Re: [Bacula-users] AutomaticMount=yes does not work

2008-11-20 Thread Lucio Crusca
and Bacula is supposed to append data at the end of one of those volumes at each job execution. Is it possible to let Bacula autolabel disk files and force it to create a new volume for each job instead? That way Bacula would ask for the correct pool *before* trying to mount it, right? -- Virtual

Re: [Bacula-users] AutomaticMount=yes does not work

2008-11-18 Thread Lucio Crusca
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[Bacula-users] AutomaticMount=yes does not work

2008-11-17 Thread Lucio Crusca
ab and udev rules). The problem is that Bacula does not automatically mount those volumes. It asks for Backup1-0001 but when I plug in the correct disk, it keeps asking for Backup1-0001 ("waiting for a mount request"). If I enter bconsole and manually mount it, the backup proce

[Bacula-users] filesystem for disk backups

2008-10-13 Thread Lucio Crusca
ition /dev/sdg1 unformatted? Thanks in advance, Lucio. -- Virtual Bit di Lucio Crusca http://www.virtual-bit.com - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux bas

[Bacula-users] admin jobs

2007-10-05 Thread Lucio Crusca
ot; command in bconsole. Is there a way to run that command from a shell script or inside an admin job? Thanks in advance, Lucio. -- Virtual Bit di Lucio Crusca via Isonzo, 5 10069 - Villar Perosa http://www.sulweb.org - T

[Bacula-users] SD timeout

2007-08-27 Thread Lucio Crusca
Hello *, I have a bacula 2.0.3 doing backups on DVD. It happens that bacula asks for a new DVD on friday at 4pm or so, no one sees the request until the next monday, but meanwhile the watchdog kills the SD because of a timeout (more precisely it has killed the SD at 00:39am of the night between

[Bacula-users] error during DVD backup

2007-07-08 Thread Lucio Crusca
Hello all, the following log is from a newly installed Bacula 2.0.3/Etch during the first full backup on DVD 03-lug 10:02 mybac-dir: No prior Full backup Job record found. 03-lug 10:02 mybac-dir: No prior or suitable Full backup found in catalog. Doing FULL backup. 03-lug 10:02 mybac-dir: Start

Re: [Bacula-users] Double backup

2007-06-16 Thread Lucio Crusca
Ralf Gross wrote: > AFAIK there is no direct way to send the data to two storage daemons. > This was discussed a couple of times during the last months. Maybe the > new migration feature could be helpful. Thanks for the reply. Can you point me to those messages in the archives? The SF seach serve

[Bacula-users] Double backup

2007-06-16 Thread Lucio Crusca
p desk service, but just out of curiousity: it's that no one knows what to reply, or it's that the reply would be RTFM or the like but everyone thinks my question isn't even worth that kind of reply? Sorry for insisting, but I have no clue about how to search that in the docs. Luc

[Bacula-users] Double backup

2007-06-13 Thread Lucio Crusca
;do incremental until there is space on disk"? Thanks in advance, Lucio. -- Virtual Bit di Lucio Crusca via Isonzo, 5 10069 - Villar Perosa (TO) http://virtualbit.sulweb.org - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express

Re: [Bacula-users] restore error

2007-06-06 Thread Lucio Crusca
dollars or to risk data loss, well, they often choose to risk data loss hoping it won't actually happen to them... in such cases (not uncommon) a DVD backup it's better than no backup at all. No matter how good the reasons you give them to buy a serious backup solution are. Lucio. --

[Bacula-users] Shutdown

2007-06-04 Thread Lucio Crusca
I'd like configure Bacula so that it turns off the computer after the SD has finished writing the backup. I'm running Debian GNU/Linux and Bacula 2.0.3. Is there a way to do that? -- Virtual Bit di Lucio Crusca via Isonzo, 5 10069 - Villar Perosa (TO) http://virtualbit.

Re: [Bacula-users] DVD backup not starting

2007-05-31 Thread Lucio Crusca
Arno Lehmann wrote: > > 3910 Unable to open device "DVD-Writer" (/dev/hdb): ERR=dev.c:651 Could > > not open: /tmp/backup/Backup-0003, ERR=No such file or directory > > Hmm... permissions problem? Make sure the SD can write to /tmp/backup. That was the problem: /tmp/backup did not exist at all (I f

Re: [Bacula-users] DVD backup not starting

2007-05-30 Thread Lucio Crusca
Arno Lehmann wrote: > You should ensure that no autmounting mechanism is active for that > device anyway... I found that writes to DVD would work without problems, > but the data could not be accessed when I had udev/hal automounting a > DVD I used for Bacula. I've verified that no automounting mec

Re: [Bacula-users] DVD backup not starting

2007-05-23 Thread Lucio Crusca
bles set. > Does the label command work against blank media? Do you mean the label command available in bconsole? I've not tried that because it's being described as "label a tape", so I've assumed it's of no use

Re: [Bacula-users] DVD backup not starting

2007-05-20 Thread Lucio Crusca
e (my setup has 7.0-4): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=395071 -- Virtual Bit di Lucio Crusca via Isonzo, 5 10069 - Villar Perosa (TO) http://virtualbit.sulweb.org - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Down

Re: [Bacula-users] DVD backup not starting

2007-05-19 Thread Lucio Crusca
that 7.0 already has the patch included upstream. BTW, what does the patch do? -- Virtual Bit di Lucio Crusca via Isonzo, 5 10069 - Villar Perosa (TO) http://virtualbit.sulweb.org - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 E

[Bacula-users] DVD backup not starting

2007-05-18 Thread Lucio Crusca
"; UnmountCommand = "/bin/umount %m"; SpoolDirectory = /tmp/backup; WritePartCommand = "/etc/bacula/dvd-handler %a write %e %v" FreeSpaceCommand = "/etc/bacula/dvd-handler %a free" } s

Re: [Bacula-users] DVD Support Clarification..

2007-04-08 Thread Lucio Crusca
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Sunday 08 April 2007 10:15, Lucio Crusca wrote: > > Do you have any pointer to reliability tests that prove what you say? > > No, but I imagine it is easy to obtain on the Web. > I'm afraid it's not. I've googled around but didn't

Re: [Bacula-users] DVD Support Clarification..

2007-04-08 Thread Lucio Crusca
Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Interesting. Mind if I ask why? I need to back up close to 100 gigs. > > Why not write that to media that holds ~4 gigs per piece instead of to > > something that holds ~800 megs? > > They are not reliable. > > Modern tape drives (excluding Travan and DDS) i.e. DLT, LTO,

[Bacula-users] DVD autoloader?

2007-04-06 Thread Lucio Crusca
Hello *, I plan to install Bacula on a fileserver which currently lacks a backup solution and I wonder if there are any DVD autoloaders around that I can use with bacula. I've googled around but i've manged to find only boxed solutions that include backup software also, nothing like a bare dvd