My apologies - your email address was .co.za, so i assumed Zaire. Didn't realize your SMSs were so limited - indeed a script to attach to a GSM phone might be your best route, but I can't give you any guidance on that :(.
--matt On Sep 9, 2006, at 2:43 PM, Janco van der Merwe wrote: > Fortunately I also don't know how the networks are in Zaire but in > South Africa we are a little more advanced that our collegues up > North, or so I'm told, something to do with our Apartheid Goverment > building an excellent infrastruture which has gone to ruin with the > new democratic thingie....... but enough of politics. Unfortunately > only SP, as far as I know, has that service but you only have > limited sms's.........5 in total if I'm not mistaken, that is why > we have the GPRS modem linked to our Firewall which runs Zabbix and > I though maybe I can utilize it but then I have to get another > modem, so maybe it wasn't that good idea???? > > From: Matt Cowger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Janco van der Merwe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 23:33:43 +0200 > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] WOW > > Personally, I wouldn't send it directly through a modem if you can > avoid it. I dont know how the networks are in Zaire, but in the US, > most carriers offer a email-> SMS gateway, so that you simply send an > email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or similar, and it becomes an SMS. > If you can go that route, I'd definitly try. > > > > --matt > > > On Sep 9, 2006, at 2:30 PM, Janco van der Merwe wrote: > > > OH, I see, thank you for the speedy reply, just one thing I did not > > turn on the FD compression but you know what it isn't that much of > > a disater..... I was curious and hell I haven't seen a backup > > solution like this before so I'm not complaining! Can you give me > > tip on how I will replace the bsmtp resource with my sms gateway, > > as far as I know there are return characters that should be read so > > that the modem doesn't keep on sending the same sms, how will > > Bacula read/interperet the return character, how will you set up > > Bacula to do this........so many questions so little time!!!!!!! > > > > From: Matt Cowger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: Janco van der Merwe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Sent: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 23:11:59 +0200 > > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] WOW > > > > > > > My question is, is it normal to take round about 13 hours to > backup > > > the data? What I mean is if you take each separate job and you > > > compare it to the time that Ultrabac took you notice that Bacula > > > takes 4 -5 times longer to backup the individual job. Any ideas > > > why, DB maybe? > > > > This may depend on whether you are using compression on the FD's to > > transfer the data. On some of my machines, they are too slow to > > quickly compress the data, and turning on comrpession actually slows > > down my backups by nearly 3x. Just a thought. Perhaps UltraBac > > doesn't do comrpession on the client end? > > > > > > > > My second question is, would it be possible to hook Bacula up to > > > the monitoring package, Zabbix, to send out a sms/text message > > > every time a job succeeds/fails or can Bacula do it if you hook it > > > up to a GPRS modem? > > > > Take a look at the call to bsmtp in the director config file. You > > could easily replace/supplement it with a call to your favorite SMS > > gateway.... > > > > > > And then lastly, as you might come to realize my knowledge of > > > backups is quite dangerous and I'm still learning. Can someone > > > explain to me how did Bacula backup 295 GB to a tape that is > > > suppose to take 260GB. 90% of the Servers are Windows Servers and > > > very little data is text based so how in the hell did it do it > > > without corrupting the Data??????????? > > > > The 260GB limit is based on compression, and assumes a 2.6:1 > > compression (AIT3 is 100GB native, 260GB compressed), but that > > estimate is just an AVERAGE. In your case, you got 2.95:1 (or more) > > - thats totally possible depending on your data. Its not just text > > data thats highly compressible - some types of email data, database > > data can also be highly compressible... > > > > --Matt > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > ______ > > This communication and any attachments are confidential and > > intended for the sole use of the > > intended recipient. 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