Re: [Bacula-users] RunScript and Redirecting output.

2012-04-02 Thread Graham Keeling
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 10:56:43AM +, Rob Becker wrote: > RunScript { > RunsWhen = Before > Runs On Client = Yes > Command = "/bin/echo `/bin/hostname` > > /usr/local/bacula/working/restore_file" >Command = "/bin/date +%%F >> /usr/local/bacula/working/restore_file" > } .

Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude directories

2011-09-26 Thread Graham Keeling
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 04:47:11PM +0800, Lyn Amery wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been wading through the documentation on how to exclude > files and directories from backup jobs but have had no luck. > I'm trying to exclude files like .pgpass and .svn directories > from wherever they occur in the

Re: [Bacula-users] error restoring Exchange 2003

2011-09-16 Thread Graham Keeling
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 08:52:18AM +0300, Silver Salonen wrote: > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:27:42 +0100, Martin Simmons wrote: > >> On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:47:53 +0300, Silver Salonen said: > >> > >> 15-Sep 13:48 bextract JobId 0: Error: Unknown stream=26 ignored. > >> This shouldn't happen! > > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Full-Job gets killed by time limit

2011-08-31 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 04:44:59PM +0200, Uwe Bolick wrote: > Thank you for your answer, > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 04:20:20PM +0200, Andre Lorenz wrote: > > ... > > i have solved this problem, by splitting up the data which has to be > > backed up. > > so amount of data which will go to tape is

Re: [Bacula-users] Script Client Run and ">"

2011-08-24 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 04:09:33PM +0300, Yuri Timofeev wrote: > Hi > > Problem in the symbol of ">". > File /tmp/test.log is not created. > Running only the first part of the command "ls -la". > "> /tmp/test.log" not worked. > > > Config file: > > Job { > ... > Client Run Before Job = "ls

Re: [Bacula-users] clarification on purging and File volume retention

2011-08-03 Thread Graham Keeling
On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 05:11:11PM -0700, scar wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > i'm not using tapes, i just have my volumes stored in a directory. it's > my intention to take a full backup every month on the first, with > incrementals and differentials during the mon

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems backing up to disk

2011-06-27 Thread Graham Keeling
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 07:10:19PM -0700, mikewilt wrote: > Media Type = File > > Same for both storage daemons. I found out by experience that bacula gets confused if you have the same media type on different storages. It may work better if you set the media types different to each other. > Mik

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore of files when they don't list

2011-06-24 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 02:01:56PM -0700, Steve Ellis wrote: > On 6/23/2011 1:31 PM, Troy Kocher wrote: > > Listers, > > > > I'm trying to restore data from medicaid 27, but it appears there are no > > files. There is a file corresponding with this still on the disk, so I > > think it's just bee

Re: [Bacula-users] Removing failed jobs from media/database?

2011-06-07 Thread Graham Keeling
On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 12:40:18PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > As far as I can understand, if a job is interrupted or failed, the data > stored on tape/disk won't be freed until the normal retention is over. Would > it be possible to add a flag for 'failed' data for quicker (or immediate

Re: [Bacula-users] Clarification on Exchange plugin

2011-05-31 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 01:01:39AM +1000, James Harper wrote: > > The error I am getting is the following: > > > > bacula-dir Start Backup JobId 59, > Job=Backup_Exchange.2011-05-31_10.40.23_29 > > > > Using Device "FileStorage" > > > > > > sbs-fd Warning: VSS was not initialized properly. VS

Re: [Bacula-users] Clarification on Exchange plugin

2011-05-31 Thread Graham Keeling
y help > to sort this would be great. Sorry, I think I have reached my limit of what I can help you with. All I can suggest is that you check everything again and if everything looks right to you, add some debug to relevant areas of the code. It seems from the last error message that the exc

Re: [Bacula-users] Priority of Jobdefinition

2011-05-27 Thread Graham Keeling
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 05:37:42PM +0200, Joris Heinrich wrote: > no one have an idea? I think I wanted to do something similar. That is, have different Runs in a Schedule go at different priority. I asked the question on this list and got no replies. I couldn't work out how to do it, so now I thi

[Bacula-users] Bacula 5.0.3 Macintosh file daemon?

