Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-13 Thread Alan Brown
Christoff van Zyl wrote: My 2c thought, is there a possibility to put a notification on the website And issue a press release. That will stop the rumour mill doing overtime and hopefully prevent any individual or organisation pointing to the bug as why Bacula shouldn't be used. As bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-13 Thread Alan Brown
Arno Lehmann wrote: We really need a good technical writer to create a short, concise and exact Getting Started manual, but the necessary skills are, unfortunately, not very common among open source people. Getting started guides must not be written by those are very famliar with the

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-13 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 13.09.2007 17:30,, Alan Brown wrote:: Arno Lehmann wrote: We really need a good technical writer to create a short, concise and exact Getting Started manual, but the necessary skills are, unfortunately, not very common among open source people. Getting started guides must not be

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-13 Thread Dan Langille
On 13 Sep 2007 at 16:30, Alan Brown wrote: Arno Lehmann wrote: We really need a good technical writer to create a short, concise and exact Getting Started manual, but the necessary skills are, unfortunately, not very common among open source people. Getting started guides must

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-11 Thread Doytchin Spiridonov
Hello, the history of using 2.1.28 in a production system is that at that time we discovered the bug that is just now actual for everyone and while we were trying to find what and how to actually run Bacula that can be used for what it is supposed we ended with 2.1.28 and no concurrent jobs. I am

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-10 Thread Ivan Adzhubey
Kern, On Monday 10 September 2007 01:13:45 am Kern Sibbald wrote: PS: Does this affect spooled simultaneous jobs, or only simultaneous jobs that are simultaneously writing to storage? Please re-read item 1 of my announcement (above). Sorry to say that but since more than one person (that

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-10 Thread Christoff van Zyl
On Sunday 09 September 2007 23:46:24 Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, I regret to have to announce that there is a rather serious bug in Bacula. Bacula bug #935 reports that during a restore, a large number of files are missing and thus not restored. This is really quite surprising because we

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-10 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 10.09.2007 02:23,, Ivan Adzhubey wrote:: Arno, On Sunday 09 September 2007 08:07:42 pm Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, 10.09.2007 00:51,, Ivan Adzhubey wrote:: ... On a related issue: I have asked this question before but never get any answer. Documentation states (from Data Spooling

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-10 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 10.09.2007 09:32,, Christoff van Zyl wrote:: ... My 2c thought, is there a possibility to put a notification on the website about this bug. I think Kern's working on it. Arno -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-10 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ivan Adzhubey wrote: Kern, On Monday 10 September 2007 01:13:45 am Kern Sibbald wrote: PS: Does this affect spooled simultaneous jobs, or only simultaneous jobs that are simultaneously writing to storage? Please re-read item 1 of my

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-10 Thread Dan Langille
On 10 Sep 2007 at 9:32, Christoff van Zyl wrote: My 2c thought, is there a possibility to put a notification on the website about this bug. Kern: I will put a note on the homepage with a link to the mailing list announcment. -- Dan Langille - http://www.langille.org/ Available for hire:

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-10 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kern Sibbald wrote: On Monday 10 September 2007 04:27, Ryan Novosielski wrote: Kern Sibbald wrote: At this time, I do not have a patch for 2.0.x versions, and unless there is some really compelling reason to create one, I would prefer not -- it

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-10 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 10 September 2007 16:27, Dan Langille wrote: On 10 Sep 2007 at 9:32, Christoff van Zyl wrote: My 2c thought, is there a possibility to put a notification on the website about this bug. Kern: I will put a note on the homepage with a link to the mailing list announcment. Well,

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-10 Thread user100
Yes, that is an important point that I forgot to mention. The bug is in the Storage daemon, so there is no need to change any of the File daemons (or the Director). Should the patch fix the auto-restore of previous backups too or is it still necessary to restore this data manually? If

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-10 Thread Dan Langille
On 10 Sep 2007 at 10:27, Kern Sibbald wrote: On 10 Sep 2007 at 9:32, Christoff van Zyl wrote: My 2c thought, is there a possibility to put a notification on the website about this bug. Kern: I will put a note on the homepage with a link to the mailing list announcment. Done, but

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-10 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 10 September 2007 16:58, user100 wrote: Yes, that is an important point that I forgot to mention. The bug is in the Storage daemon, so there is no need to change any of the File daemons (or the Director). Should the patch fix the auto-restore of previous backups too or is it

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-10 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 10 September 2007 16:39, Ryan Novosielski wrote: Kern Sibbald wrote: On Monday 10 September 2007 04:27, Ryan Novosielski wrote: Kern Sibbald wrote: At this time, I do not have a patch for 2.0.x versions, and unless there is some really compelling reason to create one, I would

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-10 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
* Kern Sibbald schrieb am 10.09.07 um 18:49 Uhr: On Monday 10 September 2007 16:39, Ryan Novosielski wrote: Kern Sibbald wrote: On Monday 10 September 2007 04:27, Ryan Novosielski wrote: Kern Sibbald wrote: At this time, I do not have a patch for 2.0.x versions, and unless there is

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-10 Thread Doytchin Spiridonov
Hello, we did our test: - first we used the current version we have running now (2.1.28), just to assure we can reproduce it always (probably). Run 4 concurrent jobs, after restore 2 of them (that are larger) failed as usual with missing files and error messages that some restored files have

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-10 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doytchin Spiridonov wrote: Hello, we did our test: - first we used the current version we have running now (2.1.28), just to assure we can reproduce it always (probably). Run 4 concurrent jobs, after restore 2 of them (that are larger) failed

[Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, I regret to have to announce that there is a rather serious bug in Bacula. Bacula bug #935 reports that during a restore, a large number of files are missing and thus not restored. This is really quite surprising because we have a fairly extensive regression test suite that explicitly

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-09 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Kern, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I have uploaded patches to bug #935 (bugs.bacula.org) that will correct version 2.2.0, 2.2.1, and 2.2.2. The patch has been tested only on version 2.2.2 and passes all regression tests as well as the specific test that reproduced the

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-09 Thread Doytchin Spiridonov
Hello, thank you that you finally admit there is a bug. As when we first discovered the bug, we could reproduce it almost on every test. I will provide feedback if this is fixed in 2.2.3 once it is released. Just one question - is the bug in dir or sd? I am asking that to know what to update

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-09 Thread Ivan Adzhubey
Hi Kern, First of all thank you for your efforts on confirming and fixing this nasty bug! Now at least I know it was not something I did wrong in my configuration (I have struggled with multiple simultaneous jobs spanning several volumes for quite some time, as you can see from my earlier

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-09 Thread Ivan Adzhubey
On Sunday 09 September 2007 06:27:50 pm Ivan Adzhubey wrote: Hi Kern, First of all thank you for your efforts on confirming and fixing this nasty bug! Now at least I know it was not something I did wrong in my configuration (I have struggled with multiple simultaneous jobs spanning several

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-09 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 10.09.2007 00:51,, Ivan Adzhubey wrote:: ... On a related issue: I have asked this question before but never get any answer. Documentation states (from Data Spooling article): While the spooled data is being written to the tape, the despooling process has exclusive use of the tape.

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-09 Thread Ivan Adzhubey
Arno, On Sunday 09 September 2007 08:07:42 pm Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, 10.09.2007 00:51,, Ivan Adzhubey wrote:: ... On a related issue: I have asked this question before but never get any answer. Documentation states (from Data Spooling article): While the spooled data is being

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-09 Thread Doytchin Spiridonov
Hello, Monday, September 10, 2007, 2:15:15 AM, Dan Langille wrote: DL On 10 Sep 2007 at 1:10, Doytchin Spiridonov wrote: Hello, thank you that you finally admit there is a bug. DL Well, that's certainly one way to get people to help you. DL The rest of your post was well natured. But

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-09 Thread Dan Langille
On 10 Sep 2007 at 4:18, Doytchin Spiridonov wrote: Hello, Monday, September 10, 2007, 2:15:15 AM, Dan Langille wrote: DL On 10 Sep 2007 at 1:10, Doytchin Spiridonov wrote: Hello, thank you that you finally admit there is a bug. DL Well, that's certainly one way to get people

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-09 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, I regret to have to announce that there is a rather serious bug in Bacula. Bacula bug #935 reports that during a restore, a large number of files are missing and thus not restored. This is really quite surprising

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 10 September 2007 00:10, Wolfgang Denk wrote: Dear Kern, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I have uploaded patches to bug #935 (bugs.bacula.org) that will correct version 2.2.0, 2.2.1, and 2.2.2. The patch has been tested only on version 2.2.2 and passes all regression

Re: [Bacula-users] Critical Bacula Bug

2007-09-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 10 September 2007 04:27, Ryan Novosielski wrote: Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, I regret to have to announce that there is a rather serious bug in Bacula. Bacula bug #935 reports that during a restore, a large number of files are missing and thus not restored. This is really