Re: [Bacula-users] Amazon cloud driver fails with large part sizes

2024-10-30 Thread Justin Case
The implicit default of 1G for Maximum File Size does not do anything, it needs to be put in expllicitly in the cloud device. Then it is being used. > On 30. Oct 2024, at 01:21, Justin Case wrote: > > Despite Maximum Part Size now being 1G and Maximum File Size using the > defaul

Re: [Bacula-users] Amazon cloud driver fails with large part sizes

2024-10-29 Thread Justin Case
data. I am really wondering why a lot of this does not seem to work as documented... or what my mistake here is on my end. > On 29. Oct 2024, at 23:10, Justin Case wrote: > > MinIO has a part limit of 5G, but a part in MinIO lingo is very likely not > the same as a part in Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Amazon cloud driver fails with large part sizes

2024-10-29 Thread Justin Case
> At Tue, 29 Oct 2024 21:35:35 +0100 Justin Case wrote: > >> >> Hi there, I am struggling with the Amazon cloud driver. I have defined the >> Max vol. bytes as 350G and not defined Max Part Size, but due to volume size >> of 350G, no part will be bigger than 350G, I

[Bacula-users] Amazon cloud driver fails with large part sizes

2024-10-29 Thread Justin Case
Hi there, I am struggling with the Amazon cloud driver. I have defined the Max vol. bytes as 350G and not defined Max Part Size, but due to volume size of 350G, no part will be bigger than 350G, I suppose. Whether this makes sense when transferring over the Internet is another story… what would

Re: [Bacula-users] (My) Job pruning seems not to work as intended

2024-10-23 Thread Justin Case
Thanks Bill, I got it working with your help. > On 23. Oct 2024, at 19:19, Bill Arlofski wrote: > > On 10/23/24 10:59 AM, Justin Case wrote: >> I used this in an admin job, but no verify/admin jobs older than 6mo got >> deleted: >> Runscript { >> RunsWh

Re: [Bacula-users] (My) Job pruning seems not to work as intended

2024-10-23 Thread Justin Case
0)) and starttime < now()-interval '6 months';" } > On 22. Oct 2024, at 14:37, Justin Case wrote: > > Thank you so much Martin, > > it all makes sense now! regarding (4), the old jobs are on volumes in state > Error, those do not have an expiry date. > Wha

Re: [Bacula-users] (My) Job pruning seems not to work as intended

2024-10-22 Thread Justin Case
bob, thank you for you effort to help! Response part (4) was relevant for me. I solved the mystery by now: VOlume sin state Error do not have an expiry date and so the associated jobs also do not get pruned. > On 21. Oct 2024, at 16:08, Rob Gerber wrote: > > Justin, > > I don

Re: [Bacula-users] (My) Job pruning seems not to work as intended

2024-10-22 Thread Justin Case
21. Oct 2024, at 17:28, Martin Simmons wrote: > >>>>>> On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 13:15:16 +0200, Justin Case said: >> >> I have browsed the catalog database a bit more and I saw one thing that >> might explain the problem I am having, but I don't have su

Re: [Bacula-users] (My) Job pruning seems not to work as intended

2024-10-20 Thread Justin Case
types Backup, Copy Job and Copy (Migration also? I dont use those) are pruned. Is this the correct behavior? (6) Is there a builtin mechanism to expire and prune Admin jobs and Verify jobs? > On 20. Oct 2024, at 12:21, Justin Case wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > please find my r

Re: [Bacula-users] (My) Job pruning seems not to work as intended

2024-10-20 Thread Justin Case
Hi Bill, please find my response inline below: > On 19. Oct 2024, at 22:59, Bill Arlofski wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 at 06:15, Justin Case <mailto:jus7inc...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> I am wondering why I am seeing in my catalog lots of jobs olde

Re: [Bacula-users] (My) Job pruning seems not to work as intended

2024-10-16 Thread Justin Case
16. Oct 2024, at 18:47, Martin Simmons wrote: > > Messages like "Begin pruning Jobs older than ..." should appear after the > termination status of the job. Do you see any messages like that? > > __Martin > > >>>>>> On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:15:24

[Bacula-users] (My) Job pruning seems not to work as intended

2024-10-16 Thread Justin Case
I am wondering why I am seeing in my catalog lots of jobs older than the JobRetention defined in the pools, and also older than the default JobRetention assumed for the clients. The volume recycling seems to work fine adhering to the VolumeRetention in the pools. To me it is a mystery, probabl

[Bacula-users] Amazon driver problem, failed upload of some parts

2024-07-24 Thread Justin Case
Hola folks, So far I was successfully making backup copies to minIO S3 using copy jobs to cloud storage (Amazon driver). Each volume is a folder on my minIO and has an individual file called part (numbered) for each job in the volume. Works fine. The part files are all around 5GB large (copies

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: what will bacula do if I reduce pool MaximumVolumes lower than number of existing vols in pool?

