[Bacula-users] Renewed question about schedules
Hello, I'll try putting the question differently in the hope to get some help: is it possible to use bacula (the director) on a machine that is not always on. If yes, how can the schedule work ? Thanks a lot. -- Stéphane Epardaud - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] fd backing up fifo's under windows
Has the fifo backup/restore logic in the file daemon been translated
into named pipes under windows?
Eg can I say something like:
Include {
Options {
readfifo=yes
}
File = //./PIPE/somepipe
}
?
Thanks
James
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Re: [Bacula-users] Renewed question about schedules
On 9 Sep 2006 at 13:26, Stef Epardaud wrote: I'll try putting the question differently in the hope to get some help: is it possible to use bacula (the director) on a machine that is not always on. If yes, how can the schedule work ? I think yes, it can work. When the box is powered up, Bacula will schedule jobs. Hopefully they'll run while the box is still up... The box must remain up while all jobs are run. What problems are you anticipating? -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] fd backing up fifo's under windows
I just attempted to do this, and it kind of almost starts to work, but
the first thing Bacula does is a GetFileAttributesExW on the pipe, which
fails, but I think in doing so has opened the pipe and then closes it,
which tells the writer that the reader (Bacula) has finished.
The error I get is:
Error: Error in GetFileAttributesExW: file \.\PIPE\james: ERR=The system
cannot find the path specified
Thanks
James
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Subject: [Bacula-users] fd backing up fifo's under windows
Has the fifo backup/restore logic in the file daemon been translated
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Eg can I say something like:
Include {
Options {
readfifo=yes
}
File = //./PIPE/somepipe
}
?
Thanks
James
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Re: [Bacula-users] Renewed question about schedules
On 9 Sep 2006 at 14:28, Stef Epardaud wrote: On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 08:08:04AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: I think yes, it can work. When the box is powered up, Bacula will schedule jobs. Hopefully they'll run while the box is still up... The box must remain up while all jobs are run. What problems are you anticipating? I want to schedule a backup once a day, but the best would be to schedule it as soon as bacula starts, but at most once a day. I didn't find a way to do this. Perhaps you should tell us why this machine is not on all the time. Do you have any machines which are powered up all the time? It sounds like you do not know when the Director will be powered up. What you can do is create a script that will run after the box is powered up. This shell script will run a job manually, much the same as I can do a status dir like this: echo 'status dir' | bconsole -c /usr/local/etc/bconsole.conf Does that help? -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Restore problem
Hello everybody! I just set up a Bacula System that will backup our 4 servers + some clients but everytime I try to restore some files it just says: 09-Sep 15:35 server-dir: Start Restore Job restore-server2-usb.2006-09-09_15.35.13 09-Sep 15:35 StorageDaemon: Ready to read from volume server-usb on device /mnt/backup And thats it. No data is transfered and it is like the job never existed. Some more information on the system I set up. I have a seperate pool for the worstations and the servers. Furthermore there are 2 storages where data is written to: One storage holds the data from a daily incremental backup and the other holds the data from a weekly full backup. I hope someone can help me. Thanks in advance. Alexander Nolte P.S.: The Bacula version is 1.36.3 - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Problem re-labeling a DVD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'm having trouble with relabeling a DVD+RW. Here's what I get: 1000 OK: shodan-dir Version: 1.39.22 (08 Septermber 2006) Enter a period to cancel a command. *label Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog The defined Storage resources are: 1: File 2: DVD 3: ADR-30 Select Storage resource (1-3): 2 Enter new Volume name: DVD-005 Defined Pools: 1: Default 2: DVD Select the Pool (1-2): 2 Connecting to Storage daemon DVD at shodan:9103 ... Sending label command for Volume DVD-005 Slot 0 ... 3920 Cannot label Volume because it is already labeled: DVD-005 Label command failed for Volume DVD-005. Do not forget to mount the drive!!! The DVD was indeed previously labelled, and I've tried everything from dvd+rw-format -force to overwritting it completely with DD and even writting several gigabytes to it using K3b. No matter what I do, Bacula won't let me label it. Any ideas what could be wrong? Kernel is 2.6.17 (stock debian kernel + patches for reiser4), growisofs is 6.1.1 (Debian Source + Bacula Patches). Greetings, Michel -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) - GPGrelay v0.959 iD4DBQFFAu8R2Vs+MkscAyURAtB3AJUa4gqhejHiFRpSLHLlJkhY2OqIAKCTh5CF XAyzPCH9CntxVz88Gnz4MQ== =TeAr -END PGP SIGNATURE- - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Problem re-labeling a DVD
