Re: [Bacula-users] Full backup will not be idendtified

2011-05-16 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Wouter Verhelst wou...@nixsys.be wrote: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 08:43:51AM +0200, Robert Kromoser wrote: Hi folks. In my configuration I have 2 files per client. One file contains the storage definition (Archive Device) and one file contains the directory

Re: [Bacula-users] MaximumVolJobs not working!!!

2011-05-13 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Bacula bacula-l...@armin-tueting.com wrote: Hi Pedro,   dolume Retention = 180 days This is should read Volume Retention = 180 days If that is what is in the file. Use the bconsole commands update pool from resource then update all volumes in pool Again I

Re: [Bacula-users] Archive Devices not created

2011-05-13 Thread John Drescher
Does the bacula user have write access to your storage location on your filesystem? That is assuming bacula-sd is running as user bacula like it does on many linux operating systems. Also what do the messages say in the bacula console? The output of status dir status st and status client

Re: [Bacula-users] Archive Devices not created

2011-05-13 Thread John Drescher
2011/5/13 Robert Kromoser robert.kromo...@kinamu.com: Hi Everybody. I installed a new bacula 5.0.3 server on CentOS 5.5. In my configuration I use only disk backups. When I start a backup with bconsole run command, the volumes will be created in the catalog but won’t be created on the

Re: [Bacula-users] Archive Devices not created

2011-05-13 Thread John Drescher
13-May 15:37 CBCK0001-dir JobId 4: Start Backup JobId 4, Job=CCRM0004_01_Backup_Full.2011-05-13_15.37.39_03 13-May 15:37 CBCK0001-dir JobId 4: Using Device SugarCRM_CCRM0004_Full 13-May 14:31 CCRM0004-fd JobId 4: Warning: bsock.c:128 Could not connect to Storage daemon on CBCK0001:9103.

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Archive Devices not created

2011-05-13 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com Date: Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:04 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Archive Devices not created To: Robert Kromoser robert.kromo...@kinamu.com On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Robert Kromoser robert.kromo...@kinamu.com

Re: [Bacula-users] backup to dvd not working

2011-05-13 Thread John Drescher
I was trying to set up bacula on my parents' laptop the other day so that they could do proper backups to DVD+RW disks. Only it isn't working. All I can say is the dvd writing code is alpha quality or even worse since the developer working on that quit the project many years ago. On top of

Re: [Bacula-users] Client machine browsing only it's backups

2011-05-13 Thread John Drescher
There is ACL support in the client. However I am not too familiar with that (and what it prevents access to) since I do not use it on my network. You may want to use a separate database per client. That way the client will only see their stuff. This however will make it harder to manage your

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs won't start

2011-05-12 Thread John Drescher
The file I have setup to backup is: C:\jaketestfolder   It isn't a network share or anything, just a folder I created with a couple .mpeg in there so give it something to backup. Okay. I searched the archives for No drive letters found for generating VSS snapshots. but did not find any

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs won't start

2011-05-12 Thread John Drescher
I am using webmin to edit Bacula. I went to file sets, and changed the files and directories to backup Everytime I change it to c:/jaketestfolder  when I save it, it reverts it back to c:\jaketestfolder That normal? No. But by your second question you are not editing the configuration file

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs won't start

2011-05-12 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Jake Debord jake.deb...@gmail.com wrote: Ok edited the conf directly and reloaded through bconsole. Any other Ideas? Same error: Can you post your bacula-dir.conf? You can zap the passwords if you want. John

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs won't start

2011-05-12 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Jake Debord jake.deb...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, here you go: # # Default Bacula Director Configuration file # #  The only thing that MUST be changed is to add one or more #   file or directory names in the Include directive of the #   FileSet resource. #

Re: [Bacula-users] MaximumVolJobs not working!!!

2011-05-12 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 1:14 PM, pedro moreno syxt...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:08 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: That restart doesn't work. Then we will need some more information. I need the output of list media pool=YourPoolName Also the bacula messages

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Progress

2011-05-12 Thread John Drescher
2011/5/12 Rickifer Barros rickiferbar...@gmail.com: Hello Bacula Users, There's some way to see the progress of a Backup or Restore during your execution? Because with the status dir command, I can just see the backup is running and nothing more. I didn't found nothing in the Manual about

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Progress

2011-05-12 Thread John Drescher
Ok, but, I would like to see a estimated time for the end of the backup or even the transfer rate, but, if there's no way, ok. There is no way inside bacula. John -- Achieve unprecedented app performance and

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula sabe se atingiu a capacidade máxima de uma fita?

2011-05-11 Thread John Drescher
Thanks for the replies. Most of the recorded data are text files. Then it can really happen to use the tapes over 800GB and it does not mean that my tape library has a problem? There is no problem filling more than 800 GB on a tape. This is expected for data that is mostly text. John

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula sabe se atingiu a capacidade máxima de uma fita?

2011-05-11 Thread John Drescher
And if the tapel fill 2.4TB? That is totally fine. Remember compression is variable.On a text only data set you can get greater than 5 to 1 compression. On a dataset with already compressed data you will likely get no compression at all so the tape will be full at ~400 GB. The 800 number

Re: [Bacula-users] Run out of disk space

2011-05-11 Thread John Drescher
I set my retention periods too long and now have run out of disk space.  If I want to start over (after I have edited the conf files for a good retention period) and blow away the old volumes, what do I need to do?  Just delete the files or do I need to do something in the database? You

Re: [Bacula-users] MaximumVolJobs not working!!!

2011-05-11 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:10 PM, pedro moreno syxt...@gmail.com wrote:  Hi.  Want to understand why bacula 5.0.2 don't want to use my tape until it reach the MaximumVolJobs. I have 2 pools: Full-Backups Diff-Backups I will focus on Diff tapes. Storage: Tape. Pool Diff: Pool {  

Re: [Bacula-users] MaximumVolJobs not working!!!

2011-05-11 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 2:06 PM, pedro moreno syxt...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:23 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:10 PM, pedro moreno syxt...@gmail.com wrote:  Hi.  Want to understand why bacula 5.0.2 don't want to use my tape until

Re: [Bacula-users] MaximumVolJobs not working!!!

2011-05-11 Thread John Drescher
That restart doesn't work. Then we will need some more information. I need the output of list media pool=YourPoolName Also the bacula messages that are displayed when you run your job. John -- Achieve unprecedented

Re: [Bacula-users] BACULA: free space on tape

2011-05-10 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:36 AM, mulle78 bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: Hello @all, I've purged a volume and appended a new back up to the tape. Is there a way to find out the free space on a tape to be shure that a reorg of a tap has be done successfully?! list media

Re: [Bacula-users] Device Error

2011-05-06 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Robert Longfield robert.longfi...@klinsight.com wrote: I don't believe it has two drives in it. i've removed the second entry from bacula-sd as I was running into a problem when I tried to run a job. I've restarted all the services since removing the pv122T-2

Re: [Bacula-users] Device Error

2011-05-06 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Robert Longfield robert.longfi...@klinsight.com wrote: yes the tape drive has a barcode scanner. i tried the 'update slots' message and i got the following error: Automatically selected Storage: PV-122T Connecting to Storage daemon PV-122T at localhost:9103

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Automatic Recycling Methods

2011-05-06 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com Date: 2011/5/6 Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Recycling Methods To: João Alberto Kuchnier joao.kuchn...@dataprom.com 2011/5/6 João Alberto Kuchnier joao.kuchn...@dataprom.com: Hi everyone! I was having

Re: [Bacula-users] Device Error

2011-05-05 Thread John Drescher
2011/5/5 Robert Longfield robert.longfi...@klinsight.com: John, the online guidE I followed should setting up the pv-122t with -1 and -2 so I can't really give you a reason as to why I have them in my config, other than i was told that was the correct way. Does your pv-122T have 1 or 2

