date:20061010

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 03:02, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
  I have no idea how to control which address is used for outgoing 
  communications other than by configuring your network gateway to go 
through 
  the preferred device, which may not do exactly what you want.  
 
 I've just read through the whole thread.  People seems to be getting
 confused about a couple of concepts.

I don't think there was any confusion in my mind, but I was not aware that 
bind could be used for outgoing connections.

Thanks for the detail.

Is there someone who would like to work on this?

Regards,

Kern

 
   Firstly, consider the need to be able to manually specify the outbound
 IPv4 address of Client connections from a daemon _as well_ as the
 inbound address on which to listen for incoming service requests.
 
   In most shops, in almost all but the most basic configurations, the
 generally accepted practice is to create abstraction between the
 system and the service provided by it.  Even if a system has a
 single service/function, it still binds the service to a Service VIP,
 or IP Alias (BSD).
 
   I.e., almost all machines have a Management Address and Service
 VIP, especially in non-RFC1918-space-only shops.
 
   To give you an idea why this is a policy in most places: For example,
 if a system crashes, you can pick up the VIP and move it to a different
 system in the same VLAN.
 
 ...OR, if that service VIP has a CNAME pointing to it, you can simply
 cut over the CNAME destination to a service VIP in a different VLAN
 without breaking all your clients.
 
 Thus, System-Service Abstraction
 
   This becomes especially paramount in High Availability configurations
 where at service VIP dangles between two or more servers.  Consider the
 Linux-HA system.
 
   It is also extremely important when you're trying to manage firewall
 rule growth.   At present, if you have multiple VIPs/IP Aliases on
 Bacula, you can control which one Listening Sockets bind to, but say
 for example, when writing rules that would permit the Director to send
 control messages to File Daemons, or Storage Daemons to send messages to
 Directors, or Consoles to Directors, you want your rules to reflect the
 source address of the service VIP for new client sockets.
 
   Consider ISC BIND named(8): It's got all kinds of crazy options for
 binding listening sockets for incoming requests and specifying the
 source _port_ and _address_ for outbound connections the daemon is
 making in the capacity of a client:
 
 Example:
 
 options {
 directory /;
 listen-on { 1.2.3.4/32; };
 query-source address 2.4.5.6 port 12346; 
 transfer-source 7.8.9.1; 
 notify-source 2.3.3.5;
   
 }
 
 All kinds of control.
 
 
 -
 
 Secondly, Socket Source Address/Port v.s. Routing
 
 These are *completely autonomous concepts*.  I just went through this
 bringing -b from FreeBSD syslogd(8) over to NetBSD(8):
 
 
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/syslogd/syslogd.c.diff?r1=1.78r2=1.79f=h
 
 Check out lines 2107-2111
 
 This is an example with UDP, but the song remains the insane for TCP.
 
 When you bind(2)/listen(2) a socket(2), there are two modes: Passive and
 active.
 
 The address which a socket listens/binds is wildcard by default.  You
 can set it though with getaddrinfo(2)...intuitive function call name,
 huh?!  :}
 
 Another good example are present in Apache's HTTP CVS:
  srclib/apr/network_io/unix/sockaddr.c
 
 There's no reference to any of this in any of Stevens` because those
 were all written before the advent of HA and Distributed Systems,
 possibly even IP Aliases/VIPs.
 
 Per my notes on Service/System abstraction, if a system has multiple
 interfaces, there are two possibilities:
 
 *) The interfaces could have addresses in different subnets
 *) The interfaces could have addresses in the same subnets
 
   A system could also have multiple VIPs or IP Aliases (BSD) on the
 same interface within the same Subnet (the most likely scenario).
 
   When you specifically bind the source address of an outgoing TCP socket
 to a specific VIP or Primary IP on an interface, the decision as to
 which interface to transmit the outgoing packets is not made in the TCP
 code, it is made at the next layer down on the OSI model --  the
 underlying IPv4/IPv6 protocol. 
 
   Example, if a system has two NICs.  One within a management subnet with
 RFC1918 address space, we'll say 10.0.0.100, and another with two IPs, a
 primary IP and a service VIP in a public subnet, we'll say 216.239.37.99
 and 216.239.37.100.  
 Consider the routing:
 
   Assume for the sake of sanity that the subnet masks on both interfaces
 are /25 on the public interface and /23 on the RFC1918 interface.  Via
 Directly Connected Interfaces, the system knows about 216.239.37.0/25
 via Ext, and 10.0.0.0/23 via Int.  It may also have a Default
 Gateway configured of 215.239.37.1/32.  He

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows Restore Errors

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 02:53, Tim Schaab wrote:
 Howdy All,
 
 I am testing Bacula for a backup solution for the department's users and 
 servers. When testing a Windows XP restore, I keep getting a Zlib buffer 
 errors like the following:
 
   9-Oct 13:37 bartpe-fd: Windows_Full_Restore.2006-10-09_18.28.42 
 Error:  Uncompression error on file C:/bacula/bin/bacula-fd.exe. 
 ERR=Zlib buffer error
 
 The error pops up on most all binary files in the restore. When trying 
 to run the files after the restore, Windows informs me that the file is 
 not a valid Win32 application.
 
 I am using VSS and GZIP compression on 1.38.11 with director and the sd 
 running on Ubuntu. The restore is being done via a BartPE CD with the 
 Bacula BartPE plugin.
 
 Anyone able to lend me a hand in debugging this?

I'd suggest that you try the 1.39.24 beta as I'm not intending on supporting 
the 1.38.11 version any longer (it relies on building under Cygwin and thus 
needs certain Cygwin built libraries, even if it does not directly use 
Cygwin).  The 1.39.24 beta version is a bit tricky to install the first time 
so read the ReleaseNotes (in the source distribution) carefully, but it 
should be compatible with the 1.38.11 Director and SD.

 
 Cheers,
 
 Tim
 
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 Department of Geology and Geophysics
 
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Re: [Bacula-users] bacula: backup is slow

2006-10-10 Thread Anders Boström

 KS == Kern Sibbald writes:

KS From the statistics you show, the backup does not appear slow to
KS me.  The reason you might think it is slow is because you are
KS comparing apples and oranges.  
 
KS On the one hand, you measure the time to to a non-compressed tar
KS on a local machine sending the output down an extremely hi-speed
bit bucket.
 
KS On the other hand, you measure the time of Bacula using
KS compression sending real data to another process via TCP/IP (even
KS though it might be on the same machine).
 
KS To do a better comparison, you could run tar including the z
KS option so that it does compression.  In addition, you should send
KS the output of tar across the network and write it to either a file
KS or a tape (whatever Bacula is using).

You don't seem to have seen my data, so I state it again:

bacula backup without SW compression:   1 hour 45 mins 2 secs
bacula backup with SW compression:  2 hours 42 mins 11 secs
local tar on the fileserver*:   53 mins 3 secs

* time /bin/sh -c tar cf - directory | cat /dev/null

bacula is ~2 times slower than the local tar without SW
compression. And, as stated already, the network isn't the limitation
(no TCP retransmission), neither is the backup-server (CPU and disc is
98% idle during backup).

But, as you point out, the tar should be faster. It doesn't need to
write to net. However, not 2 times faster. The net-load is ~1% (10
Mbit/s on a GE-network), and *should* not affect the performance in
this case.
 
KS At that point, providing you are always doing Full backups on
KS Bacula (and not Incremental of Differential), you will probably
KS find that the total Bacula time is not terribly greater than tar.
KS That said, Bacula will amost always be slower than tar because it
KS does a whole lot more -- in addition to checksuming all the data
KS Bacula writes to the Volume, which I am not sure tar does, Bacula

What do you mean bacula is writing to the Volume that tar maybe isn't?
 
KS also interfaces to a database and stores a lot of information
KS about the job.
 
KS If you want to do additional performance testing you can look at 
KS bacula-source/src/version.h.  There are various configuration
KS parameters that you can turn on/off and then re-build Bacula and
KS measure the performance of particular parts.  Performance testing
KS is a highly evolved science as well as an art, and it is not
KS always easy.   For example, if you are going to do any timing
KS experiments as you did, you *must* on Unix systems re-run the test
KS at least 10 times, throw out the first two timings, then take an
KS average of the remaining 8.  If you don't do this, your timing
KS tests will have no meaning due to the memory cacheing that Unix
KS does.
 
It is a good general rule in benchmarking to re-run every test several
times. And in this case, the fact is that I have, trying to tune the
performance of the server. The times were fairly consistent, with an
error margin of less than 5 minutes (10%) in all cases. As the
performance difference is in the order of 2 times, I'm quite sure that
the results are correct, bacula *is* much slower than tar.

I know that I probably should do a lot more testing, but it is very
time-consuming...  Trying to tune configuration options can be
important, do you have any suggestion what can affect this? Are there
any known options resulting in bad performance?

Thanks for your time. 

/ Anders

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[Bacula-users] File and DAT at the same time

2006-10-10 Thread Sim

Hi to all,

   I'm new user of Bacula. Before this I used BackupPC.

BackupPC have a good method to manage backup data for File and DAT at
the same time.

It write Complete/Incremental over hard disk and all complete
restore to DAT, taking to the data from the File structure

Example:

First Day:

PC1 : CompleteA
PC2 : CompleteA

after this BackupPC write   PC1 Complete + PC2 Complete   over DAT

Second Day:

PC1 : IncrementalA
PC2 : IncrementalA

after this BackupPC write   (PC1 CompleteA+IncrementalA)+(PC2
CompleteA+IncrementalA)over DAT


In this way all Complete/Incremental are over File on the server and
all Complete updated are over DAT. Every DAT is updated and
indipendent for restore system without the necessity of others TAPE.

Is is possibile with Bacula?

Thanks

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Re: [Bacula-users] bacula: backup is slow

Hi,

On 10/10/2006 9:59 AM, Anders Boström wrote:
KS == Kern Sibbald writes:
 
 
 KS From the statistics you show, the backup does not appear slow to
 KS me.  The reason you might think it is slow is because you are
 KS comparing apples and oranges.  
  
 KS On the one hand, you measure the time to to a non-compressed tar
 KS on a local machine sending the output down an extremely hi-speed
 bit bucket.
  
 KS On the other hand, you measure the time of Bacula using
 KS compression sending real data to another process via TCP/IP (even
 KS though it might be on the same machine).
  
 KS To do a better comparison, you could run tar including the z
 KS option so that it does compression.  In addition, you should send
 KS the output of tar across the network and write it to either a file
 KS or a tape (whatever Bacula is using).
 
 You don't seem to have seen my data, so I state it again:
 
 bacula backup without SW compression: 1 hour 45 mins 2 secs
 bacula backup with SW compression:2 hours 42 mins 11 secs
 local tar on the fileserver*: 53 mins 3 secs
 
 * time /bin/sh -c tar cf - directory | cat /dev/null

Well, your tar does not create disk I/O for the data it writes.

 bacula is ~2 times slower than the local tar without SW
 compression. And, as stated already, the network isn't the limitation
 (no TCP retransmission), neither is the backup-server (CPU and disc is
 
98% idle during backup).

Still the network is being used and that always involves latencies, 
syncronization times, etc.


 
 But, as you point out, the tar should be faster. It doesn't need to
 write to net. However, not 2 times faster. The net-load is ~1% (10
 Mbit/s on a GE-network), and *should* not affect the performance in
 this case.

*Should* is not very helpful here... instead, send the tar output 
through a netcat to the backup server and write it to disk. For example.

 KS At that point, providing you are always doing Full backups on
 KS Bacula (and not Incremental of Differential), you will probably
 KS find that the total Bacula time is not terribly greater than tar.
 KS That said, Bacula will amost always be slower than tar because it
 KS does a whole lot more -- in addition to checksuming all the data
 KS Bacula writes to the Volume, which I am not sure tar does, Bacula
 
 What do you mean bacula is writing to the Volume that tar maybe isn't?

Your example does not write data to disk.

 KS also interfaces to a database and stores a lot of information
 KS about the job.
  
 KS If you want to do additional performance testing you can look at 
 KS bacula-source/src/version.h.  There are various configuration
 KS parameters that you can turn on/off and then re-build Bacula and
 KS measure the performance of particular parts.  Performance testing
 KS is a highly evolved science as well as an art, and it is not
 KS always easy.   For example, if you are going to do any timing
 KS experiments as you did, you *must* on Unix systems re-run the test
 KS at least 10 times, throw out the first two timings, then take an
 KS average of the remaining 8.  If you don't do this, your timing
 KS tests will have no meaning due to the memory cacheing that Unix
 KS does.
  
 It is a good general rule in benchmarking to re-run every test several
 times. And in this case, the fact is that I have, trying to tune the
 performance of the server. The times were fairly consistent, with an
 error margin of less than 5 minutes (10%) in all cases. As the
 performance difference is in the order of 2 times, I'm quite sure that
 the results are correct, bacula *is* much slower than tar.
 
 I know that I probably should do a lot more testing, but it is very
 time-consuming...  Trying to tune configuration options can be
 important, do you have any suggestion what can affect this? Are there
 any known options resulting in bad performance?

The most important stuff, performance-wise, seems to be the catalog 
database, volume storage device, and (possibly) client-side compression. 
All the other details can probably only be examined following Kerns 
advice regarding the performance measurement. This does take lots of 
time and I never tried it :-) but I'm quite sure that whatever you find 
will apply to a given setup only, so comparing with data from other 
setups is not very helpful.

This discussion might result in a well-defined Bacula benchmark suite 
giving interesting one-dimensional values which are almost never related 
to reality. Like any benchmark ;-)

Arno

 Thanks for your time. 
 
 / Anders
 
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Re: [Bacula-users] Windows Restore Errors

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 09:42, Kern Sibbald wrote:
 On Tuesday 10 October 2006 02:53, Tim Schaab wrote:
  Howdy All,
  
  I am testing Bacula for a backup solution for the department's users and 
  servers. When testing a Windows XP restore, I keep getting a Zlib buffer 
  errors like the following:
  
9-Oct 13:37 bartpe-fd: Windows_Full_Restore.2006-10-09_18.28.42 
  Error:  Uncompression error on file C:/bacula/bin/bacula-fd.exe. 
  ERR=Zlib buffer error
  
  The error pops up on most all binary files in the restore. When trying 
  to run the files after the restore, Windows informs me that the file is 
  not a valid Win32 application.
  
  I am using VSS and GZIP compression on 1.38.11 with director and the sd 
  running on Ubuntu. The restore is being done via a BartPE CD with the 
  Bacula BartPE plugin.
  
  Anyone able to lend me a hand in debugging this?
 

