[Bacula-users] command to check if bacula is running?

2013-06-27 Thread Joseph Spenner
Is there a simple command line way to determine if bacula is not currently running any jobs? I want to write a script to perform some other backups of the bacula database, but want to make sure it's not currently running. I was thinking something like: # echo "status director" |bconsole   (and

Re: [Bacula-users] Automated reports

2013-04-29 Thread Joseph Spenner
From: Bill Arlofski To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 2:34 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Automated reports > You might want to look at webacula. Some of the pages available was very >nicely done and appear to be exactly what you are looking for. For example,

Re: [Bacula-users] Automated reports

2013-04-29 Thread Joseph Spenner
well. This gives me an idea though.  I think mine will be a web interface where the report is displayed after the desired date is selected via the interface. Regards, Joseph Spenner __ If life gives you lemons, keep them-- because hey

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-Web 5.2.12 released

2013-01-25 Thread Joseph Spenner
Davide:   I needed 1 extra step to make this work on my Linux Mint (Ubuntu/Debian) system: # apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 Otherwise, my apache didn't know what to do with .php, and would offer them for download. Thanks! Regards, Joseph Sp

[Bacula-users] handy script to show FileSets

2012-10-26 Thread Joseph Spenner
In case anyone finds this useful, I wrote this to quickly show all the FileSets: - #!/usr/bin/perl @fileSetCommand=`echo "show fileset" | bconsole |grep FileSet`; foreach $line (@fileSetCommand) {     $line =~ m/\=(.*)/;     $fileSet=$1;     push (@fileSets, $fileSet);     }

Re: [Bacula-users] Restricting who can restore data from which system to where

2012-10-17 Thread Joseph Spenner
>From: "r.schuitema...@kpn.com" >To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 8:24 AM >Subject: [Bacula-users] Restricting who can restore data from which system to >where > >Hello All, > > >I’ve set up a bacula server to do b

Re: [Bacula-users] BAT and qt vesrion

2012-08-09 Thread Joseph Spenner
From: "Rao, Uthra R. (GSFC-672.0)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC]" To: "bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net" Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2012 12:08 PM Subject: [Bacula-users] BAT and qt vesrion > I tried to compile bacula-5.2.10 with BAT on a RHEL6.2 server. I found that

Re: [Bacula-users] max run time

2012-07-14 Thread Joseph Spenner
On Jul 14, 2012, at 5:38 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: > Bacula 5.0.2, CentOS 5.8. > > I have this in my job definitions: > >Full Max Run Time = 29d > > but still they are terminated after 6 days: > > 14-Jul 20:27 cbe-dir JobId 39969: Fatal error: Network error with FD >during Backup: ER

Re: [Bacula-users] Batch restore

2012-04-10 Thread Joseph Spenner
From: Benjamin Blakely To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 1:56 PM Subject: [Bacula-users] Batch restore Hello, I am trying to do batch restores with commands such as the following: restore restoreclient=lancelot-sd-fd cli

Re: [Bacula-users] Why does installing WinBacula NEVER work?

2012-03-16 Thread Joseph Spenner
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Mingus Dew wrote: > Dear All, >     I realize its kind of a strong subject line, but I seriously > haven't gotten the windows FD to run on any platform in a very long > time. It installs, the config looks good, but I ALWAYS on

Re: [Bacula-users] How to send a bulk mail for backup success and filiers

2012-03-07 Thread Joseph Spenner
From: Konstantin Khomoutov To: Rushdhi Mohamed Cc: bacula-users Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 4:37 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How to send a bulk mail for backup success and filiers On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 00:17:41 +0530 Rushdhi Mohamed wrote: >> Bacula r

[Bacula-users] Forcing bacula to use a specific volume

2012-01-16 Thread Joseph Spenner
I'm currently using disks as media, with 21 total in my pool. I had some network/config issues, and my volumes have gotten out of order.  For example, the order is 1,2,6,7,8. with 3,4,5 set to expire much later, therefore not getting used until later. I'd like to force #3 to be used once 2 is

Re: [Bacula-users] full recovery of a specific directory using a specific date/time?

2011-11-10 Thread Joseph Spenner
October 26, 2011 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] full recovery of a specific directory using a specific date/time? Choose 6 option. Navigate on directory tree, mark directory to restore and type done. Kleber 2011/10/26 Joseph Spenner My goal is to recover an entire directory and files within

[Bacula-users] full recovery of a specific directory using a specific date/time?

