Once upon a time, lst_ho...@kwsoft.de <lst_ho...@kwsoft.de> said: > What about using more than one snapshot? If done right snapshots are > cheap, so you should have no problem to take a snapshot/mount per job > to get two jobs running. But i doubt you will gain much with parallel > backups on one filesystem/io-channel anyway.
I'll have to check the space (not sure it is available right now). I do know that my old backup software did run the same backup (with parallel trees) somewhat faster (and that was to tape rather than disk). > Currently with VSS you have a limit of one job per windows machine > running, as we already find out :-( I thought that might be the issue. I may be able to work around this by not using VSS for these particular trees, at least for testing. > But as said if you don't have independent io-channels or you are CPU > bound (data encryption) you won't gain very much by running more than > one job concurrently. I used multiple parallel trees with my previous backup software, in part because it seemed to have a high overhead with lots of files (one of these servers has a Maildir store with a couple of million files). Those backups did finish faster (as part of my overall network backup to tape) than my current test backups (just running a single job to disk, with an upgraded backup server and upgraded switches in-between the servers). That's what got me looking at trying to run parallel jobs with Bacula (at least to test out the speed to see if it helped). Thanks. -- Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