2024-03-20 Thread Justin Case
> pon., 20 lis 2023 o 00:27 Justin Case <mailto:jus7inc...@gmail.com>> napisał(a): > Hi there, > > I realise that my short term pool will have more volumes than actually > necessary, as I started the backups earlier than on the day per month when > fulls are taken. S

Re: [Bacula-users] Using Bacula in a cloud environment with a jumphost

2023-12-22 Thread Justin Case
Hi Martin, I am also using this. The only problem I came across is that the client is reporting tons of connection failures when the director cannot be reached, even if no job is running. Also the client does then burden the VM in which it is running under heavy load until the director is rea

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Bacula 11 and Baculum 11 - which Postgres versions do work?

2023-12-08 Thread Justin Case
Dear Marcin, thank you, this worked. Cheers, J/C > On 8. Dec 2023, at 15:53, Marcin Haba wrote: > > Hello Justin > > It looks that you need a fix that enables support for PostgreSQL 15 > and higher. I ported it a few months ago from Bacularis but > unfortunately the Bac

[Bacula-users] Q: Bacula 11 and Baculum 11 - which Postgres versions do work?

2023-12-08 Thread Justin Case
Hey there, I am currently using Baculum 11 on Bacula 11 with Postgres 13. Today I made a dump of the db and tried to move to Postgres 16. Baculum does not seem to work with the imported database out of the box and throws: UNION types "char" and text cannot be matched at character Any ideas w

[Bacula-users] Q: what will bacula do if I reduce pool MaximumVolumes lower than number of existing vols in pool?

2023-11-19 Thread Justin Case
Hi there, I realise that my short term pool will have more volumes than actually necessary, as I started the backups earlier than on the day per month when fulls are taken. So this pool will have at least two fulls in the first month. In subsequent months there will only be the need for 1 full

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: how to locate files that generate verify differences?

2023-11-11 Thread Justin Case
er each backup job, or at > least while that job is the newest and most recent job. > > Robert Gerber > 402-237-8692 > r...@craeon.net <mailto:r...@craeon.net> > On Fri, Nov 10, 2023, 7:41 AM Justin Case <mailto:jus7inc...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hi there, >

Re: [Bacula-users] Limit number of concurrent verify jobs

2023-11-10 Thread Justin Case
I am not an expert on this topic. My immediate idea was that you could use different priorities in the verify jobs and ensure that mixed priorities cannot be run. > On 30. Oct 2023, at 11:23, Mark Dixon wrote: > > Hi all, > > We find that our bacula catalog database can handle more concurrent

Re: [Bacula-users] Recovery from only one storage

2023-11-10 Thread Justin Case
yes, you may select "Enable restore from copy jobs feature” in the Restore Wizard. It will then also show and search in the copy jobs. > On 12. Apr 2023, at 07:46, Tomasz Świderski wrote: > > Has anyone done this with Baculum? > > W dniu 11.04.2023 o 09:15, Josip Deanovic pisze: >> You can us

[Bacula-users] Q: is it possible to exclude certain files from verify jobs (but still backing the up in backup jobs)?

2023-11-10 Thread Justin Case
Greetings, I regularly have to issue that some log files get modified during backup jobs, so they will generate verify differences later in verify jobs. One approach to avoid this problem would be not backing up these files. However, I’d rather have a backup of the logs. The other approach would

[Bacula-users] Q: how to locate files that generate verify differences?

2023-11-10 Thread Justin Case
Hi there, I am doing a verify for each backup job. The verify happens no immediately after the backup, but on the same day for sure. For some hosts I do have verify differences, and for FDs version 9.x I get reports on which files that, so I am able to exclude them from the fileset. However, F

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Your advice for my re-design of backup layout regarding pools and volumes (backups of and in homelab)

2023-10-24 Thread Justin Case
can you paste how you select the fulls for copy jobs? > On 24. Oct 2023, at 20:53, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > On 10/24/23 14:42, Justin Case wrote: >> I realized that my fulls and incrementals have the same retention time, so I >> made 1 pool for both. >> I guess

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Your advice for my re-design of backup layout regarding pools and volumes (backups of and in homelab)

2023-10-24 Thread Justin Case
> On 24. Oct 2023, at 17:15, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > On 10/24/23 10:59, Justin Case wrote: > > Disclaimer: My situation is a little different from yours, I'm doing > disk-to-disk-to-removable-disk. > > >> For tier 1: does it make sense to have

[Bacula-users] Q: Your advice for my re-design of backup layout regarding pools and volumes (backups of and in homelab)

2023-10-24 Thread Justin Case
Hi there, I am currently rethinking the setup of my backups for my home lab (has a lot of VMs and a few physical machines). I want to have 2 backup tiers: tier 1 on a virtual FS across several HDDs and tier 2 using vchanger on external HDDs. As I am mainly backing up VMs on 1 hypervisor and all

[Bacula-users] planned release for Debian 12 "bookworm" debs?

