Re: [Fwd: [Bacula-users] restore files]

2005-08-24 Thread Dmitry S. Vlasov
thanks a lot :) Kern Sibbald wrote: On Tuesday 23 August 2005 20:08, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, Dmitry S. Vlasov wrote: Hm I decide to wait and got this after ~38 minutes: JobId: 47 Job:RestoreFiles.2005-08-23_18.24.28 Client:

[Bacula-users] About VSS

2005-08-24 Thread meska
Hi all First - huge thanx for trying to integrate VSS with bacula. For more than three weeks I've been runing a Linux test machine to backup Windows XP clients. Totally i have 16 Windows XP PC. In the beginning only 2 clients always failed to generate VSS snapshots with an error: Generate VSS

[Bacula-users] restore windows disks

2005-08-24 Thread Daan Kupfer
Hello, I'm having a problem restoring files from a windows disk. I've read the section on 'cd to windows disks' and it says 'c:' is treated like a normal directory, still i can't seem to access them while trying to restore files. I've tried anything with caps, colons, slashes and

Re: [Bacula-users] About VSS

2005-08-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 09:31, meska wrote: Hi all First - huge thanx for trying to integrate VSS with bacula. For more than three weeks I've been runing a Linux test machine to backup Windows XP clients. Totally i have 16 Windows XP PC. In the beginning only 2 clients always failed to

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Landon Fuller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kern Sibbald wrote: | 1. Please help encourage Landon Fuller implement data encryption by | contributing to EFF. If you haven't seen the announcement about this, please | visit: http://www.bacula.org/?page=news For those of you who have |

[Bacula-users] Re: Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Timo Neuvonen
Just a few badly organized comments that came into my mind follow: but I am very reluctant to create a Bacula entity in the US In addition, some Europeans may object to the US government having information on funds transfers to them. As a consequence, I would like to exhaust the

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Pal Dorogi
Hi, From my experience, and I'm sure someone's already said this... the best was to get money, at least where I work, is to consider the money a support contract. My superiors like running software without a support contract even less than they like paying for things. ;) I will stand in

[Bacula-users] why do i need to label this?

2005-08-24 Thread Joe Stump
Bacula gives me this error:23-Aug 14:06 camus-sd: Job camus-weekly-tape-job.2005-08-23_14.05.34 waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes.Please use the "label"  command to create a new Volume for:    Storage:      tape-storage    Media type:   DDS-4    Pool:        

Re: [Bacula-users] why do i need to label this?

2005-08-24 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Joe Stump wrote: Bacula gives me this error: 23-Aug 14:06 camus-sd: Job camus-weekly-tape-job.2005-08-23_14.05.34 waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes. Please use the label command to create a new Volume for: Storage: tape-storage Media type: DDS-4 Pool:

[Bacula-users] Bacula does not backup mounted disk

2005-08-24 Thread Michael Dauer
Hello, I have a second partition mounted as /var. Despite Bacula should backup all (/) it does not include /var. Both root partition and var partition are ext3. The relevant file set is: FileSet { Name = Full Set Include { Options { signature = MD5 compression=GZIP }

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Re: Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, On Tuesday 23 August 2005 21:16, Timo Neuvonen wrote: Just a few badly organized comments that came into my mind follow: but I am very reluctant to create a Bacula entity in the US In addition, some Europeans may object to the US government having information on funds transfers

[Bacula-users] Pools Storage location

2005-08-24 Thread Daniel Holtkamp
Hi ! Trying to understand pools volumes Setup: Let`s say i only have a Default-Pool defined. Two Clients and two seperate jobs. Also two (File-)Storage locations. Each client backups to a seperate storage location BUT have the default-pool configured. Does this work ? From the

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Re: Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Dan Langille
resent to both lists. Sorry. On 24 Aug 2005 at 15:34, Kern Sibbald wrote: José Luis what would the best (least disruptive) way be for me to get Debian's reaction to this? I know a Debian committer. What would you like me to ask him? -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The

[Bacula-users] generic question about jobs

2005-08-24 Thread Timo Eissler
Hello, we have 68 jobs, with 34 clients. In other Backup programs i used before i switched to bacula i had 2 jobs with these 34 clients. Now every client must have it´s own job. I don´t want to read 68 short emails every day. I think it is better to have 2 long emails in which all clients of

Re: [Bacula-users] generic question about jobs

2005-08-24 Thread Phil Stracchino
Timo Eissler wrote: Hello, we have 68 jobs, with 34 clients. In other Backup programs i used before i switched to bacula i had 2 jobs with these 34 clients. Now every client must have it´s own job. I don´t want to read 68 short emails every day. I think it is better to have 2 long emails

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Matthias Kurz
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: [...] If you want to read about my idea, please visit: http://www.bacula.org/OpenSourceFunding.html Your comments are welcome. Hi. Can you say with few words what the consequences of this are for (free) packaging projects like Debian, BSD ports,

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Re: Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 15:49, Dan Langille wrote: On 24 Aug 2005 at 15:34, Kern Sibbald wrote: José Luis what would the best (least disruptive) way be for me to get Debian's reaction to this? I know a Debian committer. What would you like me to ask him? Ask him to take a look at the

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 16:42, Alan Brown wrote: On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Pal Dorogi wrote: From my experience, and I'm sure someone's already said this... the best was to get money, at least where I work, is to consider the money a support contract. My superiors like running software

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Re: Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Dan Langille
On 24 Aug 2005 at 16:45, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Wednesday 24 August 2005 15:49, Dan Langille wrote: On 24 Aug 2005 at 15:34, Kern Sibbald wrote: José Luis what would the best (least disruptive) way be for me to get Debian's reaction to this? I know a Debian committer. What would you

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 16:41, Matthias Kurz wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: [...] If you want to read about my idea, please visit: http://www.bacula.org/OpenSourceFunding.html Your comments are welcome. Hi. Can you say with few words what the consequences of this

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 17:08 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: I would like any such companies to step forward, because the idea here for Bacula is not to make money, but to cover out of pocket costs of development. If others can make some money and at the same time help the project, so be it. I

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Ryan Novosielski
What my superiors generally mean for software support is that if the product is broken, there will be some assurance that it will be fixed and allow us to do business. From what I understand, this already takes place fairly regularly -- if you report a bug, chances are it will get fixed (I see

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Matthias Kurz
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Wednesday 24 August 2005 16:41, Matthias Kurz wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: [...] If you want to read about my idea, please visit: http://www.bacula.org/OpenSourceFunding.html Your comments are welcome. Hi.

Re: [Bacula-users] file sizes for job x with level y

2005-08-24 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Timo Eissler wrote: Hello, i am wondering why my differential/incremental backups are so big. Does anyone know how i can get a list of files and their sizes for a specified level of a job? use the command estimate With this list i can check if i made a mistake in configuring filesets

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 17:31, Matthias Kurz wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Wednesday 24 August 2005 16:41, Matthias Kurz wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: [...] If you want to read about my idea, please visit:

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring single files -- what's the best way to do it?

2005-08-24 Thread Ryan Novosielski
While we're talking about this, I just gave it a shot. Unfortunately it appears as it doesn't work for me, and I don't know why: #.clients helios-fd catalyst-fd #.filesets Full Set Catalog NJMS Catalyst #.storage File helios_DDS #.jobs RestoreFiles NJMSCatalyst #.pools Default catalyst_FULL

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 17:40, David Boyes wrote: I would like any such companies to step forward, because the idea here for Bacula is not to make money, but to cover out of pocket costs of development. I'm up for it. Could you explain in more detail what you feel you could do? If

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring single files -- what's the best way to do it?

2005-08-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 18:14, Ryan Novosielski wrote: While we're talking about this, I just gave it a shot. Unfortunately it appears as it doesn't work for me, and I don't know why: #.clients helios-fd catalyst-fd #.filesets Full Set Catalog NJMS Catalyst #.storage File

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Kern Sibbald wrote: 2. Bacula Foundation 3. Bacula Funding Idea http://www.bacula.org/OpenSourceFunding.html Your comments are welcome. The ongoing discussion is interesting, but I thought of something a little different after reading your document. I'm not thinking about the

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring single files -- what's the best way to do it?

2005-08-24 Thread Ryan Novosielski
I'm fine with the way I chose it. There WERE differential backups before 08/22 in the blow example, however. When I try to look at the restore tree, though, it only will work when I choose Before and the date of the most recent full backup. _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ |

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 18:12 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: Yes, but none of those organizations or any other packager uses our source rpm. Also, please note very carefully the word probably in the above sentence -- that means, I am unsure about what I am saying or undecided. Ok, but somebody

[Bacula-users] volume management for file storage

2005-08-24 Thread Michael Dauer
Hello, I use the default schedule: Schedule { Name = WeeklyCycle Run = Full 1st sun at 3:05 Run = Differential 2nd-5th sun at 3:05 Run = Incremental mon-sat at 3:05 } All generations should be store on the same volume. But every full backup should take a new volume. One way to do this is

Re: [Bacula-users] why do i need to label this?

