[Bacula-users] Autochanger problems
Hi!
I want to replace Arkeia 4 with bacula 1.36.3 running on a Solaris 2.6
machine with a HP C5713A DDS 4 autochanger. I think I've already managed
to configure everything but bacula failes very often because it's not
able to run mtx-changer properly. It looks like the device is busy. I'm
using /dev/rmt/0cbn for the archive and the control device. I hope
that's okay?
I've attached my configuration files and my slightly modified
mtx-changer script (only changed the first line from /bin/sh to /bin/ksh).
Thanks for any support,
Alex.
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#!/bin/ksh
#
# Bacula interface to mtx autoloader
#
# $Id: mtx-changer.in,v 1.11.2.1 2004/11/05 21:53:52 kerns Exp $
#
# If you set in your Device resource
#
# Changer Command = path-to-this-script/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d
#you will have the following input to this script:
#
# mtx-changer changer-device command slot archive-device drive-index
# $1 $2 $3$4 $5
#
# for example:
#
# mtx-changer /dev/sg0 load 1 /dev/nst0 0 (on a Linux system)
#
# If you need to an offline, refer to the drive as $4
#e.g. mt -f $4 offline
#
# Many changers need an offline after the unload. Also many
# changers need a sleep 60 after the mtx load.
#
# N.B. If you change the script, take care to return either
# the mtx exit code or a 0. If the script exits with a non-zero
# exit code, Bacula will assume the request failed.
#
MTX=/opt/bacula-1.36.3/bin/mtx
#
# The purpose of this function to wait a maximum
# time for the drive. It will
# return as soon as the drive is ready, or after
# waiting a maximum of 180 seconds.
# Note, this is very system dependent, so if you are
# not running on Linux, you will probably need to
# re-write it.
#
# If you have a FreeBSD system, you might want to change
# the $(seq 180) to $(jot 180) -- tip from Brian McDonald
#
wait_for_drive() {
for i in $(seq 180); do # Wait max 180 seconds
if mt -f $1 status | grep ONLINE /dev/null 21; then
break
fi
# echo Device $1 - not ready, retrying...
sleep 1
done
}
if test $# -lt 2 ; then
echo usage: mtx-changer ctl-device command slot archive-device drive
echo Insufficient number of arguments arguments given.
echo Mimimum usage is first two arguments ...
exit 1
fi
# Setup arguments
ctl=$1
cmd=$2
slot=$3
device=$4
# If drive not given, default to 0
if test $# = 5 ; then
drive=$5
else
drive=0
fi
#
# Check for special cases where only 2 arguments are needed,
# all others are a minimum of 3
case $cmd in
loaded)
;;
unload)
;;
list)
;;
slots)
;;
*)
if test $# -lt 3; then
echo usage: mtx-changer ctl-device command slot archive-device drive
echo Insufficient number of arguments arguments given.
echo Mimimum usage is first three arguments ...
exit 1
fi
;;
esac
case $cmd in
unload)
# echo Doing mtx -f $ctl unload $slot $drive
#
# enable the following line if you need to eject the cartridge
# mt -f $device offline
if test x$slot = x; then
${MTX} -f $ctl unload
else
${MTX} -f $ctl unload $slot $drive
fi
;;
load)
# echo Doing mtx -f $ctl load $slot $drive
${MTX} -f $ctl load $slot $drive
rtn=$?
#
# Increase the sleep time if you have a slow device
# or remove the sleep and add the following:
# wait_for_drive $device
sleep 15
exit $rtn
;;
list)
# echo Requested list
${MTX} -f $ctl status | grep *Storage Element [0-9]*:.*Full | awk
{print \$3 \$4} | sed s/Full *\(:VolumeTag=\)*//
# Comment out the previous line and add a line here
# to print fake barcodes.
#
# If you have a VXA PacketLoader and the above does not work, try
# turning it off and enabling the following line.
# ${MTX} -f $ctl status | grep *Storage Element [0-9]*:.*Full | sed
s/*Storage Element // | sed s/Full :VolumeTag=//
;;
loaded)
${MTX} -f $ctl status /tmp/mtx.$$
rtn=$?
