Hi, On 2/24/2007 5:31 PM, Mike Hanby wrote: ... > Bacula-dir, bacula-sd and bacula-fd are all on this same computer, Linux > Redhat FC6 box backing up to a locally connected 500GB USB 2.0 hard > drive. So, everything is local. ... > It is now 10:00, 16.5 hours later and 57GB's have been backed up. > > > > Looking at the top command, the system isn't doing a whole heck of a lot > > bacula-fd fluctuates from 3% cpu to 35% > > bacula-sd stays around 1 to 3% > > usb-storage stays around .3% > > > > The system has 328 MB's of RAM free. > > > > load average is 6.63 on the system. > > > > I'm using the setting: Compression = GZIP > > in the FileSet, which will increase the time it takes to back up, but > still 100 GB's locally and 16 hours still seams a bit long. >
Indeed... but try to see where the time is spent using vmstat. I suppose that will tell you that lots of time is spent in I/O waiting. Also, you forgot to tell us some important details: What version of Bacula, which catalog database? And did you ever check the drive speed before using Bacula, for example using dd? You might double-check that your USB disk is really connected as a USB 2 device (there would be some lines in dmesg output, in the system log file, and probably in lsusb and all the other tools for USB). Also, check your mount options - if the USB disk is mounted with the sync option, it will be slower but more reliable than with async. > > I'll try it next without the compression, but does anyone know if this > is this normal for a single box solution with 100GB's of data? > No. My really slow backup system is much faster... Arno > > Thanks, Mike > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
