Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum LTO-7 HH

[John Drescher]

Thanks.

John

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Jim Richardson <j...@securit360.com> wrote:
> I am using one successfully in a Dell TL1000 tape library. Be sure to use
> the latest version of Bacula, factory reset your drive and library when you
> receive it, and use the LTO-4 configuration at the bottom of the
> Bacula-SD.conf
>
>
>
> Sent from my Android phone using TouchDown (www.symantec.com)
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: John Drescher [dresche...@gmail.com]
> Received: Monday, 10 Jul 2017, 8:06AM
> To: Bacula Users [Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net]
> Subject: [Bacula-users] Quantum LTO-7 HH
>
> Anyone using a Quantum LTO-7 HH drive with bacula? I am looking to
> purchase one soon at work.
>
> Thanks,
> John
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[Bacula-users] Quantum LTO-7 HH

[John Drescher]

Anyone using a Quantum LTO-7 HH drive with bacula? I am looking to
purchase one soon at work.

Thanks,
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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Recycling process

[John Drescher]

> Although not your problem (since DRC202L5 was written yesterday), I
> see that you have a 7 day retention period on these volumes. Not the
> 60 that is in your config.


Remember that when you change retention periods in the config files
this applies to new volumes only. To get it to apply to existing
volumes you need to execute the following 2 commands in bconsole
(answering the prompts for each command):

update pool from resource

update all volumes in pool

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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Recycling process

[John Drescher]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Santiago Díaz Soler
 wrote:
> Hi, everyone
>
> I'm facing a weird issue on a bacula instance over Debian 8 (jessie).
> I have a pool with two volumes and everytime that a volume is marked as
> "recycle" (14 days) bacula sets  InChanger and Slot values to 0. Also, the
> volume that was marked as Used gets the InChanger and Slot values of the
> soon to be recycled volume.
> This behavior happens randomly, sometimes the recycle process gets no error.
>
> +-++---+-++--+--+-+--+---+---+-+---+
> | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes   | VolFiles |
> VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten
> |
> +-++---+-++--+--+-+--+---+---+-+---+
> |  93 | DRC201L5   | Used  |   1 | 37,016,275,968 |   45 |
> 604,800 |   1 |   13 | 1 | LTO-5 | 2016-03-01 21:14:56 |
> | 120 | DRC202L5   | Recycle  |   1 | 50,507,347,968 |   56 |
> 604,800 |   1 |0 | 0 | LTO-5 | 2016-03-13 21:08:43 |
> +-++---+-++--+--+-+--+---+---+-+---+
> (Volume DRC201L5 is in slot 12 but when the volume DRC202L5 enters in
> recycle state, it takes the slot 13)
>

Although not your problem (since DRC202L5 was written yesterday), I
see that you have a 7 day retention period on these volumes. Not the
60 that is in your config.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Question on retention/full backup

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> The year retention on volumes will cause this. The Job and File
> retention periods control what is stored in the database.

I probably should have said the File and Job retention periods control
what is kept in the database.

Anyways see here for info about the 3 retention periods:
http://www.bacula.org/7.2.x-manuals/en/problems/Bacula_Frequently_Asked_Que.html#SECTION00231

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Re: [Bacula-users] Question on retention/full backup

[John Drescher]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Giskard Reventlov
 wrote:
> For some reason, my backup is not rotating the files fast enough and my
> backup drive is full. I would like Retention of three months (One full
> backup) and weekly incrementals. The drive to be backed up is 800GB while
> the backup drive itself is 1.8TB.
>
> Is this the best way to do this or am I configured incorrectly?
>
> Here is my bacula-dir.conf:
>
> Director {# define myself
>   Name = als-dir
>   DIRport = 9101# where we listen for UA connections
>   QueryFile = "/etc/bacula/scripts/query.sql"
>   WorkingDirectory = "/var/lib/bacula"
>   PidDirectory = "/var/run/bacula"
>   Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1
>   Messages = Daemon
>   DirAddress = 127.0.0.1
> }
> JobDefs {
>   Name = "DefaultJob"
>   Type = Backup
>   Level = Incremental
>   Client = als-fd
>   FileSet = "Full Set"
>   Schedule = "WeeklyCycle"
>   Storage = File
>   Messages = Standard
>   Pool = File
>   Priority = 10
>   Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/%c.bsr"
> }
> Job {
>   Name = "BackupLocalFiles"
>   JobDefs = "DefaultJob"
> }
> Job {
>   Name = "BackupCatalog"
>   JobDefs = "DefaultJob"
>   Level = Full
>   FileSet="Catalog"
>   Schedule = "WeeklyCycleAfterBackup"
>   # This creates an ASCII copy of the catalog
>   # Arguments to make_catalog_backup.pl are:
>   #  make_catalog_backup.pl 
>   RunBeforeJob = "/etc/bacula/scripts/make_catalog_backup.pl MyCatalog"
>   # This deletes the copy of the catalog
>   RunAfterJob  = "/etc/bacula/scripts/delete_catalog_backup"
>   Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/%n.bsr"
>   Priority = 11   # run after main backup
> }
> Job {
>   Name = "RestoreLocalFiles"
>   Type = Restore
>   Client=als-fd
>   FileSet="Full Set"
>   Storage = File
>   Pool = Default
>   Messages = Standard
>   Where = /home/BCK/restore
> }
> FileSet {
>   Name = "Full Set"
>   Include {
> Options {
>   signature = MD5
>   compression = GZIP
> }
>  File = /
>  File = /boot/efi
>  File = /home
>   }
>   Exclude {
> File = /var/lib/bacula
> File = /home/BCK
> File = /proc
> File = /tmp
> File = /.journal
> File = /.fsck
> File = /dev
> File = /run
>   }
> }
> Schedule {
>   Name = "WeeklyCycle"
>   Run = Full 1st mon at 01:05
>   Run = Incremental tue-sun at 01:05
> }
> Schedule {
>   Name = "WeeklyCycleAfterBackup"
>   Run = Full mon-sun at 01:10
> }
> FileSet {
>   Name = "Catalog"
>   Include {
> Options {
>   signature = MD5
> }
> File = "/var/lib/bacula/bacula.sql"
>   }
> }
> Client {
>   Name = als-fd
>   Address = localhost
>   FDPort = 9102
>   Catalog = MyCatalog
>   File Retention = 30 days
>   Job Retention = 6 months
>   AutoPrune = yes
> }
> Storage {
>   Name = File
>   Address = als# N.B. Use a fully qualified name here
>   SDPort = 9103
>   Device = FileStorage
>   Media Type = File
> }
> Catalog {
>   Name = MyCatalog
> }
> Messages {
>   Name = Standard
>   mailcommand = "/usr/sbin/bsmtp -h localhost -f \"\(Bacula\) \<%r\>\" -s
> \"Bacula: %t %e of %c %l\" %r"
>   operatorcommand = "/usr/sbin/bsmtp -h localhost -f \"\(Bacula\) \<%r\>\"
> -s \"Bacula: Intervention needed for %j\" %r"
>   mail = root = all, !skipped
>   operator = root = mount
>   console = all, !skipped, !saved
>   append = "/var/log/bacula/bacula.log" = all, !skipped
>   catalog = all
> }
> Messages {
>   Name = Daemon
>   mailcommand = "/usr/sbin/bsmtp -h localhost -f \"\(Bacula\) \<%r\>\" -s
> \"Bacula daemon message\" %r"
>   mail = root = all, !skipped
>   console = all, !skipped, !saved
>   append = "/var/log/bacula/bacula.log" = all, !skipped
> }
> Pool {
>   Name = Default
>   Pool Type = Backup
>   Recycle = yes   # Bacula can automatically recycle
> Volumes
>   AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes
>   Volume Retention = 365 days # one year
> }
> Pool {
>   Name = File
>   Pool Type = Backup
>   Label Format = Local-
>   Recycle = yes   # Bacula can automatically recycle
> Volumes
>   AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes
>   Volume Retention = 365 days # one year
>   Maximum Volume Bytes = 50G  # Limit Volume size to something
> reasonable
>   Maximum Volumes = 100   # Limit number of Volumes in Pool
> }
> Pool {
>   Name = Scratch
>   Pool Type = Backup
> }
> Console {
>   Name = als-mon
>   CommandACL = status, .status
>

The year retention on volumes will cause this. The Job and File
retention periods control what is stored in the database.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes are not being recycled?

[John Drescher]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 3:55 PM, SPQR  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently executed
>
> update pool from resource
>
> update all volumes in pool
>
>
> in bconsole.
>
>
> This is the result:
>
> +++-+-+-++-+--+++-+---+---+-+---+--+---+-+-+---+---+++---+---+
> | poolid | name   | numvols | maxvols | useonce | usecatalog | 
> acceptanyvolume | volretention | voluseduration | maxvoljobs | maxvolfiles | 
> maxvolbytes   | autoprune | recycle | actiononpurge | pooltype | labeltype | 
> labelformat | enabled | scratchpoolid | recyclepoolid | nextpoolid | 
> migrationhighbytes | migrationlowbytes | migrationtime |
> +++-+-+-++-+--+++-+---+---+-+---+--+---+-+-+---+---+++---+---+
> |  4 | Silver | 700 | 775 |   0 |  1 |   
> 0 |  432,000 |  0 |  0 |   0 | 5,368,709,120 
> | 1 |   1 | 1 | Backup   | 0 | Volume-   
> |   1 | 0 | 0 |  0 |  0 | 
> 0 | 0 |
> +++-+-+-++-+--+++-+---+---+-+---+--+---+-+-+---+---+++---+---+
>

Looks like you have a 5 day retention now.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes are not being recycled?

[John Drescher]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 3:15 PM, SPQR  wrote:
> Yes, but: Why?
>
> I defined 7 days in my config. Is it using 14 days?
>

I will copy my 2nd email here:

"BTW, Your retention period is 1209600 seconds (14 days). If you
changed that in bacula-dir.conf with existing volumes you need to
execute

update pool from resource

update all volumes in pool

in bconsole to have bacula apply the changes to existing volumes. The
settings in bacula-dir.conf apply to new volumes only unless you use
these commands."

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Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes are not being recycled?

