Re: [Bacula-users] Missing tape turns up in another pool

2008-01-07 Thread John Drescher
Not sure how it got there. But I can help with one of your questions. (and, since it is a purged tape, how might I move it back)? Use the update volume command from the console. John - Check out the new SourceForge.net

Re: [Bacula-users] Is VSS working?

2008-01-07 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 7, 2008 9:20 PM, Mingus Dew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've enabled VSS in bacula-dir.conf inside a FileSet definition like so: FileSet { Name = Windows_FileSystems Enable VSS = yes Include { Options { signature = MD5 IgnoreCase = yes WildFile =

Re: [Bacula-users] tape volume capacity exceeds

2008-01-08 Thread John Drescher
I would say that you just have very compressible files. The native size of LTO-2 is 200GB and they are marketed at 400 with 2 to 1 compression. If your getting 535GB on a 200GB tape your doing better than I am as I only get 500 to 700 GB on a 400GB LTO-3 tape.

Re: [Bacula-users] Alerting Tape Errors

2008-01-08 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 8, 2008 11:46 AM, Weber, Philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bacula 2.2.4 Solaris 9. Is there a way of configuring Bacula to alert for tape errors like these? I see they are being incorporated in the success/fail email for a job but would like to email them separately so as to highlight

Re: [Bacula-users] How does bacula calculate the backup rate value?

2008-01-08 Thread John Drescher
06-Jan 23:34 VU0EM005-sd JobId 1116: Despooling elapsed time = 02:20:26, Transfer rate = 53.52 M bytes/second [...] 07-Jan 04:49 VU0EM005-sd JobId 1116: Despooling elapsed time = 02:16:26, Transfer rate = 55.09 M bytes/second [...] 07-Jan 05:15 VU0EM005-sd JobId 1116: Job write elapsed

Re: [Bacula-users] How does bacula calculate the backup rate value?

2008-01-08 Thread John Drescher
I believe is the rate of the despooling to the media for just the last spool size chunk. Oops, I see what you mean. Forget my last reply. John - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with socket errors on new workstation-: Backup Fatal Error ofDisaster-fd Full

2008-01-08 Thread John Drescher
04-Jan 13:38 Disaster-fd: Disaster.2008-01-04_13.26.49 Fatal error: Failed to connect to Storage daemon: distress.ACCOUNTING.EDT.LOCAL:9103 04-Jan 13:38 Disaster-fd: Disaster.2008-01-04_13.26.49 Error: ./../lib/bnet.c:779 gethostbyname() for host distress.ACCOUNTING.EDT.LOCAL failed:

Re: [Bacula-users] Issues with bacula.

2008-01-08 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 8, 2008 4:27 PM, Michael Short [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have also had similar problems with cancelled jobs, but waiting seems to make it go away. Could be much faster though... I had this yesterday and it looked like a problem as the job appeared to be stuck for 10 minutes but after

Re: [Bacula-users] tape volume capacity exceeds

2008-01-09 Thread John Drescher
i'd guess the drive is using hardware compression. on my LTO4 (800/1600GB) i get: -- michael Do you have software or hardware compression enabled in your FileSets? Just the hardware compression from the tape drive. Enabling software compression on a modern tape drive will most likely

Re: [Bacula-users] problem linux server and windows client

2008-01-09 Thread John Drescher
Storage { Name = 134-sd # Do not use localhost here Address = 127.0.0.1 # N.B. Use a fully qualified name here SDPort = 9103 Password = sdvfghree # password for Storage daemon Device = HPUltrium # must be same as Device in Storage daemon

Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger with two drives

2008-01-09 Thread John Drescher
different pools would be extremely undesirable for me. i currently have the following pools: 1: Weekly 2: Scratch 3: Migrate 4: Archive 5: Monthly 6: Daily 7: Clone the aforementioned pools are very well organized, and i would rather leave them be. i am willing to put the two jobs i

Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger with two drives

2008-01-09 Thread John Drescher
i already have Prefer Mounted Volumes = no set in bacula-dir.conf One other thing you can do is to use the individual drives in the job and not the archive device. Here is what I have for my 2 drive changer: my bacula-sd.conf Autochanger { Name = Magnum224-0 Device = LTO2-0, LTO2-1

Re: [Bacula-users] Help Scheduling

2008-01-09 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 9, 2008 5:46 PM, Mario Silva Borrego [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys: I am complety new in this with Bacula I've done some successful test with this great software. Currently I am using Amanda in production environment and works great but I have and issue backing up mail, so Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Help Scheduling

2008-01-09 Thread John Drescher
I've tried that, but the problem is that is not overwriting is trying to append to the device, and the new full backup won't fit because by that time the device is already full and that is why I want to overwrite the last full backup Bacula will never overwrite your tapes unless they are

Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger with two drives

2008-01-09 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 10, 2008 12:31 AM, Falk Sauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi John, Bacula 2.2.6, Adic Scalar 24, 5,5TB Storage On Mittwoch 09 Januar 2008 22:31:12 wrote: i already have Prefer Mounted Volumes = no set in bacula-dir.conf One other thing you can do is to use the individual drives in

Re: [Bacula-users] blank tape in media pool has halted backups

2008-01-10 Thread John Drescher
You can always set the Volume status of Bacula-0012 to Use in the meantime, until you find it. Or you could just delete it. That is basically what I did I lost Users0009 and marked it Disabled so bacula will just skip it: Users0009 0 DLT-IV 2007/12/10 2006/12/10

Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger with two drives

2008-01-10 Thread John Drescher
ok, for the records, the only right way to use a backup job on a x-Drive changer is over the changer device, not directly to a drive inside the changer. Since the multidrive scheduling now works well (with bacula-2.3.6) I am pretty much back to sending all jobs to the autochanger device unless

Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger with two drives

2008-01-10 Thread John Drescher
hi arno, i forgot to mention that i have: Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 2 You do know there are 5 places that Maximum Concurrent Jobs can be set depending on what concurrency you wnat to allow with each daemon? Although I believe in your case you probably only need it in the main director config.

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem adding a new tape drive

2008-01-10 Thread John Drescher
I have been trying to add another tape drive to my server. These are not in an autochanger, they are separate tape drives. I can access the tape drive from Linux with mt and as you will see in the documentation below btape worked as well. But when I try to access the tape from bacula it

Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger with two drives

2008-01-11 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 11, 2008 11:01 AM, Alan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 11 Jan 2008, John Drescher wrote: I am confused at that. I will have to try this the next time I get some new tapes. I did try the add command all the way to the question about the number of tapes to add. Since I do

Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger with two drives

2008-01-11 Thread John Drescher
Barcodes MUST be present and I got that. the required labels MUST match the barcodes. I am confused at that. I will have to try this the next time I get some new tapes. I did try the add command all the way to the question about the number of tapes to add. Since I do not have a single new tape

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole can't connect with bacula-director

2008-01-13 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 13, 2008 7:09 PM, Reynier Perez Mira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gsdserver doesn't resolve to the host that the director is running on Maybe, this is the main error. When I restart Apache this error show up: /etc/init.d/apache2 restart * Restarting web server apache2 apache2: Could

Re: [Bacula-users] Managing bacula with Webmin

2008-01-14 Thread John Drescher
Hi: I have installed the latest Webmin. This version come with a module for Bacula. When I logging in Webmin and go to Director Configuration section and then to Director Configuration this error appear: Error - Perl execution failed: Too many section ends at line 126 at

Re: [Bacula-users] Mixed drives in Autochanger

2008-01-16 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 16, 2008 11:08 AM, Robert LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a Neo8000 with 2 LTO-3 drives. We are looking into the possibility of adding 2 LTO-4 drives to it. Can Bacula handle two different types of drives in the same autochanger? I don't need the LTO-4 drives to read the

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-sd.conf not working

2008-01-18 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 17, 2008 12:04 PM, Reynier Perez Mira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi every: I try to test if my bacula-sd.conf file is Ok but I get this error If the line WorkingDirectory is commented: bacula-dir -t -c bacula-sd.conf 17-ene 12:02 bacula-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at parse_conf.c:884

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: What's next ...

