Re: [Bacula-users] "Cannot Connect to Client" Error

[Michael Lewinger]

Hi Jon,

can you post the client fd.conf and the director's respective "client",
"job" and "director" directives, maybe without obfuscation ? If not, please
post the same data with simulated IPs, as if theose were the client and dir
IP, and use them as obfuscated IPs in the conf files.

Cheers,

Michael

On 10/30/07, Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm not using localhost anywhere in the conf. I am just using it to
> telnet.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jon
>
> Michael Lewinger wrote:
> > Hi Jon,
> >
> > I read somewhere (in the conf file ?) that localhost should not be used.
> > Add an alias to 127.0.0.1  in your /etc/hosts  file
> > and use it instead.
> >
> > Michael Lewinger
> >
> > On 10/29/07, *Jon* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I"m evaluating Bacula for a client. So far I like what I see, but
> I'm
> > having trouble adding a second (remote) client.
> >
> > I am following the Brief Tutorial to become familar with Bacula and
> > have
> > successfully set up the local machine backup and restores. However,
> > setting up a second client is giving me troubles.
> >
> > I've followed the section in the Brief Tutorial entitled "Adding a
> > Second Client" which entails simply copying the bacula-fd binary and
> > bacula-fd.conf file from the bacula director machine to the client
> that
> > I want to back up. I've changed the name of the machine from the
> > director to my client in the bacula-fd.conf file as instructed in
> that
> > section.
> >
> > However, when I try attempt to get the status of that client from
> the
> > director machine's bconsole, it cannot connect (mi01.fusion is the
> > remote machine that is giving me problems):
> >
> > *status
> > Status available for:
> >  1: Director
> >  2: Storage
> >  3: Client
> >  4: All
> > Select daemon type for status (1-4): 3
> > The defined Client resources are:
> >  1: mi01-fd
> >  2: mi01.fusion
> > Select Client (File daemon) resource (1-2): 2
> > Connecting to Client mi01.fusion at xx.xx.xx.xx:9102
> > Failed to connect to Client mi01.fusion.
> > 
> > You have messages.
> > *
> > 29-Oct 10:20 mi01-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: Unable to authenticate
> with
> > File daemon at "mi01.fusion..xxx:9102". Possible causes:
> > Passwords or names not the same or
> > Maximum Concurrent Jobs exceeded on the FD or
> > FD networking messed up (restart daemon).
> > Please see
> http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/faq.html#AuthorizationErrors
> > for help.
> >
> > I apologize for the domain mame and IP address obsfucation but I do
> not
> > have authorization to post any significant network information to
> the
> > Internet.
> >
> > I have read the AuthorizationErrors page, but as near as I can tell
> most
> > of these types of errors are differing passwords between the
> director
> > and the fd.conf files. Since I just copied the bacula-fd.conf file
> from
> > the working director machine to the remote client, the password is
> > the same.
> >
> > I have also verified that the concurrent jobs is set to 10 and there
> is
> > only one running at any given time during testing.
> >
> > I have verified the network connectivity. The director machine can
> > resolve the second client's name and can also route to its IP
> correctly.
> > The director machine can also telnet to the client on port 9102 and
> the
> > FD picks up.
> >
> > I have also verified that the bacula-fd daemon is indeed running on
> the
> > client:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# ps ax | grep fd
> > 16358 ?Ssl0:00 bacula-fd
> > 17936 pts/3S+ 0:00 grep fd
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# telnet localhost 9102
> > Trying 127.0.0.1...
> > Connected to localhost.
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > ^]
> >
> > I can't seem to find a log anywhere that has more meaningful
> information
> > in it than 'cannot connect'. I suspect that I've done something
> wrong
> > with the client machine, but I don't know how to trace that down.
> >
> > All I did on the second client was to copy the bacula-fd binary from
> > the
> > director machine and the bacula-fd.conf file to the client machine.
> I
> > then made the necessary change to the bacula-fd.conf file as I
> indicated
> > above.
> >
> > Can someone help me troubleshoot this issue further?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jon
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Re: [Bacula-users] scsi problems

[Michael Lewinger]

Hi Michael,

tar is not checking while writing, but bacula does. Is the read error on
subsequent tests failing at the same block ?

29-Oct 21:27 btape JobId 0: Error: block.c:995 Read error on fd=3 at
file:blk 0:1000

I'd suggest cleaning the tape head anyway (how frequently do you do it ?),
reformat the tape, and check again.

Michael

On 10/30/07, Michael Galloway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> seem to be having some scsi problems with btape test. this test is with
> a spectra T50/LTO-4 attached via an LSI LSIU320 controller. i ran 100GB
> of data onto the drive with tar with no issue. but when i run this:
>
> ./btape -c bacula-sd.conf /dev/nst0
>
> test
>
> i get:
>
> *test
>
> === Write, rewind, and re-read test ===
>
> I'm going to write 1000 records and an EOF
> then write 1000 records and an EOF, then rewind,
> and re-read the data to verify that it is correct.
>
> This is an *essential* feature ...
>
> btape: btape.c:827 Wrote 1000 blocks of 64412 bytes.
> btape: btape.c:501 Wrote 1 EOF to "LTO4" (/dev/nst0)
> btape: btape.c:843 Wrote 1000 blocks of 64412 bytes.
> btape: btape.c:501 Wrote 1 EOF to "LTO4" (/dev/nst0)
> btape: btape.c:852 Rewind OK.
> 1000 blocks re-read correctly.
> 29-Oct 21:27 btape JobId 0: Error: block.c:995 Read error on fd=3 at
> file:blk 0:1000 on device "LTO4" (/dev/nst0). ERR=No such device or address.
> btape: btape.c:864 Read block 1001 failed! ERR=No such device or address
>
> and i the kernel ring buffer log:
>
> st0: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes.
> mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x11010f00): F/W: bug! MID not found
> mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x11010f00): F/W: bug! MID not found
> mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x004b): SCSI IOC Terminated
> st0: Error 8 (sugg. bt 0x0, driver bt 0x0, host bt 0x8).
> mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=81011bf35240)
> st 5:0:15:0:
> command: Read(6): 08 00 00 fc 00 00
> mptbase: Initiating ioc0 recovery
> mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: SUCCESS (sc=81011bf35240)
> mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x0043): SCSI Device Not There
> mptscsih: ioc0: attempting target reset! (sc=81011bf35240)
> st 5:0:15:0:
> command: Read(6): 08 00 00 fc 00 00
> mptscsih: ioc0: target reset: SUCCESS (sc=81011bf35240)
> mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x0043): SCSI Device Not There
> mptscsih: ioc0: attempting bus reset! (sc=81011bf35240)
> st 5:0:15:0:
> command: Read(6): 08 00 00 fc 00 00
> mptscsih: ioc0: bus reset: SUCCESS (sc=81011bf35240)
> mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x0047): SCSI Protocol Error
> mptscsih: ioc0: Attempting host reset! (sc=81011bf35240)
> mptbase: Initiating ioc0 recovery
> mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x0047): SCSI Protocol Error
> st 5:0:15:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
> st0: Error 8 (sugg. bt 0x0, driver bt 0x0, host bt 0x8).
> target5:0:15: Beginning Domain Validation
> target5:0:15: Domain Validation skipping write tests
> target5:0:15: Ending Domain Validation
> target5:0:15: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s DT (12.5 ns, offset 126)
> target5:0:15: Beginning Domain Validation
> target5:0:15: Domain Validation skipping write tests
> target5:0:15: Ending Domain Validation
> target5:0:15: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s DT (12.5 ns, offset 126)
> target5:0:15: Beginning Domain Validation
> target5:0:15: Domain Validation skipping write tests
> target5:0:15: Ending Domain Validation
> target5:0:15: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s DT (12.5 ns, offset 126)
> target5:0:15: Beginning Domain Validation
> target5:0:15: Domain Validation skipping write tests
> target5:0:15: Ending Domain Validation
> target5:0:15: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s DT (12.5 ns, offset 126)
>
> i've reseated my cables and terminator. reseated the scsi card. any idea
> where the problem is? this is centOS 5, kernel is:
>
> 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 19:05:32 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
> GNU/Linux
>
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[Bacula-users] scsi problems

[Michael Galloway]

seem to be having some scsi problems with btape test. this test is with
a spectra T50/LTO-4 attached via an LSI LSIU320 controller. i ran 100GB
of data onto the drive with tar with no issue. but when i run this:

./btape -c bacula-sd.conf /dev/nst0

test

i get:

*test

=== Write, rewind, and re-read test ===

I'm going to write 1000 records and an EOF
then write 1000 records and an EOF, then rewind,
and re-read the data to verify that it is correct.

This is an *essential* feature ...

btape: btape.c:827 Wrote 1000 blocks of 64412 bytes.
btape: btape.c:501 Wrote 1 EOF to "LTO4" (/dev/nst0)
btape: btape.c:843 Wrote 1000 blocks of 64412 bytes.
btape: btape.c:501 Wrote 1 EOF to "LTO4" (/dev/nst0)
btape: btape.c:852 Rewind OK.
1000 blocks re-read correctly.
29-Oct 21:27 btape JobId 0: Error: block.c:995 Read error on fd=3 at file:blk 
0:1000 on device "LTO4" (/dev/nst0). ERR=No such device or address.
btape: btape.c:864 Read block 1001 failed! ERR=No such device or address

and i the kernel ring buffer log:

st0: Block limits 1 - 16777215 bytes.
mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x11010f00): F/W: bug! MID not found
mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x11010f00): F/W: bug! MID not found
mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x004b): SCSI IOC Terminated
st0: Error 8 (sugg. bt 0x0, driver bt 0x0, host bt 0x8).
mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=81011bf35240)
st 5:0:15:0: 
command: Read(6): 08 00 00 fc 00 00
mptbase: Initiating ioc0 recovery
mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: SUCCESS (sc=81011bf35240)
mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x0043): SCSI Device Not There
mptscsih: ioc0: attempting target reset! (sc=81011bf35240)
st 5:0:15:0: 
command: Read(6): 08 00 00 fc 00 00
mptscsih: ioc0: target reset: SUCCESS (sc=81011bf35240)
mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x0043): SCSI Device Not There
mptscsih: ioc0: attempting bus reset! (sc=81011bf35240)
st 5:0:15:0: 
command: Read(6): 08 00 00 fc 00 00
mptscsih: ioc0: bus reset: SUCCESS (sc=81011bf35240)
mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x0047): SCSI Protocol Error
mptscsih: ioc0: Attempting host reset! (sc=81011bf35240)
mptbase: Initiating ioc0 recovery
mptbase: ioc0: IOCStatus(0x0047): SCSI Protocol Error
st 5:0:15:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
st0: Error 8 (sugg. bt 0x0, driver bt 0x0, host bt 0x8).
 target5:0:15: Beginning Domain Validation
 target5:0:15: Domain Validation skipping write tests
 target5:0:15: Ending Domain Validation
 target5:0:15: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s DT (12.5 ns, offset 126)
 target5:0:15: Beginning Domain Validation
 target5:0:15: Domain Validation skipping write tests
 target5:0:15: Ending Domain Validation
 target5:0:15: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s DT (12.5 ns, offset 126)
 target5:0:15: Beginning Domain Validation
 target5:0:15: Domain Validation skipping write tests
 target5:0:15: Ending Domain Validation
 target5:0:15: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s DT (12.5 ns, offset 126)
 target5:0:15: Beginning Domain Validation
 target5:0:15: Domain Validation skipping write tests
 target5:0:15: Ending Domain Validation
 target5:0:15: FAST-80 WIDE SCSI 160.0 MB/s DT (12.5 ns, offset 126)

i've reseated my cables and terminator. reseated the scsi card. any idea
where the problem is? this is centOS 5, kernel is:

2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 19:05:32 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 
GNU/Linux

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Re: [Bacula-users] "Cannot Connect to Client" Error

[Jon]

Hi,

I'm not using localhost anywhere in the conf. I am just using it to telnet.

