Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull using tape drives

> I am using a TL2000 tape library with two drives. > The technique can't work if you only have one tape drive. > > I'm taking incremental backups Mon-Fri. > Then after the incremental backups are finished on Friday I consolidate > them into a VirtualFull backup. > > For a VirtualFull backup to wor

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull using tape drives

On 8/01/2011 8:02 AM, penne...@sapo.pt wrote: > PS : Do you know if replacing full with virtualfull is possible for > standard disk based storage deamons ? > > i taught that one can not read and write simultaneously from the same > SD. so you cannot create a virtuallfull from the previous virtual

Re: [Bacula-users] VirtualFull using tape drives

Citando Jim Barber : > Yes I am. > I am using a TL2000 tape library with two drives. > The technique can't work if you only have one tape drive. > I'm taking incremental backups Mon-Fri. > Then after the incremental backups are finished on Friday I > consolidate the

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups

Citando newsletter-...@guest.net: > First of all, sorry for my bad quoting but my webmail doesn't support > it very well. > > Your configuration is more or less the same as mine except that I'm > not using scraths pools or recycle pools. > Actually I would like to have a different vol

Re: [Bacula-users] REPOST Can't connect to Remote.

I did as suggested and from Kira to Emma it was "instantaneous". I did this multiple times. Remember, I've stopped IPTABLES on both machines off, to eliminate possible issues (even though I opened the correct ports). Thanks Wayne -Original Message- From: Martin Simmons [mailto:mar...@l

[Bacula-users] FileDaemon Authentication problems

There are lots of this threads on this forum about issues with your Director authenticating with a particular FileDaemon. More often than not, these involve posters suggesting networks problems etc, and few if any offer concrete solutions. I had an issue where I had a Director and 2 FileDaemon

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 13:15, Phil Stracchino wrote: > Blake, > By all means post it, and you might want to consider submitting it as a > contributed support script. > Script to automatically start VirtualFulls based on Full Backup Age attached, currently set up to have some hardcoding in the s

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 16:20, Blake Dunlap wrote: > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 13:15, Phil Stracchino wrote: > >> Blake, >> By all means post it, and you might want to consider submitting it as a >> contributed support script. >> > > Script to automatically start VirtualFulls based on Full Backup Ag

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot compile bacula 5.0.3 on Solaris 10.

Using the Sun (Oracle) Studio compiler solved the problemThanksRobert Denault. --- Begin Message --- I am trying to compile the bacula service on Solaris 10 system. I have followed the documentation but I get errors during the compilation. All required package are installed: SUNWbinutils binuti

[Bacula-users] Serializing catalog backup

Right now, I'm backing up to a drive array with one concurrent job. I'd like to increase that, and really need to for a new backup environment I'm creating soon. With the single concurrent job, getting a consistent catalog backup is trivial - I just schedule it to run one minute after the last

[Bacula-users] 2nd post ... a little more intelligent (I think) regarding director server

Still reading (eyes not bleeding yet), but I understand not all objects need be on the same device. Well the issue is most servers the client has are old RH9 ones and reading some old posts I see the end of rpm support, and I am trying to roll this out right the first time. I have a brand new cle

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup even with a dedicated line

On Friday 07 January 2011 16:48:07 Oliver Hoffmann wrote: > Hi all, > > I do full backups at the weekend and it just takes too long. 12h or so. > bacula does one job after the other and I have a max. transfer rate of > 11 to 12 MBytes/second due to the 100Mbit connection. > > For testing purpose

Re: [Bacula-users] REPOST Can't connect to Remote.

OK, the output shows that bacula is interrupting the connect itself, as a way to prevent it from hanging indefinitely. It looks like the error could be reported better, but the upshot is that connect is hanging unexpectedly. Does the "Interrupted system call" happen after a delay of 3 minutes (or

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

On 01/07/11 12:00, Blake Dunlap wrote: > I have a specific perl script that runs, and fires off the top x (in our > case 3) vfulls each morning queued to run, based on what incrementals > are seen running successfully the night before, and has had no fulls > within x (in my case 90) days. > > We d

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Extremly slow backup

John Drescher wrote: - Thomas >>> I've added both spool attributes and spool data. Backup speed of my mail >>> server is still about 1 MB per second. Backup speed for other machines >>> now reaches up to 80 MB/s. >>> > > Are you talking about a full backup or some other level? If it is not >

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

On 07/01/2011 17:00, Blake Dunlap wrote: On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 06:30, Mister IT Guru > wrote: On 07/01/2011 12:23, James Harper wrote: >>> Suggestion: >>> >>> Schedule the day's Incremental, then schedule the VirtualFull, say, > 30 >>> mi

