On Friday 07 January 2011 16:48:07 Oliver Hoffmann wrote: > Hi all, > > I do full backups at the weekend and it just takes too long. 12h or so. > bacula does one job after the other and I have a max. transfer rate of > 11 to 12 MBytes/second due to the 100Mbit connection. > > For testing purpose I connected one client via crosslink (1Gbit on > both sides) to the server. But I still have the same transfer rate. Why > is that? > > The communication definitely goes over 192.168.1.2/192.168.1.1. > The settings on the client and server are pretty much default. > > I copied an 1,1GB test file with scp through the 1Gbit line and had > approx. 50MB/s. > Or with ftp: > 1073741824 bytes sent in 10.61 secs (98867.6 kB/s). > > Thx for hints, > > Oliver
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