Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 5.2 in Debian
Am Fri, 04 May 2012 15:07:17 +0200 schrieb mailing: Hey folks... can youtell me when Debian takes Bacula 5.2 in in the repository? guess this is more a question for the debian bacula packaging group: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-bacula-devel and try googling. there were discussions about 5.2 on this mailinglist. - Thomas -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Full backup forced if client changes
Am Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:52:32 -0400 schrieb Steve Thompson: Bacula 5.0.2. For the following example job: ... } more than one client is available to backup the (shared) storage. If I change the name of the client in the Job definition, a full backup always occurs the next time a job is run. How do I avoid this? i would run the bacula-fd (maybe a second instance to not intefere with other backups on the node) with the same configuration on every shared storage node where you would like to backup the storage and setup an DNS entry to point at the desired node. - Thomas -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up Outlook PST files.
Am Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:38:52 +0200 schrieb Wassim Zaarour: Hello List, I was wondering if anyone is able to back Outlook PST files in an efficient way with Bacula. For my understanding if the PST file will be modified everyday, than Bacula will be backing it up everyday with any level of Backup (Incremental, Differential, Full) while we only need to backup the changes To save backup time and network bandwidth. Any tips or hints on how to backup a PST file in a block level way? these PST files are really annoying! there is the delta plugin which could be used (Bacula Enterprise Version). http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/main/main/ Enterprise_Bacula_New_Featu.html#SECTION0035 or you could use a software to export the pst files to small files (example: http://www.mailstore.com/de/mailstore-home.aspx) or you just live with the fact, that you need to backup the whole file everyday. - Thomas -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Server disaster recovery.
Am Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:02:23 +0200 schrieb Wassim Zaarour: Hi List, We are backing up to disks not tapes, now I need to set up a plan in case the bacula server (director) crashes. What to do in case the MySQL catalog is lost? Can we recover? I guess it is easy to keep copy of configuration files to install on a new system but what about the catalog? What is the best plan for the server's disaster recovery? Thanks. if the catalog has gone away and no sql dump is available you could use bscan to repopulate the catalog. but it will take a looong time if you have lots of tapes. And IMHO not all information is restored. Last time I was force to use bscan the restore from the tape did read the whole tape to restore some files instead of jumping directly to the right place. better you backup your bacula configs and catalog dump somewhere easyly accessible (another server (in another building), Amazon S3, whatever) to do a fast recovery of the bacula backup service. - Thomas -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Server disaster recovery.
On 02.03.2012 14:32, Wassim Zaarour wrote: So if I take a backup of MySql and I have the configuration files and the volumes of the data, I could simple export mysql database to a new server, install bacula and use the backed up conf files and put the volumes in the same configured location, that would make me up and running? yes. but I would recommend to test the procedure and write some down somewhere. :) - Thomas Hi List, We are backing up to disks not tapes, now I need to set up a plan in case the bacula server (director) crashes. What to do in case the MySQL catalog is lost? Can we recover? I guess it is easy to keep copy of configuration files to install on a new system but what about the catalog? What is the best plan for the server's disaster recovery? Thanks. if the catalog has gone away and no sql dump is available you could use bscan to repopulate the catalog. but it will take a looong time if you have lots of tapes. And IMHO not all information is restored. Last time I was force to use bscan the restore from the tape did read the whole tape to restore some files instead of jumping directly to the right place. better you backup your bacula configs and catalog dump somewhere easyly accessible (another server (in another building), Amazon S3, whatever) to do a fast recovery of the bacula backup service. -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Client Password based data encryption.
On 16.02.2012 12:32, Wassim Zaarour wrote: What I was thinking is of a way maybe to have some password based encryption, where only the users know his password but I didn't find any solution that can work like this. I guess for now we have to settle that the IT admin. Or the Sys admin have access to the encrypted data. as you describe it, its not possible. Even if it was supported, how would it be encrypted on the client without the sys admins knowing the password? i've tested the other method with removing the private key from PKI Keypair but it fails with Failed to load private key for File daemon. - Thomas On 2/16/12 12:01 PM, Thomas Muellertho...@chaschperli.ch wrote: Am Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:07:40 +0200 schrieb Wassim Zaarour: Hello, Currently the data encryption option in Bacula is based on certificates, meaning that if the person creating the certificates for the client keeps his copy of the certs, he is able to restore and decrypt the data without the users approval, since some people want their data undecryptable by absolutely anyone but them, I was wondering if there is a way to encrypt data using a password that only the client knows, or of there any ideas how to achieve this. let the user himself create the encryption cert and try to use only the public-key in the sd. In theory encryption does just need the public-key. Encrypting needs the private key. but I don't know if it is possible to provide only the public key to bacula-sd. - Thomas -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Space reclamation
Am Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:36:45 +0100 schrieb Demeter Tibor: Hi, Are there any option in bacula for the tape space reclamation ? I know and use this option from Tivol storage manager. How can I defragment my tapes? IMHO there is no such thing like defragment for tapes. you could use a migration job to move the data away from tapes to have the old one recycled. - Thomas -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Client Password based data encryption.
Am Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:01:57 -0500 schrieb Phil Stracchino: On 02/16/2012 05:01 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote: In theory encryption does just need the public-key. Encrypting needs the private key. but I don't know if it is possible to provide only the public key to bacula-sd. I believe you mean that DEcrypting requires the private key. oh yes, I've meant DEcrypting needs the private key. - Thomas -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Encrypting Data on Tape
Am Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:12:26 -0500 schrieb Craig Van Tassle: I'm sorry if this has been asked before. I'm running a Scalar 50 with HP LTO-4 Drives. I want to encrypt the data that is put on the tape, We already have encryption going between the Dir/SD and FD's. I just want to encrypt the data that will be placed on Tape for OffSite storage. Has anyone done that or know some pointers to point me to so I can get this working? Thanks! bacula encryption takes place on the file-daemon. Encryption on the storage-daemon is not supported (... yet, it's on the projects list http://www.bacula.org/git/cgit.cgi/bacula/plain/bacula/projects? h=Branch-5.2) as Steve said, (some?) LTO tapes support on-drive encryption. never used it by myself. - Thomas -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Permanently disabling clients without deleting them
Am Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:31:09 +1100 schrieb Gary R. Schmidt: Hi, Bacula 3.0.3. I've had some machines be removed from use, but I don't want their backups to go away until we are sure their replacements are complete. I can disable them individually from the console, but is there something I can do in the .conf file that will turn them off? disable the job with Enabled = no in the conf file. Bacula Main Reference - The Job Resource http://bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/main/main/ Configuring_Director.html#SECTION00233 - Thomas -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Restore with data encryption?
Am Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:14:15 +0100 schrieb Oliver Hoffmann: Hi all, I do backups with data encryption. Backups as well as restores on the clients work without problems. Now I want to be able to do restores with the server (or another one) only. The doc says that adding the following line would be enough. PKI Keypair = /etc/bacula/keys/master.keypair So my working bacula-fd.conf on the server looks like this (just the PKI part): PKI Signatures = Yes PKI Encryption = Yes PKI Keypair = /etc/bacula/keys/server-fd.pem PKI Master Key = /etc/bacula/keys/master.cert Next I replaced server-fd.pem with master.keypair like mentioned in the doc. I made the master.keypair accordingly. That doesn't work. Neither putting the client-fd.pem in place. I got this error: Error: restore.c:944 Missing cryptographic signature for /path/to/my/file I had problems restoring files from an encrypted backup if Replace: always was not selected on the restore job. But I do not remember the exact error message. - Thomas -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Virtualfull
On 01.12.2011 13:42, Miikael Havelock Nilson wrote: Hello, I have a small question. When virtualfull is made will data pass trought the director? Question is in the case the storage is on low bandwith will data move from storage to director and back to storage or storage to storage? data is copied only on storage daemon. - Thomas -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Volume Use Duration not working in 5.2.1
On 24.11.2011 17:01, Fahrer, Julian wrote:
Hi,
Am I missing something or is the Volume Use Duration parameter in the
pool not working in 5.2.1?
I defined the pool like this:
---
Pool {
Name = NEO200S_Weekly_Pool
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 31 days
Volume Use Duration = 72h
Storage = NEO200S
Cleaning Prefix = CLN
}
---
In bconsole a list volumes shows
---
Pool: NEO200S_Weekly_Pool
+-++---+-+---+--
+--+-+--+---+---+---
--+
| mediaid | volumename | volstatus | enabled | volbytes |
volfiles | volretention | recycle | slot | inchanger | mediatype |
lastwritten |
+-++---+-+---+--
+--+-+--+---+---+---
--+
| 4 | ANO623L4 | Full | 1 | 969,400,986,624 |
196 |2,678,400 | 1 |0 | 0 | LTO-4 | 2011-11-14
11:28:51 |
| 5 | ANO650L4 | Append| 1 | 315,867,396,096 |
64 |2,678,400 | 1 |0 | 0 | LTO-4 | 2011-11-14
13:26:54 |
| 7 | ANO622L4 | Full | 1 | 1,014,171,669,504 |
205 |2,678,400 | 1 |0 | 0 | LTO-4 | 2011-11-21
06:42:40 |
| 8 | HFO402L4 | Append| 1 | 739,355,000,832 |
148 |2,678,400 | 1 |0 | 0 | LTO-4 | 2011-11-21
11:36:12 |
+-++---+-+---+--
+--+-+--+---+---+---
--+
---
Mediaid 5 8 should actually be in status used. It is 2011-11-24
17:00 right now...
