Re: [bareos-users] Whitepaper tape speed optimation

Hi Frank, sorry for the inconvenience. We've missed to care about the whitepapers when launching the new website. As a quick hack we've uploaded pdfs to the new server, here you find the whitepapers: https://www.bareos.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/optimizing-the-tape-speed.pdf

[bareos-users] Upcoming Bareos online trainings in May and June

Hi, our training partner Dr. Stephan Rein offers two more online workshops on Bareos administration (respectively “Bareos Part I” and “Bareos Part II”) in May (suitable for European and Asian time zones, and June (suitable for European and American east cost time zones). The first course will

[bareos-users] Bareos online Trainings January / February

Dear Customers and Bareos Users, we hope you've had a good start into 2021! We have some seats left for the first Bareos-online trainings this year. We have scheduled 2 sequences, one suitable for attendees in the European timezones: between January 25th - February 4th: start at 13:30 Berlin

[bareos-users] Bareos Online Trainings

Dear Bareos Users, I hope you are all well. We had to cancel our on-site trainings. We are not sure, when we will be able to offer on-site trainings again, probably not before the summer season starts. As we still see demand from customers and partners for Bareos trainings, we are happy to offer

[bareos-users] Percona xtrabackup plugin: pitfalls and hints

Hi, some of you have reported problems and / or solutions regarding our Percona / xtrabackup plugin. I want to summarize some pitfalls and hints here. 1. Always incremental only works with file backups A user reported problems like this https://github.com/bareos/bareos-contrib/issues/33 on

[bareos-users] Open Source Backup Conference 2018: Call for Papers and Early Bird registration open

Hello, the core theme of the conference on September 26 is the usage of open source backup solutions such as BAREOS and REAR. The conference- agenda includes strategic presentations, best practices, case studies and technical talks. Influential representatives, decision makers and developers from

[bareos-users] New major release 17.2 of Bareos published

Hello, we've published the Bareos major release 17.2.4, the first stable release of 17.2. Installation packages for Linux, Windows and Mac are available in our repositories. There are a lot of improvements, bug-fixes and new features in this release. Highlights are the improved database

[bareos-users] OSBConf slides and videos - including Bareos 17.2 presentation - online

Hello, just want to let you know that slides and videos from this years Open Source Backup Conference are online now: http://osbconf.org/archiv/2017-2/ The video with the Bareos 17.2 presentation is available directly here: https://youtu.be/Ewpj2voquQw Hope to see you next time in Cologne!

Re: [bareos-users] Re: Restore xtrabackup No lsn information found

3142" to file:block 0:252. > 2017-10-09 09:28:47bareos-sd JobId 3111: Ready to read from volume > "server.tld-fd-sql-pool01-2917" on device "FileStorage1" > (/datastore/dir2). > 2017-10-09 09:28:47bareos-sd JobId 3111: Forward spacing Volume > "serve

Re: [bareos-users] Re: Restore xtrabackup No lsn information found

sh the backup. > However, the restore produced the same error: > > Error: python-fd: No lsn information found in restore object for > file /tmp/bareos-restores//_percona/xbstream.003091 from job 3091 > > Please see a new trace > here:  > https:/

Re: [bareos-users] Re: Restore xtrabackup No lsn information found

Hi, the mycnf parameter was introduced with one of the latest pull-requests, and we haven't tested all option combinations. Should work now. In case of problems: get the xtrabackup command from the joblog and make sure it works, when you start it manually the same way. Regards Maik Am

Re: [bareos-users] Restore xtrabackup No lsn information found

Hi George, please also post a trace of the backup job. I assume something has gone wrong with the original backup. Please use the latest plugin version from Git, as it includes a better way to get the LSN and logging. I am also wondering what you try to do with

Re: [bareos-users] Restore xtrabackup No lsn information found

Hi, Am 06.10.2017 um 13:02 schrieb George Kontostanos: > Hello, > > I am trying to restore a successful backup using xtrabackup. > > The web UI shows the size of the backup as NaN undefined. I am not sure if > this is normal: > >

