Re: [Bacula-users] Include config files such as how nagios does?

2010-02-19 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I would like to be able to break out my bacula configuration into a more >'logical' (from my perspective) set of files. >For example, all my clients, >I'd like to put into a file called bacula_clients.cfg and then reference that >file in my >DIR config - same thing for my schedules, I'd like to

Re: [Bacula-users] Building SRPM on CentOS 5.4 issues [SOLVED]

2010-02-19 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>rpmbuild --rebuild --define "build_centos5 1" --define "build_mysql5 1" >--define "build_bat 1" --define >"build_wzconsole 1" bacula-5.0.0-1.src.rpm > >was the command required to build my RPM's which installed without a hitch. >Because I was doing an upgrade, I had to >run the update scripts, I

[Bacula-users] Catalog restore problem

2010-02-17 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I am trying to take a mysql version 11 db and import it into a postgre db for later update to version 12. I exported as per the manual, `mysqldump -u root -p -f -t -n bacula >bacula_backup.dmp` After manually creating the postgre db and verifying it, I attempted `psql -Ubacula bacula < bacula_bac

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS Windows Backups

2010-02-15 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I tend to disagree - but I admit you seem to know what you're talking >about :-) I tend to disagree with that:) Heh... >Anyway, my scenario in more detail - I'd be happy to see any hidden >pitfalls! >Use a secondary windows /typically PE-based) to boot. Create the >partitions you originally h

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS Windows Backups

2010-02-15 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>For such a full backup, you need some secondary windows installation >for the resore itself - for Server 2003 and XP, BartPE is a convenient >way to get such a thing. For newer Windows versions, you probably best >use Microsoft's PE system (I haven't actually built such a beast yet). I cant sa

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS Windows Backups

2010-02-15 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>From what I can see under the backups, VSS is successfully being used, >backing up files (open or closed), MSDE, IIS, and various other things >- just like I would like to expect. Looks fine to me...   >What I would like to know however, is how to restore these VSS snapshots? What to understand

[Bacula-users] Using Postgre w/ 5.0.0

2010-02-15 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I thought I would compile and test out 5 for a new setup I am migrating to. As it's a test box, there is no password for bacula. It runs fine and the pg_hba.conf has the modifications to allow access. I can run a catalog backup as root, but bacula is failing with: Can't get catalog information at

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula and mysql password security

2010-01-27 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>So it seems the bacula-dir.conf file is doing what it is supposed to do. Of >course I may be misinterpreting everything but it does seem to be >functioning as I need it to. I found when I was learning it the most useful approach I had was to actually just sit and read each Resource Definition in

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula and mysql password security

2010-01-26 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I would really appreciate it if someone could look over the bacula-dir.conf >file below which I took from the manual and modified. The manual example is >in chapter 25 'Automated Disk Backup' however when I used this bacula >returned an error about no default pool being defined. I therefore added

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula and mysql password security

2010-01-25 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I'm new to bacula and would appreciate some advice on securing mysql with >bacula. I have installed bacula-3.0.3 on Centos 5.4 with MySQL and all >seems to be working well. My only concern is how to add password >protection to the mysql database and not cause any of the bacula scripts >to stop wor

Re: [Bacula-users] continuing a failed job

2010-01-07 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>It's a Windows workstation and I've set up the system where the person can >just click a shortcut that activates his job and he gets the notification >about the job by e-mail later. So rsync is not an option. Why not? I do a lot of bacula based backups from windows machines that utilize cwrsync

Re: [Bacula-users] Comments about HP Ultrium Drive on Bacula

2009-11-18 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>What do you use insted.. our former Quantum changer was equipped with HP >tape-drives, ditto is our current StorageTec SL500. From my limited view >HP is inside everything.. After the last library tanked, I migrated to Bacula and disked based backups to 3 different servers, 2 of which are remote.

