Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Current version of bat
On 5/14/07, Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I have included a screen shot of the current Bacula. One could easily start on the tool bar icons. From left to right, the icons are: - Connect (connect to director) -- there is a corresponding disconnected icon as well. - Status dir - Messages - Label - Restore - Run a job - Undock current window (in right pane) Note, Status dir and Messages are the same icon. What I think is most important is the following: 1. To have different Status dir and Messages Icons 2. To have a better Icon for Undock 3. Possibly have a better icon for run 4. Examine the other icons Regarding 1, my suggestion is to use a traffic light icon for Status and a balloon (as in a cartoon) for Messages. With point 2, I don't have a proposal myself, but a plain Google search for Images with undock icon as keyword offers some ideas. -- Maxx - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Changing Directors.
Flak Magnet wrote: I've been running bacula on solaris since December of '06. It started out as a single-box backup solution, with the dir, sd and fd running on a single box. Since then we've scaled it up to include a second sd and fd on another Sun box, the an fd-only on a ubuntu machine, and the fd on a WinXP machine. I've been using mySQL. I know how to get a dump of the database out, and how to read that database back in. I intend to use that to migrate the database to the mySQL server on the new director. I don't think that will cause any problems. I'm open to being corrected. MYSQL transfer will probably be fine with mysqldump and mysql import. However, you should keep volumes (filenames in the case of FILE backup, or the tapes themselves) bound to their ORIGINAL SD definitions as migration among SDs is not supported yet (not a feature), and volumes are internally connected to pools, which MAY or MAY NOT be connected to particular storage devices. With the director moving off of the original sun machine, I'm going to rename the sd and fd on that machine. If I have to do restores, I know that I'll have to change the restore-from devices and such. Currently their named bacula-sd and bacula-fd. I intend to change them to [hostname]-fd/sd. Are there any snafus I might encounter there? I'd recommend NOT changing daemons names (see above), as they are part of the bacula database. The names bacula-sd and bacula-fd are internal to bacula and not connected to the server IP, thus do not NEED to be changed. Past backups may get confused regarding storage and pools associations. Or maybe I'm confused about the implication, but in any case it doesn't sound good. Anything else? Have a nice day ! Michael Lewinger - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Current version of bat
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 08:44, MaxxAtWork wrote: On 5/14/07, Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I have included a screen shot of the current Bacula. One could easily start on the tool bar icons. From left to right, the icons are: - Connect (connect to director) -- there is a corresponding disconnected icon as well. - Status dir - Messages - Label - Restore - Run a job - Undock current window (in right pane) Note, Status dir and Messages are the same icon. What I think is most important is the following: 1. To have different Status dir and Messages Icons 2. To have a better Icon for Undock 3. Possibly have a better icon for run 4. Examine the other icons Regarding 1, my suggestion is to use a traffic light icon for Status and a balloon (as in a cartoon) for Messages. With point 2, I don't have a proposal myself, but a plain Google search for Images with undock icon as keyword offers some ideas. Nice ideas thanks. -- Maxx - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Large memory usage problems
Hello, Several users have reported that the Director consumes huge amounts of memory when running large numbers of simultaneous jobs. Actually, the Director needs something like between 80-100 K per job depending on the exact timing of that job. This amount of memory per job is really quite small by any standards. Normally, Bacula does not lose memory when it is running because it has code integrated that detects memory loss. However, system libraries that Bacula uses (such as glibc, mysqlclient, ...) are not covered by Bacula memory loss techniques (I call them orphanned buffer detection). As a consequence, I ran Bacula under valgrind and found a rather large memory loss in Bacula's mysql interface. In looking at the code, I believe that the code is correct, but perhaps I am misunderstanding their document. Anyway, I've implemented a workaround in Bacula version 2.1.8 that ensures that the memory will not be lost. At this point, I am not 100% sure if the problem is a MySQL change, a MySQL bug, or a Bacula bug, but it is now fixed. This fix should resolve the problems that you have been seeing, where basically the memory lost depended on the number of files backed up and the number of Jobs run. The short term workaround is to restart the Director from time to time, if you are having the problem. The longer term solution is to upgrade to version 2.1.8 in a few days when it is released -- however, please remember it is BETA code. The official release of 2.2.0 should be in about a month or two depending on how well 2.1.8 testing goes. Best regards, Kern PS: there was also a problem in SQLite, which I also fixed. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Volume purging/recycling
