Re: [bareos-users] Config hint for backup / bareos rookie

2022-01-20 Thread Spadajspadaj
The point of spooling is to mainain constant rate of data for the storage device (even if it's done in bursts). It works best for jobs that have low effective transfer speed (for example - for incremental jobs over a huge filesystem where only a very small subset of files changes - the job chec

[bareos-users] Client-operated backup

2022-02-14 Thread Spadajspadaj
Hello there. I'm wondering if there is any less-intrusive option for backing up "interminnently connected" hosts (like my wife's laptop :-)). At first I had a static schedule which would backup the client every day at 9am or so. That of course would make backups skipped if the laptop was no

Re: [bareos-users] Client-operated backup

2022-02-15 Thread Spadajspadaj
kner wrote: Hi Spadajspadaj, maybe a hacky solution, but would work: only start the fd on the laptop, when you want to run a backup? (Or auto-start it, when the laptop is up for >2h and no video conference software was started, etc.?) regards, Erich On Mon, 14 Feb 2022, Spadajspadaj wrote: >

Re: [bareos-users] Re: Perform backups of computers that do not turn on systematically

2022-05-27 Thread Spadajspadaj
Probably because it's not that severe. OK, it's a bit annoying in monitoring but apart from that - everything works OK. On 27.05.2022 11:55, khvalera wrote: The bug has existed for a long time and no one corrects it: https://bugs.bareos.org/view.php?id=1417 четверг, 26 мая 2022 г. в 19:32:56

Re: [bareos-users] Run Job not executed on Client

2022-06-10 Thread Spadajspadaj
If you want a dynamic list of files, why don't you use the dynamic list functionality? :-) https://docs.bareos.org/Configuration/Director.html#id11 On 10.06.2022 12:34, Kai Zimmer wrote: Hi again, so my idea was to generate a file list to backup before the job starts to run. Bareos stopped

Re: [bareos-users] Run Job not executed on Client

2022-06-10 Thread Spadajspadaj
    } } On 10.06.2022 16:31, Kai Zimmer wrote: Thanks for the hint. That's what i tried in the first place, but without luck - my job just returned "Errors=1". So i tried to simplify. So far i cannot tell whether i'm successful or not, it will take a while to test. On

Re: [bareos-users] Q: does vchanger work with Bareos?

2022-09-12 Thread Spadajspadaj
Yes. I've been using vchanger for a few years now. Why wouldn't it? (as a side question - why doesn't it work with Bacula? It should). On 11.09.2022 20:21, Justin Case wrote: Hi there, Would vchanger work without code changes with a Bareos system (as opposed to Bacula)? Best, J/C -- You r

Re: [bareos-users] Q: does vchanger work with Bareos?

2022-09-12 Thread Spadajspadaj
should have better written “instead of Bacula” and not “as opposed to Bacula” to capture what I mean. On 12. Sep 2022, at 09:35, Spadajspadaj wrote: Yes. I've been using vchanger for a few years now. Why wouldn't it? (as a side question - why doesn't it work with Bacula? I

Re: [bareos-users] BareOS as VM storage question

2022-10-13 Thread Spadajspadaj
There are probably pros and cons on each for each of those approaches. If you connect it to the hypervisor, you abstract the connectivity layer so you're more flexible in case you ever want to migrate storage elsewhere. Same but opposite ;-) goes for connecting it to the VM - you don't have to

Re: [bareos-users] Force diff/inc backups on the same vchanger device as full

2022-11-15 Thread Spadajspadaj
I thought about the always incremental scheme but that would require additional storage which I do not have at the moment. On 15.11.2022 00:08, aeronex...@gmail.com wrote: I clearly do not know but maybe the always incremental might do the job. On 11/14/22 11:33 AM, spadaj...@gmail.com wrote:

[bareos-users] Log format definition?

2022-11-15 Thread Spadajspadaj
Hi I'm trying to ingest logs from Bareos to Splunk (the actual destination is not that important here but it's just to put the question in context). Is there any summary/specification of what and how Bareos logs? Or do I have to either do a "try and see" approach or dig through the sources (

[bareos-users] Re: Log format definition?

2022-11-17 Thread Spadajspadaj
error and probably will have to dig through sources on a per-case need to know basis. MK On 16.11.2022 08:50, Spadajspadaj wrote: Hi I'm trying to ingest logs from Bareos to Splunk (the actual destination is not that important here but it's just to put the question in context).