On Saturday 09 September 2006 18:42, Michel Meyers wrote: Hello, I'm having trouble with relabeling a DVD+RW. Here's what I get: 1000 OK: shodan-dir Version: 1.39.22 (08 Septermber 2006) Enter a period to cancel a command. *label Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog The defined Storage resources are: 1: File 2: DVD 3: ADR-30 Select Storage resource (1-3): 2 Enter new Volume name: DVD-005 Defined Pools: 1: Default 2: DVD Select the Pool (1-2): 2 Connecting to Storage daemon DVD at shodan:9103 ... Sending label command for Volume DVD-005 Slot 0 ... 3920 Cannot label Volume because it is already labeled: DVD-005 Label command failed for Volume DVD-005. Do not forget to mount the drive!!! The DVD was indeed previously labelled, and I've tried everything from dvd+rw-format -force to overwritting it completely with DD and even writting several gigabytes to it using K3b. No matter what I do, Bacula won't let me label it. Any ideas what could be wrong? Well, Richard did report a problem with manually labeling a DVD in the latest code, so you should expect some problems. The way around it is to use a LabelFormat so that Bacula labels the DVD automatically. However, I'm not convinced that what you are seeing is related to the problem Richard reported. I may be wrong but it seems like you have not really succeeded in wiping out the old filesystem, because Bacula still thinks it is there, or possibly Bacula still has the DVD mounted and so is retaining some information it should not. I suggest you try several things: 1. Try labeling the DVD with a different name. If it reports the same error, then it is clearly the bug that Richard saw. If this is the case, use the LabelFormat directive in bacula-dir.conf until we resolve the problem. 2. unmount the DVD in the console. 3. Try mounting it outside Bacula and see if it really has a filesystem on it. If the DVD is completely fresh, you should not be able to mount it. 4. Make sure that the Volume does not exist in Bacula's catalog. 5. Look at the DVD chapter in the manual -- it gives a few tips on how to reinitialize DVDs. However, given all the different types, I wouldn't be surprised if you had problems. In the next day or so, I'll try to look into the problem of manually labeling the DVD with Bacula. From what Richard wrote in his last email, we are *very* close to having DVD writing working correctly now. Kernel is 2.6.17 (stock debian kernel + patches for reiser4), growisofs is 6.1.1 (Debian Source + Bacula Patches). It looks like you have all the right pieces to get it working. As a last resort, you might try it with a blank DVD. Best regards, Kern - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Problem re-labeling a DVD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kern Sibbald wrote: On Saturday 09 September 2006 18:42, Michel Meyers wrote: Hello, I'm having trouble with relabeling a DVD+RW. Here's what I get: 1000 OK: shodan-dir Version: 1.39.22 (08 Septermber 2006) Enter a period to cancel a command. *label [...] Sending label command for Volume DVD-005 Slot 0 ... 3920 Cannot label Volume because it is already labeled: DVD-005 Label command failed for Volume DVD-005. Do not forget to mount the drive!!! Any ideas what could be wrong? Well, Richard did report a problem with manually labeling a DVD in the latest code, so you should expect some problems. Now that you mention it, I think I saw that. I'll have to search the archives. I may be wrong but it seems like you have not really succeeded in wiping out the old filesystem, because Bacula still thinks it is there, or possibly Bacula still has the DVD mounted and so is retaining some information it should not. I suggest you try several things: 1. Try labeling the DVD with a different name. If it reports the same error, then it is clearly the bug that Richard saw. If this is the case, use the LabelFormat directive in bacula-dir.conf until we resolve the problem. 2. unmount the DVD in the console. I tried that (unmount, format/prepare, label), didn't work. 3. Try mounting it outside Bacula and see if it really has a filesystem on it. If the DVD is completely fresh, you should not be able to mount it. The DVD's not fresh (it was previously labelled as DVD-005, but I ran into trouble when it came to recycling used DVDs so I decided to start over with 1.39.22 and see how its faring now), but I DID manage to wipe its fs (I tried mounting it outside of bacula and it indeed failed). 4. Make sure that the Volume does not exist in Bacula's catalog. Before starting I dropped all of bacula's tables and recreated them, so the catalog's fresh and clean. 5. Look at the DVD chapter in the manual -- it gives a few tips on how to reinitialize DVDs. However, given all the different types, I wouldn't be surprised if you had problems. I'll have to check. It's really strange, all the other DVD+RWs (14 of the 15 I'm testing with) worked fine, only DVD-005 refuses to let itself get relabelled. (Could it be damaged somehow?) In the next day or so, I'll try to look into the problem of manually labeling the DVD with Bacula. From what Richard wrote in his last email, we are *very* close to having DVD writing working correctly now. Sounds good. DVDs are about the only affordable solution that could replace my old Onstream IDE Tape drive. (I love the LTO-2 autoloader that I have working with my other Bacula install, but its a little over my private budget. ;) ) I'll keep you updated if I find anything. Greetings, Michel -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) - GPGrelay v0.959 iD8DBQFFAwXr2Vs+MkscAyURAvS9AJ9HKGg9P2jjVYNq0CYOGFRLsa2z3QCfQUkz r9E3MRkTL055oezWhEC32uw= =r5i2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Bacula detects wrong free size on DVDs
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Hello again,
While I'm annoying the list with my DVD writing issues, I just noticed this:
# ./dvd-handler /dev/hdd free
4689526784
Yet Bacula states:
09-Sep 20:26 shodan-sd: End of Volume DVD-003 at 0:491323391 on device
DVD-Writer (/dev/hdd). Write of 64512 bytes got 16384.
