Re: [Bacula-users] Possible bug in bacula 1.38.9?

2006-07-28 Thread Ger Apeldoorn
I suggest trying bconsole instead. Hi Dan, Thanks for your reply. If I use the non-gui interface, it works. But these warnings are bothering me. Am I making a correct backup when it says Restore is not possible? Ger. -

Re: [Bacula-users] one system won't back up -- director crashes!

2006-07-28 Thread Jo Rhett
On Jul 19, 2006, at 10:08 PM, Ryan Novosielski wrote: Providing proper information for FREE support from a bunch of people who are in the same boat you are really isn't too much to ask. I suggest you adjust your attitude. Copying the same information back and forth between mailing lists

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature request - SQL Server (freetds? odbc?) support for catalog database

2006-07-28 Thread Sebastien Guilbaud
Sorry, I thought one thing and wrote another. It's not InnoDB - it's MyISAM. It's the adequate storage engine for Bacula. Regards, and why no innodb ?? works fine for me, big tables, simpler memory model than innodb (no tons of buffers to tune), and negligeable performance hit... have a nice

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula on Solaris 9 errors?

2006-07-28 Thread Robert W Hartzell
John wrote: Everything works fine on the linux boxes but the solaris boxes are showing these errors: Note: /data is an EMC storage array. ava-adbu1a-fd: Filesystem change prohibited. Will not descend into /net ava-adbu1a-fd: Filesystem change prohibited. Will not descend into

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature request: split documentation in several books

2006-07-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
This is a project that I have planned for quite some time (several years), though the splitting of the manual may be somewhat different. Now that Frank Sweetser has begun working on the documentation, this project has a much higher chance of being realized. On Thursday 27 July 2006 09:24,

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature request - SQL Server (freetds? odbc?) support for catalog database

2006-07-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 28 July 2006 09:33, Bernhard Suttner wrote: Here is my make_mysql_tables for innodb! What are the advantages and disadvantages of using innodb over myiasm? What is most important for users is not the internal complexity of the program, but the speed as well as not having table size

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs for a device

2006-07-28 Thread Birger Blixt
On 2006-07-26 10:46, Kern Sibbald wrote: On many non-autochanger drives, doing an eject requires an explicit load command, and Bacula never uses that command (except in btape). I recommend avoiding ejecting except if required. Yeas, but that is not at all what I wrote, the problem is

Re: [Bacula-users] one system won't back up -- director crashes!

2006-07-28 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Jo Rhett wrote: Okay, now it's been what - 3 weeks? And as far as I can tell nobody has even looked at this problem. Bacula is user-supported software. From what I've seen on the list, you have provided inadequate information about what is going wrong, have not spent

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger quirks? 1.38.11-3

2006-07-28 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Birger Blixt wrote: When a tape is loaded directly into a drive from a mailslot, some changers classify it as unknown Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Unknown Storage Element Loaded):VolumeTag = ALOW0041 ^^^ Data

Re: [Bacula-users] Advantages with spooling.

2006-07-28 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Emery Guevremont wrote: At least, spooling should guarantee that your tape drive is able to run at full speed continuosly. If for some reason your system isn't able to supply data to the tape drive at fast enough rate, the drive keeps

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs for a device

2006-07-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 28 July 2006 12:26, Birger Blixt wrote: On 2006-07-26 10:46, Kern Sibbald wrote: On many non-autochanger drives, doing an eject requires an explicit load command, and Bacula never uses that command (except in btape). I recommend avoiding ejecting except if required.

[Bacula-users] Error e-mails caused by Nagios monitoring

2006-07-28 Thread Bartosz Piec
Hello, I'm using Nagios to monitor Bacula server. To do this, I'm connecting on the TCP 9101 port to see if connection can be established. Every time Nagios connects, I'm getting an e-mail saying: 28-Jul 14:57 my-director: ERROR in authenticate.c:269 UA Hello from

Re: [Bacula-users] posting via mutt

2006-07-28 Thread Jo Rhett
This has to rank as one of the stupidest spam detection measures I have ever seen. So apparently, one cannot read mailing lists from a host behind a firewall any longer? I mean seriously, this ranks so high that I simply cannot think of a more useless spam prevention method. It will

Re: [Bacula-users] one system won't back up -- director crashes!

2006-07-28 Thread Jo Rhett
On Jul 26, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Dan Langille wrote: 1. bacula-dir dies for reasons unknown when starting a backup that uses identical configuration to other systems Ouch. That's bad. Something must be different. Nothing is different other than the hostname of the system and the password

Re: [Bacula-users] posting via mutt

2006-07-28 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Jo Rhett wrote: This has to rank as one of the stupidest spam detection measures I have ever seen. Their servers, their rules. Deal with it. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT

Re: [Bacula-users] one system won't back up -- director crashes!

2006-07-28 Thread Dan Langille
On 28 Jul 2006 at 9:36, Jo Rhett wrote: On Jul 26, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Dan Langille wrote: 1. bacula-dir dies for reasons unknown when starting a backup that uses identical configuration to other systems Ouch. That's bad. Something must be different. Nothing is different other than

Re: [Bacula-users] one system won't back up -- director crashes!

2006-07-28 Thread Jo Rhett
On Jul 28, 2006, at 3:52 AM, Alan Brown wrote: Bacula is user-supported software. Thanks! I never knew that. Gee, this is my first open source project, right? From what I've seen on the list, you have provided inadequate information about what is going wrong, have not spent any time

Re: [Bacula-users] one system won't back up -- director crashes!

2006-07-28 Thread Jo Rhett
On Jul 28, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Dan Langille wrote: This email is a fine example of exactly why people are not queuing up to help you. I have raised dozens of legitimate issues repeatedly and constantly, and received nothing but condescending replies. And when it irritates me enough to call

[Bacula-users] These messages from Bacula are useless

2006-07-28 Thread Jo Rhett
I haven't the foggiest idea which File Daemons it was unable to communicate with. Can we please expand the error message to include this information? Begin forwarded message: From: (Bacula) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 25, 2006 2:37:01 PM PDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bacula daemon

Re: [Bacula-users] Some volumes can't be found?

2006-07-28 Thread John Drescher
How about list volumes? On 7/28/06, Jo Rhett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *purge Choose item to purge (1-3): 3 Defined Pools: Select the Pool (1-8): 4 No results to list. Enter MediaId or Volume name: localnet-0001 sql_get.c:910 Media record for Volume localnet-0001 not found. *list pools

Re: [Bacula-users] Some volumes can't be found?

2006-07-28 Thread Jo Rhett
Sorry, I thought I had included that. *list volumes Pool: localnet_Pool No results to list. Pool: clients_Pool No results to list. Pool: svcolo_Daily ***the right svcolo volumes list here*** Pool: svcolo_Monthly No results to list. Pool: svcolo_Quarterly ***the right svcolo volumes list

Re: [Bacula-users] posting via mutt

2006-07-28 Thread Jo Rhett
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Jo Rhett wrote: This has to rank as one of the stupidest spam detection measures I have ever seen. On Jul 28, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Alan Brown wrote: Their servers, their rules. Deal with it. Frankly, I can't. Having to use a GUI mail client makes participation in the

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs for a device

2006-07-28 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: There are certain limitations in version 1.38.x, that are explained in the release notes I think -- mainly, if a tape is in drive 2 and Bacula is writing on drive 1 and then wants to write on the tape that is in drive 2, it will unload it from drive 2

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs for a device

2006-07-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 28 July 2006 18:01, Alan Brown wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: There are certain limitations in version 1.38.x, that are explained in the release notes I think -- mainly, if a tape is in drive 2 and Bacula is writing on drive 1 and then wants to write on the tape

Re: [Bacula-users] posting via mutt

2006-07-28 Thread DAve
Jo Rhett wrote: On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Jo Rhett wrote: This has to rank as one of the stupidest spam detection measures I have ever seen. On Jul 28, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Alan Brown wrote: Their servers, their rules. Deal with it. Frankly, I can't. Having to use a GUI mail client makes

Re: [Bacula-users] one system won't back up -- director crashes!

2006-07-28 Thread Martin Simmons
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:36:28 -0700, Jo Rhett said: I can't even get a simple answer on what library is used by the traceback module so that I can find it, compile it, and get traceback working. Bacula doesn't use a

Re: [Bacula-users] posting via mutt

2006-07-28 Thread Martin Simmons
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:04:27 -0400, DAve said: Jo Rhett wrote: On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Jo Rhett wrote: This has to rank as one of the stupidest spam detection measures I have ever seen. On Jul 28, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Alan Brown wrote: Their servers, their rules. Deal with it.

Re: [Bacula-users] one system won't back up -- director crashes!

2006-07-28 Thread Jo Rhett
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:36:28 -0700, Jo Rhett said: can't even get a simple answer on what library is used by the traceback module so that I can find it, compile it, and get traceback working. On Jul 28, 2006, at 1:07 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: Bacula doesn't use a third-party library for

Re: [Bacula-users] one system won't back up -- director crashes!

2006-07-28 Thread Jo Rhett
On Jul 28, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: The manual is out of date. In particular, the mail commands don't exist (it uses bsmtp now) and the traceback module uses a dbx library/database of some sort. I can find no documentation for what this is. gcore -o /var/db/bacula/${PNAME}

Re: [Bacula-users] one system won't back up -- director crashes!