2011-10-26 Thread Joseph Spenner
My goal is to recover an entire directory and files within it from a certain date.  However, when I try to perform the recover, I'm only able to recover the directory itself.  Here are my steps: *restore 8: Enter a list of files to restore before a specified time Select item:  (1-13): 8 Ente

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula hangs waiting on a client

2011-10-11 Thread Joseph Spenner
From: John Drescher To: Joseph Spenner Cc: bacula-users Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula hangs waiting on a client 2011/9/26 Joseph Spenner : > From: Ben Walton > > Excerpts from Joseph Spenner's mess

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula hangs waiting on a client

2011-09-26 Thread Joseph Spenner
From: John Drescher To: Joseph Spenner Cc: bacula-users Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula hangs waiting on a client 2011/9/26 Joseph Spenner : > From: Ben Walton > > Excerpts from Joseph Spenner's mess

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula hangs waiting on a client

2011-09-26 Thread Joseph Spenner
From: Ben Walton Excerpts from Joseph Spenner's message of Fri Sep 23 16:55:32 -0400 2011: > Storage { >   Name = bacula-va-sd >   SDPort = 9103  # Director's port >   WorkingDirectory = "/opt/bacula/bin/working" >   Pid Directory = "/opt/bacula/bin/working" >   Maximum Concurre

[Bacula-users] Bacula hangs waiting on a client

2011-09-23 Thread Joseph Spenner
I'm running bacula 5.0.2 on openSUSE 11.2, backing up several linux, sun, and 1 Windows system. Sometimes, the backups are not proceeding.  If I run bat, I can see "Waiting on client" in Job Status for a particular client, and none of the other jobs in the list will run until I cancel that hung

Re: [Bacula-users] Reliable Backups without Tapes?

2011-07-15 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Fri, 7/15/11, Steve Costaras wrote: From: Steve Costaras Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Reliable Backups without Tapes? To: "Paul Mather" Cc: "Ken Mandelberg" , bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Friday, July 15, 2011, 6:44 AM On 2011-07-15 07:28, Paul

Re: [Bacula-users] Automated Disk Backup Question - I still don't understand!

2011-02-25 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Fri, 2/25/11, Randy Katz wrote: > From: Randy Katz > Subject: [Bacula-users] Automated Disk Backup Question - I still don't > understand! > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Friday, February 25, 2011, 8:00 PM > Hi, > > This is bacula 5.0.3: > > I have Pools set to the fol

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system.

2011-02-02 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 2/2/11, John Drescher wrote: > From: John Drescher > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] setting up a disk based backup system. > To: "Kenneth Johansson" > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 8:34 AM > > You are using raid 0 and LVM for your bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't restore backup

2011-01-24 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Mon, 1/24/11, Rubik Andrey wrote: > > > And can't run bconsole as non-superuser user (from which > user I should > run bconsole?): > > user $ bconsole > bconsole: command not found > > Become root and run bconsole, then 'messages'. There is a wealth of information in those messages

[Bacula-users] client backup paths stored in database?

2011-01-05 Thread Joseph Spenner
Does bacula store the "File = /path/to/backup" (as described in the bacula-dir.conf "FileSet" sections) in the database anywhere? If so, which tables would I find it? I spun through them and couldn't find anything. Thanks!

Re: [Bacula-users] Howto restore with SSH-tunnel.

2011-01-03 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Mon, 1/3/11, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > >>> > >>> How did you do it? > >> Sorry, this does not directly help: I use OpenVPN > instead of ssh. > >> > > I would agree with this solution as well, the > difference in overhead is > > very negligible, and it's pretty slick setup > > > > Our LA

[Bacula-users] bacula-web, bweb, et al

2010-12-30 Thread Joseph Spenner
I'm curious how many people use the bacula-web and/or bweb applications. I spent the better part of the morning trying to get bacula-web working but it appears to be failing in PHP land somewhere. I then tried bweb, which was also in the gui tar file, and got that working in a matter of minutes

Re: [Bacula-users] How to restore all files under a given directory

2010-11-26 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Fri, 11/26/10, Win Htin wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am running Bacula version 2.2.6 and am wondering how I > can restore > all files/sub-directories under a given directory since I > do not know > exactly what files/sub-directories are under that > directory. The only > options I can see fro

