Re: [Bacula-users] How often to backup the catalog database?

2007-05-15 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 5/15/2007 10:56 PM, Peter Crighton wrote: > I am using conf files based on the defaults, with times changed. To > summarise, my backups are: > > Linux server "home" files daily at 11:00 > Linux server shares (i.e. my key files shared to other PCs) daily at > 11:00 > Above on a daily inc

Re: [Bacula-users] Changing Directors. -- Redux

2007-05-15 Thread Flak Magnet
Thanks for the responses, Mike and Arno. It went easily and trouble-free enough, given the complexity and inter-relation between the config files that life on multiple hosts. On Monday 14 May 2007 4:28:23 pm Arno Lehmann wrote: > > I've been using mySQL. I know how to get a dump of the database

Re: [Bacula-users] behavior in case of errors

2007-05-15 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 5/15/2007 7:29 PM, Naufal Sheikh wrote: > Hey, > > thanks for your help. Just few clarifications. For the "Max Wait Time", > the time specified is in min or sec? Or can I just write 25 min or 300 > sec. Hmm. I'm unsure... there was some problem with these times a while ago where it di

[Bacula-users] How often to backup the catalog database?

2007-05-15 Thread Peter Crighton
I am using conf files based on the defaults, with times changed. To summarise, my backups are: Linux server "home" files daily at 11:00 Linux server shares (i.e. my key files shared to other PCs) daily at 11:00 Above on a daily incremental / weekly differential / monthly full cycle Windows client

Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: Bacula Network Performance

2007-05-15 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 5/15/2007 9:52 PM, Jordan Desroches wrote: > So it doesn't look like the MySQL process is tanking the system at all. > I increased cache sizes in MySQL with no effect, along with buffer sizes > in sysctl.conf . I also tried using SQLite , and got marginally better > throughput. Has anyo

Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: Bacula Network Performance

2007-05-15 Thread Ralf Gross
Jordan Desroches schrieb: > So it doesn't look like the MySQL process is tanking the system at all. I > increased cache sizes in MySQL with no effect, along with buffer sizes in > sysctl.conf . I also tried using SQLite , and got marginally better > throughput. Has anyone seen significantly >30 MB

Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: Bacula Network Performance

2007-05-15 Thread Jordan Desroches
So it doesn't look like the MySQL process is tanking the system at all. I increased cache sizes in MySQL with no effect, along with buffer sizes in sysctl.conf . I also tried using SQLite , and got marginally better throughput. Has anyone seen significantly >30 MB/s over a gig line on backup? Th

[Bacula-users] bconsole missing?

2007-05-15 Thread Drew Myers
Hi, I recently built bacula from source (v2.0.3) on RHEL4 ES. Here's the configuration options I specified at build-time: $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc/bacula --with-scriptdir=/etc/bacula --enable-smartalloc --with-postgresql --with-working-dir=/var/bacula --w

Re: [Bacula-users] Auto-reuse

2007-05-15 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andy Collyer wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On 5/11/2007 10:54 AM, Andy Collyer wrote: > I want to *always* automatically re-use my tapes. I can achieve this > manually by using bconsole's SQL query mode and updating the Media table: > u

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Current version of bat

2007-05-15 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > On Thursday 10 May 2007 02:20, Berend Dekens wrote: >> Arno Lehmann wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On 5/9/2007 10:27 PM, Christopher Schwerdt wrote: >> What about status icons? > Yes, great idea. We would like to use

Re: [Bacula-users] behavior in case of errors

2007-05-15 Thread Naufal Sheikh
Hey, thanks for your help. Just few clarifications. For the "Max Wait Time", the time specified is in min or sec? Or can I just write 25 min or 300 sec. Secondly if i want this to be global parameter for all the jobs, I should be mentioning it in the jobdefs right? Thanks On 5/14/07, Arno Lehm

Re: [Bacula-users] How to unload all loaded tapes to library ?

