The speed that Andrew shows us is Rate: 3721.5 KB / s You must evaluate the
network. the speed they trade. the speed of the network ports ....

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 9:10 AM Peter Milesson <mi...@atmos.eu> wrote:

>
>
> On 2020-04-20 12:37, Andrew Watkins wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Still not having much luck with speed of my Windows backup, so any
> pointers?
> Even when I used Networker backup windows was slower but not this bad!
>
> Solaris Client Full: many filesystems
>
>   Elapsed time:           10 hours 31 mins 14 secs
>   Priority:               10
>   FD Files Written:       5,670,614
>   SD Files Written:       5,670,614
>   FD Bytes Written:       775,767,526,417 (775.7 GB)
>   SD Bytes Written:       776,760,355,024 (776.7 GB)
>   Rate:                   20482.9 KB/s
>   Software Compression:   None
>   Comm Line Compression:  75.0% 4.0:1
>   Snapshot/VSS:           no
>   Encryption:             no
>   Accurate:               no
>
> Windows Client Full: 2 filesystems with many exclusions (exclude profiles,
> etc)
>
>   Elapsed time:           22 hours 39 mins 41 secs
>   Priority:               10
>   FD Files Written:       3,653,666
>   SD Files Written:       3,653,666
>   FD Bytes Written:       303,603,777,832 (303.6 GB)
>   SD Bytes Written:       304,379,400,097 (304.3 GB)
>   Rate:                   3721.5 KB/s
>   Software Compression:   None
>   Comm Line Compression:  30.2% 1.4:1
>   Snapshot/VSS:           yes
>   Encryption:             no
>   Accurate:               no
>
>
> On 4/3/2020 5:35 PM, Peter Milesson wrote:
>
>
> On 2020-04-01 11:28, Andrew Watkins wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Just started using Bacula and at this time (early stages) I find my
> UNIX/Solaris full backups are running at a good speed, but our window
> server is slow. There is a chance it is just the number of files (Yes, I am
> ignoring profiles). My questions:
>
> 1) I have added "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" to my clients FileDaemon, but is
> there a way to prove that Windows client is using it?
>
> 2) Any web links to how I can monitor a client backup, to examine what is
> happening.
>
> Thanks
>
> Andrew
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> When you brought it up, I had a look at my setup. I'm backing up both
> Linux and Windows servers.
>
> The Linux server backups are running at about 30 Mbyte/s (2x1Gbit NICs)
> with line compression, whereas the Windows server backups are running at
> about 22 Mbytes/s (2x10Gbit NICs) without compression. The connection is 10
> Gbit from all servers to the Bacula backup server. The values mentioned are
> for full monthly server backups (a couple of TBs).
>
> What I did notice however, is that small incremental backups are an order
> of magnitude slower for the Windows servers, compared to the Linux servers.
>
> I'm not going to speculate, but compression would probably speed up things
> somewhat for the Windows backups, however not significantly. Also, VSS
> snapshots under Windows may have a huge impact on the overall performance
> for smaller backup sets.
>
> For me, the current performance is sufficient, but there is certainly lots
> of room for tweaking. I've been running this setup for about 9 years now,
> just improving the hardware now and then. Don't fix what's working...
>
> Best regards,
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Here's part of the log from one Windows server, the total volume is quite
> similar to yours, but you seem to have got much smaller files:
>
>   Elapsed time:           3 hours 57 mins 51 secs
>   Priority:               10
>   FD Files Written:       368,404
>   SD Files Written:       368,404
>   FD Bytes Written:       318,235,741,624 (318.2 GB)
>   SD Bytes Written:       318,313,424,664 (318.3 GB)
>   Rate:                   22299.5 KB/s
>   Software Compression:   None
>   Comm Line Compression:  None
>   Snapshot/VSS:           yes
>   Encryption:             no
>   Accurate:               no
>
>
> The server is a HPE ProLiant DL-180 Gen9 with SAS-drives (15000 rpm) in
> RAID-5, Windows 2016
>
> A couple of points to look at:
>
>    - Network performance (I have got a 10Gbit link directly from the
>    server, so compression probably doesn't make sense)
>    - Storage performance (I have got 4 SATA disks (7200 rpm) in RAID 10
>    as virtual tapes)
>
> I have noticed a similar performance as yours when making incremental
> backups, but those backups are less than 10Gb in volume.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Peter
>
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