Re: [Bacula-users] Help NEeded

2009-10-15 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi Didier, I send this to the mailing list... the discussion should stay there, I think. 15.10.2009 09:55, didier.faur...@free.fr wrote: Hello thanks for reply About the last answer for btape error in fact i'm Administrator of the server But do you, on the shell, have administrative

[Bacula-users] Bacula scheduler

2009-10-15 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Recently the question came up (during a Bacula course) about whether or not the Bacula scheduler (the part that creates the Job from the Schedule resource) starts jobs according to their Priority if they all have the same start time. The answer is yes, the schedule maintains a list

Re: [Bacula-users] Building bacula-fd on OpenBSD 4.5

2009-10-15 Thread Daniel Bareiro
On Wednesday, 14 October 2009 17:38:59 +0100, Martin Simmons wrote: In the FileSet resource for this client I'm doing backup of all the /etc, but there are some files and directories which aren't able to be copied. I consider that this is because the process (running with bacula: bacula)

Re: [Bacula-users] bextract -- restore single occurrence of file

2009-10-15 Thread cby
Martin Thanks for the pointer. Looks like it's the way to go. cby Martin Simmons wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:40:33 -0700 (PDT), cby said: Running bacula on Centos 5.2 I have a tape volume which has more than one occurrence of the same filename as a result of appending to tape. I

Re: [Bacula-users] Building bacula-fd on OpenBSD 4.5

2009-10-15 Thread Jari Fredriksson
15.10.2009 13:34, Daniel Bareiro kirjoitti: Do you think that it is appropriate to starting bacula-fd with the script in /etc/bacula/scripts using the following lines in the /etc/rc.local file? # DGB - 20091012 # Starting bacula-fd on boot if [ -x /etc/bacula/scripts/bacula-ctl-fd ]; then

Re: [Bacula-users] Building bacula-fd on OpenBSD 4.5

2009-10-15 Thread Jari Fredriksson
15.10.2009 14:03, Jari Fredriksson kirjoitti: 15.10.2009 13:34, Daniel Bareiro kirjoitti: Do you think that it is appropriate to starting bacula-fd with the script in /etc/bacula/scripts using the following lines in the /etc/rc.local file? # DGB - 20091012 # Starting bacula-fd on boot if

[Bacula-users] Compatibility

2009-10-15 Thread Piing - Damien CHEVALIER
Is Tandberg LTO-4 HH (3504-LTO model) compatible with bacula backup system ? Thanks -- Damien CHEVALIER Piing Groupe LOGIFI 250 rue des Droits de l'Homme 33240 Saint André de Cubzac Tél 05 57 42 63 60 Fax 05 57 42 09 37 email dcheval...@piing.fr

Re: [Bacula-users] Compatibility

2009-10-15 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 15.10.2009 13:38, Piing - Damien CHEVALIER wrote: Is Tandberg LTO-4 HH (3504-LTO model) compatible with bacula backup system ? Almost certainly, it mostly depends on your operating system... under linux/unix, as long as you've got the proper device nodes like /dev/nstX and can use the

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape Volumes

2009-10-15 Thread Pedro Bordin Hoffmann
Thanks for all your help. I think Im understanding a little more of bacula :P im in my 3 tape, and is asking me this: Device Fita (/dev/st0) is not open. Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for: Pool:FullBackupsTapePool Media type: Tape What is that? Thanks

[Bacula-users] Compatibility with older bacula-fd

2009-10-15 Thread Marek Simon
Hi, I have a box with pretty old operating system, which cannot be upgraded, but I need to have there a bacula client. The newest version I have run there was 1.36.6. I have Director 2.4.4. The full backup was OK, but when I start an Incremental Job I got this Error: 15-říj 14:40 the-host-fd:

[Bacula-users] not accepable tape: status append, recycling disabled

2009-10-15 Thread Thomas Mueller
today i've got some special message from bacula: 15-Okt 14:46 host-sd JobId 3913: Warning: Director wanted Volume ARCHIVE-0009. Current Volume EXTRA not acceptable because: 1998 Volume EXTRA status is Append, volume has recycling disabled. why needs the recycle flag to be enabled to write

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Tape Volumes

2009-10-15 Thread John Drescher
I just put a tape... the one labeled quinta-feira-2 Should it start? *list media pool=FullBackupsTapePool +-++---+-+-+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+ | mediaid | volumename |

[Bacula-users] Copying backup On the fly

2009-10-15 Thread Sébastien VINOT
Hello, I'm using bacula for servers but the problem is that both servers and where bacula runs are on the same room. I'd like to know how to implement a duplication of the data bacula stores in order to put a copy on another location (via internet). Of course it is not possible to copy

