On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 00:22 -0400, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > Are you absolutely certain that your ethernet cards are set properly? > Often an improperly negotiated link speed or duplex can cause exactly > this symptom. I know you mentioned other things that appear to rule it > out, but check that first regardless -- you might be surprised. >
Yeah, I am 100% positive that this is not a network card issue. I've tested it quite well, plus this server has been working great at high network speeds for over a year now. No network card related issues in the logs, no errors/collisions in the ifconfig output and the card is set to full duplex. Must be something else. -- Andrei > =Ryan > > Andrei Mikhailovsky wrote: > > >On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 18:44 -0300, Roberto Alsina wrote: > > > > > >>>Hello all, > >>> > >>>First of all, many thanks to all supporters/developers of this project, > >>>keep up the great job! > >>> > >>>I have encountered a poor network backup performance for one of our > >>>remote servers. The maximum transfer rate that I manage to get is only > >>>50 kbyte/s. The server is hosted in a datacenter and has a large > >>>available pipe. I can download files from this server at 1-2 mbyte/s > >>>without any issues. However, when I try to backup files from it (about > >>>15gig), the speed that I am getting is very very poor. I mean it takes > >>>about 5 days to do a full backup. This should not be happening, > >>>considering a lot of free bandwidth is not being used. > >>> > >>> > >>Many datacenters have the bandwidth on non-standard ports throttled way > >>down. > >> > >>Try putting your bacula daemons on ports of well-known but unused > >>services, and it will probably work much better. > >> > >> > >> > > > >Yeah, I am aware of this issue. However, i've also tried to carry out > >the backup using a VPN tunnel that I have setup. The copy of files via > >vpn tunnel is as fast as without it 1-2mbyte/s. Then doing bacula backup > >using the VPN tunnel i get about 50kbyte/s, which is about the same as > >doing a backup without vpn. So the problem does not involve the > >datacenter. > > > >-- > >Andrei > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- > >SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > >September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > >Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > >Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > >_______________________________________________ > >Bacula-users mailing list > >Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
