[Bacula-users] How it optimize the transfer speed.

2010-01-26 Thread Cyril Lavier
Hi. Now that my exclude rule works perfectly (thank you guys), I just begin to see a problem. Backups are made on a LAN 100Mbit. But the actual speed of bacula's backup is about 22GB/hour, it's about 50Mbit/second, so it's the half of the actual capacity of the network. Now the problem is

[Bacula-users] (no subject)

2010-01-26 Thread fadwa lahrach
Hello All, AftAfter successful configuration and installation of Bacula, i wanted to start the bconsole but i always get this error: [r...@localhost bin]# ./bacula start Starting the Bacula Storage daemon Starting the Bacula File daemon Starting the Bacula Director daemon [r...@localhost

Re: [Bacula-users] (no subject)

2010-01-26 Thread Cyril Lavier
fadwa lahrach wrote: Hello All, AftAfter successful configuration and installation of Bacula, i wanted to start the bconsole but i always get this error: [r...@localhost bin]# ./bacula start Starting the Bacula Storage daemon Starting the Bacula File daemon Starting the Bacula Director

[Bacula-users] Rif: How it optimize the transfer speed.

2010-01-26 Thread Ferdinando Pasqualetti
Hello Cyril, did you try using compression? Compression is done at client level, so, if you have CPU power, you could get higher throughput. In my eperience it is very hard to obtain a throughput higher than 50% of nominal capacity of the wire.

Re: [Bacula-users] Encryption errors

2010-01-26 Thread Conor O'Callaghan
Sorry by master I meant the bacula director, when I look at the files there, they seem encrypted, I can see other files from systems which don't use PKI. Right, now that I do a stop/start on the bacula-fd ( client ) rather than a restart, I see the error when trying to recover the file, which is

Re: [Bacula-users] How it optimize the transfer speed.

2010-01-26 Thread Frédéric Passerin
Le mardi 26 janvier 2010 09:03:38, Cyril Lavier a écrit : Hi. Hello Cyril. Now that my exclude rule works perfectly (thank you guys), I just begin to see a problem. Backups are made on a LAN 100Mbit. Mine are made in the same way. I'm actually deploying Bacula in my enterprise and my

Re: [Bacula-users] How it optimize the transfer speed.

2010-01-26 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, as a relative bacula newbie myself I have a couple of suggestions. On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Cyril Lavier wrote: Now that my exclude rule works perfectly (thank you guys), I just begin to see a problem. Backups are made on a LAN 100Mbit. But the actual speed of bacula's backup is about

Re: [Bacula-users] Run Before Job parameter

2010-01-26 Thread Personal Técnico
Hi, I have modified my check-client script as following: #! /bin/bash jobClient=$1 if ( echo "sta client=${jobClient}" | bconsole | grep -v -q "Failed to connect to Client" ); then exit 0 else exit 1 fi With this script, if client is on, backup runs with no problem, but if client is off,

[Bacula-users] bconsole cannot connect director

2010-01-26 Thread le dahut
Hello, I'm using bacula 3.0.3 on Ubuntu Hardy and I have a strange problem. I cannot connect bacula-dir with bconsole. * bconsole and director passwords are the same * bacula-dir has a new catalog * port 9101 is listening when I execute 'bacula-dir -d 999 -v -f' and 'bconsole -d 999' I get :

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 5.0.0: Begin pruning Jobs older than 40 years 4 days...

2010-01-26 Thread Dan Langille
Dan Langille wrote: mail...@securitylabs.it wrote: Hello, I've upgraded one of my Bacula 3.0.3 to 5.0.0. All seems ok, there is only one thing I'm unsure about: at the end of every job now I have a line like this: 25-Jan 17:24 tramezzone-dir JobId 718: Begin pruning Jobs older than 40

Re: [Bacula-users] (no subject)

2010-01-26 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/26/10 03:54, fadwa lahrach wrote: Hello All, AftAfter successful configuration and installation of Bacula, i wanted to start the bconsole but i always get this error: [r...@localhost bin]# ./bacula start Starting the Bacula Storage daemon Starting the Bacula File daemon Starting the

Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: How it optimize the transfer speed.

