Am 19.08.25 um 01:18 schrieb Marcin Haba:
Hello Everybody,
On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 at 23:49, Rob Gerber wrote:
regarding 'autochanger = something':
I read the bacula manual and typed a lot about it, but I'm not sure what I
typed or read was correct. At most, I would suggest searching the bacula
Am 18.08.25 um 23:48 schrieb Rob Gerber:
Glad it's working now!
me too!
re: encryption: What version of bacula are you running now? What errors
are you getting with encryption enabled?
It seems it wasn't able to access existing Volumes that were encrypted.
I disabled it to get the basics w
I have it working now.
Several additional issues with Encryption and Mediatype, but it
basically works again.
My mental mistake was the AutoChanger to begin with.
#SD
## other basic parts
Device {
Name = "FileStorage"
Description = "local storage on tx100:/mnt/tera/bacula"
MediaType =
Am 18.08.25 um 20:23 schrieb Rob Gerber:
I found something.
Your autochanger does not reference any of the 'drive' devices that
should be under its management.
oh
Additionally, your 'drive' device 'filestorage' is set to 'readonly =
yes'. This is only good if you want to reserve a drive for
Am 18.08.25 um 19:34 schrieb 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
Am 18.08.25 um 16:52 schrieb Marcin Haba:
Hello Stefan,
On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 at 16:40, Stefan G. Weichinger via Bacula-users
wrote:
Storage {
Name = "filestorage"
Description = "local storage on tx100:/mnt/tera/bacula"
SdPort = 9103
Address = &
Am 18.08.25 um 16:52 schrieb Marcin Haba:
Hello Stefan,
On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 at 16:40, Stefan G. Weichinger via Bacula-users
wrote:
Storage {
Name = "filestorage"
Description = "local storage on tx100:/mnt/tera/bacula"
SdPort = 9103
Address = &
Upgraded a local server to Debian-13 and in the process also upgraded
Bacula and moved to postgres-17.
Things work so far, but I decided to start over with the filestorage
wizard and now I have the situation that this filestorage waits for a
Mount ... where I expect it do that automatically
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
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
Bacularis will do full restore all
files. This is the same what can be done directly in Bconsole as well.
OK, thanks. So I wait for the tapes to be on site and try that.
And increase retention time or so, as soon as I understand the issue
discussed above.
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
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
it is standard procedure for most of the Bacula installations that
somebody "manually" selects the tapes regularly? Sure, with big
libraries it's not necessary, I understand.
Thanks, greetings, Stefan
ps: I still haven't found the time to look at that script using bconsole
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 O
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
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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 ..
Am 31.10.24 um 18:11 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
This change is for the binary package repositories. But please don't
worry. To get 4.4.0 you can also use any of other installation methods
like:
- installation with PHP Composer
- Docker container images
- manual installation
Am 31.10.24 um 15:32 schrieb Marcin Haba:
On Thu, 31 Oct 2024 at 15:04, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Am 31.10.24 um 14:45 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
But I have to report some issues with fetching the debian packages ...
in fact this doesn't work for me since 4.0.0 .. I never got
Am 31.10.24 um 14:45 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
But I have to report some issues with fetching the debian packages ...
in fact this doesn't work for me since 4.0.0 .. I never got newer
releases shown for upgrading.
I even regenerated my password at https://users.bacularis.com
pt install bacularis" gives me something like:
latest version installed (4.0.0~bookworm)
and "apt upgrade" does nothing.
btw
# cat /etc/debian_version
12.7
With the releases inbetween I always was too lazy to report or ask.
Today I do so ;-)
thanks, Stefan
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Am 21.10.24 um 17:15 schrieb Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users:
Not sure I would call FD encryption plus SD encryption "better", only
because you have the added task of managing the keys/certs on the
client(s) in addition to the SD re-encrypting the already FD-encrypted
data and you needing to ma
Am 20.10.24 um 20:13 schrieb Marcin Haba:
There is an option "Volume encryption" in the cloud storage resource, I
assume this would be redundant, right?
This is the storage daemon data volume encryption directive. It is not
used for the file daemon encryption.
As far as I understand if the f
Am 11.10.24 um 20:41 schrieb Marcin Haba:
Hello Stefan,
On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 at 20:26, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
did that, it seems to do something now ;-)
Super :-)
Do I understand correctly that it writes in to "/tmp/$somevol" at first
and then uploads data to the cloud?