2023-07-18 Thread Justin Case
Hi there, is it know when the Bacula debs for Debian 12 “bookworm” might get released? Best, J/C ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Differential and Incremental Backup not working

2023-04-21 Thread Justin Case
Hi Thorsten, the mechanisms for full and incremental backups works for me. It is more likely a matter of your settings. also the schedules influence whether a backup is done as a full or as an incremental, so I would look there, if this is configured correctly. Hope it helps, j/c > On 21. Apr

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Why is this job queued and not run concurrently although MaximumConcurrentJobs gt 1, AllowMixedPriority=yes and more drives available in autochanger?

2023-04-20 Thread Justin Case
that does something on the SD, not on the client / FD. Do you understand this? > On 20. Apr 2023, at 20:55, Justin Case wrote: > > Hi Martin, > >> On 20. Apr 2023, at 20:38, Martin Simmons wrote: >> >> What is the output of the "status dir" command when

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Why is this job queued and not run concurrently although MaximumConcurrentJobs gt 1, AllowMixedPriority=yes and more drives available in autochanger?

2023-04-20 Thread Justin Case
owMixedPriority = yes." do you mean all > jobs that are running at the time you want to Admin job to run? For now I have job running for testing, and the Admin job, and both have AllowMixedPriority = yes. > >>>>>> On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 12:14:57 +0200, Justin Case sa

[Bacula-users] Q: Why is this job queued and not run concurrently although MaximumConcurrentJobs gt 1, AllowMixedPriority=yes and more drives available in autochanger?

2023-04-20 Thread Justin Case
Greetings to all, I have the simple Admin job "truncate-pools-all” (see further down) and I would like to be able to run it concurrently while some backup job “backup1" (see further down) is running. Lets say backup jobs have Priority = 20. The Runscript Console command has Priority = 10 and us

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: cannot truncate volumes while backup running on same storage, need advice to set MaximumCOncurrentJobs properly

2023-04-19 Thread Justin Case
Thanks Bill, see below... > On 19. Apr 2023, at 22:05, Bill Arlofski wrote: > > I just checked and I see that my memory was working correctly this morning... > >>> I will ask my colleagues if they remember this issue in the Enterprise >>> version and if it was address/modified/fixed. >>> >>>

Re: [Bacula-users] Truncate Volumes Before Retention Time is Up

2023-04-19 Thread Justin Case
you could try this: truncate pool=mypool storage=mystorage > On 30. Mar 2023, at 18:10, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > > Do I need to do this for each volume in the pool individually? > > I was hoping to purge and delete all the volumes belonging to the pool as > there are quite a large number of v

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: cannot truncate volumes while backup running on same storage, need advice to set MaximumCOncurrentJobs properly

2023-04-19 Thread Justin Case
Hi Bill, see below > On 19. Apr 2023, at 17:22, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users > wrote: > > On 4/19/23 03:52, Justin Case wrote: >> For the sake of completeness: I have read in the document “Community Disk >> Backup Design” in section 3.1 that it is possible what you a

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: cannot truncate volumes while backup running on same storage, need advice to set MaximumCOncurrentJobs properly

2023-04-19 Thread Justin Case
In the meanwhile I also tried to create a separate storage in the director in analogy to a restore storage device with AutoSelect=no. This also does not work as the volumes I want to truncate are then not found to belong to this storage device. > On 19. Apr 2023, at 11:43, Justin Case wr

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: cannot truncate volumes while backup running on same storage, need advice to set MaximumCOncurrentJobs properly

2023-04-19 Thread Justin Case
at 11:07, Justin Case wrote: > > Thanks Mat, > that sounds plausible, but is it even possible to have two devices for the > same folder on disk, which have access to the same volumes? > So far I believed that was impossible, but I am only a casual user of Bacula. > >>

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: cannot truncate volumes while backup running on same storage, need advice to set MaximumCOncurrentJobs properly

2023-04-19 Thread Justin Case
AlwaysOpen = no Autochanger = yes MaximumConcurrentJobs = 5 } Device { Name = “dev2" MediaType = “file1" DeviceType = "File" ArchiveDevice = "/mnt/folder1" RemovableMedia = no RandomAccess = yes AutomaticMount = yes LabelMedia = yes AlwaysOpen = no A

