> Hi Everyone, > > I just wanted to reply with a thank you to everyone who posted > ideas. It was definitely a database problem, and I think it was the > attribute spooling which ended up fixing it. I added Heitor's DB tuning > instructions; used mysqlcheck -m/-o on my DB; and then added "Spool > Attributes = yes" to the default job definition and backups went from > 120-130 hours down to 10. Quite an improvement. :)
Wow Charles: what a kudo. Congratulations! Regards, =========================================================================== Heitor Medrado de Faria - LPIC-III | ITIL-F | Bacula Systems Certified Administrator II Need Bacula training? https://www.udemy.com/bacula-backup-software/?couponCode=bacula-users +55 61 8268-4220 Site: www.bacula.com.br | Facebook: heitor.faria | Gtalk: heitorfa...@gmail.com =========================================================================== > > On 15-05-22 06:28 AM, Charles Tassell wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm using external USB drives setup with the vchanger system to >> simulate a tape library, and I've got a problem where the backups are >> running horrendously slow. IE, the full backup of my small server >> (5.5GB) takes 8 hours and 10 minutes, and the backup of my 690GB file >> server takes 5-6 DAYS. The problem doesn't seem to be the USB drives >> themselves as I can push 3GB/minute to them easily which means the >> 690GB backup should take under 6 hours. >> >> Does anyone know what could be going on here? Right now the Bacula >> director and storage-director are running on the file server as I >> thought that would be faster, but maybe that's a bad idea? There >> doesn't seem to be a big load issue, at least not enough of one to >> make the backups take 20-25x longer than with rsync... >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud > Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications > Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights > Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
