Re: [Bacula-users] Too early End Of Medium

2006-03-20 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Wolfgang Denk wrote: Most critical options are: MT_ST_BUFFER_WRITES, MT_ST_ASYNC_WRITES, MT_ST_READ_AHEAD. Especially the combination of MT_ST_BUFFER_WRITES and MT_ST_ASYNC_WRITES prevents any way to reliably handle end of tape conditions. I thought Bacula tried

Re: [Bacula-users] no diference between full and inc backup, i'm lost....

2006-03-20 Thread Alan Brown
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Carles Bou wrote: i'm running bacula 1.38.5 on gentoo with postgresql, as DB backend. i don't know why, but bacula is always copying all files in the set i've loocked at stat output and files, no change between 2 backups Do you have any chown -R scripts running? Some

Re: [Bacula-users] Too early End Of Medium

2006-03-20 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 20 March 2006 11:10, Alan Brown wrote: On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Wolfgang Denk wrote: Most critical options are: MT_ST_BUFFER_WRITES, MT_ST_ASYNC_WRITES, MT_ST_READ_AHEAD. Especially the combination of MT_ST_BUFFER_WRITES and MT_ST_ASYNC_WRITES prevents any way to reliably handle

Re: [Bacula-users] RAID or What?

2006-03-20 Thread David Thurston
Sim, It was most conciderate of you to concider my request and respond with such concideration ;) I too thought it was very well written; but apparently it was not well written enough to accomplish its purpose :( Conciderately Yours, David From: Sim Zacks [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David

[Bacula-users] Windows FD on Win2k Domain Controller

2006-03-20 Thread Christoph . Teuber
Hello, last week I asked some questions about the windows FD and the backup-API on a Win2K Domain Controller. I always get 'ERR=Access is denied' if I want to backup files which can't be accessed with the user account, the backup service is running with. This should normaly work using the

[Bacula-users] Announcing Bacuview-1.3, now with MySQL support

2006-03-20 Thread John Kodis
I've just released version 1.3 of the Bacuview web application to its home on RubyForge, http://bacuview.rubyforge.org/, where you can go for screen shots and to read the NEWS, ChangeLog, and INSTALL files. In addition to the usual minor bug fixes, this release has one fairly major improvement:

[Bacula-users] Re: no diference between full and inc backup, i'm lost....

2006-03-20 Thread Carles Bou
Hello Alan, no i've no scripts running, here is the stat of a file in the set File: `File_Name.xls' Size: 28269 Blocks: 56 IO Block: 131072 regular file Device: 811h/2065d Inode: 1500Links: 1 Access: (0777/-rwxrwxrwx) Uid: (0/root) Gid: (0/

Re: [Bacula-users] Pool problem (can't swim?)

2006-03-20 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 3/20/2006 7:43 AM, Ger Apeldoorn wrote: Hi there! No responses yet, is everyone baffled? If you need extra information please let me know... Baffled? Yes, that too, but don't forget it's been a weekend! Thanks, Ger. Op vrijdag 17 maart 2006 10:33, schreef Ger Apeldoorn: Hi!

Re: [Bacula-users] Pool problem (can't swim?)

2006-03-20 Thread Ger Apeldoorn
Hi Arno, Thanks for your response! Baffled? Yes, that too, but don't forget it's been a weekend! :) The configuration only shows me that you've got the pools in question defined... more interesting would be the information how you started the job. If you do this via command line, or through

Re: [Bacula-users] Pool problem (can't swim?)

2006-03-20 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 3/20/2006 3:53 PM, Ger Apeldoorn wrote: Hi Arno, Thanks for your response! Baffled? Yes, that too, but don't forget it's been a weekend! :) The configuration only shows me that you've got the pools in question defined... more interesting would be the information how you

[Bacula-users] Lacie Big Disk Debian compatibility!

