Re: [Bacula-users] What to exclude?

2016-01-27 Thread Michael Munger
Your answer is appreciated. And, I was trying to keep my question limited to what I wanted to know, but you bring up a good point: bacula is only part of the strategy. These systems are cloned with Clonezilla, the image of which sits on the shelf as a base. We use RAID 5/6/10 depending on how

Re: [Bacula-users] What to exclude?

2016-01-27 Thread compdoc
> what can I safely exclude from a bacula backup of a Linux server and still be able to fully recover (bare metal) from a disaster? I would think with bare metal recovery you couldn't afford to exclude anything. As for myself, I tend to replace the failed part and install from scratch, then

Re: [Bacula-users] What to exclude?

2016-01-27 Thread compdoc
> what can I safely exclude from a bacula backup of a Linux server and > still be able to fully recover (bare metal) from a disaster? Oh, and don't forget mysql. -- Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into

Re: [Bacula-users] What to exclude?

2016-01-27 Thread Heitor Faria
Hello Michael: bacula director client stock fileset exlude is a good starting point if you want to restore a full linux box (/tmp, /proc, /.journal etc.). Already did full restores this way. Regards, === Heitor Medrado de

Re: [Bacula-users] What to exclude?

2016-01-27 Thread Michael Munger
Good reminder. I am using a ClientBeforerunJob script to dump all the databases to .sql files before backing up. On 01/27/2016 06:57 PM, compdoc wrote: >> what can I safely exclude from a bacula backup of a Linux server and >> still be able to fully recover (bare metal) from a disaster? > Oh,

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring: error 2800 at end of tape

2016-01-27 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 01/22/16 12:56, Martin Simmons wrote: > I don't see how it could use an IPv6 address if --disable-ipv6 is specified. > Did you recompile and reinstall the bacula-client port or just bacula-server? > The IPv6 support is in bacula-client, which installs libbac.so. Doh! That's the problem! I

[Bacula-users] bacula.Job does not exist

2016-01-27 Thread Michael Munger
Not sure where to report this, so, please someone reply so I can submit the corrected files. I downloaded the latest version of Bacula, and compiled from source. After running the various scripts to create the MySQL databases, I got a few errors, but ignored them at first. Then, when trying

Re: [Bacula-users] Remote backup through NAT?

2016-01-27 Thread Michael Munger
Just as a follow up, moving to 7.4.x solved the problem. The secret is FD Storage Address. For future searchers / Googlers: The FD Storage Address is defined for a given client, and that client will then use it to send all the storage requests to. Thus: If FD Storage Address is

Re: [Bacula-users] error compilation bacula 7.4 with postgresql version 9.3.9

2016-01-27 Thread Michael Munger
Configure cannot find libpq-fe.h. On your system, execute the following (as root): 1. updatedb 2. locate libpq-fe.h This should show you where the devel files are installed on your system. Once you have that, you can make a symlink that points a “standard” location to where your files

Re: [Bacula-users] error compilation bacula 7.4 with postgresql version 9.3.9

2016-01-27 Thread Michael Munger
Then you need to download the source for postgres 9.4 and compile from source, making sure that it installs the headers in the appropriate place. Michael Munger, dCAP, MCPS, MCNPS, MBSS High Powered Help, Inc. Microsoft Certified Professional Microsoft Certified Small Business Specialist Digium

[Bacula-users] What to exclude?

2016-01-27 Thread Michael Munger
TLDR; = what can I safely exclude from a bacula backup of a Linux server and still be able to fully recover (bare metal) from a disaster? Details: I am looking for a best practice here, and I am working from two sources: 1.

Re: [Bacula-users] Remote backup through NAT?

2016-01-27 Thread Wesley Render
I had a lot of problems getting my setup to work over NAT too. If you want email me directly and I can provide my full configs/help out. I think what ended up fixing it for me was updating all of the Bacula components to 7.2.0. I had a real struggle trying to get it to work with 5.x

Re: [Bacula-users] Remote backup through NAT?

2016-01-27 Thread Michael Munger
This is REALLY helpful. I have it working on some public services that are physically attached to our network, so I haven't enabled SSL (because it never leaves the office), but my next step is to do it with some remote datacenter boxes, and the SSL configs you have just sent are invaluable

Re: [Bacula-users] What to exclude?

2016-01-27 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 01/27/2016 03:42 PM, Michael Munger wrote: > TLDR; = what can I safely exclude from a bacula backup of a Linux server and still be able to fully recover (bare metal) from a disaster? Not an answer to your question, but we are - using raid-1s for system disks, - using SSDs for system disks, -

Re: [Bacula-users] What to exclude?

2016-01-27 Thread Michael Munger
Having setup and just tested, I ran into the "will not descend into different file systems" issue as mentioned in this post: http://bacula.10910.n7.nabble.com/Will-not-descend-from-into-dev-td57408.html, and it gives a very good reason for explicitly defining what to include. So, I have

Re: [Bacula-users] Remote backup through NAT?

2016-01-27 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/26/2016 5:08 PM, Michael Munger wrote: Wanderlei: Thanks for the reply! I’ll upgrade. I was just using the Debian repo versions because that was what was there. I already had to downgrade the Windows client because it wouldn’t connect to 5.6.2. So, now, I’ll re-upgrade everything