Personally, I wouldn't send it directly through a modem if you can avoid it. I dont know how the networks are in Zaire, but in the US, most carriers offer a email-> SMS gateway, so that you simply send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or similar, and it becomes an SMS. If you can go that route, I'd definitly try.
--matt On Sep 9, 2006, at 2:30 PM, Janco van der Merwe wrote: > OH, I see, thank you for the speedy reply, just one thing I did not > turn on the FD compression but you know what it isn't that much of > a disater..... I was curious and hell I haven't seen a backup > solution like this before so I'm not complaining! Can you give me > tip on how I will replace the bsmtp resource with my sms gateway, > as far as I know there are return characters that should be read so > that the modem doesn't keep on sending the same sms, how will > Bacula read/interperet the return character, how will you set up > Bacula to do this........so many questions so little time!!!!!!! > > From: Matt Cowger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Janco van der Merwe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 23:11:59 +0200 > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] WOW > > > > My question is, is it normal to take round about 13 hours to backup > > the data? What I mean is if you take each separate job and you > > compare it to the time that Ultrabac took you notice that Bacula > > takes 4 -5 times longer to backup the individual job. Any ideas > > why, DB maybe? > > This may depend on whether you are using compression on the FD's to > transfer the data. On some of my machines, they are too slow to > quickly compress the data, and turning on comrpession actually slows > down my backups by nearly 3x. Just a thought. Perhaps UltraBac > doesn't do comrpession on the client end? > > > > > My second question is, would it be possible to hook Bacula up to > > the monitoring package, Zabbix, to send out a sms/text message > > every time a job succeeds/fails or can Bacula do it if you hook it > > up to a GPRS modem? > > Take a look at the call to bsmtp in the director config file. You > could easily replace/supplement it with a call to your favorite SMS > gateway.... > > > > And then lastly, as you might come to realize my knowledge of > > backups is quite dangerous and I'm still learning. Can someone > > explain to me how did Bacula backup 295 GB to a tape that is > > suppose to take 260GB. 90% of the Servers are Windows Servers and > > very little data is text based so how in the hell did it do it > > without corrupting the Data??????????? > > The 260GB limit is based on compression, and assumes a 2.6:1 > compression (AIT3 is 100GB native, 260GB compressed), but that > estimate is just an AVERAGE. In your case, you got 2.95:1 (or more) > - thats totally possible depending on your data. Its not just text > data thats highly compressible - some types of email data, database > data can also be highly compressible... > > --Matt > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > ______ > This communication and any attachments are confidential and > intended for the sole use of the > intended recipient. Any form of copying or disclosure of this > communication to any third parties > without permission is prohibited. The contents of this > communication and its attachments are > not intended to be relied upon in law without subsequent written > confirmation. As such, Dunns > Stores (Pty) Ltd accept no responsibility or liability (including > negligence) for the consequences > of anyone acting, or not acting, on information contained therein. > > If you have received this communication in error please notify us > immediately and destroy or > delete it. > ______________________________________________________________________ > ______ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
