Re: [Bacula-users] Post-upgrade, from 2.4.4 to 3.0.2, bconsole is hung up.

2010-02-02 Thread Bruno Friedmann
Hi Mike, just check if you have a running & valid smtp ( those used by bstmp ) There's a know problem with this. It has been corrected in v5 (In my case, I've a throttling postfix, which hangs bacula-dir) On 02/03/2010 07:14 AM, Mike Seda wrote: > All, > I'm currently experiencing the hung bcons

Re: [Bacula-users] Post-upgrade, from 2.4.4 to 3.0.2, bconsole is hung up.

2010-02-02 Thread Mike Seda
All, I'm currently experiencing the hung bconsole issue, as well. No modifications were made to my system recently. After a couple of days, bconsole just doesn't respond anymore. I just get the following... [ms...@backup0 ~]$ sudo /usr/sbin/bconsole -d 200 Password: Connecting to Director local

Re: [Bacula-users] Purged volume move to Default pool !!!

2010-02-02 Thread haridas n
Hi, Thanks Phil Stracchino Yes , now the recycling work with out any problem. I added the following parameters to each of my client pools , in which *Recycle Pool=pool-name *helps to retain the recycled volumes with in the pool itself. extra properties added to each pool are (IN Bold chara

[Bacula-users] Bacula Nagios Plugin

2010-02-02 Thread Heitor Faria
Guys, I just read that Bacula has a built-in Nagios plugin since 3.0.1 version. Is that right? Where it is documented? Regards, Heitor Faria -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay

Re: [Bacula-users] File-Storage and automatic labeling andvolumecreation

2010-02-02 Thread Thomas Schweikle
On 03.02.2010 01:36, Thomas Schweikle wrote: > On 02.02.2010 00:46, Timo Neuvonen wrote: >> "Thomas Schweikle" kirjoitti viestissä > > [...] > >>>Does this mean volumes aren't created automatic? I do have to create >>>them manually? >> >> At first, I didn't notice there was a recycle=yes optio

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about the Scratch pool directive

2010-02-02 Thread Robert Hartzell
On 02/ 2/10 05:21 PM, Richard Scobie wrote: > Robert Hartzell wrote: > >> Which says to me that RecyclePool should be defined in the scratch pool >> and not the Full pool. > > I guess this would work if you never label media as anything other than > Scratch. >> Does this mean that the RecyclePool a

Re: [Bacula-users] File-Storage and automatic labeling andvolumecreation

2010-02-02 Thread Thomas Schweikle
On 02.02.2010 00:46, Timo Neuvonen wrote: > "Thomas Schweikle" kirjoitti viestissä [...] >>Does this mean volumes aren't created automatic? I do have to create >>them manually? > > At first, I didn't notice there was a recycle=yes option in the conf. I was sure I had put it in ;-) > The volum

[Bacula-users] What about clients not turned on at scheduled time?

2010-02-02 Thread Thomas Schweikle
Hi! I've noticed clients not turned on at job schedule time to not carry out a given job. The job is just cancelled. How do I have to set up a client I do not know when it is online the next time to carry out the latest jobs not done so far? AKA I want the client to run the last full backup if it

Re: [Bacula-users] File-Storage and automatic labeling andvolumecreation

2010-02-02 Thread Thomas Schweikle
On 02.02.2010 01:01, Heitor Faria wrote: [...] > For automatic recycling is also recomendable that you use one of these > volume usage limiters: *Volume Use Duration or **Maximum Volume Jobs*. > When the volume reach one of these limiters it will become "used" - an > than the reetention time star

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about the Scratch pool directive

2010-02-02 Thread Richard Scobie
Robert Hartzell wrote: > Which says to me that RecyclePool should be defined in the scratch pool > and not the Full pool. I guess this would work if you never label media as anything other than Scratch. > Does this mean that the RecyclePool attribute is > attached to the volume when it's initia

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about the Scratch pool directive

2010-02-02 Thread Richard Scobie
Richard Scobie wrote: > Robert Hartzell wrote: > >> hmmm... looks like I need to do some testing. Do you have any volumes >> that have been recycled and moved back to the scratch pool? >> > > Yes. A tape that was initially labeled in the "Full" pool has been > recycled back into Scratch and is show

Re: [Bacula-users] query Error

2010-02-02 Thread Mike Holden
Torsten Maus wrote: > Hi I just upgraded to version 5 of bacula, > > but I just tried yesterday to restore a job but as I did the following > procedure: > > restore > > ->5 - Select the most recent backup for a client > -> choose my client: [ snip ] > SELECT would examine more than MAX_JOIN_SIZ

[Bacula-users] make_catalog_backup.pl 5.0.0 bug my.cnf chmod

2010-02-02 Thread connextis
Possibly there is a bug in make_catalog_backup.pl The script creates for my Mysql setup the /var/lib/bacula/.my.cnf file. All settings are correct except the file acl. ll /var/lib/bacula/.my.cnf rw-rw- 1 bacula bacula 54 2. Feb 20:23 /var/lib/bacula/.my.cnf This file is ignore because of

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] bug in autolabel code in 5.0.0?

2010-02-02 Thread Bob Hetzel
John Drescher wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Bob Hetzel wrote: >> >> John Drescher wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Bob Hetzel wrote: Greetings, I've just upgraded to 5.0.0 and have run into this odd issue. Bacula seems to be stuck waiting for a l

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about the Scratch pool directive

2010-02-02 Thread Robert Hartzell
On 02/ 2/10 04:08 PM, Richard Scobie wrote: > Robert Hartzell wrote: > >> hmmm... looks like I need to do some testing. Do you have any volumes >> that have been recycled and moved back to the scratch pool? >> > > Yes. A tape that was initially labeled in the "Full" pool has been > recycled back in

Re: [Bacula-users] Re : Re : Bacula: Implementation!

2010-02-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 02/02/10 14:59, eugene ngontang wrote: > Thanks again Phil > > My question is about to know how to change the language in bacula; Is > there any language_package for bacula? That should, if your system is properly set up, be taken care of by your configured language locale. > And for the netw

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about the Scratch pool directive

2010-02-02 Thread Richard Scobie
Robert Hartzell wrote: > hmmm... looks like I need to do some testing. Do you have any volumes > that have been recycled and moved back to the scratch pool? > Yes. A tape that was initially labeled in the "Full" pool has been recycled back into Scratch and is showing "Scratch" as its recycle poo

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about the Scratch pool directive

2010-02-02 Thread Robert Hartzell
On 02/ 2/10 03:10 PM, Richard Scobie wrote: > Robert Hartzell wrote: > >> It would seem reasonable (to me anyways) that the attributes would be >> updated to reflect the current pool. There isn't much in the way of >> documentation regarding this feature so hopefully someone can verify one >> way o

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about the Scratch pool directive

2010-02-02 Thread Richard Scobie
Robert Hartzell wrote: > It would seem reasonable (to me anyways) that the attributes would be > updated to reflect the current pool. There isn't much in the way of > documentation regarding this feature so hopefully someone can verify one > way or the other and I dont have to set up a test to fin

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about the Scratch pool directive

2010-02-02 Thread Robert Hartzell
On 02/ 2/10 02:20 PM, John Drescher wrote: >> If bacula can not find an appendable volume by other means (recycle, >> etc...) bacula will, >> >> a) move a volume from the scratch pool to the Full pool > yes. Bacula will automatically grab a volume from the Scratch Pool > >> b) the volume will not b

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about the Scratch pool directive

2010-02-02 Thread John Drescher
> If bacula can not find an appendable volume by other means (recycle, > etc...) bacula will, > > a) move a volume from the scratch pool to the Full pool yes. Bacula will automatically grab a volume from the Scratch Pool > b) the volume will not be renamed yes. The volume name stays the same. > c

[Bacula-users] Questions about the Scratch pool directive

2010-02-02 Thread Robert Hartzell
Assuming: 1) That bacula is correctly configured to use a scratch pool 2) I have an autochanger with 10 slots 3) I have labeled media Bacula-0001 thru Bacula-0010 and assigned them to the scratch pool 4) A job is running that needs a new volume from the Full pool If bacula can not find an appenda

[Bacula-users] automatic volume labels across pools

2010-02-02 Thread Andy Howell
I am backing up several hosts to disk based volumes, with a pool for each host and volumes automatically labeled as described in http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Basic_Volume_Management.html I would have thought that the volume number would increment on a per-pool basis. Instea

Re: [Bacula-users] Re : Bacula: Implementation!

