[Bacula-users] Single Pool, multiple Storage

2006-02-10 Thread Matthew Butt
I'm setting up a backup to disk system (USB external drives), basically running Full monthly, Diff weekly, Inc daily, very similar to the system here: http://www.bacula.org/rel-manual/Automated_Disk_Backup.html The difference is that I also need to implement off-site storage for disaster situation

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir not finding mysql-dependent library

2006-02-10 Thread Dave
Hello, Yes, thank you. I noted the differences, but don't get why. It looks like we're running the same bacula versions and mysql and php, i'm kind of stumped aside from the fact that nothing has changed on this box from the working time to now. Thanks. Dave - Original Message - Fr

Re: [Bacula-users] user complains bacula slows his laptop

2006-02-10 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Alex Finch wrote: "When (bacula fd is) running it seems to use all the memory, making doing almost anything impossible." How much memory, what OS, etc ? AB --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you gre

Re: [Bacula-users] How to get mount requests before the job runs?

2006-02-10 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:51:47 +, Chris Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Hello Bacula users > > I'm new to Bacula, and beginning to get the hang of it. > > I can't find a way to get the operator notified of which tape to mount > *before* the jobs runs. For example, if the daily back

Re: [Bacula-users] user complains bacula slows his laptop

2006-02-10 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
> - - Validate that memory usage claim > - - Ensure that the client system has UDMA running properly on all > harddrives (Drives running in PIO modes generate loads of interrupts and > thus bog down the CPU), on Windows you can check this in the Device > Manager (see the IDE controllers' propertie

Re: [Bacula-users] Postgres speed

2006-02-10 Thread Aleksandar Milivojevic
Quoting Karl Hakimian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 07:42:45PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: > Yes, it would be possible to commit the filename/path inserts > immediately (i.e. 1 insert per transaction) but still do the > file inserts within a larger transaction. Not really, if

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir not finding mysql-dependent library

2006-02-10 Thread Dan Langille
On 10 Feb 2006 at 16:04, Dave wrote: > Hello, > Thank you for your reply. I have not done any portupgrades within the last > two or three days. The bacula-dir i did the ldd on was located in > /usr/local/sbin. Did you see the rest of what I said? I found differences. > - Original Message

Re: [Bacula-users] Postgres speed

2006-02-10 Thread Karl Hakimian
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 07:42:45PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > Yes, it would be possible to commit the filename/path inserts > > immediately (i.e. 1 insert per transaction) but still do the > > file inserts within a larger transaction. > > Not really, if you want/need to refer to them fro

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir not finding mysql-dependent library

2006-02-10 Thread Dave
Hello, Thank you for your reply. I have not done any portupgrades within the last two or three days. The bacula-dir i did the ldd on was located in /usr/local/sbin. Dave. - Original Message - From: "Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, F

RE: [Bacula-users] Postgres speed

2006-02-10 Thread Magnus Hagander
> > > I think transactions are more important here. We need to > look more > > > closely at that. > > > > Considering Bacula runs a *lot* of commands that are almost > the same, > > differeing only in data, it would probalby be a noticable > gain using > > prepared statements (that probably

RE: [Bacula-users] bacula-fd and HPUX 10.20

2006-02-10 Thread Heigl Florian - Munich-MR - external
Hi, > > The other question would be if there as a chance of building a > > non-threaded bacula-sd, which *jumpsupanddown* would probably > > also ease an AIX client. > Bacula-sd and bacula-dir is running very fine on a Debian > Linux box :) I > only need bacula-fd for HPUX 10.20. that was a typ

RE: [Bacula-users] Postgres speed

2006-02-10 Thread Dan Langille
On 10 Feb 2006 at 19:45, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > > > Cutting my postgres update time to minutes from hours would > > certainly > > > make my backups run far smoother. > > > > I think transactions are more important here. We need to > > look more closely at that. > > Considering Bacula ru

RE: [Bacula-users] Postgres speed

2006-02-10 Thread Magnus Hagander
> > Cutting my postgres update time to minutes from hours would > certainly > > make my backups run far smoother. > > I think transactions are more important here. We need to > look more closely at that. Considering Bacula runs a *lot* of commands that are almost the same, differeing only in

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir not finding mysql-dependent library

2006-02-10 Thread Dan Langille
On 10 Feb 2006 at 13:22, Dave wrote: > Hello, > I'm running a bacula server on Freebsd6. This was working yesterday, yet > this morning when i checked my nightly emails no backups. I checked on the > server and found that the director had stopped. I tried to start it and was > told libmysql

