Re: [Bacula-users] Performance with latent networks
Hi, On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Peter Hoskin wrote: I'm using bacula to do backups of some remote servers, over the Internet encapsulated in OpenVPN (just to make sure things are encrypted and kept off public address space). The bacula-fd is in Montreal Canada with 100mbit Ethernet. I also have another bacula-fd in Canberra Australia on 100mbit Ethernet. The bacula-director is in Sydney Australia with ADSL2+ at full line sync. The latency to Montreal is about 300ms while the latency to Canberra is about 30ms. The issue, I imagine with transfer rates is between the bacula-fd and bacula-sd. Do we presume the -sd is in Sydney? You don't say what speed the Sydney ADSL2+ link is (though apparently it can manage at least 2.2MByte/sec). Is that 300ms over the VPN? If you run a long ping, is there any noticeable packet loss? The problem I'm encountering. backups from the Montreal box will peak at a transfer rate of 100kb/sec despite my ability to do 2.2mb/sec via http, ftp, ssh, rsync, etc. from the same host. Presumably these tests are between the -fd and -sd hosts along the same VPN. Broadly AIUI, one bulk TCP transfer should be the same as another and the two should be affected by latency in the same way. This suggests to me that there's something else going on. Maybe the bacula-fd host is busy or the bacula-fd itself is doing encryption or compression which is slowing down its send rate? Are these incremental backups or full? Are you using accurate backups (which need data to be sent to the fd from the dir)? Have you checked the disk and cpu load on the bacula fd and sd during these backups? So it appears the problem is network latency. Is there anything I can try to improve backup speeds from Montreal? I may be wrong, but I'm not convinced it's just latency. Gavin -- Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bacula on a mixed Win Ubuntu Lan
Il 10/04/2011 01:15, acorn12 ha scritto:
On 08/04/2011 12:29 AM, Marcello Romani wrote:
Il 08/04/2011 02:33, acorn12 ha scritto:
I am trying to run bacula on a mixed LAN with some Win XP/Vista machines
and one Ubuntu 10.04 Server.
The server has the bacula 5.0.1 package installed, while on the Windows
XP machine I have bacula-win32-5.0.3.exe installed.
-
As I am very new to bacula, I'm sure I am missing something, but have no
clue what or where to look.
Any hints or pointers are most welcome.
TIA
The Windows installer asks for the director name but doesn't set the
password correctly. Copy the password from XP-fd.conf to the bacula-dir.conf
Copying the password did not seem to make a difference.
As a test I've installed bacula 5.0.1 bacula-console-qt, bacula-console
and bacula-common packages in a VMWare Ubuntu box on WinVista.
The director (also 5.0.1) runs on the machine 'geek', not on the local
machine.
Calling up just bconsole I get only:
/user@ubuntu:~$ sudo bconsole
Connecting to Director geek:9101
user@ubuntu:~$/
/user@ubuntu:~$ sudo bconsole -t
user@ubuntu:~$/
Running BAT gives me the same error and behaves the same in every other
way, first it does connect, but then fails with the same error message.
So it looks it is not really (or at least not only) a Windows problem!!!
bconsole.conf
---
#
# Bacula User Agent (or Console) Configuration File
#
Director {
Name = geek-dir
DIRport = 9101
address = geek
Password = yveAet993vzsWug3KoZUKjVbdZy0nrSqIqQCFH80rIVS
}
---
bat.conf
-
#
# Bacula Administration Tool (bat) configuration file
#
Director {
Name = geek-dir
DIRport = 9101
address = geek
Password = yveAet993vzsWug3KoZUKjVbdZy0nrSqIqQCFH80rIVS
}
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I don't have a solution, but some other suggestions...
In bacula-dir.conf, the Password field must match the one listed in the
client conf files above.
Same for Name parameter.
In /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf check that DirAddress also reports geek
Check also that /etc/hosts doesn't contain an entry where the fqdn of
geek is matched to 127.0.0.1
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Re: [Bacula-users] How do I know if a job is actually part of a Copy procedure?
