Re: [Bacula-users] Anyone written any handy queries (query.sql)???

2009-08-12 Thread Russell Howe
lastdiffbackuptapes) res ORDER BY res.volumename; -- Russell Howe, IT Manager. rh...@bmtmarinerisk.com BMT Marine Offshore Surveys Ltd. -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify

Re: [Bacula-users] How to automate Windows installer for a large number of hosts?

2009-01-26 Thread Russell Howe
using it ages ago to package openphone for internal use -- Russell Howe, IT Manager. rh...@bmtmarinerisk.com BMT Marine Offshore Surveys Ltd. 新年快乐! -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge

Re: [Bacula-users] Clustering the win32 FD

2007-10-19 Thread Russell Howe
(the default). But, I'd really like it as a clustered service, and it shouldn't be that hard to do. I'll have another stab at it next week. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still

Re: [Bacula-users] Clustering the win32 FD

2007-10-19 Thread Russell Howe
confuddled. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser

[Bacula-users] Clustering the win32 FD

2007-10-19 Thread Russell Howe
Has anybody ever run bacula-fd under the Windows cluster service? I've been trying to create it as a Generic Service without a whole lot of success. Still, I haven't exhausted all troubleshooting options as yet, so I might get it going... -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up MS SQL server with Bacula?

2007-10-11 Thread Russell Howe
it should be in the archives somewhere. It's nothing fancy. -- Russell Howe, IT Manager. [EMAIL PROTECTED] BMT Marine Offshore Surveys Ltd. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find

Re: [Bacula-users] Database odbc or one more driver.

2007-08-21 Thread Russell Howe
Server and SQL Server alone - even to the point of using encrypted stored procedures, no less!). ODBC would seem like the way to go, although it could just use the TDS libraries directly I suppose.. -- Russell Howe, IT Manager. [EMAIL PROTECTED] BMT Marine Offshore Surveys Ltd

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 2.0.3 for Win32 can't backup top level Chinese folder!

2007-05-16 Thread Russell Howe
for the character set selector (you can also switch between different line terminators). I think even Windows notepad is unicode-aware these days, although whether it uses UTF8 or one of the other encodings, I don't know. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Bacula-users] Coping with brief network outages when talking to clients

2007-03-17 Thread Russell Howe
, and how much work would it be to implement? -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions

Re: [Bacula-users] alternative postgres config

2007-02-15 Thread Russell Howe
identd for this - when using unix sockets, postgres gets the other user's uid via a syscall on the socket, IIRC. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's

Re: [Bacula-users] Hierarchical storage systems?

2007-02-14 Thread Russell Howe
for Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) apps called DMAPI. It's an SGI thing, and there must be at least one or two HSM apps out there. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join

Re: [Bacula-users] WOW

2006-09-11 Thread Russell Howe
This is an SMS Once you have that, it's easy enough to interface to Bacula, in the same way that job results are emailed. You'll probably find the same tool useful for a bazillion other things (pushing your bill up in the process :) -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Bacula-users] WOW

2006-09-11 Thread Russell Howe
and SMTP, all with SSL as an option (it even validates the certificate!). Most impressed, I was, until I saw what Orange wanted to charge me for GPRS on my tariff :) -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Using Tomcat

Re: [Bacula-users] FileList scripting help

2006-08-09 Thread Russell Howe
/local/backups/ Take out your single quotes -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job

Re: [Bacula-users] Estimate + Exclusion Question

2006-08-04 Thread Russell Howe
read the documentation a bit more carefully), I could have saved many many an hour of messing around before. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's

Re: [Bacula-users] restore to local file

2006-08-03 Thread Russell Howe
on my server. Can I do this? How? Choose the 'mod' option when running a restore job and alter the client. That one's gotta be in the manual, surely? :) -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash

Re: [Bacula-users] restore to local file

2006-08-03 Thread Russell Howe
Tom Newton wrote, sometime around 03/08/06 12:44: On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 12:15 +0100, Russell Howe wrote: Choose the 'mod' option when running a restore job and alter the client. That one's gotta be in the manual, surely? :) thanks, did not read what that one's for. Tried it, but on my

Re: [Bacula-users] restore to local file

2006-08-03 Thread Russell Howe
Tom Newton wrote, sometime around 03/08/06 15:05: On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 14:57 +0100, Russell Howe wrote: It should be a path which exists on the target client. Tried C:/tmp which I *know* exists, but still getting the same errors. Starting to really get me down this one. From your previous

Re: [Bacula-users] restore to local file

2006-08-03 Thread Russell Howe
. e.g. I have a 'restored files' on a drive lettered T:, so I restore to: T:/restored files HTH -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel

Re: [Bacula-users] restore to local file

2006-08-03 Thread Russell Howe
Tom Newton wrote, sometime around 03/08/06 15:19: On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 15:11 +0100, Russell Howe wrote: It said the fd closed the connection - anything in the FD's logs (on the Windows box) explaining why? Where might I find such a log? Hmmm.. I thought it kept one, although I fail to see

Re: [Bacula-users] restore to local file

2006-08-03 Thread Russell Howe
Kern Sibbald wrote, sometime around 03/08/06 13:54: On Thursday 03 August 2006 13:56, Russell Howe wrote: Unless you specify that Windows backups are written in 'portable' format, the Windows backup API is used which writes data in its own 'special' (for 'special' read 'proprietary'). Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] restore to local file

2006-08-03 Thread Russell Howe
, it looks like the FD is closing the connection for some reason - are you running the exact same versions of bacula on director, file daemon and storage daemon? If you're not, things can get 'interesting'... -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Bacula-users] restore to local file

2006-08-03 Thread Russell Howe
Tom Newton wrote, sometime around 03/08/06 16:13: On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 16:07 +0100, Russell Howe wrote: are you running the exact same versions of bacula on director, file daemon and storage daemon? If you're not, things can get 'interesting'... Ah! You may be onto something! The version

[Bacula-users] Feature request - SQL Server (freetds? odbc?) support for catalog database

2006-07-27 Thread Russell Howe
I didn't see a feature request on the site for extra database support, so here goes: Origin: Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 26 July 2006 What: It would be nice for the database backend to support more databases. I'm thinking of SQL Server at the moment, but I guess Oracle, DB2

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature request - SQL Server (freetds? odbc?) support for catalog database

2006-07-27 Thread Russell Howe
Dan Langille wrote, sometime around 27/07/06 16:29: On 26 Jul 2006 at 11:55, Russell Howe wrote: I haven't seen Bacula's database routines, but it seems like it's fairly modular and so I'm guessing that adding another database wouldn't be too much work. What would be involved? I wrote

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with the list???

2006-05-24 Thread Russell Howe
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Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with the list???

2006-05-24 Thread Russell Howe
to keep up with everyone's messages on the list (this is a good thing - a nice healthy, active user community!). -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! Fully trained

Re: [Bacula-users] Backups too big, and other questions

2006-05-08 Thread Russell Howe
space previously occupied by zeros). And no, you don't need to be root to perform the ioctl. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre

Re: [Bacula-users] backing up msexchange or mssql

2006-05-02 Thread Russell Howe
written in perl or python etc. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] backupmgr.sh Description: application/shellscript

Re: [Bacula-users] FOSDEM 2006

2006-02-27 Thread Russell Howe
Jo wrote: Russell Howe schreef: Is anyone else going to FOSDEM 2006 in Brussels? I'm living 30 kilometers from Brussels. I'll probably be there on Sunday and maybe Saturday afternoon. My cell phone number is +32 (0)478-33 76 27. Maybe we'll meet there, Oh, sorry - I just received your

Re: [Bacula-users] A script to ease the pain of switching from SQLite to PostgreSQL

2006-02-23 Thread Russell Howe
Kern Sibbald wrote: On Monday 06 February 2006 18:04, Russell Howe wrote: Well, the time is nigh. Our SQLite database has hit 1.3GB and creates a 900MB dump file, which is big enough to cause our bacula Xen virtual machine to run out of space when running a catalog backup. We have a Postgres

