Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 22:14:08 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: On Nov 6, 2008, at 5:23 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: Am 05.11.2008 22:03 schrieb Dan Langille: - Bacula has known how to use the current tape that is a drive for a long time now. It is discouraged, but just a matter of configuration. I'm sorry but I'm starting to have serious doubts about that. I have been trying for a long time and in many different ways to get that to work, and each time I ask a question here why my latest attempt doesn't work either, the answer is post config, post log, and then: silence. What can I say? I'm not responsible for people not answering. Nor is anybody else. That's how it works. Or more precisely, doesn't. Sure. I'm not complaining about that. Sorry if my answer came across as such. But the fact that nobody could come up with an answer might indicate that the answer doesn't exist. And if it is discouraged, what is the recommended alternative? Work with Bacula, not against it. I don't know what more to say. Sure, and I'm trying my best to do exactly that. But the topic of this thread is desirable new features for Bacula, ie. things that currently cannot be done but would be nice if they could. For me, better support for the classic scenario standalone tape drive with daytime operator and nighttime backups does fall into that category, and surely the existence of unanswerable questions in that area seems to indicate that there is indeed room for improvement. Again, I do not want to complain. Bacula is a great product, and the support from the Bacula community is better than the company support of many commercial products I have used. All I want to do with my contributions to this thread is to help making Bacula even better. If the community decides that my scenario lies outside the main target area of Bacula then that's fine with me. Thanks, Tilman -- Tilman Schmidt Phoenix Software GmbH Bonn, Germany signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] MaximumBlockSize Problem and Question
On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 22:20 +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Thursday 06 November 2008 22:02:26 Alex Chekholko wrote: On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 16:12:51 +0100 Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For writing to tape (providing it is LTO-n) I strongly recommend a block size not to exceed 256K. Hi Kern, Why do you say that? It is my experience with my own testing, and I asked the Quantum technical gurus about using large blocks. They think it is not a good idea at all using values larger than 512K and prefer as I do values around 256K. The bigger it is the more likely the tape writing will get out of phase and IMO the gain is not worth the possible problems. Is this thread relevant?: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01246.htm l Possibly. Also, I would like to corroborate the OP's experiences; I had an almost identical thread about small block size and slow write speed: http://www.nabble.com/LTO-4-performance--td17407840.html In fact, I was unable to get higher block sizes working at all with btape: http://www.adsm.org/lists/html/Bacula-users/2008-05/msg00504.html So I am still stuck at ~22MB/s writing to LTO-4 with the default block size. There are a lot of other parameters to consider, but I cannot give such advice any more -- no time: - Up the block size to 128K or 256K and verify that it is being written that size. Hi, Be warned! Changing this parameter will deny access to existing backup data. - Increase the Maximum File Size to about 5GB. Are existing data still accessible when increasing Maximum File Size ? i hope so BR Ulrich - Use only *very* fast RAID disks running at 15,000 rpm. Maybe soon we can use SSD. - Get only the best disk and tape controllers. - Get good quality, big, fast hardware -- you need hardware experts to get lots of speed. Then you need to do the same kinds of tuning of your network. Regards, Kern - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel -- Ulrich Leodolter [EMAIL PROTECTED] OBVSG - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?
Hi, Synthetic full backups or consolidation. A feature that is in the development queue and could (in my opinion) be one of the major new things in a 3.1 release, i.e. perhaps next year. To learn more, search the bacula-devel list archive for subjects containing Synthetic or Consolidation - you'll find that, if someone invests money or programmer's time, this project could be started. What kind of funding are we talking about here? Erik. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Warning: VSS was not initialized properly. VSS support is disabled.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I see that that pepole on the list has problem with this, but I can't see no solution. Is there a solution to this? I am backing up some Windows 2008 64bit and using Bacula win32 2.4.3. - -- Regards Jon Ingason -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJFEskWn396VE8BCsRAkKdAKCbQ6qIp2Rq6NvZN4TvvMNrC+jdmwCdFauC oCdIewvwvleEmIO2H2w/Eio= =vQfk -END PGP SIGNATURE- - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] bacula and MySQL license
Hello, I am preparing a NFS server (Linux) which is a part of a global project for a customer. This NFS server will be backuped with bacula; I use MySQL for the database. Could someone explain me if I am right with MySQL licencing ? MySQL is only used for the bacula data. My global project is not GPL; but my NFS Server and bacula are GPL. Can I install bacula and MySQL on this server with respect to GPL licencing ? Thx for your answers. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bacula and MySQL license
On Friday 07 November 2008 15:57:52 LeJav wrote: Hello, I am preparing a NFS server (Linux) which is a part of a global project for a customer. This NFS server will be backuped with bacula; I use MySQL for the database. Could someone explain me if I am right with MySQL licencing ? MySQL is only used for the bacula data. My global project is not GPL; but my NFS Server and bacula are GPL. Can I install bacula and MySQL on this server with respect to GPL licencing ? Thx for your answers. Yes, you're OK. You're only affected by GPL licence if you want to change the code of either MySQL or Bacula. Otherwise it doesn't matter. -- Silver - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bacula and MySQL license
On Nov 7, 2008, at 8:57 AM, LeJav wrote: Hello, I am preparing a NFS server (Linux) which is a part of a global project for a customer. This NFS server will be backuped with bacula; I use MySQL for the database. Could someone explain me if I am right with MySQL licencing ? MySQL is only used for the bacula data. My global project is not GPL; but my NFS Server and bacula are GPL. Can I install bacula and MySQL on this server with respect to GPL licencing ? I cannot imagine any circumstances under which this would not be allowed. -- Dan Langille http://langille.org/ - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Forcing volume change.