2010-02-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 02/02/10 12:24, eugene ngontang wrote: > > Thanks Phil for your great response! > > Then Do I have the choice about the OS to be installed on my storage > machines? I mean can I install either windows or linux on the storage > computer? Can I do the same for the client machines? The clients c

Re: [Bacula-users] One Backup OK - Others Hang

2010-02-02 Thread Drew Tomlinson
John Drescher wrote: >>> Wait a minute. Are you sending emails after each job? >>> >>> John >>> >>> >> Ahhh... Maybe. It's the default dir.conf that I only modified a little for >> testing. However this is in the dir.conf: >> >> >> > Recently I have seen users on this list having pro

Re: [Bacula-users] One Backup OK - Others Hang

2010-02-02 Thread John Drescher
>> Wait a minute. Are you sending emails after each job? >> >> John >> > > Ahhh...  Maybe.  It's the default dir.conf that I only modified a little for > testing.  However this is in the dir.conf: > > Recently I have seen users on this list having problems where emailing was causing this type of ha

[Bacula-users] query Error

2010-02-02 Thread Torsten Maus
Hi I just upgraded to version 5 of bacula, but I just tried yesterday to restore a job but as I did the following procedure: restore ->5 - Select the most recent backup for a client -> choose my client: Automatically selected FileSet: rom-server +---+---+--+-+---

Re: [Bacula-users] One Backup OK - Others Hang

2010-02-02 Thread Drew Tomlinson
John Drescher wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Drew Tomlinson > wrote: > >> John Drescher wrote: >> The particular instance has been running for 105 minutes. However I've let jobs run for over 8 hours and they still never finished. The fileset for this te

Re: [Bacula-users] One Backup OK - Others Hang

2010-02-02 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > John Drescher wrote: >>> >>> The particular instance has been running for 105 minutes.  However I've >>> let >>> jobs run for over 8 hours and they still never finished. >>> >>> The fileset for this test backup is just /etc/bacula which total

Re: [Bacula-users] Character Substitution

2010-02-02 Thread Richard Scobie
ganiuszka wrote: > In "Client Run After Job" directive "%v" will not be replaced because it > can be replaced only on Director side. > So if you has: > > Client Run After Job = "/path/script.sh %i %v" > > than > > %v will be empty. OK thanks. I actually have the "%i_%v" inside the shell script, s

Re: [Bacula-users] One Backup OK - Others Hang

2010-02-02 Thread Drew Tomlinson
John Drescher wrote: >> The particular instance has been running for 105 minutes. However I've let >> jobs run for over 8 hours and they still never finished. >> >> The fileset for this test backup is just /etc/bacula which totals about 18K. >> When I run the first backup that completes, it only

Re: [Bacula-users] One Backup OK - Others Hang

2010-02-02 Thread Heitor Medrado de Faria
Drew Tomlinson wrote: > John Drescher wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Drew Tomlinson >> wrote: >> >> >>> I'm using bacula 3.0.3 that was compiled on a Gentoo distribution using >>> its portage system. The director, storage, and file daemons are all >>> running on this sam

Re: [Bacula-users] One Backup OK - Others Hang

2010-02-02 Thread John Drescher
> The particular instance has been running for 105 minutes.  However I've let > jobs run for over 8 hours and they still never finished. > > The fileset for this test backup is just /etc/bacula which totals about 18K. >  When I run the first backup that completes, it only takes about 10 seconds > t

Re: [Bacula-users] One Backup OK - Others Hang

2010-02-02 Thread Drew Tomlinson
John Drescher wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Drew Tomlinson > wrote: > >> I'm using bacula 3.0.3 that was compiled on a Gentoo distribution using >> its portage system. The director, storage, and file daemons are all >> running on this same system. >> >> Bacula works fine for one b

