[Bacula-users] waiting to reserve a device

2007-12-10 Thread Marco Gaiarin
} And so tasks start for every client at 8.00. The annoying thing are that everytime a job start, i receive a mail like: Subject: Bacula: Intervention needed for Teoden.2007-12-10_08.00.01 10-dic 09:00 trinity-sd: Job Teoden.2007-12-10_08.00.01 waiting to r

Re: [Bacula-users] waiting to reserve a device

2007-12-17 Thread Marco Gaiarin
le that start at some time + some random minutes more? > devices). Or filter these mails, which might be a bit difficult. I've total control on the bacula director, that is also my mail server, so i can do this, but indeed it is not so clean... ;((( -- dott. Marco Gaiarin

Re: [Bacula-users] waiting to reserve a device

2007-12-18 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> I've total control on the bacula director, that is also my mail server, > so i can do this, but indeed it is not so clean... ;((( ...i'm using 'file' storage, so... i can simply ignore 'mount' type messages? -- dott. Marco Gaiarin

Re: [Bacula-users] waiting to reserve a device

2007-12-18 Thread Marco Gaiarin
d' message the reason are clear: no volume available. I use for this backup autoprune and autorecycle, i keep for every box 4 volumes that cycles in weeks for a month. Apart mount request (that i can accept to ignore...), there's something other messages that i can lost ignoring

[Bacula-users] Bacula and TLS, without client certificates...

2007-12-19 Thread Marco Gaiarin
[...other non-TLS conf...] bacula-fd.conf Director { TLS Enable = yes TLS Required = yes TLS Verify Peer = yes TLS CA Certificate File = /etc/ssl/certs/LNFFVG.pem [...oth

[Bacula-users] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: waiting to reserve a device]

2008-01-07 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Sorry, i repost this because i've switched off mail delivery for christmas holiday, but sf web archive are stop by 17/12. Sorry if someone have just replyed, i insist if no one have done yet. ;) - Forwarded message from Marco Gaiarin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Marco Gaia

Re: [Bacula-users] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: waiting to reserve a device]

2008-01-10 Thread Marco Gaiarin
x27; message are desappeared, as expected. -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia''http://www.sv.lnf.it/ Polo FVG - Via della Bontà, 7 - 33078 - San Vito al Tagliamento (PN) marco.gaiarin(

[Bacula-users] Variable expansion and escaping on windows...

2008-01-11 Thread Marco Gaiarin
11-gen 17:29 pp1-fd JobId 6: ClientRunBeforeJob: un programma eseguibile o un file batch. (tried also with \"...\", same error). Instead: ClientRunBeforeJob = "\"C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Dati applicazioni/Bacula/before.bat\&

[Bacula-users] Multiple file sets...

2008-01-11 Thread Marco Gaiarin
job, can i 'merge/sum' filesets? Eg, can i define more then one fileset in a job? I've looked throug docs, but i've not found the answer... -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia''

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple file sets...

2008-01-14 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Arno Lehmann In chel di` si favelave... > There's a workaround, though: > Just create the file set parts as separate files and include them > using the @-syntax. Good point, i've not mind about this. Thanks. -- dott. Marco Gaiarin

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Extended Attributes

2008-02-11 Thread Marco Gaiarin
ay (apart adding to bacula ATTR support ;) is to use a pre script that call getfattr to dump ATTR to a textual file, and backup that. -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia''http://www.sv.lnf.it/

Re: [Bacula-users] push install bacula on windows

2008-02-20 Thread Marco Gaiarin
bacula on the wiki, and i'm a little overbusy now, but feel free to ask if interested. -- dott. Marco Gaiarin GNUPG Key ID: 240A3D66 Associazione ``La Nostra Famiglia''http://www.sv.lnf.it/ Polo FVG - Via della Bontà, 7 -

[Bacula-users] Compatibility between Dir/SD 9.4 and FD 5.X ...

2022-06-22 Thread Marco Gaiarin
I'm setting up a Bacula installation for a set of servers, using debian buster package (9.4.2-2+deb10u1) for director and storage daemons. All works as expected until we use file daemon versions 7+, but some very old servers that have bacula 5.0 or 5.2 does not work. Communication works as exp

Re: [Bacula-users] Compatibility between Dir/SD 9.4 and FD 5.X ...

