Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula Status + Bacula 5.2.0 release

2011-10-30 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 10/30/11 12:59, John Drescher wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net wrote: I just compared what the script was doing to the existing schema and made the necessary changes by hand. Wasn't a problem, and nothing non-obvious showed up. So you did

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup MySQL databases

2011-10-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
believe they're somewhat comparing apples to oranges. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater It's not the years

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup MySQL databases

2011-10-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
any of a number of causes. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup MySQL databases

2011-10-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
. (To be fair, if using all-InnoDB, you can use mysqldump --single-transaction to avoid locking any tables and still get a consistent dump. However, that doesn't speed mysqldump up any...) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala

Re: [Bacula-users] Backup MySQL databases

2011-10-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
-sized DBs. The main problem with it is that for sufficiently large databases, it fails because mysqldump just physically takes too long to complete the dump. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p

Re: [Bacula-users] How to write one job to two storage devices simultaneously

2011-10-24 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 10/24/11 11:05, Alan Brown wrote: Phil Stracchino wrote: The NAS will be VERY much faster than the tape drive. Are you sure about that? My LTO5s make 160Mb/s+ and I've yet to see a non-SSD NAS which can match them. Actually, someone else asked the same in email. So let me reword

Re: [Bacula-users] How to write one job to two storage devices simultaneously

2011-10-21 Thread Phil Stracchino
up your client faster. Caveat: The NAS and the tape drive MUST be controlled by the same storage daemon for this to work. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin

Re: [Bacula-users] Filling Database Table - very slow

2011-10-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
configs entirely. They are worthless. They were written back when a large machine was one with more than 32MB of RAM. If you want performance out of MySQL, learn to tune and configure it properly yourself. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala

Re: [Bacula-users] Filling Database Table - very slow

2011-10-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
important configuration settings for obtaining optimum InnoDB performance in MySQL 5.5. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater

Re: [Bacula-users] Optimized mysql settings for CentOS 6 64bit

2011-10-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
MySQL 5.1 five years after MySQL 6.0 ships... -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater It's not the years

Re: [Bacula-users] Optimized mysql settings for CentOS 6 64bit

2011-10-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
to leave my.cnf at the default values (we don't do many restores) and use the maximum amount of RAM for the fs buffer cache as needed? I'd look at performance with something like mysqltuner and tune it for best performance, just like any other MySQL use case. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2

Re: [Bacula-users] Optimized mysql settings for CentOS 6 64bit

2011-10-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
000. I'm reasonably certain this wasn't Bacula's fault. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater It's

Re: [Bacula-users] Optimized mysql settings for CentOS 6 64bit

2011-10-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
it is at present. I'd hoped it would be easier using Sun Studio, but if anything it was harder. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater

Re: [Bacula-users] Optimized mysql settings for CentOS 6 64bit

2011-10-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 10/05/11 15:54, Ben Walton wrote: What mysql are you building against? The included one? More to the point, which compiler was it built with? MySQL 5.5.8, Solaris 10 package from Oracle. Need to update that actually. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607

Re: [Bacula-users] Canceling a job on tape ? Rerun the job, Where does bacula will append the tape ?

2011-10-04 Thread Phil Stracchino
canceled jobs, but that's not always easy, because jobs may be interleaved on the tape, so it doesn't try. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL

Re: [Bacula-users] How to run one job at exact time?

2011-10-03 Thread Phil Stracchino
. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] How many active processes should Bacula spawn? Seeing over 400+

2011-09-22 Thread Phil Stracchino
of those other processes you have listed should have one process per CPU core. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater

Re: [Bacula-users] Perfomance improvement moving from mysql 5.0 to 5.1 or 5.5?

2011-08-28 Thread Phil Stracchino
, with 75% of total system RAM in the InnoDB buffer pool. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater It's

Re: [Bacula-users] Ghost jobs?

2011-08-24 Thread Phil Stracchino
inferring, is why it took the OP a while to realize there was a second Director running... -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free

Re: [Bacula-users] FileStorage strategy

2011-08-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
an admin job deletes the purged volumes once a week. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater It's

Re: [Bacula-users] failed:,database is full

2011-08-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
messages. Job completes, but fails at the end with this sequence of messages. Using sqlite. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL

Re: [Bacula-users] Getting back to the basics; Volumes, Pools, Reusability

2011-08-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
garages if you need more in one or the other. You may also set up a new garage when bigger buckets (larger tape capacity) become available and they require different handling. I just want to say that this analogy is made of pure win. :) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM

Re: [Bacula-users] May I use Bacula to check if someone is using my pc without my permission?

