Le Wednesday 02 March 2011 02:24:16 John Drescher, vous avez écrit : > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Laurent HENRY <laurent.he...@ehess.fr> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Maybe not a direct question about bacula but i am looking for some > > feedback of bacula users. > > > > My Debian 5 bacula server is directly connected to a Cisco 6500 Switch. > > Either the bacula server, the switch, the servers backuped are using Gb > > interfaces. > > > > Looking a bandwith usage, i barely use 100Mb. i see bursts at 110 or 130 > > Mb/s and nothing more. > > > > I know speed depends a lot of files backuped (big ones, a lot of short > > ones, etc) but this really less that i need to backup huge volumes. > > > > Is anyone know if there is a way to improve performances of network usage > > ? > > Turn software compression off. > Backup to tape with software compression off. > > John
btw, i actually experience it with disk backups. Does this mean software compression limits deeply backup speed ? I experience this low network usage behavior with tape backup without software compression and with disk backups but with a very low compression ratio (less than 5%) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