Just to make it clear, I was writing about *only* the Win32 FD in the next 
paragraph.
 I'd suggest that you try the 1.39.24 beta as I'm not intending on supporting 
 the 1.38.11 version any longer (it relies on building under Cygwin and thus 
 needs certain Cygwin built libraries, even if it does not directly use 
 Cygwin).  The 1.39.24 beta version is a bit tricky to install the first time 
 so read the ReleaseNotes (in the source distribution) carefully, but it 
 should be compatible with the 1.38.11 Director and SD.
 
  
  Cheers,
  
  Tim
  
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Re: [Bacula-users] bacula: backup is slow

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 09:59, Anders Boström wrote:
  KS == Kern Sibbald writes:
 
 KS From the statistics you show, the backup does not appear slow to
 KS me.  The reason you might think it is slow is because you are
 KS comparing apples and oranges.  
  
 KS On the one hand, you measure the time to to a non-compressed tar
 KS on a local machine sending the output down an extremely hi-speed
 bit bucket.
  
 KS On the other hand, you measure the time of Bacula using
 KS compression sending real data to another process via TCP/IP (even
 KS though it might be on the same machine).
  
 KS To do a better comparison, you could run tar including the z
 KS option so that it does compression.  In addition, you should send
 KS the output of tar across the network and write it to either a file
 KS or a tape (whatever Bacula is using).
 
 You don't seem to have seen my data, so I state it again:
 
 bacula backup without SW compression: 1 hour 45 mins 2 secs
 bacula backup with SW compression:2 hours 42 mins 11 secs
 local tar on the fileserver*: 53 mins 3 secs
 
 * time /bin/sh -c tar cf - directory | cat /dev/null
 
 bacula is ~2 times slower than the local tar without SW
 compression. And, as stated already, the network isn't the limitation
 (no TCP retransmission), neither is the backup-server (CPU and disc is
 98% idle during backup).

I did see and carefully think about your data and would have the same comments 
I made before.

 
 But, as you point out, the tar should be faster. It doesn't need to
 write to net. However, not 2 times faster. The net-load is ~1% (10
 Mbit/s on a GE-network), and *should* not affect the performance in
 this case.

In performance management, which I did professionally for some 20 years 
doesn't work with *should*.  It works with *careful* testing and hard data.  
More often than not the hard data is very surprising.

  
 KS At that point, providing you are always doing Full backups on
 KS Bacula (and not Incremental of Differential), you will probably
 KS find that the total Bacula time is not terribly greater than tar.
 KS That said, Bacula will amost always be slower than tar because it
 KS does a whole lot more -- in addition to checksuming all the data
 KS Bacula writes to the Volume, which I am not sure tar does, Bacula
 
 What do you mean bacula is writing to the Volume that tar maybe isn't?

I'm not sure that tar checksums the data blocks it writes. Bacula does.

  
 KS also interfaces to a database and stores a lot of information
 KS about the job.
  
 KS If you want to do additional performance testing you can look at 
 KS bacula-source/src/version.h.  There are various configuration
 KS parameters that you can turn on/off and then re-build Bacula and
 KS measure the performance of particular parts.  Performance testing
 KS is a highly evolved science as well as an art, and it is not
 KS always easy.   For example, if you are going to do any timing
 KS experiments as you did, you *must* on Unix systems re-run the test
 KS at least 10 times, throw out the first two timings, then take an
 KS average of the remaining 8.  If you don't do this, your timing
 KS tests will have no meaning due to the memory cacheing that Unix
 KS does.
  
 It is a good general rule in benchmarking to re-run every test several
 times. And in this case, the fact is that I have, trying to tune the
 performance of the server. The times were fairly consistent, with an
 error margin of less than 5 minutes (10%) in all cases. As the
 performance difference is in the order of 2 times, I'm quite sure that
 the results are correct, bacula *is* much slower than tar.

You didn't say how you made the measurements. From what you write I can see 
that you are aware of some of the problems.  However, a 10% variation in the 
timing seems to me to be quite large, and I am still not convinced you 
followed the methodology I outlined.

To give you an example, one user declared that certain mutex calls in Bacula 
slowed it down by 10%.  When I did my tests, I could not even measure the 
difference in time between the code with and without the mutexes -- I could 
say that it was less than 1%, which was roughtly the variation I saw in the 
timing.  My conclusion was that he ran Bacula once with mutexes.  He then 
turned off mutexes and ran it again, and of course, it ran 10% faster.  The 
only thing he was measuring was Linux cacheing.

 
 I know that I probably should do a lot more testing, but it is very
 time-consuming...  Trying to tune configuration options can be
 important, do you have any suggestion what can affect this? Are there
 any known options resulting in bad performance?

Though there are probably 10-20 performance pitfalls, the two big problems of 
performance that I have seen are:

- Poorly tuned Catalog database -- insertion of Bacula attributes in the 
database tends to be slow.  There are probably 5 or ten reasons leading to 
poor DB performance. I'll be working on improving this

[Bacula-users] File based autochanger

2006-10-10 Thread Jonas Björklund

Hello,

A file device can't write on more then one volume at the same time.
I have many pools, and each pool has it's own volumes.

I have tried to create a file device for each pool but it's not a nice 
solution if you have many pools.

Can I create a file based autochanger?

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Re: [Bacula-users] bacula: backup is slow

2006-10-10 Thread Anders Boström

 AL == Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Hi!

 AL On 10/10/2006 9:59 AM, Anders Boström wrote:
  KS == Kern Sibbald writes:
  
  
 KS From the statistics you show, the backup does not appear slow to
 KS me.  The reason you might think it is slow is because you are
 KS comparing apples and oranges.  
  
 KS On the one hand, you measure the time to to a non-compressed tar
 KS on a local machine sending the output down an extremely hi-speed
  bit bucket.
  
 KS On the other hand, you measure the time of Bacula using
 KS compression sending real data to another process via TCP/IP (even
 KS though it might be on the same machine).
  
 KS To do a better comparison, you could run tar including the z
 KS option so that it does compression.  In addition, you should send
 KS the output of tar across the network and write it to either a file
 KS or a tape (whatever Bacula is using).
  
  You don't seem to have seen my data, so I state it again:
  
  bacula backup without SW compression:   1 hour 45 mins 2 secs
  bacula backup with SW compression:  2 hours 42 mins 11 secs
  local tar on the fileserver*:   53 mins 3 secs
  
  * time /bin/sh -c tar cf - directory | cat /dev/null

 AL Well, your tar does not create disk I/O for the data it writes.

  bacula is ~2 times slower than the local tar without SW
  compression. And, as stated already, the network isn't the limitation
  (no TCP retransmission), neither is the backup-server (CPU and disc is
  
  98% idle during backup).

 AL Still the network is being used and that always involves latencies, 
 AL syncronization times, etc.

Yes, and that might be the problem. But if it is about latencies
and/or synchronization, then it is a bacula performance problem!

Is bacula limited in performance due to high latency? (Not that we
have that problem, but anyway...)

Is bacula limited in performance due to synchronization?

  But, as you point out, the tar should be faster. It doesn't need to
  write to net. However, not 2 times faster. The net-load is ~1% (10
  Mbit/s on a GE-network), and *should* not affect the performance in
  this case.

 AL *Should* is not very helpful here... instead, send the tar output 
 AL through a netcat to the backup server and write it to disk. For example.

But we have two scenarios here:

1. Bacula is affected by a very low network load.

2. Bacula isn't affected by a very low network load.

If (1) is true, why???

/ Anders

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Re: [Bacula-users] File based autochanger

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 11:17, Jonas Björklund wrote:
 Hello,
 
 A file device can't write on more then one volume at the same time.

Yes, and neither can a tape drive.

 I have many pools, and each pool has it's own volumes.
 
 I have tried to create a file device for each pool but it's not a nice 
 solution if you have many pools.

It is probably what I would recommend.

 
 Can I create a file based autochanger?
 

Yes, there is already a disk-changer script in the scripts directory (I 
forgot when it first appeared, but in any case, it is in the beta releases). 
There are a number of downsides to using a file based autochanger that I have 
previously discussed on this list.  I think I might even have put them in the 
development manual ...  With a little bit of cleaver scripting, one could 
modify the existing disk-changer.in script to eliminate most or all the 
downsides ...
However, you are pretty much on your own.

Regards,

Kern

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Re: [Bacula-users] File based autochanger

Hi,

On 10/10/2006 11:17 AM, Jonas Björklund wrote:
 Hello,
 
 A file device can't write on more then one volume at the same time.
 I have many pools, and each pool has it's own volumes.
 
 I have tried to create a file device for each pool but it's not a nice 
 solution if you have many pools.
 
 Can I create a file based autochanger?

You could start with Kerns example from the development version, which 
can also be found in the cvs.

Arno

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Re: [Bacula-users] bacula: backup is slow

Hello,

On 10/10/2006 11:30 AM, Anders Boström wrote:
AL == Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 
 Hi!
 
  AL On 10/10/2006 9:59 AM, Anders Boström wrote:
   KS == Kern Sibbald writes:
   
   
  KS From the statistics you show, the backup does not appear slow to
  KS me.  The reason you might think it is slow is because you are
  KS comparing apples and oranges.  
   
  KS On the one hand, you measure the time to to a non-compressed tar
  KS on a local machine sending the output down an extremely hi-speed
   bit bucket.
   
  KS On the other hand, you measure the time of Bacula using
  KS compression sending real data to another process via TCP/IP (even
  KS though it might be on the same machine).
   
  KS To do a better comparison, you could run tar including the z
  KS option so that it does compression.  In addition, you should send
  KS the output of tar across the network and write it to either a file
  KS or a tape (whatever Bacula is using).
   
   You don't seem to have seen my data, so I state it again:
   
   bacula backup without SW compression: 1 hour 45 mins 2 secs
   bacula backup with SW compression:2 hours 42 mins 11 secs
   local tar on the fileserver*: 53 mins 3 secs
   
   * time /bin/sh -c tar cf - directory | cat /dev/null
 
  AL Well, your tar does not create disk I/O for the data it writes.
 
   bacula is ~2 times slower than the local tar without SW
   compression. And, as stated already, the network isn't the limitation
   (no TCP retransmission), neither is the backup-server (CPU and disc is
   
   98% idle during backup).
 
  AL Still the network is being used and that always involves latencies, 
  AL syncronization times, etc.
 
 Yes, and that might be the problem. But if it is about latencies
 and/or synchronization, then it is a bacula performance problem!

No, what I'm talking about is network fundamentals. Whenever you send 
data across a network that takes time, and it takes more time than 
dividing xMBit/s by the amount of data. Always.

 Is bacula limited in performance due to high latency? (Not that we
 have that problem, but anyway...)
 
 Is bacula limited in performance due to synchronization?

Networks are limited by several factors. That's not something you can 
fix, and network throughput is not normally the most limiting factor in 
a Bacula setup.

   But, as you point out, the tar should be faster. It doesn't need to
   write to net. However, not 2 times faster. The net-load is ~1% (10
   Mbit/s on a GE-network), and *should* not affect the performance in
   this case.
 
  AL *Should* is not very helpful here... instead, send the tar output 
  AL through a netcat to the backup server and write it to disk. For example.
 
 But we have two scenarios here:
 
 1. Bacula is affected by a very low network load.
 
 2. Bacula isn't affected by a very low network load.
 
 If (1) is true, why???

Erm, no, I see no such scenario. I see you claim that a (mostly idle) 
network transfers data as fast as a tar  /dev/null which is not true.

Try measuring.

Arno

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Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] GUI interface

Hello,

Thanks for the input. I've taken everything you wrote into consideration and 
taken a look at fwbuilder as well.

Regards,

Kern

On Monday 02 October 2006 21:58, Julián Hernández Gómez wrote:
 Hi Kern!
 
 I'm +1 on the choose of QT as the primary framework for developing the
 bacula GUI. But I strongly suggest to use QT4 (4.2) from the beginning
 and save everybody from the pain of a later migration.
 
 I also recommends you reconsider the PyQT option, because it's a
 really good option and has a lot of documentation:
 
 First I recommend you reading the excellent overview of PyQt4 that was
 presented at EuroPython 2006 [0], then look at all the info found in
 the PyQT wiki [1] including a reference to a lot of nice tutorials,
 including Boudewijn Rempt's book GUI Programming with Python: Qt
 Edition available online in the PyQT homepage [2].  Also I think that
 the way to go with PyQT is to read the Qt Documentation (including the
 Qt Designer Manual) and then read the PyQT reference guide [3] (the
 examples shown in this guide often refers to the QT Documentation for
 a full description).
 
 In case you still want to not use PyQT :-) I'd suggest the revision of
 the source code of fwbuilder [4].  Fwbuilder is an excellent GUI
 program (GPL) made in C++, QT3 and uses QT Designer.  Maybe it's a
 good starting point for developing the Bacula GUI.
 
 
 [0] 
http://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=33sessionId=41confId=44
 [1]http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyQt
 [2] http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/
 [3] http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/Docs/PyQt4/pyqt4ref.html
 [4] http://www.fwbuilder.org/
 
 
 On 10/2/06, Kern Sibbald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Saturday 30 September 2006 17:28, Jo wrote:
   Kern Sibbald schreef:
Hello,
   
As I previously wrote, working on a GUI solution is now one of my top
priorities.  We have discussed the problems and possible solutions for
getting a good GUI interface for Bacula a number of times. I've 
thought
  about
all the possibilities, and there are a lot of them.  Previously, I had
  been
leaning more towards a Python Qt interface, because Python is a nice
  language
and easy to program.  Unfortunately, I haven't found any really good 
IDE
(integrated development environment) for it, nor have I found any good
documentation on the Python Qt interface.  So I have abandoned this 
idea.
   
Another idea that I have abandoned is developing a web application. 
There
  are
two reasons: 1. I find no user interface design tools for web based
applications.  2. web applications are very problematic for security
  minded
people such as myself.  I run a web server, but there is no way in the
  world
that I would run a Bacula web application on my web server.  In the 
past,
  I
have gotten around this by having a second LAN only server, but I 
don't
really like this.  In addition with technology such as FreeNX, I 
believe
  that
there is no disadvantage to writing desktop GUI applications -- they 
can
  now
be executed from anywhere much like a web application can.
   
One can certainly argue with the above points, but that is pretty much
  useless
because what I am writing is not to convince you about my views but to
  give
you a little bit of the reasoning behind the direction I am taking.
   
So that is the brief background.  There is obviously much more to it 
all,
  but
I'd like to get to the point, which is that I am now starting a new 
core
  code
project for Bacula to initially create a console GUI (combination of
bconsole, gconsole, wx-console, and all the others).  As a second 
step, it
will evolve (or start a separate program) to including manangement job
summary information such as bacula-web and similar programs.
   
To do the project, I intend to use Kdevelop as the IDE, designer as 
the
  GUI
design tool (integrated into Kdevelop), C++, and Qt3 (later Qt4).  I 
would
also like it to use cmake, but expect that in the beginning it will 
use
qmake.
   
All this is a bit too much for me at one time, because all the pieces
(Kdevelop, designer, Qt3, qmake or cmake) are all new to me, so I 
really
would like to get some help from any of you who are experienced in 
these
tools or who just want to help.
   
A few notes about the project:
- as mentioned above, it will be based on C++ and Qt
- it will use Kdevelop, designer and qmake or cmake
- it will be part of the base Bacula code, and hence in the bacula 
source
  tree.
- it will replace, gconsole and wx-console (i.e. they are depreciated)
- it will be copyrighted by the Bacula project (for the moment me -- 
more
  on
  that in my status #2 concerning the future of the Bacula project).
- it will serve as a test bed for defining a Bacula GUI API
- it will be highly integrated with the Director, but nevertheless a
  separate

[Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

2006-10-10 Thread Peter L. Buschman


All:

If it isn't too much of an imposition, I'd like to survey the list 
and ask the question
what operating system are you running Bacula on?. I'm interested in which OS
distributions, versions and platforms are being deployed as Bacula servers.

Mainly, this is to identify the highest-priority configurations for a 
test environment
I am setting-up, but I think it would also be interesting from a 
broader Bacula adoption
perspective to see what the distribution is.

I will aggregate all of the responses and post a summary and 
percentage distribution
of the results. If you would like to add your installation to the 
count but do not want to
post openly to the list, please feel free to email me privately. The 
summarized results
will be anonymous as they will only consist of rolled-up statistics.

Best regards,

Peter Buschman



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Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

2006-10-10 Thread Dominic Marks

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:51:40 +0200
Peter L. Buschman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 All:
 
 If it isn't too much of an imposition, I'd like to survey the list 
 and ask the question
 what operating system are you running Bacula on?. I'm interested in which OS
 distributions, versions and platforms are being deployed as Bacula servers.

Bacula DIRs, SDs and FDs on FreeBSD 4, 5, 6, 7
 ~15 systems

Bacula FDs on Solaris 9, 10, OpenSolaris (Sparc and x86)
 3 systems

Bacula FDs on Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu)
 2 systems

Bacula FDs on Windows 2000 Pro/Server, XP, 2003
 ~60 systems

We will almost certainly be looking into using SDs on Windows
when that hits a production release. Using MySQL for Catalogue
on a FreeBSD 6 system.

Cheers,
Dominic

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[Bacula-users] Bacula não restarta o Backup auto maticamente em caso de erro

2006-10-10 Thread Danilo Pinheiro Rodrigues

 Senhores, configurei em uma mesma máquina o Director, o Client, a Fita, o MySQL e o console.  Ele funciona perfeitamente, ele utiliza uma politica de backup com multiplas fitas o unico problema 
 que eu tenho encontrado é que se eu esqueço uma Fita no Drive e o Bacula tenta executar um backup  que se utiliza de uma outra fita não adianta eu simplesmente colocar a fita correta, eu sou obrigado
  a reiniciar o bacula e o MySQL, alguém poderia me informar se é normal esse procedimento ou se há  alguma configuração que eu poderia estar fazendo para evitar este tipo de transtorno. 
 Obrigado.-- Danilo Pinheiro Rodrigues
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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 1.39.24.20061002 source + Win32 binaries release to Source Forge

2006-10-10 Thread Sebastien Guilbaud


 Please let us know the results of your testing.

Works fine, deeply nested path fully backuped.

The only thing I have to investigate is why my
software compression options are not used
(Software Compression:   None in the mail report)
whereas it works flawlessly on all my other boxes

have a nice day

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Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

On 10/10/06, Dominic Marks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:51:40 +0200Peter L. Buschman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All: If it isn't too much of an imposition, I'd like to survey the list
 and ask the question what operating system are you running Bacula on?. I'm interested in which OS distributions, versions and platforms are being deployed as Bacula servers.
~100 computers connected to a nearly 100 gigabit ethernet network.Main Bacula DIR/SD/FD: Gentoo 2006.0 AMD64 - Dual processor Opteron 246 with 4GB of REG PC3200 DDR ECC and 3TB of linux software RAID6 + DLT-IV 
Database Server: Gentoo 2006.1 AMD64 - Single processor Athlon64 with 2 GB of REG PC3200 DDRSecond BaculaSD: Gentoo 2006.0 AMD64 - Dual processor Opteron 246 with 4GB of REG PC3200 DDR ECC + Exabyte Magnum 224 Autochanger with 2 LTO2 drives
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Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

Database Server: Gentoo 2006.1 AMD64 - Single processor Athlon64 with 2 GB of REG PC3200 DDR
Forgot to mention that the database is Postgresql 8John
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Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

2006-10-10 Thread Bill Moran

In response to Peter L. Buschman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 
 All:
 
 If it isn't too much of an imposition, I'd like to survey the list 
 and ask the question
 what operating system are you running Bacula on?. I'm interested in which OS
 distributions, versions and platforms are being deployed as Bacula servers.

4 systems running Bacula on FreeBSD 6.x using PostgreSQL as the backend.

If you want to know where FDs are running, that's a bit of a larger
topic.

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[Bacula-users] Res: Bacula não restarta o Back up automaticamente em caso de erro

2006-10-10 Thread Georger Araujo

That's right. The lingua franca in the list is English. I'll translate your 
question to English so that everyone can help.


Hi all,
I have configured all Bacula components (Dir, FD, SD, console, MySQL) on the 
same machine.
It works great, I have a backup policy that uses multiple tapes.
I've run into a problem, When I forget a tape in the drive and Bacula requires 
another tape to run a job, it's no use to insert the correct tape, I'm forced 
to restart Bacula and MySQL. Could someone please tell me if this is behavior 
is by design, or is there some configuration I could apply in order to avoid 
this nuisance? Thanks,

Danilo


Danilo,
you have to supply more information. What version of Bacula are you running? 
What hardware are you using? Single tape, autoloader, library? What procedure 
are you using to change the tape? Regards,

Georger - brazilian ;)

- Mensagem original 
De: Jaime Ventura [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Para: Danilo Pinheiro Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Enviadas: Terça-feira, 10 de Outubro de 2006 9:19:49
Assunto: Re: [Bacula-users]Bacula não restarta o Backup automaticamente em caso 
de erro

Danilo,
Vc deveria escrever em inglês aqui na lista, de modo que todos 
possam ajudar.
Quando vc diz «não adianta eu simplesmente colocar a fita correta», 
como vc faz para colocar a fita correcta?
Vc tem um autocharger?
   
Cumprimentos
Jaime Ventura

Danilo Pinheiro Rodrigues wrote:
 Senhores, configurei em uma mesma máquina o Director, o Client, a 
 Fita, o MySQL e o console.

 Ele funciona perfeitamente, ele utiliza uma politica de backup com 
 multiplas fitas o unico problema

 que eu tenho encontrado é que se eu esqueço uma Fita no Drive e o 
 Bacula tenta executar um backup

 que se utiliza de uma outra fita não adianta eu simplesmente 
 colocar a fita correta, eu sou obrigado

 a reiniciar o bacula e o MySQL, alguém poderia me informar se é 
 normal esse procedimento ou se há

 alguma configuração que eu poderia estar fazendo para evitar este 
 tipo de transtorno.

 Obrigado.

 -- 
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Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

2006-10-10 Thread jhernandez

2 Directors on Debian GNU/Linux (sarge) with PostgreSQL.  And at least
other 20 Debian GNU/Linux running the FD.

On 10/10/06, Peter L. Buschman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 All:

 If it isn't too much of an imposition, I'd like to survey the list
 and ask the question
 what operating system are you running Bacula on?. I'm interested in which OS
 distributions, versions and platforms are being deployed as Bacula servers.

 Mainly, this is to identify the highest-priority configurations for a
 test environment
 I am setting-up, but I think it would also be interesting from a
 broader Bacula adoption
 perspective to see what the distribution is.

 I will aggregate all of the responses and post a summary and
 percentage distribution
 of the results. If you would like to add your installation to the
 count but do not want to
 post openly to the list, please feel free to email me privately. The
 summarized results
 will be anonymous as they will only consist of rolled-up statistics.

 Best regards,

 Peter Buschman



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[Bacula-users] Res: Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

2006-10-10 Thread Georger Araujo

Main server:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant), 32-bit, no updates
- Bacula Dir, SD, FD - 1.38.9
- MySQL 4.1.7
- Single LTO-2 tape drive installed on a Dell 2800 (2 x Xeon 3.2 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 
Gigabit NIC)

Clients:
- 1 x Linux (the server itself)
- 1 x Windows NT 4.0
- 2 x Windows 2000
- 1 x Windows Server 2003

I also have Bacula-Web 1.2 for reporting. Regards,

Georger

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Para: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Enviadas: Terça-feira, 10 de Outubro de 2006 7:51:40
Assunto: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?


All:

If it isn't too much of an imposition, I'd like to survey the list 
and ask the question
what operating system are you running Bacula on?. I'm interested in which OS
distributions, versions and platforms are being deployed as Bacula servers.

Mainly, this is to identify the highest-priority configurations for a 
test environment
I am setting-up, but I think it would also be interesting from a 
broader Bacula adoption
perspective to see what the distribution is.

I will aggregate all of the responses and post a summary and 
percentage distribution
of the results. If you would like to add your installation to the 
count but do not want to
post openly to the list, please feel free to email me privately. The 
summarized results
will be anonymous as they will only consist of rolled-up statistics.

Best regards,

Peter Buschman





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Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

2006-10-10 Thread Jo

CentOS 4.4 at work and Mandriva 2006 at various other locations.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

~100 computers connected to a nearly 100 gigabit ethernet network.
Obviously I meant 100 percent as I don't beleieve there is a 100 GBit network yet!John
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Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

2006-10-10 Thread Silver Salonen

~10 directors and storage-daemons on FreeBSD 4, 5, 6
~25 clients on FreeBSD 4, 5, 6
~10 clients on Windows 2000

The numbers are rising as we just started deploying Bacula..

Silver

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 13:51, Peter L. Buschman wrote:
 
 All:
 
 If it isn't too much of an imposition, I'd like to survey the list 
 and ask the question
 what operating system are you running Bacula on?. I'm interested in which 
OS
 distributions, versions and platforms are being deployed as Bacula servers.
 
 Mainly, this is to identify the highest-priority configurations for a 
 test environment
 I am setting-up, but I think it would also be interesting from a 
 broader Bacula adoption
 perspective to see what the distribution is.
 
 I will aggregate all of the responses and post a summary and 
 percentage distribution
 of the results. If you would like to add your installation to the 
 count but do not want to
 post openly to the list, please feel free to email me privately. The 
 summarized results
 will be anonymous as they will only consist of rolled-up statistics.
 
 Best regards,
 
 Peter Buschman

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Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

2006-10-10 Thread Carlos Cristóbal Sabroe Yde

Hi, this is our set-up:

1 x Bacula 1.38.11 (SD-Dir-FD) running on a OpenSuSE Linux 10.0 (x86_64) and 
an IBM 3581 LTO3x7 changer (scsi) servicing:

3 x OpenSuSE Linux 10.1 (i586) - Bacula FD 1.38.11
2 x OpenSuSE Linux 10.0 (x86_64) - Bacula FD 1.38.11 (one is local to the 
SD/Dir)
4 x SuSE Prof. 9.2 (i586) - Bacula FD 1.38.9
1 x SuSE Prof. 9.1 (i586) - Bacula FD 1.38.9


El Martes, 10 de Octubre de 2006 07:51, Peter L. Buschman escribió:
 All:

 If it isn't too much of an imposition, I'd like to survey the list
 and ask the question
 what operating system are you running Bacula on?. I'm interested in which
 OS distributions, versions and platforms are being deployed as Bacula
 servers.

 Mainly, this is to identify the highest-priority configurations for a
 test environment
 I am setting-up, but I think it would also be interesting from a
 broader Bacula adoption
 perspective to see what the distribution is.

 I will aggregate all of the responses and post a summary and
 percentage distribution
 of the results. If you would like to add your installation to the
 count but do not want to
 post openly to the list, please feel free to email me privately. The
 summarized results
 will be anonymous as they will only consist of rolled-up statistics.

 Best regards,

 Peter Buschman

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Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

2006-10-10 Thread Hristo Benev

Peter L. Buschman wrote:
 All:

 If it isn't too much of an imposition, I'd like to survey the list 
 and ask the question
 what operating system are you running Bacula on?. I'm interested in which OS
 distributions, versions and platforms are being deployed as Bacula servers.

 Mainly, this is to identify the highest-priority configurations for a 
 test environment
 I am setting-up, but I think it would also be interesting from a 
 broader Bacula adoption
 perspective to see what the distribution is.

 I will aggregate all of the responses and post a summary and 
 percentage distribution
 of the results. If you would like to add your installation to the 
 count but do not want to
 post openly to the list, please feel free to email me privately. The 
 summarized results
 will be anonymous as they will only consist of rolled-up statistics.

 Best regards,

 Peter Buschman



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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula não restarta o Backup auto maticamente em caso de erro

2006-10-10 Thread Jaime Ventura

Danilo,
Vc deveria escrever em inglês aqui na lista, de modo que todos 
possam ajudar.
Quando vc diz «não adianta eu simplesmente colocar a fita correta», 
como vc faz para colocar a fita correcta?
Vc tem um autocharger?
   
Cumprimentos
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Danilo Pinheiro Rodrigues wrote:
 Senhores, configurei em uma mesma máquina o Director, o Client, a 
 Fita, o MySQL e o console.

 Ele funciona perfeitamente, ele utiliza uma politica de backup com 
 multiplas fitas o unico problema

 que eu tenho encontrado é que se eu esqueço uma Fita no Drive e o 
 Bacula tenta executar um backup

 que se utiliza de uma outra fita não adianta eu simplesmente 
 colocar a fita correta, eu sou obrigado

 a reiniciar o bacula e o MySQL, alguém poderia me informar se é 
 normal esse procedimento ou se há

 alguma configuração que eu poderia estar fazendo para evitar este 
 tipo de transtorno.

 Obrigado.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

2006-10-10 Thread Roberto Alsina

On Tue 10 Oct 2006 10:04, jhernandez wrote:
 2 Directors on Debian GNU/Linux (sarge) with PostgreSQL.  And at least
 other 20 Debian GNU/Linux running the FD.

5 directors on CentOS 4, about 100 windows FDs (mostly XP)


 On 10/10/06, Peter L. Buschman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  All:
 
  If it isn't too much of an imposition, I'd like to survey the list
  and ask the question
  what operating system are you running Bacula on?. I'm interested in
  which OS distributions, versions and platforms are being deployed as
  Bacula servers.
 
  Mainly, this is to identify the highest-priority configurations for a
  test environment
  I am setting-up, but I think it would also be interesting from a
  broader Bacula adoption
  perspective to see what the distribution is.
 
  I will aggregate all of the responses and post a summary and
  percentage distribution
  of the results. If you would like to add your installation to the
  count but do not want to
  post openly to the list, please feel free to email me privately. The
  summarized results
  will be anonymous as they will only consist of rolled-up statistics.
 
  Best regards,
 
  Peter Buschman
 
 
 
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[Bacula-users] Bacula and Softlinks

2006-10-10 Thread Janco van der Merwe

Hi,

Before wasting valuable time in testing can someone tell me
how Bacula will react with softlinks? Is it worth going that route? To give you
an idea on the one server it has 3 partitions and the aim is to backup the last
3 months of data but the twist is that the directories and partitions of where
the data is will change from month to month. What we thought is creating a backup
dir on the / partition and then a script that creates softlinks to the required
directories within the /backup dir which brings me to the above question will Bacula
follow the softlinks?

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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Softlinks

2006-10-10 Thread Bill Moran

In response to Janco van der Merwe [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 Hi,
  
 Before wasting valuable time in testing can someone tell me how Bacula
 will react with softlinks? Is it worth going that route? To give you an
 idea on the one server it has 3 partitions and the aim is to backup the
 last 3 months of data but the twist is that the directories and
 partitions of where the data is will change from month to month. What we
 thought is creating a backup dir on the / partition and then a script
 that creates softlinks to the required directories within the /backup
 dir which brings me to the above question will Bacula follow the
 softlinks? 

Please wrap your lines around 72 characters.

Current versions of Bacula don't follow symlinks.  There's been some
discussion about how to add a follow symlinks config option, but
I don't know what the current status is on that.

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[Bacula-users] Slight help with regress needed (configure/autoconf)

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I have been working on a regression script for Bacula and am now
starting to try to get Bacula to compile a regress environment on my
test system. However, the trouble here is my test system runs HP-UX 11i,
and apparently at least on my install, it falsely detects IPv6. I cannot
use IPv6 and the install blows up unless I comment out that line in
config.h. However, running configure overwrites config.h and 'make
setup' in regress runs configure.

What is the best way to make sure that IPv6 stays out? I don't see a way
to add a --disable flag for it (what would the flag be called and how
would I find this out?) I'm also not sure what the best way after that
would be. Autoconf is really not freely available as a package for my
platform without building it and all of its dependencies on really slow
hardware. Is there a quick way to make this work without too much trouble?

Sorry, I'm not too familiar with the internal workings of the
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[Bacula-users] retrying job when connection failed

2006-10-10 Thread crony

I've got a question. For example. I have SD, DIR and FD on another computers.Has bacula an option for retrying connection and retrying job when connection from FD to SD is broken? or this job will get broken or canceled flag? 
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Re: [Bacula-users] bacula: backup is slow

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 Though there are probably 10-20 performance pitfalls, the two big problems of 
 performance that I have seen are:
 
 - Poorly tuned Catalog database -- insertion of Bacula attributes in the 
 database tends to be slow.  There are probably 5 or ten reasons leading to 
 poor DB performance. I'll be working on improving this and documenting it 
 over the next 6-9 months.  A good part of what you can do is written in the 
 manual (Catalog Maintenance chapter). The rest appeared on this list within 
 the last month.
 
 - A switch (mostly 3Com switches in my experience) that run in half-duplex 
 mode, which slows network traffic down by about a factor of 10.

Cisco does this just as often, if not more often. A little surprising to
find that the top 2 can't seem to compete on the same level as a D-Link
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Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

2006-10-10 Thread Philip W. Dalrymple III

We are running Director on a Fedora Core 5 server and backing up
about 40 other systems (linux and windows)

Bill Moran wrote:
 In response to Peter L. Buschman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 
 All:

 If it isn't too much of an imposition, I'd like to survey the list 
 and ask the question
 what operating system are you running Bacula on?. I'm interested in which 
 OS
 distributions, versions and platforms are being deployed as Bacula servers.
 
 4 systems running Bacula on FreeBSD 6.x using PostgreSQL as the backend.
 
 If you want to know where FDs are running, that's a bit of a larger
 topic.
 

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Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

2006-10-10 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor

Quoting Peter L. Buschman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 If it isn't too much of an imposition, I'd like to survey the list
 and ask the question what operating system are you running Bacula
 on?. I'm interested in which OS distributions, versions and
 platforms are being deployed as Bacula servers.
 

DIR, SD, FD: Bacula 1.39.23 (26 September 2006)
  SuSE Prof. Linux 10.0
  Athlon XP 1800+

FD: Bacula 1.38.11-5
  Debian Linux: Etch (testing)
  Dual PII 300MHz

FD: Bacula 1.37.18 (08 May 2005)
  SuSE Prof. Linux 10.0
  IBM Thinkpad T41 (Intel Pentium M 1600MHz)

Windows 98SE backed up via smbfs (Windows network shared volume
mounted on DIR by pre-, and post-run scripts).  Bacula-fd
Window service hung after backups a bit too often.

I'm in the process of adding configurations for on-demand backup
of various virtual machines and other half of dual boot machines.

HTH,
  Jeffrey

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Re: [Bacula-users] bacula: backup is slow

2006-10-10 Thread Bill Moran

In response to Ryan Novosielski [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

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  Though there are probably 10-20 performance pitfalls, the two big problems 
  of 
  performance that I have seen are:
  
  - Poorly tuned Catalog database -- insertion of Bacula attributes in the 
  database tends to be slow.  There are probably 5 or ten reasons leading to 
  poor DB performance. I'll be working on improving this and documenting it 
  over the next 6-9 months.  A good part of what you can do is written in the 
  manual (Catalog Maintenance chapter). The rest appeared on this list within 
  the last month.
  
  - A switch (mostly 3Com switches in my experience) that run in half-duplex 
  mode, which slows network traffic down by about a factor of 10.
 
 Cisco does this just as often, if not more often. A little surprising to
 find that the top 2 can't seem to compete on the same level as a D-Link
 switch from Radio Shack. ;)

If you read Cisco's docs, they make the claim that these problems are
per-spec.

My understanding of the argument is that if you manually set the speed
and duplex, you have disabled auto-negotiation.  If the other end
tries to auto-negotiate, it will be able to detect the speed, just by
dumb luck of how the protocol works, but it will _consistently_ mis-
detect the duplex, again because of dumb luck of the protocol

Their argument seems to be that this behaviour is per the specs.  If
a D-Link does it differently, then D-Link is doing it wrong, even if
it's doing it more intuitively.

If Cisco is correct, then it would seem as if the spec were written
poorly.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Softlinks

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 16:12, Janco van der Merwe wrote:
 Hi,
  
 Before wasting valuable time in testing can someone tell me how Bacula 
 will react with softlinks? Is it worth going that route? To give you an idea 
 on the 
 one server it has 3 partitions and the aim is to backup the last 3 months of 
 data 
 but the twist is that the directories and partitions of where the data is 
 will change 
 from month to month. What we thought is creating a backup dir on the / 
 partition 
 and then a script that creates softlinks to the required directories within 
 the /backup 
 dir which brings me to the above question will Bacula follow the softlinks?   
 

If you are soft linking Volume names, yes, which probably means fixed 
Volume names pre-labeled.  If you are trying to soft link directories 
(i.e. disk Archive device), I'm not sure.   I use this technique to have 
Bacula disk 
backup where the total data of all the Volumes is larger than a single hard 
disk.

Example:
In directory /files/havana an ls -l
total 76652132
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Diff-0001 - 
/files1/havana/Diff-0001
-rw-r-1 root root 215321044 Aug 27 01:10 Diff-0002
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Diff-0003 - 
/files1/havana/Diff-0003
-rw-r-1 root root 262084337 Sep 17 01:10 Diff-0004
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Diff-0005 - 
/files1/havana/Diff-0005
-rw-r-1 root root 139985294 Sep 10 01:06 Diff-0006
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Diff-0007 - 
/files1/havana/Diff-0007
-rw-r-1 root root 72443800 Oct  8 01:07 Diff-0008
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Diff-0009 - 
/files1/havana/Diff-0009
-rw-r-1 root root 3556777231 Jul 23 01:11 Diff-0010
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Full-0001 - 
/files1/havana/Full-0001
-rw-r-1 root root 9550073756 Aug  6 02:31 Full-0002
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Full-0003 - 
/files1/havana/Full-0003
-rw-r-1 root root 9717336948 Sep  3 02:33 Full-0004
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Full-0005 - 
/files1/havana/Full-0005
-rw-r-1 root root 28482069327 May  7 01:56 Full-0006
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Full-0007 - 
/files1/havana/Full-0007
-rw-r-1 root root 21896443859 Jul  2 01:45 Full-0008
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   23 Jul 20  2004 Inc-0001 - 
/files1/havana/Inc-0001
-rw-r-1 root root 234899641 Sep 26 01:06 Inc-0002
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   23 Jul 20  2004 Inc-0003 - 
/files1/havana/Inc-0003
-rw-r-1 root root 2988337776 Sep  5 01:06 Inc-0004
-rw-r-1 root root 234663813 Sep 19 01:05 Inc-0005
-rw-r-1 root root 1064598374 Oct 10 01:06 Inc-0006

Note, /files1/havana is a different hard disk.  Bacula only knows about 
/files/havana.  From SD conf file:

Device {
  Name = FileStorage
  Media Type = File
  Archive Device = /files/havana
  LabelMedia = yes;   # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
  Random Access = Yes;
  AutomaticMount = yes;   # when device opened, read it
  RemovableMedia = no;
  AlwaysOpen = no;
}

Interesting.  You can see the date when I added the second harddisk, and
Bacula has just continued backing up and recycling ever since with no
manual intervention other than me doing 1 or 2 upgrades.



Regards,

Kern

  
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Re: [Bacula-users] bacula: backup is slow

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 Though there are probably 10-20 performance pitfalls, the two big problems 
 of 
 performance that I have seen are:

 - Poorly tuned Catalog database -- insertion of Bacula attributes in the 
 database tends to be slow.  There are probably 5 or ten reasons leading to 
 poor DB performance. I'll be working on improving this and documenting it 
 over the next 6-9 months.  A good part of what you can do is written in the 
 manual (Catalog Maintenance chapter). The rest appeared on this list within 
 the last month.

 - A switch (mostly 3Com switches in my experience) that run in half-duplex 
 mode, which slows network traffic down by about a factor of 10.
 Cisco does this just as often, if not more often. A little surprising to
 find that the top 2 can't seem to compete on the same level as a D-Link
 switch from Radio Shack. ;)
 
 If you read Cisco's docs, they make the claim that these problems are
 per-spec.
 
 My understanding of the argument is that if you manually set the speed
 and duplex, you have disabled auto-negotiation.  If the other end
 tries to auto-negotiate, it will be able to detect the speed, just by
 dumb luck of how the protocol works, but it will _consistently_ mis-
 detect the duplex, again because of dumb luck of the protocol

That's not the behavior I've seen however. THAT I understand, and if I'm
not mistaken, it is per spec. However, what I've seen is many cases
where I said to our telecomm staff please leave that port at
autonegotiate and then hooked up equipment -- in my case, both Solaris
and IRIX machines, and with no other change made to their configuration
(both have autonegotiate as their default behavior), the machine
negotiates to 100/Half. I can't 100% prove, as I do not have access to
the routers, that the ports were set to auto, but I'm sure they know
what they're doing.

 Their argument seems to be that this behaviour is per the specs.  If
 a D-Link does it differently, then D-Link is doing it wrong, even if
 it's doing it more intuitively.
 
 If Cisco is correct, then it would seem as if the spec were written
 poorly.

I believe that they are, and I'd agree with that. It seems to me that it
would try to be as aggressive as possible, but that is apparently not
true. My problem is that the routers don't seem to work to spec either.
If it were my job to work on switches/routers, I'd be peeved and take it
up with them, but I don't currently have any experience with managed
devices.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

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There is a wiki somewhere with sample installations, but I couldn't find
it when I looked.

I have director/storage machines that run HP-UX 11i and Solaris 9. My
- -fd machines run WinXP, Solaris 10, RHEL4, IRIX 6.5, HP-UX 11i, and
Solaris 9. The only one that has a problematic build process is HP-UX 11i.

Peter L. Buschman wrote:
 All:
 
 If it isn't too much of an imposition, I'd like to survey the list 
 and ask the question
 what operating system are you running Bacula on?. I'm interested in which OS
 distributions, versions and platforms are being deployed as Bacula servers.
 
 Mainly, this is to identify the highest-priority configurations for a 
 test environment
 I am setting-up, but I think it would also be interesting from a 
 broader Bacula adoption
 perspective to see what the distribution is.
 
 I will aggregate all of the responses and post a summary and 
 percentage distribution
 of the results. If you would like to add your installation to the 
 count but do not want to
 post openly to the list, please feel free to email me privately. The 
 summarized results
 will be anonymous as they will only consist of rolled-up statistics.
 
 Best regards,
 
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[Bacula-users] Rif: Re: Bacula and Softlinks

2006-10-10 Thread Ferdinando Pasqualetti

I am using softlinks for devices with bacula 1.36.3 and they work 
perfecly. I keep a storage device for each client (or family of clients) 
on a 4.5 Tb system and in / there is a directory with soft links to the 
various storage devices, so I can change their physical location without 
stopping or reloading bacula.

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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Softlinks






On Tuesday 10 October 2006 16:12, Janco van der Merwe wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Before wasting valuable time in testing can someone tell me how Bacula 
 will react with softlinks? Is it worth going that route? To give you an 
idea on the 
 one server it has 3 partitions and the aim is to backup the last 3 
months of data 
 but the twist is that the directories and partitions of where the data 
is will change 
 from month to month. What we thought is creating a backup dir on the / 
partition 
 and then a script that creates softlinks to the required directories 
within the /backup 
 dir which brings me to the above question will Bacula follow the 
softlinks? 

If you are soft linking Volume names, yes, which probably means fixed 
Volume names pre-labeled.  If you are trying to soft link directories 
(i.e. disk Archive device), I'm not sure.   I use this technique to have 
Bacula disk 
backup where the total data of all the Volumes is larger than a single 
hard disk.

