[Bacula-users] configuration question: IPs and hostnames

Hi, I got a bacula setup running for several years now, sadly I hit a snag and was hoping someone here can help me. The setup is as follows: * bacula-director and bacula-sd running on one box (v. 5.2.6, Debian wheezy) * several bacula-sd (v. 5.2.6, Debian wheezy) * one bacula-sd (v. 5.2.6,

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula development voting

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[Bacula-users] pstgresql errors ... missing table

my postgresql-log got errors about a missing table ( and an index on it) now the wired thing is that table is not defined in the create script at all (checked with CVS) wtf is wrong here ? it's working like that but i can't backup database since postgresql is complaining about missing

Re: [Bacula-users] pstgresql errors ... missing table

No, postgresql transaction log errors have nothing to do with what's in your database. What exactly is the error you get about the logs? //Magnus i'm getting errors when trying to do a pg_dump of my catalog database ... i already deleted and re-created the database but to no avail ...

Re: [Bacula-users] pstgresql errors ... missing table

Yikes. You have corrupt files on disk. Have you had hardware problem or OS crashes lately? Or running some funky beta-version of a filesystem ;-) nah .. ext3 and no crashes Also, what version of pg is this? Is it a large/old database, and if so are you vacuum:ing regularly? vacuum

[Bacula-users] request to update documentation

since the debian sarge package doesn't contain the create database script i just noticed nowhere in documentation is database encoding mentioned ... at least for me it's working with LATIN1 (got german characters in some files) .. UTF-8 and UNICODE both fail when bacula tries to insert records

Re: [Bacula-users] (no subject)

Bart Schelstraete wrote: Hi, I have another question. I want to use Bacula so that it writes the backup to a file, which isn't a problem. But the file should have a maximum of 70G, which is also not a problem :) But what I want is that Bacula keeps re-using the file. So : Take backups till the

Re: [Bacula-users] FileStorage into several files

you'll need to set a max volume size a bit smaller than 2 GB ... though putting your backup onto a SMB share on a windows box doesn't look like a good idea to me ... also, always remember to keep a reasonably new backup off-site :-) Well like I said, the SMB share is backed up on a

Re: [Bacula-users] first time backup erros help needed

david robert wrote: Hi Guys, I have scheduled jobs for the first time yesterday night and my storage daemon was stopped automatically i don't know why.I am have started the staorage daemon and i am checking the status using bcosole for director it is showing like this Scheduled Jobs:

Re: [Bacula-users] regular error message ...

didn't find the time to get the info you requested but i found out something now just now ... if i use the bacula console and do a status director it takes a bit because it i get message like 27-Feb 11:13 erde-dir: Max configured use duration exceeded. Marking Volume HD03 as Used. 27-Feb

Re: [Bacula-users] file count mismatch by restore

Why is thois mismatch? What can i do? Dear Florian obviously you got a msimatch .. you wanted to restore 1 file and restored 0 ^^ check the location bacula should write those files to, if it got write access there at all etc. florian

Re: [Bacula-users] A script to ease the pain of switching from SQLite to PostgreSQL

Russell Howe wrote: Well, the time is nigh. Our SQLite database has hit 1.3GB and creates a 900MB dump file, which is big enough to cause our bacula Xen virtual machine to run out of space when running a catalog backup. We have a Postgres (7.4) server with plenty of space, so I thought I'd try

Re: [Bacula-users] regular error message ...

i still didn't find a reason for my problem ... bacula prunes old jobs, then i get an error no volume available, THEN the volume gets recycled and backup starts i'll attach the messages, maybe someone can help me with that; i don't really like to get an error message every couple days

Re: [Bacula-users] Time taken to purge/prune volumes

Juliet Kemp wrote: Hi, How long is it normal for pruning/purging a volume to take? I have found that it takes several hours, even if only purging 2 or 3 jobs ( incremental jobs, rather than full ones) - this obviously can delay backups quite significantly. Does the purge/prune actually

Re: [Bacula-users] different questions and feature requests...

