Re: [Bacula-users] HW crypto offload

2011-10-30 Thread Ben Laurie
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Alex Crow ac...@integrafin.co.uk wrote: Hi, We have set up a backup server that uses encryption in the File Daemon. However we find it is really slow, in fact we are only getting about 80Mbps (megabits, not -bytes) throughput while running 4 backup threads.

Re: [Bacula-users] HW crypto offload

2011-10-30 Thread Alex Crow
If it is supported in any way, I'd be happy to know. If not, what would be the best way about getting it implemented? I'd want to be pretty sure its going to help before doing this. On my (somewhat aged) development machine, OpenSSL can do AES-128 CBC at 55 MB/s (bytes, not bits), so it

Re: [Bacula-users] HW crypto offload

2011-10-30 Thread John Drescher
Could it be the compression=GZIP in the job defs that is slowing things down? Yes. Try disabling that. I really should get my colleague to join this as he's the one that set this up. John -- Get your Android app

Re: [Bacula-users] HW crypto offload

2011-10-30 Thread Guy
The quickest way to find out is to configure a backup without crypto and see how long it takes. You could also do another test with GZIP compression on/off. ---Guy (via iPhone) On 30 Oct 2011, at 16:23, Alex Crow ac...@integrafin.co.uk wrote: If it is supported in any way, I'd be happy to

Re: [Bacula-users] HW crypto offload

2011-10-25 Thread Dan Langille
On Oct 18, 2011, at 4:37 AM, Alex Crow wrote: Hi, We have set up a backup server that uses encryption in the File Daemon. However we find it is really slow, in fact we are only getting about 80Mbps (megabits, not -bytes) throughput while running 4 backup threads. This is backing up