Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling configuration question

2010-05-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 05/18/10 10:37, Joseph Spenner wrote: --- On Mon, 5/17/10, Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net wrote: As previously mentioned, staggering backups on your clients is fairly easy. A six-day backup cycle is *unusual*, because it doesn't fit neatly into either weekly or monthly schedules

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling configuration question

2010-05-17 Thread Phil Stracchino
in future. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling configuration question

2010-05-17 Thread Phil Stracchino
it can be done without enumerating the entire schedule a year at a time. If you really need to do that, then perhaps Bacula isn't the tool for you. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org

[Bacula-users] 5.0.2 on Gentoo

2010-05-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
.ebuild manifest # emerge -av app-backup/bacula The ebuild manifest step is *important*. If you do not update the manifest after patching, the ebuild checksum will be wrong, and portage will helpfully re-download the ebuild for you, undoing your work. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bulk] Re: Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup

2010-05-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
, Microsoft wouldn't be able to sell MSCE training. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's

Re: [Bacula-users] Database version problems caused Ubuntu 10.04 upgrade to abort

2010-05-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
the subdirectory containing the scripts to make the update scripts you need. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's

Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware configuration and off-site backup

2010-05-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 05/06/10 02:57, Vlamsdoem wrote: On 05/05/10 15:12, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 05/05/10 08:38, John Drescher wrote: Sorry my servers are on gigabit links. How do you come to 9MB/s with a 100Mb link, is it not equals to 12,5 MB/s? Overhead. If it's correct on a gigabit

Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware configuration and off-site backup

2010-05-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
are the maximum burst transfer rate FROM a full disk cache or TO an empty one. The actual sustained rates at which the physical mechanism can read or write data to and from the platters are FAR lower. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala

Re: [Bacula-users] backing up shared storage?

2010-05-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
. This doesn't necessarily follow unless you're using accurate backup. But it sounds as though the best approach here is to ensure that the shared storage is mounted at a specific node when your backup runs. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala

Re: [Bacula-users] Installing with RPMs

2010-05-04 Thread Phil Stracchino
from RPM, I can't help you there, sorry. But the RPMs SHOULD contain the scripts you reference above. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker

Re: [Bacula-users] Installing with RPMs

2010-05-04 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 05/04/10 13:29, Joseph Spenner wrote: --- On Tue, 5/4/10, Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net wrote: I have mysql running on my Suse 11.2 64bit system. How does mysql get populated with the bacula database/tables? When I compiled from source earlier, I found I needed to manually run

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum concurrent jobs for devices

2010-05-03 Thread Phil Stracchino
a second disk storage device on the same physical device. You could also possibly look into using the vchanger. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Maximum concurrent jobs for devices

2010-05-03 Thread Phil Stracchino
to either make the new Pool's media type match the existing volumes, or create additional Volumes that match the new Pool. It's up to you to decide which of these will better match your site-specific needs. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Mirror or Rsync?

2010-05-03 Thread Phil Stracchino
forever to keep the machines mirrored with rsync, it'll take forever and a day with Bacula. Use the right tool for the job. Bacula is a backup suite, not a synchronization tool. Rsync is, in fact, the best tool for this job. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression on Windows

2010-05-03 Thread Phil Stracchino
anything, because it does not include anything. File (and related) directives go within the Include{} and Exclude{} directives. That one isn't. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression on Windows

2010-05-03 Thread Phil Stracchino
? If you're not getting compression and you're asking about that, from the fragmentary bits of configuration you've posted above you appear to have compression both turned on and turned off. This probably isn't helping. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355

Re: [Bacula-users] BAT?

2010-04-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
? No. Bacula-mysql will be a package of all the bacula server tools, built to use mysql databases, as compared to bacula-sqlite or bacula-postgresql. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org

Re: [Bacula-users] BAT?

2010-04-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
. bacula-postgresql-5.0.1-1.su112.x86_64.rpm All the server daemons, compiled for PostgreSQL. bacula-sqlite-5.0.1-1.su112.x86_64.rpm All the server daemons, compiled for SQLite. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala

Re: [Bacula-users] BAT?

