I have a series of hosts to decommission, in order for a file restore to be
performed to
an alternate client, what is the minimum configuration that must be retain from
Client,
Job and FileSet declarations?
Thanks,
jlc
> Hello Joseph
>
> I've made a test and worked fine for me.
Ugh,
I just went to generate fresh output and noticed it was an issue with sqlcmd.exe
not exiting non-zero as I thought, it was mistake.
Sorry guys,
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I have a runbefore set to fail the job on error yet the binary which is
executed exits with a
return code of 1 and the job continues.
Known issue?
Thanks,
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> just tried to install bacula-fd on a Windows 10 client with local
> administrator via Teamviewer (not RDP), but ran into the same error.
> any other hints for this issue?
>
> best regards
> martin
The problem has nothing to do with using rdp or not, it has to do with
the installer's service c
When restoring a job and choosing all files, the Files Expected count appears
to be consistent:
2016-01-30 11:54:35 bacula-dir JobId 27874: Bacula bacula-dir 7.4.0 (16Jan16):
Build OS: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu redhat (Core)
JobId: 27874
Job:
> Bottom line: Thanks for reporting this. Don't worry about it, just
> ignore those messages.
Thanks Kern,
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Running 7.0.5 on centos 7 and I am starting to get errors in /var/log/messages
with
bacula-sd: bacula-sd: block.c:304-27298 Incorrect EndBlock/EndFile
oldEndBlock=-1838 newEndBlock=62674 oldEndFile=7 newEndFile=8
while the bacula-sd related lines in the job log don't show this.
Why do the job lo
After an selinux policy change in rhel 7.1, I am no longer able to define
commands
as runascript parameters. An option to explore by an RHEL employee was locating
an actual script on the client in /usr/libexec/bacula and labelling it
accordingly.
However, this presents a challenge as then server
> This is Webacula 5.5.1, on a CentOS 6.5 system, Bacula 7.0.5 and the database
> is Postgres 8.4
Although I don't ever use Webacula, bconsole is so much easier for me, I do
have the exact
same setup on one system and it works fine. You likely have some local issue
that could be
resolved if you
> Does anyone have a script that they use as a run before to backup sql 2012?
Use the runbefore method to perform whatever prerequisites you would if
sitting at the console, the direct the file list to the output of that.
I do this two ways, using sqlcmd to dump them or using VSS to ensure the
a
I am using current packages from the bacula epel repo on centos 6.5 x64. These
packages are compiled with support for Python, although the docs are rather thin
on the usage, I haven't been able to make this work. I can get the file to load
and
identify the methods but it seems the director never a
> I have configured Bacula 5.2.12 on RHEL 6.4 some time back and it is
> working fine. Now I want to configured this Solution to take backup of
> some clients which are already in production. Please confirm me this
> is possible to take backup of these clients or not using Bacula
> 5.2.12/13 server
>Here's an example of what I get in the logs (of course, I changed the
>machine names):
That looks more like the log that encounters the error, not the log from which
time
the error was produced. What does the log look like for the last job that wrote
to
that volume?
-
> What process keeps the bacula database size under control?
None, configuration does. Check your various retention levels for sane values.
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> I modified one of my client config files to add in some additional "exclude"
> statements.
> Do I need to restart the Bacula services to get the modified cfg to become
> effective??
Yes, or you could reload from bconsole without a restart, be sure to check
messages for
any errors after the re
>We have a 2 node Sun (now Oracle) Solaris HA Cluster that does NFS file
>service. Only one node does service at a time, with an IP address that
>moves to the other node on node failure.
>
>Has anyone tried using Bacula to backup a Sun HA cluster?
I have done exactly that with an RHEL cluster, so
>We have a 2 node Sun (now Oracle) Solaris HA Cluster that does NFS file
>service. Only one node does service at a time, with an IP address that
>moves to the other node on node failure.
>
>Has anyone tried using Bacula to backup a Sun HA cluster?
