Re: [Bacula-users] Better way to garbage collect postgresql database

2009-03-20 Thread Jesper Krogh
Hemant Shah wrote: This is a database question, but I figured some of the bacula users may have come across this problem so I am posting it here. Every monday I run following commands to check and garbage collect bacula database: dbcheck command vacuumdb -q -d bacula -z -f There is

Re: [Bacula-users] End of tape error - pbzip2

2009-03-20 Thread Ralf Brinkmann
John Drescher schrieb: I have not seen a cpu that can do more than 20 MB/s. I know my 2.83GHz core2 quad is no way as fast as my LTO2 tape drive when it comes to compression. there is a multi-threading version of bzip2 - but I have no idea whether bacula will be able to handle bzip2 This

[Bacula-users] Volume labeling according to Job Problem

2009-03-20 Thread Saur, Achim
Hi there, we have a Problem with labeling of volumes. The volumes are labelled with the name of the job plus the pool it used. We use Harddisks as media. Strange thing is, that volumes are labeled with the wrong name. We currently have 4 jobs. And planning to implement it to more. It

Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with Restoring a Full which Spanned Tapes.

2009-03-20 Thread Ralf Gross
Doug Forster schrieb: I have gone into the database and can see that the database is empty for the job in question. I think that there is an issue with the insertion of over a million entrees all at once that is giving bacula a hard time. I have found a supporting post here:

[Bacula-users] Bconsole prune/purge commands

2009-03-20 Thread Ferdinando Pasqualetti
Hello List, maybe I am missing something, but I had this question since a lot of time. Does anybody knows if there is a reason why the prune command, which is not dangerous and also automatically triggered in some cases ask for a confirmation before being executed, while the purge command, which

Re: [Bacula-users] End of tape error - pbzip2

2009-03-20 Thread Ralf Brinkmann
John Drescher schrieb: This is pbzip2, I use it for a custom build process with gentoo. I am not sure how hard it would be to add this to bacula. I'm not willing to go thru the bacula-code, but I think it might be easy to write my own wrapper for pbzip2 if I know how bacula calls the

[Bacula-users] concurrent job / compression

2009-03-20 Thread Olivier Delestre
Hello, I ask myself: Is it possible to make the backup work by activating the concurrent job and compression (gzip) only on certain client? The combination of a score pad and a client might not compress does not manage problems in the restoration? Thanks. Olivier Delestre

[Bacula-users] An idea for a feature (not a request yet :) - weighted concurrency

2009-03-20 Thread James Harper
I have half an idea for a feature request but it's not well defined yet... Basically, I have a bunch of clients to back up, some are on gigabit network and some are stuck on 100mbit. They are being backed up to a disk that has throughput of around 20-30mbytes/second. I am allowing 2 jobs to run

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-20 Thread Kevin Keane
Jason Dixon wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 06:08:23PM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: Jason Dixon wrote: I've tried that. But since the scheduled OS backup jobs are already running, the client-initiated transaction log jobs are forced to wait. Then you probaby still had a

Re: [Bacula-users] Bconsole prune/purge commands

2009-03-20 Thread Martin Simmons
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:42:36 +0100, Ferdinando Pasqualetti said: Does anybody knows if there is a reason why the prune command, which is not dangerous and also automatically triggered in some cases ask for a confirmation before being executed, while the purge command, which overrides

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-20 Thread Jason Dixon
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 03:51:58AM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: Jason Dixon wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 06:08:23PM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: Jason Dixon wrote: I've tried that. But since the scheduled OS backup jobs are already running, the client-initiated transaction log

[Bacula-users] Question about Priorities and Maximum Concurrent Jobs

2009-03-20 Thread John Lockard
Hi All, I have a mix of disk and tape backups. To disk I allow up to 20 jobs run concurrently. On my tape library I have 3 tape drives, so only allow a max of 3 jobs to run concurrently. I run Full backups once a month, Differentials once a week and incrementals most days of the week. I would

[Bacula-users] Rif: Re: Bconsole prune/purge commands

2009-03-20 Thread Ferdinando Pasqualetti
Martin Simmons mar...@lispworks.com wrote on 20/03/2009 11.59.10: On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:42:36 +0100, Ferdinando Pasqualetti said: Does anybody knows if there is a reason why the prune command, which is not dangerous and also automatically triggered in some cases ask for a

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-20 Thread Jason Dixon
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 06:56:38AM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: Jason Dixon wrote: They don't. Previously, the OS backups and the log backups each had their own pool on the same storage device (tape drive). Recently, the OS backups have used their own pool on a File device instead. It has

Re: [Bacula-users] Better way to garbage collect postgresql database

2009-03-20 Thread Hemant Shah
--- On Thu, 3/19/09, Kevin Keane subscript...@kkeane.com wrote: From: Kevin Keane subscript...@kkeane.com Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Better way to garbage collect postgresql database To: Cc: baculausers bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009, 8:30 PM Hemant

Re: [Bacula-users] Better way to garbage collect postgresql database

2009-03-20 Thread Hemant Shah
--- On Fri, 3/20/09, Jesper Krogh jes...@krogh.cc wrote: From: Jesper Krogh jes...@krogh.cc Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Better way to garbage collect postgresql database To: hj...@yahoo.com Cc: baculausers bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Friday, March 20, 2009, 12:30 AM Hemant

Re: [Bacula-users] Issue with Restoring a Full which Spanned Tapes.

