I am trying out bacula and reading the manual, I have some questions
about what people do as best practice wrt to multiple clients and disc
volumes.
How big an issue are concurrent jobs being streamed to disc? Should I
most certainly always avoid this?
In 13.5, its suggested that each client writ
Is there a way in Bacula to output the stream destined to the media
director to multiple clients for redundancy, or should I manage this
at the OS level?
I need to keep a 3 way replication of the backup volumes and if there
is a way to let bacula manage this, it would simplify things for me.
If n
Is it possible to write includes in the dir conf file
to include any combination of resource types to keep the
single file from growing large and to segment configuration
from just a viewing/edit perspective?
Thanks,
jlc
>You can use rsync to mirror the volume files. You can even schedule
>this in a bacula job so that the synchronization happens after all
>other jobs. See how the catalog backup works for the idea.
Ahh, priority being the ticket here. I will just shell script this then
with the catalogue backup.
T
The sigs for the gpg key on the sourceforge download don't
match the sigs on the el5 rpms, anyone know where to get the
proper key?
Thanks!
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Anyone know of existing Bacula 3.0.2 packages for these
two distros?
Blastwaves are old and I don't want to compile from source
on these production machines.
Thanks,
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Is this not possible/wise? No matter what I do, following the dvd setup
my backup stalls waiting for me to mount, then label media? I would rather
have bacula mount the location when it needs to write to it.
Thanks!
jlc
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Is this possible to do so that mysql binaries and libraries are not
needed?
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>You need to better describe your problem. Post error messages and
>describe what media you are using. I am confused with you talking
>about both NFS and dvd.
John,
Sorry for the confusion, I am trying to setup a device in bacula-sd.conf
that behaves like a DVD but for NFS. I just hoped it would m
>The user community should make an effort to offer pre-compiled fd's and sd's
>for various OSes. I was in the same dilemma.
Did you just manually compile the whole thing?
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>Autofs should do the trick although I have never used it this way with bacula.
Yea, much simpler:)
>Any reason why you do not have a bacula SD on the NFS server?
Because I am trying to avoid compiling on this Solaris server and I
can't find 3.0.2 packages in any Solaris repo:( I do want to get
>Alas not, because building the SD also builds the tools like bscan, which do
>need a database.
>
>However, you can build Bacula with sqlite instead of mysql as long as you only
>need the bacula-sd program. Sqlite can be built from source in the depkgs
>download.
Thanks for that info! Is it feasi
After manually deleting the bacula mysql db, if I perform a
"status storage=" in bconsole, I see old terminated jobs.
Where is this coming from?
Thanks!
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>I always compile from source on production Solaris 9 & 10 machines.
I learned my lesson ages ago with doing such things on with
distros that utilize a package manager (even though Solaris 10's is
worth sh!t). From that day forward I try my hardest to always use the
package manager, and it looks l
With most of my jobs, Bacula handles the Full on an off day if
required based on the previous status of the backup in the pool.
So I have one job, and the schedule determines when the Full/Diff
is done. I am trying to accomplish the same thing with my exchange
backup which uses a RunBefore script
>Really? Where does it say that, exactly? I looked at what I believe in
>the relevant section of the manual, and I came away with a completely
>different understanding.
In the middle of general Functionality of
http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Variable_Expansion.html
But, now that I read it
>Unfortunately, this is more or less irrelevant to what you're doing.
>You need to be looking at the section of the manual that details the Job
>resource, specifically the RunScript directive:
>
>http://bacula.org/3.0.x-manuals/en/install/install/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION0063000
I have a schedule defined as follows:
Schedule {
Name = "Server Data Weekly Cycle"
Run = Level=Full mon at 18:00
Run = Level=Differential tue-fri at 18:00
}
A job as follows:
Job {
Name = "Backup-Data-client"
Client = client-fd
JobDefs = "Default"
Pool = "Svr_Data"
Storage = name
>When you ran the job the first and second time, do you mean you
>initiated the job manually (i.e. with the "run" command in the console)
>or do you mean you sat back, did nothing, and let bacula start the job
>all by itself based on the schedule?
