Re: [Bacula-users] Copying huge number of files - very slow

2010-03-03 Thread Heitor Medrado de Faria
How does it work? How I would do the restore? Regards, Heitor Faria Sean Carolan wrote: The next thing I'm going to try and to is see if I can simply tar the entire raw partition onto tape. Does bacula support this type of backup? Ok, I'm running a backup of the raw device now and

[Bacula-users] Copying huge number of files - very slow

2010-03-02 Thread Sean Carolan
Hello bacula users: We have a server that uses BackupPC to handle network-based backups of a couple hundred hosts on our network. If you're not familiar with BackupPC, it uses rsync and a clever pooling technique to optimize storage space. The downside of this is that you can end up with

Re: [Bacula-users] Copying huge number of files - very slow

2010-03-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/02/10 12:10, Sean Carolan wrote: Hello bacula users: We have a server that uses BackupPC to handle network-based backups of a couple hundred hosts on our network. If you're not familiar with BackupPC, it uses rsync and a clever pooling technique to optimize storage space. The

Re: [Bacula-users] Copying huge number of files - very slow

2010-03-02 Thread Sean Carolan
I confess my first reaction is that any time your answer involves two different backup systems working in series, you probably asked the wrong question in the first place.  If you're just copying all this data to tape for an offsite archive copy (which, one presumes, you're going to date and

Re: [Bacula-users] Copying huge number of files - very slow

2010-03-02 Thread Sean Carolan
Bacula and Amanda are intended to be network backup solutions. But, you've chosen to use many instances of BackupPC over the network. Actually there's only one instance of BackupPC. We have one BackupPC server, and about 200 clients. It is an agent-less backup system that uses rsync to

Re: [Bacula-users] Copying huge number of files - very slow

2010-03-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:03:53 -0600 schrieb Sean Carolan: Bacula and Amanda are intended to be network backup solutions. But, you've chosen to use many instances of BackupPC over the network. Actually there's only one instance of BackupPC. We have one BackupPC server, and about 200 clients.

Re: [Bacula-users] Copying huge number of files - very slow

2010-03-02 Thread Sean Carolan
The next thing I'm going to try and to is see if I can simply tar the entire raw partition onto tape.  Does bacula support this type of backup? Ok, I'm running a backup of the raw device now and it's nice and zippy now, I've already backed up 6GB in the last couple of minutes. Awesome! Now I

Re: [Bacula-users] Copying huge number of files - very slow

2010-03-02 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 03/02/10 14:23, Sean Carolan wrote: The next thing I'm going to try and to is see if I can simply tar the entire raw partition onto tape. Does bacula support this type of backup? Ok, I'm running a backup of the raw device now and it's nice and zippy now, I've already backed up 6GB in