I have been trying to get Bacula to do one thing for some time now, and cannot come right even after reading most of the manual (well, at least some), searching the mailing lists, and of course Google. The Setup: I have a set of volumes for each of my sites and each night a FULL backup of the included directories is done and the tape is marked 'Used'. When the tape is re-inserted, the volume must be 'Purged', 'Recycled', and overwritten. The Problem: Since each site cannot be counted on to have the correct tape inserted on the correct day, and since I cannot afford for a backup not to run on those occasions, I need to ensure that whatever tape is in the drive can be overwritten without complaint or intervention. That means the volume must have almost no retention period, because if the same tape is inserted the next day, it will not be 'Recycled'. Also, 'AutoPrune' is needed to continually ensure the volumes are ready for recycling, but this purges volumes almost as soon as they are written; of course, even though the data is still there, this is not at all helpful for any restores since the entire tape must be scanned etc. I am posting to find out if this scenario is possible with Bacula, or what the best solution to the problem would be; hope I have not left anything important out. Any help is much appreciated. Thank you in advance. Jarrod Meyer Product Development Engineer Thusa Business Support (Pty) LTD - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Bacula Network Performance
Greetings! First, I apologize if this comes through multiple times. I'm having trouble connecting to the list. I've been trying to bake off AMANDA and Bacula in our environment, and have run up against a Bacula performance snag. Amanda is regularly able to average ~50 MB/s over our network, while I'm getting ~30 MB/s out of Bacula (spooling turned on over gig-e). I like the feature set and usability of Bacula much better than that which AMANDA provides, but the speed difference is an issue. I think the difference may have to do with AMANDA running multiple simultaneous dumpers on the client. I've bumped Maximum Network Buffer Size to 65536 bytes in both the storage daemon and file daemon configurations with little to no change from the 32K buffer. A typical Bacula client status reads: *status client=foo-fd Connecting to Client foo-fd at foo.thayer.dartmouth.edu:9102 foo-fd Version: 2.0.3 (06 March 2007) i686-pc-linux-gnu debian testing/unstable Daemon started 14-May-07 10:53, 0 Jobs run since started. Heap: bytes=980,146 max_bytes=994,080 bufs=4,843 max_bufs=4,867 Sizeof: boffset_t=8 size_t=4 debug=0 trace=0 Running Jobs: JobId 9 Job foo.2007-05-14_10.53.38 is running. Backup Job started: 14-May-07 10:55 Files=20,612 Bytes=6,910,478,815 Bytes/sec=29,281,689 Files Examined=20,612 Processing file: /backup/mulch/vmware/mulch.0.tar.gz SDReadSeqNo=5 fd=5 Director connected at: 14-May-07 10:59 Any ideas what I can do to eek out some more speed? Best, Jordan Desroches Systems Administrator Thayer School of Engineering Dartmouth College - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Volume purging/recycling
Is Use Volume Once = yes in your Pool definition what you mean? Cheers, Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jarrod Meyer Sent: 15 May 2007 12:12 To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] Volume purging/recycling I have been trying to get Bacula to do one thing for some time now, and cannot come right even after reading most of the manual (well, at least some), searching the mailing lists, and of course Google. The Setup: I have a set of volumes for each of my sites and each night a FULL backup of the included directories is done and the tape is marked 'Used'. When the tape is re-inserted, the volume must be 'Purged', 'Recycled', and overwritten. The Problem: Since each site cannot be counted on to have the correct tape inserted on the correct day, and since I cannot afford for a backup not to run on those occasions, I need to ensure that whatever tape is in the drive can be overwritten without complaint or intervention. That means the volume must have almost no retention period, because if the same tape is inserted the next day, it will not be 'Recycled'. Also, 'AutoPrune' is needed to continually ensure the volumes are ready for recycling, but this purges volumes almost as soon as they are written; of course, even though the data is still there, this is not at all helpful for any restores since the entire tape must be scanned etc. I am posting to find out if this scenario is possible with Bacula, or what the best solution to the problem would be; hope I have not left anything important out. Any help is much appreciated. Thank you in advance. Jarrod Meyer Product Development Engineer Thusa Business Support (Pty) LTD -- --- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Network Performance