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: cannot truncate volumes while backup running on same storage, need advice to set MaximumCOncurrentJobs properly

2023-04-19 Thread Justin Case
nd drive like the > first one. > Cheers, > Mat. > > > Le 19 avril 2023 00:58:39 GMT+02:00, Justin Case a > écrit : > Hello all, > > while I have running backup jobs the storage is running out of space (disk > file changer volumes). As the pool (pool2) that i

[Bacula-users] Q: cannot truncate volumes while backup running on same storage, need advice to set MaximumCOncurrentJobs properly

2023-04-18 Thread Justin Case
Hello all, while I have running backup jobs the storage is running out of space (disk file changer volumes). As the pool (pool2) that is currently written has already been truncated (manually some weeks ago), recycling of volumes does not create free space. I thus wanted to truncate volumes fr

[Bacula-users] truncate all purged disk file volumes in a given pool

2023-03-14 Thread Justin Case
Dear fellows, I know i may truncate all disk file volumes in all pools of a given storage like this: truncate allpools storage=mystor1 I just need confirmation: if I wanted to truncate just all volumes in a given pool, would I do it like this? truncate pool=mypool1 storage=mystor1 Best j/c _

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: disk file volume error state - keep or delete?

2023-03-02 Thread Justin Case
Bill I am still on 11.0.6 for Dir and SD > On 2. Mar 2023, at 21:31, Bill Arlofski wrote: > > On 3/2/23 12:08, Justin Case wrote: >> Dear Bill, please find my response inline, further down: >>> On 2. Mar 2023, at 17:33, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users >>>

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: disk file volume error state - keep or delete?

2023-03-02 Thread Justin Case
Dear Bill, please find my response inline, further down: > On 2. Mar 2023, at 17:33, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users > wrote: > > On 3/1/23 16:22, Justin Case wrote: >> What I actually did was to select them in Baculum and purged them. Then they >> were in state “P

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: disk file volume error state - keep or delete?

2023-03-01 Thread Justin Case
> On 3/1/23 06:50, Justin Case wrote: >> Hello folks, >> today I had the situation that bacula tried to create a new disk file >> volumes and the creation failed (not sure what the reason was, lack of space >> or limit of volume number, but I was able to get it to creat

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: disk file volume error state - keep or delete?

2023-03-01 Thread Justin Case
the filesystem then you could change the volume status to > append or remove them from the system. > > > > > > > Justin Case escreveu em qua., 1/03/2023 às 14:21 : > Hello Pedro, > > TBH I don’t see how the pool config is related to my question, but

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: disk file volume error state - keep or delete?

2023-03-01 Thread Justin Case
tes = 500 VolumeRetention = 864 Storage = "storage1" AutoPrune = no Catalog = “MyCatalog” } I would like to know: do I just delete the volumes that are in “Error” state or what else is the preferred course of action? > On 1. Mar 2023, at 15:12, Pedro Oliveira

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: disk file volume error state - keep or delete?

2023-03-01 Thread Justin Case
; catalog. > > Will Bacula recycle those volumes automatically (I supposed it doesn’t)? > If not, what to do with those error volumes in the catalog? just delete them? > Or move then to scratch? Best, j/c > On 1. Mar 2023, at 15:06, Pedro Oliveira wrote: > > Hi Justin

[Bacula-users] Q: disk file volume error state - keep or delete?

2023-03-01 Thread Justin Case
Hello folks, today I had the situation that bacula tried to create a new disk file volumes and the creation failed (not sure what the reason was, lack of space or limit of volume number, but I was able to get it to create new volumes again): Warning: mount.c:216 Open of File device “storagedev1

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: When will new volume retention periods be effective? was: Retention period calculation

2023-02-21 Thread Justin Case
Awesome, that was easy and worked perfectly. Thank you so much! > On 21. Feb 2023, at 18:44, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users > wrote: > > On 2/21/23 10:03, Justin Case wrote: >> I have now implemented the retention period settings as described in my last >> email. >&

[Bacula-users] Q: join devel list to report a bug?

