Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-01-25 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:05:44 GMT, The pithy ruminations from Martin Simmons on were: => > On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:22:21 -0500, mark bergman said: => > => > In the message dated: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:09:15 GMT, => > The pithy ruminations from Martin Simmons on => => > I don

Re: [Bacula-users] Ensuring files made during the backup run are archived (hot-backup PostgreSQL)

2012-01-25 Thread Steven Schlansker
On Jan 25, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: >> On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:34:10 -0800, Steven Schlansker said: >> >> Looking through the documentation, there's no obvious way to guarantee order >> or backups within a FileSet. Is there some particular >> order that Bacula uses that I ca

Re: [Bacula-users] Ensuring files made during the backup run are archived (hot-backup PostgreSQL)

2012-01-25 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:34:10 -0800, Steven Schlansker said: > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to set up a Bacula job to run a hot backup of a PostgreSQL > installation. > > The fundamentals of how it would work are covered in the manual, but I will > summarize here for the list. > http://www.po

Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-01-25 Thread John Drescher
> I just checked the config on that server and I am using /dev/nst0.  Its just > odd.  I have never encountered this before in my ~5 years of running bacula. > I have not seen it on my side yet. John -- Keep Your Develop

Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-01-25 Thread Brian Debelius
I just checked the config on that server and I am using /dev/nst0. Its just odd. I have never encountered this before in my ~5 years of running bacula. On 1/25/2012 1:36 PM, John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Brian Debelius > wrote: >> I just want to say that I have se

Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-01-25 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:22:21 -0500, mark bergman said: > > In the message dated: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:09:15 GMT, > The pithy ruminations from Martin Simmons on > I don't think it's a hardware problem because: > > the vast majority of tape access (read or write) doesn't result >

Re: [Bacula-users] Ensuring files made during the backup run are archived (hot-backup PostgreSQL)

2012-01-25 Thread Steven Schlansker
On Jan 25, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Ben Walton wrote: > Excerpts from Steven Schlansker's message of Wed Jan 25 12:34:10 -0500 2012: > > Hi Steven, > >> Looking through the documentation, there's no obvious way to >> guarantee order or backups within a FileSet. Is there some >> particular order that

Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-01-25 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Brian Debelius wrote: > I just want to say that I have seen this recently too.  I have a set of > LTO-3 tapes that I am now relabeling as I use them because the labels > have become unreadable.  All I can add right now is that that particular > server is running B

Re: [Bacula-users] Ensuring files made during the backup run are archived (hot-backup PostgreSQL)

2012-01-25 Thread Ben Walton
Excerpts from Steven Schlansker's message of Wed Jan 25 12:34:10 -0500 2012: Hi Steven, > Looking through the documentation, there's no obvious way to > guarantee order or backups within a FileSet. Is there some > particular order that Bacula uses that I can rely on portably? (I > assume not, b

Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-01-25 Thread Brian Debelius
I just want to say that I have seen this recently too. I have a set of LTO-3 tapes that I am now relabeling as I use them because the labels have become unreadable. All I can add right now is that that particular server is running Bacula v5.0.3 on Ubuntu. On 1/24/2012 6:25 PM, mark.berg...

[Bacula-users] Ensuring files made during the backup run are archived (hot-backup PostgreSQL)

2012-01-25 Thread Steven Schlansker
Hi all, I'm trying to set up a Bacula job to run a hot backup of a PostgreSQL installation. The fundamentals of how it would work are covered in the manual, but I will summarize here for the list. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/continuous-archiving.html Normally if you just take a

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows File Daemon: "VSS" or "System State" or both ?

2012-01-25 Thread Hugo Letemplier
2012/1/25 Simone Caronni : > Hello, > > I used to do one of the following depending on whether is Windows 2003 > or 2008+ to have some additional protection: > > ClientRunBeforeJob = "start /w ntbackup backup systemstate /F > C:\\SystemState.bkf" > ClientRunAfterJob = "del C:\\SystemState.bkf" > >

[Bacula-users] Send Bacula Backup Report new version for PostgreSQL

2012-01-25 Thread Davide Giunchi
http://www.soasi.com/send-bacula-backup-report/ I've released "Send Bacula Backup Report" version 0.4, this is the ChangeLog: * added support for PostgreSQL catalog * tested with Bacula Enterprise Regards -- Certificazioni: RHCVA, LPI 1 SOASI - www.soasi.com Sviluppo Software

Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: RHEL 4/5/6 - Fedora 15/16 Bacula RPM repository

2012-01-25 Thread Simone Caronni
Ciao, it should be fixed now. I added a couple of symlinks to the script that generates the repository. The list of variants is there: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/ Regards, --Simone 2012/1/25 Ferdinando Pasqualetti > Hello Simone, > thank you (GRAZIE!!!) for making a so

[Bacula-users] Rif: RHEL 4/5/6 - Fedora 15/16 Bacula RPM repository

2012-01-25 Thread Ferdinando Pasqualetti
Hello Simone, thank you (GRAZIE!!!) for making a so useful repository. I have only a (very little) problem: on my RHEL 6.2 system the variable %version in the repo file is resolved as "6Server", instead of "6". I can easily use the repo changing the URLs in the repo file, but obviously this is a

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows File Daemon: "VSS" or "System State" or both ?

2012-01-25 Thread Simone Caronni
Hello, I used to do one of the following depending on whether is Windows 2003 or 2008+ to have some additional protection: ClientRunBeforeJob = "start /w ntbackup backup systemstate /F C:\\SystemState.bkf" ClientRunAfterJob = "del C:\\SystemState.bkf" ClientRunBeforeJob = "start /w wbadmin start

[Bacula-users] Bweb + brestore issues

2012-01-25 Thread Jeremy Maes
Hey list Situation: About 250 bacula 5.0.3 installations in very small client environments. All have bweb installed and working, together with the ExtJS based bresto web interface for easy file restore by the clients that know enough about it to do so. Now for the most part this works wonder

[Bacula-users] Strange Error with backup catalog

2012-01-25 Thread Carlo Filippetto
Hi all, I have 5 bacula installation, but only in 1 I have this problem.. 25-Jan 14:39 netbackup-dir JobId 2044: Volume used once. Marking Volume "catalog-2011.4.27-7.0" as Used. 25-Jan 14:39 relay-fd JobId 2044: Could not stat "/var/bacula/working/bacula.sql": ERR=No such file or directory 2

Re: [Bacula-users] Tapes not in autochanger are being recycled

2012-01-25 Thread Michael Triska
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Martin Simmons [mailto:mar...@lispworks.com] Gesendet: Freitag, 20. Januar 2012 13:22 An: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: Re: [Bacula-users] Tapes not in autochanger are being recycled > On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:02:51 +0100, Michael Triska said

[Bacula-users] Windows File Daemon: "VSS" or "System State" or both ?

2012-01-25 Thread Hugo Letemplier
Hello, I am backing up Windows servers. I have a doubt on my file set. I run backups with VSS enabled and I run NTBackup to make a dump of the System State. This is recommended on the Bacula documentation but with both the VSS enabled and the NTBackup System state backup, have we got a redundanc

Re: [Bacula-users] Tapes not in autochanger are being recycled

2012-01-25 Thread Michael Triska
Von: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2012 23:13 An: Michael Triska; bacula-users Betreff: Re: [Bacula-users] Tapes not in autochanger are being recycled On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Michael Triska wrote: >> Hallo bacula-users, >> >> we are runnin