Re: [Bacula-users] Writes sometimes stall on Ultrium 7 drive

2025-10-02 Thread Rob Gerber
Ken, I wonder if this could be a hardware issue with the drive. I'm guessing this drive has been in production with bacula for some time. Please correct me if I'm wrong. How frequently has this issue occurred? I am curious what the btape tests at the link below show. Please be advised that these

Re: [Bacula-users] How to run bconsole commands in a bash for loop?

2025-09-18 Thread Rob Gerber
The following is my rocky Linux, bacula community 15.0.2 "how to delete all bacula volumes and reset a bacula installation" runbook. It's been customized for my specific environment. My bacula was installed from the bacula community repositories, so bacula was installed in /opt/bacula/. You will n

Re: [Bacula-users] Volume prune and truncation best practices

2025-09-18 Thread Rob Gerber
.JobId NOT IN > (SELECT PriorJobId FROM Job WHERE > Type IN ('B','C') AND Job.JobStatus IN ('T','W') > AND PriorJobId != 0) > ORDER by Job.StartTime; > > where %s is the name of the pool. > > It should print a message like

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Backup Performance

2025-09-18 Thread Rob Gerber
Whoops. I missed that. Apparently Dragan is the only one of us who has had their coffee today. Dragan is 100% correct. Your network speeds indicate that you have a fast ethernet (10/100, max 100 megabits per second) network link somewhere. As opposed to a gigabit ethernet (10/100/1000, max 1000 me

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Backup Performance

2025-09-18 Thread Rob Gerber
Whoa. Your FD on your desktop is a higher version than the dir and SD? That's definitely not supported. The FD should be equal or lower version than the dir and SD. The dir and SD versions must always match. I've seen it said on this list that differences in build number (13.0.4-5 vs 13.0.4-7) gene

[Bacula-users] Volume prune and truncation best practices

2025-09-17 Thread Rob Gerber
I have a bacula 15.0.2 instance running in a rocky linux 9 vm on a synology appliance. Backups are stored locally on the synology appliance. Local volumes are copied offsite to a backblaze b2 s3-compatible endpoint using copy job selection type PoolUncopiedJobs. For ransomware protection, object lo

Re: [Bacula-users] How to run bconsole commands in a bash for loop?

2025-09-16 Thread Rob Gerber
Also, please note the following gotchas: My runbook is not a script. Read and paste commands in once you've customized them, or just use them to inform your commands. Any commands that delete something on disk are commented out, for safety in case someone blindly pastes the thing into terminal.

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with table metaemail at make_catalog_backup.pl

2025-09-06 Thread Rob Gerber
Johannes, In bacula 15.x the catalog format changed. It was necessary to run the update_bacula_tables script. I assume you have probably already done this, but I just want to check. See these release notes. https://gitlab.bacula.org/bacula-community-edition/bacula-community/-/releases When you r

Re: [Bacula-users] why do the comments in bacula-dir.conf say not to use "localhost" here?

2025-09-04 Thread Rob Gerber
Gary, Thank you. Please reply with the output from the following command: sudo iptables -L -n -v Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Tue, Sep 2, 2025, 4:03 PM Gary Dale wrote: > On 2025-09-02 16:36, Rob Gerber wrote: > > Oh god, stupid autocorrect. I meant > >

Re: [Bacula-users] can't connect to remote client

2025-09-04 Thread Rob Gerber
Gary, You must not use localhost or 127.0.0.x in any bacula configuration file, anywhere. It will not work correctly if you do. You are seeing the results of that mistake in your system now. If bacula does not initially work with a static IP or FQDN, we must troubleshoot why and resolve the issue.

Re: [Bacula-users] why do the comments in bacula-dir.conf say not to use "localhost" here?

2025-09-02 Thread Rob Gerber
Gary, Please reply with the output from the following command: sudo iptables -Like Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Tue, Sep 2, 2025, 11:22 AM Gary Dale wrote: > On 2025-09-02 07:22, Dan Langille wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 1, 2025, at 4:06 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > > > >> Can someone pl

Re: [Bacula-users] why do the comments in bacula-dir.conf say not to use "localhost" here?

