[Bacula-users] exchange tapes with Backup-Exec
Hello I'm a new starter with Bacula, I need to read some tapes written by Bacula with Backup-Exec 2010. I tryed to do this, but it seems that Backup-Exec can't read those tapes. On the Backup-Exec forums told me that BE can read all tapes written as .mtf format. My question is how can I made Bacula write tapes in mtf format ? Is that possible ?? Thanks Raven -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/exchange-tapes-with-Backup-Exec-tp33466355p33466355.html Sent from the Bacula - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] exchange tapes with Backup-Exec
Op 9/03/2012 9:16, Raven70 schreef: I'm a new starter with Bacula, I need to read some tapes written by Bacula with Backup-Exec 2010. I tryed to do this, but it seems that Backup-Exec can't read those tapes. On the Backup-Exec forums told me that BE can read all tapes written as .mtf format. My question is how can I made Bacula write tapes in mtf format ? Is that possible ?? Bacula uses its own unique format when writing to tapes/files. You cannot change it to write in another format like mtf, and I doubt that any other backup software (enterprise or alike) can read bacula's formatting. You'll have to restore using a bacula machine... Regards, Jeremy DISCLAIMER http://www.schaubroeck.be/maildisclaimer.htm -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] exchange tapes with Backup-Exec
Hello I'm a new starter with Bacula, I need to read some tapes written by Bacula with Backup-Exec 2010. I tryed to do this, but it seems that Backup-Exec can't read those tapes. On the Backup-Exec forums told me that BE can read all tapes written as .mtf format. My question is how can I made Bacula write tapes in mtf format ? Is that possible ?? I don't think Bacula understands mtf. How are your coding skills? http://laytongraphics.com/mtf/MTF_100a.PDF james -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] excluded folders being included in the backup
On Thursday 08 March 2012 23:56:30 Steve Ellis wrote: Just a guess, but I'm thinking that this may be due to the trailing '/' in your 'wild' entries. I know that for my systems, when I exclude (with Ignore Case), I'm able to exclude both files and directories appropriately with wild, but I never put trailing '/' in the directory names. Also, just to check I ran a simple test using 'bwild' (a tool I was not previously aware of) and that suggested that the trailing '/' might be a problem (unclear since bwild doesn't actually look at filesystems, instead it takes filenames in a file). -se Thanks Steve. I've removed the trailing '/' and that has fixed the problem. The new backup size is only 13GB. Thanks also for mentioning bwild. Gary -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] exchange tapes with Backup-Exec
Ok thanks for your help I supposed it to be so, now I have confirmation. ;-) Raven70 wrote: Hello I'm a new starter with Bacula, I need to read some tapes written by Bacula with Backup-Exec 2010. I tryed to do this, but it seems that Backup-Exec can't read those tapes. On the Backup-Exec forums told me that BE can read all tapes written as .mtf format. My question is how can I made Bacula write tapes in mtf format ? Is that possible ?? Thanks Raven ;-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-);-) -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/exchange-tapes-with-Backup-Exec-tp33466355p33470964.html Sent from the Bacula - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Howto exclude messages?
Hello,
i would like to exclude the following message.
Von: (Bacula) root@localhost
Datum: 9. März 2012 00:10:56 MEZ
An: root@localhost
Betreff: Bacula daemon message
09-Mär 00:10 backup-dir JobId 0:
This command can be DANGEROUS!!!
It purges (deletes) all Files from a Job,
JobId, Client or Volume; or it purges (deletes)
all Jobs from a Client or Volume without regard
to retention periods. Normally you should use the
PRUNE command, which respects retention periods.
09-Mär 00:10 backup-dir JobId 0: Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog
09-Mär 00:10 backup-dir JobId 0: Using Catalog MyCatalog
09-Mär 00:10 backup-dir JobId 0: Connecting to Storage daemon xen2 at
backup.a2c.local:9103 ...
09-Mär 00:10 backup-dir JobId 0: 3000 OK label. VolBytes=210 DVD=0
Volume=xen2-incr_2012-02-29-23:05 Device=xen2 (/var/backups/bacula/xen2)
09-Mär 00:10 backup-dir JobId 0: The volume
xen2-incr_2012-02-29-23:05 has been
truncated
Does anybody know which message-type this is?