Re: [Bacula-users] job not running

2011-05-04 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Matthieu Patou mat+informatique.bac...@matws.net wrote: Hello List, I'm a bit puzzled I've 3 different kind of jobs with 3 different storage, different mediatype, different fileset. My max number of concurrent job is 20, but I can have only 2 concurrent job

Re: [Bacula-users] job not running

2011-05-04 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:26 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Matthieu Patou mat+informatique.bac...@matws.net wrote: Hello List, I'm a bit puzzled I've 3 different kind of jobs with 3 different storage, different mediatype, different fileset. My

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

2011-05-04 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Jesper Krogh jes...@krogh.cc wrote: On 2011-04-28 17:16, Alex Chekholko wrote: Try changing your Maximum Network Buffer size in your bacula-sd config. Something like    Maximum Network Buffer Size = 262144 #65536    Maximum block size = 262144 Keep in mind

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple Devices in Director Storage definition

2011-05-04 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 5:38 AM, Daniel Holtkamp holtk...@riege.com wrote: Hello ! I am testing around a bit and found something that would help a lot in my setup, but i´m not quite sure if this is a supported configuration. This way i can mount up to 4 different volumes at the same time on

Re: [Bacula-users] Device Error

2011-05-04 Thread John Drescher
2011/5/4 Robert Longfield robert.longfi...@klinsight.com: I know I sent this to the mailing list and please forgive me for trying again but I am really at a loss of what my next step needs to be to get backup working. A bit on my setup. I am running Debian 6 with a Dell Powervault 122T. I can

Re: [Bacula-users] use volume once and concurrent jobs

2011-05-03 Thread John Drescher
whats the best way to have one file (volume) per job but still running more than one job at once? Use more than 1 storage device. I recommend using bacula vchanger for that. This will greatly simplify the setup and increase flexibility. http://sourceforge.net/projects/vchanger/ John

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with disk-based backup

2011-05-02 Thread John Drescher
2011/5/2 Philip Yarra pya...@radoncvic.com.au: My bacula now seems to be firmly wedged, with all jobs trying to use the same volume (and my config very definitely says to use each volume only once). Scheduled Jobs: Level  Type Pri  Scheduled  Name   Volume

Re: [Bacula-users] Central control remote storage

2011-05-02 Thread John Drescher
2011/5/2 Stephens, Bill {PBSG} bill.steph...@pepsico.com: I have remote servers set up in a single server configuration, meaning each server runs the director, sd, and fd.  The remote servers have their own removable drives to store the backups.  The servers only have slow connections to our

Re: [Bacula-users] Tar and Bacula doesn't work together.

2011-05-02 Thread John Drescher
My first post here. So don't shoot me if I say/do stupid things. I got a problem with Bacula. The version I use is 2.4.4 on debian etch. My Bacula runs smootly, everything seems to work. But now, when I try to execute a tar command I get some errors. The error: user:/etc/init.d# tar

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula sabe se atingiu a capacidade máxima de uma fita?

2011-04-29 Thread John Drescher
Bom dia galera, Gostaria de saber se o bacula sabe quando atinge a capacidade de uma fita. Por exemplo, tenho uma fita LTO-4 de 1.6TB, o bacula vai saber se chegou ao final dela? ou eu preciso especificar o tamanho máximo da fita com a diretiva: MaxVolumeSize I do not understand any

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula sabe se atingiu a capacidade máxima de uma fita?

2011-04-29 Thread John Drescher
2011/4/29 Victor Lima victi...@gmail.com: Rodrigo I'm sorry, I forgot this list was international. I asked this question because the bacula recorded a tape of me until it gets to 2.4TB. What I did find it strange for the reason the tape reaches up to 1.6TB. This is possible if you have a lot

Re: [Bacula-users] Deleted Media by mistake. Now Device or resource busy

2011-04-29 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 6:42 AM, newtobacula bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote: anyone? To use mt commands you need to unmount the bacula volume so that bacula gives up control of the tape drive. Then do your mt commands. Then use the mount command in bacula to give bacula back control of

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 2.2.6 Client for Windows 2008 R2

2011-04-28 Thread John Drescher
Hello, have anyone an idea? 2.2.6 is came out in November of 2007. It is unlikely that many are using this old of a version of bacula. From memory (since I have not used that version since sometime in 2008) 2.2.6 does not support 64 bit windows clients and may have problems with shadow copy.

Re: [Bacula-users] Waitung for a mount request?

2011-04-28 Thread John Drescher
2011/4/28 Dennis Hoppe dennis.ho...@debian-solutions.de: Hello, this is my first attempt with bacula and i need some advice about my configs. I am running a file based backup with an extra device for each client. I thought this would support parallel jobs, but if i start two backup jobs

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

2011-04-28 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Jason Voorhees jvoorhe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi: I'm running Bacula 5.0.3 in RHEL 6.0 x86_64 with a Library tape IBM TS3100 with hardware compression enabled and software (Bacula) compression disabled, using LTO-5 tapes. I have a Gigabit Ethernet network and

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

2011-04-28 Thread John Drescher
No, there are just a normal number of files from a shared folder of my fileserver with spreadsheets, documents, images, PDFs, just information of final users. The performance problem is probably filesystem performance. A single hard drive will only hit 100 MB/s if you are baking up files that

Re: [Bacula-users] Waitung for a mount request?

2011-04-28 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Dennis Hoppe dennis.ho...@debian-solutions.de wrote: Hello John, Am 28.04.2011 16:07, schrieb John Drescher: 2011/4/28 Dennis Hoppe dennis.ho...@debian-solutions.de: this is my first attempt with bacula and i need some advice about my configs. I am running

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

2011-04-28 Thread John Drescher
How can I know where's the bottleneck? I'm using an ext4 filesystem. Are these tests useful? [root@qsrpsbk1 ~]# hdparm -t /dev/sda /dev/sda:  Timing buffered disk reads:  370 MB in  3.01 seconds = 122.89 MB/sec [root@qsrpsbk1 ~]# hdparm -tT /dev/sda /dev/sda:  Timing cached reads:  

Re: [Bacula-users] Waitung for a mount request?

2011-04-28 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Dennis Hoppe dennis.ho...@debian-solutions.de wrote: Hello John, Am 28.04.2011 17:47, schrieb John Drescher: ... Did you unmount the previous media that was in the device it is complaining about using the umount command? i am a little bit confused

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

2011-04-28 Thread John Drescher
So do you believe these speeds of my backups are normal? I though my Library tape with LTO-5 tapes could write at 140 MB/s approx. It isn't possible to achieve higher speeds? You need to speed up your source filesystem to achieve better performance. Use raid10 or get a SSD. It has nothing at

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

2011-04-28 Thread John Drescher
/dev/mapper/mpath0:  Timing buffered disk reads:  622 MB in  3.00 seconds = 207.20 MB/sec That is a raid. But you still may not be able to sustain over 100MB/s of somewhat random reads. Remember that hdparm is only measuring sequential performance of large reads. -- John M. Drescher

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

2011-04-28 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:38 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: /dev/mapper/mpath0:  Timing buffered disk reads:  622 MB in  3.00 seconds = 207.20 MB/sec That is a raid. But you still may not be able to sustain over 100MB/s of somewhat random reads. Remember that hdparm is only

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

2011-04-28 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Jason Voorhees jvoorhe...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:43 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:38 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: /dev/mapper/mpath0:  Timing buffered disk reads:  622 MB in  3.00

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

2011-04-28 Thread John Drescher
I tried to copy a 10 GB file between both servers (Bacula and Fileserver) with scp and I got a 48 MB/s speed transfer. Is this why my backups are always near to that speed? Try backing up that 10GB file on both servers with bacula. -- John M. Drescher

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

2011-04-28 Thread John Drescher
Ok, I don't have that setting enabled but I could try it. Question: how do you decide 5 GB is an optimal value for your LTO-4 tapes? what value could I put for my LTO-5 tapes? I don't really understand what should be the appropiate value for this directive. I don't know how to tell you how

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Waitung for a mount request?