Re: [Bacula-users] Comments about HP Ultrium Drive on Bacula

2009-11-18 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>We're thinking about buy a LTO Ultrium HP external drive. FWIW, I have had very bad luck w/ HP branded LTO's, for several years they had low MTBF and not last long for me... -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting -

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole: reload command

2009-10-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>What are the permissions of /etc/bacula? Ugh, how could I have missed that :) Fixed and working... -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend th

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole: reload command

2009-10-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I have used this over 100 times without problem in the 5 years I have >used bacula. Well that is if I do a test first. > >bacula-dir -t /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf > >In the past if you had an error in your .conf file it would crash the >director so I always test first.. Well, I run the test w/o

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole: reload command

2009-10-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Does anyone know if the reload command really works in bconsole? >For the manual, only works in some situations. Has anyone tested >this command? >From my highly limited and inexperienced use of it, it often failed more than worked for me. Currently when I run it, I get: Cannot open config file

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula and NAS

2009-10-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Hi, I have a very simple question. Can bacula be used to back up to a NAS >instead of a tape drive? http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=faq #2 :) It'll do just about anything, http://www.bacula.org/3.0.x-manuals/en/install/install/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html#SECTION0083

Re: [Bacula-users] Help: Configuring 'where' backups will stay

2009-10-21 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Yet the default backup jobs always fails. Well, what does the log say about why? Is it looking for a pool that doesn't exist or have been fully defined? >I wish to backup to a device which is mounted on /backup - it's a NAS with a >good few TB of storage - how would I go about >doing this? I am

Re: [Bacula-users] Max Volume syntax error

2009-10-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I hope you also changed the configuration file and reloaded it - >otherwise, newly created volumes will get the wrong settings again! Yup, I restarted the director before running the updates in bconsole. >Obviously, waiting until the volumes are automatically recycled is the >easiest approach. I

Re: [Bacula-users] Max Volume syntax error

2009-10-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>There are now 8 volumes so what is the correct way to bring this back >to how I intended. I should have mentioned that I did run Update/Volume parameters/All Volumes from all Pools & update/pools as well, so that leaves me with just removing the volumes. I am guessing I have to see what's in the

[Bacula-users] Max Volume syntax error

2009-10-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have mistakenly created a pool with "Maximum Volume Files = 5" instead of "Maximum Volumes= 5" as I meant. There are now 8 volumes so what is the correct way to bring this back to how I intended. Also, given that one of the jobs writes ~400,000 files, how did they all end up in one volume with t

[Bacula-users] Wait time confusion

2009-10-02 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have a job that runs either fulls or diffs, sometimes when there is a problem on the client, the diff will hang. That being the case I figured I would config a max time for the diff. Looking for a "Differential Max Run Time" like "Incremental Max Run Time" but there is only a "Differential Max Wa

Re: [Bacula-users] job run script error

2009-09-30 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>That’s because the shell interprets the * glob but bacula doesn’t. >The shell will replace "/var/lib/bacula/*.bsr" with a list of matching >file names (if these files exists) while bacula will send the string >as is to the program. The solution is to put your command into a >shell script and exec

Re: [Bacula-users] job run script error

2009-09-30 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Hi, > >Shouldn't it be "RunAfterJob", since the bootstrap files are on the director? > >On the JobDef, where are you putting the bootstraps? ( for me, in the default >JobDef there's 'Write bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/%c_%t_%n.bsr" ' - %c = >client name, %t = job >type, %n = jobname ) > >Cheers,

[Bacula-users] job run script error

2009-09-30 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I am trying to execute a simple scp of the bootstrap files after the catalog backup. It always says: ClientAfterJob: /var/lib/bacula/*.bsr: No such file or directory When run as root at the shell, it works fine. As the director runs as bacula, I checked perms, and /var/lib/bacula and all the .bsr

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Exchange Server 2007

2009-09-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Any hints concerning the restore? I very much encourage you to read MS whitepaper on Exchange DR. Its backup software agnostic, but provides lots of info, its invaluable! -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer

Re: [Bacula-users] Fileset manipulation by job

2009-09-16 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>> a RunScript parameter has a %l to pass the Job Level on >Hey, that sounds interesting, I did note eaven know that, can you point >me to the on line documentation where I could find more about that? Hannes, The area in the docs is under the Director Config Job Resource: http://www.bacula.org/3.0

[Bacula-users] Fileset manipulation by job

2009-09-16 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Is it possible to manipulate the fileset based on the job? For example, a RunScript parameter has a %l to pass the Job Level on, can the fileset somehow be manipulated like this as well? Thanks, jlc -- Come build with us!