Re: [Bacula-users] Copying backup On the fly

2009-10-15 Thread John Drescher
I'm using bacula for servers but the problem is that both servers and where bacula runs are on the same room. I'd like to know how to implement a duplication of the data bacula stores in order to put a copy on another location (via internet). Of course it is not possible to copy simply the

Re: [Bacula-users] Copying backup On the fly

2009-10-15 Thread Marek.M.Stopka
Hi. I am actually thinking about same thing at this time, and well... deduplicated replication over network under linux seems to be a little bit complicated task... But I have an idea that could solve this issue, however, I don't have it implemented yet... but the idea is to use DRBD and lessfs

[Bacula-users] Encryption by SD or Pool

2009-10-15 Thread Matt Richards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I currently have bacula setup to backup to disk volumes that reside on encrypted file systems. I have just added a tape drive on another SD and would like the data on the tapes to be encrypted. Is this possible without using encryption from

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem in backup tape

2009-10-15 Thread Eduardo de Moraes Oliveira - Raidbr
Hello Again, Thanks for previous help, I changed the configuration of bacula-sd and left as follows: Device { Name = FITA Media Type = DDS-72 Archive Device = /dev/nst0 LabelMedia = yes; Random Access = Yes; AutomaticMount = yes; RemovableMedia = no; AlwaysOpen =

Re: [Bacula-users] Copying backup On the fly

2009-10-15 Thread John Drescher
This is not a solution at all, because Bacula every time you create new backup will create new virtual tapes, and since rsync deduplicate only files, not entire amount of data that is going to be transfared, this do not solve anything for us. Acctually I am not even sure if we would use LVM

Re: [Bacula-users] Copying backup On the fly

2009-10-15 Thread Marek.M.Stopka
Yeah it will, but when new full backup is taken, you again copy entire operating system copy over network, even though you have already a few copy of that operating systém on a target server. So, yeah it will low the traffic, but not that much as a smarter solution could. :-) Every time you

Re: [Bacula-users] Copying backup On the fly

2009-10-15 Thread Mike Eggleston
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, John Drescher might have said: I'm using bacula for servers but the problem is that both servers and where bacula runs are on the same room. I'd like to know how to implement a duplication of the data bacula stores in order to put a copy on another location (via

Re: [Bacula-users] Copying backup On the fly

2009-10-15 Thread John Drescher
2009/10/15 marek.m.sto...@tieto.com: Yeah it will, but when new full backup is taken, you again copy entire operating system copy  over network, even though you have already a few copy of that operating systém on a target server. So, yeah it will low the traffic, but not that much as a

Re: [Bacula-users] Copying backup On the fly

2009-10-15 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:05 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/10/15  marek.m.sto...@tieto.com: Yeah it will, but when new full backup is taken, you again copy entire operating system copy  over network, even though you have already a few copy of that operating systém on a

Re: [Bacula-users] Copying backup On the fly

2009-10-15 Thread Brian Debelius
I may be missing something, but using smaller volume files should work for you. You would still need to transfer the entire job, but only the volumes that that job touched. So for example, instead of a 1G job appending to the end of a 10G volume, and having to send the entire 10G again, if

Re: [Bacula-users] Copying backup On the fly

2009-10-15 Thread Brian Debelius
You can throttle rsync with --bwlimit, unless you would need to use the entire bandwidth to finish in your time window. Mike Eggleston wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, John Drescher might have said: I'm using bacula for servers but the problem is that both servers and where bacula runs are

Re: [Bacula-users] Compatibility

2009-10-15 Thread Piing - Damien CHEVALIER
Hi, Operating System will be gnu/linux debian. If the Tandberg LTO-4 device is known by my OS, i can consider it will function with bacula system ? Thanks. Arno Lehmann a écrit : Hi, 15.10.2009 13:38, Piing - Damien CHEVALIER wrote: Is Tandberg LTO-4 HH (3504-LTO model) compatible

Re: [Bacula-users] Encryption by SD or Pool

2009-10-15 Thread Cedric Tefft
Matt Richards wrote: I currently have bacula setup to backup to disk volumes that reside on encrypted file systems. I have just added a tape drive on another SD and would like the data on the tapes to be encrypted. Is this possible without using encryption from the FD? My solution to

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Tape Volumes

2009-10-15 Thread Pedro Bordin Hoffmann
What should I do? 2009/10/15 John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com I just put a tape... the one labeled quinta-feira-2 Should it start? *list media pool=FullBackupsTapePool

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Tape Volumes

2009-10-15 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Pedro Bordin Hoffmann pedro.hoffm...@raidbr.com.br wrote: What should I do? I am not sure why your tapes have status Recycle yet are not getting recycled. I do not recall seeing this before. I was hoping that someone else on the list could solve that problem.

