Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger and barcode
But the use of pools on what for? Just for completeness I must save this data: 1) Oracle db (size unknown) 2) 5-6 MySQL db (about 25 Gb) 3) Some samba share, with office files (5Gb) 4) An subversion reposity (size unknown) 5) Mail server (size unknown) 6) The configuration of 8 servers 7) Other things that now I do not remember :) I should make a pool for each points? No, you should make the pools reflect your retention times. If you wish to keep (which you most-likely will) your Full backups for longer time than your incrementals. Recycling of volumes is based on the lastwritten time of the volume. I suggest: Full-Poll = All full backups. Incremental-Pool = All incremental backups. Differential-Poll = All Differential backups. You would then prefer to keep full backups for the longest period, Differentials for a shorter and incrementals for even shorter. I our setup we keep Full for 1y, Differential for 1y and Incremental for 6m. This enables us to: * restore any file with a days granularity for 6 months. * restore any file wiht a weeks granularity for 1 year. * - then we actually have an Archive Pool that week is backed up to ever 6 months that we keep forever. If you then dont want to have a open tape for longer than a period, then you set Max Use Duration to that. Then after that period of time you can move it to a different location. If your retention times change across above systems, then you most likely need more pools. But I would definately suggest just buying one more pack of tapes instead. Jesper -- Jesper -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger and barcode
Nicola Quargentan wrote: Jesper Krogh ha scritto: Nicola Quargentan wrote: I'm very newbie and I want to use a DELL TL2000 autochanger. I made 7 pool in config file, one for each day of week: Monday, Tuesday, etc. Monday, Tuesday and so is mostly used when you dont have an autochanger. Oh you are right: before autochanger I have only a single tape drive, and I change the tape every day :O When you do have one I recommend setting up Pools so then reflect your retention policies. In my setup we: * Keep full backups for a year (run monthly) * Keep differential backups for a year (run weekly) * Keep incremental backups for 6 months (run daily). This translates into 3 Pools, Full, Differential and Incremental. On these pools the retentiontime is set and then automatically move back to Scratch-pool when retention-time has expired. So all fresh volumes just goes directly into Scratch pool. Bacula will try to fill tapes completely e.g. fill mondays's tape with tuesdays data if not explicitly configured otherwise. Uhmm, I want to be indipendent from bacula. My purpose is to occasionally carry out my tapes, and store them on a strongbox :) If my backup bacula server crash I don't want lose all my data. So I want to know where bacula store my data. Then I'd suggest that you run mysqldump on the catalog and burn it to a CD or similar occationally. I have a small perl-script that can process the catalog and give a list of files/timestamps/paths/clients stored on a volume .. (can give information for use with bextract if needed). Would that have any interest? -- Jesper -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Best backup strategy to use the minimum size
Cedric wrote: Do a Differential once every 90 days and Incrementals the rest of the time. In theory, you only need to run one Full backup. Ever. In practice, you'll probably want to create a new Full backup every year or so to clear out the obsolete data and make your differentials smaller (and faster). Also keep restores in mind.. using above configuration and running a full yearly and a differential every 90 months could require you to find 1 (full) + 1(differential) + 89(incremental) = 91 tapes to do a restore. Either you have a huge changer, or you are heading into an administrative nightmare. I suggest running differentials at least weekly, just to lower the amount of tapes needed for restores. Jesper -- Jesper -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bextract -- restore single occurrence of file
I fired up bextract (standard bacula restore is not appropriate in this case) which restored the first occurrence of the file as expected. However, instead of halting after restoring the file, bextract continued to the end of the tape and found a second occurrence with the same filename which it duly restored replacing the originally restored file. I suggest you open a bug-report/feature request on this.. this seems like a really nasty situation to get into if stuff really burns. Jesper -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Best backup strategy to use the minimum size
