Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

2006-10-12 Thread MaxxAtWork
My Director/Storage/Catalogue run on - Debian testing dual Xeon 2.8 GHz - Bacula 1.38.9 (installed from .deb) - MySQL is 5.0.22 - Backup device is a HP Ultrium 1/8 Autoloader Clients are a handful of Solaris 9 and HP-UX 11i servers -- Maxx

[Bacula-users] Different Catalogs = same job?

2006-10-12 Thread Raffaele Pantaleoni
Hi, I'm planning our bacula production environment as follows: 15 fd backing up different dirs each one 15 pools (each for every fd) 15 devices (each with diffent archive and media type i.e.: Media Type=File-username1) 15 catalogs 15 backup jobs 15 restore jobs the devices are created as follows:

Re: [Bacula-users] Different Catalogs = same job?

2006-10-12 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 10/12/2006 12:58 PM, Raffaele Pantaleoni wrote: Hi, I'm planning our bacula production environment as follows: 15 fd backing up different dirs each one 15 pools (each for every fd) 15 devices (each with diffent archive and media type i.e.: Media Type=File-username1) 15 catalogs 15

Re: [Bacula-users] Different Catalogs = same job?

2006-10-12 Thread Bruno Savioli
I am running 3 different catalogs. Type 'use' on the bconsole before running the restore command. It will give you a list of the catalogs you have, and you choose the one you want. Bruno Savioli -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arno

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula: backup is slow

2006-10-12 Thread Anders Boström
Hi again! I did some new performance-tests: All operations are against a directory-tree with 7,255,659,224 bytes data in 98,025 files. | test1 | test2 | test3 | +---+---+---+ bacula-fd, no compression, md5: | 10:25 |

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula: backup is slow

2006-10-12 Thread Anders Boström
AL == Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AL Still the network is being used and that always involves latencies, AL syncronization times, etc. Yes, and that might be the problem. But if it is about latencies and/or synchronization, then it is a bacula performance problem! AL No,

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula: backup is slow

2006-10-12 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Anders Boström [EMAIL PROTECTED]: AL == Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AL Still the network is being used and that always involves latencies, AL syncronization times, etc. Yes, and that might be the problem. But if it is about latencies and/or

Re: [Bacula-users] auto-neg

2006-10-12 Thread Anders Boström
BM == Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BM In response to Ryan Novosielski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - A switch (mostly 3Com switches in my experience) that run in half-duplex mode, which slows network traffic down by about a factor of 10. Cisco does this just as often, if not more

Re: [Bacula-users] auto-neg

2006-10-12 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anders Boström wrote: BM == Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BM In response to Ryan Novosielski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - A switch (mostly 3Com switches in my experience) that run in half-duplex mode, which slows network traffic down

Re: [Bacula-users] File and DAT at the same time

2006-10-12 Thread Sim
Isn't possible to do ? Is BackupPc better than Bacula? Thanks Hi to all, I'm new user of Bacula. Before this I used BackupPC. BackupPC have a good method to manage backup data for File and DAT at the same time. It write Complete/Incremental over hard disk and all complete restore

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula: backup is slow

2006-10-12 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Anders Boström [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I did some new performance-tests: All operations are against a directory-tree with 7,255,659,224 bytes data in 98,025 files. | test1 | test2 | test3 | +---+---+---+

Re: [Bacula-users] File and DAT at the same time

2006-10-12 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can't speak for everyone, but the way you asked your question prevented me from understanding it well enough to answer it. One tool is seldom better than another, just better suited. Asking if a tool isn't any good to provoke someone to answer your

[Bacula-users] Soport Bacula HP SotorageWorks 1/8 or the MSL2024 ?

