Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula performance

2010-08-04 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:28 AM, rvent wrote: > Hello, > > I am new to Bacula and so far i really like it. > > I am testing Bacula and at the moment i am trying to backup to disk. > Everything seems to be working fine except that the file transfers from the > client to the server are not very fa

[Bacula-users] bacula make error (Installation error)

2010-08-04 Thread vaibhavavhad1
I am using Mac OS to install bacula. when ever i try to install bacula, make command doesnt work, though i m following all procedure from mannual, ./configure (options) works but make is not working, it gives following error - Administrators-MacBook-Pro-4:bacul

[Bacula-users] Bacula performance

2010-08-04 Thread rvent
Hello, I am new to Bacula and so far i really like it. I am testing Bacula and at the moment i am trying to backup to disk. Everything seems to be working fine except that the file transfers from the client to the server are not very fast. The server's interface is a 2Gbps card, the client's i

[Bacula-users] Strategy question

2010-08-04 Thread rvent
Hello, Is is possible to have all the clients save their backups to their local drive (full, incremental, differential) and then back up those client backups to the server? Can i do this from one remote director? Or will every client have to be the director, storage and client? I think that t

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-04 Thread Gary R. Schmidt
On Thu, August 5, 2010 02:08, Alan Brown wrote: > John Drescher wrote: > >>> It does matter if they have data on them. >>> >> >> Agreed. If they were from some other backup program you need to erase >> them first. > > Or if they have last night's Bacula backups on them... > > "Label barcodes" i

[Bacula-users] Bacula to Backup EMC Clariion cx4

2010-08-04 Thread Heitor Medrado de Faria
Guys, Does anyone knows, briefly, how to backup data on the EMC Clariion cx4 storage, using Bacula? Regards, -- Heitor Medrado de Faria www.bacula.com.br Msn: hei...@bacula.com.br Gtalk: heitorfa...@gmail.com Skype: neocodeheitor + 55 71 9132-3349 +55 71 3381-6869 --

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula + Postgres : copy batch problem

2010-08-04 Thread Dan Langille
On 8/4/2010 6:50 AM, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > On 04/08/10, Dan Langille (d...@langille.org) wrote: > >> I think stored procedures would be a good idea. That way, we could >> improve the functionality without changing the application. >> >> That said, we do not at present use stored procedures.

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula confused about slots on autochanger

2010-08-04 Thread Maria Mckinley
Message: 4 Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:37:21 -0400 From: Josh Fisher Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bacula confused about slots on autochanger To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <4c597b21.2050...@pvct.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 8/3/2010 9:20 PM

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula confused about slots on autochanger

2010-08-04 Thread John Drescher
> Where would that be? I don't see it in /etc/bacula/, and I don't see a > reference to it in /etc/bacula/scripts/mtx-changer. Both mtx-changer and mtx-changer.conf should be in /usr/libexec/bacula at least they are on my system John

[Bacula-users] issue with "delete pool"

2010-08-04 Thread Gunnar Thielebein
When deleting a pool via bconsole, the volumes of that pool still exists in filesystem but are not known anymore to the director and needs to be deleted manually. When I use the label command: Connecting to Storage daemon daily_storage at 192.168.2.211:9103 ... Sending label command for Volume

Re: [Bacula-users] Upgrading Bacula

2010-08-04 Thread Brian White
Thanks to all for your responses.  I found the database table upgrade scripts in the source tree under updatedb.  There I found the update_mysql_tables_10_to_11 which then allowed me to run the update_mysql_tables under the install directory.  All of the daemons are up and running.  My client m

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula confused about slots on autochanger

2010-08-04 Thread Maria Mckinley
On 8/4/10 4:40 AM, John Drescher wrote: > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Maria McKinley wrote: >> It seems that part of the problem I have been having with backup is that >> bacula is having communication problems with the autochanger. Bacula >> tells the autochanger to load slot 3, but instead s

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula confused about slots on autochanger

2010-08-04 Thread Maria McKinley
Laurent HENRY (EHESS/CRI) wrote: > Hi, no clever idea for me, just basic thoughts. > > what is the output of an update slots command ? > > what happen when you ask a 'mount' request from slot 3 ? > > Through some trickery (loaded the tape into the drive from outside bacula, and then mounted i