2008-01-18 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 18, 2008 2:29 PM, Reynier Perez Mira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi John: Do not use 127.0.0.1 http://127.0.0.1 in any ip address unless you only want to backup the machine that has the bacula server on. I change the 127.0.0.1 to the server IP address. So now I get this the same

[Bacula-users] Fwd: What's next ...

2008-01-18 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jan 18, 2008 1:55 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] What's next ... To: Reynier Perez Mira [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jan 18, 2008 9:06 AM, Reynier Perez Mira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I have Bacula working fine

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: What's next ...

2008-01-18 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 18, 2008 5:50 PM, Reynier Perez Mira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Host is up? What you mean with this? IP address is correct? Yes bacula-fd is running on this host? Yes, it's running Firewall allows connections to port TCP/9103 from the DIR? I haven't any firewall running on

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Daily Full Backups

2008-01-20 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 16, 2008 10:51 PM, Robert Birch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey there, I'm new to Bacula and need a simple question answered. The company I am setting Bacula up with uses a simple VX-2 tape drive. I have Bacula talking to it and all is well. The issue is, they want to do daily full

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: What's next ...

2008-01-22 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 22, 2008 8:39 AM, Reynier Perez Mira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, Please do so. Ok, these are the conf files bacula-dir.conf -- Director { Name = gsdbaculaserver-dir Description = Bacula Director IP Testing Server Password =

Re: [Bacula-users] job timing

2008-01-22 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 22, 2008 2:26 PM, Bill Szkotnicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have another question about the timing of things. If a client job is scheduled for 9AM one day and the client is not there at 9AM ( i.e. a notebook ) And then it shows up later ( say noon ) When will the director decide to

Re: [Bacula-users] Missed tape previous day requested

2008-01-23 Thread John Drescher
Cancel the previous day job if it is running. You may have to insert the blocked tape to continue. Then insert the next tape and issue the mount command to mount it. If the previous day job was not running you should be able to mount the next days tape even though it asks for the

Re: [Bacula-users] Different Files Retention

2008-01-23 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 23, 2008 5:23 AM, Diego Roccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I need to implement the following solution: Sunday - Full Backup (Retention= 15Days) Monday-Friday - Differential (Retention= 4 Days) I need Full backups to be avaiable for 15 days and Differential ones to be pruned

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-director not running, why?

2008-01-23 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 23, 2008 8:37 AM, Reynier Perez Mira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had a similar problem on Ubuntu (Debian based) and it was down to a user and group permissions error, in the end I found that the /var/log/ bacula dir was not owned by the correct group and just failed to start without

Re: [Bacula-users] job timing

2008-01-23 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 23, 2008 9:12 AM, Bill Szkotnicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for that but I am still wondering about this scenario. 1) the client is scheduled for 9AM 2) it arrives on the network at 10AM well within Max Wait Time 3) how long does it take for the scheduled backup to begin?

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-director not running, why?

2008-01-23 Thread John Drescher
Whoops ! I should have taken more time to look over the above, it would appear to be a windows install ? *blush* Sorry :( I believe it was a linux server with windows clients. John - This SF.net email is sponsored by:

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-director not running, why?

2008-01-23 Thread John Drescher
I believe it was a linux server with windows clients. I forgot to add he is compiling from source. He had originally compiled for mysql and now wants to use postgresql. John - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft

Re: [Bacula-users] Ideal configuration for bacula server?