Re: [Bacula-users] Improving backup speed

2009-09-15 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Are dir also running on this machine ? Nope. >So perharps the db config is too low ( default conf tend to be friendly with >hardware resources ) >and if batch-insert is enable, bacula write the batch table also in /tmp so >there's concurrency on the same drive. Reading up on this in the manua

Re: [Bacula-users] Improving backup speed

2009-09-14 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>cpu high on sd ? Did you use a soft raid ( level 5 ? ) >or wrong params for the fs . No raid, actually this was a test box setup with a kickstart file using /tmp as the device location. Bizzare... jlc -- Let Crystal Repo

Re: [Bacula-users] gpg keys for el5 rpms

2009-09-14 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>To me everything looks good. The CentOS/el5 RPMs should be signed with my key >0xFAF24CCA which is available as >http://sourceforge.net/projects/bacula/files/rpms-contrib-fschwarz/rpmkey/fschwarz.asc/download > >- Can you tell me which RPMs specifically had that problem? >- Which key was used to s

Re: [Bacula-users] Improving backup speed

2009-09-14 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>no, in sense of configuration. this is a known limitation of gzip >compression. if you're on LAN (gigabit) you might wan't to disable it if >you backup to tape (use tapes hardware compression) or if you backup to >file, use a compressed filesystem (maybe: http://miio.net/wordpress/ >projects/fusec

[Bacula-users] Improving backup speed

2009-09-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have several mixed clients all backing up to Linux and Solaris SD's. The windows fileserver's are taking far too long, so in looking at this, I noticed the cpu utilization on the Windows FD's isn't very high but the SD are, why is that? Searching the forum showed compression is done at the FD lev

[Bacula-users] Planning for recovery of my Bacula server

2009-09-12 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I am trying to deduce how to recover from just replicated disc volume sets in the event the catalogue or entire Bacula server is lost. What are the ramifications or requirements surrounding the placement of the volumes on the new server? Can the Device I place them in have a different Name and Med

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula not running correct job type

2009-09-12 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I spoke to soon, looking at the schedule, it correctly showed the >intended Job Type. It started with a Full on the specified time in >the Schedule and the next few scheduled times after that had specified >Differential's so the schedule showed this. > >When it came time to run it (on its own as p

Re: [Bacula-users] Compiling 3.0.2 on OpenSolaris

2009-09-12 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Did you test the config file? >/path/to/bacula-sd -t -c /path/to/bacula-sd.conf Yup, no warning. >I run bacula-sd as user & group bacula Heh, turned out that the install scripts never created the pid directory! Why there was no error, who knows:) Working now! Thanks everyone! jlc ---

Re: [Bacula-users] Compiling 3.0.2 on OpenSolaris

2009-09-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I would suggest running in debug mode (-d). >The Init script changes to the correct user. So run the init script with >pfexec. >You should also check for the right permissions on the logfiles. Maybe it is a >problem with connecting to the database. Tries the -d switch, I am only running the Sto

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula not running correct job type

2009-09-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Thanks for clearing all this up, that makes sense about not using the schedule >when >executed manually and the default behavior when not specified (As I was >specifying >it in the schedule). I spoke to soon, looking at the schedule, it correctly showed the intended Job Type. It started with a

[Bacula-users] Compiling 3.0.2 on OpenSolaris

2009-09-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have MySQL installed and used a configure script like so: CFLAGS="-g" ./configure \ --prefix=/opt/bacula \ --sbindir=/opt/bacula/bin \ --sysconfdir=/opt/bacula/bin \ --with-mysql=/usr/mysql/5.1 \ --enable-smartalloc \ --with-pid-dir=/opt/bacula/bin/working \ --with-subsys-dir=/opt/b

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula not running correct job type

2009-09-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>You're not actually testing your schedule settings when you run the job >manually. Cedric/Mike, Thanks for clearing all this up, that makes sense about not using the schedule when executed manually and the default behavior when not specified (As I was specifying it in the schedule). It's now

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula not running correct job type

2009-09-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>When you ran the job the first and second time, do you mean you >initiated the job manually (i.e. with the "run" command in the console) >or do you mean you sat back, did nothing, and let bacula start the job >all by itself based on the schedule? I used the run command (Well weBacula did actually

[Bacula-users] Bacula not running correct job type

2009-09-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have a schedule defined as follows: Schedule { Name = "Server Data Weekly Cycle" Run = Level=Full mon at 18:00 Run = Level=Differential tue-fri at 18:00 } A job as follows: Job { Name = "Backup-Data-client" Client = client-fd JobDefs = "Default" Pool = "Svr_Data" Storage = name

Re: [Bacula-users] Full/Differential with one job

2009-09-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Unfortunately, this is more or less irrelevant to what you're doing. >You need to be looking at the section of the manual that details the Job >resource, specifically the RunScript directive: > >http://bacula.org/3.0.x-manuals/en/install/install/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION0063000

