Re: [Bacula-users] Using one job config for multiple individual file backups?

2011-01-14 Thread Silver Salonen
On Friday 14 January 2011 23:30:15 Phil Stracchino wrote: > Stan: > > Without commenting further on the reasonableness of your data owner's > ideas about how to do this, the real-world chances of the Bacula > director encountering an error increase with every successive reload > without a restart.

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-14 Thread Bart Swedrowski
On 14 January 2011 20:18, Martin Simmons wrote: > It sounds like you have some large files which compress a lot. > Nah, I don't think that is the case. I know what are those files and those are mainly small, tiny files like emails, small log files. Have a look at below's output. *14-Jan 02:38

Re: [Bacula-users] Using one job config for multiple individual file backups?

2011-01-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
Stan: Without commenting further on the reasonableness of your data owner's ideas about how to do this, the real-world chances of the Bacula director encountering an error increase with every successive reload without a restart. The chance of a single Director instance surviving even a hundred su

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data and speed

2011-01-14 Thread John Drescher
> # tapeinfo-f / dev/sg5 > ... > DataCompEnabled: yes > ... This means compression is on and is being used. Although remember if you had compression off and then wrote anything to a tape then tried to turn compression on that tape will not be compressed because you can not toggle compression on o

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape compression not working LTO-5

2011-01-14 Thread Arunav Mandal
My stinit.def is given below. I don't know if that is correct or not since I never found any settings from HP drive docs # HP Ultrium 5-SCSI manufacturer=HP model= "Ultrium 5-SCSI" { scsi2logical=1 #can-bsr=1 #auto-lock=0 #two-fms=0 drive-buffering buffering=1 read-ahead=1 async-writes=1 #can-p

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data and speed

2011-01-14 Thread Arunav Mandal
In my case it is 1 and still no results. Arunav. > Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:53:49 + > From: r...@campbell-lange.net > To: jarodrig...@cgi.es > CC: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data and speed > > Try something along the lines

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape compression not working LTO-5

2011-01-14 Thread Arunav Mandal
I also have a IBM LTO-3 drive with same problem. Arunav. > Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 17:16:54 +0100 > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Tape compression not working LTO-5 > From: jarodrig...@cgi.es > To: dresche...@gmail.com > CC: di...@hotmail.com; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > That may aff

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-14 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:23:37 +, Bart Swedrowski said: > > 2011/1/13 Mark : > > Have you done a 'list files jobid=' for one of your incrementals? > >  Maybe you have a few really large files that are getting changed every day, > > and therefore getting backed up each day. > > Yeah, I tri

[Bacula-users] Using one job config for multiple individual file backups?

2011-01-14 Thread Stan M. Hammond
I am looking to see if anyone has any ideas or even if it can be done. We have a number of data files (3TB - over 12K files) that we want to backup to tape. We are already performing tape backups using Bacula without any problems. The 3TB backup is different because it will be a one shot bac

[Bacula-users] Quick Question on Windows 2003 backup to Debian Director

2011-01-14 Thread Duncan McQueen
We are backing up a Windows 2003 Small Business Server using Bacula (5.0.2) with the Director and FD on a Debian Server. It is an incremental backup. However, we have quite a few older files that just keep on getting backed up although nothing is touching or changing those files. This is h

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data and speed

2011-01-14 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 14/01/11, Jose Antonio Rodriguez Martin (jarodrig...@cgi.es) wrote: > I tried it and no longer works. I see that when I run: > # mt-f / dev/nst0 compression 1 > compression is enabled: > # tapeinfo-f / dev/sg5 > ... > DataCompEnabled: yes > ... > > But by launching the copy tape is uncompress

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape compression not working LTO-5

2011-01-14 Thread John Drescher
> That may affect the use encryption or compression software prior?, > there should be independent of the hardware compression?. > I have the same problem with one LTO-3. > The reason I asked is that if you used software compression or encryption and sent that data to the hardware compression this

Re: [Bacula-users] Director crash- again with traceback

2011-01-14 Thread jerry lowry
No one has any ideas on what would have caused this. Based on the trace dump it looks like there is a problem with the scheduler. Any pointers as to what I can look at? thanks, --- Jerold Lowry IT Manager / Software Engi

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data and speed

2011-01-14 Thread Jose Antonio Rodriguez Martin
Thanks for the reply. I tried it and no longer works. I see that when I run: # mt-f / dev/nst0 compression 1 compression is enabled: # tapeinfo-f / dev/sg5 ... DataCompEnabled: yes ... But by launching the copy tape is uncompressed ... Do not let the copy over 400 GB (800 GB compressed). 2011/

Re: [Bacula-users] Possible to expand terminated jobs list

2011-01-14 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Yes. Use list jobs in console or query a catalog. Bye Radosław Korzeniewski 2011 1 14 11:12 użytkownik "Caspar Smit" napisał: > Hi all, > > When I do a "status dir" in bconsole it prints the last 10 terminated jobs. > I'm doing 40+ backups daily so I would like to see more then the > default 10

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data and speed

2011-01-14 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
Try something along the lines of man mt or mt -f /dev/nst0 compression 1 http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/cmd.csp?path=m/mt On 14/01/11, Jose Antonio Rodriguez Martin (jarodrig...@cgi.es) wrote: > nobody can make any comments? > The truth is that he thought there were people on the l

[Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data and speed

2011-01-14 Thread Jose Antonio Rodriguez Martin
nobody can make any comments? The truth is that he thought there were people on the list who could help me. Apparently not. Greetings l -- l -- Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various mal

