Re: [Bacula-users] New release Bacularis 5.5.0

On 8/6/25 9:58 AM, Marcin Haba wrote: Hello Everybody, We’re pleased to announce the release of Bacularis 5.5.0. Congratulations, Marcin! 😀 -- Bill Arlofski w...@protonmail.com signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Issues with Virtual Full backups

On 7/30/25 4:15 PM, Michel Figgins wrote: > How about using a ClientRunBeforeJob script that will update a small file just so there’s SOMETHING that changed even if it’s just a text file with the days date? - Michel Such a simple, elegant solution! Best regards, Bill -- Bill Arlofski w...@

Re: [Bacula-users] Issues with Virtual Full backups

On 7/30/25 1:31 PM, John Lockard wrote: Hello John, You are exactly correct: Found 0 files to consolidate into Virtual Full. With no files in the Incs, there is nothing for Bacula to consolidate, and you are in the exact spot you have described. So, your next option(s) might be to look int

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent jobs?

On 7/30/25 7:45 AM, Kelly Price wrote: > Thank you! It was the catalog job running at a lower priority that blocked the run queue. I canceled the catalog backup that was set to run and the smaller jobs started. \o/ Hint: You could also have done: `update jobid= priority=10` Which would

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent jobs?

On 7/29/25 11:07 AM, Kelly Price wrote: Hi I have a number of servers, some which are quite large (50TB+). I also have some servers that are relatively small. I do monthly full backups, weekly differential, and daily incremental backups. The problem I’m having is that the smaller servers

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling with secondary storage daemon

On 7/28/25 2:38 PM, Todd Aiken wrote: Bacula Director and FD can talk to an SD running on a different distribution. The thing is that you must be sure that the SD version is exactly equal to the DIR version. Sigh... I feel like such an idiot. I incorrectly assumed that installing Bacula in U

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling with secondary storage daemon

On 7/25/25 10:11 PM, Todd Aiken wrote: Greetings everybody. I am a new user of Bacula, and am having a very strange problem with setting up a new system that I hope somebody can help me with. I successfully set up a new installation of Bacula on an Ubuntu 24.02 server using the default configur

Re: [Bacula-users] "Console Unknown term code of [fd]" error during scheduled job

On 7/25/25 8:47 AM, Saiful Bhuiyan wrote: Hi Martin, I receive about 16 emails with the same subject daily. I am sharing the first and last mail. The full email looks like this: 25-Jul 00:40 bacula-dir JobId 0: Automatically selected Catalog: BaculaBackupCatalog 25-Jul 00:40 bacula-dir JobId

Re: [Bacula-users] Selecting jobids for restores

On 7/19/25 12:46 PM, Michel Figgins wrote: >> Thanks Bill! Hello Michel. You are welcome. :) I have 2 jobs configured for each client that are identical other than storage/pool. Do you realize that you can override the Pool and Storage in a schedule, on the command line, or just before sub

Re: [Bacula-users] Selecting jobids for restores

On 7/19/25 10:11 AM, Michel Figgins wrote: Hello, I have backups going to 2 different SDs – one local and one remote.  I’m attempting a full restore of a client which has Full, Diff, and Inc jobs.  Does anyone know of a way to find the necessary jobids that use just one of the SDs?  When I do

Re: [Bacula-users] "No files" in Bacularis for Jobs

On 6/23/25 10:11 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger via Bacula-users wrote: greetings today a customer asks me for a list of files in a directory at a given date in february I open Bacularis-5.0.0, and want to use "Restore" to browse the database: there's a job backing up the samba-share containing the

Re: [Bacula-users] Timeout setting for ClientRunBeforeJob

On 6/18/25 9:06 AM, Yateen Shaligram Bhagat (Nokia) wrote: > Thank you Bill for the quick reply Much appreciated ! You are welcome... You didn't mention what your script is doing, but if it is doing something like I said and taking too long on a large directory tree, the best fix is to s

Re: [Bacula-users] Timeout setting for ClientRunBeforeJob

On 6/18/25 5:59 AM, Yateen Shaligram Bhagat \(Nokia\) via Bacula-users wrote: My bad, I made a wrong statement in my earlier email. Here is the corrected scenario. I have a dynamic fileset creation with a script that runs on the client (Linux)  side with File resource, see the setting below:

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula or Drive problem?

