Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-10 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Rudolf Cejka wrote: > Alan Brown wrote (2006/11/10): I did not do /dev/zero because of hardware compression. I guess I could >>> turn that off but isn't /dev/random 1 byte at a time?? >> It's fast enough on most systems. > > Really? My experience is that the speed of /dev

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-10 Thread Rudolf Cejka
Alan Brown wrote (2006/11/10): > >> I did not do /dev/zero because of hardware compression. I guess I could > > turn that off but isn't /dev/random 1 byte at a time?? > It's fast enough on most systems. Really? My experience is that the speed of /dev/random and /dev/urandom in FreeBSD is far from

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-10 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, John Drescher wrote: >> > Have you tried a test of the raw tape speed? When I first got mt lto-2 >> > library I did a few tests like the following >> > >> > time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/nst0 bs=1G count=10 >> > >> > and I got around 35MB/s. >> >> Try if=/dev/zero and if=/dev/ra

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-10 Thread MaxxAtWork
On 11/9/06, John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try if=/dev/zero and if=/dev/random > > > > AB Note that depending on the platform where you try, /dev/urandom as a source might be faster than /dev/random. ("/dev/random blocks until more entropy can be obtained" says e.g. the Solaris man p

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-09 Thread Don MacArthur
As a reminder, the director/sd/database system is supporting 20 concurrent jobs, 10 to tape and 10 to raid. It's a 2-cpu hp dl380 G4, 3.4GHz cpus and 3.5Gb ram. On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 17:29 -0500, John Drescher wrote: > On 11/9/06, Don MacArthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The jobs are

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-09 Thread John Drescher
On 11/9/06, Don MacArthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The jobs are written to both the raid and the tape at almost identicalspeeds.  I don't know what my total throughput is,but the transfer rate for each job is about 1.5mbps to 3mbps.For a few minutes after reading this I was very confused about th

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-09 Thread Don MacArthur
The jobs are written to both the raid and the tape at almost identical speeds. I don't know what my total throughput is, but the transfer rate for each job is about 1.5mbps to 3mbps. On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 16:44 -0500, John Drescher wrote: > > On 11/9/06, Don MacArthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-09 Thread John Drescher
On 11/9/06, Don MacArthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a 7-disk raid fibre attached and a lto3 scsi attached to my sd,and I get the same throughput for both.  I run 10 jobs (two from eachclient) to each store concurrently. Both what? What backup speeds are you getting? Thanks,John ---

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-09 Thread Don MacArthur
I have a 7-disk raid fibre attached and a lto3 scsi attached to my sd, and I get the same throughput for both. I run 10 jobs (two from each client) to each store concurrently. I don't think the medium or the connection are the holdup. My network throughput at that time varies around 750 mbps.

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-09 Thread Ryan Novosielski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Huffman wrote: >> Is the data compressable? >> > A mixture - some already compressed, some images, some XML data etc. > > The library and the disks are on the same fibre channel fabric, so I > wouldn't expect that to be a bottleneck. > > I'm us

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-09 Thread John Drescher
On 11/9/06, Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, John Drescher wrote:> Have you tried a test of the raw tape speed? When I first got mt lto-2> library I did a few tests like the following>> time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/nst0 bs=1G count=10 >> and I got around 35MB/s.Try if=/dev/z

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-09 Thread Philippe Michel
> From: "Adam Huffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > What sort of backup speed should I expect when using Bacula with an > LTO3 library? > > I'm seeing nothing like the advertised 60-80MB/s. The tape drive speed is not the bottleneck, then. The number of files saved (or, seen from another point, the

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-09 Thread Alan Brown
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006, John Drescher wrote: > Have you tried a test of the raw tape speed? When I first got mt lto-2 > library I did a few tests like the following > > time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/nst0 bs=1G count=10 > > and I got around 35MB/s. Try if=/dev/zero and if=/dev/random AB -

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-09 Thread John Drescher
On 11/9/06, Carlos Cristóbal Sabroe Yde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The top speed I've achieved with an IBM 3581 L38 was around 30 MB/s on a test(btest).Have you tried a test of the raw tape speed? When I first got mt lto-2 library I did a few tests like the following time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/nst

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-09 Thread Carlos Cristóbal Sabroe Yde
The top speed I've achieved with an IBM 3581 L38 was around 30 MB/s on a test (btest). With bacula, local disk (sata): JobId: 1384 Job:srv-backup.2006-10-27_22.05.07 Backup Level: Full Client: "srv-backup" x86_64-unknown-linux

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-08 Thread Hristo Benev
Adam Huffman wrote: > What sort of backup speed should I expect when using Bacula with an > LTO3 library? > > I'm seeing nothing like the advertised 60-80MB/s. > > > Adam > > - > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to suppor

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-08 Thread Adam Huffman
On 08/11/06, Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Adam Huffman wrote: > > > What sort of backup speed should I expect when using Bacula with an > > LTO3 library? > > > > I'm seeing nothing like the advertised 60-80MB/s. > > What speeds _are_ you seeing? > Around the 30MB/s m

Re: [Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-08 Thread Alan Brown
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Adam Huffman wrote: > What sort of backup speed should I expect when using Bacula with an > LTO3 library? > > I'm seeing nothing like the advertised 60-80MB/s. What speeds _are_ you seeing? Is the data compressable? --

[Bacula-users] Tape access speed with LTO3

2006-11-08 Thread Adam Huffman
What sort of backup speed should I expect when using Bacula with an LTO3 library? I'm seeing nothing like the advertised 60-80MB/s. Adam - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff