Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula deficiency

2013-02-06 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 20130205 om 19:16 schreef Conrad Lawes: No, I don't use JobDefs. I'll do some research on JobDefs to see how useful this option can be. Thanks for the pointer. That posting with the pointer had, and this posting has more hints: Reply below the text. On 2013-02-05 10:44, Conrad Lawes

Re: [Bacula-users] Install and configure both server and client

2013-02-06 Thread Simone Caronni
Hello, On 6 February 2013 06:48, Jake G. dj_dark_jungl...@yahoo.com wrote: Your repo looks great!. I have added it to my new server. However, do you have a preferred install instructions that you use? there's no preferred installation method, just install the packages you require. If you

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Full's - Waiting for Storage

2013-02-06 Thread Jummo
Hi Jean-Louis, On Tue, 5 Feb 2013, Jean-Louis Dupond wrote: Hi, I've been playing with Bacula a bit lately, and it works quite fine :) But now I want to use Virtual Full backup's. This to minimize bandwith used by Bacula. I have the following Pool: Pool {   Name = ApolloFile   Pool Type =

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Full's - Waiting for Storage

2013-02-06 Thread Jean-Louis Dupond
Hi, Thanks for the answer. But what about this then: If you then want to do subsequent backups, you may need to move the Virtual Full Volume back to your normal backup pool. Alternatively, you can set your Next Pool to point to the current pool. This will cause Bacula to read and write to

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Full's - Waiting for Storage

2013-02-06 Thread Jummo
On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, Jean-Louis Dupond wrote: Hi, Thanks for the answer. But what about this then: If you then want to do subsequent backups, you may need to move the Virtual Full Volume back to your normal backup pool. Alternatively, you can set your Next Pool to point to the current

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Full's - Waiting for Storage

2013-02-06 Thread Jean-Louis Dupond
On 2013-02-06 10:46, Jummo wrote: On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, Jean-Louis Dupond wrote: Hi, Thanks for the answer. But what about this then: If you then want to do subsequent backups, you may need to move the Virtual Full Volume back to your normal backup pool. Alternatively, you can set your

Re: [Bacula-users] Purging Message

2013-02-06 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 06.02.2013 04:19, schrieb Summers, James B. II: On Feb 5, 2013, at 5:15 PM, Tilman Schmidt t.schm...@phoenixsoftware.de wrote: Am 05.02.2013 18:09, schrieb Summers, James B. II: I was looking at my backup email reports and keep seeing the following at the end of each report: JobId

[Bacula-users] expand Since Time on Client Run Before Job

2013-02-06 Thread stefano scotti
Hi everybody, i'm trying to pass the since time as a parameter to my client side script before running the job. the user guide says that the related substitution character is %s. now, i know that not every variable expansion can be done on client side, in fact the user guide specifies that list:

[Bacula-users] two tape backup strategy

2013-02-06 Thread dubnik
Hello I have two 800GB tapes and I need to backup 500GB partition Can you plese tell me some backup strategy with bacula ? It would be great if it's possible to make the whole process automatic. Thanks +-- |This was sent by

Re: [Bacula-users] Running one director with mixed db backends / catalogs?

2013-02-06 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 11:32:51AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: On 2013-02-05 10:20, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: Hi folks, we'd like to test a new postgres backend (one catalog for a couple of clients) to compare it to the existing mysql catalog. Is it possible to define mixed catalog backends in a

Re: [Bacula-users] Running one director with mixed db backends / catalogs?

2013-02-06 Thread Dan Langille
On 2013-02-06 08:42, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 11:32:51AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: On 2013-02-05 10:20, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: Hi folks, we'd like to test a new postgres backend (one catalog for a couple of clients) to compare it to the existing mysql catalog. Is it

Re: [Bacula-users] Running one director with mixed db backends / catalogs?

2013-02-06 Thread Dan Langille
On 2013-02-06 09:14, Dan Langille wrote: On 2013-02-06 08:42, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 11:32:51AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: On 2013-02-05 10:20, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: Hi folks, we'd like to test a new postgres backend (one catalog for a couple of clients) to compare

Re: [Bacula-users] Running one director with mixed db backends / catalogs?

2013-02-06 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp uwe.schuerk...@nionex.net wrote: On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 11:32:51AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: On 2013-02-05 10:20, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: Hi folks, we'd like to test a new postgres backend (one catalog for a couple of clients) to compare it to

Re: [Bacula-users] Running one director with mixed db backends / catalogs?

