Hi everyone, I inherited a bareos system that AFAIK hasn't been set up properly. Backups and the restoration of small backups (SQL dumps) seems to have worked so far. But I ran into similar errors to the following one a lot when trying Baremetal recoveries:
bareos-sd JobId 90377: Warning: stored/acquire.cc:286 Read open device "FileStorageFull" (/backup/full) Volume "Differential-0544" failed: ERR=stored/dev.cc:716 Could not open: /backup/full/Differential-0544, ERR=File or directory not found The Differential files should be in /backup/differential and not full. The source of the problem seems to be that we use the same Media type for all our Storages/Devices as described here (https://groups.google.com/g/bareos-users/c/LPbuPXCFSl0/m/4K6BgJ0XAwAJ): root@bareos:/etc/bareos# cat bareos-dir.d/storage/File.conf Storage { Name = FileFull Address = bareos # N.B. Use a fully qualified name here (do not use "localhost" here). Password = "*****" Device = FileStorageFull Media Type = File } Storage { Name = FileDiff Address = bareos # N.B. Use a fully qualified name here (do not use "localhost" here). Password = "*****" Device = FileStorageDiff Media Type = File } Storage { Name = FileIncr Address = bareos # N.B. Use a fully qualified name here (do not use "localhost" here). Password = "*****" Device = FileStorageIncr Media Type = File } ... root@bareos:/etc/bareos# cat bareos-sd.d/device/FileStorage.conf Device { Name = FileStorageFull Media Type = File Archive Device = /backup/full LabelMedia = yes; # lets Bareos label unlabeled media Random Access = yes; AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it RemovableMedia = no; AlwaysOpen = yes; Description = "File device. A connecting Director must have the same Name and MediaType." } Device { Name = FileStorageDiff Media Type = File Archive Device = /backup/diff LabelMedia = yes; # lets Bareos label unlabeled media Random Access = yes; AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it RemovableMedia = no; AlwaysOpen = yes; Description = "File device. A connecting Director must have the same Name and MediaType." } Device { Name = FileStorageIncr Media Type = File Archive Device = /backup/incr LabelMedia = yes; # lets Bareos label unlabeled media Random Access = yes; AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it RemovableMedia = no; AlwaysOpen = yes; Description = "File device. A connecting Director must have the same Name and MediaType." } ... I've gathered that the Media Types should be changed to unique identifiers for each of Device/Storage entries but I am worried that changing it in a running environment will make all the old backups/volumes unusable. So I'd really appreciate if someone could give me some advice on how to best change the Media Types in a running system. Would probably be best to just configure new storage/devices and use those from now on. But maybe there is a way to salvage the old ones. Please let me know if you got any tips or questions regarding this issue. Best Regards Niklas -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/fc2d8f29b62f46f09cd0fc64afe2f9ab%40softconcis.de.
