Re: [Bacula-users] [External Email]Re: "Read error" on long backups of Windows clients

2025-05-27 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 5/22/25 00:22, Stieneke, Dan - OCIO-CEC, ID wrote: In my specific situation, it was safe to turn off VSS backup, so I did that at the end of last calendar year. The errors completely stopped. Thanks. However, in my case, VSS *is* important. bye av. __

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy jobs marked as failed after original job went temporariliy out of space

2025-05-21 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 5/20/25 20:59, Eric Bollengier wrote: Hello Andrea, Hello. Maybe you can share the job output where the errors and warnings are printed, it will help to understand the situation. Just today I got the log I'm pasting at the end of the message (with sensitive data redacted). The original

[Bacula-users] "Read error" on long backups of Windows clients

2025-05-18 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've got some clients that take very long time to do a backup (mostly full, but also differential and incremental on some occasions). The backups start normally, with the client generating a VSS snapshot. However, after a variable amount of time (usually between 1 and 15 hours) I get a

[Bacula-users] Copy jobs marked as failed after original job went temporariliy out of space

2025-04-09 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I'm seeing a behaviour I'm not sure is correct; at least I cannot find any motivation for it. Suppose: _ you are making a backup to disk; _ backup job starts (writing to volume Full0001); _ target storage goes out of disk space; _ you get the usual "Intervention needed" mail and make so

Re: [Bacula-users] Preventing users from powering down clients during backups

2024-11-20 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/19/24 17:18, Josh Fisher via Bacula-users wrote: Hello. Are you sure they are powering down? Yes. I've asked the users and they confirm they power them down when they are finished with their task. there is no way to deal with the user physically powering down the machine, other t

[Bacula-users] Preventing users from powering down clients during backups

2024-11-18 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I'm asking because I'm sure I'm not the first to encounter this problem. A client is powered on, sooner or later Bacula tries a backup and it finally starts, however it does not complete because the user powers down the machine again. How did you solve? Ideally Bacula would be able to

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up to USB disks - Archival of data?

2024-09-06 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 9/6/24 09:50, Anders Gustafsson wrote: I am no expert, but retention is apparently set per job, not media. Correct me if I am wrong. Retention is set per job *and* per media. > Can't Bacula be configured to NOT automatically purge certain media > (such as the offline USB disks for arch

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up to USB disks - Archival of data?

2024-09-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 9/5/24 18:46, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote: Hello. When using multiple removable disks, I would recommend Josh Fisher's excellent "vchanger" You can find it here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vchanger/ While I endorse this suggestion, I use this software and I'm even the por

Re: [Bacula-users] Best-practice to backup a TrueNAS server with Bacula (and maybe to use a TrueNAS as a Bacula server)

2024-08-22 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 8/21/24 22:56, Hans-Martin Meier wrote: Hello everyone, Hello. I don't use TrueNAS, but I use FreeBSD, so I'll answer what I can, but take this with a grain of salt. I therefore installed bacula-fd on the first server in a jail via the BSD package sources. I had to import all my ZFS d

Re: [Bacula-users] Considereing replacing Synology Active Backup for Business

2024-07-29 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 7/29/24 13:32, Thorsten Schöning via Bacula-users wrote: Hello. * Does the Windows client of Bacula implement CBT based on VSS or does   it simply iterate files in the created snapshot? Does it transfer   changes within files only at all or always the whole changed files?   Even without

Re: [Bacula-users] Strategies for backup of millions of files...

2024-07-29 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 7/26/24 14:31, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Yes, FS is ZFS so i can snapshot them. But FS/mountpoint is the same for all data, and i've 5 jobs for spliting and optimizing them. There's some way to 'snapshot' FS only one time, with multiple jobs? Probably yes, but why bother? Just take multiple sn

Re: [Bacula-users] Limit job rescheduling

2024-06-22 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 6/21/24 14:44, Lionel PLASSE wrote: Hello, Hello and thanks for answering. And maybe you can study those options behavior and adjust in your case: Duplicates and priorities AllowMixedPriority: AllowDuplicateJobs: CancelLowerLevelDuplicates: CancelQueuedDuplicates: CancelRunningDuplicates