2006-07-28 Thread Martin Simmons
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:55:10 -0700, Jo Rhett said: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:36:28 -0700, Jo Rhett said: can't even get a simple answer on what library is used by the traceback module so that I can find it, compile it, and get traceback working. On Jul 28, 2006, at 1:07 PM, Martin

Re: [Bacula-users] posting via mutt

2006-07-28 Thread DAve
Martin Simmons wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:04:27 -0400, DAve said: Jo Rhett wrote: On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Jo Rhett wrote: This has to rank as one of the stupidest spam detection measures I have ever seen. On Jul 28, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Alan Brown wrote: Their servers, their rules. Deal

[Bacula-users] 2 autoloader configuration, can't restore from 2nd autoloader

2006-07-28 Thread Dirk Kleinhesselink
I'm new to bacula and am setting bacula up for backing up a large raidserver. I have 2 7-slot (single drive) Exabyte Magnum LTO-3 autoloaders connected to the server. I've gone through the basic setup and tested the tapes and autoloaders for general functionality and everything seems good.

Re: [Bacula-users] posting via mutt

2006-07-28 Thread Richard Mortimer
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 21:39 +0100, Martin Simmons wrote: On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:04:27 -0400, DAve said: Jo Rhett wrote: On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Jo Rhett wrote: This has to rank as one of the stupidest spam detection measures I have ever seen. I was confronted with the same

Re: [Bacula-users] Error e-mails caused by Nagios monitoring

2006-07-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 28 July 2006 15:04, Bartosz Piec wrote: Hello, I'm using Nagios to monitor Bacula server. To do this, I'm connecting on the TCP 9101 port to see if connection can be established. Every time Nagios connects, I'm getting an e-mail saying: 28-Jul 14:57 my-director: ERROR in

Re: [Bacula-users] one system won't back up -- director crashes!

2006-07-28 Thread Richard Mortimer
On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 13:55 -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: The manual is out of date. In particular, the mail commands don't exist (it uses bsmtp now) and the traceback module uses a dbx library/ database of some sort. I can find no documentation for what this is. gcore -o

Re: [Bacula-users] Error e-mails caused by Nagios monitoring

2006-07-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
Please always copy the list. On Friday 28 July 2006 21:41, Bartosz Piec wrote: Kern Sibbald wrote: How to get rid of this? I want do disable _only_ this type of e-mails. Add a !security to your Messages resource where you send out the emails. Won't it filter me any really important

Re: [Bacula-users] one system won't back up -- director crashes!

2006-07-28 Thread Dan Langille
On 28 Jul 2006 at 9:59, Jo Rhett wrote: On Jul 28, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Dan Langille wrote: This email is a fine example of exactly why people are not queuing up to help you. I have raised dozens of legitimate issues repeatedly and constantly, and received nothing but condescending

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs for a device

2006-07-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
Please always copy the list. Hopefully someone will explain it to you. On Friday 28 July 2006 22:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the message dated: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:46:23 +0200, The pithy ruminations from Kern Sibbald on Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs for a device were: =

Re: [Bacula-users] 2 autoloader configuration, can't restore from 2nd autoloader

2006-07-28 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, On Friday 28 July 2006 22:56, Dirk Kleinhesselink wrote: I'm new to bacula and am setting bacula up for backing up a large raidserver. I have 2 7-slot (single drive) Exabyte Magnum LTO-3 autoloaders connected to the server. I've gone through the basic setup and tested the tapes

Re: [Bacula-users] posting via mutt

2006-07-28 Thread Jo Rhett
On Jul 28, 2006, at 1:04 PM, DAve wrote: I was confronted with the same problem back in 1998 and I used ssmtp. I think it was ssmtp, that was a long time ago. I set it up and continued to use Mutt (which is still my favorite MUA though I have to use OE and Thunderbird now) with no

Re: [Bacula-users] posting via mutt

2006-07-28 Thread Jo Rhett
On Jul 28, 2006, at 1:39 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: OK, here is one piece of useful info: I just posted to bacula-users using a GNU Emacs mail client, connecting to a sendmail mail server that is behind a firewall. The message was accepted by sourceforge and delivered back to me and

Re: [Bacula-users] posting via mutt

2006-07-28 Thread Jo Rhett
On Jul 28, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Richard Mortimer wrote: The important thing is the SMTP envelope address that is presented to sourceforge and not the original envelope generated by the sender. As I understand it sf just checks whether the mail servers for your domain will accept mail to

[Bacula-users] SOLVED!! one system won't back up -- director crashes!

2006-07-28 Thread Jo Rhett
So I'm quoting from WAY back in the thread because it has relevant information. We found the problem, and it had nothing to do with bacula. (Which means that the Director code has a real flaw that can cause segfaults.) The network card being used to back up the server was fried/frying/