Re: [Bacula-users] bacula on Debian

2014-05-10 Thread Melvin Ross
Personally, I've had nothing but trouble with the bacula packages distributed by debian. I've found the most prudent and quickest way to get a working bacula installation in debian is to simply compile it from source. Managing the updates manually is a bit more laborious , but by no means a show st

Re: [Bacula-users] Expiration of Backup Volumes on DIsk

2013-09-02 Thread Melvin Ross
Do you mean volume use duration or volume retention period? When a volume is no longer in the append status for any reason, (volume use duration, size limitations, etc), it will stay around and not be recycled until the volume retention period is up. Once the volume retention period is up, it will

Re: [Bacula-users] How to install the latest version bacula

2013-08-25 Thread Melvin Ross
rsion of a file. On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Melvin Ross wrote: > Why not just install it from source? You're guaranteed to get the latest > version, and it's the suggested means of installing bacula. I fought with > debian's package for hours until I took the good a

Re: [Bacula-users] How to install the latest version bacula

2013-08-25 Thread Melvin Ross
Why not just install it from source? You're guaranteed to get the latest version, and it's the suggested means of installing bacula. I fought with debian's package for hours until I took the good advice of the bacula manual and simply installed it from source. After that, I had bacula up and runnin

Re: [Bacula-users] What might prevent auto-recycling?

2013-07-31 Thread melvin . ross
If you set the retention period on the pool after the volume was created, then you have to manually tell the volume to grab the new settings from the pool. This might not apply to you, but it's a common gotcha. -Melvin On 7/31/13 14:34 Michael Stauffer wrote: Hi, I had some jobs stall b/c o

Re: [Bacula-users] deduplication within a volmue

2013-05-31 Thread melvin . ross
For the bacula volumes it's not very high. It's in mostly in place to handle hundreds of thousands of wav files whose first 20-30% is the exact same content. To control the size of my bacula volumes I instead employee a very aggressive recycling policy on the pools. >From My Mobile On 5/31/13

Re: [Bacula-users] deduplication within a volmue

2013-05-30 Thread melvin . ross
There is no dedup by default. You have to either implement base jobs or do the dedup outside of Backus. I personally store my volumes on zfs and let it handle the de duplication. On 5/30/13 15:58 stompdagg...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, I have a question, I want to backup my videos and music file

Re: [Bacula-users] including a file twice

2013-05-20 Thread melvin . ross
I'd imagine that since files get backed up according to their absolute paths in the file system that you'd only get one copy. That's just a guess from doing restores and poking around at the database. If not, I'd imagine that the scenario could really make muck up a backup. How would it know whe

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula backups insufficient

2013-03-28 Thread melvin . ross
Could we see your file set definition? It sounds like it's looking in the wrong places for files. We wouldn't know what the right places were, but you would and could answer questions. it's where I'd start at least -Melvin On 3/28/13 17:47 Tim Dunphy wrote: Hello list, My current bacula dir

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula restore getting wrong Storage

2013-03-22 Thread Melvin Ross
I am also interested in how large your catalog is. We all have very different budgets and definitions when it comes to "large" MySQL representations, and a few of us may be able to offer some tips if that's your bottleneck. -Melvin On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > On Fri,

Re: [Bacula-users] MySQLdump import seems very slow for "Filename" and "Path" tables

2013-03-19 Thread Melvin Ross
You may also want to try Xtrabackup from Percona. -Melvin On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 4:24 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:39:40AM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > On 03/16/13 05:54, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I've been warned re-importing an innodb mys

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup of Win7 32bits PC fails

2013-03-18 Thread Melvin Ross
Is the Volume Shadow Copy service running on this machine? It sometime is set as a manual service instead of an automatic one. On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Jean-Gabriel Duquesnoy < d...@jgduke.dnsalias.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have now as far as I can see, managed to correctly configure Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Which full back up is an incremental/differential back up based on if multiple full back ups exist within multiple pools with different retention periods?

2013-03-18 Thread Melvin Ross
No, this was a mistake on my part not properly understanding the Volume Retention Period Directive. I obviously skimmed through that part of the documentation and should have paid closer attention. I'm correcting that error now. Thank you very much for pointing it out. All files are being written t

[Bacula-users] Which full back up is an incremental/differential back up based on if multiple full back ups exist within multiple pools with different retention periods?

2013-03-18 Thread Melvin Ross
ld be useless. My next thought was to pull them into different JobIDs to ensure that the incrementals/differentials would be based on the proper data, which seems like a much better solution than the first. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. -Melvin Ross Relevant Director config is below: # # De