Issue with Restore Jobs Over 300GB in Bacularis

gani

For the virtual full backup we have a wizard in Bacularis for that. You can find it here:

[Main menu] => [Page: Jobs] => [Button: New virtual full job]

It supports both new virtual full jobs and existing jobs as well.

Best regards,
Marcin Haba (gani)

thcjusz

But 1st i need do normal full and then 2nd directive will be virtual?

gani

Hi @thcjusz,

Yes, one real full backup from the client is needed. After are done incremental and differential backups only. When you need next full, you run virtualfull that is done without using Bacula client. Bacula consolidates previous full with incremental and differential backups to create new full backup. This is why it is named virtual, because the full is not directly from Bacula client but it is synthentically created from previous full + incrementals + differential. This is why it is sometimes called Incremental-forever backup 🙂

In Bacula documentation and on the Internet you can find various materials about the virtual full. Here is described progressive virtual full:

https://bacula.org/whitepapers/PVF.pdf

Best regards,
Marcin Haba (gani)

thcjusz

Hi Marcin,
Ty for answer.
If I have only incremental backups in the job, the virtual full will keep growing? Should I also include a differential directive so that the virtual full can compare current data with the previous backup?

gani

Hi @thcjusz,

thcjusz If I have only incremental backups in the job, the virtual full will keep growing? Should I also include a differential directive so that the virtual full can compare current data with the previous backup?

Yes, you can use only incremental backups for virtual full (assuming that you already have this one real full backup). Differential backup can be used or not, there is not any restriction for that.

thcjusz 01-kwi 14:29 TELBBACULA1R-dir JobId 571: Warning: This Job is not an Accurate backup so is not equivalent to a Full backup.

This is advised for job with VirtualFull to enable Accurate mode in the Job resource. This way the new virtual full backup will not contain removed or moved files on file system in meantime between incremental and differential backups. So, you can enable it in the Job by checking Accurate option.

thcjusz 01-kwi 14:29 TELBBACULA1R-dir JobId 571: Warning: Insufficient Backups to Keep.

This means that you do not have enough backups to keep in your backup job history. If you starts using VirtualFull then this message is OK. You do not need to worry about it.

Best regards,
Marcin Haba (gani)

thcjusz

Marcin,
I created virual full via wizard, i chose existing job and existing pool and existing storage, complete the wizard. And when i try to do virtual full i got a error.
01-kwi 14:29 TELBBACULA1R-dir JobId 571: Start Virtual Backup JobId 571, Job=lap-biuro-bf1c8.2026-04-01_14.29.27_20
01-kwi 14:29 TELBBACULA1R-dir JobId 571: Warning: This Job is not an Accurate backup so is not equivalent to a Full backup.
01-kwi 14:29 TELBBACULA1R-dir JobId 571: Warning: Insufficient Backups to Keep.
Can U help me?

thcjusz

01-kwi 15:23 TELBBACULA1R-dir JobId 586: Start Virtual Backup JobId 586, Job=lap-biuro-bf1c8.2026-04-01_15.22.40_56
01-kwi 15:23 TELBBACULA1R-dir JobId 586: Warning: This Job is not an Accurate backup so is not equivalent to a Full backup.
01-kwi 15:23 TELBBACULA1R-dir JobId 586: Consolidating JobIds=579,581,582,583,584,585
01-kwi 15:23 TELBBACULA1R-dir JobId 586: Found 382 files to consolidate into Virtual Full.
After doing 1 full and more than 3 incrementals i got this:
01-kwi 15:23 TELBBACULA1R-dir JobId 586: Connected to Storage "lap-biuro-bf1c8-storage_1" at 192.168.186.249:9103 with TLS
01-kwi 15:23 TELBBACULA1R-dir JobId 586: Using Device "lap-biuro-bf1c8-storage_1" to read.
01-kwi 15:32 TELBBACULA1R-dir JobId 586: Storage daemon "lap-biuro-bf1c8-storage_1" didn't accept Device "lap-biuro-bf1c8-storage_1" because: 3924 Device "lap-biuro-bf1c8-storage_1" not in SD Device resources or no matching Media Type or is disabled.
01-kwi 15:32 TELBBACULA1R-dir JobId 586: Bacula TELBBACULA1R-dir 15.0.3 (25Mar25):

gani

Hi @thcjusz,

thcjusz 01-kwi 15:32 TELBBACULA1R-dir JobId 586: Storage daemon "lap-biuro-bf1c8-storage_1" didn't accept Device "lap-biuro-bf1c8-storage_1" because: 3924 Device "lap-biuro-bf1c8-storage_1" not in SD Device resources or no matching Media Type or is disabled.

This message says that something is wrong with your storage.

There can be few rasons of this problem:

your Media Type in Storage resource on the Director side is different than Media Type in corresponding devices on the storage daemon side.
Something is wrong with your device. Please check the status of this storage and look at the devices.
The device is disabled. You need to enable it.
... Others.

Please check these points to see why this error happens.

Best regards,
Marcin Haba (gani)

thcjusz

Hi Marcin,
But on normal full it working ok on the same storage and device

gani

Hi @thcjusz,

thcjusz But on normal full it working ok on the same storage and device

During the VirtualFull backup there are used at least two storage devices: one or more for reading, and one for writing. I would propose to check the storage settings. The source storage is in the Job resource in the Storage directive. The destination storage you can find in the destination Pool resource for Virtual Full backup ( NextPool = your_dest_pool ) in the Storage directive.

Best regards,
Marcin Haba (gani)

thcjusz

So i want to do Virtual i need to create another storage for it? I cant use same what is used in normal Full?

gani

Hi @thcjusz,

This is not matter of storage but this is a matter of devices. If you have single device storage and you want to use it as read device and write device in the same running job, this is not possible.

Best regards,
Marcin Haba (gani)

thcjusz

Ty Marcin, sorry for long response. I was on holidays. Btw afted doing backup for my director i got an error
24-kwi 00:11 TELBBACULA1R-fd JobId 806: Could not stat "/var/lib/pgsql/data/base/16384/34580": ERR=Nie ma takiego pliku ani katalogu. But this file exist

gani

Hi @thcjusz,

Welcome back after holidays 🙂

For this message:

24-kwi 00:11 TELBBACULA1R-fd JobId 806:      Could not stat "/var/lib/pgsql/data/base/16384/34580": ERR=Nie ma takiego pliku ani katalogu.

I would propose to make sure you are looking at the right host (this host where you run TELBBACULA1R-fd file dameon).

There is also possible this file has changed during backup (disappeared and appeared again). To avoid this situation with files, there can be used snapshots (if available) and data backup from the snapshot.

This file /var/lib/pgsql/data/base/16384/34580 looks to come from the PostgreSQL database. To back up running PostgreSQL database server on the physical file level the PostgreSQL project provides dedicated tools (pg_basebackup... ).

Bacularis provides PostgreSQL plugin that supports both the logical SQL dump backups and physical file level backups. Here you can read the documentation for this plugin:

https://bacularis.app/doc/plugins/database/postgresql-backup-plugin.html

At the end I have a small ask - this might be helpful for each new topic/problem open new discussion. Could I ask you for next issues to open new topics for new issues if possible? This will help Bacularis users find answers on problems easier. Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Marcin Haba (gani)

gani

Hello @lucas_diniz, @thcjusz and everybody,

We are glad to let you know that today in the Bacularis Git repositories we published changes for a simple restore that should address this problem. This function will be available in comming Bacularis 6.4.0 that is planned to release until end of this month (July).

More details about this feature you can read here:

https://bacularis.app/news/171/36/Upcoming-simple-restore-in-Bacularis

Best regards,
Marcin Haba

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