[Bacula-users] Possible bug in database update code
Hi there, It's possible that I just hit a bug with the routines that are updating the catalog database. Following prerequisites: Server OS: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86_64) Bacula Version: 5.0.3 MySQL Version: 5.0.67 Catalog Database size: 49G The configuration states to do incremental backup daily except sunday night where the full backup is running. Full backup is done from client to disk via vchanger. After all full backups are done, monday afternoon a copy job is being run which brings the full backups from vchanger to an LTO-4 tape changer. Usually this setting is running fine. Today (tuesday) one of my clients is doing a full backup, where it should run incremental. Looking in the log it says Prior failed job found in catalog. Upgrading to Full.. I was wondering about that, because I know that the incremental backup from yesterday was running fine. So I checked the database entries for this client. I've put the output of select JobId,PriorJobId,Job,Type,Level,JobStatus,SchedTime,StartTime,EndTime,RealEndTime from Job where Name like 'host.customer.com%' order by JobId; into http://pastebin.com/4CVHzqaD for review. The interesting line are the ones with JobId 113187 and 112500. I don't know why these two jobs have identical values for StartTime and EndTime. I think that some catalog update routine was going wrong here because it was confused by the running copy job. I see that database entry as reason that the incremental job of today thinks that the last job failed. I'm not good at compiler code debugging, but if there's more data needed to find and eliminate this bug, let me know. -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter -- 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
[Bacula-users] fstype=bind being ignored
Hi list, After a short discussion on the channel, I was advised to create a post here to see if there's help for that or if it's really a bug. I've got a machine that is using bind mounts. Despite the fact that the fileset definition is using onefs=no and fstype=ext3, the bind mounts' content is saved which results in multiple saves of the same content. I know I could simply add the relevant mount points on the exclude list in the fileset, but I think it would make sense if this is considered like other fstype configurations as well, since I don't like to manually tweak the fileset on every possible change of the bind mounts, and to keep the default fileset simple and generic. I've put some addional information on http://racoon.pastebin.com/r44RTxyP The bacula-fd has version 2.4.4 on opensuse 11.1 and the server is running 5.0.3, on SLES 11.1 Any hints appreciated. -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter -- Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with usage of Copy Jobs
Hi, I'm still curious about this because it's still present with the current 5.0.3 implementation of bacula. Is there anything new about the behaviour of copy jobs? Any other peopel with ideas to discuss with? I mean, generally the copy jobs seem to work, but with almost 140 clients the database gets quite a little blown up with unnecessary job entries AFAIK, if every copy job produces two job entries, besides the fact that there is no real way to keep informed about the status by mail, when all jobs have the same (parent) name. 2010/7/23 Frank Altpeter frank.altpe...@gmail.com: Moin, 2010/7/23 c.kesch...@internet-mit-iq.de: That seems strange. I presume you also didn't get a mail for job 54425? Correct. I also don't know what to make of this. You could check the volumes to see if there was actually data written for the incremental job. I checked, and it seems that the job did not actually run, but only got entered (and displayed) twice, as the database tells me: mysql select JobId,Job,Name,Type,Level,JobFiles,JobBytes,ReadBytes from Job where JobId in ( 54423, 54424, 54425 ) limit 10; +---+--+---+--+---+--+---+---+ | JobId | Job | Name | Type | Level | JobFiles | JobBytes | ReadBytes | +---+--+---+--+---+--+---+---+ | 54423 | balance.company.com.2010-07-23_11.01.54_18 | balance.company.com | B | F | 52624 | 362371099 | 899243991 | | 54424 | DiskToTape.2010-07-23_11.11.21_19 | DiskToTape | c | F | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 54425 | balance.company.com.2010-07-23_11.11.22_20 | balance.company.com | C | F | 52624 | 369022937 | 0 | +---+--+---+--+---+--+---+---+ Quite strange, since jobid 54424 does not have any data according to the mysql entry. Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula GDB traceback of bacula-sd
Moin, sorry to respond so lately, but there was much work these days :-) 2010/10/6 Martin Simmons mar...@lispworks.com: On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 11:36:33 +0200, Frank Altpeter said: I just hit a segmentation fault with my bacula installation. I hope someone can help me how to get this fixed. The actual error was Resource temporarily unavailable but it is being reported with level M_ABORT so you get the segmentation fault. Maybe it is running out of memory or hitting some limit? Can you monitor the size of the sd process periodically to see if it is growing over time? It looks like you could be right with that. Currently the process is quite large. top reports: Mem: 3743792k total, 3641244k used, 102548k free,20448k buffers Swap: 10490404k total, 115120k used, 10375284k free, 1034424k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND 14169 root 20 0 2112m 2.0g 916 S 97 55.1 4903:21 bacula-sd 3637 mysql 20 0 535m 393m 2500 S3 10.8 761:01.58 mysqld 2795 root 20 0 2105m 11m 1264 S2 0.3 164:31.55 bacula-dir It looks like the sd keeps stable at that size but I will have a look at it. Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/beautyoftheweb ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Bacula GDB traceback of bacula-sd
Hi list,
I just hit a segmentation fault with my bacula installation. I hope
someone can help me how to get this fixed.
This happened now the second time within a week, so I think there
might be a bug in the sd code.
Environmental information:
Version: 5.0.3 (04 August 2010)
OS: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (i586) Patchlevel 1
Configure flags (manual build, no binary package):
./configure \
--exec-prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc/bacula \
--localstatedir=/var \
--mandir=/usr/share/man \
--datadir=/usr/share \
--with-openssl \
--with-mysql \
--with-dir-group=bacula \
--with-sd-group=bacula \
--enable-smartalloc \
--enable-batch-insert
storage daemon configuration:
Storage { # definition of myself
Name = backup-sd
SDPort = 9103 # Director's port
WorkingDirectory = /var/bacula/working
Pid Directory = /var/run
MaximumConcurrentJobs = 270
}
Device {
Name= FileStorage
MediaType = File
DeviceType = File
ArchiveDevice = /daten/backups/bacula/FileStorage
LabelMedia = yes
RandomAccess= yes
AutomaticMount = yes
RemovableMedia = no
AlwaysOpen = no
}
Device {
Name= FileStorageFull
MediaType = FileFull
DeviceType = File
ArchiveDevice = /daten/backups/bacula/FileStorageFull
LabelMedia = yes
RandomAccess= yes
AutomaticMount = yes
RemovableMedia = no
AlwaysOpen = no
}
Autochanger {
Name= T24-Changer
Device = LTO-4-1
ChangerDevice = /dev/sg7
ChangerCommand = /etc/bacula/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d
}
Device {
Name= LTO-4-1
DriveIndex = 0
Autochanger = Yes
ArchiveDevice = /dev/nst1
DeviceType = Tape
MediaType = LTO-4
AlwaysOpen = Yes
RemovableMedia = Yes
RandomAccess= No
RequiresMount = No
AutomaticMount = yes
AutoSelect = yes
LabelMedia = no
MaximumBlockSize= 262144
MaximumNetworkBufferSize= 65536
MaximumFileSize = 5G
SpoolDirectory = /var/bacula/spool
MaximumChangerWait = 600
}
I have attached the gdb traceback output because it's a quite large
file. Hope that's ok.