Re: [Bacula-users] Building bacula-fd on OpenBSD 4.5

2009-10-15 Thread Martin Simmons
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:34:57 -0300, Daniel Bareiro said: On Wednesday, 14 October 2009 17:38:59 +0100, Martin Simmons wrote: In the FileSet resource for this client I'm doing backup of all the /etc, but there are some files and directories which aren't able to be copied. I consider

Re: [Bacula-users] Compatibility

2009-10-15 Thread Alex Chekholko
Hi, Familiarize yourself with the 'mt', 'tapeinfo', and 'mtx' commands. They are standard Linux commands for dealing with the tape drives. Then try out the 'btape' regular and autochanger tests:

[Bacula-users] additions to supported autochangers

2009-10-15 Thread Alex Chekholko
Hi all, There is a page in the Bacula manual that lists some autochangers: http://bacula.org/3.0.x-manuals/en/concepts/concepts/Supported_Autochangers.html#Models Here are the ones I've used with Bacula so far, that are not listed there: Dell PowerVault 128T with 1 LTO-1 drive and 20 slots

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape Volumes

2009-10-15 Thread Martin Simmons
This probably won't fix the problem here, but I suggest changing /dev/st0 to /dev/nst0. Using /dev/st0 can cause data loss if the tape rewinds without Bacula knowing. __Martin On Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:30:33 -0300, Pedro Bordin Hoffmann said: Thanks for all your help. I think Im

[Bacula-users] 3.0.1 or 3.0.2 Mac client for OS X 10.5

2009-10-15 Thread Syn, Joonho
Has anyone compiled a 3.0.1 or 3.0.2 mac binary with ssl that they would be willing to share? -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this

Re: [Bacula-users] Mixing versions of daemons

2009-10-15 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
2009/10/15 Fabrizio Reale fabrizio.re...@redomino.com Hi all, Hi, I must backup some servers with old distros which do not provide a recent bacula version. For example one server has the 1.38.11-8. My director and storage version is 2.4.2. How many versions can I go back without problems?

Re: [Bacula-users] Copying backup On the fly

2009-10-15 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
W dniu 15 października 2009 17:13 użytkownik Brian Debelius bdebel...@intelesyscorp.com napisał: I may be missing something, but using smaller volume files should work for you. You would still need to transfer the entire job, but only the volumes that that job touched. So for example,

Re: [Bacula-users] Copying backup On the fly

2009-10-15 Thread John Drescher
I'm thinking of a solution (maybe not so simple):  - Before a job starts, a small script checks if the file exists and if it is a socket (assuming it is possible to know the file name at this time). If it is a real file (which means it is a new file, the script can replace the file by a

Re: [Bacula-users] Copying backup On the fly

2009-10-15 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 15.10.2009 21:23, Sébastien VINOT wrote: ... I'm thinking of a solution (maybe not so simple): - Before a job starts, a small script checks if the file exists and if it is a socket (assuming it is possible to know the file name at this time). If it is a real file (which means it is a

[Bacula-users] Out of Disk Space

2009-10-15 Thread Dupree, Craig
Today while inserting attributes my mysql partition ran out of space. I thought I had addressed that because both bacula and mysql seemed to be hung up waiting. Once I freed up disk space, mysql suddenly started getting a lot of CPU time, and I thought I was okay. Then bacula sent me a job

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape Volumes

2009-10-15 Thread Pedro Bordin Hoffmann
My tape was working fine on /dev/st0, what is the difference ? 2009/10/15 Martin Simmons mar...@lispworks.com This probably won't fix the problem here, but I suggest changing /dev/st0 to /dev/nst0. Using /dev/st0 can cause data loss if the tape rewinds without Bacula knowing. __Martin

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape Volumes

2009-10-15 Thread John Drescher
2009/10/15 Pedro Bordin Hoffmann pedro.hoffm...@raidbr.com.br: My tape was working fine on /dev/st0, what is the difference ? There is a chance of tape corruption with using /dev/st0 if the os rewinds with out bacula knowing and then bacula assumes (which it always does) that the tape was

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape Volumes

2009-10-15 Thread Peter Allgeyer
Am Donnerstag, den 15.10.2009, 17:26 -0300 schrieb Pedro Bordin Hoffmann: My tape was working fine on /dev/st0, what is the difference ? It depends. On linux /dev/nst0 is the device used for non rewinding tapes and /dev/st0 rewinds the tape. Don't know about BSD. Regards, P. Allgeyer -- Peter

