Re: [Bacula-users] Trying to do a migration to multiple pools [closed]

2011-01-31 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 30/01/2011 19:32, Mister IT Guru wrote: On 30/01/2011 18:03, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 01/30/11 06:51, Mister IT Guru wrote: Dear List :) I'd like to migrate my jobs into separate pools. I had one default pool for testing, and I have completed a number of diffrent backups, all to my

[Bacula-users] Trying to do a migration to multiple pools

2011-01-30 Thread Mister IT Guru
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Re: [Bacula-users] Trying to do a migration to multiple pools

2011-01-30 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 30/01/2011 18:03, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 01/30/11 06:51, Mister IT Guru wrote: Dear List :) I'd like to migrate my jobs into separate pools. I had one default pool for testing, and I have completed a number of diffrent backups, all to my satisfaction. I have configured three extra

[Bacula-users] Marked a volume as Full, yet it is still used??

2011-01-21 Thread Mister IT Guru
I've fired up BAT, as I find it pretty useful when running estimates, and such. And I have found that a volume that I had marked as full, seems to still be used? This file is rapidly approaching 1TB, and I really, really want to save all the jobs in the volume, and cut it back down to size.

Re: [Bacula-users] Marked a volume as Full, yet it is still used?? [SOLVED]

2011-01-21 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 21/01/11 14:35, Mister IT Guru wrote: I've fired up BAT, as I find it pretty useful when running estimates, and such. And I have found that a volume that I had marked as full, seems to still be used? This file is rapidly approaching 1TB, and I really, really want to save all the jobs

Re: [Bacula-users] Marked a volume as Full, yet it is still used?? [SOLVED]

2011-01-21 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 21/01/11 14:55, Dan Langille wrote: On Fri, January 21, 2011 9:43 am, Mister IT Guru wrote: On 21/01/11 14:35, Mister IT Guru wrote: I've fired up BAT, as I find it pretty useful when running estimates, and such. And I have found that a volume that I had marked as full, seems to still

[Bacula-users] File Set Problem - Compression is ignored

2011-01-17 Thread Mister IT Guru
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Re: [Bacula-users] File Set Problem - Compression is ignored

2011-01-17 Thread Mister IT Guru
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Re: [Bacula-users] File Set Problem - Compression is ignored [SOLVED]ish

2011-01-17 Thread Mister IT Guru
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Re: [Bacula-users] Quick Question on Windows 2003 backup to Debian Director

2011-01-17 Thread Mister IT Guru
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[Bacula-users] I have one 750G volume - How to migrate all the jobs off this volume into split volumes?

2011-01-17 Thread Mister IT Guru
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Re: [Bacula-users] I have one 750G volume - How to migrate all the jobs off this volume into split volumes?

2011-01-17 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 17/01/2011 15:50, Dan Langille wrote: On 1/17/2011 10:44 AM, Mister IT Guru wrote: Due to a typo in my configuration, I have one 750G volume! (arrgh!) I forgot to add Maximum Volume Bytes = 50G # Limit Volume size to something reasonable Maximum Volumes = 50

Re: [Bacula-users] I have one 750G volume - How to migrate all the jobs off this volume into split volumes?

2011-01-17 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 17/01/2011 16:16, Dan Langille wrote: On 1/17/2011 11:08 AM, Mister IT Guru wrote: On 17/01/2011 15:50, Dan Langille wrote: On 1/17/2011 10:44 AM, Mister IT Guru wrote: Due to a typo in my configuration, I have one 750G volume! (arrgh!) I forgot to add Maximum Volume Bytes = 50G # Limit

Re: [Bacula-users] Reload Config while bacula-dir is still running?

2011-01-14 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 13/01/2011 13:05, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 01/13/11 07:45, Mister IT Guru wrote: I'm making amendments and changes to my bacula config, but at the same time I need to run my backups. Other than setting up a separate machine to test my config, (which I will be doing in coming days, when

[Bacula-users] Best Practice to Backup Exchange Only?