[Bacula-users] Schedule Resource : Date-time-specification

2010-07-13 Thread Joseph Spenner
In the "Configuring the Director" document, there's an entry regarding backups "every 10 minutes", as follows: Schedule { Name = "TenMinutes" Run = Level=Full hourly at 0:05 Run = Level=Full hourly at 0:15 Run = Level=Full hourly at 0:25 Run = Level=Full hourly at 0:35 Run = Level=Ful

[Bacula-users] file management question

2010-06-14 Thread Joseph Spenner
I have a file backup solution with 21 files. After the 21st, it will start over at 1. But what would happen if bacula doesn't find file_01? If it finds it, it will write over the top and wipe out what was previously stored. But if it's not present at all, will bacula return an error? Or wil

Re: [Bacula-users] Nagios Plugins

2010-06-04 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 6/2/10, John Drescher wrote: > From: John Drescher > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Nagios Plugins > To: "Joseph Spenner" , "bacula-users" > > Date: Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 9:29 AM > > Is there any indication in a > file (or output from

Re: [Bacula-users] Nagios Plugins

2010-06-02 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 6/2/10, John Drescher wrote: > Do any of the nagios plugins support > alerting if bacula is waiting for media? > John: Something like this? http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=nagios_active_checks --

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula using volume for each job every night

2010-05-27 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 5/26/10, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > The volumes look fine.  If it still uses multiple > volumes, I don't think > it's a media problem. > Ok, last night worked great. Thanks for the help! I'm curious about something though. Here's the report from last night via bat: http://img57

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula using volume for each job every night

2010-05-26 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 5/26/10, Joseph Spenner wrote: > > Last night still used multiple volumes, so I decided to > wipe the volumes and the database, and let bacula start > over.  I created my new 21 volumes, but as I recall, I > need to do something to the volumes (mark them in some &g

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula using volume for each job every night

2010-05-26 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Tue, 5/25/10, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > Which section would I place the "Maximum Concurrent > Jobs = 20" in the bacula-dir.conf ? > > In both the Director resource and all applicable Storage > resources. > Last night still used multiple volumes, so I decided to wipe the volumes and t

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula using volume for each job every night

2010-05-25 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Tue, 5/25/10, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > The 'Storage' section of bacula-dir.conf does not call out > individual > devices, just storage daemons.  You should have the > Storage device > concurrency set both in bacula-sd.conf and bacula-dir.conf, > but, for the > sake of constructive para

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula using volume for each job every night

2010-05-25 Thread Joseph Spenner
10, 10:22 AM > On 05/25/10 12:04, Joseph Spenner > wrote: > > I see how to "update all volumes from pool": > > > > http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/3972/updateallvolumesfrompoo.png > > > > But not sure how to "Update the Pool from the > Resource&

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula using volume for each job every night

2010-05-25 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Tue, 5/25/10, Phil Stracchino wrote: > From: Phil Stracchino > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bacula using volume for each job every night > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 8:52 AM > On 05/25/10 10:37, Joseph Spenner > wrote: > &g

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula using volume for each job every night

2010-05-25 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Tue, 5/25/10, Phil Stracchino wrote: > From: Phil Stracchino > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bacula using volume for each job every night > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 9:16 AM > On 05/25/10 11:06, Joseph Spenner > wrote: >

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula using volume for each job every night

2010-05-25 Thread Joseph Spenner
If life gives you lemons, keep them-- because hey.. free lemons. --- On Tue, 5/25/10, John Drescher wrote: > From: John Drescher > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bacula using volume for each job every night > To: "Joseph Spenner" > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net &

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula using volume for each job every night

2010-05-25 Thread Joseph Spenner
8:49 AM > On 05/25/10 10:37, Joseph Spenner > wrote: > > The last few nights, bacula is using multiple volumes > again.  I had this problem once before and thought I > fixed it.  But apparently not.  Here are my > settings: > > > > # Default pool definition &g

[Bacula-users] bacula using volume for each job every night

2010-05-25 Thread Joseph Spenner
The last few nights, bacula is using multiple volumes again. I had this problem once before and thought I fixed it. But apparently not. Here are my settings: # Default pool definition Pool { Name = Default Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Job Retention = 20 days Vo

