Re: [Bacula-users] Serializing catalog backup

2011-01-10 Thread Blake Dunlap
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 18:18, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 01/10/11 16:49, Mike Ruskai wrote: > > So simply having the catalog backup be a different priority ensures that > > no other job can run at the same time, provided mixed priorities are > > disallowed (that would allow the higher-priority

[Bacula-users] Failing to connect to storage device - still the nkotb

2011-01-10 Thread lance raymond
Eyes are close to bleeding from all the reading, sites, etc. but still no luck (darn close though). There are so many doc's even the main one is really not very helpful in just getting things installed, but anyone feel free to help someone before blindness takes over! I am close and rather than j

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

2011-01-10 Thread Wayne Spivak
Martin, Believe it or not, a typo... (hence I'm an idiot). I can ping from both Emma to the public boxes and back again (as well as telnet) w/o problems. I can always change it to an IP address ... Thx Wayne -Original Message- From: Martin Simmons [mailto:mar...@lispworks.com] Sent:

Re: [Bacula-users] Serializing catalog backup

2011-01-10 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/10/11 16:49, Mike Ruskai wrote: > So simply having the catalog backup be a different priority ensures that > no other job can run at the same time, provided mixed priorities are > disallowed (that would allow the higher-priority backup jobs to start > while the catalog backup is under way)

Re: [Bacula-users] Ignoring Job Errors

2011-01-10 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/10/2011 6:03 PM, rauch.hol...@googlemail.com wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Dan Langille wrote: > >> On 1/10/2011 5:03 AM, rauch.hol...@googlemail.com wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> even when looking through >>> >>> http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/ >>> >>> I haven't found a way to igno

Re: [Bacula-users] Ignoring Job Errors

2011-01-10 Thread rauch . holger
Hi Dan, I was referring to any kind of error (i.e. the generalization was intended) regardless of the source (Bacula FD, SD, Director). So, I would like a backup job to continue to the farthest extent possible. Thus, my question is still valid, I think. Thanks in advance & kind regards, Holge

Re: [Bacula-users] Serializing catalog backup

2011-01-10 Thread James Harper
> > So simply having the catalog backup be a different priority ensures that > no other job can run at the same time, provided mixed priorities are > disallowed (that would allow the higher-priority backup jobs to start > while the catalog backup is under way). Which is just as well, since I > do

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore single Job from two different Storages

2011-01-10 Thread Rodrigo Renie Braga
Well, thank you very much for your time, and as for the FullPool directive, I already change it to do this in the Job section in my new fresh install, as soon as I get the results, I'll post it here... Thanks again! 2011/1/10 Phil Stracchino > On 01/10/11 14:21, Rodrigo Renie Braga wrote: > > Y

Re: [Bacula-users] Serializing catalog backup

2011-01-10 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 1/10/2011 4:20 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 01/10/11 15:48, Mike Ruskai wrote: > >> I know how to backup the database. That's not my question. My question >> is how to create a schedule, in an environment with multiple concurrent >> jobs, that guarantees that the catalog backup runs aft

Re: [Bacula-users] Excluding subversion folders

2011-01-10 Thread Steve Ellis
On 1/10/2011 7:29 AM, Guy wrote: > Indeed it was and that for me is the right thing. It's all in subversion > which is it's self backed up. > > ---Guy > (via iPhone) > > On 10 Jan 2011, at 15:18, Dan Langille wrote: > However, if you have people planning on making commits to subversion, you've a

Re: [Bacula-users] Serializing catalog backup

2011-01-10 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/10/11 15:48, Mike Ruskai wrote: > I know how to backup the database. That's not my question. My question > is how to create a schedule, in an environment with multiple concurrent > jobs, that guarantees that the catalog backup runs after all other > scheduled jobs, and by itself. > > So

Re: [Bacula-users] Serializing catalog backup

2011-01-10 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 1/8/2011 2:07 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > On 1/7/2011 3:03 PM, Mike Ruskai wrote: >> 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, gettin

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring to a folder?

2011-01-10 Thread Romer Ventura
Thanks Romer Ventura -Original Message- From: Dan Langille [mailto:d...@langille.org] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 11:32 AM To: Romer Ventura Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring to a folder? On 1/10/2011 10:54 AM, Romer Ventura wrote

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore single Job from two different Storages

2011-01-10 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/10/11 14:21, Rodrigo Renie Braga wrote: > Yes, it does (see the following configuration). One more thing... I was > using the latest 3.0 version of Bacula and I updated it to 5.0.3 > (Clients and Director). Could this be the problem? Just to make sure, > I'm creating a fresh install of Bacula

[Bacula-users] compiling static

2011-01-10 Thread Guy
Hi all, I've been trying to make this work for the last two days.. I have a Thus NAS system which is running linux (sort of). I would like to compile bacula-sd and vchanger static so that I can push those two binaries on to it and make it into a dedicated Virtual Tape store. I'm using a Cento

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore single Job from two different Storages