[Bacula-users] FOSDEM 2006

2006-02-23 Thread Russell Howe
Is anyone else going to FOSDEM 2006 in Brussels? http://www.fosdem.org/ I'll be arriving Friday afternoon, and will stay until sometime Sunday afternoon/evening. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML

Re: JobSet, Batch, or Aggregate Concept / Max tape usage per (WAS: Re: [Bacula-users] Hit me w/ a Clue-by-Four (Amanda user))

2006-02-13 Thread Russell Howe
Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 10:37 +, Russell Howe wrote: Bacula will do this. Check you don't have Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 in I do. This is because I'm trying to enforce a specific threshold of a single-tape-per-day policy. Ah, but this is a single-tape-per-job

Re: JobSet, Batch, or Aggregate Concept / Max tape usage per (WAS: Re: [Bacula-users] Hit me w/ a Clue-by-Four (Amanda user))

2006-02-13 Thread Russell Howe
Russell Howe wrote: I have this comment in the configuration to remind anyone who might inherit this setup: # ** VERY IMPORTANT ** # In the database, the media entries have a MaxVolJobs setting. This is # what determines that a tape is full. # # Current values are: # Cases tapes: 10 (Cases

Re: Date/Time poll'ing ? (WAS: Re: [Bacula-users] Simulate/Test Scheduler?)

2006-02-13 Thread Russell Howe
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Re: [Bacula-users] user complains bacula slows his laptop

2006-02-10 Thread Russell Howe
try (assuming he has permission to do so - he might not) is lowering the process priority of the FD when it's running. You can do this from Windows Task Manager, although if it's running under the local SYSTEM account, you might not be able to change it, even as Administrator... -- Russell Howe

[Bacula-users] A script to ease the pain of switching from SQLite to PostgreSQL

2006-02-06 Thread Russell Howe
haven't benchmarked, but it should make things go a good bit quicker. I haven't actually tested this yet, so it's probably broken and riddled with bugs. Still, enjoy :) -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/bin/bash # Import an SQLite dump of a Bacula catalog into Postgres # Designed for v1.63.3

Re: [Bacula-users] Please remove me from the list

2006-01-27 Thread Russell Howe
If you're really stuck with usage of the list, email the list admin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't bother the list with administrivia. -- Russell Howe, bacula-users moderator [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc

Re: [Bacula-users] Don't run as root if you can avoid it.

2006-01-16 Thread Russell Howe
James P. Kinney III wrote: bacula is a member of the disk group. Isn't being a member of the disk group effectively the same as being root, since you can gain access to the block devices containing the local filesystems? -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Bacula-users] DLT tape errors suddenly start

2006-01-10 Thread Russell Howe
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 07:59:05PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: My DLT tape drive has been going along nicely for almost a year. Tonight, the day before I head away for a trip, it starts giving errors. You did, presumably, try a cleaning tape in it? :) -- Russell Howe | Why be just

Re: [Bacula-users] single instance storage?

2005-12-08 Thread Russell Howe
, and then back that up with bacula to save space. I think that should be possible in the absence of base jobs. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop

Re: [Bacula-users] single instance storage?

2005-12-08 Thread Russell Howe
Mordechai T. Abzug wrote: On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 12:05:40PM +, Russell Howe wrote: If you look at the recent Project voting email, I think this is what Kern terms Base Jobs. In short, no, not yet, but it's planned I think. Ah, thanks. I've only just joined the list

Re: FW: [Bacula-users] Performance testing and tuning

2005-11-08 Thread Russell Howe
and the controller? Not knowing anything about Solaris, I don't know what you can do with the OS to query/test the bus performance. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's

[Bacula-users] Error with win32 fd caused director to block, awaiting manual intervention on the client

2005-11-07 Thread Russell Howe
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Re: [Bacula-users] mail notifications

2005-10-31 Thread Russell Howe
options? -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005 Visit http

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Database Must Be Broken - Was Restore Doesn't List Any Files?

