Re: [Bacula-users] Volume Retention / Use Duration

2011-03-31 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hello Jeremy all, thanks much for your reply. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:27:07PM +0200, Jeremy Maes wrote: Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 14 days Volume Use Duration = 6 days Recycle Oldest Volume = yes Maximum Volumes =

Re: [Bacula-users] Volume Retention / Use Duration

2011-03-31 Thread Jeremy Maes
Op 31/03/2011 9:08, Uwe Schuerkamp schreef: Hello Jeremy all, thanks much for your reply. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:27:07PM +0200, Jeremy Maes wrote: Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 14 days Volume Use Duration = 6 days Recycle

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-users Digest, Vol 59, Issue 27

2011-03-31 Thread Dermot Beirne
Thanks for the reply John, Re your response to my question about the MySQL version, the Bacula manual here: http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Installing_Configuring_MySQ.html#SECTION00426 has a statement about upgrading MySql (at the very end of the article) which

Re: [Bacula-users] What happen if I change the client of a job ? Multi node virtualization cluster

2011-03-31 Thread Hugo Letemplier
2011/3/30 John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com: My first question is : How can I tell bacula to choose dynamically the client according to the result of a script ? You can script that by echoing commands to bconsole. Then execute your script as a cron job. My second question is : Can I

Re: [Bacula-users] What happen if I change the client of a job ? Multi node virtualization cluster

2011-03-31 Thread John Drescher
Using a cron is not a good solution, I prefer to keep job management and scheduling inside bacula . You could also schedule an admin job inside bacula runs the admin job you can run your script. John -- Create and

[Bacula-users] Disaster Recovery

2011-03-31 Thread Mike Hendrie
Question: In the event of my entire bacula system going down. What is the best method for recovery? I looked in the online manual, but it still was not very clear to me. If I have my backup of catalog files, all incremental and full backups, and I reinstall bacula on a new server. How do I

Re: [Bacula-users] Disaster Recovery

2011-03-31 Thread John Drescher
Question: In the event of my entire bacula system going down. What is the best method for recovery? I looked in the online manual, but it still was not very clear to me. If I have my backup of catalog files, all incremental and full backups, and I reinstall bacula on a new server. How do I

Re: [Bacula-users] Disaster Recovery

2011-03-31 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Mike Hendrie m...@hendrienet.com wrote: Thank you John. Can you please explain to me the boot strap file? I am new to linux. The bootstrap file is part of bacula. In the case of the catalog I found it very important to manually extract the catalog I needed

Re: [Bacula-users] Volume Retention / Use Duration

2011-03-31 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 09:58:29AM +0200, Jeremy Maes wrote: Take care using this if you're doing all the backups concurrently though, in that case the Volume Use Duration is probably the best way to go. Hello Jeremy, thanks again for your thoughts support. I'll try the max use duration

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Feature request

2011-03-31 Thread Josh Fisher
On 3/30/2011 5:05 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, Thank you for your feature request. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to implement it, so unless you can provide some new insight, it will not help adding it to the projects file. This can be done with a software transactional memory (STM)

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling Question

2011-03-31 Thread Randy Katz
On 3/31/2011 4:43 AM, Alan Brown wrote: Randy Katz wrote: Hi, Now that I have used Bacula a full cycle (60 days) I have a question: If backups are done Full (which expires after 60 days). Then Diff each week and Incre each day where there is no Diff Then restoring from any given date going

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-users Digest, Vol 59, Issue 27

2011-03-31 Thread Bob Hetzel
It still applies because bacula (and most everything else too nowadays from the look of things) uses shared libraries. If you upgrade the libraries you may need to re-compile anything that was built with the old versions if you want rock solid reliability. In my environment I kept getting

[Bacula-users] Finding largest file(s) backed up for a specific job

2011-03-31 Thread John Stoffel
Guys, I've been happily running bacula at home, and usualy it's pretty predictable about the size of data backed up each night, but last night I had an incremental run for a specfic client which used 8Gb of data, when I normally expect around 500mb or so. Is there an easy mysql query I can use

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling Question

2011-03-31 Thread Alan Brown
Randy Katz wrote: Alan, thank you for that answer and please excuse my questions: 1. Do you have a different expire time (60d) for your Full then your Incrementals or does it matter? I set the database file/job expire time to 100 years and simply roll the media, but we do

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling Question

2011-03-31 Thread Randy Katz
On 3/31/2011 10:02 AM, Alan Brown wrote: Randy Katz wrote: Alan, thank you for that answer and please excuse my questions: 1. Do you have a different expire time (60d) for your Full then your Incrementals or does it matter? I set the database file/job expire time to 100 years and simply

[Bacula-users] bat crashes to much ...

2011-03-31 Thread Paulo Martinez
I just wonder if there are any accessible devel version or nightly builds of the bat. If so - there will be a protocol mismatch, right? But i would like to test a current version, if needed also with an updated dir and sd daemon. Is anyone using/testing 5.1 as non developer? Thx PM

[Bacula-users] Device FileStorage is not open or does not exist

2011-03-31 Thread Kenney, William P. (Information Technology Services)
Hello all, I have given up on RHES 6 for now and I am using Ubuntu 10.10 Server with Bacula 5.0.2 I have followed the Documentation's tutorial to get the system configured but while in the console portion (pages 98 - 101) I enter status storage and get Device FileStorage is not open or

Re: [Bacula-users] Device FileStorage is not open or does not exist

2011-03-31 Thread Kleber Leal
Probably you has not created the directory defined into bacula-sd.conf file. Kleber 2011/3/31 Kenney, William P. (Information Technology Services) kenn...@easternct.edu Hello all, I have given up on RHES 6 for now and I am using Ubuntu 10.10 Server with Bacula 5.0.2 I have followed

Re: [Bacula-users] Device FileStorage is not open or does not exist

2011-03-31 Thread Kenney, William P. (Information Technology Services)
Thanks, I'll check the SD config file closely. Bill From: Kleber Leal [mailto:kleber.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 8:49 PM To: bacula-users Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Device FileStorage is not open or does not exist Probably you has not created the directory

Re: [Bacula-users] Finding largest file(s) backed up for a specific job

2011-03-31 Thread John Stoffel
John I've been happily running bacula at home, and usualy it's pretty John predictable about the size of data backed up each night, but John last night I had an incremental run for a specfic client which John used 8Gb of data, when I normally expect around 500mb or so. John Is there an easy

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling Question

2011-03-31 Thread Randy Katz
On 3/31/2011 10:20 AM, Randy Katz wrote: On 3/31/2011 10:02 AM, Alan Brown wrote: Randy Katz wrote: Alan, thank you for that answer and please excuse my questions: 1. Do you have a different expire time (60d) for your Full then your Incrementals or does it matter? I set the database