2007-05-15 Thread Thomas Eszlinger
Hello Adam, I'm having an "Always Open = No" and an "Automount = yes" in my bacula-sd.conf so when bacula needs a tape he automatically mounts the right slot and gives it back when its not needed anymore. With this I have no need to umount the drive from the bacula-console to change my tapes in

Re: [Bacula-users] Volume purging/recycling

2007-05-15 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This parameter is deprecated. MaximumVolumeJobs = 1 is the new terminology. Sounds like you need an admin job that purges whatever tape happens to be in the drive. I assume you're doing full backups. I would strongly advise against this, but you gott

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Network Performance

2007-05-15 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jordan Desroches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Compression is not enabled in the FileSet. Can you isolate where the bottleneck is? IO? CPU? Network? There are frequently discussions about throughput being sub-optimal on the lists. In my experience, these fall into a few categories:

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Network Performance

2007-05-15 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 15 May 2007, Michel Meyers wrote: > Just a guess/question: Do you have compression enabled in your job? If > the client's doing compression, that might throttle its throughput. Another thing to consider is the speed of the spool disk(s). I had to stripe the spool across several dedicated

[Bacula-users] Rif: Bacula Network Performance

2007-05-15 Thread Ferdinando Pasqualetti
Hi Jordan, in my experience you will get better perfomance on a single client if you turn spooling off. -- Ferdinando Pasqualetti G.T.Dati srl Tel. 0557310862 - 3356172731 - Fax 055720143 "Jordan Desroches" <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Network Performance

2007-05-15 Thread Jordan Desroches
Compression is not enabled in the FileSet. Thanks, Jordan Michel Meyers wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Jordan Desroches wrote: >> Greetings! >> >> First, I apologize if this comes through multiple times. I'm having >> trouble connecting to the list. >> >> I've been

[Bacula-users] Bacula crash

2007-05-15 Thread Martin Hicks
Hi, I've installed a self-compiled RPM for SUSE professional 9.1 on x86. It has been working reasonably well, but lately I've gotten a few crashes. One solid lockup, and last sunday (during the differential) I got the attached crash. its a P4-2.4GHz machine. I'm backing up to external USB Hard

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Network Performance

2007-05-15 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jordan Desroches wrote: > Greetings! > > First, I apologize if this comes through multiple times. I'm having > trouble connecting to the list. > > I've been trying to bake off AMANDA and Bacula in our environment, and > have run up against a Bacula p

Re: [Bacula-users] Volume purging/recycling

2007-05-15 Thread Andy Collyer
Is "Use Volume Once = yes" in your Pool definition what you mean? Cheers, Andy > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Jarrod Meyer > Sent: 15 May 2007 12:12 > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Bacula-users] Volume pur

[Bacula-users] Bacula Network Performance

2007-05-15 Thread Jordan Desroches
Greetings! First, I apologize if this comes through multiple times. I'm having trouble connecting to the list. I've been trying to bake off AMANDA and Bacula in our environment, and have run up against a Bacula performance snag. Amanda is regularly able to average ~50 MB/s over our network, whil

[Bacula-users] Volume purging/recycling

2007-05-15 Thread Jarrod Meyer
I have been trying to get Bacula to do one thing for some time now, and cannot come right even after reading most of the manual (well, at least some), searching the mailing lists, and of course Google. The Setup: I have a set of volumes for each of my sites and each night a FULL backup of the incl

[Bacula-users] Large memory usage problems

2007-05-15 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, Several users have reported that the Director consumes huge amounts of memory when running large numbers of simultaneous jobs. Actually, the Director needs something like between 80-100 K per job depending on the exact timing of that job. This amount of memory per job is really quite s

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Current version of bat

2007-05-15 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 08:44, MaxxAtWork wrote: > On 5/14/07, Kern Sibbald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, I have included a screen shot of the current Bacula. One could easily > > start on the tool bar icons. From left to right, the icons are: > > > > - Connect (connect to director) -- there