[John Drescher]

> Hi and thank you for your reply.
>
> Why should the volumes be older than 14 days? I defined
>
> Volume Retention = 7 days
>
>
> Or did I misunderstand your point?

I explained that in my second email. Your volumes have a 1209600
second retention period from your output.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes are not being recycled?

[John Drescher]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 11:02 AM, John Drescher <dresche...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 10:55 AM, SPQR <bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com> wrote:
>> Oh, the output is really heavy:
>>
>>
>> *list media pool=Silver
>> Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog
>> Using Catalog "MyCatalog"
>> +-++---+-+---+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+
>> | mediaid | volumename | volstatus | enabled | volbytes  | volfiles | 
>> volretention | recycle | slot | inchanger | mediatype | lastwritten |
>> +-++---+-+---+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+
>> |   1 | Volume-0001  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,688,779 |1 |  
>>   1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-09 08:53:46 |
>> |   3 | Volume-0003  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,683,314 |1 |  
>>   1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-10 02:11:23 |
>> |   4 | Volume-0004  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,675,284 |1 |  
>>   1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-10 02:15:05 |
>> |   5 | Volume-0005  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,688,832 |1 |  
>>   1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-10 02:19:18 |
>> |   6 | Volume-0006  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,651,959 |1 |  
>>   1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-10 02:23:10 |
>> |   7 | Volume-0007  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,660,805 |1 |  
>>   1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:06:01 |
>> |   8 | Volume-0008  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,698,255 |1 |  
>>   1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:08:35 |
>> |   9 | Volume-0009  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,701,421 |1 |  
>>   1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:11:25 |
>> |  10 | Volume-0010  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,687,082 |1 |  
>>   1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:14:01 |
>> |  11 | Volume-0011  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,689,133 |1 |  
>>   1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:17:59 |
>> |  12 | Volume-0012  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,688,680 |1 |  
>>   1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:21:21 |
>> |  13 | Volume-0013  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,688,660 |1 |  
>>   1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:24:18 |
>> |  14 | Volume-0014  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,699,776 |1 |  
>>   1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:27:26 |
>> |  15 | Volume-0015  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,688,659 |1 |  
>>   1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:30:31 |
>> |  16 | Volume-0016  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,688,669 |1 |  
>>   1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:33:14 |
>> |  17 | Volume-0017  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,693,717 |1 |  
>>   1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:36:19 |
>> |  18 | Volume-0018  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,697,923 |1 |  
>>   1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:38:57 |
>> |  19 | Volume-0019  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,663,848 |1 |  
>>   1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:41:42 |
>> |  20 | Volume-0020  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,685,553 |1 |  
>>   1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:44:18 |
>> |  21 | Volume-0021  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,688,565 |1 |  
>>   1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:46:55 |
>> |  22 | Volume-0022  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,688,545 |1 |  
>>   1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:49:27 |
>> |  23 | Volume-0023  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,688,641 |1 |  
>>   1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:52:08 |
>> |  24 | Volume-0024  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,688,632 |1 |  
>>   1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:54:47 |
>> |  25 | Volume-0025  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,682,797 |1 |  
>>   1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-

Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes are not being recycled?

[John Drescher]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 10:55 AM, SPQR  wrote:
> Oh, the output is really heavy:
>
>
> *list media pool=Silver
> Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog
> Using Catalog "MyCatalog"
> +-++---+-+---+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+
> | mediaid | volumename | volstatus | enabled | volbytes  | volfiles | 
> volretention | recycle | slot | inchanger | mediatype | lastwritten |
> +-++---+-+---+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+
> |   1 | Volume-0001  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,688,779 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-09 08:53:46 |
> |   3 | Volume-0003  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,683,314 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-10 02:11:23 |
> |   4 | Volume-0004  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,675,284 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-10 02:15:05 |
> |   5 | Volume-0005  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,688,832 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-10 02:19:18 |
> |   6 | Volume-0006  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,651,959 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-10 02:23:10 |
> |   7 | Volume-0007  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,660,805 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:06:01 |
> |   8 | Volume-0008  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,698,255 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:08:35 |
> |   9 | Volume-0009  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,701,421 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:11:25 |
> |  10 | Volume-0010  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,687,082 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:14:01 |
> |  11 | Volume-0011  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,689,133 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:17:59 |
> |  12 | Volume-0012  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,688,680 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:21:21 |
> |  13 | Volume-0013  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,688,660 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:24:18 |
> |  14 | Volume-0014  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,699,776 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:27:26 |
> |  15 | Volume-0015  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,688,659 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:30:31 |
> |  16 | Volume-0016  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,688,669 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:33:14 |
> |  17 | Volume-0017  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,693,717 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:36:19 |
> |  18 | Volume-0018  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,697,923 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:38:57 |
> |  19 | Volume-0019  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,663,848 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:41:42 |
> |  20 | Volume-0020  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,685,553 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:44:18 |
> |  21 | Volume-0021  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,688,565 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:46:55 |
> |  22 | Volume-0022  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,688,545 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:49:27 |
> |  23 | Volume-0023  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,688,641 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:52:08 |
> |  24 | Volume-0024  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,688,632 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:54:47 |
> |  25 | Volume-0025  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,682,797 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 02:57:24 |
> |  26 | Volume-0026  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,688,483 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 03:00:01 |
> |  27 | Volume-0027  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,688,580 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 03:02:43 |
> |  28 | Volume-0028  | Full  |   1 | 5,368,688,490 |1 |   
>  1,209,600 |   1 |0 | 0 | File  | 2016-02-05 03:05:18 |
> |  29 | Volume-0029 

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula Release 7.4.0

[John Drescher]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Kern Sibbald  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Yesterday, we released Bacula version 7.4.0.
>
> This version consists of more backports from Bacula Enterprise 8.4 as
> well quite a few bug fixes (28) as a number of new features.  For your
> convenience, I have included selected parts of the ReleaseNotes below.
>
> Upgrading should be easy since there is no database change and all older
> File Daemons should remain compatible with Bacula 7.4.0.
>
> As with the last release, I would like to thank Bacula Systems for
> providing the bug fixes and new features. Since the development process
> in Bacula Systems is going faster (more programmers), we can expect even
> more features in future versions.
>
> In addition to releasing the files to Source Forge as usual, I have
> added a new download area on the bacula,.org web site that will permit
> you to download all the files for the new version 7.4.0.
>
> Bacula Systems has agreed to permit the personal use of the Bacula
> Enterprise Windows binaries, so I have included the Bacula Enteprise
> Windows binaries on the bacula.org web site (see Downloads -> Download
> Center on the main menu).  If you wish to use the Enterprise Windows
> binaries for other than personal use, please download them from:
> http://www.baculasystems.com/windows-binaries-for-bacula-community-users
>

Thanks. I installed this on gentoo by bumping the portage ebuilds to
7.4.0. No problems installing although I have not run any jobs yet.

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Re: [Bacula-users] "Unprune" certain Volume

[John Drescher]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Gilberto Nunes
 wrote:
> Hello Bacula Users
>
> I have backup files and now I realise that "File Retention" was equal 30
> days...
> As a consequence, I get prune warnnig when try to recover individual files
> from pool.
> Now, I enlarge the retention to 180 days, i.e. 6 months.
> However, I am still unable to recover the files that I need
> Is there a way to make an unprune file from catalog, in order to make
> recover possible???
>

The Volume Utility Tools will allow this. If you want to just extract
files bextract can do the job. If you want to reimport the entire
volume bscan will do so.

http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/utility/utility/Volume_Utility_Tools.html


Also remember to reset the volume retention on all existing volumes
since changing the retention in bacula-dir.conf has no effect on
existing volumes.

Use the following bconsole commands:

update pool from resource

then

update all volumes in pool



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Re: [Bacula-users] lto4 hardware compression doesn't work when encryprion on?

[John Drescher]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 12:26 PM, jstacey  wrote:
> I recently enabled encryption in my bacula-fd.conf with these entries:
>
>   PKI Signatures = Yes
>   PKI Encryption = Yes
>   PKI Keypair = "/etc/bacula/client.pem"
>   PKI Master Key = "/etc/bacula/master.cert"
>
> The encryption works but now my LTO4 tapes can only store around 812MB 
> instead of the usual 1.2 -> 1.4 TB  Is this normal?  I might enable gzip 
> software compression but this is going to take a chunk out of my CPU. I read 
> that it is also possible to enable hardware encryption on the drive. Maybe 
> this method would allow me to keep using hardware compression? Thanks
>


Perhaps the software encryption is not very compressible. Remember
some encryption methods make your data look more random. And random
data does not compress at all.

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Re: [Bacula-users] catalogue fails after a reboot....

[John Drescher]

> | warlocke-dir JobId 86: BeforeJob: Can't find your catalog (MyCatalog) in
> director configuration

I would start at this error message. Did you edit bacula_dir.conf
recently?  Does it have a catalog resource named MyCatalog?

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Re: [Bacula-users] backup failure

[John Drescher]

> Does the catalogue failure matter? I assume it does
>

Having a current copy of the catalog can save you a lot of time if
your catalog database gets corrupt or totally lost in a disaster
situation.

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Re: [Bacula-users] I can't restore a backup

[John Drescher]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 7:13 AM, Personal Técnico  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> After running OK a backup, "bat" application doesn't allow me to run a
> "restore". From "bRestore" menu option, I can select client and job, but
> after dragging down the folder, I can't do nothing more... If I try run
> the restore from "RestoreFiles" job name, I get error "Level "" not
> valid" and "Job not run". If I try run the restore from "Restore from
> Job" option in rigth button option from "Jobs Run" list, bat show me the
> message "Building directory tree for JobId XXX...", but after creating
> the root tree, I can only double click but no more; I get this message:
>
> Building directory tree for JobId(s) 33664 ...
> Building directory tree for JobId(s) 33664 ...
> +++
> 63 files inserted into the tree.
>
> 63 files inserted into the tree.
>
> You are now entering file selection mode where you add (mark) and
> remove (unmark) files to be restored. No files are initially added, unless
> you used the "all" keyword on the command line.
> Enter "done" to leave this mode.
>
> cwd is: /
> $
>
> You have selected the following JobId: 33628
> You have selected the following JobId: 33628
>
> Building directory tree for JobId(s) 33628 ...
> Building directory tree for JobId(s) 33628 ...
> +
> 11,848 files inserted into the tree.
>
> 11,848 files inserted into the tree.
>
> You are now entering file selection mode where you add (mark) and
> remove (unmark) files to be restored. No files are initially added, unless
> you used the "all" keyword on the command line.
> Enter "done" to leave this mode.
>
> cwd is: /
> $ drwxr-xr-x  92 root root4096  2015-06-16 15:21:53 /etc/
> drwx--  26 root root4096  2015-06-16 12:59:53 /root/
>
> Is a problem with my Bacula system? Is a problema with Bacula version
> (I'm running bacula-7.0.5)?
>
> Also, I can't do restore from Windows backup (message above is from a
> Linux backup)...
>
> I'm depressed.

