Re: [Bacula-users] Encrypting Data on Tape

2012-01-11 Thread Jeremy Maes
Op 11/01/2012 7:38, Thomas Mueller schreef: Am Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:12:26 -0500 schrieb Craig Van Tassle: I'm sorry if this has been asked before. I'm running a Scalar 50 with HP LTO-4 Drives. I want to encrypt the data that is put on the tape, We already have encryption going between the

Re: [Bacula-users] differential backups with xfs/x86-64?

2012-01-11 Thread IEM - network operating center (IOhannes m zmoelnig)
On 2012-01-10 14:19, Bruno Friedmann wrote: First of all, I'm using also xfs on data source and/or backup media. There's no special trouble on them to get incremental/differential backup. thanks for your detailed answer. i'm glad to hear that no troubles are to be expected in general. so not

Re: [Bacula-users] differential backups with xfs/x86-64?

2012-01-11 Thread Martin Simmons
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:02:00 +0100, IEM said: On 2012-01-10 14:19, Bruno Friedmann wrote: If the filesystem xfs is not mounted with the noatime option, check to have noatime option in the bacula job. so it will not change each file during the full backup, then creating a new fool

Re: [Bacula-users] differential backups with xfs/x86-64?

2012-01-11 Thread IEM - network operating center (IOhannes m zmoelnig)
On 2012-01-11 12:10, Martin Simmons wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:02:00 +0100, IEM said: On 2012-01-10 14:19, Bruno Friedmann wrote: If the filesystem xfs is not mounted with the noatime option, check to have noatime option in the bacula job. so it will not change each file during the

[Bacula-users] Bacula database is getting too long

2012-01-11 Thread Honia A
Hi all, I have been using Bacula to backup several servers. Recently, the backupcatalog job takes so long to finish. I'm pretty sure it's related to the size of bacula.sql file. Code:ls root@servername:/var/lib/bacula# ls -l -rw--- 1 bacula bacula 208285783 2012-01-10 05:23

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula database is getting too long

2012-01-11 Thread Ben Walton
Excerpts from Honia A's message of Wed Jan 11 13:11:45 -0500 2012: I have been handed this server by the previous IT guy and don't have the info required to access the MySQL database. The mysql password for the account bacula uses should be available to you in the Catalog stanza of the

Re: [Bacula-users] differential backups with xfs/x86-64?

2012-01-11 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
2012/1/11 IEM - network operating center (IOhannes m zmoelnig) n...@iem.at alas. btw, is there a way to estimate the next backup? estimate seems to only estimate the fileset (that is: the full set) Did you try a level option of estimate command? * estimate job=MyJob level=Incremental It is

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula database is getting too long

2012-01-11 Thread Honia A
Hi Ben, I found bacula mysql password in bacula-dir.conf file but I think it's encrypted. So can't tell what the password is... Thanks for the instruction, I reset MySQL root password. Now, would you pelase let me know how I can retrieve bacula db password and also how to compact the size

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula database is getting too long

2012-01-11 Thread Honia A
[CODE] root@servername:/etc/init.d# du -sh /var/lib/mysql/bacula/ 814M/var/lib/mysql/bacula/ [/CODE] I just reset MySQL root password but can't really see user bacula's db password in bacula-dir.conf as it appears to be encrypted. I just followed the instruction found here:

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula database is getting too long

2012-01-11 Thread Steve Thompson
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Honia A wrote: But when I checked the size of the database it's still really large: root@servername:/var/lib/bacula# ls -l -rw--- 1 bacula bacula 208285783 2012-01-10 05:23 bacula.sql Depending on what you are backing up, that is not really all that big. Mine is

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula database is getting too long

2012-01-11 Thread Honia A
I'm backing up a handful number of Unix boxes, they all get backed up very quickly but we can't access them due to the BackupCatalog job being very slow. When I read online, I see people said it's because of the database size getting larger and larger. I cancel the backup catalog job and all

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula database is getting too long

2012-01-11 Thread John Drescher
2012/1/11 Honia A honia2...@hotmail.com: I'm backing up a handful number of Unix boxes, they all get backed up very quickly but we can't access them due to the BackupCatalog job being very slow. When I read online, I see people said it's because of the database size getting larger and larger.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula database is getting too long

2012-01-11 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:45 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/1/11 Honia A honia2...@hotmail.com: I'm backing up a handful number of Unix boxes, they all get backed up very quickly but we can't access them due to the BackupCatalog job being very slow. When I read online, I

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula database is getting too long

2012-01-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/11/12 14:21, Honia A wrote: I'm backing up a handful number of Unix boxes, they all get backed up very quickly but we can't access them due to the BackupCatalog job being very slow. When I read online, I see people said it's because of the database size getting larger and larger. 200MB