[Bacula-users] Job pruning

2011-04-06 Thread Jérôme Blion
Hello, I'm setting a test infrastructure on Debian Squeeze. I'm using Debian packages (5.0.2). You can find various configuration files here: http://www.hebergement-pro.org/bacula/ I set: serveur:/home/www/www/bacula# grep Retention bacula-dir.conf.txt File Retention = 3 days Job

Re: [Bacula-users] Job pruning

2011-04-07 Thread Jérôme Blion
expires and Bacula recycles the first volume... 2011/4/6 Jérôme Blion jerome.bl...@free.fr Hello, I'm setting a test infrastructure on Debian Squeeze. I'm using Debian packages (5.0.2). You can find various configuration files here: http://www.hebergement-pro.org/bacula/ I set

Re: [Bacula-users] Connection error from remote client

2011-04-07 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 07/04/2011 17:19, Kenney, William P. (Information Technology Services) a écrit : When I run the new job I get the following error message in the bconsole: *** 06-Apr 23:35 ecsu-bk3-dir JobId 16: Error: Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Job pruning

2011-04-07 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 07/04/2011 10:24, Jérôme Blion a écrit : Hello, That would mean there is no job retention. BackupCatalog jobs are pruned. So, we can have Job pruning before volume pruning. File, Job, Volume retentions are differents parameters. Volumes can only be automatically recycled if no more jobs

Re: [Bacula-users] Connection error from remote client

2011-04-07 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 07/04/2011 18:51, Kenney, William P. (Information Technology Services) a écrit : When I run the new job I get the following error message in the bconsole: *** * *** 06-Apr 23:35 ecsu-bk3-dir JobId 16: Error: Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Connection error from remote client

2011-04-08 Thread Jérôme Blion
On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 09:28:11 -0400, Kenney, William P. (Information Technology Services) kenn...@easternct.edu wrote: -Original Message- From: Jérôme Blion [mailto:jerome.bl...@free.fr] Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 5:11 PM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup will not started

2011-04-12 Thread Jérôme Blion
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:27:04 +0200, Luca Bertoncello bertonce...@netzing.de wrote: Hi, list! I use Bacula to backup 4 Servers in the network of my office. Today (full backup of all Servers!) Bacula didn't start. I can see the Backups are pending using bat (a Bacula administration tool for

Re: [Bacula-users] Connection error from remote client

2011-04-14 Thread Jérôme Blion
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:45:51 -0400, Kenney, William P. (Information Technology Services) kenn...@easternct.edu wrote: -Original Message- From: Jérôme Blion [mailto:jerome.bl...@free.fr] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 9:55 AM To: Kenney, William P. (Information Technology Services) Cc

Re: [Bacula-users] force backup of unchanged file in incremental backup

2011-04-14 Thread Jérôme Blion
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:54:09 +0200, Christian Manal moen...@informatik.uni-bremen.de wrote: Am 14.04.2011 08:33, schrieb James Harper: The last modified datestamp on MSSQL database files doesn't get changed unless the actual file dimensions change (eg it 'grows') or when the file is closed.

Re: [Bacula-users] force backup of unchanged file in incremental backup

2011-04-14 Thread Jérôme Blion
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:37:35 + (UTC), Thomas Mueller tho...@chaschperli.ch wrote: Am Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:33:14 +1000 schrieb James Harper: The last modified datestamp on MSSQL database files doesn't get changed unless the actual file dimensions change (eg it 'grows') or when the file is

Re: [Bacula-users] Job pruning

2011-04-18 Thread Jérôme Blion
On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:08:38 +0200, Jérôme Blion jerome.bl...@free.fr wrote: Le 07/04/2011 10:24, Jérôme Blion a écrit : Hello, That would mean there is no job retention. BackupCatalog jobs are pruned. So, we can have Job pruning before volume pruning. File, Job, Volume retentions

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem rejected Hello command with DIR 2.2.6 and FD 5.0.2

