Re: [Bacula-users] backuppc pool backup slow

2005-05-17 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi. Jeff Ramen wrote: I would like to gain some understanding as to what bacula is doing when the bytes written stops changing and files examined keeps increasing. It's probably examining files. Like during an incremental or differential backup. The SD looks at all files on the computer, but sto

Re: [Bacula-users] backuppc pool backup slow

2005-05-17 Thread Jeff Ramen
I would like to gain some understanding as to what bacula is doing when the bytes written stops changing and files examined keeps increasing. Is this a cataloging operation? Backuppc supports some kind of archiving feature, I wonder if anyone has used this in conjunction with bacula... Thanks

Re: [Bacula-users] backuppc pool backup slow

2005-05-17 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, BackupPC uses *lots* and *lots* of hard links. The current Bacula implementation is *very* slow handling hard links. You have three choices: - Live with slow performance for BackupPC files - Turn off handling of hard links (your BackupPC files will all be restored but not properly link

[Bacula-users] backuppc pool backup slow

2005-05-17 Thread Jeff Ramen
Hello, I am experiencing slow backup performance, especially when backing up my BackupPC pool to tape. My system: Dual Opteron 2.4Ghz 1GB Ram, 4*300GB SATA (3Ware Controller RAID 5), Adaptec U160 Gentoo Linux (stage 1 install) kernel: linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r6 BackupPC version 2.1.1, poo