2023-02-21 Thread Justin Case
interested in responses to bug descriptions I am sending, but I couldn’t make a lot of use of other people’s bug reports or devel discussions.) Thanks and best, j/c > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Justin Case > Subject: Some curious findings (or maybe a bug) about different

[Bacula-users] Q: When will new volume retention periods be effective? was: Retention period calculation

2023-02-21 Thread Justin Case
the current setting in its pool? Best, j/c > On 31. Jan 2023, at 12:59, Antonino Balsamo > wrote: > > this should be correct, but let's see Ana consideration > > Il 31/01/2023 12:50, Justin Case ha scritto: >> so for the backups on tier 1 storage and the copies o

[Bacula-users] Some curious findings (or maybe a bug) about different behaviour of FD V9/V11/V13 for Data level Verify jobs

2023-02-12 Thread Justin Case
Hi, I am puzzled by the different behaviour of different versions of FD during Verify jobs. One finding looks to me like a bug, so if someone knows better, please let me know. I am running a number of clients using different versions for the FD, while the SD and Director run 11.x The verify jo

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention period calculation

2023-01-31 Thread Justin Case
Ana Emília M. Arruda > wrote: > > Hello Justin, > > Sorry for the confusion! > You are right, we recommend that *VolumeRetention is greater than or equal to > JobRetention". > > So, the Volume will never get pruned before the Job Retention has expired. > &g

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention period calculation

2023-01-31 Thread Justin Case
Hi Ana, see below > On 31. Jan 2023, at 10:16, Ana Emília M. Arruda > wrote: > > Hello Justin, > > The problem is that you expect the Job doesn't get pruned from the Catalog > (Job and File records deleted from the Bacula database) *before* the > JobRetention v

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention period calculation

2023-01-30 Thread Justin Case
Hello Ana, I though about what you wrote and I am still wondering what would be the problem if a volume gets purged before the contained jobs retentions expire? This would remove the jobs and the corresponding files also from the catalog, ok, but where is the problem? I am Just trying to get a

Re: [Bacula-users] Q. Copy jobs - how to select all uncopied backups jobs that ran in the last 24 hours?

2023-01-20 Thread Justin Case
I ran a test with 1 job name and it works like a charm. Thank you for sharing this masterpiece :) > On 20. Jan 2023, at 08:58, Josip Deanovic wrote: > > On 2023-01-20 00:42, Justin Case wrote: >> Thank you so much Josip, that sounds perfect. >> I will run tests with yo

Re: [Bacula-users] Q. Copy jobs - how to select all uncopied backups jobs that ran in the last 24 hours?

2023-01-20 Thread Justin Case
Thank you Josip for pointing this out. I appreciate this. > On 20. Jan 2023, at 08:58, Josip Deanovic wrote: > > On 2023-01-20 00:42, Justin Case wrote: >> Thank you so much Josip, that sounds perfect. >> I will run tests with your query. > > Better check the whole t

Re: [Bacula-users] Q. Copy jobs - how to select all uncopied backups jobs that ran in the last 24 hours?

2023-01-19 Thread Justin Case
Thank you so much Josip, that sounds perfect. I will run tests with your query. > On 20. Jan 2023, at 00:07, Josip Deanovic wrote: > > On 2023-01-19 22:56, Justin Case wrote: >> Hi all, >> I am trying to keep a copy of all backup jobs on a tier-2 storage. My >> fir

[Bacula-users] Q. Copy jobs - how to select all uncopied backups jobs that ran in the last 24 hours?

2023-01-19 Thread Justin Case
Hi all, I am trying to keep a copy of all backup jobs on a tier-2 storage. My first approach was to copy all yet uncopied jobs - but in the beginning that would be a prohibitive number of copy jobs (hundreds!) I think it would work for me if I would let Bacula copy all yet uncopied jobs that r

[Bacula-users] bidge the community on Telegram to Matrix?

2022-09-22 Thread Justin Case
Hi all, I would see some benefit in bridging the Bacula channel on Telegram to a Matrix room (as I stubbornly refuse to use Telegram). Bridging can be done with very low effort using https://t2bot.io/telegram/ Is the Telegram channel admin here? If not does someone

Re: [Bacula-users] When generating several copy jobs for a backup job, director takes wrong pool

2022-09-14 Thread Justin Case
and full jobs ob the days where the schedule says that. Best, J/C > On 14. Sep 2022, at 17:51, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users > wrote: > > On 9/14/22 07:08, Justin Case wrote: > > Hello Justin, > > > I noticed that your t1-pool-full has a wrong NextPool de

[Bacula-users] When generating several copy jobs for a backup job, director takes wrong pool

2022-09-14 Thread Justin Case
Hi there, let me describe where I am coming from before I go into the problem itself: I have a number of historical backup jobs for different client FDs in a given pool. Actually there are two pools, one for the full backups and one for the incremental backups. Now I want to create copies of th

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: mystery number of Migration/Copy control jobs?

