[Bacula-users] How to get this autochanger work with bacula

2011-01-20 Thread harryl
Thanks. But after I installed mtx for my Linux server and try label, it gave me different error: *label Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog Using Catalog MyCatalog Automatically selected Storage: LTO-2 Connecting to Storage daemon LTO-2 at cole:9103 ... Enter new Volume name: testvol

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data and speed

2011-01-20 Thread Jose Antonio Rodriguez Martin
The files are copied to tape files created by the bacula. Which are compressed: Filset: Include {Options {Signature = MD5; compression = GZIP5} . What we have are two sets of backup: 1.-copied to hard disk files Bacula 2.-these same files copy them to tape. To confirm you have

Re: [Bacula-users] Software compression: None

2011-01-20 Thread Martin Simmons
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:47:32 -0500 (EST), Steve Thompson said: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Dan Langille wrote: On 1/18/2011 4:16 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: Whether software compression happens or not seems to be random. Anyone know why this is happening? There was a discussion this week

Re: [Bacula-users] Trouble compiling bacula 5.0.3 under Solaris 10

2011-01-20 Thread Martin Simmons
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:16:47 -0800, Kenneth Garges said: Thanks for your tips. Unfortunately still no joy. Switched to the latest Sun Studio compiler instead of gcc. I made my config script close to yours changing only a couple paths. #! /bin/sh # Script from Gary Schmidt for

Re: [Bacula-users] fstype=bind being ignored

2011-01-20 Thread Martin Simmons
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:48:13 +0100, Frank Altpeter said: After a short discussion on the channel, I was advised to create a post here to see if there's help for that or if it's really a bug. I've got a machine that is using bind mounts. Despite the fact that the fileset definition is

Re: [Bacula-users] SD Losing Track of Pool

2011-01-20 Thread Martin Simmons
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:48:56 -0700, Peter Zenge said: A couple days ago somebody made a comment that using pool overrides in a schedule was deprecated. I've been using them for years, but I've been seeing a strange problem recently that I'm thinking might be related. I'm running 5.0.2 on

Re: [Bacula-users] Software compression: None

2011-01-20 Thread Steve Thompson
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Martin Simmons wrote: It reports None if there were no files in the backup or if the compression saved less than 0.5%, so it doesn't necessarily mean that it wasn't attempted. I understand that, but I have several file sets that, for a full backup level, sometimes give in

Re: [Bacula-users] How to get this autochanger work with bacula

2011-01-20 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/20/2011 3:09 AM, harryl wrote: Thanks. But after I installed mtx for my Linux server and try label, it gave me different error: Getting the autochanger wroking can be a long task. I documented my steps. Start with: http://www.freebsddiary.org/tape-library.php And then perhaps:

Re: [Bacula-users] Software compression: None

2011-01-20 Thread Steve Thompson
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Dan Langille wrote: Time for new eyes. Post the job emails. One full backup completed. Here are the relevant definitions: Job { Name = bear_data15 JobDefs = defjob Pool = Pool_bear_data15 Write Bootstrap = /var/lib/bacula/bear_data15.bsr Client = bear-fd

Re: [Bacula-users] Problem with duplicate files in catalog

2011-01-20 Thread Mark Round
Hi all, I have now tried this on a network client running the same version of Bacula (5.0.2), and I still get this problem. However, if I compare this to a local job (e.g. the Bacula server is backing itself up), it doesn't happen: files only appear once in the catalog. I thought it might be

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-3 tape Not Compressing data and speed

2011-01-20 Thread John Drescher
The files are copied to tape files created by the bacula. Which are compressed: So then what you are seeing is the expected result. Remember you generally do not get good compression ratios on a second (or subsequent) compression of a data set. After the first pass most of the redundancy has

[Bacula-users] Very low performance with compression and encryption !

2011-01-20 Thread Hugo Letemplier
Hi, I am running bacula 5.0.3 on CentOS 5.6. When I run a simple Job I can have rates between 20 or 40 MB/s over a Gigabyte network but when I am running this job with client encryption and compression everything become slow below 5 MB/s and sometimes under 500 KB/s. Generally I test with a

Re: [Bacula-users] Software compression: None

2011-01-20 Thread Martin Simmons
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:53:54 -0500 (EST), Steve Thompson said: FileSet { Name = bear_data15 Include { Options { compression = GZIP signature = MD5 sparse = yes noatime = yes } Options { exclude = yes wilddir = */.NetBin

Re: [Bacula-users] SD Losing Track of Pool

2011-01-20 Thread Peter Zenge
From: Martin Simmons [mailto:mar...@lispworks.com] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 4:28 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] SD Losing Track of Pool On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:48:56 -0700, Peter Zenge said: A couple days ago somebody made a comment that

Re: [Bacula-users] Software compression: None

2011-01-20 Thread Steve Thompson
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Martin Simmons wrote: This will never compress -- the default Options clause needs to the last one, but you have it as the first one. Yes, of course you are correct; thank you. And I've even read that in the documentation. And moving the default Options clause to the end

[Bacula-users] Fwd: Very low performance with compression and encryption !

