Re: [Bacula-users] Don't Delete My Config Files!

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Caley (rc) writes: rc> Must be a hold over then. I had a blinding flash of the obvious overnight and remembered that we have the same version of the bacula-server port on another machine: 07:25 auk:root:- pkg_info -L bacula-1.32c Informat

[Bacula-users] Where did the files go?

I'm attempting a restore for a user who stored files on a server he shouldn't have which subsequently suffered MASSIVE FILESYSTEM CORRUPTION Er, anyhow I have this minor problem: [... snip ...] You have selected the following JobIds: 3152,3243,3256,3269,3281,3293,3305,3317 Building directory tre

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with variable expansion

I have some more information. I changed the Client Run Before Job to just Run Before Job, and this works as expected. The problem is specific to Client Run Before Job. This doesn't really help me though since I will need to use this when running the backup of a remote database. Please, does any

Re: [Bacula-users] RR=No space left on device

Angus Jordan wrote: Hi Tom, Could you give us some more details? Perhaps a copy of the bacula-dir.conf file, and maybe the bacula-sd.conf file? To me, it looks like it started spooling (Data Spooling=Yes??) to disk then ran out of space on the spool (usually /var/bacula/working) folder. Ang

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Changing tapes manually

Pedro, Set these: Automatic Mount = yes Always Open = no The tape will mount when needed, and after your backups are complete it will automatically "release" the tape for you. Assuming that the tape is no longer in use when you try to eject it it should let you take it out without typing the "r

Re: [Bacula-users] RR=No space left on device

Hi Tom, Could you give us some more details? Perhaps a copy of the bacula-dir.conf file, and maybe the bacula-sd.conf file? To me, it looks like it started spooling (Data Spooling=Yes??) to disk then ran out of space on the spool (usually /var/bacula/working) folder. More details will clear

Re: [Bacula-users] RR=No space left on device

No one has any ideas out there regarding this issue? Tom Morgan wrote: Can anyone give me heads or tails on this? I have tried to do some of the things I saw on previuos threads but I am not able to get this to back up this particular dir. I have 3 dirs I am backing up; 2 on c:/ 1 on d:/ everyth

[Bacula-users] Problem with variable expansion

Hello everyone, I'm having trouble trying to get the variable expansion working right in my ClientRunBeforeJob line. Here is what the line is right now for my job: Client Run Before Job = "su - mercuryd -c \"/u01/mercuryd/backupdb.sh '%t' '%l'\"" I want my backup script to do different thing

[Bacula-users] Re: Win32 GZIP error

Ahh. That makes perfect sense. Thanks! --Brennon Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hello, > > Brennon Church wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> Is there a compatibility issue with gzip data between Windows and Linux >> clients? I recently tried to restore a file from a backup of a Windows >> box to a Linux bo

[Bacula-users] Re: Changing tapes manually

Hi, one more thing. I run 3 jobs per day per tape. sorryOn 4/13/05, Pedro Lobo S. da Rocha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i have Always open = yes and Automatic mount = yesOn 4/13/05, Pedro Lobo S. da Rocha < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I backup some fileset every day(mon-fri) in different tapes, o

Re: [Bacula-users] Win32 GZIP error

Hello, Brennon Church wrote: Hello all, Is there a compatibility issue with gzip data between Windows and Linux clients? I recently tried to restore a file from a backup of a Windows box to a Linux box, and got the following error: From the manual, section FileSet configuration: portable=yes|no

[Bacula-users] Win32 GZIP error

Hello all, Is there a compatibility issue with gzip data between Windows and Linux clients? I recently tried to restore a file from a backup of a Windows box to a Linux box, and got the following error: Error: Win32 GZIP data stream not supported on this Client. Restoring the same file to anoth

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-sd starts a thread in Disk Wait

