Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] What a difference a database makes
On Friday 29 December 2006 02:02, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Friday 29 December 2006 06:19, John Jorgensen wrote: Seeing this discussion about SQLite3 performance has finally prompted me to share an observation that I made about a year ago, when building bacula together with sqlite-3.3.6 for personal use on my home machine. I believe that the default_synchronous PRAGMA that Kern mentions in his reply has not been included in sqlite 3.* The PRAGMA synchronous = ... pragma still exists, but its effect does not persist. I.e., you need to re-issue the pragma every time you connect to the database, rather than specifying it once when creating the database. So I put together a patch that adds to bacula's configure script an option to specify a snippet of SQL code to execute on every database connection, like this: configure ... --enable-extra-sqlite3-init=pragma synchronous=0; ... with the result that bacula-dir is compiled to issue that SQL pragma every time it connects to the database. Since you can get the same effect by using an sqlquery in bconsole to issue the pragma before running the job manually, it could be that the proper way to accomplish what I did is by using the python interpreter (which I have never tried using) to script the sqlquery into every job, instead of by modifying the bacula-dir binary. My experience is that PRAGMA synchronous = 0 greatly improves performance, although turning off synchronous writes completely like this demands either a reliable UPS or the willingness to rebuild your catalog should the power fail in the middle of a backup. PRAGMA synchronous = 1 (NORMAL) doesn't help nearly as much, at least not on my machine. (The default value for synchronous is 2, FULL). I'll try to attach my patch, but I made it against the 1.38.11 sources, so it won't be directly applicable to the current development sources (and it includes some changes that aren't strictly necessary to do the sqlite initialization, but which reduced the warnings I was getting from the autoconf/automake tool chain). kern == Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is anyone out there using SQLite3? Does anyone have any suggestions on how we could change the default build defines or database creation scripts to improve the performance? If there are any suggestions I'd appreciate getting them quickly so that we can incorporate them into 1.40. kern When SQLite3 was first released, I looked into this and seems to me that he kern handled synchronization differently. The two pragmas that I saw (long ago) kern that made a difference were: kern PRAGMA default_synchronous kern PRAGMA default_cache_size Thanks for the research and feedback. Could you look to see if there is some way to set the synchronous value to a default? I cannot imagine that the author of SQLite would not provide some way to do so. I did notice that the settings of the synchronous flag changed in 3.0, but after looking at the consequences of changing them from the default set by the author, I decided to leave that to the user (if I remember right). If there is absolutely no way to set the default value, then I would certainly considering code as you are suggesting, but if a way to set the default exists, as I am 99% sure there is, then I would much prefer to leave it to the user to choose the degree of risk he/she wants to take and to manage it directly with the database. Kern, This thread finally prompted me to do some research, since have been using sqlite in production. From the Sqlite home page, documentation, Pragma command syntax: PRAGMA default_synchronous; This pragma was available in version 2.8 but was removed in version 3.0. It is a dangerous pragma whose use is discouraged. To help dissuide users of version 2.8 from employing this pragma, the documentation will not tell you what it does. For reference, from the documentation which came with my version of sqlite, 2.8.16: PRAGMA default_synchronous; PRAGMA default_synchronous = FULL; (2) PRAGMA default_synchronous = NORMAL; (1) PRAGMA default_synchronous = OFF; (0) This pragma changes the synchronous mode persistently. Once changed, the mode stays as set even if the database is closed and reopened. The synchronous pragma does the same thing but only applies the setting to the current session. So, I'm not sure if this means that the default command does not exist in 3.x or just that it is not documented. I'll try search further as I have the time. 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
Re: [Bacula-users] Merry Christmas...
On Saturday 23 December 2006 07:40, Arno Lehmann wrote: ... to all of you, even if you aren't christian, or have to work, or whatever. Have some nice days! Arno Merry Christmas to all, and to all good night. 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] Retaining Job information
Dave,
On Tuesday 21 November 2006 15:43, DAve wrote:
Martin Simmons wrote:
On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 15:07:27 -0500, DAve said:
I've read through the following portions of the manual and I think I
might not be able to do what I need.
http://bacula.org/rel-manual/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.html
http://bacula.org/rel-manual/Basic_Volume_Management.html
http://bacula.org/rel-manual/Bacula_Freque_Asked_Questi.html#SECTION0003
43
http://bacula.org/rel-manual/Bacula_Freque_Asked_Questi.html#SECTION0003
425000
I am trying to backup a simple disaster recovery set, kept for a single
day (there is local tape making routine backups), and then reused 24
hours later. The backup set is for off site emergencies only. This all
works, just fine.
Now I want to generate a report for the past thirty days to show the
backups were made. Currently I can't get my job information to stay in
the DB so I can query it for reporting.
I have the following set,
Client {
Name = alli-fd
Address = fd.alli.com
FDPort = 49101
Catalog = DataVault
Password = o/hEQs5oQgO103AfF1cvrmhW21BuodfrzN
File Retention = 2 days
Job Retention = 30 days
AutoPrune = yes
}
Pool {
Name = Daily-Alli-Pool
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Retention = 1 day
Accept Any Volume = yes
LabelFormat = Daily-alli-
Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
Maximum Volumes = 2
}
I think I can change my Maximum Volume Jobs to 30 and get the result I
want which is, 30 days of jobs in the catalog, only two Volumes in use.
I am trying it tonight. If I am misunderstanding something, smack me.
It will be confusing if you still have Volume Retention = 1 day.
Also, it is overkill for the goal of disaster recovery set kept for a
single day ... and then reused 24 hours later. It implies keeping 30-60
days of backups in the 2 volumes.
I think the problem you have is that the job information must be removed
from the catalog before the volume can be recycled. Therefore, if you
want to keep only 1-2 days of backups then the catalog can only contain
1-2 jobs.
That is how I read the docs as well, and the test showed the same. So I
understand it correctly, good.
I understand the problem with what they requested, but I don't so sales
and I am not the IT manager for the client (This is for a client within
our building). They believe they just need to to get fresh copies of
certain files into our NOC every night for DR purposes. There is only
one current copy of the files in each volume, the previous volume is
purged shortly after.
Doesn't make sense to me, but it pays the same as a strategy that does.
DAve
I imagine you've already thought of this, but it sounds like the solution to
this dilema is to have a run-after-job which will execute an sql query on the
database to extract the necessary information and save it in another database
or text file. Then, once a month you can generate your report from this file,
purge it and start over.
Cheers!
cmr
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Re: [Bacula-users] deleting old volumes
On Friday 10 November 2006 03:10, Mantas Marčiulaitis wrote:
I'm using disk as backup media. A the moment I only use one pool with label
format set as follows: Label Format =
Full-${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Day:p/2/0/r}-${Client}.
Every night bacula creates a new file, however although volume retention is
set to 2 days old files never get deleted. My question is, does volume
retention period only applies to the database entries and not the files? Or
is it possible to make bacula delete old files after some period of time?
Thanks,
Mantas.
Bacula can be configured to re-use disk files, but never to delete them. You
must delete them, yourself, outside of Bacula. There are several ways to do
this. One way is to write a shell script an run it as a run-before or
run-after Bacula job script. Another is to set up a cron job. Another, of
course, is just to do it manually from the command line.
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Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?