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-04 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:21 PM, sid009 wrote: > Following is the list of Volumes I have: > > > *list volumes > Pool: Default > +-++---+-+-+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+ > | MediaId | Vo

[Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-04 Thread sid009
Following is the list of Volumes I have: *list volumes Pool: Default +-++---+-+-+--+--+-+--+---+---+-+ | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes        | VolFiles

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-04 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:18 PM, John Drescher wrote: > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Alan Brown wrote: >> John Drescher wrote: >> It does matter if they have data on them. >>> >>> Agreed. If they were from some other backup program you need to erase >>> them first. >> >> Or if t

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-04 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Alan Brown wrote: > John Drescher wrote: > >>> It does matter if they have data on them. >>> >> >> Agreed. If they were from some other backup program you need to erase >> them first. > > Or if they have last night's Bacula backups on them... > > "Label barcode

Re: [Bacula-users] Upgrading Bacula

2010-08-04 Thread John Doe
From: Brian White >Phil Stracchino wrote: >On 08/04/10 11:14, Brian White wrote: >>I've been using Bacula 2.2.5 as my primary backup software for several >>>years now and am very happy. As we move to newer version of our linux >>>operating system I'm having issues with the client so I've decided

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-04 Thread Alan Brown
John Drescher wrote: >> It does matter if they have data on them. >> > > Agreed. If they were from some other backup program you need to erase > them first. Or if they have last night's Bacula backups on them... "Label barcodes" is an extremely dangerous command and should be used with ext

Re: [Bacula-users] Upgrading Bacula

2010-08-04 Thread Brian White
Thanks.  I don't know MySQL very well.  Do you know how I would go about finding the current DB schema version? Thanks. Phil Stracchino wrote: On 08/04/10 11:14, Brian White wrote: I've been using Bacula 2.2.5 as my primary backup software for several years now and am very happy.

Re: [Bacula-users] Upgrading Bacula

2010-08-04 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 08/04/10 11:14, Brian White wrote: > I've been using Bacula 2.2.5 as my primary backup software for several > years now and am very happy. As we move to newer version of our linux > operating system I'm having issues with the client so I've decided it's > about time to upgrade. My plan is to u

Re: [Bacula-users] Upgrading Bacula

2010-08-04 Thread John Drescher
2010/8/4 Brian White : > I've been using Bacula 2.2.5 as my primary backup software for several > years now and am very happy.  As we move to newer version of our linux > operating system I'm having issues with the client so I've decided it's > about time to upgrade.  My plan is to upgrade to the l

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-04 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Alan Brown wrote: > John Drescher wrote: It is not correct to manually label tapes in an autochanger if you have one that has a barcode reader. With a barcode reader you issue label barcodes from the console after you issue update slots. >>> >>>

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-04 Thread Alan Brown
John Drescher wrote: >>> It is not correct to manually label tapes in an autochanger if you >>> have one that has a barcode reader. With a barcode reader you issue >>> label barcodes from the console after you issue update slots. >> You assume you have a changer full of blank tapes. >> > > It does

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-04 Thread John Drescher
>> It is not correct to manually label tapes in an autochanger if you >> have one that has a barcode reader. With a barcode reader you issue >> label barcodes from the console after you issue update slots. > > You assume you have a changer full of blank tapes. > It does not matter if some are alre

[Bacula-users] Upgrading Bacula

2010-08-04 Thread Brian White
I've been using Bacula 2.2.5 as my primary backup software for several years now and am very happy. As we move to newer version of our linux operating system I'm having issues with the client so I've decided it's about time to upgrade. My plan is to upgrade to the latest stable version 5.0.2. I'

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling

2010-08-04 Thread Alan Brown
Dan Langille wrote: > Any failed jobs about that time? > Yes, but even with what was left in the spool directories the disk was nowhere near full, nor were the directories anywhere near the 100Gb mark. I've had it decide to start despooling at 60kB at times. Usually it's more like 5Mb to 8Gb.

