[Bacula-users] a job is always blocking others

2007-10-01 Thread Luca Ferrari
Hi, I've got a job that is always blocking other jobs from being executed. The messages reports that: 26-set 16:58 backup-sd: Job sede_Vol2Samba_QUALITA_job.2007-09-26_16.58.11 waiting to reserve a device. and the definition of the job is: Job { Name = sede_Vol2Samba_QUALITA_job

Re: [Bacula-users] restore: device is blocked waiting for media

2007-09-07 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Thursday 6 September 2007 Arno Lehmann's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote: So my only idea is that perhaps you use several file storage devices with identical Media Type settings and Bacula chooses the wrong device for the needed volumes. This is true! I mean, I've got several storages

Re: [Bacula-users] restore: device is blocked waiting for media

2007-09-06 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Wednesday 5 September 2007 Arno Lehmann's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote: I think we'll need some more detailed information here... does Bacula send a notification to load the volume it wants, what are the Media Types, and so on... the relevant parts of your configuration might help

Re: [Bacula-users] restore: device is blocked waiting for media

2007-09-06 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Thursday 6 September 2007 Arno Lehmann's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote: Hi, 06.09.2007 09:11,, Luca Ferrari wrote:: On Wednesday 5 September 2007 Arno Lehmann's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote: I think we'll need some more detailed information here... does Bacula send

[Bacula-users] restore: device is blocked waiting for media

2007-09-05 Thread Luca Ferrari
Hi, I've got to restore a few files from a on-disk restore. I've run the restore procedure, marking the files, and then the systems status appears to be BLOCKED waiting for media (?) as it was unlabeled (?). Running Jobs: Reading: Full Restore job restore_mySelf JobId=1050

Re: [Bacula-users] doing always a full backup?

2007-07-30 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Friday 27 July 2007 your cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote: Definitely on the right track, but as you can see, you have no successful jobs listed there. I don't remember the job status codes (Martin has listed them after me, I see). Can you look at your log file and find out what happened

Re: [Bacula-users] backing up MySQL databases

2007-07-30 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Monday 30 July 2007 Dimitrios's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote: What is the best way to backup MySQL databases? I've got a few web servers that i'd like to backup, which rely heavily on MySQL for offering dynamic content. Should i just backup the /var/lib/mysql/* directly? Does that

Re: [Bacula-users] doing always a full backup?

2007-07-27 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Friday 27 July 2007 Ryan Novosielski's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote: Just to let you know, the Terminated Jobs listing is in NO way proof that the job exists in the database. You need to do list jobs, at a minimum. As for why a full backup is being done, I could not say. One

Re: [Bacula-users] doing always a full backup?

2007-07-26 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Thursday 26 July 2007 Ralf Winkler's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote: Ciao Luca, may i ask, did you change the fileset after the first backup? I am not that expert, but another possibility could be that this job is un-enabled Enabled = no. I didn't change the fileset and I've already

[Bacula-users] doing always a full backup?

2007-07-26 Thread Luca Ferrari
Hi all, consider the following job: Job {     Name = sede_Vol2Samba_job     Enabled = no     Type = Backup     Level = Incremental     Client = sede-fd     FileSet = sede_Vol2Samba_fileset     Storage = sede-samba-sd     Messages = Daemon     Pool = sede_vol2_pool     Schedule = Night-Incremental

Re: [Bacula-users] no label for a volume

2007-07-25 Thread Luca Ferrari
Looking in the messages I found this: 25-Jul 08:58 backup-dir: Start Backup JobId 761, Job=sede_Vol2Samba_job.2007-07-25_08.58.35 25-Jul 08:58 backup-dir: Created new Volume sede_Vol2Samba_job-2007-07-25--8-58 in catalog. 25-Jul 08:58 backup-sd: End of Volume sede_Vol2Samba_job-2007-07-25--8-58

Re: [Bacula-users] no label for a volume

2007-07-25 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 Mantas M.'s cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote: Do you have LabelMedia = yes; set in the device section of your sd config? Yes I've got, the following is the device used in bacula-sd.conf: Device { Name = sede_Vol2Samba_storage Archive Device = /backup/sede/vol2

Re: [Bacula-users] no label for a volume

2007-07-25 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 Mantas M.'s cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote: * Bacula sd can write to that directory This was the problem, I mis-set the owner! Luca - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still

Re: [Bacula-users] no label for a volume

2007-07-25 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 Arno Lehmann's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote: * Bacula sd can write to that directory I assume that other volumes were created successfully on that disk. Of course, a change in the user the SD runs as might also have happened. Should I worry about volumes

