Re: [Bacula-users] repeat messages about pruning old jobs

2005-11-09 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 14:05 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: Some times it is just once, sometimes I get multiples in the same email. Every time today it has been the same job. This volume was created TODAY. Whats going on? I have found what action triggers this message. Any time I do

Re: [Bacula-users] repeat messages about pruning old jobs

2005-11-09 Thread Jesse Keating
. Does this seem like a bug that should be filed? -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered

Re: [Bacula-users] repeat messages about pruning old jobs

2005-11-09 Thread Jesse Keating
? Is there no way for bacula to know that it already pruned said volume? The volume isn't even close to the recycle point, why would it prune a volume that was created that same day? -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net

[Bacula-users] repeat messages about pruning old jobs

2005-11-08 Thread Jesse Keating
multiples in the same email. Every time today it has been the same job. This volume was created TODAY. Whats going on? -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges

[Bacula-users] Upgrade to 1.38.0 and tape usage goes from 5 to 3

2005-11-07 Thread Jesse Keating
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Re: [Bacula-users] Upgrade to 1.38.0 and tape usage goes from 5 to 3

2005-11-07 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 10:48 -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: Any thoughts? Whoops. I see now that I had one of my larger jobs commented out due to a server re-install. Fixed, and this may bring me back up to 5 tapes. -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula version 1.38.0 released

2005-11-01 Thread Jesse Keating
, and in updatedb I don't see any scripts to go from 8 to anything higher. Current bacula is 1.36.3. -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download

[Bacula-users] Building on x86_64

2005-10-21 Thread Jesse Keating
status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.73770 (%build) I have all the same tetex packages installed that are on my 32bit host, but still no go. Any help? -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power

Re: [Bacula-users] restore to different client

2005-10-10 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 20:12 +0200, Masopust Christian wrote: is it possible to restore files to a different client? Yes. Any client can be a restore point. -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- This SF.Net email is sponsored

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Jesse Keating
as the basis if they're turn-key backup solution. They offer support on their solution -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Jesse Keating
(like myself) could create their own srpm from your source and then provide both the srpm and binary rpms built from that for things like Fedora Extras and CentOS Extras? -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Jesse Keating
is pretty taken up with Legacy and with a book Im writing, so we'll see (: -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Bacula status

2005-08-24 Thread Jesse Keating
. -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams

Re: [Bacula-users] despooling data

2005-08-23 Thread Jesse Keating
on single tapes rather than spread across 4 tapes. -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices

RE: [Bacula-users] FW: Other testimonials?

2005-08-23 Thread Jesse Keating
In particular a user that realized that he needs a file that was deleted well beyond the Catalog retention date and you have to rebuild a fileset entry from the tape itself -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email

RE: [Bacula-users] FW: Other testimonials?

2005-08-23 Thread Jesse Keating
, just your statement is easily misinterpreted. -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices

[Bacula-users] Small bug?

2005-08-22 Thread Jesse Keating
on it. This is a bit confusing, however mostly cosmetic. Is this a bug, or is it by design? -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San

[Bacula-users] despooling data

2005-08-22 Thread Jesse Keating
written to tape one job at a time to prevent having to use 4 different tapes to do a restore. -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco

[Bacula-users] 32bit client on 64bit host

2005-08-08 Thread Jesse Keating
Are there any concerns with using a 32bit built bacula-fd on an x86_64 host? What about an x86_64 client to a 32bit server? -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO

Re: [Bacula-users] 32bit client on 64bit host

2005-08-08 Thread Jesse Keating
, I'm just concerned about any file size/format issues when dealing w/ 64bit. -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA

Re: [Bacula-users] Variable for week of the month?