I used the run command (Well weBacula did actually
>You're not actually testing your schedule settings when you run the job
>manually.
Cedric/Mike,
Thanks for clearing all this up, that makes sense about not using the schedule
when
executed manually and the default behavior when not specified (As I was
specifying
it in the schedule).
It's now
I have MySQL installed and used a configure script like so:
CFLAGS="-g" ./configure \
--prefix=/opt/bacula \
--sbindir=/opt/bacula/bin \
--sysconfdir=/opt/bacula/bin \
--with-mysql=/usr/mysql/5.1 \
--enable-smartalloc \
--with-pid-dir=/opt/bacula/bin/working \
--with-subsys-dir=/opt/b
>Thanks for clearing all this up, that makes sense about not using the schedule
>when
>executed manually and the default behavior when not specified (As I was
>specifying
>it in the schedule).
I spoke to soon, looking at the schedule, it correctly showed the
intended Job Type. It started with a
>I would suggest running in debug mode (-d).
>The Init script changes to the correct user. So run the init script with
>pfexec.
>You should also check for the right permissions on the logfiles. Maybe it is a
>problem with connecting to the database.
Tries the -d switch, I am only running the Sto
>Did you test the config file?
>/path/to/bacula-sd -t -c /path/to/bacula-sd.conf
Yup, no warning.
>I run bacula-sd as user & group bacula
Heh, turned out that the install scripts never created the
pid directory! Why there was no error, who knows:)
Working now!
Thanks everyone!
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>I spoke to soon, looking at the schedule, it correctly showed the
>intended Job Type. It started with a Full on the specified time in
>the Schedule and the next few scheduled times after that had specified
>Differential's so the schedule showed this.
>
>When it came time to run it (on its own as p
I am trying to deduce how to recover from just replicated disc volume
sets in the event the catalogue or entire Bacula server is lost.
What are the ramifications or requirements surrounding the placement of
the volumes on the new server? Can the Device I place them in have a
different Name and Med
I have several mixed clients all backing up to Linux and Solaris
SD's. The windows fileserver's are taking far too long, so in looking
at this, I noticed the cpu utilization on the Windows FD's isn't very
high but the SD are, why is that? Searching the forum showed compression
is done at the FD lev
>no, in sense of configuration. this is a known limitation of gzip
>compression. if you're on LAN (gigabit) you might wan't to disable it if
>you backup to tape (use tapes hardware compression) or if you backup to
>file, use a compressed filesystem (maybe: http://miio.net/wordpress/
>projects/fusec
>To me everything looks good. The CentOS/el5 RPMs should be signed with my key
>0xFAF24CCA which is available as
>http://sourceforge.net/projects/bacula/files/rpms-contrib-fschwarz/rpmkey/fschwarz.asc/download
>
>- Can you tell me which RPMs specifically had that problem?
>- Which key was used to s
>cpu high on sd ? Did you use a soft raid ( level 5 ? )
>or wrong params for the fs .
No raid, actually this was a test box setup with a kickstart file
using /tmp as the device location. Bizzare...
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>Are dir also running on this machine ?
Nope.
>So perharps the db config is too low ( default conf tend to be friendly with
>hardware resources )
>and if batch-insert is enable, bacula write the batch table also in /tmp so
>there's concurrency on the same drive.
Reading up on this in the manua
Is it possible to manipulate the fileset based on the job? For example, a
RunScript parameter has a %l to pass the Job Level on, can the fileset somehow
be manipulated like this as well?
Thanks,
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>Hey, that sounds interesting, I did note eaven know that, can you point
>me to the on line documentation where I could find more about that?
Hannes,
The area in the docs is under the Director Config Job Resource:
http://www.bacula.org/3.0
>Any hints concerning the restore?
I very much encourage you to read MS whitepaper on Exchange DR.
Its backup software agnostic, but provides lots of info, its
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I am trying to execute a simple scp of the bootstrap files after the catalog
backup.
