Re: [Bacula-users] Data spooling for migration jobs?

2011-12-01 Thread Pierre Bernhardt
Am 01.12.2011 08:25, schrieb James Harper: >> >> Is it possible to have an Spool Data directive for migrating jobs? >> > I don't think you can do that. You could migrate to fast disk first then > to the fast tape. Not as efficient as spooling but if you have lots of > jobs it wouldn't be that bad.

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-12-01 Thread gary artim
got close to 120 MBs, using 64kb buffer and 20gb maximum file size using btape...now test with real data...gary === blocksize set with mt and in bacula-sd.conf to == 65536 === [root@genepi1 bac

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-12-01 Thread gary artim
btape getting 89 MBs, so maybe my disk and sql updating is effecting the speed? note drive has a 16384 blocksize, ran tapeinfo on the drive...gary [root@genepi1 bacula]# btape -c /etc/bacula/bacula-sd.conf /dev/nst0 Tape block granularity is 1024 bytes. btape: butil.c:284 Using device: "/dev/nst0"

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-12-01 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:27:33 GMT, The pithy ruminations from Alan Brown on were: => gary artim wrote: => > You guys/gals are great, very responsive! I did try => > spooling/despooling and my run times shot up. => => They will - you're copying everything twice (disk to disk to

Re: [Bacula-users] feature request: exempt administrative connections from concurrency limits

2011-12-01 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:48:59 +0100, The pithy ruminations from Bruno Friedmann on were: => On 12/01/2011 12:20 AM, mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu wrote: => > Item 1: Administrative connections to the file daemon should not count in the concurrency li => mit => > Origin: Mark

[Bacula-users] New version of Bacula-Web coming soon ...

2011-12-01 Thread bacula-dev
Dear all, I'm proud to announce you that a new version of Bacula-Web is coming by next few days. This new version will include - Improvements with configuration, database connectivity and application exceptions - Translations update and improvements - Cleaned dashboard - New custom filters

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-12-01 Thread Alan Brown
gary artim wrote: > You guys/gals are great, very responsive! I did try > spooling/despooling and my run times shot up. They will - you're copying everything twice (disk to disk to tape), but this is the only way to achieve fast despooling speeds - if you don't do this then your LTO drive will s

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-12-01 Thread Brian Debelius
I believe (its been a while since I have needed to change my configuration) that my LTO-3 drive does not do hardware compression on blocks over 512K. I am using 256K blocks right now, and I did not see any improvement above that. I am using spooling on a pair of striped hard disks, and despoo

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-12-01 Thread gary artim
You guys/gals are great, very responsive! I did try spooling/despooling and my run times shot up. I was using a simple 7200 drive though, no ssd or raid...I assume the performance gain happens when your networks multi machines...wearing multiple hats so will report back on btape next week, unless I

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-12-01 Thread Alan Brown
gary artim wrote: > thank much! will try testing with btape. Please let us know the results > btw, I ran with 20GB maximum > file size/2MB max block (see bacula-sd.conf below) and got these > results, 20MB/s increase, ran 20 minutes faster, got 50MBs -- You should be seeing 120Mb/s or thereabo

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-12-01 Thread gary artim
thank much! will try testing with btape. btw, I ran with 20GB maximum file size/2MB max block (see bacula-sd.conf below) and got these results, 20MB/s increase, ran 20 minutes faster, got 50MBs -- now if I can just double the speed I could backup 15TB in about 45/hrs. I don't have that much data ye

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] possible 5.2.2 bug (incrementals being promoted to fulls)

2011-12-01 Thread Stephen Thompson
I agree, it's unlikely a 'new' bug, but rather the restarting of my director during the upgrade that caused the problem to exhibit itself. Here is what happened in more detail. A week before the upgrade/director restart, the conf files for a significant number of jobs (~100) were changed and

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtualfull

2011-12-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 01.12.2011 13:42, Miikael Havelock Nilson wrote: > Hello, > > > I have a small question. When virtualfull is made will data pass trought the > director? Question is in the case the storage is on low bandwith will data > move from storage to director and back to storage or storage to storage? >

Re: [Bacula-users] VolStatus changes from APPEND to USED after a restore

2011-12-01 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Carsten Pache: > >> A few days ago I had to restore some files. After the files were > >> restored successfully, the VolStatus (shown by "list volumes") of the > >> two tapes that were needed during restore changed from "Append" to > >> "Used". Is this an expected behaviour? > > > > Do you hava a

[Bacula-users] Virtualfull

2011-12-01 Thread Miikael Havelock Nilson
Hello, I have a small question. When virtualfull is made will data pass trought the director? Question is in the case the storage is on low bandwith will data move from storage to director and back to storage or storage to storage? Miikael ---

[Bacula-users] Manually recycling tape without errors?

2011-12-01 Thread Adrian Bridgett
Hi, I'm seeing what I think is suboptimal behaviour during some testing, maybe one of the Bacula guru's can help/explain what's going on here. I think it might be since the behaviour I want only happens when a job first requests a tape (and what I'm seeking is a way to get it to request _agai

Re: [Bacula-users] VolStatus changes from APPEND to USED after a restore

2011-12-01 Thread Carsten Pache
>> A few days ago I had to restore some files. After the files were >> restored successfully, the VolStatus (shown by "list volumes") of the >> two tapes that were needed during restore changed from "Append" to >> "Used". Is this an expected behaviour? > Do you hava a maximum use time configured?

[Bacula-users] Restore client

2011-12-01 Thread Viacheslav Biriukov
Hello. I want always restore files to the one Client by default. How can I do this? Thanks. -- Viacheslav Biriukov BR http://biriukov.com -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a defi

Re: [Bacula-users] VolStatus changes from APPEND to USED after a restore - is this expected behaviour?

2011-12-01 Thread Dietz Pröpper
Carsten Pache: > A few days ago I had to restore some files. After the files were > restored successfully, the VolStatus (shown by "list volumes") of the > two tapes that were needed during restore changed from "Append" to > "Used". Is this an expected behaviour? Do you hava a maximum use time con

[Bacula-users] VolStatus changes from APPEND to USED after a restore - is this expected behaviour?

2011-12-01 Thread Carsten Pache
A few days ago I had to restore some files. After the files were restored successfully, the VolStatus (shown by "list volumes") of the two tapes that were needed during restore changed from "Append" to "Used". Is this an expected behaviour? Regards Carsten Pache -

Re: [Bacula-users] feature request: exempt administrative connections from concurrency limits

2011-12-01 Thread Bruno Friedmann
On 12/01/2011 12:20 AM, mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu wrote: > Item 1: Administrative connections to the file daemon should not count in > the concurrency limit > Origin: Mark Bergman > Date: Wed Nov 30 18:03:20 EST 2011 > Status: > > What: >Administrative connections to the