share what
you did to accomplish that with me?
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: Director's comm line to SD
dropped.
24-Jul 10:02 kiskadee-dir JobId 6445: Error: Bacula kiskadee-dir 5.2.12
(12Sep12):
Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on this.
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backup frequency and the optimum number of volumes in the
incremental pool, assuming a daily incremental?
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seem to have a working build of 5.2.12. Now for some testing.
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 3:10 AM, Geert Stappers
geert.stapp...@vanadgroup.com wrote:
Op 20121231 om 04:50 schreef Jeff Dickens:
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Jeff Dickens j...@seamanpaper.com
wrote:
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012
/bacula-dir.conf
/sbin/bacula-dir: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libbaccats-5.2.12.so:
undefined symbol: mysql_thread_safe
Any ideas ? What should I look at first?
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/libbaccats-mysql-5.2.12.so | grep mysql_thread_safe
U mysql_thread_safe
So if I read this right, then yes, mysql_thread_safe *is *a defined symbol
in libbaccats-5.2.12.so, but it's telling me it's not. What could cause
that?
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Jeff Dickens j
db_init_database first time
/sbin/bacula-dir: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libbaccats-5.2.12.so:
undefined symbol: mysql_thread_safe
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Jeff Dickens j...@seamanpaper.com wrote:
btw configure said checking for mysql_thread_safe in -lmysqlclient_r...
yes
no errors
Same problem.
François Mehault wrote:
Hi All
I contact you because I don't succeed to cancel my job. This morning I
have numerous Job in running job section in bconsole. I have some
problem that I will fix but for the moment I want to stop properly all
running jobs. So I use the cancel
This is a chronic problem in every version of bacula since 1.38 and has,
as far as this list is concerned, never been addressed.
Marek Simon wrote:
Hi,
I have jobs, which have frozen. The reason of frozing is not subject of
this message, I will deal with it next time. But now I have canceled
Apparently I need to do much more comprehensive restore testing, because
when I need, it my bacula installation has fallen down around me. This
is just the worst of several problems I will be reporting.
First, I ran a restore. The original client is a now-dead XP box, the
target client is a
Indeed they were marked as system files. I have no idea how they got
that way. I did two restores, one from a full, and one from a
differential, and the one from the full always came up marked as a
System file. I repeated it three times, almost running out the disk
before I caught on.
by obscurity.
Bob
Jeff Dickens wrote:
Indeed they were marked as system files. I have no idea how they got
that way. I did two restores, one from a full, and one from a
differential, and the one from the full always came up marked as a
System file. I repeated it three times, almost running
Bumping my own note here..
Does anyone know why things might be different under 3.0 with this end
of media thing?
Jeff Dickens wrote:
I'm using pretty much the same configuration for my differential
backups as I did under Bacula 2.2.8, but for some reason under 3.0.1
it's getting end
There are also binary RPMs in the fschwartz directory on sourceforge.
(Thanks again, Felix). But no BAT.. let me know if you come up with a
Centos5 BAT binary rpm.
Michael Hall wrote:
Brand new Bacula user here. I'm having trouble finding up to date Bacula
RPMs/SRPMs for CentOS 5, and
I'm using pretty much the same configuration for my differential backups
as I did under Bacula 2.2.8, but for some reason under 3.0.1 it's
getting end of media on a disk volume and moving to a new volume.
There seems to be some kind of new behavior here.. It's possible the
storage disk could
Perhaps you need to use forward slashes?
James Harper wrote:
Hello,
I still haven't found a way to tell bacula to restore on a partition
different
than C: on windows fd.
Most of my customers have a smaller C: containing the system, and a
second
drive to hold big data, so
Is anyone using eSATA drives for removable storage? I bought a couple
of 1TB drives - the brand name was Fantom for $115 each. Tough to buy
tape cartridges at that price, never mind the drives. I'd like to use
try using them with Bacula to take big archives off site.
I guess the real need
Anyone know an easier way of doing this ?
echo 'list files jobid=8' | bconsole | perl -p -e 's/^\|\s+//;
s/\s+\|$//; s/^\+\-+\+$//' | more
I guess I could query the database myself, but I'd rather avoid that.