Jeff McCune wrote: I'm having a problem diagnosing my bacula-sd process which starts with one of four threads in a disk wait state. The director isn't able to contact the storage daemon at all, though I can telnet to 9103. dir and sd are running on the same host, RHEL4. Running bacula-1.36.2-4

[Bacula-users] Re: Changing tapes manually

i have Always open = yes and Automatic mount = yesOn 4/13/05, Pedro Lobo S. da Rocha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I backup some fileset every day(mon-fri) in different tapes, one for each day. My tape drive is an Quantum DLT VS80, so i have to change the tapes manually. Now it works like this(e

[Bacula-users] Changing tapes manually

Hi, I backup some fileset every day(mon-fri) in different tapes, one for each day. My tape drive is an Quantum DLT VS80, so i have to change the tapes manually. Now it works like this(everyday): In the bconsole i type "release", go to the tape drive and eject the tape manually. Then i put the tap

[Bacula-users] bacula-sd starts a thread in Disk Wait

I'm having a problem diagnosing my bacula-sd process which starts with one of four threads in a disk wait state. The director isn't able to contact the storage daemon at all, though I can telnet to 9103. dir and sd are running on the same host, RHEL4. Running bacula-1.36.2-4 compiled from the

RE: [Bacula-users] Initiating a backup from a windows client

Just a quick FYI: Kern has implemented in version 1.37.x a Python interface. For the old versions of Bacula, Perl seems the way to go. I'm not a Perl programmer, but I would like to see some Perl scripts for initiating and restoring a backup from a web interface. Cheers, Rick > -Original M

Re: [Bacula-users] Initiating a backup from a windows client

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Graham Purcocks (gp) writes: gp> If perl is no use to you then, bin this. However, using shell will gp> be more difficult IMHO. I think perl is probably the correct tool, it's horrible but available more or less everywhere. A perl module which provided access to al

Re: [Bacula-users] Job waiting, cannot find appendable volumes -- after months of running fine

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:10:44 -0400, David Clymer wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 12:38 +0200, Andreas Ntaflos wrote: > > > > Why would Bacula suddenly be unable to find appendable volumes when it > > has been running without intervention for this long? And more > > importantly: what would I nee

[Bacula-users] Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Problem with *ACL and restore]

Hello, There were a few typos in the source creating bugs until recently. I don't remember if it was fixed in 1.36.2 or 1.36.3. To get help on making console ACLs work, you will need to ask the bacula-users list. On Tuesday 12 April 2005 18:49, Dmitry Sivachenko wrote: > Hello! > > Sorry for

Re: [Bacula-users] Is Bacula able to do disc dump?

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Jaroslav Kucera wrote: Thanks Ian, No worries. :) there's written that partition must be readonly mounted or unmounted. Do you have any experience with partition which is mounted in rw mode? I have no expericence with this myself. :) Backup will be run during late night hours a

Re: [Bacula-users] Is Bacula able to do disc dump?

Thanks Ian, there's written that partition must be readonly mounted or unmounted. Do you have any experience with partition which is mounted in rw mode? Backup will be run during late night hours and there won't be any active user. I know ufsdump can live with this(however it's not recomended). Wi

[Bacula-users] Error while trying to get ACL

Hi, I just installed the bacula 1.36.2 on one of our servers, which is connecting to a director and storage deamon both running 1.34.6. When trying to run a backup I'm getting the following message about bacula not being able to get the ACLs of (it seems) every file on the disc: bender-dir: C

Re: [Bacula-users] Job waiting, cannot find appendable volumes -- after months of running fine

On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 12:38 +0200, Andreas Ntaflos wrote: > Hello list, > > hopyfully someone can tell me why І got the following "intervention > needed" message by Bacula on Sunday: > > backupserver-sd: Job Fileserver-RD.2005-04-03_01.05.00 waiting. Cannot > find any appendable volumes. > Ple