I have done exactly that with an RHEL cluster, so
> Restore is successful if I keep the 'where' path as "/", but I'd like to
> restore to "D:/" on the Windows client.
Use a regex: File Relocation -> Enter a regexp
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> I need to restore some older files, the problem is that the retention policy
> has already pruned the files.
/snip
> How can I restore my files..?
See the second paragraph in the bscan manual.
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> I am presently running Bacula 5.26 in production for a weeks now. I
> recently noticed that the bacula
> agent (v5.1) running on the Exchange server does not truncate the Exchange
> transaction log after a
> full backup is completed. As a result, the partition containing the
> transaction lo
>After several tests, i came to the conclusion, that the VSS restore on
>my windows 2008 R2 client works fine until win64 client version 5.2.3.
>After taht, in versions 5.2.4 to 5.2.6 the behavior is the same, the
>client service crashes.
>
>The strange thing is that i cant find anyone with this pr
>Config error: Cannot open included config file monitor_name@: No such file or
>di
>rectory
>
> : line 35, col 24 of file C:\ProgramData\Bacula/bacula-fd.conf
> Name = @monitor_name@
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>Hi, it's me again. I'm following the book to configure my bacula but can't
>find the bacula script to start bacula-dir, bacula-sd and bacula-fd should
>be in somewhere but "locate bacula" does not find this file. Remember
>I installed from repos recomended by Joseph so I miss something or I
>need
>The funky things is we build for pure stock release and CentOS 6 has only
>postgresql 8.4.4
Maybe you missed the OPs query about the libpq.so.4 dep? Not sure what provides
that? I
saw that in a recent build, looks like its resolved now as it correctly
requires libpq.so.5.
>jlc : about the cle
>Hi and happy new year to every, I'm just wondering if it's possible to use
>Bacula with
>PostgreSQL 9.1.x because I'm trying several ways and have not luck because it
>ask for
> libpq.so.4. Which is not available at CentOS 6.
>I tried to fake the repos enabling CentOS 5 but then get this other
>It is not a requirement but a recommendation inside the Fedora
>packaging guidelines:
Right:) Not EL requirements.
>I could try to remove that and put standard useradd / userdel
>commands, but I need to assess the change with the other Bacula
>mantainers and good reasons to do so.
>Is there any
> I'm happy to address all the package issues people might encounter and
> I'm available to ideas or constructive criticism regarding choices or
> features missing.
> When I will get enough feedback that the approach used inside the
> package is right I will try to see if some patches could be i
>Yes, MySQL is running on this server. To the best of my knowledge, no
>VSS writer exists for MySQL.
MySQL? How the heck is windows VSS supposed to quiesce MySQL?
Methinks you are sol with that approach, you'd probably have better luck
using a run before script and a "mysql" supported method...
>Has anybody seen this issue before? Any suggestions on how to resolve
>it?
So, when you enable a writer in VSS, if for example you only manually snapshot
one drive while components under the control of that writer exist on another,
VSS
will exclude the writer.
I see you're trying to backup db'
>Since the Windows Bacula agent uses VSS snapshots to do its backups,
>what is your script doing differently than simply configuring Bacula to backup
>e.g. the D: drive (if your Exchange DBs are on D:)? Honest question, not
>being critical. I've been doing backups as another replier mentioned, us
>I have a client that upgrade his infrastructure with Exchange 2010.
>If I enable the exchange Plugins the backup fails
>
>Client is Windows 2008 R2 (64bit)
>Server -> centos + 5.0.1 (24 February 2010) i686-pc-linux-gnu redhat
>
>What I have to do make it work?
I do this with a vss script that cr
I had a situation where an array holding bacula volumes filled and jobs
began to accumulate. I fixed the issue and purged the volume I wanted
it to use next. Is there any way to commence the check for available media
without waiting the 5 minute duration before it looks on its own?
Thanks,
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Fileset issues for example, if something I was intending on backing up
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I am trying to get the termination status for a job passed into a script as
the job exit status (%e) shows 'OK' in many situations where the backup
did have some errors.
