Re: [Bacula-users] Backup + technical support expertise ?
Hello, Nice to see these kinds of requests. I'm forwarding this to the bacula-devel list. Good luck in finding candidates ... On Wednesday 05 April 2006 03:16, RAM TK wrote: Hi Looking to hire people with Linux administration and backup skills for providing customer support. The company is local to SF Bay area, with telecommuting possibilities. Please email if interested. Thanks -- Best regards, Kern ( /\ V_V --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with 1.38.6 under Fedora Core 5 ?
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 00:32, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
Hello,
is anybody running Bacula 1.38.6 (28 March 2006) under Fedora Core 5?
I am not running it under FC5, but I have tested it under FC5, but not in a
production environment.
Since updating from FC4 to FC5 and from Bacula 1.38.5 to 1.38.6 (in
one step, probably this was not a good idea), each run of our nightly
backup jobs will fail like this:
Subject: Bacula: Backup Fatal Error of atlas-fd Incremental
...
05-Apr 00:20 diddl-dir: Atlas-Other.2006-04-05_00.20.01 Fatal error:
sql_create.c:85 sql_create.c:85 insert INSERT INTO Job
(Job,Name,Type,Level,JobStatus,SchedTime,JobTDate) VALUES
('Atlas-Other.2006-04-05_00.20.01','Atlas-Other','B','I','C','2006-04-05
00:20:00',1144189200) failed: MySQL server has gone away
05-Apr 00:20 diddl-dir: Atlas-Other.2006-04-05_00.20.01 Fatal error:
sql_create.c:87 Create DB Job record INSERT INTO Job
(Job,Name,Type,Level,JobStatus,SchedTime,JobTDate) VALUES
('Atlas-Other.2006-04-05_00.20.01','Atlas-Other','B','I','C','2006-04-05
00:20:00',1144189200) failed. ERR=MySQL server has gone away
I'm using mysql (mysql-server-5.0.18-2.1 from FC5), and mysqld seems
to be running fine. Actually restarting mysqld does not help - the
problem persists.
However, restarting the bacula DIR *does* solve the problem, for one
day or so - I can run my backups manually, but the next scheduled run
will fail with the same errors.
Any ideas?
It sounds to me like you have a version conflict between the Bacula build and
the MySQL version. For example: you upgraded MySQL, but are using a Bacula
built with a prior MySQL; or you upgraded MySQL, but not the development
libriaries, then rebuilt Bacula, which would of course expect an older
(probably version 4) MySQL.
Suggestion: ensure that you have *all* the new MySQL libraries loaded and that
there are no older ones in some other directory. Rebuild Bacula from scratch,
re-install. Above all do not install Bacula from an rpm until there is a FC5
rpm.
The other possibility is that MySQL version 5 times out the connection with
Bacula. There may be some new SQL command and/or config parameter that
resolves this.
--
Best regards,
Kern
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Re: [Bacula-users] HEADS UP: 1.38.6 bacula-sd issues
Dan Langille schrieb:
Folks: If you happen to upgrade to 1.38.6 and you start getting
permission
errors on your tape drive, when it worked in previous versions, a
work around
may be changing the group for bacula-sd.
For me, in FreeBSD, I add this to /etc/rc.conf:
bacula_sd_flags= -u bacula -g operator -v -c /usr/local/etc/bacula-
sd.conf
In short, I'm running as the group specified on /dev/sa0
# ls -l /dev/sa0
crw-rw 4 root operator 14, 0 Mar 13 2005 /dev/sa0
And not as the group bacula, of which bacula is a member:
# id bacula
uid=910(bacula) gid=910(bacula) groups=910(bacula), 5(operator)
I'm trying to find the cause of this problem.
Hi,
I've had similar problem a while ago and submitted a possible solution
(patch attached) but Kerns wasn't quite satisfied with it. The followup
is here:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9644823forum_id=8650
It was made for the 1.38.5 but should apply to the the 1.38.6 as well. I
haven't got around yet to check it against the current release, but I
think it should go without problems.
If you get time to apply it, share your results. The current state is
WorksForMe (tm).