RE: [Bacula-users] Initiating a backup from a windows client

I have some perl code which I may offer a little here. This is for 1.32 bacula so some of the restore fudges may now be addressed in the newer version., i.e storage= probably now works. We do what you ask for laptop users who come into the office occationally. I have a script which pings them and

Re: [Bacula-users] Initiating a backup from a windows client

Over here, we had someone program a web interface to view daily reports of what was backed up. It's nothing great but it's a starting point. Anyhow, I just started up a project on sourceforge and I'm waiting for approval. So in a couple of days we should all be able to view and download the cod

[Bacula-users] bcopy to remote storage daemon

Is there any way to have bcopy (or a storage daemon) write to a remote storage daemon? I would like to bcopy specific backups to an offsite machine for longer term storage. I suppose I could bcopy jobs to a local volume, then scp the volume to the remote host or some such thing, but would like to

Re: [Bacula-users] Volume Use Duration

On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 11:59 +0200, Alexander Bergolth wrote: > Hi! > > The manual says that the Pool directive "Volume Use Duration" is only > checked at the end of a job that writes to a volume. > Is there a way to manually trigger this check? (E.g. to mark all > "Appendable" daily volumes as U

Re: [Bacula-users] Same tapes in different pools

thats what i also need and dont know how to achieve. some clients all of them with different schedules, some of the schedules need more than one pool in cause of the directive "FullPool=Full" where a full has the retention time of 1 month and a differential a retention time of only 1 week. all j

Re: [Bacula-users] Initiating a backup from a windows client

Here is the script I use to kick of backups of not-always-there machines. It's a little hacky, but does the job for me. Some assumptions: The client foo is the bacula file demon foo-fd You want to run Differential backups of foo every day it is actually available to be backed up.

[Bacula-users] DVD-R backups...

Hi all, I am setting up a server that will soon be moved into a data centre, and I won't have easy access to it to do regular backups. My intention is to download backups from that server to a local machine and burn the backups to DVD-R. I was looking into Bacula and various other backup soluti

RE: [Bacula-users] MySQL Database

On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 09:24 -0500, Quintin Giesbrecht wrote: > In Reply to: Phil Brutsche > > SNIP > > > If my bacula server goes down, can I rebuild it, reinstall bacula, > > restore my /var/lib/mysql/bacula directory, and everything will work > > as it should? > >

RE: [Bacula-users] Initiating a backup from a windows client

I say your shell stuff is worth working on. I would like to be able to initiate this from a webpage on the Linux server from a Windows client. I would also like to be able to browse backed-up files from a webpage on the Linux host (files are stored on disk - ie not tape) then select a job to rest

Re: [Bacula-users] Schedule question

Hello Michael Riexinger wrote: ... thanks for your quick answer. In the second pool (the one with the differentials), does the first differential backup automatically detect the pool with the fullbackups or does it do a full backup in its own pool? That wouldn't be what I want, because I want to sa

Re: [Bacula-users] Is Bacula able to do disc dump?

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Jaroslav Kucera wrote: Hi all, i[snip backup of raw partitons] Is this solution possible? Have you ever tried it? This might be some use:- http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/FileSet_Resource.html#SECTION000192000 Cheers, Ian ---

[Bacula-users] Bacula Tutorial

Hi folks, I'll be running a tutorial at BSDCan 2005 . Details at http://www.bsdcan.org/2005/tutorials.php Cost is cheap. CAD$55 for a three hour session. You do not have to register for the main conference to attend the tutorial. -- Dan Langille : http://www.

Re: [Bacula-users] Tips on backing up a Network Appliance

Andy Moran wrote: Hello, At the risk of riducule, I was wondering if anyone had any experience backing up a netapp with bacula.Commercial backup like legatos talk to the netapp directly using some netapp protocol, but with the lack of a method of doing this, it seems the only solution is to mou

Re: [Bacula-users] Don't Delete My Config Files!