Thanks

Jon

Michael Lewinger wrote:
> Hi Jon,
> 
> I read somewhere (in the conf file ?) that localhost should not be used.
> Add an alias to 127.0.0.1  in your /etc/hosts  file
> and use it instead.
> 
> Michael Lewinger
> 
> On 10/29/07, *Jon* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I"m evaluating Bacula for a client. So far I like what I see, but I'm
> having trouble adding a second (remote) client.
> 
> I am following the Brief Tutorial to become familar with Bacula and
> have
> successfully set up the local machine backup and restores. However,
> setting up a second client is giving me troubles.
> 
> I've followed the section in the Brief Tutorial entitled "Adding a
> Second Client" which entails simply copying the bacula-fd binary and
> bacula-fd.conf file from the bacula director machine to the client that
> I want to back up. I've changed the name of the machine from the
> director to my client in the bacula-fd.conf file as instructed in that
> section.
> 
> However, when I try attempt to get the status of that client from the
> director machine's bconsole, it cannot connect (mi01.fusion is the
> remote machine that is giving me problems):
> 
> *status
> Status available for:
>  1: Director
>  2: Storage
>  3: Client
>  4: All
> Select daemon type for status (1-4): 3
> The defined Client resources are:
>  1: mi01-fd
>  2: mi01.fusion
> Select Client (File daemon) resource (1-2): 2
> Connecting to Client mi01.fusion at xx.xx.xx.xx:9102
> Failed to connect to Client mi01.fusion.
> 
> You have messages.
> *
> 29-Oct 10:20 mi01-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: Unable to authenticate with
> File daemon at "mi01.fusion..xxx:9102". Possible causes:
> Passwords or names not the same or
> Maximum Concurrent Jobs exceeded on the FD or
> FD networking messed up (restart daemon).
> Please see http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/faq.html#AuthorizationErrors
> for help.
> 
> I apologize for the domain mame and IP address obsfucation but I do not
> have authorization to post any significant network information to the
> Internet.
> 
> I have read the AuthorizationErrors page, but as near as I can tell most
> of these types of errors are differing passwords between the director
> and the fd.conf files. Since I just copied the bacula-fd.conf file from
> the working director machine to the remote client, the password is
> the same.
> 
> I have also verified that the concurrent jobs is set to 10 and there is
> only one running at any given time during testing.
> 
> I have verified the network connectivity. The director machine can
> resolve the second client's name and can also route to its IP correctly.
> The director machine can also telnet to the client on port 9102 and the
> FD picks up.
> 
> I have also verified that the bacula-fd daemon is indeed running on the
> client:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# ps ax | grep fd
> 16358 ?Ssl0:00 bacula-fd
> 17936 pts/3S+ 0:00 grep fd
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# telnet localhost 9102
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> ^]
> 
> I can't seem to find a log anywhere that has more meaningful information
> in it than 'cannot connect'. I suspect that I've done something wrong
> with the client machine, but I don't know how to trace that down.
> 
> All I did on the second client was to copy the bacula-fd binary from
> the
> director machine and the bacula-fd.conf file to the client machine. I
> then made the necessary change to the bacula-fd.conf file as I indicated
> above.
> 
> Can someone help me troubleshoot this issue further?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [Bacula-users] TSM-style perpetual-full?

[Chris Hoogendyk]

Michael Lewinger wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> It looks all things are covered in Bacula: retention times, 
> incremental backup. But then I'm not a TSM expert.
>
> Michael
>
> On 10/29/07, * Mike Eggleston* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > wrote:
>
> I like bacula and what it does for me (thank you development team).
> One issue I have is not really bacula, the issue is the long time
> required to write backups to tape. Is there anything in bacula like
> TSM's perpetual full where I can see the most current files from the
> client in the 'restore' command, files removed the client are kept
> for a specific number of days, and only the files that have changed
> during the night are written to backup tape ad infinitium?
>


That sounds just like Retrospect's "Incremental Plus".

With either, when you say "ad infinitum", I am concerned about 
redundancy and potential tape failure. After you've been backing up for 
however long "ad infinitum" is, you only have one copy of all your 
backed up files.

You can configure almost any backup software to do that, but you should 
probably think about balancing the risks inherent in your backup 
strategy against your concerns about the time it takes to back up.



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Re: [Bacula-users] error with 2.2.5

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 10:55 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> CentOS 5 - MySQL 5
> 
> # uname -r -v -m -p -o
> 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 18:58:54 EDT 2007 i686 i686
> GNU/Linux
> 
> # rpm -qa |grep bacula
> bacula-mtx-2.2.5-1
> bacula-mysql-2.2.5-1
> 
> # rpm -qa |grep mysql
> mysql-devel-5.0.22-2.1.0.1
> libdbi-dbd-mysql-0.8.1a-1.2.2
> mysql-connector-odbc-3.51.12-2.2
> php-mysql-5.1.6-15.el5
> mysql-5.0.22-2.1.0.1
> mysql-server-5.0.22-2.1.0.1
> bacula-mysql-2.2.5-1
> 
> Monday through Wednesday, single tape went fine. Last night started a
> 'Full' backup which would span to second tape. Things went fine until it
> tried to write the first file from the 3rd job onto the second tape for
> this Pool, then...
> 
> 26-Oct 08:30 LINSERV1-sd JobId 14: Wrote label to prelabeled Volume
> "1_Friday_Week_2" on device "LTO" (/dev/nst0)
> 26-Oct 08:30 LINSERV1-sd JobId 14: New volume "1_Friday_Week_2" mounted
> on device "LTO" (/dev/nst0) at 26-Oct-2007 08:30.
> 26-Oct 08:30 LINSERV1 JobId 14: Fatal error: sql_create.c:732
> sql_create.c:732 insert INSERT INTO batch VALUES
> (16858,14,'E:/WinShares/PR/P R CLIENTS/Toll Brothers
> #535/2006/Phoenix/Correspondence/Clips/Phoenix 2 April - June
> Clips/','Apr Arizona Republic 4-21.jpg','A A IH/ B A A A 9S5 A A BHGA+/
> BEV2T2 BEV2T2 A A L','0') failed:
> Table 'bacula.batch' doesn't exist
> 26-Oct 08:30 LINSERV1 JobId 14: Fatal error: catreq.c:404 Attribute
> create error. Query failed: DROP INDEX DelInx1: ERR=You have an error in
> your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server
> version for the right syntax to use near '' at line 1
> 26-Oct 08:30 LINSERV1-sd JobId 14: Job NAS-Backup.2007-10-25_20.00.12
> marked to be canceled.
> 
> ?

I was really hoping someone could explain this sql error or if I am
going to run into that same error on Full backup again this week.

Craig



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Re: [Bacula-users] TSM-style perpetual-full?

[Arno Lehmann]

Hi,

29.10.2007 23:03,, Michael Lewinger wrote::
> Hello Mike,
> 
> What you are talking about is regular practice, and is what is attained 
> by the "incremental" feature, so I guess that TSM and bacula are the 
> same there. The first time it is run, an inc. backup will be promoted to 
> full, and afterwards, only inc. will be performed. Good backup practices 
> demand that a full backup be performed at least once a month in case a 
> tape fails.
> 
> HOWEVER once a file is deleted, it will only be effectively removed from 
> a restore when a FULL backup takes place thus skipping it (it was 
> deleted, right ?). Until then, post-deletion recoveries will produce the 
> deleted file, updated to its latest version. (duh). In practice, until 
> you do a second full backup, you'll keep recovering long-ago 
> unnecessary, deleted files, hence the need for some full backup policy. 
> It would be easier on a slow network to recreate full backups using MD5 
> and files already present in bacula's volumes but this would complicate 
> tape maintenance enormously. The keep-number-of-files feature is 
> interesting though, as an alternative to date-based retention times. 
> AFAIK bacula does not have this feature.

Right.

> Maybe - this is a BIG maybe - there should be an option of reusing 
> already stored files, and make full backups assembly on slow networks: 
> 1) check MD5 on client, 2) Compare file identity to file table on 
> catalog 3) HEY, I have this file already ! Let's make a list of volumes 
> necessary, and ask the user to supply us the required volumes, 4) Spool 
> the reused files (as if they were d/l) 5) Voila !
> 
> It looks to me this is the "base" backup level, but until more of this 
> feature shows up on the docs...

This is about what the feature request no. 1 is about, as found in the 
current projects file.

The thing Mike wrote about is, as far as I understand, covered by the 
featore request 3, "Synthetic Full Backups". You only do incrementals, 
and Bacula, internally, rearranges the files stored so that you always 
have a recent full backup available.

Both feature requests result in two different ways to allow exact full 
restores - the one requires less work by the DIR but will need many 
jobs and hence volumes during a restore; the other one loads the DIR 
and SDs more but ensures you have a recent full backup on your volumes 
even if you only ever run incrementals.

Base jobs are different again - they will (once implemented) allow a 
"template" backup of a machine to be created, and use this templare 
for other clients. Like when you run the same OS on all your servers, 
you have to back up the base OS only once and all clients are covered 
by it. Only changes against that base file set need to be loaded from 
the clients, even if running full backups.

(I think that these three things will have lots of behind-the-scenes 
action in common, so I assume they will be implemented more or less at 
the same time - once somebody starts working on them.)

Arno

> Michael
> 
> On 10/29/07, *Mike Eggleston * <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Michael Lewinger might have said:
> 
> 
> The perpetual backup, maybe that's only how I think of what TSM
> does, backups
> up a file from the client to the server and keeps a TSM admin
> defined (even
> per client defined) number of versions of that file before the
> oldest version
> falls off the back. If the file is deleted on the client, the TSM server
> keeps at a minimum the last, most current version of the deleted
> file for X
> number of days before that file falls out of the TSM server. The
> first time
> a client is backed up, all the files defined for that server are
> backed up.
> Each time after unless the admin or some schedule specifies, only
> changed
> files are copied. There is no need for a Full. Though some sites do a
> periodic or monthly full, you can setup the TSM server for
> incremental forever.
> My issue right now is that my tape drive is so slow that I want only the
> incrementals and not the fulls.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [Bacula-users] TSM-style perpetual-full?

[Mike Eggleston]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Michael Lewinger might have said:

> Hello Mike,
> 
> What you are talking about is regular practice, and is what is attained by
> the "incremental" feature, so I guess that TSM and bacula are the same
> there. The first time it is run, an inc. backup will be promoted to full,
> and afterwards, only inc. will be performed. Good backup practices demand
> that a full backup be performed at least once a month in case a tape fails.
> 
> HOWEVER once a file is deleted, it will only be effectively removed from a
> restore when a FULL backup takes place thus skipping it (it was deleted,
> right ?). Until then, post-deletion recoveries will produce the deleted
> file, updated to its latest version. (duh). In practice, until you do a
> second full backup, you'll keep recovering long-ago unnecessary, deleted
> files, hence the need for some full backup policy. It would be easier on a
> slow network to recreate full backups using MD5 and files already present in
> bacula's volumes but this would complicate tape maintenance enormously. The
> keep-number-of-files feature is interesting though, as an alternative to
> date-based retention times. AFAIK bacula does not have this feature.
> 
> Maybe - this is a BIG maybe - there should be an option of reusing already
> stored files, and make full backups assembly on slow networks: 1) check MD5
> on client, 2) Compare file identity to file table on catalog 3) HEY, I have
> this file already ! Let's make a list of volumes necessary, and ask the user
> to supply us the required volumes, 4) Spool the reused files (as if they
> were d/l) 5) Voila !
> 
> It looks to me this is the "base" backup level, but until more of this
> feature shows up on the docs...

Just occurred to me, if I change the primary schedule so that Fulls are
pulled quarterly or every six months (bi-annually?) then I am closer to the
perpetual incremental. I understand a failing tape and am looking at external
drives that I can use for sending off-site instead of nine DLT-8000 tapes.
The external drives I'm looking at are around $200 USD each.

Changing bacula so that it tracks files instead of jobs I bet is a major
paradigm shift inside the code and not to be started lightly. I think the
per-job approach might be better for small sites (lesser amounts backed up)
and the per-file approach might be better for larger sites (lots of files
or data backed up). I have modified my setup so that I am using disk based
volumes for my nightly backups, then after all the primary nightly jobs finish
I have a single job that grabs all recently modified disk-based-volumes and
writes them to tape. The real epiphany to my setup was realizing I could
use bacula to manage the final disk-to-tape job instead of writing my
own script.

TSM does all the file checking before hand and on windows (and on AIX, but
last time I used TSM it didn't work well there) you have the option have 
having a client-local journal file of backed up files. The local client
gets the backup specification, generates a list of files, compares that list
of files to the journal file, and only sends over the network the files
that have truely changed. Without the local journal file the client and
server must discuss each file to see if the client needs to send the
file to the server.

Mike

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Re: [Bacula-users] Disk-to-disk-tape backups

[Michael Lewinger]

Sure, here it is. Everything derived from pp 423 of the manual.

on the storage daemon:

Device {
 Name = disk#
 Media Type = file
 Device Type = file
 Archive Device = C:/bacula/backup_data
 AutomaticMount = yes   # when device opened, read it
 AlwaysOpen = yes
 RemovableMedia = no
 RandomAccess = yes
^^
 Spool Directory = C:/bacula/temp
^^
}

on the director daemon:

JobDefs {
  Name = "DefaultJob"
  Type = Backup
  Level = Incremental
  Client = michaelpc
  FileSet = "docs"
  Schedule = "default"
  Storage = disk
  Messages = Standard
  Pool = Default
  Priority = 10
^^
  SpoolData = yes
^^
}

Cheers,

Michael

On 10/29/07, David Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Michael,
>
> I'd like that. The only stipulation is that I try it myself first. I have
> found the documentation a little confusing and may give up quicker than I
> like to admit.
>
> I do however need the reference for the information on spooling. Do you
> have that to start me off?
>
> /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
> David Gardner
> email: djgardner(at)yahoo.com
> Yahoo! IM: djgardner
> AIM: dgardner09
> "Everything is a learning experience, even a mistake."
>
> - Original Message 
> From: Michael Lewinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: David Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 2:45:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Disk-to-disk-tape backups
>
> Sure,
>
> A pity bacula does not support resuming creation of spool files... I do
> have this slow connection problem as well, solved partially by spooling.
> Once it is finished the file does go straight to tape though. Do you need
> help with the spooling ?
>
> Michael
>
> On 10/29/07, David Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Michael,
> >
> > I need the D2D2T feature or at the very least disk spooling because I am
> > stuck using an HP Ext. USB(v2) DAT72 drive and the links between servers are
> > slow. I suppose I could setup Rsync between the servers then fire off the
> > backup
> >
> > I've successfully used the backup to file feature but the remote disk to
> > tape fails consistently.
> >
> > /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
> > David Gardner
> > email: djgardner(at)yahoo.com
> > Yahoo! IM: djgardner
> > AIM: dgardner09
> > "Everything is a learning experience, even a mistake."
> >
> > - Original Message 
> > From: Michael Lewinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: David Gardner < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 1:05:09 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Disk-to-disk-tape backups
> >
> > Hi David,
> >
> > Maybe it can, maybe it can't but I'm sure it can be emulated. bacula's
> > volumes on disk (media type = file) for instance are similar to tape
> > streams, so technically speaking you can use bacula's own "duplicate backup"
> > mechanism for making a backup to disk and to tape immediately after which
> > looks more or less like d2d2t to me. Mind, this is not using disk spooling
> > which is a different feature altogether.
> >
> > What feature of d2d2t is so important ?
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > On 10/29/07, David Gardner < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hey Gang,
> > >
> > > Can Bacula handle D2D2T backups?
> > >
> > > /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
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> > > email: djgardner(at)yahoo.com
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> > >
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Re: [Bacula-users] TSM-style perpetual-full?