2011-01-10 Thread Rodrigo Renie Braga
Yes, it does (see the following configuration). One more thing... I was using the latest 3.0 version of Bacula and I updated it to 5.0.3 (Clients and Director). Could this be the problem? Just to make sure, I'm creating a fresh install of Bacula 5.0.3 just to see if this problem remains... Pool {

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore single Job from two different Storages

2011-01-10 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/10/11 13:06, Rodrigo Renie Braga wrote: > Actually, that's correct, I have one Pool for Full Backups (using > storage TPA) and another Pool for Diff Backups (using storage TPB). > > That's not a correct configuration? Because I have a specific necessity > of Volume Retention and Volume Durat

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

2011-01-10 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 21:56:55 -0500, Wayne Spivak said: > > After tweaking (and upgrading to 5.0.3) the Bacula-Dir.Conf file a bit (and > finding that I'm an idiot) I solved my problems with all the clients within > (on the inside) my firewall. In fact, I added another client (windows) > with

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore single Job from two different Storages

2011-01-10 Thread Rodrigo Renie Braga
Actually, that's correct, I have one Pool for Full Backups (using storage TPA) and another Pool for Diff Backups (using storage TPB). That's not a correct configuration? Because I have a specific necessity of Volume Retention and Volume Duration for each one of the Diffential and Full backups...

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore single Job from two different Storages

2011-01-10 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/10/11 12:21, Rodrigo Renie Braga wrote: > Hello List > > I've been trying to get help from the Bacula IRC Channel, but no success. > > I have two tape Storages, TPA and TPB. For all my Clients, I run a Full > Backup which saves the data on TPA, and every subsequent Differential > backup use

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring to a folder?

2011-01-10 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/10/2011 10:54 AM, Romer Ventura wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Dan Langille [mailto:d...@langille.org] > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 10:02 AM > To: Romer Ventura > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring to a folder? > > On 1/10/2011 10:21

[Bacula-users] Restore single Job from two different Storages

2011-01-10 Thread Rodrigo Renie Braga
Hello List I've been trying to get help from the Bacula IRC Channel, but no success. I have two tape Storages, TPA and TPB. For all my Clients, I run a Full Backup which saves the data on TPA, and every subsequent Differential backup uses the TPB tapes. My problem is when making a Full restore f

Re: [Bacula-users] FileSet Question...

2011-01-10 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Sun, 9 Jan 2011 23:28:31 +0100, Kianusch Sayah Karadji said: > > I need to backup (actually to archive) lots of data. 24 filesystems - each > filesystem containing 2Mio+ files / 700GB. > > I need to save the data only once - since they do not change after they are > written. > > To hav

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring to a folder?

2011-01-10 Thread Romer Ventura
Housigma34-fd is a Windows server so there is no /srv/staging/restores In addition to that, the restore job has: "client= housigma25-fd" which is a debian server and also the localhost. Also, the available space for both server has not changed so if the restore happened somewhere, I would notice

Re: [Bacula-users] Ignoring Job Errors

2011-01-10 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/10/2011 5:03 AM, rauch.hol...@googlemail.com wrote: > Hi, > > even when looking through > > http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/ > > I haven't found a way to ignore errors in backup jobs (I only want to be > notified about the errors, but I don't want the entire backup job to be >

Re: [Bacula-users] Restoring to a folder?

2011-01-10 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/10/2011 10:21 AM, Romer Ventura wrote: > Hello, > > I was trying to do a restore and after I marked all the folder/files I > needed the process started and successfully finished, however, when I go > to the folder which where the files are suppoused to be, they are not. > The folder is empty.

[Bacula-users] Restoring to a folder?

2011-01-10 Thread Romer Ventura
Hello, I was trying to do a restore and after I marked all the folder/files I needed the process started and successfully finished, however, when I go to the folder which where the files are suppoused to be, they are not. The folder is empty. The client from where Bacula takes this data has not

Re: [Bacula-users] Excluding subversion folders

2011-01-10 Thread Guy
Indeed it was and that for me is the right thing. It's all in subversion which is it's self backed up. ---Guy (via iPhone) On 10 Jan 2011, at 15:18, Dan Langille wrote: > On 1/10/2011 10:03 AM, Guy wrote: >> On 10 Jan 2011, at 14:42, Christian Manal wrote: >> >>> Am 10.01.2011 15:04, schrieb

Re: [Bacula-users] Excluding subversion folders

2011-01-10 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/10/11 10:18, Dan Langille wrote: > On 1/10/2011 10:03 AM, Guy wrote: > > The "ExcludeDirContaining" worked!.. the .svn is a dir. It seems the > documentation implies that it's a filename-string but works when it's a > DIR too :) > > I think you will find that the directory containing .sv

Re: [Bacula-users] Excluding subversion folders

2011-01-10 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/10/2011 10:03 AM, Guy wrote: > On 10 Jan 2011, at 14:42, Christian Manal wrote: > >> Am 10.01.2011 15:04, schrieb Guy: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I would like to exclude any folder on a client that is under subversion. >>> All Directories which are maintained by subversion have a ".svn" directory

Re: [Bacula-users] Excluding subversion folders

2011-01-10 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 10.1.2011 17:03, Guy wrote: > Hi, > > The "ExcludeDirContaining" worked!.. the .svn is a dir. It seems the > documentation implies that it's a filename-string but works when it's a DIR > too :) > Nice thing in *nix is that "everything is a file" ;) -- You will gain money by a speculatio

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

2011-01-10 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/10/11 09:40, Marcin Krol wrote: >> But ... xfs is optimized for long streaming reads and writes. > > The only reliable alternative for me is ext3 and its performance is > unacceptable when handling directories with lots of small files. Have you tried jfs? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2

Re: [Bacula-users] Excluding subversion folders

2011-01-10 Thread Guy
Hi, The "ExcludeDirContaining" worked!.. the .svn is a dir. It seems the documentation implies that it's a filename-string but works when it's a DIR too :) Thanks ---Guy On 10 Jan 2011, at 14:42, Christian Manal wrote: > Am 10.01.2011 15:04, schrieb Guy: >> Hi all, >> >> I would like to exc

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

2011-01-10 Thread Marcin Krol
> Additionally, if the emailserver is using mdir format there are > thousands (millions?) of tiny files and there's a fixed overhead in > opening each file no matter what its size is - that results in slow > speeds when handling lots of small files. I just sent small test job from my mail server -

Re: [Bacula-users] Excluding subversion folders

2011-01-10 Thread Christian Manal
Am 10.01.2011 15:04, schrieb Guy: > Hi all, > > I would like to exclude any folder on a client that is under subversion. All > Directories which are maintained by subversion have a ".svn" directory > structure under them. > > Can any clever people create a FileSet exclude which will skip any d

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

2011-01-10 Thread Marcin Krol
> But ... xfs is optimized for long streaming reads and writes. The only reliable alternative for me is ext3 and its performance is unacceptable when handling directories with lots of small files. M. -- Gaining the tru

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

2011-01-10 Thread Oliver Hoffmann
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Oliver Hoffmann wrote: > > > I did some tests with different gzip levels and with no compression > > at all. It makes a difference but not as expected. Without > > compression I still have a rate of only 11346.1 KB/s. Anything else > > I should try? > > Are you sure the cro

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple device SD configuration

2011-01-10 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/10/11 01:56, Silver Salonen wrote: > On Monday 10 January 2011 03:14:22 Phil Stracchino wrote: >> But then there isn't an SD named babylon4-sd2 to connect to. >> >> What's the correct way to configure this? > > The name of the Storage resource in Director configuration does not matter to >

[Bacula-users] Excluding subversion folders

2011-01-10 Thread Guy
Hi all, I would like to exclude any folder on a client that is under subversion. All Directories which are maintained by subversion have a ".svn" directory structure under them. Can any clever people create a FileSet exclude which will skip any directory which contains a .svn folder? Cheers,

[Bacula-users] Recommended File set template for windows 2003? - and a Base Job Question

2011-01-10 Thread Mister IT Guru
I've just added up the amount of space required by running estimates on all my windows jobs. I was a touch should when it totaled up to just over 1TB. Now this is clearly too much data to synchronise offsite, so I am seriously considering how to reduce the footprint of all my servers, because

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention per Job or Fileset?

2011-01-10 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:59:04 +0100 schrieb Michael Patzer: > Hi all, > > i've two jobs for one client, going to the same pool - and couldn't > change that. > > the first job has a retention of 22 days, but the second job needs a > retention of 4 days. > > any ideas how i could setup such a cons

[Bacula-users] Retention per Job or Fileset?

2011-01-10 Thread Michael Patzer
Hi all, i've two jobs for one client, going to the same pool - and couldn't change that. the first job has a retention of 22 days, but the second job needs a retention of 4 days. any ideas how i could setup such a construct without defining the same client twice, or using a different pool? i wa

Re: [Bacula-users] Partition information and boot records

2011-01-10 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 08:43:51 -0500, John Drescher said: > > > Can bacula store this information? I'm thinking of how to do recoveries, > > and I'm wondering how i'd restore to bare metal, if i didn't have > > partition info, and the mbr to hand seperatly from the backup? > > > > Any thoughts?

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

2011-01-10 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/10/11 02:49, Marcin Krol wrote: >> Out of interest, which filesystem are you using on this volume? > > xfs, as always when dealing with lots of small files. But ... xfs is optimized for long streaming reads and writes. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71

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

2011-01-10 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Oliver Hoffmann wrote: > I did some tests with different gzip levels and with no compression at > all. It makes a difference but not as expected. Without compression I > still have a rate of only 11346.1 KB/s. Anything else I should try? Are you sure the cross-over connecti

[Bacula-users] Ignoring Job Errors

2011-01-10 Thread rauch . holger
Hi, even when looking through

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

2011-01-10 Thread Arunav Mandal
Hi, I am running a sample job and I only get 1.5TB per LTO5 tape so that means hardware compression is not working. But when I check in /sys/class/scsi_tape/nst0/default_compression and it says 1, default_blksize=-1 and default_density=-1. Am I missing something in regards to compression? I have 5