Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-01-24 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:30:44 PST, The pithy ruminations from Steve Ellis on were: => On 1/24/12 2:22 PM, mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu wrote: => > In the message dated: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:09:15 GMT, => > The pithy ruminations from Martin Simmons on => > => > => > Thanks for repl

Re: [Bacula-users] SCSI Errors

2012-01-24 Thread Nikola Lazic
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:17 PM John Drescher wrote: > Bad tape? Drive need cleaned? I completed btape fill and unfill without errors. I cleaned the drive and will see whether that resolves the issue. Any other ideas? Nikola Lazic --

Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-01-24 Thread Steve Ellis
On 1/24/12 2:22 PM, mark.berg...@uphs.upenn.edu wrote: > In the message dated: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:09:15 GMT, > The pithy ruminations from Martin Simmons on > > > Thanks for replying. > > > backu > ps unreadable> were: > => > On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:47:31 -0500, mark bergman said: > => > >

Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-01-24 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:09:15 GMT, The pithy ruminations from Martin Simmons on Thanks for replying. were: => > On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:47:31 -0500, mark bergman said: => > => > I'm experiencing a critical problem where tape labels on volumes with data => > get corrupted

Re: [Bacula-users] critical error -- tape labels get corrupted, previous backups unreadable

2012-01-24 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:47:31 -0500, mark bergman said: > > I'm experiencing a critical problem where tape labels on volumes with data > get corrupted, leaving all data on the tape inaccessible to bacula. > > I'm running bacula 5.2.2 built from source, under Linux (CentOS 5.7 > x86_64). > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Director and FD versions question

2012-01-24 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
> > I have a director still at 5.0.3, and a few new clients coming up. > > Should I use the current version (5.2.4) on these FDs, or should I > > keep them on 5.0.3 until the director has been upgraded? > > > > Vennlige hilsener / Best regards > > > > It's always recommended that the director vers

Re: [Bacula-users] Have we reached bacula's limits?

2012-01-24 Thread Alan Brown
On 24/01/12 17:08, John Drescher wrote: > I believe it meant that with bacula prior to 5.2.X you had to compile > in your db choice (sqlite, postgresql,mysql) and could not change that > choice at runtime. Now with 5.2 You can mix and match and have more > than 1 catalog. 1: You can only define o

Re: [Bacula-users] Have we reached bacula's limits?

2012-01-24 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Marcello Romani wrote: > Il 24/01/2012 17:43, Xabier Elkano ha scritto: >> El 24/01/12 17:02, Marcello Romani escribió: >>> Il 24/01/2012 12:21, Xabier Elkano ha scritto: >>> >>> [snip] >>> > I'm just thinking out loud, but I don't see how having a catalog for

Re: [Bacula-users] Have we reached bacula's limits?

2012-01-24 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 24/01/2012 17:43, Xabier Elkano ha scritto: > El 24/01/12 17:02, Marcello Romani escribió: >> Il 24/01/2012 12:21, Xabier Elkano ha scritto: >> >> [snip] >> I'm just thinking out loud, but I don't see how having a catalog for each client can help you scale, since you can't put them on

Re: [Bacula-users] Have we reached bacula's limits?

2012-01-24 Thread Xabier Elkano
El 24/01/12 17:02, Marcello Romani escribió: > Il 24/01/2012 12:21, Xabier Elkano ha scritto: > > [snip] > >>> I'm just thinking out loud, but I don't see how having a catalog for >>> each client can help you scale, since you can't put them on different db >>> servers. You'd probably have a higher

Re: [Bacula-users] Have we reached bacula's limits?

2012-01-24 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 24/01/2012 12:21, Xabier Elkano ha scritto: [snip] >> I'm just thinking out loud, but I don't see how having a catalog for >> each client can help you scale, since you can't put them on different db >> servers. You'd probably have a higher ROI by upgrading the DBMS hardware >> and/or migrating

Re: [Bacula-users] Have we reached bacula's limits?

2012-01-24 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hi folks, thanks to your hints and ideas the restore times have been reduced from 3-4 hours to about five minutes (building the directory tree, that is). Lesson learnt: Before complaining loudly to the list, make sure your db is in good health by administering a generous dosage of "repair table"

Re: [Bacula-users] Will Bacula be faster with Two Tape Devices?

2012-01-24 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Thanks for the reply, John. I'll give it a go. The spooling will be on RAID 10, so I won't get the performance of RAID 0, but we will see how it goes. Cheers, Bryan On Mon, 2012-01-23 at 17:59 -0500, John Drescher wrote: > > But will this speed up my backups? Generally speaking, should Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Have we reached bacula's limits?