2011-05-27 Thread Graham Keeling
Hello, Does anybody know where I might be able to find a bacula-5.0.3 Mac file daemon? Or an installer? Thanks. -- vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual b

Re: [Bacula-users] restore specific jobid

2011-05-26 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 07:24:57PM -0300, Cleuson Alves wrote: > Hello everybody, if you need to restore a full jobid and some incremental > but not all, as could be done via the console, for a given jobid > restore a specific > server and all incremental, one at a time, ie, in order, seems too muc

Re: [Bacula-users] Clarification on Exchange plugin

2011-05-26 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 03:55:41PM +0100, Marc Goujon wrote: > > >a) I think you should only use forward slashes ('/') in your filesets, not > >backslashes. > > > Replaced all paths for forward slashes. > However, exactly the same results are obtained. Bak to my original > question, is the bpipe pl

Re: [Bacula-users] Clarification on Exchange plugin

2011-05-26 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 01:50:39PM +0100, Marc Goujon wrote: > Hello, > > I know this might have been asked millions of times before, but I cannot > seem to locate clear information via the archives or the official > documentation and I feel I am almost there. > > From what I have understood,

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore problems

2011-05-26 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:43:16AM +0100, Alan Brown wrote: > John Drescher wrote: > >> I'm trying to restore a 3 month old backup, but the database says there > >> are no files to restore. > >> > >> The strange thing is, I can _see_ the entries in the database for that > >> date and the full backu

Re: [Bacula-users] OneFS = no doesn't work

2011-05-18 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 04:05:45PM +0100, Graham Keeling wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 04:31:15PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > > Hi all > > > > Working on setting up Bacula backup of a fileserver, I can't make OneFS = > > no work. The server is r

Re: [Bacula-users] OneFS = no doesn't work

2011-05-18 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 04:31:15PM +0200, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > Hi all > > Working on setting up Bacula backup of a fileserver, I can't make OneFS = no > work. The server is running OpenIndiana and has a few terabytes of storage. > The home directories under /tos-data/home/${username} ar

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate Job - Cannot find previous jobids

2011-05-18 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 01:02:08PM +0200, Christian Manal wrote: > Am 18.05.2011 12:26, schrieb Graham Keeling: > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:54:18AM +0200, Christian Manal wrote: > >> Am 18.05.2011 11:13, schrieb Graham Keeling: > >>> If times don't explain

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate Job - Cannot find previous jobids

2011-05-18 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:54:18AM +0200, Christian Manal wrote: > Am 18.05.2011 11:13, schrieb Graham Keeling: > > If times don't explain it, take a look at this bacula code from > > src/cats/sql_get.c (function db_accurate_get_jobids()), which is getting > > the job

Re: [Bacula-users] Accurate Job - Cannot find previous jobids

2011-05-18 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:47:05AM +0200, Christian Manal wrote: > Hi list, > > I have a problem regarding accurate backups. When I set 'Accurate = yes' > for any given job in my setup, the next run fails with the following > error(s): > >Fatal error: Cannot find previous jobids. >Fatal e

Re: [Bacula-users] mysqldump and Full,Diff,Incr

2011-05-17 Thread Graham Keeling
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 12:31:15PM +0200, Robert Kromoser wrote: > I have one question where I can't found any information in the bacula > documentation. ... > Question 1: > > The mysqldump backups via the bpipe plugin should be every backup run a > full backup of the mysql database regardless whi

Re: [Bacula-users] Full backup will not be idendtified

2011-05-16 Thread Graham Keeling
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 08:43:51AM +0200, Robert Kromoser wrote: > Hi folks. > > In my configuration I have 2 files per client. > One file contains the storage definition (Archive Device) > and one file contains the directory directives. > I use one fileset definition named "SugarCRM__Fileset" for

Re: [Bacula-users] How does Bacula back-up files?

2011-05-13 Thread Graham Keeling
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 05:32:05AM -0700, obviously wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question I can't solve... > > The is the situation: > > I create a file with: dd if=/dev/urandom of=test.bin bs=10M count=300 > This gives me a file of 3GB. > I check it's MD5 with md5sum test.bin > > I clear my ca

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions regarding migration job failure

2011-05-13 Thread Graham Keeling
them could avoid the problem since the bad space is contained in a volume that you are not going to use again. But if the problem is because of bacula itself corrupting the volume, it could happen again at any time anyway, so truncating them isn't going to make any difference. > On 5/1

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs won't start

2011-05-12 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:35:29AM -0500, Jake Debord wrote: > Sure, here you go: I don't think your fileset is connected to your job. If you are using fileset WinXPTest and job XPtest, then job XPtest should have: FileSet = "WinXPTest" whereas it currently has: FileSet = "Full Set" > # > # De

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs won't start

2011-05-12 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:28:13AM -0500, Jake Debord wrote: > Ok edited the conf directly and reloaded through bconsole. > Any other Ideas? > Same error: > > 12-May 10:22 DoraleeII-dir JobId 28: Start Backup JobId 28, > Job=XPtest.2011-05-12_10.22.35_04 > 12-May 10:22 DoraleeII-dir JobId 28: Usin

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs won't start

2011-05-12 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 09:36:37AM -0500, Jake Debord wrote: > The file I have setup to backup is: C:\jaketestfolder It isn't a > network share or anything, just a folder I created with a couple .mpeg > in there so give it something to backup. Have you tried this? C:/jaketestfolder (forward slas

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions regarding migration job failure

2011-05-12 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 02:06:44PM -0700, Jerry Lowry wrote: > another mistake on my part. You have to give bls the correct spelling > of the volume ( sometimes I wonder ) > > Once I corrected the volume name this is the results I get: > > Volume Record: File:blk=0: 206 Sessid=16 SessTime=130384

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions regarding migration job failure

2011-05-11 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 09:19:49AM -0700, Jerry Lowry wrote: > I have not tried to restore from that particular job as yet, but the > next question would be, if it fails on the restore that would mean that > anything backed up in that job would not be valid, correct? I think that depends upon

Re: [Bacula-users] Run out of disk space

2011-05-11 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:05:47AM -0500, Duncan McQueen wrote: > The second command gives me this: > > Error updating Volume records: ERR=sql_update.c:443 Update failed: > affected_rows=0 for UPDATE Media SET ActionOnPurge=0, > Recycle=1,VolRetention=31536000,VolUseDuration=0,MaxVolJobs=0,MaxVo

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions regarding migration job failure

2011-05-11 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 08:44:18AM -0700, Jerry Lowry wrote: > Is there anyone that can help me with this problem? Surely someone is > using the migration job. I'm not using migration jobs, but maybe I can give you a hint... > On 5/9/2011 2:51 PM, jerry lowry wrote: >> 09-May 13:59 distress-sd

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

2011-05-05 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 12:12:10AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > On May 4, 2011, at 3:26 AM, Graham Keeling wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:11:24AM +0200, Hugo Letemplier wrote: > > > I think that a new feature that add dependency between various job > > > l

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

2011-05-04 Thread Graham Keeling
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 11:11:24AM +0200, Hugo Letemplier wrote: > 2011/4/29 Jérôme Blion : > > On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:33:48 +0200, Hugo Letemplier > > > > wrote: > >> After the job ran many times: I have the following volume <=> job > > matching > >> Vol name   Level      Time > >> Test1        

Re: [Bacula-users] It's been 16 days..

2011-04-20 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:31:44PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Dan, and it's been 16 days since I last touched my bacula-dir.conf > file. Haha! This made me laugh like a drain. :) -- Benefiting fr

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backup

2011-04-14 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 08:48:37AM +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, ruslan usifov wrote: > > > I'm new in bacula world so have a question: > > > > If i do incremental backup. For example veri big file change only few bytes > > i it, what bacula do send all file, or on

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backup

2011-04-14 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:33:27AM +0400, ruslan usifov wrote: > Hello > > I'm new in bacula world so have a question: > > If i do incremental backup. For example veri big file change only few bytes > i it, what bacula do send all file, or only changed part of file? Bacula will send the whole fi

Re: [Bacula-users] Overwriting expired File Volume

2011-02-08 Thread Graham Keeling
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 01:13:58PM -0500, Josh Fisher wrote: > On 2/7/2011 10:43 AM, Graham Keeling wrote: >> It occurs to me that I might prefer to run the 'truncate all' command via >> a cron job, at some point in the day that bacula doesn't know about. >> &g

[Bacula-users] Why won't my volume truncate?

2011-02-07 Thread Graham Keeling
Hello, I have just been trying to use the bacula truncate command on disk volumes. I set 'ActionOnPurge = truncate' on all my Pools. I ran a bconsole update command to update the field in the database. This didn't update the field for volumes that were already purged, so I used mysql to update th

Re: [Bacula-users] Overwriting expired File Volume

2011-02-07 Thread Graham Keeling
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 03:31:20PM +, Graham Keeling wrote: > On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:09:12AM -0500, Josh Fisher wrote: > > On 2/7/2011 6:54 AM, Graham Keeling wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 06:43:17AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: > >>> On 02/07/11 04:11,

Re: [Bacula-users] Overwriting expired File Volume

2011-02-07 Thread Graham Keeling
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:09:12AM -0500, Josh Fisher wrote: > On 2/7/2011 6:54 AM, Graham Keeling wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 06:43:17AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: >>> On 02/07/11 04:11, xunil321 wrote: >>>> I have a lack of understanding concerning the

Re: [Bacula-users] Overwriting expired File Volume

2011-02-07 Thread Graham Keeling
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 06:53:50AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > On 2/7/2011 4:11 AM, xunil321 wrote: > > > > I have a lack of understanding concerning the handling of a disk based file > > volume to > > avoid a disk overflow. > > A simple strategy: Max Num Volumes * Max Vol Space = amount of space

Re: [Bacula-users] Overwriting expired File Volume

2011-02-07 Thread Graham Keeling
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 06:43:17AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 02/07/11 04:11, xunil321 wrote: > > > > I have a lack of understanding concerning the handling of a disk based file > > volume to > > avoid a disk overflow. Let's say there is a 100MB file volume "Volume-1". > > What will be >

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring old file -> Filling DBwith FileRecordsusing bscan

2011-02-03 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 04:40:58PM +0100, Richard Marnau wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 03:52:15PM +0100, Richard Marnau wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 03:21:35PM +0100, Richard Marnau wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 16:13:49 +0100, Richard Marnau said: > > > > > > > > > > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring old file -> Filling DBwith FileRecords using bscan

2011-02-03 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 03:52:15PM +0100, Richard Marnau wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 03:21:35PM +0100, Richard Marnau wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 16:13:49 +0100, Richard Marnau said: > > > > > > > > > > 2. = Bscan the related archives === > > > > > > > > > > bscan

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring old file -> Filling DB with FileRecords using bscan

2011-02-03 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 03:21:35PM +0100, Richard Marnau wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 16:13:49 +0100, Richard Marnau said: > > > > > > 2. = Bscan the related archives === > > > > > > bscan -p -s -v -P -h localhost Backupserver -V > > Vol0039\|Vol0045\|Vol0094 > > > > > >

Re: [Bacula-users] dump my configuration?

2011-01-31 Thread Graham Keeling
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:32:32AM -0500, hymie! wrote: > What it is doing that is weird: > > There are 6 other backup jobs in addition to the GreatPlains-Backup job > listed above. The other backups all work correctly. However, the > GreatPlains-Backup job: > (*) did not name the Volume correct

Re: [Bacula-users] dump my configuration?

2011-01-31 Thread Graham Keeling
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 09:48:38PM -0500, John Drescher wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:59 PM, hymie! wrote: > > > > Short question -- can a running Bacula Console dump out what it thinks > > my configuration is? > > > > Long question -- my Bacula installation is acting a little weird. > > I'm

Re: [Bacula-users] How to organize File-Bases Volumes...

