Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-21 Thread John Drescher
19-Apr 23:10 backula-sd JobId 183: Job write elapsed time = 00:00:01, Transfer rate = 51.14 M Bytes/second 19-Apr 23:10 backula-dir JobId 183: Bacula backula-dir 5.0.1 (24Feb10): 19-Apr-2010 23:10:04  Build OS:               x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu redhat  JobId:                  183  

Re: [Bacula-users] labeled tape not appendable ????

2010-04-20 Thread John Drescher
Thank you John. Pardon me if I ask this question (I am new at bacula): how do you scan the tape back into the database? Normally you would use bscan. http://bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/utility/utility/Volume_Utility_Tools.html#SECTION0027 However in your case where you just

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula script help - passing variable...

2010-04-19 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:20 AM, tqz bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Hello all! :) I'm trying to write a bash script for bacula and need a bit of help! My first file contains a script that gets the volume name of a tape and then runs the bconsole program that has a list of commands

Re: [Bacula-users] How to get label of tape currently in tape drive

2010-04-16 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:51 AM, tqz bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Hello all How do you get the tape name of the tape currently in the tape drive? st stor John -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval

Re: [Bacula-users] How to get label of tape currently in tape drive

2010-04-16 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:07 AM, tqz bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Hi John Thanks for the response. st stor im assuming gives the same output as stauts storgae? Is there a way to simply just get the name of the tape - as I would like to write a script that will purge the current

Re: [Bacula-users] Unable to open device PV124T-LT03

2010-04-16 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Tomasz Gorny tg...@wp.pl wrote: Hello, I'm using bacula some time. After moving to new hardware I've this problem: == 16-Apr 19:55 backup01_dir JobId 11745: Using Device PV124T-LT03 16-Apr 19:55 backup01_sd JobId 11745: 3301 Issuing autochanger

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-14 Thread John Drescher
 I just realized a typo.  I meant to say it's still using the same file every night.  I also just noticed something after the post-- the appending information in the log below.  So, it's not re-writing over the top of the same file every night; it's appending to it-- and not using a new

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-14 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Joseph Spenner joseph85...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Wed, 4/14/10, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: Can you post the output of list media John John:  Here's the results of list media === *list media Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-14 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:06 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Joseph Spenner joseph85...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Wed, 4/14/10, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: Can you post the output of list media John John:  Here's the results

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-14 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:09 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:06 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Joseph Spenner joseph85...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Wed, 4/14/10, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-14 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Joseph Spenner joseph85...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Wed, 4/14/10, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: You need to execute the two update commands that Phil asked you about. update Ok, I ran the commands.  I'll see what happens tonight.  Anything

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.0.1 and db issues - please, share your experience

2010-04-13 Thread John Drescher
I am working with bacula 5.0.1. On first stage i setup the server with bacula 5.0.1 and Mysql, but, when i need to restore i have found that the bulid tree process take 10-12 hours (or more). I have read all about this issues and i can see that no exists any magic solution. In order to solve

Re: [Bacula-users] Volume selection

2010-04-13 Thread John Drescher
I configured bacula with multiple pools and I assigned some volumes to each pool before hand. In the past two differential backups, bacula did not use the volumes already assigned to the pool, but it took one from the scratch pool, assigned to the pool and used it. Could anyone clarify why

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula don't read all my files

2010-04-12 Thread John Drescher
But my job is making the copy of all the files and directories, and I have to exclude the copy of my virtual machines and the hidden folder .gvfs If I put the option Exclude = yes, the bacula server does not copy any file, but if I exclude that line, it makes the copy of the full directory...

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula don't read all my files

2010-04-12 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 2:07 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: But my job is making the copy of all the files and directories, and I have to exclude the copy of my virtual machines and the hidden folder .gvfs If I put the option Exclude = yes, the bacula server does not copy any

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir dies on 3.0.3 version

2010-04-12 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Gustavo Nunes Freire Ribeiro gust...@linconet.com.br wrote: The problem is certainly in version 3.0.3. In version 3.0.2 this problem does not happen. John, I'm sure the problem is not in the database. The job that I perform, the bacula-dir shows me running,

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir dies on 3.0.3 version

2010-04-10 Thread John Drescher
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Gustavo Nunes Freire Ribeiro gust...@linconet.com.br wrote: Hello Mehma, I've done these 2 tests: I commented out messages section and still going the same problem. Guilt bstmp's really not because I am not using it. I had restarted the bacula-dir after

