[Bacula-users] Volume Retention
I was trying to get a bit of a better grasp of Volume Retention and recycling. For Tapes I understand that after the Job, File and Retention Period the Tape Volume is Marked as Recycled and can be reused again. For Filed. What happenes after Job, File and Retention period expire? Does the file get Deleted or Truncated if the Purge Action is set to Truncate? Also how can I figure out exactly how long a Volume will be saved. For example I want to save my Tape Volumes for a year, My Differentials for 6 months and my Incremental backups for 3 months. I've tried setting the Retention time on those Pools for the correct time but they don't seem to get truncated or deleted after the retention period. Thanks. -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 -- Cloud Services Checklist: Pricing and Packaging Optimization This white paper is intended to serve as a reference, checklist and point of discussion for anyone considering optimizing the pricing and packaging model of a cloud services business. Read Now! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51491232/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Volume Retention
It seems like it would be better to not have a Recycle flag set for my file based pools is that correct? On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 08:29:18 +0200 "Timo Neuvonen" wrote: > "Craig Van Tassle" kirjoitti viestissä > news:20111206123553.4a704...@purdue.edu... > >I was trying to get a bit of a better grasp of Volume Retention and > > recycling. > > > > For Tapes I understand that after the Job, File and Retention Period > > the Tape Volume is Marked as Recycled and can be reused again. > > > > For Filed. What happenes after Job, File and Retention period > > expire? Does the file get Deleted or Truncated if the Purge Action > > is set to Truncate? > > > > Also how can I figure out exactly how long a Volume will be saved. > > > > For example I want to save my Tape Volumes for a year, My > > Differentials for 6 months and my Incremental backups for 3 months. > > I've tried setting the Retention time on those Pools for the correct > > time but they don't seem to get truncated or deleted after the > > retention period. > > > > Basically, File and Job Retention operate only on the Catalog to > reduce the amount of information stored about the past jobs. Volume > Retention indicates when the volume MAY be recycled, provided > recycling is enabled for it. The volume status is still shown as > "full" or "used" and nothing won't happen to the actual tape before > the volume is really needed for another use (or you put it into a > shredder), the volume is still kept usable as long as possible. So, > though a tape volume had a 3 mo retention, nothing is guaranteed to > happen the day this time expires, but only after the recycling > algorithm notices it really needs to re-use that spesific tape. And > if you change the retention periods of the pool after originally > labeling the volumes, make sure you have "updated" the retention > periods to the existing volumes too (you may use llist [=long list] > command to examine the retention periods that are valid to your > existing volumes) > > Truncate option for file volumes should also affect to the actual > file volume when the period expires. I haven't used it (since I use > tapes), it probably works nowadays but I think it had a dangerous bug > in the distant past. > > -- > TiN > > > > -- > Cloud Services Checklist: Pricing and Packaging Optimization > This white paper is intended to serve as a reference, checklist and > point of discussion for anyone considering optimizing the pricing and > packaging model of a cloud services business. Read Now! > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51491232/ > ___ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 -- Cloud Services Checklist: Pricing and Packaging Optimization This white paper is intended to serve as a reference, checklist and point of discussion for anyone considering optimizing the pricing and packaging model of a cloud services business. Read Now! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51491232/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Volume Retention
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 10:45:23 -0500 John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Craig Van Tassle > wrote: > > It seems like it would be better to not have a Recycle flag set for > > my file based pools is that correct? > > > > No. Just put the volumes in a Full Pool, Differential pool ... to have > different retention periods. > > John I have them in different pools. One Full (that is tapes), One that is for my Differentials and my Incrimentals and one for my catalog. -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 -- Cloud Services Checklist: Pricing and Packaging Optimization This white paper is intended to serve as a reference, checklist and point of discussion for anyone considering optimizing the pricing and packaging model of a cloud services business. Read Now! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51491232/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] permanent backup
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 08:06:26 -0500 John Drescher wrote: > > I want to know what the best way is for creating a permanent backup > > to tape. I need to create a backup on tape of certain files(a HP > > 1/8 G2 Tape Autoloader) and I should keep them at least 2-3 > > years.. I also need to have a failover in case my DB is gone. > > Currently I’m still using bacula 2.4.4 on debian. Can anybody > > describe what the best way is to create this archive, best > > practices,. …? > > > > I use tapes from a pool that has the recycle flag off for all jobs > that I want to never recycle. For the failover database you can get > that from the tapes themselves using the bacula volume tools. > > John > > -- > Cloud Computing - Latest Buzzword or a Glimpse of the Future? > This paper surveys cloud computing today: What are the benefits? > Why are businesses embracing it? What are its payoffs and pitfalls? > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sdnl/114/51425149/ > ___ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users Another way to get failover of your database (if you use mysql) is Replication. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replication.html -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 -- Cloud Computing - Latest Buzzword or a Glimpse of the Future? This paper surveys cloud computing today: What are the benefits? Why are businesses embracing it? What are its payoffs and pitfalls? http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sdnl/114/51425149/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Restore not using correct Files.