2010-04-28 Thread Phil Stracchino
-5.0.1-1.su112.x86_64.rpm If I were you, I would wait a day or two and grab 5.0.2, which was released today. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl

Re: [Bacula-users] Create volumes

2010-04-26 Thread Phil Stracchino
Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 for that Pool. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] LONG: Possible cause(s) when restore jobs are OK in bconsole, but no files are written to restore dir

2010-04-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
parameter to select which client to restore files to; use the where parameter to specify where on that client to restore to. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot find any appendable volumes

2010-04-23 Thread Phil Stracchino
a 'Maximum Volumes = 13' directive in your Pool resource to tell it not to create any more new volumes besides the ones you already have? (Though if your retention is 14 days, you probably need to have at least 15 volumes.) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala

Re: [Bacula-users] Full and Incremental backup to different location

2010-04-22 Thread Phil Stracchino
. (In this case, the Incremental Pool and Differential Pool directives are redundant and should be unnecessary. But it won't hurt anything to have them there, and the example is useful.) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala

Re: [Bacula-users] How to cancel a job before it begins?

2010-04-22 Thread Phil Stracchino
from the Job list in BAT. Then, tomorrow, just undo it: enable job=Your Job Name Here And you're all set. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-21 Thread Phil Stracchino
require a manual SQL query.) Then you can look at the specific files that you know were backed up, and determine why they got backed up. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-21 Thread Phil Stracchino
got backed up by a specific job is a useful thing. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years

Re: [Bacula-users] problem with silent installation of bacula on windows

2010-04-20 Thread Phil Stracchino
. Unfortunately - silent installation fails here, because somebody needs to click ok button... What could be done to prevent this? Sounds like this check is not honoring the /S switch. This should be filed on the bacula.org site as a bug. It should be a pretty simple fix. -- Phil

Re: [Bacula-users] How to get label of tape currently in tape drive

2010-04-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
in the tape drive so that bacula uses this tape to do the nightly backup. This is potentially dangerous. If you're having to resort to things like this, you're doing your Bacula volume management wrong. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala

Re: [Bacula-users] How to get label of tape currently in tape drive

2010-04-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
I hear you. Just be aware that it could result in purging a backup that you really needed. (If, say, someone does a restore that requires a tape from a full backup, and forgets to change the tape afterward.) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
do the 'List Volumes' and 'Show Pools' commands return? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
all of your existing volumes so that you're starting over from a clean slate, let it run, and see how it goes. Right now, you have only one appendable volume. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
recycle them itself, or you can use the Update Volume command to manually change the volume status to Recycle. This is a particularly straightforward operation if you are using BAT, since you can do it on all the volumes at once. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: bacula won't backup files with apostrophes

2010-04-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
the bacula client. Ah, so yet another situation where policies written by the ignorant actively get in the way of getting critical work done. I feel your pain. :p -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-12 Thread Phil Stracchino
such that the first volume becomes available again just after the last volume is used (for a ten-day rotation, nine days should be right). Make sure that after you update the Pool resource, you FIRST update the Pool from the resource, THEN update ALL of the Volumes from the Pool. -- Phil Stracchino

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-12 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/12/10 11:58, Joseph Spenner wrote: --- On Mon, 4/12/10, Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net wrote: Did you fix the retention period yet? If it's immediately reusing the first volume, it probably means your retention is too short. If you're trying to use these volumes in daily

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula won't backup files with apostrophes

2010-04-12 Thread Phil Stracchino
mounting the CIFS share, and therefore limiting your backup speed for that share to AT MOST half the client's available bandwidth. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-09 Thread Phil Stracchino
rotation, try setting the Volume Retention to 9 days. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years

Re: [Bacula-users] Possibility of parallelising encryption?

2010-04-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
that by the time the new Intel hardware hits Bacula supports it? -- Craig Ringer Sounds like a good idea to me. Want to write up a patch? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/08/10 03:53, Craig Ringer wrote: BTW, When I suggested that greater write concurrency would be desirable and should be easier, Phil Stracchino raised some concerns about concurrent writes to a file system increasing fragmentation and hurting overall performance. Rather than just wave my

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/08/10 09:13, Craig Ringer wrote: Phil Stracchino wrote: I'll be interested to see those results. Which filesystems are you testing? I'm interested in ext3, ext4 and xfs. I should probably look at zfs too, but don't have any hosts that it runs on usefully and don't really have any