Am 15.10.24 um 15:06 schrieb Dragan Milivojević:
RH is a bit conservative, especially when it comes
to server software that is not that widely used. In this case it was a
good decision
since the latest Bacula breaks the backups if you use accurate mode with pino5
settings.
Anyway you can use copr
In the repos I have registered to I find debs and rpms, but not built
specifically for Fedora (40).
Are there newer packages for Fedora than the 13.0.4 packages that come
from Fedora itself? It surprises me that a distro that is known for
being rather on the edge does not provide the latest
SecretKey = ""
Protocol = "HTTPS"
Hello Stefan,
One more thing. In Bacula 15 you can use the new 'Amazon' cloud driver.
To use it, in the storage daemon Cloud resource you need to change the old S3:
Driver = "S3"
into:
Driver = "Amazon
SecretKey = ""
Protocol = "HTTPS"
Hello Stefan,
One more thing. In Bacula 15 you can use the new 'Amazon' cloud driver.
To use it, in the storage daemon Cloud resource you need to change the old S3:
Driver = "S3"
into:
Driver = "Amazon&q
Am 11.10.24 um 19:54 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
Am 11.10.24 um 19:16 schrieb Marcin Haba:
On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 at 17:23, Stefan G. Weichinger
wrote:
Trying to set up an autochanger using a S3-compatible bucket in "the
cloud" (in my case at Contabo in germany).
Fresh installation
SecretKey = ""
Protocol = "HTTPS"
Hello Stefan,
One more thing. In Bacula 15 you can use the new 'Amazon' cloud driver.
To use it, in the storage daemon Cloud resource you need to change the old S3:
Driver = "S3"
into:
Driver = "Amaz
Am 11.10.24 um 19:16 schrieb Marcin Haba:
On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 at 17:23, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Trying to set up an autochanger using a S3-compatible bucket in "the
cloud" (in my case at Contabo in germany).
Fresh installation of Bacula-15.0.2, Bacularis-4.0.0 on a Debian-12
Trying to set up an autochanger using a S3-compatible bucket in "the
cloud" (in my case at Contabo in germany).
Fresh installation of Bacula-15.0.2, Bacularis-4.0.0 on a Debian-12.7
machine.
Added the packages: bacula-cloud-storage-s3 plus
bacula-cloud-storage-common
Restarted all the
Am 03.09.24 um 08:05 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
Am 31.08.24 um 08:25 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
Logs show:
# journalctl -u bacula-fd
Aug 28 20:07:16 samba bacula-fd[958]: samba-fd: job.c:3698-5189 Bad
response from SD to Append Data command. Wanted 3000 OK data
Aug 28 20:07:16 samba
Am 31.08.24 um 08:25 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
Logs show:
# journalctl -u bacula-fd
Aug 28 20:07:16 samba bacula-fd[958]: samba-fd: job.c:3698-5189 Bad
response from SD to Append Data command. Wanted 3000 OK data
Aug 28 20:07:16 samba bacula-fd[958]: , got len=25 msg="3903 Error
a
On 31.08.24 07:56, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
As mentioned I added that Runscript and it seems to work.
Now I got 2 emails per job this night.
For each job like:
Bacula: Backup OK of samba-fd Full
there is also one with
Bacula: Console Unknown term code of samba-fd
that's
As mentioned I added that Runscript and it seems to work.
Now I got 2 emails per job this night.
For each job like:
Bacula: Backup OK of samba-fd Full
there is also one with
Bacula: Console Unknown term code of samba-fd
that's "new" ;-)
The backup job report looks OK.
For reference one of
Am 30.08.24 um 10:49 schrieb Marcin Haba:
On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 at 09:46, Stefan G. Weichinger <mailto:li...@xunil.at>> wrote:
Sounds great. May I ask why this isn't enabled by default?
Hello Stefan,
Yes, it is a good practice and a good idea. I think it isn't enabled
that in the Bvfs
restore process there is one more key moment in the last wizard step but
for 2 files to restore and with PostgreSQL database I am sure that you
will not experience it :-)
looking forward to use this enhancement
I will also read the rest of the thre
search for the files in the jobs etc
thanks for any hints. Stefan
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Am 02.08.24 um 10:04 schrieb Martin Simmons:
On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 07:36:36 +0200, Stefan G Weichinger said:
Am 01.08.24 um 18:08 schrieb Martin Simmons:
finds no volumes to migrate
"media list" lists ~40 volumes in Pool "File"
I would still appreciate some help here.
