> Hi at all, > I've noticed that our backup system keeps much time to finish servers' > backup. Monitoring our 100Mbps net, by cacti, I see that backup speed > run at 1MBps, at least, meanwhile on another 1000Mbps we could have a > 10MBps backup. This condition is the same over many different machines, > some behind router, other on the same net of backup server; we got the > same result both with a HP StorageWorks single tape reader LTO-3 either > on MSL6000 LTO4 Tape Library. > > I began to think that Bacula limit its transfer speed to 10% of network > bandwidth: it's possible? > No. Bacula does not throttle bandwidth. Are you using spooling? Do you have millions of small files? Are the source disks highly fragmented? Are we talking about full backups because any other level will spend a large time finding what files to backup instead of just backing up every file. Are you running "accurate" backups.
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