Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-13 Thread Guy
another solution... though not quite the best... create a pool and jobs specific to the PST file.. set the retention on the pool to be say 7 days.. That way you can backup/restore the pst file separately and not effect the backup of the rest of your system. Obviously you still have to send over

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-13 Thread Paul Mather
On Jan 13, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Lawrence Strydom wrote: > I understand that something is adding data and logically the backup should > grow. What I don't understand is why the entire file has to be backed up if > only a few bytes of data has changed. It is mainly outlook.pst files and > MSSQL data

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-13 Thread Lawrence Strydom
Thanks for the clear answer Paul. Seems like I will have to enable Acurate and buy more disks. On 13 January 2011 23:27, Paul Mather wrote: > On Jan 13, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Lawrence Strydom wrote: > > > I understand that something is adding data and logically the backup > should grow. What I do

[Bacula-users] WORM Media (LTO)

2011-01-13 Thread Kianusch Sayah Karadji
Hi, Information about using WORM Media with BACULA seem to be very rare. :) So - Are WORM Media (LTO WORM TAPES) supported? Do I have to configure something differently? Well the main differnece is, that WORM Media can not be recycled - what is the best way to configure those Tape Pools, so tha

[Bacula-users] instalacion bacula

2011-01-13 Thread Sandra Sanchez
Buenas tardes Soy nueva en el mundo de bacula, mi jefe me solicito hacer esta instalación pero no tengo ningún conocimiento Tengo un servidor de open suse 11.3 , solicito su colaboración para instalar bacula le agradezco un manual paso a paso Gracias, Sandra J. Sanchez G.

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-13 Thread Blake Dunlap
2011/1/13 Lawrence Strydom > Hi And thanks for all the replies so far. > > I'm running Bacula 5.0.3 on OpenSuSE 11.3. Self compiled with the following > configure options: > > * --enable-smartalloc --sbindir=/usr/local/bacula/bin > --sysconfdir=/usr/local/bacula/bin -with-mysql -with-openssl -ena

Re: [Bacula-users] compiling static

2011-01-13 Thread Guy
Thanks for that... I just wanted to reduce the number files I needed to install on the NAS as it's now different from standard install which might cause issues later. I think your right those and I'll have to build a package for e NAS which has all the libraries included. ---Guy Sent from my

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-13 Thread Guy
Sorry Bacula is not that clever..indeed it's just checking for files which changes.. It's not able to determine how the file changed, or just back up those bits which changed. ---Guy Sent from my iPad On 13 Jan 2011, at 20:44, Lawrence Strydom wrote: > Hi And thanks for all the replies so fa

Re: [Bacula-users] compiling static

2011-01-13 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/10/2011 3:05 PM, Guy wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been trying to make this work for the last two days.. > > I have a Thus NAS system which is running linux (sort of). I would like to > compile bacula-sd and vchanger static so that I can push those two binaries > on to it and make it into a de

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-13 Thread Lawrence Strydom
Hi And thanks for all the replies so far. I'm running Bacula 5.0.3 on OpenSuSE 11.3. Self compiled with the following configure options: * --enable-smartalloc --sbindir=/usr/local/bacula/bin --sysconfdir=/usr/local/bacula/bin -with-mysql -with-openssl -enable-bat -sysconfdir=/etc/bacula -enable-t

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-13 Thread Mark
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Bart Swedrowski wrote: > > I think what Lawrence meant was that say full backup takes 33GB, as > the one below. > > | 1,089 | tic FS | 2011-01-08 02:05:03 | B| F | > 464,798 | 33,390,404,320 | T | > > Now, if you do Incremental backup, it'

Re: [Bacula-users] Job is waiting on max Storage jobs although I set Max concurrent job to 10

2011-01-13 Thread Silver Salonen
On Thursday 13 January 2011 17:26:55 Hugo Letemplier wrote: > 2011/1/12 Silver Salonen : > > On Wednesday 12 January 2011 13:56:44 Hugo Letemplier wrote: > >> 2011/1/8 Silver Salonen : > >> > On Saturday 08 January 2011 14:07:01 Hugo Letemplier wrote: > >> >> Le 6 janv. 2011 à 21:17, Silver Salonen

Re: [Bacula-users] File sets, are excluded directories created, but their contents omitted?