It always says:
ClientAfterJob: /var/lib/bacula/*.bsr: No such file or directory
When run as root at the shell, it works fine. As the director runs as bacula, I
checked perms, and /var/lib/bacula and all the .bsr
>Hi,
>
>Shouldn't it be "RunAfterJob", since the bootstrap files are on the director?
>
>On the JobDef, where are you putting the bootstraps? ( for me, in the default
>JobDef there's 'Write bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/%c_%t_%n.bsr" ' - %c =
>client name, %t = job >type, %n = jobname )
>
>Cheers,
>That’s because the shell interprets the * glob but bacula doesn’t.
>The shell will replace "/var/lib/bacula/*.bsr" with a list of matching
>file names (if these files exists) while bacula will send the string
>as is to the program. The solution is to put your command into a
>shell script and exec
I have a job that runs either fulls or diffs, sometimes when
there is a problem on the client, the diff will hang. That
being the case I figured I would config a max time for the diff.
Looking for a "Differential Max Run Time" like "Incremental Max Run Time"
but there is only a "Differential Max Wa
>There are now 8 volumes so what is the correct way to bring this back
>to how I intended.
I should have mentioned that I did run Update/Volume parameters/All Volumes
from all Pools & update/pools as well, so that leaves me with just removing
the volumes. I am guessing I have to see what's in the
I have mistakenly created a pool with "Maximum Volume Files = 5"
instead of "Maximum Volumes= 5" as I meant. There are now 8 volumes
so what is the correct way to bring this back to how I intended.
Also, given that one of the jobs writes ~400,000 files, how did they
all end up in one volume with t
>I hope you also changed the configuration file and reloaded it -
>otherwise, newly created volumes will get the wrong settings again!
Yup, I restarted the director before running the updates in bconsole.
>Obviously, waiting until the volumes are automatically recycled is the
>easiest approach. I
>Yet the default backup jobs always fails.
Well, what does the log say about why? Is it looking for a pool
that doesn't exist or have been fully defined?
>I wish to backup to a device which is mounted on /backup - it's a NAS with a
>good few TB of storage - how would I go about >doing this? I am
>Hi, I have a very simple question. Can bacula be used to back up to a NAS
>instead of a tape drive?
http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=faq
#2 :)
It'll do just about anything,
http://www.bacula.org/3.0.x-manuals/en/install/install/Storage_Daemon_Configuratio.html#SECTION0083
>Does anyone know if the reload command really works in bconsole?
>For the manual, only works in some situations. Has anyone tested
>this command?
>From my highly limited and inexperienced use of it, it often failed
more than worked for me.
Currently when I run it, I get:
Cannot open config file
>I have used this over 100 times without problem in the 5 years I have
>used bacula. Well that is if I do a test first.
>
>bacula-dir -t /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf
>
>In the past if you had an error in your .conf file it would crash the
>director so I always test first..
Well, I run the test w/o
>What are the permissions of /etc/bacula?
Ugh, how could I have missed that :)
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After an selinux policy change in rhel 7.1, I am no longer able to define
commands
as runascript parameters. An option to explore by an RHEL employee was locating
an actual script on the client in /usr/libexec/bacula and labelling it
accordingly.
However, this presents a challenge as then server
Running 7.0.5 on centos 7 and I am starting to get errors in /var/log/messages
with
bacula-sd: bacula-sd: block.c:304-27298 Incorrect EndBlock/EndFile
oldEndBlock=-1838 newEndBlock=62674 oldEndFile=7 newEndFile=8
while the bacula-sd related lines in the job log don't show this.
Why do the job lo
> Bottom line: Thanks for reporting this. Don't worry about it, just
> ignore those messages.
Thanks Kern,
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When restoring a job and choosing all files, the Files Expected count appears
to be consistent:
2016-01-30 11:54:35 bacula-dir JobId 27874: Bacula bacula-dir 7.4.0 (16Jan16):
Build OS: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu redhat (Core)
JobId: 27874
Job:
> just tried to install bacula-fd on a Windows 10 client with local
> administrator via Teamviewer (not RDP), but ran into the same error.
