Re: [Bacula-users] Almir 0.1 released (bacula web interface)
Excerpts from Domen Kožar's message of Fri Apr 06 15:17:38 -0400 2012: Hi Domen, I'm really proud to announce public 0.1 version of Almir after 4 months of development! You can start reading about almir features and install it (one-line interactive installer): http://readthedocs.org/docs/almir/en/latest/ This looks really promising! I'll try to kick the tires a bit in the next little while. Two questions: 1. I see it uses flash. Does it need to? 2. Have you considered a wsgi interface in addition to http proxying? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] ERR=Connection reset by peer
Excerpts from Doug Niven's message of Tue Mar 27 18:44:58 -0400 2012: Hi Doug, Any suggestions or ideas MUCH appreciated. Are the problems new or have they been persistent for a while? Do they affect only clients that are newly added or did the problem start manifesting on systems that used to run just fine? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] monitoring status / health
Excerpts from Johannes Fabian Rußek's message of Tue Feb 28 11:04:40 -0500 2012: Hi Johannes, another thing I'm wondering is how do you guys monitor the health of all the bacula daemons on a site with tools like nagios, zenoss, zabbix etc. Do you have some checks that do not require a mysql database as backend? Any links or feedback would be highly appreciated. I have each job 'check in' with nagios via nsca. The nagios monitors are passive and only chirp if they haven't been updated in X time. It works well for us so far. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Ensuring files made during the backup run are archived (hot-backup PostgreSQL)
Excerpts from Steven Schlansker's message of Wed Jan 25 12:34:10 -0500 2012: Hi Steven, Looking through the documentation, there's no obvious way to guarantee order or backups within a FileSet. Is there some particular order that Bacula uses that I can rely on portably? (I assume not, but would love if there is) If not, would it be hard to add an option that say ensures that backups recurse in e.g. alphabetical order? What about using LVM (assuming Linux, but substitute and alternate as appropriate) to snapshot the volume housing the data. You then run a pre-hook to create and mount the snapshot, point your fileset at the mounted snapshot and tear it down with a post-hook? That way, order isn't important as you get a stable snapshot of all the files at a point in time, which should preserve the recoverability of the WAL for you, no? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Director and FD versions question
Excerpts from Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk's message of Tue Jan 24 04:40:45 -0500 2012: Hi Roy, I have a director still at 5.0.3, and a few new clients coming up. Should I use the current version (5.2.4) on these FDs, or should I keep them on 5.0.3 until the director has been upgraded? I asked this late last year and Dan Langille suggested[1] that the following should hold true: 1. dir version == sd version 2. fd version = dir version HTH Thanks -Ben [1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28531626 -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] 5.2.x client with 5.0.3 director/storage
Excerpts from Dan Langille's message of Sun Jan 01 23:00:41 -0500 2012: Hi Dan, The general rule for version: Thanks very much for sharing this. I've down-revved the two clients that got a higher version due to the release happening in the middle of a deployment. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] BackupCatalog failes
Excerpts from Honia A's message of Fri Jan 13 14:50:52 -0500 2012: 13-Jan 14:51 babar-dir JobId 1651: shell command: run BeforeJob /etc/bacula/scripts/make_catalog_backup.pl MyCatalog Is this the standard script as shipped with bacula? 13-Jan 14:51 babar-dir JobId 1651: BeforeJob: sh: cannot create /var/lib/bacula/bacula.sql: Permission denied What about the output of: for d in /var /var/lib /var/lib/bacula; do ls -ld $d; done Are any of the parent directories preventing traversal to /var/lib/bacula? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Unsubscribe from teh bacula mailinglist
Excerpts from Peter van der Meulen's message of Thu Jan 12 10:07:45 -0500 2012: Hi Peter, As I feel I cannot make a vailid contribution to this mailinglist, I'd like to unsubscribe. I have searched but can't find a way to do so. Or does the good ol' unsubscribe in the subject field do the trick? From the mail headers: List-Id: Bacula user's email list for support and discussions bacula-users.lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users, mailto:bacula-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe List-Archive: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=bacula-us List-Post: mailto:bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: mailto:bacula-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=help List-Subscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users, mailto:bacula-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=subscribe Nice to hear that you approach mailing lists with the idea of contributing though! Cheers. -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula database is getting too long
Excerpts from Martin Simmons's message of Thu Jan 12 10:25:02 -0500 2012: The mail server's name is Gauss and although I have it setup babar (name of the backup server where has bacula installed) to start at 20:05 every night, the mail server will not be accessible until 8:15 AM and by that I mean people at work cannot get their messages or send messages because the server is not responding. This is very unlikely to be caused by Bacula. Agreed, but if there are, say, network issues, bacula could exacerbate a problem that flies under the radar during normal operation. I'd be checking the network settings on every device from the NIC to the backup server and running some performance tools while bacula is not active to see if you experience the same degradation. HTH -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula database is getting too long
Excerpts from Honia A's message of Wed Jan 11 13:11:45 -0500 2012: I have been handed this server by the previous IT guy and don't have the info required to access the MySQL database. The mysql password for the account bacula uses should be available to you in the Catalog stanza of the bacula-dir.conf file (or another file that it includes). Search for dbpassword. If you don't have the root password to your mysql instance, you can reset that by following something like: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/recover-mysql-root-password.html Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] 5.2.x client with 5.0.3 director/storage
Hi All, I don't see a documented item about running a 5.2.1 client with the older 5.0.3 director and 5.0.3 storage daemon. (I do see notes about doing this version straddle in the opposite direction.) It seems to work but is it a valid configuration? Is there anything I should know when running like this? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- Learn Windows Azure Live! Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 Microsoft is holding a special Learn Windows Azure training event for developers. It will provide a great way to learn Windows Azure and what it provides. You can attend the event by watching it streamed LIVE online. Learn more at http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-windowsazure ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Can bacula backup from Windows and Linux?
Excerpts from jonathanb's message of Sat Dec 03 14:10:56 -0500 2011: Hi Jonathan, I have a small network with approximately 8 clients and 5 servers with Linux (Debian) and Windows (Vista and Win7) on them. One of the five servers is going to be a Proxmox VE server where we are going to install a backup solution. We want to backup all the client and servers remotely with a not to difficult interface, because our intern is going to realize this idea. Is Bacula the answer to this? I think that bacula can definitely meet your needs, but I'd urge you to ensure that someone on your normal staff is working with your intern. Backups are far too important to trust to a single person...especially one that's (presumably) just getting their 'sea legs' under them. :) Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] w2k8 event log messages
Hi All, I've noticed that during my backup runs (5.03 and 5.2.1) on w2k8r2, I see a series of error messages about Filter Manager failed to attached to volume... and some warning messages about An error was detected on XYZ during a paging operation. These error and warning events occur only during the bacula run coinciding with the end of the 'run before' command when the actual backup work begins. The devices named in the error messages increase in number in accordance with the use of volume shadows, so I think this is some glitch with VSS interaction. The warning messages _seem_ to be generic noise but I'm still investigating. Does anyone else see these messages on their systems? Is there something I can do to stop them? Any insight is appreciated. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-try-monitor.exe - System error
Excerpts from Lorenzo Santi | Jobrapido's message of Wed Nov 23 09:56:46 -0500 2011: The program can't start cause QtCore4.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstall the program to fix this problem. I just noticed the same on w2k8r2 w/sp1...not that the OS affects the delivery of a third party dll though. I search in the filesistem and I fount the QtCore4.dll in the: C:\Program Files\Bacula\bin64 directory. Mine is in c:\program files\bacula\bin32. I installed the 64-bit version of 5.2.1 on this system. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Mail report
Excerpts from Ignacio Cardona's message of Wed Nov 23 14:10:22 -0500 2011: Hi Ignacia, there is a way to configure bacula in order to receive in my email box the report of the backups, what i mean is to receive something to be aware if the backups were ok or not. Do you want a report regardless of success/failure, only when there is a failure, only on success? To get reports only for failed jobs, put something like: mail on error = helpd...@my.co.com = all, !skipped in the Messages resource of your director. If you want mail regardless of job status, simply remove the 'on error' part. I've opted for mail on error with each job also sending a passive (nsca) notification to nagios so that we get alerts if a job simply stops running for some reason. (On a failure, we get the bacula email and a nagios email but...that's better than one email per job when the things are running properly.) There are still things I don't like about this. Some files that generate an error for the whole job go under the radar unless you pay close attention (these are noted in webbacula, for example)... Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] RE : HELP : MySQL database lost - how best to restore data
Excerpts from Win Htin's message of Sun Nov 06 15:50:13 -0500 2011: To make matters worse, the MySQL database is running on a none default port. Since bscan doesn't have an option to set the port number I am in a bit of a bind. Any ideas? Make yourself a quick tunnel with ssh or use nc (netcat) to either proxy a unix socket at the standard path to the non-standard port or create the effect of a tunnel. The ssh route is likely the easiest... Something like: ssh -L 3306:$dbhost:$weirdport Alter to taste. Depending on circumstance, nc might be a good option though. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] moving clients to a new director
Hi All, I am currently running two distinct bacula setups. The director of the original setup is a client of the the new, but that is the only link between the two right now. Both director nodes also run the only storage node for their particular set of clients. I'm considering collapsing these two setups such that I have two storage nodes and only one director. While that's easy enough to do in a slash and burn style, I'd like to maintain the current set of volumes and job information if possible. Is there an easy/sane way to do this? I think it would look something like: 0. Stop dir1. 1. Add clients from dir1 to dir2, perform required client config for each client. 2. Add storage config to dir2 to reference storage daemon on dir1. 3. Use bscan to import existing volumes from dir1 into catalog of dir2. Am I nuts? Has anyone done something similar? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] restore taking a long time....
Excerpts from Mike Eggleston's message of Fri Nov 04 11:47:11 -0400 2011: Hi Mike, What can be done to speed up this restore? I don't have specific advice for you on how to do this, but the experts on this list that do will want to know which db you're using. (And the version of said db.) Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] windows could not start bacula file service service on local computer 1067
Excerpts from Rushdhi Mohamed's message of Tue Oct 25 03:36:09 -0400 2011: Hi Rushdhi, Then i tried it through cmd by entering net start Bacula-fd (exact name of the service) it gives an error saying Access Denied Erro no 5 Someone please help me to overcome this.. Did you modify c:\program files\bacula\bacula-fd.conf to suit your environment? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Cisco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Wildcards problem
Excerpts from Dimitri Gourdon's message of Mon Oct 24 07:34:53 -0400 2011:
Hi Dimitri,
FileSet {
Name = X
Include {
Options {
signature = SHA1
compression=GZIP
wilddir = /data/backup/DB-ADMIN*/
}
File = /data/backup
}
}
You're not telling the fileset to exclude those directories. The
options statement should have Exclude = yes in it.
Thanks
-Ben
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Re: [Bacula-users] Wildcards problem
Excerpts from Dimitri Gourdon's message of Mon Oct 24 09:24:25 -0400 2011: But I don't want to exclude directories like /data/backup/DB-ADMIN* , I want to backup only them ! (not the other files in /data/backup) I'm sorry, you're right. I'd forgotten some of the details and didn't pay enough attention. I'm not sure how to efficiently define this. Hopefully someone else will chime in. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Cisco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Wildcards problem
Excerpts from Dimitri Gourdon's message of Fri Oct 14 05:02:23 -0400 2011: Hi Dimitri, wild = /data/backup/DB-ADMIN*/ Did you try wilddir? http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#8672 Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Cisco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Need help canceling a job
Excerpts from Eric Pratt's message of Wed Oct 19 16:31:42 -0400 2011: --snip-- JobId 25604 Job RestoreFiles.2011-10-19_11.53.27_04 is running. --snip-- I have another restore queued up that I do need this one is keeping the one I need from proceeding. How can I cancel this restore job? I'm not positive, but I believe that to reference this job by name, you'd want: RestoreFiles.2011-10-19_11.53.27_04 Not just RestoreFiles. Also, if you just say cancel, doesn't it prompt you with a menu driven choice? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Ciosco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] restore taking a long time....
Excerpts from Mike Eggleston's message of Fri Oct 07 14:03:18 -0400 2011: The server that runs the bacula server has plenty of disk space and 1GB of memory. After this experience I would like to increase the memory and to run bacula on a processor better than the Celeron. Although you noted that you've got 40G of data, that's not a good metric in this instance. Is this 40G of Maildir mail folders or 40G of blu-ray movie rips? The number of files and directories will be a more useful number to look at here. What is your system doing while the synthetic view is being built? Is it paging to disk? Is the load high? What is mysql doing (strace)? What is bacula doing (strace)? Is there anything else happening on the system while you're doing this? Is the mysql database on a volume (physical spindles) with other things that are still being worked hard during this action? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] recommendations for failover system backups
Excerpts from shouldbe q931's message of Thu Oct 06 07:10:54 -0400 2011: With most active/passive paired servers that I have implemented, backup is run on the passive server and is the primary recovery source. Yes, that's where I was headed. I guess that I probably wasn't clear that I was asking more for bacula best practices with such a setup than overall practices (eg: policy). Sorry for not being clear. Is it even sane to point bacula at the shared ip and treat the two systems as three clients? You mention having a shared IP, for clustered systems, I would probably look to have a more frequent sync than daily unless you can replace the daily changes via a different method. This won't be a clustered system as the failover is meant for rapid recovery not no data loss. (We are running drbd with corosync for other situations, but that doesn't fit in this case.) The shared IP in this instance is just so that a name can move between the systems if required. The sync interval could be more frequent, but the point is that it's not real-time. I appreciate your answer. It's quite helpful. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Optimized mysql settings for CentOS 6 64bit
Excerpts from Phil Stracchino's message of Wed Oct 05 14:51:57 -0400 2011: Hi Phil, Side note: It was unreasonably difficult to get it built correctly on Solaris 10. I couldn't get a working 64-bit build at all, either with gcc or with Sun Studio, and the only way I could get a correctly linked 32-bit bacula-dir was to temporarily chmod the MySQL 64-bit lib directory 000. I'm reasonably certain this wasn't Bacula's fault. It's likely relying on values supplied by my-config (or whatever it's called) and then adding -I, -L and -R flags to your build to match the requirements mysql thinks it needs...I forget (or maybe never looked) if bacula uses --with-mysql=/path/to/my-config or just --with-mysql=/some/prefix (expecting bin/my-config inside /some/prefix). I've built several things against postgres on a system where both 32 and 64-bit postgres libraries were available. I typically end up doing --with-postgres=/path/to/32-bit/pg_config. I've yet to attempt a 64-bit bacula build on Solaris. HTH. -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] recommendations for failover system backups
Hi All, I'm going to be adding a new pair of boxes to the network shortly. One box will be a primary server and the other a hot standby. The hot standby will sync the live system nightly. As I see it, I've got a few options for backup here: 1. Backup both boxes, pay the heavy price of duplicated data (or use a base job, etc) 2. Backup only the failover system and the config for the live system, making the failover the primary recovery source. 3. Backup only the primary system and config on the failover. 4. Attempt to backup only a single system, determined by which one is holder the virtual IP that will run the service. I'm inclined toward either 2 or 3 but am curious what the experts think. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Optimized mysql settings for CentOS 6 64bit
Excerpts from Phil Stracchino's message of Wed Oct 05 15:26:06 -0400 2011: I've been trying, but have yet to succeed. I think it would probably be a lot simpler if Solaris 10 came in all-32-bit and all-64-bit flavors, instead of the hybrid mixture of 32-bit and 64-bit it is at present. I'd hoped it would be easier using Sun Studio, but if anything it was harder. What mysql are you building against? The included one? More to the point, which compiler was it built with? The my-config program should tell you. If you try to build things with sun studio and the build system uses values obtained from things like my-config, where mysql was built with gcc), you'll often times get incompatible flags passed in to the compiler you're using. I'd take a peek at what the code in configure does when handling --with-mysql to get a sense of where possible stumbling blocks might be in this area. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] readline.h not found
Excerpts from Ren Sato's message of Tue Oct 04 18:44:17 -0400 2011: Hi Ren, ./configure --prefix=/opt/pbd/bacula --with-mysql=/opt/pbd/mysql --with-openssl=/opt/pbd/openssl --enable-readline=yes \ --with-readline=/opt/pbd/readline/include/readline --disable-conio Try: --with-readline=/opt/pbd/readline The autoconf looks at $withval/readline.h and then $withval/include/readline/readline.h. The values set for other variables should be nicer in the second case which is achieved with the configure argument above. If that doesn't work, let me know and I'll take a deeper look at the autoconf. Also, if you're able to use OpenCSW[1], I have 5.0.3 packages ready to go for Solaris...these might save you some time? Thanks -Ben [1] http://opencsw.org -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula hangs waiting on a client
Excerpts from Joseph Spenner's message of Fri Sep 23 15:07:17 -0400 2011: Hi Joseph, Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20 Are all of the jobs running to the same SD? If so, what is the value for the setting above in the Storage definition for that SD? My guess is that the director is happily queueing up jobs (to a limit of 20) but the SD is re-serializing things on you. HTH. -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] long-term archival of tapes -- growth of the catalog
Excerpts from Gavin McCullagh's message of Thu Sep 22 04:07:15 -0400 2011: Hi Gavin, Is there any sign of development on shifting data between SDs? I know we had a conversation on this list about it about 18 months ago and there was some interest and even some sponsorship. Not sure if this would work for you (especially as it requires some up front choices) but this is what I'm looking at here. I did some small tests with it and it seemed to work fine. Each host has a dedicated storage pool and storage device (I'm using all disk-based presently) with each pool/storage combo being an individual directory (/backups/pool/$hostname). Each pool has a hostname-based media type. To move backups between SD's, I simply rsync'd the current set of volumes to the new SD and modified the host settings for the SD (and updated the path to the storage as appropriate in the device settings). HTH. -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Backup status OK, but mysql errors
Excerpts from John Drescher's message of Mon Sep 19 09:27:54 -0400 2011: Get your script to return a non zero exit status on database error. This would see the whole job fail without backing anything else up though, no? Although that might be appropriate in some, cases, I think the OP wanted the job to complete but present an easy to pick out visual indicator that it wasn't a clean run. I can appreciate this need as it's something I'd like as well. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA Learn about the latest advances in developing for the BlackBerryreg; mobile platform with sessions, labs more. See new tools and technologies. Register for BlackBerryreg; DevCon today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] junction point pain
Hi All, Is there an easy way to define a fileset for windows systems where junction points are ignored by default or will I need to use wildcards for this? I'd like to the logs from these jobs to be free of the clutter from all of the junction points in Users\, etc. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA Learn about the latest advances in developing for the BlackBerryreg; mobile platform with sessions, labs more. See new tools and technologies. Register for BlackBerryreg; DevCon today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] junction point pain
Excerpts from Bob Hetzel's message of Mon Sep 19 13:53:25 -0400 2011: Hi Bob, It might be worth checking out just the windows client (assuming you're already running a 5.x director/storage to see if it suits your needs before they do the final 5.2 release. Thanks for the pointer. I'll see if this decreases the whining! :) Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Migration issues - database
Excerpts from Carlos Cristóbal Sabroe Yde's message of Fri Sep 16 10:28:00 -0400 2011: Hi Cristóbal, You've reached the Bacula users mailing list. You're likely looking for: http://www.horde.org/community/mail/ HTH. -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Postgres 9?
Excerpts from Rodrigo Renie Braga's message of Fri Sep 09 15:04:45 -0400 2011: Hi Rodrigo, Has anyone used Bacula with the brand new Postgres 9? I've seen that now Postgres supports multiple encoding for it's databases, and that's really helpful to me because all my websites are using UTF8 and only for Bacula I'm using 'latin1' (thats the correct encoding right?) and I'd like to use only one instance of Postgres for my server... I'm in the early stages of a new deployment using 5.0.3 against Postgresql 9.0. I'm still getting the systems setup though and haven't actually done a test backup with it yet. The daemons are running and can talk to the db, etc. I should be getting around to real testing of backups early next week. Although I don't have experience with this combination yet, I'm happy to answer any questions you've got. (They could very well help me out!) Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- Why Cloud-Based Security and Archiving Make Sense Osterman Research conducted this study that outlines how and why cloud computing security and archiving is rapidly being adopted across the IT space for its ease of implementation, lower cost, and increased reliability. Learn more. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51425301/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Course
Excerpts from Mike Hobbs's message of Wed Aug 10 08:44:43 -0400 2011: Kern, this is something that I have wanted to take since I started using Bacula late last year. I don't know if I can get my company to pay for a trip to Switzerland (or anywhere across the pond), will you be offering this course in the USA at any point? I'd love a course like this within driving distance of Toronto too. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] RHEL6 specfile?
Excerpts from Alan Brown's message of Fri Aug 05 06:44:11 -0400 2011: Jason A. Kates wrote: FYI: Bacula that's shipping with RHEL6 As I said on the users list - it's 5.0.0 and RH absolutely refuse to update to 5.0.3 (I've had a ticket in for a while about that) This is normal behaviour for RHEL though...There are only two cases I'm aware of where they will change the version during a support window: 1. Something like Firefox that entirely abandons the old version. 2. Something like php, bind or samba where they'll ship a second version (php, php53; bind, bind97, etc) along side the originally shipping version. As much as stale versions of apps can be annoying at times (I carry a bunch of rpms locally to get newer versions), I'd prefer the stability of backported fixes and no major surprises during version change. Any security or major bug fixes are backported to the originally shipping version. HTH. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos much more. Register early save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] need help (step by step) for setting up certificates
Excerpts from scar's message of Sun Jul 24 00:12:30 -0400 2011: so i tried adding `TLS Allowed CN = home1` and still get the same error. however, i tried using the `-d 99` switch for bconsole and it reveals something helpful: You need to make sure that this parameter exactly matches what the certificate contains. Maybe you didn't enter a fqdn for the CN in the cert? If so, the value is ok. Otherwise, you should qualify it. i tried running bconsole as root so it could read the private key. is that necessary? if not then can i comment out the `TLS Key` directive from bconsole.conf? either way it's still not working: Can you run this under strace? It would be useful to see what files bconsole is opening and stating. The director side of this could also be foiling you here too. Attache strace (or whatever is appropriate for your platform) to the running director when you try to attach bconsole would be good too. The fact that you're getting a validation error makes me think it may not be able to determine the trust chain by using the public key of the CA you created. Most common ssl packages are configured to look for /usr/lib/ssl/cert.pem (a bundle of CA certs) and then /usr/lib/ssl/certs/$hash.0 of the CA key where the hash is determined from the server certificate. If it's (either end) failing to see that info, it won't be able to validate your certificate. For example, the following strace snippets are taken from an openssl verify command where I did not install the CA certificates: open(/usr/lib/ssl/cert.pem, O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) ... stat(/usr/lib/ssl/certs/5caed0db.0, 0x7fff15b409e0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) The hash for my CA certificate is 5caed0db and the generation is 0. This could be 1 or 2 or ...depending on local events and the age of the CA key, etc. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention Research study explores the data loss prevention market. Includes in-depth analysis on the changes within the DLP market, and the criteria used to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of these DLP solutions. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51385063/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] need help (step by step) for setting up certificates
Excerpts from scar's message of Sat Jul 23 15:56:53 -0400 2011: i think what is confusing me the most is what to use for CN, but i am generally puzzled as to how to generate the certs properly in general. i've got TinyCA installed and i created a CA, what's next? Generally speaking, the CN field should be the fully qualified hostname of your system. For a case where you're doing dir and sd on the same system, you'd have two certs with the same CN value. I found the following guide useful in setting up a local CA: http://www.g-loaded.eu/2005/11/10/be-your-own-ca/ I've opted for a two tier CA though and if you're interested in that level of effort (overkill possibly), I'll share another guide I found handy. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- Storage Efficiency Calculator This modeling tool is based on patent-pending intellectual property that has been used successfully in hundreds of IBM storage optimization engage- ments, worldwide. Store less, Store more with what you own, Move data to the right place. Try It Now! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51427378/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Setting Priority
Excerpts from Martin Simmons's message of Mon Jul 11 05:24:38 -0400 2011: Hi Martin, You can override priority for each job that uses the jobdefs on a job-by-job basis, but you'll also need to make multiple jobs per client (one for full, one for daily/differential) so that you can assign different priorities. Don't try to make different jobs for full and daily/differential -- it won't work. Differential backups are based on the previous full backup of the same name, so the only useful way to run them is by setting the level in the schedule. Thanks for correcting this. Apologies for the misinformation. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Setting Priority
Excerpts from Mike Hobbs's message of Fri Jul 08 15:23:47 -0400 2011: Hi Mike, Due to the amount of data and machines I'll be backing up, I can see that when the first of the month comes around, running all my level 0 (Full) backups is going to take a week or more. I'm concerned because if my level 1s (incremental) get queued up behind the level 0s data could potentially be lost. So, I would like to assign my incremental a higher priority over Fulls, that way when the server is busy running Full backups, bacula will queue up the level 1's first and then continue on with the level 0s. Am I making sense? I don't think it works like this. Depending on the number of concurrent jobs you can run, the level 0's will queue up before the level 1's are scheduled. When the level 1's come around the next day, they'd be placed in queue after the existing jobs. (This is my understanding of things.) Throughout my testing, I have only used one JobDef, the default one. I have edited it a little. Because all my jobs use this JobsDef all the jobs, whether a Full or Incremental, gets assigned the default Priority 10. I'm confused as to how I will configure bacula to have the Full backups say priority 10 and the incremental, say a Priority 9. You can override priority for each job that uses the jobdefs on a job-by-job basis, but you'll also need to make multiple jobs per client (one for full, one for daily/differential) so that you can assign different priorities. Then, you'd need separate schedules to run the different jobs at the approriate time. Another question, sort of related. As I said above, at the first of the month when all my Full backups fire off, it's going to keep the backup server very busy for a week or more. Is there a way to configure bacula to run certain groups (Pools?) Full backups on different dates? Say, I could have 1/2 my machines level 0 run on the 1st of each month and then the second 1/2 run on the 15th? Or something like that. I'd really like to have my Full backups done within a few days and not weeks. You'd need to use different schedules for this. I'm planning to setup schedules here using something like FridayFull, SaturdayFull and SundayFull and then splay my machines across those manually... I hope this helps. It's a bit of a thought exercise for me as I'm also new to bacula and considering some of the same things you are. I hope one of the long-time users will correct any of the above if it's not correct or subtly wrong. (I sat on this reply hoping that somebody more knowledgeable would jump in, but since nobody has, I'm taking a crack at it.) Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Director with 3 dedicated storage servers
Excerpts from xunil321's message of Sat Jun 25 09:13:26 -0400 2011: - how to we have to configure/compile Bacula 5.0.3 for the DEDICATED SD servers ie with the same options as we did it for the director? Build RPMs one one system that split the whole package out into dir, fd and sd sub-packages. Then just install the RPMs where you need them. Doing this ensures things are always built with the same options. It also makes option modification simpler and maintenance becomes much nicer too. For SLES, you may even find that someone else has done the work for you. If you need to see a good package split for the .spec file in your RPMs, look at the way Debian split it up. (I used that split as the basis for my solaris packages.) Once you've installed the sd rpm on the dedicated storage services, you just need to setup the auth between the components but this is roughly the same as if they local. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense.. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Access denied errors but clean exit?
Hi All, I have a windows 2003 server that uses EFS in a few areas. I understand that bacula can't handle these currently and that's fine. I believe the use of EFS here is an inherited error that will likely go away. What concerns me though is that the job log indicates 'ERR=Access denied' for each of the affected files but the status of the job is still 'OK.' Shouldn't this generate at least an 'OK (with Warnings)' status? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense.. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] recommendations for scheduling
Excerpts from Jérôme Blion's message of Wed Jun 15 16:54:25 -0400 2011: Hi Jérôme, That will depends your needs. You can play with several schedules. You can play with Maximum Concurrent Jobs to balance jobs during the night. Thanks for this info. It helps. I was just hoping that I wasn't missing some setting that made the staggering dynamically configurable. Thanks! -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] recommendations for scheduling
Excerpts from Daniel De Marco's message of Thu Jun 16 11:52:30 -0400 2011:
Hi Daniel,
my plan was to use Max Full Interval to solve this problem, but I
didn't test it yet. In principle if you set it to a month and then
do your full backups staggered once they would continue to be
staggered.
This is interesting, but I'm not sure I understand how it would remain
staggered.
Say my schedule is:
Schedule {
Name = MonthlyCycle
Run = Full 1st sun at 23:05
Run = Differential 2nd-5th sun at 23:05
Run = Incremental mon-sat at 23:05
}
If I set Max Full Interval to 30 days and ran the first job (a full)
on the Tuesday following the first Sunday of the month, I'd expect
that on Wed - Sat I'd get incrementals. Then on Sunday I'd get a
differential. This would repeat each week (incrementals and
differentials) until the first Sunday of the next month at which point
I'd expect a full. This would then reset the timer and I'd be on a
'normal' cycle again, wouldn't I? If I'm correct here, there would
need to be a corresponding Min Full Interval as well...
It would be nice to have a Max Differential Interval though, so one
would be able to schedule all Inc jobs and have them automatically
upgrade to Diff or Full depending on how old the last Diff or Full
is.
The documentation references this as having existed since 3.0.0.
Thanks
-Ben
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Re: [Bacula-users] recommendations for scheduling
Excerpts from Daniel De Marco's message of Thu Jun 16 14:11:03 -0400 2011: Hi Daniel, My idea was to remove the Full (and Diff) from the schedule. Have in the schedule only Incremental backups everyday. Then set the Max Full Interval to 30 and the Max Diff Interval to 7. In this way the daily Incremental would be upgraded to Diff or Full only at the appropriate time. Does it make sense? Yes, now it does! Thanks for being gentle with the clue bat. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] recommendations for scheduling
Hi All, I'm slowly getting comfortable with bacula configuration and have a few test setups running right now. One thing I'm not quite clear on is the best way to write schedules such that I don't end up with all of my full backups happening on the same night. My current understanding indicates that I'd just need to write several schedules and manually load balance the clients over this set. Is there a smarter way to accomplish this? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] ability to move file volumes between devices sanely
Hi All, I'm looking to implement bacula using (for now) a pair of zpool volumes on a solaris server for the backing storage. From time to time, I need to re-balance the distribution of backup storage between the pools. To do this, I'd like to back each client up into it's own filesystem in the pool. I'll have a separate device per client in this configuation, I think. Am I correct that each device must have a unique media type in order to allow me to move the filesystem from one zpool to the other, update the archive device parameter and have it be usable? Would this also allow moving the storage to an alternate host later as long as I updated the archive device and job definition? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] left field gnome console question
Hi All, [I'll prefix this question by saying I think it's silly. I'm asking only for the sake of completeness when delivering a response to a thread about packaging bacula for OpenCSW.] I understand that the gnome console is deprecated functionality, but I'm curious if version 2.2.8 would properly connect to modern daemons at version 5.0.3? Has the protocol changed significantly in backward incompatible ways? Would the old console be so limited in what it can do as to be useless? Are there other reasons that would see doing such a thing be completely broken? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] How does Bacula back-up files?
Excerpts from obviously's message of Fri May 13 08:32:05 -0400 2011: So my question, how does Bacula do this? Cause I remove the file during the backup and flush the cache frequently... Bacula holds the file open so even though it's removed as far as other processes are concerned[1], the kernel doesn't free it until the reference count drops to 0 (eg: when bacula calls fclose()). These are standard unix/posix filesystem semantics. If you were to run lsof -p $pidofbacula-fd, you'd seen an entry for that file with '(deleted)' beside it. Flushing the cache won't affect this. Thanks -Ben [1] On many systems it is possible to restore this file as long as some process holds it open: http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2009/02/25/how-to-undelete-any-open-deleted-file-on-linux-solaris/ -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors referenced in libbacsql.so
Excerpts from Myles Merrell's message of Thu May 05 11:28:10 -0400 2011: Hi Myles, When I compile bacula I get the following errors: Undefined first referenced symbol in file mysql_fetch_row .../bacula-5.0.3/src/cats/.libs/libbacsql.so The linker can't find a library providing the required symbols. You'll want some combination of CFLAGS/LDFLAGS that includes -L/usr/local/mysql and -R/usr/local/mysql. The latter will eliminate the need to fiddle with crle or LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variables. I'd also point out that I'm working on bacula packages for OpenCSW (solaris) and have a test set available here: http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/experimental.html#bacula They presume that you're using OpenCSW's mysql and any other required libraries, but those are easily fetchable too. Feel free to ping me off-list if you have questions. Might save you some time? They work fine presently in my setup although I'll possibly need to fiddle with RBAC stuff to allow access to tape devices when running the storage daemon as non-root. HTH -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
