Sounds pretty clear that you have some performance issues on your database.
What are you running (MySQL/Postgresql/Sqlite/etc) for your DB? Is it running on the same server as your director? What kind of disk storage do you have under your database? Bryn On 2015-12-14 01:12 PM, Lewis, Dave wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks. I ran it again with attribute spooling. That sped up the backup of > data to the disk pool - instead of 6 hours it took less than 2 - but writing > the file metadata afterwards took nearly 6 hours. > > 12-Dec 18:24 jubjub-sd JobId 583: Job write elapsed time = 01:51:55, Transfer > rate = 703.0 K Bytes/second > 12-Dec 18:24 jubjub-sd JobId 583: Sending spooled attrs to the Director. > Despooling 120,266,153 bytes ... > 13-Dec 00:11 jubjub-dir JobId 583: Bacula jubjub-dir 5.2.6 (21Feb12): > Elapsed time: 7 hours 39 mins 13 secs > FD Files Written: 391,552 > SD Files Written: 391,552 > FD Bytes Written: 4,486,007,552 (4.486 GB) > SD Bytes Written: 4,720,742,979 (4.720 GB) > Rate: 162.8 KB/s > Software Compression: None > Encryption: yes > Accurate: no > > So the transfer rate increased from about 200 KB/s to about 700 KB/s, but the > total elapsed time increased. > > Thanks, > Dave > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christian Manal [mailto:moen...@informatik.uni-bremen.de] > Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 6:14 AM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula backup speed > > On 10.12.2015 01:06, Lewis, Dave wrote: >> Does anyone know what's causing the OS backups to be so slow and what >> I can do to speed them up? > Hi, > > the problem might be number of files, as in, writing all the file metadata to > the catalog could very well be your bottle neck. > > Try enabling attribute spooling, so all the metadata is collected and > commited to the DB in one go instead of file by file. > > > Regards, > Christian Manal > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail is meant only for the use of the intended > recipient. It may contain confidential information which is legally > privileged or otherwise protected by law. If you received this e-mail in > error or from someone who is not authorized to send it to you, you are > strictly prohibited from reviewing, using, disseminating, distributing or > copying the e-mail. PLEASE NOTIFY US IMMEDIATELY OF THE ERROR BY RETURN > E-MAIL AND DELETE THIS MESSAGE FROM YOUR SYSTEM. Thank you for your > cooperation. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
