Re: [Bacula-users] How to use another system disk partition as backup storage?
Hi, On Mar 11, 2010, at 5:12, vishesh wrote: > I am new to bacula and implemented it on my RHEl server 5.2. > Everything is working great and now i want to use my another linux > system disk partition as backup storage. Should i use NFS or similar > network protocol or any other way? I presume you mean a disk in another system. Mounting over nfs means all data must be sent to your storage daemon and then sent on to your nfs server. It would probably make more sense to install a bacula storage daemon on the second machine which would allow backups to go direct. Gavin > -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] How to use another system disk partition as backup storage?
Dear all I am new to bacula and implemented it on my RHEl server 5.2. Everything is working great and now i want to use my another linux system disk partition as backup storage. Should i use NFS or similar network protocol or any other way? Thanks +-- |This was sent by vishuind...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +-- -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Maximum Concurrent Jobs in job definition
Hi everyone, I have a job that runs very frequently, and successive runs take different sets of data (as determined by a pre-job script). To avoid problems, my pre-job script sets a lock file and the post-clears it. When I configure my director for concurrent jobs = 2, i sometimes get 2 of these jobs trying to run in parallel (which is understandable, many times a run has more data than the average and is still running while the next one is due). My pre-script will then cancel the execution of the 2nd script (because it finds the lock file). Great. Of course, this is generating a bunch of (expected) errored jobs . I read in the documentaiton [1] that I can use "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" in the Job def, to determine how many of this jobs can start in parallel. So I set this to 1 [2] But it has no effect . I get 2 jobs running in parallel (for a short while, until the pre-script kills it). If I change the director's Max Concurrent Jobs to 1, then it's forced to 1 (but i need more than one, as I as have spooling enabled and other jobs writing to the tape too..) What is going on ? TIA! B _ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome "The only people that never change are the stupid and the dead" Jorge Luis Borges. I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned. [1] http://bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION00173, way down... [2] [...] Job { Name = "assetBackups" JobDefs = "DefaultJob" Level = Full FileSet="publishedAssetsSet" Messages = Standard Pool = "productionPool" Storage = "berthaTape" Schedule = "PublishedAssetsSchedule" Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/%n.bsr" Priority = 10 Accurate = yes Spool Data = yes # We only want one instance of this job running @ the same time. # enforced (errors out) in the apb_run.sh Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1 # This the list of asset versions to be backed up. The parameter passed is the number of versions to include in this run RunBeforeJob = "/etc/bacula/backupFilelist/apb_run.sh 400" # This moves the current list out of the way and updates the offset # parameters passed are the jobId and the jobStatus RunAfterJob = "/etc/bacula/backupFilelist/apb_post.sh %i %e" } [...] -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Can volumes on an internal HDD be synchronised to more than one external HDD?
On 3/9/2010 8:18 AM, bacula-us...@catcons.co.uk wrote: > Hello :-) > > I would like to implement a Bacula 5.0.1 system with backup volumes on > internal HDD storage and to have at least two external HDDs which > essentially mirror the internal HDD storage. The purpose is to have one of > the external HDDs off site at all times. > > Is this possible? Yes. Use a tool like rsync. Do not involve Bacula. -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-dir 5.01 no listen
check netstat -n and check if the ports are listed and see if the service is correct. Check the passwords in each config file to make sure they match. If this does not work give us a heads up. Thanks, Greg 2010/3/10 mario parreño : > Hi all. I install bacula 5.0.1 and bat in Debian lenny. Director, storage > and client are in the same machine. > I execute /sbin/bacula/bacula start > but bacula no listen in 9101 ( yes listen in 9102 and 9103) > > What can i do? > Thanks. > > > ¿Quieres saber qué móvil eres? ¡Descúbrelo aquí! > -- > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > ___ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-dir 5.01 no listen