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula and windows 7 or vista

2010-04-09 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Bill Szkotnicki b...@uoguelph.ca wrote: I am trying to come up with a reasonable fileset for windows 7 or vista clients. The obvious idea is (C:/Users  i.e. all users data on the PC or laptop ) My fileset is: FileSet {  Name = win7-files  Include {    

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula and windows 7 or vista

2010-04-09 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:06 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Bill Szkotnicki b...@uoguelph.ca wrote: I am trying to come up with a reasonable fileset for windows 7 or vista clients. The obvious idea is (C:/Users  i.e. all users data on the PC

Re: [Bacula-users] Poor Performance

2010-04-08 Thread John Drescher
Any Idea? What I should check Put the spool on a different drive than the drive you are backing up. John -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula don't read all my files

2010-04-08 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Daniel dpi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi... Well, in the first place, English is not my first language, so sorry for some errors in my e-mail... :) I have a bacula server with ubuntu 9.10 working fine. I can connect with 4 others servers and make all the backups

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula don't read all my files

2010-04-08 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Daniel dpi...@gmail.com wrote: John Drescher escreveu: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Daniel dpi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi... Well, in the first place, English is not my first language, so sorry for some errors in my e-mail... :) I have a bacula server

Re: [Bacula-users] Poor Performance

2010-04-07 Thread John Drescher
I have very poor performance when the agent send the spool to the bacula server I currently use a RAID5 SAS 15K, 1GB Ethernet    hdparm -t /dev/sda2 /dev/sda2:  Timing buffered disk reads:  692 MB in  3.00 seconds = 230.41 MB/sec Any idea what I can check? 07-Apr 00:08 angel-dir

Re: [Bacula-users] upgrading bacula

2010-04-07 Thread John Drescher
I need to upgrade the bacula that I am running here on a fedora-linux server. Currently we run version 2.0.2 and I am attempting to move to 5.0.1 Questions: 1) Do I need to change the database? ( mysql 5.0.27 ) ( i.e. are the tables and indexes the same? ) There are several database

Re: [Bacula-users] upgrading bacula

2010-04-07 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Bill Szkotnicki b...@uoguelph.ca wrote: Thanks John, I ran update_mysql_tables and the table JobHisto is missing. Do I need to create it? Bill ERROR 1146 (42S02) at line 8: Table 'bacula.JobHisto' doesn't exist ERROR 1146 (42S02) at line 9: Table

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula for disk drives Help

2010-04-06 Thread John Drescher
Device status: Device FileStorage (/bacula) is not open.    Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for:       Pool:        File       Media type:  File There are no volumes in your File pool that bacula can use. Either auto labeling is not fully enabled or all volumes are

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula monthly keyword bug?

2010-04-05 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Proskurin Kirill proskurin...@fxclub.org wrote: Someone?... From the documentation: http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION00175 I believe you need a day spec and a time spec not just monthly. John

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula not expiring volumes

2010-04-05 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 1:03 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: I have a backup that runs weekly backups for one of the directives in my bacula-dir.conf file. The problem is the volumes are supposed to expire after 7 days and be recycled.  Here is the relevant parts of my conf

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula not expiring volumes

2010-04-05 Thread John Drescher
2010/4/5 bentman78 bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com: drescherjm wrote: On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 1:03 PM, John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com wrote: I have a backup that runs weekly backups for one of the directives in my bacula-dir.conf file. The problem is the volumes

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula for disk drives Help

2010-04-05 Thread John Drescher
The Windows Client is the BAT client, 5.0.1 but maybe it's not compatible with the 2.4.4 version of Bacula? The 5.0.1 bat is not compatible with a 2.4.4 server. BTW, I will try to look at the rest of your message later. I am receiving this via email and the forum / email integration makes it

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula for disk drives Help

2010-04-05 Thread John Drescher
I thought I was using the latest version of Bacula; I installed Ubuntu 9.10 Server and did an apt-get to get bacula. Some distributions get very far behind the current. This happens a lot with LTS type releases. They stick with a version and only upgrade for security reasons. There are

