Hi Fabian,
Others on the list may correct me if I’m wrong, but fundamentally Bacula treats
different filenames as different entities to be backed up, regardless of
content being shared across multiple files. The flags you have been changing
only relax the checks for a given filename to see whet
Hi Oliver,
> It’s possible to define that a job will be cancelled if this job is already
> queued or running?
Take a look at the “Allow Duplicate Jobs” and related directives in the Job
resource, described here:
http://www.bacula.org/9.0.x-manuals/en/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION001830
I manage a sizeable Bacula installation:
~70 FD
~10,000 volumes
~2,000 jobs currently in catalog of 45,000 jobs (lifetime for this instance of
director/catalog)
~4.8 PB currently tracked by jobs in catalog
~30.1TB largest single job (which took 3d 9h on last run)
This workload previously served f
Hi Jim,
Note that sudo requires the command be executed from a TTY by default for
security, which isn't compatible with how system services run. Do you have a
defaults entry for bacula that disables the "requiretty" option? Not having
this would manifest as a permission denied as if the sudo ru
Hi Jim,
> I am using bacula-7.0.5-7 which looks like it was packaged for el7 in May of
> 2015. I will use the SPEC and related files from it with the latest source
> and see where things go.
If you're looking for newer el6/7 releases to avoid building from source, take
a look at Slaanesh's COP
n nor do we run it on alternative systems like
Solaris. Too bad Solaris did not run the full Bacula regression tests :-)
Kern
On 01/28/2017 01:00 PM, Allan Black wrote:
> On 09/05/14 14:09, Allan Black wrote:
>> On 01/04/14 10:26, Roberts, Ben wrote:
>>>> It appears that t
Hi Michael,
> Fatal: repository 'http://git.bacula.org/bacula' not found.
Add ".git" to the end of your clone URL: http://git.bacula.org/bacula.git
Regards,
Ben Roberts
This email and any files transmitted with it contain confidential and
proprietary information and is solely for the use of the
The documentation is outdated and this limit was removed (or perhaps vastly
increased?) somewhere around the 7 mark. I’ve had jobs running a lot longer
since upgrading.
In branch-5.2:
http://www.bacula.org/git/cgit.cgi/bacula/tree/bacula/src/lib/bnet.c#n784
bsock->timeout = 60 * 60 * 6 * 24;
Hi Andreas,
Support for this was added in 7.0, you want "SD Calls Client" option enabled.
It's covered in the manual here:
http://www.bacula.org/7.4.x-manuals/en/main/New_Features_in_7_0_0.html#SECTION00512000
Alternative methods would be setting up a VPN (e.g. openvpn) to bypass th
Hi Shon,
> I am having an issue where when I run a status command in bconsole, select
> "Storage",
> I am only presented with the option for status on 3 of my defined storage
> resources.
> I am trying to figure out why this is, but am being left with a blank.
> Backups do seem
> to be running
> On a particular customer system, we find that the new job resource has not
> been loaded after the `reload` command has completed.
My workflow relies on the reload command heavily (puppet drops in updated
config files and executes the reload command afterwards; this normally works
very well.
Hi Luc,
If you don't want the messages to show up in the console at all, why not
disable them at source rather than strip them out retrospectively?
Messages {
console = !all
}
(which might be the default since I have "console = all, !skipped, !saved" in
my config file, I can't see from a qui
Hi,
> It would be far quicker to find the files I needed
> and it means I can do this search without interfering with the daily
> backups which are using the same drive. By the way, the CCTV isn't on 100%
> of the time, so having said that the files might not be present and/or the
> filenames not
Hi Tony,
> Has anyone got any experience using bacula with the Storagetek SL-3000?
> Or the SL-150 for that matter (they should behave the same way for what
> I'm told)
>
> I'm looking for real-life experience here, not something like "if it can
> be managed with mtx, then it _should_ work.."
I
Hi Kern,
>> Hard-coded, huh? Nobody's tried backing up that big data I keep hearing
>> about?
> No, there is no change in the hard coded 6 day limit, and at the moment, I
> personally
> am not planning to implement anything, for two reasons: 1. I would like to
> limit the
> number of new Direct
2015 16:39
To: Roberts, Ben; mike.br...@devnull.net.nz
Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Bacula-users] Bacula daemon message
This is all disk storage. I’m trying to truncate all expired volumes
immediately after all backups have completed so as to have maximum space
available when
g Bacula
is doing on its own.
Bryn
On 2015-01-17 10:54 AM, Polcari, Joe (Contractor) wrote:
Nope, none of that. No admin jobs. All my storage is File. Backups and restores
work fine.
From: Roberts, Ben [mailto:ben.robe...@gsacapital.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2015 1:05 PM
To: Polcari, Joe
Do you have an admin job in your config that's running console commands? It
looks like something is executing purge commands automatically which sounds
really rather dangerous to the health of your backups. The good news is it
doesn't seem to be working because you no longer have a "File" storag
tapes.
