Re: [Bacula-users] Multithreaded backups?

2020-04-28 Thread Josh Fisher
On 4/28/2020 5:05 AM, Mark Dixon wrote: Hi David, Running two jobs on a client takes the FD's CPU utilisation from 100% to 200%, so it does look multi-threaded. Yes. I believe the client is multi-threaded in that multiple commands can be issued and they will each be handled in a

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows backup slow

2020-04-23 Thread Josh Fisher
On 4/22/2020 12:23 PM, Cejka Rudolf wrote: Hello, I have exactly the same problem: Too slow filesystem traversal by Bacula Windows Client. I think that it has to be some problem with Bacula Client cross compilation (low level of compiler optimalization?), some setting or some other little

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows backup slow

2020-04-20 Thread Josh Fisher
Some Windows systems do not like Bacula's default value of 64k for the Maximum Network Buffer Size setting. Try reducing that to 32k. Also, test network throughput between the bacula-sd host and the Windows host with iperf or some network performance utility to make sure it is indeed a Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with concurrent jobs in disk based auto changer

2020-04-09 Thread Josh Fisher
On 4/9/2020 4:09 AM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Hello, wt., 7 kwi 2020 o 14:40 Josh Fisher <mailto:jfis...@pvct.com>> napisał(a): On 4/7/2020 7:20 AM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Hello, wt., 7 kwi 2020 o 09:38 Shaligram Bhagat, Yateen (Nokia - IN/

Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with concurrent jobs in disk based auto changer

2020-04-07 Thread Josh Fisher
On 4/7/2020 7:20 AM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Hello, wt., 7 kwi 2020 o 09:38 Shaligram Bhagat, Yateen (Nokia - IN/Bangalore) > napisał(a): Hi, The issue is resolved after I increased the number of devices under a filechanger.

Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with concurrent jobs in disk based auto changer

2020-04-06 Thread Josh Fisher
On 4/4/2020 1:50 PM, Shaligram Bhagat, Yateen (Nokia - IN/Bangalore) wrote: Hello, ... All these jobs including the ones that are initially shown as  “created not yet running” eventually complete successfully, but after a long time (~36 Hours), But the very purpose of concurrency is

Re: [Bacula-users] Simple disk storage devices migrations/backups

2020-03-26 Thread Josh Fisher
On 3/25/2020 3:23 PM, Pierre Bernhardt wrote: Am 24.03.20 um 22:39 schrieb Pierre Bernhardt: Today I tried to migrate again the job which uses two disk files. But now I tried to put both files in one directory (I used my second bay to mount the DISK017 file) and used a symbolic link: -rw-rw-r--

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 9.6.x: "volume use duration" not working as expected

2020-03-20 Thread Josh Fisher
On 3/20/2020 4:35 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: Hi folks, I have a set of tapes that I'd like to use in a daily rotation to backup online disk volumes to tape. I defined a pool for this like so: Pool { Name = offline_weekly Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Crashed / Segementation Violation

2020-03-02 Thread Josh Fisher
Brancatelli * On 2020-03-02 12:15, Josh Fisher wrote: Bacula has a built-in watchdog that kills a job that runs for more than 6 days. That period can be extended at compile time, so you have to compile your own binaries after a change to the source. I don't remember where in the source, but this has

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Crashed / Segementation Violation

2020-03-02 Thread Josh Fisher
Bacula has a built-in watchdog that kills a job that runs for more than 6 days. That period can be extended at compile time, so you have to compile your own binaries after a change to the source. I don't remember where in the source, but this has come up before and should be searchable. If

Re: [Bacula-users] Very slow "SD despooling Attributes"

2020-02-26 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/26/2020 9:33 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 2020-02-26 06:34, Andrew Watkins wrote: Hello, I am new to Bacula, but I am slowing getting it working. I am using Bacula 9.4.4 on Solaris and a remote MySQL server as the back end. For example the last tape write finished at 06:18:20 and

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-fd is not accessible

2020-02-13 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/12/2020 8:30 PM, Jean Mark Orfali wrote: Hello group, I am having trouble getting bacula-fd to work on a centos 6 server. The server uses iptables and not selinux. The service seems up and running but I am not able to access it. Here is the result when I start the service on the server:

Re: [Bacula-users] [EXTERNAL] Re: bacula cloud backup

2020-02-12 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/11/2020 1:17 PM, Dimitri Maziuk via Bacula-users wrote: On 2/11/20 10:59 AM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: ... This is a small tip of the ideberg! and the devil is in the details - always! I.e. how you want a single SD disconnection and reconnection to be handled? Do you want to fail the