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
suspect it is at least 1 of the following: File Retention Job Retention AutoPrune Recycle Volume Retention I strongly doubt it has anything to do with any of those settings. Why not post your actual Pool and Storage definitions? Then we won't have to guess. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/07/10 01:05, Craig Ringer wrote: Phil Stracchino wrote: It is possible right now to open more than one file-based volume at a time. You simply need to define multiple storage devices under the same storage daemon; each device can have one volume open at a time. Yep. My suggestion

Re: [Bacula-users] Simplified pools

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/07/10 00:42, Craig Ringer wrote: Phil Stracchino wrote: I can confirm that it still works in 5.x as well. I use this for disk volumes: Label Format = FULL-$Year${Month:p/2/0/r}${Day:p/2/0/r}-${Hour:p/2/0/r}:${Minute:p/2/0/r} (with alterations for Differential and Incremental pools

Re: [Bacula-users] Simplified pools

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
be overridden based on level. This is a good suggestion, I think. I'd go ahead and write it up and submit it. :) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
-spindle array I'm not sure how much practical effect it'll have. Is fragmentation avoidance worth all this complexity? Probably not. :) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance

Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes on full disk - lots of 0 byte files

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
not sure whether this has actively gone anywhere yet. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic restores BACULA

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
that we do baremetal or something like that automated :):) This sounds as though you should look into the Verify feature and see if it does what you need. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p

Re: [Bacula-users] Possibility of parallelising encryption?

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
even without special hardware. Unfortunately they're rather GPL-incompatible and are only free for non-commercial use. It would indeed be very nice to be able to use that kind of hardware crypto support without having to jump through licensing hoops. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD

Re: [Bacula-users] PATCH: add AES-ECB support to Bacula

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
with an actually parallel implementation and others are looking into it later. The next step is to try to spawn worker threads to encrypt chunks in parallel. Hopefully this will be possible with OpenSSL... Craig, you should really think about joining the -devel list. :) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic restores BACULA

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
is on the media, it doesn't tell you that you can get it back. A regular full (or partial) restore test should be a part of any good backup regime. Oh, sure. But as best I can understand the OP, it seems to me that verify is what he's looking for. However, I could easily be misunderstanding. -- Phil

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
. At this time, both source and destination devices are required to be on the same SD. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
there is no provision. With that out of the way, implementing cross-SD copy-and-migrate would probably be fairly trivial. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention Policy Pruning Files?

2010-04-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
still restore individual files. You just need to bscan the volume back into the catalog first. Looks like your retention times need some tuning, though. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
scheme; and you're still sacrificing the common case to optimize for the rare case. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater

Re: [Bacula-users] Simplified pools

2010-04-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
this scheme, the pool syntax would have to contain level-specific overrides for essentially every adjustable parameter. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin

Re: [Bacula-users] Simplified pools

2010-04-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
in Bacula-3 and later, by changing the way overrides work. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
expired volumes; I've attached mine as an example. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/06/10 12:06, Josh Fisher wrote: On 4/6/2010 8:42 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 04/06/10 02:37, Craig Ringer wrote: Well, just off the top of my head, the first thing that comes to mind is that the only ways such a scheme is not going to result in massive disk fragmentation

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/06/10 14:18, Henrik Johansen wrote: [...] when ZFS flushes its transaction groups to spinning rust. heh. :) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
deletion. Directly deleting volumes, or anything else, out of the database behind Bacula's back is an extremely bad practice that carries a severe risk of leaving the Catalog in an inconsistent state, and one should never do it. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607

Re: [Bacula-users] Simplified pools

2010-04-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
this for disk volumes: Label Format = FULL-$Year${Month:p/2/0/r}${Day:p/2/0/r}-${Hour:p/2/0/r}:${Minute:p/2/0/r} (with alterations for Differential and Incremental pools, of course.) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net

Re: [Bacula-users] Simplified pools

2010-04-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/06/10 17:28, Kevin Keane wrote: From: Phil Stracchino [mailto:ala...@metrocast.net] Actually, this is a problem which has largely been fixed in Bacula-3 and later, by changing the way overrides work. Really? I see this problem in bacula 3.0.3 all the time. Maybe I need to change

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula for disk drives Help

2010-04-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
this will tell you all the locations on that client from where a file of that specified name was backed up, and which job(s) each one was backed up in. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org