2022-09-11 Thread Justin Case
I had MaximumSpawnedJobs=30 for this job, I now have set it to 1000 and will see if solves the issue. > On 9. Sep 2022, at 01:42, Justin Case wrote: > > Greetings everyone, > > since a few days I am experimenting with copy jobs. For the selection I am > using

Re: [Bacula-users] Verify Level=Data with Accurate=yes does DiskToCatalog, not VolumeToCatalog? Re: Q: Verify differences

2022-09-09 Thread Justin Case
experiment not working or is the code not behaving as documented? Best, J/C > On 9. Sep 2022, at 16:43, Marcin Haba wrote: > > Hello Justin, > > In verify jobs Bacula components have different tasks to do. File daemon is > capable to read file attributes from the filesystem,

[Bacula-users] Verify Level=Data with Accurate=yes does DiskToCatalog, not VolumeToCatalog? Re: Q: Verify differences

2022-09-09 Thread Justin Case
files with differences. Really, what is going on here? Is nobody else using this and wondering? Did I get it all wrong? > On 9. Sep 2022, at 02:25, Justin Case wrote: > > Finally 8 of 15 verify jobs returned with differences. I did not have this > before when I was only using level

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Verify differences - how to investigate?

2022-09-08 Thread Justin Case
differences. I guess this means the verify job ran completely and has no relation to potential differences being found. > On 9. Sep 2022, at 01:23, Justin Case wrote: > > Hello all, > a disk backup verify with level Data and with Accurate just returned with > FD termination status: Ver

[Bacula-users] Q: mystery number of Migration/Copy control jobs?

2022-09-08 Thread Justin Case
Greetings everyone, since a few days I am experimenting with copy jobs. For the selection I am using the pool name and PoolUncopiedJobs. Since I have a lot of jobs from the past, PoolUncopiedJobs selects a lot of older jobs for copying. The first time the copy job ran it selected 243 jobs for

[Bacula-users] Q: Verify differences - how to investigate?

2022-09-08 Thread Justin Case
Hello all, a disk backup verify with level Data and with Accurate just returned with FD termination status: Verify differences However, the job info and the email that was sent about it does not contain any further information on what file is exhibiting differences. Is it possible to investigat

[Bacula-users] Q: is Level a selection criterion for Migration/Copy jobs?

2022-09-07 Thread Justin Case
Hi all, I am wondering whether Level is also a selection criterion for migration/copy jobs, i.e. if there are for a given Job Name a full backup from yesterday and an incremental backup from today, will I be able to select the full backup if I use the job name and Level=Full? Thanks for consid

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: How to verify copy jobs?

2022-09-06 Thread Justin Case
the copy job (3), but we cannot know the job ID of the copy job (3) before it is executed. Is it actually to verify copy jobs in a scheduled manner? If so, how? > On 6. Sep 2022, at 15:38, Justin Case wrote: > > Greetings, > > so far I don’t yet have a nice solution for t

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: How to verify copy jobs?

2022-09-06 Thread Justin Case
y job, correct? So I need to provide priorities accordingly to the 4 jobs to run in this order? (As I don’t want to create a set of schedules for each of these jobs). Happy to hear about better solutions you are using, J/C > On 4. Sep 2022, at 18:27, Justin Case wrote: > > Hi there

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Copy jobs dummy client problem

2022-09-06 Thread Justin Case
sole command? > > __Martin > > >>>>>> On Mon, 5 Sep 2022 21:02:52 +0200, Justin Case said: >> >> It works for me, too, but I get this error. >> >>> On 5. Sep 2022, at 20:14, Martin Simmons wrote: >>> >>> A copy job work

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Copy jobs dummy client problem

2022-09-05 Thread Justin Case
It works for me, too, but I get this error. > On 5. Sep 2022, at 20:14, Martin Simmons wrote: > > A copy job works for me in Bacula 13.0.0 without this problem (even if the > bacula-fd isn't running). > > __Martin > > >>>>>> On Mon, 5 Sep 2022 1

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Copy jobs dummy client problem

2022-09-05 Thread Justin Case
nge to me. The "JobId 0" maybe means that it was caused by > something else. Does the time "04-Sep 14:19" match the sequence of times in > the other messages about the copy job? > > __Martin > > >>>>>> On Sun, 4 Sep 2022 14:33:03 +0200, J

Re: [Bacula-users] Schedules verify job fails

2022-09-05 Thread Justin Case
copy jobs? Cheers, J/C > On 5. Sep 2022, at 17:47, Martin Simmons wrote: > > Maybe the output of > > show job=job1-verify > > will show where the level is being set to Incremental? It might be the > Schedule resource for example. > > __Martin > > >>>

[Bacula-users] Q: How to verify copy jobs?

