[Bacula-users] Rif: Split Volume Files

2006-10-09 Thread Ferdinando Pasqualetti
In my experience big volumes get poor performance if you have jurnalling active. I use 40 Gb volumes (limited by Maximum Volume Size) mounting archive file systems as EXT2 instead of EXT3 (a possible fsck of file system with a few big files is very fast and volume files open in writing during a

Re: [Bacula-users] Slow down with MySQL as a backend

2006-10-09 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
This seems a lot similar to my Postgres problem on some systems:- when backing up big files, the transfer rate is maximized (and db work is poor, just one record for each big file)- when backing up many small files, the transfer rate is reduced by 8-10 times (and db work is rich, one record for e

Re: [Bacula-users] Moving Files and updating catalog

2006-10-09 Thread Benjamin Zeller
On Friday 29 September 2006 16:24, Benjamin Zeller wrote: > On Friday 29 September 2006 12:02, Arno Lehmann wrote: > > Hi, > > Hi Arno, > > > On 9/29/2006 11:19 AM, Benjamin Zeller wrote: > > > Dear listusers, > > > > > > we are currently backing up 5 servers as a pilot before final > > > bacula-in

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.39.24.20061002 source + Win32 binaries release to Source Forge

2006-10-09 Thread Sebastien Guilbaud
> You need to read the ReleaseNotes *very* carefully as there are a number of > changes/difficult areas to get it to load the first time mainly if you have > an older version of Bacula running. > > The Win32 section of the online development manual also covers the > installation. sorry, mea c

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.39.24.20061002 source + Win32 binaries release to Source Forge

2006-10-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 09 October 2006 11:21, Sebastien Guilbaud wrote: > > > You need to read the ReleaseNotes *very* carefully as there are a number of > > changes/difficult areas to get it to load the first time mainly if you have > > an older version of Bacula running. > > > > The Win32 section of the

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.39.24.20061002 source + Win32 binaries release to Source Forge

2006-10-09 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, >> >>anyone facing 'the bacula service could not be installed' ? > > > Yes, but I coudn't investigate further yet. Hopefully tomorrow... Fixed. This was probably a UIP - user initiated problem :-) Arno > Arno > > >>I'm trying a fd-only install in order to validate deep >>win32 paths back

Re: [Bacula-users] Moving Files and updating catalog

2006-10-09 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 10/9/2006 9:46 AM, Benjamin Zeller wrote: > On Friday 29 September 2006 16:24, Benjamin Zeller wrote: > >>On Friday 29 September 2006 12:02, Arno Lehmann wrote: how to add second storage device, disk based, to an existing setup and move volumes around... > > > Isn't there anyone who mig

Re: [Bacula-users] Moving Files and updating catalog

2006-10-09 Thread Benjamin Zeller
On Monday 09 October 2006 11:46, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > On 10/9/2006 9:46 AM, Benjamin Zeller wrote: > > On Friday 29 September 2006 16:24, Benjamin Zeller wrote: > >>On Friday 29 September 2006 12:02, Arno Lehmann wrote: > > how to add second storage device, disk based, to an existing setup

[Bacula-users] I can't get a tape out of the box

2006-10-09 Thread Gert Udby Nielsen
Hi We have at Dell storage tape backup with bacula version 1.36.1 My problem is that I can't get a tape out of the box. The tape located in autochanger, not the picker There is a error message lamp that say "5" and the blue button can't eject the tape. When I hold in the blue button for abou

[Bacula-users] Bacula unable to use autochanger during testing with btape's fill command

2006-10-09 Thread Jason Wilson
Hello, I've installed Bacula 1.38.11 on one of my servers. I'm running Red Hat Enterprise 3, using an Overland Power Loader with a single LT02 drive. Following the suggested test instructions here - http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Testing_Your_Tape_Drive.html#_ChapterStart27 I am using btape'

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] GUI interface

2006-10-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 02 October 2006 21:58, Julián Hernández Gómez wrote: > Hi Kern! > > I'm +1 on the choose of QT as the primary framework for developing the > bacula GUI. But I strongly suggest to use QT4 (4.2) from the beginning > and save everybody from the pain of a later migration. Thanks for the adv

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.39.24.20061002 source + Win32 binaries release to Source Forge

2006-10-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 06 October 2006 21:13, Heinz Ulrich Stille wrote: > On Friday 06 October 2006 14:11, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > On Friday 06 October 2006 12:14, Heinz Ulrich Stille wrote: > > > In some circumstances the director process eats all available memory and > > > then some. That is, 1GB ram and abo

Re: [Bacula-users] Feature req: don't offline on shutdown/error

2006-10-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 06 October 2006 21:36, Heinz Ulrich Stille wrote: > Hi! > > I usually administer our backups remotely, and someone else does change > tapes. Now that I've found out how "always open", "close on poll" and > "offline on unmount" work, I'm quite happy with the normal workflow. > > The only

