Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 5.2 in Debian

2012-05-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 04 May 2012 15:07:17 +0200 schrieb mailing: Hey folks... can youtell me when Debian takes Bacula 5.2 in in the repository? guess this is more a question for the debian bacula packaging group: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-bacula-devel and try

Re: [Bacula-users] Full backup forced if client changes

2012-03-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:52:32 -0400 schrieb Steve Thompson: Bacula 5.0.2. For the following example job: ... } more than one client is available to backup the (shared) storage. If I change the name of the client in the Job definition, a full backup always occurs the next time a job is

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up Outlook PST files.

2012-03-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:38:52 +0200 schrieb Wassim Zaarour: Hello List, I was wondering if anyone is able to back Outlook PST files in an efficient way with Bacula. For my understanding if the PST file will be modified everyday, than Bacula will be backing it up everyday with any level of

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Server disaster recovery.

2012-03-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:02:23 +0200 schrieb Wassim Zaarour: Hi List, We are backing up to disks not tapes, now I need to set up a plan in case the bacula server (director) crashes. What to do in case the MySQL catalog is lost? Can we recover? I guess it is easy to keep copy of configuration

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Server disaster recovery.

2012-03-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 02.03.2012 14:32, Wassim Zaarour wrote: So if I take a backup of MySql and I have the configuration files and the volumes of the data, I could simple export mysql database to a new server, install bacula and use the backed up conf files and put the volumes in the same configured

Re: [Bacula-users] Client Password based data encryption.

2012-02-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 16.02.2012 12:32, Wassim Zaarour wrote: What I was thinking is of a way maybe to have some password based encryption, where only the users know his password but I didn't find any solution that can work like this. I guess for now we have to settle that the IT admin. Or the Sys admin have

Re: [Bacula-users] Space reclamation

2012-02-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:36:45 +0100 schrieb Demeter Tibor: Hi, Are there any option in bacula for the tape space reclamation ? I know and use this option from Tivol storage manager. How can I defragment my tapes? IMHO there is no such thing like defragment for tapes. you could use a

Re: [Bacula-users] Client Password based data encryption.

2012-02-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:01:57 -0500 schrieb Phil Stracchino: On 02/16/2012 05:01 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote: In theory encryption does just need the public-key. Encrypting needs the private key. but I don't know if it is possible to provide only the public key to bacula-sd. I believe you mean

Re: [Bacula-users] Encrypting Data on Tape

2012-01-10 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:12:26 -0500 schrieb Craig Van Tassle: I'm sorry if this has been asked before. I'm running a Scalar 50 with HP LTO-4 Drives. I want to encrypt the data that is put on the tape, We already have encryption going between the Dir/SD and FD's. I just want to encrypt the

Re: [Bacula-users] Permanently disabling clients without deleting them

2011-12-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:31:09 +1100 schrieb Gary R. Schmidt: Hi, Bacula 3.0.3. I've had some machines be removed from use, but I don't want their backups to go away until we are sure their replacements are complete. I can disable them individually from the console, but is there something

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore with data encryption?

2011-12-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:14:15 +0100 schrieb Oliver Hoffmann: Hi all, I do backups with data encryption. Backups as well as restores on the clients work without problems. Now I want to be able to do restores with the server (or another one) only. The doc says that adding the following line

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtualfull

2011-12-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 01.12.2011 13:42, Miikael Havelock Nilson wrote: Hello, I have a small question. When virtualfull is made will data pass trought the director? Question is in the case the storage is on low bandwith will data move from storage to director and back to storage or storage to storage? data

Re: [Bacula-users] Volume Use Duration not working in 5.2.1

2011-11-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 24.11.2011 17:01, Fahrer, Julian wrote: Hi, Am I missing something or is the Volume Use Duration parameter in the pool not working in 5.2.1? I defined the pool like this: --- Pool { Name = NEO200S_Weekly_Pool Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume

Re: [Bacula-users] Force Bacula to retain at least one Full backup per job?

