[Bacula-users] Extremly slow backup

2011-01-03 Thread Marcin Krol
Hello. I've problem with bacula performance on one of my machines. The machine in question is my mail server that holds about 220 GB of data in 660 thousands of files. Full backup takes about 2 days and 11 hours with average speed of 1 MB/sec. All other clients have speeds between 20

[Bacula-users] Over-zealous cancel command

2011-01-03 Thread Ross Boylan
Running bconsole for bacula 2.4.4 on Debian Lenny, the cancel command in bconsole insisted on cancelling something. It did not let me exit from the cancel dialog without selecting a job to cancel, and when I hit enter a few times it cancelled my currently running job (trashing 18 hours of work).

Re: [Bacula-users] Over-zealous cancel command

2011-01-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 3.1.2011 11:08, Ross Boylan wrote: Running bconsole for bacula 2.4.4 on Debian Lenny, the cancel command in bconsole insisted on cancelling something. It did not let me exit from the cancel dialog without selecting a job to cancel, and when I hit enter a few times it cancelled my currently

Re: [Bacula-users] Extremly slow backup

2011-01-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 03 Jan 2011 09:28:22 +0100 schrieb Marcin Krol: Hello. I've problem with bacula performance on one of my machines. The machine in question is my mail server that holds about 220 GB of data in 660 thousands of files. Full backup takes about 2 days and 11 hours with average speed of

[Bacula-users] Howto restore with SSH-tunnel.

2011-01-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
I implemented backup via SSH-tunnel following the Bacula-wiki, works like charm. But how to restore? Of course one can restore to the Bacula server or another local machine, and then somehow move the files to the target... but how to restore to the target machine directly? Options that come to

Re: [Bacula-users] Howto restore with SSH-tunnel.

2011-01-03 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/3/2011 6:15 AM, Jari Fredriksson wrote: I implemented backup via SSH-tunnel following the Bacula-wiki, works like charm. But how to restore? Of course one can restore to the Bacula server or another local machine, and then somehow move the files to the target... but how to restore to

Re: [Bacula-users] Over-zealous cancel command

2011-01-03 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/3/2011 4:08 AM, Ross Boylan wrote: Does anyone care, given the old version? I notice that 2.4 was still listed as the production release in some slided from the recent bacula conference. 5.0.3 is the latest version. Is there a way to exit from the cancel dialog other than ^c? Enter a

Re: [Bacula-users] Howto restore with SSH-tunnel.

2011-01-03 Thread Mister IT Guru
On 03/01/2011 12:50, Dan Langille wrote: On 1/3/2011 6:15 AM, Jari Fredriksson wrote: I implemented backup via SSH-tunnel following the Bacula-wiki, works like charm. But how to restore? Of course one can restore to the Bacula server or another local machine, and then somehow move the files

Re: [Bacula-users] Howto restore with SSH-tunnel.

2011-01-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 3.1.2011 14:54, Mister IT Guru wrote: On 03/01/2011 12:50, Dan Langille wrote: On 1/3/2011 6:15 AM, Jari Fredriksson wrote: I implemented backup via SSH-tunnel following the Bacula-wiki, works like charm. But how to restore? Of course one can restore to the Bacula server or another local

Re: [Bacula-users] Howto restore with SSH-tunnel.

2011-01-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 3.1.2011 14:54, Mister IT Guru wrote: On 03/01/2011 12:50, Dan Langille wrote: On 1/3/2011 6:15 AM, Jari Fredriksson wrote: I implemented backup via SSH-tunnel following the Bacula-wiki, works like charm. But how to restore? Of course one can restore to the Bacula server or another local

Re: [Bacula-users] Howto restore with SSH-tunnel.

2011-01-03 Thread Victor Hugo dos Santos
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Jari Fredriksson ja...@iki.fi wrote: On 3.1.2011 14:54, Mister IT Guru wrote: [...] Our LAN (where Bacula server is) is behind NAT, in 10.x.x.x network, we can only be contacted via SSH from internet. The backed up servers do have public IP, but they are

Re: [Bacula-users] Howto restore with SSH-tunnel.

