Re: [Bacula-users] Strategies for backup of millions of files...

On 7/15/24 9:26 AM, Marco Gaiarin wrote: We have found that a dir (containing mostly home directories) with roughly one and a half million files, took too much time to be backud up; it is not a problem of backup media, also with spooling it took hours to prepare a spool. There's some strategy

Re: [Bacula-users] migrate job

On 7/3/24 7:39 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I can't get that migrate job running. [...snip...] > I have diskbased volumes in Storage "File" and want to migrate them to > physical tapes in Storage "HP-Autoloader", Pool "Daily" Hello Stefan, Something is quite wrong here... :) And a lot

Re: [Bacula-users] Use of Multiple Tape Drives at Once

On 7/1/24 2:27 PM, Kody Rubio wrote: Hi Bill, The following is the output of 'status director' when the jobs are waiting.  597  Back Full    146,973    667.8 G    fileserver-active         is running  599  Back Incr          0         0               obsdata4                    is waiting

Re: [Bacula-users] Use of Multiple Tape Drives at Once

On 6/27/24 1:33 PM, Kody Rubio wrote: I am searching for advice and/or expertise in allowing Bacula to use multiple tape drives at once. I currently have two separate jobs that use separate Pools, that run around the same time. Although the second job is always waiting for the other job to

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing Up a Remote Client

On 6/27/24 8:50 AM, Chris Wilkinson wrote: Oops - typo in my message. It should be *Set storage resource 'FDStorageAddress=' Which is what actually have but wrote it here wrong.☹️ No worries. I saw that and knew what you meant. :) I'm not aware of NAT reflection being set in the router; no

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing Up a Remote Client

On 6/27/24 2:54 AM, Chris Wilkinson wrote: I made the additional changes you suggested. *Removed FD port open on remote router *Set storage resource 'Address=' *Set storage resource 'FDStorageAddress=' I re-tested local and remote backups and these seem to be working fine. Excellent! \o/

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing Up a Remote Client

On 6/26/24 3:31 PM, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Your tips were bang on. I implemented this and it is working. Excellent! \o/ The other steps required were to forward ports on the routers at each end This should not be necessary at the remote site(s). The remote clients will be making

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing Up a Remote Client

On 6/26/24 10:44 AM, Chris Wilkinson wrote: I'm seeking some advice on configuring the backup of a remote client. Up till now all clients were located on the same local lan that hosts the Director, File and Storage Daemons. The whole lan is behind a nat'd router. One of these clients has now

Re: [Bacula-users] Again LTO9 and performances...

On 6/20/24 8:58 AM, Marco Gaiarin wrote: But, now, a question: this mean that in spool data get interleaved too? How they are interleaved? File by file? Block by block? What block size? No. When you have jobs running, take a look into the SpoolDirectory. You will see a 'data' *.spool file and

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-8 tape report error

On 6/20/24 4:54 AM, Adam Weremczuk wrote: OMG... The only reason the script started failing was a different device assignment caused by a reboot: ls -al /dev | grep sg. crw-rw 1 root tape 21, 0 Jun 19 12:25 sg0 crw-rw 1 root disk 21, 1 Jun 12 17:42 sg1 Once I've changed

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-8 tape report error

On 6/17/24 11:38 AM, Adam Weremczuk wrote: Hi Gary, I know what you mean by "hijacking a thread" now. I was reading that message when I decided to post my question from the same window. Today I cleared the tape drive with an official cleaning cartridge but it made no difference to the error:

Re: [Bacula-users] Again LTO9 and performances...

On 6/11/24 10:45 AM, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Sorry, i really don't understand and i need feedback... I've read many time that tapes are handled better as they are, sequential media; so they need on storage: Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1 Hello Marco, If you are using DataSpooling for all

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Error on Full Backups

And I see on jobid=777, the Bacula SD reports that the volume is 'read-only', so maybe that tape's lock slider is in the lock position? The jobid=777 logs do not include what tape volume was being used. (which is odd, unless you snipped those lines) 8< 04-Jun 01:41 -sd JobId 777:

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Error on Full Backups

On 6/5/24 12:08 AM, Dr. Thorsten Brandau wrote: Hi, I get from time to time errors when backup up via my LTO-9 autochanger. This happens mostly when I do a full backup (ca. 30 TB data), sometimes when using differential backup. I am using the updated mtx-changer-script by Bill Arlofski, as the

Re: [Bacula-users] Disk Volumes Showing 1B Read-Only

On 6/3/24 12:03 PM, Ken Mandelberg wrote: My Volumes are all Disk files. Several now show up as 1B Read-Only. In fact, as files "ls -l" shows them at their correct size, with modification dates that go back correctly to when they were filled. This is likely due to my transition from Ubuntu

Re: [Bacula-users] binaries for Ubuntu 24.04

On 5/31/24 9:59 AM, d...@bornfree.org wrote: Currently there are no "Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)" repositories for Bacula CE versions 15.0.2 and 13.0.4. Will there be? Yes. The builds for Bacula Enterprise packages for this very new platform are currently going through testing.

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull and correct volume management...

On 5/31/24 8:56 AM, Marco Gaiarin wrote: If you *really* want to automatically delete failed jobs (I personally don't think this is a good idea), you can use a RunScript in an Admin type Job like: Why in and 'Admin' job? I've tried to add something like: Run After Job =

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull and correct volume management...

On 5/24/24 2:39 AM, Marco Gaiarin wrote: I suspect that 'job counter' get resetted if and only if all jobs in a volume get purged; this lead me to think that my configuration simpy does not work in a real situation, because sooner or later jobs get 'scattered' between volumes and virtual job

Re: [Bacula-users] missing repositories

On 5/11/24 7:46 AM, d...@bornfree.org wrote: There currently are no "Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)" repositories for Bacula CE versions 15.0.2 and 13.0.4. Please promptly build the repositories. Much appreciated. --- On 5/9/2024 12:25 PM, d...@bornfree.org wrote: There are no "Ubuntu

Re: [Bacula-users] Dell TL2000 Tape Library with HHLTO7 drive

On 5/4/24 6:44 PM, Neil Balchin wrote: Everything is working but on every tape job I get this error: bacularis-sd JobId 5: Warning: Alert: Volume="LR7782L7" alert=25: ERR=A redundant interface port on the tape drive has failed. Failure of one interface port in a dual-port configuration, e.g.

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple interfaces for storage daemon

On 5/1/24 9:51 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: On 4/29/24 19:17, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote: Hello and thanks a lot for your time and attention. Hello Andrea, You are welcome. :) My first guess (without seeing any logs or configurations) is that there is a `MaximumConcurrentJobs

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple interfaces for storage daemon

On 4/28/24 8:23 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: However, my most important question was: given I configured a single SD with three different HDD-based storage, is it normal that one of them can get stuck (with clients on the affected VLAN all "waiting on Storage "), while the others are

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-fd appearing to use wrong storage server

On 4/25/24 3:55 PM, gaston.gloesener--- via Bacula-users wrote: Thanks for the rplies, I include here some of the requested informations. First abouth the "bconsole reload", yes I did not do, but I did restart the director, the storage and file deamons several times after the config change.

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-fd appearing to use wrong storage server

On 4/25/24 3:17 AM, gaston.gloesener--- via Bacula-users wrote: > Until now I did run bacula in a virtual machine running the director and storage deamon. The storage daemon was stroing data to files on a shared directory as the storage is on a NAS. Now I have build bacula-sd for the NAS to

Re: [Bacula-users] Wildfile

On 4/10/24 11:38 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: First coffee here right now ;-) Thanks for your example. Hello Stefan, You are welcome! Well, it is 23:41 here now, so I have switched from coffee to beer. :) I didn't add "signature" but already came up with this yesterday: Fileset {

Re: [Bacula-users] Wildfile

On 4/10/24 12:38 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Is this Fileset correct? Fileset { Name = "VM_xxx-y" Include { Options { WildFile = "\"/mnt/backup/vmbackup/Backup xxx-y/*.vbk\"" } } } I don't get files with this ... seems not to match. Hello Stefan, No,

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup in disk AND tape

On 4/9/24 6:53 AM, Chris Wilkinson wrote: Regarding the suggestion to put a Runafter block in the job to run the copy job at the end, that doesn't seem to be allowed. Run job=xx commands are not permitted in a Runscript as I just found out. It gives a not allowed command error. Perhaps there

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy Job Configuration Question

On 4/6/24 10:53 AM, Chris Wilkinson wrote: I am attempting to write a copy job to copy uncopied jobs from one SD to another. It seems that the client and fileset directives are required or the syntax check will fail. The documentation (v9) is not explicit on this point. Since the client is not

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula support LTO9?

On 4/2/24 3:52 PM, Jose Alberto wrote: Hi. I work with Bacula (11 and 13)  with lto8,  all fine. with bacula 13 or 15   work  LTO9 ? Yes. ;) You may want to run some tests using btape to find the right `MaximumFileSize` and `MaximumBlockSize` for your tape drive(s), but I can assure you

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup in disk AND tape

On 4/2/24 12:01 PM, Roberto Greiner wrote: Hi, I've installed Bacula recently in a server with a 7TB RAID5 storage, and a LTO-6 tape unit. I have configured 9 remote servers (most Linux, one Windows) to have the backup made in this server in the disk storage, and I'm finish to understand how

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 15.02 upgrade on Centos 7 -- Storage Daemon not starting

Hello, Glad we got this working. :) Regarding any possible user:group changes, I guess you would have to contact the person who maintains the package for the CentOS 7 Linux distribution - And quite frankly, I am surprised that 15.0.2 is already available as it was *just* release some days

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 15.02 upgrade on Centos 7 -- Storage Daemon not starting

On 4/2/24 9:54 AM, sruckh--- via Bacula-users wrote: I have upgraded from 13.x to 15.02 on a CentOS 7 server by changing yum repository and running yum update.  After RPMs were upgraded, I ran the scripts to upgrade the MySQL database.  When I try to start bacula-sd using systemctl no errors are

Re: [Bacula-users] configure CentOS/RedHat repository - first time usage

On 3/27/24 10:33 AM, Eduardo Rothe via Bacula-users wrote: Hi I am installing Bacula Community for the first time in a Fedora environment. According to the white paper Bacula Community Installation Guide, section "6.2 yum Package Manager Configuration", I should configure the repository using

Re: [Bacula-users] Again vchanger and volumes in error...

On 3/19/24 11:11, Josh Fisher wrote: Do you remember if you checked for an ACTION="change" event on media change? That would be sufficient to trigger a launch of vchanger REFRESH to perform the update slots. It would be a feature of the device driver and may or may not exist. If not, then

Re: [Bacula-users] Again vchanger and volumes in error...

On 3/18/24 12:53, Heitor Faria wrote: Hello Bill, RDX has to working modes: disks and VTL. Many years ago I configured it as a VTL with Bacula, and it worked very well. For Disk mode, maybe configuring a Bacula Storage for each disk could be manageable. Or a crazier idea would be to create a

Re: [Bacula-users] Again vchanger and volumes in error...

This is in response to Josh... In my experience, with RDX, the docking bay itself shows up as a device... (/dev/usbX or /dev/sdX, I forget) But plugging/unplugging an RDX cartridge does not notify the kernel in any way, so udev rules are not possible to do anything automatically with RDX.

Re: [Bacula-users] Permission Issues

Hello Ken, In addition to what I previously wrote, i just noticed that your *.bsr files should not be in `/opt/bacula/working`, but rather in `/opt/bacula/bsr`. Check your Jobs and JobDefs resources and make sure that the `WriteBootstrap` settings in these point to the bsr directory This is

Re: [Bacula-users] Permission Issues

On 3/6/24 10:19, Ken Mandelberg wrote: I I notice these two permission errors in my logs. I'm on Ubuntu. What do I need to do to correct them. The backups succeed but I guess they are missing info. 05-Mar 23:19 orac-dir JobId 7661: shell command: run BeforeJob

Re: [Bacula-users] CRC ERROR on volume what possible to do

On 3/4/24 09:00, Lionel PLASSE wrote: Hello, I have this error while reading a volume for virtualfull consolidating job Error: block_util.c:521 Volume data error at 0:0! Block checksum mismatch in block=11755301 len=64512: calc=dfb5486f blk=9eafdf1a It seems the volume file is definitively

Re: [Bacula-users] auto labelling no longer working after transferring to a new backup disk

On 3/3/24 19:00, Thing wrote: Hi, Ahhh, I didnt think that was an issue as I have 74 volumes on disk. Right, but volumes on disk does not necessarily match the number of volumes in catalog. This is especially true when dealing with removable media, and vchanger, for example. :)  *list

Re: [Bacula-users] auto labelling no longer working after transferring to a new backup disk

On 3/3/24 10:01, steven wrote: I moved to a new bigger disk and now I have to label every volume.  I have restarted both the bacula director + the storage node. How do I get auto-labeling to work again please? bacula-director  9.6.7-3    amd64  on Debian12

Re: [Bacula-users] Client backup, VirtualFull and failed job 'retention'...

Hello Marco, Just to clarify one thing I noticed in your post: Marco wrote: > Note that there's no 'Volume Retention = ', so no volume retention. ;-) From the documentation: 8< The default Volume retention period is 365 days 8< Hope this helps, Bill -- Bill Arlofski

Re: [Bacula-users] MagStor M1000-L9SAS tape library

On 2/22/24 06:49, Pollard, Jim wrote: > By chance is anyone out there able to verify that the MagStor M1000 tape library works with Bacula?  I’m already using the LTO-9 HH SAS Drive and that works fine but I have the chance to possibly upgrade the system to a library and I can’t pass that up. 

Re: [Bacula-users] [Research] Tape-library udevadm info Drives Order identification

On 2/13/24 11:35, Heitor Faria wrote: Hello Bill, I will explain the reasons for that research. RHEL 9 introduced new udev rules for tape devices creation (ID_SCSI_SERIAL): Hello Heitor! And what if there are two or more Libraries attached to the system?  How do you know which drive(s)

Re: [Bacula-users] [Research] Tape-library udevadm info Drives Order identification

On 2/13/24 11:11, Heitor Faria wrote: Hello All, I'm doing a research on more automated ways of determining the Tape Library Drives' order identification from Linux standpoint. If you have a physical tape, would you please send me in private the following? 1. The output of the command: "for

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup report script...

Just re-sending this (without the screenshot) to the list because I got a "Your message to Bacula-users awaits moderator approval"email reply when I sent it on the 3rd. On 2/2/24 09:03, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... I mig

Re: [Bacula-users] BAT Installation

On 2/2/24 09:35, Phil Stracchino wrote: BAT still does everything I want a Bacula console to do. The things that it does NOT do, like configuration, I don't WANT it to; I want to do those myself, by hand, using a proper editor. Hi Phil! You sound like one of the customers of mine I

Re: [Bacula-users] BAT Installation

On 2/2/24 08:53, Heitor Faria wrote: "*Having said that, years ago, I had customers that LOVE LOVE LOVED BAT, and would not move away from it even at my urging, so there is one reason, I guess. :)" Frankly, I never understood this community's urge to regularly create "one more Bacula GUI",

Re: [Bacula-users] BAT Installation

On 2/2/24 05:48, Rob Gerber wrote: > As far as I know, BAT is available only with enterprise bacula. Hello Rob, (and Howard Viccars), BAT (Bacula Administration Tool) is a long-unmaintained QT graphical interface to 'manage' Bacula and is available in Community. I say 'manage' because BAT

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup report script...

On 1/29/24 08:44, Marco Gaiarin wrote: In my Bacula installatin i've many backup types; for some, more ''solid'', the bacula messages resources is perfect. But i use bacula also for some more less solid backup: client backup (mostly windows, mostly medical devices) that are not ''always on''.

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochangers and unload timeout...

