Bacula does not support restores where you have written the same job to two or
more different devices.
On Friday 23 March 2007 18:23, Andrei Cenja wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First of all, if this topic has been already discussed, please redirect
> me to the location in question; I've tried searching the list but I
> haven't found anything relevant.
>
> I'm trying to implement Bacula and I'm still in the testing phase.
>
> My defined storage looks like this:
>
> Director Storage
> ----------------------------------
> Name | Device | Media Type
> ----------------------------------
> File | FileStorage | FileSystem
> HDD | HDDStorage | HDisk
> Tape | TapeStorage | Ultrium-1
>
> Storage Daemon devices
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> Name | Device Type | Media Type | Archive Device
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> FileStorage | File | FileSystem | /tmp
> HDDStorage | File | HDisk | /mnt/backup
> TapeStorage | Tape | Ultrium-1 | /dev/nst0
>
> We have a tape drive and a cold swap HDD bay and the final goal is to
> make a weekly full backup on the tape and then a daily differential
> backup on the HDD device (as the HDD is replaced daily).
>
> The HDD is mounted on /mnt/backup.
>
> The tape volume is creatively labeled Tape001 and the HDD is labeled
> Disk003.
>
> I can normally run backup and restore jobs with no problem, but
> sometimes (and I stress the "sometimes" part) Bacula seems to mismatch
> the storage name with the archive device. For instance, it would try to
> mount the tape volume in /mnt/backup (which is for the HDD storage) or
> the HD volume into /tmp (which is the File storage) or the Tape volume
> into /tmp.
>
> Since I'm running the same job first at Full level on Tape storage then
> at Differential level on HDD storage, I have to use overrides and,
> coincidence or not, Bacula tries to use the original storage setting
> specified in the configuration file instead of the override used within
> the Schedule definition or entered when running the job manually.
>
> After each of these, a restart of the director and the storage daemon
> temporarily solves the problem, i.e. the same identical job runs without
> problems, without any intervention in the configuration files.
> In other words, it always runs the first time after a restart of the
> daemons.
>
> This happens to both backup jobs and restores.
>
> It would look like this:
>
> Run Restore job
> JobName: RestoreFiles
> Bootstrap: /var/bacula/fc6_32_build2-dir.restore.3.bsr
> Where: /tmp/bacula-restores
> Replace: always
> FileSet: FullSystem
> Client: Server_name
> Storage: Tape
> When: 2007-03-23 14:32:22
> Catalog: MyCatalog
> Priority: 10
> OK to run? (yes/mod/no): yes
> Job queued. JobId=4
> *messages
> 23-Mar 14:32 fc6_32_build2-dir: Start Restore Job
> RestoreFiles.2007-03-23_14.32.37
> 23-Mar 14:32 fc6_32_build2-sd: RestoreFiles.2007-03-23_14.32.37 Warning:
> acquire.c:200 Read open device "FileStorage" (/tmp) Volume "Tape001"
> failed:
> ERR=dev.c:482 Could not open: /tmp/Tape001, ERR=No such file or
> directory
>
> 23-Mar 14:32 fc6_32_build2-sd: Please mount Volume "Tape001" on Storage
> Device "FileStorage" (/tmp) for Job RestoreFiles.2007-03-23_14.32.37
> *
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> user cancelled job 4
> restarted bacula director and sd
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Run Restore job
> JobName: RestoreFiles
> Bootstrap: /var/bacula/fc6_32_build2-dir.restore.1.bsr
> Where: /tmp/bacula-restores
> Replace: always
> FileSet: FullSystem
> Client: Server_name
> Storage: Tape
> When: 2007-03-23 14:35:21
> Catalog: MyCatalog
> Priority: 10
> OK to run? (yes/mod/no): yes
> Job queued. JobId=5
> *messages
> 23-Mar 14:35 fc6_32_build2-dir: Start Restore Job
> RestoreFiles.2007-03-23_14.35.44
> *messages
> You have no messages.
