[Bacula-users] Trying to use bpipe with 2.5.16-beta.

2008-12-04 Thread Graham Keeling
Hello, I've been trying out bacula-2.5.16-beta, and I've tried to use bpipe to backup my mysql database. I think that I have done everything right, having followed the instructions on this page... http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html ...but it doesn't want to work.

Re: [Bacula-users] Trying to use bpipe with 2.5.16-beta.

2008-12-17 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 03:37:32PM +, Graham Keeling wrote: Hello, I've been trying out bacula-2.5.16-beta, and I've tried to use bpipe to backup my mysql database. I think that I have done everything right, having followed the instructions on this page... http://www.bacula.org/manuals

Re: [Bacula-users] RunAfterJob

2009-01-05 Thread Graham Keeling
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 09:33:12AM +0100, Angel wrote: On job completion i need to clean up stale processes and fifos, but the After Script was never ran. Anyone have tried custom restore jobs (with Before/After scripts)? Yes, it works for me and this is how I did it: Job { Name =

Re: [Bacula-users] wiki postgres example revisited...

2009-01-05 Thread Graham Keeling
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 09:14:29PM +0100, Angel Alvarez wrote: This is my first try on restoring piped dumps from postgres as created by http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=application_specific_backups:postgresql Well is i said in my last message when you try restoring those backups you

Re: [Bacula-users] schedule issue

2009-01-12 Thread Graham Keeling
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:04:49AM +0100, Carlo Maesen wrote: Can someone explain the following: (bacula 2.4.3 on Centos 5.2) Schedule { Name = aca-windows-cycle Run = Level=Differential Pool=aca tue-fri at 00:01 Run = Level=Full Pool=aca-week 1st-4th sat at 00:01 Run = Level=Full

Re: [Bacula-users] Trying to use bpipe with 2.5.16-beta.

2009-01-23 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:01:31PM +, Graham Keeling wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 03:37:32PM +, Graham Keeling wrote: Hello, I've been trying out bacula-2.5.16-beta, and I've tried to use bpipe to backup my mysql database. I think that I have done everything right, having

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Trying to use bpipe with 2.5.16-beta.

2009-01-23 Thread Graham Keeling
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:23:38AM +, Graham Keeling wrote: I would like to know whether anybody else has managed to use bpipe successfully. (Later...) I see that one of the SVN regress tests makes a mention of bpipe, so I will give that a go. Ah, I believe that bacula-2.5.28-b1 has

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring to a specific client

2009-02-04 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 01:29:02PM +0200, victor wrote: I have many clients defined, but when I try to restore a specific client, there is no option to select the client. $ done Bootstrap records written to /var/lib/bacula/192.168.0.191-dir.3.restore.bsr The job will require the

[Bacula-users] Query a storage device

2009-02-05 Thread Graham Keeling
Hello, I have a bacula-dir, and a bacula-sd on different machines. The bacula-sd is using disk/file based storage. I would like to be able say to the bacula-dir, does the bacula-sd have access to a volume called 'backup-00XX'? Does anybody know whether this is possible?

Re: [Bacula-users] Adding volumes to a certain Pool

2009-02-13 Thread Graham Keeling
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:24:30AM -0500, Win Htin wrote: How do I put Volumes into a particular Pool? Hello, Maybe try this, from bconsole: update Then choose 'Volume parameters' - number '1' on my list. Then choose 'Pool' - number '11' on my list. Then choose the pool that the volume is

Re: [Bacula-users] backups on machine different from DIR or Client

2009-02-25 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 04:58:50PM +0100, Fran?ois Mehault wrote: Well, in fact i found the solution : File = \\\myMachine/backup 7 backslashes? That's a prime number! -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC),

[Bacula-users] Restoring from volumes on multiple storages

2009-02-25 Thread Graham Keeling
Hello, Here I'm using bacula-2.2.8. I have a bacula storage daemon, 'Disk 1' (Device 'Disk 1.0') and a bacula storage daemon, 'BPL2Disk 1' (Device 'BPL2Disk 1.0'). There is one backup job allowed per volume. 'BPL2Disk 1' has a full backup and several incrementals. 'Disk 1' has the latest

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring from volumes on multiple storages

2009-02-26 Thread Graham Keeling
I started this thread on the bacula-users list, but I'm now also sending it to the bacula-devel list, as I seem to have taken that sort of turn. On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:12:19PM +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, 25.02.2009 18:37, Graham Keeling wrote: Hello, Here I'm using bacula-2.2.8

