[Bacula-users] Manual pruning / purging and deleting volumes

2006-03-18 Thread Achim Schmidt
Hi all, i use bacula to create backups on diskstorage. my question here is, will it work, if I prune / purge a volume manual (by using bconsole) and deleting the responding volume file afterwards insight the filesystem. If I prune / purge a volume by bconsole using, will bacula also delete all

[Bacula-users] Moving volumes

2006-03-18 Thread Achim Schmidt
Hi all, Im thinking about moving existing volumefiles to an other harddisk (in the same system). Does anybody has some hints how to do this, wothout running into problems regading the existing catalog-infos ? I'm thining about adding an 2nd storage-device in the sd, configuring this into the

Re: [Bacula-users] Error backing up a windows client.

2006-03-13 Thread Achim Schmidt
Hi, are you sure, you're able to connect to the sd ?? No firewall in between the clients and the sd ?? For me this looks like a networkproblem ... (I'm running here some Windowsboxes with bacula without those issues ...) cu Achim Erik P. Olsen wrote: The bacula-dir daemon runs on an FC3

[Bacula-users] Status of Volumesparameters

2006-03-13 Thread Achim Schmidt
Hi all, is there any way to see the actual volume settings - on a per volume base - like: - Volume Retention - Maximum Volume Bytes - Volume Use Duration - Purged Baytes insight a volume (list volumes (in bconsole) does not display the things i'm looking for). This would make

Re: [Bacula-users] Status of Volumesparameters

2006-03-13 Thread Achim Schmidt
Hi Arno, thx again. the llist tells me near everything I want to know - except the amount of bytes that is already pruned inside the volume ... is there any way to see this ? thx achim Arno Lehmann wrote: Hello, On 3/13/2006 10:30 AM, Achim Schmidt wrote: Hi all

[Bacula-users] Waiting to reserve a device

2006-03-11 Thread Achim Schmidt
Hi all, any hints what to do / how to handle messages like intervention needed - waiting to reserve a device - what should / can I do if I get this message and how I can prevent this ?? thx rgds Achim --- This SF.Net email is sponsored

[Bacula-users] Reuse of Diskspace

2006-03-10 Thread Achim Schmidt
Hi, I've running a bacula setup that stores its backups to disk. basicly i'm very satisfied with the system, but something looks a bit strange for me. I get the impresssion, that bacula uses as much diskspace as it can get and is not reusing pruned diskspace. sample: one set stores about 12

Re: [Bacula-users] Reuse of Diskspace

2006-03-10 Thread Achim Schmidt
Hi Arno thx for yr information. that means bacula starts reusing only if it reachs some of those limits (time, count oder jobcount) ? If I dont set those limits, it will take all space available ?? thx achim Arno Lehmann wrote: Hello, On 3/10/2006 9:30 AM, Achim Schmidt wrote

[Bacula-users] Backupstrategy with bacula

2005-11-08 Thread Achim Schmidt
Hi all, some weeks ago I already asked naerly the same and someone told me, thet the feature I'm looking for will be included in Version 1.38. Now I'm upgrading but a bit helpless due I don't find this in the manual. I'm thinking about a backup strategy like the following: - bi-weekly full

[Bacula-users] Tapeautoloader configuration ...

2005-11-08 Thread Achim Schmidt
Hi all, I'm running bacula 1.38 and now trieing to setup my tape autoloader. It's a simple DDS4 Autoloader with 1 drive (nst0), 6 tapes (1-6) and 1 changing unit (sg1). I read the autochanging chapter into the documentation, but i'm not able to backup to my tapestation. I was wondering if

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up offsite-maschines

2005-10-18 Thread Achim Schmidt
Hi Stephan, i would solve that issue due to network topics build a vpn (like openvpn) between the systems and then let bacula connect to the vpn inside ip's. then the ip's are ever the same for the services. For connecting the outside (dynamic) ip's dyndns usage or somthing like that would help.

Re: [Bacula-users] Connection Problems

2005-10-17 Thread Achim Schmidt
Hi, do you investigated with tcpdump on both servers if there is any communication between teh systems on the given ports ? rgds, Achim John wrote: I have successfully setup Bacula with a dozen clients. Server and clients are running RedHat Enterprise 3 ES. Bacula on the server was

[Bacula-users] Restore with windows bconsole

2005-10-06 Thread Achim Schmidt [Baclua]
Hi, I've some problems to restore files I restored from windows client (console windows fd). the backup runs without any errors and problems. but it seems i'm doing something wrong with the restore. If I try to restore by using the bconsole fpr windows, I get this message: 06-Oct 12:18

[Bacula-users] limit restore-jobs by jobACLs ?

2005-10-05 Thread Achim Schmidt [Baclua]
Hi there, in my investigations about bacula's usabily for my environment, now i came to a point, that seems to be an issue with access rights, but i'm not sure. in the listarc, i found a post where soeren addesses more or less exactly the same issue i've now. due soerens posting was in may this