Re: [Bacula-users] How to evaluate number of JobQueue-Entries?

2007-02-27 Thread Ralf Gross
Jonas Wueste schrieb: The problem is that bconsole only can be run with root rights. I want to transmit the querys result via nrpe to my nagios-server and the nrpe user on the local machine has no root privileges. So, is there a possibility to get the value without root privileges? Change

[Bacula-users] mtx-changer script - a few hairs left...

2007-02-27 Thread Steve Barnes
Hi List :) At this time, I have a few hairs left on my head...(I recall a few e-mails claiming this was easy to do and ran fine)...evidently my bacula-fu is weak... I'm (still) running Bacula Version: 1.38.11 (28 June 2006) with a single, external HP DLT IV VS80 40/80G drive. Platform is

[Bacula-users] Rif: Re: Change tape problem

2007-02-27 Thread Ferdinando Pasqualetti
Hi Arno, thank you very much for your answer. I will try asap the tests you are suggesting. By the way, I purged the volumes involved in the error shown in the original message (it was the third try), restarted the backup job and here is the (correct) result. 25-feb 19:55 bacula-dir: Start

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Restore keeps crashing with Block checksum mismatch

2007-02-27 Thread Sven Hendriks
Hello Kern, thank you very much for this hint, but the volume size is already limited to 2GB. Greetings Sven Hendriks Von: Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: 26.02.07 19:37:24 An: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Restore keeps crashing with Block

[Bacula-users] FileSet doc suggestions + question

2007-02-27 Thread IEM - network operating center
hi all. setting up my test system i ran into some problems with the FileSet. first of all, it took me a while to figure out, that only the File sections are used to calculate the hash of the FileSet. since i decided (probably because of wron assumptions) that i would do most of the generic

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Does bacula track and or store tape soft errors?

2007-02-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 26 February 2007 21:18, Arno Lehmann wrote: I send this to -users and -devel because I don't know if the original poster is on -devel where this belongs, IMO... On 2/25/2007 3:43 AM, Dan Langille wrote: On 25 Feb 2007 at 3:33, Florian Heigl wrote: Just a silent heads up, if I

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot label tape from bconsole

2007-02-27 Thread Adam Cécile
Check permissions on /dev/nst0. Alfonso Amato - Sintecnos srl a écrit : While setting up Bacula and following Brief Tutorial, I see a strange problem: after the command run asking me for labelling the tape, I give the command label, and bconsole gets lock for some 2 minutes, than says:

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot label tape from bconsole

2007-02-27 Thread Alfonso Amato - Sintecnos srl
Changed permission of /dev/nst0* into 660 and works correctly! I suggest to add the chmod line into the Brief tutorial while testing not on file but on real tape. Thanks alot Adam! Alfonso Adam Cécile wrote: Check permissions on /dev/nst0. Alfonso Amato - Sintecnos srl a écrit : While

Re: [Bacula-users] How to evaluate number of JobQueue-Entries?

2007-02-27 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 2/27/2007 9:04 AM, Ralf Gross wrote: Jonas Wueste schrieb: The problem is that bconsole only can be run with root rights. I want to transmit the querys result via nrpe to my nagios-server and the nrpe user on the local machine has no root privileges. So, is there a possibility to get

[Bacula-users] Alaways using the inserted volume and auto label if needed

2007-02-27 Thread sefi
Dear list, I got a bacula setup with a number of tapes that are switched on a daily basis during the week. During the weekend the same tape stays in. There are about 11 tapes in the rotation (but this shouldn't matter). The desired behaviour is that bacula should not demand other tapes and

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Tape handling

2007-02-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 26 February 2007 22:11, Tim Schoellhammer wrote: The answer was in http://www.nabble.com/Slow-positioning-at-the-end-of-the-tape--tf2826338.ht ml#a7909209 Now with: Autochanger { Name = MSL Device = Drive-1, Drive-2 Changer Command = /usr/local/share/bacula/mtx-changer %c

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Restore keeps crashing with Block checksum mismatch

2007-02-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 09:54, Sven Hendriks wrote: Hello Kern, thank you very much for this hint, but the volume size is already limited to 2GB. Well, I don't think it is working correctly, because your output indicates that Bacula is attempting to read at an address greater than

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Restore keeps crashing with Block checksum mismatch

2007-02-27 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Kern Sibbald wrote: It looks to me like Samba shares don't support more that 2GB. Incorrect. My CIFS servers are happily providing 1000+Gb shares. It's certainly suboptimal for Bacula to be reading or writing to remote shares though. Far better to put a samba-fd directly

Re: [Bacula-users] Does bacula track and or store tape soft errors?

2007-02-27 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Rex Wheeler wrote: Do you have the expertise to write something which can parse this information or would it need to go on the Bacula wishlist? I do have the expertise, but not sure about the time. It would be a reasonable undertaking. It would involve: 1) Updating the

[Bacula-users] Backup Windows System to a NAS

2007-02-27 Thread Sascha Knific
Hi, I'm trying to set up bacula 2.0.2 to back up Windows XP (for testing, later Win2k3 Server for production) to a NAS (supporting SMB) with no success. The problem is to access the smb share with the storage daemon. First I changed the account for the storage daemon / service to a local

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot label tape from bconsole

2007-02-27 Thread IEM - network operating center
Alfonso Amato - Sintecnos srl wrote: Changed permission of /dev/nst0* into 660 and works correctly! I suggest to add the chmod line into the Brief tutorial while testing not on file but on real tape. i rather suggest adding a line like make sure you do have the correct permissions to

Re: [Bacula-users] Mounting/Label question

2007-02-27 Thread Andreas Lüdtke
Hi Arno, thanks for your comments. Please find my answers inline. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arno Lehmann Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 8:44 PM To: 'bacula-users' Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Mounting/Label question

[Bacula-users] bacula not responding

2007-02-27 Thread Chris Sarginson
Hi All, Running a status dir command in bconsole essentially hangs the console. I am running bacula-dir 2.0.1 on Centos 4.3 with a MySQL backend. Having checked the MySQL database is approx 2.5G in size. Obviously this is getting to be a little on the large size, so I have run dbcheck and

Re: [Bacula-users] Mounting/Label question

2007-02-27 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 2/27/2007 3:24 PM, Andreas Lüdtke wrote: Hi Arno, thanks for your comments. Please find my answers inline. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arno Lehmann Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 8:44 PM To: 'bacula-users' Subject:

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula not responding

2007-02-27 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 2/27/2007 3:37 PM, Chris Sarginson wrote: Hi All, Running a status dir command in bconsole essentially hangs the console. That's ususally because there is some hard catalog work happening. Simply wait... I am running bacula-dir 2.0.1 on Centos 4.3 with a MySQL backend. Having

Re: [Bacula-users] force bacula to do a specific type of backup

2007-02-27 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 2/26/2007 10:01 PM, Oliver Lehmann wrote: Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, On 2/26/2007 4:32 PM, Oliver Lehmann wrote: Hi, my volumes are limited. Always a bad thing... I want to force bacula to do the scheduled type of backup (incr, diff, full) and nothing different. That should happen

[Bacula-users] wx-console crashing

2007-02-27 Thread Brian Debelius
OS: Windows 2003 Where can I enable debugging to determine why the wx-consle crashes so frequently? thanks, brian - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Restore keeps crashing with Block checksum mismatch

2007-02-27 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kern Sibbald wrote: On Tuesday 27 February 2007 09:54, Sven Hendriks wrote: Hello Kern, thank you very much for this hint, but the volume size is already limited to 2GB. Well, I don't think it is working correctly, because your output

[Bacula-users] Could not get Job Volume Parameters

2007-02-27 Thread Dan Langille
For the archives... A client contacted me with this error: 26-Feb 23:50 meson-dir: BackupCatalog.2007-02-26_23.10.00 Error: Could not get Job Volume Parameters to update Bootstrap file. ERR=sql_get.c:399 No volumes found for JobId=950 We reran the jobs. They ran fine. We attributed the

Re: [Bacula-users] Mounting/Label question

2007-02-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Arno, It looks like the retention periods are set incorrectly since the Volume was pruned while the job was running. On Tuesday 27 February 2007 16:03, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, On 2/27/2007 3:24 PM, Andreas Lüdtke wrote: Hi Arno, thanks for your comments. Please find my answers

[Bacula-users] What to do when tape full?

2007-02-27 Thread Nexus Seven
What is the procedure to follow when a tape is full? I have a tape drive with 40/80 DLT tape that fills up over 2-3 months. Then one night the tape gets full, and the job running at the time is blocked. At this point, I unmount in bconsole, physically eject the tape and put in a new or

[Bacula-users] bacula-dir won't start from a script

2007-02-27 Thread Beren
Hi Guys, The bacula startup script won't start the director, however typing bacula-dir -c /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf works fine. I tried putting this line into a script and running it: /usr/sbin/bacula-dir -c /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf It also didn't work...however, if I type it in the

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir won't start from a script

2007-02-27 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Beren [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Guys, The bacula startup script won't start the director, however typing bacula-dir -c /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf works fine. I tried putting this line into a script and running it: /usr/sbin/bacula-dir -c /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf It

