Re: [Bacula-users] Catalog backup failure

2007-01-11 Thread Dwight Tovey
en changed since it was last read, reread. If nothing else, that would make it easier to add new jobs to the director. /dwight -- Dwight Tovey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Work to Live : Live to Ride : Ride to Work - Take Su

[Bacula-users] Catalog backup failure

2007-01-11 Thread Dwight Tovey
ote that while I'm in the test/evaluation phase, all processes are running as a test user instead of as root. Any ideas what I've missed? Thanks /dwight -- Dwight Tovey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Work to Live : Live to Ride : Ride to Work

[Bacula-users] Making windows boot

2007-01-15 Thread Dwight Tovey
so maybe I'm just missing something simple? Thanks for any pointers. /dwight -- Dwight Tovey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Work to Live : Live to Ride : Ride to Work - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT J

Re: [Bacula-users] Making windows boot

2007-01-16 Thread Dwight Tovey
install CD and let it go through the process of installing up to the first reboot, then booted from bartpe to continue. However, I didn't mark the partition as active (forgot about that), so maybe that is a required step still. If I get a chance I'll have to play around with it some mo

Re: [Bacula-users] Making windows boot

2007-01-17 Thread Dwight Tovey
format c: /fs:ntfs /q * Use bacula to restore all files onto the disk. * Reboot And I had my system back. There are still a couple of minor issues with the windows restore (I'll start a new thread for those), but it looks like our Bacula solution is ready to go. Thanks for all the help.

[Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2007-01-17 Thread Dwight Tovey
t E:. Could that be causing both of the problems? Thanks in advance. /dwight -- Dwight Tovey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Work to Live : Live to Ride : Ride to Work - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2007-01-18 Thread Dwight Tovey
ntroller / Exchange Server. With the exception of the minor glitches mentioned above, after the restore the system came up just fine and users were able to log in and get their at their email. I'm still not an expert with Windows (and I intend to keep it that way), but are there other

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with RunBeforeJob while testing bacula-dir.conf

2007-01-22 Thread Dwight Tovey
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 11:16 +0100, Jon Ingason wrote: > I am getting problem with RunBeforeJob. When I test the bacula-dir.conf > I get following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] bacula]# bacula-dir -t -c bacula-dir.conf > 22-jan 10:59 bacula-dir: Fatal error: Could not open Catalog > "MyCatalog", database

Re: [Bacula-users] LabelFormat broke using variable expansion

2007-02-01 Thread Dwight Tovey
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 15:48 -0500, Brian Debelius wrote: > Using the Windows director, sd, and fd, it does not appear that > automatic labeling works with variable expansion and Label Format. > > This works, and the files get named Comp1_Full-0001..etc > > ## > # Full

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

2007-02-05 Thread Dwight Tovey
On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 15:31 -0800, Tauren Mills wrote: > > Even though option #3 has some drawbacks, the likelihood of those > drawbacks happening are slim, especially if I mirror my big backup > drive. I'm leaning toward it at the moment unless someone can suggest > a way to make a COPY of a vo

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

2007-02-05 Thread Dwight Tovey
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 13:44 -0800, Tauren Mills wrote: > > Would you use bcopy separate from bacula, creating your own scripts > that run off a cron job? Or would you somehow integrate using bcopy > into a bacula job using custom bacula scripts? > I plan on creating my own scripts, but called

Re: [Bacula-users] FileStorage != File, but backup runs nonetheless?

2007-02-06 Thread Dwight Tovey
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 13:22 -0500, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Good day all, > > I'm confused about, basically, why my catalog backup works. The names > for the device it's supposed to be using do not jive. Why is this OK? > > bacula-dir.conf: >

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

2007-02-06 Thread Dwight Tovey
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 16:27 -0800, Tauren Mills wrote: > > True. I guess I was meaning that Bacula would be natively aware of > both copies and be able to restore from either one. Since my disk > backups are on a different disk than the mysql database is, this might > happen if my backup disk f

[Bacula-users] No VSS on Windows 2000

2007-02-08 Thread Dwight Tovey
We rolled our Bacula solution out to production recently, and started getting "file in use by another process" errors from one of our Windows machines even though VSS is enabled. Turns out this machine is running Windows 2000, which I guess doesn't support VSS? Does anybody know if there is a wor

[Bacula-users] Retention period priority.

2007-02-08 Thread Dwight Tovey
I think I'm having an issue with how Bacula handles retention periods and volume recycling. What I need to do: I have several machines that need to be backed up. Most of these machines have multiple filesystems. Most of these filesystems we only need to retain a backup for one month, but a few o

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore

2007-02-16 Thread Dwight Tovey
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 17:42 -0500, Joseph S. Rizzari wrote: > Hello, > > I have 1 full backup of a machine and several incrementals. I > performed a restore using BartPE. Everything seems like it restored, > I started with a formatted drive and now all the files are there, but > the machine won'