I forgot if you can go in the console of bat and mark the files you
want to restore directly. Maybe try bconsole instead of bat.

John

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Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] volume name / label format bug with 7.0.5 after failed job

[John Drescher]

> Yes, I know this, but AFAIK this does not apply in a disaster recovery
> situation where you have to scan volumes with bscan.
> In this situation I figure it would be very useful to find the last
> backups of the catalog and the bacula server to feed them to bscan.
> With large volumes bscan will sit there for a long time, scanning all
> volumes.
>

Put the catalog backup (and bacula configs) in its own pool so its
easy to find. Then restore the catalog (and configs) with bscan and
then you should not need to bscan individual volumes.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula problem with Volumes/Label

[John Drescher]

 The Error:
 12-Aug 13:27 mccallister-dir JobId 243: Start Backup JobId 243, 
 Job=BaculaConfBackup.2015-08-12_13.27.54_54
 12-Aug 13:27 mccallister-dir JobId 243: Using Device BacDev to write.
 12-Aug 13:28 mccallister-sd JobId 243: End of Volume Vol-0224 at 0:0 on 
 device BacDev (/Booberella/Bacula/). Write of 200 bytes got -1.
 12-Aug 13:28 mccallister-sd JobId 243: End of Volume Vol-0224 at 0:0 on 
 device BacDev (/Booberella/Bacula/). Write of 200 bytes got -1.
 12-Aug 13:28 mccallister-sd JobId 243: Marking Volume Vol-0224 in Error in 
 Catalog.
 12-Aug 13:28 mccallister-dir JobId 243: Created new Volume=Vol-0225, 
 Pool=File, MediaType=File in catalog.
 12-Aug 13:28 mccallister-sd JobId 243: End of Volume Vol-0225 at 0:0 on 
 device BacDev (/Booberella/Bacula/). Write of 200 bytes got -1.
 12-Aug 13:28 mccallister-sd JobId 243: End of Volume Vol-0225 at 0:0 on 
 device BacDev (/Booberella/Bacula/). Write of 200 bytes got -1.
 12-Aug 13:28 mccallister-sd JobId 243: Marking Volume Vol-0225 in Error in 
 Catalog.
 12-Aug 13:28 mccallister-dir JobId 243: Created new Volume=Vol-0226, 
 Pool=File, MediaType=File in catalog.
 12-Aug 13:28 mccallister-sd JobId 243: End of Volume Vol-0226 at 0:0 on 
 device BacDev (/Booberella/Bacula/). Write of 200 bytes got -1.
 12-Aug 13:28 mccallister-sd JobId 243: End of Volume Vol-0226 at 0:0 on 
 device BacDev (/Booberella/Bacula/). Write of 200 bytes got -1.
 12-Aug 13:28 mccallister-sd JobId 243: Marking Volume Vol-0226 in Error in 
 Catalog.
 12-Aug 13:28 mccallister-dir JobId 243: Created new Volume=Vol-0227, 
 Pool=File, MediaType=File in catalog.
 12-Aug 13:28 mccallister-sd JobId 243: End of Volume Vol-0227 at 0:0 on 
 device BacDev (/Booberella/Bacula/). Write of 200 bytes got -1.
 12-Aug 13:28 mccallister-sd JobId 243: End of Volume Vol-0227 at 0:0 on 
 device BacDev (/Booberella/Bacula/). Write of 200 bytes got -1.
 12-Aug 13:28 mccallister-sd JobId 243: Marking Volume Vol-0227 in Error in 
 Catalog.
 12-Aug 13:28 mccallister-dir JobId 243: Created new Volume=Vol-0228, 
 Pool=File, MediaType=File in catalog.
 12-Aug 13:28 mccallister-sd JobId 243: End of Volume Vol-0228 at 0:0 on 
 device BacDev (/Booberella/Bacula/). Write of 200 bytes got -1.
 12-Aug 13:28 mccallister-sd JobId 243: End of Volume Vol-0228 at 0:0 on 
 device BacDev (/Booberella/Bacula/). Write of 200 bytes got -1.
 12-Aug 13:28 mccallister-sd JobId 243: Marking Volume Vol-0228 in Error in 
 Catalog.
 12-Aug 13:28 mccallister-sd JobId 243: Please mount append Volume Vol-0228 
 or label a new one for:
 Job:  BaculaConfBackup.2015-08-12_13.27.54_54
 Storage:  BacDev (/Booberella/Bacula/)
 Pool: File
 Media type:   File

 The plan was to make one backup a day and after 14 days the first will be 
 overwritten, so that there are normally 14 Volumes. I don't understand what 
 Bacula tries to tell me and i hope you can help!


Did you run out of space?

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Re: [Bacula-users] Activating LTO-4 Compression

[John Drescher]

Is your dataset already compressed (zip, mp3, mpeg, jpeg ...)? Do you
have bacula software compression enabled?

John

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 9:43 AM, João Kuchnier joao.kuchn...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi everyone!

 We use LTO-4 tapes with a Dell Autoloader. These tapes must backup
 800GB-1.6TB.Unfortunatelly, our tapes are getting FULL with a bit less than
 800GB. Is there anyway that I can activate hardware compression or anything
 I can do with bacula do resolv this?

 Thanks!

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[Bacula-users] Fwd: Loading file listings from old tapes

[John Drescher]

-- Forwarded message --
From: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Loading file listings from old tapes
To: Michael Schwager mschwa...@mochotrading.com


On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Michael Schwager
mschwa...@mochotrading.com wrote:
 Greetings Baculans,
 We are running Bacula on Centos 6.5, which means Bacula 5.0.0. Over the past
 9 months I had been backing up files with File and Job Retention periods in
 the Client resource of bacula-dir.conf of 60 days. So our old file listings
 have been pruned, but I need them back. How do I do it?

bscan will pull the records back into the database. Make sure you
update your retention period first so it does not prune right after
the scan.

Also bls will give you a listing without putting the info back into
the database.

See the manual:
http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/utility/utility/Volume_Utility_Tools.html

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Re: [Bacula-users] Use multiple HDDs to backup files to

[John Drescher]

 Now I've got another question: Is it possible to run multiple backups at the 
 same time?


Yes of course.  You most likely have to increase the maximum
concurrent jobs setting in 3 or so places to do so and if you only
have a single device in your storage make sure the concurrent jobs all
go to the same volume.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Use multiple HDDs to backup files to

[John Drescher]

 In 2 of 3 cases the value has been 20 - in one case (bacula-dir.conf) the 
 value was set to 1.


 how can I make sure that the concurrent jobs are going to the same value?


They do not need to be the same value. They all control different
levels of concurrency (jobs, individual clients, storage, director).

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Re: [Bacula-users] Use multiple HDDs to backup files to

[John Drescher]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 10:33 AM, SPQR bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote:
 Okay, so because the dir-conf was set to 1, there was only one job running at 
 the same time.

 Now I set it to 5 - so there will be 5 jobs running?

 So how can I make sure that all jobs are being written to the same volume?

Don't use directives such as Use Volume once / Maximum use duration
... And make sure the jobs go to the same pool.

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Re: [Bacula-users] my very first Windows client

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On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Robert A Threet rober...@netzero.net wrote:
 I backed up a Windows client but the navigation in restore doesn't seem to 
 work.
 Am I just doing it wrong or what?  It *says* it had data.

 Select the Client (1-11): 5
 Automatically selected FileSet: Windows 2000
 +---+---+--++-++
 | jobid | level | jobfiles | jobbytes   | starttime   | 
 volumename |
 +---+---+--++-++
 |   285 | F |  181,979 | 22,097,177,794 | 2015-04-08 16:19:09 | 23L6  
  |
 |   511 | D |3,175 |  4,784,492,699 | 2015-04-26 23:05:00 | 39L6  
  |
 +---+---+--++-++
 You have selected the following JobIds: 285,511

 Building directory tree for JobId(s) 285,511 ...  
 ++
 152,928 files inserted into the tree.

 You are now entering file selection mode where you add (mark) and
 remove (unmark) files to be restored. No files are initially added, unless
 you used the all keyword on the command line.
 Enter done to leave this mode.

 cwd is: /
 $ ls
 C:/
 $ cd Windows
 Invalid path given.
 cwd is: /
 $ cd System32
 Invalid path given.
 cwd is: /
 $ ls
 C:/
 $

I think you need to cd C:/

before cd Windows

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Re: [Bacula-users] Tapes not changing VolStatus

[John Drescher]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Michael Schwager
mschwa...@mochotrading.com wrote:
 Hello,
 I have a couple of tapes that I believe should be up for recycling. These
 tapes have a VolRetention period of 7,776,000 which is 90 days ( / 86400 ==
 90). Now is:
 # date +%s
 1429719504
 So 90 days ago is:
 # dc
 2k
 1429719504 7776000 - p
 1421943504
 # date -d@1421943504
 Thu Jan 22 16:18:24 UTC 2015

 But I see in Bacula that the VolStatus is still Full, not Recycle:
 +-++---+-+--+-+--+-+
 | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot
 | LastWritten |
 +-++---+-+--+-+--+-+

 |  26 | EPW683L3   | Full  |   1 |7,776,000 |   1 |0
 | 2015-01-03 07:24:13 |
 |  29 | EPW684L3   | Full  |   1 |7,776,000 |   1 |0
 | 2015-01-17 07:49:39 |

 And I have the following in my Director:

   Recycle = yes
   AutoPrune = yes
   Volume Retention = 3 months

 Should I not see these tapes as Recycle or Purged or some other
 VolStatus?