2005-08-24 Thread Joe Stump
Sorry for the last post ... I guess I'm missing something now. I've changed my volume retention to 5 days (I run tapes Mon-Fri and have a different pool for the weekend when I'm not around) and bacula still refuses to write over the data. Am I missing something? Doesn't "Volume Retention = 5 days"

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 19:12, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, Kern Sibbald wrote: 2. Bacula Foundation 3. Bacula Funding Idea http://www.bacula.org/OpenSourceFunding.html Your comments are welcome. The ongoing discussion is interesting, but I thought of something a little different

[Bacula-users] Use Any Volume = No

2005-08-24 Thread Ryan Novosielski
Can someone explain to me the use of Use Any Volume? What I want is for bacula to use the tape with the lowest ID that is writable. I definite writable as any volume that is in a state that will allow it to be written to (including a tape that contains data but whose retention time has

[Bacula-users] Problems restoring large(?) files

2005-08-24 Thread Tom Boyda
Hello, I am having a problem with bacula 1.37.30 and restoring large(?) 150MB+ files. But it seems to be only some of the files (see extract from the log below) and the files were *not* being used, they are self-extracting archives being stored for download. The system is Solaris 9 and bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Severe problem: director hangs in production system

2005-08-24 Thread Volker Sauer
On Di, 23 Aug 2005, José Luis Tallón [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Volker Sauer wrote: On Di, 23 Aug 2005, Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any chance you can upgrade to version 1.37.36 at least for this machine? I'm 99% sure I've resolved all these kinds of lockups in the

Re: [Bacula-users] volume management for file storage

2005-08-24 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Michael Dauer wrote: Hello, I use the default schedule: Schedule { Name = WeeklyCycle Run = Full 1st sun at 3:05 Run = Differential 2nd-5th sun at 3:05 Run = Incremental mon-sat at 3:05 } All generations should be store on the same volume. But every full backup should take a new

Re: [Bacula-users] why do i need to label this?

2005-08-24 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Joe Stump wrote: Sorry for the last post ... I guess I'm missing something now. I've changed my volume retention to 5 days (I run tapes Mon-Fri and have a different pool for the weekend when I'm not around) and bacula still refuses to write over the data. Am I missing something?

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 19:53, Jesse Keating wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 18:12 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: Yes, but none of those organizations or any other packager uses our source rpm. Also, please note very carefully the word probably in the above sentence -- that means, I am

Re: [Bacula-users] Use Any Volume = No

2005-08-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 20:34, Ryan Novosielski wrote: Can someone explain to me the use of Use Any Volume? That directive is obsolete and if I am not mistaken not used anywhere. The rest is in the manual, or I leave the list to respond. What I want is for bacula to use the tape with

Re: [Bacula-users] why do i need to label this?

2005-08-24 Thread Joe Stump
Now it wants tape-0001 ... I want it to take the tape I put in there and recycle it. Why is this so hard for bacula to understand? If the tape that is in there is stale it should nuked it and label it to its liking. Instead it's just sitting there wanting me to put last Monday's tape in on

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems restoring large(?) files

2005-08-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
If you are using PostgreSQL, and it involves multiple tapes, and the tapes are not read back in the order that they were written, it is possible that you have run into a rather obscure bug. That bug is fixed in 1.37.36, but the fix corrects a problem with writing the JobMedia records, so it

Re: [Bacula-users] Use Any Volume = No

2005-08-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 20:47, Phil Stracchino wrote: Ryan Novosielski wrote: Can someone explain to me the use of Use Any Volume? What I want is for bacula to use the tape with the lowest ID that is writable. I definite writable as any volume that is in a state that will allow it to be

Re: [Bacula-users] why do i need to label this?

2005-08-24 Thread Arno Lehmann
Joe, can you give us the output from the bconsole command llist volume=xxx where xxx should be the name of the tape already in the drive? Arno Joe Stump wrote: Now it wants tape-0001 ... I want it to take the tape I put in there and recycle it. Why is this so hard for bacula to understand?

