Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-04-04 Thread Laurent HENRY
Le Wednesday 30 March 2011 15:41:29 Alan Brown, vous avez écrit : > Laurent HENRY wrote: > > I let bacula a few days with attribute spooling. > > Things are not really different but it is a nice feature anyway. > > > > I am still not beyond 100Mb/s on my 1Gb/s network. > > You should be able to hit

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-30 Thread Alan Brown
Laurent HENRY wrote: > I let bacula a few days with attribute spooling. > Things are not really different but it is a nice feature anyway. > > I am still not beyond 100Mb/s on my 1Gb/s network. You should be able to hit 300-400Mb/s assuming you are spooling to a mechanical hard drive or cheap S

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-30 Thread John Drescher
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Laurent HENRY wrote: > Le Tuesday 15 March 2011 13:40:10 John Drescher, vous avez écrit : >> > Fine, i understand it now. Is there a way to just spool attributes and >> > not backuped files themselwes ? >> >> SpoolAttributes=yes in the Job resource. >> >> http://ww

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-30 Thread Laurent HENRY
Le Tuesday 15 March 2011 13:40:10 John Drescher, vous avez écrit : > > Fine, i understand it now. Is there a way to just spool attributes and > > not backuped files themselwes ? > > SpoolAttributes=yes in the Job resource. > > http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.ht

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-15 Thread John Drescher
> Fine, i understand it now. Is there a way to just spool attributes and not > backuped files themselwes ? > SpoolAttributes=yes in the Job resource. http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/Configuring_Director.html#SECTION00183 -- John M. Drescher

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-15 Thread Laurent HENRY
Le Friday 11 March 2011 15:08:45 John Drescher, vous avez écrit : > >> Attribute spooling makes sense for either though. > > > > Attribute spooling ? > > That enables spooling if the database entries at the end of the job in > a batch instead of 1 at a time as the files are being processed. Its > q

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-11 Thread John Drescher
>> Attribute spooling makes sense for either though. > > Attribute spooling ? > That enables spooling if the database entries at the end of the job in a batch instead of 1 at a time as the files are being processed. Its quite a bit faster to enable attribute spooling unless you have your database o

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-11 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 11/03/2011 10:48, Laurent HENRY ha scritto: > Le Wednesday 09 March 2011 16:28:52, vous avez écrit : >>> I tried to enable spooling (500 Gb spool) for the tape backup. The perf >>> were worse. >> >> BTW, I use 5GB spool. >> >> I assume then you do not run concurrent jobs? For a single job the >>

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-11 Thread Laurent HENRY
Le Wednesday 09 March 2011 16:28:52, vous avez écrit : > > I tried to enable spooling (500 Gb spool) for the tape backup. The perf > > were worse. > > BTW, I use 5GB spool. > > I assume then you do not run concurrent jobs? For a single job the > time will be longer because bacula does not concurren

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-10 Thread Laurent HENRY
Le Thursday 10 March 2011 01:32:20 Mike Hobbs, vous avez écrit : > On 3/1/2011 8:40 AM, Laurent HENRY wrote: > > Is anyone know if there is a way to improve performances of network usage > > ? > > Bacula - Turn off software compression. already done > > Switch and Network Cards - If you are fully

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-09 Thread Mike Hobbs
On 3/1/2011 8:40 AM, Laurent HENRY wrote: > Is anyone know if there is a way to improve performances of network usage ? Bacula - Turn off software compression. Switch and Network Cards - If you are fully gigabit and your equipment supports it, turn on jumbo frames.

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-09 Thread John Drescher
> I tried to enable spooling (500 Gb spool) for the tape backup. The perf were > worse. > BTW, I use 5GB spool. I assume then you do not run concurrent jobs? For a single job the time will be longer because bacula does not concurrently spool and despool but with concurrent jobs and spooling with a

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-09 Thread Laurent HENRY
Le Tuesday 08 March 2011 14:58:18 John Drescher, vous avez écrit : > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Laurent HENRY wrote: > > Le Wednesday 02 March 2011 20:50:18 Mark, vous avez écrit : > >> > btw, i actually experience it with disk backups. > >> > Does this mean software compression limits deepl

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-08 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Laurent HENRY wrote: > Le Wednesday 02 March 2011 20:50:18 Mark, vous avez écrit : >> > btw, i actually experience it with disk backups. >> > Does this mean software compression limits deeply backup speed ? >> >> In my case, software compression was a _massive_ slow

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-08 Thread Laurent HENRY
Le Wednesday 02 March 2011 20:50:18 Mark, vous avez écrit : > > btw, i actually experience it with disk backups. > > Does this mean software compression limits deeply backup speed ? > > In my case, software compression was a _massive_ slowdown, to the point > that my preference was to throw more di

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-02 Thread Laurent HENRY
Le Wednesday 02 March 2011 11:59:06 Alan Brown, vous avez écrit : > On 02/03/11 01:24, John Drescher wrote: > >> Is anyone know if there is a way to improve performances of network > >> usage ? > > > > Turn software compression off. > > Backup to tape with software compression off. > > Turn spoolin

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-02 Thread Alan Brown
On 02/03/11 01:24, John Drescher wrote: > >> Is anyone know if there is a way to improve performances of network usage ? >> > Turn software compression off. > Backup to tape with software compression off. Turn spooling on. --

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-02 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 01/03/11, Laurent HENRY (laurent.he...@ehess.fr) wrote: > Hi all, > Maybe not a direct question about bacula but i am looking for some feedback > of bacula users. ... > Looking a bandwith usage, i barely use 100Mb. i see bursts at 110 or 130 Mb/s > and nothing more. I find using iperf is ver

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-02 Thread Laurent HENRY
Le Wednesday 02 March 2011 02:24:16 John Drescher, vous avez écrit : > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Laurent HENRY wrote: > > Hi all, > >  Maybe not a direct question about bacula but i am looking for some > > feedback of bacula users. > > > > My Debian 5 bacula server is directly connected to

Re: [Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-02 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Laurent HENRY wrote: > Hi all, >  Maybe not a direct question about bacula but i am looking for some feedback > of bacula users. > > My Debian 5 bacula server is directly connected to a Cisco 6500 Switch. > Either the bacula server, the switch, the servers backuped

[Bacula-users] bacula bandwith usage

2011-03-01 Thread Laurent HENRY
Hi all, Maybe not a direct question about bacula but i am looking for some feedback of bacula users. My Debian 5 bacula server is directly connected to a Cisco 6500 Switch. Either the bacula server, the switch, the servers backuped are using Gb interfaces. Looking a bandwith usage, i barely us