Re: [Bacula-users] backing up shared storage?

2010-05-05 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/5/2010 8:16 AM, Jakov Sosic wrote: Hi. I have a cluster with shared storage which is mounted only on one node at a time. Other node's don't have that partition mounted. I wonder, what is a way to backup a shared partition? If I only include partition in filesets of all cluster nodes,

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger, two drives

2010-04-29 Thread Josh Fisher
On 4/28/2010 6:43 PM, Greg Golin wrote: Hello, I am trying to configure bacula to use vchanger for offsite backups. Basically I'd like to be able to swap USB drives every week and take them offsite. The vchanger howto does not state whether I should run *label barcodes *for each

Re: [Bacula-users] Idea/suggestion for dedicated disk-based sd

2010-04-06 Thread Josh Fisher
On 4/6/2010 8:42 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 04/06/10 02:37, Craig Ringer wrote: Is this insane? Or a viable approach to tackling some of the complexities of faking tape backup on disk as Bacula currently tries to do? Well, just off the top of my head, the first thing that comes

Re: [Bacula-users] Marking volumes as 'error' because they're not in autochanger.

2010-03-31 Thread Josh Fisher
On 3/30/2010 5:42 PM, Tom Eastman wrote: Hey Guys, I'm using bacula 2.4.4-1 (from Debian Lenny). I'm using a removeable hard-drive based storage using the 'vchanger' C++ program to simulate an autochanger. Each of our hard drives therefore simulates a 'cartridge' with 10 'volumes'. What

Re: [Bacula-users] Encryption slow down

2010-03-31 Thread Josh Fisher
On 3/30/2010 5:44 PM, William Taylor wrote: Before enabling encryption we were getting 118 - 120 MBs throughput to our LTO-4 tape drive. With encryption turned on we get 38-39MBs throughput. bacula process is at 98 - 100 % cpu while running. I tried cutting the key size down to 472bits

Re: [Bacula-users] Hard disk as backup media

2010-03-24 Thread Josh Fisher
On 3/24/2010 1:28 PM, John Drescher wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Thomas Muellertho...@chaschperli.ch wrote: Am Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:57:18 -0300 schrieb Marcio Vogel Merlone dos Santos: Hi all, I am currently using bacula 2.4.2-1ubuntu4~hardy1, but the web docs refer

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula TUI?

2010-03-19 Thread Josh Fisher
On 3/19/2010 8:36 AM, Moray Henderson wrote: Silver Salonen wrote: On Friday 19 March 2010 14:07:36 Moray Henderson wrote: Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:00:53AM +, Moray Henderson wrote: Hello everyone, Would there be any interest in

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula TUI?

2010-03-19 Thread Josh Fisher
On 3/19/2010 9:31 AM, Silver Salonen wrote: On Friday 19 March 2010 15:19:18 Josh Fisher wrote: On 3/19/2010 8:36 AM, Moray Henderson wrote: Silver Salonen wrote: On Friday 19 March 2010 14:07:36 Moray Henderson wrote: Wouter Verhelst wrote

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows XP File Daemon - Service Stops With Unknown Error

2010-03-10 Thread Josh Fisher
On 3/9/2010 10:02 AM, Bob Hetzel wrote: 3 things that have given me grief due to the windows FD stopping or being unresponsive (but still mysteriously running)... a) buggy network driver--in one case I was able to update the driver to fix. I'll second that one. I have had several

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent backup to multiple disk volumes

2010-03-01 Thread Josh Fisher
On 3/1/2010 1:24 PM, Stan Meier wrote: Hi there, I just noticed that (for disk backups) by 1. (director) specifying multiple Device = lines in the Storage section that is referenced by a given (single!) Pool and 2. (storage daemon) setting Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1 per device

Re: [Bacula-users] disk based backup, interleaving pros/cons?

2010-02-26 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/26/2010 11:32 AM, Joseph Dickson wrote: Greetings.. I’m using completely disk based backup, with a custom autochanger script. When I initially set this up, I set the maximum job concurrency on each of my disk devices to 1, so that Bacula would be forced to only write one job to any

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs on the same storage

2010-02-24 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/24/2010 9:25 AM, Silver Salonen wrote: On Wednesday 24 February 2010 15:58:57 John Drescher wrote: OK. I have never used tapes with Bacula. But I'd expect a file-type device to be able to load more than 1 volume at a time. It's quite trivial, isn't it?

