[Bacula-users] Autochanger, double magazines, offsite backup, advice needed.

2006-11-27 Thread Brice Figureau
Hi, I'm an happy user of Bacula since 1.36 on a really small setup (only disk based atm). In the next couple of weeks I have to setup a bigger installation of bacula to backup a large amount of data on several servers. For this purpose I purchased an autochanger with two magazines, holding 8

[Bacula-users] Error writing the first tape block after changing tape

2006-11-27 Thread Ferdinando Pasqualetti
Hello everybody, I am experiencing a frequent error (almost stable, but sometimes it worked). Bacula is MySQL version 1.38.11-3 on a RedHat ES 4.04 running on an HP Proliant Server. The tape is an HP MSL6000 LTO-3 device with autochanger and 2 drives. When an EOT is reached the tape is

[Bacula-users] 2 useful queries for those with changers.

2006-11-27 Thread Alan Brown
These should be useful for Bacula users with changers and may be useful for those who don't have them. in /etc/bacula/query: # 18 :List Volumes Bacula thinks should be removed from changer SELECT Storage.Name AS Location,Slot,VolumeName,VolStatus, VolBytes/(1024*1024*1024) AS

Re: [Bacula-users] Travan tape - very slow

2006-11-27 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, John Drescher wrote: I did read that and yes I understand it says don't use 512 byte blocks, but that is the only way that I've managed to get it to work. Did you use a blank tape when you tested bacula for the first time? More importantly, was btape used? IIRC this

Re: [Bacula-users] ERR=Operation timed out

2006-11-27 Thread Marcus Hallberg
Hi! I had the exact same problem... In my case it was a backup over the internet and the server I was backing up was behind a combined raouter/adslmodem and it was this router that for some reason dropped the packets after a certain time (I think mine was 2 hours 10 minutes and 20 seconds).

Re: [Bacula-users] Travan tape - very slow

2006-11-27 Thread Alan Brown
On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Peter Crighton wrote: What are the best alternative type of drive (it's for a home office so only requires a modest capability) Define modest With many home computers now holding up to 1Tb of local disk, that's an awful lot of DATs to be stuffing into the drive for one

Re: [Bacula-users] The number of files mismatch!

2006-11-27 Thread Alan Brown
On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Ian Levesque wrote: We have been seeing this irregularly too, usually when there are multiple jobs writing to the same volume simultaneously. I've seen this now and again, as well, in my 3-drive autochanger. I haven't had the time to put together a proper bug report,

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Large File Support (LFS) on Mac OS X 10.4.8 Intel

2006-11-27 Thread Erich Prinz
snip running a status in bconsole (even with -dnn) doesn't yield the output you suggest below. Likely a nuance with BSD. You can check if a particular client has large file support despite what the configure output says by doing a: status client=xxx in the console. If you get a

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Large File Support (LFS) on Mac OS X 10.4.8 Intel

2006-11-27 Thread Erich Prinz
Running 10.4.8 on this end. What I can do is run a job with a large file and let you know the results. The configure options in the previous post don't included that option and per Kern's post on the subject, it appears it is on by default (which would make sense for Apple to do given the

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Large File Support (LFS) on Mac OS X 10.4.8 Intel

2006-11-27 Thread Martin Simmons
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 07:50:48 -0600, Erich Prinz said: snip running a status in bconsole (even with -dnn) doesn't yield the output you suggest below. Likely a nuance with BSD. Older versions of Bacula only report the sizes for debug0, so try doing this first: setdebug client level=1

[Bacula-users] Illegal byte sequence (on Mac OS X when running configure, doing make of dependencies)

2006-11-27 Thread Hydro Meteor
As an update to my push for getting Bacula into use on Mac OS X (in this case the Intel iMac with Core 2 Duo), I was looking through my output in more detail and trying to make some human sense parsing what I observed and comparing to Ubuntu Linux (the comparison I believe is good because, if I

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Large File Support (LFS) on Mac OS X 10.4.8 Intel

2006-11-27 Thread Hydro Meteor
On 11/27/06, Erich Prinz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running 10.4.8 on this end. What I can do is run a job with a large file and let you know the results. The configure options in the previous post don't included that option and per Kern's post on the subject, it appears it is on by default

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger advice

2006-11-27 Thread christian zimmermann
Hello all, thanks everyone for the response the autoloader arcvault12 works now perfectly with bacula. Cu Christian - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get

[Bacula-users] Need help to restore with bextract.

