Re: [Bacula-users] BAT?

2010-04-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
? No. Bacula-mysql will be a package of all the bacula server tools, built to use mysql databases, as compared to bacula-sqlite or bacula-postgresql. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org

Re: [Bacula-users] BAT?

2010-04-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
. bacula-postgresql-5.0.1-1.su112.x86_64.rpm All the server daemons, compiled for PostgreSQL. bacula-sqlite-5.0.1-1.su112.x86_64.rpm All the server daemons, compiled for SQLite. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum concurrent jobs for devices

2010-05-03 Thread Phil Stracchino
a second disk storage device on the same physical device. You could also possibly look into using the vchanger. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Maximum concurrent jobs for devices

2010-05-03 Thread Phil Stracchino
to either make the new Pool's media type match the existing volumes, or create additional Volumes that match the new Pool. It's up to you to decide which of these will better match your site-specific needs. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Mirror or Rsync?

2010-05-03 Thread Phil Stracchino
forever to keep the machines mirrored with rsync, it'll take forever and a day with Bacula. Use the right tool for the job. Bacula is a backup suite, not a synchronization tool. Rsync is, in fact, the best tool for this job. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression on Windows

2010-05-03 Thread Phil Stracchino
anything, because it does not include anything. File (and related) directives go within the Include{} and Exclude{} directives. That one isn't. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression on Windows

2010-05-03 Thread Phil Stracchino
? If you're not getting compression and you're asking about that, from the fragmentary bits of configuration you've posted above you appear to have compression both turned on and turned off. This probably isn't helping. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355

Re: [Bacula-users] Installing with RPMs

2010-05-04 Thread Phil Stracchino
from RPM, I can't help you there, sorry. But the RPMs SHOULD contain the scripts you reference above. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker

Re: [Bacula-users] Installing with RPMs

2010-05-04 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 05/04/10 13:29, Joseph Spenner wrote: --- On Tue, 5/4/10, Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net wrote: I have mysql running on my Suse 11.2 64bit system. How does mysql get populated with the bacula database/tables? When I compiled from source earlier, I found I needed to manually run

Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware configuration and off-site backup

2010-05-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
are the maximum burst transfer rate FROM a full disk cache or TO an empty one. The actual sustained rates at which the physical mechanism can read or write data to and from the platters are FAR lower. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala

Re: [Bacula-users] backing up shared storage?

2010-05-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
. This doesn't necessarily follow unless you're using accurate backup. But it sounds as though the best approach here is to ensure that the shared storage is mounted at a specific node when your backup runs. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala

Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware configuration and off-site backup

2010-05-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 05/06/10 02:57, Vlamsdoem wrote: On 05/05/10 15:12, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 05/05/10 08:38, John Drescher wrote: Sorry my servers are on gigabit links. How do you come to 9MB/s with a 100Mb link, is it not equals to 12,5 MB/s? Overhead. If it's correct on a gigabit

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bulk] Re: Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup

2010-05-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
, Microsoft wouldn't be able to sell MSCE training. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's

Re: [Bacula-users] Database version problems caused Ubuntu 10.04 upgrade to abort

2010-05-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
the subdirectory containing the scripts to make the update scripts you need. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's

[Bacula-users] 5.0.2 on Gentoo

2010-05-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
.ebuild manifest # emerge -av app-backup/bacula The ebuild manifest step is *important*. If you do not update the manifest after patching, the ebuild checksum will be wrong, and portage will helpfully re-download the ebuild for you, undoing your work. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling configuration question

2010-05-17 Thread Phil Stracchino
in future. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling configuration question

2010-05-17 Thread Phil Stracchino
it can be done without enumerating the entire schedule a year at a time. If you really need to do that, then perhaps Bacula isn't the tool for you. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling configuration question

2010-05-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
to set your Catalog backup at a lower priority (where 1 is highest priority) than your client backups, so that the Director will wait until the last client has finished before kicking off the night's Catalog backup. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling configuration question

2010-05-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 05/18/10 10:37, Joseph Spenner wrote: --- On Mon, 5/17/10, Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net wrote: As previously mentioned, staggering backups on your clients is fairly easy. A six-day backup cycle is *unusual*, because it doesn't fit neatly into either weekly or monthly schedules

Re: [Bacula-users] new client on old server

2010-05-20 Thread Phil Stracchino
do the upgrade at a relative calm pace, while keeping our double backup strategy in place. Does anyone has an experience on this situation ? There should be no problem backing up an older client with a newer server. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355

