[Bacula-users] very slow backups, around 5mb/sec

2016-07-05 Thread fgd9329g
An update, since a few people asked for something. I need to backtrack on my original statement that removing compression didn't make a difference, I must have forgotten to restart the director after making the change. In fact switching from GZIP to LZO had the greatest performance gain, even

Re: [Bacula-users] very slow backups, around 5mb/sec

2016-06-22 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
I think the sqlite backend and the large number of small files are most likely slowing you down. Isn't sqlite explicitly *not* recommended for production use in the bacula docs? Also, using compression won't help with raw backup speed unless you switch to LZO which enables near disk-speed reads wh

Re: [Bacula-users] very slow backups, around 5mb/sec

2016-06-21 Thread Randy Katz
I would really like to know how much speed gain you get when you switch to Mysql or Postgres, please post it here, thanks. On 6/21/2016 1:36 PM, fgd9329g wrote: > This might be a dumb question, but I can't figure it out. > > Debian 8 > Bacula Version: 5.2.6 > sqlite3 -version 3.8.7.1 > Backing

Re: [Bacula-users] very slow backups, around 5mb/sec

2016-06-21 Thread Wanderlei Huttel
Hello, have you tried to change the bacula database for MySQL or Postgres? Best regards Wanderlei Hüttel Enviado de Motorola Moto X2 Em 21 de jun de 2016 11:21 PM, "fgd9329g" escreveu: > This might be a dumb question, but I can't figure it out. > > Debian 8 > Bacula Version: 5.2.6 > sqlite3 -ve

[Bacula-users] very slow backups, around 5mb/sec

2016-06-21 Thread fgd9329g
This might be a dumb question, but I can't figure it out. Debian 8 Bacula Version: 5.2.6 sqlite3 -version 3.8.7.1 Backing up to disks, not tape. I have two bacula systems, both have this same slowness issue. Here's what the final output of our largest job looks like: Elapsed time: 4