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Is there any way to accomplish what I'm trying to do here ?
FileSet {
Name = XP_WS2
Enable VSS = yes
Include {
Options {
signature = MD5
compression = GZIP
IgnoreCase = yes
Wild = C:/Documents and Settings/*/Desktop/*
Wild = C:/Documents and Settings/*/Documents/*
}
Options {
: = C:/Documents and Settings/*/Desktop
}
instead of the dog's breakfast?
Jeff Dickens wrote:
Is there any way to accomplish what I'm trying to do here ?
FileSet {
Name = XP_WS2
Enable VSS = yes
Include {
Options {
signature = MD5
compression = GZIP
IgnoreCase = yes
Wild = C:/Documents
= C:/Documents and Settings/*
}
File = C:/Documents and Settings
}
}
Jeff Dickens wrote:
Here it is:
FileSet {
Name = XP_WS3
Include {
Options {
exclude = yes
RegEx = .*\.lnk
Ah well, at least it's still on the list somewhere. I should point out
that #29 on the voting list would be more useful in conjunction with
cross-sd copy jobs.
Kern Sibbald wrote:
On Wednesday 13 May 2009 12:52:03 Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
Hello!
What's the status of supporting copy jobs
Thank you, Mr. Schwartz.
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Now if we only could have a bacula-bat-3.0.1-1.el5.i386.rpm.
Someone was working on a patch so it would build with qt 4.2.. but I
can't find the note now.
Jeff Dickens wrote:
Thank you, Mr. Schwartz.
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I've got the new source rpm.. I get this far:
[r...@badger src]# rpmbuild --rebuild --define build_centos5 1
--define build_mysql5 1 bacula-3.0.1-1.src.rpm
Installing bacula-3.0.1-1.src.rpm
warning: InstallSourcePackage: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
10a792ad
warning: user sbarn
I would certainly prefer to install from an rpm, etc. But I'm running
Centos 5 and for my distro there is neither QT 4.2 nor Bacula 3.0
yet, from our friend FSchwartz, or from RPMForge or from ATRPMS.
Don't really want to change distros at this point.
Craig Ringer wrote:
Jeff Dickens
Is it true that one needs qt 4.3 to build bat for bacula 3.0?
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release of version 2.5.40 or greater requires a database upgrade.
to mean that my 2.2.8 Windows FDs will work with 3.0, and that there is
only one database upgrade involved.
Is anyone else in the same boat as me?
Any advice?
Jeff Dickens wrote:
I will be upgrading to 3.0 after a brief test
I will be upgrading to 3.0 after a brief test.
Will the database update script work ?
Also, will 2.2.8 clients work with 3.0 assuming no new functionality is
used?
I have been reading the release notes but it's not completely clear to me.
For what it's worth, I deleted all the volumes in the differential pool
for this client, and then the job ran once fine. Something must have
been undetectably scrozzled in the db.
Jeff Dickens wrote:
I just finished a dbcheck, which found no major problems, and then I
ran this job, which
All my backups ran fine last night, so today I come in where I already
had a bconsole running, typed m and got all the messages,
and then typed status dir and the directory instantly crashed.. same
thing Segmentation violation.
Any suggestions what I should do?
Jeff Dickens wrote:
My
My director just died. It had been waiting a couple of days for a tape
(the sd was on a separate server) and when I issued the mount command
after changing the tape, the director instantly died:
06-Apr 12:05 packrat-dir: Fatal Error because: Bacula interrupted by
signal 11:
termination status: Error
Termination:*** Backup Error ***
Jeff Dickens wrote:
I just finished a dbcheck, which found no major problems, and then I
ran this job, which failed as follows:
Where it says could not open: /bacula/marie3/marie3-diff-0616, ERR=No
such file
I just finished a dbcheck, which found no major problems, and then I ran
this job, which failed as follows:
Where it says could not open: /bacula/marie3/marie3-diff-0616, ERR=No
such file or directory that file does exist. It's 955MB.
Lots of other jobs are working fine, but this one keeps
It was a couple of years ago I first brought this up. I guess you and I
are the only one who would find a cross-sd migration/copy useful. The
answer I got was not likely unless you're paying for it, which is
certainly fair enough, but I also got the feeling that the idea wasn't
well received
Any idea what's going on here ? The director and sd are 2.2.6, windows
fd 2.0.3.