2008-01-23 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 23, 2008 3:31 PM, Hemant Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, I want to setup a new bacula server (if I can compile bacula client on AIX and HP-UX) and I am looking server and autochanger recommendations. I want to run it on a Linux system preferably RH and a LTO autochanger. I

Re: [Bacula-users] Large file question

2008-01-23 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 23, 2008 3:52 PM, Richard Crane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One challenge we face in backup here are large disk images (30+GB files). How does Bacula handle files of that size? Just like any other file. There is no special case where only the diffs are saved. If there are changes the

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-director not running, why?

2008-01-23 Thread John Drescher
Are you sure you have the new executables installed in the proper place? What you mean with new executables? Yes. I meant are you 100% sure that the executables you compiled with the postgresql support were installed in the same place any previous install you may have done on the same

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-director not running, why?

2008-01-24 Thread John Drescher
Hi John: I remember a email sended by myself in wich I call for a clean Bacula installation but really I doesn't understand where files I need to save in this case. I onlye save my conf files because in there I have the configuration but nothing else. What I'm doing wrong then? Cheers

Re: [Bacula-users] Ideal configuration for bacula server?

2008-01-24 Thread John Drescher
14GB catalog db - out of interest how often do you prune/purge this data? I have automatic file and job pruning off but I do recycle some volumes. A good deal of my backups are for archival / long term storage so I do not want to have any extra difficulty to recover a dataset by having to use

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-director not running, why?

2008-01-24 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 24, 2008 9:41 AM, Reynier Perez Mira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, I follow the step and sorprise every is old and I don't know why. See: # whereis bacula-dir bacula-dir: /sbin/bacula-dir /usr/sbin/bacula-dir /usr/share/man/man8/bacula-dir.8.gz # ls -al /usr/sbin/bacula-dir

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-director not running, why?

2008-01-24 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 24, 2008 2:06 PM, Reynier Perez Mira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi John, I run the command and see the result: ==Entering directory /data/Bacula/bacula-2.2.7/src/findlib make[1]: se ingresa al directorio `/data/Bacula/bacula-2.2.7/src/findlib' Make of findlib is good make[1]:

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-director not running, why?

2008-01-24 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 24, 2008 4:19 PM, Reynier Perez Mira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The date changes from 22/01 to 24/o1 (today) but when I start the daemon the same error come up. See the error below I thought the previous date was (2007-10-14) from your previous email: # ls -al /usr/sbin/bacula-dir

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-director not running, why?

2008-01-24 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 24, 2008 4:23 PM, Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reynier Perez Mira wrote: The date changes from 22/01 to 24/o1 (today) but when I start the daemon the same error come up. See the error below # /etc/init.d/bacula-director start Starting Bacula Director: 24-ene 16:25

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-director not running, why?

2008-01-24 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 24, 2008 4:29 PM, Reynier Perez Mira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well this is true, still with the same date but why? -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 675600 2007-10-14 22:46 /usr/sbin/bacula-dir My guess is the make install put bacula-dir in a different folder. Does it have any output during the

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-director not running, why?

2008-01-24 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 24, 2008 4:33 PM, Reynier Perez Mira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, It haven't any output. If I do make uninstall how I'm sure that Bacula doesn't exists any more? My guess here is you once installed a package from your distro and that does not get removed with make uninstall because your

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-director not running, why?

2008-01-24 Thread John Drescher
To be fair here, it is not always obvious. If you are not using something like Debian that has a configure step that will pop up and ask you questions, once you install, it is not clear what to do next. This is especially true if the installation of the package does not build the database.

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-director not running, why?

2008-01-24 Thread John Drescher
Well aparently now it compile fine but I can't find now the daemon under /etc/init.d/. Where is suppose that Bacula puts this file? Also see the date now Please explain what you just did. Did you uninstall the distro package or delete the bacula files in /usr/sbin? John

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-director not running, why?

2008-01-24 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 24, 2008 5:14 PM, Reynier Perez Mira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Soury I forgot that part. Yes, I delete every files that looks like and then configure again and compile from zero So you deleted the /etc/init.d files as well? John

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-director not running, why?

