On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Jason Voorhees <jvoorhe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 1:43 PM, John Drescher <dresche...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:38 PM, John Drescher <dresche...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> /dev/mapper/mpath0: >>>> Timing buffered disk reads: 622 MB in 3.00 seconds = 207.20 MB/sec >>>> >>> That is a raid. But you still may not be able to sustain over 100MB/s >>> of somewhat random reads. Remember that hdparm is only measuring >>> sequential performance of large reads. >>> >> >> If it is a raid I cold be wrong about the filesystem performance being >> the only problem. You can test if this is the case by creating a >> backup of a single file that is 1GB or so to media that is already >> loaded and see if the performance is closer to the network maximum. >> Maybe test an already compressed file of this size versus a file >> containing all zeros. >> >> John >> > > I tried to copy a 10 GB file between both servers (Bacula and > Fileserver) with scp and I got a 48 MB/s speed transfer. Is this why > my backups are always near to that speed? > It would be part of the problem.
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