Re: [Bacula-users] Pool Types

2013-05-07 Thread Gary R, Schmidt
On 08.05.2013 13:51, rhys frank wrote: > I'm doing some pool-usage and adjustments to our setup of bacula. > > I noticed in the user's manual that the pool type has other > definitions: > > Backup > Save > Archive > etc > > I'm interested to know if either Save or Archive are in use, and how > the

[Bacula-users] Pool Types

2013-05-07 Thread rhys frank
I'm doing some pool-usage and adjustments to our setup of bacula. I noticed in the user's manual that the pool type has other definitions: Backup Save Archive etc I'm interested to know if either Save or Archive are in use, and how they're being used rhys

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-fd 5.x on Synology Atom(TM) CPU K525 DSM4.0: compiling fails

2013-05-07 Thread Josh Fisher
On 5/7/2013 11:40 AM, Denny Schierz wrote: > hi, > > I try to get Bacula 5.x working on a Synology box with DSM 4.0. I need only > the bacula-fd client, but compiling failes (tested with 5.0.5 and 5.2.13) on > the same error: > > # uname -a > Linux synology 2.6.32.12 #2198 SMP Wed Mar 7 15:39:16

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO 6 compression

2013-05-07 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Tue, 7 May 2013 11:01:27 -0400, Alan McKay said: > > On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:36 AM, John Drescher wrote: > > I think bzip would be a good ballpark estimate to the HW compression > > in lto tape drives. > > > Great, thanks! Don't forget to include a fast enough spool disk (you need t

[Bacula-users] bacula-fd 5.x on Synology Atom(TM) CPU K525 DSM4.0: compiling fails

2013-05-07 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, I try to get Bacula 5.x working on a Synology box with DSM 4.0. I need only the bacula-fd client, but compiling failes (tested with 5.0.5 and 5.2.13) on the same error: # uname -a Linux synology 2.6.32.12 #2198 SMP Wed Mar 7 15:39:16 CST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux [...] libtool: link: warning:

Re: [Bacula-users] Bare metal restore

2013-05-07 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, 2013/5/7 Jonathan Bayer > I've seen conflicting comments online about this. > > I know this used to work. > > Assuming only Linux systems, and a further assumption that they will all > be RHEL based systems, does Bacula support any way of bare-metal > restores? And to be even more specif

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO 6 compression

2013-05-07 Thread Alan McKay
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:36 AM, John Drescher wrote: > I think bzip would be a good ballpark estimate to the HW compression > in lto tape drives. Great, thanks! -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "G

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO 6 compression

2013-05-07 Thread John Drescher
> If I just tar cz my data will that give me a close ballpark? Or > better bzip? Or something else? I think bzip would be a good ballpark estimate to the HW compression in lto tape drives. John -- Learn Graph Database

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO 6 compression

2013-05-07 Thread John Drescher
> Currently I have a LTO3 magazine with HW compression on. From a theoretical > max storage of 400GB, sometimes it gets very good compression rates, and > manages to fit near 700GB I have an LTO2 tape that is used only for a specific dataset that is very compressible. Currently I it has 3TB on a

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO 6 compression

2013-05-07 Thread LDC - Gustavo El Khoury
On 07/05/2013, at 09:15 a.m., John Drescher wrote: >> I see that LTO 6 holds 2.5T data per tape, or 6.25T compressed. > > The 6.25TB is only an estimate. If you have non compressible data you > will get close to 2.5 TB of space on your tape. If you have all text > files you may fit 15 TB on a si

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO 6 compression

2013-05-07 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 10:11:27AM -0400, Alan McKay wrote: > On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:45 AM, John Drescher wrote: > > > > The 6.25TB is only an estimate. If you have non compressible data you > > will get close to 2.5 TB of space on your tape. If you have all text > > files you may fit 15 TB on a

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO 6 compression

2013-05-07 Thread Alan McKay
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:45 AM, John Drescher wrote: > > The 6.25TB is only an estimate. If you have non compressible data you > will get close to 2.5 TB of space on your tape. If you have all text > files you may fit 15 TB on a single tape.. Great, thanks for that! That's what I thought but I'

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO 6 compression

2013-05-07 Thread John Drescher
> I see that LTO 6 holds 2.5T data per tape, or 6.25T compressed. The 6.25TB is only an estimate. If you have non compressible data you will get close to 2.5 TB of space on your tape. If you have all text files you may fit 15 TB on a single tape.. > I've never used HW compression before so am won

[Bacula-users] Bare metal restore

2013-05-07 Thread Jonathan Bayer
I've seen conflicting comments online about this. I know this used to work. Assuming only Linux systems, and a further assumption that they will all be RHEL based systems, does Bacula support any way of bare-metal restores? And to be even more specific, these would all be VMs. Thanks in advan

[Bacula-users] LTO 6 compression

2013-05-07 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I see that LTO 6 holds 2.5T data per tape, or 6.25T compressed. I've never used HW compression before so am wondering whether its performance is variable like SW compression. i.e. depends on the file contents just what kind of compression ratio you'll get. And also how reliable is i