2011-01-20 Thread John Drescher
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sean Clark smcl...@tamu.edu Date: Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:41 AM Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Very low performance with compression and encryption ! To: John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com On 01/20/2011 09:00 AM, John Drescher wrote: This is normal. If

Re: [Bacula-users] Very low performance with compression and encryption !

2011-01-20 Thread John Drescher
This is normal. If you want fast compression do not use software compression and use a tape drive with HW compression like LTO drives. John Not really an option for file/disk devices though. I've been tempted to experiment with BTRFS using LZO or standard zlib compression for storing the

Re: [Bacula-users] Very low performance with compression and encryption !

2011-01-20 Thread Sean Clark
On 01/20/2011 10:01 AM, John Drescher wrote: I've been tempted to experiment with BTRFS using LZO or standard zlib compression for storing the volumes and see how the performance compares to having bacula-fd do the compression before sending - I have a suspicion the former might be better..

Re: [Bacula-users] Very low performance with compression and encryption !

2011-01-20 Thread Paul Mather
On Jan 20, 2011, at 11:01 AM, John Drescher wrote: This is normal. If you want fast compression do not use software compression and use a tape drive with HW compression like LTO drives. John Not really an option for file/disk devices though. I've been tempted to experiment with BTRFS

Re: [Bacula-users] Very low performance with compression and encryption !

2011-01-20 Thread Hugo Letemplier
2011/1/20 Paul Mather p...@gromit.dlib.vt.edu: On Jan 20, 2011, at 11:01 AM, John Drescher wrote: This is normal. If you want fast compression do not use software compression and use a tape drive with HW compression like LTO drives. John Not really an option for file/disk devices though.

Re: [Bacula-users] Software compression: None

2011-01-20 Thread Dan Langille
On Thu, January 20, 2011 10:35 am, Steve Thompson wrote: On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Martin Simmons wrote: This will never compress -- the default Options clause needs to the last one, but you have it as the first one. Yes, of course you are correct; thank you. And I've even read that in the

Re: [Bacula-users] Very low performance with compression and encryption !

2011-01-20 Thread Dan Langille
On Thu, January 20, 2011 12:28 pm, Silver Salonen wrote: On Thursday 20 January 2011 19:02:33 Paul Mather wrote: On Jan 20, 2011, at 11:01 AM, John Drescher wrote: This is normal. If you want fast compression do not use software compression and use a tape drive with HW compression like LTO

Re: [Bacula-users] SD Losing Track of Pool

2011-01-20 Thread Martin Simmons
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:18:35 -0700, Peter Zenge said: Admittedly I confused the issue by posting an example with two Pools involved. Even in that example though, there were jobs using the same pool as the mounted volume, and they wouldn't run until the 2 current jobs were done (which

Re: [Bacula-users] SD Losing Track of Pool

2011-01-20 Thread Steve Ellis
On 1/20/2011 7:18 AM, Peter Zenge wrote: Second, in the Device Status section at the bottom, the pool of LF-F- 0239 is listed as *unknown*; similarly, under Jobs waiting to reserve a drive, each job wants the correct pool, but the current pool is listed as . Admittedly I confused the

Re: [Bacula-users] Software compression: None

2011-01-20 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/20/2011 12:35 PM, Dan Langille wrote: On Thu, January 20, 2011 10:35 am, Steve Thompson wrote: On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Martin Simmons wrote: This will never compress -- the default Options clause needs to the last one, but you have it as

Re: [Bacula-users] SD Losing Track of Pool

2011-01-20 Thread Peter Zenge
-Original Message- From: Steve Ellis [mailto:el...@brouhaha.com] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 10:39 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] SD Losing Track of Pool On 1/20/2011 7:18 AM, Peter Zenge wrote: Second, in the Device Status section at

Re: [Bacula-users] SD Losing Track of Pool

2011-01-20 Thread Peter Zenge
-Original Message- From: Martin Simmons [mailto:mar...@lispworks.com] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 10:47 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] SD Losing Track of Pool On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:18:35 -0700, Peter Zenge said: Admittedly I

Re: [Bacula-users] comparison network traffic amanada - bacula @restore

2011-01-20 Thread Chris Hoogendyk
On 1/19/11 8:31 PM, Mike Ruskai wrote: On 1/19/2011 7:47 PM, Juergen Zahrer wrote: Hi list, amanda passes the whole archive to the client even if only a few files are restored. that takes a very very long time for one small file in a big dump over 100 Mb. what about bacula? does bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Very low performance with compression and encryption !