Jesper Krogh wrote: Cedric wrote: Do a Differential once every 90 days and Incrementals the rest of the time. In theory, you only need to run one Full backup. Ever. In practice, you'll probably want to create a new Full backup every year or so to clear out the obsolete data and make your differentials smaller (and faster). Also keep restores in mind.. using above configuration and running a full yearly and a differential every 90 months could require you to find 1 (full) + 1(differential) + 89(incremental) = 91 tapes to do a restore. Either you have a huge changer, or you are heading into an administrative nightmare. I suggest running differentials at least weekly, just to lower the amount of tapes needed for restores. I think you missed an important detail given in the OP: Please consider that I'm using File disk Backups. He's backing up to disk. There are no tapes to change because there are no tapes. - Cedric -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bextract -- restore single occurrence of file
Jesper Jesper Krogh wrote: I fired up bextract (standard bacula restore is not appropriate in this case) which restored the first occurrence of the file as expected. However, instead of halting after restoring the file, bextract continued to the end of the tape and found a second occurrence with the same filename which it duly restored replacing the originally restored file. I suggest you open a bug-report/feature request on this.. this seems like a really nasty situation to get into if stuff really burns. Jesper Interestingly, I tried Martin's suggestion of using a bootstrap file. I defined two parameters: Volume name = volname and Count = 1. My understanding was that once the number of restored files hit the Count value bextract would stop. This wasn't the case. I also used an include-list file when running bextract so there may be a clash when using -b and -i command-line options. I wasn't able to provide all the parameters to use just a bootstrap file. Details are: bextract -b bootstrap-file -i include-list -V TAPE_04 /dev/nst0 /mnt/restores include-list file contents: /Backups/VM09_Full_backup.vbk bootstrap-file file contents: Volume = TAPE_04 Count = 1 In the end I used the interrupt approach -- once the first file was restored I interrupted the bextract process before it got to the second occurrence of the file. Ironically this is the only tape in the entire monthly backup set that includes the same file twice! cby -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/bextractrestore-single-occurrence-of-file-tp25905115p25937562.html Sent from the Bacula - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] sorting output bconsole
Jari Fredriksson wrote: 17.10.2009 2:19, Terry L. Inzauro kirjoitti: For testing, I've decided to use the mysql command line interface and I have one last question. How would I take take sums of two columns such as JobFiles and JobBytes [18:13:04 r...@jenna:~]# mysql -u root -px Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 489 Server version: 5.0.51a-24+lenny2-log (Debian) Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. mysql use bacula; Reading table information for completion of table and column names You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A Database changed mysql SELECT DISTINCT Job.JobId as JobId,Client.Name as Client, FileSet.FileSet AS FileSet,Level,StartTime, JobFiles,JobBytes,VolumeName FROM Client,Job,JobMedia,Media,FileSet WHERE Client.Name='peyton' AND Client.ClientId=Job.ClientId AND Job.Type='B' AND Job.JobStatus='T' AND Job.FileSetId=FileSet.FileSetId AND JobMedia.JobId=Job.JobId AND JobMedia.MediaId=Media.MediaId ORDER BY Job.StartTime; +---++---+---+-+--+---+---+ | JobId | Client | FileSet | Level | StartTime | JobFiles | JobBytes | VolumeName| +---++---+---+-+--+---+---+ | 4700 | peyton | StandardLinux | F | 2009-09-06 05:28:54 | 47498 | 789899195 | FullPool_0067 | | 4777 | peyton | StandardLinux | D | 2009-09-13 00:37:11 | 50 | 2442702 | DiffPool_0004 | | 4910 | peyton | StandardLinux | I | 2009-09-25 00:28:57 | 43 | 2095221 | IncrPool_0036 | | 4921 | peyton | StandardLinux | I | 2009-09-26 00:29:15 | 41 | 2072585 | IncrPool_0090 | | 4932 | peyton | StandardLinux | D | 2009-09-27 00:53:34 | 52 | 2497277 | DiffPool_0011 | | 4943 | peyton | StandardLinux | I | 2009-09-28 00:29:48 | 50 | 2366865 | IncrPool_0037 | | 4954 | peyton | StandardLinux | I | 2009-09-29 00:28:55 | 41 | 2018132 | IncrPool_0119 | | 4965 | peyton | StandardLinux | I | 2009-09-30 00:38:28 | 41 | 2035566 | IncrPool_0136 | | 4976 | peyton | StandardLinux | I | 2009-10-01 00:29:36 | 41 | 2052047 | IncrPool_0130 | | 4987 | peyton | StandardLinux | I | 2009-10-02 00:31:56 | 45 | 2069134 | IncrPool_0011 | | 4998 | peyton | StandardLinux | I | 2009-10-03 00:29:48 | 41 | 2085954 | IncrPool_0140 | | 5009 | peyton | StandardLinux | F | 2009-10-04 05:36:39 | 47498 | 789930570 | FullPool_0009 | | 5020 | peyton | StandardLinux | I | 2009-10-05 00:29:15 | 50 | 2378897 | IncrPool_0029 | | 5031 | peyton | StandardLinux | I | 2009-10-06 00:29:07 | 41 | 2029220 | IncrPool_0004 | | 5042 | peyton | StandardLinux | I | 2009-10-07 00:51:50 | 41 | 2046245 | IncrPool_0055 | | 5053 | peyton | StandardLinux | I | 2009-10-08 00:28:28 | 41 | 2062919 | IncrPool_0077 | | 5108 | peyton | StandardLinux | I | 2009-10-14 01:25:39 | 50 | 2430892 | IncrPool_0079 | | 5119 | peyton | StandardLinux | I | 2009-10-14 02:41:33 | 50 | 2431747 | IncrPool_0027 | | 5130 | peyton | StandardLinux | I | 2009-10-15 00:30:11 | 41 | 2073822 | IncrPool_0009 | | 5141 | peyton | StandardLinux | I | 2009-10-16 00:30:07 | 41 | 2091084 | IncrPool_0005 | +---++---+---+-+--+---+---+ 20 rows in set (0.01 sec) If you want that same list, and add the sums at the end, I don't believe it is possible with MySQL client. It would be easy with Oracle SQL*Plus, but not with MySQL client. A simple query will return those SELECT SUM(JobFiles) AS JobFilesSum, SUM(JobBytes) AS JobBytesSum FROM Job ; but that is not much of interest, I guess. -- http://www.iki.fi/jarif/ Ships are safe in harbor, but they were never meant to stay there. Ok. Can the SQLPlus client be used with mysql? Is it freely available? Just thrownign this out there: Could the limitation of the mysql client be worked around by running a few different queries and then appending the results to one another? Basically run two queries, then SUN() the results of each query, and then combine the results to produce a report that contains both of the individual reports information? Also, I guess an alternative would be to run the output through a perl script that sums the appropriate column but its not a very clean solution. kind regards, _Terry -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to
Re: [Bacula-users] brestore cache tables
Paul A-2 wrote: Hi trying to get webrestore to work, so far I can see page clients but not jobs. I believe this is because I have no imported the bweb.sql. According to the install file its says, 3) Make sure that brestore cache tables are in your catalog (bweb-xxx.sql files) How do I achieve this, I ran the following but it doesn't work. mysql -u bacula -p bacula bweb-mysql.sql Enter password: ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 7: 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 'IF EXISTS base64_decode_lstat' at line 1 Hello, Perhaps your Mysql version is a bit old to support PL procedure. You can remove PL code from the bweb-mysql.sql, it is only used in the bfileview module or you can upgrade your Mysql. Bye -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/brestore-cache-tables-tp25928701p25938851.html Sent from the Bacula - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] sorting output bconsole
17.10.2009 17:41, Terry L. Inzauro kirjoitti: A simple query will return those SELECT SUM(JobFiles) AS JobFilesSum, SUM(JobBytes) AS JobBytesSum FROM Job ; but that is not much of interest, I guess. -- http://www.iki.fi/jarif/ Ships are safe in harbor, but they were never meant to stay there. Ok. Can the SQLPlus client be used with mysql? Is it freely available? Absolutely not. SQL*Plus and Oracle may be downloadable from Oracle, but Bacula does not support Oracle yet (an ODBC driver for Bacula has been a dream in my mind for long). But SQL*Plus can't be used with MySQL. Dunno what future brings, as Oracle now owns MySQL, but I would not count on it. Just thrownign this out there: Could the limitation of the mysql client be worked around by running a few different queries and then appending the results to one another? Basically run two queries, then SUN() the results of each query, and then combine the results to produce a report that contains both of the individual reports information? I have not done any sql queries for Bacula, but I think it is possible. I think a query in Bacula may be composed from multiple SQL statements. Also, I guess an alternative would be to run the output through a perl script that sums the appropriate column but its not a very clean solution. Indeed. It is doable. -- http://www.iki.fi/jarif/ An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. -- William Shakespeare, Henry VI pgpZ1KxS9abbd.pgp Description: PGP signature -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Best backup strategy to use the minimum size
Hi:
Here's one possibility:
Pool {
Name = Full
...
