Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring to different host

2015-04-30 Thread Frank Sweetser
you run your restore. Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu| For every problem, there is a solution that Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong. Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken On 4/30/2015 6:25 PM, Craig Shiroma wrote: > Hi Frank, > > Thank

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring to different host

2015-04-30 Thread Frank Sweetser
Is this a RedHat/CentOS box? They've recently made some changes to the selinux configuration around bacula which prevents it from taking pretty much any action other thank backups, including running scripts or creating files. Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu| For every problem, there

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple certificate authorities usage with Bacula

2014-02-10 Thread Frank Sweetser
It's working fine for me here, zero problems. Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu| For every problem, there is a solution that Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong. Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken On 2/10/2014 4:28 PM, Thomas Lohman wrote:

Re: [Bacula-users] Wake-on-LAN and bacula

2013-09-05 Thread Frank Sweetser
If you'd like, this would be great content to post on the wiki: http://wiki.bacula.org Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu| For every problem, there is a solution that Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong. Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with Jumbo packets?

2012-01-06 Thread Frank Sweetser
f the machines on the same subnet? If not, you'll also have to check the MTU on all of your local router interfaces. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu| For every problem, there is a solution that Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong. Worcester Polytech

Re: [Bacula-users] New to Bacula - emergency situation.

2011-07-05 Thread Frank Sweetser
ou'll need some hard data to illustrate that need. Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu| For every problem, there is a solution that Manager of Network Operations | is simple, elegant, and wrong. Worcester Polytechnic Institute | - HL Mencken On 7/5/2011 9:37 PM, larold wrote:

Re: [Bacula-users] Table file system full

2011-04-02 Thread Frank Sweetser
u.php?id=faq#why_does_mysql_say_my_file_table_is_full -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29

Re: [Bacula-users] Some questions about bacula

2011-02-18 Thread Frank Sweetser
t; any information.. I did search the list for a little while without > finding any results. > > I guess I'm looking for some kind of disk-based backup strategy for > about 100 Linux machines with the possible additio

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] mysql version

2011-02-13 Thread Frank Sweetser
and verify its functionality before trying to go live. In addition, if you do encounter any problems, the results will be visible to on the regression upload site, helping troubleshooting. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Enginee

Re: [Bacula-users] ERR=Table 'p' is marked as crashed and should be repaired

2010-12-07 Thread Frank Sweetser
e repair mysql command: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/myisam-repair.html After that, make sure to also run the bacula dbcheck command to look for any remaining problems. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Storage Daemon crash backtrace

2010-07-02 Thread Frank Sweetser
in question. I found that I was able to reproduce similar problems using scp to do encrypted transfers of multi-gig files. I didn't get segfaults, but I did get socket errors. This pretty strongly supports the conclusion that the root cause of the problem isn't in bacula itself. -- Frank S

Re: [Bacula-users] Storage Daemon crash backtrace

2010-06-23 Thread Frank Sweetser
The best thing to do with that backtrace is actually to open up a ticket in the bug tracker with it. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D2

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature idea feeler - bconsole "include / grep"

2010-05-11 Thread Frank Sweetser
hole. By allowing bconsole to execute any arbitrary command, it becomes impossible for the general system administrator to restrict the backup operator to bconsole access only via sudo. At a minimum, I'd hope to either see this feature implemented in such a way as to drop privs to the ori

Re: [Bacula-users] recover volume deleted by error

2010-03-28 Thread Frank Sweetser
ion back into the catalog. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-18 Thread Frank Sweetser
c would have to fit and work on a recovery disk. > This really is not a simple problem. Believe me on this. Indeed. While it would be great if this were to appear, it would almost certainly be a pretty sizeable subproject on its own, with substantial upkeep as new technologies appear. Any volu

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-17 Thread Frank Sweetser
c creation options, including - Labels and UUID (so you don't break fstab) - inode count - Advanced features (don't make fs the kernel can't mount) Hopefully someone else could comment more intelligently on what similar issues might exist on non-linux systems. -- Fra

Re: [Bacula-users] accurate backup estimate runs forever

2010-03-16 Thread Frank Sweetser
log on MySQL and I don't see anything > being added. See if this solution helps: http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=faq#jobs_with_accurate_filesets_take_forever -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Mantis

2010-03-06 Thread Frank Sweetser
for integration with the dashboard. CDash can be set up to generate an email whenever a failing test is submitted, which would give you a more complete overview of what's pending in RT. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer

Re: [Bacula-users] Dead slow backups with bacula 5.0, mysql and accurate

2010-02-19 Thread Frank Sweetser
ame, ... This should give you more data about exactly how mysql is going about executing the query, which should hopefully in turn point to why it's taking so ridiculously long and how that might be fixed. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI

Re: [Bacula-users] Have you tried the windows package?