Re: [Bacula-users] Limit job rescheduling

2024-06-21 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 6/20/24 17:05, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Ciao Andrea. Ciao. i set 'Max Run Sched Time = 8 hours' to prevent conflicts). That's something I had seen and pondered. However, it will stop a job that is already running, won't it? So, in my case, if a job started late in the afternoon it wouldn'

[Bacula-users] Limit job rescheduling

2024-06-16 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. At a site, I'm backing up several machines, most of which are clients that are not powered on every day. I've set up the following schedule and jobs: Schedule { Name="DailyFDI"

[Bacula-users] Backing up files and database in sync

2024-05-17 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've got a client which has some (big) bunch of files and a MS SQL database which "manages" them. So the two should be backed up "in sync". What's the suggested way to do this? Usually I'm using a client script that runs SQLCMD. Here however I have two alternatives: either run the scri

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple interfaces for storage daemon

2024-05-02 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 5/1/24 23:32, Bill Arlofski wrote: Hello. Thank you for the status director output. It helps to confirm that my first guess of a MaximumConcurrentJobs setting was the correct one: 8<  259  Back Incr  0  0  bbb   is waiting on max Storage jobs 8< I'm still

Re: [Bacula-users] Can't get Bacula working with AWS cloud storage

2024-05-02 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 5/1/24 06:42, James Israel via Bacula-users wrote: Storage { Name = backup-sd Password = "pw-sd" Address = ec2-.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com #cloud Device = dev.cloud1 MediaType = CloudType ... } I think there's a misunderstanding here. Director won't connect directly

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple interfaces for storage daemon

2024-05-01 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 4/29/24 19:17, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote: Hello and thanks a lot for your time and attention. My first guess (without seeing any logs or configurations) is that there is a `MaximumConcurrentJobs` setting set to low causing the bottleneck. I don't think so, otherwise it would

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple interfaces for storage daemon

2024-04-28 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 4/27/24 11:16, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. I'm deploying a completely new installation and I'm both facing some new problems to solve and using 15.x for the first time, so I'm not sure if I'm doing things wrong or if Bacula is misbehaving. ... Thanks to all that

[Bacula-users] Multiple interfaces for storage daemon

2024-04-27 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I'm deploying a completely new installation and I'm both facing some new problems to solve and using 15.x for the first time, so I'm not sure if I'm doing things wrong or if Bacula is misbehaving. First problem: clients are spread across three different VLANS. While I only have one

Re: [Bacula-users] VSS

2024-04-25 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 4/24/24 10:21, Mehrdad Ravanbod wrote: is it possible to get Bacula to do backups with VSS(or even otherwise, simple file copying with or without compression/encryption) without using "Volume" files, i.e the backup files are saved as indiviual files and not all put together in a "volume" f

Re: [Bacula-users] Using LTO drives with bacula

2024-03-19 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 3/19/24 14:56, Anders Gustafsson wrote: Hello. so we switched to Bacula and backing up to disk. ... get one, plus a SAS card and install in a separate PC Why a separate PC? Separate from the one running storage daemon with disks, I guess. What does this separation buys? Once you've writte

Re: [Bacula-users] Overland-Tandberg TD-LTO9xSA LTO9HH SAS External Tape Drive Kit

2024-02-29 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 2/29/24 22:11, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Mandi! Andrea Venturoli In chel di` si favelave... Anyone using this hardware? Here. Work pretty well, clearly 'out of the box', no module/kernel/... modification or other hacks; but i'm using Linux (PVE6, so debian buster).

[Bacula-users] Overland-Tandberg TD-LTO9xSA LTO9HH SAS External Tape Drive Kit

2024-02-29 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Anyone using this hardware? Does it work well for you? I'm in need of a tape drive for a FreeBSD machine and I've been offered this one. Any comments welcome. bye & Thanks av. ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.source

Re: [Bacula-users] Any suggestions for fail2ban jail for Bacula Director ?