2022-06-22 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Phil Stracchino In chel di` si favelave... > The first and most obvious question here is: Is there some sound > technical reason why you have not updated the file daemons on those > servers to something at least moderately recent? Never hear of 'legacy systems'?! ;-) These are a bunc

Re: [Bacula-users] Compatibility between Dir/SD 9.4 and FD 5.X ...

2022-06-23 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Gary R. Schmidt In chel di` si favelave... > I'm still running old FDs - 3.0.3 on some AIX boxes being the oldest - > talking to a 9.4.2 DIR/SD on Solaris 11.3, and all is good. Ah! Also 3.X?! Cool... i think i was using old software... ;-) > How much RAM is on your server, and how ar

Re: [Bacula-users] Compatibility between Dir/SD 9.4 and FD 5.X ...

2022-06-23 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Phil Stracchino In chel di` si favelave... > Is it *feasible* to install enough of a local development environment on > these legacy servers to locally compile a 7.x client for them? Sure, i can try to ''backport'' bacula debian packages and deploy on these servers but... first... how c

Re: [Bacula-users] Compatibility between Dir/SD 9.4 and FD 5.X ...

2022-06-24 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> 1) i'm not still sure is a compatibility trouble. I reply to myself, because still i don't think is a 'compatibility' trouble, and, as st.paul 'lightned' in the road to damasco, i've understood. Storage daemons are effectively some virtualization hosts (Proxmox), and have two addresses, one

[Bacula-users] VirtualFull, file storage, rsnapshot-like...

2022-09-27 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Defining a backup strategy, we are evaluating our previous different policies, mostly based on Bacula and rsnapshot. Bacula here is used with different media (tape, tape library, virtual changer with RDX disks, ...) but we are considering for this a 'File' storage type. The goal is to have a

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull, file storage, rsnapshot-like...

2022-10-10 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Radosław Korzeniewski In chel di` si favelave... > I'm not familiar with rsnapshot, but I'm curious how you manage rsnapshot > archives on tape libraries which span multiple tape cartridges (other media)? Ah, simply i put on tape the 'alpha.0' directory, the 'most recent backup' in rsnap

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull, file storage, rsnapshot-like...

2022-10-16 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Radosław Korzeniewski In chel di` si favelave... >> Ah, simply i put on tape the 'alpha.0' directory, the 'most recent backup' >> in rsnapshot lingo. >> It is marely a folder with all the file within. > So you are using a tar command for that, right? Then how do you restore data > directl

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull, file storage, rsnapshot-like...

2022-10-21 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Radosław Korzeniewski In chel di` si favelave... > I never used rsnapshot with tapes, so I'm just curious how you manage it to > span multiple tapes? Aaa... sorry, a total misunderstanding, here! I simply mean that, if a need a 'second level backup' it is easy to put a rsnapshot

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull, file storage, rsnapshot-like...

2022-10-24 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Radosław Korzeniewski In chel di` si favelave... > I never used rsnapshot with tapes and I'm very curious how do you "put a > rsnapshot backup on tape"? > How? What command do you use? Do you use any external tools for that, i.e. a > tar? I simply install a bacula client on the same rsyn

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull, file storage, rsnapshot-like...

2022-10-24 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Josh Fisher via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > If the client is on the other end of a 10Mbps link, then the options are > to make the initial full backup over the slow link or temporarily move > the client to the site where Dir/SD runs just to make the initial full > backup.

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull, file storage, rsnapshot-like...

2022-11-02 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Marco Gaiarin In chel di` si favelave... > Pool definition: > Pool { > Name = VDMTMS1FilePool > Pool Type = Backup > Volume Use Duration = 1 week > Recycle = yes # Bacula can automatically > recycle Volume

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull, file storage, rsnapshot-like...

2022-11-09 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Josh Fisher via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... >> 02-Nov 19:06 lnfbacula-dir JobId 1596: Start Virtual Backup JobId 1596, >> Job=VDMTMS1.2022-11-02_19.06.49_02 >> 02-Nov 19:06 lnfbacula-dir JobId 1596: Warning: This Job is not an >> Accurate backup so is not equivalent to a

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull, file storage, rsnapshot-like...

