Re: [BackupPC-users] ZFS/Nexenta Ready
Hi, I agree with you Dan, I'm a Linux/Solaris admin for several years now and this las weekend I was working on large migration on a telco, it is the production machine for billing, traffic analysis and so on. I'm talking about a machine with 64 processors and 128 GB RAM. If you want you may see more about this in http://www.linux-geex.com/?p=47 (although the theme is not the migration itself). I'm also a fan of ZFS... better saying I was a fan of ZFS. ZFS performs very poorly in comparison to VeritasFS (didn't compare with UFS because they are too distinct), database writing was lousy, although we had gains in reading, that was to be expected, the system gained a new faster storage, double RAM and double processors, so if it wasn't faster it would be a disaster. I had already used backuppc with ZFS in a 3 TB pool and it wasn't faster either, but as I was using FS compression I thought it was coming from there. Right now SUN support is working on ZFS on the server I was writing about but on the table all options are open now including getting back the whole production system to Veritas. Another thing is that ZFS is taking the kernel processor usage (at some points not all the time) over 50-60% and this for a minute or two and that is not good at all. About the RAM usage, ZFS is limited to 20 GB ram so it doesn't spread around the different boards (this could be bad in case of hardware failure) and even with 20GB available only to FS... it's using it all. To be sincere I was a bit disappointed, I've been using ZFS on several smaller servers, but after this I'm not that happy. I'm hoping SUN can help us out with this one, patching is on the way lets hope it works. I don't recommend you to migrate your servers right away to ZFS, as I've seen it may work very well, but it can also be miserable. Cheers, Pedro On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:27 AM, dan danden...@gmail.com wrote: you win this one Carl! Yes, thats what I meant. It would be more accurate to say that nexenta is the only *solaris OS that has an installation package available AND that is installable out of the box. All the others require some luv to get backuppc going on because of dependancies. FreeBSD is pretty easy to install backuppc on but ZFS is not in a stable state there so no really good reason to go with that over a linux. On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom chr...@real-time.com wrote: On 07/10 06:15 , dan wrote: The ONLY distribution that has backuppc available in the repos (bpc3.0) You mean the only opensolaris distro that has backuppc packaged? There's plenty of Linux packages out there. :) -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Automatically stopping running backups during business hours
Hi,
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:56, Matthias Meyermatthias.me...@gmx.li wrote:
As an alternative you can place the following script in /etc/crontab.
#!/bin/bash
declare -a hosts
hosts[0]=server1 # fill in your own host names
hosts[1]=server2 # whose backup should be canceld
hosts[2]=server3
declare -i hostcount=3 # configure your count of killable hosts
ps ax | grep BackupPC_dump -i | grep -v grep /tmp/runnings
while read pid fl1 fl2 duration perl dump fl3 host rest
do
for (( a=0; ahostcount; a++ ))
do
if [ $host == ${hosts[a]} ]; then kill -9 $pid /dev/null
21; fi
done
done /tmp/runnings
exit 0
Not only kill -9 should not be used in normal circumstances (as
already pointed out by Chris), as the script could be simplified:
hosts=server1 server2 server3 # list of servers in a string
ps ax | grep BackupPC_dump -i | grep -v grep | while read pid fl1
fl2 duration perl dump fl3 host rest; do
for i in $hosts; do
if [ x$host = x$i ]; then
kill $pid /dev/null 21
break
fi
done
done
1) Use a list of hosts and iterate with for i in $hosts instead of
using C style iteration with number of elements in an array.
2) No need to use a temporary file, use |while on the output of ps instead.
3) Use kill instead of kill -9
4) Once a host is found, use break so that it does not iterate to
the end of the list of hosts.
You can even create a script file in which you remove the first hosts=
line and replace for i in $hosts; do with for i; do, in which case
you can call it like this:
# ./killbackups.sh server1 server2 server3
HTH,
Filipe
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[BackupPC-users] [tangeis.com #3120] [Fwd: QuickBooks Data Services - Request ID 122212]
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