Re: [Bacula-users] RunAfter job problem
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, 09:54:28PM +0100¨, Arno Lehmann said: 17-Dec 20:26 tux-dir: RunAfter: root 17-Dec 20:26 tux-dir: RunAfter: + /etc/bacula/delete_catalog_backup 17-Dec 20:26 tux-dir: RunAfter: + mt rewind 17-Dec 20:26 tux-dir: RunAfter: mt: /dev/tape: Permission denied 17-Dec 20:26 tux-dir: RunAfter: + mt eject 17-Dec 20:26 tux-dir: RunAfter: mt: /dev/tape: Permission denied 17-Dec 20:26 tux-dir: RunAfter: + exit 0 Hmm. Are you using a debian linux system? I think I remember something... yes, debian stable but bacula from sources. The problem is (well, for me in this case) that the jobs run as user bacula (this is good, do not get me wrong). The user bacula in debian systems (I used first the *.debs but then compiled) get a /bin/false shell. I changed that to /bin/bash. Then I edited the sudoers file and granted bacula access to /bin/mt as root without password. That did it. It is not beautiful but it works, and this machine is not a safety problem anyway. -- Groeten, J.I.Asenjo --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37alloc_id865op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula auto Recyle
Still at work at this time? Anyway... On 12/18/2005 1:57 PM, Dihor, Viktor wrote: Hello OSS Friends, I use Bacula 1.38.2 it runs ok. so far. Just the Process of the auto Recyling dosen't work. Bucula purges the volumes as desired, but doesnt recylce them. My Pool Def. in the Dir config looks as folows: What I see makes me think that everything's working correctly. Tapes are purged, and that's what you want. The status Recycled is only applied if a tape is actually selected for reuse, i.e. in the short time between the DIR selecting which tape to use next and, in this process, possibly pruning volumes, and the notification from the SD that this tape is actually in use again. Usually, you see this stae in the catalog in two cases only: - You have to manually change tapes, and for whatever reason you feed a tape to Bacula that is not the same one it requested. That's not a problem, by the way. The same can happen when you change magazines and you load another magazine than the one with the already recycled tape. In both cases, Bacula will simply select another volume to work with. - When, for whatever reason, Bacula stops working during tape change operations. In any case, a tape with VolStatus Recycled will be the best choice when Bacula needs a new tape. Arno The Bacula DB: Any hints why it doesent work. happy Hacking, Viktor -- IT-Service Lehmann[EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637alloc_id=16865op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula auto Recyle
Hello Arno, the maijor problem is, that bacula asks for a appendable Volume, istead of reusing a purged Volume. Am Sonntag, den 18.12.2005, 14:50 +0100 schrieb Arno Lehmann: Still at work at this time? Anyway... On 12/18/2005 1:57 PM, Dihor, Viktor wrote: Hello OSS Friends, I use Bacula 1.38.2 it runs ok. so far. Just the Process of the auto Recyling dosen't work. Bucula purges the volumes as desired, but doesnt recylce them. My Pool Def. in the Dir config looks as folows: What I see makes me think that everything's working correctly. Tapes are purged, and that's what you want. The status Recycled is only applied if a tape is actually selected for reuse, i.e. in the short time between the DIR selecting which tape to use next and, in this process, possibly pruning volumes, and the notification from the SD that this tape is actually in use again. Usually, you see this stae in the catalog in two cases only: - You have to manually change tapes, and for whatever reason you feed a tape to Bacula that is not the same one it requested. That's not a problem, by the way. The same can happen when you change magazines and you load another magazine than the one with the already recycled tape. In both cases, Bacula will simply select another volume to work with. - When, for whatever reason, Bacula stops working during tape change operations. In any case, a tape with VolStatus Recycled will be the best choice when Bacula needs a new tape. Arno The Bacula DB: Any hints why it doesent work. happy Hacking, Viktor Mit freundlichen Gren, Viktor Dihor
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula auto Recyle
On 18 Dec 2005 at 19:39, Dihor, Viktor wrote: the maijor problem is, that bacula asks for a appendable Volume, istead of reusing a purged Volume. Try this What you need is this Volume Use Duration = added to your pool definition where the duration is equal to or less than your Volume Retention setting, in my case the relevant lines are Volume Retention = 6d Volume Use Duration = 6d With this setup, Bacula FINALLY works like I expect and how pretty much any other backup software I've used on Windows or Unix works. It will overwrite the tape in the drive, assuming 6 days has passed, it marks the tape as used and then recycles it, however it only does that at the beginning of the next job, so the recycling happens at the start of the current job. Note, you'll have to run the update command as follows You have to use the update command to first update the pool parameters from the config file and the use update again to update the volume parameters from the pool: update - pool from resource update - volume parameters - select pool - select any media - all volumes from pool Not exactly intuitive because for the latter you have to first select a volume to reach the all volumes option. -- Harondel J. Sibble Sibble Computer Consulting Creating solutions for the small business and home computer user. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (use pgp keyid 0x3AD5C11D) http://www.pdscc.com (604) 739-3709 (voice/fax) (604) 686-2253 (pager) --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637alloc_id=16865op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula auto Recyle
