On Wednesday 22 July 2009 15:03:00 Eric Bollengier wrote: > Hello Marc, > > Le Wednesday 22 July 2009 10:53:20 Marc Cousin, vous avez écrit : > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to log all the files backed up, on the FD side. > > > > I'll explain myself before anybody tells me the information is in the > > database and bconsole :) > > > > I know that all the information is stored in the director. But in my > > company, things are really compartimented, and there is a team > > responsible for all backups, and several admin teams working on the > > servers, doing everything but the backups. > > > > To get the backups done, they have to fill forms, then other forms if > > they want to modify them, etc ... The problem being that : > > - It's very hard to know what is really backed up after a while, if the > > information is scattered over several forms > > - You have to really trust the people doing backups to have implemented > > exactly what is in these forms > > > > To make things worse, the director and bweb and bconsole are in a special > > vlan where only people from the backup team can connect. > > > > So many admins are left in the dark on whether the backup works or not > > (me included :) ). > > > > So I wanted to be able to log locally on my server what is really backed > > up, to be able to check this periodically. And it seems I can't. > > > > I've tried to put > > syslog = all > > > > in my Messages section on the FD. I get messages telling me that job XXX > > has started, and all restores are logged also. But I don't get messages > > for backed up files. > > Perhaps we need a Jmsg(M_SAVED) message in the save_file procedure? This > message type already exists but isn't implemented right now.
Yes, that is exactly what is needed -- a new Jmsg(M_SAVED) and implementation of the M_SAVED message class. > > I can't tell you if it's normal or if it's waiting for a patch :) It is not implemented because no one has asked for it until now, and it will generate *lots* of data so it is a bit "dangerous". Kern > > > Is there a way to do it ? I understand that it is disabled by default, as > > it would generate a lot of logs, but I really need to be able to > > double-check the backups without filling 5 more forms :) > > Bye > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >--- _______________________________________________ > Bacula-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