Bacula will only recycle when there are no available volumes in the
pool so tapes will be retained at least as long as the retention
period.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Newbie Bacula Questions

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On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Craig Shiroma
shiroma.crai...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello,

 I just started using Bacula.  I apologize if the below questions have been
 asked and answered before.

 If a backup job is canceled, when the job starts the next day, does it
 continue where it left off or does Bacula start the backup from the
 beginning?

From the beginning.

 When compression is used, is the compression done on the client side or the
 server side?

Client side

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Re: [Bacula-users] bacula doesn't write on the whole tape

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On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Markus Rosjat ros...@ghweb.de wrote:
 Hi there,

 I know this question was asked befor and maybe it will be again in the
 future but I'm kinda frustrated with it.
 We have a LTO-3 hp tapeloader and suddenly our jobs began to randomly
 mark tapes as full even the tape was writen with half of the amount or
 sometimes less. I found some old post about it on the list but with a
 aswer like
 solved but I dont tell because it was sooo simple you get frustrated
 again. What we did so far without solving the problem.

   1. replacing the scsi controller - no effect
   2. replacing the scsi cable - no effect
   3. replacing the terminator - no effect
   4. replacing the tapeloader - no effect

 so even with all physical parts removed bacula insist that the tapes are
 fully writen after 150gb or even 80gb. We used brand new, never written
 tapes too and got told they are full. but checking showed we had once
 again just written less then expected.

 So if somebody out there with the same problem and a solution please share.

 Regards

Start testing at a lower level. I mean try filling a tape with tar or
dd. You probably want to use random data as a source instead of
/dev/zero (because of compression will compress 0s such that you may
never fill the tape...)

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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Catalog Server - MySQL - 1 Core Used Max ?

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 we have a rather large Bacula setup - ~600 Clients, database for catalog is
 19GB large. File table is ~65 million records.

 Right now, bacula director can not run backups as scheduled and delays the
 jobs for up to 2 hours, as it seems the catalog is not keeping up.

 CPU usage on SD is: 25% (0,5 Core)

 CPU usage on Dir is: 10% (0,2 Core)

 CPU usage on Catalog is: 25% (1 Core)

 SD has not hit it’s storage IO limit, as I/O Wait is almost zero (24x 10k
 spindles in Hardware Raid, doing ~50MB/s avg).

 Also we have defined 20 parallel backup drives doing backups, so drives is
 not a blocker I guess.

 It seems that the bacula catalog is CPU bound and that only a single core is
 used (of 4).

 How can I parallelize database access with Bacula Director to speed up the
 backup process.


If you do not have attribute spooling enabled enable that. Also tune
your mysql database. The defaults in a lot of systems assume you have
only 64MB of ram or similar.

John

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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Catalog Server - MySQL - 1 Core Used Max ?

[John Drescher]

 One more question for clarification:

 Attribute spooling only solves insert and update issues and not select 
 issues right ?

Correct.


 Our monitoring shows that we only have 10 -20 inserts/s for the DB but the 
 selects are capped at ~370 selects/second during peak times.


I would expect very few selects during a backup and very many inserts.
Every single file that is backed up should be an insert. With
attribute spooling this changes into a batch insert after the job has
finished.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Catalog Server - MySQL - 1 Core Used Max ?

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 How much space do I need in the working directory of the SD to do attribute 
 spooling ?

I expect for your dataset less than 1GB.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Setup

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On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Mansoor Hafeez
mansoorhafee...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi

 I am setting up Bacula for backing up the data to the TAPES. I want to
 design the following setup with Bacula:

 1. The tapes/autochanger are connected via SAN to the client machines. These
 client machines are hosting the files those need to be backed up.
 2. The File daemon and Storage Daemon will be installed and configured on
 Client machines.
 3. The Director will be installed on separate machine which will host only
 the Database. It will not connect directly to any autochanger device neither
 to any partition whose backup will be required on tape. In other words, it
 will only controlling/managing the backup jobs

The director needs to be able to connect to the clients, storage
daemons and database (all can be on different machines). The clients
need to be able to connect to the director and the storage. The
director will initiate the backup not the client.

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Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] [Bacula-announce] Bacula Version 5.2.1 released

[John Drescher]

 I am now confused
 I thought future development would be on 7.x not 5.x
 What is going on?


Did you read the date of that email? It was from 2011. Not sure how it
was sent to you now. Someone earlier today responded me about a
question from 2011 also.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Changing retention times

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On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Jonathan Bayer
linuxguruga...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have a need to change the retention times of a number of jobs, both
 completed and new ones.  New ones as in the jobs have been defined for a
 long time, and I need to change the config to reduce the retention time.

 I recall that if I just change the config of an already executed job, it
 won't be updated (ie:  new jobs will continue to have the old retention
 time).

 how do I do this safely?


From memory (so may not be exact):

update pool from resource

then

update all volumes in pool

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Re: [Bacula-users] Confused: Volume, Storage, Pool, Job

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 For tapes each tape is a volume. Also recycling does not work if you
 only have 1 volume. This includes disk based storage.

Recycling does not work with a single volume in a pool because
recycling is an entire volume or none even on disk based storage.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Confused: Volume, Storage, Pool, Job

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On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 8:00 AM, jalil1408
bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote:
 Exemple:

 Job {
   Name = Job1
   Type = Backup
   Level = Full
   Client = vm-omv-fd
   FileSet = FileSet1
   Schedule = Schedule1
   Storage = Storage1
   Pool = Pool1
   Messages = Message1
 }


 Pool may contain many volumes. What's the advantage of multiple volumes in a 
 pool?

For tapes each tape is a volume. Also recycling does not work if you
only have 1 volume. This includes disk based storage.

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Re: [Bacula-users] bacula splitting big jobs in to two

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 Umm... just a check, but if it takes this long to back up, wont it
 take just as long if not longer to restore?

 I don't really see how this is a workable situation and perhaps you're
 trying to solve the wrong problem?


Restores should not be frequent and rarely would be the entire data
set. In the (14+ years ?) that I have used bacula I have never had to
restore more than a few GB even though I have 70TB on tape.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Strange bacula-director error

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On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 4:17 PM, John Elliott jelli...@cca.edu wrote:

 Hi All,
   When I try to start bacula-director, I get the following error:

 # service bacula-director start
  * Starting Bacula Director...
 23-Jan 13:14 bacula-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at parse_conf.c:976
 Config error: expected an equals, got: {
 : line 2, col 9 of file /etc/bacula/conf.d/filesets.conf
 FileSet {

...fail!


 Ad here is the filesets.conf (lines 1-10)

 # This is the backup of the catalog
 FileSet {
   Name = Catalog
   Include {
 Options {
   signature = SHA1
 }
 File = /home/backup/bacula.sql
   }
 }


 Can anyone help point me in the right direction?




Something wrong with the include before this include of 
/etc/bacula/conf.d/filesets.conf ?

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Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring Files still an issue

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 I am still at a loss to find out why the restore process is restoring only
 folders and not files.



 I have tried as suggested in a previous email to reset permissions on
 those restored folders without success. Even after changing permissions I
 still do not see any files being restored even though the output from the
 Bacula Server says the files have been restored.



 Any help would be greatly appreciated.



 Thank you


Try restoring the files to your linux bacula server.

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Re: [Bacula-users] 0 files restored from bacula backup

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On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:21 AM, Peter van Heusden p...@sanbi.ac.za wrote:
 Hi there

 I did a backup of one of our servers in early December 2014. The backup was
 written to a LTO3 tape on the IBM TS3200 tape changer that we have. The
 backup server is running bacula 5.0.0 and the client is bacula 2.2.8.

 I did a test restore soon after the backup completed and successfully
 restored some 4700 files (totalling 50 MB). Today I tried to do another
 restore from the data job and when the restore completed I got the message:

 14-Jan 13:31 bacula-dir JobId 694: Bacula bacula-dir 5.0.0 (26Jan10):
 14-Jan-2015 13:31:00
   Build OS:   x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu redhat
   JobId:  694
   Job:RestoreFiles.2015-01-14_13.28.46_09
   Restore Client: backup-server
   Start time: 14-Jan-2015 13:28:48
   End time:   14-Jan-2015 13:31:00
   Files Expected: 915
   Files Restored: 0
   Bytes Restored: 0
   Rate:   0.0 KB/s
   FD Errors:  0
   FD termination status:  OK
   SD termination status:  OK
   Termination:Restore OK -- warning file count mismatch


 No errors were reported but nothing was restored. Does anyone know what has
 happened to the data? And is there anything that can be done to get it back?


Did you forget to mark the files you want to restore?

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Re: [Bacula-users] Volume retention definition

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 The volume retention is based on the last time the volume was written (with
 the list media output command you can see it in the LastWritten column). If
 you set up a retention period of 5 years for the pool, any volumes in this
 pool could not be written until the five years have passed since the last
 written time.

Also the retention does not start until the volume is marked Full or
Used. When it is marked Full or Used the LastWritten time when the 5
years will begin.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Is this an Inter-version Compatibility Issue???

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The server versions need to be equal to or higher than the client versions.

John

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:49 AM, John Florian john.flor...@dart.biz wrote:
 I recently rebuilt my workstation from Fedora 20 to 21 and am now having
 issues with Bacula that may stem from incompatibilities between Bacula
 versions.  I’m hoping somebody can confirm my suspicion.  At present, I
 have:



 Dir and SD are on the same Fedora 20 host with:



 bacula-client-5.2.13-18.fc20.x86_64

 bacula-common-5.2.13-18.fc20.x86_64

 bacula-console-5.2.13-18.fc20.x86_64

 bacula-director-5.2.13-18.fc20.x86_64

 bacula-libs-5.2.13-18.fc20.x86_64

 bacula-libs-sql-5.2.13-18.fc20.x86_64

 bacula-storage-5.2.13-18.fc20.x86_64



 My Fedora 21 workstation has:



 bacula-client-7.0.5-2.fc21.x86_64

 bacula-common-7.0.5-2.fc21.x86_64

 bacula-libs-7.0.5-2.fc21.x86_64



 If I try to run a simple incremental backup job for my workstation, the log
 emits:



 07-Jan 11:35 mdct-bacula-dir JobId 32287: Start Backup JobId 32287,
 Job=Florian_Workstation.2015-01-07_11.35.23_23

 07-Jan 11:35 mdct-bacula-dir JobId 32287: Using Device FileStorage to
 write.

