Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: SD Bug User specified spool size reached

2012-05-29 Thread Sean Cardus
I would be interested in seeing why jobs are crashing and possibly submit bug reports for that. I have run 30 thousand or so jobs at work and I do not see very many job crashes. That one is easy, and not very interesting actually. The two most frequent causes are: a) network outages (we

Re: [Bacula-users] SD Bug User specified spool size reached

2012-05-28 Thread Sean Cardus
Hi, On a Bacula installation with a CentOS 6.2 (64 bit) server running Bacula 5.2.6 director and SD with an HP LTO3 autoloader and backing up some twenty-odd machines of various platforms, all the jobs report User specified spool size reached much too early, currently after 1.45 GB instead

[Bacula-users] Backing up Windows 2008 64-bit with VSS...

2008-12-01 Thread Sean Cardus
Hi All, I've now got a need to perform backups of a new 64-bit Windows 2008 Server. The current 32-bit Bacula agent runs ok up to a point, but unfortunately it's unable to perform backups using VSS. Eg: 28-Nov 22:59 win2k8-fd JobId 12291: Warning: VSS was not initialized properly. VSS support

[Bacula-users] Restore job alters a volumes LastWritten value?

2007-12-07 Thread Sean Cardus
Hi all, A week ago I restored some files from a tape marked as full recyclable. This morning during a normal backup run I expected this tape to be recycled and purged like all the tapes previous to it have. However this did not happen, instead another tape was purged and recycled. After

Re: [Bacula-users] All the problems with Bacula

2007-11-21 Thread Sean Cardus
Bacula is incredibly complex to setup. Its taken 4 months and its still not working correctly. DL You are unique. I doubt he's unique. I constantly think to myself wow, bacula is really cool; but why isn't it doing that? The configuration is complex to set up (but with flexibility