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Re: [Wlug] RAZR w/ Linux, Ruby tutorial

by Bill Smith

On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 22:35:24 -0400, John Stoffel wrote: >Bill> First, I was talking to someone about accessing the RAZR from >Bill> Linux via USB. (Sorry-- I'm terrible with names.) The program >Bill> that I use is moto4lin, and is available for free from >Bill> SourceForge at: http://moto4lin.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page . > >I think I remember using this tool to access my V551 via BlueTooth on >my linux box, but it was a pain. I may have ended up going into KDE >instead of gnome and browsing to bluetooth:// instead. My PC doesn't have BlueTooth. I'm using a USB cable to do the connection. >In any case, it's a pain. If you want to sync your phone so you don't >lose your contacts and such, try the service on yahoo. >http://mobile.yahoo.com where I was able to upload my phone book quite >easily over a web connection. It's a work phone, so I don't worry >about the costs. *grin* This is a personal phone, so the costs actually matter to me. :) >Bill> One may (or may not) need p2kmoto, which is available from: >Bill> http://sourceforge.net/projects/moto4lin (the information is >Bill> available from the main page). > >Has anyone else gotten it to work reliably with BlueTooth? I'll be interested in this, too. >Bill> All-told, the installation of both parts are covered in the >Bill> documentation, and it's pretty straight-forward. > >But the moto4lin website sucks rocks. Who is crazy enough to think a >wiki is a web site? <shrug> >Bill> Second, I had asked several about Ruby tutorials, and mentioned >Bill> that I found one source that was a bit... ...odd, though I >Bill> couldn't remember the name of it. It is "Why's (Poignant) Guide >Bill> to Ruby, which is found at http://poignantguide.net/ruby/ . > > >Bill> Third, as for a list of what my employer has for what we are >Bill> getting rid of, we're in the process of building a list... When >Bill> something is available, I'll let you know. :) > >Oh! Post to the list so we vultures can gather around. Whee! Absolutely. Oh-- Andy- My AP is a LinkSys/Cisco WAP54G. It's got this via SNMP: # snmpget -v 2c -c snmp_password_here 10.80.50.4 sysDescr.0 SNMPv2-MIB::sysDescr.0 = STRING: Linux (none) 2.4.20 mips -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com I never imagined there might be a time that I would die defending the Constitution from those sworn to uphold it. * TAG! v3.2 *

Sept. 10, 2006

Re: [Wlug] e-Commerce Software

by Karl Hiramoto

Matt Higgins wrote: > Looking for some insight from you folks. Does anyone have experience > with this? Here are some params: > > Runs on linux > Does not need to be open source but that's a bonus > Standard software platform i.e. Java / PHP / Perl based > SOE friendly (nice urls, shallow link depth , crawlable catalog) > Ability to manage inventory and fulfillment. (this is more of a bonus) > > > Any thoughts ? > Check out: http://www.zen-cart.com/ -- Karl Hiramoto http://karl.hiramoto.org/ -- Now is the time for all good men to come to. -- Walt Kelly

Sept. 9, 2006

Re: [Wlug] RAZR w/ Linux, Ruby tutorial

by John Stoffel

Bill> First, I was talking to someone about accessing the RAZR from Bill> Linux via USB. (Sorry-- I'm terrible with names.) The program Bill> that I use is moto4lin, and is available for free from Bill> SourceForge at: http://moto4lin.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page . I think I remember using this tool to access my V551 via BlueTooth on my linux box, but it was a pain. I may have ended up going into KDE instead of gnome and browsing to bluetooth:// instead. In any case, it's a pain. If you want to sync your phone so you don't lose your contacts and such, try the service on yahoo. http://mobile.yahoo.com where I was able to upload my phone book quite easily over a web connection. It's a work phone, so I don't worry about the costs. *grin* Bill> One may (or may not) need p2kmoto, which is available from: Bill> http://sourceforge.net/projects/moto4lin (the information is Bill> available from the main page). Has anyone else gotten it to work reliably with BlueTooth? Bill> All-told, the installation of both parts are covered in the Bill> documentation, and it's pretty straight-forward. But the moto4lin website sucks rocks. Who is crazy enough to think a wiki is a web site? Bill> Second, I had asked several about Ruby tutorials, and mentioned Bill> that I found one source that was a bit... ...odd, though I Bill> couldn't remember the name of it. It is "Why's (Poignant) Guide Bill> to Ruby, which is found at http://poignantguide.net/ruby/ . Bill> Third, as for a list of what my employer has for what we are Bill> getting rid of, we're in the process of building a list... When Bill> something is available, I'll let you know. :) Oh! Post to the list so we vultures can gather around. Whee! John

