[Bacula-users] Distributing bacula clients to users

2011-08-22 Thread Jake Debord
What are best practices you would suggest rolling out Bacula clients in a Windows environment. I would like to keep users from knowing the password. What ways do you give users Bacula? Do you go to each machine and manually install it yourself, or do you send them the installer with the dir name an

[Bacula-users] Distribution Best Practices

2011-08-22 Thread Jake Debord
What are ways you would suggest rolling out Bacula clients in a Windows environment. I would like to keep users from knowing the password. What ways do you give users Bacula? Do you go to each machine and manually install it yourself, or do you send them the installer with the dir name and password

[Bacula-users] Distribution Best Practices

2011-08-22 Thread Jake Debord
What are ways you would suggest rolling out Bacula clients in a Windows environment. I would like to keep users from knowing the password. What ways do you give users Bacula? Do you go to each machine and manually install it yourself, or do you send them the installer with the dir name and password

Re: [Bacula-users] SPEED!

2011-07-06 Thread Jake Debord
Yes, I use disk based file storage. It is a full backup but, I will turn gzip off and defrag it to see if I can improve the speed. Thanks for the advice and any additional advice is welcomed. On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 11:37 AM, J. Echter wrote: > Am 06.07.2011 18:31, schrieb Jake Debord: &g

[Bacula-users] SPEED!

2011-07-06 Thread Jake Debord
I have a machine I back up that when done averages: Elapsed time: 41 mins 47 secs Priority: 1 FD Files Written: 6,948 SD Files Written: 6,948 FD Bytes Written: 14,587,852,350 (14.58 GB) SD Bytes Written: 14,589,273,339 (14.58 GB) Rate:

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

2011-07-05 Thread Jake Debord
Check the compression of gzip make sure your getting the files compressed. May slow down the backup process but if it's space you are worried about it will help tremendously. And also, Bacula will always stay at full capacity no matter if the job is pruned. Unless you MANUALLY delete the volume

[Bacula-users] Single File Restore to Win Vista

2011-07-01 Thread jake debord
Trying to restore a single file, when i search for it, it finds the job it's backed up in. But when I choose the FD then try to backup it requires a full path of the file. So i type the full path as it would appear in windows C:\Users\Tamara\Desktop\Clean 2011\file.pdf but it says it cant find t

[Bacula-users] Win Vista Single File Restore

2011-07-01 Thread Jake Debord
I open bconsole, and want to only restore 1 file. It asks me to choose the FD the file was backed up from. I choose the FD then it asks me to type in the full path of the file. I do so and it tells me no database record found. I did a search to see if it was backed up and it says it is. but it cant

[Bacula-users] Backup error

2011-07-01 Thread Jake Debord
I have ran successful backups with XP. This is my first machine to backup running Vista (hate vista). Bacula throws this error: 01-Jul 11:31 tamara-fd JobId 205: C:/Documents and Settings/All Users is a junction point or a different filesystem. Will not descend from C:/Documents and Settings

[Bacula-users] Bacula Storage Daemon

2011-06-30 Thread Jake Debord
*I try to check the status of my storage daemon because I am ready to implement Bacula. My backups will not start and I assume it is because it can't connect to the SD. I have studied by .confs very closely and all the IP's, ports, and passwords seem to all match up. Anybody have a suggestion what

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling

2011-06-06 Thread Jake Debord
Do you have a very specific reason for this? You realize that's a full year goes by before you back up. And then you run two backups within a two day period. A full backup on the first right after the 31st of December is almost wasteful I would imagine. You may could get by with a little differe

Re: [Bacula-users] "First Match" Issues

2011-05-27 Thread Jake Debord
ding the "Firstly..." and "Secondly..." text just above it, > which is critical to why your fileset doesn't work. > > __Martin > > >>>>>> On Fri, 27 May 2011 10:28:58 -0500, Jake Debord said: >> >> That is the example I started from. As fa

Re: [Bacula-users] "First Match" Issues

2011-05-27 Thread Jake Debord
2011 at 10:03 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: >>>>>> On Fri, 27 May 2011 09:09:09 -0500, Jake Debord said: >> >> I have read the documentation on how bacula looks at what to include >> vs exclude by the first match. I am trying to get two folders backed >> u

