the best in the future.
Kind regards,
Kern
(Currently in Puerto Rico until May then back to Barcelona).
On 3/21/2022 4:40 AM, ego...@ramattack.net wrote:
Good morning people :)
Today is a special day. Is the birthday of someone now deservedly
retired. This person is Kern Sibbald. I had
Hello Marc,
Good point ...
I will forward your suggestion to the persons responsible for handling
this in Bacula Systems.
Best regards,
Kern
On 8/24/21 6:20 PM, mark.berg...@pennmedicine.upenn.edu wrote:
In the message dated: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 16:37:33 +0200,
The pithy ruminations from Kern
Hello,
Thank you for using Bacula. Although I am now mostly retired (but
busier than ever), as Chairman of the Board of Bacula Systems, I do
keep up on new things, especially the multiple things that Bacula
Systems is doing to improve the Bacula Community user
quite well on OpenBSD, which I
find fantastic!
On 7/12/21 2:57 PM, Josh Fisher wrote:
On 7/11/21 5:10 PM, Josip Deanovic wrote:
On Sunday 2021-07-11 18:31:24 Kern Sibbald wrote:
Hello Sven,
Yes, I am aware of the FHS policy, which is perfectly fine for 99.9% of
all installed programs
Hello Sven,
Yes, I am aware of the FHS policy, which is perfectly fine for 99.9% of
all installed programs, but not ideal for Bacula.
Best regards,
Kern
On 7/9/21 11:07 PM, Sven Hartge wrote:
On 09.07.21 14:22, Kern Sibbald wrote:
I would be a lot happier if they would learn to install
Hello,
As originator of Bacula (and still the highest in the gitstats list
of contributors), my personal vote is for Ubuntu. That said,
I would be very happy to run Bacula on any version of Debian -- the
Bacula packagers for Debian work closely with the Bacula
Hello,
I suspect that this file is created by Qt to remember (as you suggest)
the last position and size of Bat's main window.
Best regards,
Kern
On 6/9/21 12:06 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
I've just noticed that the subject file exists and is being updated when I exit
BAT. It
contains the
Hello,
Yes, I guess I should stay retired :-)
Best regards,
Kern
On 5/7/21 12:39 PM, Martin Simmons wrote:
On Thu, 6 May 2021 18:01:41 +0200, Kern Sibbald said:
Your fundamental problem in making the S3 plugin work is that plugin
has the wrong name -- this can be seen from the -D200 debug
but to and from the spool
drive only. The transfer rates are from real data (audio files).
HTH
Am 26.04.21 um 16:17 schrieb Kern
Sibbald:
Hello,
If you are sending blocks of zeros to a tape drive
Hello,
You probably forgot to use the non-rewinding drive name when
assigning the SD to a drive.
e.g /dev/st0 is a rewinding drive
/dev/nst0 is a non-rewinding drive
You want the non-rewinding drive when using Bacula. See the
Hello,
Though I am "mostly" retired, I thought I might respond to some of
your points.
First, I am sorry you are having problems building the S3 plugin.
The Bacula project does test a lot, and puts out source code prior
to release in many cases, so
Hello,
Normally, it is automatic if you upgrade from a package. If you do the
upgrade manually, you must run the "update_bacula_tables" script that is
in the new version. It is normally found in the /src/cats
directory.
Best regards,
Kern
On 4/28/21 3:17 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
Hello,
Hello,
If you are sending blocks of zeros to a tape drive, it is useless to
compare speeds to anything that sends real data. Zero data input to
most tape drives is almost completely optimized (compressed) out, so
one gets very large, unrealistic speeds. Try
Hello,
From my experience (up to LTO-5), using 524288 as a block size is a
reasonable size. However LTO-7 drives are even faster, so you might
try some tests with Maximum block size = 1048576. Some people
recommend much larger sizes, but in my tests (LTO-5) there
Hello,
There was a small error in my turnover to Eric. I accidentally gave him
an old signing key for the release packages. This means that those of
you who check the signing key on the source downloads got errors. This
should now be corrected -- I have replaced all the .sig files that go
Hello,
I would like to discuss the following subjects:
1. Bacula Release Status
2. Next Major Bacula Version
3. New Bacula Project Manager
===
1. Bacula Release Status
The latest Bacula version 9.6.7 will be released shortly. This
is a bug fix release that fixes a number of bugs especially
Hello Everyone,
Bacula version 11.0.0 is indeed a major new release, and in a few hours,
I will send an email announcing it. However, it is not quite ready --
there are a number of minor cleanups we need to do before it is ready
for Beta testing -- namely, fix some incorrect copyrights, make
Hello,
Sven gave a very nice comment. However, please note that the error
message was generated by the
operating system, and though it might be a bit confusing in this
context, it is probably reasonable, because
Bacula was apparently attempting something not
Hello,
You have to look at the problem from a slightly different point of view.