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Michael 'buk' Scherer wrote: Bacula names all config-files foo.conf.sample, as every other port. So what gets deleted is the ,sample-file, not the .conf-file you created afterwards. [snip freebsd port system not removing configs] However, the 'uninstall' target in the makefil

Re: [Bacula-users] Don't Delete My Config Files!

Hey Richard. I still can't confirm that "bug" using portupgrade. My configfiles stay were they are and aren't touched. make uninstall isn't executed too, as you might know the portdb keeps a file-list for every package and uses that during uninstall. HINT: ---> Backing up the old version <--- --->

Re: [Bacula-users] Error while trying to get ACL

Hello, Andreas Thienemann wrote: Hi, I just installed the bacula 1.36.2 on one of our servers, which is connecting to a director and storage deamon both running 1.34.6. When trying to run a backup I'm getting the following message about bacula not being able to get the ACLs of (it seems) every f

[Bacula-users] Job waiting, cannot find appendable volumes -- after months of running fine

Hello list, hopyfully someone can tell me why Ð got the following "intervention needed" message by Bacula on Sunday: backupserver-sd: Job Fileserver-RD.2005-04-03_01.05.00 waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes. Please use the "label" command to create a new Volume for: Storage:

[Bacula-users] Renaming volumes without loosing data

Hi! Is there a way to relabel a tape without loosing the data stored on it and without affecting the associated catalog data? Is it possible to just update the corresponding Media.VolumeName in the database and relabel the tape with "btape label"? Cheers, --leo -- --

[Bacula-users] Volume Use Duration

Hi! The manual says that the Pool directive "Volume Use Duration" is only checked at the end of a job that writes to a volume. Is there a way to manually trigger this check? (E.g. to mark all "Appendable" daily volumes as Used when doing a full backup?) I could set the Volume Use Duration so tha

[Bacula-users] Concatenate Jobs

Hi! I'd like to run two Jobs, a "normal" backup-job that runs full or differential, followed by a Catalog-Backup that should always be a full backup. I've implemented it using two seperate consecutive schedules with different priorities now, following the example in the manual. However, this c

Re: [Bacula-users] Don't Delete My Config Files!

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Scherer (ms) writes: ms> I still can't confirm that "bug" using portupgrade. ms> My configfiles stay were they are and aren't touched. Must be a hold over then. My bacula was quite old (1.32c). Perhaps there was a problem with the port back then which got f

[Bacula-users] Scheduled job preview

Hi! In order to minimize operator interaction, I'd like to make bacula send an email containing the next n scheduled jobs, their levels and maybe a list of volumes that could be used for each job. The console command "status dir" only shows jobs scheduled for the next 24 hours. However, I don't

[Bacula-users] Is Bacula able to do disc dump?

Hi all, I have a Solaris system, which I'd like to backup. I can use utilities 'ufsdump' or 'dd' to do that, and then let Bacula save these images. But it's not the nicest way to do that. Rather than let Bacula backup the system file by file, I'd prefer Bacula to read whole partition like diskdump

Re: [Bacula-users] Don't Delete My Config Files!

> Bacula names all config-files foo.conf.sample, as every other port. > So what gets deleted is the ,sample-file, not the .conf-file you created > afterwards. No, the bacula-dir.conf has definitely dissapeared, and it was definitely there this morning when I got the error which prompted me to upg

Re: [Bacula-users] Don't Delete My Config Files!

Bacula names all config-files foo.conf.sample, as every other port. So what gets deleted is the ,sample-file, not the .conf-file you created afterwards. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/etc>ll bacula-* -rw-r- 1 root wheel 6883 Apr 13 10:15 bacula-dir.conf -rw-r- 1 root wheel 6883 Mar 31

[Bacula-users] Don't Delete My Config Files!

I just upgraded my bacula instalation onf FreeBSD. This deleted my config files. So far as I can tell, this is because bacula's make uninstall unconditionally deletes them. I can't begin to express just how stupid and evil this behaviour is in a public mailing list. Now I have to manually co