Sept. 9, 2006

e-Commerce Software

by Matt Higgins

Looking for some insight from you folks. Does anyone have experience with this? Here are some params: Runs on linux Does not need to be open source but that's a bonus Standard software platform i.e. Java / PHP / Perl based SOE friendly (nice urls, shallow link depth , crawlable catalog) Ability to manage inventory and fulfillment. (this is more of a bonus) Any thoughts ?

Sept. 8, 2006

RAZR w/ Linux, Ruby tutorial

by Bill Smith

There are several things I want to mention... First, I was talking to someone about accessing the RAZR from Linux via USB. (Sorry-- I'm terrible with names.) The program that I use is moto4lin, and is available for free from SourceForge at: http://moto4lin.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page . One may (or may not) need p2kmoto, which is available from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/moto4lin (the information is available from the main page). All-told, the installation of both parts are covered in the documentation, and it's pretty straight-forward. Second, I had asked several about Ruby tutorials, and mentioned that I found one source that was a bit... ...odd, though I couldn't remember the name of it. It is "Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby, which is found at http://poignantguide.net/ruby/ . Third, as for a list of what my employer has for what we are getting rid of, we're in the process of building a list... When something is available, I'll let you know. :) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com "In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant." -- Elwood P. Dowd * TAG! v3.2 *

Sept. 8, 2006

Re: [Wlug] MEETING: Thurs, Sept 7th, 7:00 PM

by Jamie Guinan

Unfortunately I can't make tonight's meeting. But I did up a few pictures from the BBQ, http://www.bluebutton.com/wlug/ See you in October! -Jamie

Sept. 7, 2006

Re: [Wlug] MEETING: Thurs, Sept 7th, 7:00 PM

by douglas.r.aker＠verizon.com

Andy, If you're still interested, I can briefly discuss my offer to give a preso (for the Oct meeting) on the SVG application I've developed. If there's interest, great. If not, no hard feelings. I've not had time to port the browser part of the application to SUSE Linux. The XML transformations though, *do* run on Linux (zLinux: IBM's Linux that runs under VM on mainframes). Doug "Andy Stewart" <andystewart(a)comcast.net> Sent by: wlug-bounces(a)mail.wlug.org 09/06/2006 08:12 PM Please respond to "Worcester Linux Users Group" <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> To "Worcester Linux Users Group" <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> cc Subject Re: [Wlug] MEETING: Thurs, Sept 7th, 7:00 PM -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Everybody, Unfortunately, the Sybase representative who was supposed to visit us was called away on business out of the country, thus we won't be having our scheduled talk about Sybase at our next WLUG meeting. I apologize for the short notice - I just found out myself. We will still have the meeting, but it will be up to us to be creative with our time. Later, Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE/2PjHl0iXDssISsRAjhoAKCFyndvdNByHh2ZUJIlbRJeABlsBQCeKh8z H7SEBLKQgIk0e9gCmW1KwJo= =7fnA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Sept. 7, 2006

Re: [Wlug] MEETING: Thurs, Sept 7th, 7:00 PM

by Eric Stein

Wow. I completely forgot about the meeting that was supposed to be today. I'm sort of glad this happened, now I have another chance :) Eric Andy Stewart wrote: > > Hi Everybody, > > Unfortunately, the Sybase representative who was supposed to visit us > was called away on business out of the country, thus we won't be having > our scheduled talk about Sybase at our next WLUG meeting. > > I apologize for the short notice - I just found out myself. > > We will still have the meeting, but it will be up to us to be creative > with our time. > > Later, > > Andy

Sept. 7, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Distributions with Syslinux?