Same thing for other pools with Volume Use Duration = 12 days
IMHO status only gets updated if media is consired for use.
If you start a backup job, does it take media-id 5 or 8 ?
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Re: [Bacula-users] Force Bacula to retain at least one Full backup per job?
On 23.11.2011 15:01, Ralph Kutschera wrote: Hallo! Am 16.04.2011 00:43, schrieb CDuv: Hello, While testing Bacula, I've had this bad No full backup before 2011-04-15 13:37:00 found surprise when trying to restore files of a Job The client status shows that jobs were correctly done (both full and incremental btw) but restore command says he can't. I think my problem comes from retention times: files/jobs of a full backup getting pruned after the defined File/Job Retention setting. Let's say I set a retention of 10 days and schedule my full backup every weeks : this should run fine, 10-days-old backups will be pruned 3 days after the last full backup. Right? But what if that Client isn't available for two weeks? The Job won't run, so will the full backup. But I think pruning will occurs and will make my job without any backup (either full or incremental). Am I still right? So here is my question: Is there a way to prevent Bacula from pruning files/jobs that are part of the last full backup Job done? Thank you Is there a solution yet for Bacula 2.0.3? Thanks, Ralph IMHO this is a new 5.2.x feature. - Thomas -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Looking for configuration advice
On 19.10.2011 16:44, Johnston, James C. (GRC-RXP0) wrote: I’m trying to back up a bunch of computational data – about 16 – 18 TB at the moment. I’ll be backing a single fileserver up to a ~36 TB RAID array connected to the server via fiber channel. I’m considering how often I do a Full backup since even with fiber channel the backup is going to take a long time. The typical Full on the first weekend of the month, Differential on the other weekends and Incrementals every night seems like a lot. One plan I’m looking at is a Full backup quarterly – starting at 21:01 am on the first Saturday after Dec 1^st , March 1^st , June 1^st , and September 1^st . I've splitted a 20TB backup into many jobs. I run incrementals between the full-backup jobs. taking the full and waiting for it to complete would take way too long without backing up the new data. - Thomas -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental Pruning Full Backup?
On 14.10.2011 16:09, Henrique Machado wrote: I've migrated from bacula 3.0.3 to 5.0.3, and my bacula-dir.conf stay the same. But now, on this new version my Incremental backup looks like is pruning the Full Backup for this client: http://pastebin.ca/2090064 Somebody have an idea? The shortest retention wins. You've set Job/File Retention to 30 days. After 30 days IMHO everything will be pruned. If you want to have 2 months retention for the volumes set the Job/file retention to something larger than 2 months. - Thomas -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] multiple spool files per job
On 13.10.2011 11:51, Stefan Lubitz wrote: Hi, this feature would be really great. We have three Backup serves which all have single Jobs to backup (each job app. 13TB). The Time to despool is absolutely waste of time and could be used more efficient. This feature request is more than 4 Years old and still not implemented. Maybe I am wrong and I am sorry to say this, but as the data volume is growing all the time and this feature is still missing, I've got a notion that Bacula is not anymore up to date or state of the art. as with any opensource tool you are free to send in code which enables the feature. or hire somebody to write it for you and the community. or buy the bacula enterprise version and tell them you really need the concurrent spooling/despooling feature. - Thomas James Harper wrote: Is there a way to make bacula write multiple spool files per job? Two would do. What I'm seeing is that 4 jobs start, all hit their spool limit around the same time, then all wait in a queue until the file is despooled. The despool happens fairly quickly (much quicker than the spooling due to network and server fd throughput) so it isn't a huge problem, but it would be better if the sd could just switch over to another spool file when despooling starts so that the backup can continue uninterrupted. I believe this is in the todo list, but it will happen faster if someone submits already-written code. -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Error vs OK
On 04.10.2011 23:31, tscollins wrote: I'm trying to figure out why 'Director Status' shows a Job Status as Error but when I click on the Client Status it shows the Job Status as OK? Attached screenshots show error and OK. (http://postimage.org/image/2emhnufwk/) (http://postimage.org/image/2emjbdsec/) I would check the job log. maybe there is a post RunScript failed or something like that. - Thomas -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] How do I remove clients from the database?
On 28.09.2011 20:41, Stefan Michael Guenther wrote: Hello, I have removed a number of clients from bacula-dir.conf and restarted the director. In the bconsole list clients still lists the removed clients. The delete command only allows me to remove volumes, pools and jobids. So, how do I remove/delete clients? IMHO you have to delete it yourself from database. - Thomas -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Exclude directories
On 26.09.2011 10:47, Lyn Amery wrote:
Hi all,
I've been wading through the documentation on how to exclude
files and directories from backup jobs but have had no luck.
I'm trying to exclude files like .pgpass and .svn directories
from wherever they occur in the filesystem.
The following works for /tmp and /var/tmp but seems to have
no effect on directories named .svn:
Exclude {
File = /tmp
File = /var/tmp
File = .svn
}
You need something wild/wildfile/wilddir .
have a look a the manual:
http://bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION00187
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Re: [Bacula-users] Upgrade from Bacula 5.0 to 5.0.3
On 18.08.2011 08:37, bantumi wrote: Hello; I'm kinda new on bacula and want to upgrade from 5.0 to 5.0.3 My OS: CentOS 5 I would do it! - Thomas -- Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] API to Communicate with Bacula from a client portal?
On 09.08.2011 17:31, Yazan wrote: Hey guys, We have been using Bacula for some time now and I wanted to automate a few things and allow the clients to take control of their backups. We want to give our clients the option of buying backup space and creating/editing backup schedules of their data and their databases. We're hoping to automate this as well as allow the clients to have access to their backup files with the option of restoring a file (or multiple) all via our PHP based portal. Please let me know if anybody has worked with this in the past and if they are willing to help. We can work out compensation as well if you have a solution. I would really appreciate your help and feedback on this matter. Thank you! IMHO the easiest way is to create a webfrontent, genenrate the conf dynamically and include it with with a script ( @|/etc/bacula/get-conf.sh ) note: only the director can be reloaded without restart. - Thomas -- uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs exceeded on the FD
On 16.08.2011 11:25, Joris Heinrich wrote: Hallo List, in our company we use 2. directors with the same jobdefinitions. one is responsible for the on site backup and the other one for the off site backup. All file daemons are configured with Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1. This is necessary because concurrent jobs will copy the same files. Now my problem... i get this error: 16-Aug 09:30 bacula6-dir JobId 305037: Fatal error: Unable to authenticate with File daemon at XX:9102. Possible causes: Passwords or names not the same or Maximum Concurrent Jobs exceeded on the FD or FD networking messed up (restart daemon). Ok this happened, if an other job from other director is running. Now my question, how can i solve the problem, that the second job is waiting until the first job from the other director is finished. Don't think this is supported. Why not just use 1 director and copy jobs? - Thomas -- uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Ignore fileset changes
Am Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:43:05 +0200 schrieb Olle Romo: Thank you Uwe. I misunderstood the concept. Is there a way to have Bacula just continue incremental backup of a drive even if it was offline for one run? IMHO no, it will fail if a path is not available. you could create a sort of dynamic fileset e.g. create a fileset on the fly on the client. blog post I found (not using this feature this myself): http://machine-cycle.blogspot.com/2010/02/dynamic-bacula-filesets.html (don't forget to add Ignore FileSet Changes in the fileset and Accurate = yes in your job definition) - Thomas -- uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Backup error
Am Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:35:10 -0500 schrieb Jake Debord: I have ran successful backups with XP. This is my first machine to backup running Vista (hate vista). Bacula throws this error: 01-Jul 11:31 tamara-fd JobId 205: C:/Documents and Settings/All Users is a junction point or a different filesystem. Will not descend from C:/Documents and Settings into it. 01-Jul 11:31 tamara-fd JobId 205: Cannot open C:/Documents and Settings/All Users: ERR=A required privilege is not held by the client. ... . 01-Jul 11:31 tamara-fd JobId 205: Cannot open C:/Documents and Settings/Default/NTUSER.DAT: ERR=A required privilege is not held by the client. Can anyone help me with this?? IMHO C:\Documents and Settings is just a shortcut to C:\Users. - Thomas -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Single File Restore to Win Vista
Am Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:01:45 -0700 schrieb jake debord: Trying to restore a single file, when i search for it, it finds the job it's backed up in. But when I choose the FD then try to backup it requires a full path of the file. So i type the full path as it would appear in windows C:\Users\Tamara\Desktop\Clean 2011\file.pdf but it says it cant find the file! Can anybody help? if you are not comfortable with the shell like restore interface, you could try the GUI called BAT. It has a nice restore interface. - Thomas -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] force backup of unchanged file in incremental backup
Am Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:33:14 +1000 schrieb James Harper:
The last modified datestamp on MSSQL database files doesn't get
changed unless the actual file dimensions change (eg it 'grows') or when
the file is closed. This means that an incremental backup won't
necessarily back up the database files unless they have changed.
