[Bacula-users] Followup: Problems with winbacula-1.38.4

2006-03-02 Thread Florian Daniel Otel
Hello all, Since I am receiving in private questions from others with similar experiences (below) I am forced to raise the same problem again (as decribed in detail at this posting) http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bacula.user/21701/ In very short: The FD for winbacula works fine if the DIR

[Bacula-users] Multiple Schedules for one job?

2006-03-02 Thread Michael 'buk' Scherer
Hi. I just wondered if its possible to define more than two Schedules for one job. It actually is by using 'Schedule = sched_one,sched_two' in the Job-Definition but only 'sched_one' is used. 1.38.3 running here. Any chance with this somehow? Would avoid specifying jobs two or three times

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] DB problems due to character set encoding

2006-03-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 13:33, John Kodis wrote: On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:08:43AM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: It looks like you have turned off utf-8, which will create a database that is incompatible with the Win32 consoles, which expect all Bacula database information to be in utf-8

Re: [Bacula-users] Upgrade from 1.36.3 to the latest version

2006-03-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 15:23, Michel Meyers wrote: Arunav Mandal wrote: On Tuesday 28 February 2006 17:19, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hello, On 2/28/2006 2:14 PM, Arunav Mandal wrote: We are running Bacula 1.36.3 in both director and storage daemon and on clients as well. We are now

Re: [Bacula-users] Win32 Version 1.38.5

2006-03-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 17:20, kernel[consulting] info wrote: Kern Sibbald schrieb: On Tuesday 28 February 2006 19:04, kernel[consulting] info wrote: Kern Sibbald schrieb: On Tuesday 28 February 2006 14:59, kernel[consulting] info wrote: Kern Sibbald schrieb: On Tuesday 28 February 2006

[Bacula-users] Problem restoring files to Win32 Client

2006-03-02 Thread Support
Dear All Could you help I am getting an error of the type below when attempting to restore files to a Windows XP Client. Winbacula-1.38.4 02-Mar 20:09 water32-fd: Restore.2006-03-02_20.04.36 Error: c:\cygwin\home\kern\bacula\k\src\win32\findlib\../../findlib/create_file.c:241 Could not create

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple Schedules for one job?

2006-03-02 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 3/2/2006 10:11 AM, Michael 'buk' Scherer wrote: Hi. I just wondered if its possible to define more than two Schedules for one job. It actually is by using 'Schedule = sched_one,sched_two' in the Job-Definition but only 'sched_one' is used. I never tried it, but I don't think so.

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental Pool and day-specific filenames

2006-03-02 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 3/2/2006 12:36 AM, Dan Langille wrote: On 2 Mar 2006 at 0:08, Arno Lehmann wrote: Just as a furher hint - I haven't implemented something like this because I prefer volume names not be related to the contents - the way I'd do this is as follows: 1. Search the catalog for pruned

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem restoring files to Win32 Client

2006-03-02 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 3/2/2006 10:56 AM, Support wrote: Dear All Could you help I am getting an error of the type below when attempting to restore files to a Windows XP Client. Winbacula-1.38.4 02-Mar 20:09 water32-fd: Restore.2006-03-02_20.04.36 Error:

RE: [Bacula-users] Incremental Pool and day-specific filenames

2006-03-02 Thread Steen . L . Meyer
I have it running also with multiple clients, but a bit more like the example in the manual - the volume names and creation dates are left as first created - I can easily see what volumes are used by the update timestamp though - and I have all pools belonging to the same clients on the same disk

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple Schedules for one job?

2006-03-02 Thread Michael 'buk' Scherer
Hey List, Arno. The idea is just to save some typing. Job { Name = Foo Fileset = aFileset Schedule = WeekdayCycle,WeekendCycle [...] } Job { Name = aJob-Weekday Fileset = weekdayFileset Schedule = WeekdayCycle [...] } Job { Name = aJob-Weekend Fileset =

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem restoring files to Win32 Client

2006-03-02 Thread Martin Simmons
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:26:32 +1030 (CST), Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Could you help I am getting an error of the type below when attempting to restore files to a Windows XP Client. Winbacula-1.38.4 02-Mar 20:09 water32-fd: Restore.2006-03-02_20.04.36 Error:

Re: [Bacula-users] Followup: Problems with winbacula-1.38.4

2006-03-02 Thread Martin Simmons
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:15:59 +0100, Florian Daniel Otel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Since I am receiving in private questions from others with similar experiences (below) I am forced to raise the same problem again (as decribed in detail at this posting)

Re: [Bacula-users] Clone a job only on certain circumstance

2006-03-02 Thread Baptiste Malguy
Hello, Arno Lehmann a écrit : Hi, On 2/27/2006 2:32 PM, Baptiste Malguy wrote: Hello, Anyone willing to advise me for my specific issue please ? For the moment, I hold on blocked by this problem, unfortunately, and I would appreciate so much some help. Thanks guys. Baptiste Malguy

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple Schedules for one job?

2006-03-02 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 3/2/2006 11:31 AM, Michael 'buk' Scherer wrote: Hey List, Arno. The idea is just to save some typing. Job { Name = Foo Fileset = aFileset Schedule = WeekdayCycle,WeekendCycle [...] } Job { Name = aJob-Weekday Fileset = weekdayFileset Schedule = WeekdayCycle

[Bacula-users] appending position

2006-03-02 Thread Thomas Franz
Hello, I am very new to bacula. My question : Is it possible (e.g. with bconsole) to seek the append position of a tape after rewinding the tape because of a restore etc. In the case of a backup run it takes a long time ( up to hours ) until the storage daemon is finding the end-of-data

Re: [Bacula-users] Followup: Problems with winbacula-1.38.4

2006-03-02 Thread Florian Daniel Otel
Martin, Sorry for being maybe a bit too brief in my post, but I already mentioned (both in the post above and in my original mail) that reverse forwarding of ports 9101 and 9103 _does_work: That means that 1) yes, I can telnet to local host port 9101 and 9103 from a DOS prompt 2) yes, I can

[Bacula-users] Distinguishing between 2 filesystems

2006-03-02 Thread LDB
I have two filesystems, /var /var/lib I have asked bacula-dir.conf to backup /var. Do I need to tell it to also backup /var/lib, as well? Thanks, LDB --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting

Re: [Bacula-users] Followup: Problems with winbacula-1.38.4

2006-03-02 Thread Frank Sweetser
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:15:59AM +0100, Florian Daniel Otel wrote: In very short: The FD for winbacula works fine if the DIR specifies the SD as being located on a FQDN host but does NOT work if it is specified as localhost (that is reversed tunneled to the right hostname due to firwalling

Re: [Bacula-users] Followup: Problems with winbacula-1.38.4

2006-03-02 Thread hikari
Frank Sweetser wrote: The Windows loopback interface is implemented poorly at best. I had luck using this kind of tunneling in Windows by explicitly specifying 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost. There is actually a seperate Loopback Device you can install, it shows as a physical

Re: [Bacula-users] Followup: Problems with winbacula-1.38.4

2006-03-02 Thread Frank Sweetser
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 01:17:17PM +, hikari wrote: Annoyingly you can't use a 127.0.0.0/8 IP on it though, you have to assign some other IP to it. Microsoft never seem to do anything the logical way. Why they couldn't just have installed the loopback device by default and assigned

Re: [Bacula-users] Distinguishing between 2 filesystems

2006-03-02 Thread Dan Langille
On 2 Mar 2006 at 8:09, LDB wrote: I have two filesystems, /var /var/lib I have asked bacula-dir.conf to backup /var. Do I need to tell it to also backup /var/lib, as well? Short answer: yes Long answer: it depends on your settings, but assuming defaults, the short