Re: [Bacula-users] Using two disks/problems using vchanger, what could be a good strategy?

2010-02-24 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/24/2010 12:03 PM, Administrator wrote: Hi, i use two simple usb-disks for backups. Each friday the aktive disk is exchanged and put in safe. Alas bacula asks me always to bring the last used volume online or label a new one. Labeling a new one solves the problem but this is not a good

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple disks as a single storage

2010-02-18 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/18/2010 3:36 PM, Heitor Medrado de Faria wrote: Google search for bacula vchanger John Thanks John. I will try that. But I think the only problem is I wont be able to run restore jobs while backup is running - simultaneously. Am I right? vchanger implements a virtual

Re: [Bacula-users] ERR=A Required Privilege Is Not Held By The Client...

2010-02-17 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/16/2010 2:55 PM, Henrik Johansen wrote: Hi, On 02/16/10 06:36 PM, Josh Fisher wrote: On 2/16/2010 11:34 AM, Paul Binkley wrote: Hi All, Director is 3.0.2, backing up a 32bit Windows Vista client running 3.0.3. After adding onefs=no to the FileSet options in the director

Re: [Bacula-users] ERR=A Required Privilege Is Not Held By The Client...

2010-02-16 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/16/2010 11:34 AM, Paul Binkley wrote: Hi All, Director is 3.0.2, backing up a 32bit Windows Vista client running 3.0.3. After adding onefs=no to the FileSet options in the director, I get the error messages during the backup: Cannot open C:/Documents and Settings/.../:ERR=A required

Re: [Bacula-users] Using Bittorrent as Backup Technology

2010-02-08 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/7/2010 10:29 PM, mehma sarja wrote: Thanks to both of you for your thoughts. I am actually looking for anyone who has tried it or someone who has thought about trying it and dropped the idea. I understand 10 instances is very small - but I am not contemplating huge files either. Is

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula - ESXi - vmdk hot backup

2010-01-21 Thread Josh Fisher
I think there are two schools of thought. 1. Run FD on the host and backup a snapshot of the running VM's storage. 2. Run FD in the VM and backup as any other machine. The advantages of 1 are simpler backup and faster, simpler restore in a disaster recovery situation. The disadvantages of 1 are

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error: Network error with FD during Backup: ERR=Connection timed out

2010-01-15 Thread Josh Fisher
the backup. If it is dropped for any reason, then you will see this error. Since the server is 600km away, that could be difficult. One solution might be to run SD locally and backup to local storage, then rsync backup volumes to the remote server. 2010/1/13 Josh Fisher jfis...@pvct.com

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-fd on windows: ... is a different filesystem. Will not descend from....

2010-01-13 Thread Josh Fisher
Gavin McCullagh wrote: Hi, we're running backups of a few Windows desktops with Bacula. On Windows Vista and Windows 7, you tend to get a bunch of messages like this: jm-fd JobId 2526: c:/Users/johnm/Documents/My Videos is a different filesystem. Will not descend from

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error: Network error with FD during Backup: ERR=Connection timed out

2010-01-13 Thread Josh Fisher
Carlo Filippetto wrote: Hi all, I have a problem when backup windows 2008 64 bit, with Exchange 2007 (bacula 3.0.3 on Centos 5.3) On google I found and insert Heartbeat Interval = 1 minutes on both client and server, but only one time the full backup goes well, after all the

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with file daemon on Windows Vista.

2009-12-11 Thread Josh Fisher
Erik P. Olsen wrote: Director and storage daemon is version 3.0.2 on Fedora 12 and file daemon on Windows Vista is version 2.4.3. I get quite a lot of messages like: c:/Documents and Settings/All Users is a different filesystem. Will not descend from c:/Documents and Settings into

Re: [Bacula-users] backup error - Network send error to SD

2009-12-10 Thread Josh Fisher
uhog-v...@spamex.com wrote: Hi everyone. I have a new problem with a particular backup in my environment. I'm using bacula 3.0.2 across all components. This has been running fine for some time however this particular laptop used to be running linux(recently it was switched over to XP).

