[Bacula-users] self contained tapes

2005-12-01 Thread Baldur Norddahl
Hi, My tapes usually last 14-21 days with full backups every sunday and incremental othervise. I just let the system keep using the tape until it is full. But when it fills, I would like if I could get bacula to abandon the current jobs and start over with a full backup as the first thing on

[Bacula-users] self contained tapes

2005-11-28 Thread Baldur Norddahl
Hi, My tapes usually last 14-21 days with full backups every sunday and incremental othervise. I just let the system keep using the tape until it is full. But when it fills, I would like if I could get bacula to abandon the current jobs and start over with a full backup as the first thing on the

[Bacula-users] postgresql performance

2005-09-24 Thread Baldur Norddahl
Hi, I switched from Sqlite to Postgresql. Performance was horrible until I turned fsync off. I suspect that bacula is inserting data about each file as a seperate transaction. Something like this: begin; insert into file values (...); commit; Or actually it is probably just running with au

Re: [Bacula-users] new bacula install

2005-09-21 Thread Baldur Norddahl
Phil Stracchino wrote: SQLite is generally recommended only for small installations with no other DB. PostgreSQL or MySQL is much preferred. Of the two, many reports indicate that Bacula does not perform well with PostgreSQL on backups, because PostgreSQL is much slower than MySQL on writes.

[Bacula-users] new bacula install

2005-09-20 Thread Baldur Norddahl
Hi, I am installing bacula on a dedicated backup server running gentoo. The server is a 3 GHz P4. The tapestreamer is an IBM Ultrium LTO 3 (400 GB tapes uncompressed). I am going to backup 11 servers. Most of them are straightforward, but 4 of them run large Postgresql databases, and I want