concerns are around us having the time to absorb it all.
>
> Thanks again - appreciate the time you took there.
Correct. Your base hardware is fine. It's just the memory and storage
choices that need revising.
>
>> Original Message
>> Subject: Re: [Bacula-u
b it all.
Thanks again - appreciate the time you took there.
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Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware Specs & Sizing for Bacula?
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ppens if it needs fscking
(which is another good reason for keeping backed-up filesets under 1TB.
Beyond that fscks at startup can eat a lot of time even when
parallelised. One such machine here gets rebooted every 6 months and
usually spends a day in fsck before it's ready for use.)
>
>>
Wow! Point well made :)
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On 19/02/16 18:12, paul.hutchings wrote:
We're
On 02/19/2016 12:12 PM, paul.hutchings wrote:
> For example if I were to suggest box with dual 8 core E5 CPUs,
hardware PERC RAID card with 1GB cache, 48TB of 7.2k SATA in RAID6 and
32GB (or more) of RAM running as a SD would people be thinking "hmmm may
need more horsepower" or would people be
On 19/02/16 18:12, paul.hutchings wrote:
We're new to Bacula and are still considering if it's viable for us.
Our test environment is quite small (it is a test environment) and when I read
the docs I'm not sure how recent they are when they relate to hardware specs.
For example if I were to
We're new to Bacula and are still considering if it's viable for us.
Our test environment is quite small (it is a test environment) and when I read
the docs I'm not sure how recent they are when they relate to hardware specs.
For example if I were to suggest box with dual 8 core E5 CPUs,
Hello, Craig,
I'm with Spectra Logic Tech Support. Perhaps we can help you. Just give us a
call: 800-227-4637.
http://www.spectralogic.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=support.productCatID=1887p=234
Here is another link you might find helpful:
http://www.backupcentral.com/wiki/index.php/Bacula
Hi Everyone,
I am a somewhat long time bacula user. Currently I'm deploying a SpectraLogic
T50e on a Solaris box. My current setup is a LTO 3 drive on a Linux system.
Mostly this has gone okay.I'm just finishing up some test backups. I was
originally a bit concerned because while the
Fellow Bacula Users,
I am in search of a hardware based encryption solution that is
OS/Storage independent. Whether it be a new drive or something else even
Bacula compatible. The encryption provided within Bacula itself is not
sufficient for my needs and during my last search I was unable to
here at work we do not use bacula so I can't speak to the compatibility,
but we use the following:
Started with Netapp Datafort inline apiliances, we have around 30 of the
deployed, they work mostly, but require more maintaince then I would like.
Our second generation solution for inline
On 06/05/10 15:03, Phil Stracchino wrote:
On 05/06/10 02:57, Vlamsdoem wrote:
On 05/05/10 15:12, Phil Stracchino wrote:
On 05/05/10 08:38, John Drescher wrote:
Sorry my servers are on gigabit links.
How do you come to 9MB/s with a 100Mb link, is it not equals to 12,5
On 05/05/10 15:12, Phil Stracchino wrote:
On 05/05/10 08:38, John Drescher wrote:
Sorry my servers are on gigabit links.
How do you come to 9MB/s with a 100Mb link, is it not equals to 12,5 MB/s?
Overhead.
If it's correct on a gigabit link I would have a rate transfer of
On 05/06/10 02:57, Vlamsdoem wrote:
On 05/05/10 15:12, Phil Stracchino wrote:
On 05/05/10 08:38, John Drescher wrote:
Sorry my servers are on gigabit links.
How do you come to 9MB/s with a 100Mb link, is it not equals to 12,5 MB/s?
Overhead.
If it's correct on a gigabit
On 04/05/10 13:51, Thomas Mueller wrote:
Am Tue, 04 May 2010 08:34:15 +0200 schrieb Vlamsdoem:
Hello,
I have few questions about my new backup configuration. Before asking my
questions I will give you some useful information about what I need to
do.
I need a backup ± 10 servers with
Sorry my servers are on gigabit links.
How do you come to 9MB/s with a 100Mb link, is it not equals to 12,5 MB/s?
Overhead.
If it's correct on a gigabit link I would have a rate transfer of 90MB/s
You will probably get less than that if you do not use jumbo frames.
and the transfer rate of
and the transfer rate of the sata disks are 3Gb/s(375MB/s).
No way are your SATA drives that fast. More likely 1/4 to 1/3 of that
speed unless all servers are using high end SSDs.
I forgot to mention that this ~100MB/s is only for large sequential
reads. When reads get small or random the
On 05/05/10 08:38, John Drescher wrote:
Sorry my servers are on gigabit links.
How do you come to 9MB/s with a 100Mb link, is it not equals to 12,5 MB/s?
Overhead.
If it's correct on a gigabit link I would have a rate transfer of 90MB/s
You will probably get less than that if you do not
If it's correct on a gigabit link I would have a rate transfer of 90MB/s
...
and the transfer rate of the sata disks are 3Gb/s(375MB/s).