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring from volumes on multiple storages

2009-02-26 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 01:30:36PM +0100, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 05:37:05PM +, Graham Keeling wrote: Hello, Here I'm using bacula-2.2.8. I have a bacula storage daemon, 'Disk 1' (Device 'Disk 1.0') and a bacula storage daemon, 'BPL2Disk 1' (Device

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Restoring from volumes on multiple storages

2009-02-27 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 02:23:04PM +, Graham Keeling wrote: I've now looked at the bacula code a bit, and what I think it does is this (bear in mind that I'm not one of the proper bacula development guys, so I might be talking utter rubbish here): When you tell it to restore something

Re: [Bacula-users] Exchange 2003 backup

2009-03-03 Thread Graham Keeling
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 04:09:57PM +0100, Francisco Garcia Perez wrote: Hello, I want use bacula to make backups of my Exchange server, I see that there are a bacula agent for Exchange, but I don't kown what is the best solution to do the backup and wath is the configuration options that I

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Restoring from volumes on multiple storages

2009-03-04 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 02:23:04PM +, Graham Keeling wrote: One kludgy solution that I may have a go at trying is to make the director write out a separate .bsr file containing the correct set of volumes that it needs for each Storage, and then doing multiple run job= commands

Re: [Bacula-users] split the catalog

2009-03-10 Thread Graham Keeling
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:59:12AM +0100, Fran?ois Mehault wrote: For now, all jobs write in the same catalog. We grouped the jobs and we want that every group use it's own catalog. Is there any way to split a catalog to may different catalogs ?? And also split the file bacula.log ? Hello,

[Bacula-users] Feature request:

2009-03-12 Thread Graham Keeling
Hello, I may implement this myself, after people have commented. Thanks, Graham. Item n: Restore from volumes on multiple storage daemons Origin: Graham Keeling (gra...@equiinet.com) Date: 12 March 2009 Status: Proposing What: The ability to restore from volumes held by multiple storage

[Bacula-users] Feature request: enter a JobId, automatically select dependents

2009-03-13 Thread Graham Keeling
Hello, Here is a feature request. Item n: 'restore' menu: enter a JobId, automatically select dependents Origin: Graham Keeling (gra...@equiinet.com) Date: 13 March 2009 Status: Proposing What: Add to the bconsole 'restore' menu the ability to select a job by JobId, and have bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] how restore a file with accent ?

2009-03-26 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 05:19:19PM +0100, Fran?ois Mehault wrote: Hi All I would like to know how I could restore a file which has some accent. I want to restore with bconsole, In bconsole : * * *restore [...] $ ls h??h?? lol.txt $ mark h And i can't mark my file :s, and I

Re: [Bacula-users] restoreing from a concurrent backup

2009-04-16 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 09:34:30PM +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote: tonight i ran my very first concurrent backup and the backup time went down nicely. yay. when trying to restore something from the backup i got this: ... Files Expected: 1 Files Restored: 0 Hello, I

Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent backups to a single disk volume

2009-04-16 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:15:18PM +0200, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: Hi folks, the recent talk here of a bug relating to concurrent writes to a single backup volume has made me a bit uneasy about one of our production bacula servers. We have one system with two tape libraries (so no single

Re: [Bacula-users] Unwarranted promotion to full

2009-05-07 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 05:18:45AM -0400, Mike Ruskai wrote: With Bacula 2.4.4, adding an exclusion to a file set causes an incremental backup to be promoted to full. Is this kind of thing fixed in 3.x? Do you know about the 'Ignore FileSet Changes' option?

Re: [Bacula-users] Unwarranted promotion to full

2009-05-07 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 12:44:17PM +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, 07.05.2009 12:20, Mike Ruskai wrote: On 05/07/2009 05:38, Graham Keeling wrote: On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 05:18:45AM -0400, Mike Ruskai wrote: With Bacula 2.4.4, adding an exclusion to a file set causes

Re: [Bacula-users] bad file dates cause incremental backups

2009-05-13 Thread Graham Keeling
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 09:54:25AM -0700, Mark Nienberg wrote: I have a bunch of files on a file server that have dates in the future like 3/28/2025. These are mostly image files downloaded from a digital camera that probably had the date set incorrectly. I noticed that these files are

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore issue?