Timo Eissler wrote: Hello list, we use bacula in our firm and it work great, but we had a lot of questions before we can install bacula at our customers. The problem is that bacula needs in our mind a system operator to control bacula and we are our customers operator, but normally they want

Re: [Bacula-users] How to speed up the backup.

Marcin Wasilewski wrote: - Original Message - From: Florian Schnabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 11:53 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How to speed up the backup. Marcin Wasilewski wrote: Hello, I wonder if You have

Re: [Bacula-users] Intervention needed for BackupCatalog

Jesús Arnáiz wrote: Hi there, I don't stop to get this error, although I have every Pool with the LabelFormat directive, like: Pool { Name = Full-Pool Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 3 months Accept Any Volume = yes Maximum Volume

[Bacula-users] regular error message ...

now .. my bacula setup works really nicely except for the following message i recieve every couple days .. it works one hour later when bacula retries. it looks like it takes to prune/purge old data and thus the first try fails. is this a design flaw or did i do something wrong in my config ?

Re: [Bacula-users] Job pruning taking ages...

Will McDonald wrote: Hi all, can anyone give me any insight as to why I'm seeing Volume pruning taking so long? I'm running bacula-mysql-1.36.3-1 on White Box Enterprise Linux release 4 (effectively RHEL4). Is something messed up in my Pool definitions? you are aware that pruning will

Re: [Bacula-users] Finding redundant volumes

up about the recycle options .. bacula can do that automatically -- Florian Schnabel --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes

Re: [Bacula-users] Finding redundant volumes

Andreas Freyvogel wrote: Is there any way to have the listing done a page at a time? Similar to piping the outcome through more. As it is now, the listing goes flying by and I am unable to view all of what is listed. Thank you. if you are using wx-console you can just scroll back !? --

Re: [Bacula-users] AutoLabel not working (HELP!!!)

Pedro Henrique Morsch Mazzoni wrote: Hi, I'am using bacula since last month, and ir runs smoothly. But my strategy is to use a volume for 1 month and then prune it, and create a new volume. It works, but it is not autoLabeling a new volume for this storage. And it seems strange cause it

Re: [Bacula-users] AutoLabel not working (HELP!!!)

Pedro Henrique Morsch Mazzoni wrote: First, I'm backing up to disk. As long as I know, when there is no prior backup bacula will upgrade the job to Full, so what's the problem? Thanks, Pedro Mazzoni you could have mentioned that you use disk volumes .. ^^ also you did set maxvolumes to 2, so

[Bacula-users] tape woes

my tape was running fine with bacula for several months now ... now i entered the office this morning and the tape light was off, i can't eject the tape and i got errors in the log ... bacula says 3901 open device failed: ERR=dev.c:289 stored: unable to open device /dev/nst0:

[Bacula-users] suggestions for backup hardware

since out Tandberg DLT VS 80 just died over the weekend and this is 3rd tape DRIVE that failed in my company in 5 years ... i could use suggestions for hardware to use ... preferably no more tapes ^^ i need to be able to take one backup each week offsite .. so it should be at least a

Re: [Bacula-users] suggestions for backup hardware

Florian Schnabel wrote: since out Tandberg DLT VS 80 just died over the weekend and this is 3rd tape DRIVE that failed in my company in 5 years ... i could use suggestions for hardware to use ... preferably no more tapes ^^ i need to be able to take one backup each week offsite .. so

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula error using SQLite -- database is locked

Ken Lupo wrote: Has anyone received this error: failed. ERR=database is locked How do you correct that? Thanks in advance, Ken if the box crashed there coule be a lock file left .. jsut delete it Florian --- This SF.net email is

Re: [Bacula-users] Storage Daemon 'Replication'

that is on the wanted-feature-list already use rsync -Wt for now Florian McCann, Brian wrote: Hi all...this may sound silly...but is there a way to have the SD send whatever is written to one device, also to another device or SD? All our backups right now go to one server, and I'd like them

Re: [Bacula-users] default UID/GID for bacula?

Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: Is there default UID/GID that could be used for bacula? If not, it might be nice if Bacula could get default UID and GID assigned at least in several major distributions (such as Red Hat, Debian, Suse, Mandrake). it's using bacula:bacula in debian ... don't know

Re: [Bacula-users] default UID/GID for bacula?

checked my installations since they are all debian. doesn't look like it got a fixed UID/GID ... got 104/104 twice and twice 105/105 ^^ just curious .. but what good would a fixed UID/GID do ? Florian Kern Sibbald wrote: On Thursday 24 November 2005 15:54, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: Is

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow restore

i noticed lately that finding the file in the database can take quite some time try a handfull of bigger files to make sure it's not just counting search time ... Florian Pedro Henrique Morsch Mazzoni wrote: Hi, My restore jobs are very slow! For example, a job to restore 1 file of

Re: [Bacula-users] Appendable volumes

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El Martes, 15 de Noviembre de 2005 14:18, Florian Schnabel escribió: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there. I'm looking for the method to do the next action: When I do the backup I want to save the files in tapes and in the hard disk. I want

Re: [Bacula-users] Appendable volumes

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El Martes, 15 de Noviembre de 2005 16:07, Florian Schnabel escribió: MaxUseDuration Sorry Florian but, What is MaxUseDuration? I have been looking for this term in last manual (October 31 2005) and I have used google (bacula MaxUseDuration) and have not been able

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula not using a tape for some reason.

Beren Gamble wrote: Ok, this rewind error isn't going away. I've tried changing the sleep timer to 180 in mtx-changer. No luck.. Connecting to Storage daemon ULTRIUM at backup2.harrow.gov.uk:9103 ... Sending label command for Volume 000106L2 Slot 4 ... 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded drive 0

Re: [Bacula-users] Database locked

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Re: Fw: Re: [Bacula-users] mail notifications

Viktorija wrote: Thanks, yes this looks very easy to configure. But if one of my user will get something like this: 29-Oct 00:16 vessel-dir: Start Backup JobId 3163, Job=revenger.2005-10-28_21.06.18 29-Oct 00:17 vessel-dir: revenger.2005-10-28_21.06.18 Fatal error: bnet.c:775 Unable to

Re: [Bacula-users] File based backups

i'm just answering a couple of your questions ... Jason Tan wrote: Hi All, I'm wondering if anyone who uses file based backups (instead of tapes) could tell me if the volumes for their files get VolumeBytes, VolumeFiles and LastWritten recorded. yes, yes and yes My catalog shows 11

Re: [Bacula-users] *Extreme* low MySQL performance when prunnig or purging jobs/volumes

It's only three indexes!! Probably that's the reason! There's indexes missing! I'll look in the bacula source an create all the missing indexes! I expect this to fix the problem! yes :-) for comparison: i'm using postgresql now ... total database size is 1.3 GB, about 500k files backed

[Bacula-users] Vacation option ...

now i got a bacula setup running smooth ... i got daily tapes mo-fr and an additional backup to HD nwo i was wondering if there was any way to tell it to skip backup to tape (e.g. the jobs for it) on a certain day so it gives no error messages when i got a day off or there is a vacation and

Re: [Bacula-users] Connection to remote Storage Daemon hangs

frank wrote: Hi there, I try to setup Bacula to backup via an OpenVPN tunnel connection, so far without luck. If I backup locally to a mounted file it works without problems however whenever I try to run that same job to store its data to a remote SD, the connection to the SD somehow stops

Re: [Bacula-users] Large network bacula tips?

Lyle Vogtmann wrote: Hello fellow Bacula users! I've only been lurking on this list for a little while, please excuse me if this topic has been covered previously. I've got what I would consider a large network of machines each hosting many virtual private servers with Virtuozzo.