2011-04-28 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: Dennis Hoppe dennis.ho...@debian-solutions.de Date: Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 6:16 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Waitung for a mount request? To: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com Hello John, Am 28.04.2011 18:46, schrieb John Drescher: On Thu, Apr 28

Re: [Bacula-users] Verify Job for certain Backup Job

2011-04-26 Thread John Drescher
is there a possibility to run Verify Job for a certain Backup Job (not the last one) with Level=VolumeToCatalog? For example I run two Backup Jobs with ids 1 and 2 and then I want to Verify the first one. I have seen this myself and I believe this is a bug. John

Re: [Bacula-users] Verify Job for certain Backup Job

2011-04-26 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:46 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: is there a possibility to run Verify Job for a certain Backup Job (not the last one) with Level=VolumeToCatalog? For example I run two Backup Jobs with ids 1 and 2 and then I want to Verify the first one. I have

Re: [Bacula-users] Verify Job for certain Backup Job

2011-04-26 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Ralf Gross ralf-li...@ralfgross.de wrote: Krysztofiak schrieb: Hello, is there a possibility to run Verify Job for a certain Backup Job (not the last one) with Level=VolumeToCatalog? For example I run two Backup Jobs with ids 1 and 2 and then I want to Verify

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal Error when running in bconsole

2011-04-20 Thread John Drescher
I am new to bacula and I have run into a problem running any job in bconsole. I am getting the following error. 15-Apr 11:14 KITSrv01-sd JobId 9: Fatal error: Device reservation failed for JobId=9: 15-Apr 11:14 KITSrv01-dir JobId 9: Fatal error: Storage daemon didn't accept Device

Re: [Bacula-users] It's been 16 days..

2011-04-20 Thread John Drescher
My name is Dan, and it's been 16 days since I last touched my bacula-dir.conf file. Probably the same for me.. Although for me it would have been an include off of the bacula-dir.conf John -- Benefiting from Server

Re: [Bacula-users] About tapes capacity

2011-04-20 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Jason Voorhees jvoorhe...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Paul Mather p...@gromit.dlib.vt.edu wrote: On Apr 20, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Jason Voorhees wrote: Hi people: I'm running Bacula 5.0.3 with an tape library IBM TS3100 using LTO5 tapes

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem rejected Hello command with DIR 2.2.6 and FD 5.0.2

2011-04-20 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Jérôme Blion jerome.bl...@free.fr wrote: Le 20/04/2011 16:01, Jeremy Maes a écrit : Op 20/04/2011 15:29, Ben Schmidt schreef: I'm running a bacula 2.2.6 on a old Server that's just working. One of it's Clients was replaced by a new Server with debian 6.0 today

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem rejected Hello command with DIR 2.2.6 and FD 5.0.2

2011-04-20 Thread John Drescher
This rule is not the real truth. I'm backing up a 2.4.4 (Debian Lenny) client on a 5.0.2 (Debian Squeeze) Director (and Storage) That does not violate the rule I gave. Does the Bacula team plan to provide such compatibility matrix ? This rule has been told to us from the developers

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem rejected Hello command with DIR 2.2.6 and FD 5.0.2

2011-04-20 Thread John Drescher
Be *very* aware of the vagaries of email clients, the line above from John appaers to contain the phrase always = client, when his original post contained always = client. This is because somewhere in the chain something wrapped the  line at = and so the was seen as being a quote

Re: [Bacula-users] Could not stat /tmp/bacula.sql: ERR=No such file or directory

2011-04-19 Thread John Drescher
2011/4/19 Carlo Filippetto carlo.filippe...@gmail.com: Hi, I have a problema with catalog backup Everywhere I put the DB dump bacula don't work and I had the message as in the title. I tried modifing the /etc/bacula/make_catalog_backup, I add chmod and chown command to the file and the dir.