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Richard Klein wrote: > I'm trying to install *nix on an old Gateway2000 120MHz Pentium. Most of > the discs (debian 3.1, ubuntu 5.10, phlak, solaris 10, freebsd 5.1, suse > 9.0, openbsd, netbsd 1.6.2) I have won't boot on it, giving an Isolinux > error (I forget exactly what the error was - it's at home and I'm at > work). PHLAK (I forget the version) boots, but locks up with a black > screen after it starts X. I'm guessing it boots because it uses Syslinux > instead of Isolinux, but I don't know if that's true. netbsd 1.6.2 also > boots, and I installed that last night, but I hate the default twm window > manager, I don't know how netbsd handles packages (I'm thinking of things > like deb or rpm packages), I don't know my way around netbsd, this is an > old version of netbsd, and netbsd is probably the wrong choice for what I > want to do, anyway. I want to see if I can turn this heap into a useful > web browser and email reader (well, web-mail could take care of email > chores). Some basic office apps would be nice, too. > > So, if I'm right that this old hardware is incompatible with Isolinux, > what are my options? > > Thanks! HI Rich, Here's a thought. Try downloading a copy of Damn Small Linux (DSL): http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/download.html Note that they have two versions, one with Syslinux and another with Isolinux. If one works and another doesn't, and it is consistent with what you've reported (above), then you have one problem solved (in a sense). DSL has low memory requirements and you can run it off of the CD to see if you like it (and if it is compatible with your hardware). I'm not certain but I think DSL is Debian based. Later, Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE/2VoHl0iXDssISsRApcHAJsGoBgEZ2HXHacLn8wfhb+qFT1glwCePy7I reZfEWmWPddiYLLX8CLeSQM= =k74N -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Sept. 7, 2006

Re: [Wlug] MEETING: Thurs, Sept 7th, 7:00 PM

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Everybody, Unfortunately, the Sybase representative who was supposed to visit us was called away on business out of the country, thus we won't be having our scheduled talk about Sybase at our next WLUG meeting. I apologize for the short notice - I just found out myself. We will still have the meeting, but it will be up to us to be creative with our time. Later, Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE/2PjHl0iXDssISsRAjhoAKCFyndvdNByHh2ZUJIlbRJeABlsBQCeKh8z H7SEBLKQgIk0e9gCmW1KwJo= =7fnA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Sept. 7, 2006

Re: [Wlug] Distributions with Syslinux?

by Adam Keck

Have you tried to installing from floppy? <http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/Debian3.1r3/main/installer-i386/curr…> or <http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/dists/Debian3.0r6/main/disks-i386/current/…> -Adam On 9/6/06, Richard Klein <rich(a)richardklein.org> wrote: > I'm trying to install *nix on an old Gateway2000 120MHz Pentium. Most of > the discs (debian 3.1, ubuntu 5.10, phlak, solaris 10, freebsd 5.1, suse > 9.0, openbsd, netbsd 1.6.2) I have won't boot on it, giving an Isolinux > error (I forget exactly what the error was - it's at home and I'm at > work). PHLAK (I forget the version) boots, but locks up with a black > screen after it starts X. I'm guessing it boots because it uses Syslinux > instead of Isolinux, but I don't know if that's true. netbsd 1.6.2 also > boots, and I installed that last night, but I hate the default twm window > manager, I don't know how netbsd handles packages (I'm thinking of things > like deb or rpm packages), I don't know my way around netbsd, this is an > old version of netbsd, and netbsd is probably the wrong choice for what I > want to do, anyway. I want to see if I can turn this heap into a useful > web browser and email reader (well, web-mail could take care of email > chores). Some basic office apps would be nice, too. > > So, if I'm right that this old hardware is incompatible with Isolinux, > what are my options? > > Thanks! > -- > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > -- -Adam

Sept. 6, 2006

Re: [Wlug] CentOS?

