Re: [Bacula-users] Half-speed backup problem

2010-07-21 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 21/07/10, Craig Miskell (craig.misk...@opus.co.nz) wrote: Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: On 19/07/10, Rory Campbell-Lange (r...@campbell-lange.net) wrote: I ran a full backup of a volume last week on Bacula v2.4.4 and I have now upgraded to 5.0.2. I'm getting half the throughput last

Re: [Bacula-users] Can I take a base job from data already in the SD?

2010-07-21 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 21/07/10 03:27, Phil Stracchino wrote: On 07/20/10 10:15, Mister IT Guru wrote: I've been reading up on some of the new features, and one of them is a base job. Do I need to do an actual full backup to create a base, or can I make one from existing backed up data? You cannot,

[Bacula-users] Why does changing the fileset change the backup type?

2010-07-21 Thread Mister IT Guru
Please excuse the attached txt, but putting it on pastebin doesn't last forever In this setup, if I update the file set, the backup begins again as a FULL backup. This why would this be the case? Ran TESTBASE, to create the basejob - no errors Ran TESTJOB, to see if anything else will be

[Bacula-users] Problems with usage of Copy Jobs

2010-07-21 Thread Frank Altpeter
Hi list, I'm using bacula-5.0.2 with a disk storage and a Tandberg 24-tape changer system to backup about 130 server systems. The intention was to do a disk based full backup once a week and afterwards copy these full backups on tape. Currently, I'm using three storage devices (FileStorage,

[Bacula-users] Schedule based override for Fileset options?

2010-07-21 Thread Steve Costaras
I am running v5.0.2 against some clients with many files (5-10 million). I have and want the fileset option of accurate=mcs5 (md5 checks) when I do a full backup of the clients. However I DO NOT want to do a md5 check when I do differentials/incremental's due to the fact that it takes

Re: [Bacula-users] Changing Maximum Block Size: reading previous backups

2010-07-21 Thread Martin Simmons
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:38:36 +1200, Craig Miskell said: Alex Chekholko wrote: On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:11:49 +1200 Craig Miskell craig.misk...@opus.co.nz wrote: Hi, It looks like I need to beef up Maximum Block Size to get good performance out of our LTO-4 tape drives.

[Bacula-users] bconsole blocking when commands are piped to it

2010-07-21 Thread Bill Arlofski
I recently posted here that I had written a Xymon script to monitor Bacula. The script basically uses the bconsole program to run a status dir followed by a list jobs, like so: echo status dir | /usr/sbin/bconsole (do some grepping etc) followed by echo list jobs | /usr/sbin/bconsole (do some

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with usage of Copy Jobs

2010-07-21 Thread C . Keschnat
Can you post your configuration for the Jobs and Pools? That thing with the incremental jobs shouldn't happen. As for the forking: I have that same issue, every Mail has the same subject but I don't think you can change that (I might be wrong). Hi list, I'm using bacula-5.0.2 with a disk

[Bacula-users] Explanation of periods

2010-07-21 Thread Alex Huth
Hello! I want to be sure if have understand the periods and there relationship to a possible restore. The file retention period define the possibility to restore files over the given period. If i have the following schedule, how do i have to set the retention periods to have always two full sets

Re: [Bacula-users] Problems with usage of Copy Jobs

2010-07-21 Thread Frank Altpeter
Hi, 2010/7/21 c.kesch...@internet-mit-iq.de: Can you post your configuration for the Jobs and Pools? That thing with the incremental jobs shouldn't happen. Sure, I've anonymized the relevant config files (hopefully all that is needed) and put it on pastebin here:

[Bacula-users] Multiple Next Pools

2010-07-21 Thread Enrico van Goor
Hi all, We make backups of about 200 server at the moment, to disk. Twice a week a Full backup and 5 times a week an incremental. Every day is a different pool, so the tape drives won't interfere with the backup to disk and vice versa. We write the data to tape using a copy job. The tapes have a