Server: Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 Stable(Sarge) On Tuesday 10 October 2006 05:51, Peter L. Buschman wrote: All: If it isn't too much of an imposition, I'd like to survey the list and ask the question what operating system are you running Bacula on?. I'm interested in which OS distributions, versions and platforms are being deployed as Bacula servers. Mainly, this is to identify the highest-priority configurations for a test environment I am setting-up, but I think it would also be interesting from a broader Bacula adoption perspective to see what the distribution is. I will aggregate all of the responses and post a summary and percentage distribution of the results. If you would like to add your installation to the count but do not want to post openly to the list, please feel free to email me privately. The summarized results will be anonymous as they will only consist of rolled-up statistics. Best regards, Peter Buschman - 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] Bacula status update + you can help
I'm catching up with this thread with interest after just coming into work this morning. Kern, my sympathy. I can imagine how frustrated you are, but it just goes to show how good a programmer you are, that it wasn't Bacula after all! After reading the merits weaknesses of RHEL, SUSE, Centos, I have only one question. Have you considered or tried Debian lately? I settled on Debian several years ago after becoming disenchanted with each of the major commercial distributions and haven't regreted it for a moment. (My servers are humming along happily with Debian AMD64-Sarge Bacula 1.36 as we speak!) Three Cheers for Bacula! cmr On Friday 29 September 2006 08:00, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Friday 29 September 2006 14:39, Alan Brown wrote: On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: Centos is _very_ stable. RHEL can be licensed quite cheaply if you don't buy the support package (about US$10/machine) The last time I looked (some time ago), it was over $200/machine. That is too much for me. For a company or someone serious about servers, that's OK and quite far given their security updates. Redhat offer some discounts for developers, etc. That is interesting. As a Bacula feature request is now in their system and has been requested by at least 25 different customers, they may well be interested in giving you a free license for development purposes. Hmmm. That is even more interesting. I actually have RHEL and access to their network, but that is because I administer a machine, where the organization (MercyShips) has a global RedHat license. That said, other than having the CDs for recovery purposes, which unfortunately I needed recently, I cannot load them on my machines. I don't disagree with your assessment of installations - I use suse at home, but I have serious issues with their level of professionalism in the commercially supported products. Well, distros are a bit of a religious thing and very personal. I look for leading edge software, good update/security service, and stability. RedHat is excellent for that, but now that they are commercial, 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=DEVDEV ___ 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
Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring file from volume
Daniel, On Monday 25 September 2006 10:13, Daniel Hoeving wrote: Mike, Thank you, I've discovered the issue. Who ever set our back-ups up originally set a file retention period of thirty days and a job retention period of 365 so while I can see the job, the files are pruned... You're welcome! And, that would do it. As I understand it from the manual I can use bscan to recover such files, however there doesn't seem to be a bscan executable file in our install is it a separate package (looked on the site, and it doesn't look like it)? And the man page doesn't say anything about using bscan.mysql etc... deuteronomy:/etc/bacula# locate bscan /usr/lib/bacula/bscan.mysql /usr/lib/bacula/bscan.pgsql /usr/lib/bacula/bscan.sqlite /usr/share/man/man8/bscan.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/bscan.mysql.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/bscan.pgsql.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/bscan.sqlite.8.gz deuteronomy:/etc/bacula# You don't say what distribution of Linux, what version of Bacula you are using, or whether Bacula was pre-packaged or installed compiled from source, so I'm afraid that I can't help you with this question. With regards to my system (Debian Sarge) and Bacula installed from a binary Deb package, bscan is part of the standard package. :~$ locate bscan /etc/bacula/bscan.sh /usr/bin/bscan /usr/lib/bacula/bscan.mysql /usr/lib/bacula/bscan.pgsql /usr/lib/bacula/bscan.sqlite /usr/share/man/man8/bscan.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/bscan.mysql.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/bscan.pgsql.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/bscan.sqlite.8.gz From comparing the output of your locate command to mine, it looks as if your copy of bscan somehow may have been removed in error. Cheers! cmr Daniel Hoeving Network Administrator Campus Crusade for Christ, Canada E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] P: (604)514-2107 -- Message: 2 Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:24:03 -0500 From: Mike Reinehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring file from volume To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Daniel, On Thursday 21 September 2006 15:51, Daniel Hoeving wrote: I'm trying to restore a specific file from a tape in my monthly pool. The back-up is about three months old - the job is still listed in the catalog. When I run a list jobs command it shows the job with one file (the one I want) tells me the size of it and when it was started. When I try to restore the job (with the correct tape in the drive - mounted) it seems unable to find the job Building directory tree for JobId 10028 ... 1 Job, 0 files inserted into the tree. And it doesn't matter what I'm trying to restore from that period I get the same response... So essentially I have two questions: 1)Is there a way to manually search the tape and restore the file? And bscan:http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Volume_Utility_Tools.html#19205 2) Is there a setting in my bacula-dir.conf file that should be altered to prevent this from happening? The default file retention time is 60 days. Check your Volume, Job File retention times as defined in your bacula-dir.conf configuration file. Configuring the Director: http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html In particular, the Client Resource: http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION000148 000 and the Pool Resource: http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION000141 Daniel Hoeving Network Administrator Campus Crusade for Christ, Canada E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] P: (604)514-2107 Cheers! cmr -- 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
Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring file from volume
Daniel, On Thursday 21 September 2006 15:51, Daniel Hoeving wrote: I'm trying to restore a specific file from a tape in my monthly pool. The back-up is about three months old - the job is still listed in the catalog. When I run a list jobs command it shows the job with one file (the one I want) tells me the size of it and when it was started. When I try to restore the job (with the correct tape in the drive - mounted) it seems unable to find the job Building directory tree for JobId 10028 ... 1 Job, 0 files inserted into the tree. And it doesn't matter what I'm trying to restore from that period I get the same response... So essentially I have two questions: 1)Is there a way to manually search the tape and restore the file? And bscan: http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Volume_Utility_Tools.html#19205 2) Is there a setting in my bacula-dir.conf file that should be altered to prevent this from happening? The default file retention time is 60 days. Check your Volume, Job File retention times as defined in your bacula-dir.conf configuration file. Configuring the Director: http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html In particular, the Client Resource: http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION000148000 and the Pool Resource: http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION000141 Daniel Hoeving Network Administrator Campus Crusade for Christ, Canada E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] P: (604)514-2107 Cheers! cmr -- 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
Re: [Bacula-users] restoring without a bsr file or catalog
On Friday 15 September 2006 18:07, Dave wrote: Hello, I've been given a tape that has some data saved by bacula i believe the version was 1.38.4 or so. There is no .bsr file and no catalog, i have a tape and that's it, it has two jobs on it. He wants me to try to recover the files in the second job, i'm not sure if it's possible to do without a .bsr or catalog file. What i'd like to do if it's doable is recover his second job first, make a .bsr and a catalog and then do the first job the same way and give him his tape, data, two .bsr's and two catalogs, so he won't have to do this again. As a side note i have no idea how he lost his .bsr files and the catalog was not in use when these backups were taken. I'd appreciate any assistance. Thanks. Dave. Dave, Since no one else has jumped in, I'll take a stab at this although I'm nowhere near as knowledgeable or experienced as others on this list. First, you don't mention if you have bacula installed. If you do, then you should be able to run bscan (http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Volume_Utility_Tools.html#19205) to scan the tape update your catalogue with the volume information, i.e., volume label, job information, files, etc. Once you have scanned it in, then you should be able to run a regular restore job to extract the files that you need from the tape. If you do not have an available bacula instillation to work with, then you should be able to obtain a copy of bextract to extract (http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Volume_Utility_Tools.html#19140) what you need. (I'm not sure, but it looks as if you would have to download the entire application in order to get bextract.) HTH! cmr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] help with schedules
On Saturday 16 September 2006 12:09, Jim Peters wrote: Are there any good tutorials or advice on how to create different schedules for bacula? What I would like to do is schedule each client to back up each day (mon-sun) and keep each backup until the next time that day comes around. (Actually 3 days worth would be sufficient but possibly more complicated to configure) This way if I have a disaster on Saturday and Friday's data is corrupt I can still fall back a day and use Thursdays and so on. Is this feasible with bacula? Or is there a better way to insure against bad data in a backup? I am open to any suggestions, this is just the way I am used to rotating manual backups to avoid problems and still limit disk space as much as possible and seemed to be a good idea to me to continue. Sorry to use this list for what some might think as trivial questions but I am eager to learn bacula and implement it on my network, and I have searched on the web on this subject but haven't found anything that seemed to be what I was looking for. Thanks, Jim Jim, You don't mention whether you have read the excellent Bacula documentation (http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Contents.html) which contains a very great deal of information on the subject of scheduling: - Getting Started with Bacula/Understanding Jobs Schedules - A Brief Tutorial - Configuring the Director/The Schedule Resource - Configuring the Director/Example Director Configuration File - Automatic Volume Recycling - Basic Volume Management - Backup Strategies Not to mention the FAQ and Tips Suggestions sections, and mailing list archives. Finally, the short answer to your question is 'yes', it's not only possible but easy to set up a three day rotation. About the only schedule which poses some difficulty is one which uses the 'last [Friday|Saturday|Sunday|...] of the month, but even that can be done with some fancy Perl or shell scripting. Cheers! cmr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] split configuration files
Bruno,
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 12:36, Bruno Savioli wrote:
Hello All,
I am setting up a fairly big bacula solution.
I will be backing up aroung 150-200 linux clients.
As it will be a large deployment, I want to configure it to be easily
manageable and easy to add new clients.
I am trying to use multiple configuration files using @/path/to/file in
the bacula-dir.conf but am running into some problems.
Below is what I am trying to do.
@/etc/bacula/conf/bacula-dir-catalogs.conf (Will be using about 5 or 6
different catalogs)
@/etc/bacula/conf/bacula-dir-filesets.conf (5 or 6 different file sets)
@/etc/bacula/conf/bacula-dir-schedules.conf (many schedules)
@/etc/bacula/conf/bacula-dir-jobs.conf
@/etc/bacula/conf/bacula-dir-jobdefs.conf
@/etc/bacula/conf/bacula-dir-storages.conf (about 10 different storages.
All Disk Based)
## Add Clients here
@/etc/bacula/conf/clients/client001.conf (On this file, I am adding the
client configurarion and the Pools as each client will have its own Full
and Incremental Pools.