On 6/15/25 2:19 AM, Dr. Thorsten Brandau via Bacula-users wrote: As this surprisingly looked more like a changer, despite the error code=70, I changed the changer path in bacula-sd.conf to / dev//sg8 Then I ran a backup (catalogue to make it quick): *And to my surprise - the backup worked agai

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula or Drive problem?

On 6/12/25 10:32 AM, Dr. Thorsten Brandau via Bacula-users wrote: Hi Bill thank you for your as always helpful insights. You are more than welcome, Thorsten. :) I was not aware of the conflict between the libraries and baculas autoclean feature. Immediately I turned the one of the lib off

Re: [Bacula-users] Failure with VirtualFull causing next job to be a Full???

On 6/12/25 9:24 AM, John Lockard wrote: > I've seen this a couple of times, and haven't created a small job to test, but it appears that when I'm running a VirtualFull, and it fails for whatever reason, the next time a job for that FileSet runs it gets elevated to a Full and states that there is

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula or Drive problem?

On 6/12/25 1:43 AM, Dr. Thorsten Brandau via Bacula-users wrote: Hi I am using a Neo 24 Tape library with an LTO-9 drive. The old one (Tandberg) broke recently and was replaced with a different one. Then the backups with Bacula worked fine for some time. Now I get those errors (again): 12-Jun

Re: [Bacula-users] Any way for incremental backups to consider just size changes as changes

On 6/7/25 10:39 PM, Tech - Nibiru wrote: Dear Sirs: I have read the Bacula documentation, especially regarding the "Accurate" option for incremental backups, looking for an alternative that allows incremental backups to be performed, considering files that have undergone size changes as changed

Re: [Bacula-users] 'Lock' retention on a media...

On 6/4/25 9:06 AM, Rob Gerber wrote: > *I think the migrated jobs should inherit the new pool's retention period.* Hello Rob, everyone... The above statement from Rob is 100% correct. As a matter of fact, this is the general idea and typical use case... eg: We see people run backup jobs to di

Re: [Bacula-users] spool directory

On 5/29/25 3:02 PM, Alan Polinsky wrote: I've been running Bacula 9.6.7 for many years with an attached LTO3 tape drive. The machine hosting Bacula is an old Dell Optiplex. Though I am always in Slackware, there is a small 250 gig drive that had Windows 10 installed on it, even though It was nev

Re: [Bacula-users] [OT] stenc and library...

On 5/27/25 2:19 PM, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Mandi! Udo Kaune In chel di` si favelave... Not quite clear what you are trying to accomplish. Stenc does load keys to the drive, not to tapes. Please elaborate. Sure, but if bacula-sd is ''locking'' the tape device, stenc cannon enroll the key. My

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-fd Instances Timing Out on `status client`, despite Running Jobs

On 5/20/25 3:20 PM, Lloyd Brown wrote: Hi all, I'm running into an issue with some bacula-fd instances and hoping someone can point me in the right direction. In short: I have bacula-fd instances that are clearly running jobs (confirmed via strace), but they often time out when I run status c

Re: [Bacula-users] Is it possible to get mail notification on Warning

On 4/1/25 6:58 AM, Mehrdad Ravanbod wrote: Hi Guys I have managed to gt the mail notifications working on my Bacula installation, but I seem to have encountered a problem I don't want to get a notification for successful jobs only on jobs that fail(get an error) and jobs that do complete but wi

Re: [Bacula-users] Any experience with these autochangers?

On 3/28/25 11:55 AM, Dan Langille wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2025, at 12:50 PM, Edheldil wrote: Hi all, we plan to upgrade our current tape backup (2x LTO-6 in Dell PowerVault 114X) and we were looking into either Dell EMC ML3 or HPE StoreEver MSL2024, both with LTO-9 drives. Unfortunately the vend

Re: [Bacula-users] Release 15.0.3

On 3/27/25 10:18 AM, Eric Bollengier via Bacula-users wrote: Hello, We are pleased to announce the release of Bacula version 15.0.3 to both the Bacula website (www.bacula.org) and to SourceForge release. This release brings a couple of fixes published in the git repository over the last months.

