[Bacula-users] two seperate processes transferring data?

2012-10-17 Thread Mr5o1
Hi All.. Been running through my first install, bit of a learning curve, but I think I've gotten there. My fileset is large, and bandwidth is a big issue (backing up via internet). So I've been keeping a close eye. nethogs (debian util for monitoring processes and bandwidth) shows two sepera

Re: [Bacula-users] Is tape filling up too early?

2012-10-17 Thread Stephen Thompson
I recently found out that I had a bad tape drive. With the tape in the drive run the following and see if it says there are errors: smartctl -a /dev/nst0 If there are errors, it's wasting tape and hence less capacity. Stephen On 10/17/2012 11:14 AM, Sergio Belkin wrote: > Hi folks > >

Re: [Bacula-users] Is tape filling up too early?

2012-10-17 Thread Jérôme Blion
[... snip ...] Did you enabled hardware compression on your tape drive ? Without compression LTO3 is given to fill up to 400 GB. Hope this helps. Jérôme Blion. -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web app

[Bacula-users] Help with BAT

2012-10-17 Thread João Alberto Kuchnier
Hi everyone! I'm having some problems with bacula BAT. Monthly I create a full job tape of all servers and keep it safe outside the office. However, yesterday I figured out, inside BAT, that some old and recently monthly tapes have their volume records but I can see any job record inside the v

Re: [Bacula-users] Restricting who can restore data from which system to where

2012-10-17 Thread Joseph Spenner
>From: "r.schuitema...@kpn.com" >To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 8:24 AM >Subject: [Bacula-users] Restricting who can restore data from which system to >where > >Hello All, > > >I’ve set up a bacula server to do b

Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding and configuring Bacula retentions

2012-10-17 Thread Dan Langille
On Oct 17, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Florent Krieg wrote: > Hi there! > > We are currently using bacula for a while (3/4 years maybe) to backup many > servers (VMs as weel as physical machines) on a storage server (volumes are > not tapes, but basically only labelled files of 1GB size). > > We don't

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula start no Jobs

2012-10-17 Thread Dan Langille
On Oct 17, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Jürgen Ecker wrote: > Hello, > > I have a strange Problem. When i restart the bacula-director service, bacula > wouldn´t run any Jobs any more. When they get canceled, i would have a > indication, but in this case there is nothing to see. In the log files is > no

[Bacula-users] Is tape filling up too early?

2012-10-17 Thread Sergio Belkin
Hi folks I'm using LTO3 tapes and are filling up too fast. They have supposedly 800 GB. I know that never reach that capacity, but I am somewhat surprised that is full with only ~ 333 GB!! (lesser than a half) If I issue a "list media pool" command I get | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus |

[Bacula-users] Understanding and configuring Bacula retentions

2012-10-17 Thread Florent Krieg
Hi there! We are currently using bacula for a while (3/4 years maybe) to backup many servers (VMs as weel as physical machines) on a storage server (volumes are not tapes, but basically only labelled files of 1GB size). We don't have a complicated architecture, even if we backup every night ar

[Bacula-users] Bacula start no Jobs

2012-10-17 Thread Jürgen Ecker
Hello, I have a strange Problem. When i restart the bacula-director service, bacula wouldn´t run any Jobs any more. When they get canceled, i would have a indication, but in this case there is nothing to see. In the log files is nothing to see. After a complete server reboot, bacula starts jobs

[Bacula-users] Restricting who can restore data from which system to where

2012-10-17 Thread r.schuitemaker
Hello All, I've set up a bacula server to do backups of some 10 systems. It's a small-scale test setup to serve as a proof of concept and testing ground for a to-be-deployed larger setup (~300-400 systems). I have those clients, in this case a server named "almond", with it's own Device ( a Z

[Bacula-users] Backup Job wird nicht ausgeführt

2012-10-17 Thread Jürgen Ecker
Hallo, Ich habe hier ein seltsames Problem. Sobald ich den bacula-director Dienst neustarte führt mir Bacula keine Jobs mehr aus. Wenn sie abgebrochen würden, dann hätte ich wenigstens einen Anhaltspunkt, aber so ist leider überhaupt nichts ersichtlich. Auch das Log liefert mir keinerlei Infos.

