Re: [Bacula-users] Volume Retention / Use Duration
Hello Jeremy all, thanks much for your reply. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:27:07PM +0200, Jeremy Maes wrote: Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 14 days Volume Use Duration = 6 days Recycle Oldest Volume = yes Maximum Volumes = 3 Label Format =Full- } Here you specify 3 volumes max, probably to make sure your incrementals are still useful? (something you forgot to do for the incrementals themselves I think) Why the 6 day use duration though? You say you want to do all full backups on the same day. Do the backups take multiple days to complete? But I'm unsure about the use duration. Is there a better way to implement the above requirements? I was hoping that when the 7th day in the cycle comes around with a new full backup being due, bacula would note the max use duration and create a new volume automatically (if max volumes isn't yet reached) or recycle the oldest one, keeping two older full backups on the other volumes. the backups themselves are rather smallish (the biggest is around 160G) and complete within a couple of hours after being started. Is there a more elegant way to keep two older volumes in the pool without making use of max use duration? All the best, Uwe -- NIONEX ist ein Unternehmen der DirectGroup Germany www.directgroupgermany.de -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Volume Retention / Use Duration
Op 31/03/2011 9:08, Uwe Schuerkamp schreef: Hello Jeremy all, thanks much for your reply. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:27:07PM +0200, Jeremy Maes wrote: Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Volume Retention = 14 days Volume Use Duration = 6 days Recycle Oldest Volume = yes Maximum Volumes = 3 Label Format =Full- } Here you specify 3 volumes max, probably to make sure your incrementals are still useful? (something you forgot to do for the incrementals themselves I think) Why the 6 day use duration though? You say you want to do all full backups on the same day. Do the backups take multiple days to complete? I was hoping that when the 7th day in the cycle comes around with a new full backup being due, bacula would note the max use duration and create a new volume automatically (if max volumes isn't yet reached) or recycle the oldest one, keeping two older full backups on the other volumes. It will indeed make the Volume get marked as Used after those 6 days when the next job starts (or you run a status dir from bconsole), making bacula search for another Volume that it can recycle (or create a new one). Unless your backups run really long you can safely shorten this time to 1 or 2 days, as long as you're sure no job will be running when the use duration (counted from the first write to the volume) expires. the backups themselves are rather smallish (the biggest is around 160G) and complete within a couple of hours after being started. Is there a more elegant way to keep two older volumes in the pool without making use of max use duration? If the amount of jobs writing to a full pool volume is a set number and isn't subject to frequent change, you could alternatively make use of the Maximum Volume Jobs parameter. This will set the volume status to Used after the specified amount of jobs have been written, giving the same result. Take care using this if you're doing all the backups concurrently though, in that case the Volume Use Duration is probably the best way to go. Kind regards, Jeremy DISCLAIMER http://www.schaubroeck.be/maildisclaimer.htm -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-users Digest, Vol 59, Issue 27
Thanks for the reply John, Re your response to my question about the MySQL version, the Bacula manual here: http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Installing_Configuring_MySQ.html#SECTION00426 has a statement about upgrading MySql (at the very end of the article) which says: Upgrading MySQL If you upgrade MySQL, you must reconfigure, rebuild, and re-install Bacula otherwise you are likely to get bizarre failures. If you install from rpms and you upgrade MySQL, you must also rebuild Bacula. You can do so by rebuilding from the source rpm. To do so, you may need to modify the bacula.spec file to account for the new MySQL version. Do you think this is now obsolete, and perhaps only relevant to older versions of Bacula? Dermot. Message: 20 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:41:48 -0400 From: Josh Fisher jfis...@pvct.com Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Moving a catalog due to performance issues To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: 4d93958c.8030...@pvct.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 3/30/2011 12:27 PM, Dermot Beirne wrote: Hello, I am using Bacula 5.0.3 on ubuntu 9.04 I am have serious performance problems with migration speeds to tape. I have used the btape speed command to test the throughput of the disk to tape and it is achieving speeds of up to 6 times what my migration speed is getting, so I don't think it's the hardware. Someone asked if my catalog is on the same disks as the data being migrated, and it is. I am not sure if this would be making such a huge difference, but I'm looking into moving it off the Bacula server to a remote server. I have some questions on doing this: 1. Does it make sense. Could it be having such a serious impact on the migration speeds, or should I look elsewhere first. In case it's relevant, my Bacula server has a single Raid 5 array configured with LVM into two logical volumes. The catalog is on one, and the data on the other. It could possibly impact performance. If spooling, or at least spooling of attributes, is not being used, then this will cause disk thrashing, where the r/w heads of drives are constantly having to be moved back and forth to write to the catalog, then the data, then the catalog, then the data, etc. The simple solution is to turn on spooling and see if that makes a big improvement. Otherwise, to move the catalog to another server is possibly a solution, but it would then be limited by, and taking up, network bandwidth. It would be better to have another disk in the same server that was dedicated to the catalog. 2. Does Bacula need to be on the box hosting the catalog, or is just having MySQL installed enough. Just MySQL. 3. Can I dump and reload the catalog db from the Bacula server to the new remote server, change the catalog resource record, and continue using that. Yes, it is just a normal database. 4. I am currently using mysql version: Server version: 5.0.75-0ubuntu10.5 (Ubuntu) I understand that unless I install this exact version on the remote server, I'll have to recompile Bacula. Is this correct? No, that is not correct. Otherwise, a simple update of MySQL would render Bacula unusable. -- -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] What happen if I change the client of a job ? Multi node virtualization cluster
2011/3/30 John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com: My first question is : How can I tell bacula to choose dynamically the client according to the result of a script ? You can script that by echoing commands to bconsole. Then execute your script as a cron job. My second question is : Can I safely/often change the client of a job without having bacula going bad ? Does a client change will create a rupture in my backups ? ( eg: Upgrading an incremental to full ) I believe you will be fine to do this. Although it is not something I have done often. John Hi I just tried, the same job on two clients but using the same fileset, = Run 1 time on 1 client. Changed the client in the conf = Run 1 time on the second client Bacula upgraded my incremental job to a full. That would be nice to limit the client rôle to a way of accessing the content. Is there a way to force this like if you do it with ignore fileset changes ? I don't install the file daemon on the VM to backup because I need to use LVM snapshots. LVM management is done directly on the physical host and not on the client. Then I use the strippath option of the fileset in order to backup the snapshot without the full path to its mount point. *** For the moment, I will just run a before job script that fails the job to run on a bad client ( eg: the machine is migrated on another node ). In my virtual environnent virtual machines are just migrated if there is a problem so most of the time they stays on there original node and so it isn't mandatory to attribute dynamically the client. To foresee futures evolutions of my cluster's architecture that would be a good solution to backup my VMs even if they aren't on the original node. *** The ideal thing would be to use a variable for the client name ; to set this variable at the good value ( Node name ) with a before job script ; and then to mount snapshot and execute the job on the good node (client or fd) of the virtualization cluster. I use Proxmox with DRBD for my cluster management. Does anyone have a solution ? thanks Hugo -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] What happen if I change the client of a job ? Multi node virtualization cluster
Using a cron is not a good solution, I prefer to keep job management and scheduling inside bacula . You could also schedule an admin job inside bacula runs the admin job you can run your script. John -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Disaster Recovery
Question: In the event of my entire bacula system going down. What is the best method for recovery? I looked in the online manual, but it still was not very clear to me. If I have my backup of catalog files, all incremental and full backups, and I reinstall bacula on a new server. How do I recover the data? Can I restore the catalog to the new server? Should I just virtualize my bacula server and keep a copy offsite for a quick restore of the catalog? Is there a way to recover the data without the catalog? Can bacula reindex the files? Do I also have to export the mysql database nightly so I can recover the content along with my bacula catalog, system files, and backups? Thanks -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Disaster Recovery
Question: In the event of my entire bacula system going down. What is the best method for recovery? I looked in the online manual, but it still was not very clear to me. If I have my backup of catalog files, all incremental and full backups, and I reinstall bacula on a new server. How do I recover the data? Can I restore the catalog to the new server? Yes. Should I just virtualize my bacula server and keep a copy offsite for a quick restore of the catalog? That is an option. Is there a way to recover the data without the catalog? Can bacula reindex the files? Yes. bscan Do I also have to export the mysql database nightly so I can recover the content along with my bacula catalog, system files, and backups? I do a catalog backup nightly to a disk volume (which is not on the same server as the database) containing only catalogs. I also write a bootstrap file for this so that I can manually recover the catalog I want. You could do this outside of bacula with a nightly myswldump as well. Remember to always keep a few catalogs. At one point over the 7+ years I have used bacula at work I corrupted my database and did not know for 2 weeks.. John -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Disaster Recovery
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Mike Hendrie m...@hendrienet.com wrote: Thank you John. Can you please explain to me the boot strap file? I am new to linux. The bootstrap file is part of bacula. In the case of the catalog I found it very important to manually extract the catalog I needed from a disk volume with several copies of the catalog. http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Bootstrap_File.html John -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Volume Retention / Use Duration
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 09:58:29AM +0200, Jeremy Maes wrote: Take care using this if you're doing all the backups concurrently though, in that case the Volume Use Duration is probably the best way to go. Hello Jeremy, thanks again for your thoughts support. I'll try the max use duration then. All the best, Uwe -- NIONEX ist ein Unternehmen der DirectGroup Germany www.directgroupgermany.de -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Feature request
On 3/30/2011 5:05 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, Thank you for your feature request. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to implement it, so unless you can provide some new insight, it will not help adding it to the projects file. This can be done with a software transactional memory (STM) approach, and has been described for red-black tree traversal. If interested, see the Herlihy and Koskenin paper at ftp://ftp.cs.brown.edu/pub/techreports/07/cs07-08.pdf Best regards, Kern On Wednesday 30 March 2011 15:23:31 peterfl...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Item n: Add multi-threading to batch console Origin: Peter Flasspeter_fl...@yahoo.com Date: 30 Mar 2011 Status: What: When doing a restore building the directory tree takes an inordinate amount of time. Multi core systems are common and could benefit from this. On my dual-core 2.93GHz system looking at a full backup takes more than an hour (haven't actually timed it). System monitor shows one CPU 100% loaded and the other less than 5%. Why:This would speed up restores at lot, especially important for critical files. Notes: -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ Bacula-devel mailing list bacula-de...@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling Question
On 3/31/2011 4:43 AM, Alan Brown wrote: Randy Katz wrote: Hi, Now that I have used Bacula a full cycle (60 days) I have a question: If backups are done Full (which expires after 60 days). Then Diff each week and Incre each day where there is no Diff Then restoring from any given date going back 60 days is not a problem UNTIL the initial Full is replaced/overwritten. At that point all the Diffs and Incre up to the next Full cannot be restored (as far as I can see anyways) Only if you overwrite the existing Full - which is a VERY BAD IDEA What happens if the backup in progress is interrupted, as a staring point? You should _always_ have _at least_ 1 full backup of a fileset in the system, preferably 2. Overwriting your only copy is a recipe for disaster. Expire your Fulls at 60 days but expire the media they're on at 190 days (3*60 + a safety margin) - and keep the database entries at least that long or you'll have to do any restores of older files the long way. Alan, thank you for that answer and please excuse my questions: 1. Do you have a different expire time (60d) for your Full then your Incrementals or does it matter? 2. Which parameter are you referring to? a. Full Expiration - Is it File Retention or Job Retention or both? b. Expire Media - What parameter are you referring to? Thank you in advance, Randy -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-users Digest, Vol 59, Issue 27
It still applies because bacula (and most everything else too nowadays from the look of things) uses shared libraries. If you upgrade the libraries you may need to re-compile anything that was built with the old versions if you want rock solid reliability. In my environment I kept getting crashes from bacula that would randomly start happening some time after installing updated OS and other programs, even though they were through normal OS update routines. Since I took it upon myself to re-compile bacula every time I do a big swath of OS updates this has largely gone away. Note that if you take that approach and don't load your patches frequently you'd be advised to get your firewall and other security settings as tightly restricted as possible. Tiny little programs that don't stress the hardware may be a lot less susceptible but that's exactly what happens if you've got a big bacula installation doing a lot of parallel backups. YMMV. From: Dermot Beirne dermot.bei...@dpd.ie Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-users Digest, Vol 59, Issue 27 To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: AANLkTi=ghqrf4bnfr-sh-5vc+atmbh_ptnuxs9xqa...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Thanks for the reply John, Re your response to my question about the MySQL version, the Bacula manual here: http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Installing_Configuring_MySQ.html#SECTION00426 has a statement about upgrading MySql (at the very end of the article) which says: Upgrading MySQL If you upgrade MySQL, you must reconfigure, rebuild, and re-install Bacula otherwise you are likely to get bizarre failures. If you install from rpms and you upgrade MySQL, you must also rebuild Bacula. You can do so by rebuilding from the source rpm. To do so, you may need to modify the bacula.spec file to account for the new MySQL version. Do you think this is now obsolete, and perhaps only relevant to older versions of Bacula? Dermot. -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Finding largest file(s) backed up for a specific job
Guys, I've been happily running bacula at home, and usualy it's pretty predictable about the size of data backed up each night, but last night I had an incremental run for a specfic client which used 8Gb of data, when I normally expect around 500mb or so. Is there an easy mysql query I can use to: a) find the largest file(s) backed up for a particular jobid? b) report on the size of a directory and all the files backed up under it? The idea being if that somehow I touched a million small files by accident, I can still find out what went on because I can sum up the change(s) on a per-directory basis. You can see what I'm driving at by looking at these job results: Terminated Jobs: JobId LevelFiles Bytes Status FinishedName == 7157 Diff 53,34612.46 G OK 27-Mar-11 02:00 jfsnew-fd 7158 Full 1158.0 M OK 27-Mar-11 02:44 BackupCatalog 7160 Incr 2,7751.244 G OK 28-Mar-11 01:10 jfsnew-fd 7161 Full 1158.4 M OK 28-Mar-11 01:14 BackupCatalog 7163 Incr664457.0 M OK 29-Mar-11 01:10 jfsnew-fd 7164 Full 1158.5 M OK 29-Mar-11 01:11 BackupCatalog 7166 Incr727423.0 M OK 30-Mar-11 01:10 jfsnew-fd 7167 Full 1158.6 M OK 30-Mar-11 01:11 BackupCatalog 7169 Incr 64,4048.092 G OK 31-Mar-11 01:21 jfsnew-fd 7170 Full 1167.8 M OK 31-Mar-11 01:46 BackupCatalog Notice how the differential done last weekend backed up 53,000+ files, and 12gb. But last night it was 64,000+ files and 8gb. I'm wondering what happened I have my suspicions, but now I'm trying to find the culprits, if only so I can understand what's happening. Thanks, John -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling Question
Randy Katz wrote: Alan, thank you for that answer and please excuse my questions: 1. Do you have a different expire time (60d) for your Full then your Incrementals or does it matter? I set the database file/job expire time to 100 years and simply roll the media, but we do full/diff/incremental in the same pool. I did look at putting fulls in one pool and the rest in another but decided this is more trouble than it's worth. 2. Which parameter are you referring to? a. Full Expiration - Is it File Retention or Job Retention or both? Both b. Expire Media - What parameter are you referring to? Volume expiry. When a volume is purged its file/job data is automatically erased from the database anyway, with the effect being that we can restore any version of any file from the backup tapes, up to the oldest Full backup (and occasionally beyond). If your database size is too big to handle then job/file retention could be shortened but I wouldn't do that if it can possibly be avoided (memory is cheap, the added time to bscan or be forced to do a full restore is not) -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling Question
On 3/31/2011 10:02 AM, Alan Brown wrote: Randy Katz wrote: Alan, thank you for that answer and please excuse my questions: 1. Do you have a different expire time (60d) for your Full then your Incrementals or does it matter? I set the database file/job expire time to 100 years and simply roll the media, but we do full/diff/incremental in the same pool. I did look at putting fulls in one pool and the rest in another but decided this is more trouble than it's worth. 2. Which parameter are you referring to? a. Full Expiration - Is it File Retention or Job Retention or both? Both b. Expire Media - What parameter are you referring to? Volume expiry. When a volume is purged its file/job data is automatically erased from the database anyway, with the effect being that we can restore any version of any file from the backup tapes, up to the oldest Full backup (and occasionally beyond). If your database size is too big to handle then job/file retention could be shortened but I wouldn't do that if it can possibly be avoided (memory is cheap, the added time to bscan or be forced to do a full restore is not) Well since I asked the question I have scripted a Pools.conf creation script for Full, Diff, and Incr for each Client to backup, removed the Pools from bacula-dir.conf and added an Include (@/etc/bacula/conf.d/pools.conf). It didn't take very long and if anything needs to change is trivial to reconfigure now. As for retaining a Full backup for so long, why is it so necessary if I have a Full being created every month with a 3 Volume Retention and a Time of 60d then there should never be a time when there is no Full before Diff/Incr's, right? If I wanted a 180 day cycle then would want to extend that to the incrementals and diffs as well, right? Regards, Randy -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] bat crashes to much ...
I just wonder if there are any accessible devel version or nightly builds of the bat. If so - there will be a protocol mismatch, right? But i would like to test a current version, if needed also with an updated dir and sd daemon. Is anyone using/testing 5.1 as non developer? Thx PM -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Device FileStorage is not open or does not exist
Hello all, I have given up on RHES 6 for now and I am using Ubuntu 10.10 Server with Bacula 5.0.2 I have followed the Documentation's tutorial to get the system configured but while in the console portion (pages 98 - 101) I enter status storage and get Device FileStorage is not open or does not exist If I continue with run I get the menu as described in the docs, select 1, and get a message indicating a termination error. Any ideas as to what I haven't properly configured? Bill -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Device FileStorage is not open or does not exist
Probably you has not created the directory defined into bacula-sd.conf file. Kleber 2011/3/31 Kenney, William P. (Information Technology Services) kenn...@easternct.edu Hello all, I have given up on RHES 6 for now and I am using Ubuntu 10.10 Server with Bacula 5.0.2 I have followed the Documentation's tutorial to get the system configured but while in the console portion (pages 98 - 101) I enter status storage and get Device FileStorage is not open or does not exist If I continue with run I get the menu as described in the docs, select 1, and get a message indicating a termination error. Any ideas as to what I haven't properly configured? Bill -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Device FileStorage is not open or does not exist
Thanks, I'll check the SD config file closely. Bill From: Kleber Leal [mailto:kleber.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 8:49 PM To: bacula-users Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Device FileStorage is not open or does not exist Probably you has not created the directory defined into bacula-sd.conf file. Kleber 2011/3/31 Kenney, William P. (Information Technology Services) kenn...@easternct.edu Hello all, I have given up on RHES 6 for now and I am using Ubuntu 10.10 Server with Bacula 5.0.2 I have followed the Documentation's tutorial to get the system configured but while in the console portion (pages 98 - 101) I enter status storage and get Device FileStorage is not open or does not exist If I continue with run I get the menu as described in the docs, select 1, and get a message indicating a termination error. Any ideas as to what I haven't properly configured? Bill -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Finding largest file(s) backed up for a specific job
John I've been happily running bacula at home, and usualy it's pretty John predictable about the size of data backed up each night, but John last night I had an incremental run for a specfic client which John used 8Gb of data, when I normally expect around 500mb or so. John Is there an easy mysql query I can use to: John a) find the largest file(s) backed up for a particular jobid? Ok, I've googled, read back in the archives about the File.LStat field and how the file size is in a strange Base64 (almost) encodiing which needs to be hacked on to get out the sizes. Looks like I'll just need to: 1. write a perl script to read in a jobid, then pull out the files from that job. 2. For each file, pull out the File.LStat field and decode the info. 3. And finally then I can search for the largest file(s). I'll post something when I'm done. I'd prefer to do it in mysql directly, but it looks too funky to parse the string properly without writing really crazy (to me!) SQL procedures or cursors. Not worth it. Thanks, John -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling Question
On 3/31/2011 10:20 AM, Randy Katz wrote: On 3/31/2011 10:02 AM, Alan Brown wrote: Randy Katz wrote: Alan, thank you for that answer and please excuse my questions: 1. Do you have a different expire time (60d) for your Full then your Incrementals or does it matter? I set the database file/job expire time to 100 years and simply roll the media, but we do full/diff/incremental in the same pool. I did look at putting fulls in one pool and the rest in another but decided this is more trouble than it's worth. 2. Which parameter are you referring to? a. Full Expiration - Is it File Retention or Job Retention or both? Both b. Expire Media - What parameter are you referring to? Volume expiry. When a volume is purged its file/job data is automatically erased from the database anyway, with the effect being that we can restore any version of any file from the backup tapes, up to the oldest Full backup (and occasionally beyond). If your database size is too big to handle then job/file retention could be shortened but I wouldn't do that if it can possibly be avoided (memory is cheap, the added time to bscan or be forced to do a full restore is not) Well since I asked the question I have scripted a Pools.conf creation script for Full, Diff, and Incr for each Client to backup, removed the Pools from bacula-dir.conf and added an Include (@/etc/bacula/conf.d/pools.conf). It didn't take very long and if anything needs to change is trivial to reconfigure now. As for retaining a Full backup for so long, why is it so necessary if I have a Full being created every month with a 3 Volume Retention and a Time of 60d then there should never be a time when there is no Full before Diff/Incr's, right? If I wanted a 180 day cycle then would want to extend that to the incrementals and diffs as well, right? List please disregard my last questions on this, I don't know what I was thinking. The first full cannot expire until all pertinent (between the date of the First Full and the next Full) Incrementals and/or Differentials have expired otherwise it renders them virtually useless. Regards, Randy -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
