Re: [Bacula-users] Hey Kern....

2005-11-30 Thread Beren Gamble
Kern, BIG Thanks from us too! We're backing up 50 servers with our 3 bacula boxes This has allowed us to uninstall ARCserve from 15 servers, whcih I took much pleasure in doing. What are the future plans for Bacula? Will it ever turn in to a commercial product? Keep up the absolutely

Re: **Possibile SPAM**Re: **Possibile SPAM**[Bacula-users] Restore files

2005-11-30 Thread Ferdinando Pasqualetti
I am sorry Kern, but by backup job was already recycled (I have no space for more than 3 full backups on the disk storage, and using incremental or differential changes only some percent of space, because the system contains mastly huge mail notes databases, which are changed continuously). The

Re: [Bacula-users] What's the meaning of the name Bacula ?

2005-11-30 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 05:10, Phil Stracchino wrote: Kern Sibbald wrote: On Tuesday 29 November 2005 20:51, Phil Stracchino wrote: Also, a baculum is a rod or stick. Well, that is a slightly watered down meaning ... :-) No, it's just that zoologists co-opted the word to mean a

[Bacula-users] Restore files

2005-11-30 Thread Ferdinando Pasqualetti
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Re: [Bacula-users] How to restore from aborded job?

2005-11-30 Thread Benoit Panizzon
It is pretty easy to write your own bootstrap file for doing this, from the data stored in the job record llist jobid=50 -- then look at the examples at the end of the restore chapter -- they talk about using bls output for the information, if I remember right, but you should see the same

Re: [Bacula-users] Hey Kern....

2005-11-30 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 10:00, Beren Gamble wrote: Kern, BIG Thanks from us too! We're backing up 50 servers with our 3 bacula boxes This has allowed us to uninstall ARCserve from 15 servers, whcih I took much pleasure in doing. Thanks. That gives me pleasure to hear ... :-)

Re: [Bacula-users] How to restore from aborded job?

2005-11-30 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 10:22, Benoit Panizzon wrote: It is pretty easy to write your own bootstrap file for doing this, from the data stored in the job record llist jobid=50 -- then look at the examples at the end of the restore chapter -- they talk about using bls output for the

[Bacula-users] bacula-web 1.2

2005-11-30 Thread Stephan Holl
Dear List, just wanted to let you know that I really like to web-interface which shipps with bacula. It was really easy to install it on my bacula-dir using postgres and works smoothly! Keep up the good work guys... Best Stephan -- Stephan Holl Check headers for GnuPG Key!

Re: [Bacula-users] How to restore from aborded job?

2005-11-30 Thread Benoit Panizzon
Run in bconsole: query 17 Tape2 See if JobId=50 is in the list it prints. If not, there is some problem with the Volume name. According to the output, the job is not purged, so it should be OK. Hmm, I think this is the Problem: Choose a query (1-15): 15 Enter Volume name: Tape2

Re: [Bacula-users] How to restore from aborded job?

2005-11-30 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 10:58, Benoit Panizzon wrote: Run in bconsole: query 17 Tape2 See if JobId=50 is in the list it prints. If not, there is some problem with the Volume name. According to the output, the job is not purged, so it should be OK. Hmm, I think this

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-web 1.2

2005-11-30 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 10:57, Stephan Holl wrote: Dear List, just wanted to let you know that I really like to web-interface which shipps with bacula. It was really easy to install it on my bacula-dir using postgres and works smoothly! Thanks. The bacula-web project is written and

Re: [Bacula-users] Pool

2005-11-30 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Ryan Novosielski wrote: I would like to argue with this one slightly. Most of the backups I do are for disaster recovery (ie. fire, monumental screwup, disk failure, etc.). Ditto I don't need generations of data because our policy is that we don't keep things for

Re: [Bacula-users] Recycling Directives (was: Pool)

2005-11-30 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 05:33, Ryan Novosielski wrote: Kern, This is finally the chance for me to ask my question. ;) I'm staring right at the manual as we speak. I clearly don't want Purge Oldest Volume, as this one is dangerous and doesn't respect retention periods. However, with

