Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs when using disk-based backups, automatially spreading jobs

2005-11-01 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 02:12, Anders Henke wrote: On Oct 29 2005, Anders Henke wrote: I can circumvent Bacula's current behaviour by enabling Data Spooling, however, this also adds up 100% of IO load to the backup server, as each client is streamed to a temporary file and afterwards

[Bacula-users] Recycling problems

2005-11-01 Thread Matthew Butt
I'm using Bacula to backup files to USB hard drives. Every Monday morning I manually run a full backup to a large hard drive, then every evening Bacula runs incremental backups to another drive. At the moment I manually swap the two drives so there's only one Storage device that Bacula sees (I

Re: [Bacula-users] mysqldump using fifo

2005-11-01 Thread Attila Fülöp
Kern Sibbald wrote: Yes, this is a good point. In fact, it might even be worth while to try: mysqldump --user=$user --password=$password $database $fifo 2/dev/null /dev/null Another possible problem is that perhaps Bacula waits for the script to finish and in doing so also waits for all

[Bacula-users] backslash in windows fileset - restore problems

2005-11-01 Thread James Mikusi
once again i've managed to force myself to learn the hardway... server: Version: 1.36.3 (22 April 2005) redhat 9.0 client: Version 1.36 Win NT 1381 in my FileSet config i mistakenly put C:\ instead of C:/. as such- the backups have been carried out successfully (as far as i can

Re: [Bacula-users] mail notifications

2005-11-01 Thread Viktorija Almazova
Thanks, yes this looks very easy to configure. But if one of my user will get something like this: 29-Oct 00:16 vessel-dir: Start Backup JobId 3163, Job=revenger.2005-10-28_21.06.18 29-Oct 00:17 vessel-dir: revenger.2005-10-28_21.06.18 Fatal error: bnet.c:775 Unable to connect to File daemon

Re: [Bacula-users] Very slow backups

2005-11-01 Thread Tracy R Reed
Alan Brown wrote: What happens if you just do block copies to the USB disk? We've found here that USB2 is quite slow for filestorage on linux systems but I haven't had time to investigate why. You mean like if I just cp -a my homedir to the USB disk? That is exactly what I did when I first

Re: [Bacula-users] Very slow backups

2005-11-01 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Tracy R Reed wrote: New datapoint: I am now backing up to my recently acquired USB2 hard drive using file storage and the backup speeds are very slow just like with DVD. So it can't be disk bandwidth or DVD issues. Still have 95% idle cpu time during backup. What happens

[Bacula-users] Retention problem

2005-11-01 Thread Julien Cigar
Hello, I used Bacula at work with backup on tapes, and it works perfectly. Now I'd like to install it at home for personal backups (on disk). I do a weekly full backup each sunday 6am and a daily incremental backup each day at 9pm. It's for personal use so I only want a full backup volume and

[Bacula-users] bacula-1.37.40 on Autochanger with multiple drives

2005-11-01 Thread Andrew J. Millar
Hi there I have bacula-1.37.40 running on an Adic Scalar100 (72 slot autochanger, 12 of which are mailbox slots) with two tape drives, and I seem to only be able to use one of the drives at a time - am I right in thinking I should be able to run two jobs simultaneously, one on each drive,

[Bacula-users] RE: bacula-1.37.40 on Autochanger with multiple drives

2005-11-01 Thread Andrew J. Millar
Hi again Doh! I've just read the announcement about a new stable version. Don't worry about replying to this mail, let me upgrade first and see if I still have problems. Sorry to have wasted your time. Regards Andrew -Original Message- From: Andrew J. Millar Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [Bacula-users] RE: bacula-1.37.40 on Autochanger with multiple drives

2005-11-01 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 17:24, Andrew J. Millar wrote: Hi again Doh! I've just read the announcement about a new stable version. Don't worry about replying to this mail, let me upgrade first and see if I still have problems. Sorry to have wasted your time. It is a good idea to upgrade.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula version 1.38.0 released