I'm trying to do a restore of some files I backup. It reads my Differential, and Tape pools with out issue. When it gets to the Incremental File I get this. 04-Jan 10:34 bacula-sd JobId 8408: Please mount Volume "Incr0169" for: Job: RestoreFiles.2012-01-04_10.25.06_17 Storage: "Differential" (/backup/differential) Pool: Disk_Full Media type: File The file labeled Incr0169, lives in /backup/Incremental. If I copy or symlink the file's around the backup works. I'm not sure what is going on, but how can I fix it so I dont have to symlink or move files around when I'm doing a restore. Thanks -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Restore not using correct Files.
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 11:58:43 -0500 John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Craig Van Tassle > wrote: > > I'm trying to do a restore of some files I backup. It reads my > > Differential, and Tape pools with out issue. When it gets to the > > Incremental File I get this. > > > > 04-Jan 10:34 bacula-sd JobId 8408: Please mount Volume > > "Incr0169" for: Job: RestoreFiles.2012-01-04_10.25.06_17 > > Storage: "Differential" (/backup/differential) > > Pool: Disk_Full > > Media type: File > > > > > > The file labeled Incr0169, lives in /backup/Incremental. If I copy > > or symlink the file's around the backup works. I'm not sure what is > > going on, but how can I fix it so I dont have to symlink or move > > files around when I'm doing a restore. > > > > The big problem is a single Job can not switch storage devices (unless > there was some change in bacula that I have not seen yet.). > > John That would be an issue. But the job also switched from my Tape library to the Differentials with out an issue. -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Restore not using correct Files.
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 12:42:32 -0500 John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Craig Van Tassle > wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 11:58:43 -0500 > > John Drescher wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Craig Van Tassle > >> wrote: > >> > I'm trying to do a restore of some files I backup. It reads my > >> > Differential, and Tape pools with out issue. When it gets to the > >> > Incremental File I get this. > >> > > >> > 04-Jan 10:34 bacula-sd JobId 8408: Please mount Volume > >> > "Incr0169" for: Job: RestoreFiles.2012-01-04_10.25.06_17 > >> > Storage: "Differential" (/backup/differential) > >> > Pool: Disk_Full > >> > Media type: File > >> > > >> > > >> > The file labeled Incr0169, lives in /backup/Incremental. If I > >> > copy or symlink the file's around the backup works. I'm not sure > >> > what is going on, but how can I fix it so I dont have to symlink > >> > or move files around when I'm doing a restore. > >> > > >> > >> The big problem is a single Job can not switch storage devices > >> (unless there was some change in bacula that I have not seen yet.). > >> > >> John > > > > > > That would be an issue. But the job also switched from my Tape > > library to the Differentials with out an issue. > > I guess they fixed that then sorry for the noise. I will have to check > into the release notes.. > At least for tape to File moves. Also my Tape Library is on a different system from my differential/incremental pools. That could be why it worked. -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Encrypting Data on Tape
I'm sorry if this has been asked before. I'm running a Scalar 50 with HP LTO-4 Drives. I want to encrypt the data that is put on the tape, We already have encryption going between the Dir/SD and FD's. I just want to encrypt the data that will be placed on Tape for OffSite storage. Has anyone done that or know some pointers to point me to so I can get this working? Thanks! -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Restore not using correct Files.
