Restoring a Server
seemed to imply this was not necessary, though it does mention using
bscan shortly after using the bootstrap file.
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On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:55:03AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
3. Restoring from the bsr does not work unless appropriate catalog
entries are present. The manual, e.g., 37.8 Restoring a Server
seemed to imply this was not necessary, though it does mention using
bscan shortly after using
. Is
it a feature?
Ross
On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:55:03AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
I have not been able to restore my catalog dump from a previous backup
on a different system. I'll start with the problem I can't solve, and
then note a couple I did solve for the archvive (and comments
of a project, and so I'd prefer to avoid it.
Thanks for any help.
Ross Boylan
P.S. My searching found information on recovering from a crash within the same
version and upgrading a functioning system across versions; it didn't find
anything about the combination of version change and disaster
Cyrus.2011-01-01_23.40.01.05 marked to be canceled.
3000 Job Cyrus.2011-01-01_23.40.01.05 marked to be canceled.
# notice the first enter lead to a second prompt, while the 2nd enter cancelled
the running job.
# presumably because it was the first one listed.
Thanks.
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).
Thanks.
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On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 18:02 -0500, John Drescher wrote:
I believe this should work. You may need RemovableMedia = no
What errors are you experiencing?
Wait a minute. The media type must be whatever media type you recorded
data as. You can not change that and expect to restore.
I
Bluch. Let me clarify and then add some updates:
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 15:32 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
First, what happens if a file exists on multiple devices? For
example,
my DVD files (like a volume with the catalog) as of the date I burned
it. It has since been appended to, so a newer
Answering myself, but please correct me if I'm wrong.
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 15:32 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
(I got this error earlier too). My retention policy likely has nuked
them in the main database. Given that I have a backup of the
catalog*,
and the volumes with the files, what's my
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 16:10 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
Answering myself, but please correct me if I'm wrong.
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 15:32 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
(I got this error earlier too). My retention policy likely has nuked
them in the main database. Given that I have a backup
There has been a bunch of discussion, and some bugs, about bacula's
handling of MS Windows junction points. I can't tell what the current
status is. Does anybody know?
3 possibilities that occur to me are
1. bacula descends into mount points. In the case of Vista, this seems
likely to create
On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 20:17 +, Martin Simmons wrote:
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:51:00 -0800, Ross Boylan said:
Clarifying:
On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 09:18 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
I have a BACULA job that runs a SHELL script; the script does an sudo and
it appears
to be waiting
is that before the job runs I need to run as root,
mostly, but one of the items needs to be done as user cyrus.
Thanks.
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Clarifying:
On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 09:18 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
I have a BACULA job that runs a SHELL script; the script does an sudo and it
appears
to be waiting for a password. Cancelling the BACULA job doesn't kill it.
That is, after the cancel, bconsole status dir shows
Running Jobs
A full backup of the offending directory just ran in 7 hrs, 17 min with
a rate of 160KB/s (1,416,688 files, 4.4GB SD bytes written). This is
slightly more files and bytes than last month.
This is almost twice as fast as previous performance (13 hrs, 14 min and
a rate of 86KB/s). This suggests
Here are the results after moving the postgres database to another disk:
Initial jobs were like the ones at the end of my earlier report,
involving the directories with c 4,000 files.
93 seconds first try (277kb/s)
20 seconds 2nd try (1679kb/s)
Then I switched to the one I used at the beginning
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 18:57 -0400, Steve Thompson wrote:
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Ross Boylan wrote:
I've been having really slow backups (13 hours) when I backup a large
mail spool. I've attached a run report. There are about 1.4M files
with a compressed size of 4G. I get much better
On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 23:19 +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hello,
30.09.2007 01:36,, Ross Boylan wrote::
On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 13:15 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 08:46 +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hello,
27.09.2007 22:47,, Ross Boylan wrote::
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 09
On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 08:46 +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hello,
27.09.2007 22:47,, Ross Boylan wrote::
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 09:19 +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hi,
27.09.2007 01:17,, Ross Boylan wrote::
I've been having really slow backups (13 hours) when I backup a large
mail spool
On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 13:15 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 08:46 +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hello,
27.09.2007 22:47,, Ross Boylan wrote::
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 09:19 +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hi,
27.09.2007 01:17,, Ross Boylan wrote::
I've been having
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 21:26 -0500, Drew Bentley wrote:
On 9/26/07, Ross Boylan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been having really slow backups (13 hours) when I backup a large
mail spool. I've attached a run report. There are about 1.4M files
with a compressed size of 4G. I get much better
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 09:19 +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hi,
27.09.2007 01:17,, Ross Boylan wrote::
I've been having really slow backups (13 hours) when I backup a large
mail spool. I've attached a run report. There are about 1.4M files
with a compressed size of 4G. I get much better
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 11:19 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi to all:
I've the bacula catalog under Postgresql and the database was created
with UTF8 encoding. Now, trying to protect one 'old' client ( REDHAT 3 )
I get errors from backup job - better said, the errors are raised in the
I've been having really slow backups (13 hours) when I backup a large
mail spool. I've attached a run report. There are about 1.4M files
with a compressed size of 4G. I get much better throughput (e.g.,
2,000KB/s vs 86KB/s for this job!) with other jobs.
First, does it sound as if something is
Does bacula provide any support for using persistent counters from
python scripts, or is it necessary to do some hack (e.g., read and write
the counter to file from the script)?
I've been using counters with Label Format, but since the latter (and
the former?) is deprecated, I thought I'd look
On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 14:14 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
The Berkeley Database apparently requires that hot backups read disk
pages atomically. They note that most system cp commands do so; I've
searched the manual, FAQ, and newsgroups, but can't find how bacula
operates when reading a file
pages?
More generally, any tips on bdb backups with bacula would be great.
I'm on Linux with a 2.6 kernel.
Thanks.
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Does anyone know of a tool/script that will remap one set of uid's and
gid's to another? I.e., if sarah has id 1005 on the original system,
and I restore it to a system where sarah has id 1004, can I get
something that will rewrite the id's on the new system to 1004.
Since I've had some luck
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 12:46:36AM +0200, Steen wrote:
Tirsdag 24 april 2007 03:35 skrev Ross Boylan:
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 06:23:27PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
I created a bsr file with the names of all my volumes in order,
separated by |'s. There seem to be too many:
# bscan -s -m
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 06:35:24PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 06:23:27PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
I created a bsr file with the names of all my volumes in order,
separated by |'s. There seem to be too many:
# bscan -s -m -b vols.bsr -v /var/spool/bacula -c
/etc
?
Thanks.
Ross Boylan
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A few more comments below, based on further study of the manual.
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 02:08:19PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
My main box, which had the bacula server and was also the subject of
backups, just died. I thought I was well-prepared, but seem to have
missed a few things
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 06:23:27PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
I created a bsr file with the names of all my volumes in order,
separated by |'s. There seem to be too many:
# bscan -s -m -b vols.bsr -v /var/spool/bacula -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf
-P xxx -h localhost
# wc vols.bsr
1
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 07:24:57AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
On 19 Oct 2006 at 22:01, Ross Boylan wrote:
I have a new machine where I want to run bacula (that is the director,
the storage pools, the database), and wonder if anyone has any advice
on how to move over
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:58:15AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
On 20 Oct 2006 at 7:54, Ross Boylan wrote:
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:36:50AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
On 20 Oct 2006 at 7:29, Ross Boylan wrote:
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 07:24:57AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
On 19
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 10:36:50AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
On 20 Oct 2006 at 7:29, Ross Boylan wrote:
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 07:24:57AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
On 19 Oct 2006 at 22:01, Ross Boylan wrote:
I have a new machine where I want to run bacula
likely), is it
possible to fake it out by changing the value of 1 or more fields in
the DB? Would that be a good idea--for example, the new machine does
not have exactly the same files as the old, so I could see bacula
getting confused by fakes.