The filters or specifiers 1st, ... 6th simply say that if the
current day of the year falls on the Nth week of a particular
month then the Job will run, otherwise, that particular run
directive will be disregarded.
Hello,
We are pleased to announce the release of Bacula version 9.6.6. This is
a minor bug fix release.
Unless there is some new major bug found, this will be the last of the
9.6.x releases. The next release major release (a really big one) is
currently scheduled for December.
More about
Hello Wanderlei,
using:
make -j 8
is improper syntax and will probably cause a failure. If you want
to run 8 simultaneous compiles, you must use:
make -j8
Note: without the space.
Best regards,
Kern
On 9/8/20 1:59
Hello,
Please go to www.bacula.org and download the binaries that correspond to
your system.
There is no key for the aligned volume plugin.
If you have any questions or problems, you must subscribe to
bacula-users email list on source forge, then you can send emails to
that list and
Hello,
This means that you do not have both a read device and a write
device defined for the job that is running. Unfortunately the
error message does not tell you which device (read or write) is
not defined in the job definition.
Perhaps if you turn on a
no luck. Should I
configure some dummy cloud resource?
Kind regards,
Ziga Zvan
On 07/07/2020 14:40, Kern Sibbald
wrote:
Hello,
Oracle S3 is not compatible with Amazon S3 or at least with
the libs3 that we use t
Hello,
Oracle S3 is not compatible with Amazon S3 or at least with the
libs3 that we use to interface to AWS and other compatible S3
cloud offerings.
Yes, Bacula Enterprise has a separate Oracle cloud driver that
they wrote. There are no plans at the
Hello,
It seems to me that you must explicitly do the following to have
the cloud driver installed
cd
./configure
make # or what I do is "make -j9"
make install
cd src/stored
make src/stored install-cloud
I suspect that you did not do the last
Hello Sven,
Good point
libs3.git is currently available on www.bacula.org in exactly the
same way that bacula.git is available. However, I have never
tried to clone it as someone other than myself, so I am not sure
if it will actually work for you.
Oops. It should have read:
"Unfortunately it seems that the S3 driver NEVER
worked on 9.6.3. You will need 9.6.4 or 9.6.5."
Sorry for the confusion.
Kern
On 6/23/20 5:08 PM, kern wrote:
Hello,
Hello David,
Thanks for your confirmation of the problems. I have a few
suggestions for you:
1. Talk to Bacula Systems. They give Universities very nice
discounts, and they do have client initiated backup. Bacula
Systems has by default a subscription model,
Hello,
Unfortunately due to a Enterprise backport of code to the Community
version, three files were released to version 9.6.4 with Enterprise
copyrights. In addition there were apparently several missing image
files in the documentation. Thus we have withdrawn version 9.6.4
and replaced it
Hello,
As I have mentioned to others, but do so again in case you have
not seen it, you will probably have much better luck with Bacula
9.6.4. However, you will need to remove the libs3-dev and libs3-2
(or what ever they are) from your Ubuntu system, load the new
Hello,
I recommend that you try with Bacula version 9.6.4, because I have
recently built and tested the s3 driver. It does require an updated
libs3 (see release notes) and to build the libs3 I seem to recall that
you need to install curl-dev and some other dev library. It should tell
you
Hello,
This problem is due to a newer compiler which falsely detects
what it thinks are errors.