Re: [Bacula-users] dependency resolution issues installing 3.0.2

2009-12-03 Thread Josh Fisher
Paul Binkley wrote: ... Is the problem that Bacula is 32 bit and these dependencies are x64? How can I get around this? Thanks! BTW, The host machine is Fedora 11 x64. I have been running Bacula 2.4.4 on this machine without issue for months but need to upgrade I've been running

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to Remote Windows

2009-11-24 Thread Josh Fisher
MrShoubs wrote: We have a remote site with a windows server, our main site has a mixture of windows and ubuntu boxe's. I just need to know if Bacula allow back ups to the remote windows server disk? I'm guessing it won't as there is no storage daemon for windows? You just create a

Re: [Bacula-users] weekly backup on 2 external hard disks

2009-11-04 Thread Josh Fisher
Mgr. Martin Fabus( wrote: What do I do with the catalog? Does this remain as it is, i.e. just one catalog for all the jobs and all the pools, do I use one of the new ones (full1, etc), or do I keep the default pool? It is enough to have 1 job for the catalog, but you will have

Re: [Bacula-users] weekly backup on 2 external hard disks

2009-11-03 Thread Josh Fisher
Glynd wrote: Thanks for this as it is exactly what I want to do too (except the annual full BUP) I am a little confused about setting up the jobs. If there are 2 jobs per client, how do they write tothe pools full1, incr1, full2 and incr2? I have all mine set to level = incremental and when

Re: [Bacula-users] weekly backup on 2 external hard disks

2009-11-02 Thread Josh Fisher
Mgr. Martin Fabuš wrote: I don't think that will do what you want. The reason for 4 pools is to keep the incrementals on drive 1 relative to the fulls on drive 1, and the incrementals on drive 2 relative to the fulls on drive 2. If you have only 2 pools, then the incrementals will be

Re: [Bacula-users] two tape drives, one pool

2009-11-02 Thread Josh Fisher
Dan Langille wrote: I have been using a single stand-alone external DLT drive for quite some time. I recently configured my tape library and just got Bacula to label the barcodes. A very handy feature, BTW. Now that I have two tape drives [attached to the same bacula-sd] at my

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula features

2009-10-30 Thread Josh Fisher
Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, 30.10.2009 11:56, James Harper wrote: -Original Message- From: Ralf Gross [mailto:r...@stz-softwaretechnik.de] On Behalf Of Ralf Gross Sent: Friday, 30 October 2009 21:47 To: James Harper Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

Re: [Bacula-users] weekly backup on 2 external hard disks

2009-10-30 Thread Josh Fisher
Mgr. Martin Fabuš wrote: You could probably do this with 4 pools. Each drive would contain volumes in two pools, one for full backups and one for incremental backups. For each client there would be two jobs, one backing up to drive 1 using pools full1 and incremental1 and another backing

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula features

2009-10-30 Thread Josh Fisher
Leslie Rhorer wrote: It performs the same function as the disk-changer shell script that ships with Bacula, but with some enhancements. Removable drives are treated as magazines containing some number of volume files. An autochanger has some number of magazine bays into which magazine drives

Re: [Bacula-users] weekly backup on 2 external hard disks

2009-10-29 Thread Josh Fisher
Mgr. Martin Fabuš wrote: Hi All, I would like to configure the Bacula in following way * use 2 external hard disks connected over the USB * change these 2 HDDs once per week (let's say on friday afternoon) * every day doing a backup - incremental (of several servers) *

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger configuration question

2009-10-27 Thread Josh Fisher
You don't have 'Autochanger = yes' in the device records for d1, d2, and d3. That howto (and script) are outdated and need to be edited. The vchanger project page is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/vchanger/, and there is a much more recent howto there. Scott Courtney wrote: Greetings, all

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and NAS

2009-10-21 Thread Josh Fisher
John Drescher wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Gabriel - IP Guys gabr...@impactteachers.com wrote: -Original Message- From: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] Sent: 21 October 2009 14:04 To: Martens, Craig (NIH/NIAID) [C]; bacula-users Subject: Re:

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger script syntax error

2009-09-25 Thread Josh Fisher
Not exactly, but the howto on the Bacula wiki is quite outdated. The script has been deprecated in favor of a C/C++ executable. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/vchanger/. glynd wrote: I downloaded the vchanger script and when I test it I get this: /etc/bacula/vchanger: 49: Syntax error: (

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup with Bacula on a samba share

2009-09-17 Thread Josh Fisher
giggzounet wrote: Hi all, I'm a newbie in the backup world. Unfortunately my boss would like that I install a backup system for our labor. And I'm a little bit lost... We have 5 pc running under linux opensuse 11.0 (bacula is available for opensuse 11.0 : version 2.2.7). On each of these 5

Re: [Bacula-users] persistant drive letters under Windows

2009-09-01 Thread Josh Fisher
Thomas Mueller wrote: On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:26:45 +1000, James Harper wrote: I am running the bacula-sd on windows and using removable USB drives as the backup media. There are currently 3 disks labelled DISK001, DISK002, and DISK003. On each disk are volumes labelled the same as the

Re: [Bacula-users] Howto make bacula unmount a disk after backup?

2009-08-31 Thread Josh Fisher
Thomas wrote: one year ago i ran into the same problem: http://www.adsm.org/lists/html/Bacula-users/2008-07/msg00885.html i did only a few tests with usb-sticks so there is no solution until now I find it far simpler to use the autofs daemon to automount removable drives at a static

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula spool on SSD -- solid state drive?performance testing?

2009-07-27 Thread Josh Fisher
Alan Brown wrote: On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, John Lockard wrote: For spool, I would worry about the limited write (erase) cycles of SSD. SLC drives are good for at least 100,000 cycles and all current SSD drives use wear levelling plus even more generous levels of sparing than

Re: [Bacula-users] Network send error to SD. ERR=Broken Pipe

2009-06-25 Thread Josh Fisher
Cesare Montresor wrote: Hi guys, does anyone know how to resolve this issue ? Considerations: - Started and restared, all components many times :) - Add hearthbeat interval = 1 to SF and SD - Test connection using telnet, works... - Unix permissions at SD are ok. - This job dies always

Re: [Bacula-users] Firewall woes

2009-06-15 Thread Josh Fisher
Ken Barclay wrote: Well, I added state ESTABLISHED and RELATED to the iptables on both the Director and Client Servers, restarted iptables and manually started the backup job. This is the reply: On both Director and Client, and SD as well, the listening socket has to accept packets in

Re: [Bacula-users] Era of virtual machines (block level differentials and incrementals)?

2009-06-02 Thread Josh Fisher
Ulrich Leodolter wrote: I agree, this would be a nice feature, not only for virtual machine images. But if you install bacula inside a virtual machine you can restore individual files. If you backup images you can only restore full images. Ulrich I agree, but I have been using a

Re: [Bacula-users] Configuring Director Storage on different nodes

2009-05-06 Thread Josh Fisher
James Harper wrote: Hi, I want to configure Director Storage daemon of Bacula System 3.0.0 on two different nodes (same Linux flavor, CentOS 5.2 to be precise). Performance should be the same. I do it on a Xen system where the sd is on Dom0 for performance reasons, but the director

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Rescue CD - Boot Problems

2009-04-22 Thread Josh Fisher
I don't use VMWare, but what I do for Centos 5 Xen is keep a minimal Centos 5 VM template in a file on the host server's file system. In this case, physical servers are a two-node cluster, and a copy of the template VM is kept on both nodes. The VMs are in LVM partitions on DRBD storage. The

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger and 'label barcodes' issue

2009-04-22 Thread Josh Fisher
Delete the volume files from the USB drive and try again without issuing the update slots command before the label barcodes. T. Plancon wrote: Hello, I'm working on setting up Bacula 2.4.2 with the current version of vchanger 0.8.2 from Sourceforge, using USB drives on CentOS 5.2.

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk-to-disk backups and the scratch pool

2009-04-14 Thread Josh Fisher
James Chamberlain wrote: On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Martin Simmons wrote: On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:41:00 -0400, James Chamberlain said: The basic problem for me is that I've hit the 8 TB file system size limit with ext3, and I don't have ext4 available to me yet. With tape

Re: [Bacula-users] Howto recover from a job being rerun around a summer time change

2009-04-08 Thread Josh Fisher
Martin Simmons wrote: On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:45:54 +0200, Foo said: On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:41:52 +0200, Martin Simmons mar...@lispworks.com wrote: On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:34:09 +0200, Foo said: The best solution would be for Bacula to translate time

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape vs disc volumes

2009-04-03 Thread Josh Fisher
Mike Ruskai wrote: When a tape volume is recycled, the contents are lost. Is the same true for a disc volume? Is the whole file truncated, or does it just start from the beginning, and only destroy the contents it actually overwrites? I don't believe the volume file is changed at all

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-users Digest, Vol 30, Issue 28

2009-02-12 Thread Josh Fisher
John Drescher wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:51 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Bernd Plagge bpla...@choicenet.ne.jp wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I've been using Bacula for years to backup my