Re: [Bacula-users] bsmtp authentication

On 3/26/25 5:25 AM, Mehrdad Ravanbod wrote: > > Hi guys > > I am trying to set up the messaging part of bacula to send alerts and > using the built in bsmtp, but running into problems > > The SMTP server that we are using needs authentication for the senders > adress, and it seems like bsmtp does

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula + Zimbra: Run Before Backup

On 3/20/25 3:56 AM, Bruno Bartels (Intero Technologies) wrote: Hi Bill, thank you very much for your detailed answer. Reading the details from your answer, everythings seems convincingly. I have discussed the issue yesterday with an other admin/devops. I think I've stressed out the wrong poin

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula + Zimbra: Run Before Backup

On 3/19/25 5:08 AM, Bruno Bartels \(Intero Technologies\) via Bacula-users wrote: Hi all, I am fiddeling with a problem. I am trying to set things up like mentioned here: https://www.bacula.lat/zimbra-network-edition-backup-with-bacula/?lang=en

Re: [Bacula-users] needed tapes

On Friday, March 14th, 2025 at 21:27, Gary R. Schmidt wrote: > On 15/3/25 01:24, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote: > > > On 3/14/25 5:22 AM, Gary R. Schmidt wrote: > > > > > As a cronjob I'd put "echo query 22 | bconsole" in a file an

Re: [Bacula-users] needed tapes

On 3/14/25 5:22 AM, Gary R. Schmidt wrote: As a cronjob I'd put "echo query 22 | bconsole" in a file and execute that. Cheers, GaryB-) This will not work. :) But, you *could* do: 8< echo -e "query\n22\nquit\n" | bconsole 8< Best regards, Bill

Re: [Bacula-users] needed tapes

On 3/14/25 4:03 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger via Bacula-users wrote: Am 14.03.25 um 07:48 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger via Bacula-users: I use an 8-slot autoloader, I added a little bit of SQL to the query file and just run that, it lists my tapes from last-used to most recent. I grab the three old

Re: [Bacula-users] needed tapes

On 3/12/25 5:09 AM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Hi, wt., 11 mar 2025 o 21:12 Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users mailto:bacula- us...@lists.sourceforge.net>> napisał(a): Here's why I say "guessed": I have a story - I had multiple jobs one day and the Director "gu

Re: [Bacula-users] needed tapes

On 3/11/25 1:29 PM, Dragan Milivojević wrote: You are basically asking if someone can transfer your thought process and reasoning into a custom script. Unless there are mind readers here ;) that is not going to happen. Describe your selection process in an algorithmic way and transfer that into

Re: [Bacula-users] [OT?] Enable hardware encryption on RDX...

On 3/10/25 4:20 AM, Marco Gaiarin wrote: After fiddling a bit with tapes, i'm trying to enable hardware encryption on RDX, using stenc. Hello Marco, Why not just use the simple to manage Bacula Storage Daemon Encryption feature? Best regards, Bill -- Bill Arlofski w...@protonmail.com si

Re: [Bacula-users] What triggers a Full?

On 3/5/25 12:30 PM, John Lockard wrote: I have a system which I'm backing up and have it set up for "Always Incremental" backups.  I ran a Full job by hand and have schedules for Differentials and Incrementals, and once a week Bacula will roll up and Incr and Diff jobs greater than 30 days along

Re: [Bacula-users] job dies with ERR=error:0A000119:SSL routines::decryption failed or bad record mac

On 3/3/25 9:34 AM, Udo Kaune wrote: Am 02.03.25 um 20:56 schrieb Dan Langille: 02-Mar 19:06 bacula-sd-04 JobId 373736: Recycled volume "FullAuto-04-15375" on File device "vDrive-FullFile-4" (/usr/local/bacula/volumes/FullFile), all previous data lost. 02-Mar 19:06 bacula-dir JobId 373736: Max V