Hi,
07.11.2008 11:10, Fábio Catunda wrote:
Hi list.
This is my first message to the list, I'm new on bacula, if some
information is missing, please, just ask and I promise that next time
the information will be in the first e-mail.
Bacula version: 1.38.11 (28 June 2006) Debian package.
A very good start to include that information.
And - your Bacula is outdated. You should upgrade as soon as possible.
Recebt versions not only add new features but also fix serious issues.
I have a storage, so I'm using file storage. Everything was fine until
the volume I created got about 50GB of data, then I saw that it was
taking too long to restore some files. Search google for help I got to:
http://bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Basic_Volume_Management.html#SECTION002611000
Great. So I made the following config (relevant sections only):
in bacula-sd:
Device {
Name = Default
Media Type = File
Archive Device = /backup/bacula
LabelMedia = yes;
Random Access = Yes;
AutomaticMount = yes;
RemovableMedia = no;
AlwaysOpen = no;
}
And in bacula-dir.conf:
JobDefs {
Name = ETC
Type = Backup
Level = Incremental
FileSet = ETC
Schedule = WeeklyCycle
Storage = File
Messages = Standard
Pool = Default
Priority = 10
}
Pool {
Name = Default
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 180 days
Volume Use Duration = 23h
LabelFormat = Backup-${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Day:p/2/0/r}
}
Storage {
Name = File
Address = hefesto.mydomain.com.br
SDPort = 9103
Password = ThisIsMyPassword
Device = Default
Media Type = File
}
I was expecting a volume cycle, but more than 23h has passed and still
no new volume in my default pool.
That's probably because your existing volume still uses the original
information. What you set in the pool configuration is merely a
template used when creating new volumes, so you need to update the
existing volume. In bconsole, the command to use is - surprise! -
'update'.
I would like to know what is wrong, any tip is appreciated. Also, is
there a way to force a volume creation? I would like to run some backups
today (fryday) in a new volume, just in case.
You could also simply set the volume status to Used and use the
'label' command to create a new volume.
Arno
Thanks for the help.
Fábio Catunda.
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Re: [Bacula-users] bacula and MySQL license
Hi! On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 9:27 AM, LeJav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am preparing a NFS server (Linux) which is a part of a global project for a customer. This NFS server will be backuped with bacula; I use MySQL for the database. Could someone explain me if I am right with MySQL licencing ? MySQL is only used for the bacula data. My global project is not GPL; but my NFS Server and bacula are GPL. Can I install bacula and MySQL on this server with respect to GPL licencing ? If your business is services, you have no problem at all, if you are doing some sort of closed source software development, it would be necessary to analyze the particular case. Thx for your answers. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Fwd: 64bit for File.FileId
Hello, Bacula can handle 64 bit FileId fields, but unfortunately, I forget exactly the version where all the work was done. However, I am sure that version 2.4.x does contain all the necessary modifications so that it will work. We are sure it is working because Eric has been running with 64 bit (bigserial) PostgreSQL FileIds for quite some time. Eric can fill you in on the steps that are necessary to make it work. Currently, upgrading from 32 bit FileIds to 64 bit is a manual exercise, but with the next major release (around the end of the year) we are planning to make it the default. Best regards, Kern PS: I would be interested to hear about your setup since you seem to have quite big backup needs. On Friday 07 November 2008 15:23:01 Dan Langille wrote: Sorry, I meant this for devel@ Begin forwarded message: From: Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 7, 2008 8:02:13 AM EST To: bacula-users bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] 64bit for File.FileId I know I've seen something about moving to BIGSERIAL but don't know where. Does someone have a patch. Please CC the original poster who would like to fix this before the weekend backups. Begin forwarded message: From: James Cort [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 7, 2008 4:50:59 AM EST To: bacula-users bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] Ran out of fileid's in postgres-backed database I appear to have run out of fileids in my bacula database. I'm using bacula 2.2.8-8~bpo40+1 (the Debian Etch backported package) and my backups have failed with the error: Fatal error: Can't fill File table Query failed: INSERT INTO File (FileIndex, JobId, PathId, FilenameId, LStat, MD5)SELECT batch.FileIndex, batch.JobId, Path.PathId, Filename.FilenameId,batch.LStat, batch.MD5 FROM batch JOIN Path ON (batch.Path = Path.Path) JOIN Filename ON (batch.Name = Filename.Name): ERR=ERROR: integer out of range I'm using Postgres as the backend and I note from the script which bacula uses to setup the table file that fileid is of type serial. bacula= select max(fileid) from file; max 2147272756 (1 row) 2^31=2147483648 Postgresql's documentation states: The type names serial and serial4 are equivalent: both create integer columns. The type names bigserial and serial8 work just the same way, except that they create a bigint column. bigserial should be used if you anticipate the use of more than 2^31 identifiers over the lifetime of the table. ... but I'm not too keen on doing this unless I can be sure it won't have a knock-on effect on Bacula. What can I do to fix this? James -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Dan Langille http://langille.org/ - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Fwd: Re: [Bacula-devel] Fwd: 64bit for File.FileId
Hello, We have a patch for that, this is scheduled for the 3.0.0 version. trunk/patches/testing/fileid64.patch Modifications are quite simple (postgresql part) BEGIN; ALTER TABLE file ALTER fileid TYPE bigint ; ALTER TABLE basefiles ALTER fileid TYPE bigint; COMMIT; The serial counter doesn't need to be modified. = This will take time and space (2x the actual db size) And, also a typedef in src/cats/cats.h -typedef uint32_t FileId_t; +typedef uint64_t FileId_t; which is less critical, but needs to recompile the director. James, please, can you fill the testimonial page on www.bacula.org, your setup seems to be very cool :) (it can be anonymous) Bye Le Friday 07 November 2008 15:23:01 Dan Langille, vous avez écrit : Sorry, I meant this for devel@ Begin forwarded message: From: Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 7, 2008 8:02:13 AM EST To: bacula-users bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] 64bit for File.FileId I know I've seen something about moving to BIGSERIAL but don't know where. Does someone have a patch. Please CC the original poster who would like to fix this before the weekend backups. Begin forwarded message: From: James Cort [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 7, 2008 4:50:59 AM EST To: bacula-users bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] Ran out of fileid's in postgres-backed database I appear to have run out of fileids in my bacula database. I'm using bacula 2.2.8-8~bpo40+1 (the Debian Etch backported package) and my backups have failed with the error: Fatal error: Can't fill File table Query failed: INSERT INTO File (FileIndex, JobId, PathId, FilenameId, LStat, MD5)SELECT batch.FileIndex, batch.JobId, Path.PathId, Filename.FilenameId,batch.LStat, batch.MD5 FROM batch JOIN Path ON (batch.Path = Path.Path) JOIN Filename ON (batch.Name = Filename.Name): ERR=ERROR: integer out of range I'm using Postgres as the backend and I note from the script which bacula uses to setup the table file that fileid is of type serial. bacula= select max(fileid) from file; max 2147272756 (1 row) 2^31=2147483648 Postgresql's documentation states: The type names serial and serial4 are equivalent: both create integer columns. The type names bigserial and serial8 work just the same way, except that they create a bigint column. bigserial should be used if you anticipate the use of more than 2^31 identifiers over the lifetime of the table. ... but I'm not too keen on doing this unless I can be sure it won't have a knock-on effect on Bacula. What can I do to fix this? James -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel --- - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Fwd: 64bit for File.FileId
I had hoped to avoid upgrading to 2.4 because I've got a lot of FDs using much older versions of baculabut if I must I must PS: I would be interested to hear about your setup since you seem to have quite big backup needs. About 20 servers, several million files and around 8-900GB per night. The big killer is the mail server which is courier-imap with a maildir backend - every email is a file and they get fairly unique names. I think I've hit this problem not because of the size of the database but because of how Postgres works - serial numbers aren't reused and looking at the postgres dump, a dump/reload probably doesn't regenerate them from zero. Well, I doubt it will because the serial numbers are present in the SQL dump. The table itself doesn't have anything like 2^31 entries: bacula=# select count(fileid) from file; count --- 174610251 (1 row) I've been using Bacula for almost three years so that's 3 years worth of fileids there. -- James Cort IT Manager U4EA Technologies Ltd. -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bacula and MySQL license
Thx everbody for your answer. Hello, I am preparing a NFS server (Linux) which is a part of a global project for a customer. This NFS server will be backuped with bacula; I use MySQL for the database. Could someone explain me if I am right with MySQL licencing ? MySQL is only used for the bacula data. My global project is not GPL; but my NFS Server and bacula are GPL. Can I install bacula and MySQL on this server with respect to GPL licencing ? Thx for your answers. Yes, you're OK. You're only affected by GPL licence if you want to change the code of either MySQL or Bacula. Otherwise it doesn't matter. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] 64bit for File.FileId
I know I've seen something about moving to BIGSERIAL but don't know where. Does someone have a patch. Please CC the original poster who would like to fix this before the weekend backups. Begin forwarded message: From: James Cort [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: November 7, 2008 4:50:59 AM EST To: bacula-users bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] Ran out of fileid's in postgres-backed database I appear to have run out of fileids in my bacula database. I'm using bacula 2.2.8-8~bpo40+1 (the Debian Etch backported package) and my backups have failed with the error: Fatal error: Can't fill File table Query failed: INSERT INTO File (FileIndex, JobId, PathId, FilenameId, LStat, MD5)SELECT batch.FileIndex, batch.JobId, Path.PathId, Filename.FilenameId,batch.LStat, batch.MD5 FROM batch JOIN Path ON (batch.Path = Path.Path) JOIN Filename ON (batch.Name = Filename.Name): ERR=ERROR: integer out of range I'm using Postgres as the backend and I note from the script which bacula uses to setup the table file that fileid is of type serial. bacula= select max(fileid) from file; max 2147272756 (1 row) 2^31=2147483648 Postgresql's documentation states: The type names serial and serial4 are equivalent: both create integer columns. The type names bigserial and serial8 work just the same way, except that they create a bigint column. bigserial should be used if you anticipate the use of more than 2^31 identifiers over the lifetime of the table. ... but I'm not too keen on doing this unless I can be sure it won't have a knock-on effect on Bacula. What can I do to fix this? James -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Dan Langille http://langille.org/ - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bacula and MySQL license