2011-01-28 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:57:45PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: > The best plan for managing disk volumes, IMHO, absent other constraints, > is to allow the disk to contain as many volumes as it has physical room > for, allow each volume to be whatever size it needs to be to hold the > jobs you're

Re: [Bacula-users] How to organize File-Bases Volumes...

2011-01-27 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:15:59AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 01/27/11 10:48, Graham Keeling wrote: > > The same problems exist in more realistic situations. > > > > Assuming that I somehow know that all my backups will range from 100MB to > > 10GB, > > t

Re: [Bacula-users] How to organize File-Bases Volumes...

2011-01-27 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 09:45:29AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 01/27/11 09:28, Graham Keeling wrote: > > I shall summarise what I thought I had already said, because it is quite > > clear > > to me. > > > > You have a terabyte disk that you want to use f

Re: [Bacula-users] How to organize File-Bases Volumes...

2011-01-27 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 08:56:54AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 01/27/11 07:33, Graham Keeling wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 06:26:04AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: > >> On 01/27/11 06:12, Graham Keeling wrote: > >>> I think this last problem is what Phil

Re: [Bacula-users] How to organize File-Bases Volumes...

2011-01-27 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:59:37PM +0100, ml ml wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Phil Stracchino > wrote: > > On 01/27/11 06:12, Graham Keeling wrote: > >> Perhaps 10GB becomes more reasonable if you allow more than one job per > >> volume, > >>

Re: [Bacula-users] How to organize File-Bases Volumes...

2011-01-27 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 06:26:04AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 01/27/11 06:12, Graham Keeling wrote: > > Perhaps 10GB becomes more reasonable if you allow more than one job per > > volume, > > but then you still have the problem of disk space being wasted because you

Re: [Bacula-users] How to organize File-Bases Volumes...

2011-01-27 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 05:42:10AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 01/27/11 04:29, ml ml wrote: > > Hello List, > > > > I have this Pool definition with autolabeling. > > > > Pool { > > Name = File > > Pool Type = Backup > > Recycle = yes # Bacula can automatically

Re: [Bacula-users] FW: Bacula help

2011-01-25 Thread Graham Keeling
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 05:01:53PM -, Laxansh K. Adesara wrote: > > In addition, I did not set any password then how come it assigned password to > bacula director. Is there any default password for it? > How can I configure it with window client? And how can I make sure that both > are conn

Re: [Bacula-users] Best Practice to Backup Exchange Only?

2011-01-14 Thread Graham Keeling
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 01:20:33PM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: > On 14/01/2011 12:57, Graham Keeling wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:31:53PM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: >>> Is there a best practise on how to backup an exchange server? I have a >>> number of them,

Re: [Bacula-users] Best Practice to Backup Exchange Only?

2011-01-14 Thread Graham Keeling
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:31:53PM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: > Is there a best practise on how to backup an exchange server? I have a > number of them, and I would like to be able to back them up in backups > that I know are only exchange data. I know there is the plugin from > Equiinet --

Re: [Bacula-users] Help on retention period

2011-01-12 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:54:13AM -0600, Mark wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Valerio Pachera wrote: > > > > > SCOPE: We want the possibility of restore any file till 2 weeks ago. > > > > ... > > > > at sunday of the third week, the first full backup get overwritten. > > > > _ _ _ _

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about shedule

2011-01-12 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:19:31PM +0100, Valerio Pachera wrote: > Could you please help me understunding how shedule works? > > Analize this example from the wiki: > > Schedule { > Name = "ScheduleTest" > Run = Full 1st sun at 23:05 > Run = Differential 2nd-5th sun at 23:

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups

2011-01-07 Thread Graham Keeling
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 04:05:06PM +, Graham Keeling wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 04:21:57PM +0100, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > > Hi all, > > i'm trying to configure a bacula 5.0.2 to do virtual backups. > > I'm able to do the first virtual backup with s

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups

2011-01-07 Thread Graham Keeling
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 04:21:57PM +0100, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > Hi all, > i'm trying to configure a bacula 5.0.2 to do virtual backups. > I'm able to do the first virtual backup with success, but after > that, i'm unable to do a new one. > > This is the error message that i'm receiving in

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

2011-01-07 Thread Graham Keeling
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 10:25:05AM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: > On 07/01/2011 09:59, Graham Keeling wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 09:53:27AM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: > >> On 06/01/2011 18:47, Phil Stracchino wrote: > >>> On 01/06/11 12:54, Mister IT Guru

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

2011-01-07 Thread Graham Keeling
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 09:53:27AM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: > On 06/01/2011 18:47, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > On 01/06/11 12:54, Mister IT Guru wrote: > >> Okay, I see the point of Virtual Full Backup - this is to be done > >> without talking to the client at call, (i did know that! I've been d

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

2011-01-07 Thread Graham Keeling
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 08:43:09AM +, Graham Keeling wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 12:48:18PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > On 01/06/11 12:16, Graham Keeling wrote: > > > With my configuration, a VirtualFull sometimes prevents an Incremental > > > from

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

2011-01-07 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 12:48:18PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 01/06/11 12:16, Graham Keeling wrote: > > With my configuration, a VirtualFull sometimes prevents an Incremental from > > running, because the VirtualFull took too long (or vice versa). I have not > > b

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

2011-01-07 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 12:52:22PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 01/06/11 12:35, Graham Keeling wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 05:24:07PM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: > >> On 06/01/2011 17:16, Graham Keeling wrote: > >>> So, I would be very pleased if a Virt

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

2011-01-06 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 11:36:10AM -0600, Sean Clark wrote: > On 01/06/2011 11:24 AM, Mister IT Guru wrote: > > On 06/01/2011 17:16, Graham Keeling wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 05:02:47PM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: > >>> I've been trying to get

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

2011-01-06 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 05:24:07PM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: > On 06/01/2011 17:16, Graham Keeling wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 05:02:47PM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: >>> I've been trying to get my head around virtual full backups. >>> >>> Now, f

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

2011-01-06 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 05:02:47PM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: > I've been trying to get my head around virtual full backups. > > Now, from my understanding, (i'm 80% through my work day, shut down 20 > tickets, and had to deal with too many user incidents for my liking, so > please bare with m

Re: [Bacula-users] How would I 'nuke' my bacula instance - Start afresh so to speak.

2011-01-05 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:55:17AM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: > On 05/01/2011 09:51, Graham Keeling wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:38:14AM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: > >> I've run lots of test jobs, and I have a lot of backup data, that I > >> don'

Re: [Bacula-users] How would I 'nuke' my bacula instance - Start afresh so to speak.

2011-01-05 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:38:14AM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: > I've run lots of test jobs, and I have a lot of backup data, that I > don't really need, around 2TB or so! (we have a few servers!) I would > like to know if it's possible to remove all of those jobs out of the > bacula database.

Re: [Bacula-users] err=text file busy

2010-12-24 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:34:33AM -0800, CountBacula wrote: > Does anyone know how to backup open files? > > Brightstore had an open file manager which would do the job. On what operating system? If you are trying to backup some version of windows with bacula, you probably need to check that yo

Re: [Bacula-users] 5.0.3 - scratch pools

2010-12-13 Thread Graham Keeling
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 04:49:22PM +, Alan Brown wrote: > > I'm regularly seeing bacula grab multiple volumes from the scratch pool > and add them to another pool, instead of only taking one volume. > > There don't seem to be any erroe messages associated with the event. > > This is starvin

Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding purge

2010-11-17 Thread Graham Keeling
ry because I can't offer you any more help. I was just stating how things appear to stand at the moment. > On 17 November 2010 11:03, Graham Keeling wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:48:36AM +, Dermot Beirne wrote: > >> Hi Phil, > >> > >> Here is the pool

Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding purge

2010-11-17 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:48:36AM +, Dermot Beirne wrote: > Hi Phil, > > Here is the pool definitions I'm using. > > Is there some way I can get the entire "disk" pool volumes purged when > they expire, so they are all truncated and all that space is released. I don't think that you're goin