--
Le deagh dhùraghd,
Frank Altpeter
[?1034hMissing separate debuginfo for /lib/libz.so.1
Try: zypper install -C
debuginfo(build-id)=9f5e4b386d9826b14a48677c23dcdf8a2cb45bff
Missing separate debuginfo for /lib/libpthread.so.0
Try: zypper install -C
debuginfo(build-id)=3043b78c80daa60cdb3d347dcb33f00bd1551163
Missing separate debuginfo for /lib/libdl.so.2
Try: zypper install -C
debuginfo(build-id)=cd785200787e37f6917cc1c87966fb4404e65297
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0xbf45cb70 (LWP 18527)]
[New Thread 0x9f4f0b70 (LWP 18525)]
[New Thread 0x5041b70 (LWP 18524)]
[New Thread 0xa44fab70 (LWP 14328)]
[New Thread 0xa6ffbb70 (LWP 3933)]
[New Thread 0xb6a56b70 (LWP 5866)]
Missing separate debuginfo for /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8
Try: zypper install -C
debuginfo(build-id)=1df05ccab62c61feacf8b1b41930d73aa5b88489
Missing separate debuginfo for /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8
Try: zypper install -C
debuginfo(build-id)=5fa488ae806481e4f6f787b52f1bbc71f9efa3d0
Missing separate debuginfo for /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
Try: zypper install -C
debuginfo(build-id)=a06c7686acca71405f69e506919c07c1db9ea518
Missing separate debuginfo for /lib/libm.so.6
Try: zypper install -C
debuginfo(build-id)=293aa876def3cb4177e0389f96c11e76b839b7e4
Missing separate debuginfo for /lib/libgcc_s.so.1
Try: zypper install -C
debuginfo(build-id)=815f111c78054fb492b3e12dd7bef2d7efc808b7
Missing separate debuginfo for /lib/libc.so.6
Try: zypper install -C
debuginfo(build-id)=d47431471a179a11c4f04201dca9fb320d26e78d
Missing separate debuginfo for /lib/ld-linux.so.2
Try: zypper install -C
debuginfo(build-id)=a18c87099e8bcecf243e2c48b2db7b11bc51816b
0xe430 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
$1 = '\000' repeats 29 times
$2 = 0x809d048 bacula-sd
$3 = 0x809d070 /usr/sbin/bacula-sd
$4 = 0x0
$5 = 0xb771971e 5.0.3 (04 August 2010)
$6 = 0xb771973d i686-pc-linux-gnu
$7 = 0xb771974f suse
$8 = 0xb771973a 11
$9 = backup, '\000' repeats 43 times
$10 = 0xb7719735 suse 11
$11 = 0
Environment variable TestName not defined.
#0 0xe430 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1 0xb76af4bb in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#2 0xb770605e in signal_handler (sig=11) at signal.c:229
#3 signal handler called
#4 Jmsg (jcr=0x0, type=1, mtime=0, fmt=0xb771ceeb %s) at message.c:1298
#5 0xb76fbde4 in j_msg (file
[Bacula-users] Display of device content in BAT
Hi list, A little thing that I've noticed with the current bat (5.0.2)... when I query the device status of my Tandberg 24-slot changer with one LTO-4 tape drive, I'm getting this information: Device LTO-4-1 (/dev/nst1) is mounted with: Volume: A00013 Pool:TapeCopyPool Media type: LTO-4 Slot 13 is loaded in drive 0. Total Bytes=482,731,940,864 Blocks=1,841,493 Bytes/block=262,141 Positioned at File=109 Block=5,238 Well, but when in bat, and double-click on the changer device, I don't get the status of the tape drive displayed, so one can not determine with the bat, in what state the tape is. Here's a screenshot of what I mean: http://tinyurl.com/35qxuse Does someone have an idea about what I've possibly configured wrong? The director consists of on Storage entry named T24-Changer, which refers to the autochanger device in the storage-daemon. The storage-daemon has one autochanger device and one tape device named LTO-4-1. Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter -- The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with usage of Copy Jobs
Moin,
2010/7/22 c.kesch...@internet-mit-iq.de:
I don't see anything wront with it. Can you post
/etc/bacula/INCLUDES/schedules.conf ?
Sure, but I don't think that it would change anything, because the
described behaviour also happens if I comment out the schedule entry
and do a manually run job=DiskToTape yes on the console.
The schedule in question would be this one:
Schedule {
Name = Bandsicherung
# Run = Full mon at 10:42
}
For testing purpose, I've just tested the behaviour out again. The
current state is: all full backups are on tape, which means that run
job=DiskToTape yes does not do anything currently.
*run job=DiskToTape yes
Using Catalog MyCatalog
Job queued. JobId=54422
23-Jul 11:01 backup-dir JobId 54422: No JobIds found to copy.
So, after that, I've done one explicit full backup of one client:
*run job=balance.company.com level=full yes
Job queued. JobId=54423
23-Jul 11:01 backup-dir JobId 54423: Start Backup JobId 54423,
Job=balance.company.com.2010-07-23_11.01.54_18
23-Jul 11:01 backup-dir JobId 54423: Using Device FileStorageFull
23-Jul 11:01 backup-sd JobId 54423: Volume FileStorage-Full-1779
previously written, moving to end of data.
23-Jul 11:01 backup-sd JobId 54423: Ready to append to end of Volume
FileStorage-Full-1779 size=10912854848
[...]
23-Jul 11:06 backup-sd JobId 54423: Job write elapsed time = 00:04:15,
Transfer rate = 1.447 M Bytes/second
So, now I got exactly one full backup which should be considered for
the copy job. Now I've started the copy procedure manually:
*run job=DiskToTape yes
Job queued. JobId=54424
23-Jul 11:11 backup-dir JobId 54424: The following 1 JobId was chosen
to be copied: 54423
23-Jul 11:11 backup-dir JobId 54424: Copying using JobId=54423
Job=balance.company.com.2010-07-23_11.01.54_18
23-Jul 11:11 backup-dir JobId 54424: Start Copying JobId 54424,
Job=DiskToTape.2010-07-23_11.11.21_19
[...]