2011-08-04 Thread Phil Stracchino
. If you leave the machine around with an open console and no password, you have no expectation whatsoever of security. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl

Re: [Bacula-users] Performance

2011-07-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
in the man page. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] Other SMTP Client than bsmtp.

2011-07-19 Thread Phil Stracchino
to use mutt as the mailer. Example: mailcommand = /usr/bin/mutt -F /root/.muttrc-bacula -s \Storage alert\ %r -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker

Re: [Bacula-users] I would like to unsubscribe

2011-07-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users, mailto:bacula-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix

Re: [Bacula-users] Setting Priority

2011-07-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
Full. If this is what you want, then all you should need to do is turn off 'cancel duplicate jobs' and make sure that all applicable job concurrency settings are set high enough. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala

Re: [Bacula-users] Reliable Backups without Tapes?

2011-07-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
to it. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] Performance with many files

2011-07-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
, and that once this is accomplished, the entire MyISAM storage engine will probably be deprecated. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler

Re: [Bacula-users] Performance with many files

2011-07-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 07/06/11 10:41, Adrian Reyer wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 10:09:56AM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote: should I use for my tables? is MyISAM.[1] At this point, wherever possible, EVERYONE should be using InnoDB. I will, if the current backup ever finishes. For a start on MySQL 5.1 though

Re: [Bacula-users] Migrating form mysql to postgresql: Loading the database takes very long

2011-06-23 Thread Phil Stracchino
: Assume all out-of-the-box DB engine configurations, be it MySQL, PostgreSQL or whatever, are worthless. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL

Re: [Bacula-users] Migrating form mysql to postgresql: Loading the database takes very long

2011-06-21 Thread Phil Stracchino
symbolic dump back into any SQL DB than it took to dump it in the first place. Just for starters, dumping the DB does not alter any indexes, while when reloading it, all of the indexes need to get recreated and rebuilt. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355

Re: [Bacula-users] Database performance issues

2011-06-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
inaccurate to say that unless you *NEED* either merge tables or full-text indices, you should be using InnoDB. [1] Which is to say, not NDB Cluster -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org

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
. As Jérôme observed, if you're tied to 5.1, you should use the plugin InnoDB engine rather than the built-in InnoDB engine if at all possible. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance

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] Mistaken append of job to media

2011-06-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
in mind, though, that this does mean you will only ever be able to have one job running at once to that storage device. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl

Re: [Bacula-users] Mistaken append of job to media

2011-06-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 06/07/11 12:14, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: On 07/06/11, Phil Stracchino (ala...@metrocast.net) wrote: On 06/07/11 09:59, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: I've written job 329 after job 315 on the same tape (CLW112L4). See below Two questions: * can I wipe the data pertaining to job 329 off

Re: [Bacula-users] Mistaken append of job to media

2011-06-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
some tapes. Glad it came up, then. :) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater It's not the years, it's

Re: [Bacula-users] Mistaken append of job to media

2011-06-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 06/07/11 15:41, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: On 07/06/11, Rory Campbell-Lange (r...@campbell-lange.net) wrote: On 07/06/11, Phil Stracchino (ala...@metrocast.net) wrote: On 06/07/11 12:14, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: Does deleting the job remove the data (in this case the data for job 329

Re: [Bacula-users] Scheduling

2011-06-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
| aug | sep | oct | nov | dec | january | february | ... | december day = 1 | 2 | ... 31 date-time-spec = month-spec day-spec time-spec Likewise, the last day of the year is pretty much always Dec 31 -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458

Re: [Bacula-users] MySQL versus Postgres

2011-06-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
, but in practical terms you'll never notice the difference.) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater It's

Re: [Bacula-users] Fwd: diff between last backup and actual filesystem content

2011-05-31 Thread Phil Stracchino
another, simpler approach: Restore the entire damaged filesystem, with REPLACE set to 'only if newer'. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL

Re: [Bacula-users] diff between last backup and actual filesystem content

2011-05-31 Thread Phil Stracchino
the chance something mucked with a timestamp in an unexpected way. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater

Re: [Bacula-users] purging part of a tape?