[Bacula-users] "First Match" Issues

2011-05-27 Thread Jake Debord
I have read the documentation on how bacula looks at what to include vs exclude by the first match. I am trying to get two folders backed up only and exclude all else. It will backup the My Documents folder, but will not backup the local settings>etc I will attach the code snippit, if someone would

[Bacula-users] Includes and Excludes Fileset Dir's

2011-05-27 Thread Jake Debord
I have read the documentation on how bacula looks at what to include vs exclude by the first match. I am trying to get two folders backed up only and exclude all else. It will backup the My Documents folder, but will not backup the local settings>etc I will attach the code snippit, if someone would

[Bacula-users] Recycling a volume.

2011-05-26 Thread Jake Debord
My goal is to have a backup job per employee. Each employee will have their own Pool and volume. My problem is that while testing the backups work fine, except the volume just keeps growing and growing. I have set the max volume size to 12G. The current file size is now 16G. I have also set the ma

[Bacula-users] Command After Job

2011-05-26 Thread Jake Debord
I am in charge of setting up the backups of a small office of around 10 people. About 6 are on on the same LAN as the server so bandwidth is not a problem. However, the rest are road warriors and their backups may take quite a bit more time... I am looking at asking them to leave their laptops on a

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs won't start

2011-05-12 Thread Jake Debord
Yea, that is exactly what I did. Thanks! :) On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:40 AM, J. Echter wrote: > >> } >> Client { >>    Name = jake-laptop-fd >>    Password = ** >>    Address = 10.0.6.107 >>    FDPort = 9102 >>    Catalog = MyCatalog >>    File Retention = 30 days >>    Job Retention = 6

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs won't start

2011-05-12 Thread Jake Debord
12, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Jake Debord wrote: >> Sure, here you go: >> >> # >> # Default Bacula Director Configuration file >> # >> #  The only thing that MUST be changed is to add one or more >> #   file or directory names in the Include directive of the &

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs won't start

2011-05-12 Thread Jake Debord
No I haven't. Do I need to add the to the Job block in the dir conf? or is there a setting I'm overlooking? On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > Have you tried turning off VSS for this FileSet? > Enable VSS = no > > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs won't start

2011-05-12 Thread Jake Debord
* Address = 10.0.6.107 FDPort = 9102 Catalog = MyCatalog File Retention = 30 days Job Retention = 6 months } FileSet { Name = WinXPTest Include { File = C:/jaketestfolder Options { } } } Job { Name = XPtest Type = Backup Level = Incremental Client = jake-laptop-fd

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs won't start

2011-05-12 Thread Jake Debord
Ok edited the conf directly and reloaded through bconsole. Any other Ideas? Same error: 12-May 10:22 DoraleeII-dir JobId 28: Start Backup JobId 28, Job=XPtest.2011-05-12_10.22.35_04 12-May 10:22 DoraleeII-dir JobId 28: Using Device "FileStorage" 12-May 10:22 jake-laptop-fd JobId 28: DIR and FD clo

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs won't start

2011-05-12 Thread Jake Debord
Debord wrote: > Thanks, I haven't tried that yet! I'll change it, and give it another > try. I'll let you know if that fixes it. > > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:59 AM, John Drescher wrote: >> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Jake Debord wrote: >>> Thank you

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs won't start

2011-05-12 Thread Jake Debord
Thanks, I haven't tried that yet! I'll change it, and give it another try. I'll let you know if that fixes it. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:59 AM, John Drescher wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Jake Debord wrote: >> Thank you I appreciate that, I have been co

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs won't start

2011-05-12 Thread Jake Debord
The file I have setup to backup is: C:\jaketestfolder It isn't a network share or anything, just a folder I created with a couple .mpeg in there so give it something to backup. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:29 AM, John Drescher wrote: >> I am setting up Bacula for the first time. I am attempting to

[Bacula-users] Jobs won't start

2011-05-12 Thread Jake Debord
I am setting up Bacula for the first time. I am attempting to test it by backing up a test folder on an XP machine. Here are the messages I get when I try to run my job: 12-May 08:45 DoraleeII-dir JobId 26: No prior Full backup Job record found. 12-May 08:45 DoraleeII-dir JobId 26: No prior or sui