Re: [Bacula-users] Oracle backups using RMAN

2005-10-18 Thread Daniel Holtkamp
Hi ! Yu Safin wrote: One of my departments is using Oracle and via RMAN they backup to Netbackup. How can I accomplish the same using Bacula instead of RMAN? Is anybody backing up Oracle using Bacula? I`m administrating two Oracle 10g Servers and back them up with bacula. One is a

[Bacula-users] Auto Creation of Volumes Query

2005-10-18 Thread Stephan Heine - Genetic Interactive
Hi all, First off I do not use tapes, but volumes created on disk. Let us assume that this is a new implementation. So no Volumes exists, now they must be created. When the schedule executes (arguments sake 5 Jobs) Then the first Volume gets created as per the Label Format Value. But any

Re: [Bacula-users] Large network bacula tips?

2005-10-18 Thread Juan Luis Frances
Hi, PgSQL or MySQL? :-) Do you have any problems using dbcheck? My db (mysql) size is 19,93GB and dbcheck(1.36.3) dies when the memory free is ended (RAM 2GB and SWAP 2GB). El Lunes 17 Octubre 2005 20:05, Mark Bober escribió: All in all I've got about 80 clients, Windows, Solaris, and

[Bacula-users] Backing up offsite-maschines

2005-10-18 Thread Stephan Holl
Dear Bacula-Users, I do backups of some remote maschines using a ssh-tunnel for encrypted connections between dir, fd, and sd. My dir is sitting on a dial-up-adsl which reconnects every 24 hours (just 2 sec. of timeout). When a Job is running and the reconnection takes place the backup-job ends

[Bacula-users] Remote client commands after bacula's fail

2005-10-18 Thread Marek Simon
I backup oracle with by way: shut down the server, copy dbf files and start up the server both commands are sent by bacula through Client Run Before Job and Client Run After Job parameters. but when bacula fails to do backup (full storage etc), the after command don't start and the server

Re: [Bacula-users] SD craches during backup with Network send error to SD

2005-10-18 Thread François Roels
Hi Christoph Christoph Haas a écrit : On Saturday 15 October 2005 20:51, François Roels wrote: I'm not able to backup my server any longer. Le backup processes crach after any attempt without usefull (for me) message. I have filed a bug report against the package a week ago on the

Re: [Bacula-users] Connection Problems

2005-10-18 Thread Paul Burton
Has there been a response to this post as I have exactly the same problem, i have done a tcp dump on both server and client and all seems aok -- Paul Burton | Systems Administrator | Reading Room T: 020 7432 6016 | E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: 53 Frith St, Soho, London W1D 4SN

Re: [Bacula-users] Large network bacula tips?

2005-10-18 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Lyle Vogtmann wrote: I was thinking of limiting the number of concurrent jobs. The project manager really wants to have them all done simultaneously, not 100% sure on the reasoning, but it is listed as a requirement. If it has a large negative impact on performance, I'm

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up offsite-maschines

2005-10-18 Thread Achim Schmidt
Hi Stephan, i would solve that issue due to network topics build a vpn (like openvpn) between the systems and then let bacula connect to the vpn inside ip's. then the ip's are ever the same for the services. For connecting the outside (dynamic) ip's dyndns usage or somthing like that would help.

Re: [Bacula-users] DLT 40/80GB never reaches 40GB

2005-10-18 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Anwar Ahmad wrote: Interestingly, I've relabeled a 40/80 tape that was originally in the pool that backed up from pool1 (the one with the problem) and put it into pool2 (working normally) and it works correctly. I thought about the physical tape drive causing the problem

Re: [Bacula-users] Auto Creation of Volumes Query

2005-10-18 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 18.10.2005 09:28, Stephan Heine - Genetic Interactive wrote: Hi all, First off I do not use tapes, but volumes created on disk. Let us assume that this is a new implementation. So no Volumes exists, now they must be created. When the schedule executes (arguments sake 5 Jobs) Then

Re: [Bacula-users] Some issues while trying to setup bacula environment

2005-10-18 Thread Bart Verwilst
Op vrijdag 14 oktober 2005 20:18, schreef Phil Stracchino: I don't fully get the naming.. Should i manually give all 8 tapes a name, and then add them through bconsole with the same names? But the naming i want them to have is dynamic ( Label Format = Test-$Day$Month$Year ), so it'll nag

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: OT: downloadable bacula mailing list archives?

2005-10-18 Thread Thorsten Huber
Hi Felix, On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:06:57AM +0200, Felix Schwarz wrote: Thorsten Huber schrieb: is there somewhere a downloadable archive of the bacula-users and bacula-devel mailinglists? I cannont find such a service on sourceforge or any hints in recent mails in the sourceforge

Re: [Bacula-users] Barcode labels with Bacula

2005-10-18 Thread Grant
Bacula will use the barcode labels as the label for the tape. The label of the tape and the barcode must match, or it will not work, in my exigence. I am using barcodes on all my tapes. I had to relabel all the tapes to match the barcodes... Once it is working though, it is a breeze to swap

[Bacula-users] Bacula fail if no tape inside tape unit.

