[Bacula-users] Encryption times [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

UNCLASSIFIED Hi Everybody, I've just setup encryption on our bacula backup using the explaination in chapter 39 of the Bacula manual - it has blown out our backup time from overnight to 3 days ? Is this normal ? Is there any way to get the time down? It is only backing up 1.5Tb onto a tape lib

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore to Windows Client

On 08/06/2011 21:06, James Harper wrote: > Just to put that to bed, can you do 'status client' in bconsole for the > windows client and confirm that the windows client thinks it ran the > restore, just in case bat didn't do what you asked it to? Finally found out. In the whole bunch of tests I did

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore to Windows Client

> -Original Message- > From: Christian Tardif [mailto:christian.tar...@servinfo.ca] > Sent: Thursday, 9 June 2011 10:17 > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Restore to Windows Client > > On 08/06/2011 00:57, James Harper wrote: > > > If the files

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore to Windows Client

> On 08/06/2011 04:27, Jeremy Maes wrote: > > Op 8/06/2011 6:12, Christian Tardif schreef: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I've configured the Windows client as per the documentation found on the > >> Internet. The only intended use for this client is for restore purposes, > >> as the data backed up comes f

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore to Windows Client

On 08/06/2011 10:42, Bob Hetzel wrote: Certain versions prior to the current 5.0.3 client had an issue where they marked the directories as hidden.  You could cd into them from a command prompt but you couldn't see them from explorer or a 'dir' command.

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore to Windows Client

On 08/06/2011 04:27, Jeremy Maes wrote: > Op 8/06/2011 6:12, Christian Tardif schreef: >> Hi all, >> >> I've configured the Windows client as per the documentation found on the >> Internet. The only intended use for this client is for restore purposes, >> as the data backed up comes from the Linux

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore to Windows Client

On 08/06/2011 00:57, James Harper wrote: If the files were backed up from C:\dir1\dir2\dir3, and you tell bacula to restore to C:\tmp\bacula-restores, it will restore to C:\tmp\bacula-restores\c\dir1\dir2\dir3. You can use a regexwhere to remove the C:\dir1\dir2\dir3 prefix and replace it with a

Re: [Bacula-users] Is Bacula MAID Aware?

On 08/06/11 15:27, Avarca, Anthony wrote: > I'm look to purchase a new storage system for our backups. Does bacula > support MAID storage systems? Is anyone currently using MAID configured > systems with Bacula? MAID is essentially transparent to bacula or the OS. If the drives are spun down they

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

Hi, On Wed, 08 Jun 2011, Jérôme Blion wrote: > What tool do you use to perform restore ? bconsole: restore 5 (Select the most recent backup for a client) choose host then building directory tree takes ages. > I had such issues with BAT... With Webacula, I am not able

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

On 06/08/11 13:45, Jérôme Blion wrote: > I had such issues with BAT... With Webacula, I am not able to reproduce > this behaviour. Very interesting. > Perhaps a bad query which does not use an index. Definitely worth study. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

> > > > There are a few options to solve this > > > > - use innodb for the tables in MySQL > > - migrate to PostgreSQL > > anybody already did a successfull migration from MySQL to PostgreSQL? and willing to share a procedure? is it really possible to migrate the complete catalog? thanks, chr

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

Le 08/06/2011 19:16, Gavin McCullagh a écrit : > On Wed, 08 Jun 2011, Jérôme Blion wrote: > >> You will see performance improvements if you have lot of concurrents >> updates. > I don't imagine concurrent updates are really an issue for us. Our backups > run fast enough generally for our purposes

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

On Wed, 08 Jun 2011, Jérôme Blion wrote: > You will see performance improvements if you have lot of concurrents > updates. I don't imagine concurrent updates are really an issue for us. Our backups run fast enough generally for our purposes . I daresay they could be faster, but they're not cau

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

Hi, On Wed, 08 Jun 2011, Jérôme Blion wrote: > > Assuming that version of MySQL, do you know if the case for InnoDB vs > > MyISAM is still as cut and dry? Would we likely see substantial > > performance improvements? > > You will see performance improvements if you have lot of concurrents > u

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

On 06/08/11 12:16, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > For simplicity of operation and patching, we're using the Ubuntu archive > packages which are MySQL 5.1.41. I realise that's quite old now. There > are one or two restores in particular which take a long time (like 30 > minutes) to build the restore tre