... and stops at more or less that size, requesting the next volume:
*list volumes
[...]
+-++---+-+-+
| MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes
|+-++---+-++
| 1 | DVD-001| Full | 1 | 491,130,010 |
| 2 | DVD-002| Full | 1 | 491,323,583 |
[...]
My Device section in bacula-sd:
Device {
Name = DVD-Writer
Media Type = DVD
Archive Device = /dev/hdd
LabelMedia = yes; # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
Random Access = Yes;
AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
RemovableMedia = yes;
AlwaysOpen = no;
MaximumPartSize = 800M;
RequiresMount = yes;
MountPoint = /cdrom;
MountCommand = /bin/mount -t iso9660 -o ro %a %m;
UnmountCommand = /bin/umount %m;
SpoolDirectory = /etc/bacula/working/spool;
Maximum Spool Size = 1600m
WritePartCommand = /etc/bacula/dvd-handler %a write %e %v
FreeSpaceCommand = /etc/bacula/dvd-handler %a free
}
Could the spooling be an issue?
Greetings,
Michel
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Re: [Bacula-users] Problem re-labeling a DVD
On Saturday 09 September 2006 20:20, Michel Meyers wrote: Kern Sibbald wrote: On Saturday 09 September 2006 18:42, Michel Meyers wrote: Hello, I'm having trouble with relabeling a DVD+RW. Here's what I get: 1000 OK: shodan-dir Version: 1.39.22 (08 Septermber 2006) Enter a period to cancel a command. *label [...] Sending label command for Volume DVD-005 Slot 0 ... 3920 Cannot label Volume because it is already labeled: DVD-005 Label command failed for Volume DVD-005. Do not forget to mount the drive!!! Any ideas what could be wrong? Well, Richard did report a problem with manually labeling a DVD in the latest code, so you should expect some problems. Now that you mention it, I think I saw that. I'll have to search the archives. I may be wrong but it seems like you have not really succeeded in wiping out the old filesystem, because Bacula still thinks it is there, or possibly Bacula still has the DVD mounted and so is retaining some information it should not. I suggest you try several things: 1. Try labeling the DVD with a different name. If it reports the same error, then it is clearly the bug that Richard saw. If this is the case, use the LabelFormat directive in bacula-dir.conf until we resolve the problem. 2. unmount the DVD in the console. I tried that (unmount, format/prepare, label), didn't work. 3. Try mounting it outside Bacula and see if it really has a filesystem on it. If the DVD is completely fresh, you should not be able to mount it. The DVD's not fresh (it was previously labelled as DVD-005, but I ran into trouble when it came to recycling used DVDs so I decided to start over with 1.39.22 and see how its faring now), but I DID manage to wipe its fs (I tried mounting it outside of bacula and it indeed failed). 4. Make sure that the Volume does not exist in Bacula's catalog. Before starting I dropped all of bacula's tables and recreated them, so the catalog's fresh and clean. 5. Look at the DVD chapter in the manual -- it gives a few tips on how to reinitialize DVDs. However, given all the different types, I wouldn't be surprised if you had problems. I'll have to check. It's really strange, all the other DVD+RWs (14 of the 15 I'm testing with) worked fine, only DVD-005 refuses to let itself get relabelled. (Could it be damaged somehow?) Yes, I think it is possible. If you follow the link to the dvd+rw-tools page, you will see that at some point he talks about DVD+RWs having problems being erased, and if I remember right, he even says that they may go bad after as few as 20 erases ... who knows. What is clear is that Bacula still has problems, but thanks to the heroic testing and patch submitting efforts of Richard, we are getting close ... In the next day or so, I'll try to look into the problem of manually labeling the DVD with Bacula. From what Richard wrote in his last email, we are *very* close to having DVD writing working correctly now. Sounds good. DVDs are about the only affordable solution that could replace my old Onstream IDE Tape drive. (I love the LTO-2 autoloader that I have working with my other Bacula install, but its a little over my private budget. ;) ) I'll keep you updated if I find anything. Greetings, Michel - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] FreeBSD port for BETA version 1.39.22-20060908
I have a FreeBSD port ready for the latest BETA, should you with to try it. http://www.langille.org/tmp/bacula-server-devel.1.39.22-20060908.tgz The above port skeleton has been submitted as a patch to sysutils/bacula-server-devel and can be reviewed here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=103064 cheers -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Bacula Update from 1.38.x to 1.39.x
