Clusterlogics FAQ
Linux BMR No Network After Reboot (GUI cannot connect)
This is usually seen on Linux BMR in OnAPP with CentOS v7.x VM's (onapp makes some changes when booting into ISO's on CentOS v7.x) Select the first recover option on boot - login with root and empty password. Run "ifconfig -a" and check device name ...
Install Bareos Windows manually
========================= Please follow the below steps: 1. Download the Windows BareOS client installer from your Downloads area (top right drop-down menu on your GUI home screen) or from: Win2K3 ...
Linux BMR Hangs on Reboot
You will see a console output like the below This issue is usually seen in VM environments where default resource limits are allocated (and is usually seen with CentOS v7.x which needs more RAM then older versions of CentOS/RedHat) FIX - please ...
FAILED Max volumes less current amount of volumes!!!
With storage pools, and trying to size the storage pools down, users may see the following error FAILED Max volumes less current amount of volumes!!! Our solution works on volumes within pools, and limits are a calculation of # of volumes and size of ...
Windows Restore Error - ERR=The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process
Occassionally on Windows servers, users will see the following restore error in the job logs "ERR=The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process." This is a known issue with windows in certain scenarios, and impacts ...
Adding an End User / SUB Account
An "End User" or "Sub" account is an account that can be given to access only specific servers. Access is limited to using the API or issuing restores via the GUI. Access is only granted to selected servers. To create a sub account navigate to the ...
0KB ReaR BMR ISO Download (Linux)
This scenario only happens on SDs which were installed greater then a year ago. The older SD configurations do not play nice with the new ReaR Linux BMR - specifically with extracting the ISO's from the SDs when downloading, thus creating a 0KB iso ...
Backing up over a LAN Network
Backing up over a LAN network is accomplished in the following way 1) add an SD to your Bacula4 GUI user account 2) while adding the SD, ensure you add a WAN IP and LAN IP to the wizard (if no LAN IP is assigned, the SD will automatically only backup ...
Fatal error: catreq.c:383 Invalid Catalog request
Fatal error: catreq.c:383 Invalid Catalog request This error indicates an outdates director or SD in your environment. The best practice is to keep all FDs and SDs updated with the latest client versions. The FD and SD clients can be updated directly ...
NAT'ing WAN IP to multiple LAN IPs behind a firewall
In many office types of environments, users are configured with a single public WAN and are NAT'ing (typically via a firewall or similar device) to servers LAN IPs. To make this process simpler/easier, we added this capability into the Bacula4 Add ...
ClusterLogics
ClusterLogics see also Bacula Director Uninstall Bacula (RHEL/CentOS): Method 1: yum remove bacula-enterprise* Method 2: check for installed bacula packages: rpm -qa | grep -i bacula you should see a result like: ...
Auto-installing Windows Servers PsExec
The Bacula4 Windows auto-installer works on PsExec functionality. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx Using this functionality, Bacula4 will auto-install and configure your Windows Servers and Virtual Machines with the ...
Hypervisor + VM licensing model vs Stand Alone VM licenses
Stand Alone VM License Used to license any VM on any Hypervisor platform (KVM, Xenserver, Xen, VMWare or any cloud Platform (Amazon, Google Cloud, Rackspace, etc) Only VMs with root OS install is supported (ie Virtuozzo or OpenVZ containers cannot be ...
How Licensing Works
Bacula4 offers several different types of licenses 1) Physical Server license - A physical server license covers a single server with a single root OS install. No limitations. Because of the nature of how some VPS container technologies work (ie ...
Solus on custom ports, how do I connect my hypervisors
Many customers utilizing Solus will customize the default ports from the Solus default of 5656 to 80/443 for simplicity and ease of access for their customers. the easiest method to operate on both the default and custom ports for Solus (and allow ...
Xen BMR
''' BMR on Xen Server:''' You may have problems when doing BMR for Xen - need to understand the difference between HVM and PV: ''Paravirtual (PV)'' Paravirtual AMIs boot with a special boot loader called PV-GRUB, which starts the boot cycle and ...
MySQL Database Backups - MySQL Dump and Percona Binary Inline
Bacula4 offers 2 methods of backing up MySQL databases. MySQL Dump Method Backs up MySQL in native, fully portable format Must be used to accommodate end user database and database table restores in shared hosting environments via various end user ...
Restoring to alternate location from within ClusterLogics GUI
Hello, You can restore any file or database from within your ClusterLogics GUI To restore from the GUI, go to the clients tab and select the green "restore" icon beside the client/server to want to restore files or databases to If you would like to ...
[Install] Windows FD - Manual
As of July 12th 2012 - we will eventually be auto installing Windows FD agents onto Windows servers as we do with Linux servers today - right from the B4H GUI Unlike the Linux FD installation (which is completely automated and can be done directly ...
Windows BMR (Legacy - Bacula4)
**** all customers should be migrated to our new clusterlogics platform (vs bacula4). If you see clusterlogics in your GUI, please ensure you do not use this windows BMR method and instead use the new BMR method for clusterlogics. ***if you still ...
Progressive Full Backups - how to configure
Progressive Full Backups represent a significant evolution in our backup/retention policies and procedures available for both Hosted and Self Hosted customers The way this works is as follows - original full backup taken over the network - ...
Linux REAR BMR - kernel panic - not syncing - attempting to kill init - FATAL dont know how to handle
During a linux, ReaR based BMR, specifically in virtual platforms and environments (ie ONAPP), they may change name/paths of driver paths when booting in various different manners (ie booting from ISO vs booting from prebuilt templates for example). ...
Windows BMR - Clusterlogics
As we are in the middle of rebranding our business, we wanted to specify the new Windows BMR customers are to use with Clusterlogics. Our website branding and such may still show Bacula4, however, all customers should now be on the Clusterlogics ...
Linux Server Migration using ReaR BMR
You can use Bacula ReaR BMR to quickly, easily and safely perform server migrations. Step one: prepare server Prepare source server: Define new IP address: echo eth0 192.268.1.100/24 >/etc/rear/mappings/ip_addresses Define new route (optional - if ...
Linux BMR (ReaR)
Bacula4 has developed a new Linux BMR tool. This is more tightly integrated with our GUI and is based on the ReaR *nix server imaging technology. This new Linux BMR replaces the legacy/original Linux BMR found HERE For existing customers, using the ...
WinRM added for Automation in Windows Environments
WinRM as been added as an option to connect to Windows Servers and VM's. This is a native Microsoft Windows connection protocol and as offered as a compliment to our existing psexec connection protocol for Windows. WinRM works natively with ...
Linux BMR No Network After Reboot (GUI cannot connect)
This is usually seen on Linux BMR in OnAPP with CentOS v7.x VM's (onapp makes some changes when booting into ISO's on CentOS v7.x) Select the first recover option on boot - login with root and empty password. Run "ifconfig -a" and check device name ...
Linux BMR Hangs on Reboot
You will see a console output like the below This issue is usually seen in VM environments where default resource limits are allocated (and is usually seen with CentOS v7.x which needs more RAM then older versions of CentOS/RedHat) FIX - please ...
Windows Restore Error - ERR=The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process
Occassionally on Windows servers, users will see the following restore error in the job logs "ERR=The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process." This is a known issue with windows in certain scenarios, and impacts ...
FAILED Max volumes less current amount of volumes!!!
With storage pools, and trying to size the storage pools down, users may see the following error FAILED Max volumes less current amount of volumes!!! Our solution works on volumes within pools, and limits are a calculation of # of volumes and size of ...
Adding an End User / SUB Account
An "End User" or "Sub" account is an account that can be given to access only specific servers. Access is limited to using the API or issuing restores via the GUI. Access is only granted to selected servers. To create a sub account navigate to the ...
Fatal error: catreq.c:383 Invalid Catalog request
Fatal error: catreq.c:383 Invalid Catalog request This error indicates an outdates director or SD in your environment. The best practice is to keep all FDs and SDs updated with the latest client versions. The FD and SD clients can be updated directly ...
Backing up over a LAN Network
Backing up over a LAN network is accomplished in the following way 1) add an SD to your Bacula4 GUI user account 2) while adding the SD, ensure you add a WAN IP and LAN IP to the wizard (if no LAN IP is assigned, the SD will automatically only backup ...
0KB ReaR BMR ISO Download (Linux)
This scenario only happens on SDs which were installed greater then a year ago. The older SD configurations do not play nice with the new ReaR Linux BMR - specifically with extracting the ISO's from the SDs when downloading, thus creating a 0KB iso ...
ClusterLogics
ClusterLogics see also Bacula Director Uninstall Bacula (RHEL/CentOS): Method 1: yum remove bacula-enterprise* Method 2: check for installed bacula packages: rpm -qa | grep -i bacula you should see a result like: ...
NAT'ing WAN IP to multiple LAN IPs behind a firewall
In many office types of environments, users are configured with a single public WAN and are NAT'ing (typically via a firewall or similar device) to servers LAN IPs. To make this process simpler/easier, we added this capability into the Bacula4 Add ...
How Licensing Works
Bacula4 offers several different types of licenses 1) Physical Server license - A physical server license covers a single server with a single root OS install. No limitations. Because of the nature of how some VPS container technologies work (ie ...
Hypervisor + VM licensing model vs Stand Alone VM licenses
Stand Alone VM License Used to license any VM on any Hypervisor platform (KVM, Xenserver, Xen, VMWare or any cloud Platform (Amazon, Google Cloud, Rackspace, etc) Only VMs with root OS install is supported (ie Virtuozzo or OpenVZ containers cannot be ...
Auto-installing Windows Servers PsExec
The Bacula4 Windows auto-installer works on PsExec functionality. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx Using this functionality, Bacula4 will auto-install and configure your Windows Servers and Virtual Machines with the ...
MySQL Database Backups - MySQL Dump and Percona Binary Inline
Bacula4 offers 2 methods of backing up MySQL databases. MySQL Dump Method Backs up MySQL in native, fully portable format Must be used to accommodate end user database and database table restores in shared hosting environments via various end user ...
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