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

2010-07-19 Thread Phil Stracchino
aid to just dump the entire catalog and all the volumes and make a clean start once you have everything working. But at the moment, if you're trying to sort good data from bad while half your backups are still failing and you don't yet know why, it's a bit like trying to bail a lak

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

2010-07-19 Thread Phil Stracchino
want to replicate only the good jobs, your best bet is probably to migrate the good jobs to a new Pool and then replicate only those. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renai

Re: [Bacula-users] Starting from scratch

2010-07-12 Thread Phil Stracchino
ll the state files in and under Bacula's working directory as well. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater

Re: [Bacula-users] Two tape drives

2010-07-09 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 07/09/10 11:55, Prashant Ramhit wrote: > Hi, > Your solution worked perfectly. > Storage can be defined in either the Job or Pool. > And you should specify the level in the Job, the bacula figures out > which pool to backup to, hence the storage and the drive. That's it e

Re: [Bacula-users] Two tape drives

2010-07-09 Thread Phil Stracchino
TO4-pool with volumes of type LTO4.) 3. Use the Full Pool, Differential Pool and Incremental Pool directives in your JobDefs to specify the correct Pool for each level. Bacula will figure out the correct storage device to use based on the media type specified in the Pool. -- Phil Stracchino

Re: [Bacula-users] Is there a way...

2010-07-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
> days etc.. > > The problème is, if I put a tape in the bank, 19 days later Bacula will ask > me THIS special tape, which is not available (cause in the bank..). > > Is there a solution for this problem or it is inherent to the way Bacula > actually works ? This sounds at

Re: [Bacula-users] Use Bacula Sun Solaris 10 SPARC

2010-07-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 07/08/10 06:59, Koray AGAYA wrote: > Thanks for your help I have a Question. How to flow Bacula on Sun > Solaris JAVA Desktop I'm sorry, I don't understand the question. Could you try rephrasing it? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.560

Re: [Bacula-users] How to view volumes per client?

2010-07-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
100% certain. There exists a console function to list the jobs contained on a volume, grasshopper. It is readily accessible from the Pools listing in BAT, if you don't want to do it from bconsole. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@c

Re: [Bacula-users] Best practise Pools/Volumes using iscsi

2010-07-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
levels. - Most of this is covered in the Getting Started section of the Bacula manual. - You're probably going to want to either look into the truncate-on-purge feature, or do some external scripting to delete purged Volumes as an admin job. Possibly both. -- Phil Strac

Re: [Bacula-users] Upgraded bacula - now I have zero volumes

2010-06-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
, you still show only a small number of your clients listed or still cannot access your old volumes, you probably want to restore your previous bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf and copy the appropriate data, then restart Bacula. If you're still having problems after that, then we can figure

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula, lto5 y SAS IBM TS2350 Tape Drive

2010-06-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
why an LTO5 should not also work. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It&

Re: [Bacula-users] Automated restore job?

2010-06-23 Thread Phil Stracchino
ughts so far! It sounds like your best bet is to write a Perl or expect script that performs the necessary bconsole interaction to run your restore job as you need it run, then execute that script from an admin job. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71

Re: [Bacula-users] Automated restore job?

2010-06-22 Thread Phil Stracchino
n I'm just testing. However, if your purpose is simply to mirror, rather than to continually test the latest backup, then it's probably considerably more *efficient* to use rsync. In fact, *unless* you want to do the daily restore as a test to make sure the backups are good, you might w

Re: [Bacula-users] Semestral schedule

2010-06-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
regards. I would try something like: Schedule { Name = "Semestral" Run = Level=Full jan 1st mon at 09:00 Run = Level=Full jul 1st mon at 09:00 } -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordina

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula Passwords in conf files

2010-06-17 Thread Phil Stracchino
apply in each config concerned file .. That is used simply to generate a random password at installation time. While it does generate a good strong random password, it's by no means a requirement to use that method. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...

Re: [Bacula-users] volume expiration dates

2010-06-15 Thread Phil Stracchino
it's a fairly simple task to create a script that uses the console to generate a regular report of purged volumes. If it keeps a state log of what it has reported in the past, it could equally easily report only newly-pruned volumes. I don't know whether that would meet your reporting nee

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula Passwords in conf files

2010-06-15 Thread Phil Stracchino
. As best I recall, it is sent across the network as an MD5 hash, not in clear. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater

Re: [Bacula-users] 11TB backup run out of memory and dies

2010-06-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
, the primary purposes of spooling are to allow a fast dump to disk of small backup sets followed by a slower write out to tape (in order to free up clients as fast as possible), or to prevent shoeshining when clients and/or the network cannot transfer data fast enough to keep a high-speed tape driv

Re: [Bacula-users] delete volume by id error

2010-06-09 Thread Phil Stracchino
acula 3.x, since volumes can have numeric "names", when deleting volumes by media ID one must precede the ID with an asterisk, as the prompt above tries to remind you. "5" will be interpreted as a volume name; to specify a media ID, you need "*5". -- Phil Stra

[Bacula-users] Waiting on max storage jobs

2010-06-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
and make sure it *REALLY IS* putting out enough power *under full load* to drive everything in the system. In this case, based on my calculations, the original power supply had to be falling short of its rated power output by almost 17%. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICB

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula running incremental after full job failure

2010-06-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
> Write Bootstrap = "/var/bacula/%c.bsr" > Allow Duplicate Jobs = no > Cancel Queued Duplicates = yes > } You need to add "Rerun Failed Levels = yes" in this resource. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.

Re: [Bacula-users] BConsole Error

2010-06-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
run first the v10-to-v11 update script, then the v11-to-v12 script. If Ubuntu didn't install them, you should be able to get them from Sourceforge. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@c

Re: [Bacula-users] change tape status while backups are running

2010-06-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
Pool settings. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years

Re: [Bacula-users] IBM TS3100 autochanger

2010-05-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
for HBA has installed successfully. What is this lin-tape you speak of? If your Linux kernel is properly configured (i.e, SCSI HBA support, SCSI tape support, and the PERC6 low-level SCSI driver enabled), it should Just Work. If those aren't compiled into your kernel, see if you have them presen

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula tape format vs. rsync on deduplicated file systems

2010-05-28 Thread Phil Stracchino
andled just like any other incremental change. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula tape format vs. rsync on deduplicated file systems

2010-05-28 Thread Phil Stracchino
s in the class, you back up only user data plus any base system files that are different from those on the reference machine. Once I have all of my Windows boxes on the same version of Windows again (right now, half are XP Pro and half are 2K Pro), I'm planning to set up a base job for them

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with install on Linux.

2010-05-27 Thread Phil Stracchino
a23 \ > --with-db-name=bacula \ > --with-db-user=bacula \ > > exit 0 It told you exactly what the problem is. You're building a full install of all components, but you didn't tell it which database to build against. You're clearly using MySQL; try adding --with-mysql to

Re: [Bacula-users] Where is Windows "Bacula" Server?

2010-05-27 Thread Phil Stracchino
> Is there a cross-compile manual? I will be very glad to compile the > Windows Bacula Server version. I personally can't help you with that, not having done it myself, but one or another of the other Bacula folks who monitor this list should be able to tell you how to do it.

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

2010-05-26 Thread Phil Stracchino
21 | file_0021 | Append| 1 |0 |0 | > 1,728,000 | 1 | 20 | 0 | File | -00-00 00:00:00 | > +-++---+-+--+--+--+-+--+---+---+-----+ > * > > Am I good to go? The volumes look fine. If it still uses multiple volumes, I don't think it's a media problem. -- Phil

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

2010-05-26 Thread Phil Stracchino
way) to make sure they get recycled (cycle over and over). Do I just go into > bat and mark each volume 'recycle' ? New volumes will be in state 'Append' and do not need to be marked in any way. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -7

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Logging bconsole activity

2010-05-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
ror. Dermot, There is no command logging facility in the Bacula console. It might make a good feature request. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin,

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 5.0.2 and "is waiting on storage file"

2010-05-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
dd That's very curious behavior. At the moment, I couldn't make a guess as to what's causing it. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl

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

2010-05-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 05/25/10 13:18, Joseph Spenner wrote: > --- 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 >

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 5.0.2 and "is waiting on storage file"

2010-05-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
. Any ideas? First of all, check that all your Maximum Concurrent Jobs settings are correct in ALL applicable resources, in both the bacula-sd.conf and bacula-dir.conf files. Also check that you haven't set the "Use Volume Once" preference (which is usually a mistake made due to mi

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

2010-05-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 05/25/10 12:36, Joseph Spenner wrote: > --- On Tue, 5/25/10, Phil Stracchino wrote: >> If you enter the console command 'update' with no >> arguments, it will >> give you a number of choices of what to update. 'Pool >> from resource' >> w

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

2010-05-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
he console command 'update' with no arguments, it will give you a number of choices of what to update. 'Pool from resource' will be one of these (it should be the second, I think). -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerl

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

2010-05-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
rking" > Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20 > } > > Device { > Name = FileStorage > Media Type = File > Archive Device = /opt/bacula/volumes > LabelMedia = yes; > Random Access = Yes; > AutomaticMount = yes; > RemovableMedia = no; > AlwaysOpen = no; >

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

2010-05-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
to first update the Pool from the resource, then update sall the Volumes from the newly-updated Pool, in order to propagate all the new settings to the Pool and all the volumes it contains.) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metro

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

2010-05-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
> Anyone have any ideas? This may be a silly question, but ... how much data is being backed up each night? How many clients do you have and what are your various concurrency settings? In particular, does every storage device have a concurrency setting greater than the number of clients?

Re: [Bacula-users] new client on old server

2010-05-20 Thread Phil Stracchino
ou do not try to use any new functionality not supported by the 2.4 clients (VSS, for example). Older server, newer client is strongly discouraged. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ord

Re: [Bacula-users] "Wrong" volume label when client not running

2010-05-20 Thread Phil Stracchino
good idea", but I do it myself without any problem. It simply requires having a method to regularly remove purged Volumes from disk and from the Catalog. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net

Re: [Bacula-users] new client on old server

2010-05-20 Thread Phil Stracchino
the new server. > > This would let us do the upgrade at a relative calm pace, while > keeping our double backup strategy in place. > > Does anyone has an experience on this situation ? There should be no problem backing up an older client with a newer server. -- Phil Stracch

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling configuration question

2010-05-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 05/18/10 10:37, Joseph Spenner wrote: > --- 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

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling configuration question

2010-05-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
Run = Level=Full sat at 1:05 > Run = Incremental sun-fri at 1:05 > } > > Schedule { > Name = "WeeklyCycleAfterBackup" > Run = Full sun-sat at 1:10 > } > > ... > > Then, as I add clients, I decide which Schedule to use such that the Full > b

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling configuration question

2010-05-17 Thread Phil Stracchino
o with Bacula, because Bacula is not designed to do scheduling that way. I'm really not certain how one would schedule a calendar-independent six-day rotating schedule in Bacula, and I'm not convinced it can be done without enumerating the entire schedule a year at a time. If you r

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling configuration question

2010-05-17 Thread Phil Stracchino
lso consider using Pool specifications in the Job/JobDefs record rather than using Schedule-based Pool overrides. Schedule-based overrides have been deprecated because it is not possible to make them work properly with automatic job level promotion. At this time, they are still supported for backwards com

[Bacula-users] 5.0.2 on Gentoo

2010-05-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
a/bacula-5.0.2.ebuild manifest # emerge -av app-backup/bacula The ebuild manifest step is *important*. If you do not update the manifest after patching, the ebuild checksum will be wrong, and portage will helpfully re-download the ebuild for you, undoing your work. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2

Re: [Bacula-users] Database version problems caused Ubuntu 10.04 upgrade to abort

2010-05-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
correctly. What you could do is configure the source appropriately, then do a make in just the subdirectory containing the scripts to make the update scripts you need. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bulk] Re: Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup

2010-05-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
$# Microsoft... Hey, if this stuff made any logical sense, Microsoft wouldn't be able to sell MSCE training. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl

Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware configuration and off-site backup

2010-05-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 05/06/10 02:57, Vlamsdoem wrote: > On 05/05/10 15:12, Phil Stracchino wrote: >> On 05/05/10 08:38, John Drescher wrote: >> >>>> Sorry my servers are on gigabit links. >>>> How do you come to 9MB/s with a 100Mb link, is it not equals

Re: [Bacula-users] backing up shared storage?

2010-05-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
ibly have only one backup job/location for those > files. This doesn't necessarily follow unless you're using accurate backup. But it sounds as though the best approach here is to ensure that the shared storage is mounted at a specific node when your backup runs. -- Phil Stracch

Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware configuration and off-site backup

2010-05-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
remember that the data transfer rates specified on disk interfaces are the maximum burst transfer rate FROM a full disk cache or TO an empty one. The actual sustained rates at which the physical mechanism can read or write data to and from the platters are FAR lower. -- Phil Stracchino,

Re: [Bacula-users] Installing with RPMs

2010-05-04 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 05/04/10 13:29, Joseph Spenner wrote: > --- 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 fo

Re: [Bacula-users] Installing with RPMs

2010-05-04 Thread Phil Stracchino
processes run during the > RPM installation. I logged into mysql and did 'show tables', but saw no > bacula data. Having never installed from RPM, I can't help you there, sorry. But the RPMs SHOULD contain the scripts you reference above. -- Phil Stracchino

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression on Windows

2010-05-03 Thread Phil Stracchino
t work?? Can you be a little more specific about "don't worl"? What doesn't work? Compression? Backups? If you're not getting compression and you're asking about that, from the fragmentary bits of configuration you've posted above you appear to have compressi

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression on Windows

2010-05-03 Thread Phil Stracchino
Name = FS-test-windows > Enable VSS = yes > Ignore FileSet Changes = no > Include { > Options { > compression = GZIP > signature = MD5 > } > } > File = C:/Programmi/Test > } Actually, THIS FileSet will not back up anything, bec

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Mirror or Rsync?

2010-05-03 Thread Phil Stracchino
te everything. If it's taking forever to keep the machines mirrored with rsync, it'll take forever and a day with Bacula. Use the right tool for the job. Bacula is a backup suite, not a synchronization tool. Rsync is, in fact, the best tool for this job. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Maximum concurrent jobs for devices

2010-05-03 Thread Phil Stracchino
>> already? >> >> >> Please post the output of >> >> list media pool=POOL-FUL-bkp13 >> >> John >> > > No I do not, all the volumes were created from File12 and not from File12e. > Should I edit the pool? Then you need to either ma

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum concurrent jobs for devices

2010-05-03 Thread Phil Stracchino
wo" but have Pool="POOL- >> FULL-vps-serverone" nreserve=0 on drive "bkp12-disk" (/bacula). >> >> > > The problem is each job uses a different pool and only 1 volume can be > loaded in a device at a time so the second job has to wait. If it

Re: [Bacula-users] BAT?

2010-04-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
piled for MySQL. > bacula-postgresql-5.0.1-1.su112.x86_64.rpm All the server daemons, compiled for PostgreSQL. > bacula-sqlite-5.0.1-1.su112.x86_64.rpm All the server daemons, compiled for SQLite. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerl

Re: [Bacula-users] BAT?

2010-04-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
bles already built? No. Bacula-mysql will be a package of all the bacula server tools, built to use mysql databases, as compared to bacula-sqlite or bacula-postgresql. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.

Re: [Bacula-users] BAT?

2010-04-28 Thread Phil Stracchino
-1.su112.x86_64.rpm > bacula-mysql-5.0.1-1.su112.x86_64.rpm If I were you, I would wait a day or two and grab 5.0.2, which was released today. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org

Re: [Bacula-users] Create volumes

2010-04-26 Thread Phil Stracchino
r that job, and set Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 for that Pool. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not

Re: [Bacula-users] LONG: Possible cause(s) when restore jobs are OK in bconsole, but no files are written to restore dir

2010-04-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
7;portable' format.) Use the job parameter to select which client's backup you're restoring from; use the client parameter to select which client to restore files to; use the where parameter to specify where on that client to restore to. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot find any appendable volumes

2010-04-23 Thread Phil Stracchino
gt; Pool: Weekly > Media type: ULTRIUM-LTO-4 [...] Have you tried putting a 'Maximum Volumes = 13' directive in your Pool resource to tell it not to create any more new volumes besides the ones you already have? (Though if your retention is 14 days, you probably

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

2010-04-22 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/22/10 17:47, Joseph Spenner wrote: > --- 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 >> ze

Re: [Bacula-users] How to cancel a job before it begins?

