Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up Microsoft Exchange?!

2009-02-13 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 13.02.2009 08:27, Boniforti Flavio wrote: I use ClientRunBeforeJob to run a batch script before I actually grab all my Exchange server's files. The batch script uses ntbackup to backup Exchange to a file: -- C:\Program Files (x86)\Bacula\bin\ntbackup.exe backup @C:\Documents and

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BLOCK issue where already created volumes not being read

2009-02-13 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 13.02.2009 02:06, Steve Handy wrote: Its still open source. So that free lunch may give you tommy ache. I really didn't want to add anything else to this thread, but... The free lunch doesn't give any tummy ache to, for example, the Bank Austria. And I guess those guys really need a

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up Microsoft Exchange?!

2009-02-13 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Guten Morgen Arno, I don't recall if it's been mentioned, but yes: First, wait. This is because the developers will need some more time ti get the excheange plugin ready, which will - hopefully - be good for production use when Bacula 3 is released. Second, upgrade to Bacula 3, and use

[Bacula-users] LabelFormat question

2009-02-13 Thread ML mail
Hello, I am using Bacula to backup 3 servers and store the backup files on the hard disk, each in different directories by setting up 3 different Devices and using one single Pool. Now I have noticed that the filename is not exactly as I wish it to be: I am using the following LabelFormat in

[Bacula-users] Rif: Never Mind - Given up on Bacula

2009-02-13 Thread Ferdinando Pasqualetti
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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BLOCK issue where already created volumes not being read

2009-02-13 Thread Thomas Traeger
Arno Lehmann schrieb: Hi, 13.02.2009 02:06, Steve Handy wrote: Its still open source. So that free lunch may give you tommy ache. I really didn't want to add anything else to this thread, but... The free lunch doesn't give any tummy ache to, for example, the Bank Austria. And I

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up Microsoft Exchange?!

2009-02-13 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 13.02.2009 09:57, Boniforti Flavio wrote: Guten Morgen Arno, I don't recall if it's been mentioned, but yes: First, wait. This is because the developers will need some more time ti get the excheange plugin ready, which will - hopefully - be good for production use when Bacula 3 is

[Bacula-users] Issue with recycling after moving from 2.0 to 2.4

2009-02-13 Thread Yann Cézard
Hi list, I have recently moved to bacula 2.4.4 (2.4.3 at the start, I upgraded to 2.4.4 last week), from 2.0.3 (totally new installation : new server, new databases, the only thing that I kept from the old install is my client/jobs/pools/... configuration files) and I am facing a strange issue in

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up Microsoft Exchange?!

2009-02-13 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Could I be using it for remote backups? As I mentioned before, I'm *not* using Bacula. Instead I'm on rsnapshot at the moment. Oh... then it's not very useful to you, I believe... sorry. Well, what matters to me is the amount of data transferred in each backup session: would this plugin

[Bacula-users] moving from 2.0 to 2.4

2009-02-13 Thread François Mehault
Hi Yann Cézard, Hi All I read your email and I saw that you upgraded your Bacula from 2.0.3 to 2.4.4 like I want to do. Could you confirm me that I don't need to execute some script for the database ? You did just to do that to upgrade ? ./configure (your options) make make install Thanks,

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up Microsoft Exchange?!

2009-02-13 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 13.02.2009 11:58, Boniforti Flavio wrote: Could I be using it for remote backups? As I mentioned before, I'm *not* using Bacula. Instead I'm on rsnapshot at the moment. Oh... then it's not very useful to you, I believe... sorry. Well, what matters to me is the amount of data transferred

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Backing up network drives with windows

2009-02-13 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: Bernd Plagge bpla...@choicenet.ne.jp Date: Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:35 AM Subject: Re: Backing up network drives with windows To: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:54:41 -0500 John

Re: [Bacula-users] supported barcodes on Dell PowerVault TL2000 Tape Library

2009-02-13 Thread Ralf Brinkmann
Ralf Brinkmann schrieb: I tested barcode type code39 printed with a Kyocera laserprinter - seems not to work. The Dell User’s Guide gives no hint at all. Any Idea? Kyocera Prescribe commands: !R! UNIT D; SCP; BARC 19, Y, 'DO0101L3', 180, 200; RPP; MRP 0, 600; BARC