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:58:30 + wrote: > Craig, > > I suspect this is because the media type for both your Incremental > and Differential pools is "File" so bacula assumes that it can access > Incr0169 via the /backup/Differential device. I got round this by > having different media types for my different file devices, e.g. > FileFull, FileDiff and FileInc. > > Cheers, > > Ewan > > > -Original Message- > > From: Craig Van Tassle [mailto:cvantas...@purdue.edu] > > Sent: 04 January 2012 15:48 > > To: bacula-users > > Subject: [Bacula-users] Restore not using correct Files. > > > > I'm trying to do a restore of some files I backup. It reads my > > Differential, and Tape pools with out issue. When it gets to the > > Incremental File I get this. > > > > 04-Jan 10:34 bacula-sd JobId 8408: Please mount Volume > > "Incr0169" for: Job: RestoreFiles.2012-01-04_10.25.06_17 > > Storage: "Differential" (/backup/differential) > > Pool: Disk_Full > > Media type: File > > > > > > The file labeled Incr0169, lives in /backup/Incremental. If I copy > > or symlink the file's around the backup works. I'm not sure what is > > going on, but how can I fix it so I dont have to symlink or move > > files around when I'm doing a restore. > > > > Thanks > > > > --- > > --- > > Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a > > complex > > infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure > > access to > > virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy > > virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI > > infrastructure > > costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox > > ___ > > Bacula-users mailing list > > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users That makes sense. I will have to try that out. If I change the type Will that affect my current backups or will they be updated automatically? -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Multi-cores compression
Compressing a compressed file will not help that much. I've found I get much better compression and speed with the built in compressions on my LTO-4 Drives. On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 14:24:41 + Gael Guilmin wrote: > To gain space on the LT0. > > -Original Message- > From: Alan Brown [mailto:a...@mssl.ucl.ac.uk] > Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 3:33 PM > To: Gael Guilmin > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Multi-cores compression > > On 05/03/12 14:00, Gael Guilmin wrote: > > Hello, > > I'd like to know if there is a way to allow the use of multi-cores > > during a backup and especially for the compression of the data? > > Why do you want compression? > > > > > -- > Try before you buy = See our experts in action! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft > developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus > HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when > you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 > ___ Bacula-users mailing > list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential > and privileged information for the sole use of the intended > recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is > strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or > authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please > contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this > message. > > -- > Try before you buy = See our experts in action! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft > developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus > HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when > you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 > ___________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bacula Offsite Backups
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 10:07:22 -0300 Kleber Leal wrote: > Create a off-site pool and create a copy job. > The bacula will need off-site tapes only when the backups was > pruned/purged from local tapes. > > Kleber > > 2012/3/9 Uwe Schuerkamp > > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 08:48:40AM +0100, Holikar, Sachin (ext) > > wrote: > > > Hello Admis, > > > > > > We have a working Bacula ( Release 2.2.7) setup. > > > So far all the backup tapes are retained inside the tape library. > > > But > > now we have decided to keep 1 set offsite. > > > We have created a separate pool of tapes ( say 10 tapes) and > > > taken few > > important backups last week. Now couple of tapes are used for this > > backup job. > > > Now the questions are : > > > > > > 1. Can we just take out the filled/half-filled tapes out of the > > > tape > > library just like that to be kept at offsite? Or some necessary > > procedure is required for this? > > > 2. Once we take out few tapes from the offsite pool , can we > > > start > > taking new backup onto remaining tapes in this pool? > > > 3. Or simply point me to correct links where we can read the > > fundamentals of offsite backups. > > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > > > Regards, > > > - Sachin > > > > > > Hello Sachin, > > > > for most small bacula sites I keep all tapes in one pool, then > > remove them as necessary from the autochanger (say all that have > > been written during a week) and set their volume status to > > "Archive" using the "update volume" bconsole command. Following > > that I erase the tapes I put into the library in exchange for the > > archived ones and (re-)label them with bconsole as necessary. > > > > You should also take a look at your volume retention time, it should > > be long enough so that bacula won't "forget" the archived tapes at > > some point. > > > > HTH Uwe > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning > > Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing > > also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. > > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ > > ___ > > Bacula-users mailing list > > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > I do the separate pool for offsite backups as well. The only thing I'm trying to work on is encrypting my offsite's as well. I'm trying to setup things that I can just copy from my Full tape pool to the encrypted tape pool. I'm going to use the bacula build in encryption because the SD is not able to work with the encryption that is available with LTO-4 tape drives. Is it possible to use FD encryption with copy jobs? Thanks -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 -- Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Mixing incremental & full volume pools (disk based) during restore