This should be fixed in version 9.6.4 ... I did not actually
test it on Debian 10 but I did test it on Ubuntu 20.04, which I
think uses the same newer version of
Hello,
This is very likely corrected with Bacula version 9.6.4
Best regards,
Kern
On 6/7/20 4:07 PM, Radosław
Korzeniewski wrote:
Hello,
czw., 4 cze 2020 o 21:23 r0...@nxlplyx.com
Hello,
This is to announce that we have released Bacula version 9.6.4 to
Source Forge and to www.bacula.org. This is a major security and
bug fix release. We suggest everyone to upgrade as soon as possible,
especially if you are using or want to use the S3 cloud driver. Note: I have
done some
the line
drops). In fact, the original design contains a sequential block number
that is not used, but was to be the basis for subsequent code that would
reconnect.
I appreciate your comments. Thanks.
Kern
On 6/10/20 5:41 PM, Josh Fisher wrote:
On 6/10/2020 8:04 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Hello
Hello,
You are using the Enterprise version of Bacula from the Bacula
Systems website because the community version does not have a
trial version (only the real thing) and also does not have BWeb
(but Baculum instead). I suggest that you contact Bacula Systems
Hello,
For some reason I never received the original email (very odd). I think
that Gary has done a very good job at responding. I'll give you my take
on this, but please excuse me if I duplicate what has already been said.
First on the SQL database, which is as has been pointed out not
,
Kern
On 5/10/20 3:24 PM, Sven Hartge wrote:
On 10.05.20 15:01, Kern Sibbald wrote:
I agree with Sven, libs3 is a big disaster. It works well but the
author abandoned it, and many things have changed since then. For the
moment, we have a version
Hello,
Please permit me to make a small correction to what Sven said.
The libs3 that is needed is indeed updated from the version
released on Debian and Ubuntu, but it supplied by the Bacula
Community (i.e. Kern) rather than Bacula Systems. A working
Hello,
Among the many possibilities for your current problems, I suspect
that your Director and Storage Daemon may not be the same version.
Best regards,
Kern
On 4/17/20 8:26 AM, Thing wrote:
After rebooting my systems I see,
Hello,
This is to announce that we have released Bacula version 9.6.3 to Source
Forge and to www.bacula.org. This version primarily has fixed a number
of incorrect copyrights. If you are using Bacula 9.6.0, 9.6.1, or
9.6.2, we recommend that you update, but it i not required. The
Hello,
There is no reason for Bacula to crash at any point. The watchdog may
cancel jobs after a period of time, but that is not a Bacula crash.
Best regards,
Kern
On 3/2/20 2:02 PM, Yale Kozinski wrote:
Does that include a job that requests regular intervention? If so, I guess I
need to
Hello,
To respond to a seg fault, we need a number of things:
1. The Bacula version of all your components (Dir, SD, FD)
2. Where did you get your binairies? Download from where,
build-yourself. If you built them, what commands did you use?
3. A traceback. I don't see a valid traceback
Hello Yateen,
Each Job can have a different message resource and thus messages
can be sent where you want. If you backup multiple users in a
single Job then I do not see any simple way of doing what you
want.
Best regards,
Kern
On 2/28/20
From: Kern
Sibbald
Sent: Wednesday, 26 February 2020 8:23 PM
To: Chaz Vidal ;
Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] New
Hello,
I would like to discuss the following subjects:
1. Bacula Release Status
2. Bacula Binaries
3. Windows Binaries
4. Next Bacula Version
5. Bacula's 20th Anniversary
===
1. Bacula Release Status
The latest Bacula version 9.6.2 was released today to Source Forge and to
www.bacula.org.
Hello,
Restore is a very interactive process, so rather than running a
restore job, one normally uses the restore command in bconsole.
It is also possible to do graphical restores with bat or with
Baculum (web GUI).
The restore command in bconsole will prompt
Hello,
Concerning lack of documentation as you noted below: yes, we can
always improve documentation. In this case, the need for special
libraries is documented. For example in the ReleaseNotes file, it
is documented under 3 releases. The most recent one states:
Hello,
One thing to keep in mind is that Bacula is designed to have
multiple simultaneous jobs writing to multiple devices all at the
same time. Jobs will wait without notification their turn.