2013-02-06 Thread Simone Caronni
Hello, On 6 February 2013 15:19, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: Keep in mind that a given Bacula binary can access only one database type. e.g. PostgreSQL. If compiled for PostgreSQL, that's what it will work with. not MySQL. However, I *seem* to recall something about compiling

Re: [Bacula-users] Purging Message

2013-02-06 Thread Süleyman Kuran
I am also having this problem, *version bacula-dir Version: 5.0.0 (26 January 2010) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu redhat (Final) Installed on Centos 6.3 with yum On 05-02-2013 19:09, Summers, James B. II wrote: Hello All, I was looking at my backup email reports and keep seeing the following

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula deficiency

2013-02-06 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, 2013/2/6 Geert Stappers geert.stapp...@vanadgroup.com: Bullshit. There was no fifth friday in January 2013. | $ LANG=C cal 1 2013 | January 2013 | Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa |1 2 3 4 5 | 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 | 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 | 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 | 27 28 29 30

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Full's - Waiting for Storage

2013-02-06 Thread Jummo
On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, Jean-Louis Dupond wrote: How can a Pool be defined with 2 Storage devices? The Pool defines: Storage = ApolloFile But you can't define 2 devices for 1 storage? Any change to get an example? Cause the Virtual Full documentation is not always as clear. Not the pool,

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Full's - Waiting for Storage

2013-02-06 Thread John Drescher
Not the pool, your storage has two devices. For multiple devices in a Backup2Disk Storage you have to use a script to emulate a tape library with two or more devices and an autochanger. For Bacula your Backup2Disk storage is like a library with one tape. Agreed. For disk based storage I

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Full's - Waiting for Storage

2013-02-06 Thread Jean-Louis Dupond
Op 06-02-13 18:53, John Drescher schreef: Not the pool, your storage has two devices. For multiple devices in a Backup2Disk Storage you have to use a script to emulate a tape library with two or more devices and an autochanger. For Bacula your Backup2Disk storage is like a library with one

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Full's - Waiting for Storage

2013-02-06 Thread John Drescher
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vchanger/ I've been playing a bit with the vchanger and disk-changer now. But am I right about the following: You can specify a number of slots, but there is a hardcoded slot limit, so also a hardcoded Volume Limit? Because currenly I have Max Jobs Volume =

Re: [Bacula-users] Install and configure both server and client

2013-02-06 Thread Jake G.
Ok after getting bacula working I can honestly say it the worst backup solution I have ever used. Thanks everyone for your help! On 2013/02/06, at 14:48, Jake G. dj_dark_jungl...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Simone, Your repo looks great!. I have added it to my new server. However, do you have

Re: [Bacula-users] Install and configure both server and client

2013-02-06 Thread Michael D. Wood
Really? Bacula is super powerful and flexible. I love the way it works, but it does require a lot of reading and playing around with it to master it (I'm by no means a master of it). Bacula isn't a sugar coated or hold your hand type backup solution and it's a good challenge. If I may ask,

Re: [Bacula-users] Install and configure both server and client

2013-02-06 Thread Gary R. Schmidt
On 7/02/2013 2:28 PM, Jake G. wrote: Ok after getting bacula working I can honestly say it the worst backup solution I have ever used. Thanks everyone for your help! Oh, really? I suppose if you've only been in the backup game for five minutes, something like Bacula would be confusing. I

Re: [Bacula-users] Install and configure both server and client

2013-02-06 Thread Michael D. Wood
+1 Michael D. Wood m...@itsecuritypros.org On Feb 6, 2013, at 11:51 PM, Gary R. Schmidt g...@mcleod-schmidt.id.au wrote: On 7/02/2013 2:28 PM, Jake G. wrote: Ok after getting bacula working I can honestly say it the worst backup solution I have ever used. Thanks everyone for your help!

Re: [Bacula-users] Install and configure both server and client

2013-02-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 02/06/13 23:51, Gary R. Schmidt wrote: On 7/02/2013 2:28 PM, Jake G. wrote: Ok after getting bacula working I can honestly say it the worst backup solution I have ever used. Thanks everyone for your help! Oh, really? I suppose if you've only been in the backup game for five minutes,