2010-01-23 Thread Frank Sweetser
and click on bconsole.exe, I get > told: The version of this file is not compatible with the version of > Windows you're running. > > Can anyone report success? I haven't tried it on Vista, but I did it on a server 2003 install just last week and everything worked fine. --

Re: [Bacula-users] Networking diagnosis 101 - FAQ?

2010-01-15 Thread Frank Sweetser
ent, but do not have the time to do > the starting work. If someone has a table of contents, I could probably make time to contribute a couple of chapters. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant,

Re: [Bacula-users] [GENERAL] Catastrophic changes to PostgreSQL 8.4

2009-12-03 Thread Frank Sweetser
On 12/03/2009 10:54 AM, Craig Ringer wrote: > Frank Sweetser wrote: > >> Unless, of course, you're at a good sized school with lots of >> international students, and have fileservers holding filenames created >> on desktops running in Chinese, Turkish, Russian,

Re: [Bacula-users] [GENERAL] Catastrophic changes to PostgreSQL 8.4

2009-12-03 Thread Frank Sweetser
n work secretly feel it would be easier to just teach everyone english. Impossible as this may be, I have since come to understand what they were talking about...) -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegan

Re: [Bacula-users] Snow Leopard client

2009-12-01 Thread Frank Sweetser
, but it might be useful for you to try running the regression suite on it. You can find the details on how to do so in the developers manual on the bacula website. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant,

Re: [Bacula-users] Automated Test Suite

2009-11-27 Thread Frank Sweetser
anything exactly like what you're doing, but a good starting place would actually be to check out the regression test suite that's described in the developers manual. While they're designed around looking for bugs in the code, it shouldn't be too hard to adapt one of them to

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem inserting into table "batch"?

2009-10-12 Thread Frank Sweetser
On 10/12/2009 11:08 AM, Jon Schewe wrote: > Frank Sweetser wrote: >> The most common problem seems to be either 1) the mysql account that >> bacula is using doesn't have permission to create the temporary table, >> or 2) the partition mysql is configured to use for fo

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem inserting into table "batch"?

2009-10-12 Thread Frank Sweetser
gt; > It's done it two days in a row with the same filename specified. Any > ideas on how to debug this? > The most common problem seems to be either 1) the mysql account that bacula is using doesn't have permission to create the temporary table, or 2) the partition m

Re: [Bacula-users] Daemon listening on two subnets, requires TLS

2009-09-30 Thread Frank Sweetser
e same hostname, and get directed to the correct IP address. The second option is to create a list of alternate subject names in the certificate, so that all of the hostnames are considered valid for that cert. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI

Re: [Bacula-users] Your Bacula Post http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg29006.html

2009-05-29 Thread Frank Sweetser
starting the director, so none of my suggestions would really help. I'd suggest you try starting the director on its own by hand, and see if it produces any error messages that point you in the right direction. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that W

Re: [Bacula-users] Configuring Director & Storage on different nodes

2009-05-06 Thread Frank Sweetser
have any references to 127.0.0.1 in any of your config files, don't worry about it. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted file

2009-03-24 Thread Frank Sweetser
Craig Ringer wrote: > Craig Ringer wrote: >> Frank Sweetser wrote: >>> Craig Ringer wrote: >>>> Frank Sweetser wrote: >>>> >>>>> [deleted file tracking] has been implemented in the current >>>>> development code base. >&g

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted file

2009-03-23 Thread Frank Sweetser
Craig Ringer wrote: > Frank Sweetser wrote: > >> [deleted file tracking] has been implemented in the current >> development code base. > > Oh, I also meant to ask: > > Does deleted file tracking require the cooperation of the fd? Or will I > be able to ke

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted file

2009-03-23 Thread Frank Sweetser
Craig Ringer wrote: > Frank Sweetser wrote: >> Craig Ringer wrote: >>> I note that deleted/renamed file tracking is no longer shown on the >>> sf.net bacula projects document: >>> >>> http://bacula.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bacula/trunk/bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted file

2009-03-18 Thread Frank Sweetser
still says deleted files aren't > tracked. It has been implemented in the current development code base. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL

Re: [Bacula-users] Include or exclude /selinux?