Re: [Bacula-users] Finding performance issues

2009-02-10 Thread Josh Fisher
(private) HKS wrote: Hi all, I'm relatively new to Bacula, but so far have been very impressed with it. Right now, I'm backing up three separate data centers to Dell 2950s with 3TB SATA RAID 5 disk arrays. I'm running Bacula 2.2.8 on OpenBSD 4.4 with Postgresql 8.3.3. The only trouble I'm

Re: [Bacula-users] atoi and volume name/media name ambiguity (Was: Re: Bug / RFE)

2009-02-06 Thread Josh Fisher
-cmd[0] == '+' is_a_number(ua-cmd)) { mr-MediaId = str_to_int64(ua-cmd); } else { bstrncpy(mr-VolumeName, ua-cmd, sizeof(mr-VolumeName)); Cheers, Josh Fisher Further, although you can't do much for existing installations, we could reduce ambiguity by starting

Re: [Bacula-users] udev by-id symlinks randomly missing for tape drives on centos5

2009-02-05 Thread Josh Fisher
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 09:12:33PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Hello! I'm having problems with udev /dev/tape/by-id/ symlinks.. it seems symlinks to tape drives are sometimes (randomly) missing after reboot. Server in question has IBM TS3200 tape library

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula giving slow speed

2009-01-14 Thread Josh Fisher
Holikar, Sachin (ext) wrote: Thanks Mr. Drescher for the reply. 1. We will surely give it a try for using latest Bacula version and see if it improves any performance. 2. The system on which Bacula is loaded , is having good configuration like 4 GB of RAM and 2.80 GHz. 3. There is no

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Copy jobs in Bacula version 3.0.0

2008-12-16 Thread Josh Fisher
Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, I've been discussing with Eric how we might handle Copy jobs in our development version. Currently, Copy jobs are implemented, and they work much like Migration jobs (share 99% of the code). The difference is that Migration jobs purge the original backup job

Re: [Bacula-users] one system always failing backup -- logs, SD debug, config files

2008-12-16 Thread Josh Fisher
Jo Rhett wrote: We have a dozen systems backed up to a single host, on-disk backup. We just rebuilt the host. One of the systems had periodically failed backups (once every week or so) but all other systems were fine. Now this same system won't back up at all. This is private Gigabit

Re: [Bacula-users] Time for change

2008-12-10 Thread Josh Fisher
Alan Brown wrote: On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Brian Debelius wrote: John Drescher wrote: In linux, I find this to be completely wrong. I have 15TB of software raid 6 and the most load that it puts on the cpu is around 7% and these are raid arrays that net over 200MB/s writes on single

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows XP networking dies

2008-11-24 Thread Josh Fisher
Jason Dixon wrote: We have three XP SP2 workstations that all have scheduled Bacula jobs. Two of them run fine. The third one loses networking every Friday during the FULL backup job. When it enters this state you can no longer ping the box or perform any networking functionality.

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows XP networking dies

2008-11-24 Thread Josh Fisher
Jason Dixon wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:50:15PM -0500, Josh Fisher wrote: Jason Dixon wrote: We have three XP SP2 workstations that all have scheduled Bacula jobs. Two of them run fine. The third one loses networking every Friday during the FULL backup job. When it enters

Re: [Bacula-users] Fibre Channel drives keep switching

2008-11-19 Thread Josh Fisher
Robert LeBlanc wrote: We have a Overland Storage Neo 8000 with two FC LTO3 drives, and almost every time the SD is rebooted, the drives swap places. Drive0 will be /dev/st0 and Drive1 will be /dev/st1, then sometimes after reboot Drive0 will be /dev/st1 and Drive1 will be /dev/st0. It

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error: backup.c:892 Network send error to SD

2008-10-21 Thread Josh Fisher
Miguel Angel wrote: Hi list, I need your help, when launch a backup for a client (nous-fd, OS: WinXP), these work too slow, Bacula show me this error: 20-oct 23:18 bacula-sd JobId 39748: Job write elapsed time = 05:20:29, Transfer rate = 41.78 K bytes/second 20-oct 23:18 nous-fd JobId

Re: [Bacula-users] Removable HDD backup

2007-12-13 Thread Josh Fisher
Dan Langille wrote: Tonight, on IRC, we solved the following problem (original posted to http://www.nabble.com/Removable-HDD-backup-to14286773.html): My goal is to have bacula backup onto an external HDD source that rotates. As in, there are three HDDs in rotation and at least