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:08:11 +0200 Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > Hi folks, > > we recently changed our backup policy from tape- to disk-based, so I > created two pools based on separate filestorage devices (two separate > dirs) to hold the full and incremental backup volumes. > > Today I tried a restore job using both incr. and full volumes, and > when bacula (5.2.6 on centos 6) needed to access the incremental > volumes, it tried to open them in the full filestorage directory as > opposed to the incremental filestorage directory. > > I worked around the situation by creating symlinks in the full > filestorage directory pointing to the incremental backup volume files > and bacula readily accepted those links and read the incremental stuff > off the volumes. > > I wonder if this is the expected behaviour, or would it be better to > keep both pools in a single directory (if that's even possible)? > Should I have modified the Storage resource before starting the > restore job (alhough the restore job needed both full and incremental > volumes)? > > All the best & thanks in advance, Uwe > > I had this issue in the past as well. The solution was to change what type of media. Here is an example out of my SD configuration file. Device = Differential Media Type = File-Diff I had to update my pools to reflect the new media type and backups and restores work with out having to use the symlinks. -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 -- This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Suppressing Duplicate Job errors
Most of my full backups take a day or two for my larger Fileservers. During that time the Incremental backups fail because I have a setting to not allow duplicate jobs. Is there a way I can suppresses just the error messages because of duplicate jobs? I'm running bacula 5.0.2 on Debain squeeze. Thanks -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Virtual Full for to different SD
Does a VirtualFull job have to be run on the same SD as where the Full is? I'm trying to save space in my offsite SD. I though that doing VirtualFull's to the offsite might be the way to go. Has anyone done this or does anyone have a better recommendation how to do this? I cant just ship the tapes offsite. My Tape Library does not have encryption abilities and that's a requirement for offsite access. -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Full for to different SD
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:29:47 +0200 Georges wrote: > Le 12/09/2012 18:27, Craig Van Tassle a écrit : > > Does a VirtualFull job have to be run on the same SD as where the > > Full is? > Hello Craig > > As you know, Bacula can only do copies on a unique SD. You can not use > this feature over SDs. This said, and depending on you infrastructure, > if you have multiple partitions on storages on both sites, you should > be able to copy from site A to site B using this. > Enterprise version of Bacula has also a feature which may address > this: it let you share an autoloader over multiple SDs, but you have > to pay. (There was an offer to move from Community version to > Enterprise.) > > > I'm trying to save space in my offsite SD. I though that doing > > VirtualFull's to the offsite might be the way to go. Has anyone done > > this or does anyone have a better recommendation how to do this? > VirtualFull will never save space. It saves time and bandwidth. > > > > I cant just ship the tapes offsite. My Tape Library does not have > > encryption abilities and that's a requirement for offsite access. > Why don't you use encryption capabilities of Bacula ? > > > G. > > -- > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. > Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the > latest in malware threats. > http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > ___ Bacula-users mailing > list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users Sharing an autoloader across multiple SD is not going to help me. I didn't think the VirtualFull would save me any space. Using the encryption built in to bacula will take far to long for the number and size of my backups. Also the management overhead of the encryption is so much for my limited time. The basic thing is I'm looking at using an offsite SD for DR backups. You confirmed what I thought. Thanks. -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Non-interactive restore
On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 16:58:32 +0100 Gary Stainburn wrote: > Hi folks. > > Google has burried me once again as this seems to be a recurring > question. > > What is the best method of starting a restore without an interactive > interface. Basically, I want to be able to start a restore of the > last backup state (option 5) for a client, specifying a difference > restoreclient. > > In an idea world I'd like to run a script after a successful > completion. > > I've tried: > restore all client=gary-fd restoreclient=eddie-fd > > but it still asks for a resture type which I want to default to 5 and > then asks me for a FileSet resource. I now only have one fileset > resource for Linux but it still insists on giving me two choices > including one I no long have in the config files. > > Gary > echo "restore client=$HOST-fd where=$where_you_want restoreclient=$FD_TO_RESTORE_TO bootstrap=/var/lib/bacula/$HOST-fd.bsr select current all done yes" | bconsole > /dev/null That is what I use. It restores everything from though the latest backup with out me telling it what to do. Fair warning. Running several of these at a time in parallel has caused my DIR to lockup several times with not warning. -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] HOWTO - FileSet from MD5 to SHA1
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:20:24 -0500 Humphrey Bryant wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to change the File Signature type encryption from MD5 to SHA1 > on one of my client FileSet. > > Will changing it from MD5 to SHA1 trigger a Full Backup ? > Whats the correct way of doing this? > Should i just change the FileSet encryption from MD5 to SHA1 and > restart bacula-dir and all will be well ?? > > Thanks in advance > > > I did the same thing. It does not require a new Full backup. -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 -- Got visibility? Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. Find out how fast your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219671;13503038;y? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Restore Error
I recently upgraded my tape library to LTO-6 Tapes. I need to read from my older LTO-4 tapes. When I run a restore I get director-sd acquire.c:121 Changing read device. Want Media Type="LTO-4" have="LTO-6" device="LTO6-0" (/dev/tape/by-path/pci-:04:00.0-sas-0x5000e111500dd002-lun-0-nst) Fatal error: acquire.c:182 No suitable device found to read Volume "43L4" client-fd Fatal error: job.c:2390 Bad response to Read Data command. Wanted 3000 OK data , got 3000 error Do I have to create a new device to read the LTO-4 tapes? -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Autochanger is not a Device in the SD
I have Scalar50 that I'm trying to setup with Bacula. I have the
mtx script working, I can inventory and verify all my Tape and labels.