2022-11-10 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Marco Gaiarin In chel di` si favelave... > job still running, seems stuck, tomorrow some more info. ;-) Ok, job definitevly stuck; this morning mailbox full of: 10-Nov 09:46 pppve3-sd JobId 1725: JobId=1725, Job VDMTMS1.2022-11-09_18.27.16_45 waiting to reserve a device. In stor

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull, file storage, rsnapshot-like...

2022-11-18 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> 'Storage daemon didn't accept Device "FileStorage" command.'?! OK, i've tried to create another pool, set that pool as 'NextPool', create a volume but nothing changed. Still a VirtualFull job is stuck, now with: Jobs waiting to reserve a drive: 3603 JobId=1890 File device "FileStorage"

[Bacula-users] SD stalled?!

2022-12-12 Thread Marco Gaiarin
I'm using 'vchanger' script defining some virtual changer. Sometimes, and i've looked at but found nothing in logs, the SD 'stalled'; typical situation: *status storage=SDPVE2RDX Connecting to Storage daemon SDPVE2RDX at sdpve2.sd.lnf.it:9103 sdpve2-sd Version: 9.4.2 (04 February 2019) x86_64-

Re: [Bacula-users] SD stalled?!

2022-12-15 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Josh Fisher via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > Also, you have tried using 'umount' and 'update slots' in bconsole, but > did you try the 'mount' command? It is the mount command that would > cause bacula-dir to choose a volume and invoke vchanger to load it. After restarting

Re: [Bacula-users] SD stalled?!

2022-12-15 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Josh Fisher via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > I don't see that Dir is reporting any errors invoking vchanger, no > timeouts or vchanger errors, but are there any vchanger processes still > running? The vchanger processes should be very short lived. In No, there's no vchange

Re: [Bacula-users] SD stalled?!

2022-12-19 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Josh Fisher In chel di` si favelave... > Does the firewall on sdpve2.sd.lnf.it allow connections on TCP 9103? Is > there an SD process on sdpve2.sd.lnf.it listening on port 9103? You can try > to 'telnet sdpve2.sd.lnf.it 9103' command from the machine that bacula-dir > runs on to see if i

Re: [Bacula-users] SD stalled?!

2022-12-19 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Josh Fisher In chel di` si favelave... > Try checking vchanger functions directly. Josh, sorry. Bacula and vchanger works as expected. dir and SD communicate correctly, and sd (seems to) work correctly with vchanger. The trouble arose 'sometime', typically when the remote branch user

[Bacula-users] Renaming SD/FD, Pools, Media...

2023-01-23 Thread Marco Gaiarin
We have started building our Bacula server, and after some month of adding SD, FD, Pools and Media we have found that our naming convention was too dumb. There's some way to rename all this stuff? Or better to redefine all, relabel the media and then clanup the DB manually via SQL? Thanks. --

[Bacula-users] Messages resources and spurious email...

2023-01-26 Thread Marco Gaiarin
In my bacula director i have a Messages resoruces used for generic messages like: Messages { Name = Daemon Description = "Messages resource for daemons (no jobs)" mailcommand = "/usr/sbin/bsmtp -h localhost -f \"\(Bacula LNF\) \<%r\>\" -s \"[BaculaLNF] Notifica generica dal sistema di ba

[Bacula-users] Baculum, LDAP and disable the 'server basic auth'...

2023-01-31 Thread Marco Gaiarin
I've installed baculum using debian packages, all works as expected and flawlessy. Now i've tried to add LDAP auth support, also successfuly: auth wprks, user imported. But if i try to login, the HTTP 'basic auth' popup of the default user 'admin' created in setup phase still want the 'admin' p

Re: [Bacula-users] Messages resources and spurious email...

2023-02-02 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Ana Emília M. Arruda In chel di` si favelave... [ Could you please stop putting me in TO/CC?! mailman is so dumb that don't send email if i'm on To:/CC:, and all my email archive goes bad ] > This is a message from Bacula daemons. It seems that you have the  " > bts-station1513.dyn.pp.

Re: [Bacula-users] Renaming SD/FD, Pools, Media...

2023-02-02 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Ana Emília M. Arruda In chel di` si favelave... > Renaming resources in Bacula is a bit complicated as it affects both > configuration files and the database in some cases. > > Thus, it is better to create new ones and delete the old ones. Or, if it is > possible for you, just drop the d

Re: [Bacula-users] Baculum, LDAP and disable the 'server basic auth'...

2023-02-03 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Marcin Haba In chel di` si favelave... > If you use LDAP authentication, all this Apache block with Basic auth can be > removed. In this place you can write: > > # Apache 2.4 > >         >                Require all granted >         > Bingo! It worked! Can be written somewhhere, eg

Re: [Bacula-users] Messages resources and spurious email...

2023-02-03 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Ana Emília M. Arruda In chel di` si favelave... [ Could you please stop putting me in TO/CC?! mailman is so dumb that don't send email if i'm on To:/CC:, and all my email archive goes bad. Thanks. ] > So, these are daemon messages and you have your Messages resource for daemon > messa

[Bacula-users] dbcheck, postgres, OOM...

2023-02-24 Thread Marco Gaiarin
In a mid-sized bacula installation (debian buster based, so bacula 9.4) i've renamed some clients and pool, so i wanted to do a 'dbcheck' to cleanup the database. But postgres get killed by OOM: root@lnfbacula:~# dbcheck -b -d 10 /var/lib/bacula bacula bacula password Checking for Paths witho

Re: [Bacula-users] dbcheck, postgres, OOM...

2023-02-27 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> I've tried to lieave more RAM to the VM that run the director (and the DB), > first 8, the 16 now i try with 32GB, but... For the archive, with 32GB of RAM pstgres does not crash, but still cath an out_of_memory condition (correctly) and abort the query. How can i do? Thanks. -- We certa

Re: [Bacula-users] dbcheck, postgres, OOM...

2023-02-28 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Pedro Oliveira In chel di` si favelave... > Tune Postgresql with pgtune Do you mean: https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua/ ?! Bacula is more a 'Web application' or a 'Mixed type'? ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforg

Re: [Bacula-users] dbcheck, postgres, OOM...

2023-03-02 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Pedro Oliveira In chel di` si favelave... > Yes, Normally I choose, Data Warehouse. Impressive! Probem solved! Thanks!!! ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-us

[Bacula-users] 'list' command and sort output...

2023-03-24 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Seems a rather dumb question also to me but... there's some way to sort output of bconsole 'list' command by some other field then ID? Thanks. -- È facile battere le ortiche col pisello degli altri! (Diego) _

[Bacula-users] Autochangers, bacula try to purge and load volume not in slot...

2023-04-05 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Situation: debian10, bacula 9.4.2-2+deb10u1; some SD are using 'vchanger' virtual changer script to manage backup on a set of RDX cartdrige. All work as expected, with cartdrige change on friday morning, full backup on friday evening and incremental subsequent days. But sometimes, not everytim

Re: [Bacula-users] Very slow database lookups for bRestore

2023-05-01 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Brian Daniels In chel di` si favelave... > Anything else I can do to speed up the restore? Try to use mysqltuner?! https://github.com/major/MySQLTuner-perl -- Il diavolo fa i file system ma non i tool di ripristino. (Cl

[Bacula-users] Bacula, Autochangers, insist on loading 'not in changer' media...

2023-05-12 Thread Marco Gaiarin
We have some setups using bacula (debian buster, 9.4.2-2+deb10u1) and RDX media, by the way of the 'vchanger' (Virtual Changer) script. All works as expected, until the current mounted media exaust the 'in changer' media (because exausted it; or because simply users load the incorrect media...).

Re: [Bacula-users] compression with lto?

2023-05-17 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Phil Stracchino In chel di` si favelave... > I have to admit I found the cost of the media for the last LTO > generation I used (LTO4) to be secondary to the cost of replacing drive > after drive after drive as they failed, because in my experience LTO > drives fail very quickly outsid

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula, Autochangers, insist on loading 'not in changer' media...

2023-05-30 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> Someone have some clue? Thanks. No feedback here, i've created: https://gitlab.bacula.org/bacula-community-edition/bacula-community/-/issues/2683 FYI. -- Quante persone che non contano, e invece contano e si stanno contando gia` Stanno solo aspettando un segno, Capata`z

[Bacula-users] Baculum and disable job...

2023-08-22 Thread Marco Gaiarin
I'm using Bacula 9.5 with baculum 9.6.6.3. I don't see and options to disable the jobs, equivalent to the 'disable' console command. I'm missing something? Thanks. -- ...il ponte di Messina unirà «non due coste ma due cosche». (Niki V

Re: [Bacula-users] Baculum and disable job...

2023-08-29 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Lionel PLASSE In chel di` si favelave... > In baculum there is an "enabled" checkbox for jobs. > It's possible to disable schedules too Mmmmhhh... i really don't find it; probably not in version 9.6.6.3? Thanks. -- ...mi dispiace solo un po' per gli svizzeri, ieri hanno giocato una

[Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-15 Thread Marco Gaiarin
I need to setup some backups for some Windows machine, that generate a decent amount of data (100GB currently) but slowly increasing. I don't need to manage tapes or changers, it suffices to have a copy of data with a good retention elsewhere, in a safe place. Normally for this task i use File

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-18 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Marcin Haba In chel di` si favelave... > Bacularis provides the virtual full backup wizard that supports > configuring both virtual full and progressive virtual full. Here you > can find quick video guides about it: > Virtual full: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLN9zmcEhD0 > Progressive

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-20 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> I've understood well? There's some way to have only ONE full at a time? Really no one here use 'virtual full' or 'progressive virtual full' and have some hint/conf to share? Thanks... Please... -- Non mi importa del petrolio, saro` un vile, un anormale ma questa volta alle Crociate n

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-21 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> I'm not currently using web interfaces, and i prefere to understand and work > at config file levels, but thanks. I've done some tests, but lead to nothing. I'm basing my tests (apart on official docs) also on: https://www.bacula.lat/bacula-virtual-synthetic-full-and-forever-incremen

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-22 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Adolf Belka (gmail) In chel di` si favelave... > I can't comment on Progressive Virtual Full backups as I don't do those > but I have had a Virtual Full Backup running for several years now, > which I use for my laptop. AFAI've understood, 'progressive' is only a different specific cas

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-22 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Martin Simmons In chel di` si favelave... > It is mentioned in the bullet point "Bacula currently does only minimal > Storage conflict resolution" of the 9.4 manual page you listed above. Bingo. The exact culprit came from the end of this bullet: you always migrate to pools with

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-25 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> Now work. Still many things are confusing to me, but i'll do more test and > provide > feedback back. No, still very confused. If i try to run a VirtualFull, now i catch: 25-Sep 15:45 lnfbacula-dir JobId 11551: Start Virtual Backup JobId 11551, Job=FVG-SV-Obito.2023-09-25_15.45.46_16 25-Sep

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-25 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Rados??aw Korzeniewski In chel di` si favelave... > You always need two devices for this, it is described in the docs. You do > not need different media types if you carefully manage pool configuration. Docs say that i need two media type, but somewhere say that i can use the same pool..

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-26 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Rados??aw Korzeniewski In chel di` si favelave... > Because of this. To make Virtual Full Bacula needs to read all backup jobs > starting from Full, Diff and all Incrementals. Your Full (as volume > suggests) is stored on Obito_Full_0001 which has an improper media type. > Correct your co

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-27 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> full pool). But still i think that there's no way to have ONE full copy... > clearly without 'scripting' something around (create a scratch pool/volume, > consolidate, migrate back to original pool/volume, delete scratch). Exactly. 27-Sep 17:29 lnfbacula-dir JobId 11634: Start Virtual Backup

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-29 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Rados??aw Korzeniewski In chel di` si favelave... > There is always a cost, from one area to another. You can mitigate storage > cost in this case with deduplication. So, the cost shifts from storage and > time to cpu, memory and license price. :) > And everybody can choose what is the be

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-29 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Josh Fisher via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... >> I'm really getting mad. This make sense for the behaviour (the first >> VirtualFull worked because read full and incremental for the same pool) but >> still the docs confuse me. >> https://www.bacula.org/9.4.x-manuals/en/