23-Jul 11:11 backup-dir JobId 54424: Bacula backup-dir 5.0.2
(28Apr10): 23-Jul-2010 11:11:47
Build OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu suse 11
Prev Backup JobId: 54423
Prev Backup Job:balance.company.com.2010-07-23_11.01.54_18
New Backup JobId: 54425
Current JobId: 54424
Current Job:DiskToTape.2010-07-23_11.11.21_19
Backup Level: Full
So, now I've got the current list of Terminated Jobs output:
54423 Full 52,624362.3 M OK 23-Jul-10 11:06 balance.company.com
54425 Incr 52,624369.0 M OK 23-Jul-10 11:11 balance.company.com
54424 Full 52,624369.0 M OK 23-Jul-10 11:11 DiskToTape
You see what I mean? Where does the jobid 54425 come from? :)
Le deagh dhùraghd,
Frank Altpeter
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Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with usage of Copy Jobs
Moin, 2010/7/23 c.kesch...@internet-mit-iq.de: That seems strange. I presume you also didn't get a mail for job 54425? Correct. I also don't know what to make of this. You could check the volumes to see if there was actually data written for the incremental job. I checked, and it seems that the job did not actually run, but only got entered (and displayed) twice, as the database tells me: mysql select JobId,Job,Name,Type,Level,JobFiles,JobBytes,ReadBytes from Job where JobId in ( 54423, 54424, 54425 ) limit 10; +---+--+---+--+---+--+---+---+ | JobId | Job | Name | Type | Level | JobFiles | JobBytes | ReadBytes | +---+--+---+--+---+--+---+---+ | 54423 | balance.company.com.2010-07-23_11.01.54_18 | balance.company.com | B| F |52624 | 362371099 | 899243991 | | 54424 | DiskToTape.2010-07-23_11.11.21_19| DiskToTape | c| F |0 | 0 | 0 | | 54425 | balance.company.com.2010-07-23_11.11.22_20 | balance.company.com | C| F |52624 | 369022937 | 0 | +---+--+---+--+---+--+---+---+ Quite strange, since jobid 54424 does not have any data according to the mysql entry. Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Problems with usage of Copy Jobs
Hi list, I'm using bacula-5.0.2 with a disk storage and a Tandberg 24-tape changer system to backup about 130 server systems. The intention was to do a disk based full backup once a week and afterwards copy these full backups on tape. Currently, I'm using three storage devices (FileStorage, FileStorageFull and LTO-4-1) and one autochanger T24-Changer. Each client has its Client and Job definition, with a Pool and a FullBackupPool defined. Additionally, there is one more Job definition for the copy procedure, with SelectionType PoolUncopiedJobs and the FileStorage-Full pool defined. Well, my problem with this setting is (hopefully) mainly a configuration issue. On sunday morning, all 130 clients are doing their full backup. On monday morning, I'm starting the DiskToTape job, which then selects all the full backups to be copied to tape. For some reason, there is one full job with name DiskToTape.TIMESTAMP for each client running, and additionally one incremental job with name clientname.TIMESTAMP for each client running. This doubles of course the overall amount of running jobs from 130 to 260, which then of course leads to problems if there are some incremental jobs (from the usual daily run) still running, which then blocks the tape copy procedure. Additionally, after starting the DiskToTape job, I thought I would get an email with the output of this job, but no, I'm getting one email for every forked job, and every job output email has the same subject because they all carry the variable expansion of the DiskToTape job itself, but not of the forked job, which makes it nearly impossible to keep track about which backups have been written to tape. Above double job behaviour also reflects in bacula database where every copied job is entered as an additional incremental job and not distinguishable from the other jobs. So, did I miss something important in my configuration or is this intented to be that way? Are there any hints how I could make this setting a ltitle bit better? It's quite hard this way, because since I've enabled the Copy feature my backup system is not running reliable anymore (since sometimes the copy jobs are blocking the normal incremental jobs which is bad bad). Open for any hints. Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with usage of Copy Jobs
Hi, 2010/7/21 c.kesch...@internet-mit-iq.de: Can you post your configuration for the Jobs and Pools? That thing with the incremental jobs shouldn't happen. Sure, I've anonymized the relevant config files (hopefully all that is needed) and put it on pastebin here: http://racoon.pastebin.com/E1LurCY7 As for the forking: I have that same issue, every Mail has the same subject but I don't think you can change that (I might be wrong). That would be quite bad, because it makes tracing the copy procedure by the emails quite impossible... Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [semi-solved] LTO-4 tape: only 20mb/sec when used with bacula
Hi, Sorry to warm up this slightly old discussion, but since I'm suffering from a similar problem, I just stumpled upon this thread while searching for a solution. In my setting, it's a disk-to-disk-to-tape setup, I'm writing the data from my clients to a RAID-6 storage (15 x 1,5TB storage system). Via a Copy job the full backups are to be copied to a Tandberg 24-slot LTO-4 changer (one drive). According to btape speed, this drive can have rates up to 214 MB per second with default data, and about 104 MB per second with the random data test. When copying file volumes with dd, I get up to 90 MB per second throughput. The copy job itself does only write with speeds between 5 and 20 MB per second according to the bacula job output, while reading about 180 MB per second from the storage disk. I'm very concerned about this, because I got to manage 130 clients with a overall volume of 5 Terabyte, and with that low copy speed, it takes almost more time than the schedule interval for the full backups has to offer, so I'm open for any hints on speeding up this issue. My setting is quite simple. All incremental jobs are in the FileStorage-Default pool, all full jobs are in the FileStorage-Full pool with TapeCopyPool as nextpool reference, and the third pool is the TapeCopyPool, where the tapes reside. Then there is one copy job with PoolUncopiedJobs set. So, AFAIK quite simple, but not completely working as I expected. 2010/6/22 Lukas Kolbe l-li...@einfachkaffee.de: Am Montag, den 21.06.2010, 11:27 -0400 schrieb John Drescher: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Lukas Kolbe l-li...@einfachkaffee.de wrote: Am Montag, den 21.06.2010, 11:06 +0100 schrieb Alan Brown: On 21/06/10 10:56, Lukas Kolbe wrote: For comparison, I dd'ed a volume to /dev/null while the copy job was running: [r...@shepherd ~]# dd if=/var/bacula/dp/fs1/Vol0070 of=/dev/null bs=1M 917504 bytes (9.2 GB) copied, 12.0225 seconds, 763 MB/s But dd'ing it to another file reveals a problem with the storage subsystem I believe: [r...@shepherd ~]# dd if=/var/bacula/dp/fs1/Vol0070 of=/var/bacula/dp/fs2/xxx bs=1M 849346560 bytes (849 MB) copied, 32.665 seconds, 26.0 MB/s Do you have a hardware raid controller without a BBunit and thus the write cache is disabled to protect corruption that could occur if the machine crashed or lost power? We have a BBU and the write cache is enabled. Puzzling is that the now, and repeatedly, the same dd during the copy job works with 350MiB/second. That dd slowness must have been a one-off. I skimmed the bacula-sd code (mac.c and block.c) and do see why it is not so simple to change the way copy jobs work, though. John -- Lukas -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Request for documentation enhancement: Exclude Directory Containing
Hi list, I just stumbled upon a missing documentation information about the new feature Exclude Directory Containing. This feature is set in the FileSet resource to be able to exclude directories on client side by simply touching a file with a predefined name (for example Exclude Directory Containg = .nobackup). Since the documentation didn't mention anything to worry about, I've set this feature in my recently updated setup. I'm running a bacula 3.0.3 server and sd with a mixed setup of about 130 fd clients between versions 2.4.2 and 3.0.3. I remember that the dir and sd must be updated at once, but the fd is compatible with newer dir versions (as usual). The documentation problem now: It's nowhere mentioned that the above feature only works when the fd is updated as well. My nightly backup run did finish almost all backup jobs with a fatal error because this feature makes non-3.x fd clients to bail out: 03-Feb 00:33 backup-dir JobId 33948: Start Backup JobId 33948, Job=clientname.2010-02-03_00.30.05_18 [...] 03-Feb 00:33 clientname-fd JobId 33948: Fatal error: Invalid FileSet command: .nobackup 03-Feb 00:33 backup-dir JobId 33948: Fatal error: Socket error on Include command: ERR=No data available That's why I would request adding a suitable note to the docs that other people are aware of this before upgrading a mixed environment :-) -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] How to prevent two clients to run at the same time
