Re: [Bacula-users] how to tell 9.6 director to use mysql? SOLVED

2020-07-21 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 11:04 PM Davide Franco wrote: > Hello, > > I can produce Fedora 32 rpm packages if you think that can help you. > Thank you very much for the offer. But I think the alternatives system is sufficient for my needs. It is even documented. The only problem is that my Google s

Re: [Bacula-users] how to tell 9.6 director to use mysql?

2020-07-20 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 5:43 PM Dmitri Maziuk wrote: > On 7/20/2020 6:31 PM, Gary R. Schmidt wrote: > > On 21/07/2020 09:21, Greg Woods wrote: > >> > >> Has this always been the case? > > Yes. > > > > Wow. I could swear I installed a backend-specific

Re: [Bacula-users] how to tell 9.6 director to use mysql?

2020-07-20 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 4:56 PM Gary R. Schmidt wrote: > Bacula can only be built with support for one database, if you want to use > MySQL you will either have to ask the distribution maintainers to produce > one, or build Bacula yourself from source. > Has this always been the case? If so, wh

[Bacula-users] how to tell 9.6 director to use mysql?

2020-07-20 Thread Greg Woods
I am migrating my Bacula director and database from a Fedora 31 machine running 9.4 to a new Fedora 32 machine running 9.6. I am having what seems like a simple configuration issue but I can't figure it out after about an hour of Googling around and trying different things by trial and error. The e

[Bacula-users] Cannot find any appendable volumes

2020-07-03 Thread Greg Woods
I am getting this error when running copy jobs. I have an "ARCHIVE-ALL" job that searches for any client backup jobs that terminated normally and have not yet been copied from online to archive backups, and runs copy jobs for each. I have been using this system for 7 years now, and it has worked we

[Bacula-users] volumes in error status

2019-12-30 Thread Greg Woods
I have a small home setup (about 10 clients). I have one pool used for backups which is just a directory full of disk files (50GB each). The other pool is a vchanger used for copy jobs. The problem I have is that for some reason, the directory holding the on-disk volumes became unreachable (probab

Re: [Bacula-users] help debugging new SD

2019-12-05 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 12:45 PM Greg Woods wrote: > > bstore: askdir.c:235-41356 get_volume_info failed: ERR=1000 OK > VolName=BKUP.65 VolJobs=5 VolFiles=7 VolBlocks=491843 VolBytes=31729597852 > VolABytes=0 VolHoleBytes=0 VolHoles=0 VolMounts=164 VolErrors=0 > VolWrites=7981

[Bacula-users] help debugging new SD

2019-12-05 Thread Greg Woods
I have a small home installation (less than a dozen clients) that has the director and MySQL on one host, and the SD on a Raspberry Pi. What I am trying to do now is replace an old Fedora 28 Pi 2 with a new Raspbian Pi 4. I'm having trouble getting the new SD to work. I've got two storage devices:

Re: [Bacula-users] Storage Daemon Service not working at start-up (after os update)

2019-02-22 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 11:32 AM Yılmaz Bilgili via Bacula-users < bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > If I stop the system service and start it manually from command line > with "bacula-sd -d 200 -c /opt/bacula/etc/bacula-sd.conf" command then I > can get status of storage daemon and

Re: [Bacula-users] trying to build a static bacula-fd

2018-02-09 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 6:26 AM, Mike Eggleston wrote: > > /bin/ld: cannot find -lz > /bin/ld: cannot find -lpthread > /bin/ld: cannot find -ldl > /bin/ld: cannot find -ldl > /bin/ld: cannot find -lssl > /bin/ld: cannot find -lcrypto > /bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++ > /bin/ld: cannot find -lm > /bi

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about versions to be installed in an Linux / Windows environment

2016-01-04 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 6:51 AM, Peter Keller wrote: > > > # bacula-dir -t > > If it comes back with a 0 return value, then your config file is of a good > syntax. Then try: > > # bacula-dir -v -f -d100 > > > Excellent suggestions. Also useful in debugging systemd unit files is the journal. Someth

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about versions to be installed in an Linux / Windows environment

2015-12-25 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Greg, you mention having compiled the SD on Jessie, but I guess you've > also compiled the Director, right? Since both must have the same > version. Though I suppose that the Director may also be on another host > that includes Bacula 7.0.5

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about versions to be installed in an Linux / Windows environment

2015-12-23 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 5:10 AM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > am thinking of using Debian Jessie which includes Bacula 5.2.6 in its > repository for director and storage daemon. But I remember a few cases > where I have experienced incompatibilities if the client versions are > far from the server ver

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and NFS

2015-12-16 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Bryn Hughes wrote: > The 'ERR=Connection refused' message means that the storage daemon itself > isn't accepting connections. This could be due to firewall rules or due to > mismatched passwords between the storage daemon and the other components. This can also

[Bacula-users] authorization errors after upgrade

2015-11-21 Thread Greg Woods
I am trying to upgrade from 5.2.13 to 7.0.5, and I am getting authorization errors between the director daemon and storage daemon. I am using the identical config files in both versions, so I am sure that the passwords match. The director and storage run on different machines, but they are both 7.

Re: [Bacula-users] SQL query for copy jobs

2015-09-02 Thread Greg Woods
Thanks for looking at this. I am a bit redfaced right now, because it looks like I have to withdraw the question. When I used "bat" to view the Jobs Run, and clicked "Filter Copy Jobs", a lot of the confusing stuff was removed, and I could see that the dates actually had a monotonically increasing

[Bacula-users] SQL query for copy jobs

2015-09-01 Thread Greg Woods
I have a job called ARCHIVE-ALL that looks like this: JobDefs { Name = "ArchiveJob" Type = Copy Level = Full Selection Type = SQLQuery Messages = Standard File Set = Copy Pool = File } # Copy (to archive) all not-already-copied successful backup jobs Job { JobDefs = ArchiveJob

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-users replyTo address

2015-04-08 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 5:24 AM, Robert Oschwald wrote: > > > Is it possible for the admins to set the reply-to address to the > list-address so replies are posted to the list instead of the author? > Possible? Probably. Desireable? This is one of those religious wars that comes up on every maili

Re: [Bacula-users] Is this an Inter-version Compatibility Issue???

2015-01-07 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:49 AM, John Florian wrote: > > My Fedora 21 workstation has: > > > > bacula-client-7.0.5-2.fc21.x86_64 > > bacula-common-7.0.5-2.fc21.x86_64 > > bacula-libs-7.0.5-2.fc21.x86_64 > > > > > I ran into the same problem. I solved it by removing the bacula packages, then instal

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with schedule

2015-01-05 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Florian wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I seem to be having a strange issue with the schedule of my backups. > This is the schedule I use: > > Schedule { > Name = "MonthlyCycle" > Run = Full on 1 at 3:15 > Run = Differential sun at 3:15 > Run = Incremental m

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula backups failing

2014-08-23 Thread Greg Woods
Maybe it's removing the existing /var/bacula/.my.cnf file and then trying to write a new one? What are the permissions on /var/bacula? --Greg -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that matters. http://tv.slashdot.org/_

Re: [Bacula-users] symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libbaccats-7.0.2.so: undefined symbol: mysql_thread_safe

2014-05-04 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > MariaDB is not 100% compatible with MySQL, and thus possibly not > compatible with Bacula. Just as a data point: I am using Bacula with the director and database running on Fedora 20. This distro is using Mariadb. It works fine with Bacula,

Re: [Bacula-users] bsmtp problem.

2014-03-21 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2014-03-21 at 23:12 +, Levie, Jim wrote: > The default for all Linux and Unix was in the past to install sendmail or > postfix (limited to localhost). Dunno if that might have changed in the > latest versions of Fedora. In fact, it has. Fedora does not install an SMTP server by def

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula only showing directory structure on restores

2014-03-19 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 16:32 +, James Lumby wrote: > Files do not seem to have expired as the file retention is 365 > days. Since I was confused by this as well, I thought I'd jump in here briefly. "File retention" really means how long the file records in the database are kept. It has nothi

Re: [Bacula-users] Removable Disk Vchanger

2014-03-03 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 09:50 -1000, WebDawg wrote: > I need to backup to multiple drives and use them in one slot like > tapes. > > > That is what you mean right? Yes, I believe so. I use disk drives for backups at home. One of them is a 4TB drive that is always online, and is therefore available

Re: [Bacula-users] Failure Backing Up Windows Client Machine

2014-02-27 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 16:53 -0500, John Drescher wrote: > > How about: > > C:\Documents and Settings\lkemp>sc create Bacula-FD binpath= "C: > \Program Files\Bacula>bacula-fd.exe" -c "C:\Program Files\Bacula > \bacula-fd.conf" type= share start= auto Still has a > that should be \

Re: [Bacula-users] Failure Backing Up Windows Client Machine

2014-02-27 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 15:08 -0500, John Drescher wrote: > > Entered: > > sc create Bacula-FD binpath= "C:\Program Files > \Bacula>bacula-fd.exe" -c ./”C:/Program > Files/Bacula/bacula-fd.conf” type= share start= auto Shouldn't the > above be anoth

Re: [Bacula-users] Failure Backing Up Windows Client Machine

2014-02-22 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2014-02-22 at 14:16 -0500, Larry Kemp wrote: > I will check to see if fd is running at all...I assumed it was...maybe > it is not at all. At least with the version of the Windows bacula-fd that I have on my VM, installing the daemon doesn't automatically create a startup entry for it. I u

Re: [Bacula-users] Failure Backing Up Windows Client Machine

2014-02-22 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2014-02-22 at 15:09 +, Larry Kemp wrote: > > > 22-Feb 08:53 bacula1-dir JobId 3652: Fatal error: bsock.c:134 Unable > to connect to Client: bnspflu1-ts01-fd on 10.100.101.203:9102. > ERR=Connection refused > > > Very likely this means that either your Windows firewall is not allow

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula suid files

2014-02-05 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2014-02-05 at 15:57 +0100, sca...@interia.eu wrote: > During backup verification I've noticed that files like: > srw-rw-rw- 1 ntp Debian-exim 0 Jun 29 2011 > /home/backup/_old_system/var/spool/postfix/private/discard > aren't backuped. Is there any problem with suid files? That's not an

Re: [Bacula-users] question about how retention works

2013-12-20 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 13:14 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > Read http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/main/main/Restore_Command.html > > 'If a Job's file records have been pruned from the catalog, the restore > command will be unable to find any files to restore. Bacula will ask if > you want to re

Re: [Bacula-users] question about how retention works

2013-12-20 Thread Greg Woods
Good, we're getting somewhere. On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 11:45 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > Let's confirm this. Let's look at this job: {SQL stuff snipped} That is what I was eventually going to get around to doing, so thanks for doing that for me. So it looks like, if the same file is written to

Re: [Bacula-users] question about how retention works

2013-12-19 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 12:38 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > I set my FILE and JOB retentions high. 3 years. Then I set my VOLUME > retention lower. Whichever retention period expires first, that's the > one which counts. <== I will refer to that as 'first one counts' later > in this email. > >

Re: [Bacula-users] question about how retention works

2013-12-19 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 11:02 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > There was a lot in the above and I couldn't parse it all > just now. Sorry about that; I suppose it would help if I just explicitly stated what I really want. I have a main backup pool where all the backup jobs write. This pool is manually

[Bacula-users] question about how retention works

2013-12-17 Thread Greg Woods
There is some stuff I still don't understand here, and I'd like to avoid learning the hard way. For instance, I never realized that "File Retention" referred to the individual file records in the database, not to the actual files on backup. So I ended up losing many of my File records (learning the

Re: [Bacula-users] ERROR: Msg delivery error: Unable to store data in database

2013-11-24 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, 2013-11-24 at 11:32 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > . I increased a > number of resource limits in my.cnf, but it still doesn't work. Got a teeny bit farther. Now, with increased limits, bacula-dir no longer segfaults, and I no longer get the database connection error. The problem

Re: [Bacula-users] ERROR: Msg delivery error: Unable to store data in database

2013-11-24 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2013-11-23 at 15:18 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: > I > played games trying to give Mysql more resources in my.cnf, but I don't > think that's really where the problem is. It turns out that *is* where a problem is, but there were absolutely no error messages anywhere to i

Re: [Bacula-users] ERROR: Msg delivery error: Unable to store data in database

2013-11-23 Thread Greg Woods
rector server (now at 5.2.13-17 and 5.5.34-1 respectively) but it didn't make any difference. I am running 64-bit Fedora 18 if that matters (and yes, I know it will be end-of-life soon but as of now it's still supported). --Greg On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 11:13 -0700, Greg Woods wrote: >

[Bacula-users] ERROR: Msg delivery error: Unable to store data in database

2013-11-21 Thread Greg Woods
On the surface this is obvious, but I don't see why this should suddenly be happening. I haven't modified the configurations for either bacula-dir or mysql in some time, yet suddenly now the director can't access the database. Even weirder, this is only happening for Copy jobs, normal backups work

[Bacula-users] copy, delete, purge question

2013-09-25 Thread Greg Woods
I just want to make sure I understand how this is supposed to work before I do something that might cause me to lose backups. Suppose I take a full backup for a couple of clients to a backup pool. Then I successfully run a copy job which copies these to an archive pool. Am I correct in assuming th

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger (one more time) SOLVED

2013-09-22 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2013-09-21 at 11:23 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > Unless I forgot something else, this isn't a permissions problem. The > problem is that "initmag" does not work: > > # vchanger -u bacula -g bacula /etc/bacula/ARCH.conf initmag 1 > magazine bay 1 has no maga

[Bacula-users] vchanger (one more time)

2013-09-21 Thread Greg Woods
I apologize for yet another posting, but I am just having a HELL of a time trying to get vchanger to work. I have been following the instructions in the Howto that came with the source code. I have the automounting working, and the permissions are all correct (the "bacula" user owns the work_dir an

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger

2013-09-21 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 19:20 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > I'm having some trouble getting vchanger to work, partly because the > documentation that comes with it seems not to be up to date. Ugh, never mind. I've been spending so much time on this and doing so many searches that I go

[Bacula-users] vchanger

2013-09-20 Thread Greg Woods
I'm having some trouble getting vchanger to work, partly because the documentation that comes with it seems not to be up to date. For instance, the keywords described in the howto HTML file that comes with the source are invalid keywords. The example config file has the right keywords, but I'm havi

Re: [Bacula-users] USB tape drives?

2013-09-20 Thread Greg Woods
On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 13:13 +0300, Guy wrote: > Yes I do this with vchanger... I've run into a wall trying to get vchanger to compile on Raspbian (a limited version of Debian for the Raspberry Pi). When I run configure, it notes that I do not have libuuid. I believe this is correct; there is a s

Re: [Bacula-users] USB tape drives?

2013-09-20 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 12:17 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 13:13 +0300, Guy wrote: > > Yes I do this with vchanger... > > I've run into a wall trying to get vchanger to compile on Raspbian (a > limited version of Debian for the Raspberry Pi). I did

Re: [Bacula-users] USB tape drives?

2013-09-16 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 18:12 +0300, Guy wrote: > I use SATA drives and pretend they are tape drives by using vchanger. I will look into doing something like this with one of those USB-to-SATA drive docks that was recommended. I presume I will be able to find some way to pretend that the drives are

Re: [Bacula-users] USB tape drives?

2013-09-16 Thread Greg Woods
On Sat, 2013-09-14 at 14:02 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > My question is whether there is any such thing as a USB tape drive that > is known to work with Bacula. It's clear from the responses I got that I left out an important detail, since all the responses were telling me why I

[Bacula-users] USB tape drives?

2013-09-14 Thread Greg Woods
Pardon me if this is a dumb or frequently-asked question, but I have not found a definitive answer searching the list archives, Google, or the Bacula documentation. My question is whether there is any such thing as a USB tape drive that is known to work with Bacula. When reading about tape drives,

Re: [Bacula-users] backing up NTFS file systems

2013-09-08 Thread Greg Woods
On Sun, 2013-09-08 at 09:32 -0600, compdoc wrote: > But since you mention the commands "ls -lt" and "ls -lc", which are not > windows or dos commands, I'm assuming that your NTFS volumes are attached to > a nix OS? That may have more to do with the problem than being NTFS > volumes. Well, yes,

[Bacula-users] backing up NTFS file systems

2013-09-07 Thread Greg Woods
This mostly seems to work, but with one annoying oddity. When I run an incremental backup, it seems to want to back up just about the entire NTFS file system, even though commands like "ls -lt" and "ls -lc" don't show the files or their metadata as having been modified. I expect this isn't an issu

Re: [Bacula-users] Post starting bacula-dir does not succeed error on line 29

2013-08-28 Thread Greg Woods
On Wed, 2013-08-28 at 06:24 -0700, Benny_pixelweb wrote: > Also when i run a backup > > there are manny errors now. > > "17: Error: Read error on file > /sys/devices/pci:00/:00:1e.0/:01:04.2/resource1. ERR=Input/output > error > 28-Aug 15:06 bacula-fd JobId 17: Error: Read error on

Re: [Bacula-users] Post starting bacula-dir does not succeed error on line 29

2013-08-27 Thread Greg Woods
On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 13:34 -0700, Benny_pixelweb wrote: > Hi Ana, > > i have set the root "/" also as you can see in the screenshot now its 2.69Gb > backup. > > But that could not be all my data anny suggestions? Each file system has to be declared separately. If all you have in your FileSet r

[Bacula-users] modifying FileSet

2013-08-18 Thread Greg Woods
Last night I modified the FileSet for my main house server. I got the Windows version of Bacula running inside the Windows 7 virtual machine, so that I don't have to copy the entire 12GB virtual disk image on every incremental backup of the server, plus I get the ability to restore individual files

Re: [Bacula-users] question about backup levels

2013-08-08 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2013-08-08 at 17:36 -0400, John Drescher wrote: > You will have to also clean up your volumes. I'm planning on deleting all the jobs, then purging all the volumes. If my understanding of what a purge does is correct, then the data that is currently written to the volumes (which in my case

Re: [Bacula-users] question about backup levels

2013-08-08 Thread Greg Woods
OK, I think I have it figured out, and it's not pretty. I suspect that most of the backups I have already done are useless and I will have to repeat all of the Full backups and start all over again. The answer came when I tried to do a restore. I thought, OK, if I messed up the director configur

Re: [Bacula-users] question about backup levels

2013-08-08 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2013-08-08 at 14:39 -0400, John Drescher wrote: > Make sure the times of the folders (modified and ctime) also any > attributes are not changing between backups. I suppose it's good to check the obvious and the stupid first, but I don't think that's it. I don't know how to check to see if

Re: [Bacula-users] question about backup levels

2013-08-08 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2013-08-08 at 12:12 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > On Thu, 2013-08-08 at 11:08 +0100, Martin Simmons wrote: > > >>>>> On Wed, 07 Aug 2013 19:11:33 -0600, Greg Woods said: > > > > |13 | anathem | 2013-08-02 20:37:18 | B| F |

Re: [Bacula-users] question about backup levels

2013-08-08 Thread Greg Woods
> Password = Well, that was stupid of me. I am now going to have to change my password in all of the &*#()@! bacula-fd.conf files. Boot to the head :-) --Greg -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDy

Re: [Bacula-users] question about backup levels

2013-08-08 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2013-08-08 at 11:08 +0100, Martin Simmons wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, 07 Aug 2013 19:11:33 -0600, Greg Woods said: > > |13 | anathem | 2013-08-02 20:37:18 | B| F | 800,022 > > | 137,247,853,895 | T | > > |43 | anathem

[Bacula-users] question about backup levels

2013-08-07 Thread Greg Woods
I'm a new Bacula user, having just set up a system for backing up the machines in my house (the storage server is a Raspberry Pi with a 4TB external disk drive attached to it). My question concerns backup levels. This afternoon, I think while learning to use "bat", I accidentally scheduled two con