Hi - I've been evaluating Bacula for a while now, and I'm getting set to transition from Amanda to Bacula. I'm backing up 17 hosts (Linux and Tru64 Unix), currently to a 26 tape TL-891 (DLT-IV) library. I've got my new tape drive in (30 tape MSL6030 with an Ultrium-2), and for the last week or so, I've been running backups of several hosts with Bacula to test everything. I'm running full dumps every night, since I wanted to test spanning tapes and the autochanger.
One thing that I'm concerned with is that it seems that the 'sending spool attrs to the director' step, which I understand is inserting/ updating attributes in the database, takes a VERY long time. I'm using a PostgreSQL database, and the director and storage daemon are on the same host (asclbackup).
Below is a backup report - first of all, am I reading this right? It looks to me like the actual backup is finished by around 22:42 (data actually transferred to asclbackup by 21:15, and then another 1.5 hours or so to dump it to tape), and then the next 8 hours are spent dealing with the attributes. I'd really like to be able to speed that up a bit...
On the up side, the MSL6030 library works perfectly with bacula.
Any ideas are appreciated...if you need config files to look at, the sd and dir conf files are at:
http://borris.usask.ca/bacula/bacula-dir.conf http://borris.usask.ca/bacula/bacula-sd.conf
with passwords taken out, of course :-)
02-Apr 19:00 asclbackup-dir: Start Backup JobId 33, Job=Arts-Backup.2005-04-02_19.00.02
02-Apr 19:01 asclbackup-sd: Spooling data ...
02-Apr 21:15 asclbackup-sd: Committing spooled data to Volume. Despooling 33,703,037,103 bytes ...
02-Apr 22:42 asclbackup-sd: Sending spooled attrs to the Director. Despooling 317,625,650 bytes ...
03-Apr 06:35 asclbackup-dir: Bacula 1.36.2 (28Feb05): 03-Apr-2005 06:35:37
JobId: 33
Job: Arts-Backup.2005-04-02_19.00.02
Backup Level: Full
Client: arts
FileSet: "Arts FileSet" 2005-04-02 08:00:04
Pool: "Monthly"
Storage: "MSL6000"
Start time: 02-Apr-2005 19:00:03
End time: 03-Apr-2005 06:35:37
FD Files Written: 1,079,169
SD Files Written: 1,079,169
FD Bytes Written: 33,484,543,201
SD Bytes Written: 33,630,232,809
Rate: 802.3 KB/s
Software Compression: None
Volume name(s): MTH0003
Volume Session Id: 3
Volume Session Time: 1112487694
Last Volume Bytes: 103,959,793,626
Non-fatal FD errors: 0
SD Errors: 0
FD termination status: OK
SD termination status: OK
Termination: Backup OK
03-Apr 06:35 asclbackup-dir: Begin pruning Jobs. 03-Apr 06:35 asclbackup-dir: No Jobs found to prune. 03-Apr 06:35 asclbackup-dir: Begin pruning Files. 03-Apr 06:35 asclbackup-dir: No Files found to prune. 03-Apr 06:35 asclbackup-dir: End auto prune.
-- Matt White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arts and Science Computer Labs University of Saskatchewan
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