2011-04-20 Thread Jérôme Blion
a complete upgrade to the latest 5.0.3 might be better for future-proof-ness. Regards, Jeremy Hello, Is there a compatibility matrix available ? HTH. Jérôme Blion. -- Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem rejected Hello command with DIR 2.2.6 and FD 5.0.2

2011-04-20 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 21/04/2011 00:05, John Drescher a écrit : On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Jérôme Blionjerome.bl...@free.fr wrote: Le 20/04/2011 16:01, Jeremy Maes a écrit : Op 20/04/2011 15:29, Ben Schmidt schreef: I'm running a bacula 2.2.6 on a old Server that's just working. One of it's Clients was

Re: [Bacula-users] About retention, and pruning.

2011-04-29 Thread Jérôme Blion
incremental without full backup can be useful to restore only specific files. HTH. Jérôme Blion. -- WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network

Re: [Bacula-users] error message in runbefore job

2011-05-04 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 04/05/2011 14:40, Konstantin Khomoutov a écrit : On Wed, 04 May 2011 13:23:55 +0200 Joris Heinrichj...@malin-easy.de wrote i run an job with an mysql backup and an ClientRunBeforeJob like this example: Job { Name= test-client Client = tool-client

[Bacula-users] Fileset generated by awk

2011-05-10 Thread Jérôme Blion
Hello, I have to backup machines which have been configured different ways for the same feature. In fact, I want to backup mysql binlogs on a hourly basis. binlogs can be located at different locations: /home/mysql /usr/local/mysql/data /home/binlogs Depending on the client. If I use the

Re: [Bacula-users] Fileset generated by awk

2011-05-10 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 10/05/2011 11:56, Jérôme Blion a écrit : Hello, I have to backup machines which have been configured different ways for the same feature. In fact, I want to backup mysql binlogs on a hourly basis. binlogs can be located at different locations: /home/mysql /usr/local/mysql/data /home

Re: [Bacula-users] Errors with bat from windows

2011-05-11 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 11/05/2011 14:52, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk a écrit : Hi all We have some issues with bat not showing all backup targets with the version browser. For this particular server, the browser only lists C: and not the other drives backed up. I tested from X and that looks good. Testing from my

Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude from file list?

2011-05-12 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 12/05/2011 15:17, Dan Schaefer a écrit : As indicated in the following excerpt from the Bacula Manual, the list of included files can be contained in a separate file. I would like to do the same with files to be excluded. Is this not possible using the same method? Any file-list item

Re: [Bacula-users] Client Run After Job

2011-05-20 Thread Jérôme Blion
= /etc/bacula/scripts/delete_catalog_backup HTH. Jérôme Blion. -- What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help

Re: [Bacula-users] help = Problem with webacula - no grafical output

2011-05-25 Thread Jérôme Blion
/ ./10_make_tables.sh ./20_acl_make_tables.sh vi ../../html/.htaccess chmod 777 /usr/share/webacula/data/tmp chmod 777 /usr/share/webacula/data/cache chmod 777 /usr/share/webacula/data/session Please check that you didn't forget to give enough privileges to the webacula/data folders... HTH. Jérôme Blion

Re: [Bacula-users] help = Problem with webacula - no grafical output

2011-05-26 Thread Jérôme Blion
... This way, it will be maintained with other OS packages. Any error should be logged in your apache error log. HTH Jérôme Blion. Le 26/05/2011 01:52, AliKate AliKatador a écrit : Hello again: I have installed: texlive-base latex2html apt-get install apache2 php5 libapache2-mod-php5 apt

Re: [Bacula-users] help = Problem with webacula - no grafical output

2011-05-26 Thread Jérôme Blion
Hello, You should use credentials you provided into config.ini. That should do the trick. Then you will be able to add some accounts. HTH. Jérôme Blion. On Thu, 26 May 2011 15:20:53 +0200, AliKate AliKatador alikata...@gmail.com wrote: Hello: Now I'm NEAR :D:D:D I install the Zend

Re: [Bacula-users] Archive function ?