Re: [Bacula-users] I can't get a tape out of the box

2006-10-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Saturday 07 October 2006 22:22, Gert Udby Nielsen wrote: > Hi > > We have at Dell storage tape backup with bacula version 1.36.1 The first thing that I recommend that you do is to upgrade to Bacula version 1.38.11 (note you must do a database upgrade). Your current Bacula version is very ol

Re: [Bacula-users] Binding to source IP address

2006-10-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 09 October 2006 16:17, James Ray wrote: > Ryan Novosielski wrote: ... > > Unfortunately that is not possible in my case. So as I understand the > rest of this thread, yes my assumption is right, but no bacula can't > (Kern, and won't?) support binding to a source IP address for out going

Re: [Bacula-users] Binding to source IP address

2006-10-09 Thread Jeff LaCoursiere
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Monday 09 October 2006 16:17, James Ray wrote: > > Ryan Novosielski wrote: > ... > > > > Unfortunately that is not possible in my case. So as I understand the > > rest of this thread, yes my assumption is right, but no bacula can't > > (Kern, and won't

Re: [Bacula-users] Binding to source IP address

2006-10-09 Thread James Ray
Ryan Novosielski wrote: > James Ray wrote: > The problem with my tcpdump is it looks only for traffic on 9101, > which would be incoming connections to the DIR. I was not looking > for outgoing connections from the DIR. > > > Yes, the DIR is initiating outgoing connection

[Bacula-users] Still non-ideal handling of hard link recoveries

2006-10-09 Thread James Ray
All, So after another recover on some hard linked files I have yet another question and problem. So recovering user 's directory that has hard links to user 's directory bacula does the right thing of spotting the hard link (in this case). Now lets go through this step by s

Re: [Bacula-users] Still non-ideal handling of hard link recoveries

2006-10-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 09 October 2006 16:38, James Ray wrote: > All, > So after another recover on some hard linked files I have yet another > question and problem. > > So recovering user 's directory that has hard links to user 's > directory bacula does the right thing of spotting the ha

[Bacula-users] backup is slow

2006-10-09 Thread John Goerzen
Hello Bacula folks, We received this message at the Debian bug-tracking system, and thought that this is probably a more appropriate forum for it: - Forwarded message from Anders Boström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Anders Boström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:32:28 +0200

[Bacula-users] bacula: backup is slow

2006-10-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
>From the statistics you show, the backup does not appear slow to me. The reason you might think it is slow is because you are comparing apples and oranges. On the one hand, you measure the time to to a non-compressed tar on a local machine sending the output down an extremely hi-speed bit b

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Auto reconnect to DB when connection dropped?

2006-10-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 09 October 2006 18:46, John Goerzen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 06:36:53PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > The MySQL online documentation has a whole section that deals with > > disconnects. It provides lots of advice on how to avoid it. There is a link > > to that section somepl

Re: [Bacula-users] backup is slow

2006-10-09 Thread John Drescher
Are you using MD5 or SHA1 signatures? Do you have the database indexed properly?JohnOn 10/9/06, John Goerzen < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Hello Bacula folks,We received this message at the Debian bug-tracking system, and thought that this is probably a more appropriate forum for it:- Forwarded me

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Auto reconnect to DB when connection dropped?

2006-10-09 Thread Dan Langille
Resent to both devel and user -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php On 9 Oct 2006 at 11:46, John Goerzen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 06:36:53PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > The MySQL online documentation has a whole

[Bacula-users] Bad response to Append Data command

2006-10-09 Thread Robert Keidel
Hello, I try to get bacula running on a Centos 4 running. I have VXA2 autochanger. I went through the manuals, and everything seems to work fine. I started backup job and it looked very good. After the test run, I changed my bacula-dir.conf to add another client and change what has to be backed up

Re: [Bacula-users] Bad response to Append Data command

2006-10-09 Thread Michael Brennen
On Monday 09 October 2006 13:53, Robert Keidel wrote: > I try to get bacula running on a Centos 4 running. I have VXA2 > autochanger. I went through the manuals, and everything seems to work > fine. I started backup job and it looked very good. After the test > run, I changed my bacula-dir.conf to

[Bacula-users] (no subject)

2006-10-09 Thread Joe
Hello, I've set up Bacula on a SuSE Linux 10.1 OSS machine using Smart Package. Everything is working fine with the exception of automating the startup of Bacula during the boot process. I saw in the Bacula documentation on how to compile the startup files but since I used the Smart Package t

[Bacula-users] Missing backups... [long]

2006-10-09 Thread Frank
Hi, I'm probably missing the obvious, but backups are too important not to ask the question, even if it is stupid :=) Since a few weeks, a try to backup a few clients on the Internet that have bad connectivity. That is not really a problem: if the backup succeeds then that is fine, and if the ba

Re: [Bacula-users] Moving Files and updating catalog

2006-10-09 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 10/9/2006 12:00 PM, Benjamin Zeller wrote: > On Monday 09 October 2006 11:46, Arno Lehmann wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>On 10/9/2006 9:46 AM, Benjamin Zeller wrote: >> >>>On Friday 29 September 2006 16:24, Benjamin Zeller wrote: >>> On Friday 29 September 2006 12:02, Arno Lehmann wrote: >> >

