[Bacula-users] bacula-fd and systemd

2016-02-25 Thread Mike Hobbs
Hello, I have a strange issue with bacula and systemd and was hoping someone might have an answer. We have create a bacula systemd file (which I will post below). The issue is, if I warm boot the machine (reboot) it works fine. If I cold boot the machine (the machine is currently in a powere

[Bacula-users] Bacula 5.2.13 for OSX 10.11 with TLS enabled

2016-01-04 Thread Mike Hobbs
Has anyone successfully built Bacula 5.2.13 for OSX 10.11 with TLS enabled? I have built 5.2.13 on 10.6, 10.7, 10.8, 10.9 and 10.10 without issues and it works great. It does build on 10.11 but I can not get it to run. I get the error: Fatal error: TLS required but not configured in Bacula. ER

[Bacula-users] Bacula Query

2012-06-21 Thread Mike Hobbs
Hello, I was wondering if anyone has written a bacula query that you can run to find out what clients haven't been backed up within a certain time period? If so could you share? I'm not an SQL guy which is why I am asking. Thank you, mike

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 5.2.5 and Mac

2012-02-02 Thread Mike Hobbs
On 01/31/2012 12:44 PM, Marco van Wieringen wrote: > Was this a backup and restore on the same client with the same > daemon ? I have run another restore.. the issue seems to be my fault. If I restore directly to the Mac, I do not get these errors. If I restore to a non-Mac, as I did before, I

[Bacula-users] Bacula 5.2.5 and Mac

2012-01-31 Thread Mike Hobbs
I've successfully built 5.2.3 on OSX 10.6 and 5.2.5 on both OSX 10.6 and 10.7. Backups and restores seem to work fine. I do get this error and I was hoping someone might have an idea. I was also hoping someone could maybe share their FileSet definitions with me so I can see how others are ba

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Course

2011-08-10 Thread Mike Hobbs
Kern, this is something that I have wanted to take since I started using Bacula late last year. I don't know if I can get my company to pay for a trip to Switzerland (or anywhere across the pond), will you be offering this course in the USA at any point? On 8/10/2011 7:42 AM, Kern Sibbald wrot

Re: [Bacula-users] need help (step by step) for setting up certificates

2011-07-24 Thread Mike Hobbs
On 7/23/2011 3:56 PM, scar wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > i want to set up certificates for secure communication between my > director and clients. i've read several guides including the info on > bacula.org, but i am so confused how to do it. This is not my website, but I configur

Re: [Bacula-users] need help (step by step) for setting up certificates

2011-07-23 Thread Mike Hobbs
On 7/23/2011 8:38 PM, scar wrote: > this is what i have in home1.bacula-dir.conf: > > Director { >Name = home1-dir >DirAddress = home1.local >... >TLS Enable = yes >TLS Require = yes >TLS Verify Peer = yes >TLS CA Certificate File = /etc/bacula/myca.crt >TLS Certific

[Bacula-users] Volumes Getting Marked as Error

2011-07-19 Thread Mike Hobbs
I have bacula v5.0.3 and Vchanger woring well for a few months now. I noticed in one of my backup job logs that there was an error with a volume so bacula marked the volume as Error in the catalog. I did a little looking around and I found that quite a few of my volumes have been marked as Er

Re: [Bacula-users] Setting Priority

2011-07-14 Thread Mike Hobbs
On 07/11/2011 10:29 AM, hymie! wrote: > However, I might suggest that, since Incremental/Differential backups > depend on having a Full backup already completed, you have your > priorities backwards. The Full backups, imho, should be given the higher > priority than the incrementals. Maybe I didn

Re: [Bacula-users] Device

2011-07-11 Thread Mike Hobbs
On 7/11/2011 4:30 PM, Josh Fisher wrote: > No, whitespace does not matter, and Bacula would tell you if there were > a config error. Maybe there were jobs already running when you issued > the reload command in bconsole to bring in the config changes? Try > restarting SD and DIR and see if the prob

Re: [Bacula-users] Device

2011-07-11 Thread Mike Hobbs
On 07/11/2011 11:52 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: > Did any of the jobs that ran just after those two write to the same > volume? What was the status (from 'status dir' command) of the jobs that > were not running when only two jobs were running? Sorry, I probably should have cut and pasted that informat

Re: [Bacula-users] Device

2011-07-10 Thread Mike Hobbs
On 7/10/2011 11:14 AM, Mike Hobbs wrote: > I've had concurrent backups working fine for the past few days, this > morning I login to check my server and I noticed that bacula/vchanger is > only using 2 of my 4 virtual drives. I don't understand why, could you > point me in

Re: [Bacula-users] Device

2011-07-10 Thread Mike Hobbs
On 6/29/2011 5:05 PM, Josh Fisher wrote: > By default, Bacula will select a volume that is already in a drive in > preference to a volume not in a drive. For concurrent jobs writing to > the same pool, this means they will always select the same volume. Thus > if you set MaximumConcurrentJobs=1 in

[Bacula-users] Setting Priority

2011-07-08 Thread Mike Hobbs
Hello, I was wondering if someone could help me out with an issue. I've been testing Bacula 5.0.3 and Vchanger for a few months now, everything is working good and I hope to put this into production very soon. For the past few months I have only been backing up a small handful of machines, I'm

[Bacula-users] Bacula and TLS

2011-06-30 Thread Mike Hobbs
I'm trying to get TLS working with bacula, I'm following the instructions on this web site: http://www.devco.net/pubwiki/Bacula/TLS/ I came to this statement "Repeat this certificate creation steps - create a key, csr and cert - for each of your clients and directors" My question is, is it pos

Re: [Bacula-users] Device

2011-06-29 Thread Mike Hobbs
On 06/28/2011 04:38 PM, Josh Fisher wrote: > It isn't necessary. jbod1-drive-1, jbod1-drive-2, etc. are virtual > drives. The ArchiveDevice path in each virtual drive contains a symlink. > The symlink is created by vchanger to point to the folder containing the > volume file that is to be used. Any

[Bacula-users] Device

2011-06-28 Thread Mike Hobbs
I'm almost ready with putting bacula into production but I'm still debugging a few things and one of them is the "Device" line in my bacula mail reports, and I was hoping someone could help me with this. I'm running disk-based backups. Bacula 5.0.3, Vchanger 0.8.6 and a 16-bay Promise jbod. I

Re: [Bacula-users] Nuke and Start Over

2011-06-22 Thread Mike Hobbs
On 06/22/2011 06:16 AM, Michael Anderson wrote: > Hello, > > I've been experimenting a bit and would like to nuke everything and > start over. I've dropped my database, created a new one, and run the > make_postgres_tables script. Additionally, I've deleted all the files > under /var/lib/bacula, bu

[Bacula-users] Restore without creating top level directory

2011-05-09 Thread Mike Hobbs
Question, I'm trying to do a restore of a file system, in this case, /opt. I want to restore everything on this partition. I have a spare disk mounted in another client with all the file systems created, formatted and mounted. In this case I have the file system I want to restore to, mounte

[Bacula-users] deleting multiple volumes

2011-04-26 Thread Mike Hobbs
Is there a way I can delete multiple volumes from the database? I've tried entering multiple MediaID's and multiple volume names on the bconsole command line but it doesn't work.. or I'm not doing it correctly. :-) Thanks! mike ---

Re: [Bacula-users] A few of questions

2011-04-14 Thread Mike Hobbs
On 04/14/2011 03:10 PM, John Drescher wrote: > Yes you can restore to any machine. And any location on that machine. > When doing a restore in bconsole after you select the job. Type mod > then change the client and location. I am not sure what you do in bat > since I rarely use that. > > Works g

[Bacula-users] A few of questions

2011-04-14 Thread Mike Hobbs
When backing up to a disk/RAID system, how do you guys mirror your raid array? If you were to mirror in real-time and something got corrupted it could cause problems on your mirror. Do you mirror once a day? What software do you use to mirror your array? is rsync good enough? When testing

Re: [Bacula-users] Pools and Volumes

2011-04-06 Thread Mike Hobbs
On 04/06/2011 12:44 PM, John Drescher wrote: > Yes you made sense. > > How are you getting bacula to use the next drive when the first is > full? Different storage devices? Rotating symbolic links? aufs / > unionfs? > > John > I haven't gotten this to work yet, that is my goal. The two options