Re: [Bacula-users] moving from 2.0 to 2.4

2009-02-13 Thread Yann Cézard
François Mehault a écrit : Hi Yann Cézard, Hi All I read your email and I saw that you upgraded your Bacula from 2.0.3 to 2.4.4 like I want to do. Could you confirm me that I don't need to execute some script for the database ? You did just to do that to upgrade ? ./configure (your

[Bacula-users] How to send Bacula messages to different addresses based on backup job, not type

2009-02-13 Thread Foo
Hi, Is it possible to send mail to different recipients depending on the backup job? I.e. operator messages and jobs backing up servers 100 to 200 should be sent to address A, but e.g. error messages (or just all messages) concerning machines 110 to 120 should (also) be sent to address B.

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up Microsoft Exchange?!

2009-02-13 Thread Boniforti Flavio
Well, what matters to me is the amount of data transferred in each backup session: would this plugin do some sort of incremental backups or just backup the *whole* Exchange database? No, it can do incrementals. Ah, so it could be ok for me to use, as you say that it *can* do

Re: [Bacula-users] moving from 2.0 to 2.4

2009-02-13 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 6:05 AM, François Mehault francois.meha...@netplus.fr wrote: Hi Yann Cézard, Hi All I read your email and I saw that you upgraded your Bacula from 2.0.3 to 2.4.4 like I want to do. Could you confirm me that I don't need to execute some script for the database ? You

Re: [Bacula-users] supported barcodes on Dell PowerVault TL2000 Tape Library

2009-02-13 Thread John Drescher
in the meantime I changed the size of the barcode labels a little bit to make them better match to lable field of the cartridge and sticked them with carpet tape upside down onto the cartridge with the human readable text string pointing to the top side of the cartridge. Now it works! Good!

Re: [Bacula-users] supported barcodes on Dell PowerVault TL2000 Tape Library

2009-02-13 Thread Ralf Brinkmann
John Drescher schrieb: I printed mine reasonably close to specifications and it worked even with the label upside down. My theory: with fixing the Kyocera barcode labels upside down I moved the text string out of the scan area and with this now the barcode has the same orientation as that

Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with recycling after moving from 2.0 to 2.4

2009-02-13 Thread Kevin Keane
If my math is right, the 12th is the 13th day of the retention period. Since the previous job finished at 22:43, and your new job started at 22:38, the rentention period hadn't elapsed yet, by about five minutes. The reason it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't is simply the timing between

Re: [Bacula-users] Never Mind - Given up on Bacula

2009-02-13 Thread Mike Holden
Steve Handy wrote: I needed a car. I decided to get a used car for nothing. My mom warned me, okay but you get what you pay for son. I bought a used car anyway, essentially free. I had for it for a year. Put well over 5000 dollars into it, as problems surmounted, new radiator, fuel pump, and

Re: [Bacula-users] LabelFormat question

2009-02-13 Thread Kevin Keane
Actually, you have two problems in that label format. The first one is that, indeed, the NumVols is global per pool. The second problem is that once bacula starts recycling tapes, it may well use this tape for a different job than what the label suggests. I fell into that trap myself when I

Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with recycling after moving from 2.0 to 2.4

2009-02-13 Thread Yann Cézard
John Drescher a écrit : On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 5:19 AM, Yann Cézard yann.cez...@univ-pau.fr wrote: Hi list, I have recently moved to bacula 2.4.4 (2.4.3 at the start, I upgraded to 2.4.4 last week), from 2.0.3 (totally new installation : new server, new databases, the only thing that I

[Bacula-users] Autochanger

2009-02-13 Thread Nicolas GORALSKI
Hello everybody. i'm looking for people who have ever used this autochanger : IBM 3584-L32 with bacula. I've searched over mtx website without success. Does anybody got info ? Regards -- Open Source Business

Re: [Bacula-users] Never Mind - Given up on Bacula

2009-02-13 Thread Steve Handy
Okay guys now its starting to get a little chippy here. I see that we are now starting to throw insults and that's certainty not gonna get anything accomplished. That's not my style. Steve - Original Message - From: Mike Holden bac...@mikeholden.org To: Steve Handy Cc: 'Jason Dixon'

[Bacula-users] How to properly escape Linux shell commands for ClientRunBeforeJob?