Accurate won't catch this either as the metadata it uses will be
identical.
Is there a way to force the backup of specific unchanged files during an
incremental or differential backup? Eg:
Option {
File = C:/database/mydb.mdf
Always Back Up = Yes
}
you could create a backup job with just that file in it and run it always
as full.
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Re: [Bacula-users] force backup of unchanged file in incremental backup
Is there a way to force the backup of specific unchanged files during
an
incremental or differential backup? Eg:
Option {
File = C:/database/mydb.mdf
Always Back Up = Yes
}
you could create a backup job with just that file in it and run it
always
as full.
- Thomas
I think his goal is to recreate some differential backups for MSSQL (RMAN
provides it for Oracle).
you can't do a Differential or Incremental backup of MSSQL data files.
this would require a FD plugin or another tool.
To do that, he needs to know which datafiles moved... If you perform a
touch on each of them, it's not a differential backup but a full one.
Are we sure that all data pieces have been flushed to disk before the VSS
snapshot occurred ?
yes, MSSQL provides a VSS Plugin. so MSSQL knows when it has to flush
to disk.
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Re: [Bacula-users] It's possible to parallelize backups?
Am Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:36:13 +0100 schrieb Simone Martina: Hi at all, since some weeks I got a new SCSI controller due to use a second tape reader into the HP MSL6030 (a Overland NEO 2000 clone) tape library. After some initially troubles and a some telephonic shout with HP support, now I'm able to use both internal reader (nst0 and nst1) and to control the autocharger (sg1). Actually I've defined two test pools: IncrWeek and WinIncrWeek. My goal is to get two simultaneous backups from two different client onto two tapes, one for each pool. Search for Maximum Concurrent Jobs in the docs. it's needed at different places in bacula-dir.conf, bacula-sd.conf and maybe bacula- fd.conf. For concurrent jobs it's IMHO recommended to enable spooling to prevent interleaving of the data on tape (search Spool Data and Spool Attributes in the docs) - Thomas -- The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Reload Config while bacula-dir is still running?
Am Thu, 13 Jan 2011 12:45:51 + schrieb Mister IT Guru: I'm making amendments and changes to my bacula config, but at the same time I need to run my backups. Other than setting up a separate machine to test my config, (which I will be doing in coming days, when the hardware purchased for this arrives) you can reload bacula-dir configs while it is running. just do a reload on bconsole (or on gui whatever). to verify the configuration before reloading you can do bacula-dir -t on a shell (no output == all OK). this will test the configuration. - Thomas -- Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Retention per Job or Fileset?
Am Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:59:04 +0100 schrieb Michael Patzer: Hi all, i've two jobs for one client, going to the same pool - and couldn't change that. the first job has a retention of 22 days, but the second job needs a retention of 4 days. any ideas how i could setup such a construct without defining the same client twice, or using a different pool? why not using 2 pools? - Thomas -- Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Extremly slow backup
Am Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:28:22 +0100 schrieb Marcin Krol: Hello. I've problem with bacula performance on one of my machines. The machine in question is my mail server that holds about 220 GB of data in 660 thousands of files. Full backup takes about 2 days and 11 hours with average speed of 1 MB/sec. All other clients have speeds between 20 (Windows) to 80 (Linux) MB/sec. ... So... What I can try to get this backup done faster? I'm out of options right now and really would like to keep this backup managed by bacula rather than setting some rsync backup. did you enable Spool Attributes or Spool Data in the job resource? did you run the btape tests? do you have compression or encryption enabled? your config and some infos about the bacula version may help. - Thomas -- Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Extremly slow backup
Am Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:38:17 +0100 schrieb Marcin Krol: did you enable Spool Attributes or Spool Data in the job resource? did you run the btape tests? do you have compression or encryption enabled? your config and some infos about the bacula version may help. Spool Attributers or Spool Data is not enabled in job resource. IMHO if Spool Attributes is not enabled, bacula inserts metadata into the catalog after every file - in your case 660'000 inserts instead of 1 large insert with Spool Attributes. please enable Spool Attributes and try again. to prevent shoe-shining of the tape, I would recommend to enable Spool Data too. - Thomas -- Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula configration for FC LTO-5 tape drive
Am Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:55:56 +0100 schrieb Arunav Mandal: I have a Tandberg T40+ Tapeloader with HP LTO-5 tape drive connected to QLogic Corp. ISP2532-based 8Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA on a Dell 2950 running Ubuntu Server 10.10. The kernel version is 2.6.35-24-server. The autoloader device number changes sometimes with reboot. When I installed the server it was /dev/sg4 and now it is /dev/sg2. The tape drive is at /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0. My question is how can I fix the problem of device number changing with reboots? consistent naming of devices can be done with udev rules. try googling and reading http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html . - Thomas -- Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Server is Client of Multiple Directors
Am Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:57:49 -0600 schrieb Patrick McEvoy: Hello, I would like to have two machines acting as directors for the same clients in order to have redundant backups of the servers. I have looked in the manual and searched the internet but only find multiple clients for a director not multiple directors for multiple clients. What is the best way to do this? I can see where to add the additional director in bacula-fd but how would I change the Global File daemon configuration specifications to use a different File Daemon for the new director. IMHO this is not a normal cenario. you could have redundancy in other ways: for file volumes: DRBD or simply rsync, upload to S3, ftp, or whatever copy method. for the catalog database: replication for tapes: bacula copy jobs for service uptime: a mix of all of them and pacemaker - Thomas -- Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] why do copy/verify jobs use file daemons?
Am Fri, 24 Dec 2010 09:05:37 +0100 schrieb C.Keschnat: Is it normal behaviour that the file daemon is involved when making copies/verifies? That's not very efficient when verifying jobs from external servers. just speaking for verify jobs: the verify work is done by the filedaemon. If no data (aka PKI) encryption is involved you can specify any filedaemon in the verify job. you could run a FD on the SD host to prevent sending data over the network with verify jobs. - Thomas -- Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Archiving out a tape.
Am Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:02:38 +1100 schrieb Gary R. Schmidt: Hi all, Bacula 3.0.3 server, mix of 302 and 303 clients on *NIX and Windows. I'm taking a full backup of everything, for EOY archiving purposes, and I was wondering should I purge the tape volume(s) created by this so as to make subsequent incremental and differential backups *not* refer to this backup. make a copy of the fileset and give it another name. then run the job with the copy of the fileset. - Thomas -- Forrester recently released a report on the Return on Investment (ROI) of Google Apps. They found a 300% ROI, 38%-56% cost savings, and break-even within 7 months. Over 3 million businesses have gone Google with Google Apps: an online email calendar, and document program that's accessible from your browser. Read the Forrester report: http://p.sf.net/sfu/googleapps-sfnew ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] How to discard tape (file actually) on failed backup?
Job serverA runs, and auto-labels a new file as /store/serverA-434... but the job fails because ServerA is unreachable. So bacula times out, and then proceeds with backup job serverB, but it uses the file it's already created for serverA's backup. Any way around this? you could create two pools (daily-serverA / dailay-serverB) instead of one for both. - Thomas -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] keep a backup forever?
Before I put the new (replacement) machine into the backup system, I would like to know if there is a way that I can save the last bacukp(s) of the original (now-dead) machine for longer than my 3-month rotation schedule, just in case. You can put the status Archive on the volume, and normally bacula avoid to touch it. (even with dbcheck) but I would prefer to have a dev confirmation about that one. or the status read-only. this is what i've used after I needed to do a catalog-repopulation with bscan. After changing it to read-only it stopped getting pruned again. - Thomas -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula has write errors after replacing Autoloader
Am Sun, 12 Dec 2010 10:22:27 +1100 schrieb James Harper: I'm having a problem with Bacula and my Autoloader/tape drive. Any errors in the kernel logs? If it was a HP drive you'd run HP Library Tape Tools to verify the drive. Maybe Quantum have a similar tool. the quantum diagnostic tool is called xTalk. you can get it here: http://www.quantum.com/ServiceandSupport/SoftwareandDocumentationDownloads/Sage/Index.aspx Check the cabling and connections. You don't say if its SAS or SCSI, but if it's SCSI you can easily bend or break pins on those 68 pin connectors. i can confirm this. :) - Thomas -- Oracle to DB2 Conversion Guide: Learn learn about native support for PL/SQL, new data types, scalar functions, improved concurrency, built-in packages, OCI, SQL*Plus, data movement tools, best practices and more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Stupid build question...