2011-01-03 Thread Joseph Spenner
--- On Mon, 1/3/11, Jari Fredriksson ja...@iki.fi wrote: How did you do it? Sorry, this does not directly help: I use OpenVPN instead of ssh. I would agree with this solution as well, the difference in overhead is very negligible, and it's pretty slick setup Our LAN (where

Re: [Bacula-users] Extremly slow backup

2011-01-03 Thread Marcin Krol
did you enable Spool Attributes or Spool Data in the job resource? did you run the btape tests? do you have compression or encryption enabled? your config and some infos about the bacula version may help. Spool Attributers or Spool Data is not enabled in job resource. I wasn't running

Re: [Bacula-users] Extremly slow backup

2011-01-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:38:17 +0100 schrieb Marcin Krol: did you enable Spool Attributes or Spool Data in the job resource? did you run the btape tests? do you have compression or encryption enabled? your config and some infos about the bacula version may help. Spool Attributers or Spool

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula-web, bweb, et al

2011-01-03 Thread Oliver Hoffmann
Hi, I use webmin, bweb and once in a while bat. And, of course, the bconsole itself. I've learned that depending on which information I seek and what needs to be done, the proper tool has to be chosen. webacula is quite disappointing though. It does not really offer more than bweb but the

[Bacula-users] Bacula configration for FC LTO-5 tape drive

2011-01-03 Thread Arunav Mandal
I have a Tandberg T40+ Tapeloader with HP LTO-5 tape drive connected to QLogic Corp. ISP2532-based 8Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA on a Dell 2950 running Ubuntu Server 10.10. The kernel version is 2.6.35-24-server. The autoloader device number changes sometimes with reboot. When I installed

[Bacula-users] Error: bsock.c:208 gethostbyname() after domain name change

2011-01-03 Thread pgf
After a a domain name change of my entire network I am getting an error from Bacula. For some reason it is still trying to look up the hosts by their old domain name: Error#58; bsock.c#58;208 gethostbyname#40;#41; for host fs1.old.domain failed#58; ERR=Authoritative answer for host not found.

[Bacula-users] Multiple CPU core support, 100% usage while restore

2011-01-03 Thread Tom Sommer
I'm currently restoring 1.5 mill. files and it's taking forever. bacula-sd is using 100% CPU, disk IO is apparently low, so I assume it's a CPU issue. My machine has 16GB RAM and 2 CPUs: top - 18:54:53 up 75 days, 10:16, 3 users, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 Tasks: 172 total, 1 running,

[Bacula-users] Server is Client of Multiple Directors

2011-01-03 Thread Patrick McEvoy
Hello, I would like to have two machines acting as directors for the same clients in order to have redundant backups of the servers. I have looked in the manual and searched the internet but only find multiple clients for a director not multiple directors for multiple clients. What is the

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula configration for FC LTO-5 tape drive

2011-01-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:55:56 +0100 schrieb Arunav Mandal: I have a Tandberg T40+ Tapeloader with HP LTO-5 tape drive connected to QLogic Corp. ISP2532-based 8Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA on a Dell 2950 running Ubuntu Server 10.10. The kernel version is 2.6.35-24-server. The autoloader

Re: [Bacula-users] Error: bsock.c:208 gethostbyname() after domain name change

2011-01-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 3.1.2011 18:06, pgf wrote: After a a domain name change of my entire network I am getting an error from Bacula. For some reason it is still trying to look up the hosts by their old domain name: Error#58; bsock.c#58;208 gethostbyname#40;#41; for host fs1.old.domain failed#58;

Re: [Bacula-users] Server is Client of Multiple Directors

2011-01-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:57:49 -0600 schrieb Patrick McEvoy: Hello, I would like to have two machines acting as directors for the same clients in order to have redundant backups of the servers. I have looked in the manual and searched the internet but only find multiple clients for a

Re: [Bacula-users] Server is Client of Multiple Directors

2011-01-03 Thread Patrick McEvoy
Small correction to my post: How do you send messages from the client to the correct director when there is more than one using # Send all messages except skipped files back to Director Messages { Name = Standard director = bacula-dir = all, !skipped, !restored } Where bacula-dir should

[Bacula-users] Error: bsock.c:208 gethostbyname() after domain name change

2011-01-03 Thread pgf
Jari Fredriksson wrote: On 3.1.2011 18:06, pgf wrote: I don't know why, but some /etc/nsswitch.conf with these lines hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 fails for me in this situation. hosts: files dns just works. Thanks for the suggestion Jari,

Re: [Bacula-users] Error: bsock.c:208 gethostbyname() after domain name change

2011-01-03 Thread jeffrey Lang
Did you change the /etc/hosts files on all machines involved? pgf wrote: Jari Fredriksson wrote: On 3.1.2011 18:06, pgf wrote: I don't know why, but some /etc/nsswitch.conf with these lines hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 fails for me in this situation.

