[Bacula-users] Bacula and burning DVD's

2005-10-27 Thread Tracy R Reed
sively ... retrying in 1 second. Trying to open without locking. FATAL: /dev/hda already carries isofs! 27-Oct 02:59 home-sd: Marking Volume "22" in Error in Catalog. Overall I am getting very weird and inconsistant behavior. :( -- Tracy R Reed http://copilotconsulting.com --

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and burning DVD's

2005-10-28 Thread Tracy R Reed
I have done a lot more playing around with bacula and discovered a few things, made progress, and run into new obstacles... Tracy R Reed wrote: > I am running Bacula from cvs as of yesterday on a dual-core AMD64 box > running FC4. And I am having a lot of problems. Sometimes when I try to &

[Bacula-users] Very slow backups

2005-10-30 Thread Tracy R Reed
from CVS as of three or four days ago on an AMD64 running FC4. Any ideas? Thanks! -- Tracy R Reed http://copilotconsulting.com --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course Fre

Re: [Bacula-users] Very slow backups

2005-10-30 Thread Tracy R Reed
Phil Stracchino wrote: > Have you investigated a database bottleneck? What SQL backend are you > using? What's system CPU load during backup? I am using SQLite3. There is 95% idle cpu during the backup. -- Tracy R Reed http://copilotcon

Re: [Bacula-users] Very slow backups

2005-10-31 Thread Tracy R Reed
New datapoint: I am now backing up to my recently acquired USB2 hard drive using file storage and the backup speeds are very slow just like with DVD. So it can't be disk bandwidth or DVD issues. Still have 95% idle cpu time during backup. Tracy R Reed wrote: > Ok, so over the course of

Re: [Bacula-users] Very slow backups

2005-11-01 Thread Tracy R Reed
ged it into a USB port on my box, and FC4 found it and mounted it for me and the transfer rate is plenty fast. I love it when things "just work"! Another odd thing I noticed is that the backups do indeed start out very slow. Around 100k/s but over time (hours) creep up to 1.5MB/s. --

Re: [Bacula-users] Very slow backups

2005-11-01 Thread Tracy R Reed
segfault. I am glad to see the warning made it into the release notes. -- Tracy R Reed http://copilotconsulting.com --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free

Re: [Bacula-users] Very slow backups

2005-11-02 Thread Tracy R Reed
time. I am going to try moving the bacula.db off onto the other disk and see if that improves things. I don't think my situation is all that unusual so I would be surprised if that were really the problem as it seems everyone would have slow backups. -- Tracy R Reed

Re: [Bacula-users] Very slow backups

2005-11-02 Thread Tracy R Reed
xed I will try a few more experiments and report on how it went. -- Tracy R Reed http://copilotconsulting.com --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and burning DVD's

2005-11-06 Thread Tracy R Reed
Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hello, > > On 27.10.2005 12:03, Tracy R Reed wrote: > > has this been answerded already? Yes, I have since resolved a lot of these issues either on my own or with help from Kern. >>I just labelled a second volume and it did not give me that erorr

[Bacula-users] Automatic selection of storage pools?

2005-12-06 Thread Tracy R Reed
such as automatically selecting the volume pool according to whichever it has available? -- Tracy R Reed http://copilotconsulting.com 1-877-MY-COPILOT --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for

Re: [Bacula-users] I love my bacula, but my boss says throughput is too slow.... :-( What can I do to optimize?

2006-06-17 Thread Tracy R Reed
144 12808 How on earth could it be writing so much more than it is reading? That is quite puzzling. If I strace the bacula-fd or bacula-sd processes they are just sitting in a select. I never see them doing anything else. But the spool file is growing so I know it is making progress. -- Trac

Re: [Bacula-users] I love my bacula, but my boss says throughput is too slow.... :-( What can I do to optimize?

2006-06-18 Thread Tracy R Reed
Tracy R Reed wrote: > Device:tps Blk_read/s Blk_wrtn/s Blk_read Blk_wrtn > hda 0.00 0.00 0.00 0 0 > sda 969.39 146.94 13069.39144 12808 > > How on earth could it be writing so mu

Re: [Bacula-users] I love my bacula, but my boss says throughput is too slow.... :-( What can I do to optimize?

2006-06-18 Thread Tracy R Reed
oing a lot more disk IO to the database than the amount of data we are actually backing up. That makes no sense and would not indicate a disk storage problem or ethernet problem. -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org ___ Bacula-users ma

Re: [Bacula-users] I love my bacula, but my boss says throughput is too slow.... :-( What can I do to optimize?

2006-06-18 Thread Tracy R Reed
access it from outside, and it can be set up very quickly. I will stick with mysql for now but I strongly suspect a problem in the bacula->sqlite interface. -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-use

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot use DVD for backup's, several errors.

2006-06-20 Thread Tracy R Reed
s not already labeled and it has been expired/deleted from the database. What is the proper way to handle this? -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users

[Bacula-users] Restore an unknown list of files

2006-07-19 Thread Tracy R Reed
phabetical order and I still have files named c* so I guess I only need to restore files [a-cA-C] and not directories since I mercifully did not use rm -rf. What is the best way to get bacula to produce a list of files in my homedir that it knows about that meet this criteria? Thanks! -- Tracy R

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore an unknown list of files

2006-07-22 Thread Tracy R Reed
Alan Brown wrote: > There is a restore option to not overwrite existing files. But that would also restore a lot of deleted mail into my Maildirs which I would like to avoid. -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org - T

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore an unknown list of files

2006-07-22 Thread Tracy R Reed
Dan Langille wrote: > Why not restore everything to a staging directory, when move over the > things you need? mv has options to not overwrite. Because that would be around 70G of data. -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviol