Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula performance with a 64512 block size

2007-09-18 Thread Chris Howells
Hi, Marc Schiffbauer wrote: Finally got around to messing around with bacula again... > The manual says that nnn being the same number for both settings > means "fixed" blocksize. > > As I understand it, your solutions should be to just set the > "Minimum Block Size" so you get a good perfroman

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula performance with a 64512 block size

2007-09-13 Thread Alan Brown
Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > * Chris Howells schrieb am 10.09.07 um 16:47 Uhr: > >> Arno Lehmann wrote: >> >> Thanks for your reply. >> >> >>> I'd suggest to do some tests with Bacula, and after you found your >>> best settings, clearly mark all tapes with their respective block sizes. >>>

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula performance with a 64512 block size

2007-09-10 Thread Marc Schiffbauer
* Chris Howells schrieb am 10.09.07 um 16:47 Uhr: > Arno Lehmann wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. > > > I'd suggest to do some tests with Bacula, and after you found your > > best settings, clearly mark all tapes with their respective block sizes. > > Will do. > > Are you basically suggesting

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula performance with a 64512 block size

2007-09-10 Thread Chris Howells
Arno Lehmann wrote: Thanks for your reply. > I'd suggest to do some tests with Bacula, and after you found your > best settings, clearly mark all tapes with their respective block sizes. Will do. Are you basically suggesting that I should use the following sd directives: Minimum Block Size =

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula performance with a 64512 block size

2007-09-10 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 10.09.2007 16:21,, Chris Howells wrote:: > Hi, > > I am currently struggling to get any kind of reasonable performance out > of Bacula on my LTO 4 tape size. I have done a considerable of testing > and benchmarking, and my hunch is that bacula's block size of 64512 > bytes is causing the p

[Bacula-users] Bacula performance with a 64512 block size

2007-09-10 Thread Chris Howells
Hi, I am currently struggling to get any kind of reasonable performance out of Bacula on my LTO 4 tape size. I have done a considerable of testing and benchmarking, and my hunch is that bacula's block size of 64512 bytes is causing the performance problems. To test the drive, I used tar, with