2011-05-29 Thread Phil Stracchino
the good jobs on the volume to a new volume, then purge the original volume. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater

Re: [Bacula-users] Erase a disk volume ?

2011-05-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
/LabelOfTheVolume I want to keep the label in order to reuse the volume In Bacula 5.0.3, you can use Action On Purge = truncate, iirc. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about lost 'tapes'

2011-05-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
as a differential (a Full is not necessary). This will basically roll up all changes since the last Full, thus resetting the chain of incrementals. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance

Re: [Bacula-users] new hard drive mounted into ntfs filesystem of old hard drive

2011-05-23 Thread Phil Stracchino
3 - Set option onefs=no in the filesystem Pick one. Option 3 is not recommended, as it will cause all mountpoints to be recursed into, which tends to be a bad thing on Windows since Windows remounts bits of its own filesystem on mountpoints scattered all over the place. -- Phil Stracchino

Re: [Bacula-users] new hard drive mounted into ntfs filesystem of old hard drive

2011-05-23 Thread Phil Stracchino
1 - Add D:\ into the FileSet 2 - Add C:\MyNewHardDrive into the FileSet 3 - Set option onefs=no in the filesystem er ... the *fileset*, rather, not the filesystem -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Volume Bytes

2011-05-20 Thread Phil Stracchino
. ZFS deduplication is implemented at block level, so the size of the file is unlikely to make a great deal of difference. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl

Re: [Bacula-users] Maximum Volume Bytes

2011-05-20 Thread Phil Stracchino
volume in spool/bacula (yes, it's a Solaris 10 box with a 12-disk ZFS array) is 5.8GB; the largest, 201GB. I have seen disk volumes as large as 450GB in the past. I have not run into any problems with this scheme and with this range of volume sizes. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458

Re: [Bacula-users] Client Run After Job

2011-05-20 Thread Phil Stracchino
- do not back up MySQL data directories directly. I dump the DBs and back up the dumps, or I flush and freeze the tables for a moment, snapshot the datadir, then thaw the tables and back up the snapshot. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala

Re: [Bacula-users] howto to recover postgres catalog after delete from file

2011-05-19 Thread Phil Stracchino
the Catalog. However, if the device your Catalog is stored on is throwing block errors, and you do this WITHOUT first replacing that device, you're playing Russian roulette. Replace the drive first. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net

Re: [Bacula-users] Mysql version error [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-05-17 Thread Phil Stracchino
.something Director. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] Find Job's Volume

2011-05-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
. Rickifer Barros. Open BAT. Click Jobs Run in the tree pane. Find the job you want. Right-click it and select 'List JobMedia' from the context menu. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org

Re: [Bacula-users] How does Bacula back-up files?

2011-05-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
*. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] backup to dvd not working

2011-05-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
to DVD via an external process. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

[Bacula-users] Updated checkhost tool

2011-05-12 Thread Phil Stracchino
before running it, and should set the broadcast address as well (default broadcast address is set to 255.255.255.255). -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Updated checkhost tool

2011-05-12 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 05/12/11 14:57, Phil Stracchino wrote: This is version 2.0 of my checkhost tool. Except that somehow I accidentally attached the wrong version. Let's try this again. To make up for the error, here's a standalone lanwake tool using the same DB backend as well. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2

Re: [Bacula-users] Questions regarding migration job failure

2011-05-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
daemon and another.) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] FOR NEW ONES USING BACULA HOW TO....

2011-05-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
Bacula installation layout. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] FOR NEW ONES USING BACULA HOW TO....

2011-05-07 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 05/07/11 10:17, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 05/07/11 07:22, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: Puting a whole instalation into /etc hierarchy is not a good idea. There are /etc for config files, /bin and /sbin for binary app files and /var for frequently changed and temporary data. Use it. If you

Re: [Bacula-users] problem with nfs mounted shares -- the following files are in the catalog but not on the volume

2011-05-06 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 05/06/11 03:59, J. Echter wrote: Hi, i have a fileset containing nfs mounted shares, but these seem to not get backed up. Don't back up over NFS if you can avoid it. You'll get much better performance backing up the NFS shares on the NFS server. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD

Re: [Bacula-users] severity of warnings issued by Bacula

2011-05-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
are. Call me cynical if you want, but sometimes I have a hard time believing Microsoft does not intentionally obfuscate things like this specifically to make life difficult for third parties. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala

Re: [Bacula-users] Changing End time of a Virtual Full Backup?