Am Thu, 02 Dec 2010 11:15:34 -0600 schrieb Sean Clark: Is it not possible to build a version of bacula that supports both mysql and postgresql? (I enabled both, but got an error while compiling. Googling turns up a post from back in August mentioning that the error indicates that the postgres portion of the build is trying to use the mysql headers, or something of the sort). Fedora Core 13, if it matters. either mysql or postgres but not both. - Thomas -- What happens now with your Lotus Notes apps - do you make another costly upgrade, or settle for being marooned without product support? Time to move off Lotus Notes and onto the cloud with Force.com, apps are easier to build, use, and manage than apps on traditional platforms. Sign up for the Lotus Notes Migration Kit to learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/salesforce-d2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] When are volumes marked Purged?
Am Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:57:47 + schrieb Martin Simmons: The only operations that mark volumes as purged are the purge command and the volume recycling code. The latter happens when Bacula needs a new volume (as you noticed) and it stops looks when it finds a volume that can be purged and recycled. just a small addition: prune: does cleaning and respecting retention times. purge: does cleaning _WITHOUT_ respecting retention times. -- What happens now with your Lotus Notes apps - do you make another costly upgrade, or settle for being marooned without product support? Time to move off Lotus Notes and onto the cloud with Force.com, apps are easier to build, use, and manage than apps on traditional platforms. Sign up for the Lotus Notes Migration Kit to learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/salesforce-d2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Question about file service [agent]
I would pre- und possible post- job steps to execute, before the backup starts. RunScript is what you are looking for: http://bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#6982 can be run on the director (dir) or the client (fd) - but not on the storage daemon (sd). - Thomas -- What happens now with your Lotus Notes apps - do you make another costly upgrade, or settle for being marooned without product support? Time to move off Lotus Notes and onto the cloud with Force.com, apps are easier to build, use, and manage than apps on traditional platforms. Sign up for the Lotus Notes Migration Kit to learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/salesforce-d2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Unexpected cryptographic session data stream. on restore with replace: ifnewer
hi On restores from encrypted backups if you select replace: ifnewer: you will get flooded by messages like this: 25-Nov 11:39 testhost JobId 3459: Error: restore.c:433 Unexpected cryptographic session data stream. 25-Nov 11:39 testhost JobId 3459: Error: restore.c:433 Unexpected cryptographic session data stream. 25-Nov 11:39 testhost JobId 3459: Error: restore.c:433 Unexpected cryptographic session data stream. I can can reproduce it. No plugins involved, just plain files. Restoring with replace: always works with no errors or warnings. This is with bacula 5.0.2 on Debian Lenny. - Thomas -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] TLS and PKI, How to limit de encryption overhead ?
Am Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:52:20 +0100 schrieb Hugo Letemplier: Hi I am Implementing Bacula and I have to cypher the backed up data. Also I don't want that the console and client authentication to be done clearly over the network. I want to implement TLS but data are already cyphered via PKI so it will create a cpu consumption overhead. Can I configure bacula to use TLS only to authenticate client and eventually sign data ? Thanks IMHO TLS is only used for the control-channel not for the data- channel. - Thomas -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today http://p.sf.net/sfu/msIE9-sfdev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] TLS and PKI, How to limit de encryption overhead ?
On 18.11.2010 02:01, Dan Langille wrote: IMHO TLS is only used for the control-channel not for the data- channel. Really? I hope not. Can you prove this? ok maybe you're right. i've had in mind that it was not encrypted, but written is that the volumes written by sd are not encrypted. not the data transfer between fd and sd. The data written to Volumes by the Storage daemon is not encrypted by this code. http://bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Bacula_TLS_Communications.html - Thomas -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today http://p.sf.net/sfu/msIE9-sfdev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bacula works with Tape drives with SAS interface??
Am Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:15:58 -0400 schrieb Mauricio Valencia: Hi all Any one has a Bacula configuration with a Tape Drive LTO5 with a SAS Interface, i will config it on a centos VM over VMWARE. Or what tape drive could you suggest me to buy, i want to use it over vmware in centos, with LTO5 support and with a sas interface. Please give me some advice. I'm using 2 LTO4 SAS drives without problems. IMHO if linux can see the drive, bacula should work too. i'm interested in speed results if you use the tape inside a VM. would you mind posting btape results if you go with the VM solution? - Thomas -- Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bacula works with Tape drives with SAS interface??
On 11.11.2010 15:49, Mauricio Valencia wrote: Thanks for your answer Thomas, i'll sent de btape results, what drivers do you have (DELL, IBM and what model) Quantum. IMHO there are only a few real manufacturers of LTO drives. Dell is not one of them. The full list: http://www.ultrium.com/licensing/index.html (only few of them making drives) - Thomas -- Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] sd mount/unmount commands - %v not available on user defined maximum volume capacity exeeded
hi After failing with s3fs (many volume read errors on verify/restore) I wrote a skript to get/put file-volumes from/to Amazon S3 with the Requires Mount, Mount Command and Unmount Command directives. It's working fine so long, but if the medium reaches the user defined volume capacity, the %v is not filled with the actual filepath on unmount - only with the spool dir (hmm, why spool dir at all? think this should be Archive Dest) without volumename. instead of /mnt/bacula/Full-0123 it's just /mnt/bacula/ without VolumeName Is this a bug, limitation or intentional? - Thomas environment: debian lenny i386 bacula 5.0.3 -- The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book Blueprint to a Billion shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Backup fails when creating a large backup
Am Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:11:39 +0100 schrieb Primož Kolarič: Hellp Backing up quite some data (2.390TB at the point of failure) bacula fails with: 07-Nov 02:19 xxx..yyy-fd JobId 425: Fatal error: backup.c:1019 Network send error to SD. ERR=Broken pipe There's a network connection (through a router ) between the file and storage daemon. NAT involved? if yes, check if you can change max livetime of a NAT session on your router. sometimes such config options are just editable by telnet/ssh (seen with ZyXEL). - Thomas -- The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book Blueprint to a Billion shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bad disk noises - replace the volume without restarting the backup?
So is there a way for me to replace that disk without invalidating the entire backup? Running on Linux with an external SATA / FW enclosure, bacula version 3.0.2 If there is a way to temporarily freeze a job (possible using signals) to prevent it from writing anything while using LVM to attempt to vgextend; pvmove; vgreduce; vgremove that physical disk could be a viable solution. IMHO once a job is running, the only way to stop it is to cancel it. there is no freeze. sometime in the future there will be the ability to restart a failed job, see the Projects file: Item 1: Ability to restart failed jobs If you are not a coder, you could use http://bacula.org/en/?page=makedonation to help getting it done. - Thomas -- The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book Blueprint to a Billion shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula does 2 Fullbackups
The first Backup starts and notice das there is no prior Full-Backup, so Bacula does a Full-Backup. That´s fine. But the Full-Backup runs more than 24 hours, so next time Bacula starts his Backup-Job he seems to notice that there is no Full-Backup and he generates a second Full-Backup job. So Bacula waste 7 TB with a second Full-Backup :( My Question is: Any way to fix this Problem? seeh Allow Duplicate Jobs http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#7220 - Thomas -- The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book Blueprint to a Billion shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bad disk noises - replace the volume without restarting the backup?
Item 1: Ability to restart failed jobs If you are not a coder, you could use http://bacula.org/en/?page=makedonation to help getting it done. - Thomas That seems to be the general consensus. Thank you. I caution that this method may not work as you expect. Being a programmer myself, I know that nothing gets done quickly and thus cheaply. I would expect a feature like this if you paid a professional developer (who is not doing this voluntarily) to write code for the task would likely cost 10 thousand dollars US. i did not say it will be done quickly or cheap. but it will help to get it done sometime. - Thomas -- The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book Blueprint to a Billion shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning for large (millions of files) backups?
Am Mon, 01 Nov 2010 06:15:18 +0100 schrieb Ondrej PLANKA (Ignum profile): Thanks :) Which type of MySQL storage engine are you using? MyISAM or InnoDB for large Bacula system? Can you please copy/paste your MySQL configuration? I mean my.cnf file Thanks, Ondrej. I would use InnoDB. a good startingpoint to optimize mysql is http://mysqltuner.pl - Thomas -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Live backup
Am Fri, 22 Oct 2010 10:07:34 -0400 schrieb ivane91: Yes, It's a linux box. By now , I decide to not backup logs. So I will be waiting another answer.. the only way to get a consistent backupstate is to take a filesystem snapshot with a script. - Thomas -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple file restores from pruned files
Am Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:23:31 -0400 schrieb Win Htin: Hi folks, I need to restore files older than 6 months from different days (all from same directory structure). Following is the partial definition of the client. File Retention = 180 days Job Retention = 60 months Will it be possible to restore only the files that I am interested in? If possible, please kindly let me know which options to select from the bconsole restore options. you could re-populated the catalog with bscan if you now on which volumes your data is (be sure to set the volumes to read-only in bacula to disable pruning after re-populating) or use bextract. both documented on bacula.org - Thomas -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 5.0.3 backport for debian lenny?
