[Bacula-users] forcibly promote jobs' backup level?

2010-03-10 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, after replacing the backup storage disk, I would like to force all subsequent backups to start with a full backup run, so the disk becomes self-contained, sort of. The only way to do it that I found so far, was to create a new job using 'run jobname' and then modifying parameters. This

[Bacula-users] backup for a new machine way too small

2009-11-20 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, I just added a new machine to my backup set and tried to run a full backup. The machine is basically configured like any other, in terms of what Bacula has to say, but the compression ratio was _much_ too good to be true (~250MB instead of 3 GB, most of it being images). Bacula claimed that

[Bacula-users] specifying non-existant files or directories?

2009-08-05 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, my backups appear to basically work now (no frills, though), but I've got some questions left. I'd like to simplify my configuration by merging some FileSet resources. This would requrire me to specify non-existant directories in one of the FileSet specifications. Maybe the same effect can

[Bacula-users] reversing order of contact?

2009-08-04 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, I've wondered about why my clients won't back up, but think that I found the problem after reviewing this page: http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/What_is_Bacula.html#SECTION0022 The picture specifies that the client accesses the server to ship its data. This collides

Re: [Bacula-users] Newbie alert: History, Backing up to File(s)

2009-07-28 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, On Sat, 25.07.2009 at 18:52:08 +0300, Timo Neuvonen timo-n...@tee-en.net wrote: First, there is some very limited job history in the .state files. Is it possible the old information comes from the .state files of the spesific clients, did you delete them also, in addition to the .state

[Bacula-users] Newbie alert: History, Backing up to File(s)

2009-07-24 Thread Toni Mueller
Hello, I'm new to bacula and currently a bit confused about the operation of Bacula. I'm running Bacula on Debian/Lenny, plus some Bacula Clients (-fd) on OpenBSD. All systems are running a 2.4.4 version of the package. First off, I have played around a bit, then tried to start over. In the

Re: [Bacula-users] Newbie alert: History, Backing up to File(s)

2009-07-24 Thread Toni Mueller
On Fri, 24.07.2009 at 19:37:49 +0300, Jari Fredriksson ja...@iki.fi wrote: Did you drop the 'bacula' database from your MySQL or PgSQL? Yes, of course. I deleted everything that I could find, then re-installed. Kind regards, --Toni++