[Bacula-users] Searching for files

2010-10-21 Thread ladolf
I would also like to know the answer to this question. Sometimes I need to restore a file and I know part of file name. I don't know which letters are upper case. If I know which job to use then I use "restore" command in bconsole. I select the option "Enter list of comma separated JobIds to sel

Re: [Bacula-users] PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING

2010-10-21 Thread Dan Langille
On 10/21/2010 2:28 PM, newtobacula wrote: > Hi Guys, > After weeks of struggle with setting up bacula I feel completely lost and > need help. I am setting up Bacula on a Centos server, the idea is to have > different clients (windows/linux) setup and backup different data on tapes. > So far I ha

Re: [Bacula-users] PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING

2010-10-21 Thread Jeremiah D. Jester
I was in the same boat as u months ago. I am on a business trip through the weekend if u still need help next week, ping me and we can chat about setup. I'm no pro but we could at least chat about issues and hopefully get them resolved Sent from my iPhone On Oct 21, 2010, at 4:39 PM, newtobacu

Re: [Bacula-users] PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING

2010-10-21 Thread Mehma Sarja
On 10/21/10 11:28 AM, newtobacula wrote: > Hi Guys, > After weeks of struggle with setting up bacula I feel completely lost and > need help. I am setting up Bacula on a Centos server, the idea is to have > different clients (windows/linux) setup and backup different data on tapes. > So far I hav

Re: [Bacula-users] Live backup

2010-10-21 Thread Heitor Faria
> Heitor: > I agree with you, It isn´t a particular situation. That can happen with a lot > of files. So I was really confused about the possible reason. Can you tell me > a little more? what do you mean with hardware bottleneck? > > To be more specific, the folder that I try to backup isn´t big

Re: [Bacula-users] Live backup

2010-10-21 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 10/21/10 10:41, ivane91 wrote: > Hi, I have a rails web and I want to backup it. I create the job , > and it's all ok, but bacula is sending data through network at the > same time it's backuping. So, because there are files that changes > (logs most importantly) and they are big, it produces er

[Bacula-users] Live backup

2010-10-21 Thread ivane91
rorycl : It seems to be a good approach to a possible solution I will try later! Heitor: I agree with you, It isn´t a particular situation. That can happen with a lot of files. So I was really confused about the possible reason. Can you tell me a little more? what do you mean with hardware bottl

Re: [Bacula-users] premature recycling

2010-10-21 Thread Dan Langille
On 10/21/2010 12:10 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: >> On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:51:51 -0300, Kleber Leal said: >> >> 2010/10/21 Martin Simmons >> On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:34:42 -0400, Dan Langille said: I'm getting recycling before retention expires. Or so I think. It may be pos

Re: [Bacula-users] Live backup

2010-10-21 Thread Heitor Faria
On 21-10-2010 11:41, ivane91 wrote: > Hi, I have a rails web and I want to backup it. I create the job , and it's > all ok, but bacula is sending data through network at the same time it's > backuping. So, because there are files that changes (logs most importantly) > and they are big, it produc

Re: [Bacula-users] Live backup

2010-10-21 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 21/10/10, ivane91 (bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com) wrote: > Hi, I have a rails web and I want to backup it. I create the job , and > it's all ok, but bacula is sending data through network at the same > time it's backuping. So, because there are files that changes (logs > most importantly) and t

[Bacula-users] PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING

2010-10-21 Thread newtobacula
Hi Guys, After weeks of struggle with setting up bacula I feel completely lost and need help. I am setting up Bacula on a Centos server, the idea is to have different clients (windows/linux) setup and backup different data on tapes. So far I have managed to: - Setup bacula server and client - g

[Bacula-users] Live backup

2010-10-21 Thread ivane91
Hi, I have a rails web and I want to backup it. I create the job , and it's all ok, but bacula is sending data through network at the same time it's backuping. So, because there are files that changes (logs most importantly) and they are big, it produces errors. So i have to copy the entire fold

