Re: [Bacula-users] disaster recovery - full OS?

[Dan Langille]

> On Jun 18, 2018, at 10:59 AM, czezz  wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Does bacula offer full disaster recovery?

http://www.bacula.org/9.0.x-manuals/en/main/Disaster_Recovery_Using_Bac.html 


That said, I always prefer to backup data and let me take care of setting up 
the system.  The backup may have occurred on one type of filesystem, parition 
layout, OS, and I want to restore to another, for example.

> What I have read up until now it seems that Bacula backups only files and 
> directories.
> It seems that in case full system restoration, fresh installation of OS is 
> required.
> 
> Is this correct?
> Is ther an option to completely image OS like eg. Clonezilla offers (I know 
> it is offline backup though)

Everything specializes in something.  Create your priorities, make your 
choices.  if getting a new system back up and running ASAP is your priority, 
restoring from backup is your biggest problem. Deployment is.

If you like what Clonezilla does, make sure it does everything you want.  For 
example, do you want, and does it do, incrementals, differentials, can it be 
used to restore the 400GB file which was just deleted.

Can it gives you a list of files in the backup, and their checksums, and 
timestamps so you can decide which one to restore?

This is just a small list of things to consider.

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Re: [Bacula-users] disaster recovery - full OS?

[Heitor Faria]

> Hi,
Hello, 

> Does bacula offer full disaster recovery?
> What I have read up until now it seems that Bacula backups only files and
> directories.
> It seems that in case full system restoration, fresh installation of OS is
> required.

For Community Bacula yes. For Enterprise version there is a Bare Metal Linux 
and Windows solution. 

> Is this correct?
> Is ther an option to completely image OS like eg. Clonezilla offers (I know it
> is offline backup though)

Enterprise Bacula Bare Metal has the advantage of being online and to allow 
differential machine backups. 

> Best regards,
> czezz

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Re: [Bacula-users] disaster recovery for windows client

[Konstantin Khomoutov]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:45:55 +0100
Sven Gehr  wrote:

> Is it possible to create a complete backup from my windows-clients
> with bacula? Therefore a disaster recovery so the complet host (OS
> +Data) can be restored?
> 
> We use clients with winxp-pro (32bit) and win7-pro (64bit). The
> server is ubuntu-server 12.04.01-LTS (64bit).

See
http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/Disast_Recove_Using_Bacula.html
and its "Disaster Recovery of Win32 Systems" section in particular.

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Re: [Bacula-users] disaster recovery of the actual bacula server

[Jérôme Blion]

Le 29/11/2012 21:58, Dan Langille a écrit :

On Nov 29, 2012, at 10:30 AM, Jonathan Horne wrote:

I am getting ready to deploy my first bacula server to our production 
environment.  I would like to practice 2 scenarios of recovery.  
First, I will recover the configuration files and  mysql database 
(from dump files), and hopefully continue on.  The second, I will 
recover only the configuration files.  Both scenarios, will tear down 
the server and rebuild new OS and reattach the LUN where the volume 
pools are stored.


The first seems pretty straight forward, especially is the mysqldump 
is current after the most recent backups that ran.  The 2^nd , poses 
the question of how to import existing volume pool data into a new 
bacula director installation?


Any advice or acedotes from when this has been previously performed 
would be appreciated.


Every day:

- copy your Catalog dump (i.e. a text file) to another location
- copy your *.conf files to the same location

At that location, use log rotate to keep N copies of those files 
sitting around.


I do the above to three different locations: one on-site, two off-site.

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Hello,

I used Netbackup for years. When I used it, the catalog was not a real 
database, and had to be backed up with Netbackup tools. To secure the 
current version, we had a 3-part mirror on 2 remote SAN + local disks. 
As Bacula stores most data pieces in text files or in a mainstream 
database, you can do everything you can imagine on databases:


1 - For mysql databases, just forget mysqldump. As soon as your database 
will grow, restore from a dump will become longer and longer. I use 
mylvmbackup on databases which are modified all the times (huge 
environments). For quieter databases, I use mydumper. Of course, you 
have to keep several versions of this backup (as you already do for 
every thing else, isn't it ? ;-) )


2 - Enable binary logging and export binary logs to another server 
often. Hourly is a good start. If you can, you can even imagine to store 
binary logs on a remote filesystem. This way, you always have the latest 
version of binary logs on another server.


3 - You can imagine to use a MySQL slave to ensure you have at least 2 
versions of the same catalog at the same time. In case of crash, you 
won't loose your catalog.


3 does not replace 1 and 2 as a slave is "just" a snapshot. If the 
database is corrupted, it will be on both servers and you will have to 
recover it from backups.


HTH.
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Re: [Bacula-users] disaster recovery of the actual bacula server

[Dan Langille]

On Nov 29, 2012, at 10:30 AM, Jonathan Horne wrote:

> I am getting ready to deploy my first bacula server to our production 
> environment.  I would like to practice 2 scenarios of recovery.  First, I 
> will recover the configuration files and  mysql database (from dump files), 
> and hopefully continue on.  The second, I will recover only the configuration 
> files.  Both scenarios, will tear down the server and rebuild new OS and 
> reattach the LUN where the volume pools are stored.
>  
> The first seems pretty straight forward, especially is the mysqldump is 
> current after the most recent backups that ran.  The 2nd, poses the question 
> of how to import existing volume pool data into a new bacula director 
> installation?
>  
> Any advice or acedotes from when this has been previously performed would be 
> appreciated.


Every day:

- copy your Catalog dump (i.e. a text file) to another location
- copy your *.conf files to the same location

At that location, use log rotate to keep N copies of those files sitting around.

I do the above to three different locations: one on-site, two off-site.

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Re: [Bacula-users] disaster recovery of the actual bacula server

[Jérôme Blion]

Le 29/11/2012 17:32, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de a écrit :
> Zitat von Jonathan Horne :
>
>> I am getting ready to deploy my first bacula server to our
>> production environment.  I would like to practice 2 scenarios of
>> recovery.  First, I will recover the configuration files and  mysql
>> database (from dump files), and hopefully continue on.  The second,
>> I will recover only the configuration files.  Both scenarios, will
>> tear down the server and rebuild new OS and reattach the LUN where
>> the volume pools are stored.
>>
>> The first seems pretty straight forward, especially is the mysqldump
>> is current after the most recent backups that ran.  The 2nd, poses
>> the question of how to import existing volume pool data into a new
>> bacula director installation?
> You need the "bscan" utility to rebuild the catalog from your backup volumes:
>
> http://www.bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/utility/utility/Volume_Utility_Tools.html#SECTION0027
>
> Regards
>
> Andreas

As the Bacula catalog is a mainstream database, you can secure it using 
different ways:
 - replication (on another site would be the best)
 - full backup + binlog backup on another site

With these two strategies, you wil be able to survive anything.

The cost to secure the catalog is so low everyone should do it ;)

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Re: [Bacula-users] disaster recovery of the actual bacula server

[lst_hoe02]

Zitat von Jonathan Horne :

> I am getting ready to deploy my first bacula server to our  
> production environment.  I would like to practice 2 scenarios of  
> recovery.  First, I will recover the configuration files and  mysql  
> database (from dump files), and hopefully continue on.  The second,  
> I will recover only the configuration files.  Both scenarios, will  
> tear down the server and rebuild new OS and reattach the LUN where  
> the volume pools are stored.
>
> The first seems pretty straight forward, especially is the mysqldump  
> is current after the most recent backups that ran.  The 2nd, poses  
> the question of how to import existing volume pool data into a new  
> bacula director installation?

You need the "bscan" utility to rebuild the catalog from your backup volumes:

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

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Re: [Bacula-users] Disaster Recovery Test

[dweimer]