Hello. I will expand the use of bacula to a greater number of computers to backup. Im using the 1.38.x version. Should I update now to 1.39.x? What about backward compatibility? - Clients (fd) - Volumes - Catalogs - ... If this is on documentation/bacula page, point me out where. Thanks -- Jaime Ventura [Infra-estruturas e Comunicações] Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4200 - 072 Porto Telef: +351 22 834 05 00 (04) - ext. 1641 Fax: +351 22 832 11 59 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] url:www.isep.ipp.pt http://www.isep.ipp.pt - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error in windows
- Original Message - From: Arunav Mandal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Arunav Mandal [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Dominic Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 11:02 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error in windows - Original Message - From: Arunav Mandal [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dominic Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 11:14 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error in windows On Tuesday 05 September 2006 10:59, Dominic Marks wrote: Arunav Mandal wrote: On Tuesday 05 September 2006 10:41, Dominic Marks wrote: Arunav Mandal wrote: In atleast 2 clients there is a fatal error. All the config is correct. Errors are given below. 05-Sep 00:48 bergen-fd: backup-bergen.2006-09-05_00.28.00 Fatal error: c: \cygwin\home\kern\bacula\k\src\win32\filed\../../filed/backup.c:500 Network send error to SD. ERR=Input/output error 05-Sep 00:48 bergen-fd: backup-bergen.2006-09-05_00.28.00 Error: c: \cygwin\home\kern\bacula\k\src\win32\lib\../../lib/bnet.c:426 Write error sending 65536 bytes to Storage daemon:sd.troll.no:9103: ERR=Input/output error 02-Sep 13:59 aeryn-fd: backup-aeryn.2006-09-02_13.54.11 Fatal error: c: \cygwin\home\kern\bacula\k\src\win32\filed\../../filed/backup.c:620 Network send error to SD. ERR=Input/output error 02-Sep 13:59 aeryn-fd: backup-aeryn.2006-09-02_13.54.11 Error: c: \cygwin\home\kern\bacula\k\src\win32\lib\../../lib/bnet.c:393 Write error sending len to Storage daemon:sd.troll.no:9103: ERR=Input/output error You are losing the network connection between the FD and SD. Is there a firewall of some sort in the way? If so you might have to specify a Heartbeat Interval to preserve to connection. Try running with a higher level of debugging? Maybe FD Connect Timeout = 5 is too less? There is no firewall but the machine can be slow as lot of processes are there. How to specify Heartbeat Interval and how to run with higher level of debugging? Quite possibly on a busy machine. Google for the last two, well documented. It failed after it started spooling data. Then something else is wrong. I tried reinstalling a number of times no luck. Thanks, Dominic Thanks, Dominic Arunav. Arunav It is still giving errors any ideas why? Arunav. Still no replies :( Arunav - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] FD Encryption
Configuring for encryption in current CVS, I've followed Landon's web page and set up a master key/cert pair and a fd pem file for a particular host. If I only specify the fd key with 'PKI Keypair' Bacula loads and starts. If I include the 'PKI Master Key' directive with just the public key, the FD will not start; it gives an error: Unable to read private key from file: ERR=error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line Anyone have any ideas what to fix here? -- Michael - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula detects wrong free size on DVDs
On Saturday 09 September 2006 20:31, Michel Meyers wrote:
Hello again,
While I'm annoying the list with my DVD writing issues, I just noticed this:
# ./dvd-handler /dev/hdd free
4689526784
Yet Bacula states:
09-Sep 20:26 shodan-sd: End of Volume DVD-003 at 0:491323391 on device
DVD-Writer (/dev/hdd). Write of 64512 bytes got 16384.
From the output you show above, I don't see any problem. It indicates the DVD
has filled and apparently wants the next DVD. If this is not the case,
it sounds to me like your Spool Directory filled, which would probably be
catastropic for the process.
It is hard to say with only the above info. Important info is the output that
Bacula should produce when it is writing the parts, a listing of what is in
the spool file, a listing of what is on the DVD, and a listing of what the
catalog has (llist volume=DVD-003). All those things need to be taken into
consideration.
By the way, you should *not* be turning on spooling in the Director. I have
no idea what that will do, probably something ugly.
