Re: [Bacula-users] New controller for external drives

2005-08-02 Thread Richard White
> load a tape in only one of your drives. Wait till the drive has loaded > the tape and all lights are green. > > Do a mt -f /dev/nst0 status. Then, the same with st1 and st2. > Only one of the commands should result in output describing a loaded > tape drive. > > Put the tape in one of the rem

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Pool overrides

2005-08-02 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, From time to time, I've heard some complaints about the way Bacula selects pools, but it has never been specific enough for me to do something. Now, I have an example where I have defined an Incremental Pool, and in using the "run" command, even though the

Re: [Bacula-users] volume recycling

2005-08-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 19:31, Martin Simmons wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 13:43:16 +0200, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > said: > > Kern> On Tuesday 02 August 2005 13:16, Martin Simmons wrote: > >> > On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:37:20 +0200, Rico > >> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Bacula-users] New controller for external drives

2005-08-02 Thread Arno Lehmann
Richard, you need to know your linux better :-) I'll try to give you some hints... Richard White wrote: We have Bacula on RH 9 with an internal VXA-1 drive attached to an Adaptec 2940UW and an external RakPak (2 VXA-1 drives) that had been attached to the external port/channel on the same a

[Bacula-users] Re: New controller for external drives

2005-08-02 Thread Richard White
OK, the full backup finished successfully on the "Internal" RakPak drive, indicating that at least it will not fail when using the external port/channel on this "new" 2940UW. I will attempt a similar feat on the "Left" (right) RakPak drive. Film at 11:00. Richard

[Bacula-users] Adding a Red Hat box to be backed up

2005-08-02 Thread Stack Stack
Hey Guys, Well I have Bacula running on my Debian box now. I have been toying with it for a few hours, and have figured out a lot. I got different folders, files, and drives being backed up. So I decided to test out adding another box. I am attempting to add a Red Hat 9 box. I installed the Client

[Bacula-users] New controller for external drives

2005-08-02 Thread Richard White
We have Bacula on RH 9 with an internal VXA-1 drive attached to an Adaptec 2940UW and an external RakPak (2 VXA-1 drives) that had been attached to the external port/channel on the same adapter. Configured in this way, Bacula would recognize all three drives, but we encountered a peculiar probl

Re: [Bacula-users] volume recycling

2005-08-02 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 13:43:16 +0200, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Kern> On Tuesday 02 August 2005 13:16, Martin Simmons wrote: >> > On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:37:20 +0200, Rico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > said: >> Rico> it failed again. the admin job was ok. the volume wa

Re: [Bacula-users] Debian packages

2005-08-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
Stack Stack wrote: > Thanks for all your input. > That apt-get install was amazingly faster and easier then doing it all > by hand. I knew that apt-get was out there in the world, just wasnt > familiar with it. I will crack open the man pages about it later, as > well as dpkg. Speaking from person

[Bacula-users] Installing bacula from src rpm on SuSE SLES 9

2005-08-02 Thread Chris Boyd
Now I keep getting the following: > rpmbuild --rebuild --define "build_su9 1" --define "build_sqlite 1" --define > "bacula" bacula-1.36.3-1.src.rpm error: Macro %bacula has empty body error: Macro %bacula has empty body Installing bacula-1.36.3-1.src.rpm warning: user sbarn does not exist - using

Re: [Bacula-users] Debian packages

2005-08-02 Thread Stack Stack
Thanks for all your input. That apt-get install was amazingly faster and easier then doing it all by hand. I knew that apt-get was out there in the world, just wasnt familiar with it. I will crack open the man pages about it later, as well as dpkg. We decided to go with Raid5 as we already have ha

Re: [Bacula-users] Debian packages

2005-08-02 Thread Mike Reinehr
Hello Stack! On Tuesday 02 August 2005 11:00 am, Stack Stack wrote: > Hello everyone, > I am attempting to build Bacula on a Debian system. I am very much new > at Bacula, I have been reading the tutorials past several days, and > right now I am just doing testing on a secondary box before I mess

Re: [Bacula-users] Debian packages

2005-08-02 Thread John Donagher
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 11:00 -0500, Stack Stack wrote: > Hello everyone, > I am attempting to build Bacula on a Debian system. I am very much new > at Bacula, I have been reading the tutorials past several days, and > right now I am just doing testing on a secondary box before I mess > with the prim