Regards,
-Dimitri aka Tristan-777
--- bacula-1.38.5/src/lib/bsys.c 2005-12-22 22:35:24.0 +0100
+++ bacula-1.38.5-mod/src/lib/bsys.c 2006-02-05 23:37:03.0 +0100
@@ -602,30 +602,36 @@
*/
void drop(char *uid, char *gid)
{
-#ifdef HAVE_GRP_H
- if (gid) {
- struct group *group;
- gid_t gr_list[1];
-
- if ((group = getgrnam(gid)) == NULL) {
- Emsg1(M_ERROR_TERM, 0, _(Could not find specified group: %s\n), gid);
- }
- if (setgid(group-gr_gid)) {
- Emsg1(M_ERROR_TERM, 0, _(Could not set specified group: %s\n), gid);
- }
- gr_list[0] = group-gr_gid;
- if (setgroups(1, gr_list)) {
- Emsg1(M_ERROR_TERM, 0, _(Could not set specified group: %s\n), gid);
- }
- }
-#endif
#ifdef HAVE_PWD_H
if (uid) {
struct passwd *passw;
+ struct group *group;
+ gid_t gr_gid;
+
if ((passw = getpwnam(uid)) == NULL) {
Emsg1(M_ERROR_TERM, 0, _(Could not find specified userid: %s\n), uid);
}
+
+#ifdef HAVE_GRP_H
+ gr_gid = passw-pw_gid;
+
+ if (gid) {
+ if ((group = getgrnam(gid)) == NULL) {
+Emsg1(M_ERROR_TERM, 0, _(Could not find specified group: %s\n), gid);
+ }
+ gr_gid = group-gr_gid;
+ }
+
+ if (setgid(gr_gid)) {
+ Emsg1(M_ERROR_TERM, 0, _(Could not set specified group: %s\n), gid);
+ }
+
+ if (initgroups(passw-pw_name, gr_gid)) {
+ Emsg1(M_ERROR_TERM, 0, _(Could not setup group access for user: %s\n), uid);
+ }
+#endif
+
if (setuid(passw-pw_uid)) {
Emsg1(M_ERROR_TERM, 0, _(Could not set specified userid: %s\n), uid);
}
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[Bacula-users] Bacula with multiple storages
Hi everybody! We (the chair for Informations- and Engineering-Management at the Ruhr-University of Bochum) are using bacula as our main backup system for our Linux servers for about 4 months now and we are very confident with the system. Since I am searching for a way to backup our workstations and laptops with bacula also, I came over the following problem: I dont want to have the server-backups and the workstation/laptop backups in one file. So I tried to use different labels for them but all that happened was that bacula created a file with the new name (e.g. workstation) but still wrote the data to the old file (e.g. servers). After that I tried to create 2 different storages in one storage daemon. It went quite well but when I did the server backup first in the file servers and did the workstation backup later in another file (+ a different directory) and I tried to backup the servers again, bacula always searched for the end of the file of the workstation backup which he didnt find there of course. The same happened when I created 2 separated storage daemons on one machine. So my question is: How can I write the backup for the servers in one and the backup for the workstations in a different file? We are using bacula version 1.36.3 on a SuSe 9.2 system and we write the data to a harddisk on a Windows 2003 server over the cifs. Thanks in advance for your help. Kindest regards Alexander Nolte --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] HEADS UP: 1.38.6 bacula-sd issues
On Friday 31 March 2006 21:13, Dimitri Puzin wrote: Dan Langille schrieb: Folks: If you happen to upgrade to 1.38.6 and you start getting permission errors on your tape drive, when it worked in previous versions, a work around may be changing the group for bacula-sd. For me, in FreeBSD, I add this to /etc/rc.conf: bacula_sd_flags= -u bacula -g operator -v -c /usr/local/etc/bacula- sd.conf In short, I'm running as the group specified on /dev/sa0 # ls -l /dev/sa0 crw-rw 4 root operator 14, 0 Mar 13 2005 /dev/sa0 And not as the group bacula, of which bacula is a member: # id bacula uid=910(bacula) gid=910(bacula) groups=910(bacula), 5(operator) I'm trying to find the cause of this problem. Hi, I've had similar problem a while ago and submitted a possible solution (patch attached) but Kerns wasn't quite satisfied with it. Just a clarification here. It wasn't that I was not satisfied with your patch, but that I was working on releasing 1.38.5, and the patch was a bit too big and IMO changed the behavior enough that I didn't want to take the risk of creating a new bug at the time. For version 1.39, I'll be happy to take a careful look at it. The followup is here: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9644823forum_id=865 0 It was made for the 1.38.5 but should apply to the the 1.38.6 as well. I haven't got around yet to check it against the current release, but I think it should go without problems. If you get time to apply it, share your results. The current state is WorksForMe (tm). Regards, -Dimitri aka Tristan-777 -- Best regards, Kern ( /\ V_V --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] GFS rotating howto
