Hello list, I've been running bacula very happily now for nearly a year and am so far very pleased. However the amount of data that is now being backed up with this system is huge. The problem I have is that for the first 3-4GB of backup, I'm getting a nice 6-7Mbytes/s, which is great! Then beyond that it just continuously decreases. When I get to the fifth tape the transfer rate is about 700kbytes/s. My setup is as follows:
Bacula director, storage and file daemon version 1.36.2, running on FreeBSD version 5.3-RELEASE-p5. Database is PostgresQL version 7.4.6 running on Debian Linux, kernel 2.6.8. I'm trying to backup 380GB from a firewire disk, onto 40/70 DLT tapes, drive attached to pci scsi controller (all on same machine as director). Am I insane?!? If so, please say so. If not read on. The load average during the backup is almost 1 and on the database server is almost nothing. Does anybody have any clues for improving this performance, or should I just split the job into smaller chunks? Thanks in advance for any help, even if it's just to advise me that I'm insane. Matt -- Matthew Buckland, Network / Support Analyst Wordbank Limited 33 Charlotte Street, London W1T 1RR Direct line: +44 (0) 20 7903 8847 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7903 8888 <http://www.wordbank.com/> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7628&alloc_id=16845&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