by Andrew Robert

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It is definitely more pain than it is worth to upgrade. I recommend you back up everything and do a clean build. John Stoffel wrote: > Pete> Anyone working with CentOS? I have a RH8 server that needs to > Pete> join the party. Any remote possibility that CentOS can upgrade > Pete> RH8, or do I need to backup everything and start from scratch? > > I think you'd need to upgrade to RH9, then the next RH/CentOS version > as you move up. Personally, I'd save off my data and just do an > upgrade if possible. > > I really like keeping my personal data on seperate RAID1 mirrors and > the OS on it's own set of disks if at all possible. > > John > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: GnuPT 2.7.2 iD8DBQFE/ys4Dvn/4H0LjDwRAnO+AKC32jLiQLH325lNIDlVKsPdKfJmuQCeL+0P IJOlWcvByJZSQPRGLpJpLdE= =5ubF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Sept. 6, 2006

Distributions with Syslinux?

by Richard Klein

I'm trying to install *nix on an old Gateway2000 120MHz Pentium. Most of the discs (debian 3.1, ubuntu 5.10, phlak, solaris 10, freebsd 5.1, suse 9.0, openbsd, netbsd 1.6.2) I have won't boot on it, giving an Isolinux error (I forget exactly what the error was - it's at home and I'm at work). PHLAK (I forget the version) boots, but locks up with a black screen after it starts X. I'm guessing it boots because it uses Syslinux instead of Isolinux, but I don't know if that's true. netbsd 1.6.2 also boots, and I installed that last night, but I hate the default twm window manager, I don't know how netbsd handles packages (I'm thinking of things like deb or rpm packages), I don't know my way around netbsd, this is an old version of netbsd, and netbsd is probably the wrong choice for what I want to do, anyway. I want to see if I can turn this heap into a useful web browser and email reader (well, web-mail could take care of email chores). Some basic office apps would be nice, too. So, if I'm right that this old hardware is incompatible with Isolinux, what are my options? Thanks! -- Rich

Sept. 6, 2006

Re: [Wlug] bacula

by John Stoffel

Mike> Ok...I have it all figured out in my head, now i just need to Mike> start configuring the jobs. When you think you have it figured out, re-read the manuals and examples. Mike> I was able to get a 2nd 35/70 drive, now DLT1 and DLT2 are Mike> options for my backups. Right, that will help. Mike> I can't figure out how to have 1 job write to both either Mike> concurrently, or sequentailly as the job only allows me to pick Mike> 1 or the other. Correct, a single job can only write to one device at a time. It will automatically write to the next available device (I think...) if it's available. So if you have TapeA in drive1 and TapeB in drive2, and they are both in the same Pool, and you have one big job that runs and fills up TapeA, it should start using TapeB to continue the save. If you have multiple jobs running at the same time, you can tweak the "Maximum Concurent Jobs = " Parameter in the bacula-sd.conf file, and also tweak it in the Bacula Director config file. Re-reading the manual again, I'm thinking that I really need to look into Spooling my jobs (only have four total) so that I don't shoe-shine the drive. Of course this means having 10-20gb of free space for this, which is harder. Mike> I tried using: Storage = DLT1, DLT2 and by having 2 Storage Mike> lines in my bacula-dir.conf, but neither worked. Join the bacula-users mailing list for more detailed questions like this. I know that Kern has been improving this aspect of Bacula lately. Whcih version are you running? As an aside, after running Legato(EMC) Networker for many years, bacula's user interface (cli or gui) feels clunky and painful. It's the biggest problem with the software. In general, it works quite well. I just did a restore of data last night spanned across three tapes and besides having to change them, it ran wonderfully. I just wish I had known ahead of time that I would need those tapes.

Sept. 6, 2006

Re: [Wlug] CentOS?

by John Stoffel

Pete> Anyone working with CentOS? I have a RH8 server that needs to Pete> join the party. Any remote possibility that CentOS can upgrade Pete> RH8, or do I need to backup everything and start from scratch? I think you'd need to upgrade to RH9, then the next RH/CentOS version as you move up. Personally, I'd save off my data and just do an upgrade if possible. I really like keeping my personal data on seperate RAID1 mirrors and the OS on it's own set of disks if at all possible. John

Sept. 6, 2006

CentOS?

by Pete Wason

Hiall, Anyone working with CentOS? I have a RH8 server that needs to join the party. Any remote possibility that CentOS can upgrade RH8, or do I need to backup everything and start from scratch? Yes, I know it's a wacky question. :) PS: And, DAMN AOL! PPS: if this message is HTML, let me know; I'm still learning Thunderbird... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Pete Wason* Hy Noom Publications /codevark(a)aim.com/ 508.865.5414