But when I try to run a job I get this..
17-May 09:17 backup.hubzero.org-dir JobId 37: Fatal error:
Storage daemon didn't accept Device "Scalar50" because:
3924 Device "Scalar50" not in SD Device resources.
This is what I have in my bacula-sd.conf file
Autochanger {
Name = Scalar50
Device = LTO4-0
Device = LTO4-1
Changer Device = /dev/sg0
Changer Command = "/etc/bacula/scripts/mtx-changer %c %o %S
%a %d" }
Device {
Name = LTO4-0
Device Type = Tape;
Media Type = LTO4
Archive Device = /dev/nst0
AutomaticMount = yes;
AlwaysOpen = yes;
RemovableMedia = yes;
RandomAccess = no;
Autochanger = yes
Drive Index = 0
Spool Directory = /var/spool/bacula
}
Device {
Name = LTO4-1
Device Type = Tape;
Media Type = LTO4
Archive Device = /dev/nst1
AutomaticMount = yes;
AlwaysOpen = yes;
RemovableMedia = yes;
RandomAccess = no;
Autochanger = yes
Drive Index = 1
Spool Directory = /var/spool/bacula
}
According to the documentaion I believe I should be using the
autochanger's name as the backup device.
Do I have that wrong?
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[Bacula-users] Running multiple directors
I was wondering if anyone had setup multiple directors in a kind of High Availability setup, or if they run multiple directors how do you setup the multiple directors? Thanks. -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] TLS FD Errors
I'm trying to get TLS working between my Bacula Director and the FD.
I have it working locally between the Director and the SD, but when I
try to connect to a remote FD it wont authenticate. In my FD logs I get
openssl.c:85-0 jcr=0 Connect failure: ERR=error:140890C7:SSL
routines:SSL3_GET_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE:peer did not return a certificate
We are using all locally generated Certs and they are all signed by a
CA key that we distribute out to the work.
Here is my config, did I miss something?
Director {
Name = example-dir
Password = ""
TLS Enable = yes
TLS Require = Yes
TLS Verify Peer = Yes
TLS CA Certificate File = /etc/bacula/ssl/bacula_ca.crt
TLS Certificate = /etc/bacula/ssl/bacula_fd.example.com.pem
TLS Key = /etc/bacula/ssl/bacula_fd.example.com.key
}
#
# Restricted Director, used by tray-codestorm to get the
# status of the file daemon
#
Director {
Name = example-mon
Password = ""
Monitor = yes
}
#
# "Global" File daemon configuration specifications
#
FileDaemon { # this is me
Name = example-fd
WorkingDirectory = /var/lib/bacula
Pid Directory = /var/run/bacula
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20
FDport = 9102 # where we listen for the director
FDaddress = ns1.hubzero.org
TLS Enable = yes
TLS Require = yes
TLS CA Certificate File = /etc/bacula/ssl/bacula_ca.crt
TLS Certificate = /etc/bacula/ssl/bacula_fd.example.com.pem
TLS Key = /etc/bacula/ssl/bacula_fd.example.com.key
}
# Send all messages except skipped files back to Director
Messages {
Name = Standard
director = hubzero-dir = all, !skipped, !restored
}
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Re: [Bacula-users] bacula IPv6 status (unofficially)
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:57:38 +0100 Gavin McCullagh wrote: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > > > just a short note to say that I've been testing Bacula's IPv6 > > support of late and have generally found it to be good. > > PS: well done to all the developers involved :-) > > Gavin > I have to agree there. I have been using IPv6 on my home systems (work does not have IPv6 yet) and it's actually been faster then IPv4 to the same systems. -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 -- EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Waiting on Maximum Storage Jobs
I've got several jobs that are running at the same time and they are spooling data to the local disk, then writing to my Tape Drive for full backups. My Incremental and Differential's are being written to Disk. I can only run one Full job at a time. The rest of the jobs are all in the status "Waiting on Maximum Storage Jobs" I'm not sure where to look to set fix this. My Google-fu has failed me on the one :( Thanks -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 -- EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Waiting on Maximum Storage Jobs