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 20:53 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: Yes, anyone can create anything from the source. Ok, cool. I'm not sure about the requirements for Fedora Extras and CentOS Extras. Yeah, wasn't questioning that, I'm somewhat familiar w/ them. I'm not trying to restrict anyone any

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrency with a single tape drive?

2005-08-24 Thread Josh Endries
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arno Lehmann wrote: Josh Endries wrote: Is it possible to have multiple clients back up nightly to a bacula server with one autochanger? Yes. Okay, that's good news...now to just get it working. ;) Should be in the manual. You're on the

[Bacula-users] compiling bacula 1.37.36 on freebsd

2005-08-24 Thread dave
Hello, I'm trying to test out the latest bacula 1.37.36 beta on freebsd. I've disabled my running 1.36 system, which was installed from ports and downloaded the source tarball. I'm using the below configuration command, already having mysql installed as a port, but configure won't pick it up.

[Bacula-users] Open Source Funding idea

2005-08-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Well, this Open Source Funding idea has generated some interest that is for sure. I'm surprised that the email is so positive (or maybe I should say not negative depending on how one wants to look at it). In all the emails, there was only one gripe, no flames, a fair number of I don't

Re: [Bacula-users] Use Any Volume = No

2005-08-24 Thread Ryan Novosielski
Kern, I mistyped the directive. It is Accept Any Volume. Am I to understand that this is obselete, or did I merely accidentally refer to an old name? I read it in the manual: *Accept Any Volume = yes|no* This directive specifies whether or not any volume from the Pool may be used for

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 21:18, Jesse Keating wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 20:53 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: Yes, anyone can create anything from the source. Ok, cool. I'm not sure about the requirements for Fedora Extras and CentOS Extras. Yeah, wasn't questioning that, I'm somewhat

Re: [Bacula-users] compiling bacula 1.37.36 on freebsd

2005-08-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 21:27, dave wrote: Hello, I'm trying to test out the latest bacula 1.37.36 beta on freebsd. I've disabled my running 1.36 system, which was installed from ports and downloaded the source tarball. I'm using the below configuration command, already having mysql

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrency with a single tape drive?

2005-08-24 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Josh Endries wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arno Lehmann wrote: Josh Endries wrote: Is it possible to have multiple clients back up nightly to a bacula server with one autochanger? Yes. Okay, that's good news...now to just get it working. ;) Should be in

[Bacula-users] Backup OK

2005-08-24 Thread Mathieu St-Pierre
I setup Bacula to e-mail every report on each job, this way I can tell which ones failed. But it doesn't work properly. In this case, the job runs completely, but a file had an Error: Read error on ... ERR=Data error (cyclic redundancy check), but Bacula said in the subject line of the e-mail

Re: [Bacula-users] why do i need to label this?

2005-08-24 Thread Joe Stump
Back to my original question: If I have LabelMedia=yes in my storage resource then why do I need to label this tape? I'll check out the purge/delete commands I guess.--JoeOn Aug 24, 2005, at 1:26 PM, Arno Lehmann wrote:If the label is removed, you can recreate it with the btape program. In this

Re: [Bacula-users] why do i need to label this?

2005-08-24 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, I send this to the list, too. Joe Stump wrote: Okay, I deleted all of the volumes and bacula is still asking me to label the media. WHY?! Am I wrong is or is bacula simply unable to label and rewrite to a blank tape? Definitely not. But, as I pointed out in the beginning, I can't

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 22:05 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: That would be nice. however my time is pretty taken up with Legacy and with a book Im writing, so we'll see (: If I can't get to it myself, I'll toss it up there for somebody else who wants to help out. Good luck with your book.

[Bacula-users] Scratch pool

2005-08-24 Thread Craig Holyoak
I'm currently using 1.36.2 successfully, but am looking at the features coming in 1.37, and am particularly interested in the scratch pool feature. I understand this allows me to put all my tapes in the scratch pool, and they will be moved into daily/weekly/monthly pools as required. What I would

Re: [Bacula-users] Scratch pool

2005-08-24 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 25 August 2005 03:40, Craig Holyoak wrote: I'm currently using 1.36.2 successfully, but am looking at the features coming in 1.37, and am particularly interested in the scratch pool feature. I understand this allows me to put all my tapes in the scratch pool, and they will be moved