cat /tmp/mtx.$$ | grep ^Data Transfer Element $drive:Full | awk {print
\$7}
cat /tmp/mtx.$$ | grep ^Data Transfer Element $drive:Empty | awk
{print 0}
rm -f /tmp/mtx.$$
exit $rtn
;;
slots)
# echo Request slots
${MTX} -f $ctl status | grep *Storage Changer | awk {print \$5}
;;
esac
#
# Default Bacula Director
Re: [Bacula-users] IDE Travan Tapedrive
Quoting Sascha Alexander Jopen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi list, i'm trying to get my Seagate STT2A IDE Travan Tapedrive to work with bacula-1.36.3 with no success. I think this should be possible, but i can't figure out the right parameters for this drive. I tried both the native ide-tape driver and the ide-scsi/st drivers for this tape. [snip] Maybe someone got such a drive working with bacula and can post me the right config section. Buying a new DLT or DAT drive is no option, as i have this drive with several tapes. The capacity is sufficient for my home office, and new drives and tapes are too expensive for the moment. The native IDE tape driver has been broken for several years (since 1.12 IIRC) for the STT20. The version included with SuSE 9.3, 1.19, is much improved and still unusable. The SCSI emulation has given errors for the last several years, but been usable. IIRC, it isn't reliable enough in SuSE 9.3 to depend on. I have switched to DVDs for backup. Drives on sale are half to quarter the price, media is nearly 1/100 the price (0.40USD vs. 30USD), and capacity is 40%. Read and write speed is much higher, 1/2 hour for 4GB vs. 3 1/2 hours for 10GB. HTH, Jeffrey --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] mount USB disk
Hi, Alan Brown wrote: On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Mick wrote: I use an USB disk as backup target for Bacula. It works fine. But there is one issue: I want to mount it immediatly before the backup and unmount it afterwards. There is even a mount option for the config file (sd.config I think), but this option is not allowed for a harddisk. Assuming you're using a linux system, why not allow hotplug and subfs to do this for you automagically? I am working on a similiar solution here. The problem is, that the hotplug-agent doesnt mount the USB-Harddisc on a fixed mountpoint. I tried to define a fixed mountpoint myself, but the hotplug-agent has avoided all my attempts until now. Regards Daniel -- Daniel Bloemer - BusinessCoDe GmbH Systemadministration and Support Phone: +49 (0)228 / 28925-43 http://www.business-code.de --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Bacula on IBM POWER5
Hi, Trying to compile bacula 1.36.3 with RHEL4 on an IBM Power5 system. When I execute the configure script, it fails saying that the compiler cannot create executables. I checked the config.log (as it suggested) and found the following error. /usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory I assume this is because it is not looking in the /usr/lib64 directory where the file resides so I created a link to /usr/lib/crt1.o in /usr/lib (and had to do the same for crti.o) and now when I run configure it still says that the compiler cannot create executables and has the following error in config.log: /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/ppc64-redhat- linux/3.4.3/../../../../lib/libc.so when searching for -lc Any ideas? --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] restore complete file system branches
Martin Simmons wrote: I suggest you post your session output so we can see what options you are choosing and what the error message is. I have to correct my problem description: I can restore a directory even if it is empty. It is necessary to conclude the path with a /. Then the directory is restored, but not its content. How can I restore a complete branch? Is there a possibility to tell Bacula to restore recursively from a given point in the backuped file system tree? restore First you select one or more JobIds that contain files to be restored. You will be presented several methods of specifying the JobIds. Then you will be allowed to select which files from those JobIds are to be restored. To select the JobIds, you have the following choices: 1: List last 20 Jobs run 2: List Jobs where a given File is saved 3: Enter list of comma separated JobIds to select 4: Enter SQL list command 5: Select the most recent backup for a client 6: Select backup for a client before a specified time 7: Enter a list of files to restore 8: Enter a list of files to restore before a specified time 9: Cancel Select item: (1-9): 7 Automatically selected Client: server1-fd Enter file names with paths, or to enter a filename containg a list of file names with paths, and terminate them with a blank line. Enter full filename: /etc No database record found for: /etc Enter full filename: /etc/ Enter full filename: Bootstrap records written to /var/lib/bacula/restore.bsr The job will require the following Volumes: volume0001 1 file selected to be restored. Run Restore job JobName:RestoreFiles Bootstrap: /var/lib/bacula/restore.bsr Where: /tmp/bacula-restores Replace:always FileSet:Full Set Client: server1-fd Storage:File When: 2005-08-11 12:31:41 Catalog:MyCatalog Priority: 10 OK to run? (yes/mod/no): y Job started. JobId=118 11-Aug 12:31 server1-dir: Start Restore Job RestoreFiles.2005-08-11_12.31.49 11-Aug 12:31 server1-sd: Ready to read from volume volume0001 on device /mnt/BackupDisk/backup. server1-fd: drwxr-xr-x 113 root root8192 2005-08-11 03:05:03 /tmp/bacula-restores/etc/ 11-Aug 12:34 server1-dir: Bacula 1.36.2 (28Feb05): 11-Aug-2005 12:34:16 JobId: 118 Job:RestoreFiles.2005-08-11_12.31.49 Client: server1-fd Start time: 11-Aug-2005 12:31:51 End time: 11-Aug-2005 12:34:16 Files Expected: 1 Files Restored: 1 Bytes Restored: 0 Rate: 0.0 KB/s FD Errors: 0 FD termination status: OK SD termination status: OK Termination:Restore OK 11-Aug 12:34 server1-dir: Begin pruning Jobs. 11-Aug 12:34 server1-dir: No Jobs found to prune. 11-Aug 12:34 server1-dir: Begin pruning Files. 11-Aug 12:34 server1-dir: No Files found to prune. 11-Aug 12:34 server1-dir: End auto prune. /M --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Bacula 1.36.3cannot connect to Postgresql Database
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RE: [Bacula-users] Backula Autoloader Weirdness
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Bennett, Silas (GE Infrastructure) wrote: Just a reminder that I am waiting patiently... ;0) 1: Are you running mtx and mtx-changer as the effective Bacula user 2: Does the changer device have suitable permissions for the effective Bacula user? That seems to be the most commmon way this particular failure occurs. --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
RE: [Bacula-users] list files jobid and more detail
