Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula refusing to use existing tape and wants to label a fresh one

2012-08-10 Thread Michael Namaiandeh
Eric, Here's how you label a tape. 1. Open bconsole 2. Type "update slots" 3. Select your tape drive 4. It should tell you something like "Volume x was not found in catalog. Slot=xy InChanger set to zero" 5. Type "label" and select your tape drive where the tape

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula refusing to use existing tape and wants to label a fresh one

2012-08-10 Thread Michael Namaiandeh
I'm having a similar issue. I purchased some new tapes but don't see them in Bat or Bconsole. I put them into the drive and I suspected they would default to the Scratch Media Pool but no such luck. Thanks! Regards, Michael From: Eric Chennells [mailto:e...@zymeworks.com] Sent: Friday, Augus

[Bacula-users] Bacula refusing to use existing tape and wants to label a fresh one

2012-08-10 Thread Eric Chennells
I have this problem on one of my tape drives, it is a single drive, no autoloader. The job is partially completed and it needs a new tape, and it requests for me to label a new one. I have a tape that as far as I can see is perfect for the job, right pool, purged, yet when I mount it bacula just

[Bacula-users] Re - Restore failed - bacula-fd doesn't follow symbolic links

2012-08-10 Thread Davide Franco
Hello, this sounds good for me. It's exactly what I did to recover my data. I just had to figure out where my data were located and it worked fine. The issue I had was not due 'cause the file daemon doesn't follow symlinks indeed. Thanks for your feedback Regards Davide On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 a

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula confused about volumes

2012-08-10 Thread Clark, Patricia A.
On 7/25/12 10:50 AM, "John Drescher" wrote: >> Anyone else have this happen? > >Probably a 1/2 dozen times over the years although it has not happened >in a long time. > >> Race condition? >> >I think so. I thought that this was supposed to be fixed though. > >John > I am having this

Re: [Bacula-users] Re - Restore failed - bacula-fd doesn't follow symbolic links

2012-08-10 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, 2012/8/10 Davide Franco > > Anyway, I'm still trying to figure out how can I enforce the file > daemon to follow symlinks on Linux filesystem. > > Bacula does not follow any symbolic links. It just backups a symbolic link as a symbolic link no matter if it points to the file or directory.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-Web 5.2.10 is out

2012-08-10 Thread Jack Cobb
Davide, Thanks for the latest version of Bacula-web. I installed it on our Ubuntu server running Bacula and it produces some useful information for us. Jack Cobb From: bacula-...@dflc.ch [mailto:bacula-...@dflc.ch] Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 5:36 PM To: bacula-users@lists.sou

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-Web 5.2.10 is out

2012-08-10 Thread Bacula-Dev
Hello Uwe, yes it is ! The development of Bacula-Web has been revived since November 2010. If you want to keep informed about project news and information, you can - subscribe to the newsletter trough http://bacula-web.org/newsletter.html - or trough the RSS feed http://bacula-web.org/

[Bacula-users] Re - Restore failed - bacula-fd doesn't follow symbolic links

2012-08-10 Thread Davide Franco
Hello all, I've just found a way to fix the problem I have. It was dns resolution problem (see bacula logs below). Fatal error: Bad response to Storage command: wanted 2000 OK storage , got 2902 Bad storage Anyway, I'm still trying to figure out how can I enforce the file daemon to follow symlin

Re: [Bacula-users] Non-interactive restore

2012-08-10 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 04:58:32PM +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote: > Hi folks. > > Google has burried me once again as this seems to be a recurring question. > > What is the best method of starting a restore without an interactive > interface. Basically, I want to be able to start a restore of the

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore failed - bacula-fd doesn't follow symbolic links

2012-08-10 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 20120809 om 18:42 schreef Davide Franco: > Hello all, > > today I've tried to restore some files on my server and the job failed. > It appear that bacula-fd doesn't follow symbolic link. > > The server run under Linux Centos version 5.8 with bacula-fd version 5.0.2 > > I tought that by defaul