Is there any way to do this without using an sqlquery to dump the console
messages for the job and filtering for termination sta
>Why do we use volumes? It sounds like a silly question, but it's
>genuine. Is it so a backup can span several media types? Tape, file,
>disk, Pandora's box, what? Why do I care about volumes and how long
>they're retained, how often they're pruned, recycled, or what type
>they are?
You have t
>Now I have a much more urgent issue. I am getting this message on several of
>my files
>"This security ID may not be assigned as the owner of this object." and the
>file does not
>restore. I am trying to recover files from our server and running on a
>machine right now
>connected to a new se
>You just made my day sir.
Lol, glad to see it working...
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>Used notepad, the process is not running. It definitely will not start on
>Windows.
Have a closer look, I just opened the fd conf on this Win7 wkst as it doesn't
ever get
used often as I had to change the director name anyway. I intentional used
another
encoding method _other_ than what the do
>Editing the config with a non-ASCII only editor will screw it up...? You've
>got to be kidding me...I just used "notepad" in Windows. What should I use?
Of course, if it adds xml formatting for example...
Notepad is good, as per the docs:
"On most modernWin32 machines, you can edit the conf fil
>I am using 5.0.2 because that is the version of the director. The config file
>is in the same folder as the fd .exe: C:\Program Files\Bacula\
Whoops, missed your earlier post. In this case, my guess is you edited the
config
with a non ascii only editor. This happened to me the first time I set
>I am using 5.0.2 because that is the version of the director. The config file
>is in the same folder as the fd .exe: C:\Program Files\Bacula\
Ok, look *very* closely at the error? Unless you specify the config file, it
looks
in C:\ProgramData\Bacula *NOT* C:\Program Files\Bacula
>Starting it from the command line yields the following error:
>
>PS C:\Program Files\Bacula> .\bacula-fd
>PS C:\Program Files\Bacula>
>01-Aug 11:30 bacula-fd: ERROR TERMINATION at
>/tmp/bacula/bacula/src/lib/parse_conf.c:898
>Config error: Cannot open config file "C:\ProgramData\Bacula/bacula-fd.
>i am looking for a good howto / best practice for backup and recovery of
>exchange2007 server.
>
>i have following constellation:
>bacula-server:linux-debian 64 bit
>Windows2008 (64bit) with exchange 2007.
I don't know the current state of the plugin, but as the Windows client makes
use o
I have a CentOS 6 x64 box with dassit's packages that sends mysqld to 100%
when running a diff from a windows server with ~290Gb of data and 315k files.
The server has 12Gb ram and a decent r10 array for the volumes that normally
gets
over 80Mb/s on writes when doing a full for this same client.
>The delete volume command will delete the job records as well. After that,
>you can delete orphaned clients with Bacula's dbcheck utility.
Got it, a quick test shows this to be more trivial than I expected.
Thanks a lot, much appreciated!
jlc
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>You could make a clone of the whole catalog (outside of bacula) and then use
>the bconsole delete volume command to remove unwanted volumes from each
>catalog.
Martin,
That's simple enough, what is the correct way to remove extraneous clients and
jobs
etc out of the db?
Thanks for the idea.
jlc
>These questions will help others answer you:
>
>* Are you keeping the old Dir active? If you are abandoning the old Dir, you
>can make the new Dir use the existing Catalog
Yes, they will both remain active.
>* If you are keeping the old Dir, will you be using anything from the Catalog
>on tha
I have a director with several sd's and one with an extensive set of data and
file based
volumes needs to be migrated away to another completely distinct director.
What if any is my least painful way of retaining the catalog data for the
volumes in
question?
Thanks,
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Files Expected: 348,865
Files Restored: 348,864
Bytes Restored: 297,161,058,285
Rate: 42998.3 KB/s
FD Errors: 0
FD termination status: OK
SD termination status: OK
Termin
>Hi everybody.
>
>Does exist a list of "all" bacula directives in one list and ideally in
>alphabetical order
>so I can search for?
You have seen the manual?
http://bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/index.html
Looks like a list that you can search to me...
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>Thanks for the reply. Is this considered a bug? Admittedly not so many
>networks use IPv6 yet so I can imagine it might not be very high priority.
>
>Hard coding the IP is not an ideal solution. This is a laptop running DHCP
>without a reservation so while the IPv6 address probably won't change
>When using the following command on the XP machine I get an error:
>
>C:\Program Files\Bacula>bacula-fd -d 100
>C:\Program Files\Bacula>
>11-Mar 16:10 bacula-fd: ERROR TERMINATION at
>/home/kern/bacula/k/bacula/src/lib/
>parse_conf.c:898
>Config error: Cannot open config file "C:\Documents and S
>The bacula-fd daemon (according to netstat -na) doesn't appear to be
>listening on the IPv6 address.
Force it to listen on whatever address/port you desire w/ "FDAddresses = "
http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Client_File_daemon_Configur.html
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>If not, what is the correct procedure to do this within Windows?
>How do you list the complete filesystem so that everything shows, are
>there specialist tools for this? (it appears to be impossible to access
>some dirs even if using console/administrator and explorer/DOS show a
>different v
>@Joseph, thanks, however I am a bit confused, I will end up with many
>Pools, correct? Will they have different names? How does the Job select
>each Pool?
Nope, you create the 45 volumes in each pool as per your config snippet.
>As for my comment about whether I *should* care has to do with co
>Is there a way to get each ServerName/Volume name to cycle its own set
>of sequential numbers?
>Should I care about this? Why or why not?
/snip
> Maximum Volumes = 45
> Recycle = yes
I can't comment on whether or not you*should* care, but if you do I see
a similar config to one specific s
>Both are linux (Centos 5.3)
Well I use CentOS and don't have this issue so I am guessing it is in fact
physical
issues you have...
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> I do a mysqldump from the old server's catalog and push that onto the new one,
>copy the configs and change the volumes + pools, paths, etc accordingly?
Sounds good.
> Will I run into problems because of the different versions?
Check the manual, there are update scripts for your db.
jlc
Anyone know the proper way to do this w/ an MySQL db?
I really don't know much about sql or bacula's db structure but
a ` DELETE FROM Client WHERE name LIKE '%host-fd%';` left the
db in an unstable state where a restore was needed. Volumes
could no longer be used that were expected to be available
>I suspect there is a more elegant way to accomplish this from a single
>Bacula dir...?
Sure, several different schedules each with its own pool. Each unique
Schedule can have its own Pool directive.
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>Tell them to turn on TCP Keepalives on both sides (Linux its a
>syssctl(8), WinNT by hacking random registry entries and setting them to
>arbitrary and random values)
>
>Up the TCP state expiration timeout values on any stateful L2/L3 devices
>en route.
Not buying that, the default for Linux a
>I'm curious if you have solved the issue or if you still have it. Also are
>you running Symantec products?
Hey guys, keep the reply's on list for the benefit of the community. This
thread is a
prime example of other effected users.
Heavens no, I think even the proxy blocks Symantec, just to s
>Does this (network timeout) happen randomly or is it predictable?
Randomly for me,
Sometimes Fulls or Diffs fail at different points and sometimes they don't even
start transferring data, just sit in never-ever land until they timeout... Once
and
a while they screw with me and just finish:)
It'
>Are you spooling? Try a 5GB spool file.
Doubt that's the issue, I am writing to a raid array w/ max jobs=1, not tapes,
so it would
be merely redundant for me and I am also having the issue.
I recall Kern suggesting the VSS code was very old, so I tried running for a
week w/o vss
and it didn't
>May you help me with any suggestion?
>Thanks in advance.
Follow my post of 59 minutes ago:)
Seriously, I am having the same issues and they are to intermittent on
my end to say for sure which level they appear on. Hit and miss...
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>and compression turned on. Some NIC drivers appear to shutoff power to
>the network interface after a period of network inactivity, and I
>believe the inactivity is probably due to the laptop being too
>underpowered to comp
I have several physical and virtual fd's that are just unreliable to backup
against two sd/dir's all at 5.0.3 running CentOS5x64.
Anyone else having these issues? I get random network IO failures as
suggested by the dir?
Thanks,
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http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Installing_Configuring_MySQ.html#SECTION00423
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>i'm trying to run bacula-fd client in windows 2008 r2 x64 and is not
>working.
>E program just don start, even the process show up in process list.
>Anybody have any tips??
Firewall?
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>That is the problem.
>
>update pool from resource
>
>and follow the prompts
>
>update all volume in pool
>
>again follow the prompts. I am going from memory here so the command
>may be different..
John,
Something was awry with this catalogue, I don't know how that got set
incorrectly
so I just m
>Post the output of the command. And
>
>list media pool=PoolName
John,
Here is the Job Status:
2010-09-17 10:32:13 cluster01-dir JobId 282: Start Backup JobId 282,
Job=Backup-Data-Napoli.2010-09-17_10.32.11_03
2010-09-17 10:32:13 cluster01-dir JobId 282: Using Device "FileStorage-LT"
2010-09-
I needed to setup a longterm pool with another storage backend so I
created a new Storage resource in the Director conf with its own Device
and Media Type. The SD has a new Device to match, finally I created a
Pool resource and manually labeled the 4 file volumes I needed.
I attempted to run a job
>I believe that is a memory leak. Although I would not worry about 48 bytes..
John,
Thanks for the confirmation.
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>sudo rpmbuild -bb --define build_postgresql=1 --define "build_centos5 1" --
>define rhel_version=501 bacula.spec
Not only do you not need to unpack the srpm to get the the spec to build from
But you shouldn't at all build as root?
Use a buidroot [1]:
$ rpmbuild --rebuild --define build_centos5=1
I have a W2008r2 server w/ 5.0.3x64 at has recently been nearly impossible to
backup. Its running
on HP hardware and I have tried updating the NIC firmware and drivers w/o
success. What's
getting more frustrating is that the 5.0.3 director on CentOSx64 takes forever
to cancel the job
when manual
I have a job scheduled some few hours from now, any way to modify a parameter
of it (diff->full) through bconsole w/o editing the conf files?
Thanks!
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>Have you made any changes to the Fileset?
Phil,
Heh, it's been a busy last few days... I forgot we moved a slew of
data so I added an exclusion. Totally slipped my mind, the growth
in storage alert that was unexpected this morning caught me off
guard.
Thanks:)
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I manually did a Full on one job Tuesday and last night Bacula
claims there is no Full on record so it upgraded the Inc to Full.
I can see both jobs in different file vols and can restore files
from the first full?
Bacula 5.0.2 / CentOS 5 x64
Thanks!
jlc
>I thought that the sd and director code are no longer in windows
>binary packages.
You're right, my bad. I recall the reason for that as well as the
code was no longer maintained, sounds like a harder path than what
the return may be worth... You could always run a 3x environment as
I recall that
>> Indeed, I'm using CentOS 5.5 amd64. I was not doing the installation
>> with RPM packages, but compile the source code obtained at the official
>> site of Bacula. On sunday, doing tests comparing with the installation
>> done with packages RPM, I realized that the difference was in which the
>>
>A client asked me to install Bacula Server on Windows.
>However, Im having trouble compiling it on ubuntu 8.04.
>Here is the error:
/snip
>Any Idea?
In the very same place you fetched the source, fetch the
compiled windows binary?
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>What would be a method of restoring a remote linux based server to it
>last full backup, (or even it's first!). Is such a move possible?
Got a management card in it:)?
Seriously, there are a few ways all not without big chance. You can create
a default grub entry to boot into an instance that d
>I have a fair number of failed jobs in my database, and I would like to
>know is it possible to purge all the bad backups, so that all the
>diskspace that has been taken up can be released?
from bconsole, `del jobid=#`.