Hi again, Viktor - On 12/18/2005 7:39 PM, Dihor, Viktor wrote: Hello Arno, the maijor problem is, that bacula asks for a appendable Volume, istead of reusing a purged Volume. I looked at your first post again, obviously more careful this time... I can't quote your list volumes output because it's graphical, but I noticed that for the volumes shown, the Recycle flag is 0. You should set this to 1. Remember that the pool definition only is the template for newly created volume in a pool - once a volume is created, its attributes should be changed either manually, using the update command, or by carefully manipulating the catalog. Arno Am Sonntag, den 18.12.2005, 14:50 +0100 schrieb Arno Lehmann: Still at work at this time? Anyway... On 12/18/2005 1:57 PM, Dihor, Viktor wrote: Hello OSS Friends, I use Bacula 1.38.2 it runs ok. so far. Just the Process of the auto Recyling dosen't work. Bucula purges the volumes as desired, but doesnt recylce them. My Pool Def. in the Dir config looks as folows: What I see makes me think that everything's working correctly. Tapes are purged, and that's what you want. The status Recycled is only applied if a tape is actually selected for reuse, i.e. in the short time between the DIR selecting which tape to use next and, in this process, possibly pruning volumes, and the notification from the SD that this tape is actually in use again. Usually, you see this stae in the catalog in two cases only: - You have to manually change tapes, and for whatever reason you feed a tape to Bacula that is not the same one it requested. That's not a problem, by the way. The same can happen when you change magazines and you load another magazine than the one with the already recycled tape. In both cases, Bacula will simply select another volume to work with. - When, for whatever reason, Bacula stops working during tape change operations. In any case, a tape with VolStatus Recycled will be the best choice when Bacula needs a new tape. Arno The Bacula DB: Any hints why it doesent work. happy Hacking, Viktor Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Viktor Dihor -- IT-Service Lehmann[EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37alloc_id865op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] RunAfterJob Script
Hello List, i have this simple RunAfterJob script: RunAfterJob = /bin/sh -c 'echo %v /tmp/vout' and i get the error: RunAfter: /bin/sh: TestVolume0017: command not found RunAfter: /bin/sh: TestVolume0018: command not found IF i run a incremental backup and i only need one BackupVolume, then it works and pipes %v into my /tmp/vout file. I am wondering what bacula does when it has multiple BackupVolume files and why/where it tries to run TestVolume00XY. I hope i explained it well. If not then let me know! Thanks, Mario --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637alloc_id=16865op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Using Multiple Tape Devices
I've been using Bacula happily for about a year, with one SCSI tape drive and the director's maximum concurrent jobs set to 1. Now I've purchased a second tape drive and added it to my SCSI chain. My goal is to divide my jobs between the two devices, and have backups writing to both devices concurrently. I can see how to configure the director and storage daemons to identify two tape drives, and how to associate each tape drive with a different set of jobs. But what I still am not clear on, after a couple of passes through the doc, is how to control the concurrency so that, in essence, each storage device has a queue of jobs. The first step is probably to increase the director's maximum concurrent jobs to 2. But situations could certainly arise where there are (more than) two jobs ready to run that want the same device. I really want to specify a maximum concurrency at the storage device level, and for the life of me I can't figure out how to do that. Maximum concurrent jobs in the storage daemon's config doesn't seem to be the way to go, even if I had multiple storage resources, because the storage daemon counts a lot more than backups as jobs (status, etc.), so I couldn't set that to 1. After reading the doc, the only way I can think of to accomplish this is make all jobs use Spool Data. But while I would want to do this anyway for incremental backups, it's really a disk-hog for full backups (of multiple server-class clients). What have I missed? --Gary --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37alloc_id865op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Messages resource and syslog
Can anyone provide a sample of a messages resource destination specification using syslog that they know works? According to the Bacula doc, the syntax is supposed to be destination = address = message-type1, message-type2, ... where I can set destination to syslog. The doc goes on to say the value of address will be ignored. The director's parser complains about an unknown message type if I follow this syntax, seemingly no matter what I put in for address. What I can get the parser to accept is: syslog = message-type1, message-type2, ... But then I can't find anything in any of my Linux logs. The Bacula doc says its messages will be logged to the LOG_ERR facility. LOG_ERR is not a facility, it's a priority, AFAIK. LOG_ERR isn't actually a Linux syslog term, it's, I believe, a literal used in some logging support programming packages. So, I really have three questions: 1) Does the syslog destination really work for Bacula messages? 2) What facility and priority are actually being used for the syslog messages that are generated? 3) What is the correct syntax for a syslog destination in the messages resource? BTW, I'm running Bacula 1.38.2 on RHEL4 update 2. In advance, thanks! --Gary --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37alloc_id865op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with bconsole and passphrase protected certificate key
Landon Fuller wrote: Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: If client certificate for bconsole is passhprase protected, there is a prompt displayed to enter the passphrase. Then bconsole hangs. Ctrl-C doesn't work. The only way to get out is to kill it from another terminal. # bconsole Connecting to Director backup.foobar.com:9101 Passphrase for Director backup-dir TLS private key: - hangs right here The PEM passphrase callback makes use of getpass(). getpass() will read from and write directly to /dev/tty. If the process has no controlling TTY (eg, after calling setsid()), getpass() will write to stderr and read the password from stdin. Can you tell me more about your environment? Are you trying to pipe a password to bconsole? The code works fine here (I tested on Mac OS X and FreeBSD.): It was just standard Linux box (CentOS 4 distribution, basically RHEL 4 recompiled from sources). No fancy invocations, no pipeing. I just typed bconsole, it prompted me for passphrase and hang there. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637alloc_id=16865op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