[Bacula-users] Mount problem on newly upgraded 5.0.1

2010-04-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
needed for Bacula 5? (Yes, I did update the Pool from the resource since increasing the volume count.) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker

Re: [Bacula-users] Mount problem on newly upgraded 5.0.1

2010-04-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/05/10 06:51, Phil Stracchino wrote: I've run into a volume mount problem on an installation newly upgraded to 5.0.1. Never mind ... I figured out my problem. It's been so long since I manually added tape volumes I forgot to ADD volumes to the Pool. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2

Re: [Bacula-users] DVD backup

2010-04-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/01/10 11:34, Stuart McGraw wrote: On 03/31/2010 07:27 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: [...] DVD support is another issue. Direct DVD writer support was deprecated in Bacula some time ago and is explicitly unmaintained and unsupported, because it turns out to be so problematic

Re: [Bacula-users] Big log....

2010-04-01 Thread Phil Stracchino
auditing requirements, you should probably only have transaction logging enabled on MySQL when debugging. For routine operation, you should log only errors, precisely *because* logging all transactions will generate vast quantities of log data. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM

Re: [Bacula-users] cyclic dvd backup error

2010-04-01 Thread Phil Stracchino
: Back up to a disk pool configured for a maximum Volume size of 4.7GB (9.4GB for dual-layer DVDs), then separately write the resulting volumes to DVDs. Direct DVD writing in Bacula was deprecated because it could not be made to work reliably. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM

Re: [Bacula-users] Big log....

2010-04-01 Thread Phil Stracchino
not talking about same thing. Correct, yes, I mentally conflated the two. My error. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater

Re: [Bacula-users] DVD backup

2010-04-01 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/01/10 11:34, Stuart McGraw wrote: On 03/31/2010 07:27 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: [...] DVD support is another issue. Direct DVD writer support was deprecated in Bacula some time ago and is explicitly unmaintained and unsupported, because it turns out to be so problematic

Re: [Bacula-users] ./Configure unable to make BACULA-5.0.1 from src

2010-03-31 Thread Phil Stracchino
the tray monitor in your configure statement. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's

Re: [Bacula-users] Concatenate one Job on two tape dri ves. ¿Is it possible?

2010-03-31 Thread Phil Stracchino
as a RAIT span/concat device. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] Concatenate one Job on two tape dri ves. ¿Is it possible?

2010-03-31 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/31/10 18:35, Alfredo J. V. P. wrote: On Miércoles 31 Marzo 2010 23:23:47 Phil Stracchino escribió: RAIT span/concat RAID 0. Yes, but no disk involved. Tape drives instead. No, actually, you would not want a RAID (or RAIT) 0 setup. Striping data across devices of different sizes

Re: [Bacula-users] DVD backup

2010-03-31 Thread Phil Stracchino
swaps.) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] recover volume deleted by error

2010-03-28 Thread Phil Stracchino
is correct... But does that user *from that machine* have permissions to access the database? You may have to perform a GRANT. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man

Re: [Bacula-users] Migrating to a different system

2010-03-26 Thread Phil Stracchino
or migrate jobs between different SDs. Is it feasible for you to have ruhr publish the tape changer as an iSCSI target and have volga connect to it? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem building 5.0.1 with disable-build-dird

2010-03-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple storage addresses

2010-03-24 Thread Phil Stracchino
, of 'netstat -rn'? You *are* of course defining infiniband clients by their addresses on the infiniband subnet, right? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin

[Bacula-users] FYI: Bacula on Gentoo

2010-03-24 Thread Phil Stracchino
FYI, app-backup/bacula-5.0.1-r2 was just added to Gentoo portage last night, under an ~x86 mask. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free

Re: [Bacula-users] Tanberg Tape drives?

2010-03-24 Thread Phil Stracchino
should work just fine with any LTO drive. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple storage addresses

2010-03-23 Thread Phil Stracchino
to do anything special to make it happen, the machines should talk using their best routes. It should Just Work. What exactly is happening, or not happening, at the moment? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net

Re: [Bacula-users] Job Copy - from one SD to another

2010-03-19 Thread Phil Stracchino
consumption. Right now I don't have anything suitable, though I suppose I do have a Sun U30 I could use for proof of principle.) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/18/10 10:03, Jeronimo Zucco wrote: On 03/16/2010 03:40 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: Doing this portably is actually a rather difficult problem because there are so many different partitioning schemes and partition table formats out there. It's a mess. Or we can used partimage based