Am 01.08.24 um 18:08 schrieb Martin Simmons:
finds no volumes to migrate
"media list" lists ~40 volumes in Pool "File"
I would still appreciate some help here.
Maybe the problem is the VolStatus? It must be "Full", "Used" or "Error" to
be considered for migration with SelectionType = "Olde
On 01.08.24 18:08, Martin Simmons wrote:
Maybe the problem is the VolStatus? It must be "Full", "Used" or "Error" to
be considered for migration with SelectionType = "OldestVolume".
The VolStatus of the source volumes or the target volumes?
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On 01.08.24 18:08, Martin Simmons wrote:
Maybe the problem is the VolStatus? It must be "Full", "Used" or "Error" to
be considered for migration with SelectionType = "OldestVolume".
re-read, sorry. Must be the source volumes, right?
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Am 09.07.24 um 13:16 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
I have:
Pool {
Name = "Daily"
Description = "daily backups"
PoolType = "Backup"
MaximumVolumes = 30
VolumeRetention = 864000
VolumeUseDuration = 432000
Storage = "HP-Autoloader"
I have:
Pool {
Name = "Daily"
Description = "daily backups"
PoolType = "Backup"
MaximumVolumes = 30
VolumeRetention = 864000
VolumeUseDuration = 432000
Storage = "HP-Autoloader"
}
Pool {
Name = "File"
PoolType = "Backup"
LabelFormat = "Vol-"
MaximumVolumes = 45
MaximumV
Am 04.07.24 um 15:20 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
Am 04.07.24 um 01:16 schrieb Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users:
Your status storage shows that it is reading from the "daily" pool,
using the tape drive "HP-Ultrium", and it is wanting to write to the
"Daily" p
Am 04.07.24 um 01:16 schrieb Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users:
Hello Stefan,
Something is quite wrong here... :)
And a lot of extra information is missing.
Your status storage shows that it is reading from the "daily" pool,
using the tape drive "HP-Ultrium", and it is wan
I can't get that migrate job running.
Job {
Name = "migrate-to-tape"
Type = "Migrate"
Pool = "File"
NextPool = "Daily"
JobDefs = "DefaultJob"
PurgeMigrationJob = yes
Enabled = yes
MaximumSpawnedJobs = 20
SelectionPattern = "."
SelectionType = "OldestVolume"
}
I have disk
Am 21.06.24 um 16:31 schrieb Radosław Korzeniewski:
Hello,
czw., 20 cze 2024 o 17:46 Stefan G. Weichinger <mailto:li...@xunil.at>> napisał(a):
Well, it looks for a volume named "Vol-xxx" in the tape loader,
which is
wrong.
Any chance you can share your j
Am 25.06.24 um 17:43 schrieb Martin Simmons:
On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 12:59:03 +0200, Stefan G Weichinger said:
I see various issues, maybe related to defective tapes also.
Volumes that are in mode "Append" are loaded and not written to as in:
25-Jun 12:52 samba-sd JobId 2840: 33
Am 25.06.24 um 17:43 schrieb Martin Simmons:
I "Purge" them, mark them as "Append" ... doesn't work.
Don't manually mark them as "Append" because that tells Bacula to wind forward
to the end of the data before writing. The "Purge" operation just affects the
catalog, not the data on the tape.
Am 25.06.24 um 12:59 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
my director conf is 863 lines long, I assume I should pick out the
relevant parts. Will try to.
ok, showing config
I removed Jobs and Filesets for other VMs and Samba-Shares, that are
just edited copies of the shown ressources (I assume) to
Am 19.06.24 um 09:46 schrieb Radosław Korzeniewski:
Then you should put all your new tapes in the Scratch pool during
labeling, so Bacula can take one to the selected pool when required.
Finally you should configure the "Recycle" pool parameter pointing to
the Scratch pool, so all your unused t
On 21.06.24 16:31, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote:
There are multiple places it could be wrong. You will never know unless
you will get a whole picture.
Now we only have a few puzzle pieces which do not match together.
Sure, I will compile config and logs asap and come back here.
thanks
_
. But I take this as a "challenge" to learn more about the
mechanisms of Bacula.
