Martin Simmons said:
> It looks like you didn't try
>
> exclude {
> file = "C:/System Volume Information"
> }
>
- I could have sworn that the documentation said you must
append a trailing slash if you want to indicate a directory. Checked it
out, and it's exactly the opposite, it explicitly te
I wrote
> culprit was a file "D:\Documents and Settings\{guid}" of 18 GB that
> changed every day.
Oops, sorry, I meant "D:\System Volume Information\28{guid}".
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Hi all,
What is the correct way to exclude a directory on Windows in an Exclude
section?
I just found out that neither of these works, the directory is always
included.
It seems to work as expected for files, but not for directories (slash at
the end).
exclude {
file = "System Volume Informatio
> I don't understand why it want to write on drive 1 and then tries to load a
> tape on drive 0!
Notice the hyphens: drive 0 (/dev/nst0) seems to have a tag "Drive-1" stuck
onto to it, and Drive 1 the same with "Drive-2".
Your problem is probably that the power fail occurred half way through a
[mailto:martin.feldbac...@stegbauer.info]
Sent: 26 August 2015 16:28
To: Luc Van der Veken
Cc: bacula-users
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] fileset which only compresses files which are not
already compressed like gzip, jpeg, mpeg
Hi Luc,
doesn't mean the Exclude-option, that the files found wit
Hi Ana,
Won’t your solution exclude compressed files, instead of including them without
a second round of compression?
I think if it can be done, what the OP asked, the right approach would be
closer to his own, just using ‘RegexFile’ instead of ‘RegexDir’.
I would have tried something like thi
I still don't really get auto-pruning, I think.
Am I seeing 'prune' and 'purge' as more closely related than they are?
Snippet from the manual, about what happens when Bacula needs a volume:
AutoPrune = yes|no
If AutoPrune is set to yes (default), Bacula will automatically apply the
Volume reten
Hi all,
If I didn’t misunderstand anything, Michael said he checked the Received
headers as well.
Those indicate at what time the message arrived at different mail servers along
its path, I assume they show that bsmtp passed it to the local outgoing mail
server at 11:00 ?
BTW, I would never t
Thegame32 said:
> Bacula-dir Warning: bsock.c:127 Could not connect to Client: dc0-fd on
> dc0.teamworld.com:9102. ERR=Connection > refused
It looks like it's really a connection issue (at TCP level), it doesn't even
get so far as to check the password.
The machine *is* reachable though, it is
Yes, I've seen the same, or very similar.
The "different location" the files were restored to was accessible as a Samba
share on a Linux machine.
The files were there, but Windows users accessing the share over the network
didn't see them because the file permissions didn't match the share perm
In your jobdefs, in default.conf:
Max Full Interval = 90
90 what?
Maybe make that "90 days" to be certain. I'm not entirely sure myself and it's
hard to find in the manual, but I think the default unit is seconds.
From: James Chamberlain [mailto:jam...@exa.com]
Sent: 07 July 2015 1:11
To: b
July 2015 16:31
To: bacula-users
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Why it takes so much to "Building directory tree"
Thanks for Radosław Korzeniewski and Luc Van der Veken
I measure the time of Building directory tree on my previous case and it
took only 12seconds.
also check free comma
You should look out when copying an innodb_buffer_pool_size from a webpage or
so, the best value for that setting depends too much on local conditions, esp.
available RAM, database size, and what else is running (and needing memory) on
the same server.
In general, the higher the setting, the be
I don’t think those backslashes (\) instead of normal (/) are the problem here,
those in the error messages are coming from Windows, not from the fileset or
bacula.
But [I think – never actually tried it] if you have a fileset resource that
says drives C through W are to be included, it is to b
You said it yourself: RAID. Not magic, it is only writing on multiple disks in
parallel.
The disks I have in my NAS are WD Reds, rated at 112 MB/s and performance
tested (by Tom's Hardware) to write at speeds from about 70 MB/s (center of the
disk) to about 150 MB/s (outside).
