Re: [Bacula-users] File-based tag to skip a directory
Mike, In researching this problem myself I discovered this option to tar: *--exclude-caches* Exclude contents of directories containing file*CACHEDIR.TAG*, except for the tag file itself. Details about the cache tagging standard can be found here: http://www.brynosaurus.com/cachedir/spec.html I think that this would be a good feature enhancement to Bacula but in the interim I devised a workaround by using tar to archive the files and directories, using cachedir.tag's & then using Bacula to back up the tar archive. HTH. Cheers, CMR On 02/13/2018 09:00 AM, Heitor Faria wrote: Hello, Mike, With some other backup systems, a filename "tag" can be placed in the directory to initiate a "skip". For example, with BORG backup - placing the file ".nobackup" in a directory, and configuring BORG backup with the switch... --exclude-if-present ./nobackup /...will tell Borg (on the fly) to skip that directory. Does Bacula have this feature? I don't see anything in the resource sections of the manual. Please study the WildFile/Regex and Exclude directives from the FileSet Options sub-resource http://www.bacula.org/5.2.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html. -- *Michael Rightmire* B.Sci. Molecular Biotechnology MCSE, MCP+I, HPUXCA, CompTIA, VDE, SIAM, ISCB *Biocom Software and Biotechnology* 49-721-1320-2562 (DE) 1-408-890-2121 (US) BiocomSoftware.De BiocomSoftware.com Regards, -- === Heitor Medrado de Faria | EB-1 Visa | LPIC-III | ITIL-F | EMC 05-001| Bacula Systems Certified Administrator II • Enterprise Bacula does not charge per backup size and has plugins for many applications. In the USA http://bacula.us/enterprise • Check my Bacula Book at Amazon.com http://bacula.us/book • Do you need Bacula training? http://bacula.us/video-classes/ • USA +1 (323) 300-5387 | Brazil +55 (61) 98268-4220 | http://bacula.us === -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- C M Reinehr AMS Enterprises, LLC. 323 Bibb St (36104) PO Box 20 Montgomery AL 36101-0020 334-269-4358 (Voice) 334-262-1706 (Fax) Linux distribution Debian v8.5, "Jessie" -- "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery." -- Winston Churchill -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] TAPE backups
1. I am NOT using a tape-based system, half-inch or otherwise. Nightly backups are written to hard disk drives and then copied to a cloud drive. 2. Likewise, I am NOT using a robot or changer. On 10/21/2017 09:32 AM, Alan Brown wrote: Straw poll time for people using tape-based systems I'd like to know who is currently using what (not historical usage) 1: Who on this list is NOT using half inch tape (12.7mm) formats(*) - if so, what are you using? 2: Who on this list is NOT using a robot or changer device? 3: For the half inch tape formats, what are you using? 4: For the robot users: What are you using? (number of drives / number of slots) -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- C M Reinehr AMS Enterprises, LLC. 323 Bibb St (36104) PO Box 20 Montgomery AL 36101-0020 334-269-4358 (Voice) 334-262-1706 (Fax) Linux distribution Debian v8.5, "Jessie" -- "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Recommended OS for VM?
DistroWatch.com has the most comprehensive list of Linux distro's that I'm aware of. And, according to their home page, Mint is the most popular of the distros & the most beginner friendly. I've never personally used Mint but from what I understand it is pretty user friendly. The second most popular distribution is Debian, which is what I use, but definitely is less user friendly than Mint. MySQL would be a good choice for your database. Hope this helps! cmr On 05/16/2017 03:16 PM, Davin Church wrote: > My current home Bacula system is so terribly ancient that I've just > got to get rid of it, but no pre-compiled updates are available for > Windows. So it looks like my best bet to is to create a VirtualBox > VM (on my Win8.1 host) and load some flavor of *nix on it and install > the appropriate binaries and run the system from there. > > However, since I'm barely conversant with *nix OSes in general (and > none specifically), I'd like a recommendation on which (free) OS to > use. I'd like it to be easy to acquire and set up both the OS and > the latest community Bacula binaries so it doesn't strain my limited > technical skills. It would also be best if that OS wasn't prone to > having compatibility issues that I see mentioned from time to > time. I'll be backing up to disk rather than tape, so that should > simplify things a bit. I presume that MySQL would still be a good DB > choice to use in whichever OS I end up with? > > So has anyone got a recommendation (and perhaps some download links) for me? > > Davin > > > -- > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > ___ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > -- C M Reinehr AMS Enterprises, LLC. Linux distribution Debian v8.5, "Jessie" -- No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. -- Thomas Jefferson -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Moving volumes from one SD to another
Dan, Wouldn't this be a Copy Job? CMR On 12/08/2016 02:21 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > It is a completely new SD. There is no IP address to change because > it's a new IP address. > -- > Dan Langille - BSDCan / PGCon > d...@langille.org <mailto:d...@langille.org> > > > > >> On Dec 8, 2016, at 3:19 PM, Wanderlei Huttel >> <wanderleihut...@gmail.com <mailto:wanderleihut...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Hello Dan >> >> Probably because if you add a new Storage, you will need to changer >> the IP address of this Storage in bacula-dir.conf. >> >> Best Regards >> >> *Wanderlei Hüttel* >> http://www.huttel.com.br <http://www.huttel.com.br/> >> >> 2016-12-08 18:00 GMT-02:00 Dan Langille <d...@langille.org >> <mailto:d...@langille.org>>: >> >> OK, but how will Bacula know that the files/Volumes are now on a >> new SD? The db is still pointing to the old SD. >> >> -- >> Dan Langille - BSDCan / PGCon >> d...@langille.org <mailto:d...@langille.org> >> >> >>> On Dec 8, 2016, at 10:50 AM, Kern Sibbald <k...@sibbald.com >>> <mailto:k...@sibbald.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Hello Dan, >>> >>> From what users have reported, one must update the storageid, and >>> it is clear to me that if you use the same name for the Storage >>> in the Director's resource but it points to a different machine, >>> you must update the storageid. However, if you use a new name >>> for the new storage daemon, in theory one should not need to >>> update the storageid. If it is required then in my view there is >>> a problem, because Bacula *should* be relatively transparent to >>> allowing you to move volumes from one Storage definition to another. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Kern >>> >>> On 12/08/2016 03:47 PM, Dan Langille wrote: >>>> I added another bacula-sd to my configuration. It has more >>>> storage than the existing SD. Both SD use file-based storage. >>>> >>>> All new backups are going to the new SD. >>>> >>>> I want to copy all the old Volumes to the new SD and have them >>>> available there. >>>> >>>> I suspect all I need to do is copy the Volumes over, then run >>>> an SQL command to adjust the storageid for all volumes which >>>> refer to old SD. >>>> >>>> I think some of you have already done this. I know I >>>> have: >>>> https://dan.langille.org/2013/08/06/moving-bacula-volumes-from-one-storage-to-another/ >>>> >>>> <https://dan.langille.org/2013/08/06/moving-bacula-volumes-from-one-storage-to-another/> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Dan Langille - BSDCan / PGCon >>>> d...@langille.org <mailto:d...@langille.org> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors >>>> Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. >>>> With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. >>>> Training and support from Colfax. >>>> Order your platform today.http://sdm.link/xeonphi >>>> >>>> >>>> ___ >>>> Bacula-users mailing list >>>> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>>> <mailto:Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >>>> <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors >> Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. >> With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. >> Training and support from Colfax. >> Order your platform today.http://sdm.link/xeonphi >> ___ >> Bacula-users mailing list >> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> <mailto:Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/li
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula in the cloud
On 10/17/2016 09:37 PM, Jason Voorhees wrote: > Hello guys: > > Based on your experience, what alternative do we have for backing up > information to the cloud preferably using Bacula? > > I've been reading some posts about similar topics. Bandwidth always > seem to be a problem because it isn't to big (Gigs per second) or > there's to much information (several terabytes) and Bacula can't run > jobs for so long without modifying source code and recompiling. > > I've been thinking something alternatives like these: > > 1. Backup to local disk and configure Copy jobs to make a copy to > Amazon S3. Local backups can run always fast but Copy jobs might be > delayed ... without issues? > > 2. Configure Amazon Storage Gateway as VTL so Bacula can backup > directly to Amazon using virtual tape devices through iSCSI. What do > you think about this? > > 3. For a single fileserver to be backed up (let's say a Samba server), > I could create a replica in the cloud (i.e. Amazon EC2) which can be > constantly synchronized (via rsync) and run Bacula locally in such EC2 > instance. > > What other ideas have you thought? Maybe a combination of other open > source tools that can be combined with Bacula? or maybe a different > open source solution that replaces Bacula to save backups in the > cloud? > > I'd appreciate some ideas, pros and/or cons to be discussed. > > Thanks in advance for your time bats! > > -- > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > ___ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > My configuration, here, is to do daily backups at night to a disk array. The backup files then are mirrored to an on-line cloud storage service called SpiderOak. I keep several days worth of backups on the disk array & then rely on the SpiderOak files for long term storage. In this way, I completely have eliminated tape backups. CMR -- Linux distribution Debian v8.5, "Jessie" -- "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty teeth." -- George Washington -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [SOLVED] How To Change User or Group of Running Bacula-SD
Never mind! Sorry for the wasted bandwidth. I just figured it out.
After the line where I added my ARGS= statement is the section:
> if [ -r /etc/default/$NAME ]; then
>
> . /etc/default/$NAME
>
> fi
which, in my hurry, I overlooked. The file /etc/default/bacula-sd includes the
default parameter assignments for user & group. Since this followed my
assignment, my assignment was being overridden.
Cheers!
On Thursday, July 07, 2016 11:12:01 AM C M Reinehr wrote:
> Heitor,
>
> Thanks! That was my understanding. The file, /etc/init.d/bacula-sd, includes
> the shell function:
> > do_start()
> > {
> >
> > start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \
> > --oknodo --exec $DAEMON -- -c $CONFIG $ARGS
> >
> > }
>
> So, along with the other parameter assignment statements I added:
> > ARGS="-u root -g bacula"
>
> thinking that this would do it after a restart. But, it didn't. after the
> restart bacula-sd still was running as bacula/tape. Either those are not the
> correct options or they are being overridden somehow -- or I just don't
> understand shell programming. :-)
>
> Cheers!
>
> On Thursday, July 07, 2016 12:55:44 PM Heitor Faria wrote:
> > Hello, Mr. Reinehr,
> >
> > You can change those editing daemon script: /etc/init.d/bacula-sd
> >
> > Regards,
>
>
===
>
> > Heitor Medrado de Faria - LPIC-III | ITIL-F | Bacula Systems Certified
> > Administrator II
> >
> > 61 8268-4220
> >
> > www.bacula.com.br
>
>
>
> > Enviado por TypeApp
> >
> > Em 7 de jul de 2016 12:52 PM, em 12:52 PM, C M Reinehr <c...@amsent.com>
>
> escreveu:
> > >This question is directed to those familiar with the packaging of
> > >Bacula for
> > >Debian Linux systems. I am completing the installation of Bacula
> > >(v5.2.6) for
> > >a Debian "Stable" ("Jessie", v8.5) system and have a question about the
> > >user &
> > >group identity of the bacula-sd daemon.