Re: [Bacula-users] Hitachi Maxell demos 50TB capacity LTO-class tape

2010-05-24 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Mon, 5/24/10, Brian Debelius wrote: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/24/hitach_maxell_perp_tape/ > > Hitachi Maxell has demonstrated a 50TB capacity LTO-class > tape using > perpendicular magnetic recording technology.  This is > 400 per cent more > than the raw capacity of the h

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

2010-05-20 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Thu, 5/20/10, John Drescher wrote: > > > > I thought I fixed this, but apparently not.  How > should the Volume Status be set in order to cycle through > volumes and start over after the last one is used?  When > the above failure occurred, all my Volume Status's were > "Used". > > > > A

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

2010-05-20 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 4/14/10, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > Once purged, you can either let Bacula recycle them itself, > or you can > use the Update Volume command to manually change the volume > status to > Recycle.  This is a particularly straightforward > operation if you are > using BAT, since you can

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling configuration question

2010-05-18 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Tue, 5/18/10, Joseph Spenner wrote: > Ok, I do have a spare disk in my system I can use for the > 7th day.  So, let's change the schedule such that I > have 3 sets of "7 disks", for a total of 21 disks.  > Perhaps this will simplify the scheduling.  I still &

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling configuration question

2010-05-18 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Mon, 5/17/10, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > As previously mentioned, staggering backups on your clients > is fairly > easy.  A six-day backup cycle is *unusual*, because it > doesn't fit > neatly into either weekly or monthly schedules, and because > we don't > have an ideal calendar divide

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling configuration question

2010-05-17 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Mon, 5/17/10, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > AMANDA has a totally different approach to backup > scheduling than > Bacula.  And I'll come right out and say that AMANDA's > approach makes my > brain hurt.  It's sort of like having a checkbook that > promises it'll be > balanced three times a m

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling configuration question

2010-05-17 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Mon, 5/17/10, John Drescher wrote: > > How would I configure such that it runs a full backup > every 6 "runs"? > > Make the full backup weekly in the schedule instead of > monthly. > > > By default, how many incrementals does it run before a > full backup is run? > > This is set by you

[Bacula-users] Scheduling configuration question

2010-05-17 Thread Joseph Spenner
I have bacula running with hard drive media (no tapes). There are 3 sets of 6 SATA disks with easily removable shuttles-- 1 set of 6 will always be kept off site. My goal is to have the schedule such that there is always a FULL backup of every host on each set of disks. I'm not very clear of t

Re: [Bacula-users] Linux Server, Windows Client

2010-05-14 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Fri, 5/14/10, Ben Pfitzner wrote: > Hi Joseph, > > I had a similar Problem a couple of hours ago. See: > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=AANLkTinaPZe-zie5oyw2HO03wwN6sJwHE1hd7TpGiQIO%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=bacula-users > What solved it for me was to use a sh

[Bacula-users] Linux Server, Windows Client

2010-05-14 Thread Joseph Spenner
I'm currently using Bacula 5.0.2 on Linux. It's working great with 3 Linux clients (CentOS and Suse). However, to make things interesting I decided to try adding a Windows client. The bacula-fd.exe -t bacula-fd.conf test passes on the Windows client. However, I did notice if I try to run it f

Re: [Bacula-users] New To Bacula

2010-05-14 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Thu, 5/13/10, Frandin, Dave wrote: > "Error" and SD termination status > "Waiting on FD", > and Termination "*** Backup Error ***" I'm relatively new to bacula as well, and I saw this same thing happen when I forgot to build/initialize the mysql database, and/or mysql wasn't running. Just

Re: [Bacula-users] volume/file size and speed

2010-05-11 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Tue, 5/11/10, John Drescher wrote: > I first must let bat (I think?) load the WHOLE index before > I get a list of what is possible to select.  This is what > appears to take hours.  Or is this possible faster in > bconsole? > > > > I do not really use bat, nor have I restored anything f

Re: [Bacula-users] volume/file size and speed

2010-05-11 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Tue, 5/11/10, John Drescher wrote: > > > 3) If I use bconsole I can specify a single file to > recover and it is VERY fast.  But there doesn't seem to be > a way to specify an entire directory.  Or am I not looking > in the right place? > > > > You run restore and mark the folder you wan

