Re: [Bacula-users] seeking advice re. splitting up large backups -- dynamic filesets to prevent duplicate jobs and reduce backup time

2011-10-12 Thread Steve Costaras
seems to be a common mis-conception or I'm /much/ luckier than I should be as I routinely run jobs that last over 15-20 days with zero problems (besides them taking 15-20 days. ;) ). I've been doing this for a couple years now end on end with different deployments of bacula (mainly linux/ubuntu

Re: [Bacula-users] seeking advice re. splitting up large backups -- dynamic filesets to prevent duplicate jobs and reduce backup time

2011-10-12 Thread John Drescher
> Does Bacula really kill long running jobs? Or are you seeing the effect > of something at layer 3 or below (eg TCP connections timing out in > firewalls)? > I believe it automatically kills jobs that are longer than 5 days or something similar. At least that was discussed recently on the list.

Re: [Bacula-users] seeking advice re. splitting up large backups -- dynamic filesets to prevent duplicate jobs and reduce backup time

2011-10-12 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:54:47 +1100, The pithy ruminations from "James Harper" on were: => > => > In an effort to work around the fact that bacula kills long-running => jobs, I'm => > about to partition my backups into smaller sets. For example, instead => of => > backing up: =

Re: [Bacula-users] seeking advice re. splitting up large backups -- dynamic filesets to prevent duplicate jobs and reduce backup time

2011-10-12 Thread James Harper
> > In an effort to work around the fact that bacula kills long-running jobs, I'm > about to partition my backups into smaller sets. For example, instead of > backing up: > > /home > > I would like to backup the content of /home as separate jobs. For example: > > /home/[0-9]* >

[Bacula-users] seeking advice re. splitting up large backups -- dynamic filesets to prevent duplicate jobs and reduce backup time

2011-10-12 Thread mark . bergman
In an effort to work around the fact that bacula kills long-running jobs, I'm about to partition my backups into smaller sets. For example, instead of backing up: /home I would like to backup the content of /home as separate jobs. For example: /home/[0-9]* /home/[A-G]

Re: [Bacula-users] Experiences with Autochanger IBM TS3100

2011-10-12 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, 2011/7/28 selanty > @patric > > i know the topic is old. > but we have purchased a ts3100 with 2 lto5 drives. > I use Centos 5.6 and have a hard time installing the Lin_tape drivers did > you used them? > > Don't use a lin_tape driver. I've fought with it a few days and I've had a lot of

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula director stops unexpectedly // debian

2011-10-12 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:33:47 -0700 dobbin wrote: > Good morning, we've got a debian sarge server running bacula-director > 3.0.2.3 > > It's been running for about 4 years now but just recently it's > started developing a problem where it will stop for no apparent > reason. There's no error messa

[Bacula-users] bacula director stops unexpectedly // debian

2011-10-12 Thread dobbin
Good morning, we've got a debian sarge server running bacula-director 3.0.2.3 It's been running for about 4 years now but just recently it's started developing a problem where it will stop for no apparent reason. There's no error messages, nothing that I can find in the logs (although there's ma

[Bacula-users] batch script in Windows causes job to fail

2011-10-12 Thread Silver Salonen
Hi. A job of Windows-client is set to execute a .bat file after the job. The .bat script is smth like: del /Q /F C:\Accounting\Backup\*.TXT del /Q /F C:\Accounting2\Backup\*.TXT exit 0 For every day there is 1 .TXT file in both folders and the files are about 150 MB in total. But this script ca