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 06:30, Mister IT Guru wrote: > On 07/01/2011 12:23, James Harper wrote: > >>> Suggestion: > >>> > >>> Schedule the day's Incremental, then schedule the VirtualFull, say, > > 30 > >>> minutes later. > >>> > >>> Put a RunBeforeJob script on the incremental that creates a lock

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups

First of all, sorry for my bad quoting but my webmail doesn't support it very well. Your configuration is more or less the same as mine except that I'm not using scraths pools or recycle pools. Actually I would like to have a different volume for every type of pool (one volume for Fulls, one fo

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 04:05:06PM +, Graham Keeling wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 04:21:57PM +0100, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > > Hi all, > > i'm trying to configure a bacula 5.0.2 to do virtual backups. > > I'm able to do the first virtual backup with success, but after > > that, i'm un

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 04:21:57PM +0100, Gandalf Corvotempesta wrote: > Hi all, > i'm trying to configure a bacula 5.0.2 to do virtual backups. > I'm able to do the first virtual backup with success, but after > that, i'm unable to do a new one. > > This is the error message that i'm receiving in

[Bacula-users] Virtual Backups

Hi all, i'm trying to configure a bacula 5.0.2 to do virtual backups. I'm able to do the first virtual backup with success, but after that, i'm unable to do a new one. This is the error message that i'm receiving in the second virtualfull: 07-Jan 15:07 b01-dir JobId 1335: Using Device "myclient-F

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup even with a dedicated line

On 07/01/11, Oliver Hoffmann (o...@dom.de) wrote: > I do full backups at the weekend and it just takes too long. 12h or so. > bacula does one job after the other and I have a max. transfer rate of > 11 to 12 MBytes/second due to the 100Mbit connection. > > For testing purpose I connected one clien

[Bacula-users] Slow backup even with a dedicated line

Hi all, I do full backups at the weekend and it just takes too long. 12h or so. bacula does one job after the other and I have a max. transfer rate of 11 to 12 MBytes/second due to the 100Mbit connection. For testing purpose I connected one client via crosslink (1Gbit on both sides) to the server

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Extremly slow backup

-- Forwarded message -- From: John Drescher Date: Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 8:12 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Extremly slow backup To: "mail...@securitylabs.it" On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:22 AM, mail...@securitylabs.it wrote: > On 07/01/2011 09:49, Marcin Krol wrote: >>> IMHO if "Spo

Re: [Bacula-users] 1st post ... general user question b4 install

On 07/01/2011 12:30, lance raymond wrote: Thanks to all replies, have have done most of the reading to get the ball rolling. It's installed on a test server that has access to a few web servers and I will use that as the 'test' bed Promise next post will be a little more intelligent as I

Re: [Bacula-users] incorrect "User specified spool size reached" message (solved)

Am 2011-01-05 14:34 schrieb Tilman Schmidt: > [...] >>> 04-Jan 22:11 vm-backup-sd JobId 11043: User specified spool size reached. >>> 04-Jan 22:11 vm-backup-sd JobId 11043: Writing spooled data to Volume. >>> Despooling 16,001,952 bytes ... >>> 04-Jan 22:11 vm-backup-sd JobId 11043: Despooling ela

Re: [Bacula-users] 1st post ... general user question b4 install

Thanks to all replies, have have done most of the reading to get the ball rolling. It's installed on a test server that has access to a few web servers and I will use that as the 'test' bed Promise next post will be a little more intelligent as I go forward, and love the " Just my babblings,

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

On 07/01/2011 12:23, James Harper wrote: >>> Suggestion: >>> >>> Schedule the day's Incremental, then schedule the VirtualFull, say, > 30 >>> minutes later. >>> >>> Put a RunBeforeJob script on the incremental that creates a lockfile > (in >>> a properly race-safe manner, of course) for the client.