> *messages
> You have no messages.
> *
> 23-Mar 14:35 fc6_32_build2-sd: Ready to read from volume "Tape001" on
> device "TapeStorage" (/dev/nst0).
> 23-Mar 14:35 fc6_32_build2-sd: Forward spacing Volume "Tape001" to
> file:block
> 0:1.
>
> ... and everything works just fine.
>
> I have the same issue when using run-only-once scheduled jobs; sometimes
> they mess up, but after restarting the daemons and modifying the
> schedule so it would run again, everything goes fine.
>
> The Director and storage daemon are from bacula-mysql-2.0.2-1 running on
> Fedora 6.
> I am backing-up/restoring two servers, one running bacula-client-2.0.2-1
> on RHEL4 and the other running bacula-client-2.0.3-1 on RHEL5 beta2.
> The issue appears with jobs on both clients.
>
> I'm a little puzzled, can anyone help ?
>
> Thanks !
>
> Best regards,
> Andrei
>
> P.S. Here are the job and storage definitions from the configuration
> files.
> The jobs are run with parameter overrides you can see in the schedule
> definition.
>
> -----------------------
> bacula-dir.conf:
>
> Job {
> Name = "BackupYoyo"
> JobDefs = "StandardJob"
> Client = Yoyo
> Level = Full
> Storage = HDD
> FileSet = "FullSystem"
> Priority = 7
> Schedule = BackupCycle
> Enabled=yes
> Client Run Before Job = "/etc/init.d/httpd stop"
> Client Run Before Job = "/etc/init.d/postfix stop"
> Client Run Before Job = "/etc/init.d/xendomains stop"
> Client Run Before Job = "/etc/init.d/xend stop"
>
> Client Run After Job = "/etc/init.d/xend start"
> Client Run After Job = "/etc/init.d/xendomains start"
> Client Run After Job = "/etc/init.d/postfix start"
> Client Run After Job = "/etc/init.d/httpd start"
> }
>
> Job {
> Name = "RestoreFiles"
> Type = Restore
> Client = Yoyo
> FileSet = "FullSystem"
> Storage = File
> Pool = Default
> Messages = Standard
> Where = /tmp/bacula-restores
> }
>
> Schedule {
> Name = "BackupCycle"
> Run = Level=Full Storage=Tape fri at 15:40
> Run = Level=Differential Storage=HDD fri at 16:10
> }
>
> # Definition of file storage device
> Storage {
> Name = File
> Address = server.domain.com
> SDPort = 9103
> Password = "some_pwd"
> Device = FileStorage
> Media Type = FileSystem
> }
>
> Storage {
> Name = HDD
> Address = server.domain.com
> SDPort = 9103
> Password = "some_pwd"
> Device = HDDStorage
> Media Type = HDisk
> }
>
>
> # Definition of DDS tape storage device
> Storage {
> Name = Tape
> Address = server.domain.com
> SDPort = 9103
> Password = "some_pwd"
> Device = TapeStorage
> Media Type = Ultrium-1
> }
>
> --------------------------------
> bacula-sd.conf:
>
> Device {
> Name = FileStorage
> Device Type = File
> Media Type = FileSystem
> Archive Device = /tmp
> LabelMedia = yes;
> Random Access = Yes;
> AutomaticMount = yes;
> RemovableMedia = no;
> AlwaysOpen = no;
> }
>
> Device {
> Name = HDDStorage
> Device Type = File
> Media Type = HDisk
> Archive Device = /mnt/backup
> LabelMedia = yes;
> Random Access = Yes;
> AutomaticMount = yes;
> RemovableMedia = yes;
> AlwaysOpen = no;
> }
>
> Device {
> Name = TapeStorage
> Device Type = Tape
> Media Type = Ultrium-1
> Archive Device = /dev/nst0
> AutomaticMount = yes;
> AlwaysOpen = yes;
> RemovableMedia = yes;
> RandomAccess = no;
> }
>
>
>
>
>
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