[Bacula-users] STK SL-3000 experiences

2015-03-05 Thread tonyalbers
Thanks Davide, that's excellent news. If anyone else has got anything to add, please do. /tony +-- |This was sent by tony.alb...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com.

[Bacula-users] STK SL-3000 experiences

2015-03-05 Thread tonyalbers
Thanks everyone, sounds like it's going to work fine. Now I just need to find out if we can also use the T1D drives we're considering.. /tony +-- |This was sent by tony.alb...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to

[Bacula-users] STK SL-3000 experiences

2015-03-04 Thread tonyalbers
Hi guys, Has anyone got any experience using bacula with the Storagetek SL-3000? Or the SL-150 for that matter (they should behave the same way for what I'm told) I'm looking for real-life experience here, not something like if it can be managed with mtx, then it _should_ work.. Thanks in

[Bacula-users] Plans for support block-based dedupe?

2013-01-04 Thread tonyalbers
Ok, it seems to me that there is some confusion of which kind of dedupe I'm referring to. What I'm talking about is variable-length block-based target dedupe, that is, the DXi or DataDomain box receives all data from the client via the backup server (bacula SD) and then handles the

[Bacula-users] Plans for support block-based dedupe?

2013-01-04 Thread tonyalbers
Hi Silver, The downside of client-side dedupe is actually a combination of several things. 1. The client does the dedupe calculations etc. this means that it takes CPU resources on the client which it might not have. 2. Sometimes, client-side dedupe is chosen because of bandwidth limitations to

[Bacula-users] Plans for support block-based dedupe?

2013-01-04 Thread tonyalbers
Spooling is definetely off. using tar to dump the directory 3 times now. 1. Before first tar: [root@dkarhbus02 download]# sdfscli -volume-info Volume Capacity : 1.5 TB Volume Current Size : 681 B Volume Max Percentage Full : Unlimited Volume Duplicate Data Written : 0 B Volume Unique Data

[Bacula-users] Plans for support block-based dedupe?

2013-01-02 Thread tonyalbers
Hi everyone, Does anyone know whether bacula can be made to work on a block-level dedupe storage system? Are there any plans to support this technology? The reason I ask is that I've gotten a few requests from people who have devices like Quantum DXi's or DataDomain, and these both do

[Bacula-users] Bacula FileDev and OpenDedup (sdfs)

2012-12-18 Thread tonyalbers
Hi guys, I've created a sdfs mount, but when I do backups using bacula to a file device on the sdfs mount, the dedupe ratio is almost 0, I've run 3 full backups from the same client, each job is about 2 GB: [root@dkarhbus02 d0-sdfs]# sdfscli --volume-info Volume Capacity : 1.5 TB Volume

[Bacula-users] Bacula FileDev and OpenDedup (sdfs)

2012-12-18 Thread tonyalbers
Hi John, Thanks for the input. Compression is not enabled though. /tony +-- |This was sent by tony.alb...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com.

[Bacula-users] Bacula FileDev and OpenDedup (sdfs)

2012-12-18 Thread tonyalbers
Blocksize is set to 32k. Well thanks guys, I guess I'll go with mhvtl and lzo compression then. /tony +-- |This was sent by tony.alb...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com.

[Bacula-users] Fedora 16 - RHEL 5/6 Bacula RPM repository

2012-01-23 Thread tonyalbers
please have a look at the readme file at: http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/slaanesh/bacula/README.txt there's this note: ** The included /usr/share/doc/bacula-common-%{version}/README.Fedora contains quick installation instructions and notes ** You'll find your quick answer by reading it.

[Bacula-users] Fedora 16 - RHEL 5/6 Bacula RPM repository

2012-01-22 Thread tonyalbers
Hi all, Simone, are the RHEL 6 packages compiled with mysql support? Whenever I try to start the director, i get this message in the log file: 22-Jan 17:43 bacula-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: postgresql.c:241 Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server. Database=bacula User=bacula Possible causes: SQL

[Bacula-users] Centos 5.5 + Bacula + windows 2008 R2 client - nightmare!

2011-03-03 Thread tonyalbers
24-Feb 15:33 scorpion-fd JobId 3: Fatal error: Failed to connect to Storage daem on: viper.oleo.co.uk:9103 When working with UNIX based systems, read the log files, read them again and then suddenly it all shows up :o) You'll get used to it. /tony