2025-09-02 Thread Rob Gerber
Oh god, stupid autocorrect. I meant iptables -L Sorry. Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Tue, Sep 2, 2025, 3:33 PM Gary Dale wrote: > On 2025-09-02 13:16, Rob Gerber wrote: > > Gary, > > > > Please reply with the output from the following command: &g

Re: [Bacula-users] why do the comments in bacula-dir.conf say not to use "localhost" here?

2025-09-01 Thread Rob Gerber
--zone=public --list-services Test: ping hostname.localtld OR avahi-resolve-host-name hostname.localtld Regards, Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Mon, Sep 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM Rob Gerber wrote: > To my understanding, we are advised not to use "localhost" because thos

Re: [Bacula-users] why do the comments in bacula-dir.conf say not to use "localhost" here?

2025-09-01 Thread Rob Gerber
To my understanding, we are advised not to use "localhost" because those address fields may be used to communicate "this is the director / SD address" to an external client. This is my guess. Someone else would need to confirm, or you can check the (very verbose) documentation. FYI, the best way t

Re: [Bacula-users] Debian 13 bacula install failed on dbconfig

2025-08-30 Thread Rob Gerber
for leaving old packages in a repo, but bacula 15.x has some new features that are quite relevant for today. Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Sat, Aug 30, 2025, 9:14 AM Gary Dale wrote: > On 2025-08-29 22:02, Rob Gerber wrote: > > Did you install bacula from the debian

Re: [Bacula-users] want to migrate to bacula from rsync backups.

2025-08-29 Thread Rob Gerber
eatness and inherent elegance, it's a decent solution to the problem. I understand that you like the other idea more, however. Regards, Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM Gary Dale wrote: > On 2025-08-27 12:07, Rob Gerber wrote: > > Gary, >

Re: [Bacula-users] Debian 13 bacula install failed on dbconfig

2025-08-29 Thread Rob Gerber
Did you install bacula from the debian repos, or from the bacula community repos? I strongly recommend the bacula community repos. The latest version is 15.0.3. https://www.bacula.org/bacula-binary-package-download/ You will need a key to access the repo. on the above linked page, complete the na

Re: [Bacula-users] want to migrate to bacula from rsync backups.

2025-08-27 Thread Rob Gerber
te the duplicate files. Be careful. Double and triple check everything. Read the manual. Here be dragons. Etc. https://dupeguru.voltaicideas.net Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Sat, Aug 23, 2025, 5:00 PM Gary Dale wrote: > On 2025-08-23 15:29, Rob Gerber wrote: > > I don

Re: [Bacula-users] want to migrate to bacula from rsync backups.

2025-08-23 Thread Rob Gerber
I don't have a lot of time right now, but my main question is "Given enough time and effort, you almost certainly could do this, but should you?" I don't mean to be a downer, but are you sure screwing around with bacula and "faking" an initial backup condition is worth the risk that you get someth

Re: [Bacula-users] filestorage :: some misconfiguration

2025-08-18 Thread Rob Gerber
Glad it's working now! re: encryption: What version of bacula are you running now? What errors are you getting with encryption enabled? At a glance, your most recent config looks reasonable. I will note that with one 'drive' device in your SD, and no autochanger, you will only be able to write on

Re: [Bacula-users] filestorage :: some misconfiguration

2025-08-18 Thread Rob Gerber
ve will not be used by backups so it will remain available for restores. } #dir Storage { Name = "Synology-Local" Description = "Synology-Local" SdPort = 9103 Address = "td-bacula" Password = "REDACTED" Device = "Synology-Local" MediaTyp

Re: [Bacula-users] filestorage :: some misconfiguration

2025-08-18 Thread Rob Gerber
Stefan, Did you restart the SD? bconsole 'reload' only reloads the dir. in shell, try 'sudo systemctl restart bacula-dir.service bacula-sd.service bacula-fd.service;/opt/bacula/bin/bacula status' (you can restart all more simply using 'bacula restart' but this breaks systemctl service monitoring

Re: [Bacula-users] Howto Install Bacula-Community from repository Rocky Linux 9.6

2025-08-12 Thread Rob Gerber
> ERR=ERROR: relation "version" does not exist > LINE 1: SELECT VersionId FROM Version > ^ > 12-Aug 10:11 bacula-dir ERROR TERMINATION > Please correct configuration file: /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf > > Any help appreciated. > Thanks in advance > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Howto Install Bacula-Community from repository Rocky Linux 9.6

