[Bacula-users] How do I get the label of the currently inserted dvd like it does for tapes.

2005-10-28 Thread drescher0110-bacula
During testing I did not mark my dvds so when I tried to identify them I thought I could just mount them in bacula and the console would display a message like it does for tapes. But it only said that the drive is mounted: 3002 Device "DVD-WRITER" (/dev/dvd) is mounted. I was able to trick bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Low transfer speed to tape

2005-10-28 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Gillow, Jeremy wrote: I'm seeing very low throughput when doing a full backup to DDS-4 tape from one Solaris machine to another over 100Mbit ethernet. When using rmt I typically get about 1.5MB/sec transfer rate, and when using bacula the throughput varies between 100KB/se

Re: [Bacula-users] Release 1.38.0

2005-10-28 Thread Ludovic Strappazon
Hello, Just few words to dissipate a misunderstanding. I finished my studies few years ago, and I'm an employee of the Marc Bloch University of Strasbourg since 09/2002, and we use Bacula to backup our servers since 12/2002. This is not important. My contribution's amount is 10% of the person

[Bacula-users] Low transfer speed to tape

2005-10-28 Thread Gillow, Jeremy
I'm seeing very low throughput when doing a full backup to DDS-4 tape from one Solaris machine to another over 100Mbit ethernet. When using rmt I typically get about 1.5MB/sec transfer rate, and when using bacula the throughput varies between 100KB/sec to 450KB/sec with an average of 350KB/sec. Ave

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring catalog through bscan makes the last full job fail

2005-10-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, On Friday 28 October 2005 21:22, Christoph Haas wrote: > Evening... > > I had accidentally purged a client and wanted to rebuild the catalog using > bscan. So I browsed through my status mails looking for the status report > of the last full backup. I inserted all three tapes mentioned in

[Bacula-users] Restoring catalog through bscan makes the last full job fail

2005-10-28 Thread Christoph Haas
Evening... I had accidentally purged a client and wanted to rebuild the catalog using bscan. So I browsed through my status mails looking for the status report of the last full backup. I inserted all three tapes mentioned in the backup report and ran bscan like this: /usr/lib/bacula/bscan.mysql -

Re: [Bacula-users] Redhat ES 4?

2005-10-28 Thread Jonas Björklund
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Dean Waldow Email Lists wrote: I have installed 1.36.x and running on three Redhat ES4 boxes. Seems to function well. Same here, no problem. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Re

Re: [Bacula-users] mysqldump using fifo

2005-10-28 Thread Attila Fülöp
Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Yes, this is a good point. In fact, it might even be worth while to try: > > mysqldump --user=$user --password=$password $database >$fifo 2>/dev/null > Another possible problem is that perhaps Bacula waits for the script to finish and in doing > so also waits for all c

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] Combined Tape & Disk Storage Solution

2005-10-28 Thread Attila Fülöp
Kern Sibbald wrote: On Wednesday 26 October 2005 20:31, Attila Fülöp wrote: Kern Sibbald wrote: For example, with a trivial amount of work, I could modify Bacula to handle an autochanger with several Media Types, but each drive would have only one Media Type that it would read/write. This w

RE: [Bacula-users] mysqldump using fifo

2005-10-28 Thread frank
> frank> No, the process mysqldump is not there. The database is not that big so I > frank> assume it will finish fast. > > Or maybe it got an error? Can you redirect stderr to a file to see? > No error, the file stays empty. > If nothing, then you can try setting the debug level in the F

Re: [Bacula-users] mysqldump using fifo

2005-10-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 28 October 2005 18:38, Martin Simmons wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:13:30 +0200, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > said: > > Kern> On Friday 28 October 2005 10:59, Martin Simmons wrote: > >> > On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:28:31 +0700, "frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> >>

Re: [Bacula-users] mysqldump using fifo

2005-10-28 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:13:30 +0200, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Kern> On Friday 28 October 2005 10:59, Martin Simmons wrote: >> > On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:28:31 +0700, "frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> frank> I cannot get MySQL fifo backups to work. If I run the fr

Re: [Bacula-users] mysqldump using fifo

2005-10-28 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:45:17 +0700, "frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: frank> Martin Simmons wrote: frank> Martin Simmons wrote: >> >> Is the mysqldump process still there when the job is hanging? >> >> >> frank> Yes, the process is there: >> frank> ps -ef |grep MyDatabase

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore fails when query runs out of memory

2005-10-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 28 October 2005 17:32, Richard Ryder wrote: > Hi All, > > I recently tried to initiate a restore for someone who couldn't recall > the exact name of the files and directories they were interested in > restoring. > > The file server in question has a 2TB file system of which about 1TB is >

Re: [Bacula-users] Release 1.38.0

2005-10-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, I'm copying the lists on this because I think it will interest them. On Friday 28 October 2005 17:00, Michael Erdely wrote: > Hi, > > I don't remember if your new policy was ever settled. Are you going > to be releasing RPMs? I suspect that the RPMs will follow shortly after the releas

[Bacula-users] manualy force an autorecycle

2005-10-28 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
I want to know in advance which tapes to put into the library, so it has enough/the right tapes for a full backup cycle on weekend. till now I used to look at "purged" and moved those tapes to the library and moved all the full/used/error/archive tapes to the vault. but that doesn't work well, if

RE: [Bacula-users] mysqldump using fifo

2005-10-28 Thread frank
Martin Simmons wrote: > frank> Martin Simmons wrote: > >> Is the mysqldump process still there when the job is hanging? > >> > > frank> Yes, the process is there: > > frank> ps -ef |grep MyDatabase > frank> root 27088 32601 0 19:32 ?00:00:00 [MyDatabase] > frank> roo

Re: [Bacula-users] Redhat ES 4?