Re: [Bacula-users] BACULA/VMWARE crashes entire system [RESURRECTED]

2007-12-10 Thread Josh Fisher
Chris Howells wrote: Scott Ruckh wrote: I don't think it is the power supply. Running bacula causes the crash. The machine only crashes when bacula is involved. This machine does not do 24x7 backups. Full backups, for 3 clients, take at most 6 hours. Incremental backups for

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula using one drive in a Vchanger

2007-11-07 Thread Josh Fisher
Elie Azar wrote: Hi Josh, I have upgraded to bacula 2.2.5 and I'm still having the same problems. It seems like drive-1 in the vchanger is never used. Have you ever seen it used, and if so, what kind of configuration do I need; I followed the instruction in the HowTo document (Rev 0.7.4

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula using one drive in a Vchanger

2007-11-07 Thread Josh Fisher
From Elie's bconsole output (below) I think there is something else going on here, so I am CCing the developer list. Job 13736 got to the volume first, moved it from the Scratch pool into the pool being used, loaded it into the drive, relabeled it into the new pool, and began using it.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula using one drive in a Vchanger

2007-10-30 Thread Josh Fisher
Elie Azar wrote: Hi, we're using vchanger, but bacula never seems to use more than the first virtual drive, even though we have 10 defined in the storage Autochanger directive for it. why won't bacula use drive1, drive2, etc. It does at least look at these higher-numbered drives when

Re: [Bacula-users] iSCSI-Tape problems

2007-10-29 Thread Josh Fisher
Wolfgang Denk wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Curious as to why tar worked when btape did not, I found this. For portability reasons, tar appears to always use a physical block size of 512 bytes. See http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/tar_73.html.

Re: [Bacula-users] iSCSI-Tape problems

2007-10-25 Thread Josh Fisher
Christoph Litauer wrote: Christoph Litauer schrieb: Josh Fisher schrieb: This can happen when ClearPageReserved() is not called for a reserved kernel memory page. Could be an iSCSI driver (included with the Linux kernel) problem or, if you are using a hardware iSCSI adapter

Re: [Bacula-users] iSCSI-Tape problems

2007-10-24 Thread Josh Fisher
Christoph Litauer wrote: Dear bacula users, I am running bacula-mysql 2.2.5 (rpm from sourceforge) on a SuSE SLES 10SP1 machine, kernel version 2.6.16 (SMP). I configured and mounted tape drive via iSCSI. I can tar from and to this drive without problems. I can label a tape with btape,

Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger Questions

2007-10-03 Thread Josh Fisher
Elie Azar wrote: Hi Josh, Thanks for the reply... Josh Fisher wrote: There is a script called disk-changer that is packaged with Bacula that does much the same thing and is what vchanger was based on. The disk-changer script uses a file in the base directory of each autochanger

Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger Questions

2007-09-27 Thread Josh Fisher
in and change a job's storage directive from the filled hard drive to one that has enough space... And eventually, I'd like to be able to replace full hard drives without having to change the whole configuration. Thanks again for your help, Elie Josh Fisher wrote: Elie Azar wrote: Hi, I'm

Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger Questions

2007-09-26 Thread Josh Fisher
Elie Azar wrote: Hi, I'm kind of new to Bacula, and definitely to Vchanger, so please bear with me. I want to implement vchanger on a set of hard drives, with the idea that I will have a pool of, let's say, 10 drives available for backup, and where I do not have to specify a storage

Re: [Bacula-users] BACULA/VMWARE crashes entire system [ON-GOING PROBLEM]

2007-09-19 Thread Josh Fisher
Scott Ruckh wrote: I am running CentOS 4.5 x64 with self compiled kernel 2.6.13.4. I have installed the latest bacula 2.2.4 Director, Client, and Storage daemon on this server. Bacula run flawlessly most of the time. Unfortunately when I run VMWare Workstation and have a virtual machine

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Where do we go after Bacula 2.2.0?

2007-09-12 Thread Josh Fisher
Kern Sibbald wrote: On Wednesday 12 September 2007 05:06, Nick Pope wrote: On Sep 11, 2007, at 1:26 PM, David Boyes wrote: Also, there is still a period of time where only one copy of the backed-up data exists; all the easy solutions to this problem don't address that requirement.