2005-11-01 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 20:40 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: - There is a new database format that is not compatible with previous databases. You must upgrade if converting from 1.36.x. No changes from version 1.37.30. What new database version is this? I have version 8 right now, and in

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup across filesystems

2005-11-01 Thread John Kodis
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 02:36:08PM -0500, Pete J. O'Hara wrote: Is there a configuration option where everything under / would be backed up regardless of not being in the / filesystem? Yup. In your fileset resource, use something like this: fileset { name = standard-set

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup across filesystems

2005-11-01 Thread Angus Jordan
Hi Pete,I'm a bacula newbie. I am running bacula-1.38.0 and looked through themanual and did some googling without an answer. I tried doing a backupof a linux server of the root directory /. At the end of the bacup themessages in bconsole reported: *messages01-Nov 14:22 bacula-dir: Start Backup

Re: [Bacula-users] Very slow backups

2005-11-01 Thread Karl Cunningham
Tracy R Reed wrote: Ok, so over the course of the last few days I think I have got just about everything figured out. I have a full backup of all three of my systems safely on DVD, I can restore, it does incrementals automatically every night, I am happy. Except for one thing: The backups are

[Bacula-users] Upgrading the database for version 1.38.0

2005-11-01 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Several users have remarked that there are not explicit instructions on how to upgrade the database from version 8 (1.36.x) to version 9 (1.38.0). To do so, please use the standard script: ./update_bacula_tables which will be installed in your scripts directory (default

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup across filesystems

2005-11-01 Thread Karl Cunningham
Pete J. O'Hara wrote: Hi, I'm a bacula newbie. I am running bacula-1.38.0 and looked through the manual and did some googling without an answer. I tried doing a backup of a linux server of the root directory /. At the end of the bacup the messages in bconsole reported: *messages 01-Nov 14:22

[Bacula-users] DLT V4 w/ bacula

2005-11-01 Thread Stephan Holl
Dear bacula-users, We are planning to buy a new backup-hardware and are thinking of an internal Quantum DLT V4 (160 /320 GB capacity) unit. Are there any positive responses about using this piece of hardware with bacula? Thanks for any comments on this. Best Stephan -- Stephan Holl

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup across filesystems

2005-11-01 Thread Pete J. O'Hara
Everyone, Thanks very much for the input. I really appreciate everyone's timely response. Angus, this worked great! It's all I needed. THANKS, Pete Hi Pete, I'm a bacula newbie. I am running bacula-1.38.0 and looked through the manual and did some googling without an answer. I tried

Re: [Bacula-users] Very slow backups

2005-11-01 Thread Karl Cunningham
Tracy R Reed wrote: Karl Cunningham wrote: Tracy -- I noticed in the release notes for 1.38.0 the following: - Note, with gcc (GCC) 4.0.1 20050727 (Red Hat 4.0.1-5) on an AMD64 CPU running 64 bit CentOS4, there is a compiler bug that generates bad code that causes Bacula to segment

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-fd service doesn't respond

2005-11-01 Thread Shawn Wilson
Ok, after much beating my head against the wall, I figured this thing out ** UNDOCUMENTED RULE NUMBER 1 NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER INSTALL THE WIN32 CLIENT TO THE F: DRIVE! IT DOES NOT WORK * ONLY INSTALL TO THE C: DRIVE!!! * Kern Sibbald

Re: [Bacula-users] DLT V4 w/ bacula

2005-11-01 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 01.11.2005 21:57, Stephan Holl wrote: Dear bacula-users, We are planning to buy a new backup-hardware and are thinking of an internal Quantum DLT V4 (160 /320 GB capacity) unit. Are there any positive responses about using this piece of hardware with bacula? Nice to see that you

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-fd service doesn't respond

2005-11-01 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 22:17, Shawn Wilson wrote: Ok, after much beating my head against the wall, I figured this thing out ** UNDOCUMENTED RULE NUMBER 1 NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER INSTALL THE WIN32 CLIENT TO THE F: DRIVE! IT DOES NOT WORK Due to