Re: [Bacula-users] Perception of Bacula (was: products based on bacula)

2009-02-18 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, 18.02.2009 00:28, Mag Gam wrote: Interesting problem. I was the one who started the previous thread about the naming. Ah, nice to see you're still with us here :-) When I'm talking with the management of a potential customer, I neither use the tag line, nor do we read over the

Re: [Bacula-users] verify job with differences doesn't finish and blocks storage

2009-02-18 Thread Ralf Gross
Ralf Gross said: lately I've seen that verify jobs that have differences just doesn't finish. bacula 2.4.4-b1, psql *st dir [...] Running Jobs: JobId Level Name Status == 9602 VolumeT

[Bacula-users] Scheduling resource solution.

2009-02-18 Thread Juris Krumins
Hello. I'm looking for the way how to configure schedule resource, that feet my needs. What I need is to run 4 Jobs for client. Each Job have to be executed once in 4 weeks starting from sun-sat. Sunday backup level have to bee Full following by incremental starting from mon-sat. So for example:

Re: [Bacula-users] Very selective backup set

2009-02-18 Thread Tom Sommer
Allan Black wrote: Tom Sommer wrote: Takes backup of all files in /usr/local/example/, and of all *.xml files in /example01/, /example02/ and /example03/ - recursively (the .xml files are in random subfolders within the example folders, along with a lot of other files which I don't

Re: [Bacula-users] Offsite backup solution

2009-02-18 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 18.02.2009 04:46, Jeff Dickens wrote: It was a couple of years ago I first brought this up. I guess you and I are the only one who would find a cross-sd migration/copy useful. I doubt that... I'd definitely find this interesting and some of my customers would probably like to use that

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-fd starts and then crash (leaving an empty file in /var/lock/subsys/bacula-fd)

2009-02-18 Thread Thomas Manson
Hi John This machine is backuped up by a SSH tunnul. When Director backup this client, it creates a ssh tunnel, with the needed port tunneling. This configuration works on another machine prefectly. See this howto : http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=sshtunnel Just to give a try, I did

Re: [Bacula-users] verify job with differences doesn't finish and blocks storage

2009-02-18 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 18.02.2009 09:36, Ralf Gross wrote: Ralf Gross said: lately I've seen that verify jobs that have differences just doesn't finish. bacula 2.4.4-b1, psql *st dir ... This is starting to be annoying because the volumes are then locked until I cancel thee job. 24h later I tried to

[Bacula-users] To recycle or not to recycle

2009-02-18 Thread Sven Hendriks
Dear Bacula users, I'm looking for an advice for my backup setup. The basic question is if I should use the recycle feature or not. Basically the setup is as follows: 1. The storage daemon writes to file volumes named hostname(full|incr) into a directory /somewhat/backups 2. These files

Re: [Bacula-users] client-side data encryption without routine access to private key

2009-02-18 Thread Martin Simmons
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:44:04 + (GMT), Tom Yates said: Would you know if I can disable signing in the configuration, or must I recompile; and if the latter, is it a config option or will I need to mess with the source myself? You would need to modify the source. __Martin

Re: [Bacula-users] client-side data encryption without routine access to private key

2009-02-18 Thread Martin Simmons
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:24:02 -0800, Landon Fuller said: The private key is needed during backup if you use PKI Signatures. Right. Currently, enabling PKI encryption also enables signing, but the encryption implementation does not require this, and the private key is not necessary for

Re: [Bacula-users] What to do when system stops during a backupprocedure?

2009-02-18 Thread Luis Marcelo Achite
Fahrer, Julian wrote: You could say run from bconsole and select the jobs you want to run This doesnt work. A new backup begin (with a new jobid). What I want is continue with the backup started before the system stoped. Notice that my full backup allocates 5 tapes. What to do if something

[Bacula-users] Bacula restore cd [2: kernel panic]

2009-02-18 Thread Martin Spinassi
Hi list! Well, I managed to get an iso image for a bacula restore cdrom. Following the instructions at the manual I did it making an static bacula-fd: cd bacula-source ./configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --sbindir=/usr/sbin \ --sysconfdir=/etc/bacula \ --with-scriptdir=/etc/bacula \

[Bacula-users] Notification: Database format change to be committed to the SVN

2009-02-18 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, This is to warn those of you who regularly update your version from the SVN that in the next few days (probably tonigh), we will be applying a patch to the source code in the development versions of the SVN that will change the format of the database. If do not update your source code,

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-fd starts and then crash (leaving an empty file in /var/lock/subsys/bacula-fd)

2009-02-18 Thread Thomas Manson
Hi John, I've extracted the command executed by the init.d/bacula-fd script which is (without daemon) and it ouputs nothing : [r...@dell1 temp]# /usr/sbin/bacula-fd -u root -g bacula -c /etc/bacula/bacula-fd.conf [r...@dell1 temp]# echo $? 0 [r...@dell1 temp]# It doesn't seem to have