The problem I am having is during bacula startup:
linuxbackup:/etc/bacula# ./bacula-ctl-dir start
Starting the Bacula Director daemon
30-Aug 17:51 bacula-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at lex.c:620
Config error: expected a string, got T_EOL:
/etc/bacula/conf/bacula-dir-jobs.conf
: line 22, col 39 of file /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf
@/etc/bacula/conf/bacula-dir-jobs.conf
I am positive the file /etc/bacula/conf/bacula-dir-jobs.conf exists.
If I remove the file, I ge a different error message:
Config error: Cannot open included config file
/etc/bacula/conf/jobs.conf: No such file or directory
Any clues ?
I have tried changing the filename, checking if all the parameters are
correct and no luck at all.
Job {
Name = client001-job
Type = Backup
Client = client001-fd
FileSet = lsh-fileset
Schedule = Monthly
Storage = lsh-file
Messages = Standard
Full Backup Pool = client001-full
Incremental Backup Pool = client001-inc
Write Bootstrap = /home/backup/bootstraps/lsh503.bsr
Well, this just could be a typographical error, but you are missing a
closing around your bootstrap pathword.
Priority = 5
}
Many Thanks
Bruno
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Re: [Bacula-users] split configuration files
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 12:56, Bruno Savioli wrote: Hello Mike, Thanks for spotting that. That was the problem. Bruno More often than not, it's the simple things that trip us up! :-) cmr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] debian rescue cd
On Monday 07 August 2006 03:37 pm, Scott Lair wrote: Hi folks, Been using bacula 1.36.2 for a few months on a debian sarge system. I am having trouble making a rescue cd. First looked for a deb package to help with the job but I do not see one on debian.org nor does google yield anything. So if you know of a rescue deb file please let me know. Have you had a look at Debian GNU/Linux Live-CD (http://mklivecd.sourceforge.net/)? I haven't used it, myself, but you might give it a try let us know how it works. Myself, I just back up all my configuration files a list of installed packages and use Knoppix. Cheers! cmr So, I got the earliest source available from sourceforge - 1.36.3 (figured it would be close enough) and tried to make the rescue. I am getting stuck on the /etc/sysconfig error as shown here: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/bacula/rescue/source/bacula-1.36.3/rescue/linux/cd rom$ sudo make all ./makekernel Updating modules in root RAM disk Coping /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-3-686 to /etc/bacula/rescue/source/bacula-1.36.3/rescue/linux/cdrom/cdtree/boot/isol inux/vmlinuz ./makebinaries Building root /sbin ... Could not find ash on your system Could not find chkconfig on your system Could not find consoletype on your system Could not find dhcpd on your system Could not find dump on your system Could not find fsck.jfs on your system Could not find getkey on your system Could not find hdparm on your system Could not find insmod.static on your system Could not find ipcalc on your system Could not find lilo on your system Could not find ltrace on your system Could not find mgetty on your system Could not find mingetty on your system Could not find mkbootdisk on your system Could not find mkfs.jfs on your system Could not find nmap on your system Could not find nologin on your system Could not find raidstart on your system Could not find scsi_info on your system Could not find usleep on your system Building root shared libaries ... Building /etc ... Could not find /etc/bashrc in /etc Could not find /etc/filesystems in /etc ! Warning your /etc/ssh directory was copied. Keep this directory and the CDROM secure. ! make[1]: Entering directory `/etc/bacula/rescue/source/bacula-1.36.3/rescue/linux/cdrom/bacula' ./getdiskinfo Begin collecting system info ... Done collecting info. Begin creating scripts ... Done making partitioning scripts Begin making formatting script(s) ... Done building scripts. ./make_rescue_disk Tarring /etc files to current directory tar: Removing leading `/' from member names tar: /etc/sysconfig: Cannot stat: No such file or directory tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/etc/bacula/rescue/source/bacula-1.36.3/rescue/linux/cdrom/bacula' make: *** [bacula] Error 2 --- - I re-ran the configure with --with-sysconfig=/etc/default, the debian equivalent AFAIK, but got the same result here. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ 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 - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] zlib problem when restoring files
On Thursday 03 August 2006 12:37 am, Beda Kosata wrote: Kern Sibbald wrote: On Wednesday 02 August 2006 17:46, Mike Reinehr wrote: On Wednesday 02 August 2006 04:09 am, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Wednesday 02 August 2006 10:58, Beda Kosata wrote: Kern Sibbald wrote: On Wednesday 02 August 2006 06:40, Beda Kosata wrote: Dear all, I am using bacula to backup several of our machines and I have run into a problem restoring one machine. All files are restored, but for some of them I get something like this in messages: 01-Aug 15:31 fretka-fd: MilaRestoreFiles.2006-08-01_15.31.09 Error: Uncompression error on file /home/restore/home/nicmila/.thunderbird/fpjdjhkm.default/Mail/LocalFolde r s/Sent.msf. ERR=Zlib buffer error and the resulting files have zero length. This machine is a pretty new AMD64. When I have tried to restore to an older pentium4 machine, everything went ok. Both of them are running Gentoo Linux in similar configuration. Therefor I suspect the problem is in the 64bit machine. However trying to find any information on problems with zlib on AMD64 was not successful. I have tried to recompile both zlib and bacula, even with optimization turned off, but the errors remain. I would be glad for any suggestions how to fix this problem. Are you trying to restore files from Volumes that were written on the Pentium4 on the AMD64 or did you write the Volumes with your AMD64? I am trying to restore files that were backed up on an older pentium machine (as part of hardware update). I have now tried to restore backup that was already made on the AMD64 machine and everything seems to be OK. I guess it solves most of the problem for me now. Anyway I wonder what the problem is. Shouldn't zlib work regardless of the architecture? Yes, zlib should work regardless of the architecture -- this is a real pity to hear, because it means that zlib is not 32/64 bit clean and/or does not take the trouble to handle byte order differences. Perhaps it is time to consider implementing other compression algorithms such as lzma, which I believe were written more recently and probably handle thes problems. I'll also take a note of this and check the Bacula code as it is possible that there is a problem, though I doubt it. Thanks Beda p.s.- bacula is great :) Thanks. Regards, Kern Kern, I've just checked the bug reports for Debian AMD64 on the zlibc homepage and can find no reference to any 64bit bugs. Also, there has been no mention of any zlibc problems on the Debian AMD64 mailing list. (I'm running Debian Sarge for AMD64 here, myself, but haven't used compression.) So I would suspect that the problem is limited either to Gentoo Linux, in particular, to Mr. Kosata's system, or (I know this is a very remote possibility ;-) Bacula. I guess that I was not very precise. I did not mean to imply that this was a 64 bit problem. What I was trying to say is that zlib does not seem to be 32/64 bit clean, which means that if you compress data on a 32 bit machine and try to uncompress exactly the same data on a 64 bit machine, it doesn't seem to work. Whether or not it is a zlib or a Bacula bug I cannot tell, but I do know that we put a lot of effort in trying to ensure that Bacula is *totally* 32/64 bit independent. Even routines such as the system printf() or sscanf() are not even close to being 32/64 bit independent. I have made a few more test to be sure that it is not problem of one system. I have tried to restore files backed up on a 32bit machine onto *another* 64bit machine, with the same result - corrupted files. Restoring files backed up on a 64bit machine to a 32bit machine seems ok. The same is true for restoring files backed up on 64bit machine to another 64bit machine. So to summarize, it seems that 32 = 32 - OK 64 = 64 - OK 64 = 32 - OK 32 = 64 - Errors Unfortunately I cannot test 64bit machine under other OS than Gentoo Linux. Beda I'm not sure that this is relevant, as I have not compiled anything from source--I just download binaries from the Debian mirrors. But if gzip gunzip use the same zlib's as are used in Bacula, then I do not have the 32 = 64 errors here. As i test I compressed a tar archive with gzip on my 32-bit, PIII desktop; transferred it to my AMD64 Opeteron service and then sucessfully uncompressed it with gunzip. The desktop runs a mixture of Debian stable testing while the server is running pure stable. HTH cmr -- 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
Re: [Bacula-users] zlib problem when restoring files
