> My question is, is it normal to take round about 13 hours to backup > the data? What I mean is if you take each separate job and you > compare it to the time that Ultrabac took you notice that Bacula > takes 4 -5 times longer to backup the individual job. Any ideas > why, DB maybe?
This may depend on whether you are using compression on the FD's to transfer the data. On some of my machines, they are too slow to quickly compress the data, and turning on comrpession actually slows down my backups by nearly 3x. Just a thought. Perhaps UltraBac doesn't do comrpession on the client end? > > My second question is, would it be possible to hook Bacula up to > the monitoring package, Zabbix, to send out a sms/text message > every time a job succeeds/fails or can Bacula do it if you hook it > up to a GPRS modem? Take a look at the call to bsmtp in the director config file. You could easily replace/supplement it with a call to your favorite SMS gateway.... > > And then lastly, as you might come to realize my knowledge of > backups is quite dangerous and I'm still learning. Can someone > explain to me how did Bacula backup 295 GB to a tape that is > suppose to take 260GB. 90% of the Servers are Windows Servers and > very little data is text based so how in the hell did it do it > without corrupting the Data??????????? The 260GB limit is based on compression, and assumes a 2.6:1 compression (AIT3 is 100GB native, 260GB compressed), but that estimate is just an AVERAGE. In your case, you got 2.95:1 (or more) - thats totally possible depending on your data. Its not just text data thats highly compressible - some types of email data, database data can also be highly compressible... --Matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
