Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-12-19 Thread gary artim
Thanks for the advice, _most_ responsive list I belong to! cheers! gary 2011/12/19 Radosław Korzeniewski : > Hello, > > 2011/12/16 gary artim >> >> No, just Spool Attributes = yes. g. >> > > A "direct" backup from FD into a SD tape device is performed

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-12-16 Thread gary artim
No, just Spool Attributes = yes. g. On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Marcello Romani wrote: > Il 15/12/2011 20:31, gary artim ha scritto: >> will do, interestingly I picked another slot on my autochanger >> (different lto vol) and got (see below), running a peak time no less. >

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-12-16 Thread gary artim
I'm working on going to SATA 3, current raid is SATA 1 (1.5). I have run benchmarks, but have to dig (find) them or rerun...g.) On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:25:04AM -0800, gary artim wrote: >> no, full, doing a mod on run comma

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-12-15 Thread gary artim
help. Nice option for testing, thanks 2:04 with Spool Attributes=yes 3.8 GB/minute, with system busy 1:37 w/o Spool Attributes=no 2.66 GB/minute On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:31 AM, gary artim wrote: > will do, interestingly I picked another slot on my autochanger > (different lto v

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-12-15 Thread gary artim
Volume Session Time:1323969555 Last Volume Bytes: 257,601,203,200 (257.6 GB) Non-fatal FD errors:0 SD Errors: 0 FD termination status: OK SD termination status: OK Termination:Backup OK On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:25 AM, John Drescher wr

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-12-15 Thread gary artim
no seperate drive. On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:26 AM, John Drescher wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:25 PM, gary artim wrote: >> no, full, doing a mod on run command in bconsole to force full backup >> on every test. cheers >> > > Is the bacula database on t

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-12-15 Thread gary artim
no, seperate drive. g. On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:26 AM, John Drescher wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:25 PM, gary artim wrote: >> no, full, doing a mod on run command in bconsole to force full backup >> on every test. cheers >> > > Is the bacula database on t

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-12-15 Thread gary artim
no, full, doing a mod on run command in bconsole to force full backup on every test. cheers On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:21 AM, John Drescher wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:09 PM, gary artim wrote: >> using this bacula-sd.conf, the best I get is about 2.4GB a minute. I'm >&

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-12-15 Thread gary artim
# ( about 2.4GB/minute/with 12GB Max File Size ) Maximum File Size = 12GB Autochanger = yes Alert Command = "sh -c 'tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|cat'" Alert Command = "sh -c 'smartctl -H -l error %c'" } On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:12 PM, gary artim wrote

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-12-02 Thread gary artim
++ btape: btape.c:608 Wrote 1 EOF to "LTO-4" (/dev/nst0) btape: btape.c:410 Volume bytes=21.47 GB. Write rate = 26.51 MB/s ++ On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:02 AM,

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-12-01 Thread gary artim
t; (/dev/nst0) btape: btape.c:410 Volume bytes=21.47 GB. Write rate = 95.44 MB/s +. btape: btape.c:608 Wrote 1 EOF to "LTO-4" (/dev/nst0) btape: btape.c:410 Volume bytes=21.47 GB. Write rate = 95.44 MB/s +. btape: btape.c:608 Wrote 1 EOF to "LTO-4" (/dev/nst0) btape: btape.

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-12-01 Thread gary artim
Partition 0 Remaining Kbytes: 799204 Partition 0 Size in Kbytes: 799204 ActivePartition: 0 EarlyWarningSize: 0 NumPartitions: 0 MaxPartitions: 0 On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:49 AM, wrote: > In the message dated: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:27:33 GMT, > The pithy ruminations from Alan Brown on >

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-12-01 Thread gary artim
I get some time. gary On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Alan Brown wrote: > gary artim wrote: >> >> thank much! will try testing with btape. > > Please let us know the results > >> btw, I ran with 20GB maximum >> file size/2MB max block (see bacula-sd.conf bel

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-12-01 Thread gary artim
%c |grep TapeAlert|cat'" Alert Command = "sh -c 'smartctl -H -l error %c'" } On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Andrea Conti wrote: > On 30/11/11 19.43, gary artim wrote: >> Thanks much, I'll try today the block size change first. Then try the >>

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-11-30 Thread gary artim
block size change didnt make much difference, but also running with an rsync running against the backup volume (raid 5). Adding spool and will run with both blocksize change and spool configuration. -- gary On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:43 AM, gary artim wrote: > Thanks much, I'll try t

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-11-30 Thread gary artim
Thanks much, I'll try today the block size change first. Then try the spooling. Dont have any unused disk, but may have to try on a shared drive. The "maximum file size" should be okay? g. On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Alan Brown wrote: > gary artim wrote: >> >>

[Bacula-users] tuning lto-4

2011-11-30 Thread gary artim
Hi -- Getting about 41.6/MBs and hoping for closer to the max (120MB). I tried maximum file sizes of 5, 8, 12GB -- 12GB the best the others where about 35/MBs. Any advise welcomed...should I look at max/min block sizes? most of the data is big, genetics data -- filesizes avg in the 500/MB to 3-4/G

Re: [Bacula-users] (newbie) first full backup

2011-11-21 Thread gary artim
master Raid, I could change this if i get this working. thanks for responding! On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > On Nov 17, 2011, at 11:30 AM, gary artim wrote: > >> Hi List -- >> >> scheduled a job to do incremental and fired off a full backup as I >&g

[Bacula-users] (newbie) first full backup

2011-11-17 Thread gary artim
Hi List -- scheduled a job to do incremental and fired off a full backup as I thought it would. Wrote about 9GB bytes to lto-4 tape and has since just sat there in a R job status. I have an autoloader with 12 volumes available but can't find a problem other then it seem hung. Any debugging advic