2009-03-10 Thread Frank Sweetser
fs root (only shows up in /proc/mounts as > type selinuxfs, not when entering 'mount'). Excluded (or, if you have onefs, not included). /selinux is a virtual filesystem, similar to /proc, that is just a view into the current kernel state. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For eve

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula catalog size limits

2009-03-02 Thread Frank Sweetser
t that either OS resources (network and volume IO, mostly) and the database performance will be your primary bottlenecks. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprin

Re: [Bacula-users] How to properly escape Linux shell commands for ClientRunBeforeJob?

2009-02-16 Thread Frank Sweetser
8<-- In addition, the command string is parsed then fed to the OS, which means that the path will be searched to execute your specified command, but there is no shell interpretation, as a consequence, if you invoke complicated commands or want any shell features such as redirection or piping, you m

Re: [Bacula-users] Never Mind - Given up on Bacula

2009-02-12 Thread Frank Sweetser
f.com/ for a few weeks and then argue with a straight face that programmers who are motivated by paychecks magically make fewer mistakes than ones who care deeply about the projects they're working on. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Seni

Re: [Bacula-users] FreeBSD Bare Metal Recovery

2009-02-10 Thread Frank Sweetser
o start > the bacula-fd daemon. I get the following error message: I don't know if it'll fix your problem or not, but there's no actual need to chroot the bacula-fd daemon. Just set the "where" option appropriately when you start up the restore job. -- Frank Sweet

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring to a specific client

2009-02-04 Thread Frank Sweetser
d/no"? Type in 'mod' and it will give you a chance to modify all restore options, including the client you wish to restore to. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant,

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Fwd: Anyway to do multi-core compression?

2009-01-22 Thread Frank Sweetser
tp://www.bacula.org/en/?page=projects > > Item 24: Add an override in Schedule for Pools based on backup types. It looks like it's item 24 on the latest projects file: http://bacula.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bacula/trunk/bacula/projects?view=markup Perhaps the projects link on the

Re: [Bacula-users] products based on bacula

2009-01-20 Thread Frank Sweetser
nicely, Kern would be quite willing to >> charge you a price sufficiently high enough to make your manager happy >> :) > > Don't tell Kern... I'll charge a better price. ;) > In this context, that would mean at least double, r

Re: [Bacula-users] products based on bacula

2009-01-20 Thread Frank Sweetser
; least $30k, why would she freak? Because many mangers, used to dealing with and fighting over budgets 7 out of 8 hours a day, tend to equate cost with value. They're used to paying more to get what they want, so assume that if they're not paying more, whatever they're getting mus

Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude file contents

2009-01-12 Thread Frank Sweetser
on tables and filesystems using the diskinfo scripts - mount the new partitions on /restore - done a full restore with where => /restore - reinstall the boot load - reboot into the newly restored system Since the boot scripts are designed to come up with an empty /dev and populate it at

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup initiated by client (FD)

2009-01-04 Thread Frank Sweetser
ow I'm confused. Feature requests are indeed submitted via email; however, the details on how one should go about submitting a feature request (proper formatting, required information, etc) are on the website. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Sen

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and CentOS 5.2 Deficiencies

2008-12-29 Thread Frank Sweetser
ysql RPM installed without any > trouble. > > I thought the GUI would be nice so I tried to install a Fedora RPM, > hoping I would get lucky: As you've found, fedora is quite beyond CentOS/RHEL in terms of library versions. You're better off grabbing the SRPM and compilin

Re: [Bacula-users] update slots doesn't handle removed volumes

2008-12-19 Thread Frank Sweetser
it listed all the slots, including > empty ones but don't have anything else to compare against. > > As a workaround I've been setting InChanger to 0 for all media in the > database and then running update slots. Take a look at the update-slots patch here: http://sourceforge.n

Re: [Bacula-users] Improving Backup speed

2008-11-18 Thread Frank Sweetser
Pascal Clermont wrote: > Ok here is the steps I took that made me believe that I do not have libpq.a: libpq.a is part of the postgresql-devel package. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wr

Re: [Bacula-users] 2.4.2 vs 2.5.16 on CentOS

2008-11-15 Thread Frank Sweetser
ion 2.4.3 isn't outdated - it's the latest stable version. The 2.5 branch is under development, so while it contains new features, it's also much more likely to contain new bugs, too. Odds are you'll want to stick to the stable 2.4 branch until the new stable branch is releas