2025-08-08 Thread Rob Gerber
Humphrey, You will want to install bacula using the community repo. I have bacula community installed on 3 different machines, with a mix of physical and virtual. 1. Get your bacula community repository key at the link below. It will claim that it will email you. maybe it will, maybe it won't. if

Re: [Bacula-users] VolumeLabel problems on a Pool that has two Virtual Autochangers

2025-08-08 Thread Rob Gerber
same time. VirtualFull would be a common use case. > > On Fri, 8 Aug 2025 at 21:14, Rob Gerber wrote: > >> Why different autochangers? Are they gong to different storage devices? >> >> Do you have multiple bacula SDs? >> >> I have briefly read through, but if the p

Re: [Bacula-users] VolumeLabel problems on a Pool that has two Virtual Autochangers

2025-08-08 Thread Rob Gerber
If you think about the bacula disk "autochangers" as if they were physical tape libraries with many tape drives onside each, it makes more sense. It would be impossible for Library A to send its robot to retrieve a tape from Library B, since they are two separate units, quite probably at different

Re: [Bacula-users] VolumeLabel problems on a Pool that has two Virtual Autochangers

2025-08-08 Thread Rob Gerber
Why different autochangers? Are they gong to different storage devices? Do you have multiple bacula SDs? I have briefly read through, but if the problem is that you want to direct jobs to use specific autochangers, i think you must use a unique mediatype for each autochanger. Otherwise, it may ch

Re: [Bacula-users] Parallelizing Backup, Copy, and Restore for the Same Client (Best Practices?)

2025-07-15 Thread Rob Gerber
Leandro, The following assumes you are using disk based backup, where the "drives" and "autochangers" are virtual. I would suggest creating multiple "drive" devices in your bacula-sd.conf for each SD destination, then tie them together with a single autochanger resource in those respective bacula

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

2025-06-23 Thread Rob Gerber
n 2025 at 19:21, Rob Gerber wrote: > > > > You should be able to review the contents of an old bacula catalog dump > to find your missing file entries. Be careful not to restore the dump over > top of your current catalog. Just to be safe, it would be a good idea to > take a fr

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

2025-06-23 Thread Rob Gerber
retention, and bacula beginners don't need to worry about it. Making the values the same would help those beginners, and the power users with advanced needs can still make the changes they need. Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Mon, Jun 23, 2025, 1:11 PM Rob Gerber wrote: > >

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

2025-06-23 Thread Rob Gerber
You should be able to review the contents of an old bacula catalog dump to find your missing file entries. Be careful not to restore the dump over top of your current catalog. Just to be safe, it would be a good idea to take a fresh catalog backup and *restore it to a safe place* before fooling aro

Re: [Bacula-users] Timeout setting for ClientRunBeforeJob

2025-06-19 Thread Rob Gerber
You might also want to have the job delete the results file in a "ClientRunAfterJob" script, to prevent any case where the cron job breaks and the Bacula job just backs up the old list over and over again. Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Thu, Jun 19, 2025, 11:15 AM Martin Simmons w

Re: [Bacula-users] TLS Between Director and Client

2025-06-05 Thread Rob Gerber
I was under the impression that bacula 15 came with TLS encryption enabled and set up by default. Can't help much with configuration. Does this link help? It mentions unsupported purpose errors. https://dan.langille.org/2021/06/17/openvpn-unsupported-certificate-purpose/ Robert Gerber 402-237-8

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

2025-06-04 Thread Rob Gerber
s. Regards, Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Sun, Jun 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM Rob Gerber wrote: > Marco, > > In this email I will reference information from the bacula 15.x manual. > See link below. > > https://www.bacula.org/15.0.x-manuals/en/main/Automatic_Volume_Recy

Re: [Bacula-users] Old Bacula-sd to work with bacula-director 13.0.4

2025-06-03 Thread Rob Gerber
Bacula-sd and Bacula-dir must be the same version. Always. Bacula-fd version can be =< bacula-sd/dir, but never greater. Can you upgrade the old SD to 13.0.4? This would enable you to use the old SD with the new director, so restore from the old SD would still be possible. This is probably the eas