[Bacula-users] Query trouble

2010-02-02 Thread smartina
Hi at all, when I tried to make a query from bconsole I've just obtain this output: *query Available queries: Selection list for "" is empty! I'm on Bacula 5.0.0, suggestions? Simone -- The Planet: dedicated and managed

Re: [Bacula-users] One Backup OK - Others Hang

2010-02-02 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I'm using bacula 3.0.3 that was compiled on a Gentoo distribution using > its portage system.  The director, storage, and file daemons are all > running on this same system. > > Bacula works fine for one backup.  However any subsequent backu

[Bacula-users] Restore Job never start

2010-02-02 Thread marco zanca
I try to set the permission even to 777 but with no luck. And now i have some problem with some backup job that hangs in the same waiting status ... I've no idea what to check, the database work fine, the configuration file is almost similar to the default provided with the installation. +

[Bacula-users] One Backup OK - Others Hang

2010-02-02 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I'm using bacula 3.0.3 that was compiled on a Gentoo distribution using its portage system. The director, storage, and file daemons are all running on this same system. Bacula works fine for one backup. However any subsequent backup "hangs". Stopping and restarting both the director and stor

[Bacula-users] Fwd: [Bacula-devel] bug in autolabel code in 5.0.0?

2010-02-02 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: Bob Hetzel Date: Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:37 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-devel] bug in autolabel code in 5.0.0? To: John Drescher John Drescher wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Bob Hetzel wrote: >> >> John Drescher wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Feb 2

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] bug in autolabel code in 5.0.0?

2010-02-02 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Bob Hetzel wrote: > > > John Drescher wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Bob Hetzel wrote: >>> >>> Greetings, >>> >>> I've just upgraded to 5.0.0 and have run into this odd issue.  Bacula >>> seems >>> to be stuck waiting for a labeled volume, even afte

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore the most recent backup from given storage?

2010-02-02 Thread Rinat Shigapov
Hello! Any ideas about the topic? -- Regards, Rinat Shigapov -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose f

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula: Implementation!

2010-02-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 02/02/10 05:42, eugene ngontang wrote: > Hi! > > I'm a new in Bacula, and i'm willing to install the soft on my network. > I read the documentation, but for those who have an experience of bacula > implementation, I want you to guide in this start up: > > -I want to install the last version of

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore Job never start

2010-02-02 Thread mehma sarja
Check permissions on /tmp/bacula-restores and/or try a director somewhere else like /home... Mehma === On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:52 PM, marco zanca wrote: > > Ok, thank you for helping, i'm using bconsole, but i also tried with the > bat gui. I do this step: > 1. run a backup job in /tmp, wich en

Re: [Bacula-users] Dynamically assign volumes to pools

2010-02-02 Thread Jesper Krogh
Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > I think the "scratch" pool should provide what you're looking for, but > I believe once volumes have been reassigned to another pool they'll > stay there for the rest of their lifetimes (I'm still on 2.x, so > things may have changed in the meantime). No, you can set Recycl

Re: [Bacula-users] Dynamically assign volumes to pools

2010-02-02 Thread Daniel Kamm
Am 2/2/10 3:06 PM, schrieb John Drescher: >> This pool is called the Scratch pool. >> > > That is what I use with my changer. After adding any new volumes I add > them all to the scratch pool using label barcodes. Bacula then grabs > volumes from this Scratch when it needs a new volume from any of

Re: [Bacula-users] Dynamically assign volumes to pools

2010-02-02 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 01:57:52PM +0100, Daniel Kamm wrote: > Hi all > > Just an idea of mine, let me know if this is possible or not. > > Let's say I have a huge autochanger with lots of space and lots of > cartriges available. Let's also assume, that I have a uncontrollable > data groth and

Re: [Bacula-users] Dynamically assign volumes to pools

2010-02-02 Thread John Drescher
>> Is it possible to dynamically assign empty volumes from a "spare" pool >> to the actual running pool if the volumes available for doing backups >> are not sufficient? > > This pool is called the Scratch pool. > That is what I use with my changer. After adding any new volumes I add them all to t

