bacula-users] multi-destination message

2007-10-04 Thread Eric Böse-Wolf
luyigui loholhlki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi i'm just a beginner in bacula :) > could u please tellme what to put in the clause > ## > Messages { > Name = standard > > mailcommand = "/usr/sbin/bsmtp -h localhost -f \"\(Bacula\) %r\" -s \"message > \ > " %r" >

Re: [Bacula-users] Silly question on Incremental backups

2007-10-04 Thread John Drescher
On 10/4/07, Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, I'm in the process of changing the backup strategy of a customer > from a daily rotation to an incremental backup logic. > Because I never happened to use the incremental strategy, I'm probably > asking a very stupid question...so

Re: [Bacula-users] multi-destination message

2007-10-04 Thread GDS.Marshall
> luyigui loholhlki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> hi i'm just a beginner in bacula :) >> could u please tellme what to put in the clause >> ## >> Messages { >> Name = standard >> >> mailcommand = "/usr/sbin/bsmtp -h localhost -f \"\(Bacula\) %r\" -s >> \"message \

[Bacula-users] What happens if I won't change a full tape?

2007-10-04 Thread Matthias Kellermann
Hi list, I'm just wondering what would happen if Bacula wants to write a backup on a full tape or is waiting for a new tape? Will the backup completely stop or will it somehow get spooled? I'm just asking because I want to know if I can delay the change of a tape for a few days or so while Bacula

[Bacula-users] six tapes - one for each day

2007-10-04 Thread Markus Stumpf
Hi folx, I am new to bacula and my setup is working (mostly). I am using bacula 2.2.0 with a HP Storage Works 1/8 G2 Tape Autoloader. The goal ist to use 6 tapes (1 for each day) and have one slot with "take away" tapes (weekly/monthly backups). Schedule { Name = "WeeklyCycle" Run = Level=In

[Bacula-users] Find out when a Job will actually will run

2007-10-04 Thread Christoph Klünter
Hi, I was testing a little, and scheduled a Job for 2009-01-01 20:00:00 Now "status dir" shows, that this job is waiting: Running Jobs: JobId Level Name Status == 17952 Increme idsJob.2007-10-04_14.40.

Re: [Bacula-users] What happens if I won't change a full tape?

2007-10-04 Thread John Drescher
> I'm just wondering what would happen if Bacula wants to write a backup > on a full tape or is waiting for a new tape? Will the backup completely > stop or will it somehow get spooled? > It will completely stop. > > I'm just asking because I want to know if I can delay the change of a > tape for a

Re: [Bacula-users] Find out when a Job will actually will run

2007-10-04 Thread John Drescher
> Maybe you need a wider screen? > I think the problem here is the status says its a Running Job and not a Scheduled Job. John - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems

Re: [Bacula-users] Find out when a Job will actually will run

2007-10-04 Thread Mike Eggleston
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007, Mike Eggleston might have said: > On Thu, 04 Oct 2007, Christoph Kl?nter might have said: > > > Hi, > > > > I was testing a little, and scheduled a Job for 2009-01-01 20:00:00 > > > Now "status dir" shows, that this job

Re: [Bacula-users] Silly question on Incremental backups

2007-10-04 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
...wow, this is really bad news...I won't be able to implement incremental this way... The problem is that the customer can no more handle all of the backup during the night. For unknown reason, Bacula seems to go very fast only just after scratching and rereating the mysq db. >From the second d

Re: [Bacula-users] Find out when a Job will actually will run

2007-10-04 Thread Mike Eggleston
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007, Christoph Kl?nter might have said: > Hi, > > I was testing a little, and scheduled a Job for 2009-01-01 20:00:00 > Now "status dir" shows, that this job is waiting: > > Running Jobs: > JobId Level Name

Re: [Bacula-users] Silly question on Incremental backups

2007-10-04 Thread John Drescher
On 10/4/07, Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ...wow, this is really bad news...I won't be able to implement > incremental this way... > > The problem is that the customer can no more handle all of the backup > during the night. > For unknown reason, Bacula seems to go very fast only

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Silly question on Incremental backups

2007-10-04 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Version 2.2.2 built from sources on a Sun T2000, with "./configure --with-mysql=/iserver/mysql" Mysql is running on a Sun v40 / Windows 2003 , LAN 1Gb. The mysql client library I compiled against on the T2000 are the thread safe ones. And during build it said that batch inserts were enabled. How d

Re: [Bacula-users] multi-destination message

2007-10-04 Thread Foo Bar
--- luyigui loholhlki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi i'm just a beginner in bacula :) > could u please tellme what to put in the clause > ## > Messages { > Name = standard > > mailcommand = "/usr/sbin/bsmtp -h localhost -f \"\(Bacula\) %r\" -s > \"message \" %r" >