...
No way are your SATA drives that fast. More likely 1/4 to 1/3 of that
If the link is 90 MB/s and drives deliver 1/4 of 375 MB/s(94 MB/s) - that's
a
No way are your SATA drives that fast. More likely 1/4 to 1/3 of that
If the link is 90 MB/s and drives deliver 1/4 of 375 MB/s(94 MB/s) - that's
a throughput of about 90 MB/s. That's a whopping speed of 324 GB/hr. You
must be going through a fiber switch to a striped array of sorts.
Agreed.
Hello,
I have few questions about my new backup configuration.
Before asking my questions I will give you some useful information about
what I need to do.
I need a backup ± 10 servers with one full backup every week of 3,5 TB
and an incremental backup of 100GB 5 times/week.
I have 48 hours to
Am Tue, 04 May 2010 08:34:15 +0200 schrieb Vlamsdoem:
Hello,
I have few questions about my new backup configuration. Before asking my
questions I will give you some useful information about what I need to
do.
I need a backup ± 10 servers with one full backup every week of 3,5 TB
and an
On Tue, 4 May 2010, Thomas Mueller wrote:
IMHO the backup disks will not be the bottleneck if you go with SATA 7.2k
drives. but check the specs - i'm sure HP is providing performance data
somewhere on the homepage (or ask your dealer)
IMHO it's unsafe to back up to a single disk (of any
I may have asked this question before, but has anyone had any luck with
getting Bacula to utilize a hardware crypto accelerator for FD
encryption? Setting the engine(3) options in openssl.cnf do not appear
to have any affect. This can be confirmed with statistic programs which
hook into the
I checked out the survey and voted for features. However, one feature I
didn't see was interfacing Bacula with Hardware Encryption capable LTO-4
drives.
This is the latest in tape tech and absolutely should be supported for a
full-featured solution.
-Shon
Ok, I feel small. How many clients are you backing up with this
configuration?
(\_/)
(o,o)
()_() Joseph Wright
On Jun 5, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
Dell PowerEdge 2950 w/ PERC5 SAS -- RAID-1 Root OS (2x36gb SAS) and
RAID5 Storage (3x 74gig w/ 1 hot standby)).
Dual
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I'm using a Sun UE450 with 3x296MHz and 896MB of RAM. However, the
maximum simultaneous number of backups I'm doing is 8, and probably my
total aggregate amount of data is less than 100GB for all of the systems
together.
There was some information on
I'd like to find out what kind of hardware configurations people are
using for their director. I plan to be backing up 50 or more clients
with ~250G of data each on a dedicated director with 2G RAM and a
120G SATA drive. I had an issue one night where the director shut
down with an out
Dell PowerEdge 2950 w/ PERC5 SAS -- RAID-1 Root OS (2x36gb SAS) and
RAID5 Storage (3x 74gig w/ 1 hot standby)).
Dual quad-cores and 32gb RAM available if your DB platform can scale it
(PostgreSQL + FreeBSD)
~BAS
On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 10:12 -0700, Joseph Wright wrote:
I'd like to find out
Hi again,
I'm thinking about purchasing this tapedrive:
http://www.sonybiz.net/biz/view/ShowProduct.action?product=AITi100S%2C+AITi100AS%2C+AITi100STS%2C+AITe100site=biz_en_EUpageType=Overviewcategory=AITlow
Anyone got experiences with that particular product? Would it be a safe
choice in a
On 4/13/07, Christopher Rasch-Olsen Raa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi again,
I'm thinking about purchasing this tapedrive:
http://www.sonybiz.net/biz/view/ShowProduct.action?product=AITi100S%2C+AITi100AS%2C+AITi100STS%2C+AITe100site=biz_en_EUpageType=Overviewcategory=AITlow
Anyone got
Christopher Rasch-Olsen Raa wrote:
Hi again,
I'm thinking about purchasing this tapedrive:
http://www.sonybiz.net/biz/view/ShowProduct.action?product=AITi100S%2C+AITi100AS%2C+AITi100STS%2C+AITe100site=biz_en_EUpageType=Overviewcategory=AITlow
Anyone got experiences with that particular
Yes, that was the solution. Thank you.
Brian Debelius wrote:
Looks like tapeinfo can be built for BSD.
http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Testing_Your_Tape_Drive.html#SECTION004037000
mt -f /dev/nsa0 comp enable
Does that do it?
or
How do I make sure bacula is using hardware compression when backing up
to my Ultrium tape drive?
Jason
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Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?
Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated
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You really need to provide more information. I've been reading your
messages all week (and there have been a lot of them!) and none of them
include any information. Garbage in, garbage out.
Incidentally, to you and others, this is a decent enough
I believe you can use tapeinfo to see if compression is turned on.
Jason King wrote:
How do I make sure bacula is using hardware compression when backing up
to my Ultrium tape drive?
