Re: [bareos-users] Backup to Tape not working (no appendable Volume)

Zitat von Marvin Stark : Hi List, I'm using Bareos for my Linux Server backups, first of all bareos is a great software. I firstly had a disk to disk strategy but now changing it to Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape-Backup. For that i configured a autochanger which is already working outside of bareos.

Re: [bareos-users] Override Job priority

Zitat von lst_ho...@kwsoft.de: Zitat von lst_ho...@kwsoft.de: Hello, we need to run backup jobs with different priority for incremental and full backups. Unfortunately i have no found any other place to set priority beside the job/jobdefs resource. Is it possible at all have different

Re: [bareos-users] Sending catalog.bsr by mail

Zitat von Henry Matroé : Hello everybody. i need some help for sending mail for bootstrap (.bsr) Actualy I use the default configuration : Write Bootstrap = "|/usr/bin/bsmtp -h localhost -f \"\(Bareos\) \" -s \"Bootstrap for Job %j\" root" I tried to modify like this : Write Bootstrap =

Re: [bareos-users] Override Job priority

Zitat von lst_ho...@kwsoft.de: Hello, we need to run backup jobs with different priority for incremental and full backups. Unfortunately i have no found any other place to set priority beside the job/jobdefs resource. Is it possible at all have different priority at job schedule? It

[bareos-users] Override Job priority

Hello, we need to run backup jobs with different priority for incremental and full backups. Unfortunately i have no found any other place to set priority beside the job/jobdefs resource. Is it possible at all have different priority at job schedule? Thanks Andi -- You received this

Re: [bareos-users] Turn off spooling for full backups? (Perhaps for just one client)

Zitat von James Youngman : I use a spool area to prevent shoe-shining during incremental and differential backups. But I also have one large backup which takes a very long time (for Full backups). It seems to me as if this has become slower since I introduced spooling. I can read the source

[bareos-users] How to use more than one file location in one pool?

Hello, we try to use some file locations for file based backups in one pool. As we can not use the same "Media type" for different file path we could use multiple "Storage" entries in the pool. But according to the documentation this does not work: "Be aware that you theoretically can

Re: [bareos-users] spool and despool at the same time?

Zitat von Claas Goltz : Hi, is it technically possible to spool and despool at the same time? For example (fictitious values) given: 100GB Volume 50GB Spoolsize - Tape job starts spooling 50 GB: 10 min - writing (despooling) to tape: 10 min - after despooling, spool the next 50gb: 10 min -

Re: [bareos-users] As 18 approaches

Zitat von Andreas Rogge : Hi David, Am 29.01.19 um 16:41 schrieb David Lawley: I still have a few 2003 servers running 14.2 agents. Any idea what kind of compatibility matrix I might be up against?  I know its time to ditch this old crap, but I might be stuck with it just a while longer

Re: [bareos-users] Re: No data encryption although encryption configuration = Yes

Zitat von jijeshgang...@gmail.com: Hi, I am a beginner, I have query, If I create the key pair using following method and the can I use "PKI Cipher = aes256" in fd.conf (client side) or do I need to create key pair with 'aes256' ? "Generate a File Daemon Key Pair for each FD:

Re: [bareos-users] Best practices Windows Domain Controller

Zitat von kunesc...@gmail.com: Hello, how to backup a Windows domain controller with Bareos? Currently we use a separate Linux server which recivied the exported GPO and backs up the LDAP via plugin. Now I want to backup the domain controller directly. Bareos can use VSS to backup a

Re: [bareos-users] Tapechanger HP MSL2024

Zitat von tklassen : Bareos itself runs on a VM and is just capable of contacting the tapechanger via network. This doesn't work as the MSL must be connected by SAS/SCSI for getting data to tape as far as i know. The network connector is only used for some

Re: [bareos-users] Restore from read-only tape

Zitat von Bruno Friedmann : On jeudi, 2 novembre 2017 11.38:03 h CET lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: Hello, we are testing our desaster restore and with this the question arises if it is really possible to restore for example LTO-4 tapes with a LTO-6 drive/changer? We

Re: [bareos-users] Restore from read-only tape

Zitat von Kai Zimmer : Hi Andreas, are you sure you did not use hardware compression on the HP drive? The compression algorithms are vendor specific. Maybe try with a HP LTO6 drive? Best regards, Kai Is the (hardware) compression really vendor specific? I have not

[bareos-users] Restore from read-only tape

Hello, we are testing our desaster restore and with this the question arises if it is really possible to restore for example LTO-4 tapes with a LTO-6 drive/changer? We are failed to do so with LTO-4 tapes written by some HP drive reading with a IBM LTO-6 drive. The error from Bareos 15.2

Re: [bareos-users] Backup warning about files in C:/Windows/System32/LogFiles/Sum/ on Windows 2016

Zitat von ulem...@polarzone.de: Hi all, I'm wonder that I don't find anything about this issue with the search-function. On some standard Win2016 installations where the client was installed with winbareos-16.2.4-postvista-64-bit-r14.1.exe the backup ends with an warning: Could not

Re: [bareos-users] VSS Writer "SqlServerWriter" has invalid state with Bareos 16.2.4 Client on Windows

Zitat von Philipp Storz : Hello, the commit that can cause that problems probably can be: 37a083f52c2dd4649ec2fca61971d740a76404fc vss: Get rid of one VSS client at a time. Since then it is possible to run more than one job at a time on windows. I don't really

Re: [bareos-users] VSS Writer "SqlServerWriter" has invalid state with Bareos 16.2.4 Client on Windows

Zitat von Bruno Friedmann : On mardi, 24 janvier 2017 13.57:53 h CET lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: Hello, we have installed the lates 16.2.4 Client for Windows on a Windows 2008 R2 Server with MS-SQL Express 2008R2. With up until the 15.2 Version of the client this

[bareos-users] VSS Writer "SqlServerWriter" has invalid state with Bareos 16.2.4 Client on Windows

Hello, we have installed the lates 16.2.4 Client for Windows on a Windows 2008 R2 Server with MS-SQL Express 2008R2. With up until the 15.2 Version of the client this has worked as expected. Now we got the following "warning" from Bareos: Warning: VSS Writer "SqlServerWriter" has invalid

Re: [bareos-users] fd crashes during restore job on w2k3 server

Zitat von Arjen Van Drie : Hi List, I know, w2k3 is end of life, but we still have a couple of em running. 32 Bits versions. * Bareos-fd version 14.2.2 (is there a newer version for w2k3 ?) * Bareos-dir version 15.2 on CentOS Linux * reproducable on Bare

Re: [bareos-users] Bareos client contacting storage server

Zitat von David Pearce : We did some rearranging of our firewall and found an interesting issue. Our Bareos storage server is named "G". It reaches out to a client "C" and starts a backup. Then for reasons I don't understand, "C" opens a new connection and

Re: [bareos-users] Re: Backup over high-latency wan connection

Zitat von Alexander Brückel : Forgot to mention, sorry. It's completely disk-based, so we're not spooling. Things you should consider: - Make sure you can get decent throughput with your high latency. For Details have a look here for example

Re: [bareos-users] Can not deselect Director SQLite Package

Zitat von Philipp Storz : Ok, I think I fixed it. Can you please verify with the windows installers you find in http://download.bareos.org/bareos/people/pstorz/ ? Thank you very much, Philipp Ok, the SQLite package is gone now as expected, thanks. Andreas --

Re: [bareos-users] Re: Bareos Full Backup haven't full files.

Zitat von 吳汝剛 : 吳汝剛於 2015年11月24日星期二 UTC+8上午8時42分50秒寫道： Hello, I use bareos 15.2.2 and use full backup. I want backup files total is 2179421 files and 3196GB. My tape is LTO-6 and space is 2.50TB/6.25TB(Compressed). But the bareos full backup always stop 1.91TB and 1,210,291

Re: [bareos-users] Can not deselect Director SQLite Package

Zitat von lst_ho...@kwsoft.de: Hello, we had a test install auf the new Bareos Windows Client (15.2.2-35.1) on a Windows 2008R2 Server. As always we try to only install the file daemon and nothing from director or tray monitor. But with this release we cannot deselect the "Director

Re: [bareos-users] Can not backup to network drive in Windows

Zitat von Deimos Deimos : Hi all! I have a problem with backup to network drive. Console returns me error "Unable to stat device" when bareos-sd running as service, but it works perfect when i run bareos-sd.exe manually(logged in as Administrator and map network