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

2025-06-01 Thread Rob Gerber
Marco, In this email I will reference information from the bacula 15.x manual. See link below. https://www.bacula.org/15.0.x-manuals/en/main/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.html >From the 15.x manual, PDF section 31.2, Pruning Directives: AutoPrune = If AutoPrune is set to yes (default), Bacula will

Re: [Bacula-users] spool directory

2025-06-01 Thread Rob Gerber
can say is that getting old is not > for the faint of heart. I used to be the person that handled unfixable > errors: logic, syntax, spelling et al. My error was NOT the attach point, > though for consistency I stayed with /media. As you get older, the eyes > tend to substitute characters with

Re: [Bacula-users] spool directory

2025-05-30 Thread Rob Gerber
o the spool dir. Regards, Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 8:57 PM Rob Gerber wrote: > Alan, > > > Spool Directory /bacula/working > > If you entered the Spool Directory directive as you specified it in your > email, then it is proba

Re: [Bacula-users] spool directory

2025-05-29 Thread Rob Gerber
Alan, > Spool Directory /bacula/working If you entered the Spool Directory directive as you specified it in your email, then it is probably malformed. I believe the proper format is: Spool Directory *=* /bacula/working You will need to restart bacula-sd after adding the new directive to bacula-s

Re: [Bacula-users] wilddir exclusion matches in bwild, doesn't prevent Onedrive folder errors

2025-05-29 Thread Rob Gerber
Thank you to Jonathan, David, and Martin for their helpful replies. They helped me find a solution that worked for me. *A question, upfront: Is there any documentation on wild directives, and the rules around how they pattern match? The information I found in the manual was vague or at times incor

Re: [Bacula-users] List deleted files

2025-05-23 Thread Rob Gerber
bls of volumes should output text describing files added, files deleted, etc. Grep of this output should give only files deleted. bls takes some time to run, so maybe dump output to a text file, then grep it. I think 'bls - j volumename' should give a more condensed output only saying what jobids

[Bacula-users] Duplicated file in Bacularis?

2025-05-20 Thread Rob Gerber
Marcin, I have found something strange. For bacularis 4.4.0 (installed via composer), in /var/www/bacularis-app/protected/vendor/bacularis/bacularis-api/API/Modules I have found two files named similarly, with only the case of the second letter being different. The files appear to be the same. $

Re: [Bacula-users] "Read error" on long backups of Windows clients

2025-05-18 Thread Rob Gerber
Good morning, Andrea! In this email I will concentrate on two different issues with one name: 'free space'. Please keep the following concepts in mind when reading this email. 1. *Available space allocated to VSS for VSS writers to use.* VSS writers will not use more space than this, and will dele

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula on Fedora/SELinux

2025-05-11 Thread Rob Gerber
Ismael, That is a strange problem. I would guess that the bacula packages installed in fedora are not 'selinux aware' and aren't setting the correct contexts for you. I am running bacula 13.0.3 and 15.0.2 on multiple rocky linux 9.x based machines. Rocky linux is based on RHEL (as I am sure you k

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula on Fedora/SELinux

2025-05-11 Thread Rob Gerber
On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM Rob Gerber wrote: > Ismael, > > That is a strange problem. I would guess that the bacula packages > installed in fedora are not 'selinux aware' and aren't setting the correct > contexts for you. > > I am running bacula

[Bacula-users] wilddir exclusion matches in bwild, doesn't prevent Onedrive folder errors

2025-05-06 Thread Rob Gerber
Hello, I hope someone can shed some light on this. I have a couple windows clients that I just starting backing up. During initial full backups, I am getting a few errors about a Onedrive folder (see below). I understand from my experience with other backup providers (Barracuda) that Onedrive is

Re: [Bacula-users] Strange errors: Warning: Director wanted Volume "foo", Current Volume "bar" not acceptable because...

2025-03-27 Thread Rob Gerber
ould be the safest. I'll go read the manual for each of these options more thoroughly later. Thank you for your help! Regards, Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 5:14 AM Josh Fisher wrote: > > > On 3/26/25 17:58, Rob Gerber wrote: > > Josh,

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows Client

2025-03-27 Thread Rob Gerber
Jonathan, In principle, yes, it is possible for bacula to back up to S3 compatible cloud storage providers. However, there are some caveats. The short answer is: Yes, you can run bacula cloud backup and copy jobs with S3 compatible storage as a target, IF you are running the bacula Director (DIR

Re: [Bacula-users] Strange errors: Warning: Director wanted Volume "foo", Current Volume "bar" not acceptable because...

2025-03-26 Thread Rob Gerber
ld use a solution that doesn't necessitate micromanaging things. Regards, Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM Josh Fisher wrote: > > On 3/25/25 14:35, Rob Gerber wrote: > > Josh, > > Here you go. Thank you! > > *My Synology-Local autochange

Re: [Bacula-users] Automating Windows fd Client Installation

2025-03-26 Thread Rob Gerber
Cole, I am also playing around in proxmox, and separately, with bacula windows FDs. This topic is interesting to me and obviously merits attention for anyone seeking to deploy bacula FDs on a broader basis in windows. I hadn't previously dug into automated windows bacula FD installation, so last

Re: [Bacula-users] Strange errors: Warning: Director wanted Volume "foo", Current Volume "bar" not acceptable because...

2025-03-25 Thread Rob Gerber
ncurrentJobs = 5 DriveIndex = 5 AutoSelect = no # this drive will not be used by backups so it will remain available for restores. } Autochanger { ChangerCommand = "/dev/null" ChangerDevice = "/dev/null" Name = "Synology-Local" Device = "Synology-Local-00

Re: [Bacula-users] Strange errors: Warning: Director wanted Volume "foo", Current Volume "bar" not acceptable because...

2025-03-25 Thread Rob Gerber
While I don't know if it'll be useful to anyone, I have uploaded my bacula.log file to google drive. It weighs in at 15MB. If you think it's worth digging through this, please keep in mind that I've reset this bacula testing system multiple times as I updated the configuration, and my most recent r

Re: [Bacula-users] Strange errors: Warning: Director wanted Volume "foo", Current Volume "bar" not acceptable because...

2025-03-25 Thread Rob Gerber
*Joblogs from jobs 662 and 663 (copied directly out of bacula.log):* 20-Mar 23:05 td-bacula-dir JobId 662: Start Backup JobId 662, Job=Backup-win11-base-fd-job.2025-03-20_23.05.01_40 20-Mar 23:05 td-bacula-dir JobId 662: Connected to Storage "Synology-Local" at td-bacula:9103 with TLS 20-Mar 23:05

Re: [Bacula-users] Strange errors: Warning: Director wanted Volume "foo", Current Volume "bar" not acceptable because...

2025-03-25 Thread Rob Gerber
*My (plausibly relevant) bacula resources:* Client { Name = "win11-base-fd" Address = "win11-base" FdPort = 9102 Password = [REDACTED] Catalog = "MyCatalog" AutoPrune = yes } Client { Name = "akita-fd" Address = "akita.3vlnt" FdPort = 9102 Password = [REDACTED] Catalog = "MyCa

Re: [Bacula-users] Strange errors: Warning: Director wanted Volume "foo", Current Volume "bar" not acceptable because...

2025-03-25 Thread Rob Gerber
*Analysis:* in bconsole with a Gary's oldest volume query, Volume Synology-Local-Inc-0250 shows status of 'purged', no 'lastwritten' date, no expiry date, and size of 278b. *query 2 Using Catalog "MyCatalog" +-+--++--+--+-

[Bacula-users] Strange errors: Warning: Director wanted Volume "foo", Current Volume "bar" not acceptable because...

2025-03-25 Thread Rob Gerber
[edit]: sending this in several messages because of list message length limit I have a problem, and I don't know what to think about it. Bacula 15.0.2, running on Rocky linux 9. This is a testing system running in a VM on a synology NAS. Volumes are stored on the NAS in a samba share. Occasional

Re: [Bacula-users] needed tapes

2025-03-20 Thread Rob Gerber
I haven't seen it explicitly explained in this thread, so here is some information about the bconsole query command. Throughout this email, I will assume you installed bacula using the bacula community repositories, which installs bacula in the /opt/bacula/ folder by default. If your bacula files

Re: [Bacula-users] needed tapes

2025-03-20 Thread Rob Gerber
Stefan, Here is some information to assist with crafting postgres sql queries. The postgres psql shell provides tools to look up tables and their columns so you know what keywords to specify in your queries. You can also easily test queries and get feedback. psql will tell you when you've made a s

