Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with full spool / working partition?

2005-07-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 07 July 2005 13:47, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hello, today, I think I found a problem with baculas handling of disk space. The situation: I use spooling, and had one large job running overnight. The spool space is not big enough to hold the complete job, so the job is run in slices:

[Bacula-users] compression when using file as backup destination

2005-07-07 Thread Daniel Weuthen
Hi List, we are curently migrating our amanda backup system to bacula. one thing I could not find out is how and where to enable compression of the backup, when the destination is a file (harddisk). When using tapes, hardware compression would be the solution, but what equivalent is there for

Re: [Bacula-users] compression when using file as backup destination

2005-07-07 Thread Dominic Marks
On Thursday 07 July 2005 14:54, Daniel Weuthen wrote: Hi List, we are curently migrating our amanda backup system to bacula. one thing I could not find out is how and where to enable compression of the backup, when the destination is a file (harddisk). When using tapes, hardware compression

Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with full spool / working partition?

2005-07-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:47:30PM +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hello, today, I think I found a problem with baculas handling of disk space. The situation: I use spooling, and had one large job running overnight. The spool space is not big enough to hold the complete job, so the job is run

Re: [Bacula-users] backup trigger script

2005-07-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:55:20PM +0200, Sebastian Stark wrote: I want to write a script that laptop users can run to trigger a backup of their laptop. Scheduling does not work for them because the laptops are connected to the net very irregularly. The idea is to plug the ethernet, log

Re: [Bacula-users] backup trigger script

2005-07-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 03:12:08PM +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote: If you use SMB shares, you might even trigger the backup by logging in - you could add that function to the logon script. This would have the advantage that no actin would be required of your users. However, remote users logging

Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with full spool / working partition?

2005-07-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Thursday 07 July 2005 13:47, Arno Lehmann wrote: If reasonable messages were not printed in the job log when jobs failed, then it is something that interests me. Well, I received no messages at all. So it is a little hard to give more information, but I guess the

Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with full spool / working partition?

2005-07-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, Phil Stracchino wrote: On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:47:30PM +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote: I think the obvious answer here is, Don't put your working directory and your spool space on the same filesystem. It almost guarantees you will run into disk-full conditions. Quite so... I just

Re: [Bacula-users] backup trigger script

2005-07-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Phil Stracchino wrote: On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 03:12:08PM +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote: If you use SMB shares, you might even trigger the backup by logging in - you could add that function to the logon script. This would have the advantage that no actin would be required of your users.

[Bacula-users] Incorrect 'LastWritten' Dates

2005-07-07 Thread Mark Bober
I'm seeing: 06-Jul 12:32 duct-sd: Committing spooled data to Volume. Despooling 57,150,118,869 bytes ... 06-Jul 12:33 duct-dir: arlfs.A.2005-07-06_10.29.36 Error: sql_update.c:327 sql_update.c:327 update UPDATE Media SET

Re: [Bacula-users] file-list

2005-07-07 Thread Maurizio Santini
As I didn't get any answers on that I'll repost the mail in case somebody had the same problem or knows how to fix it. Thanks, On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 19:30, Maurizio Santini wrote: Hello, I'm trying to set up bacula 1.36.3 on redhat 8 but I have the following problem. Instead of listing

Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with full spool / working partition?

2005-07-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 07 July 2005 16:45, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Thursday 07 July 2005 13:47, Arno Lehmann wrote: If reasonable messages were not printed in the job log when jobs failed, then it is something that interests me. Well, I received no messages at all. So it is

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula MKNOD Errors

2005-07-07 Thread Martin Simmons
On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 15:33:33 -0700, Michael Reith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Michael Does anyone else here have problems restoring files from disk, on Michael OPENBSD platforms.. I think this might be a general bug that should be Michael addressed.. please if anyone else is having

Re: [Bacula-users] Incorrect 'LastWritten' Dates

2005-07-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, This looks like a configuration error -- probably with the definition of lld and llu. Have you run btape? It tests if those values are correct. If they are correct, then it would point to a possible bug in the library strftime() function. Bacula has been in use on a good number of 64