Re: [Bacula-users] speed up my backups

2011-04-19 Thread John Drescher
So one of my machines has a few zillion tiny little files. My full backup took 44 hours.  I can deal with that if I have to. My incremental backup has been running for 10 hours now.    Files=71,560 Bytes=273,397,510 Bytes/sec=7,666 Errors=0    Files Examined=14,675,372 I know that bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Accounts and Quotas

2011-04-15 Thread John Drescher
I'm researching using this software for a lab. and was wondering if it allows admin to assign quotas and user accounts. No quotas exist. However I guess you can assign a user a pool and give that a maximum # of fixed size volumes. As long as they use their pool you would have the same effect as

Re: [Bacula-users] A few of questions

2011-04-14 Thread John Drescher
When testing bacula I notice restores always expect the client machine to be up so you can restore directly to it.  What would you do if the client machine was dead or just not alive on the network?  Is there a way to specify a restore point other than the machine itself that the data was

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Bacula-dir.conf - the DirAddress variable

2011-04-14 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:37 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-dir.conf - the DirAddress variable To: Wagner Pereira wpere...@pop-sp.rnp.br That's my first message to the bacula-users mailing list. I

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-dir.conf - the DirAddress variable

2011-04-14 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:37 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: That's my first message to the bacula-users mailing list. I searched in all the Bacula's documentation and didn't find the answer: In the bacula-dir.conf file there is a variable named DirAddress (the default

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Dell PowerVault 124T tape drive

2011-04-13 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:38 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Dell PowerVault 124T tape drive To: Steffen Fritz frit...@googlemail.com On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:37 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Bacula-users] Connection error from remote client

2011-04-07 Thread John Drescher
I have successfully installed Bacula on an Ununtu 10.10 server and gotten through the first part of the tutorial (pg 95-104) in the documentation. I have added a second remote client which is running RHEL 6.0. The daemon runs on the client. When I run the new job I get the following

Re: [Bacula-users] Pools and Volumes

2011-04-06 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Mike Hobbs mho...@mtl.mit.edu wrote:  I just found this old archived messages.. http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg29377.html The end of this email says: The same pool is no problem at all.  What is the problem is bacula does

Re: [Bacula-users] Pools and Volumes

2011-04-06 Thread John Drescher
 still recommend using bacula vchanger in this situation. Some how the I in that sentence disappeared while I was typing.. -- John M. Drescher -- Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming

Re: [Bacula-users] Pools and Volumes

2011-04-06 Thread John Drescher
The same pool is no problem at all.  What is the problem is bacula does not normally move a job from one device to a second and it will never continue a job from one media type to a different. The first problem can possibly be overcome with what is called as a virtual autochanger After

Re: [Bacula-users] Pools and Volumes

2011-04-06 Thread John Drescher
I haven't gotten this to work yet, that is my goal.  The two options I have gotten are to turn my jbod into a raid or use vchanger.  I'm all for using RAID, but my co-workers don't want to too.. they are worried about the array getting corrupted and then we lose all our backups, where as in a

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs are not running concurrently as expected (otherwise multiplexing not working ?)

2011-04-04 Thread John Drescher
2011/4/4 Sarder Kamal kam...@wmcollege.ac.uk: Dear List Members I am trying to configure bacula to back up nearly 1.5TB of data, which is always timing out since the backup does not complete before the next backup. Ideally, I would prefer the backup to begin after eveyone is out of office

Re: [Bacula-users] pool vs storage

2011-04-03 Thread John Drescher
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 9:06 AM, hymie! hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: Greetings.  A couple of questions so that I can hopefully better understand what I'm doing with my Bacula setup. Q1: Is this statment correct? A Storage may contain several Pools, but a Pool lives on one and only one