[Bacula-users] Bug or Feature? 1.38.6beta2.patch

2006-03-02 Thread Erich Prinz
Hi All, Sounds like the beginning of a Johnny Carson skit to me. Going through testing of 1.38.5 w/ 1.38.6 beta2 patch. Client configuration has: it's own Catalog an ACL'd Console It's own Media Pool defined It's own FileSet it's own RestoreJob

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem restoring files to Win32 Client

2006-03-02 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Simmons wrote: On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 20:26:32 +1030 (CST), Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Could you help I am getting an error of the type below when attempting to restore files to a Windows XP Client. Winbacula-1.38.4 02-Mar 20:09

Re: [Bacula-users] Followup: Problems with winbacula-1.38.4

2006-03-02 Thread Florian Daniel Otel
Frank, The Windows loopback interface is implemented poorly at best. I had luck using this kind of tunneling in Windows by explicitly specifying 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost. I should have mentioned it before (I thought I did) but I've tried that venue also: I tried specifying

Re: [Bacula-users] Followup: Problems with winbacula-1.38.4

2006-03-02 Thread Martin Simmons
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 14:08:10 +0100, Florian Daniel Otel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Martin, Sorry for being maybe a bit too brief in my post, but I already mentioned (both in the post above and in my original mail) that reverse forwarding of ports 9101 and 9103 _does_work: That means that

Re: [Bacula-users] Followup: Problems with winbacula-1.38.4

2006-03-02 Thread Frank Sweetser
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 04:01:08PM +0100, Florian Daniel Otel wrote: Anyway, on a more practical note: Can you please specify which version of winbacula did you use when you managed in 127.0.0.1 ? Any other tricks I am missing on the Windows side ? I got it working using 1.36, but I should

[Bacula-users] tape labeling error

2006-03-02 Thread david robert
Hi Guys,This is first time i am trying to label a tape for my backup pools when i enter label command from b consolei have added the volumename and seletected the thursdaypool for labeling then i got the following error messageConnecting to Storage daemon DLT at 172.11.71103 ...Sending

[Bacula-users] Solution for The table 'File' is full with mysql 4.1

2006-03-02 Thread Volker Sauer
Hi, this for the archives: I got error messages saying The table 'File' is full. The table was 4 GB in size. It was on a ext3 filesystem. Switching to xfs didn't help. The solution is: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/full-table.html Saying: You are using a MyISAM table and the space

Re: [Bacula-users] tape labeling error

2006-03-02 Thread Wolfgang Denk
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: This is first time i am trying to label a tape for my backup pools when i enter label command from b console i have added the volumename and seletected the thursdaypool for labeling then i got the following error message Connecting to

Re: [Bacula-users] tape labeling error

2006-03-02 Thread david robert
thanks for your quick reply i am running 1.36.2 debian package yes my tape is new and it is empty.So i can ignore this error"Graham D. Purcocks M.A. (Oxon)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its not an error. It tries to read the tape first to see if its blank ornot. If its blank you see the error.I think

Re: [Bacula-users] tape labeling error

2006-03-02 Thread david robert
thank you Wolfgang Denk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: This is first time i am trying to label a tape for my backup pools when i enter label command from b console i have added the volumename and seletected the thursdaypool for labeling then i got the following

Re: [Bacula-users] Followup: Problems with winbacula-1.38.4

2006-03-02 Thread Martin Simmons
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 16:01:08 +0100, Florian Daniel Otel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Frank, The Windows loopback interface is implemented poorly at best. I had luck using this kind of tunneling in Windows by explicitly specifying 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost. I should have

Re: [Bacula-users] Solution for The table 'File' is full with mysql 4.1

2006-03-02 Thread Volker Sauer
Mmh, for me it works. Have a look: Before: MyISAM file: /mnt/File.MYI Record format: Packed Character set: latin1 (8) File-version:1 Creation time: 2005-10-25 14:44:09 Recover time:2006-02-15 11:23:43 Status: changed Auto increment key:

Re: [Bacula-users] list job=job name and related broader question

2006-03-02 Thread Christopher Mills
Fabulous idea. In fact I should have thought of it myself. I am comfortable with this kind of command line/bash-scripting approach, and clearly this helps get my thinking about this on the right track which is exactly what I was asking of the community. Thanks. This seems to be an active

[Bacula-users] scalability of Windows backups

2006-03-02 Thread Thomas J. Lohman
Hi all, we are currently evaluating packages for backing up our Windows systems. We have anywhere between 200-250 Windows machines in our domain that need to be backed up. I am wondering what is the general scalability of Bacula. I know that much will depend on available disk/tape drive space

Re: [Bacula-users] Followup: Problems with winbacula-1.38.4

2006-03-02 Thread Florian Daniel Otel
On 3/2/06, Martin Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cygwin shouldn't be involved here. I know that Kern uses Cygwin to build the fd on Windows, but it can be done from DOS too and the bacula-fd.exe shouldn't depend on Cygwin's dll (if yours does, then that could explain things...). A quick

Re: [Bacula-users] Followup: Problems with winbacula-1.38.4

2006-03-02 Thread Martin Simmons
On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 21:11:01 +0100, Florian Daniel Otel [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 3/2/06, Martin Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cygwin shouldn't be involved here. I know that Kern uses Cygwin to build the fd on Windows, but it can be done from DOS too and the bacula-fd.exe

[Bacula-users] OnLamp article to mention Bacula

2006-03-02 Thread Dan Langille
Gidday, On Thursday 9 March, there will be an article published on OnLamp which describes how I set up a test environment (used by Kern) within a jail on FreeBSD. This is the setup Kern uses when running regression tests on FreeBSD. I don't know the URL for the article yet, but you'll be

Re: [Bacula-users] appending position

2006-03-02 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 3/2/2006 2:03 PM, Thomas Franz wrote: Hello, I am very new to bacula. My question : Is it possible (e.g. with bconsole) to seek the append position of a tape after rewinding the tape because of a restore etc. No. The only way to position to EOD is by starting a job which uses

Re: [Bacula-users] scalability of Windows backups

2006-03-02 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 3/2/2006 8:57 PM, Thomas J. Lohman wrote: Hi all, we are currently evaluating packages for backing up our Windows systems. We have anywhere between 200-250 Windows machines in our domain that need to be backed up. I am wondering what is the general scalability of Bacula. I know

Re: [Bacula-users] scalability of Windows backups

2006-03-02 Thread Thomas J. Lohman
The most important thing is probably what amount of data you expect from each machine, and how much of it changes. Assuming a short backup time window and expecting lots of changed files from many clients might force you to implement more complicated schedules than you'd might wish (for

Re: [Bacula-users] Negative test of bacula-dir.

2006-03-02 Thread Erik P. Olsen
Sebastian Stark wrote: On 01.03.2006, at 11:09, Erik P. Olsen wrote: What happens when you enter 'use bacula'? mysql use bacula; Reading table information for completion of table and column names You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A Database changed Apparently I

Re: [Bacula-users] appending position

2006-03-02 Thread John Kodis
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:03:59PM +0100, Thomas Franz wrote: In the case of a backup run it takes a long time ( up to hours ) until the storage daemon is finding the end-of-data position . ( Of course only if the tape is nearly full). We are using bacula 1.36.3 on a FreeBSD 4.11 machine.

Re: [Bacula-users] list job=job name and related broader question

2006-03-02 Thread Gregory Orange
Christopher Mills wrote: Just as a side note on mysqlnavigator for anybody interested: I would love to get up to speed on writing sql on the fly at the command line. At this moment I have other priorities (so much to learn, so little time). To this end, then mysqlnavigator has so far been a

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem restoring files to Win32 Client

2006-03-02 Thread Support
Dear Arno I was able to restore the files to their original location ie D:\Data . My concern was overwriting files etc so I renamed the current D:\Data folder C:\Dataxx Could anyone clarify that I should chance D:\Data in my FileSet to D:/Data as I would like to do restores to other locations.