Jason
-
Using Tomcat but need to
I believe FreeBSD (my os) uses a command called mt...anyway...here is
the output from mt status:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports]# mt status
Mode Density Blocksize bpi Compression
Current: 0x42 variable 00x1
-available
Hi Ryan,
On 2/13/2007 9:50 PM, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
... How funny is the source, BTW?:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
Thanks for the laugh - Microsoft translates the knowledge base
articles when they determine that you want a non-english version...
And IIRC there is some sort of
Looks like tapeinfo can be built for BSD.
http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Testing_Your_Tape_Drive.html#SECTION004037000
mt -f /dev/nsa0 comp enable
Does that do it?
or
http://www.bacula.org/dev-manual/Testing_Your_Tape_Drive.html#SECTION004036000
_If you have
Hi,
I want to provide you with information about new hardware supported by
bacula.
TapeDrive: Tandberg DLT-V4 (SATA), also recognized by System as
Quantum DLT-V4
Tape: DLTtape VS1 (80/160 GB with DLT VS 160, 160/320 GB with DLT-V4)
System: SuSE 10.0
SATA-Controller (PCI): Dawicontrol DC-150
Ralf Gross said:
we will extend our main fileserver with an external RAID array with
~4TB of disk space. Additionally we'll purchase an 24 slot Lib with
one LTO3 drive. The backup and the file server will be connected by
GigabitEthernet.
I've an spare DL380G2 server with 1Ghz, 1.5GB of
Hi,
we will extend our main fileserver with an external RAID array with
~4TB of disk space. Additionally we'll purchase an 24 slot Lib with
one LTO3 drive. The backup and the file server will be connected by
GigabitEthernet.
I've an spare DL380G2 server with 1Ghz, 1.5GB of memory and some
Hi all,I'm looking to deploy a new backup system at an office. I've been working with the Exabyte VXA-2s in the past, but has anyone had a chance to look at the new VXA-320s?I'm thinking of deploying on FreeBSD
5.x/6.x and I'd love to hear the community's input.Thanks,-- Wyness
Hi,
on a customer-site i'm using an Autoloader 1Ux10 with VXA-320 Drive for
about 1 month.
Works great.
Bacula 1.38.5
SuSE Linux 9.3
Rate: 9 to 10 MB/s
with HW-compression about 200GB per Tape (lots of binary data and
executables)
Regards
Helmut
Wyness Casama schrieb:
Hi all,
I'm
Hi Helmut,Excellent. :) Though I'm working on FBSD, it's good to hear that there are people out there working with the device and Bacula.In your installation, did you notice anything I need to look out for in your bacula config that I wouldn't ordinarily worry about with a VXA-2? I do know that I
Stephan Holl:
Replace the cartridge. Clean the drive. Hold your thumbs :-)
I did that 1 week ago. Why do I need to clean the drive that often? I
should think about buying more reliable hardware...
If we're talking about a DDS drive then once a week is rather not a sign of
crappy hardware.
Hello Dietz,
On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 17:41:42 +0200 Dietz Proepper dietz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Stephan Holl:
Replace the cartridge. Clean the drive. Hold your thumbs :-)
I did that 1 week ago. Why do I need to clean the drive that often?
I should think about buying more reliable
Engineer
DS Ltd
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Lehmann
Sent: 03 June 2005 12:00PM
To: Stephan Holl
Cc: Dietz Proepper; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Hardware or bacula-problem?
Hello,
Stephan Holl wrote
Arno Lehmann:
If we're talking about a DDS drive then once a week is rather not a
sign of crappy hardware. When I was using DDS kind of hardware for my
backups I had to run the cleaning tape after about 5 completely
written tapes.
Thanks for your tips. I will use that more often (and
On Sun, 22 May 2005, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Replace the cartridge. Clean the drive. Hold your thumbs :-)
mt retension sometimes helps, as does storing the tapes on their edge
instead of flat (it keeps the tape pancake even)
I did that 1 week ago. Why do I need to clean the drive that often?
Dear List,
I have labeled a fresh tape which runs fine for now. But after a while
it stops working with the error quoted below:
error
Start Backup JobId 915,
Job=gdf- serverdaten.2005-05-22_01.05.03 22-May 02:15 data-sd: gdf-
serverdaten.2005-05-22_01.05.03 Error: block.c:552 Write error at
Hello,
Stephan Holl wrote:
Dear List,
I have labeled a fresh tape which runs fine for now. But after a while
it stops working with the error quoted below:
error
Start Backup JobId 915,
Job=gdf- serverdaten.2005-05-22_01.05.03 22-May 02:15 data-sd: gdf-
serverdaten.2005-05-22_01.05.03 Error:
Hello Arno,
On Sun, 22 May 2005 12:25:50 +0200 Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hello,
Stephan Holl wrote:
Dear List,
I have labeled a fresh tape which runs fine for now. But after a
while it stops working with the error quoted below:
error
Start Backup JobId 915,
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