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 7, 2008, at 8:57 AM, LeJav wrote: Hello, I am preparing a NFS server (Linux) which is a part of a global project for a customer. This NFS server will be backuped with bacula; I use MySQL for the database. Could someone explain me if I am right with MySQL licencing ? MySQL is only used for the bacula data. My global project is not GPL; but my NFS Server and bacula are GPL. Can I install bacula and MySQL on this server with respect to GPL licencing ? I cannot imagine any circumstances under which this would not be allowed. Yes, there are: say that the project is a propiertary backup solution, and that the company wants to use bacula and/or mysql code for their non-gpl backup solution: they can't do that. -- Dan Langille http://langille.org/ - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] MaximumBlockSize Problem and Question
Eric Bollengier wrote: Le Friday 07 November 2008 14:36:46 Kern Sibbald, vous avez écrit : On Friday 07 November 2008 13:19:45 Ralf Gross wrote: Kern Sibbald schrieb: On Thursday 06 November 2008 22:47:41 Ralf Gross wrote: Alex Chekholko schrieb: On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 16:12:51 +0100 Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For writing to tape (providing it is LTO-n) I strongly recommend a block size not to exceed 256K. Hi Kern, Why do you say that? Is this thread relevant?: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg0 12 46.h tml Also, I would like to corroborate the OP's experiences; I had an almost identical thread about small block size and slow write speed: http://www.nabble.com/LTO-4-performance--td17407840.html In fact, I was unable to get higher block sizes working at all with btape: http://www.adsm.org/lists/html/Bacula-users/2008-05/msg00504.html So I am still stuck at ~22MB/s writing to LTO-4 with the default block size. I don't think that the blocksize is the problem. I did some tests but couldn't get higher results with larger blocksizes. I get 75-85 MB/s with the default bs and no additional tuning. That is probably correct, but most likely only because you have a bottleneck elsewhere -- probably in one of the points I mentioned. The speed is always capped by the slowest component. Once you remove the other bottlenecks on your system, the blocksize will very likely become the bottleneck and then you can measure the difference. I didn't want to compain, just show the org. poster that his 22 MB/s are likely not a bs issue. That being said, I started a thread on the user list a while ago where I aked what throughput people are getting when writing to tape. Nobody involved in this thread got higher numbers than 80-85 MB/s for a single job. That is probably reasonable for one job, but if you are writing to an LTO-2,3, or 4, we know that with multiple simultaneous jobs it is possible to get write speeds of 150 MB/sec. Kern This is with a good hardware compression rate, but it's a very good test, IMHO, more than using random data to get only 80MB/sec. If you able to write at 150MB/s, i'm pretty sure that you will be able to write at 80MB/s... Even if your source file is made with a dd if=/dev/zero, your harddisk, your network, your SCSI/SAS or whatever controler have to handle it like real data. I've done extensive throughput experiments on my Dell LTO4 and have never managed to get the advertised streaming-rate of 120MBytes/sec. Even writing a stream ov zeros to the drive with hardware-compression turned on only gets me 100MBytes/sec. All zeros without compression: [root]# mt -f /dev/st0 compression 0 [root]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nst0 bs=100 count=1 100 bytes (10 GB) copied, 107.498 seconds, 93.0 MB/s All zeros with compression: [root]# mt -f /dev/st0 compression 1 [root]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/nst0 bs=100 count=1 100 bytes (10 GB) copied, 100.147 seconds, 99.9 MB/s gzip for comparison: On a 1.6GHz Xeon box: [root]# dd if=/dev/zero bs=100 count=1 | gzip -c | wc -c 100 bytes (10 GB) copied, 135.79 seconds, 73.6 MB/s gives a compression ratio of 1030:1 And on a 2.9GHz Xeon box: [root]# dd if=/dev/zero bs=100 count=1 | gzip -c | wc -c 100 bytes (10 GB) copied, 76.6102 seconds, 131 MB/s Cheers, Terry - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Ran out of fileid's in postgres-backed database
I appear to have run out of fileids in my bacula database. I'm using bacula 2.2.8-8~bpo40+1 (the Debian Etch backported package) and my backups have failed with the error: Fatal error: Can't fill File table Query failed: INSERT INTO File (FileIndex, JobId, PathId, FilenameId, LStat, MD5)SELECT batch.FileIndex, batch.JobId, Path.PathId, Filename.FilenameId,batch.LStat, batch.MD5 FROM batch JOIN Path ON (batch.Path = Path.Path) JOIN Filename ON (batch.Name = Filename.Name): ERR=ERROR: integer out of range I'm using Postgres as the backend and I note from the script which bacula uses to setup the table file that fileid is of type serial. bacula= select max(fileid) from file; max 2147272756 (1 row) 2^31=2147483648 Postgresql's documentation states: The type names serial and serial4 are equivalent: both create integer columns. The type names bigserial and serial8 work just the same way, except that they create a bigint column. bigserial should be used if you anticipate the use of more than 2^31 identifiers over the lifetime of the table. ... but I'm not too keen on doing this unless I can be sure it won't have a knock-on effect on Bacula. What can I do to fix this? James -- U4EA Technologies http://www.u4eatech.com - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Question about tape labels
