I hate it when this happens: [root@kraken /usr/home/dan]# /usr/local/sbin/mtx-changer /dev/pass10 list mtx: Request Sense: Long Report=yes mtx: Request Sense: Valid Residual=no mtx: Request Sense: Error Code=0 (Unknown?!) mtx: Request Sense: Sense Key=No Sense mtx: Request Sense: FileMark=no mtx: Request Sense: EOM=no mtx: Request Sense: ILI=no mtx: Request Sense: Additional Sense Code = 00 mtx: Request […]
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I recently acquired a MacBook Pro. Things are going well. I’m using Time Capsule, but I also want to use Bacula. I went with MacPorts: This article will show how I got Bacula running on OSX. sudo port install bacula +client_only NOTE: for more recent version of MacPorts, this command worked: sudo port install bacula
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I recently wrote about copying jobs with a very good backup tool. My goal was to keep copies of the backups on both disk and tape. Since then, I started playing around with a little webpage to keep tabs on what’s in my tape libary. Today I noticed a little problem. I have backups from 75 days ago that are waiting to be copied to tape.
I’ll just let you think about why this happened. Yesterday, this queue held jobs that were about 16 hours old. How did this old job get into the queue?
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The new year started off poorly for my backups, and it is all my fault. Each of my remote servers is backed up utilizing Bacula’s TLS (Transport Layer Security) features. This requires an X.509 certificate which I obtain via CACert. These certificates have expired: 01-Jan 02:00 bacula-dir JobId 44464: Start Backup JobId 44464, Job=nyi_maildir.2011-01-01_02.00.00_07 01-Jan
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I have an improvement on the original query. This one outputs ‘nil’ if the volume is empty. bacula=# SELECT mediaid, volumename, volstatus, slot, inchanger, pool.name, CASE WHEN volbytes < = 64512 THEN 'nil' else pg_size_pretty(volbytes) END FROM media, pool WHERE media.poolid = pool.poolid AND volumename LIKE 'ETU0%' AND inchanger != 0 ORDER BY slot; mediaid
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I pretty much ignore my tape library. It asks for tapes when it runs out. However, I think I should be looking ahead and anticipating requests. Thus, I came up with this SQL query: [dan@ngaio:~] $ psql bacula psql (8.4.5) Type “help” for help. bacula=# SELECT mediaid, volumename, volstatus, slot, inchanger, pool.name, volbytes FROM media,
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With Bacula, a great piece of backup software [disclosure: I wrote the PostgreSQL module for Bacula], you can copy a Job after it has run. This is often used to backup first to disk, and then Copy that Job to tape. That is exactly what I’ve been doing recently. NOTE: You can also migrate a
*run A job name must be specified. The defined Job resources are: 1: BackupCatalog 2: RestoreFiles 3: MigrateDiskToTape 4: CopyMegaFileToTape 5: laptop 6: laptop-vpn 7: laptop-wifi-5.3 8: laptop-verify 9: laptop-websites 10: laptop-xp 11: wocker 12: bast basic 13: bast home 14: dbclone basic 15: dbclone home 16: polo basic 17: polo 18: kraken basic 19:
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Over the past few months, I’ve been getting ready to copy Bacula backups from disk to tape, via a Copy Job. Tonight was my first attempt. I failed. And I think I know why. Concurrency. The output so far: *run job=CopyMegaFileToTape Using Catalog “MyCatalog” Run Copy job JobName: CopyMegaFileToTape Bootstrap: *None* Client: wocker-fd FileSet: wocker
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While creating the FreeBSD package for 5.0.0, I noticed a few new things to be aware of. With 5.0.0 comes a new backup catalog script. It parses the bacula-dir.conf file and extracts what it needs from that. This means you only need to specify the database connection information in one place and it is not
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