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] FOSDEM

2007-02-27 Thread Eric Bollengier
if you want to see kern in action ! http://ftp.belnet.be/mirrors/FOSDEM/2007/FOSDEM2007-Bacula.ogg (you can use vlc to see this presentation vlc http://ftp.belnet.be/mirrors/FOSDEM/2007/FOSDEM2007-Bacula.ogg) bye Le Lundi 26 Février 2007 18:36, Kern Sibbald a écrit : On Friday 23 February

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot label tape from bconsole

2007-02-27 Thread Alfonso Amato - Sintecnos srl
I agree and your position is true. Can you tell me what method you have in mind for changing permissions? A shell line inside /etc/init.d/bacula-sd.conf (I use Fedora) with the chmod previously said or a different command? Alfonso IEM - network operating center wrote: Alfonso Amato -

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] FOSDEM

2007-02-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 18:18, Eric Bollengier wrote: if you want to see kern in action ! http://ftp.belnet.be/mirrors/FOSDEM/2007/FOSDEM2007-Bacula.ogg Egads, what a horror! :-) Every time I do a live demo, something goes wrong. What I forgot was that in a certain sense, my whole

Re: [Bacula-users] force bacula to do a specific type of backup

2007-02-27 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Arno Lehmann wrote: Use the 'query' command in a Bacula console... Choose a query (1-16): 3 Enter Client name: avocado-fd +---++-+--+---+-++ | JobId | Client | StartTime | JobFiles | JobBytes |

Re: [Bacula-users] force bacula to do a specific type of backup

2007-02-27 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Oliver Lehmann wrote: [...] Running Jobs: JobId Level Name Status == 534 Fullclient-avocado-files.2007-02-27_19.25.31 is waiting for Client avocado-fd to connect to Storage File [...]

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot label tape from bconsole

2007-02-27 Thread Andrea Conti
Can you tell me what method you have in mind for changing permissions? A shell line inside /etc/init.d/bacula-sd.conf (I use Fedora) with the chmod previously said or a different command? I suppose you're using a recent (2) version of fedora, so your system should be running udev. If that's

Re: [Bacula-users] Mounting/Label question

2007-02-27 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 2/27/2007 5:04 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello Arno, It looks like the retention periods are set incorrectly since the Volume was pruned while the job was running. Ah, ok... in that case, you should do an 'llist volume=...' (IIRC) with the volume in question. And,of course, also

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Tape handling

2007-02-27 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 2/27/2007 7:12 PM, Tim Schoellhammer wrote: Kern Sibbald schrieb: It is two times faster in recovery as the veritas backupexec. Nice. Thanks for reporting that. It is always nice to be faster than the big guys :-) By the way, I imagine you have done so, but please run a btape

Re: [Bacula-users] What to do when tape full?

2007-02-27 Thread Wolfgang Denk
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: What is the procedure to follow when a tape is full? I have a tape drive with 40/80 DLT tape that fills up over 2-3 months. Then one night the tape gets full, and the job running at the time is blocked. At this point, I unmount in bconsole, physically

[Bacula-users] Restore Problem / File Retention

2007-02-27 Thread alexander . nolte
Hello everybody! After getting some storages together at last I have a really bad problem when I try to restore some files. As I got some Windows and some Linux Servers to Backup I put them onto different storages and here comes the problem: I created the following job definition for the

[Bacula-users] Using bacula witch iomega rev loader

2007-02-27 Thread Schofar
You excuse to me, are new and sò not to write well in English. I wish to use bacula with iomega rev loader. Someone has already tried, and it knows to me to say if it works. Thanks - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence

[Bacula-users] bacula not responding

2007-02-27 Thread Chris Sarginson -Technical Support
Hi All, Running a status dir command in bconsole essentially hangs the console. I am running bacula-dir 2.0.1 on Centos 4.3 with a MySQL backend. Having checked the MySQL database is approx 2.5G in size. Obviously this is getting to be a little on the large size, so I have run dbcheck and

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir won't start from a script

2007-02-27 Thread Beren Gamble
Hi Bill, I tried the command... no help really :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] bacula]# cat bacrestart /etc/bacula/bacula restart /usr/sbin/bacula-dir -c /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf [EMAIL PROTECTED] bacula]# sh -x bacrestart + /etc/bacula/bacula restart Stopping the Bacula File daemon Stopping the

Re: [Bacula-users] What to do when tape full?

