Re: [Bacula-users] Questions re installing on Debian 11 Bullseye

Hi Vaughan, this article describes how to use the new methods to add gpg keys. The best instruction I have found so far. Works from Bullseye and up. https://www.linuxuprising.com/2021/01/apt-key-is-deprecated-how-to-add.html Best regards, Peter On 05.10.2023 5:48, Vaughan Wickham wrote: H

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions re installing on Debian 11 Bullseye

Hi folks, Installing on Debian 11 is bound to fail, as the documentation and reality are not in sync. I had this problem yesterday, and spent quite some time figuring out what was wrong. About the package manager entry under /etc/apt/sources.list.d, the document mentioned below states: "# Ba

Re: [Bacula-users] NDMP plugin for Bacula

Hi Radosław, Thanks for the information. I will think about this. If the migration is so simple, it helps a lot. I also finally got contacted by Bacula Systems. Best regards, Peter On 12.09.2023 18:38, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Hello, wt., 12 wrz 2023 o 18:24 Peter Milesson via Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] NDMP plugin for Bacula

On 12.09.2023 18:00, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Hello, wt., 12 wrz 2023 o 13:48 Peter Milesson via Bacula-users napisał(a): Hi folks, Is there anybody having any experience with Bacula community edition and the NDMP plugin (commercial)? Does it work with the community edition? I

[Bacula-users] NDMP plugin for Bacula

Hi folks, Is there anybody having any experience with Bacula community edition and the NDMP plugin (commercial)? Does it work with the community edition? I  need to backup data from a NDMP-compliant NAS, and it starts to get urgent. I contacted Bacula Systems about a month ago about this, but

Re: [Bacula-users] Error backing up after changing backup definitions

r On 17.01.2023 15:35, Peter Milesson via Bacula-users wrote: Hi folks, After changing a FileSet definition, removing one of the lines in bacula-dir.conf, and increasing the maximum number of volumes in the Pool, backups are no longer working. The messages I get are: 17-Jan 14:30 Server1Fd JobI

[Bacula-users] Error backing up after changing backup definitions

Hi folks, After changing a FileSet definition, removing one of the lines in bacula-dir.conf, and increasing the maximum number of volumes in the Pool, backups are no longer working. The messages I get are: 17-Jan 14:30 Server1Fd JobId 837: Fatal error: Authorization key rejected by Storage

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual tapes or virtual disks

On 26.01.2022 18:42, dmitri maziuk wrote: On 2022-01-26 11:06 AM, Peter Milesson via Bacula-users wrote: ... Your way of explaining the reasoning of why to use smaller file volumes, is very appreciated. ... The only thing I haven't found out is how to preallocate the number of vo

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual tapes or virtual disks

On 26.01.2022 0:02, Josip Deanovic wrote: On 23.01.2022 11:37, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Hello, pt., 21 sty 2022 o 14:22 Peter Milesson via Bacula-users napisał(a):     If somebody has got experience with disk based, multi volume Bacula     backup, I would be grateful about some

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual tapes or virtual disks

incremental backups, each week kept by the differental backups and the 3 full montly too. De : Radosław Korzeniewski Envoyé : dimanche 23 janvier 2022 11:37 À : Peter Milesson Cc : bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Objet : Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual tapes or virtual disks Hello, pt., 21 sty 2

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual tapes or virtual disks

On 23.01.2022 11:37, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Hello, pt., 21 sty 2022 o 14:22 Peter Milesson via Bacula-users napisał(a): If somebody has got experience with disk based, multi volume Bacula backup, I would be grateful about some information (tips, what to expect, pitfalls

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual tapes or virtual disks

On 21.01.2022 15:46, Josip Deanovic wrote: On 2022-01-21 15:29, Peter Milesson via Bacula-users wrote: thanks for your input. Today, I am using 160GB virtual tape volumes with mhvtl and that seems to be a good trade off. 10GB volumes in the new setting would be a nightmare to manage. That

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual tapes or virtual disks

On 21.01.2022 14:56, Josip Deanovic wrote: On 2022-01-21 14:03, Peter Milesson via Bacula-users wrote: Hi folks, I am building a new backup server that is going to replace the old one. The old backup server uses Bacula ver. 9.2.2 with a virtual tape library (mhvtl). I have found mhvtl a bit

[Bacula-users] Virtual tapes or virtual disks

Hi folks, I am building a new backup server that is going to replace the old one. The old backup server uses Bacula ver. 9.2.2 with a virtual tape library (mhvtl). I have found mhvtl a bit tricky, mostly when updating the OS (CentOS 7.8), as it is necessary to recompile the mhvtl kernel driver

