Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent Jobs (shouldn't be)

2008-10-06 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Jason Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That was just an overview. Each Job is tied to a single client. I haven't been able to get this working properly yet; the lower priority jobs always multiplex (to use a NetBackup term) concurrently and force the higher priority job to wait. My patch

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent Jobs (shouldn't be)

2008-10-06 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Alan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: This directive is only implemented in version 2.5 and later. When set to {\bf yes} (default {\bf no}), this job may run even if lower priority jobs are already running. This means a high priority

Re: [Bacula-users] Again: restore all most recent backed up files without using full backups

2008-10-06 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
gvm999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I found out I accidentally deleted volumes with a full backup. Or the files are not in the database anymore. the difference is significant, but it sounds like the latter is your problem. So now I wonder, how can I make bacula restore all the files that have

Re: [Bacula-users] catalog recovery

2008-10-06 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
T. Horsnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can recover the catalog.sql file with bextract, but do I then have to start using mysql commands to convert this ascii file into a mysql database, or are there bacula commands to do it. The catalog maintenance section doesnt tell me you need to create

Re: [Bacula-users] file inclusion directive - @|sh - causes error

2008-10-09 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Guy Matz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: nope, not that either.  are you guys just taking stabs in the dark!?  ;-) that's a bit rich coming from someone who's obviously hasn't bothered to read the manual himself. you can only use this kind of syntax inside file-lists. the @filename syntax works

Re: [Bacula-users] How do I reuse tapes that have been written to by accident?

2008-10-09 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thomas Arseneault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The storage daemon died on my storage box causing the dump to fatally error out. I fixed the daemon problem but now I have 4 tapes that I would like to reuse but they are far from their retention time so how do

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula recycles Volumes instead of creating new ones

2008-10-10 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Marc Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Further, I want to know, why bacula recycles Volumes (which destroys data) instead of creating new ones and if this is a Bug which should be reported. I believe this is intended behaviour, and it's the behaviour I want. after all, when I tell Bacula I

Re: [Bacula-users] SVN fd doesn't work with older director

2008-10-17 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Henry Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: because of bug http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1147 I built the fd from latest svn without replacing the director (version 2.2.5) on my backup server. Then I got the following error: bserver-dir JobId 6856: Fatal error: File daemon at

Re: [Bacula-users] Who talks to whom in bacula?

2008-10-23 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
James Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, if your link is in anyway unreliable (eg some chance of dropping for a second or two whilst the backup is running) then the entire running job (or jobs if you are running concurrently) could be failed. this sounds strange. TCP will retransmit

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know of another project that does something similar. Nagios. Nagios has a sister project, Lilac (previously called Fruity). Fruity is a web-based interface for maintaining your Nagios configuration files. It is quite good. You export your

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Web - Trac all jobs in a schedule?

2008-11-05 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: B-W feature question: Could we write a query that examines overall pool volume write capacity? no, since the configuration files need to be available. It would be nice to track historical bytes written by a select set of jobs (normally started

Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?

2008-11-05 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Nov 5, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: another approach is to write an Augeas lens for the Bacula configuration. it may be necessary/useful to restrict the Bacula syntax somewhat, e.g., require users to remove the optional spaces

[Bacula-users] Incremental only scheduling (was: Re: What new feature are you waiting for?)

2008-11-10 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Erik Logtenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would very much like to see the possibility to make only incremental backups, no more full backups required. [consolidated backups] I have a wish which sounds similar, but is actually very different. I want to avoid having to schedule Full backups.

Re: [Bacula-users] Moving from Tape to DVD

2008-11-10 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Jari Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Got an error: the whole machine hang when the backup job was well over 2GB. Changed to Maximum Part Size 800M, which is apparently there for a reason. Next error. Job finished successfully [...] BUT. As it writes, it took one volume. Job wrote

[Bacula-users] the behaviour of Rerun Failed Levels

2008-11-10 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
I'm considering to turn on Rerun Failed Levels, but the manual says: [...] the Ignore FileSet Changes directive is not considered when checking for failed levels, which means that any FileSet change will trigger a rerun. I don't understand what that means... let's say that the

Re: [Bacula-users] the behaviour of Rerun Failed Levels

2008-11-10 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: I'm considering to turn on Rerun Failed Levels, but the manual says: [...] the Ignore FileSet Changes directive is not considered when checking for failed levels, which means that any FileSet change will trigger

Re: [Bacula-users] possible console interface improvement

2008-11-13 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My suggestions for improvement (and no, I don't understand the Bacula source code nearly well enough to try and implement them myself) would be: 1. Extend the help command to accept a command name argument and list the keywords accepted by that

Re: [Bacula-users] Missing nfs share blocks job [fd: 2.2.8]

2008-11-13 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 13.11.2008 12:05, Ronald Buder wrote: Due to a server failure the nfs shares are not available anymore. I would like to see some sort of a timeout at least if that is at all possible. That's not possible inside Bacula - the FD simply can't terminate

Re: [Bacula-users] regex/regexdir: how to make case insensitive?