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula for disk drives Help

2010-04-03 Thread John Drescher
Can someone point me out to with some examples of Bacula that DO NOT use tape drive as storage? Tape and disk are handled pretty much the same with the main exception being that you need to use one of the following commands in your pool definition to limit the disk volume from growing to the

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Backup Job Question

2010-03-31 Thread John Drescher
Thank you for the quick reply, but whenever I try to run the first incremental backup it starts as a full backup and that's why I asked for a way to create an full backup catalogue entry without saving any data.. Can't you just shut it down today and let it do the full then it will happily do

Re: [Bacula-users] Recycle Pool and autoloaders

2010-03-30 Thread John Drescher
My understanding is that the volumes will never be used/pruned/purged as long as a suitable tape can be found. That is correct.  If this is correct, then only when there is no suitable tape in the autoloader, will Bacula start purging these volumes back to Scratch. I believe so. It will

Re: [Bacula-users] Recycle Pool and autoloaders

2010-03-30 Thread John Drescher
Thanks for replying, I was afraid you might say something like that! It does seem strange that such scripting would be necessary, as anyone with an autoloader must have a similar dilemma. I have an 2 drive 24 slot autoloader. I definitely do not have this problem. I change tapes probably 1

Re: [Bacula-users] Recycle Pool and autoloaders

2010-03-30 Thread John Drescher
Anyway, if anyone has already written such a script that i can adapt/use, I'd be grateful, particularly something that can determine the retention periods, etc.   It would not be my strong point. Thank you. I will try to find you links if I get time. Externally handling of retention periods

Re: [Bacula-users] Recycle Pool and autoloaders

2010-03-30 Thread John Drescher
I must be missing something here. Every day we take out the tape that was used the night before, and put it in a safe (in case the comms rooms is ever inaccessible).  We then look for a tape from the scratch pool to put into the empty slot.  This is fine, except that the scratch pool is not

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup not working

2010-03-29 Thread John Drescher
I use bacula 3.0.1. All the volumes are marked with VolStatus = Error. You need to fix that. Why are they marked this way? I mean did bacula crash when doing a backup? I can restore from all the volumes, but I can't backup. The volumes are files on a hdd. The volumes are always mounted.

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore error on bacula sd 3.03 and bacula-dir 5.01

2010-03-29 Thread John Drescher
2010/3/29 Koldo Santisteban ksantiste...@gmail.com: Hello I have a windows server 2003 with bacula sd and fd 3.03a installed with a bacula-dir 5.01 on centos. All is working fine, but when i want to restore a file from remote  windows server i obtain this error: zanburu.batz.es-dir JobId

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup not working

2010-03-29 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Victor Sterpu vic...@casnt.ro wrote: The problem appeared after a power failure. The output from  list media pool =PWin2000 is:

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Backup Job Question

2010-03-29 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:18 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Job Question To: Achim Gottinger ac...@ag-web.biz On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 5:31 AM, Achim Gottinger ac...@ag-web.biz wrote: Hi, I plan

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore error on bacula sd 3.03 and bacula-dir 5.01

2010-03-29 Thread John Drescher
not, is not include in the last release... :-( only bacula-fd Sorry I am not sure about windows release planning. I only use linux for my bacula-sds with a mix of windows and linux clients. Well, i have to find another backup solution for my small branches... Can you mount the windows

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore error on bacula sd 3.03 and bacula-dir 5.01

2010-03-29 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:37 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: not, is not include in the last release... :-( only bacula-fd Sorry I am not sure about windows release planning. I only use linux for my bacula-sds with a mix of windows and linux clients. Well, i have to find

Re: [Bacula-users] client rejected Hello command

2010-03-29 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Roland Roberts rol...@astrofoto.org wrote: I am routinely getting this after an upgrade of my server from Fedora 8 to Fedora 12 so it is now running Bacula 3.0.3 29-Mar 04:03 archos-dir: BackupCatalog.2010-03-29_01.05.05 Fatal error: File daemon on

Re: [Bacula-users] client rejected Hello command

2010-03-29 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Roland Roberts rol...@astrofoto.org wrote: On 03/29/2010 10:38 AM, John Drescher wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Roland Robertsrol...@astrofoto.org  wrote: I am routinely getting this after an upgrade of my server from Fedora 8 to Fedora 12 so

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

2010-03-28 Thread John Drescher
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Jean-François Leroux leroux.jeanfranc...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, thanks! I'll have to study bscan syntax. Only thing is: my sd is on a different machine than my director. Will it be still possible ? Yes. I have done this and my director, database, and main