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 04:09 am, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Wednesday 02 August 2006 10:58, Beda Kosata wrote: Kern Sibbald wrote: On Wednesday 02 August 2006 06:40, Beda Kosata wrote: Dear all, I am using bacula to backup several of our machines and I have run into a problem restoring one machine. All files are restored, but for some of them I get something like this in messages: 01-Aug 15:31 fretka-fd: MilaRestoreFiles.2006-08-01_15.31.09 Error: Uncompression error on file /home/restore/home/nicmila/.thunderbird/fpjdjhkm.default/Mail/LocalFolder s/Sent.msf. ERR=Zlib buffer error and the resulting files have zero length. This machine is a pretty new AMD64. When I have tried to restore to an older pentium4 machine, everything went ok. Both of them are running Gentoo Linux in similar configuration. Therefor I suspect the problem is in the 64bit machine. However trying to find any information on problems with zlib on AMD64 was not successful. I have tried to recompile both zlib and bacula, even with optimization turned off, but the errors remain. I would be glad for any suggestions how to fix this problem. Are you trying to restore files from Volumes that were written on the Pentium4 on the AMD64 or did you write the Volumes with your AMD64? I am trying to restore files that were backed up on an older pentium machine (as part of hardware update). I have now tried to restore backup that was already made on the AMD64 machine and everything seems to be OK. I guess it solves most of the problem for me now. Anyway I wonder what the problem is. Shouldn't zlib work regardless of the architecture? Yes, zlib should work regardless of the architecture -- this is a real pity to hear, because it means that zlib is not 32/64 bit clean and/or does not take the trouble to handle byte order differences. Perhaps it is time to consider implementing other compression algorithms such as lzma, which I believe were written more recently and probably handle thes problems. I'll also take a note of this and check the Bacula code as it is possible that there is a problem, though I doubt it. Thanks Beda p.s.- bacula is great :) Thanks. Regards, Kern Kern, I've just checked the bug reports for Debian AMD64 on the zlibc homepage and can find no reference to any 64bit bugs. Also, there has been no mention of any zlibc problems on the Debian AMD64 mailing list. (I'm running Debian Sarge for AMD64 here, myself, but haven't used compression.) So I would suspect that the problem is limited either to Gentoo Linux, in particular, to Mr. Kosata's system, or (I know this is a very remote possibility ;-) Bacula. Cheers! cmr -- 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
Re: [Bacula-users] Impossible Huge Backup
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 01:52 pm, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: thanx for the advice, but this was the first thing I checked. Sounds as if the next step would be to use the bls command to list all of the files on the tape and then compare that listing with a listing of the files on the computer in question. Question to the list: it doesn't appear that the database records file sizes, but only the names of the files. Is this correct? cmr Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY http://www.sonicle.com --- --- Da: Joshua J. Kugler [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Gabriele Bulfon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data: 19 luglio 2006 19.56.19 CEST Oggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] Impossible Huge Backup On Wednesday 19 July 2006 00:22, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: Hello, I have another strange problem. I have a machine running the client fd, the sd and dir are running on another server machine. Last week I got bacula errors, because the LTO tape was run out of space. I checked all the machines, and the sum of the hard disk spaces to be backed up was not higher than 180Gb. Then I looked at the bacula reports, and I found one machine showing 160Gb of SD Bytes Written. I checked again that machine (a Solaris 8 sparc): two disks for a physical total of 60Gb. Then I dumped out with bconsole the list of files backed up (list files jobid=xxx) on a text file, and I verified there was no replication of files. Last but not least, the following days I noticed that the reports was showing a growing size: after 4 days the SD Bytes Written is about 240Gb!!! How can I check what's happening?! First thing that came to mind: does this client have other systems mounted via NFS or SMB under their home directory (or other directories)? You might be backing up directories exported from other servers. j -- Joshua Kugler Lead System Admin -- Senior Programmer http://www.eeinternet.com PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0xDB26D7CE PO Box 80086 -- Fairbanks, AK 99708 -- Ph: 907-456-5581 Fax: 907-456-3111 - 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 '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
Re: [Bacula-users] Review of Bacula
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 09:36 am, John Kodis wrote: There's a brief review of Bacula at: http://osreviews.net/reviews/admin/bacula It's fairly positive, but criticizes the tape selection algorithm as being far from intuitive. No argument there. In the short time that I've been using Bacula following this list, it seems that the first question every new user asks is How can I tell which tape is Bacula going to require? :-) Cheers! cmr -- John Kodis. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ 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 --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] RunAfter job problem
On Sunday 18 December 2005 05:46 am, Natxo Asenjo wrote: On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, 09:54:28PM +0100¨, Arno Lehmann said: 17-Dec 20:26 tux-dir: RunAfter: root 17-Dec 20:26 tux-dir: RunAfter: + /etc/bacula/delete_catalog_backup 17-Dec 20:26 tux-dir: RunAfter: + mt rewind 17-Dec 20:26 tux-dir: RunAfter: mt: /dev/tape: Permission denied 17-Dec 20:26 tux-dir: RunAfter: + mt eject 17-Dec 20:26 tux-dir: RunAfter: mt: /dev/tape: Permission denied 17-Dec 20:26 tux-dir: RunAfter: + exit 0 Hmm. Are you using a debian linux system? I think I remember something... yes, debian stable but bacula from sources. The problem is (well, for me in this case) that the jobs run as user bacula (this is good, do not get me wrong). The user bacula in debian systems (I used first the *.debs but then compiled) get a /bin/false shell. I changed that to /bin/bash. Then I edited the sudoers file and granted bacula access to /bin/mt as root without password. That did it. It is not beautiful but it works, and this machine is not a safety problem anyway. On my Debian Sarge system the tape device nodes are owned by 'root' with group 'tape'. Adding user 'bacula' to the 'tape' group in /etc/group solved the permissions problem. Of course, your changing /bin/false to /bin/bash is necessary, also! ;-) Cheers! cmr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37alloc_id865op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula update
Kern, I really don't have a dog in this fight, as I am running Debian Sarge servers which still are at 1.36.2, however, I would like to make these two observations. 1) This raises a question about just what version numbers mean. I've read an article or two about corruption to versioning schemes. I think most schemes use a major minor numbers, where major number changes result from significant changes to the application, i.e., changes which require the rebuilding reformatting of data files, or that significantly change functioning or processing of the application. All other changes, then, are minor. While all this is great in theory, I quite appreciate the practical difficulties that can arise. 2) Bacula works for me, even the somewhat dated version that I am running. It really matters little to me what new features you add or fixes that you make, so long as an upgrade doesn't break what already is working for me. So, in conclusion grin I guess what I'm saying is, that so long as nothing you do would break an existing installation then by all means, take the choice which requires the least amount of effort on your part and still makes some sense as far as version numbers are concerned. And, thanks for all that you do. Bacula is great! Cheers! cmr PS Apologies for top-posting. On Thursday 08 December 2005 11:03 am, Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, I have an important decision to make concerning updates to 1.38, and before making it, I would like to get your input. The current production release is Bacula version 1.38.2. Between the time it was released (22 November 2005) and now, there are a number of bugs that have been fixed, which some users might want to include in their system. The problem is that these fixes are for the most part in version 1.39, and are quite difficult to back port to 1.38. There are a number of different ways to handle the problem: 1. Back port the important fixes to the 1.38 stream and release a 1.38.3 (at least 1 week of work). 2. Release the current 1.39.2 but as version 1.38.3 (1 day's work) 3. Release the current 1.39.2 as version 1.39.2 (same work as item 2) 4. Don't do anything Now, I would like to get the fixes in the hands of the users, so I can rule out option 4. My preference is for options 2 or 3, because it will most quickly allow me to get on with development rather than maintenance. The problem with option 2 is that there are a good number of new features in 1.39.2, which are not yet stable. At the same time, all the base features of 1.38.2 appear to me to be quite stable in 1.39.2. So, I would appreciate your input on this subject. Below, I include for your information the technical notes on what is in version 1.39.2 that is not in version 1.38.2 (or bugs that are fixed). -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637alloc_id=16865op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Variable for week of the month?