2005-10-27 Thread Russell Howe
may be able to use bextract instead of bscan+restore to extract just the database dump, which would probably save you considerable time and fustration. -- Russell Howe | Why be just another cog in the machine, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | when you can be the spanner in the works

Re: [Bacula-users] *Extreme* low MySQL performance when prunnig or purging jobs/volumes

2005-10-26 Thread Russell Howe
that, things should get a *LOT* faster. I posted a link to some Postgresql performance tuning documents a while back - they're linked to from the postgres website too. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored

Re: [Bacula-users] dev open failed

2005-10-26 Thread Russell Howe
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Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalogue errors

2005-10-26 Thread Russell Howe
running on the host, or if there is, it's not listening on 127.0.0.1 I assume the error is coming from the host running the director (neither the sd nor the fd seem to have the ability to send email alerts). -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-fd service doesn't respond

2005-10-26 Thread Russell Howe
. Have you checked to see if the installed service is being started automatically by Windows? Check the 'Services' MMC snapin. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register

Re: [Bacula-users] *Extreme* low MySQL performance when prunnig or purging jobs/volumes

2005-10-26 Thread Russell Howe
absolutely cannot have your database server down for the time it would take to restore the catalog in the event of a power failure or somesuch. I'll be turning it off tonight, to see what difference it makes to performance... -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Bacula-users] Compile on XP Instructions. (64 bit offer)

2005-10-26 Thread Russell Howe
the support libraries are available for Win64 anyway...? I don't think mingw supports 64 bit Windows yet, and I don't think the developers are planning to support it without extra help. (I'm assuming the windows port of the fd uses mingw...) -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Bacula-users] Ensuring tape is not appended

2005-10-24 Thread Russell Howe
' it into the correct pool for whichever job required it? -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestion for a REALLY handy enhancement, shouldn't be hard either...

2005-10-21 Thread Russell Howe
Sherwood McGowan wrote: It does accept STDIN, but wouldn't that just allow a one line command? Or do you mean something like: Cat batchcommands | /etc/bconsole indeed. Or bconsole EOF status storage=Tandberg DLT8000 status director quit EOF -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Bacula-users] write error

2005-10-14 Thread Russell Howe
in the changelog for drive firmware updates. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl

Re: [Bacula-users] Reality Check: Multiple fd's on a machine

2005-10-14 Thread Russell Howe
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Re: [Bacula-users] special characters

2005-10-13 Thread Russell Howe
yet work on the Windows fd, IIRC) File = C:/Documents and Settings/mperez/Configuración local/Historial -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole questions

2005-10-05 Thread Russell Howe
where code = 'C' and lang = 'en'; or something.. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com

Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding Priority

2005-10-05 Thread Russell Howe
order upon any other way (normally you can do it just by scheduling them a little later, and they'll wait on max storage jobs or max client jobs, etc). -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture

Re: [Bacula-users] Differentials Jobs referencing obsolete Full Job

2005-10-03 Thread Russell Howe
jobs run concurrently. This is what I do, anyway. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com

Re: [Bacula-users] error in event log

2005-09-27 Thread Russell Howe
seems to have no ill effects at all. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl

Re: [Bacula-users] client update

2005-09-26 Thread Russell Howe
once you've installed it once, although you can't really rely on this being the case forever. Remote service stop/start can be done either via the Services thing, or via the 'net' command in a script, I think. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Bacula-users] Moving from SQLite - Postgresql performance

2005-09-22 Thread Russell Howe
SQLite 2.x here. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Postgreql-PITR

2005-09-20 Thread Russell Howe
of every day which backs up /mnt/server/archivedir You might want to run a script which prunes old archive files either before or after the job (I'd suggest after, just in case your script goes crazy and deletes too much!) -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Bacula-users] SQLite 2.8 vs 3.0

2005-09-16 Thread Russell Howe
written to the disk surface. On the other hand, some operations are as much as 50 or more times faster with synchronous OFF. In SQLite version 2, the default value is NORMAL. For version 3, the default was changed to FULL. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Bacula-users] how to speed up directory tree building?