Re: [Bacula-users] Compatibility table

2010-03-26 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Matias Banchoff mati...@cespi.unlp.edu.ar wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello,  we're backing up some servers, and we ended up with different Bacula versions. Our dir and sd is 2.4.2, and the clients are 1.36.3, 1.38.7, 1.38.11, 2.0.0,

Re: [Bacula-users] Migrating to a different system

2010-03-26 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Peter Eisch pe...@boku.net wrote: Hi, I needed to move the tape changer device from the bacula dir/sd with disk (volga) to a system running just the sd (ruhr).  I can status/mount/umount from the dir (volga) just fine. The problem comes when it's time to

Re: [Bacula-users] Job migration - documentation nit

2010-03-26 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: A bit of confusion regarding job migration today on IRC: From : http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Migration_Copy.html The term Migration, as used in the context of Bacula, means moving data from one Volume

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic tape changes not working

2010-03-25 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Sean Carolan scaro...@gmail.com wrote: So what am I missing here?  Bacula has the volume, knows the label name, but still can't find it in slot 23... I managed to fix the problem.  If anyone else runs into this in the future, here is the fix: update slots

Re: [Bacula-users] Label Format = Week-$WeekNumber

2010-03-25 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Prashant Ramhit prash...@bluebarracuda.com wrote: Thanks for you response Alan. Is it for weekly offsite tape for a full backup, not a perpetual rotating one. So instead of inserting 52 records for the volume name in the pool table.. Bacula can as well do an

Re: [Bacula-users] Label Format = Week-$WeekNumber

2010-03-25 Thread John Drescher
Thanks for that John. If you can not get this to do what you want I have ideas how this can work. Here is an idea: 1. Use a bacula include to put the pool definition or just the LabelFormat line in an external file from your main bacula-dir.conf @labelformat.conf 2. Have your cron job change

Re: [Bacula-users] How to re-use existing volumes in pool?

2010-03-24 Thread John Drescher
Volume 724CE972 not found in catalog. Slot=20 InChanger set to zero. Volume 724CE973 not found in catalog. Slot=21 InChanger set to zero. Volume 724CE974 not found in catalog. Slot=22 InChanger set to zero. Volume 724CE975 not found in catalog. Slot=23 InChanger set to zero. Volume 724CE976

Re: [Bacula-users] restores not working

2010-03-24 Thread John Drescher
On a modest Dell rackount with an E4500 2.2GHz CPU, 1GB of RAM 2 raid1 SAS disks, retention 5 weeks, about 20 clients and about 100mil rows in File, the restore query for 'building directory tree' would still not be done after 24 hours with 5.0.x, whereas for 3.x.x the time to do this was

Re: [Bacula-users] Hard disk as backup media

2010-03-24 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Thomas Mueller tho...@chaschperli.ch wrote: Am Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:57:18 -0300 schrieb Marcio Vogel Merlone dos Santos: Hi all, I am currently using bacula 2.4.2-1ubuntu4~hardy1, but the web docs refer to 5.0. Could please someone point to this lazy/buzy

Re: [Bacula-users] Hard disk as backup media

2010-03-24 Thread John Drescher
Durability apart, can this be done with bacula? What RTFM should I do? Yes. Bacula can do this. Read about bacula volume utility tools. Read about pools so you can create a pool that does not recycle. You probably still want to have more than 1 volume per disk so read about the options to limit

[Bacula-users] Fwd: How to re-use existing volumes in pool?

2010-03-24 Thread John Drescher
Have you waited a few minutes for this to complete? Yes.  Here's what I see for storage status: Device status: Autochanger Autochanger with devices:   d2d4112 (/dev/nst0) Device FileStorage (/tmp) is not open.    Device is BLOCKED waiting for media. Device d2d4112 (/dev/nst0) is not open.    

[Bacula-users] Fwd: How to re-use existing volumes in pool?