Re: [bareos-users] bareos-fd logs visible in director

2022-12-30 Thread Spadajspadaj
Messages {    Name = Everything-to-director    Director = = all } Should give you all messages sent to director. But. 1. It might be quite a lot. 2. If the fd crashes or "gets stuck" as you say, you might not get the logs anyway. 3. You might have to (I haven't investigated it so I'm not s

Re: [bareos-users] Download the actual Windows 64bit Version

2023-03-30 Thread Spadajspadaj
Are you downloading releases from bareos.com (requires subscription) or pre-release from bareos.org (unsupported)? On 30.03.2023 12:47, stefan@harnet.de wrote: Hello, I would like to download a new Windows bareos-fd version and I am asked for a username and password. Can I no longer dow

Re: [bareos-users] Backup of roaming laptops

2023-04-11 Thread Spadajspadaj
1. Use Client to Director connectivity. 2. Set a normal schedule for the backup job but additionally set Run On Incoming Connect Interval for the client. Works like a charm. On 12.04.2023 04:43, Christian Tardif wrote: Hi all, tried to find out...  how can I have windows laptop that only ap

[bareos-users] Order of operations during backup

2023-07-31 Thread Spadajspadaj
I have a problem with backing up raw contents of LVM volume. Since Bareos can backup a device contents only when referenced a device file, not a Device Mapper symlink, the definition of FileSet as:     File = "\\| readlink -f /dev/virt_srv1/vm1" Seemed to go relatively well - the job was spaw

Re: [bareos-users] Parallel recording on two tapes

2023-08-09 Thread Spadajspadaj
Isn't that what Copy job is for? Sure, you have that short period after the original job had been run and the Copy job wasn't run yet but it's usually relatively acceptable. On 9.08.2023 11:30, Ramil wrote: Sorry for not expressing my point fully. I still don't know how to convey the meaning

Re: [bareos-users] Incremental append to incremental file of other Job

2023-08-20 Thread Spadajspadaj
Define separate pools for each job then.  (or set Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 so that each one will be created on a separate media). On 20.08.2023 18:13, Rogerio Pereira wrote: Hi, First time here. I have BareOS working almost fine, the idea was backup 3 big folders, I have one job for each: *

Re: [bareos-users] purpose of File records?

2023-11-08 Thread Spadajspadaj
File records, together with a table specifying which files are in which job, tell you which jobs you need to restore particular file if you want to do a selective restore. I don't think I tried that but I suppose even in case of a full restore you might not need every incremental you did after

Re: [bareos-users] Re: Delete from disk

2023-11-09 Thread Spadajspadaj
Remember that by while you think about disk files, in many environments backup storage resides on tapes so volumes are physical media which cannot be "deleted" - if you purge jobs from the database you simply mark the volume as empty and it can be overwritten with subsequent jobs. Having said

Re: [bareos-users] Fileset where path contains a text

2023-11-21 Thread Spadajspadaj
Never used this functionality but it seems that you migth simply want something like Include {    Options {    IgnoreCase = yes    WildFile = "*outlook*"    WildDir = "*outlook*"    }    Options {    Exclude = yes    RegexFile = ".*"     }     #I'd still go for separate f

[bareos-users] Windows system backup/restore methodology

2023-12-17 Thread Spadajspadaj
Hi there. I've been pondering the windows quirks and challenges related to this particular system. For many years I used the approach of "do a Windows Backup job and let bareos pick the results". That worked... reasonably well although windows backup image was always backed up as full which w

Re: [bareos-users] Windows system backup/restore methodology

2023-12-17 Thread Spadajspadaj
apshot and backup? On 12/17/23 17:12, Spadajspadaj wrote: Hi there. I've been pondering the windows quirks and challenges related to this particular system. For many years I used the approach of "do a Windows Backup job and let bareos pick the results". That worked... reasonably wel

Re: [bareos-users] LTO capacity management

2023-12-20 Thread Spadajspadaj
As far as I remember unless you explicitly specify volume size (which can be useful if you're using file-based volumes, bareos will write to the volume until it reaches the end. Then it will request another volume. Unless you hit an error - then I think the volume status will be set to error.

Re: [bareos-users] LTO capacity management

2023-12-21 Thread Spadajspadaj
onse, In the case that a volume fails whilst adding it, is it possible to retry a backup with a new volume? On Wednesday, December 20, 2023 at 9:24:38 PM UTC Spadajspadaj wrote: As far as I remember unless you explicitly specify volume size (

Re: [bareos-users] VSS ERR=The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

2024-01-11 Thread Spadajspadaj
The more I dig into it, the more it seems it is bareos after all. Unfortunately, building Windows bareos-fd is no small feat so I cannot directly debug it but. I ran a procmon against bareos-fd.exe and it seems that while the FD process does create a VSS snapshot... it doesn't read from it. I

Re: [bareos-users] VSS ERR=The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

2024-01-11 Thread Spadajspadaj
we're stuck with local name. MK On 11.01.2024 22:03, Spadajspadaj wrote: The more I dig into it, the more it seems it is bareos after all. Unfortunately, building Windows bareos-fd is no small feat so I cannot directly debug it but. I ran a procmon against bareos-fd.exe and it seems t