2011-11-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 23.11.2011 15:01, Ralph Kutschera wrote: Hallo! Am 16.04.2011 00:43, schrieb CDuv: Hello, While testing Bacula, I've had this bad No full backup before 2011-04-15 13:37:00 found surprise when trying to restore files of a Job The client status shows that jobs were correctly done (both

Re: [Bacula-users] Looking for configuration advice

2011-10-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 19.10.2011 16:44, Johnston, James C. (GRC-RXP0) wrote: I’m trying to back up a bunch of computational data – about 16 – 18 TB at the moment. I’ll be backing a single fileserver up to a ~36 TB RAID array connected to the server via fiber channel. I’m considering how often I do a Full

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental Pruning Full Backup?

2011-10-15 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 14.10.2011 16:09, Henrique Machado wrote: I've migrated from bacula 3.0.3 to 5.0.3, and my bacula-dir.conf stay the same. But now, on this new version my Incremental backup looks like is pruning the Full Backup for this client: http://pastebin.ca/2090064 Somebody have an idea? The

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple spool files per job

2011-10-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 13.10.2011 11:51, Stefan Lubitz wrote: Hi, this feature would be really great. We have three Backup serves which all have single Jobs to backup (each job app. 13TB). The Time to despool is absolutely waste of time and could be used more efficient. This feature request is more than 4

Re: [Bacula-users] Error vs OK

2011-10-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 04.10.2011 23:31, tscollins wrote: I'm trying to figure out why 'Director Status' shows a Job Status as Error but when I click on the Client Status it shows the Job Status as OK? Attached screenshots show error and OK. (http://postimage.org/image/2emhnufwk/)

Re: [Bacula-users] How do I remove clients from the database?

2011-09-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 28.09.2011 20:41, Stefan Michael Guenther wrote: Hello, I have removed a number of clients from bacula-dir.conf and restarted the director. In the bconsole list clients still lists the removed clients. The delete command only allows me to remove volumes, pools and jobids. So, how do

Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude directories

2011-09-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 26.09.2011 10:47, Lyn Amery wrote: Hi all, I've been wading through the documentation on how to exclude files and directories from backup jobs but have had no luck. I'm trying to exclude files like .pgpass and .svn directories from wherever they occur in the filesystem. The following

Re: [Bacula-users] Upgrade from Bacula 5.0 to 5.0.3

2011-08-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 18.08.2011 08:37, bantumi wrote: Hello; I'm kinda new on bacula and want to upgrade from 5.0 to 5.0.3 My OS: CentOS 5 I would do it! - Thomas -- Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system,

Re: [Bacula-users] API to Communicate with Bacula from a client portal?

2011-08-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 09.08.2011 17:31, Yazan wrote: Hey guys, We have been using Bacula for some time now and I wanted to automate a few things and allow the clients to take control of their backups. We want to give our clients the option of buying backup space and creating/editing backup schedules of

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs exceeded on the FD

2011-08-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 16.08.2011 11:25, Joris Heinrich wrote: Hallo List, in our company we use 2. directors with the same jobdefinitions. one is responsible for the on site backup and the other one for the off site backup. All file daemons are configured with Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1. This is necessary

Re: [Bacula-users] Ignore fileset changes

2011-08-15 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:43:05 +0200 schrieb Olle Romo: Thank you Uwe. I misunderstood the concept. Is there a way to have Bacula just continue incremental backup of a drive even if it was offline for one run? IMHO no, it will fail if a path is not available. you could create a sort of

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup error

2011-07-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:35:10 -0500 schrieb Jake Debord: I have ran successful backups with XP. This is my first machine to backup running Vista (hate vista). Bacula throws this error: 01-Jul 11:31 tamara-fd JobId 205: C:/Documents and Settings/All Users is a junction point or a

Re: [Bacula-users] Single File Restore to Win Vista

2011-07-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:01:45 -0700 schrieb jake debord: Trying to restore a single file, when i search for it, it finds the job it's backed up in. But when I choose the FD then try to backup it requires a full path of the file. So i type the full path as it would appear in windows

