[Bacula-users] newbie questions

2022-03-13 Thread Justin Case
Hello fellow users, I am new to Bacula and currently having a hard time wrapping my head around all the concepts that Bacula offers to implement my backup strategy. I intend to use Bacula Community Edition for my private machines, this is not for professional purposes, there is no customer invo

Re: [Bacula-users] newbie questions

2022-03-13 Thread Justin Case
Hello Heitor, thanks for your quick response - I have seen your videos on YT! > On 13. Mar 2022, at 23:44, Heitor Faria wrote: > >> Hello fellow users, > > Hello Justin, > >> I will only use disk storage and S3 buckets, I do not own any tape drives. >> >> There are up to 10 FDs (Linux and ma

Re: [Bacula-users] newbie questions

2022-03-13 Thread Justin Case
Coming back to this point: > On 13. Mar 2022, at 23:44, Heitor Faria wrote: > >> As I have the luxury of more than 1 drive per tier, I would like to >> understand, >> if it is possible to define a pool on top of more than one disk device (e.g. >> using AutoChanger with disk devices instead of t

[Bacula-users] Baculum - how to edit JobDefs

2022-03-15 Thread Justin Case
Dear all, I am looking for a better solution for the following problem: The JobDefs for DefaultJob is buried in really many resources, but it cannot be edited in Baculum. I had to edit JobDefs in the bacula-dir.conf to be able to get rid of the default resources (schedules, jobs, pools, storag

Re: [Bacula-users] Baculum - how to edit JobDefs

2022-03-16 Thread Justin Case
to edit JobDefs or you receive > an error when you save JobDefs. If it is an error, could you paste the output > here? > > Thanks in advance for additional information. > > Best regards, > Marcin Haba (gani) > > On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 at 21:12, Justin Case <mailto:jus7in

[Bacula-users] Q: about default volume numbering in pools

2022-03-16 Thread Justin Case
Dear all, I have a number of pools for different clients/use cases, and each pool has its own name prefix for disk volume labeling. When I look into the folder where all he pool files are created I see the different pool name prefixes, and the volume numbers are uniquely incremented -across- al

[Bacula-users] Newbie problem: Catalog backup job not executing RunScript?

2022-03-16 Thread Justin Case
Dear all, I can’t get my Catalog backup job to work properly. The documentation seems to be written before the Perl script for making the sql db copy was introduced (it refers to a shell script). When I run the job’s RunScript commands in a shell they actually work, so the file /opt/bacula/wo

[Bacula-users] Does this Pruning job work for all volumes/pools that I have?

2022-03-16 Thread Justin Case
Dear all as I do not yet understand the whole picture fully, let me show you what I currently have as a pruning job. Will the job as defined below actually prune all volumes for all pools that I have? If possibly not, what would I need to do? Would I need a prune job for each pool? Thank you f

Re: [Bacula-users] Newbie problem: Catalog backup job not executing RunScript?

2022-03-17 Thread Justin Case
Thank you Bill, your help was on spot - it works. > On 17. Mar 2022, at 06:18, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users > wrote: > > On 3/16/22 14:55, Justin Case wrote: > > Hello Justin, > > I suspected it could be possible that the "RunsOnSuccess = no" - wh

[Bacula-users] How to remove all volumes?

2022-03-19 Thread Justin Case
Dear all, again another newbie question: I need to use a different disk drive for Bacula and I would like to start over in the sense of deleting all volume files in a clean way, i.e. not corrupting the catalog. The goal is to free up the space occupied by all Bacula volumes. I know that I coul

Re: [Bacula-users] How to remove all volumes?

2022-03-19 Thread Justin Case
Thank you Heitor, if I understand those directives correctly, it will only truncate expired volumes. My volumes are by far not yet expired, still I want to truncate them. Is that possible? Best, JC > On 19. Mar 2022, at 16:30, Heitor Faria wrote: > >> Dear all, > > Hello Justin, > >> I ne

Re: [Bacula-users] How to remove all volumes?