Folks, I have setup bacula to automatic label the tapes, so when I do stat dir I get following output: Level Type Pri Scheduled Name Volume = Full Backup 5 07-Nov-08 20:00lidp4-FullBackupToTape *unknown* Full Backup 5 07-Nov-08 20:00lidp7-FullBackupToTape *unknown* Full Backup 5 07-Nov-08 20:00lidp5-FullBackupToTape *unknown* Full Backup 5 07-Nov-08 20:00lidp9-FullBackupToTape *unknown* Full Backup 5 07-Nov-08 20:00lidp11-FullBackupToTape *unknown* Full Backup 5 07-Nov-08 20:00lidp18-FullBackupToTape *unknown* I was testing my script that checks for the tape in the drive and makes sure that the tape is unlabeled, so I labeled the tape as testvol. After I was done testing, I removed the label from the tape. When I ran stat dir command I noticed that bacula would use the tape labeled testvol: Level Type Pri Scheduled Name Volume === Full Backup 5 07-Nov-08 20:00lidp4-FullBackupToTape testvol Full Backup 5 07-Nov-08 20:00lidp7-FullBackupToTape testvol Full Backup 5 07-Nov-08 20:00lidp5-FullBackupToTape testvol Full Backup 5 07-Nov-08 20:00lidp9-FullBackupToTape testvol Full Backup 5 07-Nov-08 20:00lidp11-FullBackupToTape testvol Full Backup 5 07-Nov-08 20:00lidp18-FullBackupToTape testvol I deleted the volume from the database and stat dir displayed *unknown* as tape label. If bacula was configured to automatically label the tape why did it choose the testvol as label? If I had not deleted the volume what would have happened? 1) Bacula would try to use testvol and fail because tape was not labeled. 2) It would automatically label the tape based upon Label Format. 3) Ask me to insert tape with testvol label. If the tape was labeled as testvol what would have happened? 1) Bacula would have used testvol and continued with backup 2) Ask me for the new unlabeled tape because it had wrong label Thanks. Hemant Shah E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Forcing volume change.
Hi list.
This is my first message to the list, I'm new on bacula, if some
information is missing, please, just ask and I promise that next time
the information will be in the first e-mail.
Bacula version: 1.38.11 (28 June 2006) Debian package.
I have a storage, so I'm using file storage. Everything was fine until
the volume I created got about 50GB of data, then I saw that it was
taking too long to restore some files. Search google for help I got to:
http://bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Basic_Volume_Management.html#SECTION002611000
Great. So I made the following config (relevant sections only):
in bacula-sd:
Device {
Name = Default
Media Type = File
Archive Device = /backup/bacula
LabelMedia = yes;
Random Access = Yes;
AutomaticMount = yes;
RemovableMedia = no;
AlwaysOpen = no;
}
And in bacula-dir.conf:
JobDefs {
Name = ETC
Type = Backup
Level = Incremental
FileSet = ETC
Schedule = WeeklyCycle
Storage = File
Messages = Standard
Pool = Default
Priority = 10
}
Pool {
Name = Default
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 180 days
Volume Use Duration = 23h
LabelFormat = Backup-${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Day:p/2/0/r}
}
Storage {
Name = File
Address = hefesto.mydomain.com.br
SDPort = 9103
Password = ThisIsMyPassword
Device = Default
Media Type = File
}
I was expecting a volume cycle, but more than 23h has passed and still
no new volume in my default pool.
I would like to know what is wrong, any tip is appreciated. Also, is
there a way to force a volume creation? I would like to run some backups
today (fryday) in a new volume, just in case.
Thanks for the help.
Fábio Catunda.
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Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] MaximumBlockSize Problem and Question
On Friday 07 November 2008 10:55:57 Ulrich Leodolter wrote: On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 22:20 +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Thursday 06 November 2008 22:02:26 Alex Chekholko wrote: On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 16:12:51 +0100 Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For writing to tape (providing it is LTO-n) I strongly recommend a block size not to exceed 256K. Hi Kern, Why do you say that? It is my experience with my own testing, and I asked the Quantum technical gurus about using large blocks. They think it is not a good idea at all using values larger than 512K and prefer as I do values around 256K. The bigger it is the more likely the tape writing will get out of phase and IMO the gain is not worth the possible problems. Is this thread relevant?: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg01246 .htm l Possibly. Also, I would like to corroborate the OP's experiences; I had an almost identical thread about small block size and slow write speed: http://www.nabble.com/LTO-4-performance--td17407840.html In fact, I was unable to get higher block sizes working at all with btape: http://www.adsm.org/lists/html/Bacula-users/2008-05/msg00504.html So I am still stuck at ~22MB/s writing to LTO-4 with the default block size. There are a lot of other parameters to consider, but I cannot give such advice any more -- no time: - Up the block size to 128K or 256K and verify that it is being written that size. Hi, Be warned! Changing this parameter will deny access to existing backup data. - Increase the Maximum File Size to about 5GB. Are existing data still accessible when increasing Maximum File Size ? i hope so Changing the Maximum File Size is completely upwards/downwards compatible, with the reservation that if you make it too small you will incur increased overhead, and if you make it larger, it may take longer to recover files. Changing the tape block size can create compatibility problems. Regards, Kern BR Ulrich - Use only *very* fast RAID disks running at 15,000 rpm. Maybe soon we can use SSD. - Get only the best disk and tape controllers. - Get good quality, big, fast hardware -- you need hardware experts to get lots of speed. Then you need to do the same kinds of tuning of your network. Regards, Kern - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Running different concurrent client backups to different FileStorages
- Chad Walstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Crawford Rainwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I have tried is creating a FileStore-1 and FileStorage-2 along with Device-1 and Device-2 all of Type = File. The backup jobs (Job-1 and Job-2) will write to their respective places on the same system. I just set something like this up as well, however in reading the manual, I noted that the Type must also be unique between the two. The type File is misleading, as what determines whether the backup media is file-based or tape-based is bacula examining the path you've given it. Chad: Correct on that as well. What I did in this case was make a File-1 and File-2 to correspond with Client-1 and Client-2 and such accordingly. This helped with separating things out, and also making the bacula-dir.conf file a bit large. --- Crawford - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] What new feature are you waiting for?
On Nov 7, 2008, at 4:02 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 22:14:08 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: On Nov 6, 2008, at 5:23 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: Am 05.11.2008 22:03 schrieb Dan Langille: - Bacula has known how to use the current tape that is a drive for a long time now. It is discouraged, but just a matter of configuration. I'm sorry but I'm starting to have serious doubts about that. I have been trying for a long time and in many different ways to get that to work, and each time I ask a question here why my latest attempt doesn't work either, the answer is post config, post log, and then: silence. What can I say? I'm not responsible for people not answering. Nor is anybody else. That's how it works. Or more precisely, doesn't. Sure. I'm not complaining about that. Sorry if my answer came across as such. But the fact that nobody could come up with an answer might indicate that the answer doesn't exist. Or more simply, it could mean that the people who know have not answered. :) And if it is discouraged, what is the recommended alternative? Work with Bacula, not against it. I don't know what more to say. Sure, and I'm trying my best to do exactly that. But the topic of this thread is desirable new features for Bacula, ie. things that currently cannot be done but would be nice if they could. Well, for what it's worth: that seems to be how people have interpreted it. The intention of this thread was what new feature in the upcoming release are you waiting for?. My first sentence in the first post was: 'With the upcoming release of Bacula, what new feature are you waiting for? But no worries. The thread is good. :) -- Dan Langille http://langille.org/ - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] next tape autolabel source
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:39 AM, James Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quick question - I've been looking through the docs and the source code and can't find the answer - where does bacula store the counter for the next tape label number? It does not. It gets that from the database. In old versions it took the count of the current tapes in the pool and used that as the number. This has a flaw if any tapes are deleted it will try to number the tape the same as a previous tape. The new system increments the highest volume id throught the whole system and that is the next tape number. John - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bacula and MySQL license
On 2008.11.07. 16:21, Silver Salonen wrote: On Friday 07 November 2008 15:57:52 LeJav wrote: Hello, I am preparing a NFS server (Linux) which is a part of a global project for a customer. This NFS server will be backuped with bacula; I use MySQL for the database. Could someone explain me if I am right with MySQL licencing ? MySQL is only used for the bacula data. My global project is not GPL; but my NFS Server and bacula are GPL. Can I install bacula and MySQL on this server with respect to GPL licencing ? Thx for your answers. Yes, you're OK. You're only affected by GPL licence if you want to change the code of either MySQL or Bacula. Otherwise it doesn't matter. actually, you can change code as hell. gpl will only kick in if you will _distribute_ said code. -- Silver -- Rich - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bacula and MySQL license
On 2008.11.07. 18:39, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote: On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 7, 2008, at 8:57 AM, LeJav wrote: Hello, I am preparing a NFS server (Linux) which is a part of a global project for a customer. This NFS server will be backuped with bacula; I use MySQL for the database. Could someone explain me if I am right with MySQL licencing ? MySQL is only used for the bacula data. My global project is not GPL; but my NFS Server and bacula are GPL. Can I install bacula and MySQL on this server with respect to GPL licencing ? I cannot imagine any circumstances under which this would not be allowed. Yes, there are: say that the project is a propiertary backup solution, and that the company wants to use bacula and/or mysql code for their non-gpl backup solution: they can't do that. please, please, don't do this. they can change the code until nobody can recognise it or whatever. they can molest, abuse, ridicule that code. as long as it stays inhouse, it's their choice. now, if they modify and distribute the modified code... yes, now gpl kicks in and requires publishing changes (actually, that's not true either, they have to provide source to the receivers of the modifications). -- Dan Langille http://langille.org/ -- Rich - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] next tape autolabel source
Quick question - I've been looking through the docs and the source code and can't find the answer - where does bacula store the counter for the next tape label number? Thanks James - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Moving from Tape to DVD
I just bought a Plextor DVD-writer, 100 DVD-RW disks, and a bag for them.
Now wondering best practises with DVD backups.
My first backup is running, so configuration seems to be ok. However, I did not
set Maximum Part Size. Should I? I see often used 800M as that. What good
does it bring?
If the spool file is bigger than free space, that part will stay on harddisk?
No way, I guess bacula does not create bigger parts than the free space on
current media, right?
What other gotchas there might be?
My bacula-sd contains
Device {
Name = DVD_RW#
Media Type = DVD+RW
Device Type = DVD
Archive Device = /dev/hdc
Requires Mount = Yes;
Automatic Mount = Yes; # when device opened, read it
Offline On Unmount = Yes;
Mount Point = /mnt/dvd
Mount Command = /bin/mount -t iso9660 -o ro %a %m # mount as Read
Only to save DVD+RW from counting as written. Bacula still writes fine.
Unmount Command = /bin/umount %m
Write Part Command = /etc/bacula/scripts/dvd-handler %a write %e %v
Free Space Command = /etc/bacula/scripts/dvd-handler %a free
Always Open = yes;
Removable Media = yes;
Random Access = yes;
Spool directory = /usr/local/srv/backup ;
Maximum Spool Size = 20GB
Maximum Job Spool Size = 10GB
}
bacula-dir contains
# Definition of DVD+RW storage device
Storage {
Name = DVDRW-Drive
Address = wellington.lan.dyn-o-saur.com # N.B. Use a fully qualified name here
SDPort = 9103
Password = xxx# password for Storage daemon
Device = DVD_RW # must be same as Device in Storage daemon
Media Type = DVD+RW# must be same as MediaType in Storage daemon
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1 # Only one job must be allowed to write to
DVD
}
Any thoughts?
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Re: [Bacula-users] Moving from Tape to DVD
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Jari Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just bought a Plextor DVD-writer, 100 DVD-RW disks, and a bag for them.
Now wondering best practises with DVD backups.
My first backup is running, so configuration seems to be ok. However, I did
not set Maximum Part Size. Should I? I see often used 800M as that. What
good does it bring?
If the spool file is bigger than free space, that part will stay on harddisk?
No way, I guess bacula does not create bigger parts than the free space on
current media, right?
What other gotchas there might be?
My bacula-sd contains
Device {
Name = DVD_RW#
Media Type = DVD+RW
Device Type = DVD
Archive Device = /dev/hdc
Requires Mount = Yes;
Automatic Mount = Yes; # when device opened, read it
Offline On Unmount = Yes;
Mount Point = /mnt/dvd
Mount Command = /bin/mount -t iso9660 -o ro %a %m # mount as Read
Only to save DVD+RW from counting as written. Bacula still writes fine.
Unmount Command = /bin/umount %m
Write Part Command = /etc/bacula/scripts/dvd-handler %a write %e %v
Free Space Command = /etc/bacula/scripts/dvd-handler %a free
Always Open = yes;
Removable Media = yes;
Random Access = yes;
Spool directory = /usr/local/srv/backup ;
Maximum Spool Size = 20GB
Maximum Job Spool Size = 10GB
}
bacula-dir contains
# Definition of DVD+RW storage device
Storage {
Name = DVDRW-Drive
Address = wellington.lan.dyn-o-saur.com # N.B. Use a fully qualified name
here
SDPort = 9103
Password = xxx# password for Storage daemon
Device = DVD_RW # must be same as Device in Storage daemon
Media Type = DVD+RW# must be same as MediaType in Storage daemon
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1 # Only one job must be allowed to write to
DVD
}
Any thoughts?
Make sure you have dvd+rw-tools-7.1 or greater. If you have a previous
version you will need to upgrade.
John
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Re: [Bacula-users] Moving from Tape to DVD
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Jari Fredriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make sure you have dvd+rw-tools-7.1 or greater. If you have a previous version you will need to upgrade. Thanks for the tip! I have latest Debian Etch+backports dvd+rw-tools which should be okay according to Bacula documentation. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] searching the bacula catalog for a filename with wildcards?
Folks, I've got a user who thinks a file was deleted but she isn't sure of the exact name or where it was in the file system. Is there a command to search for a file with wildcards which could be anywhere in the catalog (where both the date it was backed up and the directory it lived in are not known)? Barring that, what might the syntax of a mysql select command to do it? Bob - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Moving from Tape to DVD
Hmm. [ 5053.929447] attempt to access beyond end of device [ 5053.929447] hdc: rw=0, want=68, limit=4 [ 5053.929447] isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16 [ 5054.954192] attempt to access beyond end of device [ 5054.954192] hdc: rw=0, want=68, limit=4 [ 5054.954192] isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16 [ 5055.009549] attempt to access beyond end of device [ 5055.009549] hdc: rw=0, want=68, limit=4 [ 5055.009549] isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16 [ 5056.027985] attempt to access beyond end of device [ 5056.027985] hdc: rw=0, want=68, limit=4 [ 5056.027985] isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16 [ 5948.257464] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A [ 6097.944016] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A [13464.702833] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A Bacula job did not fail, but syslog and dmesg shows stuff like this. I have not tried restore yet... - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Forcing volume change.
Hi,
07.11.2008 15:54, Fábio Catunda wrote:
Arno,
Thanks a lot, pretty simple. I just updated all informations running
update from console and selecting option 13, then status 1 showed
07-Nov 12:46 hefesto-dir: Max configured use duration exceeded. Marking
Volume StorageDisk as Used.
So I just ran a job and the new volume has been created:
Volume name(s): Backup-2008-11-07
Good. That's what should have happened. (Note that, if you upgrade,
volumes will not necessarily be purged by a 'status' command.)
About my bacula version, do you think that the debian version have a lot
of problems?
I don't know if the debian team did anything to their versions of
Bacula, but the release notes for Bacula document a huge number of bug
fixes since version 2.0 only.
I believe that the package maintainer use some patches to
keep it stable, I'm I right?
I don't know. I guess backporting *all* the fixes to a 1.38 Bacula
would be impossible, though.
Arno
Anyway, really thanks for the tip, one more learned.
Fábio Catunda.
Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hi,
07.11.2008 11:10, Fábio Catunda wrote:
Hi list.
This is my first message to the list, I'm new on bacula, if some
information is missing, please, just ask and I promise that next time
the information will be in the first e-mail.
Bacula version: 1.38.11 (28 June 2006) Debian package.
A very good start to include that information.
And - your Bacula is outdated. You should upgrade as soon as possible.
Recebt versions not only add new features but also fix serious issues.
I have a storage, so I'm using file storage. Everything was fine until
the volume I created got about 50GB of data, then I saw that it was
taking too long to restore some files. Search google for help I got to:
http://bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Basic_Volume_Management.html#SECTION002611000
Great. So I made the following config (relevant sections only):
in bacula-sd:
Device {
Name = Default
Media Type = File
Archive Device = /backup/bacula
LabelMedia = yes;
Random Access = Yes;
AutomaticMount = yes;
RemovableMedia = no;
AlwaysOpen = no;
}
And in bacula-dir.conf:
JobDefs {
Name = ETC
Type = Backup
Level = Incremental
FileSet = ETC
Schedule = WeeklyCycle
Storage = File
Messages = Standard
Pool = Default
Priority = 10
}
Pool {
Name = Default
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 180 days
Volume Use Duration = 23h
LabelFormat = Backup-${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Day:p/2/0/r}
}
Storage {
Name = File
Address = hefesto.mydomain.com.br
SDPort = 9103
Password = ThisIsMyPassword
Device = Default
Media Type = File
}
I was expecting a volume cycle, but more than 23h has passed and still
no new volume in my default pool.
That's probably because your existing volume still uses the original
information. What you set in the pool configuration is merely a
template used when creating new volumes, so you need to update the
existing volume. In bconsole, the command to use is - surprise! -
'update'.
I would like to know what is wrong, any tip is appreciated. Also, is
there a way to force a volume creation? I would like to run some backups
today (fryday) in a new volume, just in case.
You could also simply set the volume status to Used and use the
'label' command to create a new volume.
Arno
Thanks for the help.
Fábio Catunda.
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Re: [Bacula-users] bacula and MySQL license
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008.11.07. 18:39, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote: On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Dan Langille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 7, 2008, at 8:57 AM, LeJav wrote: Hello, I am preparing a NFS server (Linux) which is a part of a global project for a customer. This NFS server will be backuped with bacula; I use MySQL for the database. Could someone explain me if I am right with MySQL licencing ? MySQL is only used for the bacula data. My global project is not GPL; but my NFS Server and bacula are GPL. Can I install bacula and MySQL on this server with respect to GPL licencing ? I cannot imagine any circumstances under which this would not be allowed. Yes, there are: say that the project is a propiertary backup solution, and that the company wants to use bacula and/or mysql code for their non-gpl backup solution: they can't do that. please, please, don't do this. they can change the code until nobody can recognise it or whatever. they can molest, abuse, ridicule that code. as long as it stays inhouse, it's their choice. true. But they can't start selling a product based on a GPL software, and license it with other terms: they can sell the GPL product, but they must give access to the code under the GPL terms. now, if they modify and distribute the modified code... yes, now gpl kicks in and requires publishing changes (actually, that's not true either, they have to provide source to the receivers of the modifications). Not only that, it requires that such modifications are covered by GPL, which means that the receivers of the modifications can distribute the modifications, under the GPL terms. -- Dan Langille http://langille.org/ -- Rich - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Moving from Tape to DVD
Hmm. [ 5053.929447] attempt to access beyond end of device [ 5053.929447] hdc: rw=0, want=68, limit=4 [ 5053.929447] isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16 [ 5054.954192] attempt to access beyond end of device [ 5054.954192] hdc: rw=0, want=68, limit=4 [ 5054.954192] isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16 [ 5055.009549] attempt to access beyond end of device [ 5055.009549] hdc: rw=0, want=68, limit=4 [ 5055.009549] isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16 [ 5056.027985] attempt to access beyond end of device [ 5056.027985] hdc: rw=0, want=68, limit=4 [ 5056.027985] isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16 [ 5948.257464] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A [ 6097.944016] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A [13464.702833] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A Bacula job did not fail, but syslog and dmesg shows stuff like this. I googled, and changed /etc/fstab to /dev/hdc/media/cdromautoro,user,noauto 0 0 it was /dev/hdc/media/cdromufs,iso9660ro,user,noauto 0 0 Auto mount was offearleir too, but maybe that affected Baculas mount, dunno. No errors now. The common nominator in that is /dev/hdc.. Bacula does not mount to /media/cdrom but /mnt/dvd.. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] next tape autolabel source
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:39 AM, James Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quick question - I've been looking through the docs and the source code and can't find the answer - where does bacula store the counter for the next tape label number? It does not. It gets that from the database. If it stores it in the database, do you know what table? I have looked through all the tables and can't see what counter would represent 'last tape labelled' or 'next autolabel number'... Basically, I want to reset the counter to a given number. Thanks James - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] next tape autolabel source
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 9:10 PM, James Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:39 AM, James Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quick question - I've been looking through the docs and the source code and can't find the answer - where does bacula store the counter for the next tape label number? It does not. It gets that from the database. If it stores it in the database, do you know what table? I have looked through all the tables and can't see what counter would represent 'last tape labelled' or 'next autolabel number'... Basically, I want to reset the counter to a given number. There is no counter. It finds the maximum mediaid of all the volumes that exist in the database. I believe the only way to reset this counter is to delete all of your media in every pool. Here is some info on why this is so: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=479E22E3.40805%40neuro-tech.netforum_name=bacula-devel BTW, I am going on vacation in 6 hours and will not be back till the 15th or 16th. I am not sure if I will have internet access in during this time so I probably will not be able to reply again until I return. John - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100url=/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
