Am 21.03.25 um 15:13 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger via Bacula-users:
just a quick reply:
**thanks** a lot for all the help, I have to catch up still and will
read that next week when things calm down hopefully.
short addition:
I recently learn a bit of python ... and I take my bacula-tapes
I only noticed this branch of the thread right now.
Sorry for the silence so far.
I will work through your replies and suggestions asap, thank you.
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Am 24.06.25 um 08:41 schrieb Marcin Haba:
Hello Stefan,
On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 at 07:47, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Am 23.06.25 um 18:51 schrieb Marcin Haba:
It looks that your file records for that job are pruned. In this case
it is good to check and adapt the File Retention and AutoPrune
di
Am 24.06.25 um 15:11 schrieb Marcin Haba:
ok ... so I don't have anything wrong that triggered that (?)
I don't know because we don't see your pruning settings in the
Director configuration.
AutoPrune = yes
is set for the Client
and for 2 Pools as well, but not for the pools with the Archi
Am 23.06.25 um 18:51 schrieb Marcin Haba:
It looks that your file records for that job are pruned. In this case
it is good to check and adapt the File Retention and AutoPrune
directives. To make sure that it is this case, you can run in bconsole
(for jobid=):
list files jobid=
If you a
greetings
today a customer asks me for a list of files in a directory at a given
date in february
I open Bacularis-5.0.0, and want to use "Restore" to browse the database:
there's a job backing up the samba-share containing the relevant
directories.
What scares me:
I choose a FULL backu
Am 20.03.25 um 15:59 schrieb 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 fee
Am 19.03.25 um 11:52 schrieb Gary R. Schmidt:
Look up what the PoolId for "Daily" is from Pool and use Media.PoolId =
Whatever_That_Is rather than the non-existent (in my version of bacula)
Media.Pool.
I had tried that, but with errors. Retried, rm-ed the JOIN and Pool.Name
from the SELECT,
ok, I now have:
# cat bacula_tapes.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo -e "sql\nSELECT Media.MediaId, Media.VolumeName, Media.PoolId,
Pool.Name AS Pool, Media.Slot,\
Media.Slot <> 0 AS InChanger, Media.FirstWritten,
Media.LastWritten, Media.VolStatus, \
GREATEST(0, (extract('epoch' from LastWr
Am 14.03.25 um 15:21 schrieb Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users:
On 3/14/25 4:03 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger via Bacula-users wrote:
Am 14.03.25 um 07:48 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger via Bacula-users:
I use an 8-slot autoloader, I added a little bit of SQL to the query
file and just run that, it
Am 14.03.25 um 07:48 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger via Bacula-users:
I use an 8-slot autoloader, I added a little bit of SQL to the query
file and just run that, it lists my tapes from last-used to most recent.
I grab the three oldest, move them to the Scratch pool, purge them,
and replace the
Am 13.03.25 um 13:09 schrieb Gary R. Schmidt:
On 13/3/25 18:14, Stefan G. Weichinger via Bacula-users wrote:
thanks all for your replies and explanations.
It wasn't my intention to let somebody else do my work, no :-)
I see the complexity somehow, and wonder if I can at least come up
thanks all for your replies and explanations.
It wasn't my intention to let somebody else do my work, no :-)
I see the complexity somehow, and wonder if I can at least come up with
something that *helps* choosing the next 8 tapes each week.
Currently mostly I select the tapes, I am the exte
Am 04.03.25 um 08:17 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger via Bacula-users:
So basically I look into the "Volumes" part of Bacularis, look for
status "Append" or "Used", and take the tapes that are already
overwritable again.
And I look at the tapes in the loader which
Am 03.03.25 um 17:37 schrieb 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?
Sure.
At first: thanks for offering your help!
-
Basically we run one schedule with
Is there a way to generate an email (every N days) that lists the needed
tapes for the planned jobs ahead?
We need to automate the selection of tapes and send an email to a list
of tape-operators.
The schedule uses tapes out of several pools and so far I write the
"wish list" by looking a
Am 03.02.25 um 17:04 schrieb Marcin Haba:
Do I need this in the Device:
Autochanger = yes
Hello Stefan,
Yes, you need it because your device is a part of the autochanger.
If you want to use this device as a single independent Device, then
removing "Autochanger = yes" will be OK and then you
Am 04.02.25 um 08:56 schrieb Vanush "Misha" Paturyan:
On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 at 13:05, Stefan G. Weichinger via Bacula-users
wrote:
Does it work to install the centos-client on a xen-server and use that
for backing up VMs from there?
When you say "xen-server" do you mean Do
managed to label my first volume on the NAS
phew
pls suggest improvements:
# SD
Device {
Name = "NAS-Storage"
Description = "Backup NAS FPSS"
MediaType = "vtape1"
ArchiveDevice = "/mnt/bacula/nas_backup"
RemovableMedia = no
RandomAccess = yes
LabelMedia = yes
AlwaysOpen = no
Am 03.02.25 um 15:28 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger via Bacula-users:
Am 03.02.25 um 15:05 schrieb Marcin Haba:
On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 at 13:45, Stefan G. Weichinger via Bacula-users
wrote:
--- is that correct?
If I then go to that host-API page I try to import the settings but
somehow I never get
Am 03.02.25 um 15:05 schrieb Marcin Haba:
On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 at 13:45, Stefan G. Weichinger via Bacula-users
wrote:
--- is that correct?
If I then go to that host-API page I try to import the settings but
somehow I never get the slots displayed in bacularis etc
Something is missing and I
Does it work to install the centos-client on a xen-server and use that
for backing up VMs from there?
Any helper scripts to trigger snapshots or so?
I am only starting to research this, thanks for any pointers.
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Greetings, sorry to come up with that topic again, but I am caught in
loops here and can't find the solution.
I have a working setup with a tape-changer etc
Now I want to add a second autochanger:
it's a Samba-share on a NAS, I have added it to fstab with creds etc and
the bacula user can
At a customer we run specific archive-runs every 3 months and archive
the physical tapes away from their office site.
I use a pool "monthly" for that ... and mark the 4-5 tapes with Vol.
Status = Archive when I do these quarterly runs. The rest of the monthly
tapes are simply re-used for ..
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