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Frank Sweetser
syntax to edit the hosts file, tweak an apache config, or edit the sudoers file, and augeas does all the dirty work of reading and writing each application specific file format. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-03 Thread Frank Sweetser
p://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=faq#why_doesn_t_bacula_store_configuration_in_the_catalog_database -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Beta 2.5.16 - after installation problem

2008-11-01 Thread Frank Sweetser
from being read (ownership, permissions, selinux label). - run 'ldconfig -v'. This should update the library cache used by ldd, and the bacula libraries should be listed in the output. - try running the program again. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Beta 2.5.16 - after installation problem

2008-11-01 Thread Frank Sweetser
ading shared libraries: libbacfind.so.1: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > I can see that files are in /user/lib catalog , what I need too set to > start Bacula properly? What do you get when you run ldd /sbin/bacula-fd -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and LTO4 weirdness.

2008-10-29 Thread Frank Sweetser
but a good place to start is to run the btape validation tests. That should make sure that there isn't any problem with your configuration on your particular hardware setup. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is s

Re: [Bacula-users] Clients of Bacula

2008-10-28 Thread Frank Sweetser
id=database_statistics -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] [Fwd: Re: bacula : about the bacula.spec form rpms]

2008-03-03 Thread Frank Sweetser
, the admin can simply use the bootstrap job, and know that the installation package will ensure it's always backing up the correct set up files without keeping them in one FHS-unfriendly directory. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Seni

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] [Fwd: Re: bacula : about the bacula.spec formrpms]

2008-03-03 Thread Frank Sweetser
ding executables simply can't be run as programs. If Bacula throws binary executables in places outside of FHS, it runs a risk of being shot down by those security policies. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is si

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula cannot write into a volume

2008-03-03 Thread Frank Sweetser
ritable?. This should help: http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Tips_Suggestions.html#SECTION003860000 -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0

Re: [Bacula-users] Update slots causes bacula console to prompt for drive, etc?

2008-02-29 Thread Frank Sweetser
ttle while to wake back up after it's been offline, so you may have to repeat update slots once or twice before it will admit that it's there. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution tha

Re: [Bacula-users] Hi and a question about volumes

2008-02-20 Thread Frank Sweetser
of, for that matter). What you could do, though, is create a script that makes a copy of your data to a staging area and modifies the data there. You could easily create a Bacula job that would call this script before each backup run, and have it backup the staging area instead of the original da

Re: [Bacula-users] Why Can't I Stat Mapped Vista network drives.

2008-02-18 Thread Frank Sweetser
anual/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION001411 Try using forward slashes, rather than escaped backslashes. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem when restoring to a networked drive.

2008-02-14 Thread Frank Sweetser
Windows file names, the directory path may be preceded by the drive and a colon (as in c:). However, the path separators must be specified in Unix convention (i.e. forward slash (/)). - If I recall correctly, the '\\' syntax worked in 1.38, but not in 2.x. Trying using a Where line s

Re: [Bacula-users] Archive, bscan etc?

2008-02-14 Thread Frank Sweetser
script somewhere that takes a "volumename" and give me a "tar > tvf-like" output of the complete volume content? 'bls' and 'bextract' will let you work directly with volumes. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution tha

Re: [Bacula-users] Some Scripts You may want to include within Bacula

2008-02-08 Thread Frank Sweetser
Vamegh Hedayati wrote: > Hello, > > I have written a couple of scripts around bacula. Those scripts would be a great addition to the wiki! http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=3rd_party_addons -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senio

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Cataloging question

2008-02-07 Thread Frank Sweetser
be faster to cancel the current restore, and upgrade to the latest version (2.2.8) and try again. The 2.2.x code should speed up building the restore tree from the catalog by as much as 500 times faster. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior

Re: [Bacula-users] slightly annoying bug in the console

2008-02-03 Thread Frank Sweetser
anyone else see this or is it just me? It's not so much a bug, as it is a bconsole quirk. It simply defaults to overwrite mode instead of insert mode. Hit the 'insert' key to switch modes, and it'll behave as you expect. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem,

Re: [Bacula-users] MySQL Errors being logged

2008-02-03 Thread Frank Sweetser
;d check through your kernel logs to make sure that there aren't any filesystem or hard drive errors popping up. Just to make one thing clear, though - this is almost certainly not a Bacula problem. All that Bacula ever does is fire off standard SQL queries at the server, which (barring

Re: [Bacula-users] Query on Bacula Feature

2008-02-01 Thread Frank Sweetser
ancing. If yes, please > provide details. If you mean having backups pointed at a cluster of storage daemons, no, it does not. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG finger

Re: [Bacula-users] E-mails with the subject "Backup OK" when warnings have occurred.