2009-05-29 Thread Graham Keeling
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 12:13:02AM -0400, Jason A. Kates wrote: ... 28-May 20:32 backup-server-sd JobId 67400: Error: block.c:275 Volume data error at 339:441! Wanted ID: BB02, got . Buffer discarded. ... I used to get this error on restore if I had the 'autopurge corruption bug'. More

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore issue?

2009-05-29 Thread Graham Keeling
VolParts: 0 LabelType: 0 StorageId: 5 DeviceId: 0 LocationId: 0 RecycleCount: 1 InitialWrite: -00-00 00:00:00 ScratchPoolId: 0 RecyclePoolId: 0 Comment: NULL On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 09:21 +0100, Graham Keeling wrote: On Fri

Re: [Bacula-users] Volume and tapes

2009-06-05 Thread Graham Keeling
On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 10:41:02AM +0200, Mario Bussetti wrote: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN html head /head body bgcolor=#ff text=#00 font size=-1font face=VerdanaHi,br I have a simple question: is it possible to have 2 Volumes (I mean: more than

Re: [Bacula-users] failing to build a statically linked bacula-fd (3.0.1)

2009-06-15 Thread Graham Keeling
Hello, My colleague went through this trouble a while back and filed a bug report. Here is the relevant line from my spec file: # Build the static-bacula-fd for clients to download. See bacula bug 1257. PIDOF=/sbin/pidof ./configure --mandir=/usr/man \ --with-sbin-perm=755 --with-openssl

Re: [Bacula-users] cross compile bacul - mingw32

2009-07-15 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 05:00:00PM +0700, OpenThink Labs wrote: When doing make i got the following error : Where is obj32/* come from ? r...@openthinklabs:/home/wildan/jobstuff/Software/BackupTools/Bacula/src/bacula/trunk/bacula/src/win32# sudo make Creating Makefile.inc make[1]:

Re: [Bacula-users] Backuping 2000+ host with bacula?

2009-07-16 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:09:32PM +0200, Marcin Radczuk wrote: I'm trying use bacula more than a month. I have more than 2000 hosts to backup. We want to do everyday backup. One Full backup per month and Incrementals every other day. Now I have 10 bacula-sd and one bacula-dir and I was add

Re: [Bacula-users] Backuping 2000+ host with bacula?

2009-07-16 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 05:18:24AM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: Graham Keeling wrote: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:09:32PM +0200, Marcin Radczuk wrote: I'm trying use bacula more than a month. I have more than 2000 hosts to backup. We want to do everyday backup. One Full backup per month

Re: [Bacula-users] bsock.c:123 Could not connect to Storage daemon

2009-08-25 Thread Graham Keeling
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 05:47:20AM -0700, hm62 wrote: i've installed bacula and everything works fine one my local network. When i try to backup a remote server i've got this message : bsock.c:123 Could not connect to Storage daemon. Does bacula only do backup on a local network? No, it can

[Bacula-users] Unsupported feature concerning the Storage definitions?

2009-09-01 Thread Graham Keeling
Hello, On http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1356 Kern told me this... ...you are using an undocumented feature concerning the Storage definitions, and in any case, the way you are using it is definitely not supported and at some time will probably cause severe restore problems. You need some

Re: [Bacula-users] Error in bsys.c:431 error

2009-09-15 Thread Graham Keeling
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 09:33:49PM -0400, Reynier Pérez Mira wrote: Hi every: My Bacula is crashed some days ago and I don't know why because I'm the only who have access to this server and also I'm the only one who make changes in Bacula. I check the logs and see that: 14-Sep 21:28

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows incremental backup based on time stamps

2009-09-28 Thread Graham Keeling
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 08:12:54PM +1000, James Harper wrote: Considering file names loaded in RAM, I still have doubts. For instance: 1) If Accurate=yes, and there is a new file but with old date than previous full/diff/inc backup, will it be backed up? Is this very old Windows Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows incremental backup based on time stamps

2009-09-28 Thread Graham Keeling
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 09:18:34AM -0300, Júlio Maranhão wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:44 AM, Graham Keeling gra...@equiinet.com wrote: After investigating this for myself last week, I found that the code looks at the access and modification times of files in both the 'accurate' and non

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Exchange Server 2007

2009-09-29 Thread Graham Keeling
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 02:46:40PM +0200, Torsten Maus wrote: I am currently installing and trying to backup a Exchange Server 2007, (OS: Windows 2003 Server). I've tried it on Windows 2008 Server + Exchange 2007, and I've tried it on Windows 2003 Server + Exchange 2003. I've not tried it with

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Exchange Server 2007

2009-09-29 Thread Graham Keeling
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 04:38:42PM +0300, Silver Salonen wrote: OK, although I left VSS on in the fileset. I managed to do one successful restore (from full+incr) backup, but since then all the restores have failed - sometimes bacula-fd dying, sometimes just getting Error:

[Bacula-users] bscan from bconsole?

