Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and databases ...

2009-02-05 Thread James Cort
be fine - though the database will have to do crash recovery when it restarts. James. -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd. -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com -- Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps

[Bacula-users] Have I got it wrong or should this be a feature request?

2009-02-04 Thread James Cort
again anyway). James. -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd. -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com -- Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula binaries for mac?

2009-01-02 Thread James Cort
I would rather not do. ICBW but ISTR that xcode on powerpc can be persuaded to create universal binaries quite happily: http://developer.apple.com/macosx/adoptinguniversalbinaries.html Is bat available on Mac? Any other GUI interface available for Mac? -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA

Re: [Bacula-users] Add forums to the main page?

2008-12-17 Thread James Cort
higher up the page? -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd. -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up a VMware Server on 64-bit Linux

2008-12-02 Thread James Cort
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Re: [Bacula-users] Large maildir backup

2008-11-27 Thread James Cort
. Is that where it inserts everything to a temporary table then copies the entire table into the live one? James. -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd. -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com - This SF.Net email

Re: [Bacula-users] FW: Re: Large maildir backup

2008-11-27 Thread James Cort
Version 1.38.11-8): That version number is, by an amazing coincidence, the exact patchlevel assigned by Debian to their build in current Debian Stable. 2.4.3 is available in Debian Backports and seems pretty stable to me. -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd. -- U4EA

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup of in one directory with 800.000 files

2008-11-27 Thread James Cort
is involved, how is it stored and how fast is your database server? -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd. -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move

Re: [Bacula-users] How to set up large database backup

2008-11-25 Thread James Cort
snapshots? You could always take a snapshot, back it up and then remove the snapshot afterwards. There may need to be some scripting to make sure the database is in a consistent state before you do this, but it'd be a lot quicker than copying the data. -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd

Re: [Bacula-users] Occasional read error when labelling tapes in autochanger (Bacula 2.4.3 on SLES 10.1)

2008-11-21 Thread James Cort
couple of years - it can safely be ignored. -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd. -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build

Re: [Bacula-users] Don't understant recycling and Scratch pool

2008-11-13 Thread James Cort
for volumes which may be recycled but are part of another pool, nor will it move volumes back to scratch when they become eligible for recycling. Though that's an interesting idea. HTH, James. -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd. -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com

Re: [Bacula-users] Don't understant recycling and Scratch pool

2008-11-13 Thread James Cort
Duration = 23 hours RecyclePool = Scratch } however, the manual states: This directive is probably most useful when defined in the Scratch pool - surely the scratch pool is one pool in which you wouldn't define this? -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd. -- U4EA Technologies

Re: [Bacula-users] Looking for a better setup

2008-11-12 Thread James Cort
but I'm a little nervous as it's far from a properly supported solution. James. -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd. -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Fwd: 64bit for File.FileId

2008-11-07 Thread James Cort
using Bacula for almost three years so that's 3 years worth of fileids there. -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd. -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin

[Bacula-users] Ran out of fileid's in postgres-backed database

2008-11-07 Thread James Cort
I appear to have run out of fileids in my bacula database. I'm using bacula 2.2.8-8~bpo40+1 (the Debian Etch backported package) and my backups have failed with the error: Fatal error: Can't fill File table Query failed: INSERT INTO File (FileIndex, JobId, PathId, FilenameId, LStat, MD5)SELECT

Re: [Bacula-users] mucking with autochanger

2008-10-16 Thread James Cort
to Bacula. Go to the web interface and it's under the Configuration menu, second option from the bottom on mine. -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd. -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com - This SF.Net

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling w/o autochanger doesn't

2007-08-01 Thread James Cort
John Drescher wrote: Instead, however, I get this: - and it'll sit there indefinitely waiting for me to mount a volume which it's created in the catalog but not labelled. Type mount from the console, the actual labeling will happen after the drive mounts and it detects it has a blank

[Bacula-users] Automatic labelling w/o autochanger doesn't

2007-07-31 Thread James Cort
missed something? Many thanks, James Cort -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula recycling volumes before their time

2007-04-03 Thread James Cort
Ryan Novosielski wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Cort wrote: I don't want to purge any records for tapes which aren't due for recycling. As long as the tape itself hasn't been recycled, I want to be able to restore any file from it without resorting to bscan

[Bacula-users] Bacula recycling volumes before their time

2007-04-02 Thread James Cort
Hi, I'm using bacula 2.0.3 and I'm having a problem with Bacula recycling volumes before I want it to. This problem has been ongoing since version 1.38.something so it's either a very longstanding bug or my configuration is broken. What equipment I have to make sure this all works: A Dell

[Bacula-users] Can't get migrating jobs across storage daemons to work

2007-03-23 Thread James Cort
Hi, I have two tape drives. One is a DLT-V4, the other is Dell Powervault 124T with an LTO-3 drive. I want to migrate everything from the DLT-V4 to the Dell. Ultimately, I want to control two SDs (for reasons which aren't particularly relevant to this discussion) from bacula, so I'm trying

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't get migrating jobs across storage daemons to work

2007-03-23 Thread James Cort
Kern Sibbald wrote: Migrating across Storage daemons is not implemented. Thought as much. For the record, in case anyone else brings it up (and to make sure there's a suggestion in the list archives) I'm working around it as follows: * Setting up another pool which is disk-based going

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't get migrating jobs across storage daemons to work

2007-03-23 Thread James Cort
Kern Sibbald wrote: If Bacula is writing to Volumes mounted on an NFS filesystem, you will probably take an *enormous* performance hit compared to a local disk. Thanks for letting me know, but considering it's coming off a DLT-v4 drive (max. speed: 10MB/sec, typical speed about half that)

Re: [Bacula-users] Want to run dbcheck but can't because of database size

2007-02-12 Thread James Cort
Juan Luis Frances wrote: Now the correct patch, sorry ;-) El Wednesday 07 February 2007 12:29:40 Juan Luis Frances escribió: What version of bacula? I had the same problems with 1.38.5. I attach my dirty patch. Many thanks for your patch. I compiled it, and it's been running

[Bacula-users] Want to run dbcheck but can't because of database size

2007-02-07 Thread James Cort
near that amount of swap before running out of memory, though - perhaps the per-process memory limit is the problem? Has anyone encountered (and more importantly solved) a similar problem in the past? James Cort -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com

Re: [Bacula-users] Want to run dbcheck but can't because of database size

2007-02-07 Thread James Cort
. Many thanks, James Cort -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier

Re: [Bacula-users] Volume use duration

2007-01-08 Thread James Cort
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Amiche [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Whan bacula start the backup of the night on a tape volume, I want the status of the volume pass immediatly as Used when the last job is terminated. So I defined Volume Use Duration = 10h but Bacula wait for the next job

[Bacula-users] Can I limit how deep into the directory tree file records are kept?

2006-12-14 Thread James Cort
on the mailserver, which I don't have. And with a 46GB mail store, I'd like to avoid adding extra processing. I can't find mention of such a feature in the docs, does it exist? James Cort - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future

[Bacula-users] Mixing 1.38.9 SD/director with 1.36 FD

2006-07-10 Thread James Cort
Hi, I know the release notes for 1.38 say upgrade everything, but I thought I'd ask on the off-chance. Has anyone successfully used a 1.36 FD in conjunction with a 1.38.9 SD/director? My own limited testing suggests that it works OK, but I was wondering if anyone else has tried the same.

[Bacula-users] Tapes ending before they're full

2006-06-22 Thread James Cort
A few weeks ago I posted to this list with a problem concerning my tapes encountering errors around the 100G mark which resulted in bacula ending them and moving onto another tape. As suggested, I swapped the SCSI card for an Adaptec unit, however the problem persists: 22-Jun 12:16 gemini-sd:

Re: [Bacula-users] ERR=Device or resource busy

2006-06-06 Thread James Cort
Kern Sibbald wrote: Unfortunately, Bacula is sufficiently demanding that it often brings out driver problems that don't show up using most Unix tape utilities, which tend to be rather simple minded. They either simply write() or read(). Bacula uses quite a lot more features of the drive.

Re: [Bacula-users] ERR=Device or resource busy

2006-06-05 Thread James Cort
Kern Sibbald wrote: I recommend the following things (obviously 2-4 are unnecessary if 1 fixes the problem): 1. This still looks most like a kernel driver problem to me. Backing up to kernel-2.6.16-1.2111 would most likely clear up this point. I've had a few kernel driver problems

[Bacula-users] Re-read of last block failed : Is my understanding correct?

2006-06-02 Thread James Cort
Hi, I've had the same problem with a few tapes now: 31-May 03:35 gemini-sd: Committing spooled data to Volume. Despooling 36,455,289,794 bytes ... 31-May 03:35 gemini-sd: cygnus_new.2006-05-31_00.05.02 Error: block.c:552 Write error at 105:4237 on device /dev/nst0. ERR=Device or resource busy.

[Bacula-users] Recycling on an annual basis not working

2006-05-30 Thread James Cort
Hi, I have 3 pools in my Bacula configuration: DailyTape : Recycled once a month MonthlyTape : Recycled once a year AnnualTape : Recycled once every 20 years. However, Bacula has decided that it wants to recycle last month's monthly tape. Could anyone suggest why this might be? The various