Re: [Bacula-users] start/stop client on demand

2007-07-03 Thread Rich
On 2007.07.02. 21:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah... Some clarification: by clients, I meant the client application, the bacula-fd agent rather then the machines themselves, though in general if you can use RunBeforeJob with a completely shut down system and have no problems, doing

Re: [Bacula-users] Can I use a remote network storage device?

2007-07-03 Thread Rich
On 2007.07.02. 18:56, nellyginrich wrote: Is it possible to use a remote network storage device as the backup medium with Bacula? My understanding from the documentation and the questions posed here, is that it isn't possible - because each storage device needs to have an attached machine

[Bacula-users] Bacula status

2007-07-03 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, With two exceptions, the next version (2.2.0) of Bacula is now ready: 1. I am currently working on pruning inchanger volumes that have the Scratch pool as their recycle pool (see my recent email on this). If all goes well it will be completed this week. 2. A number of new

[Bacula-users] using more than 1 tape drive with an autochanger

2007-07-03 Thread Vamegh Hedayati
Hello All, I have the following configuration.. (This is for a poc before rolling out) bacula-poc (main server + dns) --- BaculaCLient1 (fd) | | | | -- BaculaClient2 (fd) |

[Bacula-users] Bacula references

2007-07-03 Thread Ricardo Lorenzo Rodríguez
Hi, We are a team who have many deployments of Bacula in Spain (including regional goverments) with a different kind of hardware (auto-loaders and libraries), and we need succesfull references from other users (in Spain and oustide) for a new Public Administration backup project. We hope,

Re: [Bacula-users] Job Retention strangeness

2007-07-03 Thread Klavs Klavsen
Hi Andreas, You could try to update volume parameters on the volumes used for full backup - perhaps the volumes were created before you defined the File retention of 60 days - and it's one of the parameters that are stored on the volume itself (my bacula server is currently unavailable - so I

[Bacula-users] Programming last friday of month

2007-07-03 Thread Juan Asensio Sánchez
Hi I want to make a backup in a different pool last friday of the month? is this possible? Schedule: Pool1: 1st - (last-1) friday (from first to last penultimate friday) Pool 2: Last friday of month - This SF.net

Re: [Bacula-users] using more than 1 tape drive with an autochanger

2007-07-03 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, just a short answer: 02.07.2007 18:26,, Vamegh Hedayati wrote:: Hello All, ... 1. Can 1 pool use 2 tape drives simultaneously ? and if so how do I force bacula to use both tape drives ? Prefer Monted Volume=No in the job configuration. Only use the autochanger you configured in the

Re: [Bacula-users] using more than 1 tape drive with an autochanger

2007-07-03 Thread John Drescher
I have One main question, which is: 1. Can 1 pool use 2 tape drives simultaneously ? and if so how do I force bacula to use both tape drives ? Although I have had tapes from the same pool loaded in both drives of my autochanger at one time I am not sure that it did simultaneous backups using

Re: [Bacula-users] Programming last friday of month

2007-07-03 Thread Flak Magnet
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 7:04:52 am Juan Asensio Sánchez wrote: Hi I want to make a backup in a different pool last friday of the month? is this possible? Schedule: Pool1: 1st - (last-1) friday (from first to last penultimate friday) Pool 2: Last friday of month I don't think the

Re: [Bacula-users] Job Retention strangeness

2007-07-03 Thread Martin Simmons
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:55:11 +0200, Andreas Koch said: Hi all, we've been relying on Bacula for quite a while now and are very satisfied users. However, I just noticed a strangeness with regard to Job Retention on 1.38.9: It appears to be obeyed only for our differential backup jobs,

Re: [Bacula-users] Job Retention strangeness

2007-07-03 Thread Andreas Koch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Klavs Klavsen wrote: Hi Andreas, You could try to update volume parameters on the volumes used for full backup - perhaps the volumes were created before you defined the File retention of 60 days - and it's one of the parameters that are stored

Re: [Bacula-users] To rewind or not to rewind...

2007-07-03 Thread John Drescher
On 7/3/07, Shon Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that is my question. My mtx-changer script currently contains mt -f $device rewoffl in the unload routine. I don't believe that my tapes should be being rewound, but I'm just not sure. Basically, if the tape is in PoolA and a job runs that

Re: [Bacula-users] Job Retention strangeness

2007-07-03 Thread Martin Simmons
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:47:51 +0200, Klavs Klavsen said: Hi Andreas, You could try to update volume parameters on the volumes used for full backup - perhaps the volumes were created before you defined the File retention of 60 days - and it's one of the parameters that are stored on the

Re: [Bacula-users] Job Retention strangeness

2007-07-03 Thread Andreas Koch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Simmons wrote: Maybe the Volume Retention is set in the volumes, so they were pruned? This prunes the jobs too. __Martin No, the Volume Retention is set much longer, too:

Re: [Bacula-users] To rewind or not to rewind...

2007-07-03 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
John Drescher wrote: On 7/3/07, *Shon Stephens* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that is my question. My mtx-changer script currently contains mt -f $device rewoffl in the unload routine. I don't believe that my tapes should be being rewound, but I'm