Re: [Bacula-users] [EXTERNAL] Re: bacula cloud backup

2020-02-10 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/10/2020 5:12 AM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Hello, pt., 31 sty 2020 o 16:27 dmaziuk via Bacula-users > napisał(a): ... the 2nd SD can write to "the cloud", it can be on the off-site box, etc. Whereas amanda-style RAIT device only

Re: [Bacula-users] [EXTERNAL] Re: bacula cloud backup

2020-01-31 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/31/2020 10:25 AM, dmaziuk via Bacula-users wrote: On 1/31/2020 3:33 AM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Amanda had "RAIT" since forever. If you would be so kind and have an idea how it could be implemented in bacula and so kind to describe it on this list it would be implemented by

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Bacula fails to update catalog reference

2020-01-23 Thread Josh Fisher
It could be bad barcodes on some tapes or faulty/dirty barcode reader. I would think that if the barcode reader were at fault, it would affect random volumes and not the same volumes each time. If it is always the same volumes that have the issue, then maybe the barcodes on those tapes are

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk setup for best performance on backups

2020-01-22 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/22/2020 10:52 AM, dmaziuk via Bacula-users wrote: On 1/22/2020 2:19 AM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Unless you are using BEE GED or other similar functionality you should never use the SSD in your backup solution as it will be a pure waste of money. I'm running a bunch of jobs in

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk setup for best performance on backups

2020-01-21 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/20/2020 10:56 AM, Jason Voorhees wrote: Hello guys: I'm planning a Bacula deployment on AWS in the following weeks. I have some doubts about disk performance for Disk based backups. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/disk-performance.html Based on the idea

Re: [Bacula-users] Error: bsock.c:429 Write error sending 65536 bytes to Storage daemon:xxxx:9103: ERR=broken pipe

2020-01-20 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/18/2020 5:55 AM, Marco Marino wrote: I cannot enable jumbo frames because client and server are 2 hops away and I cannot modify the network. They use public ips for connection, so I can only reduce MTU server side. Why is there an improvement of reliability when MTU = 1400 in your

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger does not change disk when full...

2020-01-14 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/14/2020 12:30 AM, Stefan Melber wrote: Hi Bacula-Users, i use a setup with two disks based on autochanger to save my backups - see configuration below. The changing between the two disks for different jobs works fine, but in the case during a backup one disk gets full, the backup

Re: [Bacula-users] /usr/libexec/bacula/update_mysql_tables

2020-01-10 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/10/2020 6:34 AM, Wanderlei Huttel wrote: Hello Erwan First of all, MariaDB is not very recommended for using with Bacula, but you can use for you own risk. This error is it looks is caused by SQL_MODE, that I guess is very similar of MySQL errors. Take a look in the link below:

Re: [Bacula-users] Procedure to recover from backup device failure?

2020-01-02 Thread Josh Fisher
On 12/30/2019 7:44 AM, Chris Wilkinson wrote: I currently backup to an array of hard disks. If one of these were to fail and be replaced, all backup data would be lost and the database would no longer reflect the disks. Could anyone advise what the preferred procedure should be to update the

Re: [Bacula-users] bsockcore issue.

2019-12-16 Thread Josh Fisher
On 12/16/2019 8:35 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 07:08:07 -0500, Josh Fisher said: On 12/14/2019 3:43 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: OK, I tried your suggestion and got: [erik@Erik-PC ~]$ pgrep -lf bacula-dir 4226 bacula-dir [erik@Erik-PC ~]$ netstat -an |grep LISTEN|grep 910 tcp

Re: [Bacula-users] bsockcore issue.

2019-12-16 Thread Josh Fisher
On 12/14/2019 3:43 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: OK, I tried your suggestion and got: [erik@Erik-PC ~]$ pgrep -lf bacula-dir 4226 bacula-dir [erik@Erik-PC ~]$ netstat -an |grep LISTEN|grep 910 tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:91020.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp0 0

Re: [Bacula-users] Second level backup to external HD

2019-12-13 Thread Josh Fisher
On 12/13/2019 1:35 PM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: On 2019-12-13 15:18, Josh Fisher wrote: I do something similar, only monthly copies, rather than weekly. I do not use differential backups at all, but rather quarterly fulls, monthly virtual fulls in between quarterlies, and daily incrementals

Re: [Bacula-users] Second level backup to external HD

2019-12-13 Thread Josh Fisher
On 12/13/2019 3:03 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. At a site I manage, we've got Bacula backing up a bunch of clients to a NAS SD daily. Occasionally (once a week ATM) we want to move the backed up data to an external HD for more resilience. I'm asking for suggestion on how to better do

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: bacula running processes parallel?