2006-03-20 Thread Zakai Kinan
My name is Zakai and I have been on this list for a month. I just bought a Lacie 500GB usb external hardrive and it worked for a day. It has stopped working and I am using Debian 3.1. Does anyone use this type of hardrive for backup? How is it working for you? Is updating the kernel a good

[Bacula-users] General list comment

2006-03-20 Thread Ryan Novosielski
I've noticed frequently that in my threaded e-mail view, threads are getting jammed together that have nothing to do with one another (most recently Pool Problem and Lacie Big Disk Debian compatability). Having seen this before, I have a strong feeling that the reason is that folks are

Re: [Bacula-users] Trouble restoring backed up file

2006-03-20 Thread Michael Morgan
I apologize for not posting this resolution sooner, but time has been scarce lately. Most of the responses I received pointed to some sort of index problem with the bacula database. I talked with my partner and he reindexed the database and then set up a cron job to vacuum and reindex the

Re: [Bacula-users] General list comment

2006-03-20 Thread Attila Fülöp
Ryan Novosielski wrote: I've noticed frequently that in my threaded e-mail view, threads are getting jammed together that have nothing to do with one another (most recently Pool Problem and Lacie Big Disk Debian compatability). Having seen this before, I have a strong feeling that the reason

Re: [Bacula-users] General list comment

2006-03-20 Thread Ryan Novosielski
Actually, it appears as if I had a weak understanding, but was still absolutely correct. The latter message had In-Reply-To and listed the earlier, unrelated message in that field -- to me, this demonstrates that exactly what I was talking about is what is taking place (folks will sometimes

Re: [Bacula-users] General list comment

2006-03-20 Thread Erik P. Olsen
Ryan Novosielski wrote: Actually, it appears as if I had a weak understanding, but was still absolutely correct. The latter message had In-Reply-To and listed the earlier, unrelated message in that field -- to me, this demonstrates that exactly what I was talking about is what is taking place

Re: [Bacula-users] RAID or What?

2006-03-20 Thread Josh Fisher
A bacula volume is a file, so there is no way to treat a removable drive as a tape. It might be possible to treat the removable drive as a caddy that carries multiple tapes, but remember that the Virtual Disk Autochanger is a beta feature and likely is not yet ready for production use. A

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Disk Autochager

2006-03-20 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
RAID5 is best with a hot spare volume, otherwise...what's the advantage that justifies increased write overhead? Besides, does the file system you're backing up to require any more redundancy from a disk technology standpoint than you might expect out of the life expectancy of a single DLT tape?

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Disk Autochager

2006-03-20 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 20 March 2006 21:18, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: RAID5 is best with a hot spare volume, otherwise...what's the advantage that justifies increased write overhead? Besides, does the file system you're backing up to require any more redundancy from a disk technology standpoint than you

Re: [Bacula-users] Console oddity

2006-03-20 Thread Brennon Church
Hello again, Has nobody else run into this problem? I couldn't find anything about it in the mail archives, and I don't see any problems with the configurations. Thanks. -- Brennon Church Brennon Church wrote: Hello, This may be a known issue, or I may be missing something obvious, but

Re: [Bacula-users] Console oddity

2006-03-20 Thread Erich Prinz
Just so you know your post is getting read I've not run into this error. Looking at the problem, it would likely be in your network setup. Are you running through any firewalls? Erich On Mar 20, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Brennon Church wrote: Hello again, Has nobody else run into this

Re: [Bacula-users] Console oddity

2006-03-20 Thread Brennon Church
I do have firewalls running. I wouldn't have though that a firewall would cause this type of behavior, but I can see where it might. I'll try disabling them on all systems involved to see if it makes any difference. Thanks for the idea. --Brennon Erich Prinz wrote: Just so you know your

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Disk Autochager

2006-03-20 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
individual volumes / file system mount points to Bacula, you *can't* tell Bacula to put each file tape on a different mount point and/or sub-directory. This *can* be accomplished by using symbolic linking. In an application that Ahh good point. Moreover, with RAID5, unless you're