Re: [Bacula-users] Limit Bandwidth of Incremental backups only

Oops! My previous message was accidentally sent before I even typed a character. :) Here's the real reply... On 2/27/25 10:53 AM, s...@riseup.net wrote: > Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote on 2/13/25 3:22 PM: Here's an idea. 💡 In your Job, configure two RunScripts section

Re: [Bacula-users] Limit Bandwidth of Incremental backups only

On 2/27/25 10:53 AM, s...@riseup.net wrote: Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote on 2/13/25 3:22 PM: Here's an idea. 💡 In your Job, configure two RunScripts sections. One before and one after. Have a small script that takes the current jobid and the level. If the level is "l

Re: [Bacula-users] baculabackupreport ini variable quoting issue

On 2/25/25 5:05 PM, Rob Gerber wrote: Bill, I'm adopting your baculabackupreport python script and I've found some strange behavior. I have copy and pasted some variables from the script into the ini file. I didn't change many of the ones I pasted in, I more wanted to 'bookmark' them by puttin

Re: [Bacula-users] baculabackupreport ini variable quoting issue

On 2/25/25 5:05 PM, Rob Gerber wrote: Bill, I'm adopting your baculabackupreport python script and I've found some strange behavior. I have copy and pasted some variables from the script into the ini file. I didn't change many of the ones I pasted in, I more wanted to 'bookmark' them by puttin

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula cloud

@Rob Gerber, all... I have just pushed a new feature which will notify on Cloud jobs with cloud part transfer errors. If there are cloud jobs that have part transfer errors, a new banner line will be at the top of the report above the job table telling you how many jobs had cloud transfer erro

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula cloud

On 2/20/25 7:40 PM, Marcin Haba wrote: Hello Rob, What error message did you experience with Amazon driver? For Amazon driver and non-AWS S3 cloud storage in the Cloud configuration resource you need to define the BlobEndpoint directive. Otherwise it will not work. @Rob right on schedule, Marc

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula cloud

On 2/20/25 7:19 PM, Rob Gerber wrote: > Hello, [...snip...] Some parts are failing to upload. I verified with ls that the parts in question still remain on disk (I have set cloud cache to truncate on upload, so only part1 and parts that haven't uploaded should remain). In bconsole I ran 'clou

Re: [Bacula-users] Timing of Run After

Hey Ross, I am late to the game here, and just skimmed your email... Are you aware that there is a new `when` option for RunScripts called `AtJobCompletion`? This runs even after the `RunsWhen = after` option. This new feature was added based on a request I had made to be able to mark a job a

Re: [Bacula-users] change of hostname

On 2/19/25 6:45 AM, Mehrdad Ravanbod wrote: Hi Recently I changed the Hostname of our Bacula server and now i am getting an error when the builin back up job BackupClient1 is supposed to run, error is something like this Bacula-dir JobID XX: fatal error:[DE0060]gethostbyname() for host "" faile

Re: [Bacula-users] PostgreSQL compatibility

On 2/15/25 10:33 AM, Viktor via Bacula-users wrote: Hi everyone, Would it be safe to use Bacula 15 with the latest postgres version 17? I didn't manage to find some existing information about this. Has someone tried it, or is using those two together? Regards Hello Viktor, Yes. I just chec

Re: [Bacula-users] Compare backup with actual data on client

On 2/14/25 12:14 PM, Sebastian Suchanek wrote: Hi list! Since last night I have remote system (with a bacula file-daemon on it), that I can't access physically for the next couple of days and which is somewhat "half-crashed". I'm suspecting a filesystem issue. It throws various errors and I can'

Re: [Bacula-users] Limit Bandwidth of Incremental backups only

Oops, Forgot to re-read before sending... This sentence: If the level is "limit", set bandwidth to , if the level is "unlimited", set the bandwidth on the jobid to 0. ...should have been > If the level is "Incremental", set bandwidth to , if the level is not "Incremental", set the b

Re: [Bacula-users] Limit Bandwidth of Incremental backups only

On 2/13/25 2:59 PM, s...@riseup.net wrote: I've used bacula for years and it's always figured out the correct Level of job to run if there are multiple scheduled.  That may have to do with these settings as well: Allow Duplicate Jobs = no Cancel Lower Level Duplicates = yes Cancel Queued Duplic

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy a tape with a single drive...

On 1/31/25 9:46 AM, Marco Gaiarin wrote: > > As stated by Marcin, and to stay in the «there's everyday a new thing to learn in bacula», heh.. Yes this is true. We show a humorous image (origin unknown) during the Bacula Admin I course. It is titled something like "The Bacula Learning Curve", a

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy a tape with a single drive...

On 1/31/25 2:19 PM, Michel Figgins wrote: Just a general question: Why would dd if=/dev/nst0 of=somefile care about tape logical files? - Michel Hello Michel, That's just how `dd` works from my experience. It will stop when it reaches an EOF marker, so Martin was right. Best regards, Bill

Re: [Bacula-users] stop job and resume job with VSS

On 1/30/25 6:08 PM, Jose Alberto wrote: Hi. Bacula 15.0.2 I am making a large backup (4TB) of 5 database files (Mail Exchange). I am using FileSet in VSS. When the JOB has 50%, when stopping. To run a copy of other JOBs.  I notice that when I resume "resume of stop job" it seems to start fro

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy a tape with a single drive...

On 1/31/25 3:48 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:20:21 +, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users said: If I understand correctly, you just want to copy an entire tape to another tape but only have one tape drive? If yes, you can do this entirely outside of Bacula by using `dd` to

Re: [Bacula-users] Job switch for encryption?

On 1/30/25 3:43 AM, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... Not a stupid question, but you are correct. What you can do is run two FDs on a client (on different ports), one with encryption enabled and the other with no encryption. Then, just

Re: [Bacula-users] Copy a tape with a single drive...

On 1/30/25 4:43 AM, Marco Gaiarin wrote: I need to 'copy' a tape, bt using a single drive. There's something 'smart' i can do, or the only option is to build two jobs, one that copy the media in a different type (eg, files) and then migrate it on tape? Thanks. Hello Marco, If I understand

Re: [Bacula-users] Job switch for encryption?

On 1/29/25 10:43 AM, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Seems a stupid question but... if i enable data encryption on the FD, it is true that there's no a 'job switch' that enable/disable encryption for a specific job? So, *any* jobs running on that FD get encrypted, right? Thanks. Hello Marco. Not a s

Re: [Bacula-users] Performance issue

On 1/24/25 10:17 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: Just FYI I am very unconvinced of the benefit of attribute spooling, at least with a MySQL back-end, because the spooling implementation in Bacula's MySQL driver is very bad. (It writes attributes into a table to avoid writing them into a table, then

Re: [Bacula-users] Performance issue

On 1/24/25 8:36 AM, Roberto Greiner wrote: Hy, I'm having a performance issue with my installation. When I make a backup, to backup is running well bellow of the expected speed. A restore, on the other side, works fine. In one example, I made a (full) backup of one server. The full backup of 1

Re: [Bacula-users] get Storage name

On 1/23/25 1:04 PM, Christophe PEREZ via Bacula-users wrote: Hi, I need a little help. I can't figure out how to retrieve the Storage name by a bconsole command from the jobid or volume name. It's to process in a script launched at the end of the job. If you have any idea, thanks in advance. --

Re: [Bacula-users] Ghost jobs?!

On 1/20/25 3:01 AM, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Deciding a title to this post is a bit tricky... ;-) Firs of all: i need to chage a set of tapes in a tape autochanger; to be able to release the tapes, the library and change the tape i have to 'umount' the tape in the tape unity(es); but if i use umoun

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Backup Problem

On 1/15/25 7:25 AM, Gina Costa wrote: Hi, I´m using Bacula 9.6.5, and I ran a backup in a WIndows Client. The client´s status is OK, the job ran wtihout any error (as shown in job´s log), but when I try to do a recover  the backup is empty. I don´t understand what is happening? I also attac

Re: [Bacula-users] New release Bacularis 4.6.0

On 1/15/25 1:12 AM, Marcin Haba wrote: Hello Everybody, We are glad to announce a new Bacularis version 4.6.0. This is a new feature and bug fix release. It provides many new functions and improvements. We added an interface to install, renew and uninstall SSL certificates. The renewing certific

Re: [Bacula-users] dummy job

On 1/6/25 2:36 PM, Christophe PEREZ via Bacula-users wrote: Hi, With Bacula 15.0.2, is it possible in your opinion, to create a completely dummy job? What FileSet to put to have no backup? The goal is to send a command to the Storage daemon (so on a client) at the end of the backup. Thanks in ad

Re: [Bacula-users] bacularis

On Monday, December 16th, 2024 at 03:52, wastn jak wrote: > - all ways it take full backup manually not incremental even i select it from > level Hello Wastn, Before an Incremental or a Differential backup level can be run, a Full must exist. When you run a Bacula backup job for the first

Re: [Bacula-users] unchanged files backed up multiple times

On 12/12/24 10:28 PM, Marcin Haba wrote: Hello Everybody, Yes, Bill. I will try to add my two cents :-) Your notice about too long mtime is fully right. It is because the lstat string is broken. Two lstat values are joined together and it causes this wrong result. If we split them, then the d

Re: [Bacula-users] unchanged files backed up multiple times

On 12/12/24 5:15 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 12/12/24 18:19, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote: But for the third one the only thing I see that changed was the atime: 8< *.bvfs_decode_lstat lstat="P0j TaAhK IHw B Pu Pw A MQ2A6aB BAA BiGwPA BnQXpa BmB6gdBnQLI1 A A C"

Re: [Bacula-users] unchanged files backed up multiple times

On 12/12/24 4:28 PM, Rob Gerber wrote: Bill, Thank you very much for the information. You're welcome. I'll play with this and see if I can figure something out. I wouldn't think the mtime should have changed, but if it did, bacula was just doing its job. Hmmm, I am still looking up somet

Re: [Bacula-users] unchanged files backed up multiple times

On 12/12/24 3:28 PM, Rob Gerber wrote: Hello, A few very large files don't appear to have changed since the last full backup, yet are being backed up repeatedly by incremental / differential backups. Why? Details: I am using bacula to backup a fileserver for one of my customers. For the prima

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull e client availability...

On 12/5/24 7:46 AM, Marco Gaiarin wrote: I use virtual full backup to 'consolidate' backups on weekend; AFAI've understood, virtual full backups are a 'sd only' things. Hello Marco, You have understood this correctly. But if client is not abailable (common for that client, on weekend), a

Re: [Bacula-users] Antivirus Plugin configuration

On 12/4/24 4:59 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 14:15:17 -0700, D said: I am under the impression that each FD which will use the Bacula Antivirus Plugin needs access to 'clamd'. Is this correct? Do any other Bacula components (SD,FD,DIR,etc) need access to 'clamd'? Yes, it i

Re: [Bacula-users] SD volume encryption documentation

On 11/26/24 2:02 PM, Rob Gerber wrote: Hello, In https://www.bacula.org/15.0.x-manuals/en/main/main.pdf#subsection.2.0.2 I saw mention of a new feature for storage daemon volume encryption. However, the section reference

Re: [Bacula-users] stop (restart or resume) continue backup paused or stopped.

On 11/25/24 3:49 PM, Jose Alberto wrote: Hello. Bacula 15.0.2 Debian 11. I have a full Job that weighs 2.4TB.  When I was going for 1.6 I executed "stop" in bconsole. Then run resume (but I have doubts if "restart" was ideal). But it seems like it was starting from 0 and not from the 1.6TB it

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Where does a job of type "Copy" store the volume information?

On 11/20/24 3:59 PM, Justin Case wrote: Thanks, however this doesn’t really explain what I was asking for. Right... I think I realized this might be the case after I sent it. I was trying to reply while working from our booth at the SC24 convention in freezing cold temps, so not thinking clear

Re: [Bacula-users] SD won't start after upgrade

On 11/20/24 9:59 AM, D. wrote: I upgraded from 13.0.4 to 15.0.2 on two Oracle Linux 8.10 servers. In both cases, the bacula-sd.service daemon won't start after the upgrade. The DIR and FD daemons start just fine. The DIR seems to interact with the upgraded database just fine. The lack of loggi

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Where does a job of type "Copy" store the volume information?

Hello Justin, It's more simple than you think. When Bacula prunes a Backup job which has a copy of itself, it promotes the Copy to a Backup job as you know. But, all that happens is the 'jobtype' field in the Job table for this Copy Job is changed from a 'C' to a 'B', and so then it is now

Re: [Bacula-users] Possible to copy backup pools from one storage to another?

On 11/18/24 8:16 AM, Chris Wilkinson wrote: In my runcopy.sh script I put a 'sleep 30' delay in at the beginning to give the backup job a chance to completely finish. This is a somewhat arbitrary choice and may not be enough for long jobs. Is there a way to have the script check for completion p

Re: [Bacula-users] Possible to copy backup pools from one storage to another?

On 11/14/24 9:28 AM, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > That's great, thanks Bill. It seems I had the correct answer but didn't know how to use it correctly. The level thing threw me off completely. Ahh! Good to hear that my "book" about copy jobs was helpful. I have a habit of writing long-winded answ

Re: [Bacula-users] Possible to copy backup pools from one storage to another?

On 11/13/24 4:14 PM, Chris Wilkinson wrote: Yes, this is what I based my first attempt on but ran into the issue that it doesn't work copying diff and incr pools. That's when I turned to the list for advice. -Chris- Hello Chris, You have three "source" pools, with each having a "NextPool" se

Re: [Bacula-users] Force incremental to resume from where it left off

On 11/8/24 6:44 AM, Samuel Zaslavsky wrote: Hello everyone, I have a job backing up several hundreds of To. Job is incremental, every week, so only hundreds of Go, or a few To every week. After bad manipulation ( I know, I know...), we lost the bacula configurations (jobs, fileset, etc.) _but n

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

On 10/23/24 11:51 AM, Justin Case wrote: > Thanks Bill, I got it working with your help. Excellent! That was quick too! :) Glad I could help! Best regards, Bill -- Bill Arlofski w...@protonmail.com signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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

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 { RunsWhen = "Before" RunsOnClient = no Console = "delete from job where (type in ('V', 'D') or (type = 'B' and jobbytes = 0 and jobfiles = 0))

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up an autochange in the cloud

On 10/22/24 1:05 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: So I assume you say, it's enough to enable it in SD, right? And let the FD encryption away to keep it simple(r). ? Yes. I think so, BUT make sure to pay attention to dealing with managing the key files for each volume. They get stored in the k

Re: [Bacula-users] setting up an autochange in the cloud

On 10/21/24 1:45 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > So that means for best protection I would need "storage daemon data volume encryption"? Or even better: enable both? I assume enabling both would add overhead in terms of CPU usage etc Hello Stefan, Not sure I would call FD encryption plus SD

Re: [Bacula-users] baculabackupreport script error

On Saturday, October 19th, 2024 at 15:23, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > > That's perfectly reasonable. I just got confused by the help screen thinking > that since the -C option is in [ ] I took that to mean optional. Now I know > to call with the -C option. > > Thanks Hello Chris, Excellent. Gl

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

On Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 at 06:15, Justin Case wrote: > 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 adheri

Re: [Bacula-users] baculabackupreport script error

On Thursday, October 17th, 2024 at 04:11, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > I got your Python script working but only if I include the -C > in the command line. Otherwise it complains that > email is missing, cannot connect to dB and a few other things. It looks like > it's not finding the configurat

Re: [Bacula-users] Aggressively prune (and truncate) file volumes on Progressive backups...

On 10/2/24 10:00 AM, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Mandi! Gary R. Schmidt In chel di` si favelave... RTFM again, it took me about three goes to understand it - and I've been doing backups since 9-track tape drives were vertical! Mmmm... i've found references to scratch pool but really i've nefe

Re: [Bacula-users] Debug and trace

On 10/2/24 8:34 AM, Mehrdad R. wrote: Hi guys So I am trying to trace the backup to verify that files are correctly scanned and backup especially in diff. mode, I am testing backing up a directory on a window server(Local windows FD and SD backing up to a local disk on the server) which contains

Re: [Bacula-users] Remote Client Security Alerts

On 9/17/24 4:41 AM, Chris Wilkinson wrote: I keep getting security alerts from a remote client backup. The backups always run to success. The IPs that are listed in the job log are different every time and in various locations including some in Russia but also in London and European data centres

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically cancel backup jobs --> do not mark as fatal

On 9/11/24 1:50 AM, Bruno Bartels (Intero Technologies) wrote: > Hi Bill, thank you very much for your great answer! I am going to implement this in the next time and then get back to you. Thank you again for that valuable hint! Bruno Hello Bruno, You are welcome. I have worked with this new

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula setup hangs, need help debugging

On 9/11/24 1:55 AM, Simon Flutura wrote: Hi, I inherited a bacula setup, backing several machines up on tape. Sadly the setup hangs, no network/cpu/io activity while jobs are running forever. We are running Bacula   11.0.6. Do you have any clue where to start in debugging the setup? Best,

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatically cancel backup jobs --> do not mark as fatal

On 9/10/24 5:21 AM, Bruno Bartels \(Intero Technologies\) via Bacula-users wrote: Hi alltogether, I have adjusted Bacula to cancel jobs, that are duplicates of one job (Disable "AllowDuplicateJobs", or "DisableDuplicateJobs" AND "CancelQueedDuplicates, which should be the same im my understand

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

On 9/5/24 6:48 AM, Anders Gustafsson wrote: Hi! What is the best or recommended process here? Ie if we back up to externa USB disks and want to replace the disk every now and then and keep the old as an archival copy? Assuming that we then want to restore a file from an old disk, that was dis

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual backup

On 9/4/24 11:27 AM, David Waller via Bacula-users wrote: Sorry forgot to add: I am running version 15.02 on Debian and the two pool definitions are as follows: Pool {   Name = "Air-Full"   PoolType = "Backup"   LabelFormat = "Air-"   ActionOnPurge = "Truncate"   MaximumVolumeJobs = 1

Re: [Bacula-users] full and diff backups in 2 different jobs

On 9/3/24 4:24 AM, Mehrdad R. wrote: Hi Mostly to see if it is possible, i am fully aware that it can be done in one job, Hello Mehrdad, this is in fact the only way Bacula works. :) Bacula considers one Job name, one Client, and one Fileset a unit. Change any one of these and Bacula sees an

Re: [Bacula-users] Library and clean cartdrige...

Oh! Just one more note... I wrote: 8< *disable storage=mhvtl-waa_a-Autochanger drive=0 8< I meant to mention that the '0' in the 'drive=0' command line option is the SD's Drive Device's "DriveIndex" number, so of course it might be 1, 2 or whatever. :) Drives are zero indexed,

Re: [Bacula-users] Library and clean cartdrige...

On 8/27/24 8:29 AM, Marco Gaiarin wrote: Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... You cannot tell Bacula to load a cleaning tape without experiencing these kinds of errors, because when the SD is told to load a tape from a slot into a drive, the 'mtx-changer&#x

Re: [Bacula-users] Library and clean cartdrige...

On 8/27/24 1:44 AM, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi all, just one tiny addition -- you may want to change the "Maximum Changer Wait" time if you want to use tape cleaning with Bill's script, because the additional activity naturally needs some time. And having jobs that already used a lot of time and tap

Re: [Bacula-users] Library and clean cartdrige...

On 8/26/24 8:20 AM, Marco Gaiarin wrote: I've setup in my pool(s) the 'Cleaning Prefix' and addedd to the library the cleaning tape; situation now is: *update slots storage=CNPVE3Autochanger Connecting to Storage daemon CNPVE3Autochanger at cnpve3.cn.lnf.it:9103 ... 3306 Issuing autochang

Re: [Bacula-users] no space left on Bacula server

On 8/23/24 12:22 PM, Adam Weremczuk wrote: I've got the answer now: Backup failed -- Incomplete Scheduled time: 23-Aug-2024 12:42:26 Start time: 23-Aug-2024 12:49:46 End time: 23-Aug-2024 18:54:02 Elapsed time: 6 hours 4 mins 16 secs

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