2022-09-04 Thread Justin Case
Hi there, today I switched to using copy jobs to create the tier 2 backup (instead of backup jobs from the original source). I realized that the copied job on tier 2 storage has the exact same name as the job on tier from which it was copied. I am now unclear how I can schedule verify jobs for

[Bacula-users] Q: Copy jobs dummy client problem

2022-09-04 Thread Justin Case
Hi there, I took this snipped from the main documentation about copy jobs: # # Fake client for copy jobs # Client { Name = None Address = localhost Password = "NoNe” Catalog = MyCatalog } # # Default template for a CopyDiskToTape Job # JobDefs { Name = CopyDiskToTape Type = Copy Me

[Bacula-users] Q: Baculum, Pools, Next Pool vs Copy Pool

2022-09-04 Thread Justin Case
Hi there, while in the process of trying out copy jobs I realized that Baculum has two directives for pools: Next Pool: according to the documentation this is used for migration jobs and for copy jobs Copy Pool: not found in the documentation. I can only guess that this suggests that Copy Poo

[Bacula-users] Schedules verify job fails

2022-09-03 Thread Justin Case
Hi I am confused why I am getting this error: 03-Sep 22:00 bacula-dir JobId 2481: Fatal error: verify.c:73 Unimplemented Verify level 73(I) 03-Sep 22:00 bacula-dir JobId 2481: Error: Bacula bacula-dir 11.0.6 (10Mar22): —snip— Verify Level: Incremental Verify JobId: 0 Fi

Re: [Bacula-users] Q. storage groups for a given pool using several external USB HDDs?

2022-09-01 Thread Justin Case
Hi Ana, thank you for chiming in, see my response inline: > On 1. Sep 2022, at 13:38, Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 3:43 PM Justin Case <mailto:jus7inc...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Greetings, > > I am interested in the new V13 storage grou

Re: [Bacula-users] Need help with fileset declaration - what's my mistake?

2022-08-30 Thread Justin Case
> __Martin > > >>>>>> On Fri, 26 Aug 2022 22:37:08 +0200, Justin Case said: >> >> Martin, thanks, I admit that for me the fileset definition is one of the >> more confusing things in Bacula. Thanks for the explanation, however, >> honestly, I do

[Bacula-users] Q: what do JobtoVerify, WriteVerifyList ?

2022-08-30 Thread Justin Case
Hi all, I am using Baculum to manage my Bacula V11 installation. Today I wanted to define a verify job for the first time. In Baculum I find 3 fields in the Verify section: VerifyJob: AFAU this is the name of the job which should be verified (I am using Level “Data). JobToVerify: no idea what

[Bacula-users] Q. storage groups for a given pool using several external USB HDDs?

2022-08-30 Thread Justin Case
Greetings, I am interested in the new V13 storage groups feature. If I wanted a given pool to use file folumes on several externally connected USB HDDs: -the devices would be connected all the time, would the director fill the devices one ofter the other, or would it scatter the jobs randomly a

Re: [Bacula-users] Need help with fileset declaration - what's my mistake?

2022-08-26 Thread Justin Case
ning this results in actually nearly the same result. The delta of the outcome are actually 3 files (gleaned form the numbers of the jobs, I don’t know which files that are). Does the order of the declarations (as seen above) have anything to do with this result? > On 26. Aug 2022, at 21:24, Ma

Re: [Bacula-users] Need help with fileset declaration - what's my mistake?

2022-08-26 Thread Justin Case
> On 26. Aug 2022, at 19:53, Martin Simmons wrote: > > > Also, does it work if you only have the /home/dockerman Include? > That does work, with the following caveat: So actually, the fileset did back up the /home/../containerdata.. stuff, but also other files outside of /home/,,,/contain

Re: [Bacula-users] Need help with fileset declaration - what's my mistake?

2022-08-26 Thread Justin Case
> On 26. Aug 2022, at 19:53, Martin Simmons wrote: > > show fileset="various-appdata” FileSet: name=various-appdata IgnoreFileSetChanges=0 O f RD ^/mnt/containerdata-.*/ N O fe RD ^/mnt/.*/ N I /mnt N O f RD ^/home/dockerman/container

Re: [Bacula-users] I am missing Debs for Buster 32 bit (for Raspberry Pi machines running RaspiOS)

2022-08-26 Thread Justin Case
022, at 18:17, Sebastian Suchanek wrote: > > Am 26.08.2022 um 14:19 schrieb Justin Case: >> You mean the script will also work on RaspiOS 32 bit? (note: Raspbian != >> RasiOS) >> [...] > > To be honest, I've never heard of a system called "RaspiOS" ex

Re: [Bacula-users] I am missing Debs for Buster 32 bit (for Raspberry Pi machines running RaspiOS)

2022-08-26 Thread Justin Case
ris Wilkinson > > On Fri, 26 Aug 2022, 12:06 pm Justin Case, <mailto:jus7inc...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hello, this goes to the people who manage the debian packages for Bacula > Community > > I know that Buster is old and that there are packages for the 64 bit ker

[Bacula-users] I am missing Debs for Buster 32 bit (for Raspberry Pi machines running RaspiOS)

2022-08-26 Thread Justin Case
Hello, this goes to the people who manage the debian packages for Bacula Community I know that Buster is old and that there are packages for the 64 bit kernel. That is great as long as you are not running any Raspberry Pis with RaspiOS (https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/ <

[Bacula-users] Need help with fileset declaration - what's my mistake?

