Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning for large (millions of files) backups?

2010-10-07 Thread Bruno Friedmann
On 10/07/2010 11:03 PM, Mingus Dew wrote: > All, > I am running Bacula 5.0.1 on Solaris 10 x86. I'm currently running > MySQL 4.1.22 for the database server. I do plan on upgrading to a compatible > version of MySQL 5, but migrating to PostgreSQL isn't an option at this > time. > > I am

Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning Bacula

2010-10-07 Thread Mehma Sarja
>> Compare against a stock, non tuned, Bacula install. Are you >> going between building where you get the slow transfer speed? >> UCSC has 1 Gb links between buildings from my recollection. The >> link to the outside world is not much more than that. Bacula >> also has a batch mode which you can

Re: [Bacula-users] No medium found.. How to force it?

2010-10-07 Thread Gary R. Schmidt
On Thu, October 7, 2010 08:21, John Drescher wrote: [SNIP] > I see I am running not the latest version of that. I will see if that > fixes the issue. > > dev6 ~ # mtx --version > mtx version 1.2.18rel > > I have mtx-1.3.12 available in my distro repository but the link they > give me for the upstre

Re: [Bacula-users] ZFS and Bacula

2010-10-07 Thread James Harper
> > I have been using this setup for awhile. You absolutely must disable Bacula > compression on the ZFS Devices within the SD or for the specific Pools that > have volumes on the ZFS. Doubling up encryption can actually increase file > sizes and also lead to data errors. > It can _not_ lead to

Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning Bacula

2010-10-07 Thread Tim Gustafson
> Without attribute spooling or batch (not sure if that > is postgres only) after each file is read the database > needs to add records. We have attribute spooling activated right now. Tim Gustafson Baskin School of Engineering UC Santa Cruz t...@soe.ucsc.edu 831-459-5354 ---

Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning Bacula

2010-10-07 Thread John Drescher
>> Is the MySQL database storage on the same RAID array you are >> writing backups to? > > Yes and no.  Currently, in our "dev" environment, they are both on the same > physical RAID array, but Bacula operates in a separate jail from mySQL.  When > we move to production, the director will probabl

[Bacula-users] Tuning for large (millions of files) backups?

2010-10-07 Thread Mingus Dew
All, I am running Bacula 5.0.1 on Solaris 10 x86. I'm currently running MySQL 4.1.22 for the database server. I do plan on upgrading to a compatible version of MySQL 5, but migrating to PostgreSQL isn't an option at this time. I am trying to backup to tape a very large number of files fo

Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning Bacula

2010-10-07 Thread Tim Gustafson
I'm going to try to reply to all the responses I got together. > Have you tried backing up other hosts on your network? What are > the speeds with these hosts? I've noticed that different host > respond with varying speeds despite being on the same network. > Wondering if this has to do the client

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestion for a new feature

2010-10-07 Thread Lamp Zy
On 10/07/2010 01:34 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 10/07/10 13:40, Lamp Zy wrote: >> Hi, >> >> It will be great (at least for me :-) ) when Bacula looks for previous >> Full backup on a brand new client to also check if a Full backup is >> currently running. >> >> We do Incr. backups M-F at night

Re: [Bacula-users] ZFS and Bacula

2010-10-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 10/07/10 13:47, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > Hi all > > I'm planning a Bacula setup with ZFS on the SDs (media being disk, > not tape), and I just wonder - should I use a smaller recordsize (aka > largest block size) than the default setting of 128kB? Actually, there are arguments in favor of

Re: [Bacula-users] Suggestion for a new feature

2010-10-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 10/07/10 13:40, Lamp Zy wrote: > Hi, > > It will be great (at least for me :-) ) when Bacula looks for previous > Full backup on a brand new client to also check if a Full backup is > currently running. > > We do Incr. backups M-F at night and they use tapes from IncrTapes pool. > Full back

Re: [Bacula-users] ZFS and Bacula

2010-10-07 Thread Henrik Johansen
'Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk' wrote: >Hi all > >I'm planning a Bacula setup with ZFS on the SDs (media being disk, not >tape), and I just wonder - should I use a smaller recordsize (aka >largest block size) than the default setting of 128kB? Setting the recordsize to 64k has worked well for us so far. I

Re: [Bacula-users] Disabled Jobs Question

2010-10-07 Thread Mingus Dew
I think at one point Bacula did complain. Thanks for answering my question though. I think in order to disable the job from being run, I'll have to make the scripts that call bconsole commands read-only instead of executable. -Shon On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 10/0

Re: [Bacula-users] ZFS and Bacula

2010-10-07 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: >> If the data coming from bacula are already compressed by the bacula-fd >> there's little space for improvement. >> In your type of setup, I would disable compression on bacula-fd >> increasing the speed of backup, your sd doing it by z

Re: [Bacula-users] ZFS and Bacula

2010-10-07 Thread Mingus Dew
I have been using this setup for awhile. You absolutely must disable Bacula compression on the ZFS Devices within the SD or for the specific Pools that have volumes on the ZFS. Doubling up encryption can actually increase file sizes and also lead to data errors. -Shon On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:11

Re: [Bacula-users] Same client, different servers

2010-10-07 Thread Eduardo Júnior
Hi, On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: >> >> Now my question: >> >> >> How can I configure my job to continue getting the incremental changes >> from server2, without running a full job, ie, based on the last >> backups from server1. > > You can't change the Job definition its

Re: [Bacula-users] ZFS and Bacula

2010-10-07 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> If the data coming from bacula are already compressed by the bacula-fd > there's little space for improvement. > In your type of setup, I would disable compression on bacula-fd > increasing the speed of backup, your sd doing it by zfs mechanism. thing is, I can't find anything about compression

Re: [Bacula-users] ZFS and Bacula

2010-10-07 Thread Bruno Friedmann
On 10/07/2010 07:47 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > Hi all > > I'm planning a Bacula setup with ZFS on the SDs (media being disk, not tape), > and I just wonder - should I use a smaller recordsize (aka largest block > size) than the default setting of 128kB? > > Also, last I tried, with ZFS o

[Bacula-users] ZFS and Bacula

2010-10-07 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi all I'm planning a Bacula setup with ZFS on the SDs (media being disk, not tape), and I just wonder - should I use a smaller recordsize (aka largest block size) than the default setting of 128kB? Also, last I tried, with ZFS on a test box, I enabled compression, the lzjb algorithm (very lig

[Bacula-users] Suggestion for a new feature

2010-10-07 Thread Lamp Zy
Hi, It will be great (at least for me :-) ) when Bacula looks for previous Full backup on a brand new client to also check if a Full backup is currently running. We do Incr. backups M-F at night and they use tapes from IncrTapes pool. Full backups use tapes from the FullTapes pool. When I add

Re: [Bacula-users] Same client, different servers

2010-10-07 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 11:03:31 -0300, Eduardo Júnior said: > > Hi everyone, > > > I have a file server in DRBD (one primary: server1, one secondary: server2). > The bacula-fd is installed only on the primary. > > Yesterday, the secondary assumed, becoming the primary. > > Now my question: >

Re: [Bacula-users] Experiences with Autochanger IBM TS3100

2010-10-07 Thread Jason Voorhees
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Buskas, Patric wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using the TS3100 with a CentOS 5.5 and Bacula 5.0.3 and it's working > great. > I don't think there are any mainstream Linux dist who won't work with this > auto changer unless they're too old. > It works great with the mtx com

[Bacula-users] Same client, different servers

2010-10-07 Thread Eduardo Júnior
Hi everyone, I have a file server in DRBD (one primary: server1, one secondary: server2). The bacula-fd is installed only on the primary. Yesterday, the secondary assumed, becoming the primary. Now my question: How can I configure my job to continue getting the incremental changes from server

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from a file listing

2010-10-07 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 07/10/10, Dan Langille (d...@langille.org) wrote: > On 10/5/2010 2:53 PM, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > >> Is there a simple and accurate way of providing a list of files of this > >> sort to Bacula in order to mark them and proceed with a restore job? > > Have you tried scripting it? > > echo

Re: [Bacula-users] Disabled Jobs Question

2010-10-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 10/07/10 04:10, Ralf Gross wrote: > Phil Stracchino schrieb: >> On 10/06/10 14:35, Mingus Dew wrote: >>> John, >>> I think I had to create a bogus schedule, that bacula wouldn't >>> accept the job config without a schedule. I think I'll disable the job >>> in bconsole and try to start it re

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore from a file listing

2010-10-07 Thread Dan Langille
On 10/5/2010 2:53 PM, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > Other than Graham's note about how to escape files I'd be grateful to > know if there is another way of marking files so that they can be > restored. > > I simply can't find a way of marking files easily from the root of the > restore console (see

Re: [Bacula-users] Disabled Jobs Question

2010-10-07 Thread Ralf Gross
Phil Stracchino schrieb: > On 10/06/10 14:35, Mingus Dew wrote: > > John, > > I think I had to create a bogus schedule, that bacula wouldn't > > accept the job config without a schedule. I think I'll disable the job > > in bconsole and try to start it remotely. Just see what happens... > > Mi