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape compression not working LTO-5

2011-01-14 Thread Jose Antonio Rodriguez Martin
That may affect the use encryption or compression software prior?, there should be independent of the hardware compression?. I have the same problem with one LTO-3. 2011/1/14 John Drescher : >> I have a LT05 tape drive and I am getting only 1.5TB per tape even the tape >> compression is on. I am u

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape compression not working LTO-5

2011-01-14 Thread Arunav Mandal
I don't use software compression or encryption. The data is from a Linux server and windows server. -Original Message- From: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 3:26 PM To: Arunav Mandal Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-u

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape compression not working LTO-5

2011-01-14 Thread John Drescher
> I have a LT05 tape drive and I am getting only 1.5TB per tape even the tape > compression is on. I am using st driver for my tape drive. Are you using software compression or encryption? Is your data already compressed (mpegs, zips, pictures ...)? John

[Bacula-users] Tape compression not working LTO-5

2011-01-14 Thread Arunav Mandal
I have a LT05 tape drive and I am getting only 1.5TB per tape even the tape compression is on. I am using st driver for my tape drive. Arunav. -- Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about vari

Re: [Bacula-users] Best Practice to Backup Exchange Only?

2011-01-14 Thread Graham Keeling
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 01:20:33PM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: > On 14/01/2011 12:57, Graham Keeling wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:31:53PM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: >>> Is there a best practise on how to backup an exchange server? I have a >>> number of them, and I would like to be able

Re: [Bacula-users] instalacion bacula

2011-01-14 Thread Oliver Hoffmann
Hi, you'll probably want this: http://wiki.bacula.org/doku.php?id=bacula_espanol and as long as you're on the wrong list this one: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users-es ¡Hasta luego! Oliver > Buenas tardes > > > > Soy nueva en el mundo de bacula, mi jefe me solici

Re: [Bacula-users] Reload Config while bacula-dir is still running?

2011-01-14 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 14/01/2011 12:37, John Drescher wrote: > > I always test before reloading in the console. > > bacula-dir -t /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf > > At this point if there is any errors in your config file bacula will tell you. > > John Ah - the holy grail :) - I will make a note of this, and use it like

Re: [Bacula-users] Best Practice to Backup Exchange Only?

2011-01-14 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 14/01/2011 12:57, Graham Keeling wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:31:53PM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: Is there a best practise on how to backup an exchange server? I have a number of them, and I would like to be able to back them up in backups that I know are only exchange data. I know ther

[Bacula-users] devices with bacula inside (was: compiling static)

2011-01-14 Thread Victor Hugo dos Santos
Hello, I'm interesting in make a list with all (o many) devices (NAS, disks boxs, etc, etc) that have the possibility of install bacula (director and/or storage) in him. for example: - device with FreeNAS - Iomega Storcenter Ix2-200 Nas (Linux in a AMR with 128MB) - others and othe

Re: [Bacula-users] Best Practice to Backup Exchange Only?

2011-01-14 Thread Graham Keeling
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:31:53PM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: > Is there a best practise on how to backup an exchange server? I have a > number of them, and I would like to be able to back them up in backups > that I know are only exchange data. I know there is the plugin from > Equiinet --

Re: [Bacula-users] Reload Config while bacula-dir is still running?

2011-01-14 Thread Guy
that's a good strategy... I've had a few instances where there was a typo in the configuration file and it crashed bacula. Ideally reload should validate the configs before reloading them. --Guy On 14 Jan 2011, at 12:37, John Drescher wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Phil Stracchino

Re: [Bacula-users] Reload Config while bacula-dir is still running?

2011-01-14 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 01/13/11 07:45, Mister IT Guru wrote: >> I'm making amendments and changes to my bacula config, but at the same >> time I need to run my backups. Other than setting up a separate machine >> to test my config, (which I will be doing in co

[Bacula-users] Best Practice to Backup Exchange Only?

2011-01-14 Thread Mister IT Guru
Is there a best practise on how to backup an exchange server? I have a number of them, and I would like to be able to back them up in backups that I know are only exchange data. I know there is the plugin from Equiinet -- I am currently looking into that, but I'm pretty sure that someone has al

Re: [Bacula-users] Reload Config while bacula-dir is still running?

2011-01-14 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 13/01/2011 13:05, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 01/13/11 07:45, Mister IT Guru wrote: >> I'm making amendments and changes to my bacula config, but at the same >> time I need to run my backups. Other than setting up a separate machine >> to test my config, (which I will be doing in coming days, wh

[Bacula-users] Possible to expand terminated jobs list

2011-01-14 Thread Caspar Smit
Hi all, When I do a "status dir" in bconsole it prints the last 10 terminated jobs. I'm doing 40+ backups daily so I would like to see more then the default 10 jobs, is this possible? For instance can I print all terminated jobs of a single day? Kind regards, Caspar Smit Systemengineer True Bit

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-14 Thread Bart Swedrowski
On 14 January 2011 09:23, Bart Swedrowski wrote: > Also, it's Bacula 5.0.3-2 re-compiled from sources provided on www.bacula.org. Sorry - that is Bacula 5.0.3-1 re-compiled from sources on www.bacula.org. -- Protect Your

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-14 Thread Bart Swedrowski
2011/1/13 Mark : > Have you done a 'list files jobid=' for one of your incrementals? >  Maybe you have a few really large files that are getting changed every day, > and therefore getting backed up each day. Yeah, I tried that, too. It's only listing files that got changed/are new and should be b