Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore

2007-02-16 Thread Dwight Tovey
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 17:42 -0500, Joseph S. Rizzari wrote: Hello, I have 1 full backup of a machine and several incrementals. I performed a restore using BartPE. Everything seems like it restored, I started with a formatted drive and now all the files are there, but the machine won't

[Bacula-users] No VSS on Windows 2000

2007-02-08 Thread Dwight Tovey
We rolled our Bacula solution out to production recently, and started getting file in use by another process errors from one of our Windows machines even though VSS is enabled. Turns out this machine is running Windows 2000, which I guess doesn't support VSS? Does anybody know if there is a

[Bacula-users] Retention period priority.

2007-02-08 Thread Dwight Tovey
I think I'm having an issue with how Bacula handles retention periods and volume recycling. What I need to do: I have several machines that need to be backed up. Most of these machines have multiple filesystems. Most of these filesystems we only need to retain a backup for one month, but a few

Re: [Bacula-users] FileStorage != File, but backup runs nonetheless?

2007-02-06 Thread Dwight Tovey
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 13:22 -0500, Ryan Novosielski wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good day all, I'm confused about, basically, why my catalog backup works. The names for the device it's supposed to be using do not jive. Why is this OK? bacula-dir.conf: #

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

2007-02-06 Thread Dwight Tovey
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 16:27 -0800, Tauren Mills wrote: True. I guess I was meaning that Bacula would be natively aware of both copies and be able to restore from either one. Since my disk backups are on a different disk than the mysql database is, this might happen if my backup disk

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

2007-02-05 Thread Dwight Tovey
On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 15:31 -0800, Tauren Mills wrote: Even though option #3 has some drawbacks, the likelihood of those drawbacks happening are slim, especially if I mirror my big backup drive. I'm leaning toward it at the moment unless someone can suggest a way to make a COPY of a volume

Re: [Bacula-users] Advice for disk and tape backup plan

2007-02-05 Thread Dwight Tovey
On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 13:44 -0800, Tauren Mills wrote: Would you use bcopy separate from bacula, creating your own scripts that run off a cron job? Or would you somehow integrate using bcopy into a bacula job using custom bacula scripts? I plan on creating my own scripts, but called as

Re: [Bacula-users] LabelFormat broke using variable expansion

2007-02-01 Thread Dwight Tovey
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 15:48 -0500, Brian Debelius wrote: Using the Windows director, sd, and fd, it does not appear that automatic labeling works with variable expansion and Label Format. This works, and the files get named Comp1_Full-0001..etc ## # Full

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with RunBeforeJob while testing bacula-dir.conf

2007-01-22 Thread Dwight Tovey
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 11:16 +0100, Jon Ingason wrote: I am getting problem with RunBeforeJob. When I test the bacula-dir.conf I get following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bacula]# bacula-dir -t -c bacula-dir.conf 22-jan 10:59 bacula-dir: Fatal error: Could not open Catalog MyCatalog, database

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows restore issues

2007-01-18 Thread Dwight Tovey
their at their email. I'm still not an expert with Windows (and I intend to keep it that way), but are there other potential issues with restoring Domain Controllers / Exchange Servers / other MS servers (other than data-loss between backup and crash) that I've missed? /dwight -- Dwight Tovey

Re: [Bacula-users] Making windows boot

2007-01-17 Thread Dwight Tovey
. There are still a couple of minor issues with the windows restore (I'll start a new thread for those), but it looks like our Bacula solution is ready to go. Thanks for all the help. /dwight -- Dwight Tovey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work to Live : Live to Ride : Ride to Work

Re: [Bacula-users] Making windows boot

2007-01-16 Thread Dwight Tovey
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[Bacula-users] Making windows boot

2007-01-15 Thread Dwight Tovey
simple? Thanks for any pointers. /dwight -- Dwight Tovey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work to Live : Live to Ride : Ride to Work - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll

Re: [Bacula-users] Catalog backup failure

2007-01-11 Thread Dwight Tovey
since it was last read, reread. If nothing else, that would make it easier to add new jobs to the director. /dwight -- Dwight Tovey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work to Live : Live to Ride : Ride to Work - Take Surveys. Earn Cash

[Bacula-users] Catalog backup failure

2007-01-11 Thread Dwight Tovey
with the parameters from the bacula-dir.conf, it succeeds and bacula.sql has appropriate contents. I should probably note that while I'm in the test/evaluation phase, all processes are running as a test user instead of as root. Any ideas what I've missed? Thanks /dwight -- Dwight Tovey