Re: [Bacula-users] Retention periods

2009-04-03 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 thinking

[Bacula-users] Stalled jobs

2009-04-03 Thread Ronald Buder
Hi list, we've been running a rather large enviroment for some time now and have had plenty of fun with Bacula. However, lately, as the load keeps going up, we see some problems again. The most annoying things at the moment are stalled (?) jobs. The logs say that backup is done. We've been

Re: [Bacula-users] minimum volume retention period

2009-04-03 Thread Julien Cigar
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 20:52 -0400, mo...@frakir.org wrote: 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

Re: [Bacula-users] invalid catalog request again

2009-04-03 Thread Kevin Keane
Is there possibly something wrong with the permissions on that file, or the /bacula/marie3 directory? Maybe it is only writable by root, not the user that the bacula-sd is running as? Jeff Dickens wrote: I just finished a dbcheck, which found no major problems, and then I ran this job, which

Re: [Bacula-users] phantom filesystems in Windows

2009-04-03 Thread Foo
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:57:32 +0200, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Kevin Keane subscript...@kkeane.com wrote: This actually is correct behavior. If you look carefully, you will see that these two directories are actually not directories at all,

[Bacula-users] Tape vs disc volumes

2009-04-03 Thread Mike Ruskai
When a tape volume is recycled, the contents are lost. Is the same true for a disc volume? Is the whole file truncated, or does it just start from the beginning, and only destroy the contents it actually overwrites?

Re: [Bacula-users] Stalled jobs

2009-04-03 Thread Ronald Buder
Am Friday 03 April 2009 08:29:42 schrieb Ronald Buder: Hi list, Sorry, I forgot to add some of the most important information: We're running a 2.4.4 environment. The server is a Debian Etch, the DB a Postgres 8.1 We've been wanting to run a dist-upgrade to Lenny but haven't really found the

Re: [Bacula-users] invalid catalog request again

2009-04-03 Thread Kevin Keane
Is there possibly something wrong with the permissions on that file, or the /bacula/marie3 directory? Maybe it is only writable by root, not the user that the bacula-sd is running as? Jeff Dickens wrote: I just finished a dbcheck, which found no major problems, and then I ran this job, which

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape vs disc volumes

2009-04-03 Thread Ralf Gross
Mike Ruskai schrieb: When a tape volume is recycled, the contents are lost. Is the same true for a disc volume? Is the whole file truncated, or does it just start from the beginning, and only destroy the contents it actually overwrites? bacula always recycles the whole volume, no matter if

Re: [Bacula-users] Stalled jobs

2009-04-03 Thread Ronald Buder
Am Friday 03 April 2009 12:42:37 schrieb terryc: Ronald Buder wrote: Am Friday 03 April 2009 08:29:42 schrieb Ronald Buder: Hi list, Sorry, I forgot to add some of the most important information: We're running a 2.4.4 environment. The server is a Debian Etch, the DB a Postgres

[Bacula-users] StorEdge C2 autochanger not working

2009-04-03 Thread b5b5b5b5
I have a problem running an AUTOCHANGER as a part of backup system. Tape is: Product Type: Tape Drive Vendor ID: 'HP' Product ID: 'Ultrium 3-SCSI' Revision: 'G36Z' and everything else looks like to work fine, except of the autochanger: Product Type: Medium

Re: [Bacula-users] StorEdge C2 autochanger not working

2009-04-03 Thread Massimo Schenone
This is my configuration on Solaris 10: Autochanger { Name = SunSTK-C2 Device = Drive-0 Changer Command = /etc/bacula/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d Changer Device = /dev/scsi/changer/c3t4d1 } Device { Name = Drive-0 Description = HP Ultrium LTO 3 Media Type = LTO3 Archive Device =

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

2009-04-03 Thread Victor Hugo dos Santos
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:30 PM, mo...@frakir.org wrote: 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.

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape vs disc volumes

2009-04-03 Thread Josh Fisher
Mike Ruskai wrote: When a tape volume is recycled, the contents are lost. Is the same true for a disc volume? Is the whole file truncated, or does it just start from the beginning, and only destroy the contents it actually overwrites? I don't believe the volume file is changed at all

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Retention periods

2009-04-03 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Ronald Buder rbu...@proficom-ag.de wrote: 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

Re: [Bacula-users] invalid catalog request again

2009-04-03 Thread Jeff Dickens
Kevin Keane wrote: Is there possibly something wrong with the permissions on that file, or the /bacula/marie3 directory? Maybe it is only writable by root, not the user that the bacula-sd is running as? Nope, it has the same permissions, owner and group as all my other disk volumes.