2010-01-26 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/26/10 04:24, Ferdinando Pasqualetti wrote: Hello Cyril, did you try using compression? Compression is done at client level, so, if you have CPU power, you could get higher throughput. In my eperience it is very hard to obtain a throughput higher than 50% of nominal capacity of the wire.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 5.0.0: Begin pruning Jobs older than 40 years 4 days...

2010-01-26 Thread Dan Langille
On Tue, January 26, 2010 7:09 am, Dan Langille wrote: Dan Langille wrote: mail...@securitylabs.it wrote: Hello, I've upgraded one of my Bacula 3.0.3 to 5.0.0. All seems ok, there is only one thing I'm unsure about: at the end of every job now I have a line like this: 25-Jan 17:24

Re: [Bacula-users] Bat 5.0.0 not showing Console

2010-01-26 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
* Richard Scobie schrieb am 26.01.10 um 03:54 Uhr: Have just updated all components to 5.0.0 and a remote bat connection does not display the console window - it just stays on the last selected page. When starting bat, it just goes up with a blank page, but all other pages display

Re: [Bacula-users] Run Before Job parameter

2010-01-26 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/26/10 05:31, Personal Técnico wrote: Hi, I have modified my check-client script as following: #! /bin/bash jobClient=$1 if ( echo sta client=${jobClient} | bconsole | grep -v -q Failed to connect to Client ); then exit 0 else exit 1 fi With this script, if

Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: How it optimize the transfer speed.

2010-01-26 Thread Cyril Lavier
Phil Stracchino wrote: On 01/26/10 04:24, Ferdinando Pasqualetti wrote: Hello Cyril, did you try using compression? Compression is done at client level, so, if you have CPU power, you could get higher throughput. In my eperience it is very hard to obtain a throughput higher than 50% of

[Bacula-users] Trouble to recycle files

2010-01-26 Thread smartina
Hi at all, I've just subscribed on this ML because I've passed last month trying to get working a central backup server with bacula 3.0.3 on Centos 5.3. Now I'm able to backup a single FD on a file structure composed by a Full weekly backup (on Thursday) and incremental one from Fryday to

Re: [Bacula-users] (no subject)

2010-01-26 Thread Moray Henderson
From: fadwa lahrach [mailto:fadwa.lahr...@hotmail.fr] [r...@localhost bin]# ./bconsole Connecting to Director localhost:9101 bconsole JobId 0: Fatal error: bsock.c:135 Unable to connect to Director daemon on localhost:9101. ERR=Connexion refusée Knowing that i use Mysql, and the 3 daemons are

Re: [Bacula-users] bconsole cannot connect director

2010-01-26 Thread le dahut
le dahut wrote : Hello, I'm using bacula 3.0.3 on Ubuntu Hardy and I have a strange problem. I cannot connect bacula-dir with bconsole. * bconsole and director passwords are the same * bacula-dir has a new catalog * port 9101 is listening when I execute 'bacula-dir -d 999 -v -f'

Re: [Bacula-users] Trouble to recycle files

2010-01-26 Thread Timo Neuvonen
Hi at all, I've just subscribed on this ML because I've passed last month trying to get working a central backup server with bacula 3.0.3 on Centos 5.3. Now I'm able to backup a single FD on a file structure composed by a Full weekly backup (on Thursday) and incremental one from Fryday to

Re: [Bacula-users] How it optimize the transfer speed.

2010-01-26 Thread mehma sarja
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Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: How it optimize the transfer speed.

2010-01-26 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/26/10 09:12, Cyril Lavier wrote: Phil Stracchino wrote: Cyril, I would look at the load on all the machines involved, particularly the machine running the catalog and Director. You also did not specify what you're backing up to. I'm backing up a big amount of small files (yes,

Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: How it optimize the transfer speed.

