Centos 6 and bacula and quantum scalar i40 scsi issues. Bacula is known to work perfectly well with scsi tape drivers on freebsd, linux, solaris, and windows machines, and. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure the server components of bacula on a centos 7 server. I keep getting the auto changer being asked by mtx if it is loaded 330. Look for the above bacula scan should have output identical in the above output. Bacula is known to work perfectly well with scsi tape drivers on freebsd, linux, solaris, and windows machines, and it may work on other nix machines, but we have not test. Its a great program and ive installed in several servers without issues, also it has saved me several times. Snapshots can be automatically created and used to backup files.
The fileset date on one of the jobs is 20151010 18. Bareos backup archiving recovery open sourced main reference. Iperius backup tape backup software for ltodat tape drives. It took me a while to figure out optimal configuration for the tape library with two streamers used with bacula backup software.
A dependable backup tool is something everyone needs to have. This can include unusual hardware setups, or complicated schedules, for example. It appears there are certain tools for the ch driver, such as scsichanger, but they do not appear to be commonly used and so i imagine there must be a way to get mtx to work with the ch driver directly. Baculausers bacula configration for fc lto5 tape drive arunav mandal wrote. An exacting electronic crossover ensures smooth frequency response from the 12 lowfrequency driver and 1 highfrequency compression driver.
Alto professional best kept secret tx215 600 watts power. I have pretty big full backup 3,2tb for which i need around 12 lto 2 tapes with hw compression on. It scales easily with data growth, supports backup volumes up to 3. There are bacula clients for linux, windows, and mac os x making it a crossplatform network wide solution.
When writing bareos block with random data, the block size has almost no impact to the total writespeed. Bacula not using the current indrive lto tape but the oldest one 0. It contains information taken from the pool resource bacula nf as well as information on all the volumes that have been added to the pool. I keep all backups in the default pool, but if you want, you can break it out. The main bacula director code is independent of the sql backend in version 5. I am using a hp ultrium3 auto loader, but not using the autochanger feature, just manually changing the tapes when needed. Bacula is a backup program enabling you to backup, restore, and verify data across your network. I have also installed mtx for use with bacula or amanda, but mtx seems to expect a different driver than ch. Im trying to configure bacula to automatically recycle and use a random tape i put in the single lto drive, but it seems to prefer the oldest backup tape despite it isnt in the drive. If you continue browsing the site, you agree to the use of cookies on this website. For example, bacula tries to access volume g00022l5 on slot 20 at libhp08, but it reaches the volume h00011l5 on slot 20 at libhp09. Install bacula for open source backups bacula is a wellmaintained, open source backup solution. Apr 15, 2015 bacula is an opensource network backup solution that allows you create backups and perform data recovery of your computer systems. Stay away from the scsichanger and ibmtape drivers.
Here we will look at getting backups of your vms within bacula. How to install bacula server on centos 7 digitalocean. Quantums superloader 3 puts the power and economy of the most advanced lto tape technology into a compact, affordable, easytomanage automated backup appliance. Autochanger support using a simple shell interface that can interface to virtually any autoloader program. Bacula enterprise tape backup software is enterpriseready.
Likelihood to recommend you really need to spend more time in the bacula implementation phase and i do not recommend it for sysadmins who do not have linux experience because of the architectural quirks and. As a consequence, it relies on having a correctly written os tape driver. Exact model of tape library in use is quantum scalar i40 with two lto5 streamers. Download the free trial buy now at only 149 compatible with all tape drives dat, dlt, ait, lto, etc. Apr 09, 2015 bacula is an opensource network backup solution that allows you create backups and perform data recovery of your computer systems. Testing your tape drive with bacula this chapter is concerned with testing and configuring your tape drive to make sure that it will work properly with bacula using the btape program. In this example, a normal restore will need to use jobids 1,2,5,10 to compute a. The code for this feature was contributed by laurent papier.
Configure bacula for open source backups bacula is a popular, robust and open source backup solution. A company that i do work with has uncovered a trove of lto 2, lto 3 and lto 4 tapes. Lto tape drives offer fast, reliable data backup and archive with a low total cost of ownership. Compression is not a magic thing that takes the input and reduces it in size by 50% which is what most tape vendors claim in their advertising if your bacula installation is already doing gzip or some other compression your tape drives hardware compression may not be optimally effective in fact if bacula is doing effective compression. That translates to more of the power from the amplifier actually working to generate sound rather than heat, giving the speaker better real world performance than other speakers with comparable published specifications. This means that the bacula director can be packaged by itself, then each of the different sql backends supported can be packaged separately.
Theyre at least a several years old, and the owner knows that the tapes were used regularly for their backups until they switched to a combination of external hard drives and cloud backups a few years ago. The truth is that he thought there were people on the list who could help me. On september 25, 20, at the open source backup conference, formerly known as the bacula conference, the bareos project was introduced to an interested audience. I post here because im not able to enable hardware compression on my lto 4 tape. Lto 4 variable 323215 enabled 0x1 current driver state. How to setup backup server using bacula and webmin in centos. Conventional standards redefined designed and tuned in the usa, alto professionals tx210 provides 300watts of peak 150watt continuous amplifier power driving a 2 way design with a 10inch lf driver, a 1inch titanium diaphragm hf compression driver, a precision crossover, an integrated analogue limiter and overload protection circuitry. If we have a nic or disk controller that is not natively supported by windows, we have to include the corresponding drivers in the pe disk because otherwise we will not be able to restore the backup later. We can also apply compression, recursion, signature and other features to a backed up directory. A few months ago we were talking about a problem of compression on lto 3 device lto 3 tape not compressing data.
I dont think the problem is with bacula, but i thought id ask here in case someone experienced the same problem. Bass porting offers extended lowend response while the steel grille adds extra protection. As an example, the first tape drive ltodrive0 will be used for this test. Enterprise bacula global deduplication driver quick guide bacula. May 07, 2017 a good backup plan is essential in order to have the ability to recover from human errors raid or disk failure file system corruption data center destruction and more. Does this only happen with this tape or with other lto 7 tapes. Top 12 open source backup tools for linux systems by pradeep kumar updated february 18, 2020 when it comes to data safety and security, not only large companies, but also personal computer owners also need to have good backup and recovery software that protects their data from losing their precious data. Feb 20, 2020 a company that i do work with has uncovered a trove of lto 2, lto3 and lto4 tapes. Bacula installation and configuration guide red hat customer portal.
Given the replies i assume there are alot of noob questions on this list and given the number of questions about compiling. Before you start working with bacula or bareos or start planning a test installation, you should take a look how the tools function figure 1. Bacula systems delivers the best, high quality technical training for bacula data backup and recovery software, including best practices in enterprise data center backup and recovery strategies. Enterprise bacula global deduplication driver quick guide 2.
Hewlett packard enterprise, ibm, and quantum control the lto consortium, which directs development and manages licensing and certification of media and mechanism manufacturers. Allow compression should be no to disable bacula software compression. In this post im going to list amazingly awesome open source backup software for you. First we have to boot from the operatingsystem installationdisk and install the os the same way we would for a new system. Lto3 tape not compressing data and speed backup central. The procedure to setup backup server using bacula and webmin is explained in this article.
Modern tape drives keep track of file positions in builtin chip ait, lto or at the beginning of. Apr 20, 2018 bacula is a completely free, open source and crossplatform graphicalcommandline software comprised of network client and serverbased backup components designed for system administrators or enduser who are looking for a powerful application for manageing recovery, backup and verification of computer data across a network of computers. It is still a dell 40 slot machine with 2 lto 4 drives as before. Bacula is known to work perfectly well with scsi tape drivers on freebsd, linux, solaris, and windows machines, and it may work on other nix machines, but we have not tested it. Iperius backup tape tape backup software for windows server. View the dell powervault lto tape drive and shop all of our backup and recovery. I was reading a lot of forums with info about how to enable, but tape still without compression. A compression could have been a multithread on the client to make faster, when a document was not available on bacula systems roadmap. The drives hardware compression should not be able to do much about random data, so we expect the lowest speed with this test data. Writing windows kernel mode driver updated 2019 information security. This page is for people to post sample configurations for particularly tricky or usefull setups. You can always use windows server backup but then you are using 2 systems and have to have things scheduled just right. Hp ultrium 2 scsi sequential tape device driver if a write length is greater than the physical block size of the drive, the write will be written as.
I use spooling with max size of 215gb, and typically spooling of max size lasts 2h50min, while despooling lasts 2h40min. Install bacula for open source backups enterprisenetworking. Does bacula support encryption by using the aeschip which is integrated in lto 7 tapedrive. Bacula is known to work perfectly well with scsi tape drivers on freebsd. Bass porting offers extended lowend response while the.
I have two hp tape libraries installed on the storage libhp08 and libhp09, i tried to configure some jobs to access both libraries, but im having some trouble with bacula accessing the wrong library. Below, you will find a table of dlt and lto tape specifications that will give you some idea of the capacity and speed of modern tapes. Isp2532based 8gb fibre channel to pci express hba on a dell 2950 running ubuntu server 10. Solved unable to label tapes in bacula new install. Bacula can add multiple backups to the same tape as long as there is some space free on it.
Using this directive, it is possible to have different jobs using multiple drives, because when the maximum concurrent jobs limit is reached, the storage. In general, you should follow the following steps to get your tape drive to work with bacula. Bacula backuping up hyperv virtual machines vm wdmbr. Of course, we could also setup an xp machine for data recovery if absolutely necessary or a linux machine. Speed results for btape writing bareos block with random data. My first idea was a configuration change between the full backup 20191202 and 20200106 but the latest change was for a filestorage in 092019. Does this only happen with this tape or with other lto7 tapes. Maximum concurrent jobs for devices maximum concurrent jobs is a new device directive in the storage daemon configuration permits setting the maximum number of jobs that can run concurrently on a specified device. Bacula the network backup solution presented by kern sibbald at bsdcan 17 may 2008 in ottawa bacula the network backup tool for bsd, linux, mac, unix and windows it comes by night and sucks the vital essence from your computers. It also includes drive imaging and backup to nas, rdx, ftp. Bacula enterprise edition is based on the bacula community project bacula.
Jun 10, 2011 bacula ii backup,restore for windows server 2008 r2. What to look for when choosing backup software for an enterprise. Dedup driver installation package is available for rhel, centos, debian, ubuntu. Learn the basics of bacula configuration with our simple guide. Or is there a plugin like stenc that could be integrated in bacula. Posted in general security on august 28, 2014 share. Hi bill, hmmm, i know i didnt touch the filesets and i have ignorefilesetchanges set to yes on these filesets. I already marked all tapes as used and ensure the retention period is over. Jan, 2011 lto 3 tape not compressing data and speed. Bacula uses standard operating system calls read, write, ioctl to interface to tape drives.
Bacula is known to work perfectly well with scsi tape drivers on freebsd, linux, solaris, and windows machines, and it may work on other nix machines. Dear bacula users, i recently recognized that my tape drives do not perform as expected. All current database backend drivers for catalog information are rewritten to use a set of multi. I will use lto4 tape drive to store multiple copies of window server backup images, hence i can restore backup images of certain date into the usb external harddrive for bare metal restore in windows server 2008. All modern drives have hardware compression, and manufacturers often list compressed capacity using a compression ration of 2. I have been working with bacula for almost 10 years. To resolve this i found it most easy to go into the bacula database and run a sql query to find the appropriate information. You get lousy compression and were asking for help so i tried to help you. I did many performance tests in the meantime but could not figure out the reason. Slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure the server components of bacula on an ubuntu 14. Apparently you know better though, so i will bow out now. Product safety, emc and environmental datasheets dell regulatory compliance home page dell and the environment.
However, in reading a tape, bacula will assume that for each read request, exactly one block from the tape will be transferred. What good is a backup solution if you cant backup your virtual machines. Bacula is a free tool that allows the admin to manage backup, recovery and send the verification of data from any systems in any location across the network. Bacula systems enterprise data backup and recovery software. All modern drives have hardware compression, and manufacturers often list. Make sure the following features are supported backup software you deploy. Hardware compression the open source backup wiki amanda. Enable hardware encryption in bacula with lto7 server fault. This the most common way that tape drives work and is well supported by bacula.
Except where otherwise noted, content on this wiki is licensed under the following license. Backup of open or locked files volume shadow copy supports hardware compression and aes 256 bit encryption. Linear tapeopen lto is a magnetic tape data storage technology originally developed in the late 1990s as an open standards alternative to the proprietary magnetic tape formats that were available at the time. For tape, the hardware compression is almost always a better option. I have hardware compression enabled and use bacula and get 340gb on a lto 2 tape tapes are labeled quantum. Alto professional tx15 15 active 2 way pa loudspeaker 600w peak class d power. The capacities that are listed are the native tape capacity without compression. I am using a lto 2 drive in an autochanger, but you can use any tape device or backup to file. Setup backup server using bacula and webmin in centos. Apr 02, 2020 backing up your computer takes time and effort but that is nothing compared to the stress you undergo if things happen to go wrong. Gzip compression on a file by file basis done by the client program if requested before network transit.
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