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jordan Desroches wrote: Greetings! First, I apologize if this comes through multiple times. I'm having trouble connecting to the list. I've been trying to bake off AMANDA and Bacula in our environment, and have run up against a Bacula performance snag. Amanda is regularly able to average ~50 MB/s over our network, while I'm getting ~30 MB/s out of Bacula (spooling turned on over gig-e). I like the feature set and usability of Bacula much better than that which AMANDA provides, but the speed difference is an issue. I think the difference may have to do with AMANDA running multiple simultaneous dumpers on the client. I've bumped Maximum Network Buffer Size to 65536 bytes in both the storage daemon and file daemon configurations with little to no change from the 32K buffer. A typical Bacula client status reads: [...] Any ideas what I can do to eek out some more speed? Just a guess/question: Do you have compression enabled in your job? If the client's doing compression, that might throttle its throughput. Greetings, Michel -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iD8DBQFGSa8b2Vs+MkscAyURAuC+AKDnMf1RGfkBeq6qYmPZzEneCLVZxwCeNJYk YpXNPfBS5fQRAMS/rNEvgcE= =Adyp -END PGP SIGNATURE- - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Bacula crash
Hi, I've installed a self-compiled RPM for SUSE professional 9.1 on x86. It has been working reasonably well, but lately I've gotten a few crashes. One solid lockup, and last sunday (during the differential) I got the attached crash. its a P4-2.4GHz machine. I'm backing up to external USB Hard drive. xfs. Kernel is a custom built 2.6.16.11 Any ideas? Using host libthread_db library /lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1. [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1212310784 (LWP 3765)] [New Thread -1271100496 (LWP 9666)] [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1212310784 (LWP 3765)] [New Thread -1271100496 (LWP 9666)] [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1212310784 (LWP 3765)] [New Thread -1271100496 (LWP 9666)] [New Thread -1279493200 (LWP 9653)] [New Thread -1237529680 (LWP 9643)] [New Thread -1245922384 (LWP 9641)] [New Thread -1254315088 (LWP 9640)] [New Thread -1220744272 (LWP 3767)] [New Thread -1212351568 (LWP 3766)] 0xe410 in ?? () $1 = 2037801326 $2 = 0x820f050 bacula-dir $3 = 0x820f078 /usr/sbin/bacula-dir $4 = 0x0 $5 = 0x8108da4 2.0.2 (28 January 2007) $6 = 0x80fd856 i686-suse-linux-gnu $7 = 0x80fd851 suse $8 = 0x80fd86a 9.1 #0 0xe410 in ?? () #1 0xbfe3e5f8 in ?? () #2 0x in ?? () #3 0x in ?? () #4 0xb7f036b6 in __nanosleep_nocancel () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 #5 0x0809f202 in bmicrosleep (sec=60, usec=0) at bsys.c:67 #6 0x0806f3f2 in wait_for_next_job (one_shot_job_to_run=0x0) at scheduler.c:130 #7 0x0804f258 in main (argc=3, argv=0xbfe3e784) at dird.c:278 Thread 8 (Thread -1212351568 (LWP 3766)): #0 0xe410 in ?? () #1 0xb7bcfa78 in ?? () #2 0x in ?? () #3 0xb7bceeb0 in ?? () #4 0xb7c8b391 in ___newselect_nocancel () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #5 0x080a27f0 in bnet_thread_server (addrs=0x820f828, max_clients=-514, client_wq=0x820d060, handle_client_request=0xfdfe) at bnet_server.c:163 #6 0x08087249 in connect_thread (arg=0xfdfe) at ua_server.c:84 #7 0xb7efe9dd in start_thread () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 #8 0xb7c91ffa in clone () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 Thread 7 (Thread -1220744272 (LWP 3767)): #0 0xe410 in ?? () #1 0xb73cea70 in ?? () #2 0x4b64 in ?? () #3 0x in ?? () #4 0xb7f008e0 in pthread_cond_timedwait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 #5 0x080c0bdf in watchdog_thread (arg=0x0) at watchdog.c:305 #6 0xb7efe9dd in start_thread () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 #7 0xb7c91ffa in clone () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 Thread 6 (Thread -1254315088 (LWP 9640)): #0 0xe410 in ?? () #1 0xb53ca638 in ?? () #2 0x0004 in ?? () #3 0xb53ca66c in ?? () #4 0xb7f02ebb in __read_nocancel () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 #5 0x080a1f40 in read_nbytes (bsock=0x8231ab0, ptr=0x4 Address 0x4 out of bounds, nbytes=-1254316436) at bnet.c:86 #6 0x080a2017 in bnet_recv (bsock=0x8231ab0) at bnet.c:207 #7 0x0805d5b7 in bget_dirmsg (bs=0x8231ab0) at getmsg.c:107 #8 0x08052045 in wait_for_job_termination (jcr=0x8237e00) at backup.c:285 #9 0x080526af in do_backup (jcr=0x8237e00) at backup.c:235 #10 0x08062f1d in job_thread (arg=0x8237e00) at job.c:290 #11 0x08063c0d in jobq_server (arg=0x820ccc0) at jobq.c:464 #12 0xb7efe9dd in start_thread () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 #13 0xb7c91ffa in clone () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 Thread 5 (Thread -1245922384 (LWP 9641)): #0 0xe410 in ?? () #1 0xb5bcb638 in ?? () #2 0x0004 in ?? () #3 0xb5bcb66c in ?? () #4 0xb7f02ebb in __read_nocancel () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 #5 0x080a1f40 in read_nbytes (bsock=0x8240f90, ptr=0x4 Address 0x4 out of bounds, nbytes=-1245923732) at bnet.c:86 #6 0x080a2017 in bnet_recv (bsock=0x8240f90) at bnet.c:207 #7 0x0805d5b7 in bget_dirmsg (bs=0x8240f90) at getmsg.c:107 #8 0x08052045 in wait_for_job_termination (jcr=0x823de38) at backup.c:285 #9 0x080526af in do_backup (jcr=0x823de38) at backup.c:235 #10 0x08062f1d