Re: [Bacula-users] Hard Disk Backup Question

2006-05-01 Thread Jonas Björklund
Hello, On Mon, 1 May 2006, steven potvin wrote: i want to buy 4x 250 Gb Ide hardisks, and i want to use them as a backup medium, and if i calculate the total gb to backup for all my pcs, it adds up to be 820Gb, now what i was wondering is if one disk gets full during a backup can bacula

RE: [Bacula-users] Backup to disk then tape

2006-05-01 Thread James Harper
> > So in short; I want backups on disk, then copy them to tape > > Cutting to the chase on this: > > Why? > I can't speak for the original poster, but the value I can see in such a product (depending on implementation) is: . Allows very frequent incremental backups (hourly, depending on the s

RE: [Bacula-users] Hard Disk Backup Question

2006-05-01 Thread James Harper
> i want to buy 4x 250 Gb Ide hardisks, and i want to use them as a backup > medium, and if i calculate the total gb to backup for all my pcs, it adds > up to be 820Gb, now what i was wondering is if one disk gets full during a > backup can bacula automatickly continue the rest of the backup on the

RE: [Bacula-users] backing up msexchange or mssql

2006-05-01 Thread James Harper
> ASCII ... binary ... whatever. > > I _thought_ those files were ASCII, but it's not terribly important. > What _is_ important is that the files represent a consistent view of > the data in the database that can be backed up by normal file backup > tools. Sorry. I was probably being a bit pedant

Re: [Bacula-users] Make problem with libbac.a with FC5

2006-05-01 Thread Paul Van Allsburg
Ryan thanks, I stand corrected- I wasn't looking in the right mail archives & google didn't come through. The build by source doc's missed on the 'make' step, but then a reinstall step(17) further on points out the make, make install process(and I didn't pay attention to that either!). My last Ba

Re: [Bacula-users] Error in starting bacula-fd on client!

2006-05-01 Thread Zakai Kinan
Actually, things worked once I downgraded to 1.38.6. ZK --- Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1 May 2006 at 8:43, Zakai Kinan wrote: > > > I attempted to start bacula using ./bacula start > and > > this command gave me the error below. I installed > the > > client only on a redhat 9

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to disk then tape

2006-05-01 Thread Bill Moran
Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 1 May 2006, Bill Moran wrote: > > > How about our reasons for doing this: > > 1) We need speedy restores, thus we have a 1T RAID5 array and backup > > to disk devices there. > > I backup ~20Tb to LTO2. The tapes run almost as fast as most of the

[Bacula-users] Got bacula-web working with just a few minor problems.

2006-05-01 Thread Chuck Bunn
Hi, Okay got bacula-web working - way cool! - but I have a few minor issues... The images that show status (check marks etc.) are not showing (I know its a little thing but I just want it all working) I checked the httpd logs and I can see the 'Get' call for each of the images and there are n

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to disk then tape

2006-05-01 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 1 May 2006, John Gerritse wrote: So in short; I want backups on disk, then copy them to tape Cutting to the chase on this: Why? If it's for speed of restores, I have found that as long as the tape is in the changer then file/directory level restores only take about 5 minutes. if i

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to disk then tape

2006-05-01 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 1 May 2006, Bill Moran wrote: How about our reasons for doing this: 1) We need speedy restores, thus we have a 1T RAID5 array and backup to disk devices there. I backup ~20Tb to LTO2. The tapes run almost as fast as most of the disk arrays (MSA 1000 and Nexsan Atabeast) 2) We _mu

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to disk then tape

2006-05-01 Thread Bill Moran
On Mon, 1 May 2006 22:32:17 +0100 (BST) Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 1 May 2006, John Gerritse wrote: > > > So in short; I want backups on disk, then copy them to tape > > Cutting to the chase on this: > > Why? How about our reasons for doing this: 1) We need speedy restores

Re: [Bacula-users] Huge/slow index in MySQL

2006-05-01 Thread Helmut Raubenheimer
Hi Christoph Haas schrieb: What I wonder about: - is a 2.4 dump file/database size common when backup up ~1 million files that sum up to ~50 GB? (file and job retention are 1 month while I run one full backup per week and an incremental daily) My Dumpfile is about 2 GB (1,5 million files abo