Regards,
Ben Roberts
> -Original Message-
> From: Alan Brown [mailto:a.br...@ucl.ac.uk]
> Sent: 17 December 2014 13:50
> To: Roberts, Ben; Cejka Rudolf; Bryn Hughes; Radosław Korzeniewski; Kern
> Sibbald
> Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subjec
To: Roberts, Ben; bacula-users
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Mini-Status report
Hello Ben,
Thanks for your feedback on pruning. While I was reading your email, I kept
wondering what version of Bacula you were running, because slowing down of the
console with version 5.2.x and before was a typical
Hi Kern,
Thanks for updating the docs regarding auto prune. I disabled this last week
and it has immediately fixed a long-running performance problem we were having
when Bacula was looking for appendable volumes for a running job. I bring this
up not only to report success but also because our
Hi Rainer,
> First problem:
> Starting Bacula this way doesn't work anymore:
> cd /etc/init.d
> ./bacula-dir start
You're going to have to do some good old fashioned debug to work this out.
Check the logs, try running the exact commands the init script executes (make
sure to do it as the same u
Hi Erik,
> Is it possible to run bacula-dir and bacula-sd on bacula-5.2.13 with
> bacula-fd running 7.0.x on another box?
The only officially supported combination is (director version == storage
daemon version) >= file daemon version.
Your mileage may vary but don't expect a newer file daemon
Hi Luca,
I’ve been using an LT60 S2 (SAS) with LTO-6 and LTO-04 drives for 12 months
(many hundreds of TB written). I’ve had no problems until recently and have
been happy with the unit on the whole (it is a significant improvement over the
StorageTek unit it replaced). I’m currently working th
Hi all,
I'd like to try and make some speed improvements to my Bacula setup (5.2.13,
Solaris11). I have data (and attribute) spooling enabled using a pool of 46x
1TB directly-attached SAS disks dedicated to this purpose. Data is being
despooled to 2x directly-attached SAS LTO6 drives at around
the latter, perhaps you can reply with your reasoning.
Ben Roberts
From: Peter Wood [mailto:peterwood...@gmail.com]
Sent: 01 October 2014 22:01
To: Roberts, Ben
Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] File volumes and scratch pool
Thank you Ben.
I applied the changes
Hi Peter,
You need to set “Recycle Pool = Scratch” in your Scratch pool (and make sure
you haven’t overridden it in any other poo)l. Note that this setting is applied
to the volume when it’s created, so after changing the Scratch pool definition
you will need to update all your volumes to re-ap
e Volumes just get created when needed. I still have to test if it works
> though.
>
> Regards,
> Florian S.
>
> Am 18.09.2014 um 11:42 schrieb Roberts, Ben:
> > > Now I actually had to wonder: Is there no way to have bacula do both
> > > labeling AND switc
> Now I actually had to wonder: Is there no way to have bacula do both
> labeling AND switching Volumes automatically?
> Or do I just misunderstand?
Personally I pre-label all my volumes into the Scratch pool, and let Bacula
handle moving volumes from there to a backup pool as needed. They're the
Hi Florian,
You would want a minimum of one Storage Device per distinct Media Type for a
reserved restore device and there's no requirement to have a reserved restore
device per client/job/etc so a single restore device would be OK. You can have
additional reserved restore devices but unless yo
Hi Florian,
>> Is using one Device Resource in the Storage daemon enough or is there any
>> use for an autochanger in this case?
> We do the same thing as this and have a single device resource with no
> autochanger.
Both options have their merits and drawbacks, so you should assess which would
> > You could use the expect command to script a reply to request as in:
>
> I could also use python's subprocess.Popen or execvp(3) and dup(2) in c.
> The way every proper unix utility works is
>
> bconsole -c "delete volume=xyz" -y
Bacula will do this for you without any other tools; you jus
Hi Vinicius,
You need to use a unique Media Type for each autochanger, e.g. “LTO5-Library1”
and “LTO5-Library2”. These are arbitrary string values, the exact name doesn’t
matter. Bacula believes a drive in library1 is suitable for loading a tape from
library2 because the same Media Type is used
> 1) Can we tune bacula config files for maximize backup speed?
Turn on attribute spooling to save on database round-trips during the backup
run (these will be inserted at the end). Try to measure where your bottleneck
is and then see if you can do anything about it: read I/O on the FD machine,
Hi Ankush,
> I would like to forcefully recycle tape, I follow below command from
> bconsole but not working.
> +-+--+---+---+-+
> | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes| VolFiles |
> +-+--+---+--
Hi Philip,
Bacula doesn’t have any issues with LTO6 media in general. I’m running with HP
LTO6 drives (in a Fujitsu LT60 S2, which I understand to be functionally
identical to an HP MSL4048) perfectly happily.
Regards,
Ben Roberts
From: Stevens, Philip [mailto:philip.stev...@igb.fraunhofer.de]
> Has nobody had this problem?
> Or did anyone succeed in compiling baculum on Centos 6.5?
> If so I would like to know what I am missing to get this running.
I had a similar problem with webacula. By default my bconsole binary had
something like 744 permissions so only root (the owner) could exe
Hi all,
I've got a tape library with 3xLTO6 drives and 1xLTO4 drive in it. All four
drives are managed by the same library, and the same changer device is used to
load either media type into any drive. I'd like to use them as follows:
1x LTO4 drive free for use by any job (likely to be restores
riginal Message-
> From: Korbinian Grote [mailto:gr...@genomatix.de]
> Sent: 21 May 2014 14:15
> To: John Drescher; Roberts, Ben; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Change a volume from 'Error' to 'Append'
>
> Thanks Ben & J
Hi Korbinian,
I've observed similar issues in the past. A job fails part way through and the
catalog is not updated leaving a mismatch in the number of files in the volume
versus what's recorded in the catalog. This is then detected the next time the
volume is used, and Bacula marks the volume
Hi Kern,
> It appears that the OS tape driver does not properly
> implement back space record after an EOT. This is a defect of the operating
> system driver, but it is not fatal for Bacula.
>
> You will very likely see this defect show up when Bacula fills a tape and
> writes the final EOT mark
Hi all,
While setting up a new tape library with HP LTO6 drives, btape test runs
successfully, but btape fill fails with what looks like a problem handling the
last block on the tape (perhaps an off-by-one error?). The outputs below are
repeatable with both LTO6 and LTO4 media, but I've been ab
provisioning calculations you had made. Bacula is being helpful by actually
upgrading the job to a full.
From: Gilberto Nunes [mailto:gilberto.nune...@gmail.com]
Sent: 14 March 2014 14:40
To: Roberts, Ben
Cc: John Drescher; bacula-users
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Full and Incremental...
014 14:14
To: Roberts, Ben
Cc: John Drescher; bacula-users
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Full and Incremental...
Just one more thing
I have differents Volumes, one for Full and other for Incremental...
On the Schedule I can define Full and Incremental like that?
Schedule {
Name = Backup
the Pool specifications provided in the Job resource."
Regards,
Ben Roberts
From: Gilberto Nunes [mailto:gilberto.nune...@gmail.com]
Sent: 14 March 2014 14:03
To: Roberts, Ben
Cc: John Drescher; bacula-users
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Full and Incremental...
but this will override
Instead of specifying the pools in the schedule, I use the Full Backup Pool and
Incremental Backup Pool options as below.
Pool {
Name = Samba-Full
Pool Type = Backup
Maximum Volume Jobs = 1
Volume Retention = 30 days
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
LabelFormat = FullMensal
}
chuerk...@nionex.net]
> Sent: 14 March 2014 09:36
> To: Roberts, Ben
> Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Progress estimates for jobs
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I created a similar console based tool a while ago which works similar to
> "top&qu
Hi,
I've built a simple dashboard internally for displaying the current status and
most recent completion of each job in the director. It also makes an estimate
of the average job size and run frequency (which we use for alerting when jobs
run unexpectedly late or are abnormally sized). I pull
You will need to enable Accurate mode in your job or jobdefs resource. This
lets Bacula keep track of files that have been deleted. See
http://www.bacula.org/manuals/en/install/install/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION0063
for more info.
Regards,
Ben Roberts
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From: Kern Sibbald [mailto:k...@sibbald.com]
Sent: 17 January 2014 19:35
To: Roberts, Ben; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Errors restoring from disk backup: Volume data
error
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From: Kern Sibbald [mailto:k...@sibbald.com]
Sent: 17 January 2014 17:23
To: Roberts, Ben; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Errors restoring from disk backup: Volume dat
> Are the failing block numbers always a little below 2^32 (like 4294944994 and
> 4294941825 in your messages)? If so, that maybe suggests a compiler
> bug if the same source code works when compiled on the older machine (or is it
> the same binary too?).
That is a very good spot, I hadn't picked
Hi Josh,
> Could you downgrade the client to 5.0.2? I know SD and DIR are backward
> compatible with older clients, but I'm not so sure what happens when the
> client is a newer version.
Since this exact topic came up in IRC last night, I tried a restore of a backup
made by a 5.0 client (RHEL
Hi all,
I've recently setup a new Bacula director/storage daemon in preparation to move
our existing backups to newer hardware. During testing, I've run into problems
doing restores of backups taken to disk, failing with the messages:
Error: block.c:275 Volume data error at 24:4294944994! Wan
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