[Bacula-users] Issue with conncurrent jobs

2007-11-30 Thread Blake Dunlap
I seem to be having some scheduling quirks on my director right now. It doesn't seem to be correctly queuing new jobs to the store as they drop off. I am currently waiting on the last running job on the store to finish to see if it even correctly adds more jobs once that does drop. Example: Ru

Re: [Bacula-users] 2.2.6 clients on 2.2.5 server?

2007-11-30 Thread Shon Stephens
Michael, I am running a 2.2.5 server and using the 2.2.6 Win-32 fd. I am able to do estimates, backups, and restores without issue. -Shon On Nov 30, 2007 9:56 AM, Michael Galloway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i have version 2.2.5 server up and running, any reason to not use 2.2.6clients > w

Re: [Bacula-users] 2.2.6 clients on 2.2.5 server?

2007-11-30 Thread Michael Short
You should be fine, I'm still running my 2.0.3 clients perfectly with my 2.2.5 director/storage. -Michael - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data cen

[Bacula-users] Varying job start times to accommodate laptop users

2007-11-30 Thread David Legg
If I've got users who quite rightly don't leave their machines on all night what's the best way to configure Bacula to vary the start times according to when it sees a machine pop up on the network? I'm guessing that I should use something like the following bacula-dir.conf settings: - Directo

Re: [Bacula-users] Win32 client cannot connect to storage daemon

2007-11-30 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 First telnet to the server on the port you want (ie. telnet host 9101) to see what it does. Connection refused is usually that the daemon is not running, and a timeout is usually a firewall. There are of course exceptions to this rule as it is up to th

Re: [Bacula-users] Forward Progress

2007-11-30 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shon Stephens wrote: > After a holiday hiatus and some soul-searching (aka curling up w/ the > Bacula manual) I was able to make some significant progress > > I couldn't figure out what caused the initial missing catalog data. > Since I had recen

Re: [Bacula-users] Experiences compiling bat on Solaris 10 x86

2007-11-30 Thread Aaron Wilson
I had an email conversation once with the Blastwave bacula maintainer. He had no problems building bat for Solaris, but he was basically unable to do so until someone did a pkg for qt4. Ryan Novosielski wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shon Stephens wrote: Bu

Re: [Bacula-users] Win32 client cannot connect to storage daemon

2007-11-30 Thread Jason A. Kates
Edavison is getting "Connection reset by peer" errors which should be looked at as a firewall (iptables with linux) issue. -Jason On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 16:07 -0500, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > First telnet to the server on

Re: [Bacula-users] Win32 client cannot connect to storage daemon

2007-11-30 Thread Jason A. Kates
On your Ubuntu server I would suggest turning off iptables to see if that fixes the issue. If turning off iptables is the fix you just need to update iptables to open up port 9103 and port 9101. -Jason On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 12:42 -0800, edavison wrote: > I have bacula se

[Bacula-users] Win32 client cannot connect to storage daemon

2007-11-30 Thread edavison
I have bacula server (version 2.2.5) install on Ubuntu server 7.1. I have the win32 client (version 2.2.5) installed on Windows 2000 Server. bconsole on the linux box can connect to the client just fine and I can estimate the job and it lists the proper files. When I try to run a backup I get t

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Windows XP client: dir/file names with spec. chars (unicode?)

2007-11-30 Thread Sebastian
Thanks for the hint, you are totally right: I am logging in via putty. In the putty-options --> window --> translation --> UTF-8 and there are no more problems with umlauts. Sebastian Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hello, > > 30.11.2007 19:56,, Sebastian wrote:: > >> Hi, >> >> if I want to backup e.g.

Re: [Bacula-users] Experiences compiling bat on Solaris 10 x86

2007-11-30 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shon Stephens wrote: > Busy day. I really like the screenshots of bat on the wiki and though > I'm more a cli person, its a requirement of the project to have some > kind of gui for at least reporting. I'd like to give bat a try and > wanted to find ou

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Windows XP client: dir/file names with spec. chars (unicode?)

2007-11-30 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, 30.11.2007 19:56,, Sebastian wrote:: > Hi, > > if I want to backup e.g. "C:\Dokumente und > Einstellungen\--user--\Startmenü", I have to write > File = "C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/--user--/Startmenü" to my > FileSet-resource. > > works fine for me, it is probably an charset issue, an

Re: [Bacula-users] trouble with marking a job finished

2007-11-30 Thread Ken Dail
On Nov 29, 2007, at 7:26 AM, John Drescher wrote: > On Nov 29, 2007 9:20 AM, Ken Dail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm having trouble with a particular backup. >> >> I have about 20 clients backing up to one director, and they all work >> great except in one particular case. >> >> Full backups o

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Windows XP client: dir/file names with spec. chars (unicode?)