2008-02-01 Thread Frank Sweetser
ask if the current behavior can be improved. You can find directions on how to make a feature request here: http://bacula.org/en/?page=feature-request -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Help Request

2008-01-30 Thread Frank Sweetser
on my system (the ssl stuff looks like openssl), and I don't > know what package insalls libstdc++? > > Would anyone be able to tell me what Centos 5 RPMs are needed to get > Bacula to install? I *believe* that Centos 5.1 uses yum, so you should be able to use the whatprovides opt

Re: [Bacula-users] Steps to create a recovery cd from a windows host to a debian client

2008-01-28 Thread Frank Sweetser
manual for anything you're unsure of. http://bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Restore_Command.html -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D2

Re: [Bacula-users] Steps to create a recovery cd from a windows host to a debian client

2008-01-28 Thread Frank Sweetser
t's running the bacula client off of the rescue disk. The fact that the server is running Windows doesn't substantially change the process at all. If you've never done a restore before, you should really read through the manual online first. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For

Re: [Bacula-users] Steps to create a recovery cd from a windows host to a debian client

2008-01-28 Thread Frank Sweetser
eading that right and you need to restore a debian host, the simplest way is just to grab a knoppix CD. The latest version has been reported to have a bacula client already on it. You'll probably have to reconfigure it, but it should work to get your data restored. -- Frank Sweetser fs at

Re: [Bacula-users] Error compiling bacula 2.2.8 on fedora 7.

2008-01-28 Thread Frank Sweetser
(Don't forget to reply to the bacula list too) Erik P. Olsen wrote: > Frank Sweetser wrote: >> Erik P. Olsen wrote: >>> As may be seen from attached config.log I do not get very far when >>> compiling >>> bacula 2.2.8. It's the same problem I

Re: [Bacula-users] Error compiling bacula 2.2.8 on fedora 7.

2008-01-28 Thread Frank Sweetser
incompatibilities in my system? > Unfortunately I am not able to debug the problem myself. /usr/include/bits/local_lim.h:36:26: error: linux/limits.h: No such file or directory It looks like you're simply missing linux/limits.h, which should be part of the kernel-headers package. -

Re: [Bacula-users] Catalog backup separate from autochanger tapes?

2008-01-22 Thread Frank Sweetser
the backup that produced it using bextract. > Can anybody see any problems with backing up the catalog on to separate > media? As long as you do it with a separate job, it shouldn't be a problem. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Se

Re: [Bacula-users] copy over internal IP

2008-01-18 Thread Frank Sweetser
ccept it or not, but at a minimum you should probably come up with a sample syntax to define what you'd like to see, and make sure something like it isn't already in the projects list: http://bacula.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bacula/trunk/bacula/projects?view=markup -- Frank Sweetser fs

Re: [Bacula-users] Beta release of Bacula version 2.2.8

2008-01-18 Thread Frank Sweetser
al: http://bacula.org/developers/Bacula_Regression_Testing.html -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D

Re: [Bacula-users] copy over internal IP

2008-01-17 Thread Frank Sweetser
the hostname to the 192 address and uses that connection instead. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerp

Re: [Bacula-users] How to restore catalog (MySQL issue)

2008-01-17 Thread Frank Sweetser
system with no bacula installed, I tried this (syntax copied from a > restore example in the catalog backup script): > > mysql > which results in an error message: > > ERROR 1046 (3D000) at line 22: No database selected > > So it obviously won't be this simple? Al

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole can't connect with bacula-director

2008-01-13 Thread Frank Sweetser
e blocking it. To confirm this, what does the command telnet gsdserver 9101 do? -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole can't connect with bacula-director

2008-01-13 Thread Frank Sweetser
> > How can I fix this? Can I write IP address instead a name for Director? That, or add an entry to /etc/hosts for your hostname and the matching IP address. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole can't connect with bacula-director

2008-01-13 Thread Frank Sweetser
rule, either on the host or a device in between (if it's not the same host) is blocking traffic to 9101 -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1

Re: [Bacula-users] port 9101 not closed after bacula-director stop

2008-01-10 Thread Frank Sweetser
the time your deamons call it to find out what ports to bind to. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D2

