Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs running are lost after restart bacula-director

2010-09-07 Thread Steve Polyack
On 09/07/10 11:09, Eduardo Júnior wrote: > Hi, > > > 2010/9/6 John Drescher: >> 2010/9/6 Eduardo Júnior: >>> Hi, >>> >>> >>> I use bacula-director 2.4.4 on Debian Lenny Box. >>> >>> Why after a restart or reload of the daemon director >>> (/etc/init.d/bacula-director) >>> all jobs running are los

Re: [Bacula-users] Network performance

2010-08-11 Thread Steve Polyack
On 08/11/10 11:34, Hugo Silva wrote: > Christian Gaul wrote: >> Am 11.08.2010 16:49, schrieb Hugo Silva: >>> Thomas Mueller wrote: >>> Am Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:13:07 +0100 schrieb Hugo Silva: > Hello, > > I'm backing up a server in Germany from a director in The Netherlan

Re: [Bacula-users] Compress speed

2010-07-01 Thread Steve Polyack
On 07/01/10 15:27, Derek Harkness wrote: > Sorry I miss spoke in the original post. I'm backing up a server which has > 24x2.6ghz cpus and is barely using any of them. I bacula server is much > smaller, only 4 cpus. It looks like bacula has a single threaded compress > engine which appears to

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature idea feeler - bconsole "include / grep"

2010-05-06 Thread Steve Polyack
On 5/6/2010 6:46 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Steve, > > In message<4be2f9a3.1050...@comcast.net> you wrote: > >> Now that we have tab completion within bconsole, an additional option >> has come to mind which you can see in various other CLI environments >> (IOS, *NIX shells): the ability

[Bacula-users] Feature idea feeler - bconsole "include / grep"

2010-05-06 Thread Steve Polyack
;grep". I realize that I can accomplish the same thing with SQL queries or submit bconsole commands via a shell and filtering the output, but this still seems like it would st

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Possibility of parallelising encryption?

2010-04-08 Thread Steve Polyack
On 04/08/10 09:34, Craig Ringer wrote: > On 8/04/2010 8:03 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > >> On 04/08/10 02:16, Craig Ringer wrote: >> >>> Bacula should probably work with Intel's hardware crypto out of the box. >>> If it doesn't, most likely all that'd be required would be to call: >>> >>>

Re: [Bacula-users] Encryption slow down

2010-03-31 Thread Steve Polyack
On 03/31/10 10:39, Josh Fisher wrote: > On 3/30/2010 5:44 PM, William Taylor wrote: > >> Before enabling encryption we were getting 118 - 120 MBs throughput to our >> LTO-4 tape drive. >> With encryption turned on we get 38-39MBs throughput. bacula process is at >> 98 - 100 % cpu while runnin

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and deduplication

2010-03-02 Thread Steve Polyack
On 03/02/10 11:50, Beck J Mr wrote: > I think it's only available in V5.0.x. Even then, it's in it's infancy and, > as far as I can tell, doesn't work like all other deduplication methods I > have seen; where all files that have the same hash value are deduplicated. I > believe this is not the c

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting size information for files in an incremental backup?

2010-03-01 Thread Steve Polyack
On 03/01/10 12:10, Richard Hartmann wrote: > Hi all, > > the other question which has been haunting me is if there is any way to > determine which files within a given incremental backup are the heavy > hitters. I have several incremental backups which are way too large imo > and would want to trac

Re: [Bacula-users] One Job, many clients... (I really need help with this!)

2010-02-27 Thread Steve Polyack
On 2/27/2010 6:31 PM, Gilberto Nunes wrote: > Hi Joseph > > Thanks for reply > > When I say "many", I say different clients share some job... > > I have tree PC that I need do a Full backup to one tape... This tape I > will be use for once a month.. > > So, how can I do to use this tape with variou

[Bacula-users] Base jobs / File de-dupe with different paths?