Think this is worth raising as possible feature request? I can probably do the work myself for something this simple :) -Original Message- From: Martin Simmons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 August 2005 11:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] list files jobid and more detail On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:15:48 +0100, Justin Finkelstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: J I'm just looking at a list of files for a job that recently finished J executing, and list files jobid=xx is quite useful in that it shows me a J list of files that were backed up. J Is it possible to see the same list, but with file sizes as well? AFAIK, there is no built-in way to do that. The information is stored in the LStat column of the File table. __Martin --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Horribly slow through put on backup test to disk
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:06:39 -0400, you wrote: George R.Kasica wrote: Got all the labeling and cleaning tape definitions done here over the weekend and built a series of jobs to backup not only my local Linux Server but a W2K3 Server as well as a WinXP Pro system as well. Key to the XP Pro was allowing Ports 9101, 9102 and 9104 TCP to be open through the MS Firewall. 9104? Bacula is usually 9101-9103. Did you have to reassign a port for some reason? BIG OOPS..typo, that should be 9103. Also replaced the Linux net card with the 3com one, still no joy on the IDE controller, it will simply NOT see the drives and if its even in the box it panics on boot. I don't know what to suggest on that issue, then. I'll toss it on LK and see if someone there has an idea. Oddly the speed seemed pretty good for this run - see below. 982K/s is definitely a big improvement over 50k/s, though it still seems slow compared to what I'd expect you should be seeing. I wonder how much of that is due to replacing that RTL8139 with the 3Com? I'm not sure it was a local run, tape drives on same box as backing up, so I'd say not too much, but In a related matter, I backed up a remote W2K3 Server Tuesday and got about the same speed. BUT, I've started a backup on the XPPro notebook box (with the firewall holes to allow it) and I'm seeing about 115K onlylooks like it is about a 72 hour run for a 30GB driveany thoughts on that? Pentium III chip 100MB/full duplex link. system is doing nothing else. If the XPPro was fast I'd be totally happy, but the 2 I really want backed up are working sowe shall see come tape set rotation next Monday. George --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] after machine shutdown and restart, tapes are not recognized
I am a light user of bacula I have a bacula system that has been working for maybe 10 months now. We did a shutdown of the server last friday without first stopping the bacula service (should i?) and after we rebooted and started the bacula service I have a big problem: bacula tapes do not seem to be recognized althouth already in the database and used. Although the right tape was mounted already , bacula gave this error 07-Aug 01:15 head-sd: Please mount Volume B003 on Storage Device Exabyte for Job Client1.2005-08-07_01.05.00 Here i stopped bacula and i did a mtx status which seems to give the correct results that B003 is in the tape drive. # mtx status Storage Changer /dev/changer:1 Drives, 10 Slots ( 0 Import/Export ) Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 3 Loaded):VolumeTag = B003 Storage Element 1:Full :VolumeTag=B001 Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=B002 Storage Element 3:Empty:VolumeTag= Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=B004 Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=B005 Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=B006 Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=B007 Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=B008 Storage Element 9:Full :VolumeTag=B009 Storage Element 10:Full :VolumeTag=CLNA0002 I tried another tape, B004, and with the same problem (now i tried mount command just to see what it says): * mount The defined Storage resources are: 1: File 2: Exabyte Select Storage resource (1-2): 2 3905 Device /dev/nst0 open but no Bacula volume is mounted. If this is not a blank tape, try unmounting and remounting the Volume. Any idea why already bacula-written tapes are not recognized anymore as such? I could maybe use btape to relabel the tapes but wanted to ask first. The data on the tapes is not so crucial i believe, so it maybe ok to start fresh but still i would like to see what is wrong. More info: I use bacula 1.36.0 and an exabyte exabyte VXA2 PacketLoader 1x10 1U Autoloader Thanks very much in advance for the help. -- - Stelios --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] relabeling tapes?
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Phil Stracchino wrote: On the other hand, do you want to PHYSICALLY ERASE the tape and all data on it to make sure it cannot be trivially recovered off the tape by someone you don't wish to have it? Buy a bulk eraser, but be aware that someone who's really determined and has the right equipment can still recover the data. A _good_ bulk eraser will make forensic recovery almost impossible when coupled with correct erasure techniques. HOWEVER. NEVER USE A BULK ERASER ON LTO TAPES UNLESS DEAD. LTOs (and some other formats) have a servo track on them. Hitting them with a bulk eraser renders them completely unusable. If that's not good enough for you, and you want the data on the tape guaranteed unrecoverable even using a SQUID, physically destroy the tape by incineration. If you take this route they must be destroyed in a furnace hot enough to burn the plastic cleanly or toxic compounds will be given off (PVC gives off carcinogenic fumes even when burned correctly, but I don't believe any current tape technologies or casings use PVC). We dispose of our old tapes in medical waste incinerators but this is lmited to very small amounts - the odd tape every so often. I've just seen a steelmaking technique which uses waste plastic to obtain carbon and this may also be a suitable method of disposal (thoughts of Terminator 2 spring to mind...) AB --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Differential Backup to which Full backup ?
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Philipp Steinkrueger wrote: yes, that would be enough to meet my needs, but it would have a big disadvantage over my scheme, because duplicating media would take _hours_. we calculated, that for our current data to be fully backuped, it would take more than 10 hours. It takes 5 days for a fullback of all storage here and that's just set to double as I bring another 13Tb online. If your backups are not fast enough, get denser/faster media (SAIT2 or LTO3) and make sure you have your disk spooling optimised (it makes a huge difference for differentials and incrementals) Personally, if faced with the situation you have I'd run one full backup/diff/incremental job to tape and one to disk volumes. Yes it's a doubleup, but it's the least manual intervention needed. The tapes can be then taken offsite after being recorded. AB --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] relabeling tapes?