2007-11-30 Thread Sebastian
Hi, if I want to backup e.g. "C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\--user--\Startmenü", I have to write File = "C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/--user--/Startmenü" to my FileSet-resource. works fine for me, it is probably an charset issue, and afaik it is not documented in the manual. greets, Sebastian

Re: [Bacula-users] Data restore from tape: Last minute confirmation before going production

2007-11-30 Thread Win Htin
Again, thanks so much for the input folks. This gives me full confidence to face the auditors and say "Bacula maybe free but is on a par with the proprietary enterprise backup solutions". Cheers, Win On Nov 30, 2007 12:38 PM, John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just want to stress a

Re: [Bacula-users] Data restore from tape: Last minute confirmation before going production

2007-11-30 Thread John Drescher
> I just want to stress a point that John mentioned - the catalog data for a > given volume is never absolutely *required* to recover data from a volume. It > is just a huge convenience factor. When the worst case scenario happens, > though, and all you have to rebuild your infrastructure is a b

Re: [Bacula-users] Data restore from tape: Last minute confirmation before going production

2007-11-30 Thread Flak Magnet
On Friday 30 November 2007 11:27:46 am Win Htin wrote: > My understanding is, if I NEVER re-cycle an off-site tape, by using the > "bscan" command, I should be able to restore data from a given volume (from > off-site) even after "Volume Retention" period had expired. e.g. 3 years > down the road

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Volume Size exceeded Error

2007-11-30 Thread Flak Magnet
I don't use disk-based backups, but I have read a couple of times how file-based volumes aren't truncated or over-written when new data is written to them. As I don't use disk-based backups, I can't get into specifics, but I believe that if you: 2. Create a labeling schema that will create a

Re: [Bacula-users] Data restore from tape: Last minute confirmation before going production

2007-11-30 Thread Frank Sweetser
Win Htin wrote: > Hi folks, > > For all my backup volumes I have set the following: > > File Retention:60 days > Job Retention:6 months > Volume Retention: 365 days > > I have read and re-read the file restore section many times but would > like to have an indepen

Re: [Bacula-users] Data restore from tape: Last minute confirmation before going production

2007-11-30 Thread John Drescher
> Thanks for the input John. That will make me sleep easy this weekend :-) > > Another question though. If I ever have to do the "bscan" command, will it > overwrite the current information inside the database tables? What will be > the best approach? > Although I have only used bscan once in 4.5 y

Re: [Bacula-users] Data restore from tape: Last minute confirmation before going production

2007-11-30 Thread Win Htin
Thanks for the input John. That will make me sleep easy this weekend :-) Another question though. If I ever have to do the "bscan" command, will it overwrite the current information inside the database tables? What will be the best approach? Thanks. Win On Nov 30, 2007 11:36 AM, John Drescher

Re: [Bacula-users] Data restore from tape: Last minute confirmation before going production

2007-11-30 Thread John Drescher
On Nov 30, 2007 11:27 AM, Win Htin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > For all my backup volumes I have set the following: > > File Retention:60 days > Job Retention:6 months > Volume Retention: 365 days > > I have read and re-read the file restore section man

[Bacula-users] Data restore from tape: Last minute confirmation before going production

2007-11-30 Thread Win Htin
Hi folks, For all my backup volumes I have set the following: File Retention:60 days Job Retention:6 months Volume Retention: 365 days I have read and re-read the file restore section many times but would like to have an independent confirmation. My understanding

[Bacula-users] auto labeling with python

2007-11-30 Thread Jason Joines
I'm using Bacula 2.2.5 and have tried auto labeling with LabelFormat but haven't had much luck. I don't know python but since LabelFormat is deprecated I thought I'd go ahead and give it a try. My goal is to get volume names ( and the corresponding file name on disk, I'm backing up to di

Re: [Bacula-users] Job hangs at end of run - Fatal error: job.c

2007-11-30 Thread Damian Brasher
Martin Simmons wrote: > > I would do it by running gdb and then issuing the attach command with the pid > of the bacula-dir/sd/fd that was started by service. > > I'll let the system run as I have set out in previous post, last night's run was without error...

[Bacula-users] 2.2.6 clients on 2.2.5 server?

2007-11-30 Thread Michael Galloway
i have version 2.2.5 server up and running, any reason to not use 2.2.6 clients with 2.2.5 server? -- michael - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula, Tape and Spool

2007-11-30 Thread John Drescher
On Nov 30, 2007 8:41 AM, Flavio Junior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did it.. > All process that would use /dev/st0 or /dev/nst0 is stopped... > > fuser /dev/st0 and fuser /dev/nst0 returns nothing.. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lsof | grep st0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# fuser /dev/st0 > [EMAIL PROTEC

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Bacula, Tape and Spool

2007-11-30 Thread John Drescher
On Nov 30, 2007 8:35 AM, Flavio Junior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks... > > I was trying to perform that recommended tests, but i'm getting an > error, follow: > > translating: > dd: escrevendo `/dev/nst0': Dispositivo ou recurso está ocupado > == > dd: writing to '/dev/nst0': Device or re

Re: [Bacula-users] Job hangs at end of run - Fatal error: job.c

2007-11-30 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 22:41:54 +, Damian Brasher said: > > Martin Simmons wrote: > > Is it still transfering any data or does it just stop dead? If the data > > transfer rate you see is the average then it could be the latter. > > > Looks like no data is transferred after the last file

[Bacula-users] Run Script for Restore Job

2007-11-30 Thread Michael Jürgens
Hi, how can I start a script after or before a restore job. It seems that bacula completely ignores the RunScript directive in the job definition. regards, Michael - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Busine

Re: [Bacula-users] All the problems with Bacula

2007-11-30 Thread Rich
On 2007.11.29. 23:53, John Stoffel wrote: >> "mark" == mark bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > mark> => I've got a plan to sit down and sketch out more consistent and clear > mark> => set of commands for manipulating bacula from the command line. > Anyone > mark> => else like the 'bcli'