[Bacula-users] Overwriting expired File Volume

2011-02-07 Thread xunil321
I have a lack of understanding concerning the handling of a disk based file volume to avoid a disk overflow. Let's say there is a 100MB file volume Volume-1. What will be happen after the Volume Retention Period when the Recycle and AutoPrune are set to Yes in our Pool setup? Will Bacula 5.0.2

Re: [Bacula-users] Job copy/migration: do it in bulk

2011-02-07 Thread Jan Lentfer
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:02:13 -0500, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: I recently changed how I do job copy. I used to do them all at once. and frequently. Now I've moved to doing them in batches, once a day. All my incr, all my diff, and all the fulls.

Re: [Bacula-users] Overwriting expired File Volume

2011-02-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 02/07/11 04:11, xunil321 wrote: I have a lack of understanding concerning the handling of a disk based file volume to avoid a disk overflow. Let's say there is a 100MB file volume Volume-1. What will be happen after the Volume Retention Period when the Recycle and AutoPrune are set to

[Bacula-users] Bacula livecd with ftape/ztape support for better RD

2011-02-07 Thread juanato
Hello from Spain. I would apreciate some help about any linux distribution with kernel 2.x support includind ftape/ztape and BACULA package included. Maybe livecd for better practices restoring old systems, for evaluate proposials. I would apreciate some help to dump qic/travan tapes using dd

Re: [Bacula-users] Overwriting expired File Volume

2011-02-07 Thread Dan Langille
On 2/7/2011 4:11 AM, xunil321 wrote: I have a lack of understanding concerning the handling of a disk based file volume to avoid a disk overflow. A simple strategy: Max Num Volumes * Max Vol Space = amount of space you want to use. Why not use that? Let's say there is a 100MB file volume

Re: [Bacula-users] Overwriting expired File Volume

2011-02-07 Thread Graham Keeling
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 06:43:17AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 02/07/11 04:11, xunil321 wrote: I have a lack of understanding concerning the handling of a disk based file volume to avoid a disk overflow. Let's say there is a 100MB file volume Volume-1. What will be happen after

Re: [Bacula-users] Overwriting expired File Volume

2011-02-07 Thread Dan Langille
On 2/7/2011 6:43 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 02/07/11 04:11, xunil321 wrote: I have a lack of understanding concerning the handling of a disk based file volume to avoid a disk overflow. Let's say there is a 100MB file volume Volume-1. What will be happen after the Volume Retention Period

Re: [Bacula-users] Overwriting expired File Volume

2011-02-07 Thread Graham Keeling
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 06:53:50AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: On 2/7/2011 4:11 AM, xunil321 wrote: I have a lack of understanding concerning the handling of a disk based file volume to avoid a disk overflow. A simple strategy: Max Num Volumes * Max Vol Space = amount of space you

Re: [Bacula-users] Nagios Monitoring of Backup Jobs

2011-02-07 Thread Dan Langille
On 2/6/2011 4:31 PM, Allan Black wrote: I have been thinking about this for a long time, and I have tried several ways of monitoring jobs, but none of the existing tools gave me the kind of monitoring I wanted. The things I want a backup monitor to do are: * Alert if a backup job fails to

Re: [Bacula-users] Nagios Monitoring of Backup Jobs

2011-02-07 Thread Allan Black
On 07/02/2011 12:06, Dan Langille wrote: On 2/6/2011 4:31 PM, Allan Black wrote: 30 21 * * 5 /usr/local/nagios/bin/bacula_monitor Gershwin 40 21 * * 5,6 /usr/local/nagios/bin/bacula_monitor -W Catalog One entry per job? Sorry, yes. BTW, Gershwin and Catalog are the job names, and Gershwin is

[Bacula-users] Reason to a new FULL job

2011-02-07 Thread Eduardo JĂșnior
Hi, what's the reasons to a new FULL job to be created? I mean, after a scheduled FULL job, another is started automatically. For me, this only happens when the File Set is changed. Other reasons? I asked this because last night, a new job FULL for a client was started without any change in

Re: [Bacula-users] Reason to a new FULL job

2011-02-07 Thread John Drescher
what's the reasons to a new FULL job to be created? I mean, after a scheduled FULL job, another is started automatically. For me, this only happens when the File Set is changed. Other reasons? All other Full jobs were recycled. John

Re: [Bacula-users] Overwriting expired File Volume

2011-02-07 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/7/2011 6:53 AM, Dan Langille wrote: On 2/7/2011 4:11 AM, xunil321 wrote: I have a lack of understanding concerning the handling of a disk based file volume to avoid a disk overflow. A simple strategy: Max Num Volumes * Max Vol Space = amount of space you want to use. Why not use that?

Re: [Bacula-users] Overwriting expired File Volume

2011-02-07 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/7/2011 6:54 AM, Graham Keeling wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 06:43:17AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 02/07/11 04:11, xunil321 wrote: I have a lack of understanding concerning the handling of a disk based file volume to avoid a disk overflow. Let's say there is a 100MB file volume

Re: [Bacula-users] Overwriting expired File Volume

2011-02-07 Thread Graham Keeling
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:09:12AM -0500, Josh Fisher wrote: On 2/7/2011 6:54 AM, Graham Keeling wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 06:43:17AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 02/07/11 04:11, xunil321 wrote: I have a lack of understanding concerning the handling of a disk based file volume to

Re: [Bacula-users] Overwriting expired File Volume

2011-02-07 Thread Graham Keeling
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 03:31:20PM +, Graham Keeling wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:09:12AM -0500, Josh Fisher wrote: On 2/7/2011 6:54 AM, Graham Keeling wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 06:43:17AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 02/07/11 04:11, xunil321 wrote: I have a lack of

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows Backup Junction Point / Filesystem Question

2011-02-07 Thread Foo
On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:12:41 +0100, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: If not, what is the correct procedure to do this within Windows? How do you list the complete filesystem so that everything shows, are there specialist tools for this? (it appears to be impossible to access

[Bacula-users] Why won't my volume truncate?

2011-02-07 Thread Graham Keeling
Hello, I have just been trying to use the bacula truncate command on disk volumes. I set 'ActionOnPurge = truncate' on all my Pools. I ran a bconsole update command to update the field in the database. This didn't update the field for volumes that were already purged, so I used mysql to update

Re: [Bacula-users] Overwriting expired File Volume

2011-02-07 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/7/2011 10:43 AM, Graham Keeling wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 03:31:20PM +, Graham Keeling wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:09:12AM -0500, Josh Fisher wrote: On 2/7/2011 6:54 AM, Graham Keeling wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 06:43:17AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 02/07/11

[Bacula-users] Bacula Strategies

2011-02-07 Thread MaxYA
There are 2 client (Windows and Linux) is required to make full and incremental backups. It would be desirable for full and incremental backups use a different pool. Show you how to better organize? 1. better to use for different customers different pool and pool plus different for full and

Re: [Bacula-users] Overwriting expired File Volume

2011-02-07 Thread Dan Langille
On 2/7/2011 7:05 AM, Graham Keeling wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 06:53:50AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: On 2/7/2011 4:11 AM, xunil321 wrote: I have a lack of understanding concerning the handling of a disk based file volume to avoid a disk overflow. A simple strategy: Max Num Volumes *