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up more than 200 servers

2010-03-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
database, you may need to establish multiple Catalogs on different hosts and spread the clients across them. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up more than 200 servers

2010-03-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
Bacula-5 .debs and Gentoo has nothing newer than 3.0.3 even in unstable. It seems to be an uphill struggle to keep all the various OS distributions up to date on Bacula. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up more than 200 servers

2010-03-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
-backup/bacula/ This is pretty much just a package bump of the 3.0.3 portage ebuild. I use it at home but I have not gone to production at work yet. Odd ... I have your overlay loaded, and I see 5.0.0 but not 5.0.1 -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up more than 200 servers

2010-03-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/16/10 12:09, John Drescher wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net wrote: Odd ... I have your overlay loaded, and I see 5.0.0 but not 5.0.1 I just pushed my changes 5 minutes ago. Ah! I'll run an eix-sync then. That'll leave me covered

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up more than 200 servers

2010-03-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/16/10 12:20, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 03/16/10 12:09, John Drescher wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net wrote: Odd ... I have your overlay loaded, and I see 5.0.0 but not 5.0.1 I just pushed my changes 5 minutes ago. Ah! I'll run an eix

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up more than 200 servers

2010-03-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/16/10 13:22, Richard Mortimer wrote: On 16/03/2010 15:33, Phil Stracchino wrote: Yes, agreed. Unfortunately, 5.0.1 is not yet readily available on all platforms except by building from source. I was looking at this the other day to see whether it was feasible yet to upgrade all of my

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Enhancements Request

2010-03-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
the earliest days of Bacula, and there still isn't a clean single solution, precisely *because* it's a complex problem. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl

[Bacula-users] Bacula 3.0.3 failing to find plugins

2010-03-12 Thread Phil Stracchino
that there aren't any plugins for the *director* in there, only for the FD? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula configuration problems

2010-03-09 Thread Phil Stracchino
=FullPool Friday at 13:05 Try this: Schedule { Name = Full #Every week (Every Friday, use for 1 moths, 3 volume rotation) Run = Full fri at 13:05 } and specify your Pool for full backups in your JobDefs. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355

Re: [Bacula-users] Force serialization only for a subset of hosts ?

2010-03-09 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/09/10 09:06, Matija Nalis wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 11:31:41AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: Why don't you try this (I'm assuming you're backing up to disk, as you didn't specify): Set up three Storage devices on your Storage daemon, and three Pools, each tied to one

Re: [Bacula-users] CentOS yum install with PostgreSQL database on another system

2010-03-09 Thread Phil Stracchino
the database as well. But nothing says you have to actually fire the db up and use it. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater

Re: [Bacula-users] CentOS yum install with PostgreSQL database on another system

2010-03-09 Thread Phil Stracchino
, or include tools that have dependencies upon, the applicable database package. In the normal case, you hopefully won't need them, but if (for instance) you ever need to regenerate a catalog from volumes with bscan, well bscan needs to be able to talk to the DB. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2

Re: [Bacula-users] [SOLVED] Can volumes on an internal HDD be synchronised to more than one external HDD?

2010-03-09 Thread Phil Stracchino
, particularly if just taking a snapshot; for that brief time it should be sufficient to quiesce it. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free

[Bacula-users] Fixing InnoDB lock wait timeouts

2010-03-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 7 Client Backup

2010-03-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
other goodies. For the life of me, I can't find the equivalent tool on Windows 7. Has anyone figured this out yet? It's my understanding that this is no longer necessary if using VSS. Can anyone confirm? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala

Re: [Bacula-users] Fixing InnoDB lock wait timeouts

2010-03-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/08/10 13:32, Jesper Krogh wrote: Phil Stracchino wrote: If the problem still occurs, something else is going on. But this should fix the problem in probably 99% of cases in which the 50-second timeout is only infrequently being exceeded. It hugely depends on your fileset sizes.. I

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 7 Client Backup

2010-03-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/08/10 16:55, Thomas Mueller wrote: Am Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:06:24 -0500 schrieb Phil Stracchino: On 03/08/10 09:26, McCann, Brian wrote: Hi All. I'm having a hard time finding a solution to this...but I'm sure there is one. When all my desktops were on Windows XP, I used the Client Run

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