[Bacula-users] Slow backups

2013-12-20 Thread Levie, Jim
I have a group of three CentoOS 5.10 boxes and client backups are, well, slow. The hardware specs are that the systems are all Dell R710's (dual quad processors w/24GB of memory). The Bacula server/storage node has a Dell LT04 Powervault 124T and is an authentication only server (LDAP) for a sma

Re: [Bacula-users] question about how retention works

2013-12-20 Thread Dan Langille
On 2013-12-20 01:19 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 13:14 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > >> Read >> http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/main/main/Restore_Command.html >> >> 'If a Job's file records have been pruned from the catalog, the >> restore >> command will be unable to find a

Re: [Bacula-users] MySQL version to compile Bacula 5.2.13 against?

2013-12-20 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 12/20/13 05:19, Masopust, Christian wrote: > > Hi Phil, > > maybe OT, but what's the reason against MySQL 5.6 ? It's a complex update with a lot of major changes, and while Oracle claims large performance gains, I think they're cheating and basing that on scaling to larger numbers of cores.

Re: [Bacula-users] question about how retention works

2013-12-20 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 13:14 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > Read http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/main/main/Restore_Command.html > > 'If a Job's file records have been pruned from the catalog, the restore > command will be unable to find any files to restore. Bacula will ask if > you want to re

Re: [Bacula-users] question about how retention works

2013-12-20 Thread Dan Langille
On 2013-12-20 01:00 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > Good, we're getting somewhere. > > On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 11:45 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > >> Let's confirm this. Let's look at this job: > > {SQL stuff snipped} > > That is what I was eventually going to get around to doing, so thanks > for doing t

Re: [Bacula-users] "Run After Job" character substitutions

2013-12-20 Thread jay
Ah ok, that is a bit more work, but should be easy enough. Thanks for the suggestion! Jay On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Juraj Sakala wrote: > Hi, > > There is no Elapsed time substitution string in the bacula. But don't > worry. You can run a script after backup that pulls the information

Re: [Bacula-users] question about how retention works

2013-12-20 Thread Greg Woods
Good, we're getting somewhere. On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 11:45 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > Let's confirm this. Let's look at this job: {SQL stuff snipped} That is what I was eventually going to get around to doing, so thanks for doing that for me. So it looks like, if the same file is written to

Re: [Bacula-users] "Run After Job" character substitutions

2013-12-20 Thread Juraj Sakala
Hi, There is no Elapsed time substitution string in the bacula. But don't worry. You can run a script after backup that pulls the information about jobid from the bacula database and parses it. So you can use all these information you need to process. In the RunAfterJob you call a script with the

[Bacula-users] "Run After Job" character substitutions

2013-12-20 Thread jay
Hello, I have a question about the character substitutions performed in the "Run After Job" option. I know the list of available substitutions contains things like job bytes (%b), jobid (%i), etc. It there an option available to get the Elapsed Time of a job? Or is there a way to add additional

[Bacula-users] Newbie setting up virtual full on disk

2013-12-20 Thread Lloyd Brown
Hi, all. I'm in the middle of trying to get a largely inherited bacula setup (v5.2.13), to do virtual fulls correctly. Can someone point me in the right direction? I'm attaching a file with some relevant excerpts from bacula-sd.conf and bacula-dir.conf. Now for the longer explanation: We have

Re: [Bacula-users] question about how retention works

2013-12-20 Thread Dan Langille
On 2013-12-19 04:18 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 12:38 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > >> I set my FILE and JOB retentions high. 3 years. Then I set my VOLUME >> retention lower. Whichever retention period expires first, that's the >> one which counts. <== I will refer to that as

Re: [Bacula-users] MySQL version to compile Bacula 5.2.13 against?

2013-12-20 Thread Masopust, Christian
Hi Phil, maybe OT, but what's the reason against MySQL 5.6 ? br, christian > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Phil Stracchino [mailto:ph...@caerllewys.net] > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. Dezember 2013 16:59 > An: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Betreff: Re: [Bacula-users] MySQL vers