Re: [Bacula-users] monitor tape shoe-shining

2007-10-06 Thread Ralf Gross
Ralf Gross schrieb: > > > How can I get information about how often a tape drive started/stopped > > > writing to tape? Is there a way to monitor the throughput of the SCSI > > > interface to the drive? > > > > On FreeBSD, I'd tell you to look at iostat. Output looks something > > like this: > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup progress information

2007-10-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, 05.10.2007 22:39,, GDS.Marshall wrote:: > 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 so

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduled restore jobs without intervention

2007-10-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, 05.10.2007 17:13,, Viktor Radnai wrote:: > 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, bootst

Re: [Bacula-users] Batch insert

2007-10-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 05.10.2007 16:19,, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:: > > Hi, I recently upgraded to Bacula 2.2.2 on my Solaris 10 installation to > benefit from the Batch insert feature. You should upgrade to 2.2.4 - one rather serious bug is still present in 2.2.2. IIRC, of course. > I installed the mysql thread

[Bacula-users] Database indexes and documentation

2007-10-06 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
I was still trying to figure out how to gain more performance on my T2000 director. So I checked the performance issues stated on the documentation, both about postgres and mysql. I use mysql, and the indexes are shown like this: mysql> show index from File; +---++--+-

Re: [Bacula-users] monitor tape shoe-shining

2007-10-06 Thread Ralf Gross
Dan Langille schrieb: > On 6 Oct 2007 at 10:41, Ralf Gross wrote: > > > How can I get information about how often a tape drive started/stopped > > writing to tape? Is there a way to monitor the throughput of the SCSI > > interface to the drive? > > On FreeBSD, I'd tell you to look at iostat. Out

Re: [Bacula-users] monitor tape shoe-shining

2007-10-06 Thread Dan Langille
On 6 Oct 2007 at 10:41, Ralf Gross wrote: > How can I get information about how often a tape drive started/stopped > writing to tape? Is there a way to monitor the throughput of the SCSI > interface to the drive? On FreeBSD, I'd tell you to look at iostat. Output looks something like this: $ i

[Bacula-users] monitor tape shoe-shining

2007-10-06 Thread Ralf Gross
Hi, is there a way to see if a tape/drive is shoe-shining? I've backup jobs that will run for several days, with spooling it will take even longer. I tried to backup with and without spooling, both jobs wrote with ~75 MB/s to the tape. But I can't say if there were short periods of time where the

Re: [Bacula-users] painfully slow backups

2007-10-06 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, 06.10.2007 00:21,, Ross Boylan wrote:: > 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/