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

On 06/08/11 11:44, Jérôme Blion wrote: > On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:50:58 -0400, Phil Stracchino > wrote: >> The very first thing I would do would be upgrade to MySQL 5.5.[current] >> (5.5.13, right now) if you're not already using 5.5, making sure it's >> properly configured (hint: look at the new c

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

Le 08/06/2011 18:16, Gavin McCullagh a écrit : > Hi, > > On Wed, 08 Jun 2011, Phil Stracchino wrote: > >> The very first thing I would do would be upgrade to MySQL 5.5.[current] >> (5.5.13, right now) if you're not already using 5.5, making sure it's >> properly configured (hint: look at the new c

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

Hi, On Wed, 08 Jun 2011, Phil Stracchino wrote: > The very first thing I would do would be upgrade to MySQL 5.5.[current] > (5.5.13, right now) if you're not already using 5.5, making sure it's > properly configured (hint: look at the new configuration directive > innodb_buffer_pool_instances),

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:50:58 -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote: > The very first thing I would do would be upgrade to MySQL 5.5.[current] > (5.5.13, right now) if you're not already using 5.5, making sure it's > properly configured (hint: look at the new configuration directive > innodb_buffer_pool_in

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

On 06/08/11 08:06, Enrico van Goor wrote: > Hi All, > > We have a setup with bacula-dir/MySQL and bacula-sd (2 servers) and a > SAN connected via fiber. We are running bacula with about 250 jobs a > day. The table File is about 500M records with a size of about 100G. We > use batch insert. All ta

Re: [Bacula-users] Director Control Protocol

On 06/07/2011 05:52 PM, Tim Gustafson wrote: >> Can't you spawn bconsole from the web application? That is what most >> of the other web apps do. > [...] > I'm hoping that there might be a protocol that cuts out all the screen > parsing and instead lets me just do something like: > > 1. Connect to

[Bacula-users] Database performance issues

Hi All, We have a setup with bacula-dir/MySQL and bacula-sd (2 servers) and a SAN connected via fiber. We are running bacula with about 250 jobs a day. The table File is about 500M records with a size of about 100G. We use batch insert. All tables are MyISAM. Currently we are experiencing perform

[Bacula-users] Is Bacula MAID Aware?

I'm look to purchase a new storage system for our backups. Does bacula support MAID storage systems? Is anyone currently using MAID configured systems with Bacula? MAID = A storage system comprising an array of disk drives that are powered down individ

Re: [Bacula-users] Director Control Protocol

Il 07/06/2011 18:35, Tim Gustafson ha scritto: > Hi, > > I was wondering if there is any documentation anywhere on the protocol that > bconsole uses to connect to the director and issue commands? > > I've built a web interface to the Bacula configuration files, and I would > like to add the abili

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Director Control Protocol

Op 20110608 om 02:11 schreef Tim Gustafson: > > http://bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/developers/developers/Protocol_Used_Between_Direc.html#SECTION0065 > > That appears to be the protocol between the director and the file daemon, not > bconsole. > FWIW there is

Re: [Bacula-users] Second Instance of Bacula Direcktor

Hello Martin, thanks for your help... i will try this.. Best regards JHN Am 08.06.11 13:57, schrieb Martin Simmons: >> On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:02:47 +0200, Joris Heinrich said: >> It is possible to install an second director on the same machine? > Yes -- use a different bacula-dir.conf conta

Re: [Bacula-users] Second Instance of Bacula Direcktor

> On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:02:47 +0200, Joris Heinrich said: > > It is possible to install an second director on the same machine? Yes -- use a different bacula-dir.conf containing a different port number. > Can > this instance

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Director Control Protocol

> On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 16:53:24 -0700 (PDT), Tim Gustafson said: > > I was asking if there was any documentation on the protocol that bconsole > uses to talk to the director daemon. It would appear that the answer is > "no". Thanks anyhow! The protocol is very minimal -- it just sends what th

[Bacula-users] Second Instance of Bacula Direcktor

Hello list, in our environment, we have on-site and off-site backups running. Now we are planning to migrate all off-site backups to an second instance of bacula-director. It is possible to install an second director on the same machine? Can this instance use the same mysql-database, or i have to

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore to Windows Client

Op 8/06/2011 6:12, Christian Tardif schreef: > Hi all, > > I've configured the Windows client as per the documentation found on the > Internet. The only intended use for this client is for restore purposes, > as the data backed up comes from the Linux box, which gets the Windows > data from rsync.