> any other hints for this issue?
>
> best regards
> martin
The problem has nothing to do with using rdp or not, it has to do with
the installer's service c
I have a runbefore set to fail the job on error yet the binary which is
executed exits with a
return code of 1 and the job continues.
Known issue?
Thanks,
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> Hello Joseph
>
> I've made a test and worked fine for me.
Ugh,
I just went to generate fresh output and noticed it was an issue with sqlcmd.exe
not exiting non-zero as I thought, it was mistake.
Sorry guys,
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I have a series of hosts to decommission, in order for a file restore to be
performed to
an alternate client, what is the minimum configuration that must be retain from
Client,
Job and FileSet declarations?
Thanks,
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> What process keeps the bacula database size under control?
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>Here's an example of what I get in the logs (of course, I changed the
>machine names):
That looks more like the log that encounters the error, not the log from which
time
the error was produced. What does the log look like for the last job that wrote
to
that volume?
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> I have configured Bacula 5.2.12 on RHEL 6.4 some time back and it is
> working fine. Now I want to configured this Solution to take backup of
> some clients which are already in production. Please confirm me this
> is possible to take backup of these clients or not using Bacula
> 5.2.12/13 server
I am using current packages from the bacula epel repo on centos 6.5 x64. These
packages are compiled with support for Python, although the docs are rather thin
on the usage, I haven't been able to make this work. I can get the file to load
and
identify the methods but it seems the director never a
> Does anyone have a script that they use as a run before to backup sql 2012?
Use the runbefore method to perform whatever prerequisites you would if
sitting at the console, the direct the file list to the output of that.
I do this two ways, using sqlcmd to dump them or using VSS to ensure the
a
> This is Webacula 5.5.1, on a CentOS 6.5 system, Bacula 7.0.5 and the database
> is Postgres 8.4
Although I don't ever use Webacula, bconsole is so much easier for me, I do
have the exact
same setup on one system and it works fine. You likely have some local issue
that could be
resolved if you
>We're thinking about buy a LTO Ultrium HP external drive.
FWIW, I have had very bad luck w/ HP branded LTO's, for several years
they had low MTBF and not last long for me...
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>tape-drives, ditto is our current StorageTec SL500. From my limited view
>HP is inside everything..
After the last library tanked, I migrated to Bacula and disked based backups
to 3 different servers, 2 of which are remote.
>It's a Windows workstation and I've set up the system where the person can
>just click a shortcut that activates his job and he gets the notification
>about the job by e-mail later. So rsync is not an option.
Why not? I do a lot of bacula based backups from windows machines that utilize
cwrsync
>I'm new to bacula and would appreciate some advice on securing mysql with
>bacula. I have installed bacula-3.0.3 on Centos 5.4 with MySQL and all
>seems to be working well. My only concern is how to add password
>protection to the mysql database and not cause any of the bacula scripts
>to stop wor
>I would really appreciate it if someone could look over the bacula-dir.conf
>file below which I took from the manual and modified. The manual example is
>in chapter 25 'Automated Disk Backup' however when I used this bacula
>returned an error about no default pool being defined. I therefore added
>So it seems the bacula-dir.conf file is doing what it is supposed to do. Of
>course I may be misinterpreting everything but it does seem to be
>functioning as I need it to.
I found when I was learning it the most useful approach I had was
to actually just sit and read each Resource Definition in
I thought I would compile and test out 5 for a new setup I am migrating to.
As it's a test box, there is no password for bacula. It runs fine and the
pg_hba.conf has the modifications to allow access. I can run a catalog backup
as root, but bacula is failing with:
Can't get catalog information at
>From what I can see under the backups, VSS is successfully being used,
>backing up files (open or closed), MSDE, IIS, and various other things
>- just like I would like to expect.
Looks fine to me...