Hi again, 2009/6/22 Frank Altpeter frank.altpe...@gmail.com: 2009/6/22 c.kesch...@internet-mit-iq.de: You could just give one server a lower priority. It would then run after all other Jobs. The default is 10 (11 for the catalog), so Priority = 12 in the Job Resource will make it run later. Hmm, this sounds indeed like a good idea. I just set up an additional Schedule definition for only these two clients, with priority set to 12 and 13, and will see if it's doing as expected on the next scheduled run. Thanks for the suggestion :) After some testing different settings I'm quite confused with Schedules and Priority settings. The current setting is defined with two schedules. The first Schedule is run on 00:23 and contains the two systems that are to be saved after each other. So they have got their own schedule and each of them as another priority (as output by status console): Scheduled Jobs: Level Type Pri Scheduled Name Volume === Incremental Backup 11 27-Jun-09 00:23 hostname.domainname.tld hostname.domainname.tld-Default-0328 Incremental Backup 12 27-Jun-09 00:23 secondhostname.domainname.tld secondhostname.domainname.tld-Default-0331 The other 93 jobs are defined with a second schedule at 00:30 and priority 10. Incremental Backup 10 27-Jun-09 00:30 thirdhost.domain.tld thirdhost.host.tld-Default-0806 Incremental Backup 10 27-Jun-09 00:30 fourthhost.domain.tld fourthhost.domain.tld-Default-0081 [...] I _thought_, that this should work when the low-prio jobs are started before the default-prio jobs. But the reality is confusing me. My prio 11 job was finished at 00:27, and - as expected - the prio 12 job has been started at 00:27. But, this job finished on 01:02, and all the other prio 10 jobs - which should have been started by schedule on 00:30 - have been started at 01:02 ... and I don't have an idea why... Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. -- Buddha -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] How to prevent two clients to run at the same time
Hi list, I'm running a bacula server with almost 100 clients on it. For historical and data saving reasons, each client has its own block of Client, Job, Storage, and Pool definition (based on client's fqdn).Data is saved to disk, and then, by external scripts, rotated to tape. According the current configuration, all clients are started via one Schedule on the same time and bacula is managing the run based on a MaximumConcurrentJobs set to 12, which runs fine so far. But, there's two clients, which I need to configure in a way, that it's impossible for them to run simultaneously. The one client is a vmware host system, and the other client is a vmware guest system on this host. And sometimes it happens that they both run in parallel which takes down performance on both systems. Because of the current structure, I'm not able to just define a dedicated Pool resource for these two clients and put a MaximumConcurrentJobs=1 into it (which AFAIK would be the easiest solution for default environments). So I'm searching for alternative solutions for my problem, which is not start client a on 16:00 and client b 12 hours later :) Any hints for funny solutions welcome :) Besides that, wouldn't it a good point to have the MaximumConcurrentJobs config option also for the Schedule resource ? -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. -- Buddha -- Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Looking for client removal documentation
Hi list... there once was an email about how to safely and completely remove a client from a bacula server. Since there were no responses, and since this was almost the only one I've found for this topic, I'm asking here if someone has a good pointer for it. Well, the problem is, bacula is quite perfect in doing periodic backups on many clients. But, as I've seen so far, there is no single pointer on how to remove a client completely. I mean, just removing the client definition in the bacula config files doesn't help. The catalog database is full of references to this client, and the jobs, the files, etc. are not removed by auto-pruning if the client is deleted. So, I once tried to just disable a client for some weeks, hoping that the autopruning would do the job of cleaning the database, but it doesn't seem to be very helpful. Any pointer on how to really completely remove a client would be very appreciated ... -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. -- Buddha -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Modifying status director output format
Hi list, I've got a quite simple question regarding some output modification... since I'm managing my backup clients with FQDN (for many different reasons), the output of status director is more or less unreadable because the names are longer than the default column with, for example: Scheduled Jobs: Level Type Pri Scheduled Name Volume === IncrementalBackup10 17-Mar-09 00:20 server2.very-long-domainname.de server2.very-long-domainname.de-Default-0230 IncrementalBackup10 17-Mar-09 00:20 server3.very-long-domainname.de server3.very-long-domainname.de-Default-0092 IncrementalBackup10 17-Mar-09 00:30 acctdb.anotherdomain.net acctdb.anotherdomain.net-Default-0714 IncrementalBackup10 17-Mar-09 00:30alpha.shortname.es alpha.shortname.es-Default-0128 IncrementalBackup10 17-Mar-09 00:30ananas.abc.de ananas.abc.de-Default-0713 IncrementalBackup10 17-Mar-09 00:30andromeda.domname.net andromeda.domname.net-Default-0716 IncrementalBackup10 17-Mar-09 00:30 appserver01.another-long-domain.com appserver01.another-long-domain.com-Default-0717 IncrementalBackup10 17-Mar-09 00:30 appserver02.another-long-domain.com appserver02.another-long-domain.com-Default-0715 IncrementalBackup10 17-Mar-09 00:30 arthur.domainreseller.net arthur.domainreseller.net-Default-0427 IncrementalBackup10 17-Mar-09 00:30 backoffice.domainthing.com backoffice.domainthing.com-Default-0110 So... is it possible to tweak the output in a way that I could have wider columns? Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. -- Buddha -- Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Mini stupid how-to restore mark all .bak file | nobody ?
As far as I see, a recursive marking of a file pattern is not possible withn bacula directly. The part in the help section mark mark dir/file to be restored recursively, wildcards allowed means, that you can add a file (or file pattern) in the local directory, or you can add a directory, where it's contents are recursively restored. As I see, you can circumvent this restriction with a little help of your bash: In the bacula console, you type: $ find *.bak /usr/local/etc/courier-imap/imapd.bak /usr/local/etc/webmin.bak/ /usr/local/etc/webmin.bak/config.bak [...] which, as you stated, does list all your files matching the *.bak pattern in all subdirectories. This output gets now written per copy-and-paste into a temporary file (with vi tempfile.txt for example). Then you output the contents of this list through a little bash scripting: for line in `cat tempfile.txt`; do echo mark $line; done This output would then again pasted into your bacula console with copy-and-paste, to mark all *.bak files. And, since the console based bconsole is capable of reading commands from STDIN, you're of course able to build a little shell script around it... Hope this helps, 2009/1/13 Bruno Friedmann br...@ioda-net.ch: Bruno Friedmann wrote: Sorry this seems stupid but when I enter in a restore I use the choice 3 ( list of jobids ) get my / rebuild If I issue a find *.bak it find and list all what I want to mark and restore (recurse also) but giving a mark *.bak give 0 file marked help say mark dir/file to be restored recursively, wildcards allowed if I manually go to a directory containing 2 or more .bak files and issue the mark *.bak it give me what I'm waiting for 2 files marked Any suggestion ? A try was given with a 2.2.6, 2.2.8, and 2.4.4 version Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. -- Buddha -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Changes between 2.4.3 and 2.4.4 regarding 'status director' output
Hi list, does anyone reproduce this difference within the status director output: With 2.4.3: Terminated Jobs: JobId LevelFiles Bytes Status FinishedName 224 Incr 19,146871.3 M OK 07-Jan-09 01:51 JobName And after upgrading to 2.4.4: Terminated Jobs: JobId LevelFiles Bytes Status FinishedName 224 Incr 19,146871.3 M OK 07-Jan-09 01:51 JobName 245 Incr22133.55 M OK 12-Jan-09 11:53 JobName.2009-01-12_11 It's not that serious problem, but I'm wondering why now the Name column does contain a part of the JobId name instead of just the job name like before. Is there any reason for this (and possibly a new option to configure this) ? -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. -- Buddha -- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Another strangeness on 2.4.4 - upgrading to FULL after FULL backup
My bad, just detected it by myself... the FileSet has been modified and so I assume the Incremental backup has been upgraded to Full because the FileSet has been changed. But IMHO there should be a better notification for that, something like FileSet has been modified, upgrading to FULL backup. 2009/1/8, Frank Altpeter frank.altpe...@gmail.com: Hi again, I've just hit another strange behaviour with my bacula system. A job which has been doing a FULL backup by normal schedule two days ago, did just advance to FULL on the incremental schedule today: Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. -- Buddha -- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Another strangeness on 2.4.4 - upgrading to FULL after FULL backup
Hi again,
I've just hit another strange behaviour with my bacula system. A job
which has been doing a FULL backup by normal schedule two days ago,
did just advance to FULL on the incremental schedule today:
08-Jan 00:30 backup-dir JobId 74: No prior Full backup Job record found.
08-Jan 00:30 backup-dir JobId 74: No prior or suitable Full backup
found in catalog. Doing FULL backup.
This is very strange, because the status of the client tells me something else:
Terminated Jobs:
JobId LevelFiles Bytes Status FinishedName
==
55 Full105,7621.073 G OK 06-Jan-09 00:37 www.domainname.de
61 Incr1864.637 M OK 07-Jan-09 00:32 www.domainname.de
74 Full105,9661.073 G OK 08-Jan-09 00:36
www.domainname.de.2009-01-08_00
(Besides that, why does 2.4.4, different to 2.4.3, show the jobid
timestamps in the Name field?)
The catalog database shows correct entries:
mysql select JobId, Job, Name, Level from Job where Name like
'www.domainname.de';
+---+--+---+---+
| JobId | Job | Name | Level |
+---+--+---+---+
|55 | www.domainname.de.2009-01-06_00.30.23| www.domainname.de
| F |
|61 | www.domainname.de.2009-01-07_00.30.48| www.domainname.de
| I |
|74 | www.domainname.de.2009-01-08_00.30.00.22 | www.domainname.de
| F |
+---+--+---+---+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
I've added my director configuration part for this client to the end
of this email. Values for WeeklyCycle schedule and DefaultJob jobdefs
are the ones provided with sample configs.
I currently don't have a clue where this problem could origin, so any
hints appreciated.
Client {
Name= www.domainname.de
Address = www.domainname.de
FDPort = 9102
Catalog = MyCatalog
Password= Gwp^6byJK$rW%7g1
FileRetention = 6 weeks
JobRetention= 6 weeks
AutoPrune = yes
MaximumConcurrentJobs = 12
}
Job {
Name= www.domainname.de
Client = www.domainname.de
JobDefs = DefaultJob
Schedule= WeeklyCycle
Pool= www.domainname.de-Default
FileSet = Full Set
FullBackupPool = www.domainname.de-Full
WriteBootstrap = /var/bacula/working/www.domainname.de.bsr
Messages= www.domainname.de
Storage = www.domainname.de
}
Storage {
Name= www.domainname.de
Address = backup.mycompany.net
SDPort = 9103
Password= something
Device = www.domainname.de
MediaType = File
MaximumConcurrentJobs = 12
}
Pool {
Name= www.domainname.de-Default
PoolType= Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
VolumeRetention = 6 days
MaximumVolumes = 12
LabelFormat = www.domainname.de-Default-
MaximumVolumeJobs = 0
VolumeUseDuration = 24h
RecycleOldestVolume = yes
}
Pool {
Name= www.domainname.de-Full
PoolType= Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
VolumeRetention = 6 weeks
MaximumVolumes = 12
LabelFormat = www.domainname.de-Full-
MaximumVolumeJobs = 0
VolumeUseDuration = 24h
RecycleOldestVolume = yes
}
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Re: [Bacula-users] Another strangeness on 2.4.4 - upgrading to FULL after FULL backup
Hi 2009/1/8, Silver Salonen sil...@ultrasoft.ee: To my mind that wasn't a question at all - he just notices that it was because of that (and there was nothing wrong with it), and made a suggestion for improving notice. The suggestion is quite useful to my mind and it should be made into a correct project to make it official :) ACK :-) Since I know that the changed FileSet content was the cause for upgrading to FULL, I think this is (at least for myself) a wanted feature, to ensure that my backups are covering all the content to be saved. I would only wish that the notification output would mention that instead of the quite generic No prior or suitable full backup found. -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. -- Buddha -- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] job terminated but not finished
Hi list, I've got a strange problem, and my current search didn't find a solution yet, although I was able to find people with similar problems, but the several mentioned solutions didn't match my problem here. Randomly, some jobs don't seem to be finished correctly. I'm running bacula 2.4.3 on both the server (SLES10-SP2) and the client (Debian Lenny). The status of the director mentions this about the client's state: Running Jobs: JobId Level Name Status == 59 Increme client.hostname.tld.2009-01-07_00.30.46 has terminated While the status client tells me that everything is fine: Connecting to Client client-fd at client.hostname.tld:9102 client-fd Version: 2.4.3 (10 October 2008) i486-pc-linux-gnu debian lenny/sid Daemon started 02-Jan-09 11:51, 6 Jobs run since started. Heap: heap=991,232 smbytes=82,664 max_bytes=530,982 bufs=75 max_bufs=1,055 Sizeof: boffset_t=8 size_t=4 debug=0 trace=0 Running Jobs: Director connected at: 07-Jan-09 09:57 No Jobs running. Terminated Jobs: JobId LevelFiles Bytes Status FinishedName == 37 Full675,90837.54 G OK 02-Jan-09 14:44 client-fd 43 Incr 1,815363.6 M OK 03-Jan-09 00:41 client-fd 46 Incr 2,315897.6 M OK 04-Jan-09 00:37 client-fd 49 Incr 2,408766.2 M OK 05-Jan-09 00:35 client-fd 53 Full678,76337.65 G OK 06-Jan-09 03:24 client-fd 59 Incr 3,322894.4 M OK 07-Jan-09 00:36 client-fd When I'm scrolling back at the console, I see that the job has terminated successfully, since I find the output which would be mailed as status report: [...] Termination:Backup OK 07-Jan 00:35 backup-dir JobId 59: Begin pruning Jobs. 07-Jan 00:35 backup-dir JobId 59: No Jobs found to prune. 07-Jan 00:35 backup-dir JobId 59: Begin pruning Files. 07-Jan 00:35 backup-dir JobId 59: No Files found to prune. 07-Jan 00:35 backup-dir JobId 59: End auto prune. But, I'm missing the final status report email and the client is still referenced as has terminated within the console. The sql data as been updated as well, so it looks to me like the job has been run successfully but the email has not been generated and the status within the director didn't get updated. When restarting the director, everything is fine again. But this shouldn't be an option to solve this... Does anyone here have an idea on this case? -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. -- Buddha -- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] job terminated but not finished
Hi! 2009/1/7 Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net: Running Jobs: JobId Level Name Status == 59 Increme client.hostname.tld.2009-01-07_00.30.46 has terminated Director connected at: 07-Jan-09 09:57 Terminated Jobs: JobId LevelFiles Bytes Status FinishedName == 59 Incr 3,322894.4 M OK 07-Jan-09 00:36 client-fd The Director was spooling file attributes to the database. I would tend to agree, but considering the job size 9+ hours seems a bit too much... That's right. A job that finished after 6 minutes shouldn't take 9 hours of spooling... Are you actually using data and/or attribute spooling? What kind of storage are you writing to? Well, no spooling at all, storage is completely file based. The only thing i could think of, is batched inserts, but I'm not sure about that since I'm not completely familiar with them. You should also take a look at what the sd is doing... Hmm, not sure what you're meaning with that. According to the available status commands, the sd was not doing anything ( -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. -- Buddha -- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with VSS enabled windows backup
Did you have any clues on that yet? :) On 3/13/07, Frank Altpeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/8/07, Damian Lubosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Altpeter wrote: Hi list, Hi Frank! I was just hitting a little confusing problem in backing up a Windows 2003 Server with bacula (both client and server have version 2.0.2 running). The Server is configured to backup C: and D:, the FileSet has Enable VSS = yes defined. The client has been installed with winbacula.exe like the other windows hosts im having. The VSS service is up and running on the client. This is what i'm getting as output from the backup job in my bconsole gui: [snip] Does anyone has an idea what i'm missing here? It's quite confusing to have a full backup with 0 bytes written... Please post your configuration data. Maybe your FileSet is wrong. Thanks for your help in advance - to not pollute the whole list with my configuration, i have put them online (reducted to the interesting parts): http://www.73f.de/temp/bacula/ BTW: If i didn't mention it yet - the same FileSet used for this host is working on some other windows based clients with success. Only this one host makes that problem... -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't think that this is a coincidence. -- Anonymous -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't think that this is a coincidence. -- Anonymous - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with VSS enabled windows backup
