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

2005-10-14 Thread Florian Schnabel
Lyle Vogtmann wrote: Hello fellow Bacula users! I've only been lurking on this list for a little while, please excuse me if this topic has been covered previously. I've got what I would consider a large network of machines each hosting many virtual private servers with Virtuozzo.

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

2005-10-14 Thread Felix Schwarz
Hallo Thorsten, 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 webinterface to the bacula archives. have a look at:

[Bacula-users] Bare Metal Recovery Set-Up questions

2005-10-14 Thread Daniel Holtkamp
Hi ! I`m testing out baculas baremetal recovery capabilities. Now i read the documentation and now i`m a little frightened by what i just read ... I`m getting the impression that i have to compile bacula on the system i want to restore which is quite a problem for us. We have 4

Re: [Bacula-users] write error

2005-10-14 Thread Russell Howe
Josh Fisher wrote: I have occasional problems with Sony AIT drives on 2940UW controllers. I believe it's the tape drive that gets confused, because when it happens, (it being the drive stops communicating), even a reboot of the server doesn't fix the problem when the drive is left powered on.

Fwd: [Bacula-users] Autochanger: Tapes are sometimes not changed automatically

2005-10-14 Thread Christian Theune
(Forwarding message, as I hit the wrong button earliert)-- Forwarded message --From: Christian Theune [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Oct 10, 2005 9:36 AMSubject: Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger: Tapes are sometimes not changed automaticallyTo: Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi,On 10/8/05,

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger: Tapes are sometimes not changed automatically

2005-10-14 Thread Christian Theune
Hi,On 10/11/05, Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian,you sent this not to the list but to me only. Darn. I fowarded it now. Thanks for pointing this out. On 10.10.2005 09:36, Christian Theune wrote: The hardware is fine. The autochanger itself works. The mtx script also always works.

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger: Tapes are sometimes not changed automatically

2005-10-14 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 14.10.2005 11:22, Christian Theune wrote: Hi, On 10/11/05, *Arno Lehmann* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian, you sent this not to the list but to me only. Darn. I fowarded it now. Thanks for pointing this out. On 10.10.2005 09:36,

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger: Tapes are sometimes not changed automatically

2005-10-14 Thread Christian Theune
On 10/14/05, Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's not good.Especially as it's the director you need to restart - the DIR doesn'ttouch the changer itself. Ok. That was a bit incorrect: I'm on gentoo doing a /etc/init.d/bacula restart so I'm actually restarting the director, the storage

[Bacula-users] write error

2005-10-14 Thread Julien Cigar
Hello, sometimes I have write error messages during my full backup (on tapes) : 12-Oct 18:44 phoenix-sd: BebifFullBackup.2005-10-12_06.00.00 Error: block.c:552 Write error at 15:111 on device /dev/st0. ERR=Input/output error. 12-Oct 18:44 phoenix-sd: BebifFullBackup.2005-10-12_06.00.00 Error:

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring to Windows Client

2005-10-14 Thread George R . Kasica
I can successfully restore to my W2K3 server with bacula just fine, HOWEVER, it uses the restore path I have set in the restore job of /tmp/bacula-restores which is fine if you are restore in Unix, but it ends up as C:\tmp\bacula-restores in Windows...how would I point to say D:\Fedora

[Bacula-users] Hi I'm a Newbie

2005-10-14 Thread Paul Burton
Hello Guys as I'm a newbie here and I hope I'm not going over old rope, but i have just set up bacula for the first time on CentOS release 4.1 The problem i have is that when i attempt a backup nothing actually happens and i get the message : as below *status dir orinoco-dir Version: 1.36.3 (22

Re: [Bacula-users] write error

2005-10-14 Thread Sven Carstens
Am Donnerstag, 13. Oktober 2005 08:50 schrieb Julien Cigar: Hello, sometimes I have write error messages during my full backup (on tapes) : 12-Oct 18:44 phoenix-sd: BebifFullBackup.2005-10-12_06.00.00 Error: block.c:552 Write error at 15:111 on device /dev/st0. ERR=Input/output error.