[Michael Lewinger]

Hello Mike,

What you are talking about is regular practice, and is what is attained by
the "incremental" feature, so I guess that TSM and bacula are the same
there. The first time it is run, an inc. backup will be promoted to full,
and afterwards, only inc. will be performed. Good backup practices demand
that a full backup be performed at least once a month in case a tape fails.

HOWEVER once a file is deleted, it will only be effectively removed from a
restore when a FULL backup takes place thus skipping it (it was deleted,
right ?). Until then, post-deletion recoveries will produce the deleted
file, updated to its latest version. (duh). In practice, until you do a
second full backup, you'll keep recovering long-ago unnecessary, deleted
files, hence the need for some full backup policy. It would be easier on a
slow network to recreate full backups using MD5 and files already present in
bacula's volumes but this would complicate tape maintenance enormously. The
keep-number-of-files feature is interesting though, as an alternative to
date-based retention times. AFAIK bacula does not have this feature.

Maybe - this is a BIG maybe - there should be an option of reusing already
stored files, and make full backups assembly on slow networks: 1) check MD5
on client, 2) Compare file identity to file table on catalog 3) HEY, I have
this file already ! Let's make a list of volumes necessary, and ask the user
to supply us the required volumes, 4) Spool the reused files (as if they
were d/l) 5) Voila !

It looks to me this is the "base" backup level, but until more of this
feature shows up on the docs...

Michael

On 10/29/07, Mike Eggleston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Michael Lewinger might have said:
>
>
> The perpetual backup, maybe that's only how I think of what TSM does,
> backups
> up a file from the client to the server and keeps a TSM admin defined
> (even
> per client defined) number of versions of that file before the oldest
> version
> falls off the back. If the file is deleted on the client, the TSM server
> keeps at a minimum the last, most current version of the deleted file for
> X
> number of days before that file falls out of the TSM server. The first
> time
> a client is backed up, all the files defined for that server are backed
> up.
> Each time after unless the admin or some schedule specifies, only changed
> files are copied. There is no need for a Full. Though some sites do a
> periodic or monthly full, you can setup the TSM server for incremental
> forever.
> My issue right now is that my tape drive is so slow that I want only the
> incrementals and not the fulls.
>
> Mike
>



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Re: [Bacula-users] File table empty?

[Arno Lehmann]

Hi,

29.10.2007 19:41,, Eric Bollengier wrote::
> Hi,
> 
>> 25.10.2007 18:25,, David Fix wrote::
>>> Hey guys,
>>>
>>> I went to restore some of my data, but the file table is empty!  I've
>>> never seen this before...  The filename table has the filename I'm
>>> looking for, and the path table has the path of it...  But there is NO
>>> data in the file table...  And I have no idea what could have happened
>>> to it!  Any ideas on what may have happened, and possibly how I could
>>> rebuild this?
>> Is it pruned?
>>
>> Unless your catalog database is broken, you can either restore the 
>> whole job, or bscan the volumes into it (and ensure the data is not 
>> purged immediately...) or use bls / bextract to get back your data.
>>
>> If the catalog is broken, bls / bextract are your only choices to 
>> recover data before the catalog is re-populated.
> 
> You can also restore the whole backup or a previous catalog if you use
> WriteBootStrap option.

If you've got a bootstrap file of the point in time you want to 
recover... which in this case, I doubt.

Arno

> See 
> http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Restore_Command.html#SECTION002213
> 
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Re: [Bacula-users] python support

[Arno Lehmann]

Hi,

29.10.2007 18:09,, Rich wrote::
> On 2007.10.27. 17:27, Arno Lehmann wrote:
> ...
>>> 2. if "Scripts Directory" is specified in director configuration file, 
>>> director can't be stopped with ctrl+c, when run in foreground;
>> I don't know if this qualifies as a bug - because, in normal 
>> circumstances, you should only run the DIR in foreground under the 
>> debugger (Kern says ;-) - but I don't think this is serious.
> 
> yeah, but consistency and obeying ctrl+c in foreground are good ;)

True, but given the relatively low impact of this you'll have to be 
good at nagging Kern into fixing it - or do it yourself :-)

> ...
>>> 1. the example is using both lines with spacing and without spacing 
>>> around equal sign (a=b and a = b). which would be a better style choice ?
>> I prefer the spaces around operators because it creates much better 
>> readability. Others disagree.
> 
> actually, i don't care that much about the method used as for it being 
> consistent in the example script :)

Good point. But then, especially given this discussion, I get the 
impression the python scripting chapter needs a major rework anyway...

> ...
>>> 4. does somebody have example on writing out datetime string that would 
>>> reproduce behaviour that label format currently produces for 
>>> "${Year}.${Month:p/2/0/r}.${Day:p/2/0/r}-${Hour:p/2/0/r}.${Minute:p/2/0/r}" 
>>> ?
>> Again, no examples, manuals, or even working code, but something like
>>
>> import datetime
> 
> and this is where it breaks.
> just adding that line to the script prevents director from starting at all :
> 
> Fatal Python error: Interpreter not initialized (version mismatch?)

That looks like a python problem... or something related to the way 
python is embedded into Bacula. You should consider a bug report at 
bugs.bacula.org, and point out that this might be a configure or 
linking problem, or even one of finding the right python module path.

Currently, I have no idea how to fix or further diagnose this.

> Kaboom! bacula-dir, backup_1-dir got signal 6 - IOT trap. Attempting 
> traceback.
> Kaboom! exepath=/sbin/
> Calling: /sbin/btraceback /sbin/bacula-dir 32340
> execv: /sbin/btraceback failed: ERR=No such file or directory
> Traceback complete, attempting cleanup ...
> Orphaned buffer:  backup_1-dir 16 bytes buf=820b150 allocated at 
> watchdog.c:86
> Orphaned buffer:  backup_1-dir 16 bytes buf=82330a8 allocated at 
> watchdog.c:87
> 
> 
> on #python, it was suggested that :
> "that error is caused by importing a module compiled for a different 
> version of Python, on Windows."
> 
> but i don't understand how could that be possible
> 
> where could the problem be ?

configure, linking, module path - I suppose you need to be good with 
software building and gdb to find a solution here.

> ...
>>> 5. a (slightly modified) line reads :
>>> job.JobReport = "Exists=%d %s" % (job.DoesVolumeExist(Vol), Vol)
>>>
>>> if i understand correctly, it would only add a line to the report and 
>>> proceed, right ?
>> Yup.
>>
>>> it seems that in such a case job simply stucks, waiting for a manual 
>>> volume specification.
>>> can i make a check that would error out if such a volume already exists ?
>> Sure. Check the volume name you just created using DoesVolumeExist, 
>> and if it already exists, append or modify a suffix and loop. 
>> Otherwise, continue.
> 
> actually, i would prefer to error out in such a case - if volume exists, 
> something's broken.

Well, relying onto the number of volumes in a pool is not safe, for 
example. Imagine you have volumes V1, V2, V4 in a pool and label with 
'V'+number. The next volume will be the fourth one, so you'd end up 
with V4 a second time.

As this can happen easily when you delete volumes, precautions are 
important.

> looking over the example, i could not find a way to cancel the job - how 
> would i do that ?

I don't know - perhaps return the null value from the method. You'll 
have to try :-)

>> Hope this helps,
> 
> it did a lot, huge thanks.
> i hope that the result of my pain will help somebody else :)

Definitely... at least me. If I find the time, I'll play with python 
scripting. Perhaps even this year or 2008 ;-)

Arno


>> Arno

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Re: [Bacula-users] Restore Problems

[Luiz Gustavo R. Nogueira]

Hi Michael, obrigado!

I found the files now! My fault not reading the docs completely...

thanks a lot,
Luiz Nogueira

2007/10/29, Michael Lewinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Hi Luis, bom dia, como vai ?
>
> The files are restored by default to the client, not to the server. Use
> "mod" for changing the client's destination on the restore console. I'm
> marking the relevant lines with ^^^
>
> begin---
>
> Connecting to Director 192.168.2.102:9101
> 1000 OK: michaelpc-dir Version: 2.2.5 (09 October 2007)
> Enter a period to cancel a command.
> *restore all
> Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog
> Using Catalog "MyCatalog"
>
> First you select one or more JobIds that contain files
> to be restored. You will be presented several methods
> of specifying the JobIds. Then you will be allowed to
> select which files from those JobIds are to be restored.
>
> To select the JobIds, you have the following choices:
>  1: List last 20 Jobs run
>  2: List Jobs where a given File is saved
>  3: Enter list of comma separated JobIds to select
>  4: Enter SQL list command
>  5: Select the most recent backup for a client
>  6: Select backup for a client before a specified time
>  7: Enter a list of files to restore
>  8: Enter a list of files to restore before a specified time
>  9: Find the JobIds of the most recent backup for a client
> 10: Find the JobIds for a backup for a client before a specified time
> 11: Enter a list of directories to restore for found JobIds
> 12: Cancel
> Select item:  (1-12): 5
> Defined Clients:
>  1: michaelpc
>  2: saar
> Select the Client (1-2): 2
> Automatically selected FileSet: saar
> +---+---+--+---+-++
>
> | JobId | Level | JobFiles | JobBytes  | StartTime   |
> VolumeName |
>
> +---+---+--+---+-++
> |   139 | F |   12,924 | 2,353,980,429 | 2007-10-26 08:36:29 |
> saar   |
> |   142 | I |1 |11,556 | 2007-10-26 19:27:39 |
> saar   |
>
> +---+---+--+---+-++
> You have selected the following JobIds: 139,142
>
> Building directory tree for JobId 139 ...
> +
> Building directory tree for JobId 142 ...
> 2 Jobs, 12,845 files inserted into the tree and marked for extraction.
>
> You are now entering file selection mode where you add (mark) and
> remove (unmark) files to be restored. No files are initially added, unless
> you used the "all" keyword on the command line.
> Enter "done" to leave this mode.
>
> cwd is: /
> $ done
> Bootstrap records written to C:\Documents and Settings\All
> Users\Application Data\Bacula\Work/michaelpc-dir.restore.1.bsr
>
> The job will require the following
>Volume(s) Storage(s)SD Device(s)
>
> ===
>
>saar  external  disk
>
>
> 12,924 files selected to be restored.
>
> Run Restore job
> JobName: RestoreFiles
> Bootstrap:   C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
> Data\Bacula\Work/michaelpc-dir.restore.1.bsr
> Where:   C:\tmp\bacula-restores
> Replace: always
> FileSet: Windows Full Set
> Backup Client:   saar
> ^^^
> Restore Client:  saar
> ^^^
> Storage: external
> When:2007-10-29 21:53:15
> Catalog: MyCatalog
> Priority:10
> ^^^
> OK to run? (yes/mod/no): mod
> ^^^
> Parameters to modify:
>  1: Level
>  2: Storage
>  3: Job
>  4: FileSet
> ^^^
>  5: Restore Client
> ^^^
>  6: When
>  7: Priority
>  8: Bootstrap
>  9: Where
> 10: File Relocation
> 11: Replace
> 12: JobId
> Select parameter to modify (1-12): 5
> The defined Client resources are:
>  1: michaelpc
>  2: saar
> ^^^
> Select Client (File daemon) resource (1-2): 1
> ^^^
> Run Restore job
> JobName: RestoreFiles
> Bootstrap:   C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
> Data\Bacula\Work/michaelpc-dir.restore.1.bsr
> Where:   C:\tmp\bacula-restores
> Replace: always
> FileSet: Windows Full Set
> Backup Client:   saar
> ^^^
> Restore Client:  michaelpc
> ^^^
> Storage: external
> When:2007-10-29 21:53:15
> Catalog: MyCatalog
> Priority:10
> OK to run? (yes/mod/no):yes
>
> end--
>
> Michael
>
> On 10/29/07, Luiz Gu

Re: [Bacula-users] Device blocked.

[Arno Lehmann]

Hi,

29.10.2007 11:41,, Gary Stainburn wrote::
> On Saturday 27 October 2007 14:46, Arno Lehmann wrote:
>> At this point, what is the 'sta sd=larry2-leeds' output?
>> Normally, things should work now, I think...
>>
>> Arno
> 
> As you can see below, it still says it's blocked.  It also says there's 4 
> jobs 
> writing to it too which I don't understand. I thought you could onnly have 
> one job per device.

No, more than one job can use a device simultaneously. Of course, 
internally, Bacula has to sequence the actual write operations, but 
non the less, jobs as a whole can run simultaneously.

You set this up in the configuration, by the way - by default, job 
concurrency is not enabled.

> Any ideas anyone?
> 
> Gary
> 
> *sta sd=larry2-leeds
> Connecting to Storage daemon larry2-leeds at larry2.ringways.co.uk:9103
> 
> larry2-sd Version: 2.2.4 (14 September 2007) i686-pc-linux-gnu redhat
> Daemon started 19-Oct-07 16:56, 143 Jobs run since started.
>  Heap: heap=872,448 smbytes=641,805 max_bytes=707,072 bufs=215 max_bufs=222
> Sizes: boffset_t=8 size_t=4 int32_t=4 int64_t=8
> 
> Running Jobs:
> Writing: Differential Backup job ladmin9 JobId=491 Volume=""
> pool="Leeds" device="LeedsStorage" (/var/bacula/leeds)
> spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
> Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0
> FDReadSeqNo=6 in_msg=6 out_msg=4 fd=6
> Writing: Full Backup job ladmin1 JobId=649 Volume="leeds0040"
> pool="Leeds" device="LeedsStorage" (/var/bacula/leeds)
> spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
> Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0
> FDReadSeqNo=6 in_msg=6 out_msg=5 fd=8
> Writing: Full Backup job ladmin2 JobId=650 Volume="leeds0044"
> pool="Leeds" device="LeedsStorage" (/var/bacula/leeds)
> spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
> Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0
> FDReadSeqNo=6 in_msg=6 out_msg=5 fd=10
> Writing: Incremental Backup job ladmin7 JobId=653 Volume="leeds0044"
> pool="Leeds" device="LeedsStorage" (/var/bacula/leeds)
> spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
> Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0
> FDReadSeqNo=6 in_msg=6 out_msg=4 fd=12
> 

As we see (Files= Bytes=) all these jobs actually don't transfer data 
but rather wait for something to happen.

In this case, I think the SD is currently trying to create a volume. I 
assume this because there are different volume names active, which can 
only happen while one job noticed that it needed another volume, and 
the others simply have to wait, but are not yet informed of the volume 
change.

> Jobs waiting to reserve a drive:
> 
> 
> Terminated Jobs:
>  JobId  LevelFiles  Bytes   Status   FinishedName
> ===
>643  Full  0 0   Other26-Oct-07 14:10 lpartsl
>644  Incr 91168.8 M  OK   26-Oct-07 14:12 lserv1
>645  Incr 9971.41 M  OK   26-Oct-07 14:13 lserv4
>646  Incr133978.9 M  OK   26-Oct-07 14:16 lserv6
>647  Incr 88560.7 M  OK   26-Oct-07 14:18 lserv9
>648  Incr186127.5 M  OK   26-Oct-07 14:19 lservg
>676  Incr1221.200 G  OK   26-Oct-07 15:43 dadmin1
>677  Incr 78283.4 M  OK   26-Oct-07 16:04 dadmin4
>651  Full  0 0   Other26-Oct-07 16:58 ladmin4
>652  Incr  0 0   Other26-Oct-07 17:28 ladmin6
> 
> 
> Device status:
> Device "LeedsStorage" (/var/bacula/leeds) is not open.
> Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for:
>Pool:Leeds
>Media type:  leeds-tape
> Device "HalesStorage" (/var/bacula/hales) is not open.
> Device "PrimaStorage" (/var/bacula/prima) is not open.
> Device "DoncStorage" (/var/bacula/donc) is not open.
> 

Currently, Bacula tries to create a volume automatically, or waits for 
user intervention.

> In Use Volume status:
> leeds0044 on device "LeedsStorage" (/var/bacula/leeds)
> Reader=0 writers=0 reserved=4
> 

Here you can see that the four jobs reported above wait for a volume 
to become available.

> 
> *

What happens if you try to create a volume manually? This output looks 
like automatic volume creation failed, but there should be a more 
detailed operator request mail.

Of course, the console messages or the console log file should have 
more information, too.

If they don't, I recommend to set debug output tracing with a command 
like 'setdebug level=200 trace=1 sd=larry2-leeds', issue a mount 
command, and then inspect the trace file, if you don't get anything 
useful in the messages.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Disk-to-disk-tape backups

[David Gardner]

Michael,

I need the D2D2T feature or at the very least disk spooling because I am stuck 
using an HP Ext. USB(v2) DAT72 drive and the links between servers are slow. I 
suppose I could setup Rsync between the servers then fire off the backup

I've successfully used the backup to file feature but the remote disk to tape 
fails consistently. 
 
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- Original Message 
From: Michael Lewinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: David Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 1:05:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Disk-to-disk-tape backups


Hi David,

Maybe it can, maybe it can't but I'm sure it can be emulated. bacula's volumes 
on disk (media type = file) for instance are similar to tape streams, so 
technically speaking you can use bacula's own "duplicate backup" mechanism for 
making a backup to disk and to tape immediately after which looks more or less 
like d2d2t to me. Mind, this is not using disk spooling which is a different 
feature altogether.


What feature of d2d2t is so important ?

Michael

On 10/29/07, David Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:Hey Gang,

Can Bacula handle D2D2T backups?

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[Bacula-users] Moving volumes to a new

[Russell Sutherland]

In order to create more space on one of my SD machines, I have created a new
Device entry
in the sd.conf file:

Device {
  Name = Tank-device
  Media Type = Tank-file
  Archive Device = /backup/bacula
  LabelMedia = yes;   # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
  Random Access = Yes;
  AutomaticMount = yes;   # when device opened, read it
  RemovableMedia = no;
  AlwaysOpen = no;
}

Device {
  Name = Tank-large-device
  Media Type = Tank-large-file
  Archive Device = /opt/bacula
  LabelMedia = yes;   # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
  Random Access = Yes;
  AutomaticMount = yes;   # when device opened, read it
  RemovableMedia = no;
  AlwaysOpen = no;
}


I added the new disk partition /opt/bacula as /backup/bacula was getting
full.
To free up space on the old Device area, I wanted to move the job volumes
from the old device to the new device, and just change the "Storage" field
in
the job to the one that accesses the new Device.

Job {
  Name = utm-wireless-system
  Enabled = yes
  JobDefs = DefaultJob
  Client = utm-wireless-fd
  FileSet = "NS-System"
  Storage = Storage-remote-tank-large <--- new larger storage area
  Full Backup Pool = utm-wireless-full
  Differential Backup Pool = utm-wireless-diff
  Incremental Backup Pool = utm-wireless-inc
}

Storage {
  Name = Storage-remote-tank
# Do not use "localhost" here
  Address = tank.a.b.org  # N.B. Use a fully qualified name here
  SDPort = 9103
  Password = "asdasdsd"
  Device = Tank-device
  Media Type = Tank-file
}

Storage {
  Name = Storage-remote-tank-large
# Do not use "localhost" here
  Address = tank.a.b.org   # N.B. Use a fully qualified name here
  SDPort = 9103
  Password = "asasdasd"
  Device = Tank-large-device
  Media Type = Tank-large-file
}

My question is, is there a method for moving my current related volume files
over to the the new Storage device (/opt/bacula) seamlessly? They look like:

tank: ls -ltr utm*
-rw-r-  1 bacula  bacula   376261049 Apr  1  2007 utm-wireless-full-0002
-rw-r-  1 bacula  bacula   287201254 May  9 15:24 utm-wireless-full-0003
-rw-r-  1 bacula  bacula   204155050 Jul 25 02:50 utm-wireless-diff-0003
-rw-r-  1 bacula  bacula   163371571 Aug 12 12:28 utm-wireless-diff-0004
-rw-r-  1 bacula  bacula   174128939 Aug 21 22:29 utm-wireless-diff-0005
-rw-r-  1 bacula  bacula   176373784 Aug 26 07:35 utm-wireless-diff-0001
-rw-r-  1 bacula  bacula   243285162 Sep  4 11:36 utm-wireless-full-0004
-rw-r-  1 bacula  bacula  1252243055 Oct  4 05:29 utm-wireless-inc-0002
-rw-r-  1 bacula  bacula   834878651 Oct 11 00:04 utm-wireless-full-0001
-rw-r-  1 bacula  bacula  3829161368 Oct 11 03:34 utm-wireless-inc-0003
-rw-r-  1 bacula  bacula   530104601 Oct 14 03:00 utm-wireless-diff-0002
-rw-r-  1 bacula  bacula  2944219361 Oct 26 14:19 utm-wireless-inc-0001





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Re: [Bacula-users] Restore Problems

[Michael Lewinger]

Hi Luis, bom dia, como vai ?

The files are restored by default to the client, not to the server. Use
"mod" for changing the client's destination on the restore console. I'm
marking the relevant lines with ^^^

begin---

Connecting to Director 192.168.2.102:9101
1000 OK: michaelpc-dir Version: 2.2.5 (09 October 2007)
Enter a period to cancel a command.
*restore all
Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog
Using Catalog "MyCatalog"

First you select one or more JobIds that contain files
to be restored. You will be presented several methods
of specifying the JobIds. Then you will be allowed to
select which files from those JobIds are to be restored.

To select the JobIds, you have the following choices:
 1: List last 20 Jobs run
 2: List Jobs where a given File is saved
 3: Enter list of comma separated JobIds to select
 4: Enter SQL list command
 5: Select the most recent backup for a client
 6: Select backup for a client before a specified time
 7: Enter a list of files to restore
 8: Enter a list of files to restore before a specified time
 9: Find the JobIds of the most recent backup for a client
10: Find the JobIds for a backup for a client before a specified time
11: Enter a list of directories to restore for found JobIds
12: Cancel
Select item:  (1-12): 5
Defined Clients:
 1: michaelpc
 2: saar
Select the Client (1-2): 2
Automatically selected FileSet: saar
+---+---+--+---+-++
| JobId | Level | JobFiles | JobBytes  | StartTime   |
VolumeName |
+---+---+--+---+-++
|   139 | F |   12,924 | 2,353,980,429 | 2007-10-26 08:36:29 |
saar   |
|   142 | I |1 |11,556 | 2007-10-26 19:27:39 |
saar   |
+---+---+--+---+-++
You have selected the following JobIds: 139,142

Building directory tree for JobId 139 ...
+
Building directory tree for JobId 142 ...
2 Jobs, 12,845 files inserted into the tree and marked for extraction.

You are now entering file selection mode where you add (mark) and
remove (unmark) files to be restored. No files are initially added, unless
you used the "all" keyword on the command line.
Enter "done" to leave this mode.

cwd is: /
$ done
Bootstrap records written to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\Bacula\Work/michaelpc-dir.restore.1.bsr

The job will require the following
   Volume(s) Storage(s)SD Device(s)
===

   saar  external  disk


12,924 files selected to be restored.

Run Restore job
JobName: RestoreFiles
Bootstrap:   C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\Bacula\Work/michaelpc-dir.restore.1.bsr
Where:   C:\tmp\bacula-restores
Replace: always
FileSet: Windows Full Set
Backup Client:   saar
^^^
Restore Client:  saar
^^^
Storage: external
When:2007-10-29 21:53:15
Catalog: MyCatalog
Priority:10
^^^
OK to run? (yes/mod/no): mod
^^^
Parameters to modify:
 1: Level
 2: Storage
 3: Job
 4: FileSet
^^^
 5: Restore Client
^^^
 6: When
 7: Priority
 8: Bootstrap
 9: Where
10: File Relocation
11: Replace
12: JobId
Select parameter to modify (1-12): 5
The defined Client resources are:
 1: michaelpc
 2: saar
^^^
Select Client (File daemon) resource (1-2): 1
^^^
Run Restore job
JobName: RestoreFiles
Bootstrap:   C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\Bacula\Work/michaelpc-dir.restore.1.bsr
Where:   C:\tmp\bacula-restores
Replace: always
FileSet: Windows Full Set
Backup Client:   saar
^^^
Restore Client:  michaelpc
^^^
Storage: external
When:2007-10-29 21:53:15
Catalog: MyCatalog
Priority:10
OK to run? (yes/mod/no):yes
end--

Michael

On 10/29/07, Luiz Gustavo R. Nogueira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> hello Christof,
>
> yes I looked there ...I tried changing the location to other folders,
> checked permissions and nothing ...
>
> thanks,
> Luiz Nogueira
>
> -
>
>
> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:45:13 +0100
> From: Christof Klaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Restore Problems
> To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
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> Content-Typ

Re: [Bacula-users] Moving volumes to a new

[Michael Lewinger]

Hi there,

Isn't that "migration" ? Chapter 26, pp 377 of the manual (pp 405 on the
PDF).

