Re: [Bacula-users] ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors referenced in libbacsql.so

2011-05-05 Thread Ben Walton
se are easily fetchable too. Feel free to ping me off-list if you have questions. Might save you some time? They work fine presently in my setup although I'll possibly need to fiddle with RBAC stuff to allow access to tape devices when running the storage daemon as non-root. HTH -Ben -- Ben

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

2011-05-13 Thread Ben Walton
the cache won't affect this. Thanks -Ben [1] On many systems it is possible to restore this file as long as some process holds it open: http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2009/02/25/how-to-undelete-any-open-deleted-file-on-linux-solaris/ -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS

[Bacula-users] left field gnome console question

2011-05-14 Thread Ben Walton
version 2.2.8 would properly connect to modern daemons at version 5.0.3? Has the protocol changed significantly in backward incompatible ways? Would the old console be so limited in what it can do as to be useless? Are there other reasons that would see doing such a thing be completely broken? Thank

[Bacula-users] ability to move file volumes between devices sanely

2011-05-16 Thread Ben Walton
is also allow moving the storage to an alternate host later as long as I updated the archive device and job definition? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 --

[Bacula-users] recommendations for scheduling

2011-06-15 Thread Ben Walton
t understanding indicates that I'd just need to write several schedules and manually load balance the clients over this set. Is there a smarter way to accomplish this? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5

Re: [Bacula-users] recommendations for scheduling

2011-06-16 Thread Ben Walton
hoping that I wasn't missing some setting that made the staggering dynamically configurable. Thanks! -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- EditLive Enterp

Re: [Bacula-users] recommendations for scheduling

2011-06-16 Thread Ben Walton
... > It would be nice to have a "Max Differential Interval" though, so one > would be able to schedule all Inc jobs and have them automatically > upgrade to Diff or Full depending on how old the last Diff or Full > is. The documentation references this as h

Re: [Bacula-users] recommendations for scheduling

2011-06-16 Thread Ben Walton
t; > In this way the daily Incremental would be upgraded to Diff or Full only > at the appropriate time. Does it make sense? Yes, now it does! Thanks for being gentle with the clue bat. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.40

[Bacula-users] Access denied errors but clean exit?

2011-06-23 Thread Ben Walton
ess denied' for each of the affected files but the status of the job is still 'OK.' Shouldn't this generate at least an 'OK (with Warnings)' status? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS Universi

Re: [Bacula-users] Director with 3 dedicated storage servers

2011-06-25 Thread Ben Walton
s is roughly the same as if they local. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contai

Re: [Bacula-users] Setting Priority

2011-07-10 Thread Ben Walton
dayFull and then splay my machines across those manually... I hope this helps. It's a bit of a thought exercise for me as I'm also new to bacula and considering some of the same things you are. I hope one of the long-time users will correct any of the above if it's not correct o

Re: [Bacula-users] Setting Priority

2011-07-11 Thread Ben Walton
m is by setting the level in the > schedule. Thanks for correcting this. Apologies for the misinformation. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- All o

Re: [Bacula-users] need help (step by step) for setting up certificates

2011-07-23 Thread Ben Walton
/be-your-own-ca/ I've opted for a two tier CA though and if you're interested in that level of effort (overkill possibly), I'll share another guide I found handy. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS Univ

Re: [Bacula-users] need help (step by step) for setting up certificates

2011-07-24 Thread Ben Walton
The hash for my CA certificate is 5caed0db and the generation is 0. This could be 1 or 2 or ...depending on local events and the age of the CA key, etc. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] RHEL6 specfile?

2011-08-05 Thread Ben Walton
version change. Any security or major bug fixes are backported to the originally shipping version. HTH. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- BlackBerry® De

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Course

2011-08-10 Thread Ben Walton
l > you be offering this course in the USA at any point? I'd love a course like this within driving distance of Toronto too. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:41

Re: [Bacula-users] Postgres 9?