Sept. 6, 2006

Re: [Wlug] bacula

by Mike Leo

Ok...I have it all figured out in my head, now i just need to start configuring the jobs. I was able to get a 2nd 35/70 drive, now DLT1 and DLT2 are options for my backups. I can't figure out how to have 1 job write to both either concurrently, or sequentailly as the job only allows me to pick 1 or the other. I tried using: Storage = DLT1, DLT2 and by having 2 Storage lines in my bacula-dir.conf, but neither worked. Any idea's? John Stoffel <john(a)stoffel.org> wrote: Just for grins, here's my output of 'mt -f /dev/nst0 status' on my DLT7k driver: > mt -f /dev/st0 status SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=0, block number=0, partition=0. Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x1b (DLT 35GB). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (41010000): BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN You can also run the bacula command 'btape' on there to make sure you've got things configured properly. John _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Sept. 6, 2006

Re: [Wlug] bacula

by John Stoffel

Just for grins, here's my output of 'mt -f /dev/nst0 status' on my DLT7k driver: > mt -f /dev/st0 status SCSI 2 tape drive: File number=0, block number=0, partition=0. Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x1b (DLT 35GB). Soft error count since last status=0 General status bits on (41010000): BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN You can also run the bacula command 'btape' on there to make sure you've got things configured properly. John

Sept. 5, 2006

MEETING: Thurs, Sept 7th, 7:00 PM

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI Everybody, We have a WLUG meeting coming up on Thursday, September 7th, 2006, at 7:00 PM in the Access Grid room at the WPI campus in Worcester, MA USA. Anybody who is interested in Linux is welcome to attend. At this meeting, David Dichmann from Sybase will be the guest speaker, talking about Sybase on Linux. Checkout this link for more information: http://www.sybase.com/linux In addition, I'll be bringing a box of old (but working) computer parts. Feel free to be a scavenger! Included are ATAPI CDROM drives (8-16x), 3.5" floppy drives, a couple of power supplies, and a couple of Pentium 200MHz motherboards. Anything not claimed at the meeting will go to electronics recycling. There will be quite a few other things available for a free giveaway: Sybase teeshirts and other goodies 2 x LaTeX User's Guide and Reference Manual (Leslie Lamport) Self-Service Linux - Mastering the Art of Problem Determination See ya there! Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE/bJzHl0iXDssISsRAlk+AJ9kJtIGusw5IydkvFoz/I71yxcILwCghpG9 2wAXiRdWKJmQkVllmU6qqQo= =WE0i -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Sept. 5, 2006

Re: [Wlug] bacula

by John Stoffel

Mike> Thanks a bunch. I had found this out 5 minutes after my first Mike> email, but your examples will come in handy i'm sure! No problem. Bacula is good, the manual is excellent for what it is, but the config files are Baroque... Kern's style I guess. Mike> i have a 35/70Gb DLT drive with IV tapes, but I am only getting Mike> less than 30 gigs' per tape. How is the tape drive hooked up to the system, and how fast is the system you're running on? Can you share some details on a completed job maybe? Mike> my bacula-sd.conf lists " Media Type = DLT"....if this is not Mike> accurate, could bacula think I have only a 15/30Gb drive? Mike> Should it read DTL7000 or something? Nah, doesn't really matter. Mike> Also, does bacula compress naturally or do i have to tell it too? I'm not aware of Bacula compressing data from the client when sending it to the tape drive unless you explicitly enable it. And it's generally not worth doing. The key thing with DLT is to push data to the drive at a high enough rate to keep it from shoe-shining. That both wears down the drive, and kills performance/storage capacity. Since the native speed is 5MB/s, you really really really wnat to be able to push 10MB/s to the drive to let it compress the data well. Unfortunately, that can be hard to do, esp if you have lots of small files to backup. Also, check your dmesg output to see how the drive is detected and at what speed it's running. When you put a tape into the drive, does the compression light come on as well? There's a known limitation (performance bottleneck actually) where Bacula uses transactions for inserting records into the DB one at a time. If they could insert more records at a time, performance would go up since the transaction overhead would be amortized across more INSERTS. Also, which DB are you using? And which version of Bacula? The newest released version I think (and I'd have to check) now uses sqlite3 as the default DB, which has a big performance loss compared to older 1.36.x versions which defaulted to sqlite which had better performance. Now one of the things I did to speed up my backups was to put my DB onto another host, since my tape drive and data were all one one system, so adding mysql updates ontop of that really just brought it down to it's knees. Anyway, more data on your backups and how well they currently run would be good. On my system, I get around 24gb to 68gb per tape, so it's certainly possible to get more data on there, esp since I'm using a dual CPU Xeon 550mhz box to do my backups. Old and not very fast. John