2023-12-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 12/4/23 18:22, MylesDearBusiness via Bacula-users wrote: What I want to do is to identify the potential attack surface and create a fail2ban jail configuration. Hello. I'm a great fan of fail2ban, but I, at least until now, I've never seen any value in applying it to Bacula. What forms

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula recycling volumes it should not recycle

2023-11-04 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 9/8/23 17:45, Rob Gerber wrote: Don't know if this helps, but file and job retention entries you put in the pool will override any such entries on the client resource. So afaik the last word on whether a job will be retained is the job retention entry on a pool resource. Maybe define job and

Re: [Bacula-users] Ceph S3 support in Bacula Community 13.0.3

2023-10-10 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 10/10/23 17:54, Martin Simmons wrote: It look like Bacula's libs3 doesn't support OpenSSL 3.0. However, you could try applying the patch (attached) from the src.rpm of the EPEL9 libs3. cd libs3-20200523 patch -p1 < ...path..to..libs3-openssl3.patch... I've also seen another approach, from

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula recycling volumes it should not recycle

2023-09-08 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 9/7/23 21:33, Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote: Hello Andrea, Hello. You have 1 job per volume and automatic pruning and recycling enabled. Correct. If the only job in the volume is deleted from the Catalog, the recycling algorithm will detect it and the volume will be marked as Purged a

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula recycling volumes it should not recycle

2023-09-02 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 9/2/23 12:30, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. I've been using bacula for a long long time, but I can't seem to understand why, in a specific installation, volumes are recycled before I think they should. The only difference from several other installation, is the use of S3 cl

[Bacula-users] Bacula recycling volumes it should not recycle

2023-09-02 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've been using bacula for a long long time, but I can't seem to understand why, in a specific installation, volumes are recycled before I think they should. The only difference from several other installation, is the use of S3 cloud plugin. So: _ Bacula version is 11.0.6; _ excerpt

Re: [Bacula-users] S3 bucket as Storage & Centralized backup

2023-07-22 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 7/22/23 13:24, rocky wrote: 1. Is it fine to configure the S3 bucket as storage in AWS cloud or is it better to take the backup on local EBS or EFS volumes on bacula master node? Don't know. I only used S3. I am getting the  errors while executing the backup job. What errors? Can

Re: [Bacula-users] Troubles with AWS [Possibly solved]

2023-01-16 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 1/13/23 18:26, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Then I upgraded every package (don't think it matters, still no harm) and now I'm trying with "cloud upload" manually. I'll see how this goes. Still troublesome, but now the error is more verbose: 3000 Cloud Upload: Full01

Re: [Bacula-users] Troubles with AWS

2023-01-13 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 1/13/23 18:04, Chris Wilkinson wrote: There's been a couple of threads on this topic recently and I posted I looked, but I thought they were a different problem. similar question late last year. I get this error sporadically... I can only assume that network errors are responsible which

[Bacula-users] Troubles with AWS

2023-01-13 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've got a cloud setup which worked fine until last month (FreeBSD 13.1 + Bacula 11.0.6 + libs3 20200523). Now, come January, a full backup was taken (~ 87GB), but this failed to upload. Console showed a long series of: 13-Jan 14:40 lars-sd JobId 1261: Error: Full0116/part.92stat

Re: [Bacula-users] running Bacula client on Synology

2022-08-02 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 8/2/22 21:00, Phil Stracchino wrote: Huh.  Now I'm curious about how you set up the QNAP cross-compiler and development environment.  I couldn't find any useful information on that and QNAP support flatly refused to provide any. It all stated from here: https://sourceforge.net/p/bacula/m

Re: [Bacula-users] running Bacula client on Synology

2022-08-02 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 8/2/22 16:17, Phil Stracchino wrote: Don't even THINK about trying to run a current Bacula on QNAP. That's a bit of a broad statement. Much depends on what QNAP NAS you have, what part of Bacula you want to run on it, which features you want and what kind of support you expect. I only ru

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir: 13, crash on stackoverflow (FreeBSD)

2022-07-17 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 7/17/22 18:25, Larry Rosenman wrote: > full build log for the DEBUG version: > https://home.lerctr.org:/data/live-host-ports/2022-07-16_17h45m44s/logs/bacula13-server-13.0.0.log > > full build log for the NON-DEBUG version: > https://home.lerctr.org:/data/live-host-ports/2022-07-15

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir: 13, crash on stackoverflow (FreeBSD)

2022-07-17 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 7/17/22 15:34, Josh Fisher wrote: Bacula has had false-positive issues with similar buffer overrun protections before, Hmm... -fstack-protector just put canaries around the stack and verifies they are still there and intact. If the stack canary is corrupt, then IMO an overrun has defini