2011-05-30 Thread Jérôme Blion
. As it will delete any file. HTH. Jérôme Blion. -- vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data

Re: [Bacula-users] Archive function ?

2011-05-30 Thread Jérôme Blion
On Mon, 30 May 2011 12:41:14 +0400, Konstantin Khomoutov flatw...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: On Mon, 30 May 2011 09:24:06 +0200 Jérôme Blion jerome.bl...@free.fr wrote: [ delete files after backup ] Does exist any configuration option for that? No. Not yet... :) IMNSHO

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula maintenance : Clean Data

2011-06-06 Thread Jérôme Blion
) of these parameters to fit your filesystem. If you only prune old jobs without modifying your backup strategy, you will have the same problem in few weeks... or even few days... HTH. Jérôme Blion. -- Simplify data backup

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula maintenance : Clean Data

2011-06-06 Thread Jérôme Blion
On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 16:40:01 +0200, Buschini Edouard m...@ijaal.net wrote: Hello Jérôme, 2011/6/6 Jérôme Blion jerome.bl...@free.fr On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 15:45:24 +0200, Buschini Edouard m...@ijaal.net wrote: Hi Alan, Thank you for you answer. 2011/6/6 Alan Brown a...@mssl.ucl.ac.uk

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling

2011-06-07 Thread Jérôme Blion
On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 22:28:39 -0500, Jake Debord jake.deb...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have a very specific reason for this? You realize that's a full year goes by before you back up. And then you run two backups within a two day period. A full backup on the first right after the 31st of December

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't connect to Director on port 9101

2011-06-07 Thread Jérôme Blion
-a | grep 9101 -- not have output and #netstat - a | grep bacula tcp0 0 *:bacula-fd*:* LISTEN Hello, do backup work fine ? Could you show us your bacula-dir.conf file ? HTH. Jérôme Blion

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

2011-06-08 Thread Jérôme Blion
to detect some incorrect values. They can improve performance a lot. HTH. Jérôme Blion. -- EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

2011-06-08 Thread Jérôme Blion
help, Gavin Hello, You will see performance improvements if you have lot of concurrents updates. Which Bacula version do you have ? Perhaps it's an index issue. HTH Jérôme Blion -- EditLive Enterprise is the world's

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

2011-06-08 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 08/06/2011 19:16, Gavin McCullagh a écrit : On Wed, 08 Jun 2011, Jérôme Blion wrote: You will see performance improvements if you have lot of concurrents updates. I don't imagine concurrent updates are really an issue for us. Our backups run fast enough generally for our purposes . I

Re: [Bacula-users] recommendations for scheduling

2011-06-15 Thread Jérôme Blion
:416.978.4302 Hello, That will depends your needs. You can play with several schedules. You can play with Maximum Concurrent Jobs to balance jobs during the night. HTH. Jérôme Blion. -- EditLive Enterprise is the world's most

Re: [Bacula-users] Migrating form mysql to postgresql: Loading the database takes very long

2011-06-22 Thread Jérôme Blion
suggestion. Thanks for the instructions. Marcus Hello, I don't know how you dumped your mysql database. Did you try to use mysqldump -T ? mysql2pgsql ? I used some other scripts to migrate data pieces. I will look for them this evening... HTH. Jérôme Blion

Re: [Bacula-users] Migrating form mysql to postgresql: Loading the database takes very long

2011-06-22 Thread Jérôme Blion
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:22:34 +0200, Marcus Mülbüsch muelbue...@as-infodienste.de wrote: Am 22.06.2011 12:05, schrieb Jérôme Blion: I don't know how you dumped your mysql database. Did you try to use mysqldump -T ? mysql2pgsql ? I used some other scripts to migrate data pieces. I will look

Re: [Bacula-users] Files, jobs and volumes retention

2011-08-02 Thread Jérôme Blion
only if there are no jobs remaining on them. For job and files, I don't know if we've got the same case. HTH. Jérôme Blion. -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile

[Bacula-users] Copy jobs

2011-08-15 Thread Jérôme Blion
Hello, I'm trying to copy jobs from one server to another. I defined 2 storage daemons: == # Definition of file storage device Storage { Name = File Address = tucana.domain# N.B. Use a fully qualified name

Re: [Bacula-users] How do I remove clients from the database?