2010-01-26 Thread Cyril Lavier
Phil Stracchino wrote: On 01/26/10 09:12, Cyril Lavier wrote: Phil Stracchino wrote: Cyril, I would look at the load on all the machines involved, particularly the machine running the catalog and Director. You also did not specify what you're backing up to. I'm

Re: [Bacula-users] Trouble to recycle files

2010-01-26 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/26/10 06:54, smart...@noc.skylogicnet.com wrote: Hi at all, I've just subscribed on this ML because I've passed last month trying to get working a central backup server with bacula 3.0.3 on Centos 5.3. Now I'm able to backup a single FD on a file structure composed by a Full weekly

[Bacula-users] Anyone successfully set up bacula server on Windows?

2010-01-26 Thread Thomas Schweikle
Hi! I have set up bacula server on windows. But: there is an error reported constantly: 26-Jan 05:19 bacula-dir ERROR TERMINATION Please correct configuration file: C:\Bacula\bacula-dir.conf 26-Jan 05:31 bacula-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: Could not open Catalog MyCatalog, database baculabd.

Re: [Bacula-users] Anyone successfully set up bacula server on Windows?

2010-01-26 Thread Piotr Gbyliczek
Hi First thing I would check, is if it wouldn't run correctly if you will correct wrong database name in bacula config : you have there baculabd instead baculadb. -- Piotr Gbyliczek ForLinux Ltd, Innovation House, Cafferata Way Beacon Hill Business Park, Newark, Notts, NG24 2TN Tel: 0845

Re: [Bacula-users] Trouble to recycle files

2010-01-26 Thread smartina
At first, the volume retention of two days for full backups looks like a very dangerous mistake. Maybe it should be 2 weeks? If this was for some testing, it's ok. But remember to fix this before you expect the system really works as it should... Yes, I'm doing just testing before

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula and mysql password security

2010-01-26 Thread Andy Lamb
Joseph and Dan, Thanks for your help. That's got me started and it was mainly how to add the arguments to the scripts that I was not fully sure about. Now I must read up on securing mysql. I would really appreciate it if someone could look over the bacula-dir.conf file below which I took from the

Re: [Bacula-users] How it optimize the transfer speed.

2010-01-26 Thread John Stoffel
I'm not going to repeat the suggestions others have made, but why don't you just upgrade your ethernet to Gigabit speed? It's cheap to do generally. Setting up a point to point backup connection that runs at Gigabit speed shouldn't be too expensive. Or the other option would be to add

[Bacula-users] Backing up a directory tree but not the files?

2010-01-26 Thread Daniel
I have the following situation: I am backing up a Windows hard disk (let's call it R: for remote)... it is NOT the C: drive on the remote host. I wish to back up nearly everything on it EXCEPT for one directory: R:/strangedir Under R:/strangedir I *ONLY* want to keep the directory tree

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up a directory tree but not the files?

2010-01-26 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Daniel, On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:05:46AM -0600, Daniel wrote: I have the following situation: I am backing up a Windows hard disk (let's call it R: for remote)... it is NOT the C: drive on the remote host. I wish to back up nearly everything on it EXCEPT for one directory:

Re: [Bacula-users] Bat 5.0.0 not showing Console

2010-01-26 Thread Richard Scobie
Marc Schiffbauer wrote: Yes, I saw this here, too. Then on another startup of bat, it worked properly. So now, If that happens, I close bat and start it again until the console is there... Using QT4.6.1 here. Still looking into it here. One machine with qt-4.5.3-9.fc11.i586 never shows

Re: [Bacula-users] Run Before Job parameter

2010-01-26 Thread Martin Simmons
if ( echo sta client=${jobClient} | bconsole | grep -v -q Failed to connect to Client ); then You can't do it with grep -v because it will match all other lines. You need to use grep without -v and then swap the exit 0 and exit 1 cases. __Martin

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up a directory tree but not the files?

2010-01-26 Thread Daniel
Tino, Thanks for your idea, however I'd rather not depend on generating a tree file before backing up the directory structure - first off the directory structure is very complex and changes frequently - I'm not sure if we could properly synchronize the tree generation with the backup of the

Re: [Bacula-users] Incr/Diff upgrading to Full even after doing a Full?