Re: [Bacula-users] Out of Disk Space

2009-10-15 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 15.10.2009 22:13, Dupree, Craig wrote: Today while inserting attributes my mysql partition ran out of space. I thought I had addressed that because both bacula and mysql seemed to be hung up waiting. Once I freed up disk space, mysql suddenly started getting a lot of CPU time, and I

[Bacula-users] autochanger and barcode

2009-10-15 Thread Nicola Quargentan
hi, I'm very newbie and I want to use a DELL TL2000 autochanger. I made 7 pool in config file, one for each day of week: Monday, Tuesday, etc. I want to use one volume for day and label it same as barcode. When I tried label barcode I must to put all tape in only one pool: *label barcode The

Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger and barcode

2009-10-15 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Nicola Quargentan nic...@quargentan.com wrote: hi, I'm very newbie and I want to use a DELL TL2000 autochanger. I made 7 pool in config file, one for each day of week: Monday, Tuesday, etc. I want to use one volume for day and label it same as barcode. When

Re: [Bacula-users] Out of Disk Space

2009-10-15 Thread Dupree, Craig
Hi Arno, Theoretically, yes, though it will lock up your tape drive for a while, and might leave you with an incomplete backup. If the job was actually finished writing to tape, and you're absolutely sure everything you need ended up on tape, you could do that. A full backup would lock

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape Volumes

2009-10-15 Thread terryc
Pedro Bordin Hoffmann wrote: Thanks for all your help. I think Im understanding a little more of bacula :P im in my 3 tape, and is asking me this: Device Fita (/dev/st0) is not open. Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for: Pool:FullBackupsTapePool

Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger and barcode

2009-10-15 Thread Nicola Quargentan
John Drescher ha scritto: On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Nicola Quargentan nic...@quargentan.com wrote: hi, I'm very newbie and I want to use a DELL TL2000 autochanger. I made 7 pool in config file, one for each day of week: Monday, Tuesday, etc. I want to use one volume for day and

[Bacula-users] When is my Volume will be recycled?

2009-10-15 Thread Jose Perez
Hi people: I'm a little confused about how bacula deals with Pools and Volumes. I'm using Automatic labeling with a Pool that uses a unique Volume (as file disk) that is continuosly increasing its size. I have a unique volume named Vol-0001 with a size of 900 GB and status Append. If I pretend

Re: [Bacula-users] When is my Volume will be recycled?

2009-10-15 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Jose Perez jvoorhe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi people: I'm a little confused about how bacula deals with Pools and Volumes. I'm using Automatic labeling with a Pool that uses a unique Volume (as file disk) that is continuosly increasing its size. I have a unique

Re: [Bacula-users] When is my Volume will be recycled?

2009-10-15 Thread Cedric Tefft
Jose Perez wrote: Hi people: I'm a little confused about how bacula deals with Pools and Volumes. I'm using Automatic labeling with a Pool that uses a unique Volume (as file disk) that is continuosly increasing its size. I have a unique volume named Vol-0001 with a size of 900 GB and

Re: [Bacula-users] Compatibility with older bacula-fd

2009-10-15 Thread Cedric Tefft
Marek Simon wrote: Hi, I have a box with pretty old operating system, which cannot be upgraded, but I need to have there a bacula client. The newest version I have run there was 1.36.6. I have Director 2.4.4. The full backup was OK, but when I start an Incremental Job I got this Error:

Re: [Bacula-users] When is my Volume will be recycled?

2009-10-15 Thread Jose Perez
Bacula's retention times for volumes are based on the date the volume was last written.  So, every time Bacula writes a backup job to a volume, your 15-day retention clock starts over from zero.  As long as your volume's status is Append, bacula will keep writing to it. That's the kind of

Re: [Bacula-users] When is my Volume will be recycled?

2009-10-15 Thread Jose Perez
Hi: If you did not set any condition to limit the disk volume size or usage the volume will grow till it exhausts your storage then the volume retention period of 15 days kicks in. That's exactly what is going to happen soon If I don't solve this now. See the first part of the following

[Bacula-users] How to avoid The sizes do not match!?

2009-10-15 Thread epiuse
Hi there, We're currently using bacula 3.0.2 to backup some windows XP and Vista clients. Every now and then, while a backup (Diff or Full) are running, the user may turn of his/her laptop, network issues may occur or whatever else may cause a connection error and then obviously the backup