On 24 Mar 2005 at 0:08, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hello, > > Dan Langille wrote: > > > On 23 Mar 2005 at 9:09, Michael Scherer wrote: > > > > > >>I'm just sitting here watching one of my backup-jobs, which goes > >>rather slow. The job backups 25GB in ~1.5 million files, mostly > >>.java/.class files with a speed of ~1.5MB/sec. The usual speed of > >>our LTO drive is ~10MB/sec. > >> > >>Its a backup from a local raid system, no network involved. > >> > >>Any ideas on speeding that thing up? > >>I thought about spooling but I'm unsure if Bacula just spools all > >>small files from /foo/baz to /tmp/bacula_spool_dir and backups them > >>from there. Not much won then. > > > > > > Try it anyway... Let us know. > > No need to try - just use it ;-) > Spooling creates one big file which is written to tape in big chunks.
I haven't tried spooling of local disk.... -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference - http://www.bsdcan.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by Microsoft Mobile & Embedded DevCon 2005 Attend MEDC 2005 May 9-12 in Vegas. Learn more about the latest Windows Embedded(r) & Windows Mobile(tm) platforms, applications & content. Register by 3/29 & save $300 http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6883&alloc_id=15149&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
