On Friday 17 June 2005 00:13, Nicolas Lopez wrote:
> We've been using bacula for several months to backup a few terabytes
> to Super AIT-1. We just upgraded our backup server to actually be able
> to keep up with the data rates the drives support so I figure now is a
> good time to actually mention that, yes, it does work with this Qualstar
> monstrosity.
>
> The changer is a Qualstar 5466 with two Sony SDZ-100 Super AIT-1
> drives and 66 slots and a bar code reader attached via SCSI. Everything
> works out of the box with Linux 2.4 & 2.6 using the standard SCSI tape
> drivers. The only trouble I've had using it with Bacula is that I
> initially set it to use 512k blocks and there was a hidden "sanity"
> limit of 500k in the SD that caused it to barf when trying to read the
> tapes for restores. I patched my local version to move the limit to
> 512k and all is happy. Somebody should probably add this to the
> known-good configuration lists.
>
> I'm using PostgreSQL for the catalog after trying sqlite and mysql,
> both of which seemed to get really bogged down as the catalog grew to
> it's current ridiculous proportions of 5.3G
>
> Below is the report of the latest job run on the new Dual Opteron
> backup server running Debian/sid amd64 (64bit mode). The File Daemon on
> the client was the limiting factor on the speed, but it was clearing
> 30M/s of network traffic for sustained periods. At that data rate the
> backup server still had some room to push more data. I'll try running a
> simultaneous dump to both drives this weekend and see now it holds up
>
> Thanks for the great product.
>
> - Nick Lopez
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> JobId: 8181
> Job: Narvi-home-offsite.2005-06-15_23.07.32
> Backup Level: Full
> Client: Narvi-fd
> FileSet: "OffsiteHome" 2005-01-11 16:07:58
> Pool: "Narvi"
> Storage: "Q5466-2"
> Start time: 15-Jun-2005 23:07:34
> End time: 16-Jun-2005 12:10:31
> FD Files Written: 244,214
> SD Files Written: 244,214
> FD Bytes Written: 1,137,848,209,144
> SD Bytes Written: 1,137,888,611,339
> Rate: 24221.4 KB/s
> Software Compression: None
> Volume name(s): A00019S1|A00010S1
> Volume Session Id: 6
> Volume Session Time: 1118898584
> Last Volume Bytes: 529,899,033,071
> Non-fatal FD errors: 0
> SD Errors: 0
> FD termination status: OK
> SD termination status: OK
> Termination: Backup OK
>
Really impressive! Thanks for the feedback.
I've upped the sanity check to 1MB.
--
Best regards,
Kern
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