[Bacula-users] advice about tape drives

2024-04-22 Thread Alan Polinsky
I have used Bacula for many years, since version 5. In the past, I have mentioned my two Nas's along with various Windows and Linux machines get backed up on a nightly basis to tape. Currently that tape drive is an LTO3 based drive. Some of the older backups are on LTO2 tapes. My tape drive is

Re: [Bacula-users] moving from mysql (mariadb) to postgresql

2024-04-05 Thread Alan Polinsky
21:40, Gary R. Schmidt escreveu: On 05/04/2024 07:32, Alan Polinsky wrote: > I am a retired programmer, with a small Lan at home; two Nas's, three > Linux and one Windows client, and an old LTO3 tape drive. The smaller > Nas gets backed up on a nightly bas

[Bacula-users] moving from mysql (mariadb) to postgresql

2024-04-04 Thread Alan Polinsky
to Postgresql? I realize there may be a problem with the difference in column definition. Is there anything else I should consider? Thank you. Alan Polinsky ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https

[Bacula-users] simplifying backups (2)

2023-01-25 Thread Alan Polinsky
Sergio responded but my reply was backed by his server. I wrote: Sergio: Thank you for your prompt reply. Pragmatically speaking that probably makes the most sense. I had thought about it but decided to pose the question to see what other people thought. Alan

[Bacula-users] simplifying backups

2023-01-25 Thread Alan Polinsky
, load it into the LTO3, and just abandon the failed LTO2 one. Additionally, would I have to make any modifications to configurations so that the remaining LTO3 drive could read and write LTO2 tapes? I am on Bacula 9.6.7 using Slackware. Thank you. Alan Polinsky

[Bacula-users] Sorry

2022-04-25 Thread Alan Polinsky
Folks: Unintentionally I included a email to the group, when I only meant it to go to my sons. Sorry. Alan Polinsky ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users

[Bacula-users] turning on the alarm

2022-04-25 Thread Alan Polinsky
the proper way to completely turn on the alarm in the country house is non intuitive. The rear door MUST BE CLOSED  BEFORE YOU HIT THE ALARM AWAY BUTTON!. If it is open, the rear door sensor will be ignored. That means that if anyone were to open the rear door, the alarm would not be

Re: [Bacula-users] poor utilization of tape space

2022-03-08 Thread Alan Polinsky
Josip: Your help was stellar. All is working properly. Damned how I missed that one. Alan On 3/8/22 15:12, Josip Deanovic wrote: On 2022-03-08 19:43, Alan Polinsky wrote: Josip: That is obviously the problem, but I'm not sure why it has occurred, or how to correct

Re: [Bacula-users] poor utilization of tape space

2022-03-08 Thread Alan Polinsky
parameter being enabled in the prior release. In my current setup, which I  will probably have to re-create, my spool files grow quite large. Thank you for pointing my search to a satisfactory solution. Alan On 3/8/22 11:31, Josip Deanovic wrote: On 2022-03-08 15:23, Alan Polinsky wrote: I have

[Bacula-users] poor utilization of tape space

2022-03-08 Thread Alan Polinsky
I have recently moved from an old version of Bacula FROM THE 5.X series to 9.6, along with my move from Slackware 14.2 to Slackware 15, along with a change to Mariadb 10.5. (I would first like to thank Phil Stracchino for his help in getting things configured properly.) I am backing up to LTO2

[Bacula-users] mariadb 10.5.15

2022-03-06 Thread Alan Polinsky
re ct. 06-Mar 14:30 bacula-dir ERROR TERMINATION Please correct configuration file: bacula-dir.conf If I use mysql -U bacula, I cannot connect to the Bacula database. It seems to be a permission issue, but things were changed with version 10.4 of MariaDB. Can someone suggest a solution? Than