On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Martin Simmons<mar...@lispworks.com> wrote: >>>>>> On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 10:14:09 -0700, Hayden Katzenellenbogen said: >> >> Hello, >> >> Thanks to a patch published two weeks ago I am finally making headway >> into the wonderful world of Bacula. I have a single machine right now >> with about 1.2T of data I am backing up. >> >> When I run the btape fill test I get write speeds of around 70MB/s when >> I run a full backup from the local machine I get about 20MB/s is there >> anyway to figure out where the bottle neck is? > > Are you using software compression (gzip) in Bacula? > > What do "top" and "iostat 10" show when running a backup? > > You could try using tar to check the speed of your filesystem, e.g. > > time tar cf /dev/null /some/very/large/directory >
Could also be the database. I mean if the db is on the same raid array as the source disk do not expect 70MB/s backups. Spooling attributes should help some in this case. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
