Hello all,
I'm generally curious if there is an interest amid the Bacula community in
mirroring backups to off site "cloud" services, especially in light of the
growing interest in these services and the economies of scale they offer
e.g., Amazon S3, Microsoft Windows Azure blog storage, OpenStack
Hello all --
Do I dare ask if anyone has yet tried backing up, with Bacula, a Mac OS X
10.7 "Lion" or "Lion Server"? John Siracusa of Ars Technica has written what
appears to be one of the most detailed reports about Lion starting on this
page with table of contents:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/
Hello all,
Its been a while since I've posted to this mailing list. I happened to be
reading Apple Support Communities where about a year ago someone with the
alias of "BoeroBoy" posted this comment about Bacula:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/11628649?messageID=11628649.
Anyway we had so
Hello all --
As the world continues to ramp up into the use of virtual machine systems
more and more, its becoming quite an interesting world to live in with
regard to storage systems and backups of these virtual machine files. The
main virtual machine systems such as those by VMWare (I.e., VMWare
On 2/4/08, Martin Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >>>>> On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 00:17:29 -1000, Hydro Meteor said:
> >
> > I wonder what would need to be done in the Bacula source to properly
> capture
> > and restore ACL metadata on file syste
On 2/2/08, Hydro Meteor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On 2/2/08, Ralf Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hydro Meteor schrieb:
> > >
> > > For those interested in running Bacula 2.2.8 on Mac OS X 10.5.1(Leopard)
> > > includin
On 2/2/08, Ralf Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hydro Meteor schrieb:
> >
> > For those interested in running Bacula 2.2.8 on Mac OS X 10.5.1(Leopard)
> > including Leopard Server, I can confirm, with a simple Bacula backup and
> > restore test, that Bac
Hello all --
For those interested in running Bacula 2.2.8 on Mac OS X 10.5.1 (Leopard)
including Leopard Server, I can confirm, with a simple Bacula backup and
restore test, that Bacula does not capture or restore file system resources
that have Access Control List (ACL) metadata only. Files with
> No im not running Macports, my next step is to use that instead (with
> bacula 2.2.6) but i rather get this running!
>
> Im on the same track, something is fishy with bacula - mysql, maybe bacula
> can't find this file:
>
> dyld: Library not loaded:
> /usr/local/mysq
er 10.4.10 against PostgreSQL 8.1.9, I
didn't have these ranlib "no symbols" results. So something has changed.
By the way, I have just about all of my dependencies for Bacula installed as
MacPorts. Do you use MacPorts for installing MySQL?
Cheers,
Hydro
On 2/1/08, Hydro M
Piero,
This is a difficult one to diagnose because it depends on how you configured
Bacula on your system with Leopard and MySQL. Moments ago, I just ran
configure, make and make install with Bacula 2.2.8 on Mac OS X Server
10.5.1(Leopard Server) and I am using PostgreSQL, not MySQL. I had no
prob
Greetings all --
Are there any folks running Bacula Client and/or Director on Mac OS X
10.5.x (Leopard)?
If so, any experiences / concerns / gotchyas? Especially with regard
to extended attributes (EAs) in the form of ACLs that Apple is now
instituting on root HFS filesystems that mount to Leopa
Hello again Arno and friends ...
On 11/7/07, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> 07.11.2007 19:12,, Hydro Meteor wrote::
> >
> > On Nov 7, 2007 1:26 AM, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> wrote:
> &g
On Nov 7, 2007 1:26 AM, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 07.11.2007 12:17,, Hydro Meteor wrote::
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just recently set up a migration resources in my Director
> > configuration file to migrate from File (hard drive) to
On Nov 7, 2007 1:32 AM, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 07.11.2007 12:11,, Hydro Meteor wrote::
> > Hello all --
> >
> > Reading the current Bacula User's Guide regarding Migration, I found
> > this sentence:
> >
> >
Hi all,
I just recently set up a migration resources in my Director configuration
file to migrate from File (hard drive) to DVD. The simple test I tried
worked fine (the DVD+RW was written to just perfectly).