> > >
> > >>From running the command `ps -ef` I determined that the default
> > >
> > >identity is
> > >user: bacula & group: tape. Since I'm doing backups only to disk, for
> > >convenience I want to change the group to bacula, but I haven't been
> > >able to
> > >figure out how.
> > >
> > >Unless I've overlooked something the documentation states only that you
> > >CAN
> > >change the user & group of the running daemons but doesn't explain how.
> > >By
> > >examining the manual pages for the daemons I saw the options "-u
> > >" & "-g
> > >" that could be added to the bacula-sd command so I attempted to
> > >add a
> > >"$ARGS" argument to the bacula-sd SysV init file. It didn't work. I'm
> > >pretty
> > >sure that I did this correctly but bacula-sd always runs as
> > >bacula/tape. (FYI,
> > >this worked in previous versions of Bacula that I have used.)
> > >
> > >What have I missed & where can this be changed?
> > >
> > >Thanks!
> > >
> > >--
> > >C M Reinehr
> > >AMS Enterprises, LLC.
> > >323 Bibb St (36104)
> > >PO Box 20
> > >Montgomery AL 36101-0020
> > >334-269-4358 (Voice)
> > >334-262-1706 (Fax)
> > >
> > >Linux distribution Debian 8 "Jessie"
> > >--
> > >"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he
> > >made
> > >school boards." -- Mark Twain
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >-
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Re: [Bacula-users] How To Change User or Group of Running Bacula-SD
Heitor,
Thanks! That was my understanding. The file, /etc/init.d/bacula-sd, includes
the shell function:
> do_start()
> {
>
> start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE \
> --oknodo --exec $DAEMON -- -c $CONFIG $ARGS
>
> }
So, along with the other parameter assignment statements I added:
> ARGS="-u root -g bacula"
thinking that this would do it after a restart. But, it didn't. after the
restart bacula-sd still was running as bacula/tape. Either those are not the
correct options or they are being overridden somehow -- or I just don't
understand shell programming. :-)
Cheers!
On Thursday, July 07, 2016 12:55:44 PM Heitor Faria wrote:
> Hello, Mr. Reinehr,
>
> You can change those editing daemon script: /etc/init.d/bacula-sd
>
> Regards,
>
===
> Heitor Medrado de Faria - LPIC-III | ITIL-F | Bacula Systems Certified
> Administrator II
>
> 61 8268-4220
>
> www.bacula.com.br
>
>
====
>
> Enviado por TypeApp
>
> Em 7 de jul de 2016 12:52 PM, em 12:52 PM, C M Reinehr <c...@amsent.com>
escreveu:
> >This question is directed to those familiar with the packaging of
> >Bacula for
> >Debian Linux systems. I am completing the installation of Bacula
> >(v5.2.6) for
> >a Debian "Stable" ("Jessie", v8.5) system and have a question about the
> >user &
> >group identity of the bacula-sd daemon.
> >
> >>From running the command `ps -ef` I determined that the default
> >
> >identity is
> >user: bacula & group: tape. Since I'm doing backups only to disk, for
> >convenience I want to change the group to bacula, but I haven't been
> >able to
> >figure out how.
> >
> >Unless I've overlooked something the documentation states only that you
> >CAN
> >change the user & group of the running daemons but doesn't explain how.
> >By
> >examining the manual pages for the daemons I saw the options "-u
> >" & "-g
> >" that could be added to the bacula-sd command so I attempted to
> >add a
> >"$ARGS" argument to the bacula-sd SysV init file. It didn't work. I'm
> >pretty
> >sure that I did this correctly but bacula-sd always runs as
> >bacula/tape. (FYI,
> >this worked in previous versions of Bacula that I have used.)
> >
> >What have I missed & where can this be changed?
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >--
> >C M Reinehr
> >AMS Enterprises, LLC.
> >323 Bibb St (36104)
> >PO Box 20
> >Montgomery AL 36101-0020
> >334-269-4358 (Voice)
> >334-262-1706 (Fax)
> >
> >Linux distribution Debian 8 "Jessie"
> >--
> >"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he
> >made
> >school boards." -- Mark Twain
> >
> >
> >
> >---
> >--- Attend Shape: An AT Tech Expo July 15-16. Meet us at AT Park in San
> >Francisco, CA to explore cutting-edge tech and listen to tech
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[Bacula-users] How To Change User or Group of Running Bacula-SD
This question is directed to those familiar with the packaging of Bacula for
Debian Linux systems. I am completing the installation of Bacula (v5.2.6) for
a Debian "Stable" ("Jessie", v8.5) system and have a question about the user &
group identity of the bacula-sd daemon.
>From running the command `ps -ef` I determined that the default identity is
user: bacula & group: tape. Since I'm doing backups only to disk, for
convenience I want to change the group to bacula, but I haven't been able to
figure out how.
Unless I've overlooked something the documentation states only that you CAN
change the user & group of the running daemons but doesn't explain how. By
examining the manual pages for the daemons I saw the options "-u " & "-g
" that could be added to the bacula-sd command so I attempted to add a
"$ARGS" argument to the bacula-sd SysV init file. It didn't work. I'm pretty
sure that I did this correctly but bacula-sd always runs as bacula/tape. (FYI,
this worked in previous versions of Bacula that I have used.)
What have I missed & where can this be changed?
Thanks!
--
C M Reinehr
AMS Enterprises, LLC.
323 Bibb St (36104)
PO Box 20
Montgomery AL 36101-0020
334-269-4358 (Voice)
334-262-1706 (Fax)
Linux distribution Debian 8 "Jessie"
--
"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made
school boards." -- Mark Twain
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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula first experience worst than HELL !!
Did one of those "10 different web sites" include: http://blog.bacula.org/documentation/documentation/ On Tuesday, May 17, 2016 06:51:50 AM phil123456 wrote: > hello, > > I spent half a day installing bacula on a debian 2.4 box > > it was painfull, and I had to gather informations on like 10 different web > sites I dont even know if it works cos now I am stuck with the web client > bacula-web > > (http://www.bacula-web.org/files/bacula-web.org/downloads/bacula-web-latest. > tgz) > > but now I get a blank page > > PHP Fatal error: DrawGraph(): No data array in > /var/www/html/bacula/core/vendor/phplot-6.1.0/phplot.php on line 1957 > > this issue is an old one that has been solved many times but apparently not > > I cant even tell what version was installed nor what version of bacula are > installed > > I dont understand ho such a package wich seems to be used by so many people > is so hard to install > > please help ? > > thanks > > +-- > > |This was sent by philippe.flor...@edenred.com via Backup Central. > |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. > > +-- > > > > > -- Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who > bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM > restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the > apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data > untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j > ___ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Linux distribution Debian 8 "Jessie" "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -- Thomas Edison -- -- Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] SQLite
On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 08:58:40 AM Matt Ivie wrote: -Original Message- From: Matt Ivie matt.i...@bonntran.com To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] SQLite Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 09:17:11 -0600 Mailer: Evolution 3.2.3-0ubuntu6+6.0trisquel1 I saw a note in the Bacula documentation stating that some users were reporting database corruption problems when using SQLite. I also saw a thread on the mailing list from a couple of years ago where one user wanted to know if he would be better off using Postgresql One user stated he had great luck using SQLite and another simply said he recommended Postgres. I don't want to run a full blown database if I don't need to as my backup needs are not really complicated. I would like to use SQLite but if stability is a problem I'll have to rethink the situation and go with MySQL or Postgres. Does anyone here have experience with using SQLite? ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users Is there anyone with any experience on this issue? For a little more background I'm going to be doing backups on machines with anywhere from 30GB to 230GB of storage used. I'm guessing that the more files that get put into the tables the more possibility for corruption? Any input on the topic is appreciated. Matt, I've been using SQLite for as long as I have used Bacula, perhaps fourteen or fifteen years and have had zero problems. I have a small operation with ten or twelve PC's (running Debian stable) and a couple of servers. Disk backups are run nightly and a tape backup weekly. I've read all the recommendations to run Postgres or MySQL but my philosophy has been if it ain't broke, don't fix it! and just keep running SQLite. It's easy to set up manage, performance has not been a problem and it doesn't tie up a lot of system resources. Cheers! CMR -- Debian Wheezy Registered Linux User #241964 In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American. -- Theodore Roosevelt -- -- One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Postgres vs SQLite
On Wed 01 May 2013 10:40:51 am Tim Gustafson wrote: If you are backing up one machine with a small number of files then sqlite might be okay, but otherwise you'll probably find it will be a performance bottleneck for anything bigger. I recommend you go with postgresql (or mysql). I've used MySQL in the past, and Bacula is just apparently not optimized for it (or vice-versa, I'm not sure which). We run a fairly beefy MySQL server and we have hundreds of apps and web sites that all use that server and all of them work extremely well but when we used it for Bacula, the query that it used to build a list of files to restore took *ages* - in some cases more than 24 hours, and in some cases it never finished at all - for our data set. When we switched to Postgres, that query went down to a few minutes. Our backup load has changed significantly since then - we now use ZFS snapshots for our multi-terabyte, multi-million-inode file systems and use Bacula for our smaller VMs, none of which have more than a few tens of thousands of files each. So maybe it's time to revisit using MySQL. I just really hate maintaining a whole database server for one application, especially one as unwieldy as Postgres. Postgres requires a fair amount of memory, and has some compatibility issues with FreeBSD Jails (it requires you enable sysvipc for all jails, which is something of a security concern). It's also one more thing that I have to monitor. Tim, I run a small shop with a dozen systems (pc's servers) and have been using SQLite for years with no performance problems. Like you, I have no other use for an industrial strength database server running constantly. FWIW, my backups all run around 2:00am when no one is working, so even if it is a little slower, the processing is complete before anyone arrives for work. My restores, also, likely would be faster with a faster database, but those are so infrequent as not to be a concern. Sincerely, cmr -- Debian Squeeze Registered Linux User #241964 To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical. -- Thomas Jefferson -- -- Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with 2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Upgrade from Debian Lenny to Squeeze (2.4.4 to 5.0.2)