2005-09-16 Thread Russell Howe
light of dropping the primary key constraint (and inherent index, on all RDBMSs I know of) on the *Id attributes. You really don't want the possibility of two entries with the same (say) FileId in the File table, surely? -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Strategies

2005-09-14 Thread Russell Howe
! Just let bacula do its job, and use the pool parameters to tune it so that it works smoothly. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download

Re: [Bacula-users] ms-sql database backup

2005-09-12 Thread Russell Howe
of databases then there wouldn't really be much point in gzipping the backups, but I feel that going to tape should be a last resort. As it is, I think I've had to restore a database exactly once in the last year, because someone did something silly. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Strategies

2005-09-12 Thread Russell Howe
. Since you have Accept any volume on, just put in the tape which was used the longest time ago... Then your Schedule becomes really trivial and so does your tape management. -- Russell Howe | Why be just another cog in the machine, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | when you can be the spanner in the works

Re: [Bacula-users] Replacing Arcserve Enterprise server

2005-09-12 Thread Russell Howe
a test system. Install the fd's on the machines and set up bacula-dir and bacula-sd on a test PC, running backups to hard disk. Then you can test your configuration (and, more importantly, your retention times, tape rotatations and restorations). -- Russell Howe | Why be just another cog

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice needed: Adaptec 29160 card giving errors

2005-09-10 Thread Russell Howe
2403 Lowest spec production sd out there, perhaps? :) -- Russell Howe | Why be just another cog in the machine, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | when you can be the spanner in the works? --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better

Re: [Bacula-users] Delay between Pruning and Purging

2005-09-07 Thread Russell Howe
the database of records? -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing

Re: [Bacula-users] client fileset

2005-08-30 Thread Russell Howe
Danie Theron wrote: Not sure where I'm going wrong seeing as all seems fine. Any help will be greatly appreciated Wild stab in the dark... try converting the text format on the Windows box to UNIX line endings... -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED

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

2005-08-26 Thread Russell Howe
are probably better off with using the retention schema bacula's trying to get you to use! -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 1.37.36 fileset and vss

2005-08-26 Thread Russell Howe
Arno Lehmann wrote: Kern Sibbald wrote: Since I don't know anyone that is running multiple simultaneous FD jobs (i.e. in one FD), I hope this won't be a problem. I do :-) But on a linux FD. I do too, on a Windows FD :) -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Bacula-users] Strange popup from Win32 client

2005-08-26 Thread Russell Howe
Event Log. Search back through the mailing list and you should find a thread on this. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA

Re: [Bacula-users] status director and pruning

2005-08-04 Thread Russell Howe
to the database at label time, but the database seems to reflect my autoprune settings. I'd tell you exactly what the database looks like, except bacula has hung, and I'm trying to find out why :) -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net email

Re: [Bacula-users] status director and pruning

2005-08-03 Thread Russell Howe
Kern Sibbald wrote: On Wednesday 03 August 2005 14:18, Russell Howe wrote: Should it be possible (via 'AutoPrune = no' options in all the right places, together with 'Prune {Job,Volume,File}s = no') to stop status director from doing a prune operation when it lists which tapes it thinks

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with VSS snapshots

2005-08-01 Thread Russell Howe
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 people to buy Exchange if it did... -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: disaster recovery windows

2005-07-12 Thread Russell Howe
Have you any solution for disaster recovery for windows on line ? My suggestion would be to use something like the Unattended project to allow you to reinstall your Windows boxes with minimal effort. http://unattended.sf.net/ -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of concurrent jobs

2005-07-11 Thread Russell Howe
the spooling options, if your boxes running the SD (I think this is where the data gets spooled, would need to check the docs to be sure) have the space. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 1.37.25 and Volume Shadow Copy Service?