Re: [Bacula-users] Help with Incremental backup failure

2008-01-10 Thread Frank Sweetser
ntly was enabling data encryption for these > clients. I can't see why this would cause it to want to insert values > into a non-existent table however http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=faq#fixing_table_bacula.batch_doesn_t_exist -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every prob

Re: [Bacula-users] port 9101 not closed after bacula-director stop

2008-01-10 Thread Frank Sweetser
le dahut wrote: > Let me explain it all again : > > - bacula-dir uses DirStartUp.py > - Dirstartup.py stop/starts services (samba, ldap, mysql) before/after > backup Can you post DirStartUp.py? -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI

Re: [Bacula-users] port 9101 not closed after bacula-director stop

2008-01-10 Thread Frank Sweetser
y DirStartUp.py. Do the programs still exhibit the same behavior when started manually, rather than from within DirStartUp.py? -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerpr

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula fedora8 problem

2008-01-09 Thread Frank Sweetser
ns Console password, is this the root password ? > thanks No, Bacula has its own set of passwords that it uses for authentication between the various components. http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Customizin_Configurat_Files.html#SECTION00134 -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula fedora8 problem

2008-01-09 Thread Frank Sweetser
d ... and here's the problem. The startup scripts are noticing that you still have the password placeholders, and assuming that you haven't configured Bacula at all. Edit the confg files, and at least change the password values and you should be able to start the daemons. -- Frank Swee

Re: [Bacula-users] port 9101 not closed after bacula-director stop

2008-01-07 Thread Frank Sweetser
red on your system, the canonical source for service name to port number mappings in /etc/services file. If you like, you could post your /etc/services file on a web site or pastebin.ca somewhere, and others could then take a look to see what hidden faults there might be. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi

Re: [Bacula-users] port 9101 not closed after bacula-director stop

2008-01-07 Thread Frank Sweetser
e and THEN I can restart > bacula-dir and find a well working bacula-director. > > This appears on many servers. > > What's happening with port 9101 ? As someone else said, you should definitely check the contents of /etc/services to see if the file has been corrupted.

Re: [Bacula-users] New Infrastructure Implementation

2008-01-04 Thread Frank Sweetser
ucture only mysqldump to capture views, procedures, and other such non table specific metadata, it should give you what you're looking for. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Me

Re: [Bacula-users] New Infrastructure Implementation

2008-01-04 Thread Frank Sweetser
client after" and > start the backup only "if success"? Or it's better to use a script on > director that remotely stops the db engine? Check out the Client Run Before Job and Client Run After Job directives in the manual. http://bacula.org/rel-manual/Configuring_Dire

Re: [Bacula-users] Using bacula over Internet

2008-01-04 Thread Frank Sweetser
on and encryption has been in Bacula for awhile now. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E

Re: [Bacula-users] Using bacula over Internet

2008-01-03 Thread Frank Sweetser
ut it is really painfull to administrate >>> on a >>> large number of machines. >> TLS will be at least as secure as ssh. >> > > > > http://openvpn.net is your friend in a time of need.of security, that is. It's worth noting here that openvpn,

Re: [Bacula-users] (no subject)

2008-01-03 Thread Frank Sweetser
ou're running into this particular glitch. If it fixes it for you, feel free to drop a note in the ticket as well, as the more confirmed testing this sees, the better! -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple,

Re: [Bacula-users] How to do network based off-site backups??

2007-12-23 Thread Frank Sweetser
a post job script. If you wanted to get a little fancier, you could set up a job on the remote end that bscan's the volumes into a separate director and catalog. Also, there's rumored to be a new version coming up in the next few months, if everything goes to plan. Typically kern puts ou

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Reporting System

2007-12-21 Thread Frank Sweetser
ld, but has plenty of bandwidth available to it. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and TLS, without client certificates...

2007-12-19 Thread Frank Sweetser
rver' > (dir) certificates, as usually done by SSL/TLS apps/protocols (https, > ldaps, ...)? No, since from an SSL perspective, all of the bacula daemons end up acting as both client and server. The director connects to the fd, the fd connects to the sd, etc. -- Frank Sweetser fs a

Re: [Bacula-users] Configuring Bacula

2007-12-11 Thread Frank Sweetser
n repository on > the svn server. > 2. Dump the svn and back up the dump. For an example of how to dump the repository intelligently, check out http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=application_specific_backups#subversion_repositories -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there

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