The Bacula User's Guide states:
As part of this process, *the File catalog records asso
Hello all --
Reading the current Bacula User's Guide regarding Migration, I found this
sentence:
Bacula permits pools to contain Volumes with different Media Types. However,
when doing migration, this is *a very undesirable condition*. For migration
to work properly, you should use pools containi
Hello all,
This question probably has an obvious answer that I'm missing, but with
regard to DVD backups, the Device Resource in the Storage Daemon
Configuration has an optional Directive named "MaximumPartSize". From the
Bacula Usesr's Guide, I think I understand that setting a value for this
Dir
On 11/5/07, Wes Hardaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >>>>> "HM" == Hydro Meteor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> HM> For those in Bacula DVD userland who are using DVD+RWs, it strikes me
> as if
> HM> 1,000 overwrites is really not al
Hello all --
For those who are backing up to non-rewritable DVD optical media (such as
DVD-R and DVD+R), would anyone be willing to share examples of the Device
Resource example for such? The reason I ask is that while I have a Device
Resource for DVD+RW working fine, I have been unsuccessful thus
On 11/2/07, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> 02.11.2007 16:28,, Hydro Meteor wrote::
> > On 11/1/07, *Arno Lehmann* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
> ...
> > Sorry to ask a painful question :-)
&g
On 11/1/07, John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > For those in Bacula DVD userland who are using DVD+RWs, it strikes me as
> if
> > 1,000 overwrites is really not all that bad. For example, if I have a
> > dedicated DVD+RW disc for incremental backups that I re-use (and blank
> out
> > com
On 11/1/07, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> 01.11.2007 16:43,, Hydro Meteor wrote::
> > Hello all --
> >
> > I'm not sure how many others have run into this problem, but according
> > to the Bacula User's Guide, there are tw
, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> 01.11.2007 17:55,, Hydro Meteor wrote::
> > Hello all --
> >
> > I'm trying to get my semantic understanding correct. The Bacula User's
> > Guide regarding DVD use states the following:
> >
&
Hello all -
The Bacula User's Guide for use of DVD specifically DVD+RW has this to say:
DVD+RW supports only about 1000 overwrites. Every time you mount the
> filesystem read/write will count as one write. This can add up quickly, so
> it is best to mount your DVD+RW filesystem read-only. Bacula
Hello all --
I'm trying to get my semantic understanding correct. The Bacula User's Guide
regarding DVD use states the following:
Reformatting DVD+RW 10-20 times can apparently make the medium unusable.
> Normally you should not have to format or reformat DVD+RW media. If it is
> necessary, curre
Hello all --
I'm not sure how many others have run into this problem, but according to
the Bacula User's Guide, there are two ways to "blank" an unformatted (fresh
from the spindle) DVD disc (in my case I'm using / testing DVD+RW discs):
1.) Not the entire disc:
# dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=5
Matthias,
I'm backing up Intel Xserves running Mac OS X Server 10.4.10 (not Leopard
yet) with Bacula. Indeed be sure to understand HFS+ from Apple's on-line
documentation. Be sure to include the Bacula Directive for HFS+ Support as
in:
hfsplussupport = yes
>
Especially if you want to back up res
Hi all,
I noticed in the Bacula User's guide there is a configure option (when
building Bacula from Source):
--enable-client-only
>
Described as:
This option causes the make process to build only the File daemon and the
> libraries that it needs. None of the other daemons, storage tools, nor th
Hi all --
Just a note to say a big thank you for the Bacula community and its
founders!
I just got a Verify Job to work successfully with SHA1 signature and verify
= pins1 and it is really sweet, it works just great! Before I discovered
Bacula, I was thinking I would need to learn Tripwire for mo
On 10/18/07, John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 10/18/07, Hydro Meteor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have searched the mail archives and noticed that some of the Bacula
> Bugs
> > reports have mentioned orphaned buffers but I am wondering what
On 10/18/07, Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 18 Oct 2007 at 4:16, Hydro Meteor wrote:
>
> > Especially for newcomers, I think it might be worthwhile adding this
> > to the FAQ and/or the Wiki because people will most definitely want to
> > perform
I have searched the mail archives and noticed that some of the Bacula Bugs
reports have mentioned orphaned buffers but I am wondering what they mean.
I am running Bacula 2.2.3 on Mac OS X Server (Tiger 10.4.10) with PostgreSQL
8.1.9, and upon shutting down my Bacula daemons (for now I'm running al
Guide (A
Brief Tutorial).
-H
On 10/18/07, Hydro Meteor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 10/18/07, C M Reinehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Thursday 18 October 2007 08:58, Eric Böse-Wolf wrote:
> > > delete the files in the working directo
On 10/18/07, C M Reinehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 18 October 2007 08:58, Eric Böse-Wolf wrote:
> > delete the files in the working directory of your daemons.
>
> I think you're talking about the *.state files. It might be better to make
> that clear before he accidently deletes hi
On 10/18/07, Eric Böse-Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> delete the files in the working directory of your daemons.
Sorry, but that is too vague. The Bacula Working Directory has several files
(state files and .bsr files) and I don't think it is wise to merely randomly
delete them without prud
Hello all --
I may have missed the answer to my question in the Bacula User's Guide (but
I also looked on the Wiki and in the FAQ). I am trying to figure out how to
clear out, non-relevant information which I see after running a status
command. For example:
*status Client
>
Yields old terminated
Thomas and John,
Thank you sincerely for shedding some light on this subject. Its nice to
know that there is an option to use either the same Catalog database or a
separate one!
Best,
-H
On 10/16/07, Thomas Glatthor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> i'm using a seperate catalog for my verify-job b
Hi all,
I'm trying to set up a Verify Job configuration and noticed in the Bacula
User's Guide, which provides an example Catalog for running a Verify Job,
the following:
> Catalog {
> Name = Bacula
> dbname = verify; user = bacula; password = ""
> }
>
>
This example implies that a separate d
Hello all --
I have been reading through the excellent Chapter 45 of the Bacula User's
Guide: Using Bacula to Improve Computer Security. This chapter is quite
clear regarding how to manually initialize the Catalog in a verify context.
In the examples given, I noticed that the Verify Job Resource d
...
-H
On 10/11/07, Hydro Meteor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Philip, et al,
>
> What about for Jobs that are Restore Types? Can one specify the Full
> Backup, Incremental Backup and Differential Backup Pool directives for
> Restore jobs rather than a mere "Pool&q
;Default"
> Client = vps2-fd
> FileSet = vps2
> Full Backup Pool = vps2-full
> Incremental Backup Pool = vps2-inc
> Storage = "vps2"
> }
>
> Philip Clifton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 4-8-4/IntuiWORX - Intuitive, Innovative Software Development
>
OTECTED]>
> 4-8-4/IntuiWORX - Intuitive, Innovative Software Development
> http://www.intuiworx.com
>
>
>
> Hydro Meteor wrote:
> > Hello all --
> >
> > In the Director Daemon configuration file (bacula-dir.conf), I am
> > defining a simple backup Job Resource tha
Hello all --
I want to configure a simple Backup Job Resource which does not include
Storage Directive. In fact, I have three Pools (each Pool contains its own
Storage Directive instance). The Pools are indirectly referred to the Backup
Job Resource via the Schedule Resource that the Job refers to
Hello all --
In the Director Daemon configuration file (bacula-dir.conf), I am defining a
simple backup Job Resource that points to a Schedule Resource. My Schedule
Resource contains three backup types (with corresponding Pool Resources that
I have also in the configuration file):
# When to do th
Hello all --
Does anyone know what the "mac" table is in the Bacula Catalog? When I run
the drop_bacula_tables (using PostgreSQL 8.1.9 for my Bacula Catalog), I
receive an error about a missing table although the end of the script
finishes and everything is asserted to be just fine. I guess I can
) but not
DVD-RAM.
Cheers,
-Hydro
On 10/2/07, Eric Böse-Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello Hydro,
>
> "Hydro Meteor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
> > DVD media is not recommended for serious or important backups
> because of
> >
Hello all --
I have been reading more thoroughly on using Bacula to back up to optical
DVD. In Chapter 3 (page 22) of the current Bacula PDF guide, there is this
statement:
DVD media is not recommended for serious or important backups because of its
> low reliability.
>
I wonder how long ago thi
On 9/17/07, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> 18.09.2007 10:36,, Eric Böse-Wolf wrote::
> > "Hydro Meteor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> Martin,
> >>
> >> Thank you for checking my logic. I wonder if
ics to the
documentation if that's something other people would also be interested in.
Cheers,
-H
On 9/17/07, Martin Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >>>>> On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:21:21 -1000, Hydro Meteor said:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
&g
Hello all,
I am trying to ensure I have a strict understanding of the Bacula User's
Guide with respect to how Differential and Incremental Backups work, but I
would like to take an example to see if I have worked through my logic
correctly ...
Lets say I have this FileSet definition which is fixe
On 9/13/07, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> 10.09.2007 23:57,, Hydro Meteor wrote::
> > Hello again Arno,
> >
> > Today I just pulled down Kern's update to Bacula (version 2.2.3) and I
> > installed it effortlessly on my Xserve. I
Hello all,
In the Bacula User's Guide I discovered, in Chapter 12.1 (The Client
Resource), that the Maximum Concurrent Jobs default value is 2:
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = where is the maximum number of
> Jobs that should run concurrently. The default is set to 2, but you may
> set it to a larger
Hello all,
I have continued my intense reading through the mostly excellent Bacula
User's Guide and found on page 170 (Chapter 11: Configuring the Director)
the section about the Priority Directive:
Priority = The number specifies the priority of this client
relative to other clients that the Di
On 9/11/07, Martin Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >>>>> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:16:23 -1000, Hydro Meteor said:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > >From the User's Guide (Terminology Chapter 1.6), regarding the
> Retention
> >
Hello all,
>From the User's Guide (Terminology Chapter 1.6), regarding the Retention
Period, an except that I have a question about:
The Volume Retention Period is the minimum of time that a Volume will be
> kept before it is reused. Bacula will normally never overwrite a Volume that
> contains t
ile the console is reading which causes it to continue to
attempt to use gethostbyname() with the name "apple-xserve" instead of my
server's IP address?
How would I discover this, any ideas?
Thanks!
-H
On 9/9/07, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
Hello all,
I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but I'm running Bacula 2.2.1 (granted
I see that 2.2.3 just came out today so I'll download and install to see how
it works), but after going through the Bacula Tutorial (and I'm using
PostgreSQL 8.1.9), running drop_bacula_tables (after I had succe
On 9/9/07, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> 10.09.2007 05:12,, Hydro Meteor wrote::
> > Hello,
> >
> > In Chapter 6.3.4 of the Bacula User's Guide, with regard to naming
> > resources, the Guide states that:
> >
> >
Hello,
In Chapter 6.3.4 of the Bacula User's Guide, with regard to naming
resources, the Guide states that:
Each of your Bacula components must have a unique name.
>
This is especially necessary when backing up a fleet machines.
I didn't see any similar requirements that the Address fields of r
On 9/9/07, Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> 09.09.2007 22:32,, Hydro Meteor wrote::
> > As a followup to this message, I retraced my notes with regard to the
> > configuration options that I passed to ./configure and was reminded that
> > I ha
references in the documentation such that the file
daemon really needs to run as the root user so I'm wondering if I will get
myself into trouble having configured with the configure options for the
file daemon also specifying the non-root-user and non-root group?
Thank you.
On 9/9/07, Hydro M
Hi,
I've installed Bacula 2.2.1 on an Apple Intel Xserve running Mac OS X Server
10.4.10
I am in the process of moving through the Tutorial (Chapter 9 in the User's
Guide) -- I have not touched / edited / modify the default configuration
files. This is a fresh install!
I had hoped to be able to
On 9/7/07, Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 7 Sep 2007 at 14:00, Hydro Meteor wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I just successfully went through a configure, make and make install
> process
> > on an Intel Apple Xserve running Mac OS X Server 1
Hello all,
I just successfully went through a configure, make and make install process
on an Intel Apple Xserve running Mac OS X Server 10.4.10 ... using
PostgreSQL 8.1.9 as a back end for Bacula (I have yet to configure the
database in the PostgreSQL cluster for Bacula but that's next).
All of t
Hi,
I noticed in the wonderfully documented Bacula User's Guide, that Bacula can
be made to work in a 64-bit context:
If you have over 4 billion file entries stored in your database, the
database FileId is likely to overflow. This is a monster database, but
still possible. Bacula's FileId fields
Hi,
I am about to install Bacula for the first time on an Apple Intel Xserve
running Mac OS X Server 10.4.10.
Something I had in mind was using a dedicated disc volume to run Bacula
director and the other critical components such as File Server, Database
Server and Storage Server. This dedicated
On 11/28/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 09:43:25PM -1000, Hydro Meteor wrote:
> I am curious however if anyone has done any Bacula scripting with
> Ruby? Though I have nothing against Python, I have recently become
> enamored with Ruby
Hello all,
I've been catching up reading the mailing list for the past several days. I
see some of the Bacula gurus have oft referred to Bacula 1.39 soon to become
named 1.40 and it almost seems as if that 1.39 / 1.40 might be the best
version to use for a newbie such as myself. However, with 1.3
On 11/27/06, Erich Prinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks Martin, that got it.
So yes, running 1.36.x on OS X 10.4.x shows that large file support
is enabled.
Erich
Thanks Erich (and all others) for beating me to the punch and solving this
question. Its a good one to solve with certainty a
nonetheless (and ideally
find out what can be done so that the next version of Bacula could, for
example, detect the Mac OS X (Darwin) platform and output a "yes" for large
file support.
Cheers.
Erich
On Nov 27, 2006, at 12:11 AM, Hydro Meteor wrote:
>
> On 11/26/06, Erich Prinz
On 11/26/06, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 27 November 2006 05:16, Hydro Meteor wrote:
SNIP
On the Mac, configure reported a value of "no" assigned as in:
>
> Large file support: no
If MacOS X is derived from FreeBSD, as I believe it is, t
As an update to my push for getting Bacula into use on Mac OS X (in this
case the Intel iMac with Core 2 Duo), I was looking through my output in
more detail and trying to make some human sense parsing what I observed and
comparing to Ubuntu Linux (the comparison I believe is good because, if I
un
store. Will
update the mailing list with the results when I find them.
-H
Erich
On Nov 26, 2006, at 10:30 PM, Hydro Meteor wrote:
> As a followup I have copied and pasted what appears to be a
> relevant section of my config.log output on the same iMac which I
> tried to enable large
: checking for _LARGE_FILES
configure:17360: result: 1
On 11/26/06, Hydro Meteor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I was able to ./configure Bacula 1.38.11 on a Mac running Mac OS X
10.4.8without any problems today (in a manner almost exactly the same as my
Ubuntu
Linux configuration). I
Hello,
I was able to ./configure Bacula 1.38.11 on a Mac running Mac OS X
10.4.8without any problems today (in a manner almost exactly the same
as my Ubuntu
Linux configuration). In both cases, I did not explicitly provide configure
with the option of disabling large file support, and I also did
Hello all ...
I have successfully configured and made / installed the current version of
Bacula on Ubuntu Dapper Drake with Postgresql 8.1.3 (a nice first step for a
newbie), and I included in configure the python option (since python does
make for a nice scripting language).
I am curious howeve
+ deviates from most of the
world's modern day file systems which are typically case sensitive.
-H
On 11/25/06, Hydro Meteor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hopefully this doesn't come across as a question with an obvious answer,
but I'm wondering if there is any reason why one c
Hopefully this doesn't come across as a question with an obvious answer, but
I'm wondering if there is any reason why one can not or should not use
Bacula to back up (and restore later if necessary such as if there is a
physical disk failure) an entire disk partition of a platform (at the moment
s
Hello,
According to the documentation for Bacula 1.38.11 (24 July 2006), on page 61
of the PDF document, it says this about Mac OS X client:
MacOS X 10.3 is reported to work with the Client only as long as readline
support is disabled.
This may be true for 10.3, but I'm not so sure its true
m :-)
Make sure you build out your configure script to point to the
appropriate location of MySQL (which is really the only difference
between the X client and X Server as far as Bacula is concerned.)
Erich
On Nov 23, 2006, at 10:21 AM, Hydro Meteor wrote:
> With apologies if this is a redundant
With apologies if this is a redundant question but I was unsuccessful when
searching the Bacula mailing list archives on gname in finding any relevant
information to my question.
I am wondering if there is any reason why the current release of Bacula (
1.38.11) can not work (or does not work) on
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