On Fri 05 August 2011 11:05:54 am Henry Jensen wrote: Hello, we are about to upgrade our servers from Debian Lenny to Squeeze which includes an upgrade from Bacula 2.4.4 to 5.0.2. We have one Bacula director running with PosgreSQL as database backend and two with sqlite3. Had anyone the same combination and did an upgrade? Are there any issues I must be aware of? Are the databases converted correctly? Can the Bacula 2.4.4 file daemon talk to the 5.0.2 director? - I know that the 5.0.2 file daemon can't talk to the 2.4.4 director which is why I use a forward-ported 2.4.4 file daemon on the already upgraded machines. A web search showed up only some bug reports regarding backported packages but nothing about the regular dist-upgrade Lenny-Squeeze. Regards, Henry Henry, I did almost the same as you a couple of months ago except that I only have one Bacula director, running sqlite3. All servers clients were running Lenny. The new director has no difficulty connecting/communicating with the older FD's -- about half my clients still are running Lenny. I accomplished the entire upgrade during a Saturday afternoon. I don't remember the specifics but I do seem to remember having a problem with rebuilding the catalog. As I remember, I had to rebuild it manually -- it didn't get upgraded correctly during the dist-upgrade -- so be sure to have good backups in case of any problems. I also seem to remember that I had to rebuild the catalog in two steps -- first from 2.4.4 to 3.x and then to 5.0.2. You will also have to edit your conf files to allow for some changes in the way things work after the upgrade. The only real problem here, that I can remember, had to do with support for IPv6. Even though I use entirely IPv4 addresses the director kept complaining about the format I was using. I finally got around it some way, but will have to look at the conf files again to refresh my memory. The only other problem that I've had I discussed in a post just a day or two ago: Debian Packaging Questions -- SQL Queries. So far, I haven't had any replies. I'm afraid I'm being very general here. Wish I could give you more specific information but since I only had one system to upgrade I didn't keep any notes. Hope this helps! cmr -- Debian 'Lenny' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos much more. Register early save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Debian Packaging Questions -- SQL Queries
Several months ago, as a part of upgrading my server from Lenny to Squeeze, I upgraded Bacula from v2.4 to v5.0. After making a few configuration changes all seemed to be operating within normal parameters. But, at some point I noticed that my query.sql file was empty. Before I copy over the sample-query.sql I would like to ask if this is normal or did I experiance a hicup in my upgrade? There is a big warning at the top of the sample-query.sql file that these queries may not work for all sql engines. My sql skills are rudimentary so I'd rather not spend hours debugging these scripts if there's an easier way to repair this. (I'm using SQLite3 and, before you say anything, I'll just say that it works for me. :-) A second question, which may be related to the above, is in regard to certain bconsole commands. For example, when I try to use the update volume command, eventually I'm offered the opportunity to enter either the MediaId or Volume name. If I enter a MediaId I receive the following error: 'sql_get.c:1062 Media record for Volume not found.' If I enter the full Volume name the command works as expected. This started happening after the upgrade, so, is this another hicup and, if so, could you point me to a solution? (Add an index? Populate the query.sql file?) Thanks in advance! cmr -- Debian 'Lenny' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos much more. Register early save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] SQLite - no longer supported
On Thu 24 February 2011 07:27:48 pm Dan Langille wrote: On 2/24/2011 10:08 AM, C M Reinehr wrote: On Wed 23 February 2011 10:30:11 pm Dan Langille wrote: A recent bug report (http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1688) which indicated that we are no longer supporting SQLite. I feel it's safe to stop regression testing against it. I'm sorry to hear that. I've been using SQLite for the entire time that I've been using Bacula -- ten years or so -- with absolutely no difficulty. Admitedly, my needs are limited -- three servers eight pc's -- but it's been simple to administer troubleshoot and reliable. What version of Bacula are you using now? What version of SQLite? I stick with Debian Stable and still am running Lenny. The Bacula version is 2.4.4 and the SQLite version is 3.5.9. In the near future I'll be upgrading to Squeeze and it looks as if that will be Bacula v5.0.2 SQLite v3.7.3. (So, in any case, I guess I'm good for another two years or so, until the next Debian Stable is released! ;-) cmr -- Debian 'Lenny' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- Free Software Download: Index, Search Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] SQLite - no longer supported
On Wed 23 February 2011 10:30:11 pm Dan Langille wrote: A recent bug report (http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1688) which indicated that we are no longer supporting SQLite. I feel it's safe to stop regression testing against it. I'm sorry to hear that. I've been using SQLite for the entire time that I've been using Bacula -- ten years or so -- with absolutely no difficulty. Admitedly, my needs are limited -- three servers eight pc's -- but it's been simple to administer troubleshoot and reliable. cmr -- Debian 'Lenny' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- Free Software Download: Index, Search Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Some beginner Bacula questions (2nd try)
Stuart, I don't have the experience with or knowledge of Bacula that many others on the list have but I think I can answer your questions: On Tue 09 March 2010 09:52:00 am Stuart McGraw wrote: I asked this last week but no responses... Anyone? I am new at Bacula and am trying to work out a ] reasonable scheme for backing up my home network. I had some questions I hope someone can answer... 1) Sometimes my Bacula server machine is down at the scheduled backup time. No problem, I just kick of the backup jobs manually the next morning. Is there some way to start all the jobs as though the time was last night? Right now I start each of the five client jobs, and the catalog job individually. (I was a little surprised there is not something like a JobSet resource for aggregating several jobs into one schedulable unit.) The short answer is no. Short of resetting the time on your server there is no way of making Bacula think it was last night. Also, there is no way of grouping jobs. The simplest solution just is to make sure that your Bacula server is up and running at the necessary times. One of the design features of Bacula is that, once configured, it requires very little user interaction -- just change the tapes. 2) I write each job to a separate (file) backup volume (to be written to DVD later). Is there any point to writing .bsr files? They are for locating a particular job within a volume that contains multiple jobs, yes? I've always been a little unclear about the benefits of the .bsr files myself but mine is a small business so I can't speak for those with much larger, enterprise systems. They're small and are no trouble to back up, so I keep them against the possibility that I might really need them one day. 3) Is there any supported way to change the labels of existing (file) volumes? I have changed the label format several times and don't want to wait until some of the old volumes expire after a year to get rid of the volumes with weird names. Again, the short answer is no. The only way to relable a volumn is to purge the contents. Any data in/on the volumn is lost. Thanks for any information/advice. Hope this helps. cmr --- --- Download Intel#174; 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 -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- Download Intel#174; 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] Some beginner Bacula questions (2nd try)
On Tue 09 March 2010 12:19:40 pm John Drescher wrote: I've always been a little unclear about the benefits of the .bsr files myself but mine is a small business so I can't speak for those with much larger, enterprise systems. They're small and are no trouble to back up, so I keep them against the possibility that I might really need them one day. They are most useful for restoring a corrupt catalog. John Thanks! I knew there had to be a good reason and that I just hadn't yet discovered it. :-) cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- Download Intel#174; 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] One Job, many clients... (I really need help with this!)
On Sat 27 February 2010 05:04:58 pm Gilberto Nunes wrote: anybody? No, you can not create one job to back up many clients. You must define one job for each client. These jobs may be run concurrently or sequentially. cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- Download Intel#174; 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] Auto restore job
On Tue 15 September 2009 03:13:37 am Proskurin Kirill wrote: Hello. I check documentation and found what: Restore jobs cannot be automatically started by the scheduler as is the case for Backup, Verify and Admin jobs. To restore files, you must use the restore command in the console. Oh... It is really no way to make this? I need to auto restore many backups every day. You could try running the console program from a shell script. cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- 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] Old stats appearing
On Wed 09 September 2009 01:24:55 pm John Drescher wrote: After manually deleting the bacula mysql db, if I perform a status storage=name in bconsole, I see old terminated jobs. Where is this coming from? This info is not in the database. I believe there is a text file that has this in /var/lib/bacula or /var/tmp/bacula however on my director I did not find it so I am not sure. John Would that be the bacula*.state files in /var/lib/bacula. I've not read it anywhere but it appears that these are written when the various daemons are shut down. cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Old stats appearing
On Wed 09 September 2009 04:00:06 pm John Drescher wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:30 PM, C M Reinehr c...@amsent.com wrote: On Wed 09 September 2009 01:24:55 pm John Drescher wrote: After manually deleting the bacula mysql db, if I perform a status storage=name in bconsole, I see old terminated jobs. Where is this coming from? This info is not in the database. I believe there is a text file that has this in /var/lib/bacula or /var/tmp/bacula however on my director I did not find it so I am not sure. John Would that be the bacula*.state files in /var/lib/bacula. I've not read it anywhere but it appears that these are written when the various daemons are shut down. Yes, it looks like the state files contain this information. http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/New_Features.html John I seem to recall someone saying you just could delete these files restart the daemons if they contain stale information. I know I've deleted them a time or two without causing any problems. cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Dr. Brown
On Tue 08 September 2009 03:56:07 pm C M Reinehr wrote: Carl, I just spoke to Betsy Brown confirmed Dr Brown's visit for 10:30am this coming Saturday, 12 September. I will be there to meet him. Mike Damn! I keep getting my multiple personalities mixed up! :-) Sorry for the noise! cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bacula Virtual backup
On Wed 29 April 2009 04:08:10 am Peder Pedersen wrote: Hi all, I am currently setting up bacula, I have a primary set of backups to disk (for fast recovery) which uses the disk SD in the pool def: Fullon the first Friday of the month filename (full-...) Diffon every other Friday of the month filename (Diff-...) Inc from Sunday to Thursday filename (Inc-...) But the project requirements are that I have a full tape backup every day and stored of site, to do this I used the virtual backup that uses the tape SD, it works fine the first time and it makes a tape, but on the second day it request that the data file /data/backup/archive/0..L4 mounted(which is the name of the previous Virtual backup tape and the location of the disk SD uses to store it's file ). Does anyone have a suggestion for me (I can provided extra info if needed)? Regards, Peder. Peder, I'm not knowledgeable on all of the new features as I still am using an older version, but one thought comes immediately to mind: have you set UseVolumeOnce = yes in your pool definition for the virtual tape volumes? HTH cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- Register Now Save for Velocity, the Web Performance Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Too many open reload requests. Request ignored.
