Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula giving slow speed

2009-01-14 Thread Holikar, Sachin (ext)
Thanks Mr. Drescher for the reply. 1. We will surely give it a try for using latest Bacula version and see if it improves any performance. 2. The system on which Bacula is loaded , is having good configuration like 4 GB of RAM and 2.80 GHz. 3. There is no database backup as such. What we do is

[Bacula-users] What is the bacula user's home directory?

2009-01-14 Thread Kevin Keane
In my configuration, the bacula-dir and bacula-sd both run as user bacula rather than root, as recommended. Now I am trying to run a Run Before script that includes wget to a password-protected site. The user name and password are in a .netrc file. It doesn't work - wget does not use the user

Re: [Bacula-users] What is the bacula user's home directory?

2009-01-14 Thread Jon Ingason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Keane skrev: In my configuration, the bacula-dir and bacula-sd both run as user bacula rather than root, as recommended. Both bacula-dir and bacula-sd run as user bacula. If you do following you get the home directory of user bacula: grep

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula giving slow speed

2009-01-14 Thread Josh Fisher
Holikar, Sachin (ext) wrote: Thanks Mr. Drescher for the reply. 1. We will surely give it a try for using latest Bacula version and see if it improves any performance. 2. The system on which Bacula is loaded , is having good configuration like 4 GB of RAM and 2.80 GHz. 3. There is no

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula giving slow speed

2009-01-14 Thread John Drescher
3. There is no database backup as such. What we do is just take the system level full backup. I believe he was suggesting that the Bacula catalog database might be stored on the same file system that is being backed up. Since Bacula must write to its catalog database frequently during a

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula giving slow speed

2009-01-14 Thread Holikar, Sachin (ext)
Hello Mr. Fisher, I Apologize for misunderstandings. I am newbie for Bacula. Could you please let me know where can I find the location of the catalog database which is been set for Bacula? Thanks -Original Message- From: Josh Fisher [mailto:jfis...@pvct.com] Sent: Mittwoch, 14.

[Bacula-users] max run time vs. max start delay

2009-01-14 Thread Thomas
Hi list, today one job failed with max run time exceeded, this job is configured with max run time = 20mins and was scheduled for 12:05. due to some small problems it took some time to get the tapedrive ready. the job was cancelled at 12:25 after 2 minutes of run time: 2009-01-14 12:21:40

Re: [Bacula-users] messages configuration

2009-01-14 Thread Thomas
Hi Troy, thanks for the hint, Mail on error = m...@address = all did it. Regards Thomas Troy Daniels schrieb: Hi, On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 22:35 +0100, Thomas wrote: ah, now i got it (i think) in the source code there are different log level defined: info, warning, error, ... and every

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula promoting some incremental backups to full

2009-01-14 Thread Kevin Stewart
And you are NOT edited the FileSet definition? Bacula switches to a Full when it sees that the FileSet has changed. Ignore FileSet Change = Yes in the FileSet definition fixes that. Quite sure. The FileSet definitions have not changed.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula giving slow speed

2009-01-14 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Holikar, Sachin (ext) sachin.holikar@siemens.com wrote: Hello Mr. Fisher, I Apologize for misunderstandings. I am newbie for Bacula. No need to apologize. Could you please let me know where can I find the location of the catalog database which is

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula giving slow speed

2009-01-14 Thread Jean Gobin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you're using the default name, Linux/Unix AND using sqlite: find / -name bacula.db will find it J. Jean F. Gobin Network Administrator Tel: 212.542.3175 Mobile: 917.213.2532 Fax: 212.981.6545 32 Avenue of the Americas, 4th

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula promoting some incremental backups to full

2009-01-14 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Kevin Stewart ke...@domainit.com wrote: And you are NOT edited the FileSet definition? Bacula switches to a Full when it sees that the FileSet has changed. Ignore FileSet Change = Yes in the FileSet definition fixes that. Quite sure. The FileSet

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula giving slow speed

2009-01-14 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Jean Gobin jgo...@strozllc.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you're using the default name, Linux/Unix AND using sqlite: With his data set I hope he is using postgres. sqlite will not cut it. John

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula promoting some incremental backups to full

2009-01-14 Thread Kevin Stewart
And you are NOT edited the FileSet definition? Bacula switches to a Full when it sees that the FileSet has changed. Ignore FileSet Change = Yes in the FileSet definition fixes that. Quite sure. The FileSet definitions have not changed. And you are sure the volumes containing the

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula giving slow speed

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Galloway
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:53:13AM -0500, John Drescher wrote: 3. There is no database backup as such. What we do is just take the system level full backup. I believe he was suggesting that the Bacula catalog database might be stored on the same file system that is being backed up.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula giving slow speed

2009-01-14 Thread John Drescher
so, would it be considered a 'best practice' to have the catalog database server that is on a separate machine that the bacula server? I have the database on a different server than the director but just not having it on the same raid that you backup the most frequently would be fine.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula giving slow speed

2009-01-14 Thread Dan Langille
On Jan 14, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Michael Galloway wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:53:13AM -0500, John Drescher wrote: 3. There is no database backup as such. What we do is just take the system level full backup. I usually advise against system level full backups. I recommend a proper

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula giving slow speed

2009-01-14 Thread Holikar, Sachin (ext)
Hi, Thanks all for your comments. Could not send reply as I was not in office. Anyways we have mysql database. We have decided to do the backups by increasing the spool area which is currently set to 7 GB. I will post the outcomes once we finish the testing. Thanks once again.