Re: [Bacula-users] Wrong volume label when client not running

2010-05-20 Thread Phil Stracchino
remove purged Volumes from disk and from the Catalog. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's

Re: [Bacula-users] new client on old server

2010-05-20 Thread Phil Stracchino
to use any new functionality not supported by the 2.4 clients (VSS, for example). Older server, newer client is strongly discouraged. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula using volume for each job every night

2010-05-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula using volume for each job every night

2010-05-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
update the Pool from the resource, then update sall the Volumes from the newly-updated Pool, in order to propagate all the new settings to the Pool and all the volumes it contains.) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula using volume for each job every night

2010-05-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
= FileStorage Media Type = File Archive Device = /opt/bacula/volumes LabelMedia = yes; Random Access = Yes; AutomaticMount = yes; RemovableMedia = no; AlwaysOpen = no; } I notice you have no Maximum Concurrent Jobs setting on the Device. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula using volume for each job every night

2010-05-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
, it will give you a number of choices of what to update. 'Pool from resource' will be one of these (it should be the second, I think). -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula using volume for each job every night

2010-05-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 05/25/10 12:36, Joseph Spenner wrote: --- On Tue, 5/25/10, Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net wrote: If you enter the console command 'update' with no arguments, it will give you a number of choices of what to update. 'Pool from resource' will be one of these (it should be the second

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 5.0.2 and is waiting on storage file

2010-05-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
that all your Maximum Concurrent Jobs settings are correct in ALL applicable resources, in both the bacula-sd.conf and bacula-dir.conf files. Also check that you haven't set the Use Volume Once preference (which is usually a mistake made due to misunderstanding what it does). -- Phil

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula using volume for each job every night

2010-05-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 05/25/10 13:18, Joseph Spenner wrote: --- On Tue, 5/25/10, Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net wrote: The 'Storage' section of bacula-dir.conf does not call out individual devices, just storage daemons. You should have the Storage device concurrency set both in bacula-sd.conf

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 5.0.2 and is waiting on storage file

2010-05-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
couldn't make a guess as to what's causing it. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Logging bconsole activity

2010-05-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
logging facility in the Bacula console. It might make a good feature request. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula using volume for each job every night

2010-05-26 Thread Phil Stracchino
they get recycled (cycle over and over). Do I just go into bat and mark each volume 'recycle' ? New volumes will be in state 'Append' and do not need to be marked in any way. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula using volume for each job every night

2010-05-26 Thread Phil Stracchino
. If it still uses multiple volumes, I don't think it's a media problem. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's

Re: [Bacula-users] Where is Windows Bacula Server?

2010-05-27 Thread Phil Stracchino
to compile the Windows Bacula Server version. I personally can't help you with that, not having done it myself, but one or another of the other Bacula folks who monitor this list should be able to tell you how to do it. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with install on Linux.

2010-05-27 Thread Phil Stracchino
. You're clearly using MySQL; try adding --with-mysql to your configuration. (You may need to specify the path where MySQL is installed.) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula tape format vs. rsync on deduplicated file systems

2010-05-28 Thread Phil Stracchino
user data plus any base system files that are different from those on the reference machine. Once I have all of my Windows boxes on the same version of Windows again (right now, half are XP Pro and half are 2K Pro), I'm planning to set up a base job for them. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula tape format vs. rsync on deduplicated file systems

2010-05-28 Thread Phil Stracchino
incremental change. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] IBM TS3100 autochanger

2010-05-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
. What is this lin-tape you speak of? If your Linux kernel is properly configured (i.e, SCSI HBA support, SCSI tape support, and the PERC6 low-level SCSI driver enabled), it should Just Work. If those aren't compiled into your kernel, see if you have them present as modules. -- Phil Stracchino

Re: [Bacula-users] change tape status while backups are running

2010-06-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 06/02/10 16:28, Jesse Angell wrote: Is there some way I can force it to move onto the next tape mid-backup? Why would you want to do that? Frankly, I'm having trouble imagining a scenario in which you'd need to do this that cannot be handled better by fixing the Pool settings. -- Phil

Re: [Bacula-users] BConsole Error

2010-06-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula running incremental after full job failure

2010-06-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
= yes } You need to add Rerun Failed Levels = yes in this resource. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's

[Bacula-users] Waiting on max storage jobs

2010-06-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
everything in the system. In this case, based on my calculations, the original power supply had to be falling short of its rated power output by almost 17%. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p

Re: [Bacula-users] 11TB backup run out of memory and dies

2010-06-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
out to tape (in order to free up clients as fast as possible), or to prevent shoeshining when clients and/or the network cannot transfer data fast enough to keep a high-speed tape drive streaming. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula Passwords in conf files

2010-06-15 Thread Phil Stracchino
as an MD5 hash, not in clear. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] volume expiration dates

2010-06-15 Thread Phil Stracchino
simple task to create a script that uses the console to generate a regular report of purged volumes. If it keeps a state log of what it has reported in the past, it could equally easily report only newly-pruned volumes. I don't know whether that would meet your reporting needs, though. -- Phil

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula Passwords in conf files

2010-06-17 Thread Phil Stracchino
generate a good strong random password, it's by no means a requirement to use that method. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater

Re: [Bacula-users] Semestral schedule

2010-06-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
like: Schedule { Name = Semestral Run = Level=Full jan 1st mon at 09:00 Run = Level=Full jul 1st mon at 09:00 } -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix

Re: [Bacula-users] Automated restore job?

2010-06-22 Thread Phil Stracchino
to do the daily restore as a test to make sure the backups are good, you might want to consider mirroring the live machine to the warm standby with rsync, then backing up the warm standby. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala

Re: [Bacula-users] Automated restore job?

2010-06-23 Thread Phil Stracchino
is to write a Perl or expect script that performs the necessary bconsole interaction to run your restore job as you need it run, then execute that script from an admin job. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula, lto5 y SAS IBM TS2350 Tape Drive

2010-06-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] Upgraded bacula - now I have zero volumes

2010-06-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf and copy the appropriate data, then restart Bacula. If you're still having problems after that, then we can figure out what needs doing next. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p

Re: [Bacula-users] Best practise Pools/Volumes using iscsi

2010-07-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
of the Bacula manual. - You're probably going to want to either look into the truncate-on-purge feature, or do some external scripting to delete purged Volumes as an admin job. Possibly both. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala

Re: [Bacula-users] How to view volumes per client?

2010-07-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
on a volume, grasshopper. It is readily accessible from the Pools listing in BAT, if you don't want to do it from bconsole. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man

Re: [Bacula-users] Use Bacula Sun Solaris 10 SPARC

2010-07-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 07/08/10 06:59, Koray AGAYA wrote: Thanks for your help I have a Question. How to flow Bacula on Sun Solaris JAVA Desktop I'm sorry, I don't understand the question. Could you try rephrasing it? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala

Re: [Bacula-users] Is there a way...

2010-07-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
will ask me THIS special tape, which is not available (cause in the bank..). Is there a solution for this problem or it is inherent to the way Bacula actually works ? This sounds at first glance as though your retention period is set one day too short. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD

Re: [Bacula-users] Two tape drives

2010-07-09 Thread Phil Stracchino
and Incremental Pool directives in your JobDefs to specify the correct Pool for each level. Bacula will figure out the correct storage device to use based on the media type specified in the Pool. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala

Re: [Bacula-users] Two tape drives

2010-07-09 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 07/09/10 11:55, Prashant Ramhit wrote: Hi, Your solution worked perfectly. Storage can be defined in either the Job or Pool. And you should specify the level in the Job, the bacula figures out which pool to backup to, hence the storage and the drive. That's it exactly. -- Phil

Re: [Bacula-users] Starting from scratch

2010-07-12 Thread Phil Stracchino
. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] Removing bad jobs from the database? Howto?

2010-07-19 Thread Phil Stracchino
is probably to migrate the good jobs to a new Pool and then replicate only those. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater

Re: [Bacula-users] Removing bad jobs from the database? Howto?

2010-07-19 Thread Phil Stracchino
a clean start once you have everything working. But at the moment, if you're trying to sort good data from bad while half your backups are still failing and you don't yet know why, it's a bit like trying to bail a lake dry with a bucket during a rainstorm. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD

Re: [Bacula-users] Can I take a base job from data already in the SD?

2010-07-20 Thread Phil Stracchino
-backed up, and only once. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple Next Pools

2010-07-21 Thread Phil Stracchino
job with destination of pool_a that runs once daily, and another with destination of pool_b on a once-a-month schedule? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix

Re: [Bacula-users] Cleaning up a storage daemon

2010-07-22 Thread Phil Stracchino
volumes one at a time. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] How to do a remote rollback?

