Hi Spadajspadaj, thank you very much !
its work El miércoles, 17 de junio de 2020, 9:25:57 (UTC+2), Spadajspadaj escribió: > > > Can you tell me how to do a little guide? I am a novice in this, in what >> format do I have to mount the disk and what privileges do I have to give it? >> >> >> I have no clue what your configuration looks like but I suppose you've >> already mounted the disk (at least that's what the screenshot shows - >> /dev/sdb is mounted on /var/lib/bareos/storage). >> >> So you have to check what user the bareos-sd is running with (I suppose >> it's user bareos but it's always good to check). Just run "ps u -C >> bareos-sd" and see the first column of outtput. >> >> Then you have to chown the /var/lib/bareos/storage. Supposing it's the >> user "bareos", you have to do "chown bareos /var/lib/bareos/storage". >> >> But I strongly advise you read a bit about unix permissions. >> > > > I did what you told me, the backup is successful but with those messages. > > > I assume that you had a local installation on which you were writing to > /var/lib/bareos/storage, it worked for some time (you did at least one > backup) and now you mounted another drive into that directory. > > When you mount the drive into a directory, the drive is seen by the > operating system as this directory. Previous contents of this directory are > no longer accessible until you unmount that drive. > > So in your case /var/lib/bareos/storage no longer shows a local directory > (which contained a previously used bareos media file) but points to another > filesystem created on /dev/sdb. So as long as you have the disk mounted > under /var/lib/bareos/storage, you don't have access to the > /var/lib/bareos/storage/Full-0001 file. Also you have no way to - for > example - delete it in case you want to free some space on your filesystem. > But the media file is still referenced by bareos director database so you > might run into trouble later, for example, trying to restore from the job > contained in this file. > > The question is what do you want to achieve. If you just want to have a > single big bareos backup drive, I'd suggest you stop all bareos processes, > unmount the new disk, move the contents from /var/lib/bareos/storage to > another directory, mount the new disk and then move the files back to > /var/lib/bareos/storage (this time they'll be located on the new disk). > > But if you want to have removable disks which you can swap (for example to > have off-line backup stored somewhere else), that's a much more tricky > solution involving vchanger script and I wouldn't advise you try to set it > up unless you have a good understanding of Bareos and how your OS works. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/0d1adc1a-0ec0-4a25-8610-e3511388694co%40googlegroups.com.