2008-01-24 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 24, 2008 5:20 PM, John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 24, 2008 5:14 PM, Reynier Perez Mira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Soury I forgot that part. Yes, I delete every files that looks like and then configure again and compile from zero So you deleted the /etc/init.d files

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-director not running, why?

2008-01-24 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 24, 2008 5:21 PM, Reynier Perez Mira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, shouldn't? It would have been better to copy the init.d scripts because they tend to be distro specific and place them back after the install from source (possibly modifying them to account for the path change). I believe

Re: [Bacula-users] multiple disks within pool?

2008-01-26 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 26, 2008 5:28 PM, Paul Dekkers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We're experimenting with bacula as possible replacement for our netvault setup. On the netvault server, we have multiple partitions that we can use for file-based tapes. (This allows us to easily add arrays / space in case we

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Problem with either drivers

2008-01-28 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jan 28, 2008 9:35 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with either drivers To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Redhat FC8 the tape drive is a Dell LTO2 drive. After I installed the SCSI drivers for the Adaptec controller

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-director not running, why?

2008-01-28 Thread John Drescher
I finished installing bacula from source today on a fresh os install. I started postgresql and then started the bacula install Next, I configured bacula-2.2.7 for postgres and installed it from source: ./configure --with-postgresql make make install steps I found that all the scripts are placed

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Using storage in pool as available?

2008-01-28 Thread John Drescher
For jobdefs, given that I've defined: Storage = STOR1-sd-st0 Storage = STOR1-sd-st1 is there a way to force bacula to move to STOR1-sd-st1 when STOR1-sd-st0 is full? If you are talking about starting a backup on one media type and ending on a different media type then the answer is no.

Re: [Bacula-users] Using storage in pool as available?

2008-01-28 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 28, 2008 10:24 PM, Jason Antman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. I canceled all pending jobs. STOR1-sd-st0 has a mounted tape that is Full. STOR1-sd-st1 has a tape that is empty, mounted, in Append. When I run the job from bconsole, I get: 28-Jan 22:20 STOR1-sd: Job

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-director not running, why?

2008-01-29 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 29, 2008 10:16 AM, Reynier Perez Mira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I stop bacula-dir and try again and this are the results: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/bacula# /etc/bacula/bacula-ctl-dir stop Stopping the Bacula Director daemon gsdserver-dir: jcr.c:171-0 write_last_jobs seek to 188 Pool

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-director not running, why?

2008-01-29 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 29, 2008 10:56 AM, Reynier Perez Mira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try on that box connecting to bacula via bconsole? Well, bconsole connect without problems. Now how I can start Bacula when server restart I mean like a real daemon as MySQL or PostgreSQL do? I am not sure how to

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-director not running, why?

2008-01-29 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 29, 2008 9:47 AM, Reynier Perez Mira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi John and thanks again: I reinstall Bacula from zero compiling the latest 2.2.8 version and you're right the init script are in /etc/bacula dir. Also I run the command you suggest me and see the output: ~#/etc/bacula#

Re: [Bacula-users] communication with bacula-dir

2008-01-29 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 29, 2008 12:49 PM, jason bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you or anyone tell me if theres a way to communicate with bacula if i built a web interface to modify things besides using sockets etc...? how can i tell it to run a job like bconsole does? can i just insert into

Re: [Bacula-users] communication with bacula-dir

2008-01-29 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 29, 2008 3:35 PM, jason bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a document on how this is done? I'd be interested in seeing an example Just echo what ever command you will type in bconsole and pipe that to bconsole: # echo status dir | bconsole Then grab the output. John

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger with two drives - Slots Issue

2008-01-29 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 29, 2008 3:31 PM, Matt Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first thing I see is you do not have the Changer command in the Autochanger part. Scratch that. You do have that. I am not sure what the problem is. Ok, thanks for taking a look tho John, tis appreciated... Also if you

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger with two drives - Slots Issue