Re: [Bacula-users] Hi I'm a Newbie

2005-10-14 Thread Florian Schnabel
Paul Burton wrote: Hello Guys as I'm a newbie here and I hope I'm not going over old rope, but i have just set up bacula for the first time on CentOS release 4.1 The problem i have is that when i attempt a backup nothing actually happens and i get the message : as below *status dir orinoco-dir

Re: [Bacula-users] Hi I'm a Newbie

2005-10-14 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 14.10.2005 12:07, Paul Burton wrote: Hello Guys as I'm a newbie here and I hope I'm not going over old rope, but i have just set up bacula for the first time on CentOS release 4.1 The problem i have is that when i attempt a backup nothing actually happens and i get the message : as

[Bacula-users] Re: Hi I'm a Newbie

2005-10-14 Thread Paul Burton
Added Volume to pool, but no luck yet, how can i easily tell if a back up is actually backing up at he moment, my tape drive is on a remote site -- Paul Burton | Systems Administrator | Reading Room T: 020 7432 6016 | E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: 53 Frith St, Soho, London W1D 4SN

[Bacula-users] hey guy's whats this..

2005-10-14 Thread Paul Burton
Does anyone know what this is ??? 4-Oct 13:00 orinoco-dir: ERROR in authenticate.c:187 UA Hello from client:10.10.1.18:36131 is invalid. Len=-720899 -- Paul Burton | Systems Administrator | Reading Room T: 020 7432 6016 | E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: 53 Frith St, Soho, London W1D 4SN

Re: [Bacula-users] hey guy's whats this..

2005-10-14 Thread Florian Schnabel
Paul Burton wrote: Does anyone know what this is ??? 4-Oct 13:00 orinoco-dir: ERROR in authenticate.c:187 UA Hello from client:10.10.1.18:36131 is invalid. Len=-720899 obviously a failed client-auth Florian --- This SF.Net email is

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Hi I'm a Newbie

2005-10-14 Thread Ryan Novosielski
status storage or status client. RTFM. ;) _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - User Support Spec. III |$| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.| IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 On Fri,

Re: [Bacula-users] Backupstrategies with Bacula

2005-10-14 Thread Florian Schnabel
Achim Schmidt [Bacula] wrote: Hi all, I've a question relating backupstrategies and the posibilities to build those with bacula. in general i like to do the following: - all backup's will be written to diskspaces (or lets say storage A) - all data, older than a given time will be moved from

[Bacula-users] Reality Check: Multiple fd's on a machine

2005-10-14 Thread nathan r. hruby
Hi, I have a small HA cluster using shared storage. The shared storage mounting is handled by the cluster software and follows the services that require the shared storage points. Obviously I'd like to back up this shared storage. Since these disks move around, I'd like to not just point

[Bacula-users] Sanity check on Storage and Pools

2005-10-14 Thread Yu Safin
I needed to set up my diskspace for the director to produce the following backup files on disk: /nfs-mounted-point/client-name/[week or mon-sat]/labeled-disk-space where nfs-mounted-point is an NFS directory set up on a separate server from where I run the Bacula director, client-name is the

Re: [Bacula-users] 1.36.3 Director dying/freezing/rebooting

2005-10-14 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Arno Lehmann wrote: but right now I'm thinking that something changed between 1.36.2 and 1.36.3 that keeps me from being able to run more than one job at a time now, or my hardware just can't handle it. Hmm. Well, I know of people who used these versions with multiple

Re: [Bacula-users] write error

2005-10-14 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Phil Stracchino wrote: it occurs randomly, sometimes after 10go, sometimes at the end, ... I think it's going to require more information to isolate it. Have you used the drive with other software and verified that it works properly? While you're looking at the

[Bacula-users] WEB Interface to Bacula

2005-10-14 Thread Yu Safin
is there any WEB Interface to Bacula that would do some or all of what you can do with ./bconsole for restores? Our servers don't have any X but they run Apache. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free

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

2005-10-14 Thread Bart Verwilst
Greetings! I'm trying to setup a Bacula to back up a remote server. I'm going to try and explain my current setup and ultimate goal ;) What i have now: * 1 tapedrive, Dell, with LTO-2 tapes, that works perfectly on my server.* 1 backup server, Ubuntu 5.10* Bacula 1.36.3* 8 LTO-2 tapes

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

2005-10-14 Thread Bart Verwilst
Greetings! I'm trying to setup a Bacula to back up a remote server. I'm going to try and explain my current setup and ultimate goal ;) What i have now: * 1 tapedrive, Dell, with LTO-2 tapes, that works perfectly on my server. * 1 backup server, Ubuntu 5.10 * Bacula 1.36.3 * 8 LTO-2 tapes in

Re: [Bacula-users] Reality Check: Multiple fd's on a machine

2005-10-14 Thread Russell Howe
nathan r. hruby wrote: Yes, but this requires a seperate bacula-fd for each HA service address True, if you have many services then it could get a bit messy, but I don't mind having lots of jobs... it makes it easy for me to see where disk space is being eaten most rapidly, for example. --

