Re: [Bacula-users] Mac OS X client fails to backup

2011-07-11 Thread Sean Clark
On 07/11/2011 02:47 PM, tscollins wrote: > ERR=Connection refused Mac firewalls are a huge pain... Check the firewall settings on the client in the "Preferences->Security" section, AND check "ipfw list" from the console to see if the rules there might be blocking access - evidently these are two

Re: [Bacula-users] Client / laptop backups

2011-06-28 Thread Sean Clark
On 06/28/2011 02:24 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > Hi all > > We're using Bacula for some backups with three SDs so far, and I wonder if > it's possible somehow to allow for client / laptop backups in a good manner. > As far as I can see, this will need to either be client-initiated, client >

Re: [Bacula-users] Director Control Protocol

2011-06-08 Thread Sean Clark
On 06/07/2011 05:52 PM, Tim Gustafson wrote: >> Can't you spawn bconsole from the web application? That is what most >> of the other web apps do. > [...] > I'm hoping that there might be a protocol that cuts out all the screen > parsing and instead lets me just do something like: > > 1. Connect to

[Bacula-users] Again trying to compile bacula-sd for an embedded platform...

2011-06-03 Thread Sean Clark
bsock.c hates me. The configure script says it sees fcntl.h, /usr/include/fcntl.h declares "posix_fadvise", but no matter what I've tried so far, I can't get bsock.c to actually accept it: Compiling bsock.c bsock.c: In member function `bool BSOCK::despool(void (*)(ssize_t), ssize_t)': bsock.c:592

[Bacula-users] Bacula slow transfer / Compression latency / feature request

2011-05-31 Thread Sean Clark
On 05/30/2011 02:11 PM, reiserfs wrote: > Hello, im new with Bacula scene, i have used the HP Dataprotector with a HP > Library fiber channel backup. > > With the Dataprotector i got 1gbps interfaces and switch and all jobs get > done very fast, with transfer like 50-80MB/s. > > Now im using Bacu

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 5.0.3 Macintosh file daemon?

2011-05-27 Thread Sean Clark
On 05/27/2011 08:50 AM, Graham Keeling wrote: > Hello, > Does anybody know where I might be able to find a bacula-5.0.3 Mac file > daemon? > Or an installer? > Thanks. I recommend MacPort[1] for that. "port install bacula +client_only" "port load bacula" (as I recall) [1] http://www.macports.org

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

2011-04-28 Thread Sean Clark
On 04/28/2011 02:06 PM, Jason Voorhees wrote: > I tried to copy a 10 GB file between both servers (Bacula and > Fileserver) with scp and I got a 48 MB/s speed transfer. Is this why > my backups are always near to that speed? Try it with "scp -c arcfour" - like compression, encryption introduces eno

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I use data spooling when writing to nfs mounted storage?

2011-03-03 Thread Sean Clark
On 03/03/2011 05:12 PM, John Drescher wrote: > That was one of the choices. btrfs is still considered highly > experimental at this point. > > John Well, that's definitely true, though so far for me it's been more reliable than one might think. (I did, just yesterday, run into what appeared to be

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I use data spooling when writing to nfs mounted storage?

2011-03-03 Thread Sean Clark
On 03/03/2011 03:21 PM, John Drescher wrote: > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Fabio Napoleoni - ZENIT > wrote: [...] >> So the poor throughput is given by software compression. I don't know what >> to choose in the speed vs space tradeoff. Ideally the best option could be >> compression on the

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I use data spooling when writing to nfs mounted storage?

2011-03-03 Thread Sean Clark
(Dangit, that last reply was supposed to go to the list, not just the sender of the email...let me try this again) On 03/03/2011 12:40 PM, Fabio Napoleoni - ZENIT wrote: > Thank you for your analysis, after that I think that the problem is not the > nfs overhead, because the despooling phase (ove

Re: [Bacula-users] Very low performance with compression and encryption !

2011-01-20 Thread Sean Clark
On 01/20/2011 10:01 AM, John Drescher wrote: >> I've been tempted to experiment with BTRFS using LZO or standard zlib >> compression for storing the volumes and see how the performance compares >> to having bacula-fd do the compression before sending - I have a >> suspicion the former might be bett

Re: [Bacula-users] Virtual Backups - Do we actually need full backups anymore?

2011-01-06 Thread Sean Clark
On 01/06/2011 11:24 AM, Mister IT Guru wrote: > On 06/01/2011 17:16, Graham Keeling wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 05:02:47PM +, Mister IT Guru wrote: >>> I've been trying to get my head around virtual full backups. >>> >>> [...] >> So, I would be very pleased if a VirtualFull also grabbed n

[Bacula-users] Stupid build question...

2010-12-02 Thread Sean Clark
Is it not possible to build a version of bacula that supports both mysql and postgresql? (I enabled both, but got an error while compiling. Googling turns up a post from back in August mentioning that the error indicates that the "postgres" portion of the build is trying to use the "mysql" header

[Bacula-users] "stop bitching about it"

2010-11-08 Thread Sean Clark
On 11/05/2010 10:57 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > Just stop bitching about it and do something. We aren't > here to listen to trolls. [...] This kind of what I meant with my previous post about the hate-level in the replies here. It's kind of surprising. Did I miss some previous post by the guy who

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula Project will Die

2010-11-05 Thread Sean Clark
On 11/05/2010 03:22 PM, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/05/2010 04:09 PM, Sean Clark wrote: >> [...] >> It sounds to me like the actual functionality in the community version >> isn't likely to be allowed to sta

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula Project will Die

2010-11-05 Thread Sean Clark
On 11/05/2010 09:12 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Friday 05 November 2010 14:52:32 Kern Sibbald wrote: >> On Friday 05 November 2010 14:08:37 Heitor Medrado de Faria wrote: >>> Guys, >>> >>> Each new Bacula Enterprise feature, like the: New GUI Configurator, >>> makes me feel that Bacula project wil

Re: [Bacula-users] bcp, Bacula CoPy

2010-10-18 Thread Sean Clark
On 10/18/2010 07:26 AM, Geert Stappers wrote: > Op 20101018 om 03:45 schreef Dan Langille: >> On 10/11/2010 4:55 AM, Geert Stappers wrote: >>> bcp, Bacula CoPy, copies files from one bacula file daemon to >>> another bacula-fd. Reading from the source computer is like making a backup >>> and writ

Re: [Bacula-users] "Hello" counts as a "Job" to bacula-fd?

2010-09-23 Thread Sean Clark
On 09/23/2010 01:17 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > On 09/23/10 14:00, Sean Clark wrote: >> [...] >> >> Does every connection count as a "job"? > No, but it does count as a *connection*, so if you have concurrency on > the client set to 1, then any other ac

[Bacula-users] "Hello" counts as a "Job" to bacula-fd?

2010-09-23 Thread Sean Clark
I've been setting maximum jobs to 2 for most file daemons around here, since we should never actually be running more than 1 job (but we have room to run a second simultaneous job in case I ever think of a reason that we need to). Having mistakenly forgotten to set "Allow Duplicate Jobs=no",

[Bacula-users] Minimum version of GCC needed to compile Bacula (5.0.3)?

2010-09-06 Thread Sean Clark
I'm not finding it in the documentation so far... I'm attempting to build a storage daemon on a Western Digital "MyBook World Edition(tm)" NAS, using the most recent gcc available from ipkg, which unfortunately is all the way back to 3.4.6. I'm getting some errors as it tries to compile the b