2022-03-19 Thread Justin Case
Or asked differently: Is it possible to declare all volumes as expired without having to execute a command for each existing volume individually? (something like “set all volumes to expired”)? > On 19. Mar 2022, at 20:30, Justin Case wrote: > > Thank you Heitor, > > if I u

[Bacula-users] IRC channel on freenode

2022-03-19 Thread Justin Case
Hello all, the #bacula channel on freenode feels rather deserted. Is there a reason why the channel has not been migrated to Libera? Maybe there would be more fellows joining? Just my 2 cents, JC ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sou

Re: [Bacula-users] IRC channel on freenode

2022-03-19 Thread Justin Case
Awesome, to what IRC network is the English Telegram group bridged and what is the IRC channel name for it? > On 19. Mar 2022, at 21:27, Heitor Faria wrote: > > We have a 60 ppl English group in Tg: https://t.me/baculabackup > 30 in Spanish: https://t.me/baculaes > 1300 in Portuguese: https://t

Re: [Bacula-users] IRC channel on freenode

2022-03-19 Thread Justin Case
What a pity, I don’t do Telegram by personal decision. Thank you for the info. > On 19. Mar 2022, at 21:42, Heitor Faria wrote: > > Awesome, to what IRC network is the English Telegram group bridged and what > is the IRC channel name for it? > We used to have a bridge in the past to the main gr

Re: [Bacula-users] How to remove all volumes?

2022-03-19 Thread Justin Case
I think I am not good enough on bconsole yet, I tried different things but I am getting nowhere. Things I tried in bconsole: (a) "purge action=truncate", then selected "2" for jobs it tells me it purged a number of jobs, but no volume got truncated (b) "purge volume action=truncate allpoo

Re: [Bacula-users] How to remove all volumes?

2022-03-19 Thread Justin Case
: Enter a Volume name or *MediaId: 46 sql_get.c:1337 Media record for Volume name "46" not found. Sounds kinda wrong to me, as it was listing this volume right beforehand. What am I doing wrong? > On 19. Mar 2022, at 22:20, Justin Case wrote: > > I think I am

Re: [Bacula-users] How to remove all volumes?

2022-03-19 Thread Justin Case
names or IDs)? > On 19. Mar 2022, at 22:20, Justin Case wrote: > > I think I am not good enough on bconsole yet, I tried different things but I > am getting nowhere. > > Things I tried in bconsole: > > (a) "purge action=truncate", then selected "2" fo

Re: [Bacula-users] IRC channel on freenode

2022-03-20 Thread Justin Case
As expressed, it is a personal decision. I want to limit the amount of chat apps I install and use. The evaluation and decision was made long before the recent conflict in Ukraine and is mainly based on security and benefits considerations. Technical security is not about my social security number

Re: [Bacula-users] IRC channel on freenode

2022-03-20 Thread Justin Case
Well there are many other parameters not mentioned yet and based on my individual risk assessment I ranked the solutions and made a cut-off. Something that is security-wise absolutely terrible is Discord, yet it carries so many OSS support groups that the benefit was worth the security risks. If

Re: [Bacula-users] How to remove all volumes?

2022-03-21 Thread Justin Case
sults to list"; > then > if [[ ! -z $2 ]]; then > rm $1$vol > echo "Orphaned file $1$vol deleted" > else > echo "Orphaned file $1$vol not deleted" > fi > fi > done > > Best > -Chris- > > > &g

[Bacula-users] Q: Correct FD setup for macOS 10.15

2022-03-22 Thread Justin Case
Dear all, I just made a test installation of bacula-fd on macOS 10.15 using homebrew (so I did not need to compile anything). I configured the bacula-fd.conf and set up a fileset for “/Users” to backup all user data. I enabled the option HfsPlusSupport, but the machine actually does use APFS, i

[Bacula-users] Q: Bacula-FD on QubesOS

2022-03-22 Thread Justin Case
Dear all, is someone already using Bacula-FD on QubesOS? Does that work at all? What is the UX? Does one need a separate FD per VM? All the best JC ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Bacula-FD on QubesOS

2022-03-23 Thread Justin Case
is that QubesOS is x86_64 and RPM. > > > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 12:47 PM Justin Case <mailto:jus7inc...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Dear all, > > is someone already using Bacula-FD on QubesOS? > Does that work at all? > What is the UX? Does one

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Correct FD setup for macOS 10.15

2022-03-23 Thread Justin Case
; - Install bacula-fd > - Run it to see if you have the error. > - If yes, remove completly bacula-fd > - Re-install it. > > and then it works. I do not know why but it does the job (backup + > restore). > > I hope this can help you. > > Serge UGE > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Correct FD setup for macOS 10.15

2022-03-24 Thread Justin Case
Thanks for the explanation, I think that’s correct. Later backups only showed the problem that the mail container cannot be opened, no other access errors. To get rid of the errors I will exclude these pathes. All the best, JC > On 23. Mar 2022, at 21:13, Rowdy wrote: > > Hi, > > The permi

Re: [Bacula-users] An special day for honoring someone who has done a extremely nice job in the open source world