[bareos-users] Release Candidate for the next Bareos major release 17.2. published

Hello, we've published the Release Candidate for the next Bareos major release 17.2. The release was presented at the Open Source Backup Conference 2017 in Cologne. New features contain: * Database optimizations o Great performance enhancements for large backups (filetable

[bareos-users] Open Source Backup Conference 2017 – Last tickets available

Hello, the program is finalized and last tickets are available for the OSBConf, taking place in Cologne, 25-26th of September. The Open Source Backup Conference is the perfect platform for developers, decision makers and administrators from the open source field to exchange information on the

Re: [bareos-users] Re: No lsn information found in restore object - percona xtrabackup

Hello, we've tracked down some problems of this kind in the past (see previous threads about it). In most cases it was a problem with permissions, configuration or version mismatch. Please re-read the documentation and threads, especially when it comes to verify step-by-step the tool-chain.

Re: [bareos-users] Re: xtrabackup full and incremental size

Hello, you don't have to put the mysql datadir into the fileset File= .. definition, in fact that would increase you backup. The documentation says: |FileSet { Name = "client-data" Include { Options { compression=GZIP signature = MD5 } File = /etc #... Plugin =

[bareos-users] Open Source Backup Conference 2017: Early Bird and CfP

Hello altogether, just wanted to remind you that this years Open Source Backup Conference (OSBConf) takes place at Cologne, Sept. 25/26. The early bird registration is open until tomorrow and Call for Papers until June, 6th. On the first day you can choose from 3 workshops: 1. Bareos

[bareos-users] Please support the Open Source 360° survey

Hello, as in the last years, we support the 2017 Open Source survey organized by Black Duck again. The 2017 Open Source 360° survey is being conducted through Black Duck’s Center for Open Source Research & Innovation (COSRI) and will focus on four important areas of open source – usage, risk,

Re: [bareos-users] 16.2.5 upgrade

Hello Chris, Bareos provides binary packages for the maintenance release 16.2.5 in the subscription repositories. We recommend to use the packages from the subscription repository version 16.2.5 for production use. Other options are: - use binary packages from the bleeding-edge master tree

[bareos-users] Bareos maintenance release 16.2.5 published

Hello, we've published the Bareos 16.2.5 maintenance release. Here is the news article (read online: https://www.bareos.org/en/news/bareos-16-2-5-maintenance-release-published-320.html) --- Version 16.2.5 contains bugfixes and enhancements, subscription

Re: [bareos-users] Problem with restore from Percona MySQL plugin

Hello, Am 08.02.2017 um 20:29 schrieb Kjetil Torgrim Homme: > hello, I'm trying to use the Percona plugin. backup seems to work > (although I am not certain), on this test server the backup jobs says: > > FD Bytes Written: 6,513,699 (6.513 MB) > > mysqldump without compression is ~9 MB,

Re: [bareos-users] Re: MySQL Backup with percona plugin

Hello , there was a typo in the setdebug command from the old thread, the right one is: setdebug client=centos-fd trace=1 level=200 with your client (trace=1 instead 'on'). Please make sure to use this version of the plugin (it has a little bit more error-handling and debug output at the

Re: [bareos-users] Re: MySQL Backup with percona plugin

Hello, you've missed to check some parts of the thread: - what version of xtrabackup are you using? - .my.cnf correct? - output of echo 'SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS' | mysql -r -p - The fd-tracefile is supposed to be on the client. Without tracefile, help is difficult (sometimes impossible)

Re: [bareos-users] Created Bareos article on Wikipedia

Hello Gino and *, thanks for creating the article. Just want to inform you that there is a deletion-request for the article and an according discussion. This seems to be quite common, when new articles appear. There are Wikipedia contributors, who question the "notability" of new subjects. They

Re: [bareos-users] bareos and xtrabackup

6, in > start_backup_job > last_lsn = int(os.popen(get_lsn_command).read()) > ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: '' > > > If there is any kind of tests that i can do let me know. > > thank you for your work > > > On Thu, N

Re: [bareos-users] bareos and xtrabackup

Hi, both problem reports here refer to Debian / Ubuntu, while the development and (customer) production environment was RedHat/Centos (7). So I have to reproduce the behavior in a Debian / Ubuntu environment; which will take some time. > Hi all > I have same trouble, can't restore full backup.