Sept. 5, 2006

Re: [Wlug] bacula

by Frank Sweetser

On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 03:11:14PM -0700, Mike Leo wrote: > i have a 35/70Gb DLT drive with IV tapes, but I am only getting less than 30 > gigs' per tape. > > my bacula-sd.conf lists " Media Type = DLT"....if this is not accurate, could > bacula think I have only a 15/30Gb drive? Should it read DTL7000 or > something? Bacula doesn't actually parse the media type - it's nothing more than a unique identifier string that bacula uses to determine what volumes can be read by what drives. You could call file volumes "blue", DLT tapes "red", and DVDRs "green" and it would work fine. Bacula doesn't try to pre-determine the amount of space available on a tape. It just writes until the drive reports that it's hit the end of media, re-reads the last succesfully written block to make sure it got there okay, marks the volume full and asks for another one. The fact that you're getting about 30G of data per tape implies that you have hardware tape compression off. I believe the 'mt' command will tell you the compression status - the online manual has an example. The other 5G or so is probably taken up by volume metadata, such as the volume label and file attributes. > Also, does bacula compress naturally or do i have to tell it too? No, you have to explicitly enable gzip compression if you want to use it. It's typically reccomended to use drive hardware compression instead, though, as a) drive hardware compression is usually faster, especially on older machines, and b) it's possible to run into file daemon incompatabilities that can make it difficult to restore data, especially if you're trying to restore the data onto a different machine that the one it was backed up on. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC

Sept. 4, 2006

Re: [Wlug] bacula

by Mike Leo

Thanks a bunch. I had found this out 5 minutes after my first email, but your examples will come in handy i'm sure! Now i just need to start building my own backup FileSet's etc. One question, however... i have a 35/70Gb DLT drive with IV tapes, but I am only getting less than 30 gigs' per tape. my bacula-sd.conf lists " Media Type = DLT"....if this is not accurate, could bacula think I have only a 15/30Gb drive? Should it read DTL7000 or something? Also, does bacula compress naturally or do i have to tell it too? thanks again mike John Stoffel <john(a)stoffel.org> wrote: Mike> Someone at the cook-out mentioned they were using bacula for Mike> backups. I have just installed it and I have a DLT tape drive. Same here, I've got Bacula running right now at home to a DLT7k drive. Mike> I have it confugered OK and i can connect to my fd (client) and Mike> my sd (storage device). Mike> To keep things simple, lets say that I am doing everything on Mike> one server. Yup. Mike> I can label the tapes and even backup to my "File" device. Mike> My question is, what/where do I build a list of jobs to run? This is one of the weaknesses of Bacula in my mind. You need to setup a JobDefs { ... } section in your /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf file. Mike> Lets say I want a "Full" backup of the system, and a seperate Mike> backup of just /home. Mike> Where do these jobs get defined, etc etc etc. This seems to be Mike> the only piece I am missing in the doc's. The docs are actually pretty good, it just sometimes takes a bit of re-reading to make it work. For example, here's what I have for one client. JobDefs { Name = "jack to tape" Type = Backup Level = Differential Client = jack-fd FileSet = "jack Full Set" Schedule = "MonthlyCycle" Storage = jfsnew-DLT Messages = Standard Pool = Backups Priority = 10 } Notice the Schedule and FileSet lines. Those are OTHER sections in the same file which define which schedule to use, and which filesets to run. Then you need to define a Job {...} section too: Job { Name = "jack-fd" JobDefs = "jack to tape" Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/jack.bsr" } So here's most of what I've got defined for this one client. It's a pain, and I wish he would just dump this into the DB so it's easier to manage. Or maybe having a tool to write these files would be useful. :] FileSet { Name = "jack Full Set" #noatime = yes Ignore FileSet Changes = yes Include { Options { wilddir = \.thumbnails exclude = yes } File = @/etc/bacula/FileSet-jack } Exclude { File = /sys File = /proc File = /tmp File = ".journal" File = ".fsck" File = "/var/lib/mysql" File = ".thumbnails" } } Schedule { Name = "MonthlyCycle" Run = Level=Full 1st sun at 1:05 Run = Level=Differential 2nd-5th sun at 1:05 Run = Level=Incremental mon-sat at 1:05 } Client { Name = jack-fd Address = jack FDPort = 9102 Catalog = MyCatalog Password = "" # password for FileDaemon File Retention = 60 days # 30 days Job Retention = 12 months # six months AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired Jobs/Files } Let me know if this helps or not. John _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Sept. 4, 2006