Re: [Bacula-users] What happen if I change the client of a job ? Multi node virtualization cluster

2011-03-31 Thread John Drescher
Using a cron is not a good solution, I prefer to keep job management and scheduling inside bacula . You could also schedule an admin job inside bacula runs the admin job you can run your script. John -- Create and

Re: [Bacula-users] Disaster Recovery

2011-03-31 Thread John Drescher
Question: In the event of my entire bacula system going down. What is the best method for recovery? I looked in the online manual, but it still was not very clear to me. If I have my backup of catalog files, all incremental and full backups, and I reinstall bacula on a new server. How do I

Re: [Bacula-users] Disaster Recovery

2011-03-31 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Mike Hendrie m...@hendrienet.com wrote: Thank you John. Can you please explain to me the boot strap file? I am new to linux. The bootstrap file is part of bacula. In the case of the catalog I found it very important to manually extract the catalog I needed

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-30 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Laurent HENRY laurent.he...@ehess.fr wrote: Le Tuesday 15 March 2011 13:40:10 John Drescher, vous avez écrit : Fine, i understand it now. Is there a way to just spool attributes and not backuped files themselwes ? SpoolAttributes=yes in the Job resource

Re: [Bacula-users] What happen if I change the client of a job ? Multi node virtualization cluster

2011-03-30 Thread John Drescher
My first question is : How can I tell bacula to choose dynamically the client according to the result of a script ? You can script that by echoing commands to bconsole. Then execute your script as a cron job. My second question is : Can I safely/often change the client of a job without

Re: [Bacula-users] problem with stores,

2011-03-29 Thread John Drescher
I had recently changed the bacula-sd.conf from using  Maximum Block Size = 262144, to whatever the default value is. I didn't realize that by undoing this, all previous backups would no longer be readable (since I guess the SD is expecting a different block size?). So, I added that back into

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 5.0.2 - Action On Purge = Truncate not working

2011-03-28 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Ondrej PLANKA (Ignum profile) ondrej.pla...@ignum.cz wrote: Dne 28.3.2011 16:43, Josh Fisher napsal(a): On 3/27/2011 11:31 AM, Ondrej PLANKA (Ignum profile) wrote:       Ciao!           same behavior in 5.0.3 version. File based Volumes are not truncated    

Re: [Bacula-users] Storage -- 2 disks, no waiting

2011-03-26 Thread John Drescher
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 10:00 AM, hymie! hy...@lactose.homelinux.net wrote: Greetings. I have two 1TB disks that I'd like to use for my Bacula volumes. My bacula-sd.conf says: === Device {  Name = FileStorage  Media Type = File  Archive Device = /storage  LabelMedia = yes;              

Re: [Bacula-users] External Backups

2011-03-24 Thread John Drescher
I'm looking to do remote backups for several clients.  I currently have a bacula server running (which has saved my job more times than I care to admit) which backs up all my internal servers. I'm wondering what I need to know to sell a service like this, and use bacula.  Do I need to

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and 16 bay JBOD

2011-03-23 Thread John Drescher
Well, a good start is to use something like SMART monitoring set up to alert you when any drive enters what it considers a pre-fail state. (Which can be simple age, increasing numbers of hard errors, increasing variation in spindle speed, increasing slow starts, etc, etc...) FWIW: Nexan,

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and 16 bay JBOD

2011-03-23 Thread John Drescher
I haven't had as many die as you have (Do your users kick their computers around the room?) but my experience matches yours when looking at changes in the raw data. The problem is I haven't had enough die to put 100% certainty on it so I tend to rely on smartd's output. I have between 100

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic Recycling Of Volumes So You Don't Run Out Of Disk Space

2011-03-18 Thread John Drescher
Thanks for the fast response John. Where can I verify that each volume is set to recycle? look at the output of list media pool=WhateverPoolYouCreated in bconsole Kern's docs also state that you should make your volumes no bigger than 5 gigabytes. I have set mine to 20 GB at present.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and 16 bay JBOD

