[Bacula-users] Question regarding concurrency and disk usage

2006-06-27 Thread Orallo Orallo
Hi All,I am fairly new to Bacula and I am extremely pleased with the results weare getting, I backup about 9GB of data over the LAN in about 25 minuteswhich is extremely close in performace to the previous system we used (ntbackup) using local drives, but oh so much more reliable, stable, andall

Re: [Bacula-users] Question regarding concurrency and disk usage - Answer to 2nd issue

2006-06-27 Thread Christoff Buch
In your bacula-dir.conf you can do something like this: Schedule { Name=Somethingrelatedtoyourjob Run = Level=Full Pool=Weekly sun at 20:00 Run = Level=Incremental Pool=Daily mon-fri at 20:00 } You then have to rotate your Backupfile accordingly. Hope that matches what you want!

Re: [Bacula-users] Question regarding concurrency and disk usage

2006-06-27 Thread Michel Meyers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Orallo Orallo wrote: Hi All, I am fairly new to Bacula and I am extremely pleased with the results we are getting, I backup about 9GB of data over the LAN in about 25 minutes which is extremely close in performace to the previous system we used

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-dir crashes while building the dir tree on a restore job

2006-06-27 Thread Lars Uhlemann
Hello, Kern Sibbald wrote: On Monday 26 June 2006 19:14, Alex Dioso wrote: On Jun 19, 2006, at 8:15 AM, Lars Uhlemann wrote: Hi, we are runing bacula now for one year. Current runing version is 1.38.8. We backup a amount of around 4 TB of data and more than 15 Million files. OK, i

Re: [Bacula-users] UTF-8 file names support in Bacula

2006-06-27 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
Hi Kern and list, I am back with my Unicode problems, but with more information and try-and-error testing stuff. First of all, yes, bacula-dir.conf is UTF-8, so it is no problem to write Unicode strings there. However, bacula-fd or bacula-dir still ignores them when it comes to Exclude

[Bacula-users] /var/bacula write problem (sd, mtx-changer)

2006-06-27 Thread Timo Neuvonen
While trying to set up an autochanger to my existing Bacula configuration, I run into problem that mtx-changer script can't create a temporary file into /var/bacula/ directory. System is FC4, current Bacula version 1.38.10-3. This is propably not the version vhere the problem originates from (see

Re: [Bacula-users] Error: database disk image is malformed

2006-06-27 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Normally: # bacula-dir -d99 -f -v -c /usr/local/etc/bacula-dir.conf -u bacula Or some varation. You can run it with script(1) or screen(1) if keeping the TTY becomes a problem. ~BAS On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 19:43 -0400, Tassia Camoes wrote: Hi all, I created the database again and it

[Bacula-users] compression = ? -- possible documentation missing

2006-06-27 Thread Bill Moran
I was looking for what value to put in compression = in order to ensure that compression is off. Based on the docs, it's off by default, but I wanted to turn it off explicitly in a particular fileset for a few reasons: 1) In case future versions of Bacula have it on by default. 2) In case

Re: [Bacula-users] /var/bacula write problem (sd, mtx-changer)

2006-06-27 Thread Timo Neuvonen
This system seems to be set up in the beginning of February, and the first version of Bacula that was run there has been 1.38.5 In that system, there is bacula-sd.9103.state file at all. Oops. The last line above should be: there is NO bacula-sd.9103.state file at all. (which means, that

Re: [Bacula-users] /var/bacula write problem (sd, mtx-changer)

2006-06-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 19:05, Timo Neuvonen wrote: This system seems to be set up in the beginning of February, and the first version of Bacula that was run there has been 1.38.5 In that system, there is bacula-sd.9103.state file at all. Oops. The last line above should be: there is

Re: [Bacula-users] UTF-8 file names support in Bacula

2006-06-27 Thread Martin Simmons
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:22:39 +0300, Peteris Krisjanis said: So I want down with debuging and launched bacula-fd (Installed by Finkon OS X 10.4 up to date) with -vf -d200 flags. Results where interesting- bacula-fd clearly got UTF-8 chars from bacula-dir.conf, which weresend by bacula-dir

Re: [Bacula-users] /var/bacula write problem (sd, mtx-changer)

2006-06-27 Thread Timo Neuvonen
If you installed from rpms, we initially had a few problems getting all the permissions right to run the SD properly. I believe that it is all straightened out now. I've always installed from rpms, sometimes I've used downloaded binary rpms, sometimes (like when upgrading to 1.38.10-3 today)

Re: [Bacula-users] /var/bacula write problem (sd, mtx-changer)

2006-06-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 20:42, Timo Neuvonen wrote: If you installed from rpms, we initially had a few problems getting all the permissions right to run the SD properly. I believe that it is all straightened out now. I've always installed from rpms, sometimes I've used downloaded binary

[Bacula-users] Tape labeling problem

2006-06-27 Thread Timo Neuvonen
I just replaced my Exabyte VXA-2 tape drive with VXA-320 autochanger. I can't remember there had ever been any problem with labeling the tapes before. Blank brand new tapes could be labeled staright from the package, I think. But I haven't labeled tapes with the old drive for a few months. Now,

[Bacula-users] Wierdness with Blank DVDs

2006-06-27 Thread Nicole King
Title: Message Dear All, I hope that someone can shed some light on this. I'm writing my backups to DVD+RW. All seems to work very well with a virgin, never-before-written DVD. In testing the DVD using dvd-handler script, I can see that the status of the DVD is blank. However, if I use a

Re: [Bacula-users] /var/bacula write problem (sd, mtx-changer)

2006-06-27 Thread Timo Neuvonen
For the idea of fixing this... My first guess: how about changing the directory owner from root to bacula? That is, to bacula:bacula Is there spesific need it must be owned by root? You can change it to bacula:bacula and I don't think it will cause any problems. However, as long as the

Re: [Bacula-users] incorrect fstype identification, backups fail (bacula 1.38.9, Irix 6.5)

2006-06-27 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 21:36, Ryan Novosielski wrote: And FYI, I have just retired about 20 IRIX systems, so I have more than enough to go around for software testing should that be desirable. I run Bacula currently on an IRIX machine to back up a webserver running on that host, but not a

Re: [Bacula-users] UTF-8 file names support in Bacula

2006-06-27 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
Yes, I understood after lot of googling and reading materials that is decomposed canonical which is here to blame. But how to solve it? What to do first? I could find a solution, mounting all stuff I need to Linux via SAMBA and then backup everything, but is this only way? Anyway, thanks for

Re: [Bacula-users] Wierdness with Blank DVDs

2006-06-27 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 6/27/2006 7:53 PM, Nicole King wrote: Dear All, I hope that someone can shed some light on this. I'm writing my backups to DVD+RW. All seems to work very well with a virgin, never-before-written DVD. In testing the DVD using dvd-handler script, I can see that the status of

[Bacula-users] Help with bacula and HP T20 (travan 5)

2006-06-27 Thread Thomas S. Iversen
Hi There Yesterday I got a HP T20 10/20GB, travan 5, SCSI tapedrive. Using bacula at work for doing a lot of bacups I installed bacula at home and immediatly took my new toy out for a ride with bacula at the steering wheel. ... ... I was greatly dissapointed: ~100kb/s. And a lot of shoeshining

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape labeling problem

2006-06-27 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 6/27/2006 9:13 PM, Timo Neuvonen wrote: I just replaced my Exabyte VXA-2 tape drive with VXA-320 autochanger. I can't remember there had ever been any problem with labeling the tapes before. Blank brand new tapes could be labeled staright from the package, I think. But I haven't

Re: [Bacula-users] /var/bacula write problem (sd, mtx-changer)

2006-06-27 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 6/27/2006 9:49 PM, Timo Neuvonen wrote: For the idea of fixing this... My first guess: how about changing the directory owner from root to bacula? That is, to bacula:bacula Is there spesific need it must be owned by root? You can change it to bacula:bacula and I don't think it will cause

Re: [Bacula-users] Question regarding concurrency and disk usage - Answer to 2nd issue

2006-06-27 Thread Christoff Buch
Hi Orallo, I guess by rotate you mean reusing tapes, i.e. overwriting it (them), say after a week, with the new backup, right? In my expierience this can be done most comfortably by setting configuration directives in the Pool - Resource: Pool { Name = WhattheheckdoIknow

Re: [Bacula-users] compression = ? -- possible documentation missing

2006-06-27 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 6/27/2006 4:18 PM, Bill Moran wrote: I was looking for what value to put in compression = in order to ensure that compression is off. Based on the docs, it's off by default, but I wanted to turn it off explicitly in a particular fileset for a few reasons: snip good reasons ... So,

Re: [Bacula-users] /var/bacula write problem (sd, mtx-changer)

2006-06-27 Thread Timo Neuvonen
How is this working with someone else having an autochanger, and SD is run as root? Naturally, running the SD as root always works, although it might be I'm embarrassed, I need to re-check my postings better before clicking 'send'. I accidentally dropped an important negation again. Yes,