Re: [Bacula-users] Limit disk usage

2010-10-21 Thread Heitor Faria
On 21-10-2010 16:53, John Drescher wrote: >> Is there a way to limit bacula from using 100% of the disk capacity before >> recyling purged volumes? >> >> > I believe only by limiting the number of volumes and the size of each volume. > > John > > Maximum Volume Size and Maximum volumes, o

Re: [Bacula-users] Limit disk usage

2010-10-21 Thread John Drescher
> Is there a way to limit bacula from using 100% of the disk capacity before > recyling purged volumes? > I believe only by limiting the number of volumes and the size of each volume. John -- Nokia and AT&T present the 2

[Bacula-users] Limit disk usage

2010-10-21 Thread Ali Reza Sajedi
Hello All, Is there a way to limit bacula from using 100% of the disk capacity before recyling purged volumes? Thank you. Regards Ali -- Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest C

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple catalogs - initialisation?

2010-10-21 Thread Alan Brown
Francisco Javier Funes Nieto wrote: > Exec them in this order in your second machine where you allocate the second > Catalog (postgresql or mysql), configure in bacula-dir.conf and it's all! In this case, the second catalog will be on the same machine as the main catalog (same postgresql, same d

Re: [Bacula-users] premature recycling

2010-10-21 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:51:51 -0300, Kleber Leal said: > > 2010/10/21 Martin Simmons > > > > On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:34:42 -0400, Dan Langille said: > > > > > > I'm getting recycling before retention expires. Or so I think. It may be > > > possible that the Pools definitions are out of

Re: [Bacula-users] How do I handle volumes with status error?

2010-10-21 Thread Oliver Hoffmann
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Oliver Hoffmann wrote: > >> > after for some reason an error occurs I have a volume which is in > >> > backup mode error. So far so good (or bad). > >> > > >> > Last night I had a job which waited for ever for an appendable > >> > volume. I deleted an old error-

Re: [Bacula-users] How to parse Bacula conf files

2010-10-21 Thread Stefan Muenkner
While I think it might be worthwhile having the configuration dumped in XML (== machine readable format), I think the other way around is not something that would be needed in bacula itself. There is a whole bunch of XSLT processors that would transform a XML-file into a bacula configuration file.

Re: [Bacula-users] How do I handle volumes with status error?

2010-10-21 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Oliver Hoffmann wrote: >> > after for some reason an error occurs I have a volume which is in >> > backup mode error. So far so good (or bad). >> > >> > Last night I had a job which waited for ever for an appendable >> > volume. I deleted an old error-volume (from

Re: [Bacula-users] How do I handle volumes with status error?

2010-10-21 Thread Oliver Hoffmann
> > after for some reason an error occurs I have a volume which is in > > backup mode error. So far so good (or bad). > > > > Last night I had a job which waited for ever for an appendable > > volume. I deleted an old error-volume (from the db and filesystem), > > recreated it and the job was fine

Re: [Bacula-users] premature recycling

2010-10-21 Thread Kleber Leal
He is not confused. I think. The bacula should not to recycle a volume, even if there is not appendable volumes*. *The manual says: *"**The Volume Retention record defines the length of time that Bacula will guarantee that the Volume is not reused** counting from the time the last job stored on the

Re: [Bacula-users] How to parse Bacula conf files

2010-10-21 Thread Stefan Muenkner
On 20.10.2010 16:25, Josh Fisher wrote: > > On 10/19/2010 8:28 AM, Yuri Timofeev wrote: >> Hi >> >> During development the prototype of the my new system (Webacula 5.5), >> I tried to parse the bacula-dir.conf. >> However, this is probably not possible with simple regexp's. >> It turned out that s

Re: [Bacula-users] How do I handle volumes with status error?