2011-01-14 Thread Mister IT Guru
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Re: [Bacula-users] Best Practice to Backup Exchange Only?

2011-01-14 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 14/01/2011 12:57, Graham Keeling wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:31:53PM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: Is there a best practise on how to backup an exchange server? I have a number of them, and I would like to be able to back them up in backups that I know are only exchange data. I know

Re: [Bacula-users] Reload Config while bacula-dir is still running?

2011-01-14 Thread Mister IT Guru
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[Bacula-users] File sets, are excluded directories created, but their contents omitted?

2011-01-13 Thread Mister IT Guru
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Re: [Bacula-users] File sets, are excluded directories created, but their contents omitted?

2011-01-13 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 13/01/2011 11:09, Mister IT Guru wrote: I want to create two file sets for my virtualisation hosts. FileSet { Name = XEN-NoImages Include { File = / File = /boot } Exclude { File = /backup File = /.fsck File = /.journal

[Bacula-users] Reload Config while bacula-dir is still running?

2011-01-13 Thread Mister IT Guru
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Re: [Bacula-users] Reload Config while bacula-dir is still running?

2011-01-13 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 13/01/2011 12:56, Thomas Mueller wrote: Am Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:45:51 + schrieb Mister IT Guru: I'm making amendments and changes to my bacula config, but at the same time I need to run my backups. Other than setting up a separate machine to test my config, (which I will be doing

[Bacula-users] Recommended File set template for windows 2003? - and a Base Job Question

2011-01-10 Thread Mister IT Guru
expires, will that not make all the jobs impossible to restore? Any clues, hints, and tips are most welcome. -- The Solo System Admin http://solosysad.blogspot.com/ -- Mister IT Guru At Gmx Dot Com -- Gaining the trust

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup even with a dedicated line

2011-01-08 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 07/01/2011 14:53, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: On 07/01/11, Oliver Hoffmann (o...@dom.de) wrote: I do full backups at the weekend and it just takes too long. 12h or so. bacula does one job after the other and I have a max. transfer rate of 11 to 12 MBytes/second due to the 100Mbit connection.

[Bacula-users] Partition information and boot records

2011-01-08 Thread Mister IT Guru
Can bacula store this information? I'm thinking of how to do recoveries, and I'm wondering how i'd restore to bare metal, if i didn't have partition info, and the mbr to hand seperatly from the backup? Any thoughts? --

[Bacula-users] Recovering windows 2003 systems

2011-01-08 Thread Mister IT Guru
I intend to recover my systems using a linux based live CD with bacula on it. But on further inspection there is some note in the documentation of some limitations to doing a bare metal restore on windows based systems. Are there any points new users need to be aware of when it comes to bare

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

2011-01-07 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 06/01/2011 17:48, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 01/06/11 12:16, Graham Keeling wrote: With my configuration, a VirtualFull sometimes prevents an Incremental from running, because the VirtualFull took too long (or vice versa). I have not been able to solve this, because every idea that I've

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

2011-01-07 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 06/01/2011 18:47, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 01/06/11 12:54, Mister IT Guru wrote: Okay, I see the point of Virtual Full Backup - this is to be done without talking to the client at call, (i did know that! I've been doing my homework!) Well, now that I'm looking at the virtual backup

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

2011-01-07 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 07/01/2011 11:19, Gavin McCullagh wrote: On Fri, 07 Jan 2011, Graham Keeling wrote: Thank you for the clarification! That's what I thought before hand. *phew* otherwise my backup plans would be fubard! Why do you say, may involve creating a new volume? Because, depending on what bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] 1st post ... general user question b4 install

2011-01-07 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 07/01/2011 01:54, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: On 06/01/11, lance raymond (lance.raym...@gmail.com) wrote: I have around 1T of storage compressed (numerous servers, websites, database, etc.) and around 1 1/2T to store so I can't do a live copy of the files nor can I keep more than 1 full

