[Bacula-users] OT: LOPSA-NJ Professional IT Community Conference 2010 May 7-8 New Brunswick NJ.

2010-03-16 Thread John BORIS
Please pardon the Interruption. There isn't a way to post this for just folks in the US. LOPSA-NJ Professional IT Community Conference 2010 PICC10 is a gathering of professionals from the diverse IT (computer and network administration) community in New Jersey to learn, share ideas, and

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't find the tape changer

2010-01-19 Thread John BORIS
I have a PowerVault 124T. Under RHEL 5. Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 Vendor: SUPERModel: GEM318 Rev: 0 Type: ProcessorANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 01 Id: 06 Lun: 00 Vendor: SUPERModel: GEM318

[Bacula-users] Problems getting Bacula to backup Windows Client

2009-11-23 Thread John BORIS
I am trying to get bacula configured to backup my windows client. I am not sure where to start with this question. I have bacula installed on my RHEL5. My Windows client is installed on Windows XP. Is there a link to a sample Director Configuration file that shows how to configure the Client

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems getting Bacula to backup Windows Client

2009-11-23 Thread John BORIS
What kind of firewall you have in the windows client? No firewall Can you ping jerome from the command prompt of that machine? Yes. I can run the bwx-console and connect o the director on Jerome from the Windows Client. Can you telnet jerome 9103 from the command prompt of that machine? If

[Bacula-users] Confusion in setting up Bacula to Windows Clients

2009-10-08 Thread John BORIS
I had to rebuild my Bacula setup here and lost all of my setups. Currently I am trying to get the Windows client to talk to my Bacula on my RHEL 5 setup. Looking at the manual I can't wrap my head around the configuration. In my director I have this setup: Client { Name = John Address =

Re: [Bacula-users] Confusion in setting up Bacula to Windows Clients

2009-10-08 Thread John BORIS
Yes. That was my first step. I opened 9102 and 9103 and 9101 John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com 10/8/2009 12:51 PM On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:26 PM, John BORIS jbo...@adphila.org wrote: I had to rebuild my Bacula setup here and lost all of my setups. Currently I am trying to get the Windows

Re: [Bacula-users] Confusion in setting up Bacula to Windows Clients

2009-10-08 Thread John BORIS
PM On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:26 PM, John BORIS jbo...@adphila.org wrote: I had to rebuild my Bacula setup here and lost all of my setups. Currently I am trying to get the Windows client to talk to my Bacula on my RHEL 5 setup. Looking at the manual I can't wrap my head around the configuration

Re: [Bacula-users] Confusion in setting up Bacula to Windows Clients

2009-10-08 Thread John BORIS
. John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com 10/8/2009 1:15 PM On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:01 PM, John BORIS jbo...@adphila.org wrote: That is where I think I have things confused. I tried to follow the manual but what about the line @client_password@ That is exactly how it is in the file. You need

[Bacula-users] Trouble installing on RHEL 5

2009-09-25 Thread John BORIS
I just installed bacula on my RHEL 5 server using rpm bacula-mysql-3.0.2-1.el5.i386.rpm I have a few questions: 1. Where did it install it? Can't find it anywhere but it says its installed 2. The database portion failed as it never prompted me for the database password. Is there a How-To on

Re: [Bacula-users] Trouble installing on RHEL 5

2009-09-25 Thread John BORIS
be the headlight of an oncoming train! Ryan Novosielski novos...@umdnj.edu 9/25/2009 10:21 AM -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John BORIS wrote: I just installed bacula on my RHEL 5 server using rpm bacula-mysql-3.0.2-1.el5.i386.rpm I have a few questions: 1. Where did it install

[Bacula-users] Connecting Windows Client to LINUX Director

2007-03-29 Thread John BORIS
I have been following the thread Windows client unable to connect and it almost answered all of my questions. I have some Windows Desktops I want Bacula to backup to a directory on my Backup Server. Do I put the job information in the Director's configuration on my backup server as well as the

Re: [Bacula-users] Connecting Windows Client to LINUX Director

2007-03-29 Thread John BORIS
Le jeudi 29 mars 2007 à 08:50 -0400, John BORIS a écrit : I have been following the thread Windows client unable to connect and it almost answered all of my questions. I have some Windows Desktops I want Bacula to backup to a directory on my Backup Server. Do I put the job information

