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

2010-05-11 Thread Michael Da Cova
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 09:51 +1000, James Harper wrote: With full VSS support, VSS defines the files that make up the system state backup - So are we saying with VSS support in bacula switched on you can backup windows 2008 including the system state, and more importantly can you restore the

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

2010-05-11 Thread Koldo Santisteban
I am doing a Windows 2008 backup with vss support enabled. The system state is backed up using wbadmin utility and then saved to bacula. Regarding the junction points, i have hundred of warnings each time i make a backup with bacula, i don´t know how to avoid this and ,like Michael, i am very

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

2010-05-11 Thread Graham Keeling
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 09:51:52AM +1000, James Harper wrote: With full VSS support, VSS defines the files that make up the system state backup - it's a flag on the writer. Bacula handles junction points perfectly. So, to get a backup with Windows 2008 that includes the system state, you

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

2010-05-11 Thread Henrik Johansen
On 05/11/10 10:04 AM, Graham Keeling wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 09:51:52AM +1000, James Harper wrote: With full VSS support, VSS defines the files that make up the system state backup - it's a flag on the writer. Bacula handles junction points perfectly. So, to get a backup with Windows

Re: [Bacula-users] copy jobs and scratch pools

2010-05-11 Thread Norberto Meijome
2010/5/6 c.kesch...@internet-mit-iq.de Hi, I'm having a problem copying jobs. I labeled a new volume in the pool DailyScratch with the label command. Then I ran a job using the pool ThursdayOD. As expected, bacula took the volume from the Scratch Pool and moved it to the other pool. Backup

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

2010-05-11 Thread Foo
On Tue, 11 May 2010 01:51:52 +0200, James Harper james.har...@bendigoit.com.au wrote: With full VSS support, VSS defines the files that make up the system state backup - it's a flag on the writer. Bacula handles junction points perfectly. Does this also go for W2K3 now, i.e. is this a feature

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

2010-05-11 Thread Michael Da Cova
|-Original Message- |From: Henrik Johansen [mailto:hen...@scannet.dk] |Sent: 11 May 2010 9:11 AM |To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net |Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup | |On 05/11/10 10:04 AM, Graham Keeling wrote: | On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 09:51:52AM

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

2010-05-11 Thread James Harper
Regarding the junction points, i have hundred of warnings each time i make a backup with bacula, i don´t know how to avoid this and ,like Michael, i am very interesting in how to solve it... What are the warnings? Is it the one about 'different filesystem'? James

[Bacula-users] Bacula slow, possibly network

2010-05-11 Thread 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 - to its network utilisation. We're backing up over a managed

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

2010-05-11 Thread Koldo Santisteban
Hello I use this little script on weekly basis before bacula backup wbadmin delete systemstatebackup -backupTarget:e: -keepVersions:0 -quiet wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backupTarget:e: -quiet Wbadmin saves several system states, and in my case with the last one is engouh (Bacula store

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] Bacula slow, possibly network

2010-05-11 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Tue, 11 May 2010, martinofmoscow wrote: I kicked off a [400Gb, full] bacup at 1am on Saturday and it completed 11 hours later at mid-day. At the risk of getting the sums wrong and looking silly: 400GB in 11 hours ~ 36GB per hour ~ 600MB per minute ~ 10MB per second ~ 82Mbit/sec

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

2010-05-11 Thread Michael Da Cova
Hi all Sorry for the top post, and thanks for replying so far but I just need a simple question answered if you don't mind Does Bacula with VSS support on backup windows 2008 system state Michael _ From: Koldo Santisteban [mailto:ksantiste...@gmail.com] Sent: 11 May

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

2010-05-11 Thread martinofmoscow
Thanks Gavin, that's very defly surmised! I guess we were misunderstanding what Amanda was/wasn't doing previously. Gavin McCullagh-2 wrote: Hi, On Tue, 11 May 2010, martinofmoscow wrote: I kicked off a [400Gb, full] bacup at 1am on Saturday and it completed 11 hours later at mid-day.

