Re: [Bacula-users] how to debug a job

2015-01-23 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, 2015-01-22 3:42 GMT+01:00 Dimitri Maziuk dmaz...@bmrb.wisc.edu: On 01/21/2015 06:41 PM, Bill Arlofski wrote: Bacula has a hard-coded 6 day limit on a job's run time. 518401 seconds = 6.1157 days, so it appears that is the cause for the watchdog killing the job. Hard-coded,

Re: [Bacula-users] how to debug a job

2015-01-23 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 01/23/2015 09:57 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: ... Have you been able to determine what exactly is slow? I wonder if when the data spool file gets full it triggers a de-spool of both data and attributes, rather than just data? Look like there's something wrong with the spool disk: I replaced it

Re: [Bacula-users] how to debug a job

2015-01-23 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 01/23/2015 01:33 PM, Heitor Faria wrote: Even though, IMHO, spooling disks backup is just muda (Japanese Term): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muda_(Japanese_term) shrug/ so are proxies and caching: spool disk is just a variation on that theme. -- Dimitri Maziuk Programmer/sysadmin

Re: [Bacula-users] how to debug a job

2015-01-23 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 01/23/2015 12:22 PM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: If you are using a vchanger then I guess it is a disk only backup, so why do you spool data? It is not required but making you backup slow down at least 2 times then standard job. It's 2 times slower if your spool/despool is strictly

Re: [Bacula-users] how to debug a job

2015-01-23 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/23/2015 2:33 PM, Heitor Faria wrote: On 01/23/2015 12:22 PM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: If you are using a vchanger then I guess it is a disk only backup, so why do you spool data? It is not required but making you backup slow down at least 2 times then standard job. It's 2 times

Re: [Bacula-users] how to debug a job

2015-01-23 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
On 01/23/2015 02:33 PM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: No, it is not working as you described. Data spooling will read stream from the client, then write it to the temporary disk file, then during despool it is stopping a stream from the client, reads a temporary file and write to destination

Re: [Bacula-users] how to debug a job

2015-01-23 Thread Thomas Lohman
Even though, IMHO, spooling disks backup is just muda (Japanese Term): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muda_(Japanese_term) Not necessarily - if you have a number of backups that tend to flake out halfway through for whatever reasons (network, client issues, user issues, etc) e.g. then by

Re: [Bacula-users] how to debug a job

2015-01-23 Thread Heitor Faria
On 01/23/2015 12:22 PM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: If you are using a vchanger then I guess it is a disk only backup, so why do you spool data? It is not required but making you backup slow down at least 2 times then standard job. It's 2 times slower if your spool/despool is strictly

Re: [Bacula-users] how to debug a job

2015-01-23 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, 2015-01-23 20:04 GMT+01:00 Dimitri Maziuk dmaz...@bmrb.wisc.edu: On 01/23/2015 12:22 PM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: If you are using a vchanger then I guess it is a disk only backup, so why do you spool data? It is not required but making you backup slow down at least 2 times

Re: [Bacula-users] how to debug a job

2015-01-23 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, 2015-01-23 20:57 GMT+01:00 Dimitri Maziuk dmaz...@bmrb.wisc.edu: On 01/23/2015 01:33 PM, Heitor Faria wrote: Even though, IMHO, spooling disks backup is just muda (Japanese Term): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muda_(Japanese_term) shrug/ so are proxies and caching: spool disk is

[Bacula-users] Strange bacula-director error

2015-01-23 Thread John Elliott
Hi All, When I try to start bacula-director, I get the following error: # service bacula-director start * Starting Bacula Director... 23-Jan 13:14 bacula-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at parse_conf.c:976 Config error: expected an equals, got: { : line 2, col 9 of file

Re: [Bacula-users] Strange bacula-director error

2015-01-23 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 4:17 PM, John Elliott jelli...@cca.edu wrote: Hi All, When I try to start bacula-director, I get the following error: # service bacula-director start * Starting Bacula Director... 23-Jan 13:14 bacula-dir: ERROR TERMINATION at parse_conf.c:976 Config error:

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-Web 7.0.2 available

2015-01-23 Thread Davide Franco
Hi Uwe, Thanks for your feedback, it's fully appreciated ... In order to fix your problem, I'll need 3 things from you. 1. Your web server error logs 2. A screenshot of the buggy catalog selector 3. Your config.php file (don't forget to remove sensitive informations) Best regards

Re: [Bacula-users] Strange bacula-director error

2015-01-23 Thread John Elliott
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[Bacula-users] Linux Virtual Tape Library - MHVTL

2015-01-23 Thread Ralf Brinkmann
Just tripped over MHVTL - it may be of interest for test purposes possibly. Seems to be tested with Bacula already. *mhVTL* https://sites.google.com/site/linuxvtl2; *MHVTL - virtuelle Tape Library* http://www.libe.net/index.php/MHVTL; Für Test oder Demozwecke kann mittels MHVTL eine oder

Re: [Bacula-users] Offsite Storage

2015-01-23 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 06:30:01PM +, Damien Hull wrote: I've asked this question before, but I don't think I got enough information. Here's my situation 1. I have three offices in different physical locations. 2. Each location has between 200 GB to well over 1 TB of data.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-Web 7.0.2 available

2015-01-23 Thread Davide Franco
Hello, For those of you who encountered the same problem with Bacula-Web 7.0.1 or 7.0.2, I found a solution to fix it. As of Bacula-Web version 7.0, the selected catalog_id is stored in the user session. So if you modify the config.php and you remove the same catalog that is used in the web ui.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-Web 7.0.2 available

2015-01-23 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 03:48:52PM +0100, Davide Franco wrote: Dear all, I'm really happy to announce that Bacula-Web version 7.0.2 is available from now. This major bugfix / maintenance release fixes 13 bugs (including 3 major bugs). I'd strongly suggest everyone to upgrade to this

Re: [Bacula-users] how to debug a job

2015-01-23 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/22/2015 12:47 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: On 01/22/2015 10:07 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: There is likely no reason to have SpoolData=yes for disk volumes, and it could actually slow things down. On 01/22/2015 07:32 AM, Clark, Patricia A. wrote: Spooling is for the benefit of tape drives and

Re: [Bacula-users] how to debug a job

2015-01-23 Thread Dmitri Maziuk
On 1/23/2015 9:03 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: I use another approach. I define the vchanger to have multiple virtual drives... So for 10 concurrent jobs there would be 10 virtual drives and so 10 opened volume files. My way also keeps the config simple stupid: as long as the backups complete on

Re: [Bacula-users] how to debug a job

2015-01-23 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/23/2015 10:36 AM, Dmitri Maziuk wrote: On 1/23/2015 9:03 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: I use another approach. I define the vchanger to have multiple virtual drives... So for 10 concurrent jobs there would be 10 virtual drives and so 10 opened volume files. My way also keeps the config simple

Re: [Bacula-users] Offsite Storage

2015-01-23 Thread Josh Fisher
On 1/22/2015 1:30 PM, Damien Hull wrote: I’ve asked this question before, but I don’t think I got enough information. Here’s my situation 1.I have three offices in different physical locations. 2.Each location has between 200 GB to well over 1 TB of data. 3.I would like to backup data

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula-Web 7.0.2 available

2015-01-23 Thread Davide Franco
Hello all, The issue with Mantis bug tracker for Bacula-Web project is fixed now. Feel free to sign up and add bug report and/or feature request. Mantis Bug Tracker: http://bugs.bacula-web.org Whish you an excellent week-end Best regards Davide On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Davide Franco