2011-09-28 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 28/09/2011 20:41, Stefan Michael Guenther a écrit : Hello, I have removed a number of clients from bacula-dir.conf and restarted the director. In the bconsole list clients still lists the removed clients. The delete command only allows me to remove volumes, pools and jobids. So, how

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup MySQL databases

2011-10-25 Thread Jérôme Blion
file. That means you have to reserve enough space to store the final archive file. - You can't split your datadir accross several mountpoints. HTH. Jérôme Blion -- The demand for IT networking professionals continues

Re: [Bacula-users] RE : HELP : MySQL database lost - how best to restore data

2011-11-06 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 06/11/2011 23:06, Win Htin a écrit : Hi folks, Thanks for the various suggestions. I found setting the variables export MYSQL_HOST=database_hostname export MYSQL_TCP_PORT=port_number export MYSQL_UNIX_PORT=port_number before running the bscan command did the trick. Now, have to see if

Re: [Bacula-users] Full backup every day instead of Incremental backup

2012-01-16 Thread Jérôme Blion
sunday. That's just what you want. Jobs 40,41,42 are different jobs... Each one will create its own full job (upgraded from incremental if no full has been created) HTH. Jérôme Blion -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27

Re: [Bacula-users] New(ish) tool for MySQL catalog backups

2012-01-27 Thread Jérôme Blion
to generate OOM errors. (maatkit team does not recommend mk-paralle-dump for production use) HTH. Jérôme Blion -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft

Re: [Bacula-users] Space reclamation

2012-02-16 Thread Jérôme Blion
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:36:45 +0100 (CET), Demeter Tibor wrote: Hi, Are there any option in bacula for the tape space reclamation ? I know and use this option from Tivol storage manager. How can I defragment my tapes? Thanks, Tibor Basically, TSM keeps files as long as they are active.

Re: [Bacula-users] Space reclamation

2012-02-16 Thread Jérôme Blion
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:10:56 +0100, Jérôme Blion wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:36:45 +0100 (CET), Demeter Tibor wrote: Hi, Are there any option in bacula for the tape space reclamation ? I know and use this option from Tivol storage manager. How can I defragment my tapes? Thanks

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling hourly backups with different levels and pools

2012-02-22 Thread Jérôme Blion
as I see, you only have 2 pools, one for each type. Why don't you use hourly keyword to schedule incrementals backups ? HTH. Jérôme Blion. -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use

Re: [Bacula-users] Off site backups

2012-02-24 Thread Jérôme Blion
tapes = 60TB with a 1h car trip == 133 mbps HTH. Jérôme Blion. -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing

Re: [Bacula-users] Low request Mysql

2012-03-27 Thread Jérôme Blion
with tuning-primer.sh + mysqltuner.pl. They provide good metrics to start with. If you are facing table locking issue, perhaps you should migrate to InnoDB (if you use Mysql 5.1, use the InnoDB Plugin, not the embedded one) HTH. Jérôme Blion (Lyon, France

Re: [Bacula-users] Low request Mysql

2012-03-27 Thread Jérôme Blion
cache hit rate: 91% (2 created / 23 connections) [OK] Table cache hit rate: 74% (52 open / 70 opened) [OK] Open file limit used: 8% (99/1K) [OK] Table locks acquired immediately: 100% (237 immediate / 237 locks) [!!] Connections aborted: 8% On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:55:41 +0200, Jérôme Blion

[Bacula-users] Client Run Before Job overriding

2012-03-28 Thread Jérôme Blion
Hello, I use the following jobdefs definition: JobDefs { Name = MysqlFullJob Type = Backup Level = Full Client = myserver-fd Fileset = Mysql Full Schedule = OneFullPerDay Storage = File Messages = Standard Pool = File Priority = 10 Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20

Re: [Bacula-users] Cant connect to bacula-sd on debian system

2012-04-19 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 19/04/2012 09:47, alexturner a écrit : Hey all, I'm trying to set up a bacula sever to backup all machines on the network to LTO tape. I'm having a hard time getting my config to work. For starters bacula-dir wont start from the /etc/init.d/bacula-director script but it will start if I

Re: [Bacula-users] What happen when a server crash?