Example:
In directory /files/havana an ls -l
total 76652132
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Diff-0001 - 
/files1/havana/Diff-0001
-rw-r-1 root root 215321044 Aug 27 01:10 Diff-0002
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Diff-0003 - 
/files1/havana/Diff-0003
-rw-r-1 root root 262084337 Sep 17 01:10 Diff-0004
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Diff-0005 - 
/files1/havana/Diff-0005
-rw-r-1 root root 139985294 Sep 10 01:06 Diff-0006
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Diff-0007 - 
/files1/havana/Diff-0007
-rw-r-1 root root 72443800 Oct  8 01:07 Diff-0008
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Diff-0009 - 
/files1/havana/Diff-0009
-rw-r-1 root root 3556777231 Jul 23 01:11 Diff-0010
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Full-0001 - 
/files1/havana/Full-0001
-rw-r-1 root root 9550073756 Aug  6 02:31 Full-0002
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Full-0003 - 
/files1/havana/Full-0003
-rw-r-1 root root 9717336948 Sep  3 02:33 Full-0004
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Full-0005 - 
/files1/havana/Full-0005
-rw-r-1 root root 28482069327 May  7 01:56 Full-0006
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Full-0007 - 
/files1/havana/Full-0007
-rw-r-1 root root 21896443859 Jul  2 01:45 Full-0008
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   23 Jul 20  2004 Inc-0001 - 
/files1/havana/Inc-0001
-rw-r-1 root root 234899641 Sep 26 01:06 Inc-0002
lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   23 Jul 20  2004 Inc-0003 - 
/files1/havana/Inc-0003
-rw-r-1 root root 2988337776 Sep  5 01:06 Inc-0004
-rw-r-1 root root 234663813 Sep 19 01:05 Inc-0005
-rw-r-1 root root 1064598374 Oct 10 01:06 Inc-0006

Note, /files1/havana is a different hard disk.  Bacula only knows about 
/files/havana.  From SD conf file:

Device {
  Name = FileStorage
  Media Type = File
  Archive Device = /files/havana
  LabelMedia = yes;   # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
  Random Access = Yes;
  AutomaticMount = yes;   # when device opened, read it
  RemovableMedia = no;
  AlwaysOpen = no;
}

Interesting.  You can see the date when I added the second harddisk, and
Bacula has just continued backing up and recycling ever since with no
manual intervention other than me doing 1 or 2 upgrades.



Regards,

Kern

 
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 Switchboard: 011 541 3000
 Direct: 011 541 3007
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Re: [Bacula-users] Rif: Re: Bacula and Softlinks

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The original poster was referring to backing up softlinks, not using
them as backup devices/locations.

Bacula will back up the link, if I'm not mistaken, but not the data
underneath. This affects me for the following reason: let's say my list
includes /usr/local/bacula. I prefer this because I'm absent-minded and
don't like to change the name. Welp, it will backup /usr/local/bacula
alright, but it will NOT backup /usr/local/bacula-1.38.11, which is what
the link really points to.

I would personally like the option to follow symlinks, though I really
only use them for directories. I could see them being a problem on
systems where /bin is a symlink to /usr/bin, or other strange things
that I've seem on default OS installs lately.

Ferdinando Pasqualetti wrote:
 I am using softlinks for devices with bacula 1.36.3 and they work 
 perfecly. I keep a storage device for each client (or family of clients) 
 on a 4.5 Tb system and in / there is a directory with soft links to the 
 various storage devices, so I can change their physical location without 
 stopping or reloading bacula.
 
 --
 Ferdinando Pasqualetti
 G.T.Dati srl
 Tel. 0557310862 - 3356172731 - Fax 055720143
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 Oggetto
 Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Softlinks
 
 
 
 
 
 
 On Tuesday 10 October 2006 16:12, Janco van der Merwe wrote:
 Hi,

 Before wasting valuable time in testing can someone tell me how Bacula 
 will react with softlinks? Is it worth going that route? To give you an 
 idea on the 
 one server it has 3 partitions and the aim is to backup the last 3 
 months of data 
 but the twist is that the directories and partitions of where the data 
 is will change 
 from month to month. What we thought is creating a backup dir on the / 
 partition 
 and then a script that creates softlinks to the required directories 
 within the /backup 
 dir which brings me to the above question will Bacula follow the 
 softlinks? 
 
 If you are soft linking Volume names, yes, which probably means fixed 
 Volume names pre-labeled.  If you are trying to soft link directories 
 (i.e. disk Archive device), I'm not sure.   I use this technique to have 
 Bacula disk 
 backup where the total data of all the Volumes is larger than a single 
 hard disk.
 
 Example:
 In directory /files/havana an ls -l
 total 76652132
 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Diff-0001 - 
 /files1/havana/Diff-0001
 -rw-r-1 root root 215321044 Aug 27 01:10 Diff-0002
 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Diff-0003 - 
 /files1/havana/Diff-0003
 -rw-r-1 root root 262084337 Sep 17 01:10 Diff-0004
 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Diff-0005 - 
 /files1/havana/Diff-0005
 -rw-r-1 root root 139985294 Sep 10 01:06 Diff-0006
 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Diff-0007 - 
 /files1/havana/Diff-0007
 -rw-r-1 root root 72443800 Oct  8 01:07 Diff-0008
 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Diff-0009 - 
 /files1/havana/Diff-0009
 -rw-r-1 root root 3556777231 Jul 23 01:11 Diff-0010
 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Full-0001 - 
 /files1/havana/Full-0001
 -rw-r-1 root root 9550073756 Aug  6 02:31 Full-0002
 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Full-0003 - 
 /files1/havana/Full-0003
 -rw-r-1 root root 9717336948 Sep  3 02:33 Full-0004
 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Full-0005 - 
 /files1/havana/Full-0005
 -rw-r-1 root root 28482069327 May  7 01:56 Full-0006
 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Full-0007 - 
 /files1/havana/Full-0007
 -rw-r-1 root root 21896443859 Jul  2 01:45 Full-0008
 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   23 Jul 20  2004 Inc-0001 - 
 /files1/havana/Inc-0001
 -rw-r-1 root root 234899641 Sep 26 01:06 Inc-0002
 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   23 Jul 20  2004 Inc-0003 - 
 /files1/havana/Inc-0003
 -rw-r-1 root root 2988337776 Sep  5 01:06 Inc-0004
 -rw-r-1 root root 234663813 Sep 19 01:05 Inc-0005
 -rw-r-1 root root 1064598374 Oct 10 01:06 Inc-0006
 
 Note, /files1/havana is a different hard disk.  Bacula only knows about 
 /files/havana.  From SD conf file:
 
 Device {
   Name = FileStorage
   Media Type = File
   Archive Device = /files/havana
   LabelMedia = yes;   # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
   Random Access = Yes;
   AutomaticMount = yes;   # when device opened, read it
   RemovableMedia = no;
   AlwaysOpen = no;
 }
 
 Interesting.  You can see the date when I added the second harddisk, and
 Bacula has

Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

2006-10-10 Thread Ian Levesque

On Oct 10, 2006, at 6:51 AM, Peter L. Buschman wrote:
 what operating system are you running Bacula on?. I'm interested  
 in which OS
 distributions, versions and platforms are being deployed as Bacula  
 servers.


Hi Peter,

Our SD and DIR run on a dual-Opteron 244 box, 4GB RAM, MySQL, Fedora  
Core 4 (32-bit)
Our FDs are mostly FC3-FC4 boxen, mostly 32-bit

Cheers,
Ian



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Re: [Bacula-users] Resolved: FW: Autoloader: Replace tape in magazine after backups complete?

2006-10-10 Thread Alan Brown

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Jeremy Koppel wrote:

 .
 except our Quantum SuperLoader3 has an inaccessible tape drive, and in
 the event of a malfunction, like we had, your tape is stuck in that
 drive for life (to try to remove it voids the warranty).

The Bacula documentation entry for the unit's compatibility should have a 
LARGE warning next to it.

This kind of thing is unacceptable in an individual tape drive, let alone 
a library.

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Re: [Bacula-users] bacula: backup is slow

2006-10-10 Thread Alan Brown

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Ryan Novosielski wrote:

 That's not the behavior I've seen however. THAT I understand, and if I'm
 not mistaken, it is per spec. However, what I've seen is many cases
 where I said to our telecomm staff please leave that port at
 autonegotiate and then hooked up equipment -- in my case, both Solaris
 and IRIX machines, and with no other change made to their configuration
 (both have autonegotiate as their default behavior), the machine
 negotiates to 100/Half. I can't 100% prove, as I do not have access to
 the routers, that the ports were set to auto, but I'm sure they know
 what they're doing.

Having worked on the telco side of the equation as a tech and a manager, I 
think you have too much faith in the listening and comprehension abilities 
of the average Telco tech.

Whenever I've encountered this, sure enough, bozo techie has locked the 
speed and duplex (or left it locked, or unlocked the wrong port).

I've seen techs do far, far worse things - about 90% of the maintenance 
requirement of the old switches was actually due to ham-handed humans 
fiddling with the switchgear in the first place - particularly Stromberg 
stepping equipment...

AB

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Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

2006-10-10 Thread Ray Pengelly

Solaris 9 x86 with SUN L25 with 2 SDLT320 drives
Solaris 10 x86 with SUN L25 with 1 LTO-3 drive 

Both run SD/FD/DIR with Mysql as backend DB

Clients are windows XP, server 2003, Solaris 7 sparc, Solaris 9_x86, Solaris
10_x86, and Gentoo amd_64. Approx 30 clients total.

Ray



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 All:
 
 If it isn't too much of an imposition, I'd like to survey the list and
 ask the question what operating system are you running Bacula on?.
 I'm interested in which OS distributions, versions and platforms are
 being deployed as Bacula servers.
 
 Mainly, this is to identify the highest-priority configurations for a
 test environment I am setting-up, but I think it would also be
 interesting from a broader Bacula adoption perspective to see what the
 distribution is.
 
 I will aggregate all of the responses and post a summary and percentage
 distribution of the results. If you would like to add your installation
 to the count but do not want to post openly to the list, please feel
 free to email me privately. The summarized results will be anonymous as
 they will only consist of rolled-up statistics.
 
 Best regards,
 
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[Bacula-users] Bacula status -- Restructuring the Bacula project

Hello,

Some time ago, I wrote that I was going to discuss:
1. GUI interface
2. Restructuring the Bacula project
3. Performance enhancements

1. The GUI interface preliminaries have been hashed around quite a lot. There 
are a lot more details we will work out over time ...

2. Restructuring the Bacula project is the topic of this email, see below:

3. Performance enhancements. I didn't expect to address this at this point, 
but in fact, I expressed most of my ideas already in an email to Eric and 
Marc.

Restructuring the Bacula project:

I've been turning this over in my mind and discussing parts of it with 
serveral people now for several months.  At this point, I have made a lot of 
progress but there are still some rather critical grey areas where I am not 
sure what the right direction is.

Basic problem: Bacula is now entering or in the Enterprise class of software, 
which means that it is becoming a critical component of many institutions.  
It is now somewhat over 150,000 lines of code and has largely depassed my 
capacity to understand and keep in mind the whole program.  Some years ago 
when it was 20-50,000 lines of code, fixing most bugs and getting out new 
releases was rather rapid -- the full set of regression scripts ran in 15 
minutes.  Today, my personal development is going exponentially slower (the 
overall development speed is remaining the same or possibly increasing). The 
regression scripts take something like 4.5 hours to run, getting out a new 
release is very difficult.  I simply no longer have the time to correctly 
manage the project as it is currently organized -- there are a lot of reasons 
for this, mostly described above.

The problem is given the above, how do we move forward from here?  How do we 
ensure that Bacula grows and that it survives in the long term?

==
Before presenting some of my views for your review and comments on how we can 
do this, I would like to re-iterate a few guiding principles that you must 
always keep in mind when reading forward as they can be easily forgotten when 
one is seaching for solutions.  I've indicated very rough timeframe for the 
changes:

1. I am committed to Open Source and to keeping Bacula as Open Source 
(forever).

2. I want to ensure the long term survival and independence of Bacula, which 
means it needs some sort of a legal structure, a governance, some 
reasonable financial means, and a careful examination of the copyrigh 
assignment issues concerning contributions (6 mo - 1 year).

3. The current project is *far* too dependent on me, and I have reached my 
capacity to contribute (i.e. I can continue to contribute to the extent that 
I do now, but I cannot contribute more), so we need to find additional ways 
to leverage the project so that it can continue to grow without me being 
the bottle neck (1 - 6 months).

4. I would as much as possible to avoid that Bacula becomes too commercial a 
long the lines of MySQL where from what I understand virtually all the MySQL 
development is done by paid employees.  In other words I would like to retain 
the volunteer Open Source contribution as much as possible -- at the same 
time encouraging more contribution from those who benefit from Bacula, and 
permit those helping the Bacula project to be appropriately compensated.  

I hope that everyone can more or less take the above as given guiding 
principles otherwise the rest of this email probably doesn't make much sense.
==

#1 doesn't need much elaboration.

#2 I have discussed before, and I hope that within the next 6 months I can 
convert the Bacula project to be a Swiss Association (the closest American 
concept I can imagine is a Partnership, in France, I believe they are also 
called Associations, and in other countries Clubs).  Long term (say 5 
years) I imagine it would become a Foundation, but that is too expensive 
currently.  The basic idea here is to get some sort of governing board (even 
if it starts out being me), a definition of the project, the ability to open 
a bank account, and the ability to hold the copyright.

I had the good fortune recently (thanks to Martin for working out some email 
problems) to meet with Georg Greve who is the President of FSF Europe and 
based in Zurich.  It appears that FSF Europe may be able to help me with 
parts of this project transition.

Part of this will be to cleanup any possible copyright assignment issues, 
which mainly means getting assignment agreements from any major contributors 
of code to Bacula and ensuring that all developers with CVS write access have 
signed such an agreement.  Please see the Developer's guide for more details 
on this.  

#3 Currently, I am responsible for:
- programming many of the major projects
- helping/organizing/guiding the developers
- doing the English documentation
- making changes to the Web site
- releasing the source code (Scott Barninger handles the rpms)
- releasing the documentation
- testing the code prior to

[Bacula-users] Bad response to Append Data command

2006-10-10 Thread Robert Keidel

Hello,

I try to get bacula running on a Centos 4 running. I have VXA2 
autochanger. I went through the manuals, and everything seems to work 
fine. I started backup job and it looked very good. After the test run, 
I changed my bacula-dir.conf to add another client and change what has 
to be backed up. After i made those changes as soon I will run a backup 
I get the following message. The same message appears if I use my old files.
I hope someone can help me. If you need more information let me know.

