Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Backup of directory structures

2005-06-27 Thread Siju George
On 6/28/05, Martin Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:20:49 +0200, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > said: > > Arno> Hello, > > Arno> Siju George wrote: > > >> On 6/20/05, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> > >

[Bacula-users] Label command not asking for slot number

2005-06-27 Thread Jesus Salvo Jr.
http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Autochangers_Support.html#SECTION000271000 .. says that the label command should ask the operator of the ( source ) slot of the volume that is being labeled: "That each Volume (tape) to be used must be defined in the Catalog and have a Slot number a

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger ( Sun StorEdge L7 )

2005-06-27 Thread Jesus Salvo Jr.
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 12:58, Jesus Salvo Jr. wrote: > Hi all, > > Running bacula 1.36.3 on Solaris9. > From time to time, when I do a mount from the console .. I get: > > 3901 open device failed: ERR=dev.c:289 stored: unable to open > device /dev/rmt/1mbn: ERR=I/O error > Never mind ... It seems

[Bacula-users] Autochanger ( Sun StorEdge L7 )

2005-06-27 Thread Jesus Salvo Jr.
Hi all, Running bacula 1.36.3 on Solaris9. From time to time, when I do a mount from the console .. I get: 3901 open device failed: ERR=dev.c:289 stored: unable to open device /dev/rmt/1mbn: ERR=I/O error mtx shows that the the drive has slot 1 loaded: bash-2.05# /usr/local/sbin/mtx -f /dev/s

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple external HDDs as backup media

2005-06-27 Thread Tony Whitmore
Rowdy wrote: > I do a full backup on Saturday mornings (1am) creating a new volume for > each server, then a differential backup at 1am all other days for each > server, appending to each respective full backup volume. > > Bacula shouldn't mind about doing a full backup onto one drive (one > volu

Re: [Bacula-users] ERROR TERMINATION at lex.c:140

2005-06-27 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Monday 27 June 2005 04:54 pm, Mike Reinehr wrote: > Oh, oh! I seem to have just shot myself in the foot! > > I edited /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf to add the necessary paragraphs to > support a new network client backup. Then I stopped bacula-director & tried > > to restart it with the following

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple external HDDs as backup media

2005-06-27 Thread Rowdy
Tony Whitmore wrote: On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 09:05:13PM +1000, Rowdy wrote: Hi Tony, Hey Rowdy, thanks for your reply. Excellent, I'll have a browse through the manual and see if I can work out how to do that. Quick question - do you perform full backups every time, or just incremental

[Bacula-users] ERROR TERMINATION at lex.c:140

2005-06-27 Thread Mike Reinehr
Oh, oh! I seem to have just shot myself in the foot! I edited /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf to add the necessary paragraphs to support a new network client backup. Then I stopped bacula-director & tried to restart it with the following result: > Starting Bacula Director: 27-Jun 16:39 bacula-dir:

[Bacula-users] Bacula Restore Errors, STILL

2005-06-27 Thread Michael Reith
/storage/bacula-restores/var/spool/postfix/incoming/ 27-Jun 14:36 snoid-fd: RestoreFiles.2005-06-27_14.33.06 Error: create_file.c:203 Cannot make node /storage/bacula-restores/var/spool/postfix/private/rewrite: ERR=Invalid argument 27-Jun 14:36 snoid-fd: RestoreFiles.2005-06-27_14.33.06 Error:

Re: [Bacula-users] Back on the air

2005-06-27 Thread Jo
Phil Stracchino wrote: Now in New Hampshire, with real bandwidth (even if Verizon's service sucks), and back with my development machines again. Should be able to start jumping back in again pretty soon. (Right now, I can't find any of my tapes, and am uncertain whether they actually made it o

Re: [Bacula-users] DVD+/-RW as media without bimgmanager?

2005-06-27 Thread Mike Reinehr
On Monday 27 June 2005 03:10 pm, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 02:45:44PM -0500, Mike Reinehr wrote: > > I don't know if you're open to purchasing more hardware, but I'm > > surprised that more people don't use DVD-RAM. That's what I use here (not > > with Bacula, though) and I a

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Backup of directory structures

2005-06-27 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:20:49 +0200, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Arno> Hello, Arno> Siju George wrote: >> On 6/20/05, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> I am looking at Bacula >>> but the line >>> # Files deleted after a Full save

Re: [Bacula-users] DVD+/-RW as media without bimgmanager?

2005-06-27 Thread Phil Stracchino
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 02:45:44PM -0500, Mike Reinehr wrote: > I don't know if you're open to purchasing more hardware, but I'm surprised > that more people don't use DVD-RAM. That's what I use here (not with Bacula, > though) and I am able to make a file system, mount and write to a DVD-RAM >

[Bacula-users] Less defined schedules / Upgraded jobs

2005-06-27 Thread Silas Moeckel at web.com
I've been using bacula for awhile now and it works well. I cant seem to find any method of doing the following two things: I'd realy like to get Netbackup style scheduling were you can specify a full backup every x days rather than the hard coded on x day do this. Any ideas on how to get this

Re: [Bacula-users] DVD+/-RW as media without bimgmanager?

