Nils Juergens writes:
> for me (with LTO-3) increasing Maximum block size has had quite the
> impact on performance.
>
> Sadly, with the new setting I had trouble reading my tapes so switched
> back to the old configuration.
in Linux, you can configure your tape drive to accept variable block
si
Christian Manal writes:
> Also, after several accurate jobs running without restarting Bacula,
> the total memory usage of the director and fd didn't go up anymore, so
> I presume it comes down to the behavior of Solaris' free(), as
> described in the above quoted manpage.
libumem may work bette
others can find it useful.
--
Kjetil T. Homme
Redpill Linpro AS - Changing the game
#! /usr/bin/perl -w
# bacula-du 1.0
# Written by Kjetil Torgrim Homme
# Released under GPLv3 or the same terms as Bacula itself
sub usage {
print <<"_END_";
Usage: $0 [OPTIONS] -j JOBID
Summ
Sean Clark writes:
> In my experience, slow performance like this (i.e. <5MB/s on at least
> 100Mb ethernet) usually turns out to be the client's fault.
> Compression seems to be a very common culprit. Try switching
> compression off completely and see how much of a difference that
> makes. The
Eduardo Júnior writes:
> what's the reasons to a new FULL job to be created? I mean, after a
> scheduled FULL job, another is started automatically.
>
> I asked this because last night, a new job FULL for a client was
> started without any change in the File Set or a manual execution.
Bacula ch
"Richard Marnau" writes:
> i'm stucked with a small but nasty problem. We need to restore a file
> which location is known, but the exact filename is not clear. So I
> need to browse old backups, but the file table has been pruned (for an
> unknown reason).
okay, you'll have to look into that l
"Laxansh K. Adesara" writes:
> After some headaches configuring bacula-dir I have another
> problem. When I try to test bacula-dir I get following error
>
> Bacula-dir: Fatal error : mysql.c: unable to connect to MySQL server.
> Database=bacula User=bacula
>
> MySQL is not the problem because when
hymie! writes:
> Kjetil Torgrim Homme writes:
>>you specified "Recycle", so Bacula will reuse old volumes.
>
> Thank you! I thought "Maximum Volume Jobs = 1" would prevent that,
> but once the job is purged, then there are no jobs in that volume, so
> i
hymie! writes:
> JobDefs {
> Name = "DefaultJob"
> Pool = IncPool
> Full Backup Pool = FPool
> Differential Backup Pool = DiffPool
> Incremental Backup Pool = IncPool
> }
>
> Job {
> Name = "GreatPlains-Backup"
> JobDefs = "DefaultJob"
> }
>
> Job {
> Name = "BackupCatalog"
> Jo
Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk writes:
> > PS: I can't find any bacula logs on the SD (on OpenIndiana). I have
> > tried to recompile with --with-logdir=/opt/bacula/var/log and
> > created that directory. Since bacula-sd currently runs as root (I
> > know, don't say it), the permissions should be sufficien
James Chamberlain writes:
> On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Martin Simmons wrote:
>> I'm not sure if it will work, but you could try using symbolic
>> links from one file system to the volumes on the other file
>> system(s)?
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, and I considered it, but I don't think
> it'll work.
Daniel Bareiro writes:
> Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
>> > Where the client can have a /space/log and/or /space/backup and
>> > the symlink can be in some subirectory of them. With this
>> > declaration of File, how I could force backup of symlinks?
&g
"Chandranshu ." writes:
> 30,865 files inserted into the tree and marked for extraction.
>
> The number of files displayed in the table is correct at
> 37,840. What is not clear to me is why is it saying that only 30,
> 865 files are inserted into the tree and marked for extraction.
could it be
(sorry about the topic drift, Craig -- this will be the last message
from me in this sub-thread :-)
"James Harper" writes:
>> oh, sure -- I'm only worried about the database schema update. I
>> currently have 350M rows in File (90 days retention -- I'd like to
>> increase that, but ...).
>
> Nev
John Drescher writes:
>> (I'm dreading the switch to 3.0... I seriously doubt I'll be able
>> to do it in 24 hours, and I don't like the thought of a day without
>> backups. but we'll see.)
>
> BTW, you do not have to upgrade clients so only the director and sds
> are needed to be upgraded.
oh
"Kelly, Brian" writes:
> I've seen lots of posts regarding the decoding of Lstat data. I'm
> currently using a few functions to decoded the lstat data and make
> it human readable. These functions have been tested and are known
> to work with mysql 5.0.70
hi, I spent quite a bit of work trying
Craig Ringer writes:
>
> [A] AFAIK all it _needs_ for restore is:
>
>
> - File name
> - [st_size] File size in bytes (for restore verification)
> - md5sum
neither md5sum nor filename are stored in lstat, but
[Kern Sibbald]:
>> [Chandranshu]:
>> > [I] modified the code in src/cats/mysql.c to print the error
>> > message returned by mysql_error(). Then, I compiled and ran the
>> > code to see the most dubious error in my DBA career:
>> > Error 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through
>>
John Lockard writes:
> But, priority also postpones any jobs of higher priority.
> If a job, of priority 20 is currently running and you start
> off several other jobs, with priorities of 10, 20 and 30, then
> the only jobs which will run concurrently will be the jobs
> of priority 20. Once all
Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ext3 will perform a lot better if you use tune2fs and enable the
> following features:
>
> dir_index
> Use hashed b-trees to speed up lookups in large
> directories.
this may be good for Maildir, but with Cyrus IMAPD, whic
Jesper Krogh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can you give us the time for doing a tar to /dev/null of the fileset.