Am Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:41:04 +0200 schrieb Ralf Gross: Hi, I'm still using bacula 3.0.3 on debian lenny (amd64). In the next weeks I wanted to move on to 5.0.x. But due to the freeze of the next debian stable release there will be no 5.0.3 in debian for some time. 5.0.3 seems to have a lot of importent bug fixes, so I'd like to skip 5.0.2 which is available in lenny-backports right now. Does anyone use an alternative bacula repository for debian lenny? Ralf i've created one for my own use. you can copy source(to compile i386 version)/binaries(only amd64) from http://chaschperli.ch/debian/lenny (search for 5.0.3) - Thomas -- Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Network performance
I had to disable the Maximum Network Buffer Size in the mean time, coincidence or not the director started throwing out unknown errors while connecting to storage, so this test is run with default buffer sizes (which shouldn't be a problem - I got 91-93% of the max link speed with iperf using default buffer sizes) This test: * Uses TLS encryption [encrypted comms] * Uses PKI encryption [encrypted backup data] * Does not use compression I don't think TLS/PKI is the cause - there's plenty of CPU% while it's running. Could investigate this further. are you sure PKI (data encryption) is not the bottleneck? IMHO PKI is single-threaded (as gzip compression is) and can just use one processor (or one core of a multi-core processor). the plenty of CPU% could be the other cores which cannot be used to do encryption. on linux, start top, press 1 and you will get stats of every core. - Thomas -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Network performance
Thank you for your suggestion (and sorry for not replying to the off-list mail sooner - forgot about it); with PKI off: em0 in 5.189 MB/s 5.206 MB/s 16.899 GB out 148.275 KB/s151.429 KB/s 508.401 MB Or - 41.44% vs 38.4%. im running bacula under linux and for full backups the GigE link is used to capacity (without compression, without pki, without tls). - Thomas -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] About pool retention
Am Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:09:00 +0400 schrieb Proskurin Kirill:
Hello all.
Bacula-5.0.2
I have such pool definition:
Pool {
Name = host.domain.org
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 7 days
UseVolumeOnce = yes
Maximum Volumes = 7
Label Format = host.domain.org-
}
But now I have 7 volumes in status Used and new backup is saying what:
Cannot find any appendable volumes.
Please use the label command to create a new Volume
Why it is not recycle Used volume? There is my mistake?
did you change the pool definition after the volumes were created? if so,
you need to use upate volume in the bacula console.
If you do everyday a backup you need to change the Volume Retention to
something lower than 7 days because the retention is counted from the
last written date.
Use Volume Once deprecated, use Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 instead. I
myself would rather user Volume Use Duration.
see too:
http://bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/
Configuring_Director.html#SECTION001815
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Re: [Bacula-users] About pool retention
If you do everyday a backup you need to change the Volume Retention to something lower than 7 days because the retention is counted from the last written date. Can you be more detail here? I need to make it less then 7 to make it recycle? Im little confused about all Bacula retention policy... timeline: day 1 22:00: start backupjob, allocate volume 23:30: jobs ends day x 22:00: start backupjob, allocate volume 23:30: jobs ends day 8 22:00: backup job starts, doesn't find a volume to append 23:30: just now the volume from day 1 could be recycled at least i think this is how the retention time of the volume is calculated - Thomas -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Network performance
Am Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:13:07 +0100 schrieb Hugo Silva: Hello, I'm backing up a server in Germany from a director in The Netherlands. Using bacula, I can't seem to get past ~3000KB/s. Here's an iperf result: [ 3] local [fd-addr] port 16625 connected with [dir-addr] port 5001 [ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth [ 3] 0.0-10.1 sec110 MBytes 91.2 Mbits/sec you speak of a server in germany and director in netherlands. the sd is also on the director machine. fd sends data to sd directly - could also be a routing issue. and: as in many other threads mentioned, backing up a filesystem with thounds or millions of files can't be compared to a sequential read with dd. and: did you ran the btape tests on the sd to check the performance? - Thomas -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Shutdown Windows Box after backup? Howto?
Am Fri, 06 Aug 2010 10:27:21 +0100 schrieb Mister IT Guru: I would like to know if it is possible to get a windows box to shutdown after it's finished a job? script after backup? http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html keywords: * RunScript * Runs On Client * Runs When - Thomas -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Bacula: Backup Error of storage-fd Incremental
Am Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:11:37 +0200 schrieb C.Keschnat: Error: Bacula bacula-dir 5.0.2 (28Apr10): 06-Aug-2010 14:06:00 Build OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu debian 5.0.4 JobId: 12541 Job:storage.2010-08-06_14.05.00_52 Backup Level: Incremental, since=2010-08-06 13:05:02 Client: storage-fd 3.0.0 (06Apr09) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu,debian,4.0 bacula-dir = 5.0.2 storage-fd = 3.0.0 i would say: upgrade the client to 5.0.2 - Thomas -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed
Am Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:57:06 -0400 schrieb ekke85: Hi I have a Quantum Scalar i500 and it works in Bacula, but it is very slow. It writes at 22mb/sec. The drives should be able to do a lot more then that. I have to backup 11TB that takes a couple of days to complete, I don't want to think how long it would take to restore :( This is the output I get from btape without hardware compression: * did you enable (at least attribute) spooling? * with what speed can you actually read the data ? (try to make a tar of a large directory time tar -cf /dev/null path/to/directory ) * is the storage daemon on the same machine as the 11tb data? - Thomas -- The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed
Hi Thomas The spooling attribute was not enabled, I have enabled it now. This is what I get writing to disk and then also writing that file to tape with tar: This is a 10gb file to disk#58; #93;# dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/bigfile bs=1M count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1048576 bytes #40;10 GB#41; copied, 189.551 seconds, 55.3 MB/s reading/writing one large file is not the same as reading/writing thousands of small files/directories. are there just large files on the netapp? if not do the tar test with a directory with an average sample of the 11tb. - Thomas -- The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Limit backup size
Am Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:06:00 +0400 schrieb Matthieu Patou: Hello, For reason of space and time I would like to limit the size, is there a way to make a job fail if the stored size is more than xx bytes (note: I do the storage on disks). you could limit pool size or job time (see bacula docs) IMHO there's no way to limit a job size. - Thomas -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Using HP Storageworks 1/8 G2 with Bacula
Am Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:36:47 -0300 schrieb Daniel Bareiro: Hi all! I'm doing tests with a brand new HP Storageworks 1/8 G2 I plan to use with Bacula on Debian GNU/Linux Lenny. The tape autoloader is connected to a PC through an HP Smart Array P212 card. It is HP's entry level PCI Express Serial Attached SCSI RAID controller. In these initial tests I intend to make the autoloader and the drive to recognize commands sent using mtx and mt, respectively. However, in the operating system I'm only seeing the tape drive, but not the autochanger: backup:~# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model: ST3160211AS Rev: 3.AA Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 05 But I'm not seeing a /dev/st0 or /dev/nst0 device. did you try backports kernel 2.6.32 ? (www.backports.org) - Thomas -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Using HP Storageworks 1/8 G2 with Bacula
Am Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:49:37 -0300 schrieb Daniel Bareiro: did you try backports kernel 2.6.32 ? (www.backports.org) I finish installing 2.6.32 of backports to test: backup:~# uname -a Linux backup 2.6.32-bpo.5-686 #1 SMP Fri Jun 11 22:20:29 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux backup:~# lsscsi [2:0:0:0]cd/dvd Optiarc DVD RW AD-7190A 1.05 /dev/sr0 [5:0:0:0] diskATA ST3160211AS 3.AA /dev/sda It draws attention to me that in this case does it not have /proc/scsi: backup:~# ls -l /proc/scsi/* ls: cannot access /proc/scsi/*: No such file or directory i've found this about the cciss driver in the kernel documents: Additionally, note that the driver will not engage the SCSI core at init time. The driver must be directed to dynamically engage the SCSI core via the /proc filesystem entry which the block side of the driver creates as /proc/driver/cciss/cciss* at runtime. This is because at driver init time, the SCSI core may not yet be initialized (because the driver is a block driver) and attempting to register it with the SCSI core in such a case would cause a hang. This is best done via an initialization script (typically in /etc/init.d, but could vary depending on distribution). For example: for x in /proc/driver/cciss/cciss[0-9]* do echo engage scsi $x done (http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/cciss.txt) - Thomas -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] 11TB backup run out of memory and dies