Hi, I have created a small howto covering GFS rotation scheme and bacula together with some supplemental scripts. The GFS rotation scheme might not be useful for all scenarios (personally I think its only applicable in small environments), but I use it since over 10 years for a site, first with other backup tools, today with bacula. If you are interested, have a look at http://www.georglutz.de/wiki/Bacula . The howto is not supposed to be just copied into your configuration files, but its meant as an proposal/template for your own setup. -- Georg --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] HEADS UP: 1.38.6 bacula-sd issues
On 31 Mar 2006 at 21:13, Dimitri Puzin wrote: Dan Langille schrieb: Folks: If you happen to upgrade to 1.38.6 and you start getting permission errors on your tape drive, when it worked in previous versions, a work around may be changing the group for bacula-sd. For me, in FreeBSD, I add this to /etc/rc.conf: bacula_sd_flags= -u bacula -g operator -v -c /usr/local/etc/bacula- sd.conf In short, I'm running as the group specified on /dev/sa0 # ls -l /dev/sa0 crw-rw 4 root operator 14, 0 Mar 13 2005 /dev/sa0 And not as the group bacula, of which bacula is a member: # id bacula uid=910(bacula) gid=910(bacula) groups=910(bacula), 5(operator) I'm trying to find the cause of this problem. Hi, I've had similar problem a while ago and submitted a possible solution (patch attached) but Kerns wasn't quite satisfied with it. The followup is here: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9644823forum_id=8650 It was made for the 1.38.5 but should apply to the the 1.38.6 as well. I haven't got around yet to check it against the current release, but I think it should go without problems. If you get time to apply it, share your results. The current state is WorksForMe (tm). Thanks. For now, the FreeBSD port runs the SD with -g operator. -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Bacula version 1.38.6 one Windows 2003
Hello, For those of you who have experienced failures of Bacula 1.38.6 on Windows 2003, I would appreciate it if you would download and test a version that I believe has the problem corrected. Feedback as soon as possible would be appreciated. You can find this version at: www.sibbald.com/download/bacula-1.38.6-1.exe Thanks. -- Best regards, Kern ( /\ V_V --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] (no subject)
Hi,I have another question.I want to use Bacula so that it writes the backup to a file, which isn't a problem.But the file should have a maximum of 70G, which is also not a problem :)But what I want is that Bacula keeps re-using the file. So : Take backups till the 70 G is full - remove the older parts - use the parts which were freed up.I thought that this could be done with pruning, but I can't get it working. I've set the file pruning after 2days, and the job pruning after 3 days..but the files keeps filling until the 70g is used. Anybody who can help me?B-- Schelstraete Barthttp://www.schelstraete.org[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Bacula-users] Review of Bacula
There's a brief review of Bacula at: http://osreviews.net/reviews/admin/bacula It's fairly positive, but criticizes the tape selection algorithm as being far from intuitive. -- John Kodis. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Recycling volumes
On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 16:37:30 +0200 Bart Schelstraete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have another question. I want to use Bacula so that it writes the backup to a file, which isn't a problem. But the file should have a maximum of 70G, which is also not a problem :) But what I want is that Bacula keeps re-using the file. So : Take backups till the 70 G is full - remove the older parts - use the parts which were freed up. I thought that this could be done with pruning, but I can't get it working. I've set the file pruning after 2days, and the job pruning after 3 days..but the files keeps filling until the 70g is used. Anybody who can help me? AFAICT Bacula can either recycle the entire volume or none of it. I recommend splitting the space up into several volumes and allowing Bacula to rotate through them as it finds the data is pruned. i.e. instead of a single 70G volume, make 7 10G volumes. When all the data in one volume has been pruned, Bacula will recycle it. Bacula can't seem to recycle just part of a volume, however. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] (no subject)
Bart Schelstraete wrote: Hi, I have another question. I want to use Bacula so that it writes the backup to a file, which isn't a problem. But the file should have a maximum of 70G, which is also not a problem :) But what I want is that Bacula keeps re-using the file. So : Take backups till the 70 G is full - remove the older parts - use the parts which were freed up. I thought that this could be done with pruning, but I can't get it working. I've set the file pruning after 2days, and the job pruning after 3 days..but the files keeps filling until the 70g is used. Anybody who can help me? B i don't think this is a good idea anyway ... the file will get framented a LOT over time that way Florian --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Catalog_Backup not performed
I'm having strange happenings recently on a working bacula installation.Since a couple of weeks, the last Backup_catalog job is randomly not performed (some days it runs, some days it does not).All the previous jobs are performed correctly.If I look at the job queue when the first job starts (23:00), I can see all the 5 jobs waiting for their moment (they are scheduled with a difference of 10 mins each), and the Backup_catalog is there, last in queue.The next day I see that the Backup_catalog is missing from the list of bacula emails.And infact, the tape is not ejected (the Backup_catalog runs the end_of_backup.sh to eject the tape).I looked inside the log file, but no trace of the job, not even a cancel action.Using bconsole and issuing "cancel", no job is waitingdisappeared...Do you have an idea?Gabriele. Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY http://www.sonicle.com
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula version 1.38.6 one Windows 2003
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 16:09, Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, For those of you who have experienced failures of Bacula 1.38.6 on Windows 2003, I would appreciate it if you would download and test a version that I believe has the problem corrected. Feedback as soon as possible would be appreciated. You can find this version at: www.sibbald.com/download/bacula-1.38.6-1.exe Oops. The correct link is: www.sibbald.com/download/winbacula-1.38.6-1.exe -- Best regards, Kern ( /\ V_V --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with 1.38.6 under Fedora Core 5 ?
Dan Langille wrote: On 5 Apr 2006 at 0:32, Wolfgang Denk wrote: Hello, is anybody running Bacula 1.38.6 (28 March 2006) under Fedora Core 5? Since updating from FC4 to FC5 and from Bacula 1.38.5 to 1.38.6 (in one step, probably this was not a good idea), each run of our nightly backup jobs will fail like this: I just switched to FC5 too, only I did not change my bacula version at the same time. The problem shows up on FC5 with 1.38.5 too. And to answer the question Kern raised about old mysql versions or old RPM--I installed FC5 from scratch (i.e. I didn't upgrade, I reinstalled, wiping every system partition), and I rebuilt the bacula RPMs from the source RPM after I upgraded. However, restarting the bacula DIR *does* solve the problem, for one day or so - I can run my backups manually, but the next scheduled run will fail with the same errors. For the gone away problem does the FAQ help? http://paramount.ind.wpi.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=faq MySQL Server Has Gone Away I'm guessing that Dan's suggestion is right on target. The wait_timeout is 8 hours, I'm guessing that bacula (in my config) doesn't issue queries that often (I do backups between 3AM-7AM), and for some reason with mysql 5 the connection gets dropped after a timeout. I've changed my wait timeout to 36 hours to see if the problem goes away (in /etc/my.cnf). Perhaps someone else who understands mysql better than I can find out why the connection didn't used to timeout (at least with mysql 4) -se -- -se Steve Ellis --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Review of Bacula
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 09:36 am, John Kodis wrote: There's a brief review of Bacula at: http://osreviews.net/reviews/admin/bacula It's fairly positive, but criticizes the tape selection algorithm as being far from intuitive. No argument there. In the short time that I've been using Bacula following this list, it seems that the first question every new user asks is How can I tell which tape is Bacula going to require? :-) Cheers! cmr -- John Kodis. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Review of Bacula