2007-02-27 Thread John Drescher
On 2/27/07, Nexus Seven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the procedure to follow when a tape is full? I have a tape drive with 40/80 DLT tape that fills up over 2-3 months. Then one night the tape gets full, and the job running at the time is blocked. At this point, I unmount in bconsole,

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore Problem / File Retention

2007-02-27 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 2/26/2007 7:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody! After getting some storages together at last I have a really bad problem when I try to restore some files. As I got some Windows and some Linux Servers to Backup I put them onto different storages and here comes the

Re: [Bacula-users] Using bacula witch iomega rev loader

2007-02-27 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 2/26/2007 10:35 PM, Schofar wrote: You excuse to me, are new and sò not to write well in English. We will manage :-) Hopefully you can understand what we write because then tis list will be most useful to you ;-) I wish to use bacula with iomega rev loader. Someone has already

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir won't start from a script

2007-02-27 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 2/27/2007 6:07 PM, Beren Gamble wrote: Hi Bill, I tried the command... no help really :) snip lots of stuff - debugging why the start script doesn't work correctly in all cases Which OS do you use, and where does the Bacula installation come from? Packages, compiled yourself,

Re: [Bacula-users] force bacula to do a specific type of backup

2007-02-27 Thread Oliver Lehmann
Arno Lehmann wrote: Apart from that, you should examine the job 385 in more detail, and compare with 534. I'm quite sure there must be a significant difference - either the job name or the client are not identical, I think. I don't have a running Bacula ready at the moment, but I *think*

Re: [Bacula-users] force bacula to do a specific type of backup

2007-02-27 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 2/27/2007 9:17 PM, Oliver Lehmann wrote: Arno Lehmann wrote: Apart from that, you should examine the job 385 in more detail, and compare with 534. I'm quite sure there must be a significant difference - either the job name or the client are not identical, I think. I don't have

Re: [Bacula-users] force bacula to do a specific type of backup

2007-02-27 Thread Ralf Gross
Oliver Lehmann schrieb: Arno Lehmann wrote: Apart from that, you should examine the job 385 in more detail, and compare with 534. I'm quite sure there must be a significant difference - either the job name or the client are not identical, I think. I don't have a running Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] force bacula to do a specific type of backup

2007-02-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 27 February 2007 21:40, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, On 2/27/2007 9:17 PM, Oliver Lehmann wrote: Arno Lehmann wrote: Apart from that, you should examine the job 385 in more detail, and compare with 534. I'm quite sure there must be a significant difference - either the job name

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Restore keeps crashing with Block checksum mismatch

2007-02-27 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Brown wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Kern Sibbald wrote: It looks to me like Samba shares don't support more that 2GB. Incorrect. My CIFS servers are happily providing 1000+Gb shares. It's certainly suboptimal for Bacula to be reading or

[Bacula-users] Few notes regarding the restricted console commands

2007-02-27 Thread Zeratul
Hi Recently I tested the patch that fix the bug 767 (see bugs.bacula.org). The patch works fine - the restricted console is not able anymore to cancel running jobs that not belongs to it. With this occasion I tested other commands and I found few things which, in my opinion, should be

[Bacula-users] Messages to console(s)

2007-02-27 Thread Zeratul
Hi Having 2 or more consoles opened to bacula directory, only one console gets the messages. There is any way to send the messages to all opened consoles? Any idea would be appreciated. Thanks. Daniel - Take Surveys. Earn

[Bacula-users] Bacula Director daemon does not start on boot

2007-02-27 Thread David Hatcher
I run the Bacula (v2.0.1) server on a Fedora Core 5 machine named BACULA. When I boot this machine, only two of the three Bacula daemons start. When I type service bacula status, I see the bacula-dir daemon is stopped. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# service bacula status bacula-sd (pid 1858) is

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Director daemon does not start on boot

2007-02-27 Thread Jason King
usually a service in bacula doesn't start at boot because it is running as the wrong user. While when you manually invoke it, it is running as the correct user. Make sure the scripts being used to start the director deamon have the correct permissions. Jason David Hatcher wrote: I run the

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir won't start from a script

2007-02-27 Thread Jason King
First of all, we need to know what OS you are trying this on. Secondly, when you create a script you need to tell the script which shell you will be using in the first line of the script: #!/bin/bash or something like that. Take a look at some of your other shell scripts. Also if you are

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Director daemon does not start on boot

2007-02-27 Thread Mike Hanby
On Fedora 6, I have the following services (created by the RPM's): bacula-dir bacula-sd bacula-fd So, in my case, to set bacula-dir to start on boot: # chkconfig bacula-dir on This will set it to start automatically for several run levels (not sure off the top of my head, but 3 and 5 for sure).

[Bacula-users] Bacula 2.0.2 for SuSE 10.2 released

2007-02-27 Thread PattiMichelle
I just uploaded the rpm's built on SuSE 10.2 x86_64 (dual core) to sourceforge.net rpms-contrib-psheaffer - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to

[Bacula-users] Advise debugging bweb / bconsole issues

2007-02-27 Thread Alan Sparks
Have a working Bacula install, and have been working on getting Bweb running. Mostly it works, but a few parts do not. Commands like 'Jobs / Defined Jobs', and 'Current Jobs' from a clients list have problems -- there is a delay loading the page (30-40 seconds), and finally the page (with no