2011-01-20 Thread Paul Mather
On Jan 20, 2011, at 12:44 PM, Dan Langille wrote: On Thu, January 20, 2011 12:28 pm, Silver Salonen wrote: On Thursday 20 January 2011 19:02:33 Paul Mather wrote: On Jan 20, 2011, at 11:01 AM, John Drescher wrote: This is normal. If you want fast compression do not use software

[Bacula-users] Having problems with HP LTO-4 blocksize

2011-01-20 Thread Brian Debelius
Hi, I have a HP 1760 SAS LTO-4 drive with an LSI 9212 hba under Ubuntu 10.04, Bacula 5.0.3. The drive is set for variable blocks. I cannot get any block size above 64K to work. 64K works just fine. Any ideas? Btape says (using 256K block): btape: btape.c:1148 Wrote 1 blocks of 262044

[Bacula-users] How to get this autochanger work with bacula

2011-01-20 Thread harryl
John and Dan, I LOVE you guys!! Dan, your instructions are killers. Finally got my bacula working with the autoloader. Now its time to learn how to manage tapes and jobs. Any sites or information I can get from you guys? Harry

Re: [Bacula-users] Trouble compiling bacula 5.0.3 under Solaris 10

2011-01-20 Thread Kenneth Garges
Bingo! Thanks for your sharp eyes on this one. After this fix it configured and made (with only a few compiler warnings). I'm celebrating by eating a chocolate chip cookie. I'd offer one to both of you if you were nearby. Instead I'll just encourage you to do something nice for yourself.

[Bacula-users] Autorename of tapes

2011-01-20 Thread Arunav Mandal
I have 30 tapes to rename in the order of LTO5-001 to LTO5-050. Is there any way to rename them automatically? The Barcode label is different so I can't use label barcodes. Arunav.

Re: [Bacula-users] Autorename of tapes

2011-01-20 Thread Dan Langille
On Thu, January 20, 2011 4:12 pm, Arunav Mandal wrote: I have 30 tapes to rename in the order of LTO5-001 to LTO5-050. Is there any way to rename them automatically? The Barcode label is different so I can't use label barcodes. The best way is write a script. This might have something for

Re: [Bacula-users] Autorename of tapes

2011-01-20 Thread Dan Langille
On Thu, January 20, 2011 4:12 pm, Arunav Mandal wrote: I have 30 tapes to rename in the order of LTO5-001 to LTO5-050. Is there any way to rename them automatically? The Barcode label is different so I can't use label barcodes. My previous past contained the wrong URL. Try this one instead:

[Bacula-users] help w/ tape errors

2011-01-20 Thread Jeremiah D. Jester
I periodically get tape error messages via email and from the bacula log files. Most of them look something like this... 19-Jan 08:59 bacula02-sd JobId 913: Error: block.c:1016 Read error on fd=8 at file:blk 0:0 on device Drive1 (/dev/nst0). ERR=Input/output error. 19-Jan 09:04 bacula02-sd

Re: [Bacula-users] help w/ tape errors

2011-01-20 Thread John Drescher
2011/1/20 Jeremiah D. Jester jj...@u.washington.edu: I periodically get tape error messages via email and from the bacula log files.  Most of them look something like this… 19-Jan 08:59 bacula02-sd JobId 913: Error: block.c:1016 Read error on fd=8 at file:blk 0:0 on device Drive1 (/dev/nst0).

Re: [Bacula-users] help w/ tape errors

2011-01-20 Thread Jeremiah D. Jester
This is the 2nd time these tapes have been written too since being new. So, there is a possibility one or two of them may have slipped through the cracks and didn't get written to. How do I find out which tape/s were affected? Jeremiah Jester Informatics Specialist Microbiology - Katze Lab

Re: [Bacula-users] Autorename of tapes

2011-01-20 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/20/2011 4:28 PM, Dan Langille wrote: On Thu, January 20, 2011 4:12 pm, Arunav Mandal wrote: I have 30 tapes to rename in the order of LTO5-001 to LTO5-050. Is there any way to rename them automatically? The Barcode label is different so I can't use label barcodes. My previous past

Re: [Bacula-users] Choice of DB for catalog

2011-01-20 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/17/2011 4:27 PM, Devin Reade wrote: --On Monday, January 17, 2011 10:50:39 AM -0500 Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: (In another thread) Even though you are doing migrate, this might help, because Migrate and Copy are so similar.

Re: [Bacula-users] Choice of DB for catalog

2011-01-20 Thread Devin Reade
--On Thursday, January 20, 2011 09:27:37 PM -0500 Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: On 1/17/2011 4:27 PM, Devin Reade wrote: Eh? Have I missed some important point about using MySQL for Bacula's catalog, or is this just the author's prejudices speaking? As the author of the above,

Re: [Bacula-users] Choice of DB for catalog

2011-01-20 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/20/2011 11:25 PM, Devin Reade wrote: --On Thursday, January 20, 2011 09:27:37 PM -0500 Dan Langille d...@langille.org wrote: On 1/17/2011 4:27 PM, Devin Reade wrote: Eh? Have I missed some important point about using MySQL for Bacula's