[Bacula-users] no label for a volume

2007-07-24 Thread Luca Ferrari
Hi all, I've got several job definitions that are similar, but the following is not working: Job { Name = sede_Vol2Samba_job Enabled = no Type = Backup Level = Incremental Client = sede-fd FileSet = sede_Vol2Samba_fileset Storage = sede-samba-sd Messages = Daemon

Re: [Bacula-users] problem labeling volumes

2007-07-16 Thread Luca Ferrari
What is very strange is that if I run the backups from the console, that is through the run option, the backups are labeled, while the same jobs using the scheduler does not get the label. For instance today I ran the uff_a job manually, then I waited for the scheduled one. The device was

[Bacula-users] problem labeling volumes

2007-07-13 Thread Luca Ferrari
Hi all, I'm still fighting with the auto-labeling problem. This is what I want: each job should stay on a separate file with the name of the job and the time of the backup. This is my configuration: (storage daemon) Device { Name = mammuth_device Archive Device = /backup/mammuth

[Bacula-users] a job with device that is blocked waiting for media?

2007-05-24 Thread Luca Ferrari
Hi all, I've got a couple of jobs that follows. The strange thing is that while the job mammuth_uff_b_job runs correctly, the mammuth_uff_c_job does not and I can see from the bacula console that Device mammuth_device (/backup/mammuth) is not open or does not exist. Device is BLOCKED

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Volume Size is for me?

2007-05-09 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Tuesday 08 May 2007 Darien Hager's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote: Luca Ferrari wrote: 08-mag 17:41 backup-sd: User defined maximum volume capacity 4,000,000 exceeded on device sede_samba_storage (/backup/sede/samba). So far, so good. But since you're backing up to plain old files

[Bacula-users] Maximum Volume Size is for me?

2007-05-08 Thread Luca Ferrari
Hi all, this is what I'd like to do: backup up regularly on volumes of type file that should not exceed 4GB of size (this is in the case I've to burn such files). I thought that Maximum Volume Size could help me, but it does not: 08-mag 17:41 backup-sd: User defined maximum volume capacity

Re: [Bacula-users] doubt on autolabeling

2007-04-27 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Tuesday 24 April 2007 Darien Hager's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote: Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 Even with a pool for each job and the above directive in the pool I got a strange behaviour: 27-apr 15:22 backup-sd: Volume mammuth_uff_b_job-2007-04-26 previously written, moving to

[Bacula-users] doubt on autolabeling

2007-04-24 Thread Luca Ferrari
Hi all, I cannot understan very well how labeling works. I've got, in my bacula-dir.conf file the following jobs: Job { Name = mammuth_uff_a_job Enabled = yes Type = Backup Level = Incremental Client = mammuth-fd FileSet = uff_a_fileset Storage = mammuth_storage

[Bacula-users] backup on dvd-like base

2007-04-13 Thread Luca Ferrari
Hi all, I'm not sure if this is possible: I'd like to instrument bacula to perform backup over a disk storage but preparing a kind of dvd iso and splitting the backup over a set of such iso as needed. A kind of pooling of dvd backups that I'll archive on phisical dvds let's say one at month

Re: [Bacula-users] cannot delete/cancel running jobs

2007-04-11 Thread Luca Ferrari
On Tuesday 10 April 2007 Luca Ferrari's cat, walking on the keyboard, wrote: but I cannot either cancel or delete them, and thus cannot start another backup job (since it will be enqueued after the above). Any idea? I've tried to restart the file daemon and the director but nothing changed.

[Bacula-users] cannot delete/cancel running jobs

2007-04-10 Thread Luca Ferrari
Hi all, I've got the following running jobs in the status of a storage: Running Jobs: Writing: Full Backup job sede_samba_job JobId=36 Volume= pool=Default device=sede_storage (/backup/sede/) Files=7,606 Bytes=865,540,986 Bytes/sec=2,603 FDReadSeqNo=86,140 in_msg=64080 out_msg=5 fd=5

[Bacula-users] Device not in SD device resources....why?

2007-04-03 Thread Luca Ferrari
Hi, I'm a newbie of Bacula and I cannot get my first job running. I'm trying to backup the config of the machine that runs the fd,sd and director. In my bacula.sd.conf I've got: Device { Name = Config_Storage Archive Device = /backup/configurazioni Device Type = File Removable Media

[Bacula-users] help doing backup of serveral host

2007-04-03 Thread Luca Ferrari
Hi all, apologize my trivial questions, but I'm new to bacula. I've got a centalized machine that runs the director and the storage daemon and that should backup several machine with their own file daemon. I'd like to backup each host on a volume that is a file on the backupper machine disk, on