I believe that's normal behaviour for copy jobs. Cheers, Ewan -Original Message- From: Gergely Polonkai [mailto:pol...@w00d5t0ck.info] Sent: 08 April 2011 17:04 To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] How do I know if a job is actually part of a Copy procedure? Hello List, When I start a Copy type job, two jobs are actually started. E.g when I want to copy a job originally called 'client1-full' within a Copy job called 'client1-copy', the database holds two running job records, one of them called 'client1-copy', with the Type field set to 'C' (Copy), and the other called 'client1-full', level F, Type B (Backup). Is there a way to find out if this second one is started because of the Copy job, or it is meant to be run e.g because of a schedule or a console action? Thanks in advance! Best regards, Gergely Polonkai -- You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become? - Terry Pratchett -- Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Filename searching and case insensitivity
I think I understand but as the Filename column in the Bacula script is created with the BLOB data type then according to the documentation the lower() function does not work: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/string-functions.html#function_lower It says I need to convert it into a non-binary string, I don't really have any SQL skills at all but I'll see what I can do :) On 9 April 2011 16:01, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: On Apr 5, 2011, at 10:19 PM, Kernel Panic wrote: On 6 April 2011 02:37, Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: On Apr 5, 2011, at 9:31 PM, Kernel Panic wrote: Hello everyone, Whilst trying to find a way of doing a case-insensitive search for file, I found previous posts on the mailing lists that instructed me to use the sqlquery function in bacula. As a test I wanted to search for files with zfs in their name and then with ZFS in the name. After starting up bconsole and entering sqlquery mode I did the following: USE bacula; SELECT * FROM Filename WHERE name LIKE '%ZFS%'; SELECT * FROM Filename WHERE name LIKE '%zfs%'; Although the commands worked, they only returned case-sensitive matches, despite MySQL's documentation stating that pattern matching is case-insensitive by default: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/pattern-matching.html Can anyone help me? Have you tried ilike instead of like? It is available on PostgreSQL. I don't know about MySQL. Consider also: SELECT * FROM Filename where lower(name) LIKE %zfs%; Unfortunately ilike/ILIKE do not seem to be valid operators in MySQL. The lower(name) doesn't cause a problem but the results are still case-sensitive Think wider. It is not case insensitive. It is all lower case. You are comparing lower case to lower case. Does that help? -- Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Feature idea : Advanced status of a current job;
Hi Since many days I am thinking thats it could be nice to have some feature that enable the user to have an idea of the speed that the job is running. I imagine something that report during the job : Network rates, Job advancement, Files backed up, Bytes Copied ? Also I use Webacula, and when -- Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Feature idea : Advanced status of a current job;
Sorry, there was a bug, message sent while I was writing :( 2011/4/11 Hugo Letemplier hugo.let...@gmail.com: Hi Since many days I am thinking thats it could be nice to have some feature that enable the user to have an idea of the speed that the job is running. I imagine something that report during the job : Network rates, Job advancement, Files backed up, Bytes Copied ? Also I use Webacula, and when I look at the timeline the currently running job cant be viewed I imagine a command like status job jobid= - Data already backed up - Estimation of the remaining Data (or time) - Elapsed time - Network data transfert - Datarate at two level ( with/without compression ) and some information that could be fine to estimate the duration of a job. Lots of backup software have a graphical progression bar. When you start a job in bacula you don't have statistics before the job is terminated. Maybe I missed a feature like that that already exist ? I think that a lot of people will be interested by that king of feature. Thank you Hugo -- Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Feature idea : Advanced status of a current job;
Hi Why not use Bweb? It does and shows exactly what you want. Edgars -Original Message- From: Hugo Letemplier [mailto:hugo.let...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 5:55 PM To: bacula-users Subject: [Bacula-users] Feature idea : Advanced status of a current job; Hi Since many days I am thinking thats it could be nice to have some feature that enable the user to have an idea of the speed that the job is running. I imagine something that report during the job : Network rates, Job advancement, Files backed up, Bytes Copied ? Also I use Webacula, and when -- Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Feature idea : Advanced status of a current job;