Re: [Bacula-users] Job Concurrency

2007-07-25 Thread Josh Fisher
Support wrote: Dear Shon I have a similar situation and solved it byusing this stargegy. Firstly the disk volumes should be treated as Tape drives in that only onle volume can be opened at a time but you can have many concurrent jobs writing to that volume - my setting is for a maximum of 5

Re: [Bacula-users] Removable USB Howto -

2007-06-21 Thread Josh Fisher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Josh thanks again for your quick answer. I think I have understood the theoratical configuration of the virtuel autochanger But now I have a practical question: I configured the autochanger as discripted in the Howto. If I want to label the volume (Howto

Re: [Bacula-users] Removable USB Howto -

2007-06-19 Thread Josh Fisher
Daniel Haas wrote: For a minimal administration I found the vchanger script on this mailing list. I read the documentation but I altough have some questions: How can I configure the autochanger without changing the scripts - one autochanger with 6 physical disks (3 for monthly and 3 for

Re: [Bacula-users] Win32 encryption problems

2007-06-15 Thread Josh Fisher
Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, I am now working on bug #807, where decrypting files gets signature digest errors on each file restored. As far as I can tell, these are *false* error messages, most likely due to the fact that Microsoft BackupWrite() does not restore exactly the same bits as

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup-Proxy-Solution needed

2007-05-29 Thread Josh Fisher
Arno Lehmann wrote: Hello, On 5/28/2007 10:50 AM, Rich wrote: On 2007.05.28. 10:55, Stefan Wintermeyer wrote: Hi, we'd like to use Bacula as our one and only backup solution. But we have a problem with all home-office-installations. They normaly work with an asynchron DSL

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula, Mondo and Mindi

2007-05-01 Thread Josh Fisher
, mondorestore let's you manually create the partitions, volume groups, etc. before restoring files. Mandag 30 april 2007 15:44 skrev Josh Fisher: I have used Mondo/Mindi. I'm not sure there is a need to incorporate Mindi into Bacula though. For one thing, Mindi will work only for Linux and FreeBSD

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula, Mondo and Mindi

2007-04-30 Thread Josh Fisher
-dir --- Josh Fisher Jonathan B Bayer wrote: Hello bacula-users, Has anyone ever thought about doing with Bacula and Mindi what Mondo and Mindi do? Mondo and Mindi are a complete disaster recovery solution for one computer, in that a complete image is taken of the system, stored

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] File I/O performance kernel advisary API

2007-04-25 Thread Josh Fisher
I think you might be looking for the fadvise64_64() system call. Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, Someone on one of these lists recently (last 6 months to 1 year) sent me a suggestion for Linux kernel ioctl()s (or another API) that could be used to advise the kernel how you are going to read or

Re: [Bacula-users] Using a hard drive library of 5 disks as a backupdrive

2007-04-19 Thread Josh Fisher
Darien Hager wrote: On Apr 18, 2007, at 1:15 PM, David Lebel wrote: And /backup would be defined on the OS level as a symlink to the current slot, let assume for this example, to /drive then, have the system just switch the /backup directory/symlink around the 5 drives, let say,

Re: [Bacula-users] best way of using removable disk?

2007-04-16 Thread Josh Fisher
All of those ways should work. However, I would suggest using 2.0.3 if you are going to reinstall anyway. Disaster wrote: Dear all, We are using bacula 1.38.11 with the removable disk howto version 0.7.4 but we are experiencing some troubles (we'll post them to the ml if we are able to

Re: [Bacula-users] Controlling concurrent jobs

2007-04-10 Thread Josh Fisher
Kern Sibbald wrote: On Monday 09 April 2007 21:22, Josh Fisher wrote: Kern Sibbald wrote: On Monday 09 April 2007 16:20, Josh Fisher wrote: There's no reason they cannot use the same pool. They just cannot write to the same volume concurrently. With a tape device

Re: [Bacula-users] Controlling concurrent jobs

2007-04-09 Thread Josh Fisher
There's no reason they cannot use the same pool. They just cannot write to the same volume concurrently. With a tape device, that would be a problem because there can only be one volume in the tape drive. However with a disk device, a volume is a file, so there can be numerous volumes being

Re: [Bacula-users] Controlling concurrent jobs

2007-04-09 Thread Josh Fisher
Kern Sibbald wrote: On Monday 09 April 2007 16:20, Josh Fisher wrote: There's no reason they cannot use the same pool. They just cannot write to the same volume concurrently. With a tape device, that would be a problem because there can only be one volume in the tape drive

Re: [Bacula-users] Removable disk HOWTO autofs question

2007-03-28 Thread Josh Fisher
It is udev, rather than autofs, that creates /dev/disk/* entries. The udev rules must be a bit different for Centos/RHEL. Kind of strange, since Fedora has had it at least since Core 4. The solution is to add udev rules to create a symlink to the physical device that gets assigned by udev.