Am Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:29:37 -0400 schrieb ekke85: Hi I have a Scalar i500 library with 5 drives and 135 slots. I have a Red Hat 5 server with a 1gb nic. The setup works fine for backups on most systems. The problem I have is a NFS share with 11TB of data that I need to backup. Every time I run this job it will write about 600GB of data to a tape and then the server runs out of memory and remounts the root filesystem as read only. Has anyone else had this before? Or what can I try to fix this? hmm... why does it remount / on out of memory? what bacula version do you use? what's your bacula configuration? does it stop on transferring data or on inserting meta-data to db? which process is eating your memory away? a workaround could be to split up the large fileset into smaller ones. i'm running incremental backups of 300-400gb without memory problems on bacula 5.0.2. - Thomas -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Unable to open device driv (/dev/st0): ERR=No medium found
Am Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:00:28 -0400 schrieb sofsof: I have a problem after a forced restart, in fact : status dir return me that my client is waiting for a mount request in fact status storage return me: Device status: Device drive (/dev/st0) is not open. Device is BLOCKED. User unmounted during wait for media/mount. How can I unblock this device please ? first: you should define /dev/nst0 not /dev/st0 in bacula-sd.conf - else you will someday overwrite valuable data. do a mount in bconsole to unblock the drive. Maybe someone has done a unmount in bconsole. - Thomas -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula slow, possibly network
Am Tue, 11 May 2010 03:47:05 -0700 schrieb martinofmoscow: Hi, we've come over from an Amanda backup system which had become a nightmare to administer, and generally we're very happy with Bacula. My concern thought is speed: Bacula is proving to be very slow, possibly in relation - it seems - to its network utilisation. We're backing up over a managed 100Mbps LAN, so not lightning-fast, but ought to be ok for 400Gb overnight full weekly backup and typically 5Gb nightly differential. Although the methodology of Bacula and Amanda are different, I'm fairly certain Amanda was much, much faster at backing up over a network than could deal with this quite well. I kicked off a [400Gb, full] bacup at 1am on Saturday and it completed 11 hours later at mid-day. Interestingly, I just noticed that the Bacula dir was able to reel off a backup of the fd on localhost of about 750Mb in under 10 seconds, which is why I'm looking towards the way Bacula uses the network as the possible source of the problem. Conversely, a differential of 6Mb from a client on the local LAN just took a few minutes to complete. Another possibility is spooling. I've set up a spool directory on the director/sd but have never seen it used. Relatedly, the tape drive during backups is very stop/start, with a lot of pauses. We're using an HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960 with LTO-3 tapes. The dir/sd is a PowerEdge running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and the supported Bacula 2.2.8. The clients are running Ubuntu LTS and Redhat EL5 across a 100Mbps LAN. I am not using TLS encryption for these servers, although I will be using it soon for backing up two more servers across the internet. did you read: http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Data_Spooling.html and did you enable the SpoolData in the Job definition? the tape is likely faster than 100mbps resulting in starting/stoping alot (== slow) if data-spooling is not configured correctly. -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Problem connecting to FD
Am Thu, 06 May 2010 19:57:59 +0100 schrieb Paul Bradley:
IN BACULA-FD.CONF
Director {
Name = server-dir
Password = SOME PASSWORD (MATCHES OTHER ENTRY BELOW)
}
IN BACULA-DIR.CONF
Client {
Name = server-fd
Address = server
FDPort = 9102
Catalog = MyCatalog
Password = SOME PASSWORD (MATCHES OTHER ENTRY ABOVE) #
password$
File Retention = 30 days# 30 days Job Retention = 6 months
# six months AutoPrune = yes # Prune
expired Jobs/Files
}
How can I further debug this?
thanks
you provided server as address. can you sucessfully lookup the name ?
(ping server and/or host server)?
is a firewall on (check: iptables -L -n)?
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Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware configuration and off-site backup
Am Tue, 04 May 2010 08:34:15 +0200 schrieb Vlamsdoem: Hello, I have few questions about my new backup configuration. Before asking my questions I will give you some useful information about what I need to do. I need a backup ± 10 servers with one full backup every week of 3,5 TB and an incremental backup of 100GB 5 times/week. I have 48 hours to do the full backup and about 8 hours to do the incremental backup. Every servers are on a 100Mb ethernet link. Considering all this parameters I need some advice about the choice of my hard disks. I'm planing to buy a StorageWorks array from Hp (DAS) but I don't know what's the best choice for the hard disks. I'm pretty sure that a fast hard disk is better for performance but it's not for money saving :), I'm wondering if big sata disks of 2TB/7.2k rpm are fast enough to achieve my backups in time or is it better to buy faster/sas disks to be sure it's done in time. 100Mb == 100mbit? 100Mbit will result in about 9MB/s . To transfer 3,5TB over ethernet you would need about 108hours. you need _at least_ 1Gbit ethernet on the backup-server. if there are millions of small files involved on the backedup servers, there will be much less throuhput. also do not place the DB data not on the same spindles as the backup volumes. IMHO the backup disks will not be the bottleneck if you go with SATA 7.2k drives. but check the specs - i'm sure HP is providing performance data somewhere on the homepage (or ask your dealer) - Thomas -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] bcopy fails: No Volume name given
hi
i'm failing to use the bcopy utility. I want to copy from tape to disk. i keeps
telling me, that No Volume name is given (see log output below)
somebody maybe know what's going wrong? bacula is version 5.0.1 on debian.
- Thomas
# bcopy -v -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -i35L4 -oCOPY35L4
SuperLoader3-LTO4 FileStorage
bcopy: butil.c:281 Using device: SuperLoader3-LTO4 for reading.
22-Apr 13:09 bcopy JobId 0: Invalid slot=0 defined in catalog for Volume
35L4 on SuperLoader3-LTO4 (/dev/nst0). Manual load may be required.
22-Apr 13:09 bcopy JobId 0: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0 command.
22-Apr 13:09 bcopy JobId 0: 3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result is Slot
6.
22-Apr 13:09 bcopy JobId 0: Ready to read from volume 35L4 on device
SuperLoader3-LTO4 (/dev/nst0).
bcopy: butil.c:284 Using device: FileStorage for writing.
22-Apr 13:09 bcopy: Fatal Error at bcopy.c:204 because:
dev open failed: Could not open file device FileStorage
(/srv/spool/FileStorage). No Volume name given.
bacula-sd FileStorage part:
Device {
Name = FileStorage
Media Type = File
Archive Device = /srv/FileStorage
LabelMedia = no; # disable automatic labeling
Random Access = Yes;
AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
RemovableMedia = yes;
AlwaysOpen = yes;
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Re: [Bacula-users] bcopy fails: No Volume name given
You used wrong devices. Bcopy and most other bacula tools operating on devices (for example: btape, bscan, bls) use a device path (defined in the Archive Device directive from the Device resource) in a command line. You can use somethings like that: bcopy -v -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -i 35L4 -o COPY35L4 /dev/nst0 /srv/FileStorage if your tape drive device is /dev/nst0 of course. Regards gani hi gani thanks, tried it, but same error: # bcopy -v -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -i35L4 -oCOPY35L4 /dev/nst0 /srv/FileStorage -p bcopy: butil.c:281 Using device: /dev/nst0 for reading. 23-Apr 07:29 bcopy JobId 0: Invalid slot=0 defined in catalog for Volume 35L4 on SuperLoader3-LTO4 (/dev/nst0). Manual load may be required. 23-Apr 07:29 bcopy JobId 0: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 0 command. 23-Apr 07:29 bcopy JobId 0: 3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 0, result is Slot 6. 23-Apr 07:29 bcopy JobId 0: Ready to read from volume 35L4 on device SuperLoader3-LTO4 (/dev/nst0). bcopy: butil.c:284 Using device: /srv/FileStorage for writing. 23-Apr 07:29 bcopy: Fatal Error at bcopy.c:204 because: dev open failed: Could not open file device FileStorage (/srv/FileStorage). No Volume name given. if I try /srv/FileStorage/COPY35L4 as output device it tells me it could not find the device in bacula-sd.conf. I'm going to think, that the utility is broken with file devices. - Thomas -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes on full disk - lots of 0 byte files
Am Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:17:53 +1000 schrieb Rex Chan: Hi guys, once disk space becomes full, our bacula configuration starts writing out a whole bunch of 0 byte volumes to disk. maybe you wan't to delete them with delete volume=xyz on bconsole. I can manually delete all the 0 byte files, but does the catalog require cleanup as well? What changes can I make to our configuration to prevent this from happening? if bacula is filling your disk space: you could enforce total size of a pool with bacula pool settings or set maximum number of volumes in pool. if others are filling space: PreScript check (if your dir is also sd, no StoragePreScript exists) - Thomas -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Deleting files/folders on restores
Am Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:54:51 +0200 schrieb Marco Zimmermann: How can I change this behavior? I mean restore in a way that newer files/folders will be deleted? IMHO this is not supported. it only restores accurate but does not delete what is already there. you would need to delete the folder before restoring (- ClientPreScript) or search/delete files with find and -mtime after restoring. - Thomas -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Copy Jobs for replication
Am Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:18:18 +0200 schrieb My Name: Hi, What: What I want to do is to replicate specific backup jobs to another bacula system (other Director Storage). Is there a good solution to do this? Why: Very important backups should be replicated to another backup system so that one system (director storage) may crash (- redundancy for high availability). catalog: mysql has a built in replication feature. postrgres has this too (IMHO, not a pg user right now). volumes (disk based): DRBD (raid1 over tcp/ip, www.drbd.org). If you go with drbd you could also put the mysql/posgressql data on drbd. if you want a cluster manager, have a look at pacemaker/corosync. - Thomas -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] How to re-use existing volumes in pool?