2008-01-29 Thread John Drescher
The first thing I see is you do not have the Changer command in the Autochanger part. Scratch that. You do have that. I am not sure what the problem is. John - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger with two drives - Slots Issue

2008-01-29 Thread John Drescher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var# tapeinfo -f /dev/sg6 Product Type: Medium Changer Vendor ID: 'ATL ' Product ID: 'L500 632' Revision: '0026' Attached Changer API: No SerialNumber: 'JF84918284' SCSI ID: 0 SCSI LUN: 0 Ready: yes It is /dev/autochanger1 for me because I wrote a udev

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger with two drives - Slots Issue

2008-01-29 Thread John Drescher
Something silly I am doing wrong or a bug ? Any pointers would be really appreciated :-) I would start at a lower level than that. Are you 100% sure /dev/sg6 is your autochanger? tapeinfo -f /dev/sg6 will tell you. Here is what I get for my changer: # tapeinfo -f /dev/autochanger1 Product

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger with two drives - Slots Issue

2008-01-29 Thread John Drescher
# cat /etc/udev/rules.d/55-bacula.rules SUBSYSTEM==scsi,ATTRS{vendor}==EXABYTE*,ATTRS{type}==8, SYMLINK+=autochanger1 You will have to replace the vendor with your vendor. And make sure the type matches. I am not sure this number is universal. John BTW, You can figure out this info using

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions about Magnum 224

2008-01-29 Thread John Drescher
I've been doing some research on using the Exabyte Magnum 224 with Bacula and seen your name come up a number of times in the mailing lists. Yes we have a magnum224 is a 2 drive LTO2 with 24 slots. I was curious what your overall experience has been with this setup? We are running

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula with EXABYTE STORAGELOADER LTO 3

2008-01-30 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 30, 2008 9:00 PM, John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We just bought the TandBerg (Former Exabyte) 1U Storage Loader LTO3. I amn trying to configure that with Bacula. Has anyone done this so far. We also have Bacula + Exabyte Magnum 1×7 LTO Tape Auotloader. That works

Re: [Bacula-users] how to relabel / assign to appropriate pool

2008-01-31 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 31, 2008 4:13 PM, Robin Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally trying to conduct a real-world test here. Must be something trivial I'm overlooking here ? What exactly are you trying to do here? You never want to manually label tapes that have barcodes on them. John

Re: [Bacula-users] how to relabel / assign to appropriate pool

2008-01-31 Thread John Drescher
On Jan 31, 2008 5:03 PM, Robin Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: John Drescher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 4:20 PM To: Robin Blanchard Cc: bacula Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] how to relabel / assign to appropriate pool

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with storage (LTO-2)

2008-02-01 Thread John Drescher
On Feb 1, 2008 10:02 AM, John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 1, 2008 7:34 AM, Tyekanyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, im currently having some issues with my HP Ultrium LTO-2... It is connected via scsi on an HP server too Sometimes I get this error in bconsole: 01-feb

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem: Tape Library with 4 drives

2008-02-01 Thread John Drescher
I have this problem with all drives where there drive index is greater then 0. bacula-sd.conf --- Autochanger { Name = sgzhBaculaSD2-LTO Device = Drive-1 Changer Command = /etc/bacula/scripts/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d Changer Device = /dev/sg0 } Device { Name = Drive-1

[Bacula-users] Fwd: how to relabel / assign to appropriate pool

2008-02-01 Thread John Drescher
On Feb 1, 2008 8:48 AM, Robin Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 31, 2008 4:13 PM, Robin Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally trying to conduct a real-world test here. Must be something trivial I'm overlooking here ? What exactly are you trying to do

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with storage (LTO-2)

2008-02-01 Thread John Drescher
On Feb 1, 2008 7:34 AM, Tyekanyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, im currently having some issues with my HP Ultrium LTO-2... It is connected via scsi on an HP server too Sometimes I get this error in bconsole: 01-feb 02:04 adm-sd: adm-mysql-diario.2008-02-01_02.00.00 Error: Unable to