Alan Brown wrote: HOWEVER. NEVER USE A BULK ERASER ON LTO TAPES UNLESS DEAD. LTOs (and some other formats) have a servo track on them. Hitting them with a bulk eraser renders them completely unusable. Thanks. That's a useful tip. -- Phil Stracchino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Renaissance Man, Unix generalist, Perl hacker Mobile: 603-216-7037 Landline: 603-886-3518 --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] IDE Travan Tapedrive
Ok, using the ide-tape driver isn't an option as it seems. But i'm still interessted in using the ide-scsi driver. Wether it is reliable enough for a working bacula environment or not, i can only figure out, when i get the drive running. I don't have much critical data, so a failing job won't do much harm. Backing up to DVD isn't my preferred method, althoug i haven't tested it till now. I have the STT2 available, but no other backup solution, and it annoyes me not to get it running. I still hope that someone can help me with a configuration or other help for this particular drive. If there is noone with such a config available, i'm forced to think of a new solution, sure. Thx anyway, Jeffrey. Maybe i research into your backup method for future use. Regards, Sascha Hi list, i'm trying to get my Seagate STT2A IDE Travan Tapedrive to work with bacula-1.36.3 with no success. I think this should be possible, but i can't figure out the right parameters for this drive. I tried both the native ide-tape driver and the ide-scsi/st drivers for this tape. [snip] Maybe someone got such a drive working with bacula and can post me the right config section. Buying a new DLT or DAT drive is no option, as i have this drive with several tapes. The capacity is sufficient for my home office, and new drives and tapes are too expensive for the moment. The native IDE tape driver has been broken for several years (since 1.12 IIRC) for the STT20. The version included with SuSE 9.3, 1.19, is much improved and still unusable. The SCSI emulation has given errors for the last several years, but been usable. IIRC, it isn't reliable enough in SuSE 9.3 to depend on. I have switched to DVDs for backup. Drives on sale are half to quarter the price, media is nearly 1/100 the price (0.40USD vs. 30USD), and capacity is 40%. Read and write speed is much higher, 1/2 hour for 4GB vs. 3 1/2 hours for 10GB. HTH, Jeffrey --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] restore complete file system branches
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:54:19 + (UTC), Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mick Martin Simmons wrote: I suggest you post your session output so we can see what options you are choosing and what the error message is. Mick I have to correct my problem description: Mick I can restore a directory even if it is empty. It is necessary to Mick conclude the path with a /. Then the directory is restored, but not Mick its content. How can I restore a complete branch? Mick Is there a possibility to tell Bacula to restore recursively from a Mick given point in the backuped file system tree? It looks like you can't do this with option 7. You have to use option 5 (Select the most recent backup for a client) and the cd and mark commands to select the directory. Bacula 1.37 beta has an extra option in restore to take a whole directory (but not its subdirs for some reason). __Martin --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] mount USB disk
This can be done with UDEV. On Fedora Core 3 I created a file under
/etc/udev/rules.d named 20-jumpdrive.rules with the following line:
KERNEL=sd?1*, SYSFS{vendor}=LEXAR, SYSFS{model}=JUMPDRIVE SECURE,
NAME=%k, SYMLINK=jumpdrive%e
This causes my Lexar JumpDrive (USB thumbdrive device) to be mapped as a
block device at /dev/jumpdrive when it is inserted. When it is
unplugged the /dev/jumpdrive entry is removed. The %e in the SYMLINK
entry causes additional JumpDrives to be mapped to /dev/jumpdrive1,
/dev/jumnpdrive2, etc.
FC3 also uses HAL and has an entry in /etc/hal/device.d to run
/usr/sbin/fstab-sync. fstab-sync adds and removes mountpoints under
/media, as well as entries to /etc/fstab, according to HAL policies
stored under /usr/share/hal/fdi. By default, the volume label of the
device will be used to name the mountpoint. I configured HAL to name my
mountpoint /mount/jumpdrive by creating an XML file named
jumpdrive.fdi under /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy. Here is my
jumpdrive.fdi file:
?xml version=1.0 encoding=ISO-8859-1? !-- -*- SGML -*- --
deviceinfo version=0.2
device
match key=volume.is_partition bool=true
match key=volume.fsusage string=filesystem
match key=volume.fstype string=vfat
match key=@block.storage_device:storage.vendor string=LEXAR
match key=@block.storage_device:storage.model
string=JUMPDRIVE SECURE
merge key=volume.policy.desired_mount_point
type=stringjumpdrive/merge
merge key=volume.policy.mount_filesystem
type=stringvfat/merge
merge key=volume.policy.should_mount type=booltrue/merge
merge
key=volume.policy.mount_option.fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t
type=boolfalse/merge
/match
/match
/match
/match
/match
/device
/deviceinfo
I obtained the values to use for the match tags from the output of the
lshal command.
So, when I insert the JumpDrive its device node is /dev/jumpdrive, its
mountpoint is /mount/jumpdrive, and an entry is added to /etc/fstab so
that I mount it with the command /bin/mount /mount/jumpdrive.
A RunBeforeJob script could mount the device with a simple mount
command. It could also tell if the drive was inserted by testing whether
or not the mountpoint existed. A RunAfterJob could unmount the device
just as easily. Of course, if multiple drives were being used it would
be neccessary to always insert the devices in the correct order so that
the device with a particular bacula volume label was at the correct
device node and mountpoint.
A better approach would be for the RunBeforeJob script to read the
bacula volume label from all inserted devices, find the mountpoint of
the device containing the desired label, mount it, and then create a
symlink to the mountpoint. The bacula job would use the symlink as its
ArchiveDevice. I have not tried this, and I'm not sure if the
RunAfterJob script could then figure out which device to unmount.
Josh Fisher
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Daniel Bloemer wrote:
Hi,
Alan Brown wrote:
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Mick wrote:
I use an USB disk as backup target for Bacula. It works fine. But there
is one issue: I want to mount it immediatly before the backup and
unmount it afterwards. There is even a mount option for the config file
(sd.config I think), but this option is not allowed for a harddisk.
Assuming you're using a linux system, why not allow hotplug and subfs
to do this for you automagically?