On 5 Apr 2006 at 10:36, John Kodis wrote: There's a brief review of Bacula at: http://osreviews.net/reviews/admin/bacula It's fairly positive, but criticizes the tape selection algorithm as being far from intuitive. Any publicity is good publicity. :) Tape changing is NOT difficult. I believe the author does not fully comprehend the volume status. I do see that he posted messages to the users list, so he has been using Bacula for a while. Getting used to automatically recycling volumes is not a simple topic. Here are his posts to the list: http://tinyurl.com/lz4u3 -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Bacula FD on Macintosh
I've been deploying Bacula here for a few weeks now. All servers are being backed up from three locations. Very nice. Now it's time to start on the mobile machines. The one that has me concerned is the one Macintosh laptop that we have. Anyone running a Bacula FD on a Macintosh? Is it stable/reliable? Of course, couple that with the challenge of backing up a laptop and the whole thing is likely to be challenging. I'm interested to hear any an all stories and follow any and all links regarding using Bacula FD on a Mac, and/or laptop. Google was not terribly helpful, but I may not have been crafting the best search strings. TIA for any information. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Review of Bacula
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 16:50, Dan Langille wrote: On 5 Apr 2006 at 10:36, John Kodis wrote: There's a brief review of Bacula at: http://osreviews.net/reviews/admin/bacula It's fairly positive, but criticizes the tape selection algorithm as being far from intuitive. Any publicity is good publicity. :) Tape changing is NOT difficult. I believe the author does not fully comprehend the volume status. I do see that he posted messages to the users list, so he has been using Bacula for a while. Getting used to automatically recycling volumes is not a simple topic. Here are his posts to the list: http://tinyurl.com/lz4u3 I think it was a good article. Here is a copy of the little email note I sent him a few hours ago: Hello, Thanks for your Bacula review in OS Reviews. It is a nice article. I'm not complaining, but do have two comments: 1. I agree that it isn't always easy to know what tape Bacula will want next, but there are some ways: a. Doing a status dir will generally show what tape will be used next. b. Bacula always accepts the current tape in the drive if it is in Append mode, otherwise, it will choose the least recently written tape that can be overwritten. This can seem complicated but it ensures that your data remains on tape as long as possible before the tape is overwritten. When you think about it a bit, it is quite logical and is generally the correct thing to do for maximal data preservation. 2. In addition to email, you can also get mount messages in the console program, or in the tray monitor. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Restore Error
Hello, In the following example, I'd like to determine exactly which files caused the FD Errors listed. I looked through the full restore report but didn't see anything that indicated a failure until the end of the report (and it didn't specify the specific files). Perhaps I'm simply missing the log entries (although I did search for the word error with no luck). Running 1.38.5 on FreeBSD. Thanks for any assistance you can provide. --Brennon 05-Apr 09:46 alu-sd: Got EOF at file 3 on device 122T (/dev/nsa0), Volume 011 05-Apr 09:46 alu-dir: RestoreAlu.2006-04-05_07.35.00 Error: Bacula 1.38.5 (18Jan06): 05-Apr-2006 09:46:14 JobId: 229 Job:RestoreAlu.2006-04-05_07.35.00 Client: alu-fd Start time: 05-Apr-2006 07:35:02 End time: 05-Apr-2006 09:46:14 Files Expected: 315,241 Files Restored: 315,230 Bytes Restored: 3,955,303,389 Rate: 502.5 KB/s FD Errors: 11 FD termination status: Error SD termination status: OK Termination:*** Restore Error *** 05-Apr 09:46 alu-dir: Begin pruning Jobs. 05-Apr 09:46 alu-dir: No Jobs found to prune. 05-Apr 09:46 alu-dir: Begin pruning Files. 05-Apr 09:46 alu-dir: No Files found to prune. 05-Apr 09:46 alu-dir: End auto prune. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Windows Backups