2010-07-24 Thread Phil Stracchino
it. It'll boot into the recovery image and you can repair or restore from there. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater

Re: [Bacula-users] new server

2010-07-28 Thread Phil Stracchino
prudent. You can retain your existing database, but you will have to apply the interim database upgrade scripts to bring the SQL schema up to date, and you may need to make some changes to your configuration files. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala

Re: [Bacula-users] best way to write backup to DVD

2010-08-01 Thread Phil Stracchino
, then perform your restore. Whether this is feasible is going to obviously be hihgly dependent upon how busy your Bacula installation is. You COULD, of course, hypothetically speaking, run a second Director specifically to do such restores, starting it up only when needed. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK

[Bacula-users] Diagnosing storage anomalies and Director bug

2010-08-01 Thread Phil Stracchino
view with apparently-random changer slot numbers. Is this meaningless, or is it possible that Bacula is somehow confused into thinking that my single tape drive is an autoloader and this is part of the problem? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala

Re: [Bacula-users] Variables in bacula

2010-08-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
not, infeasibly slow. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] Upgrading Bacula

2010-08-04 Thread Phil Stracchino
to bring it up to the current Version 12. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's

Re: [Bacula-users] Shutdown Windows Box after backup? Howto?

2010-08-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 08/06/10 05:27, Mister IT Guru wrote: I would like to know if it is possible to get a windows box to shutdown after it's finished a job? There is a fairly widely available shutdown.exe tool that can be run from a client-side after-backup script by the Director. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK

Re: [Bacula-users] Client in LAN, Server in the Internet

2010-08-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
the firewall, no problem. If neither of the above applies, sorry, you're totally out of luck, the Director cannot initiate a backup on a client it cannot communicate with. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p

Re: [Bacula-users] Job Def for multiple job levels not working

2010-08-12 Thread Phil Stracchino
at 22:00 } Give that a shot and see if it works for you. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's

Re: [Bacula-users] Dell PV-124T with Ultrium TD4, Hardware or Software compression?

2010-08-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
, and the drive compresses data block-by-block, doing a trial compression of each data block and writing whichever is the smaller of the compressed and uncompressed version of that block to tape, flagging individual blocks as compressed or uncompressed. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM

Re: [Bacula-users] Dell PV-124T with Ultrium TD4, Hardware or Software compression?

2010-08-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
is no longer compressible... Ack, that was point #3, which I completely forgot ;-). Also, compression before encryption makes encryption harder to crack, as it eliminates redundancy in the data which can potentially simplify the task of attacking the encryption. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD

Re: [Bacula-users] Client in LAN, Server in the Internet

2010-08-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
problem altogether. This increasingly looks to me as though your only options for making this work are either port forwarding to the clients through their respective firewalls, which will work for only one client behind each given firewall, or setting up a full-fledged VPN. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2

Re: [Bacula-users] Client in LAN, Server in the Internet

2010-08-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
job to rsync themselves to disk on the server, then back up the rsync'd images? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater

Re: [Bacula-users] 50 remote servers with attached extra storeage to back up.

2010-08-20 Thread Phil Stracchino
safe setting. Let us know if you run into any problems, but this sounds like a very straightforward installation. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin

Re: [Bacula-users] 50 remote servers with attached extra storeage to back up.

2010-08-20 Thread Phil Stracchino
into the server running Dir using Bacula's bconsole. ...Or using BAT from the HO. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum concurrency

2010-08-23 Thread Phil Stracchino
? Priority is now work here. I'm sorry, your question is unclear. When you say make jobs not wait for previous to end, what exactly do you mean? Do you mean that only one job is running at a time? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net

Re: [Bacula-users] 50 remote servers with attached extra storeage to back up.