2022-08-25 Thread Justin Case
greetings fellas, i am using the following fileset on a number of VMs running docker containers to backup the container config and user data - and it works for me. It does backup all /mnt/containerdata..* folders with content, nothing else: Fileset { Name = "various-appdata" EnableVss = no

Re: [Bacula-users] bsmtp from within a container

2022-08-05 Thread Justin Case
Thank you Josh, I got it now. I had to relax 2 SPAM settings, but didn’t need to ignore authentication for local machines. If someone later on needs details, let me know. Thanks again! J/C > On 4. Aug 2022, at 16:24, Josh Fisher wrote: > > > On 8/2/22 16:46, Justin Case w

Re: [Bacula-users] Bugs/Problems with ConnectToDirector

2022-08-03 Thread Justin Case
the parameter ReconnectionTime, but the time wait before initiating another connection after unsuccessful connection trial). All the best, J/C > On 2. Aug 2022, at 22:42, Justin Case wrote: > > This chapter was not yet closed and I have interesting further results > (actually

Re: [Bacula-users] bsmtp from within a container

2022-08-02 Thread Justin Case
fully-qualified hostname > On 2. Aug 2022, at 22:29, dmitri maziuk wrote: > > On 2022-08-02 2:16 PM, Justin Case wrote: >> I run the mailserver put its basically a tightly baked postfix dovecot under >> Synology DSM UI. So I won’t manually change config files. But “Ignor

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Connection errors on daily backup with ConnectToDirector

2022-08-02 Thread Justin Case
. All the best J/C > On 25. Jul 2022, at 22:33, Justin Case wrote: > > I think it is great support here from you people! > > Today I think I might have understood what is happening, and Bill’s > explanations about what might be going on were probably correct in the core,

Re: [Bacula-users] bsmtp from within a container

2022-08-02 Thread Justin Case
wrote: > > On 8/2/22 13:16, Justin Case wrote: >> I run the mailserver put its basically a tightly baked postfix dovecot under >> Synology DSM UI. So I won’t manually change config files. But “Ignore >> authorization for LAN connections” sounds reasonable, I have activated

Re: [Bacula-users] bsmtp from within a container

2022-08-02 Thread Justin Case
022-08-01 3:57 PM, Justin Case wrote: > >> bsmtp: bsmtp.c:124-0 Fatal malformed reply from mailserver.dummy.net: 504 >> 5.5.2 <3422f1072002>: Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname > > Who runs the mailserver? Typically you's set "permit-mynetwork

[Bacula-users] bsmtp from within a container

2022-08-01 Thread Justin Case
One problem I ignored so far is that the Bacula Docker container I use (pwa666/bacula-server:11-postgresql-latest) cannot send emails to me. bsmtp only seems to use the output of the “hostname” command as the hostname during the negotiation phase. this hostname is some arbitrary ID, not a FQDN.

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Baculum throws error that bconsole cannot connect

2022-07-29 Thread Justin Case
:48, Justin Case wrote: > > > Hello all, > > I am having a problem with Baculum currently. To explain the context I need > to start somewhere else: > > Baculum is running in a Docker container > (pwa666/bacula-server:11-postgresql-latest) on my unRAID NAS, this

[Bacula-users] Q: Baculum throws error that bconsole cannot connect

2022-07-29 Thread Justin Case
Hello all, I am having a problem with Baculum currently. To explain the context I need to start somewhere else: Baculum is running in a Docker container (pwa666/bacula-server:11-postgresql-latest) on my unRAID NAS, this container contains Baculum, Director, the SD and an FD for backing up lo

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Connection errors on daily backup with ConnectToDirector

2022-07-25 Thread Justin Case
I think it is great support here from you people! Today I think I might have understood what is happening, and Bill’s explanations about what might be going on were probably correct in the core, but not in the details. Let me try to lay out what I think is going on and where I had my problem

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Connection errors on daily backup with ConnectToDirector

2022-07-23 Thread Justin Case
commenting out the reconnect clause didn’t make a difference. the only two things I am aware I can do now to check it out further: (1) use a connection schedule for the FD (2) downgrade the FD from 13 to 11 (can this really be the cause?) > On 20. Jul 2022, at 22:35, Justin Case wr

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