Re: [Bacula-users] "label barcodes" command question

2006-03-07 Thread Gregory Orange
Chris Wilson wrote: Hi, I just added some tapes to my autochanger. If I do a "label barcodes" command, will it re-label the existing tapes too, or only label the new tapes? The documentation isn't clear on that topic. Figured I'd ask before I inadvertently wipe out the existing tapes... It

Re: [Bacula-users] list job= and related broader question

2006-03-02 Thread Gregory Orange
Christopher Mills wrote: Just as a side note on mysqlnavigator for anybody interested: I would love to get up to speed on writing sql on the fly at the command line. At this moment I have other priorities (so much to learn, so little time). To this end, then mysqlnavigator has so far been a us

Re: [Bacula-users] list job= and related broader question

2006-03-01 Thread Gregory Orange
Christopher Mills wrote: The bconsole command 'list jobs' gives me a list of runs from all jobs. I want to narrow it to all job runs from a particular job. The bconsole doc under "list" seems to imply that would be done with: list job=My-Job This doesn't work (I am running mysql under Gento

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2006-02-17 Thread Gregory Orange
Gregory Orange wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a few questions about your bakups. Is there a thousands of small files? Do you have compression set or a signiture in the file set resource? Are you using data spooling? Is the database on the same machine as the bacula server? What

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2006-02-17 Thread Gregory Orange
using? Sorry if you answered these before. I'm using the same settings for all hosts: bacula-1.38.3, MD5 signatures, no spooling. The postgres database is on a different machine to the bacula-dir. -- - - Gregory Orange Phone: +61 8 9387 7955 Systems Adminis

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2006-02-15 Thread Gregory Orange
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes over a network except the fastest one (where all of our data lies), mostly over gigabit. The two slowest hosts are due for retirement in the next few months. Greg. Without 100% gigbit (no 100MBit links/switches routers...) or better between the bacula server and th

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2006-02-15 Thread Gregory Orange
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've got a HP DL/585, looks like same drive, dedicated SCSI-attached. The lowest rate I saw on our simple btape fill was 58MB/sec. As for real backup rates, various hosts give different speeds. With all four hosts running 1.38.3 compiled from source, our most recent fu

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO3 performance

2006-02-15 Thread Gregory Orange
our most recent full backups gave speeds of 34.6 (largest volume), 3.5, 14.4, and 5.3MB/s. The best I've seen is in the 40s. None of this is using concurrent jobs or any tweaking of settings, so hopefully this will improve a little once a bit of effort is invested. Cheers, Greg. -- -

Re: [Bacula-users] Re: Disable upgrade of Incremental to Full?

2006-02-13 Thread Gregory Orange
Jens Boettge wrote: Brian A. Seklecki wrote: Is there any way to disable the auto-upgrade option of Incremental/ Differential to Full or stipulate that an Incremental / Differential job "failure" condition occurs when no Full backup exists (instead of promotion)? Why do You want to do that? If

Re: [Bacula-users] Skip a day in , schedule job over two months

2006-02-07 Thread Gregory Orange
Brian A. Seklecki wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 00:57 +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: If I want to run my Full on Friday, and Incremental on Sun,Mon,Tue,Wed,Thurs,Sat -- the syntax would normally be: "Sun-Thur,Sat" however this syntax is invalid to the Dire

Re: [Bacula-users] mysql socket location

2005-10-11 Thread Gregory Orange
David Logan wrote: Gregory Orange wrote: I haven't been able to find any reference - be it in config files, run scripts, or even in the source code - to where the socket location is set. Any ideas? Cheers, Greg. Hi Greg, Different distributions and installation methods put the sock

[Bacula-users] mysql socket location

2005-10-10 Thread Gregory Orange
Hi, new to using Bacula. When initially setting up, on ./bacula start, I get the message that it can't connect to the mysql database, and it's probably a password problem. Not so, I discovered that it was a socket problem, ie bacula was looking for /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock, whereas mysql here