2022-03-26 Thread Justin Case
Dear Kern the kudos are well deserved and yes, it takes some time to understand Bacula’s concepts for people -like me- who are not used to tape libraries - and the time it takes is well deserved. I am happy with Bacula and happy that I took the time to get some understanding how to use it. I c

[Bacula-users] Autochanger does not create volumes (on mounted external USB drive)

2022-05-24 Thread Justin Case
Hi there, in my setup I call internal drives connected by SATA “Tier 1”, and external drives connected by USB “Tier 2”. I have separate pools for jobs that write to tier 1 and for jobs that write to tier 2. Each given pool contains only volumes stored on 1 tier, so each pool is either a tier po

[Bacula-users] SOLVED: Autochanger does not create volumes (on mounted external USB drive)

2022-05-24 Thread Justin Case
> On 24. May 2022, at 16:40, Justin Case wrote: > > Hi there, > > in my setup I call internal drives connected by SATA “Tier 1”, and external > drives connected by USB “Tier 2”. > I have separate pools for jobs that write to tier 1 and for jobs that write > to t

[Bacula-users] How to reclaim volume space occupied by incomplete jobs?

2022-06-10 Thread Justin Case
Hi there, I am using Bacula since some weeks now, but operationally I am a complete noob. Haven’t run through many use cases yet. Since I have included my laptop as a job the incrementals run relatively quick, but the fulls take long. Sometime I put the laptop to sleep without thinking about t

Re: [Bacula-users] How to reclaim volume space occupied by incomplete jobs?

2022-06-11 Thread Justin Case
quot;Before" RunsOnClient = no Console = "prune expired volume yes" } Priority = 12 AllowDuplicateJobs = no } Thank you again, J/C > On 11. Jun 2022, at 22:09, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users > wrote: > > On 6/10/22 17:08, Justin Case wrote: >>

Re: [Bacula-users] How to reclaim volume space occupied by incomplete jobs?

2022-06-11 Thread Justin Case
Excellent, good to know. I was actually wondering why you were scripting this instead of simply having several Command items in the Job. It is clear now and makes 100% sense to me. > On 12. Jun 2022, at 00:14, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users > wrote: > > On 6/11/22 15:33, Justi

[Bacula-users] Q: Bacula for TrueNAS Core?

2022-06-15 Thread Justin Case
Hello all, I was looking for a Bacula Plugin for a recent TrueNAS Core (bacula-fd to backup its content, bacula-dir, bacula-sd to backup other machines’ content). I can see that there has been a Bacula Plugin maintained by iX-Systems for FreeNAS in the past, but it has been abandoned by iX-Syst

[Bacula-users] Q: regarding bconsole.conf on Bacula client machines

2022-06-15 Thread Justin Case
Hi all, when installing the bacula-client packageon Debian I end up i /etc/bacula with bacula-fd.conf and bconsole.conf I have 2 questions, that are still open although I searched through the main documentation and read the chapters containing bconsole.conf: (1) In bacula-fd.conf I understand h

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: regarding bconsole.conf on Bacula client machines

2022-06-15 Thread Justin Case
all. Lucky me.) Thanks again, J/C > On 15. Jun 2022, at 16:39, Josh Fisher wrote: > > > On 6/15/22 08:12, Justin Case wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> when installing the bacula-client packageon Debian I end up i /etc/bacula >> with >> bacula-fd.conf >>

[Bacula-users] Q: one job for a group of "identical" machines using the same fileset?

2022-06-15 Thread Justin Case
Hi there, in the age of virtualization and cloud technology such as Kubernetes I would assume that people might have a lot of VMs that use the same setup where they may store container user data under the same path for each machine. While I see that it is possible to define just one fileset to

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: one job for a group of "identical" machines using the same fileset?

2022-06-15 Thread Justin Case
Thanks, found it under Director > Configure Director > JobDefs > On 15. Jun 2022, at 18:28, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users > wrote: > > On 6/15/22 10:21, Justin Case wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> in the age of virtualization and cloud technology such as Kuber

[Bacula-users] Q: fileset "magic"

2022-06-15 Thread Justin Case
Hi all, I am somewhat struggling with the fileset algorithm, noob birth pains I guess. I have a bunch of VMs that have mounted(!!) docker container appdata in /mnt/cdat-. So I wish to backup /mnt/cdat-* on each of these VMs, meaning I wish that the content of each subdirectory in /mnt where th

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: fileset "magic" - still weird

2022-06-15 Thread Justin Case
but OneFS is set to no). Again, nothing was backed up. I do not understand this result. I thought I had understood what is in the manual about filesets, but obviously I did not. > On 15. Jun 2022, at 19:55, Justin Case wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am somewhat struggling wi