2010-03-24 Thread John Drescher
Please always reply to the list as well as the person you are communicating with. I do not always have time to answer. -- Forwarded message -- From: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:44 PM Subject: Fwd: [Bacula-users] How to re-use existing volumes

Re: [Bacula-users] bat and multiple catalogs

2010-03-24 Thread John Drescher
I installed the latest version of bacula (5.0.1) with bat on centos 5.4. I was able to configure it correctly and my backup system appears to be working correctly. The only issue I've run into it is that I configured two different catalogs and when I work through bconsole everything is fine,

Re: [Bacula-users] Long-term backups - was: Hard disk as backup media

2010-03-24 Thread John Drescher
What is the best strategy and storage media for long-term backups, say to 10 or 20 years (if any)? I ask because I do have an old DLT tape drive and some tapes, unusable, because its SCSI controller is no longer among us. It is not 10 years old and is already a problem. In bacula provided you

Re: [Bacula-users] Long-term backups - was: Hard disk as backup media

2010-03-24 Thread John Drescher
Wouldn't DVD be a pretty good solution for this? Perhaps they won't be around in 10 years, but I'd count that you could find a working reader. At that point you could read the data off and write it to whatever the latest, most long-term media happens to be. Certainly better than hard drives

Re: [Bacula-users] Long-term backups - was: Hard disk as backup media

2010-03-24 Thread John Drescher
Since we are on this topic. Never use flash / SSD for this. Current generation SSD drives have less than 2 years data retention when powered off. This is only getting worse as the manufacturers are shrinking the process nodes. John

Re: [Bacula-users] Long-term backups - was: Hard disk as backup media

2010-03-24 Thread John Drescher
Thinking in long term, i belive that the future is the cloud. Pay for 'hire' space and let the others take care of migrating data to new technologies when they will be available I guess a lot of people will choose this option. Probably same ones who pay $50K for a 10TB server and think they

Re: [Bacula-users] Very slow moving to end of data

2010-03-24 Thread John Drescher
The device is configured as below, and passes the btape test   Device {   Name = BACKUP-DLT   Description = Tape drive on backup   Media Type = DLT-1   Archive Device = /dev/nrst0   AutomaticMount = yes;               # when device opened, read it   AlwaysOpen = yes   Offline On Unmount

Re: [Bacula-users] Dir/SD on Mac or Windows?

2010-03-23 Thread John Drescher
2010/3/23 Bruce McCarthy br...@zebrafish.org: I'm a sysadmin who just recently inherited an all Mac Windows environment. We have both servers clients of both persuasions and no Linux boxes. Our current backup strategy is a mish-mosh of cron jobs and external hard drives. Hardly a solution.

Re: [Bacula-users] [CMake] QTCreator project to VS2008 problems

2010-03-19 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Oli Glaser o...@glasers.org wrote: I am new to cmake and QT so I thought I'd build a test project (basic forms app with two source files) in QTCreator and use CMake to port it to VS2008 to test it out. I have tried to pick the commands I need for the CMakefiles

Re: [Bacula-users] Any takers, pls? Bacula Sudo Authentication Failure

2010-03-19 Thread John Drescher
2010/3/19 Lucio Godoy luciocfgo...@hotmail.com: Any takers, pls? From: luciocfgo...@hotmail.com To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Bacula Sudo Authentication Failure Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:27:00 + Hi All; I have Bacula 3.0.2-1

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?

2010-03-18 Thread John Drescher
Yes, if you only have one drive, you need to have no jobs running in order to do 'update slots' or 'label barcodes'. I think you can update slots with the single drive running jobs. You can not label barcodes however. John

Re: [Bacula-users] BaculaFS

2010-03-17 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Joshua J. Kugler jos...@eeinternet.com wrote: Just came across this today on PyPi.  Sounds really interesting.  Has anyone every used it? http://pypi.python.org/pypi/BaculaFS/0.1.4 There was a small discussion of this 2 weeks ago on the list under the same

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up more than 200 servers

2010-03-16 Thread John Drescher
I wonder if someone on the list have knowledge about how to climb the bacula to backup over 200 servers?  It´s is possible? Yes of course. Other bacula users on the list do that. I have heard reports of 1000 machines being backed up by bacula. Currently, my Max Concurrent Jobs on Bacula-dir,

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up more than 200 servers

2010-03-16 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net wrote: On 03/16/10 11:54, John Drescher wrote: Gentoo has nothing newer than 3.0.3 even in unstable.  It seems to be an uphill struggle to keep all the various OS distributions up to date on Bacula. I have an ebuild

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up more than 200 servers

2010-03-16 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net wrote: On 03/16/10 12:20, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 03/16/10 12:09, John Drescher wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net wrote: Odd ...  I have your overlay loaded, and I see 5.0.0

