, it dbname.YYYMMDD.gz and keeps the
differential. I use xdelta3 for generating diffs since the default
diff tool tends to break very badly when handling large files--it uses
too much memory.
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Myself, I have three pools (full, diff, incr) and each is set to create
volumes (e.g. FULL0005) as necessary with a Maximum Volume Bytes of
2gb, and it works pretty well, so I think what you want is certainly
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I don't seem to have any .trace files from using setdebug. Am I doing
something wrong, misreading the documentation, etc?
Running the command, everything appears okay...
*setdebug
Enter new debug level: 200
Available daemons are:
1: Director
2: Storage
3: Client
4: All
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Cross-posting this particular reply to the developers list as well...
On Apr 26, 2007, at 8:16 AM, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
This has been rejected before, and the reason being that you really
don't want to have to have a database in order to read your tapes. If
you have an emergency that you
ago.
Oh. Uhm. I tried to find out your reasons back then, except that
SourceForge automatically puts xml into most messages as part of it's
recent advertising for DB2. onomatopoeiasigh/onomatopoeia :P
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On Apr 24, 2007, at 11:38 PM, Falk Sauer wrote:
On Wednesday 25 April 2007 writes Ross Boylan:
Does anyone know of a tool/script that will remap one set of uid's
and
gid's to another? I.e., if sarah has id 1005 on the original system,
and I restore it to a system where sarah has id 1004,
On Apr 24, 2007, at 5:50 AM, Luca Ferrari wrote:
Now if I run the first job (mammuth_uff_a_job) the volume with the
label
mammuth_uff_a_job_2007_ is created, but if I run the second
job, that I'd
like to be on a different volume, the system keeps using the
previous volume.
Its annoying and can't be good for the tape. eventually I
'released' the
tape and ejected it.
Any advice on how to calm it down?
All I can think of (I don't use a tape drive) it that you may have
this set for the storage daemon:
Volume Poll Interval = 15m
Of course, if all jobs
On Apr 19, 2007, at 7:18 AM, Mike Vasquez wrote:
I forgot to mention the error in previous email:
18-Apr 22:00 director-di: hl72.2007-04-18_22.00.07 Fatal error:
bnet.c:775
Unable to connect to File daemon on 123.123.123.12:9102. ERR=No
route to
host
Check that your director can ping
On Apr 23, 2007, at 6:25 AM, Damian Lubosch wrote:
I have a machine to backup with about 1-2 million small files (~1kb).
When I run a migration job for about 4 GB of such data the performance
is going down. The tape rewinds very often and the overall performance
is about 3MB/sec. I found out
I'd just like to bump this (hopefully simple) question back into the
fray. In summary:
Question: What are the main features of the Admin job type?
Feedback: The documentation doesn't have very much on it, only
comments in passing.
Pre-formal-request suggestion: Admin jobs should be able
.
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Item 1: Allow per-client job priority ordering
Origin: Darien Hager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: April 18 2007
Status: Revised Request
What:
Provide a Client Priority = nn directive for Jobs, similar
On Apr 18, 2007, at 1:15 PM, David Lebel wrote:
And /backup would be defined on the OS level as a symlink to the
current slot, let assume for this example, to /drive
then, have the system just switch the /backup directory/symlink
around the 5 drives, let say, /library/slot2 where a hard
On Apr 17, 2007, at 10:25 AM, Carlos Cristóbal Sabroe Yde wrote:
Thanks, I will try it.
This is the scenario:
I needed this because we had problems with file permissions on a
file server
(someone pressed the wrong combination of keys with a '-R' on it :-
( ) and I
don't want to
Mucking around with the console I noticed I could set the level of a
backup job to Base or Since. There is some mention of Base
backups as being vaporware as of 1.30 within the FAQ, but otherwise
the manual doesn't seem to have that much on these options.
Is Base is some sort of variation
On Apr 17, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Darien Hager wrote:
On Apr 17, 2007, at 10:25 AM, Carlos Cristóbal Sabroe Yde wrote:
This is the scenario:
I needed this because we had problems with file permissions
on a file server (someone pressed the wrong combination of
keys with a '-R' on it :- ( ) and I
On Apr 14, 2007, at 5:03 PM, Arno Lehmann wrote:
I've got no idea why the SD would need that much memory... usually I
don't notice a remarkable memory consumption by the SD.
Can you reproduce the problem?
Yes, it continues to happen--I'm just not sure how to check what code
is causing
On Apr 16, 2007, at 7:56 AM, Jerry Amundson wrote:
On 4/16/07, Alan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Kern Sibbald wrote:
This decision is motivated by the fact that the number of emails
has grown to
be quite large, and hence to read them all requires a good deal
of
I've got a problem where the SD is crashing and I'm not sure why.
There are two SDs on the network, and it's only happening with one.
Here's the debug (level 300) from the SD in it's dying moments.
spath-store: reserve.c:694 MediaType device=File request=File
spath-store: reserve.c:718 Try
On Apr 13, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
Darien Hager wrote:
spath-store: signal.c:140 exepath=/etc/bacula/bacula-sd
Calling: /etc/bacula/btraceback /etc/bacula/bacula-sd 19091
execv: /etc/bacula/btraceback failed: ERR=No such file or directory
Traceback complete, attempting
I've searched through the documentation and there seems to be fairly
little details on Admin beyond that they don't actually do
anything beyond launching admin scripts. It seems that I can run
scripts on the director using them, but if I try to run them on
clients (through various
Item 1: Allow Jobdefs to inherit from other Jobdefs
Origin: Darien Hager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Date submitted (e.g. 28 October 2005)
Status: Initial Request
What: Allow JobDefs to inherit/modify settings from other JobDefs
Why:Makes setting up jobs much easier
Item 1: Allow per-client job priority ordering
Origin: Darien Hager [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Date submitted (e.g. 28 October 2005)
Status: Initial Request
What:
Allow an optional per-client priority setting which is applied AFTER
the current priority scheduling algorithm.
Applies
I know you can set up jobs with a across-director priority number,
but I'm wondering if it is possible to prioritize jobs on a per-
client basis. Specifically, I have job(defs) for job A and job B, and
I need A jobs to always run before B jobs for each.
Currently I have them set to
On Apr 5, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Joseph Wright wrote:
It seems that for my configuration, which uses file based backups
instead of tape, if I want to have many concurrent jobs running I
have to create separate storage directives in the director config
for each client, and for each of these I
I was originally going to post to ask if it was working for anyone
else, but I've solved my problem.
However, In case someone on the project team can escalate this
concern to SourceForge, some of the links to the list archives are
broken.
First, here's the trail of links that DOES work:
I right click on the folders being backup on the windows 2003
server and
select properties. That gives me a combine size of the folders and
it comes
out to around 3.5g. How it comes out to be 6.9g during backup I do
not know.
I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this issue for
My question: Is there a way to set up the bacula-storage to dump files
to a disk into a file system structure that could be shared using SMB,
NFS, whatever? How can I achieve this effect, or is it not currently
supported / thought of? Any reading pointers on that?
I don't think it's possible
I think I found one way to attack the multiple USB backup drives
issue.
Mounting NTFS disks to a folder
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/
proddocs/en-us/dm_modify_access_path.mspx
Documentation for diskpart command-line tool
On Mar 19, 2007, at 6:59 AM, Jorj Bauer wrote:
What: The ability to read a configuration file as stdout from an
executable
Why: The configuration files (particularly for the Director) are very
complex. In my case I find it easier to have a program generate them
from
On Mar 19, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Jorj Bauer wrote:
# bacula-dir -c '|/usr/local/sbin/generate-dir-config'
... would cause it to run /usr/local/sbin/generate-dir-config to
generate a new configuration file.
Hey, that sounds pretty useful. When you say globally, I assume you
mean that I
On Thursday 01 February 2007 18:02, Jeronimo Zucco wrote:
Someone pointed out how to modify the code recently on this list
(it involves
modifying the SD).
Another approach would be to run a dummy job that does the
ClientRunBefore -- it could be a Verify with an empty FileSet. The
On Mar 16, 2007, at 12:30 PM, C M Reinehr wrote:
Sometimes I just can't help myself. Should it be 'Baculite' or
'Baculan'.
Maybe we should hold another poll. ;-)
Well, it comes by night and sucks the vital essence from our
computers... If you extend the metaphor, we're the kings of our
into the next file.
Am I missing something? (Or does the SD split the file into chunks
only at the very end of the process?)
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Am I missing something? (Or does the SD split the file into chunks
only at the very end of the process?)
Followup: No, the final humungous file wasn't broken up at the end of
the run.
