> If it does support multiplexing, what kind of options do I need in the > config files? I currently have bacula talking to the drive, but I was > getting 25MB/sec backing up a 10gig file of zeros (admittedly from a > single SATA disk so that's not too surprising), but just 10MB/sec doing > a trial backup of a home directory server over the network, from a > pretty fast RAID. We get better performance from our current LTO-2 > drives and Legato Networker :( > You are on a gigabit network? And the bacula-sd device (machine connected to the tape drive) is a fast machine with 2 or more processors and at least 2GB of memory? And you are using postgresql or mysql for your database? And you had software compression off?
Also I would test the raw drive speed of your tape drive / controller setup. Put a blank tape in the drive and use dd to dump bytes to the device. When I first tested my LTO2 archive I did something like dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/nst0 bs=1M and I got around 35MB/s. In bacula on the fastest Full jobs I get 25 to 30MB/s over the gigabit network. To achive 120MB/s you will have to do that from a raid(0,5,6). John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