[Bacula-users] Re: user complains bacula slows his laptop

2006-02-10 Thread Joshua Kugler
On Friday 10 February 2006 04:42, Alex Finch wrote: > I have been using bacula for a couple of weeks now, gnerally very happy. > > I have a user who is only occasionally in the department, and when he is > I would like to backup his laptop. The full backup happened for the first > time this wee

[Bacula-users] RE: [Bacula-devel] problems migrating bacula db from postgresql tomysql

2006-02-10 Thread Magnus Hagander
> > Yes, the creation of the tables is very database dependent > and was not > > designed for portability. In hind-sight, one could > probably make them > > much more portable. > > > > Foreign keys were initially used in PostgreSQL, but they slowed it > > down considerably -- by a factor of 2

RE: [Bacula-users] Postgres speed

2006-02-10 Thread Magnus Hagander
> > Using two transactions, one for the vital components, the other for > > non-vital portions. > > > > Or do we need to revisit how these tables are updated? > > Yes, it would be possible to commit the filename/path inserts > immediately (i.e. 1 insert per transaction) but still do the > file

[Bacula-users] bacula-dir not finding mysql-dependent library

2006-02-10 Thread Dave
Hello, I'm running a bacula server on Freebsd6. This was working yesterday, yet this morning when i checked my nightly emails no backups. I checked on the server and found that the director had stopped. I tried to start it and was told libmysqlclient_so_14 wasn't found as required by the dir

Re: [Bacula-users] Symbolic links

2006-02-10 Thread Phil Stracchino
Ryan Novosielski wrote: > Does anyone know where? I looked before asking this question, mainly at > the FileSet definition, and turned up nothing other than info on hard > links. There is no similar information for soft/symbolic links, and no > mention of it in the index. OK, looking at what I hav

Re: [Bacula-users] Symbolic links

2006-02-10 Thread Ryan Novosielski
Does anyone know where? I looked before asking this question, mainly at the FileSet definition, and turned up nothing other than info on hard links. There is no similar information for soft/symbolic links, and no mention of it in the index. _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ |

[Bacula-users] How to get mount requests before the job runs?

2006-02-10 Thread Chris Dennis
Hello Bacula users I'm new to Bacula, and beginning to get the hang of it. I can't find a way to get the operator notified of which tape to mount *before* the jobs runs. For example, if the daily backup is due to run at 10pm, the operator needs to get the notification before they go home at 5pm

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about spool process...?

2006-02-10 Thread Phil Stracchino
pedro moreno wrote: >Hi people. > I have some simple doubt about the spool options that we can use for > bacula, i want to backup 4 servers, using 1 HP Ultrium 200GB tape, the > amount of data is about 120GB only, well if i decide to use the spool > option, bacula will wait all the clients

Re: [Bacula-users] Symbolic links

2006-02-10 Thread Phil Stracchino
Ryan Novosielski wrote: > A quick search through the manual has not turned up anything on this, so > I figure perhaps someone can help. Is the expected behavior that bacula > will not follow symbolic links? Is this configurable? When I upgrade > software, I typically link the new version into place

[Bacula-users] Symbolic links

2006-02-10 Thread Ryan Novosielski
A quick search through the manual has not turned up anything on this, so I figure perhaps someone can help. Is the expected behavior that bacula will not follow symbolic links? Is this configurable? When I upgrade software, I typically link the new version into place... I'd have to have to chan

Re: [Bacula-users] user complains bacula slows his laptop

2006-02-10 Thread Steve Loughran
Is any anti-virus application scanning the files that the FD is backing up? Laptop + AV + every single file = very very slow... Steve Russell Howe wrote: Alex Finch wrote: Dan and Michel, Thanks for the helpful comments and suggestions. Next time the user is here I will try some of them ou

Re: [Bacula-users] user complains bacula slows his laptop

2006-02-10 Thread Russell Howe
Alex Finch wrote: > Dan and Michel, > > Thanks for the helpful comments and suggestions. Next time the user is > here I will try some of them out! > I believe he is running Windows XP professional, not sure of the exact > spec. of the machine but I imagine it is fairly good. One other thing he

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] problems migrating bacula db from postgresql to mysql

2006-02-10 Thread Aleksandar Milivojevic
Quoting Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thursday 09 February 2006 21:07, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: This is about one problem I have, and there's also a patch attached which might be good to incorporate into future version of Bacula. I'm in the middle of migrating Bacula database from

Re: [Bacula-users] Postgres speed

2006-02-10 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 07:23:22 -0800, Karl Hakimian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 03:12:24PM +, Martin Simmons wrote: > > Because it was tied to multiple connections and this made it fatally broken > > because of how the filename and path tables are updated.

