Re: [Bacula-users] Speed and integration issues

2008-12-10 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Alex Chekholko wrote: - a built-in Fast Ethernet adapter (3com 3c509) I have had a _lot_ of trouble with 3com Vortex/boomerang/tornado NICs under high load - they tend to start emitting unswitchable packets which splatter the entire network causing slowdowns on all machines

Re: [Bacula-users] Time for change

2008-12-10 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Jeff Kalchik wrote: *NEVER* use software RAID if you can avoid it. Software RAID puts a pretty good hit right on your CPU. That hasn't been true in Linux for a number of years. Given a modern machine (less than 2-5 years old) _and sufficient ram_, Linux software raid is a

Re: [Bacula-users] Postgres functions for interpreting the bacula LStat column

2008-12-10 Thread ebollengier
Hello, You can also use the bweb pure PL function for that (see bweb/scripts/bweb-postgresql.sql). Bye DavidLeeLambert wrote: I was looking into making queries for a particular file in a Bacula Postgres database, and came up with the attached functions. If someone really wanted to do

Re: [Bacula-users] Time for change

2008-12-10 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: I'm not sure about ubuntu, but if you are installing debian you can setup raid right there, during installation. It was fairly easy. After that bacula setup and you are ready to go. Ubuntu _is_ Debian, more or less. There's plenty of

[Bacula-users] Using a non-local MySQL/PostgreSQL database.

2008-12-10 Thread Javino
Hi all, a simple question... It's possible to use a non-local mysql/pgsql database to store the catalog? I'm building the bacula from Source (2.4.3) in Debian Etch (2.6.24) and I want to use a dedicated database server in another machine. Thanks 4 all! J. --

Re: [Bacula-users] Time for change

2008-12-10 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Brian Debelius wrote: John Drescher wrote: In linux, I find this to be completely wrong. I have 15TB of software raid 6 and the most load that it puts on the cpu is around 7% and these are raid arrays that net over 200MB/s writes on single core systems that are 3 or

[Bacula-users] Client File Job Retention and Volume Retention

2008-12-10 Thread Proskurin Kirill
Hello all. I trying to understand some things about bacula. I use bacula-2.4.3 I what to make this: Keep 30 day of backup I pool1, In 31 day - delete day 1 and write day 31 - so only keep backup for a 30 days. Keep 1 month backup in pool2, At 13 month - delete 1 month and write 13 - so only

Re: [Bacula-users] Using a non-local MySQL/PostgreSQL database.

2008-12-10 Thread Jari Fredriksson
Hi all, a simple question... It's possible to use a non-local mysql/pgsql database to store the catalog? I'm building the bacula from Source (2.4.3) in Debian Etch (2.6.24) and I want to use a dedicated database server in another machine. Thanks 4 all! Sure is it. There is hostname

[Bacula-users] Restore OK -- warning file count mismatch

2008-12-10 Thread Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas
When trying to restore again, today, I've got the same message: (see http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=792623.75943.qm%40web54110.mail.re2.yahoo.com) Build OS: i486-pc-linux-gnu debian lenny/sid JobId: 184 Job:

Re: [Bacula-users] Time for change

2008-12-10 Thread Brian Debelius
Well right now I have an old Asus k8v-se which has an Athlon 64 processor. So from the conversation, it seems that it should be enough for software raid. But the basboard has only 2 sata ports, and 2 raid ports, and 5 PCI slots. If I wanted more disks I would have to add a controller, or

Re: [Bacula-users] Column 'PoolId' cannot be null

2008-12-10 Thread Pieter (NL)
Got another error today just like the poolid error: 10-Dec 06:10 backup-dir JobId 12988: No Oldest Volumes found to migrate. 10-Dec 06:10 backup-dir JobId 12988: No JobIds found to migrate. 10-Dec 06:10 backup-dir JobId 12988: Error: sql_update.c:194 sql_update.c:194 update UPDATE Job SET

[Bacula-users] AIX PL600Bow 1 5

2008-12-10 Thread Michael Da Cova
Hi Anyone running bacula-fd on a AIX PL600Bow 1 5 if so any tips on how to make the demon or is there a binary anywhere I could use Thanks in advance Michael -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009

Re: [Bacula-users] multi drive changer, limit concurrent jobs for each drive

2008-12-10 Thread Ralf Gross
Alex Chekholko schrieb: On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 21:02:02 +0100 Ralf Gross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # grep Maximum /etc/bacula/bacula-*.conf /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf: Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 3 /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf: Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 3 /etc/bacula/bacula-fd.conf:

Re: [Bacula-users] Changed pool name - volumes are gone

2008-12-10 Thread Tobias Walkowiak
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 12:11:05PM -0500, Alex Chekholko wrote: On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 16:03:28 +0100 Tobias Walkowiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just changed the pool names in the director configuration, deleted the old pools and now I can't assign the existing (labeled) tapes to the pools.

Re: [Bacula-users] Time for change

2008-12-10 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Brian Debelius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well right now I have an old Asus k8v-se which has an Athlon 64 processor. Some of my raid older servers are very similar to this motherboard with Athlon64 3000 chips. So from the conversation, it seems that it should

Re: [Bacula-users] Time for change

2008-12-10 Thread thing
Lukasz Szybalski wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:04 PM, John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what do you think a reasonable cpu for bacula would be? Depends on what level of performance you are looking for. My director is a 2 processor 2GHz opteron machine (circa 2003) with 4

Re: [Bacula-users] Using a non-local MySQL/PostgreSQL database.

2008-12-10 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 10.12.2008 14:18, Javino wrote: Hi all, a simple question... It's possible to use a non-local mysql/pgsql database to store the catalog? I'm building the bacula from Source (2.4.3) in Debian Etch (2.6.24) and I want to use a dedicated database server in another machine. Thanks 4

[Bacula-users] minimize iowait

2008-12-10 Thread Lukasz Szybalski
Hello, My bacula server is pretty busy, and I notice that at times the IOwait reaches 40%. Currently I use: top, free, iostat -k 5 /dev/md5 Are there any tools/commands on linux that can tell me what is the status of Input output. I would like to know: - How much IO are my hard drives capable

Re: [Bacula-users] minimize iowait

2008-12-10 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Lukasz Szybalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, My bacula server is pretty busy, and I notice that at times the IOwait reaches 40%. Currently I use: top, free, iostat -k 5 /dev/md5 Are there any tools/commands on linux that can tell me what is the status

Re: [Bacula-users] minimize iowait

2008-12-10 Thread Lukasz Szybalski
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:06 PM, John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Lukasz Szybalski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, My bacula server is pretty busy, and I notice that at times the IOwait reaches 40%. Currently I use: top, free, iostat -k 5 /dev/md5 Are

Re: [Bacula-users] Time for change

2008-12-10 Thread Josh Fisher
Alan Brown wrote: On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Brian Debelius wrote: John Drescher wrote: In linux, I find this to be completely wrong. I have 15TB of software raid 6 and the most load that it puts on the cpu is around 7% and these are raid arrays that net over 200MB/s writes on single

[Bacula-users] pre-checking tape for next backup

2008-12-10 Thread James Harper
I asked this question a while back, but I'd like to now figure out a solution to it. Basically, one of our clients used to run Amanda and now runs Bacula. Obviously Bacula is superior :) but one feature they miss from Amanda is the ability to be notified if the tape (external disk in this case)