2011-04-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
. The incrementals forever model is pretty risky ... it can mean that a restore requires a HUGE number of jobs restored, and can fail if any of them is missing. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p

Re: [Bacula-users] About tapes capacity

2011-04-20 Thread Phil Stracchino
so I really don't understand this. Your *job* may not be set to use *software* compression, but is your *tape library* automatically using *hardware* compression? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p

Re: [Bacula-users] prevent windows shutdown when backup run

2011-04-20 Thread Phil Stracchino
to educate your users, or to redesign your backup strategy in a robust way (say, use rsync to copy the data to a buffer area off the machine that you actually back up). -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p

Re: [Bacula-users] FreeBSD Bacula port - SQL table generation problem

2011-04-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
it. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] FreeBSD Bacula port - SQL table generation problem

2011-04-05 Thread Phil Stracchino
: \`MaxValue\` INTEGER ... In the long term, this field should really be renamed. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater

Re: [Bacula-users] (no subject)

2011-03-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/25/11 12:26, kor...@comcast.net wrote: It�s a pleasure to deal with this company.. http://dsblanc.mouais.ch/page.php?yqID=03ow6 Would somebody PLEASE banhammer this spammer? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala

Re: [Bacula-users] Roadwarriors break volumes

2011-03-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
up the local disk pool. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] How to configure bacula for 6-day rotating backup

2011-03-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
your old full backup before the new one completed, and that in turn means there is a window - however brief - during which you do not have a full backup available to restore from. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and 16 bay JBOD

2011-03-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
any drive enters what it considers a pre-fail state. (Which can be simple age, increasing numbers of hard errors, increasing variation in spindle speed, increasing slow starts, etc, etc...) -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and 16 bay JBOD

2011-03-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
by spreading purchases across several vendors. Four drives here, four there... -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and 16 bay JBOD

2011-03-16 Thread Phil Stracchino
; lose one disk from each stripe, and you're dead in the water. The right way is to set up five mirrored pairs, then stripe the pairs; this will survive multiple disk failures as long as you don't lose both disks of any single pair. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607

Re: [Bacula-users] file listing?

2011-03-15 Thread Phil Stracchino
(1024), M (1000*1000), Mi (1024*1024), G, Gi, T, Ti, P, Pi. I hope others can find it useful. Kjetil, Thanks, this looks like a useful tool. I'm forwarding your post to the bacula-devel list to make sure folks there see it too. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607

Re: [Bacula-users] File Storage for Windows and Linux

2011-03-15 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/15/11 16:36, Mike Hendrie wrote: Question: Can I use the same File Storage and Volume for both Linux and Windows backups? Absolutely. No reason on earth why not. It's all just data. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-dir 5.01 no listen‏

2011-03-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
of the package from which Bacula was installed to properly set the directory permissions, and that this is easier to get right if the Bacula recommended filesystem layout for Bacula is followed. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala

Re: [Bacula-users] Repeating FULL backup

2011-03-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
if the default was yes, unless you explicitly turned them off) should be fairly predictable. This is just good sense in software design: options which can potentially result in loss of data or work if enabled, should always default to 'off'. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607

Re: [Bacula-users] Installing SD only

2011-03-09 Thread Phil Stracchino
the correct catalog DB engine when building only the storage daemon, because the storage daemon includes the storage daemon tools - btape, bscan etc - and some of those tools (bscan in particular) need to be able to access the catalog database directly without going through the Director. -- Phil

[Bacula-users] A strange BAT anomaly, and a Bacula/MySQL/ZFS PSA

2011-03-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
MySQL as you would if it were NOT on ZFS. Do NOT rely on the let ZFS cache the data trick, because it won't work with Bacula. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix

Re: [Bacula-users] A strange BAT anomaly, and a Bacula/MySQL/ZFS PSA

2011-03-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
throughput, I will turn Accurate back off. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater It's not the years, it's

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] A strange BAT anomaly, and a Bacula/MySQL/ZFS PSA