2005-10-18 Thread Manuel Ruiz
Hi All, I'm using bacula (version 1.36.3, with Linux/CRUX and kernel 2.6.12, tape unit HP DDS-72) as my primary backup solution. It works very well, but when there is no tape inside the tape unit the backup job fails without ask for the required tape to the operator. Is this behaviour ok ?, how

[Bacula-users] no backups

2005-10-18 Thread Paul Burton
I'm getting really frustrated now. I've been trying unsuccessfully to get a backup done in bacula and am having trouble with an error i can't work out when i run the job everything connects ok, i have done tcpdump and seen traffic between client and server i have check iptables and ports are

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Bacula tape handling.

2005-10-18 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 11:28 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote: On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 09:56 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Tuesday 11 October 2005 09:06, Erik P. Olsen wrote: How does Bacula handle foreign tapes? I am currently using Amanda for back-up but planning to switch to Bacula and

[Bacula-users] LTO drive - End Of Volume error

2005-10-18 Thread David Raine
Hi list, Am totally new to bacula and have installed v1.37.41 from CVS. When I use the btape command and try to run test I get this message immediately and no other tests are performed. : then write 1000 records and an EOF, then rewind, and re-read the data to verify that it is correct.

[Bacula-users] retention for each job?

2005-10-18 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Hi, retention times are client specific, as far as I can see. however I have a client with two filesets and two backup jobs. the first runs nightly and needs to be kept for a month only, the other one runs monthly, but needs to be kept for months. can I somehow set the retention time for each

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO drive - End Of Volume error

2005-10-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
David Raine wrote: Hi list, Am totally new to bacula and have installed v1.37.41 from CVS. When I use the btape command and try to run test I get this message immediately and no other tests are performed. : then write 1000 records and an EOF, then rewind, and re-read the data to verify

Re: [Bacula-users] retention for each job?

2005-10-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: Hi, retention times are client specific, as far as I can see. however I have a client with two filesets and two backup jobs. the first runs nightly and needs to be kept for a month only, the other one runs monthly, but needs to be kept for months. can I

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO drive - End Of Volume error

2005-10-18 Thread David Raine
Phil, Thanks for the response and the useful info. Sadly, the error persists... Regards David Am totally new to bacula and have installed v1.37.41 from CVS. When I use the btape command and try to run test I get this message immediately and no other tests are performed. : 18-Oct 14:58

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO drive - End Of Volume error

2005-10-18 Thread David Raine
Good thought... OK - I have a new box of tapes and it gives the same error on three that I've tried from that box, too. Is there a way to get more info on the error? Am happy to compile with debug if that would help identify the cause... Regards David From: Phil Stracchino [EMAIL

Re: [Bacula-users] retention for each job?

2005-10-18 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 19:53, Phil Stracchino wrote: One assumes these jobs run to different Pools. The correct way to do this, certainly, is to use two divverent Pools with retention set differently for each Pool. Hi Phil, thanks for the idea. unfortunatly I'm not using serveral pools

Re: [Bacula-users] how to change volume attributes

2005-10-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
Shawn Wilson wrote: Hi I need to change the Max volume jobs attribute on a volume but I can't figure out how other than changing the attributes of the pool and re-labelling the volume. Is this the only way to do it Change the Pool definition, reload, then execute the console command

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO drive - End Of Volume error

2005-10-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
David Raine wrote: Good thought... OK - I have a new box of tapes and it gives the same error on three that I've tried from that box, too. Is there a way to get more info on the error? Am happy to compile with debug if that would help identify the cause... Have you tried using tapeinfo -f

Re: [Bacula-users] retention for each job?

2005-10-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: On Tuesday 18 October 2005 19:53, Phil Stracchino wrote: One assumes these jobs run to different Pools. The correct way to do this, certainly, is to use two divverent Pools with retention set differently for each Pool. Hi Phil, thanks for the idea.

[Bacula-users] problems with schedules 1.33.6

2005-10-18 Thread Michael Galloway
good day all ... i'm confused a bit about schedules. i have a basic setup of 1.33.6, i added another job to the default config. in the console, status director shows only default jobs: *status director Using default Catalog name=MyCatalog DB=bacula lance-dir Version: 1.36.3 (22 April 2005)

Re: [Bacula-users] Connection Problems

2005-10-18 Thread John
Just the post about doing a tcp-dump. Which isn't helpful.On 10/18/05, Paul Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Has there been a response to this post as I have exactly the sameproblem, i have done a tcp dump on both server and client and all seems aok --Paul Burton | Systems Administrator | Reading

Re: [Bacula-users] Remote client commands after bacula's fail

2005-10-18 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 18.10.2005 09:58, Marek Simon wrote: I backup oracle with by way: shut down the server, copy dbf files and start up the server both commands are sent by bacula through Client Run Before Job and Client Run After Job parameters. but when bacula fails to do backup (full storage etc),

[Bacula-users] Restoring a Bacula Server

2005-10-18 Thread Doug Sampson
Hi all, I've been using Bacula on our FreeBSD servers for less than half of this year and it has worked quite well. It occurred to me that I should brush up on the Bacula recovery process and in the process of reading I find I am not quite clear as to what I need to do in order to restore a

[Bacula-users] Restore errors: Permission Denied

2005-10-18 Thread Craig Holyoak
I'm running bacula 1.36.2 on Debian stable. Whenever I try to run a restore job, it fails with: 19-Oct 11:29 helmsdeep: Start Restore Job Restore.2005-10-19_11.29.50 19-Oct 11:29 newman: Restore.2005-10-19_11.29.50 Fatal error: Could not