I am also interested in how large your catalog is. We all have very
different budgets and definitions when it comes to "large" MySQL
representations, and a few of us may be able to offer some tips if that's
your bottleneck.
-Melvin
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp
<uwe.schuerk...@nionex.net>wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 01:37:42PM +0200, Bugbear wrote:
> > Hi Dimitrij,
> >
> > Well, for me using only one catalog isn't solution at all. With the
> > number of clients and files I'm backing up, using one database
> > (catalog) causes huge performance penalties, that's why I use multiple
> > catalogs.
> >
>
> We recently switched to running multiple catalogs and have seen
> similar strange issues, however not while restoring but more often
> when running backups.
>
> I'm wondering why you don't define different media types if you run
> dedicated pools & storages for each client? This might help bacula to
> identify which storage can read a certain media type. It's only a
> string that identifies the media type, there's no magic involved at
> all.
>
> In our setup, each client has two pools (one for full, one for
> incrementals), two storages (ditto) and two media types defined.
>
> As a last resort with disk based backup at least, you can use bls /
> bextract to get at your backup data, circumventing catalog usage
> completely.
>
> Out of couriosity, how big is your "large" catalog?
>
> Cheers, Uwe
>
>
> > Also I found some thread explaining exactly the same problem as mine:
> > http://marc.info/?l=bacula-bugs&m=132248738530236
> > ... but it seems the bug wont be fixed...
> >
> > ebollengier says that:
> > " Bacula might have a problem when using multiple Catalog, this is not
> > the most common setup."
> > For me you don't have any choice different from using multiple
> > catalogs, if you have clients with very big filesets, containing huge
> > number of files, and ofcourse if performance is to be considered.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:23:35 +0100
> > Dimitrij Hilt <dimitrij.h...@fhe3.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Bugbear,
> > >
> > > Am 22.03.2013 09:11, schrieb Bugbear:
> > > [...]
> > > > I suppose this is some kind of bug, because:
> > > > - This strange behaviour happens only to a custom set of clients
> > > > (not all of the clients using shared catalog)
> > > > - This only happens after I add more than 1 catalog
> > >
> > > Second option is right. I know this bug from bacula 3.X to 5.X. My
> > > fix was to remove any additional catalogs and use only one.
> > >
> > > Dimi
> > >
> > >
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