Robert

Job started. JobId=42
09-Oct 10:26 server1-dir: Start Backup JobId 42, 
Job=Client1.2006-10-09_10.26.55
09-Oct 10:26 server1-sd: 3301 Issuing autochanger loaded drive 0 command.
09-Oct 10:26 server1-sd: 3302 Autochanger loaded drive 0, result: 
nothing loaded.
09-Oct 10:26 server1-sd: 3304 Issuing autochanger load slot 1, drive 0 
command.
09-Oct 10:27 server1-sd: Client1.2006-10-09_10.26.55 Fatal error: 3992 
Bad autochanger load slot 1, drive 0: ERR=Child exited with code 1.
09-Oct 10:27 server1-fd: Client1.2006-10-09_10.26.55 Fatal error: 
job.c:1617 Bad response to Append Data command. Wanted 3000 OK data
, got 3903 Error append data

09-Oct 10:27 server1-dir: Client1.2006-10-09_10.26.55 Error: Bacula 
1.38.11 (28Jun06): 09-Oct-2006 10:27:14
  JobId:  42
  Job:Client1.2006-10-09_10.26.55
  Backup Level:   Incremental, since=2006-10-06 08:35:44
  Client: server1-fd i686-redhat-linux-gnu,redhat,
  FileSet:Full Set 2006-10-05 09:49:48
  Pool:   Default
  Storage:VXA2
  Scheduled time: 09-Oct-2006 10:26:54
  Start time: 09-Oct-2006 10:26:58
  End time:   09-Oct-2006 10:27:14
  Elapsed time:   16 secs
  Priority:   100
  FD Files Written:   0
  SD Files Written:   0
  FD Bytes Written:   0 (0 B)
  SD Bytes Written:   0 (0 B)
  Rate:   0.0 KB/s
  Software Compression:   None
  Volume name(s):
  Volume Session Id:  1
  Volume Session Time:1160414803
  Last Volume Bytes:  14,357,017,975 (14.35 GB)
  Non-fatal FD errors:0
  SD Errors:  0
  FD termination status:  Error
  SD termination status:  Error
  Termination:*** Backup Error ***


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[Bacula-users] Windows Restore Path Error?

2006-10-10 Thread Yuri Tymish

version 1.38.11

I'm trying to restore to a different directory on the the same machine that 
was backed up. Ther is a c:\ and d:\ drive. I created the directory 
d:\Public\Restores that I wanted to use and SYSTEM has full permissions. I 
still get this error


09-Oct 15:08 server1-fd: server1_restore_from_disk.2006-10-09_15.06.57 
Error: Cannot create directory d:: ERR=Invalid argument

Here is the relevant conf entry.
I've tried the Where= path with and without the double quotes.

Job {
Name = server1 restore from disk
Type = Restore
Client = server1-fd
FileSet = server1 to disk
Storage = server1_dir
Where = d:/Public/Restores
Messages = Standard
Pool = Default
Full Backup Pool = server1-Full-Pool
Incremental Backup Pool = server1-Inc-Pool
Differential Backup Pool = server1-Diff-Pool
}

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Re: [Bacula-users] backup is slow

2006-10-10 Thread Anders Boström

 JD == John Drescher writes:
 JG == John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

JD Are you using MD5 or SHA1 signatures? Do you have the database
JD indexed properly?

No, no signatures are used. The database is indexed properly seems to
be very fast. As I stated below, the backup-server is responding
directly at all time, and is unloaded during backup.

/ Anders

 JG Hello Bacula folks,
 JG We received this message at the Debian bug-tracking system, and thought
 JG that this is probably a more appropriate forum for it:

 JG - Forwarded message from Anders Boström [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

 JG From: Anders Boström [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 JG Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:32:28 +0200 (CEST)
 JG To: Debian Bug Tracking System [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 JG Subject: bacula: backup is slow

 JG Package: bacula
 JG Version: 1.38.11-1
 JG Severity: normal

 JG We have a problem with very long backup-times of our file-server.

 JG The file-server is only used for NFS and is quite heavily loaded. It
 JG is a Debian etch amd64 with a 2.6.16.20 kernel running on a Athlon 64
 JG X2 3800+ (dual core) with 2Gb mem and two 500 Gb discs in raid1. ext3
 JG is used as filesystem, with dir_index enabled.

 JG The backup-server is also a Debian etch amd64 but with a 2.6.15.6
 JG kernel and an Athlon 64 3200+ CPU with 512 Mb mem. Both bacula-sd and
 JG bacula-dir is running on the backup-server, as well as a
 JG mysql-daemon. Discs are used for backup.

 JG The file-server and the backup-server are connected via an GE-network
 JG without loss.

 JG I've done some measurements on a ~7.5 Gb directory tree with 88208
 JG files (just one user-account):

 JG bacula backup without SW compression:  1 hour 45 mins 2 secs
 JG bacula backup with SW compression: 2 hours 42 mins 11 secs
 JG local tar on the fileserver*:  53 mins 3 secs

 JG * time /bin/sh -c tar cf - directory | cat /dev/null

 JG The CPU's on the fileserver was unloaded during all operations, one
 JG of them was 100% idle, the other was mostly 90% IO-wait. The
 JG backup-server is 98%-100% idle at all time.

 JG Why is the local tar *much* faster then the bacula-fd??? And why is SW
 JG compression making the backup much slower, even with unloaded CPU's?

 JG I've studied the network traffic pattern with ethereal during a
 JG backup, and the backup-server is responding directly at all time. It
 JG is waiting for data from the fileserver. I've seen up to 400 ms
 JG without a single packet from the fileserver and most of the packets
 JG sent from the fileserver to the backup-server is small.

 JG What can explain this? How can I debug/analyze this further. What
 JG should I try?

 JG / Anders

 JG -- System Information:
 JG Debian Release: testing/unstable
 JG   APT prefers testing
 JG   APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable')
 JG Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
 JG Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
 JG Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.6
 JG Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to 
sv_SE)

 JG Versions of packages bacula depends on:
 JG ii  bacula-client 1.38.11-1  Network backup, recovery and 
verif
 JG ii  bacula-server 1.38.11-1  Network backup, recovery and 
verif

 JG bacula recommends no packages.

 JG -- no debconf information



 JG - End forwarded message -
 JG - Forwarded message from Anders Boström [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

 JG From: Anders Boström [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 JG Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:15:32 +0200 (CEST)
 JG To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 JG Subject: Re: Bug#383332: bacula: backup is slow

 JG == John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 JG Hi John!

 JG On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 05:32:28PM +0200, Anders Boström wrote:
  We have a problem with very long backup-times of our file-server.

 JG I suspect this is not a Debian-specific problem and also probably not a
 JG bug.  I would suggest that you post on the bacula-user mailing list.
 JG This is likely a configuration issue that could be related to anything
 JG such as the storage of filenames in the database, network buffer size, 
 JG etc.

 JG Yes, I agree that this probably isn't a debian specific
 JG problem. However, I'm quite sure we can rule out the backup-server as
 JG ethereal tells me that the backup-server responds directly to all
 JG packets from the file-server, but the file-server sometimes don't sent
 JG a single packet for 400 ms.

 JG I should also say that the suggestion that software compression wouldn't
 JG slow things down is incorrect.  It certainly will, in any system.  The
 JG only possible time that it won't is if the CPU is so much faster than
 JG the data pathways that it won't slow it down, but you don't know that
 JG from the figures you posted.

 JG I agree that software compression should slow down the backup unless
 JG you are communication limited. And we are not communication limited in
 JG this case. BUT we are not CPU-limited either (one CPU 100% idle during
 JG backup, the

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Director Fails Under Windows - Build 1.39.24

2006-10-10 Thread Peter Miller

I have made some progress in getting the Windows bacula-dir to run and
have made some observations:

1. If you run bacula-dir /about you get a message box that says Bad
Command Line Options - /about.

This is followed by another message box listing the allowed command line
options and /about is in this list.

2. Director was terminating on me as soon as I tried to run it. I
tracked the problem down to an error in the config file which I have now
fixed.

After reading the documentation my understanding is that you can test
config files by putting -t on the command line. The problem is that if
the config file has an error director terminates before outputting any
kind of information telling you that there is an error in the config
file. This is true even if you have turned on debugging with the -d
parameter. The net result is that the -t option is useless.

3. I have found the reason for the brief command boxes flashing on the
screen when director starts. Here is some output from bacula.trace:

bacula-dir: ../../dird/dird.c:139 Debug level = 400
bacula-dir: ../../lib/lex.c:161 Open config file: c:\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula\bacula-dir.conf
bacula-dir: ../../lib/util.c:412 Send: /bin/sh -c echo C:\Program
Files\Bacula\bin\query.sql
bacula-dir: ../compat/compat.cpp:1777 Calling
CreateProcess(C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe, C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
/c /bin/sh -c echo C:\Program
Files\Bacula\bin\query.sql, ...)
bacula-dir: ../../lib/util.c:418 stat=268435457 got: The system cannot
find the path specified.
bacula-dir: ../../lib/util.c:412 Send: /bin/sh -c echo C:\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula\Work
bacula-dir: ../compat/compat.cpp:1777 Calling
CreateProcess(C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe, C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
/c /bin/sh -c echo C:\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula\Work, ...)
bacula-dir: ../../lib/util.c:418 stat=268435457 got: The system cannot
find the path specified.
bacula-dir: ../../lib/util.c:412 Send: /bin/sh -c echo C:\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula\Work
bacula-dir: ../compat/compat.cpp:1777 Calling
CreateProcess(C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe, C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
/c /bin/sh -c echo C:\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula\Work, ...)
bacula-dir: ../../lib/util.c:418 stat=268435457 got: The system cannot
find the path specified.
bacula-dir: ../../lib/util.c:412 Send: /bin/sh -c echo C:\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula\Work\Client1.bsr
bacula-dir: ../compat/compat.cpp:1777 Calling
CreateProcess(C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe, C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
/c /bin/sh -c echo C:\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula\Work\Client1.bsr, ...)
bacula-dir: ../../lib/util.c:418 stat=268435457 got: The system cannot
find the path specified.
bacula-dir: ../../lib/util.c:412 Send: /bin/sh -c echo
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\Bacula\Work\BackupCatalog.bsr
bacula-dir: ../compat/compat.cpp:1777 Calling
CreateProcess(C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe, C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
/c /bin/sh -c echo C:\Documents and
Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula\Work\BackupCatalog.bsr, ...)
bacula-dir: ../../lib/util.c:418 stat=268435457 got: The system cannot
find the path specified.
bacula-dir: ../../lib/lex.c:161 Open config file:
c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula\bacula-dir.conf

This would seem to be a remnant from when Bacula was compiled for Cygwin
as /bin/sh is no longer present.

Regards

Peter Miller

NoSpam wrote:
 Hi All,

 I have decided to experiment with Bacula Director on my Windows XP box 
 but have run into a problem.

 Bacula-fd and bacula-sd run fine but bacula-dir crashes immediately 
 whether run as a service or from the command line.

 Logged in as an administrator I have tried the following command to 
 capture the output with no luck.

 C:\Program Files\Bacula\binbacula-dir -d100 -c c:\Documents and 
 Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula\bacula-dir.conf  out.txt

 The file out.txt is zero bytes and bacula.trace only contains one line 
 of text:

   bacula-dir: ../../dird/dird.c:139 Debug level = 100

 Some cmd.exe box flashes briefly on the screen about four times but it 
 is so fast I can't see any info in it.

 When run as a service the only info in the event viewer is a The Bacula 
 Director service terminated unexpectedly
  with no usefull info.

 Is there any way I can improve the logging so I can see why director is 
 failing?

 Regards

 Peter Miller

   



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Re: [Bacula-users] Resolved: FW: Autoloader: Replace tape in magazine after backups complete?

 except our Quantum SuperLoader3 has an inaccessible tape drive, and in the event of a malfunction, like we had, your tape is stuck in that
 drive for life (to try to remove it voids the warranty).The Bacula documentation entry for the unit's compatibility should have aLARGE warning next to it.This kind of thing is unacceptable in an individual tape drive, let alone
a library.Agreed. I had a similar problem with my Exabyte magnum 224 yesterday. The drive would not unload the tape in drive 0. Peeking through the air holes in the front I saw that the tape was indeed in the drive but the robot was not attempting to unload it at all. After a power cycle of the autoloader the tape came out on the first try. To me this is an unacceptable behavior but at least there was a fix...
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Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula Director Fails Under Windows - Build 1.39.24

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Hash: SHA1

Please everyone involved make sure to go back and read Robert Nelson's
message from October 6th to the list. He explains some of this stuff to
me and why this may/may not work. Apparently he does not have the time
to read the list regularly (I can certainly relate), so consider Cc:'ing
him on Windows-related matters, as I believe he was the gentleman
responsible for porting the -sd and -dir to Windows.

Peter Miller wrote:
 I have made some progress in getting the Windows bacula-dir to run and
 have made some observations:
 
 1. If you run bacula-dir /about you get a message box that says Bad
 Command Line Options - /about.
 
 This is followed by another message box listing the allowed command line
 options and /about is in this list.
 
 2. Director was terminating on me as soon as I tried to run it. I
 tracked the problem down to an error in the config file which I have now
 fixed.
 
 After reading the documentation my understanding is that you can test
 config files by putting -t on the command line. The problem is that if
 the config file has an error director terminates before outputting any
 kind of information telling you that there is an error in the config
 file. This is true even if you have turned on debugging with the -d
 parameter. The net result is that the -t option is useless.
 
 3. I have found the reason for the brief command boxes flashing on the
 screen when director starts. Here is some output from bacula.trace:
 
 bacula-dir: ../../dird/dird.c:139 Debug level = 400
 bacula-dir: ../../lib/lex.c:161 Open config file: c:\Documents and
 Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula\bacula-dir.conf
 bacula-dir: ../../lib/util.c:412 Send: /bin/sh -c echo C:\Program
 Files\Bacula\bin\query.sql
 bacula-dir: ../compat/compat.cpp:1777 Calling
 CreateProcess(C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe, C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
 /c /bin/sh -c echo C:\Program
 Files\Bacula\bin\query.sql, ...)
 bacula-dir: ../../lib/util.c:418 stat=268435457 got: The system cannot
 find the path specified.
 bacula-dir: ../../lib/util.c:412 Send: /bin/sh -c echo C:\Documents and
 Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula\Work
 bacula-dir: ../compat/compat.cpp:1777 Calling
 CreateProcess(C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe, C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
 /c /bin/sh -c echo C:\Documents and
 Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula\Work, ...)
 bacula-dir: ../../lib/util.c:418 stat=268435457 got: The system cannot
 find the path specified.
 bacula-dir: ../../lib/util.c:412 Send: /bin/sh -c echo C:\Documents and
 Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula\Work
 bacula-dir: ../compat/compat.cpp:1777 Calling
 CreateProcess(C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe, C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
 /c /bin/sh -c echo C:\Documents and
 Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula\Work, ...)
 bacula-dir: ../../lib/util.c:418 stat=268435457 got: The system cannot
 find the path specified.
 bacula-dir: ../../lib/util.c:412 Send: /bin/sh -c echo C:\Documents and
 Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula\Work\Client1.bsr
 bacula-dir: ../compat/compat.cpp:1777 Calling
 CreateProcess(C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe, C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
 /c /bin/sh -c echo C:\Documents and
 Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula\Work\Client1.bsr, ...)
 bacula-dir: ../../lib/util.c:418 stat=268435457 got: The system cannot
 find the path specified.
 bacula-dir: ../../lib/util.c:412 Send: /bin/sh -c echo
 C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
 Data\Bacula\Work\BackupCatalog.bsr
 bacula-dir: ../compat/compat.cpp:1777 Calling
 CreateProcess(C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe, C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
 /c /bin/sh -c echo C:\Documents and
 Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula\Work\BackupCatalog.bsr, ...)
 bacula-dir: ../../lib/util.c:418 stat=268435457 got: The system cannot
 find the path specified.
 bacula-dir: ../../lib/lex.c:161 Open config file:
 c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula\bacula-dir.conf
 
 This would seem to be a remnant from when Bacula was compiled for Cygwin
 as /bin/sh is no longer present.
 