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem: Tape Library with 4 drives

2008-02-01 Thread John Drescher
My original configuration have 4 drives (like your example). But the sd-server can't use drives where there drive index is something other than 0 (=zero). When i use Drive-2 the sd-server log out the following error (debug 400): --- want=0 got=2 --- Why the sd server want zero and

Re: [Bacula-users] help with autochanger/barcodes

2008-02-01 Thread John Drescher
On Feb 1, 2008 2:32 PM, Robin Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : It doesI successfully wrote to the tape this morning. Now I'm trying : to get the barcode/label business going. So did it really change the tapes, or just wrote to the tape? Tape drive and tape changer are different

[Bacula-users] Fwd: how to relabel / assign to appropriate pool

2008-02-01 Thread John Drescher
So backing up just a bit (pre-barcodes)The test that started this morning yielded (and no bacula email) the following. Can you shed any light on this ? *status dir lewis-dir Version: 2.2.8 (26 January 2008) i386-portbld-freebsd6.3 freebsd 6.3-STABLE Daemon started 01-Feb-08 09:57, 0 Jobs run

Re: [Bacula-users] help with autochanger/barcodes

2008-02-01 Thread John Drescher
H...Sort of looks like bacula is passing the wrong variables to the script ? Or my config is wrong ? Your config looks correct. At least the line that calls the script. (shutdown all bacula daemons) # /usr/local/share/bacula/mtx-changer /dev/pass0 slots 1 20 The other option is

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula on vista

2008-02-02 Thread John Drescher
On Feb 3, 2008 12:27 AM, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all i am having trouble getting bacula to install on a windows vista ultimate box it is windows 6.0 build 6000. I am using bacula installer version 2.2.8 and keep getting the following error on install. ! The Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] slightly annoying bug in the console

2008-02-03 Thread John Drescher
This does not happen under Bacula 2.2.8 on FreeBSD. Sounds to me like this is a not a Bacula-specific issue, but rather something introduced by the packaging. It happens for me with gentoo which the package manager builds it from the source. John

Re: [Bacula-users] help with autochanger/barcodes

2008-02-04 Thread John Drescher
Actually, you shouldn't even be using label barcodes If the tape is blank and shows in the database as never having been used before, Bacula will label it automatically. I had a second reason for recommending that. I do not believe Robin had tape loading working correctly so getting label

Re: [Bacula-users] Last 7 days

2008-02-04 Thread John Drescher
On Feb 4, 2008 11:37 AM, Cesare Montresor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, i need to configure a 7 day backup, 8th day must be deleted, but i'm unsure about schedule, client and pool configuration. Schedule { Name = WeeklyCycle Run = Full sun at 23:05 Run = Incremental mon-sat at

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with automatic mounting volumes

2008-02-05 Thread John Drescher
Just so everyone is not confused. The question I asked was did the file storage run out of space. And the answer is below. On Feb 5, 2008 10:37 AM, Tomasz Moczadłowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I did! - This SF.net email

Re: [Bacula-users] purging jobs

2008-02-05 Thread John Drescher
On Feb 5, 2008 1:15 PM, Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, today i have purged some old clients from the catalog. *purge This command is can be DANGEROUS!!! It purges (deletes) all Files from a Job, JobId, Client or Volume; or it purges (deletes) all Jobs from a Client or Volume

Re: [Bacula-users] Force Bacula to skip failed jobs?