2009-03-20 Thread Doug Forster
Dang it looks as though this morning this doesn't seem to be the case. I have split up the trouble server and am now checking for other issues. I am also in the process of recreating the database in ASCII format so that we can rule that out as an issue even though there are no logs in postgres

Re: [Bacula-users] Better way to garbage collect postgresql database

2009-03-20 Thread Kevin Keane
Hemant Shah wrote: --- On Thu, 3/19/09, Kevin Keane subscript...@kkeane.com wrote: From: Kevin Keane subscript...@kkeane.com Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Better way to garbage collect postgresql database To: Cc: baculausers bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Thursday, March 19,

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula BETA 2.5.42-b2 released to Source Forge

2009-03-20 Thread Kern Sibbald
It looks like you are trying to build Bacula using a Debian packaging that was designed for 2.4. Version 2.5.x is significantly different and will require a number of modifications. Regards, Kern On Thursday 19 March 2009 13:51:54 Thomas Mueller wrote: hi as one asked for ubuntu

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Priorities and Maximum Concurrent Jobs

2009-03-20 Thread John Lockard
I stand somewhat corrected. I was wrong in stating that priority of a job on a certain media blocked only jobs on that media. It actually blocks all other lower priority jobs from running no matter whether the lower priority job is on the same media or not. -John On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-20 Thread Kevin Keane
Jason Dixon wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 06:56:38AM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: Jason Dixon wrote: They don't. Previously, the OS backups and the log backups each had their own pool on the same storage device (tape drive). Recently, the OS backups have used their own pool on a

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula BETA 2.5.42-b2 released to Source Forge

2009-03-20 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:18:34 +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: It looks like you are trying to build Bacula using a Debian packaging that was designed for 2.4. Version 2.5.x is significantly different and will require a number of modifications. i made modifications for 2.5. the package builds

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Priorities and Maximum Concurrent Jobs

2009-03-20 Thread John Drescher
I stand somewhat corrected.  I was wrong in stating that priority of a job on a certain media blocked only jobs on that media.  It actually blocks all other lower priority jobs from running no matter whether the lower priority job is on the same media or not. I find this makes priorities not

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-20 Thread Jason Dixon
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:36:16AM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: Jason Dixon wrote: Here is an example from yesterday. Job 11174 is the transaction logs. The others are OS jobs I ran manually from bconsole. Running Jobs: JobId Level Name Status

[Bacula-users] spool attributes in Schedule Resource?

2009-03-20 Thread Mark Nienberg
I've decided to do some tests with Spool Attributes to see if it speeds up my full backups to tape. I noticed that the documentation says I can set Spool Attributes in the Job resource. It does not mention that I can set Spool Attributes in the Schedule Resource, although it does have Spool

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Priorities and Maximum Concurrent Jobs

2009-03-20 Thread John Lockard
The minimum setting I have on Max Concurrent Jobs is on the Tape Library and that's set to 3. It appears that priority trumps all, unless the priority is the same or better. So, if I have one job that has priority of, say, 10, then any job running on any other tape drive or virtual library will

Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Bacula BETA 2.5.42-b2 released to Source Forge

2009-03-20 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Friday 20 March 2009 18:56:55 Thomas Mueller wrote: On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:18:34 +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote: It looks like you are trying to build Bacula using a Debian packaging that was designed for 2.4. Version 2.5.x is significantly different and will require a number of

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-20 Thread Jason Dixon
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 02:37:06PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:36:16AM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: Jason Dixon wrote: Here is an example from yesterday. Job 11174 is the transaction logs. The others are OS jobs I ran manually from bconsole. Running Jobs:

Re: [Bacula-users] An idea for a feature (not a request yet :) - weighted concurrency

2009-03-20 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 20.03.2009 11:24, James Harper wrote: I have half an idea for a feature request but it's not well defined yet... Basically, I have a bunch of clients to back up, some are on gigabit network and some are stuck on 100mbit. They are being backed up to a disk that has throughput of around

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-20 Thread Jason Dixon
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 03:46:49PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: Just to be certain, I kicked off a few OS jobs just prior to the transaction log backup. I also changed the Storage directive to use Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1 for FileStorage. This forces only one OS job at a time. I would

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-20 Thread Jason Dixon
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:54:01PM -0400, John Lockard wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:11:55PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: Running Jobs: JobId Level Name Status == 11239 Increme

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-20 Thread John Lockard
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:11:55PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 03:46:49PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: Just to be certain, I kicked off a few OS jobs just prior to the transaction log backup. I also changed the Storage directive to use Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1 for

Re: [Bacula-users] Better way to garbage collect postgresql database

2009-03-20 Thread Kevin Keane
Hemant Shah wrote: --- On Fri, 3/20/09, Jesper Krogh jes...@krogh.cc wrote: From: Jesper Krogh jes...@krogh.cc Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Better way to garbage collect postgresql database To: hj...@yahoo.com Cc: baculausers bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Friday, March 20,