2011-03-16 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Mike Hobbs mho...@mtl.mit.edu wrote:  On 03/16/2011 01:12 PM, Robison, Dave wrote: Just curious, why not put that jbod into a RAID array? I believe you'd get far better performance with the additional spools and you'd get redundancy as well. Personally I'd

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bulk] Re: Using a USB-Disk as Storage Media

2011-03-15 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Soul realsoulhun...@yahoo.de wrote: So... I am again a little bit further. Some paths in the configs were wrong. Also the magazines wasn`t owned by the bacula user. I changed that so that now I am able to load the disks an let bacula write on them. But

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-15 Thread John Drescher
Fine, i understand it now. Is there a way to just spool attributes and not backuped files themselwes ? SpoolAttributes=yes in the Job resource. http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION00183 -- John M. Drescher

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-11 Thread John Drescher
Attribute spooling makes sense for either though. Attribute spooling ? That enables spooling if the database entries at the end of the job in a batch instead of 1 at a time as the files are being processed. Its quite a bit faster to enable attribute spooling unless you have your database on an

Re: [Bacula-users] 3920 Cannot label Volume because it is already labeled:

2011-03-11 Thread John Drescher
Im using bacula 5.2 with 5 USB 500GB disks each for a working day of the week. Now my problem is whenever I try to label a volume I get the error 3920 Cannot label Volume because it is already labeled:. Initially I'd labeled them but due to some issues like waiting for an append-able volume,

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows XP Backup

2011-03-11 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Mike Hendrie m...@hendrienet.com wrote: Sorry for the delay.  I needed a break. Thank you for your responses. I have DNS working: Bacula server: 10.2.1.98 XP: 10.2.1.97 Is there something special that needs to be setup for the filestore? I am using the

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows XP Backup

2011-03-11 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Mike Hendrie m...@hendrienet.com wrote: Ubuntu firewall is: inactive XP firewall is: disabled No localhost or 127.0.0.1 settings in the following files: bacula-dir.conf bacula-sd.conf bacula-fd.conf In the files I am using bacula in place of the server

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-09 Thread John Drescher
I tried to enable spooling (500 Gb spool) for the tape backup. The perf were worse. BTW, I use 5GB spool. I assume then you do not run concurrent jobs? For a single job the time will be longer because bacula does not concurrently spool and despool but with concurrent jobs and spooling with a

Re: [Bacula-users] file listing?

2011-03-09 Thread John Drescher
2011/3/9 James Woodward james.woodw...@ualberta.ca: Hello Mike, I'd have to say no based on the tables defined here http://bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/developers/developers/Database_Tables.html. The file size does not appear to be stored in the database. I don't think any size is mentioned

Re: [Bacula-users] file listing?

2011-03-09 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Mike Eggleston mikee...@mac.com wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011, John Drescher might have said: 2011/3/9 James Woodward james.woodw...@ualberta.ca: Hello Mike, I'd have to say no based on the tables defined here http://bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/developers

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-08 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Laurent HENRY laurent.he...@ehess.fr wrote: Le Wednesday 02 March 2011 20:50:18 Mark, vous avez écrit : btw, i actually experience it with disk backups. Does this mean software compression limits deeply backup speed ? In my case, software compression was a

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape put into error status after running job is cancelled

2011-03-07 Thread John Drescher
I noticed every time I have to cancel a running job, the tape/volume goes into error state. I assumed the job would terminate gracefully with an eod mark but seems not. Is there a way I can put an eod mark and put the tape back to append mode? I am running version 2.2.6 on RHEL 4.6 server (64

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't unmount volume after canceling job

2011-03-07 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Michael Edwards michael.edwa...@engineering.ucsb.edu wrote: I canceled a job about an hour ago as it wasn't going to run.  It is the only job that would be writing to the volume mounted in drive 1 of our 2 drive Dell Powervault.  Drive 0 is in use doing backups

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