>What I would like to know however, is how to restore these VSS snapshots?
What to understand
>For such a full backup, you need some secondary windows installation
>for the resore itself - for Server 2003 and XP, BartPE is a convenient
>way to get such a thing. For newer Windows versions, you probably best
>use Microsoft's PE system (I haven't actually built such a beast yet).
I cant sa
>I tend to disagree - but I admit you seem to know what you're talking
>about :-)
I tend to disagree with that:) Heh...
>Anyway, my scenario in more detail - I'd be happy to see any hidden
>pitfalls!
>Use a secondary windows /typically PE-based) to boot. Create the
>partitions you originally h
I am trying to take a mysql version 11 db and import it into a postgre db for
later
update to version 12. I exported as per the manual,
`mysqldump -u root -p -f -t -n bacula >bacula_backup.dmp`
After manually creating the postgre db and verifying it, I attempted
`psql -Ubacula bacula < bacula_bac
>rpmbuild --rebuild --define "build_centos5 1" --define "build_mysql5 1"
>--define "build_bat 1" --define >"build_wzconsole 1" bacula-5.0.0-1.src.rpm
>
>was the command required to build my RPM's which installed without a hitch.
>Because I was doing an upgrade, I had to >run the update scripts, I
>I would like to be able to break out my bacula configuration into a more
>'logical' (from my perspective) set of files. >For example, all my clients,
>I'd like to put into a file called bacula_clients.cfg and then reference that
>file in my >DIR config - same thing for my schedules, I'd like to
>Is there something way to do a Job backup run against more than one
>client???
>Example:
>
>I have tree clients, and I wanna make just one Job backed up this tree
>clients...
>
>How can I performer this jobs??
>
>Thanks for any idea...
Gilberto,
How many is many? Create a job def, then reference
>Also useful in disaster recovery when you do not have the database up
>and running.
I chuckled at backing these up myself, it's a rather circular dependency:)
If you back those up, when you need them to alleviate the use of a certain
tool when your catalog dies, you need to use that very tool to
>This is apparently a question on CentOS developers. Bacula project has
>no powers into the matter.
As far as I know, an rpm's dependency is well, derived by he who writes
spec. devel for building, but server for install? Maybe the spec needs
fixing.
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>Hi all. I install bacula 5.0.1 and bat in Debian lenny. Director, storage and
>client are in the same machine.
>I execute /sbin/bacula/bacula start
>but bacula no listen in 9101 ( yes listen in 9102 and 9103)
>
>What can i do?
Well, you could check what's running, I don't know or use Debian, but
I noticed in 5.0.0 and 5.0.1 that the tray monitor doesn't appear on
my 2008 r2 servers, problem on my end or known issue?
Thanks!
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>My question: Sometimes I need to recover data older than the job retention
>time.
>So the job cannot be found in the catalog but should be somewhere on the tapes.
>Without migration I were able to use a >(say) 8 month old .bsr file to initiate
>a disaster recovery and extract the data to be resto
>No,
>mine are all 32bit
Look through your system logs, I am willing to bet there
is an error that explains this in there somewhere recent.
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>Thoughts?
>-Steve Polyack
You can attain this now in the meantime:
http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/console/console/Bacula_Console.html#SECTION0028
That would be useful for a program which can have
several million lines of output from one command...
Although maybe a sql que
>The problem we've hit is the message "ERROR: Cannot execute bconsole. File not
>found." that shows up on the web browser. See attached image.
>
>Since I'm new at this I don't know where to start looking and would appreciate
>any pointers you may have.
There is a webacula users list.
Your prob
>What about using osql.exe to backup your databases? It should work quite
>seamlessly :)
That's exactly how I do it with a run before script, works perfectly.
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>Currently, it is impossible for me to build the rpm packages for CentOS5
>x86_64, because you added readline-devel as a dependency into the spec file.
>That package does not exist on CentOS5/RHEL.