2010-01-26 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 25.01.2010 22:51, Steve Costaras wrote: I am running into a problem here. I have had to purge a previous full backup for a client machine. I then manually ran a full backup from the console.After that was completed I then tried to manually run an incremental (as the full

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Project Version 5.0.0 released to Source Forge

2010-01-26 Thread Peter Allgeyer
Hi Kern! Am Montag, den 25.01.2010, 16:35 +0100 schrieb Kern Sibbald: I wasn't aware that Source Forge prohibited Open Source software from being distributed in a number of countries such as yours. It suprises me and in my opinion is not a good thing, but then Source Forge is a US entity

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up a directory tree but not the files?

2010-01-26 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 26.01.2010 18:05, Daniel wrote: I have the following situation: I am backing up a Windows hard disk (let's call it R: for remote)... it is NOT the C: drive on the remote host. I wish to back up nearly everything on it EXCEPT for one directory: R:/strangedir Under R:/strangedir I *ONLY*

Re: [Bacula-users] Anyone successfully set up bacula server on Windows?

2010-01-26 Thread Thomas Schweikle
On 26.01.2010 17:05, Piotr Gbyliczek wrote: Hi First thing I would check, is if it wouldn't run correctly if you will correct wrong database name in bacula config : you have there baculabd instead baculadb. OK. Thanks! I've overlooked this detail ... :-( I've corrected it, now it

Re: [Bacula-users] Anyone successfully set up bacula server on Windows?

2010-01-26 Thread Thomas Schweikle
On 26.01.2010 20:11, Bruno Friedmann wrote: Dear Thomas, It's quite simple to resolve as all is in the log. The default scripts and configs which reference the catalog database look for a resource in config called MyCatalog yours is call MySQL so you have two choice. Renaming your catalog

Re: [Bacula-users] Backing up a directory tree but not the files?

2010-01-26 Thread Daniel
Arno, On 26 Jan, 2010, at 15:21 , Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, 26.01.2010 18:05, Daniel wrote: I have the following situation: I am backing up a Windows hard disk (let's call it R: for remote)... it is NOT the C: drive on the remote host. I wish to back up nearly everything on it EXCEPT for

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula and mysql password security

2010-01-26 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I would really appreciate it if someone could look over the bacula-dir.conf file below which I took from the manual and modified. The manual example is in chapter 25 'Automated Disk Backup' however when I used this bacula returned an error about no default pool being defined. I therefore added

Re: [Bacula-users] disk-changer

2010-01-26 Thread Renato Arruda
Hi, Another question... Is anyone using a virtual disk-changer (disk-changer preferably, since vchanger doesnt seem to compile on RHES4) out there in production with success? Anyone willing to share their working configuration? Any help would be most certainly appreciated :) Regards, Renato

[Bacula-users] Feature Request - directory permissions

2010-01-26 Thread Mark Nienberg
I am not subscribed to the devel list, so if someone would forward this I would appreciate it. The website says to submit it to both the users and devel lists. Thanks. Item 1: Restore proper ownership and permissions to created directories Origin: Mark Nienberg Date: 26 January 2010

Re: [Bacula-users] Incr/Diff upgrading to Full even after doing a Full?

2010-01-26 Thread Steve Costaras
On 01/26/2010 14:50, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, 25.01.2010 22:51, Steve Costaras wrote: I am running into a problem here. I have had to purge a previous full backup for a client machine. I then manually ran a full backup from the console.After that was completed I then tried to

Re: [Bacula-users] Incr/Diff upgrading to Full even after doing a Full?

2010-01-26 Thread Dan Langille
Steve Costaras wrote: On 01/26/2010 14:50, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, 25.01.2010 22:51, Steve Costaras wrote: I am running into a problem here. I have had to purge a previous full backup for a client machine. I then manually ran a full backup from the console.After that was

[Bacula-users] Bacula via NATed connection and Bacula docs

2010-01-26 Thread Dirk H. Schulz
I am running a bacula director (and storage daemon) on a machine in a private IP net. One of the clients is located in a public IP net (let's call it external-fd). The connection from server-dir/server-sd to external fd is NATed. Like described on the bacula.org website in dealing with