Re: [Bacula-users] Forcing Pools for upgraded jobs

2005-08-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
Kern Sibbald wrote: > By the way, you all might be interested to know that Microsoft has filed a > patent application for what are essentially smilies :-) ;-) :-( ... The > patent is on converting them to graphics. If it passes, my program Kmail > would be in violation of their patent for hav

[Bacula-users] Debian packages

2005-08-02 Thread Stack Stack
Hello everyone, I am attempting to build Bacula on a Debian system. I am very much new at Bacula, I have been reading the tutorials past several days, and right now I am just doing testing on a secondary box before I mess with the primary. So if I screw something up, tis no big deal. I am familiar

Re: [Bacula-users] volume recycling

2005-08-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 15:47, Rico wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 August 2005 13:16, Martin Simmons wrote: > >>>On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:37:20 +0200, Rico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>said: > >> > >> Rico> it failed again. the admin job was ok. the volume was pruned and > >>

Re: [Bacula-users] Installing from src rpm on SuSE SLES 9

2005-08-02 Thread Umberto Nicoletti
I attach a patch to a heavily modified spec file that I used for my sles9 server. I have intentionally left out all gnome/graphical apps as they are not needed and it is configured for mysql support. HTH, Umberto On 8/2/05, Chris Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying to install from bacula-1.3

Re: [Bacula-users] Installing from src rpm on SuSE SLES 9

2005-08-02 Thread Michael 'buk' Scherer
Hey... from "man rpmbuild": [--target PLATFORM] su9 is not a platform, its a "target" in the rpm.spec dunno if you can control the "target" you want to compile from the outside. or how, please check the manual or edit the .spec by hand to enable that target. Greetings, Michael On Tue, 2 Aug

[Bacula-users] Installing from src rpm on SuSE SLES 9

2005-08-02 Thread Chris Boyd
Trying to install from bacula-1.36.3-1.src.rpm Whenever I try to run rpmbuild -ba bacula.spec I get the following: # rpmbuild -ba bacula.spec error: You must specify a platform. Please examine the spec file. error: line 54: Unknown tag: exit 1 So I tried: # rpmbuild -ba bacula.spec --target s

Re: [Bacula-users] volume recycling

2005-08-02 Thread Rico
Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Tuesday 02 August 2005 13:16, Martin Simmons wrote: > >>>On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:37:20 +0200, Rico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>said: >> >> Rico> it failed again. the admin job was ok. the volume was pruned and >> Rico> recycled but "thepig"-job failed. >> >>The output

Re: [Bacula-users] volume recycling

2005-08-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 13:16, Martin Simmons wrote: > > On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:37:20 +0200, Rico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > said: > > Rico> it failed again. the admin job was ok. the volume was pruned and > Rico> recycled but "thepig"-job failed. > > The output looks normal to me, excep

Re: [Bacula-users] Forcing Pools for upgraded jobs

2005-08-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 12:35, Alan Brown wrote: > On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > By the way, you all might be interested to know that Microsoft has filed > > a patent application for what are essentially smilies :-) ;-) :-( ... > > The patent is on converting them to graphics. If

Re: [Bacula-users] volume recycling

2005-08-02 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:37:20 +0200, Rico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Rico> it failed again. the admin job was ok. the volume was pruned and Rico> recycled but "thepig"-job failed. The output looks normal to me, except for when the sd says "Cannot find any appendable volumes." This could

RE: [Bacula-users] Forcing Pools for upgraded jobs

2005-08-02 Thread Chris Lee
Maybe I should file a patent application for the process of converting any string or stream of characters into communication concepts (eg. words and sentences :). Thanks, Chris > -Original Message- > From: Alan Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 02 August, 2005 05:35 > To

[Bacula-users] Pool overrides

2005-08-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, From time to time, I've heard some complaints about the way Bacula selects pools, but it has never been specific enough for me to do something. Now, I have an example where I have defined an Incremental Pool, and in using the "run" command, even though the job is an Incremental job, the

Re: [Bacula-users] Show next tape

2005-08-02 Thread Georg Lutz
On 2005-08-01, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > > > To "enforce" the policy I set Maximum Volume Job to 2 (Backup plus > > catalog) and Accept Any Volume to no. > > Hm. I don't see how having "Accept Any Volume" disabled would do > anything to enforce that policy that could not be better enforced by >

