[Bacula-users] (no subject)

Hey all, My bacula 7 server and clients have been running fine for a while. Until a couple of days ago I started getting these errors: *15-Sep 03:05 ops.mydomain.com JobId 180: Fatal error: sql_create.c:916 Can't start batch mode: ERR=* *15-Sep 15:30 ops.mydomain.com

[Bacula-users] backups failed with gethostbyname() error

Hey all, I've just had backup fail for one of my hosts. It gives the following error: 24-Sep 03:10 ops.mydomain.com JobId 218: Start Backup JobId 218, Job=beta-new.mydomain.com.2014-09-24_03.05.00_03 24-Sep 03:10 ops.mydomain.com JobId 218: Using Device "FileStorage" to write. 24-Sep 03:11 ops

Re: [Bacula-users] backups failed with gethostbyname() error

nto the /etc/hosts file on my bacula server. We'll see where that gets us for tonight's run, just in case this was some kind of DNS issue. Thanks! Tim On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On 09/24/2014 10:01 AM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > > > 2

[Bacula-users] bacula 7 list volumes

Hey guys, I seem to remember being able to 'list volumes' in older versions of bconsole. But now that I'm on bacula 7 on the server it doesn't seem to understand that command. *list volumes; Unknown list keyword: volumes; And I've even dug through some bacula documentation that seems to suggest

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 7 list volumes

Hey guys, Yup that was it!! The stupid semi-colon.. Sorry I don't know why I was thinking I was at a mysql prompt. But it works now and thanks for your help! TIm On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Bill Arlofski wrote: > On 10/31/2014 10:19 AM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > > Hey guys, >

[Bacula-users] bconsole can't connect to director

Hey all, This just started happening recently where I can't connect to my bacula director using the bconsole command. It just kinda kicks you out like this: [root@ops:/etc/bacula] #bconsole Connecting to Director ops.jokefire.com:9101 [root@ops:/etc/bacula] # If I look at the bacula-dir service

[Bacula-users] change of hostname leads to TLS failure

Hey all, I'd like to change the hostname of one of my servers that uses bacula. So I generated some new certs after updating the hostname in /etc/hosts: [root@web1:/etc/bacula] #ls -l /etc/pki/tls/* | grep web1 -r 1 root root 1956 Jan 31 20:34 web1.mydomain.com.crt -r 1

Re: [Bacula-users] change of hostname leads to TLS failure

> > I don't see web1.jokefire.com mentioned anywhere until this error. Why > is that? Ok you caught me. Whoops! I was trying to obscure the real name of the domain. That is why. On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Dan Langille wrote: > > On Jan 31, 2015, at 9:27 PM, Tim Du

[Bacula-users] can't start bacula-fd on a CentOS 7 host

Hey guys, OK I was able to get bacula-client version 7 installed on a CentOS 7 machine. [root@web1:~/certs] #rpm -qa | grep bacula bacula-libs-7.0.5-1.el7.x86_64 bacula-common-7.0.5-1.el7.x86_64 bacula-client-7.0.5-1.el7.x86_64 But the service fails to start: [root@web1:~/certs] #service bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] can't start bacula-fd on a CentOS 7 host

Have you confirmed that your "WorkingDirectory = /var/bacula" exists? > > Best regards, > Ana > > On Sun, Mar 1, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > >> Hey guys, >> >> OK I was able to get bacula-client version 7 installed on a CentOS 7 >> machin

[Bacula-users] director won't start

Hey all, Ok, well I had an unfortunate incident where I had to rebuild my bacula server. Fortunately I have the entire bacula config puppeted. So I was able to restore config files that I was using when the server was running fine. However, even tho that's the case, I am not able to get the bacu

Re: [Bacula-users] director won't start

art Starting bacula-dir: [ OK ] [root@ops:~] #service bacula-dir status bacula-dir dead but subsys locked I appreciate the input tho! On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:00 PM, Alan Brown wrote: > On 26/03/15 20:07, Tim Dunphy wrote: > > Hey all, > [root@ops:~] #service bac

Re: [Bacula-users] director won't start

ery failed: SELECT VersionId FROM Version: ERR=no such table: Version 27-Mar 00:14 bacula-dir ERROR TERMINATION Please correct configuration file: /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root And saw the same exact entries. I'm enclosing my entire director config as

Re: [Bacula-users] director won't start

Hi Heitor, > Hey Tim: it seems that the make_mysql_tables scripts isn't creating the > Version table for some reason. I would suggest you to download Bacula > 5.2.13 code and run the database creation scripts from there. > Ps.: I really like your posts at US Govmnt list. > Regards, Thanks for

Re: [Bacula-users] director won't start

Hello Heitor, I can see in your dir.conf that you are using an "admin" user to connect to > your database. > Did you try the bacula user? This is the one created by the > grant_x_privileges script. I took a look at the grant_mysql_privileges script. And noticed that the password entry wasn't set

Re: [Bacula-users] director won't start

Hi Josip, Are you able to connect to the mysql using the same credentials as > bacula but using mysql client with "-h localhost" option, e.g. > mysql -h localhost -u bacula -p bacula > Yep! that works! [root@ops:~] #mysql -ubacula -p -h localhost Enter password: Welcome to the MySQL monitor.

Re: [Bacula-users] director won't start

Hi Josip, I wonder if your bacula director is reading the correct config file. > Could you check that your bacula-dir is down and try to start the > bacula-dir manually with the debug set? > For example: > bacula-dir -c /etc/bacula/bacula.dir.conf -d 200 -f > That should show some debug output inc

Re: [Bacula-users] director won't start

Hi Josip, I am pretty much sure that after the two lines that contain > "dir_plugins.c", you should see several lines mentioning "mysql.c" > > Are you sure that your bacula-dir has been compiled with mysql support? > You could probably check that with the command such as: > ldd /path/to/your/ba

Re: [Bacula-users] director won't start

Josip, I uninstalled bacula-director as you suggested. And went through the install again. It seems to only offer me the bacula-dir that does'nt directly support mysql, if I'm understanding everything correctly: [root@ops:~] #yum install bacula-director-mysql.x86_64 Loaded plugins: downloadonly

Re: [Bacula-users] director won't start

libselinux.so.1 => /lib64/libselinux.so.1 (0x2e3b6000) libsepol.so.1 => /lib64/libsepol.so.1 (0x2e5ce000) Thanks for the suggestions. Wondering where to go from here.. ! :) Tim On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > O

Re: [Bacula-users] director won't start

bgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x2b7f6000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x2ba04000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x4000) So is the issue that we need to get libcats to support mysql? If so how do we do that? Thanks Tim On

Re: [Bacula-users] director won't start

o do to get this working correctly? Thanks Tim On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > On 03/27/2015 01:22 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > > > Hmmm...ok well if I do a ldd on that libcats file I see no mysql support > is > > listed: > > Well, keeping in mi

Re: [Bacula-users] director won't start

> > What the fine manual sez, literally: > alternatives --set libbaccats.so /usr/lib64/libbaccats-mysql.so > You might want to "--remove libbaccats-mysql-7.0.5.so" while you're at it. > The long story is /usr/lib[64]/libfoo.so is a symlink to > /etc/alternatives/libfoo.so which is a symlink to > /s

Re: [Bacula-users] director won't start

Hey Josip, FINALLY we have success! [root@ops:/etc/bacula] #service bacula-dir start Starting bacula-dir: [ OK ] [root@ops:/etc/bacula] #service bacula-dir status bacula-dir (pid 3547) is running... And the test results are good: [root@ops:/etc/bacula]

[Bacula-users] (no subject)

Hey all, I have one host that seems to be erroring out whenever I try to take a backup of it: Running Jobs: Console connected at 25-Apr-15 19:23 JobId Level Name Status == 3 Fullweb1.jokefire.c

[Bacula-users] backups fail with attribute create error

Hey guys, I'm only backing up a couple of VM instances right now. But last night both of them failed with this error: 11-May 04:01 ops.jokefire.com JobId 58: Fatal error: catreq.c:587 attribute create error. That's what I saw with the messages command. However I did not find a corresponding err

[Bacula-users] backing up to S3

Hey guys, I was really excited when I upgraded my bacula server to CentOS 7 and installed the latest version of s3fs. Because I found that I was able to mount an s3 bucket to my local file system with the right user id and permissions to use with bacula. My old server was a centos 5.9 host and

Re: [Bacula-users] backing up to S3

Hey there Heitor! Nice to hear from ya bud!! I actually did get this to work. The key that lead to success was to add a 'use_cache' option. I basically assigned a 10GB EBS volume just to use as a cache. It was just an experiment, and I planned on getting did of the 10GB EBS and get one much smalle

[Bacula-users] trouble adding TLS client

Hey all, I'm adding some new servers to the backup pool now that I'm successfully backing up to S3. Now that space to keep my tapes on is less of an issue, it'll be nice to get some more hosts into the backup pool that were previously neglected. I added one host to the pool without any issue at

Re: [Bacula-users] trouble adding TLS client

Hi Ana, Have you configured TLS for this client at bacula-dir.conf? That was it!! Somehow I missed configuring TLS for this client in bacula-dir.conf. It's working now. Thank you!! Cheers, Tim On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Ana Emília M. Arruda < emiliaarr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Tim,

[Bacula-users] error connecting to database

Hey guys, I have no trouble at all getting the bacula director running if I connect to a local datbase running on the bacula server itself. However if I try connecting to a database living on another host is where I run into an isssue. If I try to setup a database that's not running on localhost

Re: [Bacula-users] error connecting to database

s the same? > > dbname = "bacula"; dbuser = "admin_ssl"; dbpassword = "secret"; dbaddress > = "db.example.com"; dbport = 3306 > > ​This is your second try (from your first post), including dbport > directive (I just saw this in your first try).​

Re: [Bacula-users] error connecting to database

I get everything working. I'll try to update you guys tomorrow. Thanks for all your input! Tim On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Heitor Faria wrote: > >> Em ter, 4 de ago de 2015 às 23:01, Tim Dunphy >> escreveu: >> >>> Hey Ana, >>> Nice to hear

Re: [Bacula-users] error connecting to database

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Re: [Bacula-users] error connecting to database

ient-key.pem -h db.example.com -e "use bacula;show tables" | head -5 If this works, could you check with a "\s" command in which port mysql daemon is listening? Best regards, Ana On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 11:23 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: Hey guys, I finally have some progress

[Bacula-users] waiting for client to connect to storage file

Hey guys, I've got a new problem on my bacula setup. Not sure what changed recently, but now for some reason when I go to backup any client I get this message when I check st dir: Running Jobs: Console connected at 19-Oct-15 01:03 JobId Type Level Files Bytes Name Status

Re: [Bacula-users] waiting for client to connect to storage file

server on 9103 (it is a SD > port). That was it!! Thanks. Not sure why I keep forgetting this. I'll make a note to myself next time. Thanks, Tim On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 3:40 AM, Radosław Korzeniewski < rados...@korzeniewski.net> wrote: > Hello, > > 2015-10-19

[Bacula-users] bconsole won't connect to director

Hey guys, I've had to rebuild my bacula server recently. And everything seemed to go okay with the install, but for some reason the bconsole can't conect to the director. This is all I see when I try: [root@bacula1:~] #bconsole Connecting to Director bacula1.example.com:9101 I tried runni

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole won't connect to director

260>8268-4220 <%2B55%2061%208268-4220> > Site: http://bacula.us FB: heitor.faria > <http://www.facebook.com/heitor.faria> > ======= > > -- > > *From: *"Heitor Faria" > *To: *"Tim Dun

[Bacula-users] can't start bacula director as service

Hey guys, I'm having an odd issue with bacula 7.0.5 (on CentOS 7) in that I can start it manually in debug mode. However it doesn't start correctly either using the config script. And it doesn't work if I try to start up bacula using the same flags as the init script. If I try to start up bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] can't start bacula director as service

connection string in my bacula director config for years at this point. So I'm not sure why it wasn't connecting properly until I tried connecting to the localhost IP of 127.0.0.1. Just thought I'd let you know. You've all been so helpful in the past. Thanks, Tim On Sun, Mar

[Bacula-users] bacula selinux problem

hey guys, Running into an issue with SELinux on my bacula server. With selinux turned on, I can't write to the backup directory. This is what I get when I try: [root@ops:~] #getenforce Enforcing Connecting to Storage daemon File at ops.example.com:9103 ... Sending label command for Volume "jf-

[Bacula-users] numbering tapes

Hello, I've set auto-labeling in my pool definition: # Default pool definition Pool { Name = "Default" Pool Type = Backup Recycle = yes # Bacula can automatically recycle Volumes AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes Volume Retention = 45 day

[Bacula-users] bacula backups insufficient

Hello list, My current bacula director does seem to be able to connect to it's clients, but for some reason the backups are much smaller than expected. Terminated Jobs: JobId LevelFiles Bytes Status FinishedName =

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula backups insufficient

File = wrote: > Could we see your file set definition? It sounds like it's looking in the > wrong places for files. We wouldn't know what the right places were, but > you would and could answer questions. it's where I'd start at least > > > -Melvin >

[Bacula-users] problems restoring directory

Hello list, I have a working bacula system backing up a few cloud instances. But when I tried to perform a restore, I went into the bacula console and gave the 'restore all' command and walked through the steps to select the directory I wanted to restore. The command fails with the following out

Re: [Bacula-users] problems restoring directory

; On Tue, Jun 04, 2013 at 10:10:51AM -0400, Tim Dunphy wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > > > I have a working bacula system backing up a few cloud instances. But > when I > > tried to perform a restore, I went into the bacula console and gave the > > 'res

[Bacula-users] bacula TLS help

Hello all, I'm trying to add TLS encryption to my bacula setup. I've been following this guide which got me almost all of the way there: http://blog.earth-works.com/2013/08/03/configuring-bacula-to-use-tls-to-encrypt-connections/ I modified the following sections in my bacula-dir.conf fi

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula TLS help

at the cert: > > openssl x509 -in /etc/bacula/certs/cert/bacula.crt -noout -text > > Subject: C=ES, ST=X, O=, OU=Computing Department, CN= > bacula.example.org > > The CN must be the sme that DirAddress (I did not use email address for > cert sign) > > Rega

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula TLS help

tc/pki/tls/private/storage.jokefire.com.key > > belongs to bacula user ? > > regards, I > > > 2013/11/28 Tim Dunphy > >> Hello Iban! And thank you for your reply. >> >> >> >>> I have a similar configuration. I think that the

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula TLS help

> > On 2013-11-29 18:37, Tim Dunphy wrote: > ... (and unfortunately I feel like I'm spinning in circles) > > Maybe you should try a different circle, like try stunnel? > Not the worst idea I've heard. Or maybe sshuttle. Still would prefer to work out the Bacula a

[Bacula-users] (no subject)

Hey all, My bacula backups have been running fine for quiet a while. When suddenly and out of the blue I am getting the following errors: 13-Jul 03:08 ops.mydomain.com JobId 55: Start Backup JobId 55, Job=beta-new.mydomain.com.2014-07-13_03.05.22_04 13-Jul 03:09 ops.mydomain.com JobId 55: Using

[Bacula-users] can't connect to director

Hey all, I'm having a little trouble with my bacula setup. So I've gone back to basics trying to get a base config going so I can build from there. So on a fresh install of bacula on centos 5.9 I am faced with the following error: [root@ops:/etc/bacula] #bconsole Connecting to Director ops.mydo

Re: [Bacula-users] can't connect to director

HI Bill, Thanks for getting back to me on this! Ok, so let's take this a step at a time. I hope we can find a solution for this because I really need bacula to come online again. So, from the top. We've established that the database is there and that I can log in as the bacula user: [root@ops:/

Re: [Bacula-users] can't connect to director

Hi Bill, Yes the Password="xxx" matches between bconsole.conf and bacula-dir.conf. So not really sure why this error keeps happening! Thanks Tim On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Bill Arlofski wrote: > On 07/27/14 12:24, Tim Dunphy wrote: > > HI Bill, > > > >

Re: [Bacula-users] can't connect to director

socket and connect via the loopback address. But whatever the reason, that above entry in /etc/hosts solved the problem! Thanks Tim On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Bill Arlofski wrote: > On 07/27/14 13:08, Tim Dunphy wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > > > Yes the Password=

[Bacula-users] bacula backups failing

Hi all, Recently backup jobs started failing when I try to backup a remote client and when I tried to back up the local client (that is the bacula server itself). The remote client is called 'beta-new.mydomain.com' and the bacula server is called 'ops.mydomain.com'. This is the error that I'm ge

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula backups failing

Hey everyone! Thanks for your input. The catalog issue looks to be resolved. The /var/bacula directory was owned by root:root. Chowning it to bacula:bacula appears to have solved the issue. As to the problem backing up the remote machine, I'm still not sure where that problem lies. However that al

[Bacula-users] missing bacula conf files

Hello, I'm trying to setup bacula-director 2.4.4 under centos 5.6 on a linux vm. I'm following instructions that are telling me to modify a couple of files that don't appear to be on my system after searching for them using both find and the locate command: /etc/bacula/tray-monitor.conf /e

[Bacula-users] bacula-dir crashing

Hello, I was able to get a more recent version of bacula on my centos 5.6 with advice from Simone on this list. I'm now running bacula 5.2.10 Thanks! However my current situation is that bacula-sd and bacula-fd both run fine when bacula-dir crashes with the following message in the logs: [r

[Bacula-users] backup remote clients

hello, Bacula and bconsole are running happily on my backup server. But not I need to know how to backup remote clients. Sorry if this is an obvious question but does anyone know where I can find the docs that tell me how to do this? Thanks Tim -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.

Re: [Bacula-users] backup remote clients

Hi John, > What do you mean by remote? Machines that are on the same network or > is there a firewall blocking connections from the client to server? Different networks. Bacula server is on AWS, Bacula client is on Rackspace Cloud. Client is firewalled but I've opened the appropriate port 9102,

Re: [Bacula-users] backup remote clients

Well it seems that a good perusal of the docs was all I need. I appreciate all your input but ultimately all I had to do was read, slow down and think about what I was doing and then.. SUCCESS!! |69 | beta.mydomain.com | 2012-09-24 21:55:37 | B| F | 265,960 | 7,766,476,900 | T