Re: [Bacula-users] force backup of unchanged file in incremental backup

2011-04-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:33:14 +1000 schrieb James Harper: The last modified datestamp on MSSQL database files doesn't get changed unless the actual file dimensions change (eg it 'grows') or when the file is closed. This means that an incremental backup won't necessarily back up the database

Re: [Bacula-users] force backup of unchanged file in incremental backup

2011-04-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
Is there a way to force the backup of specific unchanged files during an incremental or differential backup? Eg: Option { File = C:/database/mydb.mdf Always Back Up = Yes } you could create a backup job with just that file in it and run it always as full. - Thomas I think

Re: [Bacula-users] It's possible to parallelize backups?

2011-02-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:36:13 +0100 schrieb Simone Martina: Hi at all, since some weeks I got a new SCSI controller due to use a second tape reader into the HP MSL6030 (a Overland NEO 2000 clone) tape library. After some initially troubles and a some telephonic shout with HP support, now I'm

Re: [Bacula-users] Reload Config while bacula-dir is still running?

2011-01-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:45:51 + schrieb Mister IT Guru: I'm making amendments and changes to my bacula config, but at the same time I need to run my backups. Other than setting up a separate machine to test my config, (which I will be doing in coming days, when the hardware purchased for

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention per Job or Fileset?

2011-01-10 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:59:04 +0100 schrieb Michael Patzer: Hi all, i've two jobs for one client, going to the same pool - and couldn't change that. the first job has a retention of 22 days, but the second job needs a retention of 4 days. any ideas how i could setup such a construct

Re: [Bacula-users] Extremly slow backup

2011-01-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:28:22 +0100 schrieb Marcin Krol: Hello. I've problem with bacula performance on one of my machines. The machine in question is my mail server that holds about 220 GB of data in 660 thousands of files. Full backup takes about 2 days and 11 hours with average speed of

Re: [Bacula-users] Extremly slow backup

2011-01-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:38:17 +0100 schrieb Marcin Krol: did you enable Spool Attributes or Spool Data in the job resource? did you run the btape tests? do you have compression or encryption enabled? your config and some infos about the bacula version may help. Spool Attributers or Spool

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula configration for FC LTO-5 tape drive

2011-01-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:55:56 +0100 schrieb Arunav Mandal: I have a Tandberg T40+ Tapeloader with HP LTO-5 tape drive connected to QLogic Corp. ISP2532-based 8Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA on a Dell 2950 running Ubuntu Server 10.10. The kernel version is 2.6.35-24-server. The autoloader

Re: [Bacula-users] Server is Client of Multiple Directors

2011-01-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:57:49 -0600 schrieb Patrick McEvoy: Hello, I would like to have two machines acting as directors for the same clients in order to have redundant backups of the servers. I have looked in the manual and searched the internet but only find multiple clients for a

Re: [Bacula-users] why do copy/verify jobs use file daemons?

2010-12-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:05:37 +0100 schrieb C.Keschnat: Is it normal behaviour that the file daemon is involved when making copies/verifies? That's not very efficient when verifying jobs from external servers. just speaking for verify jobs: the verify work is done by the filedaemon. If no

Re: [Bacula-users] Archiving out a tape.

2010-12-21 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:02:38 +1100 schrieb Gary R. Schmidt: Hi all, Bacula 3.0.3 server, mix of 302 and 303 clients on *NIX and Windows. I'm taking a full backup of everything, for EOY archiving purposes, and I was wondering should I purge the tape volume(s) created by this so as to make

Re: [Bacula-users] How to discard tape (file actually) on failed backup?

2010-12-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
Job serverA runs, and auto-labels a new file as /store/serverA-434... but the job fails because ServerA is unreachable. So bacula times out, and then proceeds with backup job serverB, but it uses the file it's already created for serverA's backup. Any way around this? you could create

Re: [Bacula-users] keep a backup forever?