Messages {
Name = Daemon
mailcommand = /usr/lib/bacula/bsmtp -h localhost -f \\(Bacula\)
\%r\\ -s \Bacula daemon message\ %r
mail = root@localhost = all, !skipped
console = all, !skipped, !saved
append = /var/lib/bacula/log = all, !skipped
}
Should i use
mail on error = root@localhost = all, !skipped
or
mail = root@localhost = all, !warning, !skipped
Regards, Dennis
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[Bacula-users] Tape Library IBM TS3100
Hello friends That's my first post... I need to know if lastest backup version work well with IBM Tape Library TS3100... Thanks for any help... -- Gilberto Nunes -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bacula Offsite Backups
Create a off-site pool and create a copy job. The bacula will need off-site tapes only when the backups was pruned/purged from local tapes. Kleber 2012/3/9 Uwe Schuerkamp uwe.schuerk...@nionex.net On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 08:48:40AM +0100, Holikar, Sachin (ext) wrote: Hello Admis, We have a working Bacula ( Release 2.2.7) setup. So far all the backup tapes are retained inside the tape library. But now we have decided to keep 1 set offsite. We have created a separate pool of tapes ( say 10 tapes) and taken few important backups last week. Now couple of tapes are used for this backup job. Now the questions are : 1. Can we just take out the filled/half-filled tapes out of the tape library just like that to be kept at offsite? Or some necessary procedure is required for this? 2. Once we take out few tapes from the offsite pool , can we start taking new backup onto remaining tapes in this pool? 3. Or simply point me to correct links where we can read the fundamentals of offsite backups. Thanks in advance. Regards, - Sachin Hello Sachin, for most small bacula sites I keep all tapes in one pool, then remove them as necessary from the autochanger (say all that have been written during a week) and set their volume status to Archive using the update volume bconsole command. Following that I erase the tapes I put into the library in exchange for the archived ones and (re-)label them with bconsole as necessary. You should also take a look at your volume retention time, it should be long enough so that bacula won't forget the archived tapes at some point. HTH Uwe -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bacula Offsite Backups
Thanks Uwe for the reply. I request some explanation here. You suggested : 1. Create a separate offsite pool and then after use, remove them as necessary from the autochanger and set their volume status to Archive using the update volume bconsole command. You meant that after making the volume status as Archive , we can remove the tapes from the library and keep offsite. Correct? The documentation says All the files contained on an Archived Volume are removed from the Catalog. Is it true ? Then how do we make sure that the data would be intact with all previous records when the actual offsite tapes are required to be inserted/restored back in the library ? Please clarify. 2. Following that I erase the tapes I put into the library in exchange for the archived ones and (re-)label them with bconsole as necessary. Why there is need to erase the tapes which are archived ?? Please explain. Thanx. - Sachin -Original Message- From: Uwe Schuerkamp [mailto:uwe.schuerk...@nionex.net] Sent: Freitag, 9. März 2012 13:48 To: Holikar, Sachin (ext) Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bacula Offsite Backups On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 08:48:40AM +0100, Holikar, Sachin (ext) wrote: Hello Admis, We have a working Bacula ( Release 2.2.7) setup. So far all the backup tapes are retained inside the tape library. But now we have decided to keep 1 set offsite. We have created a separate pool of tapes ( say 10 tapes) and taken few important backups last week. Now couple of tapes are used for this backup job. Now the questions are : 1. Can we just take out the filled/half-filled tapes out of the tape library just like that to be kept at offsite? Or some necessary procedure is required for this? 2. Once we take out few tapes from the offsite pool , can we start taking new backup onto remaining tapes in this pool? 3. Or simply point me to correct links where we can read the fundamentals of offsite backups. Thanks in advance. Regards, - Sachin Hello Sachin, for most small bacula sites I keep all tapes in one pool, then remove them as necessary from the autochanger (say all that have been written during a week) and set their volume status to Archive using the update volume bconsole command. Following that I erase the tapes I put into the library in exchange for the archived ones and (re-)label them with bconsole as necessary. You should also take a look at your volume retention time, it should be long enough so that bacula won't forget the archived tapes at some point. HTH Uwe -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bacula Offsite Backups
Sachin, if you use copy job you will not need to change the media status. Read about job copy on http://bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_3_0_0.html#SECTION00132 Kleber 2012/3/9 Holikar, Sachin (ext) sachin.holikar@siemens.com Thanks Uwe for the reply. I request some explanation here. You suggested : 1. Create a separate offsite pool and then after use, remove them as necessary from the autochanger and set their volume status to Archive using the update volume bconsole command. You meant that after making the volume status as Archive , we can remove the tapes from the library and keep offsite. Correct? The documentation says All the files contained on an Archived Volume are removed from the Catalog. Is it true ? Then how do we make sure that the data would be intact with all previous records when the actual offsite tapes are required to be inserted/restored back in the library ? Please clarify. 2. Following that I erase the tapes I put into the library in exchange for the archived ones and (re-)label them with bconsole as necessary. Why there is need to erase the tapes which are archived ?? Please explain. Thanx. - Sachin -Original Message- From: Uwe Schuerkamp [mailto:uwe.schuerk...@nionex.net] Sent: Freitag, 9. März 2012 13:48 To: Holikar, Sachin (ext) Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bacula Offsite Backups On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 08:48:40AM +0100, Holikar, Sachin (ext) wrote: Hello Admis, We have a working Bacula ( Release 2.2.7) setup. So far all the backup tapes are retained inside the tape library. But now we have decided to keep 1 set offsite. We have created a separate pool of tapes ( say 10 tapes) and taken few important backups last week. Now couple of tapes are used for this backup job. Now the questions are : 1. Can we just take out the filled/half-filled tapes out of the tape library just like that to be kept at offsite? Or some necessary procedure is required for this? 2. Once we take out few tapes from the offsite pool , can we start taking new backup onto remaining tapes in this pool? 3. Or simply point me to correct links where we can read the fundamentals of offsite backups. Thanks in advance. Regards, - Sachin Hello Sachin, for most small bacula sites I keep all tapes in one pool, then remove them as necessary from the autochanger (say all that have been written during a week) and set their volume status to Archive using the update volume bconsole command. Following that I erase the tapes I put into the library in exchange for the archived ones and (re-)label them with bconsole as necessary. You should also take a look at your volume retention time, it should be long enough so that bacula won't forget the archived tapes at some point. HTH Uwe -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Tape Library IBM TS3100
Am 09.03.2012 14:01, schrieb Gilberto Nunes: I need to know if lastest backup version work well with IBM Tape Library TS3100... I guess you meant to write latest Bacula version. Until a month ago I had a TS3100 Model 3573-L2U connected to a CentOS 6 system and working perfectly fine with Bacula 5.0. I'm sure it would work equally well with Bacula 5.2, but unfortunately it's broken now. (not the fault of Bacula) -- Tilman Schmidt Phoenix Software GmbH Bonn, Germany -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Scaling Bacula
Hi all, I'm working on a platform at the moment which has several hundred servers (potentially thousands eventually) being backed up across various data centers using Bacula (managed via Chef). We've got a prototype in place and it seems to work well, however before I deploy I'd like to try and understand a little more about the system resources required to run bacula. From previous email threads on this list, I've come to the conclusion that the primary bottle neck is the Back-end database, not Bacula itself. We have taken the design decision to place both the Director and the MySQL instance on the same server - we figure that if the database or the bacula-daemons are down, we can't backup either way. This server has 48G RAM and 10K SAS Disks so there is some flexibility surrounding how it is configured. My plan was to create an 8G SWAP partition and then have /var/bacula-backups on one HW RAID-5 Array and /var/lib/mysql + OS on a second HW RAID-1 array (possibly even RAID-0 if it gives us more performance!) - from there I would concentrate on MySQL turning as opposed to anything else. Does anyone have any thoughts on the above, or things I might have missed? Thanks in advance, Matt P.S. If anyone knows of large-scale bacula (not enterprise) installs, I'd be v. interested in hearing from them! M. -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bacula Offsite Backups
On 09/03/12 07:48, Holikar, Sachin (ext) wrote:
1. Can we just take out the filled/half-filled tapes out of the tape library
just like that to be kept at offsite? Or some necessary procedure is
required for this?
update volume={volumename} VolStatus=Used (or Archive)
2. Once we take out few tapes from the offsite pool , can we start taking
new backup onto remaining tapes in this pool?
As long as you set the tapes to used or archive state (archive tapes
won't be recycled automatically) then this will happen automatically.
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Re: [Bacula-users] Scaling Bacula
The one additional thought I have is to keep the backup file set as small as possible; network traffic and the length of your backup window will be a concern. If you have hundreds or thousands of servers, odds are that they are all identical - especially if they are managed by chef. So you don't need to back up the operating system itself, just back up whatever data varies from one server to the next. Generally, the less backup traffic you have per server, the better. -Original message- From:Matthew Macdonald-Wallace (lists) li...@greenandsecure.co.uk Sent:Fri 09-03-2012 08:55 Subject:[Bacula-users] Scaling Bacula To:bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net; Hi all, I'm working on a platform at the moment which has several hundred servers (potentially thousands eventually) being backed up across various data centers using Bacula (managed via Chef). We've got a prototype in place and it seems to work well, however before I deploy I'd like to try and understand a little more about the system resources required to run bacula. From previous email threads on this list, I've come to the conclusion that the primary bottle neck is the Back-end database, not Bacula itself. We have taken the design decision to place both the Director and the MySQL instance on the same server - we figure that if the database or the bacula-daemons are down, we can't backup either way. This server has 48G RAM and 10K SAS Disks so there is some flexibility surrounding how it is configured. My plan was to create an 8G SWAP partition and then have /var/bacula-backups on one HW RAID-5 Array and /var/lib/mysql + OS on a second HW RAID-1 array (possibly even RAID-0 if it gives us more performance!) - from there I would concentrate on MySQL turning as opposed to anything else. Does anyone have any thoughts on the above, or things I might have missed? Thanks in advance, Matt P.S. If anyone knows of large-scale bacula (not enterprise) installs, I'd be v. interested in hearing from them! M. -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] actual number of volumes and numvols do not match..
2 questions in this email 1: I have a volume that has 913 1 gig files in it, however the pools table in the catalog indicates 438 in the numvols column... any reason why? 2: what does the volstatus Error actually mean in the media table? ? -- Jeff MacDonald j...@terida.com 902 880 7375 -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bacula Offsite Backups
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 10:07:22 -0300 Kleber Leal kleber.l...@gmail.com wrote: Create a off-site pool and create a copy job. The bacula will need off-site tapes only when the backups was pruned/purged from local tapes. Kleber 2012/3/9 Uwe Schuerkamp uwe.schuerk...@nionex.net On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 08:48:40AM +0100, Holikar, Sachin (ext) wrote: Hello Admis, We have a working Bacula ( Release 2.2.7) setup. So far all the backup tapes are retained inside the tape library. But now we have decided to keep 1 set offsite. We have created a separate pool of tapes ( say 10 tapes) and taken few important backups last week. Now couple of tapes are used for this backup job. Now the questions are : 1. Can we just take out the filled/half-filled tapes out of the tape library just like that to be kept at offsite? Or some necessary procedure is required for this? 2. Once we take out few tapes from the offsite pool , can we start taking new backup onto remaining tapes in this pool? 3. Or simply point me to correct links where we can read the fundamentals of offsite backups. Thanks in advance. Regards, - Sachin Hello Sachin, for most small bacula sites I keep all tapes in one pool, then remove them as necessary from the autochanger (say all that have been written during a week) and set their volume status to Archive using the update volume bconsole command. Following that I erase the tapes I put into the library in exchange for the archived ones and (re-)label them with bconsole as necessary. You should also take a look at your volume retention time, it should be long enough so that bacula won't forget the archived tapes at some point. HTH Uwe -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users I do the separate pool for offsite backups as well. The only thing I'm trying to work on is encrypting my offsite's as well. I'm trying to setup things that I can just copy from my Full tape pool to the encrypted tape pool. I'm going to use the bacula build in encryption because the SD is not able to work with the encryption that is available with LTO-4 tape drives. Is it possible to use FD encryption with copy jobs? Thanks -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