in job_thread (arg=0x823de38) at job.c:290 #11 0x08063c0d in jobq_server (arg=0x820ccc0) at jobq.c:464 #12 0xb7efe9dd in start_thread () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 #13 0xb7c91ffa in clone () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 Thread 4 (Thread -1237529680 (LWP 9643)): #0 0xe410 in ?? () #1 0xb63cc298 in ?? () #2 0x in ?? () #3 0x in ?? () #4 0xb7f03e8b in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 #5 0x080b9178 in signal_handler (sig=11) at signal.c:166 #6 signal handler called #7 0x080e42a5 in vio_write (vio=0x36, buf=0x36 Address 0x36 out of bounds, size=54) at viosocket.c:109 #8 0x080e4587 in net_real_write (net=0x8235ee0, packet=0x8225900 2, len=54) at net.c:504 #9 0x080e4868 in net_flush (net=0x8235ee0) at net.c:229 #10 0x080e49aa in net_write_command (net=0x8235ee0, command=3 '\003', header=0x0, head_len=0, packet=0x82202e8 SELECT FilenameId FROM Filename WHERE Name='pm.c', len=49) at net.c:352 #11 0x080e238b in cli_advanced_command (mysql=0x8235ee0, command=COM_QUERY,
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Network Performance
Compression is not enabled in the FileSet. Thanks, Jordan Michel Meyers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jordan Desroches wrote: Greetings! First, I apologize if this comes through multiple times. I'm having trouble connecting to the list. I've been trying to bake off AMANDA and Bacula in our environment, and have run up against a Bacula performance snag. Amanda is regularly able to average ~50 MB/s over our network, while I'm getting ~30 MB/s out of Bacula (spooling turned on over gig-e). I like the feature set and usability of Bacula much better than that which AMANDA provides, but the speed difference is an issue. I think the difference may have to do with AMANDA running multiple simultaneous dumpers on the client. I've bumped Maximum Network Buffer Size to 65536 bytes in both the storage daemon and file daemon configurations with little to no change from the 32K buffer. A typical Bacula client status reads: [...] Any ideas what I can do to eek out some more speed? Just a guess/question: Do you have compression enabled in your job? If the client's doing compression, that might throttle its throughput. Greetings, Michel -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iD8DBQFGSa8b2Vs+MkscAyURAuC+AKDnMf1RGfkBeq6qYmPZzEneCLVZxwCeNJYk YpXNPfBS5fQRAMS/rNEvgcE= =Adyp -END PGP SIGNATURE- - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Rif: Bacula Network Performance
Hi Jordan, in my experience you will get better perfomance on a single client if you turn spooling off. -- Ferdinando Pasqualetti G.T.Dati srl Tel. 0557310862 - 3356172731 - Fax 055720143 Jordan Desroches [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato da: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 15/05/2007 14.55 Per bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net CC Oggetto [Bacula-users] Bacula Network Performance Greetings! First, I apologize if this comes through multiple times. I'm having trouble connecting to the list. I've been trying to bake off AMANDA and Bacula in our environment, and have run up against a Bacula performance snag. Amanda is regularly able to average ~50 MB/s over our network, while I'm getting ~30 MB/s out of Bacula (spooling turned on over gig-e). I like the feature set and usability of Bacula much better than that which AMANDA provides, but the speed difference is an issue. I think the difference may have to do with AMANDA running multiple simultaneous dumpers on the client. I've bumped Maximum Network Buffer Size to 65536 bytes in both the storage daemon and file daemon configurations with little to no change from the 32K buffer. A typical Bacula client status reads: *status client=foo-fd Connecting to Client foo-fd at foo.thayer.dartmouth.edu:9102 foo-fd Version: 2.0.3 (06 March 2007) i686-pc-linux-gnu debian testing/unstable Daemon started 14-May-07 10:53, 0 Jobs run since started. Heap: bytes=980,146 max_bytes=994,080 bufs=4,843 max_bufs=4,867 Sizeof: boffset_t=8 size_t=4 debug=0 trace=0 Running Jobs: JobId 9 Job foo.2007-05-14_10.53.38 is running. Backup Job started: 14-May-07 10:55 Files=20,612 Bytes=6,910,478,815 Bytes/sec=29,281,689 Files Examined=20,612 Processing file: /backup/mulch/vmware/mulch.0.tar.gz SDReadSeqNo=5 fd=5 Director connected at: 14-May-07 10:59 Any ideas what I can do to eek out some more speed? Best, Jordan Desroches Systems Administrator Thayer School of Engineering Dartmouth College - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Network Performance
On Tue, 15 May 2007, Michel Meyers wrote: Just a guess/question: Do you have compression enabled in your job? If the client's doing compression, that might throttle its throughput. Another thing to consider is the speed of the spool disk(s). I had to stripe the spool across several dedicated drives in order to achieve sufficient speed to simultaneously spool/despool and keep up with the tape drive(s) - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Network Performance
