Re: [Bacula-users] Slow LTO4 write speed

2010-11-19 Thread Lukas Kolbe
Hello Bob, On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 16:09 -0500, Bob Hetzel wrote: > 1) Make sure all the firmwares are up to date: the 1068E card, the tape > drives, specifically. While you're at it, make sure the Adaptec card has > up to date firmware too. Drives, Library, Adaptec cards have the most recent fi

[Bacula-users] Slow LTO4 write speed

2010-11-17 Thread Lukas Kolbe
Hi! We're seeing strange behaviour with Bacula 5.0.3 on Debian/Squeeze and Kernels 2.6.36 and 2.6.32 (for a while, we've had CentOS 5 for testing, but that didn't change a thing). See the 'btape fill' results below, the write speed doesn't get above 50MB/s - the tape drive is an ULTRIUM-HH4 LTO4

Re: [Bacula-users] [semi-solved] LTO-4 tape: only 20mb/sec when used with bacula

2010-06-22 Thread Lukas Kolbe
Am Montag, den 21.06.2010, 11:27 -0400 schrieb John Drescher: > On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Lukas Kolbe wrote: > > Am Montag, den 21.06.2010, 11:06 +0100 schrieb Alan Brown: > >> On 21/06/10 10:56, Lukas Kolbe wrote: > >> > > >> > For comparison, I

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-4 tape: only 20mb/sec when used with bacula

2010-06-21 Thread Lukas Kolbe
On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 11:54 +0200, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: > 2010/6/20 Lukas Kolbe > Hi! > > > Hi, > > We use a Tandberg autochanger with two IBM Ultrium LTO-4 > drives behind a > 24-disk RAID50. When used with with

Re: [Bacula-users] [semi-solved] LTO-4 tape: only 20mb/sec when used with bacula

2010-06-21 Thread Lukas Kolbe
Am Montag, den 21.06.2010, 11:06 +0100 schrieb Alan Brown: > On 21/06/10 10:56, Lukas Kolbe wrote: > > > > For comparison, I dd'ed a volume to /dev/null while the copy job was > > running: > > [r...@shepherd ~]# dd if=/var/bacula/dp/fs1/Vol0070 of=/dev/null bs

[Bacula-users] [semi-solved] LTO-4 tape: only 20mb/sec when used with bacula

2010-06-21 Thread Lukas Kolbe
Am Montag, den 21.06.2010, 01:20 +0200 schrieb Lukas Kolbe: > Thanks for the hints. Changing the block sizes to the ones you mentioned > doesn't help unfortunatly. > > Maybe it is a completely different problem: The backups are made to the > diskpool in parallel, from a f

Re: [Bacula-users] LTO-4 tape: only 20mb/sec when used with bacula

2010-06-20 Thread Lukas Kolbe
Am Montag, den 21.06.2010, 09:30 +1200 schrieb richard: > Lukas Kolbe wrote: > : > > > > I suppose it has something todo with the tapes' maximum blocksize being > > higher than what Linux supports. > > I have the following in my sd with LTO4 attached and it

[Bacula-users] LTO-4 tape: only 20mb/sec when used with bacula

2010-06-20 Thread Lukas Kolbe
Hi! We use a Tandberg autochanger with two IBM Ultrium LTO-4 drives behind a 24-disk RAID50. When used with with testdata and dd or tar (in dd's case with bs=1M), both drives get acceptable rates of around 170MiB per second. However, when used with bacula for a copy job (Our default pool is the di

[Bacula-users] Job is waiting on Storage

2010-06-03 Thread Lukas Kolbe
Hi! I have the following pools: *list pools ++-+-+-+--+-+ | poolid | name| numvols | maxvols | pooltype | labelformat | ++-+-+-+--+-+ | 1 | Default | 0 | 0 | Backup | *