Misty, On Friday 05 August 2005 11:24 am, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote: On Friday 05 August 2005 11:18 am, Jesse Keating wrote: Keep in mind, when a volume is recycled it is not re-labeled. Only the first time the volume is created is it labeled. So if volume 31 is marked as purged and it is day 1 after a 30-day month, I will get volume 31 anyway? Is there no way around it? Like you, I like rational, meaningful names for my backup volumes, disk or tape. I finally got around this problem by writing a bash script which is executed in a run-before job that physically removes purged disk volumes so that they can not be reused. The job executes in three steps. First, it runs bconsole to compile a list of the purged volumes. Second, it runs beconsol again deleting the purged volumes from the catalog. Then, it deletes them from the hard drive. It's not pretty, but it works. (I probably could make it somewhat more elegant if I took the time to write some sql code to access the database directly, but I don't have the time and it sounds risky, anyway.) After all of this, I then have bacula configured to create new disk volumes with meaningful names, i.e., Bilskirnir-Full:2005-08-05, Bilskirnir-Incr:2005-08-06, etc. As for the number of the week of a month, I think you're going to have to calculate that yourself. Even the date command doesn't seem to have an option for that. Possibily, you could calculate this externally to bacula and then pass it as an environment variable, but that sounds like you would have to restart the director every day. :-( HTH's cmr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Adding a Red Hat box to be backed up
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 11:42 am, Stack Stack wrote: Thanks, That at least fixed the problem on the Debian box. However, still the same error on the Red Hat box. I reinstalled the fd client on the Red Hat box. I also went through every bacula file that I could find on both boxes, and verified that the password was set properly. Still the same error on the Red Hat box. Any suggestions? I am beginning to think that the password isn't the problem, and that I have some other setting messed up. Thanks for the help, ~Stack~ On 8/3/05, Danie Theron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stack Stack wrote: Hey Guys, Well I have Bacula running on my Debian box now. I have been toying with it for a few hours, and have figured out a lot. I got different folders, files, and drives being backed up. So I decided to test out adding another box. I am attempting to add a Red Hat 9 box. I installed the Client rpm, and setup the config files on both machines as I understand they should be according to the tutorial file. When I run a backup from the Debian box, I get this error: ERROR in authenticate.c:217 Unable to authenticate console *UserAgent* at client:/*IP addy*/:36131. Not certain what to do on that. When I run ./bconsole from the Red Hat box I get this error: Connecting to Director /*My IP*/:9102 Director authorization problem. Most likely the passwords do not agree. Please see http://www.bacula.org/html-manual/faq.html#AuthorizationErrors for help. ERR=1999 Authorization failed. I checked the passwords, they are correct. I checked the port numbers, they are correct. So I went to the website, and its a dead link. I couldn't find any errors listed as 1999, so I am quite baffled as to what is going on. If I left something out, let me know. I appreciate any help. Thanks Guys, ~Stack~ You might want to add the RH box to your hosts file /etc/hosts. Hope this helps If the problem was solved by adding the RH system name to your /etc/hosts file on the Debian system, then the problem was a DNS resolver problem. Have you tried adding the Debian system name to the /etc/hosts file on your RH system? You're likely having the same DNS resolver problem there, as well. cmr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Adding a Red Hat box to be backed up
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 01:47 pm, Stack Stack wrote: Once I saw that it worked on one system(Debian), I made sure that it was implemented on the other (Red Hat). I am going to attempt a client install on another system. Hopefully this will point out which box is having the problem. Thanks for the suggestion, ~Stack~ Ok, but, while we're on the subject of networking have you tried the other obvious things like pinging the respective systems, one from the other, just to verify basic connectivity. Also, do you have any firewall software running on either system, which might be blocking ports? I did a new Libranet 3.0 install a few months ago was pulling my hair out when I couldn't connect to anything until I finally stumbled over the fact that Libranet automagically installs starts a firewall during a standard install. Cheers! cmr On 8/3/05, Mike Reinehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 03 August 2005 11:42 am, Stack Stack wrote: Thanks, That at least fixed the problem on the Debian box. However, still the same error on the Red Hat box. I reinstalled the fd client on the Red Hat box. I also went through every bacula file that I could find on both boxes, and verified that the password was set properly. Still the same error on the Red Hat box. Any suggestions? I am beginning to think that the password isn't the problem, and that I have some other setting messed up. Thanks for the help, ~Stack~ On 8/3/05, Danie Theron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stack Stack wrote: Hey Guys, Well I have Bacula running on my Debian box now. I have been toying with it for a few hours, and have figured out a lot. I got different folders, files, and drives being backed up. So I decided to test out adding another box. I am attempting to add a Red Hat 9 box. I installed the Client rpm, and setup the config files on both machines as I understand they should be according to the tutorial file. When I run a backup from the Debian box, I get this error: ERROR in authenticate.c:217 Unable to authenticate console *UserAgent* at client:/*IP addy*/:36131. Not certain what to do on that. When I run ./bconsole from the Red Hat box I get this error: Connecting to Director /*My IP*/:9102 Director authorization problem. Most likely the passwords do not agree. Please see http://www.bacula.org/html-manual/faq.html#AuthorizationErrors for help. ERR=1999 Authorization failed. I checked the passwords, they are correct. I checked the port numbers, they are correct. So I went to the website, and its a dead link. I couldn't find any errors listed as 1999, so I am quite baffled as to what is going on. If I left something out, let me know. I appreciate any help. Thanks Guys, ~Stack~ You might want to add the RH box to your hosts file /etc/hosts. Hope this helps If the problem was solved by adding the RH system name to your /etc/hosts file on the Debian system, then the problem was a DNS resolver problem. Have you tried adding the Debian system name to the /etc/hosts file on your RH system? You're likely having the same DNS resolver problem there, as well. cmr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ 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 --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf
Re: [Bacula-users] Debian packages
Hello Stack! On Tuesday 02 August 2005 11:00 am, Stack Stack wrote: Hello everyone, I am attempting to build Bacula on a Debian system. I am very much new at Bacula, I have been reading the tutorials past several days, and right now I am just doing testing on a secondary box before I mess with the primary. So if I screw something up, tis no big deal. I am familiar with Linux, but have just begun working with Debian (required for this project), so I can't say I know Debian inside and out. You should get to know Debian, as it's the best Linux distribution! ;-) When I was downloading the packages, I saw that there were .deb files. Are those not the Debian installer files? I don't recall seeing anything about Debian in the tutorials other then the fact it was a supported OS. Has anyone used them to install that could give me some pointers? Is it easier to install or more difficult? You are correct. .deb files are the files used by the Debian package management system. There are source debs and binary debs, but I'm sure you've downloaded the binaries. There's a short answer and a long answer to your question. Here's the short answer, first: dpkg --install package.deb ... The long answer involves reading some manuals: http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#usersguide In particular, you need to familiarize yourself with dpkg, the Debian Package manager and with apt, the Advanced Package Tool. Once you've done that, then the next step is to familiarize yourself with aptitude, which is a higher level interface to the package manager and with the configuration files in /etc/apt. Once you've set up a good sources list (you, probably already have one) then downloading, installing upgrading deb packages is almost effortless. It's no big deal to rebuild from source (I have done it once already, but I screwed it up when tweaking it). So I can do it again, I am just trying out other methods so I know exactly what to do when I begin work on the the primary system. Really, really not necessary. But if you insist, there is a Debian way of doing it (of course). Also, I will be dumping the backups to a raid5 array, so if anyone has any comments, I would greatly appreciate hearing about what tends to work best. Personally, my research has lead me to favor RAID10, over RAID5. Disk drives have become so much less expensive that that the extra capacity required is not that expensive. Are you using hardware of software RAID? RAID10 is now supported by md mdadm. Thanks, ~Stack~ Cheers! cmr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] dev open failed: Could not open file device DVD-WRITER (/dev/hdc). No Volume name given.
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 05:33 pm, Mario Ohnewald wrote:
Hello Mike,
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:24 -0500, Mike Reinehr wrote:
Mario,
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 12:39 pm, Mario Ohnewald wrote:
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 16:12 +0200, Frederic PIERROT wrote:
Hi,
At 16:06 13/07/2005, you wrote:
i am trying to test my backup volume like the tutorial recommends:
btape -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf /dev/hdc
Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes.
btape: butil.c:258 Using device: /dev/hdc for writing.
13-Jul 15:49 btape: Fatal Error at btape.c:330 because:
dev open failed: Could not open file device DVD-WRITER (/dev/hdc).
No Volume name given.
*label
Automatically selected Storage: File
Enter new Volume name: Test02
Automatically selected Pool: Default
Connecting to Storage daemon File at SpiekLap:9103 ...
Sending label command for Volume Test02 Slot 0 ...
3910 Unable to open device DVD (/dev/sr0): ERR=dvd.c:363
Label command failed for Volume Test02.
Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
*run
A job name must be specified.
The defined Job resources are:
1: Laptop
2: BackupCatalog
3: RestoreFiles
Select Job resource (1-3): 1
Run Backup job
JobName: Laptop
FileSet: Full Set
Level:Incremental
Client: SpiekLap-fd
Storage: File
Pool: Default
When: 2005-07-13 19:33:25
Priority: 10
OK to run? (yes/mod/no): mod
Parameters to modify:
1: Level
2: Storage
3: Job
4: FileSet
5: Client
6: When
7: Priority
8: Pool
Select parameter to modify (1-8): 2
Automatically selected Storage: File
Run Backup job
JobName: Laptop
FileSet: Full Set
Level:Incremental
Client: SpiekLap-fd
Storage: File
Pool: Default
When: 2005-07-13 19:33:25
Priority: 10
OK to run? (yes/mod/no):
-
Does it automatically use Storage=File because i dont have a working
DVD Storage device?
eject /dev/sr0 works, and i can write to the dvd with k3b.
