[Bacula-users] SQLite 2 to SQLite 3 migration

2009-08-21 Thread John Goerzen
Hi folks, Over at Debian, we received a bug report at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=542810 regarding the migration from sqlite2 to sqlite3. We are doing the process implied by the make_catalog_backup command; namely: sqlite "$DB" .dump | sqlite3 "$DB.sqlite3" Our reporter

Re: [Bacula-users] Debian/Ubuntu and openssl

2009-02-11 Thread John Goerzen
in repositories. When I > understand that I will will know more about debian repository > management. Perhaps I will get their test repositories to work before > my test repositories. Run dpkg -i on your debs. -- John > > There are too many lawyers in the world. > > Bill >&

Re: [Bacula-users] Debian/Ubuntu and openssl

2009-02-09 Thread John Goerzen
Lukasz Szybalski wrote: > Hello, > > So it seems like openssl is already back in main repository. (I think > it was in contrib before). > Here are the bugs for debian. I don't see a bug for openssl support. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?package=bacula > > What you are saying i

Re: [Bacula-users] make_catalog_backup taking a hostname parameter

2007-04-24 Thread John Goerzen
ere is an (untested!) patch. # HG changeset patch # User John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # Date 1177422199 18000 # Node ID bf5207168f2ab659bdf04cb01a0a968d042eb5ba # Parent 26972468d802cbf0e5ffbc762e0eca75289f8dbd Initial implementation of make_catalog_backup.in taking a hostname fixes deb#

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and HP MSL2024 autochanger

2007-03-26 Thread John Goerzen
On 2007-03-24, Marc Cuypers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Goerzen wrote: > Thanks John. > > Anything special i have to take into account for the configuration? Or > did it work with the normal configuration stuff? Not really. It works with mtx just fine. I think I ma

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and HP MSL2024 autochanger

2007-03-19 Thread John Goerzen
On 2007-03-16, Marc Cuypers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Has someone bacula working with a HP MSL2024 autochanger? We have it working with an MSL4048, which from what I understand is very similar. Works great. -- John

[Bacula-users] Bacula 2.0.3 in Debian sid

2007-03-14 Thread John Goerzen
Hi folks, I have uploaded Bacula 2.0.3 to Debian sid (unstable). Please feel free to download and try out. I believe that at this point the 2.0.x packages should be of higher quality than the 1.38.x ones already. I will be posting separately to the devel list some info for anyone that would lik

Re: [Bacula-users] Debian packages uploaded to experimental

2007-02-26 Thread John Goerzen
On 2007-02-26, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As always, thanks :-) No problem. I have now uploaded the 2.0.2 docs as well. -- John - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Te

Re: [Bacula-users] Debian packages uploaded to experimental

2007-02-24 Thread John Goerzen
On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 10:40:30PM +0100, Lech Karol Paw??aszek wrote: > >Debian packages of Bacula 2.0.2 have been uploaded to Debian > >experimental and should hit your local mirror within 24 hours. > [...] > > Beautiful. Do packages include "fixed"[1] version of restore.c? > > [1] - > http://

[Bacula-users] Debian packages uploaded to experimental

2007-02-24 Thread John Goerzen
Hello, Debian packages of Bacula 2.0.2 have been uploaded to Debian experimental and should hit your local mirror within 24 hours. These packages will eventually be uploaded to unstable when I feel that they're solid enough to do so. (Also we must wait a bit due to an unrelated propogation to te

[Bacula-users] backup is slow

2006-10-09 Thread John Goerzen
g 2006 10:15:32 +0200 (CEST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#383332: bacula: backup is slow >>>>> "JG" == John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi John! JG> On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 05:32:28PM +0200, Anders Boström wrote: >> We hav

[Bacula-users] O_NOATIME

2006-08-18 Thread John Goerzen
Hi, In reading about the keepatime option and in reading the source, I think there is a much better way to accomplish this, on Linux at least. On Linux, since 2.6.8, there is an O_NOATIME flag that can be passed to open(2). The open(2) manpage states: O_NOATIME (Since Linu

[Bacula-users] Firing off a bunch of jobs

2006-06-30 Thread John Goerzen
We normally run weekly jobs, which are full backups, on Sunday afternoon. This past Sunday, we were upgrading a transformer for our machine room, and the servers were down during the usual backup time. When power was restored after a couple of hours, Bacula did not fire off the weekly full backups

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Confusion about changer volumes

2006-05-24 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:52:35AM +0800, Troy Daniels wrote: > John, > > What tape do you want it to use? > > Unless you've removed tapes from the following table, Bacula has chosen > the one and only writable tape in the list. At least JL6922L3 was prunable and recyclable according to the def

[Bacula-users] Re: Confusion about changer volumes

2006-05-23 Thread John Goerzen
On 2006-05-22, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >and then things worked. >> >> What was/is the Inchanger flag of the tape Bacula was asking for set to? OK. Check this out. Bacula is planning to use a tape that is not in the changer (it will get marke

