[Bacula-users] From NAS to NAS .... and far beyond!
Hy folks, I explain my context. I have a web agency as customer that store its production on a NAS. They are working from their IMac and sharing files on the NAS. They want to be more secure and make some increments backups. Of course they need some GUI because they are not as geeks as me ;-) I know that there also will be other needs behind this single one, that's why I think bacula could be a great solution. Yet, some questions are not totally clear from now. I have a question regarding to backing up files _from a NAS_ with Bacula and storing backups to _another NAS_. I read many documentations and I understand that backupfiles could be store to a NAS instead of a Tape. Is this point correct? On another part, I would like to save the files tahta are on a production NAS. As bacula need client (If I understand well) does that meens that I need to find a client for my specific device? Thansk for reading my poor french level of english, regards -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] From NAS to NAS .... and far beyond!
Hy, Thanks for your answer, I was expecting this kind of answer. It confirms what I was thinking. rsync will be a good solution. I still have a question probably due to my misunderstanding. You wrote /You will need a bacula daemon on a NAS otherwise _(unworkable)_./ I don't know what I must understand : - It is totally impossible to run bacula daemon on a NAS - There is no bacula dameon for NAS and I will have to compile it (I found some ressources for compiling bacula on NAS) - You could do everything you were thinking of but it's far far away from a good practice. Which interpretation of you're sentence should be the right one? Anywa, a great thanks for your fast answer. regards On 27/06/2013 12:27, Philip Gaw wrote: Hi, Dont use bacula and use rsync instead. most (all?) NAS devices will allow you to rsync from device to device. You will need a bacula daemon on a NAS otherwise (unworkable). On 27/06/2013 11:00, Florent THOMAS wrote: Hy folks, I explain my context. I have a web agency as customer that store its production on a NAS. They are working from their IMac and sharing files on the NAS. They want to be more secure and make some increments backups. Of course they need some GUI because they are not as geeks as me ;-) I know that there also will be other needs behind this single one, that's why I think bacula could be a great solution. Yet, some questions are not totally clear from now. I have a question regarding to backing up files _from a NAS_ with Bacula and storing backups to _another NAS_. I read many documentations and I understand that backupfiles could be store to a NAS instead of a Tape. Is this point correct? On another part, I would like to save the files tahta are on a production NAS. As bacula need client (If I understand well) does that meens that I need to find a client for my specific device? Thansk for reading my poor french level of english, regards -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] From NAS to NAS .... and far beyond!
Ok Philip, If I'm used to compile and all the development stuff, would it be a great solution to use bacula regarding to you? It could still to be a good practice? I mean, for just a NAS to another one, rsync would be enough but I know that my customer will ask for more and more and I won't be able to match all his needs with rsync. Regards On 27/06/2013 13:00, Philip Gaw wrote: On 27/06/2013 11:52, Florent THOMAS wrote: Hy, Thanks for your answer, I was expecting this kind of answer. It confirms what I was thinking. rsync will be a good solution. I still have a question probably due to my misunderstanding. You wrote /You will need a bacula daemon on a NAS otherwise _(unworkable)_./ I don't know what I must understand : - It is totally impossible to run bacula daemon on a NAS - There is no bacula dameon for NAS and I will have to compile it (I found some ressources for compiling bacula on NAS) - You could do everything you were thinking of but it's far far away from a good practice. Which interpretation of you're sentence should be the right one? #2 (There is no bacula daemon on the NAS; so you will need to compile it - which wont be easy) Anywa, a great thanks for your fast answer. regards On 27/06/2013 12:27, Philip Gaw wrote: Hi, Dont use bacula and use rsync instead. most (all?) NAS devices will allow you to rsync from device to device. You will need a bacula daemon on a NAS otherwise (unworkable). On 27/06/2013 11:00, Florent THOMAS wrote: Hy folks, I explain my context. I have a web agency as customer that store its production on a NAS. They are working from their IMac and sharing files on the NAS. They want to be more secure and make some increments backups. Of course they need some GUI because they are not as geeks as me ;-) I know that there also will be other needs behind this single one, that's why I think bacula could be a great solution. Yet, some questions are not totally clear from now. I have a question regarding to backing up files _from a NAS_ with Bacula and storing backups to _another NAS_. I read many documentations and I understand that backupfiles could be store to a NAS instead of a Tape. Is this point correct? On another part, I would like to save the files tahta are on a production NAS. As bacula need client (If I understand well) does that meens that I need to find a client for my specific device? Thansk for reading my poor french level of english, regards -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] From NAS to NAS .... and far beyond!