2011/4/11 Edgars Mazurs edgars.maz...@lattelecom.lv: Hi Why not use Bweb? It does and shows exactly what you want. Edgars -Original Message- From: Hugo Letemplier [mailto:hugo.let...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 5:55 PM To: bacula-users Subject: [Bacula-users] Feature idea : Advanced status of a current job; Hi Since many days I am thinking thats it could be nice to have some feature that enable the user to have an idea of the speed that the job is running. I imagine something that report during the job : Network rates, Job advancement, Files backed up, Bytes Copied ? Also I use Webacula, and when I had lots of problem when implementing bweb. Moreover webacula seems to be more active web interface project for bacula. Maybe a sort of fusion between the web projects would be cool ? I feel like theses web projects are working independently. Each one with is advantages and drawbacks. Also I often use bconsole, I think it's best to include such a command in the core of the software than in the web interface. : ) Hugo -- Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Feature idea : Advanced status of a current job;
Within bconsole you can use status client=myserver-fd to get most of this information (where myserver-fd is the name of the file daemon involved in the backup). Cheers, Ewan -Original Message- From: Hugo Letemplier [mailto:hugo.let...@gmail.com] Sent: 11 April 2011 15:37 To: bacula-users Subject: [Bacula-users] Feature idea : Advanced status of a current job; Hi Since many days I am thinking thats it could be nice to have some feature that enable the user to have an idea of the speed that the job is running. I imagine something that report during the job : Network rates, Job advancement, Files backed up, Bytes Copied ? Also I use Webacula, and when --- --- Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Scanned by iCritical. -- Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Bacula offsite backups (once again)
I have successfully been using Bacula for almost 2 years now. Fairly small (~30 machines) and straight forward setup -- only one director, one SD. A need has arisen to start doing offsite backups. Now, what seems like pretty trivial task, came out to be major headache. I went through mailing list and it seems that most of the people are using rsync based shipping of Bacula volumes off-site and if needed, bscan them or even keep a copy of Director as a standby one in case of disaster. This kind of approach could work for me, however: a) in case of SD death, I won't be able to simply login to bconsole and start restoring jobs; it will require some manual fiddling before I will be able to do that b) it will substantially limit flexibility; how would you configure in this case to eg. do local backups every day, however remote -- offsite backup -- say, every three days using this approach? Theoretically you could use SQL to list volumes you need to copy over, but then again -- a) Given lack of possibility of using COPY job across two different SDs (with dependencies respect), my initial thought was to simply back up twice, first time to local and second time to offsite SD. However, I read numerous posts saying that if SD dies, Bacula most likely won't be able to do restore basing on only one SD (it will want to use both; unless the other one is going to be Full only which is going to be massive waste of space). I was wondering if anyone manage to find a solution that addresses a) and b) and is not rsync based? Kind regards, Bart -- Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Feature idea : Advanced status of a current job;
Hi, On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Hugo Letemplier wrote: I imagine a command like status job jobid= I presume you've looked at status client= It does much of what you want (current job duration, data transferred, rate, num files, current file), but without the predictive information you're looking for (time/data remaining). In principal, if you or bacula ran an estimate beforehand, you could probably work out an estimated time remaining but I don't think that feature is present. Estimates are only available for full backups. *estimate job=CeartgoleorBackups-Job Using Catalog MyCatalog Connecting to Client ceartgoleor-fd at ceartgoleor.:9102 2000 OK estimate files=223,128 bytes=9,724,976,371 Gavin -- Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] How do I know if a job is actually part of a Copy procedure?
I know it is normal, and it's fine with me. I just want to know (if possible) if a given Backup job is started due to a Copy job or not. On 2011.04.11., at 12:35, ewan.br...@stfc.ac.uk wrote: I believe that's normal behaviour for copy jobs. Cheers, Ewan -Original Message- From: Gergely Polonkai [mailto:pol...@w00d5t0ck.info] Sent: 08 April 2011 17:04 To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] How do I know if a job is actually part of a Copy procedure? Hello List, When I start a Copy type job, two jobs are actually started. E.g when I want to copy a job originally called 'client1-full' within a Copy job called 'client1-copy', the database holds two running job records, one of them called 'client1-copy', with the Type field set to 'C' (Copy), and the other called 'client1-full', level F, Type B (Backup). Is there a way to find out if this second one is started because of the Copy job, or it is meant to be run e.g because of a schedule or a console action? Thanks in advance! Best regards, Gergely Polonkai -- You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become? - Terry Pratchett -- Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula offsite backups (once again)