2005-06-27 Thread Mike Reinehr
I don't know if you're open to purchasing more hardware, but I'm surprised that more people don't use DVD-RAM. That's what I use here (not with Bacula, though) and I am able to make a file system, mount and write to a DVD-RAM disk in the same manner as a hard drive. DVD-RAM has been supported by

[Bacula-users] DVD+/-RW as media without bimgmanager?

2005-06-27 Thread Misty Stanley-Jones
I have one server that I want to back up to DVD. There are a couple ways to do it. Right now it is backing up to disk and running a script to copy the volume to dvd at the end. OK but then I cannot restore directly from DVD. I do not want to use bimagemanager because I do not want to have to

[Bacula-users] Back on the air

2005-06-27 Thread Phil Stracchino
Now in New Hampshire, with real bandwidth (even if Verizon's service sucks), and back with my development machines again. Should be able to start jumping back in again pretty soon. (Right now, I can't find any of my tapes, and am uncertain whether they actually made it onto the truck.) -- Phi

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Software patents

2005-06-27 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Monday 27 June 2005 15:25, Juan Luis Frances wrote: Hello, On 6 July the European Parlament will vote about the software patents. If it is approved, do you believe that the bacula development can be affected? Might well be possible, and perhaps more than Kern

Re: [Bacula-users] Oh yeah, it works.

2005-06-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 17 June 2005 00:13, Nicolas Lopez wrote: > We've been using bacula for several months to backup a few terabytes > to Super AIT-1. We just upgraded our backup server to actually be able > to keep up with the data rates the drives support so I figure now is a > good time to actually ment

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Software patents

2005-06-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 27 June 2005 15:25, Juan Luis Frances wrote: > Hello, > > On 6 July the European Parlament will vote about the software patents. If > it is approved, do you believe that the bacula development can be affected? Yes, it is possible that Bacula developement could be affected by patents, but

[Bacula-users] Sporadic failure on a Linux client

2005-06-27 Thread Joshua Kugler
I have a Mandrake 10.1 box running bacula-client-1.36.0-1 (Scott Barninger's RPM, IIRC). Every now and then I get this on a backup: 26-Jun 01:05 herodotus-dir: Start Backup JobId 4271, Job=otter.2005-06-26_01.05.00 26-Jun 01:05 herodotus-sd: Spooling data ... 26-Jun 01:13 herodotus-sd: Committi

[Bacula-users] redhat-RPMs

2005-06-27 Thread Georg Lutz
Hi, why is there a conflict in the specfile between sqlite and bacula-sqlite? This means, that I cannot have sqlite installed, when choosing sqlite as underlaying database for bacula ?!? -- Georg --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover E

[Bacula-users] Software patents

2005-06-27 Thread Juan Luis Frances
Hello, On 6 July the European Parlament will vote about the software patents. If it is approved, do you believe that the bacula development can be affected? I believe it is a question that fly around all of our minds. Best regards, Juan Luis F.

[Bacula-users] Monday, everything is OK, thanks to Bacula (and bextract)

2005-06-27 Thread Fabio Mengue
Hi, This weekend I tried to install a new HD on a Dell server (who is also my backup server). I don't know why, but when I tried to power on the machine, the power supply unit made a "click" and a yellow led started to flash, meaning that I had to replace the power supply. So I did. Power on

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple external HDDs as backup media

2005-06-27 Thread Tony Whitmore
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 09:05:13PM +1000, Rowdy wrote: > Hi Tony, Hey Rowdy, thanks for your reply. > I am running Bacula under FreeBSD and backing up about 6 servers to 120G > hard drives mounted in an external USB enclosure. One drive is in the > enclosure, the other (only two drives) is in th

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple external HDDs as backup media

2005-06-27 Thread Rowdy
Tony Whitmore wrote: Hi, I've been working on using Bacula on our site (~500 PCs) for the last week or so, and have made great progress on test systems. I'll be backing up about 7 or 8 servers once it's all up and running. On the "proper" backup system I will be using 200GB USB2 external HDDs a

[Bacula-users] Multiple external HDDs as backup media

2005-06-27 Thread Tony Whitmore
Hi, I've been working on using Bacula on our site (~500 PCs) for the last week or so, and have made great progress on test systems. I'll be backing up about 7 or 8 servers once it's all up and running. On the "proper" backup system I will be using 200GB USB2 external HDDs as the stoarge medium

