>>>>> On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 10:14:09 -0700, Hayden Katzenellenbogen said: > > Hello, > > Thanks to a patch published two weeks ago I am finally making headway > into the wonderful world of Bacula. I have a single machine right now > with about 1.2T of data I am backing up. > > When I run the btape fill test I get write speeds of around 70MB/s when > I run a full backup from the local machine I get about 20MB/s is there > anyway to figure out where the bottle neck is?
Are you using software compression (gzip) in Bacula? What do "top" and "iostat 10" show when running a backup? You could try using tar to check the speed of your filesystem, e.g. time tar cf /dev/null /some/very/large/directory __Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