 07-Jan 11:35 mdct-dev12.dartcontainer.com- JobId 32287: Fatal error:
 Authorization key rejected by Storage daemon.  Please see
 http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Bacula_Freque_Asked_Questi.html#SECTION0026
 for help.

 07-Jan 11:35 mdct-bacula-dir JobId 32287: Fatal error: Bad response to
 Storage command: wanted 2000 OK storage, got 2902 Bad storage



 I am quite familiar with Bacula’s authorization requirements and have
 confirmed everything is correct.  (In fact, I’ve had puppet managing these
 aspects for years to reduce the probability of human error.)  It’s for these
 reasons I suspect there must be a version compatibility issue here.  I’ve
 checked the release notes but find them lacking detail in this regard.  (The
 last time “compat” is mentioned goes all the way back to the 5.2.11 release
 and that only talks about having older FDs – nothing about newer FDs.)

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Re: [Bacula-users] update slots reports Autochanger has 0 slots

[John Drescher]

 But:

 “/usr/libexec/bacula/mtx-changer /dev/changer slots” reports 16



 Of course the Autochanger has 16 slots.

 Someone has  an idea?


Does user bacula have the permission to run mtx-changer, mtx and
access the device node for the autochanger?

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Re: [Bacula-users] Despooling attributes very slow

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 # hdparm -tT /dev/md3

 /dev/md3:
  Timing cached reads:   1724 MB in  2.00 seconds = 862.23 MB/sec
  Timing buffered disk reads: 376 MB in  3.01 seconds = 125.06 MB/sec


These are both very slow for a modern PC. The top number measures
cache/ram speed I would expect this number 2000 to 5000. The bottom
number which measures disk performance is less than a single SATA
drive.

 Any assistance would be greatly appreciated

If you can make sure the database is not on /dev/md3 especially if
this is the source or destination of your backups.

Also did you tune the database? A lot of mysql implementations are
tuned for a ridiculously small amount of ram like 64MB.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Despooling attributes very slow

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 Thanks for the response.

 That hdparm was run during the despooling process which is likely impacting
 those numbers.  (Although I would argue that 125MB/sec should be more than
 enough to despool a 45MB file! :))


Its usually an IOPS issue more than a sequential write. The defaults
cause mysql to flush too often by setting it to use too small of a
buffer...

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Re: [Bacula-users] large jobs that fail

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“delete jobid=123”

John

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Jeff MacDonald j...@terida.com wrote:

 On Nov 7, 2014, at 9:58 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote:

 Lets say you are doing a 500 gig job and it fails after 450 gigs.. and you 
 are using disk based backups.

 Do you ever bother to try to reclaim that space? I mean I delete the job, 
 so the volume can have that data recycled when the time comes, but do you 
 ever go thru the extra trouble of finding the volumes that only have data 
 from that job on , and deleting them from disk etc?


 I have 5GB fixed sized volumes in my virtual disk autochanger. If a
 job fails and I purge it the space used by the failed job will be
 reused when needed

 By purge did you mean “delete jobid=123” or do you mean purge the actual 
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Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-6 - tape cleaning frequency

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 How often does your LTO-6 tape drive need to be cleaned?

 I ask because a recent post mentioned every 10 tapes.  With my limited tape 
 knowledge, that seems rather high, but I have no LTO experience.


That seems excessive to me although I am still using a dual drive LTO2
autoloader. For that I run a cleaning cycle 2 times per year for each
of the HP LTO2 tape drives.

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Re: [Bacula-users] large jobs that fail

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 Lets say you are doing a 500 gig job and it fails after 450 gigs.. and you 
 are using disk based backups.

 Do you ever bother to try to reclaim that space? I mean I delete the job, so 
 the volume can have that data recycled when the time comes, but do you ever 
 go thru the extra trouble of finding the volumes that only have data from 
 that job on , and deleting them from disk etc?


I have 5GB fixed sized volumes in my virtual disk autochanger. If a
job fails and I purge it the space used by the failed job will be
reused when needed.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Webacula 7. Coming…

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On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 10:54 AM, oliveiraped
bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote:
 Hi, Reportula is able to read the configuration files of Bacula, edit, and 
 write new ones. It covers problably 90 % of all configurations options. Its 
 steel in developing please check it out here www.reportula.org.


Does it support includes in conf files? I mean mt bacula-dir.conf
includes dozens of conf files in a hierarchy.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Job transfer rate

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On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Jeff MacDonald j...@terida.com wrote:
 Hi,

 I have some backups going at 2MB/s which for a 380gig backup is just too 
 slow. I’m trying to find my bottleneck.

 Some questions:

 - Is the rate of the backup only shown in “messages” or is it stored in the 
 db anywhere. Or could I just do jobbytes / endtime-starttime in the jobs 
 table?

 - Does bacula write data to disk via a stream or lots of little latency 
 dependant writes?

 My environment looks like this

 - Bacula (and postgres on the same VM), a MS Small business server and 3 or 4 
 other VMs run on a 6 disk array of 7200rpm SATA disks ( I bet this is already 
 my slowpoint )
 - Bacula stores its backups on a NFS mounted NAS, about .7ms of ping away.

 Tips/Suggestions?


Did you benchmark the client filesystem? Are there loads of small
files? Did you try enabling attribute spooling? Did you tune your
database?

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Re: [Bacula-users] Job transfer rate

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 Making a stronger and stronger arguement for me to recommend dedicated bacula 
 appliance. 16 gigs of ram, 4 cores. 1tb of 7200 for postgres and a tape drive 
 :)

Maybe an enterprise ssd for postgres.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Forcing baccula to purge/recycle a tape instead of appending?!

[John Drescher]

 That's a great idea!
 But this would mean that I have to generate jobs for each month... for
 each client. Or am I wrong?!


No. You can select the pool in the schedule resource.

http://www.bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION00145

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Re: [Bacula-users] is not a Bacula labeled Volume, because: ERR=block.c:1023 Re

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 I can't even use bextract or bcopy on that one tape. it gives me the same 
 errors.

 Warning: acquire.c:265 Read acquire: Requested Volume AOB760L4 on 
 tape_Drive (/dev/nst0) is not a Bacula labeled Volume, because: 
 ERR=block.c:1023 Read zero bytes at 0:0 on device tape_Drive (/dev/nst0)

Seems it was either overwritten, erased (rewind + weof) or never
written. Yes I know that the database indicates there is data on the
tape. At this point I do not believe the situation is recoverable.

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Re: [Bacula-users] is not a Bacula labeled Volume, because: ERR=block.c:1023 Re

[John Drescher]

 I need to perform a restore, and one of the tapes the restore needs is not 
 being recognised. The error is as follows

 23-Oct 10:04 bacula-sd JobId 133822: Warning: acquire.c:265 Read acquire: 
 Requested Volume AOB760L4 on tape_Drive (/dev/st0) is not a Bacula 
 labeled Volume, because: ERR=block.c:1023 Read zero bytes at 0:0 on device 
 tape_Drive (/dev/st0).
 23-Oct 10:04 bacula-sd JobId 133822: Please mount Volume AOB760L4 for:

 I can mount any volume, but not that one tape. It is like bacula forgot the 
 tape.

 I have not changed anything like block size or any other an I surely do not 
 want to relabel the tape. because I need the info on the tape.


 Does anyone have suggestions? or can help me on this matter?

The tape may be corrupt or the wrong / blank tape may be in the drive
verify that first.

Also you should use /dev/nst0 instead of /dev/st0. Google the list
archives for discussions on this.

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[Bacula-users] Fwd: Forcing baccula to purge/recycle a tape instead of appending?!

[John Drescher]

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From: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Forcing baccula to purge/recycle a tape
instead of appending?!
To: Thorsten Reichelt bacula-us...@thorsten-reichelt.de


On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Thorsten Reichelt
bacula-us...@thorsten-reichelt.de wrote:
 Hi!

 I have a problem with my tape pool configuration.
 I want to use exactly 12 LTO tapes (one tape per month).
 After 12 month the oldest tape shall be reused without appending new data.

 But bacula seems to ignore my recycle and purge configuration (see below).
 After one year I reuse the old tape and bacula appends the new data to it.
 Then, after the second year has passed, the data is still appended to
 the tape!

 Now I have the problem that my september tape ran out of free space and
 I was
 asked to insert the august tape... a few MB later that tape was full
 also and
 bacula asked for the july tape :/ :/

 So I manually purged the september tape and restarted all related backup
 jobs.
 How can I configure bacula to purge the oldest tape instead of appending
 to it
 for more than two years?


Remember that the retention period does not even begin until the tape
is marked Full or Used. And then after it is marked Full or Used the
period is calculated from the LastWrittenDate on the volume (stored in
the database).

If you want to control how long a volume is used bacula has a few
directives that limit the use duration and the number of jobs and
total bytes written. When these limits are reached a volume will
marked Used and the retention period will begin.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Forcing baccula to purge/recycle a tape instead of appending?!

[John Drescher]

 Remember that the retention period does not even begin until the tape
 is marked Full or Used. And then after it is marked Full or Used the
 period is calculated from the LastWrittenDate on the volume (stored in
 the database).

 If you want to control how long a volume is used bacula has a few
 directives that limit the use duration and the number of jobs and
 total bytes written. When these limits are reached a volume will
 marked Used and the retention period will begin.

Also remember that changing these limits in bacula-dir.conf does not
apply the change to existing volumes. You need to use bconsole to
update pool from resource then update all volumes in pool to apply
the config changes to existing volumes.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Can Bacula 7 server talk to Bacula 7 client?

[John Drescher]

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Jonathan Bayer linuxguruga...@gmail.com wrote:
 We have a situation where we have a system which is running Ubuntu
 12.04.  I have bacula 5 client installed on it.

 The bacula server is 7.0.5

 Can this server talk to the client?

Yes. I have 7.0.5 servers and a mix of 2.x to 7.0.5 clients.



