Hello, Are you willing to do some C programming to get a performance improvement?
Best regards, Kern On Monday 04 April 2005 05:42, Matt White wrote: > Hi - I've been evaluating Bacula for a while now, and I'm getting set to > transition from Amanda to Bacula. I'm backing up 17 hosts (Linux and > Tru64 Unix), currently to a 26 tape TL-891 (DLT-IV) library. I've got > my new tape drive in (30 tape MSL6030 with an Ultrium-2), and for the > last week or so, I've been running backups of several hosts with Bacula > to test everything. I'm running full dumps every night, since I wanted > to test spanning tapes and the autochanger. > > One thing that I'm concerned with is that it seems that the 'sending > spool attrs to the director' step, which I understand is inserting/ > updating attributes in the database, takes a VERY long time. I'm using > a PostgreSQL database, and the director and storage daemon are on the > same host (asclbackup). > > Below is a backup report - first of all, am I reading this right? It > looks to me like the actual backup is finished by around 22:42 (data > actually transferred to asclbackup by 21:15, and then another 1.5 hours > or so to dump it to tape), and then the next 8 hours are spent dealing > with the attributes. I'd really like to be able to speed that up a > bit... > > On the up side, the MSL6030 library works perfectly with bacula. > > Any ideas are appreciated...if you need config files to look at, the > sd and dir conf files are at: > > http://borris.usask.ca/bacula/bacula-dir.conf > http://borris.usask.ca/bacula/bacula-sd.conf > > with passwords taken out, of course :-) > > 02-Apr 19:00 asclbackup-dir: Start Backup JobId 33, > Job=Arts-Backup.2005-04-02_19.00.02 > 02-Apr 19:01 asclbackup-sd: Spooling data ... > 02-Apr 21:15 asclbackup-sd: Committing spooled data to Volume. > Despooling 33,703,037,103 bytes ... > 02-Apr 22:42 asclbackup-sd: Sending spooled attrs to the Director. > Despooling 317,625,650 bytes ... > 03-Apr 06:35 asclbackup-dir: Bacula 1.36.2 (28Feb05): 03-Apr-2005 06:35:37 > JobId: 33 > Job: Arts-Backup.2005-04-02_19.00.02 > Backup Level: Full > Client: arts > FileSet: "Arts FileSet" 2005-04-02 08:00:04 > Pool: "Monthly" > Storage: "MSL6000" > Start time: 02-Apr-2005 19:00:03 > End time: 03-Apr-2005 06:35:37 > FD Files Written: 1,079,169 > SD Files Written: 1,079,169 > FD Bytes Written: 33,484,543,201 > SD Bytes Written: 33,630,232,809 > Rate: 802.3 KB/s > Software Compression: None > Volume name(s): MTH0003 > Volume Session Id: 3 > Volume Session Time: 1112487694 > Last Volume Bytes: 103,959,793,626 > Non-fatal FD errors: 0 > SD Errors: 0 > FD termination status: OK > SD termination status: OK > Termination: Backup OK > > 03-Apr 06:35 asclbackup-dir: Begin pruning Jobs. > 03-Apr 06:35 asclbackup-dir: No Jobs found to prune. > 03-Apr 06:35 asclbackup-dir: Begin pruning Files. > 03-Apr 06:35 asclbackup-dir: No Files found to prune. > 03-Apr 06:35 asclbackup-dir: End auto prune. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
