Re: [Bacula-users] Help with retention period

2010-01-04 Thread Timo Neuvonen
"Hemant Shah" kirjoitti viestissä news:897496.89613...@web51606.mail.re2.yahoo.com... > > Folks, > > I have been running bacula (2.4.3) for couple of years. I thought that I > had setup the retention period properly but today I found out that I did > not do it correctly. Every first friday of t

[Bacula-users] Help with retention period

2010-01-04 Thread Hemant Shah
Folks, I have been running bacula (2.4.3) for couple of years. I thought that I had setup the retention period properly but today I found out that I did not do it correctly. Every first friday of the month I do full backup to tape, then I do full backup to disk. Rest of the days I do increment

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 getting the lead out.

2010-01-04 Thread Brian Debelius
I am using batch inserts into MySQL. The database is on a different RAID1 volume. On 1/4/2010 1:21 PM, Richard Scobie wrote: > Brian Debelius wrote: >> Shamless bump. Does anyone have any insight into this? >> >> Thanks >> brian- > > The difference between the dd tests and bacula backups is tha

Re: [Bacula-users] Using the same tape for a daily full backup, overwriting

2010-01-04 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > Anton Albajes-Eizagirre wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to set a backup system where i'd use a single tape to store a >> full backup on a single job. >> >> The first backup goes fine, and also the restore. The problem comes >> while trying to

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 getting the lead out.

2010-01-04 Thread Richard Scobie
Brian Debelius wrote: > Shamless bump. Does anyone have any insight into this? > > Thanks > brian- The difference between the dd tests and bacula backups is that catalog writes are occuring in the latter. Perhaps you have a database bottleneck? Is the database stored on the RAID also? Regards

Re: [Bacula-users] Using the same tape for a daily full backup, overwriting

2010-01-04 Thread Phil Stracchino
Anton Albajes-Eizagirre wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to set a backup system where i'd use a single tape to store a > full backup on a single job. > > The first backup goes fine, and also the restore. The problem comes > while trying to run again the full backup job with the same tape on the > dri

Re: [Bacula-users] Using the same tape for a daily full backup, overwriting

2010-01-04 Thread John Drescher
> I'm trying to set a backup system where i'd use a single tape to store a > full backup on a single job. > I would never recommend such a policy because while you are backing up the data each day you have no valid previous backup. > > The first backup goes fine, and also the restore. The problem

Re: [Bacula-users] Auto-deleting purged volumes

2010-01-04 Thread Timo Neuvonen
"Phil Stracchino" kirjoitti viestissä news:4b410543.8040...@metrocast.net... >I have a disk-based backup setup that uses dated volumes which are used > for a 23-hour period then marked 'used', so that I can be certain a > particular day's backups are contained in a single file. They are of > cou

[Bacula-users] Using the same tape for a daily full backup, overwriting

2010-01-04 Thread Anton Albajes-Eizagirre
Hi, I'm trying to set a backup system where i'd use a single tape to store a full backup on a single job. The first backup goes fine, and also the restore. The problem comes while trying to run again the full backup job with the same tape on the drive. Even if the tape is rewinded, bacula return

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 getting the lead out.

2010-01-04 Thread Brian Debelius
Shamless bump. Does anyone have any insight into this? Thanks brian- On 12/28/2009 2:12 PM, Brian Debelius wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to improve my LTO-3 throughput. I recently installed a > SAS Tandberg LTO-3 drive. I am using Bacula 3.0.3 in Ubuntu. I > backup to disk files, and then copy

Re: [Bacula-users] ERR=Connection timed out - WINDOWS 2008 64bit

2010-01-04 Thread Carlo Filippetto
I tried it, but it work fine only one time, when I run it manually!! Tomorrow I return on bacula.. so I can check if the problem is the same Ciao CARLO 2010/1/4 Peter Allgeyer > Am Mittwoch, den 30.12.2009, 14:56 +0100 schrieb Carlo Filippetto: > > > I have a job running on windows 2008 64bi

Re: [Bacula-users] ERR=Connection timed out - WINDOWS 2008 64bit

2010-01-04 Thread Peter Allgeyer
Am Mittwoch, den 30.12.2009, 14:56 +0100 schrieb Carlo Filippetto: > I have a job running on windows 2008 64bit, mine bacula director is > 3.0.3 on Linux server. > On the client I installed the new 64bit version, but I can't undertand > why the job goes well since the and where say > > "Network

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup/Delete/Restore & subsequent backups

2010-01-04 Thread Steve Costaras
No, no backup was run between the full backup when the files were there and the next backup AFTER the files were restored. I've read a bit about the basejob feature though not in detail, it sounds more like a data de-duplication feature which would be useful later on, are you suggesting that

Re: [Bacula-users] Auto-deleting purged volumes

2010-01-04 Thread Carlo Filippetto
Bacula don't delete the data, you have to do it manually or with a script You can add a 'post-script' in the job, or in the backup-catalog Ciao, Carlo 2010/1/3 Phil Stracchino > I have a disk-based backup setup that uses dated volumes which are used > for a 23-hour period then marked 'used',

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup/Delete/Restore & subsequent backups

2010-01-04 Thread Ralf Gross
Steve Costaras schrieb: > > I've been diving into Bacula the past 2-3 weeks to come up with a backup > system here for some small server count but very large data store sizes > (30+TiB per server). > > In the coarse of my testing I have noticed something and want to know if > it's by design (