[Bacula-users] Question on mailcommand

2007-03-13 Thread John BORIS
I am having a bit of a problem getting the mailcommand setup properly. Here is what I have now: mailcommand = /root/bacula/bin/bsmtp -h jc.mydomain.org -f \\(Bacula\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s \Bacula: %t %e of %c %l\ %r operatorcommand = /root/bacula/bin/bsmtp -h jc.mydomain.org -f \\(Bacula\)

[Bacula-users] Question about setting up bsmtp

2007-03-06 Thread John BORIS
I am using Bacula 2.0.2 on Fedora Core 6 and I am bit confused about the mailcommand line. mailcommand = /home/bacula/bin/bsmtp -h mail.domain.com -f \\(Bacula\) %r\ -s \Bacula: %t %e of %c %l\ %r the -h option (per the instructions) is for your bsmtp mail server. I replaced the mail.domain.com

Re: [Bacula-users] Sony LTO-2/LTO-3

2007-03-01 Thread John BORIS
Although I am going through a reinstall on an upgraded server I can attest that it works with my Dell-124T which has a Certance LTO-2 tape drive in it. It worked okay under 1.36 and so far it has tested okay on 2.0.2 John J. Boris, Sr. JEN-A-SyS Administrator Archdiocese of Philadelphia

[Bacula-users] problem with configure on FC 6

2007-02-23 Thread John BORIS
I am trying to install Bacula 2.0.2 from the source distribution. When I run this: ./configure --sbindir=$HOME/bacula/bin / --sysconfdir=$HOME/bacula/bin / --with-pid-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin / --with-subsys-dir=$HOME/bacula/bin / --enable-gnome / --with-mysql=/usr/include/mysql /

Re: [Bacula-users] problem with configure on FC 6

2007-02-23 Thread John BORIS
-A-SyS Administrator Archdiocese of Philadelphia Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train! Martin Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/23/07 3:47 PM On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:42:57 -0500, John BORIS said: I am trying to install Bacula 2.0.2 from

Re: [Bacula-users] Autoloaders

2006-09-12 Thread John Boris
My Powervault works with these settings : # # An autochanger device with two drives # Autochanger { Name = Autochanger Device = Drive-0 # Device = Drive-2 Changer Command = /root/bacula/bin/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d Changer Device = /dev/sg2 } Device { Name = Drive-0

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and DELL PV124T

2006-07-05 Thread John Boris
Djoni, I have one and here is the settings on my box. I also have an internal tape drive that came configured with the system. I am running RH FC3 bacula-sd.conf Autochanger { Name = Autochanger Device = Drive-0 # Device = Drive-2 Changer Command = /root/bacula/bin/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a

[Bacula-users] How can you get bacula to relabel a tape

2006-06-26 Thread John Boris
I am trying to get bacula to relabel the tapes I have in my autochanger. They were already labeled through the label barcode command in vconsole but the labels aren't being recognized. When bacula tries to use the tape it says it can't find an appendable volume. Any ideas on this one. I issued

[Bacula-users] How do I get Bacula to stop asking for Volume_0001 when that Volume was deleted from the Database?

2006-06-22 Thread John Boris
Okay, I've asked this question a few times and I am still trying to get bacula back to a working state. I had a working configuration on Fedora Core 4, Athlon 64 bit, attached to a Dell 124T Tape library. I use Bacula to do a Master Backup once a month and incrementals the rest. This server

[Bacula-users] Bacula keeps asking for a Volume that was deleted

2006-06-09 Thread John Boris
I am trying to start over with my backup process. I think I screwed up the Volume naming or something. When I set things up I had set the label Format to Volume_. Things ran smoothly but then Bacula started marking tapes as full when they weren't and started loading new tapes. It got to the last

[Bacula-users] How to start from a clean slate.