I am working on a similiar solution here. The problem is, that the
hotplug-agent doesnt mount the USB-Harddisc on a fixed mountpoint.
I tried to define a fixed mountpoint myself, but the hotplug-agent has
avoided all my attempts until now.
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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula on IBM POWER5
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:38:36 -0400, Stephen M. Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Stephen Trying to compile bacula 1.36.3 with RHEL4 on an IBM Power5 system. Stephen When I execute the configure script, it fails saying that the compiler Stephen cannot create executables. Stephen I checked the config.log (as it suggested) and found the following Stephen error. Stephen /usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory Stephen I assume this is because it is not looking in the /usr/lib64 directory Stephen where the file resides so I created a link to /usr/lib/crt1.o Stephen in /usr/lib (and had to do the same for crti.o) and now when I run Stephen configure it still says that the compiler cannot create executables and Stephen has the following error in config.log: Stephen /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/ppc64-redhat- Stephen linux/3.4.3/../../../../lib/libc.so when searching for -lc Stephen Any ideas? I would guess that cc is defaulting to 32 bit but you don't have the necessary development libraries installed. Maybe you can force it to be 64 bit by setting CFLAGS=-m64 in the environment to configure? __Martin --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
RE: [Bacula-users] Backup / Restore of DB2 Databases using Fifo's
Dear Thomas,
Thanks,
These scripts were most helpful!
I've thought about a couple of solutions which bypass the manual modification
to the permissions and the
issue where the restore is started before the pipe is created. They go like
this:
1) add to the bacula group the db2inst1 user and restart db2 so that db2 can
read from the pipe. I haven't tested
this as I'm not sure if the restore process requires write access to the
fifo... in which case it won't be enough.
2) Instead of submitting only the db2 restore command as a background process,
do something similar to
the following:
CUT--
#!/bin/bash
# db2bacula-restore-worker.sh
# This script is designed to be a background task with stdin redirected to
/dev/null and stderr combined with
# stdout and then redirected to a log file.
# The log file can be catt'ed by the 'Run after client' option of bacula so
that db2 output is captured along
# with the backup logs
#
# Wait somewhere around 2 minutes for the pipe to appear.
declare -i TIMELEFT=120
while ( [ $TIMELEFT -gt 0 ] ! [ -p /tmp/bacula-fifo ] ) ; do
TIMELEFT --
sleep 1
done
if [ -p /tmp/bacula-fifo ] ; then
# Change the permissions for the fifo here - assumes you've set this up in
/etc/sudo.
# If you've added the bacula group to the db2inst1 user you may not need this.
sudo chmod o+rw /tmp/bacula-fifo
# Restore the database here
db2 restore without prompting
fi
CUT---
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-Original Message-
From: Thomas E. Ruth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 12 August 2005 19:33
To: Brett Delle Grazie
Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup / Restore of DB2 Databases using
Fifo's
I havn't been able to automate a restore completely within bacula for
DB2 databases, but I've gotten close. The bacula restore process
creates a FIFO with only root permissions but doesn't change the
permissions of the actual fifo file until data starts restoring to it.
At that time though, it's too late for the DB2 process (I think the file
is actually deleted and re-created and the DB2 process loses it's handle
on it).
I've attached the script that I use, maybe it will help you. I've also
attached a patch to fd_cmds.c in the director source directory that will
allow this script to work properly (otherwise, my script can't tell if
the backup is incremental, or full, and doesn't know what to do in
either case).
Here is my job resource I use with these scripts:
Job {
Name = database-db2
JobDefs = WeeklyFull
Client = tiamat2-fd
File Set = Database DB2
Client Run Before Job = su - instance owner -c \/database
directory/backupdb.sh '%t' '%l
' 'instance owner' 'database name'\
Client Run After Job = su - instance owner -c \/database
directory/prunelogs.sh '%t' '%l
' 'instance owner' 'database name'\
Write Bootstrap = /var/lib/bacula/database.bst
}
Job {
Name = restore-database-db2
Type = Restore
Client = tiamat2-fd
File Set = Database DB2
Messages = Standard
Storage = Tape
Pool = Default
Client Run Before Job = su - instance owner -c \database
dir/backupdb.sh '%t' '%l
' 'instance owner' 'database name'\
Client Run After Job = su - instance owner -c \database
dir/prunelogs.sh '%t' '%l
' 'instance owner' 'database name'\
Where = /
}
FileSet {
Name = Database DB2
Include {
Options { signature=MD5; readfifo=Yes }
File = database dir/dbpipe
}
Include {
Options { signature=MD5 }
File = database dir/instance name/NODE/SQL1
File = database dir/instance name/NODE/sqldbdir
File = database dir/backupdb.sh
File = database dir/prunelogs.sh
}
}
You will need to create a new set of these job/file resources for each
database instance you have.
If you improve these scripts at all to make a restore of a DB2 database
a bit more automated, please let me know!