2010-02-25 Thread Steve Polyack
I was wondering if it was possible to utilize base jobs to dedup files while ignoring the paths in which they reside in. The situation I'm trying to use them in is such: * I have a large subversion repository which has an up-to-date checkout in /var/svn. This gets backed up as the base job. *

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression - other then GZIP

2010-02-10 Thread Steve Polyack
On 2/10/2010 10:36 AM, Sean M Clark wrote: > On 2010Feb10 8:50 AM, Steve Polyack wrote: > >> On 2/10/2010 8:16 AM, Petar Bogdanovic wrote: >> >>>> I want use bzip2 to compress my file, because I thing bzip2 is more >>>> e

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Compression - other then GZIP

2010-02-10 Thread Steve Polyack
On 2/10/2010 8:16 AM, Petar Bogdanovic wrote: >> I want use bzip2 to compress my file, because I thing bzip2 is more >> efficient... >> > Really? > > $ du -m /tmp/foo.iso > 625 /tmp/foo.iso > $ gzip -c/dev/null > 0+34388 records in > 0+34388 records out > 5

[Bacula-users] Changes to filesets not having any effect, possibly a bug?

2010-02-01 Thread Steve Polyack
Hello all, I've made changes to a job's fileset, but it does not seem to have any effect. By doing a SELECT in the bacula database, I'm able to see that files which are part of a path which I've added to an Exclude block are still being backed up. Heres the fileset for an example: Before: File

Re: [Bacula-users] enabling compression for incremental backups only?

2010-01-28 Thread Steve Polyack
On 01/28/10 13:07, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm running bacula 2.2.8 compiled from source on Ubuntu lts 8.04. I > was wondering wether it's possible to enable software compresson for > incrementals only as our full backups go to an lto3 tape (hw > compression), while the incs end up on

Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: How it optimize the transfer speed.

2010-01-27 Thread Steve Polyack
On 01/26/10 10:39, Cyril Lavier wrote: > Phil Stracchino wrote: > >> On 01/26/10 09:12, Cyril Lavier wrote: >> >> >>> Phil Stracchino wrote: >>> >>> Cyril, I would look at the load on all the machines involved, particularly the machine running the catalog and Director.

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows XP encryption and Bacula

2010-01-08 Thread Steve Polyack
On 01/08/10 09:13, Brian C. Huffman wrote: > All, > > I'm having trouble backing up a Windows XP machine that has a directory > (and everything below it) selected for encryption (properties on the > directory). I'm getting "ERR=Access is denied" for the files. It's > confusing, b/c it's still rea

Re: [Bacula-users] Network transfer Speed

2009-12-09 Thread Steve Polyack
Hayden Katzenellenbogen wrote: > Everyone, > > Here is a little update. I finally after many months have been able to > run my first restore. > > I started an 800G restore. Which is half of my 1.7TB backup. > > I ran iostat while it was restoring and was getting between 50 and 140 > Meg/s.

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup rate

2009-12-09 Thread Steve Polyack
Sean M Clark wrote: > Carlo Filippetto wrote: > >> Hi, >> I would like to know if is true that I have so slow troughput as this: >> > [...] > >> FULL >> - >> Elapsed time: 1 day 22 hours 13 mins 37 secs >> > [...] > >> Rate: 371.7 KB/s >> Sof

[Bacula-users] Disabling compression per schedule?

2009-11-09 Thread Steve Polyack
Is it possible to disable GZIP compression for jobs for a single schedule? As even 'compression = GZIP1' makes a large difference in backup speed, I'd like to disable it for some of my tape jobs, since the LTO3 drive employs hardware compression anyways. However, the same job definitions are

[Bacula-users] Allow SpoolData=no on the job level to override a schedule's setting

2009-10-30 Thread Steve Polyack
I've recently enabled spooling on a storage director by turning it on in the Director and Storage sections of the dir's config. I've also enabled it in the schedules where it should be. However, for a particular schedule there is one job which I do not want to spool because it's coming locall

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Hardware Crypto-Accelerators and Bacula

2009-09-10 Thread Steve Polyack
ore clear otherwise. > On Wednesday 09 September 2009 16:52:12 Steve Polyack wrote: > >> I may have asked this question before, but has anyone had any luck with >> getting Bacula to utilize a hardware crypto accelerator for FD >> encryption? Setting the engine(3) options i