2006-06-07 Thread John Boris
We have been running bacula for over a month and I now found I had things a bit misconfigured. I want to start over so I purged and deleted the contents of the catalog through the console. So the catalog showed no volumes. When my scheduled job kicked off I get an error that says: 06-Jun 23:10

[Bacula-users] Tapes marked full when they aren't

2006-06-06 Thread John Boris
On my Dell 124-T we are using ULTRIUM 2 Tapes that should hold 400gb compressed. While troubleshooting a different issue I found that the tapes are being marked as full when there is over 100GB of space left on the tape. Is this normal or is this a configuration issue/bug? This is on bacula 1.38.5

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to disk then tape

2006-05-01 Thread John Boris
John, We do that here (Backup to disk and then to tape). We have just started using Bacula but we us it to backup to tape. I use Microlite's BackupEDGE to backup my remote Servers to disk on my main backup server. I have a network that is only used by me over night so differentials at night are a

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with an autoloader

2006-04-28 Thread John Boris
Stefan, Speaking as a newbie that was a bit overwhelmed when I first started with Bacula and a bit confused about the configuration file. I am not sure which files you started with but the ones I downloaded (I started just a few months back) had good examples in the default conf files. There is

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with an autoloader

2006-04-28 Thread John Boris
I am not sure since I don't know the entire History. I am using 1.38.5. What is line 63 column 12. That should give you some clue as to what is misconfigured. What I did when I was starting out was to go back and read again the manual. I set aside free time where I wouldn't be disturbed so I

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with an autoloader

2006-04-28 Thread John Boris
You have this wrong. The Device is just one unit the Tape Drive not each slot in the autochanger. So change the line: Device = tape1, tape2, tape3, tape4, tape5, tape6 in the Autochanger to Device = tape1 Then delete all of the Device sections Device { ... } except the first one. Also add the

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger suggestions..

2006-04-24 Thread John Boris
Brett, I am using Bacula on Fedora Core 3 with the Dell 124T. It took me a while to get it working but so far it has proven to be a good buy. We got it on an Educational Pricing from Dell but it was near your budget figure. We got it with one magazine and 10 Ultrium-2 Data cartridges. We also

[Bacula-users] Success with PowerVault 124T

2006-04-18 Thread John Boris
I want to thank everyone on the list especially Pierre for helping me with my setup. I was finally able to get things working here. Here is what I had to do. 1. The first hurdle was to understand bacula's configuration and this took some quiet time to RTFM. 2. My setup is: Fedora Core 3 on a Dual

[Bacula-users] Newbie Configuration Question

2006-04-17 Thread John Boris
I am new to bacula and I am trying to configure my setup. I am running Fedora Core 3 and using a Dell 124T. From what I can see the Dell 124T has passed all of the tests. So now I am trying to edit the configuration files. In the bacula-sd.conf I have this defined: Autochanger { Name =

RE: [Bacula-users] Newbie Configuration Question

2006-04-17 Thread John Boris
OK I see where I made that mistake. I now get the following errors at startup: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ./bacula start Starting the Bacula Storage daemon Starting the Bacula File daemon Starting the Bacula Director daemon 17-Apr 13:27 bacula-dir: Fatal error: type directive in Job BackupCatalog

RE: [Bacula-users] Newbie Configuration Question

2006-04-17 Thread John Boris
Ok. Thanks to Robert and some more RTFM work I was able to start bacula. I now have a new issue. This is the first time running this so bacula sees that no Full backup was performed and elevates the differential to a Full. Here is what I get: *run A job name must be specified. The defined Job

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: testing autochanger Dell-124T

2006-04-14 Thread John Boris
, Pa. 19103 Tel: 215-965-1714 Fax: 215-587-3525 Remember! That light at the end of the tunnel Just might be the headlight of an oncoming train! Pierre Dibon [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/14/06 3:32 AM Le Jeudi 13 Avril 2006 21:51, Fred Kass a écrit : John Boris jboris at adphila.org writes: I have

[Bacula-users] testing autochanger Dell-124T

2006-04-06 Thread John Boris
I have a Dell 124T with a CERTANCE Drive installed. I am running Fedora Core 3. I am following the manual to test bacula with my setup. The main reason I am using Bacula is for the ability to write to a tape and append to the tape, when it is full load the next tape and keep going. So bacula is

[Bacula-users] testing autochanger Dell-124T

2006-04-06 Thread John Boris
I have a Dell 124T with a CERTANCE Drive installed. I am running Fedora Core 3. I am following the manual to test bacula with my setup. The main reason I am using Bacula is for the ability to write to a tape and append to the tape, when it is full load the next tape and keep going. So bacula is

[Bacula-users] New user Question about GUI Interface

2006-03-17 Thread John Boris
I am evaluating Bacula and would like to know if the enable-gnome option is required. Does the GNOME interface make this package easier to configure and maintain? The problem I have is my Fedora Core 3 Server was installed without X Windows and I haven't found any sort of docs that explains how to