 Regards
 
 Peter Miller
 
 NoSpam wrote:
 Hi All,

 I have decided to experiment with Bacula Director on my Windows XP box 
 but have run into a problem.

 Bacula-fd and bacula-sd run fine but bacula-dir crashes immediately 
 whether run as a service or from the command line.

 Logged in as an administrator I have tried the following command to 
 capture the output with no luck.

 C:\Program Files\Bacula\binbacula-dir -d100 -c c:\Documents and 
 Settings\All Users\Application Data\Bacula\bacula-dir.conf  out.txt

 The file out.txt is zero bytes and bacula.trace only contains one line 
 of text:

   bacula-dir: ../../dird/dird.c:139 Debug level = 100

 Some cmd.exe box flashes briefly on the screen about four times but it 
 is so fast I can't see any info in it.

 When run as a service the only info in the event viewer is a The Bacula 
 Director service terminated unexpectedly
  with no usefull

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and Softlinks

Ah, after reading Bill's response, I think I responded to the wrong question.

Bacula will not follow symlinks when backing up data as Bill said.

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 17:10, Kern Sibbald wrote:
 On Tuesday 10 October 2006 16:12, Janco van der Merwe wrote:
  Hi,
   
  Before wasting valuable time in testing can someone tell me how Bacula 
  will react with softlinks? Is it worth going that route? To give you an 
idea on the 
  one server it has 3 partitions and the aim is to backup the last 3 months 
of data 
  but the twist is that the directories and partitions of where the data is 
will change 
  from month to month. What we thought is creating a backup dir on the / 
partition 
  and then a script that creates softlinks to the required directories 
within the /backup 
  dir which brings me to the above question will Bacula follow the 
softlinks?   
 
 If you are soft linking Volume names, yes, which probably means fixed 
 Volume names pre-labeled.  If you are trying to soft link directories 
 (i.e. disk Archive device), I'm not sure.   I use this technique to have 
Bacula disk 
 backup where the total data of all the Volumes is larger than a single hard 
disk.
 
 Example:
 In directory /files/havana an ls -l
 total 76652132
 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Diff-0001 
- /files1/havana/Diff-0001
 -rw-r-1 root root 215321044 Aug 27 01:10 Diff-0002
 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Diff-0003 
- /files1/havana/Diff-0003
 -rw-r-1 root root 262084337 Sep 17 01:10 Diff-0004
 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Diff-0005 
- /files1/havana/Diff-0005
 -rw-r-1 root root 139985294 Sep 10 01:06 Diff-0006
 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Diff-0007 
- /files1/havana/Diff-0007
 -rw-r-1 root root 72443800 Oct  8 01:07 Diff-0008
 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Diff-0009 
- /files1/havana/Diff-0009
 -rw-r-1 root root 3556777231 Jul 23 01:11 Diff-0010
 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Full-0001 
- /files1/havana/Full-0001
 -rw-r-1 root root 9550073756 Aug  6 02:31 Full-0002
 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Full-0003 
- /files1/havana/Full-0003
 -rw-r-1 root root 9717336948 Sep  3 02:33 Full-0004
 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Full-0005 
- /files1/havana/Full-0005
 -rw-r-1 root root 28482069327 May  7 01:56 Full-0006
 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   24 Jul 20  2004 Full-0007 
- /files1/havana/Full-0007
 -rw-r-1 root root 21896443859 Jul  2 01:45 Full-0008
 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   23 Jul 20  2004 Inc-0001 
- /files1/havana/Inc-0001
 -rw-r-1 root root 234899641 Sep 26 01:06 Inc-0002
 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root   23 Jul 20  2004 Inc-0003 
- /files1/havana/Inc-0003
 -rw-r-1 root root 2988337776 Sep  5 01:06 Inc-0004
 -rw-r-1 root root 234663813 Sep 19 01:05 Inc-0005
 -rw-r-1 root root 1064598374 Oct 10 01:06 Inc-0006
 
 Note, /files1/havana is a different hard disk.  Bacula only knows about 
 /files/havana.  From SD conf file:
 
 Device {
   Name = FileStorage
   Media Type = File
   Archive Device = /files/havana
   LabelMedia = yes;   # lets Bacula label unlabeled media
   Random Access = Yes;
   AutomaticMount = yes;   # when device opened, read it
   RemovableMedia = no;
   AlwaysOpen = no;
 }
 
 Interesting.  You can see the date when I added the second harddisk, and
 Bacula has just continued backing up and recycling ever since with no
 manual intervention other than me doing 1 or 2 upgrades.
 
 
 
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Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

2006-10-10 Thread Mike Reinehr

Server: Debian GNU/Linux AMD64 Stable(Sarge) 

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 05:51, Peter L. Buschman wrote:
 All:

 If it isn't too much of an imposition, I'd like to survey the list
 and ask the question
 what operating system are you running Bacula on?. I'm interested in which
 OS distributions, versions and platforms are being deployed as Bacula
 servers.

 Mainly, this is to identify the highest-priority configurations for a
 test environment
 I am setting-up, but I think it would also be interesting from a
 broader Bacula adoption
 perspective to see what the distribution is.

 I will aggregate all of the responses and post a summary and
 percentage distribution
 of the results. If you would like to add your installation to the
 count but do not want to
 post openly to the list, please feel free to email me privately. The
 summarized results
 will be anonymous as they will only consist of rolled-up statistics.

 Best regards,

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Re: [Bacula-users] Slight help with regress needed (configure/autoconf)

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 16:53, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
 I have been working on a regression script for Bacula and am now
 starting to try to get Bacula to compile a regress environment on my
 test system. However, the trouble here is my test system runs HP-UX 11i,
 and apparently at least on my install, it falsely detects IPv6. I cannot
 use IPv6 and the install blows up unless I comment out that line in
 config.h. However, running configure overwrites config.h and 'make
 setup' in regress runs configure.

 
 What is the best way to make sure that IPv6 stays out? I don't see a way
 to add a --disable flag for it (what would the flag be called and how
 would I find this out?) I'm also not sure what the best way after that
 would be. Autoconf is really not freely available as a package for my
 platform without building it and all of its dependencies on really slow
 hardware. Is there a quick way to make this work without too much trouble?

Hack regress/scripts/setup  and add a sed just after the ./configure that 
patches the config.h file to turn off IPv6.If you then diff the 
original to the modified file and save it, if you ever pull a new regress 
source, you will have a nice patch file for re-inserting the hack.

The long term correct solution is to change bacula/autoconf/configure.in 
to correctly detect (or override incorrect detection) on HP machines or find 
the root of the problem.

 
 Sorry, I'm not too familiar with the internal workings of the
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[Bacula-users] Windows FD issues (OT? Likely not Bacula issue)

2006-10-10 Thread DAve

Good afternoon,

We solved most of our issues with Bacula and our windows backups. I have 
one remaining and I am afraid it is a Windows issue. I've been all over 
Google and microsoft.com and I've found no solution as of yet.

Currently I am running the dir on FreeBSD
# director-dir Version: 1.38.5 (18 January 2006)

and the fd on Windows Server 2003
#fd Version: 1.38.6 (28 March 2006)  VSS Windows Server 2003 MVS NT 5.2.3790

Everything is working just ducky on 10 of 11 servers. I have one server 
with 60gb of user shares and I am hitting a ERR=Access is denied 
problem on several directories/files.

I've checked the perms and nothing seems out of the ordinary. I created 
a new user in the domain called Bacula, made Bacula a member of the 
Backup Operators group and the Administrators group. Started the service 
running as the Bacula user, no change, I still get the ERR: Access is 
denied and only 35gb is backed up.

Obviously I am not a Windows admin, I use it only for email. And I 
didn't sleep in a Holiday Inn last night. If I am missing a simple 
problem, I like the clue bat on the right side now please. Otherwise I 
will keep digging through search links.

Thanks,

DAve

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Re: [Bacula-users] Windows FD issues (OT? Likely not Bacula issue)

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 19:05, DAve wrote:
 Good afternoon,
 
 We solved most of our issues with Bacula and our windows backups. I have 
 one remaining and I am afraid it is a Windows issue. I've been all over 
 Google and microsoft.com and I've found no solution as of yet.
 
 Currently I am running the dir on FreeBSD
 # director-dir Version: 1.38.5 (18 January 2006)
 
 and the fd on Windows Server 2003
 #fd Version: 1.38.6 (28 March 2006)  VSS Windows Server 2003 MVS NT 5.2.3790
 
 Everything is working just ducky on 10 of 11 servers. I have one server 
 with 60gb of user shares and I am hitting a ERR=Access is denied 
 problem on several directories/files.
 
 I've checked the perms and nothing seems out of the ordinary. I created 
 a new user in the domain called Bacula, made Bacula a member of the 
 Backup Operators group and the Administrators group. Started the service 
 running as the Bacula user, no change, I still get the ERR: Access is 
 denied and only 35gb is backed up.
 
 Obviously I am not a Windows admin, I use it only for email. And I 
 didn't sleep in a Holiday Inn last night. If I am missing a simple 
 problem, I like the clue bat on the right side now please. Otherwise I 
 will keep digging through search links.

Try looking in the Problems section of the Win32 chapter of the manual.  It 
seems to me that someone once reported such really bizarre behavior and 
provided a solution, which is hopefully in the manual.  Maybe a wild goose 
chase but maybe worth a try ...

Just to maybe cheer you up.  Here is a simple problem.

My wife just complained two minutes ago that my server matou which means Tom 
Cat, was down because she couldn't send any email.  I went downstairs and 
since she used an NT machine I didn't even think of rebooting because it is 
nearly as reliable as a Linux machine, so I looked behind her and the power 
cord that was powering some small equipment including her hub was half out of 
the wall.  Pushing it back in, she once again could send email.  The cleaning 
lady apparently disturbed it while here this afternoon.   :-)

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[Bacula-users] Res: Windows FD issues (OT? Likely not Bacula issue)

2006-10-10 Thread Georger Araujo

Hi DAve,
this could well be a problem with permissions.
Bear in mind that file/folder ACLs in Windows work like this:

- DENIED permissions have precedence over ALLOWED permissions (even Full 
Control!). Most of the time you should NOT deny permissions; instead, grant 
allow permissions as sparingly as possible.
- Administrators should ALWAYS have full control over all files and folders.

On those files/folders that give you an error, try to change permissions. If it 
doesn't work, take ownership of the object, then change permissions.
Finally, try to streamline your permissions. AccessEnum 
(http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/AccessEnum.html) can help you in this 
task.

Regards,

Georger

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Para: bacula-users bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Enviadas: Terça-feira, 10 de Outubro de 2006 14:05:43
Assunto: [Bacula-users] Windows FD issues (OT? Likely not Bacula issue)

Good afternoon,

We solved most of our issues with Bacula and our windows backups. I have 
one remaining and I am afraid it is a Windows issue. I've been all over 
Google and microsoft.com and I've found no solution as of yet.

Currently I am running the dir on FreeBSD
# director-dir Version: 1.38.5 (18 January 2006)

and the fd on Windows Server 2003
#fd Version: 1.38.6 (28 March 2006)  VSS Windows Server 2003 MVS NT 5.2.3790

Everything is working just ducky on 10 of 11 servers. I have one server 
with 60gb of user shares and I am hitting a ERR=Access is denied 
problem on several directories/files.

I've checked the perms and nothing seems out of the ordinary. I created 
a new user in the domain called Bacula, made Bacula a member of the 
Backup Operators group and the Administrators group. Started the service 
running as the Bacula user, no change, I still get the ERR: Access is 
denied and only 35gb is backed up.

Obviously I am not a Windows admin, I use it only for email. And I 
didn't sleep in a Holiday Inn last night. If I am missing a simple 
problem, I like the clue bat on the right side now please. Otherwise I 
will keep digging through search links.

Thanks,

DAve

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Re: [Bacula-users] Windows FD issues (OT? Likely not Bacula issue)

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I have a small switch, I believe it's a Netgear, that occasionally
freaks out. It looks up, the lights are lit, but occasionally it will go
into some unresponsive mode. One doesn't normally check that kind of
thing, because $20 switches from the local electronics store don't
crash. Apparently not so... you can imagine how long it took me to track
that one down.

Kern Sibbald wrote:
 On Tuesday 10 October 2006 19:05, DAve wrote:
 Good afternoon,

 We solved most of our issues with Bacula and our windows backups. I have 
 one remaining and I am afraid it is a Windows issue. I've been all over 
 Google and microsoft.com and I've found no solution as of yet.

 Currently I am running the dir on FreeBSD
 # director-dir Version: 1.38.5 (18 January 2006)

 and the fd on Windows Server 2003
 #fd Version: 1.38.6 (28 March 2006)  VSS Windows Server 2003 MVS NT 5.2.3790

 Everything is working just ducky on 10 of 11 servers. I have one server 
 with 60gb of user shares and I am hitting a ERR=Access is denied 
 problem on several directories/files.

 I've checked the perms and nothing seems out of the ordinary. I created 
 a new user in the domain called Bacula, made Bacula a member of the 
 Backup Operators group and the Administrators group. Started the service 
 running as the Bacula user, no change, I still get the ERR: Access is 
 denied and only 35gb is backed up.

 Obviously I am not a Windows admin, I use it only for email. And I 
 didn't sleep in a Holiday Inn last night. If I am missing a simple 
 problem, I like the clue bat on the right side now please. Otherwise I 
 will keep digging through search links.
 
 Try looking in the Problems section of the Win32 chapter of the manual.  It 
 seems to me that someone once reported such really bizarre behavior and 
 provided a solution, which is hopefully in the manual.  Maybe a wild goose 
 chase but maybe worth a try ...
 
 Just to maybe cheer you up.  Here is a simple problem.
 
 My wife just complained two minutes ago that my server matou which means 
 Tom 
 Cat, was down because she couldn't send any email.  I went downstairs and 
 since she used an NT machine I didn't even think of rebooting because it is 
 nearly as reliable as a Linux machine, so I looked behind her and the power 
 cord that was powering some small equipment including her hub was half out of 
 the wall.  Pushing it back in, she once again could send email.  The cleaning 
 lady apparently disturbed it while here this afternoon.   :-)
 
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Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

2006-10-10 Thread Sarath Jayewardena

Hi,

Experimental Bacula setup:

  Bacula 1.36.2
DIR, SD, FD
  running on an Compaq Alpha server (ES20)
  with Quantum DLT7000 tape drive
  OS: Debian GNU/Linux (sarge)

FD's
  running on Intel machines
  OS: Debian GNU/Linux (sarge)
  4 machines

- Sarath

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Peter L. Buschman wrote:

 
 All:
 
 If it isn't too much of an imposition, I'd like to survey the list 
 and ask the question
 what operating system are you running Bacula on?. I'm interested in which OS
 distributions, versions and platforms are being deployed as Bacula servers.
 
