[Bacula-users] SOLVED: Autochanger does not create volumes (on mounted external USB drive)
> On 24. May 2022, at 16:40, Justin Case wrote: > > Hi there, > > in my setup I call internal drives connected by SATA “Tier 1”, and external > drives connected by USB “Tier 2”. > I have separate pools for jobs that write to tier 1 and for jobs that write > to tier 2. > Each given pool contains only volumes stored on 1 tier, so each pool is > either a tier pool or a tier 2 pool, but never both. > > For Tier 1 I have a working autochanger that created volumes in the pools > that I use for tier 1 (only). > > For Tier 2 I have another autochanger that is supposed to create volumes in > the pooks that i use for tier 2 (only), but it doesn’t do that. It gives me: > The job needs media. Please mount volume unraid-libvirt-full-tier2-vol-0543 > or label a new one for storage: "Tier2-FileChgr1-Dev1" (/mnt/tier2-01), pool: > unraid-libvirt-full-tier2, media type: tier2-ext-usb1-folder1-file. > > Any chance to get this to work? Actually the definitions and setup in Bacula works fine. The problem was that the external USB drives were not writeable due to unknown reasons. After reformatting and setting up the folder structure all worked fine. I am sorry if someone spent a lot of time reading my setup and scratched their heads where the problem may be. All the best J/C ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Question about differential backup
On 5/24/22 12:17, egoitz--- via Bacula-users wrote: If I want to restore my machine to Diferential 003 situation... do I need the Full job (obviously) + Differential 001 + Differential 002 + Differential 003 or it's OK if I use Full job (obviously) + Differential 003 ?. You would type 'restore' and choose option 5. Bacula will build the restore from the Full jobid, and the latest Differential jobid, and any Incremental jobids that ran after the last Differential. Hope this helps! Bill -- Bill Arlofski w...@protonmail.com signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Question about schedule
On 5/24/22 14:12, egoitz--- via Bacula-users wrote:
Good morning,
One little question about Schedules. Imagine I have this schedule :
Schedule{
Name = "WeeklyCycle"
Run = Full 1st sun at 23:05
Run = Differential 2nd-5th sun at 23:05
Run = Incremental mon-sat at 23:05
}
Imagine I set up a new backup... and I set up in the third week of the
month. Imagine I start on a Tuesday. For my experience, I assume that
Bacula would do :
- As no backups have been done previosly, first of all at the first time
it runs at 23:05, perform a full backup.
- The next day it runs, even there is not a differential backup, as
supposedly the second time the job runs is Wednesday it will do an
incremental backup.
- When Sunday arrives, it would do the first differential. At this
moment we will have a Full backup, plus N incrementals. Today we to a
differential and will have a differential too.
- The following times it launches incrementals in the week and on Sunday
new differential, until the first Sunday of month in which a new full
will be created.
Am I wrong?. I think not...
That all looks correct, yes.
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Re: [Bacula-users] Question about differential backup
On 2022-05-24 20:17, egoitz--- via Bacula-users wrote: Good afternoon, One more question, that I have seen it difficult to be absolutely sure just with the documentation available on the net and my Bacula books bought. If I have : Full Differential 001 Differential 002 Differential 003 If I want to restore my machine to Diferential 003 situation... do I need the Full job (obviously) + Differential 001 + Differential 002 + Differential 003 or it's OK if I use Full job (obviously) + Differential 003 ?. Thanks a lot mates! Hi Differential backup covers differences since the latest full job. So, in your example you would need the appropriate Full job and the "Differential 003" job. The idea behind differential jobs is to speed up the restore by avoiding the need of a number of incremental jobs which could reside on different volumes. If you are using only volumes of a file type (stored on a disk storage) and your volumes are always available, then you probably wouldn't benefit from differential backups as disk storage is quite fast and Bacula can open volumes as needed. Regards! -- Josip Deanovic ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Question about differential backup
Good afternoon, One more question, that I have seen it difficult to be absolutely sure just with the documentation available on the net and my Bacula books bought. If I have : Full Differential 001 Differential 002 Differential 003 If I want to restore my machine to Diferential 003 situation... do I need the Full job (obviously) + Differential 001 + Differential 002 + Differential 003 or it's OK if I use Full job (obviously) + Differential 003 ?. Thanks a lot mates! Cheers!___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Question about schedule
Good morning,
One little question about Schedules. Imagine I have this schedule :
Schedule{
Name = "WeeklyCycle"
Run = Full 1st sun at 23: 05
Run = Differential 2nd-5th sun at 23: 05
Run = Incremental mon-sat at 23: 05
}
Imagine I set up a new backup... and I set up in the third week of the
month. Imagine I start on a Tuesday. For my experience, I assume that
Bacula would do :
- As no backups have been done previosly, first of all at the first time
it runs at 23:05, perform a full backup.
- The next day it runs, even there is not a differential backup, as
supposedly the second time the job runs is Wednesday it will do an
incremental backup.
- When Sunday arrives, it would do the first differential. At this
moment we will have a Full backup, plus N incrementals. Today we to a
differential and will have a differential too.
- The following times it launches incrementals in the week and on Sunday
new differential, until the first Sunday of month in which a new full
will be created.
Am I wrong?. I think not...
Thanks a lot mates,
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Re: [Bacula-users] Question about scratch pool
Hi all mates, Thank you so much for your answer. I see. I got it. Thanks you so much really for all your help, Cheers! El 2022-05-24 13:16, Josh Fisher escribió: > ATENCION > ATENCION > ATENCION!!! Este correo se ha enviado desde fuera de la organizacion. No > pinche en los enlaces ni abra los adjuntos a no ser que reconozca el > remitente y sepa que el contenido es seguro. > > On 5/24/22 06:51, Heitor Faria wrote: Still unsupported... Sorry. You are > right. > It is not needed for scalability purposes, but one Director can have many > different Catalogs as desired. And each catalog will have its own unique Scratch pool. In fact, all of the pools (and all other resources) defined in a particular catalog are unique. Each customer could use the same pool names, because they are using different catalogs. There is no overlap of pools, or of the volumes contained in those pools. What is impossible is a single, shared Scratch pool for all customers. The Director can use more than one catalog, but a particular resource, (Pool, Volume, Client, Job, etc.) can belong to only one catalog. ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Autochanger does not create volumes (on mounted external USB drive)
Hi there,
in my setup I call internal drives connected by SATA “Tier 1”, and external
drives connected by USB “Tier 2”.
I have separate pools for jobs that write to tier 1 and for jobs that write to
tier 2.
Each given pool contains only volumes stored on 1 tier, so each pool is either
a tier pool or a tier 2 pool, but never both.
For Tier 1 I have a working autochanger that created volumes in the pools that
I use for tier 1 (only).
For Tier 2 I have another autochanger that is supposed to create volumes in the
pooks that i use for tier 2 (only), but it doesn’t do that. It gives me:
The job needs media. Please mount volume unraid-libvirt-full-tier2-vol-0543 or
label a new one for storage: "Tier2-FileChgr1-Dev1" (/mnt/tier2-01), pool:
unraid-libvirt-full-tier2, media type: tier2-ext-usb1-folder1-file.
Any chance to get this to work?
Here are the definitions from the bacula-sd.config:
Storage {
Name = "bacula-sd"
WorkingDirectory = "/opt/bacula/working"
PidDirectory = "/opt/bacula/working"
PluginDirectory = "/opt/bacula/plugins"
MaximumConcurrentJobs = 20
}
Device {
Name = "Restore-FileChgr1-Dev99"
Description = "Use this folder as default location for restore jobs"
MediaType = "restore-int-user0-folder1"
DeviceType = "File"
ArchiveDevice = "/mnt/restore"
RemovableMedia = no
RandomAccess = yes
AutomaticMount = yes
LabelMedia = yes
Autochanger = yes
AutoSelect = no
DriveIndex = 99
}
Device {
Name = "Tier1-FileChgr1-Dev1"
Description = "unRAID local file system folder 1"
MediaType = "tier1-int-user0-folder1-file"
DeviceType = "File"
ArchiveDevice = "/mnt/tier1-01"
RemovableMedia = no
RandomAccess = yes
AutomaticMount = yes
LabelMedia = yes
AlwaysOpen = no
Autochanger = yes
MaximumConcurrentJobs = 5
}
Device {
Name = "Tier1-FileChgr1-Dev2"
Description = "unRAID local file system folder 2"
MediaType = "tier1-int-user0-folder2-file"
DeviceType = "File"
ArchiveDevice = "/mnt/tier1-02"
RemovableMedia = no
RandomAccess = yes
AutomaticMount = yes
LabelMedia = yes
AlwaysOpen = no
Autochanger = yes
MaximumConcurrentJobs = 5
DriveIndex = 1
}
Device {
Name = "Tier2-FileChgr1-Dev1"
Description = "unRAID external USB disk 1 folder 1"
MediaType = "tier2-ext-usb1-folder1-file"
DeviceType = "File"
ArchiveDevice = "/mnt/tier2-01"
RemovableMedia = yes
RandomAccess = yes
AutomaticMount = yes
LabelMedia = yes
AlwaysOpen = no
Autochanger = yes
MaximumConcurrentJobs = 5
}
Device {
Name = "Tier2-FileChgr1-Dev2"
Description = "unRAID external USB disk 2 folder 1"
MediaType = "tier2-ext-usb2-folder1-file"
DeviceType = "File"
ArchiveDevice = "/mnt/tier2-02"
RemovableMedia = yes
RandomAccess = yes
AutomaticMount = yes
LabelMedia = yes
AlwaysOpen = no
Autochanger = yes
MaximumConcurrentJobs = 5
}
Messages {
Name = "Standard"
Director = bacula-dir = All
}
Autochanger {
Name = "tier1-int-user0-folder-changer"
Description = "This changer makes all tier 1 folders on internal user0 file
system accessible"
Device = "Restore-FileChgr1-Dev99"
Device = "Tier1-FileChgr1-Dev1"
Device = "Tier1-FileChgr1-Dev2"
ChangerDevice = "/dev/null"
ChangerCommand = "/dev/null"
}
Autochanger {
Name = "tier2-ext-usb-changer"
Description = "This changer makes all tier 2 folders on external USB mass
storage accessible"
Device = "Tier2-FileChgr1-Dev1"
Device = "Tier2-FileChgr1-Dev2"
ChangerDevice = "/dev/null"
ChangerCommand = "/dev/null"
}
Here are some definitions of storage, pools and jobs from bacula-dir.config:
Job {
Name = "unraid-libvirt-tier1"
Description = "Job to backup unRAID Libvirt to Tier 1"
Type = "Backup"
Level = "Full"
Messages = "Standard"
Storage = "unraid-tier1-storage"
Pool = "unraid-libvirt-full-tier1"
FullBackupPool = "unraid-libvirt-full-tier1"
IncrementalBackupPool = "unraid-libvirt-incr-tier1"
Client = "bacula-fd"
Fileset = "unraid-libvirt"
Schedule = "First-Mon-Full"
JobDefs = "DefaultJob"
Enabled = yes
AllowIncompleteJobs = no
AllowDuplicateJobs = no
}
Job {
Name = "unraid-libvirt-tier2"
Description = "Job to backup unRAID Libvirt to Tier 2"
Type = "Backup"
Level = "Full"
Messages = "Standard"
Storage = "unraid-tier2-storage"
Pool = "unraid-libvirt-full-tier2"
FullBackupPool = "unraid-libvirt-full-tier2"
IncrementalBackupPool = "unraid-libvirt-incr-tier2"
Client = "bacula-fd"
Fileset = "unraid-libvirt"
Schedule = "Third-Mon-Full"
JobDefs = "DefaultJob"
Enabled = yes
AllowIncompleteJobs = no
AllowDuplicateJobs = no
}
Storage {
Name = "unraid-tier1-storage"
Description = "Tier 1 storage on unraid"
SdPort = 9103
Address = “redacted"
Password = “redacted"
Device = "tier1-int-user0-folder-changer"
MediaType = "tier1-int-user0-folder1-file"
Autochanger = "unraid-tier1-storage"
MaximumConcurrentJobs = 10
}
Storage {
Name = "unraid-tier2-storage"
Description = "Tier 2 storage on unraid"
Re: [Bacula-users] Question about scratch pool
On 5/24/22 06:51, Heitor Faria wrote: Still unsupported... Sorry. You are right. It is not needed for scalability purposes, but one Director can have many different Catalogs as desired. And each catalog will have its own unique Scratch pool. In fact, all of the pools (and all other resources) defined in a particular catalog are unique. Each customer could use the same pool names, because they are using different catalogs. There is no overlap of pools, or of the volumes contained in those pools. What is impossible is a single, shared Scratch pool for all customers. The Director can use more than one catalog, but a particular resource, (Pool, Volume, Client, Job, etc.) can belong to only one catalog. ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Question about scratch pool
> Still unsupported... Sorry. You are right. It is not needed for scalability purposes, but one Director can have many different Catalogs as desired. > -- > MSc Heitor Faria (Miami/USA) > CIO Bacula LatAm > mobile1: + 1 909 655-8971 > mobile2: + 55 61 98268-4220 > [ http://bacula.lat/] ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