[Bacula-users] I get EOF in 1.38.0, can't figure out if its a problem

2005-11-30 Thread Thomas S. Iversen
Hi there I have recently upgraded my bacula setup from 1.36.2 to 1.38.0 (in order to get VSS on windows). Now I get got EOF on tape XXX, but I can restore files just fine! The restored files from a small 13GB restore have the same MD5 sums as the original (see below). And my tape drive

Re: [Bacula-users] I get EOF in 1.38.0, can't figure out if its a problem

2005-11-30 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 13:34, Thomas S. Iversen wrote: Hi there I have recently upgraded my bacula setup from 1.36.2 to 1.38.0 (in order to get VSS on windows). Now I get got EOF on tape XXX, but I can restore files just fine! Read the messages carefully. If they are not marked as

[Bacula-users] FileSet change / Full backup

2005-11-30 Thread franky . backeljauw
Hello, I have the following situation : I have a Full backup of my Machine on a Monthly tape. Now I have added some dirs to the FileSet of my Machine. This resulted in a new Full backup for my Machine, this time on a Daily tape. Now, my question : the Daily tape will be reused in 5 days,

[Bacula-users] How to reuse tapes?

2005-11-30 Thread Jason Baker
I finally got Bacula 1.38 working on my shiny new Fedora Core 4 box yesterday, thanks to all who helped answer questions. I ran a full backup lastnight and actually ran out of tape space, so now I would like to reuse those tape and run another full. Here is my situation: Bacula 1.38 on FC4

Re: [Bacula-users] Hey Kern....

2005-11-30 Thread Danny Butroyd
Mark Hazen wrote: Kern- Knowing full and well the weight that publically supporting a project with the size and scope of Bacula puts on your shoulders, I'd like to say thank you, thank you, thank you. You do an admirable job, and yes, while Bacula may not be as easy to get into as some of

[Bacula-users] Bacula-web. Status.

2005-11-30 Thread Juan Luis Frances
Dear list, Bacula-web project is in a early stage. I have very much things in mind: to rewrite engine graph with jpgraph,full console, pdf reports, user management for customers, etc. But without help of other people you will not see they until 2015 ;-) If you think that you could do good

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-web 1.2

2005-11-30 Thread Juan Luis Frances
You are welcome. Your comments are a great birthday gift and, in a open source project as this, the incentive of the work. (yes, my birthday is today :) ) I take advantage of this to say a pair of things about bacula-web in my next mail. Best regards, Juan Luis Francés El Miércoles 30

[Bacula-users] TWO autochangers with spool daemon, how to ??? (Bacula 1.38.1)

2005-11-30 Thread Michael Joyner
help! I have two 10 slots autochangers and I am trying to configure them to run as a single autochanger. Does anyone have any pointers? This is my current config file: Device { Name= VXA-UNIT-0 Archive Device = /dev/nst0 Media Type = VXA2 AutoChanger =

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-web 1.2

2005-11-30 Thread Phil Stracchino
Juan Luis Frances wrote: You are welcome. Your comments are a great birthday gift and, in a open source project as this, the incentive of the work. (yes, my birthday is today :) ) Happy birthday! (I'll refrain from the Mongol Birthday Song. Don't want to frighten innocent users on the

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature requests

2005-11-30 Thread Deim Ágoston
Kern Sibbald wrote: So, I would like to request a command available in the console to skip errors and continoue the restore process. Second, I would be very happy if there would be a parity option in the Options section when I create a FileSet. I know that parity bits grow the volumes but I

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-web 1.2

2005-11-30 Thread Ludovic Strappazon
Would it be possible to have the famous Mongol Birthday Song in Private :-D Happy birthday Juan ! Ludovic. Phil Stracchino a écrit : Juan Luis Frances wrote: You are welcome. Your comments are a great birthday gift and, in a open source project as this, the incentive of the work. (yes,

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-web 1.2

2005-11-30 Thread Phil Stracchino
Ludovic Strappazon wrote: Would it be possible to have the famous Mongol Birthday Song in Private :-D http://www.whitetreeaz.com/vintage/bdaysong.htm :) -- Phil Stracchino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Renaissance Man, Unix generalist, Perl hacker Mobile: 603-216-7037 Landline:

Re: [Bacula-users] TWO autochangers with spool daemon, how to ??? (Bacula 1.38.1)

2005-11-30 Thread Kern Sibbald
Egads, the things people dream up ! :-) It *just* might work for you providing no one else is using your autochangers, and providing you do several things: 1. Remove the Changer Device from the AutoChanger resource, and keep the correct one in each Device record. This is probably not

[Bacula-users] Problems with VXA2 1x10 and Bacula 1.36

2005-11-30 Thread Zachariah Mully
Hello all- I am new on the list, and I'm in the process of replacing a single DDS4/Arkeia system with a new VXA2 1x10 autoloader. The dedicated backup box is running Debian-3.1 with Bacula 1.36 and sqllite. The autoloader passes all the tests described in the manual with flying

Re: [Bacula-users] Recycling Directives

2005-11-30 Thread Ryan Novosielski
OK, then tell me this: what is the difference between Recycle Oldest Volume and Recycle Current Volume? Is there any overlap in their functionality (if the oldest volume is the current volume)? What does Current mean, in this case? Currently in the tape drive? Here is the text from the manual:

[Bacula-users] List Jobs

2005-11-30 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Hello,I'm appending at the end, the "list jobs" output of bconsole.I still see a lot of old jobs that are no more on my tapes (purged or recycled).Why do I still see them in "list jobs"? will I always see all my jobs history here?Shouldn't I see only the jobs that are still on tapes?The only

[Bacula-users] Prune all

2005-11-30 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Is there a facility to "prune" anything that is out of the recycle period, and than have any of the pruned onesbe set in Recycle state? Why do I always see "Append" in the State of volumes? Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 Via Felice

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-11-30 Thread Sebastian Stark
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 10:01:15AM -0800, Harondel J. Sibble wrote: I am pretty sure I am missing something fairly fundamental in the way volumes are recycled, I've read through the docs, checking the list postings, but have been unable to get a handle on this. Basically, if I start with a

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-11-30 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
I am having the same problem. And I'm getting mad with the flags.I recently started to think I have old jobs that stored the old job retention period.How can I get rid of all that old jobs that are no more valid, without having to delete each by hand?Should I start again from a scratch database

Re: [Bacula-users] bscan-problems

2005-11-30 Thread Jonas Mixter
Hi! I found a solution to my problem below... I'm posting the solution to the list so it might help others. Since the problem I had was that the block size settings were different on my new and my old machine I checked the settings on the old machine and used the same settings on the new one.

Re: [Bacula-users] TWO autochangers with spool daemon, how to ??? (Bacula 1.38.1)

2005-11-30 Thread Michael Joyner
Is it possible to specify them as two autochangers in the SD file and then have the DIR file autoswitch between them as needed? Kern Sibbald wrote: Egads, the things people dream up ! :-) It *just* might work for you providing no one else is using your autochangers, and providing you do

[Bacula-users] The client/name entry in director

2005-11-30 Thread Harry Putnam
I am trying to skirt testing of every little config change... can someone tell me what the Client resource `name' entry should look like for this case: The manual says: Where the address is a host name, a fully qualified domain name, or a network address in dotted quad notation for a Bacula File

[Bacula-users] Re: The client/name entry in director

2005-11-30 Thread Harry Putnam
I am trying to skirt testing of every little config change... can someone tell me what the Client resource `name' entry should look like for this case: Sorry folks ... a big typo above. It isn't the `name' entry but the `Address' entry I'm asking about below. The manual says: Where

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with VXA2 1x10 and Bacula 1.36

2005-11-30 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 17:27, Zachariah Mully wrote: Hello all- I am new on the list, and I'm in the process of replacing a single DDS4/Arkeia system with a new VXA2 1x10 autoloader. The dedicated backup box is running Debian-3.1 with Bacula 1.36 and sqllite. The autoloader

Re: [Bacula-users] bscan-problems

2005-11-30 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Jonas, Thanks for the feedback. I will add your example to the manual. Thanks. :-) On Wednesday 30 November 2005 19:45, Jonas Mixter wrote: Hi! I found a solution to my problem below... I'm posting the solution to the list so it might help others. Since the problem I had was that