Re: [Bacula-users] 1.36.3 Director dying/freezing/rebooting

2005-10-14 Thread Luke Dean
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Alan Brown wrote: On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Arno Lehmann wrote: but right now I'm thinking that something changed between 1.36.2 and 1.36.3 that keeps me from being able to run more than one job at a time now, or my hardware just can't handle it. Hmm. Well, I know of

Re: [Bacula-users] Bare Metal Recovery Set-Up questions

2005-10-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 14 October 2005 10:35, Daniel Holtkamp wrote: Hi ! I`m testing out baculas baremetal recovery capabilities. Now i read the documentation and now i`m a little frightened by what i just read ... I`m getting the impression that i have to compile bacula on the system i want to restore

Re: [Bacula-users] Bare Metal Recovery Set-Up questions

2005-10-14 Thread nathan r. hruby
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: This option is there for these kinds of situations, but since very few people seem to create/use the Bacula rescue disk (I'm sorry for them), I haven't put much time or energy into it. IIRC, I'm the one who asked for the Use the prebuild static-fd

[Bacula-users] Problem ERROR Backing UP

2005-10-14 Thread Michael Reith
Any idea how I fix this: 14-Oct 03:21 archie-dir: gibson.gfed.net.2005-10-14_01.05.02 Fatal error: sql_ge t.c:282 sql_get.c:282 query SELECT VolSessionId,VolSessionTime,PoolId,StartTime, EndTime,JobFiles,JobBytes,JobTDate,Job,JobStatus,Type,Level,ClientId FROM Job WH ERE JobId=4 failed:

Re: [Bacula-users] Bare Metal Recovery Set-Up questions

2005-10-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 14 October 2005 18:56, nathan r. hruby wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Kern Sibbald wrote: This option is there for these kinds of situations, but since very few people seem to create/use the Bacula rescue disk (I'm sorry for them), I haven't put much time or energy into it. IIRC,

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: help about bacula

2005-10-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
Timo Neuvonen wrote: need to. The random passwords generated at install time are just that: randomly generated passwords, and nothing more. However, you can use whatever you want as Bacula passwords. A further question: are passwords set by random only installations made from tarball and

Re: [Bacula-users] hey guy's whats this..

2005-10-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
Paul Burton wrote: Does anyone know what this is ??? 4-Oct 13:00 orinoco-dir: ERROR in authenticate.c:187 UA Hello from client:10.10.1.18:36131 is invalid. Len=-720899 Looks like you're trying to connect from a machine behind one firewall, to a machine with an RFC1918 non-routable address

Re: [Bacula-users] Backupstrategies with Bacula

2005-10-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
Achim Schmidt [Bacula] wrote: Hi all, I've a question relating backupstrategies and the posibilities to build those with bacula. in general i like to do the following: - all backup's will be written to diskspaces (or lets say storage A) - all data, older than a given time will be moved

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem ERROR Backing UP

2005-10-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
Michael Reith wrote: Any idea how I fix this: 14-Oct 03:21 archie-dir: gibson.gfed.net.2005-10-14_01.05.02 Fatal error: sql_ge t.c:282 sql_get.c:282 query SELECT VolSessionId,VolSessionTime,PoolId,StartTime, EndTime,JobFiles,JobBytes,JobTDate,Job,JobStatus,Type,Level,ClientId FROM Job WH

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

2005-10-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
Bart Verwilst wrote: Greetings! I'm trying to setup a Bacula to back up a remote server. I'm going to try and explain my current setup and ultimate goal ;) Now, how do i proceed to automate the tape naming and such? When i created a volume on bconsole with the add command, then tried

Re: [Bacula-users] WEB Interface to Bacula

2005-10-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
Yu Safin wrote: is there any WEB Interface to Bacula that would do some or all of what you can do with ./bconsole for restores? Our servers don't have any X but they run Apache. There is not at this time any Bacula web administration GUI. I believe several people are working on creating one.

Re: [Bacula-users] Backupstrategies with Bacula

2005-10-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 14 October 2005 20:07, Phil Stracchino wrote: Achim Schmidt [Bacula] wrote: Hi all, I've a question relating backupstrategies and the posibilities to build those with bacula. in general i like to do the following: - all backup's will be written to diskspaces (or lets say

[Bacula-users] Pools on Disk

2005-10-14 Thread Yu Safin
I am trying to set up the following scenario for one of my pools: Pool { Name = File Type = Backup Use Volume Once = yes # one file/volume per job Volume Use Duration = 23h # one file/volume per day Recycle = no# go on forever AutoPrune =

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

2005-10-14 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] Fedora

2005-10-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 12 October 2005 15:05, Gordon Larsen wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern Sibbald Sent: October 9, 2005 2:49 PM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Josh Fisher; Gordon Larsen Subject: Re: [Bacula-users]

[Bacula-users] possible mistake on pg 265

2005-10-14 Thread Yu Safin
I am looking at the Guide written by kern on 21-April-2005 for Bacula v 1.36.3. On page 264, an example on Restricting the Number of Volumes and Recycling I see the following: Schedule { Name = FourPerHour Run = Level=Full Pool=Recycle Storage=File at 0:05 ... } But the Storage does not have

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Combined Tape Disk Storage Solution

2005-10-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 17:59, David Boyes wrote: Hmm. Does the second job transfer the data from the FD again? If so, then that doesn't (IMHO) quite do what I want to do here. I really want to transfer the data only once (the only guarantee we have of getting the same data

Re: [Bacula-users] possible mistake on pg 265

2005-10-14 Thread Kern Sibbald
Yes, thanks. It is an error. I've corrected it in the 1.37 manual. On Friday 14 October 2005 20:51, Yu Safin wrote: I am looking at the Guide written by kern on 21-April-2005 for Bacula v 1.36.3. On page 264, an example on Restricting the Number of Volumes and Recycling I see the following:

[Bacula-users] %l in CLient Run Before Job seems broken (or is it just me that's broken) ?

2005-10-14 Thread nathan r. hruby
Hi, I'd like to use the %l substitution in a Client Run Before Job script. We're still mainly 1.36.0 for various reasons, mainly because people keep claiming we're going to use NetBackup so we should just move to that (yet no one ever seems to want to approve the PO for the licenses :). I

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

2005-10-14 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 14.10.2005 15:34, Bart Verwilst wrote: Greetings! I'm trying to setup a Bacula to back up a remote server. I'm going to try and explain my current setup and ultimate goal ;) What i have now: * 1 tapedrive, Dell, with LTO-2 tapes, that works perfectly on my server. * 1 backup

Re: [Bacula-users] %l in CLient Run Before Job seems broken (or is it just me that's broken) ?

2005-10-14 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 14.10.2005 21:27, nathan r. hruby wrote: ... Also a tangent question: I'm trying to use Client Run Before Job to create a file which will be read by the Fileset to get the file of files it should backup. Does bacula read the FileSet before running the Client Run Before Job? This I

Re: [Bacula-users] %l in CLient Run Before Job seems broken (or is it just me that's broken) ?

2005-10-14 Thread nathan r. hruby
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, On 14.10.2005 21:27, nathan r. hruby wrote: ... Also a tangent question: I'm trying to use Client Run Before Job to create a file which will be read by the Fileset to get the file of files it should backup. Does bacula read the FileSet before

[Bacula-users] Oracle backups using RMAN

2005-10-14 Thread Yu Safin
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? --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture

Re: [Bacula-users] %l in CLient Run Before Job seems broken (or is it just me that's broken) ?

2005-10-14 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 14.10.2005 22:21, nathan r. hruby wrote: ... So I created a shell script that does both: Print the file list to stdout, and create the mail server data files. Works, but its a little asymmetric: I have a script to create the file list, and a client run after job script to delete

[Bacula-users] does Bacula support native Oracle backups?

2005-10-14 Thread Yu Safin
I am thinking that we RMAN we can accomplish the same as Net Backup does native. For example: # crontab connect target rman/YourPasswd; connect catalog rman/YourPasswd; run { allocate channel ch1 type disk; sql alter system archive log current; copy current controlfile to

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

2005-10-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
Bart Verwilst wrote: 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

Re: [Bacula-users] does Bacula support native Oracle backups?

2005-10-14 Thread Brian McDonald
On Friday 14 October 2005 17:24, Yu Safin wrote: I am thinking that we RMAN we can accomplish the same as Net Backup does native. For example: # crontab connect target rman/YourPasswd; connect catalog rman/YourPasswd; run { allocate channel ch1 type disk; sql alter system

[Bacula-users] Simple Bacula feature request

2005-10-14 Thread Gregory Brauer
It would be useful if the timestamp when a volume was labeled was stored in the volume table and shown with a list volumes. This would be helpful for planning when to replace tapes in a loader. Thanks. Greg Brauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[Bacula-users] Windows 2000 Bare Metal recovery

2005-10-14 Thread Brian McDonald
Several folks asked for information about my efforts to use BartPE, Bacula, and persistence to get bare metal recovery working on Windows 2000. I wrote it all up (finally) - here it is: http://www.lustygrapes.net/brian/win2k_bare_metal_recovery.html Comments and further input are all welcome!