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir: 13, crash on stackoverflow (FreeBSD)

2022-07-17 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 7/16/22 19:07, Larry Rosenman wrote:     msg=0x88ac6d34f "stack overflow detected; terminated")     at /usr/src/lib/libc/secure/stack_protector.c:130 #2  0x00088ad66010 in __stack_chk_fail ()     at /usr/src/lib/libc/secure/stack_protector.c:137 #3  0x00252e69 in send_include_

Re: [Bacula-users] Cloud Cache Space Running Out

2022-07-13 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 7/13/22 10:32, Chris Wilkinson wrote: I am backing up to the cloud for the first time and see some unexpected (or at least undesired) behaviour. Unfortunately it's hard to fine useful info on Cloud backups details... I'm not sure if truncation occurs after each part is uploaded, at the

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula on Nas

2022-07-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 7/5/22 17:55, rkasmoll...@gmail.com wrote: My question regarding Bacula would be if it is possible to configure Bacula in NAS even with the community edition model. If u have any articel about it, I will be happy to have it. No article, but this has come up several time on this mailing lis

Re: [Bacula-users] Cloud versioning

2022-06-29 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 6/22/22 10:38, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. I've got an installation that is backing up to S3. I see a lot of messages like the following in the job logs: Full0117/part.2 was present on the cloud and has been versioned to part20220603223013.2 In fact we are using much more

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Bacula for TrueNAS Core?

2022-06-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 6/24/22 14:37, Josh Fisher wrote: If it is running in a jail, then how does it have access to all zfs datasets? Doesn't bacula-fd have to run as root no matter what OS it is running on? How else can it backup all of the other plugins, etc.? I'm no TrueNAS, but FreeBSD user: I usually hav

[Bacula-users] Cloud versioning

2022-06-22 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've got an installation that is backing up to S3. I see a lot of messages like the following in the job logs: Full0117/part.2 was present on the cloud and has been versioned to part20220603223013.2 In fact we are using much more space than we expected. Can this be disabled? Unless

[Bacula-users] Managing bacula cloud volumes

2022-02-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've got a couple of questions wrt cloud volumes. 1) How can I automatically prune the cache? I've got the following in my director.conf: Pool { Name = Full Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes AutoPrune = yes Maximum Volume Bytes = 50G Maximum Volume Jobs=1 Label Format =

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula for QNAP?

2022-01-04 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 1/4/22 15:39, Gary R. Schmidt wrote: But if your network is dodgy, then iSCSI may be just as dodgy as NFS. (iSCSI over FC, however, works very well.) ... and I wouldn't want to risk locking up a server, even partially, just because the backup NAS locked. bye av.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula for QNAP?

2022-01-03 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 1/3/22 14:55, Dmitri Maziuk wrote: True (formerly known as Free) NAS is FreeBSD, I know. it's just everything you need for the NAS conveniently pre-packaged, and comes with a web GUI. That's the reason I would prefer plain FreeBSD: no GUI at all; just use SSH (which is what I do on N

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula for QNAP?

2022-01-03 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 1/3/22 13:56, Heitor Faria wrote: Therefore, you could try TrueNAS , which is based on FreeBSD Then I'd use FreeBSD directly, as I do for servers :) bye & Thanks av. ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-use

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula for QNAP?

2022-01-03 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 1/2/22 21:42, Phil Stracchino wrote: (I note that the ENTIRE REASON this problem arises in the first place is because QNAP sees fit to ship the device with a fully ...  well, MOSTLY functional Linux OS *with no system compiler installed*.) So do all the other brands I ever saw :( If you

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula for QNAP?

2022-01-02 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 1/2/22 16:08, Heitor Faria wrote: That said, I never understood this very common user fetish of installing Bacula components in the NAS. Efficiency, reliability, less points of failure, etc... OK: you avoid one more network node but the hardware is not designed to handle the extra w

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula for QNAP?

2022-01-01 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 1/2/22 01:10, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 1/1/22 17:50, Phil Stracchino wrote: Without the static directives the entire build completes successfully. ...But didn't work because of the wrong glibc version.  QNAP says look, golly gosh gee whiz wow, kernel 5.10!  But is still using glibc 2.21,

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula for QNAP?