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

2011-01-07 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 07/01/2011 12:23, James Harper wrote: Suggestion: Schedule the day's Incremental, then schedule the VirtualFull, say, 30 minutes later. Put a RunBeforeJob script on the incremental that creates a lockfile (in a properly race-safe manner, of course) for the client. Put a RunAfterJob

Re: [Bacula-users] 1st post ... general user question b4 install

2011-01-07 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 07/01/2011 12:30, lance raymond wrote: Thanks to all replies, have have done most of the reading to get the ball rolling. It's installed on a test server that has access to a few web servers and I will use that as the 'test' bed Promise next post will be a little more intelligent as

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

2011-01-07 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 07/01/2011 17:00, Blake Dunlap wrote: On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 06:30, Mister IT Guru misteritg...@gmx.com mailto:misteritg...@gmx.com wrote: On 07/01/2011 12:23, James Harper wrote: Suggestion: Schedule the day's Incremental, then schedule the VirtualFull, say, 30

[Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

2011-01-06 Thread Mister IT Guru
I've been trying to get my head around virtual full backups. Now, from my understanding, (i'm 80% through my work day, shut down 20 tickets, and had to deal with too many user incidents for my liking, so please bare with me if I say something stupid!), virtual fulls can be run on the same pool

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

2011-01-06 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 06/01/2011 17:16, Graham Keeling wrote: On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 05:02:47PM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: I've been trying to get my head around virtual full backups. Now, from my understanding, (i'm 80% through my work day, shut down 20 tickets, and had to deal with too many user incidents

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

2011-01-06 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 06/01/2011 17:44, Graham Keeling wrote: On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 11:36:10AM -0600, Sean Clark wrote: On 01/06/2011 11:24 AM, Mister IT Guru wrote: On 06/01/2011 17:16, Graham Keeling wrote: On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 05:02:47PM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: I've been trying to get my head

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot find any appendable volumes - But auto labeling is enabled? [SOLVED]

2011-01-05 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 04/01/2011 14:14, Kleber Leal wrote: What pool your jobs are writing? You enabled autolabel on File pool. Your jobs are trying write on it? Verify your config files. By default (no config), the job get JobDefs definition and write on Default pool. Your default pool has not autolabeling

[Bacula-users] How would I 'nuke' my bacula instance - Start afresh so to speak.

2011-01-05 Thread Mister IT Guru
I've run lots of test jobs, and I have a lot of backup data, that I don't really need, around 2TB or so! (we have a few servers!) I would like to know if it's possible to remove all of those jobs out of the bacula database. Personally, I would have cut this configure out, and drop it on a

Re: [Bacula-users] How would I 'nuke' my bacula instance - Start afresh so to speak.

2011-01-05 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 05/01/2011 09:51, Graham Keeling wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:38:14AM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: I've run lots of test jobs, and I have a lot of backup data, that I don't really need, around 2TB or so! (we have a few servers!) I would like to know if it's possible to remove all

Re: [Bacula-users] How would I 'nuke' my bacula instance - Start afresh so to speak.

2011-01-05 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 05/01/2011 10:01, Jan Lentfer wrote: On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:38:14 +, Mister IT Gurumisteritg...@gmx.com wrote: I've run lots of test jobs, and I have a lot of backup data, that I don't really need, around 2TB or so! (we have a few servers!) I would like to know if it's possible to

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot find any appendable volumes - But auto labeling is enabled?

2011-01-04 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 04/01/2011 02:13, Dan Langille wrote: On 1/3/2011 4:53 PM, Mister IT Guru wrote: I am at a loss as to why this can occur, when I've configured automatic labellings. I get this error emailed to me when jobs are trying to run Cannot find any appendable volumes It's my understanding

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot find any appendable volumes - But auto labeling is enabled?

