Re: [Bacula-users] Win32 FD with your new BackupWrite extraction code.

2005-11-29 Thread Steve Loughran
Hi all Was just wondering which release this new code will be in, or if I have missed it in the release notes for 1.38.0/.1/.2 ? Steve Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello Thorsten, This is just to let you know that I have just successfully restored a non-portable (BackupWrite) Win32 backup to Linux.

[Bacula-users] odd problem with btape/auto (v1.38.5)

2006-01-23 Thread Steve Loughran
Hi all First off, I have bacula (v1.38) up and running at work with a Overland LTO3 unit (zero problems!), so I thought it might be worth getting it set up at home as well (hell, my MP3s are far more important than work data :) ... and I run into a problem at the first hurdle. I am trying to

Re: [Bacula-users] odd problem with btape/auto (v1.38.5)

2006-01-23 Thread Steve Loughran
uot;ADIC-DLT7000" (/dev/nst0) btape: dev.c:1504 weof_dev btape: btape.c:1213 Wrote EOF to "ADIC-DLT7000" (/dev/nst0) The test autochanger worked!! = Many thanks!! (Now, about those MP3s... ;-) Steve Arno Lehmann wrote: Hello, On 1/23/2006 10:32 PM, Steve Loughran wrot

[Bacula-users] Volumes/MaxVolumeJobs/RecycleOldest

2006-01-27 Thread Steve Loughran
Hi all Can I just confirm something here before I rush headlong into the initial config of my pools/volumes at home: If I want a pool with three tapes, 1 client, each client backup will use less than 1 tape, the jobs are run manually (not scheduled), and I want to only have one "run" on a ta

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem to start Sd

2006-01-27 Thread Steve Loughran
Sorry to come into the conversation late, I may have missed some of the more obvious thoughts, but: Autochanger { Name = Autochanger Device = Drive-1 Changer Command = "/etc/bacula/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d" Changer Device = /dev/sg2 } Have you tried cha

Re: [Bacula-users] error with email setup

2006-01-27 Thread Steve Loughran
what does the postfix log look like for this entry? Just checking my config, and I only have: "(Bacula)" in my email setup, not "([EMAIL PROTECTED])" Steve Dave wrote: Hello, I've got a bacula backup server running on freebsd6 with postfix as an mta also on the same box.

Re: [Bacula-users] error with email setup

2006-01-30 Thread Steve Loughran
stfix/smtpd[9209]: lost connection after MAIL from unknown[127.0.0.1] Jan 27 15:35:18 zeus postfix/smtpd[9209]: disconnect from unknown[127.0.0.1] - Original Message - From: "Steve Loughran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 7:00 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula

[Bacula-users] Scheduled Jobs and "Max Volume jobs"

2006-01-30 Thread Steve Loughran
Hi all Does the "Maximum Volume Jobs" parameter on the pools mean that they will be marked as full after one *JOB*. Is it possible to mark a volume as full after one set of scheduled jobs? Say, for example I have a full backup running over Friday night, and they take up 1.5 tapes. Is it poss

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduled Jobs and "Max Volume jobs"

2006-01-30 Thread Steve Loughran
eekend tapes 48h. If that time is up, they are marked as 'used', not as 'full'. Greetings, Michael On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 - 10:35am, Steve Loughran wrote: Hi all Does the "Maximum Volume Jobs" parameter on the pools mean that they will be marked as full after one *JOB*.

[Bacula-users] One host, two directors?

2006-01-30 Thread Steve Loughran
fd.conf on the host (as well as adding the normal config to the backup dir.conf). I am specifically thinking about my laptop, where I would like to back it up both at work and at home. Many thanks for your help, it is greatly appreciated. -- Steve Loughran Network Infrastructure Manager Sony

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula killing disks?

2006-01-30 Thread Steve Loughran
Maybe its because I am a bit tired, but that was the best laugh I have had all day... thank you :) Steve > I also want to make one correction to my last email. The controller I > replaced my promise controllers with is a highpoint rocket raid 454 > card not hotpoint which I believe makes large

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling speed

2006-01-31 Thread Steve Loughran
IHi Ryan ts because the data is being transferred twice, once from client to the spool area , then again from the spool area to $TAPE. From a backup point of view, its taken longer to backup the same amount of data. What would be nice is two separate values, one for spool data rate and one f

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling speed

2006-01-31 Thread Steve Loughran
Not as far as I know :( Steve Ryan Novosielski wrote: Ah! Never even occurred to me. Is there ANY way to get the tape head speed, other than attempting to do it mathematically? --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you g

[Bacula-users] One host, two directors?

