Re: [Bacula-users] Verifying run of backups - script?

2007-10-16 Thread Jason Antman
Thanks to all for the advice. I hadn't even thought of the Nagios passive check option. That sounds best for me - I'll look into it tomorrow. I haven't done anything with passive checks and freshness checking, but luckily I picked up the Nagios book - something good for bedtime reading... As to th

Re: [Bacula-users] Separate (PostgreSQL) database required for Verify Catalog?

2007-10-16 Thread John Drescher
> Hi all, > > I'm trying to set up a Verify Job configuration and noticed in the Bacula > User's Guide, which provides an example Catalog for running a Verify Job, > the following: > > Catalog { > > Name = Bacula > > dbname = verify; user = bacula; password = "" > > } > > > I believe this case is f

[Bacula-users] Separate (PostgreSQL) database required for Verify Catalog?

2007-10-16 Thread Hydro Meteor
Hi all, I'm trying to set up a Verify Job configuration and noticed in the Bacula User's Guide, which provides an example Catalog for running a Verify Job, the following: > Catalog { > Name = Bacula > dbname = verify; user = bacula; password = "" > } > > This example implies that a separate d

[Bacula-users] Configurating for Qualstar TLS

2007-10-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey folks, Anyone using a Qualstar unit with Bacula? First time user of this software and I'm working with a Qualstar TLS-412360. Any help/input would be appreciated. Mike - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc

Re: [Bacula-users] Verifying run of backups - script?

2007-10-16 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 16.10.2007 20:32,, Ryan Novosielski wrote:: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > There is also a Nagios plugin for Bacula. And to monitor if your jobs actually ran, use a "Run After Job" script to send passive check results to Nagios. The passive check should use freshness

Re: [Bacula-users] Install HowTo for Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS

2007-10-16 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 16.10.2007 18:20,, Nathan Rasch wrote:: > I apologize in advance if I'm asking this question on the wrong space No worries... it's related to Bacula, and, above all, might help other users, so... > I recently wrestled w/ Bacula and Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS for a few days > before I got everyt

Re: [Bacula-users] Verifying run of backups - script?

2007-10-16 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There is also a Nagios plugin for Bacula. Michael Short wrote: > To make sure a job ran, simply mash up a bash script (or php/python) and > run an sql query for all jobs that started on a certain day. Then you > could compile this in a single readable

Re: [Bacula-users] Verifying run of backups - script?

2007-10-16 Thread Michael Short
To make sure a job ran, simply mash up a bash script (or php/python) and run an sql query for all jobs that started on a certain day. Then you could compile this in a single readable e-mail. Then add an admin job which runs the script at a specified time every day (preferably after your backups, so

[Bacula-users] Verifying run of backups - script?

2007-10-16 Thread Jason Antman
My Bacula installation is progressing well. I was wondering - I know that Bacula can send email messages at the termination of a job, and can do this based on status of the job. However, what about if a job (or Bacula as a whole) isn't running? Does anyone have a script that can check all jobs t

[Bacula-users] Install HowTo for Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS

2007-10-16 Thread Nathan Rasch
I apologize in advance if I'm asking this question on the wrong space I recently wrestled w/ Bacula and Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS for a few days before I got everything installed and running correctly. I have kept track of what needed to be done to achieve compile and installation happiness, and I'

[Bacula-users] Verify-Job with a missing file ends in a loop ....

2007-10-16 Thread Thomas Glatthor
.. if the message-resource contains: catalog = all like this one i'm using: > Messages { > Name = VerifyJobs > mailcommand = "/sbin/bsmtp -h localhost -f \"\(Bacula\) %r\" -s \"%t %e of > %c %l\" %r" > mail = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = all > catalog = all > } what i have done: after an InitCat

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Restore Jobs?

2007-10-16 Thread Janco van der Merwe
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 08:34 -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > On 16 Oct 2007 at 12:59, Janco van der Merwe wrote: > > > OK I read the thread and it gave me basically what I thought I had to > > do but I'm not to keen putting the Restore Job in a RunAfterJob script > > I was hoping that there was an alt

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Restore Jobs?

2007-10-16 Thread Dan Langille
On 16 Oct 2007 at 12:59, Janco van der Merwe wrote: > OK I read the thread and it gave me basically what I thought I had to > do but I'm not to keen putting the Restore Job in a RunAfterJob script > I was hoping that there was an alternative way of doing this. The > rsync might work but I'm not to

[Bacula-users] Chaining Jobs (Main Backup + Verify + Catalog)

2007-10-16 Thread Hydro Meteor
Hello all -- I have been reading through the excellent Chapter 45 of the Bacula User's Guide: Using Bacula to Improve Computer Security. This chapter is quite clear regarding how to manually initialize the Catalog in a verify context. In the examples given, I noticed that the Verify Job Resource d

Re: [Bacula-users] SQL errors after upgrading to 2.2.5

2007-10-16 Thread Frank Sweetser
Silver Salonen wrote: > Hello! > > I use Bacula on FreeBSD-6.1. I upgraded dir and sd from 2.2.4 to 2.2.5 on > 12th > of oct. Now some of the jobs contain SQL errors: > > 15-Oct 23:06 backup-dir JobId 12440: Warning: SQL failed, but ignored. > ERR=Query failed: SELECT MAX(MediaId) FROM Media,P

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Restore Jobs?

2007-10-16 Thread Janco van der Merwe
OK I read the thread and it gave me basically what I thought I had to do but I'm not to keen putting the Restore Job in a RunAfterJob script I was hoping that there was an alternative way of doing this. The rsync might work but I'm not to sure how it'll work if an entire system is backed up and res

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Restore Jobs?

2007-10-16 Thread Janco van der Merwe
Thank you Vik On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 12:26 +0200, Viktor Radnai wrote: > Scheduled restore jobs without intervention - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. N

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Restore Jobs?

2007-10-16 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi Janco, I asked this exact question a couple of weeks ago. Look for a thread titled "Scheduled restore jobs without intervention" in the archives. I have yet to try the method suggested there, but it looks usable. Dear all, if a number of people have this idea about contingency building using s

[Bacula-users] Re : Error c:317 Volume data error - Restore Windows NT

2007-10-16 Thread marwin bobinson
Seems OK with Bacula V. 2.5.5. >From: "marwin bobinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [Bacula-users] Error c:317 Volume data error - Restore > Windows NT > >Hello, > >I'm using Bacula 2.0.3 (Dir / SD / FD ) run on a Windows NT 4.0 Sp6 Fr >Server and the volumes (more than 50 Go) are on an

[Bacula-users] Automatic Restore Jobs?

2007-10-16 Thread Janco van der Merwe
Hi, Can you configure Bacula to do automatic restores? What I have in mind is making a complete system backup of a machine, say every hour, and then restoring the backup to another machine after the backup job has completed, is something like this possible, can it be automated?