Re: [Bacula-users] Change in verification job tape selection time - deliberate or accidental?
On Monday 19 March 2007 04:15, Troy Daniels wrote: Hi again, Just a quick note to say I've reported the bug as requested. I haven't forgotten the documentation updates, but am under time constraints with a couple of other projects at work currently so haven't had time to work on them yet. No problem. I've also been giving some thought to my planned feature request for the ability to specify a job to be verified. I probably should point out that when I said: Verify last nights/weeks/months/whatever 'BackupCatalog' job I definitely wasn't considering it as the syntax for the feature. It was more intended to be getting the idea across. OK I can think of 2 ways to go with this that might work: 1) Implement an option to the 'run' command to specify the verify job by job id. Using some scripting magic it should be easy enough to grab the specific job id you want to verify and trigger a job to perform this verification whenever you want to. I believe that this is already implemented via the run command then using mod. However, since no one seems to have used setting the JobId, it has been rather neglected. I'd suggest that you try what exists, and if it is broken, the best is probably to submit a bug report. 2) Add the ability to specify a job by offset or scheduled start time. ie Verify the 2nd last BaculaCatalog job or the BaculaCatalog job that was scheduled to start on Friday. The offset would enable automatic scheduling of jobs, and could be potentially more useful than the specific date. (which would still need to be controlled thru scripting) This is an idea that I think given a bit of careful thought and good specification could be very useful. This idea would need to be submitted as a feature request. Option 1 is probably the simplest, and hopefully easiest, to implement. Thoughts? Suggestions?? Cheers, Troy. Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, Thanks for your analysis and discussion of the problem. Please see my comments below. On Wednesday 14 March 2007 03:36, Troy Daniels wrote: When a verify job is scheduled under 2.0.2 to perform a Volume to Catalog verify it now selects the job to be verified (and the associated tape(s)) at the scheduled start time. It then waits until all jobs of lower priority finish before performing the actual verify. This results in it verifying the previous nights backup instead of the current nights one. Under 1.38.5 the job wouldn't select the job to verify until it actually ran (Actual start time instead of scheduled start time). In my case this is after the job I actually want to verify has finished running for the evening. OK, thanks. This time, the problem is crystal clear. The above describes what I need to know/understand. I haven't looked at the code, but I suspect that some of the startup code was moved earlier in the process. In general this was done so that the catalog entries are more complete if the job is subsequently cancelled before it is actually started. In this case, if this is what happened, I can see that this will create a problem for you. However, it does seem to make sense that the Verify job would select the job to be verified when Verify is scheduled rather than at some later time when additional jobs may have run. I'm not sure what the solution is. It seems there are two ways to resolve it: 1. Start the Verify immediately after the backup (probably with a RunScript. 2. Put the code back the way it was in 1.38.11 (assuming that is the problem). Do you or anyone else on this list have any comments on the above two possible solutions? Well I've already updated my config to implement option 1 as a 'workaround', and am happy to trigger my verifies that way. I've scheduled a 'TriggerVerify' admin job that will run after the backup is complete and launch the verify. I used this as I believe using a RunScript within the backup job wouldn't work as the backup job will still be 'running' when the verify job is scheduled, so it'll still automatically select the previous nights job. You mention below that you are considering looking over the documentation. The above, IMO, regardless of how the code evolves, would be a very valuable contribution to the documentation, because as you indicate, it gives additional flexibility. Also, I personally feel the current implementation isn't as intuitive as how it worked in 1.38.11 - however this can probably be dealt with by appropriate documentation within the manual. Yes, I agree with you about the current implementation not being very intuitive. I think the correct solution is to put the code back as it was in 1.38.11, and document the potential problems with that (not the problems with the current broken code) as well as document the Admin workaround job. I also think that for a
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and HP MSL2024 autochanger
Hi, Jose Molina schreef: El vie, 16-03-2007 a las 16:14 +0100, Marc Cuypers escribió: Hi, Has someone bacula working with a HP MSL2024 autochanger? Indeed. At the moment i'm using an exabyte. We will have to move to another autochanger later this year. Did the HP MSL2024 work immediately out of the box or did you have to do some special tweaking? Are there others out there happily using this autochanger? Is there some pointer where i can find bacula configuration files for the MSL2024? -- best regards, Marc - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Change in verification job tape selection time - deliberate or accidental?
Hi, I can think of 2 ways to go with this that might work: 1) Implement an option to the 'run' command to specify the verify job by job id. Using some scripting magic it should be easy enough to grab the specific job id you want to verify and trigger a job to perform this verification whenever you want to. I believe that this is already implemented via the run command then using mod. However, since no one seems to have used setting the JobId, it has been rather neglected. I'd suggest that you try what exists, and if it is broken, the best is probably to submit a bug report. I checked for this capability (and double checked just now) when I setup my Admin verify trigger jobs. I dont get an option to specify the job by JobID (eg 'Verify JobID=6192')- only by selecting a job name from a list. I even tried to enter the job id at this prompt but was told to enter a number between 1 and 9. Not sure that comes under the heading of bug report, unless it's supposed to be an option and isn't showing up. If that's the case, let me know and I'll file it. :-D 2) Add the ability to specify a job by offset or scheduled start time. ie Verify the 2nd last BaculaCatalog job or the BaculaCatalog job that was scheduled to start on Friday. The offset would enable automatic scheduling of jobs, and could be potentially more useful than the specific date. (which would still need to be controlled thru scripting) This is an idea that I think given a bit of careful thought and good specification could be very useful. This idea would need to be submitted as a feature request. Which is exactly why I haven't rushed in a feature request yet. Once I wrap my head around it and work out how I think it should work I'll post the request. Currently I'm leaning towards something along the lines of 'Verify Job Offset = 2' which would verify the 2nd last backup job instead of the last one. Not sure the name is quite right, because it isn't really clear what it does. But its a work in progress. Cheers - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and HP MSL2024 autochanger
El lun, 19-03-2007 a las 10:17 +0100, Marc Cuypers escribió: Did the HP MSL2024 work immediately out of the box or did you have to do some special tweaking? Not much, as always check and test the mtx-changer script alone before trying with bacula. As always, most of the tweaking depends mostly on the drive, sice most autochangers will work fine with mtx, and bacula uses this to load/unload... Cheers, -- José E. Molina Técnico de Sistemas Brújula T. +34 971 433 909 - F. +34 971 433 910 www.brujula.es ___ En el corazón de su negocio - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Change in verification job tape sel ection time - deliberate or accidental?
On Monday 19 March 2007 10:35, Troy Daniels wrote: Hi, I can think of 2 ways to go with this that might work: 1) Implement an option to the 'run' command to specify the verify job by job id. Using some scripting magic it should be easy enough to grab the specific job id you want to verify and trigger a job to perform this verification whenever you want to. I believe that this is already implemented via the run command then using mod. However, since no one seems to have used setting the JobId, it has been rather neglected. I'd suggest that you try what exists, and if it is broken, the best is probably to submit a bug report. I checked for this capability (and double checked just now) when I setup my Admin verify trigger jobs. I dont get an option to specify the job by JobID (eg 'Verify JobID=6192')- only by selecting a job name from a list. I even tried to enter the job id at this prompt but was told to enter a number between 1 and 9. Not sure that comes under the heading of bug report, unless it's supposed to be an option and isn't showing up. If that's the case, let me know and I'll file it. :-D Sorry for the mixup, I just looked at the code, and I think I was confused with restore, which still lets the user specify a jobid. What I was thinking of is not implemented. The code does let you specify a Verify Job name, but that is not useful for what you want. This would be a feature request rather than a bug report. Regards, Kern 2) Add the ability to specify a job by offset or scheduled start time. ie Verify the 2nd last BaculaCatalog job or the BaculaCatalog job that was scheduled to start on Friday. The offset would enable automatic scheduling of jobs, and could be potentially more useful than the specific date. (which would still need to be controlled thru scripting) This is an idea that I think given a bit of careful thought and good specification could be very useful. This idea would need to be submitted as a feature request. Which is exactly why I haven't rushed in a feature request yet. Once I wrap my head around it and work out how I think it should work I'll post the request. Currently I'm leaning towards something along the lines of 'Verify Job Offset = 2' which would verify the 2nd last backup job instead of the last one. Not sure the name is quite right, because it isn't really clear what it does. But its a work in progress. Cheers - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Authorization Errors after upgrade to 2.0.2 (Workaround)
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Darien Hager wrote: The prep job uses an empty fileset and runs the prep script *after* the bulk of the job. If you make the prep job an admin job instead of an archive job you won't need to define an empty fileset. :) - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and HP MSL2024 autochanger
Jose Molina schreef: El lun, 19-03-2007 a las 10:17 +0100, Marc Cuypers escribió: Did the HP MSL2024 work immediately out of the box or did you have to do some special tweaking? Not much, as always check and test the mtx-changer script alone before trying with bacula. As always, most of the tweaking depends mostly on the drive, sice most autochangers will work fine with mtx, and bacula uses this to load/unload... Thanks for answering my question. Now i know it is safe to go for the msl2024. -- Best regards, Marc - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 2.0.3-1 released for SuSE 10.1 and 10.2 (x86_64)
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Kern Sibbald wrote: Has anyone built a bacula-fd for suse-9 at all? Yes. No rpms here, though. I'm quite sure someone else will have an rpm soon for the FD at least. Hopefully the above is true, but if I recall correctly, the Bacula project (i.e. Scott) is no longer supporting SuSE 9. I've previously discussed with Scott about making bacula-fd-static binaries available (where possible) for use on obsolete systems. While I realise it's not always possible to make a full -static set, 99% of the time the filedaemon is the only thing needed - in order to keep backing up older systems until they're replaced. Right now I can imagine several people asking why I don't just update and the answer is simple - we are a space lab, supporting projects which may run for a decade or more and a lot of the time the software is binary-only and keyed to a particular machine and/or OS(*) - which means we are locked into using that machine or OS until the probe in question (somewhere around the solar system) finally dies. (*) Sometimes we have sources and find that the person who wrote the code is long gone, or the code is very tightly coded to the OS - but more often it's just so incredibly badly written that it's totally non-portable. Rocket Scientists are some of the lousiest programmers on the planet. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Corrupt tape label
Hello, I got a problem with one tape which have a corrupt label so bacula cannot mount them. I checked with btape too: readlabel could not found the original label. The tape is in use of my weekly backups. Now my serious problem: A job has been startet. Bacula has loaded the tape an wants to mount it. But it cannot because of the label was not found. Now bacula wait and wait and wait..so I must cancel the jobs which will go on these tape. I think auto cancel of the job I can configure on job level. To reread which tape is in which port I have updated the media list by an umount update slots scan. At Slot 6 which contains the corrupt tape I got a message. A update slots=6 scan again said: Could not unserialize Volume label: ERR=label.c:775 Expecting Volume Label, got FI=SOS_LABEL Stream=141 len=162. Here a problem: But the tape will be still loading at next backup so I have now disabled the volume which should contains the slot. 1. Is there a way to use an Error status instead of an disabling? (Not important but shows that there is a problem with this tape). Disabled status tapes could not purge, later. 2. Because of the corrupt label I think all backups stored on the tape and the following incrementals are no more readable so I want to purge/prune them. I did this without any problem after setting the status back to Full. Any other idea? 3. Here I found possible an bug: I have to delete the volume so I used update which didn't helped me: *update Update choice: 1: Volume parameters 2: Pool from resource 3: Slots from autochanger Choose catalog item to update (1-3): 3 The defined Storage resources are: 1: File 2: Libra-8 Select Storage resource (1-2): 2 Connecting to Storage daemon Libra-8 at spaceetch.privatnet:9103 ... Connecting to Storage daemon Libra-8 at spaceetch.privatnet:9103 ... 3306 Issuing autochanger slots command. Device Libra-8 has 8 slots. Connecting to Storage daemon Libra-8 at spaceetch.privatnet:9103 ... 3306 Issuing autochanger list command. No Volumes found to label, or no barcodes. So I used different one to check how I can delete the volume from the database. A update than slots didn't helped me. Any idea how I can delete the media from bacula? 4. update command can move a volume to an slot number which didn't exist on the tape library (12 for example). Not dau friendly :-) MfG... Pierre Bernhardt - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Password Protection on Restore?
Michael Havas schrieb: Hi, I was thinking of using data encryption as discussed in the manual and have the ssl key require a passphrase. Here are a few questions I thought of: 1. Is this supported by bacula? Is somebody else doing this? 2. Will this even work? 3. Is it possible to only use the master certificate to do the encryption? In my opinion yes. Use only a master cert on the fd for encryption. This will prevent from restore without having the master key file. But this mean you cannot directly restore on the client without having the master key on the client so the client fd can read them. 4. Will I be required to enter the passphrase upon backing up data as well? For automation reasons, this is not something I want. For encryption you will never need an password. The cert is enough. The cert could not be used for decryption. For decryption: I have never seen asking interactive password for decryption. You must have the key for decryption stored without the password. But my idea is you can put them on an memory stick for example. This is my opinion. I have not tested them but it should work. For encryption I use a master cert and a fd cert for every client. And on every client the fd key is stored so I can recover directly on the client. The master key is only used by my if the client key is lost by recover the whole client. MfG... Pierre Bernhardt - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Feature request: dynamic configuration files
What: The ability to read a configuration file as stdout from an executable
Why: The configuration files (particularly for the Director) are very
complex. In my case I find it easier to have a program generate them
from meta-information about the clients.
Notes:
The attached patch implements this. It's a simple change to lex.c, and
functions globally: if the first character of any configuration file's
name is a pipe (|), then the rest of the filename is considered to
be the path to an executable. The program is run, stdout is read, and
the output is the configuration file.
For example, starting the director like this:
# bacula-dir -c '|/usr/local/sbin/generate-dir-config'
... would cause it to run /usr/local/sbin/generate-dir-config to
generate a new configuration file.
Comments welcome.
-- Jorj
diff --recursive -u bacula-2.0.3/src/lib/lex.c
bacula-2.0.3.patched/src/lib/lex.c
--- bacula-2.0.3/src/lib/lex.c 2006-11-21 11:13:58.0 -0500
+++ bacula-2.0.3.patched/src/lib/lex.c 2007-03-08 09:54:40.0 -0500
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@
#include bacula.h
#include lex.h
+#if defined(HAVE_WIN32)
+#define POPEN_MODE rb
+#else
+#define POPEN_MODE r
+#endif
+
extern int debug_level;
/* Debug level for this source file */
@@ -133,7 +139,11 @@
Dmsg1(dbglvl, Close lex file: %s\n, lf-fname);
of = lf-next;
- fclose(lf-fd);
+
+ if (lf-is_pipe)
+ pclose(lf-fd);
+ else
+ fclose(lf-fd);
Dmsg1(dbglvl, Close cfg file %s\n, lf-fname);
free(lf-fname);
if (of) {
@@ -159,6 +169,7 @@
* the next field.
*
*/
+
LEX *lex_open_file(LEX *lf, const char *filename, LEX_ERROR_HANDLER
*scan_error)
{
@@ -166,9 +177,14 @@
FILE *fd;
char *fname = bstrdup(filename);
-
- if ((fd = fopen(fname, rb)) == NULL) {
- return NULL;
+ if (fname fname[0] == '|') {
+ if ((fd = popen(fname[1], POPEN_MODE)) == NULL) {
+return NULL;
+ }
+ } else {
+ if ((fd = fopen(fname, rb)) == NULL) {
+return NULL;
+ }
}
Dmsg1(400, Open config file: %s\n, fname);
nf = (LEX *)malloc(sizeof(LEX));
@@ -188,6 +204,7 @@
lex_set_default_error_handler(lf);
}
lf-fd = fd;
+ lf-is_pipe = (fname[0] == '|');
lf-fname = fname;
lf-state = lex_none;
lf-ch = L_EOL;
diff --recursive -u bacula-2.0.3/src/lib/lex.h
bacula-2.0.3.patched/src/lib/lex.h
--- bacula-2.0.3/src/lib/lex.h 2006-11-21 08:20:11.0 -0500
+++ bacula-2.0.3.patched/src/lib/lex.h 2007-03-08 09:33:41.0 -0500
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@
int options; /* scan options */
char *fname; /* filename */
FILE *fd; /* file descriptor */
+ int is_pipe : 1; /* did we use popen to open it? */
char line[MAXSTRING]; /* input line */
char str[MAXSTRING]; /* string being scanned */
int str_len; /* length of string */
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[Bacula-users] suggestions for improving question enhancement submissions (Was: Re: Unhelpful help (was Re: Bacula and HP MSL2024autochanger))
In the message dated: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 20:53:32 -, The pithy ruminations from Rob MacGregor on Re: [Bacula-users] Unhelpful help (was Re: Bacula and HP MSL2024autochanger) were: = On 3/16/07, Darien Hager [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: = I wonder if a small improvement would be to basically send them an e- = mail as part of the signup process which has some helpful links, = small manual TOC, etc. I think that a MAJOR improvement would be a form on the website that prompts the user for all the required information to submit a question to the list (or a bug report): bacula version fd platform sd platform client platform[s] specific error messages debug level used problem description attached config files There's so much information that the process of asking--and more importantly, answering--questions could be tremendously improved if the questions were posted in a standardized format. This would make them easier for human beings to scan and respond to, and easier to index for future searches. Along these lines, I'd also strongly suggest a form for submitting enhancement requests. Kern has a strong preference for having the request submitted in a particular format...it would improve the quality of the requests, reduce the number of times that they are re-submitted because of formatting errors, and make it easier on Kern (and the other developers) if the data was in a standardized format. Mark = = I've seen that done on another list, including direct pointers to the = section of the FAQ that details how to report problems. = = I think maybe one person has actually provided even the majority of = the requested information right off (and nobody all of it). Even = people who harp on about having read the FAQ provide little of the = requested information. The most common statement is I know I should = upgrade, but = = So, in my experience it may help, but I really doubt it. The sad fact = of life is that most people either don't read any of it (probably = because they're in too much of a rush to get their post in so they can = get help) or don't understand what they read (either language barriers = or a lack of a common knowledge space). = = -- = Please keep list traffic on the list. = = Rob MacGregor = Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he = doesn't become a monster. Friedrich Nietzsche = = - = Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT = Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your = opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash = http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV = ___ = Bacula-users mailing list = Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net = https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users = The information contained in this e-mail message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail, and delete the original message. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] director password...Urgent
Hi, Please can anyone tell me how to reset or get the director password. I need it for adding new clients and I am not sure what the password is. Regards - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Corrupted volume. How do I recover?
Now this tape (3rd in an archive pool) had 34GB of backups on it the first question I have is how do I find out what jobs were run on this volume? I found this one. Use the query command from the console. query Available queries: 1: List up to 20 places where a File is saved regardless of the directory 2: List where the most recent copies of a file are saved 3: List last 20 Full Backups for a Client 4: List all backups for a Client after a specified time 5: List all backups for a Client 6: List Volume Attributes for a selected Volume 7: List Volumes used by selected JobId 8: List Volumes to Restore All Files 9: List Pool Attributes for a selected Pool 10: List total files/bytes by Job 11: List total files/bytes by Volume 12: List Files for a selected JobId 13: List Jobs stored on a selected MediaId 14: List Jobs stored for a given Volume name 15: List Volumes Bacula thinks are in changer 16: List Volumes likely to need replacement from age or errors Choose a query (1-16): 14 Enter Volume name: A00023 +---++-+--+---++-++ | jobid | name | starttime | type | level | files | bytes | status | +---++-+--+---++-++ | 3,867 | HOLOGICArchive-Job | 2007-03-12 15:17:46 | B| I | 13,216 | 118,405,453,610 | T | +---++-+--+---++-++ It says there is only one job on the tape which I worry about as it says there are ~34GB of data on the tape but since this job only had 13GB where was the other data from? list media pool=LTO2-Archived-Data +-++---+-+-+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+ | mediaid | volumename | volstatus | enabled | volbytes| volfiles | volretention | recycle | slot | inchanger | mediatype | lastwritten | +-++---+-+-+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+ | 121 | A8 | Full | 1 | 293,324,113,143 | 301 | 31,536,000 | 0 |8 | 1 | LTO-2 | 2006-10-17 14:37:37 | | 135 | A00010 | Archive | 1 | 262,766,020,608 | 269 | 31,536,000 | 0 | 10 | 1 | LTO-2 | 2007-03-12 16:27:04 | | 154 | A00023 | Append| 1 | 32,146,910,208 | 33 | 31,536,000 | 0 | 21 | 1 | LTO-2 | 2007-03-12 16:58:42 | John - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] director password...Urgent
On 3/19/07, Naufal Zamir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Please can anyone tell me how to reset or get the director password. I need it for adding new clients and I am not sure what the password is. This password is set in the bacula-dir.conf file on the director. John - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] director password...Urgent
yep true, but its encrypted and i don't know the password because it was set by some one else.. So how do I recover the password now. Regards On 3/19/07, John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/19/07, Naufal Zamir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Please can anyone tell me how to reset or get the director password. I need it for adding new clients and I am not sure what the password is. This password is set in the bacula-dir.conf file on the director. John - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] director password...Urgent
In response to Naufal Zamir [EMAIL PROTECTED]: yep true, but its encrypted and i don't know the password because it was set by some one else.. So how do I recover the password now. It's not encrypted. Regards On 3/19/07, John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/19/07, Naufal Zamir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Please can anyone tell me how to reset or get the director password. I need it for adding new clients and I am not sure what the password is. This password is set in the bacula-dir.conf file on the director. John -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] director password...Urgent
No, it is not encrypted, copy it as-is, it will work. Generally it is created during setup via the /dev/rand device . Maybe its for this reason that it seams encrypted to you. On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:22:36 +0100, Naufal Zamir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yep true, but its encrypted and i don't know the password because it was set by some one else.. So how do I recover the password now. Regards On 3/19/07, John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/19/07, Naufal Zamir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Please can anyone tell me how to reset or get the director password. I need it for adding new clients and I am not sure what the password is. This password is set in the bacula-dir.conf file on the director. John - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] director password...Urgent
On 3/19/07, Naufal Zamir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yep true, but its encrypted and i don't know the password because it was set by some one else.. So how do I recover the password now. Regards No need to decode you just copy that cryptic code to the client bacula-fs or enter it in the windows setup. John - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] director password...Urgent
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 12:22 -0400, Naufal Zamir wrote: yep true, but its encrypted and i don't know the password because it was set by some one else.. So how do I recover the password now. Reset it on the director, then update all your clients with the new password. Might be a pain if you have a lot of clients -- Zachariah Mully Director, Systems and Networks SmartBrief, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: 202-737-5500 f: 202-737-7577 - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] director password...Urgent
Yeah thanks all of you. It works when i just copy and paste it. Best Regards On 3/19/07, John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/19/07, Naufal Zamir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yep true, but its encrypted and i don't know the password because it was set by some one else.. So how do I recover the password now. Regards No need to decode you just copy that cryptic code to the client bacula-fs or enter it in the windows setup. John - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Feature request: dynamic configuration files
On Mar 19, 2007, at 6:59 AM, Jorj Bauer wrote: What: The ability to read a configuration file as stdout from an executable Why: The configuration files (particularly for the Director) are very complex. In my case I find it easier to have a program generate them from meta-information about the clients. Notes: The attached patch implements this. It's a simple change to lex.c, and functions globally: if the first character of any configuration file's name is a pipe (|), then the rest of the filename is considered to be the path to an executable. The program is run, stdout is read, and the output is the configuration file. For example, starting the director like this: # bacula-dir -c '|/usr/local/sbin/generate-dir-config' ... would cause it to run /usr/local/sbin/generate-dir-config to generate a new configuration file. Hey, that sounds pretty useful. When you say globally, I assume you mean that I can just toss a similar line into bacula-dir to generate a subset of the configuration data from a script? -- --Darien A. Hager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: (206) 734-5666 - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Feature request: dynamic configuration files
# bacula-dir -c '|/usr/local/sbin/generate-dir-config' ... would cause it to run /usr/local/sbin/generate-dir-config to generate a new configuration file. Hey, that sounds pretty useful. When you say globally, I assume you mean that I can just toss a similar line into bacula-dir to generate a subset of the configuration data from a script? When I said globally I meant for all of the daemons (fd, dir, sd). Your idea has merit, but I think it would be a much more substantial patch. This patch specifically changes the behavior when starting to open a file. You can certainly replicate the behavior you're suggesting by using this patch, and having your own script do the parsing-and-modification. -- Jorj pgpAsqMwh4MWp.pgp Description: PGP signature - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Feature request: dynamic configuration files
On Mar 19, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Jorj Bauer wrote: # bacula-dir -c '|/usr/local/sbin/generate-dir-config' ... would cause it to run /usr/local/sbin/generate-dir-config to generate a new configuration file. Hey, that sounds pretty useful. When you say globally, I assume you mean that I can just toss a similar line into bacula-dir to generate a subset of the configuration data from a script? When I said globally I meant for all of the daemons (fd, dir, sd). Your idea has merit, but I think it would be a much more substantial patch. This patch specifically changes the behavior when starting to open a file. You can certainly replicate the behavior you're suggesting by using this patch, and having your own script do the parsing-and-modification. Hmm. Myself, I'd prefer a include-from-script directive I could place in the director. I suppose when you get down to it, both potential features (entire conf from script, subset from script) can be accomplished with existing capabilities (run script first, include from generated file.) Nevertheless, I can't speak for many others, but if I could write a line to grab client/job definitions from this script within bacula- dir.conf, I would use it. -- --Darien A. Hager [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: (206) 734-5666 - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula release strategy.
After receiving somewhat conflicting input (some pro quick releases, some against), I've decided roughly to follow the following strategy: For the immediate future: 1. Observe the progress of our current development work over the next week or two. 2. As far as I can tell, all the code is stable *except* the new batch insert database code, which is not yet of production quality. 3. After a week, if it is production quality, then we will release an update to 2.0.x that contains the whole of the current development code. 4. If after a week, the database code is not production quality, then I will merge all the development code except the batch insert database code into 2.0.4 and release it in the near future (3 - 6 weeks). Longer term: While developing the 2.0.x code, we made some 12 releases to version 1.38.x. The first few, as with 2.0.x, were primarily bug fix releases, but a good part of the subsequent releases were new features, but those which I found to be stable and compatible. I would like to continue this sort of release procedure. It allows us to make a new incremental release every two to four months each time adding new features. Please keep in mind that each of the 2.0.x releases as was the case with 1.38.x will remain totally compatible. There will be no need as some feared to upgrade lots or clients unless you want new features that have been added to the clients. Normally new client features don't come along too often, but we will probably have one shortly for 2.0.x for Win32, because from what I understand the current client does not run on Vista (thanks Microsoft), so we will very likely release an update (hopefully sooner rather than later). Obviously the above means that the 2.0.x feature updates will be limited to those that are stable and cause no compatibility problems. Major features updates will continue to be spaced at approximately 12-18 month intervals. Basically this means maintaining the status quo. If someone has some problems with this, now is the time to speak up. Best regards, Kern - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Could not connect to Storage daemon - ERR=No error
Unfortunately, the error message here is probably incorrect because at that low level, it doesn't know about Win32. As a consequence, it is most likely that packrat is not properly defined on jeff-t40-fd. Ahhh so different socket API errors for TCP sockets? Different firewalls return (or don't return) different TCP and ICMP packets in response to SYN packets that violate policies. Cisco doesn't give you a lot of control; pf(4) / ipf(4) does etc. ~BAS It would be a big help to Win32 users if you would file a bug report with the above message and something like Incorrect Win32 network error message as the title. IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the delivery of this message to an intended recipient), please be advised that any re-use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is prohibited. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Two SDs (file) - Strange behavior...
Hello all. I'm 99% positive either I'm doing the configuration wrong - but
I've read the manual and archives (maybe missing the answer) and have no clue
as to what is going on...
I have the following setup - One machine running bacula-dir and bacula-sd
(named backup1), another machine running bacula-sd (named backup2). I am using
file storage on both.
On both are 3ware cards with disks that are allocated to the directory that
holds the backup file storage (/bacula-nn). My plan was to use a pool, and
have bacula send the jobs to them as determined by the director.
Well, everything *sort of* works. The problems I've encountered are as follows:
When backup1's disk space fills up, bconsole becomes practically unusable, as
it slows down severely. During this time I see a lot of these messages:
19-Mar 15:54 backup1.mydomain.com: ERROR in authenticate.c:382 Unable to
authenticate console *UserAgent* at client:172.16.0.134:36131.
Also, during the slowdown, mysqld is being hit extremely hard.
Now, if I switch the order of the Storage lines in the Pool section, and
restart the director, bconsole becomes snappy again, and backups to the pool go
to backup2. Mysqld is not taxed at all after the order is switched
Does any one have any idea on this? Below are the relevant configuration
sections. I'm currently trying to restore a file from the 'backup1' server
(its disks are full), and it is being extremely slow. :)
Backup1 - /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf:
Storage {
Name = backup1 - File
Address = backup1.mydomain.com
SDPort = 9103
Password = password
Device = FileStorage
Media Type = File
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 3
}
Storage {
Name = backup2 - File
Address = backup2.mydomain.com
SDPort = 9103
Password = password
Device = FileStorage2
Media Type = File2
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 3
}
Pool {
Name = File Storage
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 365 days # one year
Storage = backup1 - File
Storage = backup2 - File
}
Backup1 - /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf:
Device {
Name = FileStorage
Media Type = File
Archive Device = /bacula-01
LabelMedia = yes; # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
Random Access = Yes;
AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
RemovableMedia = no;
AlwaysOpen = no;
}
Backup2 - /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf:
Device {
Name = FileStorage2
Media Type = File2
Archive Device = /bacula-02
LabelMedia = yes; # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
Random Access = Yes;
AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
RemovableMedia = no;
AlwaysOpen = no;
}
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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and HP MSL2024 autochanger
On 2007-03-16, Marc Cuypers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Has someone bacula working with a HP MSL2024 autochanger? We have it working with an MSL4048, which from what I understand is very similar. Works great. -- John - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Corrupted volume. How do I recover?
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:28:03 -0400, John Drescher said: I believe I confused bacula by restarting the sd with my tapes mounted in my autochanger. The end result is one of the tapes appears to have been corrupted: 15-Mar 16:12 dev6-sd: 3305 Autochanger load slot 21, drive 1, status is OK. 15-Mar 16:12 dev6-sd: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 1 command. 15-Mar 16:12 dev6-sd: 3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 1, result is Slot 21. 15-Mar 16:12 dev6-sd: PLuSSArchive-Job.2007-03-15_16.06.16 Error: block.c:275 Volume data error at 0:0! Wanted ID: BB02, got . Buffer discarded. I try bls and I get more of the same: # bls -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -V* /dev/nst1 -L bls: butil.c:283 Using device: /dev/nst1 for reading. 15-Mar 17:14 bls: Invalid slot=0 defined, cannot autoload Volume. 15-Mar 17:14 bls: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded? drive 1 command. 15-Mar 17:14 bls: 3302 Autochanger loaded? drive 1, result is Slot 21. 15-Mar 17:14 bls: bls Error: block.c:275 Volume data error at 0:0! Wanted ID: BB02, got . Buffer discarded. Now this tape (3rd in an archive pool) had 34GB of backups on it the first question I have is how do I find out what jobs were run on this volume? Also If I purge the volume which should contain 2 to 4 incremental jobs can I run an incremental backup again on the data so that bacula backups any files that were new along with the purged files. Or will bacula try to do a full backup? It will run an incremental again as long as it can find the Full backup job. The output of list jobs should show which jobs it knows about. __Martin - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Corrupted volume. How do I recover?
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:56:33 -0400, John Drescher said: Now this tape (3rd in an archive pool) had 34GB of backups on it the first question I have is how do I find out what jobs were run on this volume? I found this one. Use the query command from the console. query Available queries: 1: List up to 20 places where a File is saved regardless of the directory 2: List where the most recent copies of a file are saved 3: List last 20 Full Backups for a Client 4: List all backups for a Client after a specified time 5: List all backups for a Client 6: List Volume Attributes for a selected Volume 7: List Volumes used by selected JobId 8: List Volumes to Restore All Files 9: List Pool Attributes for a selected Pool 10: List total files/bytes by Job 11: List total files/bytes by Volume 12: List Files for a selected JobId 13: List Jobs stored on a selected MediaId 14: List Jobs stored for a given Volume name 15: List Volumes Bacula thinks are in changer 16: List Volumes likely to need replacement from age or errors Choose a query (1-16): 14 Enter Volume name: A00023 +---++-+--+---++-++ | jobid | name | starttime | type | level | files | bytes | status | +---++-+--+---++-++ | 3,867 | HOLOGICArchive-Job | 2007-03-12 15:17:46 | B| I | 13,216 | 118,405,453,610 | T | +---++-+--+---++-++ It says there is only one job on the tape which I worry about as it says there are ~34GB of data on the tape but since this job only had 13GB where was the other data from? list media pool=LTO2-Archived-Data +-++---+-+-+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+ | mediaid | volumename | volstatus | enabled | volbytes| volfiles | volretention | recycle | slot | inchanger | mediatype | lastwritten | +-++---+-+-+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+ | 121 | A8 | Full | 1 | 293,324,113,143 | 301 | 31,536,000 | 0 |8 | 1 | LTO-2 | 2006-10-17 14:37:37 | | 135 | A00010 | Archive | 1 | 262,766,020,608 | 269 | 31,536,000 | 0 | 10 | 1 | LTO-2 | 2007-03-12 16:27:04 | | 154 | A00023 | Append| 1 | 32,146,910,208 | 33 | 31,536,000 | 0 | 21 | 1 | LTO-2 | 2007-03-12 16:58:42 | In fact it is the other way round -- the job was 118GB. Possibly the start of the job is on A00010? __Martin - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Corrupted volume. How do I recover?
In fact it is the other way round -- the job was 118GB. Possibly the start of the job is on A00010? Martin, Thank You! User error... I guess I could put some blame on the messed up formatting on my gnome console. This is a good thing then as I will only need to redo a single backup. I now feel confident to purge tape A00023 and run another incremental HOLOGICArchive-Job job. Thanks again, John - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Feature request: dynamic configuration files
Jorj Bauer wrote: What: The ability to read a configuration file as stdout from an executable Why: The configuration files (particularly for the Director) are very complex. In my case I find it easier to have a program generate them from meta-information about the clients. Notes: The attached patch implements this. It's a simple change to lex.c, and functions globally: if the first character of any configuration file's name is a pipe (|), then the rest of the filename is considered to be the path to an executable. The program is run, stdout is read, and the output is the configuration file. For example, starting the director like this: # bacula-dir -c '|/usr/local/sbin/generate-dir-config' Maybe I am missing some important point, but by now I can't see any mayor benefits of your solution compared with: # /usr/local/sbin/generate-dir-config /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf bacula-dir -c /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf Andreas - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Corrupt tape label
Hi, On 3/19/2007 11:30 AM, Pierre Bernhardt wrote: Hello, I got a problem with one tape which have a corrupt label so bacula cannot mount them. I checked with btape too: readlabel could not found the original label. The tape is in use of my weekly backups. Perhaps because the volume was in use by Bacula, then, for some reason, rewound without Bacula noticing that. Then the next job was written to the tape, without repositioning first, and thus you don't have a correct tape label anymore. Now my serious problem: A job has been startet. Bacula has loaded the tape an wants to mount it. But it cannot because of the label was not found. Now bacula wait and wait and wait..so I must cancel the jobs which will go on these tape. I think auto cancel of the job I can configure on job level. You don't have to cancel jobs in this case. To reread which tape is in which port I have updated the media list by an umount update slots scan. At Slot 6 which contains the corrupt tape I got a message. A update slots=6 scan again said: Could not unserialize Volume label: ERR=label.c:775 Expecting Volume Label, got FI=SOS_LABEL Stream=141 len=162. Here a problem: But the tape will be still loading at next backup so I have now disabled the volume which should contains the slot. 1. Is there a way to use an Error status instead of an disabling? (Not important but shows that there is a problem with this tape). Disabled status tapes could not purge, later. 'update volume=... volstatus=Error' might work. 2. Because of the corrupt label I think all backups stored on the tape and the following incrementals are no more readable so I want to purge/prune them. I did this without any problem after setting the status back to Full. Any other idea? Either delete all the jobs stored on this tape (nominally), or simply delete and recreate the volume. 3. Here I found possible an bug: I have to delete the volume so I used update which didn't helped me: *update Update choice: 1: Volume parameters 2: Pool from resource 3: Slots from autochanger Choose catalog item to update (1-3): 3 The defined Storage resources are: 1: File 2: Libra-8 Select Storage resource (1-2): 2 Connecting to Storage daemon Libra-8 at spaceetch.privatnet:9103 ... Connecting to Storage daemon Libra-8 at spaceetch.privatnet:9103 ... 3306 Issuing autochanger slots command. Device Libra-8 has 8 slots. Connecting to Storage daemon Libra-8 at spaceetch.privatnet:9103 ... 3306 Issuing autochanger list command. No Volumes found to label, or no barcodes. So I used different one to check how I can delete the volume from the database. A update than slots didn't helped me. Any idea how I can delete the media from bacula? The 'delete media' command. 4. update command can move a volume to an slot number which didn't exist on the tape library (12 for example). Not dau friendly :-) True, but unfortunately there is no way for Bacula to know how many slots your library *really* has. The output from mtx usually does give the correct result, but that is only used by the SD (or rather, the DIR has to ask the SD for it), and doing this for a manual catalog update might result in other problems. For example if your autochanger is not working correctly and you have to update the tape poitions manually. In your situation, I'd delete the jobs from volume in question, set the volstatus to used, prune the volume, so it gets marked as empty, and use btape to recreate the previous label. Arno MfG... Pierre Bernhardt - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- IT-Service Lehmann[EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Storage Daemon building
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kern Sibbald wrote: The SD does not currently need/use the DB (this will probably chang). However, some of the other tools that are built with the SD do need the DB, therefore the dependence. If you want ONLY the SD, for the current time, you can build it with any DB and it will work. Out of curiosity, what -- down the line -- would the -sd require a database for? Config info? - -- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer III |$| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF/zuwmb+gadEcsb4RAjmMAKCpMfyOY7WzanE5VFWE7/LkORAj9ACeNVTk s5smJGwV7RkSTpnHs9QtmDg= =BvU1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- begin:vcard fn:Ryan Novosielski n:Novosielski;Ryan org:UMDNJ;IST/AST adr;dom:MSB C630;;185 South Orange Avenue;Newark;NJ;07103 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Systems Programmer III tel;work:(973) 972-0922 tel;fax:(973) 972-7412 tel;pager:(866) 20-UMDNJ x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Any experience with Quantum DLT-S4 ?
Hi, is somebody using a Quantum DLT-S4 drive with Bacula ? I'm looking for a tape drive with a huge uncompressed capacity on a single tape and the DLT-S4 drive seems to have the most capacity. But i'm not sure if it is fully usable. MfG M.Soysal - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Two SDs (file) - Strange behavior...
James Bass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On both are 3ware cards with disks that are allocated to the directory that holds the backup file storage (/bacula-nn). [snip] Also, during the slowdown, mysqld is being hit extremely hard. Now, if I switch the order of the Storage lines in the Pool section, and restart the director, bconsole becomes snappy again, and backups to the pool go to backup2. Mysqld is not taxed at all after the order is switched Does any one have any idea on this? I have had Bacula 1.38.x (and 1.36.x) running on a server with a 3ware RAID controller for over a year now, and swear *at* the 3ware controller instead of swear by it like most other people. Don't know if the thing is a pile of toss, if there's driver problems, or if maybe the motherboard is incompatible with the 3ware card, but disk I/O actually seems to be faster through a USB2 disk drive on the same server than it is to SATA disks on the 3ware card! When I finally got around to hooking up a SCSI LTO tape drive to this server last month and found the tape to be faster as a backup media than the disks, I realized just how bad the disk throughput really was. It seems to me like the major problem is limited to huge sequential reads/writes like Bacula does to monster backup files, but that's besides the point. In any case, the description of your problem above sounds like disk throughput problems just like I'm seeing, and if you have 30+ second delays even trying to logon to the system at the console when things slow down then you are surely seeing the same problem. The MySQL problem is another symptom of a disk bottleneck, especially if that disk partition is also on the 3ware controller. If I'm correct in my diagnosis, the explanation for your increased performance after swapping the parameters in the config file is because you re-started the daemons...which stopped the file processing backlog and let the disks catch up. Having a second storage daemon and disk controller is probably a little bit of a plus to better disk throughput as well. Of course, I may be wrong, but my $0.02 is to start by checking the disk throughput on your backup1 box before you dig any deeper into Bacula's configuration. -Arthur - Arthur Emerson III Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator InterNIC: AE81 Mount Saint Mary College MaBell: (845) 561-0800 Ext. 3109 330 Powell Ave.Fax:(845) 562-6762 Newburgh, NY 12550SneakerNet: Aquinas Hall Room 6 - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula release strategy.
Mandag 19 marts 2007 19:34 skrev Kern Sibbald: After receiving somewhat conflicting input (some pro quick releases, some against), I've decided roughly to follow the following strategy: For the immediate future: 1. Observe the progress of our current development work over the next week or two. 2. As far as I can tell, all the code is stable *except* the new batch insert database code, which is not yet of production quality. 3. After a week, if it is production quality, then we will release an update to 2.0.x that contains the whole of the current development code. 4. If after a week, the database code is not production quality, then I will merge all the development code except the batch insert database code into 2.0.4 and release it in the near future (3 - 6 weeks). It is not clear to me if this then includes the features that you mentioned for version 2.2 in the original post. Seems to me that the marked performance improvements are so significant that the 2.2 version numbering was reasonable Longer term: While developing the 2.0.x code, we made some 12 releases to version 1.38.x. The first few, as with 2.0.x, were primarily bug fix releases, but a good part of the subsequent releases were new features, but those which I found to be stable and compatible. I would like to continue this sort of release procedure. It allows us to make a new incremental release every two to four months each time adding new features. Please keep in mind that each of the 2.0.x releases as was the case with 1.38.x will remain totally compatible. There will be no need as some feared to upgrade lots or clients unless you want new features that have been added to the clients. Normally new client features don't come along too often, but we will probably have one shortly for 2.0.x for Win32, because from what I understand the current client does not run on Vista (thanks Microsoft), so we will very likely release an update (hopefully sooner rather than later). Obviously the above means that the 2.0.x feature updates will be limited to those that are stable and cause no compatibility problems. Major features updates will continue to be spaced at approximately 12-18 month intervals. Basically this means maintaining the status quo. If someone has some problems with this, now is the time to speak up. Depends on the answer above, as those features are some that I personally just can't wait to see Otherwise it seems as a very good way to keep a stable release for a reasonable length of time. I am still running 1.38 because it does what I need it to do, but just those performance improvements give me a good reason to upgrade, and it is nice if it will then last a while. Best regards, Kern - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Regards Steen - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Feature request: dynamic configuration files
Maybe I am missing some important point, but by now I can't see any mayor benefits of your solution compared with: # /usr/local/sbin/generate-dir-config /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf bacula-dir -c /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf It's subtle. You're missing the 'reload' command. -- Jorj pgpD3QQl2zEMq.pgp Description: PGP signature - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 2.0.3-1 released for SuSE 10.1 and 10.2 (x86_64)
Hi, On 3/19/2007 11:14 AM, Alan Brown wrote: On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Kern Sibbald wrote: Has anyone built a bacula-fd for suse-9 at all? Yes. No rpms here, though. I'm quite sure someone else will have an rpm soon for the FD at least. Hopefully the above is true, but if I recall correctly, the Bacula project (i.e. Scott) is no longer supporting SuSE 9. I've previously discussed with Scott about making bacula-fd-static binaries available (where possible) for use on obsolete systems. While I realise it's not always possible to make a full -static set, 99% of the time the filedaemon is the only thing needed - in order to keep backing up older systems until they're replaced. Ok, I have an FD for SuSE 9.2 which should also work on SLES9. Statically linking was not possible, after some playing around, I always ended up with: elf:/srv/nfsexport/bacula/bacula-2.0.2 grep Static ./config.out Statically Linked Tools:no Statically Linked FD: yes Statically Linked SD: no Statically Linked DIR: no Statically Linked CONS: no elf:/srv/nfsexport/bacula/bacula-2.0.2 ldd src/filed/bacula-fd linux-gate.so.1 = (0xe000) libacl.so.1 = /lib/libacl.so.1 (0x4002f000) libz.so.1 = /lib/libz.so.1 (0x40035000) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x40047000) libstdc++.so.5 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x40059000) libm.so.6 = /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x40116000) libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x40139000) libc.so.6 = /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x40141000) libattr.so.1 = /lib/libattr.so.1 (0x40257000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) elf:/srv/nfsexport/bacula/bacula-2.0.2 I can not find static .a libraries for linux-gate (whatever that is) and libattr, so I assume these might be one reason for not having a static FD possible. Anyway, as far as I can see the FD should run on minimal SLES9-installation, perhaps even when running a recovery version from DVD and accessing the FD binary and configuration via nfs or similar. I can mail the FD, or put it onto a web site if there is need for it. 244k stripped, and here is a checksum: f2333e592204ae69800b265936ccfac05aa08c79 src/filed/bacula-fd-stripped Right now I can imagine several people asking why I don't just update No need to explain that - I still have SuSE 8.1 running my Bacula server :-) and the answer is simple My answer would be even simpler :-) - we are a space lab, supporting projects which may run for a decade or more and a lot of the time the software is binary-only and keyed to a particular machine and/or OS(*) - which means we are locked into using that machine or OS until the probe in question (somewhere around the solar system) finally dies. Which would be the time when you don't need a FD for it any more, any suppose... (*) Sometimes we have sources and find that the person who wrote the code is long gone, or the code is very tightly coded to the OS - but more often it's just so incredibly badly written that it's totally non-portable. Rocket Scientists are some of the lousiest programmers on the planet. That's because you don't have to be a rocket scientist to write code ;-) Arno - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- IT-Service Lehmann[EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Feature request: dynamic configuration files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Helmcke wrote: Jorj Bauer wrote: What: The ability to read a configuration file as stdout from an executable Why: The configuration files (particularly for the Director) are very complex. In my case I find it easier to have a program generate them from meta-information about the clients. Notes: The attached patch implements this. It's a simple change to lex.c, and functions globally: if the first character of any configuration file's name is a pipe (|), then the rest of the filename is considered to be the path to an executable. The program is run, stdout is read, and the output is the configuration file. For example, starting the director like this: # bacula-dir -c '|/usr/local/sbin/generate-dir-config' Maybe I am missing some important point, but by now I can't see any mayor benefits of your solution compared with: # /usr/local/sbin/generate-dir-config /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf bacula-dir -c /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf I myself can't see the point of generate-dir-config. I know this is just an example, but what might this script/program do that a flat file can't? Maybe I'm missing something neat here, but I'm curious what one would want to do with such a thing. - -- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer III |$| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF/ztNmb+gadEcsb4RAoBeAKCotpTTgZ5pMnfhq2BpCJuYXkOfDACeOBaI ROr4nFz3uKRyUYX3LiJwVAw= =jYso -END PGP SIGNATURE- begin:vcard fn:Ryan Novosielski n:Novosielski;Ryan org:UMDNJ;IST/AST adr;dom:MSB C630;;185 South Orange Avenue;Newark;NJ;07103 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Systems Programmer III tel;work:(973) 972-0922 tel;fax:(973) 972-7412 tel;pager:(866) 20-UMDNJ x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Storage Daemon building
Hi, Ryan Novosielski wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kern Sibbald wrote: The SD does not currently need/use the DB (this will probably chang). However, some of the other tools that are built with the SD do need the DB, therefore the dependence. If you want ONLY the SD, for the current time, you can build it with any DB and it will work. Out of curiosity, what -- down the line -- would the -sd require a database for? Config info? I personally guessed it was for the direct updating/storing of attributes - currently these are 'routed' thru the director aren't they? There are probably other reasons tho. Cheers, Troy Daniels. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Two SDs (file) - Strange behavior...
On 3/19/07, Arthur Emerson III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had Bacula 1.38.x (and 1.36.x) running on a server with a 3ware RAID controller for over a year now, and swear *at* the 3ware controller instead of swear by it like most other people. My experience is that, as long as you're not using RAID5, they're fantastic. The onboard RAID5 implementation however performs *very* badly. Strangely the onboard RAID50 implementation performs just as well as all the other options (including the misnamed RAID0). Worth doing some simple performance benchmarking (dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/sdX1 count=200) to get a rough indicator. Also worth watching the WIO field of top to see if you're heavily I/O bound. -- Please keep list traffic on the list. Rob MacGregor Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't become a monster. Friedrich Nietzsche - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