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

2010-05-11 Thread Koldo Santisteban
No, As you can see in my last mail, you need to run scripts before bacula backup. In Windows 2003 too. On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Michael Da Cova mdac...@equiinet.comwrote: Hi all Sorry for the top post, and thanks for replying so far but I just need a simple question answered if

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

2010-05-11 Thread Martin Simmons
On Tue, 11 May 2010 11:15:28 +0200, Foo said: On Mon, 10 May 2010 19:51:33 +0200, Kevin Keane subscript...@kkeane.com wrote: There is no such thing as system state backup any more in Windows 2008. It's always the whole C: drive. I'm not sure how well bacula handles it in the

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

2010-05-11 Thread Graham Keeling
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 01:58:07PM +0200, Koldo Santisteban wrote: No, As you can see in my last mail, you need to run scripts before bacula backup. In Windows 2003 too. So what is the flag that James Harper was talking about? With full VSS support, VSS defines the files that make up the

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

2010-05-11 Thread Foo
On Tue, 11 May 2010 10:11:17 +0200, Henrik Johansen hen...@scannet.dk wrote: If you are storing your system state backup on C you'll need to apply the reg fix as pointed out in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/944530 first. Thanks for the fix, but even with that: wbadmin START BACKUP

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

2010-05-11 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Tue, 11 May 2010, martinofmoscow wrote: Anyone have any experience with using compression on the client with Bacula? Yeah, we use it almost everywhere. The only exception is a video store where the files aren't terribly compressible. As you might imagine, it uses considerable CPU cycles

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

2010-05-11 Thread Koldo Santisteban
Huuum I want to hear about this option too. On bacula manual i can´t find any info regarding it... I think that James refer to Enable VSS = yes But this option allows a hot copy on windows... On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Graham Keeling gra...@equiinet.com wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010

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

2010-05-11 Thread James Harper
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 01:58:07PM +0200, Koldo Santisteban wrote: No, As you can see in my last mail, you need to run scripts before bacula backup. In Windows 2003 too. So what is the flag that James Harper was talking about? With full VSS support, VSS defines the files that make

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

2010-05-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 05/11/10 08:19, Foo wrote: If I just use: wbadmin START SYSTEMSTATEBACKUP -backupTarget:D: .. This will back up the system state from volume(s) System Reserved (100.00 MB),Local Disk(C:),Local Disk(D:) to D:. And this results in 6+ GB of data in 2 small and 1 large .vhd file.

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

2010-05-11 Thread Foo
On Tue, 11 May 2010 14:30:09 +0200, Martin Simmons mar...@lispworks.com wrote: You might want to consider having two backups, for different purposes. Use a Windows full backup for disaster recovery and Full+Incremental Bacula backups for per-file recovery. We already have ADS for

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

2010-05-11 Thread Koldo Santisteban
Yes, that´s true. But it makes very complicate to maintain backups with Windows 2008 and Bacula. Wih windows 2003 a system state backup and a bacula backup a full restore was possible. Foo, could you explain wich product is ADS?? is open source? On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Martin Simmons

Re: [Bacula-users] volume/file size and speed

2010-05-11 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Joseph Spenner joseph85...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm currently set up with a File based backup system (no tapes).  Initially I wanted to make 1TB files, but learned (and read) that recovery of a backup is very slow with large files.  So, I reconfigured it to

[Bacula-users] 5.0.2 on Debian Lenny: DIR, FD, SD all on the same host, TCP keepalive enabled, nevertheless Connection reset by peer error

2010-05-11 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi, I'm running Bacula 5.0.2 in conjunction with PostgreSQL 8.4.3 (both compiled from the official sources) on a Debian Lenny system. The system runs the director, storage daemon and file daemon. The actual storage media are barcode labeled LTO3 tapes contained in a HP Storage Works 1/8 G2

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 7 Client Backup

2010-05-11 Thread McCann, Brian
FWIW, I'm just getting back to this...and that command doesn't work on Windows 7. Systemstatebackup is only available on Windows Server 2008. Thanks though, --Brian From: Koldo Santisteban [mailto:ksantiste...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 2:34 AM To: Phil Stracchino Cc:

Re: [Bacula-users] volume/file size and speed

2010-05-11 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Tue, 5/11/10, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: 3) If I use bconsole I can specify a single file to recover and it is VERY fast.  But there doesn't seem to be a way to specify an entire directory.  Or am I not looking in the right place? You run restore and mark the

Re: [Bacula-users] Verify Job Error

2010-05-11 Thread Martin Simmons
On Mon, 10 May 2010 13:05:49 -0400, ikkysleepy said: I am having some problem with the verify Job. The job always fails when scheduled but if I run the job manually then it works fine. ... For some reason the Verify Level is being set to Incremental. Do I need to specify Verify Level =

