Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-05 Thread Gary R. Schmidt
On Thu, August 5, 2010 20:21, sid009 wrote: > >> >> To the OP - Have you put the barcode stickers (from HP) *on the tape >> cartridges the correct way up?* >> > > > Didn't receive any barcodes from HP unfortunately so I have printed off > some 3 of 9 barcodes (ending with L1,L2...) to stick on tape

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backups under XenServer with Windows2003 SP1/R2guests

2010-08-05 Thread James Harper
> Hello, > > So i am trying to back up my file server with Bacula and i am having > a difficult time getting it to work. I am able to back up desktops at > 7MB/s, non-virtualized windows servers at 4.7MB/s, virtualized > desktops at 4.7MB/s and virtualized windows servers at 100KB/s.?? >

Re: [Bacula-users] labeled volume doesnt exist in db.

2010-08-05 Thread John Drescher
2010/8/5 Jeremiah D. Jester : > I’m having problems labeling a couple new volumes. I tried entering ‘label > barcodes’, which works on most tapes but I have several it that it doesn’t > return a status, pool or media type for.  See volume ‘000107’ that I singled > out below. > > > > I then try to ‘

[Bacula-users] labeled volume doesnt exist in db.

2010-08-05 Thread Jeremiah D. Jester
I'm having problems labeling a couple new volumes. I tried entering 'label barcodes', which works on most tapes but I have several it that it doesn't return a status, pool or media type for. See volume '000107' that I singled out below. I then try to 'label' the volume but bacula complains tha

[Bacula-users] Problems with multiple drives in changer

2010-08-05 Thread Jon Schewe
So I've got 2 drives in my tape library. Up until now I've only had bacula using the first drive. Right now that drive is giving me some trouble, so I want to tell bacula to switch to the second drive, but bacula won't do that. When I try to mount a volume with the tape library I get the following

Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed

2010-08-05 Thread Henry Yen
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 17:17:39PM +0200, Christian Gaul wrote: > Am 05.08.2010 16:57, schrieb Henry Yen: First, I welcome this discussion, however arcane (as long as the List permits it, of course) -- I am happy to discover if I'm wrong in my thinking. That said, I'm not (yet) convinced. This p

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

2010-08-05 Thread Josh Fisher
On 8/4/2010 5:43 PM, Maria Mckinley wrote: > 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

[Bacula-users] Slow backups under XenServer with Windows2003 SP1/R2 guests

2010-08-05 Thread Romer Ventura
Hello, So i am trying to back up my file server with Bacula and i am having a difficult time getting it to work. I am able to back up desktops at 7MB/s, non-virtualized windows servers at 4.7MB/s, virtualized desktops at 4.7MB/s and virtualized windows servers at 100KB/s.??

Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed

2010-08-05 Thread Christian Gaul
Am 05.08.2010 16:57, schrieb Henry Yen: > On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:09:06AM -0400, John Drescher wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Henry Yen wrote: >> > >>> On (at least) Linux, /dev/random will quickly block - use /dev/urandom >>> instead. >>> >> Since these tend to

Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed

2010-08-05 Thread Henry Yen
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:09:06AM -0400, John Drescher wrote: > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Henry Yen wrote: > > On (at least) Linux, /dev/random will quickly block - use /dev/urandom > > instead. > > Since these tend to be slow I would just create a large file from one of > these. Well,

Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed

2010-08-05 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Henry Yen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 12:46:49PM +0100, Alan Brown wrote: > >> Tape speed testing while writing a repetitive file is useless as >> hardware compression makes it go a lot faster than natually. >> >> For tape tests use /dev/random > > On (at least

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula restore runs forever - bootstrap creation [solved]

2010-08-05 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 11:46:27 +0200, news only said: > > Martin Simmons schrieb: > > > What is the size of the job in bytes? > > exactly 28321715406 B (approx 27 GB) OK, that is very close to the total number of 64512 byte blocks recorded in VolIndex 1 to 6, so I think those rows represent

Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed

2010-08-05 Thread Henry Yen
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 12:46:49PM +0100, Alan Brown wrote: > Tape speed testing while writing a repetitive file is useless as > hardware compression makes it go a lot faster than natually. > > For tape tests use /dev/random On (at least) Linux, /dev/random will quickly block - use /dev/urandom

Re: [Bacula-users] best way to write backup to DVD

2010-08-05 Thread Carlo Filippetto
How many time you have to store that DVD? Set a correct retention period for the volumes, ad use volumes with the DVD's size.. Whan the jobs 'close' the volumes you can burn it on DVD and remove them from the HD. When you need to restore the data you need only to copy from the DVD to disk the corr

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula to Backup EMC Clariion cx4

2010-08-05 Thread Carlo Filippetto
Mount a LUN on the Server that you want to use as Storage Daemon and than use that mount point for your backup CIAO --- Carlo Filippetto 2010/8/4 Heitor Medrado de Faria > Guys, > > Does anyone knows, briefly, how to backup data on the EMC Clariion cx4 > storage, using Bacula? > > Regards, >

Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed

2010-08-05 Thread Cejka Rudolf
ekke85 wrote (2010/08/05): > slow. It writes at 22mb/sec. The drives should be able to do a lot more > then that. I have to backup 11TB that takes a couple of days to Try tar -cf /dev/null /data-with-11-tb and you will see, if the bottleneck is data source, or something else. How many files do you

Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed

2010-08-05 Thread Cejka Rudolf
ekke85 wrote (2010/08/05): > I do not have spooling on and I don't have software compression on. It seems that you have LTO-3 drive(s). If you are not able to constantly backup data atleast at rate 27 MB/s (HP LTO-3) or 40 MB/s (IBM LTO-3), you need the spooling - which is a must. Note that requir

Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed

2010-08-05 Thread Alan Brown
ekke85 wrote: > The spooling attribute was not enabled, I have enabled it now. This is what I > get writing to disk and then also writing that file to tape with tar: Tape speed testing while writing a repetitive file is useless as hardware compression makes it go a lot faster than natually. Fo

Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed

2010-08-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
> > Hi Thomas > > The spooling attribute was not enabled, I have enabled it now. This is > what I get writing to disk and then also writing that file to tape with > tar: > > > This is a 10gb file to disk: > ]# dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/bigfile bs=1M count=1 1+0 > records in > 1+0 re

[Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed

2010-08-05 Thread ekke85
Quote: Hi I have a Quantum Scalar i500 and it works in Bacula, but it is very slow. It writes at 22mb/sec. The drives should be able to do a lot more then that. I have to backup 11TB that takes a couple of days to complete, I don't want to think how long it would take to restore Sad This is the

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Problem with Volumes

2010-08-05 Thread Carlo Filippetto
Perfect! Thank you Ciao --- Carlo Filippetto 2010/8/4 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 Fil

[Bacula-users] Bacula Autochanger Questions

2010-08-05 Thread sid009
> > To the OP - Have you put the barcode stickers (from HP) *on the tape > cartridges the correct way up?* > Didn't receive any barcodes from HP unfortunately so I have printed off some 3 of 9 barcodes (ending with L1,L2...) to stick on tapes - thanks for the tip I will make sure the label

Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed

2010-08-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:57:06 -0400 schrieb ekke85: > Hi > > I have a Quantum Scalar i500 and it works in Bacula, but it is very > slow. It writes at 22mb/sec. The drives should be able to do a lot more > then that. I have to backup 11TB that takes a couple of days to > complete, I don't want to t

[Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed

2010-08-05 Thread ekke85
Hi I have a Quantum Scalar i500 and it works in Bacula, but it is very slow. It writes at 22mb/sec. The drives should be able to do a lot more then that. I have to backup 11TB that takes a couple of days to complete, I don't want to think how long it would take to restore :( This is the output

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula restore runs forever - bootstrap creation [solved]

2010-08-05 Thread news . only
Martin Simmons schrieb: > Ok, that explains the duplicate bootstrap rows. > > What is the size of the job in bytes? exactly 28321715406 B (approx 27 GB) > Did it complete without errors? Yes, it did. > Have you run any tools like bscan with this volume to update the > catalog? I did! I still

Re: [Bacula-users] DisktoCatalog difference verification

2010-08-05 Thread Ceejay Cervantes
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: > > 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