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Silly question on Incremental backups

2007-10-04 Thread John Drescher
On 10/4/07, Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Version 2.2.2 built from sources on a Sun T2000, > with "./configure --with-mysql=/iserver/mysql" > > Mysql is running on a Sun v40 / Windows 2003 , LAN 1Gb. > > The mysql client library I compiled against on the T2000 are the thread > saf

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Silly question on Incremental backups

2007-10-04 Thread John Drescher
> > Full backups. > At the moment I only use Full Backups...and it seems I can't escape from > them... I know there is a slow down in rate for Incrementals because the filesystem takes a long time to find the changed files but for fulls you should not see this at all and the second should be fas

Re: [Bacula-users] What happens if I won't change a full tape?

2007-10-04 Thread Matthias Kellermann
John Drescher schrieb: >> Or can I change a tape before it is full so I can be sure it needn't to >> be changed the next few days? >> > You can change a tape before it hits the Full as long as no jobs are > running, the new tape has the Append status and it is in the same > pool as the old and you

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Silly question on Incremental backups

2007-10-04 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
- It's an 8 jobs backup - I have hardware compression on the device, no need for software compression - The device is a Quantum LTO2 Scsi attached to the T2000 - The T2000 and every other bacula client are on the same gigabit LAN - The director and the db used to be on the same machine (T2000), but

[Bacula-users] Client Run Before job

2007-10-04 Thread Steve Campbell
I gave up a while back on getting a job to run on the client before doing the backup. Mostly all I am trying to do is get an MySQL backup (mysqldump) to run before I do a backup job that includes the file just created. As I recall, I was having a problem with the return code indicating the job

[Bacula-users] bacula-sd 2.2.4 goes kaboom! (segfault on despooling data)

2007-10-04 Thread mark . bergman
I'm testing bacula 2.2.4 and the bacula-sd daemon repeatedly exits with a segmentation fault. Bacula 1.38.11 works reliably on the same machine with the same hardware and configuration files. Environment: Fedora Core 1 Kernel 2.4.26 gcc 3.3.2 MySQL 5.0.22

[Bacula-users] Restoring to different location than client machine

2007-10-04 Thread Foo Bar
I have not been able to find this in the manual: specifying the where directive, or using the mod option during manual restore and changing the path will always restore to the client machine and then the path specified. I would like to restore to a different machine (e.g. a network mount relative

[Bacula-users] autochanger mount/unmount config without blocking

2007-10-04 Thread Bob Hetzel
When I unmount a volume using the bconsole unmount command, bacula blocks access to the tape drive until I mount another volume. Is there a way to config it so the drive isn't blocked when a tape is unmounted from within bconsole? If I unmount the tape drive I'd like it to be able to grab an

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Silly question on Incremental backups

2007-10-04 Thread John Drescher
> > - It's an 8 jobs backup > Are you running them concurrently? Are they on different machines? - I have hardware compression on the device, no need for software > compression > That is good. Enabling software compression will slow your backups down. - The device is a Quantum LTO2 Scsi attache

Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger mount/unmount config without blocking

2007-10-04 Thread John Drescher
On 10/4/07, Bob Hetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I unmount a volume using the bconsole unmount command, bacula > blocks access to the tape drive until I mount another volume. Is there > a way to config it so the drive isn't blocked when a tape is unmounted > from within bconsole? If I u

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring to different location than client machine

2007-10-04 Thread John Drescher
On 10/4/07, Foo Bar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have not been able to find this in the manual: specifying the where > directive, or using the mod option during manual restore and changing the > path will always restore to the client machine and then the path specified. > > I would like to restor

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Silly question on Incremental backups

2007-10-04 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
I strongly believe the problem is (again) the sparc processor I have a story on previous sparc processor being too slow for high number of files. I thought this new multi-core T1 architecture would be different. But, at last, each core is running at 1Ghz...and I don't think bacula can benefit

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO hardware compression ratio

2007-10-04 Thread Ralf Gross
Chris Howells schrieb: > My drive is using 0x46: Same here. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# mt -f /dev/st0 status > SCSI 2 tape drive: > File number=51, block number=0, partition=0. > Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x46 (no translation). > Soft error count since last status=0 > General status bits

Re: [Bacula-users] Client Run Before job

2007-10-04 Thread Scott Ruckh
- Original Message - From: "Steve Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 8:05 AM Subject: [Bacula-users] Client Run Before job >I gave up a while back on getting a job to run on the client before > doing the backup. Mostly all I am trying to do is get an MyS

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring to different location than client machine

2007-10-04 Thread Eric Böse-Wolf
"John Drescher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10/4/07, Foo Bar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have not been able to find this in the manual: specifying the where >> directive, or using the mod option during manual restore and changing the >> path will always restore to the client machine and t

[Bacula-users] How bacula works?

2007-10-04 Thread Augusto Lima
I'm using 2.2.4 bacula to backup document files on my governamental organization and have a couple of questions. I was wondering how bacula its saving the files on tape, when doing a regular backup. Does it uses TAR? And where it saves block information, so when we need to restore some file, it goe

[Bacula-users] Bacula and return values of external/client scripts

2007-10-04 Thread Janco van der Merwe
Hi, Can anyone tell me if Bacula can interpret return values from scripts that are run on client, i.e. say if I have a script that stops a Oracle DB on a Linux Client and if for some reason the script returns an exit value of 1 that Bacula will either insert the error in the notification so that t

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole problem with modify restore job

2007-10-04 Thread kshatriyak
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Mark Nienberg wrote: > bacula-mysql-2.2.4-1 > > In bconsole I cannot change the "Replace" option in a restore job. Just tried it over here as well. Same problem. I guess it's a bug. K. - This SF.net ema

Re: [Bacula-users] multi-destination message

2007-10-04 Thread Foo Bar
I wrote an answer to this but it disappeared, so here goes again: --- luyigui loholhlki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi i'm just a beginner in bacula :) > could u please tellme what to put in the clause > ## > Messages { > Name = standard > > mailcommand = "/usr/sbi

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole problem with modify restore job

2007-10-04 Thread Eric Bollengier
> In bconsole I cannot change the "Replace" option in a restore job. > See the following partial bconsole session: Thanks for feedback. I have open a bug report on bugs.bacula.org. http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=969 I will fix this shortly Bye --

Re: [Bacula-users] How bacula works?

2007-10-04 Thread John Drescher
On 10/4/07, Augusto Lima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm using 2.2.4 bacula to backup document files on my governamental > organization and have a couple of questions. > I was wondering how bacula it´s saving the files on tape, when doing a > regular backup. Does it uses TAR? > And where it sa

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring to different location than client machine

2007-10-04 Thread Foo Bar
--- John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/4/07, Foo Bar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have not been able to find this in the manual: specifying the where > > directive, or using the mod option during manual restore and changing > the > > path will always restore to the client machin

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Silly question on Incremental backups

2007-10-04 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I strongly doubt it. Have you looked at sites like this?: http://hell.jedicoder.net/?p=88 ...just one example. Sun has pages on how to properly configure a database on a T2000 machine as well. Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > I strongly believe the problem

Re: [Bacula-users] Client Run Before job

2007-10-04 Thread Steve Campbell
Thanks Scott, Can I assume the script does all of the waiting required before starting the data backup? How would this differ from just setting up a shell script that has a mysqldump statement in it? I don't read Perl real well and didn't see anything that does that (at least based on my knowle

Re: [Bacula-users] BACULA/VMWARE crashes entire system [ON-GOING PROBLEM]

2007-10-04 Thread C M Reinehr
Scott, On Monday 01 October 2007 23:50, Scott Ruckh wrote: > This is what you said Josh Fisher > > > Scott Ruckh wrote: > >> I am running CentOS 4.5 x64 with self compiled kernel 2.6.13.4. I have > >> installed the latest bacula 2.2.4 Director, Client, and Storage daemon > >> on > >> this server.

Re: [Bacula-users] BACULA/VMWARE crashes entire system [ON-GOING PROBLEM]

2007-10-04 Thread Scott Ruckh
This is what you said C M Reinehr > Scott, > > I'm rather late to the party, but I have an idea that this might be a RAM > problem or, to be specific, that you are running out of RAM. I encountered > something similar a year or two ago. The good news is that the solution is > simply a matter of adj

Re: [Bacula-users] six tapes - one for each day

2007-10-04 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 04.10.2007 14:24,, Markus Stumpf wrote:: > Hi folx, > > I am new to bacula and my setup is working (mostly). > I am using bacula 2.2.0 with a HP Storage Works 1/8 G2 Tape Autoloader. > > The goal ist to use 6 tapes (1 for each day) and have one slot with "take > away" tapes (weekly/monthly b

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and return values of external/client scripts

2007-10-04 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 04.10.2007 18:21,, Janco van der Merwe wrote:: > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me if Bacula can interpret return values from scripts > that are run on client, Yes. It can and it does. > i.e. say if I have a script that stops a Oracle > DB on a Linux Client and if for some reason the script return