[Bacula-users] Re: Support of HP StorageWorks MSL2024 Tape Library

2006-05-22 Thread John Goerzen
On 2006-05-22, Jeronimo Zucco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bacula supports HP StorageWorks MSL2024 Tape Library? > > This library: > http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/msl2024/index.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN > We have the MSL4048, which is the next step up from that library but other

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Confusion about changer volumes

2006-05-22 Thread John Goerzen
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 02:04:31PM +0100, Alan Brown wrote: > On Sat, 20 May 2006, John Goerzen wrote: > > >We had three labeled, but otherwise completely unused, tapes in the > >pool. Two were in the changer, and Bacula knew this. Yet for some > >inexplicable reason,

[Bacula-users] Re: Confusion about changer volumes

2006-05-21 Thread John Goerzen
On 2006-05-21, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am concerned about the unpredictability of the tape handling here, >> alas. > > I can't say I experience unpredictable tape handling here, so it would > be good do see more detailed information from you: If possible, use a > pool with a

[Bacula-users] Re: Confusion about changer volumes

2006-05-20 Thread John Goerzen
On 2006-05-19, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did an update volume and set yesterday's volume to used... then it > said it was waiting for mount. I ran mount for the second time > (remember I had already done that earlier), and then the backups > started usi

[Bacula-users] Questions about daily tape rotation

2006-05-19 Thread John Goerzen
Hello all, In the Bacula manual, one suggestion for daily tape rotation is to use a different pool for each day. That sounds excessively complex to me. We want to do daily rotations to offsite storage, though. I thought of a couple of options. One is to just remove each day's tape from the cha

[Bacula-users] Confusion about changer volumes

2006-05-18 Thread John Goerzen
Hi, Today I noticed an odd thing. Bacula was blocked waiting for a tape, but plenty of satisfactory tapes were already in the changer. We had run update slots and mount earlier in the day, though there was no device in the drive when the mount command was issued. Both behaved norally. Here's w

[Bacula-users] Re: Magazine slots on HP MSL4048

2006-05-17 Thread John Goerzen
On 2006-05-15, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=CLN000L1 > Storage Element 4:Empty > ... > Storage Element 44:Empty > Storage Element 45:Empty > Storage Element 46 IMPORT/EXPORT:

[Bacula-users] Magazine slots on HP MSL4048

2006-05-14 Thread John Goerzen
Hello, We have an MSL4048 HP autochanger. It has 48 slots, three of which are "mailslots" that can be ejected separately. The output from "mtx -f /dev/sg2 status" is: Data Transfer Element 0:Empty Storage Element 1:Empty Storage Element 2:Empty Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTa

[Bacula-users] Re: 1.38.9 debian

2006-05-08 Thread John Goerzen
On 2006-05-06, James Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone built any debs for 1.38.9? Yes. I have made a non-maintainer upload to sid of these. I had also done that with 1.38.8 last week. Unfortunately, both are presently stalled in NEW pending ftpmaster intervention. You may download

Re: [Bacula-users] Potential concerns about Bacula

2006-03-22 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 12:11:10PM +, Alan Brown wrote: > >That is correct. This feature is being worked on but for now, Bacula > >restores ALL files, including deleted and renamed ones. > > Most backup software works this way. Then most backup software is broken. Perhaps Bacula can be bette

Re: [Bacula-users] Potential concerns about Bacula

2006-03-22 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:20:49AM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Another isse I see is the also metnioned "feature" to back up files > based on the time stamps alone. This does not catch any renames, and > it also does not catch NEW files with old time stamps (like when I > download some stuf

Re: [Bacula-users] Potential concerns about Bacula

2006-03-22 Thread John Goerzen
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:23:46AM +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > tar's listed incremental mode is seriously broken; at least it was > when I tried to use it - espeicially when combined with the > --one-file-system option. Basicly it may omit whole directories, and > different ones de

Re: [Bacula-users] Potential concerns about Bacula

2006-03-21 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 11:29:08PM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > I'll let "real users" such as Michel Meyers and others answer most of the > questions for you, but I thought I'd throw in a few minor comments. Hi Kern, Thanks for taking the time to reply personally and for all your wor

Re: [Bacula-users] Potential concerns about Bacula

2006-03-21 Thread John Goerzen
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 10:59:03PM +0100, Michel Meyers wrote: Hi Michel, Thanks for your insight. A couple of comments: > >2) I'm concerned that incremental and differential backups don't notice > >deleted files. When we restore from that, we could wind up with > >thousands of deleted or rena

[Bacula-users] Potential concerns about Bacula

2006-03-21 Thread John Goerzen
that an incorrect assumption? Thanks for all your work on Bacula and its manual. -- John Goerzen --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the