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 16:06:47 +0200 Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 09:56:29AM -0400, Craig Van Tassle wrote: > > I've got several jobs that are running at the same time and they are > > spooling data to the local disk, then writing to my Tape Drive for > > full backups. My Incremental and Differential's are being written > > to Disk. > > > > I can only run one Full job at a time. The rest of the jobs are all > > in the status "Waiting on Maximum Storage Jobs" > > > > I'm not sure where to look to set fix this. My Google-fu has failed > > me on the one :( > > > > Hello Craig, > > could you check the "maximum concurrent jobs" setting in your tape > storage / device definition? > > HTH Uwe > I have not I will make the updates and try that out. Thanks -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 -- EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Firewall traversal
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:11:21 -0400 "Kevin O'Connor" wrote: > My setup is as follows: > > Bacula Server (DIR, SD) -> Firewall/NAT -> Server to be backed up (FD) > > The FD is accessible from anywhere, but the DIR/SD is not (NAT/FW). > > When I start the backup, the Director connects to the FD without a > problem, but then when the Director tells the FD to connect back to > the SD it fails because of the NAT. I'm in a situation where I can't > get the ports forwarded, but it would seem that there should be a way > to have the SD connect out to the FD or something along those lines > to get this working. Is there a way to do that that I've missed in > the docs or is really the only way to get this working is to expose > the SD? As crazy as this sounds have you though of setting up something like an SSH tunnel? That could help bypass the NAT traversal issues. -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 -- EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Rescue CD/USB for Debian
I was wondering if anyone knew how to make a Rescue CD/USB key for Debian? I have not been able to really find documentation on how to make one for Debian, and I have not found one to download. Thanks -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 -- EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Network speed between FD and SD
I'm trying to increase the network speed between my FD and my SD. My Cacti graphs are showing that my network usage averages 60Mb/s and the connections between all the clients are on 1Gb links. I would think I would be able to pull more speed to my SD then just 60Mb/s. Is there anything I can do to try to speed up the network transfer between the FD and SD. I would like to be able to get to near Gigabit speeds to my SD. I'm also running a couple of jobs at once, I would have though that would have helped me spool the data faster. Also I'm running on a Dell sc1425 for my SD and my Clients are Dell r610's. Thanks -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense.. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Ubuntu 10.10 Install Script
On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:13:46 -0700 Mehma Sarja wrote: > On 6/30/11 7:09 PM, Venkatesh K Reddy wrote: > > The way package dependencies are handled in Ubuntu can be bit > > confusing at times. > > > > I have Bacula installed in 10.10 and I find all the configuration > > files in "/etc/bacula". You can find state files in > > "/var/lib/bacula" and log in "/var/lob/bacula". > > > > I am using MySQL though. > > > I like postgres and that's what I kept selecting. Is the apt-get or > aptitude convenience that people like or is there an aversion to > compiling? It is easy and you have so many configure options to > select from. > > Mehma > > -- > All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously > valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application > performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk > takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 > ___ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users Try apt-get install bacula-common-pgsql bacula-sd-pgsql bacula-director-pgsql That will allow you to install Bacula with Posgres support built in. I've been using Bacula on 10.10 for a couple of months now. -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Fiber Connected Library?