2005-07-11 Thread Russell Howe
lose data (in fact, it's very likely that you will). -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you to explore the latest in dual

Re: [Bacula-users] Regex

2005-07-05 Thread Russell Howe
. It's the same as saying .* } File = c:/My Documents/* Why not just say Options { Exclude = yes RegexFile = .*\.[^Dd][^Oo][^Cc]$ } ? It's not pretty, but should do what you want. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Security issues? was: Re: [Bacula-users] exclude by files time

2005-06-30 Thread Russell Howe
imagine that would make the scripts pretty messy too unless the output was purely from find (and, of course, it would break all existing setups that use the File = |foo construct, which I doubt is acceptable somehow). -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Bacula-users] mssql backup with bacula

2005-06-30 Thread Russell Howe
# 2004/08/25 (c) Russell Howe # 2004/10/12 - Updated to compress transaction log files (*.TRN) # Where the backups live (D:\SQLBACKUP) BACKUPDIR=/cygdrive/j/sqlbackup # How many days of backups to keep (this is real days, not weekdays!) # FIXME: Change to How many copies of each database to keep

Re: [Bacula-users] exclude by files time

2005-06-29 Thread Russell Howe
, find(1) can output null-terminated strings, which may help when there are files with weird names. Would it be possible for bacula to somehow support this format of output? I guess it may be useful... -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- SF.Net

Re: [Bacula-users] exclude by files time

2005-06-29 Thread Russell Howe
the possibility of a malicious user causing files to be unintentionally backed up isn't of any grave concern then? I would tend to agree, that it's not much of a problem, but it could be classed as at least a privacy breach, if not a security flaw (although it's really stretching things...) -- Russell Howe

[Bacula-users] pics of Bunny

2005-06-27 Thread Russell Howe
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Re: [Bacula-users] Winbacula StartServiceCtrlDispatcher failed

2005-06-24 Thread Russell Howe
entry just seems to create noise. The failure for the FD to start up is likely something else - can you start it as a service, using the 'Services' entry under Administrative tools? (or the 'Services' entry under 'Computer Management')? -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Bacula-users] Is there a way to split the dir-conf file ?

2005-06-20 Thread Russell Howe
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Re: [Bacula-users] RE: Database creation

2005-06-18 Thread Russell Howe
to be good at these :) -- Russell Howe | Why be just another cog in the machine, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | when you can be the spanner in the works? --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple

[Bacula-users] Storage status seems to be per-sd, rather than per storage device

2005-06-16 Thread Russell Howe
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Re: [Bacula-users] Storage status seems to be per-sd, rather than per storage device

2005-06-16 Thread Russell Howe
Kern Sibbald wrote: On Thursday 16 June 2005 15:44, Russell Howe wrote: We have two tape drives, connected to the same box. When I request the status of one of the corresponding storage devices, I get the status of both returned - is this how it should be? The status is given for all

Re: [Bacula-users] Raw LVM2 partition backup

2005-06-10 Thread Russell Howe
is just backing up the device node, rather than the contents of the block device? -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: bacula message ressource

2005-06-09 Thread Russell Howe
it to my todo list. I'm not sure when it will be implemented. Perhaps 1.37 ... How about a field for backup duration, too? If not in the subject line, then in the message body, perhaps after Start Time and End Time? -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Bacula-users] Are your catalog backup sizes looking a little too constant?

2005-06-08 Thread Russell Howe
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Re: [Bacula-users] Event Viewer errors

2005-06-06 Thread Russell Howe
references Bacula. It isn't needed if the FD is installed as a service. At least, that was the impression I got. I Cc'ed the bacula-users list, as I believe this to be generally useful, and it could do with some verification too! -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Bacula-users] Suppressing autopruning

2005-06-06 Thread Russell Howe
as the start time. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # Default Bacula Director Configuration file # # The only thing that MUST be changed is to add one or more # file or directory names in the Include directive of the # FileSet resource. # # For Bacula release 1.36.1 (26 November 2004

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole freeze

2005-05-26 Thread Russell Howe
let bconsole work again. probably a problem in the director? Check the disk and CPU activity. Could your commands be triggering automatic pruning of the database (which can take a while)? -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Nemi: http://www.metro.co.uk/img/pix/nemi_may26.jpg smime.p7s

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole freeze

2005-05-26 Thread Russell Howe
this on the machine that houses the database bacula is using for your catalog. -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Nemi: http://www.metro.co.uk/img/pix/nemi_may26.jpg smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

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