2011-01-13 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:09:11 +, Mister IT Guru said: > > My question is, A full backup using XEN-NoImages file set, will it make > the directories /tmp, /var/lib/xen/images and co, because my plan is in > case of emergency to restore the XEN-NoImages file set, followed by the > image

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-13 Thread John Drescher
> First there's something adding data everyday, so that's why there's more and > more data. > I hope you put a limit on the file size or usage duration so that this volume does not grow until it fills up the disk. Remember / retention does not work until the volume is marked Full or used and for

[Bacula-users] Restore Fails

2011-01-13 Thread ml ml
Hello! I have the follwing Setup: - Box1/FD: OTRS Server - Box2/DIR: Directory Server - Box3/SD: SD/NAS Now i would like to test a Restore of my OTRS Server on a extra Box (Box 4). So i bott this up with Ubuntu 10.10 64Bit and install bacula-client with apt-get and try to run a restore. I get thi

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-13 Thread Bruno Friedmann
On 01/13/2011 11:42 AM, Bart Swedrowski wrote: > 2011/1/12 Kleber Leal >> Yes. The entire file is backed up again when gets modification. >> Incremental backups include all modified files since last backup (Full, >> Incremental ou differential). Incremental and differential are file based. >> if

[Bacula-users] Issue with data encryption with Windows 7 client?

2011-01-13 Thread Timothy Kallinis
Hi, I intend to use Bacula to backup clients in a small office environment. The clients are Windows XP, Windows 7 and Linux (generally Ubuntu). I prefer to use PKI data encryption. The server running director, storage and file daemons is running the latest version of Ubuntu Server 10.10 (64-bit

Re: [Bacula-users] Job is waiting on max Storage jobs although I set Max concurrent job to 10

2011-01-13 Thread Hugo Letemplier
2011/1/12 Silver Salonen : > On Wednesday 12 January 2011 13:56:44 Hugo Letemplier wrote: >> 2011/1/8 Silver Salonen : >> > On Saturday 08 January 2011 14:07:01 Hugo Letemplier wrote: >> >> Le 6 janv. 2011 à 21:17, Silver Salonen a écrit : >> >> >> >> > On Thursday 06 January 2011 22:14:16 John Dre

Re: [Bacula-users] Reload Config while bacula-dir is still running?

2011-01-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/13/11 07:45, Mister IT Guru wrote: > I'm making amendments and changes to my bacula config, but at the same > time I need to run my backups. Other than setting up a separate machine > to test my config, (which I will be doing in coming days, when the > hardware purchased for this arrives)

Re: [Bacula-users] Reload Config while bacula-dir is still running?

2011-01-13 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 13/01/2011 12:56, Thomas Mueller wrote: > Am Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:45:51 + schrieb Mister IT Guru: > >> I'm making amendments and changes to my bacula config, but at the same >> time I need to run my backups. Other than setting up a separate machine >> to test my config, (which I will be doing

Re: [Bacula-users] Reload Config while bacula-dir is still running?

2011-01-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:45:51 + schrieb Mister IT Guru: > I'm making amendments and changes to my bacula config, but at the same > time I need to run my backups. Other than setting up a separate machine > to test my config, (which I will be doing in coming days, when the > hardware purchased fo

[Bacula-users] Reload Config while bacula-dir is still running?

2011-01-13 Thread Mister IT Guru
I'm making amendments and changes to my bacula config, but at the same time I need to run my backups. Other than setting up a separate machine to test my config, (which I will be doing in coming days, when the hardware purchased for this arrives) -- The Solo System Admin - Follow me - I follow

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-13 Thread Valerio Pachera
2011/1/12 Lawrence Strydom : > This leads me > to believe that the entire file is being backed up instead of only the > changed data which is my understanding of a differential backup. The only program I know that work in that way is rdiff-backup. It's very efficent in saving sapce but you do now

Re: [Bacula-users] File sets, are excluded directories created, but their contents omitted?

2011-01-13 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 13/01/2011 11:09, Mister IT Guru wrote: > I want to create two file sets for my virtualisation hosts. > > FileSet { > Name = "XEN-NoImages" > Include > { > File = / > File = /boot > } > > Exclude { > File = /backup > File = /.fsck > Fil

[Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data and speed

2011-01-13 Thread Jose Antonio Rodriguez Martin
Hi list, A few months ago we were talking about a problem of compression on LTO-3 device "LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data / premature end of tape space" ( http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-users @ lists . sourceforge.net/msg43952.html). It appears that the problem was resolved by updating the dri

[Bacula-users] File sets, are excluded directories created, but their contents omitted?

2011-01-13 Thread Mister IT Guru
I want to create two file sets for my virtualisation hosts. FileSet { Name = "XEN-NoImages" Include { File = / File = /boot } Exclude { File = /backup File = /.fsck File = /.journal File = /tmp File = /proc File = /tmp

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-13 Thread Bart Swedrowski
2011/1/12 Kleber Leal > Yes. The entire file is backed up again when gets modification. > Incremental backups include all modified files since last backup (Full, > Incremental ou differential). Incremental and differential are file based. > if you have a 100GB file and this was modified, it will

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula configration for FC LTO-5 tape drive

2011-01-13 Thread Arunav Mandal
Since I don't have a proper stinit.def will the tape function properly? I have called Tandberg and HP and nobody can help me regarding this. Arunav. -Original Message- From: Alan Brown [mailto:a...@mssl.ucl.ac.uk] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 1:34 PM To: Phil Stracchino Cc: bacula-u