2022-01-01 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 1/1/22 18:13, Phil Stracchino wrote: (a) trying to figure out how to get a Bacula sd and fd installed on it I cross-compiled them myself. Actually, only the SD (9.6.3 for arm): I think I shared it in the past, but if you need it just ask. (b) dear gods, the POINTLESS OBFUSCATION of sh

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula for QNAP?

2022-01-01 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 12/31/21 22:22, Phil Stracchino wrote: Does anyone have any experience with, or useful tips for, using Bacula to back up a QNAP NAS with the QuTS "Hero" OS? I'm backing up *to* a couple of QNAPs (running bacula SD daemon, and not with ZFS). I didn't choose them, but I'm quite happy about

Re: [Bacula-users] Why isn't bacula recycling these volumes?

2021-12-09 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 12/10/21 07:06, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote: Hello. 8< If a pool doesn’t have maximum volumes defined then Bacula will prefer to demand new volumes over forcibly purging older volumes. 8< My interpretation of that sentence is heavily based on the word "forcibly

[Bacula-users] Some questions about cloud backup

2021-12-02 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I'm testing backing up to S3 and I find it hard to get information on this. Please forgive my noobness on this, but I never worked with AWS/S3 before. I'm up to the point where more or less Bacula is doing its job: it backs up, uploads, downloads and restores. However I'd like to twea

Re: [Bacula-users] Race condition creating volumes on two different NASes

2021-05-26 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 5/13/21 10:35 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: If you are compiling from source, better use the head of the Bacula-9.6 branch from GIT instead of the published sources, as they miss some patches. I'm compiling through FreeBSD's port infrastrucure, so I just picked up this patch. So far (a couple o

[Bacula-users] Race condition creating volumes on two different NASes

2021-05-12 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. On an installation of mine, where I run Bacula 9.6.7, I often see the following at the start of a job: 12-May 22:45 jack-dir JobId 8096: Error: sql_create.c:439 Create DB Media record INSERT INTO Media (VolumeName,MediaType,MediaTypeId,PoolId,MaxVolBytes,VolCapacityBytes,Recycle,VolR

Re: [Bacula-users] regression testing - more volunteers wanted

2021-04-17 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 4/17/21 2:14 PM, Dan Langille wrote: Looking at https://regress.bacula.org/index.php?project=Bacula-9.6&date=2021-04-07 I consistently get errors on langille_mysql57_bacula but not the others. By all means, post to the developers channel if you get consistent failures. It is vital that th

Re: [Bacula-users] regression testing - more volunteers wanted

2021-04-08 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 3/21/21 2:48 PM, Dan Langille wrote: Hello. More diversity in OS versions is a goal. At present, only FreeBSD is consistently represented. While we are at it, I'm one of those representing FreeBSD :) Since I moved my tests to version 11, I'm getting a few persistent failures: The followi

Re: [Bacula-users] Data loss with Hard Links

2020-12-31 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 12/22/20 11:22 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: On 12/18/20 4:57 PM, Eric Bollengier via Bacula-users wrote: FileSet {    Name="Xx"    Include { Options {    signature = MD5    Accurate=yes Here you have a mistake (maybe not so big) in your fileset, the Accurate dir

Re: [Bacula-users] Data loss with Hard Links

2020-12-22 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 12/18/20 4:57 PM, Eric Bollengier via Bacula-users wrote: FileSet {   Name="Xx"   Include {     Options {   signature = MD5   Accurate=yes Here you have a mistake (maybe not so big) in your fileset, the Accurate directive you want to use is inside the Job definition. You

Re: [Bacula-users] Data loss with Hard Links

2020-12-18 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 12/15/20 6:49 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: What is the fileset definition? Quite huge, both in terms of size (a full backup is around 400GB) and in terms of lines (more than 40 ZFS datasets). I'm pasting here the relevant parts: FileSet { Name="Xx" Include { Options { sign

Re: [Bacula-users] Data loss with Hard Links

2020-12-15 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 12/15/20 11:31 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: I verified some of these files are currently present in the original data, but not on the restored data!!! P.S. Sorry for forgetting, I'm using 9.6.6 on FreeBSD 11.4/amd64 (compiled from