Re: [Bacula-users] Error restoring raw partition /dev/hda1

2005-06-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 24 June 2005 22:30, Sydney Weidman wrote: > I tried backing up a raw partition /dev/hda1 ext3, and the backup was > successful, but the restore gave me the following error: > > 24-Jun 15:27 A16313: RestoreFiles.2005-06-24_15.23.43 Error: attribs.c:339 > File size of restored file /tmp/bac

Re: [Bacula-users] Help with SD error

2005-06-27 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Stephan Heine - [Genetic Interactive] wrote: Hi, First off. Thank you for a fantastic backup solution. Secondly, sorry for the long post. We've seen longer ones... The bacula configuration runs perfectly at his client's site, backing up about 15 clients. Flawlessly. Yesterday I inc

Re: [Bacula-users] hesitation between incremental and differential backup

2005-06-27 Thread Arno Lehmann
H, Romain wrote: I hesitate between incremental and differential for my backup jobs. I don't want to keep several months of data history. I only want to go back to a D - 3 weeks state if necessary. So my backup planning is : - 1 full backup every week, 3 weeks of file retention - 1 diff or in

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula time out error

2005-06-27 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, S. Lloyd wrote: My jobs are just timing out when I try to backup a remote client. I have opened all three of Baculas ports on the client firewall How's about your local firewall? Perhaps you also need port forwarding, and your local SD's name needs to be resolvable by the client.

[Bacula-users] bacula time out error

2005-06-27 Thread S. Lloyd
My jobs are just timing out when I try to backup a remote client. I have opened all three of Baculas ports on the client firewall Here are the errors: lloydserver1-fd Version: 1.36.2 (28 February 2005) i386-portbld-freebsd5.4 freebsd 5.4-RELEASE Daemon started 24-Jun-05 10:46, 0 Jobs run sinc

[Bacula-users] hesitation between incremental and differential backup

2005-06-27 Thread Romain
I hesitate between incremental and differential for my backup jobs. I don't want to keep several months of data history. I only want to go back to a D - 3 weeks state if necessary. So my backup planning is : - 1 full backup every week, 3 weeks of file retention - 1 diff or incr backup every day,

[Bacula-users] Error restoring raw partition /dev/hda1

2005-06-27 Thread Sydney Weidman
I tried backing up a raw partition /dev/hda1 ext3, and the backup was successful, but the restore gave me the following error: 24-Jun 15:27 A16313: RestoreFiles.2005-06-24_15.23.43 Error: attribs.c:339 File size of restored file /tmp/bacula-restores/dev/hda1 not correct. Original 0, restored 10689

[Bacula-users] Re: Thinking of implementing bacula have a couple?'s.

2005-06-27 Thread Sean
Thank you both very much. You've been very helpful. --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you

[Bacula-users] Help with SD error

2005-06-27 Thread Stephan Heine - [Genetic Interactive]
Hi, First off. Thank you for a fantastic backup solution. Secondly, sorry for the long post. The bacula configuration runs perfectly at his client's site, backing up about 15 clients. Flawlessly. Yesterday I included a new client into the backup that is a AMD system that runs NVidia based gigab

Re: [Bacula-users] pics of Bunny

2005-06-27 Thread Russell Howe
Russell Howe wrote: > http://siksai.co.uk/hidden/recvdphotos/from%20Bunny/ Er, forget about that! Wrong address :P -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

[Bacula-users] pics of Bunny

2005-06-27 Thread Russell Howe
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Re: [Bacula-users] job priority question

2005-06-27 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Yann Cézard wrote: ... That's make me thinking of a possible enhancement in the (re-)scheduling of jobs. The problem I have met one or two times is that for one reason or another a job could not be run (missing free volumes in pool in my case), all the jobs with lower priority won't be ru

Re: [Bacula-users] job priority question

2005-06-27 Thread Yann Cézard
Arno Lehmann wrote: Hello, Andrei Mikhailovsky wrote: Hello after reading the manuals, I couldn't find a solution to my question. Is it somehow possible to skip higher priority jobs and move to the lower once if the client with a higher priority is not available. No, that's not possible. E

Re: [Bacula-users] job priority question

2005-06-27 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Andrei Mikhailovsky wrote: Hello after reading the manuals, I couldn't find a solution to my question. Is it somehow possible to skip higher priority jobs and move to the lower once if the client with a higher priority is not available. No, that's not possible. Even canceling the job

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger test fails

2005-06-27 Thread Jesus Salvo Jr.
On Monday 27 June 2005 14:39, Jesus Salvo Jr. wrote: > === Autochanger test === > > 3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded" command. > 3991 Bad autochanger command: /etc/bacula/mtx-changer > /dev/scsi/changer/c2t1d0 loaded 1 /dev/rmt/1mbn 0 > 3991 result="/etc/bacula/mtx-changer: syntax error at line 45