Thanks.
Ross Boylan
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 10:12:33AM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote:
On Friday 24 February 2006 04:28, Ross Boylan wrote:
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 12:06:12PM +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hello,
On 2/23/2006 8:19 AM, Ross Boylan wrote:
I got the error in the subject line while doing backups
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 12:06:12PM +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hello,
On 2/23/2006 8:19 AM, Ross Boylan wrote:
I got the error in the subject line while doing backups. I'm running
...
Here's more of the logs:
22-Feb 02:21 wheat-dir: Start Backup JobId 963, Job=MSD.2006-02-22_01.05.03
22
I got the error in the subject line while doing backups. I'm running
bacula 1.36.3-2 on Debian with postgresql 7.4.9. This happened around
the time my /var partition may have filled up, though it did have a
reasonable looking amount of free space when I checked in the morning
(/var holds the
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 08:58:19PM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Hello,
I am forwarding this to the list because it is a very interesting feature
request (a big project too), and because it is very similar to the request
submitted by Ross Boylan. My question to Ross and Ray (and others
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 04:00:59PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
Ross Boylan wrote:
Item x: Deletion of Disk-Based Volumes
Date: Nov 25, 2005
Original: Ross Boylan RossBoylan at stanfordalumni dot org
Status: Proposal
What: It would be useful to control how long the actual
If you're playing around with filesets, you may find using bconsole's
estimate command is simpler than going through a backup. estimate
listing will list each file that would be backed up. More details
in the manual.
Ross
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On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 11:08:50PM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote:
On Friday 25 November 2005 22:32, Ross Boylan wrote:
What should we call those things that are scheduled but have not yet
run?
Good question. I don't know. Maybe Scheduled Jobs as opposed to Running Jobs.
This may
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 11:08:50PM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote:
We might be able to do something like:
skip job=Job-name
which would skip the next scheduled time for Job-name
Leaving aside the somewhat oddball and/or misremembered cases, will
there ever be situations in which more
Apparently it is not possible to cancel scheduled jobs, those without
a jobid. I think it would be useful to do so.
There may be other operations on scheduled jobs that are not possible
but would be desirable. Can anyone think of any?
I recall needing this feature for two reasons. First, I
Item x: Deletion of Disk-Based Volumes
Date: Nov 25, 2005
Original: Ross Boylan RossBoylan at stanfordalumni dot org
Status: Proposal
What: It would be useful to control how long the actual backups were
kept for those backups that went to disk-based volumes. A range of
options similar
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 07:27:28PM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote:
On Friday 25 November 2005 19:18, Ross Boylan wrote:
Apparently it is not possible to cancel scheduled jobs, those without
a jobid. I think it would be useful to do so.
There may be other operations on scheduled jobs
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 09:10:55PM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote:
On Friday 25 November 2005 20:02, Ross Boylan wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 07:27:28PM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote:
On Friday 25 November 2005 19:18, Ross Boylan wrote:
Apparently it is not possible to cancel scheduled jobs
If I restart the database bacula is using, do I need to restart any of
the bacula daemons? I'm using postgres, if it matters.
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On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:31:33AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote:
On 4 Nov 2005 at 8:17, Ross Boylan wrote:
If I restart the database bacula is using, do I need to restart any of
the bacula daemons? I'm using postgres, if it matters.
I don't think so. Try it. Find out.
Would it be obvious
Does bacula compress on a file by file basis, or does it compress the
entire data stream (I have the gzip option on)?
I ask because I use the subversion version control system, and it
keeps complete copies of every file in hidden directories beneath the
the main ones. I was wondering whether I
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 06:55:36PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
Ross Boylan wrote:
I can explain the duplicate jobs, but not the primary problem of the
commented out job being run.
Suggestion: Rather than commenting out a job to disable it without
restarting, change its Schedule
.
Ross Boylan
P.S. I'm going to file a wishlist bug about deleting scheduled jobs,
unless I discover such a request is already present.