On 2012-09-25 11:39, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote:
> Zitat von dweimer :
>
>> Now that I have been running Bacula for several months, I was 
>> working
>> on testing disaster recovery, just in case I need to.  I am a little
>> lost though on what I need to do to get the database restored.  I am
>> going on the assumption that All I will have is the off site data
>> (hopefully not ever this bad as this is my home system).
>> I have a nightly admin job that kicks off a Python script on the 
>> server
>> which creates a bzipped tar of my Bootstrap files, state files, and 
>> the
>> server/client configuration files and emails that to my gmail 
>> account.
>> So for my test I built a virtual machine (Original and test system
>> running FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p4), installed PostgreSQL, and Bacula,
>> created the initial Bacula tables, restored the configuration,
>> bootstrap, and state files from my emailed tar file.
>>
>> Here's where things go a little wrong, I mount my external backup 
>> drive
>> to the test server, launch bconsole, and issue the status command 
>> for
>> the client, since I restored the state files, I can see the job ID 
>> of my
>> last catalog Backup.  Then issue the run command, select restore, 
>> enter
>> the job ID when prompted, and select mod, enter the bootstrap file 
>> from
>> the catalog backup and start the job.
>
> Hello
>
> I have myself not fully tested disaster recovery but as far as i know
> you need a valid bootstrap from your catalog (database) backup. With
> this you can first recover the catalog backup (ASCII dump) and then
> use the tools provided for you database to import this dump. After
> that you are up and running to restore from your volumes. If you 
> don't
> have a recent catalog backup you might use "bscan" to create needed
> records by scanning your volumes.
>
> Restore a bootstrap file is explained here:
> 
> http://www.bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/main/main/Restore_Command.html#SECTION002914
>

After reading this over again for the hundredth time give or take a few 
times, I finally figured it out, if you keep going through the console 
log, it did actually restore a file despite the fatal error messages

local-dir 5.2.12 (12Sep12):
   Build OS:   amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0 freebsd 
9.0-RELEASE-p4
   JobId:  1
   Job:RestoreFiles.2012-09-24_20.43.59_07
   Restore Client: bacula.dweimer.local-fd
   Start time: 24-Sep-2012 20:44:01
   End time:   24-Sep-2012 20:44:25
   Files Expected: 0
   Files Restored: 1
   Bytes Restored: 562,544,754
   Rate:   23439.4 KB/s
   FD Errors:  1
   FD termination status:  OK
   SD termination status:  Error
   Termination:*** Restore Error ***

24-Sep 20:44 bacula.dweimer.local-dir JobId 1: Begin pruning Jobs older 
than 20 days .
24-Sep 20:44 bacula.dweimer.local-dir JobId 1: No Jobs found to prune.
24-Sep 20:44 bacula.dweimer.local-dir JobId 1: Begin pruning Files.
24-Sep 20:44 bacula.dweimer.local-dir JobId 1: No Files found to prune.
24-Sep 20:44 bacula.dweimer.local-dir JobId 1: End auto prune.

I was not actually paying attention and processing this part of the 
page:

You will then need to follow the instructions for your database type to 
recreate the database from the ASCII backup file. See the Catalog 
MaintenanceCatMaintenanceChapter chapter of this manual for examples of 
the command needed to restore a database from an ASCII dump (they are 
shown in the Compacting Your XXX Database sections).

However if the job didn't give me a fatal error I might have looked on 
more since this was after the restore job information, when I checked 
the /tmp/bacula-restore folder, sure enough under a few more folders was 
the SQL dump of the database.  When I got to the fatal error in the 
restore console log, I just started back over at the top, thinking I 
missed something along the way, instead of looking farther to see if 
there was something after that part that still needed done, despite 
having the error message.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Disaster Recovery Test

[Josh Fisher]

On 9/25/2012 12:39 PM, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote:
> Zitat von dweimer :
>
>> ...
>>
>> Here's where things go a little wrong, I mount my external backup drive
>> to the test server, launch bconsole, and issue the status command for
>> the client, since I restored the state files, I can see the job ID of my
>> last catalog Backup.  Then issue the run command, select restore, enter
>> the job ID when prompted, and select mod, enter the bootstrap file from
>> the catalog backup and start the job.
> Hello
>
> I have myself not fully tested disaster recovery but as far as i know
> you need a valid bootstrap from your catalog (database) backup. With
> this you can first recover the catalog backup (ASCII dump) and then
> use the tools provided for you database to import this dump. After
> that you are up and running to restore from your volumes. If you don't
> have a recent catalog backup you might use "bscan" to create needed
> records by scanning your volumes.

I find it much easier to just manually save a bzip'd copy of the sql 
dump file. A daily admin job copies the sql dump file via NFS to another 
server and is used to restore the database in the even that the server 
running bacula-dir dies. For a true disaster resulting in the loss of 
all servers, I manually backup a copy of the sql dump file that gets 
stored along with the offsite backup media in a bank safe deposit box.


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Re: [Bacula-users] Disaster Recovery Test

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Zitat von dweimer :

> Now that I have been running Bacula for several months, I was working
> on testing disaster recovery, just in case I need to.  I am a little
> lost though on what I need to do to get the database restored.  I am
> going on the assumption that All I will have is the off site data
> (hopefully not ever this bad as this is my home system).
> I have a nightly admin job that kicks off a Python script on the server
> which creates a bzipped tar of my Bootstrap files, state files, and the
> server/client configuration files and emails that to my gmail account.
> So for my test I built a virtual machine (Original and test system
> running FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p4), installed PostgreSQL, and Bacula,
> created the initial Bacula tables, restored the configuration,
> bootstrap, and state files from my emailed tar file.
>
> Here's where things go a little wrong, I mount my external backup drive
> to the test server, launch bconsole, and issue the status command for
> the client, since I restored the state files, I can see the job ID of my
> last catalog Backup.  Then issue the run command, select restore, enter
> the job ID when prompted, and select mod, enter the bootstrap file from
> the catalog backup and start the job.

Hello

I have myself not fully tested disaster recovery but as far as i know  
you need a valid bootstrap from your catalog (database) backup. With  
this you can first recover the catalog backup (ASCII dump) and then  
use the tools provided for you database to import this dump. After  
that you are up and running to restore from your volumes. If you don't  
have a recent catalog backup you might use "bscan" to create needed  
records by scanning your volumes.

Restore a bootstrap file is explained here:
http://www.bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/main/main/Restore_Command.html#SECTION002914

Regards

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Re: [Bacula-users] Disaster Recovery Test

[Carsten Jensen]

On 2012-09-25 16:58, dweimer wrote:
> Now that I have been running Bacula for several months, I was working 
> on testing disaster recovery, just in case I need to.  I am a little 
> lost though on what I need to do to get the database restored.  I am 
> going on the assumption that All I will have is the off site data 
> (hopefully not ever this bad as this is my home system).
> I have a nightly admin job that kicks off a Python script on the server 
> which creates a bzipped tar of my Bootstrap files, state files, and the 
> server/client configuration files and emails that to my gmail account. 
> So for my test I built a virtual machine (Original and test system 
> running FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p4), installed PostgreSQL, and Bacula, 
> created the initial Bacula tables, restored the configuration, 
> bootstrap, and state files from my emailed tar file.
>
> Here's where things go a little wrong, I mount my external backup drive 
> to the test server, launch bconsole, and issue the status command for 
> the client, since I restored the state files, I can see the job ID of my 
> last catalog Backup.  Then issue the run command, select restore, enter 
> the job ID when prompted, and select mod, enter the bootstrap file from 
> the catalog backup and start the job.
>
> It returns pretty quick with Media record not found, so I am guessing I 
> am missing a step that would load the volumes on my external backup 
> drive to my new system before it can restore the catalog, from that 
> volume, or am I missing something else?  Below is the output from the 
> console messages on the restore attempt.
>
>
> 24-Sep 20:44 bacula.dweimer.local-dir JobId 1: Start Restore Job 
> RestoreFiles.2012-09-24_20.43.59_07
> 24-Sep 20:44 bacula.dweimer.local-dir JobId 1: Using Device 
> "FileStorage"
> 24-Sep 20:44 File JobId 1: Warning: acquire.c:208 Read acquire: Error 
> getting Volume info: 1997 Volume "BV37" not in catalog.
> 24-Sep 20:44 File JobId 1: Ready to read from volume "BV37" on device 
> "FileStorage" (/mnt/bacula/eSATA).
> 24-Sep 20:44 File JobId 1: Forward spacing Volume "BV37" to file:block 
> 21:1319795790.
> 24-Sep 20:44 File JobId 1: End of Volume at file 21 on device 
> "FileStorage" (/mnt/bacula/eSATA), Volume "BV37"
> 24-Sep 20:44 File JobId 1: End of all volumes.
> 24-Sep 20:44 bacula.dweimer.local-dir JobId 1: Error: Unable to get 
> Media record for Volume BV37: ERR=sql_get.c:1094 Media record for Volume 
> "BV37" not found.
>
> 24-Sep 20:44 File JobId 1: Fatal error: Error getting Volume info: 1991 
> Catalog Request for vol=BV37 failed: 24-Sep 20:44 
> bacula.dweimer.local-dir JobId 1: Error: Bacula bacula.dweimer.local-dir 
> 5.2.12 (12Sep12):
>Build OS:   amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0 freebsd 
> 9.0-RELEASE-p4
>JobId:  1
>Job:RestoreFiles.2012-09-24_20.43.59_07
>Restore Client: bacula.dweimer.local-fd
>Start time: 24-Sep-2012 20:44:01
>End time:   24-Sep-2012 20:44:25
>Files Expected: 0
>Files Restored: 1
>Bytes Restored: 562,544,754
>Rate:   23439.4 KB/s
>FD Errors:  1
>FD termination status:  OK
>SD termination status:  Error
>Termination:*** Restore Error ***
>
You might want to take a look at the bscan command.
as far as I understand it, it reads the tape catalog, and stores it in
the db
after doing this, you can restore files, like you would normally.

