Re: [Bacula-users] painfully slow backups

2007-10-05 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 18:57 -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: > On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > I've been having really slow backups (13 hours) when I backup a large > > mail spool. I've attached a run report. There are about 1.4M files > > with a compressed size of 4G. I get much bett

Re: [Bacula-users] painfully slow backups

2007-10-05 Thread Steve Thompson
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Ross Boylan wrote: > I've been having really slow backups (13 hours) when I backup a large > mail spool. I've attached a run report. There are about 1.4M files > with a compressed size of 4G. I get much better throughput (e.g., > 2,000KB/s vs 86KB/s for this job!) with othe

Re: [Bacula-users] painfully slow backups

2007-10-05 Thread Ross Boylan
Here are the results after moving the postgres database to another disk: Initial jobs were like the ones at the end of my earlier report, involving the directories with c 4,000 files. 93 seconds first try (277kb/s) 20 seconds 2nd try (1679kb/s) Then I switched to the one I used at the beginning of

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup progress information

2007-10-05 Thread GDS.Marshall
In-Reply-To=46DFBF2F.6040304%40its-lehmann.de Hi, 06.09.2007 09:22,, Ruben Lopez wrote:: >> Hi, >> >> Is there any way of knowing the progress of one backup? > > Yes... try 'sta sd=' and 'sta > client=' in a console. > >> I mean something >> like "copied 27 of 145 files" or "copied 50 of 145 GB"

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula restore problem with tape to disk followed by wanting to restore from that disk to files

2007-10-05 Thread Olaf Zevenboom
Hi list, Implemented a workaround succesfully. Just in time. 10 minutes spare! Thanks for your time. Hope to give more feedback on monday. gr, Olaf Don't let your dream ride pass you by. Make it a reali

Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger mount/unmount config without blocking

2007-10-05 Thread John Drescher
> Huh. I've written some scripts that do some slightly funky stuff to get > around the "blocking" effect of doing an "umount" from bconsole. > > So I wonder: Will the "release" command unload the tape, put it away and all > that jazz? > It does that for me, well at least from version 2.0.X and ab

Re: [Bacula-users] Using Bacula with many clients

2007-10-05 Thread John Drescher
> Thank for the reply. Are you managing those files by hand ( vi ) or > in some other fashion? I use nano and and a lot of copying my previous configs. For the most part I only add a few clients at one time so this usually is no big deal. > I have a couple of other admins that will be > working

[Bacula-users] Scheduled restore jobs without intervention

2007-10-05 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi all, I was thinking about the best way to keep a backup of my director configuration ready on a client machine, and decided that it would be the easiest if I scheduled a nightly restore job for the catalog and the config files, bootstraps, etc. onto that client. In other words, the files would

[Bacula-users] Tray Monitor - Director not displaying job information

2007-10-05 Thread Douglas Schmidt
Hello Everyone. I'm using Tray Monitor on a server that runs Director at my site. The Tray Monitor does not correctly report the Scheduled Jobs, Running Jobs or Terminated Jobs in the DIR section. The FD and SD sections show accurate information. I'm hoping that I've done something stupid, but

Re: [Bacula-users] autochanger mount/unmount config without blocking

2007-10-05 Thread Flak Magnet
On Thursday 04 October 2007 11:27:04 am John Drescher wrote: > Use the release command instead of unmount > > John Huh. I've written some scripts that do some slightly funky stuff to get around the "blocking" effect of doing an "umount" from bconsole. So I wonder: Will the "release" command un

[Bacula-users] Bacula restore problem with tape to disk followed by wanting to restore from that disk to files

2007-10-05 Thread Olaf Zevenboom
Hi list, I have the following issue: SYSTEM Running Debian Etch on a server called "backupmaster" with Bacula 2.0. I have several Windows servers running Bacula-fd too. The backupmaster has a schedule for all servers to backup their data with jobs to a local disk on the backupmaster server. I use

Re: [Bacula-users] Schedules and different pools

2007-10-05 Thread Viktor Radnai
Hi Damian, I'm new to Bacula but was considering a similar setup. I think you are misunderstanding the meaning of FullPool: "FullPool=Full specifies to use the Pool named Full if the job is a full backup, or is upgraded from another type to a full backup." I've found this here, btw: http://

[Bacula-users] Batch insert

2007-10-05 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Hi, I recently upgraded to Bacula 2.2.2 on my Solaris 10 installation to benefit from the Batch insert feature. I installed the mysql thread safe client libraries and built bacula. The output of the build says "Batch Insert Enabled : yes". I don't see performance improvements, so I'm guessin if th

[Bacula-users] Schedules and different pools

2007-10-05 Thread Damian Lubosch
Hello ! I need some advice concerning schedules and definitions of pools. My idea is to do as follows: I want to have 4 tapes Monday-Thursday for differential backups and I need 10 tapes for full backups on Fridays (2 tapes per weekend, up to 5 fridays). I need a 4 weeks of full backup of every

Re: [Bacula-users] How to purge files from a volume?

2007-10-05 Thread Foo Bar
--- Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007.10.05. 17:30, Foo Bar wrote: > ... > > > > 'Remove Volume After' is of no use since I want to keep the volume, > just > > control its contents. > > actually, if you would limit each volume to a single job, it would > nicely achieve the goal, i thin

Re: [Bacula-users] Using Bacula with many clients

2007-10-05 Thread Seth Miller
Hi John, Thank for the reply. Are you managing those files by hand ( vi ) or in some other fashion? I have a couple of other admins that will be working on this as well and I'm going to try and put together a CGI or PHP app to add / remove Clients, Pools and such. Just wondering if you

Re: [Bacula-users] Using Bacula with many clients

2007-10-05 Thread Seth Miller
Thanks Arno, You're write, scripting is probably the best way to go here. I was pretty tired last night but now with a clear head I realize I really only have 5 types of machines meaning their configs will be identical except for the hostname which should make the process much easier. Than

[Bacula-users] misleading status information with spooling enabled

2007-10-05 Thread Ralf Gross
Hi, I've noticed that with spooling enabled I see wrong status information about a job in the 'Terminated Jobs' field. *status client=-fd Connecting to Client -fd at :9102 -fd Version: 2.2.4 (14 September 2007) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu debian 4.0 Daemon started 02-Okt-07 22:24, 5 Jo

Re: [Bacula-users] How to purge files from a volume?

2007-10-05 Thread Rich
On 2007.10.05. 17:30, Foo Bar wrote: ... >>> What I would like to do is to keep for example 2 full backups, and as >>> soon as the third is made the oldest one should be deleted from disk >>> (not just the job/volume entries in the catalog). >> it seems that you might be interested in feature reque

Re: [Bacula-users] How to purge files from a volume?

2007-10-05 Thread Foo Bar
--- Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i don't know how feasible would this be with current bacula formats - > such a storage system would be a huge benefit for hdd based systems, but > might require serious changes. Indeed, I'm backing up to disk for the time being, not tape. > > What I would

[Bacula-users] Batch insert

2007-10-05 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Hi, I recently upgraded to Bacula 2.2.2 on my Solaris 10 installation to benefit from the Batch insert feature. I installed the mysql thread safe client libraries and built bacula. The output of the build says "Batch Insert Enabled : yes". I don't see performance improvements, so I'm guessin if th

Re: [Bacula-users] backward compability

2007-10-05 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There are ways to produce logs. You'd have to refer to the documentation - -- it is there (also in the list archives many times). Marek Simon wrote: > The problem is solve. John Drescher sent me an older version of bacula > client and it runs good, b

Re: [Bacula-users] How to purge files from a volume?

2007-10-05 Thread Rich
On 2007.10.05. 13:20, Foo Bar wrote: > If I want to use a single volume per client, how do I delete old backups > from it in a FIFO manner without using dates or size? Can Bacula seek back > and resize a volume at all or does it need to recycle it? i don't know how feasible would this be with curr

[Bacula-users] How to purge files from a volume?

2007-10-05 Thread Foo Bar
If I want to use a single volume per client, how do I delete old backups from it in a FIFO manner without using dates or size? Can Bacula seek back and resize a volume at all or does it need to recycle it? What I would like to do is to keep for example 2 full backups, and as soon as the third is m

[Bacula-users] bscan - rebuilding catalog from autochanger

2007-10-05 Thread paul
Hello, I am trying to restore my bacula catalog from some tapes inside an autochanger. There are seven tapes in the changer and I want to restore all the backup sessions to a clean catalog. # bscan -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf -v -V L20001\|L20002\|L20003\|L20004\|L20005\|L20006\|L20007 /dev/ns

Re: [Bacula-users] admin jobs

2007-10-05 Thread Frank Sweetser
Lucio Crusca wrote: > Hello *, > > Bacula 2.0.3/Debian here, using DVD and full/month+diff/week+incr/day > schedule. In order to always have the full backup on a single media, I need > to set the volume status as "Full" before the next 1st monday of each month. > Now I guess there could be at l

[Bacula-users] admin jobs

2007-10-05 Thread Lucio Crusca
Hello *, Bacula 2.0.3/Debian here, using DVD and full/month+diff/week+incr/day schedule. In order to always have the full backup on a single media, I need to set the volume status as "Full" before the next 1st monday of each month. Now I guess there could be at least two ways to do that: 1. se

[Bacula-users] Error c:317 Volume data error - Restore Windows NT

2007-10-05 Thread marwin bobinson
Hello, I'm using Bacula 2.0.3 (Dir / SD / FD ) run on a Windows NT 4.0 Sp6 Fr Server and the volumes (more than 50 Go) are on an ethernet disk. When I try to restore files from the Full Backup i have some message like that : 05-Oct 09:59 444MW001-sd: Ready to read from volume "FQZ-0001" on device

Re: [Bacula-users] Does the File-Daemon store temporary files?

2007-10-05 Thread Matthias Kellermann
Hi, Arno Lehmann schrieb: >> If so where can I find this temporary fileson >> Windows and Linux systems? Is there a max. size for the temporary >> storage or is it all done on-the-fly so no additional storage space is >> needed? > > The FD does not use the gzip program but uses the gzip algorith