If your network speed is 95 M BITS and bacula transfer rate is 11 M BYTES ...
On Thu, 18 Sept 2025 at 15:24, Dave Tibbetts <dave...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Another slow backup issue and I'm hoping someone can help. > > I'm running Bacula 13.04 on Ubuntu 25.04. > It's been running fine for several years over many Bacula and OS upgrades. > > Suddenly on 3 August 2025, my backup speed was cut by about half. I have a > desktop that typically would run about 25 to 26 MB/s and is now running at > 11.5. This is running via ethernet. > > I'm seeing the same with another machine that's also on ethernet and a > wireless laptop. > > I'm using virtual tapes in the filestor, and the bacula director and storage > are on the same machine. Again, small setup and been very reliable. > > SpoolAttributes is set on for all jobs. > > I ran iperf from my desktop to my server and got solid numbers: > [ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr Cwnd > [ 5] 0.00-1.00 sec 12.4 MBytes 104 Mbits/sec 0 255 KBytes > [ 5] 1.00-2.00 sec 11.4 MBytes 95.5 Mbits/sec 0 255 KBytes > [ 5] 2.00-3.00 sec 11.0 MBytes 92.3 Mbits/sec 0 255 KBytes > [ 5] 3.00-4.00 sec 11.5 MBytes 96.4 Mbits/sec 0 255 KBytes > [ 5] 4.00-5.00 sec 10.9 MBytes 91.2 Mbits/sec 0 255 KBytes > [ 5] 5.00-6.00 sec 11.5 MBytes 96.5 Mbits/sec 0 255 KBytes > [ 5] 6.00-7.00 sec 10.9 MBytes 91.2 Mbits/sec 0 255 KBytes > [ 5] 7.00-8.00 sec 11.5 MBytes 96.5 Mbits/sec 0 255 KBytes > [ 5] 8.00-9.00 sec 11.4 MBytes 95.4 Mbits/sec 0 255 KBytes > [ 5] 9.00-10.00 sec 11.0 MBytes 92.2 Mbits/sec 0 255 KBytes > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > [ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate Retr > [ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 113 MBytes 95.1 Mbits/sec 0 sender > [ 5] 0.00-10.02 sec 112 MBytes 94.1 Mbits/sec receiver > > I tried using ethtool to tweak the NIC's - > > ethtool -K eno1 tso off gso off gro off > > But that didn't help. > > > I went back through the Bacula archives and tried many, many different things > - none of which helped. I finally decided to just delete the rebuild the > Postgresql database and delete all the virtual tapes. > > So I brought everything back up and started a backup on a brand new catalog. > Same throughput 11.5 MB/s > Bugs-Bunny-dir JobId 1: End auto prune. > Bugs-Bunny-dir JobId 1: No Files found to prune. > Bugs-Bunny-dir JobId 1: Begin pruning Files. > Bugs-Bunny-dir JobId 1: No Jobs found to prune. > Bugs-Bunny-dir JobId 1: Begin pruning Jobs older than 1 month 16 days . > Bugs-Bunny-dir JobId 1: Bacula Enterprise Bugs-Bunny-dir 13.0.4 (12Feb24): > Build OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-bacula-enterprise ubuntu 22.04 > JobId: 1 > Job: Backup_Bullwinkle.2025-09-17_15.58.07_17 > Backup Level: Full (upgraded from Incremental) > Client: "Bullwinkle-fd" 15.0.3 (25Mar25) > x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu,redhat,; > FileSet: "Bullwinkle Set" 2025-09-17 15:58:07 > Pool: "File" (From Command input) > Catalog: "MyCatalog" (From Client resource) > Storage: "Filestor" (From Command input) > Scheduled time: 17-Sep-2025 15:58:07 > Start time: 17-Sep-2025 15:58:09 > End time: 18-Sep-2025 06:48:23 > Elapsed time: 14 hours 50 mins 14 secs > Priority: 10 > FD Files Written: 145,410 > SD Files Written: 145,410 > FD Bytes Written: 618,967,362,190 (618.9 GB) > SD Bytes Written: 618,992,689,163 (618.9 GB) > Rate: 11588.1 KB/s > Software Compression: 2.5% 1.0:1 > Comm Line Compression: 5.2% 1.1:1 > Snapshot/VSS: no > Encryption: no > Accurate: no > Volume name(s): > Oviedo0001|Oviedo0002|Oviedo0003|Oviedo0004|Oviedo0005|Oviedo0006|Oviedo0007|Oviedo0008|Oviedo0009|Oviedo0010|Oviedo0011|Oviedo0012|Oviedo0013|Oviedo0014|Oviedo0015|Oviedo0016|Oviedo0017|Oviedo0018|Oviedo0019|Oviedo0020|Oviedo0021|Oviedo0022|Oviedo0023|Oviedo0024|Oviedo0025|Oviedo0026|Oviedo0027|Oviedo0028|Oviedo0029|Oviedo0030|Oviedo0031|Oviedo0032|Oviedo0033|Oviedo0034|Oviedo0035|Oviedo0036|Oviedo0037|Oviedo0038|Oviedo0039| > Volume Session Id: 1 > Volume Session Time: 1758138994 > Last Volume Bytes: 7,428,533,207 (7.428 GB) > Non-fatal FD errors: 0 > SD Errors: 0 > FD termination status: OK > SD termination status: OK > Termination: Backup OK > Bugs-Bunny-sd JobId 1: Sending spooled attrs to the Director. Despooling > 40,737,115 bytes ... > Bugs-Bunny-sd JobId 1: Elapsed time=14:49:57, Transfer rate=11.59 M > Bytes/second > > Is it something crazy like my FD on the desktop is 15.0.3 and the server is > running 13.04? > > I'm just totally out of ideas. What am I missing? > > Thanks, > Dave > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