Re: [Bacula-users] Huge/slow index in MySQL

2006-05-01 Thread Alan Brown
On Mon, 1 May 2006, John Kodis wrote: You have more CPU than I do, but only about half the memory. Since you say that the disks are thrashing, I'd guess that the lack of memory is more likely to be the culprit than the difference in databases. There have, however, been some messages posted her

Re: [Bacula-users] Hard Disk Backup Question

2006-05-01 Thread Andreas Wilm
steven potvin schrieb: > hi, > > i want to buy 4x 250 Gb Ide hardisks, and i want to use them as a > backup medium, and if i calculate the total gb to backup for all my > pcs, it adds up to be 820Gb, now what i was wondering is if one disk > gets full during a backup can bacula automatickly continu

[Bacula-users] Hard Disk Backup Question

2006-05-01 Thread steven potvin
hi,i want to buy 4x 250 Gb Ide hardisks, and i want to use them as a backup medium, and if i calculate the total gb to backup for all my pcs, it adds up to be 820Gb, now what i was wondering is if one disk gets full during a backup can bacula automatickly continue the rest of the backup on

Re: [Bacula-users] tape drive recommendation

2006-05-01 Thread Alan Brown
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, Mario Ohnewald wrote: Hello List, i am looking for a cheap IDE Tape drive which holds about 20GB uncompressed data. IDE tape drives tend to have problems operating with *nix systems. Have you considered an external USB one? AB

[Bacula-users] Director locking up

2006-05-01 Thread Joshua Kugler
Hmm...with no apparent change in my binaries or config files, I now have 1.36.3 locking up on a regular basis. A trackeback is below. It seems thread five got something a bit messed up, but I am not sure what. This is the version I compiled to -O0. I want to move to 1.38.x very soon, but am

Re: [Bacula-users] Error in starting bacula-fd on client!

2006-05-01 Thread Dan Langille
On 1 May 2006 at 8:43, Zakai Kinan wrote: > I attempted to start bacula using ./bacula start and > this command gave me the error below. I installed the > client only on a redhat 9 box and it works just fine. > The config.log has a couple of errors as well. I > removed the comments; thus, the t

Re: [Bacula-users] Error in starting bacula-fd on client!

2006-05-01 Thread Zakai Kinan
I attempted to start bacula using ./bacula start and this command gave me the error below. I installed the client only on a redhat 9 box and it works just fine. The config.log has a couple of errors as well. I removed the comments; thus, the total size of the file is less than 42 lines. ZK

Re: [Bacula-users] Huge/slow index in MySQL

2006-05-01 Thread John Kodis
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 12:04:10PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > Now it's 12 hours after I started to restore the 2.4 GB dump file > and MySQL still seems to be doing the "/*!4 ALTER TABLE `File` > ENABLE KEYS */" part of the dump. The disk is trashing like fury > while the database is creati

Re: [Bacula-users] Make problem with libbac.a with FC5

2006-05-01 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What is your make command? I'm assuming you're not running 'make install', as that problem IS in the list archives (about once a week lately it seems). The resolution to that one is to run 'make' before 'make install', and I'm told that's actually in

[Bacula-users] Write Errors on Restore

2006-05-01 Thread Tom
I'm attempting a restore and am receiving errors like this: c:\cygwin\home\kern\bacula\k\src\win32\filed\../../filed/restore.c:540 Write error on /tmp/bacula-restores/e/mail/Box/example.com/!m/!u/!c/mucipal/INBOX/CE808EF.MSG: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by anoth

Re: [Bacula-users] Huge/slow index in MySQL

2006-05-01 Thread Bill Moran
On Mon, 1 May 2006 12:04:10 +0200 Christoph Haas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Evening, > > I'm using MySQL (4.1) as an index storage with the default MyISAM table > format. Unfortunately the partition holding the MySQL databases ran full > and the database became corrupt. So I wanted to restore t