2005-08-05 Thread Jesse Keating
is created is it labeled. -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven

Re: [Bacula-users] umount blocks further usage

2005-08-03 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 12:55 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: So release does not unload the drive, so I would have to pair that with an mtx call to unload. This I'd rather not do, but I suppose I should. Hrm, release doesn't close the /dev/nst0 device either. update slots leaves the device

Re: [Bacula-users] umount blocks further usage

2005-08-03 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wed, 2005-08-03 at 13:15 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: Hrm, release doesn't close the /dev/nst0 device either. update slots leaves the device as closed or non-existent. Will this pose a problem if I unload the tape out from under bacula-sd while the device is open? Testing here.. When I

Re: [Bacula-users] umount blocks further usage

2005-07-29 Thread Jesse Keating
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 15:46 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: I'd like to automatically umount the tape in the drive after the last backup for the week. This way I can come in on Monday and immediately unload the drive and eject the magazine for tape rotation. However in the past after I've done

Re: [Bacula-users] umount blocks further usage

2005-07-29 Thread Jesse Keating
it needed next. Oh well. -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts

Re: [Bacula-users] umount blocks further usage

2005-07-29 Thread Jesse Keating
way to accomplish what I'm trying to do? Just a way to say 'I'm done w/ my umount stuff, feel free to manage the device now' and walk away? -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux

Re: [Bacula-users] umount blocks further usage

2005-07-29 Thread Jesse Keating
slots command. Easy sleasy. Of course if Kern ever changes how this works I may be in trouble as this is not the expected use of update slots (: -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux

Re: [Bacula-users] Storage pool concept

2005-07-28 Thread Jesse Keating
? At this time I think you manually have to assign each server to a specific storage device. They can all be part of the same pool but thats about it. I'm not sure what it would take to randomize a list of storage devices within a pool. -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer

[Bacula-users] Multiple Run After Jobs

2005-07-28 Thread Jesse Keating
Can one have multiple Run After Jobs ? -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically marking a tape as full

2005-07-28 Thread Jesse Keating
. It just takes an argument (%v) and uses this value in a string it passes to a pipe it opens to bconsole. -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005

[Bacula-users] umount blocks further usage

2005-07-28 Thread Jesse Keating
to manually umounting. Is there a way to 'clear' this blocking flag so that when backups continue bacula will automatically mount the next usable volume to perform backups? -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is Sponsored

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically marking a tape as full

2005-07-27 Thread Jesse Keating
to pick a pre-defined tape I don't know. You could probably manipulate the MySQL database behind Bacula's back and then HUP it to pick up changes... I might mention that just because you *can* do something doesn't mean you *should* do something :) Heh, thanks for the suggestion. -- Jesse

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically marking a tape as full

2005-07-27 Thread Jesse Keating
as an argument and issues a command to bconsole using this? -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward

Re: [Bacula-users] More questions on ssh tunnel

2005-07-27 Thread Jesse Keating
security flaw, I'll cross that bridge at a later time. So root is more than capable of opening the tunnel. -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM

[Bacula-users] Question regarding ssh-tunnel.sh

2005-07-26 Thread Jesse Keating
This script seems to need to be ran on the director and not the client. Is there a method to have a 'RunBeforeJob' run on the director rather than the client? I don't want these tunnels up all the time, just when I'm doing a backup of remote systems. -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems

Re: [Bacula-users] Question regarding ssh-tunnel.sh

2005-07-26 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 10:14 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: This script seems to need to be ran on the director and not the client. Is there a method to have a 'RunBeforeJob' run on the director rather than the client? I don't want these tunnels up all the time, just when I'm doing a backup

[Bacula-users] More questions on ssh tunnel

2005-07-26 Thread Jesse Keating
of the director and of the storage daemon. Can somebody help me out in this situation? Do I need to specify a 'fake' sd that has address of 127.0.0.1 ? -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy

Re: [Bacula-users] More questions on ssh tunnel

2005-07-26 Thread Jesse Keating
the ssh tunnel gets started, and the client gets the word to start a backup, however it just hangs when trying to contact the sd. Thoughts? -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux

Re: [Bacula-users] More questions on ssh tunnel

2005-07-26 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 11:58 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: So I tried this, and same thing. Looks like the ssh tunnel gets started, and the client gets the word to start a backup, however it just hangs when trying to contact the sd. Thoughts? This is very strange. The backup job kicks off