Sean Carolan wrote: 23-Mar 20:56 bacula-sd: Invalid slot=0 defined, cannot autoload Volume. 23-Mar 20:56 bacula-sd: Please mount Volume Bacula_Catalog on Storage Device d2d4112 (/dev/nst0) for Job BackupCatalog.2010-03-22_23.05.00 Any ideas how I can help it find the right slots? When I do a list volumes it is showing all volumes in slot 0. update slots yields this: ... Volume 724CE972 not found in catalog. Slot=20 InChanger set to zero. Volume 724CE973 not found in catalog. Slot=21 InChanger set to zero. Volume 724CE974 not found in catalog. Slot=22 InChanger set to zero. Volume 724CE975 not found in catalog. Slot=23 InChanger set to zero. Volume 724CE976 not found in catalog. Slot=24 InChanger set to zero. ... so your tapes got barcodes but bacula doesn't know about them yet. you need to label them first (command: label barcodes). - Thomas -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Hard disk as backup media
Am Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:57:18 -0300 schrieb Marcio Vogel Merlone dos Santos: Hi all, I am currently using bacula 2.4.2-1ubuntu4~hardy1, but the web docs refer to 5.0. Could please someone point to this lazy/buzy admin some docs which could help me setup a hard-disk as a perpetual retention media for annual backups? The idea is to make a full backup once or twice a year on a hard-disk, remove it from the machine, keep its catalog and store it somewhere until the end of the company. I have to implement this solution until end of june I wouln't go for harddisks for a long time archive (or do know already the end of the company date? ;)) - Thomas -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Hard disk as backup media
bacula-users-lists wrote: Ok, you've piqued my curiosity - why would one not use disk versus ¿tape? as a long term storage medium? Do you have any sites, documentation, whitepapers on the subject? Even unsupported hunches are food for thought - mind sharing? do not have whitepapers or things like that. but: * last month my fathers old pc got defective (motherbord, 7 years old). Hey, I was little surprised, that i had no machine around with IDE connectors . * i don't know any commodity harddrives with warranty longer than 5years, wheras tapes are statet to last up to 30years by manufacturers (further readings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape_Open) anyway, for long term archiving you will hit other problems like: can you read your data with the software you will have in 10years or will the old software still run? Your restored data will be worth nothing if you can't work with it. :) - Thomas -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] How to re-use existing volumes in pool?
Sean Carolan wrote:
you need to edit the Pool resource (Maximum Volume Jobs and Volume
Retention) in bacula-dir.conf
Thank you, Thomas. I have read through the manual section on the Pool
resource. Here is one of my pool definitions:
Pool {
Name = BackupPC_pool
Pool Type = Backup
Volume Retention = 5 days
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
MaximumVolumeJobs = 1
}
Shouldn't this configuration automatically recycle volumes if I run my
backup once a week? My current process goes something like this:
1. Unmount tape that is in the drive
2. Run the purge command to wipe the volumes for my next backup
3. Run mtx -f /dev/sg0 load # to load up the next tape
4. Run mount to get the tape ready
5. Run my backup
there should be no need to do anything manually.
did you restart bacula-dir (or reload on bconsole) and update volumes
from resource in bconsole (or bat) after changing the bacula-dir.conf ?
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Re: [Bacula-users] How to re-use existing volumes in pool?
Sean Carolan wrote:
maybe change VolumeRetention to 5 days and do an update volumes from
resource (only changing *.conf won't do the trick).
Also change Use volume once to Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
Here's what I have in my bacula-sd.conf:
Device {
Name = d2d4112
Drive Index = 0
Media Type = LTO-4
Archive Device = /dev/nst0
AutomaticMount = yes
AlwaysOpen = yes
RemovableMedia = yes
Random Access = no
AutoChanger = yes;
Alert Command = sh -c 'smartctl -H -l error %c'
}
I have automaticmount set as yes, but I haven't seen a volume get
mounted automatically yet. Every time Bacula sends me an email asking
me to mount manually. What am I missing here?
you need to edit the Pool resource (Maximum Volume Jobs and Volume
Retention) in bacula-dir.conf
Read:
http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION001715
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Re: [Bacula-users] How to re-use existing volumes in pool?
Am Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:16:19 -0500 schrieb Sean Carolan: Due to disk space limitations I would like to re-use the same volumes each week for a single full backup. Every time I try to run a new job, I get an error stating that bacula cannot find any append-able volumes. It has been over six days since my last backup. Anyone know how to make bacula re-use the same volumes, overwriting or deleting the old backups each week? maybe change VolumeRetention to 5 days and do an update volumes from resource (only changing *.conf won't do the trick). Also change Use volume once to Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION001715 - Thomas -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] changing the retention period to indefinite
Am Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:53:42 -0500 schrieb Guy Matz: hello, my brothers. a machine of mine has died and i would like to keep the last set of backups forever . . . can someone tell me the right way to go about making changes to the DB - or whatever it is i need to do - in order to achieve this goal? set the volume to state read-only (update volume). - Thomas -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] restore error
Am Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:50:50 -0800 schrieb Mark Yarbrough: I am getting the follwoing errors on restoring any file from tape: 09-Mar 07:22 storage-sd: 3302 Autochanger loaded drive 0, result: nothing loaded. 09-Mar 07:22 storage-sd: RestoreFiles.2010-03-09_07.22.19 Warning: acquire.c:146 Couldn't rewind device Drive-1 (/dev/nst0): ERR=dev.c:678 Rewind error on Drive-1 (/dev/nst0). ERR=No medium found. 09-Mar 07:22 storage-sd: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded drive 0 command. 09-Mar 07:22 storage-sd: 3302 Autochanger loaded drive 0, result: nothing loaded. 09-Mar 07:22 storage-sd: 3304 Issuing autochanger load slot 1, drive 0 command. 09-Mar 07:23 storage-sd: RestoreFiles.2010-03-09_07.22.19 Error: block.c:263 Volume data error at 0:0! Wanted ID: BB02, got . Buffer discarded. 09-Mar 07:23 storage-sd: RestoreFiles.2010-03-09_07.22.19 Warning: acquire.c:146 Requested Volume 37L3 on Drive-1 (/dev/nst0) is not a Bacula labeled Volume, because: ERR=block.c:263 Volume data error at 0:0! Wanted ID: BB02, got . Buffer discarded. 09-Mar 07:23 storage-sd: Please mount Volume 37L3 on Storage Device Drive-1 (/dev/nst0) for Job RestoreFiles.2010-03-09_07.22.19 note: the tape is in the drive and ready to go. Nothing has changed from the backup and the attempted restore process. I have tried to restore from other jobs that are older thus different tapes with the same result. have a look at your kernel messages (dmesg) about messages st [[:digit:]] and scsi errors. and maybe you need to clean your drive? have you ever tried to restore before, did you run the btape tests? - Thomas -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Windows 7 Client Backup
Am Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:06:24 -0500 schrieb Phil Stracchino: On 03/08/10 09:26, McCann, Brian wrote: Hi All. I'm having a hard time finding a solution to this...but I'm sure there is one. When all my desktops were on Windows XP, I used the Client Run Before Job command to run ntbackup to make a system state backup to grab the registry and all those other goodies. For the life of me, I can't find the equivalent tool on Windows 7. Has anyone figured this out yet? It's my understanding that this is no longer necessary if using VSS. Can anyone confirm? IMHO the system state backup is still needed for a complete recovery.VSS itself is just a snapshot method to get a consistent state of files. -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with automatic labeling
be sure to set Retention times on the pool (e.g. for your schedule maybe 18 days) and and a use duration (maybe 1 day as you change it on a daily basis). I know that my Retention times is wrong right now, but I'm just doing some test so I purge volumes manually. But Thanks for the use duration, I will set it up. Well, again, assuming that the volume is purged from the catalog, the tape is rewind and woef-ed.. I still don't unterstand why bacula doesn't want to relabel the volume. if you purge a tape , the tape label is still in the database. you would need to delete it. I mean, the label format worked fine for the first backup but apparently there is no way to relabel the tape. Will it really fix the problem if I change the label format ? i've never used your method to write woef with a pre-script. IMHO bacula is not designed to work this way (what doesn't mean that you could not do it this way with scripts and try and error). The tape cycle is the following: label the tape - write to it (append) - full or used (when use duration is over) - prune it (retention time is over, purged) - reuse the tape (recycle) you only label it once. the label remains also with recycling. so you write the bacula label on the tape and you will know which tape to insert if you need to restore something. - Thomas -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with automatic labeling
I've made a test with the new label, it worked fine. But the volume name hasn't a speaking name, it's just Day-0016, Day-0017.. you cold still label it yourself and name it what you like (label command). - Thomas -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Updating tables from 3.0.2 to 5.0.1