I've seen much h
it’s an intranet reporting server with only little activity.
From: Ana Emília M. Arruda [mailto:emiliaarr...@gmail.com]
Sent: 18 May 2015 15:14
To: Luc Van der Veken
Cc: bacula-users
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] confused about differentials
Hello Luc,
I think there is a misunderstooding here.
Hi,Kern,
Do you mean that exactly as you say it, “FD that is more recent that the Dir
and the SD […] is a big problem”?
I thought it was the other way around, that a FD _older_ than dir/SD would
cause problems.
The way you say it here, the FD Bacula Systems provides for community users
would f
At the risk of sounding overly obvious --- ;)
If you want to be absolutely certain, you can always take full control
yourself: put the commands in a shell script, and execute that with a single
Command line.
Otherwise more questions arise, for instance if you have ‘FailJobOnError =
yes’, will
Romer Ventura said:
> I cant omit the fstype = nfs, as bacula will fail since bacula checks for
> that.
[Based on version 5.x]
I think bacula will check the file system type _only_ if you specify it, and
default to “everything” when you omit it.
You can’t even use it for Windows clients.
I don’
Romer Ventura said:
> I find it hard to believe it’s compressing 33GB of data down to 3GB.. haha
It depends on the data.
I regularly see even better compression than that on internal debugging
logfiles of an ATM: 250 MB per file down to about 5 MB. Although that is with
RAR, not GZip…
--
onths #
Override retentions set for individual clients
Job Retention = 3 months
Storage = Tape
}
From: Luc Van der Veken
Sent: 04 May 2015 9:10
To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] Same job started twice
Hi all,
I seem to be suffering from a side effect to &
This approach can help too: besides doing them in parallel (limited to 5
concurrent jobs because ultimately it all winds up on the same disks), I also
divided them into 4 groups.
From the 1st to 4th Friday night each month, a full backup is done of one group
and differential of the other three.
From: Bryn Hughes [mailto:li...@nashira.ca]
Sent: 30 April 2015 15:07
To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Same job started twice
These directives might also be useful to you:
Allow Duplicate Jobs = no
Cancel Lower Level Duplicates = yes
Cancel Queued Duplic
Hi,
When I start bacula-dir 5.2.5 with the -t switch, I get a series of messages
about orphaned buffers.
bacula-dir: smartall.c:404 Orphaned buffer: bacula-dir 7 bytes at 21a8e88 from
parse_conf.c:416
bacula-dir: smartall.c:404 Orphaned buffer: bacula-dir 10 bytes at 21bff18 from
inc_conf.c:59
So simple that I'm a bit embarrassed: a Maximum Concurrent Jobs setting in the
Job resource itself should prevent it.
I thought that setting was applicable to all kinds of resources except for job
resources themselves, should have checked the documentation sooner.
From: Luc Van der
am is using the
vmware host's network interface to the full.
From: Luc Van der Veken
Sent: 30 April 2015 9:09
To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Same job started twice
Hi all,
Is it possible that, in version 5.2.5 (Ubuntu),
1) An incremental job is started according t
Hi all,
Is it possible that, in version 5.2.5 (Ubuntu),
1) An incremental job is started according to schedule, before a previous
full run of the same job has finished?
2) A nasty side effect when that happens is that the incremental job is
bounced to full because "Prior failed job
Answering myself: I put this in a script in my home directory as a temporary
solution.
It may still take some time, but I suppose far less than letting it all be
displayed.
#!/bin/sh
echo messages | bconsole > /dev/null
bconsole
From: Luc Van der Veken [mailto:luc...@wimionline.com]
Sent:
Is there a way to clear the buffer containing the console messages waiting to
be displayed in bconsole?
Or to purge anything older than, say, a day?
I already get all messages via e-mail, nicely collected in one mail per job.
Also, I use Webacula for the daily stuff like checking job results, so
of disk space, but that is the
first thing to check if you get it.
------------------
Thanks for the tips Luc Van der Veken, unfortunately I don't see disk space as
being an issue. The 'E' volume on the client is only 60% u
(From: global16 [mailto:bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com] )
> On the client, these entries are logged in C:\Program
> Files\Bacula\working\zhfs01.trace
> fs01: vss_generic.cpp:366-0 VSSClientGeneric::Initialize: CoInitialize
> returned 0x80070008
Is one of the server's disks full or nearing its
On 2015-03-03 07:01 AM, Luc Van der Veken wrote:
If jobs are added in two batches at different times, does the oldest batch have
to be completely finished before the newer one is started?
My backups are made fd -> file (disk) store -> copy to tape (an old LTO2 drive).
One client is huge
Oops, sorry, it looks like I mistook a very old message in a search result for
a newly arrived one and replied to it...
From: Luc Van der Veken
Sent: 03 March 2015 16:11
To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: 'sos...@mail.com'
Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] it seems that Automa
Hi soshogh,
It looks like you edited the volume retention period in the pool resource.
If any volumes were created before that change, did you update those? In
bconsole, 'update volume', option 12 (Volume from Pool).
I'm running the same version on the same OS, and recycling works fine here.
Fro
If jobs are added in two batches at different times, does the oldest batch have
to be completely finished before the newer one is started?
My backups are made fd -> file (disk) store -> copy to tape (an old LTO2 drive).
One client is huge compared to the others, copying it to tape takes some tim
While testing something, I ran into this (director version 5.2.5, Ubuntu 12.04,
client is an Ubuntu 14.04 running fd version 5.2.6).
Shouldn't "Fail job on error = No" have made it continue regardless of the
error?
RunScript {
Command = "/etc/bacula/scripts/pre_backup.sh %l"
Runs on C
From: Bill Arlofski
>
> If this is true, it seems like the v7 behavior is the correct behavior, so...
> problem solved I guess. :)
I fail to see the logic in that, but then I may be misunderstanding something.
Include {
Options {
Exclude = Yes
Wilddir = */Temp
}
File =
Have you tried asking in a git forum/list?
There must be some people with knowledge of git that also use bacula, but I
would think you'd have more luck there.
Stack overflow is also a good place for all things developer:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12129148/incremental-backups-with-git-bun
Your first and last screenshots say the path is /mnt/iscsi, but the error
message says /mybackup.
Did you change the path? Reload the configuration after changing it?
From: Greenhagen, Quinton (RTA) [mailto:quinton.greenha...@mso.umt.edu]
Sent: 04 February 2015 17:38
To: bacula-users@lists.sourc
On 27 January 2015 21:18, dweimer wrote:
> it appears to already have determined the IP prior to it hanging.
>
> Putting it back to IP instantly connects.
Yes, but I see it's connecting to another IP address (...5.4 instead of ...1.4).
Was it supposed to do that because you changed network setti
Probably not what's wrong in your case, it's even a different OS here (Linux),
but the symptoms are so similar that I reply anyway:
* Did you recently install avahi or (Apple's) bonjour / zeroconf?
* Are you using a '.local' TLD for a local DNS domain?
If you have both, that combination breaks n
Are you sure bacula is at fault?
I can think of circumstances where the way the source data are organized is to
blame.
1) Average file size: 1 GB as a million files of 1 KB will be much slower to
read than a single 1 GB file.
2) Too many files in one directory can make access very slow.
The eff
From: Bill Arlofski [mailto:waa-bac...@revpol.com]
> If I do:
>
> * status director days=30
>
> It shows me tonight's scheduled jobs, two jobs from tomorrow morning, all of
> Saturday's scheduled jobs followed by all the jobs to be run on February 7th.
That's probably correct. The documentation s
You can try limiting your configuration to a single job, and tell it when to do
a full or incremental backup through the schedule, like below.
Any backup type specified in the Schedule overrides the “Level = Full” in the
job definition (which is still required to be there, but will be ignored if
It sounds like the ‘Name’ index on the Filename table doesn’t fit in RAM
anymore in its entirety.
Have you tried increasing your MySQL buffers?
From: Leandro César [mailto:leandro.cesar.d...@gmail.com]
Sent: 05 January 2015 14:52
To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Bacula-users] Dir
> From: D S
> Hello,
>
> is there a quick way to set the schedule to be "every other week"
> (to create full backups every 14 days i.e. on even weeks since
> 01.01.1971 for example)
Not exactly AFAIK, but you can get close by specifying 1st + 3rd week of the
month or 1st + 3rd + 5th +... week
The easiest way (imo) is if you have installed Webacula.
Click the job number in the job history, then in the job details page click
“Listing Files”.
That will show all files backed up in that job, along with their modification
timestamp and size.
If the job is no longer shown in the recent job
1 – Case correct? Is it really named SomeFolder, or is it Somefolder or
somefolder?
You can add the “Ignore Case = yes” option, but I’m not sure that will extend
into an Exclude section.
2 – Have you tried appending a slash? First the docs say that you must append
one to indicate a directory
And sorry for the double reply, but I only noticed this after hitting send:
you’re not at a MySQL prompt, try omitting that semicolon an the end ;)
From: Luc Van der Veken
Sent: 31 October 2014 15:31
To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: 'Tim Dunphy'
Subject: RE: [Bacula-users
Not running bacula 7 here, but have you tried ‘list volume’?
Both work in 5.2, but the online help (“h list”) only mentions ‘volume’.
*h list
Command Description
=== ===
list List objects from catalog
Arguments:
pools | jobs | jobtotals | volume | m
Set = BaculaSet # ditto
Priority = 20
## only for migration jobs
# Purge Migration Job = yes# purge migrated jobs after successful migration
Schedule = TransferToTapeSchedule
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 5
}
-Original Message-----
From: Luc Van der Veken [mailto:luc...@wimionline.com]
Sen
tion
Schedule = TransferToTapeSchedule
Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 5
}
-Original Message-----
From: Luc Van der Veken [mailto:luc...@wimionline.com]
Sent: 15 September 2014 13:22
To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Migrate: copy or duplicate?
From: Radosław Korzeniewsk
I've noticed this under Ubuntu (Server 12.04) too.
It looks like reload doesn't have any effect for bacula-sd 5.2.x, so you have
to wait until no jobs are running and then restart it.
I haven't tried to figure out if it is a limitation in bacula-sd or a
configuration error in the service command
Hi Tim,
It works now, but it looks like that didn’t work at the time of the backup.
A network problem at that moment, a (dns) server that was down or being
rebooted, a power failure with servers running on UPS but one of the switches
not, or so?
Anyhow, I would look at the error as a symptom, w
ice
Hello.
The problem is that I need to authenticate, when using gmx or gmail for
instance and I have found no way of doing this with bsmtp only.
Regards,
Florian S.
Am 16.09.2014 um 15:52 schrieb Luc Van der Veken:
> I'm using bsmtp and it works fine, just configure the correct host
&
I'm using bsmtp and it works fine, just configure the correct host
in the command line (-h hostname) to send the mails through your
external smtp server.
-Original Message-
From: Florian [mailto:florian.spl...@web.de]
Sent: 16 September 2014 15:00
To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
S
From: Bill Arlofski [mailto:waa-bac...@revpol.com]
> 1. From a shell prompt: bacula-dir -t -c /path/to/bacula-dir.conf
The documentation seems to agree with you, but I once found another command
somewhere (don't remember exactly where), with just the -v switch.
So the reload script I created
From: Radosław Korzeniewski [mailto:rados...@korzeniewski.net]
> No. All copies goes to database as well, but they are indirectly available
> for restore and are promoted as a main backup only when original job expire.
> I could be wrong about it, but it was working as described last time I've
>
Has anyone created the storage and/or file daemons for use on a Synology NAS
running DSM 5.0?
Some time ago I found directions on the web for compiling and installing bacula
on DSM 4.0, but that required some NAS hacking (I regarded it as a sort of
jailbreaking) that I'd rather not experiment w
Hi all,
My current configuration backs up to a NAS, and later though a migration job
moves completed backups to tape for off-site storage.
That puts up a dilemma: copy, or move?
When I copy the backups to tape, I understand that only the original (NAS)
version remains in the database, which w
http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=hardware_results
It looks like that drive is listed, or at least one that’s very similar
(Freecom USB DAT-72e).
From: Huub Van Niekerk [mailto:huubvanniek...@yahoo.com]
Sent: 12 August 2014 10:43
To: Andreas Nastke; Bacula-users
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] DAT
Oops, my bad...
The Blog and Recent Topics sections at the top remain the same everywhere and
take up so much space that I have to page down to see the actual content, which
*is* there.
-Original Message-
From: Luc Van der Veken
Sent: 25 July 2014 10:39
To: bacula-users
Hi Kern,
It isn't working for me either (Chrome on Windows 7).
All links just seem to refresh the opening page, can't get into the
documentation or support pages.
-Original Message-
From: Kern Sibbald [mailto:k...@sibbald.com]
Sent: 25 July 2014 9:52
To: Wolfgang Denk; bacula-users@lis
Thanks, this ('harmless') is what I expected after having googled for it a bit.
When I started using bacula, I got the enterprise binaries for Windows after
reading that they were no longer being produced in the community version.
5.2.10 was the latest version of the community windows binaries I
Sorry for the subject line, forgot to replace it by something more descriptive
:(
-Original Message-
From: Luc Van der Veken [mailto:luc...@wimionline.com]
Sent: 07 July 2014 8:54
To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Bacula-users] FW: Bacula: Backup OK of sphad01-fd
I'm using Bacula to back up a shop that's about half linux, half windows.
Three of the Windows machines are located in another network.
A few times per week, I find a result like the one below for a back-up of one
of these three.
As it stands now, I have a total of 4 such messages for 3 machines
I’m not the expert, so I could be wrong, but these are a few things I noticed.
I hope if I’m wrong, whether it be completely or in a detail, someone will
correct me so I learn something from it myself.
- Looks like it’s a disk volume, and there’s no limit on volume size or job
count or time, nor
I think 5.x enterprise, 7.0 open.
You could try using trickle, as suggested in http://www.iniy.org/?p=195
Never tried it, don't know if it works, but it looks promising.
-Original Message-
From: Eric Bollengier [mailto:eric.bolleng...@baculasystems.com]
Sent: 22 May 2014 9:23
To: bacula
http://blog.bacula.org/p710/
Second to last paragraph: “We are still working on new Windows binaries as well
as releasing a full set of binaries for many platforms. Hopefully that will be
finished before the end of April.”
To close the gap between 5.2.10 and 7.0, Windows binaries 6.0.6 are avai
> From: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com]
> This is possible to have job writing at the same time to the same
> volume loaded in the same bacula storage device. In this case bacula
> will interleave the data.
Hi John,
Does that apply to file storage as well, or only tape?
I've been t
An additional question: now that the director is running again (after a reboot,
actually), I notice that the catalog says the failed job 14976 is still
running, while the director says it isn't (and actually doesn't even include it
in the 'status' output, neither as running nor as terminated).
Hi,
I had a bacula director daemon die on me today, after simply restarting it
everything looks fine again.
Before it stopped, some strange things happened with the backup it was pulling
in from a client.
The server (running director and storage daemon) is a VM running bacula 5.2.5
on Ubuntu s
This reminds me of something I noticed a couple of weeks ago when I was using
Webacula.
Some directories that should be there, were not shown in the restore selection
list.
When I entered their path manually, it found them and everything looked OK from
there on down.
I don't know if it was cau
Can you verify if your external IP address is the same before and after the
error?
I know of a DSL provider that regularly forces a new external IP address onto
its clients to prevent them running servers on a standard subscription level
(as opposed to a more expensive professional level, which
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