2010-08-23 Thread Phil Stracchino
a single Catalog at your head office; all the catalog metadata will go over the wire to your head office, but you're right, no backup data should need to travel over the wire at all. Having all the jobs run at once will be no problem at all. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum concurrency

2010-08-23 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 08/23/10 15:53, Proskurin Kirill wrote: 23.08.2010 20:05, Phil Stracchino пишет: On 08/23/10 07:05, Proskurin Kirill wrote: Hello. What we have: FreeBSD-8.0 Bacula-5.0.2 Backup on HDD. Every Job have they own pool and own storage. Most confusing thing in bacula after retention policy

Re: [Bacula-users] File Daemon interaction with Bacula Director

2010-08-24 Thread Phil Stracchino
3.0.x clients with a 5.0.x server without any problems. Obviously, you will be unable to use new-to-5.0 features such as accurate backup for the 3.0 clients. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p

Re: [Bacula-users] Bat: wrong Vol Usage in Media pane

2010-08-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
Capacity field, that would default to MaxVolBytes if MaxVolBytes is not zero, but otherwise would be defined by the user. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup plan - Pool errors

2010-08-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
-backed-up data may be irreplaceable. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup plan - Pool errors

2010-08-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
share of the data. It may well take you a month to fill an incremental tape, depending how much data changes each backup cycle. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling and backup concept

2010-08-26 Thread Phil Stracchino
under /etc. The question is not just Does a restore take longer than reinstalling?, it's Does a restore take longer than reinstalling and then recreating all of the metadata, configuration settings and customizations by hand? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607

Re: [Bacula-users] Inc upgraded to full

2010-08-26 Thread Phil Stracchino
to the Fileset? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] sql to add tape in pool.

2010-08-31 Thread Phil Stracchino
set. Remember when labeling your tapes that if doing a bulk addition in this manner, Bacula will default to using four digits plus the specified base name to generate the label. This behavior can be overridden in the Pool specification by using the Label Format directive. -- Phil Stracchino

Re: [Bacula-users] Advise for a bit complicated migration/consolidation

2010-09-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 09/02/10 13:56, Bruno Friedmann wrote: Is there a magic way to read old media and pipe data in them to a new media which will be stored on a new location, new name, and have it's file path recorded in DB ? Have you looked at bscan? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM

Re: [Bacula-users] Advise for a bit complicated migration/consolidation

2010-09-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 09/02/10 14:17, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 09/02/10 13:56, Bruno Friedmann wrote: Is there a magic way to read old media and pipe data in them to a new media which will be stored on a new location, new name, and have it's file path recorded in DB ? Have you looked at bscan? Er, I sent

Re: [Bacula-users] Advise for a bit complicated migration/consolidation

2010-09-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 09/02/10 15:21, Bruno Friedmann wrote: On 09/02/2010 08:33 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: I meant to say, bscan will do part of what you want. Depending on the media, you should be able to either copy the disk volumes to the new datacenter, or send tapes and install a drive that can read them

Re: [Bacula-users] Advise for a bit complicated migration/consolidation

2010-09-03 Thread Phil Stracchino
the volumes in, THEN you can set up a migration job to move all the jobs from the old media onto volumes in your new server's pools. Once you've done that, you should be able to remove the temporary device and pool. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala

Re: [Bacula-users] Advise for a bit complicated migration/consolidation

2010-09-04 Thread Phil Stracchino
all old stuff config). And do a bscan on the new medium to get record in database. Good solution. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs running are lost after restart bacula-director

2010-09-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
, it's a good plan to restart your Director at the next opportunity you get to do so cleanly. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free

Re: [Bacula-users] Purge all previous incrementals and differentals when full is purged

2010-09-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
Full backups at least one backup cycle longer than your differentials and incrementals. Even without the Full it's based on, of course, all the files in a differential or incremental are still valid and still restorable. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355

Re: [Bacula-users] Modify Scheduled Job

2010-09-09 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 09/09/10 19:10, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I have a job scheduled some few hours from now, any way to modify a parameter of it (diff-full) through bconsole w/o editing the conf files? Only by deleting it and rescheduling it manually. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM

Re: [Bacula-users] bat ABORTING after director's hostname change

2010-09-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
' to the /etc/hosts file everything is running fine again Assuming your catalog database is running on the same machine, did you update the catalog resources? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot build bacula-client 5.0.3 on FreeBSD 7.3

2010-09-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
as they were applied carefully and at the correct places, manual patching is usually fine. It's just time-consuming. If the only problem is a line number offset, patch will usually spot it and apply the patch in the correct place in the code anyway. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula config questions

2010-09-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
can refer to? I don't see how this is a Bacula question. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years

Re: [Bacula-users] Ideas for a backup strategy

2010-09-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
that could then run simultaneously. You do NOT want to do this. If you're trying to run four concurrent backup sessions on a single host, you will totally hammer the disk subsystem with seeks and your throughput will drop into the third sub-basement. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD

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