Re: [bareos-users] Help for.installing and configure bareos

Zitat von celal suleymanov : среда, 11 ноября 2015 г., 9:53:41 UTC+4 пользователь Bruno Friedmann написал: > > I check with this command : bareos-dir -t -c /etc/bareos/bareos-dir.conf > > that error showed : Config error: Could not find config Resource

Re: [bareos-users] Help for.installing and configure bareos

Zitat von celal suleymanov : I want to know i must install mysql or postgresql server or postgresql,mysql rpm on bareos download? "We assume that you have already your database installed and basically running" You have to install the database you like to

Re: [bareos-users] Problem with tape library

Zitat von rahs : Tape library HP MSL G3 2024, 2 LTO 6250 drives, connected via LSI 9280-8e To my knowledge the RAID Controller are not supported with tape drives. You should use a non RAID HBA to attach the library. We have a MSL 4048 which works trouble free with

Re: [bareos-users] Compatible Mode

Zitat von David Pearce david_pea...@wycliffe.org: Our's is a Bacula installation that is now 100% Bareos. Other than new features, do we gain anything changing to Compatible = no? No, new features are the only benefit as of now. But Compatible = no might get the default as time goes by.

Re: [bareos-users] Re: Any way to spool to disk and write to tape at same time?

Zitat von David Pearce david_pea...@wycliffe.org: We use data spooling and this can increase the total time, but it definitely keeps the tape drive streaming (going at full speed) reducing wear-and-tear. However, I agree that a job that is spooling to disk should not reserve a tape

Re: [bareos-users] Backup to disk and then stage/move to tape

Zitat von Ronny Egner ronnyeg...@ronnyegner-consulting.de: Hi List, i would like to backup my data to disk first and then - after some time - migrate/stage/move the data to tape. The important bit here is that the data that was tored on disk before is *moved* and not copied and the space on

Re: [bareos-users] Backing up catalog and other essential files for disaster recovery solution

Zitat von Francesco Morosinotto francesco.morosino...@riescoincucina.it: Hello guys, this is probably a stupid question but after browsing the web I was not able to find out a clear solution: I have a main backup server and an offsite one; every night I make some backup to the offsite

Re: [bareos-users] autochanger slot update issue

Zitat von Peter Tiernan ptier...@tchpc.tcd.ie: Good afternoon, I am getting started with autochangers and tapes. I have tested my autochanger and it is working properly, but when I try the update slots command in bconsole i get the following error: The defined Autochanger Storage

Re: [bareos-users] Detecting shoe-shining

Zitat von David Pearce david_pea...@wycliffe.org: Back in the day when loaders were not popular, we could listen to a tape drive to detect shoe-shining, which would kill the transfer rate. Now that we have tape loaders we can hear the tape drives. And now that we have excellent software

Re: [bareos-users] Re: Detecting shoe-shining

Zitat von David Pearce david_pea...@wycliffe.org: The only time I see the despooling transfer rate is when I use Spool data. If there a way to see it when you do not use it? Hm, ok. You definitely should use data spooling, otherwise you will get in trouble with shoe-shining nearly for

[bareos-users] Usage of File Device Concurrent Read = yes|no

Hello, today i see the following parameter listed in the Bareos Manual: File Device Concurrent Read = yes|no (http://doc.bareos.org/master/html/bareos-manual-main-reference.html#directiveSdStorageFile%20Device%20Concurrent%20Read). Can anyone comment on what the setting of yes will actually

Re: [bareos-users] The truth about hardware compression

Zitat von Conrad Lawes pxeb...@gmail.com: I have been using Bareos for a couple years now and Bacula (Community Edition) a few years before that. One thing that I have never gotten to work is hardware compression. I used to use LTO3 tapes that natively storage 400GB and 800GB with

Re: [bareos-users] Re: SD crash with copy job

Zitat von Marco van Wieringen marco.van.wierin...@bareos.com: lst_hoe02 at kwsoft.de writes: Officially the query should return two items I myself use the following (which is a variation on the build in CopyUnCopiedJobs) I will try with two results from SQL query. From reading

Re: [bareos-users] Windows Server as backup target

Zitat von Henrik Bro Larsen hbrolar...@gmx.de: Hi :-) I want to install Bareos, but with a windows 2012 R2 as a backup target. I The director etc. all runs on Linux, but the Win-server has enough file space to take up the backups of Bareos. How can I do that ? Best regards, Henrik You

