Bacula Developers,
Just now checking todays backups I was reminded what a great
bit of software Bacula is. It makes my life much easier and I
really appreciate it.
So thank you to all who work on Bacula!
Dominic
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Hello,
I had ClientRunBeforeJob set to run a Ruby script on my Windows
desktop from testing long ago. I upgraded to the latest client
(nice installer by the way) and this would cause Bacula to exit
every time.
After removing the ClientRunBeforeJob instruction from the
Director it seems perfectly
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:51:40 +0200
"Peter L. Buschman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 11:48:32 -0500 (CDT)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Greetings All,
>
> I was just considering more options for the backup system that we would
> like to get in place and it occurred to me that it would be a great thing
> if I could have the bacula client machines connect to the bac
Arunav Mandal wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 September 2006 10:41, Dominic Marks wrote:
>> Arunav Mandal wrote:
>>> In atleast 2 clients there is a fatal error. All the config is correct.
>>> Errors are given below.
>>>
>>>
>>> 05-Sep 00:48 berge
Arunav Mandal wrote:
> In atleast 2 clients there is a fatal error. All the config is correct.
> Errors
> are given below.
>
>
> 05-Sep 00:48 bergen-fd: backup-bergen.2006-09-05_00.28.00 Fatal error: c:
> \cygwin\home\kern\bacula\k\src\win32\filed\../../filed/backup.c:500 Network
> send error
Arunav Mandal wrote:
> Should I have 2 different machines for Dir or SD or one machine for both.
> Presently I am using 2 different.
We have one machine which is a DIR+SD and four other SDs. Either way
seems fine.
We have so many SDs because each holds quite a small amount of data, no
more tha
Martin Simmons wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:34:08 +0100, Dominic Marks said:
>> Martin Simmons wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:03:30 +0100 (BST), Dominic Marks said:
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> Having had m
As usual I forgot to send this from my subscribed address first time around:
Martin Simmons wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:34:08 +0100, Dominic Marks said:
>> Martin Simmons wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:03:30 +0100 (BST), Dominic Mar
Alan Brown wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Martin Simmons wrote:
>
>> I'm thinking that it might be faster to restore a good copy of the database
>> from a backup
>
> Yes, IF you have a logfile you can replay too.
>
>> . Don't forget that running dbcheck on a corrupted database
>> might delete th
Martin Simmons wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:03:30 +0100 (BST), Dominic Marks said:
>> All,
>>
>> Having had my first database corruption with Bacula, which I don't
>> feel too bad about after 11 months on a medium sized site (compared to
>
Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> Quoting Dominic Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> I don't think this made it to the list yesterday:
>>
> [snip]
>> Anyway, dbcheck did something bad to MySQL over night and it had to be
>> restarted because Bacula and the MySQL Server
Frank Sweetser wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 11:24:55AM +0100, Dominic Marks wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm getting a lot of these messages when backing up certain systems.
>> Can someone clarify exactly what the error is referring to?
>
> Sounds like yo
All,
Having had my first database corruption with Bacula, which I don't
feel too bad about after 11 months on a medium sized site (compared to
Veritas!) I have now discovered dbcheck and its limitations.
I understand that dbcheck on a big database with millons and millions
or rows like mine is go
I don't think this made it to the list yesterday:
Dominic Marks wrote:
> Frank Sweetser wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 11:24:55AM +0100, Dominic Marks wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm getting a lot of these messages when backing up certain
>>
Hello,
I'm getting a lot of these messages when backing up certain systems.
Can someone clarify exactly what the error is referring to?
Thanks,
Dominic Marks
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Emery Guevremont wrote:
> I was wondering if someone could give a quick run down of the
> advantages/disadvantages of spooling the data to disk before writing
> it to tape, and the advantages/disadvantages of NOT spooling.
>
> i.e. which is faster, which is more reliable...