Re: [Bacula-users] Client Run Before job

2007-10-04 Thread Scott Ruckh
> Thanks Scott, > > Can I assume the script does all of the waiting required before starting > the data backup? How would this differ from just setting up a shell > script that has a mysqldump statement in it? I don't read Perl real well > and didn't see anything that does that (at least based on m

Re: [Bacula-users] painfully slow backups

2007-10-04 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 04.10.2007 00:30,, Ross Boylan wrote:: > On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 23:19 +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote: >> Hello, >> >> 30.09.2007 01:36,, Ross Boylan wrote:: >>> On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 13:15 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 08:46 +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hello, > >

Re: [Bacula-users] BACULA/VMWARE crashes entire system [ON-GOING PROBLEM]

2007-10-04 Thread C M Reinehr
On Thursday 04 October 2007 13:39, Scott Ruckh wrote: > This is what you said C M Reinehr > > > Scott, > > > > I'm rather late to the party, but I have an idea that this might be a RAM > > problem or, to be specific, that you are running out of RAM. I > > encountered something similar a year or two

[Bacula-users] What is "mac" table in Bacula Catalog (PostgreSQL)?

2007-10-04 Thread Hydro Meteor
Hello all -- Does anyone know what the "mac" table is in the Bacula Catalog? When I run the drop_bacula_tables (using PostgreSQL 8.1.9 for my Bacula Catalog), I receive an error about a missing table although the end of the script finishes and everything is asserted to be just fine. I guess I can

Re: [Bacula-users] Client Run Before job

2007-10-04 Thread Steve Campbell
Scott, Here I am being difficult again, but my dir, fd, sd, and MySql are all on the same box. This is not a separate host type job. I run that job once a day, and as far as I can tell, it works fine. The difference is that there a few different ways of running a script RunScript RunBeforeJob

Re: [Bacula-users] Client Run Before job

2007-10-04 Thread Scott Ruckh
This is what you said Steve Campbell > Scott, > > Here I am being difficult again, but my dir, fd, sd, and MySql are all > on the same box. Same environment I am running... > The difference is that there a few different ways of running a script > > RunScript > RunBeforeJob > ClientRunBeforeJob I

Re: [Bacula-users] BACULA/VMWARE crashes entire system [ON-GOING PROBLEM]

2007-10-04 Thread Scott Ruckh
This is what you said C M Reinehr > > Likewise, my system would hang without ever going to swap. Here's a link > with > a better explanation than I can manage: > https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/ServiceChallengeTechnicalFAQ > I have set the value to 32MB. I will monitor the change, and se

[Bacula-users] bacula and tls

2007-10-04 Thread Dave
Hello, Is anyone using tls with the latest bacula? I've installed the latest server on both FreeBSD via ports, and a CentOS 5 box, and i'm getting the same tls error, unable to load certification information on both. Thanks. Dave.

[Bacula-users] Using Bacula with many clients

2007-10-04 Thread Seth Miller
Hello all, I am in the process of switching our backup system from just rsync and tar to Bacula. I've got it running nicely in a lab with 2 Clients but having trouble planning a strategy for going live. I've got about 150 machines that need backing up. I'd prefer to use just one directo

[Bacula-users] Does the File-Daemon store temporary files?

2007-10-04 Thread Matthias Kellermann
Hi list, does the Bacula File-Daemon store temporary files on the client if I use the gzip compression? If so where can I find this temporary fileson Windows and Linux systems? Is there a max. size for the temporary storage or is it all done on-the-fly so no additional storage space is needed? M

Re: [Bacula-users] Using Bacula with many clients

2007-10-04 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 05.10.2007 06:25,, Seth Miller wrote:: > Hello all, > > I am in the process of switching our backup system from just rsync > and tar to Bacula. I've got it running nicely in a lab with 2 > Clients but having trouble planning a strategy for going live. I've > got about 150 machines tha

Re: [Bacula-users] Does the File-Daemon store temporary files?

2007-10-04 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 05.10.2007 08:36,, Matthias Kellermann wrote:: > Hi list, > > > does the Bacula File-Daemon store temporary files on the client if I use > the gzip compression? No. > If so where can I find this temporary fileson > Windows and Linux systems? Is there a max. size for the temporary > storage

Re: [Bacula-users] Using Bacula with many clients

2007-10-04 Thread John Drescher
> I am in the process of switching our backup system from just rsync > and tar to Bacula. I've got it running nicely in a lab with 2 > Clients but having trouble planning a strategy for going live. I've > got about 150 machines that need backing up. I'd prefer to use just > one director to manag