2019-12-11 Thread Josh Fisher
On 12/10/2019 2:42 PM, John H Nyhuis wrote: I have noticed that my config of bacula only seems to ever use one drive. For example, when labeling a large pool of volumes, it mounts and labels each volume sequentially using only a single drive. As each volume label is independent of the other

Re: [Bacula-users] Sudden error on Bacula client 7.4.4

2019-12-03 Thread Josh Fisher
, (perhaps a bacula-fd zombie process), bound to TCP port 9102 on ANY interface? Kind Regards Brad - Original Message - step 3.: "Josh Fisher" To: "Mac" Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, 2 December, 2019 7:01:00 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Su

Re: [Bacula-users] Sudden error on Bacula client 7.4.4

2019-12-02 Thread Josh Fisher
the port and another port also failed. Kind regards Brad - Original Message - step 3.: "Josh Fisher" To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Monday, 2 December, 2019 3:15:42 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Sudden error on Bacula client 7.4.4 On 12/2/2019 7:49 AM, Mac wrote:

Re: [Bacula-users] Sudden error on Bacula client 7.4.4

2019-12-02 Thread Josh Fisher
On 12/2/2019 7:49 AM, Mac wrote: Hi Martin Thank you for your reply and suggestion. Yes I do have the ip address hardwired - No it has not changed. Does 'ip addr show' show that that IP address is bound to the (correct) interface? The vm configuration is also not unique and I have

Re: [Bacula-users] False "Intervention needed" flood

2019-09-27 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/27/2019 8:00 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: Maybe you can add a RunBeforeJob script that checks if the workstation is available? If the script returns a non-zero status then the job will fail and will not contact the SD at all. I have done this for years to the intermittent workstations. I

Re: [Bacula-users] False "Intervention needed" flood

2019-09-25 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/25/2019 4:50 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: On 2019-09-25 10:19, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Hello, sob., 21 wrz 2019 o 00:52 David Brodbeck > napisał(a):     I think this is a somewhat unfortunate design decision, to be     honest. (...) So what should be

Re: [Bacula-users] Syslog errors

2019-09-23 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/23/2019 6:24 AM, Chris Wilkinson wrote: I'm seeing a series of errors in the syslog. Debian 9, Bacula v9.2.2 Dir/sd/fd are all on the same server with storage on a local NAS. A recent syslog sample is below though they go way back and I hadn't noticed. Backups are running normally without

Re: [Bacula-users] Looking to move away from tape

2019-09-18 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/17/2019 2:08 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: ... Oh, and also, anything USB need not apply. Too slow. I do have a perfectly good SAS controller available. I suspect you have used USB drives in the past and found them far too slow, but I suggest you revisit that. Newer USB drives are not

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Backup to USB Drive

2019-09-03 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/3/2019 12:33 PM, mau...@gmx.ch wrote: Dear Bacula Please i need to Backup any Linux System to any USB Drive, please exist here any possibilites to make this Job running to any USB Drive. A USB drive contains a filesystem that gets mounted at some mount point. just like any other

Re: [Bacula-users] After restart Redhat Bacula-fd dont start

2019-08-29 Thread Josh Fisher
On 8/27/2019 2:04 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: Fundamentally you have two options here: 1. You can create a selinux policy that allows Bacula to run; or 2. You can disable selinux, which truthfully most individual users (and many business uses) don't actually need. Selinux basically

Re: [Bacula-users] Enrypting all data in transit and at rest

2019-08-14 Thread Josh Fisher
On 8/14/2019 12:51 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: I think, though, that Lauri is referring to encrypt the metadata that is stored unencrypted in a disk volume by somehow encrypting the whole disk. This is a main point! When he encrypt the whole filesystem then it is useless (and time consuming) to

Re: [Bacula-users] Enrypting all data in transit and at rest

2019-08-14 Thread Josh Fisher
On 8/14/2019 6:22 AM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Hello, niedz., 11 sie 2019 o 14:35 Lauri Kiiski > napisał(a): - Encrypt disks on the machines having these components: File Daemon, Director, Catalog, Storage Daemon, Physical Media E, I do not

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula with Cloud Storage B2 Backblaze

2019-06-10 Thread Josh Fisher
Files that are written to B2 should be OK, assuming they were written without error to begin with. B2's object (rather than hierarchical) storage only allows for writing the entire file at once and is not block storage. There should be no partial files. If the write fails, then the file won't

Re: [Bacula-users] Debugging a backup job

2019-05-30 Thread Josh Fisher
power to the port in such a way that the server bacula-dir is running on thinks that the other end dropped the connection. Bacula's heartbeat facility should keep the Dir->FD connection active and prevent the switch from putting the port into power-saving mode. On 5/29/2019 11:46 AM, Josh Fis

Re: [Bacula-users] Debugging a backup job

2019-05-29 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/29/2019 6:05 AM, Gestió Servidors wrote: Hello, a backup job from a server is failing continuosly. From bacula console, I have reconfigured debug with "setdebug level=99 trace=1 client=my_server" but job is not returning more info... so I don't know why is failing. I have rerun four

Re: [Bacula-users] Big job keeps failing after server replacement

2019-05-02 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/2/2019 7:14 AM, Gary Stainburn wrote: A few months back, the server running my Director and main storage died. I managed to boot using a live CD and successfully copied everything onto a new Centos 7 box. I restored the latest database backup, copied the config files and rsynced the

Re: [Bacula-users] Doubts about Bacula

2019-04-23 Thread Josh Fisher
On 4/23/2019 9:43 AM, Gary R. Schmidt wrote: On 23/04/2019 21:50, Heitor Faria wrote: Hello Radoslaw, I meditated a lot about this topic, and just to keep it short I will resume my conclusions: 1. HA means single points of failure elimination, reliable crossover and failure detection. I

Re: [Bacula-users] Doubts about Bacula

2019-04-23 Thread Josh Fisher
On 4/19/2019 4:46 AM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Hello, wt., 16 kwi 2019 o 17:29 Josh Fisher <mailto:jfis...@pvct.com>> napisał(a): On 4/16/2019 10:45 AM, Dmitri Maziuk via Bacula-users wrote: > On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 23:24:10 -0300 > Marcio Demetrio Bacci

Re: [Bacula-users] Doubts about Bacula

2019-04-16 Thread Josh Fisher
On 4/16/2019 10:45 AM, Dmitri Maziuk via Bacula-users wrote: On Mon, 15 Apr 2019 23:24:10 -0300 Marcio Demetrio Bacci wrote: 5. Currently the OS and Backup disks are on the same DRBD volume, so would it be better to put the OS disk out of the DRBD volume? (the VM has frequently crashing

Re: [Bacula-users] Doubts about Bacula

2019-04-16 Thread Josh Fisher
On 4/15/2019 10:50 PM, Gary R. Schmidt wrote: On 16/04/2019 12:24, Marcio Demetrio Bacci wrote: ... 2. Is there any restriction on mounting the Bacula VM on a DRBD volume in the hypervisor. In this VM I will implement ZFS deduplication for my backups? I /think/ you are asking if Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple disk usage

2019-04-01 Thread Josh Fisher
On 3/31/2019 3:17 PM, Dmitri Maziuk via Bacula-users wrote: On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 18:30:18 +0300 Yılmaz Bilgili via Bacula-users wrote: Hello, I have 900 GB data to backup. And I have two disks in my backup system, first one 2 TB, second one 8 TB. I want to use both of them, what is the most

Re: [Bacula-users] Error running bacula-sd 9.2.2 on a Zyxel NSA310 [SOLVED]

2019-03-04 Thread Josh Fisher
On 3/4/2019 10:00 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: I think the problem is that accept4 might be defined in libc, but not implemented in the kernel. Hence it will be detected by configure but will fail at run time. The code could be improved by calling accept if accept4 fails at run time, i.e.

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows backup much slower than Linux backup

2019-03-04 Thread Josh Fisher
indows server, and I'll be wiser tomorrow, if it helped. Thanks for the advice. Best regards, Peter Dne 01.03.2019 v 16:40 Josh Fisher napsal(a): I also attribute this to Windows inefficiencies, particularly in NTFS handling of small files.However, I am not sure that those inefficiencies expl

Re: [Bacula-users] Error running bacula-sd 9.2.2 on a Zyxel NSA310 [SOLVED]

2019-03-01 Thread Josh Fisher
S, meaning that the function is simply not implemented. It seems the header file being used (sys/socket.h) does not match the installed library. Nevertheless, accept4() is a convenience extension and it doesn't seem worth potentially breaking some platforms to save one or two fcntl() calls. Kind regards, J

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows backup much slower than Linux backup

2019-03-01 Thread Josh Fisher
I also attribute this to Windows inefficiencies, particularly in NTFS handling of small files.However, I am not sure that those inefficiencies explain a greater than 50% performance hit. Two quick changes come to mind that may help. 1. Change MaximumNetworkBufferSize to 32k in bacula-fd.conf.

Re: [Bacula-users] Error running bacula-sd 9.2.2 on a Zyxel NSA310 [SOLVED]

2019-03-01 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/28/2019 2:04 PM, Dmitri Maziuk via Bacula-users wrote: On 2/28/2019 8:06 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: On 2/28/19 2:23 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: That suggests the function accept4 was defined at compile time by fails with errno=38 (ENOSYS) at run time. I don't know what to answer. I'm

Re: [Bacula-users] Co-sponsor of client-side parallelism?

2019-02-21 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/20/2019 11:19 AM, jes...@krogh.cc wrote: Note that posix_fadvise() only affects caching and read-ahead at the OS level. While the use of posix_fadvise() may indeed improve i/o performance for particular use cases, it is not parallelism and does not cause multiple user-space threads to be

Re: [Bacula-users] Co-sponsor of client-side parallelism?

2019-02-20 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/20/2019 9:20 AM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Hello, śr., 20 lut 2019 o 13:29 Josh Fisher <mailto:jfis...@pvct.com>> napisał(a): Note that posix_fadvise() only affects caching and read-ahead at the OS level. While the use of posix_fadvise() may indeed improve i/o pe

Re: [Bacula-users] Co-sponsor of client-side parallelism?

2019-02-20 Thread Josh Fisher
Note that posix_fadvise() only affects caching and read-ahead at the OS level. While the use of posix_fadvise() may indeed improve i/o performance for particular use cases, it is not parallelism and does not cause multiple user-space threads to be executed in parallel. I believe that Kern is

Re: [Bacula-users] multi-homed bacula-dir + asymetrical routing = authentication failure?

2019-02-13 Thread Josh Fisher
On 2/12/2019 2:12 PM, mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu wrote: We run the bacula-dir and bacula-sd (v9.4.1) on a CentOS6 server with multiple network interfaces. I'm seeing a problem with a new client that I believe is related to asymetric routing and maybe the use of the server's IP to generate the

Re: [Bacula-users] Run ClientBeforeJob script in background instead of waiting for it.

2019-02-01 Thread Josh Fisher
--- Note that by nature 'at' is not immediate. It may take a minute or so for the script to launch, so plan accordingly. On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 8:18 AM Josh Fisher mailto:jfis...@pvct.com>> wrote: In the Clin

Re: [Bacula-users] check_bacula Segmentation fault if host is down

2019-01-18 Thread Josh Fisher
Have you tried with debug level increased, say using -d7 in the command line? Maybe that would give a clue as to what it does prior to the segfault. On 1/17/2019 12:17 PM, Dan Langille wrote: I was noticing this in my /var/log/messages: Jan 17 17:04:00 slocum kernel: pid 52623 (check_bacula),

Re: [Bacula-users] Migrate jobs: Major data loss risk (Bug, unfixed)

2019-01-14 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/14/2019 6:49 AM, Alan Brown wrote: If you are using Bacula for any form of archival work, or migrating OLD backups, then you need to be aware of of this issue. The Migrate feature only migrates jobs in a volume that are in the configuration file. I think I get your point, but why

Re: [Bacula-users] Run ClientBeforeJob script in background instead of waiting for it.

2019-01-05 Thread Josh Fisher
In the ClinetBeforeJob script, use the at command to schedule the launch of the caffeinate job with a runtime of 'now'. For example, at -f caffeinate-script.sh now On 1/4/2019 2:36 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: This is driving me nuts because I feel like it should be straightforward and I must

Re: [Bacula-users] restore raid array

2018-12-11 Thread Josh Fisher
On 12/11/2018 1:09 AM, Jerry Lowry wrote: Well,  The raid was (8) 6TB disks attached to an ATTO Tech raid controller in a supermicro cabinet. It was setup as a raid-5 disk array.  The ATTO support group know how it was configured as they have been helping me since Thursday.  The raid setup is

Re: [Bacula-users] Looking for a LTO autoloader

2018-11-14 Thread Josh Fisher
On 11/13/2018 12:15 PM, Dmitri Maziuk via Bacula-users wrote: On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 09:47:32 -0500 Josh Fisher wrote: On 11/13/2018 5:38 AM, Peter Milesson wrote: Hi Markus, I know my suggestion isn't concerning autoloaders, but it's a safe and working alternative to tapes (and all

Re: [Bacula-users] Looking for a LTO autoloader

2018-11-13 Thread Josh Fisher
On 11/13/2018 5:38 AM, Peter Milesson wrote: Hi Markus, I know my suggestion isn't concerning autoloaders, but it's a safe and working alternative to tapes (and all the hassles). I setup a dedicated backup station with 13TB of RAID10 storage. It's placed in a different location from the

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula SD on a QNAP TS-231

2018-10-17 Thread Josh Fisher
On 10/17/2018 2:40 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: On 10/15/18 9:15 PM, Welington R. Braga wrote: Compile or look for packages for Linux is easier than to a proprietary NAS. Sure, otherwise I wouldn't be asking :) I believe the NAS you mention uses a Marvell chip, so you will need the

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-sd.conf: permission denied

2018-10-10 Thread Josh Fisher
On 10/10/2018 2:35 AM, krashoverr...@free.fr wrote: Hey Sven, I've installed like 5/6 bacula solutions for now, and all of them worked as you say, out of the box, all of them installed from Debian repository I just don't understand where the problem is from, and have no idea where to find

Re: [Bacula-users] MANY duplicate "Max Volume jobs=X exceeded" messages in log

2018-10-02 Thread Josh Fisher
Hello, FWIW, I see the same behavior, with what I believe is a very similar config, when running a virtual full job. The attached log excerpt is from a virtual full job that ran as the only active job, although there were other jobs waiting for higher priority jobs. (This job was the one

Re: [Bacula-users] CFLAGS optimizations and building for another architecture

2018-09-29 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/29/2018 5:52 AM, George Anchev via Bacula-users wrote: Can you please advise about this: On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 12:12:42 +0300 George Anchev wrote: Also: I would like to use a faster machine to create builds for other slower machines (one of them even 32-bit). Do I need anything more than

Re: [Bacula-users] CFLAGS optimizations and building for another architecture

2018-09-25 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/25/2018 5:18 AM, George Anchev via Bacula-users wrote: ... Also: I would like to use a faster machine to create builds for other slower machines (one of them even 32-bit). Do I need anything more than just finding the proper "-march" setting for the target CPU? I'm not sure you need to

Re: [Bacula-users] label command frequently fails

2018-09-20 Thread Josh Fisher
Check permissions on the disk, including SELinux or other ACLs. The bacula-sd user must have read/write permissions. On 9/19/2018 3:40 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running bacula 7.4.4 on a Debian/Stretch AMD64 server. When I try to create a new disk volume for my steadily increasing amount of

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy jobs on secondary server/SD

2018-09-07 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/6/2018 1:17 PM, Brendan Martin wrote: I have configured a copy job on my primary backup server.  The copy volumes will be on a secondary system running another storage daemon.  Both systems are running Bacula 7.4.4 on Debian 9. From the primary console, this command:     status

Re: [Bacula-users] Install Bacula 9.0.8 with rpm ( repo )

2018-06-20 Thread Josh Fisher
On 6/19/2018 8:11 AM, Olivier Delestre wrote: Hi, i have some problem to install bacula 9.0.8 on CentOs 7.5 x64. I Want a PostgreSql but when i run the install command, see the result below. Why i have a bacula-mysql dependency ?? ( no gpg check for the moment ) a problem with the Rpm ??

Re: [Bacula-users] Trying to restore, but can't

2018-06-13 Thread Josh Fisher
On 6/12/2018 12:35 PM, Ryan Butler wrote: Hello all, After a failed upgrade to one of our organization’s web apps, I’m trying to restore the web app directory from Bacula. I went into bconsole, restore, option 3 (enter jobid), and have been sitting on “Building directory tree for JobId(s)

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula h/w write fails, but tar writes w/out error?

2018-06-09 Thread Josh Fisher
On 6/8/2018 2:26 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 06/08/18 13:48, Stieneke, Dan wrote: Googling for those entries I found http://bacula.10910.n7.nabble.com/Bacula-tapes-marked-FULL-too-early-VolBytes-too-low-td58881i20.html. Similar issue (but no report of tar), the thread ended with "similar

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula h/w write fails, but tar writes w/out error?

2018-06-06 Thread Josh Fisher
On 6/5/2018 3:45 PM, Stieneke, Dan wrote: Ubuntu 16.04, Bacula 5.2.6, single-drive autoloader, all running Bacula trouble-free for years. Four months ago I got some errors in Bacula that looked like h/w errors, although jobs using tar on the same drive ran without error. I had suspicions

Re: [Bacula-users] Can I run jobs on 2 storage daemons at the same time from one director?

2018-05-23 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/23/2018 2:48 AM, Panayiotis Gotsis wrote: Hello We have a setup with two storage daemons but, up till now, I have not really checked whether there is concurrency. We have not yet installed v9 to see whether there is any major change, but generally speaking, the queue handling from bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Nas to Nas backup

2018-05-10 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/9/2018 5:37 PM, Chris Wilkinson wrote: I am experimenting with using Bacula to back up several (m) cifs shares on one Nas box to (n) sub-directories of a cifs share on another. Neither Nas is able to run a client directly as they are commercial locked down boxes. My configuration is a

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and NAT

2018-04-25 Thread Josh Fisher
On 4/24/2018 1:01 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 04/24/18 11:34, Josh Fisher wrote: Another option would be an OpenVPN tunnel between the client and the bacula-sd server. I like this method for a remote client, especially when SD and DIR are on the same network, since both DIR->Cli

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and NAT

2018-04-24 Thread Josh Fisher
On 4/24/2018 10:53 AM, Heitor Faria wrote: Hello, Hello Caos, I would need to configure my Bacula server for doing backups from some servers located behind a NAT. For my experience with Bacula, server starts connection to the client (9103/TCP). By default Director starts connection to the

Re: [Bacula-users] Baculum 9.0.7 binary packages

2018-04-20 Thread Josh Fisher
Is there a Mac binary? On 4/20/2018 1:44 PM, Marcin Haba wrote: Hello, I let know that I have just uploaded Baculum 9.0.7 binary packages for CentOS, Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu. As usual installation instruction is available in the Console manual:

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup problem with 1 of 2 Raspberry PI using Raspbian (Debian)

2018-04-04 Thread Josh Fisher
On 4/4/2018 4:27 AM, Johannsen, Thorsten wrote: Ok, so I've checked nearly everything hardware related: - replaced the Rasperry PI to rule out a defect on the NIC - replace the patch cable - moved the RPI to the same switch as the other RPI that is backing up fine I was just about to build

Re: [Bacula-users] Vchanger or Bacula disk-changer

2018-03-22 Thread Josh Fisher
In addition to vchanger and disk-changer, there is a built-in native disk autochanger. Which of the methods to use depends on usage scenario. The native disk autochanger requires no external script or configuration, so is probably the way to go for fixed-disk storage. It basically allows

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula asking for tape that is already loaded

2018-03-15 Thread Josh Fisher
It could be a damaged tape. You can disable the volume in bconsole. This will force Bacula to select another tape. If the job runs OK with another tape, then it is likely a bad tape. On 3/14/2018 7:10 PM, Ryan Butler wrote: Hello all, I’m losing my mind over here as I do not know what

Re: [Bacula-users] Device is BLOCKED waiting for mount of volume

2018-01-19 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/18/2018 2:21 PM, Ryan Butler wrote: Hello all, I recently inherited a Bacula installation (version 7.0.5, running on a CentOS 6 server), but have no experience with Bacula. Full backups go to tape, with incremental backups going to a local disk on the Bacula server. The tape backups

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and kvm

2017-11-22 Thread Josh Fisher
As has been pointed out, libvirt provides a means of snapshotting a live VM's storage, so it is quite possible to backup images from the host machine. That said, I strongly suggest you consider the following. While the disk image approach simplifies backup, it complicates restores. There is

Re: [Bacula-users] Unable to change tapes during a job: busy in acquire...

2017-11-10 Thread Josh Fisher
There is a bug in version 9.0.4 regarding end-of-media handling that is likely affecting you. It was fixed in 9.0.5. On 11/10/2017 6:18 AM, Juergen Averbeck wrote: Hi, during a backup my tape device reached "end of medium" and instead of waiting for a new medium, bacula is trying for

Re: [Bacula-users] Not Receiving Messages for Read-Only file system

2017-10-17 Thread Josh Fisher
Bill, this seems very likely related to the issue you are seeing when the volume is not in-changer. The re-attempt of the mount in mount.c should probably not be happening at 1 second intervals, or if it is, then it should not log every attempt. Also, at some point it should be pausing the job

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Where is Kern?

2017-09-27 Thread Josh Fisher
Until you see hurricane damage first hand it is hard to imagine the level of destruction. It looks like the US is going to waive the Jones Act that prevents non-US merchant shipping there. The word is that one of Puerto Rico's two main ports is completely wrecked and ships can only come into

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and LTFS

2017-09-21 Thread Josh Fisher
and label formats are documented in the Bacula documentation, but basically you must have Bacula to properly read the tapes and extract any useful data from them. On 21/09/2017 16:02, Josh Fisher wrote: On 9/21/2017 6:23 AM, Adam Weremczuk wrote: Hello, A hypothetical scenario. I have Bacula 9

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and LTFS

2017-09-21 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/21/2017 6:23 AM, Adam Weremczuk wrote: Hello, A hypothetical scenario. I have Bacula 9 running on Debian 9 and writing to LTO-7 tapes (Quantum-Ultrium). Can I read these tapes elsewhere without Bacula? Normally that would require tapes to be formatted to LTFS. Can Bacula write to LTFS

Re: [Bacula-users] encrypting backup jobs

2017-09-21 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/20/2017 2:15 PM, Jerry Lowry wrote: Hi, I have just started encrypting my backup jobs.  I have one full backup that went from completing in   Scheduled time: 12-Aug-2017 20:05:00   Start time: 13-Aug-2017 06:16:47   End time:   13-Aug-2017 15:26:35  

Re: [Bacula-users] No Job status returned from FD. Backup fails

2017-09-20 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/20/2017 4:42 AM, Matthias Koch-Schirrmeister wrote: Am 19.09.2017 um 15:46 schrieb Can Şirin: My jobs have almost 30M files x 8 parallell jobs, and it takes about 20 hours to despool attributes. So you are saying that the whole backup run times out because the database is taking so

Re: [Bacula-users] How best to back up VMs in KVM on Debian9

2017-09-14 Thread Josh Fisher
On 9/13/2017 11:33 PM, Thing wrote: Hi, I have a handful of small VMs I'd like to backup.  These can be stopped while the backup happens.  So what is the alternatoves to do this? Get bacula to send shutdown command(s) and then back the image(s) up? That really depends on what needs to be

Re: [Bacula-users] Anyone using AWS tape gateway or other similar service?

2017-08-28 Thread Josh Fisher
On 8/25/2017 1:49 PM, Luke Salsich wrote: One remaining concern which I have (not related to Bacula at all) is the time it would take to conduct a complete system restore due to needing to transfer the data from AWS to our local. Even with their fast connection, a 150 GB transfer could take

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula driver misconceptions

2017-08-25 Thread Josh Fisher
On 8/24/2017 10:49 AM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: On 2017-08-24 09:24, Josh Fisher wrote: As for writing the same job to two disks simultaneously, I don't think that will be very easy to accomplish. It would, I believe, require a new Device type driver in Bacula that atomically reserves two

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula driver misconceptions

2017-08-24 Thread Josh Fisher
On 8/22/2017 7:13 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: On 08/22/2017 05:07 PM, Dan Langille wrote: On Aug 22, 2017, at 11:01 AM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: However if you want to backup to removable disks and put them on the shelf when full, that's where things get less than perfect

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error: Pipe write error

2017-07-15 Thread Josh Fisher
On 7/15/2017 7:51 AM, Elias Pereira wrote: hello kern, How can I test to see, for example, if the two ends are connected? Using the PID of the process that has the other end of the pipe open, use: ls -l /proc//fd You are likely seeing a permissions problem. Is the pipe writable by the

Re: [Bacula-users] Using two changers in same pool

2017-07-04 Thread Josh Fisher
On 7/3/2017 6:46 PM, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: On 2017-07-03 17:01, Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, There is no way to get two autochangers to work on the same Volumes. You can try but it is almost sure to fail, because it was not designed that way. You can potentially use the two autochangers

Re: [Bacula-users] No slots in changer to scan.

2017-06-14 Thread Josh Fisher
On 6/14/2017 2:18 PM, Marcio Merlone wrote: Hi, I am running a bacula server since its 3.x series, now on version 7.4, Ubuntu 16.04 on a Dell PE 2900 (old but gold). Just got this brand new Dell TL1000 with 8 slots and one drive as an upgrade from the old simple LTO-4 we have. Everything

Re: [Bacula-users] Could not stat "/mnt/nas1stuff/": ERR=Host is down

2017-06-08 Thread Josh Fisher
On 6/7/2017 3:50 PM, Ian Douglas wrote: Hi all Lately I've been getting errors like Could not stat "/mnt/nas1stuff/": ERR=Host is down where I'm trying to back up files from a NAS box (FreeNAS), and the target folder is mounted on this box, as was recommended to me on this list. So the

Re: [Bacula-users] Recommended OS for VM?

2017-05-18 Thread Josh Fisher
I would add that since this is for a VM dedicated to running Bacula daemons, nearly all of the distros have a minimal install ISO image. Few, if any, of the bells and whistles installed with a full install are in any way useful to the Bacula daemons. On 5/18/2017 2:22 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote:

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