>Hi all. I install bacula 5.0.1 and bat in Debian lenny. Director, storage and >client are in the same machine. >I execute /sbin/bacula/bacula start >but bacula no listen in 9101 ( yes listen in 9102 and 9103) > >What can i do? Well, you could check what's running, I don't know or use Debian, but whast the output of: lsof -i |grep bacula ps aux |grep bacula Now check your logs and see why there are not 3 daemons running: bacula-dir bacula-sd bacula-fd -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Bacula-dir 5.01 no listen
Hi all. I install bacula 5.0.1 and bat in Debian lenny. Director, storage and client are in the same machine. I execute /sbin/bacula/bacula start but bacula no listen in 9101 ( yes listen in 9102 and 9103) What can i do? Thanks. _ ¿Te gustaría tener Hotmail en tu móvil Movistar? ¡Es gratis! http://serviciosmoviles.es.msn.com/hotmail/movistar-particulares.aspx-- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Windows XP File Daemon - Service Stops With Unknown Error
On 3/9/2010 10:02 AM, Bob Hetzel wrote: > 3 things that have given me grief due to the windows FD stopping or being > unresponsive (but still mysteriously running)... > a) buggy network driver--in one case I was able to update the driver to fix. > I'll second that one. I have had several occasions of a buggy NIC driver causing the TCP connection to be dropped. In all cases it was fixed by an updated driver, or by turning off the NIC driver's power management features. Particularly for laptops, it seems unfortunately common for the driver to turn off the NIC to save power, even though there is an active TCP connection. Web browsers and such simply re-connect, so the dropped connection isn't noticed. But TCP connections for Bacula may be open for quite some time, so Bacula is more sensitive to network problems. > b) bad network switch or network port > c) infection with a virus/malware that was using up the "max tcp > connections". Check the event log for that error. > d) regex in the fileset had a bug but that's been fixed around bacula > version 2.5 or so. Along the way I learned that regex was slower to > process than wilddir and wildfile so I stopped using it for windows > filesets anyway. > > In all cases these issues caused the windows FD to stop during a backup, so > I hope this helps but if not, you may have to turn on debugging in the FD > and cross your fingers that it happens and logs what went wrong. > > Bob > > >> From: Drew Bentley >> I can't seem to figure out what's going on because I've never encountered this issue when backing up a Windows XP client with the latest version of Bacula. I have no problems backing up the client but the file daemon unexpectedly dies randomly, usually before a backup is even scheduled. The error I'm seeing in the event log goes something like this: Bacula Error: /home/kern/bacula/k/bacula/src/lib/bsock.c:518 Read error from Director daemon::9101: ERR=Unknown error Above that it complains about local computer and registry info or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer, use /AUXSOURCE=flag to retrieve this description, see Help and Support for more details. Anyone encounter this? Is this machine missing something? I'm not a Windows guy, more of a Unix guy. Everything seems to work okay when I restart the FD service and backups run without issues. I have backups kick off at like 7pm and it always seems to die before 3 or 4pm. No one really remotes into this machine, it's a Quickbooks machine and only shares out the Intuit QB stuff to the HR persons machine. Any other info I can provide if necessary. I couldn't seem to locate this type of issue in the mailing list archives. -Drew >> No ideas from anyone? Now it seems to die without any reports in the >> event viewer or logs. >> >> -Drew >> >> > -- > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > ___ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] CentOS yum install with PostgreSQL database on another system