2008-11-14 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Alan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The subject says it all really. I really don't want to convert all my match lines to .*/[T|t][E|e][[M|m][P|p]/, etc etc ignore case = yes, perhaps? :-) http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION00147 --

Re: [Bacula-users] Building bacula-fd on Irix

2008-11-19 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
ASMR (Anders Sønderberg Mortensen) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to compile the bacula file daemon version 2.4.3 for Irix (IRIX64 bisse 6.5 07202013 IP35). Here is what I do: setenv CC cc ./configure --enable-client-only Which looks pretty happy apart from this ==Entering

Re: [Bacula-users] Solaris Packet size too big failures

2008-11-26 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Jason Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:59:41AM +0100, Kshatriya wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Jason Dixon wrote: We moved our Bacula Director off Linux to Solaris (not my choice) recently. Since then, we've encountered frequent failures of the catalog backup job

Re: [Bacula-users] How to set up large database backup

2008-11-26 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
I thought I'd get back to the original question :-) David Jurke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem I have is with our large (expected to grow to several terabytes) [Oracle] server. I’m told by the DBAs that the size and amount of activity on this database is such that putting the whole

Re: [Bacula-users] How to set up large database backup

2008-11-26 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
David Jurke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think it'd need some tweaking to delay putting each tablespace into backup mode until Bacula is ready to back it up - one of the problems I have is that we can't put all the tablespaces into backup mode at the same time because of the volume of logs

Re: [Bacula-users] How to set up large database backup

2008-11-26 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
David Jurke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Basically, as I understand it, your first group of comments are about not backing up empty space, as per your example if there is only 10GB data in a 100GB data file. However, our database is growing rapidly, and our DBAs tend to allocate smaller

Re: [Bacula-users] Large maildir backup

2008-11-27 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Jesper Krogh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can you give us the time for doing a tar to /dev/null of the fileset. time tar cf /dev/null /path/to/maildir Then we have a feeling about the actual read time for the file of the filesystem. if you're using GNU tar, it will *not* read the files if you

Re: [Bacula-users] Large maildir backup

2008-11-27 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Alan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ext3 will perform a lot better if you use tune2fs and enable the following features: dir_index Use hashed b-trees to speed up lookups in large directories. this may be good for Maildir, but with Cyrus IMAPD, which uses

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Priorities and Maximum Concurrent Jobs

2009-03-24 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
John Lockard jlock...@umich.edu writes: But, priority also postpones any jobs of higher priority. If a job, of priority 20 is currently running and you start off several other jobs, with priorities of 10, 20 and 30, then the only jobs which will run concurrently will be the jobs of priority

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula.db missing

2009-04-16 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
[Kern Sibbald]: [Chandranshu]: [I] modified the code in src/cats/mysql.c to print the error message returned by mysql_error(). Then, I compiled and ran the code to see the most dubious error in my DBA career: Error 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket

Re: [Bacula-users] lstat - how much of it do we actually NEED? (Comments please)

2009-04-16 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Craig Ringer cr...@postnewspapers.com.au writes: [A] AFAIK all it _needs_ for restore is: - File name - [st_size] File size in bytes (for restore verification) - md5sum neither md5sum nor filename are

Re: [Bacula-users] decoding lstat data

2009-04-16 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Kelly, Brian brian.ke...@uwsp.edu writes: I've seen lots of posts regarding the decoding of Lstat data. I'm currently using a few functions to decoded the lstat data and make it human readable. These functions have been tested and are known to work with mysql 5.0.70 hi, I spent quite a bit

Re: [Bacula-users] lstat - how much of it do we actually NEED? (Comments please)

2009-04-16 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com writes: (I'm dreading the switch to 3.0...  I seriously doubt I'll be able to do it in 24 hours, and I don't like the thought of a day without backups.  but we'll see.) BTW, you do not have to upgrade clients so only the director and sds are needed to be