For the last few days, I've been struggling with the same problem, and I don't if my experience can help you or not, but here goes: First of all, I have a special Admin Job that runs every day at 12:00pm, which basically sends my Catalog Backup (postgres), the bacula-dir and bacula-sd config and system files to an external storage (currently Dropbox, but soon Amazon). So if my bacula-dir or bacula-sd crashes, I can manually restore them manually from this backup. My normal daily backups works like this: once a month I run a Full Backup of all my servers (almost 50), every Sunday I run a Diff Backup and all the other days I run a Inc Backup. All of theses backups goes to a single Tape Library configured in my bacula-sd. My problem was that I needed to take my backup tapes to a external site, but at the same time I needed all my backups locally available for any restore needed. The solution to my problem was: I make a Copy Job that, weekly, makes a copy of the last Full Backup or of the last Diff Backup of my clients to a second Tape Library also configured on the same bacula-sd, and I take the tapes used on those Copy Jobs to an external site. And weekly I bring those tapes back and make them available to future Copy Jobs (their retention time are 8 days). That way, in case a meteor falls down on my company, I'll need to manually revive the bacula-sd and bacula-dir from the Dropbox backup, and then use the Copy Jobs tapes to restore the files from last week. Sorry if I didn't made my self very clear, but you can always contact me personally for further explanations. 2011/4/11 Bart Swedrowski b...@timedout.org I have successfully been using Bacula for almost 2 years now. Fairly small (~30 machines) and straight forward setup -- only one director, one SD. A need has arisen to start doing offsite backups. Now, what seems like pretty trivial task, came out to be major headache. I went through mailing list and it seems that most of the people are using rsync based shipping of Bacula volumes off-site and if needed, bscan them or even keep a copy of Director as a standby one in case of disaster. This kind of approach could work for me, however: a) in case of SD death, I won't be able to simply login to bconsole and start restoring jobs; it will require some manual fiddling before I will be able to do that b) it will substantially limit flexibility; how would you configure in this case to eg. do local backups every day, however remote -- offsite backup -- say, every three days using this approach? Theoretically you could use SQL to list volumes you need to copy over, but then again -- a) Given lack of possibility of using COPY job across two different SDs (with dependencies respect), my initial thought was to simply back up twice, first time to local and second time to offsite SD. However, I read numerous posts saying that if SD dies, Bacula most likely won't be able to do restore basing on only one SD (it will want to use both; unless the other one is going to be Full only which is going to be massive waste of space). I was wondering if anyone manage to find a solution that addresses a) and b) and is not rsync based? Kind regards, Bart -- Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] bacula on a mixed Win Ubuntu Lan
On 11/04/2011 1:23 AM, Marcello Romani wrote:
Il 10/04/2011 01:15, acorn12 ha scritto:
On 08/04/2011 12:29 AM, Marcello Romani wrote:
Il 08/04/2011 02:33, acorn12 ha scritto:
I am trying to run bacula on a mixed LAN with some Win XP/Vista machines
and one Ubuntu 10.04 Server.
The server has the bacula 5.0.1 package installed, while on the Windows
XP machine I have bacula-win32-5.0.3.exe installed.
-
As I am very new to bacula, I'm sure I am missing something, but have no
clue what or where to look.
Any hints or pointers are most welcome.
TIA
The Windows installer asks for the director name but doesn't set the
password correctly. Copy the password from XP-fd.conf to the bacula-dir.conf
Copying the password did not seem to make a difference.
As a test I've installed bacula 5.0.1 bacula-console-qt, bacula-console
and bacula-common packages in a VMWare Ubuntu box on WinVista.
The director (also 5.0.1) runs on the machine 'geek', not on the local
machine.
Calling up just bconsole I get only:
/user@ubuntu:~$ sudo bconsole
Connecting to Director geek:9101
user@ubuntu:~$/
/user@ubuntu:~$ sudo bconsole -t
user@ubuntu:~$/
Running BAT gives me the same error and behaves the same in every other
way, first it does connect, but then fails with the same error message.
So it looks it is not really (or at least not only) a Windows problem!!!
bconsole.conf
---
#
# Bacula User Agent (or Console) Configuration File
#
Director {
Name = geek-dir
DIRport = 9101
address = geek
Password = yveAet993vzsWug3KoZUKjVbdZy0nrSqIqQCFH80rIVS
}
---
bat.conf
-
#
# Bacula Administration Tool (bat) configuration file
#
Director {
Name = geek-dir
DIRport = 9101
address = geek
Password = yveAet993vzsWug3KoZUKjVbdZy0nrSqIqQCFH80rIVS
}
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I don't have a solution, but some other suggestions...
In bacula-dir.conf, the Password field must match the one listed in the
client conf files above.
Same for Name parameter.
Thank you;
That much seems to check out OK
In /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf check that DirAddress also reports geek
In /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf I have DirAddress = 127.0.0.1
Check also that /etc/hosts doesn't contain an entry where the fqdn of
geek is matched to 127.0.0.1
my /etc/hosts has two entries
127.0.0.1 geek.aww.net geek localhost
127.0.0.1 geek.aww.net Geek
My understanding - which is very soft and unsure - is that that is sort
of expected.
Can you please help me understand why this is not wanted for bacula?
and how I would have to change it to make things work?