2011-01-04 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 04/01/2011 14:16, Dan Langille wrote: On Tue, January 4, 2011 8:23 am, Mister IT Guru wrote: On 04/01/2011 02:13, Dan Langille wrote: On 1/3/2011 4:53 PM, Mister IT Guru wrote: I am at a loss as to why this can occur, when I've configured automatic labellings. I get this error emailed

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot find any appendable volumes - But auto labeling is enabled?

2011-01-04 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 04/01/2011 14:27, Paulo Martinez wrote: Am 04.01.2011 um 14:23 schrieb Mister IT Guru: On 04/01/2011 02:13, Dan Langille wrote: On 1/3/2011 4:53 PM, Mister IT Guru wrote: I am at a loss as to why this can occur, when I've configured automatic labellings. I get this error emailed to me

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

2011-01-03 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 03/01/2011 12:50, Dan Langille wrote: On 1/3/2011 6:15 AM, Jari Fredriksson wrote: I implemented backup via SSH-tunnel following the Bacula-wiki, works like charm. But how to restore? Of course one can restore to the Bacula server or another local machine, and then somehow move the files

[Bacula-users] Cannot find any appendable volumes - But auto labeling is enabled?

2011-01-03 Thread Mister IT Guru
I am at a loss as to why this can occur, when I've configured automatic labellings. I get this error emailed to me when jobs are trying to run Cannot find any appendable volumes It's my understanding that this happens when there are no tapes available, but I have disk based storage. Any hints

Re: [Bacula-users] Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for - (I assumed file devices auto created volumes?)

2010-12-31 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 30/12/2010 19:52, Kleber Leal wrote: It seems your have not auto label enabled. Can you post your config files? Just remove your passwords. Kleber 2010/12/30 Mister IT Guru misteritg...@gmx.com mailto:misteritg...@gmx.com I've run into a problem, which seems to be expected with tape

[Bacula-users] Trying to understand why device FileStorage can't access the disk?

2010-12-30 Thread Mister IT Guru
When I run a backup, I end up with this error: 30-Dec 10:53 bacula.local JobId 16: Warning: mount.c:217 Open device FileStorage (/backups/default) Volume BaculaBackups-0001 failed: ERR=dev.c:549 Could not open: /backups/default/BaculaBackups-0001, ERR=No such file or directory The

Re: [Bacula-users] Trying to understand why device FileStorage can't access the disk?

2010-12-30 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 30/12/2010 11:36, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:03:07AM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: When I run a backup, I end up with this error: 30-Dec 10:53 bacula.local JobId 16: Warning: mount.c:217 Open device FileStorage (/backups/default) Volume BaculaBackups-0001 failed

Re: [Bacula-users] Trying to understand why device FileStorage can't access the disk?

2010-12-30 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 30/12/2010 11:39, Jeremy Maes wrote: Op 30/12/2010 12:03, Mister IT Guru schreef: When I run a backup, I end up with this error: 30-Dec 10:53 bacula.local JobId 16: Warning: mount.c:217 Open device FileStorage (/backups/default) Volume BaculaBackups-0001 failed: ERR=dev.c:549 Could

Re: [Bacula-users] Trying to understand why device FileStorage can't access the disk? [SOLVED]

2010-12-30 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 30/12/2010 12:16, Jeremy Maes wrote: However after thinking on it you might still need to check your permissions again to make sure the folders are all writeable by the bacula user. I ran chown -R bacula:bacula /backup to ensure that the bacula owner could access the file system, and my

[Bacula-users] Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for - (I assumed file devices auto created volumes?)

2010-12-30 Thread Mister IT Guru
I've run into a problem, which seems to be expected with tape changers, but I have disk based storage. I am under the assumption that when auto-label is enabled, that a new volume will be automatically created when required. I can't babysit the backups and manually mount and create new

[Bacula-users] OT: Who to contact to update the wiki to reflect the current src.rpms available?