Hi! If the NAS are Synology (Most I've used works like a charm) you can use the Backup option that uses rsync inside... But you can compile Bacula into some Synology Devices too... (Google is your friend!) I have a small setup like this working: HP Proliant MicroServer (AMD 1,3Ghz/4GB/2x250SoftwareRAID) (Bacula-DIR, Bacula-SD) + Ethernet Gigabit PciE4x Low Profile (Cheapest config!) Synology NAS DS212J with iSCSI exported to the HP Proliant server (/backup) All the computers in the network has a Bacula FD installed and saves their backups jobs to the HP Proliant MicroServer thats saves this data to the Synology via iSCSI through the second ethernet interface. The HP MicroServer it's not a powerfull server but it's so quiet and cheapest than any other setup, and you can expand it to 4 drives and up to 8GB RAM. Maybe the best option could be do the job with the tools that offers your NAS ... I don't know ;) Best Regards! Javier. 2013/6/27 Florent THOMAS mailingl...@tdeo.fr Hy, Thanks for your answer, I was expecting this kind of answer. It confirms what I was thinking. rsync will be a good solution. I still have a question probably due to my misunderstanding. You wrote *You will need a bacula daemon on a NAS otherwise (unworkable).* I don't know what I must understand : - It is totally impossible to run bacula daemon on a NAS - There is no bacula dameon for NAS and I will have to compile it (I found some ressources for compiling bacula on NAS) - You could do everything you were thinking of but it's far far away from a good practice. Which interpretation of you're sentence should be the right one? Anywa, a great thanks for your fast answer. regards On 27/06/2013 12:27, Philip Gaw wrote: Hi, Dont use bacula and use rsync instead. most (all?) NAS devices will allow you to rsync from device to device. You will need a bacula daemon on a NAS otherwise (unworkable). On 27/06/2013 11:00, Florent THOMAS wrote: Hy folks, I explain my context. I have a web agency as customer that store its production on a NAS. They are working from their IMac and sharing files on the NAS. They want to be more secure and make some increments backups. Of course they need some GUI because they are not as geeks as me ;-) I know that there also will be other needs behind this single one, that's why I think bacula could be a great solution. Yet, some questions are not totally clear from now. I have a question regarding to backing up files *from a NAS* with Bacula and storing backups to *another NAS*. I read many documentations and I understand that backup files could be store to a NAS instead of a Tape. Is this point correct? On another part, I would like to save the files tahta are on a production NAS. As bacula need client (If I understand well) does that meens that I need to find a client for my specific device? Thansk for reading my poor french level of english, regards -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing listBacula-users@lists.sourceforge.nethttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- _ Francisco Javier Funes Nieto [esen...@gmail.com] CANONIGOS Servicios Informáticos para PYMES. Cl. Cruz 2, 1º Oficina 7 Tlf: 958.536759 / 661134556 Fax: 958.521354 GRANADA - 18002 -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] command to check if bacula is running?
Is there a simple command line way to determine if bacula is not currently running any jobs? I want to write a script to perform some other backups of the bacula database, but want to make sure it's not currently running. I was thinking something like: # echo status director |bconsole (and maybe 'grep' for something which would/wouldn't be there when the bacups are running. Any ideas would be great. Thanks! If life gives you lemons, keep them-- because hey.. free lemons. ~heart~ Sticker fixer: http://microflush.org/stuff/stickers/heartFix.html -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] command to check if bacula is running?
