Re: [Bacula-users] REPLACE BSMTP with other mail program

If your problem is authentication or encryption then I would suggest you check out msmtp (http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/). This smtp client will use SSL/TLS for encrypted transport and GSSAPI, Digest-MD5 and many more for authentication. -John On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 07:21:07AM +0200, Peter

Re: [Bacula-users] How to force a full backup?

As a side note, I'm pretty sure you could shorten this definition to: Schedule { Name = Schedule-apache Run = Level=Full Storage=Disk3-apache on 1,16 at 19:05 Run = Level=Differential Storage=Disk3-apache on 8,23 at 19:05 Run = Level=Incremental Storage=Disk3-apache on

[Bacula-users] Question about Priorities and Maximum Concurrent Jobs

Hi All, I have a mix of disk and tape backups. To disk I allow up to 20 jobs run concurrently. On my tape library I have 3 tape drives, so only allow a max of 3 jobs to run concurrently. I run Full backups once a month, Differentials once a week and incrementals most days of the week. I would

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Priorities and Maximum Concurrent Jobs

:48AM -0400, John Lockard wrote: Hi All, I have a mix of disk and tape backups. To disk I allow up to 20 jobs run concurrently. On my tape library I have 3 tape drives, so only allow a max of 3 jobs to run concurrently. I run Full backups once a month, Differentials once a week

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Priorities and Maximum Concurrent Jobs

The minimum setting I have on Max Concurrent Jobs is on the Tape Library and that's set to 3. It appears that priority trumps all, unless the priority is the same or better. So, if I have one job that has priority of, say, 10, then any job running on any other tape drive or virtual library will

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:11:55PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 03:46:49PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: Just to be certain, I kicked off a few OS jobs just prior to the transaction log backup. I also changed the Storage directive to use Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1 for

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Priorities and Maximum Concurrent Jobs

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 05:10:09AM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: John Lockard wrote: The minimum setting I have on Max Concurrent Jobs is on the Tape Library and that's set to 3. It appears that priority trumps all, unless the priority is the same or better. So, if I have one job that has

[Bacula-users] Updates to bacula_mail_summary.sh

Attached, please find updates to bacula_mail_summary.sh which was in the examples/reports directory in the source distribution. I run this script once a week, after the log has been rotated by my systems logrotate script. I've tweaked the display formatting quite a bit. Rather than displaying

[Bacula-users] Updates to bacula_mail_summary.sh

who care. # # For it to work, you need to have all Bacula job report # logging to a file, edit LOGFILE to match your setup. # This should be run after all backup jobs have finished. # Tested with bacula-2.4.4 # Some improvements by: John Lockard jlock...@umich.edu # (University of Michigan

[Bacula-users] Fileset available in Message Resource?

Hi All, Looking through the manual in the Message Resource section I don't see 'FileSet' as one of the options. (Version 2.4.4). Is this available but undocumented or should I be putting in a software change request? Reason I ask, is that an email telling me that a job for 'Server1' finished

Re: [Bacula-users] Fileset available in Message Resource?

Nevermind... I'm a moron. On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 02:54:01PM -0400, John Lockard wrote: Hi All, Looking through the manual in the Message Resource section I don't see 'FileSet' as one of the options. (Version 2.4.4). Is this available but undocumented or should I be putting in a software

Re: [Bacula-users] Howto recover from a job being rerun around a summer time change

The time jumps at 2am, either forward or backward depending on whether you're switching to or from DST. Most admins I know just completely avoid the time period from 1:00am to 3:00am. entirely because of the Daylight Saving Time switches. If you're going to go UTC, then you should go UTC all the

[Bacula-users] Compression for certain levels of backup...

I can't see a way in 2.4.x, but maybe it's present in the 3.0.x code... I would like to compress my Incremental backups, but not my Differential backups or Full backups. I keep my incremental backups on disk. They never transition to Tape. My Differentials run weekly and I keep a week and a

[Bacula-users] Backup failing reliably repeatable

Client and server at 2.4.4. Both client and server are Linux 2.6 Logs from client: 15-Apr 16:53 tibor-dir JobId 2954: Start Backup JobId 2954, Job=Belobog-Data-Users.2009-04-15_16.32.07.04 15-Apr 16:53 tibor-dir JobId 2954: Using Volume 100108L2 from 'Scratch' pool. 15-Apr

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup failing reliably repeatable

is on a different LAN segment. James -John -Original Message- From: John Lockard [mailto:jlock...@umich.edu] Sent: Friday, 17 April 2009 01:38 To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] Backup failing reliably repeatable Client and server at 2.4.4. Both client

[Bacula-users] Debug levels and output.