2010-12-27 Thread Mister IT Guru
Hi, I advised a colleague to use bacula, as I'm also learning to use this great package, and I sent him a link I used to get started, http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=howto_install_bacula_5.0.2_from_src.rpm_on_rhel_5_or_centos_5 which is now a touch old. We managed to get through using the

[Bacula-users] Purpose of a Base Job - New Bacula Instance, am I understanding this correctly?

2010-12-16 Thread Mister IT Guru
that are the same, (mainly the OS files, will not be duplicated). I guess the question I have is, does a base job expire? Or will it remain on the storage daemon for ever, in order to keep the current full backup valid? Thank You -- Mister IT Guru misteritg...@gmx.com

[Bacula-users] Shutdown Windows Box after backup? Howto?

2010-08-06 Thread Mister IT Guru
I would like to know if it is possible to get a windows box to shutdown after it's finished a job? -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge

Re: [Bacula-users] Shutdown Windows Box after backup? Howto?

2010-08-06 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 06/08/10 15:21, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 08/06/10 05:27, Mister IT Guru wrote: I would like to know if it is possible to get a windows box to shutdown after it's finished a job? There is a fairly widely available shutdown.exe tool that can be run from a client-side after

Re: [Bacula-users] Migrating jobs - Is this correct, my bacula fails to load?

2010-08-02 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 02/08/10 00:02, Dan Langille wrote: On 8/1/2010 6:47 PM, Mister IT Guru wrote: On 01/08/10 13:13, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/31/2010 1:36 PM, Mister IT Guru wrote: Job { Name = migrate Type = Migrate Level = Full Client = clientname FileSet=Full Set

Re: [Bacula-users] Migrating jobs - Is this correct, my bacula fails to load?

2010-08-01 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 01/08/10 13:13, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/31/2010 1:36 PM, Mister IT Guru wrote: Job { Name = migrate Type = Migrate Level = Full Client = clientname FileSet=Full Set Messages = Standard Pool = Default Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 4 Selection Type

[Bacula-users] Migrating jobs - Is this correct, my bacula fails to load?

2010-07-31 Thread Mister IT Guru
Job { Name = migrate Type = Migrate Level = Full Client = clientname FileSet=Full Set Messages = Standard Pool = Default Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 4 Selection Type = OldestVolume Selection Pattern = ignored } Will this pattern only migrate completed jobs? Or will it

Re: [Bacula-users] verification of the backup on the fly

2010-07-30 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 30/07/10 14:51, Daniele Ferrara wrote: Can be implemented ,Verification of the backup job on the fly?,because the backup job is executed on vpn network --- Saluti Daniele Ferrara I'm not 100% sure what your asking? Maybe I'm not following the

[Bacula-users] How to do a remote rollback?

2010-07-24 Thread Mister IT Guru
What would be a method of restoring a remote linux based server to it last full backup, (or even it's first!). Is such a move possible? -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the

Re: [Bacula-users] How to do a remote rollback?

2010-07-24 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 24/07/10 19:57, Joseph L. Casale wrote: What would be a method of restoring a remote linux based server to it last full backup, (or even it's first!). Is such a move possible? Got a management card in it:)? Seriously, there are a few ways all not without big chance. You can create

[Bacula-users] Cleaning up a storage daemon

2010-07-22 Thread Mister IT Guru
My understanding and usage of Bacula has been somewhat distorted, and I can assume that I didn't pick it up properly. As time has passed, I've figured some new ways of doing things, and I've decided to have a crack at cleaning up my storage daemon. This is not something that I've attempted

Re: [Bacula-users] Can I take a base job from data already in the SD?

2010-07-21 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 21/07/10 03:27, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 07/20/10 10:15, Mister IT Guru wrote: I've been reading up on some of the new features, and one of them is a base job. Do I need to do an actual full backup to create a base, or can I make one from existing backed up data? You cannot

[Bacula-users] Why does changing the fileset change the backup type?