Re: [Bacula-users] StorEdge C2 autochanger not working

2009-04-03 Thread Allan Black
b5b5b5b5 wrote: I have a problem running an AUTOCHANGER as a part of backup system. After running the 'mtx -f /dev/sg3 status' i get this result: Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Unknown Storage Element Loaded) ... Storage Element 16:Full It's difficult to tell from this

Re: [Bacula-users] StorEdge C2 autochanger not working

2009-04-03 Thread b5b5b5b5
i forget to mention, that i'm using Debian 5 (Lenny) but i can try to compare our conf's , and will see if there is something different. just from the first view, it doesn't look much different. Massimo Schenone wrote: This is my configuration on Solaris 10: Autochanger { Name =

Re: [Bacula-users] StorEdge C2 autochanger not working

2009-04-03 Thread b5b5b5b5
I removed the status for all other slots because they are identical to the 16th one. Here you have it: { Storage Changer /dev/sg3:1 Drives, 16 Slots ( 0 Import/Export ) Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Unknown Storage Element Loaded) Storage Element 1:Full Storage Element 2:Full

Re: [Bacula-users] phantom filesystems in Windows

2009-04-03 Thread Kevin Keane
Foo wrote: On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:57:32 +0200, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Kevin Keane subscript...@kkeane.com wrote: This actually is correct behavior. If you look carefully, you will see that these two directories are actually

Re: [Bacula-users] StorEdge C2 autochanger not working

2009-04-03 Thread Allan Black
b5b5b5b5 wrote: But it's just as you've said, they are full - with tapes inside of course. You won't get it to work like that :-) Anyway, if they are in, or not, i don't know if that's a reason for what you've said: (The autochanger has certainly lost track of which slot the tape in

[Bacula-users] Fileset available in Message Resource?

2009-04-03 Thread John Lockard
Hi All, Looking through the manual in the Message Resource section I don't see 'FileSet' as one of the options. (Version 2.4.4). Is this available but undocumented or should I be putting in a software change request? Reason I ask, is that an email telling me that a job for 'Server1' finished

Re: [Bacula-users] Fileset available in Message Resource?

2009-04-03 Thread John Lockard
Nevermind... I'm a moron. On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 02:54:01PM -0400, John Lockard wrote: Hi All, Looking through the manual in the Message Resource section I don't see 'FileSet' as one of the options. (Version 2.4.4). Is this available but undocumented or should I be putting in a software

Re: [Bacula-users] phantom filesystems in Windows

2009-04-03 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 03/04/09 21:19, Kevin Keane wrote: Erik P. Olsen wrote: On 03/04/09 18:56, Kevin Keane wrote: Foo wrote: On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:57:32 +0200, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Kevin Keane subscript...@kkeane.com wrote:

Re: [Bacula-users] phantom filesystems in Windows

2009-04-03 Thread John Drescher
I think I need to understand it better. If I interpret it correctly then a file set including a junction will cause the actual data to be backed-up. But what happens if the data has to be restored? Will the actual data be restored together with the junction? I do not believe the junction will

Re: [Bacula-users] Large maildir backup

2009-04-03 Thread mehma sarja
Michael, This is a work in progress and I'll keep everyone posted on what my configs are once I know something works. I have re-compiled bacula with batch mode turned on. Yudhvir === On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Michael Galloway m...@ornl.gov wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 04:03:50PM

[Bacula-users] File Set and Compression

2009-04-03 Thread Maria McKinley
Greetings, I posted this a bit ago, but didn't receive a response, so thought I would try again... I would like to have most of the jobs I run to be compressed and put on disk, but I want the daily incremental to be put on tape, which means letting the hardware do compression. It looks like

Re: [Bacula-users] File Set and Compression

2009-04-03 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Maria McKinley ma...@shadlen.org wrote: Greetings, I posted this a bit ago, but didn't receive a response, so thought I would try again... I would like to have most of the jobs I run to be compressed and put on disk, but I want the daily incremental to be