[Bacula-users] volume/file size and speed

2010-05-11 Thread Joseph Spenner
I'm currently set up with a File based backup system (no tapes). Initially I wanted to make 1TB files, but learned (and read) that recovery of a backup is very slow with large files. So, I reconfigured it to create 1GB files. This will create significantly more files (1000x) but this won't be

[Bacula-users] BAT question regarding Volume Usage

2010-05-06 Thread Joseph Spenner
I'm currently using bacula with file as media (no tape). Things appear to be working great, but in BAT when I view the media I see the Volume Usage of one of my files/volumes at 583.92% (a mouseover of the usage bars in the "Vol Usage" column). My current file/media layout should be 18 volumes

Re: [Bacula-users] Installing with RPMs

2010-05-05 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 5/5/10, Stefan Muenkner wrote: > > --- On Tue, 5/4/10, Joseph Spenner > wrote: > > > > > > The suspense was killing me, so I went ahead and > modified the scripts from the source installation to work > here.  I now have a mysql 'bacula&#x

Re: [Bacula-users] Installing with RPMs

2010-05-04 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Tue, 5/4/10, Joseph Spenner wrote: > From: Joseph Spenner > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Installing with RPMs > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Tuesday, May 4, 2010, 11:29 AM > --- On Tue, 5/4/10, Phil Stracchino > > wrote: > > > > I h

Re: [Bacula-users] Installing with RPMs

2010-05-04 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Tue, 5/4/10, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > I have mysql running on my Suse 11.2 64bit > system.  How does mysql get populated with the bacula > database/tables?  When I compiled from source earlier, > I found I needed to manually run some scripts: > > > > # create_bacula_database > > > > #

[Bacula-users] Installing with RPMs

2010-05-04 Thread Joseph Spenner
I have the following RPMs: bacula-bat-5.0.2-1.su112.x86_64.rpm bacula-client-5.0.2-1.su112.x86_64.rpm bacula-libs-5.0.2-1.su112.x86_64.rpm bacula-mysql-5.0.2-1.su112.x86_64.rpm >From what Phil said, I know: bacula-bat-5.0.2-1.su112.x86_64.rpm The BAT graphical console only, database independent

Re: [Bacula-users] BAT?

2010-04-29 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Thu, 4/29/10, Phil Stracchino wrote: > From: Phil Stracchino > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] BAT? > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010, 12:02 PM > On 04/29/10 13:26, Joseph Spenner > wrote: > > Is the bacula-bat RPM the

Re: [Bacula-users] BAT?

2010-04-29 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 4/28/10, Phil Stracchino wrote: > From: Phil Stracchino > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] BAT? > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 7:15 PM > On 04/28/10 19:25, Joseph Spenner > wrote: > > I think I'm going to start o

Re: [Bacula-users] BAT?

2010-04-28 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 4/28/10, Matija Nalis wrote: > From: Matija Nalis > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] BAT? > To: "Joseph Spenner" > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 8:48 AM > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:06:38AM > -0700, Joseph Sp

[Bacula-users] BAT?

2010-04-27 Thread Joseph Spenner
This may be so obvious that I can't find it.. but where do I find BAT? I'm compiling from source, and thought it would be in bacula-gui. But this appears to be mostly for web applications. I've been using bconsole for everything, but from what I read and saw in screenshots BAT looks a bit simpl

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

2010-04-22 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Thu, 4/22/10, Phil Stracchino wrote: > From: Phil Stracchino > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Thursday, April 22, 2010, 4:02 PM > On 04/22/10 17:47, Joseph Spenner > wrote: > > -

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

2010-04-22 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Thu, 4/22/10, John Drescher wrote: > From: John Drescher > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media > To: "Joseph Spenner" > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Thursday, April 22, 2010, 4:04 PM > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010

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

2010-04-22 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 4/14/10, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > Joseph, > > That looks much better.  Now your volumes have the > correct nine days > retention time for your desired ten-day cycle, instead of > zero, so your > jobs will actually be kept around instead of being pruned > as soon as > they complete

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

2010-04-21 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 4/21/10, Phil Stracchino wrote: > From: Phil Stracchino > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 5:53 PM > On 04/21/10 19:42, John Drescher > wrote: > >> 19-Apr 23:10 backula-sd JobI

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

2010-04-21 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 4/21/10, John Drescher wrote: > From: John Drescher > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media > To: "Joseph Spenner" > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 12:10 PM > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010