2010-10-21 Thread John Drescher
> after for some reason an error occurs I have a volume which is in > backup mode error. So far so good (or bad). > > Last night I had a job which waited for ever for an appendable volume. > I deleted an old error-volume (from the db and filesystem), recreated it > and the job was fine again. But t

[Bacula-users] How do I handle volumes with status error?

2010-10-21 Thread Oliver Hoffmann
Hi all, after for some reason an error occurs I have a volume which is in backup mode error. So far so good (or bad). Last night I had a job which waited for ever for an appendable volume. I deleted an old error-volume (from the db and filesystem), recreated it and the job was fine again. But the

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple catalogs - initialisation?

2010-10-21 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
> >> 2010/10/21 Alan Brown > >>> I've been asked to start backing up a 2+PB project (We're mapping > >>> Mars to 1 metre resolution) and keep the database separated from > >>> the main backups in case it gets split off in future. > >>> > >>> There's plenty of information about how to define and u

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple catalogs - initialisation?

2010-10-21 Thread John Drescher
> You can use one Catalog for a set of remote machines, and another for local > machines ... or any else combination! > Catalog = Database in any host. > Only problem is you can not share tapes between 2 catalogs. For disk backups that is fine because you can just create separate disk volumes. Jo

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple catalogs - initialisation?

2010-10-21 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:32:41 +0100, Alan Brown said: > > "How do you initialise a second(third/fourth/etc) catalog?" > > Any pointers appreciated. I suggest grepping for "bacula" in all of the installed script files. In particular, edit the db_name variable in create_postgresql_database,

Re: [Bacula-users] premature recycling

2010-10-21 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:34:42 -0400, Dan Langille said: > > I'm getting recycling before retention expires. Or so I think. It may be > possible that the Pools definitions are out of date, but before I run an > update command, I wanted to see if anyone saw something out of order here. > > T

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple catalogs - initialisation?

2010-10-21 Thread Francisco Javier Funes Nieto
You can use one Catalog for a set of remote machines, and another for local machines ... or any else combination! Catalog = Database in any host. 2010/10/21 Piotr Antczak > Does it mean that I can have two catalogs on different machines for one > Director? I was thinking that second catalog can

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple catalogs - initialisation?

2010-10-21 Thread Piotr Antczak
Does it mean that I can have two catalogs on different machines for one Director? I was thinking that second catalog can be only another DB/Instance created on the same postrgresql/mysql engine. 2010/10/21 Francisco Javier Funes Nieto > Search in your /etc/bacula directory for this shells script

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple catalogs - initialisation?

2010-10-21 Thread Francisco Javier Funes Nieto
Search in your /etc/bacula directory for this shells scripts: # postgres create_postgresql_database make_postgresql_tables grant_postgresql_privileges # mysql create_mysql_database make_mysql_tables grant_mysql_privileges Exec them in this order in your second machine where you allocate the s

[Bacula-users] Multiple catalogs - initialisation?

2010-10-21 Thread Alan Brown
I've been asked to start backing up a 2+PB project (We're mapping Mars to 1 metre resolution) and keep the database separated from the main backups in case it gets split off in future. There's plenty of information about how to define and use catalogs, but one thing isn't clear: "How do you i

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem to compile Bacula Admin Tools

2010-10-21 Thread Stéphane Cesbron
Thanks a lot, it works ! Regards, Stéphane Cesbron Responsable Régional Informatique, INSERM Délégation Régionale Grand-Ouest, BRETAGNE, PAYS DE LA LOIRE et CENTRE 63, quai Magellan 3ème étage - Hall B B.P. 32116 44021 Nantes cedex 1 Email : stephane.cesb...@inserm.fr Tél : 02.40.20.92.28 Por

[Bacula-users] bacula bat not showing "version browser" or "job plot"

2010-10-21 Thread mayak-cq
good day everyone, i've successfully installed and tested bacula 5.0.3 on centos-5. i can backup and restore through the console (where i am presented with "tree" of what i'd like to restore) i installed bacula-bat on to a windoz box to test the graphical interface -- neither the version browser