I've just switched over from 2.4.4 to 3.0.0 so my familiarity with new features is close to null. Is there a way I can (maybe just for a specific job) output to a file *everything* which is happening with a backup job? I'd like to run a job and get a file containing which files were backed up,

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup failing reliably repeatable

Nope, disabling tso and tx changed nothing. -John On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:24:25PM -0400, John Lockard wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 09:39:24AM +1000, James Harper wrote: Does belobog have the same network adapter and kernel as your other servers? It has the same ethernet (Intel e1000

[Bacula-users] Continued backup problems. Interesting error.

Has anyone seen anything like this before? 21-Apr 14:10 tibor-dir JobId 3240: Start Backup JobId 3240, Job=Belobog-Data3-Users.2009-04-21_12.10.22_07 21-Apr 14:10 tibor-dir JobId 3240: Using Device NEO-LTO-1 21-Apr 14:11 tibor-sd JobId 3240: Spooling data ... 21-Apr 16:10 tibor-dir JobId 3240:

[Bacula-users] Backup errors...

Hi all, Saw this last night. What would cause these Fatal errors? Server: Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 Bacula Version: Server: 3.0.0 Client: 2.4.4 (SPARC Solaris 8) Filesystem: just under 1TB Thanks for any help, John 13-May 22:25 tibor-sd JobId 3833: Labeled new Volume Monthly-SIN-0363 on

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup errors...

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 03:54:55PM -0400, John Drescher wrote: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:26 PM, John Lockard jlock...@umich.edu wrote: Hi all, Saw this last night.  What would cause these Fatal errors? Possible database corruption. Other backups after this and concurrent ran fine. I

[Bacula-users] Error in src/filed/acl.c

Appears that in acl.c, line 1145 there's a stray ; at the end of the line (version 3.0.1). Removal allows compilation on Solaris. -John -- What good is a ring Mr. Baggins if you don't have any fingers. - Agent Elrond - Matrix of the Rings

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup errors...

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 01:30:57PM +0200, Bruno Friedmann wrote: John Lockard wrote: Hi all, Saw this last night. What would cause these Fatal errors? Server: Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 Bacula Version: Server: 3.0.0 Client: 2.4.4 (SPARC Solaris 8) Filesystem: just under 1TB

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup errors...

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 04:28:23PM -0400, John Lockard wrote: On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 01:30:57PM +0200, Bruno Friedmann wrote: John Lockard wrote: Hi all, Saw this last night. What would cause these Fatal errors? Server: Linux 2.6.18 x86_64 Bacula Version: Server

Re: [Bacula-users] [Fwd: Re: FD on Win2000 Server]

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 01:34:31PM +0300, Alnis Morics wrote: Yes, I can list all the files but that doesn't mean I can back them up. When I try to run the job, it terminates with an error, and there's also nothing I can restore. Here's the output of the last job: 3743 21-May 13:12

[Bacula-users] Not automounting... why?

Hi All, I know I don't have full information here, but don't want to send along my full config as I'll guess that's overkill. 22-May 06:17 tibor-sd JobId 4223: Please mount Volume 100027L2 or label a new one for: Job: Belobog-Data2-Users.2009-05-22_05.15.00_35 Storage:

Re: [Bacula-users] Not automounting... why?

at 11:03:51AM -0400, John Drescher wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:45 AM, John Lockard jlock...@umich.edu wrote: Hi All, I know I don't have full information here, but don't want to send along my full config as I'll guess that's overkill. 22-May 06:17 tibor-sd JobId 4223: Please mount

Re: [Bacula-users] run full backup in bconsole but it runs incremental after one full?

When you run a job by hand the schedule isn't involved. Either way, for your Schedule entry you need Level= before the work Full. Schedule { Name = test Run = Level=Full at 11:50 } But, your problem is that your Job doesn't have a Default Level defined. You'll need

Re: [Bacula-users] run full backup in bconsole but it runs incremental after one full?

Also, when you post your configs, it would be a really good idea to remove password and account information. On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 02:12:13PM -0400, John Lockard wrote: When you run a job by hand the schedule isn't involved. Either way, for your Schedule entry you need Level= before

Re: [Bacula-users] Not automounting... why?

to unload to slot and failed. It tried the unload twice (within the same minute) failed both times, then sat there waiting for me to issue the mount command, which succeeded. Could it be a timing issue? -John On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:58:44AM -0400, John Lockard wrote: And if I mounted a tape

Re: [Bacula-users] Not automounting... why?

: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:58 AM, John Lockard jlock...@umich.edu wrote: And if I mounted a tape immediately after and also made sure that automout was set to yes?  Whenever I unmount a tape I always make sure to mount another in it's stead. I'll dig through previous and current job

Re: [Bacula-users] run full backup in bconsole but it runs incremental after one full?

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:23:32PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 02:21:26PM -0400, John Lockard wrote: Also, when you post your configs, it would be a really good idea to remove password and account information. Thanks John, Can anyone use the passwords to connect

Re: [Bacula-users] run full backup in bconsole but it runs incremental after one full?

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:11:28PM -0500, Zhengquan Zhang wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 02:12:13PM -0400, John Lockard wrote: When you run a job by hand the schedule isn't involved. Either way, for your Schedule entry you need Level= before the work Full. Schedule { Name = test

Re: [Bacula-users] Is it a good idea to use bacula if Irarely havenetwork connection?

For backing up a laptop locally, bacula seems to be HUGE overkill. How long will you be keeping these backups? How many backups will you be keeping? My guess is that you'd be better served by a little scripting, rsync and cron. Each day, establish a new directory by date, then hourly run rsync

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula management questions

If you do 'status client=[clientname]', on the bottom of the output you'll see the status of the last several jobs which ran for that client. I would keep doing like you are with moving old-fd to new-fd and deleting config for the old config, etc.. Your old backup files I would think should be

[Bacula-users] Migration status (checking)...

When I'm running a backup job I can check the status of the backup job (with statistics) through bconsole, using the command 'status client=clientname', which gives results like: Connecting to Client clientname at clientname.si.umich.edu:9102 clientname-fd Version: 3.0.1 (30 April 2009)

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula job times out after 2 hours 11 mins 15 secs

Check your /tmp directory or MySQL 'tmpdir' location to see it it's filling up with temporary DB data. This same problem happened to, in my case it was dying at around the 180GB mark. Moving the MySQL tmpdir to a much larger location took care of my problem. -John On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula spool on SSD -- solid state drive?performance testing?

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 06:48:24AM +0200, Marc Cousin wrote: In theory, the latency from random IO should be much closer to zero on a flash drive than on a thrashing hard drive, so I was hoping I might need only 1 or two 64GB or 128GB flash drives to provide decent spool size, perhaps not

[Bacula-users] Anyone written any handy queries (query.sql)???

I have modified my query.sql to include some queries that I use frequently and I thought maybe someone else would find them useful additions. Also, I was wondering if anyone had queries which they find useful and would like to share. In my setup, I need to rotate tapes on a weekly basis to keep

Re: [Bacula-users] Timeout (?) problems with some Full backups

While the job is running, keep an eye on the system which houses your MySQL database and make sure that it isn't filling up a partition with temp data. I was running into a similar problem and needed to move my mysql_tmpdir (definable in /etc/my.cnf) to another location. -John On Wed, Aug 12,

Re: [Bacula-users] Anyone written any handy queries (query.sql)???

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 02:39:39PM -0400, John Lockard wrote: I have modified my query.sql to include some queries that I use frequently and I thought maybe someone else would find them useful additions. Also, I was wondering if anyone had queries which they find useful and would like

Re: [Bacula-users] weekly reports

Yes, quite possible. Check the examples/reports directory in the source tarball. I've taken the reports.pl script and tweaked it to do somethings specific to me. It's very straightforward and you just kick it off with cron. -John On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 10:38:37AM +0200, hOZONE wrote:

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula skipped 02:00 AM schedule on start of daylight saving

Best solution for this one... Run your backup server on UTC time rather than local. -John On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:59 AM, Frank Seidinger frank.seidin...@novity.dewrote: Dear Bacula Users, I think that I've found a minor bug in bacula concerning the adjustment of clocks on the start of

Re: [Bacula-users] Tandberg LTO-3 only writing ~200GB

I know this is probably a stupid question, but I've seen stupid questions solve things in the past... Are both your tape drive and tape at least LTO3? If your drive is LTO-3 and your tape is LTO-2, then your results make perfect sense. -John On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:07 AM, Andre Rossouw

Re: [Bacula-users] [7.0.5] Option to start spooling before volume mount?

I run into this issue with several of my servers and dealt with it by creating migrate jobs. First job goes to disk. Second job runs some reasonable time later and migrates the D2D job to tape. I had a number of key servers I did this for with the advantage that I could offsite the tapes and

Re: [Bacula-users] Job transfer rate

Yes, but which IO? Disk IO on the client? Network IO from the client to the network? Network IO from the network to the Bacula Director? Network IO from the Bacula Director to the Bacula SD? Disk IO on the Bacula SD? Database IO on the Bacula Director? Seems like you have more work to do than

Re: [Bacula-users] summarizing messages into a single mail

There are a number of scripts available which can be run via cron to give you stats on your backup jobs. Check your Bacula source directory/examples/reports In here I found report.pl from Jonas Björkland which I modified to give me specific information I was looking for, but it's an excellent

Re: [Bacula-users] summarizing messages into a single mail

modified in the script). I'm sure what I've done could probably be done more cleanly/efficiently/correctly... you're free to make those changes as you wish. -John On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:35 AM, John Lockard jlock...@umich.edu wrote: There are a number of scripts available which can be run via

Re: [Bacula-users] Prevent jobs to run or limit bandwidth in certain hours/days?

Are you starting all your jobs at the same time? Wondering if your having issues with all of your jobs competing for bandwidth and slowing down. Thinking a staggered start might help you. On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Rai Blue raib...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I'm using Bacula 7.0 to

Re: [Bacula-users] NFS mount back ups?

Compression? Backup level (files not backed up because they haven't been changed)? Exclusions? Have you gone through a full list of files to be backed up and a full list of the files which were actually backed up? On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Romer Ventura rvent...@h-st.com wrote: Hello,

Re: [Bacula-users] Schedule backup Job only from incremental

You could almost do things this way. Unfortunately, you'll have to occasionally wipe the mirror systems. If I restored a full to the mirror machine, followed by a differential, followed by any number of incremental backups, there's almost a 100% chance that files which were deleted since a

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup report

Sorry for jumping in late, but was on vacation. I use the attached script, which I modified from a script posted by Jonas Björklund. You'll need to modify it to add your database values and email specifics (if you want to lock them into the perl script). If you see something wrong, please tell

Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size

How often are you backing up? Fulls, Differentials, Incrementals? How long do you want to keep each? How compressible is your data? How much does the data change? How often does the data change? Too many variables to answer your questions as given. Only full backups, once a month, you'd

Re: [Bacula-users] backup volume size

kup levels. On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Thing <thing.th...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > It is a standard bacula configuration, data will also not change much. So > from your estimate with compression a 3TB drive would seem the minimum. > > On 28 October 2015 at 09:14, John

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula strategy tape and disk storage

I would use a "Copy" job so that impact to the client is minimal. On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Kepler Mihály wrote: > Hi! > > What is the good saving strategy if I have tape and disk storage too? > > How can I create backup from "client1" to both storage (tape and disk >

Re: [Bacula-users] print numbers without thousands separators

"I'm not sure I see the utility of copying and pasting any of the other formatted numbers here." I do. Running calculations within a script, a tally of number of files, job bytes, averages, etc. On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 09/22/17 09:04,

Re: [Bacula-users] New Bacula web site

I actually think the removal of the animated dots would make the site more readable. The motion on the screen is sort of nauseating while trying to read and makes me want to not read any more. On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 5:37 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: > On 07.05.2018 07:07, Kern

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: fileset "magic" - still weird

Fileset { Name = “cadat" EnableVss = no EnableSnapshot = no Include { Options { OneFS = no RegexDir = "/mnt/cdat-.*" } Options { OneFS = no Exclude = yes RegexDir = ".*" } File = "/mnt" } } Justin, looking at this, Within /mnt, doesn't your exclude

Re: [Bacula-users] New release Bacularis 1.1.0

They didn't change the name, it's a fork. On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 8:16 AM Elias Pereira wrote: > Hello Marcin, > > Sorry for the question, but why did you change the name from "baculum" to > "bacularis"? :D > > On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 6:14 PM Marcin Haba wrote: > >> Hello Everybody, >> >> We