2005-10-28 Thread Dean Waldow Email Lists
I have installed 1.36.x and running on three Redhat ES4 boxes. Seems to function well. Dean On Oct 28, 2005, at 8:01 AM, Jet Wilda wrote: Hi, Sorry if this question has been asked before, I searched and didn't see it. Does Bacula run on Redhat ES 4? I searched the list and saw this

Re: [Bacula-users] ClientRunBeforeJob problem

2005-10-28 Thread Josh Fisher
The funny thing is, I can SSH to the machine and run slapcat without any errors. I can only get it to fail when run by the bacula-fd daemon as part of the ClientRunBefore script. So it may be a missing environment variable, as Le jeudi suggests. I will try the service start approach as soon as

[Bacula-users] Restore fails when query runs out of memory

2005-10-28 Thread Richard Ryder
Hi All, I recently tried to initiate a restore for someone who couldn't recall the exact name of the files and directories they were interested in restoring. The file server in question has a 2TB file system of which about 1TB is full. There are a -lot- (in the millions) of tiny files on it.

Re: [Bacula-users] Redhat ES 4?

2005-10-28 Thread Jo
Jet Wilda wrote: Hi, Sorry if this question has been asked before, I searched and didn't see it. Does Bacula run on Redhat ES 4? I searched the list and saw this thread http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.general/12509 and this one http://article.gmane.org/gmane.

Re: [Bacula-users] config.out question

2005-10-28 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 03:11:29 + (UTC), Joseph Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: Joseph> I am new to bacula, and now try to build it from source. after i did the Joseph> ./configre i found some uncentain points all the statically link is no as follow; Joseph> Statically Linke

RE: [Bacula-users] Redhat ES 4?

2005-10-28 Thread Wilson, David
I have it running on CentOS 4.1 without any problems. CentOS is compiled from the same code and Redhat ES with the only changes being branding. So I would guess you should have no problems running it on Redhat ES 4.0. David Wilson Network Security Engineer PAETEC Communications, Inc. -Origi

[Bacula-users] Redhat ES 4?

2005-10-28 Thread Jet Wilda
Hi, Sorry if this question has been asked before, I searched and didn't see it. Does Bacula run on Redhat ES 4? I searched the list and saw this thread http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.bacula.general/12509 and this one http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bacula.user/125

[Bacula-users] Release 1.38.0

2005-10-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Bacula release 1.38.0 is now ready. I will run it a couple more days in production here before I release it. If any of you want to get a head start, it is currently in the CVS, and although I might still make a few minor changes to the documentation (on the site), it is unlikely that th

Re: [Bacula-users] mysqldump using fifo

2005-10-28 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 18:51:18 +0700, "frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: frank> So far no luck. frank> Kern Sibbald wrote: >> In addition, I don't see any need to redirect /dev/null to the input for rm, mkfifo, and mysqldump. It probably won't hurt anything, but it just complicates un

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and burning DVD's

2005-10-28 Thread Tracy R Reed
I have done a lot more playing around with bacula and discovered a few things, made progress, and run into new obstacles... Tracy R Reed wrote: > I am running Bacula from cvs as of yesterday on a dual-core AMD64 box > running FC4. And I am having a lot of problems. Sometimes when I try to > label

RE: [Bacula-users] mysqldump using fifo

2005-10-28 Thread frank
So far no luck. Kern Sibbald wrote: > In addition, I don't see any need to redirect /dev/null to the input for rm, > mkfifo, and mysqldump. It probably won't hurt anything, but it just > complicates understanding what is really going on. A cleaner script would > be: > Changed the script as

Re: [Bacula-users] ClientRunBeforeJob problem

2005-10-28 Thread le dahut
It seems that it's the 'slapcat' which fails, not the 'ldap restart'. Maybe your ldap database is corrupted ... You can also save a ldap database with copying it's files but the server has to be stoped before : /etc/init.d/ldap stop cp -R /var/lib/ldap/* /etc/bacula/ldap_backup/ /etc/init.d/ldap s

[Bacula-users] [FAQ addition] Bacula, kernel 2.6.x and SCSI hangs when tape drive is empty

2005-10-28 Thread Michele Baldessari
Since I've spent some time looking at bacula's and mt's source code to figure out why just bacula was barfing on an empty tape drive on a 2.6.x linux kernel, I think it might be worth adding the following to the FAQ. (Apologies if something similar is in the docs already..I did look but found not

Re: [Bacula-users] Drive in strange state?

2005-10-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 26 October 2005 22:42, Peter Eriksson wrote: > Hmmm... Perhaps the tape is write-protected - gotta check that tomorrow > when I'm on-site. I unmounted it in Bconsole and then started "btape" and > tried some commands: > > label - worked - verified with readlabel! > > wr - failed wi

Re: [Bacula-users] mysqldump using fifo

2005-10-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 28 October 2005 10:59, Martin Simmons wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:28:31 +0700, "frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > frank> I cannot get MySQL fifo backups to work. If I run the > frank> backup job it hangs forever waiting for the input. If I > frank> run the job manually

Re: [Bacula-users] mysqldump using fifo

2005-10-28 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:28:31 +0700, "frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: frank> I cannot get MySQL fifo backups to work. If I run the frank> backup job it hangs forever waiting for the input. If I frank> run the job manually from the shell it works without frank> problems. What is going

RE: [Bacula-users] mysqldump using fifo

2005-10-28 Thread frank
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rainer Martin > Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 1:53 PM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] mysqldump using fifo > > Hi, > > maybe the line with mysqldup must be: > >