Bareos is the fork of the Bakula project, and thay are almost the same. I have no idea why I chose one instead of the other, but I have bareos installed and it make a good backup. I even made a successful recovery and think that have a good backup solution.
But what is my plan if I lose the backup server itself? Or will I need to transfer it to another platform, version, etc.? This note will cover DRP from having only backup media.
This time I chose CentOS 7 for installation. Bareos does not require much from hardware. I have only one storage channel (backup to disk), so only one job runs at a time. Thus, a VM with 2CPU and 4GRAM will be more than enough.
This instruction assumes a minimal installation of CentOS7.
# yum install postgresql-server.x86_64 # postgresql-setup initdb # systemctl start postgresql.service # systemctl status postgresql.service # systemctl enable postgresql.service
Configure passwordless local connections:
# su - postgres
$ vi data/pg_hba.conf
$ egrep -v "^$|^#" data/pg_hba.conf
local all all trust
host all all 127.0.0.1/32 trust
host all all localhost trust
$ psql
psql (9.2.23)
Type "help" for help.
postgres=# \l
List of databases
Name | Owner | Encoding | Collate | Ctype | Access privileges
-----------+----------+----------+-------------+-------------+-----------------------
postgres | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 |
template0 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres +
| | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres
template1 | postgres | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | =c/postgres +
| | | | | postgres=CTc/postgres
(3 rows)
Restart services to pick up changes:
# service postgresql restart
The "latest" current release is 16.2, which is a good and stable version, but does not work with VmWare 6.5. Therefore, I will install a release candidate v17.2.
Set its repository definitions and install the bareos directly from the Internet.
# yum install -y wget rsync # wget -O /etc/yum.repos.d/bareos.repo http://download.bareos.org/bareos/release/latest/CentOS_7/bareos.repo # yum install bareos bareos-database-postgresql bareos-webui # systemctl enable httpd.service
When webui is running on a selinux-enabled system, you should apply the following policy to allow the httpd open socket to the local system:
# setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect on # rpm -e firewalld # systemctl restart httpd.service
Run postgresql scripts to initialize bareos database and schema:
# su - postgres $ /usr/lib/bareos/scripts/create_bareos_database $ /usr/lib/bareos/scripts/make_bareos_tables $ /usr/lib/bareos/scripts/grant_bareos_privileges
In fact, the installation of the new bareos system is complete, and you can start to configure and use it. Probably, you will want to install VmWare plugin too.
New vmware plugin is based on vmware sdk that also should be installed. The good news that all required RPMs are exists in EPEL repository:
# yum install -y epel-release # yum install bareos-vmware-plugin
The following command will print SHA fingerprint (could be used in connection configuration):
echo -n | openssl s_client -connect 192.168.80.21:443 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -noout -fingerprint -sha1 | sed -e 's/://g'
To restore all other systems, we need to restore information about all performed backups first.
If you have a so-called bootstrap information, which usually drops into a spam box, you can skip this step.
Find the latest "Full-" volume. If your previous backup system was configured well, this volume will include the "BackupCatalog" job. It should be run after all night backups to save the summary information. I have it working at 10:00 the next day.
The "bls" tool scans the volume for jobs. Inspect the scan results and find the last run of the "BackupCatalog" job then get "SessId" and "SessTime" values.
# bls -j -V Full-0157 FileStorage bls: butil.c:273-0 Using device: "FileStorage" for reading. 21-Nov 20:54 bls JobId 0: Ready to read from volume "Full-0157" on device "FileStorage" (/var/lib/bareos/storage). Volume Record: File:blk=0:200 SessId=15 SessTime=1510947894 JobId=1 DataLen=165 End Job Session Record: File:blk=8:1530288849 SessId=15 SessTime=1510947894 JobId=2896 Date=18-Nov-2017 07:59:18 Level=F Type=B Files=2 Bytes=60,324,050,132 Errors=0 Status=T Begin Job Session Record: File:blk=8:1530353361 SessId=29 SessTime=1510947894 JobId=2910 Job=BackupCatalog.2017-11-19_10.00.00_21 Date=19-Nov-2017 10:00:03 Level=F Type=B End Job Session Record: File:blk=8:1542212665 SessId=29 SessTime=1510947894 JobId=2910 Date=19-Nov-2017 10:00:03 Level=F Type=B Files=78 Bytes=11,912,582 Errors=0 Status=T Begin Job Session Record: File:blk=8:1542277177 SessId=43 SessTime=1510947894 JobId=2924 Job=BackupCatalog.2017-11-20_10.00.00_35 Date=20-Nov-2017 10:00:03 Level=F Type=B End Job Session Record: File:blk=8:1554256618 SessId=43 SessTime=1510947894 JobId=2924 Date=20-Nov-2017 10:00:03 Level=F Type=B Files=78 Bytes=12,032,623 Errors=0 Status=T Begin Job Session Record: File:blk=8:1554321130 SessId=57 SessTime=1510947894 JobId=2938 Job=BackupCatalog.2017-11-21_10.00.00_49 Date=21-Nov-2017 10:00:03 Level=F Type=B End Job Session Record: File:blk=8:1566390609 SessId=57 SessTime=1510947894 JobId=2938 Date=21-Nov-2017 10:00:03 Level=F Type=B Files=78 Bytes=12,122,589 Errors=0 Status=T 21-Nov 20:57 bls JobId 0: End of Volume at file 8 on device "FileStorage" (/var/lib/bareos/storage), Volume "Full-0157" 21-Nov 20:57 bls JobId 0: End of all volumes.
Then create your own BSR file "/tmp/my.bsr" using the values found:
Volume="Full-0157" VolSessionId=57 VolSessionTime=1510947894
You have a BSR file created manually as described above, or what you've found in your spam box. The latter include a few more data:
# 21-Nov-2017 10:00:03 - BackupCatalog.2017-11-21_10.00.00_49 - Full Volume="Full-0157" MediaType="File" VolSessionId=57 VolSessionTime=1510947894 VolAddr=35913994987-35926128977 FileIndex=1-78
Now restore files using "bextract" tool:
# bextract -b /tmp/my.bsr FileStorage /tmp
You have successfully restored the configuration directory "/etc/bareos" and the DB dump "/var/lib/bareos/bareos.sql". Copy the configuration files to their place.
# rsync -av /tmp/etc/bareos/ /etc/bareos/
Load database data. If you exactly followed me as in this article, you still have no any bareos processes running. If you have them running, then stop them before loading the contents of the database.
# service bareos-dir stop # chmod -R o+rx /tmp/var/ # su - postgres $ psql bareos bareos -f /tmp/var/lib/bareos/bareos.sql
Now, it is the time to start bareos services:
# systemctl enable bareos-fd.service # systemctl enable bareos-sd.service # systemctl enable bareos-dir.service # systemctl start bareos-fd.service # systemctl start bareos-sd.service # systemctl start bareos-dir.service
Check restored data:
# echo "list jobs" | bconsole # echo "list media" | bconsole