Either Maximum File Size is broken, I'm reading the documentation
wrong, or I've missed some necessary
On Mar 1, 2007, at 6:50 AM, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
On Thursday 01 March 2007 10:32:49 Kern Sibbald wrote:
this item does indeed work very stable. I've been using this in
production for
exporting large Oracle databases (100+ GBytes each) once per week
for about
two years. I've never
On Feb 9, 2007, at 8:40 AM, Brian Debelius wrote:
Windows version 2.0.2 using MySQL
My console crashes anytime I try to do anything with pools. Where
and
how would I enable debugging to get some information on what is
happening?
Is it just the console itself, or the director as
On Feb 8, 2007, at 9:02 AM, Brian Debelius wrote:
I am just curious as to what others are doing with backing up multiple
servers to disk. Do you use a pool for each server?; or do you use
just
one pool for all?
Currently I am using multiple pools, the create individual back up
files
On Feb 4, 2007, at 4:12 AM, Pierre Bernhardt wrote:
I have different pools created:
Daily for incremental backups
Weeklyfor differential backups
Monthly for full backups
If a Daily job executes and a full backup must be saved the bu
schould go
On Feb 7, 2007, at 6:44 AM, Jason King wrote:
I have bacula-dir, bacula-sd and bacula-fd running on the same server
for testing purposes. For some reason, when I do a status all, the
director can NEVER connect to the file-daemon. From my reading it
appears that I have my file-daemon
On Feb 7, 2007, at 2:37 PM, Jason King wrote:
I've got my director communicating with ALL of my remote servers (file
daemons) correctly. Doing a *stat and checking on the clients gives me
the client information. I setup the jobs in the diretors config
file and
tried to run the backup. The
On Feb 6, 2007, at 9:18 AM, Zeratul wrote:
I'm wondering if there is any posibility to group more jobs under a
generic
name or to create any kind of hierarchy. I have a total (until now)
of 30
clients with 2 types of backup jobs, with 2 types of storage (disk
and tape)
and with 2
I'm wondering if anyone has advice for backing up databases. I have
some python scripts working to do per-database backup/restore over
FIFOs (pg_dump, pg_restore, nonblocking fifo polling), but the nature
of the method means that there is almost no such thing as a
differential or
On Feb 5, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hi,
On 2/5/2007 6:35 PM, Robert Nelson wrote:
Incremental backups are based solely on the modification date of
the file.
If the file modification date is later than the last full or
differential
backup then the file will be included in
On Feb 1, 2007, at 8:57 AM, Richard White wrote:
Can anyone tell me where to look for the cause of this error?
29-Jan 16:07 lbackup-dir: Start Backup JobId 1462,
Job=ArcIMS.2007-01-29_16.07.46
29-Jan 18:07 lbackup-dir: ArcIMS.2007-01-29_16.07.46 Fatal error:
Network error with FD during
(Looks like my last message was misaddressed. Resending.)
On Jan 30, 2007, at 1:09 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Another thing to check for is HP printers on the network [...]
I don't think that's the problem in my case. While we have an HP
server on our internal office network, the two servers I
On Jan 31, 2007, at 10:46 AM, Brian Debelius wrote:
I am trying to split up a config file on Windows, using the @
directive
as shown in http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/
Customizin_Configurat_Files.html but it
returns an error that it cannot find the file. Has anyone done
this in
On Jan 31, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Brian Debelius wrote:
Config error: Cannot open included config file : No such file or
directory
After config file it should list the path it attempted to open.
From what you've written it appears blank, suggesting some sort of
syntax or input issue rather
Kern, if you are reading this, what are the chances that a
heartbeat could be implemented between the director and the storage
daemon?
Would there be any significant downsides to a global heartbeat
directive in the director? When the director initially connects to an
FD/SD it could
On Jan 30, 2007, at 1:02 AM, Arno Lehmann wrote:
As far as I know, the heartbeat is not sent during despooling and / or
attribute despooling. So, if you have that enabled, try turning it off
to see what happens.
I haven't enabled spooling--I'm backing up to a plain old file on the
server,
Maybe I should be actually posting this to the dev list on account of
the version being fresh out of the oven...
Anyway, I have a weird problem going on. Both the storage daemon and
the sole client are set up with a heartbeat interval (30 seconds),
but the backup always dies five minutes
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