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

2025-03-12 Thread Rob Gerber
If you are running bacula 15.x, they added zstd compression. In my tests zstd compression was as fast as lzo and as good as gzip. So if you can try zstd in bacula 15.x, I definitely recommend it. Otherwise, your choices for software compression are: gzip: good for space saving, but slower. lzo: le

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

2025-03-05 Thread Rob Gerber
Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Wed, Mar 5, 2025, 8:06 AM Dan Langille wrote: > On Tue, Mar 4, 2025, at 11:03 PM, Rob Gerber wrote: > > I don't think that the problem is in bacula, for sure. I suspect other > traffic over the link might be similarly impac

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

2025-03-04 Thread Rob Gerber
I don't think that the problem is in bacula, for sure. I suspect other traffic over the link might be similarly impacted. My searching indicated that 0a000119 is a generic openssl error. Could be many things. I might be suspicious of the openssl version or implementation installed on your new route

Re: [Bacula-users] needed tapes

2025-03-03 Thread Rob Gerber
In this email I will give some examples on how to send a command to bconsole from within a shell script. I will attach one of my shell scripts that *DOES NOT do what you need.* It is provided only as an example of how a shell script could be made to interact with bacula. There is some error checkin

Re: [Bacula-users] needed tapes

2025-03-03 Thread Rob Gerber
Stefan, Can you share some details about your current process to predict what media will be needed, including information about your pools and volumes inside them? I am not aware of a tool that forecasts what media will be needed by jobs scheduled in the future, but that doesn't mean that such a

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

2025-02-25 Thread Rob Gerber
25, 6:23 PM Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users < bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > 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 paste

[Bacula-users] baculabackupreport ini variable quoting issue

2025-02-25 Thread Rob Gerber
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 putting them in the ini file so I could find the

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula cloud

2025-02-23 Thread Rob Gerber
I've been thinking and the conclusion I reached is that it's generally understandable that bacula doesn't fail backup or copy jobs that have failed part uploads. It's also understandable that bacula wouldn't 'fail' an admin job if the admin job ran into trouble in its script. After all, how should

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula cloud

2025-02-23 Thread Rob Gerber
Bill, Awesome. I'll check it out tomorrow. Regards, Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM Bill Arlofski wrote: > @Rob Gerber, all... > > I have just pushed a new feature which will notify on Cloud jobs with > cloud part transfer errors.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacularis feature request - keep comments?

2025-02-23 Thread Rob Gerber
Marcin, Thank you for the reply. That is all interesting information. I wasn't aware of the description or tag functionality. I will look into this. Regards, Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Sat, Feb 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM Marcin Haba wrote: > On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 at 18

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula cloud

2025-02-22 Thread Rob Gerber
replies inline below. A lot of things can affect reliability, and who knows, maybe there are > intermittent issues during backup jobs and cloud > volume part uploads which are out of your control causing some parts to > fail to be uploaded during the backup job itself, but > those issues do not

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula cloud

2025-02-22 Thread Rob Gerber
Replies inline below. Regards, Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM Marcin Haba wrote: > On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 at 03:21, Rob Gerber wrote: > > I'm using the s3 driver instead of the amazon driver. I read that the > new amazon driver is muc

[Bacula-users] Bacularis feature request - keep comments?

2025-02-22 Thread Rob Gerber
Hello, Starting a new thread for this subject. I don't usually use bacularis to edit director or storage resources because it strips out all the comments (baculum also does this, IIRC). I understand why it does that, since it has to parse the configuration and by definition the data after a # sig

[Bacula-users] Bacula cloud

2025-02-20 Thread Rob Gerber
Hello, Bacula 15.0.2 running on Rocky linux 9.4. I'm setting up a system that I will eventually deploy for a customer. This system is currently in the testing phase and nothing on it matters - yet. I have a set of jobs and resources that write to local file volumes. After the local backup jobs are

Re: [Bacula-users] change of hostname

2025-02-19 Thread Rob Gerber
That error means that bacula is unable to resolve the hostname of the client specified. >From the manual (buried on page 670-something, so pdf search is your friend): DE0060 Network connection error. Unable to resolve hostname via gethostbyname. I would suggest checking the bacula-dir.conf client