Re: [Bacula-users] Warning for intervention, but writes backup fine

2009-02-18 Thread Thiago Simoes
I got a similar issue in the past. My schedule are setted to start at 23:05 but the jobs are actualy starts after midnight. I was using the option Volume Use Duration to 23 hours. So when the backup actually starts it was on the 23 hours period yet and he try to use the yesterday volume because

[Bacula-users] Incremental backups of older data

2009-02-18 Thread Sebastian Stark
For special data we have a backup scheme that does not really fit bacula's idea of incremental backups: There is a directory, say /archive, that is empty by default. If something needs to be backed up by bacula, it is copied (or moved) into this directory. Then the backup job is started

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-fd starts and then crash (leaving an empty file in /var/lock/subsys/bacula-fd)

2009-02-18 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Thomas Manson dev.mansontho...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, I've extracted the command executed by the init.d/bacula-fd script which is (without daemon) and it ouputs nothing : [r...@dell1 temp]# /usr/sbin/bacula-fd -u root -g bacula -c

Re: [Bacula-users] How to recover volumes put into error state

2009-02-18 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Win Htin win.h...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Is there a way to recover a volume that was put into error status? This happened to two volumes, each from different pool in my production environment. If the tapes are not physically damaged you can recover by:

Re: [Bacula-users] What to do when system stops during a backupprocedure?

2009-02-18 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Luis Marcelo Achite lmach...@dir.iai.int wrote: Fahrer, Julian wrote: You could say run from bconsole and select the jobs you want to run This doesnt work. A new backup begin (with a new jobid). What I want is continue with the backup started before the system

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-fd starts and then crash (leaving an empty file in /var/lock/subsys/bacula-fd)

2009-02-18 Thread Thomas Manson
bacula-fd: filed_conf.c:438-0 Inserting director res: machine.FQDN-mon 18-Feb 15:10 machine.FQDN-fd: ERROR TERMINATION at bsys.c:508 Could not open pid file. /var/run/bacula/bacula-fd.9102.pid ERR=No such file or directory :o))) the rpm did not create that directory. I've created it and now it

Re: [Bacula-users] How to recover volumes put into error state

2009-02-18 Thread Win Htin
Thanks John. I have done that before but still haven't seen those volumes re-used hence am not sure if setting status back to append is all that is required. Does Bacula put a new EOD or something like that at the last position data was written? Win On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:04 AM, John Drescher

Re: [Bacula-users] How to recover volumes put into error state

2009-02-18 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Win Htin win.h...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks John. I have done that before but still haven't seen those volumes re-used hence am not sure if setting status back to append is all that is required. Does Bacula put a new EOD or something like that at the last

[Bacula-users] Bacula autochanger uses only 1 drive on 2

2009-02-18 Thread bluesman
Hi All, I'm having a non-critical problem with Bacula in my production environment. I have 2 DELL TL-4000 libraries with 2 drives each. For each library on the Storage daemon I defined the 2 resources for the drives and 1 for the changer:

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula autochanger uses only 1 drive on 2

2009-02-18 Thread John Drescher
Hi All, I'm having a non-critical problem with Bacula in my production environment. I have 2 DELL TL-4000 libraries with 2 drives each. For each library on the Storage daemon I defined the 2 resources for the drives and 1 for the changer:

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula autochanger uses only 1 drive on 2

2009-02-18 Thread John Drescher
Hi John, Thanks for the reply. Obviously 1 backup use 1 drive, I know this. The problem is that I run 16 backup jobs (4 of them run simultaneously and the other ones stay in queue), and all of them run on the same drive Are they all going to the same pool? John

[Bacula-users] Difference between 'client' and 'clients' in bconsole

2009-02-18 Thread Foo
Just in case someone runs into this too: Added a bunch of clients to the bacula-dir.conf (containing Client {} stanzas with Name, Address, FDPort, Catalog, Password etc. directives), but not yet all the other associated stuff like Storage/Pool/Job/Fileset/Schedule definitions for them, then

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula autochanger uses only 1 drive on 2

2009-02-18 Thread Diego Roccia
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:56:16 -0500 John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, Thanks for the reply. Obviously 1 backup use 1 drive, I know this. The problem is that I run 16 backup jobs (4 of them run simultaneously and the other ones stay in queue), and all of them run on the

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula autochanger uses only 1 drive on 2

2009-02-18 Thread Michael Galloway
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 04:45:31PM +0100, Diego Roccia wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:56:16 -0500 John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, Thanks for the reply. Obviously 1 backup use 1 drive, I know this. The problem is that I run 16 backup jobs (4 of them run

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula autochanger uses only 1 drive on 2

2009-02-18 Thread John Kloss
On Feb 18, 2009, at 9:20 AM, blues...@bluesman.it wrote: On the director I configured only the changer resource: -- Storage { Name = DELL-TL4000 Address = 10.1.5.109 SDPort = 9103 Password =