In response to Jordan Desroches [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Compression is not enabled in the FileSet. Can you isolate where the bottleneck is? IO? CPU? Network? There are frequently discussions about throughput being sub-optimal on the lists. In my experience, these fall into a few categories: *) The SQL server is the bottleneck. This kinda falls outside the discussion of Bacula, as it's usually specific to the particular SQL server you use. This problem shows up most often with filesets that contain lots of little files. However, there _has_ been work done to improve how Bacula writes to the database, so which version you're using is important. If you can make any suggestions on how to improve this further, or even provide test cases to show where it's slow, I expect it will be helpful to the developers. *) IO. Often, folks are saturating the IO of their hardware and don't realize it. This can show up when the database is on the same system as file volumes, as that system has to share the IO of database writes as well as file volume writes. *) Mysterious network problems. This is the one that it would be nice to get some real information on. Some folks have claimed that Bacula is unable to send data anywhere near the speed of the network, even when there is no other bottleneck. Unfortunately, this problem has been very difficult to diagnose, as it requires a high level of expertise in networking to track down the cause, and everyone who has report it has been unable and/or unwilling to isolate it well enough for anyone to really do anything to improve it. So, I hope that information is helpful in narrowing down your problem. Michel Meyers wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jordan Desroches wrote: Greetings! First, I apologize if this comes through multiple times. I'm having trouble connecting to the list. I've been trying to bake off AMANDA and Bacula in our environment, and have run up against a Bacula performance snag. Amanda is regularly able to average ~50 MB/s over our network, while I'm getting ~30 MB/s out of Bacula (spooling turned on over gig-e). I like the feature set and usability of Bacula much better than that which AMANDA provides, but the speed difference is an issue. I think the difference may have to do with AMANDA running multiple simultaneous dumpers on the client. I've bumped Maximum Network Buffer Size to 65536 bytes in both the storage daemon and file daemon configurations with little to no change from the 32K buffer. A typical Bacula client status reads: [...] Any ideas what I can do to eek out some more speed? Just a guess/question: Do you have compression enabled in your job? If the client's doing compression, that might throttle its throughput. Greetings, Michel -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iD8DBQFGSa8b2Vs+MkscAyURAuC+AKDnMf1RGfkBeq6qYmPZzEneCLVZxwCeNJYk YpXNPfBS5fQRAMS/rNEvgcE= =Adyp -END PGP SIGNATURE- - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Volume purging/recycling
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This parameter is deprecated. MaximumVolumeJobs = 1 is the new terminology. Sounds like you need an admin job that purges whatever tape happens to be in the drive. I assume you're doing full backups. I would strongly advise against this, but you gotta do what you gotta do. I suppose you are doing full backups every night, in this case. Andy Collyer wrote: Is Use Volume Once = yes in your Pool definition what you mean? Cheers, Andy -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jarrod Meyer Sent: 15 May 2007 12:12 To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] Volume purging/recycling I have been trying to get Bacula to do one thing for some time now, and cannot come right even after reading most of the manual (well, at least some), searching the mailing lists, and of course Google. The Setup: I have a set of volumes for each of my sites and each night a FULL backup of the included directories is done and the tape is marked 'Used'. When the tape is re-inserted, the volume must be 'Purged', 'Recycled', and overwritten. The Problem: Since each site cannot be counted on to have the correct tape inserted on the correct day, and since I cannot afford for a backup not to run on those occasions, I need to ensure that whatever tape is in the drive can be overwritten without complaint or intervention. That means the volume must have almost no retention period, because if the same tape is inserted the next day, it will not be 'Recycled'. Also, 'AutoPrune' is needed to continually ensure the volumes are ready for recycling, but this purges volumes almost as soon as they are written; of course, even though the data is still there, this is not at all helpful for any restores since the entire tape must be scanned etc. I am posting to find out if this scenario is possible with Bacula, or what the best solution to the problem would be; hope I have not left anything important out. Any help is much appreciated. Thank you in advance. Jarrod Meyer Product Development Engineer Thusa Business Support (Pty) LTD -- --- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - -- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer III |$| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGScQ+mb+gadEcsb4RAmlNAJ40PYErbAAK92CSvJxAPxGZkxALmwCeJukT 5KIawuEVBhKSIjI42KBJSgY= =bvFD -END PGP SIGNATURE- - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] How to unload all loaded tapes to library ?