Re: [Bacula-users] Hi I'm a Newbie

Paul Burton wrote: Hello Guys as I'm a newbie here and I hope I'm not going over old rope, but i have just set up bacula for the first time on CentOS release 4.1 The problem i have is that when i attempt a backup nothing actually happens and i get the message : as below *status dir orinoco-dir

Re: [Bacula-users] hey guy's whats this..

Paul Burton wrote: Does anyone know what this is ??? 4-Oct 13:00 orinoco-dir: ERROR in authenticate.c:187 UA Hello from client:10.10.1.18:36131 is invalid. Len=-720899 obviously a failed client-auth Florian --- This SF.Net email is

Re: [Bacula-users] Backupstrategies with Bacula

Achim Schmidt [Bacula] wrote: Hi all, I've a question relating backupstrategies and the posibilities to build those with bacula. in general i like to do the following: - all backup's will be written to diskspaces (or lets say storage A) - all data, older than a given time will be moved from

Re: [Bacula-users] changing volumes on disk

Marek Simon wrote: Hi, I have one machine with data and one backup machine with bacula dir, both linux. I want to do backups on disk on backup machine. I have one default pool and few volumes on same disk. Bacula appends to one volume until it is full, then it searches for other volumes which

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Bacula tape handling.

Erik P. Olsen wrote: How does Bacula handle foreign tapes? I am currently using Amanda for back-up but planning to switch to Bacula and sometimes I erroneously leave an Amanda labeled tape in the tape drive. I see the error when Bacula complains about the tape and pull it out, but later when

Re: [Bacula-users] Help Understanding Auto Pruning?

Drew Tomlinson wrote: Maria McKinley wrote: Is it possible the volumes in the pool still have the old retention period? Have you looked at list volumes to see if it gives you what you expect? Updating the config file won't change the parameters already set on existing volumes. I didn't

Re: [Bacula-users] separated config files

Arno Lehmann wrote: Hello, On 10.10.2005 11:59, Paulo Carvalho wrote: Hello, I manage a park of over 30 servers of whom I need to backup daily wich different configurations, so as you may guess my 'bacula-dir.conf' get's pretty big ! I would like to know if there's someway to define a

Re: [Bacula-users] rotate volumes on disk

Marek Simon wrote: I have one machine with data and one backup machine with bacula dir, both linux. I want to do backups on disk on backup machine. I have one default pool and few volumes on same disk. Bacula appends to one volume until it is full, then it searches for other volumes which are

Re: [Bacula-users] purge jobs volume

Sebastian Stark wrote: I want to manually recycle a volume and I did like the manual said: -- *purge jobs volume=000129 This command is can be DANGEROUS!!! It purges (deletes) all Files from a Job, JobId, Client or Volume; or it purges

Re: [Bacula-users] volumes on a pool

Jesús Arnáiz wrote: Hi. I use Disk files as storage media and I have the next Pool configuration: -- # Default pool definition Pool { Name = Default Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes # Bacula can automatically recycle Volumes AutoPrune = yes #

Re: [Bacula-users] moving database

Maria McKinley wrote: Hi there, My /var directory is on a partition that is rather small and I keep running out of room, so I would like to move my database directory to somewhere else in the root directory, which has plenty of room. I assume I should just move the whole diretory. Where

[Bacula-users] migration sqlite postgresql

INTEGER UNSIGNED AUTOINCREMENT, is there any way to convert it so postgres likes it ? don't really want to start with an empty database ... -- Florian Schnabel --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's

Re: [Bacula-users] choice of database

further note: i'm using bacula on debian if that makes any difference got a big sqlite database i want to transfer to postgresql if possible ... Florian --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's

[Bacula-users] Volume config problem

okay, i think it's time to bug you guys here with this ... i though i had figured bacula configuration out for my need but i guess i was wrong. yesterday it tried to append to a volume that should have been recycled ... ^^ thus failing misserably because the volume was almost full. now the

[Bacula-users] Volume config problem

okay, i think it's time to bug you guys here with this ... i though i had figured bacula configuration out for my need but i guess i was wrong. yesterday it tried to append to a volume that should have been recycled ... ^^ thus failing misserably because the volume was almost full. now the

Re: [Bacula-users] debugging bacula

Christoph Klünter wrote: Hello Bacula was running here fine for about two months in our test environment. Now there are some problems I can't solve. 1: When entering status dir in bconsole, it hangs forever. After that, it can't connect to any client anymore. 2: bacula-dir hangs when

Re: [Bacula-users] Running out of disk space.

Gert Burger wrote: Hi My first post to this list so be mercyfull please ;P What is the correct procedure to follow when one runs out of disk space? All my backups of a few servers are done to one machine that has a raid 5 system running. A day or so ago I ran out of disk space. I tried to

[Bacula-users] critical problem ...

dunno if i missconfigured something but certain commands on the console seem to get it stuck .. can't do a status director f.ex. or prune my volumes ... what to do ? Florian --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference

[Bacula-users] What DB should i use/speed question

Since i do a daily backup on Tape (weekly rotation) and one other on HD (2 Files in rotation) with about 250k files i stated to wonder if sqllite is the right way to store my data ... any suggestions about this ? Florian --- SF.Net email is

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape ejecting problem

seems an access right problem on /dev/st0. I think the simpler is to add in your Device configuration in bacula-sd.conf the directive : OfflineOnUnmount = yes Then you can remove the shell commands with 'mt' in your script. This directive will eject the tape if an 'umount' or a 'release' is

Re: [Bacula-users] critical problem ... - solved ^^

Florian Schnabel wrote: dunno if i missconfigured something but certain commands on the console seem to get it stuck .. can't do a status director f.ex. or prune my volumes ... what to do ? Florian sorry for bugging u guys ... pruning the volume helped, though it took freakisch long

[Bacula-users] Tape ejecting problem

now for my (hopefully) last problem with bacula :-) the guy who had this job bevore me (he's not available for questions right now ..) did set it up so the tape gets ejected after the daily backup .. for some reason this doesn't work i don't know if it could have worked at all, i just know

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape ejecting problem

LHERBIER Lois wrote Hello, Can you show us the content of the file '/etc/bacula/eject_tape', please ? Loïs Lherbier whoops .. sorry, of course :-) #!/bin/sh bconsole -c /etc/bacula/bconsole.conf END_OF_DATA unmount storage=Tape END_OF_DATA # the following is a shell command mt -f

[Bacula-users] Q: how does bacula verify tape write ?

i'm curious .. what mechanism(s) uses bacula to verify that the tape (or any other storage medium) has written the data correctly ? e.g. would it notice if my tape is damaged ? -- Florian Schnabel --- SF.Net email is Sponsored

[Bacula-users] urgent question .. lil' help please

and coying all that to tape what i want: i want bacula to save (leave ?) the last 2 or 3 backup sets to HD also how do i get that ?? thx in advance -- Florian Schnabel --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO

Re: [Bacula-users] urgent question .. lil' help please

nope .. i want the RECENT backup on tape it's just that i also want the last 2 backups on HD for quicker restore, in case the tape fails etc. Florian --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005

Re: [Bacula-users] urgent question .. lil' help please - job migration and copy

Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, Florian Schnabel wrote: nope .. i want the RECENT backup on tape it's just that i also want the last 2 backups on HD for quicker restore, in case the tape fails etc. Now, that doesn't much change what I wrote about bacula not allowing this. But I think your ideas

Re: [Bacula-devel] Re: [Bacula-users] urgent question .. lil' help please - job migration and copy

i solved the problem for now defining to torage devices, tape and HD and duplicating the jobs and set the copy to hd. works so far ... not very effective though since all the files must be copied over network twice Florian --- SF.Net

[Bacula-users] hm .. backup seems to be donw but i still get an error at the end ?

somone got a clue what THAT means ?? as far as i can tell backup is don, that was the last job completing with OK also, tape doesn't get ejected as i would expect it ... help kindly appreciated Florian SD Errors: 0 FD termination status: OK SD termination status: OK