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: fileset "magic" - still weird

2022-06-15 Thread Justin Case
sru...@gemneye.org wrote: > > On 2022-06-15 13:47, Justin Case wrote: >> I re-read the chapter about filesets and fileset options. >> In order to better understand what is happening I simplified the >> fileset as follows: >>> Fileset { >>> Name = “cadat" >

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: fileset "magic" - still weird

2022-06-15 Thread Justin Case
Hello John, I found this approach quite compelling: > On 16. Jun 2022, at 00:24, John Lockard wrote: > > |sh -c ’echo /mnt/cdat-*’ No matter what characters i use for the ‘ I get "Error sending include list.” (already put in the actual pathes for sh and echo). Log: bacula-dir JobId 0: Fatal e

[Bacula-users] Q: ConnectToDirector not working as documented for FD Director directive

2022-06-15 Thread Justin Case
Hi there, I have a client behind a firewall and the director is unable to connect to this client, but the client may connect to the director and to the SD. In the main manual is documented that one should to this: on the Director side in the Client directive: AllowFDConnections = yes on the

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: regarding bconsole.conf on Bacula client machines

2022-06-16 Thread Justin Case
. Sorry for the unclear phrasing. Best J/C > On 16. Jun 2022, at 06:58, Marcin Haba wrote: > > Hello Justin, > > On Wed, 15 Jun 2022 at 16:55, Justin Case <mailto:jus7inc...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Thanks, I understand. > Still the partial questions are open where I

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: ConnectToDirector not working as documented for FD Director directive

2022-06-17 Thread Justin Case
27;s suggestion? "Perhaps you left the trailing > brace off of the previous resource" (or A previous resource in the > bacula-fd.conf file) We would need to see the entire bacula-fd.conf file in > order to help. > > On 6/15/22 22:36, Justin Case wrote: >> Hi th

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: ConnectToDirector not working as documented for FD Director directive

2022-06-17 Thread Justin Case
Yes, I tried to make sense of this error message, but there is no other directive above director in this config file (see my other email, I have attached the config file there). > On 17. Jun 2022, at 14:16, Josh Fisher wrote: > > Did you follow the error message's suggestion? "Perhaps you left

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: regarding bconsole.conf on Bacula client machines

2022-06-17 Thread Justin Case
; Main menu -> Storage -> [ select the storage ] -> Tab: Configure storage > daemon -> Section: Director > > for DIR password: > > Main menu -> Director -> Tab: Configure director -> Console > > Best regards, > Marcin Haba (gani) > > On

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: ConnectToDirector not working as documented for FD Director directive

2022-06-17 Thread Justin Case
That is the normal debian package “bacula-client”. Which other package would I use instead? > On 17. Jun 2022, at 21:08, Josh Fisher wrote: > > You must have an old version of bacula-fd on the client. The > ConnectToDirector was implemented in version 11.0. > > > On

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: ConnectToDirector not working as documented for FD Director directive

2022-06-19 Thread Justin Case
l clients and Director and > Storage daemons. > > > On 6/17/22 17:35, Justin Case wrote: >> That is the normal debian package “bacula-client”. Which other package would >> I use instead? >> >>> On 17. Jun 2022, at 21:08, Josh Fisher wrote: >

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: one job for a group of "identical" machines using the same fileset?

2022-06-19 Thread Justin Case
Good to know, I guess for commercial use. For my private homelab commercial plugins are out of reach. Or is there such a plugin for free? Best J/C > On 19. Jun 2022, at 21:27, Radosław Korzeniewski > wrote: > > Hello, > > śr., 15 cze 2022 o 18:22 Justin Case <mailto

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Bacula for TrueNAS Core?

2022-06-19 Thread Justin Case
To be 100% clear: the term “plugin” here is meant in the context of TrueNAS Core, so a plugin FOR TrueNAS Core (not a plugin for Bacula). > On 19. Jun 2022, at 21:42, Radosław Korzeniewski > wrote: > > Hello, > > śr., 15 cze 2022 o 12:50 Justin Case <mailto:jus7inc...@

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: one job for a group of "identical" machines using the same fileset?

2022-06-20 Thread Justin Case
Interesting, ist there an overview of available Community plugins, or where would I best start to look around? > On 20. Jun 2022, at 10:37, Radosław Korzeniewski > wrote: > > Hello, > > niedz., 19 cze 2022 o 23:29 Justin Case <mailto:jus7inc...@gmail.com>> na

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Bacula for TrueNAS Core?