Re: [bareos-users] VSS ERR=The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

2024-01-16 Thread Spadajspadaj
:26 UTC+1, Spadajspadaj a écrit : As I understand, this is the interesting excerpt from the debug trace. win10test-fd (50): findlib/find.cc:169-0 Verify= Accurate= BaseJob= flags=<724185736> win10test-fd (50): findlib/find.cc:169-0 Verify= Accurate= BaseJob= flags=&

Re: [bareos-users] VSS ERR=The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

2024-01-17 Thread Spadajspadaj
.joblog list joblog jobid=X q Then you can zip and attach both trace and joblog here. Add the fileset used too. BTW please ensure your fileset contain   Enable VSS = yes as stated in documentation and Windows fileset example. Le mardi 16 janvier 2024 à 15:38:37 UTC+

Re: [bareos-users] VSS ERR=The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

2024-01-17 Thread Spadajspadaj
Le mercredi 17 janvier 2024 à 09:58:19 UTC+1, jo.go...@hosted-power.com a écrit : I just tried https://download.bareos.org/current/windows/winbareos-23.0.1~pre57.8e89bfe0a-release-64-bit.exe on Windows 2022. But I still have 100's of failed in use files :/ On Wednesday 17 Jan

Re: [bareos-users] VSS ERR=The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

2024-01-18 Thread Spadajspadaj
atus:  OK   SD termination status:  OK   Bareos binary info: Bareos pre-release (UNSUPPORTED): Get professional support from https://www.bareos.com   Job triggered by:   User   Termination:    Backup OK -- with warnings On 18.01.2024 09:04, Sebastian Sura wrote: Hi Spadajspadaj,

Re: [bareos-users] VSS ERR=The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

2024-01-18 Thread Spadajspadaj
indidence or not, we also use Connection From Client to Director=yes Coindidence or not,  Another host which does not have this setting, has 0 errors! On Thursday 18 January 2024 at 09:14:17 UTC+1 Spadajspadaj wrote: Hi Sebastian. Thx for looking into it. This is the job log. Not much inte

Re: [bareos-users] RHEL not supported anymore?

2024-01-22 Thread Spadajspadaj
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5716181 "The shared library |libjansson.so.4| is provided by the package |jansson-2.11-3.el8.x86_64| in RHEL 8," On 22.01.2024 17:21, Silvio Schloeffel wrote: Hi Jens, I have a RedHat 8 server running without any problems. [root@xxx-serv]# cat /etc/redhat

Re: [bareos-users] VSS ERR=The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process

2024-01-22 Thread Spadajspadaj
27;t switch away from client-initiated for these, we've just been living with the warnings. Josh On Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 4:10:27 AM UTC-5 Spadajspadaj wrote: Yes. It does seem to be the cause. I switched the client connectivity to the "normal" mode (director

Re: [bareos-users] Re: Delay job on incoming connect?

2024-01-24 Thread Spadajspadaj
Of course, using external scripting I can do anything ;-) I was wondering if there is anything built in. I don't think so. MK On 24.01.2024 14:03, Jörg Steffens wrote: You could try to implement you own logic based on https://github.com/bareos/bareos/tree/master/contrib/misc/triggerjob So le

Re: [bareos-users] Remove specific files from a job.

2024-04-15 Thread Spadajspadaj
Obviously you cannot remove a file from a middle of the media. But I suppose you want to scratch the whole media. The only way I see would be to manipulate the database directly. Question is do you know which files are those. If you do, I suppose the way to do so would be to remove the entries

Re: [bareos-users] rm in ClientAfterJob does not work

2024-05-17 Thread Spadajspadaj
The script name/parameters are not subject to shell expansion. So your script literally tries to remove a file called * If you want shell expansion, you have to do it as bash -c "rm -rf /tmp/backup/*" MK Dnia 17 maja 2024 10:28:04 CEST, Leon Bartle napisał/a: Calling a Backup Script in

Re: [bareos-users] VMware Plugin TLS error

2024-05-23 Thread Spadajspadaj
And does this directory exist? Does your bareos-fd process has permissions to open this directory and its contents? (SELinux anyone?) MK On 23.05.2024 14:01, Max wrote: Hey Andreas, the Plugin Directory is set under /etc/bareos/bareos-fd.d/client/myself.conf as following: Client {  Name =

Re: [bareos-users] Is it possible to create subfolders in cofiguration?

2024-07-17 Thread Spadajspadaj
https://docs.bareos.org/Configuration/CustomizingTheConfiguration.html#includes On 17.07.2024 08:35, Leon Bartle wrote: Heya! Is it possible to create subfolders in cofiguration? So is * bareos-dir.d/clients/group1/client1.conf * bareos-dir.d/clients/group1/client2.conf * bareos-dir.d/cl

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