On 1/24/24 10:13, Marco Gaiarin wrote: I've reached my first tape change on my autochangers, yeah! But... 24-Jan 17:22 cnpve3-sd JobId 16234: [SI0202] End of Volume "AAJ661L9" at 333:49131 on device "LTO9Storage0" (/dev/nst0). Write of 524288 bytes got -1. 24-Jan 17:22 cnpve3-sd JobId

Re: [Bacula-users] How to check a written job by re-read them

On 1/23/24 02:59, Pierre Bernhardt wrote: Hello, after a raid disaster which needs a full restore based on the last full backup on tape which has unreadable blocks and blocks the whole tape drive I want to check the written jobs. A good idea is to create a copy job so I have a copy of the

Re: [Bacula-users] Configuring Bacula Community 13.0.3 Email / Job Summaries

On 1/19/24 14:39, Jamison Johnson wrote: > Hello Bill, Thank you for this information, I'll give this a try. I looked through this last night and it appears to be great for what I need. I've noticed that in /opt/bacula/scripts/ from the 13.0.3 binaries there is a baculabackupreport .sh

Re: [Bacula-users] Configuring Bacula Community 13.0.3 Email / Job Summaries

On 1/18/24 12:24, Jamison Johnson wrote: I hope this email finds you all well. I am currently using Bacula Community version 13.0.3 on RHEL9 and I receive email notifications for every job that runs as designed. Soon I will be backing up close to 50+ machines so to save my inbox, I would like

Re: [Bacula-users] Where is the path to a Volume stored in the database?

Hello Chris, I am replying back to the list to keep thread continuity. :) On 1/10/24 08:31, Chris Wilkinson wrote: Thanks Bill What i was trying to do was write a script to determine the disk space used by each pool = sum of all volumes. Looks like i would have to trace out the path from

Re: [Bacula-users] Where is the path to a Volume stored in the database?

On 1/10/24 04:19, Chris Wilkinson wrote: I have been attempting to extract the physical full path for a Volume with an SQL query. 'SELECT * FROM location;' The docs indicate that the location table would give me that information but when I look in the content of that table it seems to be

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring a file from an unknown backup

On 12/13/23 08:58, Borut Rozman wrote: Hi, I inherited a bacula backup solution, and now I got a request to restore a file or set of files from backups. I only know a folder name, and nothing else. Is there a way inside bconsole to search for a specific string. Query/option 20 does not give me

Re: [Bacula-users] Testing tape performace with btape...

On 12/5/23 10:24, Marco Gaiarin wrote: I'm playing with my new LTO9 tape drive (Tandberg/IBM one, SAS). Some year ago, trying to find optimal parameters for an LTO-5 tape drive, i've found: options st buffer_kbs=16384 Minimum block size = 0 Maximum blocksize = 256K Maximum

Re: [Bacula-users] Error closing volume

On 12/1/23 12:51, Senor Pascual wrote: Hello, Thanks for the reply. The disk of these volumes is with enough space.The volumes are filled and marked as Full (because I have set the limit with Maximum Volume Bytes). But I have set it to automatically create a new volume within the same pool.

Re: [Bacula-users] Error closing volume

On 12/1/23 12:32, Senor Pascual wrote: Hello everyone, Hello, The message is clear: 8< ERR=No space left on device. 8< In a shell prompt, do: # df -h And you will see that the partition that `/mnt/text` is on is filled to 100%. Hope this helps, Bill -- Bill Arlofski

Re: [Bacula-users] Having difficulty mounting curlftpfs on bacula : "Device is BLOCKED waiting for mount of volume"

On 11/30/23 03:29, Chris Wilkinson wrote: I use Backblaze B2. It is S3 compliant but about the lowest cost I could find, certainly a fraction of the price of AWS. It works mostly OK except for errors of the kind in the log below. The "no tomes" error is from B2 when there are no upload slots

Re: [Bacula-users] Having difficulty mounting curlftpfs on bacula : "Device is BLOCKED waiting for mount of volume"

On 11/28/23 13:27, MylesDearBusiness via Bacula-users wrote: > I'm not quite understanding where Vol-0014 and other similarly named volumes are coming from. I just noticed this statement You have `LabelFormat = Vol-` in your Pool called `File` The Director uses this as a template when it

Re: [Bacula-users] Having difficulty mounting curlftpfs on bacula : "Device is BLOCKED waiting for mount of volume"

On 11/28/23 13:27, MylesDearBusiness via Bacula-users wrote: Thanks for the reply, Bill. First of all, Bacula seems to be looking for a different volume name every time, Vol-0014 doesn't match any folder I created (and the storage space, minus a few boilerplate files and directories, was empty

Re: [Bacula-users] Having difficulty mounting curlftpfs on bacula : "Device is BLOCKED waiting for mount of volume"

Hello Myles, BTW, after I sent my first reply I saw in your Github posting that you had modified the Bacula SD systemd unit files to have the SD run as the other user, so I suspect this volume is either somewhere else or it has been "mounted over" as I mentioned previously. :) Hope this

Re: [Bacula-users] Having difficulty mounting curlftpfs on bacula : "Device is BLOCKED waiting for mount of volume"

On 11/27/23 15:26, MylesDearBusiness via Bacula-users wrote: Hello, Bacula experts. My cloud provider offers only curlftpfs based storage, which I have enabled and secured.  I created a username “backupuser” and a system service that launches the service, effectively mounting the remote

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula copy from tape to tape

On 11/7/23 15:09, Rob Gerber wrote: > Well, now I know that whole thing is impossible. Simpler, that way. Thank you for letting me know! :) Welcome. could we have disk based backups managed by bacula on this larger NAS, with copies made to tape for onsite AND offsite storage? With the

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula copy from tape to tape

On 11/7/23 13:04, Rob Gerber wrote: > How difficult will it be to run copy jobs with only 1 LTO8 tape drive? Hello Rob, Sorry to be the bringer of bad news, but "difficult" is not the correct word. The word you are looking for is "impossible" Bacula needs one read device and one write

Re: [Bacula-users] fd lose connection

On 11/3/23 13:17, Rob Gerber wrote: Oh, reading the error message again, did you set "heartbeat interval = 300" between Dir and SD? Your error message is from the SD. I don't know if FD will communicate directly with SD or if data from Fd goes through dir to SD. Robert Gerber Hello Robert,

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring Incremental Promotes to Full

On 10/27/23 16:17, Chris Wilkinson wrote: Having looked at the job log from a Baculum restore I can see that it is going back to the last full and restoring full, diffs, incrs in order. Is it not possible to restore from a particular job alone in Baculum as is possible with bconsole?

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring Incremental Promotes to Full

On 10/27/23 16:09, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Yes Bill that is very helpful. Glad I could help! It is exactly as you say when I use bconsole restore. That works. I must have made a mistake when I tried with bconsole previously. I'm not able to reproduce that behaviour using Baculum, it

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring Incremental Promotes to Full

Resending to list. Accidentally directly replied to Chris... On 10/27/23 14:46, Chris Wilkinson wrote: Till now I have only ever done restores of full backups using the restore wizard of Baculum. When I did a restore of an Incremental backup, I found that it reverted to restoring the last

Re: [Bacula-users] Running backup job without file records in catalog

On 10/4/23 06:28, Yateen Shaligram Bhagat (Nokia) wrote: We don’t need the File Records in backup because : 1. Each of our production servers (hundreds of them) being backed up, has number of files in the range of hundred-thousands. 2. With Catalog Files = Yes (default), the database

Re: [Bacula-users] New `mtx-changer-python` Github repository is now public

On 8/31/23 10:40, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Hi, Great Job! Hello Radosław, Thank you! If you do try this in you environment(s), please let me know what you think. Comments and code are welcome! :) Do you plan to add this script to BC/BEE? R. My idea from the start was to have it

[Bacula-users] New `mtx-changer-python` Github repository is now public

Hello everyone, Several months ago, I asked on this list if anyone who was using Solaris with a tape library in Bacula and was interested in testing a new mtx-changer script which I was writing as a drop-in replacement - with additional features - in Python: 8< Subject:

Re: [Bacula-users] How to verify downloaded Bacula files

On 7/31/23 01:42, GRAHAM DICKER via Bacula-users wrote: I find I have reasons to wantto verify if the gzip file I have downloaded is the right file. I downloaded the gzip file for Bacula 11.0.6 and the signature file. But the instructions I have been following to verify the file say that I

Re: [Bacula-users] Copying jobs from one tape ti another

On 7/31/23 00:55, Matlink wrote: If you have a read error on that tape, I guess there is little you can do. You should try migration jobs, but that won't give you an exact copy of the tape. You could also do a byte copy of the tape using dd for instance, but you will also copy errors. I

Re: [Bacula-users] Job error/warning.