2012-05-22 Thread Jérôme Blion
be mounted. If they can be mounted, you have a chance to recover configuration files and so be able to restore your bacula quickly. Anyway, I copy /var/lib/bacula and /etc/bacula to another machine to prevent this kind of issues. HTH. Jérôme Blion

Re: [Bacula-users] Running complex commands or scripts remotely on a client

2012-09-05 Thread Jérôme Blion
will run a command on the client ! Run Before Job will run on the director. HTH. Jérôme Blion. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed

Re: [Bacula-users] Is tape filling up too early?

2012-10-17 Thread Jérôme Blion
[... snip ...] Did you enabled hardware compression on your tape drive ? Without compression LTO3 is given to fill up to 400 GB. Hope this helps. Jérôme Blion. -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web

Re: [Bacula-users] Huge Backups

2012-10-22 Thread Jérôme Blion
Hello, Are you sure there is no loop ? Typically, it can happens with onefs=no HTH. Jérôme Blion. Le 22/10/2012 22:33, Mike Seda a écrit : On 10/22/2012 01:15 PM, John Drescher wrote: I currently have a machine with ~3 GB of data. However, ~230 GB is being backed up by Bacula. I

Re: [Bacula-users] Catastrophic error. Cannot write overflow block to device

2012-11-28 Thread Jérôme Blion
Hello, ERR=No space left on device You have to make some space... HTH. Jerome Blion Le 2012-11-28 08:16, Luca Bertoncello a écrit : Hello, list! Since 3 days I cannot backup my server... I always get this error: 28-Nov 00:40 skynet-sd JobId 36: Fatal error: device.c:192 Catastrophic

Re: [Bacula-users] disaster recovery of the actual bacula server

2012-11-29 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 29/11/2012 17:32, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de a écrit : Zitat von Jonathan Horne jho...@skopos.us: I am getting ready to deploy my first bacula server to our production environment. I would like to practice 2 scenarios of recovery. First, I will recover the configuration files and mysql

Re: [Bacula-users] disaster recovery of the actual bacula server

2012-11-29 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 29/11/2012 21:58, Dan Langille a écrit : On Nov 29, 2012, at 10:30 AM, Jonathan Horne wrote: I am getting ready to deploy my first bacula server to our production environment. I would like to practice 2 scenarios of recovery. First, I will recover the configuration files and mysql

Re: [Bacula-users] Do I have to update /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf everytime I add a new client, even except ip everything is same, btw is there some sort of template new client could follow?

2012-12-18 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 18/12/2012 08:24, Zhenkai Jiang a écrit : just curious how to make adding new client work to be automated instead of updating conf file manually Hello, I don't like to modify bacula-dir.conf. I added this line in bacula-dir.conf to manage clients easily: @|sh -c 'for f in

Re: [Bacula-users] Subject: Re: Do I have to update

2012-12-19 Thread Jérôme Blion
is enough. The @|... syntax enables dynamic configuration files loading. You have to check messages to see what's wrong with your config. Jérôme Blion. -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial

Re: [Bacula-users] Running Client Script

2012-12-21 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 21/12/2012 19:27, Dan Langille a écrit : On Dec 21, 2012, at 12:46 PM, Joseph De Nicolo wrote: Hey Bacula Users, This should be an easy question for some body with bacula experience. I need to run a script that will backup my web server's mysql database. The script works great, using

Re: [Bacula-users] PostgreSQL - how to exclude bacula database?