>
> time tar cf /dev/null /path/to/maildir
>
> Then we have a feeling about the "actual read time" for the file of
> the filesystem.
if you're using GNU tar, it will *not* read the fil
"David Jurke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Basically, as I understand it, your first group of comments are
> about not backing up empty space, as per your example if there is
> only 10GB data in a 100GB data file. However, our database is
> growing rapidly, and our DBAs tend to allocate smaller t
"David Jurke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think it'd need some tweaking to delay putting each tablespace
> into backup mode until Bacula is ready to back it up - one of the
> problems I have is that we can't put all the tablespaces into backup
> mode at the same time because of the volume of l
I thought I'd get back to the original question :-)
"David Jurke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The problem I have is with our large (expected to grow to several
> terabytes) [Oracle] server. I’m told by the DBAs that the size and
> amount of activity on this database is such that putting the who
Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:59:41AM +0100, Kshatriya wrote:
>> On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Jason Dixon wrote:
>> > We moved our Bacula Director off Linux to Solaris (not my choice)
>> > recently. Since then, we've encountered frequent failures of the
>> > catalog
"ASMR (Anders Sønderberg Mortensen)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to compile the bacula file daemon version 2.4.3 for Irix
> (IRIX64 bisse 6.5 07202013 IP35). Here is what I do:
>
>> setenv CC cc
>> ./configure --enable-client-only
>
> Which looks pretty happy apart from this
>
> ==>En
Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The subject says it all really.
>
> I really don't want to convert all my match lines to
> ".*/[T|t][E|e][[M|m][P|p]/", etc etc
"ignore case = yes", perhaps? :-)
http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION00147
--
Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 13.11.2008 12:05, Ronald Buder wrote:
>> Due to a server failure the nfs shares are not available anymore. I
>> would like to see some sort of a timeout at least if that is at all
>> possible.
>
> That's not possible inside Bacula - the FD simply can't t
Tilman Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My suggestions for improvement (and no, I don't understand the Bacula
> source code nearly well enough to try and implement them myself) would be:
>
> 1. Extend the "help" command to accept a command name argument and
> list the keywords accepted by th
Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
>> I'm considering to turn on "Rerun Failed Levels", but the manual says:
>>
>> [...] the Ignore FileSet Changes directive is not considered when
>> checking for fa
I'm considering to turn on "Rerun Failed Levels", but the manual says:
[...] the Ignore FileSet Changes directive is not considered when
checking for failed levels, which means that any FileSet change
will trigger a rerun.
I don't understand what that means...
let's say that the fil
"Jari Fredriksson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Got an error: the whole machine hang when the backup job was well over 2GB.
>
> Changed to Maximum Part Size 800M, which is apparently there for a reason.
>
> Next error. Job finished successfully [...]
>
> BUT. As it writes, it took one volume. Job
Erik Logtenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I would very much like to see the possibility to make only
> incremental backups, no more full backups required. [consolidated
> backups]
I have a wish which sounds similar, but is actually very different. I
want to avoid having to schedule Full back
Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Nov 5, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
>> another approach is to write an Augeas lens for the Bacula
>> configuration. it may be necessary/useful to restrict the Bacula
>> syntax somewhat, e.g., require u
"Brian A. Seklecki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> B-W feature question:
>
> Could we write a query that examines overall pool volume write
> capacity?
no, since the configuration files need to be available.
> It would be nice to track historical bytes written by a select set
> of jobs (normally
Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I know of another project that does something similar. Nagios.
>
> Nagios has a sister project, Lilac (previously called Fruity).
> Fruity is a web-based interface for maintaining your Nagios
> configuration files. It is quite good. You export your
> Fr
"James Harper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Also, if your link is in anyway unreliable (eg some chance of
> dropping for a second or two whilst the backup is running) then the
> entire running job (or jobs if you are running concurrently) could
> be failed.
this sounds strange. TCP will retransm
Henry Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> because of bug http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=1147 I built the
> fd from latest svn without replacing the director (version 2.2.5) on
> my backup server.
>
> Then I got the following error:
>
> bserver-dir JobId 6856: Fatal error: File daemon at "somec
Marc Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Further, I want to know, why bacula recycles Volumes (which destroys
> data) instead of creating new ones and if this is a Bug which should
> be reported.
I believe this is intended behaviour, and it's the behaviour I want.
after all, when I tell Bacula
"John Drescher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thomas Arseneault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The storage daemon died on my storage box causing the dump to
>> fatally error out. I fixed the daemon problem but now I have 4
>> tapes that I would like to reuse but they are far from their
>> retention
Guy Matz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> nope, not that either. are you guys just taking stabs in the dark!? ;-)
that's a bit rich coming from someone who's obviously hasn't bothered
to read the manual himself. you can only use this kind of syntax
inside s. the @filename syntax works everywhere,
"T. Horsnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I can recover the catalog.sql file with bextract, but do I then have
> to start using mysql commands to convert this ascii file into a
> mysql database, or are there bacula commands to do it. The catalog
> maintenance section doesnt tell me
you need to
gvm999 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I found out I accidentally deleted volumes with a full backup. Or
> the files are not in the database anymore.
the difference is significant, but it sounds like the latter is your
problem.
> So now I wonder, how can I make bacula restore all the files that
>
Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
>
>>This directive is only implemented in version 2.5 and later. When
>>set to {\bf yes} (default {\bf no}), this job may run even if lower
>>priority jobs are alrea
Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> That was just an overview. Each Job is tied to a single client. I
> haven't been able to get this working properly yet; the lower
> priority jobs always "multiplex" (to use a NetBackup term)
> concurrently and force the higher priority job to wait.
My pa
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