Re: [Bacula-users] Shell script question.

2010-03-04 Thread Russell Sutherland
Why would you do this: if [ "x$var" = "x" ]; then ... fi The above shell programming construct is ancient, well tested and reliable as it works on the various flavours of the Bourne/Korn/Bash shells. Keep it simple. --- Russell P. Sutherland Email: russ @ madhaus.cns.utoront

[Bacula-users] Auto label frustration....

2010-02-01 Thread Russell Sutherland
My autolabels just stopped working. For no apparent reason. Here's the error message: *messages 01-Feb 12:49 tank-dir JobId 21689: Start Backup JobId 21689, Job=madhaus-home.2010-02-01_12.49.16_07 01-Feb 12:49 tank-dir JobId 21689: Using Device "Tank-large-device" 01-Feb 12:49 tank-sd JobId 21

[Bacula-users] Some sql_get.c sqlite error messages with bacula

2009-07-21 Thread Russell Sutherland
d 7: No Files found to prune. 21-Jul 11:21 postoffice-dir JobId 7: End auto prune. Need I "worry" about this error? In due time the machine will be updated, but I do need to have bacula running

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape problems after updating to version 3.0.0

2009-04-21 Thread Russell Sutherland
+-+--+-------+--+-+ * Does this mean I have to change the tape? -- Russell Sutherland r...@quist.ca +1.416.696.7600 -- Stay on top of everything new and different, b

[Bacula-users] Tape problems after updating to version 3.0.0

2009-04-21 Thread Russell Sutherland
fixing the situation rather than having to recycle the tape into the pool, and start a new one, given the current tape is less than one half full. Any ideas? -- Russell Sutherland r...@quist.ca +1.416.696.7600 -- Stay on

[Bacula-users] Catalog backup best practices

2009-02-19 Thread Russell Sutherland
.) I assume that it's OK to save the data from this job to tape. Given that one does not have tape, is it a good idea to store the data on a remote storage volume? By remote I mean on some other media on some other machine. Thanks in advance. -- Russell Sutherland r...@quist.ca +1.416.696

[Bacula-users] Tape struggles

2008-12-01 Thread Russell Sutherland
drive _was_ working fine for several weeks and had about 65 Gbytes of data written to it. All tapes had been thoroughly tested using btape and fill before being put into production. Frustrated... -- Russell Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1.416.696.7600

[Bacula-users] bconsole bug

2008-11-14 Thread Russell Sutherland
-p4 #2: Thu Sep 4 08:58:43 EDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/opt/obj/opt/src/sys/GENERIC i386 -- Russell Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1.416.696.7600 - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's chal

[Bacula-users] Problems appending to a Tape

2008-11-12 Thread Russell Sutherland
ng and labelling new tapes a bit confusing, especially when this is being done to an existing running system. -- Russell Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1.416.696.7600 - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move D

[Bacula-users] Flaky performance using LTO-1 tapes

2008-10-30 Thread Russell Sutherland
mand to clear this state. And after this fact the /dev/sa0 device was no longer usable and btape was wedged. Any ideas? Either the Dell hardware is very flaky and can not be used in a production service, or I've got some scsi hardware tuning to do. Thank

[Bacula-users] Moving volumes to a new

2007-10-29 Thread Russell Sutherland
878651 Oct 11 00:04 utm-wireless-full-0001 -rw-r- 1 bacula bacula 3829161368 Oct 11 03:34 utm-wireless-inc-0003 -rw-r- 1 bacula bacula 530104601 Oct 14 03:00 utm-wireless-diff-0002 -rw-r- 1 bacula bacula 2944219361 Oct 26 14:19 utm-wireless-inc-0001 -- Russell Sutherlan

[Bacula-users] moving backup files from one storage area to another

2007-04-24 Thread Russell Sutherland
backup process from scratch (full, diff, inc) or can I somehow move the files from machine A to B and carry on as usual. Thanks in advance. -- Russell Sutherland russ AT madhaus . cns . utoronto . ca +1.416.978.0470 [ voice ] +1.416.978.6620 [ fax

[Bacula-users] Building bacula on OpenBSD

2006-11-08 Thread Russell Sutherland
.c:1375: error: 'struct mtget' has no member named 'mt_fileno' dev.c:1375: error: 'struct mtget' has no member named 'mt_blkno' dev.c:1377: error: 'struct mtget' has no member named 'mt_fileno' dev.c:1378: error: 'struct mtget'

Re: [Bacula-users] File Daemon Encryption Maturity

2006-10-31 Thread Russell Sutherland
in production environments? Thanks for your > > help. > > FWIW, FD encryption will be included in the next release. -- Russell Sutherland russ AT madhaus . cns . utoronto . ca +1.416.978.0470 [ voice ] +1.416.978.6620 [ fax ] --

[Bacula-users] Bacula, Jobs and Pools

2006-10-20 Thread Russell Sutherland
vising some backup regime, given say that it is impossible to go back B months in time to retrieve data? Thanks in advance. -- Russell Sutherland russ AT madhaus . cns . utoronto . ca +1.416.978.0470 [ voice ] +1.416.978.6620