Tom
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Hi,
I'm using bacula to backup a DB2 database
RE: [Bacula-users] Backup / Restore of DB2 Databases using Fifo's
Dear Kern, I'm inclined to agree with Phil Thomas and your own comments. Since the FileSet we use includes the 'readfifo' option, why not: never overwrite an existing fifo if this option is set on a restore operation? It then becomes the Run before client's job to create this fifo with the appropriate permissions such that bacula and the pipe reader software can utilise it. Best Regards, Brett Delle Grazie -Original Message- From: Kern Sibbald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 August 2005 13:40 To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Phil Stracchino; Thomas E. Ruth; Brett Delle Grazie; bacula-devel Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup / Restore of DB2 Databases using Fifo's Hello Phil, On Friday 12 August 2005 20:52, Phil Stracchino wrote: Thomas E. Ruth wrote: I havn't been able to automate a restore completely within bacula for DB2 databases, but I've gotten close. The bacula restore process creates a FIFO with only root permissions but doesn't change the permissions of the actual fifo file until data starts restoring to it. At that time though, it's too late for the DB2 process (I think the file is actually deleted and re-created and the DB2 process loses it's handle on it). After thinking about what's going on here, I think this is a behavioral error on Bacula's part. I suspect that *by default*, Bacula should never overwrite a FIFO that already exists during a restore. If it's not there, fine, restore it; if it's already there, LEAVE IT ALONE, we don't want to break anything. Write any data to it that's supposed to be written to it, sure, but if we delete and recreate the FIFO, we may break things -- as in this example. I think you are on to something here. Originally, Bacula did not touch the directory entry for a file that existed, but I forget exactly why, but I was convinced to delete each file before restoring it. I had forgotten this until it came up with some work that Thorsten is doing. Deleting files before recreating them, has, in general, improved restoration. However, it appears that in this case, it breaks the ability to use a FIFO to restore a file as Tom wants to do. In general, I don't like things that are not symmetric or uniform -- i.e. why delete most files but not FIFOs before re-creating them? I need to think about this for a bit and look at the code ... This probably applies to socket pseudo-nodes as well, assuming we even restore those at all (which I still believe we shouldn't). -- Best regards, Kern ( /\ V_V --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] mount command
Hello, I get the following message from bacula's console 15-Aug 13:32 storage01-sd: Please mount Volume Monitors01 on Storage Device DDS-4 for Job Client1.2005-08-15_12.43.00 How do I mount the volume from the console? I try the following mount DDS-4 but I always get the same warning message. Thank you in advance, Maurizio --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Backup / Restore of DB2 Databases using Fifo's
On Monday 15 August 2005 17:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Kern,
I'm inclined to agree with Phil Thomas and your own comments.
Since the FileSet we use includes the 'readfifo' option, why not:
never overwrite an existing fifo if this option is set on a restore
operation?
You might try applying the attached patch file to version 1.36.3 (possibly
1.36.2).
cd bacula-source
patch -p0 raw.patch
make
...
It then becomes the Run before client's job to create this fifo with the
appropriate permissions such that bacula and the pipe reader software can
utilise it.
Best Regards,
Brett Delle Grazie
-Original Message-
From: Kern Sibbald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 August 2005 13:40
To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Phil Stracchino; Thomas E. Ruth; Brett Delle Grazie; bacula-devel
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup / Restore of DB2 Databases using
Fifo's
Hello Phil,
On Friday 12 August 2005 20:52, Phil Stracchino wrote:
Thomas E. Ruth wrote:
I havn't been able to automate a restore completely within bacula for
DB2 databases, but I've gotten close. The bacula restore process
creates a FIFO with only root permissions but doesn't change the
permissions of the actual fifo file until data starts restoring to it.
At that time though, it's too late for the DB2 process (I think the
file is actually deleted and re-created and the DB2 process loses it's
handle on it).
After thinking about what's going on here, I think this is a behavioral
error on Bacula's part. I suspect that *by default*, Bacula should
never overwrite a FIFO that already exists during a restore. If it's
not there, fine, restore it; if it's already there, LEAVE IT ALONE, we
don't want to break anything. Write any data to it that's supposed to
be written to it, sure, but if we delete and recreate the FIFO, we may
break things -- as in this example.
I think you are on to something here.
Originally, Bacula did not touch the directory entry for a file that
existed, but I forget exactly why, but I was convinced to delete each file
before restoring it. I had forgotten this until it came up with some work
that Thorsten is doing. Deleting files before recreating them, has, in
general, improved restoration. However, it appears that in this case, it
breaks the ability to use a FIFO to restore a file as Tom wants to do.
In general, I don't like things that are not symmetric or uniform -- i.e.
why delete most files but not FIFOs before re-creating them? I need to
think about this for a bit and look at the code ...
This probably applies to socket pseudo-nodes as well, assuming we even
restore those at all (which I still believe we shouldn't).