2022-06-20 Thread Justin Case
Thats right. Such a plugin is something like a wrapper/installer that creates a jail environment for an existing application and hopefully provides a nice interface. So in the case of Bacula it would be a jail where all components are installed, so that one could use the director there to pull d

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: one job for a group of "identical" machines using the same fileset?

2022-06-20 Thread Justin Case
Thanks Phil, I have implemented exactly this in the meanwhile. Best J/C > On 20. Jun 2022, at 17:08, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > On 6/20/22 06:33, Justin Case wrote: >> Interesting, ist there an overview of available Community plugins, or where >> would I best start to l

[Bacula-users] Debian Debs only for old Debians, Debian 11 is current, maybe also build Debs for them? was: Q: ConnectToDirector not working as documented for FD Director directive

2022-06-20 Thread Justin Case
nd line. But to use the ConnectToDirector feature, > you will have to upgrade to version 11.x on all clients and Director and > Storage daemons. > > > On 6/17/22 17:35, Justin Case wrote: >> That is the normal debian package “bacula-client”. Which other package would >> I us

[Bacula-users] Q: How to define a working storage for file volumes across more than 1 device?

2022-06-27 Thread Justin Case
Hello dear all, Abstractly spoken I need a concept for my Tier 2 to be able to write file volumes to more than just 1 (HDD) Device (or MediaType), filling the HDDs up one after the other. By this I mean that the individual HDDs are -NOT- abstracted away by a logical layer device such as some RA

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: How to define a working storage for file volumes across more than 1 device?

2022-06-27 Thread Justin Case
Thanks, great pointer, I will look into that. > On 27. Jun 2022, at 17:14, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users > wrote: > > On 6/27/22 04:41, Justin Case wrote: >> Hello dear all, >> >> Abstractly spoken I need a concept for my Tier 2 to be able to write file >&

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: How to define a working storage for file volumes across more than 1 device?

2022-06-28 Thread Justin Case
12:12, Radosław Korzeniewski > wrote: > > Hello, > > pon., 27 cze 2022 o 13:22 Justin Case <mailto:jus7inc...@gmail.com>> napisał(a): > By this I mean that the individual HDDs are -NOT- abstracted away by a > logical layer device such as some RAID level > &g

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: How to define a working storage for file volumes across more than 1 device?

2022-06-28 Thread Justin Case
Keep in mind: this is a homelab environment for private use, not a professional one with paying customers. Different mindset. > On 28. Jun 2022, at 12:12, Radosław Korzeniewski > wrote: > > Hello, > > pon., 27 cze 2022 o 13:22 Justin Case <mailto:jus7inc...@gmail.com>

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: How to define a working storage for file volumes across more than 1 device?

2022-06-28 Thread Justin Case
Thats not what I said. It shouldn’t matter anyways. > On 28. Jun 2022, at 12:28, Radosław Korzeniewski > wrote: > > Hello, > > wt., 28 cze 2022 o 12:21 Justin Case <mailto:jus7inc...@gmail.com>> napisał(a): > Keep in mind: this is a homelab environment for priv

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: ConnectToDirector not working as documented for FD Director directive

2022-07-17 Thread Justin Case
to put in where the Community Edition Debs put the FD and config. My questions is this: does a proper bacula-fd service script for /etc/init.d usually come with the Community Edition Debian Debs? (in my case it did not seem so) All the best, J/C > On 19. Jun 2022, at 14:36, Justin Case wr

[Bacula-users] Q: Connection errors on daily backup with ConnectToDirector

2022-07-19 Thread Justin Case
Hi all I have a client machine (FD 13) in a firewalled admin network that cannot be connected to by the Director (11), so it is using ConnectToDirector = yes, i.e the FD connects through the firewall to the Director. The client machine is backed up to two different tiers, so there are two dail

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Connection errors on daily backup with ConnectToDirector

2022-07-20 Thread Justin Case
Thanks for your interest, Bill, I will respond to your requests inline: > On 20. Jul 2022, at 01:11, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users > wrote: > > On 7/19/22 16:55, Justin Case wrote: > > >> Error: getmsg.c:217 Malformed message: [bsockcore.c:265 Unable to connect t

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Connection errors on daily backup with ConnectToDirector

2022-07-20 Thread Justin Case
inline response continued: > On 20. Jul 2022, at 01:38, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users > wrote: > > On 7/19/22 16:55, Justin Case wrote: >> Error: getmsg.c:217 Malformed message: [bsockcore.c:265 Unable to connect to >> Director daemon on bacula-dir.lan.net:9101

