[Bacula-users] restore director

2015-06-28 Thread scar
i lost the OS that my director and storage daemons were on... but i have backups (bacula volumes) still on my external hard drive how can i get bacula-dir and storage setup again so i can restore /etc/bacula and then restore the rest of my system? i've basically had to reinstall the OS and i j

Re: [Bacula-users] restore director

2015-06-28 Thread scar
this is extremely frustrating! :( im reading the section about bscan[1], which is what i need to use right? i dont understand how this all works and its stressing me out. apparently i need to re-define my clients in the bacula-dir.conf? what does that consist of? there is already one Client defi

Re: [Bacula-users] restore director

2015-06-29 Thread scar
Radosław Korzeniewski wrote on 06/29/2015 12:33 AM: > No, you need a bextract command to restore all your configuration and your > catalog database backup from archive volumes (do you have your bsr files > somewhere, right?). no i don't know where those are but i was able to make some progress...

[Bacula-users] correct strategy for mysql innodb and myisam backup

2017-01-11 Thread scar
i have been using the script at [1] but then i noticed that the incremental backups were quite large and containing some MYD and MYI files. so i realized these were myisam databases. i read that the best way to backup both innodb and myisam databases was to use the mysqldump option --lock-tab

[Bacula-users] bacula ignoring mtimeonly

2017-03-28 Thread scar
abbing all the files that haven't changed. Here is an example file that bacula is grabbing which it shouldn't: [scar@oldserver ~]$ ls -l -rw-rw-r-- 1 10022 101 422186903 Aug 26 2016 [scar@oldserver ~]$ ls -lc -rw-rw-r-- 1 10022 101 422186903 Aug 26 2016 [scar@newserver ~]$ ls -l -rw-

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula ignoring mtimeonly

2017-03-29 Thread scar
Josip Deanovic wrote on 03/28/2017 09:10 PM: > I believe that this could be a problem. > It could be that bacula saved files with ctime during the last full > backup and now sees all the files as changed even with the "mtimeonly" > set to "yes". > > If this is the case it would be a good idea to ch

[Bacula-users] high priority job not running

2017-07-27 Thread scar
Hi all, we are using bacula 5.2.6. I have disk-based storage with 4 devices defined, and 20 max concurrent jobs for the storage demon. All the file demons also have 20 max concurrent jobs. In the director, it has 10 max concurrent jobs, the DefaultJob JobDefs is used for all jobs, which has

[Bacula-users] upgrade bacula database

2014-01-06 Thread scar
hello! i hope someone could help me fix my bacula server that has stopped working after i upgraded the system from Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04. bacula is version 5.2.5-0ubuntu6.2 now. there were some questions during upgrade about configuring/upgrading the database with bacula-common-mysql or something

Re: [Bacula-users] upgrade bacula database

2014-01-06 Thread scar
John Drescher @ 01/06/2014 09:01 AM: > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 3:01 AM, scar wrote: >> /usr/share/bacula-director/update_mysql_tables? but when i run that it >> tries to connect to the database using 'root' > The script accepts command line parameters that you can e

[Bacula-users] need help (step by step) for setting up certificates

2011-07-23 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 i want to set up certificates for secure communication between my director and clients. i've read several guides including the info on bacula.org, but i am so confused how to do it. i currently have 4 machines i want backed up, two are at home and

Re: [Bacula-users] need help (step by step) for setting up certificates

2011-07-23 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Ben Walton @ 07/23/2011 02:01 PM: > Excerpts from scar's message of Sat Jul 23 15:56:53 -0400 2011: > >> i think what is confusing me the most is what to use for CN, but i >> am generally puzzled as to how to generate the certs properly in >> genera

Re: [Bacula-users] need help (step by step) for setting up certificates

2011-07-23 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mike Hobbs @ 07/23/2011 06:32 PM: > On 7/23/2011 8:38 PM, scar wrote: >> this is what i have in home1.bacula-dir.conf: >> >> Director { >>Name = home1-dir >>DirAddress = home1.local >>... >>

Re: [Bacula-users] need help (step by step) for setting up certificates

2011-07-24 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Ben Walton @ 07/24/2011 05:22 AM: > Excerpts from scar's message of Sun Jul 24 00:12:30 -0400 2011: > >> so i tried adding `TLS Allowed CN = "home1"` and still get the same >> error. however, i tried using the `-d 99` switch for bconsole and >> it

Re: [Bacula-users] need help (step by step) for setting up certificates

2011-07-24 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Ben Walton @ 07/24/2011 05:22 AM: > Excerpts from scar's message of Sun Jul 24 00:12:30 -0400 2011: > >> so i tried adding `TLS Allowed CN = "home1"` and still get the same >> error. however, i tried using the `-d 99` switch for bconsole and >> it

Re: [Bacula-users] need help (step by step) for setting up certificates

2011-07-24 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Craig White @ 07/24/2011 10:14 AM: > On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 09:29 -0700, scar wrote: >> frankly i don't see why bconsole, which was able to be run fine under >> normal user privileges, now needs to be run as root to acces

Re: [Bacula-users] need help (step by step) for setting up certificates

2011-07-24 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mike Hobbs @ 07/24/2011 06:15 PM: > On 7/23/2011 3:56 PM, scar wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> i want to set up certificates for secure communication between my >> director and clients. i've read several gu

[Bacula-users] Remote backup, Failed to connect to Storage daemon

2011-07-25 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 i got my local (home) backups going alright with TLS and everything, but now i'm running into issues getting my remote work computers communicating 100%. to reiterate, i've currently got two systems at home, home1 and home2, and two at work, work1 a

Re: [Bacula-users] Remote backup, Failed to connect to Storage daemon

2011-07-25 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 it seems i was able to get things working, by adding this to my /etc/hosts on home1: 192.168.1.139 home.dyndns.org (192.168.1.139 being home1's local address) and then i used the certificate for home.dyndns.org instead of the one for home1.local

[Bacula-users] Connection reset by peer

2011-07-26 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 i am getting this error on one of my remote clients, work1-fd. what is confusing to me is that i have another system, work2-fd, on the same network, behind the same router, running the same OS and bacula version (ubuntu 10.04, 5.0.1) which doesn't h

Re: [Bacula-users] Connection reset by peer

2011-07-26 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mike Ruskai @ 07/26/2011 08:09 PM: > So, in short, if you have network problems, suspect network problems. > i'll look into it. i find it kind of absurd though, that it only happens AFTER the backup is finished, and quite some time after. i've ne

Re: [Bacula-users] Device is BLOCKED waiting to create a volume for

2011-07-28 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 hymie! @ 07/28/2011 12:12 PM: > So I used the "label" command to create the volume S1Vol0809 in the > appropriate pool, and it seems to have liked it so far, as "ls -l" tells me: > -rw-r- 1 bacula tape201 2011-07-28 14:51 S1Vol0809 > > a

[Bacula-users] clarification on purging and File volume retention

2011-08-02 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 i'm not using tapes, i just have my volumes stored in a directory. it's my intention to take a full backup every month on the first, with incrementals and differentials during the month like in the default configuration. with a volume use duration

Re: [Bacula-users] clarification on purging and File volume retention

2011-08-03 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Graham Keeling @ 08/03/2011 03:34 AM: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 05:11:11PM -0700, scar wrote: > i'm not using tapes, i just have my volumes stored in a directory. it's > my intention to take a full backup every month

Re: [Bacula-users] During start director "failed to initialize TLS"

2011-08-03 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 mariusz @ 08/03/2011 03:16 AM: > Hi, > > I`ve reviewed forum and bacula`s guide about TLS config and I know that I > need CA Certifi for config TLS on Bacula. > > > I used below description to create CA cert. > http://www.g-loaded.eu/2005/11/10/b

Re: [Bacula-users] Connection reset by peer

2011-08-03 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 scar @ 07/26/2011 06:44 PM: > i am getting this error on one of my remote clients, work1-fd. what is > confusing to me is that i have another system, work2-fd, on the same > network, behind the same router, running the same OS and bacul

[Bacula-users] fat32 incrementals backup too much

2011-09-25 Thread scar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 i've got an external disk that is formatted fat32 which makes it easy to transfer files between macs, PCs, and my linux workstations. i've defined a backup job for it that i run manually. i plug the disk into my linux workstation which is running t

Re: [Bacula-users] fat32 incrementals backup too much

2011-09-26 Thread scar
Martin Simmons @ 09/26/2011 11:10 AM: > Any particular types of file? > > Check the ctimes (ls -lc). most of the files are homemade audio recordings... mp3, wav, and flac. the ctimes don't show any modification either. --

Re: [Bacula-users] fat32 incrementals backup too much

2011-09-27 Thread scar
Thanks. I'm just running another full backup now so i'll look into the timestamps next time i need to do a backup. too bad such a crumby filesystem is the most compatible between various operating systems... -- All th

[Bacula-users] Limit Bandwidth of Incremental backups only

2025-02-09 Thread scar
Hi all,     I'd like to use the Maximum Bandwidth directive, which can be specified for a whole client, or per-job.  I'd like it to only apply to incremental backup jobs though.  My idea was to split my job into two jobs, one for full and differential backups and another for incremental backups, a

[Bacula-users] Incremental SQLite backups? (Thunderbird/Firefox/Mozilla)

2025-01-01 Thread Scar
Hi all,     Is there a best practice for incrementally backing up /SQLite/ databases, like there is for /MySQL/ databases (by way of the example /MySQL/ backup scripts that ship with /Bacula/)?  I've been trying to find a solution for some months now but keep getting side-tracked.     Specificall

Re: [Bacula-users] Limit Bandwidth of Incremental backups only

2025-02-13 Thread scar
I've used bacula for years and it's always figured out the correct Level of job to run if there are multiple scheduled.  That may have to do with these settings as well: Allow Duplicate Jobs = no Cancel Lower Level Duplicates = yes Cancel Queued Duplicates = yes Cancel Running Duplicates = no Tha

Re: [Bacula-users] Limit Bandwidth of Incremental backups only

2025-02-27 Thread scar
Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote on 2/13/25 3:22 PM: > Here's an idea. 💡 > In your Job, configure two RunScripts sections. One before and one after. > Have a small script that takes the current jobid and the level. > If the level is "limit", set bandwidth to , if the level is > "unlimited",

[Bacula-users] Debian Postgres security update to 13.17 broke bacula

2024-11-18 Thread Sobel-Sorenson, Chandler - (scar)
It seems there was a medium security update released for postgresql-13 on Debian bookworm (oldstable), and right after that bacula stopped working due to "no connection to the server".  For example, got this e-mail about the catalog backup: > 15-Nov 20:36 hind-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: bdb.h:143 b

Re: [Bacula-users] Debian Postgres security update to 13.17 broke bacula

2024-11-19 Thread Sobel-Sorenson, Chandler - (scar)
Josip Deanovic via Bacula-users wrote on 11/18/24 11:35 AM: > check the availability of the server resources > check the logs of the Postgres service > check the database connection parameters Everything checked out, so I restarted all the bacula services.  Everything is running fine again!  I gu