I am sure this topic has been covered in a previous thread or in the manual, but my cursory searches have produced no results. So here is the problem: I recently added added a Win2k3 server to by list of clients that I am backing up. That night, I did a Full Backup, while completed successfully. However, the following night, an Incremental job ran which backed up nearly half of the drive. Here are the lines from 'list jobs': | 579 | KauaiBackup | 2006-04-04 09:37:55 | B| F | 34,190 | 4,320,490,066 | T | (snip) | 581 | KauaiBackup | 2006-04-05 03:10:45 | B| I | 12,492 | 2,448,604,771 | T | KauaiBackup is the job. As you can see, the Full backup was about 4.3G, but the following day, the incremental was 2.4G. Quite large for an incremental. I had read in the past (but I am unable to find now) about how mtime and/or how bacula determines if a file needs to be backed up can cause these types of problems for windows systems. The incremental is not the same size as the full, so not every files is getting updated. On the night in question, nothing interesting happened, such as applying updates. Also, there were no users logged into it yet. Has anyone seen any behavior like this? Any thought/suggestions are welcome. Best Regards, Ryan Sizemore --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with 1.38.6 under Fedora Core 5 ?
Dear Steve, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: I just switched to FC5 too, only I did not change my bacula version at the same time. The problem shows up on FC5 with 1.38.5 too. And to answer the question Kern raised about old mysql versions or old RPM--I installed FC5 from scratch (i.e. I didn't upgrade, I reinstalled, wiping every system partition), and I rebuilt the bacula RPMs from the source RPM after I upgraded. I also build bacula from scratch, using the tarball. And I checked and cannot see any old (mysql 4.x) files anywhere. For the gone away problem does the FAQ help? http://paramount.ind.wpi.edu/wiki/doku.php?id=faq MySQL Server Has Gone Away I'm guessing that Dan's suggestion is right on target. The wait_timeout He probably is right. We just have to find out which of the suggestions actually fixes the problem. is 8 hours, I'm guessing that bacula (in my config) doesn't issue queries that often (I do backups between 3AM-7AM), and for some reason with mysql 5 the connection gets dropped after a timeout. I've changed my wait timeout to 36 hours to see if the problem goes away (in /etc/my.cnf). Tried the same (48 h). Let's wait what happens. Perhaps someone else who understands mysql better than I can find out why the connection didn't used to timeout (at least with mysql 4) Same here. Anyway - isn't this a design issue with bacula? Why should we keep the connection open all the time when bacula is just idle? Why cannot we close and reopen when needed? Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do not underestimate the value of print statements for debugging. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid0944bid$1720dat1642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula FD on Macintosh
Bill Moran wrote: I've been deploying Bacula here for a few weeks now. All servers are being backed up from three locations. Very nice. Now it's time to start on the mobile machines. The one that has me concerned is the one Macintosh laptop that we have. Anyone running a Bacula FD on a Macintosh? Is it stable/reliable? Of course, couple that with the challenge of backing up a laptop and the whole thing is likely to be challenging. I'm interested to hear any an all stories and follow any and all links regarding using Bacula FD on a Mac, and/or laptop. Google was not terribly helpful, but I may not have been crafting the best search strings. TIA for any information. I run it on my Mac (laptop) at home and have run into a couple of issues. First of all, don't use the bacula-fd that comes from Fink. My experience was that it would hang almost nightly and cause any backups from then on to fail until I restarted it. I've had good luck with the version in Darwin Ports, it's been running for about a week now. The only issue there was my WiFi connection going away in the middle of the night. I'm not sure I can blame that on bacula (yet :) ), so it may just be a coincidence. The Darwin Ports version also comes with a launchd config file so you can have it start automatically on boot. -- Dan Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.employees.org/~drich/ | Step up to red alert! Are you sure, sir? | It means changing the bulb in the sign... | - Red Dwarf (BBC) --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Restore Error
