Re: [Bacula-users] differential backups not reqiered?

2006-11-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 03 November 2006 11:27, Jaap Stolk wrote: > On 11/3/06, Jaap Stolk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was wondering if i could do without the differential backups altogether ? > > (in reply to my own post) > I did some more reading and found that the differential backup only > looks at th

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting started

2006-11-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 02 November 2006 08:08, G. Armour Van Horn wrote: > I've got my bacula box setup running Fedora Core 5 using the > 1.38.11-3.fc5.i386.rpms for bacula-posgresql, bacula-mtx, > bacula-gconsole, and bacula-client. I have posgresql, bacula-dir, > bacula-fd, and bacula-sd setup to run as

Re: [Bacula-users] File Daemon Encryption Maturity

2006-11-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 12:58, Mathew Brown wrote: > Hi, > I'd read several times that the FD encryption feature was not yet > stable but this was several months ago. Would you now consider it > stable enough for use in production environments? Thanks for your > help. It is re

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple backups for a client

2006-11-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 30 October 2006 15:23, le dahut wrote: > Hello, > > How can I avoid Bacula launching a second backup while the first one > isn't finished ? > This phenomenon occurred last WE with summer/winter time switching, a > backup was scheduled for 2:00 am and wasn't finished at 3:00 am so when

Re: [Bacula-users] File Table entries not pruned

2006-11-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Wednesday 25 October 2006 23:00, Christoph Haas wrote: > On Wednesday 25 October 2006 22:52, Martin Simmons wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:04:27 +0200, Christoph Haas said: > > > > > > On Wednesday 25 October 2006 15:15, Wolfgang Powisch (privat) wrote: > > > > My Setup: > > > >bacu

Re: [Bacula-users] (no subject)

2006-11-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Arno, Thanks for your comments. Please see below for my responses: On Saturday 04 November 2006 22:42, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > On 11/4/2006 1:46 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Hello, 1 November 2006 > > > > This contents of this email is for discussi

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula status

2006-11-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 16 October 2006 17:26, Josh Fisher wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > 1. I have requested help setting up more community participation in testing, > > bug fixing, and builds of more platforms such as Solaris, FreeBSD, ... This > > is to ensure that all important platforms are supported

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula under Windows 2003 64 bit.

2006-11-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 09 November 2006 20:37, Robert Nelson wrote: > Actually the Path name limit in version 1.39.x and above is 32767. OK, noted -- thanks. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern > Sibbald > Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006

Re: [Bacula-users] archiving / filesets

2006-11-09 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 11/3/2006 8:13 PM, mike castleman wrote: > Hi, > > We are trying to use bacula for archiving data which is important but > rarely accessed. I'm wondering if there is a way to specify in the > console which files we would like sent to tape without going into the > director configuration fil

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Have some trouble with Bacula

2006-11-09 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 11/2/2006 10:42 AM, Zemchikhin V.M. wrote: > Hi. > > I don't receive any answers. Please, help! I didn't even receive your mail until now :-) > Hi, bacula-users. > > When backuping I receive this messages in console: > 31-Oct 11:08 xxx-dir: Warning: sql_create.c:663 More than one >

Re: [Bacula-users] Bad response to Append Data command. Wanted 3000 OK data, , got 3903 Error append data

2006-11-09 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 11/9/2006 7:25 AM, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > I've gotten this one... I'd love to know what it is too. :) Dat's an error ;-) > > Jake Goerzen wrote: > >>What does it mean when this happens? and is there a way to fix it? >> >> >>07-Nov 08:40 adam-dir: Start Backup JobId 369, >>Job=Back

Re: [Bacula-users] maximum concurrent jobs for a job

2006-11-09 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, again, On 11/9/2006 3:57 PM, Silver Salonen wrote: > On Wednesday 11 October 2006 21:44, Arno Lehmann wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>On 10/11/2006 1:31 PM, Silver Salonen wrote: ... >>Yes. Either use different pools (which you might do anyway beause of the >>different retention times) and assign a stor