Am Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:42:59 -0300 schrieb Daniel Bareiro: Hi all! I'm trying to update the database tables of Bacula 3.0.2 using the script update_bacula_tables, but when doing I obtain it the following errors: - backup:/etc/bacula/scripts# ./update_bacula_tables Altering MySQL tables This script will update a Bacula MySQL database from version 11 to 12 which is needed to convert from Bacula Enterprise 2.6 to 4.0 or Standard version 3.0 to 5.0 ERROR 1091 (42000) at line 3: Can't DROP 'Stripe'; check that column/key exists ERROR 1050 (42S01) at line 20: Table 'PathHierarchy' already exists ERROR 1061 (42000) at line 27: Duplicate key name 'pathhierarchy_ppathid' ERROR 1050 (42S01) at line 30: Table 'PathVisibility' already exists ERROR 1061 (42000) at line 38: Duplicate key name 'pathvisibility_jobid' Update of Bacula MySQL tables succeeded. - Which can be the problem? I would have to use another procedure? IMHO these don't seem to be error messages. it tries to delete a column but it doesn't exist. it tries to create new tables, but they already exist. tries to create a new index, but it already exists. maybe you ran it twice? i would say: all is fine. - Thomas -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Building an 8TB SD
Am Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:20:58 -0500 schrieb Dan Langille: I'm in the early stages of building an SD which will hold 8TB. This is where you should start: http://dan.langille.org/2010/02/23/the-new-box-some-purchases/ Earlier: the hardware selection process Later: some slight refinements. Goal: A FreeBSD 8.x system with a ZFS filesystem on 5x2TB HDD. Price: about $1800 I think. I should be building it this weekend. Yes: I could have built it cheaper. The main goal: big and decently reliable. some interesting thoughts about building cheap storage: http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ - Thomas -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with automatic labeling
Am Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:45:58 -0800 schrieb gnowar:
Hello,
I've some problems with automatic labeling. Here is my conf :
snip
Here is my BeforeJob script :
#!/bin/sh
mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
mt -f /dev/st0 weof
/opt/bacula/sbin/bconsole -c /opt/bacula/sysconf/bconsole.conf
END_OF_DATA unmount storage=Tape
END_OF_DATA
/opt/bacula/sbin/bconsole -c /opt/bacula/sysconf/bconsole.conf
END_OF_DATA mount storage=Tape
END_OF_DATA
Pool {
Name = TapePool
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes # Bacula can automatically recycle
Volumes
AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes Volume
Retention = 365 days # one year Maximum Volume Jobs = 2
Maximum Volumes = 1 # Limit number of Volumes in Pool
Label Format =
${Pool}_${Storage}_${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Day:p/2/0/r}_
${Hour:p/2/0/r}h${Minute:p/2/0/r}m
}
why do you wan't to create time based names for your tape volumes and why
not just enumerate and use volume recycling? this would be the standard
with tapes.
- Thomas
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Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with automatic labeling
Am Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:28:21 -0800 schrieb gnowar: Because I change tape everyday during 20 days. It easyer to know wich tape I need if the volume name include the date and time isn't it ? do you write the new tape labels on the tape every time you put the new one in it? or how do you read the tape label manually? Define the label format like I did does impact the recycle fonction of bacula ? What should be set in the label format ? you could use Day- as label Format. Bacula will then append a number to it. or label them once manually. be sure to set Retention times on the pool (e.g. for your schedule maybe 18 days) and and a use duration (maybe 1 day as you change it on a daily basis). http://bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION001715 - Thomas -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Copying huge number of files - very slow
Am Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:03:53 -0600 schrieb Sean Carolan: Bacula and Amanda are intended to be network backup solutions. But, you've chosen to use many instances of BackupPC over the network. Actually there's only one instance of BackupPC. We have one BackupPC server, and about 200 clients. It is an agent-less backup system that uses rsync to transfer files. just out of curiosity: did you ever tried to fsck your filesystem where backuppc has it's data? heard that fsck gets upset if there are too many hardlinks. - Thomas -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] simple problem ?!
Am Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:30:31 +0100 schrieb Markus Heinze:
Hello List,
im new to bacula and i have a simple problem, i think. I wan't to backup
a few directories to a tape only from monday to friday. i only hav 5
tapes (currently) so i have one tape for each day, so i must overwrite
each tape every time it is used but i don't know how to configure this,
the backup works fine but it appends the data but i want that the backup
starts with formatting the tape and then write to the tape. so a tape
will be overwritten every week.
add Volume Retention to pool resource in bacula-dir.conf, example:
Pool {
...
Volume Retention = 6 days
}
(http://bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/
Configuring_Director.html#9184)
* restart bacula-dir (or reload on console)
* on console: update volumes - Volumes parameters - All Volumes from
all Pools
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Re: [Bacula-users] forcing tapes to recycle
Am Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:29:54 -0800 schrieb David Koski: I am trying to recycle some tapes that have become used. I have set the status to append: ... I have tried to stop and start the jobs and restart bacula without succcess. How can I force bacula to use tapes that have been used, without relabeling them? to force the reuse of the volume you need to purge it. http://bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/console/console/Bacula_Console.html#280 for automatic prune'ing see retention times in the bacula manual. - Thomas -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] trying (and failing) to get a Quantum Superloader 3 to work with Bacula
Am Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:28:13 + schrieb shouldbe q931: Hi, The environment is Centos 5.4 x86 with Bacula 5.0.0-1 built from srpms (built as a non root user, and installed as root), with just the qwt and wx parts from the epel repo, and the rest from the main Centos repo. [r...@sp-mirror-02 ~]# uname -a Linux sp-mirror-02.loewygroup.local 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5PAE #1 SMP Wed Jan 20 08:16:13 EST 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [r...@sp-mirror-02 ~]# rpm -qa | grep bacula bacula-docs-5.0.0-1 bacula-mysql-5.0.0-1 bacula-mtx-5.0.0-1 bacula-bat-5.0.0-1 As can be seen from the below, mtx can see the changer. I can also see the slots in BAT, but I'm unable to label any tapes, or run a backup as Bacula (BAT) can't see the tapes in the library. There are tapes in the library (I put them there), however they don't have barcodes on them. The error I get is No volumes found to lable, or no barcodes did you mount a tape before you tried to label it? * mount storage * select your SuperLoader * enter slotnumber * label with no labels you need to update slots scan everytime you change tapes (takes a really long time to scan all 16 slots). - Thomas -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] trying (and failing) to get a Quantum Superloader 3 to work with Bacula
I left it running for ~12 hours, BAT was unresponsive, and the web interface on the library was showing idle :-( are there some suspicous kernel messages ? (dmesg | grep st) Is there a better way of doing a scan ? use barcode labels and update slots (without scan). then do a label barcodes so bacula will write the barcode lables to tape. - Thomas -- SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] trying (and failing) to get a Quantum Superloader 3 to work with Bacula
shouldbe q931 wrote:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Thomas Mueller tho...@chaschperli.ch
wrote:
I left it running for ~12 hours, BAT was unresponsive, and the web
interface on the library was showing idle :-(
are there some suspicous kernel messages ? (dmesg | grep st)
st: Version 20070203, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
st 0:0:5:0: Attached scsi tape st0
st0: try direct i/o: yes (alignment 512 B)
wondering what the alignment is. my dmesg shows alignment 4 B for
the superloader3.
and then further down
st0: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes.
st0: Failed to read 65536 byte block with 64512 byte transfer.
what do you have configured in your bacula-sd.conf ?
what model is your sas controller? (if it is SAS - lspci | grep -i sas)
my superloader3 with lto4 (sas interface) drive bacula-sd.conf bits:
Autochanger {
Name = SuperLoader3
Device = SuperLoader3-LTO4
Changer Device = /dev/sg4 #
Changer Command = /etc/bacula/scripts/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d
}
Device {
Name = SuperLoader3-LTO4
Media Type = LTO-4
Drive Index = 0
Autochanger = yes
Archive Device = /dev/nst0
AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
AlwaysOpen = yes;
RemovableMedia = yes;
RandomAccess = no;
Alert Command = sh -c 'sudo tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|cat'
#Offline On Unmount = yes
Maximum Spool Size = 1000G # optional
Spool Directory = /srv/spool # optional
# Based on comments on the ml tese are possible performance boosts
# Maximum File Size = 5G
# Maximum Block Size = 262144
# Maximum Network Buffer Size = 262144
}
Is there a better way of doing a scan ?
use barcode labels and update slots (without scan). then do a label
barcodes so bacula will write the barcode lables to tape.
Are barcode labels a requirement, or is there an alternative ?
no there is no requirement, but the drive is slow on changing tapes. an
update slots scan (for all 16 slots) takes about 20min or so (but not
12h) whereas with barcode labels it takes 5s.
Apologies, for my bad description, I have been using the GUI version
of BAT to label the tapes, I know there is the label console
command, but apart from the console in BAT, I haven;t found how to get
into a CLI console.
the command is bconsole for the cli version.
http://bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/console/console/index.html
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