Re: [Bacula-users] Windows File Recovery

2010-04-14 Thread Efimov Ivan
On 14.04.2010 1:54, Jon bruce wrote: Hello there, I have a Linux bacula director with a few clients. So far so good, except when I need to select files from one client which is a windows computer. From bconsole I enter the command restore, select 6: Select backup for a client before a

[Bacula-users] End of Tape errors with HP LTO-4 drive on Linux

2010-04-14 Thread Robert Oschwald
Bacula works perfectly so far. The only serious problem I have is End of Tape detection. E.g. if I need to reboot the backup server, the current tape will be rewinded. The next backup job then seems not to find the end of the last backup and the tape will be set to Error state: 14-Apr 04:00

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-14 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Mon, 4/12/10, Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net wrote:    File Retention = 1 days    Job Retention = 6 months } === Is the client specific File Retention causing my problem? Yes, that's exactly the problem. I'm also a bit confused (obviously) with:     File Retention

[Bacula-users] Bacula backup problem!

2010-04-14 Thread tqz
Hello all I have an ubuntu (8.04.3) server where I use bacula to make backups of the files stored on the server. Ive been trying to find a solution (with no luck) trying to succesfully implement the following:- A Backup tape for each day of the week besides Thurs which is resused on a weekly

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-14 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Mon, 4/12/10, Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net wrote: File Retention = 1 days Job Retention = 6 months } === Is the client specific File Retention causing my problem? Yes, that's exactly the problem. I'm also a bit confused (obviously) with: File Retention

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-14 Thread John Drescher
 I just realized a typo.  I meant to say it's still using the same file every night.  I also just noticed something after the post-- the appending information in the log below.  So, it's not re-writing over the top of the same file every night; it's appending to it-- and not using a new

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/14/10 07:51, Joseph Spenner wrote: Phil: I just realized a typo. I meant to say it's still using the same file every night. I also just noticed something after the post-- the appending information in the log below. So, it's not re-writing over the top of the same file every

Re: [Bacula-users] Could not create JobMedia record

2010-04-14 Thread Martin Simmons
On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:30:15 -0400, ladolf said: Martin Simmons wrote: On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:08:03 -0400, ladolf said: I am trying to import tape data to bacula catalog using bscan: bscan -b mju3-fd_MJU-TED2.bsr -m -n

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-14 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 4/14/10, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: Can you post the output of list media John John: Here's the results of list media === *list media Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog Using Catalog MyCatalog Pool: Default No results to list. Pool: File

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.0.1 and db issues - please, share your experience

2010-04-14 Thread Koldo Santisteban
Thanks for your answers. Stephen, do you use bconsole or bat? Perhaps the issue is only on bat. I recognize that i only use bweb and bat (on windows). Regarding your comments Stephen, my bacula server is smaller than yours, but my catalog size was 400 Mb (Baculas is working since 2 months ago). I

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-14 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 4/14/10, Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net wrote: Did you Update the pools from the resources, and the volumes from the pools? What do the 'List Volumes' and 'Show Pools' commands return? Phil: Sorry. I did not do that. So, I just now did the update the pools. As

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.0.1 and db issues - please, share your experience

2010-04-14 Thread Matija Nalis
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 03:29:29PM +0200, Koldo Santisteban wrote: Thanks for your answers. Stephen, do you use bconsole or bat? Perhaps the issue is only on bat. I recognize that i only use bweb and bat (on windows). For what it's worth, I used bconsole, and it was extremly slow (20+ hours)

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-14 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Joseph Spenner joseph85...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Wed, 4/14/10, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: Can you post the output of list media John John:  Here's the results of list media === *list media Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-14 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:06 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Joseph Spenner joseph85...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Wed, 4/14/10, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: Can you post the output of list media John John:  Here's the results

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-14 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:09 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:06 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Joseph Spenner joseph85...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Wed, 4/14/10, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-14 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 4/14/10, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: You need to execute the two update commands that Phil asked you about. update Ok, I ran the commands. I'll see what happens tonight. Anything else I should run to verify? Thanks!

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-14 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Joseph Spenner joseph85...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Wed, 4/14/10, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: You need to execute the two update commands that Phil asked you about. update Ok, I ran the commands.  I'll see what happens tonight.  Anything

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-14 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 4/14/10, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: Post the output of list media pool=File John John: Here are results: === *list media pool=File

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.0.1 and db issues - please, share your experience

2010-04-14 Thread Stephen Thompson
I mostly use bat for restores (i.e. building restore tree). I did nothing with my tables regarding indexing. I have whatever the bacula scripts create by defaults. In regards to tuning, I did play with changing the join and sort buffer sizes. I found a 'slight' increase in performance. By

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.0.1 and db issues - please, share your experience