Hello Adam, I'm having an Always Open = No and an Automount = yes in my bacula-sd.conf so when bacula needs a tape he automatically mounts the right slot and gives it back when its not needed anymore. With this I have no need to umount the drive from the bacula-console to change my tapes in the library. Thomas Adam Cécile schrieb: Andreas Helmcke a écrit : On 14.05.2007 09:40, Adam Cécile wrote: All weeks I need to unload all tapes from drives to the library, so all tapes can be removed from the Autochanger easily. However, when I do umount, device is marked as BLOCKED and no more jobs run until I mount the drive again. What's the right way to eject all tapes without blocking drives ? I don't know if it's the right way but what I do is a mount with an non existing slot e.g. slot 0 after an unmount. Afterwards the tape will be used again by bacula. Andreas Yes, it's what I'm doing right now (in fact I just type mount, and as there's no more tape loaded in the drive, mount fails, but bacula unblock the drive). However I really would find something like Blocked On Umount = No directive. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] behavior in case of errors
Hey, thanks for your help. Just few clarifications. For the Max Wait Time, the time specified is in min or sec? Or can I just write 25 min or 300 sec. Secondly if i want this to be global parameter for all the jobs, I should be mentioning it in the jobdefs right? Thanks On 5/14/07, Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On 5/14/2007 5:04 PM, Naufal Sheikh wrote: Hi, i was running bacula and then went on vacations. In the meantime due to some error which required human intervention, bacula just got stuck on that job and please correct me if I am wrong bacula does not carry on to next jobs if it get stuck in case of any error. Depends... the above is one good reason for allowing multiple concurrent jobs, and there are configuration directives to limit the time a job can wait and run before it's automatically cancelled. All three options might be useful in your situation. when I do list jobs it shows me lot of jobs which haven't been started but are there in the list. Should I just cancel them to start the bacula at the point of today's schedule? That depends on what you want, but it's definitely an option. I believe otherwise it will first attempt to complete all the jobs which had been pending for the past one week first before moving on. Correct, unless configured otherwise. This kind of behaviour does not make sense, is there anything I am missing? In the manual, chapter Configuring the Director, look at the job resources. You'll find some Max something Delay and Max something Time directives. These probably are what you need for the future. Arno If some one can please help. Regards - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- IT-Service Lehmann[EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Current version of bat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kern Sibbald wrote: Hello, On Thursday 10 May 2007 02:20, Berend Dekens wrote: Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, On 5/9/2007 10:27 PM, Christopher Schwerdt wrote: What about status icons? Yes, great idea. We would like to use icons but don't have any good ones. For example, our current Status dir and Messages button icons are identical. I'm not a designer and cannot create such icons, and I suspect it is the same for Dirk. Contributions anyone? Silk is a good looking and free icon pack: http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/ No tape icons :-( Or, more general, the focus of bat would probably require more specialized icons. Arno How about specifying what icons would be needed for BAT? I'm sure if you gave a list of icons you would need a designer would much faster take a crack at it... OK, I have included a screen shot of the current Bacula. One could easily start on the tool bar icons. From left to right, the icons are: - Connect (connect to director) -- there is a corresponding disconnected icon as well. - Status dir - Messages - Label - Restore - Run a job - Undock current window (in right pane) Note, Status dir and Messages are the same icon. What I think is most important is the following: 1. To have different Status dir and Messages Icons 2. To have a better Icon for Undock 3. Possibly have a better icon for run 4. Examine the other icons I've included attached a copy of all those icons. Finally, in addition to the up arrow icon, which serves as both the undock tool bar button as well as the up one directly level in the restore point and click, there are mark and unmark buttons, which are not too bad, but blue compared to the green up arrow (also a different style). I've also included a screen dump of the restore window (a bit squeezed to reduce the size). Any help with these or other icons would be very welcome. I'm not sure how possible this is, but for a layperson it would SEEM likely to be possible -- couldn't the native Qt icon sets for directory listings/file picker be used rather than text? I think it would make the GUI look much more like a GUI than the occasional text-inside-a-graphics-window look that it has in some places now. IANA KDE/Qt programmer though. :) - -- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer III |$| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGSfgemb+gadEcsb4RArL3AJ4xfC9q1oYkhzRRlBLSu6wVWfQc3ACgytPX 2QP0siFWYDGXMeHO/PMdhoM= =T9s0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Auto-reuse
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Andy Collyer wrote:
Hello,
On 5/11/2007 10:54 AM, Andy Collyer wrote:
I want to *always* automatically re-use my tapes. I can
achieve this
manually by using bconsole's SQL query mode and updating
the Media table:
update Media set VolStatus = Recycle [ WHERE ... ];
However, once
the Volume is used, the Media table entry is re-set to
Append, so
next time the volume is used it isn't recycled. What's
making bacula
update the Media table?
