Massimo Schenone wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have the same question: how to backup a remote samba server with 60GB
> of file system space?
> I get an average throughput of 220Kb/s but the job always fails with
> network error (Connection reset). In the middle there is a firewall and
> I asked to people guys to raise tcp conn timeout..
> Splitting the job into 5 subjobs doesn't help.. after 2 or 3 hours the
> connection is broken..

I managed to fix mine by adding a heartbeat statement to my fd client.

> After going through docs and forums I tried to add spooling and
> concurrency, so that other jobs must not wait for the samba one to
> complete.. no way! I can't see any concurrency at all
> Here it is the config
> 
> Director {                           
>   ... 
>   Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 4
> }
> 
> JobDefs {
>   ...
>   SpoolData = yes
> }
> ---
> Storage {
>   ...
>   Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 20
> }
> 
> Device {
>   ...
>   Spool Directory = /data/spool;
>   Maximum Spool Size = 40 GB ;
>   Maximum Job Spool Size = 1 GB;
>   ...
> }
> 
> I get spooling but jobs don't run concurrently.. may because jobs use
> different pool? I also run interactively 3 jobs associated to the same
> pool..
> 
> spooling itself is a serial process: mount tape, write data to spool
> until it reaches the max size, destage to tape, restart writing to
> spool...
> I started using 10gb max size but I always get broken pipe error
> message, now with 1GB it's working (22 seconds to despool 45MB/s)
> 
> I want to solve the problem in bacula way, not rsyncing data between the
> client and the server.. do you think setting up a file storage daemon on
> the client and then migrate volume to main storage is reasonable?
> Thanks a lot!
> Massimo
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> In the middle there is a checkpoint firewall 
> 
> On Tue, 2008-12-30 at 19:38 -0500, John Drescher wrote:
>>> A large, mostly static data set, and low bandwidth connection: this is
>>> rsync's specialty!  If you are not familiar with it, look here:
>>>
>>> http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/
>>>
>>> I suggest you use rsync to sync your Windows client to a copy at your main
>>> site (costs you 20GB of disk space somewhere) then do your full Bacula
>>> backup from there.
>>>
>>> There will no doubt be some issues with timing/scheduling, and possibly
>>> permissions, to work out.  And restores will be two-stage.  But I think it
>>> would be worth it.
>>>
>> I do that for a remote backup of a few GB and it works great.
>>
>> John
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