-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I use openvpn (http://openvpn.net) in some bacula clients to bacula server with lzo compression without encrypt, and the transfer time decrease a lot. I recommend if your data transfer are big.
- -- Jeronimo Zucco LPIC-1 Linux Professional Institute Certified NĂșcleo de Processamento de Dados Universidade de Caxias do Sul "May the Source be with you." - An unknown jedi programmer. http://jczucco.blogspot.com Uwe Hees wrote: > Hello, > > Am 30.08.2005 um 18:15 schrieb Kern Sibbald: > >> >> Perhaps you didn't read the ReleaseNotes where I indicate that SQLite3 >> in my >> tests was 4 to 10 times slower than SQLite 2. >> >> Try SQLite 2 or MySQL. > > > I used sqlite3 mainly because it came preinstalled with MacOS 10.4. > Meanwhile I have installed MySQL for other reasons and tried bacula with > it. The result was a double in performance up to ~120kB/sec. > > While running the backup job I noticed that "netstat" reported 32768 > entries in the send queue of the bacula-fd. I tried to backup to a > remote sd (running under Linux on a 200Mhz/PPC603e, i.e. not a powerful > box) and got ~520kB/sec. > > > Am 30.08.2005 um 20:46 schrieb Arno Lehmann: > >> Also, don't forget that notebook HDs (2.5") are usually a lot slower >> than than desktop or even server disks... and in backing up the same >> machine, you use the slow disk three times: reading, writing, database. > > > The disk has a random read/write performance of about 10 MB/sec. > >> Now, I don't have disk performance comparisons between an iBook and a >> more typical server setup, but I'd bet that the iBook is really slow >> in comparison... >> >> about 650 kB/s is what I get storing the (dumped) catalog database on >> my backupserver - the server is slower than your iBook, but still this >> is what the tape drive can handle - but this server only does the >> backups, the catalog is on another machine, and there are no other >> processes using lots of memory or bus throughput. >> >> In short: Try it with a setup which resembles your planned use of >> bacula, and with some consideration you will get good results. > > > Backing up my (and my wife's) notebook to an external disk is exactly > what I intend to do at home. There's no tape drive involved. As for the > company, the backup tape drive is not yet purchased. > > Greetings, > Uwe > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDFerKTCq0VJ4DIPwRAitpAKCWWozvCRvWIsx3UGZVkhSArAG03gCgnIMY vWLOganSNJOLD9CpCqrhVig= =ZY/w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users