Re: [Bacula-users] volume/file size and speed

2010-05-11 Thread John Drescher
Right, but in order to do this, I first must let bat (I think?) load the WHOLE index before I get a list of what is possible to select.  This is what appears to take hours.  Or is this possible faster in bconsole? I do not really use bat, nor have I restored anything from any version of

Re: [Bacula-users] volume/file size and speed

2010-05-11 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Tue, 5/11/10, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: I first must let bat (I think?) load the WHOLE index before I get a list of what is possible to select.  This is what appears to take hours.  Or is this possible faster in bconsole? I do not really use bat, nor have I

Re: [Bacula-users] 5.0.2 on Debian Lenny: DIR, FD, SD all on the same host, TCP keepalive enabled, nevertheless Connection reset by peer error

2010-05-11 Thread José Queiroz
2010/5/11 Holger Rauch holger.ra...@empic.de Hi, I'm running Bacula 5.0.2 in conjunction with PostgreSQL 8.4.3 (both compiled from the official sources) on a Debian Lenny system. The system runs the director, storage daemon and file daemon. The actual storage media are barcode labeled LTO3

Re: [Bacula-users] volume/file size and speed

2010-05-11 Thread Richard Scobie
Joseph Spenner wrote: Ok, I just used bconsole and recovered a directory in little time at all. So, bat is the problem. I can use bconsole instead. I might try to go back to using 1TB files and see how it performs as well. Thanks for the tip! I can confirm this and will post more fully

Re: [Bacula-users] Building BAT bombs

2010-05-11 Thread Jonathan M . Prigot
If downloaded means that you installed the rpm, then that is surprising. Does /usr/include/QtGui/QAction exist now? Which version of Qt is this? __Martin -- I downloaded/installed

[Bacula-users] Questions about using bacula with a d2d device

2010-05-11 Thread Sean Carolan
We have an HP d2d4112 system that presents a virtual tape changer to our host that is running Bacula. The virtual tapes from the d2d can be copied onto physical ones via an attached LTO-1840 tape drive. My questions in this case would be: 1. Suppose I have to pull an older physical tape from

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

2010-05-11 Thread David Edwards
Hi. I ran the Ubuntu 10.04 upgrade the other day (from 9.10) and it fell over at the bacula update stage. It was complaining about the database. I can see now that I have the 5.0.1 binaries laid down. Prior to the upgrade attempt I was running 2.4.4. The error messages in /var/log/bacula/log

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature idea feeler - bconsole include / grep

2010-05-11 Thread Frank Sweetser
On 5/10/2010 7:39 PM, mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu wrote: In the message dated: Mon, 10 May 2010 13:26:51 +1000, The pithy ruminations from Norberto Meijome on Re: [Bacula-users] Feature idea feeler - bconsole include / grep were: = = (and to the list.. Apologies Gavin for private

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

2010-05-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 05/11/10 18:15, David Edwards wrote: So I'm guessing the DB upgrade hasn't worked. I've downloaded the 3.0.3 and 5.0.1 gzip files and extracted the updatedb directories. I can see lots of scripts to update the DB. My questions are 1. Do I need to update the DB from v10 to v11 before

[Bacula-users] Restores via bat version browser very slow.

2010-05-11 Thread Richard Scobie
I installed 3.0.3 a month or so prior to 5.0.0 being released, with a view to using bat for restores, as it made life much easier for commandline-phobes, and it performed very well. It was then updated to 5.0.1 and restores of anything more than a handfull of files became unusably slow. I

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

2010-05-11 Thread Kevin Keane
-Original Message- I'm using Windows backup to an iSCSI drive, and then use bacula to back up a snapshot of that iSCSI volume. Is the result of that a monolothic blob like W2K3's ntbackup .bkf or single files? If it's a monolithic blob, Bacula can't do incrementals anymore. If

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

2010-05-11 Thread Kevin Keane
-Original Message- From: Henrik Johansen [mailto:hen...@scannet.dk] Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 1:11 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup On 05/11/10 10:04 AM, Graham Keeling wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 7 Client Backup

2010-05-11 Thread Koldo Santisteban
Yes, only on Vista/2008... On Windows 7 i think that the unique solution is to use Backup and Restore option on control panel, and schedule a backup of system image...and then save to bacula...That is not very useful. Perhaps the better way is create a system repair disc and only use bacula to