Re: [Bacula-users] Pools and Volumes

2011-04-06 Thread Mike Hobbs
On 04/06/2011 11:54 AM, Mike Hobbs wrote: >I just found this old archived messages.. > > http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg29377.html > > The end of this email says: > > "The same pool is no problem at all. What is the problem is

Re: [Bacula-users] Pools and Volumes

2011-04-06 Thread Mike Hobbs
I just found this old archived messages.. http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg29377.html The end of this email says: "The same pool is no problem at all. What is the problem is bacula does not normally move a job from one device to a second and it will never cont

Re: [Bacula-users] Pools and Volumes

2011-04-06 Thread Mike Hobbs
On 04/06/2011 11:01 AM, hymie! wrote: > Now, each of my disks is 2TB. If you've got a 16-bay JBOD and, say, > 12 100GB disks, then you might be even better off setting up a striped > logical volume at the OS level, and tell Bacula that it's a single disk. > My last thread on this list degenerate

Re: [Bacula-users] Pools and Volumes

2011-04-06 Thread Mike Hobbs
I wonder if it's because I have a different "media type" for each of my drives in the sd.conf file? I thought the media type option needed to be a different name. Device { Name = disk1 Media Type = File1 Archive Device = /export/disk1 LabelMedia = yes; # lets Bac

[Bacula-users] Pools and Volumes

2011-04-06 Thread Mike Hobbs
I'm still on my quest to get bacula to write data to more than one disk drive.. I have a 16-bay JBOD unit. I was pointed to "vchanger" but as bacula is a bit complicated already, I don't want to add a 3rd party program into the mix as well (unless I have to). I also have to believe that bac

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and 16 bay JBOD

2011-03-16 Thread Mike Hobbs
On 03/16/2011 01:12 PM, Robison, Dave wrote: > Just curious, why not put that jbod into a RAID array? I believe you'd > get far better performance with the additional spools and you'd get > redundancy as well. > > Personally I'd set that up as a RAIDZ using ZFS on FreeBSD. > > I believe the reas

[Bacula-users] Bacula and 16 bay JBOD

2011-03-16 Thread Mike Hobbs
Hello, I'm currently testing bacula v5.0.3 and so far so good. One of my issues though, I have a 16 bay Promise Technologies VessJBOD. How do I get bacula to use all the disks for writing volumes to? I guess the way I envision it working would be, 50gb volumes would be used and when disk1

Re: [Bacula-users] Repeating FULL backup

2011-03-11 Thread Mike Hobbs
Jeff and James, thank you guys for your quick replies! This will help me for sure! mike On 03/11/2011 11:52 AM, jeffrey Lang wrote: Mike yes, there are options for managing this, they are: Allow Duplicate Jobs = no Cancel Lower Level Duplicates = yes Cancel Queued

Re: [Bacula-users] Repeating FULL backup

2011-03-11 Thread Mike Hobbs
On 02/28/2011 11:10 AM, Mike Hobbs wrote: >I'm testing Bacula, so this is not a production setup and I ran into > an issue, problem, bug, I'm not sure. During my testing, I'm backing up > a file system of about 700gb to a disk. A FULL backup took around 21 > ho

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-09 Thread Mike Hobbs
On 3/1/2011 8:40 AM, Laurent HENRY wrote: > Is anyone know if there is a way to improve performances of network usage ? Bacula - Turn off software compression. Switch and Network Cards - If you are fully gigabit and your equipment supports it, turn on jumbo frames.

[Bacula-users] Repeating FULL backup

2011-02-28 Thread Mike Hobbs
I'm testing Bacula, so this is not a production setup and I ran into an issue, problem, bug, I'm not sure. During my testing, I'm backing up a file system of about 700gb to a disk. A FULL backup took around 21 hours with compression turned on. While this was happening the remaining backup

[Bacula-users] Some questions about bacula

2011-02-18 Thread Mike Hobbs
Hello, I'm a very new Bacula user and am looking for a little help. My experience for the past 10+ years has been with Amanda and Retrospect and I've finally had enough of both (especially Retrospect) and I'm looking to convert to Bacula. I've download the Bacula source and built in on Red