2010-12-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
Before I put the new (replacement) machine into the backup system, I would like to know if there is a way that I can save the last bacukp(s) of the original (now-dead) machine for longer than my 3-month rotation schedule, just in case. You can

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula has write errors after replacing Autoloader

2010-12-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Sun, 12 Dec 2010 10:22:27 +1100 schrieb James Harper: I'm having a problem with Bacula and my Autoloader/tape drive. Any errors in the kernel logs? If it was a HP drive you'd run HP Library Tape Tools to verify the drive. Maybe Quantum have a similar tool. the quantum diagnostic

Re: [Bacula-users] Stupid build question...

2010-12-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Thu, 02 Dec 2010 11:15:34 -0600 schrieb Sean Clark: Is it not possible to build a version of bacula that supports both mysql and postgresql? (I enabled both, but got an error while compiling. Googling turns up a post from back in August mentioning that the error indicates that the

Re: [Bacula-users] When are volumes marked Purged?

2010-12-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:57:47 + schrieb Martin Simmons: The only operations that mark volumes as purged are the purge command and the volume recycling code. The latter happens when Bacula needs a new volume (as you noticed) and it stops looks when it finds a volume that can be purged

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about file service [agent]

2010-12-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
I would pre- und possible post- job steps to execute, before the backup starts. RunScript is what you are looking for: http://bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#6982 can be run on the director (dir) or the client (fd) - but not on the storage daemon (sd). -

[Bacula-users] Unexpected cryptographic session data stream. on restore with replace: ifnewer

2010-11-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
hi On restores from encrypted backups if you select replace: ifnewer: you will get flooded by messages like this: 25-Nov 11:39 testhost JobId 3459: Error: restore.c:433 Unexpected cryptographic session data stream. 25-Nov 11:39 testhost JobId 3459: Error: restore.c:433 Unexpected

Re: [Bacula-users] TLS and PKI, How to limit de encryption overhead ?

2010-11-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:52:20 +0100 schrieb Hugo Letemplier: Hi I am Implementing Bacula and I have to cypher the backed up data. Also I don't want that the console and client authentication to be done clearly over the network. I want to implement TLS but data are already cyphered via PKI so

Re: [Bacula-users] TLS and PKI, How to limit de encryption overhead ?

2010-11-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 18.11.2010 02:01, Dan Langille wrote: IMHO TLS is only used for the control-channel not for the data- channel. Really? I hope not. Can you prove this? ok maybe you're right. i've had in mind that it was not encrypted, but written is that the volumes written by sd are not encrypted. not

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula works with Tape drives with SAS interface??

2010-11-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:15:58 -0400 schrieb Mauricio Valencia: Hi all Any one has a Bacula configuration with a Tape Drive LTO5 with a SAS Interface, i will config it on a centos VM over VMWARE. Or what tape drive could you suggest me to buy, i want to use it over vmware in centos, with

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula works with Tape drives with SAS interface??

2010-11-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 11.11.2010 15:49, Mauricio Valencia wrote: Thanks for your answer Thomas, i'll sent de btape results, what drivers do you have (DELL, IBM and what model) Quantum. IMHO there are only a few real manufacturers of LTO drives. Dell is not one of them. The full list:

[Bacula-users] sd mount/unmount commands - %v not available on user defined maximum volume capacity exeeded

2010-11-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
hi After failing with s3fs (many volume read errors on verify/restore) I wrote a skript to get/put file-volumes from/to Amazon S3 with the Requires Mount, Mount Command and Unmount Command directives. It's working fine so long, but if the medium reaches the user defined volume capacity, the

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup fails when creating a large backup

2010-11-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:11:39 +0100 schrieb Primož Kolarič: Hellp Backing up quite some data (2.390TB at the point of failure) bacula fails with: 07-Nov 02:19 xxx..yyy-fd JobId 425: Fatal error: backup.c:1019 Network send error to SD. ERR=Broken pipe There's a network connection

Re: [Bacula-users] Bad disk noises - replace the volume without restarting the backup?