Re: [bareos-users] bareos and xtrabackup

Hello Denis, Am 08.11.2016 um 10:57 schrieb Denis Barbazza: > Hello Maik, thank you for your reply. > > I found the problem, it was so simple, damn :-( > the client cannot reach the storage daemon, I discovered it because > when I run a file backup it simply told me :( Good. > > But > > Now

Re: [bareos-users] bareos and xtrabackup

Hello Denis, Am 04.11.2016 um 11:43 schrieb Denis Barbazza: > Hello, > I'm trying to setup a new backup server with bareos 16.2.4 and a > client with same version and percona-xtrabackup plugin, but I run into > trouble :( > > I'm running Debian Stretch and I followed the guide here: >

Re: [bareos-users] MySQL plugin stalls

Hi, I haven't tested estimate with the plugin and I doubt that the estimate generally works with python plugins. Have you tried to just run the backup / restore? Regards Maik Am 25.10.2016 um 15:25 schrieb Niall Hallett: > Hi, > > I've installed and setup the python mysql plugin, but when I

[bareos-users] Bareos 16.2 presentation and other OSBConf videos / slides online

Hello, for those of you, who couldn't make it to this years Open Source Backup Conference: Now all slides and videos are online, including the Bareos 16.2 and roadmap 2017 presentation: http://osbconf.org/archiv/2016-2/ Hope to see you next year in Cologne Sept. 25.-26. 2017. -- With kind

[bareos-users] Bareos 16.2 rc published

Hello, we've just presented the Bareos 16.2 release candidate with "Always Incremental" feature and many more news at this years Open Source Conference 2016. Please read the full story here: https://www.bareos.org/en/news/bareos-16-2-release-candidate-248.html Looking forward to get your

Re: [bareos-users] Re: mysql plugin

Hi Andrew, does the FD load the plugin python-fd.so ? That is the FD plugin which handles the Python plugins, without Python plugins won't work. If you make a * status client=alx-msk-backup-01 in bconsole, you should see something like Plugin : python-fd.so Description: Python File

[bareos-users] Next Bareos Release and Staff

Hello, we've been working very intensively on the upcoming Bareos release over the last year. Our plans are to publish a release candidate around the Open Source Backup Conference (OSBConf) next week. Marco van Wieringen has written to this list on Saturday, that he is going to a sabbatical and

[bareos-users] New Plugin: incremental backups of MySQL / MariaDB databases

Hi there, just wanted to point you to a new Bareos plugin, that uses Percona's xtrabackup tool, to perform incremental backups of MySQL / MariaDB databases. More information and download here: https://github.com/bareos/bareos-contrib/tree/master/fd-plugins/bareos_percona -- With kind

Re: [bareos-users] Re: scripts for use

Hello, another command line interface, which makes use of the api and python library, is bsmc (written in Python). https://github.com/bareos/bareos-contrib/tree/master/misc/bsmc Packages in the contrib repository: http://download.bareos.org/bareos/contrib/ Regards Maik Am 18.06.2016 um 16:21

Re: [bareos-users] Kurse zu Bareos?

Hello, the question was, if there are training courses about Bareos available. Yes, there are. We have English and German trainings. German trainings are regularly scheduled, English ones on demand. Please read German: https://www.bareos.com/de/Schulungen.html English:

Re: [bareos-users] Which repository/branch and How to build psql-plugin

Hello Ben, we've included and adapted the source code of the pgsql plugin into our repository but we do not support it. That is one of the reasons, why there are no packages. We have a PGSQL support on our "long-term" list and we also have ideas to replace the existing code by a Python plugin,

[bareos-users] Bareos 15.2 released

Hello, we are happy to have the 15.2 released today and would like to announce now after that the CI tests have all passed on the published repositories, too. Thanks for everyone contributing qualified bug reports! This helped a lot to improve the release candidate. Now: have fun with 15.2!