... and stops at more or less that size, requesting the next volume:
*list volumes
[...]
+-++---+-+-+
| MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes
|+-++---+-++
| 1 | DVD-001| Full | 1 | 491,130,010 |
| 2 | DVD-002| Full | 1 | 491,323,583 |
[...]
My Device section in bacula-sd:
Device {
Name = DVD-Writer
Media Type = DVD
Archive Device = /dev/hdd
LabelMedia = yes; # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
Random Access = Yes;
AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
RemovableMedia = yes;
AlwaysOpen = no;
MaximumPartSize = 800M;
RequiresMount = yes;
MountPoint = /cdrom;
MountCommand = /bin/mount -t iso9660 -o ro %a %m;
UnmountCommand = /bin/umount %m;
SpoolDirectory = /etc/bacula/working/spool;
Maximum Spool Size = 1600m
WritePartCommand = /etc/bacula/dvd-handler %a write %e %v
FreeSpaceCommand = /etc/bacula/dvd-handler %a free
}
Could the spooling be an issue?
Greetings,
Michel
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Re: [Bacula-users] FreeBSD port for BETA version 1.39.22-20060908
On 9 Sep 2006 at 14:37, Dan Langille wrote: I have a FreeBSD port ready for the latest BETA, should you with to try it. http://www.langille.org/tmp/bacula-server-devel.1.39.22-20060908.tgz The above port skeleton has been submitted as a patch to sysutils/bacula-server-devel and can be reviewed here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=103064 The above mentioned PR has now been committed and the new port should be available in your next cvsup. -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Update from 1.38.x to 1.39.x
On Saturday 09 September 2006 21:04, Jaime Ventura wrote: Hello. I will expand the use of bacula to a greater number of computers to backup. Im using the 1.38.x version. Should I update now to 1.39.x? No What about backward compatibility? - Clients (fd) - Volumes - Catalogs - ... If this is on documentation/bacula page, point me out where. Have you read the full ReleaseNotes? I think it is all documented -- certainly Clients (I say they are backward compatible but do not guarantee it) and certainly for catalogs where I say you must upgrade (so they in a sense are not compatible -- you need to upgrade). I'm not sure what the question is with Volumes, they have always from day 1 been upward compatible -- this is somewhere in the manual. Note, one exception is old DVD Volumes are not compatible with the new format, but Bacula DVD writing has always been beta (maybe even alpha), still is and will probably remain so even after the 1.40.0 release. This is a BETA release, so please don't expect it to be bug free or the documentation to be complete. Beta means that there are lots of new features (i.e. new code and new bugs), sometimes many are untested. However, the code passes my regression scripts (on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris) which test only a part of the functionality, and there are *certainly* new bugs, possibly some show stoppers, as we recently saw with multiple drive autochangers ... As with all software I know of, if you upgrade, it is very unlikely you can go back, unless you restore everything you previously had including your old DB. I hope that answers your questions. Thanks -- Jaime Ventura [Infra-estruturas e Comunicações] Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4200 - 072 Porto Telef: +351 22 834 05 00 (04) - ext. 1641 Fax: +351 22 832 11 59 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] url: www.isep.ipp.pt http://www.isep.ipp.pt - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
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Hi, I've got a couple of questions but first I would like to say that Bacula is something incredible! We are currently backing up 6 servers and the total amount of data is 295GB and the best of all Bacula is writing all this data to an AIT 3 tape which can actually, I don't know a lot about tapes but usually the info given is correct, only take 260 GB compressed and when I saw the amount of data on the tape and Bacula did not ask for a second tape, I thought oh shit the data is damaged so I restored it and to my amazement it was perfectly fine! My question is, is it normal to take round about 13 hours to backup the data? What I mean isif you take each separate job and you compare it to the time that Ultrabac took you notice that Bacula takes 4 -5 times longer to backup the individual job.Any ideas why, DB maybe? My second question is, would it be possible to hook Bacula up to the monitoring package, Zabbix,to send out a sms/text message every time a job succeeds/fails or can Bacula do it if you hook it up to a GPRS modem? And then lastly,as you might come to realize my knowledge of backups is quite dangerous and I'm still learning. Can someone explain to me how did Bacula backup 295 GB to a tape that is suppose to take 260GB. 90% of the Servers are Windows Servers and very little data is text based so how in the hell did it do it without corrupting the Data??? To the developers.A JOB WELL DONE! This communication and any attachments are confidential and intended for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any form of copying or disclosure of this communication to any third parties without permission is prohibited. The contents of this communication and its attachments are not intended to be relied upon in law without subsequent written confirmation. As such, Dunns Stores (Pty) Ltd accept no responsibility or liability (including negligence) for the consequences of anyone acting, or not acting, on information contained therein. If you have received this communication in error please notify us immediately and destroy or delete it. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] WOW
