Re: [Bacula-users] Bad disk noises - replace the volume without restarting the backup?

2010-11-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
So is there a way for me to replace that disk without invalidating the entire backup? Running on Linux with an external SATA / FW enclosure, bacula version 3.0.2 If there is a way to temporarily freeze a job (possible using signals) to prevent it from writing anything while using LVM to

[Bacula-users] Windows-only installer?

2010-11-05 Thread Davin Church
Where can I find the (unsupported) Win32 installation executable for the entire 5.0.3 system? (I don't have a *nix system to compile everything myself.) I only seem to be able to find the (official) File Daemon programs for Windows. Davin

Re: [Bacula-users] Exchange plugin: Unable to restore

2010-11-05 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:52:18PM +0100, Michael Heydenbluth wrote: Graham Keeling schrieb: On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 03:34:35PM +0100, Michael Heydenbluth wrote: Hello, I'm trying to backup/restore an Exchange database. Following configuration: W2K3 R2 Server (32) with

[Bacula-users] Bacula does 2 Fullbackups

2010-11-05 Thread Claudius Rücker
Hey, i got a little Problem with my Bacula. I want to Backup 7 TB with Bacula in the Version 5.0.3. The Problem seems to be the following: The first Backup starts and notice das there is no prior Full-Backup, so Bacula does a Full-Backup. That´s fine. But the Full-Backup runs more than 24

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula does 2 Fullbackups

2010-11-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
The first Backup starts and notice das there is no prior Full-Backup, so Bacula does a Full-Backup. That´s fine. But the Full-Backup runs more than 24 hours, so next time Bacula starts his Backup-Job he seems to notice that there is no Full-Backup and he generates a second Full-Backup job.

Re: [Bacula-users] Exchange plugin: Unable to restore

2010-11-05 Thread James Harper
Select the Client (1-10): 2 Run Restore job JobName: RestoreFiles Bootstrap: /var/run/bacula/sqlbsrv1-dir.restore.9.bsr Where: /tmp/bacula-restores The 'Where' option confuses it. set the where in the restore to a blank string and it should work (I restored a 60gb

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Bad disk noises - replace the volume without restarting the backup?

2010-11-05 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Mark Luntzel m...@luntzel.com wrote: The answer is probably no but... I can hear the disk currently being written to making bad noises, and the speed is extremely slow. Bad disk for sure, about to fail. This is at the end of a multi-Terabyte backup, just about

[Bacula-users] Path display issue using bfileview in bweb

2010-11-05 Thread Jeremy Maes
Hey First of all, I'm running version 5.0.3 of all related bacula software (dir, sd, fd, bweb, ...) on a RHEL4 platform, and running bweb on apache with perl 5.8.5. After a long path of trial and error, reading and re-reading installation instructions I

[Bacula-users] Bacula Project will Die

2010-11-05 Thread Heitor Medrado de Faria
Guys, Each new Bacula Enterprise feature, like the: New GUI Configurator, makes me feel that Bacula project will die. It's very frustrating that a project that become a huge success being a free software, is being destroyed like that. I acknowledge that Kern and other developers had lots of

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula Project will Die

2010-11-05 Thread Ralf Gross
Heitor Medrado de Faria schrieb: Guys, Each new Bacula Enterprise feature, like the: New GUI Configurator, makes me feel that Bacula project will die. It's very frustrating that a project that become a huge success being a free software, is being destroyed like that. I acknowledge that

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula Project will Die

2010-11-05 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 05 November 2010 14:08:37 Heitor Medrado de Faria wrote: Guys, Each new Bacula Enterprise feature, like the: New GUI Configurator, makes me feel that Bacula project will die. It's very frustrating that a project that become a huge success being a free software, is being destroyed

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula Project will Die

2010-11-05 Thread Henrik Johansen
'Heitor Medrado de Faria' wrote: Guys, Each new Bacula Enterprise feature, like the: New GUI Configurator, makes me feel that Bacula project will die. It's very frustrating that a project that become a huge success being a free software, is being destroyed like that. I acknowledge that Kern and

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula Project will Die

2010-11-05 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 05 November 2010 14:52:32 Kern Sibbald wrote: On Friday 05 November 2010 14:08:37 Heitor Medrado de Faria wrote: Guys, Each new Bacula Enterprise feature, like the: New GUI Configurator, makes me feel that Bacula project will die. It's very frustrating that a project that

Re: [Bacula-users] Bad disk noises - replace the volume without restarting the backup?

2010-11-05 Thread Mark Luntzel
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Thomas Mueller tho...@chaschperli.ch wrote: So is there a way for me to replace that disk without invalidating the entire backup? Running on Linux with an external SATA / FW enclosure, bacula version 3.0.2 If there is a way to temporarily freeze a job

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula Project will Die

2010-11-05 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/05/2010 09:52 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Friday 05 November 2010 14:08:37 Heitor Medrado de Faria wrote: Guys, Each new Bacula Enterprise feature, like the: New GUI Configurator, makes me feel that Bacula project will die. It's very

Re: [Bacula-users] What are your suggestions for backups on a large RAID?

2010-11-05 Thread Oliver Hoffmann
On 11/04/10 10:08, Oliver Hoffmann wrote: Hi all, I'll do backups to disk on a raid6 (28 TB) which is attached via fibre channel. There will be 50 clients with data ranging from a few MB to 100 GB or more for a full backup, tiny files from mail servers as well as large database

Re: [Bacula-users] Bad disk noises - replace the volume without restarting the backup?