[Bacula-users] Query Failed Message after running the Catalog Backup

2005-07-07 Thread Diky Mulyana
Hi, recently I have this message after backing up a catalog. Query failed: CREATE TABLE DelCandidates (JobId INTEGER UNSIGNED NOT NULL, PurgedFiles TINYINT, FileSetId INTEGER UNSIGNED, JobFiles INTEGER UNSIGNED, JobStatus BINARY(1)): ERR=Error writing file './bacula/DelCandidates.frm' (Errcode:

Re: [Bacula-users] Incorrect 'LastWritten' Dates

2005-07-07 Thread Mark Bober
(didn't copy original reply to Kern to list) I'd run btape back when I originally installed; I don't have the output but I didn't note any errors. I've recompiled 32-bit, and ran a test job - worked. I'm re-running the job specified below to make sure, although since *all* my jobs had been

Re: [Bacula-users] backup trigger script

2005-07-07 Thread Sebastian Stark
Thanks for all the input. This is a bit too simple because it does not check anything like if there's a job running or some other bconsole session running and so on. I wrote something, maybe it's useful for others. It's available via subversion from here:

Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with full spool / working partition?

2005-07-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Thursday 07 July 2005 16:45, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Thursday 07 July 2005 13:47, Arno Lehmann wrote: If reasonable messages were not printed in the job log when jobs failed, then it is something that interests me. Well, I received no

Re: [Bacula-users] NetWare, anyone?

2005-07-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 07 July 2005 19:30, Richard White wrote: Speaking of policies, BENW treats backup features such as type, schedule, media usage and other things as independent items. They can be changed without stopping and restarting BENW. I can create and modify policies (which establish

Re: [Bacula-users] Query Failed Message after running the Catalog Backup

2005-07-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Diky Mulyana wrote: Hi, recently I have this message after backing up a catalog. Query failed: CREATE TABLE DelCandidates (JobId INTEGER UNSIGNED NOT NULL, PurgedFiles TINYINT, FileSetId INTEGER UNSIGNED, JobFiles INTEGER UNSIGNED, JobStatus BINARY(1)): ERR=Error writing file

Re: [Bacula-users] Incorrect 'LastWritten' Dates

2005-07-07 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 07 July 2005 19:58, Mark Bober wrote: I'd run btape back when I originally installed; I don't have the output but I didn't note any errors. I've recompiled 32-bit, and ran a test job - worked. I'm re-running the job specified below to make sure, although since *all* my jobs had

Re: [Bacula-users] Sony SDX-260V

2005-07-07 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi. mail wrote: Hallo Liste; erst mal sorry für mein englisch ;) This should be obvious :-) I'll try some sort of translation: - Sony SDX-260V ATAPI tape drive makes trouble (see below, output of btape). - OS is debian 3.1 with kernel 2.6-11 - The original poster tried all sorts of

Re: [Bacula-users] file-list

2005-07-07 Thread Martin Simmons
On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 19:30:48 -0300, Maurizio Santini [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Maurizio Hello, Maurizio I'm trying to set up bacula 1.36.3 on redhat 8 but I have the following Maurizio problem. Maurizio Instead of listing all the directory/files I want to backup within the Maurizio

[Bacula-users] Help understanding how to setup

2005-07-07 Thread McCann, Brian
Hi all. Forgive my ignorance here, but I'm having a hard time trying to understand what I need to do. (And it's probably so simple I'm going to smack myself in the head when I hear the answer). I currently use UltraBac to backup about 10 Windows workstations to a large file array, and want

Re: [Bacula-users] Help understanding how to setup

2005-07-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 05:40:23PM -0400, McCann, Brian wrote: Now...I THINK my confusion comes into play with the whole Pool/Volume thing. I loosely understand that you have to define a pool and put volumes in it, but where the heck do you device a volume? And further, if you specify a pool

[Bacula-users] Help scheduling backups

2005-07-07 Thread Thomas Simmons
Hello everyone, I have 5 hosts to backup, currently I have a single job setup for each host, and bacula's been running a full on sun and diffs every other day like it's supposed to. Now my backup HDD is full and I need to setup bacula for the long term. The backup HDD can hold two weeks worth