2009-10-06 Thread Graham Keeling
Hello, Is there any way of running bscan on a remote storage daemon from within bconsole? On the face of it, it seems that you have to: a) log in to a console on the remote machine b) figure out where the config file is c) figure out the storage device from the config file d) figure out the

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Email Reports?

2009-11-02 Thread Graham Keeling
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 10:47:40AM -, Gabriel - IP Guys wrote: Can I configure Bacula to send out email reports on the completion of each job? **please don't flame me, I've spent the last 48hrs configuring about 30 clients, and my brain is stuck in first gear!** Yes, have a look here:

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole shortcut command parameters: specifically add command

2009-11-11 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:36:57AM -0500, Bob Hetzel wrote: Greetings, Is there anywhere that the shortcut parameters you can use with bconsole are documented so as to avoid the submenus? For the moment, the task that's frustrating me is that I'd like to add in a bunch of new volumes

Re: [Bacula-users] virtuafull and verify

2009-11-18 Thread Graham Keeling
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 09:02:11AM +0100, Fahrer, Julian wrote: Hey guys, I am currently trying to implement verify jobs at a customer's site. At that site I am running fulls and incrementals to disk and virtual fulls to tape. I want to verify that the data on tape is ok. So tried a verify

Re: [Bacula-users] virtuafull and verify

2009-11-18 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:29:38AM +0100, Fahrer, Julian wrote: Hey, yes it seems tob e the same problem. The sql statement in the sub db_find_last_jobid is: SELECT JobId FROM Job WHERE Type='B' AND JobStatus IN ('T','W') AND Name='%s' ORDER BY StartTime DESC LIMIT 1, Name); I think

Re: [Bacula-users] Format of JobId in bconsole

2010-02-08 Thread Graham Keeling
On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 08:33:07PM +0100, Markus Falb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Output Format of JobId ...snippel * list job=bla ++--+... | JobId | Name | ++--+... | 16,063 | bla | ++--+... snappel... No Problem

[Bacula-users] Windows client priority?

2010-03-10 Thread Graham Keeling
Hello, I have a user complaining that when the bacula client is backing stuff up on his Windows XP computer, the computer becomes 'unusable' for simple web surfing. He wonders whether there is a way of setting some kind of low priority on the bacula file daemon so that the Windows computer can

[Bacula-users] Exchange plugin - backup after restore

2010-03-19 Thread Graham Keeling
Hello, I have just been trying the Exchange plugin again. A reminder of my FileSet: FileSet { Name = Windows:2k3-pt2:Windows Exchange Server data Include { Options { signature = MD5 compression = GZIP9 IgnoreCase = yes } Plugin = exchange:/@EXCHANGE/Microsoft

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows client priority?

2010-03-19 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 05:38:27PM +0200, Jari Fredriksson wrote: On 10.3.2010 11:36, Graham Keeling wrote: Hello, I have a user complaining that when the bacula client is backing stuff up on his Windows XP computer, the computer becomes 'unusable' for simple web surfing. He

Re: [Bacula-users] Exchange plugin - backup after restore

2010-03-22 Thread Graham Keeling
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 08:24:24AM +1100, James Harper wrote: The warning is this... Error: HrESEBackupSetup failed with error 0xc8000230 - Exchange reports that no previous full backup has been done. But I wanted to continue doing incremental backups. Sorry, but you can't. Exchange

[Bacula-users] Concurrency and VirtualFulls

2010-03-23 Thread Graham Keeling
Hello, I would like to be able to tell bacula that Incrementals cannot be run whilst another Incremental is running. I would also like to be able to tell bacula that VirtualFulls *can* be run whilst an Incremental is running. Is that possible?

