On 2014-11-29 02:43 AM, Patrick wrote: > Hi Josh, > > Thanks for your reply. > >> You can try to isolate the problem. Try running a Windows backup with >> VSS, compression, and encryption all turned off. Compare a Windows VM >> against a Linux VM on the same host if possible. > I don’t use compression or encryption, but VSS. I disabled VSS and get about > 40 MByte/s. If I also set acl support = no, I get about 43 MByte/s. > It’s better, but far away from the 90 MByte/s from a linux box with similar > data. > > Last night I have took a look at the bacula console during the full backups > and could see one Windows clients with 65 MByte/s. This server hosts a SQL > Server with big database dump files. The Bacula File Daemon is faster with > big files. > > How can I tune the Bacula File Daemon to increase the transfer rate for a lot > of small files? Can I set the maximum memory usage? Is a ramdisk which > collects the files from the hard drive and send it as bunches to bacula > possible?
More than likely you are running in to Windows NTFS limitations, not Bacula limitations. NTFS has never been the fastest filesystem especially with lots of small files. Bryn ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