Here my config:
grep -v ^# bacula-sd.conf
Storage { # definition of myself
Name = SpiekLap-sd
SDPort = 9103 # Director's port
WorkingDirectory = /var/bacula/working
Pid Directory = /var/run
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20
}
Director {
Name = SpiekLap-dir
Password = yQ7e7PKrz+/HFtH2VWx7yl4PNUWi77RiA5LnhVI4SXtw
}
Director {
Name = SpiekLap-mon
Password = Owt19GfAFw+vYqfGI8gAmWCBa7ELqmqd+m0y8KG4JKZ+
Monitor = yes
}
Device {
Name = DVD-WRITER
Media Type = DVD
Archive Device = /dev/hdc
LabelMedia = no; # i have already tried YES here,
too Random Access = Yes;
AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
RemovableMedia = yes;
AlwaysOpen = no;
MaximumPartSize = 800M;
RequiresMount = yes;
MountPoint = /cdrom;
MountCommand = /bin/mount -t iso9660 -o ro %a %m;
UnmountCommand = /bin/umount %m;
SpoolDirectory = /tmp/backup;
WritePartCommand = /etc/bacula/dvd-writepart %n %a %v
FreeSpaceCommand = /etc/bacula/dvd-freespace %a %n
}
I'm just guessing here, but your mount command indicates type iso9660.
Does your DVD already have an iso9660 file system written to it?
No, its a blank DVD RW+
If not, this
might be the source of your problem.
So should i remove the MountPoint and MountCommand options?
I was already in the example config, so i just thought its correct.
Thanks, Mario
Mario,
Well, yes no. Basically, the o/s will not be able to mount your dvd at all,
until there is a working file system written on the DVD. Last week I would
have said that I don't think that just creating an iso9660 file system will
solve your problem as it would be a read-only file system, however, there was
a thread earlier this week that seemed to indicate that it was possible to
write an iso9660 file system on the fly with growisofs. I didn't read it in
detail so I can't say for certain. Search the archives for a message with the
title DVD Backup Script (Was Re: [Bacula-users] DVD+/-RW as media without
bimgmanager?) from Misty Stanely-Jones. In it she provides a script which
writes a backup to a DVD.
Alternatively, you could use DVD-RAM. All recent kernels support this type of
drive. You treat it just like a hard drive, which is to say, you use mkfs to
create the file system of your choice (ext2, ext3, etc.). Then mount and
write it. I've even played around with using squashfs to create write a
compressed file system, with mixed results.
Cheers!
cmr
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Re: [Bacula-users] Catalog stopped backing up?
On Thursday 14 July 2005 09:37 am, DAve wrote:
Good morning all,
I've read through the docs (doesn't mean I got it all) and successfully
installed and configured Bacula. Very nice program. I ran backups into a
single file for a while until we got an idea what we needed. I then
reread the docs section about Automatic_Volume_Recycling. I am certain I
missed something.
Once I got everything resetup and running Bacula appeared to be doing
exactly what I wanted except that my catalog backup is now failing.
I am at a oss as to understand why. Can someone please smack me with a
clue bat?
Thanks, details below.
DAve
Dave,
Your listing for Jobid 895, below, indicates a Backup Level of Catalog. I
think this is your problem. The backup level should be Full. Catalog is a
level used only by verify jobs. Unfortunately, I can't say for certain why
this is happening. All of your configuration stanzas seem correct, to me. The
only clue that I see is in your listing of pools. In that list the pool type
for your Catalog pool is indicated as Cat-. You might try deleting this pool
and allowing it to be created again, from scratch.
Also, are you running this job with a bconsole run command, or is it running
automatically? If from bconsole, make sure that you have selected the correct
level, before saying yes to run.
cmr
=error message
14-Jul 01:10 web6-dir: Start Backup JobId 895,
Job=BackupCatalog.2005-07-14_01.10.00
14-Jul 01:10 web6-dir: BackupCatalog.2005-07-14_01.10.00 Fatal error:
fd_cmds.c:222 Unimplemented backup level 67 C
14-Jul 01:10 web6-dir: BackupCatalog.2005-07-14_01.10.00 Error: Bacula
1.36.1 (26Nov04): 14-Jul-2005 01:10:08
JobId: 895
Job:BackupCatalog.2005-07-14_01.10.00
Backup Level: Catalog
Client: web6-fd
FileSet:Web6-Catalog 2004-12-17 15:27:31
Pool: Default
Storage:File
Start time: 14-Jul-2005 01:10:02
End time: 14-Jul-2005 01:10:08
FD Files Written: 0
SD Files Written: 0
FD Bytes Written: 0
SD Bytes Written: 0
Rate: 0.0 KB/s
Software Compression: None
Volume name(s):
Volume Session Id: 25
Volume Session Time:1120164017
Last Volume Bytes: 0
Non-fatal FD errors:0
SD Errors: 0
FD termination status:
SD termination status: Waiting on FD
Termination:*** Backup Error ***
=bacula-dir.conf==
Job {
Name = BackupCatalog
Type = Backup
FileSet = Web6-Catalog
Schedule = WeeklyCycleAfterBackup
# This creates an ASCII copy of the catalog
RunBeforeJob = /usr/local/share/bacula/make_catalog_backup bacula
bacula
# This deletes the copy of the catalog
RunAfterJob = /usr/local/share/bacula/delete_catalog_backup
Write Bootstrap = /usr/local/db/bacula/BackupCatalog.bsr
Level = Full
Client = web6-fd
Storage = File
Messages = Standard
Pool = Default
Priority = 11 # run after main backup
}
FileSet {
Name = Web6-Catalog
Include {
Options {
signature = MD5
}
File = /usr/local/db/bacula/bacula.sql
}
}
Schedule {
Name = WeeklyCycleAfterBackup
Run = Level=Full FullPool=Catalog sun-sat at 1:10
}
Pool {
Name = Catalog
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes
Volume Retention = 30 days
Accept Any Volume = yes # write on any volume in the pool
LabelFormat = Cat-
Maximum Volume Jobs = 6
Maximum Volumes = 5
}
=bconsole===
*list pools
++---+-+-+--+-+
| PoolId | Name | NumVols | MaxVols | PoolType | LabelFormat |
++---+-+-+--+-+
| 1 | Default | 4 | 4 | Backup | BackUp |
| 2 | Inc-Pool | 6 | 6 | Backup | Inc-|
| 3 | Diff-Pool | 5 | 5 | Backup | Diff- |
| 4 | Full-Pool | 6 | 6 | Backup | Full- |
| 5 | Catalog | 5 | 5 | Backup | Cat-|
++---+-+-+--+-+
*list media
Pool: Catalog
+-++---++--+--+
-+--+---+---+-+
| MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | VolBytes | VolFiles |
VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten
+-++---++--+--+
-+--+---+---+-+
| 22 | Cat-0001 | Append| 72,498,076 |0
Re: [Bacula-users] MTEOM
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 02:42 am, Taymour A. El Erian wrote: HI, I had a tape which bacula failed to write on so I did mt erase and relabeled it with label command and started to reuse it, what happened is that I got this error from bacula after it wrote several jobs on the tape Error: Unable to position to end of data on device /dev/tape. ERR=dev.c:494 ioctl MTEOM error on /dev/tape. ERR=Input/output error. what does this mean ? This is just a guess, but Magnetic Tape End Of Media error. In other words, you have run off the end of the tape, without Bacula having received an end of media signal. HTH's. cmr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you to explore the latest in dual core and dual graphics technology at this free one hour event hosted by HP, AMD, and NVIDIA. To register visit http://www.hp.com/go/dualwebinar ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] dev open failed: Could not open file device DVD-WRITER (/dev/hdc). No Volume name given.
Mario,
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 12:39 pm, Mario Ohnewald wrote:
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 16:12 +0200, Frederic PIERROT wrote:
Hi,
At 16:06 13/07/2005, you wrote:
i am trying to test my backup volume like the tutorial recommends:
btape -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf /dev/hdc
Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes.
btape: butil.c:258 Using device: /dev/hdc for writing.
13-Jul 15:49 btape: Fatal Error at btape.c:330 because:
dev open failed: Could not open file device DVD-WRITER (/dev/hdc). No
Volume name given.
*label
Automatically selected Storage: File
Enter new Volume name: Test02
Automatically selected Pool: Default
Connecting to Storage daemon File at SpiekLap:9103 ...
Sending label command for Volume Test02 Slot 0 ...
3910 Unable to open device DVD (/dev/sr0): ERR=dvd.c:363
Label command failed for Volume Test02.
Do not forget to mount the drive!!!
*run
A job name must be specified.
The defined Job resources are:
1: Laptop
2: BackupCatalog
3: RestoreFiles
Select Job resource (1-3): 1
Run Backup job
JobName: Laptop
FileSet: Full Set
Level:Incremental
Client: SpiekLap-fd
Storage: File
Pool: Default
When: 2005-07-13 19:33:25
Priority: 10
OK to run? (yes/mod/no): mod
Parameters to modify:
1: Level
2: Storage
3: Job
4: FileSet
5: Client
6: When
7: Priority
8: Pool
Select parameter to modify (1-8): 2
Automatically selected Storage: File
Run Backup job
JobName: Laptop
FileSet: Full Set
Level:Incremental
Client: SpiekLap-fd
Storage: File
Pool: Default
When: 2005-07-13 19:33:25
Priority: 10
OK to run? (yes/mod/no):
-
Does it automatically use Storage=File because i dont have a working DVD
Storage device?
eject /dev/sr0 works, and i can write to the dvd with k3b.