Re: [Bacula-users] Removable disk HOWTO?

2007-03-23 Thread Josh Fisher
On Friday 23 March 2007 08:58, Robert Nelson wrote: -Original Message- From: Erich Prinz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:15 AM To: Josh Fisher Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net (E-mail); Robert Nelson Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Removable

Re: [Bacula-users] Removable disk HOWTO?

2007-03-21 Thread Josh Fisher
letter would map to a particular magazine and the drive letters are reserved for those drives. That seems feasible, and I will investigate it. On Mar 20, 2007, at 2:04 PM, Josh Fisher wrote: The latest version is 0.7.4 and was posted to the bacula-users list 2006-12-12. It currently isn't

Re: [Bacula-users] Removable disk HOWTO?

2007-03-20 Thread Josh Fisher
this method for USB drives, but I can say that I have been using it with bacula 2.0.x for several months without any problems. --- Josh Fisher Hristo Benev wrote: Hi, what is latest version of removable disk howto and where it could be accessed? Thanks Hristo Benev

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Feature request: more flexible TLS cert validation

2007-03-16 Thread Josh Fisher
Kern Sibbald wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 16:40, Jorj Bauer wrote: Bacula does its normal HMAC-MD5 password authentication I never meant to imply that it did not, although my message was obviously interpreted that way by at least two people. The FD address cannot be

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Feature request: more flexible TLS cert validation

2007-03-15 Thread Josh Fisher
Jorj Bauer wrote: I didn't actually craft this patch to address any TLS weakness; I wrote it to address a feature flaw/conflict. Let's take the DNS security issue off the table for the moment. As I mentioned at some point, that's mostly paranoia. As you say, you'd have to compromise both

Re: [Bacula-users] Fixed ip binding for bacula daemons?

2007-02-08 Thread Josh Fisher
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Re: [Bacula-users] Example config using the disk-changer autochanger?

2007-01-10 Thread Josh Fisher
I posted a howto and script for using removable hard drives as a virtual autoloader on 2006-12-12 that may help. It works essentially the same way whether using removable or fixed drive(s). Joshua Colson wrote: Does anyone have an example of a working configuration using the disk-changer

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD

2006-12-29 Thread Josh Fisher
Kern Sibbald wrote: On Friday 29 December 2006 00:03, Steen Meyer wrote: Onsdag 27 december 2006 18:50 skrev Kern Sibbald: On Tuesday 26 December 2006 15:39, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: * Kern Sibbald schrieb am 26.12.06 um 15:03 Uhr: Hi Kern, [ progress on rescue cd ]

Re: [Bacula-users] Removable Disk Howto revised

2006-12-18 Thread Josh Fisher
jbrsubscribe wrote: snip Thanks very much for responding to my questions and for posting the updated HOWTO. I managed to get it working.. it looks good! My only remaining problem is that I cannot get it to create any slots on drive-1. Whenever I run label barcodes, regardless of the drive

[Bacula-users] Removable Disk Howto revised

2006-12-12 Thread Josh Fisher
Attached is the latest version of the Bacula Removable Disk Howto in HTML and LaTeX formats. The attachment also includes the vchanger shell script and an example config file this time. The vcahnger script was updated to fix a bug (thanks to Michael Fung for pointing that out) and to keep the

Re: [Bacula-users] Removable Disk HOWTO

2006-12-11 Thread Josh Fisher
jbrsubscribe wrote: Josh Fisher wrote: Michael Fung wrote: Dear Josh, Thanks for releasing the vchanger script and HOWTO! However, I found a problem around line 94: # Create nextmag file to hold max magazine index used if [ ! -f ${statedir}/nextmag ]; then echo 0

Re: [Bacula-users] Removable Disk HOWTO

2006-11-30 Thread Josh Fisher
Michael Fung wrote: Dear Josh, Thanks for releasing the vchanger script and HOWTO! However, I found a problem around line 94: # Create nextmag file to hold max magazine index used if [ ! -f ${statedir}/nextmag ]; then echo 0 ${statedir}/nextmag It created the nextmag file

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