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 08:45:48 -0700 (PDT) Joseph Spenner joseph85...@yahoo.com wrote: Is there a simple command line way to determine if bacula is not currently running any jobs? I want to write a script to perform some other backups of the bacula database, but want to make sure it's not currently running. I was thinking something like: # echo status director |bconsole (and maybe 'grep' for something which would/wouldn't be there when the bacups are running. Any ideas would be great. Why not inverse the logic and make Bacula run your backup script as an admin job? You could then schedule it to run when no other jobs are run. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] too many tapes used for a backup
We just finished a large backup (6.63TB) to a mix of LTO3 and LTO4 tapes. The odd thing is that the job spanned 49(!) tapes: 46 LTO3 3 LTO4 Of those 49(!) tapes, running query 14 (List Jobs stored for a given Volume name) for each tape in the job, I find: 2 LTO4 tapes are shown as containing only the large (6.63TB) job 42 LTO3 tapes are shown as containing only the large (6.63TB) job 1 LTO4 tape contains data from 2 jobs (part of the 6.63TB job and 7.78GB of data from another backup) 1 LTO3 tape contains data from 2 jobs (part of the 6.63TB job and 11.85GB from another job)) 1 LTO3 tape contains data from 3 jobs (part of the 6.63TB job and 382GB from another job and 11.93GB from another job) 1 LTO3 tape contains data from 2 jobs (part of the 6.63TB job and 19.93GB from another job)) I'm not using software compression. Hardware compression is enabled in the tape library. The SD is configured with a Maximum File Size of 5GB. I don't understand why so many tapes were used for this job. Even with random, uncompressible data, that media should be able to store over 18TB. Is it possible that tape shoe-shining is wasting that much media capacity? Can anyone suggest any ways to look into this further? Thanks, Mark -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Is there any interest in a new Bacula reporting system?
Bacula Users, I have developed a new reporting application for Bacula that we are using in house and would like to open source release it later this year. Since there already are web reporting/configuration applications (we also use Webmin and Webacula), I would like to know if there is any interest in it. It is different than the others because it: 1. Reports on multiple directors 2. Can download reports in CSV format 3. Can email reports either on demand or scheduled 4. Has predefined standard reports. Some of them are: a. Client count per director and OS b. Clients without full backups in a time window c. Success rate per director and average d. Drive Status e. Longest or slowest running backups f.Tapes needed for restore g. Tape usage per autochanger and how many are scratch h. The obvious like backups/restores running, completed, etc. 5. Has ability to create and save custom reports. They can be run by other users and scheduled to email as well. 6. Can change the scope of any report. Scope is time frame, director, a group that you pre-define, and client(s). It is designed for a large environment. Let me know if this is something the community would be interested in and if you have any more suggestions. If this is the wrong forum for such a question, I apologize. Thank you, Ken Stauch -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] backup of Windows 7 machine failing
On 26/06/13 03:52 AM, Alexander Pyhalov wrote:
On 06/26/2013 07:34, Gary Dale wrote:
INSERT INTO RestoreObject
(ObjectName,PluginName,RestoreObject,ObjectLength,ObjectFullLength,ObjectIndex,ObjectType,ObjectCompression,FileIndex,JobId)
VALUES
('job_metadata.xml','job','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',462,462,1372216087,25,0,3250,1492)
It is not a client issue. Upgrade DB script at least on Debian is
incorrect: it creates table
RestoreObject (
RestoreObjectId INTEGER,
ObjectName TEXT DEFAULT '',
RestoreObject TEXT DEFAULT '',
PluginName TEXT DEFAULT '',
ObjectLength INTEGER DEFAULT 0,
ObjectFullLength INTEGER DEFAULT 0,
ObjectIndex INTEGER DEFAULT 0,
ObjectType INTEGER DEFAULT 0,
FileIndex INTEGER UNSIGNED DEFAULT 0,
!! ObejctCompression INTEGER DEFAULT 0,
JobId INTEGER UNSIGNED REFERENCES Job NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY(RestoreObjectId)
);
Look at it: ObejctCompression, not ObjectCompression!
Thanks Alexander. Since sqlite3 doesn't allow me to rename or drop
columns, I just added one with the correct name and the backup is
working again!
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