Re: [Bacula-users] Is Bacula for me: Videography business backups

2006-11-09 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 11/9/2006 1:55 AM, Bill Moran wrote: > On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:49:30 -0600 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>>Currently, the windows FD is running stable and reliable IMO. >>>Unfortunately, I have some problems with VSS backups (windows' name

Re: [Bacula-users] reloading components' configuration

2006-11-09 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 11/9/2006 3:56 PM, Silver Salonen wrote: > On Tuesday 07 November 2006 21:59, Arno Lehmann wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>On 11/7/2006 1:31 PM, Silver Salonen wrote: >> >>>On Tuesday 07 November 2006 14:28, Dan Langille wrote: >>> >>> On 7 Nov 2006 at 14:17, Silver Salonen wrote: >

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-09 Thread Don MacArthur
As a reminder, the director/sd/database system is supporting 20 concurrent jobs, 10 to tape and 10 to raid. It's a 2-cpu hp dl380 G4, 3.4GHz cpus and 3.5Gb ram. On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 17:29 -0500, John Drescher wrote: > On 11/9/06, Don MacArthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The jobs are

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-09 Thread John Drescher
On 11/9/06, Don MacArthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The jobs are written to both the raid and the tape at almost identicalspeeds.  I don't know what my total throughput is,but the transfer rate for each job is about 1.5mbps to 3mbps.For a few minutes after reading this I was very confused about th

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-09 Thread Don MacArthur
The jobs are written to both the raid and the tape at almost identical speeds. I don't know what my total throughput is, but the transfer rate for each job is about 1.5mbps to 3mbps. On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 16:44 -0500, John Drescher wrote: > > On 11/9/06, Don MacArthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-09 Thread John Drescher
On 11/9/06, Don MacArthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a 7-disk raid fibre attached and a lto3 scsi attached to my sd,and I get the same throughput for both.  I run 10 jobs (two from eachclient) to each store concurrently. Both what? What backup speeds are you getting? Thanks,John ---

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-09 Thread Don MacArthur
I have a 7-disk raid fibre attached and a lto3 scsi attached to my sd, and I get the same throughput for both. I run 10 jobs (two from each client) to each store concurrently. I don't think the medium or the connection are the holdup. My network throughput at that time varies around 750 mbps.

Re: [Bacula-users] Server Crash on SLES 10

2006-11-09 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There are detailed explanations on the list if you look back sufficiently far about which kernels have this problem and which do not. I suggest you take a look and see if you might be affected. Thomas Traeger wrote: > Hello list, > > Tonight we exper

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-09 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Huffman wrote: >> Is the data compressable? >> > A mixture - some already compressed, some images, some XML data etc. > > The library and the disks are on the same fibre channel fabric, so I > wouldn't expect that to be a bottleneck. > > I'm us

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with BaculaSD

2006-11-09 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matti Jormakka wrote: > That the connection was refused seems significant. At least on a > Centos4 system with a default firewall configured, ports that are > not explicitely permitted are rejected. You don't say what OS you > are run

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula under Windows 2003 64 bit.

2006-11-09 Thread Robert Nelson
Actually the Path name limit in version 1.39.x and above is 32767. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern Sibbald Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 11:18 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Troy Daniels Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] B

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula under Windows 2003 64 bit.

2006-11-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 06:09, Troy Daniels wrote: > Greetings, > > We are looking at introducing 6 new Windows 2003 Enterprise 64 Servers > into our business in the not too distant future. > As the rest of the servers (Mostly Redhat EL3 with a few FreeBSD boxes > and a couple of 32 bit Windo

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Rescue - Solaris 10 - getdiskinfo errors - error on route command

2006-11-09 Thread Alex Chekholko
On Nov 8, 2006, at 2:05 PM, Attila Fülöp wrote: > A Think Tank wrote: >> I am trying to go though the rescue procedures / preparation for >> Solaris, SunOS 5.10 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240, as >> directed >> by the documentation. I have a couple of errors with the command >> /usr/