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-09-30 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Josh Fisher via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > The NextPool needs to be specified in the > FVG-SV-ObitoFilePoolIncremental pool resource, not in the job resource. OK, moved 'Next Job' in pool. > Other than that, you are specifically telling the job to run on a single > St

Re: [Bacula-users] Adding missing foreign keys to PostgreSQL - avoiding dbcheck

2023-10-02 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Dan Langille In chel di` si favelave... > I have no timeline for this work, but just posting the intent often gives me > the incentive to get started. Thanks for the effort. I can confirm that i've also hit DB performance trouble in postgres, so solving in the 'correct DB way' would be

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-10-02 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> Next week i'll give it a try. Thanks. Finally seems i'm a working 'VirtualFull' configuration! *run job=FVG-SV-Obito level=VirtualFull Run Backup job JobName: FVG-SV-Obito Level:VirtualFull Client: fvg-sv-obito-fd FileSet: ObitoTestStd Pool: FVG-SV-ObitoFilePoolIncremental (From

Re: [Bacula-users] Progressive Virtual Fulls...

2023-10-09 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> Finally seems i'm a working 'VirtualFull' configuration! I can confirm, this weekend virtual full do their job automatically, so effectively seems works. Still i ask: > So consolidation works, jobs get deleted, but clearly media get not purged > nor truncated. > There's a command i can laun

[Bacula-users] Determine a busy device in scripts...

2023-10-20 Thread Marco Gaiarin
I've setup a script that umount RDX media for a vchanger-backed up storage daemons. The script simply do: echo "status storage=$STORAGE" | bconsole | grep "^No Jobs running\." > /dev/null if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "Backup in corso, abortisco l'unmount del RDX." exit 0 fi

Re: [Bacula-users] Determine a busy device in scripts...

2023-10-25 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Marco Gaiarin In chel di` si favelave... > There's some way to test that a particular device is busy?! Thanks. For example, testing directly the file device: Device File: "RDXStorage0" (/var/spool/vchanger/CNPVE3RDX/0) is not open. Slot 3 was last loaded in driv

Re: [Bacula-users] Determine a busy device in scripts...

2023-10-25 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Marco Gaiarin In chel di` si favelave... > echo "status storage=$STORAGE" | bconsole | grep "^No Jobs running\." > > /dev/null > and works as expected, until you have only one device in the storage daemon; > but if you have more than a device, cou

[Bacula-users] Windows filesets setup...

2023-10-26 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Still there's some things in Bacula that i really dont't understand, evidently. ;-) I need to backup a windows box; i need to backup entirely the D: drive and partially the C: drive. Following documentation and examples, i've wrote: FileSet { Name = ArmeoStd Description = "Backup dati H

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows filesets setup...

2023-10-27 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Lionel PLASSE In chel di` si favelave... > Will wildir c:/* on exclude options remove all files from backup, won't it? > I think you have to look on the include/exlude wildcards use wild files nor > wild dir ? And > I meant : You don't need exclude block just include c:/program fil

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows filesets setup...

2023-11-01 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Martin Simmons In chel di` si favelave... > The problem is that your second options clauses matches the directory > "C:/Program Files" so that is excluded and the first options clause is never > used. > Have a look at the example about "My Pictures" in > https://www.bacula.org/13.0.x-manu

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows filesets setup...

2023-11-02 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Martin Simmons In chel di` si favelave... > Yes, that is expected. The problem with > WildDir = "C:/Program Files*" > is that it matches all directories starting with "C:/Program Files" (see the > comment about using RegExDir in the example in the manual). OK, worked and finally i

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows filesets setup...

2023-11-03 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Rob Gerber In chel di` si favelave... > On C drive, what things do you want to back up? > It looks like you say "include all of C drive" and then also say "back up > folder matching C:/Program Files*/Hocoma", then say "exclude anything on > C". > I think if this is the case maybe you are

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows filesets setup...

2023-11-05 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Martin Simmons In chel di` si favelave... > I don't see why WildDir in the Options clause will cause a warning on 32bit > Windows (it will just never match). It would only give a warning if you used > File = "C:/Program Files (x86)" at the start of the Include clause. Something like:

[Bacula-users] General autochanger info...

2023-12-01 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Someone here gift me a autochanger (and entry level one; a Tandberg NEOs StorageLoader: https://www.overlandtandberg.com/products/neo-tape/neos-storageloader/ that seems an BDT FlexStor - 1U remarked: https://www.bdt.de/en/products-solutions/storage-automation/ ) and say me 'mak

[Bacula-users] Testing tape performace with btape...

2023-12-05 Thread Marco Gaiarin
I'm playing with my new LTO9 tape drive (Tandberg/IBM one, SAS). Some year ago, trying to find optimal parameters for an LTO-5 tape drive, i've found: options st buffer_kbs=16384 Minimum block size = 0 Maximum blocksize = 256K Maximum Network Buffer Size = 262144 Maximum File Size =

Re: [Bacula-users] Testing tape performace with btape...

2023-12-16 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > The following settings have been found to work quite well with the LTO9 > drives I am testing in Quantum's lab: > 8< > MaximumFileSize = 32GB > MaximumBlockSize = 2097152 > 8< Thanks for the hint! I've not clear

[Bacula-users] Retention and media acrhiving...

2024-01-10 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Supposing to have some 'short rotation' retention for media (eg, 5 media used one week once, volume retention at 28 days). Suppose also to have job and file retention to 28 days. But soppose also that i need to 'archive' some volume, changing status to 'Archive'. Clearly in this way i can still

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention and media acrhiving...

2024-01-15 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Martin Simmons In chel di` si favelave... > The Job and File Retention just controls the size of the catalog database (and > affects restores). The Volume Retention controls recycling. > Therefore I set Perfect. Thanks! -- Ci vuole sempre qualcuno da odiare per sentirsi giustificati

[Bacula-users] Clarification on incremental files...

2024-01-22 Thread Marco Gaiarin
I'm using Bacula to put on tapes (LTO9) a backup collected from different sources via 'rsnapshot'; if now known, rsnapshot is a perl wrapper script around rsync that leveraging the UNIX filesystem capability (eg, hard link) permit to have 'snapshots' of filesystems. Practically, some rsync invoc

[Bacula-users] Autochangers and unload timeout...

2024-01-24 Thread Marco Gaiarin
I've reached my first tape change on my autochangers, yeah! But... 24-Jan 17:22 cnpve3-sd JobId 16234: [SI0202] End of Volume "AAJ661L9" at 333:49131 on device "LTO9Storage0" (/dev/nst0). Write of 524288 bytes got -1. 24-Jan 17:22 cnpve3-sd JobId 16234: Re-read of last block succeeded. 24-

[Bacula-users] LTO tape performances, again...

2024-01-24 Thread Marco Gaiarin
My new IBM LTO9 tape unit have a data sheet performace of: https://www.ibm.com/docs/it/ts4500-tape-library/1.10.0?topic=performance-lto-specifications so on worst case (compression disabled) seems to perform 400 MB/s on an LTO9 tape. Practically on Bacula i get 70-80 MB/s. I've just:

Re: [Bacula-users] Clarification on incremental files...

2024-01-24 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Martin Simmons In chel di` si favelave... > I suspect the problem is with rsnapshot, not rsync, in particular this > command: >> [2024-01-21T15:25:28] /usr/bin/cp -al /rpool-backup/rsnapshot/.sync >> /rpool-backup/rsnapshot/daily.0 > This will change the hard link count of every file in

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO tape performances, again...

2024-01-25 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> 2) checked disk performance (data came only from local disk); i've currently > 3 servers, some perform better, some worster, but the best one have a read > disk performance pretty decent, at least 200MB/s on random access (1500 MB/s > on sequential one). Jim Pollard on private email ask me ab

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO tape performances, again...

2024-01-26 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Josh Fisher via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > Disk that is local to the server does not mean it is local to the > bacula-sd process or tape drive. If the connection is 1 gigabit > Ethernet, then max rate is going to be 125 MB/s. Nono, i meant literally 'local disk': i'm put

Re: [Bacula-users] Clarification on incremental files...

2024-01-26 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Martin Simmons In chel di` si favelave... > 'i' is the st_ino field in the stat, i.e. the number that uniquely identifies > the data for the file in the file system. Note that there is always exactly 1 > inode that references the data for each file in a UNIX file system. OK. Because dat

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochangers and unload timeout...

2024-01-26 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Pierre Bernhardt In chel di` si favelave... > You can set debug_log=1 to create a mtx.log in ~bacula home dir which should > be /var/lib/bacula. > I'd set debug_level=100 to log everything. I make a note. Setting: debug_log=1 debug_level=100 caused mtx-changer to fail (

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO tape performances, again...

2024-01-29 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Marco Gaiarin In chel di` si favelave... > I'll provide feedback. Thanks. Better, reached 180MB/s. Probably i need to move bacula spool on a dedicated SSD disk (currently, on an ZFS RAID pool, backed up with an SSD read cache) to reach better performaces. Still incremental

Re: [Bacula-users] Autochangers and unload timeout...

2024-01-29 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > By doing these manual steps, At least you can find out how long your tape > library takes for these processes, and then you can > adjust mtx-changer.conf as Pierre explained. Effectively i've noted that (LTO9, not only autocha

[Bacula-users] Manage 'Connection timed out' errors...

2024-01-29 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Rarely on our Bacula setup some (mostly Full) job fail with: 26-Jan 21:55 lnfbacula-dir JobId 16375: Error: Director's connection to SD for this Job was lost. 26-Jan 21:55 lnfbacula-dir JobId 16375: Fatal error: Network error with FD during Backup: ERR=Connection timed out 26-Jan 21:56 lnfb

[Bacula-users] Backup report script...

2024-01-29 Thread Marco Gaiarin
In my Bacula installatin i've many backup types; for some, more ''solid'', the bacula messages resources is perfect. But i use bacula also for some more less solid backup: client backup (mostly windows, mostly medical devices) that are not ''always on''. So bacula message resources get 'sanitiz

Re: [Bacula-users] Clarification on incremental files...

2024-01-31 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Martin Simmons In chel di` si favelave... >> OK. Because data get copied/linked BY .sync dir, option 'i' can be kept, >> because inode does notchange. > Yes. OK, now seems to work. But incremental took a very huge amount of time. Currently i have on job: Accurate = yes and on

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO tape performances, again...

2024-01-31 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Cejka Rudolf via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > - Spool Data = yes, attribute spooling is automatically enabled too Done. > In device storage section: > - Maximum File Size = 32 GB, for LTO-6 and older you can think about 16 GB i have: Maximum File Size = 50G > - Su

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup report script...

2024-02-03 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > I might be able to add this as a feature to my `baculabackupreport.py` Python > reporting script - possibly quite easily. > The script already has a feature to show jobs that are "always failing" for x > number of days. This fe

Re: [Bacula-users] Clarification on incremental files...

2024-02-13 Thread Marco Gaiarin
> EG, if i modify/reduce the number of checks, this can provide more speed? I reply myself; yes. I've modified fileset as: Include { Options { Signature = MD5 accurate = sm } leading to: Elapsed time: 47 mins 56 secs Priority: 10 FD Files W

[Bacula-users] Client backup, VirtualFull and failed job 'retention'...

2024-02-22 Thread Marco Gaiarin
I'm setting up a backup for some client, mostly windows devices, mostly medical system (EEG, EMG, ...). They are 'clients', eg they get powered on on need, they not are 'always on' or powered on on every days. My target was: - start backup at some hour, and be a bit 'aggressive' trying to ret

Re: [Bacula-users] [Research] Tape-library udevadm info Drives Order identification

2024-02-22 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! Heitor Faria In chel di` si favelave... > The output from the command: "for i in $(ls /dev/tape/by-id/*); do udevadm > info --name $i |tee; done" > The output from the command: "ls -lah /dev/tape/by-id/*" I've tried on my backup server, and correctly list my old internal LTO tape, but t

Re: [Bacula-users] dbcheck dont work

2024-02-22 Thread Marco Gaiarin
Mandi! eric--- via Bacula-users In chel di` si favelave... > I believe that the CPU is more a problem related with the Postgres > configuration not suitable for your database. I can confirtm that. I've used 'pgtune': https://pgtune.leopard.in.ua/ using 'data wharehouse' as db type. N

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