Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula for OSX 10.9

2014-09-07 Thread Paul Mather
On Sep 7, 2014, at 5:42 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On 09/07/2014 07:33 AM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: >> I'm interested in perhaps deploying this in my k-8 school, but I have not >> found a good tutorial of how to install it. Or if it even works right on Mac. >> >> Anyone have some insights on this?

Re: [Bacula-users] Recommended hardware

2013-05-03 Thread Paul Mather
On May 3, 2013, at 12:03 PM, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de wrote: > > Zitat von Francisco Garcia Perez : > >> Hello, >> I have a PowerVault 124T, but I want buy a new backup system with support >> for my old LTO-2 and LTO-3 tapes with at least 24 slots, 2 drives, a >> barcode scanner. What do you recommen

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup strategy with Bacula

2013-03-27 Thread Paul Mather
On Mar 26, 2013, at 11:44 PM, Bill Arlofski wrote: > On 03/26/13 22:33, Wood Peter wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm planning to use Bacula to do file level backup of about 15 Linux >> systems. Total backup size is about 2TB. >> >> For Bacula server I'm thinking to buy Dell PE R520 with 24TB internal >>

Re: [Bacula-users] Job canceling tip

2013-03-05 Thread Paul Mather
On Mar 5, 2013, at 9:54 AM, Dan Langille wrote: > On 2013-03-04 04:42, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: >> On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 08:45:05 +0100 >> Geert Stappers wrote: >> >> [...] >>> Thank you for the tip. I want to share another. >>> It is about canceling multiple jobs. Execute from shell >>> >>>

Re: [Bacula-users] FreeBSD 9 and ZFS with compression - should be fine?

2012-02-10 Thread Paul Mather
On Feb 10, 2012, at 1:53 AM, Silver Salonen wrote: > On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 14:58:33 -0500, Paul Mather wrote: >> On Feb 9, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Steven Schlansker wrote: >>> On the flip side, compression seems to be a very big win. I'm >>> seeing ratios from 1.7 to 2

Re: [Bacula-users] FreeBSD 9 and ZFS with compression - should be fine?

2012-02-09 Thread Paul Mather
On Feb 9, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Steven Schlansker wrote: > > On Feb 9, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Mark wrote: >> Steven, out of curiosity, do you see any benefit with dedup (assuming that >> bacula volumes are the only thing on a given zfs volume). I did some >> initial trials and it appeared that bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting back to the basics; Volumes, Pools, Reusability

2011-08-05 Thread Paul Mather
On Aug 4, 2011, at 8:46 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> Why do we use volumes? It sounds like a silly question, but it's >> genuine. Is it so a backup can span several media types? Tape, file, >> disk, Pandora's box, what? Why do I care about volumes and how long >> they're retained, how often

Re: [Bacula-users] Reliable Backups without Tapes?

2011-07-15 Thread Paul Mather
On Jul 14, 2011, at 7:56 PM, Ken Mandelberg wrote: > Under Legato the license restriction artificially keep the "file-device" > small relative to the tape storage. However, these days disks are > cheaper than tapes and license free we could afford a lot of disk space. I know hard drives are che

Re: [Bacula-users] Invalid Tape position - Marking tapes with error

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Mather
On Jul 7, 2011, at 12:30 PM, James Woodward wrote: > Hello, > > I haven't seen anything about using nsa devices to use over something like an > sa device. I did a bit of a search but haven't seen anything that really > explains that portion to me. The FreeBSD tape driver uses different device

Re: [Bacula-users] Invalid Tape position - Marking tapes with error

2011-07-07 Thread Paul Mather
On Jul 7, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Martin Simmons wrote: >> On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 10:30:36 -0600, James Woodward said: >> >> Hello, >> >> I haven't seen anything about using nsa devices to use over something like >> an sa device. I did a bit of a search but haven't seen anything that really >> explain

Re: [Bacula-users] Very low performance with compression and encryption !

2011-01-20 Thread Paul Mather
On Jan 20, 2011, at 12:44 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > > On Thu, January 20, 2011 12:28 pm, Silver Salonen wrote: >> On Thursday 20 January 2011 19:02:33 Paul Mather wrote: >>> On Jan 20, 2011, at 11:01 AM, John Drescher wrote: >>> >>>>>> This is

Re: [Bacula-users] Very low performance with compression and encryption !

2011-01-20 Thread Paul Mather
On Jan 20, 2011, at 11:01 AM, John Drescher wrote: >>> This is normal. If you want fast compression do not use software >>> compression and use a tape drive with HW compression like LTO drives. >>> >>> John >> Not really an option for file/disk devices though. >> >> I've been tempted to experime

Re: [Bacula-users] incremental backups too large

2011-01-13 Thread Paul Mather
On Jan 13, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Lawrence Strydom wrote: > I understand that something is adding data and logically the backup should > grow. What I don't understand is why the entire file has to be backed up if > only a few bytes of data has changed. It is mainly outlook.pst files and > MSSQL data

Re: [Bacula-users] Verify differences: SHA1 sum doesn't match but it should

2010-08-30 Thread Paul Mather
On Aug 30, 2010, at 6:41 AM, Henrik Johansen wrote: > Like most ZFS related stuff it all sounds (and looks) extremely easy but > in reality it is not quite so simple. Yes, but does ZFS makes things easier or harder? Silent data corruption won't go away just because your pool is large. :-) (But,

Re: [Bacula-users] Verify differences: SHA1 sum doesn't match but it should

2010-08-28 Thread Paul Mather
On Aug 28, 2010, at 7:12 AM, Steve Costaras wrote: > Could be due to a transient error (transmission or wild/torn read at time of > calculation). I see this a lot with integrity checking of files here (50TiB > of storage). > > Only way to get around this now is to do a known-good sha1/md5 has

Re: [Bacula-users] Dell PV-124T with Ultrium TD4, Hardware or Software compression?

