Re: [Bacula-users] Disk setup for best performance on backups

Sorry for the late reply guys, I've been busy these last days. I really appreciate all the responses you made to this thread. I'll read carefully all of them and take into consideration for my deployment. Hope you all have a nice weekend! On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 11:55 AM Josh Fisher wrote: > >

[Bacula-users] Disk setup for best performance on backups

Hello guys: I'm planning a Bacula deployment on AWS in the following weeks. I have some doubts about disk performance for Disk based backups. Based on the idea that Bacula writes data on big files (i.e. 100 GB each volume), what technical considerations should I have for the underlying storage

Re: [Bacula-users] Backups to S3

. Thank you all guys On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 5:27 PM Dimitri Maziuk via Bacula-users wrote: > > On 1/17/20 1:03 PM, Jason Voorhees wrote: > ... > > I'll start playing around with it. I'll let you know if anything does > > not work as expected. > > You made me look

Re: [Bacula-users] Backups to S3

Thanks for your email, Heitor > Why would you add an emulation/extra layer between Bacula and the final > destination? What do you mean as extra layer? Are you referring to the integration between Bacula and Amazon Storage VTL? > Bacula S3 Plugin is really good. It provides nice options such as

[Bacula-users] Backups to S3

Hello guys, I hope you're doing well I have a question: So far, which is the best combination for storing backups on S3 using Bacula? Is it through the new Cloud plugin? or is it best to use the Amazon VTL integration with Bacula? Which of these is the more reliable for production environments?

[Bacula-users] Bacula largest installations ever

Hello bats: I was wondering if you can share any of your biggest Bacula deployments you ever made. I mean anything like "I use Bacula to backup thousands of desktops/servers", or "I have a backup infrastructure with Bacula for more than 30TB of data being backed up". It's just that I want to

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula in the cloud

Thank you all for your responses. I'll take a look at Bacula systems' whitepaper to see what they're talking about. Meanwhile I'll explore some of the alternatives discussed on this thread like copying files with scripts and making a replica on SpiderOak or anything similar. I hope we can have

[Bacula-users] Bacula in the cloud

Hello guys: Based on your experience, what alternative do we have for backing up information to the cloud preferably using Bacula? I've been reading some posts about similar topics. Bandwidth always seem to be a problem because it isn't to big (Gigs per second) or there's to much information

Re: [Bacula-users] Best backup strategy on short disk capacity

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 7:09 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > You are sort of in an impossible situation. With the large amount of data > you have and the small backup space, it will be hard to make Bacula work as > it should. > > My very strong conviction is that any

[Bacula-users] Best backup strategy on short disk capacity

Hello guys: I'm running Bacula 7.4.0 to save backup of my Windows fileserver which has 4 drives (D:, F:, G:, H:) with 7.1 TB of total capacity. I've ran a full backup during 7 days which occupied 5.8 TB (~20% compression rate) in a local filesystem with local SATA disks. This local filesystem is

Re: [Bacula-users] Mail notifications delayed

Hi: > The issue is whether the directive is an "operatiorcommand" or a > "mailcommand". The transport mechanism does not matter (i.e. bsmtp or mutt, > or whatever). A mailcommand is sent at the end of a job and will include > all messages generated during the job. The operatorcommand is sent

Re: [Bacula-users] Mail notifications delayed

What seems On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 3:35 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > There are two things you can do: > > 1. Look at the default bacula-dir.conf Messages resource, which avoids the > problem you are having. You are missing (or probably have deleted) one > important

[Bacula-users] Mail notifications delayed

Hello guys: I'm running Bacula 7.4.0 with a Messages resource like this: Messages { Name = Standard mail = myem...@gmail.com = all, !info, !skipped, !restored, !saved console = all, !skipped, !saved append = "/var/log/bacula/bacula.log" = all, !skipped catalog = all } I've just got

Re: [Bacula-users] Instalación cliente Bacula en Centos 6.7

Hola Enrique: La lista es de idioma inglés, dudo que consultando en español te respondan. Sobre tu consulta, si no tienes Internet, ¿cómo obtendrás el RPM? No recuerdo si Bacula viene en los DVDs de CentOS 6 pero al menos hoy lo pude instalar usando YUM desde Internet sin usar ningún repositorio

Re: [Bacula-users] Are my Bacula backups fast enough?

I forgot to say that Bacula client on my Zimbra server (which is currently being backed up) is using most of the CPU. According to top command, bacula-fd is reporting between 10%, 30% or even 80% of CPU usage. Meanwhile, swap usage is currently low (~ 3%) On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Jason

[Bacula-users] Are my Bacula backups fast enough?

Hello guys: I'd like you to share some thoughs about my scenario and performance. Here's what I have: Server (Director & Storage) System: KVM guest running on Proxmox 4.1 host Network: virtio Storage: 5x200 GB Virtual disks (qcow2 format), used as physical volumes

Re: [Bacula-users] How to build tray-monitor

o, try > > qmake > > make > > in the qt-console/tray-monitor directory. > > Hope it helps > > Best Regards, > Eric > > On 04/19/2016 02:00 PM, Jason Voorhees wrote: >> Thank you Kern. >> >> Yes, I have tried that but there's no Makefile in

Re: [Bacula-users] How to build tray-monitor

; then create a configuration file for it that is valid (tray-monitor.conf) > and execute it. > > I have never tried it, so I am not sure it will work. Feedback would be > appreciated. > > Best regards, > Kern > > > On 04/16/2016 01:06 AM, Jason Voorhees wrote: >&g

[Bacula-users] How to build tray-monitor

Hello guys: I've built Bacula 7.4.0 but I have no idea how to build the tray-monitor application. I can't find any arguments in ./configure --help to achieve it even when I found a tray-monitor directory in the contents of the tarball. Hope someone can give me some ideas. Thanks in advance.

Re: [Bacula-users] Difference between Full and Used status

> Yes, when a Volume reaches the "configured" maximum size, it should be > marked "Full". > > Best regards, > Kern > > On 03/29/2016 10:11 AM, Jason Voorhees wrote: > >> Thank you Kern, Phil. >> >> It's pretty clear to me what a Used status

Re: [Bacula-users] Difference between Full and Used status

e two statuses have the same effect, but Full is only marked when the > Volume is full. Used is marked typically when the use time period expires > or some similar feature keeps Bacula from writing on the Volume. > > Best regards, > Kern > > > On 03/29/2016 08:41 AM, Jason Vo

[Bacula-users] Difference between Full and Used status

Hello guys: I feel like a newbie in Bacula so I'm trying to understand some concepts to make my own documents for clarification. I have a question: what's the difference between a Full and Used status? Thank you all in advance.

Re: [Bacula-users] vchanger not doing "label barcodes" correctly

Nevermind, I've already solved this. It was due to permissions issue on /etc/bacula/bconsole.conf not being readable by "tape" group. Thanks anyway guys :) On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 10:11 PM, Jason Voorhees <jvoorhe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Guys: > > This is my first

[Bacula-users] vchanger not doing "label barcodes" correctly

Hello Guys: This is my first time trying to configure vchanger with Bacula 5.2.13. I've configured Bacula and vchanger according to the official vchanger 1.0.1 documentation included in source code (vchangerHowto.html). As per vchanger howto I'm supposed to initialize my magazine by creating a

[Bacula-users] systemd file for bacula-dir

Hello guys, hope you're doing good: I'd recently installed bacula 7.4.0 on CentOS 7 x86_64. I don't have much experience with systemd files but I'm learning through this process. I didn't find any bacula*.service files under /usr/lib/systemd/system directory so I created these ones:

[Bacula-users] How to know which volumes will be needed for a restore?

Hi: Is there a way to know which volumes (tapes) will be required by Bacula before running a restore job? I hope someone can give me a tip. Thanks -- Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every

Re: [Bacula-users] How to know which volumes will be needed for a restore?

Hi: 2011/5/16 Kleber Leal kleber.l...@gmail.com: The volumes will be showed when you execute restore command. Kleber Yes, you're right. I don't use bconsole to restore jobs but Bat (GUI). I didn't note that in the Console section I can see which volumes will be used before clicking OK to

Re: [Bacula-users] Bat through SSH X11 forwarding works parcially fine/bad

It was a mistake of mine. The mentioned windows always were working fine but were not visible because of a almost invisible bar. Thanks anyway. On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Jason Voorhees jvoorhe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi people: I'm running Bacula 5.0.3 (compiled from source) on CentOS 5.6

[Bacula-users] Bat through SSH X11 forwarding works parcially fine/bad

Hi people: I'm running Bacula 5.0.3 (compiled from source) on CentOS 5.6 x86_64. I made a basic installation of CentOS without X Window, nor GNOME/KDE/etc GUI, just pure console. I installed qt43, qt43-devel (required to compile Bat) and xorg-x11-xauth (to be able to run X apps trough SSH X11

[Bacula-users] Speed of backups

Hi: I'm running Bacula 5.0.3 in RHEL 6.0 x86_64 with a Library tape IBM TS3100 with hardware compression enabled and software (Bacula) compression disabled, using LTO-5 tapes. I have a Gigabit Ethernet network and iperf tests report me a bandwidth of 112 MB/s. I'm not using any spooling

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

Hi: On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:19 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Jason Voorhees jvoorhe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi: I'm running Bacula 5.0.3 in RHEL 6.0 x86_64 with a Library tape IBM TS3100 with hardware compression enabled and software (Bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

The performance problem is probably filesystem performance. A single hard drive will only hit 100 MB/s if you are baking up files that are a few hundred MB. -- John M. Drescher How could I run some tests to verify this? I'm running MySQL server in the same host where Bacula is installed.

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:30 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: No, there are just a normal number of files from a shared folder of my fileserver with spreadsheets, documents, images, PDFs, just information of final users. The performance problem is probably filesystem

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:41 AM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: How can I know where's the bottleneck? I'm using an ext4 filesystem. Are these tests useful? [root@qsrpsbk1 ~]# hdparm -t /dev/sda /dev/sda:  Timing buffered disk reads:  370 MB in  3.01 seconds = 122.89 MB/sec

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:01 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: So do you believe these speeds of my backups are normal? I though my Library tape with LTO-5 tapes could write at 140 MB/s approx. It isn't possible to achieve higher speeds? You need to speed up your source

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:43 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:38 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: /dev/mapper/mpath0:  Timing buffered disk reads:  622 MB in  3.00 seconds = 207.20 MB/sec That is a raid. But you still may not be able to

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

to get the maximum speed with your LTO-5 drive you should enable data spooling and change the Maximum File Size parameter. The spool disk must be a fast one, especially if you want to run concurrent jobs. Forget hdparm as benchmark, use bonnie++, tiobench, iozone. Then after after you have

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

I got the biggest gain by changing Maximum File Size to 5 GB. How fast is the disk where you spool file is locatet? Ok, I don't have that setting enabled but I could try it. Question: how do you decide 5 GB is an optimal value for your LTO-4 tapes? what value could I put for my LTO-5 tapes? I

Re: [Bacula-users] Speed of backups

I got the biggest gain by changing Maximum File Size to 5 GB. How fast is the disk where you spool file is locatet? A different test would be to create a 10 GB file with data from /dev/urandom in the spool directory and the write this file to tape (eg. nst0). Note: this will overwrite your

[Bacula-users] About tapes capacity

Hi people: I'm running Bacula 5.0.3 with an tape library IBM TS3100 using LTO5 tapes of 1.5 TB capacity each one. I have a simple question: If I run a job backup of a server that holds more than 1.5 TB (example: 2 TB of data), what happen when Bacula reaches the limit of the tape capacity? Does

Re: [Bacula-users] About tapes capacity

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Paul Mather p...@gromit.dlib.vt.edu wrote: On Apr 20, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Jason Voorhees wrote: Hi people: I'm running Bacula 5.0.3 with an tape library IBM TS3100 using LTO5 tapes of 1.5 TB capacity each one. I have a simple question: If I run a job backup

Re: [Bacula-users] Experiences with Autochanger IBM TS3100

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:59 PM, Buskas, Patric patric.bus...@capgemini.com wrote: Hi, I'm using the TS3100 with a CentOS 5.5 and Bacula 5.0.3 and it's working great. I don't think there are any mainstream Linux dist who won't work with this auto changer unless they're too old. It works

[Bacula-users] Experiences with Autochanger IBM TS3100

Hi: We're planning to buy a autochanger IBM T3100 but I would like you to give me some suggestion about this model? Do you know if it's fully supported with modern Linux distributions? Is it necessary some recent kernel version? Is it difficult to configure? Would you recommend a better linux