2006-02-01 Thread Steve Loughran
specifically thinking about my laptop, where I would like to back it up both at work and at home. Many thanks for your help, it is greatly appreciated. -- Steve Loughran Network Infrastructure Manager Sony Computer Entertainment (Cambridge) --- This

Re: [Bacula-users] Drive Compatibility Question

2006-02-02 Thread Steve Loughran
I use Bacula on a PowerLoader LTO3 17 slot without any problems at all, if that helps... Steve William Reid wrote: Hi there, We are looking into purchasing an LoaderXpress LTO2 11 tape changer drive and was wondering if anyone has had any experience working with this unit within Bacula.

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged all jobs for a host

2006-02-02 Thread Steve Loughran
(/me looks at cupboard full of tapes, and the DR tape list, and then looks at ensuring safe backup of catalogs...) Ryan Novosielski wrote: And if you haven't been backing up your catalog regularly (like me when one of my staff did this one to me ;)), you can bscan all the tapes. For me, it was

[Bacula-users] Checking Filesets? (wild/regex)

2006-02-03 Thread Steve Loughran
Hi all Is there an easy way to see the list of files/dirs that would be backed up (or excluded) by a fileset and its associated include/exclude options? (Specifically when it comes to wild/regex sets) Steve --- This SF.net email is sponsor

[Bacula-users] Concurrent Jobs (was "Inconsistent backup success rate")

2006-02-10 Thread Steve Loughran
Hi all I was wondering if someone could clear up how the concurrent jobs are dealt with by the storage daemon. I only have one backup device (LTO3), and have a spool area defiend for that device. if I had (for example) 4 concurrent jobs running, does this mean: 4 clients dumping da

Re: [Bacula-users] user complains bacula slows his laptop

2006-02-10 Thread Steve Loughran
Is any anti-virus application scanning the files that the FD is backing up? Laptop + AV + every single file = very very slow... Steve Russell Howe wrote: Alex Finch wrote: Dan and Michel, Thanks for the helpful comments and suggestions. Next time the user is here I will try some of them ou

[Bacula-users] Utter newbie questions

2005-11-03 Thread Steve Loughran
Hi all I am a long time Amanda user looking for something that spans tapes, and can do decent win32 restores... so here I am :) While I await the arrival of my LTO3 tape library, I was wondering if I could ask some really dumb questions about Bacula. - When the clients send their backups to

[Bacula-users] cancelling/stopping a running job?

2005-11-10 Thread Steve Loughran
Hi all Newbie mistake with Excludes has left me with a running job that is backing up my spool directory... (trailing slash on directory in exclude list...doh!). How do I stop a currently running job? Steve --- SF.Net email is sponsored by

Re: [Bacula-users] cancelling/stopping a running job?

2005-11-10 Thread Steve Loughran
Hi Yann I tried that, and it said no jobs running, but it was. I eventually stopped bacula-sd/fd/dir. Its left a job as "running" in the "list jobs" output, but its not spooling or writing to tape anymore. Steve bconsole => cancel ;-) Yann

Re: [Bacula-users] cancelling/stopping a running job?

2005-11-10 Thread Steve Loughran
Ah, that fixed it :) Many thanks for helping a newbie Steve if it's not running you can remove it from the database using the delete command in bconsole --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Ge

[Bacula-users] job to run at 0000-00-00 00:00:00 ?

2005-11-11 Thread Steve Loughran
(Mods: please ignore the other queued post, it was sent from wrong account) Hi all After much recursive running around in the docs to get things working, I am now adding my clients and running them manually (i`ll work on schedules next week). Yesterday, they all worked fine. Today, i submit

Re: [Bacula-users] job to run at 0000-00-00 00:00:00 ?

2005-11-11 Thread Steve Loughran
my bad... had a job waiting for intervention that was holding up the queued jobs. All running fine again... Sorry Steve Yesterday, they all worked fine. Today, i submit a manual "run job" but start time is set to: -00-00 00:00:00 I cannot quite understand the context, so it would

[Bacula-users] job to run at 0000-00-00 00:00:00 ?

2005-11-14 Thread Steve Loughran
ed with label tapes (the same appendable one I used yesterday that has plenty of room on it). Does anyone have any idea where I should look to fix this? (If its a FAQ and I havent found it, please feel free to flame, laugh and send me obvious links to the relevant pages in the docs) -- Steve Loughran