Re: [Bacula-users] [EXTERNAL] SAS HBA support on Linux

Try the hardware compatibility list for the card on Redhat's website. Second choice, the manufacturer's website. The issue is the driver. My question (rhetorical), why do you want to use an OS that is recently released and still bleeding for a backup server? I understand upgrade headaches,

Re: [Bacula-users] [EXTERNAL] Where adding heartbeat-intervall in client?

The client definition on the server. Client { Name = "myclient" Address = "myclient.example.com" AutoPrune = yes Catalog = "MyCatalog" FdPort = 9102 FileRetention = 33696000 HeartbeatInterval = 300 JobRetention = 33696000 MaximumConcurrentJobs = 4 Password = "mypassword" }

Re: [Bacula-users] [EXTERNAL] Re: After restart Redhat Bacula-fd dont start

While I don't think the merits of selinux should be the focus of this community, both Redhat and CentOS have the selinux policies for bacula. If the user is required to run in enforcing mode, then he should apply the policies correctly. This should fix the AVC errors. SELinux is rather

Re: [Bacula-users] [EXTERNAL] Re: Bacula-FD - RedHat

I highly disagree with the RHEL 8 suggestion. You don't need to be fighting new release problems with an OS on a backup server that will require frequent patching and reboots. As for Bacula community don't use the RHEL provided packages, they are way too old. Patti Clark Sr. Linux System

Re: [Bacula-users] [EXTERNAL] Bacula fails with Blocked Drive.

Sometimes I’ve had a BLOCKED device it has been due to a race condition in Bacula between 2 jobs requesting different media for the same drive. Usually it can be corrected by canceling one of the jobs. Other times it is due to a “failed” job that is not cleaned up completely leaving a

Re: [Bacula-users] [EXTERNAL] Re: Volume size question

You don’t use "Maximum Volume Bytes" for tape volumes. Patti Clark Sr. Linux System Administrator Oak Ridge National Laboratory From: Olivier Delestre Reply-To: "olivier.deles...@univ-rouen.fr" Date: Thursday, June 20, 2019 at 9:25 AM To: Jasen Lentz , bacula-users Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re:

Re: [Bacula-users] max storage jobs

You provided the answer yourself. You have limited the director to 20 concurrent jobs. Modify the director setting to the 40 that you want. > I definitely have "Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20" in the Storage sections of both bacula-dir.conf, and bacula-sd.conf. > Patti Clark

Re: [Bacula-users] Temporarily place autochanger tape drive in service mode?

; requested by DIR is disabled. . . . And it goes on for pages and pages until the job is assigned an available drive. Patti On 1/3/19, 1:30 PM, "Bill Arlofski" wrote: On 01/02/2019 02:45 PM, Clark, Patti via Bacula-users wrote: > Is there a way to put a

[Bacula-users] Temporarily place autochanger tape drive in service mode?

Is there a way to put a malfunctioning tape drive in an autochanger into a service mode via commands without modifying bacula configuration files? Patti Clark Sr. Linux System Administrator Oak Ridge National Laboratory ___ Bacula-users mailing list

Re: [Bacula-users] Assistance with Autochanger configuration

Sorry about the /dev/sch0. I've written udev rules to use consistent names regardless of what udev does - I do use the /dev/sgX for changer identification. If you've rebooted your system, the output from lsscsi -g may have changed. You still need the Drive Index line in your bacula-sd.conf .

Re: [Bacula-users] Assistance with Autochanger configuration

Use /dev/sch0, not /dev/sg2. Bear in mind, udev is not your friend. If you ever add another tape drive to your library or expand your device fabric, these device references will/can change with every system boot. As is, the /dev/sgX references can change with reboots, but if you only have

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-sd.conf: permission denied

From the manual: > You need to ensure that your Storage daemon (if not running as root) has > access permissions to both the tape drive and the control device. My bacula user is also a member of the disk group. The disk group has rw access to bacula-sd.conf. It also completes the full group

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape physical retention and age monitoring

Most everything that you'd want to know about LTO tape for each version can be found here on Wikipedia. It has a section that talks about longevity and number of passes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open I have 6 year old LTO-5 media that has been used by my Bacula backups with

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape physical retention and age monitoring

I have never seen an article or reference regarding re-tensioning LTO media. In fact Quantum answered a similar question: "Retensioning is not needed on single hub media, such as DLT and LTO. Dual hub media requires retensioning after it has been dropped as the tape path because it can be

