Re: [Bacula-users] Disk backup strategy advice / help
Hello, I have managed my offsite backup setup so that only bacula volumes get rsync-ed and it works fine for half a year. Total backup size is about 500Gb, nightly amount of data rsync-ed is between 1 and 10Gb (so my home adsl connection with 10Mbit/s downstream is OK to keep offsite backups at home). This is in an assumption that you need offsite backup only when you've totally lost onsite one. In this case bacula server has to be restored/reinstalled first (or better in advance, to be able to test restoration) and database has to be restored before using offsite backup. Additionally I encrypt the bacula volumes on the fly while remotely rsync-ing them (on the fly by means of fuse encfs). Regards, Alex Ehrlich -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Building Bat + ActionOnPurge
Hello, By no means was I going to upset or blame anybody. I just wanted to point out some weaknesses and shortcomings that currently exist and maybe to warm up some discussion -- what would benefit Bacula and its [even] wider adoption ;-). I see that the discussion has kind of started, although -- what a pity -- at the level of Thats not Bacula community problem and Windows sux (these quotes are not from Kern) :-(. Just some examples of documentation points that would be worth improving: ... Those are good points and would make good contributions. Our company is currently working on some. But while I have set up 3 production sites with Bacula backup so far I still don't know *good* answers for some of those questions -- and, consequently, cannot contribute (some other have been documented by now and are on the way to be added to howtos). Maybe I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed? Possibly, but who is the intended audience then? This is an Open Source project that counts on contributions from the community. ... All I can say is: what do you expect from a community project I consider the project as having achieved very good results for an open source one (and for commercial one, too, actually). It is a really good backup system (after all, why would I implement it in production otherwise?). But most things in our life could be even better than they are. You apparently have not been reading what I have written about Bacula Systems. I have. However, I believed that even providing support and consultancy would benefit from the list of potential issues that might negatively affect deployments -- *for example*, in larger AD environments; but this was just my opinion about mostly-windows-based environments. There are other people around that could list most critical points for some other tasks/environments; backing up Exchange is a great example of resent task/environment-focused development. undocumented /S option, which if it exists must be some NSIS installer supported option Yes it's a NSIS option (some say that it is case sensitive) and I tried it and it worked for upgrade (not overwriting the existing bacula-fd.conf, that was very nice of it). Regards, Alex Ehrlich On 03.02.2010 15:38, Kern Sibbald wrote: -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] bat 3.0.3 - no files in version browser for Catalog backup
Hello, Using Bacula 3.0.3 on Linux. If I choose any standard Catalog backup in the Version Browser then no directories and no files are shown (nothing to choose to restore from). The same is in v 2.4.1. However, if I list files on a Catalog job it shows /var/lib/bacula/bacula.sql (or whatever is appropriate for a given Linux distro) as expected. Is it a bug in BAT or am I missing something? Regards, Alex Ehrlich -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Failed jobs hang as running in director status
Hello, I have got the following problem (probably since upgrading to v 3): the failed jobs tend to hang in the running state from the director's point of view. This causes other jobs to stall (with ... is waiting for higher priority jobs to finish or waiting for maximum concurrent). In configs, Rerun Failed Levels = yes, but no Reschedule set in job defaults. Restarting bacula-dir resolves the problem (no more pseudo-running jobs in status dir). In the status client and status dir output below, look at the job 9219. Does anybody have an idea what's wrong? -- *status client=danillap-fd Connecting to Client danillap-fd at lap-danil:9102 lap-danil-fd Version: 3.0.2 (18 July 2009) VSS Linux Cross-compile Win32 Daemon started 19-Jan-10 11:04, 5 Jobs run since started. Heap: heap=0 smbytes=174,774 max_bytes=275,357 bufs=89 max_bufs=277 Sizeof: boffset_t=8 size_t=4 debug=0 trace=1 Running Jobs: Director connected at: 20-Jan-10 12:17 No Jobs running. Terminated Jobs: JobId LevelFiles Bytes Status FinishedName == ... 9219 Incr 329.99 M Error20-Jan-10 10:46 danillap_outlook *status dir backupsrv-dir Version: 3.0.3 (18 October 2009) i686-redhat-linux-gnu redhat Daemon started 19-Jan-10 08:58, 38 Jobs run since started. Heap: heap=8,122,368 smbytes=196,142 max_bytes=350,199 bufs=1,314 max_bufs=2,527 ... Running Jobs: Console connected at 20-Jan-10 12:12 JobId Level Name Status == 9219 Increme danillap_outlook.2010-01-20_10.45.00_57 is running ... -- Regards, Alex Ehrlich -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula project voting