14-Dec 01:06 packrat-dir JobId 12102: Start Backup JobId 12102,
Job=marie2.2007-12-13_23.05.02
14-Dec 01:06 packrat-dir JobId 12102: There are no more Jobs associated with Volume
marie2-diff-0002. Marking
Hi. I've got 2.2.6 built on a system that will be my new director
main sd.
I've run backups with the 2.0 server and sd and a 2.2 (windows) client,
and it seems to work. I haven't tried a restore yet, but I will.
My questions are these:
- Is this intended to work?
- Is it reasonable to
I finally have bat built, but I find a few more oddnesses I'd like to
get your comments on.
First of all, I'm doing this on Centos 5 now. I have qt 4.2.x and the
depkgs stuff installed.
I used this configure command:
I have a some questions about BAT that I hope you can answer.
First, what is the interface between BAT and the other Bacula components
(director, sd, fd, database) ? I ask because I would like to know if it
would be possible to run BAT on a system other than the director? Does
it just talk
Any idea when the source rpm will be back? I saw that the bad one had
been taken down from sf, but there has been no word about its replacement.
Scott Barninger wrote:
Hello,
bacula-2.2.6 has been released to sourceforge. This release should
address the RedHat (and clone) issues discussed
Thanks.
Scott Barninger wrote:
Hello,
Sorry for the delay but I have been out of town until this evening. Not
sure what went wrong with the release but I have re-uploaded the srpm
now. It should be available now and the file size looks correct.
On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 14:10 +0100, Kern Sibbald
ditto here
Scott Ruckh wrote:
I am receiving the following errors:
rpm -ihv bacula-2.2.6-1.src.rpm
error: bacula-2.2.6-1.src.rpm: V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 10a792ad
error: bacula-2.2.6-1.src.rpm cannot be installed
I believe I have imported the Felix Schwartz key and the bacula public
Nick Pope wrote:
On Aug 21, 2007, at 8:25 PM, Charles Sprickman wrote:
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Nick Pope wrote:
On Aug 20, 2007, at 12:48 PM, David Boyes wrote:
I would like to second this. Right now I have duplicates of
everything
to first do a local backup and 7 hours later
Apparently I've messed up my catalog. It began when I ran the system
disk (with the database on it) out of disk, big time. Rats.
Symptoms:
Jobs fail like this:
17-Jul 00:43 packrat-dir: Start Backup JobId 7780,
Job=nymph.2007-07-16_23.05.26
17-Jul 00:43 nymph-fd: DIR and FD clocks
Frank Sweetser wrote:
Jeff Dickens wrote:
Apparently I've messed up my catalog. It began when I ran the system
disk (with the database on it) out of disk, big time. Rats.
Symptoms:
Jobs fail like this:
17-Jul 00:43 packrat-dir: Start Backup JobId 7780,
Job=nymph.2007-07-16_23.05.26
Frank Sweetser wrote:
Jeff Dickens wrote:
Apparently I've messed up my catalog. It began when I ran the system
disk (with the database on it) out of disk, big time. Rats.
Symptoms:
Jobs fail like this:
17-Jul 00:43 packrat-dir: Start Backup JobId 7780,
Job=nymph.2007-07-16_23.05.26
My catalog backup failed like this last night. The odd thing is that
immediately afterwards, I have a second catalog backup running to tape,
and that one worked fine.
A resource problem perhaps? Any ideas what to check?
21-Jun 08:19 packrat-dir: BeforeJob: run command
# mysql -V
mysql Ver 14.7 Distrib 4.1.20, for redhat-linux-gnu (i686) using
readline 4.3
Frank Sweetser wrote:
Jeff Dickens wrote:
My catalog backup failed like this last night. The odd thing is that
immediately afterwards, I have a second catalog backup running to tape,
and that one
Robert LeBlanc wrote:
I would be interested in something like this for off-site back-up. Each
month, do a full back-up to tapes that will stay in the library and a
set that will be taken off-site for DR.
Robert LeBlanc
That is also my primary reason. Copy Pools, and cross-SD migration
I don't know where to turn on this one. I seem to have proven I can't
depend on being able to do a restore.
Jeff Dickens wrote:
I ran a test restore, verifying (apparently) that my now-retired
Windows SD system really was handling the end-of-tape condition
correctly, and found to my
Thanks.
Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hi,
On 6/7/2007 3:02 PM, Jeff Dickens wrote:
I got this error while labeling a tape, which I don't think I've seen
before. The tape had been previous used as a tar tape, and probably with
a different hardware compression setting. Is this anything to worry
I ran a test restore, verifying (apparently) that my now-retired Windows
SD system really was handling the end-of-tape condition correctly, and
found to my surprise that I got a Zlib data error failure on one
file. The rest of the restore seems perfect. One probably important
point is that
Try replacing backslashes with forward slashes ?
Mike Lauwaert wrote:
Hi all --
I am trying to use the Windows servers which I know aren't completely
supported but I have had decent successes with tem thus far. My
problem now is I am trying to use a network attached storage device
which I
I've (finally) finished running btape fill with two tapes on a Windows
SD. With the VS160 DLT drive I have this took one day to write the first
tape, and then after writing the second tape several hours just to
forward space to the end of the tape.
My question is this: The program complained
I do tit by specifying the pools like this:
Storage = client1-filestore
Pool = client1-pool-diff
Full Backup Pool = tape-pool1
Differential Backup Pool = client1-pool-diff
SpoolData = Yes
The pool definition for tape-pool1 specifies the Storage, which
overrides the storage in the job
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First of all, this is on a Windows SD, but I was hoping it would work
now. If I'm not doing something dumb I'll probably be abandoning the
Windows SD after this.
The SD rebooted. There may have been a job running when it did, but I
don't think so. Now it says it wants tape #3, which is the
I've had two backups fail like this. Both happened to be using the short-lived
2.0.4 (30Apr07) version of the windows fd.
It doesn't fail every time.
I haven't seen it with the later 2.0.4 windows fd (yet).
07-May 23:32 packrat-dir: Start Backup JobId 6123, Job=joe1.2007-05-07_23.05.08
Kern Sibbald wrote:
Hello,
I have built a new version of the Win32 binaries, which is labeled 2.0.4 and
is version 2.0.3 plus a few fixes, including what I hope will fix the
ftruncate problem. Since I have not tested this code, I am not sure what it
will do, so please test it with
I see I have good/bad timing. I will be trying the 2.0.4 binaries.
Jeff Dickens wrote:
It seems to have just fallen right over at the end of the tape. The btape
test worked fine. Apparently I was too optimistic. See below for what the
beginning of btape fill looks like.
30-Apr 12:32
Fwiw, the director fell over when I omitted the pool directive from a
job resource. I was experimenting and thought it redundant that I had
specified Pool, Full Backup Pool. and Differential Backup Pool. but
apparently not. This happened when I removed the pool directive and
started the
Mariusz Czulada wrote:
Hello,
Rats. I assumed it would work between two SDs. Major bummer. In fact
I spent the last couple hours setting just such a system up, and was
surprised when if failed with the tape SD looking for the disk SD's
storage device.
I then re-read the docs on
interesting to me,] migration!)
Jeff Dickens wrote:
Has anyone been using tape drives on a Windows-based sd ? I've had to
remove the tape drive from the system where my director and main
disk-based sd lives. I have a Windows system handy with a Gigabit
connection, and it occurred to me
Too bad there isn't a way to run a script on an SD that is on a
different system from the Director (yet)
Gordon McLellan wrote:
Rex,
If your tape drive lives on the same machine as the director, you can
use the RunsOnClient=No directive to make the script run on the
director, which will then
So what was the last word on this ? I'm just digging in to the same
issues, with a standalone scsi dlt drive on a windows sd.
Rex Wheeler wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion, but I already tried that. Btape does
successfully open the tape drive (it won't if bacula-sd is running.)
Has anyone been using tape drives on a Windows-based sd ? I've had to
remove the tape drive from the system where my director and main
disk-based sd lives. I have a Windows system handy with a Gigabit
connection, and it occurred to me this might be a good place to put the
tape drive.
It's a
Ralf Gross wrote:
Jeff Dickens schrieb:
[snip]
*m
16-Mar 21:25 jeff-t40-fd: jeff-t40.2007-03-16_21.24.41 Warning:
../../lib/bnet.c:864 Could not connect to Storage daemon on
packrat:9103. ERR=No error
Retrying ...
*
The server just sits there like this:
Running Jobs:
JobId Level Name
I'm testing a new bacula server, running 2.0.3 installed from the el4
rpm from sourceforge.
My client is running WinXP, with the 2.0.3 winbacula from sourceforge.
The client and the server both have each other's addresses in their
hosts files, to rule out dns issues while I'm testing. I'm
I need to move my bacula server to a new machine, and while I'm at it I
want to upgrade to 2.0.3. What would be the best approach - move and
then upgrade, or upgrade and then move, or install the new server with
2.0.3 and then move/upgrade the database?
No comment? It would at least be nice to know if I was wide of the mark.
Jeff Dickens wrote:
I was just looking through the migration docs, and boy this is just what
I've been waiting for. Now I'm wondering if a vmware machine can access
a physical tape drive so I give this a shake without
I was just looking through the migration docs, and boy this is just what
I've been waiting for. Now I'm wondering if a vmware machine can access
a physical tape drive so I give this a shake without stepping on my
current config.
But the following question presented itself: If you do a
I split it out by client. I have a template file per-client for
bacula-dir.conf and bacula-sd.conf (need a device per client since this
is a disk-only setup so far).
Life would be easier if there were a default directive corresponding
to every other directive, as jobdefs is to job.
Fritz
I find the ascii art frame around the output of the list files and
llist files output troublesome. I couldn't figure a better way so I
wrote the following filter:
#!/usr/bin/perl -npw
s/^\+\-+\+$//;
s/^\|\s//;
s/\s+\|$//;
Give it a try... for example:
echo 'llist file jobid=XXX' |
I have a fileset that uses a client-side include like this:
File = \\C:/FILES.TXT
Is there any way to add an include like this to a fileset and then have
the job not fail if the included file doesn't exist ? That would sure
make things easier for me. As it is the job fails if the
I wonder if there's some way to low-level format the tapes now that the
format, per se, has been blown away.
I remember years and years ago at DEC we got a bulk eraser just so we
could use our pile of TK50 tapes in a TK70 drive, which had higher
density but used the same tape. The drive would
When I was running my tape drive test I got a little impatient and hit
return twice after inserting the second volume the first time. Do you
think that explains the first rewind error below ?
The second rewind error is because I hit return too soon.
Here's the end of my btape fill log:
I have an IBM VS160 tape drive.
First I exercised the drive with tar it seems to work fine.
I added the following device definition to my bacula-sd.conf:
Device {
Name = VS160-1#
Media Type = VS160
Archive Device = /dev/nst0
AutomaticMount = yes; #
I have my test running now...
It wasn't too clear from the docs that the bacula-sd.conf has to be set
up, but the sd can't be running.
Jeff Dickens wrote:
I have an IBM VS160 tape drive.
First I exercised the drive with tar it seems to work fine.
I added the following device definition
Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hi,
On 6/30/2006 6:18 PM, Jeff Dickens wrote:
I have an IBM VS160 tape drive.
First I exercised the drive with tar it seems to work fine.
I added the following device definition to my bacula-sd.conf:
Device {
Name = VS160-1#
Media
If I add compression to the options in a fileset that did not previously
have compression set, will that render the disk volumes already created
from that fileset unreadable or is it smart enough to remember which
volumes are compressed and which aren't?
Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need
I changed the schedule for a job to one that does not have incremental
backups, just full and differential.
Yet, when I started the job it ran an incremental again. How can I get
it to stop running incrementals?
Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?
Get
Steen wrote:
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 17:22, Jeff Dickens wrote:
It would be nice if there were ClientDefs, StorageDefs, PoolDefs,
analagous to the JobDefs which creates sets of defaults for Jobs,
I'm setting up Bacula to do disk-based backups for 20-30 Windows
Clients, and this requires
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Steen wrote:
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 17:22, Jeff Dickens wrote:
It would be nice if there were
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