Bacula is our backup solution. Our backups run to backup01 and ultimately to a tape robot
Contact Information
Owner: Fedora Infrastructure Team
Contact: #fedora-admin, sysadmin-main
Location: Phoenix
Servers: backup01
Purpose: Our backup solution
Troubleshooting and Resolution
You can get to the bacula management console with:
sudo /usr/sbin/bconsole
From there you can get a overview status with:
status dir
Or a more specific status on the tape drive with:
status
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Intervention Required
If the tapes fill up, it may be required to purge the oldest volume. This is done with the purge command. Select volume, then a list of volumes comes up. Pick the oldest volume that has not already been purged or recycled.
list volumes
then
purge
It will ask you for the media-id or volume -id. Enter the one from the oldest tape listed above in list volumes.
After that the oldest tape will be purged, but bacula may not resume on it yet. You need to load the tape to make sure it realizes it can go on:
mount
It will ask for the device (say tape), then ask for the slot id. Enter the number from above in list volumes.
Mysql insert failures
Sometimes backups will fail with a:
Fatal error: Can't fill File table Query failed: INSERT INTO File (FileIndex, JobId, PathId, FilenameId, LStat, MD5)SELECT batch.FileIndex, batch.JobId, Path.PathId, Filename.FilenameId,batch.LStat, batch.MD5 FROM batch JOIN Path ON (batch.Path = Path.Path) JOIN Filename ON (batch.Name = Filename.Name): ERR=Lock wait timeout exceeded; try restarting transaction
This error is a issue with the old bacula and mysql we have, and there's not much to be done about it. Start a new backup if one is needed or wait for the next backup to complete.