[Bacula-users] Hardware Crypto-Accelerators and Bacula

2009-09-09 Thread Steve Polyack
I may have asked this question before, but has anyone had any luck with getting Bacula to utilize a hardware crypto accelerator for FD encryption? Setting the engine(3) options in openssl.cnf do not appear to have any affect. This can be confirmed with statistic programs which hook into the c

Re: [Bacula-users] Encryption Options

2009-05-12 Thread Steve Polyack
Andrey Dmitriev wrote: > Dear list, > > 1) > It was shared with me that bacula encrypts 'per client' not 'per job'. > We first backup data to disk, and then to tape. We don't really need to > encrypt to disk, but would like to do so to tape, is there a workaround? > 2) do any HW crypto acceleratoi

Re: [Bacula-users] binding of outgoing connection to specific address

2009-04-01 Thread Steve Polyack
Kevin Keane wrote: > In all honesty, I'm not yet following I've corrected the links I was referring to: http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg15651.html http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg15776.html A lot of this also boils down to writin

Re: [Bacula-users] binding of outgoing connection to specific address

2009-03-31 Thread Steve Polyack
Kevin Keane wrote: > Inquiring minds want to know: why would you want to control the source > address? Doesn't the routing table automatically select the correct one > based on the destination address you want to reach? > > The OS is supposed to choose a "functional" address, which when paired

Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: Bacula-FD for VMware ESXi - Server

2009-03-31 Thread Steve Polyack
It's quite possible that it would if you could get all of the dependencies installed as well. First, you'd have to get RPM installed. Fahrer, Julian wrote: > > Will that really work on an ESXi Server? > > > > *Von:* Ferdinando Pasqualetti [mailto:fpasq...@ccci.it] > *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 31. M

Re: [Bacula-users] binding of outgoing connection to specific address

2009-03-30 Thread Steve Polyack
Axel Rau wrote: > Hi all, > > is it posiible, to configure a file-daemon to use a specific ip- > address to talk to the storage daemon? > This one is running on a multi-homed host. > > I've submitted a patch to include an option (FDSourceAddress) in Bacula for this. It won't be present in the

[Bacula-users] Mac OS/X Bacula Client Binaries (2.4.4)

2009-03-19 Thread Steve Polyack
I've provided these before, but since a few versions have passed us by I have updated these to Bacula 2.4.4. These are client binaries only. If anyone needs director, or storage daemon binaries, let me know and I should be able to get them built as well. MacOSX i386 (built on 10.5.2-i686) ht

Re: [Bacula-users] Backporting FD Encryption

2009-03-12 Thread Steve Polyack
Dan Langille wrote: > Philipp Geschke wrote: > > >> After that you will have a bacula-fd installed that is able to perform data >> and transport encryption. >> > > FD encryption is cool and all. But I'd like to see SD-side encryption. > > I have to agree; I even put in a feature reques

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature Request: Migration jobs tape to tape with single drive

2009-02-16 Thread Steve Polyack
Tobias Barth wrote: > > > Feature Request Form > > Item n: Migration jobs tape to tape with single drive > Origin: Tobias Barth > Date: 11 February 2009 > Status: new > > What: Migration jobs from tape to table should be possible with one > single tape drive. File Systems (har

[Bacula-users] Feature Request: Storage Daemon based encryption

2009-02-16 Thread Steve Polyack
Feature Request Form Item n: Storage Daemon based encryption Origin: Steve Polyack Date: 16 February 2009 Status: new What: The ability to encrypt and decrypt data that moves between the storage daemon and its storage devices. Why:Storage daemon based encryption

Re: [Bacula-users] Finding performance issues

2009-02-10 Thread Steve Polyack
(private) HKS wrote: > My server's network performance seems all right. Testing basic TCP > throughput with iperf, I'm showing an average of 880Mbps or so. FTP > downloads to this server hum along at about 85MB/s. > > You may want to expirement with the "Maximum Network Buffer Size" parameter w

Re: [Bacula-users] Finding performance issues

2009-02-10 Thread Steve Polyack
nts and storage daemon involving your disks. Ensure that you can reliably stream faster than the speeds you're seeing (1-1.5MB/sec). Also, take a look into tuning PostgreSQL, although it doesn't seem like that is you