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrency and VirtualFulls

2010-03-30 Thread Graham Keeling
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:41:05AM +, Graham Keeling wrote: Hello, I would like to be able to tell bacula that Incrementals cannot be run whilst another Incremental is running. I would also like to be able to tell bacula that VirtualFulls *can* be run whilst an Incremental is running

Re: [Bacula-users] exchange 2003 restoration error

2010-03-30 Thread Graham Keeling
are in a bacula bug report with bug id=1348, but I think you need to have a bacula bugzilla account to see that. The crash bug that it talks about was fixed in bacula-3.0.3. So I'll paste from the report now, in case it is helpful to you: =Graham Keeling== I am testing

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

2010-04-06 Thread Graham Keeling
Hello, I'm using bacula-5.0.1. I have a 2.33GHz CPU with 2G of RAM. I am using MySQL. I had a VirtualFull scheduled for my client. My log says the following: Apr 4 18:56:02 Start Virtual Backup JobId 56, Job=Linux:cvs.2010-04-04_18.56.00_03 Apr 4 18:56:02 This Job is not an Accurate backup

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

2010-04-06 Thread Graham Keeling
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 12:59:49PM +0200, Matija Nalis wrote: On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:13:44AM +0100, Graham Keeling wrote: I'm using bacula-5.0.1. At about Apr 6 10:00, I logged into mysql, and ran 'show full processlist;', which gave the following. | 3033 | root | localhost

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

2010-04-07 Thread Graham Keeling
On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 09:01:13AM -0700, ebollengier wrote: Hello Graham, Hello, thanks for your reply. Graham Keeling wrote: Hello, I'm using bacula-5.0.1. I have a 2.33GHz CPU with 2G of RAM. I am using MySQL. I had a VirtualFull scheduled for my client. My log says

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

2010-04-07 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 02:51:42PM +0100, Martin Simmons wrote: Does it still run quickly if keep that Job.JobId IN clause but use the numbers returned by SELECT DISTINCT BaseJobId FROM BaseFiles WHERE JobId IN (22,23,31,34,42,48,52) in place of the the nested select? In my case,

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

2010-04-07 Thread Graham Keeling
Since: a) I am not using Base jobs b) I am currently stuck with using MySQL c) There is not a 'proper' fix yet I am going to use the attached patch as a temporary solution to the problem. Index: src/cats/sql_cmds.c === RCS file:

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

2010-04-07 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 08:22:09AM -0700, ebollengier wrote: I tweaked my test to compare both queries, and it shows no difference with and without base job part... If you want to test queries on your side with your data, you can download my tool (accurate-test.pl) on

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

2010-04-08 Thread Graham Keeling
On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 09:58:51AM -0700, ebollengier wrote: ebollengier wrote: Graham Keeling wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 08:22:09AM -0700, ebollengier wrote: I tweaked my test to compare both queries, and it shows no difference with and without base job part... If you

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

2010-04-08 Thread Graham Keeling
Hello, I'm still waiting for my test database to fill up with Eric's data (actually, it's full now, but generating the right indexes is taking lots of time). But, I have another proposed solution, better than the last one I made. My previous solution was still taking a very very long time for

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

2010-04-08 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 07:44:14AM -0700, ebollengier wrote: Hello, Graham Keeling wrote: Hello, I'm still waiting for my test database to fill up with Eric's data (actually, it's full now, but generating the right indexes is taking lots of time). But, I have another

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

2010-04-09 Thread Graham Keeling
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 12:29:05PM -0700, ebollengier wrote: Graham Keeling wrote: On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 07:44:14AM -0700, ebollengier wrote: Hello, Graham Keeling wrote: Hello, I'm still waiting for my test database to fill up with Eric's data (actually

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

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

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,

[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

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 this

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 have found that the bulid

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] 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

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] 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 Job take a lot of time due

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

[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 =

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 at 18:00 Run = Level=Incremental tue at 18:00 Run = Level

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, I have a schedule like this in my bacula

[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

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 no longer

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] 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 files

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 cool.

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) compiled

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. Following configuration: W2K3 R2 Server (32

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 monday

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 fullbackup in

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 going to

Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding purge

2010-11-17 Thread Graham Keeling
at the moment. On 17 November 2010 11:03, Graham Keeling gra...@equiinet.com wrote: 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

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 starving

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 you

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] 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't really need, around 2TB or so! (we have a few

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 me if

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, from my understanding, (i'm 80% through my work day

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 my head around virtual full backups. [...] So, I

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 VirtualFull also grabbed new files 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 been able to solve

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 running, because the VirtualFull took

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 doing

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 wrote: Okay, I see the point of Virtual

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