2010-11-05 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Mark Luntzel m...@luntzel.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Thomas Mueller tho...@chaschperli.ch wrote: So is there a way for me to replace that disk without invalidating the entire backup? Running on Linux with an external SATA / FW enclosure,

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Project will Die

2010-11-05 Thread Josh Fisher
On 11/5/2010 9:08 AM, Heitor Medrado de Faria wrote: Guys, Each new Bacula Enterprise feature, like the: New GUI Configurator, makes me feel that Bacula project will die. It's very frustrating that a project that become a huge success being a free software, is being destroyed like that. I

Re: [Bacula-users] Bad disk noises - replace the volume without restarting the backup?

2010-11-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 11/05/10 10:35, Mark Luntzel wrote: Just to clear it up for some people who seem to be confused about the situation: I am not facing a data loss. The backup medium (a single hard drive) has gone bad. I did not want to cancel a ~8.8T run with ~400GB left on account of a single bad 1TB hard

Re: [Bacula-users] Can you tell which are active clients from Bacula's database?

2010-11-05 Thread Bob Hetzel
I've created a report that we use to e-mail us of when a system has repeated failures--the interval we chose was 10 days but it could easily be changed to suit your needs. I'm sure that a more complex query could be created but I simplified the task and split it into two queries... First I

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula Project will Die

2010-11-05 Thread Marcos Leão
Heitor, Your bacula training courses are not free! Your book Bacula, ferramenta livre de backup are also not free! You can make money with bacula, but others can't. Well, I understand... 2010/11/5 Ryan Novosielski novos...@umdnj.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On

[Bacula-users] General questions after 1 year use

2010-11-05 Thread Dermot Beirne
Hello, I have been using bacula now for 1 year this month, and it's been a fairly smooth ride, but I have a number of questions that i'd be grateful for some direction on: Bacula version 3.0.2 on Ubuntu 9.04 1. I am concerned about my retention policy. I have 4 disk pools and 4 corresponding

Re: [Bacula-users] Bad disk noises - replace the volume without restarting the backup?

2010-11-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
Item  1: Ability to restart failed jobs If you are not a coder, you could use http://bacula.org/en/?page=makedonation to help getting it done. - Thomas That seems to be the general consensus. Thank you. I caution that this method may not work as you expect. Being a programmer myself, I

Re: [Bacula-users] Bad disk noises - replace the volume without restarting the backup?

2010-11-05 Thread Henry Yen
On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 10:34:44AM -0700, Mark Luntzel wrote: The answer is probably no but... I can hear the disk currently being written to making bad noises, and the speed is extremely slow. Bad disk for sure, about to fail. This is at the end of a multi-Terabyte backup, just about 500

Re: [Bacula-users] Bad disk noises - replace the volume without restarting the backup?

2010-11-05 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Thomas Mueller tho...@chaschperli.ch wrote: Item  1: Ability to restart failed jobs If you are not a coder, you could use http://bacula.org/en/?page=makedonation to help getting it done. - Thomas That seems to be the general consensus. Thank you. I

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula Project will Die

2010-11-05 Thread Sean Clark
On 11/05/2010 09:12 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Friday 05 November 2010 14:52:32 Kern Sibbald wrote: On Friday 05 November 2010 14:08:37 Heitor Medrado de Faria wrote: Guys, Each new Bacula Enterprise feature, like the: New GUI Configurator, makes me feel that Bacula project will die. It's

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula Project will Die

2010-11-05 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/05/2010 04:09 PM, Sean Clark wrote: On 11/05/2010 09:12 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Friday 05 November 2010 14:52:32 Kern Sibbald wrote: On Friday 05 November 2010 14:08:37 Heitor Medrado de Faria wrote: Guys, Each new Bacula Enterprise

Re: [Bacula-users] Bad disk noises - replace the volume without restarting the backup?

2010-11-05 Thread Bruno Friedmann
On 11/05/2010 04:18 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 11/05/10 10:35, Mark Luntzel wrote: Just to clear it up for some people who seem to be confused about the situation: I am not facing a data loss. The backup medium (a single hard drive) has gone bad. I did not want to cancel a ~8.8T run with

Re: [Bacula-users] Bad disk noises - replace the volume without restarting the backup?

2010-11-05 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Bruno Friedmann br...@ioda-net.ch wrote: On 11/05/2010 04:18 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 11/05/10 10:35, Mark Luntzel wrote: Just to clear it up for some people who seem to be confused about the situation: I am not facing a data loss. The backup medium (a

Re: [Bacula-users] Bad disk noises - replace the volume without restarting the backup?

2010-11-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 11/05/10 15:01, Henry Yen wrote: The clear consensus appears to be no. However, I wonder if it would be theoretically possible to suspend every bacula process with a SIGSTOP, bitimage copy the failing disk, hot swap it, restore the image, then wake up all the bacula processes with SIGCONT?

Re: [Bacula-users] Bad disk noises - replace the volume without restarting the backup?

2010-11-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 11/05/10 16:49, Bruno Friedmann wrote: On 11/05/2010 04:18 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: I think the real key thing to take away from this is, when you are talking datasets of this size, YOU MUST HAVE REDUNDANCY in your storage. Otherwise it's like playing Russian roulette with a revolver

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula Project will Die

2010-11-05 Thread Sean Clark
On 11/05/2010 03:22 PM, Ryan Novosielski wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/05/2010 04:09 PM, Sean Clark wrote: [...] It sounds to me like the actual functionality in the community version isn't likely to be allowed to stagnate any time soon, so I'm not too worried

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula Project will Die

2010-11-05 Thread Dan Langille
On 11/5/2010 9:08 AM, Heitor Medrado de Faria wrote: Guys, Each new Bacula Enterprise feature, like the: New GUI Configurator, makes me feel that Bacula project will die. It's very frustrating that a project that become a huge success being a free software, is being destroyed like that. I