--
Best regards,
Kern
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V_V
Index: src/findlib/create_file.c
===
RCS file: /cvsroot/bacula/bacula/src/findlib/create_file.c,v
retrieving revision 1.34.10.2
diff -u -u -b -r1.34.10.2 create_file.c
--- src/findlib/create_file.c 12 Apr 2005 21:31:20 - 1.34.10.2
+++ src/findlib/create_file.c 15 Aug 2005 16:53:39 -
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
case FT_SPEC:
case FT_REGE: /* empty file */
case FT_REG: /* regular file */
- if (exists) {
+ if (exists attr-type != FT_RAW) {
/* Get rid of old copy */
if (unlink(attr-ofname) == -1) {
berrno be;
@@ -199,8 +199,9 @@
Dmsg1(200, Restore node: %s\n, attr-ofname);
if (mknod(attr-ofname, attr-statp.st_mode, attr-statp.st_rdev) != 0 errno != EEXIST) {
berrno be;
- Jmsg2(jcr, M_ERROR, 0, _(Cannot make node %s: ERR=%s\n),
- attr-ofname, be.strerror());
+ Jmsg4(jcr, M_ERROR, 0, _(Cannot mknod(%s, 0x%s, 0x%x): ERR=%s\n),
+ attr-ofname, attr-statp.st_mode, attr-statp.st_rdev,
+ be.strerror());
return CF_ERROR;
}
}
[Bacula-users] Associating Jobs with Volumes
I'm wondering how to associate Volumes with Jobs. It doesn't seem clear to me how I say Use this Volume for this Job. I'm currently backing up multiple workstations and I'd like each workstation to have it's own Volume (using FileStorage). How does bacula figure out which Volume to use? I just want to say Job X uses Volume X on FileStorage with incrementals. Is this even possible? Ideas? --Joe -- Joseph C. Stump [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.joestump.net --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Spooling to disk and concurrency
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've been trying to get Bacula to spool to disk and run concurrent jobs but it just isn't working...backing up works one-by-one but nothing gets spooled to disk in the meantime. Is there a way to force it to spool, or is it supposed to always spool, or is there some other way to test it? Does it only spool if there are concurrent jobs running? I have Spool Data = yes in my Device config and my JobDefs. I also can't seem to get multiple jobs to run. I've been using 'run' from within bconsole, maybe that's why? I have Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 4 in my Director and JobDefs config, but it is to a tape drive so I have that default (1). Spooling is supposed to make this possible, though, correct? Thanks, Josh -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDAPPvV/+PyAj2L+IRAmpzAJ0ck7qs9Lk3wEk+hNgOB9kOaxf8lwCfTUis rVedDEwvpze8mgLd1q4z/X8= =xrql -END PGP SIGNATURE- --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] mount USB disk
On Thursday 11 August 2005 02:13, Daniel Bloemer wrote: Hi, Alan Brown wrote: On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Mick wrote: I use an USB disk as backup target for Bacula. It works fine. But there is one issue: I want to mount it immediatly before the backup and unmount it afterwards. There is even a mount option for the config file (sd.config I think), but this option is not allowed for a harddisk. Assuming you're using a linux system, why not allow hotplug and subfs to do this for you automagically? I am working on a similiar solution here. The problem is, that the hotplug-agent doesnt mount the USB-Harddisc on a fixed mountpoint. I tried to define a fixed mountpoint myself, but the hotplug-agent has avoided all my attempts until now. If you label the disk (using the filesystem's label commands: e2label for ext2, xfs_admin -L label for xfs, etc), then when the drive is detected, it should have a mount point created in /mnt/LABEL. At least that is the way it works on my Mandrake 10.2 system. I have an XFS formatted drive in my USB enclosure with the label BackupDrive. When I turn it on, a mount point is created at /mnt/BackupDrive and an entry is added in /etc/fstab. Of course, you could always mount the drive manually at a known location: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/MyKnownLocation j- k- -- Joshua Kugler CDE System Administrator http://distance.uaf.edu/ --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
RE: [Bacula-users] mount command
Use mount storage=DDS-4. Thanks, Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Maurizio Santini Sent: Monday, 15 August, 2005 11:36 To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] mount command Hello, I get the following message from bacula's console 15-Aug 13:32 storage01-sd: Please mount Volume Monitors01 on Storage Device DDS-4 for Job Client1.2005-08-15_12.43.00 How do I mount the volume from the console? I try the following mount DDS-4 but I always get the same warning message. Thank you in advance, Maurizio --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image?
This is sort like something I was thinking about. It would pretty much kick ass if I could mount -t bacula /path/to/fullbackup. As in a Linux file system driver or something for bacula volumes. --Joe On Aug 15, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Chris Lee wrote: I know that there has been a lot of work on backup to DVD, though I haven't looked very closely at it before. It has recently occurred to me that I might like to backup some of my data to dvd, but I don't know if I want to purchase another dvd writer for my storage machine. If it isn't already possible, may I request a feature addition with which CD/DVD backups can be performed but instead of writing to CD or DVD only an ISO image is made which can be burned later or on another machine? Thanks, Chris --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/ bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Joseph C. Stump [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.joestump.net --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image?
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1k count=1 seek=`expr 1024 \* 4096` of=image.bin As root: losetup /dev/loop7 image.bin Then you can access that as a drive (partition with fdisk, etc). I'm not sure of the specifics of mounting, etc, but googling for loopback should get you going. j- k- On Monday 15 August 2005 15:25, Joe Stump wrote: Is this possible? Are there any docs showing how to do this? --Joe On Aug 15, 2005, at 4:18 PM, Joshua Kugler wrote: What about using a loopback? j- k- On Monday 15 August 2005 14:20, Joe Stump wrote: This is sort like something I was thinking about. It would pretty much kick ass if I could mount -t bacula /path/to/fullbackup. As in a Linux file system driver or something for bacula volumes. --Joe On Aug 15, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Chris Lee wrote: I know that there has been a lot of work on backup to DVD, though I haven't looked very closely at it before. It has recently occurred to me that I might like to backup some of my data to dvd, but I don't know if I want to purchase another dvd writer for my storage machine. If it isn't already possible, may I request a feature addition with which CD/DVD backups can be performed but instead of writing to CD or DVD only an ISO image is made which can be burned later or on another machine? Thanks, Chris --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/ bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Joseph C. Stump [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.joestump.net --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/ bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Joshua Kugler CDE System Administrator http://distance.uaf.edu/ --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/ bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Joseph C. Stump [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.joestump.net --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Joshua Kugler CDE System Administrator http://distance.uaf.edu/ --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
RE: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image?
