Hi, I have tried to get some decent performance in my bacula configuration and after reading bacula mail lists, documentation and some source code I increased it from 300KB/s to 3MB/s when backuping the root filesystem.
After reading the mail lists I found out that I was not the first bacula user with performance problems and I do not think I will be the last. One thing I was missing while doing this was more tools to test and tune the performance of tape, database, network and reading files. btape has great functions for testing if the tape drive and autochanger is working but I would like it to test different parameters and suggest changes to my configuration. I do not mind if would take a long time to do this because it would take me a lot longer to do it myself. Network performance would be much easier to test and tune if I could tell a file daemon to send data to a storage daemon and report the transfer rate without reading files, updating database or writing to tape. Reading files can be done in a similar way by telling a file daemon to read files and report the transfer rate without sending the files to any storage daemon. I do not know how to test and tune the database... but someone must know ;-) When/If these tools are available it would be possible to write a performance tuning tool to help users to test and tune their bacula configuration. Is it possible to do this? ------------------------------------------------------- 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