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-09 Thread John Drescher
On 11/9/06, Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, John Drescher wrote:> Have you tried a test of the raw tape speed? When I first got mt lto-2> library I did a few tests like the following>> time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/nst0 bs=1G count=10 >> and I got around 35MB/s.Try if=/dev/z

[Bacula-users] Update: Re: Rescue cd create/make problem

2006-11-09 Thread Don MacArthur
1. The 'nix restore process is working. My process is as discussed earlier, install a base system with bacula and restore everything except - /sys /proc *and* /boot. I learned quite a bit about getting the drive configuration right, but I successfully restored a working RH server. 2. I'm sti

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-mysql rpm error? buildcentos4 hostname?

2006-11-09 Thread Alex Chekholko
On Nov 7, 2006, at 2:15 PM, Paul Cubbage wrote: > When I install using > bacula-mysql-1.38.11-3i386.rpm > bacula-mtx-1.38.11-3i386.rpm > the config files all have buildcentos4 as the hostname and the > address = name > > That hostname string is nowhere on my system before I install the rpms > but

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-09 Thread Philippe Michel
> From: "Adam Huffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > What sort of backup speed should I expect when using Bacula with an > LTO3 library? > > I'm seeing nothing like the advertised 60-80MB/s. The tape drive speed is not the bottleneck, then. The number of files saved (or, seen from another point, the

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-09 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, John Drescher wrote: > Have you tried a test of the raw tape speed? When I first got mt lto-2 > library I did a few tests like the following > > time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/nst0 bs=1G count=10 > > and I got around 35MB/s. Try if=/dev/zero and if=/dev/random AB -

Re: [Bacula-users] maximum concurrent jobs for a job

2006-11-09 Thread Silver Salonen
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 21:44, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > On 10/11/2006 1:31 PM, Silver Salonen wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I'm testing Bacula 1.38.9 on Gentoo 2006.1 and I'm a little confused here. > > > > What I would like to achieve is to be able to run a job concurrently with the > > sa

Re: [Bacula-users] reloading components' configuration

2006-11-09 Thread Silver Salonen
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 21:59, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > On 11/7/2006 1:31 PM, Silver Salonen wrote: > > On Tuesday 07 November 2006 14:28, Dan Langille wrote: > > > >>On 7 Nov 2006 at 14:17, Silver Salonen wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Hi. > >>> > >>>I'm a little concerned here about the fact th

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Method with Multiple Media Types - AIT2 Issue

2006-11-09 Thread Alan To
Hi Again All Ignore that last question; tar, bacula and btape all don't like /dev/sg2! Anyway, while the Sony TapeTool happily checks/tests and read/write tapes, using tar/bacula/bconsole etc. still give me the error (this is via bconsole's label command): Connecting to Storage daemo

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-09 Thread John Drescher
On 11/9/06, Carlos Cristóbal Sabroe Yde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The top speed I've achieved with an IBM 3581 L38 was around 30 MB/s on a test(btest).Have you tried a test of the raw tape speed? When I first got mt lto-2 library I did a few tests like the following time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/nst

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-09 Thread Carlos Cristóbal Sabroe Yde
The top speed I've achieved with an IBM 3581 L38 was around 30 MB/s on a test (btest). With bacula, local disk (sata): JobId: 1384 Job:srv-backup.2006-10-27_22.05.07 Backup Level: Full Client: "srv-backup" x86_64-unknown-linux

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with accentuation in windows

2006-11-09 Thread Jaime Ventura
Hello Diego. This is a problem which had already been discussed. I had the same problem and as far as i understood the problem is that bacula handles UTF-8 only. That will be fixed later on. If you change you bacula-dir.conf encoding to UTF-8 and rewrite all the accentuated char

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup Method with Multiple Media Types - AIT2 Issue

2006-11-09 Thread Alan To
Many Thanks Robert - I'm running tests with the Linux Sony TapeTool now. Reading the Sony documentation, I notice that it tells me to use /dev/sg2 (after a cat /proc/scsi/scsi command). With tar, btape and bacula (including configurations) I have been using /dev/nst0! Would that be where my pr