On 3/8/07, Damian Lubosch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Altpeter wrote: Hi list, Hi Frank! I was just hitting a little confusing problem in backing up a Windows 2003 Server with bacula (both client and server have version 2.0.2 running). The Server is configured to backup C: and D:, the FileSet has Enable VSS = yes defined. The client has been installed with winbacula.exe like the other windows hosts im having. The VSS service is up and running on the client. This is what i'm getting as output from the backup job in my bconsole gui: [snip] Does anyone has an idea what i'm missing here? It's quite confusing to have a full backup with 0 bytes written... Please post your configuration data. Maybe your FileSet is wrong. Thanks for your help in advance - to not pollute the whole list with my configuration, i have put them online (reducted to the interesting parts): http://www.73f.de/temp/bacula/ BTW: If i didn't mention it yet - the same FileSet used for this host is working on some other windows based clients with success. Only this one host makes that problem... -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't think that this is a coincidence. -- Anonymous - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Failed Windows backup
First of all: It's not necessary to post the same post three times.
This won't make you get faster answers - it just annoys people and
might lead to a complete ignorance of your request.
To your problem:
On 3/13/07, Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
01-Mar 18:30 Ubuntuccc-dir: message.c:462 Mail prog: bsmtp: bsmtp.c:88 Fatal
malformed reply from localhost: 504 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sender address
rejected: need fully-qualified address
01-Mar 18:30 Ubuntuccc-dir: Client1.2007-03-01_18.30.00 Error: message.c:473
Mail program terminated in error.
CMD=/usr/lib/bacula/bsmtp -h localhost -f (Bacula) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s
Bacula: Backup Fatal Error of sbserverpdc-fd Full [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This doesn't seem to be a bacula problem, but more a problem with your
SMTP configuration.
I think you should check every log file for why the Mail program
terminated in error. A first step would be to add something valid as
sender address (the one behind the -f switch), for example something
like that:
Messages {
Name = Daemon
mailcommand = /usr/local/sbin/bsmtp -h localhost -f \\(Bacula\)
%r\ -s \Bacula daemon message\ %r
mail = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = all, !skipped
console = all, !skipped, !saved
append = /var/db/bacula/log = all, !skipped
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[Bacula-users] Problems with VSS enabled windows backup
Hi list, I was just hitting a little confusing problem in backing up a Windows 2003 Server with bacula (both client and server have version 2.0.2 running). The Server is configured to backup C: and D:, the FileSet has Enable VSS = yes defined. The client has been installed with winbacula.exe like the other windows hosts im having. The VSS service is up and running on the client. This is what i'm getting as output from the backup job in my bconsole gui: run job=norma level=full yes Job queued. JobId=23885 08-Mar 14:55 draco-dir: Start Backup JobId 23885, Job=norma.2007-03-08_14.55.17 08-Mar 14:55 draco-sd: Volume norma-0001 previously written, moving to end of data. 08-Mar 14:55 norma-dir: Generate VSS snapshots. Driver=VSS Win 2003, Drive(s)=CD 08-Mar 14:55 norma-dir: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): System Writer, State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE) 08-Mar 14:55 norma-dir: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): MSDEWriter, State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE) 08-Mar 14:55 norma-dir: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): Event Log Writer, State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE) 08-Mar 14:55 norma-dir: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): Registry Writer, State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE) 08-Mar 14:55 norma-dir: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): COM+ REGDB Writer, State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE) 08-Mar 14:55 norma-dir: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): BITS Writer, State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE) 08-Mar 14:55 norma-dir: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): IIS Metabase Writer, State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE) 08-Mar 14:55 norma-dir: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): WMI Writer, State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE) 08-Mar 14:55 draco-sd: Job write elapsed time = 00:00:16, Transfer rate = 0 bytes/second [...] Scheduled time: 08-Mar-2007 14:55:17 Start time: 08-Mar-2007 14:55:24 End time: 08-Mar-2007 14:55:42 Elapsed time: 18 secs Priority: 10 FD Files Written: 0 SD Files Written: 0 FD Bytes Written: 0 (0 B) SD Bytes Written: 0 (0 B) Rate: 0.0 KB/s Software Compression: None VSS:yes Encryption: no Volume name(s): norma-0001 Volume Session Id: 3 Volume Session Time:1173354258 Last Volume Bytes: 4,298 (4.298 KB) Non-fatal FD errors:11 SD Errors: 0 FD termination status: OK SD termination status: OK Termination:Backup OK Does anyone has an idea what i'm missing here? It's quite confusing to have a full backup with 0 bytes written... -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't think that this is a coincidence. -- Anonymous - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Fwd: Cleaning up database records
-- Forwarded message -- From: Frank Altpeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Feb 20, 2007 7:00 PM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Cleaning up database records To: Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm running dbcheck periodically every sunday with the following script: #!/bin/sh PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin echo $(date) Creating temp indices for bacula database... mysql -ubacula EOFA use bacula CREATE INDEX file_tmp_filenameid_idx ON File (FilenameId); CREATE INDEX file_tmp_pathid_idx ON File (PathId); EOFA echo $(date) Running dbcheck... dbcheck -c /usr/local/etc/bacula-dir.conf -f -b -v echo $(date) Removing indices and optimizing bacula database... mysql -ubacula EOFB use bacula DROP INDEX file_tmp_filenameid_idx ON File; DROP INDEX file_tmp_pathid_idx ON File; OPTIMIZE TABLE UnsavedFiles, Counters, CDImages, BaseFiles, Device, Version, Status, MediaType, Storage, FileSet, Client, Pool, Media, Job, JobMedia, File, Path, Filename; EOFB echo $(date) Done... Due to the additional index entries, the script runs for about 90 minutes (eternally without them) with a database of 24 million file entries from 88 clients, mostly application servers. It helps a lot, but still it doesn't help against orphaned entries from previously removed clients. -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't think that this is a coincidence. -- Anonymous -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't think that this is a coincidence. -- Anonymous - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Cleaning up database records
Hi there, My current bacula system (FreeBSD, bacula-2.0.1, mysql-4.1) has currently some massive performance problems. One of the reasons i think is caused by the massive amount of old and obsolete records. For example, i had a client to backup once, which has dissappeared some time ago. When this machine has been removed, the client has been deleted from the bacula configuration. But this way the database records for these clients remain in the database, thus making the db records more and more unusable. So, i would like to prune such records to reduce unneeded data. Is there any way on archiving this? Because these clients are removed from the config, any pruning from within bconsole is not available... And, for the future, what's the best practice to avoid this? -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't think that this is a coincidence. -- Anonymous - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Cleaning up database records
On 2/19/07, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Frank Altpeter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My current bacula system (FreeBSD, bacula-2.0.1, mysql-4.1) has currently some massive performance problems. One of the reasons i think is caused by the massive amount of old and obsolete records. For example, i had a client to backup once, which has dissappeared some time ago. When this machine has been removed, the client has been deleted from the bacula configuration. But this way the database records for these clients remain in the database, thus making the db records more and more unusable. So, i would like to prune such records to reduce unneeded data. Is there any way on archiving this? dbcheck should clean this stuff up. And, for the future, what's the best practice to avoid this? Purge the volumes prior to removing the clients. On the flip side, running dbcheck periodically is pretty much a requirement for keeping Bacula's database reasonably sized. I have it run once a month in read-only mode via cron and email us the results. When the extra stuff gets significant, I use it to go in and clean up. dbcheck is being run on a weekly basis (every sunday before backup starts) but didn't catch all the old entries from the database. I just removed manually old entries from Job and File database relating to jobs back in 2005 ... about 5 million file entries (from about 25 currently)... So, dbcheck doesn't seem to clean up that much :) -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't think that this is a coincidence. -- Anonymous - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] database error with 2.0.1
Hi again, i just hit another problem with my bacula installation. A job exited with the following error in it: 19-Feb 14:41 draco-dir: grus.2007-02-19_14.21.34 Fatal error: sql_create.c:845 sql_create.c:845 query SELECT FilenameId FROM Filename WHERE Name='6969_o.jpeg' failed: Out of memory (Needed 1145768 bytes) 19-Feb 14:41 draco-dir: sql_create.c:845 SELECT FilenameId FROM Filename WHERE Name='6969_o.jpeg' 19-Feb 14:56 draco-dir: grus.2007-02-19_14.21.34 Warning: sql_create.c:850 More than one Filename! 2 for file: 6969_o.jpeg Manually executing the query gives me: mysql SELECT FilenameId FROM Filename WHERE Name='6969_o.jpeg'; ++ | FilenameId | ++ | 16320758 | | 18427555 | ++ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) What happened here? And what's this 'out of memory' stuff? The system has plenty of its 4 GB RAM left to use... -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't think that this is a coincidence. -- Anonymous - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] bacula-dir coredump after upgrade to 2.0.1
Hi there, I just took the time to upgrade my bacula installation to the current 2.0.1 version, but unfortunatly it doesn't work anymore now: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # /usr/local/sbin/bacula-dir -u bacula -g bacula -v -c /usr/local/etc/bacula-dir.conf Bus error: 10 (core dumped) I upgraded my 6.1-RELEASE-p3 server via the ports collection to bacula-client-2.0.1 = up-to-date with port bacula-server-2.0.1 = up-to-date with port and i upgraded the database with /usr/local/share/bacula/update_mysql_tables as recommended in http://www.bacula.org/?page=news - additionally, i removed 'Accept Any Volume' from the director configuration. The gdb output from reading the core file looks a bit like this: #0 0x2835f1d4 in pthread_sigmask () from /usr/local/lib/liblthread.so.3 [New LWP 100150] (gdb) backtrace #0 0x2835f1d4 in pthread_sigmask () from /usr/local/lib/liblthread.so.3 #1 0x2816b0d0 in sigprocmask () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2 #2 0x2835f21a in pthread_sigmask () from /usr/local/lib/liblthread.so.3 #3 0x2816b0d0 in sigprocmask () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2 #4 0x2835f21a in pthread_sigmask () from /usr/local/lib/liblthread.so.3 #5 0x2816b0d0 in sigprocmask () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2 #6 0x2835f21a in pthread_sigmask () from /usr/local/lib/liblthread.so.3 #7 0x2816b0d0 in sigprocmask () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2 #8 0x2835f21a in pthread_sigmask () from /usr/local/lib/liblthread.so.3 #9 0x2816b0d0 in sigprocmask () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2 [...] #43572 0x2835f21a in pthread_sigmask () from /usr/local/lib/liblthread.so.3 #43573 0x2816b0d0 in sigprocmask () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2 #43574 0x283606ca in __pthread_initialize_minimal () from /usr/local/lib/liblthread.so.3 #43575 0x2836443d in __pthread_perform_cleanup () from /usr/local/lib/liblthread.so.3 #43576 0x283543c5 in _init () from /usr/local/lib/liblthread.so.3 #43577 0xbfbfeaf8 in ?? () #43578 0x280e03d8 in ?? () from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 #43579 0xbfbfeaa8 in ?? () #43580 0x280c6bad in _rtld_error () from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 #43581 0x280c925b in _rtld () from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 #43582 0x280c63e6 in .rtld_start () from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 Any hints about that? What kind of problem did i inherit here? :) -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't think that this is a coincidence. -- Anonymous - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir coredump after upgrade to 2.0.1
Sorry for the confusion - problem solved. It seems that bacula does automagically detects the presence of linuxthreads and compiles it in - after removing them all went fine... nevertheless, i think there should be some knob in the freebsd ports configuration to have this enabled/disabled on purpose... On 2/13/07, Frank Altpeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I just took the time to upgrade my bacula installation to the current 2.0.1 version, but unfortunatly it doesn't work anymore now: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # /usr/local/sbin/bacula-dir -u bacula -g bacula -v -c /usr/local/etc/bacula-dir.conf Bus error: 10 (core dumped) I upgraded my 6.1-RELEASE-p3 server via the ports collection to bacula-client-2.0.1 = up-to-date with port bacula-server-2.0.1 = up-to-date with port and i upgraded the database with /usr/local/share/bacula/update_mysql_tables as recommended in http://www.bacula.org/?page=news - additionally, i removed 'Accept Any Volume' from the director configuration. The gdb output from reading the core file looks a bit like this: #0 0x2835f1d4 in pthread_sigmask () from /usr/local/lib/liblthread.so.3 [New LWP 100150] (gdb) backtrace #0 0x2835f1d4 in pthread_sigmask () from /usr/local/lib/liblthread.so.3 #1 0x2816b0d0 in sigprocmask () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2 #2 0x2835f21a in pthread_sigmask () from /usr/local/lib/liblthread.so.3 #3 0x2816b0d0 in sigprocmask () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2 #4 0x2835f21a in pthread_sigmask () from /usr/local/lib/liblthread.so.3 #5 0x2816b0d0 in sigprocmask () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2 #6 0x2835f21a in pthread_sigmask () from /usr/local/lib/liblthread.so.3 #7 0x2816b0d0 in sigprocmask () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2 #8 0x2835f21a in pthread_sigmask () from /usr/local/lib/liblthread.so.3 #9 0x2816b0d0 in sigprocmask () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2 [...] #43572 0x2835f21a in pthread_sigmask () from /usr/local/lib/liblthread.so.3 #43573 0x2816b0d0 in sigprocmask () from /usr/lib/libpthread.so.2 #43574 0x283606ca in __pthread_initialize_minimal () from /usr/local/lib/liblthread.so.3 #43575 0x2836443d in __pthread_perform_cleanup () from /usr/local/lib/liblthread.so.3 #43576 0x283543c5 in _init () from /usr/local/lib/liblthread.so.3 #43577 0xbfbfeaf8 in ?? () #43578 0x280e03d8 in ?? () from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 #43579 0xbfbfeaa8 in ?? () #43580 0x280c6bad in _rtld_error () from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 #43581 0x280c925b in _rtld () from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 #43582 0x280c63e6 in .rtld_start () from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 Any hints about that? What kind of problem did i inherit here? :) -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't think that this is a coincidence. -- Anonymous -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't think that this is a coincidence. -- Anonymous - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] I/O errors on gentoo between 1.36 client and 1.38 server // missing current ebuild
Hi list, First of all a little question to whom it does concern: Who is the responsible person to update the gentoo portage tree with a current bacula ebuild? Currently it looks like there is only bacula-1.36.3-r2.ebuild while 1.38.5 should be available by now. But the more important question: Is it possible that a client running 1.36.3-r2 can produce I/O errors while doing a full backup against a 1.38.4 server? I'm having exactly this problem that a gentoo server does crash at night when doing a full backup, and it requires a cold start afterwards. A sample of the errors: EXT3-fs error: (device sda3): ext3_find_entry: reading directory #0241205 offset 0 This happens some thousand times on the console and after that, nothing works anymore, including a simple ls or reboot command. I'm not sure but currently i think that this error only occurs since updating the server from 1.36 to 1.38 and if i remember correctly, there have been massive changes in I/O handling... So - can someone provide an ebuild for 1.38.x please ? :) -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't think that this is a coincidence. -- Anonymous --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid3432bid#0486dat1642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Cleanly removing a client
Hi list, I'm about to remove two machines from my bacula configuration because they have been shut down. Because the last time i had to remove a machine, it seemed to went a big wrong, i think i should ask for the best way to do it. So: What's the best (most clean and accurate) way to remove a client from bacula? Because, if i just remove it from the configuration files, it won't remove the already made backups since there is no chance to prune them. Also, the database gets never cleaned up because the client never gets called again when out of configuration. Last time i tried to use dbcheck to clean up the database from obsolete entries, it took about 5 days to run and had to be aborted, so i don't think this is an option. Any hints welcome... -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't think that this is a coincidence. -- Anonymous --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid3432bid#0486dat1642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Changing tapes without console interaction.
2005/6/24, Attila Fülöp [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The problem is, the FreeBSD Port installs bconsole with 754 (rwxr-xr--) root:wheel and the director fails to execute it since it runs as user+group bacula. Same problem with bconsole.conf and (gnome|wx)-console. Is this a bacula feature or something the FreeBSD port maintainer did? I would think its reasonable to change both files to be owned by group bacula. I will contact the port maintainer in case it's his part. Alternatively, is there another way to achieve above functionality? Don't know if above makes sense, and it doesn't seem to come from the port configuration - however, usually you don't have access to the tape drive as non-root anyway... So, i think the best way to archive your expected results is to run sudo in your scripts, e.g. make it echo mount CertanceDrive | sudo /usr/local/sbin/bconsole -c /usr/local/etc/bconsole.conf echo umount CertanceDrive | sudo /usr/local/sbin/bconsole -c /usr/local/etc/bconsole.conf and configure your sudoers file accordingly. -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't think that this is a coincidence. -- Anonymous --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77alloc_id492op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] multiple clients to back up
2005/6/20, laczko attila [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I want to backup a some clients: each client in his own directory, having volumes separated by type of the job. For each client i wish to do weekly backup for 2 weeks and daily for a week. I solved this by having each client its own Pool, Storage, Job and Client configuration and build this config with some perl hack, which then gets included in the main configs. -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't think that this is a coincidence. -- Anonymous --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt77alloc_id492op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Trying to use Bacula-web
Just for the records... here (FreeBSD 4.11) the bacula-web version 1.1 installs and runs perfectly - well, after installing the PEAR-DB package (which is of course noticed in the README file) - and without any installation or runtime errors... we like. -- Le deagh dhùraghd, Frank Altpeter Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't think that this is a coincidence. -- Anonymous --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Newbie questions about setting up file-only storage
On Apr 6, 2005 11:28 AM, Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, this server has a lot of disk space (2.4G), currently splitted to 8 partitions. There IS a typo, right? :-) Uhm, yes, how did you notice? :) I once build a backup system with Legato NetWorker, so i'm still trying to find out how to make things with bacula like it was with networker ... Without knowing Legato - I guess this approach is not the most efficient way. From my experience, it's best to throw out the things you know about other products for the same purpose when you start using something new. Of course I know that this is not easy... The Legato's way of grouping is not that great either, but i was able to work with it. You know, if you've got a bunch of clients (about 50 hosts) where two or more are directly related and should be backed up together it's a bit easyer to do a 'start group marketing-server' than starting each of them manually. One of these things is how to create job groups to group single jobs together and run them all at one command (manually or by schedule). Is such possible? No, not by itself and currently. A future version of bacula might offer a similar function, when one job can start others. This is in the development version. Apart from that: Job grouping (and other, related things like putting multiple filesets andclients into one job) might be very useful, so I could imagine that trying to persuade someone to imlement them might be worth the effort. I would second that try :) What I would do if I needed to manually start a given set of jobs more than a few times: I'd write a small shell script to send the appropriate commands to the console, like Thought about that, and i think it will be that way for me to archive the results i try to get. No, sorry. Using multiple storage devices for one job is not possible currently. It's one of the things Kern works on right now, kind of. So it would be best practice to have one file device at all (which would be _very_ big, or define multiple devices and try to deliver the clients equally over all? I think, the 'one file device' solutions sounds better for me, as long as i have multiple pools that create a new volume for each backup/day/client/whatever to be able to cycle at all. Otherwise it would write into one volume until the disk is full, which doesn't make sense if you want to keep some backups :-) The 'one file device' solution does have it's caveats, though - AFAIK FreeBSD is unable to handle partitions with more than 512G of size correctly, so using one partition with a size of 2.4T (hehe, no typo this time :) unlikely to work. Perhaps you might contribute some ideas as well. I can try... but most of my backup knowledge comes from my work with legato (in combination with a autochanger robot, that is) - so it might not be that helpful... Until bacula is ready for the setup you plan, you might get used to he way it works now, so you can help testing the next version :-) I have to :-) Because i need a disk based backup solution that is able to save data from about 40 clients (growing) within acceptable time and with being able to have a retention time of about 3 months. Besides that, i need a client/server system that is able to backup unix and windows hosts (not my fault - customers' housing :). I don't think that there are open source projects other than bacula that can handle this. And a software like legato networker is wy too expensive for a two-people-company... Regards, Frank -- Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don't think that this is a coincidence. -- Anonymous --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