My question is, is it normal to take round about 13 hours to backup the data? What I mean is if you take each separate job and you compare it to the time that Ultrabac took you notice that Bacula takes 4 -5 times longer to backup the individual job. Any ideas why, DB maybe? This may depend on whether you are using compression on the FD's to transfer the data. On some of my machines, they are too slow to quickly compress the data, and turning on comrpession actually slows down my backups by nearly 3x. Just a thought. Perhaps UltraBac doesn't do comrpession on the client end? My second question is, would it be possible to hook Bacula up to the monitoring package, Zabbix, to send out a sms/text message every time a job succeeds/fails or can Bacula do it if you hook it up to a GPRS modem? Take a look at the call to bsmtp in the director config file. You could easily replace/supplement it with a call to your favorite SMS gateway And then lastly, as you might come to realize my knowledge of backups is quite dangerous and I'm still learning. Can someone explain to me how did Bacula backup 295 GB to a tape that is suppose to take 260GB. 90% of the Servers are Windows Servers and very little data is text based so how in the hell did it do it without corrupting the Data??? The 260GB limit is based on compression, and assumes a 2.6:1 compression (AIT3 is 100GB native, 260GB compressed), but that estimate is just an AVERAGE. In your case, you got 2.95:1 (or more) - thats totally possible depending on your data. Its not just text data thats highly compressible - some types of email data, database data can also be highly compressible... --Matt - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] WOW
OH, I see, thank you for the speedy reply, just one thing I did not turn on the FD compression but you know what it isn't that much of a disater. I was curious and hell I haven't seen a backup solution like this before so I'm not complaining!Can you give me tip on how I will replace thebsmtp resource with my sms gateway, as far as I know there are return characters that should be read so that the modem doesn't keep on sending the same sms, how will Bacula read/interperet the return character, how will you set up Bacula to do thisso many questions so little time!!! From: Matt Cowger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Janco van der Merwe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.netSent: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 23:11:59 +0200Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] WOW My question is, is it normal to take round about 13 hours to backup the data? What I mean is if you take each separate job and you compare it to the time that Ultrabac took you notice that Bacula takes 4 -5 times longer to backup the individual job. Any ideas why, DB maybe?This may depend on whether you are using compression on the FD's to transfer the data. On some of my machines, they are too slow to quickly compress the data, and turning on comrpession actually slows down my backups by nearly 3x. Just a thought. Perhaps UltraBac doesn't do comrpession on the client end? My second question is, would it be possible to hook Bacula up to the monitoring package, Zabbix, to send out a sms/text message every time a job succeeds/fails or can Bacula do it if you hook it up to a GPRS modem?Take a look at the call to bsmtp in the director config file. You could easily replace/supplement it with a call to your favorite SMS gateway And then lastly, as you might come to realize my knowledge of backups is quite dangerous and I'm still learning. Can someone explain to me how did Bacula backup 295 GB to a tape that is suppose to take 260GB. 90% of the Servers are Windows Servers and very little data is text based so how in the hell did it do it without corrupting the Data???The 260GB limit is based on compression, and assumes a 2.6:1 compression (AIT3 is 100GB native, 260GB compressed), but that estimate is just an AVERAGE. In your case, you got 2.95:1 (or more) - thats totally possible depending on your data. Its not just text data thats highly compressible - some types of email data, database data can also be highly compressible...--Matt This communication and any attachments are confidential and intended for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any form of copying or disclosure of this communication to any third parties without permission is prohibited. The contents of this communication and its attachments are not intended to be relied upon in law without subsequent written confirmation. As such, Dunns Stores (Pty) Ltd accept no responsibility or liability (including negligence) for the consequences of anyone acting, or not acting, on information contained therein. If you have received this communication in error please notify us immediately and destroy or delete it. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] WOW
Personally, I wouldn't send it directly through a modem if you can avoid it. I dont know how the networks are in Zaire, but in the US, most carriers offer a email- SMS gateway, so that you simply send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or similar, and it becomes an SMS. If you can go that route, I'd definitly try. --matt On Sep 9, 2006, at 2:30 PM, Janco van der Merwe wrote: OH, I see, thank you for the speedy reply, just one thing I did not turn on the FD compression but you know what it isn't that much of a disater. I was curious and hell I haven't seen a backup solution like this before so I'm not complaining! Can you give me tip on how I will replace the bsmtp resource with my sms gateway, as far as I know there are return characters that should be read so that the modem doesn't keep on sending the same sms, how will Bacula read/interperet the return character, how will you set up Bacula to do thisso many questions so little time!!! From: Matt Cowger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Janco van der Merwe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 23:11:59 +0200 Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] WOW My question is, is it normal to take round about 13 hours to backup the data? What I mean is if you take each separate job and you compare it to the time that Ultrabac