Re: [Bacula-users] data encryption support

2025-02-17 Thread Rob Gerber
Adam, I don't know for sure how to check if the default binaries supplied by Debian support encryption out of the box. I would suspect that the packages support SSL since that is a secure default. I do advise that you consider adding the bacula community repository and using a newer version of ba

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

2025-02-16 Thread Rob Gerber
Sebastian, Verify jobs of type DiskToCatalog don't need any volumes or tapes. They only reference the catalog for file dates/times/sizes /hashes and check the information found against the filesystem. Please note that the means of this verification might be configurable with a fileset option, so p

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Backup Problem

2025-01-15 Thread Rob Gerber
uses. Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 8:31 AM Rob Gerber wrote: > Hello Gina, > > Sorry, your screenshot did not come through. I think the mailing list > restricts large files. Maybe try uploading somewhere else and post the link > here? > > Ro

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Backup Problem

2025-01-15 Thread Rob Gerber
Hello Gina, Sorry, your screenshot did not come through. I think the mailing list restricts large files. Maybe try uploading somewhere else and post the link here? Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Wed, Jan 15, 2025, 8:26 AM Gina Costa wrote: > Hi, > > I´m using Bacula 9.6.5, and I

Re: [Bacula-users] Signatures and Verify options within FIleset Options

2025-01-09 Thread Rob Gerber
Thank you for bringing this up, John, and thank you for reviewing the code, Martin. I have submitted a documentation bug report in the bacula gitlab. Regards, Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM Martin Simmons wrote: > According to the code, it also allow

Re: [Bacula-users] retention strategy

2025-01-09 Thread Rob Gerber
rber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM Rob Gerber wrote: > I think there will no problem having one set of pools per FD, but maybe it > increases complexity for you. Otherwise, no space savings. > > I have a couple ideas. > > 1. Bacula has the 'aligned&

Re: [Bacula-users] retention strategy

2025-01-09 Thread Rob Gerber
ase, thank you for all the efforts you make to help me. Even if > I'm not sure I understand everything. > I'm still thinking about all this and if anyone else wants to shed some > light, don't hesitate. > > Regarding ZSTD, I confirm that it is already installed, call

Re: [Bacula-users] retention strategy

2025-01-08 Thread Rob Gerber
Maybe someone else can share some knowledge about how to make an admin job to delete / recycle volumes in status purged. Regards, Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM Rob Gerber wrote: > Replies below. :) > Regards, > Robert Gerber > 402-

Re: [Bacula-users] retention strategy

2025-01-08 Thread Rob Gerber
Replies below. :) Regards, Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM Christophe PEREZ via Bacula-users < bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Le mercredi 08 janvier 2025 à 14:46 -0600, Rob Gerber a écrit : > > Christophe, > > Hi Rob,

Re: [Bacula-users] retention strategy

2025-01-08 Thread Rob Gerber
Christophe, I will try to help. See replies below. On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 9:48 AM Christophe PEREZ via Bacula-users < bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > I would like to apply some job/file retention strategy but I don't know > how. > Here is what I would like: > I know you said you ha

Re: [Bacula-users] dummy job

2025-01-06 Thread Rob Gerber
Dummy resources are certainly possible. A fileset like you describe could simply lack any file definitions. It's that simple, I think. Bill A has some dummy definitions he uses, and I've adopted them. I've pasted a past email from Bill on this subject below. The words below this line were written

Re: [Bacula-users] full job runs again right after previous full job???

2025-01-02 Thread Rob Gerber
2-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Thu, Jan 2, 2025 at 9:02 AM Arno Lehmann via Bacula-users < bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Hi Rob, > > Am 30.12.2024 um 04:34 schrieb Rob Gerber: > > Happy new year, everyone! > > > > I have a testing environment that I&#x

Re: [Bacula-users] Incremental SQLite backups? (Thunderbird/Firefox/Mozilla)

2025-01-01 Thread Rob Gerber
Scar, I can't speak to sqlite because I don't know much about it. However, I would agree that merely backing up the databases in question could be risky for the reasons you stated. Performing incremental backups of the databases in Firefox and Thunderbird could be a significant challenge. While y

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Bacula: Backup Fatal Error of Client:qnap-data Fileset:qnap-data Differential

2024-12-31 Thread Rob Gerber
We probably aren't able to test this because you have purged the relevant jobs, but I would have been curious to see what a data verify job would have found. Perhaps the original backup job was corrupted in the volume somewhere? This is only a guess, and not an informed experience-based supposition

[Bacula-users] full job runs again right after previous full job???