Yup. The btape tests worked perfectly when I did them. I should also mention that this doesn't always (or at least hasn't always) happen(ed). A full restore of a Windows system earlier this week succeeded. Also, full restores of the system shown below worked perfectly during an earlier phase of testing a couple weeks ago. Thanks. --Brennon Ryan Novosielski wrote: I'm guessing if you're doing restores that you've already done btape tests and all of that to get to where you are now (configuration in place with backups already made)? Brennon Church wrote: Hello, In the following example, I'd like to determine exactly which files caused the FD Errors listed. I looked through the full restore report but didn't see anything that indicated a failure until the end of the report (and it didn't specify the specific files). Perhaps I'm simply missing the log entries (although I did search for the word error with no luck). Running 1.38.5 on FreeBSD. Thanks for any assistance you can provide. --Brennon 05-Apr 09:46 alu-sd: Got EOF at file 3 on device 122T (/dev/nsa0), Volume 011 05-Apr 09:46 alu-dir: RestoreAlu.2006-04-05_07.35.00 Error: Bacula 1.38.5 (18Jan06): 05-Apr-2006 09:46:14 JobId: 229 Job:RestoreAlu.2006-04-05_07.35.00 Client: alu-fd Start time: 05-Apr-2006 07:35:02 End time: 05-Apr-2006 09:46:14 Files Expected: 315,241 Files Restored: 315,230 Bytes Restored: 3,955,303,389 Rate: 502.5 KB/s FD Errors: 11 FD termination status: Error SD termination status: OK Termination:*** Restore Error *** 05-Apr 09:46 alu-dir: Begin pruning Jobs. 05-Apr 09:46 alu-dir: No Jobs found to prune. 05-Apr 09:46 alu-dir: Begin pruning Files. 05-Apr 09:46 alu-dir: No Files found to prune. 05-Apr 09:46 alu-dir: End auto prune. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Issue with restoring using WX-Console on Windows
Hi guys, I'm using the latest build of WX-Console on windows XP from SF.net (1.38.6) When i try to enter restore mode i select the client etc etc and i'm presented with the selection screen, trouble is i can only select the entire backup, there is no list of files or anything. when i try and add files i get the following error Couldn't retrieve information about list control item 10858488 I need a gui for the PHB's so they can restore files but i would like to not have to restore an entire backup to do so. The backup is done with a WinXP FD client and is restoring to a WinXP FD client Anyone got any ideas? Regards Tristram Cheer --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula FD on Macintosh
Bill, I've built the FD from source on 10.4.x with the 1.3.5 version and have run it continuously with no issues. You are welcome to the executable if you'd like - though you'll need to noodle through the docs as there are a few working directories that need to be manually created - no installer. With regards to the Fink comment in the prior post, I'd agree - don't bother! Erich On Apr 5, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Bill Moran wrote: I've been deploying Bacula here for a few weeks now. All servers are being backed up from three locations. Very nice. Now it's time to start on the mobile machines. The one that has me concerned is the one Macintosh laptop that we have. Anyone running a Bacula FD on a Macintosh? Is it stable/reliable? Of course, couple that with the challenge of backing up a laptop and the whole thing is likely to be challenging. I'm interested to hear any an all stories and follow any and all links regarding using Bacula FD on a Mac, and/or laptop. Google was not terribly helpful, but I may not have been crafting the best search strings. TIA for any information. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel? cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with restoring using WX-Console on Windows
Did you by any chance back it up with backslashes instead of forward slashes? e.g. File = C:\temp is wrong, it should be C:/temp You'll only notice that when you are selecting files to restore. Ger. Op donderdag 6 april 2006 02:42, schreef Tristram Cheer: Hi guys, I'm using the latest build of WX-Console on windows XP from SF.net (1.38.6) When i try to enter restore mode i select the client etc etc and i'm presented with the selection screen, trouble is i can only select the entire backup, there is no list of files or anything. when i try and add files i get the following error Couldn't retrieve information about list control item 10858488 I need a gui for the PHB's so they can restore files but i would like to not have to restore an entire backup to do so. The backup is done with a WinXP FD client and is restoring to a WinXP FD client Anyone got any ideas? Regards Tristram Cheer --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