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-web 1.2

2005-11-30 Thread Everton Thomaz
And mysql? I tried to install with mysql and i didn't have success. Somebody use bacula-web with mysql?? Somebody know to tell me if bacula-web is functioning with mysql? Thanks, Everton Em Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:20:07 -0200, Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: On Wednesday 30 November

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula GTK GUI: first useful example :-)

2005-11-30 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Lucas, Oh, cool screenshot. I like it ! By the way, in the voting, I now have 50 votes counted, and though items move around a bit with the voting, the top contenders have been pretty stable. I mention it here, because the Python GUI program has always been in the top 5. Currently,

[Bacula-users] Feature request

2005-11-30 Thread Kern Sibbald
Please always copy the list. On Wednesday 30 November 2005 21:07, Tomas Vasko wrote: I have a suggestion to item 9 -- it would be nice, if administrator of FD machine was able to specify the paths that only could be backed up i.e. to prohibit backing up of another than enumerated

Re: [Bacula-users] How to reuse tapes?

2005-11-30 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 30.11.2005 14:59, Jason Baker wrote: I finally got Bacula 1.38 working on my shiny new Fedora Core 4 box yesterday, thanks to all who helped answer questions. I ran a full backup lastnight and actually ran out of tape space, so now I would like to reuse those tape and run another

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-11-30 Thread Martin Simmons
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:34:24 +0100 (CET), Gabriele Bulfon [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Gabriele How can I get rid of all that old jobs that are no more valid, Gabriele without having to delete each by hand? I would so this by editing the output of list jobs to include the old jobs and writing

[Bacula-users] Missing defaults in the doc for The Pool Resource

2005-11-30 Thread Martin Simmons
The manual sections for Recycle Oldest Volume, Recycle Current Volume and Purge Oldest Volume end in The default is . but presumably there should be something before the dot. __Martin --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you

[Bacula-users] Bacula-sd crashes (bacula ver 1.38.2)

2005-11-30 Thread Paymon Bahrami
Hello ! I'm having a problem with my exabyte VXA-2 (10 tape autoloader) and bacula v. 1.38.2. When I try to run the label command, bacula-sd crashes like so Enter a period to cancel a command. *label Using default Catalog name=MyCatalog DB=bacula The defined Storage resources are: 1:

RE: [Bacula-users] Feature request

2005-11-30 Thread Eric Langheinrich
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern Sibbald Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 1:13 PM To: Tomas Vasko; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] Feature request Please always copy the list. On Wednesday 30 November

[Bacula-users] volume names and attributes

2005-11-30 Thread Harry Putnam
New user alert! Can volume attributes be set in one of the *.conf files? If I've created a new pool, how do I auto create volume attribtes? This particular pool will have only members who are `File' volumes. On the surface it appears to only be possible to create and name volumes from bconsole

[Bacula-users] How to shorten connection timeout

2005-11-30 Thread Harry Putnam
How can I shorten what ever timeout is involved when bacula tries to contact a file daemon on a winxp box. debug output shows the job starting successfully ... then what seems an unnecessarily long delay, before I see failure to connect errors. How can I shorten that delay while I debug the

Re: [Bacula-users] volume names and attributes

2005-11-30 Thread David Logan
Harry Putnam wrote: New user alert! Can volume attributes be set in one of the *.conf files? If I've created a new pool, how do I auto create volume attribtes? This particular pool will have only members who are `File' volumes. On the surface it appears to only be possible to create and name

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-11-30 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 30 Nov 2005 at 19:20, Sebastian Stark wrote: From your bacula-dir.conf it looks like your job retention is 30 days. As I understand bacula it won't (automatically) prune volumes unless it has purged all jobs referring to this volume. Ahh, so I should set the job retention period to

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with autopruning and volume reuse

2005-11-30 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 30 Nov 2005 at 19:20, Sebastian Stark wrote: From your bacula-dir.conf it looks like your job retention is 30 days. As I understand bacula it won't (automatically) prune volumes unless it has purged all jobs referring to this volume. So once I make that change in my conf file, do I have