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula confused about slots on autochanger

2010-08-04 Thread Josh Fisher
On 8/3/2010 9:20 PM, Maria McKinley wrote: > It seems that part of the problem I have been having with backup is that > bacula is having communication problems with the autochanger. Bacula > tells the autochanger to load slot 3, but instead slot 2 is loaded: On some systems, (BSD?) slot numbers a

[Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-04 Thread sid009
> It is not correct to manually label tapes in an autochanger if you > have one that has a barcode reader. With a barcode reader you issue > label barcodes from the console after you issue update slots. For the > label barcodes I put all new volumes in the Scratch pool. > Hi drescherjm Thanks

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Problem with Volumes

2010-08-04 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: John Drescher Date: Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:50 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with Volumes To: Carlo Filippetto On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Carlo Filippetto wrote: > AZZZ > I create the volumes and late I add thje 'Duration'!!! > > th

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-04 Thread John Drescher
> Thanks for your prompt response. I looked at the link you just provided when > I was setting up Bacula. Just a bit more information, when I was labelling > the volumes, Bacula was not auto-labelling any of the tapes so I had to > simulate the barcodes by following the steps in "Simulating Barc

[Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-04 Thread sid009
Hi rory Thanks for your prompt response. I looked at the link you just provided when I was setting up Bacula. Just a bit more information, when I was labelling the volumes, Bacula was not auto-labelling any of the tapes so I had to simulate the barcodes by following the steps in "Simulating Bar

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula confused about slots on autochanger

2010-08-04 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Maria McKinley wrote: > It seems that part of the problem I have been having with backup is that > bacula is having communication problems with the autochanger. Bacula > tells the autochanger to load slot 3, but instead slot 2 is loaded: > > *messages > 03-Aug 18:14

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with Volumes

2010-08-04 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:51 AM, Carlo Filippetto wrote: > The problem is that! > > I have head made 5 volumes, I don't let Bacula to create them, I wold like > that every single volume contains only a 'daily' backup... In this > installation I have only 12 client, and I want that all the backup of

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-04 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 04/08/10, sid009 (bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com) wrote: > I am new to Bacula and an average Linux user. I am trying to setup > Bacula to work with our HP LTO4 Autochanger (7 slots + 1 mail slot). I > have managed to label all the tapes and I can see all the volumes > listed via bconsole. The pr

[Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-04 Thread sid009
Hi Guys, I am new to Bacula and an average Linux user. I am trying to setup Bacula to work with our HP LTO4 Autochanger (7 slots + 1 mail slot). I have managed to label all the tapes and I can see all the volumes listed via bconsole. The problem I am having is Auto-rotating the tapes. Right now

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula + Postgres : copy batch problem

2010-08-04 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 04/08/10, Dan Langille (d...@langille.org) wrote: > I think stored procedures would be a good idea. That way, we could > improve the functionality without changing the application. > > That said, we do not at present use stored procedures. We'd have to > proceed carefully. Fair enough. Can

Re: [Bacula-users] DisktoCatalog difference verification

2010-08-04 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 11:12:14 +0800, Ceejay Cervantes said: > > I'm using Bacula 5.0.2 on CentOS 5.5. I've created a DisktoCatalog level > verify job as a way to check things. I'm getting the warning below even > though they are on disk: > > Warning: The following files are in the Catalog but

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula + Postgres : copy batch problem

2010-08-04 Thread Dan Langille
On 8/4/2010 6:28 AM, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > On 03/08/10, Dan Langille (d...@langille.org) wrote: >> On 8/3/2010 7:09 PM, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > >>> Yes, a batch insert is faster than a specfic insert, but the latter >>> should be done at the "written-to-tape" transaction time, and could

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula + Postgres : copy batch problem

2010-08-04 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 04/08/10, Marc Cousin (cousinm...@gmail.com) wrote: > > Changes to one part of Bacula has to be compatible with all other parts > > of Bacula. For example, given that we support SQLite, PostgreSQL, and > > MySQL, we have to keep each in mind. Yes, it's a compromise. > Moreover, yes, Postgr

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula + Postgres : copy batch problem

2010-08-04 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 03/08/10, Dan Langille (d...@langille.org) wrote: > On 8/3/2010 7:09 PM, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > > Yes, a batch insert is faster than a specfic insert, but the latter > > should be done at the "written-to-tape" transaction time, and could be > > done asynchronously, but in a transaction. >

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with Volumes

2010-08-04 Thread Carlo Filippetto
The problem is that! I have head made 5 volumes, I don't let Bacula to create them, I wold like that every single volume contains only a 'daily' backup... In this installation I have only 12 client, and I want that all the backup of this night will go into that single volumes... The retention per