Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula giving slow speed

2009-01-14 Thread Holikar, Sachin (ext)
Thanks Mr. Drescher for the reply. 1. We will surely give it a try for using latest Bacula version and see if it improves any performance. 2. The system on which Bacula is loaded , is having good configuration like 4 GB of RAM and 2.80 GHz. 3. There is no database backup as such. What we do is ju

[Bacula-users] What is the bacula user's home directory?

2009-01-14 Thread Kevin Keane
In my configuration, the bacula-dir and bacula-sd both run as user bacula rather than root, as recommended. Now I am trying to run a Run Before script that includes wget to a password-protected site. The user name and password are in a .netrc file. It doesn't work - wget does not use the user n

Re: [Bacula-users] What is the bacula user's home directory?

2009-01-14 Thread Jon Ingason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Keane skrev: > In my configuration, the bacula-dir and bacula-sd both run as user > bacula rather than root, as recommended. Both bacula-dir and bacula-sd run as user bacula. If you do following you get the home directory of user bacula: grep

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula giving slow speed

2009-01-14 Thread Josh Fisher
Holikar, Sachin (ext) wrote: > Thanks Mr. Drescher for the reply. > > 1. We will surely give it a try for using latest Bacula version and see > if it improves any performance. > 2. The system on which Bacula is loaded , is having good configuration > like 4 GB of RAM and 2.80 GHz. > 3. There is no

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula giving slow speed

2009-01-14 Thread John Drescher
>> 3. There is no database backup as such. What we do is just take the >> system level full backup. >> > > I believe he was suggesting that the Bacula catalog database might be stored > on the same file system that is being backed up. Since Bacula must write to > its catalog database frequently dur

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula giving slow speed

2009-01-14 Thread Holikar, Sachin (ext)
Hello Mr. Fisher, I Apologize for misunderstandings. I am newbie for Bacula. Could you please let me know where can I find the location of the catalog database which is been set for Bacula? Thanks -Original Message- From: Josh Fisher [mailto:jfis...@pvct.com] Sent: Mittwoch, 14. Jan

[Bacula-users] max run time vs. max start delay

2009-01-14 Thread Thomas
Hi list, today one job failed with "max run time exceeded", this job is configured with "max run time = 20mins" and was scheduled for 12:05. due to some small problems it took some time to get the tapedrive ready. the job was cancelled at 12:25 after 2 minutes of run time: 2009-01-14 12:21:40

Re: [Bacula-users] messages configuration

2009-01-14 Thread Thomas
Hi Troy, thanks for the hint, "Mail on error = m...@address = all" did it. Regards Thomas Troy Daniels schrieb: > Hi, > > On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 22:35 +0100, Thomas wrote: >> ah, now i got it (i think) >> >> in the source code there are different log level defined: info, warning, >> error, ...

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula promoting some incremental backups to full

2009-01-14 Thread Kevin Stewart
> And you are NOT edited the FileSet definition? Bacula switches to a Full when it sees that the FileSet has changed. > > Ignore FileSet Change = Yes > > in the FileSet definition "fixes" that. Quite sure. The FileSet definitions have not changed.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula giving slow speed

2009-01-14 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Holikar, Sachin (ext) wrote: > Hello Mr. Fisher, > > I Apologize for misunderstandings. I am newbie for Bacula. > No need to apologize. > > Could you please let me know where can I find the location of the > catalog database which is been set for Bacula? > That

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula giving slow speed

2009-01-14 Thread Jean Gobin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you're using the default name, Linux/Unix AND using sqlite: find / -name "bacula.db" will find it J. Jean F. Gobin Network Administrator Tel: 212.542.3175 Mobile: 917.213.2532 Fax: 212.981.6545 32 Avenue of the Americas, 4th

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula promoting some incremental backups to full

2009-01-14 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Kevin Stewart wrote: > > > >> And you are NOT edited the FileSet definition? Bacula switches to a Full > when it sees that the FileSet has changed. >> >> Ignore FileSet Change = Yes >> >> in the FileSet definition "fixes" that. > > Quite sure. The FileSet defi

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula giving slow speed

2009-01-14 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Jean Gobin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > If you're using the default name, Linux/Unix AND using sqlite: > With his data set I hope he is using postgres. sqlite will not cut it. John ---

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula promoting some incremental backups to full

2009-01-14 Thread Kevin Stewart
>> And you are NOT edited the FileSet definition? Bacula switches to a Full > when it sees that the FileSet has changed. >> >> Ignore FileSet Change = Yes >> >> in the FileSet definition "fixes" that. > > Quite sure. The FileSet definitions have not changed. > > And you are sure the volumes co

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula giving slow speed

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Galloway
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:53:13AM -0500, John Drescher wrote: > >> 3. There is no database backup as such. What we do is just take the > >> system level full backup. > >> > > > > I believe he was suggesting that the Bacula catalog database might be stored > > on the same file system that is being

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula giving slow speed

2009-01-14 Thread John Drescher
> so, would it be considered a 'best practice' to have the catalog database > server that is on > a separate machine that the bacula server? > I have the database on a different server than the director but just not having it on the same raid that you backup the most frequently would be fine. Alt

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula giving slow speed

2009-01-14 Thread Dan Langille
On Jan 14, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Michael Galloway wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:53:13AM -0500, John Drescher wrote: 3. There is no database backup as such. What we do is just take the system level full backup. I usually advise against system level full backups. I recommend a prope

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula giving slow speed

2009-01-14 Thread Holikar, Sachin (ext)
Hi, Thanks all for your comments. Could not send reply as I was not in office. Anyways we have mysql database. We have decided to do the backups by increasing the spool area which is currently set to 7 GB. I will post the outcomes once we finish the testing. Thanks once again. -Origina