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Connection errors on daily backup with ConnectToDirector

2022-07-20 Thread Justin Case
sion 11? This. > That > is not a supported configuration (it must be Director = Storage >= Client). Oh well I did not know this. Then I would have to go down to 11 for this FD. Will do so later today. > > __Martin > > >>>>>> On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 00:55:56

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Connection errors on daily backup with ConnectToDirector

2022-07-20 Thread Justin Case
Hi Martin please find my response inline: > On 20. Jul 2022, at 20:39, Martin Simmons wrote: > >>>>>> On Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:25:15 +0200, Justin Case said: >> >>> On 20. Jul 2022, at 12:06, Martin Simmons wrote: >>> >>> There are t

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Connection errors on daily backup with ConnectToDirector

2022-07-20 Thread Justin Case
Bill, thanks for clarification. So the problem remains a mystery, so far. > On 20. Jul 2022, at 21:33, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users > wrote: > > >>> It will try to connect every 5 seconds until it succeeds. >> Why every 5 seconds? >> The FD config has ReconnectionTime = 40 min >> Let me rem

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Connection errors on daily backup with ConnectToDirector

2022-07-20 Thread Justin Case
Hey Bill, thanks for spending time on this! > On 20. Jul 2022, at 21:46, Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users > wrote: > > > Justin, > > I know what you told us, but I think we have a situation that I (and Martin) > described: I understand your experiment, but it is not like that here. > - FD c

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Connection errors on daily backup with ConnectToDirector

2022-07-23 Thread Justin Case
commenting out the reconnect clause didn’t make a difference. the only two things I am aware I can do now to check it out further: (1) use a connection schedule for the FD (2) downgrade the FD from 13 to 11 (can this really be the cause?) > On 20. Jul 2022, at 22:35, Justin Case wr

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Connection errors on daily backup with ConnectToDirector

2022-07-25 Thread Justin Case
I think it is great support here from you people! Today I think I might have understood what is happening, and Bill’s explanations about what might be going on were probably correct in the core, but not in the details. Let me try to lay out what I think is going on and where I had my problem

[Bacula-users] Q: Baculum throws error that bconsole cannot connect

2022-07-29 Thread Justin Case
Hello all, I am having a problem with Baculum currently. To explain the context I need to start somewhere else: Baculum is running in a Docker container (pwa666/bacula-server:11-postgresql-latest) on my unRAID NAS, this container contains Baculum, Director, the SD and an FD for backing up lo

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Baculum throws error that bconsole cannot connect

2022-07-29 Thread Justin Case
:48, Justin Case wrote: > > > Hello all, > > I am having a problem with Baculum currently. To explain the context I need > to start somewhere else: > > Baculum is running in a Docker container > (pwa666/bacula-server:11-postgresql-latest) on my unRAID NAS, this

[Bacula-users] bsmtp from within a container

2022-08-01 Thread Justin Case
One problem I ignored so far is that the Bacula Docker container I use (pwa666/bacula-server:11-postgresql-latest) cannot send emails to me. bsmtp only seems to use the output of the “hostname” command as the hostname during the negotiation phase. this hostname is some arbitrary ID, not a FQDN.

Re: [Bacula-users] bsmtp from within a container

2022-08-02 Thread Justin Case
022-08-01 3:57 PM, Justin Case wrote: > >> bsmtp: bsmtp.c:124-0 Fatal malformed reply from mailserver.dummy.net: 504 >> 5.5.2 <3422f1072002>: Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified hostname > > Who runs the mailserver? Typically you's set "permit-mynetwork

Re: [Bacula-users] bsmtp from within a container

2022-08-02 Thread Justin Case
wrote: > > On 8/2/22 13:16, Justin Case wrote: >> I run the mailserver put its basically a tightly baked postfix dovecot under >> Synology DSM UI. So I won’t manually change config files. But “Ignore >> authorization for LAN connections” sounds reasonable, I have activated

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Connection errors on daily backup with ConnectToDirector

2022-08-02 Thread Justin Case
. All the best J/C > On 25. Jul 2022, at 22:33, Justin Case wrote: > > I think it is great support here from you people! > > Today I think I might have understood what is happening, and Bill’s > explanations about what might be going on were probably correct in the core,

Re: [Bacula-users] bsmtp from within a container

2022-08-02 Thread Justin Case
fully-qualified hostname > On 2. Aug 2022, at 22:29, dmitri maziuk wrote: > > On 2022-08-02 2:16 PM, Justin Case wrote: >> I run the mailserver put its basically a tightly baked postfix dovecot under >> Synology DSM UI. So I won’t manually change config files. But “Ignor