Re: [bareos-users] Windows 7 desktop and Windows server backup reliability

Zitat von Thomas Lau t...@tetrioncapital.com: Thanks, and I don't think bareos support bare metal recovery for Windows right? If not its difficult to restore since you need to reinstall and config all application from scratch, how did you manage to do this step? There is no included bare

Re: [bareos-users] Re: SD crash with copy job

Zitat von Marco van Wieringen marco.van.wierin...@bareos.com: lst_hoe02 at kwsoft.de writes: Hello, we have a Bareos Install 14.2.2-46 on Linux which is running fine doing disk based backup and virtual full to tape. Now we like to replace the virtual full by a copy job which transfer

[bareos-users] SD crash with copy job

Hello, we have a Bareos Install 14.2.2-46 on Linux which is running fine doing disk based backup and virtual full to tape. Now we like to replace the virtual full by a copy job which transfer the disk based full backup to tape. We have therefore tried this copy job: JobDefs { Name =

Re: [bareos-users] Problem with restore of encrypted backup

Zitat von Philipp Storz philipp.st...@bareos.com: Hello Andreas, this is an interesting problem. Looking at the code we did not do any changes to that part recently. Could you please run the fd with debug level 200 and try to only restore the minimum number of files in order to trigger

[bareos-users] Problem with restore of encrypted backup

Hello, we use PKI encrypted backup for a while and up until now it has been working as expected. Over the weekend we have done a migration of a somewhat bigger fileserver (windows 2003 - windows 2008R2) with a backup/restore and had some trouble while restore. This is one of the

Re: [bareos-users] new directory bareos-dir.d

Zitat von alex a.kel...@googlemail.com: Hi, after the update to bareos14.2 I found a new directory: /etc/bareos/bareos-dir.d, however, I find no documentation about it. should the configfiles are now stored there? thx alex It is used for example by bareos webui and maybe by other

Re: [bareos-users] Re: Can´t connect to mysql

Zitat von Nico Haslberger saurus...@gmail.com: Am Donnerstag, 5. März 2015 21:21:51 UTC+1 schrieb Bruno Friedmann: Which should use the localhost/socket connection. I modified the config as you said. The thing is now: My the fd that is running on the machine where the

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

Zitat von pbunge...@gmail.com: Hello Bruno, thank you for your reply. I'll try to test it this evening. Yesterday, I did some more tests: Update: I copied the zip-File to zip-file2 within the same folder. Now bareos restore is complaining about both files with incorrect size.

Re: [bareos-users] bareos-webui 14.2 released

Zitat von Frank Bergkemper frank.bergkem...@dass-it.de: Am 04.03.2015 um 16:36 schrieb lst_ho...@kwsoft.de: Zitat von Frank Bergkemper frank.bergkem...@dass-it.de: Hi altogether, a new version of bareos-webui (bareos-webui 14.2) has been published. For simplicity, we decided to keep

Re: [bareos-users] Re: urgent: any experiences with StorageTek SL150?

Zitat von tonyalbers tony.alb...@gmail.com: Den onsdag den 4. marts 2015 kl. 10.05.03 UTC+1 skrev tonyalbers: Hi Guys, Has anyone tried out using STK SL150 with LTO6 SAS drives and Bareos? We have a customer who is asking if it will work with Bacula, and I'd personally like to point them

Re: [bareos-users] Re: urgent: any experiences with StorageTek SL150?

Zitat von Tony Albers tony.alb...@gmail.com: Hi Andreas, Paid support will be purchased, that's for sure. I just wanted to know if anyone on the list had any experiences with the library. thanks, Tony We have the HP MSL brand which works trouble free since two years with Bareos.

Re: [bareos-users] Migration from Bacula to Bareos. A file daemon question

Zitat von Alberto Ernestini a.ernest...@gmail.com: Hello, i am moving from Bacula 5.x.x to Bareos . Thankfully i don't have to migrate any data and i am only moving the hosts to the new server reinstalling the filedaemon. I have a question about the flag compatible = no : do i have to set it

Re: [bareos-users] Re: LTO3 LTO4 Tape Size issues

Zitat von Philipp Storz philipp.st...@bareos.com: Am 03.02.2015 um 22:40 schrieb Ireneusz Piasecki: W dniu 03.02.2015 o 21:42, Hilario Fochi pisze: [snip] As a new user of Bareos, I wish to report another issue related to BAT and the Bareos feedback to the operator: I just made a full

Re: [bareos-users] migrating bareos mysql-db to postgres?