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] GUI interface

2006-10-09 Thread Julián Hernández Gómez
Hi Kern! Less portable? I think that QT4 runs on all platforms that QT3 does and respect with the availability QT4 has been already packaged for multiple distros [0]. Another example of the QT4 portability is Krash (the first development snapshot of KDE4) [1], it uses a preview of QT4.2 and runs

Re: [Bacula-users] (no subject)

2006-10-09 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 10/9/2006 9:13 PM, Joe wrote: > Hello, > > I've set up Bacula on a SuSE Linux 10.1 OSS machine using Smart Package. > Everything is working fine with the exception of automating the startup of > Bacula during the boot process. I saw in the Bacula documentation on how to > compile the

Re: [Bacula-users] Missing backups... [long]

2006-10-09 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 10/9/2006 9:25 PM, Frank wrote: > Hi, > > I'm probably missing the obvious, but backups are too important not to > ask the question, even if it is stupid :=) Quite right. There are no stupid regarding backups... > Since a few weeks, a try to backup a few clients on the Internet that > ha

[Bacula-users] Bacula auto startup in SuSE 10.1

2006-10-09 Thread Joe
Hello, I've set up Bacula on a SuSE Linux 10.1 OSS machine using Smart Package. Everything is working fine with the exception of automating the startup of Bacula during the boot process. I saw in the Bacula documentation on how to compile the startup files but since I used the Smart Package

[Bacula-users] COMPAQ MSL5000 Series 0311

2006-10-09 Thread Ambahunen Gebremariam
I was wondering if anybody is using COMPAQ  MSL5000 Series  0311 Autochanger with Bacula. It is not listed among the supported autochanges on the website.Thanks,Ambex - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join S

Re: [Bacula-users] Bad response to Append Data command

2006-10-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 09 October 2006 20:53, Robert Keidel wrote: > Hello, > > I try to get bacula running on a Centos 4 running. I have VXA2 > autochanger. I went through the manuals, and everything seems to work > fine. I started backup job and it looked very good. After the test > run, I changed my bacula-

Re: [Bacula-users] (no subject)

2006-10-09 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Monday 09 October 2006 21:59, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hi, > > On 10/9/2006 9:13 PM, Joe wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've set up Bacula on a SuSE Linux 10.1 OSS machine using Smart Package. Everything is working fine with the exception of automating the startup of Bacula during the boot process.

Re: [Bacula-users] Binding to source IP address

2006-10-09 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
> > Also, could you explain how it is possible to use a different address than > the > one which is "assigned" to your computer? > In most shops, in almost all but the most basic configurations, the generally accepted practice is to create abstraction between the "system" and the "service" pr

Re: [Bacula-users] Binding to source IP address

2006-10-09 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
> > That is not a common thing for a client to do. It makes more sense to > leave routing decisions up to the kernel. Normally, a client allows the Sure it is. named(8) is one of those many programs that takes into account HA and highly scalable configurations. It's got all kinds of crazy o

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with Concurrent Jobs

2006-10-09 Thread Mehmet Soysal
Arno Lehmann schrieb: > Hi, > > On 10/6/2006 2:47 PM, Mehmet Soysal wrote: > >> Hi, >> im trying to set up Bacula with concurrent jobs. >> Im use bacula to backup serveral Servers with one storage configuration >> and i use a unique labeling format for the Volumes. >> Here is the Part from my C

[Bacula-users] bscan and bls : "error scanning attributes:"

2006-10-09 Thread Clement Hermann (nodens)
Hi, I'm running an old installation of bacula 1.34 on a server. I need to get data from old tapes. I tried with bscan and bls, but I can only list jobs with bls, not files, and bscan fails to read the tape. I tried a more recent version of bacula (1.38) but the results are similar. Here are the

[Bacula-users] Windows Restore Errors

2006-10-09 Thread Tim Schaab
Howdy All, I am testing Bacula for a backup solution for the department's users and servers. When testing a Windows XP restore, I keep getting a Zlib buffer errors like the following: > 9-Oct 13:37 bartpe-fd: Windows_Full_Restore.2006-10-09_18.28.42 Error: Uncompression error on file C:/bacu

Re: [Bacula-users] Binding to source IP address

2006-10-09 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
> I have no idea how to control which address is used for outgoing > communications other than by configuring your network gateway to go through > the preferred device, which may not do exactly what you want. I've just read through the whole thread. People seems to be getting confused about a

[Bacula-users] Update on single / multi drive problems

2006-10-09 Thread Michael Brennen
Kern, this is a brief update to the list but primarily with you in mind. Curiously, as of cvs a few days ago the system is now using multiple tape drives again, without any change at all in the configuration. For the last few days bacula is not forcing multiple jobs destined to different volu

Re: [Bacula-users] COMPAQ MSL5000 Series 0311

2006-10-09 Thread Jonas Björklund
Hello, On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Ambahunen Gebremariam wrote: > I was wondering if anybody is using COMPAQ MSL5000 Series 0311 Autochanger > with Bacula. It is not listed among the supported autochanges on the > website. Yes! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 C