Re: [Bacula-users] Bugs/Problems with ConnectToDirector

2022-08-03 Thread Justin Case
the parameter ReconnectionTime, but the time wait before initiating another connection after unsuccessful connection trial). All the best, J/C > On 2. Aug 2022, at 22:42, Justin Case wrote: > > This chapter was not yet closed and I have interesting further results > (actually

Re: [Bacula-users] bsmtp from within a container

2022-08-05 Thread Justin Case
Thank you Josh, I got it now. I had to relax 2 SPAM settings, but didn’t need to ignore authentication for local machines. If someone later on needs details, let me know. Thanks again! J/C > On 4. Aug 2022, at 16:24, Josh Fisher wrote: > > > On 8/2/22 16:46, Justin Case w

[Bacula-users] Need help with fileset declaration - what's my mistake?

2022-08-25 Thread Justin Case
greetings fellas, i am using the following fileset on a number of VMs running docker containers to backup the container config and user data - and it works for me. It does backup all /mnt/containerdata..* folders with content, nothing else: Fileset { Name = "various-appdata" EnableVss = no

[Bacula-users] I am missing Debs for Buster 32 bit (for Raspberry Pi machines running RaspiOS)

2022-08-26 Thread Justin Case
Hello, this goes to the people who manage the debian packages for Bacula Community I know that Buster is old and that there are packages for the 64 bit kernel. That is great as long as you are not running any Raspberry Pis with RaspiOS (https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/operating-systems/ <

Re: [Bacula-users] I am missing Debs for Buster 32 bit (for Raspberry Pi machines running RaspiOS)

2022-08-26 Thread Justin Case
ris Wilkinson > > On Fri, 26 Aug 2022, 12:06 pm Justin Case, <mailto:jus7inc...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hello, this goes to the people who manage the debian packages for Bacula > Community > > I know that Buster is old and that there are packages for the 64 bit ker

Re: [Bacula-users] I am missing Debs for Buster 32 bit (for Raspberry Pi machines running RaspiOS)

2022-08-26 Thread Justin Case
022, at 18:17, Sebastian Suchanek wrote: > > Am 26.08.2022 um 14:19 schrieb Justin Case: >> You mean the script will also work on RaspiOS 32 bit? (note: Raspbian != >> RasiOS) >> [...] > > To be honest, I've never heard of a system called "RaspiOS" ex

Re: [Bacula-users] Need help with fileset declaration - what's my mistake?

2022-08-26 Thread Justin Case
> On 26. Aug 2022, at 19:53, Martin Simmons wrote: > > show fileset="various-appdata” FileSet: name=various-appdata IgnoreFileSetChanges=0 O f RD ^/mnt/containerdata-.*/ N O fe RD ^/mnt/.*/ N I /mnt N O f RD ^/home/dockerman/container

Re: [Bacula-users] Need help with fileset declaration - what's my mistake?

2022-08-26 Thread Justin Case
> On 26. Aug 2022, at 19:53, Martin Simmons wrote: > > > Also, does it work if you only have the /home/dockerman Include? > That does work, with the following caveat: So actually, the fileset did back up the /home/../containerdata.. stuff, but also other files outside of /home/,,,/contain

Re: [Bacula-users] Need help with fileset declaration - what's my mistake?

2022-08-26 Thread Justin Case
ning this results in actually nearly the same result. The delta of the outcome are actually 3 files (gleaned form the numbers of the jobs, I don’t know which files that are). Does the order of the declarations (as seen above) have anything to do with this result? > On 26. Aug 2022, at 21:24, Ma

[Bacula-users] Q. storage groups for a given pool using several external USB HDDs?

2022-08-30 Thread Justin Case
Greetings, I am interested in the new V13 storage groups feature. If I wanted a given pool to use file folumes on several externally connected USB HDDs: -the devices would be connected all the time, would the director fill the devices one ofter the other, or would it scatter the jobs randomly a

[Bacula-users] Q: what do JobtoVerify, WriteVerifyList ?

2022-08-30 Thread Justin Case
Hi all, I am using Baculum to manage my Bacula V11 installation. Today I wanted to define a verify job for the first time. In Baculum I find 3 fields in the Verify section: VerifyJob: AFAU this is the name of the job which should be verified (I am using Level “Data). JobToVerify: no idea what

Re: [Bacula-users] Need help with fileset declaration - what's my mistake?

2022-08-30 Thread Justin Case
> __Martin > > >>>>>> On Fri, 26 Aug 2022 22:37:08 +0200, Justin Case said: >> >> Martin, thanks, I admit that for me the fileset definition is one of the >> more confusing things in Bacula. Thanks for the explanation, however, >> honestly, I do

Re: [Bacula-users] Q. storage groups for a given pool using several external USB HDDs?

2022-09-01 Thread Justin Case
Hi Ana, thank you for chiming in, see my response inline: > On 1. Sep 2022, at 13:38, Ana Emília M. Arruda wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 3:43 PM Justin Case <mailto:jus7inc...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Greetings, > > I am interested in the new V13 storage grou

[Bacula-users] Schedules verify job fails

2022-09-03 Thread Justin Case
Hi I am confused why I am getting this error: 03-Sep 22:00 bacula-dir JobId 2481: Fatal error: verify.c:73 Unimplemented Verify level 73(I) 03-Sep 22:00 bacula-dir JobId 2481: Error: Bacula bacula-dir 11.0.6 (10Mar22): —snip— Verify Level: Incremental Verify JobId: 0 Fi

[Bacula-users] Q: Baculum, Pools, Next Pool vs Copy Pool

2022-09-04 Thread Justin Case
Hi there, while in the process of trying out copy jobs I realized that Baculum has two directives for pools: Next Pool: according to the documentation this is used for migration jobs and for copy jobs Copy Pool: not found in the documentation. I can only guess that this suggests that Copy Poo

[Bacula-users] Q: Copy jobs dummy client problem

2022-09-04 Thread Justin Case
Hi there, I took this snipped from the main documentation about copy jobs: # # Fake client for copy jobs # Client { Name = None Address = localhost Password = "NoNe” Catalog = MyCatalog } # # Default template for a CopyDiskToTape Job # JobDefs { Name = CopyDiskToTape Type = Copy Me

[Bacula-users] Q: How to verify copy jobs?

2022-09-04 Thread Justin Case
Hi there, today I switched to using copy jobs to create the tier 2 backup (instead of backup jobs from the original source). I realized that the copied job on tier 2 storage has the exact same name as the job on tier from which it was copied. I am now unclear how I can schedule verify jobs for

Re: [Bacula-users] Schedules verify job fails

2022-09-05 Thread Justin Case
copy jobs? Cheers, J/C > On 5. Sep 2022, at 17:47, Martin Simmons wrote: > > Maybe the output of > > show job=job1-verify > > will show where the level is being set to Incremental? It might be the > Schedule resource for example. > > __Martin > > >>>

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Copy jobs dummy client problem

2022-09-05 Thread Justin Case
nge to me. The "JobId 0" maybe means that it was caused by > something else. Does the time "04-Sep 14:19" match the sequence of times in > the other messages about the copy job? > > __Martin > > >>>>>> On Sun, 4 Sep 2022 14:33:03 +0200, J

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Copy jobs dummy client problem

2022-09-05 Thread Justin Case
It works for me, too, but I get this error. > On 5. Sep 2022, at 20:14, Martin Simmons wrote: > > A copy job works for me in Bacula 13.0.0 without this problem (even if the > bacula-fd isn't running). > > __Martin > > >>>>>> On Mon, 5 Sep 2022 1

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: Copy jobs dummy client problem

2022-09-06 Thread Justin Case
sole command? > > __Martin > > >>>>>> On Mon, 5 Sep 2022 21:02:52 +0200, Justin Case said: >> >> It works for me, too, but I get this error. >> >>> On 5. Sep 2022, at 20:14, Martin Simmons wrote: >>> >>> A copy job work

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: How to verify copy jobs?

2022-09-06 Thread Justin Case
y job, correct? So I need to provide priorities accordingly to the 4 jobs to run in this order? (As I don’t want to create a set of schedules for each of these jobs). Happy to hear about better solutions you are using, J/C > On 4. Sep 2022, at 18:27, Justin Case wrote: > > Hi there

Re: [Bacula-users] Q: How to verify copy jobs?

2022-09-06 Thread Justin Case
the copy job (3), but we cannot know the job ID of the copy job (3) before it is executed. Is it actually to verify copy jobs in a scheduled manner? If so, how? > On 6. Sep 2022, at 15:38, Justin Case wrote: > > Greetings, > > so far I don’t yet have a nice solution for t

[Bacula-users] Q: is Level a selection criterion for Migration/Copy jobs?

2022-09-07 Thread Justin Case
Hi all, I am wondering whether Level is also a selection criterion for migration/copy jobs, i.e. if there are for a given Job Name a full backup from yesterday and an incremental backup from today, will I be able to select the full backup if I use the job name and Level=Full? Thanks for consid

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