[Bacula-users] Bacula slow, possibly network

2010-05-11 Thread martinofmoscow
Hi, we've come over from an Amanda backup system which had become a nightmare to administer, and generally we're very happy with Bacula. My concern thought is speed: Bacula is proving to be very slow, possibly in relation - it seems - to its network utilisation. We're backing up over a managed

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula slow, possibly network

2010-05-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
Am Tue, 11 May 2010 03:47:05 -0700 schrieb martinofmoscow: Hi, we've come over from an Amanda backup system which had become a nightmare to administer, and generally we're very happy with Bacula. My concern thought is speed: Bacula is proving to be very slow, possibly in relation - it seems

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula slow, possibly network

2010-05-11 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Tue, 11 May 2010, martinofmoscow wrote: I kicked off a [400Gb, full] bacup at 1am on Saturday and it completed 11 hours later at mid-day. At the risk of getting the sums wrong and looking silly: 400GB in 11 hours ~ 36GB per hour ~ 600MB per minute ~ 10MB per second ~ 82Mbit/sec

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula slow, possibly network

2010-05-11 Thread martinofmoscow
Thanks Gavin, that's very defly surmised! I guess we were misunderstanding what Amanda was/wasn't doing previously. Gavin McCullagh-2 wrote: Hi, On Tue, 11 May 2010, martinofmoscow wrote: I kicked off a [400Gb, full] bacup at 1am on Saturday and it completed 11 hours later at mid-day.

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula slow, possibly network

2010-05-11 Thread Gavin McCullagh
On Tue, 11 May 2010, martinofmoscow wrote: Anyone have any experience with using compression on the client with Bacula? Yeah, we use it almost everywhere. The only exception is a video store where the files aren't terribly compressible. As you might imagine, it uses considerable CPU cycles