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

2008-12-11 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 11.12.2008 03:19, James Harper wrote: 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

[Bacula-users] Two storage servers

2008-12-11 Thread CSI / GoldNet - Theo Gutmann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there I do my backups to disks and would like to replicate the backups to another machine offsite. What is the best method to do that? Is it possible to configure the offsite-machine as a second storage server? I have MySQL for the catalogue,

[Bacula-users] Different storage ip for different clients

2008-12-11 Thread Piotr Gbyliczek
Hi I'm having problem with configuring bacula properly. We have one director, three storages and lot of clients. Clients are in different networks, so we need to use different IP to connect from client to storage and different IP to connect from director to storage. I know that there is a way

Re: [Bacula-users] minimize iowait

2008-12-11 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 04:38:58PM -0600, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: 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

[Bacula-users] listing open files

2008-12-11 Thread Carlo Maesen
I would like to have a listing of all open files in my backup-report or in the log-file. So I can put these in a exclude list. Is this posssible ? I use for each job: Messages = Standard bacula-dir.conf: Messages { Name = Standard mailcommand = /usr/local/bacula/bin/bsmtp -h localhost -f

Re: [Bacula-users] DVD Backup Version 2.0.2 OK?

2008-12-11 Thread michael riehemann
Am 01.12.2008 um 07:42 schrieb Nils Blanck-Wehde: I edited the corresponding line in /usr/lib/bacula/dvd-handler. Unforutnately it didn't make a difference. On the other hand I could NOT see that the disc was actually being ejected after the first part. Should the tray have opened?

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-sd volume data errors during copy from disk to tape

2008-12-11 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 07:38:40PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Hello list! I'm testing Bacula 2.5.19 (upcoming 3.0.0) and copying jobs from disk pools to tape. I'm getting some errors during the copy process.. has anyone else seen these?: bacula-sd JobId 2994: Start Copying JobId

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-sd hanging after tape gets full + unload

2008-12-11 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:26:20PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Hello list! I'm using Bacula 2.5.19 and trying 'copy jobs' feature to copy jobs from disk volumes/pools to tape. Sometimes bacula-sd seems to get stuck.. it hangs without doing anything. Now it happened when tape got full

Re: [Bacula-users] Different storage ip for different clients

2008-12-11 Thread Tilman Schmidt
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:43:47 +, Piotr Gbyliczek wrote: We have one director, three storages and lot of clients. Clients are in different networks, so we need to use different IP to connect from client to storage and different IP to connect from director to storage. Why is that? In a

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Restore problem (bug ?)

2008-12-11 Thread Jesper Krogh
Marco Schaerfke wrote: I have the following setup: bacula 2.4.3: dir and sd runs on RHEL 4 (x86_64), client is CentOS5. my storage device is an LTO3 tape drive with 11 slots I started the restore job, but unfortunately I forgot to change the tapes in the library. After a while I noticed

[Bacula-users] how to receive a file list with email notification

2008-12-11 Thread Peter
Hi I was wondering, if there is a way to receive the list of files backuped with a given job toegether with the jobs email notification (that is: the result of what I get when I say list files jobid= in the console ) Any help would be greatly appreciated Peter

Re: [Bacula-users] Different storage ip for different clients

2008-12-11 Thread Piotr Gbyliczek
On Thursday 11 December 2008 13:10:14 you wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:43:47 +, Piotr Gbyliczek wrote: We have one director, three storages and lot of clients. Clients are in different networks, so we need to use different IP to connect from client to storage and different IP to

Re: [Bacula-users] how to receive a file list with email notification

2008-12-11 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 11.12.2008 14:21, Peter wrote: Hi I was wondering, if there is a way to receive the list of files backuped with a given job toegether with the jobs email notification (that is: the result of what I get when I say list files jobid= in the console ) Any help would be greatly

Re: [Bacula-users] minimize iowait

2008-12-11 Thread Lukasz Szybalski
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 04:38:58PM -0600, Lukasz Szybalski wrote: 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:

Re: [Bacula-users] minimize iowait

2008-12-11 Thread John Drescher
Software raid5 using mdadm If this happens during writes. Take a look at the following forum post of mine. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5307393.html#5307393 Also follow the link to the place where I show benchmarks: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-709075-highlight-.html Also if

Re: [Bacula-users] minimize iowait

2008-12-11 Thread Lukasz Szybalski
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 9:47 AM, John Drescher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Software raid5 using mdadm If this happens during writes. Take a look at the following forum post of mine. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5307393.html#5307393 Also follow the link to the place where I show

Re: [Bacula-users] minimize iowait

2008-12-11 Thread John Drescher
1. SO I have done the strip size to 2048 which gave me a performance boost from 30mb/s to 104mb/s on a bs=1M I find that bigger stripe sizes (than the default 64k) give you worse write performance and higher iowait but better read performance on large files. 2. What would be a difference

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

2008-12-11 Thread Alex Chekholko
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:22:55 +0100 Ralf Gross ralf-li...@ralfgross.de wrote: Alex Chekholko schrieb: On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 21:02:02 +0100 Ralf Gross ralf-li...@ralfgross.de wrote: # grep Maximum /etc/bacula/bacula-*.conf /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf: Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 3

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

2008-12-11 Thread Hemant Shah
--- On Wed, 12/10/08, James Harper james.har...@bendigoit.com.au wrote: From: James Harper james.har...@bendigoit.com.au Subject: [Bacula-users] pre-checking tape for next backup To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 8:19 PM I asked this question a

Re: [Bacula-users] listing open files

2008-12-11 Thread Martin Simmons
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:31:19 +0100 (CET), Carlo Maesen said: I would like to have a listing of all open files in my backup-report or in the log-file. So I can put these in a exclude list. Is this posssible ? I use for each job: Messages = Standard bacula-dir.conf: Messages { Name

Re: [Bacula-users] minimize iowait

2008-12-11 Thread Lukasz Szybalski
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:55 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: 1. SO I have done the strip size to 2048 which gave me a performance boost from 30mb/s to 104mb/s on a bs=1M I find that bigger stripe sizes (than the default 64k) give you worse write performance and higher iowait

Re: [Bacula-users] minimize iowait

2008-12-11 Thread John Drescher
In the example you given here http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-709075-highlight-.html md1 has a chunk size of 256K vs md2 has 64K is that something I can set? is there a preferred chunk size ? Can that be changed or is that system hardware set only? You set this when you create the

Re: [Bacula-users] minimize iowait

2008-12-11 Thread John Drescher
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:01 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: In the example you given here http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-709075-highlight-.html md1 has a chunk size of 256K vs md2 has 64K is that something I can set? is there a preferred chunk size ? Can that be changed

[Bacula-users] Bacula estimate listing shows the files and attributes, backup job error is Could not stat FILE=: ERR=No such file or directory

2008-12-11 Thread Mingus Dew
All, I am having a very strange problem. My backup server is running Bacula 2.4.2 (Solaris 10_x86) and my client is Bacula 2.2.8 (Solaris 10_x86). This client is having intermittent job failures that I am at a loss to explain. Here is the log output from one of the failed jobs. Its completing