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

2010-04-21 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 4/21/10, John Drescher wrote: > From: John Drescher > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media > To: "Joseph Spenner" > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 11:38 AM > > 17-Apr 23:05 backul

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

2010-04-21 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 4/14/10, Joseph Spenner wrote: > From: Joseph Spenner > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 7:04 PM > --- On Wed, 4/14/10, John Drescher > > wrote: > >

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

2010-04-14 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 4/14/10, John Drescher wrote: > > > > > > OK, my next backup ran and it used the next volume. >  Success! > > However.. it "appended".  Here's what my volumes look > like now: > > > > *list volumes > > Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog > > Using Catalog "MyCatalog" > > Pool: De

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

2010-04-14 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 4/14/10, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > Once purged, you can either let Bacula recycle them itself, > or you can > use the Update Volume command to manually change the volume > status to > Recycle.  This is a particularly straightforward > operation if you are > using BAT, since you can

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

2010-04-14 Thread Joseph Spenner
If life gives you lemons, keep them-- because hey.. free lemons. --- On Wed, 4/14/10, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > Joseph, > > That looks much better.  Now your volumes have the > correct nine days > retention time for your desired ten-day cycle, instead of > zero, so your > jobs will actually

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

2010-04-14 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 4/14/10, John Drescher wrote: > > Post the output of list media pool=File > > John John: Here are results: === *list media pool=File +-++---+-+---+--+--+-+--+---+---+-

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

2010-04-14 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 4/14/10, John Drescher 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 else I should run to verify? Thanks! -

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

2010-04-14 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 4/14/10, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > > Did you Update the pools from the resources, and the > volumes from the pools? > > What do the 'List Volumes' and 'Show Pools' commands > return? > Phil: Sorry. I did not do that. So, I just now did the "update the pools". As far as "vol

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

2010-04-14 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 4/14/10, John Drescher wrote: > > Can you post the output of list media > > John > John: Here's the results of "list media" === *list media Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog Using Catalog "MyCatalog" Pool: Default No results to list. Pool: File +-++

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

2010-04-14 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Mon, 4/12/10, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > File Retention = 1 days > > Job Retention = 6 months > > } > > === > > > > Is the client specific "File Retention" causing my > problem? > > Yes, that's exactly the problem. > > >I'm also a bit confused (obviously) with: > >File Retention >

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

2010-04-14 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Mon, 4/12/10, Phil Stracchino wrote: > >   File Retention = 1 days > >   Job Retention = 6 months > > } > > === > > > > Is the client specific "File Retention" causing my > problem? > > Yes, that's exactly the problem. > > >I'm also a bit confused (obviously) with: > >    File Retentio

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: bacula won't backup files with apostrophes

2010-04-13 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Tue, 4/13/10, Mark Coolen wrote: From: Mark Coolen Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: bacula won't backup files with apostrophes To: "Joseph Spenner" Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 8:38 AM I don't think that would help me in this

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: bacula won't backup files with apostrophes

2010-04-13 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Tue, 4/13/10, Mark Coolen wrote: I'm a TSA at a large school board. The server is at my main school, but because of new policies that came in when we switched over to Active Directory from Novell I don't have login rights to the fileserver anymore. This means that I can't install the b

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

2010-04-12 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Mon, 4/12/10, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > Did you fix the retention period yet?  If it's > immediately reusing the > first volume, it probably means your retention is too > short.  If you're > trying to use these volumes in daily rotation, then the > volume use > duration should be set so t

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

2010-04-11 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Fri, 4/9/10, Phil Stracchino wrote: > From: Phil Stracchino > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Friday, April 9, 2010, 12:47 PM > On 04/09/10 11:57, Joseph Spenner > wrote: > > Ph

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

2010-04-09 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Thu, 4/8/10, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 04/08/10 14:05, Joseph Spenner > wrote: > > But when the backup runs at the default time, it uses > a different disk_ file for each system being backed up > on the same day.  So, in 1 day, client 1 will use > disk_0001

[Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-08 Thread Joseph Spenner
I'm working on running bacula-5.0.1 in a configuration where my removable media are 1.5TB SATA disks with shuttles. My system: SuperMicro chasis with 8 removable SATA disks QUAD core 2.66GHz CPU CentOS 5.4, 64bit 8G memory My goal is to have 6 of the 8 disks rotated in/out, with 2 more 'sets of