I was wondering if someone could give a quick run down of the
advantages/disadvantages of spooling the data to disk before writing it
to tape, and the advantages/disadvantages of NOT spooling.
At least, spooling should guarantee that your tape drive is able to run at
full speed continuosly. If
I didn't see a feature request on the site for extra database support,
so here goes:
Origin: Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 26 July 2006
What: It would be nice for the database backend to support more
databases. I'm thinking of SQL Server at the moment, but I guess Oracle,
DB2,
On 25 Jul 2006 at 12:18, Jo Rhett wrote:
Okay, now it's been what - 3 weeks? And as far as I can tell nobody
has even looked at this problem.
That may or may not be true What is true is that nobody is under any
obligation to do anything. We are volunteers.
What exactly needs to be done
Is it just me or has the file download area for bacula been broken for 3
days?
The error links to a status page which seems to say that the download
service is OK. But I still havent been able to get to any files.
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Russel,
Supporting proprietary DBs would be nice, but you're
given THREE free choices for storing your catalog -
SQLite, Postgres, and MySQL - and two are mature,
capable DBs. I personally use MySQL and it works very
well. I don't speak on Kern's behalf, but it would
take more work (and testing
Sorry, I thought one thing and wrote another. It's not
InnoDB - it's MyISAM. It's the adequate storage engine
for Bacula. Regards,
Georger
--- Georger Araujo [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu:
Russel,
Supporting proprietary DBs would be nice, but you're
given THREE free choices for storing your
On 26 Jul 2006 at 11:55, Russell Howe wrote:
I didn't see a feature request on the site for extra database support,
so here goes:
Origin: Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 26 July 2006
What: It would be nice for the database backend to support more
databases. I'm thinking of
Emery Guevremont wrote:
I was wondering if someone could give a quick run down of the
advantages/disadvantages of spooling the data to disk before writing
it to tape, and the advantages/disadvantages of NOT spooling.
i.e. which is faster, which is more reliable...
I have one small Bacula
Dan Langille wrote, sometime around 27/07/06 16:29:
On 26 Jul 2006 at 11:55, Russell Howe wrote:
I haven't seen Bacula's database routines, but it seems like it's fairly
modular and so I'm guessing that adding another database wouldn't be too
much work. What would be involved?
I wrote
I just added a new client (Linux, x86_64, RHEL4, 4GB RAM, bacula-fd 1.38.9)
to my existing bacula config. Backups of all other clients are working fine.
The new client has ~4.5TB of local disk, with about 6.5GB used (that'll
change fast!).
The problem is that bacula estimate command reports that
Timo Neuvonen wrote:
I was wondering if someone could give a quick run down of the
advantages/disadvantages of spooling the data to disk before writing it
to tape, and the advantages/disadvantages of NOT spooling.
At least, spooling should guarantee that your tape drive is able to run at
full
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:14:48 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just added a new client (Linux, x86_64, RHEL4, 4GB RAM, bacula-fd 1.38.9)
to my existing bacula config. Backups of all other clients are working fine.
The new client has ~4.5TB of local disk, with about 6.5GB used (that'll
change
Hello,
On Thursday 27 July 2006 18:03, Russell Howe wrote:
Dan Langille wrote, sometime around 27/07/06 16:29:
On 26 Jul 2006 at 11:55, Russell Howe wrote:
I haven't seen Bacula's database routines, but it seems like it's fairly
modular and so I'm guessing that adding another database
In the message dated: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:31:29 CDT,
The pithy ruminations from Orman, David L [CNDE] on
RE: [Bacula-users] backup size (and estimate) much greater than actualdisk usa
ge were:
= Your problem is probably a sparse file. Specifically look at
= /var/log/lastlog
=
= That gets
Anyone have an Exabyte Magnum 224 Autochanger? I am just about to
order one and I wanted to make sure it is compatible with bacula.
Thanks in Advance,
John M. Drescher
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In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
How sure are you that it continuously writes to tape. On my setup I put
a max spooling size of 10 Gigs, and everytime it reaches the 10 gigs,
the spooling seems to stop. Bacula seems to empty the spool by writing
it to tape. Once the spool has been
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Emery Guevremont wrote:
How sure are you that it continuously writes to tape. On my setup I put
a max spooling size of 10 Gigs, and everytime it reaches the 10 gigs,
the spooling seems to stop. Bacula seems to empty the spool by writing
I have an installation of Bacula 1.38.8 that is loosing jobs.All went ok for 2-3 months, with 5 client-jobs scheduled every night (hosts: solaris10, wserver, iserver, adhoc, catalog), at a difference of 5 mins each, so that every client-job would run after the previous was finished.Then I
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
If your network keeps up with the data rate (or the backup is local) and
you only have a single job to run, there's no need for spooling as you
won't gain anything.
If your network doesn't keep up with your tape's data rate, spooling can
reduce the
Item n: Split documentation
Origin: Maxx [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 27th July 2006
Status:
What: Split documentation in several books
Why:Bacula manual has now more than 600 pages, and looking for
implementation details is getting complicated.
I think
MaxxAtWork wrote:
Item n: Split documentation
Origin: Maxx [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 27th July 2006
Status:
What: Split documentation in several books
Why:Bacula manual has now more than 600 pages, and looking for
implementation details is getting
Alan Brown wrote:
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Birger Blixt wrote:
Here are the tricky parts (Only 45 slots reported today - one
magazine is out)
Storage Changer /dev/sg16:2 Drives, 45 Slots ( 2 Import/Export )
Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 1 Loaded):VolumeTag =
ALOW0026
Data
I find the ascii art frame around the output of the list files and
llist files output troublesome. I couldn't figure a better way so I
wrote the following filter:
#!/usr/bin/perl -npw
s/^\+\-+\+$//;
s/^\|\s//;
s/\s+\|$//;
Give it a try... for example:
echo 'llist file jobid=XXX' |
On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 02:41:06PM -0400, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
Send them the information you have provided here.
Something tells me something is missing from this e-mail. ;) If not,
then I can completely understand why the bug report was closed. ;)
On Jul 20, 2006, at 12:44 AM, Kern
Hi,
I had asked a few days ago about Bacula's support for LTO 2 tape
drives. However, it looks like we might be getting a tape library
instead; more specifically, the StorageTek L20 Tape library. Does
anyone know if this tape library is supported by Bacula? Finally, if
I have a tape
Hi,
I was wondering if Bacula allows you to group backups together based
on common attributes. For example, if I plan on using Bacula for 2
seperate environments, I would want to have all backups from Site 1
backed up to a certain tape(s) while all backups from machines in Site
2 would
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 18:09, Chris Boyd wrote:
I have an ongoing problem with the bacula-dir connecting to a specific
bacula-fd.
The bacula-dir is running on a SLES SuSE 9 server with bacula-1.36.3 and the
offending bacula-fd is running on a Win2003 server with bacula-fd 1.38.4
I know that
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