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to disk then tape

2006-05-01 Thread John Boris
John, We do that here (Backup to disk and then to tape). We have just started using Bacula but we us it to backup to tape. I use Microlite's BackupEDGE to backup my remote Servers to disk on my main backup server. I have a network that is only used by me over night so differentials at night are a p

Re: [Bacula-users] backing up msexchange or mssql

2006-05-01 Thread Bill Moran
On Mon, 1 May 2006 11:48:55 +1000 "James Harper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Not sure where you're coming from here so my answer may not match > the > > > intent of your question. > > > > I guess my point was simply that backing up transaction logs is an > > important part of MSSQL, and gene

[Bacula-users] Huge/slow index in MySQL

2006-05-01 Thread Christoph Haas
Evening, I'm using MySQL (4.1) as an index storage with the default MyISAM table format. Unfortunately the partition holding the MySQL databases ran full and the database became corrupt. So I wanted to restore the mysqldump of the index from the day before. Now it's 12 hours after I started to re

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula SD using >250MB RAM?

2006-05-01 Thread Dominic Marks
Kern Sibbald wrote: On Monday 01 May 2006 10:00, Dominic Marks wrote: Kern Sibbald wrote: On Monday 01 May 2006 00:41, Dominic Marks wrote: From top: PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATETIME WCPU COMMAND 28233 bacula 3 200 269M 265M kserel 173:54 0.00% bacula-sd I j

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-web: is it normal for index.php to be blank if there are no jobs set up.

2006-05-01 Thread Cedric Tefft
Chuck Bunn wrote: Hi Cedric, Thanks for responding. I looked at my logs and it looks like there are a lot of issues. The README says nothing about LDAP or rights and ownership on directories under bacula-web. Is there a document somewhere that can guide me to do what is necessary to get this

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to disk then tape

2006-05-01 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 01 May 2006 10:11, John Gerritse wrote: > Great! Thanks for the quick reply. > > I'm looking forward to the new release that will include "migration". > Is there a workaround, so we can use Bacula anyway until the new feature > is implemented? I don't think so, but it depends on what y

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula SD using >250MB RAM?

2006-05-01 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 01 May 2006 10:00, Dominic Marks wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Monday 01 May 2006 00:41, Dominic Marks wrote: > >> From top: > >> > >> PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATETIME WCPU COMMAND > >> 28233 bacula 3 200 269M 265M kserel 173:54 0.00% bacula-sd > >>

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup to disk then tape

2006-05-01 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 01 May 2006 09:11, John Gerritse wrote: > Hi all, > > I work in a ICT company and we are looking to replace Amanda. I figured > Bacula would be te best solution, but we hit a snag. > > A feature my boss feels is paramount to a back-up package is write the > data to disk, then to tape. Bac

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula SD using >250MB RAM?

2006-05-01 Thread Dominic Marks
Kern Sibbald wrote: On Monday 01 May 2006 00:41, Dominic Marks wrote: From top: PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATETIME WCPU COMMAND 28233 bacula 3 200 269M 265M kserel 173:54 0.00% bacula-sd I just noticed this on one of our Bacula servers. Curious since the SD shou

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula SD using >250MB RAM?

2006-05-01 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 01 May 2006 00:41, Dominic Marks wrote: > From top: > > PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATETIME WCPU COMMAND > 28233 bacula 3 200 269M 265M kserel 173:54 0.00% bacula-sd > > I just noticed this on one of our Bacula servers. Curious since the SD > shouldn't be us

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula SD using >250MB RAM?

2006-05-01 Thread Dominic Marks
Brian A. Seklecki wrote: bacula3 20 0 4364K 2212K kserel 0:00 0.00% bacula-sd Presumably this is being caused by a memory leak somewhere. Anyone else Dom: You should watch the process in real-time and determine if the usage grows during backup job activity or if it is slowly growin

[Bacula-users] Backup to disk then tape

2006-05-01 Thread John Gerritse
Hi all, I work in a ICT company and we are looking to replace Amanda. I figured Bacula would be te best solution, but we hit a snag. A feature my boss feels is paramount to a back-up package is write the data to disk, then to tape. Bacula does that in a way, but "data spooling" does only tha