Michael

On 10/29/07, Russell Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> In order to create more space on one of my SD machines, I have created a
> new Device entry
> in the sd.conf file:
>
> Device {
>   Name = Tank-device
>   Media Type = Tank-file
>   Archive Device = /backup/bacula
>   LabelMedia = yes;   # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
>   Random Access = Yes;
>   AutomaticMount = yes;   # when device opened, read it
>   RemovableMedia = no;
>   AlwaysOpen = no;
> }
>
> Device {
>   Name = Tank-large-device
>   Media Type = Tank-large-file
>   Archive Device = /opt/bacula
>   LabelMedia = yes;   # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
>   Random Access = Yes;
>   AutomaticMount = yes;   # when device opened, read it
>   RemovableMedia = no;
>   AlwaysOpen = no;
> }
>
>
> I added the new disk partition /opt/bacula as /backup/bacula was getting
> full.
> To free up space on the old Device area, I wanted to move the job volumes
> from the old device to the new device, and just change the "Storage" field
> in
> the job to the one that accesses the new Device.
>
> Job {
>   Name = utm-wireless-system
>   Enabled = yes
>   JobDefs = DefaultJob
>   Client = utm-wireless-fd
>   FileSet = "NS-System"
>   Storage = Storage-remote-tank-large <--- new larger storage area
>   Full Backup Pool = utm-wireless-full
>   Differential Backup Pool = utm-wireless-diff
>   Incremental Backup Pool = utm-wireless-inc
> }
>
> Storage {
>   Name = Storage-remote-tank
> # Do not use "localhost" here
>   Address = tank.a.b.org  # N.B. Use a fully qualified name here
>   SDPort = 9103
>   Password = "asdasdsd"
>   Device = Tank-device
>   Media Type = Tank-file
> }
>
> Storage {
>   Name = Storage-remote-tank-large
> # Do not use "localhost" here
>   Address = tank.a.b.org   # N.B. Use a fully qualified name here
>   SDPort = 9103
>   Password = "asasdasd"
>   Device = Tank-large-device
>   Media Type = Tank-large-file
> }
>
> My question is, is there a method for moving my current related volume
> files
> over to the the new Storage device (/opt/bacula) seamlessly? They look
> like:
>
> tank: ls -ltr utm*
> -rw-r-  1 bacula  bacula   376261049 Apr  1  2007
> utm-wireless-full-0002
> -rw-r-  1 bacula  bacula   287201254 May  9 15:24
> utm-wireless-full-0003
> -rw-r-  1 bacula  bacula   204155050 Jul 25 02:50
> utm-wireless-diff-0003
> -rw-r-  1 bacula  bacula   163371571 Aug 12 12:28
> utm-wireless-diff-0004
> -rw-r-  1 bacula  bacula   174128939 Aug 21 22:29
> utm-wireless-diff-0005
> -rw-r-  1 bacula  bacula   176373784 Aug 26 07:35
> utm-wireless-diff-0001
> -rw-r-  1 bacula  bacula   243285162 Sep  4 11:36
> utm-wireless-full-0004
> -rw-r-  1 bacula  bacula  1252243055 Oct  4 05:29
> utm-wireless-inc-0002
> -rw-r-  1 bacula  bacula   834878651 Oct 11 00:04
> utm-wireless-full-0001
> -rw-r-  1 bacula  bacula  3829161368 Oct 11 03:34
> utm-wireless-inc-0003
> -rw-r-  1 bacula  bacula   530104601 Oct 14 03:00
> utm-wireless-diff-0002
> -rw-r-  1 bacula  bacula  2944219361 Oct 26 14:19
> utm-wireless-inc-0001
>
>
>
>
>
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[Bacula-users] sql query to list volumes per pool

[mark . bergman]

I believe that someone was asking for an SQL query to report on the assignment 
of pools to volumes. Perhaps this will help...it lists volumes in each pool, 
after prompting for the pool name. Suggestions in improving the SQL are welcome.



# 21
:List Volumes per Pool
*Enter Pool Name:
SELECT VolumeName AS VolName,MediaID AS ID,Pool.Name AS Pool,MediaType AS 
Type,VolStatus AS Status,VolErrors AS Errs,Media.LastWritten AS LastWritten,
   FROM_UNIXTIME(
  UNIX_TIMESTAMP(Media.LastWritten)
+ (Media.VolRetention)
   ) AS Expires
  FROM Media,Pool,Storage
  WHERE Media.PoolId=Pool.PoolId
  AND Media.StorageId=Storage.StorageId
  AND Pool.Name='%1'
  ORDER BY VolumeName;




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Re: [Bacula-users] Beaten about the head and shoulders with a BAT...

[Flak Magnet]

On Friday 26 October 2007 3:52:41 pm Chris Howells wrote:
> Flak Magnet wrote:
>
> h is weird because I told it right where it was with:
> > --with-qwt=/usr/local/qwt-5.0.2/lib
>
> You need '--with-qwt=/usr/local/qwt-5.0.2'

Aw geez.  

Tried it.  It worked.  Feel kind "d'oh" for not noticing that while reading 
over the output.

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Re: [Bacula-users] TSM-style perpetual-full?

[Mike Eggleston]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Michael Lewinger might have said:

> Hi Mike,
> 
> Yes, I agree that Bacula's method for upgrading an incremental backup to
> full if no full backups are found is a good feature (expected though) but it
> does not work the way I'd like it to. For instance there is an explicit
> "ignore fileset changes" options to circunvent a methodic upgrade-to-full
> when changing fileset - why such an option ?. If we're calculating MD5
> signatures to each file, in this case, I'd expect Bacula to transfer only
> "NEW" files and "replenish" the old full backup with the new data according
> to the new fileset - more or less "add to the jobid XXX those files as
> they're new". Bend the rules a little, it is not like bacula can be used by
> the average home user. Transferring the WHOLE set of data again is the easy
> way to say "full is full, and data transfer is cheap", which is not always
> the case.
> 
> It seems to me that in bacula's restore you can choose both by point in
> time, by most recent full backup, and particular folders/files, so
> 
> Finally, regarding your question - eventually I'm reacting to it. I'm not
> sure that I understand the TSM "perpetual" feature, maybe the name is
> misleading. RTFM 4 me will do it, but until then - is there no "parallel"
> feature in Bacula, or a procedure for emulating this feature ?
> 
> Michael
> 
> On 10/29/07, Mike Eggleston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Michael Lewinger might have said:
> >
> > > Hi Mike,
> > >
> > > It looks all things are covered in Bacula: retention times, incremental
> > > backup. But then I'm not a TSM expert.
> > >
> > > Michael
> > >
> > > On 10/29/07, Mike Eggleston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I like bacula and what it does for me (thank you development team).
> > > > One issue I have is not really bacula, the issue is the long time
> > > > required to write backups to tape. Is there anything in bacula like
> > > > TSM's perpetual full where I can see the most current files from the
> > > > client in the 'restore' command, files removed the client are kept
> > > > for a specific number of days, and only the files that have changed
> > > > during the night are written to backup tape ad infinitium?
> >
> > The big difference I can see is the perpetual full. Bacula will upgrade
> > a backup level to Full if no other Full is found for the client. TSM
> > will backup any files you tell it to regardless of backup level, and
> > TSM will keep the file for a certain amount of time (30 days, etc) after
> > the file is deleted from the client. TSM also knows what the most current
> > files for a client are, so like 'restore' in bacula you can choose which
> > files to load back to the client. You do not have to select a file by
> > job id. You can ask for a list of 'active' and 'inactive' versions of a
> > given file or wild card and like bacula's 'restore' you can choose which
> > files to load back.
> >
> > The biggest difference for what I'm wanting between bacula and TSM is
> > the 'perpetual full'. Just backup the files from the client and let me
> > choose which files by date to restore (bacula does the latter).
> >
> > I greatly agreed with the idea of Full/Differential/Incremental backups
> > (levels 0/1/2 from BSD) until I started with TSM. The TSM method, once
> > you understand what it is doing, works very well. I was very skeptical
> > at first of TSM until I had used it a while. The idea is similar to CVS
> > or RCS. Only the files that have been modified get new version numbers.
> >
> > Does that make sense or am I rambling?

The perpetual backup, maybe that's only how I think of what TSM does, backups
up a file from the client to the server and keeps a TSM admin defined (even
per client defined) number of versions of that file before the oldest version
falls off the back. If the file is deleted on the client, the TSM server
keeps at a minimum the last, most current version of the deleted file for X
number of days before that file falls out of the TSM server. The first time
a client is backed up, all the files defined for that server are backed up.
Each time after unless the admin or some schedule specifies, only changed
files are copied. There is no need for a Full. Though some sites do a
periodic or monthly full, you can setup the TSM server for incremental forever.
My issue right now is that my tape drive is so slow that I want only the
incrementals and not the fulls.

Mike

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Re: [Bacula-users] TSM-style perpetual-full?

[Michael Lewinger]

Hi Mike,

Yes, I agree that Bacula's method for upgrading an incremental backup to
full if no full backups are found is a good feature (expected though) but it
does not work the way I'd like it to. For instance there is an explicit
"ignore fileset changes" options to circunvent a methodic upgrade-to-full
when changing fileset - why such an option ?. If we're calculating MD5
signatures to each file, in this case, I'd expect Bacula to transfer only
"NEW" files and "replenish" the old full backup with the new data according
to the new fileset - more or less "add to the jobid XXX those files as
they're new". Bend the rules a little, it is not like bacula can be used by
the average home user. Transferring the WHOLE set of data again is the easy
way to say "full is full, and data transfer is cheap", which is not always
the case.

It seems to me that in bacula's restore you can choose both by point in
time, by most recent full backup, and particular folders/files, so

Finally, regarding your question - eventually I'm reacting to it. I'm not
sure that I understand the TSM "perpetual" feature, maybe the name is
misleading. RTFM 4 me will do it, but until then - is there no "parallel"
feature in Bacula, or a procedure for emulating this feature ?

Michael

On 10/29/07, Mike Eggleston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Michael Lewinger might have said:
>
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > It looks all things are covered in Bacula: retention times, incremental
> > backup. But then I'm not a TSM expert.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > On 10/29/07, Mike Eggleston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > I like bacula and what it does for me (thank you development team).
> > > One issue I have is not really bacula, the issue is the long time
> > > required to write backups to tape. Is there anything in bacula like
> > > TSM's perpetual full where I can see the most current files from the
> > > client in the 'restore' command, files removed the client are kept
> > > for a specific number of days, and only the files that have changed
> > > during the night are written to backup tape ad infinitium?
>
> The big difference I can see is the perpetual full. Bacula will upgrade
> a backup level to Full if no other Full is found for the client. TSM
> will backup any files you tell it to regardless of backup level, and
> TSM will keep the file for a certain amount of time (30 days, etc) after
> the file is deleted from the client. TSM also knows what the most current
> files for a client are, so like 'restore' in bacula you can choose which
> files to load back to the client. You do not have to select a file by
> job id. You can ask for a list of 'active' and 'inactive' versions of a
> given file or wild card and like bacula's 'restore' you can choose which
> files to load back.
>
> The biggest difference for what I'm wanting between bacula and TSM is
> the 'perpetual full'. Just backup the files from the client and let me
> choose which files by date to restore (bacula does the latter).
>
> I greatly agreed with the idea of Full/Differential/Incremental backups
> (levels 0/1/2 from BSD) until I started with TSM. The TSM method, once
> you understand what it is doing, works very well. I was very skeptical
> at first of TSM until I had used it a while. The idea is similar to CVS
> or RCS. Only the files that have been modified get new version numbers.
>
> Does that make sense or am I rambling?
>
> Mike
>



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[Bacula-users] Restore Problems

[Luiz Gustavo R. Nogueira]

hello Christof,

yes I looked there ...I tried changing the location to other folders,
checked permissions and nothing ...

thanks,
Luiz Nogueira

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Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:45:13 +0100
From: Christof Klaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Restore Problems
To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

hello luiz,
you didnt mention where you expect the file to be restored...the
restore-location given in the job is /tmp .. did you look there ?

christof klaus.


Luiz Gustavo R. Nogueira schrieb:
> Hello all,
>
> When I try to restore a file through the console, everything looks fine
> and I get a sucessful message and a email saying that file was restored
> sucessfully, but when I go to the location where the restored file
>
> should be, nothing is there.
>
> I'm using bacula 2.0.3 with a RedHat AS 4 kernel 2.6.9-42. There's no
> error in the logs.
>
> Follows below my restore job configured at bacula-dir:
>
> Job {
>   Name = "RestoreFiles"
>
>   Type = Restore
>   Client=client-name-fd
>   FileSet="Full"
>   Storage = File
>   Pool = Default
>   Messages = Standard
>   Where = /tmp
> }
>
> Please let me know if you need any further information in order to help
>
> solve this problem. I think it's something simple, but was not able to
find.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Luiz
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[Bacula-users] Disk-to-disk-tape backups

[David Gardner]

Hey Gang,

Can Bacula handle D2D2T backups?
 
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Re: [Bacula-users] TSM-style perpetual-full?