Re: [Bacula-users] Not a Bacula labeled Volume error

If you just want another volume to be selected, mark the volume "Full" or "Error". Either setting will get Bacula to look for another volume. It will give you time to decide on what you want to do with the problem volume while Bacula continues with the backup. Patti On 5/1/18, 11:33 AM,

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula error bacula-dir dead but subsys locked

You probably have a bacula-dir.pid file left behind. Delete it and then you should be able to start the service. I don’t know what version of bacula that you are running, but my files live in /opt/bacula/working. I don’t recall where the older versions of bacula put these. Patti From:

Re: [Bacula-users] Packet size too big errors

Not from your backup. You have something on the network that is scanning the server your director is running on. Probably Nessus. I’m sure the client IP is a clue. Patti From: Shawn Rappaport Date: Sunday, March 4, 2018 at 6:06 PM To:

Re: [Bacula-users] convincing Bacula to use a different tape than it requested

You can disable the volume or change the volume status to Full if you don't intend to append any additional data. If you disable the volume, you will need to enable it in order to use it. I deal in sets of 10 volumes and run into situations where Bacula want a volume that has an earlier

Re: [Bacula-users] restore problem

Remove the line: Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/%c.bsr" Patti On 11/29/17, 5:53 AM, "Gokan Atmaca" wrote: Hello I get an error like below. The problem says it's a bootstrap. How can I overcome this? 29-Nov 13:36 bacula0-dir JobId 64:

Re: [Bacula-users] TAPE backups

Answers below. Patti Clark Sr. Linux System Administrator Oak Ridge National Laboratory On 10/21/17, 10:54 AM, "Alan Brown" wrote: Straw poll time for people using tape-based systems I'd like to know who is currently using what (not historical usage)

Re: [Bacula-users] Please mount append Volume or label a new one - help needed

Luke, This usually happens when the path to the device in Bacula does not line up with the OS. For each drive one at a time, mount a volume in bconsole and verify with mtx status that it is where it is expected to be. Release the volume and verify that it has returned to its slot. Go

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochanger incorrectly assigning first slot number

Ivan, You’ve not indicated what OS that you are using – it’s somewhat difficult to say whether your mtx package has a bug. I’ve never had this issue with mtx running on RHEL6. I don’t see your I/E slot being identified as the I/E slot, just a regular slot, which can be done if slots are

Re: [Bacula-users] Permissions problem backing up to NFS Share

Can you su or sudo to the bacula user and see if you can manually create/modify/delete files on your backup storage location? - My file storage is owned by bacula:root and permissions are 770 – I would not have it set to be so wide open. Is bacula user a member of your disk group? If

Re: [Bacula-users] Failed to connect to Storage Daemon.

You have port 9102 vs 9103 in your configuration. The SD listens on 9103. Patti Clark Linux System Administrator R Systems Support Oak Ridge National Laboratory From: Francisco Javier Funes Nieto Date: Tuesday, November 1, 2016 at 1:58 PM To: bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula director daemon not start.-

I believe that you need quotes around the values for Name = Name = “Kepler-dir” You should address that in your JobDefs for Client = and anywhere else where the value is not a pre-defined selection from a list or numeric. Patti Clark Linux System Administrator R Systems Support Oak Ridge

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula in the cloud

From Bacula’s main.pdf documentation: Max Run Time = The time specifies the maximum allowed time that a job may run, counted from when the job starts, (not necessarily the same as when the job was scheduled). By default, the the watchdog thread will kill any Job that has run more than 6 days.

Re: [Bacula-users] No scheduled jobs - bacula 7.0.4

Did you restart or reload your director after making the changes? Patti From: "Ali Danish Mahmood (32940)" Date: Thursday, September 29, 2016 at 7:49 AM To: "bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net" Subject: [Bacula-users] No scheduled

Re: [Bacula-users] Update Tape VolumeName in Bacula

More information is needed. BTW, the output that you provided shows the slot number as zero for the 2 tapes listed and not present in your changer. 1. What version of bacula are you running? 2. Please provide the configuration of your storage devices. 3. Where does bacula think

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with Second Pool

You also need to remove that line “Recycle=no” or change it to yes. That is what is preventing your volume reuse. Patti From: "Baggett, Mark Patrick" <mbagg...@utk.edu> Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 10:52 AM To: "Clark, Patti" <clar...@ornl.gov>, &qu

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with Second Pool

Could you provide your pool config? Or is the following in your config? RecycleOldestVolume = yes Patti From: "Baggett, Mark Patrick" Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 at 9:20 AM To: "bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net" Subject:

Re: [Bacula-users] Restart Director and Run Previously Pending Jobs?

You don’t mention what version of bacula that you are running. The restart or resume commands are available in v7.x. As a rather new feature it is not mature and may or may not actually resume the job. If it does not, it’ll start a new jobid with the level of backup that would be normal for

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem which fd 7.4.3

Newer versions of a client than that of the director is unsupported. If you are going to have clients that are that new, keeping your director/storage daemons current is somewhat important. Other than that, you might try to compile the v5.2.13 source code for your debian client. I’d like to

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula wont mount backup directory

What are the ownership and permissions on /mnt/sda1/bacula/backup Patti From: Rolder Reply-To: "bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net" Date: Monday, August 8, 2016 at 5:38 PM To: "bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net"

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochander 2 Drive HP MSL2024 Pleasse Mount Label

Could you provide a status of your changer – please do both of these? In bconsole: *status storage=MSL2024 Command-line on storage daemon: #mtx –f /dev/changer status I’m also not sure why you would use Maximum Volumes or Maximum Volume Jobs on tape media. Those directives are more appropriate

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula Help!!!

You have provided no useful information. Start with OS and Bacula versions, configuration files that relate to the issue, and the command output and/or error logs. Patti From: nirvana Reply-To: "bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net"

Re: [Bacula-users] problem drive bacula

Nirvana, The tapes will rewind whenever they are ejected from the drive. Bacula will manage the tapes as needed. Auto-rewinding is unnecessary with modern backup software management particularly with an autochanger. Patti From: nirvana Reply-To:

Re: [Bacula-users] problem drive bacula

You need to read up on udev. I have posted several times on this list regarding the commands and configuration using udev rules. Search the list for the information. Otherwise, use the long path /dev/tape/by-path/… which is an ugly reference but is stable on reboots. Use the “nst#”

Re: [Bacula-users] Device is BLOCKED. User unmounted during wait for media/moun

Someone did a manual unmount command. This blocks the drive until a mount command or a release command in bconsole or through one of the bacula gui interfaces. Patti From: nirvana Reply-To: "bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net"

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-7 tape drive settings in bacula 7.4.0

I understand using the Maximum File Size directive, but the other two are unnecessary (documentation even says this) and is most likely causing your issues. A lot of these directives came about with older technologies in the tape arena and should not be used. You should read up on LTO from

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole connection to Director flapping

It appears that you are connecting to “localhost” vs the name of your director. The names have to match in all of the config files and the rule-of-thumb is don’t use localhost If you need further assistance you will need to post your config files for your director and console. Patti From:

Re: [Bacula-users] 3910 Unable to open device ""nas2016" (/nas2016)": ERR=dev.c:575 Could not open: /nas2016/bkp-nas-0419, ERR=no permission

Is your bacula user a member of the disk group on your SD system? What is the state of selinux? If it’s enforcing – set it to permissive or disable it. And lastly, I have a disk storage area for testing. The ownership is set to be bacula:root with 770 perms which works. When I change it to

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error: askdir.c:373 NULL Volume name. This shouldn't

No and no. I also don’t perform updates on my backup servers willy nilly. There are bugs in bacula regarding the "Null Volume name” error. I have fewer contention issues with jobs requesting the same volume on different devices with some of the latest BEE versions. I expect that some of

Re: [Bacula-users] how to resume backup

t version but even if i have 7.4 director is there any special procedure in resuming backup job ? On 5.05.2016 14:43, Clark, Patti wrote: What version of Bacula are you running? Patti From: Daniel <5960...@gmail.com<mailto:5960...@gmail.com><mailto:5960...@gmail.com>> Date: Thursda

Re: [Bacula-users] How to properly remove volumes in regards to the catalog?

I concur with Wanderlei. Another aspect of moving volumes between storage devices is the need to change the mediatype. Bacula bconsole does not provide a command to change the mediatype. Patti From: Wanderlei Huttel > Date:

Re: [Bacula-users] how to resume backup

What version of Bacula are you running? Patti From: Daniel <5960...@gmail.com> Date: Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 7:09 AM To: "bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net"

Re: [Bacula-users] How to recover from lost connection

r...@ornl.gov>> Cc: "bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net>" <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net>>, Josh Fisher <jfis...@pvct.com<mailto:jfis...@pvct.com>> Subject: Re: [Bacula-use

Re: [Bacula-users] How to recover from lost connection

Volume sizing is used for disk-based volumes – do not use it for tape media volumes. If you are using spooling (recommended) your spool size parameters are used to control the size of your job spool and the total spool space available. The example below shows 50GB of job spool size and a

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 7.0.5 and RHEL 7

No, there are no issues backing up RHEL 7 clients with RHEL 6 server as long as the bacula client software version is at the same version level or older. This is true for any bacula client regardless of their OS. Patti From: Craig Shiroma

Re: [Bacula-users] build RPM for FD 5.2 in CentOS 6

Because tcp_wrappers is not configured for bacula by default. Your hosts.allow file is not configured properly. As this is not a linux list, please read up on tcp_wrappers, there is a lot of information available. I would only use tcp_wrappers in a layered approach to security and only after

Re: [Bacula-users] Write Retry on Network Error without Restarting the Job

Bacula Enterprise has this feature where a job can be restarted. There is no work around other than breaking up the jobs into smaller chunks. Patti Clark Linux System Administrator R Systems Support Oak Ridge National Laboratory From: Duane Webber

Re: [Bacula-users] Client multiplexing

;mailto:bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net>" <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net>> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Client multiplexing On 2016-01-07 07:25, Clark, Patti wrote: ... Without creating separate jobs and fileset definitions, i

Re: [Bacula-users] Can not write data: Job is waiting for a mount request

My disk storage directory is owned by bacula:disk and the permissions are 770 (drwxrwx—) Patti Clark Linux System Administrator R Systems Support Oak Ridge National Laboratory From: SPQR > Reply-To:

Re: [Bacula-users] auto-changer with 2 drives

David, Your assumption is incorrect. Both pools must have the same media type as defined for the tape drives if you want both pools to use both drives, otherwise, the media type can be different, but that is usually when you have different changers and/or storage daemons. I have multiple

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Logs

You have provided no information on your OS, version of bacula, or anything else that may prove helpful like what happened on your system on November the 9th? Thoughts: Bacula logrotate does not do a HUP, so while the rotate takes place, it is not effective until the bacula director service is

Re: [Bacula-users] File Daemon precedence...

The windows client installer creates two files, one for the director configuration which is what is below. It may be used by the backup server admin for his/her configuration or not. There should be a second configuration file for the bacula-fd.conf that lives on the client that is also

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows VSS Backup error

bacula/ Is there any reason you did not link this version? Regards Sebastian Von: Clark, Patti [mailto:clar...@ornl.gov] Gesendet: Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2015 18:40 An: Gumprich, Sebastian; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Betreff: Re: [Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows VSS Backup error

Sebastian, First, it’s usually a bad idea to have your FD running a newer version than your director. That is an unsupported combination and is likely to cause problems. It can be the other way around, the director can be newer than your FD. I understand that 5.0.0 is the default carried by

Re: [Bacula-users] verify error with LTO hardware encryption

Mark, Bacula is not involved in hardware (tape drive) encryption. The encryption dialog is an exchange of key information between the drive and the encryption key manager, in your case stenc. If your tapes were initially written to prior to using the encryption capability, the tapes can never

Re: [Bacula-users] Timout problem with spooled jobs

and rarely have a timeout. Patti Clark Linux System Administrator R Systems Support Oak Ridge National Laboratory On 9/4/15, 7:08 AM, "Clark, Patti" <clar...@ornl.gov> wrote: >My heartbeat interval is set to 300 - you should probably increase yours. >I originally had a smaller

Re: [Bacula-users] Timout problem with spooled jobs

My heartbeat interval is set to 300 - you should probably increase yours. I originally had a smaller interval and had some clients that would time out - particularly if they were Windows clients. Patti Clark Linux System Administrator R Systems Support Oak Ridge National Laboratory On 9/3/15,

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula daemon message- where did it come from?

Apologies for the late response to this thread. Michael is correct in that these daemon messages are Bacula created and not delivered when created. Not only the example that he provided, but when an attempt to connect to the director from an unknown and invalid client will generate these

Re: [Bacula-users] version error for database bacula. wanted 14 got 0

I am just getting caught up on the list . You need to follow upgrade instructions for your database. There are scripts available to perform the upgrade. Depending on which version of 5.X that you were running, there are different starting points. Patti Clark Linux System Administrator RD