On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Laurent HENRY <laurent.he...@ehess.fr> wrote: > Le Wednesday 02 March 2011 20:50:18 Mark, vous avez écrit : >> > btw, i actually experience it with disk backups. >> > Does this mean software compression limits deeply backup speed ? >> >> In my case, software compression was a _massive_ slowdown, to the point >> that my preference was to throw more disk space to bacula to keep my jobs >> completing in a reasonable time. This was backing up a server with a >> couple hundred gigs of large files, not tons of small files. >> >> Try your job without compression enabled at least once, to get yourself a >> good comparison. >> >> Mark > > Turning compression off on disk backup definitely improve the performance. > I was at 17MB/s and now i am at 30 MB/s. > > On my network graphs i still see i don't often go beyond the 100Mb/s i don't > find any explanation on the network side. >
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