Here my config:
grep -v ^# bacula-sd.conf
Storage { # definition of myself
Name = SpiekLap-sd
SDPort = 9103 # Director's port
WorkingDirectory = /var/bacula/working
Pid Directory = /var/run
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20
}
Director {
Name = SpiekLap-dir
Password = yQ7e7PKrz+/HFtH2VWx7yl4PNUWi77RiA5LnhVI4SXtw
}
Director {
Name = SpiekLap-mon
Password = Owt19GfAFw+vYqfGI8gAmWCBa7ELqmqd+m0y8KG4JKZ+
Monitor = yes
}
Device {
Name = DVD-WRITER
Media Type = DVD
Archive Device = /dev/hdc
LabelMedia = no; # i have already tried YES here, too
Random Access = Yes;
AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
RemovableMedia = yes;
AlwaysOpen = no;
MaximumPartSize = 800M;
RequiresMount = yes;
MountPoint = /cdrom;
MountCommand = /bin/mount -t iso9660 -o ro %a %m;
UnmountCommand = /bin/umount %m;
SpoolDirectory = /tmp/backup;
WritePartCommand = /etc/bacula/dvd-writepart %n %a %v
FreeSpaceCommand = /etc/bacula/dvd-freespace %a %n
}
I'm just guessing here, but your mount command indicates type iso9660.
Does
your DVD already have an iso9660 file system written to it? If not, this
might be the source of your problem.
snip
HTH's!
cmr
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Re: [Bacula-users] file-list
On Monday 11 July 2005 12:55 pm, Maurizio Santini wrote:
That it was my first configuration but it always throw the error
Could not stat File: ERR=No such file or directory
Thanks,
Maurizio
Make sure that the file exists, even if it has size 0, when you start
the
director. Also make sure that the director has permission to read the file.
Cheers!
cmr
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 14:21, Mike Reinehr wrote:
On Monday 11 July 2005 10:10 am, Maurizio Santini wrote:
It worked!
Bacula's manual should be corrected because it says to use File =
@/what_ever_path/file.list but as you suggested the word File is not
needed in bacula-dir.conf when the @ operator is used.
Thank you very much,
Maurizio
Maurizio,
Something to keep in mind is that @/what_ever_path/file.list will be
read only when you start bacula-director or issue the reload command from
bconsole. This may be what you intend, but if file.list will be changing
regularly you may wish to use the File = /what_ever_path/file.list
construct, which will be read every time you run a backup job.
Cheers!
cmr
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 17:42, Martin Simmons wrote:
On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 19:30:48 -0300, Maurizio Santini
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Maurizio Hello,
Maurizio I'm trying to set up bacula 1.36.3 on redhat 8 but I have
the following Maurizio problem.
Maurizio Instead of listing all the directory/files I want to
backup within the Maurizio FileSet/Include directive I set up a file
with the directories/files I Maurizio want to backup.
Maurizio bacula-dir.conf looks like this...
Maurizio FileSet {
Maurizio Name = Monitor0 files
Maurizio Include {
Maurizio Options {
Maurizio signature = MD5
Maurizio }
Maurizio File =
@/root/bacula/bin/file_list/monitor_pc/monitor0.list Maurizio }
Maurizio }
Maurizio ...and monitor0.list like this...
Maurizio File = /boot/message, File = /boot/map, File =
/boot/kernel.h
Maurizio The configuration looks OK because I can restart bacula
with no problems Maurizio but when I try to backup the client I get
the error Could not stat Maurizio File: ERR=No such file or
directory.
Maurizio monitor0.list is on the director's machine.
Maurizio Does anyone know if I'm configuring wrong monitor0.list
or Maurizio bacula-dir.conf?
The @ operator includes monitor0.list as if it was inline in
bacula-dir.conf, so you have created the following:
File = File = /boot/message, File = /boot/map, File =
/boot/kernel.h
To get what you want, I suggest creating monitor0.list to contain
this:
File = /boot/message
File = /boot/map
File = /boot/kernel.h
and using it like this:
FileSet {
Name = Monitor0 files
Include {
Options {
signature = MD5
}
@/root/bacula/bin/file_list/monitor_pc/monitor0.list
}
}
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Re: [Bacula-users] ERROR TERMINATION at lex.c:140
On Wednesday 29 June 2005 01:22 pm, David Clymer wrote: On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 17:09 -0500, Mike Reinehr wrote: On Monday 27 June 2005 04:54 pm, Mike Reinehr wrote: Oh, oh! I seem to have just shot myself in the foot! I edited /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf to add the necessary paragraphs to support a new network client backup. Then I stopped bacula-director tried to restart it with the following result: Starting Bacula Director: 27-Jun 16:39 bacula-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at lex.c:140 Cannot open config file /var/lib/bacula/file_list: No such file or directory failed. Since then, I have restored bacula-dir.conf, but no joy. This is a Debian system running Bacula version 1.36.2 -- (Deb: 1.36.2-2) Can anyone give me a clue??? Where/how is /var/lib/bacula/file_list referenced in your config? Could we have a ltle more info? -davidc Sorry for the delay. I've been in and out of the office for the past three days. This was such a stupid, self-inflicted error that I'm embarrassed to admit it. I was trying to switch from specifying files to be backed up in bacula-dir.conf to using a shell script to list them in a file. So, anyway, the file was of my own doing and I finally recognized what was going on. Sorry for the wasted bandwidth. cmr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] ERROR TERMINATION at lex.c:140
Oh, oh! I seem to have just shot myself in the foot! I edited /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf to add the necessary paragraphs to support a new network client backup. Then I stopped bacula-director tried to restart it with the following result: Starting Bacula Director: 27-Jun 16:39 bacula-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at lex.c:140 Cannot open config file /var/lib/bacula/file_list: No such file or directory failed. Since then, I have restored bacula-dir.conf, but no joy. This is a Debian system running Bacula version 1.36.2 -- (Deb: 1.36.2-2) Can anyone give me a clue??? Thanks! cmr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Thinking of implementing bacula have a couple ?'s.
On Thursday 23 June 2005 11:05 am, Sean wrote: 2. Can bacula be compiled on a 64-bit linux system? (I imagine it could, but has anyone had experience with this?) I haven't, personally, compiled it, but I've been running a 64-bit Bacula for over six months now on AMD64 Debian, Sarge. The packages are all in the 64-bit binary repository. There are no unique problems that I've observed. cmr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [OT: Was: Re: bscan segfault]
On Wednesday 08 June 2005 02:52 pm, Jos Luis Talln wrote:
Mike Reinehr wrote:
On Thursday 02 June 2005 06:39 am, Jos Luis Talln wrote:
snip
Kern: this is bacula-1.36.3, save for the old include/exclude support
and the documentation updates, FYI.
bscan comes in 3 flavors, each statically linked to its corresponding
version of 'cats' and client libraries
(i386 Pentium II 400, kernel 2.6.11-rc3 ...)
As usual, don't hesitate contacting me should you need some more
information on the build process.
J.L.
Jose,
I notice from the Debian package directory that you are listed as the
maintainer of the bacula-sd package.
Yes, that's correct.
While following another thread I just
noticed that bscan is not included in any of the Debian packages. The
files:
/usr/lib/bacula/bscan.mysql
/usr/lib/bacula/bscan.pgsql
/usr/lib/bacula/bscan.sqlite
/usr/share/man/man8/bscan.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/bscan.mysql.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/bscan.pgsql.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/bscan.sqlite.8.gz
are included, just not bscan itself. I'm curious as to the reason for this
and wondering how to go about obtaining bscan.
Well, those are the *statically* compiled flavors of bscan, so as not to
have to:
- either create three additional packages (bacula-sd-{sqlite,mysql,pgsql}
or
- have every user download 12MB of additional dependencies just to use SD
I am thinking about providing a symlink from 'bscan' to 'bscan.flavor'
automatically, but refrained from doing that due to the proximity of the
release. I will probably include it very soon.
Color me feeling stupid for not figuring this out for myself! I
certainly can
handle the symlink, myself. You also might consider just adding a note in a
README.Debian file suggesting that the user do so.
Thanks!
cmr
PS To complicate matters I'm running an AMD64 system.
Not a problem at all. As long as Bacula compiles, i will support you
too. Nonetheless, AMD64 is a supported architecture as of now, just
after the release.
I am very pleased with my AMD64 systems. The people responsible for the
port
have done an excellent job.
Thanks!
cmr
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Re: [Bacula-users] Renaming Volumes?