2006-10-12 Thread Miguel Angel
Hello everyone, and please perdon my english. i would like to know about experience with SotorageWorks 1/8 [1] or MSL2024 [2] and Bacula in a Debian OS. Bacula can use all feature or have limitation with any one? I only use bacula for do backups on HDD drive and i like to know what's different

[Bacula-users] DLT or LTO-2 drive

2006-10-12 Thread Gour
Hi! My first post to the list... I browsed through ml's archives and I can see that both DLT LTO-2 should work nicely with Bacula, but I'm need some advice in choosing between the two :-) I have around ~100 hours of video on Hi8 tapes which are getting converted to DV, needs to be cleaned a

[Bacula-users] bacula restore simulation

2006-10-12 Thread Zeratul
Hi There is a way to simulate a restore operation? I've tried, in a restore operation, to send the restored data to /dev/null, but bacula is complaining about it as being not a folder, so, the status report from the end of the operation is failed. Anybody has any idea? Thank you. Daniel

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula: backup is slow

2006-10-12 Thread Anders Boström
BM == Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BM In response to Anders Boström [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I did some new performance-tests: All operations are against a directory-tree with 7,255,659,224 bytes data in 98,025 files. | test1 | test2 | test3 |

[Bacula-users] Res: DLT or LTO-2 drive

2006-10-12 Thread Georger Araujo
That's definitely an interesting challenge you have there. As you're going to store so much data, I would recommend an LTO-3 (400 GB native, 800 GB compressed, but YMMV) autoloader or library - a single drive will require lots of tape swapping. Performance is very good - provided you have very

Re: [Bacula-users] File and DAT at the same time

2006-10-12 Thread Sim
Hash: SHA1 I can't speak for everyone, but the way you asked your question prevented me from understanding it well enough to answer it. One tool is seldom better than another, just better suited. Asking if a tool isn't any good to provoke someone to answer your question is trolling, if you

Re: [Bacula-users] DLT or LTO-2 drive

2006-10-12 Thread Don MacArthur
I use lto2 (daily) and 3 (weekly), with hp960 external and msl6030 with 2 hp960 drives. I previously used a hp 6/60 dlt4 library with 5 drives. lto is faster to backup and restore. The drives change speed to match the data transfer rate, which will extend the life of both the drives and the

Re: [Bacula-users] DLT or LTO-2 drive

2006-10-12 Thread Gour
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 08:51 -0700, Quinton Jansen wrote: I'd stay away from the adaptec cards (especially if they mention RAID in their specs). There is an incompatibility with tape drives and the raid (even if turned off), which leads to a huge performance hit (i.e. write speeds way

Re: [Bacula-users] DLT or LTO-2 drive

2006-10-12 Thread Gour
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 09:28 -0600, Don MacArthur wrote: lto is faster to backup and restore. The drives change speed to match the data transfer rate, which will extend the life of both the drives and the media. Oh, I didn't know that. The lto media has higher capacity, and cost per data

Re: [Bacula-users] Res: DLT or LTO-2 drive

2006-10-12 Thread Gour
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 08:26 -0700, Georger Araujo wrote: That's definitely an interesting challenge you have there. :-) As you're going to store so much data, I would recommend an LTO-3 (400 GB native, 800 GB compressed, but YMMV) autoloader or library - a single drive will require lots

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula: backup is slow

2006-10-12 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Anders Boström [EMAIL PROTECTED]: BM == Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BM In response to Anders Boström [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I did some new performance-tests: All operations are against a directory-tree with 7,255,659,224 bytes data in 98,025 files. |

Re: [Bacula-users] File and DAT at the same time

2006-10-12 Thread novosirj
Looks like you're talking about job migration. Look at the job migration section in the devel manual. This is currently available in Bacula 1.39 BETA. -Original Message- From: Sim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj: Re: [Bacula-users] File and DAT at the same time Date: Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:27 am

[Bacula-users] ./bacula-tray-monitor error message

2006-10-12 Thread Jayashri Kuntamukkala
I am Trying to Install Bacula on Suse Linux 10. following are the steps i followed.. 1. Downloaded depkgs-25Jun06.tar.gz,bacula-1.38.11.tar.gz ,bacula-docs-1.38.11-1.tar.gz and installed the packages. 2. then,./configure --enable-smartalloc --sbindir=/usr/local/bacula/bin

Re: [Bacula-users] minor issue question on console interface

2006-10-12 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Jaime Ventura wrote: Hello, Is there any way to cancel a command on console, instead of CTRL+C and run the console again? type . and hit enter. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support

[Bacula-users] Bacula is not getting files on Differential Backups?