2011-09-09 Thread Ben Walton
#x27;m happy to answer any questions you've got. (They could very well help me out!) Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- Why Cloud-Based Security a

Re: [Bacula-users] Migration issues - database

2011-09-16 Thread Ben Walton
Excerpts from Carlos Cristóbal Sabroe Yde's message of Fri Sep 16 10:28:00 -0400 2011: Hi Cristóbal, You've reached the Bacula users mailing list. You're likely looking for: http://www.horde.org/community/mail/ HTH. -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS Universi

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup status OK, but mysql errors

2011-09-19 Thread Ben Walton
P wanted the job to complete but present an easy to pick out visual indicator that it wasn't a clean run. I can appreciate this need as it's something I'd like as well. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.40

[Bacula-users] junction point pain

2011-09-19 Thread Ben Walton
Hi All, Is there an easy way to define a fileset for windows systems where junction points are ignored by default or will I need to use wildcards for this? I'd like to the logs from these jobs to be free of the clutter from all of the junction points in Users\, etc. Thanks -Ben -- Ben W

Re: [Bacula-users] junction point pain

2011-09-19 Thread Ben Walton
the pointer. I'll see if this decreases the whining! :) Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- All the data continuously generated in your IT i

Re: [Bacula-users] long-term archival of tapes -- growth of the catalog

2011-09-22 Thread Ben Walton
orage as appropriate in the device settings). HTH. -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contain

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula hangs waiting on a client

2011-09-23 Thread Ben Walton
happily queueing up jobs (to a limit of 20) but the SD is re-serializing things on you. HTH. -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- All of the data generated in

Re: [Bacula-users] readline.h not found

2011-10-04 Thread Ben Walton
ake a deeper look at the autoconf. Also, if you're able to use OpenCSW[1], I have 5.0.3 packages ready to go for Solaris...these might save you some time? Thanks -Ben [1] http://opencsw.org -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:

Re: [Bacula-users] Optimized mysql settings for CentOS 6 64bit

2011-10-05 Thread Ben Walton
where both 32 and 64-bit postgres libraries were available. I typically end up doing --with-postgres=/path/to/32-bit/pg_config. I've yet to attempt a 64-bit bacula build on Solaris. HTH. -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programme

[Bacula-users] recommendations for failover system backups

2011-10-05 Thread Ben Walton
ich one is holder the virtual IP that will run the service. I'm inclined toward either 2 or 3 but am curious what the experts think. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 |

Re: [Bacula-users] Optimized mysql settings for CentOS 6 64bit

2011-10-05 Thread Ben Walton
f where possible stumbling blocks might be in this area. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- All the data continuously generated in your IT i

Re: [Bacula-users] recommendations for failover system backups

2011-10-06 Thread Ben Walton
; (We are running drbd with corosync for other situations, but that doesn't fit in this case.) The shared IP in this instance is just so that a name can move between the systems if required. The sync interval could be more frequent, but the point is that it's not real-time. I appreciate

Re: [Bacula-users] restore taking a long time....

2011-10-07 Thread Ben Walton
orked hard during this action? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It co

Re: [Bacula-users] format of Volume and possibility to read it without bls or bextract and so on

2011-10-18 Thread Ben Walton
her. The on demand mount could be accomplished with runscript definitions. If the director is running as non-root (hopefully) you'll need to use sudo or some other privilege granting mechanism to allow the mounts. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of

Re: [Bacula-users] Need help canceling a job

2011-10-19 Thread Ben Walton
n I cancel this restore job? I'm not positive, but I believe that to reference this job by name, you'd want: RestoreFiles.2011-10-19_11.53.27_04 Not just RestoreFiles. Also, if you just say cancel, doesn't it prompt you with a menu driven choice? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Pr

Re: [Bacula-users] Wildcards problem

2011-10-21 Thread Ben Walton
Excerpts from Dimitri Gourdon's message of Fri Oct 14 05:02:23 -0400 2011: Hi Dimitri, >wild = "/data/backup/DB-ADMIN*/" Did you try wilddir? http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#8672 Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer

Re: [Bacula-users] Wildcards problem

2011-10-24 Thread Ben Walton
DMIN*/" > } >File = /data/backup >} > } You're not telling the fileset to exclude those directories. The options statement should have Exclude = yes in it. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programme

Re: [Bacula-users] Wildcards problem

2011-10-24 Thread Ben Walton
e of the details and didn't pay enough attention. I'm not sure how to efficiently define this. Hopefully someone else will chime in. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302

Re: [Bacula-users] windows could not start bacula file service service on local computer 1067

2011-10-25 Thread Ben Walton
me this.. Did you modify c:\program files\bacula\bacula-fd.conf to suit your environment? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- The demand for

[Bacula-users] moving clients to a new director

2011-11-04 Thread Ben Walton
like: 0. Stop dir1. 1. Add clients from dir1 to dir2, perform required client config for each client. 2. Add storage config to dir2 to reference storage daemon on dir1. 3. Use bscan to import existing volumes from dir1 into catalog of dir2. Am I nuts? Has anyone done something similar? Tha

Re: [Bacula-users] restore taking a long time....

