Re: [Bacula-users] Restore to Windows Client

2011-06-08 Thread Jeremy Maes
Op 8/06/2011 6:12, Christian Tardif schreef: Hi all, I've configured the Windows client as per the documentation found on the Internet. The only intended use for this client is for restore purposes, as the data backed up comes from the Linux box, which gets the Windows data from rsync.

[Bacula-users] Second Instance of Bacula Direcktor

2011-06-08 Thread Joris Heinrich
Hello list, in our environment, we have on-site and off-site backups running. Now we are planning to migrate all off-site backups to an second instance of bacula-director. It is possible to install an second director on the same machine? Can this instance use the same mysql-database, or i have

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Director Control Protocol

2011-06-08 Thread Martin Simmons
On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 16:53:24 -0700 (PDT), Tim Gustafson said: I was asking if there was any documentation on the protocol that bconsole uses to talk to the director daemon. It would appear that the answer is no. Thanks anyhow! The protocol is very minimal -- it just sends what the user

Re: [Bacula-users] Second Instance of Bacula Direcktor

2011-06-08 Thread Martin Simmons
On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:02:47 +0200, Joris Heinrich said: It is possible to install an second director on the same machine? Yes -- use a different bacula-dir.conf containing a different port number. Can this instance use the

Re: [Bacula-users] Second Instance of Bacula Direcktor

2011-06-08 Thread Joris Heinrich
Hello Martin, thanks for your help... i will try this.. Best regards JHN Am 08.06.11 13:57, schrieb Martin Simmons: On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:02:47 +0200, Joris Heinrich said: It is possible to install an second director on the same machine? Yes -- use a different bacula-dir.conf containing a

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: Director Control Protocol

2011-06-08 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 20110608 om 02:11 schreef Tim Gustafson: http://bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/developers/developers/Protocol_Used_Between_Direc.html#SECTION0065 That appears to be the protocol between the director and the file daemon, not bconsole. FWIW there is bacula developers

Re: [Bacula-users] Director Control Protocol

2011-06-08 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 07/06/2011 18:35, Tim Gustafson ha scritto: Hi, I was wondering if there is any documentation anywhere on the protocol that bconsole uses to connect to the director and issue commands? I've built a web interface to the Bacula configuration files, and I would like to add the ability to

[Bacula-users] Is Bacula MAID Aware?

2011-06-08 Thread Avarca, Anthony
I'm look to purchase a new storage system for our backups. Does bacula support MAID storage systems? Is anyone currently using MAID configured systems with Bacula? MAID = A storage system comprising an arrayhttp://snia.org/education/dictionary/a#array of disk drives that are powered down

[Bacula-users] Database performance issues

2011-06-08 Thread Enrico van Goor
Hi All, We have a setup with bacula-dir/MySQL and bacula-sd (2 servers) and a SAN connected via fiber. We are running bacula with about 250 jobs a day. The table File is about 500M records with a size of about 100G. We use batch insert. All tables are MyISAM. Currently we are experiencing

Re: [Bacula-users] Director Control Protocol

2011-06-08 Thread Sean Clark
On 06/07/2011 05:52 PM, Tim Gustafson wrote: Can't you spawn bconsole from the web application? That is what most of the other web apps do. [...] I'm hoping that there might be a protocol that cuts out all the screen parsing and instead lets me just do something like: 1. Connect to the

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

2011-06-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 06/08/11 08:06, Enrico van Goor wrote: Hi All, We have a setup with bacula-dir/MySQL and bacula-sd (2 servers) and a SAN connected via fiber. We are running bacula with about 250 jobs a day. The table File is about 500M records with a size of about 100G. We use batch insert. All tables

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

2011-06-08 Thread Jérôme Blion
On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:50:58 -0400, Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net wrote: The very first thing I would do would be upgrade to MySQL 5.5.[current] (5.5.13, right now) if you're not already using 5.5, making sure it's properly configured (hint: look at the new configuration directive

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

2011-06-08 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 08 Jun 2011, Phil Stracchino wrote: The very first thing I would do would be upgrade to MySQL 5.5.[current] (5.5.13, right now) if you're not already using 5.5, making sure it's properly configured (hint: look at the new configuration directive innodb_buffer_pool_instances),

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

2011-06-08 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 08/06/2011 18:16, Gavin McCullagh a écrit : Hi, On Wed, 08 Jun 2011, Phil Stracchino wrote: The very first thing I would do would be upgrade to MySQL 5.5.[current] (5.5.13, right now) if you're not already using 5.5, making sure it's properly configured (hint: look at the new

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

2011-06-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 06/08/11 11:44, Jérôme Blion wrote: On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:50:58 -0400, Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net wrote: The very first thing I would do would be upgrade to MySQL 5.5.[current] (5.5.13, right now) if you're not already using 5.5, making sure it's properly configured (hint: look

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

2011-06-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 06/08/11 12:16, Gavin McCullagh wrote: For simplicity of operation and patching, we're using the Ubuntu archive packages which are MySQL 5.1.41. I realise that's quite old now. There are one or two restores in particular which take a long time (like 30 minutes) to build the restore tree.

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

2011-06-08 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 08 Jun 2011, Jérôme Blion wrote: Assuming that version of MySQL, do you know if the case for InnoDB vs MyISAM is still as cut and dry? Would we likely see substantial performance improvements? You will see performance improvements if you have lot of concurrents updates.

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

2011-06-08 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Wed, 08 Jun 2011, Jérôme Blion wrote: You will see performance improvements if you have lot of concurrents updates. I don't imagine concurrent updates are really an issue for us. Our backups run fast enough generally for our purposes . I daresay they could be faster, but they're not

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

2011-06-08 Thread Jérôme Blion
Le 08/06/2011 19:16, Gavin McCullagh a écrit : On Wed, 08 Jun 2011, Jérôme Blion wrote: You will see performance improvements if you have lot of concurrents updates. I don't imagine concurrent updates are really an issue for us. Our backups run fast enough generally for our purposes . I

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

2011-06-08 Thread Masopust, Christian
There are a few options to solve this - use innodb for the tables in MySQL - migrate to PostgreSQL anybody already did a successfull migration from MySQL to PostgreSQL? and willing to share a procedure? is it really possible to migrate the complete catalog? thanks, christian

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

2011-06-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 06/08/11 13:45, Jérôme Blion wrote: I had such issues with BAT... With Webacula, I am not able to reproduce this behaviour. Very interesting. Perhaps a bad query which does not use an index. Definitely worth study. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607,

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

2011-06-08 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Wed, 08 Jun 2011, Jérôme Blion wrote: What tool do you use to perform restore ? bconsole: restore 5 (Select the most recent backup for a client) choose host then building directory tree takes ages. I had such issues with BAT... With Webacula, I am not able

Re: [Bacula-users] Is Bacula MAID Aware?

2011-06-08 Thread Alan Brown
On 08/06/11 15:27, Avarca, Anthony wrote: I'm look to purchase a new storage system for our backups. Does bacula support MAID storage systems? Is anyone currently using MAID configured systems with Bacula? MAID is essentially transparent to bacula or the OS. If the drives are spun down they

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore to Windows Client

2011-06-08 Thread Christian Tardif
On 08/06/2011 00:57, James Harper wrote: If the files were backed up from C:\dir1\dir2\dir3, and you tell bacula to restore to C:\tmp\bacula-restores, it will restore to C:\tmp\bacula-restores\c\dir1\dir2\dir3. You can use a regexwhere to remove the C:\dir1\dir2\dir3 prefix and replace it with a

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore to Windows Client

2011-06-08 Thread Christian Tardif
On 08/06/2011 04:27, Jeremy Maes wrote: Op 8/06/2011 6:12, Christian Tardif schreef: Hi all, I've configured the Windows client as per the documentation found on the Internet. The only intended use for this client is for restore purposes, as the data backed up comes from the Linux box, which

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore to Windows Client

2011-06-08 Thread Christian Tardif
On 08/06/2011 10:42, Bob Hetzel wrote: Certain versions prior to the current 5.0.3 client had an issue where they marked the directories as hidden. You could cd into them from a command prompt but you couldn't see them from explorer or a 'dir' command.

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore to Windows Client

2011-06-08 Thread James Harper
-Original Message- From: Christian Tardif [mailto:christian.tar...@servinfo.ca] Sent: Thursday, 9 June 2011 10:17 Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Restore to Windows Client On 08/06/2011 00:57, James Harper wrote: If the files were

Re: [Bacula-users] Restore to Windows Client

2011-06-08 Thread Christian Tardif
On 08/06/2011 21:06, James Harper wrote: Just to put that to bed, can you do 'status client' in bconsole for the windows client and confirm that the windows client thinks it ran the restore, just in case bat didn't do what you asked it to? Finally found out. In the whole bunch of tests I did

[Bacula-users] Encryption times [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-06-08 Thread Alan Langley
UNCLASSIFIED Hi Everybody, I've just setup encryption on our bacula backup using the explaination in chapter 39 of the Bacula manual - it has blown out our backup time from overnight to 3 days ? Is this normal ? Is there any way to get the time down? It is only backing up 1.5Tb onto a tape