Thomas Bennett wrote: > Are there not more than one bacula packages? On Fedora using yum you can > choose which build and the name of the build basically indicates the > dependency if it is a database. > > > yum search bacula Thanks Thomas Been there, done that and have several tee-shirts. > bacula-director-common.x86_64 : Common Bacula Director files > bacula-director-mysql.x86_64 : Bacula Director with MySQL database support > bacula-director-postgresql.x86_64 : Bacula Director with PostgresSQL database > support > bacula-director-sqlite.x86_64 : Bacula Director with sqlite database support > bacula-storage-common.x86_64 : Common Bacula storage daemon files > bacula-storage-mysql.x86_64 : MySQL Bacula storage daemon files > bacula-storage-postgresql.x86_64 : Common Bacula storage daemon files > bacula-storage-sqlite.x86_64 : SQLite Bacula storage daemon files yum install bacula-common bacula-director-postgresql bacula-storage-postgresql --enablerepo=epel ** Then a more careful look shows me this is for Version 2.0.3 *** Installing: bacula-clienti3862.0.3-10.el5 epel 568 k bacula-commoni3862.0.3-10.el5 epel 354 k bacula-director-postgresql i3862.0.3-10.el5 epel 832 k bacula-storage-postgresqli3862.0.3-10.el5 epel 364 k Installing for dependencies: bacula-director-common i3862.0.3-10.el5 epel 169 k bacula-storage-commoni3862.0.3-10.el5 epel 1.6 M fedora-usermgmt noarch 0.8.91-1.el5 epel 6.6 k fedora-usermgmt-core noarch 0.8.91-1.el5 epel 7.6 k fedora-usermgmt-default-fedora-setup noarch 0.8.91-1.el5 epel 6.6 k fedora-usermgmt-shadow-utils noarch 0.8.91-1.el5 epel 7.4 k postgresql-serveri3868.1.18-2.el5_4.1 updates 3.8 M And ... I'm running PostgreSQL 8.3 and 8.4 on their own. Plus there is a postgresql package with "client programs". I'm off to explore other options e.g. install from source. To get a more recent version. I prefer packages as "Bus Insurance" so I'll look into how to make the RPMs while at it. \\||/ Rod -- > > > Thomas > > On Tuesday 09 March 2010 18:37:08 Roderick A. Anderson wrote: >> Is there a yum-way (or RPM) to install bacula-director and >> bacula-storage on a system when the database (Pg) is on another system? >> >> Yum keeps wanting to install postgresql-server as a dependency. >> >> >> >> \\||/ >> Rod >> > -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Exchange 2010 plugin backup failure
Hi James, > Can you try making the registry changes documented in this link > > http://forum.ultrabac.com/showthread.php?p=607 > or > http://www.asigraforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3347 I will give these a try tonight, but I'm fairly certain that these only apply to Exchange 2007. This client is running Exchange 2010 and, according to the Microsoft links I put in my original post, Microsoft has removed this "legacy" backup functionality from their 2010 product and replaced it with a supposedly "more robust" backup system. In any case, I will try the registry changes and let you know what happens later this evening. Best Regards, Angus Jordan -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Windows XP File Daemon - Service Stops With Unknown Error
On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Bob Hetzel wrote: > 3 things that have given me grief due to the windows FD stopping or being > unresponsive (but still mysteriously running)... > a) buggy network driver--in one case I was able to update the driver to fix. > b) bad network switch or network port > c) infection with a virus/malware that was using up the "max tcp > connections". Check the event log for that error. > d) regex in the fileset had a bug but that's been fixed around bacula > version 2.5 or so. Along the way I learned that regex was slower to > process than wilddir and wildfile so I stopped using it for windows > filesets anyway. > > In all cases these issues caused the windows FD to stop during a backup, so > I hope this helps but if not, you may have to turn on debugging in the FD > and cross your fingers that it happens and logs what went wrong. > > Bob Yeah, I think I'll need to turn on debugging. Unfortunately for me, the FD dies or stops running before the backups even kick off. If I manually restart (after notification that it errored), then kick off another backup for the client, it seems to run without issues. I'm using the latest version of the Windows client. No infections are on the machine for malware or virus and network seems to be good. I don't think it's anything with bacula though, my only guess is the Intuit software on the machine that might be causing issues. Thanks, -Drew -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Windows client priority?