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up more than 200 servers

2010-03-16 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:54 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net wrote: On 03/16/10 12:20, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 03/16/10 12:09, John Drescher wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Phil Stracchino ala

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-16 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Bob Cousins r...@rcousins.com wrote: The online documentation indicates that enhancement requests should be posted to this group. I'd like to see a small number of enhancements. Many of these have been mentioned before, so please just consider this comment a Me

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up more than 200 servers

2010-03-16 Thread John Drescher
True, but for anyone interested, there is working Gentoo ebuild for Bacula 5.0.1 here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302162 Thanks for pointing that out. I will have to see what is different from the ebuild in my overlay.. John

Re: [Bacula-users] different clients different volumes - please advise

2010-03-15 Thread John Drescher
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:19 PM, hellonewman bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Good Day - after finally getting everything the way I like it , my test backups decide to go wonky.  looking at my configs below (not actual code for the sake of not making the post to big) , can it now work

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-dir 5.01 no listen‏

2010-03-11 Thread John Drescher
2010/3/11 mario parreño mapar...@hotmail.com: Hi Greg, first, thanks for reading the question. I execute netstat -tanp debian-bacula:/etc/bacula# netstat -tanp Active Internet connections (servers and established) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address   Foreign Address State  

Re: [Bacula-users] Can someone help me to solve my logical problem... ?

2010-03-11 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:01 AM, gnowar g.no...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my personnal cycle tape. Let's see how it works : I have 20 tapes who are changed everyday. Everytime the 20s tape comes, I put it in a box during 365 days. It's like that : 1- 2- 3- 4- 5-

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling with different pools is not sequential anymore?

2010-03-11 Thread John Drescher
WOW! You must not have upgraded in some time. I believe this change came in 2008 or earlier.. I have several pools in one filestorage directory. Bacula automatically labels new media as needed with the LabelMedia = yes parameter. Count Bacula usually labelled each pools media sequentially

Re: [Bacula-users] Can someone help me to solve my logical problem... ?

2010-03-11 Thread John Drescher
I don't know if it's normal, but I can't reuse a tape if files and jobs are not pruned, even if the volume is. Files retention and Jobs retention ar definited in the client section. If the volume is pruned then the jobs and files on that volume have to be pruned. If bacula is not operating

Re: [Bacula-users] Can someone help me to solve my logical problem... ?

2010-03-11 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:22 AM, gnowar g.no...@gmail.com wrote: If the volume is pruned then the jobs and files on that volume have to be pruned. If bacula is not operating this way this is a bug. I think it is. I understood that should works this way when I read the spec but that doesn't

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling with different pools is not sequential anymore?

2010-03-11 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Steen Meyer bl...@beckmeyer.dk wrote: Torsdag den 11. Marts 2010 15:50:36 skrev John Drescher: WOW! You must not have upgraded in some time. I believe this change came in 2008 or earlier.. I have several pools in one filestorage directory. Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?

2010-03-11 Thread John Drescher
We have a tape library, 7 slots, 1 drive, barcode reader. All our tapes are barcoded. I've been using 'label barcodes' with some success [1]. This should work 100% of the time. It has for me for the 80 tapes I have had it label. When I add new tapes, I wait 5 minutes for my 24 slot changer to

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?

2010-03-11 Thread John Drescher
yeah, maybe it is a timing issue , (the changer isn't the newest) the msgs didnt seem to be related to the job that was waiting, but i could be wrong. The issue is that , say, slot 1 is labelled correctly, 2 and 3 not,  4 through 7 Ok. Sometimes it's one failed, sometimes 2, not the same all

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula configuration problems

2010-03-09 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:49 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/3/9 Daznis daz...@gmail.com: I'm getting a little stuck with the new configuration for multiclient bacula config. Schedule {      Name = Full      #Every week (Every Friday, use for 1 moths, 3 volume rotation

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula configuration problems

2010-03-09 Thread John Drescher
2010/3/9 Daznis daz...@gmail.com: I'm getting a little stuck with the new configuration for multiclient bacula config. Schedule {      Name = Full      #Every week (Every Friday, use for 1 moths, 3 volume rotation)      Run = Level=Full Pool=FullPool Friday at 13:05 } This part of my

Re: [Bacula-users] Some beginner Bacula questions (2nd try)

