[Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help

2006-09-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, After having been totally frustrated chasing this kernel crash for the last few weeks (I really could not believe that it was not a Bacula bug), I have finally found a work around and at the same time, proven that it is a SuSE problem. Last night, I loaded the Fedora FC4 kernel from

[Bacula-users] Moving Files and updating catalog

2006-09-29 Thread Benjamin Zeller
Dear listusers, we are currently backing up 5 servers as a pilot before final bacula-installation with storage unit and bg server ;-) We configured expiration and pruning to suit our needs and everything's fine. What we are experiencing is, that we need to insert another harddrive to

Re: [Bacula-users] problem after upgrade from 1.38.9 to 1.38.11

2006-09-29 Thread jeabacula
Hi guys, thanks your help, I've been added SD_USER=bacula SD_GROUP=tape in bacula-ctl-sd and everything it's fine Jea - Original Message - From: Martin Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, September

Re: [Bacula-users] Moving Files and updating catalog

2006-09-29 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 9/29/2006 11:19 AM, Benjamin Zeller wrote: Dear listusers, we are currently backing up 5 servers as a pilot before final bacula-installation with storage unit and bg server ;-) We configured expiration and pruning to suit our needs and everything's fine. What we are

[Bacula-users] what's the best way to do backup for a logical volume (LVM)

2006-09-29 Thread jeabacula
Hi gentlemen, I tried before to do things that could not be the best way to backup my logical volume. The problem: I have many logical volumes from machines that could not be sttoped, then I had two idea The alternatives: 1- to do a backup for whole RAW partition making a snapshot (lvcreate

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help

2006-09-29 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: After having been totally frustrated chasing this kernel crash for the last few weeks (I really could not believe that it was not a Bacula bug), I have finally found a work around and at the same time, proven that it is a SuSE problem. One of the

[Bacula-users] Rif: what's the best way to do backup for a logical volume (LVM)

2006-09-29 Thread Ferdinando Pasqualetti
I use your point 2, and it works very well. A Client Run Before Job stops the application, makes the snapshot, restarts the application and mounts it on a different mount point. A Client Run After Job unmounts the snapshot and removes it. Obviously the File section specifies the snapshot mount

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help

2006-09-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 29 September 2006 12:31, Alan Brown wrote: On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: After having been totally frustrated chasing this kernel crash for the last few weeks (I really could not believe that it was not a Bacula bug), I have finally found a work around and at the

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help

2006-09-29 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: One of the reason we dumped SLES on our production machines in favour of RHEL was that SUSE was consistently shipping with mismatching dynamic and static library versions - and would not fix it even when notified. SuSE may be great for home systems

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help

2006-09-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 29 September 2006 13:43, Alan Brown wrote: On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: One of the reason we dumped SLES on our production machines in favour of RHEL was that SUSE was consistently shipping with mismatching dynamic and static library versions - and would not fix it

Re: [Bacula-users] what's the best way to do backup for a logical volume (LVM)

2006-09-29 Thread jeabacula
Hi, I'm trying as you told me. The bacula it's backing up whole logical volume with the config: Client { Name = wrack-fd Address = wrack.mydomain.com Catalog = Catalogo Password = seknmit5fwllkjh3g78klwuethñkw4nk645tig } Job { Name = wrack Client = wrack-fd FileSet = RawPartition

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help

2006-09-29 Thread Peter L. Buschman
I'll chime in with my endorsement of CentOS as well. I use it specifically for compatibility testing as a stand-in for RHEL as well as for commercial apps that only officially support RedHat and have never had a problem. The CentOS network also provides very timely security updates at no

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help

2006-09-29 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: Centos is _very_ stable. RHEL can be licensed quite cheaply if you don't buy the support package (about US$10/machine) The last time I looked (some time ago), it was over $200/machine. That is too much for me. For a company or someone serious about

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help

2006-09-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 29 September 2006 14:39, Alan Brown wrote: On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: Centos is _very_ stable. RHEL can be licensed quite cheaply if you don't buy the support package (about US$10/machine) The last time I looked (some time ago), it was over $200/machine. That is

[Bacula-users] Email bounces

2006-09-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Someone on this list appears to be bouncing email back causing it to get delivered several times to the bacula-devel list. This seems to happen only for email sent to both bacula-users and bacula-devel at the same time. If you have recently subscribed or changed your email setup please

Re: [Bacula-users] Moving Files and updating catalog

2006-09-29 Thread Benjamin Zeller
On Friday 29 September 2006 12:02, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, Hi Arno, On 9/29/2006 11:19 AM, Benjamin Zeller wrote: Dear listusers, we are currently backing up 5 servers as a pilot before final bacula-installation with storage unit and bg server ;-) We configured expiration and

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help

2006-09-29 Thread Mike Reinehr
I'm catching up with this thread with interest after just coming into work this morning. Kern, my sympathy. I can imagine how frustrated you are, but it just goes to show how good a programmer you are, that it wasn't Bacula after all! After reading the merits weaknesses of RHEL, SUSE,

[Bacula-users] Job not found??

2006-09-29 Thread Jaime Ventura
Hello. Last night , one of my backup jobs started, but for some reason a problem occour. Here is part of the status dir command: Running Jobs: JobId Level Name Status == 1304 Full

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help

2006-09-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 29 September 2006 16:53, Mike Reinehr wrote: I'm catching up with this thread with interest after just coming into work this morning. Kern, my sympathy. I can imagine how frustrated you are, but it just goes to show how good a programmer you are, that it wasn't Bacula after all!

[Bacula-users] about manual and rejected volumes

2006-09-29 Thread m listus
hi list, 1st there's a recurrent bug in the manual, you can't use latex commands (\bf) inside a verbatim section. i think there's an alternative section type where you can do that. that gives lines like these: === (in the Console program) *{\bf restore} First you select one or more JobIds

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help

2006-09-29 Thread C M Reinehr
Kern, On Friday 29 September 2006 10:28, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Friday 29 September 2006 16:53, Mike Reinehr wrote: I'm catching up with this thread with interest after just coming into work this morning. Kern, my sympathy. I can imagine how frustrated you are, but it just goes to

Re: [Bacula-users] about manual and rejected volumes

2006-09-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 29 September 2006 18:43, m listus wrote: hi list, 1st there's a recurrent bug in the manual, you can't use latex commands (\bf) inside a verbatim section. i think there's an alternative section type where you can do that. There should not be any {\bf ...} inside a verbatim. If

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help

2006-09-29 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Les Mikesell wrote: CentOS has some additions to the stock RH version as well, like an optional kernel with firewire support and the reiserfs and xfs filesystems. It uses yum for updates and they generally stay within a few days of RH update releases. This is getting

Re: [Bacula-users] about manual and rejected volumes

2006-09-29 Thread m listus
If you point me to the exact file where there are problems (the first occurrence), I will be happy to fix it. here's the diff -Naur for docs/manual/tips.tex taken from your CVS (less than 1h ago). i removed all {\bf inside verbatim sections, and corrected 1 typo NFS,NSF. if i have time, i

[Bacula-users] Console messages and ACLs

2006-09-29 Thread Michael Brennen
I just logged into Bacula from a client machine that has tighly restricted access. It can only access its own pools, jobs, etc. When I logged in with wx-console I was surprised by a sudden flood of queued console messages for all jobs from last night. Those messages of course give quite a

Re: [Bacula-users] Console messages and ACLs

2006-09-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 29 September 2006 23:19, Michael Brennen wrote: I just logged into Bacula from a client machine that has tighly restricted access. It can only access its own pools, jobs, etc. When I logged in with wx-console I was surprised by a sudden flood of queued console messages for all

Re: [Bacula-users] Console messages and ACLs

2006-09-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 29 September 2006 23:19, Michael Brennen wrote: I just logged into Bacula from a client machine that has tighly restricted access. It can only access its own pools, jobs, etc. When I logged in with wx-console I was surprised by a sudden flood of queued console messages for all

Re: [Bacula-users] Console messages and ACLs

2006-09-29 Thread Michael Brennen
On Friday 29 September 2006 04:41 pm, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Friday 29 September 2006 23:19, Michael Brennen wrote: Offhand I don't see a good way in the Console resource to restrict message access. Is the best option for the moment simply to disable console message support and depend on

[Bacula-users] CVS multiple drives (was Console messages and ACLs)

2006-09-29 Thread Michael Brennen
On Friday 29 September 2006 04:36 pm, Kern Sibbald wrote: By the way, the current CVS has ACLs covering all the various restore options. I noted today on current cvs that the last 20 jobs list in the wx console now gives a message about sql access denied or something like that. Thanks, that

Re: [Bacula-users] CVS multiple drives (was Console messages and ACLs)

2006-09-29 Thread m listus
hi michael, You mentioned a few days ago that I might need to supply some sort of regression script test to demonstrate that. I don't know what such a regression script would look like or where to find examples. If you can point me to a section in the docs I will be glad to supply

Re: [Bacula-users] CVS multiple drives (was Console messages and ACLs)

2006-09-29 Thread Michael Brennen
On Friday 29 September 2006 17:39, m listus wrote: You mentioned a few days ago that I might need to supply some sort of regression script test to demonstrate that. I don't know what such a regression script would look like or where to find examples. If you can point me to a

[Bacula-users] syslog and btape

2006-09-29 Thread m listus
hi, i'm using 1.36.2 on sarge. i get this kernel message on dmesg on a per job basis i think: st0: MTSETDRVBUFFER only allowed for root. i read the Syslog Errors section in the tape testing chapter, but it's too vague: . In general, the message can be ignored providing you are sure that your OS