2006-11-27 Thread Emery Guevremont
I need to restore a directory from a tape using bextract. The hard part is that I need to extract the directory's content from a specific date. Is it possible? How would you suggest I do this if I don't access to the catalog? begin:vcard fn;quoted-printable:Emery Gu=C3=A9vremont

[Bacula-users] Win32 1.39.28 package and docs ...

2006-11-27 Thread Lee Taylor
Greetings ... Been looking for a nice cross-platform backup system, and I would have to say that Bacula can suck the data out of my computer systems, if only I could my feebile mind around it. Okay, I downloaded the Win32 package version 1.39.28 to test, because it would easiest for me to test

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Large File Support (LFS) on Mac OS X 10.4.8 Intel

2006-11-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 27 November 2006 14:50, Erich Prinz wrote: snip running a status in bconsole (even with -dnn) doesn't yield the output you suggest below. Likely a nuance with BSD. No all daemons use the same code. Most likely on pre 1.39 you must set a debug level on the FD of say 10.

Re: [Bacula-users] Illegal byte sequence (on Mac OS X when running configure, doing make of dependencies)

2006-11-27 Thread Martin Simmons
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 05:36:41 -1000, Hydro Meteor said: As an update to my push for getting Bacula into use on Mac OS X (in this case the Intel iMac with Core 2 Duo), I was looking through my output in more detail and trying to make some human sense parsing what I observed and comparing to

Re: [Bacula-users] Listing jobs and volumes...

2006-11-27 Thread Steen Meyer
Mandag 27 november 2006 18:01 skrev du: In the message dated: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:03:05 +0100, The pithy ruminations from steen meyer on Re: [Bacula-users] Listing jobs and volumes... were: = Fredag 24 november 2006 12:40 skrev Jaime Ventura: = Thank you for your reply. = I knew about the

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Rescue - Solaris 10 - getdiskinfo errors - error on route command

2006-11-27 Thread A Think Tank
Anyone come up with anything on this one? I'm about to go live with a home brewed wing and a prayer backup plan for bare metal restores. Paul Ryan Novosielski wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have located this. Its author is Robert Hartzell -- are we speaking about

Re: [Bacula-users] Travan tape - very slow

2006-11-27 Thread Peter Crighton
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:15:19 + (GMT), you wrote: On Sat, 25 Nov 2006, Peter Crighton wrote: What are the best alternative type of drive (it's for a home office so only requires a modest capability) Define modest Circa 20GB (yes I have more data but don't back up ripped CDs) and some data

Re: [Bacula-users] Travan tape - very slow

2006-11-27 Thread Peter Crighton
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:07:59 + (GMT), you wrote: On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, John Drescher wrote: I did read that and yes I understand it says don't use 512 byte blocks, but that is the only way that I've managed to get it to work. Did you use a blank tape when you tested bacula for the first

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Large File Support (LFS) on Mac OS X 10.4.8 Intel

2006-11-27 Thread Erich Prinz
Thanks Martin, that got it. So yes, running 1.36.x on OS X 10.4.x shows that large file support is enabled. Erich On Nov 27, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 07:50:48 -0600, Erich Prinz said: snip running a status in bconsole (even with -dnn) doesn't yield

Re: [Bacula-users] Error writing the first tape block after changing tape

2006-11-27 Thread Georg Altmann
--On Montag, 27. November 2006 12:30 +0100 Ferdinando Pasqualetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I am experiencing a frequent error (almost stable, but sometimes it worked). Bacula is MySQL version 1.38.11-3 on a RedHat ES 4.04 running on an HP Proliant Server. The tape is an

[Bacula-users] Restore (with file encryption) fails partway through

2006-11-27 Thread Benjamin Chambers
Using Bacula 1.39.28 on RHEL4. I was interested in testing file encryption in the beta version. The backup with the public key goes fine...about 9MB of data from /etc directory for purpose of testing. When I try to restore to /tmp dir, the restore fails at the same point each time. Some

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula scripting with Ruby?

2006-11-27 Thread Ger Apeldoorn
Hi! I'm very interested in your progress, as I also really love Ruby and Bacula.. I did make a little Ruby script to parse the bacula-dir.conf and make a list of all jobs in a human readable format so my users can look for themselves what is actually included on their backups. I posted it

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore (with file encryption) fails partway through

2006-11-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
Sorry, but without having a traceback to know where the program dies, nothing more will be of much help. See my previous email. On Tuesday 28 November 2006 02:47, Benjamin Chambers wrote: As way of follow-up, I can confirm that with file encryption disabled, /etc directory can be backed-up