However Bacula is not designed to deal with over committing your
Hello,
If I am not mistaken, the RAIT code in Amanda was taken from code
written long ago by CERN. That code was mainly for speed rather than
redundancy.
Writing to multiple simultaneous devices has always been on the projects
list for Bacula, however, until recently it has never been a
Hello,
You need to use two (or more) different MediaType = xxx on the two SDs.
No given MediaType should be on both SDs. If you do that, Bacula will
know which SD to access.
Best regards,
Kern
On 1/15/20 8:08 PM, Kelly Price wrote:
Hi
I have run low on storage on my main server, so
Hello,
Some time ago, the project provided bare metal recovery, but the boot
process has evolved significantly since then with many differences
between vendor, which made maintenance of the BMR too onerous. However,
Bacula Systems as a part of their commercial offering does offer
selected
far from it (I can always fix a few minor things).
Best regards,
Kern
On 10/29/19 1:57 PM, Radosław
Korzeniewski wrote:
Hello,
wt., 22 paź 2019 o
10:46 Kern Sibbald <k...@sibbald.com>
n
On 10/21/19 6:00 PM, Alan Brown wrote:
> On 21/10/2019 16:13, Dimitri Maziuk via Bacula-users wrote:
>> On 10/21/2019 9:14 AM, Clark, Patti via Bacula-users wrote:
>> ...
>>> My question (rhetorical), why do you want to use an OS that is
>>> recently released and still bleeding for a backup
t approach. The
extra alert emails can be dealt with by filtering my
incoming email.
Best regards,
Kern
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 1:28
AM Kern Sibbald <k...@sibba
and submit the code.
Best regards,
Kern
On 9/26/19 2:41 PM, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:
> On 26/09/2019 18:37, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>> See below ...
>>
>> On 9/25/19 7:38 PM, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> [SNIP]
>>>
>>> Yes: as I said it's not a big problem, just an
See below ...
On 9/25/19 7:38 PM, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> On 2019-09-25 18:42, David Brodbeck wrote:
>> I'm not sure how Max Full Interval solves the problem. I have used it
>> (before we switched to virtual full) but it doesn't really pertain to
>> resource contention. Maybe I didn't explain
Hello,
Bacula does already attempt to acquire the needed devices in the SD and
then backs them out if all the needed resources cannot be obtained.
This works quite nicely. Consequently, while the job is waiting the
resources are released in the SD.
The problem occurs because the SD realizes
AM Kern Sibbald <k...@sibbald.com> wrote:
Hello,
I
concur with David. When these jobs are scheduled,
Bacula will attempt to acauire the needed S
Hello,
It sounds like you need to learn how Bacula uses the Media Type
directive. By defining different Media Types for different devices,
you ensure that Bacula can find the right device. In general every
device that has a different device location (different
On 9/19/19 4:18 PM, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
On 2019-09-19 15:33, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Hello,
Hello.
I concur with David. When these jobs are scheduled, Bacula will
attempt to acauire the needed Storage resources. When the resources
are busy the job waits, and after a certain time
Hello,
I concur with David. When these jobs
are scheduled, Bacula will attempt to acauire the needed Storage
resources. When the resources are busy the job waits, and after a
certain time, Bacula will inform you that the resources are not
Hello,
It looks to me like you forgot to run
the update_bacula_tables script prior to running jobs.
Best regards,
Kern
On 9/8/19 11:07 AM, Eyermann, Frank
wrote:
Dear all,
Hello Heitor,
I recommend that you check the details of the BEE automatic
encryption feature. If I am not mistaken you are referring to the
new PSK (private shared key) that BEE uses for authentication. This
means that Bacula will be much more secure against
On 7/25/19 7:45 PM, Kai Gallasch wrote:
Am 25.07.19 um 11:45 schrieb Martin Simmons:
On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 22:55:10 +0200, Kai Gallasch said:
Am 23.07.19 um 19:57 schrieb Martin Simmons:
bls -v -V T00109L4 /dev/nsa0
Hi Martin.