took you notice that Bacula takes 4 -5 times longer to backup the individual job. Any ideas why, DB maybe? This may depend on whether you are using compression on the FD's to transfer the data. On some of my machines, they are too slow to quickly compress the data, and turning on comrpession actually slows down my backups by nearly 3x. Just a thought. Perhaps UltraBac doesn't do comrpession on the client end? My second question is, would it be possible to hook Bacula up to the monitoring package, Zabbix, to send out a sms/text message every time a job succeeds/fails or can Bacula do it if you hook it up to a GPRS modem? Take a look at the call to bsmtp in the director config file. You could easily replace/supplement it with a call to your favorite SMS gateway And then lastly, as you might come to realize my knowledge of backups is quite dangerous and I'm still learning. Can someone explain to me how did Bacula backup 295 GB to a tape that is suppose to take 260GB. 90% of the Servers are Windows Servers and very little data is text based so how in the hell did it do it without corrupting the Data??? The 260GB limit is based on compression, and assumes a 2.6:1 compression (AIT3 is 100GB native, 260GB compressed), but that estimate is just an AVERAGE. In your case, you got 2.95:1 (or more) - thats totally possible depending on your data. Its not just text data thats highly compressible - some types of email data, database data can also be highly compressible... --Matt __ __ This communication and any attachments are confidential and intended for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any form of copying or disclosure of this communication to any third parties without permission is prohibited. The contents of this communication and its attachments are not intended to be relied upon in law without subsequent written confirmation. As such, Dunns Stores (Pty) Ltd accept no responsibility or liability (including negligence) for the consequences of anyone acting, or not acting, on information contained therein. If you have received this communication in error please notify us immediately and destroy or delete it. __ __ - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] WOW
My apologies - your email address was .co.za, so i assumed Zaire. Didn't realize your SMSs were so limited - indeed a script to attach to a GSM phone might be your best route, but I can't give you any guidance on that :(. --matt On Sep 9, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Janco van der Merwe wrote: Fortunately I also don't know how the networks are in Zaire but in South Africa we are a little more advanced that our collegues up North, or so I'm told, something to do with our Apartheid Goverment building an excellent infrastruture which has gone to ruin with the new democratic thingie... but enough of politics. Unfortunately only SP, as far as I know, has that service but you only have limited sms's.5 in total if I'm not mistaken, that is why we have the GPRS modem linked to our Firewall which runs Zabbix and I though maybe I can utilize it but then I have to get another modem, so maybe it wasn't that good idea From: Matt Cowger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Janco van der Merwe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 23:33:43 +0200 Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] WOW Personally, I wouldn't send it directly through a modem if you can avoid it. I dont know how the networks are in Zaire, but in the US, most carriers offer a email- SMS gateway, so that you simply send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or similar, and it becomes an SMS. If you can go that route, I'd definitly try. --matt On Sep 9, 2006, at 2:30 PM, Janco van der Merwe wrote: OH, I see, thank you for the speedy reply, just one thing I did not turn on the FD compression but you know what it isn't that much of a disater. I was curious and hell I haven't seen a backup solution like this before so I'm not complaining! Can you give me tip on how I will replace the bsmtp resource with my sms gateway, as far as I know there are return characters that should be read so that the modem doesn't keep on sending the same sms, how will Bacula read/interperet the return character, how will you set up Bacula to do thisso many questions so little time!!! From: Matt Cowger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Janco van der Merwe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 23:11:59 +0200 Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] WOW My question is, is it normal to take round about 13 hours to backup the data? What I mean is if you take each separate job and you compare it to the time that Ultrabac took you notice that Bacula takes 4 -5 times longer to backup the individual job. Any ideas why, DB maybe? This may depend on whether you are using compression on the FD's to transfer the data. On some of my machines, they are too slow to quickly compress the data, and turning on comrpession actually slows down my backups by nearly 3x. Just a thought. Perhaps UltraBac doesn't do comrpession on the client end? My second question is, would it be possible to hook Bacula up to the monitoring package, Zabbix, to send out a sms/text message every time a job succeeds/fails or can Bacula do it if you hook it up to a GPRS modem? Take a look at the call to bsmtp in the director config file. You could easily replace/supplement it with a call to your favorite SMS gateway And then lastly, as you might come to realize my knowledge of backups is quite dangerous and I'm still learning. Can someone explain to me how did Bacula backup 295 GB to a tape that is suppose to take 260GB. 90% of the Servers are Windows Servers and very little data is text based so how in the hell did it do it without corrupting the Data??? The 260GB limit is based on compression, and assumes a 2.6:1 compression (AIT3 is 100GB native, 260GB compressed), but that estimate is just an AVERAGE. In your case, you got 2.95:1 (or more) - thats totally possible depending on your data. Its not just text data thats highly compressible - some types of email data, database data can also be highly compressible... --Matt __ __ This communication and any attachments are confidential and intended for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any form of copying or disclosure of this communication to any third parties without permission is prohibited. The contents of this communication and its attachments are not intended to be relied upon in law without subsequent written confirmation. As such, Dunns Stores (Pty) Ltd accept no responsibility or liability (including negligence) for the consequences of anyone acting, or not acting, on information contained therein. If you have received this communication in error please notify us immediately and destroy or delete it. __