2010-11-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
So is there a way for me to replace that disk without invalidating the entire backup? Running on Linux with an external SATA / FW enclosure, bacula version 3.0.2 If there is a way to temporarily freeze a job (possible using signals) to prevent it from writing anything while using LVM to

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula does 2 Fullbackups

2010-11-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
The first Backup starts and notice das there is no prior Full-Backup, so Bacula does a Full-Backup. That´s fine. But the Full-Backup runs more than 24 hours, so next time Bacula starts his Backup-Job he seems to notice that there is no Full-Backup and he generates a second Full-Backup job.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bad disk noises - replace the volume without restarting the backup?

2010-11-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
Item  1: Ability to restart failed jobs If you are not a coder, you could use http://bacula.org/en/?page=makedonation to help getting it done. - Thomas That seems to be the general consensus. Thank you. I caution that this method may not work as you expect. Being a programmer myself, I

Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning for large (millions of files) backups?

2010-11-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 01 Nov 2010 06:15:18 +0100 schrieb Ondrej PLANKA (Ignum profile): Thanks :) Which type of MySQL storage engine are you using? MyISAM or InnoDB for large Bacula system? Can you please copy/paste your MySQL configuration? I mean my.cnf file Thanks, Ondrej. I would use InnoDB. a

Re: [Bacula-users] Live backup

2010-10-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:07:34 -0400 schrieb ivane91: Yes, It's a linux box. By now , I decide to not backup logs. So I will be waiting another answer.. the only way to get a consistent backupstate is to take a filesystem snapshot with a script. - Thomas

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple file restores from pruned files

2010-09-27 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:23:31 -0400 schrieb Win Htin: Hi folks, I need to restore files older than 6 months from different days (all from same directory structure). Following is the partial definition of the client. File Retention = 180 days Job Retention = 60 months

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.0.3 backport for debian lenny?

2010-09-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:41:04 +0200 schrieb Ralf Gross: Hi, I'm still using bacula 3.0.3 on debian lenny (amd64). In the next weeks I wanted to move on to 5.0.x. But due to the freeze of the next debian stable release there will be no 5.0.3 in debian for some time. 5.0.3 seems to have a lot

Re: [Bacula-users] Network performance

2010-08-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
I had to disable the Maximum Network Buffer Size in the mean time, coincidence or not the director started throwing out unknown errors while connecting to storage, so this test is run with default buffer sizes (which shouldn't be a problem - I got 91-93% of the max link speed with

Re: [Bacula-users] Network performance

2010-08-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
Thank you for your suggestion (and sorry for not replying to the off-list mail sooner - forgot about it); with PKI off: em0 in 5.189 MB/s 5.206 MB/s 16.899 GB out 148.275 KB/s151.429 KB/s 508.401 MB

Re: [Bacula-users] About pool retention

2010-08-10 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:09:00 +0400 schrieb Proskurin Kirill: Hello all. Bacula-5.0.2 I have such pool definition: Pool { Name = host.domain.org Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 7 days UseVolumeOnce = yes Maximum Volumes = 7

Re: [Bacula-users] About pool retention

2010-08-10 Thread Thomas Mueller
If you do everyday a backup you need to change the Volume Retention to something lower than 7 days because the retention is counted from the last written date. Can you be more detail here? I need to make it less then 7 to make it recycle? Im little confused about all Bacula retention

Re: [Bacula-users] Network performance

2010-08-10 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:13:07 +0100 schrieb Hugo Silva: Hello, I'm backing up a server in Germany from a director in The Netherlands. Using bacula, I can't seem to get past ~3000KB/s. Here's an iperf result: [ 3] local [fd-addr] port 16625 connected with [dir-addr] port 5001 [ ID]

Re: [Bacula-users] Shutdown Windows Box after backup? Howto?

