Re: [Bacula-users] scripting bconsole (Re: vchanger and "intervention needed")

2014-08-18 Thread Jeffrey Lang
Dimitri You could use the expect command to script a reply to request as in: #!/usr/bin/expect -f set volume [lindex $argv 0] spawn bconsole expect "*" send "delete volume=$volume\r" expect "(yes/no): " send "yes\r"; expect "*" send "exit\r" interact On 08/18/2014 04:21 PM, Dimi

Re: [Bacula-users] Repeating FULL backup

2011-03-11 Thread jeffrey Lang
Mike yes, there are options for managing this, they are: Allow Duplicate Jobs = no Cancel Lower Level Duplicates = yes Cancel Queued Duplicates = yes Cancel Running Duplicates = no These are available in the 5.0.X bacula code. jeff Mike Hobbs wrote: On 02/28/20

[Bacula-users] Need help understanding what Bacula is doing

2011-03-08 Thread jeffrey Lang
Guys I have been running Bacula for years and love it, but every now and then it does something that I can't figure out. So here's the current issue: The system is telling me that there are no appendable volumes, as in : 08-Mar 08:56 bkupsvr2-sd JobId 18818: Job seismicfs-seism

Re: [Bacula-users] Error: bsock.c:208 gethostbyname() after domain name change

2011-01-03 Thread jeffrey Lang
Did you change the /etc/hosts files on all machines involved? pgf wrote: Jari Fredriksson wrote: On 3.1.2011 18:06, pgf wrote: I don't know why, but some /etc/nsswitch.conf with these lines hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 fails for me in this situation.

Re: [Bacula-users] new bacula installation

2010-08-13 Thread jeffrey Lang
Again use "lsscsi -g" to get detailed and direct information about your devices. Below is the output for my system [r...@bkupsvr2 ~]# lsscsi -g [0:0:0:0]diskATA WDC WD3000HLFS-0 04.0 /dev/sda /dev/sg0 [1:0:0:0]diskATA WDC WD3000HLFS-0 04.0 /dev/sdb /dev/sg1 [5:0:0

Re: [Bacula-users] new bacula installation

2010-08-13 Thread jeffrey Lang
Try using lsscsi -g to show all your connected tape/changer and disk drives. Craig Miskell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeremiah D. Jester wrote: John, You are correct. The device wasn't 'sg0' but rather 'sg1'. I made the change in bacula-sd.conf, restarte

[Bacula-users] Problem with double scheduling of jobs

2010-02-25 Thread jeffrey Lang
Hi I recently upgrade to ver 5.0.0, on a Centos-5.4 servers. After upgrading I modified my jobs to look like this, what I specificly interested in was the duplicate job features: job { Name = "nicoya-cocos1" Enabled = yes Type = Backup Client = nicoya-fd Fil

[Bacula-users] Error with new 5.0.0 option

2010-02-18 Thread jeffrey Lang
{ File = /proc File = /tmp File = /.journal File = /.fsck } } According to the manual the "Cancel Lower Level Duplicates" goes in the JOB resource definition. Am I missing something here? or is there a problem? jeff

[Bacula-users] Problem with config file under 5.0.0

2010-02-17 Thread jeffrey Lang
Environment: Upgrading from 2.2.3 to 5.0.0 Host OS: CentOS 5.4 I'm in the process of upgrading and testing version 5.0.0 and am getting the following error when trying out one of the new options for the JOB resource: ../sbin/bacula-dir -t 17-Feb 15:01 bacula-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at par

[Bacula-users] Need input on an Issue

2009-11-09 Thread jeffrey Lang
Everyone First let me say that BACULA is a great software package. Now my issue: I recently had a file system get corrupted, and need to restore it from the backups. I re-installed from the most recent backup from about three months ago. Due to the amount of data I do a three month fu

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape library auto cleaning and Bacula

2008-12-18 Thread jeffrey Lang
Win Yes, I have the same problem with my Storage Tek L700e. I just got burned last night during a full of 300GB with the library automatically cleaning a drive. Only way I have been able to deal with this is to restart the job after it fails. I would like to know the same informati

[Bacula-users] Simple question on "HeartbeatInterval"

2008-10-22 Thread jeffrey Lang
HI I'm currently using bacula-2.2.3 (planning to upgrade soon), and need clarification on the "HeartbeatInterval" configuration option for the SD and FD. The manual states the "HeartbeatInterval=", what is "time interval" expressed in, seconds, minutes, etc? I couldn't find anything

[Bacula-users] Help With bacula excluding directories

2008-02-01 Thread jeffrey Lang
First let me say Bacula is a great tool and works very well. My question is this: On my netapp device i have ".snapshot" directories interspersed in the file system. I need to delete these from my backup. I have tried numerous things, first reading the manual but have not yet been success

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula tape handling with a library where tape is removed

2007-07-23 Thread jeffrey Lang
After removing/changing tapes in the library make sure to do an "update slots" the the new tape information is loaded into bacula. Bob Hetzel wrote: Greetings, I've been working on setting up bacula with a tape library. I now have a situation where a tape got removed from the library. Bacul

Re: [Bacula-users] Using CSWbacula package from Blastwave, is mtx supported?

2007-06-21 Thread jeffrey Lang
I just looked on the blastwave site and there is an MTX package out there. Shon Stephens wrote: John, Thanks for the reply. I'm testing this on a Solaris x86 platform. Blastwave is a software repository that can be accessed with pkg-get to install precompiled binary packages onto Solaris

[Bacula-users] Director core Dumpes

2007-02-05 Thread jeffrey Lang
OK, while making a change to my schedules in bacula i made a typo, on one of the schedule lines for my host omega. When i did a reload the director core dumped. 05-Feb 14:28 bkupsvr-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at parse_conf.c:482 Config error: Could not find config Resource SteveCycle referenced

[Bacula-users] Why is bacula try to read a tape when there is not one in a drive

2007-02-05 Thread jeffrey Lang
Hi all I've run into an interesting problem where doing a mount with no tape in the drive is generating an error, see the output below. Why is it doing this? My current Environment Is: DIR - Solaris 10, SD - Solaris 10, FD - Solaris10, Linux (different distros), Windows (SP). Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger problems w/ 2.0.1

2007-01-17 Thread jeffrey Lang
I would suggest looking at and testing the mtx-changer command, since it parses the output of the MTX command. I have found that for my auto changer i had to tweek the script since my output was slightly different than what was expected. Justin Wainwright wrote: New Bacula user here- I've gon

Re: [Bacula-users] Migrating to Bacula

2006-12-04 Thread jeffrey Lang
And me!!! Michael Nelson wrote: On Thu, November 30, 2006 3:13 pm, Arno Lehmann said: Do it. My little experience with Arkeia was one of the main reasons I moved to Bacula. Me too. begin:vcard fn:Jeffrey Lang n:Lang;Jeffrey org:University of Wyoming;Geology and Geophyscis adr:;;

Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

2006-10-10 Thread jeffrey Lang
Running Director on Solaris 10  3/05,   with clients on Solaris9, Solaris10, Linux FC5, CentOS 4.4, Redhat 9.0.  Storage Daemons on Solaris10, FC5, and Redhat 9.0.   Bacula version 1.36.3.   Tape drives 3xDLT-8000 and 1xDLT-220.  Soon to be upgrading to a Storage Tek L700e, with 3xDLT-320's f

[Bacula-users] Information on support of StorageTek L700 Tape Library

2006-06-23 Thread jeffrey Lang
My department is looking into purchasing a StorageTek L700 take library for doing backups of research data. What i need to know if any one uses this device with bacula? How well it works? Problems and issues? Before we spend the money, i want to have know if it will work with bacula. Any