2011-11-04 Thread Ben Walton
version of said db.) Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/

Re: [Bacula-users] RE : HELP : MySQL database lost - how best to restore data

2011-11-06 Thread Ben Walton
d option though. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http:

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-try-monitor.exe - System error

2011-11-23 Thread Ben Walton
he delivery of a third party dll though. > I search in the filesistem and I fount the QtCore4.dll in the: > > C:\Program Files\Bacula\bin64 directory. Mine is in c:\program files\bacula\bin32. I installed the 64-bit version of 5.2.1 on this system. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Prog

Re: [Bacula-users] Mail report

2011-11-23 Thread Ben Walton
er than one email per job when the things are running properly.) There are still things I don't like about this. Some files that generate an error for the whole job go under the radar unless you pay close attention (these are noted in webbacula, for example)... Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems P

[Bacula-users] w2k8 event log messages

2011-11-28 Thread Ben Walton
ction. The warning messages _seem_ to be generic noise but I'm still investigating. Does anyone else see these messages on their systems? Is there something I can do to stop them? Any insight is appreciated. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of

Re: [Bacula-users] Can bacula backup from Windows and Linux?

2011-12-03 Thread Ben Walton
ensure that someone on your normal staff is working with your intern. Backups are far too important to trust to a single person...especially one that's (presumably) just getting their 'sea legs' under them. :) Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University

[Bacula-users] 5.2.x client with 5.0.3 director/storage

2011-12-12 Thread Ben Walton
when running like this? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- Learn Windows Azure Live! Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 Microsoft is holding a special Learn Wi

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula database is getting too long

2012-01-11 Thread Ben Walton
og stanza of the bacula-dir.conf file (or another file that it includes). Search for dbpassword. If you don't have the root password to your mysql instance, you can reset that by following something like: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/recover-mysql-root-password.html Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walt

Re: [Bacula-users] Unsubscribe from teh bacula mailinglist

2012-01-12 Thread Ben Walton
eforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users>, <mailto:bacula-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=subscribe> Nice to hear that you approach mailing lists with the idea of contributing though! Cheers. -Ben -- Ben Walton S

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula database is getting too long

2012-01-12 Thread Ben Walton
oblem that flies under the radar during normal operation. I'd be checking the network settings on every device from the NIC to the backup server and running some performance tools while bacula is not active to see if you experience the same degradation. HTH -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programm

Re: [Bacula-users] 5.2.x client with 5.0.3 director/storage

2012-01-13 Thread Ben Walton
Excerpts from Dan Langille's message of Sun Jan 01 23:00:41 -0500 2012: Hi Dan, > The general rule for version: Thanks very much for sharing this. I've down-revved the two clients that got a higher version due to the release happening in the middle of a deployment. Thanks -Ben

Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes

2012-01-13 Thread Ben Walton
obId 1651: BeforeJob: sh: cannot create > /var/lib/bacula/bacula.sql: Permission denied What about the output of: for d in /var /var/lib /var/lib/bacula; do ls -ld $d; done Are any of the parent directories preventing traversal to /var/lib/bacula? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer -

Re: [Bacula-users] Director and FD versions question

2012-01-24 Thread Ben Walton
aded? I asked this late last year and Dan Langille suggested[1] that the following should hold true: 1. dir version == sd version 2. fd version <= dir version HTH Thanks -Ben [1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28531626 -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS Univer

Re: [Bacula-users] Ensuring files made during the backup run are archived (hot-backup PostgreSQL)

2012-01-25 Thread Ben Walton
hen run a pre-hook to create and mount the snapshot, point your fileset at the mounted snapshot and tear it down with a post-hook? That way, order isn't important as you get a stable snapshot of all the files at a point in time, which should preserve the recoverability of the WAL for you, no?

Re: [Bacula-users] monitoring status / health

2012-02-28 Thread Ben Walton
at do not require a mysql > database as backend? Any links or feedback would be highly > appreciated. I have each job 'check in' with nagios via nsca. The nagios monitors are passive and only chirp if they haven't been updated in X time. It works well for us so far. Thanks -Ben

Re: [Bacula-users] ERR=Connection reset by peer

2012-03-27 Thread Ben Walton
hat used to run just fine? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click He

Re: [Bacula-users] Almir 0.1 released (bacula web interface)

2012-04-06 Thread Ben Walton
//readthedocs.org/docs/almir/en/latest/ This looks really promising! I'll try to kick the tires a bit in the next little while. Two questions: 1. I see it uses flash. Does it need to? 2. Have you considered a wsgi interface in addition to http proxying? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton