This is really great. Thank you!
— Jeff MacDonald
> On Apr 2, 2015, at 10:39 PM, Ana Emília M. Arruda
> wrote:
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> I was wondering if dumping the volume label with bls could help. Maybe an
> admin job running a script like the at
Hi
I do disk based backup. I just found out the hard way that one of my volumes
was corrupted.
I am curious if there is a proactive mesaure that I can take to verify each of
my volumes such that they contain the correct BB02 headers in them?
— Jeff MacDonald
d the log contain enough information to diagnose this?
>
> __Martin
>
>
>>>>>> On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 22:32:27 -0400, Jeff MacDonald said:
>>
>> Sigh. mtnbkr on IRC helped me out..
>>
>> Basically, jobs were being canceled for being duplicates, w
.
Rerun Failed Levels = no and Allow Duplicate Jobs = no
Jeff.
> On Nov 12, 2014, at 9:29 PM, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> For some unknown reason… I have a lot of jobs executing FULLS every 2 days. I
> can’t figure out why.
>
> I crafted up this SQL, that hopefully
Hi,
For some unknown reason… I have a lot of jobs executing FULLS every 2 days. I
can’t figure out why.
I crafted up this SQL, that hopefully is going to show me all jobs that
completed successfully:
select jobid,level,name,starttime,endtime-starttime from job where jobstatus =
'T'
and name
> On Nov 7, 2014, at 9:58 AM, John Drescher wrote:
>
>> Lets say you are doing a 500 gig job and it fails after 450 gigs.. and you
>> are using disk based backups.
>>
>> Do you ever bother to try to reclaim that space? I mean I delete the job, so
>> the volume can have that data recycled when
> On Nov 7, 2014, at 9:37 AM, Bryn Hughes wrote:
>
> On 2014-11-07 04:40 AM, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
>> Lets say you are doing a 500 gig job and it fails after 450 gigs.. and you
>> are using disk based backups.
>>
>> Do you ever bother to try to reclaim that s
Lets say you are doing a 500 gig job and it fails after 450 gigs.. and you are
using disk based backups.
Do you ever bother to try to reclaim that space? I mean I delete the job, so
the volume can have that data recycled when the time comes, but do you ever go
thru the extra trouble of finding
Hi,
Can I do something like
list jobs status=successful
or
list jobs job=job123
I’m looking for better ways to be able to filter jobs on the command line etc.
Jeff
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t sure
> of the tools on Windows to interrogate IO at disk or network, but on
> Linux/Unix a good place to start is the sar (sysstat) utilities.
>
> -John
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Jeff MacDonald <mailto:j...@terida.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>
>>
> Just be aware that you might not see a dramatic increase in speed just
> moving Bacula itself!
>
> If you are using VMWare with VMDK files on a VMFS volume you need to be
> aware that any IO by a guest requires a reservation of the entire VMFS
> volume. Locking is happening at the SCSI l
> On Oct 30, 2014, at 12:36 PM, John Drescher wrote:
>
>> Making a stronger and stronger arguement for me to recommend dedicated
>> bacula appliance. 16 gigs of ram, 4 cores. 1tb of 7200 for postgres and a
>> tape drive :)
>
> Maybe an enterprise ssd for postgres.
>
> John
Agreed, they’re n
> On Oct 30, 2014, at 12:17 PM, Bryn Hughes wrote:
> The job report rate will be the final average rate of the job, it doesn't
> know/specify the difference between the 'input' rate and the 'output' rate.
>
> Yep, you're going to need to do some investigation on the storage side of the
> VM ma
>>
>>
>> Tips/Suggestions?
>>
>> Jeff.
>>
> What is the content of your backups? Some things (ie thousands of tiny
> files) will cause a lot of seeks on the machine to be backed up. If you
> aren't using attribute spooling then each backed up file also causes a
> record to be inserted in t
Hi,
I have some backups going at 2MB/s which for a 380gig backup is just too slow.
I’m trying to find my bottleneck.
Some questions:
- Is the rate of the backup only shown in “messages” or is it stored in the db
anywhere. Or could I just do jobbytes / endtime-starttime in the jobs table?
- Do
This is really great! Thanks!
Jeff.
On Sep 12, 2014, at 9:04 AM, evaldoprestes
wrote:
> Hello guys, is available a new version of the tool Bacula Status with
> important adjustments with respect to dates.
>
>
> https://github.com/evaldoprestes/baculastatus
>
> +
Hi,
If i have Max Concurrent Jobs set to 1, and while a backup is running I decide
to get ahead of the game a bit and prune the next 2 or 3 volumes that are going
to be used, will a pruning job run along side a backup job or will it wait for
the backup job?
With file based backups, is pruning
22, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Heitor Faria wrote:
> Doesn't Bacula update de Pools every time director daemon is restarted?
> About the Pools separation, I just do that if I want to have different
> retentions for its volumes.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 8:5
Which also makes me wonder if having a separate fill/inc/diff pool for each and
every client is wise… or if it would be wiser to just have a separate
full/inc/diff and only 3 pools :)
On Aug 21, 2014, at 11:42 PM, Bill Arlofski wrote:
> On 08/21/14 21:00, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
>> I
I understand doing one at a time… but in my case I have 40 pools and thats
tedious. So was looking for a short cut.
Jeff.
On Aug 21, 2014, at 11:42 PM, Bill Arlofski wrote:
> On 08/21/14 21:00, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
>> Is there a trick anyone has worked out to update every singl
Is there a trick anyone has worked out to update every single pool to match the
config files and then to have every volune update from every pool definition?
I just did some major reconfiguring and don’t want to do it one by one.
Jeff.
-
;
> When I make this kind of decisions, I plan carefully the amount of space of
> each backup job I have and always there will be a volume to recycle.
>
> Regards,
> Ana
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a backup job th
retentions. Thanks.!!
Jeff
On Aug 15, 2014, at 11:39 AM, Dmitri Maziuk wrote:
> On 8/14/2014 7:34 PM, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
> ...
>> Is there a good way to plan ahead?
>
> If your backup is growing (they always are), you will eventually hit the
> limits. There are a cou
On Aug 14, 2014, at 10:34 PM, Heitor Faria wrote:
>>
>> I have a backup job that uses a Pool of 100 5 gig files. Job and File
>> retention are set to 10 years. Vol retention set to 70 days.
>>
>> 100 files have been filled and the oldest file is 23 days old.
>>
>> Right now bacula is attemp
On Aug 14, 2014, at 9:44 PM, Heitor Faria wrote:
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Hi Jeff!
>
> I have a backup job that uses a Pool of 100 5 gig files. Job and File
> retention are set to 10 years. Vol retention set t
Hi,
This has plagued me for a while… [ and while it sounds a lot like a home work
question… its actually just be being curious and reaching out :) ]
Imagine a scenario similar to this:
You have a file based storage array available with a capacity of say 6 TB, and
you have to back up 20 clients
Hi,
I have a backup job that uses a Pool of 100 5 gig files. Job and File retention
are set to 10 years. Vol retention set to 70 days.
100 files have been filled and the oldest file is 23 days old.
Right now bacula is attempting to prune the oldest volume. As I understand
things.. this will n
I just googled “Baculum” and…. did not see what I expected to see. Great
product name. :)
Jeff
On Jul 31, 2014, at 12:52 PM, Marcin Haba wrote:
> 2014-07-31 15:05 GMT+02:00 Machiel :
>> Hi Guys
>>
>> I have installed bacula7.0.5 from source as well as bacula-web
>> today without any issue
Yes, just create 10 separate pools, like this
Client {
Name = CLIENT-fd
Address = 192.168.0.6
FDPort = 9102
Catalog = MyCatalog
Password = "Cv70F6pf1t6pBopT4vQOnigDrR0v3LT3Cg"
File Retention = 10 years
Job Retention = 10 years
AutoPrune = yes
}
Job {
Name = "CLIENT"
JobDefs =
I think your next step here would be to restore a catalog backup using bscan,
bextract etc.
http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/utility/utility/index.html
Jeff.
On Jul 3, 2014, at 4:32 PM, Dietz Pröpper wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2014, 16:58:22 schrieb antonio.mannatzu:
>> - -bash-4
I think boycotting is typical IRC fare and works well, but one should “boycott
with education”. You know something like “If you are using bareos we can’t
help you. Please stop using it and use bacula instead, and here is why *link*”
Jeff.
On Mar 26, 2014, at 4:35 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> H
Seems like you had a very typical IRC experience. Try asking a question in
#oracle without having 20 years experience and memorizing every single system
table.
Stick with bacula its worth it. Don’t let a few arrogant knobs ruin it for you.
Jeff.
On Mar 25, 2014, at 3:10 PM, WebDawg wrote:
>
Franco (dev) wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
> I’m playing with bacula-web and breport.
>
> Honestly webacula hasn’t been touched in 3 years and install docs are non
> existant so i didn’t give it much more than 5 minutes :) (also reportula is
>
:42, Jeff MacDonald a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> I’m curious if there is anywhere out there that has a list of common queries
>> to run against the database to gather stats?
>>
>> Or if this is a page we’d be interested in maintaining in the wiki.
>>
>>
Hi,
I’m curious if there is anywhere out there that has a list of common queries to
run against the database to gather stats?
Or if this is a page we’d be interested in maintaining in the wiki.
Some stats I can think of might be
- space consumed on average per day, per week , per month.
- aver
Hi,
I’m using copy jobs to accomplish the business requirement of “Every few weeks,
take our latest FULL backups , copy them to a USB disk and put the usb disk in
a safe somewhere”. It think I have it setup right or I did except a few gotchas
I’m having trouble working out:
1: it seems that wh
On 2013-09-20, at 6:08 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote:
> Nice work, thanks for sharing!
>
> Maybe a word or two on preventing this situation in the first place
> might be helpful, like restricting volume sizes & number?
>
> Also, you could consider documenting deleting a volume from a disk
> pool
I've been wanting to write this for a long time and hopefully its accurate
http://www.bignose.ca/2013/09/19/bacula-disk-space-management/
If anyone has tips or modifications that I should make please let me know via
this thread and I will update my entry.
Thanks!
Jeff.
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On 2013-09-17, at 4:58 PM, Radosław Korzeniewski
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 2013/9/17 Jeff MacDonald
>
> On 2013-09-17, at 4:43 PM, Radosław Korzeniewski
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> 2013/9/17 Jeff MacDonald
>> I'm trying to find out what &quo
On 2013-09-17, at 3:53 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On 09/17/13 13:57, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
>> I was reading one of Dan Langilles blogs where he mentions he has a separate
>> pool for full/incremental/differential backup jobs.
>>
>> I was wondering the though b
On 2013-09-17, at 4:43 PM, Radosław Korzeniewski
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 2013/9/17 Jeff MacDonald
> I'm trying to find out what "truncate" actually means in the context of
> bacula and purging..
>
> Does it reduce the volume size to 0, or?
>
>
&g
I'm trying to find out what "truncate" actually means in the context of bacula
and purging..
Does it reduce the volume size to 0, or?
Jeff.
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I was reading one of Dan Langilles blogs where he mentions he has a separate
pool for full/incremental/differential backup jobs.
I was wondering the though behind this and why? Does it only apply to when
using tapes or are there strategic benefits to doing it even when using files
for backup vo
ed for a full restore, and one or more of the jobs which
> were in the list were more than 30 days old.
>
> Is it possible that yesterday's job was an incremental or differential, and
> the last full was more than 30 days old?
>
>
> JBB
>
>
> On 6/14/2013 2:0
Yes, but the option i selected was "Restore the latest backup for this client"
which was.. yesterday.
ANd that is the crux of my confusion.
On 2013-06-14, at 2:32 PM, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I went to restore some files this morning and had a "check my
Hi All,
I went to restore some files this morning and had a "check my pants" sort of
moment. I went to do the restore and got something like this:
You have selected the following JobIds: 296,436,440,444,448
Building directory tree for JobId(s) 296,436,440,444,448 ... +
For one or more of
Hi,
Right now I store all of my backups on a NAS over gig-e. (NAS has 4 1tb SATA
disks) Its mounted via NFSv3 from a linux host.
I use 1 gig files and often I encounter the case where a job needs more space,
but volumes need to be pruned. So the jobs waits for the pruning and in the
mean time
I would check the source of the catalog backup script and see what options it
uses.
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902 880 7375
On 2012-03-29, at 10:15 AM, Jose Ildefonso Camargo Tolosa wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I don't think bacula uses oids, however, it doesn't hurt if you
>
For this directive... at what point will the deletion actually happen?
I've got about 45 extra jobs cueued up, I just enabled this and ran reload.
Will it wait till the next job finishes?
jeff
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HI Jeremy,
> Op 9/03/2012 21:01, Jeff MacDonald schreef:
> > 2 questions in this email
> >
> > 1: I have a volume that has 913 1 gig files in it, however the pools
> > table in the catalog indicates 438 in the "numvols" column... any
> > reason why?
&
This mailing list is blocked by my spam filters and I just wanted to test that
i fixed it.
Sorry for spamming the list like this.
jeff.
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2 questions in this email
1: I have a volume that has 913 1 gig files in it, however the pools table in
the catalog indicates 438 in the "numvols" column... any reason why?
2: what does the volstatus "Error" actually mean in the media table?
?
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On 6-Jan-09, at 1:09 PM, Allan Black wrote:
> Jeff MacDonald wrote:
>> Everything compiles now, and the file and storage daemons both work
>> fine, but look what happens when I start up the director [I'm using
>> SMF btw, just using command line during debugging]
&
On 4-Jan-09, at 5:16 PM, Allan Black wrote:
> Jeff MacDonald wrote:
>> Here is my configure line:
>> --enable-static-tools \
>
> I believe that is your problem. As of Solaris 10, Solaris no longer
> ships (or supports) static system libraries. There are a couple of
&
On 4-Jan-09, at 5:16 PM, Allan Black wrote:
> Jeff MacDonald wrote:
>> Here is my configure line:
>> --enable-static-tools \
>
> I believe that is your problem. As of Solaris 10, Solaris no longer
> ships (or supports) static system libraries. There are a couple of
&
Hi,
I'm compiling on Solaris 10, consistantly the build fails on the
storage daemon.
Here is my configure line:
#!/bin/sh
./configure \
--prefix=/opt/bacula \
--sbindir=/opt/bacula/bin \
--sysconfdir=/opt/bacula/etc \
--with-pid-dir=/opt/bacula/bin/working \
--with-su
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