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On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 12:51:27PM +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hello,
On 23.10.2005 06:47, Ross Boylan wrote:
I have a bunch of jobs/filesets I want to backup. Since this is the
first time, I'd like to test them first.
Potentially, I could get job 1 the way I like it and start it while
.
Ross Boylan
For now, I'll just try getting all the jobs set and then running
them. Unfortunately, even the estimates are taking quite awhile to
run. I tried turning off the compression, but it doesn't seem to
help--still using all the CPU.
bacula-director-pgsql 1.36.3-1b on Debian (I made
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 09:09:57AM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote:
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 19:52, Ross Boylan wrote:
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:42:09AM +0100, Russell Howe wrote:
Ross Boylan wrote:
...
2) single jobs. Priorities may influence which of several
simultaneously scheduled
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:42:09AM +0100, Russell Howe wrote:
Ross Boylan wrote:
...
Given jobs scheduled at different times, does priority add anything to
when they are run?
If a higher priority job is running, a lower priority job will not start.
higher priority means a low value
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 10:14:57PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote:
On Tuesday 04 October 2005 20:51, Phil Stracchino wrote:
Ross Boylan wrote:
The description of the priority option for Job says that
If by chance Bacula treats a lower priority first, then it will run
before your high
I'm running bacula 1.36.3-1b on Debian, and just noticed that my
backup job appears to select the wrong volume. In fact, first it
deleted the volume, and then it wrote to it. The volumes are all
files on disk.
Is this a bug, or am I misunderstanding something?
27-Aug 01:06 wheat-dir: Max
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 12:59:22PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Now is *really* the time for people to start trying Python -- there
are still
FYI, 3 things are holding me back:
1. Not packaged for Debian.
2. Not documented.
3. counters unavailable (though if it's python, I suppose one could
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 09:13:36PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote:
On Thursday 23 June 2005 18:02, Ross Boylan wrote:
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 12:59:22PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote:
Now is *really* the time for people to start trying Python -- there
are still
FYI, 3 things are holding me
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:01:45PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
Other questions:
I take it my job is hung up. If I use cancel from the console, will
the client run after job get run?
The answer to that questions seems to be No.
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On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 09:14:31AM -0500, Misty Stanley-Jones wrote:
Please help me understand automatic labeling, because it does not work how I
thought it should.
I'm trying to figure this out too. What I say may not be correct.
If I try to expand the variable 'Client' I always get the
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 04:50:50PM +0200, Stephan Holl wrote:
Dear List,
I would like to write a bootstrap for every job and every client I
backup.
So here is my definition:
JobDefs {
Name = DefaultJob
Type = Backup
Level = Incremental
[...]
Write Bootstrap =
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 10:13:20AM +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Ok, what I remember: Incrementing and formatting at the same time was
not possible. I think Kern suggested some work-around with another
variable, where you do something like
newvar=+seqno
label=formatted newvar
The manual
As detailed in my earlier messages, I have my storage writing to disk
files, and my first attempt failed because I had an invalid volume
name.
I have cancelled the offending jobs (except parts linger on--see
later), fixed (maybe) my label generation, and asked the director to
reload its
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 09:03:46PM +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hello,
Ross Boylan wrote:
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 10:13:20AM +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote:
...
The manual doesn't give any indication that assignment to a variable
is possible in the configuration file, or where
I restarted the sd demon, and it solved the problem. A few questions
appear below.
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 09:41:38PM +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hi,
Ross Boylan wrote:
As detailed in my earlier messages, I have my storage writing to disk
files, and my first attempt failed because I had
My pool includes
Label Format =
Full${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Day:p/2/0/r}_${seqno+:p/4/0/r}
(one line in original)
earlier I had
Counter {
Name = seqno
Minimum = 30 # backup 27 looks to be my last CD at the start
Catalog = MyCatalog
}
but I get this error:
21-Jun 15:47 wheat-dir:
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