If you have many, an sql query to look for JOB ID's with FAILED status pip
>My bacula server is multi-homed.
>I am needing port 9102 to answer on all of the IP addresses on the server in
>order to service all of the subnets attached to the machine
>
>I looked at taking care of this on the network routing level but it just would
>not be practical
What's funny is the c
>sorry 9103
As far as SD's go, my experience is that they "do not" bind to a specific
address
unless told to, but then again, the case I refer to had two interfaces on the
same subnet. SDAddresses should still accomplish what you need...
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>We are dealing with issue that time to time periodic VSS snapshots produced by
>Windows scheduler are disappearing after Bacula backup (FULL or INC or >DIFF,
>VSS enabled in the FileSet definition).
>
>Any idea about this sporadic disappearing of Windows VSS snapshots?
Let me guess, you window
>How would you restore a VSS snapshot without having VSS ( in you linux live cd
>) ?
>That's the real question.
>
>So yes yours steps are naive (in my opinion). What is described in the wiki
>are the rights step.
Since when do you need vss *after* the backup was created using vss? Vss simply
al
>I'm seeing this on a regular basis where the Windows installer will not create
>the bacula-fd service and I'm having to do it manually.
I see it only on Win2k machines but as I only have a couple I resorted
to doing it manually and left it at that.
If you encounter a resolution, post back...
j
>I was wondering if anyone has installed bacula-fd via group policy. I
>would be glad to know if anyone has already written a guide to using
>bacula in association with ad/gpo for a deployment
Someone on the dev list just posted source for an opensource msi building
tool so that the resulting pack
>Currently, it is impossible for me to build the rpm packages for CentOS5
>x86_64, because you added readline-devel as a dependency into the spec file.
>That package does not exist on CentOS5/RHEL.
>
>I always thought bacula picks the readline lib during configure stage, so why
>is this dependenc
>What about using osql.exe to backup your databases? It should work quite
>seamlessly :)
That's exactly how I do it with a run before script, works perfectly.
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>The problem we've hit is the message "ERROR: Cannot execute bconsole. File not
>found." that shows up on the web browser. See attached image.
>
>Since I'm new at this I don't know where to start looking and would appreciate
>any pointers you may have.
There is a webacula users list.
Your prob
>Thoughts?
>-Steve Polyack
You can attain this now in the meantime:
http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/console/console/Bacula_Console.html#SECTION0028
That would be useful for a program which can have
several million lines of output from one command...
Although maybe a sql que
>No,
>mine are all 32bit
Look through your system logs, I am willing to bet there
is an error that explains this in there somewhere recent.
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>My question: Sometimes I need to recover data older than the job retention
>time.
>So the job cannot be found in the catalog but should be somewhere on the tapes.
>Without migration I were able to use a >(say) 8 month old .bsr file to initiate
>a disaster recovery and extract the data to be resto
I noticed in 5.0.0 and 5.0.1 that the tray monitor doesn't appear on
my 2008 r2 servers, problem on my end or known issue?
Thanks!
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>Hi all. I install bacula 5.0.1 and bat in Debian lenny. Director, storage and
>client are in the same machine.
>I execute /sbin/bacula/bacula start
>but bacula no listen in 9101 ( yes listen in 9102 and 9103)
>
>What can i do?
Well, you could check what's running, I don't know or use Debian, but
>This is apparently a question on CentOS developers. Bacula project has
>no powers into the matter.
As far as I know, an rpm's dependency is well, derived by he who writes
spec. devel for building, but server for install? Maybe the spec needs
fixing.
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>Also useful in disaster recovery when you do not have the database up
>and running.
I chuckled at backing these up myself, it's a rather circular dependency:)
If you back those up, when you need them to alleviate the use of a certain
tool when your catalog dies, you need to use that very tool to
>Is there something way to do a Job backup run against more than one
>client???
>Example:
>
>I have tree clients, and I wanna make just one Job backed up this tree
>clients...
>
>How can I performer this jobs??
>
>Thanks for any idea...
Gilberto,
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