>
>I always thought bacula picks the readline lib during configure stage, so why
>is this dependenc
>I was wondering if anyone has installed bacula-fd via group policy. I
>would be glad to know if anyone has already written a guide to using
>bacula in association with ad/gpo for a deployment
Someone on the dev list just posted source for an opensource msi building
tool so that the resulting pack
>I'm seeing this on a regular basis where the Windows installer will not create
>the bacula-fd service and I'm having to do it manually.
I see it only on Win2k machines but as I only have a couple I resorted
to doing it manually and left it at that.
If you encounter a resolution, post back...
j
>How would you restore a VSS snapshot without having VSS ( in you linux live cd
>) ?
>That's the real question.
>
>So yes yours steps are naive (in my opinion). What is described in the wiki
>are the rights step.
Since when do you need vss *after* the backup was created using vss? Vss simply
al
>We are dealing with issue that time to time periodic VSS snapshots produced by
>Windows scheduler are disappearing after Bacula backup (FULL or INC or >DIFF,
>VSS enabled in the FileSet definition).
>
>Any idea about this sporadic disappearing of Windows VSS snapshots?
Let me guess, you window
>sorry 9103
As far as SD's go, my experience is that they "do not" bind to a specific
address
unless told to, but then again, the case I refer to had two interfaces on the
same subnet. SDAddresses should still accomplish what you need...
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>My bacula server is multi-homed.
>I am needing port 9102 to answer on all of the IP addresses on the server in
>order to service all of the subnets attached to the machine
>
>I looked at taking care of this on the network routing level but it just would
>not be practical
What's funny is the c
>I have a fair number of failed jobs in my database, and I would like to
>know is it possible to purge all the bad backups, so that all the
>diskspace that has been taken up can be released?
from bconsole, `del jobid=#`.
If you have many, an sql query to look for JOB ID's with FAILED status pip
>What would be a method of restoring a remote linux based server to it
>last full backup, (or even it's first!). Is such a move possible?
Got a management card in it:)?
Seriously, there are a few ways all not without big chance. You can create
a default grub entry to boot into an instance that d
>A client asked me to install Bacula Server on Windows.
>However, Im having trouble compiling it on ubuntu 8.04.
>Here is the error:
/snip
>Any Idea?
In the very same place you fetched the source, fetch the
compiled windows binary?
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>> Indeed, I'm using CentOS 5.5 amd64. I was not doing the installation
>> with RPM packages, but compile the source code obtained at the official
>> site of Bacula. On sunday, doing tests comparing with the installation
>> done with packages RPM, I realized that the difference was in which the
>>
>I thought that the sd and director code are no longer in windows
>binary packages.
You're right, my bad. I recall the reason for that as well as the
code was no longer maintained, sounds like a harder path than what
the return may be worth... You could always run a 3x environment as
I recall that
I manually did a Full on one job Tuesday and last night Bacula
claims there is no Full on record so it upgraded the Inc to Full.
I can see both jobs in different file vols and can restore files
from the first full?
Bacula 5.0.2 / CentOS 5 x64
Thanks!
jlc
>Have you made any changes to the Fileset?
Phil,
Heh, it's been a busy last few days... I forgot we moved a slew of
data so I added an exclusion. Totally slipped my mind, the growth
in storage alert that was unexpected this morning caught me off
guard.
Thanks:)
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I have a job scheduled some few hours from now, any way to modify a parameter
of it (diff->full) through bconsole w/o editing the conf files?
Thanks!
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I have a W2008r2 server w/ 5.0.3x64 at has recently been nearly impossible to
backup. Its running
on HP hardware and I have tried updating the NIC firmware and drivers w/o
success. What's
getting more frustrating is that the 5.0.3 director on CentOSx64 takes forever
to cancel the job
when manual
>sudo rpmbuild -bb --define build_postgresql=1 --define "build_centos5 1" --
>define rhel_version=501 bacula.spec
Not only do you not need to unpack the srpm to get the the spec to build from
But you shouldn't at all build as root?
Use a buidroot [1]:
$ rpmbuild --rebuild --define build_centos5=1
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