Re: [Bacula-users] State of bare metal restore (more)
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Christopher DeMarco wrote: My position is still that staying out of the bootup process is best. Let KNOPPIX, or MORPHIX or whateverix get me to a bash prompt and then I'll handle getting bacula-fd running. KNOPPIX will boot the majority of boxes out there, so I'll begin my Bacula work with the presumption that I can boot and go from there. You may want to look at Trinity Rescue kit. It's lightweight (no GUI) and has onboard scripts to allow local modifications (including importing windows NTFS drivers) to be committed back to ISO. http://www.trinityhome.org/trk - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] What a difference a database makes
Regarding SQLite. When I set up Bacula initially it was pretty clear that SQLite was for TEST purposes. If that has not changed, then perhaps the speed problem should be left as-is and the documentation changed to note that SQLite is there for testing, not production systems? AB - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 12:23, Alan Brown wrote: On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: Is there any reason that it can't be on the tape and restored first up as part of the DR process? That would be having the cart before the horse. The snapshot of the hard disk configuration is to be able to reconfigure a broken hard disk or configure a replacement disk. Until you have a configured disk there is no way to do a restore. This information must be on a floppy or a CDROM or you must manually reconstruct it. ...Or restored from tape to a floppy or memdisk or USB disk, etc. A full disaster recovery plan from bare metal is *very* complex. I'm getting quite worried that for every single machine in our network which might be backed up by Bacula (there are over 200) I will have to create a customised CDrom. I've now documented how you can run the Bacula rescue, save a single directory, then use it for restoring your systems using any non-Bacula rescue or LiveCD disk. Kern, PLEASE consider using a Knoppix or Trinity or similar live system as the basis of the bare metal restore system. Most of these people will actively work with you to facilitate this. I think this is a good idea. However, it is not something I am personally going to do (I just don't have the time). The major problem with this is that they are not used to following a distribution and updating with it. From what I understand, Knoppix still has a Bacula 1.36.x FD. As I say, this is a nice and a valid approach, but the Bacula community needs to organize it. 2. A copy of your current Bacula file daemon that can be run on a rescue system (i.e. probably statically linked). For a 'client', you want the FD. For a 'server', do you have to have the director? Is there anything that bextract can't do that dir+fd+sd can? I think you need to read the Bacula disaster recovery chapter. You are talking about a complete disaster recovery system, which is orders of magnitude more complicated to do from bare metal than what I am trying to accomplish as a first step in that process. Nonetheless, the system needs to be 100% bootstrappable. I'm not sure what you mean here, but IMO, recovering a system depends on what happened. In some cases, it is simply firing up the existing FD and restoring some files, in other cases it is firing up a static FD and restoring some or all files, and in the worst cases, it is replacing hard disks, repartitioning, formating, then restoring. If damage is sever enough, one may even want to start by booting up the OS installation disks and having a minimal running system, then running a Bacula FD (non-necessarily static) to restore the files as they were. As is mentioned in this email somewhere, a complete disaster recovery plan is very complicated. Consider the case of the Bacula server (Director and SD) itself falling over. I use RAID1 on the system and database disks for this very reason, but as you youself know, RAID is not safe against rm -r style errors (or physical system destruction - fire, earthquake, theft) My rescue CDROM will restore a client machine where the Director and SD are up and running on one or more other machines. I've managed to do a restore without the rescue CDrom by simply loading up an appropriately configured bacula-fd-static on a Trinity Rescue Disk. After redoing the partitions, restore took approximately 25 minutes. Great! The basic fact is that the standard Linux system rescue CDs(+) are designed to be able to read as many different filesystems as possible, handle LVM/Raid, etc and interact with as much hardware as possible - and they're regularly updated. All that's needed is to convince the authors to include appropriate bacula file daemons and as long as partitioning information is available(*) they would cover 99% of all cases (including restoral of most generally used non-Linux operating system filesystems and partition tables(**)) What I would like to see, and where I would be happy to participate, is to convince the OS vendors (i.e. RedHat/Fedora, SuSE, Debian, Ubantu, FreeBSD, Solaris, HP, ...) that they should have an easy way for the user to make a rescue disk that captures the state of the current harddisk(s) and provides easy scripts, or better yet a GUI, for repartitioning those disks much like they do in the installation. This rescue disk should not be a bare bones rescue with few binaries as is currently the case, but something that includes every conceivable command line program one would want in analysing and fixing a problem. Furthermore, the user should be able to include a large number of machine configurations on a single rescue CD as well as to be able to add one directory to be loaded in memory at boot time and one directory to be saved on the CD. With that, everyone should be happy. The above should be a
Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] What a difference a database makes
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 12:51, Alan Brown wrote: Regarding SQLite. When I set up Bacula initially it was pretty clear that SQLite was for TEST purposes. If that has not changed, then perhaps the speed problem should be left as-is and the documentation changed to note that SQLite is there for testing, not production systems? This is fine if we are trying to develop and enterprise only backup solution, but the first stated project goal is: To be able to backup any client from a Palm to a mainframe with the same software. This implies that Bacula should be easy to setup on single computers for small installations. In that kind of a case, there is absolutely nothing wrong with SQLite, and in fact, it is essential in such conditions, which I estimate probably make up 20-50% of the current Bacula users. One alternative to this would be to implement embedded MySQL, something I started on a number of years ago but never had the time to complete. If we could get it to work, we would effectively eliminate the need to support SQLite. Regards, Kern - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD
What I would like to see, and where I would be happy to participate, is to convince the OS vendors (i.e. RedHat/Fedora, SuSE, Debian, Ubantu, FreeBSD, Solaris, HP, ...) that they should have an easy way for the user to make a rescue disk that captures the state of the current harddisk(s) and provides easy scripts, or better yet a GUI, for repartitioning those disks much like they do in the installation. This rescue disk should not be a bare bones rescue with few binaries as is currently the case, but something that includes every conceivable command line program one would want in analysing and fixing a problem. Furthermore, the user should be able to include a large number of machine configurations on a single rescue CD as well as to be able to add one directory to be loaded in memory at boot time and one directory to be saved on the CD. With that, everyone should be happy. The above should be a *standard* part of the OS release. Wouldn't that be great! I was looking very briefly at doing this under Debian, I guess the idea would be that you take the installer and add some more stuff to it (bacula-fd, -sd, and -dir), and then remove most of the stuff that does the actual installation. As I mentioned in another email, the Backup Exec IDR does almost exactly that - it creates a CD derived from your installation media but with some hooks in place to call the installer after the base operating system is installed, which has the advantage that the base operating system is configured for the current hardware and not the hardware of the system that was originally backed up, which may be different. My ultimate wish is that you wouldn't have to do any real preparation (burning CD's etc) for a disaster other than taking your tapes off site nightly and making sure that your system state info is on that tape. The recovery procedure would first extract the system state from the tape, apply it, then restore everything. There would be a few levels of automation ranging from everything is on this single tape, the client name is xxx, restore it, to I want to set up my partitions a little differently this time, and I want to restore the last full backup which was two weeks ago and then all the differentials since then except for last night when the rootkit was installed. The restoring system state from tape idea should be pretty simple if your director, catalogs, and sd are still running as you could identify it and restore it pretty simply. In fact, if you defined a job that restores the state and then runs the apply script as a 'run after job', you could drive it all from the director as long as nothing went wrong. (or do the scripts not work on a restore?) Restoring the system state from tape when your entire network is in pieces is obviously a bit harder, especially if you aren't doing a simple one tape = one nights backup model. Our client base is mostly small businesses with 100 employees who use Symantec Backup Exec or NTbackup. Most of the time the backup tape is changed blindly each morning. My philosophy for such businesses is that if everything can't fit on a single tape, you need a bigger storage solution. Two tapes or differentials get too complicated, and when things get complicated they get done badly. Obviously everything changes for larger organisations or organisations that just have more data than can be physically spooled to tape in a single night. James - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 14:30, James Harper wrote: What I would like to see, and where I would be happy to participate, is to convince the OS vendors (i.e. RedHat/Fedora, SuSE, Debian, Ubantu, FreeBSD, Solaris, HP, ...) that they should have an easy way for the user to make a rescue disk that captures the state of the current harddisk(s) and provides easy scripts, or better yet a GUI, for repartitioning those disks much like they do in the installation. This rescue disk should not be a bare bones rescue with few binaries as is currently the case, but something that includes every conceivable command line program one would want in analysing and fixing a problem. Furthermore, the user should be able to include a large number of machine configurations on a single rescue CD as well as to be able to add one directory to be loaded in memory at boot time and one directory to be saved on the CD. With that, everyone should be happy. The above should be a *standard* part of the OS release. Wouldn't that be great! I was looking very briefly at doing this under Debian, I guess the idea would be that you take the installer and add some more stuff to it (bacula-fd, -sd, and -dir), and then remove most of the stuff that does the actual installation. No not quite. That is a bit too complicate. I am talking about a small extension to what distros already supply. Basically all we need to do is exactly what I said above, and what I have requested is totally generic in that it has nothing to do with Bacula. The distro supplier doesn't have to know anything about Bacula. The installer stuff I mentioned would just be some extra icing on the cake that would facilitate the recovery for less command line oriented people. As I mentioned in another email, the Backup Exec IDR does almost exactly that - it creates a CD derived from your installation media but with some hooks in place to call the installer after the base operating system is installed, which has the advantage that the base operating system is configured for the current hardware and not the hardware of the system that was originally backed up, which may be different. My ultimate wish is that you wouldn't have to do any real preparation (burning CD's etc) for a disaster other than taking your tapes off site nightly and making sure that your system state info is on that tape. The recovery procedure would first extract the system state from the tape, apply it, then restore everything. There would be a few levels of automation ranging from everything is on this single tape, the client name is xxx, restore it, to I want to set up my partitions a little differently this time, and I want to restore the last full backup which was two weeks ago and then all the differentials since then except for last night when the rootkit was installed. You would have to burn at least one CD that was Bacula aware. If the distro provider supplies a rescue disk as I noted in my previous email, we would then just hook in some scripts that would automate getting to the data that you have backed up (as you describe above). The restoring system state from tape idea should be pretty simple if your director, catalogs, and sd are still running as you could identify it and restore it pretty simply. In fact, if you defined a job that restores the state and then runs the apply script as a 'run after job', you could drive it all from the director as long as nothing went wrong. (or do the scripts not work on a restore?) Restoring the system state from tape when your entire network is in pieces is obviously a bit harder, especially if you aren't doing a simple one tape = one nights backup model. Our client base is mostly small businesses with 100 employees who use Symantec Backup Exec or NTbackup. Most of the time the backup tape is changed blindly each morning. My philosophy for such businesses is that if everything can't fit on a single tape, you need a bigger storage solution. Two tapes or differentials get too complicated, and when things get complicated they get done badly. Obviously everything changes for larger organisations or organisations that just have more data than can be physically spooled to tape in a single night. In the mode you suggest above, you would probably be better using tar. If you are not taking a tape off-site every night, there is no need to remove it. Bacula can very easily handle the different backup levels. Multiple levels and multiple tapes is no more complicated than one. That's what a good computer program will do for you ... :-) - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash
[Bacula-users] backup to two alternating USB disks
Hello, I have setup bacula to make 3 generation backups to an USB disk. Now I want to extend it with the possibility to swap this disk to always have on stored remote. To give you some background, actually I make backups of two machines to a corresponding local USB disk. I think of swapping these USB disks from time to time to have remote backups of both machines. The backup data should be on different encrypted partitions. I see the following problem. Each instance of bacula has its own database about pools and media. Changing the files which represent these backup media by swapping the whole disk does not change baculas information. So bacula may e.g. reuse that media which may actually be the newest on that disk or append to a media which was used months ago. I see two approaches: 1. Have a batch job recognize the change and have bacula import the physical media and their states. Problem: I have no idea how I can achieve that. 2. Just configure bacula to have its database on the USB disk, too. Does that work? Can I just swap the disks with database of a running bacula-director on it and after restarting bacula-director it will work on as expected? I hope I could interest you for that challenge and would very much appreciate any hint. Thanks, Marco - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] backup to two alternating USB disks
Hi, On 1/2/2007 6:19 PM, Marco Mandl wrote: Hello, I have setup bacula to make 3 generation backups to an USB disk. Now I want to extend it with the possibility to swap this disk to always have on stored remote. To give you some background, actually I make backups of two machines to a corresponding local USB disk. I think of swapping these USB disks from time to time to have remote backups of both machines. The backup data should be on different encrypted partitions. No problems there, I think. I see the following problem. Each instance of bacula has its own database about pools and media. Changing the files which represent these backup media by swapping the whole disk does not change baculas information. Which is why, for tapes in autochangers, there is the update slots command. In other words, Bacula can handle such a situation. So bacula may e.g. reuse that media which may actually be the newest on that disk or append to a media which was used months ago. You let Bacula handle all the volumes, simply and the catalog will have data about all media, the ones available and the ones not available currently. I see two approaches: 1. Have a batch job recognize the change and have bacula import the physical media and their states. Problem: I have no idea how I can achieve that. Rather simple, and that's what i'd do with 1.38 and below: Set all volumes of state Used, Recycled, Purged or Append in the catalog to a state of Disabled when removing a disk. Keep the old volume state on that disk. When re-connecting such a disk, undo these changes. Should be possible to do this by script, triggered by plugging in th disk, managed by HAL or udev or whatever you use. 2. Just configure bacula to have its database on the USB disk, too. Does that work? Can I just swap the disks with database of a running bacula-director on it and after restarting bacula-director it will work on as expected? That might work, but you will never have information about backups on the other media. I would not suggest such a setup. I hope I could interest you for that challenge and would very much appreciate any hint. The solution might be to upgrade to the upcoming version. AFAIK there's improved support for removable hard disks implemented - just what you need. You'll have to read the ReleaseNotes and the manual carefully, because the upgrade process itself requires a catalog upgrade (easily done, usually) and the new functions are yet unknown to me. Arno Thanks, Marco - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- IT-Service Lehmann[EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] State of bare metal restore (more)
Which version of bacula-fd? Tirsdag 02 januar 2007 12:35 skrev Alan Brown: On Fri, 29 Dec 2006, Christopher DeMarco wrote: So I downloaded the latest KNOPPIX, which includes a bacula-fd. It would appear that my previous mail has already been addressed.. :-) - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] generic 'bare metal' restore CD
If you are not taking a tape off-site every night, there is no need to remove it. Bacula can very easily handle the different backup levels. Multiple levels and multiple tapes is no more complicated than one. That's what a good computer program will do for you ... :-) We always encourage clients (mostly Windows) to take the backup tapes offsite each night. That way nobody has to try and figure out if the current tape has enough space to do the next backup or not... nothing worse than having everything slow to a crawl during the day because last nights backup didn't start until the tape was put in this morning. RAID takes care of almost all disk failures, VSS takes care of accidental file deletion, Exchange can make sure emails that are deleted are still retrievable X days after the fact, and SQL transaction logs take care of stupid 'DELETE FROM tableX' statements. That really only leaves a fairly rare number of server failure modes (eg RAID controller failure that completely corrupts data - only seen that once before) and site failures like fire where the server and onsite backup takes are totally destroyed. A lot of our clients these days use LTO2 (200-400gb) or LTO3 (400-800gb) drives and a rotation of about 10 tapes (daily and weekly sets). The LTO2 drives cost about AUD$2500, and the LTO3 about AUD$5000. A 300gb USB or Ethernet removable disk costs about AUD$300, or I could build a SAN or NAS box with a tb of storage for under AUD$2000. My opinion therefore is that if you aren't taking tapes offsite each night, why bother using tapes at all when a much more convenient online backup solution could be built so cheaply! And if you are only taking tapes offsite weekly or monthly, why aren't you using removable disks? Durability is probably one answer to that question, but only if there is a significant chance of the media being dropped or really roughly handled. Of course everyone has different requirements for data retention and data loss windows. James - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Messages {}
On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 11:26:14 -0600, Mike said:
I'm trying to get a list of all files saved that is in a file
rather than only in the database. I have the Messages{} section
below and have restarted the three bacula daemons. I am using
a job that specifies the Messages{} section below. I do not get
a list of files in the end-of-job email nor in the specified file.
What do I need to check next?
It looks like the saved class of messages is not implemented.
Maybe you can use the 'list file jobid=nnn' command to get the info from the
database?
__Martin
bacula 1.38.11
fedora core 5 with all current patches
Mike
#
# This job is small for testing things
# By default, this job will back up to disk in /tmp
Job {
Name = elo-test
Type = Backup
Client = elo-fd
Level = Full
FileSet = Example-Files
Storage = elo:file
Enabled = yes
Messages = Detailed
Pool = Default
Priority = 10
Rerun Failed Levels = Yes
}
# Detailed message delivery -- send everything to email address
# and to the console
Messages {
Name = Detailed
#
# NOTE! If you send to two email or more email addresses, you will need
# to replace the %r in the from field (-f part) with a single valid
# email address in both the mailcommand and the operatorcommand.
#
mailcommand = /opt/bacula/sbin/bsmtp -h localhost -f \\(Bacula\) %r\ -s
\Bacula: %t %e of %c %
l\ %r
operatorcommand = /opt/bacula/sbin/bsmtp -h localhost -f \\(Bacula\) %r\
-s \Bacula: Intervent
ion needed for %j\ %r
mail = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = all
operator = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = mount
console = all
#
# WARNING! the following will create a file that you must cycle from
# time to time as it will grow indefinitely. However, it will
# also keep all your messages if they scroll off the console.
#
append = /var/log/bacula = all
}
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Re: [Bacula-users] Seeking clarification on bootstrap files.
On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 00:36:38 +0100, Erik P Olsen said: I have a lot of bootstrap files from previous restore jobs. They are quite old so I wonder whether they will ever be erase or whether I should removed them manually. What do they serve when the restore job has long been run? Nothing will delete them, so you can do this manually. It was a bug, fixed in the next release. __Martin - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and tape ejects from Autoloader
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern Sibbald Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 12:43 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Meidal, Knut Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and tape ejects from Autoloader On Friday 22 December 2006 23:15, Meidal, Knut wrote: Hello, I'm currently considering setting up a small below the radar Bacula installation. I happen to have NetApp NearStore VTLs with capacity on them, that I can use as my back-end. VTL is a virtual tape library, i.e a collection of disk that presents itself on a FibreChannel port as being a regular tape library. These VTLs are connected to a physical tape library. The backup application doesn't see the physical tape library directly. The way it works is that I will define virtual libraries on the VTL, define drives and slots, and assign to a server. This server thinks he's talking to a regular tape library; mounts/reads/writes like always. The magic happens when the application or OS issues an EJECT command to move a tape (it doesn't know it's a virtual tape) to the I/O slot. This question is not possible to answer because you are using a terminology that does not correspond to that which I know. There is to the best of my knowledge (in the Unix world) no EJECT command. On the contrary there are exist two commands that Bacula uses. One is the offline command, and normally will discharge a tape from a tape reader. This is equivalent to the mt offline command, and Bacula can do offlines at particular times on request -- in fact, it is an OS API done through ioctl(). The second is an unload command that unloads a cassette from an autoloader drive. This command is a SCSI control command that Bacula issues by calling a program named mtx on most Unix systems (FreeBSD typically uses a different program). Bacula does not directly issue SCSI command such as the unload, but relies on mtx to do so for it. mtx will unload a tape in a particular drive into a specified slot, which must be empty. If your concept of EJECT corresponds to one of the above, then most likely it can be done in Bacula. = My terminology might be a little skewed after too much Veritas NetBackup exposure... Anyway, my point about the eject is that this is not a _drive_ operation as such. It is not related to umount, or unload of the drives themselves. (A possible exception is if the tape is idle in a drive, it should be umounted, unloaded, and THEN put in the import/export slot without stopping by its ) What I'm looking for is the library control software (MTX) to recognize one or more tape slots as Import/Export... Let's say my library has 6 of those. I want MTX (or Bacula wrappers) to eject V0123L2, which means to move tape V0123L2 from whatever storage slot, and put in I/E slot 1 (If I/E slot 1 is full, pick the next available) The library cannot be opened to retrieve this tape. There are no (easy) ways of moving it other than using the library Web GUI, which is a pain, and cannot be scripted. The reason I bring this up is that the movement of a (virtual) tape to the Import/Export slot of a virtual library is what triggers the virtual library into transferring the data off the virtual tape(i.e a byte stream on disk) on to a physical tape. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Using btraceback
I have a problem that may be simple. But trying to get a traceback is proving to be problematic. Following the directions in the manual, and what I could find in archives, I believe I am doing it correctly. However a couple issues spring up. First, the manual states that running btraceback manually should send the current state of bacula and exit leaving the processes running. This is true if there are no jobs running. http://pixelhammer.com/DAve/Bacula/btraceback2.txt But if jobs are running, bacula-dir goes away. Should btraceback stop bacula-dir? http://pixelhammer.com/DAve/Bacula/btraceback3.txt And finally, the traceback I get when I see the problem I am trying to report. I get the strange feeling that I need more information to properly report the problem to Kern. http://pixelhammer.com/DAve/Bacula/btraceback1.txt I am running Bacula 1.38.5 FreeBSD 5.4 Bacula installed from ports. I have debug set to a value of 99. I am running btraceback manually as root with the following command. btraceback /usr/local/sbin/bacula-dir 86459 The PID is correct and /usr/local/sbin/btraceback has been correctly edited. Thanks, any assistance is appreciated. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Running Concurrent Jobs
Hi list, I have Bacula ver. 1.38.11 and I want run concurrent jobs - I want two different jobs to run simultaneously backing up the same Client to the same Storage device. I set Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 10 in the Director resource, the Client resource, and the Storage resource in bacula-dir.conf, but when scheduler start this job, one of the job not running and it is waiting to reserve a device. Do you have some TIP, where is mistake? Thanx, Ondra - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
