[Bacula-users] log file ownership

2010-02-24 Thread coryc
Hello, I am new to bacula and have run successful backups with it but I am encountering a nagging problem. I'm using bacula 2.2.8 on ubuntu 8.04lts. The problem occurs with a daily backup not being able to run because the director is unable to open the log file: Error: message.c:590 fopen

Re: [Bacula-users] backup rotation, recycling and getting bacula to reuse a tape

2010-02-24 Thread David Koski
I think I know the problem but I couldn't test it because my patients ended with bacula and I erased all tapes and deleted the volumes for relabeling. I discovered I have to update a volume to remove it from the pool when it is removed from the library. It looks like I cannot simply update slo

Re: [Bacula-users] Very slow restores after upgraded to 5.0.0

2010-02-24 Thread Henrik Johansen
On 02/25/10 04:01 AM, Jeronimo Zucco wrote: > Thanks for your tip. I've created the index as mentioned in the > thread, but my restores still very slow. I'm not using accurate backups. > > May be I have to migrate from mysql to postgres, my database are > MyISAM with 60 gb of data. Or else do

Re: [Bacula-users] Very slow restores after upgraded to 5.0.0

2010-02-24 Thread Jeronimo Zucco
Thanks for your tip. I've created the index as mentioned in the thread, but my restores still very slow. I'm not using accurate backups. May be I have to migrate from mysql to postgres, my database are MyISAM with 60 gb of data. Or else downgrade back to 3.0.3 version. Any other tip ? b

Re: [Bacula-users] backup rotation, recycling and getting bacula to reuse a tape

2010-02-24 Thread David Koski
Any comments? Am I completely off base? David On Tuesday 23 February 2010 07:22:59 pm David Koski wrote: > Please comment on this strategy. Does it look reasonable? Any caveats? > > I have installed bacula and configured the director, storage and file > daemons. My strategy is to have two pool

[Bacula-users] Debug assistance please

2010-02-24 Thread Drew Hall
Greetings, Please forgive my ignorance, but it's been years since I used Bacula and that was on a linux box. I'm running 3.03 on windows 2003 SP2 using local disk storage. I have created a daily schedule but every client fails w/ a fatal error. If I run a backup for a client manually it work

[Bacula-users] software compression, real size vs size written?

2010-02-24 Thread Joseph Dickson
Greetings! I'm relatively new to Bacula, and am working on my first deployment. I am working in a completely disk-based environment, so I have a single director and SD which run on the same host, and a few Windows test server clients which run FD's. Because it's all disk based, I'm using comp

[Bacula-users] Restoring from possibly (probably!) corrupt disk volume

2010-02-24 Thread Mike Holden
Been struggling with a difficult restore for a few days now, and need some help please. The short story is that I am trying to recover files from a disk archive which was subsequently deleted from disk, and then recovered using an undelete process on a reiserfs disk. Most of the files appear to

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs on the same storage

2010-02-24 Thread Silver Salonen
On Wednesday 24 February 2010 19:28:05 John Drescher wrote: > > If volumes were files, there wouldn't be any need to limit them for devices > > which would be directories in that context. > > > > Again the limit is only 1 volume can be loaded in 1 storage device at > a time. This is not that big

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs on the same storage

2010-02-24 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 02/24/10 08:07, Silver Salonen wrote: >> On Tuesday 23 February 2010 19:09:49 Phil Stracchino wrote: >>> On 02/23/10 06:32, Silver Salonen wrote: I consider it a bug, but looks like devs do not. Any opinions? >>> >>> I ran into this

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs on the same storage

2010-02-24 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 02/24/10 08:07, Silver Salonen wrote: > BTW, this part is very obscure in the manual: > "if you want two different jobs to run simultaneously backing up the same > Client to the same Storage device, they will run concurrently only if you > have > set Maximum Concurrent Jobs greater than one i

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2010-02-24 Thread John Drescher
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Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs on the same storage

2010-02-24 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 02/24/10 08:07, Silver Salonen wrote: > On Tuesday 23 February 2010 19:09:49 Phil Stracchino wrote: >> On 02/23/10 06:32, Silver Salonen wrote: >>> I consider it a bug, but looks like devs do not. Any opinions? >> >> I ran into this problem when I first upgraded to 3.0.3. It turned out >> to be

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Re: [Bacula-users] Using two disks/problems using vchanger, what could be a good strategy?

2010-02-24 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/24/2010 12:03 PM, Administrator wrote: > Hi, > i use two simple usb-disks for backups. Each friday the aktive disk is > exchanged and put in safe. Alas bacula asks me always to bring the last > used volume online or label a new one. Labeling a new one solves the > problem but this is not a go

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs on the same storage

2010-02-24 Thread John Drescher
> If volumes were files, there wouldn't be any need to limit them for devices > which would be directories in that context. > Again the limit is only 1 volume can be loaded in 1 storage device at a time. This is not that big of a limitation because with disk you can have 1 storage devices if

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs on the same storage

2010-02-24 Thread Silver Salonen
On Wednesday 24 February 2010 17:03:58 Josh Fisher wrote: > On 2/24/2010 9:25 AM, Silver Salonen wrote: > > It's like assuming that the "ultimate" backup-devices are tapes. And as I > > don't think that way, it's so annoying these design decisions rely on > > somebody's (emotional/historical) opini

Re: [Bacula-users] Very slow restores after upgraded to 5.0.0

2010-02-24 Thread Henrik Johansen
Hi, On 02/24/10 05:03 PM, Jeronimo Zucco wrote: > Hi list. > > I'm trying to do some restores in my setup, but after I've upgraded > to 5.0.0 version, the restore take a very, very long time in "Building > directory tree for JobId...", even in small sets of files. > > I was using

[Bacula-users] Using two disks/problems using vchanger, what could be a good strategy?

2010-02-24 Thread Administrator
Hi, i use two simple usb-disks for backups. Each friday the aktive disk is exchanged and put in safe. Alas bacula asks me always to bring the last used volume online or label a new one. Labeling a new one solves the problem but this is not a good solution, as it involves manual interaction and

[Bacula-users] Safe to remove old Clients from db?

2010-02-24 Thread C . Keschnat
Hey, I created some clients which I don't need anymore. When running a job I can't select them, running restore shows them thought. "select * from Client;" shows the entries in the database. Is it safe to remove them? dbcheck didn't report any orphaned clients which is strange. Chris --

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't restore a file. Might have an issuewith my mysql DB.

2010-02-24 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, > --- Originalnachricht --- > Von: Ralf Gross > An: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Gesendet: 23.2.10, 23.02 > Betreff: Re: [Bacula-users] Can't restore a file. Might have an issuewith > my mysql DB. > > Arno Lehmann schrieb: > > Hello, > > > > 23.02.2010 14:05, jch2os wro

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with Bacula doing a full backup instead of incremental, can't see my mistake

2010-02-24 Thread Administrator
Am 18.2.2010 14:29, schrieb Arno Lehmann: > Hi, > > 18.02.2010 11:51, Administrator wrote: > >> Hi all, >> i tried to setup Bacula 5 according to the "main" Manual with different >> Pools for servers, clients, full and incremental. I backup to a USB-disk >> on OpenSUSE 11.1 64. >> The status ma

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir 3.0.3 dies on second job run or manual reload.

2010-02-24 Thread le dahut
Hello, Janusz Syrytczyk wrote : On Monday 14 December 2009 09:27:40 Bruno Friedmann wrote: On 12/09/2009 12:11 AM, Janusz Syrytczyk wrote: Hi, I've upgraded to 3.0.3 from 3.0.2 a while ago and I'm facing serious problems with bacula-dir stability. Just after its start, Director is able to

[Bacula-users] Very slow restores after upgraded to 5.0.0

2010-02-24 Thread Jeronimo Zucco
Hi list. I'm trying to do some restores in my setup, but after I've upgraded to 5.0.0 version, the restore take a very, very long time in "Building directory tree for JobId...", even in small sets of files. I was using 3.0.3 version, and the restore was very fast. Follow be

Re: [Bacula-users] forcing tapes to recycle

2010-02-24 Thread David Koski
On Tuesday 23 February 2010, Thomas Mueller wrote: > Am Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:29:54 -0800 schrieb David Koski: > > I am trying to recycle some tapes that have become used. I have set the > > status to append: > > > > ... > > > > I have tried to stop and start the jobs and restart bacula without > >

[Bacula-users] Bacula wants to use volume that is already in use

2010-02-24 Thread Dave Garbus
Hello List, I am using Bacula 3.0.3 in conjunction with a 4 drive autochanger and "Prefer Mounted Volumes" set to "No." Unfortunately, I have had a number of problems with Bacula trying to back up to a volume that is already being used for another job. As a result, the job will continue to wait

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs on the same storage

2010-02-24 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Silver Salonen wrote: > On Wednesday 24 February 2010 15:58:57 John Drescher wrote: >> > OK. I have never used tapes with Bacula. But I'd expect a file-type device > to >> > be able to load more than 1 volume at a time. It's quite trivial, isn't > it? >> > >> This

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs on the same storage

2010-02-24 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/24/2010 9:25 AM, Silver Salonen wrote: > On Wednesday 24 February 2010 15:58:57 John Drescher wrote: > >>> OK. I have never used tapes with Bacula. But I'd expect a file-type device >>> > to > >>> be able to load more than 1 volume at a time. It's quite trivial, isn't >>>

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs on the same storage

2010-02-24 Thread Silver Salonen
On Wednesday 24 February 2010 16:42:50 John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Silver Salonen wrote: > > What's the use of treating all the devices the same way anyway? Ease of > > programming? Even though it makes this part of the whole project so rigid? > > > > Ease of programmi

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs on the same storage

2010-02-24 Thread Silver Salonen
On Wednesday 24 February 2010 15:58:57 John Drescher wrote: > > OK. I have never used tapes with Bacula. But I'd expect a file-type device to > > be able to load more than 1 volume at a time. It's quite trivial, isn't it? > > > This was a design decision that all devices are treated the same way.