2010-08-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:27:21 +0100 schrieb Mister IT Guru: I would like to know if it is possible to get a windows box to shutdown after it's finished a job? script after backup? http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html keywords: * RunScript * Runs On

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Bacula: Backup Error of storage-fd Incremental

2010-08-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:11:37 +0200 schrieb C.Keschnat: Error: Bacula bacula-dir 5.0.2 (28Apr10): 06-Aug-2010 14:06:00 Build OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu debian 5.0.4 JobId: 12541 Job:storage.2010-08-06_14.05.00_52 Backup Level:

Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed

2010-08-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:57:06 -0400 schrieb ekke85: Hi I have a Quantum Scalar i500 and it works in Bacula, but it is very slow. It writes at 22mb/sec. The drives should be able to do a lot more then that. I have to backup 11TB that takes a couple of days to complete, I don't want to think

Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed

2010-08-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
Hi Thomas The spooling attribute was not enabled, I have enabled it now. This is what I get writing to disk and then also writing that file to tape with tar: This is a 10gb file to disk#58; #93;# dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/bigfile bs=1M count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records

Re: [Bacula-users] Limit backup size

2010-06-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:06:00 +0400 schrieb Matthieu Patou: Hello, For reason of space and time I would like to limit the size, is there a way to make a job fail if the stored size is more than xx bytes (note: I do the storage on disks). you could limit pool size or job time (see bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Using HP Storageworks 1/8 G2 with Bacula

2010-06-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:36:47 -0300 schrieb Daniel Bareiro: Hi all! I'm doing tests with a brand new HP Storageworks 1/8 G2 I plan to use with Bacula on Debian GNU/Linux Lenny. The tape autoloader is connected to a PC through an HP Smart Array P212 card. It is HP's entry level PCI Express

Re: [Bacula-users] Using HP Storageworks 1/8 G2 with Bacula

2010-06-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:49:37 -0300 schrieb Daniel Bareiro: did you try backports kernel 2.6.32 ? (www.backports.org) I finish installing 2.6.32 of backports to test: backup:~# uname -a Linux backup 2.6.32-bpo.5-686 #1 SMP Fri Jun 11 22:20:29 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux backup:~# lsscsi

Re: [Bacula-users] 11TB backup run out of memory and dies

2010-06-09 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:29:37 -0400 schrieb ekke85: Hi I have a Scalar i500 library with 5 drives and 135 slots. I have a Red Hat 5 server with a 1gb nic. The setup works fine for backups on most systems. The problem I have is a NFS share with 11TB of data that I need to backup. Every time

Re: [Bacula-users] Unable to open device driv (/dev/st0): ERR=No medium found

2010-06-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:00:28 -0400 schrieb sofsof: I have a problem after a forced restart, in fact : status dir return me that my client is waiting for a mount request in fact status storage return me: Device status: Device drive (/dev/st0) is not open. Device is BLOCKED. User

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula slow, possibly network

2010-05-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 11 May 2010 03:47:05 -0700 schrieb martinofmoscow: Hi, we've come over from an Amanda backup system which had become a nightmare to administer, and generally we're very happy with Bacula. My concern thought is speed: Bacula is proving to be very slow, possibly in relation - it seems

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem connecting to FD

2010-05-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Thu, 06 May 2010 19:57:59 +0100 schrieb Paul Bradley: IN BACULA-FD.CONF Director { Name = server-dir Password = SOME PASSWORD (MATCHES OTHER ENTRY BELOW) } IN BACULA-DIR.CONF Client { Name = server-fd Address = server FDPort = 9102 Catalog = MyCatalog Password =

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

2010-05-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 04 May 2010 08:34:15 +0200 schrieb Vlamsdoem: Hello, I have few questions about my new backup configuration. Before asking my questions I will give you some useful information about what I need to do. I need a backup ± 10 servers with one full backup every week of 3,5 TB and an

[Bacula-users] bcopy fails: No Volume name given

2010-04-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
hi i'm failing to use the bcopy utility. I want to copy from tape to disk. i keeps telling me, that No Volume name is given (see log output below) somebody maybe know what's going wrong? bacula is version 5.0.1 on debian. - Thomas # bcopy -v -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -i35L4