2024-12-29 Thread Rob Gerber
Happy new year, everyone! I have a testing environment that I'm assembling for a client. Bacula 15.0.2, running in a rocky linux vm on a synology DS423+. I have tested backups with a windows FD using a windows VM running windows 11. This went well. A few days ago I added one of my windows 11 work

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

2024-12-13 Thread Rob Gerber
13.12.2024 um 13:02 schrieb Rob Gerber: > > Everyone, > > Thank you very much for all the help with this interesting problem and > > for your advice. > > > > Arno, > > that query very quickly returned 443123 lines. Looking through them, > > some were

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

2024-12-13 Thread Rob Gerber
P0j TaAhK IHw B Pu Pw A MQ2A6aB BAA BiGwPA BmNcn/ BmB6gd BnQLI1 A A C P0j TaAhK IHw B Pu Pw A MQ2A6aB BAA BiGwPA BmB6ge BmB6gd BmB6ge A A C P0j TaAhK IHw B Pu Pw A MQ2A6aB BAA BiGwPA BnQXpa BmB6gd BnQLI1 A A C Regards, Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Fri, Dec 13, 202

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

2024-12-13 Thread Rob Gerber
Everyone, Thank you very much for all the help with this interesting problem and for your advice. Arno, that query very quickly returned 443123 lines. Looking through them, some were longer than others. I wanted to count total entries for lstat, and they number around 2 million. So your query acc

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

2024-12-12 Thread Rob Gerber
20 PM Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users < bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > 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 b

[Bacula-users] unchanged files backed up multiple times

2024-12-12 Thread Rob Gerber
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 primary share, I am using a full/diff/inc backup

[Bacula-users] 15.0.x amazon driver usable with non-amazon s3 services?

2024-12-04 Thread Rob Gerber
Hello, Does the new bacula amazon driver work with non-amazon s3 endpoints? I ask because I was trying to use the amazon driver with backblaze's s3 compatible API and I got errors like this: td-bacula-sd JobId 40: Cloud Upload transfers: td-bacula-sd JobId 40: Error: test-group-user-bucket1-0012/

Re: [Bacula-users] Verify job error

2024-12-04 Thread Rob Gerber
Lionel, A few notes from my time learning about verify jobs: As said by Justin, you must have at least one job of type verify in your bacula-dir.conf. I tried to just change the job type at runtime and it didn't work correctly, as you have found. There are several verification levels: initcatalo

Re: [Bacula-users] SD volume encryption documentation

2024-12-04 Thread Rob Gerber
@craeon.net On Mon, Dec 2, 2024 at 1:00 PM Rob Gerber wrote: > Bill, > > Thanks for the reply. I've entered an issue on the bacula gitlab here > <https://gitlab.bacula.org/bacula-community-edition/bacula-community/-/issues/2736>. > > > I'll experiment with the

[Bacula-users] Object lock / s3 immutability for cloud backup

2024-12-04 Thread Rob Gerber
Hello, I am attempting to implement a bacula cloud backup solution using backblaze's b2 s3 compatible storage. I want to have different object lock periods defined for Full, Differential, and Incremental backups. My primary goal is to defend against a hypothetical ransomware threat that could atte

Re: [Bacula-users] SD volume encryption documentation

2024-12-02 Thread Rob Gerber
r 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Tue, Nov 26, 2024 at 4:15 PM Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users < bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > 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

[Bacula-users] SD volume encryption documentation

2024-11-26 Thread Rob Gerber
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 references documentation locations that don't exist "??". Does this documentation exist at this time, or is it coming later?

Re: [Bacula-users] windows nt 4.0 fd binary?

2024-11-22 Thread Rob Gerber
Pieter and Josh, Thank you both for your help. I'll experiment with these binaries and see what happens. Robert Gerber 402-237-8692 r...@craeon.net On Fri, Nov 22, 2024, 9:29 AM Josh Fisher via Bacula-users < bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > > On 11/

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