Hello, Item #31 Backup and Restore of Windows Encrypted Files using Win raw encryption is a duplicate of #23 Add EFS support on Windows. Alex Ehrlich Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, As many of you know, once we release a major version, we start implementing features for the next version. To allow the Bacula user community to have input to the development process, we accumulate Feature Requests, then the community votes on which features they would like to see. Here are a few of the suggested rules for the upcoming voting process: 1. The list currently comprises some 40 different feature requests, so there is, in my opinion, no need to continue accumulating more feature requests. 2. Anyone on any of these lists can vote for the features they want, but only once, please. 3. The voting is normally open one week (or 5 working days). 4. The list is then re-ordered in the priority voted by the users. 5. This time, the vote will be done by using a survey engine (a bit more automatic). 6. You can vote for each of the 40 items and each item can be marked: Critical, High, Low, None. 7. The priorities thus obtained from the vote are advisory -- that is the developers will tend to work on the highest priority items, but there is no guarantee as they are volunteers. 8. We cannot guarantee that any particular item will be implemented until someone has submitted the code. I'll send you all a link (probably early next week) that will allow you to cast your votes. In the mean time, please visit the following link to take a look at the proposed features: http://bacula.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bacula/trunk/bacula/projects?view=markup Best regards, Kern -- The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Volume Relabelling
OK, not recycled but reused after recycling; sorry, I didn't express myself correctly. And, of course, it should be optional; I meant mostly *-to-disk scenarios. Any idea how this can be managed by bconsole scripting as someone had suggested? Alex Alan Brown wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Can a (disk) volume be automatically relabelled when it is recycled? I don't think that's supported atm.. I'd like to have that feature too. It shouldn't be too hard to implement.. A recycled volume is still only a candidate for being written on. Volumes are labelled when they're moved from recycle to append. The decision to not relabel tapes until the last possible moment is deliberate. This gives a last-possible-moment for recovering data off a tape which have been wiped from the database, using the various bacula command line utilities. It also reduces excessive tape handling. Bear in mind that media like LTO has a chip onboard and counts each load/unload cycle towards the end of the tape's lifetime (162 cycles(*)) even if only the very beginning of the tape has been read/written. (Yes, this means the lifetime warranty on LTO media has different real-world durations depending on the purposes the tapes are put to. Other media has similar limitations) -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Volume Relabelling
Hello, Can a (disk) volume be automatically relabelled when it is recycled? Alex -- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and software encryption
Hello, To *back up* data you do *not* need to decrypt it, you should back up the raw encrypted data as it is (and, of course, to take care to back up your encryption keys - but separately!). It is probably a design fault in Bacula currently, not an intentional design decision. I believe (did not investigate Credant product) it is the same issue as with unsupported EFS (Encrypting File System - a standard Windows 2000+ non-home feature). Technically, one cannot use the standard BackupRead API function (the one Bacula uses) to access encrypted data (this is a pretty strange design decision in Windows; maybe it has something in common with extra permissions checking beyond encryption itself, e.g. special privileges needed?), one has to use dedicated xxxEncryptedFileRaw API instead (again, to get *encrypted* data). Additionally, one has to lift up the Bacula attributes infrastructure (to store the fact that a given file was backed up in encrypted state to restore it appropriately if needed) and this is the most complex part for me personally ;-). Currently, encrypted data is not backed up at all. This might be an issue when using Bacula for Windows server migration (if the server utilizes EFS). I have posted a feature request in summer 2008 but it has not been implemented so far. If nothing good happens with it till the end of January when my pretty heavy ongoing project should be completed I will try to push my neigbour C/C++/Java gurus to help setting up a development/test environment to fix the issue; unfortunately I am not a C developer... Alex Ehrlich Kevin Keane wrote: This is most likely by design. The whole point of encrypting hard disks is to only allow authorized software access to the decryption key (and to protect the hard disk if somebody has physical access to it). I am not familiar with Credant, but there probably is a way to tell it that the bacula-fd service is safe and should have access to the key. You may want to browse the Credant support area and knowledge base for information, and/or contact Credant. I'm reasonably sure that this problem is outside of where this bacula-related mailing list can help you. s_mendes wrote: People, After my company implemented a program that encrypt the entire HD (Credant), Bacula can't access any file on clients that have this program installed. The message error is Cannot open C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook/2008.pst: ERR=Access is denied. Is there anything to do about this issue? I can access the entire volume and any file on all clients; I don't know why babula can't access. Tks for any help! Sandro -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Turn your NetWORRY into a NetWORK! - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?
EFS support on Windows is my dream. Alex Ehrlich - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
