Re: [Bacula-users] How to handle long, time consuming backups

2009-01-07 Thread Massimo Schenone
It seems heartbeat statement fixed my problem too :) Thanks a lot! Massimo On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 10:00 -0500, Brian Willis wrote: > Massimo Schenone wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have the same question: how to backup a remote samba server with 60GB > > of file system space? > > I get an average through

Re: [Bacula-users] How to handle long, time consuming backups

2008-12-31 Thread Massimo Schenone
Thanks! I just set up the heartbeat however I guess that a time out is not the reason why firewall is canceling the connection because throughput is quite constant On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 10:00 -0500, Brian Willis wrote: > Massimo Schenone wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have the same question: how to back

Re: [Bacula-users] How to handle long, time consuming backups

2008-12-31 Thread Massimo Schenone
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 11:35 +0100, Maarten Hoogveld wrote: > First of al, thanks for all the suggestions to solve the problem! > And thanks for a great product like Bacula! Of course! I forgot to underline that bacula is "the" backup swiss-knife ;) it lacks some features that commercial products ha

Re: [Bacula-users] How to handle long, time consuming backups

2008-12-31 Thread Brian Willis
Massimo Schenone wrote: > Hi all, > I have the same question: how to backup a remote samba server with 60GB > of file system space? > I get an average throughput of 220Kb/s but the job always fails with > network error (Connection reset). In the middle there is a firewall and > I asked to people gu

Re: [Bacula-users] How to handle long, time consuming backups

2008-12-31 Thread Maarten Hoogveld
First of al, thanks for all the suggestions to solve the problem! And thanks for a great product like Bacula! 2008/12/31 Massimo Schenone > Hi all, > I have the same question: how to backup a remote samba server with 60GB > of file system space? > I get an average throughput of 220Kb/s but

Re: [Bacula-users] How to handle long, time consuming backups

2008-12-31 Thread Massimo Schenone
Hi all, I have the same question: how to backup a remote samba server with 60GB of file system space? I get an average throughput of 220Kb/s but the job always fails with network error (Connection reset). In the middle there is a firewall and I asked to people guys to raise tcp conn timeout.. Split

Re: [Bacula-users] How to handle long, time consuming backups

2008-12-30 Thread John Drescher
> A large, mostly static data set, and low bandwidth connection: this is > rsync's specialty! If you are not familiar with it, look here: > > http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/ > > I suggest you use rsync to sync your Windows client to a copy at your main > site (costs you 20GB of disk space somewhere

Re: [Bacula-users] How to handle long, time consuming backups

2008-12-30 Thread Glen Davison
"Maarten Hoogveld" wrote on 30/12/2008 10:59:40 PM: > [image removed] > > [Bacula-users] How to handle long, time consuming backups > > Maarten Hoogveld > > to: > > bacula-users > > 31/12/08 12:13 AM > > Hello list, > > I have use

Re: [Bacula-users] How to handle long, time consuming backups

2008-12-30 Thread Hemant Shah
--- On Tue, 12/30/08, Maarten Hoogveld wrote: > From: Maarten Hoogveld > Subject: [Bacula-users] How to handle long, time consuming backups > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Tuesday, December 30, 2008, 5:59 AM > Hello list, > > I have used Bacula for whi

Re: [Bacula-users] How to handle long, time consuming backups

2008-12-30 Thread James Cort
Maarten Hoogveld wrote: > Hello list, > > Does anyone have an idea how to solve this efficiently or have any > experience with this type of problem? Yes, with exactly this type of problem. I have 200GB of mostly-static data spread fairly evenly over two sites. The problem isn't just backup - ho

[Bacula-users] How to handle long, time consuming backups

2008-12-30 Thread Maarten Hoogveld
Hello list, I have used Bacula for while now for backing up several computers in our network and it works very well. I back up serveral linux servers and a few clients to a harddisk. These are all either on the local network (relative to the director and storage) or connected through high speed in