-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Did you just remove compression from the definition?
I'm still looking for a way to EXPLICITLY disable compression. DAve wrote: > Thomas Traeger wrote: >>> Excellent point. The servers that are slowest to transfer are also the >>> busiest, my front end web server and my mail gateways (Av and spam >>> filtering). >>> >>> That is certainly something to look further into. I could try turning >>> off compression for one cycle to prove the theory. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> DAve >>> >>> >> You might also try reducing the compression level to gzip1/2/3 (default >> is gzip5), especially on the VLAN this might help. In my case all >> servers have a 1GBit connection to the backup system and software >> compression is useless as long as you backup on a tape drive with >> hardware compression. >> > > Compression was the culprit! After much testing and trying specific > clients and compression levels it seems that I can transfer uncompressed > data across a 1gb network faster than I can compress the data on the > client. This was tested last on a very busy web server, which really is > never not busy. The overhead of compression exceeded the gains of > transfering data compressed. > > So depending on what load/cpu/ram a client has, compression should be > altered. It is a trade off of speed verses storage space. I can adjust > each job as required. > > Just one more way Bacula's complexity pays off. Thanks everyone. > > DAve > - -- ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer III |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFW0fsmb+gadEcsb4RAis2AKCR+ZuQTIZ2Z8Dt3Rs7JRqCKJefnwCfchWm WHsvjSflzU6WtA46T7PrNpY= =8YrC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
