our onfiguration - 2 DELL servers each with four AMD Quadcore CPUs. - Suse Linux 11.0 - Kernel 2.6.25 - The servers are coupled over a fibre channel by heartbeat - Dell PowerVault TL2000 Tape Library (LTO4) attached over SAS to Server #2 - Bacula release 2.4.2 Director is running on Server #2
Backup via Ethernet (1GBit) from Server #1 Scheduled time: 08-Jan-2009 21:05:00 Start time: 08-Jan-2009 21:06:52 End time: 08-Jan-2009 21:15:08 Elapsed time: 8 mins 16 secs Priority: 10 FD Files Written: 35,606 SD Files Written: 35,606 FD Bytes Written: 13,569,315,322 (13.56 GB) SD Bytes Written: 13,576,757,891 (13.57 GB) Rate: 27357.5 KB/s Backup local on Server #2 Scheduled time: 08-Jan-2009 21:05:00 Start time: 08-Jan-2009 21:15:10 End time: 08-Jan-2009 22:32:52 Elapsed time: 1 hour 17 mins 42 secs Priority: 10 FD Files Written: 40 SD Files Written: 40 FD Bytes Written: 11,377,265,327 (11.37 GB) SD Bytes Written: 11,377,270,876 (11.37 GB) Rate: 2440.4 KB/s The local backup on server #2 slows down any other network traffic to server #2 significantly. Switching on the Bacula job spooling feature did not help at all: Data-rate server #1 :19247.3 KB/s Data-rate server #2 : 4527.4 KB/s -- Ralf Brinkmann ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users