Zitat von lst_ho...@kwsoft.de: Zitat von Kai Zimmer zim...@bbaw.de: Hi, i'm new to bareos and really happy with it - except that i used mysql as a database and it's taking ages to make new full backups. The ibdata1 file has currently 112 GB. I hope that a switch to postgres would

Re: [bareos-users] sqlite3 in production

Zitat von Stanislav German-Evtushenko ginerm...@gmail.com: On Friday, November 7, 2014 5:17:54 PM UTC+3, Hunt, Phillip wrote: Yes, sqlite is NOT a good database. Bareos writes millions of file records to the file. Sqlite will run out of pointers and performance will greatly suffer very

[bareos-users] Problem with latest 14.x Windows File Daemon

Hello, today i tested the latest 14.x Beta Windows FD on a Windows 2003 Server. Installation was trouble free, the test incremental worked fine againt our 13.2.2 Director. But the following was the report from this backup: 06-Nov 11:33 bacula-dir JobId 12934: Start Backup JobId 12934,

Re: [bareos-users] Problem with latest 14.x Windows File Daemon

Zitat von lst_ho...@kwsoft.de: Hello, today i tested the latest 14.x Beta Windows FD on a Windows 2003 Server. Installation was trouble free, the test incremental worked fine againt our 13.2.2 Director. But the following was the report from this backup: 06-Nov 11:33 bacula-dir JobId

Re: [bareos-users] Documentation Level=VirtualFull

Zitat von Daniel Neuberger daniel.neuber...@dass-it.de: Hello Andreas, no it is not depricated, the documentation for that part is already on the agenda but not documented until now you guess right. What is exactly the problem with the restores? Regards Daniel Hello, we do the

Re: [bareos-users] Documentation Level=VirtualFull

Zitat von Daniel Neuberger daniel.neuber...@dass-it.de: Ah ok. Than you should rather use copy jobs instead of virtuall full. Cause the virtuall full is synthetic fullbackup and the last fullback is always the reference for a restore if you not use the exact jobid. You already have

Re: [bareos-users] Bareos and HP LTO-5 Drive Problems

Zitat von Marco Langerwisch mos3s...@googlemail.com: We are using an Bareos 13.2.2 Installation an Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS in combination with a HP-Ultrium 3000 SAS LTO-5 Tape Drive. We are having serious trouble with the tape-handling. - Testing the Tape writing with btape -- all fine -

Re: [bareos-users] Repository not up to date?

Zitat von Nico Haslberger saurus...@gmail.com: Am Dienstag, 30. September 2014 22:19:35 UTC+2 schrieb lst_...@kwsoft.de: Zitat von Nico Haslberger saurus...@gmail.com: Hello folks, is it possible that the /bareos/release/latest Repository is not up to date? In this repo there is

Re: [bareos-users] Repository not up to date?

Zitat von Nico Haslberger saurus...@gmail.com: Hello folks, is it possible that the /bareos/release/latest Repository is not up to date? In this repo there is only Version 13.2 and the latest ubuntu version is 12.04. greetings Nico Bareos 14.x is Beta to my knowledge and with 13.2.x you

Re: [bareos-users] Re: Job stuck with message Jobs waiting to reserve a drive

Zitat von Thomas Plant bluesch...@gmail.com: Update: after the 'Full' backup job terminated the waiting 'Incremental' job started and finished successfully. Could it been that because the 'Full' job was upgraded from incremental as it was it's first run and blocked the other? Priorities

Re: [bareos-users] how to backup multiple client in a single job

Zitat von Xinity rzarou...@gmail.com: hi all, first of all thanks to marco and gunter for there precious help. i'm close to finish my backup platform with bareos. i may have few questions, one of them is : is it possible to make a single backup job, that would backup multiple clients ?

Re: [bareos-users] VSS on Windows - SystemState and Hyper-V

Zitat von Philipp Storz philipp.st...@bareos.com: Hello Dmitry and Andreas, Great info, so - if I understood this correctly - Bareos will backup all snapshots generated by any registered VSS Writers? In principle that is true, but of course you need to backup the right files that a