2008-02-05 Thread John Drescher
2) NOT have backups pile up - i.e. if a backup to a tape pool A is waiting or failed, and another backup comes up going to a disk pool B, let the other backup run? If you enable concurrency this case will go away. John -

Re: [Bacula-users] purging jobs

2008-02-05 Thread John Drescher
before the purge command there were related job entries in the catalog, after the command they are gone, the volumes are not expired/purged/pruned/deleted. the command works like expected, but i wonder if this message is a bug or just a bad message that should show the successful execution

Re: [Bacula-users] slightly annoying bug in the console

2008-02-05 Thread John Drescher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $ ldd `which bconsole` /usr/local/sbin/bconsole: libreadline.so.6 = /lib/libreadline.so.6 (0x280a2000) libhistory.so.6 = /usr/lib/libhistory.so.6 (0x280cf000) libncurses.so.6 = /lib/libncurses.so.6 (0x280d6000) libpthread.so.2 =

Re: [Bacula-users] RunBeforeJob on Win32 fails with no errors.

2008-02-05 Thread John Drescher
On Feb 5, 2008 8:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys I am officially stumped. I am trying to run a script before the job to copy the bacula db before backing it up. The batch script works when its clicked. But, whether I use the 'ClientRunBeforeJob' not

Re: [Bacula-users] testing to get thru sourceforge

2008-02-05 Thread John Drescher
On Feb 5, 2008 9:13 PM, Peter Much [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just testing It got here. John - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008.

Re: [Bacula-users] RunBeforeJob on Win32 fails with no errors.

2008-02-05 Thread John Drescher
However, I have been testing with simple files, so I didn't put the db at risk. It seems that the targeted script is simply not run at all, the result would be the same with any script wouldn't it? I was under the assumption that the xcopy command failed because the files that it was trying

Re: [Bacula-users] RunBeforeJob on Win32 fails with no errors.

2008-02-05 Thread John Drescher
I apologise for the confusion. Now I think I confused you. Thanks for the help though, I would have been testing everything twice otherwise! lol Are you sure that the xcopy did not fail? I think the exit command returns 0 regardless of the success or failure of the xcopy. Or am I wrong

Re: [Bacula-users] help with volume management

2008-02-06 Thread John Drescher
What volume will be pruned and recycled after a month? The 1st folume Vol-001 will be the full backup, Vol-002 to Vol-031 will be incremental. Bacula will first use 31 volumes regardless of how many days are in the current month and then after this is done it will recycle the oldest tape

Re: [Bacula-users] Including selected directories

2008-02-06 Thread John Drescher
On Feb 6, 2008 4:20 PM, Thomas Mohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear People, at first an apology if that has been already answered, but I have researched Web, Mailing lists etc, but to no avail. My problem is as follows: I want to back up the Documents directory of the home directoris of the

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula errors one certain hosts for backup

2008-02-06 Thread John Drescher
On Feb 6, 2008 9:33 PM, Adam Abuirmeileh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we did some editing of our bacula system a few weeks ago to work out some problems. and we kind of forgot what we changed. i am now getting 06-Feb 20:20 moe-dir: Bender.2000-02-06_20.19.03 Warning: ../../lib/bnet.c:864

Re: [Bacula-users] no fsf on restore?

2008-02-07 Thread John Drescher
On Feb 7, 2008 5:20 PM, Peter Much [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When restoring (a single file) from a tape that has multiple jobs written on, the SD does not skip the irrelevant jobs until it gets to the one that contains the file; instead it reads every single block of every job(!) until it

[Bacula-users] Fwd: no fsf on restore?

2008-02-07 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Feb 7, 2008 8:10 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] no fsf on restore? To: Peter Much [EMAIL PROTECTED] Device { Name = EXB8505-01 Description = Exabyte 8505 extern Media Type = EXB8500c Archive Device

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Zabbix

2008-02-08 Thread John Drescher
On Feb 8, 2008 12:55 PM, Cesare Montresor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For fully understanding the result you have to look at http://www.zabbix.com/, there also some sceenshots. Thanks for the link. Only if I would have seen this two days ago before I rolled out nagios to monitor all my servers.

Re: [Bacula-users] Exabyte 224 - Additional magazine not properly recognized

2008-02-11 Thread John Drescher
Do you see all 24 slots in the archive console? I believe there is an option somewhere to enable the other magazine? Also have you rebooted since adding the magazine? John - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft

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