2012-12-27 Thread Jérôme Blion
Hello, Le 27/12/2012 22:21, Wolfgang Denk a écrit : Hi again, here is another PostgreSQL related question: when backing up the database server, I would like to exclude the bacula database (which gets backed up separately anyway). With MySQL, I could do this easily with somthing like this:

Re: [Bacula-users] PostgreSQL - how to exclude bacula database?

2012-12-28 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 2012-12-28 11:19, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de a écrit : Zitat von Dan Langille d...@langille.org: On Dec 27, 2012, at 8:40 PM, Jérôme Blion wrote: You can use pg_dump to backup databases separately. (as far as I know, the pg_dump creates consistent backup by defaults, whereas mysqldump does

Re: [Bacula-users] restore performance

2013-01-14 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 2013-01-14 14:32, Uwe Schuerkamp a écrit : On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 08:24:07AM -0500, John Drescher wrote: I just ran into this. After a Google search, I turned up an article that says the indices that used to make Bacula run faster now cause a performance problem with recent versions

Re: [Bacula-users] Reporting on previous jobs

2013-01-17 Thread Jérôme Blion
on reportula, webacula, bacula-web. They can help you to get the data pieces you will have to provide to auditors. Good luck (I had to do it for SOX Compliancy) HTH/ Jérôme Blion. -- Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Query

2013-01-24 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 2013-01-24 08:37, krishna pawankar a écrit : Hi All, I want to install bacula 5.2.6 for taking backup on HDD and not on tapes. What are things i should need to take care since what i know about bacula is we can only use tapes or VTLs for taking backups. Now there is no autochanger since

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I add /etc/bacula to the Catalog backup?

2013-01-25 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 25/01/2013 20:09, John Drescher a écrit : And further, before creating the file in the first place it removes one that may already be there, by the looks of it. Just making sure I got that right. Is there a reason not to leave the file there until next time? Just a space issue? Just a

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula - how to install only storage daemon

2013-01-28 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 28/01/2013 10:01, rout a écrit : Good Morning everybody, I`m a SysAdmin from Germany. My English is not very good so I hope you can understand me. I´m testing Bacula to install at our scientific linux servers - and now I want to install on a 2nd server only the storage-daemon. I want

Re: [Bacula-users] Tune MySQL, or switch to pgsql?

2013-02-02 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 01/02/2013 20:48, Alan McKay a écrit : OK, I know some of you guys are biased here because I recognise some of the names from my pgsql days :-) I've been googling to find MySQL tuning instructions for bacula but not much is coming up. Though I did find a 2 or 3 year old discussion from

Re: [Bacula-users] Install and configure both server and client

2013-02-05 Thread Jérôme Blion
reading the manual ;-) Jérôme Blion. -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb

Re: [Bacula-users] Install and configure both server and client

2013-02-07 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 2013-02-07 04:28, Jake G. a écrit : Ok after getting bacula working I can honestly say it the worst backup solution I have ever used. Thanks everyone for your help! Hello, Could you please detail a little bit more why it's the worst tool you ever used ? Which backup solution do you use ?

Re: [Bacula-users] backup concurrency

2013-02-20 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 2013-02-20 10:19, Antony Mayi a écrit : Hi community, I am running backups of multiple database servers and each backup job is defined with RunScript command that dumps the databases on each particular server and these dumps are then taken for backups. The dumps take different times on

Re: [Bacula-users] Migrating from myisam to innodb

2013-02-26 Thread Jérôme Blion
Hello, key_buffer = 1G innodb_file_per_table innodb_flush_method=O_DIRECT innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=2 innodb_buffer_pool_size=12G innodb_log_buffer_size=4M innodb_thread_concurrency=8 You can tune innodb_log_file_size. Beware, you have to shut mysql down correctly and move redo

Re: [Bacula-users] Two servers one ... robot?