2010-07-21 Thread Mister IT Guru
Please excuse the attached txt, but putting it on pastebin doesn't last forever In this setup, if I update the file set, the backup begins again as a FULL backup. This why would this be the case? Ran TESTBASE, to create the basejob - no errors Ran TESTJOB, to see if anything else will be

[Bacula-users] Can I take a base job from data already in the SD?

2010-07-20 Thread Mister IT Guru
I've been reading up on some of the new features, and one of them is a base job. Do I need to do an actual full backup to create a base, or can I make one from existing backed up data? -- This SF.net email is sponsored

[Bacula-users] Windows Clients: Where do they log to?

2010-07-19 Thread Mister IT Guru
I am trying to find where the log entries are made on the windows clients, so that I can find out why my backups seem to fail at around 75% - each failed backup is taking up a significant amount of disk space, and I need to be certain that the backup actually completed, or can even be

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows Clients: Where do they log to?

2010-07-19 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 19/07/10 12:35, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/19/2010 6:07 AM, Mister IT Guru wrote: I am trying to find where the log entries are made on the windows clients, so that I can find out why my backups seem to fail at around 75% - each failed backup is taking up a significant amount of disk space

Re: [Bacula-users] Removing bad jobs from the database? Howto?

2010-07-19 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 19/07/10 15:09, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 07/18/10 14:40, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I have a fair number of failed jobs in my database, and I would like to know is it possible to purge all the bad backups, so that all the diskspace that has been taken up can be released? from

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows Clients: Where do they log to?

2010-07-19 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 19/07/10 18:45, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/19/2010 9:51 AM, Mister IT Guru wrote: On 19/07/10 12:35, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/19/2010 6:07 AM, Mister IT Guru wrote: I am trying to find where the log entries are made on the windows clients, so that I can find out why my backups seem to fail

Re: [Bacula-users] new user, first attempt

2010-07-18 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 18/07/10 13:01, Stan wrote: backupServer:/home/stan# bconsole Connecting to Director localhost:9101 . . [time passes] . 18-Jul 06:38 bconsole JobId 0: Fatal error: bsock.c:129 Unable to connect to Director daemon on localhost:9101. ERR=Connection refused backupServer:/home/stan# Did

[Bacula-users] Removing bad jobs from the database? Howto?

2010-07-18 Thread Mister IT Guru
I have a fair number of failed jobs in my database, and I would like to know is it possible to purge all the bad backups, so that all the diskspace that has been taken up can be released? This disk space is being replicated across the internet off site, and the number of GB's that are from

[Bacula-users] Splitting jobs, then making fulls? possible?

2010-07-18 Thread Mister IT Guru
Some of my hosts have very large disks, and a complete full backup will take over a day (close to 500GB), over the Internet. To fix this issue, I have split these hosts into smaller file sets, and I backup the more important data daily, and the fixed data not so much. The thing is, the jobs

[Bacula-users] How to move existing backups to another SD?

2010-07-17 Thread Mister IT Guru
First, Bacula is an excellent product :) I want to configure another storage daemon on a different server specifically to hold full backups. Is there any way that i can migrate all my existing full backups over to the new server, and then expire them on the old server so that it frees up

Re: [Bacula-users] How to move existing backups to another SD?

2010-07-17 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 17/07/10 15:01, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/17/2010 9:43 AM, Mister IT Guru wrote: First, Bacula is an excellent product :) I want to configure another storage daemon on a different server specifically to hold full backups. Is there any way that i can migrate all my existing full backups

Re: [Bacula-users] How to move existing backups to another SD?

2010-07-17 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 17/07/10 15:42, Matthew Komar wrote: Migrate all ... Then prune what is not needed from each? So simple! And yet it works! Thanks Matthew -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO,

Re: [Bacula-users] How to move existing backups to another SD?

2010-07-17 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 7/17/2010 10:47 AM, Mister IT Guru wrote: On 17/07/10 15:42, Matthew Komar wrote: Migrate all ... Then prune what is not needed from each? So simple! And yet it works! Thanks Matthew Migrate Copy work within the same SD. From http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main