2010-08-14 Thread Paul Mather
On Aug 13, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Dietz Pröpper wrote: > You: >> On Aug 13, 2010, at 4:10 AM, Dietz Pröpper wrote: >>> IMHO there are two problems with hardware compression: >>> 1. Data mix: The compression algorithms tend to work quite well on >>> compressable stuff, but can't cope very well with prec

Re: [Bacula-users] Dell PV-124T with Ultrium TD4, Hardware or Software compression?

2010-08-13 Thread Paul Mather
On Aug 13, 2010, at 4:10 AM, Dietz Pröpper wrote: > IMHO there are two problems with hardware compression: > 1. Data mix: The compression algorithms tend to work quite well on > compressable stuff, but can't cope very well with precompressed stuff, i.e. > encrypted data or media files. On an old

Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed

2010-08-09 Thread Paul Mather
On Aug 9, 2010, at 2:55 AM, Henry Yen wrote: > On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 10:48:10AM +0200, Christian Gaul wrote: >> Even when catting to /dev/dsp i use /dev/urandom.. Blocking on >> /dev/random happens much too quickly.. and when do you really need that >> much randomness. > > I get about 40 bytes

Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum Scalar i500 slow write speed

2010-08-06 Thread Paul Mather
On Aug 6, 2010, at 4:48 AM, Christian Gaul wrote: > Am 05.08.2010 21:56, schrieb Henry Yen: >> On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 17:17:39PM +0200, Christian Gaul wrote: >> [[...]] >> /dev/urandom seems to measure about 3MB/sec or thereabouts, so creating a large "uncompressible" file could be do

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 5.0.2 FreeBSD port fails to build during upgrade

2010-07-20 Thread Paul Mather
On Jul 20, 2010, at 3:10 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > On 7/20/2010 12:20 PM, Paul Mather wrote: >> I'm running FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE (RELENG_8). Recently, the >> sysutils/bacula-{client,server} ports were updated to 5.0.2. Unfortunately, >> when updating via portmast

[Bacula-users] Bacula 5.0.2 FreeBSD port fails to build during upgrade

2010-07-20 Thread Paul Mather
I'm running FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE (RELENG_8). Recently, the sysutils/bacula-{client,server} ports were updated to 5.0.2. Unfortunately, when updating via portmaster, the bacula-client port updated successfully, but bacula-server did not. It fails to build: [[...]] Compiling ua_restore.c Com

Re: [Bacula-users] Bconsole not properly installed

2010-06-30 Thread Paul Mather
On Jun 30, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Albin Vega wrote: > Hello > > First let me say that I havent been using FreeBSD and Bacula before, so its > all a bit new to me, and I might do some beginners mistakes. > > have installed Bacula server 5.0.0.1 on a FreeBsd 8 platform. Have followed > the instruc

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with connection in Bacula-Bat

2010-06-21 Thread Paul Mather
On Jun 21, 2010, at 6:43 AM, Cato Myhrhagen wrote: > I have som problems getting Bacula-Bat working. Here is what i have done so > far: > > 1. Installed FreeBSD 8.0 rel > 2. From the ports catalogue i have installed Gnome Lite > 3. Uppgraded all the ports with CVsup > 4. Then I installed Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem installing Bacula-BAT

2010-06-17 Thread Paul Mather
On Jun 17, 2010, at 7:24 AM, Cato Myhrhagen wrote: > Hello > > First let me say that i am new to FreeBSD and Bacula, so my question might be > a bit trivial. Newertheless, I am having big problems installing Bacula BAT > on my FreeBSD server. Let me explain what i have done so far: > > 1. In

[Bacula-users] bscan-recovered catalogue not usable :-(

2010-06-02 Thread Paul Mather
About three months ago I began using Bacula (5.0.0 on FreeBSD 8-STABLE), initially backing up to disk, but with a view to backing up to tape in the near future. To keep things simple, I initially used Sqlite for the catalogue. About a week ago, I decided to move to using PostgreSQL for the cat

[Bacula-users] Sqlite3 to PostgreSQL 8.4 catalogue migration

2010-05-28 Thread Paul Mather
Does anyone have a working script to migrate a Sqlite3 catalogue database to PostgreSQL 8.4.4? I'm using a very recent FreeBSD 8-STABLE and the sqlite2pgsql script in the examples/database directory of the source code doesn't work for me. Has anyone got this to work successfully under a curren

Re: [Bacula-users] Quantum SuperLoader 3 under Bacula on FreeBSD 8

2010-05-18 Thread Paul Mather
On May 18, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Robert Hartzell wrote: > On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 15:08 -0400, Paul Mather wrote: >> I am currently assembling a quote for an LTO-4 tape backup system. So far, >> I am looking at using a 16-slot Quantum SuperLoader 3 with LTO-4HH drive as >> the t

[Bacula-users] Quantum SuperLoader 3 under Bacula on FreeBSD 8

2010-05-18 Thread Paul Mather
I am currently assembling a quote for an LTO-4 tape backup system. So far, I am looking at using a 16-slot Quantum SuperLoader 3 with LTO-4HH drive as the tape unit. Married to this will be a server to act as the backup server that will drive the tape unit using Bacula to manage backups. The