2013-02-27 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 27/02/2013 23:58, etanneh...@godaddy.com a écrit : I am looking to see if it is possible to run two storage directors both talking to the same robotic library? Does anyone have first hand experience with this Hello, Last time I did it on a TS3584, I partitioned the physical library to

Re: [Bacula-users] Manage disk space used by Bacula

2013-03-08 Thread Jérôme Blion
count x max volume size. HTH. Jérôme Blion. -- Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 positioned as A LEADER in The Forrester Wave(TM): Endpoint Security, Q1 2013 and remains a good choice in the endpoint security space

Re: [Bacula-users] MySQLdump import seems very slow for Filename and Path tables

2013-03-16 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 16/03/2013 10:54, Uwe Schuerkamp a écrit : My question: Is there some way to optimize the catalog dump to make the import faster, like maybe omitting indices and re-creating them manually once the import has completed? Seeing the Path table also has 19GB, its import probably won't have

Re: [Bacula-users] Too much files to save in catalog - MysQL performance tips.

2013-06-17 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 17/06/2013 19:03, Luis H. Forchesatto a écrit : Greetings. I'd like to discuss my situation here where I have a job who backups only 200GB in files, but it has 2 million more files to save on catalog (MySQL). When the file copy is complete the storage server, who also runs the

Re: [Bacula-users] Is there any interest in a new Bacula reporting system?

2013-06-28 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 2013-06-28 02:13, Kenneth Stauch a écrit : [... SNIP ... ] Hello, I have one important need I can't manage through webacula and bacula-web. bacula-web has some interesting reports, but it's not possible to tune them on the fly. For example, I would like to be able to change the timeframe

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula security

2013-07-01 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 2013-07-01 13:07, Martin Simmons a écrit : Bacula does have root read (and write) privileges on every backed-up system, but you can encrypt the backups before sending them to the central server. Bacula can also sign the backups, so the client can verify that a restore doesn't contain

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula security

2013-07-01 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 2013-07-01 15:53, Martin Simmons a écrit : On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:25:23 +0200, Jérôme Blion said: Le 2013-07-01 13:07, Martin Simmons a écrit : Bacula does have root read (and write) privileges on every backed-up system, but you can encrypt the backups before sending them to the central

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula security

2013-07-01 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 2013-07-01 17:07, Martin Simmons a écrit : It can be secured via ACL too. You can manage what a client has access to. And so, ensure no critical data pieces can be stolen through that way. Yes, that works as long as the Director is secure -- otherwise the attacker can just write

Re: [Bacula-users] choosing database.

2013-10-04 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 2013-10-04 14:25, Dan Langille a écrit : On 2013-09-19 11:06, Mauro wrote: Hello. I'm using bacula in a linux debian system. I've to backup about 30 hosts. I've choose postresql as database. What do you think about? Better mysql or postgres? I recommend PostgreSQL. As the author

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs: sometimes only one job running

2013-11-05 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 2013-11-05 10:20, Hans Schou a écrit : Hi I have configured my system to run 5 jobs at the same time. It works well with the the first 5 jobs but then it is a bit on and off. At the gant chart below show the 5 jobs starting a Full backup 1st november 22:05. Client asrv0 runs for 6

[Bacula-users] Low performance for Proxmox VM backup

2013-12-10 Thread Jérôme Blion
Hello, I use Bacula daily and faced no real issues for years. I installed a new instance and am facing a strange issue. I installed a new bacula server under Debian Wheezy. I try and backup several virtual machines hosted on 2 proxmox servers. These proxmox servers use their local hard disks

Re: [Bacula-users] Full jobs pruned before differential / incremental retention

2018-07-02 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 25/06/2018 à 11:37, Jérôme Blion a écrit : Hello everyone, I have a Bacula 7.4.4 installed on a Debian Stretch. I set it up when it was a 5.2.6 version. I want to have a 35 days retention for "flat files". I set File retention and Job retention to 35 days on each client declared

[Bacula-users] Full jobs pruned before differential / incremental retention

2018-06-25 Thread Jérôme Blion
identify why my full backups are pruned too quickly ? Kind regards. Jérôme Blion. -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites

Re: [Bacula-users] Baculum 9.2.0 binary packages

2018-07-25 Thread Jérôme Blion
Hi Marcin, There is a typo. When you are looking at volumes in a pool, the column name "First written" is in fact filled with "last written" value. HTH. Jérôme Blion. -- Check out the vibrant t

