Hi, On a bacula installation that I originally set up on a machine running Debian "etch", everything was running smoothly.
Since etch has been EOL'ed, it was necessary to upgrade it, and we recently did do an upgrade to lenny. This also involved an upgrade of bacula from 1.38 (the version in etch) to 2.4.4 (the version in lenny). The unfortunate result of that has been that a full backup job of a server with slightly more than a tera of data, which used to take just shy of 24 hours blew up to just over three days. Obviously I'm not very happy with that. Investigating turned up that for some reason data spooling was not enabled; enabling that caused a massive gain in performance, with only one thing left. After the backup job is finished (which now takes a bit more than 24 hours, something I consider acceptable), bacula starts spooling attribute data. This, too, takes just over 24 hours, with no output during the whole time this is happening. Since the postgresql 'postmaster' is in 'D' state the whole time when this happens, I suspect this has something to do with postgresql not being properly configured, or similar, but I don't see what exactly is going wrong. Is there a resource somewhere that I could look into to help me figure out what's wrong with my postgresql setup? Or is there something else I should look into? If this is a known issue that is fixed in later bacula versions, please let me know; in that case an upgrade is not out of the question, though I'd prefer not having to do that if it isn't necessary. Thanks, -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