I have one small Bacul
Dan Langille wrote:
> On 25 Jun 2006 at 15:55, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have released a patch (1.38.10-scheduler.patch) to the patches
>> area of the
>> Bacula Source Forge releases. I *strongly* recommend that everyone
>> using
>> Bacula version 1.38.10 apply this patch. It applie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> --- Dominic Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is there an application which allows you to browse the contents of a
>> backup job around at the moment? I'd like to be able to fire up a
>> progr
Hello,
Is there an application which allows you to browse the contents of a
backup job around at the moment? I'd like to be able to fire up a
program, preferably Windows based but not essential, which allowed
browsing the contents of a job and in my dreams double clicking on a
file to open it.
An
Renato Otranto Jr. wrote:
Hi all,
I know that it is possible to build just the bacula client (FD), using
the option "--enable-client-only".
I have an heterogeneous distributed environment. However, I need to
install just the storage daemon
on a FreeBSD 6.0 machine, without the others compon
Robert Nelson wrote:
> I've ported the Storage Daemon and related tools to Windows. Tested
> the
> tape with btape and all tests passed. WooHoo!!
This is excellent news!!
Thank you very much Robert.
> Next I need to get the Daemon running as a service and do some more
> backup /
> restore test
Dominic Marks wrote:
> Hello,
>
> One of our systems is repeatedly giving this error. I found in the
> documentation that the reported fix was to upgrade but both the client
> and server are running 1.38.8.
I now have another Windows XP system which has started to get this .
Am
Hello,
One of our systems is repeatedly giving this error. I found in the
documentation that the reported fix was to upgrade but both the client
and server are running 1.38.8.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Dominic
>> Bacula Report
05-May 13:00 bacula-dir: No prior Full backup Job record found
Kern Sibbald wrote:
On Monday 01 May 2006 10:00, Dominic Marks wrote:
Kern Sibbald wrote:
On Monday 01 May 2006 00:41, Dominic Marks wrote:
From top:
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATETIME WCPU COMMAND
28233 bacula 3 200 269M 265M kserel 173:54 0.00% bacula-sd
I
Kern Sibbald wrote:
On Monday 01 May 2006 00:41, Dominic Marks wrote:
From top:
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATETIME WCPU COMMAND
28233 bacula 3 200 269M 265M kserel 173:54 0.00% bacula-sd
I just noticed this on one of our Bacula servers. Curious since the SD
Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
bacula3 20 0 4364K 2212K kserel 0:00 0.00% bacula-sd
Presumably this is being caused by a memory leak somewhere. Anyone else
Dom: You should watch the process in real-time and determine if the
usage grows during backup job activity or if it is slowly growin
From top:
PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATETIME WCPU COMMAND
28233 bacula 3 200 269M 265M kserel 173:54 0.00% bacula-sd
I just noticed this on one of our Bacula servers. Curious since the SD
shouldn't be using much memory at all from what I know of it.
OS is FreeBSD
idea to respond
to the list.
Thanks,
Dominic
thanks
*/Dominic Marks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:
steven potvin wrote:
> hi i have been tring to enable compression and i have added
> compression=gzip at the end of my bacula-dir.conf file. but when
i try
> t
steven potvin wrote:
hi i have been tring to enable compression and i have added
compression=gzip at the end of my bacula-dir.conf file. but when i try
to restart or start i get a error .
can some one please indicate where to place compression=gzip
How did you install Bacula? Sounds like you
Hello,
I've worked up something which I think is useful following the
discussion on bacula-devel regarding automated installing and
upgrading of Bacula on large sites with a big Windows element.
The scripts require some customisation which is the nature of these
things but I hope they are useful
Mark Nienberg wrote:
I'm using Bacula to back up a Linux Samba fileserver among other
machines. Of course the clients to the fileserver are windows machines
and they don't care about case in filenames. They create all sorts of
case combinations like "document1.doc", "Document2.DOC" and so on.
Dan Langille wrote:
> On 18 Apr 2006 at 13:10, Dominic Marks wrote:
>
>> I'm in the process of moving our director to a new system and needed
>> to update the bacula-fd.conf on all our Windows client PCs to use
>> the
>> new name. This VBScript function can be
I'm in the process of moving our director to a new system and needed
to update the bacula-fd.conf on all our Windows client PCs to use the
new name. This VBScript function can be inserted into your domain
login script and customised to suit your setup.
Sending around an E-Mail telling people to lo
Bob Ward wrote:
All-
I have been looking at the Sourceforge page and am confused as to what is the
latest stable release as opposed to an experimental one. If the Sourceforge
format would allow for a simple definitive statement that "Release x.y.z-w is
the latest stable release", it sure wou
Michel Meyers wrote:
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Francisco Reyes wrote:
Reading Bacula's current state I see under heading:
Current Implementation Restrictions
+ Data encryption of the Volume contents.
What does that mean? Encryption of volumens are not supported yet?
Corr
Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
Quoting Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Thursday 23 March 2006 20:35, Turbo Fredriksson wrote:
Quoting "Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
NOTE: any disabled jobs are renabled if you restart bacula-dir.
That wasn't nice :) It can be, and probaby is in most cases
Craig White wrote:
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 02:47 +0100, Dominic Marks wrote:
Craig White wrote:
Sorry - meant to reply to the list too.
Can we see your bacula-dir.conf and bconsole.conf files?
---
sure...
I attached them as file attachments since they range a bit long for an
email. I hope
Craig White wrote:
Sorry - meant to reply to the list too.
Can we see your bacula-dir.conf and bconsole.conf files?
Cheers,
Dominic
Sorry - should have given more info...
iptables turned off at this point. No delays (i.e. dns)
# ./bconsole
Connecting to Director srv1:9101
1000 OK: srv1-dir
Moritz Bunkus wrote:
Hey,
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 19:36, Joshua Kugler wrote:
I've been using Bacula 1.36.x on a Win 2003 box for several weeks now.
No problems. Haven't tried 1.38.
Same here: Bacula 1.36.3 (due to the fact that there still are no newer
Debian packages availabel) on a W
Benson Wong wrote:
Serial console / Display shows?
Display shows nothing. It crashes to the point were I can't even type
anything in.
Does it happen at the same time every day/period?
There seems to be 2 problems, which may be related. Sometimes it
crashes so hard I have to physically reboot
Benson Wong wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to isolate a problem. I have bacula 1.38.5 running on
FreeBSD 6.0R and the system seems to be crashing hard. It doesn't seem
to core dump, and there is nothing in the logs, it just stop becoming
responsive.
Serial console / Display shows?
Does it happen at th
John Kodis wrote:
I've written an application called "Bacuview" that provides a
web-based view of a Bacula system, similar to the the Bacula-Web
project. I've been using it to monitor a Postgres based installation
of Bacula for the past couple of months, found it quite useful for my
purposes, an
Gregory Parks wrote:
Is it normal for it to wait for 12 hrs. or more
The wait time is configurable. Check the documentation, I have mine set
to 30 seconds. This ensures the job queue doesn't get blocked when our
pcs and laptops (~45 of them) back up every day.
Greg
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Hello,
We have two storage daemons at present. As the first one became full I
have changed the Storage {} entries for some of the backup clients to
point to the second SD. I'm assuming Bacula encodes the SD it put the job
on with every backup, right?
Otherwise how would you allow a client to span
> On 9 Jan 2006 at 19:51, Dominic Marks wrote:
>
>> Dan Langille wrote:
>> > I'm sure you'll all get notified by FreshPorts tonight, but in
>> > advance of that: Bacula has been upgraded to 1.38.3 in the FreeBSD
>> > ports tree.
>>
&g
Dan Langille wrote:
> I'm sure you'll all get notified by FreshPorts tonight, but in
> advance of that: Bacula has been upgraded to 1.38.3 in the FreeBSD
> ports tree.
Thanks Dan, ... and for freshports.org :-)
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pt that the import is a little slower than the extended
mode and the output file is a little larger.
Hope this helps someone certainly had me foxed today!
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Hello,
On our main backup server the disc array is filling up. I need to delete
some of the old volumes which are no longer required. How can I get a list
of volumes which have been pruned from the catalogue so I can actually
delete them?
Thanks,
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n suggest that a python event on pruning should be used.
>
> The python script would need to be called at the SD, obviously, and
> it would need knowledge of the file that is purged.
>
> Arno
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I don't want to try restoring all the files just to find out which one I
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>From my reading of the documentation for FileSet's it would seem that the
following would not be valid:
"Any file-list item preceded by a less-than sign (<) will be taken to be a
file. This file will be read on the Director's machine at the time the Job
starts, and the data will be assumed to be
Mike wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm going to be setting up a new backup "system" for my work in the next
> couple of days,
> and I'm interested in using a new (1.37.38) version of Bacula (as I'm
> interested in the
> database changes, and the SSL support)- but I'm a little wary since
> 1.37.38 is still
>
On Friday 12 August 2005 10:13, Russell Howe wrote:
> Dominic Marks wrote:
> > How I did it in the end:
> >
> > Direct E-Mails to an alias which delivers to a process, write a
> > small application which receives the reports, parses them and
> > inserts them int
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 12:22, Dominic Marks wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Can I make Bacula write out its report for a job to a file, or store
> it in a database? I'd like to import them into MySQL automatically.
How I did it in the end:
Direct E-Mails to an alias which delivers to
Hello All,
Can I make Bacula write out its report for a job to a file, or store it in
a database? I'd like to import them into MySQL automatically.
Thanks very much,
Dominic Marks
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On Wednesday 13 July 2005 13:29, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 July 2005 14:00, Carsten Schurig wrote:
> > Dominic Marks schrieb:
> > > The problem is that the client system is not sending data fast
> > > enough, so I don't see how spooling will help. I als
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On Monday 11 July 2005 19:31, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 19:04 +0100, Dominic Marks wrote:
> > http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Getting_Started_with_Bacula.html
> >
> > A screenshot and some information is about half way down.
>
> AH ok. Seems to no
ww.bacula.org/dev-manual/Getting_Started_with_Bacula.html
A screenshot and some information is about half way down.
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> On Monday 11 July 2005 11:54, Dominic Marks wrote:
> > On Monday 11 July 2005 10:44, René Brask Sørensen wrote:
> > > Hi All
> > >
> > > Don't know if this is the right list to ask.
> > >
> >
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t; tapes, hardware compression would be the solution, but what
> equivalent is there for file backup?
Look at the FileSet resource. You can set compression and checksumming
in the options section.
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ach with their own sqlite2
database would run quicker than 20 concurrent jobs sharing a single
MySQL database (on the same system, multi-system setups are another
matter). I plan to run some tests in this area soon...
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On Thursday 30 June 2005 16:45, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote:
> I have the following in Client Run Before Job in one of my jobs:
>
> Client Run Before Job = "/bin/mount /backup"
Tried using ClientRunBeforeJob instead?
> This exact command works just fine at the command line, but I get
> syntax err
On Thursday 30 June 2005 15:12, Matt Bettinger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm not sure if this should be directed to the FreeBSD port
> maintainer or Bacula but at any rate, I
> upgraded to bacula 1.36.3 this morning and noticed that
This is not related to the FreeBSD port. Reason below.
> helpdesk# pwd
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 15:35, McCann, Brian wrote:
> Hi all. I'm hoping someone here can help me out. I've installed and
> made my first test config for Bacula, the daemons start, but bconsole
> isn't on my system anywhere! When I built Bacula, I did it from the
> ports collection (Bacula v1.36
On Monday 27 June 2005 10:19, Stephan Heine - [Genetic Interactive]
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First off. Thank you for a fantastic backup solution.
> Secondly, sorry for the long post.
>
> The bacula configuration runs perfectly at his client's site,
> backing up about 15 clients. Flawlessly.
>
> Yesterday
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 13:25, Sebastian Stark wrote:
> Will splitting up bacula-dir.conf into several files lead to bacula
> seeing new FileSets and upgrading to Full backups next run? If I
> don't change anything else of course.
I don't think so. If you want Bacula to pick up any changes,
I thin
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 19:36, Alan Jedlow wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've built/installed/configured bacula-1.36.3-1.src.rpm on a
> Dell PowerEdge 2650(Dual Xeon 3.06GHz, 2 GB mem.); I'm using
> MySQL as the database. The director, file, and storage
> services are all on this machine.
>
> I started a full
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 13:48, Beren Gamble wrote:
> Hi Guys and Gals,
>
> I can't start Bacula Director after upgrading to 1.36.3
> This happens:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] bacula]# ./bacula start
> Starting the Bacula Storage daemon
> Starting the Bacula File daemon
> Starting the Bacula Director daemon
On Friday 10 June 2005 15:45, Attila Fülöp wrote:
> Hi,
>
> few days ago bacula-dir started and kept crashing.
>
> Jun 4 10:52:35 stattmp kernel: pid 465 (bacula-dir), uid 910: exited
> on signal 10
>
> Looking at the problem the db was corruppted.
> Dbcheck runs for ~70 hours now(and this is a re
On Thursday 09 June 2005 19:38, Arno Lehmann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Dominic Marks wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > [cc'd -users & -devel hope this is not offensive to anyone.]
> >
> > Today I set up Bacula to backup a mail hierarchy our mail server. This
&g
Hello,
[cc'd -users & -devel hope this is not offensive to anyone.]
Today I set up Bacula to backup a mail hierarchy our mail server. This
consists of a dozen users maildirs, comprising 4GB of disc space and,
according to Bacula, 308926 files.
The backup itself ran fine easily filling the 100M
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 22:32, Bruno Savioli wrote:
> Hi All..
>
> Is there a way of backing up just the directory without the files inside
> it? i.e. /proc
I'm 95% certain that you can create a FileSet which takes a list of targets
from the output of a script. You could use this feature to solve
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 20:30, Danny Butroyd wrote:
> Hi All
>
> First of all I would just like to say how much I like Bacula, its a
> superb bit of software, so thanks guys!
>
> What I would like to know is what do most people do when backing up
> heavily used mysql databases? Do people prefer to
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 05:23, Adamson Huang wrote:
>
> We use Outlook as our mail client. The size of each .pst file is rather
> big; some are about 2gb. They are updated every time a new email arrives.
> Is there a recommended backup scheme for these files with bacula?
Not only that but yo
On Sunday 24 April 2005 17:23, dave wrote:
> Hello,
> I've got a remote box, not on my network that i'd like to back up
> securely using bacula. I've tried tunneling bacula over an ssh connection,
> but this isn't working. If anyone has a suggestion please let me know.
> Thanks.
Could you use
On Monday 11 April 2005 14:39, Chouinard Dany wrote:
> I did not receive anything from this list recently, hope it's still alive.
>
> I want to backup on disk multiple site's machine using bacula. I want
> the storage daemon to use a folder for each site. I create a storage
> daemon entry for eah
On Friday 08 April 2005 16:31, Francesco wrote:
> I've got a 100Mb network, and after few attempts i saw in bacula's stats:
>
> Rate: 279.5 KB/s
>
> Isn't it too slow ??
Depends on the situation, network traffic, the machines activity (both of
them) hard disc speed and a bit o
On Friday 08 April 2005 12:52, Frank Altpeter wrote:
> On Apr 6, 2005 3:45 PM, Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Thought about that, and i think it will be that way for me to archive
> > > the results i try to get.
> >
> > Would it be feasable to fire this off as the 'RunBeforeJob' job? You
> >
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