2009-02-13 Thread Foo
Hi, I'm trying to run the following command before a backup: svnadmin --quiet dump /var/svnrepo /tmp/svnrepo_backup.svn_dump; gzip -9 /tmp/svnrepo_backup.svn_dump and 'rm -f /tmp/svnrepo_backup.svn_dump.gz' after the job. When executing the above on the shell it works fine. So I added in

Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with recycling after moving from 2.0 to 2.4

2009-02-13 Thread Yann Cézard
Kevin Keane a écrit : If my math is right, the 12th is the 13th day of the retention period. Since the previous job finished at 22:43, and your new job started at 22:38, the rentention period hadn't elapsed yet, by about five minutes. The reason it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't is

Re: [Bacula-users] Never Mind - Given up on Bacula

2009-02-13 Thread John Kloss
Can we please stop feeding the troll? This list has a lot of really good, useful information from a lot of informed and insightful people; but, this is junk. Can we please move on to doing what this list does very well, helping out bacula users? Thank you. John Kloss. On Feb 13,

Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with recycling after moving from 2.0 to 2.4

2009-02-13 Thread John Drescher
Hi John, I don't understand what you mean, PoolType can only be one of this : (http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION001415) Pool Type = type This directive defines the pool type, which corresponds to the type of Job being run. It is required

Re: [Bacula-users] Never Mind - Given up on Bacula

2009-02-13 Thread Dan Langille
John Kloss wrote: Can we please stop feeding the troll? This list has a lot of really good, useful information from a lot of informed and insightful people; but, this is junk. Can we please move on to doing what this list does very well, helping out bacula users? Thank you. +1

Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with recycling after moving from 2.0 to 2.4

2009-02-13 Thread Kevin Keane
Yann Cézard wrote: Kevin Keane a écrit : If my math is right, the 12th is the 13th day of the retention period. Since the previous job finished at 22:43, and your new job started at 22:38, the rentention period hadn't elapsed yet, by about five minutes. The reason it sometimes works and

[Bacula-users] Adding volumes to a certain Pool

2009-02-13 Thread Win Htin
Hi folks, How do I put Volumes into a particular Pool? I'm running version 2.4.4 on RHEL5. Currently, from bconsole when I run update slots I see: *update slots The defined Storage resources are: 1: File 2: TS3100_1 Select Storage resource (1-2): 2 Connecting to Storage daemon

Re: [Bacula-users] Adding volumes to a certain Pool

2009-02-13 Thread Brian Debelius
Hi, This was just discussed here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.general/51284 Win Htin wrote: Hi folks, How do I put Volumes into a particular Pool? I'm running version 2.4.4 on RHEL5. Currently, from bconsole when I run update slots I see: *update slots

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bulk] Re: How to send Bacula messages to different addresses based on backup job, not type

2009-02-13 Thread Foo
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:59:02 +0100, Mike Eggleston mikee...@me.com wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Foo might have said: Is it possible to send mail to different recipients depending on the backup job? On unix you could sent the mail to a sendmail alias, use the

Re: [Bacula-users] Adding volumes to a certain Pool

2009-02-13 Thread Graham Keeling
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:24:30AM -0500, Win Htin wrote: How do I put Volumes into a particular Pool? Hello, Maybe try this, from bconsole: update Then choose 'Volume parameters' - number '1' on my list. Then choose 'Pool' - number '11' on my list. Then choose the pool that the volume is

Re: [Bacula-users] Adding volumes to a certain Pool

2009-02-13 Thread John Drescher
How do I put Volumes into a particular Pool? Hello, Maybe try this, from bconsole: update Then choose 'Volume parameters' - number '1' on my list. Then choose 'Pool' - number '11' on my list. Then choose the pool that the volume is currently in, then choose the volume, then type in

Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with recycling after moving from 2.0 to 2.4

