On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:44 AM, dobbin <bacula-fo...@backupcentral.com> wrote: > Good morning, I'm running Bacula 5 on a Debian server and mostly, it's bloody > brilliant. However, there are four servers in two locations outside of our > data centre that I'm having massive problems backing up. > > One location needs to backup 10 files with a total size of about 500mb, but > usually it errors out at about 80mb, often after only 5. > > The other location has three of the servers, server2 has two different backup > sets, one for the config files and web data and another for the images that > runs every other day > > 92353 Full 1,513 1.418 G OK 02-Aug-11 19:30 server1 > 92555 Incr 37 1.129 G OK 03-Aug-11 12:07 server1 > > 92617 Full 95,122 416.1 M OK 03-Aug-11 10:56 server2-set1 > 92807 Incr 608 3.865 M OK 04-Aug-11 06:42 server2-set1 > > 92619 Full 1,384 169.6 M OK 03-Aug-11 08:31 server3 > 92658 Incr 6 168.6 M OK 03-Aug-11 11:29 server3 > > 92472 Full 101,399 4.064 G Error 04-Aug-11 11:34 server2-set2 > > > Server1 backs up fine, as does server2-set1, although really slowly, you're > getting 1, maybe 2mb per minute. Server3 backs up about half the time and > server2 set2 has never managed a full backup, it took 2 days to get that 4Gb > transferred, it usually craps out sooner than that. > > All of these servers are the same spec, they're not great but not terrible > either and we have plenty of the same spec in the data centre that back up > fine. The first server is windows, the others are Ubuntu. > > Now I know for a fact that the internal networks in these locations are > atrocious and they're not getting fixed any time soon, also both of them are > less than half a mile from the data centre and incidentally we back up > several Gb a day from the other side of the planet without issue. > > Anyways, is there anything I can do to mitigate the effects of these really > crappy networks? I've got heartbeat set to 60 but it doesn't seem to have > helped much >
granted the ideal would be to fix the root problem of the "atrocious network" :-) how about using rsync as a first stage to create a local copy that you can then backup ? If you are backing up to tape, then I would certainly backup a local copy rather than have something running at "2mb per minute" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos & much more. Register early & save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
