Re: [Bacula-users] estimating time remaining on a backup

2009-12-08 Thread John Drescher
> I was wondering if Bacula might be in a position to estimate or help the > user estimate the time remaining based on what it already knows?  I'm not > sure if it does any sort of internal estimate at the start or if it just > starts traversing the filesystem sending what it needs to send. > Bacu

Re: [Bacula-users] estimating time remaining on a backup

2009-12-08 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, On Mon, 07 Dec 2009, Alex Chekholko wrote: > On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 13:46:02 + > Gavin McCullagh wrote: > > > I started a full backup last night of a tired old Windows-based Dell NAS. > > It's very slow. The filesystem is full and super-fragmented. I also have > > compression turned on wh

Re: [Bacula-users] estimating time remaining on a backup

2009-12-07 Thread Alex Chekholko
On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 13:46:02 + Gavin McCullagh wrote: > Hi, > > I started a full backup last night of a tired old Windows-based Dell NAS. > It's very slow. The filesystem is full and super-fragmented. I also have > compression turned on which makes the cpu work rather hard and slows things

[Bacula-users] estimating time remaining on a backup

2009-12-03 Thread Gavin McCullagh
Hi, I started a full backup last night of a tired old Windows-based Dell NAS. It's very slow. The filesystem is full and super-fragmented. I also have compression turned on which makes the cpu work rather hard and slows things down even further. 1.5MB/sec :-( Anyhoo, this leads me to try and g