Re: [Bacula-users] read tape label from bash

2018-08-09 Thread Jérôme Blion
I'm aware of bconsole, btape etc. but they are all interactive consoles. You could use that: bconsole < <(echo "status storage") Or if you want something more specific, you could use the expect command. Perhaps the data pieces you want can be retrieved through sg_utils, but I don't know how

Re: [Bacula-users] Reclaiming Disc Space

2018-08-16 Thread Jérôme Blion
isc space used by volumes with no associated jobs can be reclaimed and the storage made available for reuse? You can use a truncate command for that. Hi, Did you have a look on that: https://blog.bacula.org/whitepapers/CommunityDiskBackup.pdf HTH Jér

Re: [Bacula-users] Reclaiming Disc Space

2018-08-17 Thread Jérôme Blion
lumes = 10    # Limit number of Volumes in Pool   Recycle Oldest Volume = yes   RecyclePool = Scratch   Action On Purge = Truncate If you don't define these rules, volumes won't be recycled automatically. HTH. Jérôme Blion --

Re: [Bacula-users] tapes running out of space

2018-08-06 Thread Jérôme Blion
when they will generate read / writes issues in a clean drive. HTH. Jérôme Blion. -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot

Re: [Bacula-users] rookie questions concerning retention times

2018-08-24 Thread Jérôme Blion
Hi Matthias, Le 24/08/2018 à 12:36, Matthias Leopold a écrit : .) I want to increase job and file retention times for existing entries. I didn't fully understand if (a) this possible at all Sure it is. (b) involves database updates (didn't find a way) or Job / File retention changes should

Re: [Bacula-users] restoring from old backup

2018-09-05 Thread Jérôme Blion
n it because catalog has been cleaned up. HTH. Jérôme Blion. -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot __

Re: [Bacula-users] Need to get Bacula going again ... 1 month with no backups

2018-06-29 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 29/06/2018 à 15:26, Bill Damage via Bacula-users a écrit : Hi, hope this is easy. I was holding back until a regular bacula update came into my Fedora 29 system with a DNF update, and it did yesterday. I'm now on 9.0.8. However, it still thinks I'm using Postgeres, when in fact that's not

Re: [Bacula-users] deal with Bacula database growth

2018-10-08 Thread Jérôme Blion
my media database every year. Any suggestion appreciated! Thank you, Thibault Hello, Volume retention is related to volume management (space used for volumes) File and Job Retention are linked to the catalog. You have to check that you don't store Files and Jobs records too much

Re: [Bacula-users] deal with Bacula database growth

2018-10-25 Thread Jérôme Blion
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Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-09-19 Thread Jérôme Blion
at is happening and how to fix it? Thanks. Hello, why don't you let bacula create volumes when needed ? HTH. Jérôme Blion. ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-09-20 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 20/09/2018 à 05:23, Gary Dale a écrit : On 2018-09-19 05:35 PM, Jérôme Blion wrote: Le 19/09/2018 à 21:40, Gary Dale a écrit : I'm running bacula 7.4.4 on a Debian/Stretch AMD64 server. When I try to create a new disk volume for my steadily increasing amount of data needing to be backed

Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-09-27 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 27/09/2018 à 05:38, Gary Dale a écrit : On 2018-09-26 11:33 AM, Bill Arlofski wrote: On 09/26/2018 06:22 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: Try setdebug level=150 trace=1 Storage and look for a file matching *.trace (probably in the SD's WorkingDirectory). ...and you can also add options=t to

[Bacula-users] Daemon messages during catalog backup

2018-12-20 Thread Jérôme Blion
What I would like:     If the catalog backup failed due to a daemon error, I want an alert (today, a mail, tomorrow, a zabbix alert)     If the catalog backup ran fine and scripts ran fine, I would like the job to be quiet Is there a way to do it nicely? Best regards. Jérôme Blion.