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:18:19 -0400 "Jason A. Kates" wrote: > I am using a HP MSL4048, but I don't see why most wouldn't work. > -Jason > > On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 08:46 -0400, Ken Mandelberg wrote: > > Are there any fiber connected tape libraries thats are known to > > work with Bacula? > > > > -- > > Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. > > Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. > > Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey > > ___ > > Bacula-users mailing list > > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > I'm using a Quantum Scalar 50 with my backups, and it's using Fiber. I don't see why other FC solutions would not work either. -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 -- BlackBerry® 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] Director and resource
I have a Bacula Director and the Spool for my tape library on an older Dell SC1425 with 8GB of ram. When I'm doing my normal differentials and incremental I dont have any issues, however when I'm doing my monthly full backups I get the attached in my dmesg output. It appears to be for some reason the server's running out of memory. Is there any way I can limit or remove those messages. There is nothing else on the server, just a bacula-fd, bacula-dir and a SD that is running my tape library. Thanks. [7236115.492070] Mem-Info: [7236115.492074] 53*8kB 20*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 20052kB [7236115.492089] Node 0 Normal: 245*4kB Node 0 DMA per-cpu: [7236115.492100] CPU0: hi:0, btch: 1 usd: 0 [7236115.492104] 117*8kB 11*16kB 2*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2348kB [7236115.492120] 1872004 total pagecache pages [7236115.492124] 1 pages in swap cache [7236115.492128] Swap cache stats: add 2, delete 1, find 0/0 [7236115.492133] Free swap = 8388596kB [7236115.492137] Total swap = 8388600kB [7236115.492142] CPU1: hi:0, btch: 1 usd: 0 [7236115.492144] Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu: [7236115.492148] CPU0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 169 [7236115.492151] CPU1: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 30 [7236115.492153] Node 0 Normal per-cpu: [7236115.492157] CPU0: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 184 [7236115.492160] CPU1: hi: 186, btch: 31 usd: 56 [7236115.492167] active_anon:23156 inactive_anon:5717 isolated_anon:0 [7236115.492168] active_file:933349 inactive_file:938441 isolated_file:101 [7236115.492170] unevictable:0 dirty:231564 writeback:10936 unstable:0 [7236115.492171] free:9561 slab_reclaimable:119179 slab_unreclaimable:7956 [7236115.492172] mapped:1160 shmem:112 pagetables:643 bounce:0 [7236115.492175] Node 0 DMA free:15876kB min:20kB low:24kB high:28kB active_anon:0kB inactive_anon:0kB active_file:0kB inactive_file:0kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:15344kB mlocked:0kB dirty:0kB writeback:0kB mapped:0kB shmem:0kB slab_reclaimable:0kB slab_unreclaimable:16kB kernel_stack:0kB pagetables:0kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? yes [7236115.492189] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 3511 8056 8056 [7236115.492194] Node 0 DMA32 free:20052kB min:5000kB low:6248kB high:7500kB active_anon:21556kB inactive_anon:7000kB active_file:1544636kB inactive_file:1549956kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):0kB present:3596256kB mlocked:0kB dirty:339504kB writeback:12216kB mapped:1172kB shmem:0kB slab_reclaimable:304660kB slab_unreclaimable:12216kB kernel_stack:112kB pagetables:56kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no [7236115.492209] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 4545 4545 [7236115.492214] Node 0 Normal free:2316kB min:6472kB low:8088kB high:9708kB active_anon:71068kB inactive_anon:15868kB active_file:2188760kB inactive_file:2203808kB unevictable:0kB isolated(anon):0kB isolated(file):404kB present:4654080kB mlocked:0kB dirty:586752kB writeback:31528kB mapped:3468kB shmem:448kB slab_reclaimable:172056kB slab_unreclaimable:19592kB kernel_stack:1088kB pagetables:2516kB unstable:0kB bounce:0kB writeback_tmp:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no [7236115.492228] lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 [7236115.492233] Node 0 DMA: 3*4kB 3*8kB 4*16kB 3*32kB 3*64kB 3*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 2*1024kB 2*2048kB 2*4096kB = 15876kB [7236115.492247] Node 0 DMA32: 4763*4kB 53*8kB 20*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 20052kB [7236115.492260] Node 0 Normal: 245*4kB 117*8kB 11*16kB 2*32kB 1*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2348kB [7236115.492274] 1872004 total pagecache pages [7236115.492277] 1 pages in swap cache [7236115.492279] Swap cache stats: add 2, delete 1, find 0/0 [7236115.492282] Free swap = 8388596kB [7236115.492284] Total swap = 8388600kB [7236115.495114] 2097152 pages RAM [7236115.495114] 47595 pages reserved [7236115.495114] 1203861 pages shared [7236115.495114] 838144 pages non-shared [7236115.544886] 2097152 pages RAM [7236115.544886] 47595 pages reserved [7236115.544886] 1203861 pages shared [7236115.544886] 838144 pages non-shared -- Craig Van Tassle HUBzero.org System Administrator YONG 1006 Desk Phone : (765)496-6413 -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