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs on the same storage

2010-02-24 Thread John Drescher
> Are you saying that for concurrent jobs to work I have to run these different > jobs into the same volume? It doesn't make any sense in the means of disk- > based backups. > If they are not the same volume then you need to have more than 1 storage device. Remember that only 1 volume can be loade

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs on the same storage

2010-02-24 Thread Silver Salonen
On Wednesday 24 February 2010 15:34:27 John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Silver Salonen wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 February 2010 19:09:49 Phil Stracchino wrote: > >> On 02/23/10 06:32, Silver Salonen wrote: > >> > I consider it a bug, but looks like devs do not. Any opinions? >

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs on the same storage

2010-02-24 Thread John Drescher
> OK. I have never used tapes with Bacula. But I'd expect a file-type device to > be able to load more than 1 volume at a time. It's quite trivial, isn't it? > This was a design decision that all devices are treated the same way. > > Anyway, the "1 volume at a time"-limit has always been "one job

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs on the same storage

2010-02-24 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Silver Salonen wrote: > On Tuesday 23 February 2010 19:09:49 Phil Stracchino wrote: >> On 02/23/10 06:32, Silver Salonen wrote: >> > I consider it a bug, but looks like devs do not. Any opinions? >> >> I ran into this problem when I first upgraded to 3.0.3.  It tur

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs on the same storage

2010-02-24 Thread Silver Salonen
On Tuesday 23 February 2010 19:09:49 Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 02/23/10 06:32, Silver Salonen wrote: > > I consider it a bug, but looks like devs do not. Any opinions? > > I ran into this problem when I first upgraded to 3.0.3. It turned out > to be a configuration issue. Make sure you have th

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs on the same storage

2010-02-24 Thread Silver Salonen
On Wednesday 24 February 2010 13:38:17 Martin Simmons wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:58:22 +0200, Silver Salonen said: > > No, the default for devices has always been to allow only 1 job. > > That's not correct. Bacula has always been able to run multiple concurrent > jobs to the same devi

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: SD daemon BLOCKED

2010-02-24 Thread John Drescher
> Yes, the problem is there, I correct it yesterday.. the volumes don't > exceed the 'volumes retention', so the aren't ready to recicle > > But the question is... why it works well for 3 month?? :-) > Did you change the retention in bacula after using some volumes? Do you know that the retention

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs on the same storage

2010-02-24 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:58:22 +0200, Silver Salonen said: > > On Tuesday 23 February 2010 20:45:26 Martin Simmons wrote: > > I think you have the concept backwards -- it is designed to prevent > > concurrency on that device rather than allowing more of it. > > > > The default allows an unlim

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs on the same storage

2010-02-24 Thread Silver Salonen
On Tuesday 23 February 2010 19:09:49 Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 02/23/10 06:32, Silver Salonen wrote: > > I consider it a bug, but looks like devs do not. Any opinions? > > I ran into this problem when I first upgraded to 3.0.3. It turned out > to be a configuration issue. Make sure you have th

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs on the same storage

2010-02-24 Thread Silver Salonen
On Tuesday 23 February 2010 20:45:26 Martin Simmons wrote: > I think you have the concept backwards -- it is designed to prevent > concurrency on that device rather than allowing more of it. > > The default allows an unlimited number of jobs to be queued (or run > concurrently on a single volume).

[Bacula-users] Wildcard exclude question

2010-02-24 Thread Albert Pauw
I am struggling a bit with the wildcard stuff. I want to back up all Mail directories in the homedirectories of users, so /home/*/Mail (including subdirs) needs to be backed up. In order to take a more generic approach I tried the wild card stuff, but or nothing gets backed up, or everything. So

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: SD daemon BLOCKED

2010-02-24 Thread Carlo Filippetto
> > Do you currently have 21 volumes in use? > Yes, the problem is there, I correct it yesterday.. the volumes don't exceed the 'volumes retention', so the aren't ready to recicle But the question is... why it works well for 3 month?? :-) BHO Another question, when the SD stops waiting for a Vo

Re: [Bacula-users] simple problem ?!

2010-02-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:30:31 +0100 schrieb Markus Heinze: > Hello List, > > im new to bacula and i have a simple problem, i think. I wan't to backup > a few directories to a tape only from monday to friday. i only hav 5 > tapes (currently) so i have one tape for each day, so i must overwrite > ea