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Re: [Bacula-users] bacula on a mixed Win Ubuntu Lan
On 11/04/2011 1:23 AM, Marcello Romani wrote:
Il 10/04/2011 01:15, acorn12 ha scritto:
On 08/04/2011 12:29 AM, Marcello Romani wrote:
Il 08/04/2011 02:33, acorn12 ha scritto:
I am trying to run bacula on a mixed LAN with some Win XP/Vista machines
and one Ubuntu 10.04 Server.
The server has the bacula 5.0.1 package installed, while on the Windows
XP machine I have bacula-win32-5.0.3.exe installed.
-
As I am very new to bacula, I'm sure I am missing something, but have no
clue what or where to look.
Any hints or pointers are most welcome.
TIA
The Windows installer asks for the director name but doesn't set the
password correctly. Copy the password from XP-fd.conf to the bacula-dir.conf
Copying the password did not seem to make a difference.
As a test I've installed bacula 5.0.1 bacula-console-qt, bacula-console
and bacula-common packages in a VMWare Ubuntu box on WinVista.
The director (also 5.0.1) runs on the machine 'geek', not on the local
machine.
Calling up just bconsole I get only:
/user@ubuntu:~$ sudo bconsole
Connecting to Director geek:9101
user@ubuntu:~$/
/user@ubuntu:~$ sudo bconsole -t
user@ubuntu:~$/
Running BAT gives me the same error and behaves the same in every other
way, first it does connect, but then fails with the same error message.
So it looks it is not really (or at least not only) a Windows problem!!!
bconsole.conf
---
#
# Bacula User Agent (or Console) Configuration File
#
Director {
Name = geek-dir
DIRport = 9101
address = geek
Password = yveAet993vzsWug3KoZUKjVbdZy0nrSqIqQCFH80rIVS
}
---
bat.conf
-
#
# Bacula Administration Tool (bat) configuration file
#
Director {
Name = geek-dir
DIRport = 9101
address = geek
Password = yveAet993vzsWug3KoZUKjVbdZy0nrSqIqQCFH80rIVS
}
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I don't have a solution, but some other suggestions...
In bacula-dir.conf, the Password field must match the one listed in the
client conf files above.
Same for Name parameter.
In /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf check that DirAddress also reports geek
Check also that /etc/hosts doesn't contain an entry where the fqdn of
geek is matched to 127.0.0.
I forgot to mention in my last reply now if I run bconsole or bat under
Vista, I get the following error now after playing with all the settings
as suggested till now:
( and also replacing the old 32 bit installation with the 64 bit version)
/C:\Program Files\Baculabconsole
11-Apr 10:12 bconsole: ERROR TERMINATION at
/home/kern/bacula/k/bacula/src/lib/parse_conf.c:898
Config error: Cannot open config file
C:\ProgramData\Bacula/bconsole.conf: No
such file or directory/
-
BAT complains about the same thing.
If I create the directory c:\ProgramData\Bacula and the copy the files
bat.conf and bconsole.conf to it, the old problem returns
i.e Error in console.cpp:155 -- populateLists
My conclusion: the 64 bit installer does not create this directory and
does not copy these two files.
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Re: [Bacula-users] Performance with latent networks
Hi, The issue, I imagine with transfer rates is between the bacula-fd and bacula-sd. Correct Do we presume the -sd is in Sydney? You don't say what speed the Sydney ADSL2+ link is (though apparently it can manage at least 2.2MByte/sec). 24mbit down, 1mbit up Is that 300ms over the VPN? If you run a long ping, is there any noticeable packet loss? With ping -s 65500 -c 1000 I got: 1000 packets transmitted, 1000 received, 0% packet loss, time 999884ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 421.944/1202.740/4353.202/578.943 ms, pipe 5 So there seems to be no real packet loss even with larger packets. Maybe the bacula-fd host is busy or the bacula-fd itself is doing encryption or compression which is slowing down its send rate? Are these incremental backups or full? Are you using accurate backups (which need data to be sent to the fd from the dir)? Have you checked the disk and cpu load on the bacula fd and sd during these backups? I've checked both hosts. There is plenty of memory, CPU bandwidth sitting idle at both ends. The loadavg is below 0.5. The hosts in Montreal actually have more spare resources than the Canberra host which transfers oh so much better. I'm not using accurate backups. But I do have GZIP turned on. So it appears the problem is network latency. Is there anything I can try to improve backup speeds from Montreal? -- Forrester Wave Report - Recovery time is now measured in hours and minutes not days. Key insights are discussed in the 2010 Forrester Wave Report as part of an in-depth evaluation of disaster recovery service providers. Forrester found the best-in-class provider in terms of services and vision. Read this report now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/ibm-webcastpromo___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