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Re: [Bacula-users] Job is waiting on Storage

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On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 5:58 AM, Alexei Babich imp...@tiny-vps.com wrote:
 Hello.
 I try to use Bacula 5.2.6 on Debian Linux.
 I have one storage (hard disk), one pool, job limit (on storage) = 10
 and 20 clients. Volumes created automatically, and each job uses 1 volume.
 Schedule starts all 20 jobs for all 20 clients simultaneously. But only
 one really run: some jobs in waiting on Storage status, some in
 waiting on max Storage jobs.
 I want to configure bacula as follows: schedule starts all 20 jobs, but
 not more, than 10 simultaneously (storage job limit) can be in running
 state. And if one job finish work, then next job goes in runnig state.
 I hope I'm clearly outlined the basic idea - I do not quite understand
 the English language :)

 So, can I configure bacula so that it did what I needed?


Remember bacula storage devices operate like a tape meaning only 1
volume can be loaded at a time in a storage device. If you need more
volumes loaded you must add more storage devices and adjust your jobs
to go to the different storages.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Bunch of files not being backed up

[John Drescher]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 7:48 AM, eudald bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote:
 Dear all, since I found the solution, I might share it in order to help 
 anyone in my situation.

 The path was on another filesystem and that's why it was not making the 
 backup of the files.

 It can be solved adding the option Onefs = no on fileset resource.


Depending on the situation a second option is adding the paths from
different file systems to your fileset because onefs=no can backup
more than you want.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Can't figure out exclude .cache config

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On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 2:38 PM, bdam bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote:
 Hi Heitor, sincere thanks for tyou help. I just made those changes, restarted 
 baula a,d inspecting the backup with restore, 5, then nav to a users .cache 
 dir showed it had still backed up .cache. Here is the full config I used, 
 hope i got it right:



I think your fileset should be:

 FileSet {
   Name = FileSet-Home
   Include {
 Options {
   signature = MD5
   WildFile = core.*
   Exclude = yes
 }
   }
   Exclude {
 File = /.cache
 File = /.pulse
   }
  File = /home
 }

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Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir stuck trying to mount the wrong volume

[John Drescher]

 2. Bacula's clever volume selection algorithm is completely unsuitable
 for vchanger. If you have multiple disk magazines online you probably
 want to fill up one disk, then the next. What bacula did here is pick a
 volume from the next disk when the current one's only 20% full.

There are several ways to control what volumes bacula use. Although I
am uncertian how you got in the situation you were in.

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Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir stuck trying to mount the wrong volume

[John Drescher]

 There are several ways to control what volumes bacula use. Although I
 am uncertian how you got in the situation you were in.

 That makes two of us. I
 1. deleted some volumes and didn't run 'update slots',

I am curious to why you are deleting volumes. I mean for my vchanger
usage (for 4+ years) I setup a fixed # of fixed sized volumes in each
magazine (which is its own filesystem on a disk - only 1 magazine per
disk).

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Re: [Bacula-users] Error: block.c:255 Write errors?

[John Drescher]

 Huh, maybe this is a misdiagnosis of the end of tape and a write error
 only in the sense that there is no tape left.


It certainly could be that.

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Re: [Bacula-users] pruning and concurrency

[John Drescher]

 If i have Max Concurrent Jobs set to 1, and while a backup is running I 
 decide to get ahead of the game a bit and prune the next 2 or 3 volumes that 
 are going to be used, will a pruning job run along side a backup job or will 
 it wait for the backup job?


Pruning will run at the same time as other jobs.

 With file based backups, is pruning like this common place to prevent backups 
 from hanging ?


I do not use at home where I have a few concurrent jobs that go to
file based storage. Although I also do not limit the volume by the #
of jobs at home I limit the volume to 5GB and have a virtual disk
autochanger to manage the volumes. At work I use primarily tape.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Labeling tapes

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I assume you have a barcode reader on your autochanger. The command to
label is label barcodes. I do this and put all of the volumes in the
Scratch pool. When bacula does not have an appendable tape in a pool
it will fetch it from the Scratch pool.

John

On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 12:30 PM, RAT rober...@netzero.net wrote:
 Hello Bacula Users!

 I am trying to get Bacula running.  I have it working using disk.  I just 
 need it to use my tape drive.  I am using Linux CentOS 7 (on Dell 720) and a 
 Dell DL4000 tape library.

 P.S. Note the Alert Command setting (as I always get those 50/50 chances 
 wrong).

 ERROR:

 03-Sep 11:21 bacula-sd JobId 13: Job DL4000.2014-09-03_11.21.39_05 is 
 waiting. Cannot find any appendable volumes.
 Please use the label command to create a new Volume for:
 Storage:  Drive1 (/dev/nst0)
 Pool: Default
 Media type:   LTO-6-Drive

 CONFIG:

 [bacula-dir.conf]
 # Definition of DDS tape storage device
 Storage {
   Name = DL4000
 #  Do not use localhost here
Address = [my FQDN here - RAT]  # N.B. Use a fully qualified name here
SDPort = 9103
Password = [it's a secret]# password for Storage daemon
Device = Drive1 # must be same as Device in Storage 
 daemon
Device = Drive2 # must be same as Device in Storage 
 daemon
Device = Drive3 # must be same as Device in Storage 
 daemon
Device = Drive4 # must be same as Device in Storage 
 daemon
Media Type = LTO-6-Drive# must be same MediaType in Storage 
 daemon
Autochanger = yes   # enable for autochanger device
 }

 [bacula-sd.conf]

 # My Attempt to add the Dell DL4000
 #
 Autochanger {
   Name = DL4000
   Device = Drive1
   Device = Drive2
   Device = Drive3
   Device = Drive4
   Changer Command = /usr/libexec/bacula/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d
   Changer Device = /dev/sg5
 }

 Device {
   Name = Drive1  #
   Drive Index = 0
   Media Type = LTO-6-Drive
   Archive Device = /dev/nst0
   AutomaticMount = yes;   # when device opened, read it
   AlwaysOpen = yes;
   RemovableMedia = yes;
   RandomAccess = no;
   AutoChanger = yes
 #  #
 #  # Enable the Alert command only if you have the mtx package loaded
 #  # Note, apparently on some systems, tapeinfo resets the SCSI controller
 #  #  thus if you turn this on, make sure it does not reset your SCSI
 #  #  controller.  I have never had any problems, and smartctl does
 #  #  not seem to cause such problems.
 #  #
 #  Alert Command = sh -c 'tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|cat'
 #  If you have smartctl, enable this, it has more info than tapeinfo
   Alert Command = sh -c 'smartctl -H -l error %c'
 }

 (similar X4 for the rest of drives)

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Re: [Bacula-users] Labeling tapes

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On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 3:24 PM, RAT rober...@netzero.net wrote:
 Closer...  I may have something described or labeled wrong? Thank goodness 
 for RCS.  Been trying al sorts of things but this is the closest I get 
 (configs at bottom)


I say neither. You may need to modify your
/usr/libexec/bacula/mtx-changer in either case you probably want to
run the autochanger tests in the manual.


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Re: [Bacula-users] Conf file question

[John Drescher]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Jonathan Bayer
linuxguruga...@gmail.com wrote:
 The documentation talks about using IP addresses a lot.

 Can hostname be used instead of the IP addresses?  Specifically, the
 Addres field in the Client config, as well as others.


Yes as long as the client has the server in its dns.

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[Bacula-users] Fwd: How to backup on volume that has not reached its retention period.

[John Drescher]

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From: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com
Date: Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How to backup on volume that has not
reached its retention period.
To: Heitor Faria hei...@bacula.com.br


 Btw: if you reduce the Volume Retention on a pool, i'm pretty sure you gotta
 update your álready created volumes with the update command.

Correct. The settings in the conf file do not automatically apply to
already existing volumes so you must do this manually.

update pool from resource
update all volumes in pool

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Re: [Bacula-users] 7.0.4 director crashes

[John Drescher]

 We've had 3 director crashes since updating to 7.0.4, which is highly
 unusual for us.  We've had a stable bacula for years now.  Don't know if
 anyone else has had this issue.


I have not had any crashes on gentoo with 7.0.4 and 35+ clients.

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Re: [Bacula-users] handling of 'error' jobs

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 i want to know what strategies to use to handle failed jobs.

 I use a script checking for holidays. to avoid requesting tapes at days
 no one's available.

 what do you guys do to handle those types of situation?


I just let the jobs wait and not error out. I have nagios alert me
about this since I can no longer receive emails from bacula (network
security policy - linux severs are no longer connected in any way to
the internet).

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Re: [Bacula-users] Backup on Tape

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On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:29 AM, More, Ankush ankush.m...@capgemini.com wrote:
 Hi John,

 We have MySql Database, is there document for tune database?
 Or
 Can you give us recommended setting for mysql?


You may need to change memory settings for flushing, buffer sizes ...
Some distributions ship with mysql optimized for a machine with 64MB
of ram or something crazy like that. Yes I mean MB. Google search for
mysql optimizing guides. The settings you need to change are not
bacula specific.

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Re: [Bacula-users] How to forcefully recycle tape

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 +-++---+-+-+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+
 | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes| VolFiles | 
 VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten |
 +-++---+-+-+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+
 |   2 | Tape1  | Full  |   1 | 477,598,464,000 |  501 |   
  2,592,000 |   1 |4 | 1 | LTO-2 | 2014-07-30 05:28:43 |
 |  13 | Tape8  | Full  |   1 | 549,964,864,512 |  550 |   
  2,592,000 |   1 |8 | 1 | LTO-2 | 2014-07-31 00:00:57 |
 |  14 | Tape9  | Full  |   1 | 518,477,137,920 |  520 |   
  2,592,000 |   1 |9 | 1 | LTO-2 | 2014-07-31 22:45:35 |
 |  15 | Tape16 | Full  |   1 | 559,197,886,464 |  559 |   
  2,592,000 |   1 |   16 | 1 | LTO-2 | 2014-08-01 16:42:01 |
 |  16 | Tape17 | Full  |   1 | 431,627,535,360 |  431 |   
  2,592,000 |   1 |   17 | 1 | LTO-2 | 2014-08-02 06:47:11 |
 |  18 | Tape19 | Full  |   1 | 588,762,510,336 |  588 |   
  2,592,000 |   1 |   19 | 1 | LTO-2 | 2014-08-03 02:28:56 |
 |  19 | Tape20 | Full  |   1 | 541,734,681,600 |  541 |   
  2,592,000 |   1 |   20 | 1 | LTO-2 | 2014-08-03 21:21:55 |
 +-++---+-+-+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+
 Enter *MediaId or Volume name: 2
 sql_get.c:1098 Media record for Volume 2 not found.