Re: [Bacula-users] Postgres speed

2006-02-10 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 07:28:23 -0800, Karl Hakimian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 07:22:10AM -0800, Karl Hakimian wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:12:10AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > > > If you have concurrent jobs, what happens when job #1 wants to add a

Re: [Bacula-users] Postgres speed

2006-02-10 Thread Dan Langille
On 10 Feb 2006 at 16:00, Martin Simmons wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:19:16 -0500, "Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > said: > > Priority: normal > > Content-description: Mail message body > > > > On 10 Feb 2006 at 15:12, Martin Simmons wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 10 Feb 2006

Re: [Bacula-users] Postgres speed

2006-02-10 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:19:16 -0500, "Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > Priority: normal > Content-description: Mail message body > > On 10 Feb 2006 at 15:12, Martin Simmons wrote: > > > > On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:58:56 -0800, Karl Hakimian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > sai

Re: [Bacula-users] Postgres speed

2006-02-10 Thread Karl Hakimian
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 07:22:10AM -0800, Karl Hakimian wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:12:10AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > > If you have concurrent jobs, what happens when job #1 wants to add a > > file to the table, and job #2 wants to add the same file? How do you > > ensure that both tr

Re: [Bacula-users] Postgres speed

2006-02-10 Thread Karl Hakimian
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:12:10AM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > If you have concurrent jobs, what happens when job #1 wants to add a > file to the table, and job #2 wants to add the same file? How do you > ensure that both transactions work without failure? That looks like the biggest possible

Re: [Bacula-users] Postgres speed

2006-02-10 Thread Karl Hakimian
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 03:12:24PM +, Martin Simmons wrote: > Because it was tied to multiple connections and this made it fatally broken > because of how the filename and path tables are updated. Could you elaborate on the problem? Multiple connections from where? -- Karl Hakimian [EMAIL PR

Re: [Fwd: [Bacula-users] EMail notification for mounting tape]

2006-02-10 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:40:46 +0100, Guy Zuercher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Dear List, > > is there nobody who could shed some light about this subject? > Even if it is only RTFM (altough i did that quite a few times) :-) The "status dir" command can print information about jobs i

Re: [Bacula-users] Postgres speed

2006-02-10 Thread Dan Langille
On 10 Feb 2006 at 15:12, Martin Simmons wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:58:56 -0800, Karl Hakimian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > said: > > > > > I don't think COPY will be useful. > > > > I don't think I'm ready to give up on the copy command yet. The amount > > of data in the filename and

Re: [Bacula-users] Postgres speed

2006-02-10 Thread Martin Simmons
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:58:56 -0800, Karl Hakimian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > > I don't think COPY will be useful. > > I don't think I'm ready to give up on the copy command yet. The amount > of data in the filename and path tables is small compared to the file > table. If we creat

Re: [Bacula-users] Postgres speed

2006-02-10 Thread Dan Langille
On 10 Feb 2006 at 6:58, Karl Hakimian wrote: > > I don't think COPY will be useful. > > I don't think I'm ready to give up on the copy command yet. The amount > of data in the filename and path tables is small compared to the file > table. If we created a copy command while updating the file and

Re: [Bacula-users] Postgres speed

2006-02-10 Thread Karl Hakimian
> I don't think COPY will be useful. I don't think I'm ready to give up on the copy command yet. The amount of data in the filename and path tables is small compared to the file table. If we created a copy command while updating the file and path tables and then dumped the file updates via copy, t

Re: [Bacula-users] user complains bacula slows his laptop

2006-02-10 Thread Alex Finch
Dan and Michel, Thanks for the helpful comments and suggestions. Next time the user is here I will try some of them out! I believe he is running Windows XP professional, not sure of the exact spec. of the machine but I imagine it is fairly good. Alex --

[Fwd: [Bacula-users] EMail notification for mounting tape]

2006-02-10 Thread Guy Zuercher
Dear List, is there nobody who could shed some light about this subject? Even if it is only RTFM (altough i did that quite a few times) :-) thanks Guy Original Message Subject: [Bacula-users] EMail notification for mounting tape Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:39:54 +0100 From

Re: [Bacula-users] user complains bacula slows his laptop

2006-02-10 Thread Dan Langille
On 10 Feb 2006 at 13:42, Alex Finch wrote: > I have been using bacula for a couple of weeks now, gnerally very > happy. > > I have a user who is only occasionally in the department, and when > he is I would like to backup his laptop. The full backup happened for > the first time this week, a

RE: [Bacula-users] bacula-fd and HPUX 10.20

2006-02-10 Thread Geir Asle Borgen
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 16:24 +0100, Heigl Florian - Munich-MR - external wrote: > Hi Geir, > > > I've tried to compile bacula-fd (./configure > > --enabel-client-only) on an > > old HP box running HPUX 10.20. The last messages I get is > > that it can't > > find "fork". In the bacula manual I see