2009-02-13 Thread Yann Cézard
Kevin Keane a écrit : Yann Cézard wrote: Kevin Keane a écrit : If my math is right, the 12th is the 13th day of the retention period. Since the previous job finished at 22:43, and your new job started at 22:38, the rentention period hadn't elapsed yet, by about five minutes. The

Re: [Bacula-users] Adding volumes to a certain Pool

2009-02-13 Thread Win Htin
Thanks Brian. Problem fixed. On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Brian Debelius bdebel...@intelesyscorp.com wrote: Hi, This was just discussed here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.general/51284 Win Htin wrote: Hi folks, How do I put Volumes into a particular

Re: [Bacula-users] LabelFormat question

2009-02-13 Thread ML mail
As you say this is very confusing... I think the easiest for me is simply then to create one pool per server and have the name of the server in the label without any other variables so that it will automatically add an incremented number after it. For example I may just use this: LabelFormat

Re: [Bacula-users] Adding volumes to a certain Pool

2009-02-13 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Win Htin win.h...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Brian. Problem fixed. BTW, Which option did you choose? John -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA

[Bacula-users] Automatically Disposing of Volumes

2009-02-13 Thread Chris Lieb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am setting up Bacula right now for the first time and have pretty much everything working, but have one nagging concern. Since Bacula was designed around tape backup systems, it supports recycling of volumes so that they can be used again after a

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically Disposing of Volumes

2009-02-13 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Chris Lieb chris.lieb+nos...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am setting up Bacula right now for the first time and have pretty much everything working, but have one nagging concern. Since Bacula was designed around tape

Re: [Bacula-users] pre-checking tape for next backup

2009-02-13 Thread Stefan Lubitz
Hi Arno, hi James, I have got nearly the same problem If one of you could give me a good hint where to start for the script, it would be great :-) Thanks, Stefan -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Arno Lehmann [mailto:a...@its-lehmann.de] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. Dezember 2008 09:38 An:

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically Disposing of Volumes

2009-02-13 Thread John Drescher
If you really want to do this you will have to roll your own solution. Most likely this will involve a cron job scripting commands to bconsole. I know I was a little unclear here. The rm of the volume file happens outside of bacula. The script would use bconsole to figure out what volume to

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically Disposing of Volumes

2009-02-13 Thread Thiago Simoes
John Drescher wrote: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Chris Lieb chris.lieb+nos...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am setting up Bacula right now for the first time and have pretty much everything working, but have one nagging concern. Since Bacula was

Re: [Bacula-users] Someone could help me?

2009-02-13 Thread Miguel E . Chang Peña
Hi, Did anyone every respond and help you with this? Miguel E. Chang Peña wrote: I just installed bacula, so I am a beginner. But the thing is, I have not seen this system working yet, because of this: computer:~# /etc/init.d/bacula-director start Starting Bacula Director: 11-feb 14:36

Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with recycling after moving from 2.0 to 2.4

2009-02-13 Thread Martin Simmons
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:28:09 +0100, Yann Cezard said: So basically it looks more like a Job pruning problem ? The pruning algorithm changed a little in the Bacula 2.2. Bacula 2.0 prunes all volumes in the current pool, but 2.2 stops pruning as soon as it finds one that can be purged. I'm

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically Disposing of Volumes

2009-02-13 Thread John Drescher
I'm looking for the same solution. I'm working on a script to do that since bacula cannot do by itself as John stated above. I think that what we need to do is delete the volumes from the catalog and after that delete the volume from the harddisk. sounds correct to me No idea how to get the

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically Disposing of Volumes

2009-02-13 Thread Chris Lieb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Drescher wrote: If you really want to do this you will have to roll your own solution. Most likely this will involve a cron job scripting commands to bconsole. I know I was a little unclear here. The rm of the volume file happens outside

Re: [Bacula-users] Someone could help me?

2009-02-13 Thread John Drescher
I haven't tested that yet, but what I really need is a deb package with a newer version of bacula, I am not sure about deb packages someone else will have to help with that. so I could really see if that's the problem. I created the database with a script I found on the web. It could be what

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically Disposing of Volumes

2009-02-13 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Chris Lieb chris.lieb+nos...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Drescher wrote: If you really want to do this you will have to roll your own solution. Most likely this will involve a cron job scripting commands to bconsole.