Running a backup job.
And more importantly, how do I stop it?
You need to not force this behavior with SQL but to use
the recycle
directives in bacula-dir.conf
Well, I thought I had ... Relevant sections of bacula-dir.conf:
Job {
Name = BackupHome
Type = Backup
Level = Full
Client = Server-fd
FileSet = Home
Storage = DLT-V4
Pool = AC-recycle
Priority = 10
Messages = Standard
Schedule = DailyCycle
}
Pool {
Name = AC-recycle
PoolType = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
VolumeRetention = 0 days
Maximum Volume Bytes = 148118648832
Recycle Current Volume = yes
LabelFormat = Recycle-
}
What am I missing or doing wrong???
Well, by now I learned that a volume retention of indicates
to not ever prune a volume.
So, my advice would be to set up your retention times
according to your needs.
Arno
Think I've got it - Pool should include:
Use Volume Once = yes
I believe this is deprecated and no longer has any effect. I think you
want Maximum Volume Jobs = 1.
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[Bacula-users] bconsole missing?
Hi, I recently built bacula from source (v2.0.3) on RHEL4 ES. Here's the configuration options I specified at build-time: $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc/bacula --with-scriptdir=/etc/bacula --enable-smartalloc --with-postgresql --with-working-dir=/var/bacula --with-pid-dir=/var/run --with-subsys-dir=/var/lock/subsys --enable-conio I have the bconsole config file: /etc/bacula/bconsole, but there is no bconsole binary in /usr/sbin. Can someone help identify what I did wrong? Thanks, Drew - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: Bacula Network Performance
So it doesn't look like the MySQL process is tanking the system at all. I increased cache sizes in MySQL with no effect, along with buffer sizes in sysctl.conf . I also tried using SQLite , and got marginally better throughput. Has anyone seen significantly 30 MB/s over a gig line on backup? Thanks, Jordan - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: Bacula Network Performance
Jordan Desroches schrieb: So it doesn't look like the MySQL process is tanking the system at all. I increased cache sizes in MySQL with no effect, along with buffer sizes in sysctl.conf . I also tried using SQLite , and got marginally better throughput. Has anyone seen significantly 30 MB/s over a gig line on backup? Spooling transfer rate: Job write elapsed time = 01:17:50, Transfer rate = 49.64 M bytes/second Despooling to tape: Despooling elapsed time = 00:55:10, Transfer rate = 70.11 M bytes/second Average: Rate: 26546.5 KB/s I guess my average transfer rate could be higher, if I would not use spooling. I'm not running concurrent jobs. Ralf ~ - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: Bacula Network Performance
Hi, On 5/15/2007 9:52 PM, Jordan Desroches wrote: So it doesn't look like the MySQL process is tanking the system at all. I increased cache sizes in MySQL with no effect, along with buffer sizes in sysctl.conf . I also tried using SQLite , and got marginally better throughput. Has anyone seen significantly 30 MB/s over a gig line on backup? Yes, but on setups where multiple jobs from different clients run in parallel. Each job might have a slower throughput, but the overall (estimated) network throughput is close to the real-life maximum of about 60 to 80 MB/s. I don't have access to these systems at the moment, though, so I can't check if I recall correctly. Arno Thanks, Jordan - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- IT-Service Lehmann[EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] How often to backup the catalog database?