Re: [Bacula-users] Query regarding Bacula

2012-10-17 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von krishna pawankar : > Hi, > I am using bacula 5.2.6 which will replace other network backup > software if it is proven to be more featured compared to other > nework backup software. >   > Statistically i want to show the compression ratio bacula can > support while backing up the

Re: [Bacula-users] Query regarding Bacula

2012-10-17 Thread Simone Caronni
Hello, I personally run it on hundreds of systems; windows (most of these are also road warriors), linux, freebsd, openbsd - even a SCOUnix box - on a variety of storage daemons with tapes, disks, etc. all on a single mysql director without a hitch. Compression is good in itself, it depends on th

[Bacula-users] Query regarding Bacula

2012-10-17 Thread krishna pawankar
Hi, I am using bacula 5.2.6 which will replace other network backup software if it is proven to be more featured compared to other nework backup software.   Statistically i want to show the compression ratio bacula can support while backing up the data over the other vendor softwares also what am

Re: [Bacula-users] Linux inotify

2012-10-17 Thread azurIt
Nothing which cannot be resolved. >While it sounds helpful there are some problems to tackle: >- Files changed before or while the FD is not running for example on >machine startup This is the only problem which cannot be, probably, fixed - every solution has it's pluses and minuses. FD can

Re: [Bacula-users] Linux inotify

2012-10-17 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von azurIt : > Hi, > > are there any plans to implement linux inotify selection of files to > backup? Thnx. > > azur While it sounds helpful there are some problems to tackle: - Files changed before or while the FD is not running for example on machine startup - Performance penalty on

Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: Re: Rif: Re: Linux inotify

2012-10-17 Thread azurIt
This is NOT true, you will then delete all files wihch wasn't modified since last backup :) __ > Od: "Ferdinando Pasqualetti" > Komu: > Dátum: 17.10.2012 11:32 > Predmet: [Bacula-users] Rif: Re: Rif: Re: Linux inotify > >I don't kno

[Bacula-users] Rif: Re: Rif: Re: Linux inotify

2012-10-17 Thread Ferdinando Pasqualetti
I don't know how exactly "Accurate backup" works, but I believe that if you put il the list of files to be copied a file wich is not there anymore, it should be recorded as "deleted" in the incremental backup and deleted in the recovery process. -

Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: Re: Linux inotify

2012-10-17 Thread azurIt
Hi, I don't believe this will work as expected. For example, you don't have a way how to tell to Director about deleted files. Or am I wrong? azur __ > Od: "Ferdinando Pasqualetti" > Komu: > Dátum: 17.10.2012 09:52 > Predmet: [Bacu

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup only $( find /var/log -type d )

2012-10-17 Thread lst_hoe02
Zitat von Geert Stappers : > Hello Bacula Users, > > Where I don't want to backup logfiles, > I do want to restore empty log directory trees. > > How to define a FileSet that matches > find /var/log -type d > You might try a wildfile directive which matches *all* files for exclusion. As it s

[Bacula-users] Rif: Re: Linux inotify

2012-10-17 Thread Ferdinando Pasqualetti
Hi Bacula users, I do not know how linux inotify works, but from your posts I think it is somewhat triggered by a file modification on the client. If thi is the case you can just record the filenames in a list and then use the "|" the use a script in the file selection. The script may also be on

[Bacula-users] Backup only $( find /var/log -type d )

2012-10-17 Thread Geert Stappers
Hello Bacula Users, Where I don't want to backup logfiles, I do want to restore empty log directory trees. How to define a FileSet that matches find /var/log -type d ?? Cheers Geert Stappers -- Everyone hates slow