John Drescher wrote: >>>> - Thomas >>> I've added both spool attributes and spool data. Backup speed of my mail >>> server is still about 1 MB per second. Backup speed for other machines >>> now reaches up to 80 MB/s. >>> > > Are you talking about a full backup or some other level? If it is not > a full backup > you will get low speed because bacula only is backing up the changed files > and it takes a long time to go through a filesystem with many thousands of > files > to find out what files have changed.
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