Re: [Bacula-users] lstat - how much of it do we actually NEED?(Comments please)

2009-04-17 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
(sorry about the topic drift, Craig -- this will be the last message from me in this sub-thread :-) James Harper james.har...@bendigoit.com.au writes: oh, sure -- I'm only worried about the database schema update. I currently have 350M rows in File (90 days retention -- I'd like to increase

Re: [Bacula-users] Files missing with restore all

2009-04-17 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Chandranshu . chandran...@gmail.com writes: 30,865 files inserted into the tree and marked for extraction. The number of files displayed in the table is correct at 37,840. What is not clear to me is why is it saying that only 30, 865 files are inserted into the tree and marked for

Re: [Bacula-users] Following symlinks

2009-04-20 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Daniel Bareiro daniel-lis...@gmx.net writes: Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: Where the client can have a /space/log and/or /space/backup and the symlink can be in some subirectory of them. With this declaration of File, how I could force backup of symlinks? if you have GNU find, try

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

2009-04-21 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
James Chamberlain jam...@exa.com writes: On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Martin Simmons wrote: I'm not sure if it will work, but you could try using symbolic links from one file system to the volumes on the other file system(s)? Thanks for the suggestion, and I considered it, but I don't think it'll

Re: [Bacula-users] AutoLabel problems

2011-01-31 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk r...@karlsbakk.net writes: PS: I can't find any bacula logs on the SD (on OpenIndiana). I have tried to recompile with --with-logdir=/opt/bacula/var/log and created that directory. Since bacula-sd currently runs as root (I know, don't say it), the permissions should

Re: [Bacula-users] dump my configuration?

2011-02-01 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
hymie! hy...@lactose.homelinux.net writes: JobDefs { Name = DefaultJob Pool = IncPool Full Backup Pool = FPool Differential Backup Pool = DiffPool Incremental Backup Pool = IncPool } Job { Name = GreatPlains-Backup JobDefs = DefaultJob } Job { Name = BackupCatalog

Re: [Bacula-users] dump my configuration?

2011-02-01 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
hymie! hy...@lactose.homelinux.net writes: Kjetil Torgrim Homme writes: you specified Recycle, so Bacula will reuse old volumes. Thank you! I thought Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 would prevent that, but once the job is purged, then there are no jobs in that volume, so it becomes fair game. BTW

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula mysql problem

2011-02-02 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Laxansh K. Adesara laxa...@anatec.com writes: After some headaches configuring bacula-dir I have another problem. When I try to test bacula-dir I get following error Bacula-dir: Fatal error : mysql.c: unable to connect to MySQL server. Database=bacula User=bacula MySQL is not the problem

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring old file - Filling DB with File Records using bscan

2011-02-02 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Richard Marnau mar...@catering-kiel.de writes: i'm stucked with a small but nasty problem. We need to restore a file which location is known, but the exact filename is not clear. So I need to browse old backups, but the file table has been pruned (for an unknown reason). okay, you'll have

Re: [Bacula-users] Reason to a new FULL job

2011-02-16 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Eduardo Júnior ihtrau...@gmail.com writes: what's the reasons to a new FULL job to be created? I mean, after a scheduled FULL job, another is started automatically. I asked this because last night, a new job FULL for a client was started without any change in the File Set or a manual

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I use data spooling when writing to nfs mounted storage?

2011-03-06 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Sean Clark smcl...@tamu.edu writes: In my experience, slow performance like this (i.e. 5MB/s on at least 100Mb ethernet) usually turns out to be the client's fault. Compression seems to be a very common culprit. Try switching compression off completely and see how much of a difference that

Re: [Bacula-users] file listing?

2011-03-15 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
others can find it useful. -- Kjetil T. Homme Redpill Linpro AS - Changing the game #! /usr/bin/perl -w # bacula-du 1.0 # Written by Kjetil Torgrim Homme kjetil.ho...@redpill-linpro.com # Released under GPLv3 or the same terms as Bacula itself sub usage { print _END_; Usage: $0 [OPTIONS] -j

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Linux and the LTO-4 tape speed

2012-09-18 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
Nils Juergens nils+bac...@muon.de writes: for me (with LTO-3) increasing Maximum block size has had quite the impact on performance. Sadly, with the new setting I had trouble reading my tapes so switched back to the old configuration. in Linux, you can configure your tape drive to accept