Re: [Bacula-users] Trouble restoring backed up file

2006-03-20 Thread Martin Simmons
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:35:18 -0700, Michael Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I apologize for not posting this resolution sooner, but time has been scarce lately. Most of the responses I received pointed to some sort of index problem with the bacula database. I talked with my partner and he

Re: [Bacula-users] Trouble restoring backed up file

2006-03-20 Thread Bill Moran
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:31:28 GMT Martin Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:35:18 -0700, Michael Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I apologize for not posting this resolution sooner, but time has been scarce lately. Most of the responses I received pointed to some

[Bacula-users] Logging to /var/db/bacula by Default?

2006-03-20 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Just a small annoying caveat, but is there any reason why bacula-dir.conf and the MTX changer scripts are logging to /var/db/bacula/$blah instead of /var/log prefix instead? /var/db/bacula seems to be more like a state directory (minus the pid files) ~BAS smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

Re: [Bacula-users] Console oddity

2006-03-20 Thread Brennon Church
It's interesting... I had made a change to my firewall a few days ago, and running a similar test today did not cause the first client to disconnect. I'll have to test again when the person who had the first computer I was testing with comes back. Hopefully it is simply a matter of the

[Bacula-users] Database corruption problems

2006-03-20 Thread Dan Rich
I've run into an odd problem where my database has become corrupted. I've decided that this is a good time to migrate my database from sqlite to mysql, but have a problem. Since the old database is corrupted sqlite3 won't read anything from it. Does anyone have tools to scan the existing

[Bacula-users] Database corruption problems

2006-03-20 Thread Dan Rich
I've run into an odd problem where my database has become corrupted. I've decided that this is a good time to migrate my database from sqlite to mysql, but have a problem. Since the old database is corrupted sqlite3 won't read anything from it. Does anyone have tools to scan the existing

[Bacula-users] Database corruption problems

2006-03-20 Thread Dan Rich
I've run into an odd problem where my database has become corrupted. I've decided that this is a good time to migrate my database from sqlite to mysql, but have a problem. Since the old database is corrupted sqlite3 won't read anything from it. Does anyone have tools to scan the existing

Re: [Bacula-users] Database corruption problems

2006-03-20 Thread Dan Rich
Dan Rich wrote: I've run into an odd problem where my database has become corrupted. I've decided that this is a good time to migrate my database from sqlite to mysql, but have a problem. Since the old database is corrupted sqlite3 won't read anything from it. Does anyone have tools to

Re: [Bacula-users] Console oddity

2006-03-20 Thread Erich Prinz
Excellent. Keep me posted. E~ On Mar 20, 2006, at 5:40 PM, Brennon Church wrote: It's interesting... I had made a change to my firewall a few days ago, and running a similar test today did not cause the first client to disconnect. I'll have to test again when the person who had the

Re: [Bacula-users] Database corruption problems

2006-03-20 Thread Jason Martin
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 04:22:58PM -0800, Dan Rich wrote: it. Does anyone have tools to scan the existing volumes and rebuild the database? I can probably build some scripts to do part of the job, but Check out 'bscan' in the documentation, it does that. -Jason Martin -- If winning isn't

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows FD on Win2k Domain Controller

2006-03-20 Thread Erich Prinz
Chris,Your comment:I always get 'ERR=Access is denied' if I want to backup files which can't be accessed with the user account, the backup service is running with. This should normaly work using the windows backup-API. I want to make sure I'm understanding this correctly. The local service account

Re: [Bacula-users] Pool problem (can't swim?)

2006-03-20 Thread Ger Apeldoorn
Hi Arno, Ok, so this looks like the SD is kind of confused. I assume you do have volumes for both pools, and all the volumes are heoreticall (from Baculas point of view) available to the SD. This depends mainly on the media type, I think, but the storage the media is assigned to might also