Using a loopback would work fine for a read/write filesystem. I do that all the time. Maybe I read too much into it, but if I understood the original poster, he was looking for mounting a loop device/file, writing to it to create a file in ISO format that could be burned as-is into a useable CD or DVD. This is where I think there would be a problem. I doubt you can expect a useable ISO image after regular reads/writes/copy to and from the loop back image file. Boy, would I like to be wrong on this... I'd love to be able to do it. Knut Meidal -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Kugler Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 4:18 PM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image? What about using a loopback? j- k- On Monday 15 August 2005 14:20, Joe Stump wrote: This is sort like something I was thinking about. It would pretty much kick ass if I could mount -t bacula /path/to/fullbackup. As in a Linux file system driver or something for bacula volumes. --Joe On Aug 15, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Chris Lee wrote: I know that there has been a lot of work on backup to DVD, though I haven't looked very closely at it before. It has recently occurred to me that I might like to backup some of my data to dvd, but I don't know if I want to purchase another dvd writer for my storage machine. If it isn't already possible, may I request a feature addition with which CD/DVD backups can be performed but instead of writing to CD or DVD only an ISO image is made which can be burned later or on another machine? Thanks, Chris --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/ bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Joseph C. Stump [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.joestump.net --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Joshua Kugler CDE System Administrator http://distance.uaf.edu/ --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
RE: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image?
Ah, now I see. (Maintenance window until 2am last nite, see... A little slow today) Something like Nero ImageDrive, then. K -Original Message- From: Joe Stump [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 4:48 PM To: Knut E. Meidal Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image? Yeah, the original post was about creating (full?) backups directly as images. Ie. instead of a bacula volume the volume would be an ISO file that he could then burn. What I was asking is if there is any way to mount a bacula volume that was written to disk. The entire thing is one big file. If it's an ISO, then yeah I can mount it on loopback, if it's some proprietary bacula thing then I'd either need baculavolume2iso or an fs driver that would let me mount my bacula volumes. --Joe On Aug 15, 2005, at 4:39 PM, Knut E. Meidal wrote: Using a loopback would work fine for a read/write filesystem. I do that all the time. Maybe I read too much into it, but if I understood the original poster, he was looking for mounting a loop device/file, writing to it to create a file in ISO format that could be burned as-is into a useable CD or DVD. This is where I think there would be a problem. I doubt you can expect a useable ISO image after regular reads/writes/copy to and from the loop back image file. Boy, would I like to be wrong on this... I'd love to be able to do it. Knut Meidal -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Kugler Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 4:18 PM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image? What about using a loopback? j- k- On Monday 15 August 2005 14:20, Joe Stump wrote: This is sort like something I was thinking about. It would pretty much kick ass if I could mount -t bacula /path/to/fullbackup. As in a Linux file system driver or something for bacula volumes. --Joe On Aug 15, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Chris Lee wrote: I know that there has been a lot of work on backup to DVD, though I haven't looked very closely at it before. It has recently occurred to me that I might like to backup some of my data to dvd, but I don't know if I want to purchase another dvd writer for my storage machine. If it isn't already possible, may I request a feature addition with which CD/DVD backups can be performed but instead of writing to CD or DVD only an ISO image is made which can be burned later or on another machine? Thanks, Chris --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/ bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Joseph C. Stump [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.joestump.net --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Joshua Kugler CDE System Administrator http://distance.uaf.edu/ --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/ bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Joseph C. Stump [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.joestump.net --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the
RE: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image?
Yeah I've been reading up on the developer documentation for bacula and it seems that volumes written in a bacula-specific format. http://bacula.org/developers/Overall_Storage_Format.html covers this. Back to the original post, yes, Joe is correct in that I'm talking about backing up to CD or DVD but not actually burning them with bacula. I'd like for bacula to do everything except for writing the media -- just grow the ISO and leave it on my server where I can retrieve and burn it later. Specifically, I want to do this to back up large amounts of multimedia that I don't want to add into my daily tape cycle. Occasionally I could just manually run a full backup of said files and store it all on DVD, but my DVDRW is in my win32 workstation. Thanks, Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Stump Sent: Monday, 15 August, 2005 18:48 To: Knut E.Meidal Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image? Yeah, the original post was about creating (full?) backups directly as images. Ie. instead of a bacula volume the volume would be an ISO file that he could then burn. What I was asking is if there is any way to mount a bacula volume that was written to disk. The entire thing is one big file. If it's an ISO, then yeah I can mount it on loopback, if it's some proprietary bacula thing then I'd either need baculavolume2iso or an fs driver that would let me mount my bacula volumes. --Joe On Aug 15, 2005, at 4:39 PM, Knut E. Meidal wrote: Using a loopback would work fine for a read/write filesystem. I do that all the time. Maybe I read too much into it, but if I understood the original poster, he was looking for mounting a loop device/file, writing to it to create a file in ISO format that could be burned as-is into a useable CD or DVD. This is where I think there would be a problem. I doubt you can expect a useable ISO image after regular reads/writes/copy to and from the loop back image file. Boy, would I like to be wrong on this... I'd love to be able to do it. Knut Meidal -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joshua Kugler Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 4:18 PM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to ISO image? What about using a loopback? j- k- On Monday 15 August 2005 14:20, Joe Stump wrote: This is sort like something I was thinking about. It would pretty much kick ass if I could mount -t bacula /path/to/fullbackup. As in a Linux file system driver or something for bacula volumes. --Joe On Aug 15, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Chris Lee wrote: I know that there has been a lot of work on backup to DVD, though I haven't looked very closely at it before. It has recently occurred to me that I might like to backup some of my data to dvd, but I don't know if I want to purchase another dvd writer for my storage machine. If it isn't already possible, may I request a feature addition with which CD/DVD backups can be performed but instead of writing to CD or DVD only an ISO image is made which can be burned later or on another machine? Thanks, Chris --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/ bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Joseph C. Stump [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.joestump.net --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Joshua Kugler CDE System Administrator http://distance.uaf.edu/ --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf
