This work from August 2022 was interesting at the time. My database server gets slow from time to time. It seems to happen repeatedly. I’m not sure why, but inserting large numbers of rows takes a very long time. This is a typical use-case for Bacula when recording what was backed up. I started with […]
Reproducing a batch insert for Bacula on PostgreSQL Read More »
I ran a bunch of Bacula dbcheck commands back in March 2023 and never published. Well, here they are. I doubt this is useful to anyone else but I’d rather have this here and searchable by myself instead of gathering dust in the drafts folder.
I was checking email this (Friday Jul 19, 2024) morning, over coffee, while many IT folks dealt with Cloudstrike fallout, when I noticed this message from the logs: Jul 19 09:12:18 zuul kernel: [zone: pf states] PF states limit reached I’ve seen that message before. It’s not of high concern. That server contains many services
What’s this gap in the graphs? Read More »
Tonight, while watching an episode of The Great British Bake Off, I configured a new Bacula backup jobs to cover some datasets which were not already backed up. I already have a backup jobs to backup all the jails, but only for datasets which sit right under zroot/jails (for example). This new solution takes a
Backing up FreeBSD with Bacula via ZFS snapshot Read More »
I have been using Bacula since 2004. It is my backup solution of choice, not only because it has a PostgreSQL backend, but it is flexible, robust, and reliable. I, on the other hand, have long ignored recent releases. I’m using Bacula 9.6.7 (released on 2021-01-26), roughly 3 years ago. Today, I started the upgrade
Bacula: Moving from 9.x to 13.x and upgrading the PostgreSQL database Read More »
In recent blog post, I outlined a problem I hit with pg_dump. Specifically, pg_dump was picking up and using ~/.pgpass with pg_dump from PostgreSQL 12-14, but with PostgreSQL 15-16, it was failing. In this blog post: FreeBSD 13.2 PostgreSQL server 12 / 16 PostgreSQL client 12-16 Bacula 9.6.7 Today we figured out why: $HOME. $HOME
I figured out why pg_dump was failing with PostgreSQL 15-16 Read More »
Lately, I’ve been preparing to move from PostgreSQL 12 to PostgreSQL 16 – my main developement database server at home needs to get updated. The goal: migrate each database from the old host (running PostgreSQL 12) to the new host (running PostgreSQL 16) using pg_dump and pg_restore. Today, I decided to migrate the Bacula database.
FYI, this problem has been solved and described in I figured out why pg_dump was failing with PostgreSQL 15-16. This morning I encountered this error message: In this post: FreeBSD 13.2 PostgreSQL 12.16 (server – pg02) PostgreSQL 16.1 (client – dbclone) See also While restoring my PostgreSQL database to a new FreeBSD server, I discovered
pg_dump: error: connection to server failed: fe_sendauth: no password supplied Read More »
I’m moving some backups from one bacula-sd to another bacula-sd. If you don’t know what that means, this is not the post for you. You need more Bacula knowledge. I’m retiring a host and moving some of the backups on that host to another host. This post follows on from Bacula – copying the latest
Bacula: copying jobs from one bacula-sd to another bacula-sd on FreeBSD Read More »
This post covers my debugging of a self-signed certificate on one of my Bacula instances. The error message is: I’ve encountered that unsupported certificate purpose message before: OpenVPN: unsupported certificate purpose SSL client vs server certificates and bacula-fd I always thought it was a server versus client issue. Now I’m not so sure. There was
Getting the right type of certificate Read More »