Volume Use Duration = 23 hours
Volume Retention = 89 days
}
Pool {
Name = Differential
...
Volume Use Duration = 23 hours
Volume Retention = 89 days
}
Pool {
Name = Incremental
...
Volume Use Duration = 23 hours
Volume Retention = 90 days
}
Do a Differential once every 90 days and Incrementals the rest of the time.
In theory, you only need to run one Full backup. Ever. In practice, you'll
probably want to create a new Full backup every year or so to clear out the
obsolete data and make your differentials smaller (and faster).
Another way to do it that uses even less disk space would be to eliminate
the differentials completely and just create a new Full backup every 90
days.
Thanks, I think that using a combination Differential, Incremental and
Full is the best way to keep 90 days old of data. I'm going to make
this changes to my bacula configuration.
- Cedric
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Re: [Bacula-users] Renaming volumes...
Bruno Friedmann wrote:
John Doe wrote:
Hi,
I use a USB disk as storage and at first I had volumes labeled like
this:
Label Format = ${Client}.${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}.full.v${NumVols}
Label Format = ${Client}.${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}.diff.v${NumVols}
Label Format = ${Client}.${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}.incr.v${NumVols}
But, after seeing that the date is useless/confusing with the
recycling, I'd like to use this:
Label Format = ${Client}.full.v${NumVols} Label Format =
${Client}.diff.v${NumVols} Label Format =
${Client}.incr.v${NumVols}
Is there a list of steps to follow or is it a nightmare?
Not a nightmare, but lots of sql digging ...
Or, at worse, how can I restart from 'zero'? Delete from the console
and then the files?
You can use the delete volume on bconsole ( this ensure not leaving
orphaned file/jobs/volumes in db ) After that you can delete
corresponding volumes. (I would tend to prefer this one)
There is also the relabel console command. Volume has to be Purged or
Recycle Status for relabel to work, so you probably have to purge before
relabel will work.
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Re: [Bacula-users] sorting output bconsole
18.10.2009 0:32, Markus Falb kirjoitti: Terry L. Inzauro wrote: For testing, I've decided to use the mysql command line interface and I have one last question. How would I take take sums of two columns such as JobFiles and JobBytes Use the addition Operator like that: mysql select JobFiles+JobBytes from Job where JobFiles 0 limit 10; Hmm.. What purpose would that kind of sum serve? I don't think the OP was after that... -- http://www.iki.fi/jarif/ He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. -- J.R.R. Tolkien pgpZdsZy0DHue.pgp Description: PGP signature -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] sorting output bconsole
Jari Fredriksson wrote: 18.10.2009 0:32, Markus Falb kirjoitti: Terry L. Inzauro wrote: For testing, I've decided to use the mysql command line interface and I have one last question. How would I take take sums of two columns such as JobFiles and JobBytes Use the addition Operator like that: mysql select JobFiles+JobBytes from Job where JobFiles 0 limit 10; Hmm.. What purpose would that kind of sum serve? I don't think the OP was after that... Now where you say, neither do I ;-) -- best regards, markus -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