On Tue 24 March 2009 11:07:18 am JanJaap Scholing wrote: Hi, After adding a new fd to bacula we are reloading the bacula config using the reload command. This command was working ok for 3 months. But today when I want to reload the config I get the following error message: 24-Mar 16:35 bacula-dir JobId 0: Error: Too many open reload requests. Request ignored. *reload You have messages. *message 24-Mar 16:35 bacula-dir JobId 0: Error: Too many open reload requests. Request ignored. I've tried to exit and start bconsole again but still the same error. Is there a solution to clear / flush the open reload requests? Regards Jan Jaap Jan, Have you tried restarting the director? HTH cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Debian/Ubuntu and openssl
On Tue 24 February 2009 04:11:17 am Daniele Palumbo wrote: Il giovedì 12 febbraio 2009 10:30:08 Foo ha scritto: I think a lot of people would appreciate this, can you add it to the Wiki? (http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=howtos) seems to be online: http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=howto_build_deb_binary_packages_and_crea te_a_package_repository_for_debian_or_ubuntu thanks. now we have just to wait next debian stable to see - maybe - openssl included... bye d. The new Debian stable, Lenny, was released on 14 February -- it probably will be another two years, more or less, before they release Squeeze! ;-) -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] products based on bacula
On Mon 19 January 2009 13:57, Mag Gam wrote: It comes in the night and sucks the essence from your computers. My manager would freak if she sees this... Can't help you with that! (You'll have to take that up with Kern Sibbald. ) It is, of course, open source, so I suppose you could repackage it and call it anything you like. :-) cmr On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:02 PM, C M Reinehr c...@amsent.com wrote: On Mon 19 January 2009 12:08, Mag Gam wrote: We are planning to implement bacula at one of our major manufacturing plants. Is there a professional version of this product or something similar to it with a different name. Our storage engineering team is in the process of writing proposals for various solutions but they are hesitant to use Bacula because of its name :-(. Any ideas if something like this exists? TIA Yes, it exists--but it still is called Bacula. ;-) http://www.baculasystems.com/eng/About-us/Recent-news/Bacula-Systems-laun ches Cheers! cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC - - This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --- --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Purging Verify Jobs
Troy, I can't find the thread now but I think I remember this question being asked a couple of months ago. As I recall, there was no 'canned' way to delete these jobs from the database (other than using bconsole to delete them one at a time) and the suggestion was to delete them with an SQL query, either manually or with an admin job. HTH! cmr On Mon 22 December 2008 02:04, Troy Daniels wrote: Hi, Bacula: 2.4.2, CentOS 5.2, MySQL 5.0.22 I noticed today whilst doing some routing bacula work that the Catalog had grown large (well large for my site anyways :) ) and the BaculaCatalog dump file is now over 3.6Gb. Out of curiosity I ran the following query from bconsole: 10: List total files/bytes by Job +--++---+--+ | Jobs | Files | Bytes | Job | +--++---+--+ | 59 |141 | 206,781,463,656 | BackupCatalog| | 582 | 1,022,941 |68,722,412,431 | Verify-BackupCatalog | | 507 | 8,896,399 | 310,277,718,356 | Verify-fs1 | | 526 | 9,450,665 | 165,052,894,094 | Verify-intranet1 | | 182 | 1,773,363 | 0 | Verify-repo | | 540 |387,787 |24,657,181,324 | Verify-warehouse | |8 | 89,367 | 4,188,830,613 | backup1 | | 57 |381,701 | 473,310,459,000 | backup2 | | 57 | 1,226,525 |94,625,363,872 | build| | 58 | 8,056,738 | 347,350,624,685 | cvs | | 60 | 11,653,878 | 2,913,691,631,062 | fs1 | | 57 |856,393 | 429,717,533,097 | imaprep | | 56 | 9,444,635 | 956,770,555,284 | intranet1| | 57 |602,916 | 173,175,405,062 | jira | | 57 |548,043 |71,925,053,651 | osmosis5 | | 57 |239,485 |51,417,661,937 | pabxav | | 57 | 1,876,326 | 104,668,113,092 | repo | |4 |114,665 | 221,538,929,525 | vmserver | | 57 |305,702 | 1,215,267,960,551 | warehouse| +--++---+--+ Something that immediately stood out was that even tho there was only about 2 months worth of backup jobs I had a lot of Verify jobs shown. My system is configured to run verify jobs on certain more important backups as a confirmation process. However it looks like these jobs aren't getting purged from the catalog like the backups are. Checking the jobs list I can see the verify jobs from early 2007 are still listed in the DB. I've poked around with the prune, and even purge (albeit carefully) commands in an attempt to work out how to clear the verify jobs, but the best I've found is how to remove file records from individual jobs. I even checked dbcheck and whilst it has options to cleanup admin and restore jobs it has nothing for verify jobs. All my retention periods are set on the Client, not the job and a glance thru the Bacula manual's config chapter showed to indication it was possible on a per-job basis. So what I'd like to know is: 1) Is there a config option somewhere I can turn on to make Bacula cleanup the verify jobs automagically? 2) Should verify jobs be auto-purged without special intervention? Should I therefore be logging a bug or a feature request for this case? 3) If the answer to the first of the above is No, what's the best way to manually clean these records out - Is it OK to do a delete from Jobs where type = 'V' and date 2 months ago? With a dbcheck run afterwards to cleanup the rest of the DB perhaps? Cheers, - Troy Daniels iTouch Australia, a Buongiorno company System Administrator Ph +618 6461 4102 troy.dani...@itouch.com.auFax +618 6461 4199 www.itouch.com.au --- --- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Prune, Purge or Update
Ken, On Wed 03 December 2008 21:33, Ken Barclay wrote: I have a serious problem looming. Next week I will run out of tapes, and new tapes won't arrive until next month. What I plan to do is to make a Full volume in each Pool useable again, but I'm not really sure what is the best method. Obviously, I'm going to lose the existing data from the Full volume, but that will better than doing no backups for a month. I need some advice as to whether I should: prune volume Pruning a volumn, whether automatic or manual, will delete/purge from the catalog job file records which are beyond their retention periods. If all job file records for the volume are deleted/purged from the catalog, then the status of the volume will be changed to Purged. purge volume, or Purge will delete/purge all job file records from the catalog irregardless of their retention periods. The volume status will be changed to Purged. update volume Volume Status Obviously, you could manually change the status of a volume to Purged without the volume having first been prunned or manually purged. I'm not sure what will happen but I'm afraid that your catalog would be left in an inconsistant state,i.e., job file records would still be in the catalog even though they no longer are physically on the volume. (I suspect that you would have to run dbcheck to repair the inconsistancy.) Any advice would be appreciated. If I understand your situation correctly, then manually purging a volume would be the best course of action. Ken Barclay HTH cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Restore tape data after eof
Heitor, The only thing that I can think to try is 'dd'. That might be able to read beyond an EOF mark to copy the tape image to disk. Once you have it to disk you might be able to use 'dd' or 'vi' to manipulate the data blocks in such a way as to construct a new file that bscan or bacula can read. HTH. cmr On Thu 13 November 2008 13:47, Heitor Medrado de Faria wrote: Guys, This is urgent. Is there anyway to restore data on tape after an eof? Regards, -- Heitor Medrado de Faria 71 2102-7989 / 9983-3833 / 3234-0116 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: heitolatra Esta mensagem do SERVIÇO FEDERAL DE PROCESSAMENTO DE DADOS (SERPRO), empresa pública federal regida pelo disposto na Lei Federal nº 5.615, é enviada exclusivamente a seu destinatário e pode conter informações confidenciais, protegidas por sigilo profissional. Sua utilização desautorizada é ilegal e sujeita o infrator às penas da lei. Se você a recebeu indevidamente, queira, por gentileza, reenviá-la ao emitente, esclarecendo o equívoco. This message from SERVIÇO FEDERAL DE PROCESSAMENTO DE DADOS (SERPRO) -- a government company established under Brazilian law (5.615/70) -- is directed exclusively to its addressee and may contain confidential data, protected under professional secrecy rules. Its unauthorized use is illegal and may subject the transgressor to the law's penalties. If you're not the addressee, please send it back, elucidating the failure. -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC - 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: Re: bacula : about thebacula.spec formrpms]
On Monday 03 March 2008 08:46, David Boyes wrote: Just to expand on this point a bit - as security enhancements such as SELinux become more commonplace, it's very realistic to expect that files that are not in directories indicated by security policy as holding executables simply can't be run as programs. If Bacula throws binary executables in places outside of FHS, it runs a risk of being shot down by those security policies. Well put. Regardless of how technically nice an alternative would be, it's automatically wrong if it's different from the standard. I don't much like FHS either -- it has some dumb decisions in it -- but we're stuck with it. I believe another ramification to consider is the package management system in use on the server. I've run into serious problems when in the past I've contravened the package management system and placed application files manually. If Bacula is going to be packaged, the I feel that there is no choice but to following set down by the package management system. To do otherwise would cause chaos. The alternative is to provide no packages at all and force everyone to install from source into /usr/local or /opt. As for restoring after a crash, with Debian it's simple. I do a net install of a minimally functioning system; install the Bacula Deb packages; and, then restore the database configuration files. (I think, by definition, a smart admin will have backed up the critical Bacula components.) Then, proceed to rebuild the system. HTH! cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] slightly annoying bug in the console
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 14:19, Dan Langille wrote: Come up with a test for determining what is being used and let the investigations begin. Will this suffice? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $ ldd `which bconsole` /usr/local/sbin/bconsole: libreadline.so.6 = /lib/libreadline.so.6 (0x280a2000) libhistory.so.6 = /usr/lib/libhistory.so.6 (0x280cf000) libncurses.so.6 = /lib/libncurses.so.6 (0x280d6000) libpthread.so.2 = /lib/libpthread.so.2 (0x28115000) libintl.so.8 = /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.8 (0x2813a000) libiconv.so.3 = /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.3 (0x28143000) libssl.so.4 = /usr/lib/libssl.so.4 (0x2823) libcrypto.so.4 = /lib/libcrypto.so.4 (0x2825e000) libstdc++.so.5 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x28351000) libm.so.4 = /lib/libm.so.4 (0x2841c000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x28432000) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~] $ x86_64 Linux Debian Etch Bacula 1.38.11 Installed from the Debian binary packages. ~$ ldd /usr/sbin/bacula-console libncurses.so.5 = /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x2b0369cbc000) libpthread.so.0 = /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x2b0369e17000) libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x2b0369f2d000) libssl.so.0.9.8 = /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 (0x2b036a03) libcrypto.so.0.9.8 = /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 (0x2b036a177000) libstdc++.so.6 = /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x2b036a3ec000) libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0x2b036a5ea000) libgcc_s.so.1 = /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x2b036a76c000) libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x2b036a87a000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x2b0369ba4000) libz.so.1 = /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x2b036aab6000) Backspace seems to work almost as expected. If I type status and then backspace so that nothing is showing on the line except for the * prompt bconsole still executes the status command. If I backspace fully then type over with something else, then the something else is executed. If I type something and then backspace until only one or two letters are remaining, for example time == t or trace == t then always, time is executed. That is, if the remaining letters are ambiguous, then bconsole executes the first command in the help list. HTH cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] slightly annoying bug in the console
On Sunday 03 February 2008 17:11, Michel Meyers wrote: James Harper wrote: | I'm not sure if this is just something peculiar to my configuration, but | in the text console for bacula, if I type a command then backspace over | it then press enter, bacula still acts as if I typed the command, or at | least part of it. | | Does anyone else see this or is it just me? Just tested it on my install (Bacula 2.2.8 on Debian) and I got the same thing. Typed 'status' then backspaced all over it, hit enter and the status prompt came up. Greetings, ~ Michel Ditto, here. Debian Etch Bacula 1.38.11 Installed from the Debian binary packages. In bconsole the backspace is non-destructive. This might be a side affect of the notorious Linux backspace/delete key problem. Cheers, cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Problem: deleted files entrys are still in the database and are restored
On Thursday 24 January 2008 10:58, Dan Langille wrote: Martin Simmons wrote: On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:06:19 + (GMT), Alan Brown said: On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Chris Hoogendyk wrote: For example, in the commercial realm, EMC Retrospect will properly restore incremental backups with deleted files removed. In the open source realm, Amanda will also properly handle deleted files in incremental backups. When did Amanda gain that feature? I didn't see it last time I looked... It is a feature of tar. Do you recall what feature or option in tar? I'm asking for hints when I search the man page. I didn't find 'delete' mentioned specifically. Dan, I found this documented on the tar website: http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/tar.html#SEC88 Incremental backup is a special form of GNU tar archive that stores additional metadata so that exact state of the file system can be restored when extracting the archive. The online manual goes into much more detail than the man manual page. HTH cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Specifying what to back up
On Wednesday 26 December 2007 15:14, Mitchell Hudson wrote: Hello there, I have a probably dumb question, but after several hours of playing and reading I haven't been able to figure it out. So I'm running the latest bacula server on a linux box, and I that seems to be running great, and a fd on a windows machine that I would like to backup. How do I specify which directories/files get backed up? I have yet to find a way to do this, and when I run a job now it goes through seemingly fine, but doesn't actually back anything up. Thank you so much for your help. Don't forget to restart the bacula director or issue the reload command from bconsole after editing bacula-dir.conf. cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Specifying what to back up
On Wednesday 26 December 2007 15:14, Mitchell Hudson wrote:
Hello there,
I have a probably dumb question, but after several hours of playing and
reading I haven't been able to figure it out. So I'm running the latest
bacula server on a linux box, and I that seems to be running great, and
a fd on a windows machine that I would like to backup.
