My opinion is that you have bottleneck somewhere (probably CPU or RAM, network). You need to monitor those machines during backup to see where exactly.
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 15:53 +0200, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > When the sparc machine are just clients, I may achieve 2-4Mb/sec > When these machines are both servers and clients (backup themselves), > often I achieve less then 1Mb!! > > > Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. > Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 > Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY > http://www.sonicle.com > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Da: Hristo Benev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > A: Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: MaxxAtWork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bacula- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Data: 18 luglio 2006 15.43.15 CEST > Oggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup on Sparc SunFire 280R > > Just to exclude network! > > What is the transfer rate that you can achieve with those > servers? > > On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 15:37 +0200, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > > Oh no. I do not use compression at all. > > And if I'd use compression, I'd use hardware one. > > I don't think it's a problem of compression. > > I have this problem only on sparc machines. > > And they slow down the entire network backup during the > night > > > > > > > > Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. > > Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 > > Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY > > http://www.sonicle.com > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > Da: Hristo Benev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > A: Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: MaxxAtWork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bacula- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Data: 18 luglio 2006 15.16.37 CEST > > Oggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup on Sparc SunFire > 280R > > > > Do you use compression, because You have difference in > > processing power > > Sparc III is much less powerful than Opteron? > > > > On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 13:58 +0200, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > > > Yes, it's a network backup. The SunFire is running the > FD. > > > The server is running on a v20z. > > > This server backup many other machines, but no other one > is > > running > > > that slow. > > > I usually achieve 5-8MB/s both on Windows clients and > other > > solaris 10 > > > platforms (x86/amd). > > > May it be that the compiled agent for SPARC has some > > problem? > > > > > > > > > Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. > > > Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 > > > Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - > ITALY > > > http://www.sonicle.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > > > Da: MaxxAtWork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > A: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > Data: 18 luglio 2006 13.22.13 CEST > > > Oggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] Slow backup on Sparc SunFire > > 280R > > > > > > > > > On 7/14/06, Gabriele Bulfon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I have some bacula installations on SunFire 280R Sparc > > > machines, with Solaris 10. > > > These machines apperar to be very very slow with > > > respect to other installations (such as v20z) with > > > same LTO2 device. > > > As you can see from the report, 60Gb are copied in 9 > > > hours, with an avarage rate of 1898.9 KB/s! > > > On a v20z, the same amount of data is done in 5 hours > > > or less, with an avarage a rate of 3139.2 KB/s.. > > > > > > > > > Are you talking about local backups, i.e. both your > bacula- > > fd > > > and bacula-sd are running on the same server, or there is > a > > > network in between? 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