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup catalog error

On 2021-05-07 16:05, Martin Simmons wrote: On Fri, 7 May 2021 13:40:03 +0200, Peter Milesson said: On 2021-05-07 13:12, Martin Simmons wrote: On Fri, 7 May 2021 12:37:32 +0200, Peter Milesson said: On 2021-05-07 12:01, Martin Simmons wrote: On Thu, 6 May 2021 21:54:54 +0200, Peter

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup catalog error

On 2021-05-07 13:12, Martin Simmons wrote: On Fri, 7 May 2021 12:37:32 +0200, Peter Milesson said: On 2021-05-07 12:01, Martin Simmons wrote: On Thu, 6 May 2021 21:54:54 +0200, Peter Milesson said: On 2021-05-06 15:51, Josip Deanovic wrote: On Wednesday 2021-05-05 20:53:42 Peter Milesson

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup catalog error

On 2021-05-07 12:01, Martin Simmons wrote: On Thu, 6 May 2021 21:54:54 +0200, Peter Milesson said: On 2021-05-06 15:51, Josip Deanovic wrote: On Wednesday 2021-05-05 20:53:42 Peter Milesson wrote: Hi folks, After upgrading to Bacula 9.2.2, the following backup error occurs when the daily

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup catalog error

On 2021-05-06 15:51, Josip Deanovic wrote: On Wednesday 2021-05-05 20:53:42 Peter Milesson wrote: Hi folks, After upgrading to Bacula 9.2.2, the following backup error occurs when the daily catalog backup is run: [...] The normal backups seem to terminate without any errors. It's

[Bacula-users] Backup catalog error

Hi folks, After upgrading to Bacula 9.2.2, the following backup error occurs when the daily catalog backup is run: 05-May 05:00 MyDir JobId 3087: shell command: run BeforeJob "/opt/bacula/scripts/make_catalog_backup.pl MyCatalog" 05-May 05:00 MyDir JobId 3087: Start Backup JobId 3087, Job=Ba

Re: [Bacula-users] Fatal error: catreq.c:751 fread attr spool error. Wanted 1478509141 bytes, maximum permitted 10000000 bytes

Hi folks, Answering my own question. Installing bacula 9.2.2 solved this problem. Best regards, Peter On 2021-05-01 15:05, Peter Milesson wrote: Hi folks, When running monthly full backup on a Linux server, the following error occurred in the final steps of the backup process, when

[Bacula-users] Fatal error: catreq.c:751 fread attr spool error. Wanted 1478509141 bytes, maximum permitted 10000000 bytes

Hi folks, When running monthly full backup on a Linux server, the following error occurred in the final steps of the backup process, when despooling attributes. Previous log entry was: Sending spooled attrs to the Director. Despooling 180,651,607 bytes ... Fatal error: catreq.c:751 fread att

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir 9.4.4 runnig on Centos 6.4 host and bacula-fd 9.4.4 running on Centos 7.8.

Hi folks, I'm running CentOS 7.7 in the Bacula server and have also got one client running CentOS 7.7. Never had any problems with firewalld. Just keep firewalld running, and make sure the appropriate ports are allowed (default 9101, 9102, 9103), plus other ports you need. Using firewalld or

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows backup slow

: no   Accurate:   no On 4/3/2020 5:35 PM, Peter Milesson wrote: On 2020-04-01 11:28, Andrew Watkins wrote: Hello, Just started using Bacula and at this time (early stages) I find my UNIX/Solaris full backups are running at a good speed, but our window server is slow. There is a

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows backup slow

On 2020-04-01 11:28, Andrew Watkins wrote: Hello, Just started using Bacula and at this time (early stages) I find my UNIX/Solaris full backups are running at a good speed, but our window server is slow. There is a chance it is just the number of files (Yes, I am ignoring profiles). My ques

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows backup much slower than Linux backup

while to move things around, as I need to get a new server for this. Best regards, Peter On 01.03.2019 17:27, Peter Milesson wrote: Hi Josh, With the current settings, last access updates where disabled for Windows, and neither ATIME nor NOATIME for the Linux server. So in the current setup, t

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows backup much slower than Linux backup

meone can do some real performance testing and figure out what is really going on. Best regards, Kern On 2/28/19 8:22 PM, Peter Milesson wrote: Hi folks, I'm backing up 2 servers with Bacula, one with Windows 2016, the other one with CentOS. The hardware is described below. The Windows serv

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows backup much slower than Linux backup

Hi Uwe, Thanks for your input. Something similar is what I would expect. I'm going to try some of the previous suggestions during the weekend, and see if there are some identifiable bottlenecks. Best regards On 01.03.2019 14:42, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: I just checked our installation (direct-

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows backup much slower than Linux backup

tes:  113,804,070,912 (113.8 GB)   Non-fatal FD errors:    2   SD Errors:  0   FD termination status:  OK   SD termination status:  OK   Termination:    Backup OK -- with warnings On 01.03.2019 13:21, Heitor Faria wrote: Hello Peter, Time for VSS generation is included and s

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows backup much slower than Linux backup

ating the VSS snapshots is included in the total time, or if the time it takes is significant. I guess somebody with knowledge about the inner workings of Bacula FD could answer that question. Best regards, Peter On 01.03.2019 8:35, Sergio Gelato wrote: * Peter Milesson [2019-02-28 20:22:41

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows backup much slower than Linux backup

<http://www.typeapp.com/r?b=14554> On Feb 28, 2019, at 2:45 PM, Peter Milesson <mailto:mi...@atmos.eu>> wrote: Hi folks, I'm backing up 2 servers with Bacula, one with Windows 2016, the other one with CentOS. The hardware is described below. The Windows server is mu

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows backup much slower than Linux backup

On 01.03.2019 1:50, Adam Nielsen wrote: I'm backing up 2 servers with Bacula, one with Windows 2016, the other one with CentOS. The hardware is described below. The Windows server is much more powerful than the Linux server in all respects, and should theoretically deliver data to the Bacula s

[Bacula-users] Windows backup much slower than Linux backup

Hi folks, I'm backing up 2 servers with Bacula, one with Windows 2016, the other one with CentOS. The hardware is described below. The Windows server is much more powerful than the Linux server in all respects, and should theoretically deliver data to the Bacula server at a much higher rate.

Re: [Bacula-users] "ERR=database or disk is full" while building directory tree for restore

Hi folks, Just for information about MySQL/MariaDB. I'm using bacula 9.0.6 under CentOS 7.5 since almost a year, with no issues whatsoever. CentOS 7.5 is shipping with MariaDB 5.5.56. AFAIK, that version of MariaDB isn't exactly rocket science, and more or less compatible with comparable MySQ

Re: [Bacula-users] Looking for a LTO autoloader

On 14.11.2018 8:37, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Hello, wt., 13 lis 2018 o 18:20 Dmitri Maziuk via Bacula-users > napisał(a): The other issue is RAID-10 and mhvtl: if you do disk backup, why go through the extra layer of mhvtl? Peter did

Re: [Bacula-users] Looking for a LTO autoloader

On 13.11.2018 18:15, Dmitri Maziuk via Bacula-users wrote: On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 09:47:32 -0500 Josh Fisher wrote: On 11/13/2018 5:38 AM, Peter Milesson wrote: Hi Markus, I know my suggestion isn't concerning autoloaders, but it's a safe and working alternative to tapes (a

Re: [Bacula-users] Looking for a LTO autoloader

very efficient. Best regards, Peter On 13.11.2018 15:47, Josh Fisher wrote: On 11/13/2018 5:38 AM, Peter Milesson wrote: Hi Markus, I know my suggestion isn't concerning autoloaders, but it's a safe and working alternative to tapes (and all the hassles). I setup a dedicated

Re: [Bacula-users] Looking for a LTO autoloader

Hi Markus, I know my suggestion isn't concerning autoloaders, but it's a safe and working alternative to tapes (and all the hassles). I setup a dedicated backup station with 13TB of RAID10 storage. It's placed in a different location from the servers, and connected to the network backbone wi

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 9.0.6 with Windows client 7.4.4, status error

Kern On 30.01.2018 12:08, Peter Milesson wrote: Hi folks, I'm installing a Bacula server 9.0.6 under CentOS 7.4. I have also purchased a binary license for backing up a couple of Windows servers with the Bacula client. The purchased Windows client version is 7.4.4. When I run bconso

[Bacula-users] Bacula 9.0.6 with Windows client 7.4.4, status error

Hi folks, I'm installing a Bacula server 9.0.6 under CentOS 7.4. I have also purchased a binary license for backing up a couple of Windows servers with the Bacula client. The purchased Windows client version is 7.4.4. When I run bconsole, status, Network, and select the Windows client (192.1