Karl Cunningham wrote: > How many files are you backing up? There is a database insert for every > file that gets backed up. Are you sure there isn't a lot of disk > thrashing going on for database IO? What if you temporarily put the > database on your usb disk to see if that makes a difference.
My main backup run consists of 358,000 files. Mostly OS, email, webpages, digital photos, pretty standard stuff. My bacula.db is 277M in size right now. Is that considered large? I have run some basic disk IO benchmarks while the backup is running and get some pretty impressive numbers. So there would seem to be plenty of available disk IO capacity. I can try putting the db on the USB disk. > While doing the slow backup, do you see lots of CPU idle time? Is there > significant iowait time? Yes, lots of cpu idle time. Sometimes there is as much as 50% iowait time. I am going to try moving the bacula.db off onto the other disk and see if that improves things. I don't think my situation is all that unusual so I would be surprised if that were really the problem as it seems everyone would have slow backups. -- Tracy R Reed http://copilotconsulting.com ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
