Re: [Bacula-users] Retention periods

2009-04-02 Thread Ronald Buder
Am Thursday 02 April 2009 22:13:41 schrieb John Drescher: > > File Retention = 30 days > > Job Retention = 6 months > > Volume Retention = 1 year > > Fine. After 30 days you will either only be able to do a full restore > or have to use bscan before restoring. Correct. > > > Then am I correct in

Re: [Bacula-users] minimum volume retention period

2009-04-02 Thread morty
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 09:25:55PM +0200, Julien Cigar wrote: > > 1 may 0:00 am : Full backup -> volume "Full-0001" > > 1 may 8:00 pm : Incremental backup -> volume "Incr-0001" > > 2 may 8:00 pm : Incremental backup -> volume "Incr-0002" > > 3 may 8:00 pm : Incremental backup -> volume "Incr-0003"

Re: [Bacula-users] don't compress files only in my PC [was: Re: bacula not use all bandwidth of network]

2009-04-02 Thread morty
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 06:11:16PM -0400, Victor Hugo dos Santos wrote: > is true that bacula don't compress encrypted files or data ?? > and in positive case, why ??? Compression works by reducing redundancy in low-entropy data (e.g. eliminating patterns in data with patterns.) Good encryption

[Bacula-users] invalid catalog request again

2009-04-02 Thread Jeff Dickens
I just finished a dbcheck, which found no major problems, and then I ran this job, which failed as follows: Where it says "could not open: /bacula/marie3/marie3-diff-0616, ERR=No such file or directory" that file does exist. It's 955MB. Lots of other jobs are working fine, but this one keeps

Re: [Bacula-users] don't compress files only in my PC [was: Re: bacula not use all bandwidth of network]

2009-04-02 Thread Victor Hugo dos Santos
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Victor Hugo dos Santos wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Victor Hugo dos Santos > wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Thomas Glatthor >> wrote: >>> >> >> [...] >>   Software Compression:   88.1 % >>> >>> have you ever tried without compressio

Re: [Bacula-users] minimum volume retention period

2009-04-02 Thread Julien Cigar
Sorry to insist .. but no one on this ? is it an error in the Bacula manual ? thanks On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 12:40 +0200, Julien Cigar wrote: > Hello, > > In the Bacula manual I read that : > > "However, one must keep in mind that if your Volume Retention period is > too short, it may prune the l

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention periods

2009-04-02 Thread John Drescher
> File Retention = 30 days > Job Retention = 6 months > Volume Retention = 1 year > Fine. After 30 days you will either only be able to do a full restore or have to use bscan before restoring. > > Then am I correct in thinking that when I back up my catalog, I should only > keep it for 6 months? M

[Bacula-users] Retention periods

2009-04-02 Thread Ian Allison
Hi, If I have the following retention settings File Retention = 30 days Job Retention = 6 months Volume Retention = 1 year Then am I correct in thinking that when I back up my catalog, I should only keep it for 6 months? My thinking being that the catalog itself contains 6 months of Job records

Re: [Bacula-users] phantom filesystems in Windows

2009-04-02 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Kevin Keane wrote: > This actually is correct behavior. If you look carefully, you will see > that these two directories are actually not directories at all, but > rather junction points that simply reference other directories somewhere > else. Windows junction poi

Re: [Bacula-users] phantom filesystems in Windows

2009-04-02 Thread Kevin Keane
This actually is correct behavior. If you look carefully, you will see that these two directories are actually not directories at all, but rather junction points that simply reference other directories somewhere else. Windows junction points are like a cross between Linux symlinks and Linux mou

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup on 3 different USB HDD

2009-04-02 Thread Dan Langille
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Malanki wrote: > Dan Langille wrote: > Malanki wrote: Hello everyone ! I am a novice with Bacula. Here is my problem : -I would like to make some backup on three usb disks. -The main problem is to always have a backup out

[Bacula-users] phantom filesystems in Windows

2009-04-02 Thread w . braun
Hello everyone! Since several weeks we have a problem on a Windows terminal server. Bacula reports on two directories, namely c:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_32/System.EnterpriseServices/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a and c:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/IEExecRemote/2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a, that each of them "

[Bacula-users] Bacula and ACL over LDAP directory

2009-04-02 Thread Reynier Perez Mira
Hi every: I'm trying to install Bacula as a service for a DataCenter. For now I have at least 144 clients and I need some security levels. Can Bacula works with ACL based on a LDAP directory? I mean for example if a user want to use the Bacula Service, can the client use the LDAP user account wi

Re: [Bacula-users] Determine total backup size by client or job

2009-04-02 Thread Ulrich Leodolter
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 09:57 -0700, Neil Hodge wrote: > All: > > I am backing up using bacula 2.2.7 under opensuse 11.0, with the > "volumes" being 10GB files on a raid array. > > My setup is now full, with some pretty short recycling times. Before > I go and buy more drives, I was wondering if

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup on 3 different USB HDD

2009-04-02 Thread Massimo Schenone
1) setup automount of the usb disk on the mountpoint /media/usbdisk 2) always backup to /media/usbdisk 3) add the right number of volumes (I use 5GB size) to fill 3 disks 4) volume retention is 3 months 5) at the end of the month I update last used volume status to Used (it was Append) before umo

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup on 3 different USB HDD

2009-04-02 Thread Malanki
Thank you for your answer. I think i will apply your solution. I will make bacula do its backup on the data server. In that way bacula backups will be included in the server backup on USB disks. I'll do one full backup a month, the first week end, and incremental every other days, for all client c

[Bacula-users] minimum volume retention period

2009-04-02 Thread Julien Cigar
Hello, In the Bacula manual I read that : "However, one must keep in mind that if your Volume Retention period is too short, it may prune the last valid Full backup, and hence until the next Full backup is done, you will not have a complete backup of your system, and in addition, the next Increme

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup on 3 different USB HDD

2009-04-02 Thread Dan Langille
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Malanki wrote: > Hello everyone ! > > I am a novice with Bacula. > Here is my problem : > -I would like to make some backup on three usb disks. > -The main problem is to always have a backup out of the company > -The usb disk can be changed by my cus

[Bacula-users] Backup on 3 different USB HDD

2009-04-02 Thread Malanki
Hello everyone ! I am a novice with Bacula. Here is my problem : -I would like to make some backup on three usb disks. -The main problem is to always have a backup out of the company -The usb disk can be changed by my customer whenever he wants (or just when he think about it :) ) -Consequently,

[Bacula-users] Bacula intervention needed : Cannot find any appendable volumes

2009-04-02 Thread David Causse
Hi, We received this night a mail from bacula saying : 02-avr 00:41 potiron-sd JobId 719: Job backupBDD.2009-04-02_00.30.22 waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes. Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for: Storage: "Drive-1" (/dev/nst0) Pool: Historique