Re: [Bacula-users] btape fill error

2005-08-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
Version 1.34.4 is pretty old, and there were some seg faults in btape when attempting two volume fill tests in btape. I'd recommend that you move up to version 1.36.3 at the least, and since you are just starting to setup Bacula, you might want to try the Beta version 1.37.30. You shouldn't

[Bacula-users] btape fill error

2005-08-02 Thread John Huss
Hello all, I've been attempting to set Bacula up on a Gentoo Linux system. (Bacula version 1.34.4) I have been following the documentation, specifically the section entitled: 'Tape Testing'. I have run the btape command and done 'test' which ran successfully on my drive and tape changer. For refe

Re: [Bacula-users] ACL's with Bacula on FreeBSD (resend)

2005-08-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 01 August 2005 21:56, David Duchscher wrote: > -- > DaveD > > On Aug 1, 2005, at 11:59 AM, David Duchscher wrote: > > On Jul 20, 2005, at 1:15 PM, Tony Lambregts wrote: > >> I have ACL's working on our FreeBSD Server using Samba but when I > >> tried to backup and restore the files using

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Bacula & Multiple Tape Drives

2005-08-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 01 August 2005 20:58, Mark Bober wrote: > > > Amanda changes the access-times on all the files it backups but this > > > collides with out tmpwatch system - the files never expire :-( I hope > > > this behavior is different with bacula. > > > > Bacula uses access times to decide what file

Re: [Bacula-users] ACL's with Bacula on FreeBSD (resend)

2005-08-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
If you would like this *really* fixed, what I need is a patch to /autoconf/configure.in On Monday 01 August 2005 18:59, David Duchscher wrote: > On Jul 20, 2005, at 1:15 PM, Tony Lambregts wrote: > > I have ACL's working on our FreeBSD Server using Samba but when I > > tried to backup and restore

Re: [Bacula-users] Forcing Pools for upgraded jobs

2005-08-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
By the way, you all might be interested to know that Microsoft has filed a patent application for what are essentially smilies :-) ;-) :-( ... The patent is on converting them to graphics. If it passes, my program Kmail would be in violation of their patent for having converted the :) below

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with VSS snapshots

2005-08-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 01 August 2005 14:13, Russell Howe wrote: > meska wrote: > > Hi all , > > > > So i'm testing the VSS enabled bacula, and want to backup an outlook > > data file ( .pst). But bacula returns with an error : > > I wouldn't expect that Outlook supports VSS. It would be one less reason > for p

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with VSS snapshots

2005-08-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 02 August 2005 08:34, meska wrote: > Yes, bacula backups *.pst files fine. After few hours of messing with > other machines (runing XP and outlook ) - i got it working and it seems > that is problem is related only to my own computer. Now i only need to > find out why this is happening.

Re: [Bacula-users] volume recycling

2005-08-02 Thread Rico
Martin Simmons wrote: >>On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 08:34:39 +0200, Rico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Rico> Martin Simmons wrote: > >>> On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:00:05 +0200, Rico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> > >> > Rico> hi > >> > Rico> i have made a "donothing"-backup-job. >

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically mount the tape for next backup

2005-08-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 01 August 2005 12:57, Bernhard Suttner wrote: > your solution with the "run before job" only mount the tape before a job, > but a tape could be full during a job, too. Does your solution work too, if > bacula requests a new tape during a job? There is a Poll feature in the SD that causes

Re: [Bacula-users] deleted database

2005-08-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 01 August 2005 11:21, viktorija wrote: > Hello, > > > i have a big problem. I should say a very big. Someone of operators deleted > mysql data directory, where was bacula database. So now i have all backups > but without database. How can i restore my backups, without database? Linux > fi

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-sd CPU eating in system space.

2005-08-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 01 August 2005 10:54, Ferdinando Pasqualetti wrote: > Hello everybody, > I would like to tell a random strange behaviour in bacula in bacula-sd. > The storage (and director) system is a RedHat AS 4.0 2 Gb RAM and 4.5 Tb > raid 5 disks paritioned (ext3) in 1 Tb partitions. Bacula volumes a