Re: [Bacula-users] Improving backup speed

2009-09-15 Thread Bruno Friedmann
Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> Are dir also running on this machine ? > > Nope. > >> So perharps the db config is too low ( default conf tend to be friendly with >> hardware resources ) >> and if batch-insert is enable, bacula write the batch table also in /tmp so >> there's concurrency on the sam

Re: [Bacula-users] Improving backup speed

2009-09-15 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Are dir also running on this machine ? Nope. >So perharps the db config is too low ( default conf tend to be friendly with >hardware resources ) >and if batch-insert is enable, bacula write the batch table also in /tmp so >there's concurrency on the same drive. Reading up on this in the manua

Re: [Bacula-users] Improving backup speed

2009-09-14 Thread Bruno Friedmann
Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> cpu high on sd ? Did you use a soft raid ( level 5 ? ) >> or wrong params for the fs . > > No raid, actually this was a test box setup with a kickstart file > using /tmp as the device location. Bizzare... > jlc > Are dir also running on this machine ? So perharps the d

Re: [Bacula-users] Improving backup speed

2009-09-14 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>cpu high on sd ? Did you use a soft raid ( level 5 ? ) >or wrong params for the fs . No raid, actually this was a test box setup with a kickstart file using /tmp as the device location. Bizzare... jlc -- Let Crystal Repo

Re: [Bacula-users] Improving backup speed

2009-09-14 Thread Bruno Friedmann
Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> no, in sense of configuration. this is a known limitation of gzip >> compression. if you're on LAN (gigabit) you might wan't to disable it if >> you backup to tape (use tapes hardware compression) or if you backup to >> file, use a compressed filesystem (maybe: http://mii

Re: [Bacula-users] Improving backup speed

2009-09-14 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>no, in sense of configuration. this is a known limitation of gzip >compression. if you're on LAN (gigabit) you might wan't to disable it if >you backup to tape (use tapes hardware compression) or if you backup to >file, use a compressed filesystem (maybe: http://miio.net/wordpress/ >projects/fusec

Re: [Bacula-users] Improving backup speed

2009-09-14 Thread Andrzej Zawadzki
Thomas Mueller wrote: >> GZIP and SHA1, speed averaged ~7800KB/s. No GZIP or SHA1, speed went up >> to ~3KB/s >> >> Looking more closely at the FD, it appears to be single threaded and not >> really utilize the cpu very aggressively either. >> >> Is there anything that can be done here to help?

Re: [Bacula-users] Improving backup speed

2009-09-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
> GZIP and SHA1, speed averaged ~7800KB/s. No GZIP or SHA1, speed went up > to ~3KB/s > > Looking more closely at the FD, it appears to be single threaded and not > really utilize the cpu very aggressively either. > > Is there anything that can be done here to help? no, in sense of configur

Re: [Bacula-users] Improving backup speed

2009-09-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
> GZIP and SHA1, speed averaged ~7800KB/s. No GZIP or SHA1, speed went up > to ~3KB/s > > Looking more closely at the FD, it appears to be single threaded and not > really utilize the cpu very aggressively either. > > Is there anything that can be done here to help? no, in sense of configur

[Bacula-users] Improving backup speed

2009-09-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have several mixed clients all backing up to Linux and Solaris SD's. The windows fileserver's are taking far too long, so in looking at this, I noticed the cpu utilization on the Windows FD's isn't very high but the SD are, why is that? Searching the forum showed compression is done at the FD lev

Re: [Bacula-users] Improving Backup speed

2008-11-18 Thread Hemant Shah
--- On Tue, 11/18/08, Pascal Clermont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Pascal Clermont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Improving Backup speed > To: "Dan Langille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Date

Re: [Bacula-users] Improving Backup speed

2008-11-18 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 4:03 PM, Pascal Clermont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Currently spending a lot of time on improving the speeds of this network. > After several tests I have realized that the database is "inserting > attributes" was taking quite a lot of time. In order to improve this

Re: [Bacula-users] Improving Backup speed

2008-11-18 Thread Frank Sweetser
Pascal Clermont wrote: > Ok here is the steps I took that made me believe that I do not have libpq.a: libpq.a is part of the postgresql-devel package. -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu | For every problem, there is a solution that WPI Senior Network Engineer | is simple, elegant, and wrong.

Re: [Bacula-users] Improving Backup speed

2008-11-18 Thread Pascal Clermont
Dan Langille wrote: > On Nov 17, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Pascal Clermont wrote: > >> Hi, >> Currently spending a lot of time on improving the speeds of this >> network. >> After several tests I have realized that the database is "inserting >> attributes" was taking quite a lot of time. In order to imp

Re: [Bacula-users] Improving Backup speed

2008-11-17 Thread Dan Langille
On Nov 17, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Pascal Clermont wrote: > Hi, > Currently spending a lot of time on improving the speeds of this > network. > After several tests I have realized that the database is "inserting > attributes" was taking quite a lot of time. In order to improve this I > have searched

[Bacula-users] Improving Backup speed

2008-11-17 Thread Pascal Clermont
Hi, Currently spending a lot of time on improving the speeds of this network. After several tests I have realized that the database is "inserting attributes" was taking quite a lot of time. In order to improve this I have searched your forums and see that using batch mode would increase this act