On 7/26/23 10:35, Marcio Costa wrote: Hi Team! I'm trying to identify why my joblog shows "Non-fatal FD errors: 1", but I don't see anything in the job log. Can you help me? (I'm using Fedora 37/Bacula 13.0.3); Thanks. Marcio. Hello Marcio, I am pretty sure this is a bug that was

Re: [Bacula-users] Frequently Changing Pools For Media

On 7/15/23 06:13, Rich Fox wrote: Hi All, I have a couple of different tape changers that are used to run jobs in parallel and all share the same media. I've discovered by accident that if I put all of the media into a single pool, the media selection algorithm won't take into account which

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup windows client fail

--- Original Message --- On Monday, July 3rd, 2023 at 05:09, Gina Costa wrote: > Hi, > I have a windows client which backup always run fine. A few days ago, the > backup doesn’t work. > The comunication between diretor and client is OK, as shown in this log > message: > [...snip...] >

Re: [Bacula-users] baculabackupreport script error

On 6/28/23 11:37, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Yes it is the one in the bacula packages. I'll give it a try. -Chris- I have contacted the developers and have asked to to completely remove this old bash/awk script from the Bacula Community/Enterprise packages/source, and to either add this new

Re: [Bacula-users] baculabackupreport script error

On 6/26/23 12:35, Chris Wilkinson wrote: I edited the script to uncomment my db password.When I run the baculabackup report with bash /etc/bacula/scripts/baculabackupreport I get an error "psql: error: invalid integer value "" for connection option port" If dbpass is commented out, as is by

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows executable of Director?

I accidentally sent this directly to Davin, so I am re-posting here to maintain the thread... --- Original Message --- On Saturday, June 10th, 2023 at 13:45, Davin Church wrote: I'm sure this has been asked a million times, but why is the Director not available to run under the

Re: [Bacula-users] [EXTERNAL] Re: Deleting all volumes for a specific SD from the catalog

On 6/9/23 11:12, Shawn Rappaport wrote: Hi Bill, Your script worked like a champ and deleted hundreds of volumes from the catalog. Thanks a bunch for the quick, precise response. It was exactly what I needed. --Shawn Hello Shawn, Glad I could help! Best regards, Bill -- Bill Arlofski

Re: [Bacula-users] Deleting all volumes for a specific SD from the catalog

On 6/9/23 08:35, Shawn Rappaport wrote: I have two disk-based SD servers, which are separate physical servers from our Director server. The hostnames are: bac-sd01-az - SD server 1 bac-sd02-az - SD server 2 bac-dir-az - Director server The disk volumes are named uniquely on the two SD servers:

[Bacula-users] Anyone using Solaris as a Bacula SD with a tape library?

If yes, and you have a few minutes, I'd really like to have a general discussion about this topic. I have written a new mtx-changer-python.py script as a "drop-in" replacement for the current mtx-changer bash/perl script - with some additional features like much better logging capabilities,

Re: [Bacula-users] (no subject)

On 6/7/23 10:21, Samantha Falconer wrote: We're running Bacula v13.0.1.  Some of our backups are to S3 which then go to Glacier after a set period of time.  When doing restores from S3, the necessary file is downloaded automatically from S3 but, if it involves Glacier, it appears that no

Re: [Bacula-users] reload command

On 6/5/23 12:13, Phil Stracchino wrote: Bill, I would if I could, but I haven't run into it in a long time because (a) I have an established practice of restarting the Director when feasible after significant configuration changes (which does not include Filesets, Schedules, new Clients etc),

Re: [Bacula-users] reload command

On 6/2/23 08:59, Phil Stracchino wrote: Keep in mind that a reload will not affect already-running jobs, and *some* changes may not take effect in already *scheduled* jobs. All true. :) And some settings (just a few that I am aware of) in the Director actually require a restart to take

Re: [Bacula-users] Changer Script - running into timeouts - solved

On 5/29/23 23:11, Dr. Thorsten Brandau wrote: Hi not sure if any bacula developers are in this list but I just wanted to let you know that with my Neo24s Tapelib the mtx-changer script is not working. It does not detect the end of the change process. There is a line in the script

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy job clarification requested

On 5/18/23 08:07, Chris Wilkinson wrote: I have not used a copy job before so I thought I would try one. I used Baculum v11 to set one up that copies a job from a local USB drive to a NAS. The setup was straightforward. I created a new pool to receive the copy, defined the source and

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow Spooling / Despooling

On 5/18/23 04:38, Udo Kaune wrote: [...snip...] Another point would be spooling of file attributes to reduce intermittent access to you sql server. Hello Udo, Just a quick FYI for everyone: When Data Spooling is enabled, Attribute Spooling is automatically forced on. Best regards, Bill

Re: [Bacula-users] compression with lto?

On 5/10/23 21:49, Dr. Thorsten Brandau wrote: Hi I use an lto-9 drive for backup. I activated hardware compression on the tape (i think) but all the logs of bacula show a tape change at 18TB which should be the native (uncompressed) capacity. From experience I would expect a ratio of at last

Re: [Bacula-users] Storage protocols advice sought

On 4/29/23 16:33, Chris Wilkinson wrote: I am about to set up a NAS on a local lan as a storage device. The NAS offers CIFS, NFS, (S)FTP, WEBDAV as supported protocols. The NAS OS is pretty much locked down so there isn't really an option to install anything additional. I know that CIFS and

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Differential and Incremental Backup not working

On 4/21/23 04:39, Dr. Thorsten Brandau wrote: Hi yes, I commented the incremential out because it also makes a full backup and therefore I only try to do differential per weekend. I want to have incrementals daily, but it does not work (always does full). The last log is: 07-Apr 23:05 -dir

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: cannot truncate volumes while backup running on same storage, need advice to set MaximumCOncurrentJobs properly

I just checked and I see that my memory was working correctly this morning... I will ask my colleagues if they remember this issue in the Enterprise version and if it was address/modified/fixed. Be right back. :) OK waiting :) There was a ticket/bug where a customer had reported this same

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: cannot truncate volumes while backup running on same storage, need advice to set MaximumCOncurrentJobs properly

On 4/19/23 03:52, Justin Case wrote: For the sake of completeness: I have read in the document “Community Disk Backup Design” in section 3.1 that it is possible what you are proposing and how to do it and implemented it, but it is not working the way one would expect (see my other mail a few

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: cannot truncate volumes while backup running on same storage, need advice to set MaximumCOncurrentJobs properly

On 4/19/23 03:07, Justin Case wrote: Thanks Mat, that sounds plausible, but is it even possible to have two devices for the same folder on disk, which have access to the same volumes? So far I believed that was impossible, but I am only a casual user of Bacula. Hello Justin, It is absolutely

Re: [Bacula-users] Nee Help for bacula storage S3 cloud configuration

On 4/18/23 12:41, Chris Wilkinson wrote: In my case the driver is installed in /usr/lib/bacula-sd-cloud-driver-11.0.6.so I vaguely recall that the make file didn't put it there and I had to mv it. I forget now what the default is. -Chris- Hello

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple Restore jobs

On 4/15/23 04:26, Yateen Shaligram Bhagat (Nokia) wrote: Hi Bill Yes, setting MaximumConcurrentJobs = n ; worked for me. I could run multiple Restoration jobs concurrently. Thanks Yateen Hello Yateen, OK, glad it works for you now. Also, thank you for the confirmation of what I believed

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple Restore jobs

On 4/14/23 03:42, Yateen Shaligram Bhagat (Nokia) wrote: Hi Bill, You are correct,, I can see the MaximumConcurrentJobs limitation, see the "status dir" output from bconsole below: So how to we enhance this limit for the Restore jobs Hello Yateen, I think you just need to add

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