How do I specify which directories/files get backed up? I have yet to
find a way to do this, and when I run a job now it goes through
seemingly fine, but doesn't actually back anything up.
Thank you so much for your help.
In the Bacula help manual, Configuring the Director/The FileSet Resource
defines the files to be backed-up.
Here's a simple FileSet definition from my setup:
FileSet {
Name = bilskirnir
Include {
Options {
Signature = MD5
}
File = /etc
File = /home
File = /root
}
Exclude {
File = /home/lost+found
File = /home/tmp
}
}
which backs up three directories with some exclusions.
HTH
cmr
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Re: [Bacula-users] SPAM-LOW: Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: incremental backup of hard links
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 08:54, Ingo Jochim wrote: Dan Langille schrieb: Reply has been rearranged to retain chronological order. On Jan 16, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Ingo Jochim wrote: Dan Langille schrieb: Ingo Jochim wrote: I create hard links for the files I want to backup so that while I do the backup the files can get deleted by someone else. The problem is that on an incremental backup I get a backup of all the files again like I got on a full backup. I create all the hard links right before the backup. A hard link points to the same file with the same date and so. Why does bacula backup all the files again? Because the dates on the hard links are newer than the previous backup. Hi Dan, a hard link looks like the original file. So it always should have the same date. Below you will see that the hard link (second line) has the same date at the original file. I created the hard link today but it also has the date from november the 23th. Ingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l file.JPG -rw-rw-r-- 2 root root 314099 23. Nov 15:58 file.JPG [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l backup/file.JPG -rw-rw-r-- 2 mother mother 314099 23. Nov 15:58 backup/file.JPG You create these hard links just before you run each backup. Is that correct? Correct. So I do like a snapshot. The original files can get deleted after the snapshot and I'm still able to finish my backup to tape. Ingo Ingo, While the modification time is that of the original file, the access time creation time are that of the link. cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] SPAM-LOW: Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: incremental backup of hard links
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 09:49, Ingo Jochim wrote: C M Reinehr schrieb: On Wednesday 16 January 2008 08:54, Ingo Jochim wrote: Dan Langille schrieb: Reply has been rearranged to retain chronological order. On Jan 16, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Ingo Jochim wrote: Dan Langille schrieb: Ingo Jochim wrote: I create hard links for the files I want to backup so that while I do the backup the files can get deleted by someone else. The problem is that on an incremental backup I get a backup of all the files again like I got on a full backup. I create all the hard links right before the backup. A hard link points to the same file with the same date and so. Why does bacula backup all the files again? Because the dates on the hard links are newer than the previous backup. Hi Dan, a hard link looks like the original file. So it always should have the same date. Below you will see that the hard link (second line) has the same date at the original file. I created the hard link today but it also has the date from november the 23th. Ingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l file.JPG -rw-rw-r-- 2 root root 314099 23. Nov 15:58 file.JPG [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l backup/file.JPG -rw-rw-r-- 2 mother mother 314099 23. Nov 15:58 backup/file.JPG You create these hard links just before you run each backup. Is that correct? Correct. So I do like a snapshot. The original files can get deleted after the snapshot and I'm still able to finish my backup to tape. Ingo Ingo, While the modification time is that of the original file, the access time creation time are that of the link. cmr Ok. Got it. But how can I avoid that I get a new date? Is there a presereve parameter like on cp? Ingo The only thing that comes to mind would be to use 'touch' to modify the times of the link to those of the original file. If you are using a shell script to create your hard links you could modify it to obtain the times and then execute touch with the appropriate options. cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backup of hard links
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 11:37, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: * Ingo Jochim schrieb am 16.01.08 um 17:39 Uhr: [...] Good idea. So what is important for the backup? ctime or mtime? Both. But you can configure bacula to ignore the ctime. See Configuring the Director/The Job Resource/Level=Incremental. -Marc I't not able to reset the ctime. How can I have ls give me the time format I will need for touch to reset the time? See `man ls`. Hint: -u, -c -t, --time=. Use find for that instead. -Marc cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] catalog not saving anytning
Pedro, On Thursday 06 December 2007 16:29, pedro noticioso wrote: Hi there. I compiled 2.2.5 with a few patches before 2.2.6 came out, and modified very little of the sample config and let it alone. I just noticed that, the catalog is not being saved, here is the info I see... * 06-Dec 16:15 respaldo-dir JobId 98: BeforeJob: run command /etc/bacula/make_catalog_backup bacula bacula a011127 06-Dec 16:15 respaldo-dir JobId 98: Start Backup JobId 98, Job=BackupCatalog.2007-12-06_16.14.13 06-Dec 16:15 respaldo-dir JobId 98: Using Device FileStorage 06-Dec 16:15 respaldo-sd JobId 98: Volume Default-0027 previously written, moving to end of data. 06-Dec 16:15 respaldo-sd JobId 98: Ready to append to end of Volume Default-0027 size=4273210667 06-Dec 16:07 respaldo-fd JobId 98: Could not stat /var/lib/bacula/bacula.sql: ERR=No existe el fichero o el directorio 06-Dec 16:15 respaldo-sd JobId 98: Job write elapsed time = 00:00:01, Transfer rate = 0 bytes/second 06-Dec 16:15 respaldo-dir JobId 98: Bacula respaldo-dir 2.2.5 (09Oct07): 06-Dec-2007 16:15:04 Build OS: i686-pc-linux-gnu debian 4.0 JobId: 98 Job: BackupCatalog.2007-12-06_16.14.13 Backup Level: Full Client: respaldo-fd 2.2.5 (09Oct07) i686-pc-linux-gnu,debian,4.0 FileSet:Catalog 2007-11-09 02:11:52 Pool: Default (From Job resource) Storage:File (From Job resource) Scheduled time: 06-Dec-2007 16:14:57 Start time: 06-Dec-2007 16:15:04 End time: 06-Dec-2007 16:15:04 Elapsed time: 0 secs Priority: 11 FD Files Written: 0 SD Files Written: 0 FD Bytes Written: 0 (0 B) SD Bytes Written: 0 (0 B) Rate: 0.0 KB/s Software Compression: None VSS:no Encryption: no Volume name(s): Default-0027 Volume Session Id: 9 Volume Session Time:1196809799 Last Volume Bytes: 4,273,211,069 (4.273 GB) Non-fatal FD errors:1 SD Errors: 0 FD termination status: OK SD termination status: OK Termination:Backup OK -- with warnings 06-Dec 16:15 respaldo-dir JobId 98: Begin pruning Jobs. 06-Dec 16:15 respaldo-dir JobId 98: No Jobs found to prune. 06-Dec 16:15 respaldo-dir JobId 98: Begin pruning Files. 06-Dec 16:15 respaldo-dir JobId 98: No Files found to prune. 06-Dec 16:15 respaldo-dir JobId 98: End auto prune. 06-Dec 16:15 respaldo-dir JobId 98: AfterJob: run command /etc/bacula/delete_catalog_backup *list jobs |98 | BackupCatalog | 2007-12-06 16:15:04 | B| F |0 | 0 | T | any ideas? ill appreciate it, thanks! Please do not hijack an existing thread. If you wish to ask an unrelated question start a new thread. That being said, There are three possibilities: 1) The BeforeJob: run command /etc/bacula/make_catalog_backup bacula bacula a011127 is failing. Try to run this command from the command line and see what happens. Note any errors. You haven't said what operating system or version or Bacula version you are using, so I'm going to assume *NIX (Linux, Unix, etc.) and say that make_catalog_backup is simply a shell script. Take a look at it and see if there are any problems. 2) The BeforeJob run command is running successfully but leaving the resultant file, bacula.sql, in some other directory than /var/lib/bacula. 3) There is a problem with the access permissions associated with the file /var/lib/bacula/bacula.sql or the directory /var/lib/bacula which prevents bacula-sd from accessing the file. Does the file exist? What are the permissions of the file and directory? Cheers! cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] BACULA/VMWARE crashes entire system [ON-GOING PROBLEM]
Scott, On Monday 01 October 2007 23:50, Scott Ruckh wrote: This is what you said Josh Fisher Scott Ruckh wrote: I am running CentOS 4.5 x64 with self compiled kernel 2.6.13.4. I have installed the latest bacula 2.2.4 Director, Client, and Storage daemon on this server. Bacula run flawlessly most of the time. Unfortunately when I run VMWare Workstation and have a virtual machine running, Bacula crashes the entire system. I am running the latest version of the 5.x series of VMWare. I am also running fluxbox as my Window Manager, although I don't think that has anything to do with the problem. This problem has existed with all versions of Bacula starting with 1.3.8.11 which is the first version I installed. My backups are to an external USB disk connected to the Host OS. The virtual machine is not configured with USB port because at one time I thought there might be contention between the Physical USB disk and the USB port configured with the Virtual Machine. All virtual machines and host system work fine when bacula backups are not running. I have tested this with all sorts of guest Virtual Machines and the results are the same; bacula will crash (completely unusable) the host machine. The only recovery method it to reboot the server. All bacula daemons are running in user mode and only the FD is running as root. A hard lock like this means something is amiss at the kernel mode level. You could try backing up to a directory on SCSI/SATA/IDE disk as a test. If all works as expected when backing up to the non-USB drive, then maybe something is wrong in the way USB is being virtualized/configured. Is anyone else successfully running a similar environment? As bacula is the only program that appears to cause the problem I am making an assumption it is a problem with bacula. If anyone has this type of environment working successfully I would like to hear about it. I had reported it was believed that not backing up the VMware disk files of a live virtual machine solved the problem. Unfortunately I was wrong and the problem persists. Now that more testing has been completed, I can officially say the problem still exists. I recompiled the kernel, upgraded VMWare Workstation (to version 6), Upgraded VMWare Tools, and rebuilt all the VMWare modules using the same gcc that the kernel was built with, but none of that helped. I have the exact same issue. Unfortunately the problem is not always present as the backups do complete some of time. The only constant is that the hard crash only happens when bacula is running. Although the VM is not configured with a USB device there might possibly be some contention with the physical USB drive I back up to and the VM instance. As the crash does not happen every time it is hard to determine what exactly is going on. As no other programs really access the USB device, and the crash only happens when bacula is running, I am just guessing the problem might be with that combination. I know this is not really a priority on anyone's list, but I thought I would keep everyone informed who might have been following this thread. I'm rather late to the party, but I have an idea that this might be a RAM problem or, to be specific, that you are running out of RAM. I encountered something similar a year or two ago. The good news is that the solution is simply a matter of adjusting a kernel parameter. The kernel parameter that I had to adjust was vm.min_free_kbytes, setting it to 16224 instead of the default 4060. Take a look at your kernel logs while the backup job is running and/or run vmstat. If this is the problem you will quickly see it. I'm afraid that I don't remember the details of why this worked or how I chose that particular value. I stumbled upon some emails discussing it after googling the particular kernel error that I was receiving; made the change then forgot about it. HTH! cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] BACULA/VMWARE crashes entire system [ON-GOING PROBLEM]