[Bacula-users] Data loss with Hard Links

2020-12-15 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I'm backing up a FreeBSD server where Cyrus IMAP runs and I'm using Full/Differential/Incremental scheme. As you probably know, Cyrus IMAP uses hardlinks to avoid saving duplicate messages (and probably for other things). I tried a test recovery yesterday and I was flooded with mes

Re: [Bacula-users] Recommendation for NAS Appliance that Supports Bacula Community

2020-05-26 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 2020-05-26 19:10, J W wrote: I want to run Bacula Director on the NAS rather than mounting the NAS storage on the server and running Director on the server so that if something goes wrong and overwrites everything on the server then it does not overwrite the NAS as well. Any suggestions?

Re: [Bacula-users] Second level backup to external HD

2019-12-13 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 2019-12-13 15:18, Josh Fisher wrote: I do something similar, only monthly copies, rather than weekly. I do not use differential backups at all, but rather quarterly fulls, monthly virtual fulls in between quarterlies, and daily incrementals. A monthly Copy job makes copies of the virtual fu

[Bacula-users] Second level backup to external HD

2019-12-13 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. At a site I manage, we've got Bacula backing up a bunch of clients to a NAS SD daily. Occasionally (once a week ATM) we want to move the backed up data to an external HD for more resilience. I'm asking for suggestion on how to better do this. Currently, I'm using vchanger and Copy j

Re: [Bacula-users] ARM architecture?

2019-11-21 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 2019-11-21 00:43, David Brodbeck wrote: Has anyone successfully cross-compiled Bacula for ARM? Yes: I compiled the SD for a couple of QNAPs. I also compiled directly on the NAS on several Zyxels. I tinkered around a bit but ran into trouble with the linker. Apparently libtool doesn't do

Re: [Bacula-users] False "Intervention needed" flood

2019-09-26 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 2019-09-26 18:22, David Brodbeck wrote: I've just been putting up with the error messages rather than deal with the added maintenance of that approach. The extra alert emails can be dealt with by filtering my incoming email. The only problem here is that you'll eventually miss *real* "int

Re: [Bacula-users] False "Intervention needed" flood

2019-09-25 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 2019-09-25 18:42, David Brodbeck wrote: I'm not sure how Max Full Interval solves the problem. I have used it (before we switched to virtual full) but it doesn't really pertain to resource contention. Maybe I didn't explain the problem very well. I agree. I'm *also* using Max Full Interval

Re: [Bacula-users] False "Intervention needed" flood

2019-09-25 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 2019-09-25 10:19, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Hello, sob., 21 wrz 2019 o 00:52 David Brodbeck > napisał(a): I think this is a somewhat unfortunate design decision, to be honest. (...) So what should be the best design in this case which should solve

Re: [Bacula-users] False "Intervention needed" flood

2019-09-19 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 2019-09-19 15:33, Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, Hello. I concur with David.  When these jobs are scheduled, Bacula will attempt to acauire the needed Storage resources.  When the resources are busy the job waits, and after a certain time, Bacula will inform you that the resources are not

Re: [Bacula-users] False "Intervention needed" flood

2019-09-12 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 2019-09-11 19:16, Heitor Faria wrote: Hello. Hello, Subject: Bacula: Intervention needed for XXX.2019-09-11_10.00.00_56 Body: 11-Sep 10:25 XXXr-sd JobId 15335: JobId=15335, Job XXX.2019-09-11_10.00.00_56 waiting to reserve a device. This happens with several different clients.> Did

[Bacula-users] False "Intervention needed" flood

2019-09-11 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've got an installation of 9.4.3 on FreeBSD/amd64, where several clients are doing backups on a few SDs. Since some of these clients are laptops, I've activated "Reschedule On Error" to let Bacula try again in an hour if a laptop is not there. Since then, I'm getting a lot of messag

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula for Users machines

2019-07-11 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 7/11/19 3:39 PM, Andrea Brancatelli via Bacula-users wrote: OK thanks for the pointers. Tomorrow I'll test it with a few clients. The next problem on my roadmap is the Mac OS X Binary client... On the test machine I just installed it with Brew but compiling it from scratch on the CEO machi

