Bacula

On Feb 18, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Tom Allison wrote:

> Way back when I had some tape drives. At that time Linux could not
> provide compression on tape drives. Especially if you where trying to
> write across multiple tapes.
>
> Is this still true?
>
> So if I'm looking at a tape drive that says it is an 80/204GB type, I
> should use 80GB for my calculations?

Compression is a hardware issue.  It is not done by the OS.

What calculations?

>
> Sent from my iPhone.

Please, this is not the place for complaints.  :)


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On Feb 18, 2008 1:01 PM, Tom Allison <tom@...> wrote:
> Way back when I had some tape drives. At that time Linux could not
> provide compression on tape drives. Especially if you where trying to
> write across multiple tapes.
>
> Is this still true?
>
> So if I'm looking at a tape drive that says it is an 80/204GB type, I
> should use 80GB for my calculations?
>
Linux will provide compression if the hardware supports it. It's just
that the 204 GB number is a highly optimistic number that one will
rarely see in real life. 1.5:1 is more realistic for my data so the
drive for me would be a 120GB drive...

John

Dan Langille wrote:
> 
> On Feb 18, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Tom Allison wrote:
> 
>> Way back when I had some tape drives. At that time Linux could not
>> provide compression on tape drives. Especially if you where trying to
>> write across multiple tapes.
>>
>> Is this still true?
>>
>> So if I'm looking at a tape drive that says it is an 80/204GB type, I
>> should use 80GB for my calculations?
> 
> Compression is a hardware issue.  It is not done by the OS.
> 
> What calculations?
> 

So I can expect that whatever is under the hood for Bacula to get me 
some compression (I agree with the 1:1.5) for the tape drive.

I'm trying to see how much space I need to back up three macbooks and 
three debian servers.  Using my own macbook as the worse case situation 
I have 20GB in $HOME, 21GB in /opt, and 66GB used in total.

Sorting out junk and stuff that I can reinstall via ports, I have 
40-50GB of usable space that I'll eventually need to keep backed up.

As a guess I assumed 1.5 to 2.0 times more space in a backup of said 
computer.  So this means I should have ~80GB for one macbook.  Something 
like that.

Those calculations?

Hi guys,

I have been hunting around, but is there a trick to backing up Vista PCs?

 I Couldn't get the Clients to work on the machines, so I mapped the drives to the Director. This gives the below error:


18-Feb 18:34 DIRECTOR JobId 1:      Could not stat Y:\Users\CLIENT1\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook: ERR=The system cannot find the path specified.

18-Feb 18:34 DIRECTOR JobId 1:      Could not stat Z:\Users\CLIENT2\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook: ERR=The system cannot find the path specified.


This is the FileSet definition, C & E drives are accessed without any errors.



FileSet	{
	Name			=		production-Server
	Enable VSS		=		yes
	Include	{
		Options	{
			Signature			=		MD5
			verify				=		pins5
			checkfilechanges		=		yes
			ignore case			=		yes
			portable			=		yes
			}											
File		=		"C:\\Apache2\\conf\\extra"
File		=		"E:\\backup\\bacula-database"	
File		=		"Y:\\Users\\CLIENT1\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\Outlook"
File		=		"Z:\\Users\\CLIENT2\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\Outlook"
		}
	}


 Is there a trick to this? Or am I missing something obvious?


 Thanks :)

Dan

Daniels@... wrote:

> File		=		"Z:\\Users\\CLIENT2\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\Outlook"
> 		}
> 	}
> 
> 
>  Is there a trick to this? Or am I missing something obvious?

http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION0014110000000000000000

Try using forward slashes, rather than escaped backslashes.

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> I have been hunting around, but is there a trick to backing up Vista PCs?
>
What was the problem? Could not see the tray icon?

>
>  I Couldn't get the Clients to work on the machines, so I mapped the drives to the Director. This gives the below error:
>
You need to do the mount for the user that runs the bacula-fd service
and not the currently logged in user. A service will not see any
network mounts made under a different user under any NT based os.

John

Frank Sweetser wrote:
> Daniels@... wrote:
>
>   
>> File		=		"Z:\\Users\\CLIENT2\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\Outlook"
>> 		}
>> 	}
>>
>>
>>  Is there a trick to this? Or am I missing something obvious?
>>     
>
> http://www.bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION0014110000000000000000
>
> Try using forward slashes, rather than escaped backslashes.

 Thanks Frank, it seems it should work either way. And it does on the C 
& E (USB) drives. However the Y&Z drives that have been mapped are still 
not available.




John Drescher wrote:
>   
> You need to do the mount for the user that runs the bacula-fd service
> and not the currently logged in user. A service will not see any
> network mounts made under a different user under any NT based os.
>
> John


Thanks John,

 But, I am confused.  Bacula was installed by 'administrator' and the 
services run as LocalSystem. But the mount was made under the current 
user account (not admin). Which ownership should I change?




Thanks Guys
Dan

>  Thanks John,
>
>   But, I am confused.  Bacula was installed by 'administrator' and the
> services run as LocalSystem. But the mount was made under the current user
> account (not admin). Which ownership should I change?
>

Services do not see the drive mappings for the local user (at least
they did not for NT4,Win2k or XP). I know that from programming
services myself. Possibly it would work if you logged in as the local
administrator and did the map then kept that user logged in for the
entire backup. I would rather fix your backup problem with vista than
this kludge.

John

On Feb 20, 2008 12:14 AM, Daniels@...
<Daniels@...> wrote:
>
>  Thanks John,
>
>   I'll see how it goes.
>
Here is more info on this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/149984

John