i'm having trouble getting a netapp nfs mount backed up to my local bacula server. this is bacula 2.2.6 patched. i think the problem is the large number of files on the netapp. the backup just slows to a crawl:
molbio-fd Version: 2.2.6 (10 November 2007) x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu redhat Daemon started 25-Dec-07 08:02, 4 Jobs run since started. Heap: heap=1,306,624 smbytes=808,085 max_bytes=829,451 bufs=414 max_bufs=447 Sizeof: boffset_t=8 size_t=8 debug=0 trace=0 Running Jobs: JobId 92 Job birch.2007-12-25_16.47.08 is running. Backup Job started: 25-Dec-07 16:47 Files=2,655,026 Bytes=373,175,385,406 Bytes/sec=2,508,371 Errors=0 Files Examined=2,655,026 Processing file: /birch_vol0/GC/organism/human_old/chromosome/8/contig/NT_007995.13/gene/grailexp/mrna/14.1.fna SDReadSeqNo=5 fd=5 Director connected at: 27-Dec-07 10:06 my mount options on the nfs mount are: birch:/vol/vol0 on /birch_vol0 type nfs (ro,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,tcp,addr=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) the job has been running nearly 48 hours and its only about a third done, there is around 1.1T on this filer and around 8 million files. anyone had any experience working with nfs backups like this? my other netapp nfs mount backups seem to run at adequate rates (20+MB/s) thanks and happy new year! -- michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users