Re: [Bacula-users] Experience with extremely large fileset include lists?

2007-01-29 Thread Rudolf Cejka
Kern Sibbald wrote (2007/01/29): > Bacula will do a linear search through the exclude list. Thus it could be > extremely CPU intensive. For a large list (more than 1000 files) I believe > it (the list) needs to be put into a hash tree, which is code that does not > exist. Hello, I have implem

Re: [Bacula-users] SD error when backing up 100MB file (better formatted)

2007-01-29 Thread Brad Peterson
>> I'm using Bacula to backup a large file, roughly 109MB in size. I'm >> also attempting to back up this file to an offsite storage daemon. >> >> >> >> I've tried 6 times now to get the file to backup, but each time, I get >> this error (showing the most relevant parts): >> >> >> >> Fatal er

Re: [Bacula-users] SD error when backing up 100MB file

2007-01-29 Thread Brad Peterson
Dan Langille wrote: On 29 Jan 2007 at 17:11, Brad Peterson wrote: I'm using Bacula to backup a large file, roughly 109MB in size. I'm also attempting to back up this file to an offsite storage daemon. I've tried 6 times now to get the file to backup, but each time, I get this error (s

[Bacula-users] (2.0.1) 5 minute 5 seconds problem

2007-01-29 Thread Darien Hager
Maybe I should be actually posting this to the dev list on account of the version being fresh out of the oven... Anyway, I have a weird problem going on. Both the storage daemon and the sole client are set up with a heartbeat interval (30 seconds), but the backup always dies five minutes

[Bacula-users] Clarification on Maxt Start Delay with Reschedule On Error

2007-01-29 Thread Support
Dear All Could someone please clarify this situation where I have jobs scheduled to start at 09:15 with a Max Start Time of 4 hours so that no job starts after 13:15. It seems that since I have enable Reschedule on error the Max Start Delay seems to apply from when the job was rescheduled. See be

Re: [Bacula-users] SD error when backing up 100MB file

2007-01-29 Thread Dan Langille
On 29 Jan 2007 at 17:11, Brad Peterson wrote: > I'm using Bacula to backup a large file, roughly 109MB in size. I'm > also attempting to back up this file to an offsite storage daemon. > > > > I've tried 6 times now to get the file to backup, but each time, I get > this error (showing the m

Re: [Bacula-users] SD error when backing up 100MB file

2007-01-29 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 1/30/2007 2:11 AM, Brad Peterson wrote: > I'm using Bacula to backup a large file, roughly 109MB in size. I'm > also attempting to back up this file to an offsite storage daemon. > > > > > I've tried 6 times now to get the file to backup, but each time, I > get this error (showing t

[Bacula-users] SD error when backing up 100MB file

2007-01-29 Thread Brad Peterson
I'm using Bacula to backup a large file, roughly 109MB in size. I'm also attempting to back up this file to an offsite storage daemon. I've tried 6 times now to get the file to backup, but each time, I get this error (showing the most relevant parts): Fatal error: job.c:1748 Comm err

Re: [Bacula-users] Pre-backup check

2007-01-29 Thread James Harper
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 11:12:41PM +1100, James Harper wrote: > > > Failing that, is there a way that the director can tell me what the > > label is on the current disk volume? I'm sure I have seen it tell me on > > a mount before, or maybe I'm thinking of tapes. It doesn't tell me > > anything

Re: [Bacula-users] Experience with extremely large fileset include lists?

2007-01-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, On Monday 29 January 2007 21:19, Alan Davis wrote: > Kern, > > Thanks for the fast response. To clarify a bit - the file list that I > would be using would be individual files, not directories. There would > be no exclude list as only the files that I need backed up would be > listed. Yes

Re: [Bacula-users] GUI Interface Name Vote Results

2007-01-29 Thread Dan Langille
On 29 Jan 2007 at 20:28, Alan Brown wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Dan Langille wrote: > > > > > As someone else pointed out, it's a shame the standard method for > > getting more information about an application involves putting the > > application name second. Otherwise, everyone would be typi

Re: [Bacula-users] GUI Interface Name Vote Results

2007-01-29 Thread Alan Brown
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007, Dan Langille wrote: > > As someone else pointed out, it's a shame the standard method for > getting more information about an application involves putting the > application name second. Otherwise, everyone would be typing: > > bat man > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-

Re: [Bacula-users] Experience with extremely large fileset include lists?

2007-01-29 Thread Alan Davis
Kern, Thanks for the fast response. To clarify a bit - the file list that I would be using would be individual files, not directories. There would be no exclude list as only the files that I need backed up would be listed. I have about 30TB of data files spread over several hundred directories.

Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger with two tape drives

2007-01-29 Thread John Drescher
On 1/29/07, Aaron Knister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an ADIC i500 tape library with 36 slots and two LTO-3 tape > drives. There are currently 8 tapes in the loader and they're defined in > a storage pool (and labeled by bacula). I have two jobs that reference > this storage pool. However,

[Bacula-users] Bacula Admin Tool (bat)

2007-01-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, This is just to let you know that the Bacula GUI project to create a GUI admin tool, now officially named bat, is well underway. In a sense the bat is now born and functions. There remains a tremendous amount of work, but the base is there -- a Qt graphical interface that connects to

Re: [Bacula-users] Experience with extremely large fileset include lists?

2007-01-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 29 January 2007 18:17, Alan Davis wrote: > I understand that one of the projects is to incorporate features that > will make very large exclude lists feasible, but does anyone have > experience, good or bad, with very large include lists in a fileset? > > > > I'm looking at the possibilit

Re: [Bacula-users] no respose when spooling attributes

2007-01-29 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:00:03 -0500, Dan Langille said: > > We're doing a large backup (1.5 million files). We have Spool > Attributes = Yes. I suspect it is spooling the attributes now and > has been doing so for a few hours. > > Is "status client" expected to work during the spooling o

[Bacula-users] purging volumes is very slow

2007-01-29 Thread Bacula User
Hello, I am putting bacula through it's paces and have run across some slowness when purging volumes. I am using freebsd 6.1, bacula 1.38.11_1, and postgresql-server-7.4.13_1 on a dual xeon with 2GB of ram. I have three 15-spindle raid5 arrays (5.6 TB each) to manage spooling and database needs.

[Bacula-users] autochanger with two tape drives

2007-01-29 Thread Aaron Knister
I have an ADIC i500 tape library with 36 slots and two LTO-3 tape drives. There are currently 8 tapes in the loader and they're defined in a storage pool (and labeled by bacula). I have two jobs that reference this storage pool. However, when I run I can only get one of the drives to work at a

Re: [Bacula-users] no respose when spooling attributes

2007-01-29 Thread Eric Bollengier
Hi, On 26 Jan 2007 at 15:00, Dan Langille wrote: > We're doing a large backup (1.5 million files). We have Spool > Attributes = Yes. I suspect it is spooling the attributes now and > has been doing so for a few hours. > > Is "status client" expected to work during the spooling of > attribute

[Bacula-users] postgres: index/table does not exist

2007-01-29 Thread Bacula User
Hi list, I am using freebsd 6.1, bacula 1.38.11_1, and postgresql-server-7.4.13_1. I run concurrent jobs and the following errors seem to appear when attributes are despooling into the catalog. What do these mean and how do I fix them? Jan 27 10:43:56 postgres: [58-1] ERROR: table "delcandidate

[Bacula-users] Experience with extremely large fileset include lists?

2007-01-29 Thread Alan Davis
I understand that one of the projects is to incorporate features that will make very large exclude lists feasible, but does anyone have experience, good or bad, with very large include lists in a fileset? I'm looking at the possibility of building a backup list from a db query that has the pot

Re: [Bacula-users] DVD+RW vs DVD-RAM for incremental daily backups

2007-01-29 Thread Cosimo Streppone
> Using DVD-RAM in combination with bacula is on my projects list. Is anybody > actually doing this? Yes, I am doing this on my home Linux workstation. I use a Samsung GSA-2164D dvdrecorder with a plain (no cartridge) DVD-RAM disk. I'm in the first stage of "try-and-see-what-happens" and I configu

Re: [Bacula-users] Pre-backup check

2007-01-29 Thread Bill Hill
Erik, > I would appreciate receiving a copy of your script since I have the same > problem and haven't done anything yet to solve it :-) No problem. bacula_next_volumes is the same as next_volumes.sh from my previous mail. prompt% bacula_next_volumes -h Usage: bacula_next_volumes [options] Outp

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with configuring every-day full backup

2007-01-29 Thread Thomas Glatthor
Hi, i think the RetentionTime (20h) is too long. After writing 6-8 hours to the media, and then adding the Retention of 20 hours, the volume is reusable after 26-28 hours. why not using RetentionTime of 1 minute? bacula will recycle the volumes at jobstart, when no appendable volume is available.

Re: [Bacula-users] Pre-backup check

2007-01-29 Thread David Romerstein
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, James Harper wrote: > Failing that, is there a way that the director can tell me what the > label is on the current disk volume? I'm sure I have seen it tell me on > a mount before, or maybe I'm thinking of tapes. It doesn't tell me > anything useful when I try it now though.

Re: [Bacula-users] Pre-backup check

2007-01-29 Thread Bill Hill
I need to do the same and achieve it by running two extra jobs: The first checks that what volumes are in the tape drives and sends an email with volume requirements. The second checks that the requirements have been met and only sends another email if they're not. These run early and late in the a

Re: [Bacula-users] problems with configuring every-day full backup

2007-01-29 Thread Hristo Benev
Peter Selc wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having problems with configuring one backup. It should be > every-day full backup, runned at 00:05, where about 100GB of files are > backed up (compressed approx. 50GB). It takes about 6-8 hours (client > and storage are 2 different servers on the same network)

Re: [Bacula-users] Pre-backup check

2007-01-29 Thread Dan Langille
On 29 Jan 2007 at 23:12, James Harper wrote: > I'm sure I've asked this before a while ago, but I can't seem to see it > in my mailbox. > > Does Bacula have any way of allowing a pre-backup check? One of our > clients is currently using Amanda, and for all the things I don't like > about it, one

[Bacula-users] Pre-backup check

2007-01-29 Thread James Harper
I'm sure I've asked this before a while ago, but I can't seem to see it in my mailbox. Does Bacula have any way of allowing a pre-backup check? One of our clients is currently using Amanda, and for all the things I don't like about it, one really nifty feature is that it can do a check and see if,

Re: [Bacula-users] Volume Status

2007-01-29 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 29 January 2007 09:59, Florian Schürfeld wrote: > Hi there, > > can someone provide me with a more detailed description of Volume > Status. > > I fully understood about "Append" and "Full", but i.g. wheres the > differnce between "Used" and "Full". This is a good subject for documentatio

Re: [Bacula-users] DVD+RW vs DVD-RAM for incremental daily backups

2007-01-29 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, cy tune wrote: > It's about $8 per disk for a Verbatim double sided DVD-RAM disk (9.4 > GB) in a cartridge. Going the tape route would cost far, far more > wouldn't it? It's about $30 for a 200Gb (native) LTO2 tape. Tapes are well-tested for longevity (EXCEPT DATS!) My exp

[Bacula-users] Volume Status

2007-01-29 Thread Florian Schürfeld
Hi there, can someone provide me with a more detailed description of Volume Status. I fully understood about "Append" and "Full", but i.g. wheres the differnce between "Used" and "Full". regards -- Florian Schürfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>