[Bacula-users] building bacula storage daemon only

2009-07-20 Thread Bobby Castleberry
Hello all, I am testing Bacula out and running into a bit of confusion. From the documentation it appears that I can have the storage daemon and director installed on separate systems. When searching for documentation for just building the storage daemon alone it seems like either it's not

[Bacula-users] incremental from different job

2009-07-20 Thread C . Keschnat
Hey, is it somehow possible to use a Full backup from a different job for an incremental backup of another job? I have jobs for clients which run under a normal schedule (differential daily, full weekly). Some Server need to be backed up hourly. What I'd like to do is use the full or

Re: [Bacula-users] building bacula storage daemon only

2009-07-20 Thread Martin Simmons
On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:34:53 -0500, Bobby Castleberry said: Hello all, I am testing Bacula out and running into a bit of confusion. From the documentation it appears that I can have the storage daemon and director installed on separate systems. Yes.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2009-07-20 Thread Martin Simmons
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:54:35 +0100, Gavin McCullagh said: Hi, On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Bruno Friedmann wrote: Another useful feature might be a wildcard excludefromcompression directive so you could say: This might avoid wasting time trying to compress the unccompressible while

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2009-07-20 Thread Simone S. Santiago
Thank you, John. best rds, Simone John Drescher escreveu: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Simone S. Santiagosim...@magistrainfo.com.br wrote: Hey co-workers, I wonder if it is possible improve the Bacula compression? I am using "compression = GZIP" but sometimes it compress

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2009-07-20 Thread Victor Hugo dos Santos
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:53 PM, John Drescherdresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Simone S. Santiagosim...@magistrainfo.com.br wrote: Hey co-workers, I wonder if it is possible improve the Bacula compression? I am using compression = GZIP but sometimes it compress

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2009-07-20 Thread Victor Hugo dos Santos
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Gavin McCullaghgavin.mccull...@gcd.ie wrote: Hi, [...] Another useful feature might be a wildcard excludefromcompression directive so you could say:        excludefromcompression {                pattern = *.zip                pattern = *.gz              

Re: [Bacula-users] tapes not fully written

2009-07-20 Thread ict Mapper ict department
Thank you for your response John, Here is the contents of the config files: [bacula-dir.conf] # # Default Bacula Director Configuration file # # The only thing that MUST be changed is to add one or more # file or directory names in the Include directive of the # FileSet resource. # # For

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2009-07-20 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:57 AM, John Drescherdresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Victor Hugo dos Santoslistas@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:53 PM, John Drescherdresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Simone S.

Re: [Bacula-users] tapes not fully written

2009-07-20 Thread John Drescher
How about the output of list media pool=monthly from a bacula console. Also check to see if there are any errors in your bacula logs. -- John M. Drescher -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2009-07-20 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Victor Hugo dos Santoslistas@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:53 PM, John Drescherdresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Simone S. Santiagosim...@magistrainfo.com.br wrote: Hey co-workers, I wonder if it is possible

Re: [Bacula-users] migration and copying

2009-07-20 Thread Grzegorz Bystrzyński
Dirk Bartley pisze: On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 16:57 -0800, Bob Gamble wrote: Can someone explain to me how a migration or copy is generally supposed to work? In my mind, I would like to take a full volume, which has Full/Differential/Incremental backups in it and copy or migrate it to another

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2009-07-20 Thread Victor Hugo dos Santos
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:57 AM, John Drescherdresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Victor Hugo dos Santoslistas@gmail.com wrote: [...] You are not using the same exact dataset (145GB versus 140GB source data ) in both tests so its meaningless that GZIP6 is

Re: [Bacula-users] tapes not fully written

2009-07-20 Thread ict Mapper ict department
Sorry, i forgot that one. Here is the list media from the monthly pool: As you can see in the beginning it worked better then now. | MediaId|VolumeName|VolStatus|Enabled|VolBytes | VolFiles|VolRetention| Recycle| Slot |InChanger| MediaType| LastWritten |

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression

2009-07-20 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Victor Hugo dos Santoslistas@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:57 AM, John Drescherdresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Victor Hugo dos Santoslistas@gmail.com wrote: [...] You are not using the same exact dataset

Re: [Bacula-users] tapes not fully written

2009-07-20 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:51 AM, ict Mapper ict departmenti...@mapperlithography.com wrote: Sorry, i forgot that one. Here is the list media from the monthly pool: As you can see in the beginning it worked better then now. | MediaId|VolumeName|VolStatus|Enabled|VolBytes  |      

[Bacula-users] Migrating Files using Bacula

2009-07-20 Thread David Hatcher
Hi All, Just wanted to run something past the list and see if anyone knows of an easier way to do this. I've been using Bacula v2.4.3 to back up my Window 2000 file server to tape. This has worked out well and I realize Bacula is quite versatile. My Windows file server has RAID 1 disks and

[Bacula-users] install bat on RHEL or CentOS

2009-07-20 Thread Mark Nienberg
I see that the RHEL5 rpms from fschwarz do not include bat and I see in the archives that compiling bat on RHEL5 is a frequent problem. There is a wiki article about this but it is from bacula version 2.2.5. What is the current status and is there a How-to that will help me get it done?

Re: [Bacula-users] install bat on RHEL or CentOS

2009-07-20 Thread Jayson Broughton
Mark, I have bat successfully working on an RHEL5 machine. I keep a journal of all my successes/failures, and was able to look back through it to find out how I installed it properly. This may or may not be what you are looking for, but I will post the entry in its entirety - BAT has been

[Bacula-users] Odd Bacula article

2009-07-20 Thread Dan Langille
I found this today: http://searchstorage.techtarget.com.au/articles/34020-Open-source-backup-tools-Amanda-BackupPC-and-Bacula-compared However, very little comparison is done. The Bacula information is based upon writings by Eric Burgener, but I can find no material referencing his work.