You missed the * requirement before the MediaId
If you entered *2 that would have worked.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Backup on Tape

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 1) Can we tune bacula config files for maximize backup speed?

Yes. I recommend that you tune your database (mysql and postgresql
come with very poor default settings) and also increase the default
block size. 64K is way too small for a modern LTO tape drive.

 2) Can bacula use both tape drive simultaneous backup for same pool?

Yes. It is possible to load more than 1 tape from the same pool to
more than 1 tape drive and when these are loaded you can run different
jobs on each tape drive. I do not remember the bacula directive to
allow that however. Please google. This has been discussed dozens of
times on this list.

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Re: [Bacula-users] fd to sd connection refused.

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There is authentication. The fd has a password in the conf file on the
client side. The director contacts the fd and tells it to initiate
communications with the sd with the ip address stored in
bacula-sd.conf. Remember this can not be localhost or 127.0.0.1 since
the fd would then try to connect to a sd that is on the same machine
as the client not the director..

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Re: [Bacula-users] list files backed up on a tape

[John Drescher]

 I had to first stop bacula-sd daemon

 I then ran the following command:



 #./bls -V B01206L5 /dev/nst0



 This gave me a listing of all the files on this tape. Please note that “bls”
 utility has other options we can use for example to read the label, to read
 the block etc..


The advantage to extracting this out of the database is it will be
much faster since no need to read the tape blocks to extract the
information.

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Re: [Bacula-users] grant privileges ERROR

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On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 4:30 AM, antonio.mannatzu
amanna...@arces.unibo.it wrote:
 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1

 hi,

 here my steps:

 - - -bash-4.1$ psql bacula
 psql: FATAL:  database bacula does not exist
 DETAIL:  The database subdirectory base/16386 is missing.

 so rename DB:
 ALTER DATABASE bacula RENAME TO bacula_corrupt;

 recreate db:
 - -bash-4.1$ /etc/alternatives/create_bacula_database
 Creating PostgreSQL database
 CREATE DATABASE
 ALTER DATABASE
 Creation of bacula database succeeded.
 Database encoding OK



 recreate tables:
 /etc/alternatives/make_bacula_tables
 Making PostgreSQL tables
 ..
 ..
 Creation of Bacula PostgreSQL tables succeeded.


 - -bash-4.1$ /etc/alternatives/grant_bacula_privileges
 Granting PostgreSQL privileges
 psql:stdin:2: ERROR:  role bacula already exists


 any hint?

Maybe hand edit the /etc/alternatives/grant_bacula_privileges file to
continue instead of exit.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with automatic tape recycling

[John Drescher]

 As far as I know the directive Volume Use Duration in the pool should
 overwrite any given longer periods in other directives.

 I receive this error info:
 Cannot automatically recycle current volume, as it still contains
 unpruned data or the Volume Retention time has not expired

 I don't get this, with the directives AutoPrune and Volume Retention
 this should not happen...

 Any ideas?

Maybe the error message is telling you the truth. I mean Volume
Retention time has not expired.

post the output of list media for the volume in question.

Also remember that changing the pool definition in bacula-dir.conf
does nothing to change the retention period of existing volumes. You
need to reload the config in bconsole then update pool from resource
and then update all volumes in pool

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Re: [Bacula-users] problem connecting to Windows 7 client

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On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote:
 Below is the log I get e-mailed after the job finishes. The client machine 
 being backed up is called server for reasons that made sense at one time. 
 The Bacula server is running on molar.

 I can connect from molar to server using bconsole on both molar and server. 
 Two other backup jobs are completing normally. According to bconsole status 
 however server is not being backed up.

 Any ideas on what the messages are trying to tell me and how to fix it?

On the windows client can you ping molar.dental. Make sure that the
client can resolve this to an ipaddress.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Job keeps waiting on storage daemon

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On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 9:18 PM, altiris bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote:
 I think the problem I am having is that the directory is not being able to 
 connect to the storage daemons for some odd reason. I went into the bconsole 
 tool (/usr/sbin/bconsole) and typed status and selected Storage, the 
 bconsole would hang at Connecting to Storage daemon Game Servers at 
 mycomputer.mydomain.com:9103 where mycomputer and mydomain were replaced 
 with their respective names. I have checked if the port 9103 is open and it 
 is, my fqdn returns the name that the director is trying to connect to 
 (listed above). I dont understand why this happening, it used to work fine.

Make sure you do not have 127.0.0.1 or localhost in any of your bacula
configuration files.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Job keeps waiting on storage daemon

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On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:51 PM, altiris
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 Well...I already know I am doing multiple things wrong. I just made a new 
 daemon for each storage device, if I added a new storage device I would add a 
 new storage daemon and make them match such as the Media type name. I have 
 the two storage daemons on the same IP address and same port. This is all 
 being done on one machine. What confuses me though is even with just having 
 one backup job enabled and trying to run it I get that same error message as 
 when having two backup jobs enabled with only one job going.

That is because the second daemon fails to run.

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Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir dead but subsys locked

[John Drescher]

 I have installed Bacula-7.0.4 on CentOS 6.5 with RPM successfully.
 Bacula-dir,sd,fd start successfully, but when I try access bconsole.
 Bacula-dir daemon show  bacula-dir dead but subsys locked

 Below is daemon staus:
 root@bacula7 bacula]# service bacula-dir start
 Starting bacula-dir:   [  OK  ]

 [root@bacula7 bacula]# service bacula-dir status
 bacula-dir (pid 1831) is running...

 # bconsole
 Connecting to Director 206.245.49.66:9101

 [root@bacula7 bacula]# service bacula-dir status
 bacula-dir dead but subsys locked

 Thank you,
 Ankush

I would run bacula-dir directly with increased verbosity of debug
messages and see what you get. Something like:

bacula-dir -c /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf -d100

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Re: [Bacula-users] Job keeps waiting on storage daemon

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On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 10:19 PM, altiris
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 I think I am understanding better, but as you said Also there is nothing 
 stopping you from having more than 1 storage
 device with volumes on the same filesystem.  I have actually made everything 
 separate per job, so separate volume pool, storage device and daemon (as you 
 can see in the OP)because to me this makes it easier for things to be 
 organized and track down future errors (while it seems this is causing 
 problems?) but I am still getting problems. I have removed the entire second 
 job from my config files and now even with the one backup job I am getting a 
 status from the director that is waiting on the Storage Daemon Game_Servers   
   why is it doing this, this is the only backup job that is currently enabled 
 and set to run.

This sounds complicated. How did you create a new daemon for each SD?
You do you have each on a different port? Or using a VM? You can not
have more than 1 storage daemon listening at the same ipaddress and
port.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Job keeps waiting on storage daemon

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On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 12:32 PM, altiris
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 I have been trying to setup bacula so that it will perform 2 backup jobs. One 
 to backup a folder in a user's home folder and another to backup an entire 
 partition. Each time I try to run one of the two backup jobs (via webmin) it 
 says it has started but when I go to the director status it outputs 
 BackupGame_Servers   114 Incremental is waiting on Storage 
 Game_Servers. Where BackupGame_Servers is the job name, 114 I believe is the 
 job number, Incremental is the type of backup, and Storage Game_Servers is 
 the Storage Daemon it is using. When i try to run the other backup job I also 
 get a is waiting on Storage daemon _. The backups are set to be stored 
 on on separate partition and in separate folders in that partition. I don't 
 see why this is doing this. I use a different storage device, storage daemon, 
 volume pool, and backup schedule to keep everything organized. I posted my 
 config files to better show/explain and eliminate the possibilities of errors.


Remember that a disk device acts just like a tape drive meaning that
for a single device you can not load 2 volumes at the same time. If
you want more than 1 job to run you need more than 1 storage device.
If you plan on adding additional clients and want them to run more
simultaneous jobs I recommend that you search the archives for bacula
vchanger. This will make disk storage work like a virtual tape
autochanger with multiple drives so you can have concurrency.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Job keeps waiting on storage daemon

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 Thank you John. So just to be sure, I can only perform one job on each 
 storage device. In this case, I can only perform one backup on the partition 
 in my HDD? Even if the jobs are to set to be performed at different times, I 
 still can't perform more than one job?


No you can run multiple jobs to the same device at the same time. The
jobs however have to go to the same volume so the same pool. A storage
device can only access 1 volume at a time.

Also this has nothing to do with your filesystem or partition. You can
and are expected to have more than 1 volume on your filesystem.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Job keeps waiting on storage daemon

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 Thank you John. So just to be sure, I can only perform one job on each 
 storage device. In this case, I can only perform one backup on the partition 
 in my HDD? Even if the jobs are to set to be performed at different times, I 
 still can't perform more than one job?


 No you can run multiple jobs to the same device at the same time. The
 jobs however have to go to the same volume so the same pool. A storage
 device can only access 1 volume at a time.

 Also this has nothing to do with your filesystem or partition. You can
 and are expected to have more than 1 volume on your filesystem.

Also there is nothing stopping you from having more than 1 storage
device with volumes on the same filesystem.

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Re: [Bacula-users] RESTORE PRUNED FILE (WITH CATALOG BACKUPS)

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On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 7:28 AM, david parada
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 Hi all,

 must BSCAN ne executed with bacula services down? The modification of FILE 
 table has not been positive and, although some purged jobs come again, I have 
 problems with file links in newer jobs.


I normally run it with the sd and dir stopped. Also you may want to
temporarily adjust your retention period in your bacula-dir.conf then
reload in bconsole to prevent bacula pruning the records shortly after
you add them.

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Re: [Bacula-users] RESTORE PRUNED FILE (WITH CATALOG BACKUPS)

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I believe you need to use the SD config for that.

http://www.bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/utility/utility/Volume_Utility_Tools.html#SECTION0027

John

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 Hi all,

 When I execute the BSCAN command with -c option (to my bacula.dir.conf file), 
 it returns always parse errors when it reads this conf file (it is working 
 well with Bacula). If I remove this option from command, the BSCAN seems to 
 be processed properly. Which isthe different addind or not this argument in 
 BSCAN command?