Re: [Wlug] bacula

by John Stoffel

Mike> Someone at the cook-out mentioned they were using bacula for Mike> backups. I have just installed it and I have a DLT tape drive. Same here, I've got Bacula running right now at home to a DLT7k drive. Mike> I have it confugered OK and i can connect to my fd (client) and Mike> my sd (storage device). Mike> To keep things simple, lets say that I am doing everything on Mike> one server. Yup. Mike> I can label the tapes and even backup to my "File" device. Mike> My question is, what/where do I build a list of jobs to run? This is one of the weaknesses of Bacula in my mind. You need to setup a JobDefs { ... } section in your /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf file. Mike> Lets say I want a "Full" backup of the system, and a seperate Mike> backup of just /home. Mike> Where do these jobs get defined, etc etc etc. This seems to be Mike> the only piece I am missing in the doc's. The docs are actually pretty good, it just sometimes takes a bit of re-reading to make it work. For example, here's what I have for one client. JobDefs { Name = "jack to tape" Type = Backup Level = Differential Client = jack-fd FileSet = "jack Full Set" Schedule = "MonthlyCycle" Storage = jfsnew-DLT Messages = Standard Pool = Backups Priority = 10 } Notice the Schedule and FileSet lines. Those are OTHER sections in the same file which define which schedule to use, and which filesets to run. Then you need to define a Job {...} section too: Job { Name = "jack-fd" JobDefs = "jack to tape" Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/jack.bsr" } So here's most of what I've got defined for this one client. It's a pain, and I wish he would just dump this into the DB so it's easier to manage. Or maybe having a tool to write these files would be useful. :] FileSet { Name = "jack Full Set" #noatime = yes Ignore FileSet Changes = yes Include { Options { wilddir = \.thumbnails exclude = yes } File = @/etc/bacula/FileSet-jack } Exclude { File = /sys File = /proc File = /tmp File = ".journal" File = ".fsck" File = "/var/lib/mysql" File = ".thumbnails" } } Schedule { Name = "MonthlyCycle" Run = Level=Full 1st sun at 1:05 Run = Level=Differential 2nd-5th sun at 1:05 Run = Level=Incremental mon-sat at 1:05 } Client { Name = jack-fd Address = jack FDPort = 9102 Catalog = MyCatalog Password = "" # password for FileDaemon File Retention = 60 days # 30 days Job Retention = 12 months # six months AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired Jobs/Files } Let me know if this helps or not. John

Sept. 3, 2006

Re: [Wlug] bacula

by Frank Sweetser

On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 10:42:10PM -0700, Mike Leo wrote: > My question is, what/where do I build a list of jobs to run? > > Lets say I want a "Full" backup of the system, and a seperate backup of just > /home. All of that kind of policy based config gets defined in the director config file. You create filesets to define what files get backed up, and schedules to define when. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong. - HL Mencken GPG fingerprint = 6174 1257 129E 0D21 D8D4 E8A3 8E39 29E3 E2E8 8CEC

Sept. 3, 2006

never mind

by Mike Leo

Figured it out. /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf has different "File Sets" that define that. thanks

Sept. 3, 2006