On Thursday 04 October 2007 13:39, Scott Ruckh wrote: This is what you said C M Reinehr Scott, I'm rather late to the party, but I have an idea that this might be a RAM problem or, to be specific, that you are running out of RAM. I encountered something similar a year or two ago. The good news is that the solution is simply a matter of adjusting a kernel parameter. The kernel parameter that I had to adjust was vm.min_free_kbytes, setting it to 16224 instead of the default 4060. Take a look at your kernel logs while the backup job is running and/or run vmstat. If this is the problem you will quickly see it. I'm afraid that I don't remember the details of why this worked or how I chose that particular value. I stumbled upon some emails discussing it after googling the particular kernel error that I was receiving; made the change then forgot about it. Thanks for the feedback. This is something else to look out, although from a high level this would not appear to be the problem because there is plenty of free physical memory and when backup does not crash the system the swap file is never used. On the other hand, I have run out of ideas, so I am willing to take a look at anything. Thanks for the reply. Likewise, my system would hang without ever going to swap. Here's a link with a better explanation than I can manage: https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/LCG/ServiceChallengeTechnicalFAQ Host Tuning Network hangs due to memory starvation (Mark van de Sanden, [EMAIL PROTECTED]) During one of our first service challenges we suffered from network hangs when transfering large amounts of data. We saw this problem not during our ''iperf'' tests but during our ''globus-url-copy-tests''. With ''top'' we could see that the memory free was dropping to about 10MB from the about 3GB which is available on the system. I assume that this memory used is for file buffer cache. After a while (about 10 - 20 minutes) the network on the node is hang state. From the dmesg command we could see that the kernel tries to swap but is not able. After sometime of a reboot avery works again. The solution in our case was to limit the file buffer cache and keep memory free for tcp buffers and user space memory. Our rule of thumb was to leave at least 10% of physical memory free. In the linux kernel 2.6 you have the ''vm.min_free_kbytes'' which forces the kernel to keep a minimum number of kilobytes free. How this is forced on a 2.4 kernel I do not know. Our current setting is: '''# sysctl vm.min_free_kbytes''' '''vm.min_free_kbytes = 409600''' They are talking, here, about network problems. Here, I'm not sure if it was related to the network or not, but I could see by following the vmstat report that the longer bacula ran during my nightly backups the lower my free memory became until, eventually, everything just stopped. Interestingly, I recently upgraded to the current Debian Etch from Sarge and, having forgotten all about this adjustment, didn't make it and haven't (yet) had any problems. (Actually, I did a full install, not an upgrade.) Cheers! cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula problem with Sqlite
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 06:49, Giancarlo Rubio wrote:
Hi all,
I have instaled Bacula on Freebsd 6.2. When i try to run job i get an error
Job failed.
18-Apr 08:42 aerofirewall-dir: gian.2007-04-18_08.42.14 Fatal error:
sql_create.c:520 sql_create.c:520 insert INSERT INTO Client
(Name,Uname,AutoPrune,FileRetention,JobRetention) VALUES
('gian-fd','',1,2592000,15552000) failed:
attempt to write a readonly database
18-Apr 08:42 aerofirewall-dir: sql_create.c:520 INSERT INTO Client
(Name,Uname,AutoPrune,FileRetention,JobRetention) VALUES
('gian-fd','',1,2592000,15552000)
18-Apr 08:42 aerofirewall-dir: gian.2007-04-18_08.42.14 Error:
sql_create.c:522 Create DB Client record INSERT INTO Client
(Name,Uname,AutoPrune,FileRetention,JobRetention) VALUES
('gian-fd','',1,2592000,15552000) failed. ERR=attempt to write a
readonly database
The owner of bacula.db is bacula user, and have write and read permission.
I found a similar user report about this problem
(http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bacula.user/15367) , but no
solution at this moment.
Is a FreeBSD problem on sqlite?? Have anyone running bacula on FreeBSD?
Thanks
Almost certainly a user or permissions problem. How is bacula-director
configured to run with regard to user group? I'll bet it is not the same as
the owner/group of bacula.db.
Cheers!
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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula problem with Sqlite
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 09:27, Giancarlo Rubio wrote:
See
# ps axu|grep bacula
bacula48990 0.0 1.2 4732 2600 ?? Ss 11:26AM 0:00.03
/usr/local/sbin/bacula-dir -u bacula -g bacula -v -c /usr/
root 48998 0.0 0.9 3952 1952 ?? Ss 11:26AM 0:00.03
/usr/local/sbin/bacula-fd -u root -g wheel -v -c /usr/loca
bacula49009 0.0 0.9 4248 2048 ?? Ss 11:26AM 0:00.04
/usr/local/sbin/bacula-sd -u bacula -g bacula -v -c /usr/l
root 49024 0.0 0.4 1592 900 p1 S+ 11:27AM 0:00.01 grep
bacula
# ls -l /var/db/bacula/bacula.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 bacula bacula 49152 Apr 18 11:26 /var/db/bacula/bacula.db
What are the permissions ownership of the directories along the path to
bacula.db (var, db, bacula)?
cmr
2007/4/18, C M Reinehr [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 06:49, Giancarlo Rubio wrote:
Hi all,
I have instaled Bacula on Freebsd 6.2. When i try to run job i get an
error
Job failed.
18-Apr 08:42 aerofirewall-dir: gian.2007-04-18_08.42.14 Fatal error:
sql_create.c:520 sql_create.c:520 insert INSERT INTO Client
(Name,Uname,AutoPrune,FileRetention,JobRetention) VALUES
('gian-fd','',1,2592000,15552000) failed:
attempt to write a readonly database
18-Apr 08:42 aerofirewall-dir: sql_create.c:520 INSERT INTO Client
(Name,Uname,AutoPrune,FileRetention,JobRetention) VALUES
('gian-fd','',1,2592000,15552000)
18-Apr 08:42 aerofirewall-dir: gian.2007-04-18_08.42.14 Error:
sql_create.c:522 Create DB Client record INSERT INTO Client
(Name,Uname,AutoPrune,FileRetention,JobRetention) VALUES
('gian-fd','',1,2592000,15552000) failed. ERR=attempt to write a
readonly database
The owner of bacula.db is bacula user, and have write and read
permission.
I found a similar user report about this problem
(http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bacula.user/15367) , but no
solution at this moment.
Is a FreeBSD problem on sqlite?? Have anyone running bacula on FreeBSD?
Thanks
Almost certainly a user or permissions problem. How is bacula-director
configured to run with regard to user group? I'll bet it is not the
same as the owner/group of bacula.db.
Cheers!
cmr
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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula problem with Sqlite
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 09:57, Giancarlo Rubio wrote:
# ls -ll /var/db/|grep bacula
drwxr-xr-x2 baculabacula512 Apr 18 11:26 bacula
What are the permissions of /var/db and /var?
Also, just as an experiment, you might reconfigure bacula-director to run as
root:root. If it works then you know it's a permissions/ownerwhip problem
somewhere. If not, then we're on the wrong track and need to take a closer
look at bacula.db.
HTH
cmr
2007/4/18, C M Reinehr [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 09:27, Giancarlo Rubio wrote:
See
# ps axu|grep bacula
bacula48990 0.0 1.2 4732 2600 ?? Ss 11:26AM 0:00.03
/usr/local/sbin/bacula-dir -u bacula -g bacula -v -c /usr/
root 48998 0.0 0.9 3952 1952 ?? Ss 11:26AM 0:00.03
/usr/local/sbin/bacula-fd -u root -g wheel -v -c /usr/loca
bacula49009 0.0 0.9 4248 2048 ?? Ss 11:26AM 0:00.04
/usr/local/sbin/bacula-sd -u bacula -g bacula -v -c /usr/l
root 49024 0.0 0.4 1592 900 p1 S+ 11:27AM 0:00.01 grep
bacula
# ls -l /var/db/bacula/bacula.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 bacula bacula 49152 Apr 18 11:26
/var/db/bacula/bacula.db
What are the permissions ownership of the directories along the path to
bacula.db (var, db, bacula)?
cmr
2007/4/18, C M Reinehr [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 06:49, Giancarlo Rubio wrote:
Hi all,
I have instaled Bacula on Freebsd 6.2. When i try to run job i get
an error
Job failed.
18-Apr 08:42 aerofirewall-dir: gian.2007-04-18_08.42.14 Fatal
error: sql_create.c:520 sql_create.c:520 insert INSERT INTO Client
(Name,Uname,AutoPrune,FileRetention,JobRetention) VALUES
('gian-fd','',1,2592000,15552000) failed:
attempt to write a readonly database
18-Apr 08:42 aerofirewall-dir: sql_create.c:520 INSERT INTO Client
(Name,Uname,AutoPrune,FileRetention,JobRetention) VALUES
('gian-fd','',1,2592000,15552000)
18-Apr 08:42 aerofirewall-dir: gian.2007-04-18_08.42.14 Error:
sql_create.c:522 Create DB Client record INSERT INTO Client
(Name,Uname,AutoPrune,FileRetention,JobRetention) VALUES
('gian-fd','',1,2592000,15552000) failed. ERR=attempt to write a
readonly database
The owner of bacula.db is bacula user, and have write and read
permission.
I found a similar user report about this problem
(http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bacula.user/15367) , but no
solution at this moment.
Is a FreeBSD problem on sqlite?? Have anyone running bacula on
FreeBSD?
Thanks
Almost certainly a user or permissions problem. How is
bacula-director configured to run with regard to user group? I'll
bet it is not the same as the owner/group of bacula.db.
Cheers!
cmr
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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula problem with Sqlite
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 11:02, Giancarlo Rubio wrote:
Running as root bacula works good.
It's a bug on bacula??
No, it means that user/group bacula:bacula can not
access /var/db/bacula/bacula.db but user/group root:root can. So, as I said
earlier, you have a permissions problem somewhere along the path.
cmr
2007/4/18, C M Reinehr [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 09:57, Giancarlo Rubio wrote:
# ls -ll /var/db/|grep bacula
drwxr-xr-x2 baculabacula512 Apr 18 11:26 bacula
What are the permissions of /var/db and /var?