Re: [Bacula-users] How to recover volumes put into error state

2009-02-18 Thread Win Htin
The update status from error to append failed. Took the tapes out of the library, checked physically and put it back in the slots, updated the slots and still not working. Tried the CLI mt -f /dev/nstX eod command on both tapes from each drive but that also failed with input output error message.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula autochanger uses only 1 drive on 2

2009-02-18 Thread Diego Roccia
Michael Galloway wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 04:45:31PM +0100, Diego Roccia wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:56:16 -0500 John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, Thanks for the reply. Obviously 1 backup use 1 drive, I know this. The problem is that I run 16 backup jobs

Re: [Bacula-users] Finding performance issues

2009-02-18 Thread (private) HKS
Thanks for all the responses. This has led me to a partial answer. John's suggested tests yielded surprisingly high numbers. One thing led to another, and I finally found that turning off compression increased most clients' performance by a factor of 10. I must have done something wrong when I

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula autochanger uses only 1 drive on 2

2009-02-18 Thread Michael Galloway
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 03:20:51PM +0100, blues...@bluesman.it wrote: Hi All, I'm having a non-critical problem with Bacula in my production environment. I have 2 DELL TL-4000 libraries with 2 drives each. For each library on the Storage daemon I defined the 2 resources for the

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula autochanger uses only 1 drive on 2

2009-02-18 Thread John Drescher
maybe try something like this, this is how i have storage configured in my director config: # Definition of DDS tape storage device Storage { Name = HP4048 SDPort = 9103 Media Type = LTO-4 # must be same as MediaType in Storage daemon Autochanger = yes

Re: [Bacula-users] FreeBSD Bare Metal Recovery

2009-02-18 Thread Doug Sampson
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:34:16 -0800, Doug Sampson said: I poked around some more. I discovered the 'ldd' command which shows the libraries used/required by bacula-fd as follows: r...@pisces:/root# ldd /usr/local/sbin/bacula-fd /usr/local/sbin/bacula-fd: libz.so.4 =

[Bacula-users] Problems with BSCAN

2009-02-18 Thread postfix
Dear my friends, I need your help ! I have problems with bscan, I need restore files from a volume of 2 months ago. When I run the bscan shows the error message below : interno:/backup/rosangela# bscan -s -m -c bacula-sd.conf -v -V Vol-rosangela-full-dados0006 rosangela-dev bscan: butil.c:282

Re: [Bacula-users] client-side data encryption without routine access to private key

2009-02-18 Thread Landon Fuller
On Feb 18, 2009, at 3:26 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:24:02 -0800, Landon Fuller said: The private key is needed during backup if you use PKI Signatures. Right. Currently, enabling PKI encryption also enables signing, but the encryption implementation does not require

Re: [Bacula-users] FreeBSD Bare Metal Recovery

2009-02-18 Thread Michael Reifenberger
Hi, those running FreeBSD 8-current could take a look into ~src/tools/tools/nanobsd/rescue This will build a bootable .iso I386/AMD64 image with TMPFS mounted /tmp and MDMFS mounted /etc and /var which is intended as a starting point for rescue activities like a bacua client... Comments and

[Bacula-users] Notification: Database format change to be committed to the SVN

2009-02-18 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, The code for the database format change, which I mentioned in my previous email today, is now committed to the SVN. Bacula can now (by default) keep track of more than 4 billion File records! :-) Best regards, Kern

Re: [Bacula-users] FreeBSD Bare Metal Recovery

2009-02-18 Thread Pieter (NL)
Doug Sampson wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:34:16 -0800, Doug Sampson said: I poked around some more. I discovered the 'ldd' command which shows the libraries used/required by bacula-fd as follows: r...@pisces:/root# ldd /usr/local/sbin/bacula-fd /usr/local/sbin/bacula-fd:

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with BSCAN

2009-02-18 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 18.02.2009 18:34, post...@bertholino.com.br wrote: Dear my friends, I need your help ! I have problems with bscan, I need restore files from a volume of 2 months ago. When I run the bscan shows the error message below : interno:/backup/rosangela# bscan -s -m -c bacula-sd.conf -v -V

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs not completing, but not erroring?

2009-02-18 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mingus Dew wrote: Hi all, Been using Bacula 2.4.2 on Solaris 10_x86 for almost 2 years now. Recently tape backups have been entering into a state that I can only describe as limbo. If I check the status of the director, I may see something

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs not completing, but not erroring?

2009-02-18 Thread Mingus Dew
Sorry. I forgot to mention MySQL 4. Its still responding. I've tested it while the jobs were hung. Also, if I cancel the hung job, the next tape job in queue starts and completes just fine. -Shon On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Ryan Novosielski novos...@umdnj.eduwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: [Bacula-users] Thank you!

2009-02-18 Thread Chad Walstrom
Joel Staker jsta...@ci.watsonville.ca.us wrote: We cancelled our Arcserve support agreement in December and it looks like moving to Bacula has given us a more stable system with a total 3 year savings of around 45K! We've had Bacula 2.2.8 in production since October, and in the last month, I