Re: [Bacula-users] Full/Differential with one job

2009-09-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Really? Where does it say that, exactly? I looked at what I believe in >the relevant section of the manual, and I came away with a completely >different understanding. In the middle of general Functionality of http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Variable_Expansion.html But, now that I read it

[Bacula-users] Full/Differential with one job

2009-09-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
With most of my jobs, Bacula handles the Full on an off day if required based on the previous status of the backup in the pool. So I have one job, and the schedule determines when the Full/Diff is done. I am trying to accomplish the same thing with my exchange backup which uses a RunBefore script

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 3.0.2 Packages for Solaris and OpenSolaris

2009-09-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I always compile from source on production Solaris 9 & 10 machines. I learned my lesson ages ago with doing such things on with distros that utilize a package manager (even though Solaris 10's is worth sh!t). From that day forward I try my hardest to always use the package manager, and it looks l

[Bacula-users] Old stats appearing

2009-09-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
After manually deleting the bacula mysql db, if I perform a "status storage=" in bconsole, I see old terminated jobs. Where is this coming from? Thanks! jlc -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Repo

Re: [Bacula-users] Building just SD from source

2009-09-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Alas not, because building the SD also builds the tools like bscan, which do >need a database. > >However, you can build Bacula with sqlite instead of mysql as long as you only >need the bacula-sd program. Sqlite can be built from source in the depkgs >download. Thanks for that info! Is it feasi

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically mount nfs location

2009-09-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Autofs should do the trick although I have never used it this way with bacula. Yea, much simpler:) >Any reason why you do not have a bacula SD on the NFS server? Because I am trying to avoid compiling on this Solaris server and I can't find 3.0.2 packages in any Solaris repo:( I do want to get

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 3.0.2 Packages for Solaris and OpenSolaris

2009-09-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>The user community should make an effort to offer pre-compiled fd's and sd's >for various OSes. I was in the same dilemma. Did you just manually compile the whole thing? -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Fre

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically mount nfs location

2009-09-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>You need to better describe your problem. Post error messages and >describe what media you are using. I am confused with you talking >about both NFS and dvd. John, Sorry for the confusion, I am trying to setup a device in bacula-sd.conf that behaves like a DVD but for NFS. I just hoped it would m

[Bacula-users] Building just SD from source

2009-09-09 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Is this possible to do so that mysql binaries and libraries are not needed? Thanks, jlc -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and d

[Bacula-users] Automatically mount nfs location

2009-09-08 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Is this not possible/wise? No matter what I do, following the dvd setup my backup stalls waiting for me to mount, then label media? I would rather have bacula mount the location when it needs to write to it. Thanks! jlc -

[Bacula-users] Bacula 3.0.2 Packages for Solaris and OpenSolaris

2009-09-08 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Anyone know of existing Bacula 3.0.2 packages for these two distros? Blastwaves are old and I don't want to compile from source on these production machines. Thanks, jlc -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free

[Bacula-users] gpg keys for el5 rpms

2009-09-06 Thread Joseph L. Casale
The sigs for the gpg key on the sourceforge download don't match the sigs on the el5 rpms, anyone know where to get the proper key? Thanks! jlc -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Da

Re: [Bacula-users] Duplicating Disc Volumes

2009-09-05 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>You can use rsync to mirror the volume files. You can even schedule >this in a bacula job so that the synchronization happens after all >other jobs. See how the catalog backup works for the idea. Ahh, priority being the ticket here. I will just shell script this then with the catalogue backup. T

[Bacula-users] Director Conf Includes

2009-09-05 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Is it possible to write includes in the dir conf file to include any combination of resource types to keep the single file from growing large and to segment configuration from just a viewing/edit perspective? Thanks, jlc

[Bacula-users] Duplicating Disc Volumes

2009-09-05 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Is there a way in Bacula to output the stream destined to the media director to multiple clients for redundancy, or should I manage this at the OS level? I need to keep a 3 way replication of the backup volumes and if there is a way to let bacula manage this, it would simplify things for me. If n

[Bacula-users] New User Best Practise Questions

2009-09-05 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I am trying out bacula and reading the manual, I have some questions about what people do as best practice wrt to multiple clients and disc volumes. How big an issue are concurrent jobs being streamed to disc? Should I most certainly always avoid this? In 13.5, its suggested that each client writ

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