On Tuesday 14 June 2005 19:36, Alan Jedlow wrote: > Hi, > > I've built/installed/configured bacula-1.36.3-1.src.rpm on a > Dell PowerEdge 2650(Dual Xeon 3.06GHz, 2 GB mem.); I'm using > MySQL as the database. The director, file, and storage > services are all on this machine. > > I started a full backup of a 820 GB partition to a Qualstar > TLS-4210 AIT2 tape library over a week ago; here's the > latest client status: > > JobId 1 Job NightlySave.2005-06-03_17.43.14 is running. > Backup Job started: 03-Jun-05 17:43 > Files=38,440,336 Bytes=221,072,291,925 Bytes/sec=238,689 > Files Examined=41,386,068 > > Is "Bytes/sec=238,689" typical perfomance ?
I have found that the throughput varies hugely between hosts. I can typically backup from unix clients at between 11 and 2MB/s and between 3-1MB/s from windows clients. I have some Windows machines which seem to be unable to do better than 50KB/s. To summarise, I think you could expect more. In my environment I found that running the daemons on the independant hosts improved performance a lot, so you might find you get better performance by having a separate systems to run the SQL database, storage daemon, and so on instead of having one big box as you do now. I'm using the cheapest Dell servers I can get and decent SATA discs (with FreeBSD 5.4) and happy with it. In my experience larger backups seem to run much slower, perhaps the computational complexity of the algorithm grows without bound as files/data is added (I have no idea if this is the case or not) > thanks, > alan > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration > Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward > articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to > get up to speed, fast. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users HTH, -- Dominic GoodforBusiness.co.uk I.T. Services for SMEs in the UK. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