2010-04-14 Thread Koldo Santisteban
Stephen, do you use bat or bconsole? Perhaps the issue os on bat console... El 13 de abr de 2010, 7:37 p.m., Thomas Mueller tho...@chaschperli.ch escribió: Am Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:59:25 +0200 schrieb Koldo Santisteban: thanks for your answer. The first stage was with mysql 5.0.77, and works

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/14/10 10:55, Joseph Spenner wrote: --- On Wed, 4/14/10, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: Post the output of list media pool=File John John: Here are results: === *list media pool=File

[Bacula-users] restore directory incomplete

2010-04-14 Thread Olivier Riche
Hi, I am using bacula 5.0.1 on linux opensuse 64bits and would like to report a strange behaviour for the restore directory feature. When I restore a user's directory using bconsole, some sub-folders are missing and are not restored. I checked Bacula catalog and those missing directories have

[Bacula-users] bconsole command for media info

2010-04-14 Thread Lamp Zy
Hi, In bacula-5.0.1 if I run the bconsole command: llist media pool=FullTapes I'll get the extended information for all tapes in the pool. Is there a command that will give me the same information bit only for tapes I specifically ask for (like mediaid=4 or volumelabel=...) Thanks

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-14 Thread Joseph Spenner
If life gives you lemons, keep them-- because hey.. free lemons. --- On Wed, 4/14/10, Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net wrote: Joseph, That looks much better.  Now your volumes have the correct nine days retention time for your desired ten-day cycle, instead of zero, so your jobs

[Bacula-users] too big differential backup

2010-04-14 Thread Zsolt Kozak
Hi there, I have a working Bacula-system, my only problem is that I get too big differential backups comparing to the full backup, although just a few files changed. (I had the same issue when I used incremental backups before but now I'm using only full and differential backups.) I just backed

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems getting restore to work

2010-04-14 Thread Jerry Lowry
Craig, Actually I found out to late that the restore was doing exactly what the documentation said it would do. It restored to the 'root' directory of the client. So, I just got home last night and I got a call from one of the engineers that the root directory of the file server was full,

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 04/14/10 14:01, Joseph Spenner wrote: Phil: I believe I purged the volumes correctly, but not sure how to 'recycle' volumes..? Here's what it looks like now: === *list media pool=File

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull mysql query blocks other jobs for a long time

2010-04-14 Thread ebollengier
Hello, Graham Keeling wrote: Hello, I now believe that the 'taking hours' problem that I was having was down to having additional indexes on my File table, as Eric suggested. I am using mysql-5.0.45. I had these indexes: JobId JobId, PathId, FilenameId PathId FilenameId Now

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.0.1 and db issues - please, share your experience

2010-04-14 Thread ebollengier
Hello Stephan, Thanks for your feeback, sometime, few users have performance problem due to bad settings and can give bad advise or the impression that nothing can be done whereas it works well on ten of thousand of silent users. In this case the performance problem is due to the presence of

[Bacula-users] bconsole command for media info

2010-04-14 Thread Lamp Zy
Hi, In bacula-5.0.1 if I run the bconsole command: llist media pool=FullTapes I'll get the extended information for all tapes in the pool. Is there a command that will give me the same information bit only for tapes I request (like mediaid=4 or volumelabel=...)? Thanks

[Bacula-users] Bacula Full/Inc Questions (Noob)

2010-04-14 Thread ikkysleepy
1) When making a Full backup, does this replace the expired backup or will this create a new Volume on the drive? Depends on your pool configuration. In most setups it'll recycle an older volume that's outside its retention period. See the bacula documentation. I guess I am

Re: [Bacula-users] Using removable SATA disks as media

2010-04-14 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Wed, 4/14/10, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: OK, my next backup ran and it used the next volume.  Success! However.. it appended.  Here's what my volumes look like now: *list volumes Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog Using Catalog MyCatalog Pool:

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Full/Inc Questions (Noob)

2010-04-14 Thread mehma sarja
Your experience will vary, I am used to seeing 20 GB/hour with batch processing and compression turned on. Lots of small files - so heavy database usage on a store of about 750 GB. I'd suppose you would see your job done in 10 hours. On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:33 PM, ikkysleepy

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Full/Inc Questions (Noob)

2010-04-14 Thread Craig Ringer
On 15/04/2010 7:33 AM, ikkysleepy wrote: 1) When making a Full backup, does this replace the expired backup or will this create a new Volume on the drive? Depends on your pool configuration. In most setups it'll recycle an older volume that's outside its retention period. See the bacula

[Bacula-users] Restore all failure...

2010-04-14 Thread Gary R. Schmidt
Hi all, Just did a test restore of a Centos client to my Solaris Bacula system, and this happened: 15-Apr 14:26 sercburp-sd JobId 929: Forward spacing Volume FJU602L4 to file:block 285:5973. 15-Apr 14:35 sercburp-fd JobId 929: Error: attribs.c:423 File size of restored file