Also, just as an experiment, you might reconfigure bacula-director to run
as root:root. If it works then you know it's a permissions/ownerwhip
problem somewhere. If not, then we're on the wrong track and need to take
a closer look at bacula.db.
HTH
cmr
2007/4/18, C M Reinehr [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 09:27, Giancarlo Rubio wrote:
See
# ps axu|grep bacula
bacula48990 0.0 1.2 4732 2600 ?? Ss 11:26AM 0:00.03
/usr/local/sbin/bacula-dir -u bacula -g bacula -v -c /usr/
root 48998 0.0 0.9 3952 1952 ?? Ss 11:26AM 0:00.03
/usr/local/sbin/bacula-fd -u root -g wheel -v -c /usr/loca
bacula49009 0.0 0.9 4248 2048 ?? Ss 11:26AM 0:00.04
/usr/local/sbin/bacula-sd -u bacula -g bacula -v -c /usr/l
root 49024 0.0 0.4 1592 900 p1 S+ 11:27AM 0:00.01
grep bacula
# ls -l /var/db/bacula/bacula.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 bacula bacula 49152 Apr 18 11:26
/var/db/bacula/bacula.db
What are the permissions ownership of the directories along the
path to bacula.db (var, db, bacula)?
cmr
2007/4/18, C M Reinehr [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 06:49, Giancarlo Rubio wrote:
Hi all,
I have instaled Bacula on Freebsd 6.2. When i try to run job i
get an error
Job failed.
18-Apr 08:42 aerofirewall-dir: gian.2007-04-18_08.42.14 Fatal
error: sql_create.c:520 sql_create.c:520 insert INSERT INTO
Client (Name,Uname,AutoPrune,FileRetention,JobRetention) VALUES
('gian-fd','',1,2592000,15552000) failed:
attempt to write a readonly database
18-Apr 08:42 aerofirewall-dir: sql_create.c:520 INSERT INTO
Client (Name,Uname,AutoPrune,FileRetention,JobRetention) VALUES
('gian-fd','',1,2592000,15552000)
18-Apr 08:42 aerofirewall-dir: gian.2007-04-18_08.42.14 Error:
sql_create.c:522 Create DB Client record INSERT INTO Client
(Name,Uname,AutoPrune,FileRetention,JobRetention) VALUES
('gian-fd','',1,2592000,15552000) failed. ERR=attempt to write
a readonly database
The owner of bacula.db is bacula user, and have write and read
permission.
I found a similar user report about this problem
(http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bacula.user/15367) , but
no solution at this moment.
Is a FreeBSD problem on sqlite?? Have anyone running bacula on
FreeBSD?
Thanks
Almost certainly a user or permissions problem. How is
bacula-director configured to run with regard to user group?
I'll bet it is not the same as the owner/group of bacula.db.
Cheers!
cmr
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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula problem with Sqlite
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 11:34, Giancarlo Rubio wrote:
It's not permission problem for the user bacula see
# su - bacula
$ echo teste /var/db/bacula/bacula.test (user have write
permission on this folder)
$ sqlite3 /var/db/bacula/bacula.db
SQLite version 3.3.15
Enter .help for instructions
sqlite INSERT INTO Job
(Job,Name,Type,Level,JobStatus,SchedTime,JobTDate) VALUES
('gian.2007-04-18_09.11.45','gian','B','I','C','2007-04-18
09:11:42',1176898302);
sqlite select * from Job;
1|gian.2007-04-18_09.11.45|gian|B|I|0|C|2007-04-18
09:11:42|0|0|0|1176898302|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0
sqlite .quit
User have write permission on bacula.db
Giancarlo Rubio
This makes a very good argument that it is _not_ a permission problem, but on
the other hand, it is very unlikely to be a bug in bacula. (Since I am not
running FreeBSD anything I say at this point is a guess.) This certainly
looks similar to the problem report that you indicated at the beginning of
this thread and could be some kind of weird problem owing to a combination of
FreeBSD, Sqlite3 Bacula.
To the best of my knowledge there is no built-in database security in Sqlite.
If you have write permission on the file you have write permission on the
database.
Let's make one more test before we shout bug. Please set the permissions on
bacula.db to 666 (read/write for all) and see what happens.
And, while we're at it. What version of Bacula and FreeBSD are you using? Is
Bacula from a package or did you roll your own?
Cheers!
cmr
2007/4/18, C M Reinehr [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 11:02, Giancarlo Rubio wrote:
Running as root bacula works good.
It's a bug on bacula??
No, it means that user/group bacula:bacula can not
access /var/db/bacula/bacula.db but user/group root:root can. So, as I
said earlier, you have a permissions problem somewhere along the path.
cmr
2007/4/18, C M Reinehr [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 09:57, Giancarlo Rubio wrote:
# ls -ll /var/db/|grep bacula
drwxr-xr-x2 baculabacula512 Apr 18 11:26 bacula
What are the permissions of /var/db and /var?
Also, just as an experiment, you might reconfigure bacula-director to
run as root:root. If it works then you know it's a
permissions/ownerwhip problem somewhere. If not, then we're on the
wrong track and need to take a closer look at bacula.db.
HTH
cmr
2007/4/18, C M Reinehr [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 09:27, Giancarlo Rubio wrote:
See
# ps axu|grep bacula
bacula48990 0.0 1.2 4732 2600 ?? Ss 11:26AM
0:00.03 /usr/local/sbin/bacula-dir -u bacula -g bacula -v -c
/usr/ root 48998 0.0 0.9 3952 1952 ?? Ss 11:26AM
0:00.03 /usr/local/sbin/bacula-fd -u root -g wheel -v -c
/usr/loca bacula49009 0.0 0.9 4248 2048 ?? Ss
11:26AM 0:00.04 /usr/local/sbin/bacula-sd -u bacula -g bacula
-v -c /usr/l root 49024 0.0 0.4 1592 900 p1 S+
11:27AM 0:00.01 grep bacula
# ls -l /var/db/bacula/bacula.db
-rw-r--r-- 1 bacula bacula 49152 Apr 18 11:26
/var/db/bacula/bacula.db
What are the permissions ownership of the directories along the
path to bacula.db (var, db, bacula)?
cmr
2007/4/18, C M Reinehr [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 06:49, Giancarlo Rubio wrote:
Hi all,
I have instaled Bacula on Freebsd 6.2. When i try to run
job i get an error
Job failed.
18-Apr 08:42 aerofirewall-dir: gian.2007-04-18_08.42.14
Fatal error: sql_create.c:520 sql_create.c:520 insert
INSERT INTO Client
(Name,Uname,AutoPrune,FileRetention,JobRetention) VALUES
('gian-fd','',1,2592000,15552000) failed:
attempt to write a readonly database
18-Apr 08:42 aerofirewall-dir: sql_create.c:520 INSERT INTO
Client (Name,Uname,AutoPrune,FileRetention,JobRetention)
VALUES ('gian-fd','',1,2592000,15552000)
18-Apr 08:42 aerofirewall-dir: gian.2007-04-18_08.42.14
Error: sql_create.c:522 Create DB Client record INSERT INTO
Client (Name,Uname,AutoPrune,FileRetention,JobRetention)
VALUES ('gian-fd','',1,2592000,15552000) failed.
ERR=attempt to write a readonly database
The owner of bacula.db is bacula user, and have write and
read permission.
I found a similar user report about this problem
(http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bacula.user/15367) ,
but no solution at this moment.
Is a FreeBSD problem on sqlite?? Have anyone running bacula
on FreeBSD?
Thanks
Almost certainly a user or permissions problem. How is
bacula-director configured
Re: [Bacula-users] SD crash (Didn't accept device)
Arno, On Saturday 14 April 2007 19:03, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, On 4/13/2007 10:26 PM, Darien Hager wrote: ... 13-Apr 02:46 spath-store: ABORTING due to ERROR in smartall.c:144 Out of memory The above says that your machine is out of memory. It happened before on the previous server, and I toned down the concurrent jobs (to no effect)... I don't know what it could be doing which would exhaust it. The machine in question has 2GB of memory and 4GB of swap. Futhermore, it's a recent addition to the flock that still needs more stuff installed, so the only thing it's doing now is SD tasks. I experienced a similar thing recently at a customer's installation... the server ran out of memory, and got restarted automatically. Cursory watching of memory usage showed me the SD used about 300 MB (on a machine with 512 MB). Afterwards, I set up some memory monitoring, but the problem hasn't happened again. I'm not sure if we're talking about the same thing, but a few months ago I was experiencing occasional system crashes. After reviewing the logs and googling I finally came up with a solution (at least, so far). I've forgotten the details, but in general it had to do with the size of the packets arriving over the network on my 100Base-T connection. Even though the system as a whole had plenty of memory, it was unable to allocate sufficient buffer space quickly enough. The solution was an entry in /etc/sysctl.conf to increase a memory parameter: $ cat sysctl.conf # # /etc/sysctl.conf - Configuration file for setting system variables # See sysctl.conf (5) for information. # #kernel.domainname = example.com #net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts=1 vm.min_free_kbytes=16224 HTH! Cheers! cmr Do you have any suggestions of things to check which may be causing excessive memory usage? I can't think of anything off the top of my head that the SD would be doing which could necessitate using that much, assuming that it's main task is Network and Disk I/O bound rather than manipulating any large complex data structures, etc. I've got no idea why the SD would need that much memory... usually I don't notice a remarkable memory consumption by the SD. Can you reproduce the problem? Thanks, -- --Darien A. Hager [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Change of address
Dan, Congratulations from me, as well. Get ready for a significant culture shock as well as a weather shock. You'll find south Florida to be a much more laid back, casual place to work. On a more negative note, be prepaired for higher property taxes insurance and hurricanes. (I don't know anything about property taxes in Ottawa but property taxes in FL are high relative to most of the USA, and, of course you don't get many hurricanes in Ottawa :-) I second Kern's recommendation re airconditioning. Life couldn't exist, here in the southern US, without A/C. Feel free to make a stop in Montgomery AL on your drive down. My wife is from Miami so we can give you some insight into FL, the southern USA as well as provide you a free bed for a night! Cheers! cmr On Saturday 07 April 2007 02:20, Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello Dan, Congratulations on your new job. The only thing that they probably didn't tell you is that depending on exactly where you will be, unless you learn Spanish you might feel a bit disadvantaged :-) I don't consider that a negative point, but rather a nice opportunity. About the weather, I wouldn't worry too much. I lived 12 years in Maryland, which has similar summer weather (with winter weather like the northern US) and once you learn how to slow down your movement in the summer, everything goes pretty well. If you have a car, I recommend selling it and getting one with air conditioning -- that will make life a lot nicer in the summer. The only unpleasant moments were when it was 90 F degrees (32 C) outside, my car had been sitting in the sun (40-45 C inside), and it would start raining around. Typically this is around 3pm. It becomes somewhat of a catastrophy without A/C trying to deal with the heat (windows rolled up to prevent inondation) and fogged windows. :-) Car A/C solves the problem. We wish you the best and look forward to hearing from you and hopefully your continuing participation. Best regards, Kern On Friday 06 April 2007 23:00, Dan Langille wrote: Folks: I've accepted a job offer from eSilo.com. This means I'm moving to Jupiter (north of Miami) Florida from Ottawa. eSilo does backups over the Internet. It's a turn-key solution. I'm not yet sure how much I can talk about what I'm going to be doing, but my primary roles do not intersect with the work I've done on Bacula. There will be an NDA for me to work on, but that won't prevent me from continuing to contribute to Bacula. Biggest tasks to hand: find a place to live, move my stuff down there. Biggest thing to move that I can't drive there: my HD TV -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference - http://www.pgcon.org/ - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] disk volume issues: seek - too large volumes - truncate - fragmentation
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 12:50, Hans Manz wrote: Kern Sibbald schrieb: I'm sorry, but the only end of data mark for a file is the end of file (i.e. truncate it). You refuse to get the point. You're comments are inconsiderate, impolite incorrect. Perhaps if put less effort into criticizing and more effort into explaining your point people would understand it. You can't force understanding you only can lead people to understand. I would like to stop this flame war, since the objective (truncation) is not worth of it. I hope both of us learned some lessons? /hm p.s.: yes, i am also arrogant. :-) Yes you are! And I, for one, am going to pay no more attention to your posts. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Unhelpful help (was Re: Bacula and HP MSL2024 autochanger)