On 10.3.2010 11:36, Graham Keeling wrote: > Hello, > > I have a user complaining that when the bacula client is backing stuff up on > his Windows XP computer, the computer becomes 'unusable' for simple web > surfing. > > He wonders whether there is a way of setting some kind of low priority on the > bacula file daemon so that the Windows computer can be used whilst the backup > is happening. Something like the linux 'nice' command, perhaps? > > If the user has Admin privileges, he/she can set the priority by using task manager. In the process list there should be bacula-fd.exe, and it allows setting the priority from mouse right click. Bacula probably itself does not allow setting the priority by some configurable setting. -- http://www.iki.fi/jarif/ Let him choose out of my files, his projects to accomplish. -- Shakespeare, "Coriolanus" signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] CentOS yum install with PostgreSQL database on another system
Are there not more than one bacula packages? On Fedora using yum you can choose which build and the name of the build basically indicates the dependency if it is a database. yum search bacula bacula-director-common.x86_64 : Common Bacula Director files bacula-director-mysql.x86_64 : Bacula Director with MySQL database support bacula-director-postgresql.x86_64 : Bacula Director with PostgresSQL database support bacula-director-sqlite.x86_64 : Bacula Director with sqlite database support bacula-storage-common.x86_64 : Common Bacula storage daemon files bacula-storage-mysql.x86_64 : MySQL Bacula storage daemon files bacula-storage-postgresql.x86_64 : Common Bacula storage daemon files bacula-storage-sqlite.x86_64 : SQLite Bacula storage daemon files Thomas On Tuesday 09 March 2010 18:37:08 Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > Is there a yum-way (or RPM) to install bacula-director and > bacula-storage on a system when the database (Pg) is on another system? > > Yum keeps wanting to install postgresql-server as a dependency. > > > > \\||/ > Rod > -- == Thomas McMillan Grant Bennett Appalachian State University Operations & Systems AnalystP O Box 32026 University LibraryBoone, North Carolina 28608 (828) 262 6587 Library Systems Help Desk: https://www.library.appstate.edu/help/ == -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] CentOS yum install with PostgreSQL database on another system
> On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:37:56 -0500, Phil Stracchino said: > > On 03/09/10 19:10, Jari Fredriksson wrote: > > On 10.3.2010 1:37, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: > >> Is there a yum-way (or RPM) to install bacula-director and > >> bacula-storage on a system when the database (Pg) is on another system? > >> > >> Yum keeps wanting to install postgresql-server as a dependency. > >> > > > > This is apparently a question on CentOS developers. Bacula project has > > no powers into the matter. > > > > Easy solution: install the postgresql but disable it. Takes some disk > > but otherwise harmless. > > > > Pretty dumb dependency though. > > Actually, no, it's not. Both of those packages have dependencies upon, > or include tools that have dependencies upon, the applicable database > package. In the normal case, you hopefully won't need them, but if (for > instance) you ever need to regenerate a catalog from volumes with bscan, > well bscan needs to be able to talk to the DB. Which server things does it need? It should be just the client libs and tools like psql (assuming they are packaged separately from the server). __Martin -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Re-use pool for every backup
Hello all: Due to space limitations on our virtual tape library I would like to re-use the same pool for weekly full backups. This particular job does not have any incremental backups configured. The full backup is about 1.2 terabytes in size and it spans two 800GB volumes in the pool. I'd like to make one full backup each week, over-writing the previous week's backup each time. During the time between each Bacula job I plan to duplicate the virtual tapes onto physical ones and take them off-site. Does this Pool configuration look right to you? If my volumes are properly labeled will it be able to run on it's own each week, recycling the same two virtual tapes each time? Pool { Name = BackupPC_pool Pool Type = Backup Volume Retention = 6 days Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes UseVolumeOnce = yes } Thanks, Sean -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] forcibly promote jobs' backup level?
Hi, after replacing the backup storage disk, I would like to force all subsequent backups to start with a full backup run, so the disk becomes "self-contained", sort of. The only way to do it that I found so far, was to create a new job using 'run ' and then modifying parameters. This didn't affect the jobs listing for the scheduled jobs in any way, but did create a list of new jobs that seem to run completely independently from all other backups. I would like to modify the existing jobs to all create one full backup first, and preferably staggered to have only one of them per day. This is Bacula 2.4.4 on Debian/Lenny, if that should matter. Kind regards, --Toni++ -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Windows client priority?
Hello, I have a user complaining that when the bacula client is backing stuff up on his Windows XP computer, the computer becomes 'unusable' for simple web surfing. He wonders whether there is a way of setting some kind of low priority on the bacula file daemon so that the Windows computer can be used whilst the backup is happening. Something like the linux 'nice' command, perhaps? -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] CentOS yum install with PostgreSQL database on another system
From: Roderick A. Anderson > Is there a yum-way (or RPM) to install bacula-director and > bacula-storage on a system when the database (Pg) is on another system? > Yum keeps wanting to install postgresql-server as a dependency. Otherwise, install with rpm --nodeps... JD -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users