Re: [Bacula-users] Dynamically assign volumes to pools

2010-02-02 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Daniel, On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 01:57:52PM +0100, Daniel Kamm wrote: > Just an idea of mine, let me know if this is possible or not. > > Let's say I have a huge autochanger with lots of space and lots of > cartriges available. Let's also assume, that I have a uncontrollable > data groth and

[Bacula-users] Dynamically assign volumes to pools

2010-02-02 Thread Daniel Kamm
Hi all Just an idea of mine, let me know if this is possible or not. Let's say I have a huge autochanger with lots of space and lots of cartriges available. Let's also assume, that I have a uncontrollable data groth and I cannot (or I am too lazy to) predict the ammount of cartridges needed to

Re: [Bacula-users] max volume bytes

2010-02-02 Thread Ismail OZATAY
ganiuszka yazm?s,: > Ismail OZATAY pisze: >> I want to use Maximum Volume Bytes option to create separate volumes >> but although I use this option it is still growing in an only one >> volume. What is wrong with my config ? Here is the latest state of >> the volume. >> >> [r...@mail bacula]# ll

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula: Implementation!

2010-02-02 Thread Heitor Faria
Em 2/2/2010 08:42, eugene ngontang escreveu: I'm a new in Bacula, and i'm willing to install the soft on my network. I read the documentation, but for those who have an experience of bacula implementation, I want you to guide in this start up: -I want to install the last version of bacula (5.0

Re: [Bacula-users] backups going to external drive, not Tape library

2010-02-02 Thread Heitor Faria
I'm trying to run a job and force the storage to be my tape library. All attempts have resulted in the standalone drive being used instead. >>> Your configuration is perfect. >>> In my opinion its a "bug" - or maybe something related to this new >>> feature (I think its not in yo

Re: [Bacula-users] backups going to external drive, not Tape library

2010-02-02 Thread Heitor Faria
Em 1/2/2010 22:22, Dan Langille escreveu: > Heitor Medrado de Faria wrote: >> Dan Langille wrote: >>> I'm trying to run a job and force the storage to be my tape >>> library. All >>> attempts have resulted in the standalone drive being used instead. >> Your configuration is perfect. >> In my opin

[Bacula-users] Bacula: Implementation!

2010-02-02 Thread eugene ngontang
Hi! I'm a new in Bacula, and i'm willing to install the soft on my network. I read the documentation, but for those who have an experience of bacula implementation, I want you to guide in this start up: -I want to install the last version of bacula (5.0.0) on ubuntu 9.10 -I want to know if all

Re: [Bacula-users] max volume bytes

2010-02-02 Thread Daniel Kamm
Hi Ismail, Am 2/2/10 9:50 AM, schrieb Ismail OZATAY: > I want to use Maximum Volume Bytes option to create separate volumes but > although I use this option it is still growing in an only one volume. > What is wrong with my config ? Here is the latest state of the volume. [..] > Here is my pool co

Re: [Bacula-users] max volume bytes

2010-02-02 Thread ganiuszka
Ismail OZATAY pisze: > I want to use Maximum Volume Bytes option to create separate volumes but > although I use this option it is still growing in an only one volume. > What is wrong with my config ? Here is the latest state of the volume. > > [r...@mail bacula]# ll /mnt/yedek/ > total 8302597

[Bacula-users] max volume bytes

2010-02-02 Thread Ismail OZATAY
Hello , I want to use Maximum Volume Bytes option to create separate volumes but although I use this option it is still growing in an only one volume. What is wrong with my config ? Here is the latest state of the volume. [r...@mail bacula]# ll /mnt/yedek/ total 8302597 drwxrwxrwx 1 root root

Re: [Bacula-users] Character Substitution

2010-02-02 Thread ganiuszka
Richard Scobie pisze: > I have a "Client Run After Job" which runs a bash script which ends up > writing a file on the client, "%i_%v.txt" > > It all works except the substitution is not occuring and it is literally > writing the file %i_%v.txt. > > Is this expected? How do you create this fi