Re: [Bacula-users] changed exclude list doesn't get recognized

2011-01-03 Thread Paulo Martinez
Am 03.01.2011 um 10:42 schrieb Geert Stappers: Op 20101220 om 22:49 schreef Paulo Martinez: First i had done a full backup with following fileset: (the job have Accurate = yes ) FileSet { Name = appserver Include { Options { signature = MD5

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula configration for FC LTO-5 tape drive

2011-01-03 Thread Arunav Mandal
Thx for your reply. Then I can even force the tape drive to use st driver with udev rules. Is this stinit.def correct for the tape drive? stinit.def {buffer-writes read-ahead async-writes} # HP Ultrium 5-SCSI manufacturer=HP model= Ultrium 5-SCSI { scsi2logical=1 mode1 compression=1

[Bacula-users] Cannot find any appendable volumes - But auto labeling is enabled?

2011-01-03 Thread Mister IT Guru
I am at a loss as to why this can occur, when I've configured automatic labellings. I get this error emailed to me when jobs are trying to run Cannot find any appendable volumes It's my understanding that this happens when there are no tapes available, but I have disk based storage. Any hints

Re: [Bacula-users] Error: bsock.c:208 gethostbyname() after domain name change

2011-01-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
On 3.1.2011 21:21, pgf wrote: Jari Fredriksson wrote: On 3.1.2011 18:06, pgf wrote: I don't know why, but some /etc/nsswitch.conf with these lines hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4 fails for me in this situation. hosts: files dns just works. Thanks

[Bacula-users] Error: bsock.c:208 gethostbyname() after domain name change

2011-01-03 Thread pgf
Jari Fredriksson wrote: On 3.1.2011 21:21, pgf wrote: Have you tried telnet to the port? I was amazed that it did not work, as telnet to fs1.old.domain will (and should) most definitely fail - that it the old FQDN. The problem is not reachability; the problem is that bacula is somehow

Re: [Bacula-users] Server is Client of Multiple Directors

2011-01-03 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/3/2011 2:15 PM, Patrick McEvoy wrote: Small correction to my post: How do you send messages from the client to the correct director when there is more than one using # Send all messages except skipped files back to Director Messages { Name = Standard director = bacula-dir =

Re: [Bacula-users] Server is Client of Multiple Directors

2011-01-03 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/3/2011 1:57 PM, Patrick McEvoy wrote: Hello, I would like to have two machines acting as directors for the same clients in order to have redundant backups of the servers. I have looked in the manual and searched the internet but only find multiple clients for a director not multiple

Re: [Bacula-users] Error: bsock.c:208 gethostbyname() after domain name change

2011-01-03 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/3/2011 11:06 AM, pgf wrote: After a a domain name change of my entire network I am getting an error from Bacula. For some reason it is still trying to look up the hosts by their old domain name: Error#58; bsock.c#58;208 gethostbyname#40;#41; for host fs1.old.domain failed#58;

Re: [Bacula-users] Cannot find any appendable volumes - But auto labeling is enabled?

2011-01-03 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/3/2011 4:53 PM, Mister IT Guru wrote: I am at a loss as to why this can occur, when I've configured automatic labellings. I get this error emailed to me when jobs are trying to run Cannot find any appendable volumes It's my understanding that this happens when there are no tapes

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula configration for FC LTO-5 tape drive

2011-01-03 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/3/2011 12:55 PM, Arunav Mandal wrote: I have a Tandberg T40+ Tapeloader with HP LTO-5 tape drive connected to QLogic Corp. ISP2532-based 8Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA on a Dell 2950 running Ubuntu Server 10.10. The kernel version is 2.6.35-24-server. The autoloader device number

Re: [Bacula-users] Multiple CPU core support, 100% usage while restore

2011-01-03 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/3/2011 12:57 PM, Tom Sommer wrote: I'm currently restoring 1.5 mill. files and it's taking forever. bacula-sd is using 100% CPU, disk IO is apparently low, so I assume it's a CPU issue. My machine has 16GB RAM and 2 CPUs: top - 18:54:53 up 75 days, 10:16, 3 users, load average:

Re: [Bacula-users] Error: bsock.c:208 gethostbyname() after domain name change

2011-01-03 Thread Guy
In your conf file are you using fully qualified host names? Ie host.newdomain or just hostname? I would suspect you still have entries in resolv.conf for the old domain in the searchpath. Or maybe PTR records in DNS have not been updated. You can use dig to test. ---Guy (via iPhone) On 4