Hi,
First of all, if this topic has been already discussed, please redirect
me to the location in question; I've tried searching the list but I
haven't found anything relevant.
I'm trying to implement Bacula and I'm still in the testing phase.
My defined storage looks like this:
Director Storage
----------------------------------
Name | Device | Media Type
----------------------------------
File | FileStorage | FileSystem
HDD | HDDStorage | HDisk
Tape | TapeStorage | Ultrium-1
Storage Daemon devices
----------------------------------------------------------
Name | Device Type | Media Type | Archive Device
----------------------------------------------------------
FileStorage | File | FileSystem | /tmp
HDDStorage | File | HDisk | /mnt/backup
TapeStorage | Tape | Ultrium-1 | /dev/nst0
We have a tape drive and a cold swap HDD bay and the final goal is to
make a weekly full backup on the tape and then a daily differential
backup on the HDD device (as the HDD is replaced daily).
The HDD is mounted on /mnt/backup.
The tape volume is creatively labeled Tape001 and the HDD is labeled
Disk003.
I can normally run backup and restore jobs with no problem, but
sometimes (and I stress the "sometimes" part) Bacula seems to mismatch
the storage name with the archive device. For instance, it would try to
mount the tape volume in /mnt/backup (which is for the HDD storage) or
the HD volume into /tmp (which is the File storage) or the Tape volume
into /tmp.
Since I'm running the same job first at Full level on Tape storage then
at Differential level on HDD storage, I have to use overrides and,
coincidence or not, Bacula tries to use the original storage setting
specified in the configuration file instead of the override used within
the Schedule definition or entered when running the job manually.
After each of these, a restart of the director and the storage daemon
temporarily solves the problem, i.e. the same identical job runs without
problems, without any intervention in the configuration files.
In other words, it always runs the first time after a restart of the
daemons.
This happens to both backup jobs and restores.
It would look like this:
Run Restore job
JobName: RestoreFiles
Bootstrap: /var/bacula/fc6_32_build2-dir.restore.3.bsr
Where: /tmp/bacula-restores
Replace: always
FileSet: FullSystem
Client: Server_name
Storage: Tape
When: 2007-03-23 14:32:22
Catalog: MyCatalog
Priority: 10
OK to run? (yes/mod/no): yes
Job queued. JobId=4
*messages
23-Mar 14:32 fc6_32_build2-dir: Start Restore Job
RestoreFiles.2007-03-23_14.32.37
23-Mar 14:32 fc6_32_build2-sd: RestoreFiles.2007-03-23_14.32.37 Warning:
acquire.c:200 Read open device "FileStorage" (/tmp) Volume "Tape001"
failed:
ERR=dev.c:482 Could not open: /tmp/Tape001, ERR=No such file or
directory
23-Mar 14:32 fc6_32_build2-sd: Please mount Volume "Tape001" on Storage
Device "FileStorage" (/tmp) for Job RestoreFiles.2007-03-23_14.32.37
*
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
user cancelled job 4
restarted bacula director and sd
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Run Restore job
JobName: RestoreFiles
Bootstrap: /var/bacula/fc6_32_build2-dir.restore.1.bsr
Where: /tmp/bacula-restores
Replace: always
FileSet: FullSystem
Client: Server_name
Storage: Tape
When: 2007-03-23 14:35:21
Catalog: MyCatalog
Priority: 10
OK to run? (yes/mod/no): yes
Job queued. JobId=5
*messages
23-Mar 14:35 fc6_32_build2-dir: Start Restore Job
RestoreFiles.2007-03-23_14.35.44
*messages
You have no messages.
*messages
You have no messages.
*
23-Mar 14:35 fc6_32_build2-sd: Ready to read from volume "Tape001" on
device "TapeStorage" (/dev/nst0).
23-Mar 14:35 fc6_32_build2-sd: Forward spacing Volume "Tape001" to
file:block
0:1.
... and everything works just fine.
I have the same issue when using run-only-once scheduled jobs; sometimes
they mess up, but after restarting the daemons and modifying the
schedule so it would run again, everything goes fine.
The Director and storage daemon are from bacula-mysql-2.0.2-1 running on
Fedora 6.
I am backing-up/restoring two servers, one running bacula-client-2.0.2-1
on RHEL4 and the other running bacula-client-2.0.3-1 on RHEL5 beta2.
The issue appears with jobs on both clients.
I'm a little puzzled, can anyone help ?
Thanks !
Best regards,
Andrei
P.S. Here are the job and storage definitions from the configuration
files.
The jobs are run with parameter overrides you can see in the schedule
definition.
-----------------------
bacula-dir.conf:
Job {
Name = "BackupYoyo"
JobDefs = "StandardJob"
Client = Yoyo
Level = Full
Storage = HDD
FileSet = "FullSystem"
Priority = 7
Schedule = BackupCycle
Enabled=yes
Client Run Before Job = "/etc/init.d/httpd stop"
Client Run Before Job = "/etc/init.d/postfix stop"
Client Run Before Job = "/etc/init.d/xendomains stop"
Client Run Before Job = "/etc/init.d/xend stop"
Client Run After Job = "/etc/init.d/xend start"
Client Run After Job = "/etc/init.d/xendomains start"
Client Run After Job = "/etc/init.d/postfix start"
Client Run After Job = "/etc/init.d/httpd start"
}
Job {
Name = "RestoreFiles"
Type = Restore
Client = Yoyo
FileSet = "FullSystem"
Storage = File
Pool = Default
Messages = Standard
Where = /tmp/bacula-restores
}
Schedule {
Name = "BackupCycle"
Run = Level=Full Storage=Tape fri at 15:40
Run = Level=Differential Storage=HDD fri at 16:10
}
# Definition of file storage device
Storage {
Name = File
Address = server.domain.com
SDPort = 9103
Password = "some_pwd"
Device = FileStorage
Media Type = FileSystem
}
Storage {
Name = HDD
Address = server.domain.com
SDPort = 9103
Password = "some_pwd"
Device = HDDStorage
Media Type = HDisk
}
# Definition of DDS tape storage device
Storage {
Name = Tape
Address = server.domain.com
SDPort = 9103
Password = "some_pwd"
Device = TapeStorage
Media Type = Ultrium-1
}
--------------------------------
bacula-sd.conf:
Device {
Name = FileStorage
Device Type = File
Media Type = FileSystem
Archive Device = /tmp
LabelMedia = yes;
Random Access = Yes;
AutomaticMount = yes;
RemovableMedia = no;
AlwaysOpen = no;
}
Device {
Name = HDDStorage
Device Type = File
Media Type = HDisk
Archive Device = /mnt/backup
LabelMedia = yes;
Random Access = Yes;
AutomaticMount = yes;
RemovableMedia = yes;
AlwaysOpen = no;
}
Device {
Name = TapeStorage
Device Type = Tape
Media Type = Ultrium-1
Archive Device = /dev/nst0
AutomaticMount = yes;
AlwaysOpen = yes;
RemovableMedia = yes;
RandomAccess = no;
}
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