Re: [bareos-users] Re: best practices for backing up ZFS?

Hello Adam, I've sent information regarding the subscription earlier. The main difference is: there are patches and updates to the major version in the subscription repositories, all tested by our continuous integration tests. And there is support available for the subscription. Regarding

[bareos-users] Open Source Backup Conference in Cologne, September 29th-30th: last tickets available

Hi, just a reminder to the upcoming Open Source Backup Conference. If you can't make it, it's nevertheless worth, visiting the conference's website: all presentations and even some videos from the last years are available in the archive. The by now 7th *Open Source Backup Conference on

Re: [bareos-users] Yum repositories

Hello Michael, Am 07.09.2015 um 15:06 schrieb Michael Mol: > On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 2:43 AM Bruno Friedmann > > wrote: > > On Thursday 03 September 2015 19.24:36 Michael Mol wrote: > > ... > The price may be low relative to other

Re: [bareos-users] Mitigating 64k restore data loss bug (#437) and 14.2 community release packages

Hello, yes, your installation could be affected by bug #437. Question 2: yes and only, if a certain file spans over multiple volumes. 3: with larger volume files you can reduce the possibility of getting incomplete files in your backup (less files could be spawned over multiple volumes) but you

Re: [bareos-users] Cloud Storage in 14.2

Hello David, it's all in our online documentation: http://doc.bareos.org/master/html/bareos-manual-main-reference.html Just search for ceph or gluster there. Regards Maik Am 06.05.2015 21:56, schrieb David Pearce: The changelog for 14.2 says: Backup to the cloud with Bareos: thanks to the

Re: [bareos-users] 14.2.4 in http://download.bareos.org

didn't find any hint on howto add the subscription repos to the source.list. Is there any documenation you can link to or can can you tell me how do i get this information? Kind regards Christian Steinherr Am 29.04.2015 um 10:32 schrieb Maik Aussendorf: Hello Claude, our policy regarding

Re: [bareos-users] 14.2.4 in http://download.bareos.org

Hello Claude, our policy regarding binary package releases is that the project publishes on download.bareos.org: a) packages for every major release (until now 12.4, 13.2 and 14.2) b) packages from nightly builds. These are built from the newest sources but published packages here have passed

Re: [bareos-users] Re: Missing 64k in zip-file after restore

Hi, that bug is already fixed and packages containing that fix are already published in the experimental/nightly tree. Regards Maik Am 12.03.2015 19:59, schrieb Jörg Steffens: Hi, the bug is reproducible, at least with File backend. It did not occur on Tape backend. I've created a ticket

[bareos-users] Open Source Backup Conference 2015: CfP and Early Bird registration open

Hello, this years Open Source Backup Conference again takes place in Cologne in September 29./30. Call for Paper and Early Bird registration are now open until the 6th of June. We are looking forward to get your proposals, registrations and see you in September! http://osbconf.org/ -- With

Re: [bareos-users] Bareos in rpm package: bareos-14.2.2-46.1.el5 what changed ?

Hi, you are right, news in that built are not obviously shown in Mantis. Problem is, that the 'fixed in' tag in Mantis does not cover multiple branches. New in 14.2.2-46 compared to the previously published version are the the commits in the 14.2 branch from Dec. 17th - Dec 24th. 2014:

[bareos-users] Open Source Backup Conference: Cologne, 22/23 Sept. - last Tickets available

Hello, the OSBCONF offers a unique opportunity to meet with Open Source backup professionals and insiders, gather and share expertise over 2 days of presentations, with hands-on workshops and social networking. Among the speakers are: Marco van Wieringen about Cloud Backup, Martin Loschwitz from

Re: [bareos-users] webacula packages

Hi, some remarks regarding environments after a Bacula - Bareos migration and installation on an older Suse 11.4: 1. If you have migrated from Bacula and are using an old database name 'bacula', the webacula-config script will not run properly. What helped: - changed the line export