 Thanks a lot.

 Kind regards,


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Re: [Bacula-users] RESTORE PRUNED FILE (WITH CATALOG BACKUPS)

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 I need to restore a file that has been purged due to retention period policy. 
 If I have backups of every day of catalog, so, can I add all registries from 
 file table of all days that I nned to the latest catalog's file table to 
 have again the files to restore ot there are more tables that are purged?


If that does not work you can always use bscan to pull the data back
into the catalog. However bscan will take a long time.

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Re: [Bacula-users] RESTORE PRUNED FILE (WITH CATALOG BACKUPS)

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 Anyway, I have read that it is possible to add files of a volume in the 
 catalog (using BSCAN). Is this the use if it? If yes, will it add only the 
 files that are not included in catalog (purged before)?


This is the intention of bscan. From the list of volumes you give
bscan it will add the missing information. It will not double add
anything.

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Re: [Bacula-users] RESTORE PRUNED FILE (WITH CATALOG BACKUPS)

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 Is this a correct command?

 bscan -s -m -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -v -V MyVolume -b bacula -u 
 mysqluser -p mysqlpass /dev/st0


For a tape drive that looks about correct although I use /dev/nst0
instead of /dev/st0 always with bacula.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula recycle not working

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 Ok Couple of other things...   I get this when trying to prune in bconsole:

 bacula-dir JobId 0: Begin pruning Jobs older than 44 years 4 months 7 days 2 
 hours 34 mins 35 secs.


This was a harmless message that existed in bacula for some time I
think it is removed now.


 Also ran the:

 update -- Volume parameters -- All Volumes from all pools

 and got this:

 Error updating Volume records: ERR=sql_update.c:443 Update failed: 
 affected_rows=0 for UPDATE Media SET ActionOnPurge=0, 
 Recycle=1,VolRetention=3888000,VolUseDuration=0,MaxVolJobs=0,MaxVolFiles=0,MaxVolBytes=0,RecyclePoolId=0
  WHERE PoolId=1
 All Volume defaults updated from File Pool record.

 Error updating Volume records: ERR=sql_update.c:443 Update failed: 
 affected_rows=0 for UPDATE Media SET ActionOnPurge=0, 
 Recycle=1,VolRetention=31536000,VolUseDuration=0,MaxVolJobs=0,MaxVolFiles=0,MaxVolBytes=0,RecyclePoolId=0
  WHERE PoolId=3


These look like a problem with your SQL server (possibly permissions)
but I am not sure.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

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On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Rickinfl
bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote:
 I posted my bacula-dir file. Can someone show me what I need to change in 
 there?  My total drive size is 4TB but I made it 3.7TB i read you should 
 never use the whole drive space.

 I don't need to keep anything over 30 days.


I would limit the volume size to 10 to 100GB. And then divide that by
the total size of your disk. So set the maximum # of volumes in your
pool to 37 in the case of 100GB volumes.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Other than Bacula

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On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 11:05 PM, Rickinfl
bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com wrote:
 Phil,  This is why I'm so confused with Bacula. Nothing makes sense from what 
 I'm use too. Yes I read the confusing manual. I'm just totally lost now. .

 Is this better?


Yes its better. And no it will not work at all.

I mean 2 X 16 = 32 GB total

For 2GB volumes you want to use 1850 maximum volumes. That seems
excessive. I would choose a larger volume size.

John

 # File Pool definition
 Pool {
   Name = File
   Pool Type = Backup
   Recycle = yes
   AutoPrune = yes
   Volume Retention = 30 days
   Maximum Volume Bytes = 2G
   Maximum Volumes = 16   # Limit number of Volumes in Pool
   LabelFormat = Backup
   Maximum Volume Jobs = 100

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Re: [Bacula-users] Volume not recycling?

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 - Looks like it’s a disk volume, and there’s no limit on volume size or job
 count or time, nor a “Use Volume Once”. I think it will just keep appending
 without ever starting a new volume.

You are correct.


 - File  job retention 1 year, would span 12 full backups.

 - Volume retention 1 month: that starts counting after the last write to the
 volume, not at day one.  It also may never happen (or at least later than
 you expect, I don’t know if there’s a default maximum size) because there’s
 no limit on volume use.


The retention period will begin when the volume is marked Full or
Used. With the current settings that will happen when the filesystem
becomes full. At that point bacula will start the retention counting
from the last modified time. Also at that time bacula will prompt the
user to label an additional volume since there are no appendable
volumes.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Change a volume from 'Error' to 'Append'

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 I've observed similar issues in the past. A job fails part way through and 
 the catalog is not updated leaving a mismatch in the number of files in the 
 volume versus what's recorded in the catalog. This is then detected the next 
 time the volume is used, and Bacula marks the volume as Error without writing 
 anything to it.

 Given the mismatch, the safest thing to do is mark the volume as Full, and 
 wait for the retention period to expire so the volume can be recycled. 
 Unfortunately this wastes space (more painful when you have 100GB volumes and 
 it failed within the first few gig...), so you'll need to either have 
 sufficient spare space on your SD that you can cope with this, or be willing 
 to sacrifice the other jobs on the volume and delete jobs+purge or purge it 
 immediately to regain the space.

 I'm not sure how Bacula would behave if you change it straight to append; 
 whether it would leave a hole in the volume, or whether this mismatch would 
 corrupt subsequent jobs.

The times I have done this there was no problem. For file based
volumes I keep them small 5 to 10 GB and in this case it does not
really waste space to mark the volume Full and or recycling the job
with the error.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Reusing a disk volume

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On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Thorsten Kampe
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 Hi,

 at the moment we have a single disk volume (file). We would like to
 reuse this disk volume file so it will not grow infinitely.

 We have a monthly rotation schedule (this is actually the default
 schedule):

 
 # full backup on first sunday of month, differential every other
 # sunday, incremental backups other days
 Schedule {
 Name = WeeklyCycle
 Run  = Full 1st sun at 23:00
 Run  = Differential 2nd-5th sun at 23:00
 Run  = Incremental mon-sat at 23:00
 }
 

 After two cycles (two months), we would like to delete old files from
 the volume file. Thus we set

 FileRetention   = 60 days
 JobRetention= 60 days
 VolumeRetention = 60 days
 Recycle = yes

 There is no maximum file or volume size or volume use duration
 configured.

 My question is: will the above settings ensure that after about sixty
 days, the file volume size will reach its maximum (assuming that the
 size of the backed-up data remains constant)?


No it will not. The retention period begins after a volume is marked
full or used. At 60 days it will still be append. You need to limit
the # of jobs, use duration and/or size. Then after the volume is
marked Full or Used the 60 days begins counting from the last written
date.


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Re: [Bacula-users] Reusing a disk volume

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On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Thorsten Kampe
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 * John Drescher (Fri, 16 May 2014 08:37:31 -0400)
 On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Thorsten Kampe
 thors...@thorstenkampe.de wrote:
  at the moment we have a single disk volume (file). We would like
  to reuse this disk volume file so it will not grow infinitely.
  [...]
  After two cycles (two months), we would like to delete old files
  from the volume file. Thus we set
 
  FileRetention   = 60 days
  JobRetention= 60 days
  VolumeRetention = 60 days
  Recycle = yes
 
  There is no maximum file or volume size or volume use duration
  configured.
 
  My question is: will the above settings ensure that after about sixty
  days, the file volume size will reach its maximum (assuming that the
  size of the backed-up data remains constant)?

 No it will not. The retention period begins after a volume is marked
 full or used. At 60 days it will still be append. You need to limit
 the # of jobs, use duration and/or size.

 So in my case I would have to set UseDuration accordingly.

 Then after the volume is marked Full or Used the 60 days begins
 counting from the last written date.

 I want to purge files directly when the (catalog) retention period
 (sixty days) occurs. Does that mean I have to set UseDuration to 0 (0
 + 60 days = 60 days)?


Maybe use duration of 59 days. Then volume retention in a few hours.
If you set use duration to a small number #  0 you will only be able
to store data on the volume for that period. I believe a use duration
of 0 means infinity (although I could be wrong).

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Re: [Bacula-users] Reusing a disk volume

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 Maybe use duration of 59 days. Then volume retention in a few hours.
 If you set use duration to a small number #  0 you will only be able
 to store data on the volume for that period. I believe a use duration
 of 0 means infinity (although I could be wrong).

Also remember that even on disk volumes that bacula recycles an entire
volume at a time. So the jobs written on the first day will be around
for 60 days but the jobs written on the 59th day will be around for
less than a day.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Reusing a disk volume

[John Drescher]

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 9:08 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote:
 Maybe use duration of 59 days. Then volume retention in a few hours.
 If you set use duration to a small number #  0 you will only be able
 to store data on the volume for that period. I believe a use duration
 of 0 means infinity (although I could be wrong).

 Also remember that even on disk volumes that bacula recycles an entire
 volume at a time. So the jobs written on the first day will be around
 for 60 days but the jobs written on the 59th day will be around for
 less than a day.


Sorry for so many emails. I believe to accomplish what you want you
need to make 1 volume per day. Then  you can have a use duration of a
few hours and a 60 day retention

John

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Re: [Bacula-users] Help with a question

[John Drescher]

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 9:10 AM, John Vyhnanek jo...@goodcooking.com wrote:
 Hi all,

 I hoped I would never need to use my Bacula backup for a restore, but I do.
 The problem is that the system hard drive died. I’ve replaced it and
 installed the same OS, Centos 6.5, that I had before, plus Bacula, MySQL,
 and Webmin. All is good up to this point, now I’d like to restore the
 original files I backed up that are on a network drive.

 Since the backup I have isn’t registered with this system and recorded in
 the Bacula db, there is no catalog or record of its existence. I’ve used
 Retrospect backup by EMC on Windows systems, it allows for a catalog to be
 rebuilt and all the folders and files contained in the backup to be viewed
 before restoring the system. The backup I have consists of about 10 smaller
 volumes and not just one large one.

 So my question is, can this be done with Bacula?


You need to use bscan to import this data back into the database.

Start reading here:

http://www.bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/utility/utility/Volume_Utility_Tools.html

John

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