Re: [Bacula-users] WOW
No need to apologize, a lot of South Africans recon that we are going the same route as our Norther African counterparts, well the white South Africans anyways. Thank you anyways for the tips I'll go do someresearch on the GSM issue but it is a nice thought. Bill Morgan, I like your signature! They say that some guy decided to write a virus and it was so successfull that they had to give a name so they called it Microsoft... and this coming from a MS guy who decided to try Linux and thus far loving it, just a thought. Well seeing as it is 00:00 in SA and my wife is already steaming, something to do with me being more affectionatetowardsmy PC, I'm going to bid thee a good night and may the grace from abovebless you all. From: Matt Cowger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]To: Janco van der Merwe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.netSent: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 23:46:19 +0200Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] WOWMy apologies - your email address was .co.za, so i assumed Zaire.Didn't realize your SMSs were so limited - indeed a script to attach to a GSM phone might be your best route, but I can't give you any guidance on that :(.--mattOn Sep 9, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Janco van der Merwe wrote: Fortunately I also don't know how the networks are in Zaire but in South Africa we are a little more advanced that our collegues up North, or so I'm told, something to do with our Apartheid Goverment building an excellent infrastruture which has gone to ruin with the new democratic thingie... but enough of politics. Unfortunately only SP, as far as I know, has that service but you only have limited sms's.5 in total if I'm not mistaken, that is why we have the GPRS modem linked to our Firewall which runs Zabbix and I though maybe I can utilize it but then I have to get another modem, so maybe it wasn't that good idea From: Matt Cowger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To: Janco van der Merwe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Cc: Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 23:33:43 +0200 Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] WOW Personally, I wouldn't send it directly through a modem if you can avoid it. I dont know how the networks are in Zaire, but in the US, most carriers offer a email- SMS gateway, so that you simply send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or similar, and it becomes an SMS. If you can go that route, I'd definitly try. --matt On Sep 9, 2006, at 2:30 PM, Janco van der Merwe wrote: OH, I see, thank you for the speedy reply, just one thing I did not turn on the FD compression but you know what it isn't that much of a disater. I was curious and hell I haven't seen a backup solution like this before so I'm not complaining! Can you give me tip on how I will replace the bsmtp resource with my sms gateway, as far as I know there are return characters that should be read so that the modem doesn't keep on sending the same sms, how will Bacula read/interperet the return character, how will you set up Bacula to do thisso many questions so little time!!! From: Matt Cowger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] To: Janco van der Merwe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Cc: Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 23:11:59 +0200 Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] WOW My question is, is it normal to take round about 13 hours to backup the data? What I mean is if you take each separate job and you compare it to the time that Ultrabac took you notice that Bacula takes 4 -5 times longer to backup the individual job. Any ideas why, DB maybe? This may depend on whether you are using compression on the FD's to transfer the data. On some of my machines, they are too slow to quickly compress the data, and turning on comrpession actually slows down my backups by nearly 3x. Just a thought. Perhaps UltraBac doesn't do comrpession on the client end? My second question is, would it be possible to hook Bacula up to the monitoring package, Zabbix, to send out a sms/text message every time a job succeeds/fails or can Bacula do it if you hook it up to a GPRS modem? Take a look at the call to bsmtp in the director config file. You could easily replace/supplement it with a call to your favorite SMS gateway And then lastly, as you might come to realize my knowledge of backups is quite dangerous and I'm still learning. Can someone explain to me how did Bacula backup 295 GB to a tape that is suppose to take 260GB. 90% of the Servers are Windows Servers and very little data is text based so how in the hell did it do it without corrupting the Data??? The 260GB limit is based on compression, and assumes a 2.6:1 compression (AIT3 is 100GB native, 260GB compressed), but that estimate is just an AVERAGE. In your case, you got 2.95:1 (or more) - thats totally possible depending on your data. Its not just text data thats highly compressible - some types of email data, database data can also be highly compressible... --Matt