Re: [Bacula-users] Adding volumes to a certain Pool

2009-02-13 Thread Win Htin
This is what I did. 1. Stopped all Bacula processes. 2. Moved each tape around through the web-interface, (slot to tapedrive and back to slot) 3. Deleted each tape with mt -f /dev/st0 weof command 4. Restarted Bacula processes 5. Through bconsole issued the command: label barcodes

Re: [Bacula-users] Adding volumes to a certain Pool

2009-02-13 Thread John Drescher
This is what I did. 1. Stopped all Bacula processes. 2. Moved each tape around through the web-interface, (slot to tapedrive and back to slot) 3. Deleted each tape with mt -f /dev/st0 weof command 4. Restarted Bacula processes 5. Through bconsole issued the command: label barcodes

Re: [Bacula-users] Adding volumes to a certain Pool

2009-02-13 Thread Win Htin
FYI The whole situation started when the power went out during the day, the backup generator didn't kick in (as usual) and when the power came back the nightly backups put both volumes, one from full, one from incremental into error and the tape library had a media error light on. Thankfully, I

[Bacula-users] [Fwd: Here you go!!!!!!]

2009-02-13 Thread Brian Debelius
Original Message Subject:Here you go!! Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:09:24 -0600 From: Steve Handy sha...@firstcomm.com To: 'Brian Debelius' bdebel...@intelesyscorp.com References: 21976504.p...@talk.nabble.com

[Bacula-users] Strange Problem backing up Macs

2009-02-13 Thread mavrick77
Hi im a newbie to Bacula and im having a strange problem. I am able to make a full backup and everthing is good. 1) When I drag and drop a file/dir in the directory that is being saved and then run a incremental backup the new file doesn't show up. 2) If I go to the terminal and vi the file,

Re: [Bacula-users] Strange Problem backing up Macs

2009-02-13 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 13.02.2009 20:59, mavrick77 wrote: Hi im a newbie to Bacula and im having a strange problem. I am able to make a full backup and everthing is good. 1) When I drag and drop a file/dir in the directory that is being saved and then run a incremental backup the new file doesn't show up.

Re: [Bacula-users] Finding performance issues

2009-02-13 Thread (private) HKS
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:03 PM, (private) HKS hks.priv...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:56 PM, (private) HKS hks.priv...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Steve Polyack kor...@comcast.net wrote: (private) HKS wrote: My server's network performance seems all

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically Disposing of Volumes

2009-02-13 Thread Chris Lieb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Drescher wrote: If you really want to do this you will have to roll your own solution. Most likely this will involve a cron job scripting commands to bconsole. I know I was a little unclear here. The rm of the volume file happens outside

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically Disposing of Volumes

2009-02-13 Thread John Drescher
Ok, I've got everything scripted up except the deletion. What all needs to be done to delete a volume? Right now I am looking at doing a: $ bconsole EOF delete media volume=volume_name quit EOF $ rm -f /backup/volume_name Is that all that needs to be done to delete a volume? Looks

[Bacula-users] No entries in log table

2009-02-13 Thread Peter Reilly
I'm using mysql 5.0.45, and bacula 2.4.2 (installed from RPM). Most things seem to be working well, but I'm getting nothing written to the log table in mysql. What configuration setting controls logging events to the mysql database? Thanks in advance.

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up Microsoft Exchange?!

2009-02-13 Thread James Harper
Well, what matters to me is the amount of data transferred in each backup session: would this plugin do some sort of incremental backups or just backup the *whole* Exchange database? No, it can do incrementals. Ah, so it could be ok for me to use, as you say that it *can* do

Re: [Bacula-users] No entries in log table

2009-02-13 Thread Dan Langille
Peter Reilly wrote: I'm using mysql 5.0.45, and bacula 2.4.2 (installed from RPM). Most things seem to be working well, but I'm getting nothing written to the log table in mysql. What configuration setting controls logging events to the mysql database? I find this interesting because