I am using conf files based on the defaults, with times changed. To summarise, my backups are: Linux server home files daily at 11:00 Linux server shares (i.e. my key files shared to other PCs) daily at 11:00 Above on a daily incremental / weekly differential / monthly full cycle Windows client files at 19:00 incremental daily / 11:00 full/differential on Saturdays (weekly/monthly) The catalog is backed up daily at 11:10, Full every day. The question - should I be backing up the catalog after each evenings Windows files? I don't think so (this is a home environment). I think that the only thing that could go wrong by not doing so is to lose the ability to restore from one incremental backup of the Windows files (if the worst happened and the server needed re-building). Is that correct? [The only reason for having a different time for the Windows incremental backup is that it is not normally on during weekdays] -- Peter Crighton - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] behavior in case of errors
Hi, On 5/15/2007 7:29 PM, Naufal Sheikh wrote: Hey, thanks for your help. Just few clarifications. For the Max Wait Time, the time specified is in min or sec? Or can I just write 25 min or 300 sec. Hmm. I'm unsure... there was some problem with these times a while ago where it didn't honor the time units, but also didn't abort with an error when parsing the configuration. I think this as been fixed, though. I'm using, for example, Max Start Delay = 23h and this works as expected. If unsure, simply don't use a qualifier like 'hours' and Bacula will interpret your numbers as seonds. So, '300' should be identical to '5 min'. Secondly if i want this to be global parameter for all the jobs, I should be mentioning it in the jobdefs right? Yes. Arno Thanks On 5/14/07, *Arno Lehmann* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On 5/14/2007 5:04 PM, Naufal Sheikh wrote: Hi, i was running bacula and then went on vacations. In the meantime due to some error which required human intervention, bacula just got stuck on that job and please correct me if I am wrong bacula does not carry on to next jobs if it get stuck in case of any error. Depends... the above is one good reason for allowing multiple concurrent jobs, and there are configuration directives to limit the time a job can wait and run before it's automatically cancelled. All three options might be useful in your situation. when I do list jobs it shows me lot of jobs which haven't been started but are there in the list. Should I just cancel them to start the bacula at the point of today's schedule? That depends on what you want, but it's definitely an option. I believe otherwise it will first attempt to complete all the jobs which had been pending for the past one week first before moving on. Correct, unless configured otherwise. This kind of behaviour does not make sense, is there anything I am missing? In the manual, chapter Configuring the Director, look at the job resources. You'll find some Max something Delay and Max something Time directives. These probably are what you need for the future. Arno If some one can please help. Regards - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net mailto:Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- IT-Service Lehmann[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net mailto:Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- IT-Service Lehmann[EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/
Re: [Bacula-users] Changing Directors. -- Redux
Thanks for the responses, Mike and Arno. It went easily and trouble-free enough, given the complexity and inter-relation between the config files that life on multiple hosts. On Monday 14 May 2007 4:28:23 pm Arno Lehmann wrote: I've been using mySQL. I know how to get a dump of the database out, and how to read that database back in. I intend to use that to migrate the database to the mySQL server on the new director. I don't think that will cause any problems. I'm open to being corrected. I don't think you'll encounter problems there. Not a single problem. With the director moving off of the original sun machine, I'm going to rename the sd and fd on that machine. If I have to do restores, I know that I'll have to change the restore-from devices and such. Currently their named bacula-sd and bacula-fd. I intend to change them to [hostname]-fd/sd. Are there any snafus I might encounter there? Just keep in mind that you'll have to start with a full backup again to allow simple full restores. I don't know if Bacula enforces that, but I suspect it will, because the FD name and FileSet ID combination is (IIRC) how Bacla identifies identical jobs. Bacula did not enforce a full backup on the renamed SD or FD, which I found interesting. I know it triggers an upgrade to Full if the fileset changes. I'm curious why it didn't with the new SD/FD names. I did just re-use the same passwords and of course the hostnames stayed the same. As I mentioned, I wanted to rename the FD and SD that I'd been using on the old director. I have tested running a couple restores using volumes that were written before the FD and SD changed names and bacula handled the new names of both the SD and FD gracefully, so, my concerns, and the concerns of Mr. Lewinger can be laid to rest. Note that I did not change the names of the devices on the SD, just the name in the Storage definition in the director and in the bacula-sd.conf, as well as updating it in the appropriate places for pool/job/schedule definition. Okay, so I guess I changed it in a lot of places. Anything else? I don't think so... in any case, keep a copy of the catalog before migration, and only decomssion the old DIR after you ran all backups successfully with the new one. Of course! If at all possible, and unless I screw up, I always try to keep the go back to what was working option available. I wish that practice was born out of foresight and intelligence instead of painful experience. *grin* -- -- Flak Magnet (Tim) www.flakmagnet.com - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] How often to backup the catalog database?
Hello, On 5/15/2007 10:56 PM, Peter Crighton wrote: I am using conf files based on the defaults, with times changed. To summarise, my backups are: Linux server home files daily at 11:00 Linux server shares (i.e. my key files shared to other PCs) daily at 11:00 Above on a daily incremental / weekly differential / monthly full cycle Windows client files at 19:00 incremental daily / 11:00 full/differential on Saturdays (weekly/monthly) The catalog is backed up daily at 11:10, Full every day. The question - should I be backing up the catalog after each evenings Windows files? I don't think so (this is a home environment). I think that the only thing that could go wrong by not doing so is to lose the ability to restore from one incremental backup of the Windows files (if the worst happened and the server needed re-building). Is that correct? Yes. And your catalog will be confused aout the volume usage after a rebuild, but Bacula will usually notice that and handle it correctly. In your situation, the decision to not back up the catalog after the windows files sounds reasonable. Arno [The only reason for having a different time for the Windows incremental backup is that it is not normally on during weekdays] -- Peter Crighton - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- IT-Service Lehmann[EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
