Re: [Bacula-users] Long-term backups - was: Hard disk as backup media

2010-03-24 Thread Scott Courtney
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 15:09 -0500, Marcio Vogel Merlone dos Santos wrote: > What is the best strategy and storage media for long-term backups, > say > to 10 or 20 years (if any)? I ask because I do have an old DLT tape > drive and some tapes, unusable, because its SCSI controller is no > longer

Re: [Bacula-users] Hard disk as backup media

2010-03-24 Thread Scott Courtney
On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 13:14 -0500, Josh Fisher wrote: > > Agreed. I would not expect a drive to be readable if you sit it on a > > shelf for 10 years. It probably would not spin up unless you kept it > > in a humidity protected environment. > > > > All media fails in the long run. It is just a

Re: [Bacula-users] Building CentOS 5 RPMs for Bacula 5.0.0-1

2010-02-03 Thread Scott Courtney
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 11:13 -0600, Moray Henderson wrote: > That's not the way you're supposed to do things with rpm. There are a > few things that you're not supposed to do in rpm which would be quite > convenient - and several more that rpm does which would be better done > in other ways. I was

Re: [Bacula-users] Compatibility with long-ago version?

2010-02-03 Thread Scott Courtney
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 11:08 -0600, Heitor Medrado de Faria wrote: > > I couldn't find anything going back that far in the docs. Does > anyone > > happen to know offhand what the latest director is that can still > > connect to file daemon 2.0.3? > > > I guess 3.x and 5.x directors still can work

[Bacula-users] Compatibility with long-ago version?

2010-02-03 Thread Scott Courtney
Greetings, all I am currently building a new Bacula server for us, but in the interim I'd like to connect some new clients with our old server, which is running Debian Sarge and therefore dates back to 2007. The old server is running 2.0.3. I'd like to know if I can install a newer FD on the new

[Bacula-users] Building CentOS 5 RPMs for Bacula 5.0.0-1

2010-02-03 Thread Scott Courtney
Good morning! I have just finished successfully building binary RPMs of Bacula 5.0.0 on CentOS 5.4, x86_64 architecture, and wanted to share some notes and a couple of possible bugs (and workarounds). I'm relatively new to Bacula and to building custom RPMs (I'm from a Debian background mostly),

[Bacula-users] vchanger configuration question

2009-10-26 Thread Scott Courtney
Greetings, all I'm brand-new to Bacula, and am trying to set up vchanger.sh using the documentation at http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=removable_disk in combination with the Bacula manuals. I'm running version 2.4 of Bacula itself, and the back end is MySQL 5.1.x. In production, this setup wil