Re: [Bacula-users] unwanted fullbackup

2010-11-10 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 08:12:51PM +1100, James Harper wrote: > > > on 07.11 (1st Sunday) bacula did a fullbackup like expected. Next monday > > > a incremental like expected. On the following tuesday bacula made > > > a fullbackup instead of the incremental, because he didn´t find a prior > > full

Re: [Bacula-users] unwanted fullbackup

2010-11-10 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:32:16AM +0100, Alex Huth wrote: > Hello! > > We have a timetable for the backups, where we do fullbackups on the 1st > sunday, differentials on the other sundays and incremental on each other > day. > > on 07.11 (1st Sunday) bacula did a fullbackup like expected. Next m

Re: [Bacula-users] Exchange plugin: Unable to restore

2010-11-05 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:52:18PM +0100, Michael Heydenbluth wrote: > Graham Keeling schrieb: > > > On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 03:34:35PM +0100, Michael Heydenbluth wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm trying to backup/restore an Exchange database. >

Re: [Bacula-users] Exchange plugin: Unable to restore

2010-11-04 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 03:34:35PM +0100, Michael Heydenbluth wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to backup/restore an Exchange database. > > Following configuration: > W2K3 R2 Server (32) with Exchange 2003 SP2, bacula-fd 5.0.3 from the > download area, > bacula-sd and bacula-dir (5.0.3 - mysql) comp

Re: [Bacula-users] What happen if I delete a single incremental between the full and another incremental

2010-10-18 Thread Graham Keeling
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 09:33:13AM +0200, Hugo Letemplier wrote: > Hi thanks a lot for your answers > > I have retried with a new test scenario its clear now and deleting an > incremental is really dangerous. > But I think that a function that enable the administrator to "join" 2 jobs > would be

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from a file listing

2010-10-04 Thread Graham Keeling
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 12:00:12PM +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > We provide clients with a Bacula backup-to-tape service, which is > complementary to our offsite backup services. > > As part of the backup-to-tape service we wish to audit each tape by > checking that we can retrieve several f

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula with two independent storage and pools

2010-09-24 Thread Graham Keeling
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 04:02:43PM +0200, Richard Marnau wrote: > Hi all, > > our backup server is in the same room like all the other servers and just to > make sure I want to backup some server on > separate usb disks. So far so easy. The setup: > > [storage1] -> [Pool1] -> [JOB1,2,3,4,5,6] >

Re: [Bacula-users] Exchange plugin with VirtualFulls ('truncating' logs)

2010-09-21 Thread Graham Keeling
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 08:19:21AM +1000, James Harper wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am testing backups of an Exchange 2003 server, with the plugin. I > have a > > schedule of incrementals with occasional virtualfulls. > > > > The idea being that, after the first real full, doing a full backup is >

[Bacula-users] Exchange plugin with VirtualFulls ('truncating' logs)

2010-09-20 Thread Graham Keeling
Hello, I am testing backups of an Exchange 2003 server, with the plugin. I have a schedule of incrementals with occasional virtualfulls. The idea being that, after the first real full, doing a full backup is no longer required (unless I restore the whole Exchange database, because Exchange then d

Re: [Bacula-users] Reschedule a VirtualFull?

2010-07-06 Thread Graham Keeling
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 12:55:24PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > resending with cc to list > > On 7/5/2010 12:26 PM, Graham Keeling wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 11:58:31AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: >>> On 7/5/2010 11:37 AM, Graham Keeling wrote: >>>> Hello,

Re: [Bacula-users] Reschedule a VirtualFull?

2010-07-05 Thread Graham Keeling
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 11:58:31AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > On 7/5/2010 11:37 AM, Graham Keeling wrote: >> Hello, >> I have a schedule like this in my bacula-dir.conf: >> >> Schedule { >>Name = "ScheduleX" >>Run = Level=Incremental mon

[Bacula-users] Reschedule a VirtualFull?

2010-07-05 Thread Graham Keeling
Hello, I have a schedule like this in my bacula-dir.conf: Schedule { Name = "ScheduleX" Run = Level=Incremental mon at 18:00 Run = Level=Incremental tue at 18:00 Run = Level=Incremental wed at 18:00 Run = Level=Incremental thu at 18:00 Run = Level=Incremental fri at 18:00 Run = Level

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Full backups

2010-06-09 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 12:05:34PM +0400, Alexander Pyhalov wrote: > Hello. > I have some questions about Virtual Full backups. As I understood, VF > backups should use separate volume pool. We are going to use bacula for > making backups of a lot of data (>2 TB, about 10 servers). In this > cir

Re: [Bacula-users] How to find all file .avi from full tape

2010-05-28 Thread Graham Keeling
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:12:51AM +0100, Graham Keeling wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:47:00AM +0200, Simone Martina wrote: > > Hi at all, > > someone of my colleagues tends to save non-work files (like large avi > > file) in shared directory and so my bacula backup J

Re: [Bacula-users] How to find all file .avi from full tape

2010-05-28 Thread Graham Keeling
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:47:00AM +0200, Simone Martina wrote: > Hi at all, > someone of my colleagues tends to save non-work files (like large avi > file) in shared directory and so my bacula backup Job take a lot of time > due to save these unuseful rubbish... I would like to find full path of

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup

2010-05-11 Thread Graham Keeling
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 01:58:07PM +0200, Koldo Santisteban wrote: > No, > As you can see in my last mail, you need to run scripts before bacula > backup. In Windows 2003 too. So what is the flag that James Harper was talking about? "With full VSS support, VSS defines the files that make up the s

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 2008/2008r2 Server backup

2010-05-11 Thread Graham Keeling
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 09:51:52AM +1000, James Harper wrote: > With full VSS support, VSS defines the files that make up the system > state backup - it's a flag on the writer. Bacula handles junction > points perfectly. So, to get a backup with Windows 2008 that includes the system state, you

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.0.1 and db issues - please, share your experience

2010-04-13 Thread Graham Keeling
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 02:03:39PM +0100, Graham Keeling wrote: > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 02:42:15PM +0200, Koldo Santisteban wrote: > > Hello > > I am working with bacula 5.0.1. On first stage i setup the server with > > bacula 5.0.1 and Mysql, but, when i need to restore i

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.0.1 and db issues - please, share your experience

2010-04-13 Thread Graham Keeling
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 02:42:15PM +0200, Koldo Santisteban wrote: > Hello > I am working with bacula 5.0.1. On first stage i setup the server with > bacula 5.0.1 and Mysql, but, when i need to restore i have found that "the > bulid tree process" take 10-12 hours (or more). I have read all about th

[Bacula-users] How to turn off 'ask the operator'?

2010-04-13 Thread Graham Keeling
Hello, I am using disk based backups and bacula-5.0.1. When the disk gets full up, bacula gets stuck in a state where a job 'is waiting for a mount request'. Presumably, it wants the system operator to do something. However, at this point, the system operator cannot do anything but cancel the jo

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull mysql query blocks other jobs for a long time

2010-04-13 Thread Graham Keeling
Hello, I now believe that the 'taking hours' problem that I was having was down to having additional indexes on my File table, as Eric suggested. I am using mysql-5.0.45. I had these indexes: JobId JobId, PathId, FilenameId PathId FilenameId Now I have these indexes: JobId JobId, PathId, Filena

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error: backup.c:892 Network send error to SD. ERR=Connection reset by peer

2010-04-12 Thread Graham Keeling
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 09:32:43AM -0500, Jon Schewe wrote: > I got it to work again last night. Changing the firewall time outs > didn't help. What fixed it was turning off Accurate backups. Ah, so possibly bacula spent long enough stuck doing an accurate query in the catalog that the firewall co

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull mysql query blocks other jobs for a long time

2010-04-09 Thread Graham Keeling
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 05:27:44AM -0700, ebollengier wrote: > I'm really thinking that the problem is on the MySQL side (bad version > perhaps), or on your > modifications (my tests shows that with a FilenameId, PathId index, results > are 10 times slower than > with the default indexes) > > What

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