[Mike Eggleston]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Michael Lewinger might have said:

> Hi Mike,
> 
> It looks all things are covered in Bacula: retention times, incremental
> backup. But then I'm not a TSM expert.
> 
> Michael
> 
> On 10/29/07, Mike Eggleston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I like bacula and what it does for me (thank you development team).
> > One issue I have is not really bacula, the issue is the long time
> > required to write backups to tape. Is there anything in bacula like
> > TSM's perpetual full where I can see the most current files from the
> > client in the 'restore' command, files removed the client are kept
> > for a specific number of days, and only the files that have changed
> > during the night are written to backup tape ad infinitium?

The big difference I can see is the perpetual full. Bacula will upgrade
a backup level to Full if no other Full is found for the client. TSM
will backup any files you tell it to regardless of backup level, and
TSM will keep the file for a certain amount of time (30 days, etc) after
the file is deleted from the client. TSM also knows what the most current
files for a client are, so like 'restore' in bacula you can choose which
files to load back to the client. You do not have to select a file by
job id. You can ask for a list of 'active' and 'inactive' versions of a
given file or wild card and like bacula's 'restore' you can choose which
files to load back.

The biggest difference for what I'm wanting between bacula and TSM is
the 'perpetual full'. Just backup the files from the client and let me
choose which files by date to restore (bacula does the latter).

I greatly agreed with the idea of Full/Differential/Incremental backups
(levels 0/1/2 from BSD) until I started with TSM. The TSM method, once
you understand what it is doing, works very well. I was very skeptical
at first of TSM until I had used it a while. The idea is similar to CVS
or RCS. Only the files that have been modified get new version numbers.

Does that make sense or am I rambling?

Mike

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Re: [Bacula-users] TSM-style perpetual-full?

[Michael Lewinger]

Hi Mike,

It looks all things are covered in Bacula: retention times, incremental
backup. But then I'm not a TSM expert.

Michael

On 10/29/07, Mike Eggleston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I like bacula and what it does for me (thank you development team).
> One issue I have is not really bacula, the issue is the long time
> required to write backups to tape. Is there anything in bacula like
> TSM's perpetual full where I can see the most current files from the
> client in the 'restore' command, files removed the client are kept
> for a specific number of days, and only the files that have changed
> during the night are written to backup tape ad infinitium?
>
> Mike
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Re: [Bacula-users] "Cannot Connect to Client" Error

[Michael Lewinger]

Hi Jon,

I read somewhere (in the conf file ?) that localhost should not be used. Add
an alias to 127.0.0.1 in your /etc/hosts  file and use it instead.

Michael Lewinger

On 10/29/07, Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I"m evaluating Bacula for a client. So far I like what I see, but I'm
> having trouble adding a second (remote) client.
>
> I am following the Brief Tutorial to become familar with Bacula and have
> successfully set up the local machine backup and restores. However,
> setting up a second client is giving me troubles.
>
> I've followed the section in the Brief Tutorial entitled "Adding a
> Second Client" which entails simply copying the bacula-fd binary and
> bacula-fd.conf file from the bacula director machine to the client that
> I want to back up. I've changed the name of the machine from the
> director to my client in the bacula-fd.conf file as instructed in that
> section.
>
> However, when I try attempt to get the status of that client from the
> director machine's bconsole, it cannot connect (mi01.fusion is the
> remote machine that is giving me problems):
>
> *status
> Status available for:
>  1: Director
>  2: Storage
>  3: Client
>  4: All
> Select daemon type for status (1-4): 3
> The defined Client resources are:
>  1: mi01-fd
>  2: mi01.fusion
> Select Client (File daemon) resource (1-2): 2
> Connecting to Client mi01.fusion at xx.xx.xx.xx:9102
> Failed to connect to Client mi01.fusion.
> 
> You have messages.
> *
> 29-Oct 10:20 mi01-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: Unable to authenticate with
> File daemon at "mi01.fusion..xxx:9102". Possible causes:
> Passwords or names not the same or
> Maximum Concurrent Jobs exceeded on the FD or
> FD networking messed up (restart daemon).
> Please see http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/faq.html#AuthorizationErrors
> for help.
>
> I apologize for the domain mame and IP address obsfucation but I do not
> have authorization to post any significant network information to the
> Internet.
>
> I have read the AuthorizationErrors page, but as near as I can tell most
> of these types of errors are differing passwords between the director
> and the fd.conf files. Since I just copied the bacula-fd.conf file from
> the working director machine to the remote client, the password is the
> same.
>
> I have also verified that the concurrent jobs is set to 10 and there is
> only one running at any given time during testing.
>
> I have verified the network connectivity. The director machine can
> resolve the second client's name and can also route to its IP correctly.
> The director machine can also telnet to the client on port 9102 and the
> FD picks up.
>
> I have also verified that the bacula-fd daemon is indeed running on the
> client:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# ps ax | grep fd
> 16358 ?Ssl0:00 bacula-fd
> 17936 pts/3S+ 0:00 grep fd
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# telnet localhost 9102
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> ^]
>
> I can't seem to find a log anywhere that has more meaningful information
> in it than 'cannot connect'. I suspect that I've done something wrong
> with the client machine, but I don't know how to trace that down.
>
> All I did on the second client was to copy the bacula-fd binary from the
> director machine and the bacula-fd.conf file to the client machine. I
> then made the necessary change to the bacula-fd.conf file as I indicated
> above.
>
> Can someone help me troubleshoot this issue further?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jon
>
>
>
>
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Re: [Bacula-users] File table empty?

[Eric Bollengier]

Hi,

> 25.10.2007 18:25,, David Fix wrote::
>> Hey guys,
>> 
>> I went to restore some of my data, but the file table is empty!  I've
>> never seen this before...  The filename table has the filename I'm
>> looking for, and the path table has the path of it...  But there is NO
>> data in the file table...  And I have no idea what could have happened
>> to it!  Any ideas on what may have happened, and possibly how I could
>> rebuild this?
>
> Is it pruned?
>
> Unless your catalog database is broken, you can either restore the 
> whole job, or bscan the volumes into it (and ensure the data is not 
> purged immediately...) or use bls / bextract to get back your data.
>
> If the catalog is broken, bls / bextract are your only choices to 
> recover data before the catalog is re-populated.

You can also restore the whole backup or a previous catalog if you use
WriteBootStrap option.

See 
http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Restore_Command.html#SECTION002213

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Re: [Bacula-users] How to see which volumes are in which pools?

[Thomas Glatthor]

"list pools" and "list volumes" will help


> *list pools
> ++--+-+-+--+-+
> | poolid | name | numvols | maxvols | pooltype | labelformat |
> ++--+-+-+--+-+
> |  1 | Default  |   0 |   0 | Backup   | *   |
> |  2 | INC  |  35 |   0 | Backup   | *   |
> |  3 | FUL  | 129 |   0 | Backup   | *   |
> |  4 | MON  |  30 |   0 | Backup   | *   |
> |  6 | StageINC |   1 |   0 | Backup   | *   |
> ++--+-+-+--+-+
> *


> *list volumes Pool=StageINC
> +-++---+-+--+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+
> | mediaid | volumename | volstatus | enabled | volbytes | volfiles | 
> volretention | recycle | slot | inchanger | mediatype | lastwritten |
> +-++---+-+--+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+
> |  78 | StageBBINC | Append|   1 |  122,394 |0 |  
> 315,360,000 |   1 |0 | 1 | File  | 2007-02-08 14:44:13 |
> +-++---+-+--+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+
> *   

you can also add custom queries to the bconsole by editing this file:

# cat /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf | grep QueryFile
   QueryFile = "/etc/bacula/scripts/query.sql"
#


Foo Bar schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way to see which volumes are present/known about by Bacula and
> which Pool they belong to? Or for that matter which Pools are available,
> although I can see that from looking at the configuration (but other users
> without that privilege might not). If this involves SQL statements, how do
> I add it to a command that can be executed from within bconsole?
> 
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[Bacula-users] How to see which volumes are in which pools?

[Foo Bar]

Hi,

Is there a way to see which volumes are present/known about by Bacula and
which Pool they belong to? Or for that matter which Pools are available,
although I can see that from looking at the configuration (but other users
without that privilege might not). If this involves SQL statements, how do
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Re: [Bacula-users] python support

[Rich]

On 2007.10.29. 19:09, Rich wrote:
...
>> import datetime
> 
> and this is where it breaks.
> just adding that line to the script prevents director from starting at all :
> 
> Fatal Python error: Interpreter not initialized (version mismatch?)
> Kaboom! bacula-dir, backup_1-dir got signal 6 - IOT trap. Attempting 
> traceback.
> Kaboom! exepath=/sbin/
> Calling: /sbin/btraceback /sbin/bacula-dir 32340
> execv: /sbin/btraceback failed: ERR=No such file or directory
> Traceback complete, attempting cleanup ...
> Orphaned buffer:  backup_1-dir 16 bytes buf=820b150 allocated at 
> watchdog.c:86
> Orphaned buffer:  backup_1-dir 16 bytes buf=82330a8 allocated at 
> watchdog.c:87
> 
> 
> on #python, it was suggested that :
> "that error is caused by importing a module compiled for a different 
> version of Python, on Windows."

a bit more on this :)

"You have to make aboslutely sure that what Bacula links against, at 
runtime, is the right version. You also have to make sure that the 
modules you end up importing at runtime are for the same Python version, 
and also that this Bacula program properly initializes the Python it 
embeds."

as i have no idea how to proceed, i would appreciate any help in 
debugging and resolving python scripting in bacula.
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Re: [Bacula-users] python support

[Rich]

On 2007.10.27. 17:27, Arno Lehmann wrote:
...
>> 2. if "Scripts Directory" is specified in director configuration file, 
>> director can't be stopped with ctrl+c, when run in foreground;
> 
> I don't know if this qualifies as a bug - because, in normal 
> circumstances, you should only run the DIR in foreground under the 
> debugger (Kern says ;-) - but I don't think this is serious.

yeah, but consistency and obeying ctrl+c in foreground are good ;)

...
>> 1. the example is using both lines with spacing and without spacing 
>> around equal sign (a=b and a = b). which would be a better style choice ?
> 
> I prefer the spaces around operators because it creates much better 
> readability. Others disagree.

actually, i don't care that much about the method used as for it being 
consistent in the example script :)

...
>> 4. does somebody have example on writing out datetime string that would 
>> reproduce behaviour that label format currently produces for 
>> "${Year}.${Month:p/2/0/r}.${Day:p/2/0/r}-${Hour:p/2/0/r}.${Minute:p/2/0/r}" 
>> ?
> 
> Again, no examples, manuals, or even working code, but something like
> 
> import datetime

and this is where it breaks.
just adding that line to the script prevents director from starting at all :

Fatal Python error: Interpreter not initialized (version mismatch?)
Kaboom! bacula-dir, backup_1-dir got signal 6 - IOT trap. Attempting 
traceback.
Kaboom! exepath=/sbin/
Calling: /sbin/btraceback /sbin/bacula-dir 32340
execv: /sbin/btraceback failed: ERR=No such file or directory
Traceback complete, attempting cleanup ...
Orphaned buffer:  backup_1-dir 16 bytes buf=820b150 allocated at 
watchdog.c:86
Orphaned buffer:  backup_1-dir 16 bytes buf=82330a8 allocated at 
watchdog.c:87


on #python, it was suggested that :
"that error is caused by importing a module compiled for a different 
version of Python, on Windows."

but i don't understand how could that be possible

where could the problem be ?

...
>> 5. a (slightly modified) line reads :
>> job.JobReport = "Exists=%d %s" % (job.DoesVolumeExist(Vol), Vol)
>>
>> if i understand correctly, it would only add a line to the report and 
>> proceed, right ?
> 
> Yup.
> 
>> it seems that in such a case job simply stucks, waiting for a manual 
>> volume specification.
>> can i make a check that would error out if such a volume already exists ?
> 
> Sure. Check the volume name you just created using DoesVolumeExist, 
> and if it already exists, append or modify a suffix and loop. 
> Otherwise, continue.

actually, i would prefer to error out in such a case - if volume exists, 
something's broken.
looking over the example, i could not find a way to cancel the job - how 
would i do that ?

> Hope this helps,

it did a lot, huge thanks.
i hope that the result of my pain will help somebody else :)

> Arno
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Re: [Bacula-users] iSCSI-Tape problems

[Josh Fisher]

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>   
>> Curious as to why tar worked when btape did not, I found this. For 
>> portability reasons, tar appears to always use a physical block size of 
>> 512 bytes. See 
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/tar_73.html. Perhaps 
>> that explains the difference in how tar writes to tape versus how btape 
>> writes to tape.
>> 
>
> This is a misinterpretation.
>
> The physical *tape* block size or record size is a multiple of the 512
> byte block size, as determined by the '-b' resp. '--blocking-factor'
> option.
>   

You are correct. Tar full_write() and safe_write() functions end up 
trying to write an entire record of bs*512 bytes with a write() system 
call. Looking at btape.c, it looks like btape rawfill_cmd() writes a 
block (of blocksize bytes) with a single write() system call as well. So 
this is a very strange problem, indeed.

