Re: [Bacula-users] FreeBSD 9 and ZFS with compression - should be fine?

2012-02-10 Thread Steven Schlansker
On Feb 9, 2012, at 10:53 PM, Silver Salonen wrote: > On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 14:58:33 -0500, Paul Mather wrote: >> On Feb 9, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Steven Schlansker wrote: >>> On the flip side, compression seems to be a very big win. I'm >>> seeing ratios from 1.7 to 2

Re: [Bacula-users] FreeBSD 9 and ZFS with compression - should be fine?

2012-02-09 Thread Steven Schlansker
On Feb 9, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Mark wrote: > Steven, out of curiosity, do you see any benefit with dedup (assuming that > bacula volumes are the only thing on a given zfs volume). I did some initial > trials and it appeared that bacula savesets don't dedup much, if at all, and > some searching a

Re: [Bacula-users] FreeBSD 9 and ZFS with compression - should be fine?

2012-02-09 Thread Steven Schlansker
On Feb 9, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: >> On Wed, 8 Feb 2012 20:22:46 -0600, Mark said: >> >> Just checking to see if people are having success with storage daemon >> running on FreeBSD 9.0 with ZFS and compression enabled? I ask because I'm >> having issues with the backups co

Re: [Bacula-users] Ensuring files made during the backup run are archived (hot-backup PostgreSQL)

2012-01-27 Thread Steven Schlansker
ts to make restoring easier (finding the correct archive files for a given restore from Bacula) Done a few test restores, and it all works great. Thanks for the guidance! On Jan 27, 2012, at 9:23 AM, Kevin Keane (subscriptions) wrote: > > > -Original message----- > From: Stev

Re: [Bacula-users] Ensuring files made during the backup run are archived (hot-backup PostgreSQL)

2012-01-25 Thread Steven Schlansker
On Jan 25, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Martin Simmons wrote: >>>>>> On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:34:10 -0800, Steven Schlansker said: >> >> Looking through the documentation, there's no obvious way to guarantee order >> or backups within a FileSet. Is there some pa

Re: [Bacula-users] Ensuring files made during the backup run are archived (hot-backup PostgreSQL)

2012-01-25 Thread Steven Schlansker
On Jan 25, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Ben Walton wrote: > Excerpts from Steven Schlansker's message of Wed Jan 25 12:34:10 -0500 2012: > > Hi Steven, > >> Looking through the documentation, there's no obvious way to >> guarantee order or backups within a FileSet. Is there some >> particular order that

[Bacula-users] Ensuring files made during the backup run are archived (hot-backup PostgreSQL)

2012-01-25 Thread Steven Schlansker
Hi all, I'm trying to set up a Bacula job to run a hot backup of a PostgreSQL installation. The fundamentals of how it would work are covered in the manual, but I will summarize here for the list. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/continuous-archiving.html Normally if you just take a