2012-01-24 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/24/2012 06:21 AM, Xabier Elkano wrote: > El 24/01/12 11:47, Marcello Romani escribió: >> I'm just thinking out loud, but I don't see how having a catalog for >> each client can help you scale, since you can't put them on different db >> servers. You'd probably have a higher ROI by upgrading t

Re: [Bacula-users] Director and FD versions question

2012-01-24 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:40 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > Hi all > > I have a director still at 5.0.3, and a few new clients coming up. Should I > use the current version (5.2.4) on these FDs, or should I keep them on 5.0.3 > until the director has been upgraded? > > Vennlige hilsener / Be

Re: [Bacula-users] Director and FD versions question

2012-01-24 Thread Ben Walton
Excerpts from Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk's message of Tue Jan 24 04:40:45 -0500 2012: Hi Roy, > I have a director still at 5.0.3, and a few new clients coming > up. Should I use the current version (5.2.4) on these FDs, or should > I keep them on 5.0.3 until the director has been upgraded? I asked thi

[Bacula-users] SQL Query: Total size of last success full backups

2012-01-24 Thread Isamar Maia
Hi Folks, I need to know how much disk space my full backups are in use for the last backup run. Thanks in advance, -- Isamar Maia Cel. VIVO SSA: (55) 71-9146-8575 Cel. TIM SSA: (55) 71-9185-5264 Fixo: (55) 71-4062-8688 日本: +81-(0)3-4550-1212 Skype ID: isamar.maia

Re: [Bacula-users] Have we reached bacula's limits?

2012-01-24 Thread Xabier Elkano
El 24/01/12 11:47, Marcello Romani escribió: > Il 24/01/2012 11:18, Xabier Elkano ha scritto: >> El 24/01/12 10:49, Marcello Romani escribió: >>> Il 24/01/2012 10:05, Xabier Elkano ha scritto: El 23/01/12 16:28, Uwe Schuerkamp escribió: > DB Size: > Total clients:107 Total byt

Re: [Bacula-users] Have we reached bacula's limits?

2012-01-24 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:47:51 +0100 Marcello Romani wrote: [...] > >> You mean 31 catalogs ?! > > Yes, now, I am only testing with two catalogs and it's working Ok, > > what are the downsides using this config? > > According to the documentation bacula supports it: > > > > " The Catalog Resource

Re: [Bacula-users] Have we reached bacula's limits?

2012-01-24 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 24/01/2012 11:18, Xabier Elkano ha scritto: > El 24/01/12 10:49, Marcello Romani escribió: >> Il 24/01/2012 10:05, Xabier Elkano ha scritto: >>> El 23/01/12 16:28, Uwe Schuerkamp escribió: DB Size: Total clients: 107 Total bytes stored: 34.41 TB Total files: 474

Re: [Bacula-users] Have we reached bacula's limits?

2012-01-24 Thread Xabier Elkano
El 24/01/12 10:49, Marcello Romani escribió: > Il 24/01/2012 10:05, Xabier Elkano ha scritto: >> El 23/01/12 16:28, Uwe Schuerkamp escribió: >>> DB Size: >>> Total clients: 107 Total bytes stored: 34.41 TB >>> Total files:47495362 Database size:31.64 GB >> Hi Uwe, >>

Re: [Bacula-users] Have we reached bacula's limits?

2012-01-24 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 24/01/2012 10:05, Xabier Elkano ha scritto: > El 23/01/12 16:28, Uwe Schuerkamp escribió: >> DB Size: >> Total clients: 107 Total bytes stored: 34.41 TB >> Total files: 47495362 Database size:31.64 GB > Hi Uwe, > > I am having the same problem, backups are fast, but rest

[Bacula-users] Director and FD versions question

2012-01-24 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi all I have a director still at 5.0.3, and a few new clients coming up. Should I use the current version (5.2.4) on these FDs, or should I keep them on 5.0.3 until the director has been upgraded? Vennlige hilsener / Best regards roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (+47) 97542685 r...@karlsbakk.net h

Re: [Bacula-users] Have we reached bacula's limits?

2012-01-24 Thread Xabier Elkano
El 23/01/12 16:28, Uwe Schuerkamp escribió: > DB Size: > Total clients:107 Total bytes stored: 34.41 TB > Total files: 47495362 Database size:31.64 GB Hi Uwe, I am having the same problem, backups are fast, but restores takes too long creating directory tree with bat. I

Re: [Bacula-users] Have we reached bacula's limits?

2012-01-24 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:13:30AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > If max_heap_table_size is 16M, then in-memory temporary tables are > limited to 16M too. Maximum in-memory temporary table size is the > smaller of tmp_table-size and max_heap_table_size. You only ever have a > single DB connec