Re: [Bacula-users] verify job fails, must init catalog run twice?

2007-03-13 Thread Stephan Ebelt
> to me it looks like InitCatalog must run twice before all changes are known > and the regular verify behaves the way it should. > > (note: I have not done any changes to the system between the two jobs and > auto update is disabled. I am not running a virus scanner or anything else > that could t

[Bacula-users] verify job fails, must init catalog run twice?

2007-03-13 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Hello, I see this for quite a while now and it does not seem to disappear with 2.0.1... maybe someone has the same problem? yesterday I was upgrading my system and ran a "InitCatalog" manually thereafter. This morning my regular verify job failed with reporting that some hundred files have cha

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Misc

2007-03-01 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Hello, On Thursday 01 March 2007 10:32:49 Kern Sibbald wrote: [...] > 2. Doing a backup/restore from/to a FIFO (as defined in a FileSet resource) > is supported and from my tests works perfectly well in Bacula 2.0.x. In > some previous versions there were some problems, but they have long since

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] FOSDEM

2007-02-28 Thread Stephan Ebelt
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 19:02:20 Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Tuesday 27 February 2007 18:18, Eric Bollengier wrote: > > if you want to see kern in action ! > > > > http://ftp.belnet.be/mirrors/FOSDEM/2007/FOSDEM2007-Bacula.ogg > > Egads, what a horror! :-) > > Every time I do a live demo, somethi

Re: [Bacula-users] Long term data archiving - howto?

2007-02-15 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Hello, On Thursday 15 February 2007 11:16:06 > Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:34:34 -0800 > Hi, > > I would like to archive some data to tape and keep it around forever. > Would using bacula to do this be the right way? Or would simply > tarring them up to the tape be better? > > This is a one time jo

Re: [Bacula-users] FileSet quirks

2007-02-07 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Hello, On Tuesday 06 February 2007 20:28, Martin Simmons wrote: > > regexdir = "/home/.*/[^Movies|^Music|^Pictures]/.*" > > > > (though, this doesnt work yet) > > No, you can't use [] like that in a regexp -- it is for matching single > characters, not strings. There is no "not" operator in r

[Bacula-users] FileSet quirks

2007-02-05 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Hello, back in 1.38.11 I wrote this fileset which appeared to work quite nice. FileSet { Name = "data-users-media" Include { Options { signature = md5 wilddir = "/home/*/Movies" wilddir = "/home/*/Music" wilddir = "/home/*/Pictures" } # I

Re: [Bacula-users] can not write to DVD

2006-08-30 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Hello, > > I am using 'UDF formatted DVD-RAMs' for backup at home. So it's the > > write-files-to-disk approach rather than the write-data-part-to-media > > approach. > > > > To mount the media automatically when bacula needs it (and umount after > > backup) I am using autofs. [...] > > I can po

[Bacula-users] udev rules for bacula (was: Re: autochanger device has 0 slots)

2006-08-21 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Hello, (I post this again, since my first post a couple days ago did not reach the list for some reason.) On Monday 07 August 2006 14:01, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Is there a chance to get udev rules shipped with the Fedora RPM Packages? > > Yes, this is probably a good idea because there are pro

Re: [Bacula-users] can not write to DVD

2006-08-17 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Hello, > > /dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 > > > > to /etc/fstab > > Yes, my /etc/fstab looks like this! I tried manually mount and I did a > reboot. This is not helping :( > > > I must admit that to-date I've run as root for DVD stuff. That's > > something to thin

[Bacula-users] udev rules for bacula [was: Re: autochanger device has 0 slots]

2006-08-17 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Hello, On Monday 07 August 2006 14:01, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Is there a chance to get udev rules shipped with the Fedora RPM Packages? > > Yes, this is probably a good idea because there are probably very few users > who know how to create udev rules. I'll look at adding them to the > release,

Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger device has 0 slots

2006-08-07 Thread Stephan Ebelt
On Thursday 03 August 2006 21:14, Timo Neuvonen wrote: > > Now the 'update slots' command does not recognize the > > number of slots in my autochanger [1] anymore. > > Check the permissions for your changer device (/dev/sg5). > > Does storage daemon have rightsto access it? If SD is running as > b

[Bacula-users] autochanger device has 0 slots

2006-08-03 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Hello, I upgraded from 1.38.0 to 1.38.11 (28 June 2006), all running on FC4. Now the 'update slots' command does not recognize the number of slots in my autochanger [1] anymore. Here is the console conversation: *update slots storage=tape1 Enter autochanger drive[0]: 0 Connecting to

Re: [Bacula-users] subversion backup at SourceForge with public FD?

2006-04-27 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Alan Brown wrote: > On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Stephan Ebelt wrote: > >> However, from the implementation point of view I think this is a bit of >> overhead since it requires local disk space being available and there >> must be additional logic to detect whether rsync actually

[Bacula-users] subversion backup at SourceForge with public FD?

2006-04-27 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Hello, I just managed to convert my own project over to subversion and do now think about backup (I run bacula at home for various other reasons and want it to backup my project data as well). SourceForge provides a public rsync service. So its no problem to make a RunBeforeJob to update a local

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Proposed enhancement to Bacula-Web

2006-04-10 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a bit surprised because I have not seen any comments on this proposal. Am > I missing something? It sounds like a nice feature to me. to me too. It could be useful e.g to show somebody how much work the backup system actually does. Ie during the last week.

[Bacula-users] RPMs for RHEL4 on x86_64, mysql

2006-01-19 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Hello, I just build those packages from bacula-1.38.4-1.src.rpm. It took me (as a non-c-programmer-and-rpmbuild-newbe) less than half an hour. Inclusive installing all dependencies before building. The build process itself worked very smooth. Then I could roll out the packages to all my shiny ne

Re: [Bacula-users] FileSet accross mountpoints with regular expressions

2005-11-11 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Hello, Kern Sibbald wrote: [...] That said, once you prooved that your fileset works, it would be a good contribution to the manual. I agee with Arno. Your approach is the best one I have seen, and would be a nice contribution to the manual. last night all went just fine with this FileSet

Re: [Bacula-users] FileSet accross mountpoints with regular expressions

2005-11-10 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Kern Sibbald wrote: That said, once you prooved that your fileset works, it would be a good contribution to the manual. I agee with Arno. Your approach is the best one I have seen, and would be a nice contribution to the manual. ok, last night all jobs ran and it looks good. All finished

Re: [Bacula-users] FileSet accross mountpoints with regular expressions

2005-11-09 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Stephan Ebelt wrote: [...] The job didn't run because bacula seems to have crashed. I've got no glue why yet. All I found till now is - no director process was running this morning - none of the scheduled jobs did run as I've got not a single e-mail - the message below appears

Re: [Bacula-users] FileSet accross mountpoints with regular expressions

2005-11-09 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Hello. Kern Sibbald wrote: Quite possible, considering the number of possible ways to use options blocks in filesets. I fact I suspect that Kern himself doesn't fully understand the implications of options with includes and exludes and REs and whatnotelse ;-) Yes, Arno is correct :-) does

Re: [Bacula-users] FileSet accross mountpoints with regular expressions

2005-11-09 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Hello, Arno Lehmann wrote: SITUATION There are multiple clients and I like to have one fileset for all of them. As they are quite similar. Each one looks like /u01 /u02 ... /u09 /u10 ... /uNN Interesting setup... it is actually what oracle recommends to mount data disks. Not sure if they s

[Bacula-users] FileSet accross mountpoints with regular expressions

2005-11-08 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Hello, I do not have a problem in the sense that something does not work - I just would like to hear some opinions as I am not sure how fool proof my solution is: SITUATION There are multiple clients and I like to have one fileset for all of them. As they are quite similar. Each one looks l

Re: [Bacula-users] ClientRunAfterJob return code

2005-09-22 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Stephan Ebelt wrote: Another test would be to try the same with RunAfterJob. And see what happens then. I'll do that later. ok, just tried. It behaves similar with one difference: the RunAfterJob failure is reported at the end of the output. Not at the beginning as with ClientRunAft

Re: [Bacula-users] ClientRunAfterJob return code

2005-09-22 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Martin Simmons wrote: Stephan> that means it always terminates with '*** Backup Error ***' when you Stephan> exit with e.g. 5? Correct -- a non-zero exit code from the ClientRunBeforeJob always results in '*** Backup Error ***'. Also, I always get 'Backup OK' regardless of the exit code f

Re: [Bacula-users] ClientRunAfterJob return code

2005-09-22 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Martin Simmons wrote: >> Interesting. What is the largest number that behaves like this? Stephan> looks like it's 199. I suppose that makes sense in a warped kind of way :-) ;-) >> Does returning 5 like you did initially always return in "Backup OK -- with >> warnings" with "Non-fa

Re: [Bacula-users] ClientRunAfterJob return code

2005-09-21 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Martin Simmons wrote: >> Well I can't repeat this here with 1.36.3 on FreeBSD. What should happen is >> that the director says >> >> Fatal error: FD gave bad response to ClientRunBeforeJob command: wanted 2000 OK RunBefore >> got: 2905 Bad RunBeforeJob command. Stephan> now we g

Re: [Bacula-users] ClientRunAfterJob return code

2005-09-21 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Martin Simmons wrote: >> Which version of bacula is running on dd-lx-oracle3? Stephan> sorry, I totaly forgot: it's the bacula-client-1.36.3-1 RPM package Stephan> running on FC3. Well I can't repeat this here with 1.36.3 on FreeBSD. What should happen is that the director says Fatal

Re: [Bacula-users] ClientRunAfterJob return code

2005-09-21 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Stephan> when returning '-1' the job ends like this (Backup OK): Exit status values should be in the range 0 to 255. What happens if you use exit 255? 'exit 255' looks similar to 'exit -1': 21-Sep 10:41 dd-lx-oracle3.dd.net-linx: DD31.2005-09-21_10.41.28 Fatal error: ClientRunAfterJob re

[Bacula-users] ClientRunAfterJob return code

2005-09-20 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Hello, maybe this issue has been clarified already - I just couldn't find it. Please don't spend time reading further if that is the case. Just give me a hint where to find the discussion. My understanding from the manual is that the entire Job will (should?) terminate as '*** Backup Error *

[Bacula-users] FIFO permissions during restore

2005-04-01 Thread Stephan Ebelt
Hello, we are using bacula to dump our oracle databases. This works very well with the FIFO feature and a shell tool as RunClientBeforeJob. What I want now is that our DBAs (who use the 'oracle' account, they do not have root access) are able to restore their backups independend from technical