Re: [Bacula-users] volume size not changing

2008-01-04 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 4, 2008 11:59 PM, Jeff K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am hoping this is a simple question. > I have modified the bacula-dir.conf file to specify that my volume size be > changed from 45 bytes > down to 43 bytes. I have restarted the bacula-dir (debian linux) > process b

[Bacula-users] volume size not changing

2008-01-04 Thread Jeff K
I am hoping this is a simple question. I have modified the bacula-dir.conf file to specify that my volume size be changed from 45 bytes down to 43 bytes. I have restarted the bacula-dir (debian linux) process but a new full backup does not result in file sizes that are accordingly s

Re: [Bacula-users] Postgresql encoding problem after migration to Bacula 2.0.3

2008-01-04 Thread Dan Langille
Dan Langille wrote: > Stephen Winnall wrote: >> I have been using Bacula for over two years quite happily on an old >> Red Hat 9 server. The last version of Bacula that I used was a hand- >> compiled 2.0.0 with PostgreSQL 7.3.9. >> >> This server is the data storage for my Mac OS X and Windows c

Re: [Bacula-users] upgrade from version 2.0.1 to 2.2.6

2008-01-04 Thread John Drescher
> can i do the upgrade just on my bacula server and not the clients? Yes, that will work. > and, > is there a mysql db upgrade step involved? if so, what is involved. > No. > > also, should i go with version 2.2.6 or 2.2.7? > Updating to 2.2.7 is best. > > btw, i am using the "rpms-contrib-fschwar

Re: [Bacula-users] Postgresql encoding problem after migration to Bacula 2.0.3

2008-01-04 Thread Dan Langille
Stephen Winnall wrote: > I have been using Bacula for over two years quite happily on an old > Red Hat 9 server. The last version of Bacula that I used was a hand- > compiled 2.0.0 with PostgreSQL 7.3.9. > > This server is the data storage for my Mac OS X and Windows clients , > which it serv

[Bacula-users] Postgresql encoding problem after migration to Bacula 2.0.3

2008-01-04 Thread Stephen Winnall
I have been using Bacula for over two years quite happily on an old Red Hat 9 server. The last version of Bacula that I used was a hand- compiled 2.0.0 with PostgreSQL 7.3.9. This server is the data storage for my Mac OS X and Windows clients , which it serves with Netatalk and Samba. So any

[Bacula-users] upgrade from version 2.0.1 to 2.2.6

2008-01-04 Thread Mike Seda
all, i wish to upgrade from version 2.0.1 to 2.2.6. the purpose of the upgrade is so that bacula will better handle my library which has two tape drives. can i do the upgrade just on my bacula server and not the clients? and, is there a mysql db upgrade step involved? if so, what is involved.

Re: [Bacula-users] New Infrastructure Implementation

2008-01-04 Thread R.I. Pienaar
hey, > - - shut down MySQL > - - initialize LVM snapshot > - - bring up MySQL again > - - back up from the snapshot > - - release snapshot when backup is complete no need to shut the db down, just issue: --- echo "About to lock tables" time (echo "FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK "|mysql) ec

Re: [Bacula-users] New Infrastructure Implementation

2008-01-04 Thread Dan Langille
Diego Roccia wrote: > On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 16:38 +0100, Michel Meyers wrote: > >>> - Does somebody know something about Bacula support for Dell Tape >>> Libraries? Will I be able to use all the features of my hardware? I >>> didn't find it in Bacula supported libraries page. >> That's because Bac

Re: [Bacula-users] New Infrastructure Implementation

2008-01-04 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Diego Roccia wrote: > On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 16:38 +0100, Michel Meyers wrote: > >>> - Does somebody know something about Bacula support for Dell Tape >>> Libraries? Will I be able to use all the features of my hardware? I >>> didn't find it in Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling vs Migration

2008-01-04 Thread Dan Langille
Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > 02.01.2008 16:53,, Weber, Philip wrote:: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Bacula 2.2.4. Solaris 9 Director & Storage Daemons. Mix of Solaris and >> Windows clients. >> >> I am gradually moving some backups onto Bacula (from another backup >> system) & have noticed that Spoolin

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling vs Migration

2008-01-04 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 02.01.2008 16:53,, Weber, Philip wrote:: > > > Hi all, > > Bacula 2.2.4. Solaris 9 Director & Storage Daemons. Mix of Solaris and > Windows clients. > > I am gradually moving some backups onto Bacula (from another backup > system) & have noticed that Spooling of backups does not appear

Re: [Bacula-users] bscan/autoloader questions

2008-01-04 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:59:23 EDT, The pithy ruminations from Tod Hagan on <[Bacula-users] bscan/autoloader questions> were: => Hello list, => => I need to update my bacula catalog with the contents of a couple of => tapes and I have a couple of questions about bscan. I'm goi

Re: [Bacula-users] New Infrastructure Implementation

2008-01-04 Thread R.I. Pienaar
Hello, On 1/4/08, Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing you should really be aware of, then, is that the practice of > splitting each table out into a set of files is only applicable with MyISAM > tables. Any InnoDB tables will all be stored in the InnoDB table space, which > may