 Mainly, this is to identify the highest-priority configurations for a 
 test environment
 I am setting-up, but I think it would also be interesting from a 
 broader Bacula adoption
 perspective to see what the distribution is.
 
 I will aggregate all of the responses and post a summary and 
 percentage distribution
 of the results. If you would like to add your installation to the 
 count but do not want to
 post openly to the list, please feel free to email me privately. The 
 summarized results
 will be anonymous as they will only consist of rolled-up statistics.
 
 Best regards,
 
 Peter Buschman
 
 
 
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Re: [Bacula-users] Windows FD issues (OT? Likely not Bacula issue)

Hi,

On 10/10/2006 7:21 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
 On Tuesday 10 October 2006 19:05, DAve wrote:
 
Good afternoon,

We solved most of our issues with Bacula and our windows backups. I have 
one remaining and I am afraid it is a Windows issue. I've been all over 
Google and microsoft.com and I've found no solution as of yet.

Currently I am running the dir on FreeBSD
# director-dir Version: 1.38.5 (18 January 2006)

and the fd on Windows Server 2003
#fd Version: 1.38.6 (28 March 2006)  VSS Windows Server 2003 MVS NT 5.2.3790

Everything is working just ducky on 10 of 11 servers. I have one server 
with 60gb of user shares and I am hitting a ERR=Access is denied 
problem on several directories/files.

I've checked the perms and nothing seems out of the ordinary. I created 
a new user in the domain called Bacula, made Bacula a member of the 
Backup Operators group and the Administrators group. Started the service 
running as the Bacula user, no change, I still get the ERR: Access is 
denied and only 35gb is backed up.

Obviously I am not a Windows admin, I use it only for email. And I 
didn't sleep in a Holiday Inn last night. If I am missing a simple 
problem, I like the clue bat on the right side now please. Otherwise I 
will keep digging through search links.
 
 
 Try looking in the Problems section of the Win32 chapter of the manual.  It 
 seems to me that someone once reported such really bizarre behavior and 
 provided a solution, which is hopefully in the manual.  Maybe a wild goose 
 chase but maybe worth a try ...

I'd like that... I'm currently trying to solve that same problem but, 
until now, without any success. At the moment, the debug-enabled windows 
FD that Robert sent me doesn't even start :-(

I started that discussion and got some hints from Martin Simmons on 
-devel, but until now I can only reliably reproduce the error. Funnily, 
it appears when I enable VSS and the files in question can be read when 
VSS is disabled.

 Just to maybe cheer you up.  Here is a simple problem.
 
 My wife just complained two minutes ago that my server matou which means 
 Tom 
 Cat, was down because she couldn't send any email.  I went downstairs and 
 since she used an NT machine I didn't even think of rebooting because it is 
 nearly as reliable as a Linux machine, so I looked behind her and the power 
 cord that was powering some small equipment including her hub was half out of 
 the wall.  Pushing it back in, she once again could send email.  The cleaning 
 lady apparently disturbed it while here this afternoon.   :-)

Much nicer problem!

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Re: [Bacula-users] Res: Windows FD issues (OT? Likely not Bacula issue)

2006-10-10 Thread DAve

Georger Araujo wrote:
 Hi DAve,
 this could well be a problem with permissions.
 Bear in mind that file/folder ACLs in Windows work like this:
 
 - DENIED permissions have precedence over ALLOWED permissions (even Full 
 Control!). Most of the time you should NOT deny permissions; instead, grant 
 allow permissions as sparingly as possible.
 - Administrators should ALWAYS have full control over all files and folders.
 
 On those files/folders that give you an error, try to change permissions. If 
 it doesn't work, take ownership of the object, then change permissions.
 Finally, try to streamline your permissions. AccessEnum 
 (http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/AccessEnum.html) can help you in this 
 task.
 
 Regards,
 
 Georger

Well, looking closely and comparing perms on what is accessible and what 
is not, it appears my problem is one of legacy and growth.

Older users with directories setup on prior servers (having moved data 
during server changes), perms set on servers prior to upgrading to AD, 
etc. That seems to be the difference between user dirs that backup and 
user dirs that fail.

The client's server seems to have a mish-mash of odd perms. I think I 
will try adding Domain Admin perms to my Bacula user for now, and turn 
in a WO for the Client Support staff to schedule this server for a 
security audit to get the user share perms straightened out.

Thanks for the tips, at least I know I didn't miss some obvious dir-conf 
setting!

DAve

 
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 Enviadas: Terça-feira, 10 de Outubro de 2006 14:05:43
 Assunto: [Bacula-users] Windows FD issues (OT? Likely not Bacula issue)
 
 Good afternoon,
 
 We solved most of our issues with Bacula and our windows backups. I have 
 one remaining and I am afraid it is a Windows issue. I've been all over 
 Google and microsoft.com and I've found no solution as of yet.
 
 Currently I am running the dir on FreeBSD
 # director-dir Version: 1.38.5 (18 January 2006)
 
 and the fd on Windows Server 2003
 #fd Version: 1.38.6 (28 March 2006)  VSS Windows Server 2003 MVS NT 5.2.3790
 
 Everything is working just ducky on 10 of 11 servers. I have one server 
 with 60gb of user shares and I am hitting a ERR=Access is denied 
 problem on several directories/files.
 
 I've checked the perms and nothing seems out of the ordinary. I created 
 a new user in the domain called Bacula, made Bacula a member of the 
 Backup Operators group and the Administrators group. Started the service 
 running as the Bacula user, no change, I still get the ERR: Access is 
 denied and only 35gb is backed up.
 
 Obviously I am not a Windows admin, I use it only for email. And I 
 didn't sleep in a Holiday Inn last night. If I am missing a simple 
 problem, I like the clue bat on the right side now please. Otherwise I 
 will keep digging through search links.
 
 Thanks,
 
 DAve
 


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[Bacula-users] concurrent jobs on 2 drives

2006-10-10 Thread Alan Davis

Short version: What combination of directives will make bacula choose to
use both drives defined in the autochanger at the same time?

Long version:

I'm now at the next phase of implementation and want to be able to run 2
jobs concurrently. The default behavior, once concurrent jobs are
enabled, is to write N jobs to the same volume, interleaving the data. I
have 2 drives and want one job to run on each. The section of the manual
that would seem to apply is in Configuring the Director under Maximum
Concurrent Jobs:

Please note that the Volume format becomes much more complicated with
multiple simultaneous jobs, consequently, restores can take much longer
if Bacula must sort through interleaved volume blocks from multiple
simultaneous jobs. This can be avoided by having each simultaneously
running job write to a different volume or by using data spooling, which
will first spool the data to disk simultaneously, then write each spool
file to the volume in sequence.

The bit about have each ... write to a different volume seems to be
what I'm looking for, but I haven't found the combination of
settings/attributes that achieve it.

Since in other sections of the manual and FAQ it suggests that you
should allow bacula to choose the volume that it wants to use, this
seems counter-intuitive.

I've looked at Use Volume Once, Maximum Volume Jobs and retention and
recycle times directives but none of them seem appropriate.



Alan Davis
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Re: [Bacula-users] Windows FD issues (OT? Likely not Bacula issue)

2006-10-10 Thread DAve

Arno Lehmann wrote:
 Hi,
 
 On 10/10/2006 7:21 PM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
 On Tuesday 10 October 2006 19:05, DAve wrote:

 Good afternoon,

 We solved most of our issues with Bacula and our windows backups. I have 
 one remaining and I am afraid it is a Windows issue. I've been all over 
 Google and microsoft.com and I've found no solution as of yet.

 Currently I am running the dir on FreeBSD
 # director-dir Version: 1.38.5 (18 January 2006)

 and the fd on Windows Server 2003
 #fd Version: 1.38.6 (28 March 2006)  VSS Windows Server 2003 MVS NT 5.2.3790

 Everything is working just ducky on 10 of 11 servers. I have one server 
 with 60gb of user shares and I am hitting a ERR=Access is denied 
 problem on several directories/files.

 I've checked the perms and nothing seems out of the ordinary. I created 
 a new user in the domain called Bacula, made Bacula a member of the 
 Backup Operators group and the Administrators group. Started the service 
 running as the Bacula user, no change, I still get the ERR: Access is 
 denied and only 35gb is backed up.

 Obviously I am not a Windows admin, I use it only for email. And I 
 didn't sleep in a Holiday Inn last night. If I am missing a simple 
 problem, I like the clue bat on the right side now please. Otherwise I 
 will keep digging through search links.

 Try looking in the Problems section of the Win32 chapter of the manual.  It 
 seems to me that someone once reported such really bizarre behavior and 
 provided a solution, which is hopefully in the manual.  Maybe a wild goose 
 chase but maybe worth a try ...
 
 I'd like that... I'm currently trying to solve that same problem but, 
 until now, without any success. At the moment, the debug-enabled windows 
 FD that Robert sent me doesn't even start :-(
 
 I started that discussion and got some hints from Martin Simmons on 
 -devel, but until now I can only reliably reproduce the error. Funnily, 
 it appears when I enable VSS and the files in question can be read when 
 VSS is disabled.
 

See my last post, my issue appears to be a case of pre AD perms on a AD 
enabled server. I'm going to try adding Domain Admin perms to the Bacula 
user tonight and see if that gets me access to the files that are failing.

I'll report back if that solves my problem. I would think anyone with 
legacy data on a server upgraded to AD would expreience the same problems.

DAve

-- 
Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a
logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos
for other non-international holidays, but nothing for
Veterans?

Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible.

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Re: [Bacula-users] concurrent jobs on 2 drives

2006-10-10 Thread Michael Brennen

On Tuesday 10 October 2006 14:50, Alan Davis wrote:

 Short version: What combination of directives will make bacula choose to
 use both drives defined in the autochanger at the same time?

My short answer is that I am running different Jobs that run more or less 
concurrently with different Pools, thus to different Volumes.  There may be 
other or better ways to do this, so the responses to this thread should be 
interesting.

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[Bacula-users] Summary RE: tape positioning error TL892/TZ89 drives

2006-10-10 Thread Alan Davis

I was able to find a combination of settings that seem to have
eliminated the errors and allows the autochanger to correctly load and
unload the volumes.

This is for a Compaq/HP TL892 library running under Solaris 10 x86.

The hardware directives in the bacula-sd.conf file for the Device
entries are:

Offline On Unmount  = no
Hardware End of Medium  = yes
BSF at EOM  = yes
Backward Space Record   = yes
Backward Space File = yes
Fast Forward Space File = yes
Use MTIOCGET= yes
TWO EOF = yes


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From: Alan Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 4:28 PM
To: 'bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: tape positioning error TL892/TZ89 drives

I'm getting the following error when I try to put a second full backup
onto tape. Where do I need to start do diagnose the problem?

05-Oct 16:06 athos-sd: FullBackup.2006-10-05_14.32.09 Error: Unable to
position to end of data on device Drive-1 (/dev/rmt/1cbn):
ERR=dev.c:1298 read error on Drive-1 (/dev/rmt/1cbn). ERR=I/O error.
05-Oct 16:06 athos-sd: Marking Volume EJB065 in Error in Catalog.

The tape device settings are based on Dan Langille's article.

I'm also still getting :

05-Oct 16:07 athos-sd: Invalid slot=0 defined, cannot autoload Volume.

Messages when bacula tries to autoload the next tape.

Here's the configuration;

Solaris 10 x86 w/ reasonably current patch cluster
Bacula 1.39.22
Compaq/HP TL892 library, 2 x TZ89 (DLT8000) drives
mtx 1.3.9
mtx-changer modified to parse list correctly and mt output for
wait_for_drive

bacula-dir.conf:
Storage {
   Name = TL800
   Address = labtape.ruckus.com
   SDPort = 9103
   Password = 27txx87d0BHagkpOSO9VkgpW4qGj0g7j3Yiygth2Q  #
password for Storage daemon
   Device = TL800
   Media Type = DLT-8000
   Autochanger = yes
}

Autochanger {
  Name = TL800
  Device = Drive-0, Drive-1
  Changer Command = /opt/bacula/bin/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d
  Changer Device = /dev/changer
}

Device {
  Name = Drive-0  #
  Drive Index = 0
  Media Type = DLT-8000
  Archive Device = /dev/rmt/0cbn
  AutomaticMount = yes;   # when device opened, read it
  AlwaysOpen = yes;
  RemovableMedia = yes;
  RandomAccess = no;
  AutoChanger = yes
  Changer Command = /opt/bacula/bin/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d
  Changer Device = /dev/changer
  # Enable the Alert command only if you have the mtx package loaded
  Alert Command = sh -c 'tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|cat'
Offline On Unmount  = no
Hardware End of Medium  = no
BSF at EOM  = yes
Backward Space Record   = no
Fast Forward Space File = no
TWO EOF = yes
  LabelMedia = yes;   # lets Bacula label unlabeled
media
}

Device {
  Name = Drive-1  #
  Drive Index = 1
  Media Type = DLT-8000
  Archive Device = /dev/rmt/1cbn
  AutomaticMount = yes;   # when device opened, read it
  AlwaysOpen = yes;
  RemovableMedia = yes;
  RandomAccess = no;
  AutoChanger = yes
  Changer Command = /opt/bacula/bin/mtx-changer %c %o %S %a %d
  Changer Device = /dev/changer
  # Enable the Alert command only if you have the mtx package loaded
  Alert Command = sh -c 'tapeinfo -f %c |grep TapeAlert|cat'
Offline On Unmount  = no
Hardware End of Medium  = no
BSF at EOM  = yes
Backward Space Record   = no
Fast Forward Space File = no
TWO EOF = yes
  LabelMedia = yes;   # lets Bacula label unlabeled
media
}


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Re: [Bacula-users] Poll - What operating systems do you run Bacula on?

2006-10-10 Thread Attila Fülöp

Peter L. Buschman wrote:
 All:
 
 If it isn't too much of an imposition, I'd like to survey the list 
 and ask the question
 what operating system are you running Bacula on?. I'm interested in which OS
 distributions, versions and platforms are being deployed as Bacula servers.

Current: FreeBSD 5.4 (DIR/SD/FD), bacula 1.38, PostgereSQL 7.4
with FreeBSD 6.1, Solaris 9/10, Debian 3.0, Win 2000/2003/XP remote clients.

Planned : FreeBSD 6.1, bacula 1.40, PostgereSQL 8.1 (once 1.40 is out)


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