On 05/31/2017 09:42 AM, Brian Blater wrote:
This is an area where I need help. Lots of configuration files in this
directory and coming from a corporate world using netbackup or
symantec I'm a little confused.
You dont have to mess with the files in /etc/bacula/scripts/, except if
you need
I would install ubuntu server 16.04x and select lamp if you like mysql,
as well as openssh, and any other options that are listed on the initial
setup screen. Dont use the option to choose more packages, which opens
additional screens. Doing that never goes well for me. you can add that
stuff
On 5/18/2017 2:22 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> The current OS on which Bacula is implemented, built and tested is
> Ubuntu 16.04.
I use Ubuntu Server, and then a minimal install of the Mate desktop with
X2go to allow remote desktop connections. No unneeded services like
bluetooth or packages like
On 02/17/2017 10:18 AM, Norbert Gomes wrote:
> I read that LZO would be faster, but when I enable it (compression="LZO"
> in the FileSet Include Options), no compression is applied
I use LZO to backup my jpeg images, that are stored on SSDs. I used to
use gzip2 for speed, and in the hopes it
On 01/27/2017 10:29 PM, Craig Shiroma wrote:
The VM that bacula-dir is running on is configured exactly the same.
In these discussions, I don't think Ive seen you mention checking SMART
info.
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don't specify where things will go.
This is my config:
CFLAGS="-O2 -g -Wall" ./configure --enable-readline
--with-dump-email=comp...@domain.com --with-job-email=compdoc@ domain.com
--with-smtp-host=mail.domain.com --enable-conio=no --enable-largefile
--with-openssl --enabl
build-stored:no
Plugin support: yes
AFS support: no
ACL support: yes
XATTR support: yes
systemd support: no
Batch insert enabled:None
Thank you,
Ankush More
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>#./configure --enable-client-only --enable-build-dird=no
>--enable-build-stored=no --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin
>--with-scriptdir=/usr/libexec/bacula/ --with-working-dir=/var/spool/bacula/
>--with-logdir=/var/log --enable-smartalloc
But where is the output from this
> SMART says there's a problem, it's very likely to fail catastrophically
> within a short time period.
Exactly.
> SMART says there's no problem, doesn't mean a thing.
Right. Mechanical failures are probably not easy to predict, and can happen at
any time without warning. And smart
> Given LTO-4 can do 120MB/s, yeah, 94 is good enough
Be sure to disable compression. I think I have it disabled two places, on Dir
and well as on the SD.
I built a low-power, mini-itx system to house an LTO-4 drive. The controller is
an LSI LSI20320IE Ultra320. All backup data is over the
> >You don't have to guess about failing hard drives. You only have to
>> read the SMART info from each of your drives. That will tell you.
>
> That is not entirely true. "Desktop" drives will spend a lot of time
trying to relocate data from failing sectors before they consider themselves
>> === start
>> Building directory tree for JobId(s) 1237 ... Query failed: SELECT
>> Path.Path, Filename.Name, Temp...WHERE FileIndex > 0 ORDER BY
Temp.JobId, FileIndex ASC:
>> ERR=disk I/O error
>Hello, Suzy: most likely your Bacula Director machine has a faulty or full
hard disk (this
> Unfortunately bconsole reports "Compression = none" on every backup task.
>
> How can I solve that?
"1.You must have the zip development libraries loaded on your system when
building Bacula and Bacula must find this library, normally /usr/lib/libz.a.
On Red Hat systems, this library
> In case it happens again I'll try and restart a single process at a time
and see if I can pinpoint the root cause better.
I build and repair computers for a living, and it's very common for hard
drives to begin to fail slowly, rather than die all at once.
The only way to know whats happening
> Now what I'm thinking of is streaming multiple concurrent jobs to a single
drive
I do that. On my lan, I need to backup config files and mysql, etc on a few
centos and ubuntu servers. And also my win7pro computer which has large
ssds, and which takes hours to backup to an LTO4 drive on my 1G
> again run ./configure --with-mysql --with-openssl but the summary leaves me
> again:
>TCP Wrappers support: no
>TLS support: no
On a Centos 6.7 system of mine, I believe I have to install the
tcp_wrappers-devel package, plus add the option " --with-tcp-wrappers" to get
that feature
> 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
> 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.
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> I'm packaging for FreeBSD now.
I like to install from scratch on Ubuntu Server and try to use the correct
paths, users, permissions, and anything related, etc. by researching the
web. I think I'm getting the hang of it.
But I've also
>Somebody ont thisl ist make backup from KVM using bacula???
If you have a VM guest, there's no reason you can't install the bacula client
(FD) in the guest and back it up that way.
Also, baculasystems.com has plugins for KVM, XEN, and Hyper-v, but I don’t know
the costs or how they work
>Well, did you try to find prices at IBM webpage for its products?
I used to work for IBM. I know i cant afford them. Now I service computers for
small and medium size businesses, and I look for alternatives to yearly support
subscriptions because in the end, I find the answers to their
>If you buy the specific VM backup plugin yes. Including block level
>incremental backups of the VM.
Is there a page to find the prices of these plugins? I looked but couldn't find
any, and I never buy from companies that don't list prices. When online
businesses make you contact them for
>Is there any way to get past this error? There are a few copy jobs remaining
>after this one.
>thanks for your help
>jerry
You should probably check the health of the disk being written to by reading
the SMART info of the disk. The command would be:
sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda
Is Bacula 7.x ready for production or should I stick with 5.x? 5.x seems to
be the default on some Linux distros.
5.x still works pretty well, and no issues with the windows client backing up
my workstation. I get about 26 MB/s, and never any crashes, although I don’t
backup any
I let know that I prepared Baculum binary packages for Ubuntu 14.04 and
Ubuntu 14.10.
Baculum is an unfortunate choice of name. lol
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It seems that only one VSS shadow copy can be use by the bacula-fd.exe.
I use 5.x to back up my personal workstation during the day, which is the only
time its available. I often download .iso files or do occasional online gaming,
but it all gets backed up 3 times a day as I use the machine
It fell in every time.
It failed every time?
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very system I've setup crashes because it will not purge/prune or recycle
the pool. It just fills up and crashes.
It took me a long time to figure out how to set up pools, etc. correctly. I
did everything the wrong way the first few times. But now it actually prunes
a few items after each
CentOS 6 has bacula 5.0.0 which has a bug
It takes a little effort, but it's possible to compile whatever version you
like.
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I keep hearing talk of old community code which makes it sound like the
Win32 support has become proprietary.
It does sound as if Bacula will eventually become the world's hardest to
install, pay-for backup solution. Not that I blame Bacula for going closed
source: money is a strong motivator.
Not to worry: as of windows 7, windows backup is still broken
Windows 7 Pro backup is ok, but it does break easily and doesn't tell you
that its stopped working...
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help me delete the information that they keep reposting in the above
item..They put it back, and they have complained that I remove it, so
there is an army of monitors threatening me.
What they did is now a part of the history of Bacula, and they are adding
their version of what happened
(plan is to migrate to CentOS)
Simplest thing to do is install Centos, and then install the current
versions of Bacula and MySQL that are available from the Centos repos.
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Please also tell me open source bacula client is available for all
above systems or not.
Having to pay and then getting only 3 months of updates seems a bad thing to
do to people.
These clients are free:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bacula/files/Win32_64/
justin@ubuntu:/var/run/bacula$ sudo service bacula-fd status
I run bacula dir and fd on the server using an upstart script
(/etc/init/bacula-dir.conf, etc)
But the upstart 'service' command doesn't show bacula is running on my
system:
$ sudo service bacula-dir status
bacula-dir stop/waiting
Now My catalog dump with compression is hold about 2 Gigabyte.
I think this is not rational to create a full backup of dump every day.
These days, 2 Gigabytes is not so large considering the importance of the file.
And it shouldn’t take very long to back up.
You just need to decide
Do you use File tapes ?
Yes I use Media Type = File
'Media Type' is one of the gotchas of bacula. You think you should be
describing the type of media you're saving to, but in fact the Media Type for
each storage definition should be unique.
From the docs:
Media type names are arbitrary in
we switched to /usr/share/mysql/my-huge.cnf
Honestly, the truth is that all of those sample configuration files are all
but worthless.
I can't speak to all versions of bacula, but I used the my-huge.cnf from
Version 5.2.13 to create my own my.cnf file. I had to disable a couple of
lines in
Excerpts from http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/09/24/mysql_connect_2013/
Oracle chief corporate architect Edward Screven said that the team
developing MySQL at Oracle is now the largest it has ever been, and is
roughly twice as large as it was when Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in
2010.
Our
The question that has to be asked, though, is under what test
conditions.
Well, I have to assume the tests mean on the same hardware. Which implies
changes in code. The story did mention help from Facebook in the form of
code.
a customer who's running 5.5 on an 8-core rented server today
This mostly seems to work, but with one annoying oddity. When I run an
incremental backup, it seems to want to back up just about the entire NTFS
file system, even though commands like ls -lt and ls -lc don't show the
files or their metadata as having been modified.
I can tell you that backing
All the other backups are running fine I don't understand why it is saying
unable to open device after backing up 2.6TB. I would really appreciate any
ideas.
Back when I began building computers, problem with the motherboards,
chipset, or ram weren't always apparent. One thing I discovered
in the chapter Create a Bacula rescue CDROM to access the
bacula-source and run the configure file but this file
does not exists in this directory (Reminder: I'm under the
Bacula server).
cd bacula-rescue
./configure \
--with-static-fd=directory-containing-static-bacula-fd \
Hopefully the next time I need to change my backup software, it's going to
be based of filesystem snapshots archived on ceph storage nodes
ceph storage looks interesting. Are you trying it now?
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On 5/20/13 15:14 Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
Hi all,
quick question: if I include a file twice in the FileSet will bacula
back it up twice or is it smart enough to only write one copy of it?
TIA
I think you want:
OpenSuSE12.3 is no longer
supplying MySQL. Instead they are supplying MariaDB which is supposed
to be 100% compatible with MySQL (so they claim).
If its compatible, then it should accept the same commands as mysql. What
happens if you type:
mysql -u root -p
I've been searching around for solution and tried everything suggested in
those threads but I'm still seeing the following error:
16-Apr 10:51 igorc-pc-fd JobId 57: Fatal error: No drive letters found for
generating VSS snapshots.
Still might be your fileset. Here's mine that works:
FileSet
OpenSuSE12.3 is no longer supplying MySQL. Instead they
are supplying MariaDB which is supposed to be 100%
compatible with MySQL (so they claim).
In order to be compatible, MariaDB would have to accept the same commands
that you type for Mysql. You'd be able to run the bacula mysql scripts on
I do not know HOW the value of the database type is determined, for
this particular parameter, nor why it is even truly necessary to be
passing in the database type to this script.
The person who packaged bacula that you installed has total control of
everything: where the files go, which
OpenSuSE12.3 is no longer
supplying MySQL. Instead they are supplying MariaDB which is supposed
to be 100% compatible with MySQL (so they claim).
Guess I should have mentioned, there are some alternatives:
Figure out what your bacula install requires to get working. If it's not
using mysql,
Thanks for the information. Tried with 5.2.10 but got the same result:
error 1067.
After doing some research, I've seen people having the same error even when
using client version 5.0.x, so it's possible the version number of the
client is not the problem.
I think you may have a couple of
However, it could be that the character sets do not match as they all have
to be UTF-8 but how do I control that on windows?
If you use the wrong editor, it can mess up a linux .conf file.
What editor are you using? Try notepad, or one I like:
http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
Or, use a term
I have come to the conclusion that I must downgrade bacula 5.2.12 to
version
5.0.3 which I have run successfully for quite some time.
I use 5.2.12 Director to backup Windows 7 Pro clients using the 64 bit
5.2.10 client, although I'm sure the 32 bit version works well too:
The backup from my Linux works perfectly, but for the windows7 PC, this is
what I get:
What is your Fileset?
This is mine:
FileSet {
Name = Windows
Enable VSS = yes
Include {
Options {
exclude = yes
IgnoreCase = yes
2013-03-03 23:10:02 baculaserver-dir JobId 133: shell command: run
BeforeJob /usr/lib64/bacula/make_catalog_backup.pl MyCatalog
2013-03-03 23:10:02 baculaserver-dir JobId 133: BeforeJob: sh:
/usr/sbin/dbcheck.mysql: No such file or directory
2013-03-03 23:10:02 baculaserver-dir JobId
# sudo /usr/lib64/bacula/make_catalog_backup.pl MyCatalog
No errors listed, so might be ok.
sh: /usr/sbin/dbcheck.mysql: No such file or directory
This could mean it cannot find the file MyCatalog. Did you say that there is
a file named /usr/sbin/dbcheck.mysql ?
Can't find your
chgrp bacula /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf /etc/bacula/query.sql
Try /etc/bacula/scripts/query.sqlor search your drive since sometimes
the scripts are located elsewhere...
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/usr/sbin/dbcheck.mysql: No such file or directory
Where is dbcheck.mysql located?
shell command: run BeforeJob /usr/lib64/bacula/make_catalog_backup.pl
MyCatalog
Does
hmmmI see your point, apparently the file does exist. This is what I
did:
# find / -name 'query.sql'
/usr/lib64/bacula/query.sql
:/usr/lib64/bacula # ls
bacula-password-setup.sh create_bacula_database drop_bacula_database
dvd-handler make_catalog_backup
From: Carlos Perez [mailto:carlos.r.pe...@gmail.com]
# cat /usr/lib64/bacula/query.sql
#
# This file contains sample queries that you can possibly use in
# your query.sql file. However, please note that these examples
# are not supported. They may or may not work -- in fact, they may
#
I have installed Bacula v5.2.13 on Debian 6.0.6 x86_64
How did you install?
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By the way, open /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf
What directory is listed for 'QueryFile = ???'
Please don't paste your password.
Director {# define myself
Name = your-dir
DIRport = 9101# where we listen for UA connections
QueryFile =
I see, do I need to make that file executable and how?
/usr/lib64/bacula # ll
total 180
-rwx-- 1 root bacula 938 Jan 15 13:50 bacula-password-setup.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bacula 486 Jan 15 13:50 bconsole
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root bacula 32449 Jan 15 13:50 bpipe-fd.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root
Hmmm..the light is finally shinning, if the query isn't executable that
explains everything
I believe that /usr/lib64/bacula/query.sql is where bacula dumps your mysql
database to text before backing it up. It does not need to be executable.
Your query.sql is not empty, so that concerns
OK, Im wrong about /usr/lib64/bacula/query.sql - this is not where bacula
dumps your mysql database. MyCatalog is the file. It creates it, then
deletes it. But that file is missing when bacula tries to back it up.
/usr/sbin/dbcheck.mysql is missing so name it that, and make sure it is
marked
I was trying to set up a stunnel and changed the bacula user to allow
logins, but I'd like to change that back to default and remove that right.
Is the following command enough, or is there more I need to do?
sudo usermod -s /sbin/nologin bacula
Thanks
Does anyone have experience getting bacula-fd to work on SME Server?
I have tried installing the bacula-client provided in the SME repos, and
installing and compiling by hand. Each with the same results.
There two problems:
1) bacula-fd will not start automatically at boot, but will start and
In the docs it states: the Director and Storage daemon must always be on
the same minor release number
So is it ok to run a remote 5.2.5 Storage daemon with a version 5.2.12
Director on the server?
major.minor.release
Ubuntu 12.04 has bacula 5.2.5 in its repos and it seems to work well,
however the Windows binary on Sourceforge is 5.2.10 so I decided to try my
hand at building bacula from the files on Sourceforge. First version
5.2.10, and then version 5.2.12.
It seems to run fine (doing my first full backups
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