Re: [Bacula-users] user complains bacula slows his laptop

2006-02-10 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Finch wrote: I have a user who is only occasionally in the department, and when he is I would like to backup his laptop. The full backup happened for the first time this week, and he sent me this comment: "When (bacula fd is) running it seems

Re: [Bacula-users] Postgres speed

2006-02-10 Thread Dan Langille
On 10 Feb 2006 at 5:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > While de-spooling attributes into my postgres database for a full backup > takes about two hours, I noticed that postgres was able to dump the > entire database and create a brand new one including indexes in just > a couple of minutes. It seems t

[Bacula-users] Postgres speed

2006-02-10 Thread hakimian
Hi, While de-spooling attributes into my postgres database for a full backup takes about two hours, I noticed that postgres was able to dump the entire database and create a brand new one including indexes in just a couple of minutes. It seems to me there's some room for improving bacula's de-spoo

[Bacula-users] user complains bacula slows his laptop

2006-02-10 Thread Alex Finch
I have been using bacula for a couple of weeks now, gnerally very happy. I have a user who is only occasionally in the department, and when he is I would like to backup his laptop. The full backup happened for the first time this week, and he sent me this comment: "When (bacula fd is) runn

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with loading tape on Itanium

2006-02-10 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ante Karamatic wrote: Arno Lehmann wrote: You need the new Autochanger section in bacula-sd.conf. You are right. This fixed the problem. I guess the manual needs fixing then (copying the devel list). The phrase "If you have a single drive auto

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with loading tape on Itanium

2006-02-10 Thread Ante Karamatic
Arno Lehmann wrote: You need the new Autochanger section in bacula-sd.conf. You are right. This fixed the problem. Thank you! -- Ante Karamatic | 0xD3BDA225 | 0x0A4A0161 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ivoks.blogspot.com "Tomorrow is my day off, so please stay off the powder!"

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with loading tape on Itanium

2006-02-10 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ante Karamatic wrote: Michel Meyers wrote: Are you sure that the last command that it runs (unload?) returns with 0? If mtx-changer returns anything non-zero, Bacula assumes there's something wrong with the changer and immediately stops all actions

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with loading tape on Itanium

2006-02-10 Thread Ante Karamatic
Michel Meyers wrote: Are you sure that the last command that it runs (unload?) returns with 0? If mtx-changer returns anything non-zero, Bacula assumes there's something wrong with the changer and immediately stops all actions while requesting operator intervention. You might try putting an exit

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with loading tape on Itanium

2006-02-10 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hello, > > On 2/10/2006 12:14 PM, Ante Karamatic wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I have a year of expirience with Bacula (with HP SureStore), so I was >> confused when this happend on HP Ultrium-2/LTO :/ >> >> In mtx-changer I had to enable

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with loading tape on Itanium

2006-02-10 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 2/10/2006 12:14 PM, Ante Karamatic wrote: Hi! I have a year of expirience with Bacula (with HP SureStore), so I was confused when this happend on HP Ultrium-2/LTO :/ I compiled bacula on Itanium from src.rpm (latest version on sourceforge) without gnome (gconsole), with O2 and lat

[Bacula-users] Concurrent Jobs (was "Inconsistent backup success rate")

2006-02-10 Thread Steve Loughran
Hi all I was wondering if someone could clear up how the concurrent jobs are dealt with by the storage daemon. I only have one backup device (LTO3), and have a spool area defiend for that device. if I had (for example) 4 concurrent jobs running, does this mean: 4 clients dumping da

[Bacula-users] Problems with loading tape on Itanium

2006-02-10 Thread Ante Karamatic
Hi! I have a year of expirience with Bacula (with HP SureStore), so I was confused when this happend on HP Ultrium-2/LTO :/ I compiled bacula on Itanium from src.rpm (latest version on sourceforge) without gnome (gconsole), with O2 and later with O0 optimizations. Operating system in RHEL3.

[Bacula-users] Using 1.38.3 server with 1.38.0 clients

2006-02-10 Thread Diogo Melo
I want to upgrade my Bacula server from 1.38.0 to 1.38.3 but does it work well together? I'm not sure about that... Does anyone know?Thanks!Diogo Rocha.

[Bacula-users] Re: [Bacula-devel] problems migrating bacula db from postgresql to mysql

2006-02-10 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 09 February 2006 21:07, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > This is about one problem I have, and there's also a patch attached > which might be good to incorporate into future version of Bacula. > > I'm in the middle of migrating Bacula database from PostgreSQL to > MySQL, and got into kin