2010-04-22 Thread Phil Stracchino
b Name Here" You can do this either by typing the command directly at a console, or from the right-click menu from the Job list in BAT. Then, tomorrow, just undo it: enable job="Your Job Name Here" And you're all set. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM

Re: [Bacula-users] Full and Incremental backup to different location

2010-04-22 Thread Phil Stracchino
b or JobDefs is both cleaner and more reliable, and also allows Jobs using the same Schedule to use different override Pools. (In this case, the Incremental Pool and Differential Pool directives are redundant and should be unnecessary. But it won't hurt anything to have them there, and the ex

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

2010-04-21 Thread Phil Stracchino
ytes exactly as they should be. Still, knowing how to determine exactly what got backed up by a specific job is a useful thing. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org

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

2010-04-21 Thread Phil Stracchino
Another alternative would be to start up BAT, go to Jobs Run, select job 183, right-click, and select "List Files On Job"; Bacula will tell you precisely which files were backed up. (You can accomplish the same thing using bconsole, but it'll require a manual SQL query.) Then you

Re: [Bacula-users] Full and Incremental backup to different location

2010-04-21 Thread Phil Stracchino
the VARIABLE information in the Job resource. Putting the variable information in the JobDefs resource completely defeats the purpose of JobDefs. - Use your Schedule to run each client's Job at different levels. - Create different Pools for different Storage devices, unless the two devices

Re: [Bacula-users] problem with silent installation of bacula on windows

2010-04-20 Thread Phil Stracchino
the bacula.org site as a bug. It should be a pretty simple fix. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Fr

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

2010-04-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
been on the > forum I hear you. Just be aware that it could result in purging a backup that you really needed. (If, say, someone does a restore that requires a tape from a full backup, and forgets to change the tape afterward.) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607

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

2010-04-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
ript that will purge the current > tape in the tape drive so that bacula uses this tape to do the > nightly backup. This is potentially dangerous. If you're having to resort to things like this, you're doing your Bacula volume management wrong. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2

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

2010-04-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
backup data appended > to that volume. Is there a way to make it wipe the volume clean before > writing? What are the full completion messages for the job? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@

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

2010-04-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
+--+---+---+-+ > * > === 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,

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

2010-04-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
d as soon as they complete. (That's why you were always seeing "No prior job found".) I suggest you now purge and recycle all of your existing volumes so that you're starting over from a clean slate, let it run, and see how it goes. Right now, you have only one appendable volum

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

2010-04-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
} > > Could it be the "Volume Use Retetion" ? Currently, my backups run fast since > there are only 2 clients. So, if they're done within an hour, maybe this > setting isn't doing what it would normally do when backups take a few hours > to run? Did you Updat

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

2010-04-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
at I can't install the bacula client. Ah, so yet another situation where policies written by the ignorant actively get in the way of getting critical work done. I feel your pain. :p -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net

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

2010-04-12 Thread Phil Stracchino
cross your network twice, to and from the client mounting the CIFS share, and therefore limiting your backup speed for that share to AT MOST half the client's available bandwidth. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net

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

2010-04-12 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/12/10 11:58, Joseph Spenner wrote: > --- 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 >&

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

2010-04-12 Thread Phil Stracchino
and your retention period needs to be set such that the first volume becomes available again just after the last volume is used (for a ten-day rotation, nine days should be right). Make sure that after you update the Pool resource, you FIRST update the Pool from the resource, THEN update ALL