(if I get migrate-jobs from File to Tape working without losing any
data, that might be even better ... then remove storage "File" after
doing so)
thanks, Stefan
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Am 19.06.24 um 09:46 schrieb Radosław Korzeniewski:
Did you label your tapes? You can't use tapes in Bacula without labeling.
Sure I did!
When you label your tapes, just use "barcodes" options and Bacula will
read all barcodes from tapes and label them to match.
Then you should put all your
nd = "/opt/bacula/scripts/make_catalog_backup.pl MyCatalog"
}
Runscript {
RunsOnClient = no
RunsWhen = "After"
Command = "/opt/bacula/scripts/delete_catalog_backup"
}
Priority = 11
Pool = "Daily"
}
Anything missing? I get a bit lost here and don't want to
"overconfigure" things where there might be clever defaults or automatisms.
addon: for weekly and monthly the catalog should run to the according
tapes, not to a "daily" tape, right?
Somewhere I read the catalog should (additionally?) be written to File,
that would complicate it even more.
Thanks in advance for any help here. It seems that is the missing bit
for this config to be running autonomously for a week or so (which isn't
the case yet unfortunately ...)
Stefan
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Am 13.06.24 um 14:05 schrieb Marcin Haba:
This is wrong because if multiple commands are closed in one big quotes,
it is treated as one command that does not exist, so it causes no access
to anything.
You need to write it as this (without quotes):
CommandAcl = gui, .api, .status, .storage
Am 13.06.24 um 12:44 schrieb Marcin Haba:
You don't need to restart anything. Are you sure that you set all
CommandAcl directive values in the Console ACL? They should be one
command per one CommandAcl field:
CommandAcl = gui
CommandAcl = .api
CommandAcl = .status
CommandAcl = .storage
Comman
interested as well, I need to speedup my weekly/monthly FULL runs
(with LTO6, though: way slower anyway).
Shouldn't the file daemon do multiple jobs in parallel?
To tape you can only write ONE stream of data.
To the spooling disk there could be more than one stream.
Yes, that seems wrong:
Am 13.06.24 um 10:24 schrieb Marcin Haba:
On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 at 10:02, Stefan G. Weichinger <mailto:li...@xunil.at>> wrote:
I don't see how to assign the ACL to that user, sry
In the create API basic user window there is an option with label:
"Create dedicated B
Am 12.06.24 um 17:09 schrieb Marcin Haba:
Hello Stefan,
Thanks for your question. It showed me that it might be good to
add descriptions for the resources available for each role and probably
a new section in the documentation that describes it.
For the question about setting access for the
Could someone point me at a HOWTO or doc or point out a meaningful list
of roles/permissions to assign to a bacularis user who should be able to:
- list volumes
- manage the autochanger
maybe later
- label volumes
?
I don't want to give that employee full access, but I am a bit
overwhelm
Am 06.06.24 um 15:57 schrieb Marco Gaiarin:
Mandi! Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
In chel di` si favelave...
Not for a single job. When the storage daemon is writing a job's spooled
data to tape, the client must wait. However, if multiple jobs are
running in parallel, then the other jobs will
I had to run backups to Disk only while the tape drive was repaired.
Now the drive returned and I would like to migrate all the backups on
disk to tape.
"Migrate" Jobs should help here, right?
I defined a job like this:
Job {
Name = "migrate-to-tape"
Type = "Migrate"
Storage = "File"
Am 03.06.24 um 08:51 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
Fourth, please reply back with the results from the above tests, and
with any other information you think may be important.
I will do asap. Right now I wait for their admin to swap all the tapes etc
the btape test went completely OK
In the
Am 02.06.24 um 17:00 schrieb Rob Gerber:
Well, I think something is wrong here. I WOULD NOT write any data or an
EOF to any production tapes with valuable data. This will almost
certainly lead to data loss. To be perfectly clear, if you rewind a tape
and write EOF to that tape, the data previou
the drive was repaired, the head (?) replaced
Now I have issues with the tapes labeled by the old drive ...
I assume I should relabel them but that alone doesn't always lead to
bacula correctly recognizing the tapes.
And the procedure to relabel multiple tapes is a bit of manual work
becau
Am 20.05.24 um 11:44 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
Is there an easy way to delete all volumes belonging to a specific Job-ID?
