Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula newbie has some questions.
Just be aware that 5.2.6 that comes with some Linux distros (Ubuntu for example), the 'dbcheck' program doesn't work. However it is fixed I believe in 5.2.13. But I haven't found a PPA or other method for upgrading to the latest version in Ubuntu short of compile from source (not quite ready to try that yet - ha). Steve Hammond On 3/16/2015 2:00 PM, compdoc wrote: > Is Bacula 7.x ready for production or should I stick with 5.x? 5.x seems to be the default on some Linux distros. 5.x still works pretty well, and no issues with the windows client backing up my workstation. I get about 26 MB/s, and never any crashes, although I don’t backup any system files. Only Documents. If your drive fails there are better ways to restore it, including installing from scratch, so no need to backup anything except personal docs... -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula newbie has some questions.
On 03/16/2015 12:48 PM, Joseph Wagner wrote: > As of now I've been backing up a single server to a 1TB SATA drive. ... > Basically I'd like this job to do this every week and prune old data when > the media fills up. Easy: make Maximum Volume Bytes * Maximum Volumes < .9TB (give it some safety buffer, at least a couple of Max Vol Bytes). Purge & recycle oldest volume with auto prune. The biggest problem is what happens when your SATA drive fails. -- Dimitri Maziuk Programmer/sysadmin BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula newbie has some questions.
> Is Bacula 7.x ready for production or should I stick with 5.x? 5.x seems to > be the default on some Linux distros. 5.x still works pretty well, and no issues with the windows client backing up my workstation. I get about 26 MB/s, and never any crashes, although I don’t backup any system files. Only Documents. If your drive fails there are better ways to restore it, including installing from scratch, so no need to backup anything except personal docs... -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula newbie has some questions.
7.x works just fine. There's not really any technical reason that it isn't in the distros yet, more just that nobody working with the various distros has taken the time to package it and put it in their repositories. I was able to build it quite easily myself, there's several features that are improved enough I'd say it's well worth putting in the effort. Windows clients are currently stuck at 5.x, but they work fine with 7.x. The director needs to be >= the client versions so old clients work fine with a new director, but not vice versa. I have plenty of 5.x clients working with my 7.x director and storage daemon. You might want to consider just doing an incremental backup say Mon/Tues, a differential Wed and then incrementals again Thurs/Fri/Sat? Unless you really really need differentials for some reason? Right now you're backing up the same data again and again every day which you may not want. IE anything new created on Monday gets backed up Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. If all the data is going to the same volume then really just using incremental all week and not bothering with a differential at all would probably be fine. There wouldn't really be any substantial impact on restore given you're not using tapes. Bryn On 2015-03-16 10:48 AM, Joseph Wagner wrote: Greetings all. I just joined the mailing list. I've been playing with Bacula 5.x for a while now and I have some questions. Is Bacula 7.x ready for production or should I stick with 5.x? 5.x seems to be the default on some Linux distros. As far as Windows clients are concerned. Which version should I be using for Bacula 5.x? I downloaded the binaries from the source forge page but those haven't been updated since 2012. They seem to work fine for the most part but I did experience a fatal networking error once or twice. Something else could have been the culprit there though. As of now I've been backing up a single server to a 1TB SATA drive. A full backup is about 400 GB or so. It mostly works fine but I run into retention/recycling issues after a while. I've made some tweaks over time and it seems to work better but I'd like some input on this from someone for experienced with Bacula. The job schedule is as follows... Level=Full sun at 00:00 , Level=Differential mon-sat at 00:00 Basically I'd like this job to do this every week and prune old data when the media fills up. I originally set the retention period for the volume to 7 days, job retention to 30 days. The job is set to auto prune as well. However after about two weeks the media fills up and the job can no longer write to that volume. Today I just set the retention periods to 1 day just to see what would happen over time? Is this a bad idea? What would be a sane config to meet my goal? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -- Joseph Wagner -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ ___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
[Bacula-users] Bacula newbie has some questions.
Greetings all. I just joined the mailing list. I've been playing with Bacula 5.x for a while now and I have some questions. Is Bacula 7.x ready for production or should I stick with 5.x? 5.x seems to be the default on some Linux distros. As far as Windows clients are concerned. Which version should I be using for Bacula 5.x? I downloaded the binaries from the source forge page but those haven't been updated since 2012. They seem to work fine for the most part but I did experience a fatal networking error once or twice. Something else could have been the culprit there though. As of now I've been backing up a single server to a 1TB SATA drive. A full backup is about 400 GB or so. It mostly works fine but I run into retention/recycling issues after a while. I've made some tweaks over time and it seems to work better but I'd like some input on this from someone for experienced with Bacula. The job schedule is as follows... Level=Full sun at 00:00 , Level=Differential mon-sat at 00:00 Basically I'd like this job to do this every week and prune old data when the media fills up. I originally set the retention period for the volume to 7 days, job retention to 30 days. The job is set to auto prune as well. However after about two weeks the media fills up and the job can no longer write to that volume. Today I just set the retention periods to 1 day just to see what would happen over time? Is this a bad idea? What would be a sane config to meet my goal? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -- Joseph Wagner -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/___ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