To debug this I recreated the bacula postgres database, labeled
Hello,
I saw that someone mentioned using Samba. Bacula does not save and
restore acl across NFS or Samba. To do so you must have a filesystem
that is mounted locally on the File Daemon.
Best regards,
Kern
On 7/25/19 12:08 PM, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
On 25/07/19 10:55, Martin Simmons
Hello,
Your problem is probably due to the fact that resolv.conf is a link
rather than a file. If this is the case (as it is on my machine) trying
to restore only the link without restoring the actual file, may confuse
Bacula. I would recommend you restore a few other files from the /etc
ers@lists.sourceforge.net)"
, "Kern Sibbald
(k...@sibbald.com)"
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 10:11:07 -0500
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] AWS S3 Backup
Should i be concerned that
the plugins are being Rejec
Hello Martin,
Yes, correct Bacula (and Bacula Systems) does not yet release source
code because we have a patent pending on the technique. Working with the
USPTO on this particular patent is very frustrating. We are also
working with the EU patent reviewers, and though it takes time, the
Hello,
Please insure that the PluginDirectory is defined in the
bacula-sd.conf file. Then check and ensure that the plugin is in
that directory.
Finally, the following commands could potentially help us:
stop the storage daemon
start it by hand in a shell
Hello,
I set my volume retention time to one year, but currently I do not have
enough tapes to keep them a year, which means that ultimately Bacula
asks me to label a new tape, which I don't have. So what I do from time
to time is select oldest Volume that is marked Full (or sometimes Error)
/19 4:29 PM, Martin Simmons wrote:
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 13:11:07 +0200, Kern Sibbald said:
Do you see any other alternative for a C/C++ than to use libs3?
Have you already ruled out using the official SDK
(https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-cpp/)?
__Martin
Hello Sven,
Yes, this is a problem. I remember we discussed libs3 some time
ago, but I did not realize that it has a number of security
issues. I do know that it is no longer maintained by the original
maintainer. Bacula Systems has been updating the source code
Hello Sven,
The Bacula project provides the correct libs3 package at
https://www.bacula.org/downloads/libs3-20181010.tar.gz
Normally when building, you download the .tar.gz file, detar it,
build the package then make sure your packaging uses the special
defective.
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 10:53
AM Kern Sibbald <k...@sibbald.com> wrote:
Hello,
You
Hello,
You did not mention whether or not you
are using Bacula. For Bacula there is no license blockage. Often
writing of older LTO formats (e.g. writing LTO-3 on an LTO-5)
drive is not supported by the drive manufacturer. In your case, I
suspect
Hello,
Bacula version 7.4.x is very old by our
standards, and it is no longer supported (i.e. no bug fixes) by
the project, though we do answer questions about it if we can.
Sorry but you must either use distro
supplied binaries (maybe even
Hello Phil,
I vaguely remember seeing some code a programmer changed that eliminated
the "old" kludge to allow Solaris to run multiple threads. The comment
I saw was that this was no longer needed on newer Solaris machines.
Maybe the programmer didn't realize that there are still lots of
Hello,
One other point about this. Semi-automatic detection of backing up files
multiple times could be done with the estimate bconsole command turning
on listing, then processing the output through sort and looking for
duplicates.
Perhaps an interesting "feature" might be to add another
Hello,
Yes, Bacula could become much smarter about this, but it requires two
things:
1. Bacula will require *significantly* more resources (CPU and memory)
to do such a backup.
2. You would need to find a programmer interested in writing the
necessary code -- it is not a monster project, but
Hello,
We are pleased to announce that you can find Bacula Release 9.4.4 on
Source Forge and www.bacula.org. The binary deb and rpm packages should
be ready in a week or two.
Release 9.4.4
This is a bug fix release to 9.4.3. It includes some fixes that fix
bad data records in Copy/Migration
,
Mike
On Sun, May 26, 2019, at 19:37, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Hello,
I have two questions:
1. What cloud server are you using. We support Amazon or
100% Amazon compatible. All S3
Hello,
I have two questions:
1. What cloud server are you using. We support Amazon or 100%
Amazon compatible. All S3 implementations are not the same or
compatible with Amazon S3.