For now I looked it up in Bacularis: check which jobs are on which
(disk-based) volume, rm the volume in Bacularis, then rm the
corresponding file from disk (in the
Am 15.05.24 um 16:02 schrieb Rob Gerber:
To manually remove the disk volumes, and associated job and file
entries, do a delete operation. Easily done in Bacularis or baculum, (I
haven't done it in bconsole though I'm sure it's doable there too). I
would have a catalog backup restored BEFORE I
Am 15.05.24 um 16:02 schrieb Rob Gerber:
Stefan, are your bacula catalog backups being made to a disk volume, as
is default, or to a tape volume? If being made to a disk volume you
could restore a catalog backup. If your catalog backups were being made
to that same machine whose backups were
Am 08.05.24 um 13:13 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
I assume the drive has a problem.
we used a new cleaning tape and a new LTO tape, btape still fails
I tend to say this drive is defective
Today the IT and the CEOs decide how to proceed.
For now I created a temporary file-based storage on
I assume the drive has a problem.
btape append test fails ...
dmesg:
[Mi Mai 8 10:18:32 2024] scsi 1:0:7:1: Power-on or device reset occurred
[Mi Mai 8 10:18:32 2024] ch 1:0:7:1: [ch0] reading element address
assignment page failed!
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even btape fails
# /opt/bacula/bin/btape /dev/nst0
Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes.
btape: butil.c:298-0 Using device: "/dev/nst0" for writing.
btape: btape.c:477-0 open device "HP-Ultrium" (/dev/nst0): OK
*test
=== Write, rewind, and re-read test ===
I'm going to write 1 records and
Am 07.05.24 um 18:21 schrieb Rob Gerber:
Wait a sec - look at this again:
# mtx -f /dev/sg4 status
Storage Changer /dev/sg4:1 Drives, 8 Slots ( 0 Import/Export )
Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 4 Loaded):VolumeTag =
CMR921L6
Storage Element 1:Full :VolumeTag=CMR904L6
Am 07.05.24 um 17:04 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
Could it be related to something like blocksizes?
These tapes were used with Amanda before.
trying another tape now
I really get lost here. Wanted to re-label a tape to start over:
# systemctl stop bacula-sd
# mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
# mt
more info:
restarted daemons
entered bconsole
mounted a slot, labelled the tape
Catalog record for Volume "CMR921", Slot 4 successfully created.
Requesting to mount HP-Autoloader ...
3001 Device ""HP-Ultrium" (/dev/nst0)" is mounted with Volume "CMR921"
started a (test) job to backup the c
On the weekend I tried to use a "weekly" pool for a set of full backups.
It failed with a tape error and since then we fail to get on track again.
Multiple reboots of the library, change of tapes, relabeling etc
I try for example to stop all bacula-services and unload a tape:
# mtx -f /dev/sg
Am 11.04.24 um 07:49 schrieb Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users:
On 4/10/24 11:38 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
First coffee here right now ;-)
Thanks for your example.
Hello Stefan,
You are welcome!
Well, it is 23:41 here now, so I have switched from coffee to beer. :)
Understandable
I think those special chars are already in the filesystem like this.
It's no big deal as long as they are in the backups ;-)
Choosing files in the GUI is still possible, it just looks ugly or
incorrect somehow.
I will check if that relates to the way samba was set up there etc (the
relevan
Am 10.04.24 um 16:45 schrieb Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users:
Hello Stefan,
No, this will not backup anything because you have not specified
anything to backup with a `File = /path/to/somewhere` inside of your
`Include{}` block. So far, you have only set something (WildFile) inside
of an
Am 10.04.24 um 14:25 schrieb Rob Gerber:
I don't think it is correct, no.
I am not an expert, but last time I tried something like this I believe
the suggestion I was given was to use a runbefore script to run a find
command or similar to locate and build a file list, then give that list
to b
Is this Fileset correct?
Fileset {
Name = "VM_xxx-y"
Include {
Options {
WildFile = "\"/mnt/backup/vmbackup/Backup xxx-y/*.vbk\""
}
}
}
I don't get files with this ... seems not to match.
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Am 09.04.24 um 08:38 schrieb Marcin Haba:
Hello Stefan,
Yes, filenames displayed in the restore process.
Also it might be good to check how the names are stored in the database
in the File table if everything is fine there.
will try that in an hour or so.
currently editing Jobs and doing
Am 09.04.24 um 08:04 schrieb Marcin Haba:
Hello Stefan,
I agree with Anders' advice to check Bacula first. Bacula stores file
names in the database as they are, without interpreting them, no
encoding conversion. It means that something is wrong on the input when
names are stored, it
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