Re: [Bacula-users] More questions on ssh tunnel

2005-07-26 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 13:21 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: Wait, I'm on to something here. The ssh process goes away almost immediately when called by Run Before Job. If I run it myself it stays running. Thoughts? And I'll reply to myself one more time. In fact, if i call the ssh script

Re: [Bacula-users] More questions on ssh tunnel

2005-07-26 Thread Jesse Keating
that the tunnel is created successfully however it is just killed off as soon as the script exits. Perhaps it is some sort of 'cleanup' that bacula is doing? -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is sponsored

[Bacula-users] Automatically marking a tape as full

2005-07-26 Thread Jesse Keating
After all the backups in a given week occur, I'd like to automatically mark the last tape used as full, so that the next set of backups uses a new clean tape. Is there a way to do this? -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer

Re: [Bacula-users] More questions on ssh tunnel

2005-07-26 Thread Jesse Keating
Backup JobId 62, Job=hermes.2005-07-26_17.10.43 26-Jul 17:05 hermes: hermes.2005-07-26_17.10.43 Warning: bnet.c:769 Could not connect to Storage daemon on localhost:9103. ERR=Connection refused -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer

[Bacula-users] Encrypt data on tape?

2005-07-25 Thread Jesse Keating
Is it possible to encrypt the data that goes onto tape? We're going to send our tapes off-site and just to minimize possibility of data leaks we would like to encrypt the data that goes offsite. Can Bacula do this? -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer

[Bacula-users] Information on tray-monitor

2005-07-11 Thread Jesse Keating
I see some references in conf files to a 'tray-monitor' but I don't recall running across this in the docs. Is this something new? Did I miss it in the docs? Where might I find more info? -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer

Re: [Bacula-users] Information on tray-monitor

2005-07-11 Thread Jesse Keating
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 19:04 +0100, Dominic Marks wrote: http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Getting_Started_with_Bacula.html A screenshot and some information is about half way down. AH ok. Seems to not be included in the bacula-mysql rpm packages. Is it in a different package? -- Jesse

Re: [Bacula-users] Web interface?

2005-07-11 Thread Jesse Keating
. Anyone know where I can find this? I like the console but my other admins prefer a web interface Only one I know of is bacula-web which is just reporting on past jobs and such, not actually running jobs. -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer

[Bacula-users] Barcode label for few new tapes

2005-07-11 Thread Jesse Keating
to take advantage of the barcode reader to label just the new 5 tapes or so? label barcodes seems to want to label all my slots and just straight label wants me to provide the name. -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer

Re: [Bacula-users] Help understanding how to setup

2005-07-08 Thread Jesse Keating
before a scheduled backup that checks to see if it has access to the tapes it needs to do the backups. If it does, great. If it doesn't, then it'll send a nag email for the admin to fix the situation. Can Bacula be programmed to do that w/out doing a mini backup? -- Jesse Keating GameHouse

[Bacula-users] Spooling questions

2005-06-23 Thread Jesse Keating
? -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduled jobs?

2005-06-22 Thread Jesse Keating
for the rest of the known existence. That would be a long list indeed. -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-client conflicts with bacula-mysql

2005-06-22 Thread Jesse Keating
On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 16:43 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: I get this when trying to install the rpms on a CentOS4 system. How is one supposed to use the server as a client as well? n/m. It would appear that the client software is included with the server package. -- Jesse Keating GameHouse

[Bacula-users] Using harddrive as buffer for tape backups

2005-06-21 Thread Jesse Keating
, this is different. -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get

RE: [Bacula-users] Using harddrive as buffer for tape backups

2005-06-21 Thread Jesse Keating
On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 17:51 -0500, Chris Lee wrote: http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Data_Spooling.html Thanks, Chris Thank you very much. This is exactly what I'm looking for. -- Jesse Keating GameHouse -- Systems Engineer