Re: [Bacula-users] tuning Bacula - Maximum Spool Size

2015-04-30 Thread Ana Emília M . Arruda
Hello Robert, I´m affraid the "spool directory" is a device directive. I have it configured in my device: Device { ... Spool Directory = /opt/bacula/spool Maximum Spool Size = 20 G } Best regards, Ana On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Robert A Threet wrote: > Ok, I greatly increased my sp

Re: [Bacula-users] tuning Bacula - Maximum Spool Size

2015-04-30 Thread Robert A Threet
Ok, I greatly increased my spool sizes. It appears to be placing the spool in /opt/bacula/working (I'm using BaculaSystems 6). I read there was a "Spool Directory = " parameter. I put it in the Tape Pool definition. After doing that, bacula wouldn't start. I have about 4-6TB of disk I wish to

[Bacula-users] tuning Bacula - Maximum Spool Size

2015-04-28 Thread Robert A Threet
Looks like I have about 4TB of local SAS drives to play with on my Dell 720. I was thinking of bumping up Maximum Spool Size x10 = 240GB And x10 the Maximum Job Spool Size to 80G. Based on this, it seems logical that Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 3 (not 21 as in current config). Q: Does this sound r

Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning Bacula

2010-10-07 Thread Mehma Sarja
>> Compare against a stock, non tuned, Bacula install. Are you >> going between building where you get the slow transfer speed? >> UCSC has 1 Gb links between buildings from my recollection. The >> link to the outside world is not much more than that. Bacula >> also has a batch mode which you can

Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning Bacula

2010-10-07 Thread Tim Gustafson
> Without attribute spooling or batch (not sure if that > is postgres only) after each file is read the database > needs to add records. We have attribute spooling activated right now. Tim Gustafson Baskin School of Engineering UC Santa Cruz t...@soe.ucsc.edu 831-459-5354 ---

Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning Bacula

2010-10-07 Thread John Drescher
>> Is the MySQL database storage on the same RAID array you are >> writing backups to? > > Yes and no.  Currently, in our "dev" environment, they are both on the same > physical RAID array, but Bacula operates in a separate jail from mySQL.  When > we move to production, the director will probabl

Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning Bacula

2010-10-07 Thread Tim Gustafson
I'm going to try to reply to all the responses I got together. > Have you tried backing up other hosts on your network? What are > the speeds with these hosts? I've noticed that different host > respond with varying speeds despite being on the same network. > Wondering if this has to do the client

Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning Bacula

2010-10-06 Thread Foo
On Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:37:32 +0200, Tim Gustafson wrote: > However, we're getting pretty pitiful throughput numbers. When I scp a > file from my workstation to the Bacula server, I get something like > 40MB/s (320Mb/s). When Bacula runs, we're lucky to get 20MB/s > (160Mb/s), and we often

Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning Bacula

2010-10-04 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 04/10/10, Tim Gustafson (t...@soe.ucsc.edu) wrote: > ...we're getting pretty pitiful throughput numbers. When I scp a file > from my workstation to the Bacula server, I get something like 40MB/s > (320Mb/s). When Bacula runs, we're lucky to get 20MB/s (160Mb/s), and > we often get numbers clos

Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning Bacula

2010-10-04 Thread Josh Fisher
On 10/4/2010 1:37 PM, Tim Gustafson wrote: > We have recently installed Bacula onto a FreeBSD server and several Linux, > SunOS and FreeBSD clients. The Bacula director and storage daemon run on a > box with about 6 terabytes of RAID6 storage (SATA 300 drives, 1TB each, > Adaptec RAID control

Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning Bacula

2010-10-04 Thread Mehma Sarja
On 10/4/10 10:37 AM, Tim Gustafson wrote: > We have recently installed Bacula onto a FreeBSD server and several Linux, > SunOS and FreeBSD clients. The Bacula director and storage daemon run on a > box with about 6 terabytes of RAID6 storage (SATA 300 drives, 1TB each, > Adaptec RAID controller

Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning Bacula

2010-10-04 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Tim Gustafson wrote: > We have recently installed Bacula onto a FreeBSD server and several Linux, > SunOS and FreeBSD clients.  The Bacula director and storage daemon run on a > box with about 6 terabytes of RAID6 storage (SATA 300 drives, 1TB each, > Adaptec RAI

Re: [Bacula-users] Tuning Bacula

2010-10-04 Thread Jeremiah D. Jester
. JJ -Original Message- From: Tim Gustafson [mailto:t...@soe.ucsc.edu] Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 10:38 AM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bacula-users] Tuning Bacula We have recently installed Bacula onto a FreeBSD server and several Linux, SunOS and FreeBSD clients. The B

[Bacula-users] Tuning Bacula

2010-10-04 Thread Tim Gustafson
We have recently installed Bacula onto a FreeBSD server and several Linux, SunOS and FreeBSD clients. The Bacula director and storage daemon run on a box with about 6 terabytes of RAID6 storage (SATA 300 drives, 1TB each, Adaptec RAID controller with 512MB cache). The box has 16GB of RAM and i