On 01.07.2010 / 10:05:06 -0400, Derek Harkness wrote: > I've seen a very significant slow in backup speed by enabling gzip compress, > 32MB/s (without gzip) vs 4MB/s (with gzip). The server I'm backing up has > lots of CPU 24x2.6ghz so the compression time shouldn't be a huge factor. Is > this normal for bacula or is there an optimization I'm missing.
you can probably make it a bit faster by specifying gzip compression level, like "compression=GZIP3" and make your FileSet more picky about what to compress and what not, please see "fileset examples" in docs. > Oh, I'm on Bacula 5.0.2 for both the client and server and this is a disk to > disk backup. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