Re: [Bacula-users] bcopy fails: No Volume name given

2010-04-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
You used wrong devices. Bcopy and most other bacula tools operating on devices (for example: btape, bscan, bls) use a device path (defined in the Archive Device directive from the Device resource) in a command line. You can use somethings like that: bcopy -v -c

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

2010-04-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:17:53 +1000 schrieb Rex Chan: Hi guys, once disk space becomes full, our bacula configuration starts writing out a whole bunch of 0 byte volumes to disk. maybe you wan't to delete them with delete volume=xyz on bconsole. I can manually delete all the 0 byte

Re: [Bacula-users] Deleting files/folders on restores

2010-04-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:54:51 +0200 schrieb Marco Zimmermann: How can I change this behavior? I mean restore in a way that newer files/folders will be deleted? IMHO this is not supported. it only restores accurate but does not delete what is already there. you would need to delete the

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy Jobs for replication

2010-03-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:18:18 +0200 schrieb My Name: Hi, What: What I want to do is to replicate specific backup jobs to another bacula system (other Director Storage). Is there a good solution to do this? Why: Very important backups should be replicated to another backup system so that

Re: [Bacula-users] How to re-use existing volumes in pool?

2010-03-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
Sean Carolan wrote: 23-Mar 20:56 bacula-sd: Invalid slot=0 defined, cannot autoload Volume. 23-Mar 20:56 bacula-sd: Please mount Volume Bacula_Catalog on Storage Device d2d4112 (/dev/nst0) for Job BackupCatalog.2010-03-22_23.05.00 Any ideas how I can help it find the right slots? When I

Re: [Bacula-users] Hard disk as backup media

2010-03-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:57:18 -0300 schrieb Marcio Vogel Merlone dos Santos: Hi all, I am currently using bacula 2.4.2-1ubuntu4~hardy1, but the web docs refer to 5.0. Could please someone point to this lazy/buzy admin some docs which could help me setup a hard-disk as a perpetual retention

Re: [Bacula-users] Hard disk as backup media

2010-03-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
bacula-users-lists wrote: Ok, you've piqued my curiosity - why would one not use disk versus ¿tape? as a long term storage medium? Do you have any sites, documentation, whitepapers on the subject? Even unsupported hunches are food for thought - mind sharing? do not have whitepapers or

Re: [Bacula-users] How to re-use existing volumes in pool?

2010-03-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
Sean Carolan wrote: you need to edit the Pool resource (Maximum Volume Jobs and Volume Retention) in bacula-dir.conf Thank you, Thomas. I have read through the manual section on the Pool resource. Here is one of my pool definitions: Pool { Name = BackupPC_pool Pool Type = Backup

Re: [Bacula-users] How to re-use existing volumes in pool?

2010-03-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
Sean Carolan wrote: maybe change VolumeRetention to 5 days and do an update volumes from resource (only changing *.conf won't do the trick). Also change Use volume once to Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 Here's what I have in my bacula-sd.conf: Device { Name = d2d4112 Drive Index = 0

Re: [Bacula-users] How to re-use existing volumes in pool?

2010-03-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:16:19 -0500 schrieb Sean Carolan: Due to disk space limitations I would like to re-use the same volumes each week for a single full backup. Every time I try to run a new job, I get an error stating that bacula cannot find any append-able volumes. It has been over six

Re: [Bacula-users] changing the retention period to indefinite

2010-03-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:53:42 -0500 schrieb Guy Matz: hello, my brothers. a machine of mine has died and i would like to keep the last set of backups forever . . . can someone tell me the right way to go about making changes to the DB - or whatever it is i need to do - in order to achieve

Re: [Bacula-users] restore error

2010-03-09 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:50:50 -0800 schrieb Mark Yarbrough: I am getting the follwoing errors on restoring any file from tape: 09-Mar 07:22 storage-sd: 3302 Autochanger loaded drive 0, result: nothing loaded. 09-Mar 07:22 storage-sd: RestoreFiles.2010-03-09_07.22.19 Warning: acquire.c:146

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 7 Client Backup

2010-03-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
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 Before Job command to run ntbackup to

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with automatic labeling

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
be sure to set Retention times on the pool (e.g. for your schedule maybe 18 days) and and a use duration (maybe 1 day as you change it on a daily basis). I know that my Retention times is wrong right now, but I'm just doing some test so I purge volumes manually. But Thanks for the use

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with automatic labeling

2010-03-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
I've made a test with the new label, it worked fine. But the volume name hasn't a speaking name, it's just Day-0016, Day-0017.. you cold still label it yourself and name it what you like (label command). - Thomas

Re: [Bacula-users] Updating tables from 3.0.2 to 5.0.1

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:42:59 -0300 schrieb Daniel Bareiro: Hi all! I'm trying to update the database tables of Bacula 3.0.2 using the script update_bacula_tables, but when doing I obtain it the following errors: -

Re: [Bacula-users] Building an 8TB SD

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:20:58 -0500 schrieb Dan Langille: I'm in the early stages of building an SD which will hold 8TB. This is where you should start: http://dan.langille.org/2010/02/23/the-new-box-some-purchases/ Earlier: the hardware selection process Later: some slight

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with automatic labeling

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:45:58 -0800 schrieb gnowar: Hello, I've some problems with automatic labeling. Here is my conf : snip Here is my BeforeJob script : #!/bin/sh mt -f /dev/st0 rewind mt -f /dev/st0 weof /opt/bacula/sbin/bconsole -c /opt/bacula/sysconf/bconsole.conf END_OF_DATA

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with automatic labeling

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:28:21 -0800 schrieb gnowar: Because I change tape everyday during 20 days. It easyer to know wich tape I need if the volume name include the date and time isn't it ? do you write the new tape labels on the tape every time you put the new one in it? or how do you read

Re: [Bacula-users] Copying huge number of files - very slow

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:03:53 -0600 schrieb Sean Carolan: Bacula and Amanda are intended to be network backup solutions. But, you've chosen to use many instances of BackupPC over the network. Actually there's only one instance of BackupPC. We have one BackupPC server, and about 200 clients.

Re: [Bacula-users] simple problem ?!

2010-02-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:30:31 +0100 schrieb Markus Heinze: Hello List, im new to bacula and i have a simple problem, i think. I wan't to backup a few directories to a tape only from monday to friday. i only hav 5 tapes (currently) so i have one tape for each day, so i must overwrite each

Re: [Bacula-users] forcing tapes to recycle

2010-02-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:29:54 -0800 schrieb David Koski: I am trying to recycle some tapes that have become used. I have set the status to append: ... I have tried to stop and start the jobs and restart bacula without succcess. How can I force bacula to use tapes that have been used,

Re: [Bacula-users] trying (and failing) to get a Quantum Superloader 3 to work with Bacula

2010-02-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:28:13 + schrieb shouldbe q931: Hi, The environment is Centos 5.4 x86 with Bacula 5.0.0-1 built from srpms (built as a non root user, and installed as root), with just the qwt and wx parts from the epel repo, and the rest from the main Centos repo.

Re: [Bacula-users] trying (and failing) to get a Quantum Superloader 3 to work with Bacula

2010-02-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
I left it running for ~12 hours, BAT was unresponsive, and the web interface on the library was showing idle :-( are there some suspicous kernel messages ? (dmesg | grep st) Is there a better way of doing a scan ? use barcode labels and update slots (without scan). then do a label

Re: [Bacula-users] trying (and failing) to get a Quantum Superloader 3 to work with Bacula

2010-02-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
shouldbe q931 wrote: On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Thomas Mueller tho...@chaschperli.ch wrote: I left it running for ~12 hours, BAT was unresponsive, and the web interface on the library was showing idle :-( are there some suspicous kernel messages ? (dmesg | grep st) st: Version

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