2010-03-09 Thread John Drescher
       I've always been a little unclear about the benefits of the .bsr files myself but mine is a small business so I can't speak for those with much larger, enterprise systems. They're small and are no trouble to back up, so I keep them against the possibility that I might really need them

Re: [Bacula-users] Some beginner Bacula questions (2nd try)

2010-03-09 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:17 PM, C M Reinehr c...@amsent.com wrote: On Tue 09 March 2010 12:19:40 pm John Drescher wrote:        I've always been a little unclear about the benefits of the .bsr files myself but mine is a small business so I can't speak for those with much larger, enterprise

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up 32bit clients with a 64 bit director/sd?

2010-03-05 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Stan Meier stan.me...@billigmail.org wrote: Hi there, is it possible to backup a 32 bit filedaemon client using a 64bit server? Yes. That works. John -- Download Intel#174; Parallel

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Job stalled indefinitely when performing a Virtual Full Backup

2010-03-04 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: Daniel Hansen dhan...@byu.net Date: Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:06 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Job stalled indefinitely when performing a Virtual Full Backup To: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com Here is the output of status storage: Automatically

Re: [Bacula-users] Job stalled indefinitely when performing a Virtual Full Backup

2010-03-03 Thread John Drescher
2010/3/3 Daniel Hansen dhan...@byu.net: I just upgraded the backup server that we use for staging to bacula 5.0.1, as I wanted to test the new functionality of being able to perform a virtual full backup to the same pool. However, after adding the necessary changes to have virtual fulls backup

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup two clients to same tape...

2010-03-02 Thread John Drescher
I have two clients with Windows 2003 server and I have need to backup this clients into the same tape... How can I create a job (or jobs) to make thia task??? Thanks for any help... This is the default behavior. Create 1 job per client. John

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows fileset for multiple server with multiple drive letters

2010-03-02 Thread John Drescher
2010/3/2 Koldo Santisteban ksantiste...@gmail.com: Sorry, me again I submit the job log in order to see the warnings zanburu.batz.es-dir JobId 55: Start Backup JobId 55, Job=Backup.2010-03-02_08.34.19_22 zanburu.batz.es-dir JobId 55: Using Device FileStorage posta.batz.coop-sd JobId 55:

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows fileset for multiple server with multiple drive letters

2010-03-02 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Koldo Santisteban ksantiste...@gmail.com wrote: 5.0.1... Are these FAT32? John -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find

Re: [Bacula-users] Exabyte Storageloader

2010-03-01 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:01 PM, David Koski da...@kosmosisland.com wrote: Thank you Brian.  I have not had success in finding the configuration form archives.  I would appreciate if you would send it to me. I found it in my mail. Google search for bacula Fwd: Here you go!! John

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up 100 servers

2010-02-28 Thread John Drescher
A hunerd-n-twenty jobs makes me wince. Why not simplify...a couple of ideas I have around 90 jobs at work. They all run fine. and feel free to knock them down: a.  I HATE NFS - so I'm not mentioning it as a solution b.  rsync all /etc's into a central location and back that up. This would

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring from possibly (probably!) corrupt disk volume

2010-02-26 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:40 AM, Mike Holden bac...@mikeholden.org wrote: Nobody got any clues at all? (Sorry for top-post, seemed more appropriate this time!!!) -- Bacula will not try to recover past the point of corruption. John

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: SD daemon BLOCKED

2010-02-24 Thread John Drescher
Yes, the problem is there, I correct it yesterday.. the volumes don't exceed the 'volumes retention', so the aren't ready to recicle But the question is... why it works well for 3 month?? :-) Did you change the retention in bacula after using some volumes? Do you know that the retention

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs on the same storage

2010-02-24 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Silver Salonen sil...@ultrasoft.ee wrote: On Tuesday 23 February 2010 19:09:49 Phil Stracchino wrote: On 02/23/10 06:32, Silver Salonen wrote: I consider it a bug, but looks like devs do not. Any opinions? I ran into this problem when I first upgraded to

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs on the same storage

2010-02-24 Thread John Drescher
OK. I have never used tapes with Bacula. But I'd expect a file-type device to be able to load more than 1 volume at a time. It's quite trivial, isn't it? This was a design decision that all devices are treated the same way. Anyway, the 1 volume at a time-limit has always been one job at a

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