2006-10-12 Thread pedro moreno
Ahi people. FreeBSD 6.1-p3 Bacula 1.38.11 MySQL 4 People, last week i was having problems with freebsd because i enable one Experimental feature that start crashing my backups, on those days, i reset my server couple of times to install new kernel's, on those days i didnt check the system time,

[Bacula-users] Rene' Fiby/Debortoli is out of the office.

2006-10-12 Thread rene_fiby
I will be out of the office starting Fri 13/10/2006 and will not return until Mon 16/10/2006. I will respond to your message when I return. __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more

Re: [Bacula-users] DLT or LTO-2 drive

2006-10-12 Thread Gour
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 10:38 -0600, Don MacArthur wrote: Is there any advantage of dlt over lto-2 ? Yes: - capacity - speed - technological lifespan (newer, so will probably be around after dlt is gone) - durability (drive match data rate so drives and media have a longer lifespan

Re: [Bacula-users] DLT or LTO-2 drive

2006-10-12 Thread Don MacArthur
Sorry, I didn't read the the question well. Yes, I believe lto2 is the better solution. dlt components may have cheaper list prices, but cheaper is not always less expensive or a better value. I would compare the situation to a fast two-seat sports car and a school bus. If I have 10 kids and

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula: backup is slow

2006-10-12 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 10/12/2006 3:43 PM, Anders Boström wrote: AL == Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AL Still the network is being used and that always involves latencies, AL syncronization times, etc. Yes, and that might be the problem. But if it is about latencies and/or

Re: [Bacula-users] File and DAT at the same time

2006-10-12 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 10/12/2006 4:29 PM, Sim wrote: Isn't possible to do ? No. Is BackupPc better than Bacula? No. It's different. Thanks You're welcome but read on... Hi to all, I'm new user of Bacula. Before this I used BackupPC. BackupPC have a good method to manage backup data for File

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula is not getting files on Differential Backups?

2006-10-12 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 10/12/2006 7:43 PM, pedro moreno wrote: Ahi people. FreeBSD 6.1-p3 Bacula 1.38.11 MySQL 4 People, last week i was having problems with freebsd because i enable one Experimental feature that start crashing my backups, on those days, i reset my server couple of

Re: [Bacula-users] DLT or LTO-2 drive

2006-10-12 Thread Gour
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 13:23 -0600, Don MacArthur wrote: Sorry, I didn't read the the question well. Yes, I believe lto2 is the better solution. OK. It looks that almost everybody agrees on lto-2. Now the remaining question is whether is Quantum LTO-2 HH better (I know it is quite cheaper -

Re: [Bacula-users] DLT or LTO-2 drive

2006-10-12 Thread Don MacArthur
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 22:04 +0200, Gour wrote: On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 13:23 -0600, Don MacArthur wrote: Sorry, I didn't read the the question well. Yes, I believe lto2 is the better solution. OK. It looks that almost everybody agrees on lto-2. Now the remaining question is whether

Re: [Bacula-users] ./bacula-tray-monitor error message

2006-10-12 Thread Sarath Jayewardena
Hi, On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Jayashri Kuntamukkala wrote: I am Trying to Install Bacula on Suse Linux 10. following are the steps i followed.. 1. Downloaded depkgs-25Jun06.tar.gz,bacula-1.38.11.tar.gz ,bacula-docs-1.38.11-1.tar.gz and installed the packages. 2. then, ./configure

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula is not getting files on Differential Backups?

2006-10-12 Thread pedro moreno
On 10/12/06, Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,On 10/12/2006 7:43 PM, pedro moreno wrote:Ahi people.FreeBSD 6.1-p3Bacula 1.38.11MySQL 4 People, last week i was having problems with freebsd because i enable one Experimental feature that start crashing my backups, on those days, i reset my