Bill Moran wrote: > Two points to add to this: > 1) Turn off compression for the fileset, or set it to GZIP1. If you're > backing up to tape, you probably don't need software compression anyway. > Otherwise, GZIP1 will still give you some compression, while relaxing > the load on the client.
It would actually be nice if GZIP could be turned on just for the network portion, ie. compress the data over the network but decrompress it before sending it to the backup device. I have it turned on primarily to reduce the amount of data I have to shift over the network. > since the process is usually not using the CPU during IO. The result > is that lowering its priority may not help much. If the FD is actually > causing problems, then you need to get faster disks. If you're using VSS it will also stall your system while it builds the shadow shares; at least it seems to stall mine (probably because one of the things it backs up is on the same drive as the OS). -- Chris Crowther Developer J&M Crowther Ltd. Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