Re: [Bacula-users] New Infrastructure Implementation

2008-01-04 Thread Frank Sweetser
Diego Roccia wrote: > 4/5 times a week, coders call my db administrator saying "ops, I > dropped/ruined/ate the table X, now I need it as it was yesterday". > So I need to give DB Admin a tool to quickly restore a single table > (read "files") as it was x days ago (with 1 problem is not applicable

Re: [Bacula-users] New Infrastructure Implementation

2008-01-04 Thread Diego Roccia
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 17:21 +, R.I. Pienaar wrote: > > > - or use zmanda + LVM to back up your data with bacula pulling the > > > backups from your DB servers to your tape > > It seems cool, but reading from the zmanda site it seems that it support > > tape drives. why do I need bacula, too?

Re: [Bacula-users] New Infrastructure Implementation

2008-01-04 Thread R.I. Pienaar
hello, > > You should investigate: > > > > - using LVM to store your databases on > Are you talking about using LVM snapshot feature? It's a little > difficult because we need to modify filesystem on production servers yeah, that gives you the shortest downtime with the quickest restore option f

Re: [Bacula-users] New Infrastructure Implementation

2008-01-04 Thread Diego Roccia
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 15:53 +, R.I. Pienaar wrote: > On 1/4/08, Michel Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > - I will need to stop mysql slave before and restart it after backup. I > > > read the documentation but something is still not clear for me. Can I > > > execute a "script on client b

Re: [Bacula-users] New Infrastructure Implementation

2008-01-04 Thread Diego Roccia
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 10:42 -0500, Frank Sweetser wrote: [...] > Check out the > Client Run Before Job > > and > > Client Run After Job > > directives in the manual. > > http://bacula.org/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html ok, thanks. I'll check it. Regards Diego --

Re: [Bacula-users] New Infrastructure Implementation

2008-01-04 Thread Diego Roccia
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 16:38 +0100, Michel Meyers wrote: > > - Does somebody know something about Bacula support for Dell Tape > > Libraries? Will I be able to use all the features of my hardware? I > > didn't find it in Bacula supported libraries page. > > That's because Bacula doesn't directly n

Re: [Bacula-users] New Infrastructure Implementation

2008-01-04 Thread R.I. Pienaar
On 1/4/08, Michel Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - I will need to stop mysql slave before and restart it after backup. I > > read the documentation but something is still not clear for me. Can I > > execute a "script on client before" and a "script on client after" and > > start the backup o

Re: [Bacula-users] New Infrastructure Implementation

2008-01-04 Thread Frank Sweetser
Diego Roccia wrote: > Hi all, > For my company we need to implement bacula as backup software. In a > previous thread I've explained the infrastructure, and now I have more > information on the hardware we are going to implement. > > +--+ +--+ > | MySQL| |

Re: [Bacula-users] New Infrastructure Implementation

2008-01-04 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Diego Roccia wrote: > Hi all, > For my company we need to implement bacula as backup software. In a > previous thread I've explained the infrastructure, and now I have more > information on the hardware we are going to implement. > [...] > > My que

[Bacula-users] New Infrastructure Implementation

2008-01-04 Thread Diego Roccia
Hi all, For my company we need to implement bacula as backup software. In a previous thread I've explained the infrastructure, and now I have more information on the hardware we are going to implement. +--+ +--+ | MySQL| |MySQL | | Master | |

Re: [Bacula-users] Using bacula over Internet

2008-01-04 Thread Frank Sweetser
Bruno Friedmann wrote: > If I remember correctly, Kern in the 2.2.7 announce have set the > possibility to log client with certifcates (as we can do in PKI ) More specifically, it was the ability to use TLS authentication without TLS encryption of the entire session. TLS authentication and encry

Re: [Bacula-users] Using bacula over Internet

2008-01-04 Thread Bruno Friedmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello > > I wish to know what is the most secure solution for using bacula over the > internet. > > I have seen bacula is able to use tls connection and tcp-wrappers. Is this > solution strong enough ? Is there a more secure solution ? > > It is possible to use ssh tun

Re: [Bacula-users] IPv6 issues

2008-01-04 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 22:54:35 -0500, Minkus said: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Before I filed a bug report I wanted to ask this on the list to see > if I am missing anything. > > When a host has both an A and an record it seems that Bacula > prefers the

[Bacula-users] Idea for backup of same client over LAN and WLAN interface (Windows)

2008-01-04 Thread Lars Köller
Dear experts, I'm looking for a solution to backup my Windows Professional Laptop over multiple network adapters (LAN and WLAN) with different IP addresses. Bacula runs fine on the computer, but for backup I always have to connect it per wire. When I'm running on WLAN, bacula can't connect cau

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea for backup of same client over LAN and WLAN interface (Windows)

2008-01-04 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 04.01.2008 11:55,, Lars Köller wrote:: > Dear experts, > > I'm looking for a solution to backup my Windows Professional Laptop over > multiple network adapters (LAN and WLAN) with different IP addresses. Tricky... sometimes. > Bacula runs fine on the computer, but for backup I always have