2. Have you tried doing a restore? Most of those errors look like
Hello Martin,
This is an interesting reflection. Do you think it is a timeout, or an
out and out bug where Bacula gets confused with additional
communications? A bug would be a bit hard to understand, because the
SD often waits for a Volume to be mounted -- of course, there can
certainly be
Hello,
If you are doing any kind of "copy" of data (Migration, Copy,
VirtualFull, ...), it seems to me to be obvious, but perhaps I am
mistaken, you need two different Storage daemon device definitions
-- one to read a Volume, and one to write to a different Volume.
Em sex, 3 de mai de 2019 às
08:12, Kern
Hello,
We are pleased to announce Bacula Community Release version 9.4.3. It
has been released to Source Forge and www.bacula.org. The binary package
will be build shortly and released as usual to the Binary Package Download
area of www.bacula.org.
This is a bug fix release for version 9.4.2.
you are running it as bacula:tape.
That could be the source of your problem.
On 5/2/19 5:14 PM, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> Hi Kern,
>
> Thank you for your response.
>
> On Thursday 02 May 2019 14:23:54 Kern Sibbald wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Sorry you are having probl
Hello,
Sorry you are having problems. I note the following things:
1. You are running on a *very* old Bacula version.
2. I am not sure that version of Bacula supports Windows 7, where you
are getting failures.
3. As for the errors, it looks like the SD does not have permission to
open
Hello,
Just so everyone knows how I feel about SQLite -- it is a great program,
written by a very good programmer. It is probably closer to Postgres
than to MySQL in its syntax. However, it is really not an appropriate
database for many reasons for Bacula, and maintaining the update tables
Hello,
I want to second this email, and thank Sven and the others for
maintaining SQLite
in Bacula.
I will probably make one more release of 9.4.x which will have
SQLite in it, but please note that
the next version of Bacula will have a major change to
Hello,
The principal reason for dropping SQLite is as Radek stated -- it is
simply extra overhead that we do not need. This is particularly evident
when we have database schema changes. Doing schema changes with an
existing database can be quite complicated and prone to errors with
SQLite,
Hello,
Please see my comment below:
On 4/16/19 8:15 AM, Josip Deanovic wrote:
On Monday 2019-04-15 23:24:10 Marcio Demetrio Bacci wrote:
I have some doubts about Bacula, however I did not find answers on the
Internet or in the books for the following doubts:
1. Is there any problem in using
= 0 || errno != ENOSYS) {
>> return fd;
>> }
>> /* fallback to using accept upon ENOSYS */
>> #endif /* HAVE_ACCEPT4 */
>> fd = accept(sockfd, addr, addrlen);
>>
>> __Martin
>>
>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 1
abort() is not portable -- it behaves differently on different systems.
A segfault is portable, so we use have used it for 20 years now, and it
works fine. Use abort() at your own risk.
On 3/4/19 8:35 AM, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:
> On 2019-03-01 23:00, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>> Hello,
&
Sorry if I have not followed this whole thread, but the command you want
to do is:
lsscsi -g
The control device names are listed in the last column. The control
device name is needed by mtx to actuate the autochanger. The control
device name is also needed for some of the tape alert commands.
handled this situation in the same way that Bacula has been handling
similar situations for almost 20 years now ...
Best regards,
Kern
On 3/1/19 7:11 PM, Dmitri Maziuk via Bacula-users wrote:
> On 3/1/2019 10:10 AM, Josh Fisher wrote:
>>
>> On 3/1/2019 6:34 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>
13:25, Kern Sibbald <k...@sibbald.com> escreveu:
Hello Wanderlei,
Well, it is not known to me that the community Windows
client is not working as well as the Enterprise version.
Version 7.4.4 is ver
version will not contain the new code. The fix I
proposed below, if it works, would allow the new code to function correctly.
Best regards,
Kern
On 3/1/19 5:26 PM, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> On 3/1/19 5:14 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>> Were you careful to run a ./configure ... on the ma
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