On 9/18/19 11:50 AM, Josh Fisher wrote: > > On 9/17/2019 2:08 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: >> ... Oh, and also, >> anything USB need not apply. Too slow. I do have a perfectly good SAS >> controller available. > > > I suspect you have used USB drives in the past and found them far too > slow, but I suggest you revisit that. Newer USB drives are not fast, but > they are faster than they once were. I see around 120 MB/s write speeds.
But ... that's painfully slow even compared to the LTO-4 drive I just gave up on, which writes at up to twice that. And none of my Unix systems are new enough to have USB3, making the speed comparison even worse. I think actually the way I'm going to go here is to continue my interim workaround of *performing* full backups to my NAS, but then immediately migrate the volume files off to hot-swap SATA disks along with a fresh post-full-backup DB dump. Spinning rust for now, SSDs later when prices come down a bit more. (I'll also be cutting the NAS itself over to SSDs when prices come down a bit more.) -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications ph...@caerllewys.net p...@co.ordinate.org Landline: +1.603.293.8485 Mobile: +1.603.998.6958 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