[Bacula-users] Rescheduling hangs SDs

2019-07-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. On one of my installations (Director 9.4.3, SD 9.4.2), I have several laptops which, more often than not, arrive late. So I enabled job rescheduling, by adding the following to the relevant jobs: Reschedule On Error=yes Reschedule Interval=3600 Reschedule Times=8 While previou

Re: [Bacula-users] Slowness again

2019-06-28 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 6/28/19 6:57 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: By "no big load on the disks" do you mean on the client disks? Exactly What about on the NAS? A little harder to measure, but that NAS only sits there for backups and I had only that job runnig, so I guess it would have even less load than the

[Bacula-users] Slowness again

2019-06-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I know there have been several threads about slowness and I searched through them; however they mostly seem to refer to outdated versions. I've got a system which has always worked quite good, but lately, I've got a job which starts at good speed, but then slows down progressively.

[Bacula-users] VirtualFull Copy

2019-05-06 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I know this question came up in the past, but perhaps things have changed in the last years... I've got a setup where i backup a couple of servers to a NAS (using Full/Diff/Inc schedule) daily. Then once a week I need to "copy" the most recent backup to an external HD (so to have an o

Re: [Bacula-users] Error running bacula-sd 9.2.2 on a Zyxel NSA310 [SOLVED]

2019-03-01 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 3/1/19 5:14 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote: Were you careful to run a ./configure ... on the machine you then did the make on?  If Bacula picked up an old Linux created /src/config.h file that could explain the accept4 error. Yes. In any case, I would make sure that your /src/config.h file does

Re: [Bacula-users] Error running bacula-sd 9.2.2 on a Zyxel NSA310 [SOLVED]

2019-03-01 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 3/1/19 12:34 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote: At this point, my best assessment is that there is a bug in the Zyxel libraries. Just to clarify who's NOT to blame: to compile on a Zyxel NAS I had to install several third party packages (FFP to begin with); so the problem might lie in those third pa

Re: [Bacula-users] Error running bacula-sd 9.2.2 on a Zyxel NSA310 [SOLVED]

2019-02-28 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 2/28/19 2:23 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: That suggests the function accept4 was defined at compile time by fails with errno=38 (ENOSYS) at run time. I don't know what to answer. I'm not competent enough to understand the difference between the two; I cannot also tell why it is defined and wh

Re: [Bacula-users] Error running bacula-sd 9.2.2 on a Zyxel NSA310 [SOLVED]

2019-02-28 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 2/20/19 5:23 PM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. I've got such a NAS where I've been running bacula-sd 7.4.0 (self compiled from sources) for years. Now I'm trying to upgrade to 9.2.2 (same Director, same SD config file, same compilation procedure). The daemon starts, but

[Bacula-users] Error running bacula-sd 9.2.2 on a Zyxel NSA310

2019-02-20 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've got such a NAS where I've been running bacula-sd 7.4.0 (self compiled from sources) for years. Now I'm trying to upgrade to 9.2.2 (same Director, same SD config file, same compilation procedure). The daemon starts, but Director cannot connect. Setting debug to 1000 I see (as soon

Re: [Bacula-users] Mac FD and permissions [SOLVED]

2019-02-19 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/23/18 7:34 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: See https://kb.acronis.com/content/61832 (found from https://forum.acronis.com/forum/acronis-true-image-2018-forum/acronis-true-image-2018-fails-backup-macbook-pro-macos-mojave-10141) for a possible solution. I'm not sure what you will have to add to th

Re: [Bacula-users] Nagios notification setup

2018-12-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 12/4/18 8:16 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: You know, I might be missing something blindingly obvious here, but ... is there some reason why you cannot configure a distribution list as your Bacula notification address? You could then even put a filtered mail-to-SMS gateway in that distribution

Re: [Bacula-users] Nagios notification setup

2018-12-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 12/4/18 7:57 PM, Donna Hofmeister wrote: I'm not doing any rocket science -- I'm simply monitoring to see if the services are running. For example, check_command                   check_service_by_ssh!bacula-dir In order for this to work, it means that I, of course, set up ssh betwee

[Bacula-users] Mac FD and permissions

2018-11-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've installaed bacula-fd 7.4.7 on a Mac (10.13 or 10.14, I don't remember exactly and I cannot check right now). Everything works as expected, except for some permission problems: during a backup I get: > ... 22-Nov 23:19 IMac-fd JobId 11647: Could not open directory "/Users/

[Bacula-users] Retrying full backups

2018-11-09 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but I have several schedules like the following: Schedule { Name="MySchedule" Run=Full 1st sun at 22:00 Run=Differential 2nd-5th sun at 22:00 Run=Incremental mon-sat at 22:00 } If for some reason the Full backup fails on the 1st Sunday o

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula SD on a QNAP TS-231 [SOLVED]

2018-10-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 10/22/18 5:38 PM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: _ this environment does not provide OpenSSL (or perhaps configure doesn't find it?), so it will be disabled; however some code in BSOCKCORE::close() in src/lib/bsockcore.c is not guarded by the proper #ifdef HAVE_TLS, so you'll get

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula SD on a QNAP TS-231 [SOLVED]

2018-10-21 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 10/17/18 1:35 PM, Josh Fisher wrote: I believe the NAS you mention uses a Marvell chip, so you will need the cross-compiler at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/qosgpl/files/QNAP%20NAS%20Tool%20Chains/ This should allow building the bacula-sd and library binaries targeting the Marvell chip

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula SD on a QNAP TS-231

2018-10-16 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 10/15/18 9:15 PM, Welington R. Braga wrote: I'm just a beginner in Bacula but I'm talking as who manager 4 QNAP NAS (1x TS-859U+, 3x TS-459U+) and others 2 similar storage like these in the last 6 years. So, if you let me give a humble opinion, configure only a NFS access and share this in

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula SD on a QNAP TS-231

2018-10-14 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 10/12/18 7:27 PM, Heitor Faria wrote: It does not compensate for the hassle. Bacula SD should be built in the same Director and database headers versions ??? I'm not interested in FD or Director on the NAS, just SD. I've done this (i.e. compiling directly on the device) several times on

[Bacula-users] Bacula SD on a QNAP TS-231

2018-10-12 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I know this question (more or less) came up several times in the past, but possibly things have changed a lot. Is there any way I could install bacula storage daemon on the NAS in subject? There seems to be no QPKG available. IPKG apparently disappeared. I tried compiling it directly

Re: [Bacula-users] Regression testing - let's get more involved

2017-06-04 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 06/03/17 10:11, Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, Thanks for the feedback. Yes, Wanderlei previously reported that the update_bacula_tables script failed. It turned out to be a trivial oversight on my part. Consequently 3-4 days ago, I release version 7.9.1 that corrects this problem. I have

Re: [Bacula-users] Regression testing - let's get more involved

2017-06-02 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 05/26/17 21:33, Dan Langille wrote: On May 22, 2017, at 3:19 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: On 05/20/17 21:40, Dan Langille wrote: I see it here: http://regress.bacula.org/index.php?project=Bacula-7.4&date=2017-05-19 Now it says 0 errors, but I have "three-pool-disk" test

Re: [Bacula-users] Regression testing - let's get more involved

2017-05-22 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 05/20/17 21:40, Dan Langille wrote: > I see it here: > http://regress.bacula.org/index.php?project=Bacula-7.4&date=2017-05-19 Now it says 0 errors, but I have "three-pool-disk" test intermittently failing and I'm trying to understand why. bye av. -

Re: [Bacula-users] Regression testing - let's get more involved

2017-05-20 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 05/20/17 19:09, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > On 05/15/17 17:26, Dan Langille wrote: >>> On May 15, 2017, at 9:46 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: >>> >>> After I've dealt with this (and possibly run the root tests too): how >>> do I report? >>>

Re: [Bacula-users] Regression testing - let's get more involved

2017-05-20 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 05/15/17 17:26, Dan Langille wrote: >> On May 15, 2017, at 9:46 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: >> >> After I've dealt with this (and possibly run the root tests too): how do I >> report? >> Is the submission engine still missing? >> Is a mail like this e

Re: [Bacula-users] Regression testing - let's get more involved

2017-05-15 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 05/11/17 13:43, Dan Langille wrote: >> Right now I'm at 3 tests failing, but I will investigate these too ASAP. > > Please persist. So, I'm up to the point where I completed all the non root disk tests and here's the results (FreeBSD 10.3/amd64 jail with SQLite3): > Start non-root disk test

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