On Friday 03 June 2005 03:39 pm, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote: Can I rename a disk volume somehow? i figured out how I want to label the volumes now but it was wrong yesterday. The backups were good, but the names are not what I want. I have auto labeling so I assume that when they expirre they will just get deleted but can I fix them before that? One of them does not expire for a month! Misty Misty, I think that the only way to do what you wish is to purge the volume from the database. Rename (mv) the actual disk volume and then run bscan to recreate the database entry with the new name. Alternatively, if you are handy with SQL you might just be able to update the volume records in the database directly and then rename the actual disk volume. cmr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC --- 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
Re: [Bacula-users] Renaming Volumes?
On Friday 03 June 2005 04:02 pm, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Friday 03 June 2005 22:51, Mike Reinehr wrote: On Friday 03 June 2005 03:39 pm, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote: Can I rename a disk volume somehow? i figured out how I want to label the volumes now but it was wrong yesterday. The backups were good, but the names are not what I want. I have auto labeling so I assume that when they expirre they will just get deleted but can I fix them before that? One of them does not expire for a month! Misty Misty, I think that the only way to do what you wish is to purge the volume from the database. Rename (mv) the actual disk volume and then run bscan to recreate the database entry with the new name. Alternatively, if you are handy with SQL you might just be able to update the volume records in the database directly and then rename the actual disk volume. 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 ... Sounds as if you were being generous when you said those good ideas! ;-) cmr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC --- 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
Re: [Bacula-users] [OT: Was: Re: bscan segfault]
On Thursday 02 June 2005 06:39 am, Jos Luis Talln wrote: snip Kern: this is bacula-1.36.3, save for the old include/exclude support and the documentation updates, FYI. bscan comes in 3 flavors, each statically linked to its corresponding version of 'cats' and client libraries (i386 Pentium II 400, kernel 2.6.11-rc3 ...) As usual, don't hesitate contacting me should you need some more information on the build process. J.L. Jose, I notice from the Debian package directory that you are listed as the maintainer of the bacula-sd package. While following another thread I just noticed that bscan is not included in any of the Debian packages. The files: /usr/lib/bacula/bscan.mysql /usr/lib/bacula/bscan.pgsql /usr/lib/bacula/bscan.sqlite /usr/share/man/man8/bscan.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/bscan.mysql.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/bscan.pgsql.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/bscan.sqlite.8.gz are included, just not bscan itself. I'm curious as to the reason for this. Thanks! cmr PS To complicate matters I'm running an AMD64 system. -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC --- 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 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [Fwd: Bacula: Admin OK of ArtemisPruneDB from artemis-fd]
On Wednesday 01 June 2005 12:22 pm, Russell Howe wrote: Once I have this tuned to how I want it, I'll post my configuration, as I think it will be useful to quite a few people. Please do so! Thanks, cmr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] no compression using seagate scorpian dss-4 drive
On Monday 30 May 2005 02:25 pm, Christopher Mosentine wrote: Hello: I am using bacula with my seagate scorpian dss-4 drive. I love how bacula has support for my tape drive right out-of-the-box. Bacula is running fine but I am not able to achive any compression as I am only able to put about 17GB on a tape. I routinely backup about 32GB and would love to get it all on 1 tape. I used to use Arkeia but achived the same results. I have checked and the device IS set with hardware compression ENABLED (via dip switch). So, I know there are others out there using this same drive - have you been able to get hardware compression to work?? If so how?? Thanks, Chris. Chris, I'm using a Certance DDS-4/DAT72 drive, which I believe is the same as yours, perhaps just a later model since all Seagate tape drives now are Certance. As you said, data compression is set with a DIP switch. Here's the output of tapeinfo -f /dev/sg0: Product Type: Tape Drive Vendor ID: 'SEAGATE ' Product ID: 'DATDAT72-000' Revision: 'A030' Attached Changer: No SerialNumber: 'HV00D4Z' MinBlock:1 MaxBlock:16777215 SCSI ID: 6 SCSI LUN: 0 Ready: yes BufferedMode: yes Medium Type: 0x35 Density Code: 0x47 BlockSize: 0 DataCompEnabled: yes DataCompCapable: yes DataDeCompEnabled: yes CompType: 0x20 DeCompType: 0x20 BOP: yes Block Position: 0 which clearly shows data compression enabled and I routinely get something on the order of 60GB's of data per tape. HTH's! cmr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Test
On Friday 27 May 2005 09:36 am, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote: I sent the message and got a blank reply so I don't know. On Friday 27 May 2005 09:32 am, Mike Reinehr wrote: Are you subscribed? cmr On Thursday 26 May 2005 04:15 pm, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote: I am not seeing messages from this list except through the web archives. Please forgive this test. Misty If you successfully subscribed you should have received an email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject line Welcome to the Bacula-users mailing list. It would have contained several links for managing your subscription as well as a copy of the password you used in creating your subscription. If you didn't receive this, I would just go ahead subscribe again. Cheers! cmr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [OT][Bacula-users] RAID1
On Wednesday 25 May 2005 03:00 am, Danie Theron wrote: Hi , I know this is a bit off bacula topic probably. I want to remove RAID1 from a disk , everytime I boot it it's looking for the 2nd disk. I want to simpy boot into a normal vanilla disk. Can I edit the fstab and just change the /dev/md0 device to whatever the disk is (/dev/hda) ? I'm really at odds here , if anyone can maybe help me or point me in the right direction that would be great. Thanks in advance! Danie Danie, Tread cautiously here, as you easily can loose everything! FIrst, run mdadm --detail /dev/md0 to find out exactly what partitions are included in the md0 device. The last two lines or so should give you the information. Run mdadm -S /dev/md0 to shut down mirroring. Use cfdisk /dev/hda. Change the partition type for the relevant partition(s) from FD (RAID autodetect) to 83 (Linux). Write reboot. When you reboot, no RAID components should be detected and you can mount your partition(s) normally. (Edit /etc/fstab appropriately before rebooting.) BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP!!! (Wouldn't hurt to backup your partition table with sfdisk -d, as well.) A similar way to do this would be to boot from a Knoppix disk. Make all the changes then reboot. Cheers! cmr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: GoToMeeting - the easiest way to collaborate online with coworkers and clients while avoiding the high cost of travel and communications. There is no equipment to buy and you can meet as often as you want. Try it free.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7402alloc_id=16135op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Admin Job - Prune Volumes
On Friday 13 May 2005 03:24 pm, Martin Simmons wrote:
On Fri, 13 May 2005 12:26:16 -0500, Mike Reinehr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Mike I have the following described job in my bacula-dir.conf file:
Mike Job {
Mike Name = Bilskirnir-Prune
Mike Type = Admin
Mike Messages = Standard
Mike Priority = 10
Mike Schedule = WeeklyPrune
Mike Storage = File
Mike Client = bilskirnir-fd
Mike FileSet = Bilskirnir File Set
Mike Pool = Bilskirnir Files
Mike Full Backup Pool = Bilskirnir Full Files
Mike Incremental Backup Pool = Bilskirnir Incr Files
Mike Prune Volumes = yes
Mike }
Mike My purpose is to prune then delete disk volumes before I run a
tape backup.
Mike The job ran successfully, according to the log file, but no volumes
were Mike purged, while several should have been.
Mike Can someone explain what I am missing? It is a failure to
understand the Mike concept, or is my configuration just wrong?
I suspect the problem is that Bacula only looks at Prune Volumes when it
needs a new volume, but admin jobs never need a volume.
You might try adding a Run Before Job script to that job to run bconsole
with the prune command.
__Martin
I suspected as much, but yet the documentation for an Admin Job states:
Admin
Run a admin Job. An Admin job can be used to periodically run catalog
pruning, if you do not want to do it at the end of each Backup Job.
Although an Admin job is recorded in the catalog, very little data is
saved.
So, is this in error, or is there way to do it (other than a script)?
Thanks!
cmr
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Re: [Bacula-users] FileSet Exclude by Default
On Tuesday 22 March 2005 07:41 pm, David Fuchs wrote: 22-Mar 17:26 davidfuchs-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at inc_conf.c:495 Config error: Regex compile error. ERR=repetition-operator operand invalid : line 119, col 35 of file /usr/local/bacula/etc/bacula-dir.conf RegexFile = ^.?*$ So I changed the regex to RegexFile = ^.*$ David, The regex that you used ^.*$, in addition to files beginning with . is also picking up the current directory ., hence you're backing up all files in the directory. The regex that Kern suggested, ^.?*$ requires at least one character after the leading . to avoid this. I know next to nothing about file exclusions, so this is just a guess, but you might try ^.?* (without the trailing $). HTH's cmr -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: 2005 Windows Mobile Application Contest Submit applications for Windows Mobile(tm)-based Pocket PCs or Smartphones for the chance to win $25,000 and application distribution. Enter today at http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idh82alloc_id148op=click ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