The only difference that I can see is that the full_write() / 
safe_write() functions in tar attempt the write multiple times if need 
be and attempt to finish (it seems) partial writes. Btape fails 
immediately if the write() system call fails to write the requested 
number of bytes. However, btape should be issuing a "Write failed at 
block " message if the write fails. That error message contains an error 
string corresponding to the errno that was set when the write() failed, 
which could be helpful. Christopher Litauer's initial message does not 
include such an error message after the "Begin writing raw blocks of " 
message, so I don't know if he just didn't include it or if the only 
messages he saw were the "bad page state" syslog messages. If there was 
no "Write failed at block" message, then the write() system call never 
returned, in which case it is a real mystery (to me) as to how tar can 
possibly work with the same block size.

This is definitely a driver problem. Still, it is a bit frustrating that 
btape does not work when tar does.

> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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Re: [Bacula-users] Restore Problems

[Christof Klaus]

hello luiz,
you didnt mention where you expect the file to be restored...the
restore-location given in the job is /tmp .. did you look there ?

christof klaus.


Luiz Gustavo R. Nogueira schrieb:
> Hello all,
>
> When I try to restore a file through the console, everything looks fine 
> and I get a sucessful message and a email saying that file was restored 
> sucessfully, but when I go to the location where the restored file 
>
> should be, nothing is there.
>
> I'm using bacula 2.0.3 with a RedHat AS 4 kernel 2.6.9-42. There's no 
> error in the logs.
>
> Follows below my restore job configured at bacula-dir:
>
> Job {
>   Name = "RestoreFiles"
>
>   Type = Restore
>   Client=client-name-fd
>   FileSet="Full" 
>   Storage = File 
>   Pool = Default
>   Messages = Standard
>   Where = /tmp
> }
>
> Please let me know if you need any further information in order to help 
>
> solve this problem. I think it's something simple, but was not able to find.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Luiz
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[Bacula-users] "Cannot Connect to Client" Error

[Jon]

Hi All,

I"m evaluating Bacula for a client. So far I like what I see, but I'm
having trouble adding a second (remote) client.

I am following the Brief Tutorial to become familar with Bacula and have
successfully set up the local machine backup and restores. However,
setting up a second client is giving me troubles.

I've followed the section in the Brief Tutorial entitled "Adding a
Second Client" which entails simply copying the bacula-fd binary and
bacula-fd.conf file from the bacula director machine to the client that
I want to back up. I've changed the name of the machine from the
director to my client in the bacula-fd.conf file as instructed in that
section.

However, when I try attempt to get the status of that client from the
director machine's bconsole, it cannot connect (mi01.fusion is the
remote machine that is giving me problems):

*status
Status available for:
 1: Director
 2: Storage
 3: Client
 4: All
Select daemon type for status (1-4): 3
The defined Client resources are:
 1: mi01-fd
 2: mi01.fusion
Select Client (File daemon) resource (1-2): 2
Connecting to Client mi01.fusion at xx.xx.xx.xx:9102
Failed to connect to Client mi01.fusion.

You have messages.
*
29-Oct 10:20 mi01-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: Unable to authenticate with
File daemon at "mi01.fusion..xxx:9102". Possible causes:
Passwords or names not the same or
Maximum Concurrent Jobs exceeded on the FD or
FD networking messed up (restart daemon).
Please see http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/faq.html#AuthorizationErrors
for help.

I apologize for the domain mame and IP address obsfucation but I do not
have authorization to post any significant network information to the
Internet.

I have read the AuthorizationErrors page, but as near as I can tell most
of these types of errors are differing passwords between the director
and the fd.conf files. Since I just copied the bacula-fd.conf file from
the working director machine to the remote client, the password is the same.

I have also verified that the concurrent jobs is set to 10 and there is
only one running at any given time during testing.

I have verified the network connectivity. The director machine can
resolve the second client's name and can also route to its IP correctly.
The director machine can also telnet to the client on port 9102 and the
FD picks up.

I have also verified that the bacula-fd daemon is indeed running on the
client:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# ps ax | grep fd
16358 ?Ssl0:00 bacula-fd
17936 pts/3S+ 0:00 grep fd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# telnet localhost 9102
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
^]

I can't seem to find a log anywhere that has more meaningful information
in it than 'cannot connect'. I suspect that I've done something wrong
with the client machine, but I don't know how to trace that down.

All I did on the second client was to copy the bacula-fd binary from the
director machine and the bacula-fd.conf file to the client machine. I
then made the necessary change to the bacula-fd.conf file as I indicated
above.

Can someone help me troubleshoot this issue further?

Thanks,

Jon





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[Bacula-users] TSM-style perpetual-full?

[Mike Eggleston]

I like bacula and what it does for me (thank you development team).
One issue I have is not really bacula, the issue is the long time
required to write backups to tape. Is there anything in bacula like
TSM's perpetual full where I can see the most current files from the
client in the 'restore' command, files removed the client are kept
for a specific number of days, and only the files that have changed
during the night are written to backup tape ad infinitium?

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[Bacula-users] Restore Problems

[Luiz Gustavo R. Nogueira]

Hello all,

When I try to restore a file through the console, everything looks fine
and I get a sucessful message and a email saying that file was restored
sucessfully, but when I go to the location where the restored file
should be, nothing is there.

I'm using bacula 2.0.3 with a RedHat AS 4 kernel 2.6.9-42. There's no
error in the logs.

Follows below my restore job configured at bacula-dir:

Job {
  Name = "RestoreFiles"
  Type = Restore
  Client=client-name-fd
  FileSet="Full"
  Storage = File
  Pool = Default
  Messages = Standard
  Where = /tmp
}

Please let me know if you need any further information in order to help
solve this problem. I think it's something simple, but was not able to find.

Thanks in advance!
Luiz
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[Bacula-users] Problem with mtx

[Weber, Philip]

Bacula 2.2.4
Solaris 9 Sparc
mtx 1.3.9
StorageTek L700 tape library

I'm having problems with mtx: once it loads a tape into a drive, "mtx
status" then incorrectly reports the slot from which the tape came, e.g.
(using mtx via mtx-changer) :

$ mtx-changer /dev/changer load 388 /dev/rmt/0cbn 16  
Loading media from Storage Element 388 into drive 16...done

$ mtx-changer /dev/changer loaded 388 /dev/rmt/0cbn 16
131

$ mtx status
  Storage Changer /dev/changer:18 Drives, 638 Slots ( 20 Import/Export )

Data Transfer Element 15:Full (Storage Element 112 Loaded):VolumeTag =
DE1385   
Data Transfer Element 16:Full (Storage Element 131 Loaded):VolumeTag =
SE2042   

Slot 131 is indeed empty.  It looks like mtx is just reporting the 1st
slots listed as free, as being where the loaded tapes came from.

Anyone seen anything like this, or any suggestions as to how to resolve?
As a work around I'm going to use a NetBackup utility/driver which
reports correctly, but I'm trying to move away from NetBackup in this
environment...  I had this configuration working fine with a smaller
tape library (L1000).  I am aware the L700 isn't listed as supported by
mtx, but weirdly, it seems to work OK in a different, but similarly
configured, environment with another L700.  I am also aware there is an
mtx 1.3.11, but can't currently get this to work at all.

thanks, Phil

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[Bacula-users] "Connection reset by peer" after backup finishes

[Tyler Bannister]

Hi, I'm having some trouble with one particular client on my Bacula 
server.  I've been running Bacula for over a year now and for this 
particular client I'm seeing an odd sequence of events:

29-Oct 03:36 client: DIR and FD clocks differ by 402 seconds, FD 
automatically adjusting.

...

29-Oct 03:45 client: ClientAfterJob: run command 
"/usr/local/bin/watchdog.pl "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" client 726 "OK""
29-Oct 03:38 upsilon1-dir JobId 726: Fatal error: Network error with FD 
during Backup: ERR=Connection reset by peer
29-Oct 03:38 upsilon1-dir JobId 726: Error: bsock.c:444 Read error from 
Client: sloates-fd:216.145.98.42:9102: ERR=Connection reset by peer
29-Oct 03:38 upsilon1-dir JobId 726: Error: Bacula upsilon1-dir 2.2.5 
(09Oct07):

...

  Scheduled time: 29-Oct-2007 03:00:00
  Start time: 29-Oct-2007 03:30:17
  End time:   29-Oct-2007 03:38:46
  Elapsed time:   8 mins 29 secs
  Priority:   10
  FD Files Written:   82
  SD Files Written:   82
  FD Bytes Written:   40,421,521 (40.42 MB)
  SD Bytes Written:   40,433,386 (40.43 MB)
  Rate:   79.4 KB/s
  Software Compression:   78.2 %
  VSS:yes
  Encryption: no

...

  Volume Session Id:  8
  Volume Session Time:1193408649
  Last Volume Bytes:  40,493,085 (40.49 MB)
  Non-fatal FD errors:1
  SD Errors:  0
  FD termination status:  Error
  SD termination status:  OK
  Termination:*** Backup Error ***

So it looks like the backup is finishing, it's invoking my Client After 
Job command to send an email to notify the client that their backup has 
completed successfully and then the backup fails even though it is, at 
least in theory, already finished.  The odd time discrepancy appears to 
be an artifact of the time difference between the fd and sd.  But I'm 
confused as to why it would end with status "Ok", trigger the 
RunAfterJob trigger, and then fail.  It doesn't happen all the time with 
this client but so far has been happening about half the time.  Can 
anyone explain to me what's going on here?

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Re: [Bacula-users] Device blocked.

[Michael Lewinger]

Hi Gary,

It seems jobid 491 is stuck. Maybe you should cancel it is the director.
Wait a couple of minutes (at least in the latest bacula version) to release
the volume. If after 10 minutes the job hasn't been effectively cancelled,
restart the storage daemon. PS: You may lose the jobs currently waiting for
the SD.

Cheers,

Michael Lewinger

On 10/29/07, Gary Stainburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 27 October 2007 14:46, Arno Lehmann wrote:
> > At this point, what is the 'sta sd=larry2-leeds' output?
> > Normally, things should work now, I think...
> >
> > Arno
>
> As you can see below, it still says it's blocked.  It also says there's 4
> jobs
> writing to it too which I don't understand. I thought you could onnly have
> one job per device.
>
> Any ideas anyone?
>
> Gary
>
> *sta sd=larry2-leeds
> Connecting to Storage daemon larry2-leeds at larry2.ringways.co.uk:9103
>
> larry2-sd Version: 2.2.4 (14 September 2007) i686-pc-linux-gnu redhat
> Daemon started 19-Oct-07 16:56, 143 Jobs run since started.
> Heap: heap=872,448 smbytes=641,805 max_bytes=707,072 bufs=215 max_bufs=222
> Sizes: boffset_t=8 size_t=4 int32_t=4 int64_t=8
>
> Running Jobs:
> Writing: Differential Backup job ladmin9 JobId=491 Volume=""
> pool="Leeds" device="LeedsStorage" (/var/bacula/leeds)
> spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
> Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0
> FDReadSeqNo=6 in_msg=6 out_msg=4 fd=6
> Writing: Full Backup job ladmin1 JobId=649 Volume="leeds0040"
> pool="Leeds" device="LeedsStorage" (/var/bacula/leeds)
> spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
> Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0
> FDReadSeqNo=6 in_msg=6 out_msg=5 fd=8
> Writing: Full Backup job ladmin2 JobId=650 Volume="leeds0044"
> pool="Leeds" device="LeedsStorage" (/var/bacula/leeds)
> spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
> Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0
> FDReadSeqNo=6 in_msg=6 out_msg=5 fd=10
> Writing: Incremental Backup job ladmin7 JobId=653 Volume="leeds0044"
> pool="Leeds" device="LeedsStorage" (/var/bacula/leeds)
> spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
> Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0
> FDReadSeqNo=6 in_msg=6 out_msg=4 fd=12
> 
>
> Jobs waiting to reserve a drive:
> 
>
> Terminated Jobs:
> JobId  LevelFiles  Bytes   Status   FinishedName
> ===
>643  Full  0 0   Other26-Oct-07 14:10 lpartsl
>644  Incr 91168.8 M  OK   26-Oct-07 14:12 lserv1
>645  Incr 9971.41 M  OK   26-Oct-07 14:13 lserv4
>646  Incr133978.9 M  OK   26-Oct-07 14:16 lserv6
>647  Incr 88560.7 M  OK   26-Oct-07 14:18 lserv9
>648  Incr186127.5 M  OK   26-Oct-07 14:19 lservg
>676  Incr1221.200 G  OK   26-Oct-07 15:43 dadmin1
>677  Incr 78283.4 M  OK   26-Oct-07 16:04 dadmin4
>651  Full  0 0   Other26-Oct-07 16:58 ladmin4
>652  Incr  0 0   Other26-Oct-07 17:28 ladmin6
> 
>
> Device status:
> Device "LeedsStorage" (/var/bacula/leeds) is not open.
> Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for:
>Pool:Leeds
>Media type:  leeds-tape
> Device "HalesStorage" (/var/bacula/hales) is not open.
> Device "PrimaStorage" (/var/bacula/prima) is not open.
> Device "DoncStorage" (/var/bacula/donc) is not open.
> 
>
> In Use Volume status:
> leeds0044 on device "LeedsStorage" (/var/bacula/leeds)
> Reader=0 writers=0 reserved=4
> 
>
> 
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Re: [Bacula-users] Device blocked.

[Gary Stainburn]

On Saturday 27 October 2007 14:46, Arno Lehmann wrote:
> At this point, what is the 'sta sd=larry2-leeds' output?
> Normally, things should work now, I think...
>
> Arno

As you can see below, it still says it's blocked.  It also says there's 4 jobs 
writing to it too which I don't understand. I thought you could onnly have 
one job per device.

Any ideas anyone?

Gary

*sta sd=larry2-leeds
Connecting to Storage daemon larry2-leeds at larry2.ringways.co.uk:9103

larry2-sd Version: 2.2.4 (14 September 2007) i686-pc-linux-gnu redhat
Daemon started 19-Oct-07 16:56, 143 Jobs run since started.
 Heap: heap=872,448 smbytes=641,805 max_bytes=707,072 bufs=215 max_bufs=222
Sizes: boffset_t=8 size_t=4 int32_t=4 int64_t=8

Running Jobs:
Writing: Differential Backup job ladmin9 JobId=491 Volume=""
pool="Leeds" device="LeedsStorage" (/var/bacula/leeds)
spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0
FDReadSeqNo=6 in_msg=6 out_msg=4 fd=6
Writing: Full Backup job ladmin1 JobId=649 Volume="leeds0040"
pool="Leeds" device="LeedsStorage" (/var/bacula/leeds)
spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0
FDReadSeqNo=6 in_msg=6 out_msg=5 fd=8
Writing: Full Backup job ladmin2 JobId=650 Volume="leeds0044"
pool="Leeds" device="LeedsStorage" (/var/bacula/leeds)
spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0
FDReadSeqNo=6 in_msg=6 out_msg=5 fd=10
Writing: Incremental Backup job ladmin7 JobId=653 Volume="leeds0044"
pool="Leeds" device="LeedsStorage" (/var/bacula/leeds)
spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0
FDReadSeqNo=6 in_msg=6 out_msg=4 fd=12


Jobs waiting to reserve a drive:


Terminated Jobs:
 JobId  LevelFiles  Bytes   Status   FinishedName
===
   643  Full  0 0   Other26-Oct-07 14:10 lpartsl
   644  Incr 91168.8 M  OK   26-Oct-07 14:12 lserv1
   645  Incr 9971.41 M  OK   26-Oct-07 14:13 lserv4
   646  Incr133978.9 M  OK   26-Oct-07 14:16 lserv6
   647  Incr 88560.7 M  OK   26-Oct-07 14:18 lserv9
   648  Incr186127.5 M  OK   26-Oct-07 14:19 lservg
   676  Incr1221.200 G  OK   26-Oct-07 15:43 dadmin1
   677  Incr 78283.4 M  OK   26-Oct-07 16:04 dadmin4
   651  Full  0 0   Other26-Oct-07 16:58 ladmin4
   652  Incr  0 0   Other26-Oct-07 17:28 ladmin6


Device status:
Device "LeedsStorage" (/var/bacula/leeds) is not open.
Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for:
   Pool:Leeds
   Media type:  leeds-tape
Device "HalesStorage" (/var/bacula/hales) is not open.
Device "PrimaStorage" (/var/bacula/prima) is not open.
Device "DoncStorage" (/var/bacula/donc) is not open.


In Use Volume status:
leeds0044 on device "LeedsStorage" (/var/bacula/leeds)
Reader=0 writers=0 reserved=4



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Re: [Bacula-users] Using bsr files to restore / re-catalog DB

[janco]

Thanks guys, I'll try and let you know how it worked out.

> Hello,
>
> 29.10.2007 09:34,, Janco van der Merwe wrote::
>> Hi,
>>
>> I hope someone can help me with this one.
>>
>> Someone approached me to help with their Bacula but the guy who set it
>> up has left and they are in a bit of a sticky situation.
>
> Always a bad thing, especially if they don't have good enough
> documentation :-)
>
>> First the nitty gritty:
>> Bacula 1.38.1 with MySQL
>> RHEL 4
>> Using a Dell PV-124T with LTO3
>>
>> These people have different backups pools namely -
>> Daily with 10 volumes
>> Weekly with 4 volumes
>> Monthly with 36 volumes and should have had a volume retention period of
>> 1095 days because they keep the Monthly backups for three years
>>
>> The client wants to restore a file on a volume that is 1 year old and
>> because the File, job and volume retentions were specified incorrectly
>> the entire job was purged from the catalog, a long with other monthly
>> backup jobs, and I have no reference of those Volumes or jobs in the
>> catalog except for the bsr files.
>
> Do you have the bsr files that were current when the files they want
> back were backed up?
>
> A recent bsr file won't help you as it doesn't reference older backups.
>
>> Is there a way that I can restore files from that volume using the bsr
>> files or one better, can I use the bsr files to rebuild the catalog and
>> set the correct retention periods where applicable and if that is
>> possible how will I go about doing it?
>
> I assume you don't have the old bsr files for now.
>
>> I tried searching the net, the user list and the manual for similar
>> situations but was unable to find anything.
>>
>> Can anyone help me or GENTLY point out that it is in the manual and that
>> I missed it?
>
> :-)
> Ok, I try to be very gently...
>
> First, you should know which tapes you need.
>
> If you've absolutely no idea which tapes the jobs are on, you have
> some work before you.
>
> First, see if they archive the job report mails or the console log -
> both are excellent sources to search for the relevant volume names.
>
> Once you've got the volumes, you can use bls to see their contents.
>
> If you want the contents back in the catalog, you'd use bscan, but
> only after you fixed the retention times,reloaded the configuration,
> and probably set the volume attributes so they reflect the retention
> times you really want.
>
> If you don't want the whole stuff in the catalog again, with the
> output from bls, you can use bextract to locally store the needed
> files to disk.
>
> Does this help you, or do you want some more details?
>
> (By the way - there was a discussion started by Maria McKinley a while
> ago, with the subject "old recovery". I think you'll find valuable
> information in there. That's the most recent elaboration of the
> solutions to this sort of problems, I think.)
>
> Arno
>
>>
>
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> www.its-lehmann.de
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[Bacula-users] win98 and unicode

[מיכאל לוינגר אם.בי.אר. מחשבים]

Hi there,

I have recently confirmed a FEATURE/BUG of bacula - not a serious bug, but
nevertheless it made me worry for a while. It happened on a bacula testbed I
installed locally on my machine.

Setup: server version 2.2.5 on winxp, local mysql dbase on xampp. The same
machine also runs the storage daemon to a local file
Client: version 2.2.5 on win98 hebrew-enabled OS, fileset contains several
files with hebrew names.
Situation: cannot see filenames on the client bacula status windows or in
the command line bconsole. On the dbase the file names on the "filenames"
table are stored as UTF8 and are properly exported to CSV and read correctly
when UTF8 encoding is used
Problem: Restoring files from the win98 client to the winxp machine (server)
produces messed up filenames. All non-latin characters become spaces.
Solution: restoring to the win98 client produces correct filenames.

Cheers,

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Re: [Bacula-users] prevent bacula to backup recently restored files

[Martin Vogt]

For the sake of completeness, as I mentioned in my first posting we're using
bacula version 1.38.x.
So "noatime = yes" is removed from my config file.


On 10/29/07, Martin Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> added following two options to conf file:
>   noatime = yes
>   mtimeonly = yes
>
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Re: [Bacula-users] prevent bacula to backup recently restored files

[Martin Vogt]

Thanks a lot, it perfectly fits my needs.

added following two options to conf file:
  noatime = yes
  mtimeonly = yes

RTFM may help sometimes ;)
But I was unsure about which ressource has got needed options, now it's
clear as mud.


kind regards
Martin



On 10/28/07, Chris Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> mtimeonly=yes—no If enabled, tells the Client that the selection of
> files
> during Incremental and Differential backups should based only on
> the
> st mtime value in the stat() packet. The default is no which means
> that the selection of files to be backed up will be based on
> both the
> st mtime and the st ctime values. In general, it is not recommended
> to use this option.
>
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Re: [Bacula-users] Using bsr files to restore / re-catalog DB

[Michael Lewinger]

Hi janco,

I think the right command are bscan and bextract, pp 485 on the latest
printed manual, pp 513 on the PDF.

Cheers'

michael lewinger

On 10/29/07, Janco van der Merwe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I hope someone can help me with this one.
>
> Someone approached me to help with their Bacula but the guy who set it
> up has left and they are in a bit of a sticky situation.
>
> First the nitty gritty:
> Bacula 1.38.1 with MySQL
> RHEL 4
> Using a Dell PV-124T with LTO3
>
> These people have different backups pools namely -
> Daily with 10 volumes
> Weekly with 4 volumes
> Monthly with 36 volumes and should have had a volume retention period of
> 1095 days because they keep the Monthly backups for three years
>
> The client wants to restore a file on a volume that is 1 year old and
> because the File, job and volume retentions were specified incorrectly
> the entire job was purged from the catalog, a long with other monthly
> backup jobs, and I have no reference of those Volumes or jobs in the
> catalog except for the bsr files.
>
> Is there a way that I can restore files from that volume using the bsr
> files or one better, can I use the bsr files to rebuild the catalog and
> set the correct retention periods where applicable and if that is
> possible how will I go about doing it?
>
> I tried searching the net, the user list and the manual for similar
> situations but was unable to find anything.
>
> Can anyone help me or GENTLY point out that it is in the manual and that
> I missed it?
>
>
> --
> Janco van der Merwe
> Open Solutions
> Tel: 011 305 2887
> Cell: 083 291 8536
> Fax: 0866978875
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Re: [Bacula-users] Using bsr files to restore / re-catalog DB

[Arno Lehmann]

Hello,

29.10.2007 09:34,, Janco van der Merwe wrote::
> Hi,
> 
> I hope someone can help me with this one.
> 
> Someone approached me to help with their Bacula but the guy who set it
> up has left and they are in a bit of a sticky situation.

Always a bad thing, especially if they don't have good enough 
documentation :-)

> First the nitty gritty:
> Bacula 1.38.1 with MySQL
> RHEL 4
> Using a Dell PV-124T with LTO3
> 
> These people have different backups pools namely -
> Daily with 10 volumes 
> Weekly with 4 volumes
> Monthly with 36 volumes and should have had a volume retention period of
> 1095 days because they keep the Monthly backups for three years
> 
> The client wants to restore a file on a volume that is 1 year old and
> because the File, job and volume retentions were specified incorrectly
> the entire job was purged from the catalog, a long with other monthly
> backup jobs, and I have no reference of those Volumes or jobs in the
> catalog except for the bsr files.

Do you have the bsr files that were current when the files they want 
back were backed up?

A recent bsr file won't help you as it doesn't reference older backups.

> Is there a way that I can restore files from that volume using the bsr
> files or one better, can I use the bsr files to rebuild the catalog and
> set the correct retention periods where applicable and if that is
> possible how will I go about doing it?

I assume you don't have the old bsr files for now.

> I tried searching the net, the user list and the manual for similar
> situations but was unable to find anything.
> 
> Can anyone help me or GENTLY point out that it is in the manual and that
> I missed it?  

:-)
Ok, I try to be very gently...

First, you should know which tapes you need.

If you've absolutely no idea which tapes the jobs are on, you have 
some work before you.

First, see if they archive the job report mails or the console log - 
both are excellent sources to search for the relevant volume names.

Once you've got the volumes, you can use bls to see their contents.

If you want the contents back in the catalog, you'd use bscan, but 
only after you fixed the retention times,reloaded the configuration, 
and probably set the volume attributes so they reflect the retention 
times you really want.

If you don't want the whole stuff in the catalog again, with the 
output from bls, you can use bextract to locally store the needed 
files to disk.

Does this help you, or do you want some more details?

(By the way - there was a discussion started by Maria McKinley a while 
ago, with the subject "old recovery". I think you'll find valuable 
information in there. That's the most recent elaboration of the 
solutions to this sort of problems, I think.)

Arno

> 

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[Bacula-users] Using bsr files to restore / re-catalog DB

[Janco van der Merwe]

Hi,

I hope someone can help me with this one.

Someone approached me to help with their Bacula but the guy who set it
up has left and they are in a bit of a sticky situation.

First the nitty gritty:
Bacula 1.38.1 with MySQL
RHEL 4
Using a Dell PV-124T with LTO3

These people have different backups pools namely -
Daily with 10 volumes 
Weekly with 4 volumes
Monthly with 36 volumes and should have had a volume retention period of
1095 days because they keep the Monthly backups for three years

The client wants to restore a file on a volume that is 1 year old and
because the File, job and volume retentions were specified incorrectly
the entire job was purged from the catalog, a long with other monthly
backup jobs, and I have no reference of those Volumes or jobs in the
catalog except for the bsr files.

Is there a way that I can restore files from that volume using the bsr
files or one better, can I use the bsr files to rebuild the catalog and
set the correct retention periods where applicable and if that is
possible how will I go about doing it?

I tried searching the net, the user list and the manual for similar
situations but was unable to find anything.

Can anyone help me or GENTLY point out that it is in the manual and that
I missed it?  


-- 
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Open Solutions
Tel: 011 305 2887
Cell: 083 291 8536
Fax: 0866978875
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who kindly reprove thy faults.
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