2011-03-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/08/11 22:15, Gary R. Schmidt wrote: On Wed, March 9, 2011 12:22, Phil Stracchino wrote: [SNIP] Now, I said I'd get back to the MySQL issues. I was reading through some documents about mySQL on ZFS, and came across (again) a recommendation from one MySQL tester that reported the best

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] A strange BAT anomaly, and a Bacula/MySQL/ZFS PSA

2011-03-08 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/08/11 23:33, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 03/08/11 22:15, Gary R. Schmidt wrote: Hmm, what version of MySQL did the document you found refer to? And what one are you using? 5.5, and 5.5, in both cases. You know, actually, I take that back. i was confusing two different articles

Re: [Bacula-users] Should I use data spooling when writing to nfs mounted storage?

2011-03-03 Thread Phil Stracchino
directly on the storage device, instead of the SD writing to storage mounted over NFS? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater

Re: [Bacula-users] upgrading bacula problem with mysql

2011-03-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
user='bacula'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; Then update your Bacula director config file and put the exact same new catalog password in there, then restart Bacula and see if that solves the problem. It should. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net

Re: [Bacula-users] upgrading bacula problem with mysql

2011-03-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
and restart bacula, and see if it'll connect. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater It's not the years, it's

Re: [Bacula-users] upgrading bacula problem with mysql - Solved

2011-03-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/02/11 17:52, Maria Mckinley wrote: On 3/2/11 2:06 PM, Maria Mckinley wrote: Message: 20 From: Phil Stracchino ala...@metrocast.net Connect to your Bacula DB as your administrative user (probably root) and change the password for Bacula, as follows: UPDATE mysql.user SET password

Re: [Bacula-users] upgrading bacula problem with mysql

2011-02-28 Thread Phil Stracchino
for Bacula to use to identify that specific catalog database. Your DB is present. MySQL is running. You can connect to it, yet Bacula can't. Did Debian helpfully change your Bacula passwords in your config files for you, or perhaps replace your Bacula config files altogether...? -- Phil

Re: [Bacula-users] Extremely long restore times.

2011-02-23 Thread Phil Stracchino
, then analyze'. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater It's not the years, it's the mileage

Re: [Bacula-users] Include Dir Containing?

2011-02-22 Thread Phil Stracchino
. You'd have to use a script to generate the fileset on demand. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater

Re: [Bacula-users] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2011-02-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 02/14/11 16:56, Mezgani Ali via LinkedIn wrote: LinkedIn Mezgani Ali requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: This ... person ... is just spamming anything and everything. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] mysql version

2011-02-13 Thread Phil Stracchino
don't think they are even supported by MySQL any more. They aren't. MySQL 4.1 was end-of-lifed in December 2006. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin

Re: [Bacula-users] how to backup only the latest file of a daily sql backup

2011-02-12 Thread Phil Stracchino
a different way. Dump your Catalog each day to a SQL file, as you are doing now. Each day, BEFORE you dump the catalog, move the previous day's dump into a subdirectory which is not backed up. Problem solved, in five minutes of shell scripting. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM

Re: [Bacula-users] How does Bacula deal with Symbolic Links?

2011-02-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
links? And the answer is, Bacula backs up symbolic links as symbolic links. It can also keep track of hard links. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin

Re: [Bacula-users] Running both full and inc backups

2011-02-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
} If you want to specify different Pools for different levels, it is better to do so using Full Pool, Differential Pool, Incremental Pool in the Job or JobDefs. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p

Re: [Bacula-users] Running both full and inc backups

2011-02-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
and how long are your full backup jobs...? -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater It's not the years, it's

Re: [Bacula-users] Running both full and inc backups

2011-02-11 Thread Phil Stracchino
, and back the groups up as separate jobs that run in parallel. This can give you a big speedup for incrementals, which typically spend most of their time scanning for changed files and relatively little actually backing up the changed files. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM

Re: [Bacula-users] Append to end of Full Backup following tape failure machine

2011-02-09 Thread Phil Stracchino
to put in some more good media and simply add any data from the filesystem not in TSTbkp.2011-02-07_15.19.05_08. Is that possible? If you're trying to ask, in effect, Can I resume a failed/interrupted backup job, the answer is no. -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607

Re: [Bacula-users] Append to end of Full Backup following tape failure machine

2011-02-09 Thread Phil Stracchino
Benito. It is no more. It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! ... -- Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org

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