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

> > Suggestion: > > > > Schedule the day's Incremental, then schedule the VirtualFull, say, 30 > > minutes later. > > > > Put a RunBeforeJob script on the incremental that creates a lockfile (in > > a properly race-safe manner, of course) for the client. > > > > Put a RunAfterJob script on the incr

Re: [Bacula-users] 1st post ... general user question b4 install

On 07/01/2011 01:54, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > On 06/01/11, lance raymond (lance.raym...@gmail.com) wrote: >> I have around 1T of storage compressed (numerous servers, websites, >> database, etc.) and around 1 1/2T to store so I can't do a live copy of the >> files nor can I keep more than 1 ful

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula configration for FC LTO-5 tape drive

How do you combine them to new package? Arunav. > Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 22:30:51 +0100 > From: andreas.ha...@evolver.de > To: di...@hotmail.com > CC: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula configration for FC LTO-5 tape drive > > On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Arunav

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

On 07/01/2011 11:19, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > On Fri, 07 Jan 2011, Graham Keeling wrote: > >>> Thank you for the clarification! That's what I thought before hand. >>> *phew* otherwise my backup plans would be fubard! Why do you say, "may >>> involve" creating a new volume? >> Because, depending on

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

On Fri, 07 Jan 2011, Graham Keeling wrote: > > Thank you for the clarification! That's what I thought before hand. > > *phew* otherwise my backup plans would be fubard! Why do you say, "may > > involve" creating a new volume? > > Because, depending on what bacula feels like doing, it may append

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

On 07/01/2011 10:41, Graham Keeling wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 10:25:05AM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: >> On 07/01/2011 09:59, Graham Keeling wrote: >>> On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 09:53:27AM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: On 06/01/2011 18:47, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 01/06/11 12:54, Mi

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 10:25:05AM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: > On 07/01/2011 09:59, Graham Keeling wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 09:53:27AM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: > >> On 06/01/2011 18:47, Phil Stracchino wrote: > >>> On 01/06/11 12:54, Mister IT Guru wrote: > Okay, I see the poi

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

On 07/01/2011 09:59, Graham Keeling wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 09:53:27AM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: >> On 06/01/2011 18:47, Phil Stracchino wrote: >>> On 01/06/11 12:54, Mister IT Guru wrote: Okay, I see the point of Virtual Full Backup - this is to be done without talking to the

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 09:53:27AM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: > On 06/01/2011 18:47, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > On 01/06/11 12:54, Mister IT Guru wrote: > >> Okay, I see the point of Virtual Full Backup - this is to be done > >> without talking to the client at call, (i did know that! I've been d

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

On 06/01/2011 18:47, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 01/06/11 12:54, Mister IT Guru wrote: >> Okay, I see the point of Virtual Full Backup - this is to be done >> without talking to the client at call, (i did know that! I've been doing >> my homework!) Well, now that I'm looking at the virtual backup i

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

On 06/01/2011 17:48, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 01/06/11 12:16, Graham Keeling wrote: >> With my configuration, a VirtualFull sometimes prevents an Incremental from >> running, because the VirtualFull took too long (or vice versa). I have not >> been >> able to solve this, because every idea that

Re: [Bacula-users] Extremly slow backup

> Hello, what about disk I/O on the mail server? I suppose you use Maildir > format for mail storage, try to mount the file system on the mail server > with noatime option. Hello. Yes, I'm using Maildir format. I'm already mounting all volumes with noatime and nodiratime. Disk I/O seems fine. I

Re: [Bacula-users] Extremly slow backup

On 07/01/2011 09:49, Marcin Krol wrote: >> IMHO if "Spool Attributes" is not enabled, bacula inserts metadata into >> the catalog after every file - in your case 660'000 inserts instead of 1 >> large insert with "Spool Attributes". >> >> please enable "Spool Attributes" and try again. >> >> to prev

Re: [Bacula-users] seeding offsite backups

Am Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:23:43 -0700 schrieb Devin Reade: > I have a situation where I have two geographically separate networks, > both of which are using bacula locally. I'll call them network A and > network B. Currently, (bacula) server A on network A backs up network A > machines, and server

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 08:43:09AM +, Graham Keeling wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 12:48:18PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > On 01/06/11 12:16, Graham Keeling wrote: > > > With my configuration, a VirtualFull sometimes prevents an Incremental > > > from > > > running, because the Virtual

Re: [Bacula-users] Extremly slow backup

> IMHO if "Spool Attributes" is not enabled, bacula inserts metadata into > the catalog after every file - in your case 660'000 inserts instead of 1 > large insert with "Spool Attributes". > > please enable "Spool Attributes" and try again. > > to prevent shoe-shining of the tape, I would recomme

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 12:48:18PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 01/06/11 12:16, Graham Keeling wrote: > > With my configuration, a VirtualFull sometimes prevents an Incremental from > > running, because the VirtualFull took too long (or vice versa). I have not > > been > > able to solve this

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 12:52:22PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 01/06/11 12:35, Graham Keeling wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 05:24:07PM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: > >> On 06/01/2011 17:16, Graham Keeling wrote: > >>> So, I would be very pleased if a VirtualFull also grabbed new files f