Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-04-04 Thread Laurent HENRY
Le Wednesday 30 March 2011 15:41:29 Alan Brown, vous avez écrit : Laurent HENRY wrote: I let bacula a few days with attribute spooling. Things are not really different but it is a nice feature anyway. I am still not beyond 100Mb/s on my 1Gb/s network. You should be able to hit

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-30 Thread Laurent HENRY
Le Tuesday 15 March 2011 13:40:10 John Drescher, vous avez écrit : Fine, i understand it now. Is there a way to just spool attributes and not backuped files themselwes ? SpoolAttributes=yes in the Job resource. http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-30 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Laurent HENRY laurent.he...@ehess.fr wrote: Le Tuesday 15 March 2011 13:40:10 John Drescher, vous avez écrit : Fine, i understand it now. Is there a way to just spool attributes and not backuped files themselwes ? SpoolAttributes=yes in the Job resource.

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-15 Thread Laurent HENRY
Le Friday 11 March 2011 15:08:45 John Drescher, vous avez écrit : Attribute spooling makes sense for either though. Attribute spooling ? That enables spooling if the database entries at the end of the job in a batch instead of 1 at a time as the files are being processed. Its quite a bit

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-15 Thread John Drescher
Fine, i understand it now. Is there a way to just spool attributes and not backuped files themselwes ? SpoolAttributes=yes in the Job resource. http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION00183 -- John M. Drescher

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-11 Thread Laurent HENRY
Le Wednesday 09 March 2011 16:28:52, vous avez écrit : I tried to enable spooling (500 Gb spool) for the tape backup. The perf were worse. BTW, I use 5GB spool. I assume then you do not run concurrent jobs? For a single job the time will be longer because bacula does not concurrently

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-11 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 11/03/2011 10:48, Laurent HENRY ha scritto: Le Wednesday 09 March 2011 16:28:52, vous avez écrit : I tried to enable spooling (500 Gb spool) for the tape backup. The perf were worse. BTW, I use 5GB spool. I assume then you do not run concurrent jobs? For a single job the time will be

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-11 Thread John Drescher
Attribute spooling makes sense for either though. Attribute spooling ? That enables spooling if the database entries at the end of the job in a batch instead of 1 at a time as the files are being processed. Its quite a bit faster to enable attribute spooling unless you have your database on an

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-10 Thread Laurent HENRY
Le Thursday 10 March 2011 01:32:20 Mike Hobbs, vous avez écrit : On 3/1/2011 8:40 AM, Laurent HENRY wrote: Is anyone know if there is a way to improve performances of network usage ? Bacula - Turn off software compression. already done Switch and Network Cards - If you are fully gigabit

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-09 Thread Laurent HENRY
Le Tuesday 08 March 2011 14:58:18 John Drescher, vous avez écrit : On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Laurent HENRY laurent.he...@ehess.fr wrote: Le Wednesday 02 March 2011 20:50:18 Mark, vous avez écrit : btw, i actually experience it with disk backups. Does this mean software compression

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-09 Thread John Drescher
I tried to enable spooling (500 Gb spool) for the tape backup. The perf were worse. BTW, I use 5GB spool. I assume then you do not run concurrent jobs? For a single job the time will be longer because bacula does not concurrently spool and despool but with concurrent jobs and spooling with a

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-09 Thread Mike Hobbs
On 3/1/2011 8:40 AM, Laurent HENRY wrote: Is anyone know if there is a way to improve performances of network usage ? Bacula - Turn off software compression. Switch and Network Cards - If you are fully gigabit and your equipment supports it, turn on jumbo frames.

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-08 Thread Laurent HENRY
Le Wednesday 02 March 2011 20:50:18 Mark, vous avez écrit : btw, i actually experience it with disk backups. Does this mean software compression limits deeply backup speed ? In my case, software compression was a _massive_ slowdown, to the point that my preference was to throw more disk

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-08 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Laurent HENRY laurent.he...@ehess.fr wrote: Le Wednesday 02 March 2011 20:50:18 Mark, vous avez écrit : btw, i actually experience it with disk backups. Does this mean software compression limits deeply backup speed ? In my case, software compression was a

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-02 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Laurent HENRY laurent.he...@ehess.fr wrote: Hi all,  Maybe not a direct question about bacula but i am looking for some feedback of bacula users. My Debian 5 bacula server is directly connected to a Cisco 6500 Switch. Either the bacula server, the switch, the

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-02 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 01/03/11, Laurent HENRY (laurent.he...@ehess.fr) wrote: Hi all, Maybe not a direct question about bacula but i am looking for some feedback of bacula users. ... Looking a bandwith usage, i barely use 100Mb. i see bursts at 110 or 130 Mb/s and nothing more. I find using iperf is very

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-02 Thread Laurent HENRY
Le Wednesday 02 March 2011 02:24:16 John Drescher, vous avez écrit : On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Laurent HENRY laurent.he...@ehess.fr wrote: Hi all,  Maybe not a direct question about bacula but i am looking for some feedback of bacula users. My Debian 5 bacula server is directly

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-02 Thread Alan Brown
On 02/03/11 01:24, John Drescher wrote: Is anyone know if there is a way to improve performances of network usage ? Turn software compression off. Backup to tape with software compression off. Turn spooling on.

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-02 Thread Laurent HENRY
Le Wednesday 02 March 2011 11:59:06 Alan Brown, vous avez écrit : On 02/03/11 01:24, John Drescher wrote: Is anyone know if there is a way to improve performances of network usage ? Turn software compression off. Backup to tape with software compression off. Turn spooling on.