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple Next Pools

2010-07-21 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 07/21/10 09:26, Enrico van Goor wrote: Hi all, We make backups of about 200 server at the moment, to disk. Twice a week a Full backup and 5 times a week an incremental. Every day is a different pool, so the tape drives won't interfere with the backup to disk and vice versa. We write the

Re: [Bacula-users] Explanation of periods

2010-07-21 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/21/2010 8:39 AM, Alex Huth wrote: Hello! I want to be sure if have understand the periods and there relationship to a possible restore. The file retention period define the possibility to restore files over the given period. If i have the following schedule, how do i have to set the

[Bacula-users] requesting old volume.

2010-07-21 Thread Jeremiah D. Jester
Bacula is asking for a volume that is no longer in the changer because it was marked as full and sent offsite. As you can see the volume was last written to on July 9th. Current snippet for this volume 'list media pool=Offsite' below. 103 | KL0451 | Append| 1 | 163,962,667,008 |

Re: [Bacula-users] requesting old volume.

2010-07-21 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Jeremiah D. Jester jj...@u.washington.edu wrote: Bacula is asking for a volume that is no longer in the changer because it was marked as full and sent offsite. As you can see the volume was last written to on July 9th. Current snippet for this volume 'list

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple Next Pools

2010-07-21 Thread Kevin Keane
Are you using a separate volume per job? In that case, you could simply forego a copy job altogether and just copy the disk files themselves. 100 years from now, you may have a problem simply reading the database. So it may be easier and better to just rely on the files themselves. Write a

Re: [Bacula-users] requesting old volume.

2010-07-21 Thread Jeremiah D. Jester
John, I have 4 pools total, two pools defined by me: Offsite and Onsite and two that I believe are default to Bacula: Catalog and Scratch. Offsite retention period is 6 months, Onsite is 3 months. Once a volume is marked full from Onsite the volume goes on the shelf to the back of the stack.

Re: [Bacula-users] Schedule based override for Fileset options?

2010-07-21 Thread Martin Simmons
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:51:37 -0500, Steve Costaras said: I am running v5.0.2 against some clients with many files (5-10 million). I have and want the fileset option of accurate=mcs5 (md5 checks) when I do a full backup of the clients. However I DO NOT want to do a md5 check when I do

Re: [Bacula-users] Why does changing the fileset change the backup type?

2010-07-21 Thread Martin Simmons
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:36:41 +0100, Mister IT Guru said: Please excuse the attached txt, but putting it on pastebin doesn't last forever In this setup, if I update the file set, the backup begins again as a FULL backup. This why would this be the case? Ran TESTBASE, to create the

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 5.0.2 restore files from tape very slow

2010-07-21 Thread Martin Simmons
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:50:41 -0600, May, John said: Monday morning, 3 days later and it is still restoring. It's finished about 600GB, which is less than half of what is on the two tapes. I'm pretty sure that only one job was written to the tape at the time of backup. Also, I thought

[Bacula-users] SOLVED bconsole blocking when commands are piped to it

2010-07-21 Thread Bill Arlofski
Please ignore this thread. It was early morning, and I had an issue with one of the KDE konsoles I had opened at the time. Typing reset at the shell prompt cleared up the problem within that terminal. One of those mornings where three things seemingly unrelated we all going on at once. sigh...

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula 5.0.2 restore files from tape very slow

2010-07-21 Thread May, John
As far as I know it was running at about 70MB/s. It could have been shoe-shining a bit though, not really sure. -John -Original Message- From: Martin Simmons [mailto:mar...@lispworks.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 1:26 PM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re:

Re: [Bacula-users] Schedule based override for Fileset options?

2010-07-21 Thread Steve Costaras
I am looking at doing base jobs to help avoid tying up systems for too long though until multi-threading for the FD arrives it's kind of moot as it takes the same amount of time with large file sets.I use the MD5 checks as a means to verify file integrity and to restore if a file gets