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

2010-04-09 Thread Phil Stracchino
l want to fix that Volume Retention directive, too, unless you really want the volume to be pruned the day after the backup. If your plan is to use the volumes in a 10-day rotation, try setting the Volume Retention to 9 days. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -7

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

2010-04-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
very client > on every run? > > I suspect it is at least 1 of the following: > > File Retention > Job Retention > AutoPrune > Recycle > Volume Retention I strongly doubt it has anything to do with any of those settings. Why not post your actual Pool and Storage d

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/08/10 09:13, Craig Ringer wrote: > Phil Stracchino wrote: >> I'll be interested to see those results. Which filesystems are you testing? > > I'm interested in ext3, ext4 and xfs. I should probably look at zfs too, > but don't have any hosts that it runs

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/08/10 03:53, Craig Ringer wrote: > BTW, When I suggested that greater write concurrency would be desirable > and should be easier, Phil Stracchino raised some concerns about > concurrent writes to a file system increasing fragmentation and hurting > overall performance. Rather th

Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes on full disk - lots of 0 byte files

2010-04-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
job? That certainly ought to work. A properly written script, passed the client name and level, should even be able to make an informed guess at roughly how much disk the job should require. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@me

Re: [Bacula-users] Possibility of parallelising encryption?

2010-04-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
t; > It's a trivial change that would enable Bacula to use any builtin > hardware crypto engine supported by OpenSSL. Worth making, so that by > the time the new Intel hardware hits Bacula supports it? > > -- > Craig Ringer Sounds like a good idea to me. Want to write up

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention Policy Pruning Files?

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
estore all of it or > none of it, you don't get to pick individual files. Well, actually, you can still restore individual files. You just need to bscan the volume back into the catalog first. Looks like your retention times need some tuning, though. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
ly to another SD, something for which at present there is no provision. With that out of the way, implementing cross-SD copy-and-migrate would probably be fairly trivial. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
e new disk-only SD and volumes of any kind on the traditional SD, because Bacula does not yet support copy or migration between different SDs. At this time, both source and destination devices are required to be on the same SD. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic restores BACULA

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
ime. Oh, sure. But as best I can understand the OP, it seems to me that verify is what he's looking for. However, I could easily be misunderstanding. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.

Re: [Bacula-users] PATCH: add AES-ECB support to Bacula

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
about crypto in the archives > in case I don't have any luck following it up with an actually parallel > implementation and others are looking into it later. > > The next step is to try to spawn worker threads to encrypt chunks in > parallel. Hopefully this will be possible with

Re: [Bacula-users] Possibility of parallelising encryption?

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
ries in Bacula (and many > other things) for parallel crypto and many other parallel tasks, as > they're excellent even without special hardware. Unfortunately they're > rather GPL-incompatible and are only "free" for non-commercial use. It would indeed be very ni

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic restores BACULA

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
This just doesn't mean that we do baremetal or something like that > automated :):) This sounds as though you should look into the Verify feature and see if it does what you need. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net

Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes on full disk - lots of 0 byte files

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
was less than [directive value] free space on the device. I'm not sure whether this has actively gone anywhere yet. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin,

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
ed; I haven't > noticed any significant write performance drops over time. > > It may slow restores a little, but again with a many-spindle array I'm > not sure how much practical effect it'll have. Is fragmentation > avoidance worth all this complexity?

Re: [Bacula-users] Simplified pools

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
chedule = "Monthly Rotation" > [...] > } > > ... or something like that, so other things may be overridden based on > level. This is a good suggestion, I think. I'd go ahead and write it up and submit it. :) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#2997924

Re: [Bacula-users] Simplified pools

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/07/10 00:42, Craig Ringer wrote: > Phil Stracchino wrote: >> I can confirm that it still works in 5.x as well. I use this for disk >> volumes: >> >> Label Format = >> "FULL-$Year${Month:p/2/0/r}${Day:p/2/0/r}-${Hour:p/2/0/r}:${Minute:p/2/0/r}" &

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/07/10 01:05, Craig Ringer wrote: > Phil Stracchino wrote: >> It is possible right now to open more than one file-based volume at a >> time. >> You simply need to define multiple storage devices under the same >> storage daemon; each device can have one volume o

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