Fortunately I also don't know how the networks are in Zaire but in South Africa we are a little more advanced that our collegues up North, or so I'm told, something to do with our Apartheid Goverment building an excellent infrastruture which has gone to ruin with the new democratic thingie....... but enough of politics. Unfortunately only SP, as far as I know, has that service but you only have limited sms's.........5 in total if I'm not mistaken, that is why we have the GPRS modem linked to our Firewall which runs Zabbix and I though maybe I can utilize it but then I have to get another modem, so maybe it wasn't that good idea????
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 23:33:43 +0200
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] WOW
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
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