On Friday 16 March 2007 13:48, Ryan Novosielski wrote: Alan Davis wrote: El vie, 16-03-2007 a las 16:14 +0100, Marc Cuypers escribi?: Hi, Has someone bacula working with a HP MSL2024 autochanger? Indeed. /rant mode on/ Ladies and Gentleman, As I feel that this could be partially directed at me, I feel inclined to weigh in a certain amount. More posted below. The mailing list is the primary customer support mechanism and one of the only expressions of community for the excellent community supported product that is Bacula. I have seen too many responses on this list that, while they may answer the question /exactly/ (although too many aren't even that helpful) they provide absolutely no useful or meaningful information. The problem with too many initial posts on this list lately is they too provide absolutely no useful or meaningful information. There are far too many posts to the list asking for far too much information. I am new to Bacula !! How I can set up my tape drive? I understand we are a support community, but the expectation is that the user will at least pick up the manual and say where they have gone right or wrong... they will provide their version number and platform, and often that they'll provide config files that they've tried that don't work. The expectation is there that if someone is going to take the time to help them, they are to take the time to try to help themselves. I personally get enough of the former at work, where I am paid to answer those kinds of questions. Please keep in mind as you respond that users come to this list looking for help with a complex system that they probably don't understand fully. While sometimes the assurance that something is indeed possible is enough to spur a user to more detailed tests and a re-reading of the manual quite often additional information from more experienced users is most helpful. Unfortunately, often times the initial poster has not even read the manual at all. When someone comes in asking how to do something that even has a chapter heading, how much sympathy is one supposed to have? In cases like this, I didn't even really see anything negative about the response. Does this autochanger work with Bacula? Yes. In fact I've asked that question myself, just to make sure I'm not barking up the wrong tree. That doesn't mean I want someone to provide me with a definition of how to do so. Also, since I see this particular autochanger in the subject line -- if the original user bothered to search the mailing list archives, they would have answered their own question with any number of the ten and change posts since May of 2006. It's not difficult, as experienced users, to anticipate the type of information that might be required to guide someone past the difficulties expressed in their posting to the list. In this case, it might be, considering the user didn't post whether or not he even owned one yet -- perhaps he's just considering purchasing one? Vendors of proprietary products are quite often judged by users and in the trade press on both quality of their products and quality of their support. The same is true for FOSS products except that /we/ are the support staff and the competition is just a download away. If a Bacula user can't get their problem resolved quickly and easily with help from the mailing list they'll quickly move on to another solution. They don't have the options that are available to users of proprietary products - find another support vendor or use financial incentives with the vendor to improve response from them. And if, with an excellent manual available, and fairly expert help available on the mailing list when people ask a proper question, I would say anyone who can't get the help they need to get their problem resolved fairly quickly (by resolved, I mean maybe not having their issue fixed, but at the very least finding out the reason for their trouble) is probably going to need commercial support anyway (which is not generally any better than open source support, except for the fact that the customer service people are paid to be nice to you). In this particular case, I don't even see what set off the rant. /rant mode off/ I agree with everything said in both of these posts, but would like to add one further observation. That is, that many posting to this list are not native speakers of the English/American language and have difficulty expressing themselves. As someone without the ability to speak any other language than English I am very sympathetic to their struggles. In this instance I chuckled at the one word response to the question--I've done it many times myself to the great irritation of my family friends--but wondered if the questioner really wanted further information but just wasn't sure how to ask. Anyway, just my additional two cents worth to the thread. Cheers! cmr --
Re: [Bacula-users] Unhelpful help (was Re: Bacula and HP MSL2024 autochanger)
On Friday 16 March 2007 14:17, Erich Prinz wrote: Alan, I've seen this too. Ryan's points are valid as well. A polite response of Read the Manual is sufficient. For those with **URGENT** requests, a polite pointer to paid support options would be appropriate as well. Now, deep down inside I'd really like rip and shred -- there are times when it's clear the poster has no respect for others and a 'why haven't you taken care of me?' pushy attitude that exudes from the posting. Those are best ignored in my opinion, but as a measure of grace a polite response isn't out of the question. Thanks for the post Alan. It likely hits home for just about every regular 'Baculite' on the list. Erich Sometimes I just can't help myself. Should it be 'Baculite' or 'Baculan'. Maybe we should hold another poll. ;-) cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bweb on sqlite3 ?
On Saturday 17 February 2007 14:01, Pierre Bernhardt wrote: Hello, I dont't want to install a comlex postgresql or mysql server. Is it principle possible to use sqlite instead of using mysql or postgresql? -- MfG... Pierre Bernhardt Yes, quite definitely. I have been using sqlite2 for over a year. I can't say that I have had any problems directly attributable to sqlite. I have read, though, reports that sqlite3 is considerably slower than sqlite2 owing to a change in the way that it handles transactions. HTH cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Doing a backup only once
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 09:57, David Romerstein wrote:
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to backup a larger amount of data (approx. 800GB and a total of 2
million files) with a library of Ultrium-3 tapes.
That, in essence, is why I first installed bacula - to backup roughly 2TB
of data just once (my file count is *significantly* higher than yours,
though - on the order of 200 million files across 10s of thousands of
directories).
I see no problem with what you describe. I would recommend, only,
performing
more than one backup, or duplicating your tape(s) after the backup, so that
you have more than one copy of your files, possibly stored in different
locations.
After a succesful backup, the data will be removed from the disk storage
and the tapes will be taken offsite. Probably, it will be necessary to
restore certain files from the backup, but this case should not occur.
In other words, I want to backup a file set only once (perhaps do a
complete restore and compare the files), store the catalog offsite,
remove the used tapes from the library and wipe the disk storage and
perhaps clear the catalog.
If, by 'clear the catalog', you mean 'erase the bacula database entries',
I would not recommend doing that. Otherwise, this should be dead simple.
It would seem to me that the principle advantage of using Bacula for
your
backup would be that you had a history of your backup(s) in the database for
future reference. If you purge the database, why go to all the bother of
setting up Bacula and, instead, just use tar or cpio to create your backup
tapes.
What I did was created a set of jobs in my bacula-dir.conf file (I had
already discovered that backing up the entire fileset takes longer than
bacula will allow for a single backup job). Each of these jobs were
defined individually, although I probably could have created a JobDef
entry for most of this. I did *not* use the DefaultJob JobDef, as that has
a weekly schedule. My jobs were all variations on the following:
Job {
Name = BackupFileStore_pt1
Type = Backup
Level = Full
FileSet=xRaid1_pt1
Storage = Ultrium
Client = srv01-fd
Messages = Standard
Pool = Default
Priority = 5
}
I then dumped to a text file a listing of all directories on the filestore
I was backing up. I broke that list into 4 pieces, and used those pieces
to generate FileSets in my bacula-dir.conf:
FileSet {
Name = xRaid1_pt1
Include {
Options {
signature = MD5
}
File = /data/staging/xRaid1/part1
}
}
Then, all I had to do was put in a tape, run bconsole, and start the job.
-- D
Cheers!
cmr
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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status update + you can help
, too expensive. Fedora as you say and as I experienced is too bleeding edge. I asked them to use a 9 month release cycle, and they sent me a very kind reply giving their reasons for a 6 month cycle. I then looked at a lot of distros: debian, kubantu, ubantu, madrivia, ... However, most of them wouldn't even install on a leading edge Dell (debian, ubantu), others (kubantu) are for users that don't know Unix or the distro is a one man show without a significant organization, or rely on other distros for security patches, ... For me, for the moment, with the exception of this SCSI bug, SuSE has been great (as I say, for me). One good thing from the time I wasted on this bug is that I learned that within certain restrictions (SeLinux, AppArmor, ...), unlike rpms, I can mix and match kernels from different distros as I want. (Having said that, RHEL installation is also very straoghtforward) Yes, but if *anything* goes wrong, it simply dies. SuSE has a vga exception handler that takes over (sort of like a rescue disk) that allows you in many cases to get out of trouble -- e.g. switch where the source CDs are coming from, really quite cool. AB --- -- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVD EV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- C M Reinehr AMS Enterprises, LLC (334) 269-4358 (Voice) 323 Bibb St P O Box 20 Montgomery AL 36111-0020 (334) 262-1706 (Fax) Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #182151 -- Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior. -- Dee Hock - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Renaming Volumes?
On Friday 03 June 2005 04:14 pm, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote: On Friday 03 June 2005 04:02 pm, Kern Sibbald wrote: Unfortunately, neither of those good ideas will help. The Volume name is embedded in the Bacula Volume label record on the medium so that Bacula can find out what the Volume name really is. To change it, you would need to change the Volume data, which is not something I recommend. All records are contained in blocks, and all blocks are checksummed, so it would be a real pain to try to change a Volume name ... Doing a bcopy might work, but it is largely untested. However, bcopy does not update the catalog, so your first suggestion might be valid after a bcopy. If anyone tries it, please let me know ... I will try it after I have another full backup cycle. Thanks, Misty This might just work, with one minor addition. Since I have bacula disk volumes, too, I decided to give it a quick try. I used bcopy to copy one disk volume to another, new one. Then, I used bls to do a quick test of the integrity of the new volume. It didn't work -- it kept complaining about the volume label. So, as another test, using bconsole, I used the label command to create a new disk volume in the archive, as well as in the catalog. Then, I used the bcopy program to copy an existing archive into the new volume and it seemed to work. Now, bls would list all of the same files that were in the original volume and displayed the new volume name. The next step would be to use the bscan program to enter this data into the catalog, but I don't seem to have a copy of bscan on my system. :( cmr -- C M Reinehr AMS Enterprises, LLC (334) 269-4358 (Voice) 323 Bibb St P O Box 20 Montgomery AL 36111-0020 (334) 262-1706 (Fax) Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #182151 -- Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior. -- Dee Hock --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61 plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