this is one way to do it atleast :-)




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Re: [Bacula-users] Disaster Recovery

[John Drescher]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Mike Hendrie  wrote:
> Thank you John.
>
> Can you please explain to me the boot strap file? I am new to linux.
>

The bootstrap file is part of bacula. In the case of the catalog I
found it very important to manually extract the catalog I needed from
a disk volume with several copies of the catalog.

http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Bootstrap_File.html

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Re: [Bacula-users] Disaster Recovery

[John Drescher]

> Question: In the event of my entire bacula system going down. What is the
> best method for recovery? I looked in the online manual, but it still was
> not very clear to me.
>
> If I have my backup of catalog files, all incremental and full backups, and
> I reinstall bacula on a new server. How do I recover the data?
>
> Can I restore the catalog to the new server?
>

Yes.

>
> Should I just virtualize my bacula server and keep a copy offsite for a
> quick restore of the catalog?

That is an option.

>
> Is there a way to recover the data without the catalog? Can bacula reindex
> the files?

Yes. bscan

>
> Do I also have to export the mysql database nightly so I can recover the
> content along with my bacula catalog, system files, and backups?
>

I do a catalog backup nightly to a disk volume (which is not on the
same server as the database) containing only catalogs. I also write a
bootstrap file for this so that I can manually recover the catalog I
want. You could do this outside of bacula with a nightly myswldump as
well. Remember to always keep a few catalogs. At one point over the 7+
years I have used bacula at work I corrupted my database and did not
know for 2 weeks..


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Re: [Bacula-users] Disaster recovery

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> I just lost the mainboard on my Bacula backup server, removed the tape
> drive and hard disks (configured as a Linux software RAID) and sent the
> rest to a repair shop.
>
> While waiting for a new mainboard I'd like to recover my home directory
> using an old spare computer without support for SATA disk drives.
>
> Obviously at the moment I have no access to a bootstrap file,
> /etc/bacula/* configuration files or catalog, however, everything is
> written on the tape(s).
>
> Is it possible to recover required files using read only tapes and
> volume utility tools?

Yes. You probably need to use a combination of the following:

bscan, bls, bextract

John

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Re: [Bacula-users] Disaster recovery

[Dan Langille]

On 7/24/2010 8:14 AM, T. Kozinski wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I just lost the mainboard on my Bacula backup server, removed the tape
> drive and hard disks (configured as a Linux software RAID) and sent the
> rest to a repair shop.
>
> While waiting for a new mainboard I'd like to recover my home directory
> using an old spare computer without support for SATA disk drives.
>
> Obviously at the moment I have no access to a bootstrap file,
> /etc/bacula/* configuration files or catalog, however, everything is
> written on the tape(s).
>
> Is it possible to recover required files using read only tapes and
> volume utility tools? Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Yes, you can with bextract, bls, etc...

I think it might be easier to get a SATA controller.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Disaster Recovery Setup for Debian

[Kern Sibbald]

Please read the README file in the source, and more importantly the Rescue 
chapter in the manual.


On Monday 21 November 2005 11:24, Kumaran Babu wrote:
> Hi,
>  I've installed Bacula on my Debian Server thro' apt-get and hence there is
> no Rescue folder setup. Whats the best way to go about setting up Disaster
> recovery on my server. I know I can download the Rescue source from
> Sorceforge.net . But, I need to know, if there is
> any specific procedure to follow.
>  Any help would be great.
>  Kumaran

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