Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling doesn't work?

2007-08-16 Thread whahn
No, sorry, it doesn't work. I specified a spool dir (although the working dir by default) and I specified the maximum size of the spool (although unlimited by default) but still the tape is written to immediately (while spooling). Maybe it's because of the old version but I couldn't find

[Bacula-users] Spooling doesn't work?

2007-08-15 Thread whahn
Hi, I need to backup large amounts of data via network to a tape. When I read the data from a hard drive in the machine directly connected to the tape drive I get about 50 mb/s which is ok considering the read speed of the drive. Now i backup some files over the network without spooling and

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling doesn't work?

2007-08-15 Thread Steen
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 11:44:19 John Drescher wrote: I am running my director, database and storage on three different machines with the director and storage being dual processor Opteron 248 boxes with 4GB of memory and the database (postgres) is on an athlon64 3200 with 2GB of memory.

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling doesn't work?

2007-08-15 Thread whahn
Thanks for your fast response. Really seems to be the network that is so slow. Looks like somebody is heavily using it at the moment. But this still doesn't explain why the storage daemon won't wait for the data to be transmitted and then begin writing to the tape. I'm quite sure I activated

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling doesn't work?

2007-08-15 Thread Dan Langille
On 15 Aug 2007 at 10:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I need to backup large amounts of data via network to a tape. When I read the data from a hard drive in the machine directly connected to the tape drive I get about 50 mb/s which is ok considering the read speed of the drive. Now i

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling doesn't work?

2007-08-15 Thread John Drescher
May I ask if you made ebuilds yourself or compiled from source? I consider trying bacula on gentoo, but would also like the lates version of Bacula of course. I have my own ebuilds. I have an older svn ebuild (that probably does not work) and a ebuild for just about every version of bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling doesn't work?

2007-08-15 Thread John Drescher
I'm quite sure I activated spooling. I inserted Spool Data = yes only in the Job ressource (not in bacula-sd because there is no such option according to the manual, bacula-sd also confirms that by refusing to start if I inserted this directive in the Storage ressource). After starting the

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling doesn't work?

2007-08-15 Thread John Drescher
I have my own ebuilds. I have an older svn ebuild (that probably does not work) and a ebuild for just about every version of bacula 2.1. Here is a link to the bacula section of my overlay. https://opensvn.csie.org/JMDGentooOverlay/gentoo-overlay/app-backup/bacula/ To grab this you can

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling doesn't work?

2007-08-15 Thread whahn
gt; I'm quite sure I activated spooling. I inserted quot;Spool Data = yesquot; only in the Job ressource (not in bacula-sd because there is no such option according to the manual, bacula-sd also confirms that by refusing to start if I inserted this directive in the Storage ressource). After

Re: [Bacula-users] Spooling doesn't work?

2007-08-15 Thread Steen
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 14:26:28 John Drescher wrote: svn co https://opensvn.csie.org/JMDGentooOverlay/gentoo-overlay/app-backup/bacula/ Thanks - it seems to work - will try to install when I get at my server -- Regards Steen