> > I've seen a very significant slow in backup speed by enabling gzip compress, > 32MB/s (without gzip) vs 4MB/s (with gzip). The server I'm backing up has > lots of CPU 24x2.6ghz so the compression time shouldn't be a huge factor. Is > this normal for bacula or is there an optimization I'm missing. >
Can you confirm that the backup actually takes 8 times longer with compression enabled and that you aren't just seeing a measurement anomaly with compressed vs uncompressed data? James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users